White Raven
Found Her!
Bobby, Rouge, and Kurt were making a plan. Or, rather, they were trying.
"This can't work!" Rouge exclaimed, throwing another wad of paper in the nearest trash can.
"Yes, it can. We just have to be creative." Kurt replied from under his hood.
They were at the food court in the mall, sharing a pizza and brainstroming. Kurt hated the idea of hiding under his hood, but also hated the idea of being kicked out and arrested. Plus, this was the only place they could go where most of the mutants in school would never be. They couldn't let Xavier know what they were doing.
"We know John. We know where he likes to go, and what he likes to do. We know who his family is. But now he's in league with Magneto, so who knows what he does now? He could be on the other side of the world for all we know!" Bobby said.
"We just have to be patient. An oportunity will arise." said Kurt, trying very hard to be optimistic.
"I think it just did." said Rouge, staring past Kurt.
He turned around, looked, and there was John, and the girl. He was dragging her along, and she was reluctant.
"Hey!" Bobby yelled. "Stop! Leave her alone!"
He got up and was running before Kurt could react.
"John, if she doesn't want to go with you, then leave her alone!" Bobby said, running up to John and stopping him.
"Hey Bobby. How's the little X-men?" John asked smoothly.
Summer was confused. It wasn't like John was kidnapping her or something, he only wanted to show her the arcade.
"Are you okay?" asked Kurt, suddenly beside Summer.
Summer jumped away from him, but bumped into Rouge on her other side.
"Don't make me hurt you, Iceman. You know I can." John said, rolling up his sleeves.
"No! Wait, John." Summer asked, backing away from the X-men. She bumped into a table.
John started a fireball in his hand, but held it.
"We're only trying to help Summer." Bobby said.
"Kurt, get her out of here." Rouge said.
Summer gasped when Kurt appeared right in front of her. She dodged him, throwing a chair behind her. He tripped on it, trying to run after her.
"That's it." John said menacingly. The fireball grew.
"Stop or I'll shoot!" said a lone brave security guard, pointing his gun at John. Everyone stopped dead and stared. Some people who were eating slowly got to the ground. One little baby started crying.
Summer knew she had to do something. The guards gun was shaking wildly. He looked as if he was about to puke.
BAM! The gun went off. Summer didn't dare to breathe. She almost couldn't bring herself to look at John, but she did.
He was alive. She let out a huge lungful of air, and breathed again.
"Summer?" he squeaked. He was looking right in front of him, at a small swirling orb, containing the bullet.
Summer realized she was holding her hand out, palm flat. It was total instinct, she hadn't even realized she had done it. Rouge, Kurt and Bobby were staring at her, open mouthed. She let the bullet drop to the ground and caught the guards gun, floating it high onto the hanging lights. The guards eyes rolled back, and he fainted.
Poor guy, to many donuts and not enough action, to keep him prepared, thought John.
Summer didn't notice Kurt, from behind. John didn't notice Rouge.
At the same moment, Kurt wrapped his arms around Summer, and Rouge touched John's arm. Summer was gone in the blink of an eye, and John slowly fell to his knees, his face painful,and then passed out. Rouge let go. Kurt reappeared and touched John, and then was gone again. He came back for Rouge and Bobby.
Summer was suddenly inside a car, outside the mall parking lot. Kurt took the time say "Stay here." and then was gone again.
Of course she wasn't going to stay there. She tried to the door. She tried the window. Both were locked.
What kind of car locks the inside?
Summer bit back a startled cry when Kurt returned with John, and he layed him sitting up, leaning against the car door.
"John, are you okay? Wake up!" Summer said, feeling his forehead, at the lack of anything else she could do.
"He'll be okay." said Rouge.
"Yeah. Don't worry." said Bobby, next to her. She hadn't noticed Kurt bringing them.
"Let's go, before more people try and get shoot us." said Kurt, in the passenger seat. Rouge started the engine.
Summer brought her knees up to her chest, and hid her face. She felt like crying. John was uncousncious and she was now in the hands of the dreaded X-men. What were they going to do with her?
"Hey," said Kurt, throwing back his hood. "It's okay, we're here to help."
"Yeah, right. I don't know who is trying to help me anymore." replied Summer. There was silence again.
She shuddered, remembering the horrible greed for power in Pyro's eyes as he lit the fire, preparing to fry Bobby. There was something wrong with him.
Summer toyed with the idea of stopping the car, using her powers. But she didn't know much about cars, and what if the engine exploded or something? Summer peeked under her arms at Bobby, who was making ice crystals on the window.
Rouge pulled the car into a long driverway. The sun was down, the stars coming out. Summer only got a glimpse of a manor, the lights golden in the windows.
"C'mon, your going to meet the proffesor. And don't try to use your powers, or Rouge will take them away." Bobby warned. Rouge pulled off her glove.
Summer decided she wouldn't let these creeps see her cry. She pulled in all her emotions, and made her face unreadable. Summer was going to be strong.
They led her through the huge garage, through a door into the mansion. The inside was just as rich as the outside, like her own home. Homesickness hit her hard, like a punch in the stomach. She swallowed it.
I will be strong, she thought.
You are strong, answered a voicein her head.
Summer gasped and stopped. She didn't notice it at first, the gentle probing. Someone was in her head.
GET OUT! she screamed mentally, and perhaps out loud to. She didn't know.
I need to talk to you, said the voice.
Summer couldn'tstand it, her most person private thoughts, read like a book. She tried to block him out, but he persisted. Frustration and anger nearly overwhelmed her.
"Get out!" She screamed, forcing him out with all of her strength.
Releif and surprise flooded her emotions. He was gone. She realized her eyes were closed, and that she was holding her breath. She opened her eyes and took deep breathes.
She was floating, standing, in the air. A large force field was holding her, lifting her in the air.
Kurt was trying to transport inside, but he only appeared in the same place. Bobby and Rouge were on the ground, uncouncious. They had been standing to close to her, and the force field had forced them hard against the walls.
Summer was about to let the force field go, and stopped when she saw a tall fierce looking man running up the hall towards her. He looked at her with such hatred, she felt the field waver with her concentration. He knelt on the ground next to Rouge, and checked her pulse. Then he moved to Bobby. Summer moved the feild away from him and turned to see a man with red glasses coming the other way. He was followed by a man in a wheelchair, and a man made of iron. A girl stepped out of the wall, curiously.
"Get out of there, now." said Storm. "We won't hurt you if you don't force us."
Summer knew she couldn't stay like that forever. She lowered herself slowly to the ground, and the force field disapeared. But she was ready to make another one, just in case.
"Well," said the Professor, "I don't think I'll try that again."
Chapter Five: Home?