Fury ordered one of his goons to take Theressa to the same cell as everyone else but as usual Theressa was being difficult. "Get in there." The goon sad as he threw Theressa into the cell with the others. Scott, Storm, Chris, and Andy had also been captured. Theressa ran up to the open space when horizontal, metal bars cut her off.
"Let us out now!" Theressa screamed. Her scar was a fiery red. She was about to try and cut threw the bars with her psi knife when Wolverine stopped her.
"You'll just be giving him what he wants."
"Oh no Wolverine I already have what want. Isn't that right my little mutant wife?" Just then Theressa fell to the ground holding her head. Chris went to her.
"What the heck are you doing to her?" Chris asked as he tried to comfort his wife.
"Oh yeah I forgot to tell you that the last time we met, you know when I posed as your husband, I placed a nano chip on you neck. I can make you do what ever I want."
"I am really getting tired of being controlled by my enemies!" Theressa screamed as she stood up. She went for the bars. She used her Psi knife to cut threw the bars and ran to Fury.
"I thought I had finished you off for good?"
"My dear Black Fox have you ever read a good action horror book? The bad guy never stays dead for long. That was my twin brother that you killed. I on the other hand got away. I saw you go one way and I went the other."
"You sacrificed your own brother?" Mian and Andi said together.
"Trust me girls." Theressa said, looking at Scott, Jean and Wolverine. "It's not unheard of."
"Why would you do something like that?" Mian asked.
"Because they are evil and sick minded." Theressa said as she pointed her Psi knife at Fury's neck.
"I would be careful if I were you. Remember I have control over you."
"You have just about as much control over me as I have control over the day turning to night." Theressa said and then spit in Fury's face.
"Fine. You want to play with the big boys. Then let's play." Fury said. Suddenly Theressa turned to her fellow X-men. Her Psi knife out and her lasers ready to blow.
"Get behind us girls." Chris and Storm said. They did not want Andi and Mian to see their mother like this.
"Oh in case you're wondering where the controller is it's up here." Fury said pointing to his head. "I devised a chip to where it would answer to my brain frequency instead of a controller.The chip was designed to slowly sink threw Theressa's skin, skull and then place itself on her brain. This way you can not remove the chip." Then Fury ran out of the room along with twenty of his goons. Wolverine got in front of everybody.
"I can take a beaten' better than any of yah. So, get back an' figure a way out of this dump!" Everyone got back. Mian and Andi both had their fiery and Icy claws out and ready to go if there family needed help. Suddenly, Andi had an idea.
Mian, what will happen if we hold hands while we are using our powers?
I don't know but if it will get us out of here let's try it. Mian said.
Andy and Mian turned toward the back wall. Mian grabbed Andy's hand and a bright glowing light of burning ice formed. Their claws were forced together and they blew out the back wall.
"Dad, Let's go. We have an opening." Andy said. Chris looked at Wolverine.
"Get out of here. I can handle her." Wolverine said. Chris nodded and he along with everyone else filed out of the cell and ran down the hall.
Theressa had an angry look on her face.
"T, fight it. You are better than this. You're letting Fury push you around. The Theressa I know would never let that happen. You've been controlled before you can fight it." Theressa fell to her knees and grabbed her head. Logan knelt down beside her. "You can do it."
"Logan help me."
"I'm trying' but I don't know if you will let me." Logan said in a fatherly tone.
"I'll let you. Just help me up." Fox screamed. Logan did just that and Fox, slowly, regained control over her boy, mind and soul. Theressa gave Logan a hug.
"I hate to interrupt your little moment here but the runt knows how I feel about moments. Don't you runt?" Theressa turned around to see Sabertooth standing a few feet away from her. Wolverine went after Sabertooth. A few moments later Theressa established a telepathic link with Wolverine.
Logan how are you holding up?
Oh I'm just fine. Except for a.... "Agr."... few broken ribs and bruised arms I'm just fine. Sabertooth threw Wolverine at the wall and then stepped on his back. Theressa heard the bones break but knew that he wounds be fine thanks to his healing factor.
Do you need some help? Wolverine was now on his feet and had dug his claws into Sabertooth's chest.
You're asking me if I need any help? You are asking the man who is the best at what he does if he needs any help?
Do you want any help? You still think that you're the best?
Yeah, sure why not. Was Wolverine's answer to both questions. Theressa joined in by firing a couple of lasers at Sabertooth's back.
"Do you mind if I join in on this little dance?" Fox asked.
"Go right ahead babe. That just means more fun for me and more pain for you." Sabertooth laughed, not looking at the woman behind him.
Yah know Logan I thought this guy had learned his lesson about calling me babe.
This mutt never learns. Wolverine replied, with a grin on his face.
Fox grabbed Sabertooth's hand, used it for balance and did a flip kicking Sabertooth in the chest and in his face in the process. He tripped her and that's where Wolverine came in. He jumped on Sabertooth's back, while stabbing him and said, "That's no way to treat a lady, bub."
"Yo, Sabertooth." Theressa said. Logan took that as his cue and jumped off of Sabertooth just as Theressa blasted him with one of the twenty-twos, did a couple of back hand springs and kicked Sabertooth right below the gut. Sabertooth fell backwards and was out like a light.
"Wow!" Wolverine said. "I knew you were good but I didn't think you were that good."
"Yeah well, I am the best." Theressa said. Wolverine smiled and thought hardly as he retracted his claws. "Where did Fury go?" Theressa asked.
Just then an image of Fury came up on the huge screen. Fury had more gray hair that Theressa remembered. He was also smoking a tobacco cigar to go with his classic black eye patch. "By the time you get this I will be long gone."
"Haven't we heard that before?" Theressa asked. Fury continued. "I have set a bomb to go off in exactly two minutes. It will take you three minutes to find a way out of this place. You have probably already wasted a minute just by watching this transmission. If I were you I would get moving but I don't know what good that would do you. HA, HA, HA."
When the transmission ended, sure enough there in the corner, was an old fashion bomb. They had exactly fifty seconds to blow this popcicle stand before it blew them to smithereens.
"Jean where the heck are they?" Chris asked once they where back on the ground and in the H2. Chris was in the driver's seat, Storm was next to him. Nightcrawler, Jean, Scott, Andy and Mian where in the back.
"I don't know I can't get threw. She's blocking me out."
"The only time that she does that is if something is wrong." Chris said. "I don't have to be a telepath to know that."
Chris, are y'all out?
Yeah. What's Wrong? Why are you blocking Jean out? I can't even get threw using our permeate mind report.
I love you.
I love you too!
Then you'll understand what I want you to do?
What?
Leave now and don't look back! This thing is about to blow. Get as far away from here as you can.
How much time?
Twenty seconds.
I'm not leaving without you or Wolverine.
If you don't leave by will, I'll make you leave!
How? You twenty thousand feet in the air. Theressa went to Jean.
Jean, could you take control of the hummer and get them out of here? Chris is being stubborn again.
Sure.
Jean put her hand on the door and used her teke powers to move the H2's wheels. Then she started the car.
"What is going on?" Scott asked but then he realized that Jean was taking control of the car. "Jean what are you doing?" Scott asked.
"Chris won't leave so Theressa asked me to make us leave. The building that their in is about to blow." Scott looked at Jean and saw how hard it was for her to move such a heavy object.
"Chris you put that key in right now and get us out of here." Scott yelled. Chris listened to Scott and Jean released the H2 and laid her head on Scott's shoulder. They hadn't gone very far when they heard the explosion. No one said a word all the way back to Westchester, New York. Chris though reluctantly allowed hot tears to flow down his worried and upset face. Scott placed one hand on his friend's shoulder and left it there.
Back at the institute
Chris was headed to his room when Scott stopped him. "Chris do you want to talk?"
"No, Scott. I need to be alone. Would you mind telling the girls for me? I don't think I can do it."
"That is if they wake up." Jean said as she came out of the elevator.
"What do you mean?" Chris asked.
"Well, whatever they did to get us out drained a lot of energy. They passed out in the car. I didn't want to tell you then because of what had happened. I'm worried Chris. I really am." Jean said as she looked at Chris and then Scott. The two men knew what Jean was thinking and Chris didn't want to believe it.
"I've lost my wife. I can't lose my twins in the same day."
"I know Chris. If you want you can go see them." Scott said. Chris nodded his head and ran to the elevator.
When they got down to the med-lab Chris didn't like what he saw. His daughters' faces where as white as snow. Their birthmarks, though, where brighter in color than they had ever been.
Surprisingly, about ten minutes later, Andy's eyes began to flutter and Mian's arm moved.
"Daddy? Where's mom?" Mian asked. Both girls were now sitting up and waiting for their father to answer. Scott and Jean moved in closer for support. Scott, again, placed a hand on Chris's shoulder.
"Your mother was killed in an accident." Chris said as he took a deep breath.
"Why didn't you try and save her?" Andi asked.
"I was going to but told me to get out while we could." Andy got up and ran out of the room. "I'll go talk to her." Chris said.
"Dad, maybe I should go talk to her." Mian said with tears rolling down her face. "Okay." Mian ran out after her sister.
"Andi would you wait up? I want to talk to you." Andy kept on running until she came to the room she shared with Mian. She walked in and slammed the door in Mian's face.
"Is it going as planned, Master?"
"Yes Cobra. Better than I had expected. Now we just need the last piece of the puzzle." Master turned around and looked at one of the other member's of his team. She smiled an evil grin that gave her yellow eyes look more evil and dangerous than ever.
Andi finally let Mian in but she didn't say a word. The only sound was the sound of both girls crying their eyes out. "Come on Andy. Mom wouldn't want us crying like this." Mian finally said through her tears.
"Your right. Hey look at the time." Andi said. "Where late for dinner. Auntie Jean is going to cook tonight." Both girls left the room to join their family at the dinner table.