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Chapter 11

"Callisto." Magneto jerked his head towards Toad, who was standing impassively nearby, "Sort him out, I don't want any incidents once we attack the school."

The mutant nodded, rose, and went over to Mort. He barely reacted as she grabbed his head and pulled it forwards to expose the back of his neck. A slight hissing sound, and then Callisto released him. "Ready."

Magneto quirked a sardonic smile, "I knew humans were good for some things. Is everyone prepared?" There was a murmur of assent from many people out of the darkness, "Then go. Bring as many in alive as you can."

Chaos stepped out of Logan's room, and walked calmly down the hallway that would eventually take her to the entrance hall and the grounds. Kids were running everywhere, being ushered by teachers and older mutants to the passage that had been used but half an hour previous. A guy ran past her, but then skidded to a halt. A girl collided with him, and fell right through. It was Pete and Kitty, "Imy? When did you get back?"

Imogen turned cold silver eyes on the young mutants, the moonlight from the window playing over her almost shimmering form. Kitty took an involuntary step back as Chaos hissed in an inhuman voice of almost demonic quality, "Move."

"What-" Peter was cut off. In a blast of telekinetic energy, the pair were smashed into the wall, Peter's metallic body making huge fissures appear in the plaster. Chaos blinked down on them for a second, before moving on with an eerie grace. The children had fallen silent in terror, and moved out of her way in an almost automatic manner.

"Something's wrong." Jean swayed slightly into her boyfriend.

"Jean? What is it?" Xavier asked.

"Someone's moving the Earth…" Before Scott could respond, Jean's eyes rolled back into her head, and she had collapsed.

Reflux, who had been with them, turned even paler, "Shit, not again. I really need to learn to keep my mouth shut."

Xavier frowned, "What do you mean 'again'?"

"You know the whole thing last week with Magneto? Well, Chaos was on the other side. That's what she said, before she fainted in our refuge, she said that the Earth would move for her. It was chilling; I've never seen a mutant look like that before. And last time, she did it for Toad."

"And now we've told her that Mortimer has abandoned her…"

Reflux swallowed, "We are so screwed."

Scott shook his head, "Why Jean? What's wrong with her?"

"Jean is a class 5 mutant, and I'm beginning to believe Imogen is too. She likely decided to neutralise her only opposition. She's on her own side now."

A window smashed as a mutant dived through, belching ash and fire at a small boy. Bobby skidded, grabbing him before the heat could touch him, and quickly sent sub-zero temperatures right back at the invader. "Daniel! Come on! You should have gone with Storm!"

"Bobby! Look out!" Jubilee yelled from behind him, giving him just enough time to duck as she sent a flurry of electricity over his head at a slimy fluorescent mutant who was hanging from a light. Rogue and Pyro came running from the opposite direction, two other small children in tow, "We've got Mary and Rahne. You got Daniel?"

"Yeah. That's all of them. We need to go, now!"

"Why?" A voice from behind the group made Bobby, Pyro and Jube turn and ignite their powers, but not throw them.

Jubilee blinked, "Imogen?"

"I am Chaos." The three small children shrank back into the teenagers as her voice reverberated within the halls.

Bobby's voice shook slightly as he moved to half cover Rogue and Rahne with his body, "Uh, okay. Chaos, what is going on?"

Her silver eyes regarded them for a moment, before replying, "I am going to destroy it."

"What?"

She smiled reassuringly, her eyes darkening and swirling as if the universe gathered there, "Everything."

"Oh god-" Bobby began walking backwards, forcing the others to do the same in the confines of the small corridor. Energy began to build in Chaos' palms, "Run!"

Chaos rolled her eyes, allowing the energy to dwindle to a glimmer as the small group ran around the corner. She would deal with them later; for now they were inconsequential. First there was Magneto, Xavier, and the betrayer Toad. As soon as they were dealt with, she would awaken her sister, and the Phoenix would rise to meet her.

Reflux dived out of the way before he could be crushed. He hated fighting, he'd never really done it, preferring to ignore the troubles and just get on with his life, but now he had no choice. The Brotherhood vastly outnumbered the X Men, and they needed all the help they could get. For some reason, he felt as if all this was his fault. Everything, Imogen's imbalance, Magneto's obsession, all eventually led back to Toad, and thus, Reflux. He had never been a particularly angry or violent person, but right now, he felt as if the only solution to this was to stop Toad; something he should have done years ago, but was too scared to do so.

The Juggernaut wheeled around, "Stop moving you blue haired prat!"

Reflux turned, breathing hard. Although he was comfortable in his mutation, he really didn't feel like testing out against this guy. He'd probably get flattened. "Sorry to be a bother!" He was caught off guard as a blast of fire came from his right, catching his attention from the mutant in front, who had started his charge. "Shit!" He flung his arms up in a defensive gesture, and felt the heat scorch his clothes as the fire was rebounded back without any control or direction, hitting anyone and everything. And then he was flying. Through the air, until he hit a tree and fell to the ground. His chest felt like it was trying to explode and contract and the same time, and he found himself spitting out way too much blood. He had been right, the Juggernaut was more powerful; he was lucky to have survived with his neck intact.

Reflux found himself on the edge of the grounds, having been propelled far away from the fighting. The scene was utter carnage. From the school, teenagers were running, still in their nightclothes, to help their teachers. A blur of white came from one, freezing a nearby mutant, while another seemed to crackle with a blue energy. They seemed to be trying to get to Logan, who was the closest. Reflux frowned. He had been around mutants for long enough, sometimes even helping in counselling those who came for refuge, and he knew movements like that. They was scared shitless, but not what they were running into, it was from something they were running from.

A whistling reached Reflux, making the branches and the leaves above him quiver. It rose in pitch, melding with the sounds of destruction from the battle, rising in a cacophony that seemed to swirl around each mutant like a poisonous cocoon. And then the whole front of the mansion exploded outwards in a spray of glass, rubble and shrapnel that flew at the fighting before slowing in mid air, and begin to collect and swirl in a tornado of ruin. It collected and rose, spinning faster and faster, causing most of the fighting to stop in wonder and terror. Everyone began backing away, out of range of the tornado, and then it all fell to the ground, as if the gravity of the Earth had taken back its control. Silence reigned, and for a moment no one spoke in the still night air. Until Xavier spoke, his voice carrying over the heads of all gathered, "I hope you are happy now, Eric. You have no idea what you have unleashed."

Reflux stood painfully, walking slowly down the lawn. He watched, with all the others, as a young woman of slight build stepped lightly out onto the fallen rubble, her bare toes curling around the stone with her movements. A light breeze caught up some dust, causing it to create patterns around her legs. Black hair to her waist, streaked with spun silver, and eyes of white gold. A fallen angel. An angel of Chaos, who had obliterated the runaway girl. She smiled coldly, addressing Magneto, "You wanted a war. A war between mutants, humans, and those in between."

The old mutant stepped forwards, "Yes, my dear, I did. And I believe that you could be paramount to our cause."

"Yes." Chaos murmured, "But it is my war now."

To Be Continued…

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