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Chapter Nine
Black Fox was now face to face with the man she loved and she couldn't believe what Apocalypse had done to Warren. His once skin that was as white as snow was now a dark shade of blue and he no longer wore his white and red uniform that she had grown to love. Now he wore a red and blue uniform that blended in with his skin. His wings were metal and longer than his old ones. Fox could only hope that she would be able to get into his mind and convince him to come home. Fox put up her fists and entered her husband's mind.
Warren!
Get out!
Not until you tell me that you'll come home! I've lost a daughter and a son to this beast and I'm not going to let him take you too!
Never!
Fox then left Death's mind and began to battle him physically. She telekinetically threw him across the room so that he hit the wall behind him. When he picked himself up off the floor, he charged at Theressa, who shot lasers at him. Two hit him in the stomach but the rest bounced off of his wings and went in other directions.
Warren, please. I love you and want to help you!
Leave me alone! I only serve Lord Apocalypse!
Warren punched Black Fox in the gut and the face, which force Theressa to the ground and gave her a bloody lip but as quickly as the cut had come it disappeared as she picked herself up. She then ran at Death kicked him with both boots in the chest and punched him in the gut. Fox herself lost her balance and fell next to her husband. As the two mutants were getting up Apocalypse smiled and then said,
"Death kill Fox!"
"NO!" Wolverine screamed, "You had a deal!"
"Maybe Wolverine but I tire of this. This is nothing more than a slap game. If Black fox lives then I will keep the deal but that is only if she lives"
Fox looked from Angel's tranquil face to Wolverine and then felt for her hand knife, which was still in its holster. Fox grabbed it and planned on defending herself with it if she had to but she wasn't going to kill her husband. If anything else, she'd die first.
At that moment, Death's metal wings, turned horizontal as if they were to become a table and the ends returned to their original up right state. Theressa, charged at Warren, knife in hand, and cut him in the right arm and across his left cheek bone. Death stumbled back, whipped some blood off of his face and glared at Theressa. Fox took one step forward when suddenly; Death fired tons of tiny metal shards from the ends of his wings. Fox didn't have time to put up a shield, so she was hit in the stomach, arms legs and face.
Fox fell to the ground and didn't move which caused Wolverine, Cyclops and Beast to worry. Suddenly, everyone saw Theressa's skin heal its self and the cuts disappear. Apocalypse was amazed for he didn't think the Black Fox ever had a healing factor when he fought her before. He figured it was a new mutation of some sort. After all everyone knew that the Black Fox was the Wolverine's daughter.
Warren walked over to where his wife lay, knelt down and as he touched her now healed shoulder, she punched him in the face and kicked him in the gut. Unprepared, Death stumbled back while Theressa picked her body off of the floor.
Remember Angel! Fox cried telepathically as she walked toward her husband. Death charged fists first when Fox kicked him in the face, kneed him in the gut and stabbed him on his right arm and then holding the knife in the air telekinetically.
Fox looked at Wolverine and wanted to tell him what she was about to do but she figured the collar that he wore would prevent her from doing so. She then looked at Angel and continued to fight him as she tried to bring him back mentally.
"T, no!" Wolverine cried suddenly realizing what his daughter was doing. He could always tell what Theressa wanted to tell him by looking into her eyes, after all the eyes were the windows to the soul, or so he had heard.
"Logan what's wrong?" Beast asked placing a hand on Wolverine's shoulder.
"We've got to stop her." Wolverine cried running his hand threw his hair much like Theressa had done moments before.
"Now you say that?" Cyclops asked throwing up his hands in disbelief.
"Cyke, she's trying to telepathically show Warren the memories of who he is while fitting him physically."
"What's your point Logan?" Scott asked not getting the picture.
"The strain could kill her!"
"Won't her healing factor protect her from that?" Scott asked recalling what Logan had given to his daughter years ago in order to save her life.
"No, her healing factor won't save her mentally. All it will do for her is heal body wounds."
"Logan you said the strain could kill her." Beast asked, "I thought a telepath could be in the real world and on the astral plan at the same time?"
"Yes but Fox is not in the astral plane, Hank. She's in Warren's mind." Scott said answering before Wolveirne could.
Then Logan said, "We've practiced her being in the astral plane and fighting me at the same time but never in someone else mind. What if they get into a mental fight? If she's killed in his mind then she'll be killed out here too but no telling what would happen to Warren."
As if a light bulb went off Wolverine's mind he said to Theressa, "Measure 5-6-5!" and prayed that she wasn't straining herself too hard that she couldn't hear him. The next thing everyone knew, Fox fired her lasers at Angel's wings, which bounced off and hit the red button that controlled the force field.
As soon as the force field went down Wolverine attacked Viper, who held the keys to the collars, and unlocked his collar as well as Cyclops's and Beast's. Then as Avalanche, Renée and Viper attacked the three X-men, Wolverine went to Theressa, punched Angel in the face and then kicked him between the legs, which caused Angel to go down. Wolverine then set Theressa up against the far wall and then went to help the others.
Remember! Remember! Remember! Fox screamed inside Warren's head as images of their wedding, first date and the first time they met flashed threw his mind.
"Theressa?" Warren said slowly getting up off of the floor and snapping out of Apocalypse's control and walking over to Theressa and holding her in his arms. He looked at her beat up body and couldn't believe what he had done. He knew she had a healing factor but it wasn't as strong as Wolverine's and Warren had done so much damage that it couldn't keep up in healing her.
"Oh dear lord what have I done?"
"It's not your fault. You couldn't help yourself, baby." Theressa said tired from fighting physically and mentally.
"Apocalypse will pay for what he has done! For everything he has ever done to you and to me!" Warren said as he got up but Theressa grabbed his arm.
"No. I will handle him. You need to help the others. I don't know how powerful Renee and Michael have grown is we fought them last."
"You take Apocalypse? I almost killed you, Theressa. You're healing factor isn't helping you any more. You could be killed! There's no way you can take Apocalypse now!" Warren said trying to convince his love not to fight her enemy, which he knew was useless.
"Maybe not physically but mentally I can."
"Theressa no! His mind is worse that that of Wolverine's. You don't know what you'll find in there. Besides he's the most powerful non-telepath in the world. Let me fight him and you sit this one out."
"Warren listen to me. I've fought Apocalypse before and he's unbeatable. We've tried to kill him but he keeps coming back and believe me we've tried every trick in the book and still he lives. The only way to get to Apocalypse is threw his mind. I have never been so sure of myself than I am right now. I can do this and you have to let me. Besides, I'm the most powerful telepath in the world. Help the others. I'm going in."
Warren reluctantly nodded and left Theressa to aid the other X-men and as he did Theressa closed her eyes and entered Apocalypse's mind. She appeared to him as she had many years ago when she was seventeen, for in the world of the mind you could shape your form how ever you wished. There were no steps to greet Black Fox, like in the astral plane. Instead there was only darkness and she provided the only light.
You're very brave for coming in here as injured as you are! Apocalypse's voice ran threw the darkness.
My body is hurt Apocalypse not my mind! In time my body will heal but for now my mind will do what my body can not. Black fox shouted back showing no fear in her voice. Suddenly the darkness began to move and form a body. When it was done, Apocalypse stood before her impressed.
You know little Fox; I've often wondered when the day would come where you and I would have a final battle.
As have I. Theressa replied to Apocalypse as he circled around her and she moved so that she would not have him at her back.
You do know one of us will die.
I am very well aware of that Apocalypse. You will pay for what you have done to my Angel! This was the defining line, the final straw! I will not tolerate you any more!
Very well, little one. May the best mutant win Apocalypse said opening the challenge.
Theressa smiled and replied, I sure as hell plan to!
"Where's Fox?" Wolverine asked when Angel began to fight Viper, who had picked up Theresa's hand knife that had fallen on the ground at one point during her fight. Viper swung the knife at Angel's head and nicked his right ear.
"In Apocalypse's mind!" Angel replied as he kicked the knife out of Viper's hand and caught it and then kicked her in the stomach.
"What the hell did you just say?" Wolverine asked as he blocked a punch to the head from Avalanche and then as gently as he could, threw the boy into the wall by the door, "You let her go?"
"How the hell was I supposed to stop her? I can't take her powers away and I'm not a telepath and we both know talking to her wasn't going to work. Who are these guys anyway?" Angel asked as he blocked a blow from Viper and then was kicked in the stomach and knocked to the ground.
Viper smiled an evil smile and opened her mouth and just as her fiery breath was going to burn Warren, an optic blast hit her in the gut and threw her out of the room. Scott walked over to Angel and helped him off the ground, "Thanks."
"No problem." Scott said just in time to be hit in the face by Renee. Beast then came up behind Renee, jumped on her back and covered her eyes so that she couldn't see anything. Renee got frustrated and telekinetically pulled Beast off of her back and threw him as hard as she could across the room, into a wall knocking him out.
"Logan, who are we fighting?" Warren asked again preparing to fire metal shards at Viper when Wolverine said, "Jasmine, who you're fighting, is Theressa's oldest." Angel disarmed his wings and looked at Wolverine as Viper came running back into to room for another blow to Warren's head. He grabbed her arms and held her like that while he asked,
"Theressa has more kids than Andrea and Miandra and Michael?"
"She didn't tell you?" Scott asked as he kicked Renee in the leg and tripped her.
"No." Warren said trying to keep Viper from breaking free.
Wolverine was hit in the jaw telekinetically by Renee and then he looked at Angel and said, "Oh boy."
Theressa, armed with her sword and shield, charged at Apocalypse and cut his leg and blocked a blow to her head with the shield.
You told me when I was a teenager that I would have a curse on me and my house for trying to defeat you. My children were tested and two taken from me, my husband killed but in the midst of all that I had blessings. I had two children with me, I found my father and have a man that I love, and all of which I will protect to the ends of the earth from any enemy.
Apocalypse hit Theressa on the right leg and her left arm. She returned the blow by stabbing him in the left arm and then said, The real curse was my fear. I feared loosing my children, loosing a battle or harming someone and most of all I feared you. I hated you for what you did to Jasmine and I still do but I no longer fear you!
Theressa stabbed Apocalypse in the gut and in both knees, he fell to his knees and as he did Theressa's sword rose up and as it did she said, Not anymore! I will not allow you to control my life or anyone else!
Black Fox took her sword and drove it into the heart of her enemy and as he fell over, dead in mind and body, she left his mind and returned to her own.
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