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John was utterly bored. He was thinking about what they were going to do with Liz and how the heck he was going to get out of there!
"God, you'd have thought that in the future the X-Men would be able to find us by now." John muttered, remembering back when he was at the mansion and all the advanced technology that the X-Men possessed.
Suddenly, the door opened again. John's eyes flashed and he put his hands in his pockets on instinct. But then he remembered that he didn't have his lighter.
The same guard that took away Blaze entered the room, gun pointed directly at John's head.
"You're to come with me, and don't try any funny stuff." The guard warned.
Don't try any funny stuff? What an oldie. John thought.
"Like I could." John retorted sarcastically.
The guard walked behind John and told him to walk. Pyro could feel the cold metal of the gun on his head. A cold shiver went up his spine as he followed the guard's instructions and walked up. What did they have planned for him?
* * *
Bobby and Rogue walked into the room through doorframe. Bobby looked back at the lack of a door and said, "I think after we're done they're going to need some major repairs."
Rogue sighed. "Not that I can do much." Rogue pointed her finger at a random way and nothing happened. "The powers I absorbed from Sparky faded. They're gone."
"Well you could knock some guards out," Bobby pointed out, "that would help a lot."
"Good point." Rogue smiled and took off her gloves, "Just don't touch me."
* * *
Blaze groaned as someone kicked her in the ribs. Her side felt like needles were attacking it. She didn't think she could take much more of this.
"Why won't you just GIVE UP?" The man yelled in frustration and took it out on Blaze's head.
"Ahh!" Her head felt like it was being split open, and she could taste the fresh blood coming down from the wound on her forehead.
And Blaze said the only thing anyone would say to such a cruel person.
"Go to hell!"
* * *
John, following the guard's instructions reluctantly and was soon lead to a laboratory-looking area.
"Where am I?" He asked, eyeing the gigantic tank in front of him.
"Personally, Boss is getting tired of that girl. He's getting bored of her, and her loyalty antics." The guard said.
"You know, where I come from, loyalty's a treasured trait." John spat.
"That is true here as well, but it does not apply to mutants." The guard growled, "Boss enjoys seeing the girl cringe, but frankly, it doesn't seem like she's going to show her powers anytime soon. And since we already know of your gene status . . . let's just say the boss wants some new entertainment." The guard's lips curled in a cruel smile. Then he pushed John into another guard, who handcuffed John.
"In this, nature's about to intervene."
Suddenly, John got it. He suddenly started struggling. There was no way they were going to fill that tank up with water . . . with HIM in it! If there was the one thing he hated in the world it was water! He kicked suddenly, hitting the guard holding him with full force. If it were anybody else it should have knocked the wind of them, but this guy didn't even flinch.
The guard who had taken him there smirked. "Really, firestarter, do you really think we're that stupid as to not expect something like that? This guard has abs of steel . . . and many other parts of him. Observe."
The guard holding him suddenly had steel armor covering his body! John yelped in surprise and instinctively tried to get away.
"Do not try to escape. It is pointless." The steel man said in a monotone Russian accent.
"Listen, dude, you don't want to do this." John tried.
"He won't listen to you, thanks to William Stryker." The guard laughed. "The great man died, but his legacy carried on as we improved his serum. Now it's practically flawless!"
"Legacy? You call that a legacy? I call it evil." John sneered.
"Now why would we listen to you, since you just might die? We're going to keep you in there until the brink of death, then remove the water. But if it kills you on accident, oh well! We can always find another mutant to breed with the girl."
John called the guard a name that he would never ever say in front of Professor Xavier.
But the guard merely ignored him and ordered the steel man to strap him in. He practically carried John into the tank. The floor raised itself up and John's legs and arms were strapped in hard core steel. Then John was forced to watch hopelessly as the steel man was carried to the ground.
And then, John heard a noise above his head. He looked up and saw the entire roof of the tank open up! Water splashed onto his raised face, getting some into his nose. John gagged for a moment, unable to get a breath of air. Finally he was able to tilt his head to an angle where no water could get onto his face. But then he watched as the tank was quickly getting filled up with water. So he thought the only thought someone could think at a time like this.
Why me?
* * *
Rogue and Bobby stayed into the safety of the dark corners as they crept through the warehouse. And they also discovered a slight problem in their rescuing plans: the warehouse was huge. Sure, they had blueprints, but it doesn't make the place any smaller. And they still had no idea what room the two Pyros were.
The couple approached a large gate. They made sure no one else but the guard was there, and then stepped out of the shadows. Bobby, out of the corner of his eye, noticed a security camera. He casually froze it.
The guard there was sleeping on the job ("Tsk tsk," Rogue said.) so Rogue just touched his bare neck briefly to make sure he didn't wake up. Bobby was fiddling around with the various buttons and switches on the dashboard.
"I don't understand this!" Bobby groaned in frustration. "Why can't it have a label that says, 'Open gate' on it like other sensible buttons?"
Rogue suddenly felt a slight spasm of pain in her brain, and suddenly she was seeing flashes of colors and rows of buttons. But slowly the other colors faded and only one was in crystal clear outline. Rogue snapped out of it and pointed to the button off to the right.
"Press that one," Rogue instructed.
Bobby looked at his girlfriend in confusion. "What?"
"Press it." Rogue insisted.
Bobby shrugged and pressed it. To his surprise the gate opened!
"Whoa. How'd you know that?" Bobby asked.
Rogue thought over that for a moment before answering. "I'm not sure. I absorbed that guard and then when you were practically asking which button would open it I got a flash of the right button."
Bobby absorbed that. "Well, maybe your powers are advancing, like they should be."
Rogue frowned. "But if they were advancing I was hoping that I could touch someone without hurting them . . ."
"Let's focus on trying to save the two first, and then we'll worry about that." Bobby suggested, "Let's go."
Once the two entered through the gate it closed again by its own accord.
* * *
Pyro was never a religious person, but at this moment he prayed to whatever gods were out there to help him get out of here. By now the water had crept up to his neck, and the rough splashes from the water above now managed to nearly choke John to death with water in his throat and nose. The water was also icy cold, and if he didn't drown, he'd freeze to death.
And it was rapidly rising as well. John could seriously not understand how anyone could take pleasure into watching someone drown. Not like they could see him through all the thick glass anyway.
"Crap." John started to say but it was soon turned into an indistinguishable word as the water rose to his mouth.
John breathed a long deep breath of air through his nose, somehow knowing it'd be his last. Then he felt the water go up to his nose. He held his breath as long as he could, and was still holding it as he felt his closed eyelids get surrounded by ice cold water. Soon enough, his entire head was sunk beneath the water. He felt the tug of incoming water stop, and he instinctively pulled on his steel bounds, desperately trying to reach the surface.
Unfortuanlly for Pyro, this only took out more of his strength, and soon he felt the last breath of oxygen in his lungs go out, and his flailing arms and legs stopped moving. John Allerdyce's heart beats slowly became slower, and slower . . .
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"Damn! We'll never find them!" Rogue exclaimed. She had tried searching the mind of the guard again, but apparently the guard knew nothing of their friend's location.
As they walked through the endless corridors, Rogue felt a strong arm wrap itself around her neck and picked her up.
"Explain your intrusion," The big man said in a Russian accent.
Bobby's resolve face came on and he froze the man's legs to the ground. "Now Rogue!"
While the Russian man was distracted, Rogue wriggled a hand out and touched his face. The man struggled as his life force was sucked out. He fell limp to the ground, Rogue landing on top of him.
Rogue felt that spasm of pain again, then grabbed her boyfriend's hand. "Let's go!"
Together they ran to their closest destination: the torture chamber, where Blaze is held. They ran through the stealth of the shadows, but since they took no precaution with their speed, Bobby was forced to freeze a couple of people who spotted them.
Finally, they were able to find the place. Bobby tried freezing the door and kicking it open, but it was steel and it was harder, although he did weaken the protection the door held. Rogue, not quite knowing what she was doing, kicked the door and the entire door, along with the doorframe, was kicked open.
Bobby looked at Rogue wide-mouthed. "Since when were you that strong?!"
Rogue was confused as well. "I don't know . . . but I think the Russian guy I absorbed is a mutant!"
"A mutant?" Bobby exclaimed, "But people in this time hate mutants!"
But Rogue never got to answer, since they were approached by the large buff man inside the dark, damp chamber.
"Hey! You're not authorized to-" The man began to say before Bobby froze him.
Rogue rushed over to a figure sprawled on the ground. She slowly turned the person around, only to be revealed as Blaze. But her face was filthy and bloody, and she was in great pain.
"Are you okay?" Rogue asked.
"Does-uh-does it look like it?" Blaze said while trying to ignore the pain coming from her broken arm. "My arm's broken."
"C'mon, we have to go save John." Bobby said, as he and Rogue supported Blaze.
"Can you run?" Bobby asked Blaze. The girl shook her head no.
"What are we going to do?" Rogue asked.
"You have the strength of that guy, right? You carry her and run at the same time." Bobby suggested.
So Rogue ended up holding Blaze and running at top speed towards the laboratory chamber where John was being held.
To their surprise, they didn't meet up with much resistance on the way to the laboratory. What they found was that most of the guards were IN the laboratory.
Rogue put Blaze down in a corner, hoping that she could help herself with her firestarter powers. Then, as the adrenaline pumped throughout her body, she felt her flesh being covered up with steel plates.
Bobby absorbed their situation in. Then he noticed a big tank full of water. As he squinted, he thought he saw a still dark figure inside the tank. Oh my god! He thought, John!
"Rogue, crack open the tank!" Bobby cried.
Rogue didn't think twice as she charged at the water tank and broke a hole in it. Water began to gush out of the hole, but then the intensity of the water caused the hole to become greater and Rogue and Bobby were both thrown out onto the wall hard. Bobby took more of a blow since he wasn't protected by steel. The rest of the scientists and guards were thrown unconscious. Blaze, anticipating this as soon as Rogue began to charge the tank, grabbed onto a pipe for dear life.
Soon the rush of water was over, and Bobby and Rogue were thrown onto the floor. Blaze let go of the pipe with a sigh and repressed tears, for the water made all of her fresh cuts sting terribly. And poor John was still hanging high up on the tank, still not moving.
Rogue was the first to recover. She went onto the damp platform and ordered it to move up. It did, and it brought her straight to John. Using her strength, she broke his shackles. He fell limp onto the platform as Rogue ordered it to begin its descent downwards.
She carried Pyro out of the large hole and over to Iceman.
"Is he . . . dead?" Bobby finally managed to choke out.
"I . . . I don't know."
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John was utterly bored. He was thinking about what they were going to do with Liz and how the heck he was going to get out of there!
"God, you'd have thought that in the future the X-Men would be able to find us by now." John muttered, remembering back when he was at the mansion and all the advanced technology that the X-Men possessed.
Suddenly, the door opened again. John's eyes flashed and he put his hands in his pockets on instinct. But then he remembered that he didn't have his lighter.
The same guard that took away Blaze entered the room, gun pointed directly at John's head.
"You're to come with me, and don't try any funny stuff." The guard warned.
Don't try any funny stuff? What an oldie. John thought.
"Like I could." John retorted sarcastically.
The guard walked behind John and told him to walk. Pyro could feel the cold metal of the gun on his head. A cold shiver went up his spine as he followed the guard's instructions and walked up. What did they have planned for him?
* * *
Bobby and Rogue walked into the room through doorframe. Bobby looked back at the lack of a door and said, "I think after we're done they're going to need some major repairs."
Rogue sighed. "Not that I can do much." Rogue pointed her finger at a random way and nothing happened. "The powers I absorbed from Sparky faded. They're gone."
"Well you could knock some guards out," Bobby pointed out, "that would help a lot."
"Good point." Rogue smiled and took off her gloves, "Just don't touch me."
* * *
Blaze groaned as someone kicked her in the ribs. Her side felt like needles were attacking it. She didn't think she could take much more of this.
"Why won't you just GIVE UP?" The man yelled in frustration and took it out on Blaze's head.
"Ahh!" Her head felt like it was being split open, and she could taste the fresh blood coming down from the wound on her forehead.
And Blaze said the only thing anyone would say to such a cruel person.
"Go to hell!"
* * *
John, following the guard's instructions reluctantly and was soon lead to a laboratory-looking area.
"Where am I?" He asked, eyeing the gigantic tank in front of him.
"Personally, Boss is getting tired of that girl. He's getting bored of her, and her loyalty antics." The guard said.
"You know, where I come from, loyalty's a treasured trait." John spat.
"That is true here as well, but it does not apply to mutants." The guard growled, "Boss enjoys seeing the girl cringe, but frankly, it doesn't seem like she's going to show her powers anytime soon. And since we already know of your gene status . . . let's just say the boss wants some new entertainment." The guard's lips curled in a cruel smile. Then he pushed John into another guard, who handcuffed John.
"In this, nature's about to intervene."
Suddenly, John got it. He suddenly started struggling. There was no way they were going to fill that tank up with water . . . with HIM in it! If there was the one thing he hated in the world it was water! He kicked suddenly, hitting the guard holding him with full force. If it were anybody else it should have knocked the wind of them, but this guy didn't even flinch.
The guard who had taken him there smirked. "Really, firestarter, do you really think we're that stupid as to not expect something like that? This guard has abs of steel . . . and many other parts of him. Observe."
The guard holding him suddenly had steel armor covering his body! John yelped in surprise and instinctively tried to get away.
"Do not try to escape. It is pointless." The steel man said in a monotone Russian accent.
"Listen, dude, you don't want to do this." John tried.
"He won't listen to you, thanks to William Stryker." The guard laughed. "The great man died, but his legacy carried on as we improved his serum. Now it's practically flawless!"
"Legacy? You call that a legacy? I call it evil." John sneered.
"Now why would we listen to you, since you just might die? We're going to keep you in there until the brink of death, then remove the water. But if it kills you on accident, oh well! We can always find another mutant to breed with the girl."
John called the guard a name that he would never ever say in front of Professor Xavier.
But the guard merely ignored him and ordered the steel man to strap him in. He practically carried John into the tank. The floor raised itself up and John's legs and arms were strapped in hard core steel. Then John was forced to watch hopelessly as the steel man was carried to the ground.
And then, John heard a noise above his head. He looked up and saw the entire roof of the tank open up! Water splashed onto his raised face, getting some into his nose. John gagged for a moment, unable to get a breath of air. Finally he was able to tilt his head to an angle where no water could get onto his face. But then he watched as the tank was quickly getting filled up with water. So he thought the only thought someone could think at a time like this.
Why me?
* * *
Rogue and Bobby stayed into the safety of the dark corners as they crept through the warehouse. And they also discovered a slight problem in their rescuing plans: the warehouse was huge. Sure, they had blueprints, but it doesn't make the place any smaller. And they still had no idea what room the two Pyros were.
The couple approached a large gate. They made sure no one else but the guard was there, and then stepped out of the shadows. Bobby, out of the corner of his eye, noticed a security camera. He casually froze it.
The guard there was sleeping on the job ("Tsk tsk," Rogue said.) so Rogue just touched his bare neck briefly to make sure he didn't wake up. Bobby was fiddling around with the various buttons and switches on the dashboard.
"I don't understand this!" Bobby groaned in frustration. "Why can't it have a label that says, 'Open gate' on it like other sensible buttons?"
Rogue suddenly felt a slight spasm of pain in her brain, and suddenly she was seeing flashes of colors and rows of buttons. But slowly the other colors faded and only one was in crystal clear outline. Rogue snapped out of it and pointed to the button off to the right.
"Press that one," Rogue instructed.
Bobby looked at his girlfriend in confusion. "What?"
"Press it." Rogue insisted.
Bobby shrugged and pressed it. To his surprise the gate opened!
"Whoa. How'd you know that?" Bobby asked.
Rogue thought over that for a moment before answering. "I'm not sure. I absorbed that guard and then when you were practically asking which button would open it I got a flash of the right button."
Bobby absorbed that. "Well, maybe your powers are advancing, like they should be."
Rogue frowned. "But if they were advancing I was hoping that I could touch someone without hurting them . . ."
"Let's focus on trying to save the two first, and then we'll worry about that." Bobby suggested, "Let's go."
Once the two entered through the gate it closed again by its own accord.
* * *
Pyro was never a religious person, but at this moment he prayed to whatever gods were out there to help him get out of here. By now the water had crept up to his neck, and the rough splashes from the water above now managed to nearly choke John to death with water in his throat and nose. The water was also icy cold, and if he didn't drown, he'd freeze to death.
And it was rapidly rising as well. John could seriously not understand how anyone could take pleasure into watching someone drown. Not like they could see him through all the thick glass anyway.
"Crap." John started to say but it was soon turned into an indistinguishable word as the water rose to his mouth.
John breathed a long deep breath of air through his nose, somehow knowing it'd be his last. Then he felt the water go up to his nose. He held his breath as long as he could, and was still holding it as he felt his closed eyelids get surrounded by ice cold water. Soon enough, his entire head was sunk beneath the water. He felt the tug of incoming water stop, and he instinctively pulled on his steel bounds, desperately trying to reach the surface.
Unfortuanlly for Pyro, this only took out more of his strength, and soon he felt the last breath of oxygen in his lungs go out, and his flailing arms and legs stopped moving. John Allerdyce's heart beats slowly became slower, and slower . . .
* * *
"Damn! We'll never find them!" Rogue exclaimed. She had tried searching the mind of the guard again, but apparently the guard knew nothing of their friend's location.
As they walked through the endless corridors, Rogue felt a strong arm wrap itself around her neck and picked her up.
"Explain your intrusion," The big man said in a Russian accent.
Bobby's resolve face came on and he froze the man's legs to the ground. "Now Rogue!"
While the Russian man was distracted, Rogue wriggled a hand out and touched his face. The man struggled as his life force was sucked out. He fell limp to the ground, Rogue landing on top of him.
Rogue felt that spasm of pain again, then grabbed her boyfriend's hand. "Let's go!"
Together they ran to their closest destination: the torture chamber, where Blaze is held. They ran through the stealth of the shadows, but since they took no precaution with their speed, Bobby was forced to freeze a couple of people who spotted them.
Finally, they were able to find the place. Bobby tried freezing the door and kicking it open, but it was steel and it was harder, although he did weaken the protection the door held. Rogue, not quite knowing what she was doing, kicked the door and the entire door, along with the doorframe, was kicked open.
Bobby looked at Rogue wide-mouthed. "Since when were you that strong?!"
Rogue was confused as well. "I don't know . . . but I think the Russian guy I absorbed is a mutant!"
"A mutant?" Bobby exclaimed, "But people in this time hate mutants!"
But Rogue never got to answer, since they were approached by the large buff man inside the dark, damp chamber.
"Hey! You're not authorized to-" The man began to say before Bobby froze him.
Rogue rushed over to a figure sprawled on the ground. She slowly turned the person around, only to be revealed as Blaze. But her face was filthy and bloody, and she was in great pain.
"Are you okay?" Rogue asked.
"Does-uh-does it look like it?" Blaze said while trying to ignore the pain coming from her broken arm. "My arm's broken."
"C'mon, we have to go save John." Bobby said, as he and Rogue supported Blaze.
"Can you run?" Bobby asked Blaze. The girl shook her head no.
"What are we going to do?" Rogue asked.
"You have the strength of that guy, right? You carry her and run at the same time." Bobby suggested.
So Rogue ended up holding Blaze and running at top speed towards the laboratory chamber where John was being held.
To their surprise, they didn't meet up with much resistance on the way to the laboratory. What they found was that most of the guards were IN the laboratory.
Rogue put Blaze down in a corner, hoping that she could help herself with her firestarter powers. Then, as the adrenaline pumped throughout her body, she felt her flesh being covered up with steel plates.
Bobby absorbed their situation in. Then he noticed a big tank full of water. As he squinted, he thought he saw a still dark figure inside the tank. Oh my god! He thought, John!
"Rogue, crack open the tank!" Bobby cried.
Rogue didn't think twice as she charged at the water tank and broke a hole in it. Water began to gush out of the hole, but then the intensity of the water caused the hole to become greater and Rogue and Bobby were both thrown out onto the wall hard. Bobby took more of a blow since he wasn't protected by steel. The rest of the scientists and guards were thrown unconscious. Blaze, anticipating this as soon as Rogue began to charge the tank, grabbed onto a pipe for dear life.
Soon the rush of water was over, and Bobby and Rogue were thrown onto the floor. Blaze let go of the pipe with a sigh and repressed tears, for the water made all of her fresh cuts sting terribly. And poor John was still hanging high up on the tank, still not moving.
Rogue was the first to recover. She went onto the damp platform and ordered it to move up. It did, and it brought her straight to John. Using her strength, she broke his shackles. He fell limp onto the platform as Rogue ordered it to begin its descent downwards.
She carried Pyro out of the large hole and over to Iceman.
"Is he . . . dead?" Bobby finally managed to choke out.
"I . . . I don't know."
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Hey everybody! Like that chapter? I know, it was really long . . . actually there's more to this, but I felt that it was way too long so I cut it off right here. I know . . . I'm evil . . . please review!
