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The brotherhood sat stumped over the strange woman in their house. Toad in particular kept wandering up to the room where she was kept, listening in intently to hear if she had yet come to.
Freddy had wandered up the stairs as well walking up behind Toad, his protruding belly knocking him into the door as he came closer.
He turned around to face Freddy. "Watch it yo!" He scolded trying to push him back but only managed to poke in his fat a little.
Fred grunted out a laugh. "Heh, sorry Toad. Didn't see ya there at first."
"Well watch out next time ok?" He said before pressing his ear up to the door once again, trying to hear anything more. But as before not a sound was made. He pulled away, disappointment lingered on his mind.
"Toad, your curiosity is going to get the better of you some day you know that?" Freddy laughed before losing interest entirely in Toad and walked off looking for something better to do.
Toad looked in through the keyhole of the shut door, not wanting to really open it in fear of disturbing a single thing in Mystique's room. He had no way of knowing if she was to come home any second, so he would rather get caught just looking, then being in her room.
"Where is that woman any way..." His voice carried off into the hall before fading out.
Suddenly Toad heard a muffled moan come from behind the door. Toad jumped hearing the sound, reaching slowly for the doorknob. Suddenly a strong grasp met his hand, stopping it in its path. He slowly moved his eyes up, frightened of whose gaze he may meet. He let out a sigh of relief seeing it was only Pietro.
"I don't think that would be a good idea with the boss." Pietro said sternly lowering his eyes towards the door.
"What is this? You all spyin on me or something?" Toad replied wrenching his hand away from Pietro's vice. He turned to the door once more, peering through the keyhole further. However, his heart slowed down once again when he saw she still had yet to come to.
"This is just way too strange for me man...a toad can only take so much."
Kurt didn't think it was wise to tell his father what happened. Waking him was not the best thing at the time, and Kurt knew he would make things only more complicated. Instead, he decided to go to the only other place he could think of. The Xavier Institute. He figured within the few hours it took him to walk back, Mystique would have returned his mother by now. But he was wrong...
'If they knew about me so quickly then would they know about my mother...well, the real one for that matter...' He pondered over in his head. "No." He corrected himself firmly aloud. "Mystique. She may be my mother by blood but after all this I could never call her...mother."
Kurt finally reached the gates of the institution. It was rather late at night being around 11:30 but he was desperate. A few cranky people would be the least of his worries. All he could hope for is that they could help him.
He stopped for a moment outside the grounds marveling at the structure. The building was massive, and the space around it was gigantic. 'This Xavier must have a lot of money...' Kurt tried joking to himself to lighten his frantic mood. Needless to say it didn't work all that well.
Kurt squinted into the darkness looking for some sort of buzzer or intercom. But it proved pointless. He couldn't see anything. He never was good at seeing in the dark. He knew he couldn't just sit there though. He needed to get around the gate.
Frustrated, he focused on the other side of the gate. The all too strange yet oddly familiar rushing sensation filled every one of his senses as the world blurred around him.
He found himself on the other side in the institute's grounds. Aside from feeling a little lightheaded Kurt was happy that he had been able to get inside.
Kurt began walking forward quickly wanting to seek out their advice. He stopped suddenly hearing something to his left. He turned his head towards the sound, but couldn't see anything.
The sound became steadily louder with every passing second. He squinted to get a better look but still he couldn't see. Slowly he walked towards the noise that sounded almost mechanical.
He peered closer to the sound and suddenly saw a light flash illuminating the aria. It was sparkling a bit before it finally shot at him. In panic he jumped to the ground out of the way. He shook his head in bewilderment. 'Was that a laser?'
Another light illuminated from his right shooting at him as he franticly jumped out of the way of that one too. "What is this?" He yelled into the night...wanting desperately for some one to be there to make it all stop.
He looked towards the front doors of the institute while on his side. But his vision was blurred having some of the dirt getting in it. He focused the best he could for the doorstep before teleporting himself over.
Only something went wrong. He felt himself come out of the teleport...yet he still felt at if he was moving at high speeds. Then it hit him. He was falling. He let out a yelp of shock as he saw the ground come at him. He covered his face waiting for the impact.
But it never came. Everything all at one moment just seemed to become still. Silence again filled the night. He took his hands away from his eyes to see what was going on. From what he could tell, he was only about 50 feet from front door and he could just barely make out a figure standing in it.
A voice suddenly filled his mind, as he was still suspended in the air breathing heavily.
'Ah...Kurt Wagner. How nice it is to finally see you in person.' The voice seemed to be everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Kurt looked around franticly into the night to see where it was coming from. But saw no one. 'Jean...I do think it would be safe for you to let the poor boy down...he's not going to do us any harm I think.'
Slowly Kurt once again felt movement as he was slowly lowered to the ground. He was thankful to feel something solid under his feat again.
After brushing himself off and fixing his clothes Kurt walked cautiously over to the door. "Vat vas all zat?" Kurt asked, his voice shaking a bit.
"That..." Jean said as she flipped on a switch that illuminated the front steps. "Was the institute's outer defenses."
Kurt shook his head. "Defenses from vat exactly?"
"Lets just say...not all mutants are like us Kurt. Some have different ways of seeing things...and have their own ways of showing it." She decided that would be all she needed to tell him for now...he looked frantic enough and she felt the last thing he needed to know about was the ever growing threat of their discovery...and the trouble it could so easily bring.
Hearing this made Kurt's heart leap. This was good, the chances of them knowing this Mystique character were larger.
Finally he calmed down enough to clear his head. "I need your help..." He let slip out. "Some one has my mother, they didn't tell me where or anything, and she just has her! And she wont let her go and-"
"Please Kurt, try to calm yourself." Kurt knew the voice as the one before. This time he was able to see where it was coming from. Professor Xavier wheeled out of the front door; he was dressed in a brown bathrobe with a thick quilt covering his legs.
'Is this the Professor?' Kurt wondered. He took a step closer towards the steps and tried to order his thoughts.
"Please, I need your help." He managed to speak much slower this time. "She's been taken by another mutant."
"Who Kurt? Do you know what their name was?" The Professor said, his voice smooth.
He nodded in a definite manor. "Yes, her name's Mystique...or Raven...I don't remember vat her real one vas."
The X-Men all seemed to have the same reaction. Although Kurt couldn't quite place what it was.
"You know of her?" He asked hopefully. Jean sighed a little but had a somewhat sad smile on her face.
"A little too well I'm afraid." Jean said the smile fading from her face.
"Zen you can help me?" Kurt asked, his spirits higher.
"Well, it may not be so simple...Mystique is a very cunning women. Her mutant abilities make her even harder to track down. Even if we were to find her we can only hope she tells us the whereabouts of your mother." Xavier added rather grimly.
Kurt's hopes needless to say dropped considerably. He fell to his knees in complete physical and emotion exhaustion. "Is there anything you can do to help me?"
Jean walked over to Kurt and put a reassuring hand on his shoulder. "We will do every thing in our power to get your mother back." Her voice made Kurt feel warm, and he let out some of his tenseness slightly.
"Jean, assemble the team." The professor instructed. "We should act as soon as we can. Kurt, you should rest. You may find quarters here tonight if you wish."
"No." He stated firmly before standing up. "I vant to help. I need to be there for her..."
"Very well." The professor nodded. He could see the determination in him, and he knew no amount of talking could turn him away. "It could be dangerous for you. You're not so experienced with your powers. Are you sure you wish to go."
"Yes." He said strongly. "I will find my mother, and I will bring her back."
WOAH! Why am I such a butt? First off, I took another million years to update. Then I give you yet another semi filler chapter! Thank you all for bearing with me for so long! And another BIG HUGE thanks for helping me reach my 100 review!
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You all know what it is! Mwaha!
The brotherhood sat stumped over the strange woman in their house. Toad in particular kept wandering up to the room where she was kept, listening in intently to hear if she had yet come to.
Freddy had wandered up the stairs as well walking up behind Toad, his protruding belly knocking him into the door as he came closer.
He turned around to face Freddy. "Watch it yo!" He scolded trying to push him back but only managed to poke in his fat a little.
Fred grunted out a laugh. "Heh, sorry Toad. Didn't see ya there at first."
"Well watch out next time ok?" He said before pressing his ear up to the door once again, trying to hear anything more. But as before not a sound was made. He pulled away, disappointment lingered on his mind.
"Toad, your curiosity is going to get the better of you some day you know that?" Freddy laughed before losing interest entirely in Toad and walked off looking for something better to do.
Toad looked in through the keyhole of the shut door, not wanting to really open it in fear of disturbing a single thing in Mystique's room. He had no way of knowing if she was to come home any second, so he would rather get caught just looking, then being in her room.
"Where is that woman any way..." His voice carried off into the hall before fading out.
Suddenly Toad heard a muffled moan come from behind the door. Toad jumped hearing the sound, reaching slowly for the doorknob. Suddenly a strong grasp met his hand, stopping it in its path. He slowly moved his eyes up, frightened of whose gaze he may meet. He let out a sigh of relief seeing it was only Pietro.
"I don't think that would be a good idea with the boss." Pietro said sternly lowering his eyes towards the door.
"What is this? You all spyin on me or something?" Toad replied wrenching his hand away from Pietro's vice. He turned to the door once more, peering through the keyhole further. However, his heart slowed down once again when he saw she still had yet to come to.
"This is just way too strange for me man...a toad can only take so much."
Kurt didn't think it was wise to tell his father what happened. Waking him was not the best thing at the time, and Kurt knew he would make things only more complicated. Instead, he decided to go to the only other place he could think of. The Xavier Institute. He figured within the few hours it took him to walk back, Mystique would have returned his mother by now. But he was wrong...
'If they knew about me so quickly then would they know about my mother...well, the real one for that matter...' He pondered over in his head. "No." He corrected himself firmly aloud. "Mystique. She may be my mother by blood but after all this I could never call her...mother."
Kurt finally reached the gates of the institution. It was rather late at night being around 11:30 but he was desperate. A few cranky people would be the least of his worries. All he could hope for is that they could help him.
He stopped for a moment outside the grounds marveling at the structure. The building was massive, and the space around it was gigantic. 'This Xavier must have a lot of money...' Kurt tried joking to himself to lighten his frantic mood. Needless to say it didn't work all that well.
Kurt squinted into the darkness looking for some sort of buzzer or intercom. But it proved pointless. He couldn't see anything. He never was good at seeing in the dark. He knew he couldn't just sit there though. He needed to get around the gate.
Frustrated, he focused on the other side of the gate. The all too strange yet oddly familiar rushing sensation filled every one of his senses as the world blurred around him.
He found himself on the other side in the institute's grounds. Aside from feeling a little lightheaded Kurt was happy that he had been able to get inside.
Kurt began walking forward quickly wanting to seek out their advice. He stopped suddenly hearing something to his left. He turned his head towards the sound, but couldn't see anything.
The sound became steadily louder with every passing second. He squinted to get a better look but still he couldn't see. Slowly he walked towards the noise that sounded almost mechanical.
He peered closer to the sound and suddenly saw a light flash illuminating the aria. It was sparkling a bit before it finally shot at him. In panic he jumped to the ground out of the way. He shook his head in bewilderment. 'Was that a laser?'
Another light illuminated from his right shooting at him as he franticly jumped out of the way of that one too. "What is this?" He yelled into the night...wanting desperately for some one to be there to make it all stop.
He looked towards the front doors of the institute while on his side. But his vision was blurred having some of the dirt getting in it. He focused the best he could for the doorstep before teleporting himself over.
Only something went wrong. He felt himself come out of the teleport...yet he still felt at if he was moving at high speeds. Then it hit him. He was falling. He let out a yelp of shock as he saw the ground come at him. He covered his face waiting for the impact.
But it never came. Everything all at one moment just seemed to become still. Silence again filled the night. He took his hands away from his eyes to see what was going on. From what he could tell, he was only about 50 feet from front door and he could just barely make out a figure standing in it.
A voice suddenly filled his mind, as he was still suspended in the air breathing heavily.
'Ah...Kurt Wagner. How nice it is to finally see you in person.' The voice seemed to be everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Kurt looked around franticly into the night to see where it was coming from. But saw no one. 'Jean...I do think it would be safe for you to let the poor boy down...he's not going to do us any harm I think.'
Slowly Kurt once again felt movement as he was slowly lowered to the ground. He was thankful to feel something solid under his feat again.
After brushing himself off and fixing his clothes Kurt walked cautiously over to the door. "Vat vas all zat?" Kurt asked, his voice shaking a bit.
"That..." Jean said as she flipped on a switch that illuminated the front steps. "Was the institute's outer defenses."
Kurt shook his head. "Defenses from vat exactly?"
"Lets just say...not all mutants are like us Kurt. Some have different ways of seeing things...and have their own ways of showing it." She decided that would be all she needed to tell him for now...he looked frantic enough and she felt the last thing he needed to know about was the ever growing threat of their discovery...and the trouble it could so easily bring.
Hearing this made Kurt's heart leap. This was good, the chances of them knowing this Mystique character were larger.
Finally he calmed down enough to clear his head. "I need your help..." He let slip out. "Some one has my mother, they didn't tell me where or anything, and she just has her! And she wont let her go and-"
"Please Kurt, try to calm yourself." Kurt knew the voice as the one before. This time he was able to see where it was coming from. Professor Xavier wheeled out of the front door; he was dressed in a brown bathrobe with a thick quilt covering his legs.
'Is this the Professor?' Kurt wondered. He took a step closer towards the steps and tried to order his thoughts.
"Please, I need your help." He managed to speak much slower this time. "She's been taken by another mutant."
"Who Kurt? Do you know what their name was?" The Professor said, his voice smooth.
He nodded in a definite manor. "Yes, her name's Mystique...or Raven...I don't remember vat her real one vas."
The X-Men all seemed to have the same reaction. Although Kurt couldn't quite place what it was.
"You know of her?" He asked hopefully. Jean sighed a little but had a somewhat sad smile on her face.
"A little too well I'm afraid." Jean said the smile fading from her face.
"Zen you can help me?" Kurt asked, his spirits higher.
"Well, it may not be so simple...Mystique is a very cunning women. Her mutant abilities make her even harder to track down. Even if we were to find her we can only hope she tells us the whereabouts of your mother." Xavier added rather grimly.
Kurt's hopes needless to say dropped considerably. He fell to his knees in complete physical and emotion exhaustion. "Is there anything you can do to help me?"
Jean walked over to Kurt and put a reassuring hand on his shoulder. "We will do every thing in our power to get your mother back." Her voice made Kurt feel warm, and he let out some of his tenseness slightly.
"Jean, assemble the team." The professor instructed. "We should act as soon as we can. Kurt, you should rest. You may find quarters here tonight if you wish."
"No." He stated firmly before standing up. "I vant to help. I need to be there for her..."
"Very well." The professor nodded. He could see the determination in him, and he knew no amount of talking could turn him away. "It could be dangerous for you. You're not so experienced with your powers. Are you sure you wish to go."
"Yes." He said strongly. "I will find my mother, and I will bring her back."
WOAH! Why am I such a butt? First off, I took another million years to update. Then I give you yet another semi filler chapter! Thank you all for bearing with me for so long! And another BIG HUGE thanks for helping me reach my 100 review!
Thank you all!