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Chapter 2 Too Much
While John is gone on a supply run Clarice wonders around the headquarters she hears a sawing sound and she follows it to find Marcos the other guy that helped save her and in the process his girlfriend was captured. She also sees a dog that is sitting on the coach.
"Is that your dog?" She asks. Marcos stops sawing the concrete for a moment looking at her then at the dog. "She's uh, everybody's, really." Clarice nods. "I just wanted to say thanks for, you know, saving me. Even though I threw a coffeepot at your head." Marcos smiles. "And a mug." Clarice smiles too. "Right and a mug." Marcos chuckles. "Don't worry about it." Clarice nods then looks around the bank. "So, this group you guys run it?" Marcos shakes his head as he continues to saw. "No. The network's nationwide. Founded after the anti-mutant laws first got bad. Just before the X-Men disappeared." She watches him then asks. "What about this place?"
"Uh, it's been abandoned since Oakwood. Figure it's the last place they'd look. I got brought into this station by, uh, John and by Lorna." Clarice nods then looks at his work. "I guess this has something to do with getting her out of jail?" Marcos nods as the concrete he was sawing falls to the floor. "Yeah. Well that was the idea. Should work great, as long as they have no guards or cameras." He looks forward. "Or smoke detectors?" Clarice chimes in. "Yeah." Marcos nods. Clarice takes a seat on the arm of the red couch. "For what it's worth, uh I know you lost her helping me, and I'm sorry." Marcos takes a seat on the other arm petting the dog. "It's all right it wasn't your fault." Clarice looks down.
"You got yourself out of prison using some kind of portal, right? You think you could get someone in?" Clarice shakes her head. "It doesn't work like that. It's bad if I try to go someplace that I can't see, someplace I haven't been." Marcos looks confused. "What do you mean by bad?" Clarice opens a small portal with her hand and then one just above Marcos's head. She grabs the squeaky-dino and tosses it through. Half of it lands in Marcos's hands he flinches. "See?" Marcos nods. "Right. That was her favorite toy." Clarice looks the dog who whines then barks. "Ooh, my bad." Marcos's phone rings he picks it up and speaks in a hushed tone. He moves away from Clarice to talk to the person.
Without having him knowing she listens in. A meeting who is he talking to? What is so urgent that he has to keep his voice so low? "Hey don't tell anyone where I'm going."Marcos says then leaves the room. Clarice let's out a sigh then looks at the dog and goes to get the other half of her toy. She finds in in the room above the one she and Marcos were in. Finding it under a desk she grabs it and races to put it back together. Making sure that the tape is secure she gives it a squeak and the dogs' ears perk up. She smiles as the dog chews on her toy. She walks out of the room and she literally bumps into Shatter. He smiles and keeps going like it wasn't an issue. She climbs to sets of stairs and finds John sitting at a desk going over some plans with another member of this place. When he notices her, he finishes up whatever it was he as saying and the man he was talking to leaves taking the plans with him. The man walks away with the plans.
John smiles leaning back in his chair. "Something wrong?" He asks. "I need to talk to you. It's about Marcos." He chuckles. "Uh, listen Marcos is, uh he's an emotional guy. So, whatever he said, don't take it personal." Clarice shakes her head. "No, it's not about that. It's He got a phone call from some guy. Something about helping a family. He ran off about an hour ago. Alone." John's expression changes to serious. "What? Why didn't you tell me?" He stands and rounds the table to stand in front of her. "Because he told me not to, and he didn't want to get anyone else involved because it was dangerous. But then I was thinking about how I owe his girlfriend. And she'd be pissed if he died." John sighs. "Come on." He then turns heading for the stairs. "Where are we going? We don't even know where he is." John turns back around. "I found you like I always told you I would. Trust me, I can find him." With a roll of her jade eyes she follows him. Before they head out she grabs the black leather jacket she stole and they take a different car.
It's quiet for a while then he speaks. "Are you going to let me in?" Clarice looks out the window. "I don't know, I mean it's not like we can just go back to how things were before." With his eyes on the road he takes his right hand off the steering wheel and reaches for her left hand. "This means something is still there otherwise you would have taken it off." Clarice pulls her hand away from his. "Let's just focus on finding Marcos we can deal with this later." John sighs letting it drop for now. He places his hand back on the wheel. John tracks Marcos to a warehouse, just a few miles out of the city. "He's here, the family too." He stands. "Okay so which way do we go?" Clarice points left or right. He goes left and she follows.
"There just on the other side of these doors." He starts throwing his weight at the doors and it takes a few tries before they open. "Come on!" He ushers them all in and they take off running through the warehouse. John stops to listen he hears rattling of a robot. "They're coming! That way! To the hallway!" He points to the right and they take off in that direction. The rattling gets louder. The boy who's just a few steps ahead of John trips and falls on his face. His mom stops. John grabs his arm pulling him up and just before he can run the Sentinel robot gets its grip on his leg. "John!" Clarice says running back towards him. Marcos uses his laser hands to saw off one of the legs. John yells until it finally releases him it jumps back and sawing off the same leg Marcos had. Then it kept moving. They turn left and there's Sentinel in the ceiling "Go! Go!" The dad says and they take a right turn which leads them to a dead end.
John moves past everyone to it saying. "Watch out." Then he starts punching the wall. The Sentinel robot is upon them again, but Marcos is able to push it back with his lasers. It makes a noise and its eye is a brighter red then it was before. John listens near the door. "There on the other side!" More Sentinels approach from the distance. "Here they come!" Marcos says with a grunt as he does his best to push them back. "Clarice, you got to get us out of here." Johns says. Her jade eyes widen. "What do you mean?" John places a hand on her shoulder. "You got yourself out of prison, you can get us out of here!" The short blond girl uses her shield to help Marcos. "No, it's different. I can't see where I'm going. It's too dangerous." Clarice says as she shakes his hand off. "All right, well, we will die if we stay here, so can you please just do it?" Marcos says the girl helping him grunts. "They're getting through!" Clarice starts making a portal she grunts as she expands it. "I can't do it." She says shaking her head. "Yes, you can!" She shakes her head again. "I can't!"
Clarice extends her arms out more the portal now hides her whole body. "What is that?" She hears the dad ask. Grunting she says. "Go! Hurry!" John goes through first rolling on his side. "Come on, it's safe!" John says to reassure the family. The mother and daughter go through next. Marcos pushes one last sentinel back then rushes through. "Go! Go!" The dad says as he pushes his son toward the portal. "Andy!" The mom yells. The boy Andy faces all the robots and with a yell he tears them all apart. "Come on!" The dad pushes Andy through the portal then a gunshot sounds and the dad falls back on the ground. "I can't hold it!" Clarice says weakly. The family tries to go back but by then Clarice has already clasped and Marcos catches her before she hits the floor.
So I just want to say thanks to those who are reading this story it means a lot. So, just so you all know I will be updating often, but I need at least 3 -5 comments, why? Because I love hearing from you. And who do you want appear in this from the series from either the X-men or Brothehood depending on who they may appear in present day or in a flashback. If you mention a character that I didn't know existed it may be while before I update because I'm doing research just so you know. Let me know what you thought about both John and Clarice in this chapter. Until next time...