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Shattered Like Glass: Scene 02"You convinced her to keep her big ugly mouth shut?" Pyro entered the rest room without a thought, coming up behind Blaze and putting his hands on her hips. His dangerous eyes were on Shockwave though, looking her over, making her shudder.
"I hope so." Blaze glared at her pupil, tilting her head to one side so Pyro could kiss her neck. Neither X-Man nor Brotherhood crony took their eyes off Sam for a second.
"We could make sure." Pyro offered flippantly, reaching for his lighter from his back pocket. "It'd be safer."
"Keep away from me!" Sam raised her hands threateningly, feeling her finger bones start to vibrate with the swelling of her fear and her mutant power.
"No Pyro, I can't let you…"
"Oh please Blaze, its not like anyone would be able to ID the body after we're finished with it." There was actually a hint of laughter in Pyro's voice. "Nobodies gonna know…"
He flicked the lighter, producing a small flame. Slowly he used his other hand, calling the fire across Blaze's front to form a fireball in his open palm. Sam swallowed, glancing at Blaze. The redhead pursed her lips and her eyes glazed over slightly. Sam knew that look; Blaze was getting ready to use her own powers. They were going to kill her!
"Get away from me!" Sam screamed, flinging her right hand out so that it smashed against the white tiles along the wall. Her mutation kicked in, shattering the tiles. It sent shards of porcelain and bucketfuls of dust flying through the air. Blaze and Pyro both turned away, covering their eyes. With that, Sam spun on her heels and fled back out the door into the bar. Pyro started after her, fireball still in his hand he went to throw it at the retreating girl, intent on murder.
He didn't succeed. Blaze snapped out a hand and sucked the fireball right back to herself. A glance to the lighter and it exploded, all its fuel used up in one blast that stung Pyro's hand. He gasped, shaking his fingers to restore the feeling. His eyes locked with Blaze's and he started towards her violently.
Blaze took his punch with a gasp, hands still full of the fire she had stolen from him. Her head hit against the side of a stall, the fire jumping to ignite the partition. Pyro drew his fist back again, ready to kill her. This time Blaze ducked and his fist went into the partition. She blasted him with fire of her own creating, knowing it wouldn't burn him but would at least knock him back. She sprinted for the door, but Pyro put in a flying tackle, arms stretched to wrap around her legs.
Blaze jumped, kicking out. Her shoe caught Pyro hard under the jaw. He made a strange strangled noise, rolling away. Blaze left him and ran out into the bar, just in time to see Sam disappearing through the rain outside.
This time Sam didn't wait for a break in the traffic, sprinting through the pounding rain into the middle of the road. A cab screeched as the driver braked sharply, the greasy road giving him no traction to stop. Bracing herself, Shockwave palmed off the halting car, her mutation splintering out from her vibrating finger bones, the shockwaves that were her namesake fracturing yellow paint and metal. The driver gasped at the rain-soaked teen as the crunching sound of his car being destroyed filled the air. Then Shockwave was gone again, darting for the subway.
"Sam!" Blaze let the bar door slam behind her. The cold rain stung the Firefly's warm skin like lead pellets. She found herself breathless as she waited for the cars to make short work of the teenager. The crunching sound of metal being attacked by Shockwave's power filled the air, and then Sam was gone. Blaze could do nothing but dart after her, taking the steps down into the subway three at a time, pushing punters out of the way without a thought.
The train in the platform was ready to leave, its doors bleeping ahead of sliding closed. Blaze leapfrogged the ticket barrier and sprinted to shove a hand in to block the impending closure. The doors slid open again at the obstruction, and Blaze sidestepped through. Shockwave saw her coming and had no wish to be sweet-talked by her least-favourite teacher into keeping her mouth shut. Staggering forward slightly as the train accelerated out of the platform, Sam didn't glance back. She fought her way through the other passengers towards the front of the train.
Light was a mirage of sparks and churning blue bulbs, flickering in and out of reality as the train picked up speed. It squealed along the tracks like a horse in pain. Little madmen ground their teeth and whispered curses whilst the more normal passengers ignored them and pretended all was usual. Striding from handhold to handhold, bracing herself as the train took a long sweeping corner, Shockwave realised her error. She was trapped and in major trouble the minute she got back to the school. It would be her word against a respected member of the X-Men that Blaze was a traitor.
Contemplating her certain doom even as Blaze arrived in the front carriage with Samantha, all pretence of sense was suddenly knocked out of Shockwave's skull. She skidded forwards at a rate of knots, unable to judge up from down as the darkness became suddenly absolute. The deafening noise that surrounded her was only silenced as Sam's jaw slammed into something cold and hard, and she was knocked unconscious.