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"Talking"

'Thinking'

«Phone conversations»

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Chapter 7- Fallen

Kevin was watching from a safe distance as X-23 and Pyro drove off. He was having some difficulty driving, but all in all he was doing great for someone that never had had driving lessons and never even touched a steering wheel.

"Bloody hell…what is that wanker doing?" Pyro said as he looked through the rear-view mirror at the car that was behind his own.

"Hey? Where did you learn how to drive?" X-23 shouted as she poked her head out the window.

A few minutes went by, Pyro turned to X-23 and said, shaking his head, "When will people learn! You shouldn't drink and drive."

It only took a few more minutes before Kevin said to himself, 'what the hell,' and used his powers to make his trip go smoothly.

At that moment in the X-mansion

Cerebro was going off a lot lately. During the previous evening it had went off twice, but only for a few seconds, and it hadn't been able to pin point who was causing it. Charles suspected that it might have been a malfunction and called Hank to take a look but so far he couldn't find anything that could explain it.

"I'm telling you, I can't come up with an explanation," Dr. McCoy said, getting desperate as Cerebro went off once more.

"Well, you better find out what is causing this ruckus, because Chuck isn't happy about his little gismo being broken," Wolverine stated, with his arms crossed over his chest.

At that time in the X-mansion's laboratory

"Professor…it's for you, from Scotland," Bobby said with a smirk, as he handed the phone to the X-men's founder. "It's a Woman…"

The Professor instantly noticed the smirk on his student's face and tried to ignore it as he took the phone.

«Hello» Said the voice from the other side, which Charles promptly recognized as being Moira's.

«Moira, it has been a while. How are you? » Charles asked, with a smile.

«I'm ok, I guess… Well actually, not so good… I need you to come to Scotland right away, please Charles! I'm in desperate need of your help. Kevin is missing and I looked all over Scotland and I still don't know where he is and frankly I'm starting to panic.» Moira said worriedly, stuttering occasionally.

«Moira please calm down! I'm on my way and I'm bringing Ororo with me. We will find him. » The Professor said adamantly, as he gripped the phone with both his hands, trying to somehow ease her pain.

«Thank you Charles. Please hurry. » Moira said between sobs.

Charles handed the phone over to the young boy and told him to go call Ororo. He headed over to get the Jet ready.

A few minutes later

"Strap yourself in Professor. I'll try to get us there as soon as possible," Ororo said calmly, as she took off from the hanger.

Meanwhile at the Acolytes base

"Home, sweet Home," Pyro said happily, as he stretched his arms above his head. He walked towards a room full of crates with X-23 hot on his tail, where they met Colossus.

'Time to get the rest of the records,' Kevin thought with a smirk, as he watched the two individuals walk away.

Kevin walked in to the base and noticed that he was now in, what he guessed to be, the living room. Through an open door, straight ahead, he noticed a lot of cabinets and a fridge. Kevin continued to look around and found another door.

'I wonder what's behind door number three,' Kevin thought to himself. He was getting impatient; he wanted to find what he was looking for, now.

He made his way towards a fancy looking room; it had a metal bed and bed tables, as well as a closet and a dresser. In fact, there was metal everywhere. And the walls were a deep red.

'Wrong room,' Kevin thought as he walked away. On his way out he noticed stairs, 'Hmm…maybe upstairs!'

He ran upstairs- actually skipping a few steps- and as he reached the top of the stairs he looked around. Finally looking through a semi-open door to find what he was looking for, an office. He entered the room and in a hurry headed straight to the desk and switched the computer, it held, on.

After searching for a while he came across the files that he had encountered earlier on the school computer. But this time, instead of their grade reports, he had their mutant abilities as well.

All the students were there, even the blue, furry guy. There were also files on people that he had never seen before: a tough looking guy and another blue, furry guy- this one being a lot older, of course.

Kevin hurried to print the file, entitled "X-men". He also noticed another file, this one entitled "Brotherhood." Opening it, he found that it was a complete file on the mutants the X-men constantly fought against. So as soon as the printer had finished with the X-men file, Kevin also printed off the brotherhood one.

Looking for the files about the remaining team, he stumbled on a video archive, entitled "X-23". Kevin was quite impressed by the demonstration of killer instinct and mutant abilities shown by this girl. He noticed the small details about her; for example, how she would recuperate faster than the average man, and how she seemed to know when someone was close, and there was the not so small detail of her claws.

The man who was in charge must have liked to watch his team in action, because there were dozens of these videos. There was one called "Gambit;" it showed a young man robbing a jewellery store. Whenever he came across any glass he would just touch it, kinetically charge it, and then the problem was solved. And as the alarm of the jewellery store went off, he demonstrated remarkable precision by throwing playing cards at the guards. As they touched the floor they blew up. He was also a skilled fighter with the staff; he would take the guards down with ease.

Then there was another one, it was labelled "Pyro." This guy was just sitting, in what appeared to be a backyard, making different shapes with fire. He seemed to be in some kind of trance since he was just staring at it. A few minutes later another man came into the picture; he was an older man, and Kevin observed with a horrified look on his face.

"You are no son of mine! You are a monster! From this moment on I have no son!" The older man screamed.

Kevin could see tears starting to appear in the red haired boy's eyes. Then the fire that was just, seconds ago, under his control started to grow and burn everything around to the ground.

Feeling a little upset about watching something that was obviously private, Kevin switched it off. He couldn't help but frown and even feel a little happy; his mother hadn't reacted like that when his mutation appeared. He smiled slightly at the thought of his mother; she never once treated him wrong. In fact, to the contrary, she smothered him with her love. He wasn't sure which was worse, but he decided to shake it off. He couldn't let himself feel sorry for whatever it was, it would only make it worse when he had to kill the poor guy later.

He moved on to another video labelled "Colossus".

'Well…that seems good,' Kevin thought.

As the video started to play he observed as a large guy fought what appeared to be an overly grown cat, in what appeared to be a farming town. There were some people yelling in a foreign language in the background, it sounded like Russian or another eastern European language. The people in the back appeared to be a family, his family for the look of it. The guy was losing until he turned himself into metal from head to toe, it was surely impressive to see as that they tables had turned; the cat was now losing, BAD, REALLY BAD in his opinion.

Getting tired of this one, Kevin decided to watch another one, this one called "Sabertooth." He found himself staring at the cat again, but this time he was tearing regular, non-mutant, human beings to shreds. He seemed to have similar powers as the girl he had watched first.

Kevin decided to turn the computer off since there seemed to be no more files on anyone else.

Kevin picked up what he had printed and put them in his pocket; he got up and hurried to get out as silently as he could. But as he reached the door he heard a deep growl. As he turned to his left he saw the cat-man looking straight at him with an evil grin on his lips, his arms crossed over his chest.

"Who are you?" The cat said.

"No one important. Listen I have what I came here for, so if you could get out of my way I'll just be on my way and leave you here to your miserable existence," Kevin said, smiling as sweetly as one could when being confronted with a… being like that.

Sabertooth laughed at him.

"Is that a joke little man?" Sabertooth said between laughs.

He observed Kevin who muttered what sounded like 'Idiot,' as he rolled his eyes at the older mutant. Sabertooth glared at him and with a swift movement he tried to turn the young man into shreds. Kevin simply sent him a powerful psychic blast, sending Sabertooth all the way across the room, hitting the wall behind him and collapsing on the floor unconscious.

Kevin tried to get out of there quickly; the last thing he wanted was someone warning Xavier that he was here; he wanted to catch the old man by surprise. Unfortunately he was not successful. Halfway down the stairs he found the girl from the tapes at the bottom of the steps waiting for him. He could hear two distinct male voices with different accents asking her what was the matter.

Kevin stopped for a second, but then started to walk slowly towards her as she shot daggers at him.

"What did you do to Sabertooth?" X-23 asked as she unleashed her hand claws.

"The same thing I'm about to do to you," Kevin stated, with a smirk.

He could sense her excitation, probably due to the fact that her powers weren't very different from Sabertooth's and she could sense that he could take her down single-handedly, easily. She assumed that he could and would do the same to her as he had done to Sabertooth; that only made Kevin feel better, more secure. With a deep breath X-23 unleashed her foot claw and launched herself at him, feeling slightly scared Kevin hit her with a psychic blast. But since his heart was racing and his emotions were a bit out of control he hit her with a lot more force than he had intended. For a moment, he felt bad, thinking that he had killed her, but as he saw her chest moving up and down he relaxed and ran towards the bottom of the stairs.

'I need to get out of here,' Kevin thought frantically, over and over again.

Half way towards the door, Colossus appeared in front of him; the enormous guy got a glance at his team-mate lying on the floor helpless. Kevin saw what appeared to him to be burning hate on the other mutants face. Colossus assumed his metal form and the already large guy became even larger and more intimidating to Kevin. So as Colossus charged towards Kevin, he did the only thing he could think of and made the floor under Colossus's feet move in a kind of wave motion and then slammed him against the wall. Seeing Colossus getting up, obviously dizzy from the force of the hit, Kevin, once more, sent a psychic blast knocking him out.

Kevin was starting to feel tired; he had never used his psychic powers to this extent before. He started to feel extremely hot; as he turned around he saw Pyro with his lighter. He was manipulating the fire coming out of the lighter. He was looking mighty angry and just as Kevin was about to face him the front door opened to reveal Gambit.

Kevin frowned as he looked from one to the other, trying to guess which of them would make the first move.

Getting tired of the staring contest, Gambit threw a card at Kevin's feet. Due to the blast, the Acolytes ran in different directions to avoid getting hurt. Kevin simply moved the card away from him using his powers, then turned around and sent a psychic blast towards Gambit; he felt dizzy but stood his ground, determined to not lose this easily.

Kevin didn't notice what he was doing. He felt like leaving, but they wouldn't let him, and even without meaning it he knew that he had hurt this guy badly. Gambit's body started to twist and bend as if he had no bones. It hurt him so much that he couldn't even scream. As soon as Kevin realized that he was the one that was causing it, he immediately stopped and watched, with his eyes wide, as Gambit collapsed on the floor.

Pyro, seeing his best friend on the floor, after such an obvious display of pain, along with Colossus and X-23, felt incredibly angry; he decided that that was it. He was going to burn this guy to a crisp. Pyro manipulated the fire so it looked like a horse and willed it to charge against Kevin. Kevin held his hands up and concentrated on stopping it, the fiery horse immediately responded to his command, then he turned the horse to attack his creator, who tried to concentrate on winning control over his fire once more.

It was a war fought in only a few minutes. Pyro lay on the floor with both his hands and wrists burned; coughing from all the smoke he inhaled.

Looking at the destruction that he had caused, Kevin made his way to the door with the files in hand. He headed towards the car, got in and drove it as far away as possible since he guessed it wouldn't take long for X-23 and Sabertooth to wake up.

In the Brotherhood's Boarding House

Wanda felt sick all of the sudden; it was as if someone had punched her in the gut. She used to feel this way when Pietro got hurt, but as she looked out the window of her room and saw him talking to the other boys, she knew he was fine. Still she couldn't shake off the feeling that someone that she loved was in pain.

She smiled thinking about the times when they were just that close. Times when one started a sentence and the other one would finish it, and when one got hurt and the other one started to cry.

Wanda remembered the time when she had fell and broken her leg; Pietro cried worse than he would have if he was the one to break it himself and didn't let go of her until the ambulance arrived.

But then she remembered that he had lied to her. He had gone along with her father's plan to mess with her mind, she didn't know why but… what he did was unforgivable. She convinced herself that the only reason why she was there was because besides the X-men- whom she knew she didn't belong with, couldn't possibly belong to- the brotherhood were the only other people that would give her shelter. The smile that just seconds ago graced her features was gone and the possibilities of it ever appearing again were slim.

Back at the Acolytes Base

Magneto entered his base just in time to witness X-23 getting up, stumbling slightly. He looked around and saw Piotr lying on the floor in his human form. Remy was also getting up but there seemed to be something wrong with him, he kept looking at himself with tears in his eyes. At that moment Sabertooth stumbled down the stairs and looked around frantically, obviously looking for who ever invaded the base and attacked him. Pyro on the other hand was still unconscious and Magneto immediately noticed the burns on his hands and wrists.

"What happened here?" Magneto asked anxiously. It was not a common thing to have his base invaded and his team crushed. His first guess would have been the X-men, but they wouldn't leave his team in such bad shape, and even if they had, they would have taken them back to the institute and given them some sort of medical attention. "Who were they? How many were they?"

"Just one; that little runt," Sabertooth said, beating himself up for losing that easily to a child.

"What do you mean just one! How did he get passed all of you? What were his powers?" Magneto asked; a vein in his neck pulsated at an incredible speed.

"Just one guy, about my age, blond, blue eyes, psychic," X-23 answered angrily.

"Tell me more!" Magneto ordered in his impudent tone of voice.

"He was walking out of your office with a few papers in his hands," Sabertooth started, knowing that the master of magnetism was certainly interested in recruiting this guy. And he knew that if he succeeded in doing so, he would eliminate all possibilities of him getting his revenge.

As soon as Sabertooth said that, Magneto ran upstairs towards his office to verify what had been stolen, Sabertooth hot on his tail. Leaving X-23 and a conscious Piotr to tend to their pyromaniac's health; Piotr had gotten some ointment for Pyro's burns and some bandages too. He delivered them to X-23 who instantly began wrapping them around Pyro's wrists and hands.

X-23 tried to concentrate on what she was doing but she kept hearing something, it was a constant mumbling, whispering. She couldn't make out the words but she was sure that they were being repeated over and over again; they were getting louder and louder, Piotr could hear them too now. It got to the point where it was no longer a whisper but a shrill scream and they both turned around to face the person doing it.

"Il est le diable," Gambit mumbled. 1

That was it people, hope you enjoyed it and review.

1- For all of you that don't understand French Remy said "He is the devil."

Next chapter: Kevin no more?

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