I don't own the X-Men now, but I have my plots... Oh, yes... I have my plots...
A.N.: I'm so sad. New Hampshire kidnapped Nyltiak, and now I have nobody to rant about Toad with... (sigh)
Chapter 14: Escapes
Doria took up the drawer handles in her hands. Screw doctor's orders! She magnetized them with ease. Then her shoes. There was a small balcony outside her room, and the rooms on the entire side of the house. With iron railings. She did a complex acrobatic routine down to the ground, and broke out in a run. One young mutant girl with extremely purple hair saw her after she'd crossed half the yard.
"Hey! Isn't that the Brotherhood girl? She's running!" She started bouncing after Doria- literally.
"Get her!" yelled a boy coming in from the air. Without missing a beat, Zap sent out a small pulse, hoping that she could make a general target like she did in the hangar. Sure enough, the boy fell from the sky, and the rest fell to their knees. I'm home free! I'm-... cold.
She turned her head as much as the layer of ice would allow. Bobby and Scott were strolling towards her. "Doria, Doria," said the older of the two, "These temper tantrums have to stop. You're not a child anymore." He put his arm on her shoulder.
"I agree," said Iceman, tracing his fingers from her shoulder to her breast, "You're a big girl now. I- OWW! DAMMIT!" Doria had charged herself.
"Scott, were you just gonna sit there while this pervert assulted a helpless minor?"
"Bobby, get out of here." Bobby was taken aback. He started walking towards the mansion.
Doria thought for a moment. "Bobby, wait!" My powers are growing.
"Augh! AH!" Bobby Drake dropped to his hands and knees, moaning in agony.
"Scott, you know well of my capabilities. Right now, I am sending magnetic pulses through Bobby's head." The Iceman started sobbing. "As you can imagine, being awake while your brain cells collide is no picnic. For touching me like that, no doubt he deserves it. I could kill him if I wanted to." Bobby shrieked at her quick display of power. "But I think there's something I want more. Melt this ice now, or the slimeball gets it."
"Doria, be reasonable!"
"DO IT NOW!" The unfortunate victim gave another scream of pain.
"FOR GOD'S SAKE, SCOTT! DO IT!" he yelled.
"All right." He set his visor, let out a beam, and sent her clear into the woods. She wouldn't be waking up anytime soon.
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A lamp flew across the cell. It had been a fairly nice cell. Now, though, the very few things that were in it were smashed or being used to smash things. The metal leg from the bed was Doria's current weapon. It was whipping into the door with tremendous power. The door was clear and virtually indestructable plastic. Still, she was the daughter of a martial arts master, and was really pissed. There were dents all over the cell.
"Quite an arm you got on ya there," said Logan, admiring her handiwork, "Kid, why don't you just give up? You just have to save Ororo- and now Bobby- and you'll get used to this place! It's not half bad once you get the feel for it."
The girl flung the leg across the cell. "Why don't I want to live here in this pussy house? 'Cause I don't belong here! Come to think of it, neither do you. People like us, Logan, this isn't the life for us! Rules, helping people, making friends, and learning our grammar!" She mocked each X-Men activity comically. "No! We need to be free! We can't have this short leash when we don't even fit in the collar!" She looked up as if imagining some great adventure. "Besides, I could never leave my dad."
Wolverine looked at her strangely. "So you and your dad- you're pretty close, eh?"
"Yeah. We're all each other's got."
"And your mother?"
"Dead a long time. Good ridance too. The world could use less anti-mutants."
"Then how did... I mean Mort he's... It's pretty hard to miss..."
"He was trying out an image inducer when he was sixteen. A month went by before it malfunctioned."
Logan took in the information, but it seemed his mind was elsewhere. "Kid, we're losin' the leash."
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"Miss Toynbee..." Doria cringed. "It would be much easier on all of us if you helped Ororo and Bobby voluntarily." Charles looked at her hopefully.
"Yeah, but I've always been a difficult one."
"Very well. You leave me no choice..."Doria slid her mind away from her body through a half-meditation. Xavier didn't notice. Perfect! She was in his mind. Now this was what she truly enjoyed. Normally people tell her to kill people quickly, or make them pass out, but she liked it when she had time to truly explore their mind. Magneto had taught her plenty about the human brain. He'd taught her where she could find the professor's psychic sensory system, though he didn't realize it at the time. There it was. She wrapped her brain around it, moving a few electrons here and there. Harness it. She sent out a signal as strong as she could muster through Xavier's mind. Dad! Dad, it's me, Doria! The X-Men have me! I'm so sorry about the other day. Please forgive me. Come save me!
The old man smiled and looked at her. "Feeling more charitable?"
"Yes." She followed Nightcrawler down to the medical bay. First came Bobby, because he was easy. She knew that she had to fix him, but did not feel that she had to abstain from messing with his reading and writing. She had learned to make a person severely dislexic recently. He woke and was moved to another room.
Kurt's eyes glimmered with anticipation as he awaited the waking of Ororo. He had been so worried. Zap dove in. It really was a unique brain. She'd been wanting some quality time in it for a while. There was a special lobe in it that was streaming with electricity. That's what allowed her to control lightning. It was amazing. She squashed it. No, she didn't just send it dormant. Doria completely annihilated it. No more mutant powers for Storm. However she still wouldn't be welcome at a hospital. She was still X gene positive. Xavier would have to let her go. If she was normal, what use was she?
She began to repair the cerebellum so that Storm could live without machines. Next, Zap started to repair consciousness and speech. She could breathe, wake up, and talk. It was now that Doria made herself pass out.
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When Doria awoke, she was on a motercycle with a muscular stomach against her spine. "You finally awake?" asked Wolverine, "Everything went perfect, and it's only a couple of miles to the docks. Let's pull over for a sec to get reseated."
They went off to the side of the road, and Doria moved behind Logan, and secured her helmet. (A. N.: Safety first!)
As they were about to take off again, they heard something on the road behind them. Something that resembled a "bamf".
"You monster..."
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Did you know that the same guy who plays Nightcrawler plays Flook or whatever his name is in Spy Kids? Creepy!
Please review! I'd hate to have to go on a rampage. They're so tiring...