AN: At the time of writing this chapter, I have received all of 1 review for chapter 65. I feel sooooooooooooooo unloved. This is another short chapter, but the last three of the saga will be incredibly long to make up for it. Expect 69 to bring to light many details on MY version of Magneto and Xavier's pasts.
Conclusion Saga Part 2: Mind War
The X-men launched their assault on Magneto. Scott and Alex launched beams of energy, as Jono lashed out with his psionic energy. Storm sent a stream of lightning from her hands, as Bobby and Amara unleashed their double-team of elements. Jubilee sent her paffs, while not very injuring, they still burned. Meanwhile, Gambit was quickly working through a deck of cards, as Pyro unleashed a firestorm upon Magneto. Boomer began pitching boom-balls at the magnetic master, and the more physically inclined X-Men began to maneuver for positions to attack from.
Magneto found that it was all he could do to raise an electromagnetic shield to protect himself. He smiled slightly as Storm's electricity hit the shield. That was a mistake.
The bolt of lightning flew away, slamming into Storm, who was thrown into Rogue. The two slammed into a wall, dazing them too badly to continue.
Neither would get the chance.
Magneto's smirk left abruptly as he realized that some of the power in his shield had gone with Storm's blast. The result was that Scott and Alex, each of whom was very powerful on his own, punched straight through the shield. Magneto flew backwards, and was met with Kyle's fist.
Staggering forward, Magneto had barely recovered when Betsy attacked. Playing with magnetic fields a bit, Magneto managed to repel Betsy from him, although he took a few good hits. Moving quickly, he lifted Wolverine into the air, and used him to smack around several of the older members. By the time Lorna had gotten control of him away from Magneto, with the help of Kyle and Remy's distraction runs, Kurt, Kitty, Evan, Sarah, Paige, Sam, and Rahne were knocked to the ground, dazed.
The magnetic master soon found himself unable to keep up with the two skilled hand to hand combatants. He also knew that Betsy would soon be on him again, and he would then be completely overwhelmed. Thus, he did the only thing he could.
He played his trump card.
Reaching out magnetically, he grabbed onto each X-Man's body. Lorna realized, with horrible certainty, just what he had grabbed onto, only a split second before he proved it.
Suddenly, the X-Men felt a pain like they had never felt before sweep through their minds. Xavier cried out in pain, as Magneto wrapped him in his grip as well.
"You know that there's iron in your blood?" asked Magneto.
"I now have a grip on it. I'm going to draw it to your brain, and kill you all."
