The Uncanny R-Man: Yeah Kurt will be pissed as for Mystique…I think I'll leave that hanging there until the sequel.

Rogue14: Thanks so do I, and I'll try but being sick makes my writing suffer.

GothikStrawberry: Thanks I hope I'm better to, yeah I know what you mean about Mystique.

Aaron: Yeah you know Kurt and the others will want her back.

Ruby631: Thanks, and I completely forgot about him, maybe I'll write him in the sequel.

Ldypebsaby: Mystique might be changing, and as for Wanda…you'll just have to wait and see.

Sean Malloy-1: Thanks, and Wanda's mind will get straightened out not until the end I think.

Slickboy444: I'm glad you liked this story so much, as for Mystique I wanted to show just complex she really is. As for Kurt and the others you'll see in this chapter.

Quillian: Yeah sorry about the lack of updates, by now I should be fine.

Jenskott: I'll try and make Magneto more complex, as for the cauldron, well…yes and no.

Thanks to: X00001, Red Witch, SHAWN PROVONCHA, Silver Warrior


WANDA'S LIFE

CHAPTER 15: TO THE RESCUE OR INTO THE TRAP?

Magneto watched as Wanda talked with the others. The Brotherhood it seemed were keeping their mouths shut and that was a good thing. He smiled seeing Wanda try and have a good time with Pietro. It was good to see them together again, he knew as a father he had been an utter failure. After their mother had passed on after their birth a part of him died that day. He tried his best to raise them but with the survival of the mutant race in jeopardy he also needed to ensure the world his children had was safe and if not for them then their children as well.

He smiled to himself seeing how happy she was. He knew that leaving her in that place had been the worst thing he cold have done to her but he had no choice he couldn't control her powers and he didn't have the time or knowledge to help her. He had too many things to take care of and a child with unstable powers was too much. That had been the hardest moment in his life to give her up like he had.

But Charles had managed to help her in a way that he hadn't. But looking at her now after what Mastermind had done she just looked so happy and it was nice having his family back together again. Making the false memories had been the only way to get his family back and she seemed much more happier now anyway.

He knew it was low and something a father should never to, but truth was he missed his little girl. He wanted to try again and this time with his children to be the father he should have been. But he had to know if the memories in her mind would hold and that she wouldn't fall back into how she used to have been. He didn't want her to hate him anymore and he wanted his children by his side as the new age for mutants rose and their people came out of the shadows and took their rightful place at the top of the evolutionary chart.

He still watched at she and Pietro seemed to laugh at something and it really was a sight he had dreamed of seeing his children together again like they should have been. He also hoped that she found herself a worthy boy one day. One reason he didn't want the Wagner boy with her was because if they married and had children then there was no telling what their offspring would have been like and not to mention he was a failed experiment with a low grade power.

He wanted his grandchildren to be strong if not the strongest mutants because it would be his kids and grandkids that would take over for him when he died and he wanted the best for his children. In fact he demanded the best for them and anyone who would mate with them would come from a great DNA stock. He knew it was kind of elitist but his genetic line would be perfect and would have the most powerful mutants.

"What are you're plans now?" Mastermind asked him quietly as he walked up to Magneto from behind.

"How effective is your hold on her?" He asked him not looking away from Wanda.

Mastermind thought about this he wasn't too sure since he had never done anything of this magnitude before and yes he was a telepath but he wasn't exactly the most powerful one on the planet in fact he was about average for telepaths and he couldn't wipe clean those original memories but he could suppress them and use the fake ones for her as long as she didn't try and think of her real memories. He realized that he had been thinking too long as Magneto turned to face him slightly and he swallowed hard knowing that Magneto didn't tolerate failure.

"I am reasonably certain the memories will hold."

Magneto studied him for a moment. "Well then I guess we'll have to test that theory out."

"What do you mean?"

Magneto just walked off down a corridor as he decided for one final confrontation he would show them this place and make them the offer but he knew some if not all would turn away from his offer but this needed to be done.

-Xavier Institute-

Everyone was a bit high strung both with having Mystique in the infirmary but mainly because Magneto had kidnapped Wanda. Jean was nearly beside herself, her best friend for years had been taken and there was nothing she could have done, she kept wondering if she should have felt something was wrong. Scott was just as bad he, Wanda and Jean had been close since soon after Wanda had joined them. As leader of the X-Men he felt like he had failed her.

If it wasn't the fact that they were there for each other both might have lost it somewhat. Jean was in her room sitting on her bed looking at a photo of her Wanda, and Scott. It had been taken when they had just started high school together. "Hey Jean?" She looked up at the voice after wiping away a few tears saw an equally looking sad Scott as he entered her room.

He sat down next to her and saw the picture and smiled. "We'll find her and get her back." He told her and he placed an arm over her shoulder, she leaned into it resting her head on his shoulder.

"I hope so Scott, she's become as close to me as my sister Sara."

He rubbed her shoulder gently. "I know I think the same of her…but because we care so much about her we'll find her. The Professor is looking with Cerebro and there's no way Magneto can hide her or himself and the Brotherhood forever."

She didn't respond and just hugged him, drawing on his strength to help her. She knew that he made good points and she was glad that he was here with her now. If they were going through this then she could only imagine what Kurt was going through.

Kurt wasn't doing too well. He hadn't smiled all day and moped around, it was the complete opposite of how he used to be and he also was alone most of the time. Most of the time he was angry at what Magneto had done, first he put her into that horrible place that he knew that she still had nightmares about and now this. Why couldn't he have just left her alone? Hadn't he done enough to her? He promised himself that he would fine her, mainly because he knew that he was in love with her.

It wasn't just the fact that she saw past his appearance he loved everything about her, her passion, how she stands up for her friends, her strength all of it. The thought of never seeing her again was like someone was ripping his heart out of his chest. It just wasn't fair! He had found love something he had once thought he would never find in life but he had and he didn't want to lose it, he didn't want to lose her.

He heard a knock on the door and he sighed to himself. He wasn't sure if he wanted to see anyone at that moment. "Kurt let meh in." Came Rogue's voice.

He looked at the door and then went to open it. There stood the girl that he found out was his foster sister, looking unsure about herself and how to handle this. Which was true since Rogue knew she should act the sister part to Kurt since she saw how he was hurting. Wanda was her friend too but she and Kurt were dating and really close. She resolved to try and help Kurt after all he was family and truth was she really did feel for her brother.

It was still strange for her to think of him like that but it was nice too at the same time. She had this whole thing planned to say to him but looking at him now she was a total blank. "Hey." She said weakly and she had a strong urge to slap her forehead at that moment for such a lame opening.

Kurt however knew that Rogue wasn't much for this kind of thing but the fact she was here trying did say a lot to him and he smiled nonetheless. "You vant to come in?"

"Uh..sure yeah." She said as she entered his room. "So…how have ya been holdin' up?"

Kurt sighed and sat down on his bed. "Miserable."

She figured as much and she hated seeing him like this. "Look…Kurt this will work out ah mean…well…oh damn it why does this stuff have ta beh so hard!"

Kurt actually laughed a little at her frustrated outburst and took her gloved hand in his. "I know vaht you're trying to do and I'm thankful for it."

She actually smiled a little and squeezed his hand a little. "Hey no one messes with my friends or my family," She told him and ruffled his hair. "After we get her back then we can all kicked Magneto's ass too how does that sound?"

"Verll you can handle the butt kicking…I just vant Vanda back." He told her.

"We will, trust meh on that."

Kitty was kind of torn on the whole thing. She had a fight with Evan earlier, he had made a comment on how all the Brotherhood members were lowdown creeps and kidnapers and Kitty had told him that Lance wasn't one of the ones involved. Then Evan had claimed if he wasn't then why did he leave with them, after that Kitty had started screaming at him and he yelled back and then things had gotten worse and Ororo had to separate them.

Now Kitty was in her room after being sent there as was Evan sent to his room. She was just wondering if Evan had a point. If Lance wasn't involved then why did he leave with them? She didn't want to believe that, she knew Lance had his problems and that he wasn't a totally 'good guy' but she didn't want to think that he would go that far. He knew that Wanda was her friend and hurting Wanda would hurt her and he didn't seem to want to do that.

She was confused and didn't know what to think. He did like Lance and she thought he had liked her but if he did why did he leave? She just laid down on her bed staring up at the ceiling wondering what Wanda was going through and if Lance had anything to do it with it.

Meanwhile Xavier in his office was trying to use Cerebro once more, he had been nearly taxing himself too much with it but he wouldn't give up on looking for Wanda. He wasn't sure what Magneto had planned for his daughter after all these years to just come and take her. He knew that the fact she had control over her powers had something to do with it but could her dating Kurt had been the final straw as it were in some plan of his? If Mystique said was true then he had a problem with her seeing Kurt but why it did eluded him.

He was so wrapped up he didn't notice Logan walked into the room. "Any luck chuck?"

He stopped his concentration for a moment and looked at him and sighed. "No, none. I'm not surprised he did know about Cerebro and most likely knows how to counter it."

Logan let out a low growl. "I swear if he's hurt her again…"

Xavier smiled a little. "You really do care about her don't you?"

Logan was never comfortable about his feelings, "Well…the little trouble maker kind of grows on ya…besides Magneto has gone too far with taken one of the kids like he did."

Xavier knew that Logan was like an uncle to the girl and he did care for her like she was family to him also. Truth was all the young ones here were like a family to him also, and the fact that Wanda was in danger wasn't easy on him. He had thought he could protect them and train them to protect themselves but now he felt like a failure.

Then before he pulled the headset off he felt something. He closed his eyes and concentrated, Logan saw this and didn't notice himself holding his breath. Xavier focused his mind sensing familiar mutant signatures and locked onto the location as best he could. "I think I've found her."

"You sure?"

Xavier nodded his head after pulling off the headset and placed it down at the computer as he brought up the location. "It's somewhere up north near the pole it seems."

"Don't you think this is kind of too easy? I mean she goes missing for a few days and now suddenly you can find her. That's too continent." Logan crossed his arms and scowled at the computer screen.

Xavier sighed. "Yes I know but we need to get her back and I believe this is his way of an 'invitation' to us…I wish I knew what he had planned Logan I really do but we also can't just leave her in his care. Besides given a choice I know that the others wouldn't hesitate to go and help her."

"What about Mystique? We can't just leave her here alone."

Xavier thought about it. "We may have to leave Ororo behind, since I doubt you would stay behind and I need to confront Eric about all of this."

"Oh yeah she's really going to just love that." Logan said sarcastically.

-Skies over the Arctic-

They were in the X-Jet flying over the snowy landscape. Ororo hadn't been happy about being left being but someone had to keep an eye on Mystique and even Rogue was quite vocal that she wouldn't do it. Mainly because she was way too uncomfortable in the same room with the blue skinned woman.

Evan was sitting in his chair his leg twitching, he was anxious to get those Brotherhood goons and teach them a lesson as to why you don't mess with the X-Men. "Man I can't wait to kick their butts I mean I'm sure Wanda is giving them hell too. No way did she go quietly or is just letting them hold her."

"Yeah Wanda is tough and there's not way she'll just take it layin' down." Rogue said mainly for Kurt who knew all to well what Wanda could be like and it did give him a little hope.

"Yeah…so…are we there yet?" Spyke asked which earned him a glare from Logan in his brown and black uniform.

It was a little later when they saw it. A huge asteroid in what looked like a sci-fi city of sorts just imbedded in the thing, it was also just floating in the air a couple of miles off the ground. "Okay…that's impressive." Logan said, in all his years (that he could remember that is) he had never seen anything like this.

Xavier himself was completely taken aback by this as was everyone else. "It looks like Eric has been busy after all, this had to have taken him years to build in secret."

"Looks like the front door has been opened too." Scott said as light on what looked like a landing platform of some kind showed up. "I don't like this, this is too easy."

"I got to agree with Cyke, this smells like a trap to me." Said the Wolverine as he started to land the jet down on it.

Xavier nodded his head. "I know but we have to see what hand he's going to play and even though I to don't like this…what choice do we have really?" They all knew the answer was none and Logan landed the jet on the pad. As they disembarked they walked forward toward a large door that was open.

"Man anyone else feel like we're walking into the lion's den here?" Evan said a bit nervously. They entered a large open metal area that was mainly dark. When they were in the middle of the room the doors behind them shut down and the lights all over the place lit up.

The area was larger then it looked and metal was seen everywhere but in front of them was both Magneto and the feral Sabertooth who just growled at his life long rival Logan who was equally just as displeased to see him there.

"Charles." Magneto said simply.

"Eric what is going on? Why did you kidnap Wanda from her home?" Xavier asked him sternly.

"I simply took what is mine Charles."

Logan growled out at him and took a few steps forward. "You abandoned her bub, you lost any 'claim' to her a long time ago since we've been the ones raising her." Sabertooth took a step forward ready for a fight but Magneto held up his hand in a gesture to stop and he reluctantly stopped.

"I will agree with you that leaving Wanda was the hardest thing I have ever done and a cruel thing too…but I had my reasons. So I don't have to explain my action to you or anyone."

Kurt had had enough of this and walked up to the front. "Vhere is Vanda and Vhat have you done to her?" He demanded of him.

Magneto looked at Kurt and even thought his helmet hide his eyes in the shadows you could tell he was glaring at him. "She's happy now and that's all you need to know."

"She was happy vith us before!" Kurt angrily said to him.

"Maybe but now she doesn't remember any of you." He said coldly to them all and Kurt's eyes widened in horror.

Xavier didn't like what he just said and had a horrible feeling that he knew what he might have done, but there was a part of him that didn't want to believe his once longtime friend could do something so distasteful. "Eric…please tell me you didn't…" When he didn't answer Xavier hung his head in shame for him. "How could you?"

"It was the only way."

"Vhat! Vhat did he do to Vanda?" Kurt said getting frantic.

"I'm with him Magneto." Scott said angrily. "You took out friend and no matter what you did to her we're not leaving without her!"

"You don't have to leave at all," Magneto said and outstretched his arms. "This place is to be a sanctuary for our kind, a place where we all can live peacefully and safely from the humans when the war comes and take the fight to them when the time is right."

"You'd think we'd stay here with a nut case like you that kidnaps others and does whatever it is you're talking about?" Kitty asked him not believing that he was serious, that or he was just out of this mind.

"As I thought," Magneto only said mainly to himself, he knew they would be too blind to see his plans and didn't think anything further would convince them otherwise. "So be it, you may all leave but Wanda is staying with her family, her true family."

"Not a chance bub!" Logan roared out and tried to attack him but was tackled by Sabertooth as the old enemies went at it.

"I'm with Logan on this." Scott said and fire a blast at Magneto. The master of magnetism made a metal plate tare itself free off the wall and defend him.

Magneto had enough and thought that maybe it was time to implement the other plan he had, he didn't want to use this until it was a last resort but he did have an alternate plan to evolve mutants and gain their control. The only reason he didn't try it with Wanda was that the camber wasn't ready and her powers were already powerful enough as they were.

He tore more metal from the surrounding area as he attacked the X-Men. Spyke fired his bone spikes but never managed to get a hit off Magneto dealt with him first wrapping his legs and arms in metal and then focused on the others. Kitty and Kurt kept avoiding his attacks and he would have to leave them for last. Cyclops and Jean were the more immediate threat since Rogue was on the ground and out of reach.

Jean tried to use the loose metal against him but his powers were too strong for her and she lost a tug of war match and was wrapped up in metal just like Spyke. Scott went to her as she fell and from behind a piece of metal wrapped around his visor not only making him blind but covering the small controls on it.

Charles knew that with the helmet he couldn't do anything against Magneto but he could take control over Sabertooth. He concentrated and as he and Logan were viscously fighting the large feral mutant got a blank look on his face and then suddenly collapsed.

Logan looked to Xavier and nodded his thanks not wanting to waste words as he ran at Magneto, this proved to be a mistake as Magneto simply heard his coming and raised his hand and Logan couldn't move the metal in his body betraying him. He tried to move with all his strength but couldn't and was flung back through the air hitting Xavier and both fell down as Xavier was knocked from his chair and was helpless on the ground.

"Leave zhem alone!" Kurt shouted as he ported on Magneto's back and tried to tug the helmet off for Xavier to use his telepathy on him. "And give me back mien girlfriend!"

Magneto was getting angry and tried to keep the helmet on and with his powers caused a small piece of metal to hit Kurt in the pack causing him to fall but he ported at the last second and landed next to Rogue and Kitty.

"Kurt, give meh some of your powers if we both try then ah can drain him and get the helmet off." Rogue said to him and he nodded but just as he was about to reach for her all three were hit by a blue glow and forced hard into a wall. Kitty was knocked out cold and Rogue banged her head hard as the world was spinning. Kurt was in the same boat trying not to black out from the intense pain in his back and looked up with wide eyes shock at what he saw.

It was Wanda only not in a uniform she normally wore and the way she was looking at him, like she hated him. "Don't touch my father," She said coldly.

"V-Vanda…Vhy are you doing zhis? It's us,it's me Ku-hump!" Kurt's mouth was clamped shut by a metal band suddenly as Magneto made sure all were now bound and gagged. He didn't want any of them to speak to her until he was sure her new memories would hold up.

"What are you doing here daughter? I told you not to come here." He said coldly to her while trying to see if she knew who they were in her eyes.

"But father I saw then attacking you! What was I supposed to do?" She told him, she couldn't understand why her father didn't want her to meet these X-Men he told her about. She had been worried for her father and gone to check up on him and she came across these X-Men people attacking her father so what else was she supposed to do?

"We will talk about this later." He simply said to her and quickly a case nearby opened and a steel helmet came out and was quickly placed on Xavier's head especially when she saw Wanda close her eyes and place a hand to her head. He knew Xavier would try this and had made a helmet much like his own so it would block Xavier's telepathy.

Charles had been trying to reach Wanda, he felt the false memories there and tried to lift them but he needed more time and he was about to start making headway when he felt the metal helmet slide on his head and then all was silenced. It was a shock at first because he had always been aware of the minds of others and the sudden emptiness was surprising but soon it was terrifying because now he couldn't reach out to her.

Slowly they were all raised in the air as he made sure that they would all be placed in stasis for the time being. Wanda watched them float by and her eyes met the blue one and when she looked into those yellow eyes she didn't see hatred in them like an enemy should have. It was strange because it looked like he knew her and he had called out her name. But what really bothered her was this sense of déjà vu like she knew him, knew those eyes.

Something inside her told her that this was wrong but another part of her said that this was her father's bidding and she should do it. She walked away from it all as her head started to hurt a bit and decided to go lay down and rest. But before she left she couldn't help but take one last look at the blue fuzzy one and felt something again.

'Why do I feel this way? What's wrong with me?' She asked herself before going to her room hoping that after a short rest these…feelings would be gone.


NEXT UP CHAPTER 16: BETRAYAL AND RESCUE