Hey! Its been sometimes but i am back and with th worst writers block you can imagine.

My sister pointed out to me that in the last chapter, i say the doctor hits Toad with a pan. I make it sound like its a cooking frying pan, but i ment one of those surgical tray thingers...but if you want it to be a frying pan, feel free to believe that it is.

9. Lack of Humor

A selected few of the x-team were down below getting into their leather suits. The professor had been un-able to find Marina, but they did still have the address. Or at least they remembered what the address had been; no one had been able to find the piece of paper when they later returned to the office.

Storm and Logan were the lucky two, sent to check out the place where Marina had gone, and at his personal request, Bobby was to go with them. The professor understood that he and Marina had linked emotions, and knew that her disappearance made him uncomfortable.

Bobby couldn't help feeling even more uncomfortable as he walked onto the jet. Last time he had been in there Rogue had fallen out of the aircraft, and the jet itself was falling out of the sky.

"You buckled in back there?" called Storm.

"Yes," replied Logan from behind. Bobby was sitting in the copilot chair beside Storm, since Logan really didn't like flying.

The basketball court opened up and the jest flew out and up into the early morning air.

I sat in the empty bedroom doing nothing. No one had been in to see me since last night when John had walked out last night, angry at me for making a good point.

I was beginning to go out of my mind, not no why I was hear or how long I would be here for.

"Okay your going to tell me what is going on," I ordered the Eric in my head.

"My dear, I only know that of the past. I can never tell you what I know of the future unless I speak with you face to face."

"Then come make yourself face me!"

"That would be rude to interrupt him, he is talking to John you know."

"ERIC!"

"Alright, Alright, he's coming, but I had to give him a huge headache to do it."

I jumped to my feet and straightened my clothing and hair. If I was to be seen by my enemy, I wanted to look like he hadn't done anything to effect me. Eric walked in moments later, massaging his aching forehead, but still he had his chest puffed out proudly.

"Welcome back to the brotherhood. I see you have still done nothing with your hair. Don't worry, we'll do something with it...or with you."

"You can't scare me," I said, glaring at the old man.

"You can not scare me either." He said, trying to look superior.

"I'm not surprised. Nothing can scare you after what they did to you in Auschwitz."

Magneto's mouth opened and for a moment he really did look more like an old man than a leader.

"How do you know of this?" he asked.

"You didn't think about what touching me would share did you? I have you in my head Eric and I know everything of your past." I said to him. It probably wasn't best to reveal my knowledge of him, but I was mad at him for taking me again.

"I'm sorry my dear," said Magneto finally. "No one should ever see what I have seen in my life. But it does put my heart at rest. If you should maybe die, I would not feel bad about putting your memories to rest."

"Maybe die?"

"We need your help, but it will be hard to make you do anything by force. We would not harm Charles, it has to do with an anti-mutant protestor named Ken." Said Eric. He looked honest enough so I decided I would like to know more.

"So what do you need me for?"

"I will tell you when the time comes. But right now you must tell me whether or not you will join the brotherhood for this one mission."

I realized that my mouth was hanging open, and I quickly shut it. I couldn't believe that someone like Magneto would actually 'ask' for help. Usually he would just make a person help him by some way of force or another.

"He's in desperate times methinks."

"Okay, we'll see," I replied flatly.

"Good. I'm afraid you can't be released quite yet. But we can move you to a more comfortable room."

Eric led me out of the room and down the hall to another room, but this one had a bed in it. Eric left, locking the door behind him.

I glanced at the clock by the bed. It was 5:00am; no one would know I was missing yet. I lay down on the bed and closed my eyes. If I really was about to go on some mission then I would need all the rest I could get.

I swam around at one edge of my tank, and Toad clung to the edge at the other side. He hadn't been too pleased to wake up and find himslef in the same cage as me, so we kept our distance.

Toad kept trying to find ways of getting out, like yelling that he had to go too the bathroom, but the doctors didn't believe him. When he kept yelling the same excuse, I told him that if he went to the bathroom in MY water tank, I would drown him.

Finally the doctors prepared to leave for the night, so they let Toad go to the bathroom. They made me muzzle and put the cord around him before they pulled him out. When they brought him back in again, I was very annoyed that they pushed him right back into my tank again.

"Goodnight Freaks!" called Pete. (A/N haha sort of like what Count Olaf says.) We just both glared at him, and he flicked off the lights and locked the door.

"Bloody 'ell, there is no way I'm gonna sleep tonight." Moaned Toad.

"I thin-" I stopped speaking as Toad glared at me with his haunting yellow eyes. I dived underneath the water, and feeling that his eyes were still on me, I decided to shake him up a little.

Without warning I morphed into water. This left Toad alone in a tank of water, unsure of where I actually was in it. I could see him look around himself, startled.

I drifted slowly towards him, and when I was only inches away, I splashed up into his face and morphed into a mermaid again. Toad yelpd and wasted no moment before glaring fiercely at me, trying to get over his embarrassment. "Don't do that!"

"I'm sorry I scared you," I said, looking innocent.

"You didn't scare me!" Toad shouted, obviously very annoyed with me.

"Then why did you scream?"

"I was just clearing my voice."

That was the worst excuse I had ever heard and he knew it too. I began to roll around in the water laughing, not that it was that funny, but it was sure to whip him up.

"Hey, cut it out!" Toad leapt from his end of the cage and landed on top of me. I wasn't sure whether in his mind he was just playing, or he actually thought he could drown me.

As we wrestled around in the water I sure hoped that he thought this was fun (like I was thinking) because otherwise I would be dealing with a psychotic.

Suddenly the overhead lights in the lab flicked on, and we both froze, our hands wrapped around each other's necks.

An icy and very familiar laugh floated across the lab, and I quickly let go of my opponent's neck and swam to the edge.

"It's about time girl, where have you been?" I called out. The female police officer grinned and walked smoothly over to the cage.

"Hello Marina. My, my, and look who is with you. We all thought you were dead."

"Mystique?" asked Toad in wonder.

"Good guess." Mystique didn't change her appearance because of the security cameras. She walked over to the switch bored and studied all the controls for a moment.

I thought she would take forever, but finally she reached out and switched one of the controls. Instantly the electricity rim of my cage flashed off.

I quickly morphed into water and slid through thee grate of the upper cage. Mystique was standing beside me, and I morphed human again and gave her a hug.

"Great to see you girl," she said, giving me a hug right back. She put an arm over my shoulder and together we began to walk to the door.

"Hey!" called Toad.

We both stopped and looked at each other smiling. Toad kept yelling curses at us until we walked back and unlocked the cage for him. He came out swearing all the more...I was really beginning to believe that this guy had no sense of humor at all.

The jet landed some ways away from the warehouse. From there, the trio made their way slowly into the building.

"It's very quite," said Bobby, as they walked cautiously down a hall.

"Yeah," agreed Logan.

They walked into a room and suddenly Logan stiffened and began to sniff the air around him.

"What is it?" Storm asked, looking nervously around the room.

Logan opened his mouth to reply, but the door burst open, and three men with guns entered. Logan's claws sliced out of his hands, and Storms eyes went white, all forms of colour bleached out.

Before they could do anything though, the guards stood before them, frozen in ice. Storm and Logan looked over their shoulder at Iceman, who just gave a small smile and shrugged.

"Show off," Logan muttered, as he led them out of the building. They couldn't help but feel sad and annoyed, their missions had been a failure.

...how was that? Wait don't answer that. Last time i got an honest answer that my writing was bad it made me depressed and gave me a writes block...i took the reviewers review as truth. Ah well, i'll improve one day. I really do love reviews anyway.