30 : Are you Sure?
Logan, Jean and Storm gather around a floating 3D hologram that shows a photographic terrain map of the landscape.
Magneto and Mystique also observe but keep to the back. Logan looks intensely at it. The dam, spillway tunnels and alkali base are all visible. From the naked eye, nothing but snow covers the base and dam. Jean clicks a button
"This is a topographic map of the area" and the holographic map suddenly changes into a crystal red, with varying degrees of pink and white marks that represent repetitive impact over time "and here are the recent density changes. The lighter the mark, the heavier the activity."
A series of white lines come out of the right spillway tunnel. The lines look like hundreds of tire tracks. Logan shakes his head with a sly smile
"That's the entrance" His hand finds Rogues gloved hand and she looks at him, smiling softly. He knows that she's scared. But she won't show it.
Jean changes the map once again -- it turns crystal blue with varying degrees of white and blue, water activity. The entrance tunnel and spillway are all deep blue.
"This shows the depth of the ice that covers the ground, water activity"
"If we all go in here, he could flood the spillway" Storm reasoned "can you teleport inside?"
Nightcrawler looks at his feet and shakes his head softly
"I have to be able to see where I'm going, otherwise I could wind up inside a wall"
A sound is heard from the radio, while Jean had been explaining all the things, Mystique had already left and gotten into the base.
Magneto, Logan, Jean, Storm and Nightcrawler stand high above the spillway corridor. Magneto smiles proudly
"She's good" Rogue admits
"You have no idea" Magneto said softly but very convincing
"Are you sure about this?" Rogue's holding Logan's hand, looking at him unsure. He looks confused at her.
"About what"
"Me going in there with you..."
"I'm sure...just stick close to me alright?"
Marie nods, happy to know that Logan trusts her
Vincent is with Stryker. Standing outside the door while Mystique is inside with the control panel, looking to open the door to make sure the rest of the group can enter the base.
"So what are we going to do now?"
"Get some explosives, I want this door open immediately. "
Stryker walks away; Vincent follows him but stops in the middle of the way. Deathstrike joins them but Vincent doesn't continue walking with them. His eyes change colour again and he looks around confused.
Stryker sees this and drops some liquid in his neck, making his eye colour change again in the colour grey, he smiles at his nephew and the three of them continue their path.
Mystique watches the Xmen on a monitor coming down a hallway. She pushes a button and the monitor switches to a map of the base. She looks to the door -- it begins to crack with the pressure as the machine continues to rip through its layers. Not much time...
She looks around, there's nowhere to go
The entire door is being ripped of, the machine scattered on the ground, destroyed, revealing Magneto and the Xmen. Behind them are two guards, guns floating in the air, pointing to their heads. Magneto steps over the mangled remnant of the machine.
He turns back to the guards and they run off, their rifles turning to follow them. The guns drop. The Xmen listen as a deep throbbing hum fills the room
"What's that sound?" Storm asks
"It's Cerebro. The professor is close"
Magneto looks at Mystique
"Have you found it?" Mystique nods, eyeing a power grid "a large portion of the energy comes from the dam has been diverted...to this chamber"
They are all staring at the grid...All but Logan and Rogue. They're to busy staring at another monitor, which shows Stryker, Vincent and Deathstrike quickly walking through a corridor
"Come. We have little time" Magneto begins to walk to the door but Jean stops him and Mystique
"Not without us"
Mystique's eyes travel to the image of the children on a monitor. Storm looks at the monitor worried
"It's the children. I'll get them. Kurt, will you come with me?" Kurt nods, Jean glances around the room, realizes...
"Wait. Where are Logan and Rogue?"
"Logan's gone after his own prize. Rogue followed him of course. There's no time to wait for them." Tells Magneto impatiently
They begin to leave the control room. Storms eyes Magneto cautiously, turns to Jean.
"I'll be alright " She looks into Storms eyes, seeing worry "…take the kids through the spillway, and meet us at the jet"
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