Chapter Ten: Under No Authority shall Chi be except Magneto's.

Disclaimer: I own nothing that Marvel does. Hopefully by now you can tell that they don't own Chi, Chu or Dil.

Okay, so this is chapter ten! *waves sarcastic "yay" flag* Someone asked me for permission to use Chi in their own SI fic! Yay! You guys will have to read that one when it gets done too! ^_^ \/

Thus begins the story...

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I must have slept for a long time, because when I woke up, I was dry, semi-clean and on the Blackbird. We were parked, and the "adults" had left. Meaning Dil, Chu, Pyro, Iceman, Rogue and I were the only ones on the plane. How dull.

"What day is it?" I groaned, lifting my head up. "Ouch, I must have been knocked unconscious wrong. My neck's stiff."

"Good morning Chi, I have no idea what today is, but we were told to stay here." Dil informed me.

"Did Magneto-sama say so?" I asked, looking around. Chu was playing cards with Dil, Rogue and John. Bobby was over looking at some sort of monitor at the control panel.

"No, and therefore you are not legally bound." Chu abandoned the card game, leaping up to her feet. "And where my dear little sister goes, I have to go."

"And of course, we'll need a big strong male to come with us!" I looked around the room slowly. "Let's see, Bobby, John and Dil..."

"Dil it is!" Chu declared.

"Okay!" I agreed, grabbing Dil's arm. "You will come with us, won't you?"

"Chi, you're supposed to stay here." Bobby said, coming back from the control panel.

"Oh? I never heard anyone tell me so, particularly no one that I'll actually listen to." I answered as Dil zipped up his jacket, evidently convinced that he had to go with us.

"Why do you act like this?!" Rogue demanded. "It's almost like you're trying to upset Dr. Grey!"

"Doctor Grey? Doctor Grey. Hmm. Actually, Rogue, I am. Hopefully next time, I'll get Magneto-sama to protect me from the mind-blast and all. I don't see why you care, though." I smiled in the way that meant I was obviously a lot more irritated than it seemed.

"Whatever." Pyro said, noticing that his card game had completely collapsed. "I don't care."

"Thanks SO much for your participation in this conversation!" Chu said enthusiastically, hugging Pyro's head. "We'll be going now." She clicked a button that lowered the staircase.

"Don't worry, I'll take care of them..." Dil sighed, glancing back at Bobby. We heard no more protests, and left the trio alone in the Blackbird.

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"So. Any idea how to get in?" I asked, standing at the edge of Alkali lake. We had made fairly good progress here, and during the walk, I had discovered that the adults had only been gone a few minutes before I woke up. I had been hoping we could find some sort entrance, but it sure didn't look like it from here.

"Hey, I think I can get us in." Chu said, poking at the water with her powers.

"Anyone feel like drowning?" Dil mused, evidently somewhat distrusting after the tsunami Chu had caused last night.

"Not me..." I muttered. "But if Chu thinks she can actually get us in, hopefully we'll live through it..."

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Chu did manage to get us in, and we wandered through some secret-looking base.

"I think they said that the bad guys live here." I said, looking around.

"Or used to anyways." Chu added, gesturing to some dead—or at least unconscious—soldiers that were littering the hallway.

"Eww." I stated, and we continued to wander down the hall. "Yuck."

So we wandered around for a while, having completely no clue as to where we were going, when we heard a strange noise that sounded like bunches of kids crying out for help.

"You know, they kidnapped a bunch of kids from the institute." Dil said purposefully, moving in the direction of the voices.

"And we care... Why?" I asked, glancing over to Chu. Chu, however, seemed to have other plans, and had wandered away at some point. "Chu?"

I heard no response, and shrugged it off. "Anyways, why are you leading me in this direction? I really should be looking for Magneto-sama instead."

"Because it would be good for you to clear up some of the hostile feelings around the mansion." He clarified, continuing to lead us in the direction of the crying voices.

"You imply that I'm going back there." I was actually rather surprised; I had thought that by now Dil would have figured out that I was Magneto-sama's minion, not Xavier's.

"Aren't you?" He stopped walking and turned around to face me.

"......" I was quiet for a moment, trying to think up some great explanation. Nevertheless, my brain did its best to thwart me by choosing that moment to zonk out. "Why would I?"

Dil didn't answer; in fact, I couldn't even tell what he was feeling. He must have developed a very good poker face when he became a shapeshifter, at least by my reasoning. He turned and continued down the hall. I followed, unsure of what else to do.

We reached the room where the cries seemed to be coming from. They seemed to be radiating from a grate in the middle of the room, so naturally, we walked over to it and looked in.

"Hey!"

"Help us!"

"Oh no! It's Chi!"

"But Dil's with her, so she won't do anything bad, will she?"

There was a moment of thought from inside the makeshift cell before the cries changed their tone, becoming more desperate.

"HELP!!!!"

"SAVE US!!!!"

"HELP!!!!!"

I glanced over to Dil. "I should save them... Why?" I asked in a very annoyed tone.

Dil thought for a moment, then quietly answered. "Because it's the right thing to do."

With a deep sigh, I considered what I could do to help. There was no way I could move the covering off of the grate, being that I was a weak female with no tools and no mutant powers that could help in this situation. I could feel that the walls of the cell were being charged with electricity, so I did the only thing I could do.

I fried the circuits, thus cutting of the electrical barrier. Black smoke began to pour up from the cell, and I heard footsteps running up behind us. I turned and saw Storm and Nightcrawler running up.

"What are you doing to them?!!" Storm cried, running up to the grate. Nightcrawler glanced at me nervously, by rushed by without really paying attention to me.

"Everything will be all right. We'll get you out of there." Storm shouted to the children who were hacking their lungs out due to the smoke. Nightcrawler disappeared, presumably going in to rescue them, because a shriek followed his disappearance.

"See? I tried to help, but no, I get blamed for whatever happens." I said snidely to Dil.

"I'm not sure I would have called that helping..." He said doubtfully.

"Stuff it. I'm going to go find Magneto-sama." I turned, and waved. "Goodbye, Dil."

"Chi, hold on—" He started to say, but Storm interrupted him.

"Dil, Freddy's hurt. Come help carry him."

But by this time, I was already out of sight, down the black tunnel.

"AND YOU STILL OWE ME THE SCRIPT!!!" I shouted, before taking off in to a full-fledged run away from them.

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Aww, and here Dil was trying to be a nice guy! Oh well! Thus ends chapter 10! ^_^ Look forward to chapter 11, but don't expect it soon because SPRING TERM HAS STARTED!! Eeek! Ja ne!