A/N: Ok, the title kinda speaks for itself I guess, this will be the last chapter of my story. My writing has been going way downhill from whatever point I started this story at, and I just don't see any reason to keep it up for a long time if it's just going to get worse and worse. I guess this is my first and last story, so here it is, the grand finale:
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"Please escort Lynx and Ms. Pryde to another room so they can talk." Samantha looked at one of the scientists as he left the room, followed by the two women.
Quickly Lynx and Kitty were put into a more secure room, with a guard standing right outside the room. "What is this place? Why are you here?" Lynx looked out the window and glared at the sight, in minutes at least ten guards came to stand in the hall.
"This is like a new team and it totally rocks. We don't have to fight and all that stuff, and Samantha says we can help stop the war between everyone." Kitty smiled, as Lynx turned to look at her.
"And you believe that crap? Honestly Kitty, don't you ever wonder about what happened to your friends? Or the Brotherhood?"
"What do you mean the Brotherhood? They all lived, no one died." Lynx's jaw dropped, didn't she kill them all?
"But I was there, I watched everyone die."
"Oh no my dear, you watched the mansion fall, never once did you see anyone actually die." Samantha stood in the door as Lynx whipped around, glaring again.
"So you saved them? Why?"
"Because I needed my team, and little Jason is turning out to be quite the powerful mutant."
"Jason? He lived too?"
"As Shadowcat told you, everyone lived."
"So that would make Jason…"
"13, he's just turned 13 last month." Kitty stood up, taking the time to talk.
"What is new 'team' of yours exactly? The war will never end, it's stupid to believe it can." Lynx followed Ms. Crowe as she left the room, walking past the guards.
"Well Lynx, if you haven't figured out, I am a good friend of both Charles and Erik, and I believe that the three of us, and our teams, can work together, so that's why I need you."
"That didn't tell me anything." Lynx walked back into the med lab with her, sitting in a chair on the opposite side of the room from the beds.
"Well, you have a great influence on the Alcolytes, and I believe that you can bring them to my side, as well as Erik, while Kitty still has some friends over with Charles." Ms. Crowe took her glasses off, placing them on a desk while she sat behind it.
"So your just using us all? You should know I don't like being used." Lynx stood up, taking a defensive stance.
"Don't make this hard on Piotr please, unless that's what you want."
"Piotr? What have you done with him? Show him to me."
"Certainly Lynx, certainly." Ms. Crowe stood, walking down the hall to a very guarded door, in which she opened to reveal Piotr, sitting with his back to the door.
"What's so bad about this?" Lynx asked, walking around to face him, his head lowered.
"We have access to the medical treatment Piotr's mother is receiving, I can stop that treatment anytime I wish."
"Torturing him is your way of joining the teams? Your sick." Lynx growled as she dropped to her knees, looking at Piotr.
"I told you Lynx, I want to bring the teams together, and will do anything to do it, now will you join me the way Piotr has?" Samantha smiled inwardly, she knew she had won, using Piotr's mother like that.
"Fine." Lynx growled as she watched Piotr.
"Wise choice." Samantha nodded, leaving the room with the guards.
"Hey, Piotr, don't worry." Lynx carefully watched him as he raised his head to look at her.
Lynx smiled slightly, standing up to sit on his lap, leaning against his chest. "This wont be easy, getting Erik to join the same team as Xavier, I'm sure by now Xavier has already agreed to this."
"Da." Piotr gently put his arm around her, sighing.
"Don't worry about your mother, she wont kill her."
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"Where's the Sheila?" John walked around the base as he ran into Magneto.
"Lynx and Piotr have left to join a new team, the next time you see them, I suggest you kill them immediately."
"Ya cant be serious, Lynx would never leave."
"Well they did." Magneto's cold voice rang off the metal walls as a shiver went down John's spine.
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Kurt sighed as he looked out the window, he was thinking of Kitty again. "Hey Kurt, thinkin' 'bout Kitty 'gain?" Rogue walked up behind him.
"Ja, it's been 15 years since ve met." Kurt continued to look out the window.
"Ya, ah know, but the strange thing is that when we rebuilt the mansion, we never found the bodies of anyone."
Kurt jumped slightly, looking at her. "Ya mean zey might be alive?"
"Ah guess, ya." Rogue offered her brother a slight smile.
"Zat's great, ve must go ask ze professor to look for zem." Kurt grabbed Rogue's wrist and before she could protest teleported to the professor's office.
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John lay in his bed, bored without his two friends. "Why would the Sheila and Petey just leave like that? Without even saying goodbye to me?" John sighed, lighting his lighter, playing with the small flame. "Like playing with play-dough."
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"Yes Kurt, Rogue?" Charles looked to the siblings as they appeared in his office.
"Ve need you to look for Keety."
"We think she might be alive with the other people, since no one found the bodies." Rogue added as Charles lost his confused look.
"And you believe that she might have been using her powers?"
"Maybe." The two said in unison.
"All right, I'll use cerebro." Charles wheeled out of the room, going towards the elevator.
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Samantha picked up the phone as it rang, holding it between her ear and shoulder as she began to write on her clip board. "Hello."
"Samantha, how long have Kitty and Evan been with you?"
"Charles, don't make such a big deal out of nothing, your X-Men are very safe here, I assure you that, I wouldn't be a friend if I let them get hurt."
"Yes, of course, but naturally we assumed that they were dead…"
"Sorry for making you worry Chuck, you know me, I get so caught up in my work that I lose all track of time and the world around me."
"Even so Samantha, that is not an excuse this time, Ororo has been quite worried about Evan, he is her nephew of course."
"I'm very sorry Charles, Evan and Kitty are doing very fine here, you know I wouldn't put them in any danger, and if anything, I was the one to save them from that mansion of yours."
"Exactly how did you save my X-Men again?"
"I know a healer who was a great help, only took them a day in my medical lab to fully heal, mutants are very interesting people as we both know. But enough about that, I have something to ask of you, why don't you consider joining up with me, think about it, no more fighting…or hiding."
"And what is this team of yours?"
"I have assembled many mutants who are very willing to expose themselves to the public and show them what mutants can really do, the gifts we have that can save people's lives."
"Hmm…we have of course already tried that approach, it did not end too well, you must have seen the news many years ago."
"I saw the sentinel battle, the only people who didn't see it were the blind, even to this day, more then a decade after, that piece of news is shown, it's very sad indeed."
"Yes, and I will not risk the lives of my younger students."
"Charles, I would never endanger someone, we just have to wait until the right time to expose ourselves, a time that both humans and mutants will be forced to gather 'round together."
"Are you proposing that we wait until Erik strikes?"
"Precisely. Honestly Charles, there is nothing right about mutants fighting mutants, or even humans for that matter, I'm just doing my part in trying to solve the problem."
"No, nothing is right about it, but Erik feels the need to follow his intuition, while Mr. Kelly is not helping the situation any."
"Which is exactly what I want to fix, but I can not do it alone, I need your help."
"You are my friend Samantha, you have always, and will always have my help whenever you need it."
"Thank you Charles." Samantha smiled to herself as she hung the phone up. "Now to just get Erik to put his feelings aside and help me."
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"Kitty and Evan are alive?" Scott, as well as all other X-Men in the meeting room, where shocked to hear the wonderful news. After the mansion fell, Kitty and Evan, were thought to be dead, along with the rest of the Brotherhood members.
"Thank the goddess." Ororo smiled, she had never quite gotten over the feeling of grief for her nephew when she heard of the attack.
"Yes, and we will be joining them in a short while, to help out an old friend of mine, Samantha Crowe."
"How does she need our help Professor?" Scott was eager to know how they would be helping out, and what Kitty and Evan have been doing this whole time.
"Samantha is after exactly what we want, peace in the world, and she has come up with an interesting plan from what she has told me. Now, if you would all suit up, we will leave tonight, Scott, please get the new students as well." Charles watched as his X-Men stood, leaving to get suited up.
"Ororo, will you please ready the jet, Samantha stays on a small island off the coast of New York." Ororo nodded to Charles just before she left the room, going towards the hanger.
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"I can see again you know, it's incredible, I thought I'd never see again." Lynx told Piotr as she leaned against him in his cell, or as Samantha called it, his room.
"Da." Piotr had been quiet lately, thinking of his sick mother back in Russia no doubt.
"You know, you seem more blue then Mystique herself." Lynx silently said as Piotr's door was thrown open.
"Come." The guard glared at the two mutants as they stood up, following their escort to what looked like a planning room was. And there sat the whole entire X-Men team, suited and ready for a fight. Jason was sitting with Scott and Jean, it looked as if Jean was holding him tight enough to break him in half.
Then Evan sat with Ororo, a permanent smile on his face now that he was back with his aunt. Off to the side Kurt and Kitty sat together, and the Brotherhood sat at the other side of the large room, Lance far from Scott.
"Oh Lynx!" Rita ran to her daughter as Lynx held a hand out, showing her well sharpened nails.
"Save it mother, I have no reason to work alongside you." Lynx coldly said as she and Piotr walked over to the Brotherhood members, sitting by them. Rita sighed and went back to her seat as Samantha rose to speak.
"X-Men, Brotherhood, and Alcolyte alike, this is not a time for petty bickering and arguing. This is the time that we must take out stand as mutants, we must force the humans to see the good in us. If we don't fight, there is no possible way we can ever think to win."
"We've tried fighting though, it doesn't change anything." Lance sulked from the corner.
"This time, Lance, fighting will work, as I have explained to Charles, we must wait until the right time, the time that mutants and humans must gather together to witness the same thing."
"Like what?" Jean glanced up from her son for a second.
"I know Erik, and I know that he can not go long without causing trouble, we just have to wait, unless Ms. Lynx can give us any information…" All eyes in the room turned to Lynx.
"Noon tomorrow, during the Senate elections, Erik will do anything to prevent Kelly from winning." Lynx boredly said, proving her boredom with a yawn.
"Then tomorrow it is, and Lynx, please cover your mouth the next time you yawn." Samantha turned her back to Lynx as she looked at Charles, silently asking his approval on the plan. Charles nodded as Lynx let out a low growl. "It's rude to growl at me Lynx."
"Fuck this." Lynx stood up, walking past her old family and out the door, followed closely by the large Russian.
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"Lynx has always had a few anger issues, it's a natural reaction of hers." Rita calmly told Samantha in the kitchen.
"Yes, I understand that, and when all is said and done, Lynx knows where her loyalties lie and she wont disappoint anyone."
"If only I could say the same, I'm afraid that Lynx has disappointed me, I hoped she wouldn't take the road I tried taking before she was born." Rita sipped her glass of water as Samantha slowly drank her tea.
"Teenagers rarely do what their parents want them to do, but Lynx's blindness was very fascinating to witness. It seemed that no matter what happened, she knew where everything was, and just what to do."
"Please don't make my daughter a science experiment." Rita stated before leaving the room to look for Lynx.
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"Why did they have to be here?" Lynx growled as she lay with her head on Piotr's chest.
"They are your family Lynx." Piotr gently said, missing his own family.
"I know, but it bugs me that she wanted to…tried to hug me."
"Da." Piotr sighed as he agreed, he figured out that with Lynx, the best thing to do is just agree and you'll leave without harm.
"I'm sorry Piotr, I know you miss your family."
"Da."
"LYNX!" There Rita stood in the doorway of Piotr's room, looking straight at her daughter who was laying in bed with her boyfriend, her head on his chest.
"Huh?" Lynx asked, not bothering to face her mother.
"What right do you have to be alone with him in his room?" Rita glared at Piotr, she knew that Piotr was far from Remy, and would try anything with Lynx, but she also knew he was older then her.
"He has a name, you know it, you lived with him before."
"I will not have my daughter talk to me the way you talk to me." Rita walked to the bed, standing over the two.
"Why not? You came in without knocking, we were just about to have sex too." Lynx looked at her nails, calmly talking.
"I wont stand for your joking."
"Then don't stand." Lynx stood up, tripping Rita.
"Lyn…"
"Rita, I appreciate your help with my plans, but would you kindly refrain from lecturing my team." Samantha walked in the room.
"She is my daughter."
"No, I was your daughter, but now I'm Victor's daughter, he's more of a parent then you ever were, besides, you might wanna watch Marie more carefully, she's the one with Tyler." Lynx laid back down on the bed, next to Piotr.
"Rita, please leave Piotr's room." Samantha asked as Rita got up, walking out of the room followed by Samantha as the door closed behind her.
"See what I have to live with Piotr?" Lynx sighed.
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"Where is my daughter?" Victor stood in front of Magneto's desk.
"She has gone with a friend of mine, Lynx has chosen to leave this team." Magneto stood up, taking his helmet off and placing it on the end of the desk.
"And you didn't stop her? Or tell me so I could stop her?" Victor ran his nails along the wall, leaving claw marks in the metal.
"Victor, please leave your marks out of my walls, and Lynx can make her own decisions at this time in her life."
"I don't care, I want her back here, where I can watch her." Victor growled. "Where is she?"
"Lynx is currently with an old friend of mine, Samantha Crowe. But it will be hard, almost impossible to get Lynx to come back after being with Samantha for even a day."
"Where does she live?"
"On an island off the coast of New York." Erik stood up, walking to a large map on one of the walls, pointing to a dot. "That is the island, but I do now want you to go there, at least not for a few days."
"Fine." Victor growled before walking out of the room, slamming the door shut behind him.
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Lynx and Piotr walked around the beach, looking at the ocean, seeing New York in the distance. "Miss being with Erik?"
"I did not notice him, I just listened to him." Lynx nodded as they continued to walk.
"Lynx! It's, like, time to go stop Magneto." Kitty phased through the trees behind the two.
"Ok, we'll be there." Lynx smiled slightly to Kitty.
"Samantha says to get suited up." Lynx nodded again as Piotr's skin took on his metal form, walking back inside for Lynx to get changed.
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Lynx glanced in the mirror as she past it, her trench coat wrapped protectively around her slender figure. With her hair still cut short, Lynx could have been mistaken for a guy from behind, which wasn't a very uncommon mistake lately.
"Bonjour homme, we have ta go ta de meetin' room." Lynx turned around, showing her nails to Remy in a threatening manner. (Hello man)
"I am not a 'homme' you moron, I'm a girl."
"Je suis tres desole Lynx." Remy apologized before continuing his way to the meeting room. (I'm very sorry)
Lynx sighed, following him, leaning against the wall that the Brotherhood were standing against. "We will wait until Erik makes his move, then we will make ours, the first thing we want to do is stop Erik and show the humans that some mutants can be good." Samantha explained to the group.
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"The humans must come together and force the mutant registration on the mutants. They are our enemies and must be stopped, I'm sure right now they are planning something against us." Kelly stood at the podium before a crowd of people as they chorused their 'yays'.
"We must take control of OUR world again, don't let the mutant scum ruin it for us. They will make us their slaves, we will be forced to do their deeds, and bow down to them. But in truth, it is them who should bow to us! It was because of humans that the world has come so far in the last few centuries, are you all just going to stand around and let the mutants take credit for what we did?"
"No!!!" The people shouted as they waved their no mutant signs. Quickly gasps were heard from most of the crowd as Magneto rose into the air behind the very building Kelly stood in front of.
"Take credit for your work? It should be you humans who try to take credit for our work. Us mutants can build the things that you humans can only dream about, you need us." Magneto's metallic voice vibrated off the sides of his helmet.
"Your freaks." A few people shouted as a man's wallet chain flew to Magneto, coiling like a snake ready to strike.
"Hahaha. He's right mates, you would be nothing without us." John's laughter rose from the building he stood atop, flames flying out of his flame thrower.
"Run!" Someone yelled as John's fire surrounded them, leaping at those who got too close.
"Stop it Erik." Lynx stood among the humans, looking up at her former leader.
"Glad you came back, daughter." Victor walked up behind Lynx, lunging for her as she jumped out of the way, letting him hit to podium headfirst.
"You need to stop this Erik, this wont help anyone, you'll just scare them." Lynx turned her attention back to the man in the air.
Magneto slowly descended, his feet touching the ground right in front of Lynx. "Why are you here Lynx? This is not the time, nor the place for you now."
"Don't tell me what I can do and when I can do it." Lynx took a step forward as Magneto once again flew into the air. "Go ahead Erik, run from the danger, leave your lackeys behind the way you always do."
"I'm tired of listening to you Lynx." Magneto waved his hand slightly as the chain flew towards Lynx's neck."
"Not so fast daddy." Magneto's form turned a blue glowing color as Scarlet Witch walked through the path of humans that was quickly forming for her to stand next to Lynx.
"Wanda, since when were you coming?" Lynx looked from father to daughter.
"Since I decided to come have some of the fun your having." Wanda smirked as Magneto was lowered to the ground.
"Yeah, well, dealing with other people's father is always a fun thing to do, you should try to tame Victor, maybe teach him to use a litter box or something." Lynx watched as Victor began to get up, shaking his head of the headache he was certain to have.
"Maybe I should." Wanda held one arm towards Sabretooth, leaving one reaching for Magneto as Sabretooth became a glowing blue figure.
"Way to go sis." Pietro appeared, smirking as he looked at the two. "Guess dad wasn't as powerful as he thought he was."
"Shut it Pietro!" Wanda snapped as she concentrated on keeping her powers on the two.
"Right sis." And with a gust of wind, Pietro was gone.
"Hey John, too bad about your fire." Bobby walked up behind John, icing his flame thrower over before icing the fire circle that held the helpless humans.
"Now is not the time to begin yet another war, so go home." Samantha addressed the humans as Fred broke down the iced over flames, revealing an escape for everyone.
The humans stood for a minute, looking at each other before racing to the exit, leaving the mutants to their battle. "Join us Erik, help to preserve peace, and the world. Because if you do not, your own actions will be your great downfall, and the world as we know it, will change for the worse."
"How do you know that?" Magneto struggled against his daughter's powers, but to no avail.
"Because I have talked to Destiny, the world will become a place of pure hatred and war, not one village, no matter how small, will be safe from the war. Many lives will be lost in the battle, and the outcome: the distinction of both races, human and mutant."
"Impossible, there has to be a winner, one race will win."
"No Erik, I have heard the truth from Destiny, it will be as she foretells, it always is."
"And you want me to join your team? To try and get peace between us, it cannot happen."
"It can if all mutants come together and work as one team."
"Your foolish Samantha, humans and mutants will never co-exist in peace…"
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" 'Your foolish Samantha, humans and mutants will never co-exist in peace.' Isn't that what you were saying two years ago?" Samantha looked over to Erik, smiling as she showed him the newspaper article about the first school to welcome both humans and mutants with open arms, no prejudice.
"What do you wish me to say? That you were right?" Erik smirked, he knew that's just what she wanted him to say, Samantha never got tired of hearing how right she always is, and this was no exception.
"Well, of course, since everything has been perfect since you, Victor, and John joined up with my team." Even after two years, Samantha still prided herself on her great ideas to bring humans and mutants closer.
"Perfect? It has been two years since we started, and only now are we seeing any action." Erik motioned to the article that Samantha put in his lap.
"Things take time, you know they do."
"Yes, and once again you are right."
"I know, I just love hearing it from you…husband."
The End
A/N: Ok, so there it is, the end of my story.