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Alex walked down the hallway to the Danger Room where he found a bunch of students sitting on their beds talking to each other. To the left side was the teacher's area. Ororo and Kurt were the only ones there and were talking.
'Just got to get this over with and get out of here.' He thought to himself as he made his way over. He glanced over at Bobby and Lorna sitting on her bed cuddling. He began to feel jealous again. Alex couldn't understand why she would ever choose Bobby over him.
'You'll thank me later, Lorna.' Alex thought as he stood in front of Kurt and Ororo.
"May ve help you?" Kurt asked as he tilted his head to the side.
"Yeah, I just came from the lab. Hank says he wants to see you right away, Miss. Munroe. He says it is urgent." The blonde haired mutant told the couple.
Ororo's eyes lite up when she heard. She had just gone to the Med. Lab for the usual check up a month ago. 'I hope he did not find anything wrong.' She thought to herself as she stood up. "Thank you, Alex." She smiled and turned to Kurt. "We'll discuss the rest of this later?" She asked him.
"Of course." Kurt nodded. His tail swung back and forth as he watched her leave. The blue mutant looked over at Alex and saw a small smirk on his face before he left. 'Dieses ist nicht recht.' He thought to himself and stood up. He had a bad feeling about all of this.
Xavier's Office
Scott sat at Xavier's desk staring at the wall. He couldn't believe how everything in his life was falling apart. The woman he loved more than life itself was possessed by some mad bird spirit that wanted revenge against the human race, the man who been the closest thing to a father was in a coma, and three teammates had been captured.
'Some leader I am.' He thought to himself as he grabbed the bottle of beer in front of him. Normally, he would not be reduced to this, but it was the only thing that helped a little bit. 'There has to be a way to get her back.' He thought and leaned back in the chair. 'I'd sell my soul just to see that happy glow in her eyes the day I met her.'He added.
Cable walked into the room, not expecting anyone to be there. He had finally gotten rid of Domino, who kept annoying him. When he finally noticed Scott, he stopped. "Sorry, I didn't know anyone was in here." He apologized and was about to leave the room.
"No, it's alright. Have a seat." Scott told him and leaned forward to place the beer on the desk. Cable did as he was told. He looked at the depressed man across from him. He had never met him father, due to Scott being killed before Cable had grown up. He wondered at times what he was really like.
"I am sorry about your wife." Cable said as he avoided eye contact with Scott, who was staring at him.
"I can't believe I let this happy. I finally got her back and now I've lost her again." Scott ran a hand through his hair. For once, he had been happy he had to wear sunglasses to hide his eyes. If anyone were to see them at the moment, they would have been filled with tears.
Cable shifted uncomfortable. He didn't know if things could be changed with what happened to Jean. It had just hit that if he succeeds in his mission, he would most likely not exist. That was unless Jean died and was cloned into his mother. "You're from the future, right?" Scott asked him, breaking the white-haired man's thoughts.
"That is correct." Cable replied and continued to look away.
"What happens to us? Me and Jean?" Scott asked him.
"I can not tell you." Cable responded and finally looked at Scott.
"Tell me what the hell is going to happen! Is there a chance I can get her back?" Scott demanded and slammed his fist into the desk.
Cabled sighed. He knew he shouldn't tell, but Scott had a right to know. "From what I know, when the X-Men were massacred only a few got out. The Phoenix had wanted to destroy them, but arrived only after the massacre. Apparently, Jean's emotions affected the Phoenix and it began to feel sad as Jean did. She thought you were killed and wanted to die with you. The Phoenix started to remember its main purpose. It was supposed to help people, not destroy them. It let Jean die in peace, but it still felt bad for all the damage it had caused." He paused for a moment, unsure if he should tell Scott the other part.
"Oh god." Scott buried his face in his hands. 'I can't lose her again.' He thought. "What else happened?" He asked.
Cable sighed. He knew Scott was not going to like this next part. "When Jean died, the Phoenix burned her body after she died. It however, did not destroy all of it." He hesitated before he continued. "It saved the child she is carrying."
Scott stared at Cable with a blank face. "She is pregnant?" His hands began to shake. 'Oh my god.' He thought.
"Yes." Cable answered and decided to stop there. He had already said too much.
Med. Lab
"Hello Hank." Ororo greeted the blue furry mutant as she entered the lab. "You requested to see me?" She asked.
"Yes, please take a seat." Dark Beast motioned towards the medical beds.
"Is there something wrong?" She asked him curiously.
"Yes, I am afraid. When the mansion had been destroyed, your files were in my room at the time along with several others. I need to redo the tests to make sure that you are in perfect health." He responded to her and picked up his clipboard with papers attached to it.
"Alright." Ororo said and glanced over at the unconscious Professor. She had talked to Scott earlier and found out what had happened to their mentor. 'May the Goddess watch and protect him.' She thought and turned her attention back towards McCoy.
Cells
X-23 opened the door to the cell area. She looked at the two prisons holding her friend and boyfriend. "What the hell do you want?" John growled as he glared at X-23. She didn't take it personally what he said. He was depressed that his girlfriend got kidnaped and there is nothing he can do about.
"I came to talk to Pie." She snarled at him, making him be quiet. However, he continued to glare at her which she really didn't care. "Hey Pie." X-23 said as she stood in front of her boyfriend's cell.
"Leave me alone, X." Pietro whispered.
"No." She replied and let down the energy bars separating them. She knew she could kick his ass if he tried to escape, and at the moment he was too depressed to think of escaping. "I came to talk and you're going to listen.
Pietro didn't say anything. He just stayed huddled in the corner with his arms wrapped around his knees. X-23 sat down next to him and looked at him. He was shaking. "I know you are really upset about Wanda. We all are. But you are not helping her or us if you sit here and act like this. We're never going to get her back if you continue on this way." She growled at him.
Pietro closed his eyes and turned the other way. "I can't without her." He whispered. "We've been together since we were little. Even when our father left us with an adopted family when we were two years old. They wanted to split us up years later, but we refused."
"And we can get her back, if you help us." X repeated as she placed a comforting hand on his shoulder. He turned to look at her, his eyes all red and puffy from crying.
"I don't want to lose her again. What if they have killed her?" He asked.
"Then we beat the shit out of this Apocalypse guy until there is nothing left of him. From what that guy with the cyborg eye said, he needs them. So he wouldn't kill them." X-23 responded. She hated this. This was not what she did. She isn't the comforting type. She is the if-it-causes-trouble-kill-it-type. "I know it's hard for you, but you guys aren't the only ones upset right now."
"Yeah, Scott is upset because his wife got possessed, but at least they will get her back." John grumbled from his cell.
X-23 growled and glared over at John. She unsheathed her two claws and pointed them at him. "You interrupt me again, you'll be sorry." She growled. "And no, not just Scott. Rogue is upset because the same thing happened to Gambit." She told them. "Also, I feel the same way because of Logan, but I don't pout about it. Sure, I wish I had gotten to know him since he was the closest thing I had to a dad." She said.
John bowed his head in his cell. He knew X-23 was right. He couldn't just sit in here and be pissed off at the world. He had to help the others get his Wanda back. "You're right." John whispered.
"What about you?" X-23 nudged Pietro. "Are you going to help us?" She asked. He slowly nodded his head.
"Yeah." He whispered and slowly got up. Pietro's back had been stiff from sitting against the cold cement wall and his legs ached from it.
"Good to see you finally got some sense knocked into you." X-23 gave a small smile and walked out of his cell and towards the button to release John. "I swear, if you try anything, you'll regret it." She warned him.
"I'm not." He told her and she finally pushed the button shut the energized bars down. 'I gotta help her.' He thought to himself and then remembered what X had said earlier. 'Maybe see how Rogue is doing also.' He added.
War Room
Rogue jerked back away from Joseph and wiped her mouth. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!" She shouted and got out of her chair.
Joseph looked at her confused. "I thought you wanted this." He told her and got out of his own chair.
"What the hell gave ya that idea?" She demanded and her hands made fists.
"The fact you always come to talk to me." He said and rested a hand on her shoulder. "Besides, we can touch. It's not like you can really do that with Gambit." Joseph stated. Rogue gently placed her hand on top of his and looked at him.
"Ah came to talk to you as a friend, nothing more." She then crushed his hand with hers, hearing a loud cracking sound. "And for your information, Ah'd rather not be able ta touch a man Ah love with all mah heart than settle for someone just because Ah can touch them." Rogue told him and let go of his broken hand.
Joseph cradled his injured hand with his other. "And if ya ever come near meh and try a stunt like that, it'll be more than just your hand that gets crushed." Rogue threatened him before she turned her back on him and left.
'A little set back from the plan. Oh well.' Joseph thought to himself as he watched her leave. 'I can leave here soon anyways. As soon as Magneto gives me the okay. She's going to wish she picked me. Why the hell she wants to be with losers is beyond-' He thought when he felt something stab him in the leg. "Ow, what the hell." He growled and looked down at an angry Sarah.
"You stay away from Rogue!" She shouted at the white-haired man.
Joseph heard a hiss and saw Dirge by her feet. "Stormy had told me earlier Remy will be coming back and I believe her." Sarah yelled at him. "If you go near his girlfriend again, I'll send Dirge after you and he is a mean kitty when he wants to be!" She told him and picked the cat up and left.
"That's it. I'm going to contact Magneto tonight." Joseph stated as he pulled out a bone spike from his leg with his good hand.
Med. Lab
Ororo closed her eyes. Dark Beast had lied to her about getting a flu shot and instead gave her a sedative. "This was too easy." He smiled evilly. By now, Alex would have gone outside for the awaiting portal to take him to the pyramid. Now all Dark Beast had to do was get Storm out of the mansion without making a sound.
He lifted her in his large arms and turned around to see Kurt standing there.
"Vas are you doing vith my girlfriend?" Kurt glared at him.
"None of your business." Dark Beast bared his fangs at the other blue mutant. So much for his plan of escaping without being noticed.
"Put her down." Nightcrawler took a step forward.
"Apocalypse has need for her. She will serve a better purpose as one of his horsemen." Dark Beast snarled. He was not going to face Stryfe's wraith for not bringing him one of the chosen people.
"You leave me vith no choice, my friend." Kurt said and bamfed out of sight, only leaving a the air with blue smoke. He reappeared behind Dark Beast and kicked him in the leg, sending the imposter to one knee. "Vho are you?" Nightcrawler asked. He knew this was not Beast the instant he admitted working for Apocalypse. There was no way the real Hank McCoy would ever work for a mad man.
"You'll find out in due time." Dark Beast snarled. He placed Storm down on the bed and turned his attention to Kurt. There was only one way to get out of here and that was to knock Nightcrawler out. He lunged at Kurt, but the blue tattooed mutant back flipped out of the way and bamfed on top of Dark Beast.
Dark Beast growled and flipped Nightcrawler off of him and onto the hard floor. He slammed his foot into where Kurt's head would have been if he hadn't rolled out of the way.
"What's going on here?" Warren, Betsy, Pete Wisdom, Colossus, and ShadowCat ran into the room.
Dark Beast glared over at Storm, who was now being guarded by Nightcrawler. There was only one thing he could do and that was to get out of the mansion before they attacked and killed him. 'I'll come back later.' He thought and fled the room before Nightcrawler could tell the others that Dark Beast was not Beast.
He heard shouting behind him and knew they were on their way to attack him. He saw Bobby and Lorna coming from the upstairs and grinned to himself. 'At least I won't go back empty handed.' He thought.
As Dark Beast ran towards the couple, who finally saw him, he grabbed Lorna by the collar of her shirt and dragged her with him. "Lorna!" Iceman shouted and ran up the steps after his girlfriend and once friend.
As soon as he reached the top of the steps he found no one where. It was as if they had disappeared into thin air. Bobby fell to his knees and shouted. 'LORNA!"
Egypt
A portal appeared in the hallway of the pyramid and Dark Beast emerged with a struggling Lorna. "Let me go. What the hell is wrong with you?" She screamed as Stryfe approached them.
"Silence." He shouted and knocked her out with his telepathic powers. Polaris fell limp in Dark Beast's arms.
"You said you wanted either the white or green haired woman. They stopped me from taking the other." Dark Beast explained.
"Put her down." Stryfe ordered as Dark Beast laid Lorna on the cold cement floor and backed away. Stryfe held a small ball of blue light in his hand and released it at Lorna. "Finally, we have all the horsemen. Now Apocalypse will be set free." He smiled as Lorna's body disappeared.
End of Chapter 9
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Next Chapter: Rise of Apocalypse - yep, he is finally free after all this time. How is Bobby going to take Lorna's disappearance? What will Rogue find that will shock her? What happens when Gayle gets in Jubes face? Find out next chapter :) (yep, I've had a lot of coffee today!)