Hey, sorry everyone for the long wait, it would probably longer if it
wasn't for the helpful nagging of Starkeeper to keep me going. Thanks for
waiting, and here you go chapter 6.
Am I on the right side?
Chapter 6
The X-Jet was making good time towards Africa, Marie just hoped that they would get there first or not long after. Her mind was busy trying to think of something that they could do. Not only did they have to stop this from happening; they had to stop it soon. They didn't have time to think and come up with some brilliant plan. She was extremely worried about John, he could cause so much death tomorrow, actually today, it was 1:30 in the morning. Not only that, but he could die and she did not want that to happen. She was really worried about his welfare and she wasn't sure why. Was it guilt? Or was it something else? She looked at Bobby who was sleeping in the seat next to her. Everyone but Scott, Ororo, and herself were asleep. She moved on her side so she could stare out the window. "You should be asleep." Ororo said, seeing her move. "I can't sleep, I've tried. What is going to happen today?" she asked. "Either we all stop this or we die trying." Scott answered. "I just was thinking, do you feel guilty about John? Not helping him and all?" She asked, hoping she would get a yes so she'd know she wasn't the only one. "I sort of do, but how were we do know?" Ororo responded. "I thought maybe if Xavier wanted to, he could have checked into it and made sure." She said. "He could have, but he didn't." Scott said. "I guess I just feel bad cause I know I would hate the X-Men for leaving me there and I expect him to." She told them. "Yeah I don't expect his to be overjoyed to see us." Scott said. Marie just nodded and settled in. looking out the window she stared down at the world below her where millions of people were sleeping untroubled not knowing what could be happening in just a little while's time. A few years ago, she could have been one of them down there, sleeping without troubled thoughts or knowing how much trouble people were secretly going through to keep people like her safe. Her thoughts were dwelling on John as she drifted off the sleep.
The plane was over half way to Africa before Toad and Sabretooth remembered that they were supposed to contact Magneto so he would know it was okay to command Pyro to sleep. He would need all his energy today and they had forgotten to call Magneto, when they did he was not happen. Pyro slept the last half of the trip. When he was awaken, Toad and Sabretooth had contacted Magneto and he gave them permission to use the control that he had given them to control Pyro now. They made him get up, gather his stuff and leave the plane with them. They got to a taxi and drove to a nearby hotel where they had reservations made. When they got there, they decided to have some fun and disregard what Magneto had instructed, which was to make Pyro do nothing and let him keep his energy. First they had him unpack everything they brought with. Then he had to go downstairs and get them something to eat. Then he had to wait until Toad and Sabretooth had finished eating then clean their dishes and eating his own food. Then he had to stand for a while before they let him lay down. Sabretooth had an idea that they should let him out from under control but they would have to tie him up before releasing him. They tied him tightly to the bedposts. When they deactivated it, he started shaking the bedposts. "Relax kid or we'll turn it back on." Toad warned. "I don't wanna be here, I really don't. Why do you listen to Magneto? Wait you don't.so why don't you let me go?" he begged. "Cause then we'd have to explain ourselves to Magneto and that never feels well." Toad said. "Do you want me to blow up the world?" he asked skeptically. "Not really but hey, we are taking an airplane up and gonna watch the whole show from there and boy it'll be grand." Toad answered. "No it won't. You'll have nothing to return to but Africa and Antarctica. Your home and any place you've ever wanted to go will be gone." John pleaded. "Nah, I don't think so. I can live anywhere really and all I need is food and water, which Magneto has taken care of, and a few birds to eat here and there." Toad says. "Same for me except the birds." Sabretooth said. "But are you so made at humans that you're willing to kill all of humanity and most mutants? There won't be hardly anyone left." John said. "We don't need people, they just cause problems." Toad said. "Bot what about the mutants who die?" John asked them. "Magneto told as many as he could what he was going to do and they went to Africa, except the X-Men of coarse. We really want them to die. Your going to be killing your best friends today so you should rest up." Toad said activating the control collar again. He commanded him to sleep. John was at once asleep. John's dreams were plagued with the sights of people, families, and homes, burning all over the world. Lives are being ruined and lost. And he knew it was all his fault. He could see people's faces smothered in the flames. He could see Xavier and Wolverine and Bobby. Then he saw Marie's face burning in the fire. Her eyes were full of fear and pain. She was afraid, afraid of him. She was screaming in pain, and he didn't like that. He tried to stop the flames but he had no control. This dream repeated itself over and over for 3 hours before Magneto arrived.
The X-Men had hidden the jet and were now making their way on foot to a nearby village. Scott was talking to Xavier, pressing him to get them an exact location of where this was going to happen. Xavier was trying but wasn't sure. As far as he had gotten, he had narrowed it down to a 40 square mile area, which had three cities in it. This was the closest so they were just going to settle for this one and start looking very quickly. As they approached the city, they could see people flooding the streets going from market stand to market stand. As they got closer, they could see that in front of the tall buildings there were market stands over all the sidewalks. They sold everything from polished rocks to clothes to jewelry to blankets. The taller buildings behind them were everything from business buildings to apartments to hotels to larger indoor shops. They were going to have to search everywhere if they didn't hear anything from Xavier. It was now 5 in the morning. Just then Scott's cell phone rang. "Hey Professor." Scott answered stepping back away from people. "Hello Scott. Mystique had also known the time at when this was going to happen. It's going to happen at 10 in the morning Scott. You've only got 5 hours." Xavier told them and they all sighed. "You don't know which city yet?" Scott asked and Xavier responded with a negative. "You'll just have to look while I keep thinking." Xavier said. "Yeah okay, keep us posted Professor." Scott said and turned off his phone. "Come on, we gotta find them soon." Scott said.
Magneto was busy putting some finishing touches in this new control that would allow him to make Pyro set the world on fire. Toad and Sabretooth were playing poker and Pyro was asleep on the bed. Toad threw down his hand of cards. "Quit cheating! I know your cheating!" Toad yelled. "Prove it." Sabretooth whispered. "Oh sometimes you make me so mad, I'm done playing right now." Toad said hopping over to the sofa. Sabretooth just laughs. "I'm going out for a drink." Sabretooth says leaving. "Be back at 9.00." Magneto said to him before he shut the door. "I'm going out for breakfast." Toad says while looking at a bird out side the window. He jumped out of the window and started following the panicking flying bird. "Same goes for you." Magneto called to him. Magneto got up and sat down next to Pyro, who was still lying asleep on the bed. "You're going to do something marvelous today Pyro. What you are going to do would go down in the history books, if there was anyone left to right them. We will start over with a brand new world of only mutants. After this, the surviving mutants will wipe out the rest of the human population in Africa and make sure no one is on Antarctica. We are the next link in the evolutionary chain. I'm so sorry that you will have to lose your life in this, but your dying for a good cause." Magneto said patting him on the shoulder before getting up again and tinkering with the control once more to make sure everything was working properly.
Rogue sighed as she kicked a rock on the ground. They had been searching for 4 and ¾ hours. They had only 15 minutes before Pyro would destroy the world and they had no leads what so ever. Everyone was either in a semi panic or in complete despair. She sighed again and looked up at the buildings before her. That's when out of the corner of her eye she saw something jump onto a streetlight. She looked and she saw none other than Toad grabbing a bird and jumping back onto more poles in a hasty retreat. "Scott look!" She said, pointing out Toad. Everyone looked and gasped. "Hurry come on! We gotta follow him!" Scott yelled and they all took of running after him.
Toad and Sabretooth arrived back just in time. There was 5 minutes to spare and Magneto was preparing Pyro. "I don't know where Mystique is. You haven't seen her boys, have you?" Magneto asked and both shook their heads no. "I thought she was going to meet us here. Oh well it's not a matter right now, she knows where she is and isn't supposed to be right now." Magneto said. He turned to Pyro. "Stand." He commanded and Pyro obeyed. "Go up to the roof on the back of the building." Magneto again ordered and Pyro began to make his way there. He was screaming and fighting as hard as he could mentally but it was no use. He was trying so hard to stop his feet from moving, but he couldn't. When he got there, he stood perfectly still facing the outskirts of the city. Magneto came out with him. "Good luck my boy, and thank you for volunteering for this, I always knew I could count on you." He said clapping him on the back. Magnetos watched ticked to signal that it was indeed 10:00. "Showtime." Magneto said, stepping inside where he could watch without being burned by the heat that was going to be radiating off of Pyro. "Use your power to set the world on fire. Everything except Antarctica and Africa." Magneto commanded. Pyro nodded. Toad and Sabretooth were watching for something to happen. All of a sudden they felt an extreme heat going straight through the glass window and melting it. It was hot. Magneto was mouthing the seconds until the world caught flame. They had a show on television on that was live in New York City so they could see the effects. "5.4.3.2."before Magneto got to one, he saw a thin red laser blast shoot up off the ground and hit Pyro and knock him off the side of the roof onto the ground below.
That's it for now. Sorry about that evil cliffhanger. I hope the next chapter should be up quicker than this one. Please review. Thanks,
Obiwanfan
Am I on the right side?
Chapter 6
The X-Jet was making good time towards Africa, Marie just hoped that they would get there first or not long after. Her mind was busy trying to think of something that they could do. Not only did they have to stop this from happening; they had to stop it soon. They didn't have time to think and come up with some brilliant plan. She was extremely worried about John, he could cause so much death tomorrow, actually today, it was 1:30 in the morning. Not only that, but he could die and she did not want that to happen. She was really worried about his welfare and she wasn't sure why. Was it guilt? Or was it something else? She looked at Bobby who was sleeping in the seat next to her. Everyone but Scott, Ororo, and herself were asleep. She moved on her side so she could stare out the window. "You should be asleep." Ororo said, seeing her move. "I can't sleep, I've tried. What is going to happen today?" she asked. "Either we all stop this or we die trying." Scott answered. "I just was thinking, do you feel guilty about John? Not helping him and all?" She asked, hoping she would get a yes so she'd know she wasn't the only one. "I sort of do, but how were we do know?" Ororo responded. "I thought maybe if Xavier wanted to, he could have checked into it and made sure." She said. "He could have, but he didn't." Scott said. "I guess I just feel bad cause I know I would hate the X-Men for leaving me there and I expect him to." She told them. "Yeah I don't expect his to be overjoyed to see us." Scott said. Marie just nodded and settled in. looking out the window she stared down at the world below her where millions of people were sleeping untroubled not knowing what could be happening in just a little while's time. A few years ago, she could have been one of them down there, sleeping without troubled thoughts or knowing how much trouble people were secretly going through to keep people like her safe. Her thoughts were dwelling on John as she drifted off the sleep.
The plane was over half way to Africa before Toad and Sabretooth remembered that they were supposed to contact Magneto so he would know it was okay to command Pyro to sleep. He would need all his energy today and they had forgotten to call Magneto, when they did he was not happen. Pyro slept the last half of the trip. When he was awaken, Toad and Sabretooth had contacted Magneto and he gave them permission to use the control that he had given them to control Pyro now. They made him get up, gather his stuff and leave the plane with them. They got to a taxi and drove to a nearby hotel where they had reservations made. When they got there, they decided to have some fun and disregard what Magneto had instructed, which was to make Pyro do nothing and let him keep his energy. First they had him unpack everything they brought with. Then he had to go downstairs and get them something to eat. Then he had to wait until Toad and Sabretooth had finished eating then clean their dishes and eating his own food. Then he had to stand for a while before they let him lay down. Sabretooth had an idea that they should let him out from under control but they would have to tie him up before releasing him. They tied him tightly to the bedposts. When they deactivated it, he started shaking the bedposts. "Relax kid or we'll turn it back on." Toad warned. "I don't wanna be here, I really don't. Why do you listen to Magneto? Wait you don't.so why don't you let me go?" he begged. "Cause then we'd have to explain ourselves to Magneto and that never feels well." Toad said. "Do you want me to blow up the world?" he asked skeptically. "Not really but hey, we are taking an airplane up and gonna watch the whole show from there and boy it'll be grand." Toad answered. "No it won't. You'll have nothing to return to but Africa and Antarctica. Your home and any place you've ever wanted to go will be gone." John pleaded. "Nah, I don't think so. I can live anywhere really and all I need is food and water, which Magneto has taken care of, and a few birds to eat here and there." Toad says. "Same for me except the birds." Sabretooth said. "But are you so made at humans that you're willing to kill all of humanity and most mutants? There won't be hardly anyone left." John said. "We don't need people, they just cause problems." Toad said. "Bot what about the mutants who die?" John asked them. "Magneto told as many as he could what he was going to do and they went to Africa, except the X-Men of coarse. We really want them to die. Your going to be killing your best friends today so you should rest up." Toad said activating the control collar again. He commanded him to sleep. John was at once asleep. John's dreams were plagued with the sights of people, families, and homes, burning all over the world. Lives are being ruined and lost. And he knew it was all his fault. He could see people's faces smothered in the flames. He could see Xavier and Wolverine and Bobby. Then he saw Marie's face burning in the fire. Her eyes were full of fear and pain. She was afraid, afraid of him. She was screaming in pain, and he didn't like that. He tried to stop the flames but he had no control. This dream repeated itself over and over for 3 hours before Magneto arrived.
The X-Men had hidden the jet and were now making their way on foot to a nearby village. Scott was talking to Xavier, pressing him to get them an exact location of where this was going to happen. Xavier was trying but wasn't sure. As far as he had gotten, he had narrowed it down to a 40 square mile area, which had three cities in it. This was the closest so they were just going to settle for this one and start looking very quickly. As they approached the city, they could see people flooding the streets going from market stand to market stand. As they got closer, they could see that in front of the tall buildings there were market stands over all the sidewalks. They sold everything from polished rocks to clothes to jewelry to blankets. The taller buildings behind them were everything from business buildings to apartments to hotels to larger indoor shops. They were going to have to search everywhere if they didn't hear anything from Xavier. It was now 5 in the morning. Just then Scott's cell phone rang. "Hey Professor." Scott answered stepping back away from people. "Hello Scott. Mystique had also known the time at when this was going to happen. It's going to happen at 10 in the morning Scott. You've only got 5 hours." Xavier told them and they all sighed. "You don't know which city yet?" Scott asked and Xavier responded with a negative. "You'll just have to look while I keep thinking." Xavier said. "Yeah okay, keep us posted Professor." Scott said and turned off his phone. "Come on, we gotta find them soon." Scott said.
Magneto was busy putting some finishing touches in this new control that would allow him to make Pyro set the world on fire. Toad and Sabretooth were playing poker and Pyro was asleep on the bed. Toad threw down his hand of cards. "Quit cheating! I know your cheating!" Toad yelled. "Prove it." Sabretooth whispered. "Oh sometimes you make me so mad, I'm done playing right now." Toad said hopping over to the sofa. Sabretooth just laughs. "I'm going out for a drink." Sabretooth says leaving. "Be back at 9.00." Magneto said to him before he shut the door. "I'm going out for breakfast." Toad says while looking at a bird out side the window. He jumped out of the window and started following the panicking flying bird. "Same goes for you." Magneto called to him. Magneto got up and sat down next to Pyro, who was still lying asleep on the bed. "You're going to do something marvelous today Pyro. What you are going to do would go down in the history books, if there was anyone left to right them. We will start over with a brand new world of only mutants. After this, the surviving mutants will wipe out the rest of the human population in Africa and make sure no one is on Antarctica. We are the next link in the evolutionary chain. I'm so sorry that you will have to lose your life in this, but your dying for a good cause." Magneto said patting him on the shoulder before getting up again and tinkering with the control once more to make sure everything was working properly.
Rogue sighed as she kicked a rock on the ground. They had been searching for 4 and ¾ hours. They had only 15 minutes before Pyro would destroy the world and they had no leads what so ever. Everyone was either in a semi panic or in complete despair. She sighed again and looked up at the buildings before her. That's when out of the corner of her eye she saw something jump onto a streetlight. She looked and she saw none other than Toad grabbing a bird and jumping back onto more poles in a hasty retreat. "Scott look!" She said, pointing out Toad. Everyone looked and gasped. "Hurry come on! We gotta follow him!" Scott yelled and they all took of running after him.
Toad and Sabretooth arrived back just in time. There was 5 minutes to spare and Magneto was preparing Pyro. "I don't know where Mystique is. You haven't seen her boys, have you?" Magneto asked and both shook their heads no. "I thought she was going to meet us here. Oh well it's not a matter right now, she knows where she is and isn't supposed to be right now." Magneto said. He turned to Pyro. "Stand." He commanded and Pyro obeyed. "Go up to the roof on the back of the building." Magneto again ordered and Pyro began to make his way there. He was screaming and fighting as hard as he could mentally but it was no use. He was trying so hard to stop his feet from moving, but he couldn't. When he got there, he stood perfectly still facing the outskirts of the city. Magneto came out with him. "Good luck my boy, and thank you for volunteering for this, I always knew I could count on you." He said clapping him on the back. Magnetos watched ticked to signal that it was indeed 10:00. "Showtime." Magneto said, stepping inside where he could watch without being burned by the heat that was going to be radiating off of Pyro. "Use your power to set the world on fire. Everything except Antarctica and Africa." Magneto commanded. Pyro nodded. Toad and Sabretooth were watching for something to happen. All of a sudden they felt an extreme heat going straight through the glass window and melting it. It was hot. Magneto was mouthing the seconds until the world caught flame. They had a show on television on that was live in New York City so they could see the effects. "5.4.3.2."before Magneto got to one, he saw a thin red laser blast shoot up off the ground and hit Pyro and knock him off the side of the roof onto the ground below.
That's it for now. Sorry about that evil cliffhanger. I hope the next chapter should be up quicker than this one. Please review. Thanks,
Obiwanfan