Eden: Thanks for the review and for being the person to review the most! :)
Shadow-Spider: well since you asked here it is (oh by the way for future references I'm a guy so it's sir)
Louc S. Swarm: thanks for the review. I tried to add a lot of interesting things into this story (hence why I decided to put it in the general section) glad you find it stimulating.
ENTER MAYHEM
CHAPTER 17: THE PLAN REVEALED
Rogue and Vincent were just returning from Kurt's room, both had smiles on their face.
"Man and I thought I had a vicious streak, but you my lady are the master." He said to her.
Rogue felt a note of pride in her work, sure Kurt was her brother but that didn't meant he was immune from her wrath.
Vincent burst out laughing "You know for a while there I thought I actually saw his fur pale a little, especially after that last threat there about what you would do to him if he interfered in your relationships again without talking to you first."
Even Rogue let out a good laugh at that, after the fifteen minutes of threatening, and chewing him out, she doubted that Kurt would think twice about interfering again.
She thought about what Vincent had just said. About them being in a relationship, were they, they hadn't had the chance to talk things out since the infirmary.
"Vincent, can ah talk to ya...alone?" She asked him.
"Sure my room or yours?" he said his face being a little more serious now.
"Mine is closer." She responded. He nodded his head and they went off. They entered her room, and after closing the door, they sat down on the edge of her bead next to each other.
"This is about us, isn't it?" Vincent asked her.
She nodded her head.
"Well you know how I feel." He started "You know that over the time we've spent that not only have I enjoyed your company, and that I like you as a friend, I suddenly found my feelings growing for you....something more than friendship."
"Ah know the same is with meh." She said quietly, but not too much so he couldn't hear her. "Ah found myself lahking ya more also, and ya always make meh feel better, ya never been afraid of meh, and treated meh like any other girl."
"Your more than just any other girl to me Rogue, you know that."
"Ah do know, even though most of ya memories are gone, I do know." She looked into his eyes then. "Ah still don't know why you'd want ta be with someone how ya can never touch or kiss."
He reached out with his right hand and gently placed it on her shoulder. "Every rose has it's thorns, you just have to careful not to touch the thorns and you can hold it."
She felt a small smile form on her face. "And what is that supposed ta mean?"
"It means that I don't care about that, it's not touching you that I want, it's just YOU that I want." He then placed his hand from her shoulder and put it on the small of her back and gently pulled themselves closer.
"Besides I'm holding you now, even though it's not skin on skin contact, I'll hold you any time you need it." He said staring into those beautiful gray eyes of hers.
She felt tears swelling up again, and just placed her head on his shoulder, like she did so many nights ago. "Do ya really want a girlfriend ya can't really touch?"
"Depends. Are you really asking to be my girlfriend?" He hoped so, even though he was calm on the outside, inside he was terrified that she would push away from him.
"Ya ah am." She told him.
Vincent had a huge smile on his face then, this moment was perfect to him, and like that night after the double date with Sam and Tabby, when his feelings for her first showed themselves, he held her again.
Rogue was relishing their careful embrace. The last time they had done this seemed like a lifetime ago, but this was even better than the last time. At that moment she wished that she could touch him for just one moment, just so she could give him one kiss, and this moment would be perfect.
But she couldn't so she just accepted what she could. Unfortunately they were interrupted suddenly.
"Awwww" they heard a voice say.
They suddenly turned to see a face coming out of the door. Kitty was partially phased through the door, with a huge smile and adoring look on her face. "You two make like a great couple you know that?"
Both of them blushed fiercely, Rogue was the first to recover. "HOW LONG HAVE YA BEEN THERE?" she shouted.
"I've like only been here at the whole 'will you be mine part'." She told her. "Why did I miss the really good parts?" she teased.
She pulled her head out just in time to avoid a pillow, and heard a muffled "Get out!" coming from Rogue through the door.
Kitty ran downstairs laughing all the way, she ran into all the rest of the girls in the living room sitting around each other talking about something.
"I'm telling you Rogue likes Vincent, I was there." Jubilee said
"Yeah right, like Rogue would go for Vincent." Tabitha said.
"I was there, when she said it!" Jubilee countered. "Ask April she was there too." She turned to April who only nodded.
"Sorry it's just that with Rogue, well you know." Amara said.
"Well you can totally believe them guys." Kitty said walking in. "I was there too, and I just came back from her room, and you'll never guess what I saw."
"Kitty you didn't invade their privacy did you?" Jean sternly asked her.
Kitty looked down at her feet while scratching the back of her head slightly. "Well not on purpose."
"Forget that, what did you see?" Tabitha asked excitedly asked.
"Well" she began getting all perky again. "I accidentally caught them in a pretty personal moment together, not only are they now 'officially' together but they were also hugging each other."
"Get out!" Tabitha exclaimed "Way to go strips, man she bagged herself a hunk."
The other girls gave her a funny look.
"Don't get me wrong, I'm totally into Sam guys, but you got to admit, Vince has got one hell of a great build, and a handsome face." She said to them all.
Several of the girls suddenly looked away slightly, knew that at one point they though that at least once, but would never tell a soul, especially their currently or hopefully soon to be boyfriends.
April was happy for them, she wanted Vincent to be happy, and Rogue, even though what some of the stories painted her as not exactly friendly, she liked and was glad she would be happy too.
It had been a few days since April moved in, at first she was unsure of things, but she slowly came around.
She was enjoying her life immensely. She had never played video games, played with others, or seen anything like TV and movies. The closest thing to that were surveillance tapes and combat films.
The others were so nice to her, and she felt like her life was finally starting for the first time.
The girls were also showing her a lot of the things she missed like fashion, makeup and was learning a lot of other things from them too. She also liked to listen in on Ms. Monroe when she was playing the piano, and Ororo even said she'd teach her if she wanted to learn to play.
On one day the instructors asked her to join them watching the students in the Danger Room, apparently this school also trained mutants to control their powers.
She watched on as the students went through about two hours worth of training. She didn't enjoy it, it reminded her too much of the training she had to go through, especially those large saw blades.
At the end Xavier and Logan noticed that see was not liking this at all.
"You okay, green eyes?" Logan asked her.
She shook her head. "I don't want to go in there....I can't." Her voice was filled with fear.
"Kid it's just training, all the students go through it." Wolverine said.
"I DON"T WANT TO!" She cried out. "I can't....I....I don't want to hurt people anymore, I don't want to go through that again!"
Logan reached out to her, but she flinched away, and started to run away. "I can't do this!" she cried out before leaving.
Logan was going to go after her when Xavier stopped him. "Logan I think Vincent would have a better chance of talking to her than anyone else."
Logan nodded in agreement.
It had taken Vincent a few minutes to find her, she was outside wading her bare feet in the pool, luckily she was warring some shorts, so she didn't have to roll up her pant legs.
"Hey." Vincent calmly said to her.
She jumped and turned to face to person, when she saw it was Vincent she calmed down. "Sorry, for what happened, I just couldn't watch that anymore, and there's no way I'm going through that thing!"
Vince sat down next to her, and crossed his legs. "I know, the first time I was scared to go into the Danger Room, but luckily I hid it well. I thought back to what we and the others were put through and for a second I was afraid I would go through it again."
"But it's nothing like the training we were forced into, and also I'm not as weak as I was then. I'm stronger now, and I bet you are too."
She stared down into the pool the entire time, never talking. "I just don't want to go through that again...I don't want to hurt anymore people, especially not you guys again."
He placed a hind on her shoulder, and when she looked up into his face, he had that calming good natured smile of his. "Tell you what, I'll talk to Logan and the Professor, and ask them that you don't do any DR until your ready."
"Really?"
"Of course, you know I'll always look out for you April."
She could feel some tears forming, and just hugged him. "Thank you."
It was then decided later that day that April would be excused from DR training until she got over her fears of it.
SINISTER'S BASE
"Do you think they've lowered their guard yet Sinister?" Mesmero asked him.
"Yes I believe now is the time, go to Bayville and activate the programming, I'll stand by here and will be ready for the next part of the plan." Sinister cruelly smiled.
THE NEXT DAY BACK AT THE INSTITUTE
April went to Mr. McCoy because she was feeling tired and drained the entire day. After a quick examination he said it was because her body was coming down from the drug in her system, and was starting to take it toll on her.
After supper, she decided to take a nap in her room. Unknown to her and the others Mesmero was watching the mansion from afar. He sensed April going to sleep and thought this was the perfect time to start the next phase of the plan.
He sent a telepathic signal to the girl, after he pulled out a communication device. "It's started."
"Good, you might want to come back before Xavier senses your presence." Sinister said on the communicator.
"Do we really have to sacrifice the girl like that? She had much potential." He asked Sinister.
"The girl has fulfilled her usefulness to us, besides her potential was only great because of the drug, without it she's not that powerful."
Mesmero silently acknowledged his point and walked away.
April on the other hand was turning in her sleep, to the observer it looked like she was having a nightmare, then she quietly lied flat on her bead, as if nothing had happened.
Beast was working in the lab, still studying the drug they had found on April. He was so wrapped up he didn't hear someone enter the room, until he felt a hand on his shoulder turn him around.
Hank was shocked at first because of the sudden unexpected contact, and looked to see April there in front of him. "April, you startled me, what are you doing here?" He cheerfully asked.
She didn't respond and he could feel something was wrong, she had a blank expression and her eyes seemed glossed over. "April what's wron-"He didn't get the chance to finish, as he was thrown across the room.
He hit the wall hard and fell unconscious. 'April' then went over to the workbench and searched for a few minutes. She found her old costume and more importantly the belt with it.
She took a few minutes to change into it and left, straight to Cerebro. She tried to alter the mass of the door, to open it but found that she couldn't. She took out one of the injectors and gave herself a shot in the neck.
She dropped it on the floor, as her body trembled in pain, but it lasted only a minute. Now she tried it again, and made the mass of the door so light, she was able to push it into the room.
This caused an alarm to go off, but didn't care. She calmly walked over to Cerebro, and pulled out a small rectangular device. As she placed in on Cerebros control panel, tendrils shot out of it and inserted them selves into it.
Meanwhile the students were quickly trying to find the instructors to find out what was going on.
Scott, Jean, Vincent, Rogue and Kitty found Storm and the Professor first.
"Professor do you know what's going on?" Scott asked, already wearing his battle visor.
"There has been a break in at Cerebro." Charles told them.
"But like how did anyone get past the security?" Kitty asked.
"We don't know Kitty, but we are going to find out." Storm told the teen.
They were all making there way to the elevator to the lower levels. When they saw the door open already and were nearly hit by Logan who was flying through the air from it at a great speed.
"Logan what happened? Who did this?" Jean asked him, helping his up.
"She did." Logan said, his voice hostile yet, there was a tone implying he couldn't believe who it was.
They all turned to see April coming from the elevator, looking exactly like she had when they met her at the construction site.
Vincent went over to her. "April what's going on?" he demanded.
She looked at him coldly for a moment. "My name is Prodigy 6, and my master wants me to destroy you all."
She then stretched her hands to her sides, and suddenly the entire building began groaning and shaking.
"She's going to collapse the mansion on top of us!" Scott yelled out.
Vincent knew he had little time, so he charged at her a super speed and swiftly took her though the mansion into the back yard, before she regained control and Vincent collapsed onto the ground by a huge force of gravity.
"April...w...why?" He tried to get out.
"I told you my name is Prodigy 6." She was about to increase the gravity, but then someone from the inside of the mansion, turned on the security system and gun turrets popped out.
Prodigy 6 had to refocus her power on all the turrets before they open fired, she easily caused them to crumple into scrap metal.
She returned her attention to Vincent but could see him. An energy blast from above her, which caused her to fly off to the side a few feet told her he was in the air.
She looked up at him, and saw him coming at her, she focused on him again, and Vincent went plummeting into the ground just before her feet. He was still struggling to get up, and was doing a good job.
She knew she still wasn't strong enough and needed a boost, so she reached into her belt and pulled out another injector and gave herself another shot. For a minute her concentration wavered and Vincent was getting up faster, but just as he stood up, he went crashing down again with more force than ever.
"April stop this!" she heard Ororo say. Her, Logan, Rogue, Scott, Jean, Kitty, and they had also gathered Tabitha, Kurt, and Bobby also and now they were all on the lawn coming towards her.
With her newfound power she easily started crushing them all under gravity that had then all crying out in pain. She was about to finish them when Vincent sent an energy blast knocking her back some more.
She got up slightly dazed in time to see the others also slowly getting to their feet, she increased the gravity again, they were all on the ground once more. However by concentrating on all of them she couldn't crush them at full power, and Vincent with his super strength was slowly getting up.
"April...don't do....this...this...isn't you!" He did his best to get it out, hoping to reach her.
Prodigy 6 knew that if she focused on anyone of them the rest would over power her, so she came to only one conclusion. She needed more power.
With her right hand she reached for not one but two more injectors and without thinking injected both of them into her neck. Suddenly she gave out a cry of pain and a huge force washed over everyone.
When they all got back up, they could see the ground had been ripped up, and April was still standing her body violently shaking. "You....will....not....win." she calmly said.
"Jean can you concentrate enough now with her crushing us to get into her mind now?" Scott asked her.
"I'll try." Jean said. She concentrated as fast as she could, she didn't know how much time she had left, she found an abnormality in her mind, that must have been wither dormant or hidden, because she didn't see it before in her mind.
Vincent looked at her, there was a small tail of blood coming from her nose. Suddenly she grabbed her head and screamed. She fell down hard.
Vincent and the others approached her carefully. Vincent being the closest reached her first. He heard her moan and slowly open her eyes at him. "Vincent?" she weakly asked.
Realizing she was no longer being controlled again, he knelt down next to her and pulled her up to him. "April are you okay? What happened?"
"I....I don't know, the last thing I remember was....taking a nap." She suddenly jerked violently in his arms. "Vincent! It hurts!" she cried out to him.
She shut her eyes and now more blood was flowing from her nose, but now it was coming from her ears and her eyes.
"SOMEONE GET MCCOY!" Vincent yelled back at the rest of everyone. Kurt had teleported into the mansion, and Tabitha and Bobby also ran in.
When she opened her eyes, they were red, and now her body trembled all the time. "Vincent...I...I don't ...ah!...I...don't want to...die alone." she said.
"You are NOT going to die!" He told her.
"Please...just...hold me" she pleaded with him.
He held her tight, her face against his shoulder, he could feel the blood on her face sinking into the cloth but he didn't care. She wrapped her arms around him, holding him close.
"I'm sorry....don't...blame yourself." She cried then, but they were tears of blood, instead of water. "Thank you...for giving me happiness...for showing me what it...meant to be free." She whispered to him.
She gave one last shudder then, it stopped. Her arms became lose and fell from holding Vincent.
"April?" he asked quietly. "APRIL!"
He knew it then, that she was gone.
"NOOOOOO!" Vincent screamed. His voice filled with the pain of losing someone who was almost like family to him.
He stayed like that, holding her limp form crying to himself, he didn't know how long, all he knew was that she was gone.
NEXT UP: CHAPTER 18: GRIEVING
I know I killed her, so before you ask me "How could you do that?" let me just say I planned to from the beginning. And no she's dead, she's not coming back and I have no plans to, sorry for those that were liking her and were hoping that she would be a permanent character.
I also know it's a sad ending to a chapter, but that's the way the story is going, this is the dark part of the story and the next chapter is how they all will cope with it.
Shadow-Spider: well since you asked here it is (oh by the way for future references I'm a guy so it's sir)
Louc S. Swarm: thanks for the review. I tried to add a lot of interesting things into this story (hence why I decided to put it in the general section) glad you find it stimulating.
ENTER MAYHEM
CHAPTER 17: THE PLAN REVEALED
Rogue and Vincent were just returning from Kurt's room, both had smiles on their face.
"Man and I thought I had a vicious streak, but you my lady are the master." He said to her.
Rogue felt a note of pride in her work, sure Kurt was her brother but that didn't meant he was immune from her wrath.
Vincent burst out laughing "You know for a while there I thought I actually saw his fur pale a little, especially after that last threat there about what you would do to him if he interfered in your relationships again without talking to you first."
Even Rogue let out a good laugh at that, after the fifteen minutes of threatening, and chewing him out, she doubted that Kurt would think twice about interfering again.
She thought about what Vincent had just said. About them being in a relationship, were they, they hadn't had the chance to talk things out since the infirmary.
"Vincent, can ah talk to ya...alone?" She asked him.
"Sure my room or yours?" he said his face being a little more serious now.
"Mine is closer." She responded. He nodded his head and they went off. They entered her room, and after closing the door, they sat down on the edge of her bead next to each other.
"This is about us, isn't it?" Vincent asked her.
She nodded her head.
"Well you know how I feel." He started "You know that over the time we've spent that not only have I enjoyed your company, and that I like you as a friend, I suddenly found my feelings growing for you....something more than friendship."
"Ah know the same is with meh." She said quietly, but not too much so he couldn't hear her. "Ah found myself lahking ya more also, and ya always make meh feel better, ya never been afraid of meh, and treated meh like any other girl."
"Your more than just any other girl to me Rogue, you know that."
"Ah do know, even though most of ya memories are gone, I do know." She looked into his eyes then. "Ah still don't know why you'd want ta be with someone how ya can never touch or kiss."
He reached out with his right hand and gently placed it on her shoulder. "Every rose has it's thorns, you just have to careful not to touch the thorns and you can hold it."
She felt a small smile form on her face. "And what is that supposed ta mean?"
"It means that I don't care about that, it's not touching you that I want, it's just YOU that I want." He then placed his hand from her shoulder and put it on the small of her back and gently pulled themselves closer.
"Besides I'm holding you now, even though it's not skin on skin contact, I'll hold you any time you need it." He said staring into those beautiful gray eyes of hers.
She felt tears swelling up again, and just placed her head on his shoulder, like she did so many nights ago. "Do ya really want a girlfriend ya can't really touch?"
"Depends. Are you really asking to be my girlfriend?" He hoped so, even though he was calm on the outside, inside he was terrified that she would push away from him.
"Ya ah am." She told him.
Vincent had a huge smile on his face then, this moment was perfect to him, and like that night after the double date with Sam and Tabby, when his feelings for her first showed themselves, he held her again.
Rogue was relishing their careful embrace. The last time they had done this seemed like a lifetime ago, but this was even better than the last time. At that moment she wished that she could touch him for just one moment, just so she could give him one kiss, and this moment would be perfect.
But she couldn't so she just accepted what she could. Unfortunately they were interrupted suddenly.
"Awwww" they heard a voice say.
They suddenly turned to see a face coming out of the door. Kitty was partially phased through the door, with a huge smile and adoring look on her face. "You two make like a great couple you know that?"
Both of them blushed fiercely, Rogue was the first to recover. "HOW LONG HAVE YA BEEN THERE?" she shouted.
"I've like only been here at the whole 'will you be mine part'." She told her. "Why did I miss the really good parts?" she teased.
She pulled her head out just in time to avoid a pillow, and heard a muffled "Get out!" coming from Rogue through the door.
Kitty ran downstairs laughing all the way, she ran into all the rest of the girls in the living room sitting around each other talking about something.
"I'm telling you Rogue likes Vincent, I was there." Jubilee said
"Yeah right, like Rogue would go for Vincent." Tabitha said.
"I was there, when she said it!" Jubilee countered. "Ask April she was there too." She turned to April who only nodded.
"Sorry it's just that with Rogue, well you know." Amara said.
"Well you can totally believe them guys." Kitty said walking in. "I was there too, and I just came back from her room, and you'll never guess what I saw."
"Kitty you didn't invade their privacy did you?" Jean sternly asked her.
Kitty looked down at her feet while scratching the back of her head slightly. "Well not on purpose."
"Forget that, what did you see?" Tabitha asked excitedly asked.
"Well" she began getting all perky again. "I accidentally caught them in a pretty personal moment together, not only are they now 'officially' together but they were also hugging each other."
"Get out!" Tabitha exclaimed "Way to go strips, man she bagged herself a hunk."
The other girls gave her a funny look.
"Don't get me wrong, I'm totally into Sam guys, but you got to admit, Vince has got one hell of a great build, and a handsome face." She said to them all.
Several of the girls suddenly looked away slightly, knew that at one point they though that at least once, but would never tell a soul, especially their currently or hopefully soon to be boyfriends.
April was happy for them, she wanted Vincent to be happy, and Rogue, even though what some of the stories painted her as not exactly friendly, she liked and was glad she would be happy too.
It had been a few days since April moved in, at first she was unsure of things, but she slowly came around.
She was enjoying her life immensely. She had never played video games, played with others, or seen anything like TV and movies. The closest thing to that were surveillance tapes and combat films.
The others were so nice to her, and she felt like her life was finally starting for the first time.
The girls were also showing her a lot of the things she missed like fashion, makeup and was learning a lot of other things from them too. She also liked to listen in on Ms. Monroe when she was playing the piano, and Ororo even said she'd teach her if she wanted to learn to play.
On one day the instructors asked her to join them watching the students in the Danger Room, apparently this school also trained mutants to control their powers.
She watched on as the students went through about two hours worth of training. She didn't enjoy it, it reminded her too much of the training she had to go through, especially those large saw blades.
At the end Xavier and Logan noticed that see was not liking this at all.
"You okay, green eyes?" Logan asked her.
She shook her head. "I don't want to go in there....I can't." Her voice was filled with fear.
"Kid it's just training, all the students go through it." Wolverine said.
"I DON"T WANT TO!" She cried out. "I can't....I....I don't want to hurt people anymore, I don't want to go through that again!"
Logan reached out to her, but she flinched away, and started to run away. "I can't do this!" she cried out before leaving.
Logan was going to go after her when Xavier stopped him. "Logan I think Vincent would have a better chance of talking to her than anyone else."
Logan nodded in agreement.
It had taken Vincent a few minutes to find her, she was outside wading her bare feet in the pool, luckily she was warring some shorts, so she didn't have to roll up her pant legs.
"Hey." Vincent calmly said to her.
She jumped and turned to face to person, when she saw it was Vincent she calmed down. "Sorry, for what happened, I just couldn't watch that anymore, and there's no way I'm going through that thing!"
Vince sat down next to her, and crossed his legs. "I know, the first time I was scared to go into the Danger Room, but luckily I hid it well. I thought back to what we and the others were put through and for a second I was afraid I would go through it again."
"But it's nothing like the training we were forced into, and also I'm not as weak as I was then. I'm stronger now, and I bet you are too."
She stared down into the pool the entire time, never talking. "I just don't want to go through that again...I don't want to hurt anymore people, especially not you guys again."
He placed a hind on her shoulder, and when she looked up into his face, he had that calming good natured smile of his. "Tell you what, I'll talk to Logan and the Professor, and ask them that you don't do any DR until your ready."
"Really?"
"Of course, you know I'll always look out for you April."
She could feel some tears forming, and just hugged him. "Thank you."
It was then decided later that day that April would be excused from DR training until she got over her fears of it.
SINISTER'S BASE
"Do you think they've lowered their guard yet Sinister?" Mesmero asked him.
"Yes I believe now is the time, go to Bayville and activate the programming, I'll stand by here and will be ready for the next part of the plan." Sinister cruelly smiled.
THE NEXT DAY BACK AT THE INSTITUTE
April went to Mr. McCoy because she was feeling tired and drained the entire day. After a quick examination he said it was because her body was coming down from the drug in her system, and was starting to take it toll on her.
After supper, she decided to take a nap in her room. Unknown to her and the others Mesmero was watching the mansion from afar. He sensed April going to sleep and thought this was the perfect time to start the next phase of the plan.
He sent a telepathic signal to the girl, after he pulled out a communication device. "It's started."
"Good, you might want to come back before Xavier senses your presence." Sinister said on the communicator.
"Do we really have to sacrifice the girl like that? She had much potential." He asked Sinister.
"The girl has fulfilled her usefulness to us, besides her potential was only great because of the drug, without it she's not that powerful."
Mesmero silently acknowledged his point and walked away.
April on the other hand was turning in her sleep, to the observer it looked like she was having a nightmare, then she quietly lied flat on her bead, as if nothing had happened.
Beast was working in the lab, still studying the drug they had found on April. He was so wrapped up he didn't hear someone enter the room, until he felt a hand on his shoulder turn him around.
Hank was shocked at first because of the sudden unexpected contact, and looked to see April there in front of him. "April, you startled me, what are you doing here?" He cheerfully asked.
She didn't respond and he could feel something was wrong, she had a blank expression and her eyes seemed glossed over. "April what's wron-"He didn't get the chance to finish, as he was thrown across the room.
He hit the wall hard and fell unconscious. 'April' then went over to the workbench and searched for a few minutes. She found her old costume and more importantly the belt with it.
She took a few minutes to change into it and left, straight to Cerebro. She tried to alter the mass of the door, to open it but found that she couldn't. She took out one of the injectors and gave herself a shot in the neck.
She dropped it on the floor, as her body trembled in pain, but it lasted only a minute. Now she tried it again, and made the mass of the door so light, she was able to push it into the room.
This caused an alarm to go off, but didn't care. She calmly walked over to Cerebro, and pulled out a small rectangular device. As she placed in on Cerebros control panel, tendrils shot out of it and inserted them selves into it.
Meanwhile the students were quickly trying to find the instructors to find out what was going on.
Scott, Jean, Vincent, Rogue and Kitty found Storm and the Professor first.
"Professor do you know what's going on?" Scott asked, already wearing his battle visor.
"There has been a break in at Cerebro." Charles told them.
"But like how did anyone get past the security?" Kitty asked.
"We don't know Kitty, but we are going to find out." Storm told the teen.
They were all making there way to the elevator to the lower levels. When they saw the door open already and were nearly hit by Logan who was flying through the air from it at a great speed.
"Logan what happened? Who did this?" Jean asked him, helping his up.
"She did." Logan said, his voice hostile yet, there was a tone implying he couldn't believe who it was.
They all turned to see April coming from the elevator, looking exactly like she had when they met her at the construction site.
Vincent went over to her. "April what's going on?" he demanded.
She looked at him coldly for a moment. "My name is Prodigy 6, and my master wants me to destroy you all."
She then stretched her hands to her sides, and suddenly the entire building began groaning and shaking.
"She's going to collapse the mansion on top of us!" Scott yelled out.
Vincent knew he had little time, so he charged at her a super speed and swiftly took her though the mansion into the back yard, before she regained control and Vincent collapsed onto the ground by a huge force of gravity.
"April...w...why?" He tried to get out.
"I told you my name is Prodigy 6." She was about to increase the gravity, but then someone from the inside of the mansion, turned on the security system and gun turrets popped out.
Prodigy 6 had to refocus her power on all the turrets before they open fired, she easily caused them to crumple into scrap metal.
She returned her attention to Vincent but could see him. An energy blast from above her, which caused her to fly off to the side a few feet told her he was in the air.
She looked up at him, and saw him coming at her, she focused on him again, and Vincent went plummeting into the ground just before her feet. He was still struggling to get up, and was doing a good job.
She knew she still wasn't strong enough and needed a boost, so she reached into her belt and pulled out another injector and gave herself another shot. For a minute her concentration wavered and Vincent was getting up faster, but just as he stood up, he went crashing down again with more force than ever.
"April stop this!" she heard Ororo say. Her, Logan, Rogue, Scott, Jean, Kitty, and they had also gathered Tabitha, Kurt, and Bobby also and now they were all on the lawn coming towards her.
With her newfound power she easily started crushing them all under gravity that had then all crying out in pain. She was about to finish them when Vincent sent an energy blast knocking her back some more.
She got up slightly dazed in time to see the others also slowly getting to their feet, she increased the gravity again, they were all on the ground once more. However by concentrating on all of them she couldn't crush them at full power, and Vincent with his super strength was slowly getting up.
"April...don't do....this...this...isn't you!" He did his best to get it out, hoping to reach her.
Prodigy 6 knew that if she focused on anyone of them the rest would over power her, so she came to only one conclusion. She needed more power.
With her right hand she reached for not one but two more injectors and without thinking injected both of them into her neck. Suddenly she gave out a cry of pain and a huge force washed over everyone.
When they all got back up, they could see the ground had been ripped up, and April was still standing her body violently shaking. "You....will....not....win." she calmly said.
"Jean can you concentrate enough now with her crushing us to get into her mind now?" Scott asked her.
"I'll try." Jean said. She concentrated as fast as she could, she didn't know how much time she had left, she found an abnormality in her mind, that must have been wither dormant or hidden, because she didn't see it before in her mind.
Vincent looked at her, there was a small tail of blood coming from her nose. Suddenly she grabbed her head and screamed. She fell down hard.
Vincent and the others approached her carefully. Vincent being the closest reached her first. He heard her moan and slowly open her eyes at him. "Vincent?" she weakly asked.
Realizing she was no longer being controlled again, he knelt down next to her and pulled her up to him. "April are you okay? What happened?"
"I....I don't know, the last thing I remember was....taking a nap." She suddenly jerked violently in his arms. "Vincent! It hurts!" she cried out to him.
She shut her eyes and now more blood was flowing from her nose, but now it was coming from her ears and her eyes.
"SOMEONE GET MCCOY!" Vincent yelled back at the rest of everyone. Kurt had teleported into the mansion, and Tabitha and Bobby also ran in.
When she opened her eyes, they were red, and now her body trembled all the time. "Vincent...I...I don't ...ah!...I...don't want to...die alone." she said.
"You are NOT going to die!" He told her.
"Please...just...hold me" she pleaded with him.
He held her tight, her face against his shoulder, he could feel the blood on her face sinking into the cloth but he didn't care. She wrapped her arms around him, holding him close.
"I'm sorry....don't...blame yourself." She cried then, but they were tears of blood, instead of water. "Thank you...for giving me happiness...for showing me what it...meant to be free." She whispered to him.
She gave one last shudder then, it stopped. Her arms became lose and fell from holding Vincent.
"April?" he asked quietly. "APRIL!"
He knew it then, that she was gone.
"NOOOOOO!" Vincent screamed. His voice filled with the pain of losing someone who was almost like family to him.
He stayed like that, holding her limp form crying to himself, he didn't know how long, all he knew was that she was gone.
NEXT UP: CHAPTER 18: GRIEVING
I know I killed her, so before you ask me "How could you do that?" let me just say I planned to from the beginning. And no she's dead, she's not coming back and I have no plans to, sorry for those that were liking her and were hoping that she would be a permanent character.
I also know it's a sad ending to a chapter, but that's the way the story is going, this is the dark part of the story and the next chapter is how they all will cope with it.