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I'll just get down to it. We have a dozen chapters left (give or take) including some additions that are not on the list for an element of surprise. I am going to write the sequel as soon as I am finished with this story. All of the cast will move into the next transition but you decide how it works. Do you want me to do chapters like this where we have a limited perspective or just one big story kind of like an actual XME episode? Both will have good writing but the second one will probably be more detailed. The first one will have what they think more; the second one will have how they act or their façade. ETC…Please answer in a review and those of you who have not reviewed in the past or just starting to read this now, your input matters! It will change how everything is written.
Mila's chapter. This is BIG what in the world moment so get ready! Review on how you liked this very different chapter. Let's see what the Morlocks' master plan is. This is based on all the espionage movies I had been watching lately. LOVE.
X-Men: Restoration
Chapter Nineteen: Mila O' Henry
She beheld her ivy arms. She frowned at her dark thoughts. Aria and RJ whispered back and forth as she uninterestingly glanced at Lila. Lila brushed back her rainbow hair as sat staring angrily at the ground.
"Lila, do you have the destination? Are you sure he will be here?" Aria said roughly as she tried to get a signal on her radio.
"Of course. I have been watching him for two weeks! The guy does the same exact thing every single day for goodness sake!" She growled as she got up of the ground. Mila sighed. She knew Lila hated taking orders. Mila and Lila were cousins …which didn't help with name confusion. Their parents were close but sometimes too close for comfort. They had similar tastes and they ended up picking a very similar name for their daughters. They had argued over their names being almost identical for all their lives. Mila went by Emmy when she was around her family to avoid the dispute and also because Lila wouldn't be caught dead being called Ellie.
The tension in the room was unbearable. Ever since the others had left to join the pansy regime, there had been arguments about what to do to get their voice heard. They didn't want to simply attack the humans because their suffering would end too quickly. They wanted them to suffer. It was difficult since RJ wasn't the leader type…Spyke was. Mila missed them all but she couldn't forgive them for joining the X-Men. Did they not understand that the nonmutants would never accept them? She couldn't believe that Lyra or Zenith went to since they suffered from weird physical mutations. Lyra was the ever changing rainbow yet she wanted to join them! Mila looked at her hands and saw ivy like fingers. Why would they ever accept her?
That was why the plan was to attack the anti-mutant protest at its core. Dr. Gregory Bamback was leading it and his son was a devote promoter. They had seen what Trent had done to the school by spreading those vicious lies when they snuck in to get some food provisions. Mila hated his guts. Though she had to give it those X-Men whether pansies or not, the ways they get back are quite commendable. One time when she was sneaking across the hallways during class, two of them, an Asian and a tall blond guy beat Trent at his own game. The Asian put water in his locker and held it there as the blond guy put too many electric bolts to count within the water. He slammed the locker shut and they walked away laughing. All of a sudden Trent and his lackeys walk up to his locker and start talking about some new 'shocking' campaign that will put the mutants off the map. He opens his locker and the water electrocutes him upon contact. He runs screaming the nurse's names as his buddies laugh a riot. Mila had to hold in her hysteria as hey ivy arms returned with two sandwiches.
The anti-mutant protest was growing and Senator Kelly was implementing some anti-mutant laws. They had to do something and they knew just how to do it. Aria had thought of it as Lila coordinated the place of attack. RJ was the leader and he knew what to do after. They were going to kidnap Trent Bamback.
Lila knew his schedule by heart. The famous Trent Bamback did not deviate from it. All eyes were on him now to lead the teenagers of the anti-mutant movement. If he went missing the world would listen. They were ready and had been preparing this tactic for two weeks. Mila would have to step up to the plate since she was usually the hesitant one.
They would capture him the only place he was alone, his fabulous penthouse. She breathed in slowly as they left the janitor's closet. They were on a mission. Aria was decked out in a janitor's uniform and Lila was dressed in a maid's uniform. Lila even got a wig to complete the look. RJ and Mila had to hide because of their appearances. Aria waited for the maid to walk by with Trent's lunch as she pretended to mop up the marble floor. The maid came by in her turn and she never saw it coming. Aria wacked the maid in the back of the head and she became limp as RJ dragged her into the closet. RJ hid underneath the room service cart as he bent and twisted his body to fit. Mila became completely an ivy vine as she stepped into a pot full of dirt next to the hotel penthouse door. Incognito. Mila breathed through the vines silently. Sweat began to perspire from her forehead. She bit her green lips as she stood in the pose of a tree. Aria and Lila had their positions. Lila began to push the cart and knocked on the door. They all heard a muffled voice. Mila stood outside of the room as Aria went down the hall.
They heard Trent yell and RJ came out of the room moments later stretched out. He nodded and that was the signal to leave the building. They went down the staircase quickly as Aria took off her uniform. They exited through the fire escape. Mila ran as her tresses of ivy swept to and fro. RJ came down behind her. Mila felt the adrenaline rise as she transformed back into her human like form. She was still green but she could run easier this way. They saw Lila's rainbow that led to the drain cover and they pulled it up as they hopped inside. They ran to their destination in their old Morlock headquarters. Mila couldn't breathe as she shook her green bobbed hair. Her heart was pounding but she was excited at the same time. They had kidnapped Trent Bamback!
They found Trent unconscious on the smelly sewer platform. Mila created an ivy chains that tied him down. Her ivy tresses of hair were not regular ivy vines but strong and bound like chains. It would keep the anti-mutant celebrity busy for a while. Lila was sweating from exhaustion of transporting Trent from the hotel to the sewers. She told Mila that she had nearly fainted mid rainbow and could have ended up on the top of a hotdog stand if she hadn't of pushed through. She went away to go to sleep. Mila walked around as RJ intently watched the prisoner. Aria was off by herself, like always.
Mila's green feet felt the slimy bottom of the sewer floor as she walked in the dirty sewer water that led to Lyra's old room. She loved the feeling of the smoothness between her toes and the water touching her feet. It grossed Lila out beyond words to see Mila do this but Mila didn't care. They lived in the sewers so they didn't always have the advantage of a clean shower. They did with what they had which was usually the Mika River at the park in the moonlight.
Mila came to Lyra's bunk and stared up at the sewer ceiling as she hopped up on the wood and scrap metal platform. It rocked a little bit and Mila shot an ivy vine out of her hand and had it wrap around the rickety beam for support. She had a difficult time releasing the vine and almost pulled it up from under herself before the vines settled in their proper place. She needed to work with her mutation some more. She concentrated her willpower as she stared at her ivy like hand. She missed Lyra, immensely. Mila admired the paintings on the sewer tunnel that Lyra had done while she was here. Lyra had an encrypted language but she always meant the best for everyone. Mila started to cry as she ran her hands across the beautiful chipped paint. There were depictions of each one of the Morlocks in his or her truest form living above the surface where the air was pure and fresh…instead of stagnant and bleak.
She sat up as she dusted off black jeans which were splattered in grime, mud, and who knows what else. It was cold. She heard splashing footsteps approach. It was RJ, he gave her the signal that it was time for her watch. RJ saw that she was sad and couldn't help but use some words of encouragement to get her spirits up.
"They are okay. Once we get the nonmutants in our grasp, they will return to us." RJ said as she passed. Mila tried to hold in the tears as she walked out to Trent's unconscious body. Mutants were just different. Why couldn't they accept that? No, it was wrong of them not to. Mutants have rights just as humans do. They were special yet they were outcasts, dubbed untouchable to people who say equal rights for all. Mila, bitter, tightened Trent's bonds. It was because of people like him. Trent stirred but did not wake. She scoffed at him as she sat down on the rickety old stool.
She seemed to gaze at his perfect nonmutant body for what seemed like hours. He was big like football would be, she guessed since she only attended school to scavenge for the leftover meals after lunch. He had black hair like his despicable father. He wasn't wearing his Letterman's jacket like she expected but a black leather jacket. She dully nodded to sleep as he arouse from his unconsciousness. He struggled in the vines as Mila tried to wake herself.
"Where in the world, am I? Who the…oh my god! You are green! You're green! You must be one of those mutants…HELP! HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!" He yelled as he continued to struggle in her vine work. Mila snickered a bit as the others entered the room.
"You can't get out of those…They are my expertise and I do my job well, Mr. Bamback." She said quietly as she stepped away from the shuttering form. RJ grinned evilly as he gazed at Trent.
"I'll call the cops; no I will call my father! He will come and save me, just you see. He has lots of money, and resources at his dispense." Trent said as he pleaded with them. They all laughed. What a football star, he was.
"No, we will set you free eventually. You just have to answer some questions. AND we know you know the answers so fess up. NOW." RJ bitterly spit in his face as Trent was shocked in reply.
"Who in the world do you think you…you freak of nature, to give me orders? I demand to be set free." Trent spit at them. Lila flustered walked up to him and stared Trent right in the eyes.
"You disgust me." Lila said as she grabbed him by the collar of his leather coat. Trent wrinkled his nose in detest at her.
"You are the one, who reeks of garbage, which is exactly who you are." He said as he continued to struggle. Aria slapped him as she spit in his face. He turned away from them. Lila was held back by RJ. She was about to attack him full force. Lila swung her arms as RJ attempted to hold her.
"We need him for questioning then you can go away and bludgeon him to death." RJ said in a low, angry tone at Lila. Lila stormed out of the room. Mila wanted to go after her cousin but she couldn't help but remain curious about how Trent was going to answer the questions she had planned out for him. She walked forward moving the stool away some distance and sat down.
"What is your full name?" She asked. There was no response. RJ extended his arm to punch Trent in the stomach. He coughed.
"Trenton Gregory Bamback." He said as he shifted to turn away from them.
"Who is your father?" Mila asked.
"Gregory Isaac Bamback the Second." He muttered. Aria who was writing all the information down poked him with the pencil. "Ouch!" he said as he hissed from the pain.
"Why do you hate mutants?" Mila asked. Trent scrunched his eyebrows up in disgust. Aria got up from her chair and grabbed him by the collar. The vines grew tight as Mila gripped her hands together. Trent coughed.
"Answer her!" Aria spit in his face.
"Because of my father! A mutant killed… my mother. Mutants like you don't know control. You are reckless, and are so self-righteous!" He said as he struggled. The room fell silent. Mila bit her lip. He had a good point but who would want to kill his mother? No mutant she knew would kill except those crazy Brotherhood. Suddenly, Trent started to writhe in vine chains. He screamed in pain as Mila loosened them. "Get out! Go far away!" he yelled as lurched forward putting his between his knees. Aria stood there not knowing what to do. RJ laughed. Mila was scared as Lila walked up behind her. "Go!" He screamed again as he jolted back. Aria grabbed the laughing RJ as Mila and Lila ran out of the place. They stood outside the room intently listening.
They heard a high pitch scream that hurt their ears. They had to cover their ears as they felt the blast of air and rumble of the sewer pipes. There was silence as they took their hands slowly off their ears. There was another scream that came from the room. Mila's knees hit the ground as she tried to cover her ears from the loud utterly terrify noise. The silence after this one was longer and they took the risk of entering the room. Trent was on his hands and knees facing down at the ground as he sweated profusely from exhaustion. The walls were cracked, the table broken, and the vines were decimated. They looked at each other in dismay and shock. Lila was the first one to speak up.
"You're a mutant?" She asked concerned as he passed out on the sewer cement floor. Had they captured a mutant? How was Trent an anti-mutant supporter when he was one? Mila shocked by the revelation couldn't think about revenge anymore as she slowly walked over to help him. He had done so much destruction yet as he was there unconscious on the ground, he somehow looked so innocent, so hurt. Broken.
Mila, Mila, Mila. Love her...and all the rest of the leftover Morlocks. I love each of these characters. Each one of them have complex issues to deal with. Just in case you wanted to know there wasn't much history explored here because it will be in her cousin, Lila's chapter. Next chapter suggestions, anyone we only have a dozen of characters left. Maybe, Alison Daily or April Stone or maybe Zane...what is your opinion, reviewers?