Supergirlhv: Of course it will be.
DemonRogue13: Thanks. I know what you mean. She may not have much experience with emotions, but I feel she does have them, and is just learning what they are.
Red Witch: Yes it is all better now, and you bet Wanda will. She's got a few issues to take care of.
Ruby: Sure why not, as long as you got something that says it's an AU based off of my fics I give ya full permission and I look forward to it, let me know when you post it so I don't miss it.
The Uncanny R-Man: Well Selene will be a part of it, I wasn't sure whether to make Emma an adult or a teen, but it does give me ideas either way.
celtcath74: I sure hope so.
jadestar123: You're not alone there, and as for those three, I figured I would spice things up a little.
Supergirlhv: Thanks for supporting the Rogue/Vincent relationship, but when did I say I would write that? I don't remember anything like that.
FAMILY AFFAIRS
CHAPTER 20: SHOWDOWN!
Wanda and Remy made their way through the front door without any trouble and made their way through the first room mainly die to the fact that it was used mainly as a lobby for the base, so no one was there. In the next room however was more of a Rec. room for the entire base.
Thankfully only Toad, Lance, and Morbius were sitting down there. Morbius as ever was reading in a corner, while the two ex-brotherhood members were watching a TV set across from them on the far wall.
"Hey there gorgeous where were you?" Todd asked happily before Wanda hexed him into a wall. Remy was startled and thought she just blew her cover but Lance wasn't phased by it.
"What are you two walking in together for?" Lance asked with a grin.
"Remy was just out getting' de girl for da boss." Gambit said to him. Lance just shrugged and went back to the TV. Gambit guest that Wanda hexing the little guy was normal.
Wanda however wanted to do a lot more then that to him. He above all the others claimed to 'love' her but what did he do to prove it? Did he ever tell her what had happened? No he didn't, he just let it happen, let her think she was going crazy all over again and if he truly did 'love' her as he claimed he should have told her what Magneto had done to her.
But he didn't, and Wanda knew he never would have. She glared at the from of Toad and then back at Lance. He was another member of the Brotherhood who never bothered to tell her the truth, because she was easier to deal with, with her memories rewritten.
She went and sat down on a chair nearby, she wanted to be close to the door to make sure it was open for the others when Gambit turned the security off.
Gambit on the other hand made his way to the security room casually. He knew how not to act suspicious while on the job, all those years training as a thief were actually coming in useful for something good for once he mused to himself.
"Where have you been?" He heard the deep voice of Magneto coming from behind him. Luckily he also knew how to hide his emotions too. So when Gambit turned to face him he smiled like he usually did and with a carefree attitude answered him.
"Gambit was just out for some fresh air, so I thought I'd see what this town had to offer for some fun." He said to him.
He couldn't tell with his face shadowed by his helmet but he swore Magneto was glaring at him. "You will not leave this base again until I say so. Do you understand?" He said and Gambit could hear the threat in his voice.
"Oui." He said quickly. Magneto moved off and Gambit let out a mental sigh of relief at it. "Dat was too close." He muttered and continued on his way. He found the security room with no one inside. 'Good at least something is going right.' He thought as he moved to the controls.
Then he noticed movement on one of the cameras. "Oh merde." He muttered at what he saw.
LAB ROOM
Jamie was struggling as best he could but the guy named Psi-co had a pretty good grip on him with his telekinesis. He tried to make a few copies but he could quite move well enough to give himself a good solid hit. All he could do was watch helplessly as they began to strap down Paige onto a chair.
"Let me go ya creeps!" She yelled at them. Well at least she wasn't going quietly.
"Can we get this over with, she's giving me a migraine." Legion said. "And to a telepath that's really annoying." The other telepaths in the room nodded in agreement with his statement.
"Well I'm ready." Mastermind said walking to the young girl. Paige tried to get out of the bonds as fast as she could, but she couldn't budge the straps. Mastermind was looming over her ready to place his hands on her head when the lights went out.
The Acolytes started to shouting at each other in the darkness. It had come so suddenly that Psi-co lost his concentration and Jamie found himself free. He quickly stamped his foot on the ground and slammed his hand into his palm as hard as he could, making as many multiples as he could.
"Damn it I lost the kid!" Psi-co yelled out.
"What do you mean you-YEOW!" Sinister cried out. "The little brat stomped on my foot!"
"What? I sense him over-no wait, he's over-oh great he's multiplied! I can't tell which is which they all have the same mind!" Legion shouted out to them. As the Acolytes were trying to figure out where all the Jamies were, Paige felt someone touch her arm.
"Paige that you?" She heard Jamie whisper.
"Yeah can you get me out of this?" She whispered back to him.
"I'll try." He said back silently. He found the strap on her wrist and managed to undo it as the chaos around them raged on. "Got it, I'll se if I can get the ones on your legs." Jamie tried to find it but felt something else.
"Hey watch the hands!" Paige hissed at him. Jamie immediately pulled his hands away from what ever he had touched.
"Sorry! Wh-What was it?" He nervously asked afraid of the answer.
"Just my thigh, be thankful it wasn't anything else or ah would give ya a poundin' if ya know what ah mean." Paige said again to him. Jamie gulped and this time made sure to be extremely careful. He knew this was a girl you didn't want pissed at you. He finally found the straps holding her angles down and undid them.
He grabbed her hand and tried to lead her to the door. Luckily he remembered that it was straight to the left of the chair. Getting there was a different manner seeing is how he kept bumping into his clones. But eventually they made it to the door.
Paige searched to the pad she saw them use to open it while Jamie pulled himself together. The door suddenly opened and the two of them blinked away the blinding effect of the light and ran through.
"After them!" Sinister yelled out, but the door suddenly slammed shut. "Oh come on!"
SECURITY ROOM
Gambit locked out the door of the lab and turned off the security system. He grinned and decided to try and find the kids but first. He placed his hand over the console and charged the entire thing up.
He opened the door and saw Sabertooth standing out side. Gambit quickly exited to room and close the door. "Hey what's up?" He asked smiling and inching himself away from the door.
"What are you doing here Cajun?" Sabertooth growled out. Then he sniffed the air. "What the...I know those scents!" Sabertooth was about to leap at him and ask him why he was around the X-Men when the door blew open from an explosion and nail him into a wall.
Gambit looked and saw him moving slightly and knew he better run while he could before Sabertooth regained his senses.
Wanda was waiting impatiently for Gambit to hurry up. He was taking longer then he should have been. She was about to open the door for the others when a rumbling sound and a small shaking of the foundation.
"What the hell? Avalanche was that you?" Morbius asked him.
"What? Of course not!" He shouted back at the pale skinned mutant vampire. Wanda used this distraction to move to the entrance and open the doors, and quickly returned to the room in time to see Lance and Morbius getting into each other's faces.
"Hey where'd you'd go?" Todd asked her. She mentally cursed herself for ignoring him the one time she should have been watching him.
"She was letting us in." Todd, Morbius and Lance all suddenly turned to see Logan and the X-Men and The New Mutants standing there.
"What? Wanda why did you let those geeks in here?" Toad said to her.
Her face grew very dark. "I don't know, why didn't you or the others tell me what Magneto did to my memories?" She said coldly, Lance and Toad paled at her words.
"N-n-now d-d-don't be hasty Wanda." Toad said inching away from her. "Y-y- you were j-j-j-just better after that." He saw her face contort in anger and he knew in a flash that was the wrong thing to say. The next thing he knew Wanda threw a powerful hex bolt at him. He sail through the air into a wall and fell with a thud to the ground, completely out cold.
Morbius went to charge then and Lance began to power up. But Cyclops blasted Lance off of his feet before Lance could get the rumbling intense enough. Mayhem aim and shot Morbius also in the chest with his own energy beam from his hand.
"Alright everyone break into your teams and search this place." Logan said.
PRISON CELL
The three remaining teens were waiting for whatever was going to happen to them. Luckily they talked it out and they decided not to go quietly. They were sitting by the door against the wall. They didn't really speak seeing as they were all worried about Jamie and Paige.
Then they heard the sound of the door being unlocked. They rose up and went into position. X23 was right in front of the door and would pounce on whoever was stupid enough to walk in first. Alex was behind her charging up his hands ready to blast whoever was next. Illyana being the only one without any powers was standing behind Alex.
The door opened and X23 didn't think, she reacted. She roared and leaped forward sending her claws out of her hands and towards her opponent. To say it was a surprise when her claws were blocked by a familiar set of adamantium claws blocking her.
"Nice to see you too kid." Logan said with a smirk. X23 was lost for words.
'He came...he actually came.' Was her thoughts. "What are you doing here?" She said after composing herself and put on a scowl.
"What do ya think kid?" Logan said to her seriously. "We're here to bust you and the others out of here?"
Alex ran to the door. "Man am I glad you're here." He said smiling. "How did you find us?"
"We had help." Logan said and pointed behind him to Scarlet Witch and Colossus behind him.
Illyana made it to the door and her heart leaped into her throat as she saw who was there. "Piotr?" She said tears forming in her eyes.
Colossus reverted to his human form. "Illyana!" He ran to his sister as everyone made room for them. He picked her up and hugged her close. Illyana was laughing and hugging him back, tears of joy on her face.
"I hate to ruin this mode but we really got to get out of here." Logan said to them.
"Wait we got to get Jamie and Paige!" X23 said to Logan.
He gave her a comforting smile. "Don't worry about it the others are on it."
HALLWAY
The second team consisted of Mayhem, Blink, Cannonball, Boom-boom and Dani. They were racing down the halls. "Do you guys know where you're going?" Dani asked them.
"I do." Vincent told her. "I memorized the rough plans Gambit gave us. If they're going to mind wipe them like Magneto did with Wanda then they would hold whoever they were going to do first in the labs, and it's this way."
"Oh...makes sense I guess." She said. Dani was wearing a new mutant uniform, but with the addition of a quiver and a bow since her combat skills weren't as good as her archery. Her arrows however were blunted in case she missed and hit one of her teammates. Not that she would miss, but the Professor didn't know how good she was and needed to make sure no one go hurt.
They were running down the hall when they literally bumped into Jamie and Paige. Blink had ran into Paige causing the two girls to tumble to the floor and Jamie ran into Vincent, causing Jamie to fall to the ground and create several duplicates.
"Well that was easy." Tabitha said smiling.
"Paige!" Sam yelled out and went to his sister picking her up.
"Sammy!" He cried out as he lifted her up into his arms. After he released her she punched him in the arm. "What took ya?" She yelled at him. "Do you have any idea what nearly happened to us?"
"They might find out after you do." They heard from down the hall they looked and saw Legion, Mastermind and Psi-co there.
"Great looks like they got out of that room after all." One of the Jamies said groaning.
"You got that right kid." Legion sneered at him. "You're just glad Sinister went to warn Magneto since we sensed you guys in the base."
"Paige, Jamie get behind us." Vincent said stepping forward. Legion stepped forward also.
"No he's mine!" Psi-co said. "I have a score to settle with you." He said to Vincent with pure hate in his voice.
Vincent looked a little confused. "Do I know you?" Psi-co grinned and pulled up his left sleeve to show a scare on his arm exactly like Vincent's. He looked to his arm and then back to Psi-co.
"Nice to see you too Seven." He said to Vincent.
Vincent searched his memories of that time in Prodigy. He remembered a red haired boy there. "Ten." He said with sudden realization. "Why are you working with Magneto and Sinister of all people? Didn't you know he was behind the experiments?" Vincent yelled out at him.
Psi-co only laughed. "Of course I knew. He made us stronger then we ever would have. But you! You left us! You ran from us! I know what your life was like. You spent the majority of in safe in an orphanage, while I had multiple personalities and left to rot in various cells, always surrounded by the insane or sociopaths. Do you have any idea what that's like for a telepath?"
Vincent was stunned into silence. He never knew any of that, and he couldn't imagine what he had gone through. He only knew that the little boy he once knew was long gone, and this was all that was left. "I'm sorry." He said but he knew what had to be done.
He charged forward but suddenly stopped. He fell to his knees clutching his chest in pain. Psi-co stared at him smiling. "You know you're a lot tougher then normal people. What I'm doing now should have squashed a normal heart by now, but I guess it will just take a little more effort."
Vincent scream in pain as he felt like a vice was squeezing his heart. "Stop is you freak!" Tabitha screamed at him and threw a few time bombs. They hit an invisible force and saw Legion smiling at them.
"Forget about someone Blondie?" He said to her. He flung out his hand and Tabitha was sent flying down the hall. Sam wasting no words flew at Legion but he was able to hold him in place with some effort.
Master mind stepped up and was about to help out Legion by entering Sam's mind when Dani stepped in front of him. "And who do you think you are?" He asked her.
"You're worse nightmare." She said and used her powers on him. Mastermind didn't see it coming until it was too late. One moment he was fine the next he was cowering on the floor.
Blink meanwhile had teleported behind Psi-co, he was so intent on killing Vincent that he didn't notice her until she kicked him from behind. He stumbled forward losing his concentration, when he turned around he was met with a fist to the face.
Blink didn't waste any time and hit him with a teleporting energy lance and teleported him as far away from here as possible. The next thing Psi-co knew he was standing in a park, he looked around. "Well this is just great." He muttered to himself. "Where the hell am I?"
Back at the base Blink firing her energy lances, Dani trying to get into his mind and Tabitha throwing her time bombs at Legion were weakening his defenses. He had trouble, keeping Dani out of his mind while the others attacked him.
Sam saw an opening and flew into him hitting Legion in the chest and into a wall. Sam staggered away leaving Legion there on the ground unconscious. Jamie and Paige were helping Vincent to his feet, his face was pale and he looked like he was in great pain.
Tabitha looked at him worried at how he was looking. "Damn man you look like hell." He managed a weak smile. "Blink we should get him to the Professor in the X-Jet." Blink nodded and created a portal for them all to go through.
Logan and his group meet up with the others in a main room of some kind with some kind of large stone in the corner. "Well now that everyone's here I think we should leave." Scott said to them.
"What about the others?" X23 asked him.
"I got a message from the Professor, Vincent took a bad hit but he should be fine after Gale gets through with him, and they got the others out." Jean said to her. Rogue suddenly looked worried at the news of Vincent but knew he would be all right after they got him home.
"Then let's not waste anymore time." Kitty said to them.
"Oh I think you'll make time." Came the voice of Magneto. They saw from one of the large doorways Magneto float in with the rest of the Brotherhood, and the remaining Acolytes, in including a very pissed off Sabertooth staring holes at Gambit.
"I'm very disappointed in you daughter, I had hoped you would have seen that I was right in my views." Magneto said coldly to her.
"Please you have no right to call me daughter after everything you put me through, the asylum, using me like a tool and pawn and messing with my memories! How dare you!" She yelled at him full of anger and frustration.
"I do what is necessary. I regret nothing." He told her. Then me motioned with his hand for the others to attack.
Logan intercepted Sabertooth, while X23, Gambit and Jubilee focused on Omega Red. Rogue and Dr. Strange found themselves facing Juggernaut. Amara in her fire form with and Iceman took on Pyro. The others paired off against the Brotherhood, with Storm, Jubilee, Sunspot and Berzerker.
Sinister walked up to Jean and Scott. "Well this isn't lovely. You know you two have some very interesting DNA, I was wondering if I could get a better sample?"
"I don't think so." Scott fired his optic blast at him. Sinister knew nothing could truly hurt him, at least he thought that. When the blast hit his lower torso he felt more pain then anything in his life. He screamed out in pain clutching his wound.
"What...is...this?" He managed to get out. His wound instead of healing was dripping a greenish liquid. He could feel his body slowly recovering but for the first time in his life since his transformation he knew fear. He looked up as Scott sent a kick into his face.
"I bet Vince will be glad to know this guy has a weakness." Scott said looking down on the form of Sinister.
Juggernaut was towering over Rogue and the Sorcerer Supreme. "I was hoping to get a shot at your boyfriend girl, but you'll do." He lunched a fist at her and he was surprised when she caught it and was holding it at bay.
"Ah got a score ta settle with ya too." She said through gritted teeth, with all her strength she threw his arms back and sent several blows to his body. Dr. Strange took the opening he had and fired a mystical energy attack at him.
'I sense a mystical power in this one.' Strange thought to himself as he battle the giant powerhouse.
Wanda was firing her hex bolts at Magneto trying to hit him, but he kept using pieces of metal as shields. Then she found herself wrapped in metal from behind. Her hands were bound behind her back and she couldn't use her powers anymore.
She fell to the ground as her legs were also bound. She struggled to get free but she knew she couldn't force the metal to bend. She looked up to she her father hover over her, then she saw a piece of equipment hit him in the air.
Magneto was knocked away and when he looked at where the attack came from he saw an angry Colossus walking towards him. "We have some unfinished business you and I." He said his voice full of rage.
"You fool." Magneto said. He raised his hand and Colossus found himself flung to a wall and stuck there. "Not the smartest move attacking me in your metallic form, and even if you do go to human form I would even be more powerful compared to you."
Illyana saw her bother in trouble and ran at Magneto. She thrashed her arms against him. "Leave my brother alone!" Magneto backhanded the girl aside and she fell to his right. He returned his attention to Piotr and forgot about the girl.
Illyana forced herself up, but then she suddenly felt something. Like a pulling sensation, she looked around and saw the image of the stone sword. It was as if it was calling to her. He felt an overwhelming need to go to it. Forgetting about the battle and her bother she walked to it. She placed her hand on the stone and it started to glow.
The sword in it started to crack and shatter. Dr. Strange suddenly felt an overwhelming sense of power and looked at the young blond girl and the stone. "No...it can't be..." He whispered to himself.
He watched in amazement as the stone completely shattered away revealing a real sword underneath it. "The Soul Sword." Strange said in awe. "It has finally chosen a new wielder."
Illyana took the sword and felt a great power flowing through her veins. The blade of the sword came alive with a white fire. She swung the sword at Magneto screaming at him. "DON'T HURT MY BROTHER!"
Magneto turned in time to see a white flame leaping from the sword hitting him across the room. Everyone was silenced by what had just happen. The X- Men and the Acolytes stood there in amazement at the sight of Illyana holding the flaming sword in front of her.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 21: AFTER ALL IS SAID AND DONE
The battle concludes and then the pieces are picked up after the battle.
DemonRogue13: Thanks. I know what you mean. She may not have much experience with emotions, but I feel she does have them, and is just learning what they are.
Red Witch: Yes it is all better now, and you bet Wanda will. She's got a few issues to take care of.
Ruby: Sure why not, as long as you got something that says it's an AU based off of my fics I give ya full permission and I look forward to it, let me know when you post it so I don't miss it.
The Uncanny R-Man: Well Selene will be a part of it, I wasn't sure whether to make Emma an adult or a teen, but it does give me ideas either way.
celtcath74: I sure hope so.
jadestar123: You're not alone there, and as for those three, I figured I would spice things up a little.
Supergirlhv: Thanks for supporting the Rogue/Vincent relationship, but when did I say I would write that? I don't remember anything like that.
FAMILY AFFAIRS
CHAPTER 20: SHOWDOWN!
Wanda and Remy made their way through the front door without any trouble and made their way through the first room mainly die to the fact that it was used mainly as a lobby for the base, so no one was there. In the next room however was more of a Rec. room for the entire base.
Thankfully only Toad, Lance, and Morbius were sitting down there. Morbius as ever was reading in a corner, while the two ex-brotherhood members were watching a TV set across from them on the far wall.
"Hey there gorgeous where were you?" Todd asked happily before Wanda hexed him into a wall. Remy was startled and thought she just blew her cover but Lance wasn't phased by it.
"What are you two walking in together for?" Lance asked with a grin.
"Remy was just out getting' de girl for da boss." Gambit said to him. Lance just shrugged and went back to the TV. Gambit guest that Wanda hexing the little guy was normal.
Wanda however wanted to do a lot more then that to him. He above all the others claimed to 'love' her but what did he do to prove it? Did he ever tell her what had happened? No he didn't, he just let it happen, let her think she was going crazy all over again and if he truly did 'love' her as he claimed he should have told her what Magneto had done to her.
But he didn't, and Wanda knew he never would have. She glared at the from of Toad and then back at Lance. He was another member of the Brotherhood who never bothered to tell her the truth, because she was easier to deal with, with her memories rewritten.
She went and sat down on a chair nearby, she wanted to be close to the door to make sure it was open for the others when Gambit turned the security off.
Gambit on the other hand made his way to the security room casually. He knew how not to act suspicious while on the job, all those years training as a thief were actually coming in useful for something good for once he mused to himself.
"Where have you been?" He heard the deep voice of Magneto coming from behind him. Luckily he also knew how to hide his emotions too. So when Gambit turned to face him he smiled like he usually did and with a carefree attitude answered him.
"Gambit was just out for some fresh air, so I thought I'd see what this town had to offer for some fun." He said to him.
He couldn't tell with his face shadowed by his helmet but he swore Magneto was glaring at him. "You will not leave this base again until I say so. Do you understand?" He said and Gambit could hear the threat in his voice.
"Oui." He said quickly. Magneto moved off and Gambit let out a mental sigh of relief at it. "Dat was too close." He muttered and continued on his way. He found the security room with no one inside. 'Good at least something is going right.' He thought as he moved to the controls.
Then he noticed movement on one of the cameras. "Oh merde." He muttered at what he saw.
LAB ROOM
Jamie was struggling as best he could but the guy named Psi-co had a pretty good grip on him with his telekinesis. He tried to make a few copies but he could quite move well enough to give himself a good solid hit. All he could do was watch helplessly as they began to strap down Paige onto a chair.
"Let me go ya creeps!" She yelled at them. Well at least she wasn't going quietly.
"Can we get this over with, she's giving me a migraine." Legion said. "And to a telepath that's really annoying." The other telepaths in the room nodded in agreement with his statement.
"Well I'm ready." Mastermind said walking to the young girl. Paige tried to get out of the bonds as fast as she could, but she couldn't budge the straps. Mastermind was looming over her ready to place his hands on her head when the lights went out.
The Acolytes started to shouting at each other in the darkness. It had come so suddenly that Psi-co lost his concentration and Jamie found himself free. He quickly stamped his foot on the ground and slammed his hand into his palm as hard as he could, making as many multiples as he could.
"Damn it I lost the kid!" Psi-co yelled out.
"What do you mean you-YEOW!" Sinister cried out. "The little brat stomped on my foot!"
"What? I sense him over-no wait, he's over-oh great he's multiplied! I can't tell which is which they all have the same mind!" Legion shouted out to them. As the Acolytes were trying to figure out where all the Jamies were, Paige felt someone touch her arm.
"Paige that you?" She heard Jamie whisper.
"Yeah can you get me out of this?" She whispered back to him.
"I'll try." He said back silently. He found the strap on her wrist and managed to undo it as the chaos around them raged on. "Got it, I'll se if I can get the ones on your legs." Jamie tried to find it but felt something else.
"Hey watch the hands!" Paige hissed at him. Jamie immediately pulled his hands away from what ever he had touched.
"Sorry! Wh-What was it?" He nervously asked afraid of the answer.
"Just my thigh, be thankful it wasn't anything else or ah would give ya a poundin' if ya know what ah mean." Paige said again to him. Jamie gulped and this time made sure to be extremely careful. He knew this was a girl you didn't want pissed at you. He finally found the straps holding her angles down and undid them.
He grabbed her hand and tried to lead her to the door. Luckily he remembered that it was straight to the left of the chair. Getting there was a different manner seeing is how he kept bumping into his clones. But eventually they made it to the door.
Paige searched to the pad she saw them use to open it while Jamie pulled himself together. The door suddenly opened and the two of them blinked away the blinding effect of the light and ran through.
"After them!" Sinister yelled out, but the door suddenly slammed shut. "Oh come on!"
SECURITY ROOM
Gambit locked out the door of the lab and turned off the security system. He grinned and decided to try and find the kids but first. He placed his hand over the console and charged the entire thing up.
He opened the door and saw Sabertooth standing out side. Gambit quickly exited to room and close the door. "Hey what's up?" He asked smiling and inching himself away from the door.
"What are you doing here Cajun?" Sabertooth growled out. Then he sniffed the air. "What the...I know those scents!" Sabertooth was about to leap at him and ask him why he was around the X-Men when the door blew open from an explosion and nail him into a wall.
Gambit looked and saw him moving slightly and knew he better run while he could before Sabertooth regained his senses.
Wanda was waiting impatiently for Gambit to hurry up. He was taking longer then he should have been. She was about to open the door for the others when a rumbling sound and a small shaking of the foundation.
"What the hell? Avalanche was that you?" Morbius asked him.
"What? Of course not!" He shouted back at the pale skinned mutant vampire. Wanda used this distraction to move to the entrance and open the doors, and quickly returned to the room in time to see Lance and Morbius getting into each other's faces.
"Hey where'd you'd go?" Todd asked her. She mentally cursed herself for ignoring him the one time she should have been watching him.
"She was letting us in." Todd, Morbius and Lance all suddenly turned to see Logan and the X-Men and The New Mutants standing there.
"What? Wanda why did you let those geeks in here?" Toad said to her.
Her face grew very dark. "I don't know, why didn't you or the others tell me what Magneto did to my memories?" She said coldly, Lance and Toad paled at her words.
"N-n-now d-d-don't be hasty Wanda." Toad said inching away from her. "Y-y- you were j-j-j-just better after that." He saw her face contort in anger and he knew in a flash that was the wrong thing to say. The next thing he knew Wanda threw a powerful hex bolt at him. He sail through the air into a wall and fell with a thud to the ground, completely out cold.
Morbius went to charge then and Lance began to power up. But Cyclops blasted Lance off of his feet before Lance could get the rumbling intense enough. Mayhem aim and shot Morbius also in the chest with his own energy beam from his hand.
"Alright everyone break into your teams and search this place." Logan said.
PRISON CELL
The three remaining teens were waiting for whatever was going to happen to them. Luckily they talked it out and they decided not to go quietly. They were sitting by the door against the wall. They didn't really speak seeing as they were all worried about Jamie and Paige.
Then they heard the sound of the door being unlocked. They rose up and went into position. X23 was right in front of the door and would pounce on whoever was stupid enough to walk in first. Alex was behind her charging up his hands ready to blast whoever was next. Illyana being the only one without any powers was standing behind Alex.
The door opened and X23 didn't think, she reacted. She roared and leaped forward sending her claws out of her hands and towards her opponent. To say it was a surprise when her claws were blocked by a familiar set of adamantium claws blocking her.
"Nice to see you too kid." Logan said with a smirk. X23 was lost for words.
'He came...he actually came.' Was her thoughts. "What are you doing here?" She said after composing herself and put on a scowl.
"What do ya think kid?" Logan said to her seriously. "We're here to bust you and the others out of here?"
Alex ran to the door. "Man am I glad you're here." He said smiling. "How did you find us?"
"We had help." Logan said and pointed behind him to Scarlet Witch and Colossus behind him.
Illyana made it to the door and her heart leaped into her throat as she saw who was there. "Piotr?" She said tears forming in her eyes.
Colossus reverted to his human form. "Illyana!" He ran to his sister as everyone made room for them. He picked her up and hugged her close. Illyana was laughing and hugging him back, tears of joy on her face.
"I hate to ruin this mode but we really got to get out of here." Logan said to them.
"Wait we got to get Jamie and Paige!" X23 said to Logan.
He gave her a comforting smile. "Don't worry about it the others are on it."
HALLWAY
The second team consisted of Mayhem, Blink, Cannonball, Boom-boom and Dani. They were racing down the halls. "Do you guys know where you're going?" Dani asked them.
"I do." Vincent told her. "I memorized the rough plans Gambit gave us. If they're going to mind wipe them like Magneto did with Wanda then they would hold whoever they were going to do first in the labs, and it's this way."
"Oh...makes sense I guess." She said. Dani was wearing a new mutant uniform, but with the addition of a quiver and a bow since her combat skills weren't as good as her archery. Her arrows however were blunted in case she missed and hit one of her teammates. Not that she would miss, but the Professor didn't know how good she was and needed to make sure no one go hurt.
They were running down the hall when they literally bumped into Jamie and Paige. Blink had ran into Paige causing the two girls to tumble to the floor and Jamie ran into Vincent, causing Jamie to fall to the ground and create several duplicates.
"Well that was easy." Tabitha said smiling.
"Paige!" Sam yelled out and went to his sister picking her up.
"Sammy!" He cried out as he lifted her up into his arms. After he released her she punched him in the arm. "What took ya?" She yelled at him. "Do you have any idea what nearly happened to us?"
"They might find out after you do." They heard from down the hall they looked and saw Legion, Mastermind and Psi-co there.
"Great looks like they got out of that room after all." One of the Jamies said groaning.
"You got that right kid." Legion sneered at him. "You're just glad Sinister went to warn Magneto since we sensed you guys in the base."
"Paige, Jamie get behind us." Vincent said stepping forward. Legion stepped forward also.
"No he's mine!" Psi-co said. "I have a score to settle with you." He said to Vincent with pure hate in his voice.
Vincent looked a little confused. "Do I know you?" Psi-co grinned and pulled up his left sleeve to show a scare on his arm exactly like Vincent's. He looked to his arm and then back to Psi-co.
"Nice to see you too Seven." He said to Vincent.
Vincent searched his memories of that time in Prodigy. He remembered a red haired boy there. "Ten." He said with sudden realization. "Why are you working with Magneto and Sinister of all people? Didn't you know he was behind the experiments?" Vincent yelled out at him.
Psi-co only laughed. "Of course I knew. He made us stronger then we ever would have. But you! You left us! You ran from us! I know what your life was like. You spent the majority of in safe in an orphanage, while I had multiple personalities and left to rot in various cells, always surrounded by the insane or sociopaths. Do you have any idea what that's like for a telepath?"
Vincent was stunned into silence. He never knew any of that, and he couldn't imagine what he had gone through. He only knew that the little boy he once knew was long gone, and this was all that was left. "I'm sorry." He said but he knew what had to be done.
He charged forward but suddenly stopped. He fell to his knees clutching his chest in pain. Psi-co stared at him smiling. "You know you're a lot tougher then normal people. What I'm doing now should have squashed a normal heart by now, but I guess it will just take a little more effort."
Vincent scream in pain as he felt like a vice was squeezing his heart. "Stop is you freak!" Tabitha screamed at him and threw a few time bombs. They hit an invisible force and saw Legion smiling at them.
"Forget about someone Blondie?" He said to her. He flung out his hand and Tabitha was sent flying down the hall. Sam wasting no words flew at Legion but he was able to hold him in place with some effort.
Master mind stepped up and was about to help out Legion by entering Sam's mind when Dani stepped in front of him. "And who do you think you are?" He asked her.
"You're worse nightmare." She said and used her powers on him. Mastermind didn't see it coming until it was too late. One moment he was fine the next he was cowering on the floor.
Blink meanwhile had teleported behind Psi-co, he was so intent on killing Vincent that he didn't notice her until she kicked him from behind. He stumbled forward losing his concentration, when he turned around he was met with a fist to the face.
Blink didn't waste any time and hit him with a teleporting energy lance and teleported him as far away from here as possible. The next thing Psi-co knew he was standing in a park, he looked around. "Well this is just great." He muttered to himself. "Where the hell am I?"
Back at the base Blink firing her energy lances, Dani trying to get into his mind and Tabitha throwing her time bombs at Legion were weakening his defenses. He had trouble, keeping Dani out of his mind while the others attacked him.
Sam saw an opening and flew into him hitting Legion in the chest and into a wall. Sam staggered away leaving Legion there on the ground unconscious. Jamie and Paige were helping Vincent to his feet, his face was pale and he looked like he was in great pain.
Tabitha looked at him worried at how he was looking. "Damn man you look like hell." He managed a weak smile. "Blink we should get him to the Professor in the X-Jet." Blink nodded and created a portal for them all to go through.
Logan and his group meet up with the others in a main room of some kind with some kind of large stone in the corner. "Well now that everyone's here I think we should leave." Scott said to them.
"What about the others?" X23 asked him.
"I got a message from the Professor, Vincent took a bad hit but he should be fine after Gale gets through with him, and they got the others out." Jean said to her. Rogue suddenly looked worried at the news of Vincent but knew he would be all right after they got him home.
"Then let's not waste anymore time." Kitty said to them.
"Oh I think you'll make time." Came the voice of Magneto. They saw from one of the large doorways Magneto float in with the rest of the Brotherhood, and the remaining Acolytes, in including a very pissed off Sabertooth staring holes at Gambit.
"I'm very disappointed in you daughter, I had hoped you would have seen that I was right in my views." Magneto said coldly to her.
"Please you have no right to call me daughter after everything you put me through, the asylum, using me like a tool and pawn and messing with my memories! How dare you!" She yelled at him full of anger and frustration.
"I do what is necessary. I regret nothing." He told her. Then me motioned with his hand for the others to attack.
Logan intercepted Sabertooth, while X23, Gambit and Jubilee focused on Omega Red. Rogue and Dr. Strange found themselves facing Juggernaut. Amara in her fire form with and Iceman took on Pyro. The others paired off against the Brotherhood, with Storm, Jubilee, Sunspot and Berzerker.
Sinister walked up to Jean and Scott. "Well this isn't lovely. You know you two have some very interesting DNA, I was wondering if I could get a better sample?"
"I don't think so." Scott fired his optic blast at him. Sinister knew nothing could truly hurt him, at least he thought that. When the blast hit his lower torso he felt more pain then anything in his life. He screamed out in pain clutching his wound.
"What...is...this?" He managed to get out. His wound instead of healing was dripping a greenish liquid. He could feel his body slowly recovering but for the first time in his life since his transformation he knew fear. He looked up as Scott sent a kick into his face.
"I bet Vince will be glad to know this guy has a weakness." Scott said looking down on the form of Sinister.
Juggernaut was towering over Rogue and the Sorcerer Supreme. "I was hoping to get a shot at your boyfriend girl, but you'll do." He lunched a fist at her and he was surprised when she caught it and was holding it at bay.
"Ah got a score ta settle with ya too." She said through gritted teeth, with all her strength she threw his arms back and sent several blows to his body. Dr. Strange took the opening he had and fired a mystical energy attack at him.
'I sense a mystical power in this one.' Strange thought to himself as he battle the giant powerhouse.
Wanda was firing her hex bolts at Magneto trying to hit him, but he kept using pieces of metal as shields. Then she found herself wrapped in metal from behind. Her hands were bound behind her back and she couldn't use her powers anymore.
She fell to the ground as her legs were also bound. She struggled to get free but she knew she couldn't force the metal to bend. She looked up to she her father hover over her, then she saw a piece of equipment hit him in the air.
Magneto was knocked away and when he looked at where the attack came from he saw an angry Colossus walking towards him. "We have some unfinished business you and I." He said his voice full of rage.
"You fool." Magneto said. He raised his hand and Colossus found himself flung to a wall and stuck there. "Not the smartest move attacking me in your metallic form, and even if you do go to human form I would even be more powerful compared to you."
Illyana saw her bother in trouble and ran at Magneto. She thrashed her arms against him. "Leave my brother alone!" Magneto backhanded the girl aside and she fell to his right. He returned his attention to Piotr and forgot about the girl.
Illyana forced herself up, but then she suddenly felt something. Like a pulling sensation, she looked around and saw the image of the stone sword. It was as if it was calling to her. He felt an overwhelming need to go to it. Forgetting about the battle and her bother she walked to it. She placed her hand on the stone and it started to glow.
The sword in it started to crack and shatter. Dr. Strange suddenly felt an overwhelming sense of power and looked at the young blond girl and the stone. "No...it can't be..." He whispered to himself.
He watched in amazement as the stone completely shattered away revealing a real sword underneath it. "The Soul Sword." Strange said in awe. "It has finally chosen a new wielder."
Illyana took the sword and felt a great power flowing through her veins. The blade of the sword came alive with a white fire. She swung the sword at Magneto screaming at him. "DON'T HURT MY BROTHER!"
Magneto turned in time to see a white flame leaping from the sword hitting him across the room. Everyone was silenced by what had just happen. The X- Men and the Acolytes stood there in amazement at the sight of Illyana holding the flaming sword in front of her.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 21: AFTER ALL IS SAID AND DONE
The battle concludes and then the pieces are picked up after the battle.