Phoenyx: Glad u liked it. Here's chapter two...less swears than chap one ...btw...that was just to make it unmistakably clear that Pyro was pissed at humans and the people around him...anyways...glad u like it so here's chap two! Enjoy!
Chapter two: Do You Always Do what you're Told?
John's POV
They'd gone underground to find Stryker's lab. I was on the jet with Bobby and Rogue flicking my lighter trying to ignore the glances they were throwing me every now and then telling me exactly what they were thinking. What did you do? Why did you do it? Are you gonna leave with Magneto now?
Honestly, I didn't care anymore. I thought I did, but I didn't. I thought I had ruined whatever the professor had worked so hard for to help us mutants be able to walk the streets without having to be discriminated, but then at Bobby's house it was obvious that they don't care what the laws were as soon as they see that we actually have a brain and can protect ourselves because they need to keep themselves safe at any cause. No offense to the Professor or anything but his dream of mutants and humans one day getting along with one another is never going to come true if we keep this whole peace thing up. I've seen over the last few days…let alone years…that humans and their government respond to any mutant violently. If we wanna talk they wanna kill…it's as simple as that and I know that the Professor is just trying to create a window of opportunity for us peacefully but it's never going to work unless you gather all those humans that don't want to kill us and start a protest…only problem is that there's only about a handful people who don't hate us and a handful of those who do to every inch of those who don't. We're outnumbered by hatred but not by power…. We're basically gods among them and that's why they fear us. They're trying to scare us into following their laws and their bull shit morals…. If they had morals they wouldn't be trying to pass that Act and they would execute people like Stryker and Bobby's mom. And what really irks me is that the Professor knows that we're so much stronger than them and yet he let's us get pushed around like pawns on a chessboard. He know that we can command them at any time to follow our rules and our Acts, and yet he does nothing to stop them from trying to control us except going to conferences and getting Jean to speak for us.
That's probably why I actually paid attention to what Magneto had to say earlier because he made a good point. I am a god among insects and I shouldn't let anyone tell me otherwise. He was actually the first person to ever say that to me. He could see my power and my worth and he complimented me on it…not like the Professor who was always trying to get me to hold back my power. Didn't he understand that my power wasn't given to me of all people to be held back? Maybe not and that's probably why I never really got along with him…why I never saw things the way he did…. But Magneto…he understood where I was coming from…he understood my need for freedom and my hatred for fear of humans and my hatred of humans. He understood that I wasn't scared and that I'd never be. I was never scared of them. I always knew that I could kill them with a flick of my wrist if I wanted to. And Magneto understood that I wanted out of this whole peace group. He knew I didn't like it and he also knew that, secretly, I always wondered how he got so…strong and righteous. And I bet he knew now that someday I was going to end up on his doorstep to join his team…I wasn't ever planning on staying with the Professor forever…who would? I mean, who in my position would? It's just not feasible. I can't stand being held back; I can't stand living in fear of the humans when I can just smite them with my beloved fire and I can't stand fighting for our rights peacefully when it's not working anymore!
Just leave then…. Get up and leave…. It's not like they care about you anymore. They probably never did. You were Bobby's proclaimed best friend but you were just basically the third wheel in his and Rogue's futile relationship…. Yeah, true. So just leave…. Yeah, just leave…. But where do I go? …. Magneto.
I nodded and flicked my lighter shut.
"That's it," I said, getting up and walking over to the control panel to lower the ramp.
"Where're you going?" asked Bobby as I grabbed one of the jackets and pulled it on.
"I'm sick of this kid's table shit, I'm going in there," I said fixing my collar and hearing a small gasp from Rogue before she said, "John, they told us to stay here!"
I scoffed and said, "Do you always do what you're told?"
They both stared at me in silence and I took that as a cue to exit the ship and step into the biting winter air of Alkali Lake. I pulled my jacket closer to me and walked on.
After a while of walking I felt bullet shoot through the back of my head and embed itself in my brain, painfully. What the hell was it? What was this pain that I suddenly felt? Jesus Christ, make it stop! Then it did. I'd collapsed onto the ground, grabbing my head in pain and when it stopped, I sat up in a puddle of water. The snow had melted around me…. Cool…I mean…hot.
I stood up and walked on until I found the ship that Mystique and Magneto had come on. They were about to leave when Mystique just glanced over to where I was standing and then looked at Magneto who also looked to where I was I standing. He stared at me for a minute with a proud smirk on his face and then waved me over. As soon as I was on board, we took off to his hide out.
I wonder where that is.
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