Well as it's the beginning and nothing has begun to change, I'll post another part even if there is only one review but that's an exception :-p

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Angent-G: it won't be graphic, so the rating M is enough normally.


- "I don't intend to tell them she's one" answered Ororo.

- "As soon as you give them her name, they're gonna make the link, the sentinel story's still fresh in people's minds" insisted Wolverine.

- "We'll have to do it anyway, so I'll take care of it" replied Storm with more steadiness in her voice.

Logan didn't add anything, he had just understood that she simply wanted to do something. Kitty, Rogue, Kurt, Evan, Amara and Tabitha went to join them and wanted to come with Scott and Logan, but the Professor was opposed:

- "Evan, Amara, Tabitha, you stay here, in case Jean calls" he began before carrying on despite the protestations of the three young mutants. "Rogue, you go with Logan ; Kitty, you go with Scott, two pairs of eyes are better than one, overall when you have to keep your attention toward the road ; Kurt, with your two miles of teleportation capacity , you can search the streets and neighbourhoods around here"

All of them nodded and left toward the elevator. The Professor watched them going away an instant before pivoting his wheelchair and returning into the Cerebro-room. He caught the helmet linking him to the powerful machine and murmured before putting it on his head:

- "I hope she's all right..."


Jean began to move, showing a relatively imminent wake up. After a while, she opened her eyes with difficulty, her sight staying blurred for a few moments before becoming clear again. A twitching at the nape of her neck made her slightly wince, she wanted to massage it, but instead of landing on her skin, her hand landed on a strange device. The surprise woke her up and she realised that she was in a little dark room closed by an heavy iron door; on the wall, a little window equipped by bars allowed her to take to take a glimpse of the moon and the stars and there wasn't any pane of glass to prevent the cold breeze from entering in the room. A very little extension was provided a rudimentary bathroom.

Jean shivered and got up, she was shaky on her legs for a moment and frowned at the migraine which came to assail her. Once she was stabilized and didn't feel like collapsing on the least step anymore, she came closer of the door and tried unsuccessfully to open it. All naturally, she summoned up her telekinesis, but was surprised to not feel the particular sensation which manifested itself in her head usually.

/ This must be because of the stress or the drug / she thought.

Perplexed and anxious, she concentrated in the intention to project herself in the mind of the ones having locked her here in order to know where she was, but nothing happened again.

/This strange device / thought suddenly Jean by putting again her hands on it.

It was surrounding her neck and it didn't seem to have a way to take it off. But how come a device was able to hold back her powers ? Who would do something like this? Why would someone do this ? A scream of pain startled her and made her blood run cold ; something was sure, this person did not have good intentions …


The two X-Men teams in vehicles –and Kurt– were searching for Jean for more than an hour, when Wolverine announced on their com-device:

- "We've just found her car, it's empty except for some stuff" he grumbled.

- "Where are you ?" asked Scott.

- "On the road to Bayville's aerodrome"

- "We're not far from there, we're coming" answered Cyclops before making a sudden turn, eliciting a shriek of fear from Kitty.

Five minutes later, he was parking behind Logan's bike and discovered the state of Jean's 4x4…The car was on the side of the road, dented everywhere, windows shattered and the tires burst. Anti-mutant inscriptions had been written with a bomb painting.

- "My god…" he muttered under the shock.

- "I've found this" said Logan by showing a hypodermic dart. "I think we have to yield to the facts, Jean's been kidnapped"

Kitty wanted to ask something, but Wolverine seemed to guess the question, although he used in it less tact than she would have:

- "No, if they killed her, they'd've left let her in her car, the inscriptions actin' as they claim, and overall they wouldn't have taken the trouble to drug her "

Scott, after having cast a useless glance in the vehicle, looked in the surroundings.

- "Jean…" he breathed, as if the simple fact of pronouncing her name would make her appear.

Logan heard him and declared in a reassuring voice:

- "We're gonna find her kid, we're gonna find her"


Jean hadn't slept all night, turning uselessly in the room, searching for a way to get out which didn't exist, now sitting down against a wall, as her legs were becoming much too tired. At the break of dawn, the clicking of the door's lock startled her, and subconsciously she moved back as it opened wide…

A man with a massive figure made his entrance, followed by another one, obviously younger, but with a glance as bad as the first one's.

- "Who are you ? What do you want with me !" she asked in a voice which tried to stay assured, but hinted at the dread which was going through her body.

The one who had entered the first answered to her in a scornful tone, stretching his thin lips in a spiteful smile:

- "You have just arrived, so I will answer these two questions for you, but you should know that these will be your last ones" he said in a sardonic voice "Who are we ? We like to be called the 'Friends Of Humanity'. We are a little group wanting to get rid the world of the rising threat of the errors of the nature like you and your kind, and…"

- "We're humans, we only have an extra gene…" she couldn't end her sentence, the man had thrown to her a strong slap which sent her on to ground.

- "Don't ever, ever interrupt me when I'm speaking, riffraff ! "he raged.

Jean stayed groggy for a few seconds, but stood up again despite the pain reverberating on her cheek reddened by the slap.

- "You are only invaders, freaks which we have to exterminate like rats" he carried on.

Jean stopped herself from answering, something in the cold and sharp man's glance was indicating her that the slap she had received was only a simple warning. The guy smiled with contempt, obviously delighted to see that she wasn't saying anything anymore despite the anger which seemed to be animating her.

- "What do we want ?" he asked "I have told you, to clean the planet. But for that we need some guinea pigs to test our methods and our inventions like this fantastic collar…The authorities haveput in jail the men who had conceived this superb robot, this 'sentinel' and this is really regrettable I'm sure we could have got on well…"

He observed her a while with condescendence and added:

- "We are detaining here two others freaks like you, but with power different than yours, non-psychic powers. You won't have the occasion to see them, except maybe in the torture-room…"

Jean swallowed with difficulty, without powers she was feeling terribly vulnerable and was wishing that all this was only a nightmare.

- "I warned you immediately, you can yell as much as you want, nobody will hear you, the only people living around here are members of our organization and nothing pleases them more than hearing these screams"

Jean slowly shook her head and gave him a glance full of hate and incomprehension:

- "You're ignoble, your ideology is not better than Hitler's"

She expected to receive another slap but it didn't come, instead the man grinned slightly:

- "You will respect and fear me by the end," he growled.

Without even turning himself toward the other man, leaving his eyes on Jean, he ordered:

- "Take her away Greg! " and he turned back before leaving the room, letting the door wide open behind him.

Jean saw that as an opportunity to seize. She began to move back as the guy –Greg ?– was coming closer to her and, when they were far enough from the door, she held out her wrists toward him, pretending to be cooperating. But, when he wanted to catch them, she gave him a powerful punch in the genitals and, as he doubled up by pain, she rushed forward the door.

She passed it and turned on the right, looking behind her at the sound of the vociferations of the man she had just brought down, but, when she turned again her glance in front of her, she received a strong slap which sent her on the ground as had the previous one.

It was the Chief, like the young mutant will ended up calling him, he smiled viciously to her and leaned toward her catching her by the neck and lifting her.

- "You will pay for that and you will never ever do it again" he snarled before beginning to beat her black and blue, slapping her several times, then, finally, he threw her against the wall.

Jean reached out to not run into it head on, but didn't know if it had been a good idea, if she had lost consciousness she wouldn't have felt the kicks which followed. She tried to clench her teeth in order not to give him the pleasure to scream, but the pain was too strong and she gave up by curling up on herself in order to try to protect herself with her arms. Suddenly, she felt the chief catching her again by the neck:

- "Never ever again" he breathed in her ear before throwing her again against the wall.

This time, Jean hadn't had the strength to protect herself from it and fell on the ground, half unconscious, blood running out on her face.

The chief smiled victoriously whereas, behind his back, Greg was rejoining him, lurching:

- "I told you she would try to escape, they always do that" he commented "Bring her back to her cell, and make me the pleasure not to be had next time"

Greg nodded, threw a revengeful kick in Jean's abdomen –who took it by wailing, not having the strength to scream anymore– and indelicately caught her wrist, to drag her to her room. She lost consciousness before he let her in her cell and didn't feel Greg spit on her, not the sound of the door being brutally closed again.

Jean didn't get a lot of time for recuperating from her wounds. Some hours later, when she regained consciousness, two men went to fetch her:

- "Hmm, enticing new one…." said one of them in a vicious voice which sent cold shivers down her spine.

to be continued...


That's the beginning of a new part, it's up to you to read it as soon as possible by reviewing :-p

Wen