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I am really sorry for the long long long wait. I had several things going on and one thing added to another. I also lost my outline so…I have been trying to put together it again. So, here is the plan.
Want to make more OCs to be featured for the sequel? You guys get dibs on making sons and daughters of your OCs. XD (So don't get too crazy.) Some can be mutant and some human (PREFERRED, humans are pretty sweet). Humans are cool. Just send me your OCs in PM or review this story if you don't have a FF account. I can only accept 3-4. They won't be a regular due to there also being 10 new characters. I am basically attempting to write out the original cast from X-Men: Evolution with some exceptions of my favorites.
SEQUEL TITLE: X-Men: Retaliation.
The count down to the finale… Noah Beech, Sarah Goldman, Natalie Foster, Lyra Bell, Zenith Franklin and a surprise character chapter! And several original cast chappies too.
X-Men: Restoration
Chapter Thirty: Zane Anderson
Zane saw computer codes flash around as they filtered through the air of the eerie white hallways as he ran with Noah to find the cell block. He felt bad for leaving Kitty and Lyra to that Abby girl but they had bigger plans. They were on a time table and there wasn't much time left. They could hear fights breaking out around them through the thin walls. The ground rumbled and groaned in agony as their feet absorbed the vibrations. They came to a door with a keypad. Zane nervously breathed out a sigh and put his hand on it. There was always one of three options for his mutation. He could short circuit it, set off the alarm, or the door could open like he wanted it to. The door popped opened and they saw red lasers crisscross across the long hallway.
Great. Just great. The rumbling was getting louder. Noah had sweat beads falling off of his head breathing heavily from all the running.
"Can't you disable it?" He heaved leaning forward and staring at the lasers.
"Not if I can't get close enough to the keypad or the source. It is too far and if I disable the wrong codes that are filtering through my mind, I could be setting off the alarms" Zane said. "You really don't want to know what happens when anyone sets off the alarm."
"What are you doing? Go on and try." Hope's voice barked in their ears. "I might be sitting here back at the mansion but I will kill you if you stand there for a second longer. It is a Secunia security fast lock system. You need to disable code UW12 and FR34 to get through." Zane watched the codes rush around trying to pinpoint the codes that she indicated and he found them and tapped both of them. The lasers turned off and they ran through as fast as possible watching Sentinels walk into the trap. As soon as Zane caught his breath, he gazed at the codes that were drifting away and activated them again. They heard a crash and saw the lasers slash through the Sentinels. Zane smiled. He brushed his blond hair out of his eyes as he brought up the map digitally in front of them from his communicator.
He ran down the hall deactivating all of the codes that Hope barked at him. Hopefully, Noah was close behind.
"Turn left!" He heard Hope scream. Zane saw a hallway destroyed by Sentinels. He saw a flash of light and saw that Eric was throwing lightning bolts at the Sentinels.
"Go! I'll take care of these metal heads!" He said. Zane ran through the hall nodding a thanks to him. He only had a little bit more and he would be there. He saw the hall of cells at the end but there was someone in the way. It was the Dark Nurse. It was Rogue.
"Move out of my way, you never scared me. I have to protect my friends." He said loudly to her. He stared at her right in the eyes and saw the deep rooted pain there. He had seen that look before, his mother, working two jobs to put food on the table, never getting a break. She had the same look of pain waiting for someone to give her a hand. When Zane was old enough to work, his mutation manifested and she was even more burdened. He had turned off all the power in his neighborhood. A few days after it happened, a man stopped by the house and offered him a lot of money for the use of his powers. He left the check on the table and he was brought to The Institution. Before he realized his mistake…he was locked away in an old jail cell. He had to help her. He felt the little electronic pinpoints that were in her body.
"I need to help Rogue, Noah you go ahead and do your thing. I've already unlocked the cells." Zane said.
"Roger that, Techno!" He heard from behind him. Zane concentrated, putting all of his effort into deactivating the orbs. There were so many pins inside of her and many codes to go with each one. He felt tired and drained but he kept going as she tried to take him out. He backed up slowly. He heard the Sentinels behind him overpowering Eric and then he heard a very familiar voice.
"Let me change your luck!" Mark shouted as Sentinels suddenly exploded from the lightning Eric was zapping at them. Mark ran through simply unphased by the amount of traffic and chaos around him.
"You could use some good luck" he said looking at Zane struggling with Rogue. Mark bit his lip in deep thought.
"This is going to hurt but please bear with me" he said to Rogue who now was wide eyed trying to launch herself at the two boys. Mark threw his dice in the air and Rogue missed them, landing flat on the ground. Zane still had a hold on her. Mark flipped a rusty coin and suddenly Zane felt a resistance lift. Zane could see it; he could unlock the electronic coding. He heard her scream in pain, rolling on the floor. She stopped. Zane did all that he could do. Mark wiped his green hair out of his face as he took a breath.
"I can move…" she exasperated. She slowly sat up looking at her hands in disbelief.
"Are you okay?" Mark said taking in a breath. He looked at the crystal dangling in the middle of his neck.
"What is that?" Zane said, having never seen anything like it before. It glowed a dark green color.
"Sarah said I should try some different good luck charms and I found out that I suck the luck out of them, this crystal is almost done. So I am actually useful now." He said quickly.
"I'm going to kill him." Rogue whispered glowering as she stretched. She threw a few quick punches with her gloved hands. The two boys were busy relaying the information in their communicators to a very loud Hope.
"Alright. Let's go help Noah before I need a hearing aid." Mark said.
"This is important because this is much bigger than any of us thought! Please listen!" Rogue argued, trying to vie for the young recruits' attention. A scream echoed through the hallway. They all glanced at each other and ran towards the sound. Zane unlocked the passcode to the door and they saw what had caused the scream. Eric ran passed them in record time as soon as the door opened. It was Camlin who was blocking Natalie Foster's way of getting to the mutants who were escaping.
"This is his own battle" Zane whispered as Natalie laughed at all of them.
"Oh please. I can take you on all at once. I am the manipulator after all. Look at how defenseless your little pretty girl is. She can't scare me with her ghosts. They don't do anything to me, not without your sister…but I took care of her too." She laughed. Eric had electric bolts coming out of his body like he was Zeus as his face grew more flushed. His eyes were beady and dark and they burned holes through the girl's head.
"YOU LET HER DOWN OR ELSE YOU WILL FACE MY WRATH!" Eric boomed, making an electric arrow and bow aiming it right at Natalie's head.
"You think you can scare me with that?" She laughed. Eric aimed and was about to let go of the string but there was a singsong voice heard above Camlin's terrifying screams. Zane and Mark tried to step in but they also heard a voice too.
"Stop. Freeze boys. I am your puppet master now. Listen to the sound of my voice." They all heard the alluring, mystical voice. Zane couldn't move but he could see everything. He saw Natalie walk over to Eric and walk in circles around him.
"Drop your weapon." She commanded and he did as he was told. Camlin laid there on the ground breathing heavily staring at Natalie. She hissed in pain. Eric no longer had electricity flowing around and he was stupefied. "Your boy toy is quite cute, love." She tipped her fedora hat back and leaned in real close to Eric. She mesmerized him with her stare and he kissed her. HE kissed her?!
Camlin was usually sweet, loveable kind of girl but once she saw that. She snapped. She was no longer in pain or agony on the floor. She was standing, although in pain, she stood there looking like she could take the whole Institution.
"GET AWAY FROM MY BOYFRIEND!" She screamed at the top of her lungs. Zane still was frozen and Mark was the same. Rogue was struggling.
"Make me!" She giggled. Eric completely under her control, his blue eyes now dark black pits. She slinked her arm around him as he aimed an electric bolt at Camlin. Camlin glared at her.
"You asked for it now! Whatever you did to my sister and Eric, you will get it paid four fold." She said coldly as her short blond hair began to wave in the air like flames and rose off the ground. She spread her arms out as a whirlwind came into the metal hallway. The lights began to blink. She chanted "May all spirits rise, the experimented mutants and take your vengeance. May you release the full extent of your grip of the undead on every enemy you have in this place. May they feel your pain and AGONY!"
Zane felt chilled to his bone as he saw the spirits clear as day rise out of the ground. He had never seen a ghost before but he was terrified. Natalie backed away from Eric, not saying a smart comment now. She began to scream as the ghosts attacked her. Camlin's eyes glowed a dark grey. Zane felt Natalie's grip let go of him. Mark and he instantly hit the ground having the wind knocked out of them. Eric was struggling to get through to Camlin.
"Camlin, I'm fine! Leave her be!" He said crying. Camlin glanced at him and her eyes changed back to the bright bubbly blue with a ring of green. She sighed and the gusts stopped and she fell into Eric's arms. Eric and Camlin looked at each other lovingly and she hugged him. She then hit him across the cheek. "What was that for?!" He gasped.
"Hello!? You kissed her!" She said sternly. He sighed.
"So I'm your boyfriend. I could still hear you no matter if I was under that crazy girl's control." He smiled at her. She blushed.
"I thought we would make it official." She said. She kissed him. Zane, Rogue, and Mark stared at each other. Natalie was in the fetal position mumbling something about them coming to get her.
"Let's get a move on, people. I have to get to Logan and Ororo as soon as possible. I have to tell them who is behind this all. You two can make up later." Rogue hinted as she pointed in the direction of the exit.
"We know who is behind this. Um, guys. Don't you guys wonder why we haven't had Hope screaming at us since we basically have been standing here for five minutes doing nothing but watch this sappy romance?" Mark said adjusting his communicator. Rogue let out a frustrated sigh as she gripped Mark by his uniform collar.
"Very good green haired one. Very good. She is in my hands now though. I'm sending you a thank you gift. Since all of this was a little diversion. Hopefully, you all can see this because it will be the very last you will get to see of your precious friends." Dr. Bamback appeared on a floating television screen in front of them. Rogue let go of Mark.
"I'm going to get you and you are going to feel all of the pain you caused all of us!" She roared at the screen.
"Fairly unlikely, look at your friends. You got in the way of our little project and now we are attacking you when your team is divided in The Institution." Dr. Bamback said. There were an army of Sentinels and mutants walking towards the X-Mansion. They all gasped.
"Let's go!" They heard from down the hall. It was Logan. They all ran as fast as they could. Could the Professor and a handful of younger mutants take on that? Zane thought about how easy this mission was. They freed all of the experiments left over and he was about to help them regain possession of their bodies by removing all of the electronic signatures left behind. Marina and Allison were carrying two bodies, Coralie and Reagan. Camlin jumped out of Eric's arms and ran to her sister.
"Who did this to you?!" Camlin cried looking over Coralie. Marina covered her in a blanket as they loaded the jet. Zane caught a sight of her. She was covered in burns. Acid burns. Reagan was less burned than Coralie but still pretty bad. Eric embraced her as she wept on his shoulder.
"My mom's a nurse, I picked up a few treatments along the way" Zane said as the rest of the mutants braced themselves for a fast flight. Someone pulled down an emergency first aid kit.
"You guys were going to leave without me!?" Kitty wailed as she phased through the loading door. She had the chip in hand. "I got it! Let's go save the world!"
"Half-pint. Sit down. We have a greater battle to beat. I sent Kurt with Ororo to the X-Mansion. She has bought us a few minutes." Logan said. Kitty noticed someone before that happened. "The others are making it there by ground so we will have to be the first to intercept." Logan couldn't finish since the girl had already ignored his words.
"Rogue! OMG! You are alive and fine!" She squealed as she hugged Rogue.
"Get off of me!" Rogue wailed in her sweet southern accent. They felt the speed of the jet as it lifted off to go save their friends. They would make it in time; they had to make it in time. The rest of the world depended on it. Zane gave the burning ointment to someone else. He touched the metal paneling on the floor and saw the electronic wiring and codes. He cracked a smile as everyone else was freaking out.
"What are you smiling about?" Marina grimaced bracing her seat very tightly. "I really don't like your nonchalant attitude about this serious mission."
"I can make it go faster" he chuckled, "Isn't that a thing to smile about?" Marina groaned as all of them felt the jet go faster than ever before. They better be ready, Zane thought as he relaxed, leaning back in his chair.
Again, I am sorry for the very long wait. I will have the next chapter up in two weeks. I am taking very difficult classes so it has taken quite a while to get use to the study schedule. I am writing different chapters at the same time as my outline formulates in my mind so it should run fairly smooth after this. Thank you. I hope you like Zane because I love his character! :D
Til next time.