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"Scott" Professor Xavier exclaimed. "What are you doing?"
Scott Summers looked at the Professor, the man who had been his mentor. But things were different now, he was different and he had to move on. "I'm sorry Professor but I'm doing what I have to do. I'm standing along side my brother, the woman who cares about me, and a person who wants to help me."
"But Scott you have seen what Magneto has done and you've always agreed that what he advocates is wrong" Charles said.
"I'm just here to see what he has to say. He has promised to help me gain control and help my brother. Besides lately a lot of things have made me re-assess what I believe in" he said. "Besides he made this place to give mutants a safe place to prosper."
"Exactly" Magneto nodded. "Charles maybe you should take your students advice and rethink a few things" he said.
Xavier became very angry with this. "Is that so Scott? Then what about the ones who didn't choose to come here like myself and them" he said pointing to the entrapped mutants.
Scott had been so busy with the Professor he had yet to see in the background his entrapped friends. "Bobby, Jean, Storm? What is this Magneto? Let them go right now."
"Relax Scott" Alex said.
"Yes Scott, this is merely a precaution till they calm themselves down. They will soon realize they are better off here. This is where they can truly contribute as well as benefit."
"We are being held against are will Scott" Storm told him. "Should we not have a choice whether we wish to be here."
"Yeah Scott he abducted us and forced us here" Jean frowned. "Is that right. A true friend would help us" she said looking into his eyes.
Emma frowned at this and looked at Magneto. He nodded and started to press some buttons over the tubes.
"Besides we'll never join him Scott" Bobby said. "Do you even know what he let happen to Kitty and the others" he began to say when suddenly he felt sleepy. His tube filled with some sort of gas and he fell into a state similar to that of Rogue who had been like that since Xavier had gotten there. Jean and Storm fell into a similar state.
"What is this" Scott demanded. "And what are they talking about with the other mutants."
"Like I said this is for they're own good, and though it is admirable to think of their fellow mutants, I could only take the best of the best" Magneto said.
"I still don't like it" Scott frowned.
"I'm sorry dear, but for now it's necessary, we can't allow them to ruin our plans just because they are misguided" Emma smiled at him and it seemed to passive him. Alex watched them both with a look of contempt.
Xavier realized that the forces influencing Scott right now were more then he could handle, he needed to get them both and the others out of here, but he had but one resource. The last fight was between Logan and Sabretooth, and would most likely be fought near where they had found Alex. "** Logan lose the fight, we're in Antarctica **" Xavier said once after focusing on his mind. He tried to focus again but Emma realized what he was doing.
"Sir it seems that your old friend still wishes to interfere" she said simply.
Magneto nodded and lifted Charles chair with his powers. "Sorry Charles but you need a nap" he said and placed the chair next to the glass tubes. He pressed a button and a tube went over Xavier and filled with gas.
"Scott stop this" Xavier was able to say before he succumbed to the glass and his eyes closed.
Scott ran over to the tube then glared at Magneto. "Why do this? You say you trust him then you entrap him" he said staring Magneto straight in the face. "The more you do the more I suspect I've made a mistake" he said.
Emma got between them. "Please Scott, the Professor needs to realize his flaws in reasons and relax his suspicion. Until he does he will only seek to hinder our efforts" she said. "Now come with me to my quarters and we can relax" she said.
Scott nodded. "Okay for now. But I don't want them abused" he said sternly and walked off with Emma.
Magneto nodded. "Yes now I have a few more preparations to attend to before we can start some of our most important work" he explained then walked off.
As Emma left with Scott, Alex still watched as jealousy filled him. He liked having his brother back but it was like when he had arrived he also had swiped away this blond beauty. Pietro sped over to him. "Love hurts don't it kid" he said.
"Why don't you mind your own business" Alex frowned at him.
"Relax kid, the names Quicksilver and if you ever need anything, like say Emma maybe I can arrange things. Just think of me as a friend" he said and patted Alex on the back before leaving the boy to his conflicting thoughts.
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Meanwhile down in Hawaii, Logan and Sabretooth were engaged in yet another fight. They had tackled each other, punched each other, sent each other flying in the opposite direction and now were pacing each other toward the top of a rocky cliff overlooking the ocean.
"How much longer are we going to do this Creed" Logan growled as he faced off against his enemy.
"Till one of us falls. The winner will be rewarded" Sabretooth growled and charged at him again. Logan caught him and soon they were tackling each other again and rolling up the cliff toward the edge. At one point Logan had gained the advantage and could win the fight.
But just as he was going to go for the finishing blow he heard the Professors quick call. "This better be good Charles" Logan grunted, not wanting to lose. This moment of hesitation allowed Sabretooth to get the advantage again.
"Enough of this you know I belong at his side not you" Sabretooth growled.
"You know something your right" Logan shrugged and made no move as Sabretooth hit with everything he had, knocking Logan flying down to the rocks below.
It was a high cliff so it was hard to see the bottom so Creed just took a quick look. "He's probably not dead, but I don't have time for this" he muttered to himself when another orb appeared. Sabretooth jumped in and flew off to join the others.
Logan was indeed still alive; he had slammed his claws into the cliff as he fell. Smelling that Sabretooth's scent was no longer present, he climbed back to the top of the cliff. He saw a plane landing on the northern part of the island, about two miles away. "Well that's where I better go" he frowned and ran in the direction of the airport. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On the east coast evening approaches a beach where an elf looking boy finally awakens. "Vhat happened" he groaned as he got up. He looked around. "Vhere is everyone" he called out. He saw a large pile of sand had filled in between the dunes, suddenly Kitty phased through it with Dani.
"Where here" Kitty explained. "We got half buried in sand by Alvers, luckily, we made it to the other side of the dune passage so it only buried us from the waste down."
"But it knocked us out to" Dani explained. "Looks like the Brotherhood has gone though."
"Yeah, dank god" Kurt agreed. "I vonder vhat they vanted in the first place" he said.
Kitty meanwhile was looking around frantically. "Bobby, Bobby, where are you" she called out. "Guys what happened to Bobby, it's not like him not to come when he here's me" she explained with fear in her voice. "He could be hurt or worse."
Kurt nodded. "Yes that is strange" he agreed. "Ve better start looking around."
"What if the Brotherhood did something to him" Kitty cried.
"Well I think we have a way of finding that out," Dani said as she pointed to the only other figure on the beach.
Toad was just waking up, wondering what had happened. He noticed that the fight was over and that meant he was left behind. And worse he was alone with the X-Men. "Better get out of here" Toad mumbled to himself and started to hop off.
But Kurt teleported into his path and grabbed him. "Not so fast Toad" Kurt frowned and glared at him. But before he could question Toad Kitty had already tackled the worm.
"What did your dumb friends do to my boyfriend you little creep" she snapped. "Spill now."
Toad was pretty scared. Kitty wasn't very big but she looked very angry. "Yo look relax, please. I'll tell you everything, just let me go," he said.
"Hmm I don't know" Dani said. "I kind have like watching you squirm, and how do we know you'll even say anything and not run away," she asked.
"Are you kidding, if I tried crazy girl here might kill me or something. Besides I was left behind, I don't owe anything to Magneto."
"Magneto, vhat does he have to do vith it" Kurt asked as he got Kitty to let go.
"He told us to fight you guys so he could figure out who were the better mutants, and then he was going to take them to this place and start some sort of weird new order or something yo" he said. "I mean Pietro said some people got to go automatically and stuff like the Icecube, cause they were powerful, but the rest had to prove themselves" he said. "So cause we lost we're still here" he explained.
"Vhat happens to the winners," Kurt demanded.
"All I know is they go to some place, that's all, he didn't tell us where" he said.
Dani then realized something. "Wait the others could be in danger, we have to get back and warn them" she said.
"Right" Kurt agreed. "The car is totaled ve'll have to come back for it later, I can teleport us every 2 miles till ve can get home" he said and put his hands on Kitty and Dani.
"Sorry if this strains you Kurt, but I'm not letting him out of my sight till we find Bobby and whoever else is gone" Kitty said as she grabbed Toad. Then Kurt teleported leaving the beach empty. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Back at the Asteroid Scott Summers stares out the window into the nothingness of the dark tunda and sighs. Emma Frost comes up behind him and rubs his back. "Something is troubling you" Emma said. "Don't lie I can sense these things, now tell me or I will find out on my own"
Scott sighed. "I don't know if I'm doing the right thing, I mean joining Magneto. You might agree with him, but I'm not too sure. I've always thought that the Professor was right, and his dream could be realized."
"Well maybe you did once, but now you realize that it was merely a pipe dream, that if we wish to live free we must fight to protect ourselves" she suggested.
Scott shrugged. "Maybe, but a part of me feels I'm just doing this to get back at them, which is just not right."
"Whose says its not, Scott? Don't kid yourself you know that you were betrayed. You done nothing but shown loyalty to the X-Men and what do they do, they just let you be replaced. Scott tried to speak. "Let me finish Scott, and even though they betrayed you, you still are going to give them this opportunity to be a apart of this place where our kind will flourish. If anything you should be happy for they will eventually see the error of they're ways."
Scott shrugged. "But what about the ones left behind, Bobby made it sound like they were in danger."
"He is just being foolish, he always has been. His feelings for that girl have made him blind to ever fulfilling his true potential" she said. "Now forget about him, you should also remember that once Magneto is through with you, you'll never have to worry about losing control again. Think about it, normal sight like everyone else" she said.
Scott was silent. He had longed for normal sight ever since his powers had emerged. He looked out back into space and just sighed. "Well I guess I can't change it now, so I might as well make the best of it."
"You see now relax, I'm with you, and what could be better then that" she said and continued to rub his shoulders. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Back in the main part of the fortress on the other side of the room, from the containment tubes, Forge is hard at work constructing some sort of chamber. The Brotherhood is just kind of watching him. Suddenly Sabretooth wandered in.
"Hello boys" he said to his young charges. "See you made the party, where's the Toad" he asked.
"He didn't make it, got blasted by the Popsicle" Pyro said.
"Too bad" Sabretooth shrugged. "If Magneto needs me tell him I'll be taking a nap" he told them and wandered out. The Brotherhood watched him go and continued to watch Forge.
"I must say this place is just... boring" Lance frowned. "I mean yeah we're here, now what. We just gonna hang around here and wait."
"Right mate, I have to admit I don't see the point either. And why are we bringing those wankers in" Pyro asked indicating the trapped X-Men. "They are supposed to be the enemy we can't trust them."
"Heck even if we could, I don't want to deal with red and Popsicle. And why should we just accept Summers, he could be lying. Plus why is Rogue being held, they never explained that." Blob and Pyro nodded in agreement.
"Not to mention does this place even have a kitchen?" Blob added and got dark glares from Pyro and Avalanche. "Uh and why is Summers getting better treatment then us, we've been here longer."
"Good question Blob" Lance agreed. "Why don't we ask Pietro, where ever he is?"
"Looking for me" Pietro said as he sped in. "Oh you've been inquiring about me, my ears are burning."
Lance glared at him. "Look Pietro what's going on here? Why are we just sitting around, why are we to trust the X-Geeks, and what happened to Rogue" He frowned and Pyro and Blob followed his lead.
"Look man, dad said Rogue's powers are out of control, so for now she needs to rest, the X-Geeks we need for support and don't worry when we're through with them they'll have to follow us. Now if you have any other problems you can ask Magneto" he said.
Pyro backed off and pulled back Lance. "Yah know mate, I think we're good for now" Pyro said.
"Wait a minute I'm not" Blob said and walked over to Pietro. "I want to know one thing right now, where's the kitchen?"
"Oh yeah it's down that corridor and to the left, across from the rec room" he said.
"Rec room" Lance asked. "Ehh okay lets go boys." The brotherhood boys followed and left Pietro in the room with Forge, when Magneto floated in.
"Father" Pietro said greeting him and getting a nod. "I was just wondering how are you going to increase our powers and control like you said you would?"
"Don't worry my son I shall explain that all in just a minute" Magneto said and looked at Forge. "How much longer till the chamber is ready" he asked.
"I'd give it another 6-8 hours" Forge responded without looking up from his work.
"Good, now come my son and I shall show you how I intend to do what I promised" he said. He lead his son to another part of the fortress, they entered a heavily armored vault, which Magneto opened. Inside was nothing but a set of glowing crystals. "These are the Gems of Cyttorak, and when put into the device Forges building, will make all of us so powerful, no one will stand in our way" Magneto said sternly with a look of determination. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It is about the height of the evening in Bayville, when on the front lawn of the Xavier Institute, a puff of smoke reveals Kurt, Dani and Kitty, who has Toad in a vice grip.
"That took forever," Dani said. "Well we better go find the others, I hope we're not too late" she said as they rushed into the mansion, which they found totaled.
"This place is a mess, vhat happened here" Kurt exclaimed, as he looked at all the furniture smashed all over the place, and the whole in the ceiling.
"They're must have been a fight, the others might have been taken" Kitty said. "Now what are we going to do" she asked still holding Toad tight in her grasp. "
"For starters you can let go of Toad" a stern voice said and out from the shadows emerged Mystique.
"Mother" Kurt asked. "Vhat are you doing here, are you responsible for this" he asked.
"Let go of him and I'll explain all I know" Mystique said and Dani and Kurt nodded. Kitty frowned but let go.
"Thanks boss lady" Toad said as he caught his breath and hopped over to her side. She simply glared at him.
"That's better" Mystique said. "Now my son, to answer your first question I admit my battle with Storm caused a majority of the damage, but it was Magneto's capture orb that smashed the ceiling. I was forced to prove my worth to Magneto" she frowned. "And now my loyalty has evaporated. I plan to get my revenge by attacking his fortress, and your going to help me."
"Like yeah right, why should we?" Kitty frowned and Dani and Kurt nodded.
"I don't see how you have much choice, I am going to get your help and it seems you're in the need of new leadership," she smirked.
"I don't know about that" a voice said and all turned to see a battle worn Logan. "Sorry if I'm late, but finding a flight from Hawaii was a bit harder then I thought" he smirked.
Kitty smiled and hugged Logan. "Yeah your okay, but you look terrible. But anyway like we have a serious issue here, the Brotherhood showed up and attacked us, and Bobby got captured, and Toad told us Magneto is taking mutants to this place, and now we come here and the place is totaled and we don't know where Jean and Carol are, and Storm is gone and now Mystique is trying to take over" she said very fast.
"Calm down half pint" Logan said. "I was contacted by the Professor and I know just where we have to go to find them" he explained.
"Oh do you" Mystique snarled. "Fine spill, I'm in charge of this operation" she said.
"That so huh" Logan shrugged. "The way I see it, unless you spill some key information, your expendable" he said. "Now I smell both Carol and Jean on you, what happened to them" he asked.
"Ms. Grey was captured like the others" she said. "As for Ms. Danvers, I 'm sure you can smell her in other places" she said.
"Wait a minute" Logan said then caught the scent of something. "Oh my god" he said and grabbed Kurt. "Teleport 2 miles east elf" he said.
Kurt nodded and the two of them teleported out on to the grounds where they found Carols passed out body. "Vhat happened to her," Kurt asked.
"Looks like she got drained by the Rogue, bad" Logan told him, as he looked her over. "She doesn't look badly hurt, but we better secure her body" he said. "Teleport to the infirmary" he told him and Kurt complied.
In the infirmary Logan set Carol down. "Look I don't know how bad it is, but for now all we can do is hook her up to the machine, and later we'll get a doctor" he said and removed Carols upper clothing then hooked her body up. "This should help her, though I admit I don't much else," he said. "I hate to leave her but we have bigger fish to fry" Logan said and the two teleported back to the main foyer, where the others were waiting. Logan walked over to Mystique and glared at her. "I know you had something to do with what happened to blondie, but right now we need your help and you need our help, so we might as well just have a truce."
"Fine" Mystique said. "But I'm in charge."
"Funny" Logan said. "If you take that attitude you can walk," he said. "Come on you three, we have work to do" he said and began to walk out. Kitty, Dani, and Kurt followed.
Mystique frowned. "Come on Toad" she said and followed after the X-Men.
20 minutes later the basketball court in the back yard opened up and out of it emerged a large jet-powered helicopter. Logan was at the controls and Mystique was in the navigation chair. "Lay in a course for Antartica" Logan said.
"Setting" Mystique nodded. "We should arrive in 9 hours if we go at maximum speed" she nodded.
"What is this thing anyway, I don't see any metal anywhere yo" Toad scratched his head.
"This is the Velocity, and you shouldn't since this is made of no metal at all, how else do you think we can get passed Magneto" Logan smirked.
"Oh my god this is one big flying piece of plastic" Toad cried in fear as the jet flew off to Antartica. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Several hours later at the asteroid, the Rogue awoke inside her prison, quite dazed. "Where am ah" she groaned as she looked around. She found she was trapped in some sort of glass tube. "Wait I'm trapped, why am I here" she called out. "The last thing I remember is..."
"Draining Carol" a cold voice snapped.
Rogue turned to see Jean Grey in a tube next to her. "Yes" Rogue sighed. "But ah didn't mean to hurt her so bad ah just wanted revenge" she explained.
"I bet you didn't" Jean frowned. "I know how you felt about her and what you've wanted to do for her, your feelings were practically screaming, any telepath could pick it up, and you held on long enough to kill her" she frowned.
"Look I'm sorry, but now she trapped in my head and her powers are too strong" Rogue sighed.
"Serves you right" Jean frowned.
"That is enough Jean" another stern but calm voice said, it belonged to Charles Xavier. "Now young Rogue, now do you see that you were deceived, they have entrapped you here and they used you for their own purposes. But we can help you, if you let us. We can help resettle your mind and teach you control, like it or not you have these powers."
"But Professor she stole them from Carol and for all we know Carol could be dead now" Jean pleaded.
"She was manipulated and tricked by Magneto and Mystique, and deserves a second chance" Xavier said.
"Mama wouldn't deceive me would she" Rogue asked nervously. "Where is Mama, she said I would be safe here" she asked.
"I must tell you that she is not here" Storm said. "I was forced to do battle with her and because she did not defeat me Magneto did not allow her to be here."
Rogue frowned. "What he betrayed Mama after all she's done for him, in that case I'll help you then" Rogue told them.
"Now due to the nature of these entrapments, unless you punch your way through we won't be able to get out, now can you use the super strength you acquired" Xavier asked.
"Ah can try" she said and tried to summon up the strength but then she saw that vision of Carol again glaring at her. "No, she's looking at me, haunting me I can't do it" Rogue cried and sat down and huddled herself into a little ball.
"Well this is just great, can we snap her out of it" Bobby asked then tried ice blasting the glass and of course it fired back at him. "Damn it."
"I can try to reach her mind" Xavier began to say when Magneto entered the room again.
"My guests it's good to see you're awake again, and young Drake, do not harm yourself by trying to escape again. Though I assure you under my guidance you will reach the potential where you will not be imprisoned like this again."
"Kiss my "Bobby began but Jean looked at him.
"Easy Bobby, we're not exactly in the best of situations here" she scolded him.
"I'm glad to see you have all awaken for you can witness a great event where I will show you that I will indeed be able to help you all reach greatness, hopefully then you shall accept your fate."
Pietro rushed in. "Told everyone to gather here father" he said looking for approval, but Magneto simply gave him a nod. The three Brotherhood boys walked in, followed by Sabretooth, then Alex wandered in, Forge was already there, then finally Scott and Emma entered.
"What is this about" Cyclops asked. "Pietro said this is important, are you going to start keeping your promises" he asked.
"Interesting you ask that" Magneto said. "Forge is the chamber ready?"
"Sure, all you need is to put in the main power source and it's fully operational" the inventor mutant said.
"Forge what the hell you doing working for bucket head" Bobby frowned.
"Look man, he kind of picked me up and it wasn't exactly volunteering either, and he let me express myself. Sorry didn't realize the situation."
Magneto meanwhile had floated in a small metal box and then carried it over and into the chamber. He opened the box and removed the red gems then placed then in their position inside the chamber. "Yes now it is full operational" he said.
"Eric explain yourself, what is this device" Xavier asked him.
"This chamber is powered by the legendary Gems of Cyttorak, I know you heard of them Charles" Magneto said. Xavier nodded. "They will power this metal chamber and any who are in there will experience it will be able to reach their full mutant potential" he said.
"How is this supposed to help us?" Scott asked.
"With this device, you won't need that visor anymore Scott, and Alex your hands will no longer ache, you will be mastered over your powers. The gems give off a radiation that will advance your gems and take out the defects, giving you full development."
"Wait radiation, that doesn't sound to good" Alex said. Scott nodded.
"How do we know we can trust you, why don't you go through it" Scott questioned.
"I intend to and if you wish I shall go through first" he said. "Forge once I am inside, operate the machine" Magneto ordered then stepped inside. The door slammed behind him.
"Okay here we go" Forge said and activated the device. A beam of red light emanated from the chamber for several minutes, as everyone watched with anticipation. Finally Magneto emerged, looking stronger and healthier. He removed his helmet and his face too showed the improvement.
"As you can see the chamber has done wonders for me" he boasted and looked at the others. "Now would you be willing to undergo the treatment."
Alex nodded enthusiastically. "If it can get me control then definitely" he said. "Come on Scott, lets do it," he said.
"I don't know" Scott said.
"Oh come on, it's safe and besides we both could use the help" Alex urged him.
"And I will go with you" Emma said. "Think about it, you will never need those shades again" she said.
Scott finally nodded. "Fine lets go" he said but then he felt something in the back of his head.
"** Please Scott don't **" said the voice of Jean Grey. "** I have a bad feeling just trust me, don't go into that chamber, there's something very wrong about this**"
Scott felt a little bit strange and held his head. It was like Jean was helping him think a little clearer. "Wait what am I doing" he moaned.
Emma glared at Jean and sent a psy-wave straight at the girl knocking her down in her tube. "Just a headache darling, now let's go," she said as she ushered both boys to the chamber.
Magneto smiled as they entered. "He's mine now" Magneto said.
Xavier tried one last attempt to save Scott. "**Scott I know this man better then you think, get out before it's too late**"
Xavier broke through Emma's mind but it was too late, the door to the chamber slammed shut with the three inside. "We're too late" Xavier sighed.
"I'm sorry Charles but one day you'll thank me for this" Magneto said simply as they watched the machine do its work like it had. After a few minutes it had opened and out came the three mutants.
But they looked very much different, the two boys had large white hair and had become much larger then they had been, and Emma Frost was much buffer and her skin looked shiny and hard like a diamond. "I feel so much stronger" Emma said.
"As you should" Magneto nodded. "Now Scott do you see that this was the right choice."
A stern Scott removed his glasses and showed his brown eyes. "Now more then ever, I serve you Magneto."
"And as do I" Alex nodded.
Magneto smiled and put his hands on their shoulders, much to the chagrin of both Xavier and Pietro. "Excellent. Alex from now you shall be called Havok, and you both shall be top soldiers in my army" he said. "Now it is time for the next group to enter."
"We'll go father" Pietro said as he tried to prod the other hood boys, who seemed less enthusiastic.
"No son, I think I still have a few others upon which I need to secure their loyalty. The Iceman and the Rogue shall go next."
"You can kiss my butt" Bobby frowned. "I don't want your help no matter what you can do for me. I'm not selling my soul."
Scott glared at Bobby. "Don't be a fool Bobby, he can really help you, stop being immature and forget about the girl, she's not in our league, but you have potential."
Bobby was pissed and just glared at him. "Your lucky I'm in this tube, or I'd ice you for talking that way about Kit."
Magneto frowned. "You don't have a choice boy, and Rogue I hope you will not be as insolent" he asked.
Rogue raised her head from her huddled position. "You tricked Mama, and me why should ah trust you" she frowned.
"Your mother was not worthy and she proved that with her failure of her test, now boys if you would escort the two new ones to the chambers" Magneto said as he was about to open the tubes, but suddenly an alarm went off.
"We have un cleared air craft headed this way," Forge said. "It's should be overhead in a few seconds."
"Meddlers, well we might as well see who it is" Magneto shrugged and rose his hand to the ceiling. A part of it opened up like a door to reveal the sky above. Soon a helicopter came into view. "Oh if it isn't the inferiors now" he shrugged. "Well no matter" he said and waved his hand but no effect. "No metal, oh well, Havok, Cyclops, shoot them out of the sky" he said.
The two boys nodded and started to fire blasts into the air, which thanks to Logan's maneuvering just missed. Up in the chopper Logan frowned. "Is that Scott" he muttered. "Anyway, looks like they know we're here, might as well join the party" he said and aimed the Velocity to land right on top of the Asteroid, as it was pelted with enemy fire.
"Okay we're almost there, now" Logan said and Kitty grabbed Dani and Logan and phased them through the floor and Kurt teleported Toad and Mystique, right before the chopper crashed into the roof, causing a minor explosion that rocked the Asteroid.
"Damn that's not good" Forge said.
Magneto frowned. "Well at least they were taken down" he said.
"Don't bet on it" a snarling voice said belonging to Mystique who proceeded to charge Magneto with a hard kick to the head.
"Mystique I should of known you would be bitter" he frowned when he saw Wolverine, and the others enter as well. "My loyal subjects, eliminate them" he said.
"Finally some action" Avalanche said. "Time to rock" he said and started to shake the ground.
"Fire, fire" Pyro said and clapped his hands together as he created a large fire tiger to charge at the X-Men. Kitty didn't move and let it phase right through her.
"That tiger needs to be put out" she said then dove over at the glass tubes and phased Bobby right out. "Hi, missed you" she smiled.
"My hero" Bobby smirked and fired an ice blast at Pyro's tiger, freezing it.
Dani meanwhile had her bow and arrow out and was aiming at Pyro when the Blob got in her way. "Nice toy girlie" he laughed. "Try hitting me with it" he challenged her.
Dani smirked. "Or maybe that" she said and fired the arrow instead at Jean's control panel, freeing her.
"Thanks Dani" Jean said and used her TK to slam Blob into a wall.
Wolverine found Sabretooth with ease and glared at him. "Now where were we" he smirked as his claws popped out.
"You let me win" Sabretooth growled. "That's it now I'm really pissed" he said and tackled Logan who tore into him with his claws.
Kitty meanwhile freed the Professor and Storm as well, whom rose into the air and started a strong wind to knock down Avalanche.
Forge watched with horror as he felt the entire Asteroid shake with the battle raging on. "This is not good" he said to himself as Toad and Kurt both wandered near to him.
"Forge what are you doing here" Kurt asked.
"I kind of built this whole thing, yeah sorry bout that, but anyway at this rate the place is going to be torn apart."
"What will that do yo" Toad asked.
"It will cause it to fall out of the sky and crash to the ground, killing us all" Forge said.
"Ve need to evacuate" Kurt said then spotted Scott, and Alex with Emma watching the battle.
"They are ruining everything" Scott frowned. "I am going to stop them" he yelled and started to fire eye blasts, hitting Bobby who was giving Pyro and Avalanche a hard time.
"Bobby" Kitty yelled as she went to help him. "Wait was that Scott," she asked with confusion.
Havok joined in and fired a blast at Storm who had been whirl winding Blob and Quicksilver, who now fell to the ground. "Get up you idiots, and subdue them" he snarled at the two Brotherhood members. The based began to shake even more.
"This place isn't going to last much longer" Forge explained to Kurt. "We need to stop this fight now.
"I'll try" Kurt said and looked around to see if he could some how get into the middle of the fight.
Meanwhile Mystique and Magneto, who had been going at it with each other since the beginning had rolled right into the transformation chamber. Blob who had been slammed again by Jean hit the door, causing it to close shut, activating the chamber.
Kurt teleported next to Xavier who was trying to get Rogue to help out. "What is it Kurt" he asked.
"Forge says this place is becoming unstable" Kurt told him. "He says ve don't have much time."
"We must evacuate everyone" Xavier agreed when the asteroid shook again, this time harder then it had before.
"Hey Lance relax on the shakes mate" Pyro said as he came over, followed by Blob.
"This is not me, I don't know what's going on" Lance said. "Watch out" he told them as they ducked an arrow from Dani.
Emma appeared next to Dani and her hard in the stomach and knocked her down. "You fools" she said to the Brotherhood. "Don't just sit there."
Toad hopped over. "Guys, come on let's bail, forget Magneto" he said.
"Whose side are you on" Pietro snapped as he got out of Jean Grey's hold, who was now fighting Emma.
"The side that doesn't die, Forge says this place is going to blow and soon" he said. "I found a transport plane."
Lance took one look around the scene. Magneto had re-emerged from the chamber again, looking disoriented. As had Mystique who was now much bigger and looked much angrier, she and Magneto resumed their battle. Jean and Emma were fighting again, while Bobby and Kitty were dodging blasts from Havok, and Dani was trying to regain her senses. "Forget this" Lance agreed. "If this place is going to blow, I'm not going to be on it."
"But Father" Pietro said.
Blob smacked him in the head, knocking the boy out. "Sorry kid but you need to get some sense" he said and began to carry him, the others followed Toad to the escape plane
"Looks like the Brotherhood is baling" Kurt told the Professor.
"Fine then focus on our people" Xavier said. "Bobby, Kitty, the jet is down that way, go and prep it. "Bobby ice blasted Havok quickly and then created a slide in the direction of the Jet. "Kurt take the Rogue and teleport her" he said.
"Right Professor" he said and he put his hand on Rogue. The girl reacting to this hit him and without realizing it used her super strength, sent him flying across the room and through a hole created by one Havok's blast.
"Kurt" Forge yelled.
"Wait my brother" Rogue asked then realized what she had done. "Oh mah god" she said.
"You can save him, fly" Xavier told her.
Rogue was reluctant and could see Carol glaring at her again, but she had to save her brother. She jumped in the air and began to fly. She dove through the hole at fast speeds and rushed down to the earth ahead of Kurt and caught him. "Sorry bout that" she mumbled and began to fly the knocked out Kurt back to the sky above.
Back on the Asteroid Xavier looked over at Wolverine. "Logan, forget the battle we need to escape" he said.
"I'd like to Charles" Logan grunted as he wrestled with Sabretooth. "But I'm a little tied up here" he said. Logan kicked Sabretooth into another wall. "Well got to go now" he said to Sabretooth and began to walk away.
"Oh no you don't" Sabretooth grunted and began to charge at him, when he was hit hard in the head by Rogue who had flown back in.
"Ya'll can get us out of here" she asked still carrying her brother.
Logan smiled. "Yeah sure, take him to the Jet, and grab the Professor if you can" he asked her.
Rogue nodded and flew over to help Xavier but he stopped her. "Go ahead I want one last chance" he said and looked over at Scott and Alex. "Are you going to come or not" he asked.
"Never, you have ruined everything, you are traitors to all mutants" Cyclops sneered as he with Emma and Alex stared down, Xavier, Jean, Logan and Storm.
"Mutants shouldn't be divided but it is you who drew the line" Charles said and tried to enter their minds but was blocked. "Foolish girl" he finally said in anger and psy waved her, knocking her out.
Logan had grabbed Sabretooth against his better judgment and nodded. "Fine stay for all we care" he said and ran back to the Jet with, Forge and Storm, who was helping Dani.
Jean looked at Scott one more time and sighed. "Please don't do this" she said both out loud and in his mind. Scott was quiet for a second as was Alex but they stood their ground. Jean sighed again. "We might as well go then" she said and wheeled Xavier away.
Scott and Alex stood there with the knocked out Emma. Scott looked around as the Asteroid was falling apart, and his mind started to become clear. "What are we doing here" Scott finally frowned. "I have been such a fool."
"But mutant supremacy" Alex said still clouded by the radiation.
"But what, look around, all this, power, control, it's all useless, this place is falling apart" Scott said. "And I won't let us go with it" he said and picked up Emma. "Now come on" he said. Alex nodded and followed after him. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Magneto and Mystique had moved their battle out on to the roof of the asteroid fortress. The new Mystique was much stronger then she had been earlier and was constantly changing into more and more animals. Magneto sent more and more pieces of metal at her.
"How much longer do you intend to go Mystique" Magneto yelled. "You have already cost me my paradise, what else do you intend to accomplish."
"Your life, you traitor" she yelled.
"I'd like to see you try" Magneto scoffed and readied himself as she charged him again. She tackled him and the two went flying through the roof into another part of the crater still locked in a never-ending battle. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Back at the X-Jet, the other X-men arrived to find Bobby in the pilots seat. "We're prepped and ready to go" he said. "And we better soon, I don't know how much longer that landing pad is going to last."
"We can't go yet" Jean said. "Scott's still there."
"Sorry Red, but I don't know if he's coming" Logan sighed as he displaced Bobby from the pilots chair.
"Yes I am sorry Jean we must go now," Xavier said. "Logan prepare to take off" he said.
Logan nodded and the Jet began to take off when Jean caught something coming. "It's Scott, and the others, look they're coming" she told them.
"Wait Logan" Charles said as he saw the boys coming, carrying Emma Frost as well. As they inched closer, the landing pad began to crack from underneath.
"Take the controls" Logan said to Bobby as he lowered the ramp then ran out to the back.
Scott and Alex reached for the Jet as the ramp extended while the plane started to take off. "Just a little closer" Jean said extending her hand on the ramp, while Logan supported her. She tried to use her TK to hold the pad together but the stress was too much and it fell apart, but she held the two brothers in the air for a minute.
"Reach Slim" Logan called out to Scott who tried his best to grab Jeans hand.
"We can't hold much longer" Bobby called from the front. "We have to move now" he said.
The Jet began to move and Jean lost her hold on the boys and they began to fall. "Scott" Jean called out as she watched them fall. Logan pulled her back into the jet and sat her down.
"What's going on here" he asked as the Jet began to fall.
"The jet didn't take off properly, we're going to have to land" Bobby called back and aimed for a soft landing on the tundra below.
While the jet began to land Scott and Alex who had Emma, were beginnings to free-fall. They looked at each other one last time, it reminded them when their parent's plane had crashed and they had bailed out. They reached for each other's hands and smiled at each other. "Guess this is it" Alex called back to his brother.
Scott sighed then got an idea. "Maybe not" Scott yelled then began to fire his laser blasts at the ground. Alex saw what he was doing and followed. The blasts cushioned their fall and they were able to guide themselves to the ground. Much of the ice they had melted became a large pool for the water below. The two ran for cover, with Emma as the Asteroid splashed into the pool of water and slowly began to sink.
When reaching the ground Scott tried to stop his eye blasts but realized they had reverted back to where they were before. He covered his eyes when he felt a hand on his shoulder. "You drop this" Jean's voice said before putting his shades back on his face.
"Jean" Scott said and saw her face. He looked around and saw the X-Jet had landed, Logan was standing there with Storm and Dani, and Kurt seemingly was regaining his senses, off to the side the Rogue stood by herself. Kitty and Bobby stood together and Xavier was next to Jean. Next to him was Alex who was holding the knocked out Emma Frost.
"Hi Scott, are you okay" Jean asked and hugged him.
"Yeah I'll be okay, look I'm sorry I was being a fool, I'll understand if you want me to leave the Institute" Scott said to the Professor.
Xavier shook his head. "You are always welcome back to the school Scott. I understand what happened, you were going through a confusing time. You felt a sense of betrayal in your mind, and Emma took advantage of that, and your feelings for her. That combined with getting Alex to join Magneto, brought you into the situation where Magneto could get you into that chamber and truly control you. It was not your fault and we want you back."
Jean nodded. "Yes Scott we care about you and we can forgive you, right guys."
Logan shrugged. "Yeah sure why not." Dani nodded and Kurt teleported next to Scott and patted him on the back, Storm gave him a smile, and Kitty nodded and elbowed Bobby, who was still annoyed about the laser blast and he just gave the thumbs up.
"Thank you and I will" Scott nodded and looked over at Alex. "Look man we're still brothers and I want you with me" he said and offered his hand.
Alex took his brothers hand and briefly shook it. "You are my brother man, but my place isn't with you" he said. "It's with her" he said indicating Emma. "I don't know how I feel about your Professor's dream and Xavier's dream but for now all I know is I want her" he said.
Emma started to come to as Alex talked. She realized what had happened. "Thank you darling, now we must be leaving, till later Scott, it could have been fabulous" she said.
Out of the sky came an airplane, it was the Brotherhood who landed on to the ground "That's our ride" Emma said to Alex.
Alex gave his brother one last look and followed Emma. Scott sighed and Jean put a supporting arm on his shoulder.
"Yo Sabretooth come on" Toad's voice called out. Out of the X-Jet came Sabretooth. He glared at Logan before running over and jumping into the plane. It took off and Scott just watched it.
"I can't believe he chose her" Scott sighed.
"It is alright Scott I believe one day he will find out for himself the right path and you will be there to guide him" Charles said. "Till then we will stand together united as X-Men ready to continue to fight for the dream.
The X-Men nodded and headed to the X-Jet. Kurt turned and offered Rogue a hand who smiled and took it. Soon the X-Jet was in the air and headed for home.
Okay that's the end of the Sanctuary story. The next part will be a few months later and I'll have it up as soon as I can. Sorry if this chapter is kind of long especially toward the end but I was trying to fit everything important in so it made somewhat sense. Please read and Review so I know people are reading, Reviews are very important. Also if your reading Sue check out Uncanny X-Men #444 coming out next wed, I saw stills for it and they have Bobby/Kitty interacting, he's icing her shoulder after mutant ball.
"Scott" Professor Xavier exclaimed. "What are you doing?"
Scott Summers looked at the Professor, the man who had been his mentor. But things were different now, he was different and he had to move on. "I'm sorry Professor but I'm doing what I have to do. I'm standing along side my brother, the woman who cares about me, and a person who wants to help me."
"But Scott you have seen what Magneto has done and you've always agreed that what he advocates is wrong" Charles said.
"I'm just here to see what he has to say. He has promised to help me gain control and help my brother. Besides lately a lot of things have made me re-assess what I believe in" he said. "Besides he made this place to give mutants a safe place to prosper."
"Exactly" Magneto nodded. "Charles maybe you should take your students advice and rethink a few things" he said.
Xavier became very angry with this. "Is that so Scott? Then what about the ones who didn't choose to come here like myself and them" he said pointing to the entrapped mutants.
Scott had been so busy with the Professor he had yet to see in the background his entrapped friends. "Bobby, Jean, Storm? What is this Magneto? Let them go right now."
"Relax Scott" Alex said.
"Yes Scott, this is merely a precaution till they calm themselves down. They will soon realize they are better off here. This is where they can truly contribute as well as benefit."
"We are being held against are will Scott" Storm told him. "Should we not have a choice whether we wish to be here."
"Yeah Scott he abducted us and forced us here" Jean frowned. "Is that right. A true friend would help us" she said looking into his eyes.
Emma frowned at this and looked at Magneto. He nodded and started to press some buttons over the tubes.
"Besides we'll never join him Scott" Bobby said. "Do you even know what he let happen to Kitty and the others" he began to say when suddenly he felt sleepy. His tube filled with some sort of gas and he fell into a state similar to that of Rogue who had been like that since Xavier had gotten there. Jean and Storm fell into a similar state.
"What is this" Scott demanded. "And what are they talking about with the other mutants."
"Like I said this is for they're own good, and though it is admirable to think of their fellow mutants, I could only take the best of the best" Magneto said.
"I still don't like it" Scott frowned.
"I'm sorry dear, but for now it's necessary, we can't allow them to ruin our plans just because they are misguided" Emma smiled at him and it seemed to passive him. Alex watched them both with a look of contempt.
Xavier realized that the forces influencing Scott right now were more then he could handle, he needed to get them both and the others out of here, but he had but one resource. The last fight was between Logan and Sabretooth, and would most likely be fought near where they had found Alex. "** Logan lose the fight, we're in Antarctica **" Xavier said once after focusing on his mind. He tried to focus again but Emma realized what he was doing.
"Sir it seems that your old friend still wishes to interfere" she said simply.
Magneto nodded and lifted Charles chair with his powers. "Sorry Charles but you need a nap" he said and placed the chair next to the glass tubes. He pressed a button and a tube went over Xavier and filled with gas.
"Scott stop this" Xavier was able to say before he succumbed to the glass and his eyes closed.
Scott ran over to the tube then glared at Magneto. "Why do this? You say you trust him then you entrap him" he said staring Magneto straight in the face. "The more you do the more I suspect I've made a mistake" he said.
Emma got between them. "Please Scott, the Professor needs to realize his flaws in reasons and relax his suspicion. Until he does he will only seek to hinder our efforts" she said. "Now come with me to my quarters and we can relax" she said.
Scott nodded. "Okay for now. But I don't want them abused" he said sternly and walked off with Emma.
Magneto nodded. "Yes now I have a few more preparations to attend to before we can start some of our most important work" he explained then walked off.
As Emma left with Scott, Alex still watched as jealousy filled him. He liked having his brother back but it was like when he had arrived he also had swiped away this blond beauty. Pietro sped over to him. "Love hurts don't it kid" he said.
"Why don't you mind your own business" Alex frowned at him.
"Relax kid, the names Quicksilver and if you ever need anything, like say Emma maybe I can arrange things. Just think of me as a friend" he said and patted Alex on the back before leaving the boy to his conflicting thoughts.
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Meanwhile down in Hawaii, Logan and Sabretooth were engaged in yet another fight. They had tackled each other, punched each other, sent each other flying in the opposite direction and now were pacing each other toward the top of a rocky cliff overlooking the ocean.
"How much longer are we going to do this Creed" Logan growled as he faced off against his enemy.
"Till one of us falls. The winner will be rewarded" Sabretooth growled and charged at him again. Logan caught him and soon they were tackling each other again and rolling up the cliff toward the edge. At one point Logan had gained the advantage and could win the fight.
But just as he was going to go for the finishing blow he heard the Professors quick call. "This better be good Charles" Logan grunted, not wanting to lose. This moment of hesitation allowed Sabretooth to get the advantage again.
"Enough of this you know I belong at his side not you" Sabretooth growled.
"You know something your right" Logan shrugged and made no move as Sabretooth hit with everything he had, knocking Logan flying down to the rocks below.
It was a high cliff so it was hard to see the bottom so Creed just took a quick look. "He's probably not dead, but I don't have time for this" he muttered to himself when another orb appeared. Sabretooth jumped in and flew off to join the others.
Logan was indeed still alive; he had slammed his claws into the cliff as he fell. Smelling that Sabretooth's scent was no longer present, he climbed back to the top of the cliff. He saw a plane landing on the northern part of the island, about two miles away. "Well that's where I better go" he frowned and ran in the direction of the airport. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On the east coast evening approaches a beach where an elf looking boy finally awakens. "Vhat happened" he groaned as he got up. He looked around. "Vhere is everyone" he called out. He saw a large pile of sand had filled in between the dunes, suddenly Kitty phased through it with Dani.
"Where here" Kitty explained. "We got half buried in sand by Alvers, luckily, we made it to the other side of the dune passage so it only buried us from the waste down."
"But it knocked us out to" Dani explained. "Looks like the Brotherhood has gone though."
"Yeah, dank god" Kurt agreed. "I vonder vhat they vanted in the first place" he said.
Kitty meanwhile was looking around frantically. "Bobby, Bobby, where are you" she called out. "Guys what happened to Bobby, it's not like him not to come when he here's me" she explained with fear in her voice. "He could be hurt or worse."
Kurt nodded. "Yes that is strange" he agreed. "Ve better start looking around."
"What if the Brotherhood did something to him" Kitty cried.
"Well I think we have a way of finding that out," Dani said as she pointed to the only other figure on the beach.
Toad was just waking up, wondering what had happened. He noticed that the fight was over and that meant he was left behind. And worse he was alone with the X-Men. "Better get out of here" Toad mumbled to himself and started to hop off.
But Kurt teleported into his path and grabbed him. "Not so fast Toad" Kurt frowned and glared at him. But before he could question Toad Kitty had already tackled the worm.
"What did your dumb friends do to my boyfriend you little creep" she snapped. "Spill now."
Toad was pretty scared. Kitty wasn't very big but she looked very angry. "Yo look relax, please. I'll tell you everything, just let me go," he said.
"Hmm I don't know" Dani said. "I kind have like watching you squirm, and how do we know you'll even say anything and not run away," she asked.
"Are you kidding, if I tried crazy girl here might kill me or something. Besides I was left behind, I don't owe anything to Magneto."
"Magneto, vhat does he have to do vith it" Kurt asked as he got Kitty to let go.
"He told us to fight you guys so he could figure out who were the better mutants, and then he was going to take them to this place and start some sort of weird new order or something yo" he said. "I mean Pietro said some people got to go automatically and stuff like the Icecube, cause they were powerful, but the rest had to prove themselves" he said. "So cause we lost we're still here" he explained.
"Vhat happens to the winners," Kurt demanded.
"All I know is they go to some place, that's all, he didn't tell us where" he said.
Dani then realized something. "Wait the others could be in danger, we have to get back and warn them" she said.
"Right" Kurt agreed. "The car is totaled ve'll have to come back for it later, I can teleport us every 2 miles till ve can get home" he said and put his hands on Kitty and Dani.
"Sorry if this strains you Kurt, but I'm not letting him out of my sight till we find Bobby and whoever else is gone" Kitty said as she grabbed Toad. Then Kurt teleported leaving the beach empty. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Back at the Asteroid Scott Summers stares out the window into the nothingness of the dark tunda and sighs. Emma Frost comes up behind him and rubs his back. "Something is troubling you" Emma said. "Don't lie I can sense these things, now tell me or I will find out on my own"
Scott sighed. "I don't know if I'm doing the right thing, I mean joining Magneto. You might agree with him, but I'm not too sure. I've always thought that the Professor was right, and his dream could be realized."
"Well maybe you did once, but now you realize that it was merely a pipe dream, that if we wish to live free we must fight to protect ourselves" she suggested.
Scott shrugged. "Maybe, but a part of me feels I'm just doing this to get back at them, which is just not right."
"Whose says its not, Scott? Don't kid yourself you know that you were betrayed. You done nothing but shown loyalty to the X-Men and what do they do, they just let you be replaced. Scott tried to speak. "Let me finish Scott, and even though they betrayed you, you still are going to give them this opportunity to be a apart of this place where our kind will flourish. If anything you should be happy for they will eventually see the error of they're ways."
Scott shrugged. "But what about the ones left behind, Bobby made it sound like they were in danger."
"He is just being foolish, he always has been. His feelings for that girl have made him blind to ever fulfilling his true potential" she said. "Now forget about him, you should also remember that once Magneto is through with you, you'll never have to worry about losing control again. Think about it, normal sight like everyone else" she said.
Scott was silent. He had longed for normal sight ever since his powers had emerged. He looked out back into space and just sighed. "Well I guess I can't change it now, so I might as well make the best of it."
"You see now relax, I'm with you, and what could be better then that" she said and continued to rub his shoulders. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Back in the main part of the fortress on the other side of the room, from the containment tubes, Forge is hard at work constructing some sort of chamber. The Brotherhood is just kind of watching him. Suddenly Sabretooth wandered in.
"Hello boys" he said to his young charges. "See you made the party, where's the Toad" he asked.
"He didn't make it, got blasted by the Popsicle" Pyro said.
"Too bad" Sabretooth shrugged. "If Magneto needs me tell him I'll be taking a nap" he told them and wandered out. The Brotherhood watched him go and continued to watch Forge.
"I must say this place is just... boring" Lance frowned. "I mean yeah we're here, now what. We just gonna hang around here and wait."
"Right mate, I have to admit I don't see the point either. And why are we bringing those wankers in" Pyro asked indicating the trapped X-Men. "They are supposed to be the enemy we can't trust them."
"Heck even if we could, I don't want to deal with red and Popsicle. And why should we just accept Summers, he could be lying. Plus why is Rogue being held, they never explained that." Blob and Pyro nodded in agreement.
"Not to mention does this place even have a kitchen?" Blob added and got dark glares from Pyro and Avalanche. "Uh and why is Summers getting better treatment then us, we've been here longer."
"Good question Blob" Lance agreed. "Why don't we ask Pietro, where ever he is?"
"Looking for me" Pietro said as he sped in. "Oh you've been inquiring about me, my ears are burning."
Lance glared at him. "Look Pietro what's going on here? Why are we just sitting around, why are we to trust the X-Geeks, and what happened to Rogue" He frowned and Pyro and Blob followed his lead.
"Look man, dad said Rogue's powers are out of control, so for now she needs to rest, the X-Geeks we need for support and don't worry when we're through with them they'll have to follow us. Now if you have any other problems you can ask Magneto" he said.
Pyro backed off and pulled back Lance. "Yah know mate, I think we're good for now" Pyro said.
"Wait a minute I'm not" Blob said and walked over to Pietro. "I want to know one thing right now, where's the kitchen?"
"Oh yeah it's down that corridor and to the left, across from the rec room" he said.
"Rec room" Lance asked. "Ehh okay lets go boys." The brotherhood boys followed and left Pietro in the room with Forge, when Magneto floated in.
"Father" Pietro said greeting him and getting a nod. "I was just wondering how are you going to increase our powers and control like you said you would?"
"Don't worry my son I shall explain that all in just a minute" Magneto said and looked at Forge. "How much longer till the chamber is ready" he asked.
"I'd give it another 6-8 hours" Forge responded without looking up from his work.
"Good, now come my son and I shall show you how I intend to do what I promised" he said. He lead his son to another part of the fortress, they entered a heavily armored vault, which Magneto opened. Inside was nothing but a set of glowing crystals. "These are the Gems of Cyttorak, and when put into the device Forges building, will make all of us so powerful, no one will stand in our way" Magneto said sternly with a look of determination. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It is about the height of the evening in Bayville, when on the front lawn of the Xavier Institute, a puff of smoke reveals Kurt, Dani and Kitty, who has Toad in a vice grip.
"That took forever," Dani said. "Well we better go find the others, I hope we're not too late" she said as they rushed into the mansion, which they found totaled.
"This place is a mess, vhat happened here" Kurt exclaimed, as he looked at all the furniture smashed all over the place, and the whole in the ceiling.
"They're must have been a fight, the others might have been taken" Kitty said. "Now what are we going to do" she asked still holding Toad tight in her grasp. "
"For starters you can let go of Toad" a stern voice said and out from the shadows emerged Mystique.
"Mother" Kurt asked. "Vhat are you doing here, are you responsible for this" he asked.
"Let go of him and I'll explain all I know" Mystique said and Dani and Kurt nodded. Kitty frowned but let go.
"Thanks boss lady" Toad said as he caught his breath and hopped over to her side. She simply glared at him.
"That's better" Mystique said. "Now my son, to answer your first question I admit my battle with Storm caused a majority of the damage, but it was Magneto's capture orb that smashed the ceiling. I was forced to prove my worth to Magneto" she frowned. "And now my loyalty has evaporated. I plan to get my revenge by attacking his fortress, and your going to help me."
"Like yeah right, why should we?" Kitty frowned and Dani and Kurt nodded.
"I don't see how you have much choice, I am going to get your help and it seems you're in the need of new leadership," she smirked.
"I don't know about that" a voice said and all turned to see a battle worn Logan. "Sorry if I'm late, but finding a flight from Hawaii was a bit harder then I thought" he smirked.
Kitty smiled and hugged Logan. "Yeah your okay, but you look terrible. But anyway like we have a serious issue here, the Brotherhood showed up and attacked us, and Bobby got captured, and Toad told us Magneto is taking mutants to this place, and now we come here and the place is totaled and we don't know where Jean and Carol are, and Storm is gone and now Mystique is trying to take over" she said very fast.
"Calm down half pint" Logan said. "I was contacted by the Professor and I know just where we have to go to find them" he explained.
"Oh do you" Mystique snarled. "Fine spill, I'm in charge of this operation" she said.
"That so huh" Logan shrugged. "The way I see it, unless you spill some key information, your expendable" he said. "Now I smell both Carol and Jean on you, what happened to them" he asked.
"Ms. Grey was captured like the others" she said. "As for Ms. Danvers, I 'm sure you can smell her in other places" she said.
"Wait a minute" Logan said then caught the scent of something. "Oh my god" he said and grabbed Kurt. "Teleport 2 miles east elf" he said.
Kurt nodded and the two of them teleported out on to the grounds where they found Carols passed out body. "Vhat happened to her," Kurt asked.
"Looks like she got drained by the Rogue, bad" Logan told him, as he looked her over. "She doesn't look badly hurt, but we better secure her body" he said. "Teleport to the infirmary" he told him and Kurt complied.
In the infirmary Logan set Carol down. "Look I don't know how bad it is, but for now all we can do is hook her up to the machine, and later we'll get a doctor" he said and removed Carols upper clothing then hooked her body up. "This should help her, though I admit I don't much else," he said. "I hate to leave her but we have bigger fish to fry" Logan said and the two teleported back to the main foyer, where the others were waiting. Logan walked over to Mystique and glared at her. "I know you had something to do with what happened to blondie, but right now we need your help and you need our help, so we might as well just have a truce."
"Fine" Mystique said. "But I'm in charge."
"Funny" Logan said. "If you take that attitude you can walk," he said. "Come on you three, we have work to do" he said and began to walk out. Kitty, Dani, and Kurt followed.
Mystique frowned. "Come on Toad" she said and followed after the X-Men.
20 minutes later the basketball court in the back yard opened up and out of it emerged a large jet-powered helicopter. Logan was at the controls and Mystique was in the navigation chair. "Lay in a course for Antartica" Logan said.
"Setting" Mystique nodded. "We should arrive in 9 hours if we go at maximum speed" she nodded.
"What is this thing anyway, I don't see any metal anywhere yo" Toad scratched his head.
"This is the Velocity, and you shouldn't since this is made of no metal at all, how else do you think we can get passed Magneto" Logan smirked.
"Oh my god this is one big flying piece of plastic" Toad cried in fear as the jet flew off to Antartica. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Several hours later at the asteroid, the Rogue awoke inside her prison, quite dazed. "Where am ah" she groaned as she looked around. She found she was trapped in some sort of glass tube. "Wait I'm trapped, why am I here" she called out. "The last thing I remember is..."
"Draining Carol" a cold voice snapped.
Rogue turned to see Jean Grey in a tube next to her. "Yes" Rogue sighed. "But ah didn't mean to hurt her so bad ah just wanted revenge" she explained.
"I bet you didn't" Jean frowned. "I know how you felt about her and what you've wanted to do for her, your feelings were practically screaming, any telepath could pick it up, and you held on long enough to kill her" she frowned.
"Look I'm sorry, but now she trapped in my head and her powers are too strong" Rogue sighed.
"Serves you right" Jean frowned.
"That is enough Jean" another stern but calm voice said, it belonged to Charles Xavier. "Now young Rogue, now do you see that you were deceived, they have entrapped you here and they used you for their own purposes. But we can help you, if you let us. We can help resettle your mind and teach you control, like it or not you have these powers."
"But Professor she stole them from Carol and for all we know Carol could be dead now" Jean pleaded.
"She was manipulated and tricked by Magneto and Mystique, and deserves a second chance" Xavier said.
"Mama wouldn't deceive me would she" Rogue asked nervously. "Where is Mama, she said I would be safe here" she asked.
"I must tell you that she is not here" Storm said. "I was forced to do battle with her and because she did not defeat me Magneto did not allow her to be here."
Rogue frowned. "What he betrayed Mama after all she's done for him, in that case I'll help you then" Rogue told them.
"Now due to the nature of these entrapments, unless you punch your way through we won't be able to get out, now can you use the super strength you acquired" Xavier asked.
"Ah can try" she said and tried to summon up the strength but then she saw that vision of Carol again glaring at her. "No, she's looking at me, haunting me I can't do it" Rogue cried and sat down and huddled herself into a little ball.
"Well this is just great, can we snap her out of it" Bobby asked then tried ice blasting the glass and of course it fired back at him. "Damn it."
"I can try to reach her mind" Xavier began to say when Magneto entered the room again.
"My guests it's good to see you're awake again, and young Drake, do not harm yourself by trying to escape again. Though I assure you under my guidance you will reach the potential where you will not be imprisoned like this again."
"Kiss my "Bobby began but Jean looked at him.
"Easy Bobby, we're not exactly in the best of situations here" she scolded him.
"I'm glad to see you have all awaken for you can witness a great event where I will show you that I will indeed be able to help you all reach greatness, hopefully then you shall accept your fate."
Pietro rushed in. "Told everyone to gather here father" he said looking for approval, but Magneto simply gave him a nod. The three Brotherhood boys walked in, followed by Sabretooth, then Alex wandered in, Forge was already there, then finally Scott and Emma entered.
"What is this about" Cyclops asked. "Pietro said this is important, are you going to start keeping your promises" he asked.
"Interesting you ask that" Magneto said. "Forge is the chamber ready?"
"Sure, all you need is to put in the main power source and it's fully operational" the inventor mutant said.
"Forge what the hell you doing working for bucket head" Bobby frowned.
"Look man, he kind of picked me up and it wasn't exactly volunteering either, and he let me express myself. Sorry didn't realize the situation."
Magneto meanwhile had floated in a small metal box and then carried it over and into the chamber. He opened the box and removed the red gems then placed then in their position inside the chamber. "Yes now it is full operational" he said.
"Eric explain yourself, what is this device" Xavier asked him.
"This chamber is powered by the legendary Gems of Cyttorak, I know you heard of them Charles" Magneto said. Xavier nodded. "They will power this metal chamber and any who are in there will experience it will be able to reach their full mutant potential" he said.
"How is this supposed to help us?" Scott asked.
"With this device, you won't need that visor anymore Scott, and Alex your hands will no longer ache, you will be mastered over your powers. The gems give off a radiation that will advance your gems and take out the defects, giving you full development."
"Wait radiation, that doesn't sound to good" Alex said. Scott nodded.
"How do we know we can trust you, why don't you go through it" Scott questioned.
"I intend to and if you wish I shall go through first" he said. "Forge once I am inside, operate the machine" Magneto ordered then stepped inside. The door slammed behind him.
"Okay here we go" Forge said and activated the device. A beam of red light emanated from the chamber for several minutes, as everyone watched with anticipation. Finally Magneto emerged, looking stronger and healthier. He removed his helmet and his face too showed the improvement.
"As you can see the chamber has done wonders for me" he boasted and looked at the others. "Now would you be willing to undergo the treatment."
Alex nodded enthusiastically. "If it can get me control then definitely" he said. "Come on Scott, lets do it," he said.
"I don't know" Scott said.
"Oh come on, it's safe and besides we both could use the help" Alex urged him.
"And I will go with you" Emma said. "Think about it, you will never need those shades again" she said.
Scott finally nodded. "Fine lets go" he said but then he felt something in the back of his head.
"** Please Scott don't **" said the voice of Jean Grey. "** I have a bad feeling just trust me, don't go into that chamber, there's something very wrong about this**"
Scott felt a little bit strange and held his head. It was like Jean was helping him think a little clearer. "Wait what am I doing" he moaned.
Emma glared at Jean and sent a psy-wave straight at the girl knocking her down in her tube. "Just a headache darling, now let's go," she said as she ushered both boys to the chamber.
Magneto smiled as they entered. "He's mine now" Magneto said.
Xavier tried one last attempt to save Scott. "**Scott I know this man better then you think, get out before it's too late**"
Xavier broke through Emma's mind but it was too late, the door to the chamber slammed shut with the three inside. "We're too late" Xavier sighed.
"I'm sorry Charles but one day you'll thank me for this" Magneto said simply as they watched the machine do its work like it had. After a few minutes it had opened and out came the three mutants.
But they looked very much different, the two boys had large white hair and had become much larger then they had been, and Emma Frost was much buffer and her skin looked shiny and hard like a diamond. "I feel so much stronger" Emma said.
"As you should" Magneto nodded. "Now Scott do you see that this was the right choice."
A stern Scott removed his glasses and showed his brown eyes. "Now more then ever, I serve you Magneto."
"And as do I" Alex nodded.
Magneto smiled and put his hands on their shoulders, much to the chagrin of both Xavier and Pietro. "Excellent. Alex from now you shall be called Havok, and you both shall be top soldiers in my army" he said. "Now it is time for the next group to enter."
"We'll go father" Pietro said as he tried to prod the other hood boys, who seemed less enthusiastic.
"No son, I think I still have a few others upon which I need to secure their loyalty. The Iceman and the Rogue shall go next."
"You can kiss my butt" Bobby frowned. "I don't want your help no matter what you can do for me. I'm not selling my soul."
Scott glared at Bobby. "Don't be a fool Bobby, he can really help you, stop being immature and forget about the girl, she's not in our league, but you have potential."
Bobby was pissed and just glared at him. "Your lucky I'm in this tube, or I'd ice you for talking that way about Kit."
Magneto frowned. "You don't have a choice boy, and Rogue I hope you will not be as insolent" he asked.
Rogue raised her head from her huddled position. "You tricked Mama, and me why should ah trust you" she frowned.
"Your mother was not worthy and she proved that with her failure of her test, now boys if you would escort the two new ones to the chambers" Magneto said as he was about to open the tubes, but suddenly an alarm went off.
"We have un cleared air craft headed this way," Forge said. "It's should be overhead in a few seconds."
"Meddlers, well we might as well see who it is" Magneto shrugged and rose his hand to the ceiling. A part of it opened up like a door to reveal the sky above. Soon a helicopter came into view. "Oh if it isn't the inferiors now" he shrugged. "Well no matter" he said and waved his hand but no effect. "No metal, oh well, Havok, Cyclops, shoot them out of the sky" he said.
The two boys nodded and started to fire blasts into the air, which thanks to Logan's maneuvering just missed. Up in the chopper Logan frowned. "Is that Scott" he muttered. "Anyway, looks like they know we're here, might as well join the party" he said and aimed the Velocity to land right on top of the Asteroid, as it was pelted with enemy fire.
"Okay we're almost there, now" Logan said and Kitty grabbed Dani and Logan and phased them through the floor and Kurt teleported Toad and Mystique, right before the chopper crashed into the roof, causing a minor explosion that rocked the Asteroid.
"Damn that's not good" Forge said.
Magneto frowned. "Well at least they were taken down" he said.
"Don't bet on it" a snarling voice said belonging to Mystique who proceeded to charge Magneto with a hard kick to the head.
"Mystique I should of known you would be bitter" he frowned when he saw Wolverine, and the others enter as well. "My loyal subjects, eliminate them" he said.
"Finally some action" Avalanche said. "Time to rock" he said and started to shake the ground.
"Fire, fire" Pyro said and clapped his hands together as he created a large fire tiger to charge at the X-Men. Kitty didn't move and let it phase right through her.
"That tiger needs to be put out" she said then dove over at the glass tubes and phased Bobby right out. "Hi, missed you" she smiled.
"My hero" Bobby smirked and fired an ice blast at Pyro's tiger, freezing it.
Dani meanwhile had her bow and arrow out and was aiming at Pyro when the Blob got in her way. "Nice toy girlie" he laughed. "Try hitting me with it" he challenged her.
Dani smirked. "Or maybe that" she said and fired the arrow instead at Jean's control panel, freeing her.
"Thanks Dani" Jean said and used her TK to slam Blob into a wall.
Wolverine found Sabretooth with ease and glared at him. "Now where were we" he smirked as his claws popped out.
"You let me win" Sabretooth growled. "That's it now I'm really pissed" he said and tackled Logan who tore into him with his claws.
Kitty meanwhile freed the Professor and Storm as well, whom rose into the air and started a strong wind to knock down Avalanche.
Forge watched with horror as he felt the entire Asteroid shake with the battle raging on. "This is not good" he said to himself as Toad and Kurt both wandered near to him.
"Forge what are you doing here" Kurt asked.
"I kind of built this whole thing, yeah sorry bout that, but anyway at this rate the place is going to be torn apart."
"What will that do yo" Toad asked.
"It will cause it to fall out of the sky and crash to the ground, killing us all" Forge said.
"Ve need to evacuate" Kurt said then spotted Scott, and Alex with Emma watching the battle.
"They are ruining everything" Scott frowned. "I am going to stop them" he yelled and started to fire eye blasts, hitting Bobby who was giving Pyro and Avalanche a hard time.
"Bobby" Kitty yelled as she went to help him. "Wait was that Scott," she asked with confusion.
Havok joined in and fired a blast at Storm who had been whirl winding Blob and Quicksilver, who now fell to the ground. "Get up you idiots, and subdue them" he snarled at the two Brotherhood members. The based began to shake even more.
"This place isn't going to last much longer" Forge explained to Kurt. "We need to stop this fight now.
"I'll try" Kurt said and looked around to see if he could some how get into the middle of the fight.
Meanwhile Mystique and Magneto, who had been going at it with each other since the beginning had rolled right into the transformation chamber. Blob who had been slammed again by Jean hit the door, causing it to close shut, activating the chamber.
Kurt teleported next to Xavier who was trying to get Rogue to help out. "What is it Kurt" he asked.
"Forge says this place is becoming unstable" Kurt told him. "He says ve don't have much time."
"We must evacuate everyone" Xavier agreed when the asteroid shook again, this time harder then it had before.
"Hey Lance relax on the shakes mate" Pyro said as he came over, followed by Blob.
"This is not me, I don't know what's going on" Lance said. "Watch out" he told them as they ducked an arrow from Dani.
Emma appeared next to Dani and her hard in the stomach and knocked her down. "You fools" she said to the Brotherhood. "Don't just sit there."
Toad hopped over. "Guys, come on let's bail, forget Magneto" he said.
"Whose side are you on" Pietro snapped as he got out of Jean Grey's hold, who was now fighting Emma.
"The side that doesn't die, Forge says this place is going to blow and soon" he said. "I found a transport plane."
Lance took one look around the scene. Magneto had re-emerged from the chamber again, looking disoriented. As had Mystique who was now much bigger and looked much angrier, she and Magneto resumed their battle. Jean and Emma were fighting again, while Bobby and Kitty were dodging blasts from Havok, and Dani was trying to regain her senses. "Forget this" Lance agreed. "If this place is going to blow, I'm not going to be on it."
"But Father" Pietro said.
Blob smacked him in the head, knocking the boy out. "Sorry kid but you need to get some sense" he said and began to carry him, the others followed Toad to the escape plane
"Looks like the Brotherhood is baling" Kurt told the Professor.
"Fine then focus on our people" Xavier said. "Bobby, Kitty, the jet is down that way, go and prep it. "Bobby ice blasted Havok quickly and then created a slide in the direction of the Jet. "Kurt take the Rogue and teleport her" he said.
"Right Professor" he said and he put his hand on Rogue. The girl reacting to this hit him and without realizing it used her super strength, sent him flying across the room and through a hole created by one Havok's blast.
"Kurt" Forge yelled.
"Wait my brother" Rogue asked then realized what she had done. "Oh mah god" she said.
"You can save him, fly" Xavier told her.
Rogue was reluctant and could see Carol glaring at her again, but she had to save her brother. She jumped in the air and began to fly. She dove through the hole at fast speeds and rushed down to the earth ahead of Kurt and caught him. "Sorry bout that" she mumbled and began to fly the knocked out Kurt back to the sky above.
Back on the Asteroid Xavier looked over at Wolverine. "Logan, forget the battle we need to escape" he said.
"I'd like to Charles" Logan grunted as he wrestled with Sabretooth. "But I'm a little tied up here" he said. Logan kicked Sabretooth into another wall. "Well got to go now" he said to Sabretooth and began to walk away.
"Oh no you don't" Sabretooth grunted and began to charge at him, when he was hit hard in the head by Rogue who had flown back in.
"Ya'll can get us out of here" she asked still carrying her brother.
Logan smiled. "Yeah sure, take him to the Jet, and grab the Professor if you can" he asked her.
Rogue nodded and flew over to help Xavier but he stopped her. "Go ahead I want one last chance" he said and looked over at Scott and Alex. "Are you going to come or not" he asked.
"Never, you have ruined everything, you are traitors to all mutants" Cyclops sneered as he with Emma and Alex stared down, Xavier, Jean, Logan and Storm.
"Mutants shouldn't be divided but it is you who drew the line" Charles said and tried to enter their minds but was blocked. "Foolish girl" he finally said in anger and psy waved her, knocking her out.
Logan had grabbed Sabretooth against his better judgment and nodded. "Fine stay for all we care" he said and ran back to the Jet with, Forge and Storm, who was helping Dani.
Jean looked at Scott one more time and sighed. "Please don't do this" she said both out loud and in his mind. Scott was quiet for a second as was Alex but they stood their ground. Jean sighed again. "We might as well go then" she said and wheeled Xavier away.
Scott and Alex stood there with the knocked out Emma. Scott looked around as the Asteroid was falling apart, and his mind started to become clear. "What are we doing here" Scott finally frowned. "I have been such a fool."
"But mutant supremacy" Alex said still clouded by the radiation.
"But what, look around, all this, power, control, it's all useless, this place is falling apart" Scott said. "And I won't let us go with it" he said and picked up Emma. "Now come on" he said. Alex nodded and followed after him. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Magneto and Mystique had moved their battle out on to the roof of the asteroid fortress. The new Mystique was much stronger then she had been earlier and was constantly changing into more and more animals. Magneto sent more and more pieces of metal at her.
"How much longer do you intend to go Mystique" Magneto yelled. "You have already cost me my paradise, what else do you intend to accomplish."
"Your life, you traitor" she yelled.
"I'd like to see you try" Magneto scoffed and readied himself as she charged him again. She tackled him and the two went flying through the roof into another part of the crater still locked in a never-ending battle. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Back at the X-Jet, the other X-men arrived to find Bobby in the pilots seat. "We're prepped and ready to go" he said. "And we better soon, I don't know how much longer that landing pad is going to last."
"We can't go yet" Jean said. "Scott's still there."
"Sorry Red, but I don't know if he's coming" Logan sighed as he displaced Bobby from the pilots chair.
"Yes I am sorry Jean we must go now," Xavier said. "Logan prepare to take off" he said.
Logan nodded and the Jet began to take off when Jean caught something coming. "It's Scott, and the others, look they're coming" she told them.
"Wait Logan" Charles said as he saw the boys coming, carrying Emma Frost as well. As they inched closer, the landing pad began to crack from underneath.
"Take the controls" Logan said to Bobby as he lowered the ramp then ran out to the back.
Scott and Alex reached for the Jet as the ramp extended while the plane started to take off. "Just a little closer" Jean said extending her hand on the ramp, while Logan supported her. She tried to use her TK to hold the pad together but the stress was too much and it fell apart, but she held the two brothers in the air for a minute.
"Reach Slim" Logan called out to Scott who tried his best to grab Jeans hand.
"We can't hold much longer" Bobby called from the front. "We have to move now" he said.
The Jet began to move and Jean lost her hold on the boys and they began to fall. "Scott" Jean called out as she watched them fall. Logan pulled her back into the jet and sat her down.
"What's going on here" he asked as the Jet began to fall.
"The jet didn't take off properly, we're going to have to land" Bobby called back and aimed for a soft landing on the tundra below.
While the jet began to land Scott and Alex who had Emma, were beginnings to free-fall. They looked at each other one last time, it reminded them when their parent's plane had crashed and they had bailed out. They reached for each other's hands and smiled at each other. "Guess this is it" Alex called back to his brother.
Scott sighed then got an idea. "Maybe not" Scott yelled then began to fire his laser blasts at the ground. Alex saw what he was doing and followed. The blasts cushioned their fall and they were able to guide themselves to the ground. Much of the ice they had melted became a large pool for the water below. The two ran for cover, with Emma as the Asteroid splashed into the pool of water and slowly began to sink.
When reaching the ground Scott tried to stop his eye blasts but realized they had reverted back to where they were before. He covered his eyes when he felt a hand on his shoulder. "You drop this" Jean's voice said before putting his shades back on his face.
"Jean" Scott said and saw her face. He looked around and saw the X-Jet had landed, Logan was standing there with Storm and Dani, and Kurt seemingly was regaining his senses, off to the side the Rogue stood by herself. Kitty and Bobby stood together and Xavier was next to Jean. Next to him was Alex who was holding the knocked out Emma Frost.
"Hi Scott, are you okay" Jean asked and hugged him.
"Yeah I'll be okay, look I'm sorry I was being a fool, I'll understand if you want me to leave the Institute" Scott said to the Professor.
Xavier shook his head. "You are always welcome back to the school Scott. I understand what happened, you were going through a confusing time. You felt a sense of betrayal in your mind, and Emma took advantage of that, and your feelings for her. That combined with getting Alex to join Magneto, brought you into the situation where Magneto could get you into that chamber and truly control you. It was not your fault and we want you back."
Jean nodded. "Yes Scott we care about you and we can forgive you, right guys."
Logan shrugged. "Yeah sure why not." Dani nodded and Kurt teleported next to Scott and patted him on the back, Storm gave him a smile, and Kitty nodded and elbowed Bobby, who was still annoyed about the laser blast and he just gave the thumbs up.
"Thank you and I will" Scott nodded and looked over at Alex. "Look man we're still brothers and I want you with me" he said and offered his hand.
Alex took his brothers hand and briefly shook it. "You are my brother man, but my place isn't with you" he said. "It's with her" he said indicating Emma. "I don't know how I feel about your Professor's dream and Xavier's dream but for now all I know is I want her" he said.
Emma started to come to as Alex talked. She realized what had happened. "Thank you darling, now we must be leaving, till later Scott, it could have been fabulous" she said.
Out of the sky came an airplane, it was the Brotherhood who landed on to the ground "That's our ride" Emma said to Alex.
Alex gave his brother one last look and followed Emma. Scott sighed and Jean put a supporting arm on his shoulder.
"Yo Sabretooth come on" Toad's voice called out. Out of the X-Jet came Sabretooth. He glared at Logan before running over and jumping into the plane. It took off and Scott just watched it.
"I can't believe he chose her" Scott sighed.
"It is alright Scott I believe one day he will find out for himself the right path and you will be there to guide him" Charles said. "Till then we will stand together united as X-Men ready to continue to fight for the dream.
The X-Men nodded and headed to the X-Jet. Kurt turned and offered Rogue a hand who smiled and took it. Soon the X-Jet was in the air and headed for home.
Okay that's the end of the Sanctuary story. The next part will be a few months later and I'll have it up as soon as I can. Sorry if this chapter is kind of long especially toward the end but I was trying to fit everything important in so it made somewhat sense. Please read and Review so I know people are reading, Reviews are very important. Also if your reading Sue check out Uncanny X-Men #444 coming out next wed, I saw stills for it and they have Bobby/Kitty interacting, he's icing her shoulder after mutant ball.
