A/N: HELLO READERS! I'm sorry this chapter took so long, but if you look at how long it is, I'm sure you'll see why! I'm still offering a prize to anyone who can guess where the next world is! I'll even give you all a hint this time.
"It's the key to everything!"
Yup, that's the clue, and that's all you're getting! HAHA All right, read on!
Walking into the dark room Artanis smiled happily. "Lights!"
Suddenly the room lit up revealing a large sterile room. Along the ceiling, bright spot lights shined down onto a glass tube in the center of the room, with a tall figure inside. This tall figure was an angry blonde man in fancy robes, who was angrily waving a wand around.
"Ah. Mr. Malfoy comma L, did you have a good nap?"
The man yelled something, probably threats, but they didn't make it past his glass cell.
"I apologize for the rude awakening, but we are slightly behind schedule. So we must get to work!"
The man yelled something and waved his wand. A red spell shot out only to vanish against the glass.
"Oh good, well that takes care of the first test…We've already examined you and we have found that your muscles are horribly underdeveloped, we have also found evidence of prolonged and extreme inbreeding and you have several neurological defects. Unfortunately you are well below healthy for a man of your age and are unable to partake in our more advanced research. Not to worry, we still have many tests we can do to you…"
"Artanis!" A voice called.
Turning around, Artanis found three large screens lit up revealing a trio of shadowed figures. "Yes?"
"What are you doing?" The left one, a male voice asked.
"I was just informing the subject of why he is limited to being used in one of the lesser tests, Seven."
"Well can you just get on with it then?" said a demanding female voice to Artanis's right side.
"As you wish, Four." With a slight bow, Artanis turned back to the blonde captive. "Commence test T-V-1377-M."
"Which virus is this?" the center figure asked as a pale green gas vented into the tube.
"The T-Virus. So far it has turned every human subject into a slow mindless cannibalistic monster and non humanoid species including animals into supped up mutated killing machine versions of themselves. You should see what it did with the dogs! We now wish to see how subjects with a magical core react to and with the virus."
"Why not use any of the other viruses," Seven asked.
"Well we tested the Solanum Virus on one of his comrades, but his core disappeared when he died and then the virus brought him back to life. We are hoping that, since the T-Virus infects the entire subject before they turn, the subject may retain its magic."
"Why not the G-Virus," one of them asked.
"None of the current subjects are physically, neurologically, or mentally healthy enough. We have found that in defected subjects the G-Virus becomes unstable and often results in the subject destroying its self."
"What's wrong with him," Four asked.
Artanis turned back to the tube as Malfoy angrily slapped the glass, only to cringe in pain, in a pathetic imitation of hitting. "Judging by his vital signs, he is panicking. I guess he understands more of our conversation then I anticipated."
"He can hear us?"
"Yes One. The glass won't let anything out but sound can get in."
"Subject," One called. "We apologize for subjecting you to Artanis. We understand his social skills leave much to be desired…" Four gave a snort. "But," One continued turning to glare at four, which was odd since they were in three different screens and three different places. "This is very important research that could in fact end up saving your world. The Multiverse thanks you for volunteering."
Already Malfoy's struggles were slowing down. Apparently as a gas, the T-Virus spread pretty quickly.
"Tanis!" A voice shouted, as Malfoy's eyes drifted closed, he watched a young girl dart into the room and tackle his tormentor. Then his world went black.
A soft gasp met his ears as Harry gave a gentle squeeze. With a grin, his eyes met hers before a hand grabbed his hair and their lips crashed together. Suddenly, he was looking up at beautiful tan skin. Again their eyes met before their lips. Then the lips pulled away and Harry followed, sitting up for a moment before smirking. A squeal filled the room as he pushed back, finding himself staring down into brown eyes. A moan escaped her lips as his lips slowly worked their way across soft beautiful mounds.
"Ah!" A shout interrupted. "Amara put a shirt on!"
Surprised, Harry had divided for his wand before he realized who it was. Seeing Rain he hesitated causing him to fall to the floor with a loud thump.
"Harry!" Amara said as she shot up and looked down at the wizard, a blanket being held to her bare chest.
"Ow…" The boy groaned in pain.
"That almost makes it worth it…" Rain said laughing. Absently she grabbed Amara's shirt and tossed it to her. "Harry up, the Professor wants us in the danger room."
Quickly the blushing girl pulled her shirt on before darting from the room with a "bye Harry."
"You could lock the door you know." Rain muttered, stepping behind her changing screen.
"Idiot Walker made the door open for you despite the lock…" Harry muttered as he climbed back to his feet, "He seemed to think you'd want to burst into the room randomly."
"Oh yes, I so wanted to see my friend topless" she muttered.
"Me or her" Harry shot back. Reaching to the night stand, he grabbed his wands and pocketed them.
"Amara. You, at least are worth looking at."
Harry's head whipped around in time to catch the giggling girl dart out the door. 'What the hell.' Harry thought.
With a frown the boy sat on his bed and pulled his boots on. With a sigh he fell back on the bed with his hands behind his head. With a grin his hands rose above his head, a black bra hanging from his finger. "Its gonna be a good day," he said as he jumped to his feet, grabbed his coat and ran from the room stuffing the bra into his pocket as he went.
Harry frowned down at the scene below him. From his perch atop the rock tower, he watched as the X-Men got their asses kicked by a group of drones. What was the Professor thinking? Why was he forced to be apart of this team thing? Since when did the old man order him around? It was like he had forgotten why Harry was even there in the first place…
Suddenly a drone shot up in front of him, guns spinning to target him.
"Crap!" his wand snapped up as the drone moved to fire. "Protego!" Lasers fired slamming into the shield that Harry had created and bounced off. Scowling he forced his other hand to create "Bombarda!" The exploding curse struck the drone blowing it out of the sky.
"Stupid drones," he growled out making his way down the outcropping. A yell filled the air and Harry smirked. This simulation was way too hard for the X-Men. Another drone flew up, only to be banished into the rocks behind it. The young wizard barely paid any attention to them; they didn't even come close to that girl Wanda.
He stepped around a bend in time to see Scott lead a charge against their virtual enemy. "Ah crap…" Harry had learned after years of trying it that charging head first doesn't usually work all that well. That's why he'd had to use his broom against that dragon after… "Protego!" he shouted waving both wand, a powerful shield sprang up as the target exploded hurling the others away. The debris cloud faded and harry dropped his shields. "Well that was a stupid idea."
"Hey thanks for that…" Rain muttered Harry turned to see that she'd hidden behind him and his shield to escape the blast.
Harry rolled his eyes. "No problem. Get closer next time. The smaller it is, the stronger I can make it."
She nodded, "So what now?"
Suddenly three drones dropped down around them. "Ah crap…" Rain jumped closer as Harry threw up another shield. The drones opened fire; lasers were now bouncing off it in every direction.
"Whenever you're done cowering!" Harry snapped.
"Screw you!" she snapped back. Her hands shot up and twin beams of blue leapt from her hands and slammed into a drone only for it to spin in place and shoot the other two.
"Reducto!" a red spell slammed into the last drone which exploded just as the other two dropped from the sky dead. "That's five down."
"What now?
"I'm pretty sure we're the only ones left."
"So what?"
"Uh…we win?"
"Its obvious I can't use you if Magneto were to attack," the Professor told the younger mutants as Harry and Rain stepped from the Danger Room. "And you Scott! Rush him! Magneto is always two steps ahead! You can't catch him by surprise by rushing him! At least Harry snuck up on him while you distracted him!"
"What the hell's going on? You've never pushed us this hard before" Scott shouted.
"You've never faced someone like Magneto before," the Professor countered. "And you two…" he turned on Harry and Rain.
"Why didn't you help your team? How can you ever hope to survive if you don't work together? It's obvious you had a better sense of how to handle things, why didn't you help?"
Harry smirked, surprising everyone with a slight shrug. Something wasn't right, he wasn't apart of the tame and Xavier knew it…or should have.
"It's obvious you aren't strong enough on your own, so I've brought in some help. Meet your new team mates." Behind the professor the elevator opened and the Brotherhood walked in smirking.
Everyone froze for a moment before Scott went to yell only to be cut off as Harry spoke "Wanda! How have you been?"
"So we're going to look for Logan?" Harry asked. It was his first time riding in the jet. It wasn't as much fun as his broom, probably because he wasn't actually flying it.
"The Professor said Magneto kidnapped him, so we have to try and save him." Spike answered.
"If he beat Wolverine what chance do we have?" Rain called from the back, she had no idea why she was there, and the others were left behind.
"Like…who puts their evil hideout in New York City," Kitty asked.
"The city's a good place to blend in," Beast told them. "Hang on, looks like the Professor wants us to land."
"They travel around in floating balls?" Harry muttered as he Rain and Kurt reached the strange metal balls.
Kurt poofed to the next one then the next, "They are all empty!"
Harry shook his head "Freaking waste of time," suddenly he grinned. He didn't know many curses, but an itching one wasn't too hard.
"What did you just do?" Rain asked.
"I cursed their balls…" He paused for a second before all three of them broke out laughing.
An explosion drew their attention, "looks like the party started."
"Well let's play then." Harry said.
The three teens rushed to join their friends only to be cut off by a crazed man with flames dancing around him. The man gave a laugh and thrust his arms foreword as twin streams of fire raced towards them.
"Oh crap!" Harry grabbed Rain and threw up a shield as Kurt teleported away. The fire splashed against the shield, unable to get through. "Kurt, draw his attention, we're pinned!"
Kurt poofed in and kicked the man in the arm, throwing his aim off before reappearing several feet away. Glaring, the man turned the flames on the blue elf. As soon as the fire vanished, Harry dropped the shield and hurled a cutting curse into the fuel lines of the man's tank, without fuel the fire died instantly the man's eyes widened just before a blue beam struck him in the head, knocking him out!
"If this is the best Magneto has, this will be as easy as," Harry was cut off as a feral man landed behind him roared and sent him flying with a kick. Pain flooded Harry's mind as he slammed into some scaffolding. Distantly, he heard a sharp crack before he collapsed on to the ground.
"Harry!" Rain yelled as she ran to him.
'Bamf!' Kurt appeared next to him. "Are you okay?"
Harry groaned and slowly turned his head. He stared silently for a moment. "Was that a truck?"
Rain grinned "No, that was Sabertooth, be glad that your not dead.
"Nope but he definitely broke my arm," with another groan, Kurt helped him to his feet his left arm hanging limply at his side.
"Lucky it didn't break your neck."
"Come on, let's go help the others!"
The three teens slowly made their way to the others, only for the ground to start rumbling.
"Lance!" Kitty yelled.
"It's not meeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" He yelled as the ground collapsed.
At the bottom of the hole the mutants pulled themselves to their feet. A moment later they were surrounded by soldiers with guns. Rain pretty much summed it up with one word, "Crap!"
"Stand down!" A voice ordered from the shadows. A man stepped foreword, glaring down at them. "You mutants have no idea what you've stumbled across! Release the Sentinel!"
A loud rumbling was heard as the soldiers marched away leaving the commander alone, glaring down at them.
'Thump….Thump….Thump'
"What is that?" Spike called.
'Thump…Thump…Thump'
"That is the sound of your destruction," the commander called out.
'Thump…Crash…Thump'
"GAH! My truck!" a voice called out and Harry snorted.
"Hope he has insurance…"
Behind them, a half destroyed wall collapsed and a large red robot stepped through, its eyes locking onto the kids below.
"A giant robot? You have dozens of trained soldiers but only send one robot?" Harry called, dearly hoping he wasn't about to get stepped on.
"Laugh all you want boy, you'll soon learn."
A loud rumble drew their attention as the ground started to rise, dragging the mutants and their mechanized foe to the street above.
"No!" The Commanders lost shout drowned out the sound of the metal warping.
"How do we fight this thing?" Harry muttered.
Apparently the Sentinel didn't want them to think about it as it fired two pink lasers at the. At that moment Kurt teleported Rain and Harry away from one of the pink lasers and Kitty fazed Lance through the other.
"Jean, can you do anything about those?" Spike called.
"I'll try!" the girls eyes closed as she concentrated. The robot seemed to freeze a moment before shaking her off.
"I can't the metals to strong!"
"Bombarda!" The spell leapt from Harry's wand and flew through the air and slammed into the shoulder laser. The robot turned to fire only for the canon to explode.
"Nice shot Harry!" Rain cheered.
"Ya great… Can we kill it now? My arm REALLY hurts"
The robot turned its other canon on him and fired.
"Crap!" he dived out of the way, hissing in pain as he landed on his arm.
'Bamf' Kurt and Kitty appeared on the Sentinel's shoulder and Kitty phased her hand through the laser which shorted out.
'Bamf' the two reappeared with the group.
"Hey, why didn't you fry its head?" Rain asked. Kitty's eyes widened in surprise.
"Move!" Beast yelled.
The Sentinel's chest had opened revealing several more cannons. "That's so unfair." Rain cried as the mechanized behemoth launched a barrage of missiles. The mutants scattered as the missiles destroyed the construction around them. They were soon forced out on to the street and down another. Pedestrians barely noticed until several parked cars were destroyed by stray lasers. Panicked the people began screaming and running, and pretty much getting in the way as the robot forced the mutant down the street.
Harry glanced up to see a news chopper flying overhead, "Shit, evening news here we come."
"Harry, can you take out any more of its guns?" Beast asked.
"I don't have anything strong enough to get through the lasers!" He yelled back as he banished Spike away from an exploding car.
"Doesn't any one have an idea!" Rain yelled.
"I can't do much with my other arm broken," Harry called.
"It won't let me get close again" Kitty addressed.
"Storms lighting just drives it back and the rest of us can't do much against it!" Spike dived away from another laser.
Harry threw the strongest exploding curse he could only for it to detonate against another laser. For some reason, the thing didn't shoot at him unless he tried to hit it first. Suddenly Harry had an idea. "Spike, come here! Storm, can you guys keep it busy?"
"We can try," she shouted. A bolt of lighting slammed into the Sentinel, as the mutants charged foreword.
"What do you need Harry?" the teen asked.
"Fill this car with spikes especially near the engine and gas tank. I'm gonna hurl it up at that thing and blow it up!"
"Are you sure that's gonna…"
"You have a better idea," the teen shook his head and did as Harry asked.
"Good. Now go help the others if this doesn't work it will still make a good distraction." Spike nodded and rushed to help.
Harry smirked "Guess I owe you one weasel…Wingardium Leviosa!" The car slowly floated into the air. Harry's eyes widened at the effort, exhausted he fell to his knees and the car wavered.
"What are you doing?" Jean had seem him lift the car, and rushed to help.
"Need to…get it…in front…its chest…has to…above…or…shoot it." Harry gasped out. The strain was incredible, apparently he'd use too much magic not for the first time Harry cursed the old man for that block on his magic.
Suddenly the strain vanished. Harry glanced up. Jean stood in front of him, arms out stretched as the car floated overhead. "Just drop it in front of it right? Get ready to do what every your gonna do!"
Harry nodded and trained his wand on the car as it floated past the helicopter. As it slowly fell into position Harry focused everything he could. "Bombarda!" Suddenly, Harry felt a faint crack and a brief flood of power. The spell flashed and launched from his wand, a small wave of energy spreading from the tip as it did.
Time seemed to slow to a crawl. All eyes turned to watch as the super charged spell raced towards the car. Even the camera man in the news chopper focused on the incredible sight. Suddenly the central cannon on the robot flashed blue, just as the spell struck the car. 'Whump.' The car vanished in a ball of fire, shrapnel and flaming spikes crashed into the glowing chest of the Sentinel! The cannon in its chest suddenly exploded in a burst of flames as the monstrosity fell backwards.
A cheer went up as the Robot slammed to the ground. Harry collapsed to the street exhausted. "I need a slurpie…"
"Alright Harry!" Spike shouted.
'Pfft' Harry glanced up in time see a strange green orb hit Spike, covering him in green goo which quickly hardened.
"Spike!"
A screech of metal drew attention back to the Sentinel, which was clawing its way back up.
'Pfft' another green orb flew from the Sentinel's free hand and nailed Blob, than another three before he was completely covered.
"Move!" Beast shouted before he to, was hit.
"Kurt!" Harry called. The blue elf appeared next to him. "We need to get out of here!"
"Ya" 'Bamf' The two vanished, reappearing well down the street. Together the two teens watched as their mechanized foe captured more of their friends.
"Rain…" Harry muttered as the girl was snared. He took a step foreword only for Kurt to hold him back.
"We can't beat that thing…"
Harry nodded. The pain in his arm certainly didn't help. He glanced up as the sound of helicopters caught his attention. Several military choppers flew past bearing down on the damaged machine. "What the hell…" the attack choppers had suddenly stopped before landing on the ground and their rotors bent up.
The Sentinel suddenly turned its attention to a large building. To the teen's surprise, panels on its back opened and jets sprang out. With a roar it lifted off the ground from down the street. The X-Copter came roaring up behind it, with a loud 'clack' the helicopter opened fire with a chain of bullets tearing into the damaged machine.
"How long has that think had weapons?" Harry muttered.
Apparently the Professor hit something vital since the Sentinel exploded and crashed down on the building below.
"Harry we should go…." Kurt muttered as the chopper flew away. In the silence sirens suddenly reached their ears.
"Ya…"
"What the hell happened!" Harry shouted as he jumped from the chopper. Across the lawn was the devastated remains of what was once the institute.
"It looks like a bomb went off!" spike muttered.
"Oh crap….AMARA!" Harry shouted, darting forward.
"Harry!" Harry stopped, and turned to the woods as Amara came running, followed by Scott and the other mutants.
"Amara!" The two met in an embrace, arms wrapping tightly around each other.
"Scott!" Jean called as she reached the taller teen.
"This is all your fault!" He shouted, stepping past her to shout at the professor. "You did this!" He grabbed the man and lifted him from the chair.
"Scott don't!"
Scott growled and threw the professor to the ground. Much to the mutants' surprise, the professor started laughing. Their surprise grew as he rose to his feet. "Yes…Yes I did." The professor changed, quickly turning into a blue skinned woman.
"Mystique!" Storm snapped.
"I knew it…" Harry muttered. The others turned to him, wide eyed. "What? Since when has the professor demanded I work with you guys? You didn't see anything odd about him yelling at me for not working as a team?"
"Why didn't you say something?" Jean asked.
"I figured you all knew something I didn't! You've known him all longer than I have. Hell you can read minds, how the hell didn't YOU notice!"
Jean paled. The professor had been behaving differently…Insisting that she use Cerebro to track Logan rather than doing it himself…And he was yelling a lot more…
"Where is the professor!" Scott shouted at the blue shape shifter.
"Like I'd tell you!" She smirked.
"Jean?"
"She's….She's blocking me somehow, I can't get through!" The girl cried.
"If you ever want to see him again, you'll have to do something for me first."
"What!"
"Scott don't bother. I'll just call Artanis and he'll…." Harry froze.
"What is it?"
"My phone was with my stuff….and my stuff was in the house…." Harry's mind flew through ideas…his phone….the sword…the book….his pictures…. "YOU BITCH!" He shouted, diving at the woman, only for Beast to catch him. "You destroyed everything!"
"Harry calm down…We'll find a way to replace it…" He said softly.
"Well someone still has energy to burn." Mystique taunted "Good, you're gonna need it to help free my team."
"And how are we gonna do that! In case you forgot, they got some of us too, and we don't know where they are!" Harry snarled at her.
"Harry?" Amara asked as Beast let the teen go. "Who took Rain and the others?"
"The military…."
'AROOOOOO….AROOOOO'
The group of mutants looked up at the loud siren to see a swarm of police cars and military trucks driving towards them.
"Scatter! Meet up at lookout point!" Scott shouted.
The mutants didn't have to be told twice. As the cars came to a stop, they found several teens running in every direction.
"Great, now I'm gonna get arrested…" Harry muttered. Unfortunately, he'd chosen a direction that sent him right at two cop cars.
"Hands in the air!" An officer yelled, as they aimed their guns.
"My arm's broken!" Harry shouted back, raising his good arm while the other hung limply. "Couldn't raise it if I wanted to!"
"Fine, but don't move!" The officers slowly stepped forward, one reaching for his hand cuffs.
"Harry down!" A voice shouted. With a smirk, the teen dropped to the ground as a group of exploding marble things flew over his head. The cops dived away as they exploded, blowing holes in the ground.
"Bad luck, mates" Harry said as he ran between them. "Thanks Tabby!"
"No problem Harry!" the teen called as she ran a different direction.
"Now all I have to do is try to out run a bunch of cars and guys with guns…What a fun day…" He muttered.
"Freeze!" A voice shouted.
"No thanks!" He shouted back, his wand flying to his hand. "Stupefy!"
A red spell slammed into the solder's chest and he collapsed, out cold. Pausing for a second, Harry aimed his wand again "Accio keys!" A set of keys flew from the man's pocket and he grabbed them. "Thanks mate!"
Harry ran to the closest jeep, made sure it was empty, and hopped into the driver's seat. "This can't be too hard…." He muttered as he started the ignition. With a shrug, he grabbed the gear shift and threw it into what he thought was drive, until he hit the gas and lurched backwards. "Opps…ok let's try again…" Shifting the gears again, the truck lurched forward. With a grin, the boy slammed the petal down and slammed back as the truck flew across the lawn. "Ah crap, I have no idea what I'm doing!"
Several solders stood, stunned as they watched a young teen try to steal their truck. It's not every day the military gets robed after all, especially not by someone who has no idea what they're doing!
Harry screamed as he tore across the lawn. Without thinking, he slammed on the breaks, only to slam into the steering wheel, sending the truck spinning out.
"Are you insane!" A voice shouted. Harry glanced out the window to see Lance, staring wide eyed. He'd come very close to running the older teen down.
"Sir mix a lot!" Harry cheered. "Any chance you know how to drive this thing?"
"….Ya…" the teen muttered, climbing up.
"Oh good!" Harry said, as he struggled into the other seat. "Cause it turns out, I have no freaking idea…"
"You're insane…." Together, the two teens disappeared into the city.
"Where are the others?" Harry asked, as he reached the meeting point. His broken arm was wrapped in a makeshift sling.
"I told them to go hide…" Scott admitted. "They'd just get hurt if they were with us…"
"Good call…" Harry admitted. The two stood in silence as Jean, Mystique and the others finally showed up.
"So what's the plan?" Harry asked when everyone was there.
"We have to find the professor…." Jean started.
"Not until we find my team!" Mystique snapped.
The group dissolved into arguing. No one could seem to agree on anything. Harry sighed. Without his phone, he couldn't call Artanis, and that was the only idea he had…Suddenly, something in the woods caught his attention.
"We can't do that till we figure out where they are." Beast countered. "The professor can help us do that."
"Maybe he could tell us…" Harry muttered, pointing to a man in uniform as he stepped from the trees.
"You got good eyes kid….Yes, I can tell you where your friends are." The man told them.
"And who are you?" Mystique asked.
"Fury. Nick Fury. I'm with…"
"Shield!" Scott cut him off. "Logan told me about them once…Some kind of ultra super secret military group…"
"Of course he knows where they are, he probably took them!" Mystique snapped.
"Actually, that was Trask…Former shield operative gone rouge. He captured your friends…." He smirked and waved a hand held device at them "He's holding them here…"
"And why would you help us?" Scott asked.
"You mutants are just like us humans. Some good, some bad. I don't like seeing innocents suffer…"
"And if it makes Trask look bad, that's just a bonus?" Beast muttered.
"What's to stop us from just taking that information?" Mystique challenged.
His smirk never left his face, as Fury raised his hand and snapped his fingers. Seemingly out of thin air, a dozen solders with guns appeared, surrounding them.
"Seems like a good incentive not to try that…" Lance muttered.
"Catch" Fury said, tossing the thing to Scott. "Have fun." With that, he turned and walked away, the solders disappearing with him.
"That was really cool…." Harry muttered.
"Now what?" Jean asked.
"I'm going to make sure Magneto's dead." Wanda said, speaking up for the first time.
"What!" Toad asked.
"Toad, go with her" Mystique ordered.
"What gives yo?"
"Just do it!" The two quickly disappeared.
"Now how do we get to the others?" Kurt asked.
"I have an idea…" Scott muttered.
Harry and Kurt had to literally fight the urge to laugh as Jean levitated their helicopter right over the guards' heads. Someone was definitely gonna get in trouble when they noticed it was gone.
Quickly, the mutants climbed in, and took off, not wanting to risk getting caught.
"So where are we going?"
"According to this" Beast said, holding up the thing Fury gave them. "Their being held in a desert it Nevada…"
"YO!" Bobby said. The others turned to him. "Area 51!"
Harry and the others silently made their way through the base. Kitty and Bobby had gone to take out the base's Main Circuit while Mystique had taken over the control room. They had to be careful, least they run into any guards….
'EHRR…..EHRR…..EHRR….'
Suddenly, an alarm sounded and a voice spoke over their head sets. "….SORRY!..." Bobby called.
"Screw it, let's go!" Scott said. Together the mutants stormed their way down the hall, only to be cut off by a group of guards.
"Figures…" Harry muttered as Scott blasted them away.
"We need to find the others!" Jean shouted as she hurled their weapons at guards at the other end of the hallway.
"…Go left, they should be at the end of the…Who are you!..." Mystique voice came over the radio.
"Left it is" Scott said. Together the mutants raced toward a door and threw it open, only to watch Logan break free. They made quick work of the solders in the room, before moving to free the others.
"Wolverine, where's Rain?" Harry asked.
"Took her to another room, down that way." He pointed. "They were asking about her "Partner." Some teen in a trench coat their machine didn't register…Potter?" Logan called as the boy.
'Shit!' Harry thought as he ran down a very long hallway. 'If that thing was set to track mutants than I wouldn't have registered, but they would have seen me use magic… They must have seen us working together and assumed she'd know why it didn't target me! They better not hurt her!'
He reached a door at the end of the hall and stopped. He quickly pulled one of his wands. Taking a breath, he slowly pushed the door open.
"Who was the boy in the glasses!" A voice shouted.
Harry glanced around the room and frowned. Two guards stood on either side of the door, while three men questioned a figure bound to a table.
"Why don't you go ask you mom, I bet she knows!" Rain snapped back. Harry stifled a laugh.
"Answer the question girl! Why didn't he register as a mutant! We saw him fighting, that boy has too much power to be left unchecked!" The man snapped. His hand shot out 'SMACK!' "ANSWER ME!"
Harry's humor turned to rage as he stepped back. "Bastards…." He muttered. For some reason there wasn't an alarm going off in this section…Well bad for them. "BOMBARDA!" Again the super charged spell released a wave of energy as it leapt from the wand. With an explosion, the metal door burst from the hinges. Bent almost in half, the metal slab flew into the room and nailed two of the integrators.
The two guards jumped out the empty door frame, guns raised, only for a pair of stunners to knock them out cold. Angrily, Harry stormed into the room, wand aimed at the last man. "If you want to live long to see how much damage we've done to your base, you'll let her go!"
The man nodded, wide eyed and quickly undid the bindings holding her to the table. As soon as the girl moved to sit up, Harry put a stunner into the man's chest. "You sure took your time!" She snapped.
"Nice to see you too." Harry grinned.
Silently, she stepped up and quickly kissed him on the cheek. "Let's go."
"You got it."
They quickly met up with the others, who were glad to see they were ok. They quickly headed for the exit, only to have the doors slam shut before they got there.
"Now what!" Scott shouted.
"We cut our way out." Logan said as his claws sprang out.
"It'll take too long; we need to find another way out!" Mystique said.
"Hey, will that work?" Spike asked, pointing to an emergency exit sign.
The mutants quickly made their way back through the base, fighting through every guard they ran into. Suddenly a group came up behind them and Lance smirked.
"Good bye!" The room started to shake as he knocked the ceiling loose. Jean barley managed to get them out of the way as the hallway collapsed.
"What?" He smirked.
Together, they quickly made their way to the exit. "How am I gonna climb a ladder?" Harry muttered.
"I got it…" Jean muttered. Harry soon found himself levitated out the small hatch with the others. He turned back as jean climbed out and watched as Scott trapped Mystique inside.
"Where is the professor?" he demanded.
"WHAT! Let me out of here!" She shouted.
"Not until you tell us where he is!"
"We don't have time for this!"
"Then you better hurry up."
"You can't do this!" She was cut off as solders shouted below her.
"Times up!" Scott said and slammed the door closed.
"Hey!" Lance shouted.
"No time, we need to go!" Kitty called
Quickly, the mutants fled the base, disappearing into the night.
"Where the hell is that freaking Planes Walker…." Harry muttered from his seat at the back of the cave. The mutants had holed up there, while the younger kids had disappeared in the city. Storm and Beast had gone to DC to talk to the government, and idea Harry really didn't like. Then again, he really didn't have much experience with a government that wasn't horribly corrupt.
"Hey look, Storm and Beast are on TV!" Bobby shouted. The others quickly rushed to watch, forcing them to come up with a way to make the screen bigger. Harry just rolled his eyes. Artanis hadn't contacted them, and the professor was still missing. His arm was still broken, and he was still pissed about his stuff being blown up.
"Why won't they listen?" Rain asked. "It's like they want to think we're dangerous, no matter what we say."
"People are sheep" Harry muttered as he finally walked over. "They fear what they don't understand, and they fear what others tell them too. They don't understand us, and people like that Trask tell them to fear us…Short of saving the world, there isn't much we could do to change every mind out there…"
Suddenly Rouge and Logan came flying into the cave entrance on a motorcycle.
"We got company!" Rouge shouted.
"What happened?" Scott asked.
"Ran into some solders, they're still chasing us. We got maybe two minutes before we're surrounded."
"Less than that…" Harry muttered as the sounds of chopper blades filled the air.
"All right, we got a fight on our hands. " Logan growled, almost happy.
"No we don't." Scott said.
"What!"
"They don't know what their getting into….Ice man?"
With a grin, Bobby quickly raised a wall of ice to block the cave entrance as the military shouted warnings at them over a loud speaker. As the wall formed, several missiles slammed into it, but they failed to get through.
"You're defying me!" Logan growled.
"We're supposed to be heroes, not thugs!"
More missiles struck the ice wall and it collapsed. Turning, Scott shot down several more missiles as the soared through the air.
"So what, you're just gonna run!" Logan snarled.
"Ya…If the professor were here, that's what he'd have us do…"
With a growl, Logan stormed away. "Fine, you're on your own." He climbed onto the bike, revved the engine, and flew away from the cave.
The other mutants ran after, and the choppers fired several tear gas canisters. Jean and Spike blew them up in mid air, causing the choppers to fly higher to avoid sucking the gas into their engines. The mutants made their way to their own helicopter, only for the military to target it. Suddenly Kurt and Kitty disappeared, doing something to the controls of the military chopper before reappearing.
"I took out their weapons" Kitty said as they boarded the chopper. The blades started spinning and they started to rise into the air. Jean copied Magneto's trick, forcing the choppers down and bending their rotors up, grounding them.
"Look!" Rain called, pointing at the screen. The others ran over to watch as the press conference showed a live news feed of a large man wrapped in armor tearing through several police officers, before storming towards a large dam.
"Juggernaut…" Scott muttered.
"He's loose!" Jean said, shocked.
"With out the professor…" Spike started.
"…There's no way to stop him!" Kurt finished.
"We have to try!" Jean said.
"It'll be the Sentinel disaster all over again!" Scott said, refusing. "Some how, they'll find a way to blame us."
"What would the professor have us do?"
Scott stayed silent for a moment before the helicopter whirled around, heading for the dam.
"What can we do?"
"I can knock him out if we can get that armor off him." Harry spoke up. "But with my arm messed up, I can't do much else…"
"If we can get that helmet off can you hit him?" Scott asked. It was basically the same plan they used with the professor, so they should be able to manage it.
"Just need him to sit still long enough to put some power into it…:
It didn't take them long to get there, but they were very tense moments. Almost as soon as they landed, Kurt had to teleport to pull two pilots from one of the military choppers before it crashed into the water below. When Juggernaut looked up, he was found the X-men standing on a cliff in front of him.
"Heh…Mutant kids now…Heh too bad you don't have your Papa to help this time." He taunted.
"Don't need him." Scott called.
Harry watched as the others rushed forward. It wasn't the best plan, but they didn't have many options. 'Bamf' Kurt appeared on his arm, only to poof away as the large man tried to crush him. Suddenly he lifted into the air and Scott blasted him, hurling him away. Bobby iced the dam behind him, and he slid off the edge, barley managing to catch the edge. With a grunt he pulled himself up and charged them, only to find the area empty.
"Where are you!" He snapped. From behind, several spikes slammed into the back of his helmet. With a roar he turned to find Spike standing on a transformer. He dived at him, only for him to jump away, hurling spikes into the metal. It sparked and crackled before falling over, dumping him onto another ice slide. Kitty landed on his chest and phased him into the damn, only for him to roar and try to burst free.
"Jean the dam!" Scott called.
"On it!" The teen flew down and used her powers to push the water back. "Bobby!"
"Ok!" The boy quickly froze the crack in the dam.
'Bamf' Kurt appeared next to Juggernaut. He quickly undid three of the clasps on his helmet before the man caught him and threw him into Jean.
He broke free and climbed his way back to the top "What are you trying to do, embarrass me to death! Come on; give me your best shot!"
"You know, that's just what I had in mind!" Scott let loose a beam that slammed into his helmet and knocked it free. With a roar he dived at Scott, who rolled away.
"You think that fancy visor's gonna stop me! Nothing can stop me! I'm raw power!"
"Ya? You want it raw, tough guy! Then take it….RAW!" Scott ripped his visor off and let loose a huge wave of energy right into the seemingly unstoppable mutant. Hurling him back, but it wasn't enough. The Juggernaut slowly forced his way back towards Scott, the beam slowing him to a crawl, but not stopping him. "Any time now Harry!"
"Kurt, get me close!" Harry called.
'Bamf' the blue elf appeared and grabbed him. 'Bamf' The two appeared next to the battling mutants.
"Drop it Scott!" Harry called. Sighing, the teen closed his eyes and Juggernaut lurched forward. "Stupefy!" Harry roared. The red spell shot from his wand and slammed into the side of the mutant's head. His eyes widened, before rolling into his head and he collapsed with a crash. "Jean, did you hear what he said? How would he know the professor wasn't here?"
"…Unless he knew where he was! Of course!" The girl ran over and began to scan the unconscious man's mind. "Damn it, it's all scrambled!"
"Let me try!" Rouge said, pulling off her glove. With a sigh, she pressed her hand to his head, and winced as the memories and energy were absorbed.
"Is that a news crew?" Harry asked. The others looked up to see a woman with a microphone and a camera man running towards them.
"I got it!" Rouge said, running over. "I know where the professor is!"
The others cheered and turned to run back to their helicopter. "Hey where'd he go!" Harry shouted, angry. "He should still be out cold!"
"No time for that, he's probably long gone." Rain said, pushing him to the chopper.
"She's right, let's go find the professor."
It turned out the professor had been locked in Juggernaut's cell, most likely by Mystique. He was quite relived to be woken up, but it quickly turned to sadness and anger when he learned all that had happened. They quickly found themselves back at the institute, picking through the ruble of what was once their home. Over the radio, the president's speech on equality and mutant rights spurred them on. The younger mutants had shown up pretty soon after they did, apparently one of the friends they were hiding with had sensed them coming. The professor was talking of rebuilding the institute, but it wouldn't really be enough, their secret was out, and there were already people calling for their destruction.
"What are you gonna do?" Harry asked as he levitated things away so the professor could pass.
"We have to try and make the world understand." He answered. "We're not monsters. We're not out to concur them, we just want to live peacefully."
"Some of the others said their parents want them to go home…"
"Yes…" the professor sighed. "And their refusing to go…It's going to cause some problems soon. I was rather surprised when they choose to defy their parents actually…"
"Do you know when Artanis is supposed to be back?"
"I'm right here Potter." A voice said.
"You bastard!" Harry whipped around and hurled a cutting curse at the Planes Walker. "We needed your freaking help! The whole world's gone to hell! The military attacked us! We've been fighting for the last few days!"
The walker put up a shield, blocking the spell, as he watched the boy rant. "I've been busy."
"You've been busy? YOU'VE BEEN BUSY! I had to fight Magneto's people, a giant freaking robot, infiltrate a military base, outrun military helicopters, and fight off a guy who was literally unstoppable! And my arm's been broken the whole FUCKING TIME!"
"Here" The walker said, suddenly right next to the boy. He pressed a white glowing orb to his broken arm.
Harry hissed as the bones slowly slid back together. When the walker pulled away, he pushed the sling away and flexed his elbow. "That doesn't even begin to make up for it!"
"It gets worse too" the walker said absently.
Harry blinked as the walker suddenly conjured a pair of slurpies. Taking one without complaint, harry took a long sip before sighing. "How could it possibly be worse?"
"It's time to leave. There's more places to go, and you have much to learn."
"No" Harry said, surprising the walker.
"What do you mean no? The whole reason you're here is to start your journey, you can't refuse to finish it!"
"They need my help here! I can't just leave them now; I've been fighting too much just to walk away!"
"Harry…" The professor interrupted. "This isn't your fight. We thank you for the help, but you have your own war to win. We can handle it from here. Your friends back home need you to be as strong as you can."
"But…I can't go anyway, all my stuff got blown up when that blue bitch blew up the house."
Artanis snapped his fingers and several trunks appeared across the lawn, including the one he'd given Harry when they'd first arrived. "No one's stuff got destroyed!" He called, catching everyone's attention. The teens all rushed over, praying it was true. "I saved it all."
"How?" Harry asked, suspicious.
"I was afraid of what might happen so I put a spell on the stuff in your room. It was supposed to pull it all into the trunk and teleport it to me should the need arise….I kind of screwed it up…" He blushed slightly "It seems I cast it on the whole house and well…Everyone's stuff suddenly showed up in my lab…"
Everyone cheered. Teenagers were quite fond of the things they owned after all. And the crazy Planes Walker managed to save their things.
"I still don't want…" Harry started.
"Look, Potter. You need this training. Your friends back home are fighting a war they can't win. If you don't come with me, they won't survive."
"…Fine" the boy conceded. His friends needed him, and the professor was right, they could handle things here.
"Uh…" A voice spoke up. "Could I come with you?"
Every face turned to find Rain, standing in the back, blushing like crazy. "What?"
"My parents don't want me to stay here…They saw us get captured on TV…"
"How is coming with us better?" Artanis asked, rather curious.
"I told them that, if the military was still looking for me, hiding with them wouldn't do any good…I told them I had a friend who could help me disappear until everything cooled off…" She grinned "They agree so long as I can stay in touch…"
Artanis blinked. "Ya alright."
"What!" Harry snapped "why can she come but not my friends back home?"
Artanis shrugged "Fate said they had to stay."
"And now?"
"Fate said it doesn't matter if she stays or not." Artanis admitted. "I just figured you'd like the company."
"If I try to argue I'll lose wont I?" He took another long sip of his slurpie as the girl and the immortal nodded their head in a very creepy unison. "…Screw it….Fine, you can come…"
Almost instantly, her arms were around his neck as she thanked him. "Heh hem…" A voice interrupted.
Both teens turned to see Amara staring at them. "Amara…"
Harry muttered.
The girl grinned "Calm down Harry. I knew you'd have to leave eventually. That's the best part of just being friends. No hard feelings when it ends."
Harry grinned and moved to give her a hug, only to be met with a kiss instead. As they parted she threw her arms around his neck. "I'll miss you" she whispered.
"I'll miss you too…" He whispered back. Then he grinned "I'm keeping your bra…"
She blushed and giggled "that's ok; it will help you remember me…"
"Alright, boy and girl. Time to go!" Artanis called.
"Artanis, could we leave them with one of those special cell phones?" Harry asked.
The walker shrugged and pulled out a pair of them. "Figured you'd say that."
Harry took one and handed it to Kurt before giving the elf a hug. "Keep in touch mate. Who knows, maybe I'll be able to visit."
"Won't be the same without you here Harry." Kurt answered.
"Keep an eye on the others ok? And keep that girl of yours happy."
"I will. See you later…Mate."
Harry grinned, before turning to the professor. With a grin he handed the other phone to the man. "If you guys ever need my help. And I mean if you ever run into a problem you can't handle, you better call me. I'll force that damn walker to bring me here even if I have to fight him to do it."
"Thank you Harry. I'll hold onto it."
"All set?" Artanis asked, suddenly sitting on two trunks, full of both their things. "You sure your parents are ok with this? I'd rather not get Xavier here investigated for kidnapping."
"It's fine." The girl answered, stepping up next to him.
"I'm ready too." Harry muttered.
"Alright than!" He reached out and put a hand on a shoulder of each of them. "Well….See you all later…Don't die!"
"Bye guys!" The two teens shouted, before all three vanished.
"…It's only now that he's gone that I remember that Artanis could have fixed our house…" Xavier muttered. "All right, back to work!" Together all of them turned back to the ruble, only to find their perfectly intact house standing proudly before them. "…That insane immortal!" He said as the kids cheered. "I owe you for this Artanis….I owe you big…"
A/N: ' IT! The end of the X-men arc! Time to go onto another world. But what will happen to the mutants? What's going on back in Harry's world? And who expected Artanis to turn Malfoy into a zombie! Ha ha Well, it's time to move onto a new world, and as you saw at the top I even gave a clue about where it is. First person to guess it gets a prize! Until Next time people, DON'T DIE!