RV: Be prepared for LONGNESS! AGAIN!

AW: Four little star thingies (****) are a dream. sorta.

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~ Professor, I've got info on Magneto's plan. ~ I sent him the prophecy. ~ He truly believes that I will save the mutant race. ~

~ I understand, Milani, and I believe that could happen ~ Xavier replied. I wanted to ask him how he knew that but he cut me off before I could ask. ~ Have you found out who was controlling you? ~

~ Wanda told me a girl named Fyreph was the one controlling me. She was with the other group that was flashing on the screen. Amber told me about the two groups of three mutants you had found using Cerebro. Magneto got to them ~ I said mentally.

~ When and how does Magneto plan to make this prophecy come to life? ~

~ He plans to do it tonight at midnight ~ I paused and looked at Magneto. He smiled at me full of giddiness and continued to tinker with the platform. I sent pictures of the room and platform. ~ This is what he's going to use to accomplish it. He still hasn't told me how it works exactly. ~

~ Try to find out more if you can ~ Xavier ordered. ~ Be careful and stall for as long as possible. ~

"Milani, come over here!" Magneto called breaking my concentration and the connection with Xavier. "Hurry up! We haven't much time to prepare!"

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Milani quickly walked over to Magneto. "Yes?"

"Go with Fyreph and Aquarius to find some decent clothes," he said handing money to the little man with blue hair and eyes. "Be back in two hours, then we'll continue. Think up a name for yourself as well."

"Me go! Me go!" Deji Charat chanted as she danced around the three. "I wanna go! Me me me!"

"No!" they said in unison.

"I hate you! You're mean!" She shot her laser beams at them.

Aquarius pointed his seven foot staff at Deji and water shot out hitting her in the face. She hissed and jumped onto his head. She scratched his face, pulled his long hair and bit his ear. Milani feeling kinda sorry for the guy grabbed Deji by the scruff of the neck and pulled her off Aquarius.

Holding the cat creature at eye level Milani hissed at her, "I suggest you do as your told if you want to live till next week. Now go bug Todd or Pietro." She dropped Deji and watched her scamper off to harass Toad and Quicksilver. "Problem solved. Let's go!"

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Darren still sat next to Amber holding her hand. He still felt stupid talking to her as she drifted in and out of consciousness. "Amber, wake up. Your friends are going to need you to help rescue Milani and Hunter," he whispered. "Please wake up."

Amber stirred slightly and he brightened immediately. "Milani!" she cried bolting up right.

Darren reached out and gently brushed a lock of brown hair off her face. Shifting from his chair to the bed, he wrapped his arms around her and murmured in her ear, "You're safe, Amber. Its okay."

"No," she said as tears streamed down her cheeks. "No its not. Magneto is going to trick Milani into killing billons of people. She'll absorb Ashley's and my power and kill us. Then she'll die herself after killing all those people. I dreamt it. I dreamt every horrible image." She untangled herself from the machine wires, bed sheets and Darren's arms then climbed out of the bed. "Where are my clothes?"

"Stay in bed. I'll go get Xavier," Darren said making her sit back down on the bed.

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Xavier placed his hand on either side of my head and closed his eyes. "Think of your dream," he ordered. I nodded and do as he said.

**** Milani stands on a platform preparing for what she's about to do. Magneto instructs her on how to take Ashley's power and my own. Lights surround Ashley and me as Milani absorbs our powers slowly killing us. Her hair and eyes turn a brilliant white gold as the light envelops the world, killing humans and the X-Men. The light dissipates when she drops to the platform- dead. ****

I heard Xavier heave a heavy sigh as the dream ended. He patted my head in reassurance. Darren hugged me from behind and I hold onto his arms. "Can you contact Milani at all?" the wheelchair bound man asked me.

I shrugged. "I'll try." Closing my eyes I mentally called out to my friend. ~ Milani! It's me, Amber! ~

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My hands flew to my ears as Amber's voice screamed in my head. ~ Ow! Not so loud damn it! ~

~ Sorry ~ she apologized.

~ Are you okay? ~

~ Yeah I think ~ she answered. ~ What happened? ~

~ Fyreph used her mind control on me. I'll tell you the rest later. What did you want? ~

~ My dream predicted what is going to happen if you help Magneto. You Ashley and I along with billions of humans and the X-Men will die. ~

~ I know. Magneto ain't too hard to figure out. ~ I noticed Fyreph and Aquarius looking at me suspiciously. "I'm fine. Just a sudden headache but I'm good now," I said to them. ~ Look, Amber, I'll take care of everything. Don't worry. ~

~ Easy for you to say ~ she sighed. ~ Just be careful, Milani. ~

~ Now where's' the fun in that? ~ I heard her growl. ~ Alright, alright. I'll be careful. Talk to you later. ~ I broke contact with her and turned to my mutant guards. "Let's go, I'm done." I hold out my hand for the money. Aquarius shakes his head. "I need it to pay for the clothes."

"Just take them," he replied. "If they try to stop you set their asses on fire."

"Then what's the money for?"

"You'll see," Fyreph said smiling mischievously. "Come on."

We dumped my new clothes into two bags at an empty cash register. I grabbed a candy bar and hand it to Aquarius. I pointed to a large lady with an oversized tote bag. He nodded and scurried over to the woman with his seven foot staff still in hand. I watched in amazement that nobody noticed the small man and staff as he dropped the candy bar into the woman's purse and scampered back to Fyreph and me.

We watched silently as the woman walked out of the store. The alarms blared as mall security took the woman aside and searched her. Fyreph, Aquarius and I calmly walked past while the alarms still sounded. An elderly guard looked at Aquarius suspiciously but waved us through with a fake smile upon his lips. We rushed out of the store and down an escalator.

Once on the lower level I heaved a sigh of relief and began to laugh hysterically. "I can't believe I just did that. If I did anything like that while at Xavier's I'd be grounded and I'm an adult for crying out loud!" I exclaimed.

My mutant "companions" smile at my outburst as we walked around the lower level. They pulled me into some cheesy costume rental shop. Aquarius went to talk to the guy at the counter who had to bend down to talk to the midget man. Aquarius pressed the wad of cash Magneto had given him into the hand of the counter man. The little blue haired mutant pointed at me with his stick and counter man motions for me to follow him. Fyreph and I walked into the back room with the men.

"My name's Joe Sanders," counter man introduced himself. He stood about six- two and a hundred ninety pounds. He's nothing but a toothpick with thick glasses and baggy clothes. "Aquarius here tells me you're a new recruit for Magneto and you need a costume. What would you like?"

"Something that allows me to move quickly and shift from human to tiger," I answered. "It has to be cool in hot weather and warm in cold weather. Maybe a cape or a cloak, too."

"Got just the thing," Joe replied. He grabbed a skin tight black suit with red-orange stripes. A black hooded cloak came with it. "I know it looks small but it stretches. The only way it can rip or tear is by a huge explosion that'll kill you or if you get into a tussle with the Wolverine."

"So in other words it's durable," Aquarius summarized.

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Magneto walked up to Milani's and Wanda's door and knocked. The girls opened the door, equally surprised he was standing there. He turned to Wanda and said, "I need to speak with you."

Wanda excused herself and closed the door behind her as she stepped out into the hall. Her father pushed by her and twisted the metal doorknob so it wouldn't open. "What are you doing?" she whispered loudly.

"It's a precaution," he replied. "I want her to stay in there. Now let's go back downstairs." He pulled her toward the stairs.

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Inside the room, Milani, knowing she was going to be alone for a few minutes, called out to Amber. Of course, Amber didn't notice she had entered her mind.

*Ohh. sparkly llamas,* she thought.

~ Amber! ~ Milani shouted sharply.

~ Huh? Oh, hi, Milani. How are you? ~

~ Fine. how's the plan going? ~

~ I'm not quite sure. Right now Logan's kinda pissed at Kitty for accidentally going through the bathroom door while he was in the bathroom. ~

~ I figured something like this would happen ~ Milani grumbled. ~ Look, Magneto has all his trust in me. I can use that trust to change what is goin' to happen. In ~ she checked her watch ~ three hours nobody will ever have to worry about something like this ever happening again. ~

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