Okay I combined some of the chapters to make it easier.
Meetings
Betsy
Braddock walked through the metallic door and sat down in a small
chair. It was the only chair besides the big cushioned one on the
other side of the table. A few minutes later the Head of Intelligence
walked in and sat down. All he did was looked at her for a couple of
minutes. "So, Ms. Braddock let's talk," he said when he
finally spoke.
"About what?" she retorted.
"Let's
start with your death," he said raising an eyebrow.
"Okay,"
Betsy started, " when we were in Valencia, I was contacted by
Roma..."
"Who is she?" he interrupted.
"She
is the Guardian of the omniverse, the daughter of Merlin, Goddess of
Life..."
"I get it Miss Braddock," he
interrupted, "continue, please."
"So...I was
contacted by Roma to go to the Starlight Citadel. So... did her thing
and I was there. She just wanted to talk about all the things were
going on earth..."
"I thought she control
earth?"
"She controls reality...Thank you very much.
Anyway she needed an insiders opinion. I told her that I had to get
back to earth because my team mates, but she insisted on talking. She
sent a clone so my team wouldn't worry. So we talked business then we
talk family, and got carried away..."
"Couldn't she
just freeze reality?" Mr. Crammer asked laid back in his
chair.
"You can only play with reality so much, Mr.
Crammer." Betsy responded with annoyance in her voice. "So
when it came time for me to leave, she had just learned that my clone
had been killed. She asked me if I wanted to go back to Valencia but
I said no."
"Why?"
"I have been in
the save the world business to long, and when she stop so many
villains thing have the tendency to want to kill you. So, if everyone
thought I was dead I could actually live. I knew how to block out
Cerebro so the X-Men wouldn't know what was going on. So I moved to
Seattle. I dyed my hair back to brown, it's original color, and lived
a... life. But about three years later I found a girl named Sydney
Porinsa. She was totally depressed about being a mutant so, I took
her to New York. After a lot of questioning from my old teammates I
finally convinced them that I was me. It was only a couple of months
after that when Xavier's motives were revealed. So I took my personal
student and left with Emma Frost."
Psylocke
walked through the door where all the others were waiting. "Man,
that guy isn't the friendliest I've ever met," she said when she
entered the small room. "Lucas, he wants to talk to you next."
Bishop groaned and walked into the room that Betsy had exited. "Hope
he does well," she said looking at the others. "The man is
treating it like some sort of interrogation.
"That's what
people of power tend to do, honey," Neal Sharra said as he
walked over to his girlfriend.
"All you have to do is
show him who's boss. Even though he is ...but he doesn't have to know
that," Emma said as she sat down into her chair next to
Sean.
"So, Why do we even have to talk to him?"
Danielle Moonstar asked .
" Because if we don't then
he'll put all of us under arrest for hiding something," Psylocke
answered.
Suddenly the door on the other side of the room
opened and three teenagers walked in laughing. "What's so
funny?" Dani asked her students suspiciously. "You haven't
been using your powers have you?"
The young man with
golden skin answered trying not to start laughing, "No, there
was this lady at the snack machine..." but he started laughing
in mid-sentence.
"Well, when we got to the snack machine
this lady looked up at us and shrieked really loud causing the whole
area to look over. The whole place was in panic." A young girl
answered. She had a bright red colored hair and yellow eyes. It was
Sydney Porinsa, Psylocke's student.
"Why was the place in
panic?" Moonstar asked.
Sofia stepped forward and
answered. "Look at us. A girl with red hair and yellow eyes. A
boy with gold skin and then a normal looking person stuffing her face
with moon-pies..." she to started cracking up laughing. The
adults shook their heads in embarrassment. The three teens made their
way to an empty corner and sat down with their newly purchased
snacks. Minutes later the door opened and Bishop entered the
room.
"Mystique. Mr.Grumpy wants to talk to you," he
said pointing into the other room.
"Mr.
Crammer, so we meet again," Mystique said as she sat down in the
small metal chair.
"Only last time. You were blackmailing
me," he answered.
"Well...Alot has changed since
then," she retorted.
"While we're on the
subject...Why should I trust you to be apart of a wealthy group with
the trust of the government," he asked.
"You
shouldn't trust me," she started, "It would be stupid to
trust me. It's stupid to trust anyone."
"So you
think its better to walk around suspicious all the time?"
"I
didn't say that. You don't have to look over your shoulder all the
time but you do have to be prepared for everything," she
responded flipping her red hair back.
"Okay, so what
position would you have in the New Hellfire Club?" he
asked.
"Black Knight...you know on the chess board its a
little horsey," Mystique responded with sarcasm in her
voice.
"I don't know about you but when I think of black
I think of evil. And when I think of knights I think of
deadly."
"Yes, I am deadly. Would you like to test
me?" she asked lifting one of her eyebrows. Mr. Crammer didn't
move. Mystique, finally satisfied that he knew his place, smiled and
shook her head, "Now, Mr. Crammer, what would you like to talk
about today?"
Mr. Crammer still looked scared as he
started to speak, "Umm, W...We're finished," he finally
said, "Could you please send in Mr. James Proudstar?"
Mystique looked at him as if she were waiting for something else when
he spoke again. "Please"
"No Problem," she
said as she stood from her chair and walked to the door.
"Goodbye...for now."
The
room was starting to empty until Moonstar, her students, Wolfsbane,
and Sydney Porinsa sat in the scattered chairs. The door opened and
the five of them looked up. Orora "Storm" Monroe walked out
with a mocking smile on her face. "Danielle, he wants to talk to
you next," she said. Dani stood and walked past Storm when she
grabbed her arm. "Be careful, the man has a way with words,
don't let him intimidate you." Dani nodded. "Could the
man really be that bad?" she thought to herself as she
entered the questioning room. She sat down properly crossing her
legs. The middle-aged man looked tired, he had bags under his eyes
and the wrinkles on his forehead seemed to hang low. She waited as he
read over the files sitting in front of him. Dani looked around the
small room waiting for the balding man to begin.
"So...,"
he finally said, "Ms. Moonstar, How long have you been with
Xavier?"
"About...twelve years," she answered
calmly. As she spoke, she began to twiddle her thumbs. Dani never
really was one for speaking with people she didn't know, unless they
were children.
"Would you consider you and him to
be...what's the word?...close?"
"Not really,"
she began, " The Professor never really took time out to spend
with the New Mutants. And he didn't have much to do with X-Force. I
myself never really liked him much."
"Then why ,Ms.
Moonstar, did you stay?"
Dani paused. "The others
were right," she thought to herself, " He's trying
to trap me. Make me tell him something I don't mean." Dani
thought carefully before she answered. "Because, Mr. Crammer, I
had already hurt two people and I thought if I had my mutation under
control that the hurting could stop." Mr. Crammer looked at her
and opened his mouth to speak, but Danielle already knew his next
question. "I trained under a man I didn't like because he was
the only person that I thought could help me...and he did." Mr.
Crammer looked dumbfounded. Dani just smiled thinking that she had
him beat until he asked the next question.
" Why did you
accept a job working for a man you didn't like?"
"Because
I wanted to help young people just like he did. And since I had the
chance to do it...I did." Dani answered.
"While
we're on the subject...Where are your students?"
"Josh
and Sofia are in the back room... And Laurie, David, and Noriko are
back at Xavier's School." Dani tried to hide the worry in her
voice but it failed.
"Why are the other three still
there?"
"Because I wanted them to stay." Mr.
Crammer lifted his eyebrows in interest. "I wanted them all to
stay there until they graduated and then decide what they wanted to
do by them self. But...David and Sofia refused and came along. I
pushed David the hardest," Dani's eyes begin to fill with tears.
"He wants to be a author...and I told him that if he came with
me and left school he would never fulfill his dream." Tears
rolled down Dani's face and she wiped them away with her
sleeve.
"Just one more question," Dani nodded. "Are
you romantically interested in someone?"
Danielle's eyes
widened in surprise. "No." Her eyes blinked as she stood
nervously. "Can I go?"
"Yes, and please send in
Ms. Sinclair."
Rahne
looked up as the door opened. Dani came out wiping her eyes.
Immediately her two students ran to her asking if she was okay. She
assured them that she would be okay and walked over to Rahne. "He
wants to talk to you," she said laying her hand on Rahne's
shoulder.
Rahne just stood and walked through the door.
When
she entered the room she found the chair and turned it around
strattling the back rest. She rest her arms on the top and looked at
the strange man. He stared back. The two stared for awhile before he
broke the silence.
"Ms. Sinclair, Have you ever sworn
revenge on someone?" he asked. She just nodded.
"Who?"
"Mystique," she answered
sternly.
"Well she was just in here and you must have
seen her way before then why is she still alive?" he asked.
Rahne just stared. "Well?"
"I don't want to
talk about it." For the next few minutes all they did was stare.
"Since we're just waisting time can I go?" she finally
asked.
"No, But you can tell me why you've
changed."
"What do you mean? You don't even know
me."
"From what the others tell me you used to be a
quiet, shy, nice girl."
"Yeah used to be..."
she answered motioning to her clothes. A white t-shirt covered by a
black leather jacket, and her baggy black pants adorned with silver
chains. "Soul searching does things to you."
"I
see..."
"No," Rahne stood up. "I don't
think you do. Has someone ever killed your mother? Have you tried day
in and day out ?" She walked to the desk as Mr. Crammer stood
up. Suddenly she jumped up on the desk and her skin turned to fur.
"Mr. Crammer...You will never see me again. Except in hell."
With that she turned around got of the desk and walked to the door.
