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Catch A Sound Wave
Rhapsody's Finale
Jubilee walked though the girls dorm. She didn't understand why everyone split up. Each of them had taken a part of each of the buildings. As she walked through the dorm, she had her fingers in a gun formation. She wanted to be ready to paf this Soundwave character before he tried anything. She listened intently. She heard music, the worse music of all, NKOTB. She shuddered as she moved quietly through the dorm. Eventually, she heard movement. She moved slowly in the direction of the movement. She saw that Penny's door was open. She slowly moved along the wall. When she near the door, she took a deep breath. She quickly spun and started firing sparks into the room. "Gotcha. You ain't getting your target today." She didn't see who was in the room, but she was sure of who it was. As the sparks cleared, her eyes went wide as the figure looked at her and smiled. "OH...."
The figure slammed her into the wall. She was scared. It wasn't Soundwave. It was Sabertooth. She was shaking in fear. The figure just said, "Surprised. Prepare for a better surprise." She hadn't notice but the music had still been going all through the attack.
She watched as the face of her attacker shift. Soon she realized what had happened. She gasped as the figure was that of Soundwave. He just said, "Obviously, you're not Yvette, so I shall ask this once, where is Rich and Yvette? I was hoping to use her to get him."
Jubilee worked all her bravido together and spit in his face. "I ain't telling you. You try and hurt him, you have to go up against Generation X." She went to kick him so he drop her.
As she went to kick him, she felt one hand grip her throat, as the other slapped her. He just said, "Ever have a nightmare come true, bitch." He threw her to the floor. She slid along the hall. "Because you are about to."
She noticed that he turned around. She saw the device on his back. It had to be the source of the music. "Sounds off, creep." She went to fire her fireworks, but they wouldn't fire. She tried again, and again. She heard him laugh. She stood up to tackle him and then saw it. All the foes she had faced in her life, and they were headed after her. She turned and saw that she was in a dead end. The laughter got louder. This was Soundwave's work. It had to be an illusion. Then she felt one of them punch her. Was it an illusion? She screemed in agony as the others started to punch her.
Everett had saw the figure leave the girls dorm. It had to be Soundwave. He had left the door open. Everett went to confront the menace when he heard the screems. It sounded like Jubilee and she was getting hurt bad. Did he see Soundwave leave? If not, he had to get in there and save Jubilee, and if he did, was it a trick. He couldn't take the risk of not checking. He loved Jubilee too much. He ran into the dorm and headed for the screaming. When he rounded the corner, he saw Jubilee all alone. She was against a wall, but she acted like she was being punched in the gut, and all over. Everett didn't understand what was happening. He also noticed that she was acting like she couldn't move. He saw no attackers. He wondered if Davis was in here waiting. He moved forward and said, "Jubilee, what's wrong?"
He noticed that she kept facing forward, "Synch, run. There's too many. Ahhhh." He noticed she flinched. She must have gotten hit by something. He moved in front of her. Everett couldn't figure out what was happening to her. She then said, "Not again. Stay away Sabertooth. NOOOOOOOOO."
He looked around puzzled, and then wondered. He went up to Jubilee and said, "Where is Soundwave, did you see him?" He had a feeling what was happening.
There was a look of fear across her face. "Yes, but run. No. Anything but that." What ever Soundwave did to her, she was experencing every fear she had, but worse. She was going to have physical repercussions. He noticed that she managed to turn her head a little, as if she was trying not to see what was happening. He then noticed what looked like a hearing aid in her ear. He synched with Jubes ability and pulled it out, destroying it with a little firework. He noticed that Jubilee started to collapse. He quickly grabbed her as she let out a moan of pain.
He was worried. He got her in a carry and said, "Hold on, I'll get you to the med center." He made a quick run for the door. There was no telling what horrors had happen to her, but it was obvious that Soundwave induced them. As he ran out of the girls dorm, he ran into Sean and Emma.
Emma Frost was startled by the sight she saw, as was Sean. She ran up to Everett and said, "Synch, what happen?" She could see the worry in his eyes. Ever since Rich had arrived, Everett and Jubilee had become abit closer.
He looked at them and said, "Soundwave did something to Jubilee. Hypnotized her in someway. She was in pain, and something about Sabertooth. I don't know what he forced her to experience."
Emma decided to do a quick mind probe of Jubilee. She saw the images of the scenes Jubilee saw. Scores of the X-men's enemies attacking her. FOH members literally beating her up. And Sabertooth, the one mutant Jubilee feared most. She noticed how Sabertooth had held back in the scenes. Then she saw the scene that was starting before the whole image ended. She stopped the probe there. She just said, "Synch, you stopped it just in time. She was about to have her worse fear come true. How did he keep the hypnosis up without being present."
Everett looked at her with deep concern. She knew what he wanted to ask, but kept him from asking it. He then said, "He put like a hearing aid in her ear. It was playing music."
She head Sean go, "Sounds like his style." She gave him a stern glare. Sean looked at her and said, "What did I say?"
Everett looked at him and said, "That's very bad, sir."
Emma just said, "Banshee, if you meant that as a joke, don't say it again." She noticed that he rolled his eyes. He realized what he said. She then said "We have to check with the others. Soundwave might be trying to stop us before we stop him."
Sean reached for his communicator and said, "Everyone, call in, and tell me the situation." She noticed that he set it so all could respond.
The first voice to answer was Mondo's. "Banshee. I think we have a big problem. I'm stuck."
Emma worried as she said, "Explain that one Mondo. How are you stuck?"
The boy answered with a heavy sigh. "I saw Soundwave attacking Daria. I tried to sneak up on him, via the walls, but as I came out to attack him, he slapped my head and ran."
Sean said, "Can you reach your ear? He put a sound device in there."
She head Mondo go "No. I'd ask Daria to help, but she can't move."
There was another voice that said, "I'm stuck to the ceiling, with this music playing in my ear. The creep said he had a magnet in the ceiling." It was Daria. Emma could guess what was happening.
Emma then said, "Anyone else that can take care of that? Skin? Husk? M? Chamber?"
The voice of Angelo came on the line. "He caught me to, senorita. Right now, I'm waiting for a fly, and my fingers are faraway from my ear."
Sean said, "Where are you, Skin?" She was wondering that too.
"All tied up all over the entry hall, and it's not to pleasent just hanging here."
Emma just said, "We'll be there." She faced Sean and said, "We are going to have to help them. Soundwave is mad, but there is a definate method to it."
Just then, a voice spoke on the comm unit. "Banshee, White Queen, it's Chamber. I just got to Husk. How do I stop this?"
Emma turned and said, "What's wrong?"
"Heard Husk screem in shock. She went to husk into something, but he made her husk to look like Barbie, or one of those dolls. She can't move, or talk. He heard me coming and tried to stop me, but ran then." Sean looked at her, and she shrugged. She didn't know why Soundwave would run. "Had my walkman on, playing one of those Heavy Metal bands."
Emma smiled and said, "Very clever Jono. Now reach into Paige's ear and get the hearing aid like thing. Destroy it and she'll be fine."
She heard a small blast and soon Paige said, "What happened? Now I remember, that..."
Emma heard Sean go, "Easy Husk, right now, you and Chamber go find Mondo and Daria and help them out. I'll get Skin."
Emma was about to say what she and Everett would do when it hit her. "We haven't heard from M." She saw an upset look cross both Everett and Sean's faces.
Soundwave had ran from the mutant with only half a face. Damn freak had Heavy Metal on. Since running into the the girl at the one building, he managed to incapasitate all the others. All except the two he wanted. Then he ran into this girl. He had grabbed her from behind and held her firm in his grip. The music increased his strength, but the girl was strong cause she still struggled. He just said, "Ok, babe. It's simple. Tell me where Richard and his girl are, and I let you go. Don't tell me, you pay."
The girl had a french accent, which he liked, along with her figure. "No way. I won't betray my friends."
He allowed her to see his face as he said the next words. "I was hoping to hear that." He let a smile cross his lips. He watched as the fear crossed her face. He then noticed that her eyes quickly glazed over.
He noticed when her eyes returned to normal, she yelled, "No. I'll tell you where they are. They're in the war room, but my brother has claim on them." He thought back to the files and the name he saw.
"So you are Emplate's sister." He smiled. Maybe he should team up with him to kill the two.
"Sisters, you idiot. My sister hates him. I'd rather see him get those two than you. He wants them alive." Now he was confused, but that didn't matter. He knew where his prey was.
He smiled at the girl, or girls, or whatever he should call them and said, "Thank you. Your brother can have two corpses when I have done Big Blue's work. I'll just leave you with this, have fun." He put the sound device in her ear. He watched as she started struggling, and soon she stayed still.
As he walked away, he heard her say to herself. "Look what you have done to us now, Claudette." Maybe he could blackmail the girl later, but that would have to wait. He had to make his way to the war room. He ran out the door.
Darrett watched intensely. He then saw the unmistakeable figure of Soundwave. He summoned Henry up to help him with Soundwave. He watched the figure approach. He motioned Henry out of the shadows, and Soundwave said, "A student and a teacher. Does this mean a few added seconds until humiliation."
Darrett just said, "No Soundwave. I'm taking you down. I know your tricks." He put on a pair of sunglasses." He smiled in pride as a frown crossed the face of Soundwave. Darrett knew that the sonic hypnotism needed eye contact to be activated, and as long as he was aware of his actions, he control who he summoned.
He watched as Soundwave just stopped and said, "Smart, but stupid. I have other methods, you know." Darrett felt the ground under him shake. He remembered that Soundwave didn't need to hypnotize a victim. He lost his train of thought and Henry disappeared. As he recovered from the shaking, he noticed that Soundwave was on him. It was too late to take any type of fighting stance, and Soundwave knocked him off his feet.
He slowly got up. "There is no way I'm going to let you kill those two." That was true. While he had mixed feelings about everything in this world, this was one thing that wasn't going to confuse him. Soundwave and him were on opposite sides of the line.
Soundwave looked at him and said, "You ain't going to have much choice in the matter." Darrett braced as Soundwave back handed him. He went flying into the wall. He staggered up and punched Soundwave in the jaw. He staggered back in pain. Soundwave was on him and he was picked up and thrown into a tree. Ever so slowly, things started to black out.
Rich listened to the door as the comotion on the other side ended. He didn't like the sound of it. He was terrified. He had turned on the camera's all over the campus, and saw what Davis did to the others. It sent chills through his spine. He heard Yvette come up behind him and say, {Do you think he got past Darrett?}
He heard the door start to open and he pulled her to the locker room where all their uniforms were. {Yes. He's in.} He couldn't put it any other way. He could see the fear in her eyes. She had less to fear than he did. He was the one that sent Davis to jail. He was the one who help apprehend Davis.
In the previous room, Rich heard Davis yell, "Come out, Rich, I want to talk to you." Rich knew better than that. Davis wanted to kill him, and God knows what to Yvette. He took Yvette's hand and pulled her throught the locker room. He was looking for a good spot to hide. The room had been divided into seperate sections, so both the gents and the ladies could prep, and there was a shower room for them to clean up. However, it was set up so each got privacy. Each stall had curtains around it.
As they ran through to the opposite door, the door that led to the pool, Rich heard one of the curtains rip. He didn't know which one, but he said to his love, {Look out.} She looked and it happened at once. All the curtains came down. The first one tripped them up, and they fell onto a waiting curtain.
Yvette was almost frantic, and he could tell. She started to get up, but the curtains were mummifing them. {Oh no, not the restraints again.} He could see that she started to tense up and that she was trying to cut her way through, but it was no use. It was happening to him too, but he tried to wiggle out of them.
At one point he couldn't move and he said, {Hon, we are in deep trouble.} He noticed that she had stopped moving too, but during their struggles, they ended up facing each other. More of Davis' sick humor. He want them facing each other when they died.
He then heard that voice he didn't want to hear. "Well, well, I see you got nice and cozy for me." Rich looked at Davis. The maniac smiled at him.
Rich just said, "You are sick. I saw what you did to my friends. They won't let you do this. They'll get here and stop you." At least that was what he hoped. He looked over at Yvette and she was terrified.
Davis leaned over the two and said, "I bet this is Miss Cassidy. I don't know what you did, but I'm surprised you found such a lovely lady." Rich's blood boiled as Davis put a hand on her.
Rich heard Yvette's reaction to the touch, as she said in fear, {He's touching me. Don't let him...you know} He knew what she meant. He was afraid Davis would try that.
Davis then put something in their ears as he said, "Now I bring you the music. I thought you two could do with a special song of passing, since that little cocoon you two are in will be crushing you to death by the time the song is over."
Rich head the music start. It was "Candle In The Wind". As the song was playing, he felt the prison he was in getting smaller. Eventually, both he and Yvette were touching, but it would have been different if they weren't getting crushed to death. He heard Yvette say, {I never thought it would end like this. I mean, I thought we'd be married before we died.}
The bonds had gotten tighter as he said, {I would have thought that we would have children before we died.} He gasped, struggling for his breath. He heard Davis laughing in delight. He looked Yvette in the eyes and said, {One last kiss.}
{One last kiss.} She gasped for breath and then they started to kiss. He waited to hear a cracking noise. It would have been their bones. He heard a click and saw a light. It was Davis with a camera.
He heard Davis go, "Now this is priceless, two lovers getting squashed to death." Rich noticed that Davis was holding the photo, and it happen. A blast incinerated the photo. He saw Davis spin around only to go flying over them and through the door with a firey blast. He felt someone reach at his ear, and he could move and breathe again.
He stopped kissing Yvette and looked up. It was Sean. "Well Skitz, that was close for ye and Penance, wasn't it?"
"Thought we wouldn't live through it, Banshee. Now let's take out the trash." He tensed up for battle. They ran into the pool room and saw that Chamber and Soundwave were basically fighting it out. Rich knew that Chamber needed help.
He turned to Yvette and said, {Penance, love, go wide right. I'll go wide left. We follow the shadows and strike from behind.}
He watched as she held up a claw and said, {Gladly. I didn't like the constriction trick he did.} With that the two headed out. He just hoped Banshee would do his thing at the right time.
Jonothan Starsmore was angry. He didn't like what Soundwave did to Paige, and he didn't want to know what the blighter was going to do to her. He took another blast and Soundwave and said, "I'm going to make you pay for what you did to Husk."
Soundwave just smiled and said, "You liked her better that way. I thought you would." He went to blast the blighter again and Soundwave punched him down. As he started to stand, he noticed two shadows moving behind Soundwave. That distaction allowed for Soundwave to kick him again, knock the walkman off of him, and the headset off his head. Davis looked at him and said, "Now, to incapacitate you, and your teacher."
Jono looked back and yelled "BANSHEE, NOW!". He wasn't going to be manipulated by this prat.
Soundwave looked up in shock and said, "No. It can't be. Banshee's are female." Sean started yelling at that point. The sonic scream was not pleasent, but to Soundwave it was devistating. Jono watched as the boy screamed in agony. "Stop it, stop the noise." Jono watched as the two shadow's lunged at the device on Soundwave's back. "No, my sound machine."
Jono just yelled, "Good work, Skitz and Penance." The two circled around and started to slowly advance. Jono faced the fugitive and said, "It ends here."
Jono was shocked when Soundwave did a foot sweep. The boy knocked him over in a way that sent the walkman over to his feet. "Not by a long shot." The boy tossed the ruined machine at Rich. Jono turned to see Rich fly into the pool. Sean stopped his scream and ran to dive in. It was all Soundwave needed and Jono realized it. Yvette had run to the pool to, but the boy said, "I'll be back. I always Hang Tough." The boy had a tape on him, and put it in the walkman. In an instant, the boy disappeared.
Jono turned to face Sean and Yvette as they pulled Rich out of the pool. "Sorry, he got away."
Rich was gasping as he said, "It's ok. He has to rethink everything. He's determined, but right now, he need to rebuild. That unit was one of a kind." Jono helped get Rich out of the building.
Sean then said, "Right now, we have a couple of students that need to recover from this ordeal. If Soundwave makes another appearance here, we need to be ready. Jono, get Darrett and get him to the infirmery.
"Agreed. I hope Daria and Mondo mangage to get Monet free."
He noticed the look of worry on Yvette's eyes as she said, "What happened?"
"Soundwave had her thinking she was restrained like you, except non mobile." He saw Yvette chuckle. He wondered if she found it funny that that happened to Monet. He didn't dwell on it. They had survived, and there was fear from everyone that they wouldn't.
He watched the scene from his lair. Davis had failed him again, but the boy would keep trying. When he had first learned of Richard Cale Jr., he wanted the boy dead then. The boy was too dangerous to him. The time was nearing. He knew a confrontation would lead to the boy taking the charge of the family title, and then he thought about it. He smiled wickedly at the thought. "Ozymantius, come here."
He watched as the stone covered man entered the room. "You summoned me, sire."
He looked down at his first minion. "Contact the Orphan Maker, I want him to make an orphan out of Richard Cale Jr."
The minion looked at him puzzled, "Don't you want him dead, sire."
"With his family's title and the time approaching, he is dead, and I'm sure his love will be put to a good home with Emplate." He watched as the man left the room. He turned back to the screen and said, "Enjoy what's left of your life, young one, for En Sabah Nur will end it for you soon."
The End...For Now.