Chapter numero sixo (yeah, I don't speak Spanish). Any suggestions on how you'd like the story to go? I'm open for ideas.
Chapter 6: Fences
Don't look up just let them think
There's no place else you'd rather be
You're always on display
For everyone to watch and learn from
Don't you know by now
You can't turn back
Because this road is all you'll ever have
It's obvious that you're dying, dying
Just living proof that the camera's lying
And oh oh open wide
Cause this is your night so smile
Cause you'll go out in style
You'll go out in style
- "Fences" by Paramore
THE BLACKBIRD
"Do we really have to go to this? They, like, totally hate us," Kitty whined.
"Sorry Half-Pint, Chuck wants us to make sure there's no funny business at this debate," Logan explained.
"And by trouble you mean the Brotherhood or the people that attend?" Jean asked.
"Both Red."
"Who's the Brotherhood?" John questioned.
"They're a group of mutants, lahke us. But they're more aggressive in their quest to end mutant discrimination," Rogue explained.
"What do they do?" Piotr Rasputin (aka Colossus), who had arrived from Russia two days ago and turned out to be a new X-Man too, asked.
"The Brotherhood likes to cause domestic violence, and participates in disturbing otherwise peaceful events," Ororo answered.
"So we're supposed to make sure no one causes a scene?" said John.
"Exactly," Logan said.
"Zat isn't exactly how I vanted to spend my day," Kurt mumbled.
"Too bad, Elf."
The plane landed, and the X-Men (except for Dr. McCoy who decided to make sure the Mansion wasn't disturbed) got off. They were not in uniform, since that would draw attention to them. Instead, they were all dressed in casual attire that they could fight in, if necessary.
They sat spread throughout the massive room that the debate would take place in. Kitty (and Piotr), Jean, Kurt and Storm each sat in one of the four corners of the room. Logan sat in the back near the door, and Rogue and John sat in the center (more towards the front of the room). The plan was to kill any disturbance before the rest of the crowd had time to notice.
The Professor was seated on stage in front of a podium, and Senator Kelly was positioned at one opposite him. Kelly was sending glares at Professor Xavier, but the Professor was persistently ignoring that.
No one noticed the tall man enter the room and stand in the shadows.
The debate started at one o'clock pm on the dot, and Senator Kelly went first. He rambled on and on about how mutants were a danger to society, and how they're freaks of nature and are seeking revenge on the human race. Kelly got a lot of cheers from the (mostly) human audience.
Just when the Professor was about to speak, a loud crashing sound came from the back of the room. To the average human, it appeared to be a large, very fat, man battling a short man with claws in his hands.
To the X-Men, it meant that the Brotherhood had arrived.
(A/N: I was gonna end it there, but I figured you'd get mad.)
Wolverine tried holding Blob back, and it worked, but Scarlet Witch, Toad, Boom-Boom Avalanche, and Quicksilver managed to get around them and start firing anything they could find at the crowd. The defenseless humans ran around screaming, and the other X-Men hurried to fight. Jean was trying to contain Avalanche(Lance Alvers)'s earthquakes, Kurt was distracting Toad (Todd Toadinsky (A/N: that's his name right?)), Kitty and Piotr were protecting the humans from Boom-Boom(Tabitha Smith) and Storm was attempting to hit Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff) with lightning. That left Rogue and Pyro to face the Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff), which was proving to be quite challenging.
Wanda was angry that day, angry at her dad, angry at Toad, angry with her brother, and angry that they had to do whatever Mystique wanted. She was sick of taking orders, and sick of battling the X-Men. Maybe, she thought, maybe if she got rid of them Mystique would give them a break. She was battling her hardest, but Rogue was an amazing fighter and Pyro was out of his mind, enjoying the delight of seeing his fire-animals "dance" with her (Wanda). It was hard to avoid the fire and block Rogue at the same time.
"Ha-Ha! Look at the pretty dragon! It can fly!" Pyro yelled with glee.
"John! Focus!" Rogue screamed at her teammate, narrowly dodging a hex.
Rogue was trying, trying really hard to fight well. She hadn't absorbed anyone, so she was left only with hand-to-hand combat. She couldn't get close enough to Wanda to hit her, and Pyro was only so helpful. She was becoming weaker, having been hit with hex bolts numerous times while she tried to keep Pyro in the battle and not in his fire-fantasy. She didn't know how much more she could take, seeing as Storm had been rendered unconscious and Pietro was destined to come help his sister. She was right. Pietro was speeding around John, cutting off a lot of oxygen and in turn putting out the fire and making John have a hard time breathing properly. Which meant that Wanda was just focused on killing her.
The other X-Men were too immersed within their own battles to notice Rogue and John. The Professor was attempting to help Wolverine hold Blob back, since the giant teen would crush the innocent bystanders. He couldn't hear Rogue projecting, nor could Jean who was having major trouble trying to keep the building from collapsing due to Avalanche's shakes.
Each individual fight was basically over end, except for Rogue's. Lance was close to taking out Jean, Kurt was tying Todd to a chair with his own tongue, Blob had finally fallen, Kitty and Piotr had Boom-Boom unconscious, and Pyro had blacked out due to oxygen deprivation.
Kitty all but screamed as she saw Rogue get hit with yet another hex, and promptly sent Piotr to help her best friend. Colossus became his metal form and charged into the small battle zone. Wanda had somehow created a wall of purple hexed fire around Rogue, Piotr and herself. She knew about Colossus's indestructibility, so she chose to ignore him for the most part and continue to fire at a rapidly weakening Rogue.
The man who had entered unseen now hung from the ceiling directly over the center of Wanda's wall of hexes. He stared down at the fight, moving his eyes between the stumbling girl with two-toned hair, the girl with the crazed look in her eyes that continued to blast her poor victim, and the metal man that got close to the previous just to be hexed backwards and have to make his way over again.
He thought about it for a while. What should he do? He could get the girl with the platinum streaks enough time to run away, he could assist the hex-girl and kill the other people, or he could help the metal man to take out the hexing one. All three would reveal him and compromise his secrecy, but would it be worthless? He stared at the losing girl and couldn't help but feel angry with the one who was hurting her. It was obvious that she was in pain, for every move she made brought her close to doubling over in agony, slowed her down, and caused her to get hit again. Her teammates were trying without success to get through the wall, but not even the blue fuzzy teleporter could get through without getting burnt.
It was then that there was a terrible moan of horrific pain and the girl with white-streaked-bangs fell over clutching her side. The girl called Wanda stood over her, raising one last hex bolt and knowing that it would end the job.
Remy LeBeau's demonic red-on-black eyes glowed a brilliant crimson of rage and he swiftly dropped to the ground.
(A/N: Most words so far! HAHAHAHAHA! Did you love it or did you love it?)