Chapter 8

Angelina opened her top drawer and pulled out a newspaper. It had a picture of a young boy of 8 and it said that the boy has been missing for 2 weeks and a witness had said that men wearing black suits took him into a black jeep. Angelina then heard a noise from outside, as she turned around she found Derek standing on top of the ladder waiting for her to open the window. When she did, Derek landed on his head on the floor.

"Geez, you can never be quiet can you?" whispered Angelina.

"Angel, we found out where they are keeping the kid. We have to go now." Derek answered as he stood back up.

"Now? I can't, my mom and her friends are going to freak out when they find out I disappeared." Angelina answered back.

"Angelina, we promised ourselves that we would save other people from that monster and get them back safe and sound. So are you breaking that promise?" he asked.

Angelina sighed, "Let me get dressed."

Derek waited inside her bedroom while she changed inside her bathroom. Angelina came out of her bathroom wearing dark jeans, "Abercrombie & Fitch" black fleece, and underneath it is black tank top. Angelina was wearing a hood over her face and said, "Let's go." In a deep voice.

Meanwhile in the living room, Charles Xavier explained to Marie and the mutants, what he had seen in Angelina's mind. Marie looked all pale when he told her that she was kidnap along with her friends.

"Marie, what happened to our daughter?" asked Logan.

Marie didn't answer but looked down at the ground. She grabbed a small picture of a 10 year old little girl with a yellow dress on at the beach. She looked up at the professor.

"Angelina and her friends had been missing for almost two years and the police couldn't find anything about children's whereabouts. Until one night, I opened the door and found all of the missing kids looking all dirty and with them was more missing children." Marie said.

Logan stared at the sad Marie and then found a picture of Angelina with a big group of people smiling,

"She's a popular kid?" asked Logan.

"Yes, she hangs with different kind of people and an "A" student in all of her AP class." Marie answered.

Derek got off the ladder as he waited for Angelina to get down. As Angelina was stepping down the ladder, her pants were stuck and she couldn't pull it.

"I'm stuck." Angelina whispered.

"Come on! Rip it!" Derek whispered loudly.

Angelina took her hand out as her other one was holding onto the ladder; she tried to break free but when she pulled it out of the wood, Angelina fell down and realized that she landed onto something or someone. Angelina opened her eyes and found out that her face was too close to Derek's face. 2 minutes later, they both were walking to jeep not far from Angel's house. Inside the car, were their friends Drew, Liz, Sarah, Jasmine, Justin, Kyle, and Taylor.

"Where to?" asked Angelina a little flushed.

"Back to the Haunted Mansion." Sarah answered as she turned on the car.

The teenagers parked in front an old warehouse that looks like it has been there for years. They all went inside and just found old, dusty possessions lying around. As they were walking around, Angelina closed her eyes and behind her eyelids, was a little girl being dragged by a black suit man into a closed door. The man opened a wardrobe near the door, and closed it as it went down like an elevator.

"You guys I found the doorway!" yelled Angelina as she opened the door.

They all followed Angelina inside the wardrobe and pressed a button that said "down". When the door opened, it looked like a medical center inside.

"We split up into teams. All guys go to the left and the girls to the right. You have your head-sets on?" asked Drew.

"Yep." They all said before they split up.

"Why doesn't he change this place? It still looks like death is everywhere." Liz whispered.

"Because he's a monster, let's go to the file room." Angelina answered as she opened a door that said "Privacy".

All of the girls went to look at different files and it has been a 5 minutes and couldn't find anything about the missing boy that surprised her. But one file that she opened surprised her even more.

Name: Angelina

Code name: X-45 or Dark Angel (she calls herself)

Gender: Female

Age: 10

Abilities:

Healing- heals faster than a normal person.

Superhuman reflexes: ability to react faster than a normal human does.

Create illusions- people and places, so real that one is able to touch, smell, taste things in their surroundings.

Super-flying- fly faster than a army jet and jump really high

Parents:

Mom's name: Marie D.

Code name: Rogue

Gender: Female

Age: 28

Abilities: absorbs human's powers and holds on any longer, he/she life force.

Extra Notes: Ex-X-man mutant

Dad: Logan Unknown

Code name: Wolverine

Gender: Male

Age: Unknown

Abilities:

Has claws in knuckles

Heals faster than normally.

Body full of metal

Extra Notes:

Used as an experiment for General Stryker.

X-man

Angelina couldn't believe that monster still has her file! Then she turned to the next page and found a report about her from a Dr. Cole.

X-45 or known as Dark Angel is a beauty but is quiet and has a high temper. A week after taking a physical, she has been sent to the training room. My colleague suggested checking how long she can breathe under water. After a couple of times underwater, she could hold her breathe for about 10 minutes long. Then after that, electric her and sees how long she could hold off from screaming. I really like this child; she is something special and really brave and confident. I noticed that she keeps confidence to her follow friends telling them they will get out of this dump, that my colleague calls their home. After all of the torture for the past 6 months, Dark Angel is an experience and strong solider.

I offered her private lessons of subjects that she must learn like, History, Science, English, Math, and an art she can chose. She has past all of 8th grade subjects in 2 weeks and got A's on all of them. Angelina is an intelligent girl who can never be tricked at all. She chose to write poems and learn how to draw. I gave her a little notebook with red roses on the papers. She wrote out her feelings in the poems as if she is writing out her life in this dump.

After a year, spending with this incredible child, I asked her about her life before this place. She told all she could remember; she describes her mother and told me that her father died in war before she was even born. She doesn't even know that her father is still alive, I felt pity for the girl but she hates to feel pity by others. Then something unexpected happened, she asked me about my life. She wanted to know about my life, how and why I became a doctor, who was my family, my friends, etc….Angel, I started calling her, will became a wonderful super-hero in the future I know she can.

However, as the months gone by, she gave me a birthday present. I opened the small box and found a gold ring engraved, "4ever and ever". I was so shocked that she gave me a present and probably, asked a boy to use his powers to engrave this. I looked down at the 11 year-old and she smiled at me. A real smile of happiness, not bitterness, but a happy smile. I asked why she engraved "4ever and ever" and she answered me by saying that I'm her first grown-up friend and will always be there for her…no matter. As the weeks gone by, Dr. Jacobs used her as a weapon, a dangerous weapon. I saw her running away from lasers and other deathly weapons in the training room. She was getting hurt and soon I knew that she might die.

The next day, she was weak; bruised and all bloody. They put her in a tank to let her heal slowly. She was surrounded by green liquid ooze and thought that it might affect her lungs making her hard to breathe. Until one night, I decided that I couldn't take it anymore; I can't let him destroy these children's lives. They mustn't be trained like soldiers, they should live a life where they can control there powers….act like kids again. I won't stand by and see these kids get torture just like Angel. She is a sweet and intelligent little girl and would be my little angel forever.

Angelina closed the file and started bursting into tears as she fell down to her knees.