Slice left, step right, block, stab right, step left...Wade and I fought as if we practiced. Like we really needed to practice. Mirage knew to keep her distance. And then came the screw up. I left my stomach open, and Wade took the opportunity to shove his katana threw me. He pulled it out and winked as I was the first to fall to the ground. Mirage made Wade's dad appear and he froze. No, he couldn't fight his own dad.
"Dad?" he asked uneasily. The figure didn't say anything, it only started running for him. "Dad, stop!"
"Get your head in the game, Winston!" I shouted as I jumped from the ground and cut Mirage's image of Wade's dad in half. I showed him my katana. "Silver, not red. It wasn't real."
"I knew you were a traitor!" she screamed.
"Once a traitor, always a traitor, Moonstar!" And then she did something unthinkable. She created the Silver Lantern army. All five thousand of them. "Go play with the other kids, Wade. The adults have to talk." He ran to Jean and started to help her with Deathstrike.
This was going to be so much easier with swords.
Stryker was watching everything from a television that he had brought to the cell so Xavier, Robert, and Storm could see. "Once a traitor, always a traitor." He said to the three of them as he watched me cut Wade's dad in half.
Robert flipped when he saw Mirage make the army appear. "No!" he ran to the laser bars and barely reacted when they burned him. "Make her take them back!" He shouted at Stryker.
"Why?"
"Just do it!!" Mr. Hawkins had never yelled at someone with this much intensity before. It just wasn't his style.
But Stryker just shook his head as he continued to watch, every now and then switching to another camera. "No."
Think. Three, one, two, three, four, two, one... I'll never take them all down at this rate. Come on, think! … The only way to kill a weed is to get at it's roots. I had to get to Mirage. But how do I get there. I can't find her if I don't know where she is. Le sigh, just work through the crowd I guess. The army wasn't even doing anything, they just stood there. That only made it two times easier on me. Four, three, five, two, six, one... Then I saw a glimpse of yellow in the pool of gray. Mirage. I teleported on the spot right next to her and I grabbed her with a blade to her throat.
"Call them back." I said with venom into her ear.
She took a second and the ugly monsters that were the Silver Lanterns disappeared. Before I could say anything, a helicopter came out of nowhere. And the worse so far popped out of it. Nick Fury.
"Let her go."
God I hate him. "Make me."
He crossed his arms over his chest. "You don't want to fight me."
"No, I do. I just don't have the time." I threw Moonstar over to him, and went to Rogue and Sauron. They were the closest. And Rogue was in trouble. Sauron had her under a trance and was absorbing her energy and past mutant powers. I quickly slid my katanas back into their sheathes and grabbed one of the many guns that I was strapped with. I had almost perfect aim. One shot to the chest, and he was bleeding on the ground. I went over to Rogue, "You alright?" She didn't respond. "Okay then." I took off one of my gloves and touched her forehead.
The memory flashes started again, only this time it started where it left off: Johnny and mine's first kiss, then the day we met, then that last day of exams where Reed called me to come to New York, then the day when Mr. Hawkins adopted me, and then I was pulled away.
"I think you've had enough sugar today." Wade said to Rogue as he teared me away from her.
Seconds later, Rogue shot up with bated breath. "What did you do?"
"She went above and beyond the call of duty." Wade answered for me as he lifted me up. "Come on, let's go. We gotta job to do." He gave my face a quick slap, and I snapped awake.
"I'm up! I'm up." Wade put me back onto my feet, and I took out two more guns. He did the same. "You have the right?"
"Only if you've got the left."
"Move." And we started running towards the main building. Every time we would pass a group, we would stop, aim, and fire at Weapon X. I got Zero, he got Deathstrike, I got Omega Red, he got Sabretooth, and we both had to empty our rifles to make a dent in Fred. When all of them were down, and only the X-men were standing, the two of us dropped our empty guns and I teleported us into the main building. When we appeared, Stryker was no where to be found. I looked over to the laser cage and saw that Xavier and Storm were unconscious while Mr. Hawkins was standing there with his hands in his pockets, looking at me.
"You gonna take care of that?" I was a little peeved that he had let them be knocked out in the first place.
"Just waiting for you, kid." Then, Mr. Hawkins morphed into J'onn.
Wade just stood there with his mouth open. "I'm lost." He drawled.
I just patted his shoulder. "I'll explain everything later." He barely even noticed I was there because he was staring at Storm. "You okay?"
He snapped out of his trance. "Yeah, let's go." We started looking for Stryker in his office. And we found him. But that's not all we found.
Some lady had beaten us to the punch line. It wasn't just any lady, it was me. The Y-shaped scar on the inside of the left eyebrow was a dead giveaway. She was holding Stryker up from the ground by the collar of his shirt. She smirked when she dropped him.
"Tell them I killed him, Andi. Not you." She then looked at Wade. "Looking good Wade." That made him smile. She pressed a button on the belt around her waist and she disappeared.
He went over to Stryker's body and said, "His neck is snapped."
"I did a good job too." Jesus Christ Superstar it's practically got a rip in it.
"Yeah she did. Damn."
"You killed him?" Xavier, J'onn, and Storm came into the 'office'.
"What?" Wade asked when he looked from the body. No way he was going to get blamed for something he didn't do.
"Did you kill him, Wade?" Storm looked hurt. Now the whole gang was here.
"No." She still looked skeptical. "Ororo you've gotta believe me."
I saw the look of 'I'm not sure' on her face, and it was my turn to protect Wade. "Wade. Didn't. Do. Anything!" Oh, great. Here comes the yelling. "What's the matter with you? He's asking, practically begging you to believe him, and you don't know? Are you fucking stupid?! Wade is madly in love with you, I don't know why, but he is. You know how I know? It's because he has yet to lie to you; in the entire few days that you've known each other, he hasn't even fibbed. He left himself wide open for you. And you did nothing but cry, and whine, and judge him for his past. You know I have met some real fhaigheans in my time, but you take the cake."
J'onn's jaw dropped. He was the only one who could understand Gaelic, and he couldn't believe what I just said.
"You know, you've got a real bunch of fuck ups in this group." I had turned to Charles, but I wasn't angry at him, I was mad at everyone else. "Take the Ginger for example, she can't do a goddamned thing without fainting. And the boyfriend? He's too emotionally involved to do shit. Your pet dog over there cries and wets the bed every night because of his nightmares. It's been what, fifteen years since you got the metal claws, get over it!! Rogue and Kitty can't touch anything without a) killing it, or b) going straight through it; so I honestly don't know what they bring to the table, no offense guys."
"None taken." The two of them said, trying to control their fit of laughter. They thought that it was absolutely hysterical that someone was finally telling the X-Men off.
"Storm gets knocked out by lightning! Something that she controls!! Rover is too blinded by 'rage' and 'fury' that he can't work with a team. You might as well drop him now, because his presence will not benefit you. The only one who actually contributes anything is Gambit. He is well trained in hand to hand combat, he has control of his powers, and he is probably the strongest mutant among you."
"Just because you aren't skilled physically, doesn't mean you're a weak mutant." Charles tried to reason with me.
My face went hard when Wade gave me the look. It was the same one that he had given me before at the movies. "Forty-seven years from now, you will learn that physical combat is superior to mental. Why? Because soon there will be devices that will probe your mind and turn you into the governments little pets. And the only way to escape is to rip it off. If you can't do that, then you are screwed." I then turned to J'onn (whose jaw was still dropped) and Wade, who was shaking his head with a smirk and I took a deep breath. "I feel better."
"You sure?" J'onn asked.
"Yeah, definitely. Okay, time to go home, boys." And just like that, J'onn and Wade started to follow me out of the building.
"Wait!" Scott said and the three of us turned around. "You're gonna leave, just like that?"
"Okay, look, here's the deal: I do something once, I do it very well, and then I move on. I have successfully defeated one the most feared men among all mutants, I did it without anyone suspecting it, and now I move on." I teleported Wade, J'onn, and myself back to Wade and mine's room at Xavier's.
I laid on the bed as I waited for Xavier to return. Wade and J'onn had gone back to the house, and I just wanted to thank Charles for everything. Fortunately, I didn't have to wait any longer, for I heard a knock on the door.
"Come in." And in came Xavier. Damn, I'm a good guesser.
"Andrea, so good I caught you."
"I was waiting for you, Charles." I sat up and smiled at him. "I wanted to thank you for everything you've done in the past couple days. You really helped the plan succeed."
"Well, I wanted to give you something." He wheeled over to me and gave me a small box. I opened it, and took out a high-tech watch. "It's a hologram watch. You can program it to show you, exactly as you are, but without the tattoos. Maybe now you can wear short sleeved t-shirts in the summer."
I chuckled. "Thank you. Um, I seriously suck at goodbyes so...Next time I see you, I hope to join your little crusade. Because it's a good one, it truly is." I stood up and grabbed my bag from the floor. "Oh, and I hope that your team matures a little in my absence."
That made him laugh, and I teleported away.
"Hey Andi?" Wade asked that night as we slept in my living room.
"Yes Wade?" I answered from the chair as he laid on the couch.
"What are we gonna do now?"
"I don't know, Wade. I don't know."
