Before I start, thanks to my repliers.
tillallareone - I used to try playing little-leauge baseball with a wooden bat, so that's where I got the idea. Silly, isn't it?
Note: Things start to get a little odd around this chapter. Bear with me, because it's strange and cool.
Chapter 6: A Day To Forget
Two weeks had passed, and J.T.'s control over his powers and said powers had increased greatly. The Brotherhood had tried to make their move, but J.T. was against participating with people who would hurt others.J.T. tried talking to Kitty, but the words would never come. So neither would the truth. However, one one particular day, things were looking extremely down for the Brotherhood. It was around five in the morning and Freddy, Todd and Lance were plotting on how to get J.T. to join them.
"Man, if we don't get that J.T. guy to join us, Magneto's going to bite our heads off," said Todd.
"So what're we waiting for?" Freddy asked.
Just then, Pietro, otherwise known as Quicksilver, ran into the house out of breath, even for him.
"Guys, we...we need to get out of here," he said.
"What's the matter, Pietro? Mystique coming?" Lance asked.
"Worse. The cops are on us! We...we need to find a new place to lay low," said Pietro.
"Shit! How many are there?" Lance asked.
"Hundreds. Maybe thousands. I couldn't tell," Pietro replied.
"Well where are we supposed to go?" Freddy asked.
"I don't know. Get Wanda and some stuff and let's get the hell out of here," Pietro replied.
"You don't need to tell me twice," Todd exclaimed.
Freddy immediately ran upstairs to find Wanda, aka Scarlet Witch. He couldn't get her door open so he just broke it down!
"What the hell are you doing in here! Get out," Wanda shouted.
"The police are on to us. We need to get out of here," said Freddy.
Wanda and Freddy frantically gathered spare clothes and such from everyone's room. Pietro and Lance cleared a path out of the house the Brotherhood had been living in and everyone quickly fled. Not long afterwards, the house was set on fire! Everyone got out all right, but the damage was dealt.
"Man, that was almost us," said Todd.
"Spread out! Those mutants can't be too far away," a police officer shouted.
"Let's get out of here! We've got to find a new place to crash," said Lance.
"I know a place, but you guys aren't going to like it," said Wanda.
"I'll try anywhere right about now," said Pietro.
"The Xavier Institue," said Wanda.
"You're right, I don't like it," said Pietro.
"What's wrong with you! We can't go crawling up to those Xavier punks and tell them what happened," Lance shouted.
"Hate to admit it, but Lance is right. The Brotherhood an' the X-Men don't exactly mix," said Todd.
"I used to talk with Professor Xavier, and he said that we should go if we need any help," said Wnada.
"Look, whatever the reason, we can't go crawling to them," said Pietro.
"Look over there. We haven't looked over there yet," another police officer shouted.
"Okay, let's go," said Freddy.
"Good idea," said Todd.
So everyone scrambled for the Xavier Institute, much as they didn't want to. They stood outside the fence and started shouting into the intercom system.
"Hey Xavier! Open up! Come on, I know you can hear me," Lance shouted.
"Yo, come on! This isn't funny! Come on, help some fellow mutants out," said Todd.
"Hey, come on, give us a chance to explain," said Freddy.
"Let me try," said Wanda. "Professor Xavier? It's me, Wanda. Much as the guys hate to admit it, we need your help. Open up so we can explain the situation."
Sure enough, the gates opened. Everyone walked in, not expecting a friendly reception. In the front lobby, J.T., Woverine and Professor Xavier met up with them. Wolverine growled angrily.
"So, what's the problem?" Professor Xavier asked.
"Well, the police burned down our house," Wanda replied.
"A hate crime?" J.T. asked.
"No. This came down from the higher offices. They looked like soldiers, and they had this shield logo on their shoulders," Lance replied.
"S.H.I.E.L.D.," Wolverine snarled.
"What? What's S.H.I.E.L.D.?" Todd asked.
"It's a secret government organization. Probably their idea is to rid the country of mutants," Wovlerine replied.
"So, what? It's not safe here either?" Freddy asked.
"Most likely not. I think we should leave while the opportunity is present," said Professor Xavier.
No sooner did Professor Xavier say those words that S.H.I.E.L.D. operatives started to storm the premecies!
"Oh shit! Professor, I'll take a few of the Brotherhood guys to get everyone up and start evacuating. You guys get down to the Blackbird and get ready to leave," said J.T.
"That's a good plan. Wolverine, you and Wanda hold off the soldiers," said Professor Xavier.
"Will do, Chuck," said Wolverine.
The soldiers continued to make their way towards the mansion. Just then, a flurry of explosions started going off outside near the soldiers!
"What the?" said Wolverine.
"Oh yeah, I called a friend of mine. He said he'd bring his posse when the time came.
Gambit, Colossus, Sabertooth and Pyro flew seemingly out of nowhere and started fighting with the soldiers!
"Guys, come with me. We need to get the others up," said J.T.
J.T., Todd, Freddy and Lance headed upstairs and started to wake everyone up. J.T. immediately ran over towards Kitty and Rouge's room.
"Guys, get up, now! It's an emergency," J.T. shouted.
"J.T.? Do you have any clue what time it is?" Rouge asked.
"Yeah, but there's no time for sleeping! Soldiers are forcing their way into the building," said J.T.
"What? Is that what all the commotion is all about?" Kitty asked.
"Yes. Now get up and get out of here," J.T. replied.
J.T. stopped in his room and picked up a few of his books. Unknown to him, so did Kitty. Todd, Freddy and Lance started running into random rooms and waking up whoever was in them. However it was the explosions and gunshots that really got everyone up.
"Guys, get downstairs and get to the Blackbird, now," J.T. shouted.
After getting everyone awake and wise to the situation, J.T. went out to help Wolverine and Wanda.
"So what's been happening?" J.T. asked.
"Things have not been going good," said Wolverine.
"Then allow me to help you," said J.T.
J.T. turned his right hand into a katana and started slicing the soldiers back. However, they started to drop soldiers in on the roof! Likewise, the soldiers were starting to overrun Gambit and Scarlet Witch!
"Remy! Hang on, buddy," J.T. shouted.
J.T. jumped into the fracas head-on and started to fight off the soldiers!
"Thanks man. I owe you one," said Remy.
"Save it. We need to get everyone down to the Blackbird," said J.T.
"Then let me help you," a menacing voice called out.
Just then, a large metal ball dropped out of the sky. It seemed to melt into a pair of balls in a man's hands. Who else would it be but Magneto! Back in the mansion, Scott and Jean were having trouble finding their way down to the Blackbird hangar. There were soldiers everywhere!
"Scott, look out," Jean exclaimed.
Jean telepathically forced a soldier back into a large group of soldiers!
"Scott, I'm scared," said Jean.
"Hang on," said Scott.
Scott fired an optic blast down into the ground and the two leaped down a floor and near the elevator to the training area.
"Wait, we need to get Cerebro," said Jean.
"Good idea," said Scott.
The two made their way to the room that held Cerebro, only to find it was in another person's hands.
"Mystique," Scott snarled.
"Yes. And I finally have Cerebro," said Mystique.
"Not for long," said Scott.
"Ah ah. Attack me and I'll destroy Cerebro," said Mystique.
Just then, the helmet levatated out of Mytique's hands and int Jean's! Then Scott fired an optic blast at her, knocking her through a wall!
"Now let's get out of here," said Scott.
Elsewhere, Kitty and Rouge were trying to escape the soldiers. Just then, a few of Remy's playing cards flew at the soldiers and blasted them back out a window!
"Wha's a couple of pretty cheries doin' unescorted?" said Remy.
"Back off, Sewer Rat. Come on," said Rouge.
Everyone dashed off for the hangar. The four encountered soldiers everywhere, breaking through the ceiling and windows.
"Like, where are all these guys coming from?" Kitty asked.
"Run now, ask questions later! This way," J.T. replied.
Gambit and Rouge fell through a hole in the floor (yes, the same one Scott made earlier) while J.T. and Kitty hopped over it. J.T. and Kitty ran to the end of the hall and fell through the banister in the foyer!
"J.T., you okay?" Kitty asked.
"I've been worse," J.T. replied.
Four soldiers broke in the front door and unloaded four 25-shot rounds at J.T. and Kitty! J.T. smothered Kitty and took the bullets in the back!
"J.T.! What're you doing?" Kitty asked.
"Making sure the right person gets hurt," J.T. grunted.
Kitty grabbed J.T. by the arm and phazed through the floor. There, J.T. and Kitty finally had some breathing room.
"J.T., what is the matter with you?" Kitty asked.
"I used to only live for myself. I'm finally living for someone else," J.T. groaned.
"You...idiot," said Kitty.
"Come on. We're not out of the woods yet. Let's go," said J.T.
J.T. and Kitty continued down the hall towards the Blackbird. Just then, more soldiers broke through to the lower layers and found J.T. and Kitty! J.T. saw him readying a sniper rifle and it was aimed at Kitty! J.T. quickly tossed her to the ground as the soldier pulled the trigger! J.T. placed his arms in front of his face, but just as the bullet was about to pass over his left arm and hit him in the forehead, his right arm turned into a shield, protecting him! The soldier loaded in another bullet and fired, but this time, Kitty pushed J.T. out of the way and got the bullet right in the chest!
"Kitty, no," J.T. shouted.
Just then, the soldier pulled out a shotgun! He dashed towards J.T., hoping to put an end to him. J.T. turned his right hand into a katana and sliced the gun before he could get the shot off and cut the guard's head off! He picked up Kitty and carried her to the Blackbird.
"Professor, we've got a situation," J.T. shouted, panting.
"What's the matter?" Professor Xavier asked.
"Kitty got shot by a sniper. Right in the chest," J.T. replied.
"Let's get her on a bed," said Professor Xavier.
Elsewhere, Rouge and Remy were having a debate over where to go.
"I'm tellin' you is dis way," said Remy.
"Hey, which one of us lives here! I'm tellin' you it's this way," Rouge shouted.
"There's two of them! Get 'em," a voice called out!
Suddenly, there were ten soldiers in the hall!
"Hold on to me," said Remy.
Remy took out a card and blew a hole in the floor! There, they were around thirty feet from the Blackbird's hangar. They saw a trail of blood on the floor leading to the Blackbird!
"I have a very bad feelin' about de trail of blood," said Remy.
"Yeah, a trail of blood is normally a bad thing," said Rouge.
Inside the plane, they saw Magneto using his powers to pull the bullets from J.T.'s back while Jean stitched up the bullet wounds.
"That should do it. I can't believe they got you only fifty times," said Magneto.
"Don't toss out those bullets. I want to use those to make a necklace later," said J.T. "But I'm really concerned about Kitty. How is she?"
"I...I can't say. The bullet pierced her lung. I wish I could help," Professor Xavier replied.
J.T. got up and quickly dashed over to Kitty's side. He saw Kitty struggling for breath, despite the fact the bullet had been extracted and her wound patched up. J.T. took Kitty's hand and began to rub it with his thumb.
"Kitty," he whimpered.
Just then, Kurt teleported into the Blackbird and saw Kitty.
"What happened?" Kurt asked in apparant shock.
"Kitty got hit by a sniper bullet. Right in the chest," J.T. replied sadly.
Kurt sat down right next to J.T.
"I can't believe it. I thought Kitty would let the bullet phaze through her," said Kurt.
"I took fifty bullets for her, and she's the one who ends up like this?" J.T. asked himself. "That's fucked up."
J.T. got up in rage.
"Damn it! What the hell's it all for! She didn't do nothin'," J.T. shouted.
"Easy, easy. She'll be okay," said Kurt.
"I should have taken the bullet. I should have taken it," said J.T.
Just then, Pyro, Colossus, Todd, Freddy and Lance ran onto the ship.
"Is there anyone left out there?" Scott asked. "Wait a minute, where's Bobby and Amara?"
"And where's Wanda?" Todd shouted. "And where'd Pietro get to all of a sudden?"
Scott ran in to find Kurt.
"Kurt! Kurt," he shouted.
"What is it Scott?" Kurt asked.
"We need you to find Bobby, Amara, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch," said Scott.
"Jahoul," Kurt replied.
Kurt warped back to the bedrooms and found Amara and Bobby unconscious and bleeding. He quickly got in contact with them and teleported back to the Blackbird. Then he warped to the front yard and found the soldiers taking Pietro and Wanda's unconscious bodies onto a helicopter! He warped up to them, several of the soldiers noticing him and shooting at him!
"Stop shooting you idiots! You might hit the others," said one of the soldiers.
Kurt warped the three of them back to the Blackbird.
"Why didn't you shoot him?" the soldier asked.
"You said not to shoot," said another soldier.
Back on the Blackbird, Storm and Beast just got on.
"Has anyone seen Mystique?" Jean asked.
"No, I could find no trace of her," Storm replied.
"Forget her. If there's one thing she knows how to do, it's escape," said Magneto.
"Then get us the hell out of here," Scott exclaimed.
The Blackbird took off in a flash. The soldiers had just pulled the last of their men out. As the Blackbird pulled out of the hangar, a bomber passed over the manor and bombed it. The building was gone in a flash, but Mystique managed to escape, disguised as a soldier. Hours later, the Blackbird was out of the area and out of the miliary's view.
"Well, this sucks," said Lance.
"That's an understatement," said Scott.
"'Ey, things could have been a lot worse than they were, so be thankful nobody's dead," said Pyro.
"That's not nessicarily true," said Kurt. "Kitty's in the other room suffering from a bullet wound to the chest."
"Man, I can't wait to find out who did this. I'll break them in half," Freddy exclaimed.
"Relax. For now, we need to find a place to lay low and get ourselves recouperated," said Scott.
Magneto overheard and came out from the cockpit.
"So, where are we headed?" Jean asked.
"Asteroid X," Magneto replied. "I've made a new Asteroid X out in the New Mexico desert. That's where we are going."
Back near the back of the plane, J.T. was still watching over Kitty. And still J.T. was feeling lower than dirt over Kitty getting hurt, feeling like he could have done something to prevent it. Jean walked in to see how her friend was faring.
"How bad is it?" Jean asked.
"Bad," said J.T.
"I can't believe you took fifty bullets for her," said Jean. "You all right?"
"Believe me, I've been worse," J.T. replied.
"So, do you think she'll be all right?" Jean asked.
"I hope so, Jean, I hope so," J.T. replied.
Seemingly out of nowhere, something hit the right side of the plane!
"What was that?" Jean asked.
"We're under attack," J.T. replied.
Jean ran towards the front of the plane, but noticed J.T. wasn't coming.
"J.T., are you coming?" Jean asked.
"No. I'm staying here with Kitty," J.T. replied.
Up in the cockpit, Professor Xavier and Magneto were desparately trying to evade their attackers.
"Why is the military after us?" Professor Xavier shouted.
"We're mutants. They consider us a threat," Magneto replied.
Magneto hooked himself up like he was going outside!
"Wait, we don't want to hurt them," said Professor Xavier.
"We have no choice, Charles. It's either we live or we die," said Magneto.
Charles flipped a switch and raised Magneto out of the plane. Magneto used his magnetic powers to bend the opposing fighter jets' wings and force them down. Just then, a missile flew at Magneto! He caught it with his powers and forced it the other way. Professor Xavier flipped the switch again and the platform Magneto was on went back into the plane.
"Now let's get out of here," said Magneto.
Magneto threw the accelerator into overdrive and the plane flew off for Asteroid X. There, everyone made their way in and quickly found themselves with a dilemma.
"Why did this have to happen? Why to us?" Jean asked.
"Because we are mutants," Beast replied.
"Well this is just grand," said Kurt.
"I can't stand this! I'm going out there and tearing them limb from limb," Freddy erupted.
"No, that would hurt us more than it'd help. Chill out," said Lance.
"Well this is great. Kitty, Bobby, Amara and J.T. are hurt, we're outnumbered and we're stuck on this rock," said Scott.
"Easy Scott. We'll pull through this," said Jean.
In another room, J.T. was sitting with Kitty. Unbeknownst to him, Kitty was having an out-of-body experience, and she was right above him!
"Like, what happened? Am I dreaming?" Kitty asked herself.
She looked down and saw J.T. sitting beside someone's lifeless body.
"Kitty, you there?" J.T. asked.
"Don't be silly, J.T., of course I am," Kitty's out-of-body self replied.
J.T. sighed heavily. "This...isn't easy for me to say, Kitty. You've really grown on me. What I mean is, well, I think I've got a crush on you," he said.
"What?" Kitty asked herself.
"I just...wish you were awake to hear that," said J.T.
"I heard you! Come on, J.T., what's wrong?" Kitty asked.
Just then, she recognized the body J.T. was sitting with.
"That's...me! Am I dead?" she asked.
"Kitty, please wake up. I can't stand seeing you suffer like this," said J.T.
Just then, Professor Xavier wheeled his way in.
"What's wrong, Professor?" J.T. asked.
"I'm sorry, but we have to cut the life-support system," Professor Xavier replied.
"WHAT! Are you crazy! Look at her! She needs the life-support," said J.T.
"That's it, even with the life-support, she's suffering. It's best we put her out of her misery," said Professor Xavier. "I do not wish to do it any more than you do."
"No! I won't let you," J.T. exclaimed.
"Wait, Professor! Don't! Please, I'm okay," the out-of-body Kitty shouted, likewise going completely unnoticed.
Professor Xavier went to cut the life-support as Kitty frantically tried to get back to her body!
"No," J.T. shouted.
J.T. grabbed Professor Xavier by the arm, preventing Professor Xavier from cutting the life-support.
"J.T., release me immediately," said Professor Xavier.
Professor Xavier tore his arm away from J.T.'s grip.
"I'm sorry, but this must be done," said Professor Xavier.
The life-support fizzled, but even still, Kitty's pulse continued!
"What?" J.T. asked.
"I don't believe it. She's alive," said Professor Xavier.
Kitty moaned painfully and eventually opened her eyes.
"Kitty?" J.T. asked.
"Hi J.T.," said Kitty in pain.
J.T. wrapped his arms around Kitty and hugged her.
"What happened, Kitty?" J.T. asked.
"I guess...I heard your voice, then I came back," Kitty replied. "Thanks for being a good friend."
"For a friend like you, anything," said J.T.
J.T. turned around for just a moment. "'Friend'! She's never going to like me," J.T. thought.
"You going to be all right?" J.T. asked.
"Yeah, I guess," Kitty replied. "I just want to forget today ever happened."
"You, me, and everyone else," said J.T.
"It's wierd. I said I heard you, but it was while I was having an out-of-body experience. It was scary, but cool at the same time," said Kitty. "Thanks for protecting me."
"If anything, I should be thanking you. If I didn't feel this need to protect you, I wouldn't have been able turn my arm into a shield," said J.T.
"Well, you're welcome," said Kitty.
"I can't believe out of all the books I've written I only saved this one," said J.T.
"Actually, before we bolted out of the mansion, I picked up one of the books and it had a CD in it," said Kitty.
"You picked up the CD I have all my stories on! Please, give it to me," said J.T.
Kitty took a disc out of the back pocket of her shorts and gave it to J.T.
"Thanks, Kitty. Now I still have my stories," said J.T. "Oh man, I just got such an idea! I wonder if Magneto's got a Word Processor program on one of his computers?"
"Sorry, no," said Magneto, who had overheard the last part of the conversation.
"Tch. Ah well. Anyway, I'm going to get something to eat, then I'm going to get some sleep. See ya," said J.T.
J.T. walked out past Magneto.
"I don't trust that Magneto guy," J.T. thought. "He wants to use me to kill. I can feel it."