The X-Men fallowed the directions given to them by the Professor. It really wasn't a long ride, it turned out the place was closer then they thought. Scott and Ororo were at the controls with the rest in their seats behind them, as much as Ashley and Trace wanted to go and help their friends, the professor wouldn't allow them to go.
They flew over NY and after five minutes or so reached an area covered in warehouses. "This must be it." Ororo said as she gently landed the jet.
"So which one is it?" Logan said getting up and walking out of the jet.
"The Professor said it was the one at the very end on the left." Jean said. "So it must be that one." She said pointing to the one at the very end as they all lined up outside the jet.
"I'll fly over there, do a couple of rounds make sure it's safe to go in." Warren said and he flew up in the air. He gained some altitude before flying over the warehouse, there were small windows in the roof and he could see two guards at a stair case that lead down. No one was by the door, and the two guard did look to great. "Right," he said to himself. "Makes sense."
Warren flew back to the group and landed a few feet in front of them. "So?" Kurt asked, "Vhat did you see?"
"Two guards by the stairs, no one by door, which is locked by the way, they don't look to spectacular. Kinda explains the fact that they attacked right out in the middle of New York, they're not that experienced." Warren explained.
"Should be easy gettin' in then." Logan said and he tookthe cigar out of his mouth and stomped it out with his heal.
"Then what are we waiting for?" Scott asked as he stepped forward, the rest fallowed him and they walked down the row of warehouses and to the last one. When they got there Scott decided to go with the element of surprise and he blasted the door wide open.
They heard a couple yells inside from the guards and when they walked in, the two quickly recovered and wiped out a gun from his jacket. Kurt quickly teleported over and grabbed the gun also punching the man in the face before he could react Kurt got rid of the gun and teleported back to the group.
The other man still had a gun though and he fired several shots at them. Jean put up a force field and blocked all three rounds before they hit them. Right after she did that Ororo sent a bolt of lightening threw the ceiling and hit both men. "Let's go." She said and they quietly ran down the metal stairs alert for anyone else who could jump out at them.
After a couple flights they reached the bottom level a few guard were waiting down their for them but like the rest they took them out easily. As they walked though the dark maze of tunnels underground it reminded them a lot of Stryker's base. "Yeah, we defiantly have a copy cat on our hands here." Logan said as they walked down.
"You hear that?" Hank said as he stopped suddenly.
"No, Hank," Warren started a little annoyed sounding. "You know we can't."
"There's people, not to far away down that hall." He said pointing to the right passage in a fork up ahead.
"Well then lets get going." Ororo said and the X-Men walked down the passage after several seconds the rest of them began hearing slight noises as well.
"I can hear them now." Jean said as they walked.
They rushed down the hall now and finally they came across a room, there was a giant space with no wall and all five kids stood inside it. "Hey, you guys okay?" Scott asked as he walked up to the side.
"Hones'ly, do we loo' okay." Said a girl with her back turned to them, it was quite obvious which one this was, she had large slightly brown wings on her back and when she turned to face they saw blazing golden eyes. She was muscular, incredibly lean, long light hair and tall. "'oo are ya anyway."
"Um, we're here to help." Scott stammered. "We're the X-Men, I'm Scott, this is Jean, Hank, Warren, Kurt, Ororo and Logan."
"Tha's goo' an' all, but 'ow do ya plan on 'elpin' us?" The girl, Rachel, said a little acidly.
"Rach, calm down." Said a boy who walked up to the edge, he had reddish eyes, deep red hair and a medium build. "So, you're here to get us out?" They nodded a little confused at what was going on. "Well then I might as well let you now, there's a wall here, invisible can only be turned off by a key, and I'm Mark by the way."
"We know, or I mean, we ran into Ashley and Trace." Warren said.
"Ya foun'd 'um?" Rachel said turning back and her voice was a little less threatening. "W're ar' they?" She asked.
"Back at ze mansion, zey vanted to come but ve did vant to put zem in any more danger." Kurt explained.
"Okay well, do you have a key? That's the only way to open the doors unless you have a power that can short out the machine that makes the wall." Danny said walking over, he was obviously the youngest and had hazel eyes and black hair.
"Well could I stab this thing?" Logan asked.
"Only if ya wha'n a few alarms tripped then yea', be me guest." Rachel said.
"Could Kurt teleport in?" Ororo asked.
"Ya can try." Rachel said.
Kurt diapered in a cloud of blue smoke but quickly reappeared. "Can't." He said. "Zere is somezing blocking my teleporting, I can't get in."
"Well then there is some big guy who usually walked around with a key." Danny said.
"Yeah, the big guy, I think he's in the head guard around here, if ya don't want alarms tripped ya better open the door that way. Trust me what ya faced coming in is nothing compared to what you'll face going out with tripped alarms." James said, he was tall and had blue eyes with brown hair.
"Okay, so, a big guy. Did we get a big guy coming in?" Jean asked the rest.
"Naw, the guys we fought were kinda small." Warren said. "Where would this, all powerful 'big guy' be?"
"So what if we trip a few alarms who can stop us?" Logan asked.
"Well, tripping the alarm causes this whole place to go in lock down for one thing, but I guess if you can like blast the wall open it wouldn't matter." Mark started. "And we get hit with some chemical, I have no idea what it is but we can't think for ourselves anymore."
"I think I know what you're talking about." Scott said rubbing the back of his neck.
"How do you get hit?" Hank asked.
"Well see that thing on the ceiling?" James said. "It sprays out the chemical and at skin contact it starts up. When we first got here they put it on the back of our necks, but I guess they figured out how to make it better."
"Bu' there's one big diff'rence." Rachel started. "The spray only lasts 'bout foive min'tes. So by the toime we get back in ar' pers'nal litt'l 'ell 'ole we're back to our ol' selves."
"Okay so any idea where this mystery guy can be?" Logan said.
"Um… might wanna check the room behind us, when Mark could see though the walls it looked like a break room or something." James said.
"Okay then the back wall it is." Warren said. "I'll go check it out, anyone wanna come with?"
"Me." Scott said and he stepped forward.
"You boys aren't going anywhere without me." Jean said and went a head as well.
"You expect me to sit around with the blue boys?" Logan asked.
"We can't all go, someone has to stay back and look after the kids in case they come back for some treatment." Scott said.
"Ve'll stay." Kurt said looking between himself, Hank and Ororo. "If anyone comes along zey'll have to get though us."
"Okay." Scott said accepting that for an answer. "Come on guys."
The small group walked through the halls and turned a corner, a few seconds later they hit a thick metal door. The window was think and looked bullet proof. Jean peeked though the window and saw a big muscular guy with a large gun on the table next to him and he looked asleep. "Okay this guy looks out." She said. "He's not getting up anytime soon."
"Okay, so lets kill this door and get in." Logan said taking out his claws preparing to slash the door.
"Wait!" Jean said. "We don't know what kind of security this door has, if it has anything like the cell the children are in, we should be careful."
Warren stared into the room looking hard. "Hey, Jean…" He said a little distant.
"What?" She asked looking to him.
"You see those keys… Near the table in the back?" Warren asked.
"I think…. You want me to try and unlock the door?"
"Could you?"
"Yes." Jean concentrated on the keys and they slowly lifted up off the table and floated over to the key hole, she had a little trouble when it got closer to the door and she couldn't see it very well anymore but after a few tries the door the small click was heard and Jean opened the door. "Piece of cake." She said and smiled.
Logan immediately walked over to the guy and put his claws to his throat. "Hey, bub." He said loud enough for the guy to wake up.
He woke up, gasped and right away went for the gun but was stopped by the claws a half inch away from his throat. "W – what do you people want?" He asked a little shaky.
"Just the keys to the cell." Warren said casually as he walked around the room.
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"Yes ya do." Logan said harshly as he pressed his claws against this neck a little more. "Now wanna tell us?"
"I'll never tell you freaks anything." The man spat and Logan caught a hand reached under the table. He used his other hand and stabbed his arm into the table holding it there.
"Now, lets try this again." Logan said, the man was gasping in pain now. "Where are the keys?"
"Nowhere." He said and before Logan could react a red button was pressed under the table and before they knew it a red flashing light went off accompanied by an alarm.
"Dammit!" Logan yell in frustration angry that he let this guy get passed him and he stabbed him in the chest. "No matter if we trip an alarm now, let's go!"
The group ran back to the hall where the cell was. When they got there they saw a light spray coming down from the ceiling. All five children looked in a trance and string at the wall unmoving.
"What happened?" Ororo asked as they came back.
"The guy pushed a button activated the alarms, we gotta get them outta here!" Warren said.
"Like this? They'll fight back, we can't afford that right now!" Jean said. "We have to wait until it wears off."
"it won't take long –" Scott couldn't finish his sentence before a bunch of armed men came in from all directons.
"How are they hiding this many people? No one was here when we came in." Warren said.
"No time to think about that now." Scott said and shot an optic blast at a group a guys shooting at them. Like before Jean blocked them, Hank ran over he was shot twice as he ran but they hardly had any affect on him. When he got there he punched out a few guys. Kurt teleported and hit a few of them knocking them out, he couldn't get him he confused the guards to much and they didn't know where to shoot, Ororo shot them with lightening bolts that she created and Warren flew above there heads punching them as he flew over.
In about ten minutes all the guards were dead or knocked out. The alarm was still going off and they were expecting more men to be coming at any time. Without saying a word Logan ran over to the wall and slashed the machine that you put the key card in and the faint humming off the machine die. The children scrambled out of the cell and began to run along the halls with the X-Men fallowing them closely.
"How do we get out of here?" Jean yelled as they passed dozens of corridors.
"I know the way." Mark said as he stared at the walls trying to find the stairs. "I think it's over there."
"You think?" Warren said.
"It is that way." James said sniffing the air a little bit. "I think…." He added under his breath.
They ran down further until finally they reached a long staircase. Warren and Rachel didn't even bother running they both flew, Kurt teleported up each flight, Ororo also floated herself up as well. When they reached the top they saw dozens of guards standing in the way of the door.
"Oh hell…." Mark said sighing. "What now? Can we beat them all?"
"We're gonna have to." Warren said.
"Yea… or oi can do this." Rachel said. "Cover yer e'rs this moight hurt." She took in a deep breath and screamed loudly. There was a high pitched hawk-like scream all the guards covered their ears and fell to the ground. "Okay, go! They'll be out fer a couple o' sec'nds."
"You're a life saver, Rach." Danny said and the X-Men sprang into action with the children and easily beat the guards who were still a little shocked from the scream.
They were about to run out but Jean stopped and looked around a little confused. "Wait isn't something missing?" She asked. "Shouldn't we be facing the boss guy now?"
"Wouldn't bet on it…" Mark said. "He's no mutant, he was one of Stryker's soldiers who escaped with some ofhis work. He's nothing, probably cowering in the corner."
"We've never actually met 'im withou' the serum. 'E's to scared an' inexpe'ienced." Rachel said.
"Okay then let's get out of here before more soldiers come." Scott said, he blasted a hole in the walland they all jogged out of the warehouse. Scott had to support Jean though, apparently she wasn't quite back to her full strength. They all boarded the jet and the children were looking around in awe.
"Nice huh?" Warren asked as he went up to the controls with Ororo, Scott stayed with Jean in the back.
"How are you feeling?" He asked her as they sat down and she took in a deep breath.
"I'm fine, Scott, really." She answered smiling slightly.
"I know you shouldn't have come, you're still to weak, you should be in bed resting."
"No, I'm right where I should be, I'll be perfectly fine in a few minutes just give me a minute okay?" She said and lightly kissed him.
"How can I say no to that?" He asked.
"You can't."
Over by the children Hank took this opportunity to 'question' them. "So, we hear that all you kids were together before the incident, how? I mean why did you leave your families?"
"Well," Said Rachel who was the voice of the group with Trace and Ashley gone. "Mark 'ere saw into the gi'ls locker room, koinda funny actually… but he couldn't control whot 'e woz seein' at the toime, fam'ly got scared an' told 'im off, um… Ashley star'ed 'earin' thoughts an' 'er fam'ly freaked, Trace woz attractin' static electricity from so'kets and zapping everythin' 'e touched, ran away when everybody shunned 'im. Danny… well 'e dun' really got a fam'ly… developed 'is powers in an orphanage, ran away when 'e realized them an' James's po'rents flipped when 'e told them 'e could tell pe'pole apart by there smell from over a hundred yords away."
"What about you? I mean did you come here with your powers or did you develop them here? No offence but I'm guessing that your not from around here." Hank said.
"No 'fence taken and yer roigh' I ain't from 'round 'ere." She said smirking slightly. "I moved 'ere with me mum when I woz abou' twelve, got me powers at fifteen, started wit the screamin' woz able to keep that under until I grew wings outta me back, koinda 'ard 't cover that up, so mum kicked me out and after tha' we all just koinda found each oth'a."
"Seems all of you have had fairly hard lives."
"Well what do you expect when you're a mutant." Mark said.
"Now, now that's not always the case, where your going now is a place you'll be able to finish your schooling and be accepted with many other gifted children."
"Alright kiddies, here we are, Xavier's Institute for Gifted Youngsters." Warren said as Ororo landed the jet.
AN: I'm so, so, so, so sorry…. I know I said a week but school and writers block dun' mix very well. And about the accent, I have written every accent out there, German, Southern, Irish etc… but cockney beats them all to the ground. They all just need like replacing 'th' with 'd' or 'z' or taking out an ending letter or something. But cockney… Its hard people and I'll admit sometimes I have trouble reading them but I like the accent (was gonna give it to mark but for some reason it didn't fit him) and if ya'll can talk with a cockney in your mind you should do fine. If ya can't figure out a word just guess or somthin… I dunno. But anyway thanks to redrosethorns and Wen1. And I've never been a big fan of Phoenix so, no, she won't turn into her.
And one more thing a few days ago I saw the first X-3 commercial on TV (of course I've watched it on the computer but this was on tv!) and that just means we're one step closer to it coming out!
