Chapter 5 - Help

As they got outside, they suddenly found themselves surrounded by police officers all of them aiming their guns at them. At seeing this, everyone froze, though John grabbed Ashlyn's hand, moving so he was slightly in front of her, though Logan remained in front of them all, his claws unsheathed.

"Drop the knives and put your hands in the air."

They all looked to their right and saw an officer stood on that side of the veranda, a gun aiming straight for Logan, though both Bobbie and John soon noticed that another officer stood on the other side.

"What's going on here?" Logan asked and everyone looked back at Bobby as he spoke.

"Ronnie..." Bobby sighed; he knew his brother had been the one to call the police.

"I said drop the knives." The officer repeated, getting ready to fire his gun.

Everyone tensed and Ashlyn gripped John's hand tighter as they heard a scream come from Bobby's mother who was still inside the house. As they all looked back at the police officers that surrounded them, Ashlyn and Logan felt the rest of the group's eyes on them.

"This is just a misunderstanding." Logan tried to tell them, obviously hoping to avoid anything going wrong.

"Just put the knives down." The man told him once more, to which Logan simply looked at him.

"I can't." He told him in a matter-of-fact tone, and everyone saw the fear in the man's eyes as what Logan had said began to register. "Look..." Logan told him as he lifted up his hand, but that didn't go well as Logan hit the ground as the gun went off and it was accompanied by Rogue's scream as they found Logan with a bullet now stuck in his forehead.

The man himself seemed to be in shock by what he had done, and he looked at them. "Alright, the rest of you on the ground now." He held his gun up at them, trying to look threatening.

Ashlyn, Bobby and Rogue were all too eager to comply with the orders, but John wasn't and Ashlyn knew that.

"John, come on, just do as they say, please." Ashlyn pleaded, though John ignored her.

"Look kid, I said on the ground." The man ordered again.

"We don't want to hurt you kid." The other officer told him.

Ashlyn watched John carefully and she noticed that he was messing with his lighter. "You know all of those dangerous mutants that you hear about on the news?" He asked them, suddenly liking his lighter open. "I'm the worst one." As he said it, his hand suddenly ignited his hands and he began shooting fireballs at the officers, though each fireball he shot, Ashlyn tried to counteract it with a shield but it didn't work.

"John, stop it." Ashlyn shouted, getting to her feet, though as she got to her feet, some officers who hadn't been attacked by the flames tried to shoot her, though the bullets were deflected by her shield, John saw and this amplified his anger as he turned his fire on them. Yet, this time, it didn't last for long, before John started to choke and as he fell to his knees, Ashlyn saw Rogue shutting down all of the fires, she only breathed sigh of relief as she watched Rogue let go of John's ankle and as Logan stood up, the bullet now sitting idly on the floor.

As Logan got to his feet, there was a great surge of wind that almost blew them backwards but they didn't mind, especially when they saw the X-Jet landing in front of the house. At taking a hint from Logan, the teens ran towards the jet, dodging the groaning and slightly disorientated beings that were all recovering from John's attack. As she got to the jet, Rogue noticed that Bobby hadn't followed and she looked back to find him looking back at his house to the window where his parents and brother were stood watching them leave.

"Bobby, come on." Rogue shouted and he took the hint, running towards the jet and climbing into it along with her. As he sat himself down, he ignored the blue person that was sat on the opposite side, twiddling with what looked like a crucifix. However, Ashlyn didn't.

"Who is this guy?" Logan asked.

"My name is Kurt Wagner, but in the Domunic circus, I was known as the Incredible-"The blue person told him, but was cut off by Logan.

"Yeah, save it." Logan told him. "Storm..."

"We're out of here." Storm told him and Ashlyn looked out of the window as they got into the air, though it didn't take long for the coms to crackle into life with an order.

"Unidentified aircraft, you have been ordered to descend to 20 thousand feet, return to our escort to Hans Come Airport Space, you have 10 seconds to comply."

The voice crackled, causing Storm to look back at those sitting in the back end of the jet. "Well, someone sounds angry."

"Yeah and I wonder why." Logan told her, looking directly at John, who simply gave him a smug look.

"We are coming alongside you to escort you to Hans Come Airport Space, lower your altitude now."

Everyone looked at either side of the jet and they found two smaller fighter jets flying alongside them.

"I repeat, lower your altitude to 20 thousand feet, this is your last warning."

Once again everyone looked at the jets, before they moved to fly behind them and a sudden beeping noise sounded.

"They're marking us." Storm suddenly cried. "They're gonna fire, hold on!"

Before anyone could ask questions, the jet was suddenly turned around, so violently that both Rogue and Ashlyn screamed in surprise. As the jet continued to dip and dive, Logan continued o get annoyed.

"Don't we have any weapons in this heat?" He asked, and as a silent reply, storm clouds started to gather, and everyone watched as the jet moved easily through the mass of funnel clouds whilst the smaller jets suddenly found it troublesome. As the X-Jet got out of the storm, Storm looked back at Ashlyn.

"Ashlyn, I need you to put a shield around the jet."

"Storm, I've never done one like that before." Ashlyn told her, and she suddenly sounded scared.

"Ashlyn you've got to try." Jean told her and she watched as Ashlyn stood up and walked to the front of the jet standing in between Storm and Jean.

"Fine, but I'll need you to keep the weapons at bay." Ashlyn told them, before her hands suddenly became almost transparent with a mixture of blue, pink and purple running through them. As she put her hands on the dashboard, her whole body seemed to become the same condition as her hands and the jet gave a jolt as the same colours appeared in a bubble around the jet. However, her shield didn't cover the back of the jet as she suddenly fell to her knees, her hands still dashboard, just as there was on explosion and the back of the jet was ripped open. As the jet hurtled down towards the earth, Ashlyn couldn't hold up her shield anymore and she let it drop, and she was suddenly thrown forwards into the jt windscreen as the jet came to a sudden halt. As she looked out of the window, she saw Magneto stood on the ground with Mystique beside him and he was holding the jet suspended in midair and Ashlyn actually gave a smile of relief. For once, an enemy came to their aid, but as they would soon find out, that wasn't always the best option.