NctrnlBst: Believe me I did put a lot of thought into him, I really didn't want to make some 2-dimentional OC like I've read elsewhere (and no not from BlackRose/D-M-N-W-T/Red Witch, those ones are good). Although I do try with the spelling, it's not easy, and I always seem to miss a few. Well at least the stories help ease the pain right?

Shadow-Spider: Picturing it, hell I've seen what the guy looks like from a comic I have of him, it's not pretty.

yae yang: I do have a few ideas for Forge, and well... I'll think about a new female character.

fire inu: Glad you're caught up, I know it's not easy with how long I make the chapters and how many chapters you had to read too.

Red Witch: Well I think you'll love this chapter then, and if you think the HK Sentinels were bad enough wait for the Mark II Sentinel

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CHAPTER 17: BIG TROUBLE

Trask was in his office looking over the reports when the vibration hit the facility. He got up immediately and went to the security room next to his office.

"What the Hell was THAT?" He yelled at the tech who was at the monitors.

"Sir we got a breach at the entrance." The tech said while pointing at a security monitor. Trask saw none other than the X-Men. They had already blown open the security doors guarding the elevator entrance.

He saw then making their way down the shaft some were flying others down and then going back up and getting a few more, and the blue one was teleporting two at a time down as well.

"Sound the alarm!" He yelled at the tech which he quickly pressed a big red button (What did you expect blue?) "Get the guards out now and get the Sentinels on-line." Trask barked at him.

"Which ones sir?" The tech asked.

"All of them!"

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The X-Men had made their way down the shaft and with Vincent and Rogue managed to get the security door open fairly easily. They made it through the steel complex a few yards before a group of guards appeared.

They wore a type of gray metallic armor and where equipped with either long sticks with something that looked like the end of a cattle prod and some kind of guns.

"There they are fire!" One of them said and the guards with guns began to fire some type of energy. The others took cover against the walls except for Vincent and Rogue. They just looked at each other then Vincent got that grin on his face when someone was going to get hurt.

They both took off at the guards. Rogue flew a few feet of the ground and Vincent ran at them fast and with the force of a bull, and the guards went flying.

In a minute all the guards were down and either unconscious or groaning from pain and were near unconscious.

As X-Men gathered around the men they saw Vincent looking them over. "Mayhem what are you looking for?" Cyclops asked him.

"Him." He said and lifted one of the guards off the ground. "This guys uniform is different from the others, he gave the order to attack so I figure he's the highest ranking of these guys and might know where the others are being held."

The guard in his grip was squirming. "Talk, where are the other mutants being held?" He said in a menacing tone.

"I don't have to tell you squat mutie!" He said to Vincent's face.

"Jean." Scott said and without asking Jean scanned his mind for the information. After a few seconds she opened her eyes. "They're two levels down from here, and they're in a secure area, I know the way from his mind." Jean told them.

"YOU STINK'IN MUTIE FREAK!" The guard yelled at her, then was suddenly thrown against the wall hard enough for to be knocked out. They looked at Vincent who just shrugged. "He slipped." He said in a monotone voice.

They let it alone and moved on. They had to fight their way through many guards. Of course Vincent and Rogue being pretty much invulnerable weren't worried and they took the bulk of the assaults while the others got any of the ones that got past them.

Sometimes they had to fight from numerous directions. Scott of course took out many with his optic blast while Jean made telekinetic shields and pushed guards. Bobby iced up floors, or sealed off hallways in thick ice. Storm had also used gale winds to blow away any guards also.

There were rarely any close in fighting and when there was the others did well and with all their training were more than ready. That and Wolverine made sure they didn't last long.

It had taken about twenty minutes of fighting and many of the corridors looked like a war zone, but when they finally got down to the second level. For some reason there was no guards as they made their way through that level.

"Is it just me or is this WAY too easy?" Ray asked them all.

"Maybe they ran out of guards." Bobby said to him.

"More like they got something else planned for us Popsicle." Logan said to him.

"Well where are the others?" Bobby looked to Jean.

Jean looked around. "I think it's that way." She pointed.

FOH CELL

Jubilee was pacing the cell with a vengeance. "What is KEEPING them?" she asked not really expecting an answer.

Everyone was waiting as patiently as possible. Except for Amanda who was sweating slightly and wasn't feeling well. Rahne noticed this and went over to her. "Are ye alright?"

"I'm...not sure for the past few days I felt a little strange I thought it was everything we've been through but...I don't know." She said softly not wanting to worry the others.

Then dents suddenly started to appear in the door grabbing all of their attention. Then it fell inside torn from the spot. Then they all saw several people walk in, in uniforms.

Amanda's face lit up and she immediately forgot how she felt and ran forward and hugged a certain blue boy. "KURT YOU CAME!"

"Of course my meine liebe." Kurt said softly as she began to cry slightly on his shoulder, he held her there feeling so relived and happy to have found her.

"So that's Kurt huh?" Domino said looking at him with a smile. "Man you told us he was blue and furry but you really didn't do him justice, nice to meet you and your friends."

"And you guys are?" Scott asked.

"Oh I'm Domino, the girl is Blink and mister silent and deadly over there is Shadow." Domino told him.

"Hey Jubes you alright?" Bobby said to her as he entered. She smiled and ran over to him and hugged him. "I am now." She said just loud enough for him to hear.

"Hey guys could you get these things off of us?" Jamie said raising his arm to show the band. "They don't allow us to use our powers."

"Sure thing J." Vincent said with a smile. He easily ripped off the band and with Rogue and Jean they got the other bands off easily.

"Now that that is out of the way, shall we leave?" Hank asked them all.

"Oh Hell yes." Domino said, not really shocked at the appearance of McCoy, since she and Blink weren't 'normal' looking either. But she did hide a smirk as for some reason she thought of Sully from Monsters Inc.

They all exited the cell and were making there way back when they rounded a corner they were now facing a group of tall armored red and black robots.

"What the Hell are those?" Ray said looking at them.

Amanda spoke up "Those...are the new Hunter Killer sentinels."

"Great now we got to go up against mini-sentinels." Bobby said not at all pleased at this.

"I count at least fifty so far." Vincent said, who had quickly counted them. Then they raised all their arms and the laser weapons popped out. "Uh oh." He said before they fired.

The others rounded the corner as fast as they could. Vincent's uniform was ruined from all the energy blasts. "DAMN! Those things STING!" He said looking at his uniform.

"We got to find another way out of here, or at least a bigger area so we can fight them." Scott said. The corridor was too small for a full on fight.

"You want space one-eye you got it, this way before they run after us!" Domino said and led the way. They ran right into the arena.

"Domino why did you take us to the arena?" Jubilee said wishing she never saw this place again.

"Well first off it has everything we need, space and cover, besides it's the only place I know of in this place." She told her.

They heard the sound of many metallic feet hitting the ground from the door they came from. "Everyone fan out, and team up." Scott ordered.

As they all split up the HK sentinels came through the door, they took stock of the situation and picked targets and went after them.

Vincent had teamed up with Jamie and Shadow since he wanted to make sure he was safe and he didn't know what Shadow could do, though he guessed from Shadow's movements he was a good fighter.

Lots of the HKs were soon on them. "Alright time to try out a few new moves I've been working on." Vincent said to himself. He drew his arm back while facing the approaching sentinels and spread his hand out soon a disk of energy was formed and he threw it.

It sailed through the air and when it came into contact severed the sentinel in half below the torso and continued to do so to the ones behind it.

"Cool." Jamie said.

Vincent smirked at him. "You haven't seen anything yet." Then he went in close to go hand to hand so they would focus on him. During the fight he tried his other new trick. He charged up his hands and made his hand into a knife strike, (basically it's a flat hand) and swept it along a path, and when he started to he formed a type of energy blade.

The 'blade' severed through a few HKs. Then he was blasted from behind. He turned to face the threat already to see Shadow was now a living shadow and fighting the sentinels with a great skill.

'This guy's good.' Vincent thought to himself before returning to the fight.

Amara and Roberto were with Rahne and Domino. Amara was in her elemental form and melting the HKs with her fire attacks while Ray short-circuited them with electricity. Rahne was still beat after their last battle and was doing her best. Usually she was either the distraction or lead the HKs to their doom.

Domino was a bit more direct at time. Sometimes she would get in close with a piece of a steel rod and use it like a staff weapon. During the fight she let herself be chased by a few of them. They tried to shoot her when she was against a wall but she dodged every shot.

Then she ran and they followed but they had to go near the wall to do so, and when they did all the damage they caused to it made it crumble and fall on top of them.

Wolverine was pretty much tearing everything apart in sight. Amanda, Kitty and Kurt had stuck close to him and only helped when necessary since Kurt's powers weren't offensive in nature, but he did use his teleportation to move Amanda around so she could save her energy for her force bolts.

Kitty just phased through all the sentinels she could frying their circuitry as she did.

Tabitha was having a blast, literally. Sam had flown her up to the top of a building and she then proceeded to literally rain down her time bombs from above the sentinels. Any that flew up Sam took care of them by flying through them.

Storm, Rogue and Jean took care of any that tried to fly. Storm used lightning to fry anything that came close. She wanted to use something more but that could hurt the others. In a space like this a hurricane wind could send debris anywhere.

Rogue just smashed her fists through anything that she could get. Jean used TK just to either crush parts of them like their heads or the feet where the jets came from, or shoved them into each other and into the ground hard enough to break open.

Scott was with the new girl Blink and Beast. Scott was trying to keep the HKs back as best as he could from behind some cover. Blink was across the 'street' if you will behind her own cover and was throwing her lances at them. Scott also had to shoot down any that tried to fly over them.

Beast was doing his beast at covering them. He lifted up large and vary heavy debris and threw it at them from the top of a building.

Jubilee, Bobby and Roberto were also doing their best. Bobby iced up the ground making it too slippery for the HK sentinels to stand. If they did try to get up Jubilee knocked them back down, while Roberto took out any in the sky.

It was a fierce and hard won battle but they eventually come out on top.

They gathered together all of them tired and battered but at least every single HK class sentinel was out of commission.

"Well I see we have a lot of work to do on those models." Suddenly Trask's voice was heard over a PA system. "Since you've dealt with the HK model so well why not try out my new an improved Mark II Sentinels."

Then at the far end of the arena the walls opened up and then out came three new sentinels. These ones unlike the original versions they've seen before were more armored. The heads looked more human with a face and yellow eyes. The head also looked like a helmet.

It looked more like a giant suit of armor, only gray with no paint on it. Also the torso and joints were protected by armor reminiscent of Colossus.

"MUTANTS SIGHTED. TERMINATE ALL TARGETS" They all said as one their voices booming out.

Then the door they came from not only shut but a bulky security door fell into place. Vincent went up to it as super speed and tried to punch through it. He made a few dents before he had to move or get blasted by one of the new sentinels.

"Damn!" He yelled out.

"Vincent you think you could rip that door open?" Logan asked him.

"Not in time, those things won't let up and unless we scrap them I don't see us getting out of here." He yelled over to him.

"HEY GUYS" They heard over the PA, a voice that sounded a lot like Forge.

"Forge?" Scott asked while dodging a huge laser beam.

"Hey guys, me and Xavier are in the building over the entrance. I reconfigured the panel up here and patched into the system, and I see you guys are in trouble."

"Yeah you can say that, got any ideas?" Logan shouted while clawing up the lower leg of one of the sentinels.

"Not from here I need to get to the main security room, I know where it is from a schematic I found but we'll need help getting there."

"Alright then." Scott said to him then tried to find the right people. "Kurt, Amanda you need to teleport up to the Professor and Forge and take Jamie, Rahne and Vincent with you."

"What?" Vincent asked not believing what he heard. He was currently in the air dodging the giant fist of one of the sentinels and blasting as many holes in its armor that he could. Which was a lot harder since their armor was a lot tougher than the first sentinels.

"Don't you guys need me here?" He asked him.

"Yes but Forge might need some major firepower as backup, besides we can hold our own, and maybe Forge can find a way to either open the doors or shut these down."

Vincent didn't like the idea of leaving his friends to fight these things without him, but he would do as he asked. He flew down and gathered Jamie and Rahne in each arm and made a beeline to Kurt and Amanda.

They all grabbed on and with some instructions from Kurt to Amanda to where to teleport too they all disappeared and then reappeared next to Xavier and Forge.

Amanda slumped down to the floor almost as soon as they reappeared.

"Amada are you all right?" Kurt asked as he helped her up.

"I've just been tired lately Kurt." She wearily said to him, Xavier on the other hand had another idea but put it aside for later.

"So how are we going to get down you want me to fly us all down?" Vincent asked Xavier.

"No necessary." Forge said happily as they looked at his work on the console, which was now in pieces and looked like Forge had been playing around with the insides. He did something to it and the elevator at the bottom rose up.

"Nice." Jamie said. They all got on and went down. They made their way through the facility pretty easily since most of the guards were still out. The few that did give them a problem Xavier merely made them go to 'sleep' and the few HKs they came across were no match for Mayhem.

They finally made their way to the security station after a few wrong turns by Forge. When they got in the place was deserted.

Forge went to the controls and found the master override. It took a few moments then on the screens they saw the two remaining Mark II's (One was on the ground out of action) suddenly stop moving and powered down.

They all breathed a sigh of relief, then on all the monitors Trask appeared. "Well I suppose you freaks think you've beaten me? Well think again I took all the data I've collected from my experiments and an long gone by the time you see this message."

"Oh and one more thing...computer engage Trask program one."

Then all the monitors went plank and a new alarm sounded and a security door fell into place on where they came in.

"Facility lock down engaged, self-destruct engaged. Five minutes until detonation." A computerized voice said over the PA system.

"Not good." Rahne said looking for a way out.

"Oh man this is so not cool." Forge said while trying to access the system. Vincent was helping out on another console. After a minute passed Vincent had ripped open a console for Forge and he was working on the circuits.

"Kurt do you think you can get the others out?" Xavier asked him.

'Nein Professor, I'm too tired, I don't zink I could even get to ze surface again." Kurt said, wishing he could.

"Okay I think we got something here." Forge said. They all looked over at him hoping for some good news. "Damn."

"What's wrong Forge?" Xavier asked him.

"I can get it to shut down but I not only do I need the command code, but it's a vocal command and we need Trask's voice for it." He said slumping down into a chair.

"Well I think I got the code." Vincent said who was working on a console. "But we need his voice to say it."

"Isn't there anything we can do?" Jamie asked worried about how they were going to get out.

Then Amanda clutched her stomach in pain and fell to her knees. Her whole body seemed to scream out in pain. She could hear the others asking what was wrong but couldn't she it out.

She wanted to now what was wrong with her. Her whole body seemed like it was hot and cold at the same time. She could feel something grabbing her. Her vision was blurred and all she saw was a blue features.

She knew it was Kurt, even though she couldn't make him out. She was so scared and all she could think about was Kurt. As she did she felt strange like her body was almost liquid and shaping.

The pain started to go away and her vision was clearing up. Then she saw Kurt but his expression was of pure shock. "Kurt vat's wrong." She heard herself say, but it came out wrong, almost like....Kurt's voice?

"Professor what happened to her, she changed into....Kurt." Vincent said looking at her with wide eyes. Amanda looked at her hands and they were now just like Kurt's.

"What's happening?" She frantically asked.

"I feel you have manifested a new ability Amanda, I believe you may have a type of shape shifting, it seems your mutation wasn't complete until now." Xavier said to her.

"Well it couldn't have come at a better time." Forge got the console ready. "Think you can do a Trask impersonation?" He asked her.

She tried, at first she only reverted back to her old self, much to her relief but was having trouble with Trask. "I...I'm...trying...but..."

"Amada relax your mind, and concentrate only on the image let your body do the rest." Xavier calmingly said to her.

Amanda took a breath, they had only two minutes left and they needed her more than ever, and she would not fail them.

She concentrated on Trask's image and only on that, but it was more difficult for some reason it took her a full minute and she nearly lost it several times but she finally did it. She stood up sweating and looked at Forge.

"Tell me what to say I don't know how long I can hold it." She said in his voice.

"Just say this." Vincent said pointing at a screen then punched in a sequence. "Now!"

"Computer, disengage all security programs, Trask override red one-three- seven." They all waited as the counter continued to drop to thirty seconds.

"Acknowledge. All security systems off-line." Came the computerized voice. The count down ended and all the doors opened.

Then Amanda fell to the ground exhausted and returned to her true from.

"Amanda." Kurt said going to her quickly. "Amanda are you alright?"

She weakly opened her eyes and looked at him. "Can we go home now?" She weakly asked.

Kurt smiled down at her. "Ja, let's go home."

NEXT UP CHAPTER 18: HOME, ENDINGS AND FORESHADOWING

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