Hello again. This chapter involves a man. Not just you're average Joe, mind you, but a very powerful mutant whose parents were tragically taken from Him by another man's selfish conquest for world domination. The man I speak of is Eric Lenshire. Or perhaps more commonly, the Master of Magnetism, MAGNETO.
Disclaimer: SURPRISE, SURPRISE! I don't own X-MEN!
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Eric stood by the edge of his forty-something story high citadel in a hidden, far off corner of the world. It was here that he could think. Here that he felt like the big, strong, important man he always pretended to be. Everywhere else, no ANYWHERE else, and he was just putting on a 'tough guy' act. He still vividly remembered that day when he became this way. Hiding his true self. He remembered a little too vividly. Now, though, it seemed the images in his head wouldn't leave. They just kept playing over and over like a broken record. They went like this...
DaddyHe remembered that day when his parents were called to be executed by the Nazis. Those damn Nazis! The very thought of them made Magneto sick to his stomach. They thought they were superior. Ha! That couldn't be farther from the truth. Those men and women were nothing but worms. Boneless worms. Inferior. Something to be squashed.
Daddy wasn't there
Daddy
Daddy wasn't there, to take me to the fair
It seems he doesn't care
Daddy wasn't there
He remembered walking down the crowded street with his parents on that wet, rainy day in Poland. He remembered telling his father that he would never forget him. In some ways, Magneto thought, his father never left him. In his sleep, Magneto saw his father. His father became a part of him. Or perhaps, he became a part of his father.
Daddy
Daddy wasn't there, to change my underwear
It seems he doesn't care
Daddy wasn't there
He remembered when he came to that fateful fork in the road, where his parents would be separated from him. His parents were to be killed in a giant gas chamber built by the Nazis. His parents. It was then that he had lost the child's sense of immortality. It was then that he became the man he is today. Scared, alone, and unhappy.
When I was first baptized
When I was critized
When I was ostrized
When I was jazzercised
Steak and kidney pies
One hour martinized
When I was circumcised
Daddy wasn't there
Magneto couldn't remember how many father's days or mother's day he had gone through just standing this same spot, reflecting just as he was doing now. He remembered screaming for his mother. A few Nazis had to come and restrain him. Suddenly, he had felt as if he could do anything when the tips of the barbed wire fence had started to bend. He tried harder to put less distance between him and his parents who were about to be savagely killed in a gas chamber.
When I was first baptized
When I was critized
When I was ostrized
When I was jazzercised
Steak and kidney pies
One hour martinized
When I was circumcised
Daddy wasn't there, to take me to the fair,
To change my underwearDaddy wasn't there
Daddy wasn't there, peace!
He remembered all of the five Nazis that had come to try and hold him back. The last thing he remembered was the cold feeling of the butt of a rifle that slammed against his head.
If you've got a daddy issue,
Here's a daddy tissue
D to the A to the D-D-YD to the A to the D-D-Y
They say it's just a fad,
But I've got a deadbeat dad
D to the A to the D-D-Y
D to the A to the D-D-Y
I sit in my room and cry
And ask myself the reason why
D to the A to the D-D-Y
D to the A to the D-D-Y
Daddy
Daddy
Daddy
D-A-D-D-Y
And then, Magneto realized the horrible truth. HE was just like the man that had his parents killed! Magneto realized that he had always believed that mutants were superior. He had always thought that normal humans were inferior. He wondered how many fathers he would've killed trying to start a war between humans and mutants. Then Magneto discovered something else. His children never had a father figure! He had made Wanda go to live in the asylum and brainwashed Pietro. Maybe that's why they had both committed suicide. Magneto had ruined so many lives and he knew it. He vowed then never to hurt anyone ever again. But the only way to do that was to be reunited with his children. With that he leaned forward and jumped.
Eric Lenshire's last thought was 'I'm coming, my children. I'm coming...'.
PEACE!
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So there. Finally done. I hope you liked it. If not.... too bad. Please review.