Chapter Four: Death Gas and Radiation
Disclaimer: I disclaim everything. Except Chi, Chu and Dil, but since only Chi is in this chapter, she's the only one I have to worry about. ^_^
Yo! Another update! So soon? Yay!
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A few hours later, we came to a super secure looking place. I was actually blindfolded as we walked in to it, relying on some dopey-looking guard to lead me.
Xavier, I bet you could project what this guy's seeing to me if you really wanted to. I commented mentally.
No, Chi. I will not do such a thing. He replied.
Why noooooot? I whined, but he didn't reply; he seemed to have decided to ignore me.
When they finally un-blindfolded me, we were in a sort of security checkpoint.
"Miss, you'll need to leave all metal things here." A guard said, holding out a tray and eyeing my bracelets.
"Professor...?" I murmured, glancing over to him, who was being transferred to a plastic wheelchair. He nodded, and I shrugged. "Not my fault what happens from here on out..."
The bracelets were the first to come off, followed by my glasses, choker, watch and a handful of coins from my pocket.
I wonder how much iron I have in my bloodstream? I wondered, but I knew that since the rest of my family had very low blood iron, I probably did too... Hey, I'm wearing jeans! I noticed as Xavier passed through the metal detector. Are they going to make me change pants? Change? In to what? Well, I'm not about to run around half naked! This mental battle raged through my mind as I stepped through the metal detector...
...And nothing happened. I had been expecting some sort of horrendous alarm, and perhaps to have been shot by a nearby guard. So I stood there for a moment, looking over at the guard who sat by the computer. He looked up at me.
"Don't just stand there." He said, glaring up at me. "You're clear."
"Oh..." I said, turning to the tubish-thingie-type-doorway and walking with Xavier. We were escorted by a guard who opened the door and let us in to Magneto's plastic cell. The guard didn't come in with us; instead, he locked the door behind us, which struck me as really odd. Xavier didn't notice; he was wheeling himself over to where Magneto sat, reading a book.
"Music?" I mused as I moved through the room. "Mozart, isn't it?" I asked Magneto. He looked up from his book.
"Hello, Chi. Yes, it is Mozart." He sat down the book as though contemplating some kind of ultimate irony. "You know, they really should not have let you wear that in here."
"Huh? Oh, yeah, I know that. But I wasn't about to tell them that." I thought for a moment. "You can have the button if you want it." I paused again, realizing that jeans came with zippers too. "And the zipper."
Xavier glanced at me strangely.
"Well, I wear loose t-shirts for a reason! See!" I pulled down the edge of my T-shirt halfway down my thighs. I really felt a lot more cheerful around Magneto-sama, but didn't think much of it; Xavier was thinking of it for me. Before he said anything, Magneto spoke first.
"Have you come to rescue me, Charles?"
"No, he didn't, but I did!" I declared, making a victory pose like a Power Ranger might. "I'll save you, Magneto-sama!"
They both ignored me flatly.
"Not today Eric, I'm sorry." Xavier said slowly, showing some genuine regret at that fact.
"If you're that sorry, do something about it." I grumped out of the side of my mouth.
"Then to what do I owe this pleasure?" Magneto asked turning his eyes to me. "You cannot have talked him in to this."
"Nope! He invited me!" I replied with a huge grin. "Stupid, huh?"
"Stupid indeed." He almost chuckled, turning back to Xavier. "Why have you come Charles?"
"There are... Issues... That I wish to speak with you about." Xavier glanced over to me. I replied by sticking out my tongue at him. With a heavy sigh, he continued. "The least of which is Chi."
"Least?" I made a displeased expression. Magneto glanced at me again, and I was silent.
"And what would you have me do about Chi? Take her back? Under normal circumstances, I would be more than pleased to, but as you can see, I simply cannot accommodate such a notion." Magneto made a gesture to the cell. "What else can I do for you?"
"No, that is not it." Xavier shook his head. "I believe Chi is better off at my school than under your care, but there is something about your very presence that changes her."
"Have you not figured it out yet?" Magneto seemed very, very amused. "Have you really not discovered it?"
Xavier looked at me, who was standing and looking like an idiot, then moved his gaze back to Magneto.
"Discovered what?" Xavier asked. I somehow had the vague feeling that Xavier was flickering through Magneto's thoughts, as though demanding an answer. I must have been right to some degree, because Xavier paled, and I recognized in instant switch to sympathetic mode.
"Eric, what have you done?" Xavier demanded.
"Done?" I asked. "About what?"
"I am sorry, Charles." Magneto seemed to understand what Xavier was talking about, but I sure didn't. "I... Could not stop myself."
"What have you told Stryker?!" Xavier was really panicking.
"Hold it, hold it, time out." I moved between them. "I don't get what's happening. Explain it to me. Please?" I asked Xavier first, but when he didn't respond, I turned to Magneto-sama. "Please?"
"Everything." Magneto answered with a grim smile, as though announcing his own death sentence.
"I still don't get it!" I exclaimed. "Magneto-sama, tell me what's going on... Or at least make Xavier!"
"Well, you see Chi, the world as we know it is going to end." He answered calmly.
"Okay, I get that, but who's this Striker person and why do we care so much?" I was still confused; you can't expect me to figure out the plot from just that little bit on information.
"Stryker." Magneto corrected me. "He is going to destroy mutantkind."
"Okay, I get that part..." I said slowly. Then it hit me. "Destroy mutantkind?!! That's not nice at all! So why do we care if you told him everything?"
Magneto heaved a sigh, but did not answer; there was a quiet hiss coming from the air vents.
"SCOTT!" Xavier cried out, flinging himself out of his wheelchair at the door we had entered it.
"It's locked." I commented. "How about that. We're being gassed to death."
Xavier was the first to fall unconscious, and I sat down on the floor slowly. After all, I didn't want to hit my head when I fainted too.
The thought of fainting brought up a very interesting aspect of my past.
"If I can resist the dentist's knock-out gas, why I can't I resist Death Gas too?" I wondered as my eyes became to unfocused. I looked around the room again, seeing Magneto-sama become very blurry indeed.
"I always wondered what would happen if someone left the gas in the Chemistry lab on for too long..." I mumbled, and those were the last words I uttered.
"You should have killed me when you had the chance..." I faintly heard Magneto speak before the darkness claimed my complete awareness.
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Auug~! I'm DEAD! Or at least, that what I think until I get the NEXT chapter written! But now... Lunch time! Yaaaaay!
