Acid & Base
Chapter Eight: Valor and Cowardice
Author: Icy Flame
Icy: OMG wasn't Day of Recovery awesome?
W: It was wonderful! I loved it! Hehe
Icy: Anyways enjoy guys! And thanks to all who took time to review! Sorry for this taking so long!!
~~~ Meeting Room ~~~
Rogue compressed her fist, the pent up fury taking over. She just couldn't take it any more. Sure all of the kids at the mansions and brotherhood weren't tight buddy-buddy friends of her's, hell some of them had never really talked with one another but that wasn't an excuse for them to be pulled into her tribulations. Her muscles went rigid, eyes squinting together into a glare. Forcing her pupils into barely visible slits her hands began to clench and unclench quivering from the energy building up within her. Attempting to take control of her emotions Rogue inhaled the surrounding air by her deeply. (How do you inhale oxygen not around you?)
"Stop it" Rogue commanded in an icy tone, sending chills down her teammates spines, everyone who heard the authority in her voice looked at her in shock. Rogue scarcely made conversation let alone screamed out loud. Of course the X-men's attention wasn't the only thing she grasped but along with the two members of C.A.I.N. also looked at their agent in surprise. She was programmed to take orders without questioning, it being impossible to over come the training she had learned, or was it? All thoughts of her overcoming their programming were put on hold as Mystique questioned her ex-brotherhood girl.
"What is it Rogue?" asked Mystique, taken aback at the outburst.
"I won't allow you two to do this to them." Her fists were clenched and items began floating around the room. A book flew by followed by papers and odd shrubbery that had been placed around the room to give it more cheery atmosphere. Candles lit and the lights flickered. Some items on the table began porting from one place to another others began phasing through the table itself. The ground began to tremor and the chairs that had been around the table whizzed by on their wheels at a pace to fast to see. Random objects such as paper clips, coins, pens, a lighter, some batteries and even a few watches began to swirl around the room making contact before spinning once again, being held in place by an unseen force.
The taller agent (damn I really gotta give them names) stepped forward. He dodged getting slammed in the head by a fly by fruitie. (waaaay too much Mrs. Doubtfire)
"Agent we demand that you stop this tom-foolery this instant"
The children fell forward slightly at his odd lingo, but quickly straightened up and listened to the discussion, Scarlet Witch had moved to be heard well. Rogue clenched her eyes together and stiffened for a moment, breathing in deeply. Pietro gave her a worried look, along with a few other teammates. He set a hand on her shoulder, and whispered if she was alright. She nodded and began to open her eyes as the objects in the room stopped their actions becoming inanimate once again.
Wanda suggested brazenly, "We'll make you a deal."
The two men looked at each other and nodded their heads in agreement, waiting for the teen to give them her idea. Wanda sat down on the table that they had all only moments ago been sitting around. With her knees swaying back and forth she enlightened them with her pact.
"Agent Acid and I will go with you but you have to leave the Brotherhood and X-gee er Men alone…forever. This is the only way that we will come with you peacefully, if you attempt anything else …well Agent Acid and I will bring this building down around your ears."
"That does sound like a decent well thought out plan, don't you agree Dr. West?" asked the tall man mockingly. The shorter man smirked at Agent Base and shook his head. The put their hands to their mouth as they both let out a high pitch squeal of delight, earning weird looks from everyone in the room and Erik mumbling 'Rump ranger' to Charles as Logan mentioned a few words like 'flamer' to Raven.
"Hmmp! Dr. Quincy I believe all the time living around these X-Men and Brotherhood seemed to have dulled our agent's wits. You see Agent Base, Agent Acid, you WILL complete your missions or we'll kill your precious little friends."
Bobby threatened, "You're on thin ice buddy, right now ain't the time to be making idle threats." The other recruits groaned at his ice joke but let it slide…this time. There would be plenty of time to ask him what he was thinking latter…hopefully.
Both doctors seemed very amused and pleased with his outbursts. In fact an evil grin broadened their pale twisted faces.
"You don't think that Agents Base and Acid are the only mutants we employed do you? Fools, all of you!" Dr. West mocked, shaking his fist at them, "I don't know why we spared your lives so far." Wanda and Rogue scowled at the men, there was no way they were dragging the other agents in on this.
"We are the best you have! No one of the four others would be able to defeat us, not even combined with all the technology you have! Especially when we have the extra surge of all the 'gifts' we've gathered!" Wanda pointed out, smirking at their folly. She just looked at them, daring them to take the upper hand from her. There was no way that they would be able to over power them. Both her and Rogue knew that the powers stored in the computer was in no way more powerful than having it firsthand. If they DID have to face their companions from C.A.I.N. there wasn't a chance that Rogue and Wanda would be defeated, which perplexed both Acid and Base since West & Quincy also had to have this knowledge. Why would West and Quincy give an empty threat?
Dr. West dared, " So you believe but…are you willing to chance the lives of all these civilians on your beliefs Agent Base?"
That had been why they'd said it, Wanda frowned; he knew she couldn't take that bet. There were too many of them to risk, if it had just been herself it would be fine but there would be no way she could save all of them; not even with Rogue here to split the fighting with. Scarlet Witch sensed the plan too late, both her and her partner would have to surrender but that's just what they wanted. She growled and twitched, causing a chair to burst in flames.
"That's right, you're stuck! Now follow us and none of these peons will be harmed…for now." Dr. Quincy warned, taking a pair of what looked like ordinary run of the mill silver tinted handcuffs from his strap. Wanda and Rogue stood up straight when they saw them, their eyes widening beyond belief. Each girl backed up a few paces when they realized what West and Quincy's intentions were.
'There is no way I'm going down without a fight.' Rogue thought, a feral look entering her jade colored eyes. Wanda set a hand on her shoulder; Rogue looked over and saw her partner shake her head. Rogue scowled and shook her head, giving up wasn't her style, she always fought to the end no matter what. Giving into their demands wasn't about to make anything better but she was willing to spare her housemates and friends with her freedom, it that is what it would cost. Defeated she let out a deep breath and grudgingly stepped forward with her wrists held out, palms up.
Everyone let out a gasp as they figured out what she was doing. Not one of them was more shocked than Pietro who just stood their for a second with his mouth open, wide enough to allow a pigeon to fly in. After a second his mouth started to work again but he just stood there with his mouth gaping like a Magikarp(fish).
"No Rogue, you aren't actually gonna let them win are you?" begged Pietro, zooming over to her before the men from C.A.I.N. could possible stop him. Rogue looked at his pouting face and slender protruding lip and puppy dog eyes she looked considerably guilty. Her frown deepened and shook her head. Leaning over she lightly plants a kiss on his unsuspecting lips.. The vampireic touch caused him to fall into a dead faint, not quite before a grin appears on his face though. Catching him before he hit the ground she gave him over to Kurt, who merely gave her a sad smile.
"Sorry Speedy." Again she thrust out her wrists and allowed the handcuffs to be clasped onto them. The loud clank of the metal could be heard in the silent room as the other doctor took out a pair of exact oppositely colored handcuffs and cuffed Scarlet Witch with them, a low echoing from the metal clasp sounding throughout the room.
Wanda and Rogue put on neutral expressions and then began walking out of the room. The two C.A.I.N. agents nudged them forward, forcing them to take a faster pace. Their boots lightly echoed down the hall and outside until they were no longer audible them.
The room was deathly silent; no one dared move or say anything for what felt like forever. Each afraid that if they breathed too deeply this horrible event might actual come to past, but alas nothing can last forever, lest of all silence amongst teens. The air became heavy and thick, as the world seemed to stop spinning. None of them could believe what just happened was real; it couldn't be…could it? How could they do that? Why would they give themselves up for them? A stirring Pietro brought them all back to reality.
"NO! DON'T- Where? WHERE IS SHE? WHERE ARE THEY?" He demanded once he got to his feet and noticed the disappearance of not only Rogue but his sister as well. The others just remained silent. They still couldn't accept it. Rogue had been a secret agent from an ultra underground agency bent on gathering up the most powerful mutants and their abilities? The quiet southern goth had been sent here simply to extract a sample of their mutant gifts? Along with Wanda, Magneto's daughter, who had been sent for the same reason it appeared? Both Wanda and Rogue were spies? They were ultra mutants? What were they really? Friends, sisters, companions, teammates, daughters, crushes…strangers?
Icy: I'm tired!
W: You're tired? I'M tired! We've been editing this chapter ALL day! How boring is that?
Icy: Eh whatever! Review and tell us what ya think!
W: Later yo