a/n: This was a fun chapter to write. I had actually written something like this chapter before, for another story. I didn't like that story so I came up with this one and placed this chapter in with a few changes.
Chapter eight
Angel signed a pack with the devil, himself! Theressa exclaimed making Viper furious that her mother had called her husband the devil, which wasn't far from the truth in Theressa eyes.
Fine, call him what you want. Viper said trying to ignore the fact that her mother had just called her husband the devil. Anyway, Angel left saying that he'd never come back and that there was no way to get him back. Boy did Apocalypse know Angel or what. Viper said with a smile and a slight laugh.
Apocalypse sent Renee, Pyro and Avalanche to tear off Warren's wings?
You bet. It was the only way to get dear ol' Angel back where he belongs. With his own kind.
He doesn't belong here! Why does Apocalypse want him now?
To take over the world of course. He's getting his horseman together and going to rule the world. Angel will be the horseman called Death. Renee the horseman Pestilence, Pyro Famine and Avalanche will be War.
What of you? I didn't here your name anywhere in that sentence.
I will be queen of the world and punish any who oppose my authority.
Just then Theressa revealed her full power to her daughter in a challenging manner. If this was any other time, Theressa would never have threatedned to use all of her power against her own daughter but the wasn't any other time. Feeling the Black Fox's power and knowing she couldn't match it, she vansished from the astral plane.
Suddenly Theressa was pulled out of the astral plane and back intho the real world, where she found herself sitting on the floor of a cell with Logan next to her Cyclops across from her and Beast next to Scott.All for of the mutantshad collars around their necks andTheressa had seen these collors before when she had been captured by Apocalypse before.The collars neutralizedtheir powers and shecould only guess that whenshe was in the astral plane and the collar was placed around her neck, itneutralized her telepathy, thus pulling her out of the astral plane by force.
"T, you okay?" Logan asked when he saw that Theressa was back from the astral plane. When Pyro had placed the collar on Theressa she suddenly looked uncomfortable and gave a tiny cry. It was so quite that Logan wouldn't have heard it if he didn't have good hearing like he did.
"Yeah." Theressa said looking at the cell more closely and when she saw no bars, she looked beyond the cell and saw Apocalypse experimenting on her husband.At this sight Theressa jumped up, ran for Apocalypse only to be held back by Scott and Wolverine.
"You son of a---" Black Fox screamed at the top of her lungs as she tried to get out of Wolverine and Cyclops's grasp.
"Fox!" Wolverine yelled at his daughter, "we ain't getting' out that way. You should know that that is too easy. It's a force field that can stun you. Calm down now or I'll have to knock you out." Logan really didn't want to knock his daughter out but if it would keep her from trying to get out of this cell then he would and Theressa, along with Scott and Beast, knew it.
"Fine!" Fox said pulling her arms free of Logan and Cyclops's hands and running her fingers threw her brown, blue highlighted hair.
"What'd you find out from Jasmine?" Beast asked from where he saton the floor as Theressa sat next to the blue mutant. Logan and Scott stood in front of her so that Apocalypse couldn't see her or, hopefully, hear her if she spoke softly.
"That Apocalypse purposely sent Renee, Pyro and Avalanche to rip Warren's wings off."
"Why would he do that?" Scott asked in a whisper.
Before Theressa could answer, Warren cried out in pain, which broke Theressa's heart. She wanted to go to him and kill Apocalypse for what he was doing and make everything better but she couldn't and that was almost too much to bear. Tears welled up in Theressa's eyes but she refused to let them fall. Instead she choked them back and answered Scott's question.
"Because Angel used to work for Apocalypse when he was younger. A gang of mutants were picking on Angel, ripped his wings off and left him for dead. Apocalypse regrew his wings in exchange for Warren to work for him."
"This must have been after he left the x-men because I think if Xavier had known about this he would have said something." Scott replied to Theressa's statement and then allowed her to continue.
"He dubbed Warren, Death after the horseman in Revelation. Finally Warren left saying that he'd never come back but now Apocalypse is planning on getting new horseman together over the world and the only way to get Warren back was to take away his wings. And when I searched Angel's mind earlier I roused memories of Apocalypse and Warren left."
"T, you said Apocalypse is planning on taking over the world?" Logan asked with fear in his voice.
"Yeah why?"
Wolverine looked at Scott who then looked at Beast, who all had the same look of worry on their faces.
"Why? What are all of you so worried about?" Theressa asked feeling that she was missing something.
"Age of Apocalypse." Beast said so softly that Theressa could hardly hear him.
"The what?"
"When Jean had the power of the Phoenix, " Scott began, "She had a vision that one day Apocalypse and his four horseman would take over the world and we'd all live in hell."
"Okay so what does this have to do with Angel?"
Wolverine's gaze looked at the ground and then back at Theressa and said, "One of the horseman had metal wings."
Theressa stood up and ran her fingers threw her hair one more time, a sign that she was frustrated and thinking. This was a common movement for Theressa to do and the men knew what it meant. Theressa breathed a heavy sigh and then said, "There is no way in hell that we are going to let Apocalypse rule the world! We've got to stop him!"
"I think not my dear, dear Black Fox." Apocalypse said turning from the table and walking to the cell that held the X-men.
Just then Viper, Renee, Avalanche and Pyro walked in to the room. Viper took her place by her husbands side as everyone else stood at attention much like soldiers did for their general. At this point Theressa couldn't see Angel and it was killing her because she wanted to know what her enemy had done to her husband.
Apocalypse must have seen the worried look on Theressa face because he smiled and said, "Fret not little Fox. Your dear Angel is fine. I merely gave him something you could not." Apocalypse said stepping out of the way of the X-men's view of angel and adding, "Wings."
Theressa was shocked to see that Warren now had blue skin and metal wings! She immediately became furious and screamed, "What the hell have you done to him!" as once more Wolverine and Cyclops had to hold her back for fear that she may hurt herself.
"I've improved him my dear. He's a better fighter than he was before. His metal wings fire metal shards at the enemy."
"Warren, please listen to me!" Theressa cried collapsing in Wolverine's arms and finally allowing the tears pour out at will, "It's me Theressa, your wife! For the love of all that is good please listen to me!"
Warren did not reply to Theressa's plea. All he did was move from where he stood to stand by Avalanche at the end of the line that they had made in front of the cell. His expression had not changed at all which gave everyone the idea that he was under some kind of mind control. In Theressa's way of thinking, Warren would never do this willing after he had all ready said he wouldn't come back.
"He can't hear you Fox. At least not the Angel you knew. No, that one is gone and buried. This is my horseman Death and these are the horseman in which I shall ride with to take over the world. Viper here will be by my side every step of the way. If you had only said yes when I gave you the choice……"
"I would never say yes to the likes of you!" Black Fox screamed raising her head only long enough so that Apocalypse could see the fury in her eyes, not caring if that's what he wanted to see out of her. All she cared about at the moment was getting her Warren back and getting rid of the devil, which had done this to her love.
"Apocalypse, he's a damn robot!" Wolverine yelled where Theressa could not. She had lowered her head once more and was laying it against her father's chest. "Just like Pyro. You may have Renee controlling him but it's all just the same thing."
"I came here willingly Wolverine!" Pyro said out of line but he didn't care and apparently neither did his boss. John walked closer the cell and as he did Fox rose to her feet and looked Pyro in the eyes.What she saw was years of hurt that had turned into hate and knowing that she had hurt John that deeply was the sharpest blow in the world.
"Why are you working for him?" Theressa asked pointing to Apocalypse.
"Because I wanted to get back at you for everything you did to me! I heard of his plan, located him and joined him so that I could see you in the pain that you put me threw."
"You're still upset about that! We were kids, young and naive. Besides that was years ago!"
"You'd still be angry about it if you were the one who was deeply in love." Pyro screamed at Fox not carrying any more.
"You couldn't have loved me! We had just started dating. Besides this is stupid to fight over this now because Chris is dead!" Theressa yelled back at her long lost friend, whose head dropped in shame.
John's head rose one more time and said , "How'd he die?"
"Stabbed in the chest two years back. I'm sorry I hurt you John. I never meant any harm and if you'd stayed in the garage that day, you would have known that."
John's gaze finally met Theressa and Theressa saw that John knew that Theressa was telling the truth. He nodded his head and walked out the door. Fox then turned To Apocalypse and said, "I'll make you a deal."
"All right I'm listening." Apocalypse said meeting Fox's gaze.
"Let me fight Death, as you call him. If I win then he comes with us and you don't take over the world."
"Theressa are you insane?" Beast asked now standing to his feet beside Logan and Scott who were behind Theressa.
"What if you lose?" Apocalypse asked considering the deal.
Theressa looked back to the guys, her eyes going from Beast to Scott to Wolverine and then finally back to her enemy.
"If I lose you can keep me and take over the world with out any objection from the X-men."
"Theressa don't do it! It's not worth gambling your life for!" Scott pleaded with his friend.
"It's the only way Scott and you know it as well as me."
Apocalypse seemed to be considering the deal even more when Viper spoke. "Apocalypse, she's planning on tricking you! I know her better than any one and if I don't trust her than how can you?"
"Viper you don't know her as well as you think. I will allow this duel and I'll even give you your powers back, just to make the game fun."
Fox nodded her head as Apocalypse told Renee to lower the shield, which she did by hitting a red button on a panel on the wall by the door. Fox walked threw the now open cell, which was once more guarded by the force field once Theressa was out, and allowed Apocalypse to take off her collar that didn't allow her to use her powers.
Beast moved beside Wolverine when Scott asked, "You're going to let her do this?"
"She has her powers Cyke." Wolverine replied not taking his gaze off of his daughter who now stood in front of Warren. "She knows hand to hand combat, all the levels that I taught her and the ones you taught her when I wasn't around."
"Logan do you think Apocalypse is going to honor the deal?" Beast whispered.
"I don't know but let's hope so. For Theressa's sake."
A/N: No author's note this time around. Just let me know what you think, please adn how i could make it better. No flames