Acid & Base
Chapter Seven: Discoveries of Acid and Base
Author: Icy Flame
Icy: Sorry but this took longer than I at first imagined it would!
W: Yep! But it's here now so enjoy!
~~~ Where we left off ~~
"So who were those guys?" Fred asked, turning towards the two gothic girls. They both remained silent. This didn't go over easy with the others; in fact it just pissed them off.
Wanda offered, " Why don't we get out of here before something else happens."
Grudgingly the agreed and followed her out of the woods, down the path of obliteration that Rogue had caused earlier. Pietro kept giving Rogue nervous glances until she looked at him with an upheld eyebrow. He turned away and blushed crimson. Evan caught this and began laughing. Pietro shot Spyke a death glare that Heero Yuy would be proud of.
"shut it porcupine"
"Whatever you say Dorkimoff"
Logan shook his head and got on his motorcycle. Revving the engine he turned to Scott. Smirking slightly as engine growled loudly.
"I'll go ahead and tell Xavier, just bring everyone back in one piece.
Each member boarded into the cars, although somewhat illegally with the brotherhood along with them. After everyone was somewhat safely aboard they started off towards the institute.
~~~ Jean's Car ~~~
"Hey get your elbow out of my eye Kurt!" Kitty complained from Lance's lap. Kurt attempted to move his elbow to a different position, only to find that his movements cause a cramp in his tail.
"Get off my tail Fred!" he screamed in a high pitch voice.
~~~ Scott's Car ~~~
"How many times do I have to tell you to stop glaring at me!" Pietro groaned at Wanda, she let out a huff and turned her head. Rogue was blushing beat red from Pietro's lap as Wanda held a light pink on Evan's.
"How much do you girls eat?" Evan squirmed. Wanda glared at him as did Rogue.
"What is that suppose to mean?" Rogue asked in a voice that meant danger if his answer were wrong.
"Uh he just meant because you girls are so light. How do you keep it off! Right Daniels?" Pietro elbowed him.
"Yeah! Exactly!"
"Then why didn't you say that in the first place?" Wanda mused, eyes narrowing.
Evan was left to sweat it out, there was no way out of this. He was screwed.
"Uh you know me, not the greatest with um words and er I yeah!"
"Real smooth Daniels"
"not know Maximoff!"
~~~ Institute~~~
Upon arrival the children were shocked to see all adult leaders surrounding the front door. This included Logan who had gone ahead to let Charles now everyone was all right. Ororo, Logan and Hand stood to the right of Xavier while to his left stood Magnus and Mystique.
Xavier stated, " I do believe you own us an explanation Rogue, Wanda." He left it open for them to begin their enlightenment, when none came he frowned.
"Come now, you can trust us." Still they made no move to answer. Pietro went over to Rogue's side he looked at her face. Their eyes locked and he saw the fear lying dormant in the gray jade eyes. He smiled and nodded, quicker than you could blink he whirled around and placed an arm on Rogue and Wanda's shoulder.
"They don't have to tell us anything they don't want to." He pointed out, glaring at the rest of them.
"Of course they don't" Scott assured him. He quickly marched over to the trio and placed a hand on Rogue's shoulder. "It's alright but if you could explain what that was back there. If we are going to be any help then we're gonna need to know what is after you two."
"Fair enough I suppose" Wanda sighed. A large rumble interrupted her from explaining what was happening. Rogue blushed and weakly smiled.
"Uh if it's alright with ya'll could I get something to eat?"
Fred replied, "I'm kinda hungry too now that you mention it." Todd looked at him funny. "Freddy you're always hungry." With this they all marched inside to have a meal. After wards they headed off towards Xavier's office to hold a little 'meeting'.
~~~ Xavier's Office ~~~
"Alright Wanda you've put this off long enough! Who where those men?" Magnus growled, glaring at his daughter. She rolled her eyes and put her feet up on the table only to be shocked to find her feet being tossed off. She glanced at a slightly smirking Jean.
"Why I otta" Evan held back the livid sister of his number one rival.
"Wow girl, come on calm down." Evan said as he attempted to sooth the savage beast er witch.
"It all started a while ago, back when I was in the asylum." A few new recruits snickered at this and were sent warning glares by the professor. "Yeah well it turns out that I wasn't the only mutant there. The place was just a dump for mutants who weren't able to control their powers. Most of them didn't really have decent ones. Just like being able to grow hair long or moving really slow, just basic stupid stuff. One day this guy comes up to me, a scientist. Ask if I wanna become part of a group that gets to go on 'field trips'. Sounded like a plan, since I hadn't been out of the building since I was seven." She glares at her father who looks slightly guilty.
"That is quite enough agent Base" The others gasped as they turned to look at who had stopped her. There stood the two men they had imprisoned!
"How…how did you get out?" Fred asked, looking at them dumbly. The men scoffed at them, cackling evilly.
"You think that dinky little cage could hold a member of C.A.I.N.! Now we'll be collecting our agents." One of them men guffawed.
"But we finished our contracts!" Rogue screamed, crossing her arms over her chest. Wanda looked sheepish, "Actually we didn't Acid."
"That's correct, you still need to download the information and powers gained on your recent mission."
"Wait a second! What do you mean by download powers and information?" Jean asked, looking slightly bewildered.
"Didn't you catch on? Why how do you think Rogue got into our little club? Her power is the absorption and perpetually use of other mutant's powers!"
"That's a lie!" Mystique squawked, pointing a finger at the two men.
The first one smirked, "Is it? How well do you know them? Have you ever actually thought to find out the limits of their abilities? I thought not. You fools are worse off then we ever imagined!"
The others just balked as they realized how little they actually knew about their fellow teammates and for some their family members.
Icy: That's all I got for this.
W: Sorry we know this chapter really sucks.
Icy: I'll revise it I swear!
W: Yeah but right now we can't think of anything else to happen!
Icy: Tell us what we should do!