Hello everyone! So sorry this Chapter took so long to post. I've been really busy with school and I managed to get sick for the 3rd time this month. The story should be picking up now so I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy writing it~
"I don't understand this obsession you have with killing Shaw. I understand you want revenge but why can't you see that killing Shaw just brings you down to his level. You can rise above him, be better than him." Charles looked at his friend over the game of Chess. They had been having a wonderful day of training. Erik had made some major improvements and Charles was in high spirits, but there was still a couple things about Erik that really irked him.
"Charles Please, not this again." Erik closed his eyes. He had an extremely bad headache and was quite tired from a long day of training. He had been over this with Charles a hundred times before and he was frankly getting sick of it. "I know you want me to fit into this perfect mold. But I'm not perfect Charles. I'm sorry that you think I am."
Charles shook his head. He didn't mean to anger Erik.
"No friend, it's not that I want you to be perfect, I just want us to agree."
Erik stood up from his chair.
"Well Charles, I hate to say it but we might never agree. I try my hardest to please you. I've curved my anger, I've tried to stay calm and be the man you want me to be but I can't take this anymore. I accept you and love you for who you are. I don't agree with you, but that's okay because I understand that we can have our differences. I just want the same. Why can't you love me for who I actually am? You're only on my side when I agree with you, when I'm being the Erik that you want. It isn't fair and it hurts. It hurts that you want to change me."
"Erik I'm Sorry. I honestly...I had no idea" Charles looked like he was about to cry. Erik saw that and his anger vaporized. "I just, want what's best for you."
Erik let out an audible sigh and sank back down into his chair. Charles was the one person he couldn't stay mad at. It was his weakness and he really didn't understand why.
"I'm sorry too. I didn't mean to get angry. It's just frustrating sometimes. Has it ever occurred to you that what you think is best for me, might not be what is right for me?"
"I suppose. I'm really sorry my friend. Please forgive me." Charles looked up at Erik. He honestly felt horrible. Charles had always been the big brother figure to Raven. It was hard to change those ways. He wanted to help Erik, to protect him and to show him the "right" way. He had forgotten that Erik was extremely independent and to him, Charles' way was not always "right." "I do love you for who you are, very much so."
Erik smiled
"Shall we continue our game then?"
Erik quickly jumped out of bed and ducked beside his bed in order to dodge the flying glass that was hurdling in his direction. He had to get out of this room. He had to find Charles.
A man dressed in an army uniform stepped through the window and entered Erik's room. Erik could sense the metal on his clothes and the metal gun in his hands.
Erik needed a weapon. He remembered he had kept a knife hidden away in his closet. He could still sense its presence. Luckily it hadn't been discovered and removed in the months that he had been away. It flew into his hand.
Erik closed his eyes. He carefully sensed all the metal on the man, a bulletproof vest - that would make things difficult. He carefully scoped out the areas where the metal in the vest did not protect the man. He quickly took the knife he had retrieved and sent through the armor, straight into the flesh the man's neck.
The man let out a cry and fell to the floor. Erik pulled the knife back into his hand and wiped the blood off on his bed sheets. He sheathed the knife and put it in his pants pocket.
He opened the door and quickly escaped. Explosions were still shaking the mansion. Alex and Hank were running down the hallway. It looked as though they were checking the rooms for children and other mutants that needed help. More uniformed men were running towards them down the hallway. Alex took them out with a single blow.
Erik figured he would leave them to it. They were perfectly capable of defending themselves and he needed to find Charles.
Erik headed in the direction of Charles' room. The mansion was beginning to catch fire. They were trying to smoke them out of the mansion. It was becoming extremely difficult to see and even more difficult to breathe, but Erik wasn't about to give up.
"Mr. Magneto!" The voice came out of nowhere. It was Kitty.
Erik turned towards the girl's voice "Kitty where are you?"
The little girl walked out from inside a wall.
"I was hiding, I figured nobody would find me but it's getting so hard to breath. I'm so scared"
"It's okay now, I'm here. We need to get out of here. Are there other children around?"
"No I think some of them ran away," Tears began to fill her eyes and roll down onto her cheeks, "I was just too scared. Big men with guns were walking down here. A few of the children got captured."
Erik held out his hand and started walking away. "It's alright dear you're going to be fine now and we'll get the other children back. We need to find the Professor."
"The Professor said to go down into the bunker. I heard him in my head."
"Right, Kitty do you know how to get there? I've never been down there before"
"Yeah, Hold onto my hand Mr. M- Erik and I can bring you through the walls with me"
They started to run. Erik did as Kitty said and held onto her hand. They passed through obstacles with ease and made it to the bunker safely.
"The door is right here Mr. Erik. It looks like a wall but it's actually a door!"
Erik nodded
"Go inside Kitty, tell the Professor I'm okay. I'll be right there but I need to see what we're up against"
Erik ran around the side of the mansion. It was completely in flames now. He hoped that Alex and Hank had managed to rescue all of the students inside. If not, it was too late to do anything for them now. A tank and what looked to be about 50 soldiers were gathering outside. It was a lot of men, too many to handle alone. He decided to retreat back to the bunker and relay what he had just witnessed to the other mutants. Maybe together they could pull through. Somehow.
The bunker was hidden underground and was hard to find unless you knew where to look. Erik made sure to be as discrete as possible when entering the hidden door. He had no idea there was someone watching him.
Moira MacTaggert had been informed to stay by the tanks. She had led the army to this mansion, which was apparently full of mutants. She had no idea how she knew the way. She had apparently been working with these mutants during the Cuban missile crisis but had absolutely no recollection of the event at all. Yet, there was some part of her subconscious that remembered this place. Everything felt so familiar.
She had seen a man appear from behind the bushes and wanted to get a better look at him.
Moira didn't really agree with the way that her fellow CIA government members were going about curing the mutants. If anything, she despised it, but the tensions had become so strong that if she hadn't led the government to this mansion she would have been killed.
Moira followed the man as quietly as she could. He opened up a rather ordinary looking section of the wall that opened up to a staircase. The man went inside and shut the door behind him.
"MacTaggert what are you doing? I thought we told you to stay by the tank." General Lenton had appeared behind her. He was a big man, a mean man, and she knew better than to cross him.
"Sorry sir I just thought I saw something."
"Was it a mutant? You better tell me now. You know what the penalty will be If we find out later that you were lying."
"No sir I promise, I didn't see anything."
Lenton cocked his gun and held it to her temple.
"Let me be honest, I don't believe you sweet heart. You were a mutant sympathizer once and I don't care if you've mysteriously forgotten everything. I think you're hiding something from me. Now Spit. It. Out."
Moira took in a deep breath and closed her eyes. She could feel the cold metal of his gun on her forehead. She didn't want to die. Not here, not like this. These mutants didn't trust her enough to leave her with months of precious memories. She didn't owe them a single thing. She walked over to the section of wall she had seen the man open.
"There's a door right here, I think the mutants are inside."
Erik hurried down the stairs and down the long hallway that led to the main section of the bunker. The large door was shut but made out of metal. He easily unlocked it with his powers. The door swung open to reveal his friends huddled together. Charles was in the middle comforting his students.
He looked up.
"Erik! Hurry inside, you're the last person unaccounted for."
A Wave of relief washed over Erik. Charles and the students were safe. As safe, as they could be during these terrible times. He would use his gifts to seal all the doors nobody would be able to get in. It would be safe. They would simply have to wait out the attack and hope nobody would find them. But how could anyone know how to find this place.
BANG
Erik felt the bullet go straight through his shoulder. The pain didn't register until seconds later. He fell to his knees. He hardly heard Charles scream his name. Everything was going blurry. He couldn't pass out. Not here.
"Hey mutant scum, didn't think we'd find you down here did you? My little friend Moira MacTaggert showed me the way down here. That name ring a bell?"
Lenton picked Erik up by the collar of his shirt. The pain was excruciating but he wouldn't give this human the satisfaction of knowing so. Lenton threw his body to the ground towards the mutants. Charles scrambled across the floor and picked Erik up in his arms. He closed his eyes and focused on the pain in Erik's mind. He gently lifted and blocked it out as best as he could. He felt Erik relax.
"My name is George Lenton and I'm gonna need you guys to get out of your little hiding spot here and line up outside. We have a little present for you."
Alex, blind with range, started to conjure a plasma ring around his body.
"I don't think so," Lenton cocked his gun and pointed it at Charles, "We wouldn't want anyone else to get shot now would we?"
Alex relaxed and the ring disappeared. His anger wouldn't get them anywhere now. This man had shot Erik, there was no reason that he wouldn't do it again.
One of the smaller mutants began to cry. Sean quickly pulled the boy into his arms, trying to comfort him to the best of his ability.
Lenton was becoming impatient, "Shut that thing up and lets go, NOW. Anyone who doesn't follow will be shot immediately. Children too"
Charles gently lifted Erik up. He heard Erik wince. Not good. He was bleeding quite a lot and needed medical attention. /I'm so sorry Erik. We'll get you to a doctor as soon as we can/
\Yeah right, we're all as good as dead now Charles. Unless you have a plan\
/Don't count us out just yet my friend./
Charles felt sick to his stomach. He knew they needed a miracle but the plan he had hatching in his head just might work. Erik was severely wounded and his friends and family were now in the hands of one of the most horrible people he had ever had the displeasure of meeting.
He went into Raven's mind,
/I have a plan/
\What? What is it Charles?\
/You remember what Lenton here looks like right? I'm going to need you to turn into him. Maybe you can command the troops to back off for a bit./
\But He's still alive. He'll kill you if he sees me change\
/Just leave that to me./
The mutants followed Lenton out of the bunker and into the cold night air. They wouldn't be safe in the bunker anymore. Not if Moira somehow knew their location. Waiting in the bunker would simply but them all in more danger.
Charles closed his eyes. He had never killed a person before. But his family and friends were depending on him.
He entered into Lenton's mind. What he saw was sickening. Hundreds of mutants "cured." That meant hundreds of undead bodies walking the Earth. Lenton moved from area to area curing mutants, he never stuck around long enough to see what they would become. He honestly thought the cure was working. How wrong he was. Charles took his life with a single thought. He destroyed his mind completely. Good riddance. Lenton collapsed and Raven transformed.
Charles felt dizzy from the strain of killing the man. He knelt down to the ground bringing Erik with him. He laid Erik down on the grass and propped his head up with his knees.
Erik felt incredibly faint but found comfort in the fact that he was with Charles and the students. He felt safe somehow.
\Charles? What's going on? Everything is so blurred\ Even Erik's thought sounded weak.
/Don't worry my friend, everything will be okay./ Charles leaned down and placed a kiss on Erik's forehead.
Moira MacTaggert hadn't moved since she had told Lenton where the mutants were hiding. She didn't want to return to the tanks. She felt like a traitor. She couldn't remember what had happened between her and the mutants, but she couldn't help but feel like they had become friends.
The night air was completely still. She sighed and looked up at the sky. A strange rustling sound was coming from the forest behind her, regardless of the lack of wind. Before she could look around to investigate the origin of the noise. She was grabbed by a bony, rotting hand. An undead mutant pulled her across the ground and within seconds, five of them were around her, biting into her flesh.
She let out a horrifying scream.
Next chapter will be up asap! Thanks so much for reading! please leave review if you can!