Light filtered into the room through the thin blinds, covering the
open window. Storm had been up for hours, preparing breakfast, talking on
the phone to friends. She casually sipped her coffee, enjoying the
conversation.
" I'm having fun Ororo. For the first time in months I'm having a great time"
" I am glad to hear it Jean. You deserve a break, things have been very hard for you. But it is much too quiet around here with both you and Aurora gone. When will you be back?"
Jean sighed.
" I don't know. I'v been trying to contact him Ororo. I can't find him anywhere"
" Jean, Give him time. He'll be back. Scott's death , believe it or not, took its toll on him as well. His wounds will heal with time."
Jean was silent for a moment.
" Have you heard from Aurora yet?"
"No. Rogue did call and say Aurora contacted her. She told me not to worry, and Aurora is safe " The Coffee suddenly turned sour in Ororo's mouth. So longed to spit it back into the cup.
" How are the others taking it?" Jean sounded distracted.
" Better. All of them have started training again, a few new potetial recruits were found. I'll be speaking to them soon. Maybe we should have a reunion. Invite all the X-men back here." Ororo changed the topic suddenly " I really think it would boost moral "
" Uh-huh sounds like fun... I have to go Storm. All talk to you later. Bye"
" Jean...Wh..nevermind.Bye"
Ororo was dissapointed the conversation had to end so soon. She missed long conversation. She grabbed a magazine and started to read it. She needed to keep herself busy, distracted.
" Ok. Lets get this. We've got 6 new recruits comming in. We gotta show them the ropes, train 'em, and council them on there powers? You HAVE GOT to be kidding me Rosh. This is just a joke right?" Marco pleaded
" Not exactly. I know we've all be a little stressed out latly with the FOH attacks, Aurora, now this. But look around. We can't exactly do any damage with 6 people can we? We can do alot more with 12. We need this "
Rosh was right and the team knew he was. Only yesturday they had retreated from a battle with the FOH. They had been out gunned and out numbered. Not something they were proud to admitt. They were just lucky Logan wasn't around to see it. He had always questioned Rosh capabilites as a leader.
" Ok. Ok. But it's still stupid. I mean it feels like were trying to replace Aurora or something...You know" Mai said " But we do need the extra members..."
" It does" Blair yawned "But what can we do? Untill she comes back we need more fire power"
" If she comes back. You know how she is " Asuka commented but then quickley added " But here's hoping she does "
Ryan eyed Asuka suspisouly but let it go. It wasn't the time for accusation's.
" Ok whatever. I'm gonna go talk to Storm about the recruits" Ryan walked out letting the door slam behind her. Rosh ajourned the meeting and the X-men went the join Ryan, and Ororo.
Aurora eye's greedily scanned the print looking for clues. The handwriting was rather hard to read, so small yet so percise. Decemeber 4th/Formal opertaion document's, and journal of progress.
I, Doctor Bakura Long, am the offical director of HADES .Our opertaion is secretly funded by anonumus client's who need portection, or an highly skilled assassin.The starting rate for one of my little projects is 1.5 million . Needless to say funding is not an issue. We have already started testing on several subjects. There names are listed below: Blake Rynald's James De Villa Cecile Hernades Dameom Trelis Julien Cartel Rain Jackson
Our wepond's program is the most advanced in the World, and very few dare to chalange us. Each of our subject's is a highly skilled,highly intelligent,highly trained killer. They do what they are told when they are told and have absolutly no memory's of their past. They leave no traces of themselves, no clues to their identities.
Breakthrough's are now allowing us not only to speed up mutation's but to start a mutation in human's. It has killed almost every one that was subjected too it. Only 2 had lived through the process. Both went through great physical changes, gaining new pigment in their eye's and hair, and the boy in his skin. I am personally trying to reverse those side effect's but the effort's seem futile. They are now absolute slaves, niether with complete memory's. They simply remember there names, and age. Erasing there mind's makes them much more pleasant to work with.
The entry ended. Aurora flipped father into the book but was unable to read the ink that had run down the pages. Water must have made it way into the pages some how. She turned and walked around the room somemore, looking for hint's, clues anything that could help her. The mutant leaned against the nearest wall, exhaling and inhaling deeply.
" It..It would explain why I have no memory....but my name wasn't listed anywhere " She put and hand to her forehead and turned to facing the wall. She was about to walk away when she noticed a faint outline in the wall. Aurora felt along the outline. A door. Someone had wall papered over it.
" Hades didn't do a very good job of covering it's track's "
She phased through the wall. It was easier than rippin all the wall paper off the door and using it.
Aurora groped blindly for a few minutes untill she found a dimmer switch. The lights came on in the room slowly exposing table's full of computers. She walked up to on, and tried turning it on.
" Circut's must have been fired "
Once the light's came on fully she could see a door frame, leading to stair's. The phantom walked down them, listening to her step's echo around her. It seemed to take hours befroe she reached the bottom. She shivered at the cold, and could hear water dripped somewhere close to her. Then the smell's hit her. Rancid, molding, rotten. Something must have been left down there. She put a hand to her face and tried to wave them away. Finally she gave up and started walking around looking for some light. She found it a few moments later. They snapped on at once illuminating the room with a harse yellow light.
The room was large, but divided strangly. From the wall's came divider's that reached half way across the room. This formed small room's down one side of the wall and a hallway down the other.She walked closed,cautiously and looked into the first room.She moved the torn curtain away so she could get a better look. It was almost like a hospital. There was a large metal bed, complete with restraint's. Next to it,a about a meter away was a small table containing more vial's like the ones she had seen upstairs. There were a few tool's she didn't recongnize. Next to them was a bloody scalpel. She moved on. Each little room was exactly the same, except for slight variation's in what each table had on it. She had reached the end of the little room's and the beginning of a new hallway. The smell became worst. She pulled her sweater up over her face so only her eye's were exposed. It was a short walk and she soon came to another room. The light's were already on.
This was the worst room yet. A prision. The room was huge and contained only small metal cell's. There was a rather large hallway in the centre of the room. She walked along it.Each cell had it's own number, and sometimes a name was written on a little plastic card which was attacted to the bars.She counted 50 cell's so far but there were probley more she could'nt see. Her eye's were now watering from the smell which seemed to get worst with every step she took.
" HOLY SHIT!" Aurora jumped back.
The corpse sat in the cell next to her,imobile,staring at her with it's empty eye socket's,grinning death's grin. There was name.-Cell number 38- Rain Jackson.
" She was in that book I read upstairs....."Aurora backed away as far as she could "Just keep moving. Don't worry about it"
Aurora had reached the end of the cell's, and was now standing in another part of the room. This wall was lined with 4 cell's set apart from the other's. They were a bit bigger and each contained a small cot, while the others had all been empty. Well most of them anyways. All of these had names written on them.-Cell Number 51- Lei Callahan,- Cell Number- 52 Tori Airos-Cell Number 53- Aurora Morsten-
Aurora stepped back. Double checked the name. Then panic set in. Her body slid to the floor as she hyperventilated.It had broken the seal in her brain and the memory's pushed there way back into her mind. Flashes of metal,scream's,blood. Flash of being shackled in her cells for day's. Her body ached and she began convulsing. Depp moans escaped from her trembling lip's.
All at once the iron door's on the cell's banged all at once. Her soul was sliced from the shards of memory screaming inside her head.Aurora could not stop the screaming of a dozen voices.
*TBC*
" I'm having fun Ororo. For the first time in months I'm having a great time"
" I am glad to hear it Jean. You deserve a break, things have been very hard for you. But it is much too quiet around here with both you and Aurora gone. When will you be back?"
Jean sighed.
" I don't know. I'v been trying to contact him Ororo. I can't find him anywhere"
" Jean, Give him time. He'll be back. Scott's death , believe it or not, took its toll on him as well. His wounds will heal with time."
Jean was silent for a moment.
" Have you heard from Aurora yet?"
"No. Rogue did call and say Aurora contacted her. She told me not to worry, and Aurora is safe " The Coffee suddenly turned sour in Ororo's mouth. So longed to spit it back into the cup.
" How are the others taking it?" Jean sounded distracted.
" Better. All of them have started training again, a few new potetial recruits were found. I'll be speaking to them soon. Maybe we should have a reunion. Invite all the X-men back here." Ororo changed the topic suddenly " I really think it would boost moral "
" Uh-huh sounds like fun... I have to go Storm. All talk to you later. Bye"
" Jean...Wh..nevermind.Bye"
Ororo was dissapointed the conversation had to end so soon. She missed long conversation. She grabbed a magazine and started to read it. She needed to keep herself busy, distracted.
" Ok. Lets get this. We've got 6 new recruits comming in. We gotta show them the ropes, train 'em, and council them on there powers? You HAVE GOT to be kidding me Rosh. This is just a joke right?" Marco pleaded
" Not exactly. I know we've all be a little stressed out latly with the FOH attacks, Aurora, now this. But look around. We can't exactly do any damage with 6 people can we? We can do alot more with 12. We need this "
Rosh was right and the team knew he was. Only yesturday they had retreated from a battle with the FOH. They had been out gunned and out numbered. Not something they were proud to admitt. They were just lucky Logan wasn't around to see it. He had always questioned Rosh capabilites as a leader.
" Ok. Ok. But it's still stupid. I mean it feels like were trying to replace Aurora or something...You know" Mai said " But we do need the extra members..."
" It does" Blair yawned "But what can we do? Untill she comes back we need more fire power"
" If she comes back. You know how she is " Asuka commented but then quickley added " But here's hoping she does "
Ryan eyed Asuka suspisouly but let it go. It wasn't the time for accusation's.
" Ok whatever. I'm gonna go talk to Storm about the recruits" Ryan walked out letting the door slam behind her. Rosh ajourned the meeting and the X-men went the join Ryan, and Ororo.
Aurora eye's greedily scanned the print looking for clues. The handwriting was rather hard to read, so small yet so percise. Decemeber 4th/Formal opertaion document's, and journal of progress.
I, Doctor Bakura Long, am the offical director of HADES .Our opertaion is secretly funded by anonumus client's who need portection, or an highly skilled assassin.The starting rate for one of my little projects is 1.5 million . Needless to say funding is not an issue. We have already started testing on several subjects. There names are listed below: Blake Rynald's James De Villa Cecile Hernades Dameom Trelis Julien Cartel Rain Jackson
Our wepond's program is the most advanced in the World, and very few dare to chalange us. Each of our subject's is a highly skilled,highly intelligent,highly trained killer. They do what they are told when they are told and have absolutly no memory's of their past. They leave no traces of themselves, no clues to their identities.
Breakthrough's are now allowing us not only to speed up mutation's but to start a mutation in human's. It has killed almost every one that was subjected too it. Only 2 had lived through the process. Both went through great physical changes, gaining new pigment in their eye's and hair, and the boy in his skin. I am personally trying to reverse those side effect's but the effort's seem futile. They are now absolute slaves, niether with complete memory's. They simply remember there names, and age. Erasing there mind's makes them much more pleasant to work with.
The entry ended. Aurora flipped father into the book but was unable to read the ink that had run down the pages. Water must have made it way into the pages some how. She turned and walked around the room somemore, looking for hint's, clues anything that could help her. The mutant leaned against the nearest wall, exhaling and inhaling deeply.
" It..It would explain why I have no memory....but my name wasn't listed anywhere " She put and hand to her forehead and turned to facing the wall. She was about to walk away when she noticed a faint outline in the wall. Aurora felt along the outline. A door. Someone had wall papered over it.
" Hades didn't do a very good job of covering it's track's "
She phased through the wall. It was easier than rippin all the wall paper off the door and using it.
Aurora groped blindly for a few minutes untill she found a dimmer switch. The lights came on in the room slowly exposing table's full of computers. She walked up to on, and tried turning it on.
" Circut's must have been fired "
Once the light's came on fully she could see a door frame, leading to stair's. The phantom walked down them, listening to her step's echo around her. It seemed to take hours befroe she reached the bottom. She shivered at the cold, and could hear water dripped somewhere close to her. Then the smell's hit her. Rancid, molding, rotten. Something must have been left down there. She put a hand to her face and tried to wave them away. Finally she gave up and started walking around looking for some light. She found it a few moments later. They snapped on at once illuminating the room with a harse yellow light.
The room was large, but divided strangly. From the wall's came divider's that reached half way across the room. This formed small room's down one side of the wall and a hallway down the other.She walked closed,cautiously and looked into the first room.She moved the torn curtain away so she could get a better look. It was almost like a hospital. There was a large metal bed, complete with restraint's. Next to it,a about a meter away was a small table containing more vial's like the ones she had seen upstairs. There were a few tool's she didn't recongnize. Next to them was a bloody scalpel. She moved on. Each little room was exactly the same, except for slight variation's in what each table had on it. She had reached the end of the little room's and the beginning of a new hallway. The smell became worst. She pulled her sweater up over her face so only her eye's were exposed. It was a short walk and she soon came to another room. The light's were already on.
This was the worst room yet. A prision. The room was huge and contained only small metal cell's. There was a rather large hallway in the centre of the room. She walked along it.Each cell had it's own number, and sometimes a name was written on a little plastic card which was attacted to the bars.She counted 50 cell's so far but there were probley more she could'nt see. Her eye's were now watering from the smell which seemed to get worst with every step she took.
" HOLY SHIT!" Aurora jumped back.
The corpse sat in the cell next to her,imobile,staring at her with it's empty eye socket's,grinning death's grin. There was name.-Cell number 38- Rain Jackson.
" She was in that book I read upstairs....."Aurora backed away as far as she could "Just keep moving. Don't worry about it"
Aurora had reached the end of the cell's, and was now standing in another part of the room. This wall was lined with 4 cell's set apart from the other's. They were a bit bigger and each contained a small cot, while the others had all been empty. Well most of them anyways. All of these had names written on them.-Cell Number 51- Lei Callahan,- Cell Number- 52 Tori Airos-Cell Number 53- Aurora Morsten-
Aurora stepped back. Double checked the name. Then panic set in. Her body slid to the floor as she hyperventilated.It had broken the seal in her brain and the memory's pushed there way back into her mind. Flashes of metal,scream's,blood. Flash of being shackled in her cells for day's. Her body ached and she began convulsing. Depp moans escaped from her trembling lip's.
All at once the iron door's on the cell's banged all at once. Her soul was sliced from the shards of memory screaming inside her head.Aurora could not stop the screaming of a dozen voices.
*TBC*
