Beyond the Mask

Author: Illussen

Chapter 7: Hello Mother

"Summer Holiday!!!" the Xavier Institute's students yelled as they entered in the foyer. Yes, it was the final day of school. And it just ended.
Anna and Rogue muttered an ironic 'yay' cause in the summer the other students left to visit their family. At least they had one. So the only people remaining in the institute were the two of them, Professor Xavier, Hank, Logan and Dean. Anna didn't exactly know why he hasn't gone to see his family, she knew he had one but he preferred to keep this a secret. And she couldn't exactly force him to say because she had secrets of her own. So as always when she was depressed, she got in to her room and waited for Logan to blackmail her to come down. Anna sat on her bed and soon fell asleep but within moments she woke up and with her eyes widened she whispered 'mother'. She got up and run to professor Xavier's office, she didn't even knock. Professor Xavier looked at her surprised face.

"Excuse me, it wasn't supposed to knock before enter."

"I'll leave the courtesy for another time. Why haven't you told me?" she asked some anger in her voice.

"What haven't I told you?"

"Emma is my mother. I have to find out all alone around here. You knew how Emma looks and that's why you asked me what the color of my hair was. Because I look like her."

"How did you-"

"Find out? Easy. I fell asleep when I came back from school. And guess who showed up? And while she was talking I saw the tips of her hair and noticed that it was blonde. Platinum blonde. And I woke up."

"Yes, this is true, you seemed familiar since the moment I first saw you. But I didn't know who you were until the day I asked you what color your hair was. Anyway, I didn't tell you because you didn't know that you had other parents that the ones that raised you. And when you found out I thought it was too dangerous to mention it to you right now. Now that I have explained you my reasons, tell me, what Emma told you?"

"Where she is." Anna said. Charles looked at her puzzled. "Yes professor, X-Men to the rescue."

The X-Jet sailed trough the air heading to the South Pole. The X-Men excepting the new recruits were in the back. Anna was the only one in the front looking on the radar to see if they were close.

"I think that here it is. Emma told me that the base is hidden in the snow. But there is a flag that shows the location."

"Land here." Storm said from the copilot seat. Wolverine obeyed and the plane began to descend from the air until it landed on the snow. The X-Men got out and began to walk trough the snow.

"There." Anna announced pointing a flag. "Storm." she said. Storm raised her hands, winds forming removing the snow, a metal platform being revealed with a trap door on it.

"Something it's not right." Annabelle said, the X-Men looking at her. "This is supposed to be a protected base but nothing attacked us. It's too easy."

"Maybe they haven't noticed us." Mina said.

"I don't know." Anna said putting her hands on the door that started to melt away.
"I sense..." Logan and Dean said in the same time but they didn't finish the sentence because a group of twelve men jumped out.

"Told you." Anna said as her eyes became glowing blue. She formed a ball of energy and threw it towards the enemy. They dodge it and began to attack the X-Men. Storm and Anna threw lightings at them, four of them being knocked out. Nightcrawler, Shadowcat and Crystal (Mina-she can become invisible) were making snow balls and threw them at some of the enemies and Rogue together with Spyke used the diversion to bring them down. Another four were knocked out. Scott shot one of them that was kept by Jean's telekinesis. Beast, Wolverine and Tiger (not so good at codenames- this is Dean) fought the other three.

"That was meant to stop us?" Kurt said making a high-five with Evan.

"Men." Rogue muttered as she jumped in followed by the others. They got in a short metal covered hallway that had a door at the end. They got there and Anna melted the door. A bigger group appeared holding energy guns.

"Not again." Kitty sighed as the X-Men prepared for battle. They fought with them, first disarming then knocked them out.

"Really now, they can't afford something better?" Mina commented hitting one of the guys with the back of her hand.

"I think she is in here." Anna said holding her head.

"But, are you okay?" Logan asked.

"Yes. I'm getting closer to her and this makes my head to hurt. We have a telepathic connection; I think this is the cause." Anna explained as she formed a number on the security system of a prison cell. The door opened revealing a woman lying on the floor. Anna rushed to her, and turned Emma's face to her. She was looking almost like her, only that there were differences and Emma was older. The strange thing was the Emma had an evil smile plastered on her face. She pushed Anna and got up.

"Stupid, stupid girl." she muttered still smiling. Anna looked confused at her mother but she realized that this was a trap. But before she or any other X-Men could do anything, Emma used a telepathic attack that drifted all of them into painful hypnotic sleep.

Hey, chapter 7 is up. What do you think about it? Her mother took her into a trap. Why and how the X-Men will solve this problem you'll see in chapter 8.

PS: Yes, Eleanor, that scene it is from TAS but I simply loved it and put it there. I think I wrote that it is from TAS. If not, it was because it was late at night when I wrote that chapter and I was sleepy. I'm sorry about your Internet, I had this kind of problems every week, or it went dead for a whole week or more.

Bye now, I have to post chapter 8. Chapter 9, later.