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The Mission of Hellfire

Chapter 7: The Perpetrators revealed

Cable was hesitant in leaving Soldier to fight a vastly stronger opponent. But he and Wolverine had a job to do, save the X-men. Logan shook his head as he got up off the floor, luckily he had metal bones and he hadn't landed on his head so nothing was broken. He turned to see Cable running out of the buildings main entrance, ignoring the stares from people around him.

"Where's Soldier?" Logan asked.

"Making sure the people in the offices get out, we need a car" Cable explained.

"I've already found one!" Logan grinned as his eyes turned to a black sports car that had been abandoned.

Inside the building, Soldier carried on a fierce fight with the upgraded Pierce. The masked man ran across the office, his rifle blazing as Pierce ran after him. Soldier rolled across the floor, avoiding a crushing punch from the metal man. Pierce grinned insanely as his left arm took shape into a knife blade. Soldier smashed Pierce across the head with his energy shield, and rolled back to avoid a slash from the millionaire. He changed his energy shield to its buzz saw mode and ran at Pierce, who slashed at the masked man horizontally. Soldier ducked under the swing, the blade only cut a few strands of his hair as he slashed Pierce across the chest with his saw. Pierce slashed Soldier across the shoulder and delivered a hard punch to his stomach. Soldier coughed as he fell to his hands and knees.

"You should have kept your comrades here" Pierce smirked as he thrust his blade forward.

Soldier quickly rolled to the side, the massive knife only cutting a bit of his back. He flipped to his feet, switching his saw back to shield mode. Pierce landed his fist right in the middle of the shield, sending Soldier flying into a wall, leaving a crack as he slammed into it. The masked man fired a grenade from his rifle, hitting Pierce dead on in the chest. But Pierce ran through the smoke, both his arms having taken the shape of maces. Soldier flipped back onto his feet, sidestepping to avoid Pierce's maces. He smashed his shield into Pierce's cheek, then flipped back to keep some distance between him.

'Bullets are ineffective, and he has the advantage in a hand to hand fight…explosives!' Soldier thought as he reloaded his grenade launcher.

He fired again and again at Pierce, practically consuming half the room in explosions. Pierce ran through the smoke, smashing his fist into Soldier's shield.

"Even if your friends make it to the club, they cant save the X-men!" Pierce growled.

"They won't need to be saved!" Soldier said defiantly as he threw Pierce back.

"Half of those people are teenagers, of course they'll break…I'm not surprised if they haven't already broken" Pierce grinned.

"I choose to have faith that they aren't as weak as you!"

"Weak, I joined the Hellfire Club to survive"

"Exactly, you were too weak and cowardly to say no"

"NO!!" Beast roared.

Emma growled as she had once again been thrown out of McCoy's mind. In fact ever since Lance and Kurt's escape attempt the spirits of the X-men and other mutants they had captured had only risen significantly. The White Queen cursed as she walked out of the cell, seeing some of the guards dragging in Josh Foley. Emma walked along the corridors of the dungeon, looking to her side, listening to the defiant yells or screams of pain from the remaining Brotherhood and X-men. She even smiled when she saw Rogue in chains, getting whipped by Selene for her defiance.

"Tell me dear…was it worth it?" Selene asked coldly.

"Yeah it was worth it!" Rogue said defiantly.

Selene snarled before backhanding the girl, knocking out at least two of her teeth. She lashed at Rogue's bare back with her whip. Emma walked on, though Shaw hadn't shown it, he too had become stressed because of the X-men's rising spirits. She sighed as she walked back up to the surface levels.

"Miss Frost, the new addition to the club has arrived" One of the guards said to the woman as she closed the door.

"Tell her someone will see her in a moment" Emma said, walking past the guard towards her room.

She entered her room, to see Scott, or rather Erik standing by her bed. Emma smiled before she walked up to the young man, placing her hands on his chest. Erik grasped her waste and fiercely kissed the woman he at least thought he loved. Emma wrapped her arms around Scott's neck, licking his mouth as he ran his hands over her chest. As Erik began kissing Emma's neck, the White Queen telepathically contacted some of the other Pawns.

"Ororo, Pietro, be dears and show our guest around"

Ororo and Pietro both obeyed as they walked down towards the main hall of the club. Today Shaw wasn't hosting any parties, so it gave them the perfect opportunity to give the newest addition the grand tour. She was only thirteen years old, the perfect age to influence her. The girl stood in the main hall, wearing her school uniform of a black skirt, white shirt with a green tie and green blazer, her red hair tied up in a bung.

"Miss Jones, I'm sorry but Miss Frost can not see you at the moment, but we'll be happy to show you around and tell you what the Mistress's academy of tomorrow can offer you" Pietro explained, putting on a friendly smile for the girl.

"Thank you sir, but please call me Angelica" The girl said humbly.

"Very well, then please refer to us as Mr Shaw and Miss Munroe if you would" Pietro said, this time his facial expression was sterner.

Angelica was almost taken aback by the white haired youths sudden change in attitude. But that wouldn't sway her, with the Xavier institute gone then Emma Frost was the only person who could help her. She followed Pietro and Ororo into the halls of the Hellfire Club, unaware of exactly what she was getting herself into. Shaw tapped his feet against his desk, his small way of relieving some of the stress he had bottled up. His phone ran and he made no hurry to answer it.

"Yes!" He said, not even bothering to put on the friendly tone he had put on so many times.

"The PM's are here for you sir!" The receptionist said on the other side of the phone.

"Very well, I will be there in a moment" Shaw said before slamming the phone down.

He pulled on the torch at the fireplace, and suddenly the floor and the fireplace rotated, taking Shaw to the staircase to another one of the clubs many underground complexes. Sebastian walked down the spiral staircase, the torches illuminating as he got further and further towards the bottom. Once he was at the bottom he adjusted his collar and put on a smile for the mercenaries waiting for him.

Amongst them was Deadpool, Gauntlet and Yuriko, along with the merc in the hockey mask. Since Pierce was occupied, Shaw had summoned other mercenaries, one of which was dressed in a blue and orange costume, the orange part on his chest baring scales like a snake. Beside him stood a man wearing a red turban and scarf, carrying a whip. Another in the room wore a mask designed after a skull, covered by a white cloak and hood, strapped to his back and waist were numerous weapons such as bows, pistols and even a sword.

"Senyaka, the Taskmaster and Constrictor" Shaw said as he walked into the room.

"Hey Shawy, let me ask a question…how come that guy over there never came with us for the pay?" Deadpool asked, pointing towards a lone merc standing away from the rest.

He leant against the wall with his arms crossed, wearing a dirty and torn green cloak and hood, his face covered by a pure black mask. Black fabric covered his chest and tight dirty and grey armour covered his legs. The armour also ran up his spine and covered his shoulders. His wrists and hands were also covered with the same dirty armour, with the armour on his wrists and knuckles shaped like diamonds pointing towards his elbows.

"Ah that merc, well he didn't ask for pay he volunteered, so who am I to question why?" Shaw asked.

"Fair enough!"

"Now I summoned you all here for a very different job of what your used to, you will each be paid five hundred million dollars, and I assure you that this job is guaranteed to carry low risk" Sebastian smiled as he explained to the gathered mercenaries what it was he wanted them to do.

As Wolverine and Cable drove away from the building, the latter used the communicator he had been given by Soldier.

"What news from the Sage?" Cable asked as he connected to S.H.I.E.L.D. command.

Maria Hill looked towards Fury, who nodded his head before he gave them the info that his mole had discovered.

"The Sage has discovered both the location and the name of the organisation that is responsible for the kidnapping and imprisoning of the X-men and Brotherhood…those responsible are known as the Hellfire Club, an organisation we have long suspected of numerous crimes involving mutants, slavery and prostitution and even offering new identities to several terrorists"

Cable and Wolverine listened intensively as Fury told them everything they needed to know. Logan almost lost control of the vehicle as he was so focused on remembering the faces of those who took his friends. Cable loaded his rifle and grasped it tightly.

"When I get there, I don't care if the kids are watching, I'll fucking kill those bastards!" Logan growled.

Cable paused for a moment before he answered coolly "You wont see me stopping you"

Soldier continued a brutal one-sided battle with Pierce. The liquid metal man punched Soldier across the face, leaving him in a daze with cracked lenses. He bought his energy shield up and blocked a slash from the Hellfire pawn. Suddenly Soldier's energy shield disappeared and the device on his wrist sparked.

"Out of energy are we?" Pierce asked cockily.

Pierce punched Soldier straight in the stomach, sending him flying into the door of the elevator. Soldier struggled to get up off the floor, Pierce walked towards him slowly. The masked man reached into his pack, removing one of his grenades. He slowly got up off the floor; his vision becoming blurry as Pierce suddenly appeared in front of him. Pierce pulled his fist back and tried to punch Soldier in the face. But the masked man tilted his head to the side and instead Pierce knocked the elevator door off.

Soldier then dropped to the floor and hocked onto Pierce's groin with his foot. He rolled backwards, throwing Pierce down the elevator hatch. Soldier then jumped down the hatch, holding the elevator wire to slow his fall. He felt the friction burn his hand, but he still held on. The man had a plan and he was sticking to it. Pierce had slammed into the elevator on the bottom floor; despite his metal skin he still felt the pain of a twenty-story fall. He was dazed and this gave Soldier the perfect opportunity. Soldier landed on Pierce's back, and pulled the pin on his grenade, he left the grenade beside Pierce's head and jumped into the elevator, quickly pressing the button to open the door.

The ground floor was deserted and that was exactly what Soldier was counting on as he ran away from the elevator. It wasn't an ordinary grenade he had dropped, it was an incendiary grenade. Pierce regained his composure just as the grenade's delay time had gone. He was consumed in a massive explosion that ran up the elevator hatch and through into the office department. Soldier panted as he looked at the fires inside the hatch. His composure remained calm, even as Pierce walked through the flames. Not even a look of astonishment crossed Soldier's face, the magnificent explosion had melted through tank armour before, but this cyborg hadn't suffered a dent.

Pierce's metal form was red hot from the explosion. That was the only sign of the affect the explosion had on him. Every step he took left a burn print on the floor as he approached Soldier.

"You pathetic human…ONCE I'VE KILLED YOU I'LL KILL SHAW AND THEN EVERYTHING WILL BE MINE!!!" Pierce yelled as he broke off into hysterical laughter.

Donald, noticing that Soldier obviously didn't care about his plans glared at the masked man. He grabbed his arm and Soldier yelled in agony as the heat burned through his suit, leaving a bloodied burn mark on his arm. Pierce tried to grab Soldier, but he quickly rolled to the side and walked towards the fire alarm.

"You fool, your obviously cant use your right arm and your left hand is already bruised and burned…your only affective weapons are gone and no matter what explosive you use you cant stop me" Pierce said, his expression hysterically happy.

Soldier felt his knees shake, but he didn't collapse. He kept walking towards the alarm, his eyes focused on the equipment beside it.

"Just what did you hope to gain by setting my building on fire, it's done nothing for you but make things worse"

"Tell me Pierce are you familiar with the process of shaping metal?" Soldier asked.

A confused expression crossed Pierce's face. Why would the masked man ask him a question like that? Of course he knew that when water was applied to a hot piece of metal it would become solid. Then it occurred to him, but he realised Soldier's plan too late. The smoke detectors detected the smoke from the flames and the sprinklers activated soon after.

"SHIT!!" Pierce yelled as steam rose from his steel form.

Soldier unravelled the hose and aimed it at Pierce. He turned the tap and a stream of water shot out of the pipe slamming into Pierce. Pierce yelled out as he felt his metal form cool down. He tried to move his legs, but they were now solid as a statue. Pierce thrashed his arm around slowly before they too froze. Eventually his whole body froze, but he still had enough time to curse his opponent before his mouth and head completely froze.

"CURSE YOU SOLDIER I'LL BE BACK! MACHINES WILL RULE!!!" He had yelled before his body became nothing more than a statue.

Soldier turned the hose off and dropped it to the floor. He walked out of the office building, ignoring the screeches of the fire trucks and police vehicles. The masked man looked towards an abandoned black motorcycle and immediately knew what he had to do. He climbed onto the bike and used a one use skeleton key he had been given by Fury to start the engine.

"X-men…I'm coming so hold on…keeping saying no!"

"No!" Sunspot growled.

Selene licked Roberto across the face as he was hung by his wrists; his shirt ripped revealing scratches and burns on his chest.

"Are you sure darling, you could become great if you join the club you know" She said, running her hands along his chest.

"Fuck you bitch!" Roberto whispered.

"Oh so rude, I wonder whether you'll b so rude in my bed, what do you say boy, not only could you become a king…but you could become my king"

For a moment Roberto hesitated before a smirk spread across his face. Selene, for the briefest of moment's thought that he was giving in.

"Your offers tempting, but my answer is still fuck you!" Roberto said coolly, but with defiance in his eyes.

"Keep your morals X-men, your heroes…so keep your morals and never give them up" Soldier said as he rode on, police cars following close behind.

"No!" Bobby whispered.

"Are you sure Bobby, you could be so much more than what you are now" Xavier said kindly to him.

Bobby wasn't weak minded, if anything his mind was stronger than most people thought. Emma Frost continued to raid his mind disguised as his teacher.

"Firstly, I don't want to explore my powers like this and secondly, the Professor never calls me Bobby!" Iceman smirked as Xavier was replaced with Frost.

"Why do you carry on, it's only a matter of time before the rest of your friends give in" Emma said, her voice low but deadly serious.

"I carry on because I want to, because I don't want to be like you…I want to explore my powers but on my terms" Bobby explained.

"You could be something so much better than what you are, living a pathetic fools dream" Emma scoffed.

"It's not pathetic, it's an existence that's worth living…I agree that I could be so much more than what I am now, that's what all my teachers tell me and I want to be better…I want to be a hero!" Bobby said with a smile on his face. "Do you know what a hero is you ignorant bitch?"

"Heroism…its one of the best things in this world, an action that benefits the moment, saving a life, a country, a world…inspiring others, so that they aspire to be something better" Soldier looked on ahead as he hit the open road and kicked his engines to a higher gear.

The Police cars sped up in pursuit of the man that caused extensive damage to the Pierce industries building. Soldier drew his gun blade and dropped his speed until he was in between the two pursuing cars. Before the drivers could react, Soldier slashed their front tires. He then lowered his speed a bit more as the front edges of the police cars slammed into one another. Soldier then accelerated, driving around the cars that grinded against one another.

"No!" Mystique whispered.

Though the shape shifter was drugged and paralysed she still didn't give up in her mind. Even though Sinister had requested a sex slave he was too engrossed in his research to pay attention to Raven. For a moment Mystique took the time to think of her children and had to smile, for she had faith that they wouldn't break either.

"Making sacrifices for a greater good…yet doing your best so that you don't have to make sacrifices" Soldier whispered as at least three more police cars pursued him.

He reached into his pack and removed another grenade. Soldier pulled the pin and dropped it. The grenade rolled across the floor and once the delay had been passed the grenade shattered. It wasn't an explosive, but a trap that would release sharp pieces of shrapnel. The cars drove over the shrapnel, which pierced through their tires. Soldier drove on, ignoring the police cars crashing into one another.

"As you see the academy will give you not only access to the greatest minds and scientists on the plant but you will also be given the best education in not only the business world but also in control of you powers, allow me to introduce you to your key instructor" Ororo explained as she and Pietro were just closing the tour.

Angelica almost dropped to her knees when she met her instructor, a young Japanese man wearing similar clothing to what all the Hellfire clubmen wore, though his was slightly modified to fit his Japanese culture, his hair was instead tied up in a topknot while he was missing the frill collar and his shoes were replaced with sandals and loose black trouser robes. Angelica could tell that he was attractive, even with his stoic demeanour and the strange white mask covering his eyes and forehead.

"This is Shiro Yoshida, a representative of the club in Japan, he also possesses similar abilities to yours and is the one most qualified to teach you" Pietro said.

"Well I'll look forward to getting to know him in the future" Angelica said.

"So does this mean that you will accept Miss Frost's offer?" Ororo asked.

"Yes of course…after all with the Xavier institute gone who else can help me, in fact I think I like this place better than Bayville"

"Very well Miss Jones…you, please escort miss Jones out of the building and tell her what to do when her parents have decided" Pietro ordered one of the masked guards, who nodded his head as he guided Angelica down the stairs.

As the guard walked Angelica to the door he couldn't help but look at her. She must have been fifteen years old tops but here she was, accepting help from the Hellfire Club. But she didn't know what they really got up to, what really happened at the Massachusetts academy. He opened the door, letting her walk out first before following.

"Doing the right thing, despite the danger!" Soldier said as he drove on, even with the roadblock in front of him.

He reached into his pack and removed another grenade as he stopped the bike. The police and SWAT teams aimed their rifles and pistols at Soldier, yelling at him to get on the ground. Soldier dropped the grenade and kicked it towards the police squad. Gas suddenly sprayed out of the top of the grenade and every single officer that inhaled the gas fell to the ground.

Soldier picked up the weapons of the unconscious men, including their ammo. He took the keys for one of the Swat vans and piled all the ammunition and flash bangs into the back of it, leaving his three remaining explosive and fire grenades in their as well. Soldier started the engine and drove on, with two fully loaded automatic rifles and a single sniper rifle resting on the passenger seat.

"Angelica I need you to listen to me all right, when you get home I want you to ask your parents why they've really been so nervous these past few weeks" The guard explained to the red head.

"Not that it's any of your business but I'm a mutant of course my parents will be nervous" Angelica said.

The guard reached into his pocket and removed a photo of Angelica after one of her horse riding lessons.

"They've been watching you before your powers even manifested, they've threatened and manipulated your parents into enrolling you at the academy of tomorrow, when they've explained the situation I want you to lock all the doors and be prepared to defend yourself, a friend of mine will be over to keep you and your family safe okay" The guard explained to the shocked girl as he guided her to her cab.

"But why?"

"I can't stand watching this anymore, taking away children's innocence, bullying people they fell are below them, it'll end very soon" The guard said before he closed the cab door and walked back into the club.

'Thank you' Angelica thought as the cab drove away from the club.

Some broke, yet some continued fighting on no matter what. Rogue, bruised and battered whispered no. Magma, bruised and battered whispered no. The guards that had tortured them couldn't help but admire their strength before they left their cells.

"No!" X-23 whispered, knowing that Wolverine would never give in.

"No!" Beast growled.

"RAAAARGH!!! GET ME OUT OF HERE!!" Sabretooth roared.

"Such a cute Kitty cat isn't he?" One of the Cuckoos asked her sisters.

"Indeed she is Esme" Said another.

"Such a brute!"

"But it's all a façade"

The Five sisters eyes glowed as they reached deep into Sabretooth's mind. He was a child again, in the darkness of his basement. Victor tried to move, but as usual he had the collar on his neck. The door opened and a man walked into the room, he put the candle on the floor and looked at the cowering Victor.

"I see the beast is starting to come back boy…I try and try over and over again yet you insist on being a bad boy don't you?" The man asked as he took a pair of pliers out of his pocket.

"Please daddy don't, I'll be good!" The Little boy whimpered.

But his pleas fell upon deaf ears as the man crouched to his level and grabbed his cheeks.

"NO PLEASE PAPA I'LL BE GOOD I'LL BE GOOD!!!" He screamed.

He moaned in agony as his father forced his mouth open and pulled out his teeth.

"I'll be good!" Victor whispered with tears running down his face.

The Five girls giggled at what they had done to the usually hardened man. Lance panted, his vision blurry from the beating and the drugs he had been given. Through his blurred vision he could just make out the image of Kitty walking towards him. But she was completely different, her face was devoid of any emotion and her clothing was blank. Her hair had also been shaved off.

"Kitty!" Lance said.

"You have to be punished!" The girl said.

"What?"

Kitty had quite recently learned a new trick. It involved phasing her hand through a person and partially solidifying her hand. An experience that would cause the target great pain. But that was only if it was put through a certain part of their body. If she was to put her hand through his lungs then it would affect her victims breathing. Lance widened his eyes in shock as he gasped for air.

"Kitty…what…" Lance gasped.

Then it occurred to Lance, this is what the Hellfire Club did to people. They took away everything that made them who they were, and replaced them with their own view on what that person should be. Kitty ran her hands up Kitty's body until they were touching the insides of his brain.

"AAAAAAARRGH!!!" Lance's yells echoed through the dungeon.

He had never felt so much pain running through his body than he had in his entire life. Spit hung off of his mouth and his arms and fingers spazammed out of control

'Kitty…oh god, what have they done to you?' Lance wondered.

Kitty took her hands out of Lance's head and began walking towards the door.

"Kitty…I'll save you if it's the last thing I do" Lance said before Kitty walked out of the cell.

The three men, intent on saving those the Club had captured drove closer and closer towards the club.

'Hold on everyone, I promise I'll save you all' Cable vowed.

'Hang in there just a little longer' Wolverine thought.

"Fury, I need you to drop off the suit at the following location" Soldier said on his radio.

The masked man gave Fury the data he needed and accelerated. He still had a mission to complete, and by god he was going to complete it.

Next Chapter 8: The Rescue

next Chapter is the big rescue of course, and this chapter isnt the last you've seen of the rebellious guard, he'll be appearing next chapter, which will also have the big fight between Wolverine, Cable and the mercenaries hired by the club. Hope everyone enjoyed this chapter, review if you'd like!