Chapter Eleven

Finally after what seemed like forever, crawling threw a small vent and taking so many tuns and such, we found our friends in a bigger room than before. Only this time they were each in a seperate cell and they had ankle braces on. The seven cells went all the way around the large room. The only people we couldn't see were Chris, Rogue and Knole. In the center of the room there were two men. One wore a white lab coat and and had a badge on but I couldn't read it form where I was. The second man had a red helmet, a purple cape and a one piece out fit to match. The men were standing by a metal bed that lay vertically instead of horizontally. The man with a helmet had his back turned to us but Cyclops knew who it was.

Cyclops, who's that? I asked as we watched the two men quietly.

That is Magneto, Master of magnetism. His real name is Eric Lensherr. He's an old friend of the professor's but he doesn't think that the way to go about all this mutant propaganda is to have peace talks and play nice. He thinks that mutants should fight back because he believes that there will one day be a war between mutants and humans. I should have known he would have been involved with this some how. I just don't know what he's doing, not yet any way. As for the other man i have no idea who he is maybe someone else does. I know he has a badge on see if some one can read it.

Before I could even contact one of the X-men the man in the lab coat began talking to Magneto.

"This is brilliant Mr. Lensherr. Simple brilliant! What exactly are you going to do with them if you don't mind me asking?" Magneto moved to the first cell, which held Iceman and walked to each cell as he began to talk.

"I am going to use them to defeat the worlds greatest powers and then take over the world for myself! Mr. Trask please call me Magneto."

"You're going to brain wash them?" The lab coat man asked. Magneto shock his head.

"Surely you don't expect them to do it willingly?"

"Oh they'll do it willingly all right."

"How can you be so sure. I mean after all these are the X-men we are talking about."

"Observe." Magneto waved a metal door open, in between Bobby and Wolverine's cells and three figures came out. They had chains on their wrists and ankles. As soon as they were pulled into the light and by Magneto, everyone in the room, except for Magneto and Trask, gasped. It was Jean, Polaris, and Angel. Angel's wings were also tied back with metal restraints. Some how they had managed to get themselves caught. I felt responsible for it because I had sent them out to help the people in the city.

Before I could talk to Cyclops or Havoc, Magneto began to talk again.

"If they do not follow my demands, then I will kill all three of them."

"What's the vertical table for?" Trask asked as he looked at it.

"Oh that is for these three." Magneto pointed to the three X-men right next to him, "It sends an electrical current threw their bodies and each time it does it increases until the victum is dead. This is what I will do if the other X-men don't compile with my demands."

A smile came on to Magneto's face and it was an evil on at that. My heart sank to my stomach. I turned to Cyclops and Havoc. I could barley see their faces but I knew that they were scared for their girlfriends and maybe a little mad at me for sending them off but I didn't blame them and they weren't going to hold it against me. At least I hoped they wouldn't.

Cyclops, Havoc, it will be all right. We'll get them out before anything happens to them.

I had to promise them that much. I opened a psi link with Jean.

Jean, you all right?

As good as I'm going to get. Where the heck are you? I thought you were going to get captured as well.

Wolverine kind of messed that up. He got himself captured because he was showing up not because of the plan. Scott, Alex and I are in the vent above Chris, Storm and Knole. Do the chains neutralize your powers?

Yeah and they are really tight. You better cut this link. I think the chains also tell Magneto when some one is communicating telepathically. I did as Jean said and waited as we watched Magneto walk up to Jean. He looked at her left wrist chain and a red light was blinking.

"Whom were you talking to my dear?" he asked as he placed his hand on her cheek. I wanted her to bite him but I think she figured that if she did that then that would only speed things up. She did not answer his question so he asked again.

"Tell me who you were talking to and I will go easy on them once we find them."

"I won't tell you a thing." She said. He backhanded her.

"Fine I will find them myself. I know you weren't the person who created the link because you can't use your powers so that means that there is another telepath in this room because they couldn't possibly be outside of the complex. I know exactly where they are as well. You can come out now, Cyclops. I know your in here and I know you have friends as well. One of them is a telepath. Since I know where you are there is no scence in you hiding from me any longer. You want to know how I know you are here. One I heard Wolverine tell the others that you, a mutant named Black Fox and another named Havoc were on their way to save them. Two I have outside cameras as well as inside. My camera caught you crawling threw the ventilation system and closing the vent's door behind you. I am getting tiered of explaining myself to you!"

Suddenly the vent began to shack. The bottom of the vent looked like it was turning to liquad. I was able to hold Havoc, Cyclops and I telekinetically for a few moments but not for long. In the end we ended up falling and reveling ourselves to everyone. Thankfully none of us broke anything but it hurt like heck to fall from ten feet in the air. We saw Magneto coming towards us. He waived his hand around to see if we had any metal that he could manipulate and the only metal he fond on us Was Cyclops's visor. He ripped it off of Scott's face.

Just then three sentinels came in threw the door below the vent. One grabbed me, the second robot grabbed Havoc and the third on grabbed Scott but the face. They put the chains on us and shoved me in to the cell with Wolverine, Havoc in the cell with Storm and Scott in the cell with Rogue. Magneto then brought two more metal vertical beds into the room and threw Jean, Polaris and Angel up against the beds and rechained their chains to the bed so that they could not get loose.

Then Magneto came over to the cell that I was in. "Now, you will either do as I tell you and capture the governer of a few states as well as the power leaders in the other countries or your friends will die a slow and painful death. What will it be?"

I looked at Angel and I could tell by the look on his face that he didn't want to die but he didn't want me toserender myself to some evil plot to take over the world either. We said our silent good-byes by looking into each other's eyes. A tear fell from my face and I knew what I had to do.

"I would never do as you wanted even if that was my own family in that chair."

"Oh really," Magneto said as he dismised Trask, who took the three sentinels with him. I continued to glare at Magneto as he walked up to Chris's cell door. "This is your husban correct?"

I didn't say a word nor did I move a musle.

"I'll just take that as a yes." Magneto bent the metal bars back and pulled chris out of the cell and brought him over t the three metal tables. He faced Jean towards Scott and Polaris towards Havoc and then Angel towards me.

"Now who will I allow to live in the place of Fox's husband?" Magneto said to himself.

"I believe I shall let Angel live a while longer." Magneto pulled the bars to my cell back and threw Angel in and then closed the bars back up before I could get out. He then chined Chris to the table that now faced me. Magneto left the room laughing as he took Bobby, Knole and Andi with him.