Mutant Heart and Mutant Soul Chapter 7
I met Jubilee on my way out from Storms greenhouse as I turned down another corridor. "There you are Silverstream, I was looking for you," she said.
I raised an eyebrow, asking "Oh really and why is that Jubilee?"
"It's the Professor he wants to tell us something in his study," answered Jubilee.
A smile appeared on my face. "So he's finally going to tell us. Well it's about time," I said.
She said "Come on we're going to be late." She then took my hand and started pulling me away from where we were standing. I didn't resist her gentle tug on my hand.
Jubilee and I went to the Professors study where the others were waiting for us. Without a word the two of us sat down on the windowsill waiting for the Professor to speak.
Charles said "Now then I think I have put you all in suspense long enough."
We all leaned forward in our places eager to hear what he had to say.
"Come on Professor tell us," Jubilee said.
Charles chuckled, saying "Very well." He leaned forward on his desk with his hands together looking at us with intense eyes. "Now then what I'm about to tell you is very important and should not be taken lightly."
We all nodded in understanding at his words. Now just a few seconds later still looking at us the Professor finally spoke of what was on his mind. He took in a deep breath and let it out slowly before he did so.
"The government has been working on something for over a year now. I have some connections in the government so I've been able to find out about this early on," said the Professor.
"Oh come on Professor just tell us already," Gambit said.
Charles said "You see scientists have made a cure for mutants."
This got shocked remarks out of all of us.
"What?"
"How?"
"When?"
We were all shouting and yelling our heads off. Charles held up his hands for silence but it still took him a while to calm us down after hearing this new piece of news. Only Beast and Nightcrawler were quiet when the Professor had risen up his hands. Their minds now seemed to be somewhere else.
A few seconds after I heard what Charles said I dropped my argument. The impact of finally being cured of my mark sank deep into my mind.
Once some of the others were able to quiet down Charles went back to what he was speaking of. He said "Now before you jump in again let me at least finish what I'm saying. Scientists have made something to cure mutants but only for ones that want it."
There wasn't even a chance for a pause this time.
Jean was the first one to jump in as one that was against the sure. She said "How could they do this? I mean who would want something like this?"
Beast was the one to jump into the defense of the cure. He said "Is it wrong for someone to want to change because of their appearance. You don't shed on the furniture." Small chuckles got out of some of the others.
Beast, Nightcrawler and I didn't think it was so funny.
Nightcrawler went to defend Beasts remark. He said "This cure could help a lot of people to many mutants this cure is a gift from God," he said.
Storm said "That cure is going to be a whole heap of trouble. Riots are going to start all over the place."
"Some mutants will start riots because of it, but for others this is the chance to start a new life," I said.
"Oh Silverstream not you too," Jubilee said.
"I'm just saying that for some mutants this is the chance of a lifetime," speaking in my defense.
I turned to Charles with a questioning look in my face. "What do you think Professor? Professor," I asked.
Xavier wasn't listening to what I was saying he seemed to be listening to something that I couldn't hear or any of the others. "Professor," I repeated, concerned.
Finally Charles spoke to us. "They're announcing it now," he said.
Jean went over to the TV and turned it on.
The channel immediately changed to the one where President Kelly was speaking. He was shaking the hand of one of his representatives and he took his place at the podium.
"My fellow Americans," spoke President Kelly, "today is a new day one that will make history. For many of us mutants have been seen as a problem a nuisance as we may say but this will no longer bother any of us."
"The nerve," said Scott, angrily.
President Kelly said "We have finally come up with a solution to this dilemma." President Kelly reached into one of his coat pockets and held up a small vile filled with a strange looking liquid.
President Kelly held it proudly out in front of him. "I give you a cure," he exclaimed.
This brought a whole heap of commotion out of the reporters that were there. They were all speaking at the same time trying to get their questions answered.
Kelly pointed his hand at one of them and she asked her question pencil in hand. "Mr. President what do you mean by a cure," she asked.
"I mean that mutants can finally be cured of their powers," answered Kelly.
Another reporter raised his hand so President Kelly pointed his hand right at him. He said "Sir is this medicine 100% safe for the mutants as well as to cure them?"
"Yes we have sampled it from a donated sample of mutant blood from a hospital and we have made sure that it is perfectly safe on mutant genes. We will be sending the cure to doctors, hospitals, and drugstores all around the world to be given freely to mutants that desperately need it," said Kelly.
After the President said the rest of the reporters bombarded him with even more questions. At one of them President Kelly announced that the cure would be released into the public the very next day.
"That's enough of this," said Rogue.
Rogue went over to the TV and turned back to the rest of us with her arms crossed. She didn't like what she just heard neither did some of the rest of us.
I said "Magnetos really not going to like this." Everyone voiced their agreement to what I said.
"He's going to want to destroy that cure," Storm said.
Charles said "Well we're not going to let him. Tomorrow all of us are going to take the black bird and head to Washington D.C. We're going to protect that cure at all costs."
We all nodded and quietly left his study.
The Professor clasped his hands together once again purging his mind in great thought.
I went straight to my own room I was no longer sharing one with Rogue. I picked up my music box and listened to its melody thinking about what I had just heard. Memories of my past growing back also came back to me and this caused me to burst into tears closing the music box as I did so.
What I didn't notice was that someone was standing in my doorway watching me crying. He waited a few moments in the doorway before he joined me on my bed to comfort me in this difficult time.
He put his hand on my shoulder and looked up to see who was behind me. I was a little surprised to see that it was Logan but not that much. I suspected that he would come back to us sooner or later.
"I guess you heard Logan," I said.
"Yeah I just heard about it from Charles," said Logan.
"So how do you feel about it," I asked.
Logan sighed, saying "I'm not happy about it but it's what Charles thinks that matters."
"Yeah you're right," I said.
Logan now saw that there was a certain look on my face and by looking at it he came to a certain conclusion. His eyes widened in realization when he came to this. He said "You're planning on taking it aren't you?" There was a note of danger in his voice when he said this to me.
I didn't want to answer him, but I knew that I had to. "Logan I had to do this," I whispered.
"No you don't," snarled Logan. "Yes I do. Logan this is my only chance at a new life," I said.
"Silver, your life is fine just the way it is," he persisted.
"No it isn't, I said, looking at Logan with such a look of pain in my face, tears started to come out of my eyes. Logan was caught off guard he wasn't prepared for something like this.
"Logan, my powers have caused me nothing but pain since I got them as a baby," I sobbed. "I have been mistreated, rejected, and I've been abandoned by my own family. So please tell me that's not a good enough reason to trade in my powers for a normal life." My voice had reached a high pitch and was starting to break.
Logan could tell what this was putting me through and the look on his face softened up a little bit. He put a hand on my shoulder not saying anything because he was completely lost for words although it didn't really last for long.
He said "Silver, think about it or you might end up regretting it afterwards."
I got the tears off of my face and looked at him with a raised eyebrow. I said "Who are you and what have you done with Logan?"
This got a smile and a chuckle out of him.
"I'm serious what have you done with him," I repeated, persisting.
Logan just put his hand to my cheek for only a second and then he left my room all together. He stopped in the hallway and looked at me one more time. I looked up at him with a smile on my face and I made a slight nod to him saying that I'd think about what he just said and he left. So I was stuck sitting there on my own thinking about what was to come next in my life. I stayed inside the mansion for the rest of the day and night thinking about nothing else. By the next day when I woke up I had made my decision.
It was late morning almost twelve when I heard someone pounding on my door. "Silverstream, Silverstream wake up!"
So I got up and opened my door. Jubilee was standing on the other side of it in her pajamas.
"What is it," I asked, yawning.
Jubilee said "It's the cure they've released it into the states."
This got my attention and the two of us went running down below for the control room inside the base. Jubilee ran straight inside as soon as we got there while I just stood in the doorway.
Jubilee said "What did we miss?"
"Nothing, you're just in time," said Rogue.
And we were, on the TV's in the control room it was showing drugstores and hospitals all over the United States. Not only that, but it showed plenty of mutants outside of these places begging and paying for the cure in order to be normal again. Most of these groups were even fighting each other to get in. These groups had mutants who were so deformed and didn't even seem human anymore.
Logan was shaking his head at what he was seeing and so were some of the others they didn't like what was happening either.
Scott said "This is crazy."
"They must've brought it out last night while we were sleeping," Jean said.
Beast said "Probably didn't want to make a scene."
"Half of the storage areas must already be empty," Rogue said.
Right at that moment on one of the TV's it showed a couple of warehouses where trucks were loading up with the cure not even close to being full yet. It seemed that they were all going to the same place. A middle aged man's voice was speaking from that TV.
"Trucks are being loaded up with boxes full of the cure to be brought to planes in order to be transported to other nations and countries. So mutants in other places can be normal too. Only one airport is being used to transport these boxes through their planes and that is the Washington State airport. During this time more copies of the cure will be made at a laboratory a couple of miles inside the woods outside of Washington D.C," ended the reporter.
After hearing this Xavier turned off all of the TV's with his powers and turned to us. "Well what you think of that," he asked.
Gambit was the first one of us to answer Xavier's question. He said "I think that we should go to that laboratory outside of Washington and defend it."
"But what about the planes, they'll need protection as well," said Jean. "There's no need to worry about that Jean those planes will be safe," said Xavier.
"How can you be so sure of that," persisted Jean.
"Magneto and his followers are going to want to get rid of the source of the problem which is at that laboratory. Magneto won't even bother with the planes," Xavier said.
Scott said "So you want us to go to that laboratory?"
"Yes I do in fact I'm going with you. Everyone get dressed and meet me at the black bird we're leaving immediately," order Xavier.
We all nodded in agreement and left the room. I had actually left before these orders were given, you see I had my own plans about what to do.
Everyone moved as quickly as possible to get dressed. They all knew that they needed to get there before anything happened to that laboratory. For some of them, changing into their costumes took a little longer than they thought. Fortunately they all still made their deadline to the hanger bay.
They were taking their seats in the black bird when Wolverine noticed something. He looked around a little bit but he couldn't find who he was looking for. "Have any of you seen Silverstream," he asked.
Jubilee was the one to answer his question. She said "She was with us when we were in the control room. I don't know where she went after that."
"I haven't seen her either," Nightcrawler said.
Just then wolverine seemed to have figured it out. His eyes widened in horror. "Oh crap." He jumped off of his seat and made his way for the steps of the black bird.
"Wolverine what's wrong," Nightcrawler said.
Wolverine said "It's Silverstream, I think she's gone to take the cure I'm going after her!"
"I'm coming with you," said Jubilee.
"No Jubilee, you stay here I'll catch up later with Silverstream," said Wolverine. Without another word he closed up the steps just as he reached the bottom before anyone could follow him out of there.
At the same time Scott ignited the engines of the black bird and the rest of the hanger bay. Wolverine ran as fast as he could to the mansions garage above ground. He knew that the fastest way of getting to me would be to use his jeep.
"Please don't let me be too late," whispered Wolverine.
As for myself I was halfway to one of the drugstores in the city where the cure was being sold. I decided to run the rest of the way there I wanted to get this over with as soon as possible. The time passed by very quickly for me after this.
When I got to the city mutants were heading in plenty of directions and normal humans were running away from them. Some were even casting frightened glances at me.
The drugstore that I was heading for was packed and there were still mutants outside pushing and shoving to get in. I went to the back of the group trying to see over the heads of the ones in front of me. The store owner inside was trying to calm everyone down.
"Calm down there's enough for everyone," shouted the owner.
The workers were actually throwing the cure outside of the store. One actually landed by me and its vile didn't even break on the stone. This was my chance so I went to pick it up before anyone else noticed it. Just as I was about to pick it up someone stepped on it and smashed the vile to pieces.
My hand shaking I looked up and saw Wolverine standing right in front of me. I only stood up straight and looked up at his face. Wolverine was furious with me he couldn't believe what I almost did. His face was shaking with fury. He said "How could you do such a thing if I hadn't made it here in time."
"What, I would've been normal again is that so bad," I said.
He said "Yes it is you're normal just the way you are." "I might be to you but to me being a mutant is worse than death." He barred his teeth and let out a growl at what I said. He didn't get a chance to say anything at all.
Next to us in an electronics store TV's in the front window were showing a battle scene outside of Washington D.C. Magneto, Mystique, Sabertooth, Juggernaut, and Pyro were attacking the laboratory. It seemed that Magnetos other followers were out of this battle guarding their base. This laboratory was the place that held the cure and the information to make it. "The military has done it's very best to hold off these attackers but to no avail. Authorities are warning any civilians to stay clear of this area for fear of getting killed in the process."
Wolverine turned to me after he heard the anger was now out of his face. "We'll finish this later but right now we need to catch up with the others," he said.
I nodded my head at his words but didn't say anything. I followed him to the jeep and jumped inside right next to him. The next moment we were driving out of the city and heading for Washington D.C.
Because of the speed of the black bird the others had already reached the scene of the battle field and were fighting the enemy. Battle raged all around them.
Magneto, Sabertooth, and Juggernaut were fighting outside the laboratory trying to distract our men while Mystique and Pyro were inside of the lab destroying every piece of information on the cure they could find.
Sabertooth was striking anyone he could reach and the Juggernaut was charging at everyone with his head. Magneto was sending his magnetic fields everyone while Charles was trying as hard as he could to block them with his mind. This was putting a huge strain on his body.
Magneto said "Why are you protecting these people Charles? This cure is an insult to us all. We don't need a cure Charles it must be destroyed along with the ones who have it made."
"You might think that way Eric but I don't this cure is exactly what some mutants need," Charles said.
Magneto let out a snarl and attacked Charles with all his might.
Sabertooth and Juggernaut were now fighting side by side against the rest of the x-men. The boys were fighting Sabertooth while the girls were fighting against Juggernaut trying to get that giant helmet off of his head.
Juggernaut attacked Jubilee from behind and grabbed the end of her coat to keep her from running away. Jubilee screamed in terror when this happened.
Rogue was the one that came to the rescue. She said "Hands off metal head." She used her flight speed and strength to knock into the Juggernaut and this got him to let go of Jubilee.
While his attention was turned over to Rogue the other three girls took his chance to try and unlatch his helmet. The three of them used their powers to do so.
Our guys were doing their best to hold off Sabertooth bit it seems that only the Wolverine a match for this monster. They needed to just use their attacks and keep out of his range. Although Beast was the only one next to Wolverine who could go into hand to hand combat with Sabertooth. Beast was strong enough to fight hand to hand combat with Sabertooth but only for a few seconds.
With a loud roar Sabertooth lifted up Beast into the air and threw him back toward the others. With loud yells they collapsed under Beasts weight as they tried to catch him. Sabertooth let out a large shout of laughter as he saw this happen to them.
Magneto was getting tired of all of this fighting. He said "I tire of this it's time to end this quarrel."
Magneto floated higher into the air and spread out his arms. A moment later he used most of his power and used it as one huge burst of energy. This pulse of magnetic energy swept through the battle field and it knocked down anybody that was in its path. Only the ones that he wished to stay up were kept standing and that meant only the ones that came with him.
The Professor and the rest of the x-men were on the ground they had gotten a little bit weak from what had just happened. They were somewhat stunned from what had just happened as well.
Magneto flouted lower toward the ground and moved toward the Professor as he was trying to make sure of what had just happened. "The time has come for this to end Charles," said Magneto.
"No!"
The x-men went to protect their mentor from harm. They were blocked by the Juggernaut and Sabertooth. They were so furious that the x-men ran right into them and pushed them out of the way.
"Professor, hang on we're coming," Cyclopes said.
Magnetos eyes narrowed when he saw them coming. He held out his hand toward them. He said "I'll deal with you in a moment." He now used his magnetic powers to wrap them all up in metal so they wouldn't be able to defy him.
Sabertooth and Juggernaut were standing over them with sneers on their faces.
Magneto brought one of his hands up into the air while looking down at the Professor. "I'm sorry Charles," he said.
The Professor said "Eric don't do this." "It's time for you to do Charles," said Magneto.
"Want to bet!"
Just as Magneto was about to attack the Professor a bright light came out of nowhere and blinded him so instead of attacking the Professor he used his arms to cover his eyes. "What the hell," shouted Juggernaut.
Everyone else also covered their eyes to protect them from the light. At the same time out of nowhere somebody attacked Magneto, Juggernaut, and Sabertooth while they were distracted. After that the rescuer used his claws to break all of the x-men free from their metal bonds.
Once the bright light went away everyone was confused and tried to figure out what had just happened.
Magneto was now completely furious with the interference in his attack. He turned and looked around in fury, shouting "Who did that?"
"We did."
Everyone now looked up and saw two people standing not far from where the others were standing. We were recognized at once by everyone that was present. A look of delight appeared on the faces of the x-men.
They cried out our names in pure joy. "Wolverine, Silverstream!"
Magneto, Juggernaut, and Sabertooth looked up at us with loathing on their faces.
Sabertooth said "Well, well look who it is."
Wolverine held out his fists revealing his claws and I got into a fighting position.
Magneto was about to say something of our appearance when something happened. Pyro came running out of the laboratory laughing and a smile on his face. "It is done my lord," he said.
At the same time Mystique came out of the laboratory close behind Pyro.
Magneto responded to them with a nod of satisfaction. "Very good," he said. He now turned back to the Professor with narrowed eyes. He said "We'll finish this another time."
Juggernaut, Sabertooth, Pyro, and Mystique stood beside Magneto ready to take off. When they did Magneto used one of his magnetic fields to get them all out of there.
Just then a huge explosion came out of the laboratory and gained all of our attention.
Hank said "All right then that's that." Unfortunately Beasts words weren't able to be justified.
We could now hear somebody yelling for help inside the building. This got us all to run inside and through destroyed parts of the building to whoever was calling for help. We blasted into the buildings lab where the source of the sound was coming from.
Gambit, Rogue, and Storm were the first ones to get him. The man was middle aged, bald, glasses, and Japanese. He was getting off of the floor and they were helping him up.
"Are you all right sir," Storm said.
The scientist said "Yes I am." At the same time the rest of us ran in with the Professor.
"Is he all right," he said. Rogue said "Yeah he's just fine."
"Son of a bitch."
Moving with surprise we all turned to Wolverine we all saw that he had a look of fury on his face and he was snarling. He was not happy with what he was seeing.
Wolverine was staring at the scientist. He said "Dr. Yamato." He said this through gritted teeth.
The scientist looked back at him with a very wicked grin on his face. "Hello there Logan," Dr. Yamato said.
Scott said "Wolverine you know this guy?" "How could I forget, he's the one that did this to me," snarled Logan.
Wolverine held up his fists and his claws came out of his knuckles bones.
Narrowing my eyes I looked at Dr. Yamato with a look of disgust on my face and so did most of the others. Storm, Rogue, and Gambit backed away from the scientist with chocked expressions on their faces.
Dr. Yamato said "I'm so happy you remember me Logan." He spoke of this in a very sarcastic tone.
Wolverine said "It's hard to forget about what you did to me."
Wolverine moved straight for Dr. Yamato holding his arms ready to strike. Nightcrawler and I moved to stop him but before any of us could do anything the scientist held up a small vile filled with a strange kind of chemical that seemed familiar but didn't know where.
Dr. Yamato said "Attack me and you'll lose the cure."
This got everyone to stop in their tracks except for Wolverine.
I said "Wolverine you can't." My voice was able to stop Wolverine where he was.
Dr. Yamato said "He won't this is the last vile of the cure. There's only enough for one, but I can make more enough for each of you. All I want in return is my safety and my freedom."
Wolverine just smirked at these words. He said "I'm long past caring about being cured."
Beast conquered with what Wolverine said. Beats said "Me too I like this body." Beast even flexed his arm muscles to prove it.
Wolverine took another step toward the scientist. "I just want to see you pay for your crimes," he said.
"What about what we want," I said.
Nightcrawler and I were looking at the cure with something like desperation on our faces.
I went over to Wolverine. "Please Wolverine. Is your vengeance more important that our humanity," I asked.
Wolverine stood there for a few moments looking down at me. But then he made a gesture of defeat and turned back toward the others. He seemed to have softened up a little at my words. "Give it to her," said Logan.
I clasped my hands together a look of pure delight appeared on my face while my eyes shined. To anyone that was in there it would seem that I had stars in my eyes. I held out my hand to Yamato so that he could give me the cure.
Something was wrong instead of giving me the vile Dr. Yamato clutched it in both of his hands and held it to his chest. He said "Why let her take it you deserve it more."
Seeing that the scientist wasn't going to give up the vile Nightcrawler used his power to disappear and then reappear behind him. Nightcrawler used his tail to take the vile from the scientist and throw it over to me. "What do you care," he said.
Jean said "Good question if he's going to make enough for everyone why should he care who takes it first."
Wolverine came to a conclusion at hearing this. "She's right that's not a cure it's poison. He wants me out of the way," stated Logan. The malice now returned back into his eyes.
"No," I shrieked. "It is a cure is has to be."
"Of course it's a cure you must trust me," stated the Dr.
"I think that ship has sailed Dr."
At that moment a blast came out of nowhere and blasted Nightcrawler hard against a wall. We all turned our heads in the direction of where that blast came from.
We all recognized them as members of the friends of humanity and their leader Radon Creed was standing in the front of his troops. He was the one that had fired upon Nightcrawler.
Creed was looking straight at Dr. Yamato. He said "You always over play your hand Yamato."
Everyone was speechless by this. "I don't believe it." Out of all of us the Professor couldn't believe what he was seeing.
Dr. Yamato slowly moved over to Creed and his friends of humanity wearing a smile on his face. Rogue was helping Nightcrawler back up onto his feet and at the same time she was looking at Creed. She said "We thought you were in jail."
"They let me out for good behavior and they put me in charge of the cure of all things," said Creed.
This new piece of information surprised us all.
Nightcrawler said "So you're its creator."
"I am so very sorry about this. We'd all be happier if you remained in the dark but I can't let you damage Yamato. He's a bit of a bother but his mind represents infinite possibilities. He's the scientist you're just the experiments," stated Creed.
Creed and his men were backing their way out of the room their blasters pointing at the rest of us in order to keep us at bay.
Dr. Yamato stayed close to them as they made their way out. He pointed at the vile. He said "You know that could be a vile of poison of course there's only one way to find out."
Dr. Yamato laughed as he said that and made his way out with the friends of humanity. The Professor leaned forward in his hover chair and buried his face in his hands. Jean moved over to the Professor and tried to comfort him. He said "Oh Jean how could I have been so blind."
"Hush it's all right," said Jean, softly.
I shrieked "He's just trying to scare us!" I undid the top of the vile and went to drink its contents.
But before I could even get a drop of it Wolverine interfered. "Silver no," he said.
I brought the vile down to my chest and looked at him my face desperate. I said "Don't you see Creed and Yamato don't want this to end but this is the cure."
"You don't know that the risk is too great," exclaimed Logan.
"Any risk is better than living as a monster," I said.
Wolverine gently took my chin in his hand and turned my head back toward him so he could look clearly into my face. "I'm a monster," he said.
"But you're strong stronger than me. I can't live this way," I shrieked. My voice full of distress I turned my back to him.
Wolverine put a gentle hand on my shoulder and turned my whole body so that I stood facing him. He said "I couldn't either not without you." There was passion in his voice not much of it but it was there. "Silver, we're not strong alone we're strong together."
Hearing his words I came to a decision. The desperation and longing left my face and was replaced by a small smile a new light.
I brought the cure away from my chest and Wolverine took it from my hands and spilled it onto the floor. The Professor and the others nodded their heads in satisfaction to this act. I said "What do we do now?"
"We go home," said Logan.
And we did just that.
Wolverine and I got home in his jeep while the others got home on the black bird. That night just as we finished dinner I headed up to my room to rest after that day's activities.
As I was moving up the stairs in the entrance hall I heard the Professors voice calling to me in my mind.
The Professor said "Silverstream report to the control room immediately."
"What does he want now," I thought.
Even though I was tired I still did as I was told and headed for the control room. When I got there I found the Professor and the rest of the x-men there waiting for me and they had smiles on their faces even Wolverine who was wearing a huge one. I was getting a little bit confused.
"What's going on," I said, curious.
Scott said "Well we were going to wait but we decided to give it to you tonight." "Give me what," I asked.
"This," said Wolverine.
Wolverine held out an x-men suit in dark black with a design of silver streaming down its middle and it came with a mask that covered the eyes.
"It's time you became a full member of the x-men," said the Professor.
I was completely speechless I only took the suit in my hands and examined it. It finally came to me that this costume was mine and that I was now a full member of the x-men.