Chapter 3: The Escape

I nod before grabbing the keys and unlocking my cell door. I walk out of it and unlock Apollo before handing him the keys, "Unlock the others." I tell him before calling out, "Hyde, report; tell me what's happening out there."

"A group of mutants led by a boy who is shooting lasers from his eyes are attacking the lab. They all look very determined and seem to be searching. I think they may be here for us." Hyde tells me, "A woman with white hair seems especially determined to get to us."

I nod before turning to the next problem; the door. The others line up behind me and Apollo speaks up about it, "Which one of us can open it?"

I feel the burning in my hands worsen a bit and wince before looking at the door, remembering the black flames that killed Toby. I reach out with my empathic abilities and find a large well of anger several hallways away. I tap into it and see my hands light on fire. I try sending it out and a torrent of black flames flies at the door. As soon as its melted through the ten foot thick adamantium door I put out the flames.

"Artemis, cool it down! Apollo, call out to the group, have them meet us at the armory. Give them directions." I order as I look at my hands, finding them uninjured.

"You got it." Apollo says as Artemis sends ice at the molten metal.

I walk across it carefully and exit the cell room. The first noise that hits me is the alarm. It's loud and annoying, I frown before leading the way to the armory. We enter the room and immediately spread out to our lockers; I open mine and grab the weapons the lab assigned me. I have a set of Sai blades, a chain with a scythe head attached to it, a bunch of knives, and a music player with a bunch of songs, the music player came with a headset with an attached microphone.

I get into my training gear and strap all my weapons into place before going to the door and looking around at the others. Aeolus, Artemis, and Apollo all have bows and arrows, though Artemis' is made of silver and Apollo's is made of a metal that looks like gold but is stronger than it. Jekyll has a steel bastard sword, Hyde has a scythe that looks like something one of my minions minds called the grim reaper would have, and Nightshade has a large bag of seeds, a long sword, and some throwing knives. As soon as everyone has their weapons in place we head out into the hall where I see a group of guards, half of which are my minions, fighting a group of determined mutants.

I smirk before turning my microphone on and putting it place. "Attack the other guards." I call to my minions, who immediately turn and kill the non minion members of the group. "Now one of you come to my side. The rest of you...shoot each other."

One of them walks over to me and the others kill each other. "What the hell?" a boy from the group of mutants, who had been shooting ice at the guards before I intervened, exclaims as I move the mic out from in front of the face, "Why did they all just do that? They killed each other!"

"Good observation, I'm sure your mother must be so proud of you with observational skills like that." I tell him blankly before glaring at them all, "Who are you people?"

A girl steps forward, she has brown hair with a white streak in it, and says, "I'm Rogue. We're the X-Men and we're here to save y'all."

"Why?" I ask her suspiciously. "What made you come now? Why do you want to save us?"

"What is your name?" she asks in return.

"Shock'n'awe." I tell her.

"May I ask what your name was before that?" she asks.

"No." I tell her while shaking my head.

"Alrigh', well we're lookin' for someone named Leah Black. Her mother is with us." Rogue says.

I glare at her suspiciously before looking at Artemis, who nods encouragingly at me. I look back at the girl, Rogue, and sigh before saying, "You're looking for me."

She smiles and says, "Alright. So we came because we want to save y'all. We didn't know where y'all were 'til a few hours ago when every mutant in the world with telepathic abilities collapsed because they were hearing the sound of a little girl screaming. When our leader recovered he tracked it's source and found this location. We came to get you as soon as we found your location. You were kidnapped when you were-"

"I know how I got here, you don't need to tell me." I interrupt her before realizing something, "You said the scream was heard all over the world?" I ask and she nods. "Interesting...I didn't know my voice could reach that far." I mutter to myself. "I wonder if the amount of people I have under my control somehow boosts the range I can effect...maybe if I practice I can send my sirens voice through my minions and use them as amplifiers or if-"

"Shock, now isn't the time to contemplate your powers." Aeolus tells me and I look at him.

"Right. Good point." I tell him before looking back at Rogue, "You said my mother was here?"

A white haired woman takes a step forward, hesitating to speak. Rogue nods to her before looking at me and saying, "That woman there is your mother. Her name is Ororo Munroe but her mutant name is Storm. She can influence the weather."

I look at her and tilt my head before saying, "We're a package deal."

"I suspected as much." the white haired woman says. "I'll do my best to take care of all of you."

I smile at that before looking at the others and receiving nods of approval. I turn back to the woman and say, "Great. My name is Shock'n'awe. To my direct right is Aeolus, next to him is Nightshade, next to him is Hyde. To my left is Artemis, next to her is Apollo, and next to him is Jekyll, we should head out, more guards will come soon."

"Right...which way is the nearest exit?" Rogue asks sheepishly. ""We kinda weren't paying attention to where we were going, just focusin' on finding y'all."

"That's why I kept this guy alive." I say before turning to my minion. "Lead us to the exit."

"What did you do to that guy?" the boy who threw ice earlier asks.

"I used my sirens voice on him. He's one of my minions." I say as the guard begins walking away; I turn and follow him. "Are you all coming or not?" we get to a door marked with the word exit in big red letters and I look at my minion. "Good job. Now go to the security office and initiate lock down procedure three."

He walks away and I open the door, covering my eyes from the harsh light that awaits us out there before walking out and covering my eyes. I take a breath and quickly realize that I can breathe correctly for the first time I can remember. Inside the lab my breathing always felt forced but now its as easy as throwing a knife to me.

I slowly lower my hand and gasp in awe as I look at all the green things around us, listening to the various animals and grinning as it registers that we're free. I look up at my mother and she smiles before leading us up a large hill, where we stop. I turn and watch as she summons four hurricanes and sends them towards the lab

"That's a bit overkill, don't you think?" Ice Boy asks. "There's people there! Anyone who survives the initial storm will suffer before they die!"

"The four hurricanes are supposed to ensure that there aren't any survivors." my mother says. "The professor told me that none of them should be allowed to escape."

"But–" Ice Boy protests

"He has a point." I say, "People could survive that...but there is a simple solution to that." I then light my hands with my new power, causing most of them to back away from me because of how hot the flames are. I send a torrent of flames into each of the hurricanes and watch them all turn black. I then tilt my head a bit and say, "Now they will all just die."

I then sit and watch as the hurricanes disintegrate the lab before putting out the flames as my mother gets rid of the storm. I get up and look expectantly at my mother, who smiles before beginning to lead us away from what used to be the lab.