Chapter 5: Jailbreak

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After we returned to base, we didn't stay there very long. We had hardly collapsed in the helipad when Magneto and Pyro showed up, obviously on their way people I had never met before were accompanying them.

"Get in." Pyro stated, popping open the helicopter door. Dil and I exchanged long glances, but both boarded the helicopter.

"So where are we going?" I asked as I settled down in a seat, glancing warily at the noobs.

"To tie up some loose ends." Magneto stated gravely.

"….uh?" I responded, sounding clueless.

"Mystique, stupid." Pyro snapped, and we flew away.

"So who are these?" Dil asked, gesturing to the unfamiliar faces.

"If you hadn't been gallivanting around the city causing a riot, perhaps you would have accompanied us in recruiting our new member." Magneto stated in a somehow serious, yet somehow sarcastic voice.

I made a sad face, and no further comments.

I don't know where we were going, or how they knew where to go, but we parked the helicopter under a cover of trees near a highway. To my surprise, Magneto was the first to get out of the helicopter, stride over to the highway and stand in the middle of it.

"Don't do it, Megnato-sama, there's a car coming!" I screamed, and ran out into the highway after him. I threw myself in front of him, arms spread wide. "Stop, cars!"

"No, Chi, there's a truck coming!" Dil ran after me. Just as he was about to reach us, with the cars drawing nearer and nearer, Magneto raised a hand the began to throw the vehicles aside with magnetic force.

"….Oh yeah, you could just do that." I agreed with wide eyes.

"I really didn't want to become roadkill today." Dil commented.

"Idiots." Pyro muttered, obviously not hurrying after us.

Magneto caused the flatbed truck to grind to a stop in front of us, and we cautiously approached it. A stairway flipped down, and Magneto entered.

"I'm not going in there!" I stated loud and clear. "Bad things happen when you go into unfamiliar dungeons unprepared!"

But nobody cared.

"Took you long enough." I heard Mystique comment.

"I was busy." Magneto cleared his throat. "Did you find what you were looking for?"

"The source of the cure is a mutant. A child at Worthington labs." Mystique answered.

"Isn't that the place we were throwing rocks?" I asked Dil. He shrugged.

"Without him, they have nothing." She finished, either not hearing or obviously ignoring my comments.

Pyro entered the flatbed after Magneto, and it seemed as if they were recruiting other prisoners from the truck.

"I wonder where this truck was going." I commented to Dil. Again he shrugged.

"Look, you can see that they've got plenty of supporters now." He said quietly to me. "Listen, they've even got Juggernaut."

"Uh-huh—hey, wait!" Shock came over my face, and I screamed into the truck. "He's not even a mutant!"

"My powers are magical!" Dil laughed in an impersonation of Juggernaut. As the other obviously ignored us, (except for a raised eyebrow from one of the noobs), Dil quieted his voice and continued. "But look, my point is, they don't need you. Why don't you leave?"

"And go where? I don't exactly have any marketable job skills!" I protested. "And why are you bringing this up now? It seems like ever since I kidnapped you, you've been trying to talk me out of staying with Magneto! What's your problem?" I ranted.

"No!" I heard Mystique shout, and there was a gunshot. In a matter of seconds, I hears metal fly through the air, and a guard blew out of the truck past us in a fireball.

"What's that about?" I asked, peeking my head in. I saw Mystique writhing on the floor, quickly losing her blueness.

"You saved me." Magneto commented without much emotion.

"Eric?" She asked tearfully as he turned away.

"I'm sorry, my dear." He said as he walked away. "You're no longer one of us."

"How dramatic!" I clapped Magneto on the back as he exited the truck. He raised and eyebrow at me, obviously not in the mood of me.

"Why don't you just shut up?" Pyro snapped as he walked past me, shaking his head.

"What's your deal?" I shouted after him. "It's not like you're the one Magneto-sama just abandoned to the wolves—I mean, humans!"

Judging from the range of emotions I saw on the other's faces as they glanced at me, from irritation to shock, I thought it was best to be quiet, and I sulked the rest of the way home.

Author's note: I love my short chapters! they make the movie go by faster!