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Mystique´s bike was almost flying over the road. She knew what Magneto would say, it was the first time she had failed like that. Humans! It

was all their fault. She hated Logan more than words could describe, funny how hate and desire sometimes mix.

Wolverine follow her close enough not to lose her but leaving space so she would not notice his presence. His animal instincts came handy for

this kind of situations. He was enjoying the chase and the fresh night breeze, it felt great to be out of the mansion and away from the ghosts of the

corridors. Logan decided that maybe Storm was right and some open-air activities could be better than spending his life in the Danger Room.

The road ahead turned abuptly and then descended into a small town. Logan had never been there. This area was almost deserted. There had

been a toxic cloud some years ago, and the population had left in fear of getting seriously sick. Obviously the Brotherhood was not scared of

some radioactive pollution. Mystique entered a huge building that seemed to be an abandoned factory. Logan smirked and stopped Cyclop´s

bike in the shadows of a nearby house. Time to follow the white rabbit into Wonderland.

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Kitty was helping Piotr, the Russian was silent, more than usual, which was almost impossible. She finished checking that he was no longer dizzy

and offered him a glass of juice.

-"Beast says is better than you have something with sugar"- She told him. Piotr nodded and drank it on one go-"What happened?"

-"I was a fool"- Piotr answered, so embarrashed he could look at her

-"She is good"- Kitty told him-"She has been this good for many years, it was not your fault, that woman is able to fight with Logan and make

him sweat"

-"I thought it was you"- Piotr admitted-"There was no fight, I was fooled as a schoolboy"

-"You thought she was me?"- Kitty smiled –"You wanted to help me? That is sweet, thanks"

Piotr wished he had metalled up, that way she wouldn´t notice him blushing like mad.

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Xavier watched in the screen a metallic hand, there were many more in a huge depot. There were also some big head resembling the robot they

used in the Danger Room for defense tactics. The Professor held his breath. This was what he had always feared. Politicians were no longer

trying to win the mutant-human war talking and issuing unfair acts, now they were creating executioners. Warren and Kurt had found the images

among the hundreds of recordings the German mutant had stolen from Worthington Labs. Warren´s father was the CEO and President of the

huge company that had developed the Cure just because Worthington Senior could not accept that his beloved son was a mutant. But this was

much more dangerous than the cure. Warren believed his father when he has told him that there were no more cure doses but the ones his father

have stored for him. Warren, Aka Angel, was proud of being a mutant and he would not need that cure but what he had found has broken his

heart. His father was helping Trask to create these murderous machines to slaughter the mutant population and end the problem once and for all.

-"This is a mistake"- Hank could not accept it. He worked in politics, he knew politicians lie, but this was just too much. He worked with the

government, he was the ambassador, the symbol that mutants and humans could coexist, and while he was fighting for peace Trask had been

developing the Sentinel Program, and for what he could see in the recordings the project was almost ready.

-"This was going to happen, it was unavoidable"- Xavier said looking at his X-men, he like to think of them as his children, his last hope that a

better world was possible, if all these different powerful persons could be friends and lay aside their differences then all this struggle had a

meaning-"We cannot let this bring us down. It is just another thing we have to overcome."

-"We have been through worse"- Storm laid her hand next to Xavier´s as the true leader of the team -"We have to find out were they are

keeping these sentinels, gather information, and end this crazy project before it finishes us"

-"I will resign"- Beast´s voice was sad and angry at the same time

-"Wait, Hank, try to find out something about this nonsense, maybe there is a diplomatic solution"- Xavier knew that Hank was feeling defeated-

"I have confidence in your persuasive abilities"

-"Trask should be worried about mypunching traitors to a pulp´ powers"- Hank was not feeling very diplomatic at the moment.

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Pietro was restless, running around in circles, he did not trust any of these freaks of nature. The huge man with the helmet who talk in third person

of himself as he was the Pope, the pyromaniac kid witha serious attitude problem, the funny guy who could tell jokes and clap at them at the

same time and the creepy old man. He had accepted to wait till the woman returned. Magneto had said that she was going to bring Wanda back,

but Pietro was not so sure, for what he had been told the X-men were a bunch of powerful mutants entrenched in a mansion. It could not be

easy to get in there and take her out. Pietro would have loved to try his luck but Magneto told him that the X-men were traitors to the mutant

cause, they defended humans and would not mind to kill a couple of mutants if they have to. Pietro was astonished, how could that be possible?

Mutants killing mutants, that was contrary to nature.

-"She is late"- Pietro told Magneto slowing his pace

-"Patience is a virtue, young man"- Magneto was playing chess, apparently ignoring the fast mutant, but in reality he had been studying his son all

the time

-"I have no time for patience. But, I want to know more about these X-men"- Pietro took a seat next to his father

-"And what would you like to know?"- Magneto smiled, this was all going to smoothly-"They live in what used to be Xavier´s mansion, it is a

school for mutants"

-"That doesn´t sound too menacing"- Pietro was doubting that this team could be so dangerous if they were mere teachers.

-"That school is how they recruit new members, Pyro here, for instance was a student there but he decided to free himself from all the cheap talk

and started thinking by himself"- Magneto pointed John

-"They were always telling me not to show off, that I should be ashamed of my power and that I should bend on one knee and ask for mercy at

the humans"- Pyro was giving the final touches to his new flame thrower

-"I can´t see that he is able to think by himself much anyway"- Pietro had not made his mind about this lot yet.-"Why are they keeping my sister?

She is not a student, she is not a threat."

-"But she is powerful"- Magneto answered

-"No, she is not, you keep saying that but you do not even know her"- Pietro snarled at him-"Her power is a curse, it has done nothing but get

us in trouble everytime"

-"She can alter reality, I dare say that is a considerable power"- Magneto said, he liked this furious side of his son

-"She cannot control it, if she could she would have saved our mother, instead she had to stand there and watch as the mob killed her, knowing

that they will go after her once they had finished with our mother"- Pietro hated the memory of it-"I escaped and saved her but I was not fast

enough to save my mother too"

Magneto was deeply touched by what hewas hearing, he loved Magda and to think that she died killed by the humans she so dearly defended

seemed just as ironic and terrible as Xavier´s own death. Magneto wondered if this was the right moment to tell his son the truth but he heard the

sound a of a bike and stopped worrying about such details.