CHAPTER 11. MAGNETO

The Students of Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters; gather together to bury Azazel; even Ruth is there who say a few words for the fallen Mutant. Then Erik and finally Mystique "Dosvedanya my red love…" She places a white rose on his casket.

Charles hadn't walked two feet when Erik confronts him. "I told you the humans would draw first blood…Now Azazel is dead!"

"You seem to be willing to lay this at the feet of the humans…but you forget that a mutant is pulling the strings of the government and the Friends of Humanity…It is Nathaniel Essex we need to expose…"

"Grant you his plans are Sinister but the humans are as much to blame as well…Are have you forgotten the Mutant Registration Act…On Americans! This is supposed to be the Land of the free the home of the brave…A land of tolerance…"

"And I suppose you want to go to war…"

Everyone is standing around listening, "You dam right I do…" Erik looks at the students gathered. "Who is with me? Who wants to come with me and fight for mutant rights…"

Mystique and Domino joins Erik, then a young boy named John also known as Pyro joins them. Several other students join as well, students like Mortimer Toynbee also known as Toad, Dominikos Petrakis AKA Avalanche from Greece, Angel Salvadore AKA Pixie, and a boy by the name of Janos Quested AKA Riptide.

"Erik don't do this…"

"Erik is gone my friend…" he says in a cold voice looking at Mystique, "I am Magneto…" Magneto extends his hands out to the sides summoning metal plates. He and the mutants who wished to join him step onto the plates, but before joining them Mystique walks up to the Professor.

"I have a request…"

"Anything Mystique…"

"My son hearing about the death of his father will…" She takes a deep breath as tears form. "I don't want him to go through that…So I want you to use Cerebro and erase us from his mind…"

Charles takes her hand, "Are you sure?"

"Yes…"

Charles nods, "Consider it done…"

"Thank you…" She kisses Charles on the cheek and joins the others. The metal plates form a sphere, that lifts up into the air and flies away leaving Charles and the rest to watch until it is out of sight. Erik has several safe houses across the world. He flies his metal sphere to a warehouse on the docks. As it lowers the roof of the warehouse opens and allows the sphere to land.

"Where are we?" Pyro asks.

Erik looks at him, "Safe house of mine…" Erik waves his hand revealing an underground base beneath the warehouse. The computers and lights come on.

"What is our first move?" Mystique asks.

"Our first move is to hit the headquarters of the Mutant Registration Office."

"What about the Friends of Humanity…" Domino asks as she cleans her guns.

"We will hit them afterwards…"

"Why not at the same time…You, Avalanche, and Pyro are our most powerful mutants here…There are enough of us to hit both at the same time…"

"Pyro, Domino, and Toad will come with me…We will hit the Mutant Registration Office…" Erik looks at Mystique, "Mystique will lead Avalanche, Pixie, and Riptide to take down the Friends of Humanity.

"What if they got anti-mutant weapons…" Pyro asks.

Erik just smiles, "Welcome to the Brotherhood of Mutants…"

MUTANT REGISTRATION OFFICES – VIRGINIA

It is 12o'clock midnight and the guard shift is changing. The metal sphere flies overhead and lands in the woods nearby. It opens so that Toad and Domino can get out. Domino runs through the wooded area while Toad leaps from tree to tree. "I will take out the cameras…Then you and Toad move in…Once you have planted the virus in the computer I will create an EMP…Then Pyro will torch the place…"

"This is central command all duty officers please report in…" The Head security guard says after the cameras go down.

"Branson reporting in all is clear…" That is when Toad wraps his tongue around his throat and snaps it. Domino takes down a guard and shots ricocheting her bullet up the hallway hitting a cop in the throat. It hits a water cooler and then a door knob just as it opens. The bullet flies up and loosens a light fixture that falls into the water with a cord still attached. The two guards walking through the water are electrocuted.

Then Domino flies feet first through the door window of the main office. The glass flies across the room killing three men in the office. She rolls to the ground and shoots down the remaining four. "I'm in planting computer virus…Upload will be done in five minutes…"

"Get out of there and rendezvous with Toad I will pick up on the roof." Magneto flies his sphere and hovers over the six foot tall building. The side opens up allowing Domino and Toad to enter. Then Magneto unleashes an EMP disabling the entire building. Then Pyro uses his sparker gauntlets and fires a stream of fire at the building. When he raises his hands the fire expands.

"Mystique…what is your status?"

"Mission a success…but Riptide is dead…" She replies over the long range COMs.