Chapter 8
Magneto slightly scowled at Pyro in the back seat as the bluish gray helicopter landed on the school grounds. He has not come to the Xavier Institute to start a brawl of fighting. He had other things to do at the moment. He was here to pick up Sabretooth.
"Mystique," Magneto said quickly as Mystique nodded.
She came out of the helicopter and headed towards the school unnoticed in her camouflaged ensemble. She was walking towards the elevator when she spotted Wolverine from the corner of her now brown eyes.
"'Ro," Logan called from far behind. Logan never minded talking to Ororo, he's become fond of their friendship, and he also wanted to make sure she was alright after the incident with Sabretooth.
Mystique turned around as her shoulder length white hair bounced with her. She smiled and spoke quickly. "Hello Logan," she said as Logan gave her a confused look to why she was in such a hurry. The elevator opened and she walked in quickly before he could smell that it wasn't Storm. But Logan ran to the elevator in time and walked in as the doors closed. He looked over to Storm and slightly knitted his eyebrows.
He eyed her as his nose sensed something different. He didn't know what it was though. Storm suddenly approached him and backed him up against the elevator wall. She grabbed his hands and put them tightly around her waist as she put her hands around his neck. "I need a strong man to fulfill my needs," she said with a slight grin as she leaned in forward and puckered her lips. Logan stopped to look at her full, purple colored lips for a moment but then grabbed her wrists from his neck and brought them to her side. What is she doing? Logan asked himself but abruptly stopped.
His nose scrunched up and his eyebrows creased in opposite directions. He looked at Ororo's face for a second and noticed her brown eyes flash yellow. Logan pushed himself away from her roughly as the elevator doors opened.
Mystique watched him unsheathe his claws and shape shifted into a snake in response. She slithered away from the elevator as Logan hurried out. He scanned the area but she was no where to be found. He turned around and pointed his claws towards the person in front of him.
"Logan," Professor Xavier said calmly. "What are you doing?"
Logan didn't unsheathe his claws but put his hand down un-defensively and cracked his neck. He looked over to where the Professor came from: cerebro. He quickly gave the professor a 'tell me what's going on look'. "Bobby and Rogue are missing. And I am unable to locate them."
"What?!?" Logan asked furiously. His mind pondered where they could be and then he came to realization that he had broken his promise. He cursed himself for not being there for Rogue. He always promised to take care of her, to protect her. But he was not there for her now and she was gone. "Where could they have gone?" Professor Xavier just shook his head. Logan's high jaw line tightened as he slipped the letter out from his pocket and handed it to the professor. "Professor…Mystique is in the mansion."
Professor Xavier took his attention away from the letter and formed surprised eyes at the mention of Mystique. "Logan, head to the containment room immediately," Professor Xavier said calmly. But before he could even finish what he was saying, Logan was long gone.
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Scott ran his fingers through his brown hair and breathed a deep sigh. "Jean," Scott whispered to himself softly. His lips and chin quivered and he tried to hold back his tears. But he couldn't hold them back any longer. Not when his heart is half empty, not half full. He looked at the bathroom mirror and stared at his reflection for a long while. He did not recognize the reflection as well as he used to. He felt a deep feeling in his gut.
"She feels so lost," Scott said to himself. Me too, he thought with sadness, me too. You'll be in my arms again soon. Soon……… Suddenly Scott remembered all the dreams he had been seeing. He cringed as one replayed itself in his head again.
"Funny to think you could get rid of me," Scott said with a loud laugh that rang in his ears again and again.
He held the dagger tightly in his hands and aimed it towards her neck. He scraped it across her delicate skin as she let out a loud shriek. She choked on a sob as she fell to the floor.
"You……the only way is to kill you!" Scott shouted. "Fine with me!" He aimed the dagger towards her heart and shoved it in.
Scott's body shook slightly as he clutched his heart tightly. He tried to make his heavy breathing subside slowly. He kept telling himself it was going to be ok. Everyone kept telling him that. What he feared was that they were wrong.
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Mystique entered the room, shape shifted as Storm again, and ran towards the cell. She looked around for any type of key when she suddenly felt a kick in her face. It felt like a sharp heel. She turned around to see Storm. Storm's fist met with Mystique's jaw as Mystique jolted back. Then she twirled fully around to unleash a kick into Storm's stomach with the replica of her heel as a comeback.
Storm shot her arm forward as Mystique blocked it with her own arm and shape shifted back to herself. Storm did the same with her other arm when the first try didn't work and the move repeated itself. Storm kicked her leg in a circular position and Mystique ducked and slid under Storm's open legs. She got back up again and grabbed Storm's wrist as Storm twisted them outwards in an opposite direction of each other.
Mystique twisted them over both their heads so they circled around in the air and were now that back to back. Mystique released her grip and backed away.
She twisted her body in the air and kicked her foot into Storm's face as Storm went flying out the door and into the wide hall. She picked herself off the floor to reveal her eyes glazed with white. Lightening raced through her veins as it shot towards Mystique. Mystique was now thrown behind the wall.
Storm approached slowly with wind howling around her. She noticed Nightcrawler approach her. The winds slowly calmed down. But suddenly Nightcrawler grabbed a chain off the wall and wrapped a it around her body tightly in seconds.
She suddenly heard a bamf, to find Nightcrawler in the air doing a back flip to shove Mystique, shape shifted into Nightcrawler, away from her. Kurt busied himself with unwrapping the chain from Storm's body as Mystique raced towards the cell.
Before she could free Sabretooth who was just watching everything, she felt claws aim towards her neck. She ducked her head to bend down to the ground. She let out her leg over Wolverine's, causing him to fall to the hard floor. But he quickly got back up again and grabbed Mystique's neck from behind him. He leaned her body back as he squeezed her neck. She raised her leg forward to kick him in his chin as he let go.
She suddenly turned into Jean and Logan looked up at her with anger. He was slightly distracted by the sight of Jean that Mystique easily kicked him in the balls and sent him crashing into Nightcrawler and Storm. She reached for the controls to the side of the wall and pressed buttons knowingly with speed. The cell lifted open.
"Logan," Storm said. "You can get off of us now."
"Right," Logan said with a gruff voice. He looked over to the open cell to find an empty space. He looked over to the door to find it open wider than it was.
"Did zey get avay?" Kurt asked as Storm and Logan gave him a small stare. Kurt laughed slightly. "I can take a hint."
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"Darling…… Phoenix," Jason said trying to sound warm and happy. "I hope you are understanding who you are now."
"Yes, I think I finally am," Phoenix said as she wrapped her arms around Jason's neck and gave him a long kiss. "So are we going to get food or not?"
Jason nodded as he looked out the window of the small black car. They had flown off the island in his personal jet and flown to the nearest land to go grocery shopping. It wouldn't take too long. This was a simple test, one he knew she would pass with a blink of an eye.
Phoenix left the car and entered the supermarket. She aimed her hand forward at the cashier to release a ball of orange and yellow energy. The cashier bolted back and fell to the ground without a sound. Everyone started screaming and holding on to their families.
Phoenix looked over at the canned goods on the shelves. She raised them with her telekinesis and ripped them apart into bits and pieces with sharp metal ends. She aimed them forward towards one couple as she let out a loud and mischievous laugh.
She quickly sensed a man taking out his pocket knife from his back pocket. She brought the knife in the air with her telekinesis and aimed it towards his heart. When he fell to the ground, wrapped in his blood, she took the knife from his heart and aimed it towards many others.
She glanced at the customers who were still alive and grinned widely. The shelves filled with all kinds of food all around the people started to shake. Phoenix raised herself up and balled her hands into fists. The light of the energy glowed all around her as she yelled loudly. Her breathing became heavier as she didn't struggle a bit to move the items. She moved all the people to the middle at the same time she was moving the shelves forward.
In seconds, the shelves were toppled on the customers as well as all the food, cash registers, and desks. Phoenix breathed through her nose rapidly with a grin on her face as her chest heaved up and down. She smiled as her breathing subsided. She loved the power. She loved the feeling of absolute power. The power to kill.
She picked up a few items needed for her and Jason and nodded with satisfaction as she went back to the car.
"I'm back," Phoenix said as Jason noticed the now burning supermarket. He turned to her and gave a small smile. "I couldn't help myself," Phoenix said referring to the supermarket that was now in flames.
"That's my girl."
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Kitty sat next to Piotr as he drew her onto the sheet of drawing paper in his sketchbook. Kitty moved her head to the side as she heard something bothering her from afar.
"Kitty, please try to stay still," Piotr said as he looked down at his paper.
"Shh," Kitty said, bringing her index finger to her lips. "Do you here that?"
Piotr put his sketchbook on the table and got up from his seat on the comfortable, black leather couch. He moved towards the sound that he also heard as Kitty followed. They walked towards one of the control room's that operated all of the mansion's systems. It was located inside the living room they were in. It was hidden behind the fireplace.
Piotr moved the picture of Bobby and Rogue, a picture of the X-men, a picture of the students, to reach the over-sized picture of Jean hanging on top of the fireplace. He lifted it with his muscular arms and pressed the red button that was behind it as the rich brown fireplace opened up.
"Colossus!" Kitty exclaimed with a terrified expression. "Look! It's, like, programmed for def-con four! Like what are we going to do?!?"
"Let's go get the others," Colossus said, trying not to sound panicked. They hurried out of the room as the screen kept on flashing the words 'Demolition Mode' and kept beeping.
The numbers read '09:45'.
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Storm, Wolverine, and Nightcrawler walked down the long stairs of the large convention center as Cyclops took Professor Xavier down the ramp. Storm looked over to Kurt, who she hardly recognized with his image inducer. She thought he looked much better without it, in his blue ensemble. He was wearing a black tuxedo, as were the rest of the men. Except for Logan of course. He wore a leather jacket and a t-shirt and considered that formal. No one even bothered arguing with him. Storm wore an orange dress that tied around her neck and flared out from the bottom with a sparkling orange chiffon over it and a scarf around her shoulders. Her white hair was pulled back in a designed style and her dress flowed with her as she went down the steps. She couldn't help notice Kurt stealing a few glances.
"Keep your eyes open," Cyclops said in his usual tone, pushing aside anything that's happened lately. The vice president put his papers together in preparation to start speaking as soon as he talked with his associates. Cyclops noticed the professor looking at the vice president suspiciously. "What is it Professor?"
"Cyclops," Storm said as she put her hand lightly on his arm. "Where's Logan?"
Cyclops turned to Storm and looked around. Logan was no where to be found. "Logan," he whispered to himself with irritation.
It took ten more minutes for all reporters and some government officials to get settled in. When everyone finally arrived and became settled they diverted their attention towards the large podium.
"Welcome," the vice president spoke as he approached the podium. "Humans and mutants, welcome. We have sadly suffered the loss of the president in an assassination. I hope that I will be able to fulfill the same great work he put into his presidency. Now, the biggest problem everyone is concerned about is the mutant issue and it's affect on our world stage."
Cyclops, Professor Xavier whispered into Scott's mind. The Brotherhood is here. Cyclops looked around to see if he could spot them anywhere when he saw Pyro on one of the platforms to the side, hiding behind an artifact.
"I believe if we all work together as a nation we could see past each other's differences and live in a peaceful world," Vice President Watson said as he flipped his papers. Flipping his papers was the signal. The signal for the FoH to release the Sentinels. "I trust that……"
"GET DOWN!!!" Cyclops yelled as he raced towards the vice president. He jumped onto the platform and brought the vice president to the ground, away from the immense fire from Pyro. Everyone started to panic as Pyro's laughs could be heard from afar.
Suddenly Sabretooth came forward from another platform and ready to fall unto a small group of people. Logan jumped out from behind him and reversed his direction, ending up on the ground in a brawl.
Suddenly Storm ripped apart the bottom of her dress from the top to reveal pants. She wore them just in case. You can't fight in a dress. She raised herself up high as everyone gasped and started crawling everywhere. Her eyes glazed with white and lightening was sent from dark clouds above towards Pyro's tanks. Pyro jumped out of the way and landed on the ground. He rolled back up and grabbed the valve for his tanks.
Fire shot towards Storm in the shape of a skeleton's face. The fire surrounded her as she fell to the ground, coughing.
"What's the matter teacher? I've been bad. Aren't you going to give me detention?" Pyro said with a snort of laughter as fire shot out rapidly in both directions from where he was standing. The fire reached a curtain on the right side of where he was standing and was working itself forward very rapidly.
Cyclops reached for his visor as he shot a powerful beam at Pyro, sending him to the ground with a heavy vase on him. Pyro recovered quickly and got back up. His tanks let out fire towards Scott in the shape of Jean's face. Scott's eyebrows creased in anger as he hid inside the podium.
Nightcrawler noticed Mystique on the small balcony at the top of the white pole. He let go of the wheelchair after he made sure Professor Xavier was safe in the small corner. He knew Professor Xavier needed to be away from the chaos to see where Magneto was with his telepathy. Nightcrawler quickly hopped up the side of the squared pole and landed in front of Mystique. Mystique immediately acted defensively and straightened her hand to send it flying against Kurt's throat.
Kurt hit the back of the pole and darted towards her. He teleported behind her and kicked her in the middle of her back. She bent her back forward and turned to glare at Nightcrawler.
"Is this how you want it Son?" Mystique said as Nightcrawler looked at her with confusion. Why was she calling him son? "Mutant against mutant. Mother against son. They are the enemy. Not us."
Nightcrawler paused and looked at her for a long moment. He did see a slight resemblance. "Mein Gott…… help us Father," Kurt said to himself as he backed away from her slowly. "Vhere is Magneto?"
Professor Xavier felt Magneto's presence in the corner, near the high ceiling. Why are you're X-men getting in the way of the Brotherhood getting rid of these worthless people? Let them rid themselves of this pathetic vice president. He is exactly what we fear. And the only way to stop them from killing us is to kill them. Starting with the vice president, Magneto spoke to Professor Xavier telepathically.
Who's they? Professor Xavier asked curiously as he watched everyone run out screaming and the vice president exiting in a hurry also.
The FoH, my friend. 'Friends of Humanity', Magneto thought back to his old friend.
Suddenly a huge sound came crashing through the ceiling. The X-men and the Brotherhood were the only people left here, and now they were all standing bunched together with debris all around them, staring at the huge robot looking object hovering overhead.
The robot looked through red tinted glass and a circle targeting the crowd in front of it. It started blinking red as the words 'MUTANT' kept flashing forward and back. The sentinel's yellow eyes flashed as it's red metallic body opened up to reveal missiles. It darted out the missiles and shot them forward.
Magneto let out his hands and stopped the missiles in mid-air. The sentinel quickly turned to him and shot a missile from it's arm instead, to be unexpected. Everyone got up, ready to destroy the threatening machine.
But what they didn't realize right away were a couple of more behind it circling around in the sky.
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