Chapter 27

"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar."

- Raymond Lindquist
"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."

- Woodrow Wilson

"Who's next?" X-45 said as she stared at the three adults.

"That's it." Logan grunted as he ran towards her.

"Logan no!" Marie yelled who were up on her two feet thanks from the help of Jean.

But she was too late. X-45 lifted her leg into a spinning kick and knocked him to the ground. Logan now taking advantage of the fact that he was on the ground, lifted himself slightly, then kicked her ankles pulling her to the ground hitting her head roughly making her head bleed. All of a sudden, all of them heard clapping in a distance. General Zeke walked in with a bunch of guards holding their guns.

"Bravo. Bravo, X-men." Zeke said as he finished clapping. "I never thought Logan would hurt his own daughter. However, Wolverine would. So there's difference."

X-45 got back up and stood next to General Zeke like a soldier. While, Marie and Jean helped the wounded Derek help from the ground.

"Hector, what did you do to her!" yelled Dr. Cole, "You know, she won't be able to control the chip in her head much longer."

"Oh no! That's when your wrong, my old friend." Zeke said to him, "When Angelina was younger; she couldn't control the chip because her emotions were in the way. So since I erased her memories of any kind of an emotion, she can control the chip."

"You monster." Logan grunted, "She's just a kid."

"I'm not the one who tried to kill his own child." Zeke smirked.

Logan growled at him and wanted to attack him but yet again, Logan didn't want to get shot. He wanted his kid out of this place and back home.

As X-45 watched the aggressive fight between the two men. She suddenly realized that she felt lost, confused, and angry. But why? First, she wanted to kill anything and anybody for about 5 minutes then just in 5 seconds, she feels totally different. And these people call her Angelina. Is that her real name? Or is it some kind of game? Was the woman she hit, her mother?

Her brow furrowed as she felt something underneath her shirt. Curious, she pulled out a necklace holding two golden chains they look like dog tags. One said "Wolverine" and the other said, "Angelina". X-45 gripped on the dog tags as her head began to run a mile a minute. Suddenly, she looked at the man, who has claws in his knuckles, the woman with white streaks, and the teenage boy with emerald eyes. Flashes of memories, which seemed to be on speeding truck past her vision. All were brief and many contained the enemy with emerald eyes in front of her.

"Derek…." X-45 groaned; her eyes clouding as she watched the images, "You are Derek. And I'm Angelina."

"Yes, your name is Angelina." Derek answered.

"I don't understand." X-45 clutched her head.

"Of course you don't understand my dear." Zeke said as he put a hand on her shoulder, "They're trying to trick you."

"No!" yelled Derek, "Angelina, I know you can remember who you are. We always called you Angel than Angelina because you were always our Guardian Angel."

Zeke grunted, "Shut him up." he waved.

Then the guards lifted their rifles and shot Derek at the chest. Marie and Jean screamed as Derek fell down to the ground chocking on his own blood. Jean went to check Derek and blood was pouring out of his mouth and chest. Jean stared back at Angelina, who's expression looked confused. So, she went inside her head…. "We were a couple." She thought, "We were friends too?"

"Logan! Marie! Angelina is having some of her memories coming back to her." Jean said in both of their heads.

Marie nodded to Jean and decided to walk towards Angelina, "Angel, remember me. Your mom."

"Mom?"

X-45 turned her head and saw the guards pointing their guns at Marie just like they did to Derek. Her eyes widen and ran towards the woman, pushing her down to the ground with her. Marie faced Angelina's face, which was scared and confused.

"My mom." She said as if she was a child trying to understand English. "My name is Angelina."

Marie nodded her head as tears were bursting out happily. Then, they both stood up and Angelina stared at a shocked Zeke. Anger was shown inside of her hazel eyes and she walked towards Zeke. Using her powers, all of the guards disappeared leaving General Hector Zeke alone with mutants. And the only person who wanted to kill him right now was Angelina.
"X-45, I demand you kill those mutants right now." Zeke commanded.

"No." Angelina said as she walked towards Zeke.

General Zeke backed up afraid.

"This is for Derek!" she yelled, and punched him right across the face. A sickening crunch followed and blood poured from his noise.

"This is for everyone else!" she yelled again and kicked him behind the legs so he fell flat on his back on the Earth with a loud thud.

As Zeke lay on the ground moaning with pain, Angelina turned to walk away, but as though she had a second thought. She turned back around and kicked her foot down on his penis.

Zeke let out a loud yelp and then gasping in pain, "Who was that for?" he managed to get out, somehow a smirk on his face.

"That was for me." Angelina said, looking down at him as though he was a filthy worm that managed to craw onto her boot and she couldn't shake him off. "Because you ruined my life too."

Angelina ran to Derek's still body and looked down at his emerald eyes as he looked up at her hazel ones. Derek's face was pale and all of the blood from his mouth vanished. He managed to move his hand and grabbed hold of it.

"Are you still with me, Angelina?" he asked.

Tears started to drip down from her face, "I'm always with you."

Derek smiled before his head dropped to the opposite side of the direction with his eyes closed.

"Derek," Angelina uttered, her tone quivering. There was no response. Her eyes darted around his face hurriedly, her breathe quickly becoming panicked and erratic.

"No…."she whispered, "No….things will be okay!" she yelled this time.

She closed her eyes, dry sobs caught in her throat. She reopened them, both hands touching Derek's pale face.

"Please don't die. You're the strongest person I know." She said and bent down to kiss him on the lips, "I love you." A tear dropped down at Angelina's cheek and landed onto Derek's lips. And a bright warming light was surrounding the two.

Derek gasped for breath as he started coughing. He opened his eyes and saw Angelina's face over his smiling and laughing at him.

"Are you an angel?" he asked smiling touching her cheek.

Angelina grabbed his hand and holds it as his skin was against her's, "Only yours." She whispered as she kissed him on the lips.

"Okay you two lovebirds. Let's take Zeke and his men out of here and take them to the police. Then, we can go back home." Logan said trying not getting mad that his daughter is kissing in front of him.