Warren flew out of the hole he noticed that he was in a dam but he didn't know that it was so cold out; he regretted not having a shirt (and shoes wouldn't hurt either). He looked back down and saw no sign of Scott, they must have given up on him for the moment and taken Scott back to a cell. Warren thought for a moment and if Scott was in here someone had to have known something bad happened. He was never one to leave the mansion without people knowing or someone coming with him. But what if he didn't live at the mansion anymore? What if he left just like he did to peruse other things. Warren took these negative thoughts out of his head and flew up higher with his enhanced eyesight and the height he was flying he had to see the X-Jet.
And he did see the X-Jet it wasn't far off, just behind some trees. He flew forward a bit and widened his eyes despite the wind and he saw footsteps leaving the jet. He sighed a sigh of relief, the X-Men were already here and looking for him. That would make Warren's job so much easier.
He flew back down in the hole slightly thankful to be out of the snow. Looking around he saw no one and tried to land quietly, but that was hard because as soon as his feet touched the ground they made an echoing sound.
Warren walked as quiet as possible to his old cell, when he got there no one was in the cell. He figured this would happen Stryker knew he would be coming back for his friend and already took Scott to get that serum in his neck. Warren knew how bad it was, what it was like to watch what horrible thing he made you do but not able to stop it. Warren rubbed the back of his neck before running off to Stryker's lab praying that it wasn't to late.
When he reached the lab no one was there, the only sound was the bubbling of theheated metal. Warren glanced up and the x-rays he hadn't seen them for some time and saw his own x-rays along with two other peoples, the one he recognized as Yuriko's also known as Lady Deathstrike to Stryker but the other he did not. Warren pushed these thought out of his head and once again focused on Scott. He defiantly wasn't in there, he thought about it and by now Stryker must have used the serum on him. By now Scott could be doing anything to any one, as soon as he thought about this he saw a bright red light from around the corner and some yelling. As he got closer he peeked around the corner to see Scott and Jean fighting.
"Scott don't do this!" She yelled but Scott had a blank face on and just continued to shoot his optic beams at her.
Warren new the Jean he knew couldn't keep up her powers for much longer and he knew he had to step in. "Hey Scotty boy!" he yelled and flew up.
Scott continued to shoot the blasts and looked up at Warren flying above him. The ceiling wasn't high and Warren didn't have much room to fly around but he was able to distract Scott. As Warren flew Scotts powers hit a pipe behind him and it stopped warren from going any further because of the size of his wings. Scott took advantage of this and hit Warren in the wing.
"Arg!" Warren yelled as he grasped his right wing and fell hard to the ground. There were feathers floating down around him and when he glanced over to his wing there was blood staining the once white feathers.
Luckily Jean was able to use the last blast against Scott and a fairly large explosion went through the whole inside. This knocked everybody out.
Several minutes later Scott woke up, he first thought he was still under Stryker's control but when he looked around and noticed he could move on his own free will he smiled. Then he remembered what he had done and immediately got up ignoring the protests from his body and ran around looking for Jean and Warren. Oh God, he thought, I attacked Warren I hurt him damn where are they. He found Jean first and ran over to her.
"Jean!"
From the sound of his voice Jean opened her eyes and looked over to Scott, she was about to attack and defend herself when she saw him running over but he stopped her.
"No,no it's okay Jean! It's me!" He said.
"Scott, I though I lost you." She breathed and threw her arms around him.
"I'm sorry, I could see you but I couldn't stop myself I'm sorry, I love you." He said.
Jean pulled away looking at the ground. "Scott, something's wrong."
"What?" Scott asked.
"I don't know." Jean said thinking. He memory went back to the fight and she remembered seeing Warren. She swore she saw him distract Scott while she focused her powers together again. "Did I see Warren?" She asked and looked up at Scott.
"Yeah…" Scott said and helped her up, he put his arm around her and her arm around him so she could walk. "You did, I told him not to come back."
"Wait. You saw him before now?"
Scott nodded and as they looked for him he explained what happened in the cell earlier that day. "Come on." He said ands they walked over to the spot where Scott remembered hitting Warren. "He should be over here."
And sure enough he was right, they found Warren lying on the ground still unconscious with what looked like a broken wing and some blood on it.
"Oh God." Jean said and went down to his side along with Scott.
Scott shook him slightly and Warren woke up. "Scott?" He asked just above a whisper. "You okay buddy?"
"Why are you asking me that?" Scott said. "I'm the one who hit you!"
"But you're the one Stryker had under his control." Warren said. "I know what it's like and I know it's not fun."
Jean crawled over to his right wing and examined it.
"So, what the diagnosis Doctor Jennie?" Warren asked.
"It's fractured, not broken but it would probably be best not to fly for a while." She said. "Come on, we should leave I have a bad feeling about this."
They helped Warren up and he helped Scott with Jean and her possibly broken leg.
Jean stopped after only a minute of them walking and gasped. "Cerebro… we're to late… Ah!"
Just then a searing pain went though Warren'shead along with Scott and Jeans. All three of them fell to the floor gasping for breath and clutching there heads. This did not last very long but it felt like hours of pain. When it stopped Jean and Scott helped each other up, when Warren got up he looked over to his friends with a confused look on.
"What's going on?" He had a feeling something bigger was happening then just Scott getting captured.
The two other mutants then filled Warren in on what happened at the mansion and about the Professor. Throughout this Warren was taking it all in thinking hard about all this new information. When they were finished Warren nodded and looked at the two.
"Damn." Warren said and raised his eyebrows at the two who just laughed slightly. And by this time they were at the entrance to Cerebro.
"Storm!" Scott said as he walked up behind the children.
"Jean? Are you okay? Warren?" Storm asked confused.
"I'm fine." Jean said and Warren smiled to Storm thinking that maybe they should leave proper greeting to later.
"What's happening?" Storm asked.
"The Professors still in with another mutant he's trapped in some kind of illusion… Oh my God Magneto reversed cerebro, it's not targeting mutants anymore." Jean said her eyes widening.
"Who is it targeting?" Warren asked looking over to Jean.
"Everyone else." She said looking back to Warren.
They all thought about what to do for a few seconds until Scott removed Jeans arm and let her lean completely on Warren. "Everybody stand back." He said preparing to use his optic blasts.
Jean grabbed Scott. "Scott no, his mind is connected to Cerebro opening the door could kill him and everybody his mind is liked to."
"Wait." Storm said and she looked over to the unfamiliar mutant next to her. "Kurt, I need you to take me inside."
"Wait, Storm who is this guy?" He asked her and without waiting for a response turned to the mutant who looked slightly shy and out of place. "Who are you."
"My name is Kurt Wager, but in ze – " Storm cut him off by putting her fingers up to his mouth.
"He's a teleporter." She looked at him again silently asking the question.
The mutant, Kurt, looked at her slightly nervous. "I told you if I can't see vhere I'm going…"
"I have faith in you." Strom said.
"Don't believe anything you see in there." Jean said to them.
Kurt let out a shaky sigh and put his arms around Strom, he closed his eyes and began to pray. "Out father who art in heaven hallow be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth – "
That was where the two disappeared in a cloud of blue smoke that smelled like brimstone. They all looked on in shock praying to themselves that they were able to do it without getting hurt. Jean was the only one there who knew what could possibly happen but from the terrified look and the praying the rest figured out that it probably was not to teleport into a place you could not see.
Before they knew it, they re appeared but it was only Strom in a blue cloud Kurt had gone back in. and seconds later he reappeared with the Professor. They all began running without a word and Warren helped Kurt with the Professor.
"We have to get out through the spill way!" Storm yelled and they all ran torward it as fats as they could so they would die.
When they got there the doors began to close and none of them could make it through.
"You don't wanna go that way, trust me." Said a man Warren did not recognize but the rest did so he did not worry much, and by the look of the claws he used to close the door he was another one of Stryker's experiments. "Come on there's another way outta here!"
They all fallowed him and before they knew it where back out in the cold, when they reached one spot the man stopped and looked frustrated. "There helicopter was right here!"
Just then they saw the X-Jet fly over the trees and make a rough landing on the snow.
Kurt looked over to warren who was still staring at the X-Jet. "I vill take him." He said and Warren nodded letting go of the Professor. They once again disappeared in a cloud of smoke and Warren fallowed the rest to board the ship.
When they got on Warren saw a girl at the controls looking terrified and Storm tried to calm her down. Warren sat on one of the seats and let out a sigh, how that all that was over his focus went back to the pain in his wing.
"Scott…" he heard the professor say. "We've got to get to Washington I fear this has gone beyond Alkili lake."
Warren looked back up at everybody and one again ignored the pain as he got up and walked over.
"Oh no, we've lost the power." He heard Strom say and the lights went out. Warren bit his bottom lip and turned around rubbing his chin, when he did this he noticed Jean leaving.
"Jean." He said and began walking over to her.
She turned around as she walked off the ramp and smiled a goodbye to him. He realized what she was going to do right away and when Scott came running over the ramp began to rapidly close. Warren used his agility and once again ignoring his wing flew out as fast as possible.
He saw the wave coming and flew up as high as he could without falling and apparently Jean had not discovered he made it out to. What could he do now? Jean was practically covered in water he wouldn't be able to get down to her.
AN: Yeah…. I'm leaving you, but only for a few days or maybe a few hours who knows how much I plan on writing today. But I thank all those who read and reviewed, speaking of reviews PLEASE REVIEW! It only makes me write faster! So I'll see ya in my next chapter.
