Chapter 3: I, My, Me! Blackberry Omlette!

It was shortly after that that Magneto issued a mission, which lead to breakfast being hastily eaten without much conversation and the whole crowd ending up in the helicopter.

"Sho, whash this mission anyways?" I asked around a big yawn.

"Did you not turn on your ears for briefing?" Pyro asked sarcastically.

"I don't care what you say, I think you really like the bleached hair." I said pointedly, sticking my tongue out at him. "By the way Dil, why are you coming?"

"Somebody's gotta make sure you don't die." Dil replied shortly.

"We're gathering information on a top-secret military project." Pyro stated calmly, with much more patience than he really ought to have had with me.

"Why?" I asked.

"Because it might threaten our lives if we don't." Pyro answered, rolling his eyes. Evidently, his patience was out. "Don't you ever watch TV?"

"Yeah, but on my TV shows, people die when they investigate top-secret stuff." I answered with a frown.

"They're top-secret for a reason." Dil said mockingly.

At receiving no sarcastic response, the discussion ended, and I watched the clouds pass by.

"Wait, do helicopters normally fly high enough to be in the clouds?" I wondered aloud.

Our plan was simple: Mystique would infiltrate the base, get the information and get out.

"So why are we here again?" I asked. "You normally don't bring the blow-up people on the infiltration missions."

"As long as nothing goes wrong." Dil said thoughtfully.

"So we can blow up the evidence, beans-for-brains!" Pyro answered, rolling his eyes again.

"I think Dil should go with Mystique." I volunteered, and they both looked at me.

"No." She answered, and left us with the helicopter, disappearing into nearby bushed. The facility we were infiltrating lie surrounded by wilderness just over the hill from us.

"…" We watched her disappear, then I piped up. "So what now?"

"Let's go." Pyro said, taking off in the same direction as Mystique. Dil and I reluctantly followed.

I really didn't know what Mystique could have possibly done wrong. But shortly after Pyro, Dil and I had managed to blow up the secret passage to the underground entrance (since all top-secret facilities have them, you know), we heard alarms blaring, and footsteps running towards us. We saw Mystique come running around the corner with a portable hard drive in her hand.

"Get out of here!" She shouted, throwing the hard drive to Pyro and continuing down the hall. We stood and looked at each other for a moment, during which four soldiers bearing arms caught up with us.

We raised our hands, as they targeted us.

"She went that way!" I volunteered, pointing down the hall.

"Chi!" Dil nudged me.

"Freeze, mutants!" The apparent leader of the troops demanded.

"That line is so cliché! Can't you think of something else threatening to yell at us?!" I shouted back. All the while, Pyro was studying our surroundings.

"Guys…" He said slowly.

And we all looked at him tensely for a long moment.

"Book it!" He shouted, shooting a fireball at the guards. Dil and I promptly turned and started running back the way we had came. As we ran down towards the exit, Pyro apparently had managed to find a gas line, as the building was exploding behind us.

"Hot potato, hot potato!" I sang as we ran. We bolted down the halls with flames pouring behind us. If I had been thinking about it, I would have realized that Pyro must have been firebending the whole way to keep us from being burnt to a crisp.

"This is just like an action movie!" I shouted as the three of us escaped the burning building into the night.

We were able to find our helicopter, but once we arrived, we found ourselves caught in a dilemma.

"So… Do you know how to drive this?" I asked Dil. He scratched his head.

"Aren't we going to wait for Mystique?" He asked as we piled in and Pyro climbed into the cockpit.

"Technically, she said 'get out of here', not 'go to the helicopter and wait for me'." I said thoughtfully.

"Why can't she just disguise herself and escape?" Pyro asked. His actions contradicted his words as he started the engine.

"Because the military has thingies that beep and identify the infected—I mean, mutants." I said, tangenting on a video game that I had been watching Dil play earlier that day.

"Oh, do I have to go eat people now?" Dil asked as a white hoodie shifted onto his body.

"Not today, Alex Mercer." I patted him on the back. "Look, Pyro, we got the data, who cares if we bring Mystique or not?"

"Do you want to be the one to explain that to Magneto?" He snapped back.

"I think you just don't know how to fly this thing either!" I retorted.

"I think you had better figure it out soon." Dil said thoughtfully.

"Why's that?" Pyro asked, glancing back at him.

"I hear the military coming." Dil replied. Pyro looked alarmed and checked the monitors in the cockpit

"Sure enough." Pyro shifted uncomfortably as he took the controls. A few short moments later, we were lifting off the ground. "But you know we're going to get in trouble for this."

"Bah." I waved a hand dismissively as we escaped into the night.

Authors note: I think were finally done with the epilogue and can begin the movie next chapter! Wont that be just amazing?