Chapter 12:
The fight had been won, but at terrible cost. Rogue had been injured by Avalanche early on in the confrontation and Wolverine had been assaulted by Magneto, though he had slowly begun to heal with his genetic mutation. Kurt had been kind enough to teleport Logan out of the fight, though this meant he was effectively out of it. The rest had received only minor injuries in the course of the confrontation and Remy's explosions had helped defeat most of the Brotherhood. As Sienna made her way back from her conversation with Quicksilver, she frowned as she saw most of her team mates down and out, leaving her the only one standing at the time. Quickly, she ran towards Magneto and stood there resolutely as he raised his hands in triumph.
"Oy, bug eyed! Forget about me?" Sienna taunted as she faced him and he turned to view her with coldness.
Magneto laughed coldly. "One little girl is no match for me..."
Sienna gave him a hard look as she gestured to the surroundings. "Maybe next time you should think before starting a temper tantrum, eh? The brave and glorious Master of Magnetism can't even dispose of one little girl or keep himself above his anger. Shame on you..."
Kurt glanced up and shouted out as he raised a hand in warning. "Liebchen, no! Get away from him..."
Sienna just shook her head and then turned back to Magneto. The man spoke coldly to her as he moved his hands down. "When will you people ever learn? This is the enemy, can't you fools see that?"
His opponent only laughed. "You are just like the humans, you know that? Still so blinded by hate that you kill all those who don't agree with you. I am not afraid of you because I see you for what you really are, a bigoted old man who is so disillusioned that he has to go around killing others who don't agree. You are becoming just like the people who killed your family, do you know that? You are just like the Nazis..."
Enraged, Magneto raised his hands towards her but nothing happened as he tried to find some metal in her body to manipulate. Sienna only laughed and spoke quietly to him. "You should know by now that the daughter of Stryker cannot be manipulated by others. I am very much my father's daughter in many ways but I am not his heir in the prejudice department. You assume that you can kill me or even manipulate me and you assume wrong..."
Magneto glanced up as the thunder of a chopper echoed through the air. In the cockpit was Mystique with one blue finger raised insultingly at Sienna. As it came nearer, Magneto began to rise in the air and spoke with a parting shot.
"This is not the end, girl..."
Then, he walked calmly into the plane as it flew away. Looking at the disappearing plane, Sienna sighed and closed her eyes softly. Holding out a hand as the people began to crowd around, she touched the minds of each and began to manipulate as an illusion began to weave around the battlefield. Sighing as she wiped all traces of the terror from their minds, Sienna walked away as the tendrils pulled back from the unsuspecting humans and walked to Rogue. Taking her body in her arms, Sienna walked onto the Blackbird and began to tend to the girl's head injuries. Entering the teenager's mind, Sienna began to soothe the psyche as she manipulated and probed gently to wipe out all the fight-induced trauma. Then, she strapped an icepak to the wound as Storm took off in the air towards the Institute with most sporting minor bumps and bruises. The only seriously hurt one was Rogue and Sienna looked over her with a slightly worried look on her face as the plane soared over the city that never sleeps. Then, it veered away towards Westchester and the Xavier Institute...