DemonRogue13: Thanks, and you bet, I hop to make this one even bigger and better.
Red Witch: Yeah I figured someone who impersonated the Devil should have an ego and a flair for the dramatic.
The Uncanny R-Man: Actually yes, just wait for it I wanted it to be a surprise, and I think you'll agree it is very fitting too.
Ruby: Thanks for the support.
celtcath74: Don't worry I plan on exploring that part of his character since they didn't really do that in the show.
Supergirlhv: Yeah I know I'm stuck like that for a while in a town like that too. Well They'll be going after Magneto this time around, but Azazel will return in future stories.
AN: GUESS WHO'S BACK! I'M UP AND RUNNING AGAIN!
FAMILY AFFAIRS
CHAPTER 19: BACK INTO THE FRAY
The others just stood there in stunned silence at Wanda, Remy and Piotr sitting in the living room. "Why do I get the feeling we just got a new thing to deal with?" Bobby moaned.
"Guys they know where Paige and Jamie are!" Sam blurted out. Wanda had already told them everything when they got there, it took some doing but at the mention of Sam's little sister he opened the gates and let them in.
As soon as Sam blurted that out she was bombarded by questions. "HOLD IT!" She yelled and the lights flickered. Everyone was silenced by that. He took a breath and once again retold her tale.
She told them about Magneto and what he was up to, where the others including Alex were. About X23 and how he had used Piotr by kidnapping his sister, about regaining her lost memories and losing the fake ones.
"You mean Magneto has all of them there in one place and plans to mind wipe them or something?" Scott said. He remember the least time Magneto got his claws into him and Alex, he didn't want a repeat of that ever again.
"Yes." Wanda said. "Look the more time we spend here the more time it will take Magneto to figure out something is wrong, and then it might be too late."
"I'm with her on this Chuck." Logan said to him. "We need to go there and hit him fast and hard before he bolts with the kids and then we'll never find them in time."
Xavier thought about if and he knew time wasn't one their side and they needed to act quickly. "Alright I agree we need to leave immediately."
"I'm goin' to this time." Sam said to him. "That's my sister in there and I promised my mama, I'd look after her and get her back."
Tabitha linked her arm in his. "I'm going too, someone's got to keep sure Sam doesn't do anything foolish." Then she noticed a few of the looks she was getting. "What? I can do the whole responsible thing if I wanted to."
"They why haven't you before?" Bobby snickered.
She just shrugged. "Cause I didn't feel like it, too boring."
"Anyways I'd like to go, but I think I over did it a little." Amanda said. Gale was just finishing patching her up from her fight with Jillian and she too looked a little flustered from the healing.
"Ja I haven't eaten anything in a day, and vith all ze teleportation I zink I'm out of energy." Kurt said, he was slumped in a chair next to Amanda while Hank was looking him over.
"This does pose a problem." Xavier said. "Magneto has some of the most powerful mutants on his side, and several of the X-Men are already worn out from the last battle."
"So I guess that means the New Mutants got to step in." Tabitha said smiling broadly.
Logan let out a gruff sigh. "I guess the walking time bomb is right Chuck. We can't take on all of them even with Piotr, Wanda and the Cajun."
"I agree. Blink, I know you've already have been in fights before so I want you there to take over the teleporting roles Kurt and Amanda." She nodded her head. "Good, Tabitha and Sam I know will want to go, Ray, and Roberto you two will have to go as well."
"What about me?" Dani asked. "I'm not entirely defenseless you know, and I want to help out."
Xavier looked a little concerned. "I'm not sure, you have only been given a little training and I'm not sure weather to let you go or not."
"Please Professor let me help, I CAN do this." She sternly said to him.
He regarded her for a minute. "Very well, but keep close to the older more experienced members." Dani smiled and nodded in excitedly.
"Forge, Gale, Kurt and Amanda I want you all to stay here." Xavier said to them. They looked a little down but accepted it. "Gale I want you to get the infirmary ready, I feel we might need it for later."
"I'm on it." She said, and she was glad she could do at least something.
"I believe I shall go as well." Dr. Strange said to them all surprising them all. "Our business with Azazel is at the moment over, but I couldn't just walk away from all of this and let you all go alone."
Xavier smiled. "I'm thankful for you help."
"Great, now that all of that is settled, can we please hurry this along." Wanda impatiently said after all of this had been decided.
"Of course, everyone not suited up please do so now and go to the hanger." Xavier instructed.
Everyone was moving around and going in every direction, so it was impossible for Rogue to notice Gambit walked up to her. "So chere I heard d'at you can control your powers now non?" He said to her flashing that smile he knew women found charming.
"Uh...yeah...ah can." She said. 'What the hell? I haven't felt like this since Vincent, why am I so nervous around him?' She thought. He went up close to her and she could feel her heart increase slightly.
"Maybe later you could give Gambit a more personal demonstration non?" He said silently and walked off to join the others. Rogue was a little stunned and for some reason she found herself staring at him as he was leaving.
"Hey Rogue you alright?" She whipped her head around to see Vincent looking a little concerned at her.
"Oh, uh, ah'm fahne, really just a little tired and now we got ta go and save the others." She said, she wasn't sure but she couldn't remember every outright laying to him like that, and it hurt to do so.
He smiled at her with that smile she loved to see and he nodded. "Yeah, but at least we don't have to worry about Kurt now. I told you we would get him back, and now we can get the others and THEN we can all come back here and relax."
Rogue smiled at him and then he kissed her lightly on the lips before he left and she felt her heart once again beat faster. As he let she was suddenly and deeply worried about what was going on with her. But she would have to put it all aside until later.
ACOLYTE BASE
Legion, Mastermind and Psi-co were walking to Sinister's room. "Do any of you know why he called us here?" Legion said to the other two telepaths.
"Not in the slightest." Psi-co muttered, pushing away some of his flame red hair out of his eyes, it pretty much hanged lose around his head except for behind his head which was tied up into a long ponytail.
They entered his room and were assaulted by the sound of some music. They saw him on a couch listening to the music with a smile. "What is that?" Legion asked him looking at the stereo system playing the unknown music.
"What you don't like the Beatles?" Sinister said to him.
"That's the Beatles?" Legion said to him, he'd heard their hit songs but not this crap.
"Yes, it's my favorite song, Helter Skelter." He said to them.
"There's a shock." Psi-co muttered sarcastically under his breath. Mastermind who was next to him heard this and chucked to himself.
Sinister got up and turned off the stereo. "Anyway it is time to start converting our 'guests'. We'll start with the youngest two since I doubt their minds have matured enough to resist and it will give us a nice warm- up for the others."
"About time, how long were we going to keep them before we started that?" Legion said harshly to Sinister.
"Believe me I wanted to do it right away but Magneto wanted to make sure the Brotherhood kids were onboard with us first." He said back to Legion.
While in the cell the prisoners were getting restless.
"Exactly how long does it take to get rescued?" Illyana asked Alex.
He only shrugged. "Don't really know the last time I was with Magneto it was...well...kind of voluntary." He saw the shocked looked he was getting from her. "Well to be fair I didn't know anything about him at the time, and believe me if I knew now what I knew then, I would have blasted him on sight."
Paige was looking at X23 sitting there on her bed looking pissed and frustrated. She hadn't said anything for the longest time and even when they got their meals, or what they called it that, she always took it to a corner and sat alone.
"How come you're so mad all the time?" She asked the slightly older and deadlier girl. X23 gave her a glare. "Oh come one, we're all on the same side here and we should at least get along. Don't you want to be at least friends?"
"I don't have any friends." She said to the younger southern blond.
Paige looked sadly at the girl. "Really? Why not? I mean if you act that way all the time I can see why, but why do you act like that? Don't you want any friends?"
X23 shifted uncomfortably, she wasn't used to talking with others, especially personal stuff like this. "I...I just don't know how."
She looked confused then Jamie told her what he heard. How she was made in a lab by these terrorist and only recently escaped. Paige looked back at the girl. "That had to be horrible."
X23 didn't know what to think. She could see the girl meant well and was actually concerned for her, the only other person to be like that was Logan. She felt a strange sensation inside her, like a kind of warmth but didn't know what it meant, only that it felt...nice.
Paige got up and to everyone's surprise she sat down next to her. "Well I want to be your friend if you let me." She said. X23 didn't know what to say. She had seen how the other children while in her training were always together playing and happy. She never had a friend and while seeing other people together like that made her angry that she was denied it yet always wanted it too.
X23 felt a slight tear forming from an overwhelming sense of emotion. If she had to give it a name, she would have to guess it to be...happiness. Real and true happiness for the first time in her life. "I'd...I'd like that." She finally said to the other girl. Paige smiled at her and X23 didn't know why but felt compelled to do the same.
Unfortunately this happy moment was soon shattered. Everyone was suddenly lifted into the air and the door opened. Sinister, Legion and Psi-co entered. Psi-co motioned with his hand and Jamie and Paige floated to them.
"What's going on?" Paige said to them trying to hide her fear.
"You and young multiple are soon going to have...a chance of heart, or should I say to chance your mind about certain things. Like your loyalty to that bald headed fool Xavier." Sinister said grinning at the two kids.
X23 however knew what ever he meant wouldn't be pleasant or good for them. She had just for the first time in her life had a friend and she wouldn't lose her, not so soon. "Let them go!" She roared at them, taking out her claws and trying to break free of the telekinetic hold.
Sinister looked up at her grinning that ugly grin of his. "Don't worry my dear, you'll join them soon enough." Then he laughed cruelly at her, and she actually felt a chill run down her spine at it.
"Let us go you freak or else!" Alex yelled and pointed his glowing hands at the three Acolyte mutants.
"Legion." Sinister said casually. Suddenly Alex felt his arms move and aimed right at Illyana. He could see the scared expression on her face, and he tried to pull his hands away but couldn't. "By all means please continue. I believe you said or else. Please demonstrate what that would be on the young lady would you?" Sinister said mocking him.
Alex powered down and his hands lost the glow. "Pity." Sinister said. "I had hoped that I would see your powers in action. I'm told it's quite impressive, well maybe after your own little conversion then." They left the room with Paige and Jamie in tow and when the door shut they all could move again.
X23 fell to the floor and charged the door and tried to slash it not caring what would happen. She flung once again across the room, but she got up and tried again and was sent flying back again. She had tears in her eyes while getting up reading herself for another go.
Then a hand stopped her. She whipped around and glared at whoever it was. Alex was there looking defeated at her. "You're only going to hurt yourself more, there nothing you...there's nothing any of us could do."
"NO!" She yelled at him. "I won't lose my first friend, I won't!" She said tears falling now. Alex moved in closer and X23 started beating in his chest. "I won't lose her, I won't!" She said crying now her blows becoming less and less forceful.
Suddenly she was just crying and Alex hugged her as she sobbed in his arms. "Why...why...can't I have...anything good in my life? Why...is everything...everything good always taken...taken from me?" She said between the sobs.
Alex didn't have any answers for her he just held her. Soon Illyana too was hugging the troubled girl.
In other part of the base Magneto was in a room staring at the piece of stone he had found. At first he had brought it here to study it and to find out where it had come from. Mainly it was just a curious hobby at first, but then when he brought that girl Illyana here the stone had changed. For some reason as soon as the girl was in the base and close to the stone it couldn't be moved. He even had Juggernaut try and move it yet it didn't budge. He had tried everything and nothing worked.
It intrigued and frustrated him. He couldn't figure it out, and what's more he was worried the girl was linked to it, yet she seemed not to know a thing about the stone, she had never seen it, and it was found in a cave in some mountains.
He looked at the carving of the sword in the center. The stone around it seemed weathered and worn yet the carved image of the sword was untouched. He ran his hand over the surface. It was a perfect form of a sword almost like a real one covered in stone. There were no marks to show any sign of any carving tools, it was almost like it was formed into the rock.
'Enough of this I have other matters to attend to.' He thought to himself. He turned from the stone and walked away.
OUTSIDE
The X-Men, New Mutants and Wanda, Colossus and Gambit were waiting nearby. They were in the factory district looking at what looked like an abandoned factory. This is it?" Scott said staring at the place.
"What you expect Magneto to just put up a sign d'at says 'secret base right here'?" Gambit said to the leader of the X-Men
"Believe me it's a lot different inside." Wanda said and went out from the cover. Gambit rose up too. "Now me and Gambit will go in. Gambit will shut down the security system and I'll make sure the front door stays open."
"And with any luck no one will know and Magneto will be caught with his pants down." Gambit said smirking. They moved off to the front door of the place.
"I hope this works." Bobby said nearby.
"If not we could always do plan B." Vincent offered.
"What's plan B?" Bobby asked the older boy.
Vince smiled at him. "We go in blitzkrieg style and attack everyone that isn't on our side, battle our way through, get the others and get out of there fast."
"So....basically what we already got only without the element of surprise on our side." Iceman said to Mayhem.
"Pretty much, yeah." He admitted.
"We got a Plan C?" He asked.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 20: SHOWDOWN!
Jailbreak is next, and will they get there in time to save Jamie and Paige? And will the secret of the sword be revealed?
Red Witch: Yeah I figured someone who impersonated the Devil should have an ego and a flair for the dramatic.
The Uncanny R-Man: Actually yes, just wait for it I wanted it to be a surprise, and I think you'll agree it is very fitting too.
Ruby: Thanks for the support.
celtcath74: Don't worry I plan on exploring that part of his character since they didn't really do that in the show.
Supergirlhv: Yeah I know I'm stuck like that for a while in a town like that too. Well They'll be going after Magneto this time around, but Azazel will return in future stories.
AN: GUESS WHO'S BACK! I'M UP AND RUNNING AGAIN!
FAMILY AFFAIRS
CHAPTER 19: BACK INTO THE FRAY
The others just stood there in stunned silence at Wanda, Remy and Piotr sitting in the living room. "Why do I get the feeling we just got a new thing to deal with?" Bobby moaned.
"Guys they know where Paige and Jamie are!" Sam blurted out. Wanda had already told them everything when they got there, it took some doing but at the mention of Sam's little sister he opened the gates and let them in.
As soon as Sam blurted that out she was bombarded by questions. "HOLD IT!" She yelled and the lights flickered. Everyone was silenced by that. He took a breath and once again retold her tale.
She told them about Magneto and what he was up to, where the others including Alex were. About X23 and how he had used Piotr by kidnapping his sister, about regaining her lost memories and losing the fake ones.
"You mean Magneto has all of them there in one place and plans to mind wipe them or something?" Scott said. He remember the least time Magneto got his claws into him and Alex, he didn't want a repeat of that ever again.
"Yes." Wanda said. "Look the more time we spend here the more time it will take Magneto to figure out something is wrong, and then it might be too late."
"I'm with her on this Chuck." Logan said to him. "We need to go there and hit him fast and hard before he bolts with the kids and then we'll never find them in time."
Xavier thought about if and he knew time wasn't one their side and they needed to act quickly. "Alright I agree we need to leave immediately."
"I'm goin' to this time." Sam said to him. "That's my sister in there and I promised my mama, I'd look after her and get her back."
Tabitha linked her arm in his. "I'm going too, someone's got to keep sure Sam doesn't do anything foolish." Then she noticed a few of the looks she was getting. "What? I can do the whole responsible thing if I wanted to."
"They why haven't you before?" Bobby snickered.
She just shrugged. "Cause I didn't feel like it, too boring."
"Anyways I'd like to go, but I think I over did it a little." Amanda said. Gale was just finishing patching her up from her fight with Jillian and she too looked a little flustered from the healing.
"Ja I haven't eaten anything in a day, and vith all ze teleportation I zink I'm out of energy." Kurt said, he was slumped in a chair next to Amanda while Hank was looking him over.
"This does pose a problem." Xavier said. "Magneto has some of the most powerful mutants on his side, and several of the X-Men are already worn out from the last battle."
"So I guess that means the New Mutants got to step in." Tabitha said smiling broadly.
Logan let out a gruff sigh. "I guess the walking time bomb is right Chuck. We can't take on all of them even with Piotr, Wanda and the Cajun."
"I agree. Blink, I know you've already have been in fights before so I want you there to take over the teleporting roles Kurt and Amanda." She nodded her head. "Good, Tabitha and Sam I know will want to go, Ray, and Roberto you two will have to go as well."
"What about me?" Dani asked. "I'm not entirely defenseless you know, and I want to help out."
Xavier looked a little concerned. "I'm not sure, you have only been given a little training and I'm not sure weather to let you go or not."
"Please Professor let me help, I CAN do this." She sternly said to him.
He regarded her for a minute. "Very well, but keep close to the older more experienced members." Dani smiled and nodded in excitedly.
"Forge, Gale, Kurt and Amanda I want you all to stay here." Xavier said to them. They looked a little down but accepted it. "Gale I want you to get the infirmary ready, I feel we might need it for later."
"I'm on it." She said, and she was glad she could do at least something.
"I believe I shall go as well." Dr. Strange said to them all surprising them all. "Our business with Azazel is at the moment over, but I couldn't just walk away from all of this and let you all go alone."
Xavier smiled. "I'm thankful for you help."
"Great, now that all of that is settled, can we please hurry this along." Wanda impatiently said after all of this had been decided.
"Of course, everyone not suited up please do so now and go to the hanger." Xavier instructed.
Everyone was moving around and going in every direction, so it was impossible for Rogue to notice Gambit walked up to her. "So chere I heard d'at you can control your powers now non?" He said to her flashing that smile he knew women found charming.
"Uh...yeah...ah can." She said. 'What the hell? I haven't felt like this since Vincent, why am I so nervous around him?' She thought. He went up close to her and she could feel her heart increase slightly.
"Maybe later you could give Gambit a more personal demonstration non?" He said silently and walked off to join the others. Rogue was a little stunned and for some reason she found herself staring at him as he was leaving.
"Hey Rogue you alright?" She whipped her head around to see Vincent looking a little concerned at her.
"Oh, uh, ah'm fahne, really just a little tired and now we got ta go and save the others." She said, she wasn't sure but she couldn't remember every outright laying to him like that, and it hurt to do so.
He smiled at her with that smile she loved to see and he nodded. "Yeah, but at least we don't have to worry about Kurt now. I told you we would get him back, and now we can get the others and THEN we can all come back here and relax."
Rogue smiled at him and then he kissed her lightly on the lips before he left and she felt her heart once again beat faster. As he let she was suddenly and deeply worried about what was going on with her. But she would have to put it all aside until later.
ACOLYTE BASE
Legion, Mastermind and Psi-co were walking to Sinister's room. "Do any of you know why he called us here?" Legion said to the other two telepaths.
"Not in the slightest." Psi-co muttered, pushing away some of his flame red hair out of his eyes, it pretty much hanged lose around his head except for behind his head which was tied up into a long ponytail.
They entered his room and were assaulted by the sound of some music. They saw him on a couch listening to the music with a smile. "What is that?" Legion asked him looking at the stereo system playing the unknown music.
"What you don't like the Beatles?" Sinister said to him.
"That's the Beatles?" Legion said to him, he'd heard their hit songs but not this crap.
"Yes, it's my favorite song, Helter Skelter." He said to them.
"There's a shock." Psi-co muttered sarcastically under his breath. Mastermind who was next to him heard this and chucked to himself.
Sinister got up and turned off the stereo. "Anyway it is time to start converting our 'guests'. We'll start with the youngest two since I doubt their minds have matured enough to resist and it will give us a nice warm- up for the others."
"About time, how long were we going to keep them before we started that?" Legion said harshly to Sinister.
"Believe me I wanted to do it right away but Magneto wanted to make sure the Brotherhood kids were onboard with us first." He said back to Legion.
While in the cell the prisoners were getting restless.
"Exactly how long does it take to get rescued?" Illyana asked Alex.
He only shrugged. "Don't really know the last time I was with Magneto it was...well...kind of voluntary." He saw the shocked looked he was getting from her. "Well to be fair I didn't know anything about him at the time, and believe me if I knew now what I knew then, I would have blasted him on sight."
Paige was looking at X23 sitting there on her bed looking pissed and frustrated. She hadn't said anything for the longest time and even when they got their meals, or what they called it that, she always took it to a corner and sat alone.
"How come you're so mad all the time?" She asked the slightly older and deadlier girl. X23 gave her a glare. "Oh come one, we're all on the same side here and we should at least get along. Don't you want to be at least friends?"
"I don't have any friends." She said to the younger southern blond.
Paige looked sadly at the girl. "Really? Why not? I mean if you act that way all the time I can see why, but why do you act like that? Don't you want any friends?"
X23 shifted uncomfortably, she wasn't used to talking with others, especially personal stuff like this. "I...I just don't know how."
She looked confused then Jamie told her what he heard. How she was made in a lab by these terrorist and only recently escaped. Paige looked back at the girl. "That had to be horrible."
X23 didn't know what to think. She could see the girl meant well and was actually concerned for her, the only other person to be like that was Logan. She felt a strange sensation inside her, like a kind of warmth but didn't know what it meant, only that it felt...nice.
Paige got up and to everyone's surprise she sat down next to her. "Well I want to be your friend if you let me." She said. X23 didn't know what to say. She had seen how the other children while in her training were always together playing and happy. She never had a friend and while seeing other people together like that made her angry that she was denied it yet always wanted it too.
X23 felt a slight tear forming from an overwhelming sense of emotion. If she had to give it a name, she would have to guess it to be...happiness. Real and true happiness for the first time in her life. "I'd...I'd like that." She finally said to the other girl. Paige smiled at her and X23 didn't know why but felt compelled to do the same.
Unfortunately this happy moment was soon shattered. Everyone was suddenly lifted into the air and the door opened. Sinister, Legion and Psi-co entered. Psi-co motioned with his hand and Jamie and Paige floated to them.
"What's going on?" Paige said to them trying to hide her fear.
"You and young multiple are soon going to have...a chance of heart, or should I say to chance your mind about certain things. Like your loyalty to that bald headed fool Xavier." Sinister said grinning at the two kids.
X23 however knew what ever he meant wouldn't be pleasant or good for them. She had just for the first time in her life had a friend and she wouldn't lose her, not so soon. "Let them go!" She roared at them, taking out her claws and trying to break free of the telekinetic hold.
Sinister looked up at her grinning that ugly grin of his. "Don't worry my dear, you'll join them soon enough." Then he laughed cruelly at her, and she actually felt a chill run down her spine at it.
"Let us go you freak or else!" Alex yelled and pointed his glowing hands at the three Acolyte mutants.
"Legion." Sinister said casually. Suddenly Alex felt his arms move and aimed right at Illyana. He could see the scared expression on her face, and he tried to pull his hands away but couldn't. "By all means please continue. I believe you said or else. Please demonstrate what that would be on the young lady would you?" Sinister said mocking him.
Alex powered down and his hands lost the glow. "Pity." Sinister said. "I had hoped that I would see your powers in action. I'm told it's quite impressive, well maybe after your own little conversion then." They left the room with Paige and Jamie in tow and when the door shut they all could move again.
X23 fell to the floor and charged the door and tried to slash it not caring what would happen. She flung once again across the room, but she got up and tried again and was sent flying back again. She had tears in her eyes while getting up reading herself for another go.
Then a hand stopped her. She whipped around and glared at whoever it was. Alex was there looking defeated at her. "You're only going to hurt yourself more, there nothing you...there's nothing any of us could do."
"NO!" She yelled at him. "I won't lose my first friend, I won't!" She said tears falling now. Alex moved in closer and X23 started beating in his chest. "I won't lose her, I won't!" She said crying now her blows becoming less and less forceful.
Suddenly she was just crying and Alex hugged her as she sobbed in his arms. "Why...why...can't I have...anything good in my life? Why...is everything...everything good always taken...taken from me?" She said between the sobs.
Alex didn't have any answers for her he just held her. Soon Illyana too was hugging the troubled girl.
In other part of the base Magneto was in a room staring at the piece of stone he had found. At first he had brought it here to study it and to find out where it had come from. Mainly it was just a curious hobby at first, but then when he brought that girl Illyana here the stone had changed. For some reason as soon as the girl was in the base and close to the stone it couldn't be moved. He even had Juggernaut try and move it yet it didn't budge. He had tried everything and nothing worked.
It intrigued and frustrated him. He couldn't figure it out, and what's more he was worried the girl was linked to it, yet she seemed not to know a thing about the stone, she had never seen it, and it was found in a cave in some mountains.
He looked at the carving of the sword in the center. The stone around it seemed weathered and worn yet the carved image of the sword was untouched. He ran his hand over the surface. It was a perfect form of a sword almost like a real one covered in stone. There were no marks to show any sign of any carving tools, it was almost like it was formed into the rock.
'Enough of this I have other matters to attend to.' He thought to himself. He turned from the stone and walked away.
OUTSIDE
The X-Men, New Mutants and Wanda, Colossus and Gambit were waiting nearby. They were in the factory district looking at what looked like an abandoned factory. This is it?" Scott said staring at the place.
"What you expect Magneto to just put up a sign d'at says 'secret base right here'?" Gambit said to the leader of the X-Men
"Believe me it's a lot different inside." Wanda said and went out from the cover. Gambit rose up too. "Now me and Gambit will go in. Gambit will shut down the security system and I'll make sure the front door stays open."
"And with any luck no one will know and Magneto will be caught with his pants down." Gambit said smirking. They moved off to the front door of the place.
"I hope this works." Bobby said nearby.
"If not we could always do plan B." Vincent offered.
"What's plan B?" Bobby asked the older boy.
Vince smiled at him. "We go in blitzkrieg style and attack everyone that isn't on our side, battle our way through, get the others and get out of there fast."
"So....basically what we already got only without the element of surprise on our side." Iceman said to Mayhem.
"Pretty much, yeah." He admitted.
"We got a Plan C?" He asked.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 20: SHOWDOWN!
Jailbreak is next, and will they get there in time to save Jamie and Paige? And will the secret of the sword be revealed?