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Chapter 18: Control

I continued to walk towards the base heading towards this wall I think I had seen before. Once I reached that wall, it automatically opened as if it was expecting me and I saw a stairway leading down.

I calmly walked over the stairs and started to walk down to where ever the stair was going to lead me. After a while my senses returned and I realized what I was doing and I started to panic. I tried to stop my legs from walking down the stairway, but they didn't cooperate and just continued down the stairs. I tried to open my mouth and scream for help, but that didn't work either. I couldn't even move my eyes and blink them! It was as if something else was controlling it and I was trapped in my own body and could do nothing but think and hear that weird beeping noise in my head. I just hoped the X-Men would soon realize my disappearance and start to look for me.

Once I reached the bottom of the stairs, I came to a room that looked so familiar to me. There were computers everywhere and pipes running around with these people that were dressed like soldiers or something. It soon occurred to me that I was in the exact same room as I was before I came down into this base.

This confused me very much, but soon I saw the person I would never want to see again walk towards me with a big grin on his face.

It was Stryker with a group of soldier sort of people with weapons raised towards me and a very familiar woman standing near Stryker. Stryker seemed as if he just did the most amazing discovery ever and seemed proud of it.

"Well, well, well, I would have never thought that device in your head would work and control you entirely." Stryker said.

I wanted to kill him right at this moment from my claws, but I couldn't even flinch as far as I could tell.

My head seemed to turn over and look at that woman I had seen before who tried to kill me that night when Stryker was at the school.

Stryker seemed confused at what I was looking at and turned over to see what it was. When he saw it was just that strange woman, he chuckled a little.

"I know I have never introduced you before to lady DeathStrike, but I'm sure you have met her before. Of course, she is under my control and so are you." Stryker replied.

Wait, was I hearing things or what? I was under Stryker's control? How could that be? I thought. But soon my questions were answered.

"I know you know about that device in your head because I'm sure one of the X-Men explained it to you. But you don't know that once I mess with the controls, you're under my command. And wherever you are, you'll find me somehow just like you did a couple of minutes ago. And what's so amazing is, I don't have to use a drug or anything every few hours just like lady DeathStrike at all and I don't even have to feed you. You stay like this forever unless someone can deactivate the codes and set you free. But that won't be possible because I am the only one who knows the codes." Stryker explained.

I was completely shocked and I thought if only I could budge my body a little, I would cut Stryker's throat off if I could.

"It's quite difficult to put in the device though, you have to mess with the brain and it would take quite a while to put it in Lady DeathStrikes head and that fellow X-Men called Scott." Stryker replied.

If I could control my emotions, my face would be so red from anger, you'd think it would look like a tomato or something, but my face looked completely calm.

"Of course, I don't even have to tell you this, but let's say if I die from old age perhaps, you would just freeze and can't do anything at all because I'm the one that tells you what to do, so you're like a machine." Stryker explained.

Why was he telling me this? Just to enjoy the fact that I was boiling from rage and I can do nothing about it? I had so many questions that needed to be answered but could not.

Suddenly, a man came rushing in and walked over to Stryker whispering something in his ear and Stryker seemed shocked at first, and then his face frowned. Stryker quickly walked away heading towards a room and somehow I followed along with Lady DeathStrike and a couple of soldiers.

We came upon a huge metal door and it opened revealing a room full of computers on one side and TV screens. One of the screens showed Wolverine in a tunnel yelling from the screen but there was no sound. I had a surge of hope that the X-Men finally were going to rescue me somehow, and I didn't even care if it was Wolverine either.

"Well, look who's come home." And Stryker smiled as if thinking how stupid Wolverine had been to come inside the base.

Stryker walked out the room and I followed along with the soldiers and Lady DeathStrike. We came back in the previous room and this huge door opened that I had never noticed before, and Wolverine stepped in and was in handcuffs, as you might call those, along with another group of soldiers armed with guns.

Stryker looked at Wolverine and Wolverine looked at him then he stopped to look at me. He looked confused and I wanted to shout out to him that Stryker was controlling me, but I just stared back at him with no expression across my face.

Stryker turned around to speak with a soldier saying something that I was even listening to. Soon the soldier yelled something and pulled out a gun pointing at Wolverine.

All of a sudden, Wolverine seemed to change and turned blue along with scales. I soon figured out it was Mystique and I was amazed at what she could do.

Mystique started to dodge some soldiers that were trying to hit her, but soon she ran towards a door luckily escaping it, which was very close at closing in on her.

I wanted to smile at seeing her escape unharmed, but my feet were dragged by Stryker who ran after Mystique after those doors opened again.

We ran in a hallway and soon I came upon a door closing in along with another version of Stryker in there waving at us and laughing. Of course that was Mystique.

Stryker started to ask something at a soldier and I wasn't really paying much attention to their stupid argument.

Stryker turned back and practically ran to wherever and I followed too and so did lady DeathStrike. I got a bit annoyed that I had to follow Stryker everywhere, but I couldn't complain.

Stryker suddenly stopped and looked at me.

"You, stay here and guard the doors. If any of the X-Men approach, kill them." Stryker ordered.

I was a bit shocked at what he just said, but I had to obey those orders whether I wanted to or not.

Time seemed to pass by slowly and a couple of soldiers who stood by me looked nervous and a bit worried at the same time.

I wanted to laugh at them from the look on their faces, but I didn't even seem to smile or frown at all. I really was bored right now but soon I saw a noise down the hall and without knowing, my claws emerged out. I wanted to put them back in but couldn't, and I saw the soldiers look at my claws with a little fear in their eyes.

I waited for a few moments wondering who might be coming in. And soon, the X-Men walked in with a stern look across their face.

They looked up at me with a confused expression, but I suddenly ran forward with my claws pointed straight at them and the soldiers raised their guns to start shooting.

I wanted to stop, I didn't want to hurt anyone, but I could do nothing but watch myself trying to kill one of the X-Men.

I wonder if I did any mistakes in this chapter. Please inform me if I do though. Anyway, please review so I can continue.

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