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Hours blended into days that blended soon into weeks and, after a fortnight, the drill sergeant decided to go and look at the analysis of his two newest recruits – the two he had high hopes for.
It had been hard, he admitted to himself, to find them both, he needed mutants that wouldn't crack too easily into insanity or ones that would be too stubborn to obey. But most importantly, they needed to be strong.
And the results were proving this.
The woman doctor glanced at him before looking at the results again. "It appears that Nightcrawler has improved by a total of one hundred and fifty percent, most likely because of the strict regime and proper diet we have him on. The Scarlet Witch however has only developed further by eighty percent, mainly in her fitness. Most likely this is because of the uncertainty of her ability and an improved diet."
He had thought as such.
"That is all." Smiling, he left the medical ward and headed into the corridors to see his recruits who, when he looked into their cell, seemed intent on keeping their eyes locked on the others and trying to make the other drop their gaze first.
The girl was going cross eyed and the boy was sticking his tongue out at her and wagging it. Suppressing their giggles, they continued, this time she stuck her tongue out and he began to tap her with his tail.
The sergeant coughed. "As cute as that may be, I'm afraid I must remind you that your supposed to be terrifying creatures."
Kurt shrugged; keeping his eyes locked on Wanda. "Ve're practising keeping eye contact."
She burst out laughing and gave up, turning to look at the drill sergeant. The two weeks had changed her already, her skin and hair gleaming with health and her eyes were sparkling with laughter. Her lean form was all muscle and her mind was being sharpened.
Nightcrawler on the other hand had lost some weight, the fat turning into muscle and he too gleamed with health, his fur and eyes sparkling. His mind however seemed to have been darkening, perhaps at the fact that he enjoyed his imprisonment, that he was allowed to truly be ruled by his instincts and abilities.
"You're both on a mission today."
Their smiles faded as they looked at him warily, no doubt having heard of the many recounts of Banshee's and Dazzlers own missions.
"You will be with your other team mates and heading to a sub basement warehouse in central America. From there, you will breach the building and enter the laboratories were you will destroy all their development and any living specimens. You are also to eliminate the main researcher and return home, all of you alive and with the samples you will be later asked to collect."
Neither dropped their gazes as they looked at him coldly.
"It's for your own goods." He watched them glance at each other, and oddly enough, they smiled in a way he had only ever seen them do so to each other.
Kurt broke the silence. "And if ve, and zhats if, ve refused zhis mission, vhat are the consequences?"
"Making your lives hell."
"Very vell, ve have no choice but to accept."
The sergeant smiled. "It was never a case of choice, Nightcrawler. Get suited up and I'll be expecting you to be standing at the main entrance by the time I reach there with Dazzler and Banshee."
The pair nodded and watched him leave.
Wanda sighed. "We have to kill, the nightmares become a reality."
"I vont let your hands be stained." The blue mutant put an arm round her shoulder and locked eyes with her. "You vill never be spoilt in mein eyes."
She cuddled him.
"Come on, ve'd best get suited up, ja?"
"In a minute."
Kurt smiled and looked at the angel in his arms, and wondered how he would tell her that he was no angel; that he had long ago fallen.
It was cold, dark and damp, the metal tunnels no bigger than crawl space and filled with the discerning squeak of rats, their furry bodies brushing against the four mutants that entered the subterranean compound.
Banshee pressed a button that was on a small microphone device that hung on his ear and to his mouth. Doing this allowed him to speak to everyone in the tunnels by whispering.
"We shouldn't be much further, according to the maps it's the next left and we should be above the laboratories."
Wanda frowned as she replied. "What sort of things are they doing here that make our gaolers want them dead?"
Dazzler laughed quietly. "Girl, whatever the reason is, it doesn't matter, they're to die today and they will."
"But why?"
"Because its orders."
She fell silent and continued to crawl behind Kurt who had barely spoken two words since leaving their cell, his mind dwelling on a different matter.
And then they were there. Removing a ventilation panel, Wanda hexed the cameras and they all moved into the corridor, Kurt scouting ahead on the ceiling as Banshee kept to the back, both girls dealing with all the cameras and alarm systems.
It took about ten minutes to reach the laboratories themselves; here Kurt paused to look at them all. "Remember, ve have to destroy everything inside zhe labs."
"Check." They all removed small explosive devices from their pockets, ones specially designed to destroy nearly any substance at extreme temperatures.
Then they went in.
It took a few moments for the staff to realise they were being intruded upon, several more for them to react at all and even then, a few more to actually be in a position to do anything useful. That was all it took for the majority of them to be dealt with using minimal force and for all the data to be destroyed.
Kurt frowned, it had been too easy, surely if something posed so much of a threat it would be more heavily guarded. Looking about, he spotted a large metal door that was covered in locks.
"Zhats zhe vun. Everyone, over here."
Using one of the explosives, the door was opened and they charged in.
They charged straight into hell.
The reek of rot and the stagnant stench of filth and vomit hit them like a tidal wave, then their brains registered what they had come across. In rows and rows of tiny cages where dozens of mutants in various forms of death and dieing.
"Mien gott."
Wanda gagged, her eyes streaming tears.
Banshee simply stared.
Dazzler took a few steps back before looking at them all. "What…what are we going to do now?"
Looking about, Kurt sighed. "Kill zhem all, death vill bring zhem mercy." And he strode forward, pulling switches, turning off the machines keeping them alive as did the others.
It wasn't killing, it was letting them die.
The scarlet witch turned to the blue mutant. "What where they doing here?"
He shrugged. "Collecting data on mutants?"
"For what?"
Banshee laughed. "Biological warfare no doubt. Isolate what makes us different, invent something to target that and guess what? No mutants left." He sighed. "These are just the test subjects, where are they keeping the technicians and actual strains of virus?"
Wanda smiled. "Behind that really big metal door with the group of angry looking security staff in front of it?"
"That'd be the one lass."
They all shared a smile before charging, Kurt vanishing in a puff of smoke that had a spray of bullets aimed at it. In that moment, he reappeared and knocked a few of them down as Wanda hexed their guns and Banshee screamed, causing many to cover their ears and cower. The noise and light was used by Dazzler to create crystals, most aimed at the men's heads.
All proved lethal.
Throwing a few guns, Wanda turned to look at Kurt and her eyes widened as she realised that one of the guards was about to fire at her. At that moment, he vanished in a puff of brimstone, reappearing behind a counter that Kurt nimbly jumped on.
"Zhats zhe last of zhem, ve'd best see vhat zhey vere protecting, ja?"
"Aye." Banshee agreed and glanced behind the counter, seeing a security guard with his head teleported inside of the counter itself.
Once they had gotten through the door, they entered a room that was consisted purely of white with glass vials bubbling on various work surfaces and contained one lone scientist, the man desperately trying to salvage some of his work.
Over their intercoms, the sergeants' voice sounded.
"Banshee, Dazzler, head to the main entrance, we need some more back up for the other groups dealing with the security there. Scarlet Witch and Nightcrawler can finish the task from here."
"Right sir." The two older mutants dashed room the room leaving the two younger ones to look levelly at the scientist.
Kurt eventually spoke. "Vhere are the viruses?"
The man stammered. "In that case, over there."
The intercom crackled. "Destroy it."
"Of course, sir." Wanda rolled her eyes and walked over to the case, starting to fix the explosive device on it that would eradicate the virus.
"Nightcrawler, kill the scientist."
"No!" The man backed against the wall. "I have a wife and three kids!"
"Nightcrawler, kill him."
Wanda looked at the blue mutant. "No, Kurt, don't!"
"Then you can, Scarlet Witch."
The blue mutant growled. "Her hands vont be stained."
"Neither will yours!"
The intercom cackled. "But girl, his were stained a long time ago, he's already killed, he's nothing more than one of the many you despise. He's no angel; he's as much a devil as he appears."
The girl looked at Kurt who looked away from her. "Is it true?"
"Ja. It vas mein…adopted brother, he vent mad, started to kill children, saying zhat he could see zhere evil and…and he vanted to kill me, he said I vas evil to."
The scientist growled. "You are evil! All of your kind is! I was so close to eradicating you!"
"He spoke very much like zhat, he vas mad." Kurt cocked his head, looking at the man. "I done zhe village a favour, I stopped zhe deaths and zhey in turned tried to burn me at zhe stake."
The room was deathly silent as the blue mutant glared at the scientist.
"It is people like you who claim zhere madness is sane and let us innocents suffer, I had never hurt any vun, I alvays said mein prayers and I followed mien teachings, I try to be good but people like you just decide if ve're good or evil." He growled. "Did it never occur to you zhat ve can be both, just like humanity?"
Gulping, the scientist shook his head. "You're…you're just a mutant."
"And zhats it? Vhat if I vas to say zhat you are just human?"
"I have -"
"A vife and three kinders, you said already." He smiled. "But zhen again, I have a mother and a father, brozers, sisters, friends," he looked at Wanda, "loved vuns and I'm still just a mutant."
She smiled at him and collected the last of the equipment which was placed into a small bag she had brought with her. "Kurt, I promise you'll still fly one day."
"And I intend to." He teleported, appearing next to the scientist and grabbed his skull, teleporting again, the body hitting the floor as the blue mutant appeared alongside Wanda, holding the head, blood dripping on the floor, staining his hands. "Traurig."
"It's ok. We'd best get back to the entrance before we're yelled at."
"Ja. The life of prisoners."
"Its pointless, he's not going to do it." Dazzler looked at her watch, sighing impatiently and waiting for the rest of the team.
"Aye, I've never met a man, human or mutant, so strong in his faith as him." Banshee sighed, watching the ground. "But he won't let Scarlet Witch do it; Nightcrawler has too many morals to let another sin."
The woman smiled suddenly. "You never know, it might loosen the blue guy up a little."
The sergeant looked at them both. "What is meant by that?"
She rolled her eyes. "He's so boring, its all orders and logic with him, no fun."
"Did it ever occur to you, Dazzler, that he was put in this team for that reason?" Shaking his head, the drill sergeant frowned, looking up. "There you two are, I thought we'd have to drag you both out."
Wanda was walking beside Kurt, the blue mutant was holding something and it was thrown at Dazzler.
"Catch." He growled before moving past, ignoring the woman's shrieks as she dropped the head.
"Good job Nightcrawler, kill and bring the evidence." The drill sergeant noted.
"Danke." He looked at the ground. "Its vhat I vas ordered to do."
"Oh, you enjoyed it, getting some revenge on a strain of humanity that refuses to accept that you're a free thinking individual."
Wanda looked at Kurt, waited for him to deny it but he never did.
He just smiled.
Wanda's mind was playing doubts on her and it refused to let her sleep, to even rest her eyes for one moment. The darkness of the cell and the only thing she could see, the occasional blinking of a security light.
Her mind still continued to wander, was she safe here? Was she safe with Kurt? Was Kurt still the mutant she knew or had he changed? Would she be able to change, to adapt to this new environment?
If she didn't, would she be doomed to forever be alone?
If she did, would she be damned to forever be alone?
Turning round, she couldn't suffer the silence any longer and chose to shake Kurt into the realm of the waking.
His eyes were already open and she could see the glimmer of his fangs as he softly smiled at her. "Couldn't sleep either, ja?"
"Yeah. Kurt…are you…?" She let the question hang.
He sighed. "I'm forever damned, as I already vas, mein angel, but I'm not any different to vhat I vas, if any zhing, I simply vont let any zhing happen any more. I need to stand in mien life, and I'm standing now."
She hugged him. "If we ever get out of here how are we going to survive?"
"Ve vill, ve're survivors, ve've survived so far."
"But…I'm going to be alone; no one will want me now I'm tainted." She could feel the tears on her cheeks. "I'll die a spinster."
"Nien, if ve get out of here, ve'll get married and die together, ja?"
"Really?"
"Really, I vont let you ever be unhappy." He smiled, stroking her hair. "You're mien angel, you're not allowed to be weighted down by sadness, you're supposed to fly free."
She smiled back at him. "I will, and you'll fly with me."
And she fell asleep to the soft stroking of her back in the blue mutants arms, and in her dreams, she flew.
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