Disclaimer- Trust me, if I owned anything Marvel related, I wouldn't be
writing fanficiton.
~Telepathy~
'Thought'
"Speech"
Chapter Eleven- Sentinels
Toad and Quicksilver looked skywards, their necks craning at the giant robotic-mutant hunters that surrounded them. Their pale faces were shadowed, and a few mutants felt panic at the huge tower-like robots that loomed over them.
Some took a step back and turned around to run away, only to have their path blocked by more sentinels. There was no escape; they would have to fight their way out of the tight circle the sentinels had them in.
"Aw shit," someone muttered behind them, and Toad turned around and saw a young man about five feet eleven inches, standing a few yards behind him to his right. His light brown hair was incredibly shaggy and dirty, and dried blood was caked to the side of his face, mixing in with his hair. His brown eyes, just like all of them, looked haunted.
Pietro inhaled sharply through his teeth, his right hand rubbing gently on the left side of his chest, as if something pained him there. Toad narrowed his eyes and looked back at the deadly robots before him. His powers were practically useless against these things.
"Well, what are ya waitin' for?" The young man snapped, spreading his feet shoulder length apart and leveling his hands with one of the sentinel's feet, "Let's fight 'em!"
Something clear shot out of his hand, and Toad saw the sentinel's feet freeze with ice, and as the man's arms kept raising, so did the ice, and he only stopped until the robot was fully incased in it.
"Phew," he sighed, rubbing his forearm against his forehead. "Haven't done that in a long time now, have I?"
Jubilee faced him, tears shrouded in her eyes. He flashed a ghost of a grin at her.
"Come on, Jubes, show these killer robots those wild firecrackers you got!"
Then, what seemed like endless minutes -although in reality it was seconds- the sentinels fired.
"Watch it!" Jean shouted, creating a shield around Paige Guthrie. Samuel's sister gave her a small smile of gratitude back at her. A large scorch mark appeared a few feet away from the shape-shifting mutant.
The redhead levitated her self up in the air, just as Roberto changed into his solar form. He gave a laugh of excitement.
"Now this is what I'm talking about!" he shouted in glee, running towards one of the red robots that were surrounding and attacking them. He dodged a laser just in time.
"Roberto! Tuck and roll!" Jean called to him, and Roberto obliged. He jumped in the air, wrapped his arms around his knees, and did some sort of flip in the air as Jean directed him in the center of the sentinel. He landed on his feet on the opposite side of the robot. He pumped a fist in the air for his small victory.
Meanwhile, Toad was hopping himself up the back of a sentinel. When he reached the place between where the shoulder blades should have been if it where a human, he paused, rubbing his chin thoughtfully.
"Now, if I just do this," he reached for the vulnerable circuits that were outside of its protective armor, "what would happen?"
He gave a firm yank, and there were some crackles of electricity. The sentinel functioned jerkily, but it was still up and bent on destroying the humans with an extra gene. Toad hopped off of its back, landing in a graceful crouch on the earth.
Jubilee shot what her friends had dubbed 'fireworks' at the humongous robot in front of her. She aimed for it square in the chest, giving it her full power. It tried to advance on her, but her force kept pushing it back. The corner of her mouth twitched up slightly.
Amara was shooting her lava at another sentinel. It did not seem to do anything drastic, so Magma changed her plan. Crouching low to the ground, she placed her palms on the earth, forcing her power into it. Cracks formed in the dry soil, and lava burst upwards from directly under the sentinel. Roberto gave a running leap into the center, taking out a main part. Amara gave him a sharp nod.
Quicksilver ran in zigzag circles around his sentinel, quickly forming a twister around it. It did little harm to it, however. In fact, it seemed like nothing was happening to it at all. Pietro stopped for a brief moment, observing his surroundings. A few mutants were incased in hardened green goop, while others were fighting the gigantic robots off.
"Look out!" a warning came to him, but too late. He had stood a moment too long, and the sentinel took advantage, shooting for him. He went to dodge it, but it still hit him on his side. Letting out a startling yelp of pain, Pietro ran out of the way, not noticing that he ran a quarter of a mile away in about a millionth of a second. His hands clutched at his side, some blood escaping from between his fingers. He slowly took them away to examine his wound, and his face paled at the blood that matted his side.
Deciding he needed some rest, Pietro laid down by some of the dusty rubble, since it was the closest thing near him at the time. He grew light headed, and he started shivering slightly. He was really tired...
Closing his eyes from drowsiness, Pietro drifted into unconsciousness.
*~*~*~*~*
~X-Men! Change into your uniforms and aboard the Blackbird and Velocity. We found our mutants~
All of the X-Men, new and old quickly obeyed their leader. The Professor sent out another message.
~Nightcrawler, go to the Brotherhood Boarding House and port them onto the Blackbird~
Kurt, just about to teleport into the Velocity, instead teleported to the Brotherhood.
Charles Xavier was excited. After four years, they were finally found. Cerebro was having a field day, picking up many different variations of powers somewhere by the border of Massachusetts.
Xavier made his way to the Blackbird, wheeling his chair up the ramp.
"Professor X, what happened?" Scott asked him frantically, turning around to face him from the pilot's seat. Charles gave him a small smile.
"Cyclops, we found Jean."
Scott's lower lip quivered slightly, and Charles sensed disbelief, surprise, and utmost happiness coming from his oldest student.
"We gon' fight anyt'ing?" Gambit asked from his seat next to Rogue, idly shuffling cards.
"We won't know unless we get there," Charles informed him, and then he told Cyclops the location of where the mutants were.
BAMF!
The smell of brimstone filled the jet, and Rogue waved her hand in front of her face to rid the smell. Kurt gave her a shy smile.
"What the HELL is going on?" Avalanche snarled at them, his uniform on. It was much like his old one, except there were no sleeves, and he didn't have that ridiculous thing covering his head that resembled some sort of fruit bowl; instead, he wore a special kind of goggles much like the one Pyro wore.
"We found them. Their using their powers profusely, and I do not take that as a good sign. Cyclops, let's get going." Charles said.
"I- wait- what- what?" Lance asked, confused. Then the jet jolted, a result from Scott taking a fast take off, and Lance quickly covered his mouth with his hand.
"I hate flying," he muttered, taking an empty seat next to Wanda. She scooted away from him slightly, wary that he might vomit on her.
"My brother? Did you find my brother's mutant signature?" she asked eagerly, but there seemed to be a threatening note in her voice, as if she wouldn't think twice about hexing Professor Xavier if Cerebro hadn't picked up her twin's mutant powers.
"Cerebro picked them up, Wanda," he reassured her gently. Wanda relaxed in her seat.
Lance suddenly bolted out of his seat, one hand clutching his gut and the other covering his mouth, and went out to the back of the jet. He was heard retching.
"Dis gon' be excitin'," Gambit muttered sarcastically. He picked out a random card and handed it to Rogue with a smile. She turned it over and rolled her eyes. It was the Queen of Hearts.
"Damn Cajun, ya always buggin' me. Won' ya jus' leave meh alone?" she told him, crossing her arms and turning her head away from him. He just gave her a devious smirk behind her back.
"Comrades, let us not bicker," Colossus said from his seat next to Shadow Cat. His English had been improving greatly, and he rolled his eyes at his teammates behavior.
"Oh, leave out of it, Petey," Rogue warned him playfully. Kitty grinned and intertwined small fingers with his large ones and gave his hand an affectionate squeeze.
Lance came back into the hangar, wiping the back of his hand across his mouth. He took one look at Kitty and Piotr's hands, and his eyes narrowed dangerously. He sat back down at his seat, his face darkened.
They landed in an open space, just five minutes walking time from where the mutants were. Explosions could be heard at a short distance away, and a small building was smoking. Three gigantic red sentinels could be seen flying around from the general area the explosions came from. A figure was floating in the air, forming telekinetic bubbles to protect it from the shots aimed at the person.
"Jean," Scott muttered to himself, then took off at a dead run towards the area. The rest followed.
"Alright! Get to burn somethin' big this time!" St. John cackled, readying his flamethrowers.
They ran into full view of the battle. Some were not prepared for what they saw, especially Sam. He was looking around for his sister.
"Cannonball, snap out of it! We gotta attack those things!" Wolverine warned him. He spoke into his headset, "Yeah, Chuck. We got a problem. Sentinels."
Cannonball immediately rocketed in the air, and right through a sentinel that a green haired woman was currently trying to fight. She smiled her thanks at him and went on to the next sentinel.
Avalanche growled; his hands spread out in front of him, his eyes rolled back in his head, and he grunted, stomping his foot, and digging the toe of his combat boot into the ground with a twist. Immediately, tremors shook the earth.
Wolverine took a running leap at the back of the sentinel Lance was trying to take down, and with his adamantium claws, he tore the circuits to shreds. Lance scowled at him but said nothing.
Pyro was currently battling another sentinel that had just arrived. He was entertaining himself by forming his fire into various shapes, attacking the giant robot that was determined to terminate him. John just cackled, dodged a blast by somersaulting to the side, and cackled again.
Toad got whacked backwards by a sentinel sweeping its arm at him, and he flew backwards and hit a brick wall that had gotten in his way hard. His head bounced on it twice, and his lid down, blood trickling from the back of his head and out of his nose. He was knocked into oblivion.
Cyclops shot his optic blasts at full force, his brother Alex doing the same. Every few seconds however, Scott could not help but glance at Jean, to see if she was really there. He noticed that fire seemed to alight in her eyes.
Multiple Man and Boom Boom were once a team again. Much like they did during their fight against the Professor when he was one of Apocalypse's Horsemen, they were fighting like that again. Jamie punched himself repeatedly in the hand, and while clones popped out, Tabitha handed them her own homemade cherry bombs. She socked Jamie in the arm for good measure. He rubbed the area, glaring at her.
"Unnecessary," he grumbled at her. She threw her head back and laughed, going back to her job; passing out cherry bombs to Jamie clones.
"Hey, Battery," she called out to Berzerker, "Come over here and help us!"
Ray just went back to work on the sentinel he was attempting to take down with Storm. He couldn't just abandon it.
"Grab as many mutants as you can and return to the mansion!" Logan bellowed over the chaos. The Blob, who had just finished ripping the arm off of a sentinel, with surprising stealth, quickly moved over to where Toad lay and scooped him up, heading towards the Blackbird.
Everybody was running towards where the two X-transportation jets and copters were. Wanda stopped abruptly.
"Where is he?" she snarled, searching around for the familiar silver haired mutant that was her twin.
"Wanda, let's go!" Cyclops said, grabbing hold of her arm and attempting to drag her away. She ripped her arm from his grip.
"Where. Is. He?" She asked again, her voice filled with venom.
"He's probably already at the Velocity or something, you know how fast he is," Cyclops tried to reassure her, tugging at her arm again.
"WHERE IS HE?!" She screamed in fury, her hands surrounded by the blue aura of her powers; Cyclops immediately let go and backed away a few feet. The power suddenly surrounded her, crackling with energy, and turned a scarlet color. Wanda's eyes glowed with her powers.
"ARRGGHHHH!" She howled with rage, aiming her hex-bolts at the robots that had chosen to follow them. Buildings were shaking, cracks in the concrete formed, trees set on fire. A storage warehouse for the camps blew up. The sentinel she had attacked was completely destroyed.
Suddenly, she stopped, collapsed to her knees and clutched her head. She groaned, and passed out.
Cyclops quickly picked her up, and ran towards the others. He entered the Blackbird, where the Professor was.
"Scarlet Witch just fainted sir, don't know what happened," he informed the world's most powerful telepath.
"I know, Scott. I had to calm her down. She was very angry," Charles informed him.
"Gee, you think?" Scott muttered sarcastically to himself, and Charles smiled slightly in spite of himself.
"Shadow Cat, Rogue, I want you to go in the back and treat our new guests," Charles told the two young women. They nodded, unbuckling their belts, and went through the automatic door.
*~*~*~*~*~*
Crystalia Amaquelin muffled her cough as she passed through the dusty area where the sentinels were just attacking the mutants. She was being discreet, since it was not a good idea to go walking up to the FoH with her yellow spandex uniform on. They might mistake her for a mutant.
She coughed quietly again, searching through the rubble. She had spotted the agents taking in mutants incased in a green substance, but she kept her distance. Maybe some had escaped...
And then she spotted something. A thin figure in a gray uniform lay, his hands resting at his side, where it was alarmingly red.
"Agon's blood," she whispered to herself, hurrying over to the figure. He was a man, with shaggy and dirty silver-white hair. He looked thin for his age, but that wasn't the thing that made Crystalia worried. Carefully, she moved his hands and examined the wound given to him.
"You need help, good sir," she whispered, running her gloved fingers gently along the wound. It seemed to have stopped bleeding badly. But still, a small amount of blood flowed from it.
"I will be right back, you have my word. Help will come to you." She stood up from her crouch, and quickly she ran to the nearest place she could think of that would help them.
*~*~*~*~*~*
Yay! I actually wasn't suppose to update this story until I posted five more chapters of In Dreams and The Downside of Falling in Love, but this chapter was itching to be written. And five of the eight pages I wrote last night at eleven o'clock, and I stopped at quarter after one. The words just flowed for this one, and I'm quite pleased with the outcome. So, if you have any constructive criticism for this, or even a flame, just review.
Thanks to all who reviewed! Stay tuned for the next chapter!
Like it? Hate it? Either way, review!
~Telepathy~
'Thought'
"Speech"
Chapter Eleven- Sentinels
Toad and Quicksilver looked skywards, their necks craning at the giant robotic-mutant hunters that surrounded them. Their pale faces were shadowed, and a few mutants felt panic at the huge tower-like robots that loomed over them.
Some took a step back and turned around to run away, only to have their path blocked by more sentinels. There was no escape; they would have to fight their way out of the tight circle the sentinels had them in.
"Aw shit," someone muttered behind them, and Toad turned around and saw a young man about five feet eleven inches, standing a few yards behind him to his right. His light brown hair was incredibly shaggy and dirty, and dried blood was caked to the side of his face, mixing in with his hair. His brown eyes, just like all of them, looked haunted.
Pietro inhaled sharply through his teeth, his right hand rubbing gently on the left side of his chest, as if something pained him there. Toad narrowed his eyes and looked back at the deadly robots before him. His powers were practically useless against these things.
"Well, what are ya waitin' for?" The young man snapped, spreading his feet shoulder length apart and leveling his hands with one of the sentinel's feet, "Let's fight 'em!"
Something clear shot out of his hand, and Toad saw the sentinel's feet freeze with ice, and as the man's arms kept raising, so did the ice, and he only stopped until the robot was fully incased in it.
"Phew," he sighed, rubbing his forearm against his forehead. "Haven't done that in a long time now, have I?"
Jubilee faced him, tears shrouded in her eyes. He flashed a ghost of a grin at her.
"Come on, Jubes, show these killer robots those wild firecrackers you got!"
Then, what seemed like endless minutes -although in reality it was seconds- the sentinels fired.
"Watch it!" Jean shouted, creating a shield around Paige Guthrie. Samuel's sister gave her a small smile of gratitude back at her. A large scorch mark appeared a few feet away from the shape-shifting mutant.
The redhead levitated her self up in the air, just as Roberto changed into his solar form. He gave a laugh of excitement.
"Now this is what I'm talking about!" he shouted in glee, running towards one of the red robots that were surrounding and attacking them. He dodged a laser just in time.
"Roberto! Tuck and roll!" Jean called to him, and Roberto obliged. He jumped in the air, wrapped his arms around his knees, and did some sort of flip in the air as Jean directed him in the center of the sentinel. He landed on his feet on the opposite side of the robot. He pumped a fist in the air for his small victory.
Meanwhile, Toad was hopping himself up the back of a sentinel. When he reached the place between where the shoulder blades should have been if it where a human, he paused, rubbing his chin thoughtfully.
"Now, if I just do this," he reached for the vulnerable circuits that were outside of its protective armor, "what would happen?"
He gave a firm yank, and there were some crackles of electricity. The sentinel functioned jerkily, but it was still up and bent on destroying the humans with an extra gene. Toad hopped off of its back, landing in a graceful crouch on the earth.
Jubilee shot what her friends had dubbed 'fireworks' at the humongous robot in front of her. She aimed for it square in the chest, giving it her full power. It tried to advance on her, but her force kept pushing it back. The corner of her mouth twitched up slightly.
Amara was shooting her lava at another sentinel. It did not seem to do anything drastic, so Magma changed her plan. Crouching low to the ground, she placed her palms on the earth, forcing her power into it. Cracks formed in the dry soil, and lava burst upwards from directly under the sentinel. Roberto gave a running leap into the center, taking out a main part. Amara gave him a sharp nod.
Quicksilver ran in zigzag circles around his sentinel, quickly forming a twister around it. It did little harm to it, however. In fact, it seemed like nothing was happening to it at all. Pietro stopped for a brief moment, observing his surroundings. A few mutants were incased in hardened green goop, while others were fighting the gigantic robots off.
"Look out!" a warning came to him, but too late. He had stood a moment too long, and the sentinel took advantage, shooting for him. He went to dodge it, but it still hit him on his side. Letting out a startling yelp of pain, Pietro ran out of the way, not noticing that he ran a quarter of a mile away in about a millionth of a second. His hands clutched at his side, some blood escaping from between his fingers. He slowly took them away to examine his wound, and his face paled at the blood that matted his side.
Deciding he needed some rest, Pietro laid down by some of the dusty rubble, since it was the closest thing near him at the time. He grew light headed, and he started shivering slightly. He was really tired...
Closing his eyes from drowsiness, Pietro drifted into unconsciousness.
*~*~*~*~*
~X-Men! Change into your uniforms and aboard the Blackbird and Velocity. We found our mutants~
All of the X-Men, new and old quickly obeyed their leader. The Professor sent out another message.
~Nightcrawler, go to the Brotherhood Boarding House and port them onto the Blackbird~
Kurt, just about to teleport into the Velocity, instead teleported to the Brotherhood.
Charles Xavier was excited. After four years, they were finally found. Cerebro was having a field day, picking up many different variations of powers somewhere by the border of Massachusetts.
Xavier made his way to the Blackbird, wheeling his chair up the ramp.
"Professor X, what happened?" Scott asked him frantically, turning around to face him from the pilot's seat. Charles gave him a small smile.
"Cyclops, we found Jean."
Scott's lower lip quivered slightly, and Charles sensed disbelief, surprise, and utmost happiness coming from his oldest student.
"We gon' fight anyt'ing?" Gambit asked from his seat next to Rogue, idly shuffling cards.
"We won't know unless we get there," Charles informed him, and then he told Cyclops the location of where the mutants were.
BAMF!
The smell of brimstone filled the jet, and Rogue waved her hand in front of her face to rid the smell. Kurt gave her a shy smile.
"What the HELL is going on?" Avalanche snarled at them, his uniform on. It was much like his old one, except there were no sleeves, and he didn't have that ridiculous thing covering his head that resembled some sort of fruit bowl; instead, he wore a special kind of goggles much like the one Pyro wore.
"We found them. Their using their powers profusely, and I do not take that as a good sign. Cyclops, let's get going." Charles said.
"I- wait- what- what?" Lance asked, confused. Then the jet jolted, a result from Scott taking a fast take off, and Lance quickly covered his mouth with his hand.
"I hate flying," he muttered, taking an empty seat next to Wanda. She scooted away from him slightly, wary that he might vomit on her.
"My brother? Did you find my brother's mutant signature?" she asked eagerly, but there seemed to be a threatening note in her voice, as if she wouldn't think twice about hexing Professor Xavier if Cerebro hadn't picked up her twin's mutant powers.
"Cerebro picked them up, Wanda," he reassured her gently. Wanda relaxed in her seat.
Lance suddenly bolted out of his seat, one hand clutching his gut and the other covering his mouth, and went out to the back of the jet. He was heard retching.
"Dis gon' be excitin'," Gambit muttered sarcastically. He picked out a random card and handed it to Rogue with a smile. She turned it over and rolled her eyes. It was the Queen of Hearts.
"Damn Cajun, ya always buggin' me. Won' ya jus' leave meh alone?" she told him, crossing her arms and turning her head away from him. He just gave her a devious smirk behind her back.
"Comrades, let us not bicker," Colossus said from his seat next to Shadow Cat. His English had been improving greatly, and he rolled his eyes at his teammates behavior.
"Oh, leave out of it, Petey," Rogue warned him playfully. Kitty grinned and intertwined small fingers with his large ones and gave his hand an affectionate squeeze.
Lance came back into the hangar, wiping the back of his hand across his mouth. He took one look at Kitty and Piotr's hands, and his eyes narrowed dangerously. He sat back down at his seat, his face darkened.
They landed in an open space, just five minutes walking time from where the mutants were. Explosions could be heard at a short distance away, and a small building was smoking. Three gigantic red sentinels could be seen flying around from the general area the explosions came from. A figure was floating in the air, forming telekinetic bubbles to protect it from the shots aimed at the person.
"Jean," Scott muttered to himself, then took off at a dead run towards the area. The rest followed.
"Alright! Get to burn somethin' big this time!" St. John cackled, readying his flamethrowers.
They ran into full view of the battle. Some were not prepared for what they saw, especially Sam. He was looking around for his sister.
"Cannonball, snap out of it! We gotta attack those things!" Wolverine warned him. He spoke into his headset, "Yeah, Chuck. We got a problem. Sentinels."
Cannonball immediately rocketed in the air, and right through a sentinel that a green haired woman was currently trying to fight. She smiled her thanks at him and went on to the next sentinel.
Avalanche growled; his hands spread out in front of him, his eyes rolled back in his head, and he grunted, stomping his foot, and digging the toe of his combat boot into the ground with a twist. Immediately, tremors shook the earth.
Wolverine took a running leap at the back of the sentinel Lance was trying to take down, and with his adamantium claws, he tore the circuits to shreds. Lance scowled at him but said nothing.
Pyro was currently battling another sentinel that had just arrived. He was entertaining himself by forming his fire into various shapes, attacking the giant robot that was determined to terminate him. John just cackled, dodged a blast by somersaulting to the side, and cackled again.
Toad got whacked backwards by a sentinel sweeping its arm at him, and he flew backwards and hit a brick wall that had gotten in his way hard. His head bounced on it twice, and his lid down, blood trickling from the back of his head and out of his nose. He was knocked into oblivion.
Cyclops shot his optic blasts at full force, his brother Alex doing the same. Every few seconds however, Scott could not help but glance at Jean, to see if she was really there. He noticed that fire seemed to alight in her eyes.
Multiple Man and Boom Boom were once a team again. Much like they did during their fight against the Professor when he was one of Apocalypse's Horsemen, they were fighting like that again. Jamie punched himself repeatedly in the hand, and while clones popped out, Tabitha handed them her own homemade cherry bombs. She socked Jamie in the arm for good measure. He rubbed the area, glaring at her.
"Unnecessary," he grumbled at her. She threw her head back and laughed, going back to her job; passing out cherry bombs to Jamie clones.
"Hey, Battery," she called out to Berzerker, "Come over here and help us!"
Ray just went back to work on the sentinel he was attempting to take down with Storm. He couldn't just abandon it.
"Grab as many mutants as you can and return to the mansion!" Logan bellowed over the chaos. The Blob, who had just finished ripping the arm off of a sentinel, with surprising stealth, quickly moved over to where Toad lay and scooped him up, heading towards the Blackbird.
Everybody was running towards where the two X-transportation jets and copters were. Wanda stopped abruptly.
"Where is he?" she snarled, searching around for the familiar silver haired mutant that was her twin.
"Wanda, let's go!" Cyclops said, grabbing hold of her arm and attempting to drag her away. She ripped her arm from his grip.
"Where. Is. He?" She asked again, her voice filled with venom.
"He's probably already at the Velocity or something, you know how fast he is," Cyclops tried to reassure her, tugging at her arm again.
"WHERE IS HE?!" She screamed in fury, her hands surrounded by the blue aura of her powers; Cyclops immediately let go and backed away a few feet. The power suddenly surrounded her, crackling with energy, and turned a scarlet color. Wanda's eyes glowed with her powers.
"ARRGGHHHH!" She howled with rage, aiming her hex-bolts at the robots that had chosen to follow them. Buildings were shaking, cracks in the concrete formed, trees set on fire. A storage warehouse for the camps blew up. The sentinel she had attacked was completely destroyed.
Suddenly, she stopped, collapsed to her knees and clutched her head. She groaned, and passed out.
Cyclops quickly picked her up, and ran towards the others. He entered the Blackbird, where the Professor was.
"Scarlet Witch just fainted sir, don't know what happened," he informed the world's most powerful telepath.
"I know, Scott. I had to calm her down. She was very angry," Charles informed him.
"Gee, you think?" Scott muttered sarcastically to himself, and Charles smiled slightly in spite of himself.
"Shadow Cat, Rogue, I want you to go in the back and treat our new guests," Charles told the two young women. They nodded, unbuckling their belts, and went through the automatic door.
*~*~*~*~*~*
Crystalia Amaquelin muffled her cough as she passed through the dusty area where the sentinels were just attacking the mutants. She was being discreet, since it was not a good idea to go walking up to the FoH with her yellow spandex uniform on. They might mistake her for a mutant.
She coughed quietly again, searching through the rubble. She had spotted the agents taking in mutants incased in a green substance, but she kept her distance. Maybe some had escaped...
And then she spotted something. A thin figure in a gray uniform lay, his hands resting at his side, where it was alarmingly red.
"Agon's blood," she whispered to herself, hurrying over to the figure. He was a man, with shaggy and dirty silver-white hair. He looked thin for his age, but that wasn't the thing that made Crystalia worried. Carefully, she moved his hands and examined the wound given to him.
"You need help, good sir," she whispered, running her gloved fingers gently along the wound. It seemed to have stopped bleeding badly. But still, a small amount of blood flowed from it.
"I will be right back, you have my word. Help will come to you." She stood up from her crouch, and quickly she ran to the nearest place she could think of that would help them.
*~*~*~*~*~*
Yay! I actually wasn't suppose to update this story until I posted five more chapters of In Dreams and The Downside of Falling in Love, but this chapter was itching to be written. And five of the eight pages I wrote last night at eleven o'clock, and I stopped at quarter after one. The words just flowed for this one, and I'm quite pleased with the outcome. So, if you have any constructive criticism for this, or even a flame, just review.
Thanks to all who reviewed! Stay tuned for the next chapter!
Like it? Hate it? Either way, review!