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infusing.
Mirage moved to the center of the balcony. She knew this type, the X-Men, she'd fought them before; they would gather and discuss their plan before they let anything happen. She knew the tactic Magneto and the others would use, sudden attack before they could get organized, she had to beat them to it. She scoped out the other side of the room, she'd have to know the placements of the people and the doors well enough to do this without looking. All right, she had the room set in her mind, now it was time for action.
MOVE AWAY FROM THE DOORS, NOW!!!!!!! she sent the mind signal into the room with as much power as she could manage. She watched for a moment as the people in the room scattered to the center and many fell to the floor.
She could feel her eyes begin to burn as power filled them, she focused on the first door. Immediately red beams shot from her eyes, she closed them quickly, to avoid doing too much damage to anyone or anything. She turned her head, facing forward now, people were already panicking, there wasn't enough room in the first hole for people to get out safely. She opened her eyes, she could see the people duck as the beam crashed through the second door, she shut her eyes immediately once more. Mirage turned her head once again to face the third door, as with the other two, people hurried to get out of the direction where her gaze was pointed. Quickly she opened and then closed her eyes. The third exit was cleared, she relaxed her mind and released the power she had been using. She should have been drained, but people tended to release quite a bit of energy when they were panicking.
She opened her eyes when she was sure the power was gone. The humans were safe, but the fight wasn't over yet. Quickly she removed her shoes, no woman should fight in heels, no matter how good she was.
It was a matter of seconds before the real fighting began. The X-Men had gathered in their group at the center of the hall, they were staring at her incredulously. He display of power had obviously created a shock, she smiled, she liked shocking people. Her smile faded as she realized that she had more immediate problems at the moment.
Two flashes of flesh came quickly towards her, one scaling the wall, the other making his way up the stairs.
Well, if these boys want to come up, I'd better get down.
She swung her body over the banister, but before she had fallen very far, an extremely long tongue grabbed her ankle. All right Toad, if that's how you want to play this game. She reached out for the powers of another mutant, one that she could use to free herself from this "wicked tongue". The power she found was perfect, bone claws. She felt the growing under her skin, and when they were complete, she triggered them. As they came shooting out, she was glad that this mutant also had a healing power; the claws were painful, no need to deal with scars.
"You wanna try hanging on without your tongue, frog breath" Her voice was menacing, but her movement to slice his tongue off had even more of an effect. As he released her, she turned in the air, and landed on her feet. Like any other good cat. She pulled the claws back into her hands, she felt the bone meld back into her other bones.
She didn't see the figure moving up behind her. Lithe movements, the movements of her teacher, probably the only mutant she couldn't always beat in battle. A strong arm shot out and pulled her away from the sharp kick the could have broken her neck, just in time. Logan threw her to the other side of him, toward the X-Men, who had finally become involved in the battle.
The X-Men and Mirage, gained the upper hand, after a short, hard battle. Then the tide turned, as Magneto, finally came to see how his forces were doing. She could see Magneto turn towards Wolverine, quickly she reached out with her mind, she could circumvent his helmet, by riding his energy waves toward his mind, his center of power, and his mutation. She grasped it tightly. Wolverine had tensed himself to fly toward the wall, he seemed extremely surprised at his lack of movement, she held on tightly as Magneto increased his power for a moment, trying to break her concentration.
Realizing that he couldn't break her concentration by direct force, he began to divide his power focus, divide her mind. To begin with, Toad removed Cyclops' glasses, as the ray of power shot towards her, Mirage hurriedly divided her power and shot her mind into his, quickly she found the mutation behind his eyes and, in essence, shut it off. The lazer stopped inches before it reached her, and Scott's eyes returned to what they had been before his mutation, she had to maintain a focus on his mind as well as Magneto's, in order to prevent destruction. Seeing her control of two powers, Magneto continued to create divisions. Metal shards sped toward Jean and Storm, where they were being held in place by Sabretooth. Mirage used her place in Magneto's mind to slow them, and then to stop them before they cut the womens' throats, but she didn't have enough power left to push them away. Sabretooth released his hold on Jean and Storm and began to move towards Rogue.
"Rogue, quickly, get as much bare skin as possible, don't let him touch you!" Immediately, Rouge began removing her gloves and scarf, and as much else as modesty would allow.
Mirage saw Magneto send metal to capture Rogue, much like he had used it to capture others, she was even fairly sure that this was the tactic he had used to capture her. Mirage knew that she couldn't divide her mind anymore, so she used her body, instead. She quickly moved over to where Rogue was standing, and grabbed the surprised girl's bare skin.
"No, you can't -" Rogue's sentence was cut off as she realized that the other woman had pulled her to safety, without causing damage to herself. Mirage smiled to the other girl, she knew that this was important to her. She remembered a time when she couldn't be touched by anyone either, that had been immensely lonely. She was glad to let the girl know that there was someone who could understand.
"How -" Mirage shook her head, signaling that there wasn't time for that conversation now. She felt herself becoming very drained.
"Go, quickly, just don't let anyone touch you, you need to get away." Mirage's voice was getting weaker, just as her body was. Rogue quickly began to move, Mirage could only hope that she could keep the other side busy enough to keep them from following the girl.
Magneto's attention had in fact been focused almost completely on the distruction of Mirage, a woman who had managed to cause him a great amount of difficulty. Sabertooth began to move toward her now, at a signal from Magneto. She was the new target and she knew it.
" No," Her eyes were shut in focus, but she knew the smug look on Magneto's face, "I'll bring her to you." She heard Sabretooth stop moving, she knew he was smiling as well. She felt the metal around her neck, ankles, wrists, and waist begin to move. She had worn this metal as long as she could remember; Magneto had molded it so that she could not remove it.
She strained against the pressure, with mind and body. She felt the metal around her neck tighten. She was weak now, she couldn't hold everything, and keep herself from Sabretooth.
"I'm sorry Logan, ... I can't... hold on" She released her original hold, and heard Logan crash into the wall behind her. She was stationary for a moment, but then she felt herself begin to move again.
"Cyclops,... Please... close your eyes" She felt her second hold fly from her grasp. She was breathing harder now. She knew she was losing her energy, and she didn't have any way to gain more. She felt herself begin to slide once more towards where she knew Sabretooth was standing. She needed energy; she needed power.
Think, Mirage, think. There must be some sort of energy you can use here. Not Cyclops, his energy is too strong, his power would hit me before I was ready. There's one other type of energy here, but I don't know if I can handle it. If I can't, I'll be dead... but at least Magneto wont have the pleasure of killing me!
"Storm..." She could hear the weakness in her own voice. She couldn't open her eyes; she needed to focus.
"What?"
"I need... your help..."
"What can I do?
"Hit me... with lightning" She knew the room would be shocked. She felt Magneto increase his power to move her toward Sabertooth, she knew what he knew, if this worked, he would have no chance.
"I-- I can't..."
"Yes, you can... I need.. the... energy. I can... handle it"
"I--"
"Please" She could feel her wrists and ankles begin to bleed from her physical struggle against Magneto. She felt the pull on her waist continue to angle her body. The ring around her neck tightened, Magneto was trying to kill her himself, she knew it. If the energy worked, maybe she could use Magneto's power to break her chains.
She felt the static gathering in the air and began preparing herself to collect the power that would strike her. Thank you. She could no longer speak, it took too much energy, too much breath. In only a moment, she felt the energy course through her. She felt it charge her like she was a battery. Immediately, she stopped her movement, all movement. Those around her couldn't be sure if she was alive or not.
Her eyes opened quickly, they burned, flashing with the energy of the lightning in her system now. Mirage used what power she had in Magneto's mind to release her from her shackles, each ring broke into metal shards. The shards of metal shot across the room, along with those that had been trapping Jean and Storm and trapped a surprised Toad and Mystique. She then freed Logan from his capture against the far wall.
"I am not your puppet anymore" She spoke directly to Magneto, her voice contained not only a purr, but a mystical aspect, an aspect distinctive in Storm's voice.
"Impossible" he had been sure that she could only process human energies. He was certain the strike should have killed her.
"Try me" She smiled as she challenged him, he knew more about her powers than she did, he was smarter than to rise to this challenge.
"We're leaving" When she was fully energized, which was not a common occurrence, she was the most powerful mutant his knew of, that was why he had "claimed" her from Charles. He was not about to press his luck in this battle. After watching them retreat, Mirage made sure that Cyclops had regained his glasses.
Shortly after Magneto's retreat, Mirage felt her energy retreat from her. The energy had been quick, like lightning hitting a tree. She began to fall, but felt herself get caught. As she was lifted up, she knew the man who had caught her. Blackness circled around Logan's face, until it claim her vision and her consciousness.
Mirage moved to the center of the balcony. She knew this type, the X-Men, she'd fought them before; they would gather and discuss their plan before they let anything happen. She knew the tactic Magneto and the others would use, sudden attack before they could get organized, she had to beat them to it. She scoped out the other side of the room, she'd have to know the placements of the people and the doors well enough to do this without looking. All right, she had the room set in her mind, now it was time for action.
MOVE AWAY FROM THE DOORS, NOW!!!!!!! she sent the mind signal into the room with as much power as she could manage. She watched for a moment as the people in the room scattered to the center and many fell to the floor.
She could feel her eyes begin to burn as power filled them, she focused on the first door. Immediately red beams shot from her eyes, she closed them quickly, to avoid doing too much damage to anyone or anything. She turned her head, facing forward now, people were already panicking, there wasn't enough room in the first hole for people to get out safely. She opened her eyes, she could see the people duck as the beam crashed through the second door, she shut her eyes immediately once more. Mirage turned her head once again to face the third door, as with the other two, people hurried to get out of the direction where her gaze was pointed. Quickly she opened and then closed her eyes. The third exit was cleared, she relaxed her mind and released the power she had been using. She should have been drained, but people tended to release quite a bit of energy when they were panicking.
She opened her eyes when she was sure the power was gone. The humans were safe, but the fight wasn't over yet. Quickly she removed her shoes, no woman should fight in heels, no matter how good she was.
It was a matter of seconds before the real fighting began. The X-Men had gathered in their group at the center of the hall, they were staring at her incredulously. He display of power had obviously created a shock, she smiled, she liked shocking people. Her smile faded as she realized that she had more immediate problems at the moment.
Two flashes of flesh came quickly towards her, one scaling the wall, the other making his way up the stairs.
Well, if these boys want to come up, I'd better get down.
She swung her body over the banister, but before she had fallen very far, an extremely long tongue grabbed her ankle. All right Toad, if that's how you want to play this game. She reached out for the powers of another mutant, one that she could use to free herself from this "wicked tongue". The power she found was perfect, bone claws. She felt the growing under her skin, and when they were complete, she triggered them. As they came shooting out, she was glad that this mutant also had a healing power; the claws were painful, no need to deal with scars.
"You wanna try hanging on without your tongue, frog breath" Her voice was menacing, but her movement to slice his tongue off had even more of an effect. As he released her, she turned in the air, and landed on her feet. Like any other good cat. She pulled the claws back into her hands, she felt the bone meld back into her other bones.
She didn't see the figure moving up behind her. Lithe movements, the movements of her teacher, probably the only mutant she couldn't always beat in battle. A strong arm shot out and pulled her away from the sharp kick the could have broken her neck, just in time. Logan threw her to the other side of him, toward the X-Men, who had finally become involved in the battle.
The X-Men and Mirage, gained the upper hand, after a short, hard battle. Then the tide turned, as Magneto, finally came to see how his forces were doing. She could see Magneto turn towards Wolverine, quickly she reached out with her mind, she could circumvent his helmet, by riding his energy waves toward his mind, his center of power, and his mutation. She grasped it tightly. Wolverine had tensed himself to fly toward the wall, he seemed extremely surprised at his lack of movement, she held on tightly as Magneto increased his power for a moment, trying to break her concentration.
Realizing that he couldn't break her concentration by direct force, he began to divide his power focus, divide her mind. To begin with, Toad removed Cyclops' glasses, as the ray of power shot towards her, Mirage hurriedly divided her power and shot her mind into his, quickly she found the mutation behind his eyes and, in essence, shut it off. The lazer stopped inches before it reached her, and Scott's eyes returned to what they had been before his mutation, she had to maintain a focus on his mind as well as Magneto's, in order to prevent destruction. Seeing her control of two powers, Magneto continued to create divisions. Metal shards sped toward Jean and Storm, where they were being held in place by Sabretooth. Mirage used her place in Magneto's mind to slow them, and then to stop them before they cut the womens' throats, but she didn't have enough power left to push them away. Sabretooth released his hold on Jean and Storm and began to move towards Rogue.
"Rogue, quickly, get as much bare skin as possible, don't let him touch you!" Immediately, Rouge began removing her gloves and scarf, and as much else as modesty would allow.
Mirage saw Magneto send metal to capture Rogue, much like he had used it to capture others, she was even fairly sure that this was the tactic he had used to capture her. Mirage knew that she couldn't divide her mind anymore, so she used her body, instead. She quickly moved over to where Rogue was standing, and grabbed the surprised girl's bare skin.
"No, you can't -" Rogue's sentence was cut off as she realized that the other woman had pulled her to safety, without causing damage to herself. Mirage smiled to the other girl, she knew that this was important to her. She remembered a time when she couldn't be touched by anyone either, that had been immensely lonely. She was glad to let the girl know that there was someone who could understand.
"How -" Mirage shook her head, signaling that there wasn't time for that conversation now. She felt herself becoming very drained.
"Go, quickly, just don't let anyone touch you, you need to get away." Mirage's voice was getting weaker, just as her body was. Rogue quickly began to move, Mirage could only hope that she could keep the other side busy enough to keep them from following the girl.
Magneto's attention had in fact been focused almost completely on the distruction of Mirage, a woman who had managed to cause him a great amount of difficulty. Sabertooth began to move toward her now, at a signal from Magneto. She was the new target and she knew it.
" No," Her eyes were shut in focus, but she knew the smug look on Magneto's face, "I'll bring her to you." She heard Sabretooth stop moving, she knew he was smiling as well. She felt the metal around her neck, ankles, wrists, and waist begin to move. She had worn this metal as long as she could remember; Magneto had molded it so that she could not remove it.
She strained against the pressure, with mind and body. She felt the metal around her neck tighten. She was weak now, she couldn't hold everything, and keep herself from Sabretooth.
"I'm sorry Logan, ... I can't... hold on" She released her original hold, and heard Logan crash into the wall behind her. She was stationary for a moment, but then she felt herself begin to move again.
"Cyclops,... Please... close your eyes" She felt her second hold fly from her grasp. She was breathing harder now. She knew she was losing her energy, and she didn't have any way to gain more. She felt herself begin to slide once more towards where she knew Sabretooth was standing. She needed energy; she needed power.
Think, Mirage, think. There must be some sort of energy you can use here. Not Cyclops, his energy is too strong, his power would hit me before I was ready. There's one other type of energy here, but I don't know if I can handle it. If I can't, I'll be dead... but at least Magneto wont have the pleasure of killing me!
"Storm..." She could hear the weakness in her own voice. She couldn't open her eyes; she needed to focus.
"What?"
"I need... your help..."
"What can I do?
"Hit me... with lightning" She knew the room would be shocked. She felt Magneto increase his power to move her toward Sabertooth, she knew what he knew, if this worked, he would have no chance.
"I-- I can't..."
"Yes, you can... I need.. the... energy. I can... handle it"
"I--"
"Please" She could feel her wrists and ankles begin to bleed from her physical struggle against Magneto. She felt the pull on her waist continue to angle her body. The ring around her neck tightened, Magneto was trying to kill her himself, she knew it. If the energy worked, maybe she could use Magneto's power to break her chains.
She felt the static gathering in the air and began preparing herself to collect the power that would strike her. Thank you. She could no longer speak, it took too much energy, too much breath. In only a moment, she felt the energy course through her. She felt it charge her like she was a battery. Immediately, she stopped her movement, all movement. Those around her couldn't be sure if she was alive or not.
Her eyes opened quickly, they burned, flashing with the energy of the lightning in her system now. Mirage used what power she had in Magneto's mind to release her from her shackles, each ring broke into metal shards. The shards of metal shot across the room, along with those that had been trapping Jean and Storm and trapped a surprised Toad and Mystique. She then freed Logan from his capture against the far wall.
"I am not your puppet anymore" She spoke directly to Magneto, her voice contained not only a purr, but a mystical aspect, an aspect distinctive in Storm's voice.
"Impossible" he had been sure that she could only process human energies. He was certain the strike should have killed her.
"Try me" She smiled as she challenged him, he knew more about her powers than she did, he was smarter than to rise to this challenge.
"We're leaving" When she was fully energized, which was not a common occurrence, she was the most powerful mutant his knew of, that was why he had "claimed" her from Charles. He was not about to press his luck in this battle. After watching them retreat, Mirage made sure that Cyclops had regained his glasses.
Shortly after Magneto's retreat, Mirage felt her energy retreat from her. The energy had been quick, like lightning hitting a tree. She began to fall, but felt herself get caught. As she was lifted up, she knew the man who had caught her. Blackness circled around Logan's face, until it claim her vision and her consciousness.