Chapter 4:
Magneto sat in a metal chair as he watched the door. Playing with a metal illusion toy aimlessly, he tapped his fingers on the surface of the metal desk in irritation. Nothing much happened these days between the Brotherhood and the X-Men, though this was about to change it all. As the doors finally opened, he watched indifferently as Sabretooth and Toad dragged in the well-known Sienna Stryker and deposited her on the floor in a heap. Magneto smiled as she dusted herself off and gave him a glare of chilly proportions. Getting up, he walked around her like a lion eying his prey and grabbed her arm only to receive a stinging slap. Rubbing his cheek, he felt a thin trickle of blood and fell back. Then, he shrugged and walked back as he eyed her cautiously and without a word.
Sitting down, he smiled in a shark-like way and motioned to the others to leave, which they did. Then, he spoke with authority as he fingered the toy again. "Well well, you certainly have some surprises in you, my captive. Most would quiver in fear at me but you do not. That is admirable, if I were in a worse mood I could have sent your body against the wall with a flick of my fingers. But, you show no fear and I admire that..."
Sienna snorted. "You are feeble if you think that is all I can do to you, Magneto. That was nothing, you shame yourself."
"Indeed," Magneto mused out loud. "That would be exactly why I have decided to recruit you into our group."
Sienna eyed him with contempt. "Join you? You are out of your mind, Lensherr, if you think that I would be persuaded to join you and your bunch of misguided misfits..."
Magneto cut her off. "I must be telepathic then, I knew you'd say that to some effect. That's why you have no choice..."
Brandishing a vial of milky-white substance, Eric injected it into the un-moving Sienna and laughed as her eyes slowly began to change white and myopic. The laughter soon stopped, however, when her eyes reverted back into their normal green colour, which was radiating contempt and rage at him. Shrugging, Sienna laughed bitterly before speaking to the still confused Magneto.
"It's small wonder you and my father are so alike. Both trying to wipe out the other race and each trying to control me that way, you've obviously learned now that you cannot control me. You should know by now that the Strykers are not controlled by the poison we secret, we are immune to its effects. There is no way to control me via my mind, my father tried it and he met with no success no matter how many times he tried it."
Magneto's face dropped a bit but soon brightened as Sienna's knees buckled and she fell. "Plan B, my dear. The reason you've been having so many problems is due to a bug I implanted in your danger room simulation. If you don't find a cure for it, it will kill you slowly and painfully. Hows that for controlling, eh? The setinel sim was too good to pass up..."
"You...monster!" Sienna screamed as she struggled to get onto her feet and charge him. The mutant only laughed and rang a bell as the two mutants from earlier walked in. As they dragged Sienna away, Magneto began to formulate something on his desk as he laughed evilly....