A New Age, A New Team
Chapter 31: A Cure Against Betrayal

Chaos stood in a nearby alley as Rashid's (Sonic) brown eyes stared at the heavily guarded warehouse before he turned back around to face his team. "That's it." He said coldly. "We need to get in there."

"How are we gonna do it?" Ashley (Rush) asked in his Texas accent.

Rashad turned around and looked at the facility for a moment and surveyed everything around it. "I've been watching it for a couple of days now. It's the night shift." He paused and looked back at his team. "Two guards in the two front towers, two guards at the gates, two at the doors themselves, and then there's only three scientist working inside on the night shift." He surveyed his team and then slowly nodded his head. "Aphrodite you're going to go out first and seduce the gate guards and get them to open the gates. Shocker I need you to take care of the tower guards, and Diamond and Rush take out the door guards. Once inside we're sending Miracle in by herself, in which Miracle I need you to kill the scientist."

Mary-Lynn glanced over at Natalie and then looked at Rashad, "But Rashad-"

"Sonic." Rashad corrected her.

"Sonic," She sighed. "What if there's guards inside. They'll kill Natalie, Ah mean Miracle." She said in her thick southern accent.

"There's no one else inside." Rashad reassured.

"But what if there is?"

"Risk we're taking."

Natalie's mouth fell open for a minute, "If you gamble me and lose me, you're screwed." She reminded him in her thick British accent.

Rashad turned and looked at Natalie for a minute, "I like to gamble, now quit bitching and let's go."

"Wait," Lucas said in his thick Scottish accent, "Why are we do this?"

Rashad turned around and looked at Lucas in annoyance, "Because these scientist are creating a "cure" for mutants. If we don't stop them, they'll destroy us all. Is that a good enough reason for you?"

The whole team fell silent as they felt their hearts sink in fear. A "cure" to erase all mutants. It had been rumored for years to be in development, but nothing had come of it. However, now they truly were threatened. For the first time in their lives, they were threatened in never existing as they did. Chaos looked around at one another as if it was the last time they would see one another. The moment played out in slow motion as they felt their hearts grow heavy at the thought of losing one another. The were the only family that any of them knew.

"Let's go," Rashad said softly as he looked around at the only family and friends he had ever had in his life. Ever since he ran away from his family and brother to become someone great, he had never known a family until Chaos was formed. "Darwin once stated that only the strong are meant to survive, and they'll survive through mutation," his brown eyes looked around at everyone, "let's fight for our kind to survive." Everyone looked around at each other for a moment and nodded to one another.

Aphrodite (Mary-Lynn) flipped her curled blonde hair over her shoulder and calmly walked towards the gate. Her clear stiletto heels clicked against the cement as she walked, which drew the guards attention. They both pointed their guns at her, but she confidently kept walking towards them. Her shredded sleeves, which faded from white to a deep purple, swayed from side to side with her until she stopped in front of the guards.

"This is a restricted area," one of the guards said as he steadied his gun.

Aphrodite sighed, as her body began to produce an undetectable alluring scent that began to seduce the two gate guards, "Ah'm here to see mah papa; he's a scientist here."

"No one is allowed in," the other guard said as he felt himself begin to feel a sense of euphoria as he looked upon Aphrodite.

"Please?" She asked sweetly as she released more pheromones to seduce the guards.

"Alright." One of them said as he held the button in his hand, "but only if you give us a thank you kiss."

Aphrodite smirked, "Ah don't think ya'd like mah to do that. Ah've been told mah kiss is deadly."

"We'll take that risk darling."

"If ya insist," She shrugged as she walked over to one of the guards and softly kissed his lips with her silky lips slowly before walking over to the other guard, who had pressed the button to open the gate. As the gate slowly began to open, the guards began to choke and grab at their throats. Their guns hit the ground as they both fell to their knees and Aphrodite stood in front of the open gate.

Shocker (Lucas), Rush (Ashley) and Diamond (Karen) all took off running towards Aphrodite as she stood there helpless, while Miracle (Natalie) and Sonic (Rashad) walked slowly behind the three running members, watching as the plan unfolded before their eyes. A spotlight from the watch towers searched the ground for Aphrodite as she felt her heart begin to race when the spot light settled on her, and yet nothing had happened. She heard the machine guns cock as the laser sights fell on her heart, while she stood there.

Diamond and Rush grabbed Aphrodite by the arms as they ran passed her and made her run along side of them, just as the machine guns echoed in the darkness of the night. Shocker walked up to the metal fence and wrapped his fingers are the intertwined bars. He closed his brown eyes and felt his body build, before he opened his eyes, which sent an electrical wave throughout the fence and up to the metal watch towers. He heard the gasping as the electrical impulses raged throughout the defenseless men's bodies before falling to the ground of the watch tower. He turned and walked towards the gate as it was closing to walk along side Sonic and Miracle.

Aphrodite fell behind Diamond and Rush to walk with the others as they all looked on as Diamond and Rush worked. Diamond looked over at Rush and nodded as his green eyes sparkled in delight. Rush put his palms against one another and then turned them outward towards the guards at the door. A wave of water manifested from his hands as looked as though a tidal wave appeared out of his hands. Diamond placed her hands on top of Rush's hand and closed her blue eyes. She felt her body manipulating some of the water particles into diamond shards that shot out with the water.

The loud crash of the wave against the steel metal door made everyone smirk, and then when the diamonds struck they all knew it was over then. Both Diamond and Rush closed their hands as the other member joined them by their side. Everyone glanced around at one another before they all turned and looked at Sonic and Miracle, who were slowly walking towards the steel door in which the guards bloody bodies were pinned to.

Sonic placed his hands against the steel door and looked over at Miracle. "The rest is up to you."

Miracle straightened her posture and nodded, "I know. I won't let you down." She said in her thick British accent.

Sonic nodded and looked back at the door. He felt his hands began to grow warm and then the door began to glow a brilliant red. In one quick movement, he pulled his hands off the door, balled them into a fist, and slammed them against the door, which made it explode. As the dust filled the large warehouse looking building, Miracle ran inside and searched frantically for the scientist. Her heart pounded as for the first time in her life she truly felt threatened by at virus.

From the shadows of the side of the warehouse, a man dressed in all black rose up from the darkness of the shadows. The dark pair of sunglasses slightly sparkled in the darkness as he walked towards a window and watched on as Chaos walked into the warehouse full of dust and debris.

Shadow Runner stood in the shadows as he watched his fellow teammates slaughter the innocent, unarmed scientists. His dark green eyes flinched from behind his dark sunglasses as he watched on. This isn't the work I wanted to be doing…

The large projection room was filled with the members of X², who were quietly talking amongst themselves.

"Why are we here?" Grace asked Sean as she leaned over towards him.

"I don't know." Sean shrugged as he tried to intertwine his fingers in hers, but she softly moved her hand away from his. He raised an eyebrow at her behavior, but decided that it wasn't the time to question it.

"There has to be something going on if there's been two alarms so close to one another," Jazmine said as she leaned over to Noah.

"It's probably Chaos again." Noah sighed in disgust as he looked around at everyone.

"Probably," Jazmine rolled her greenish-brown eyes.

Hiro quietly opened the large wooden doors to the projection room and his brown eyes caught sight of Linx, who was sitting next to Hecate whispering to each other, and then he sat down.

"Good," the mechanical voice of Cerebro echoed over the projection room, "you're all here." Everyone in the room settled down and began to whisper among themselves as quiet as possible.

"Why is Cerebro doing the briefing?" Grace asked Sean as she glanced out of the corner of her green eyes at him

"I don't know," he shrugged, "usually Jamal does it."

"Jamal is tending to Aurora." Seth said as he leaned forward to them.

"What happened?" Grace asked as she turned around.

"She collapsed." He sighed before leaning back.

"As you all may have guessed, there has been a break-in. You may have also guessed it was Chaos-" There were sighs among the students at the name of Chaos, "-Now, now. I know, I know. Anyway, I want you all to suit up and get out there. The car has been programmed where to go, so that Sean and Grace can debrief you all on the way there. Dismissed." Cerebro clicked off the speaker, to leave Sean in charge.

Sean stood up and turned to address everyone in the projection room, "Alright, you guys heard Cerebro," he said in his thick Australian accent, "suit up." His brown eyes looked out around at everyone as they got up to suit up for attack and sighed.

Everyone got up and began to file out of the projection room in order to go get ready. Noah held the door for everyone quietly as he watched everyone disappear through the large wooden doors. After everyone had walked out, he paused for a minute to look around as if someone was supposed to still walk out with him. Everyone could feel the difference when people weren't there, and with Sam, Aurora and Jamal not being there it was a big difference. Noah quietly turned and walked out of the projection room, and the large door quietly shut to the empty room.

In the dressing room everyone was at his or her lockers quickly changing in order to leave for the mission.

Sean glanced over at Grace as he finished zipping up the back of his uniform, which was a wetsuit that was all black except for the arms and legs, which were dark blue. Grace's fingers buckled the silver buckles to her mid-shin black boots before buckling her belt that had a X on the belt of her black bodysuit with orange flames going up the sleeves. She slid her hands through the dark brown leather fingerless gloves. Her green eyes glanced over at Sean before looking away and walking towards the garage.

Hecate pulled her long black trench coat of her black leather pants and dark violet tube top before buckling her thick black belt with a silver X on it onto her hip. She put one of her feet up on the bench that Linx was sitting on in order to strap up her black army boots. "What's wrong?"

Link looked up from fiddling with the red X buckle on her thick black belt, "I'm thinking of what Orion said."

Hecate violently tied off her army boot and sighed, "Who cares what he said? It's Orion after all. How reliable is he?"

Linx sighed and stood up to smooth out her black catsuit with a red X on the right breast side. "There was something in his tone Hecate. I know you sensed it like I did."

Hecate set her foot down, "Ignore it. The team needs us Linx." Seth finished pulling his black shirt over his body and glanced on at Linx and noticed her fiddling with her belt again. He quietly walked towards them. "Watch out. Here comes Seth again." Hecate whispered to Linx and walked away.

Linx looked up at Seth with her two different colored hazel eyes and softly smiled, "Hello Seth."

"You alright?"

"I'm fine."

Hiro glanced over at Link while Seth was talking to her with his brown eyes while he pulled his long red trench over his black tight shirt and loose-fitting black pants. He tore his eyes away from her and walked away, which made his knee-high boots clicked softly towards the garage.

"You seem upset."

"I have a feeling that I shouldn't be going. That's all." She sighed as she pushed her flipped out black hair with red highlights underneath behind her shoulder.

Seth softly placed a hand on Linx's shoulder, which made her look at it and then back into his blue eyes, "I won't let anything happen to you."

Link softly smiled, "I'm not afraid to die." She said comfortably. Her different colored hazel eyes looked around at her only family she's known and then nodded. But I am afraid of losing them. She quietly walked passed Seth towards the garage, as he soon followed behind her.

"Come on Dawn," Seth said as he walked passed Dawn.

"Coming," Dawn said as she tightened the silver armbands around her forearms and followed Seth out towards the garage. She was dressed in a black capris and a long-sleeved shirt with her shoulders showing. As she walked through the door she placed her mouth mask over her nose and mouth.

Jazmine slid smoothed her black mini skirt out before flipping her dark auburn hair with lighter brown highlights in it over in order to tie her black halter top around her neck. Her greenish-brown eyes glanced over at Gabe for a minute before following Dawn and Seth out of the dressing room. Her black knee-high boots echoed as she disappeared behind the door to the garage.

"Tonya let's go," Gabe said in his thick Georgia accent as he pulled his black fingerless gloves over his hands.

"I'm coming." Tonya said in her thick British accent as she rolled her green eyes. She buckled her blue belt with a X on it and then pulled her blue gloves over her hands.

Gabe rolled his black trench coat, with no sleeves, onto his shoulders so that it partially covered his white tight shirt with a black flame on it. His black hiking boots thumped against the ground as he straddled the bench near Tonya while he waited for her.

"You're so impatient." Tonya sighed while she straightened her black pants that strap around the bottom of her foot so that she could tie her blue ballet shoes on. The blue X on her right thigh of her pants stood out against the black fabric while she tied her shoes.

"You take too long."

"Done." She said as she smoothed her sleeveless turtle-neck over her stomach.

"Finally." Gabe sighed sarcastically.

"Shut up." Tonya said as she smacked Gabe's arm while they walked out.

The only people left in the dressing room was Noah and Lindsey. Noah quietly looked up at Sam's nametag on her locker as he buckled her dark green belt with a silver X on it onto his black pants. He pulled over a dark green wife beater and looked over at Lindsey, "You coming?"

Lindsey pulled her black tank top over her body and looked at Noah for a second, "Yeah. Are you leaving, or are you going to cry over Sam's locker a little more?" She smirked as she buttoned her black pants.

Noah gained his composure and glared at Lindsey for a minute. "I'll see you out there then." He turned and quietly walked out of the dressing room to leave Lindsey to tying her skater shoes onto her feet.

Once she heard the door to the dressing room swing shut she slowly stood up straight and stood in the silence. Perfect. She thought as she walked over to the phone and began to slowly dial.

"Hello?" There was a pause before she began to speak again, "It's me. Lindsey… Yes… Of course… I'm calling to warn you that X² is on it's way…" she let out a small chuckle, "Think nothing of it… See you soon, I guess… Goodbye." Lindsay smirked in her thick Australian accent as she set the phone down on it's receiver and walked out of the dressing room to join the others.