Disclaimer: X-Men = Marvel's, Ilehana Xavier and Ori = Corrinth's, Golan =
Star's, Blaze and all other OCs = Lamby's
A/N: All reviews very much appreciated.
Scene 10
"You're implying that you could?" Maria snarled. "I know you mutants, cowards and liars and thieves the lot of you! You don't scare me!"
"I've made you scream before," Blaze shouted back. "And I can do it again, girl."
"Blaze, no!" Cyclops ordered. "Back off gang, we are not going to do this."
"Speak for yourself!" Lance argued. "You want some of this? Come and get it!" With that he rolled his eyes back in his head and the building shook. Quicksilver seized his moment as the crowd were unnerved, running through them fast enough to create a drag that sent more than one would-be rioter to the floor. Gambit charged a playing card and flung it down in front of the crowd, driving them back with the force of the explosion. It worked for a second, but then the crowd ran forward again, sheer weight of numbers pressing them into the mutants whilst the X-Men fought to stay together and find a way out. Cyclops blasted a hole in the school's wall as Jean set up a telekinetic barrier that repelled bodies, thrown chairs and plastic cups.
"Make for Golan's tunnel!" Kitty yelled out above the noise, pushing Golan along in front of her. The school's newest mutant was dazed and confused, but the mention of his tunnels seemed to give him strength of mind.
"Yes, yes, de tunnels to de big hall, den on to de home of de X-Men!" He agreed, suddenly turning the tables on Kitty, grabbing her wrist with one of his hands and dragging her forward as his others undid the restricting jacket, letting it fall to the floor as his four arms were freed.
"Gambit!" Blaze yelled, pushing back past Cyclops and Jean to where the two Brotherhood members infuriated the crowd with Gambit's help. She managed to get a warm hand to his bare arm, pleading "Don't, its not worth it! Come with us........."
"Why?" He threw off her grip sharply, holding a charged card in his fingers aggressively. "So I can bask in the presence of the wonderful Xaviers? So you can keep in tellin' me how I don't belong anywhere? How I don't belong with you?" He turned his back on her and unleashed his frustration in a card aimed at the wall of the building. The wall collapsed, blocking the hole Cyclops had made and slowing down a lot of the infuriated mob.
"Blaze c'mon, he ain't worth it!" Rogue was the one to grab hold of Blaze and drag her away.
"But........." Blaze gasped as she ran, tears falling down her cheeks. "But I never said anything like that!"
"Don't think about it! Here they come again!" Rogue was right, whilst some of the mob stayed to fight Gambit, Avalanche and Quicksilver; a lot of those who Gambit had trapped inside had instead used the fire door and were now streaming across the grass. "They're gonna cut us off from the tunnel!"
"Not if I can help it!" Blaze threw out a hand, and a stretch of grass burst into flames, running wild to cut across the path of the rioters. Still Blaze and Rogue had to dodge hurled missiles, but both were athletic enough and suddenly they were tumbling through a thick hedge and into Golan's tunnel.
"It wont hold them for long." Blaze gasped as she pushed past Cyclops to climb further into the tunnel, "They're still going to find the tunnel and they are not going to stop."
"Get moving." Scott ordered. "Our only hope is to make it back to the mansion." Jean, Kitty, Berserker, Golan and Rogue nodded, but Blaze was too busy smudging tears from her face. The whole team ran for it as the first sounds of their pursuers discovering the tunnel echoed down from ground level. But no matter how fast they ran, the mob ran faster, its own weight hurling it forward like a landslide. By the time they ran into the expanse of Golan's big chamber, the high school students were only seconds behind.
"We're not gonna make it!" Berserker cried.
"De X-Men must run." Golan was remarkably calm. "Golan will stay and defend his friends."
"Golan, no!" Kitty was aghast. "We can't let you or them get hurt, its not who the X-Men are!"
"No, no one hurt Golan will, nor dey hurt him. But de earth is Golan's friend also, de earth will help Golan stop de annoying children."
"Alright." Cyclops took charge. "Do your thing Golan, but Kitty stays too. Whatever you're doing, do it quickly and phase into the institute tunnel........."
"I understand." Golan nodded solemnly, all his babbling speech gone as he realised his duty. "Golan will look after Shadowcat, but de X-Men must go now."
Cyclops nodded solemnly, putting his hand in one of Golan's many and shaking it. "Welcome to the team."
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The mob of teenagers reached the big chamber, slowing their charge in awe of the bizarre structure underneath their town. Were those fairy lights the mutants had strung up in their den? Kitty and Golan suddenly phased through the wall ahead of the rabble, making every last member jump out of their skin.
"You might wanna, like, turn around and get out of here." Kitty advised patiently. Besides her Golan grinned and nodded, flexing the muscles in his short stocky arms. "You're not gonna like it if Golan gets mad."
"What's he gonna do, tickle us to death with all those hands of his?" One of the braver kids asked, but as he stepped forward Golan lifted his face to the ceiling. His arms grasping at nothing, his big eyes rolled back unseeing and above the fairy lights quivered to betray the tremor he caused in the soil. "What the?" The boy asked, face upturned as dirt began to slowly drift to the ground.
"Lets get out of here! The whole place is gonna cave in!" One bright teenager spotted. The fairy lights fell, spluttering and dying as they were wrenched from their power supply. After them at Golan's command sods of earth fractured from the ceiling, making the retreating teenagers shelter their heads with their hands. Bigger lumps fell as the kids made it to the narrow tunnel opening, preventing them from turning back. Kitty concentrated hard, holding hands with one of Golan's as the earth moved beyond his control, falling as and where it wanted. Pebbles and rocks were like dropping daggers, but Kitty phased them both through the earth's attack.
"Time to go, Golan!" She shouted over the noise of crumbling earth.
"Golan's home, gone it is now and soon destroyed........." Golan's voice was full of woe, but he let Kitty drag him, phasing through the falling rock to the institute tunnel and the waiting X-Men.
"So we'll just have to make room for you at the institute." Kitty smiled. "Now that you're an X-Man."
Behind them, the earth gave way like a shattered backbone, its very being falling unprotected and broken to cave in on itself, paralysed. The landslide swamped up both tunnels like a flood of dirt and mud and destruction. The school pupils barely made it back to Bayville High's grassy grounds. The X-Men cut it much closer, the landslide clogging their lungs with vile soil, making them splutter and cough. But at least, Blaze had to admit, they were all alive and uninjured. She could only hope the same was true for Gambit.........
A/N: All reviews very much appreciated.
Scene 10
"You're implying that you could?" Maria snarled. "I know you mutants, cowards and liars and thieves the lot of you! You don't scare me!"
"I've made you scream before," Blaze shouted back. "And I can do it again, girl."
"Blaze, no!" Cyclops ordered. "Back off gang, we are not going to do this."
"Speak for yourself!" Lance argued. "You want some of this? Come and get it!" With that he rolled his eyes back in his head and the building shook. Quicksilver seized his moment as the crowd were unnerved, running through them fast enough to create a drag that sent more than one would-be rioter to the floor. Gambit charged a playing card and flung it down in front of the crowd, driving them back with the force of the explosion. It worked for a second, but then the crowd ran forward again, sheer weight of numbers pressing them into the mutants whilst the X-Men fought to stay together and find a way out. Cyclops blasted a hole in the school's wall as Jean set up a telekinetic barrier that repelled bodies, thrown chairs and plastic cups.
"Make for Golan's tunnel!" Kitty yelled out above the noise, pushing Golan along in front of her. The school's newest mutant was dazed and confused, but the mention of his tunnels seemed to give him strength of mind.
"Yes, yes, de tunnels to de big hall, den on to de home of de X-Men!" He agreed, suddenly turning the tables on Kitty, grabbing her wrist with one of his hands and dragging her forward as his others undid the restricting jacket, letting it fall to the floor as his four arms were freed.
"Gambit!" Blaze yelled, pushing back past Cyclops and Jean to where the two Brotherhood members infuriated the crowd with Gambit's help. She managed to get a warm hand to his bare arm, pleading "Don't, its not worth it! Come with us........."
"Why?" He threw off her grip sharply, holding a charged card in his fingers aggressively. "So I can bask in the presence of the wonderful Xaviers? So you can keep in tellin' me how I don't belong anywhere? How I don't belong with you?" He turned his back on her and unleashed his frustration in a card aimed at the wall of the building. The wall collapsed, blocking the hole Cyclops had made and slowing down a lot of the infuriated mob.
"Blaze c'mon, he ain't worth it!" Rogue was the one to grab hold of Blaze and drag her away.
"But........." Blaze gasped as she ran, tears falling down her cheeks. "But I never said anything like that!"
"Don't think about it! Here they come again!" Rogue was right, whilst some of the mob stayed to fight Gambit, Avalanche and Quicksilver; a lot of those who Gambit had trapped inside had instead used the fire door and were now streaming across the grass. "They're gonna cut us off from the tunnel!"
"Not if I can help it!" Blaze threw out a hand, and a stretch of grass burst into flames, running wild to cut across the path of the rioters. Still Blaze and Rogue had to dodge hurled missiles, but both were athletic enough and suddenly they were tumbling through a thick hedge and into Golan's tunnel.
"It wont hold them for long." Blaze gasped as she pushed past Cyclops to climb further into the tunnel, "They're still going to find the tunnel and they are not going to stop."
"Get moving." Scott ordered. "Our only hope is to make it back to the mansion." Jean, Kitty, Berserker, Golan and Rogue nodded, but Blaze was too busy smudging tears from her face. The whole team ran for it as the first sounds of their pursuers discovering the tunnel echoed down from ground level. But no matter how fast they ran, the mob ran faster, its own weight hurling it forward like a landslide. By the time they ran into the expanse of Golan's big chamber, the high school students were only seconds behind.
"We're not gonna make it!" Berserker cried.
"De X-Men must run." Golan was remarkably calm. "Golan will stay and defend his friends."
"Golan, no!" Kitty was aghast. "We can't let you or them get hurt, its not who the X-Men are!"
"No, no one hurt Golan will, nor dey hurt him. But de earth is Golan's friend also, de earth will help Golan stop de annoying children."
"Alright." Cyclops took charge. "Do your thing Golan, but Kitty stays too. Whatever you're doing, do it quickly and phase into the institute tunnel........."
"I understand." Golan nodded solemnly, all his babbling speech gone as he realised his duty. "Golan will look after Shadowcat, but de X-Men must go now."
Cyclops nodded solemnly, putting his hand in one of Golan's many and shaking it. "Welcome to the team."
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The mob of teenagers reached the big chamber, slowing their charge in awe of the bizarre structure underneath their town. Were those fairy lights the mutants had strung up in their den? Kitty and Golan suddenly phased through the wall ahead of the rabble, making every last member jump out of their skin.
"You might wanna, like, turn around and get out of here." Kitty advised patiently. Besides her Golan grinned and nodded, flexing the muscles in his short stocky arms. "You're not gonna like it if Golan gets mad."
"What's he gonna do, tickle us to death with all those hands of his?" One of the braver kids asked, but as he stepped forward Golan lifted his face to the ceiling. His arms grasping at nothing, his big eyes rolled back unseeing and above the fairy lights quivered to betray the tremor he caused in the soil. "What the?" The boy asked, face upturned as dirt began to slowly drift to the ground.
"Lets get out of here! The whole place is gonna cave in!" One bright teenager spotted. The fairy lights fell, spluttering and dying as they were wrenched from their power supply. After them at Golan's command sods of earth fractured from the ceiling, making the retreating teenagers shelter their heads with their hands. Bigger lumps fell as the kids made it to the narrow tunnel opening, preventing them from turning back. Kitty concentrated hard, holding hands with one of Golan's as the earth moved beyond his control, falling as and where it wanted. Pebbles and rocks were like dropping daggers, but Kitty phased them both through the earth's attack.
"Time to go, Golan!" She shouted over the noise of crumbling earth.
"Golan's home, gone it is now and soon destroyed........." Golan's voice was full of woe, but he let Kitty drag him, phasing through the falling rock to the institute tunnel and the waiting X-Men.
"So we'll just have to make room for you at the institute." Kitty smiled. "Now that you're an X-Man."
Behind them, the earth gave way like a shattered backbone, its very being falling unprotected and broken to cave in on itself, paralysed. The landslide swamped up both tunnels like a flood of dirt and mud and destruction. The school pupils barely made it back to Bayville High's grassy grounds. The X-Men cut it much closer, the landslide clogging their lungs with vile soil, making them splutter and cough. But at least, Blaze had to admit, they were all alive and uninjured. She could only hope the same was true for Gambit.........