Acid & Base
Chapter Ten: Acid and Base, Void and Neutral
Author: Icy Flame
Disclaimer: Don't Own Them Never Will
Sorry for the long wait, I had marching band and now I'm starting Driver's Ed!
AN: If you want to know when things will be updated or how they are going I have a thing in my profile about it!
AN: I switch Magneto/Erik/Magnus around a bit with the naming; just so everyone knows it's the same person. I just tend to forget that everyone might not realize they are the same person.
The stars shone brightly in the night, like little nightlights for all the woodland creatures. Crickets rose their voices to the heavens and the clouds parted just enough for the moon to shone down upon them all. Not pausing for a second to watch in awe at the beautiful peaceful scenery, the X-jet hurtled onwards. They were only thirty minutes from their destination, C.A.I.N. headquarters. Or so they thought.
"Come on Logan!"
"No! I ain't gonna do it!"
"Friend I believe they are correct."
"Ugh…fine. But it ain't gonna be me who asks!" growled out Logan, before pulling the X-Jet to a halt. Magnus along with Jamie tromped down the landing ramp side by side. A nearby sheep ba'd in fear and fled as fast as she could.
Both males leaned over the side of the ramp, the jet not quite landing just hovering in the air. The farmer just stared up in awe at the machine. Magneto waved to get his attention.
"How do you get to here?" Jamie asked, showing the man a hologram map of the building they were heading for. Dazed the man simply pointed the spot out on the map.
"are you sure we should take directions from him? He is one of those dreadful *Homo sapiens* after all" Erik warned, looking doubtful at the man as if judging his lack of intelligence. The guy again merely nodded and the mutants boarded their ship prepped to take off. The farmer finally coming out of his daze started after the X-Jet.
"WAIT! Take me with you!"
Wanda and Rogue suddenly shot straight up in their bed. The cover being partially over Wanda's head she yanked it down. Adjusting their eyes to the light they didn't move for a few seconds. After each girls' eyes attuned they spun around so they were facing the other.
"How long have we been out?" Rogue asked, trying to sounds calm. Wanda shrugged her shoulders and looked around the room once more. Finding no clock she was unable to figure out what time it really was or how long they had been asleep. Hell for all they know they could have been asleep for seconds or days possibly even weeks. Shaking her head to clear these thoughts Wanda leapt from the bed. Rogue followed suit.
Wanda suggested, "Whatever they're planning to do we might as well be ready." Rogue absently nodded, realizing she couldn't disagree with the logic. So Acid and Base set about stretching their muscles and warming up for any type of attack; going over strategies and taking the time to reminiscence about old escape plans gone wrong.
"You know while Ah've been out Ah seen a few movies." Rogue started, Wanda glanced at her like she'd grown an extra head.
Wanda spat, "Your point being." Rogue started looking around the room for something.
"It's just that in all the movies the people, no matter how dumb, always go through ventilation systems to escape…" Rogue hinted, still searching around for the grate.
"Are you suggesting that we make a break for it…through a rickety metal hall that will barely hold us?" Wanda paused, looking in Rogue direction.
"Ah reckon it ain't the best plan evah but it IS a plan!" she pointed to the grate a few feet away and latched onto it. Wanda shook her head but went over to the grate. Yanking on the grate she almost got it off but her grip gave and she went tumbling into a wall.
Rogue shook her head but went over and practically ripped the metal away like tab from a pop can.
"Well? What are you waiting for Base?" she grinned, both girls slithered into the metal hole, making sure to replace the grate so that their escape route wasn't found.
Without a sound the X-Jet made it's landing, one hundred yards from the building in a small green pasture. As the engines cooled they children made a mad dash to get off first. Hank, Ororo, Mystique, Magnus, Charles and Logan made a much more slower retreat from the flying machine.
Mystique recommended," I supposed that we ought to split into groups…"
"Good. Raven and me will go in with Porcupine, Toad, Elf, Red, Rocky, Cyke, Speedy and Half Pint. Hmmm you too Icecube. The rest of you stay on guard. Let's move out!" Wolverine devised.
Logan's chosen team followed him and Raven over the fence and around the perimeters of the building before selecting an entrance they could safely use.
Charles turned to the others and smiled. "I do believe we have our work cut out for ourselves. We need to destroy any and all video cameras. No one must see us or know we are here. Why don't
Jamie, Roberto, Fred and Magnus go to the north side.
Sam, Amara, Rhane, and Ororo go south.
Ray, Jubilee, Tabitha go with Hank to the West
and the rest shall remain with me on the East." (Spaced to read whose w/ who easier)
Agreeing with the plan each person spilt up into a group and started out to their destination. Patrolling every snap of a branch and meow of a nearby cat. Of course the tabby didn't appreciate being shook around by Kitty, suspecting her as a shape-shifter. When it turned out to be a normal cat she giggled embarrassed Kitty dropped the feline.
Ray put his hands up in the air and let out a long tendril of yellow electricity at a nearby camera. Jubilee zapped another. Tabitha left a bomb by both remains and grinned as the remains of both tapping devices disappeared into a pile of ash. Hank merely sniffed the air in hopes of detecting anyone nearby, he recoiled when the only scent was of melted plastic and ash.
Jamie frowned Fred and picked himself up off the ground. The blonde boy shot the younger one an apologetic look and placed him on his shoulder. Multiple grinned from atop his look out watch. Magnus shook his head at the two boys and magnetically yanked down another security camera. Roberto picked it up and smashed the material into an unrecognizable shape. Tossing it behind him Jamie created a multiple and had him bury the lump.
Charles stapled his hands together and thought over their predicament. While his group continued to destroy random security and tapping devices. Conserving energy for the physic blast that would be needed Charles concentrated on clearing his mind.
Kitty phased through a door, making sure to stay phasing as she turned her head back and forth. Spotting no guards or personal she waved the others on, putting her arms back through the heavy steel so that they could come through it. Logan sniffed the air a few times before ordering them forward. Bobby was grinning like there was no tomorrow, happy enough to be considered skilled enough to be brought on the mission. Pietro surged forward, checking here and there for any sign of life. Evan spiked up, preparing for any attack. Scott held a hand to his glasses, ready and waiting for the signal to blast anything. Lance just walked along, trying not to stare at Shadowcat but DANG he'd have to thank Xavier later for picking those spandex uniforms. Maybe it was suppose to distract the opponent, all Lance knew was it sure was distracting. How Summers ever kept his head around all these girls was a mystery.
Pietro came back and stopped right in front of Logan, who was more than a bit stunned. He fell off balance, knocking everyone over like dominos. He landed on Mystique, who flared around unsettling Evan who shot a spike off at Scott who leapt in the air only to knock off Kurt. Kurt accidentally bumped Kitty into Lance who whomped his head on Bobby's chest. Todd jumped into the air, trying to grasp onto something but bumped into Jean.
"Maximoff!" Evan whined. He looked slightly guilty but just shook it off.
"There is a guard."
Getting up everyone herded to the post. Trying to not be discovered, surprise being the best weapon available. The man seemed somewhat distracted; of course a version of Playboy will do that to men, and in some cases even women. But it gave them the distraction they needed for their rescue mission.
Wanda peered into the darkness once more. She still couldn't see a thing in front of her. Growling a few things about stupid plans and movies and hexing moving makers she turned around to face her partner. Only to find Rogue laughing her ass off at something. Wondering if the pressure had finally gotten to her or if she was high Wanda shook Acid a little bit.
"You ok?" Wanda asked in a raspy whisper, checking to make sure her friend was all right. When Rogue's breathing became less rapid she answered the question, wiping away a few tears.
"You-haha-have-hehe- some cobwebs-hehe-in your hair-and you look-" at this point Rogue lost it and started to giggle again. Wanda swiped at the spider webs and made a face.
"Gawh they won't come out! Come on giggly help me out!" Rogue picked the white strains from the dark hair and broke out into laughter once more. Her sides hurt and lips felt like they'd stretched too far but she finally subsided. It felt so good to laugh and let it all out.
Scarlet Witch questioned, "Done yet? Good, I need you to look and see if you can find anything."
Rogue took Wanda's spot at the head and attempted to activate Kurt's powers. Her eyes wouldn't change, shrugging it off as her not picking up that particular talent strongly enough she switched her efforts to Toad's luminous eyes. Again nothing happened, looking puzzled and more that baffled she turned to Wanda.
Scarlet Witch took in the confused look with a raised eyebrow of her own. Curious as to what Rogue was trying to pull. This was a serious matter, they really did need to bust out of here. There were too many bad memories and experiments that would lay in the future at C.A.I.N.
"What is it?" she hissed in a quite voice, trying to be heard while still using the lowest voice possible. Rogue still looked dumbfounded but answered.
"Ah, ah can't use the powers." Shock completely took over Wanda's features, that couldn't be right, there was only one reason as to why Rogue wouldn't be able to access all the powers but she always wore it.
"Oh my god, my stupid dumbass brother!" shrieked Wanda, pounding a fist into her other hand. "I swear by all that is mighty when I get my hands on that boy!" Rogue placed a soothing hand on her shoulder.
"It's alright,
what's the problem?"
"You're necklace, Pietro has it! It must of fallen off when you uh y'know and
he picked it up. I can't believe it didn't occur to me before! I even saw him
with it on."
"Hey it's alright. Ah didn't even notice it was gone and Ah should of. You still have yours though, right?" She nodded in affirmation. "Good then you've touched Todd right? See if you can bring up his eyes. They should help you see and if not his then Kurt's."
Sorting through all the powers she had collected over the past few years of her life she tried to find the amphibian boy's mutant abilities. It was harder than it seemed, she was getting out of practice. She'd have to work on that when she got out of here. Maybe Xavier would let her in that 'Danger Room' of his and she could blow off some steam.
"There! AHA! I got it. Let's go!"
The guard never knew what hit him. One moment he was looking at a rather 'endowed' African American lady with white hair and blue eyes, which seemed to shimmer to white and then WHAM he was out for the count.
"I never knew the wind rider posed for porn." Mystique scoffed, looking down at the picture's caption. Logan growled in his throat and Evan brought a spike to the blue lady's neck.
"What were you saying?" Spyke snarled. She look abashed as she realized she had been talking about his aunt.
Logan ordered, "That's enough Porcupine, put your quills away. Just forget about this. We have a mission to do! Move out."
No one seemed to notice Wolverine tucking the magazine into his spandex outfit. He smirked and walked over to the door with the others. Lending a hand or rather three claws he sliced the door into pieces. Making sure not to step on anything they moved into the hallway.
"AHHHHH!" Wanda squealed in a high pitch voice. Rogue's head whipped up to see what the matter was…to find a little brown ball by Base. Moving a little closer Rogue attempted to see what it was.
Rogue asked blatantly, "What is it?"
Wanda was completely thrown off. One minute she was crawling on all fours through an ventilation system, feeling like a reject from the Super Mario Brothers' movie and the next IT came. The hugest, ugliest, rattiest, smelliest, rat she had ever seen. It was regarding to the size of a lunch box.
"It's a rat!" Rogue nearly sweat-dropped like the characters in Kurt's anime series. A rat?
"Are you feeling alright? I mean girl, you flipped because of a rat? We live with mutants and a small-"
"I would hardly call THAT THING small. It's the freaking size of a barn!"
The girls got no farther in their discussion as the rat changed shapes. In the blink on an eye instead of the ugliest rat ever their stood or actually slouched Neutral. The girl blinked with silvery gray eyes, balancing out both Wanda's gray blue eyes and Rogue's gray green ones. Her hair was a length somewhere in-between both of Acid & Bases' and had a dark raven hair with white bangs. She grinned at the other two and waved.
"You didn't think you'd be the only one's escaping now didja?" she asked in a playful tone, smirking at their shocked faces both mouths hanging open slightly.
Before either could make a noise a loud ricocheted noise could be heard. It echoed down the long vent structure.
"What are you doing Kurt?" Jean questioned as she saw the blue teen pressing his ear up against the ceiling. It would look quite comically in another situation but it caught the red head off guard.
Kurt supplied, "I'm trying to listen v'ith my ears for noise in the vents."
"OOOH! I have sensitive ears! I can help!" With that Todd leaped onto the ceiling and practically slammed his head onto the roof. A loud bang echoed around as the section of the air ventilation system fell down. "Ouch…today is not a good day to be a toad."
"You idiot! Now they'll know we're here!" hissed Mystique.
"On the contrary, we've known for quite some time. But we figured we'd lure you in some more. But now it seems you and your kind have extensively ruined my security system. Now normally we recruit peacefully but his will have to be the exception. Void, attack."
An oriental girl stepped forward. She had midnight black hair and eyes that matched. Her outfit consisted of the same color, leaving her pale skin to give the only not black. She bowed to them before sticking out a hand. Under normal circumstances with normal people this would be nothing but with mutants anything can happen. In fact when a large gush of liquid blasted forward Jean was ready with a physic field. Or at least she was for the first minute.
"Uh it's too powerful for me to hold back! I need your help guys!" Jean warned, shaking with exhaustion. Jumping into the air the Toad spit a gob of slime at Void. She moved quickly and it sailed past her.
"My turn." Evan growled. Stepping up he armored his body in spikes. They protruded from his skin in large variations. Grunting he shot them out at her, a smaller one stabbed her arm.
Pausing for only a moment Void stopped the water's flow. By merely thinking of the splinter she was able to remove it from her skin and to heal it. Grinning callously back at them she threw her mouth open and a beam shot out. The blue tinted beam met right with Scott's. They went back and forth for a while, similar to an episode of DBZ. Soon though Scott got tired, removing his visor he let all he had left at her. The hallway blew apart with the sheer force of the energy. Lance helped out also by sending a quake right under the girl's feet with all he had. Avalanche grabbed his head and sat down as the biggest headaches ever took over his head.
Glaring at him she levitated into the air and continued her assault on the X-men and Brotherhood. Jean finally fainted from over taxing her power. Scott ran to catch her, replacing his glasses before hand. Spyke continued to shoot at Void, no matter that most of his shots missed or that it simply held her off for moments. Todd was attempting to shoot his slimed at her again but only successfully hit the man behind her. Pietro zoomed out but had not luck trying to create a cyclone around her. She merely copied Jean in her tactic of creating a mental shield from the power. Annoyed Pietro moved back over to where Raven was. Logan charged forward, making slashes and jabs with his claws at the teen. She expertly dodged every single attack. She kicked Logan in the ribs and sent him into the steel walls, creating a Wolverine sized dent six feet in and leaving and exceptionally dazed mutant.
Mystique went forward, using all the martial arts moves and devices she could render. But for all of the efforts she didn't contact Void once, instead she changed into a wolf and pounced. Unfortunately this didn't work out as the blue lady soon joined Logan only leaving a wolf form in the wall.
They were loosing teammates and time. There wasn't away that they could win. Jean was out along with Logan and Mystique. Evan looked tired and leaned against the wall for support. Still he shot out another range of splintery bones.
Pietro just couldn't take it anymore. Not only did these people have his sister but they had Rogue too! Two of a very small amount of people he cared deeply for. His anger boiled mixed with annoyance. Suddenly Rogue's pendent glowed several different colors before Pietro shot forward with his speed. Coming up close to Void he ducked in between her punches with skill and then Pietro's fist connected with her jaw. A bone-shattering crack was heard as Herculean strength pummeled through the white haired boy's body. Leaping up with leg muscles' of Todd's and agility of Kurt's he pounced on the girl. Using Sabertooth's strength mixed with Fred's and Juggernaut's he slammed his fist into her stomach. She promptly passed out.
The man that had brought the girl turned a ghastly shade of white. He shook his head in denial, there was no way he could do that! No mutant had that many abilities, and even if they did the powers were at least similar to one another. This boy's gifts seemed to be as random as one of the agents at C.A.I.N. How in the world was this possible?
Icy: That is it for a bit!
W: Don't worry it'll all make sense soon….I hope!
Icy: "We can still hop!"
W: That was a dumb book.
Icy: Yea it was oh well. We can still hope!
W: Yeah whatever I'm getting some sleep!
Icy: yeah whatever. Later yo!