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LAST Call: 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 can still kick butt.). 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.
The count down to the finale… Noah Beech, Lyra Bell, and the surprise character chapter! (Maybe not in this order but there are four chapters left including the epilogue. I have decided not to write about Zenith since he was minor (I mean really minor) and he is my OC so he will magically disappear from this story. I can't believe only three more lovely OCs! This has been great and it will continue in the sequel :D
X-Men: Restoration
Chapter Thirty Two: Natalie Foster
As soon as all of those spirits rushed through her, the experimental spell was broken. She felt sick to her stomach as she crouched over holding her head between her knees in the empty hallway. Destruction had treaded its path but all of the Sentinels left to attack the mansion. She didn't care though, she just really wanted to go off and live on a deserted island alone, dying in isolation. She had manipulated, taken advantage of so many people.
Feelings of guilt swam through her mind as she saw flashes of suppressed memories. She saw her mother and father. Her mother, a cop. Her father, the con man. She saw her mother leave, leaving her alone with dad. She saw the world. She developed her mutation and everything changed. She saw the inside of a dark truck. She saw many test tubes, experimental equipment surrounding her. She saw a toddler wandering around with a woman chasing after him around the lab. She then felt all of the pain it had caused her and how they took her sympathy and emotions for others away. She became a monster in the making.
She wanted to make it right. She wanted to make it all right again but with Magneto and Bamback's crazy complicated plan, it wasn't going to be easy. No one had their eyes on her. She swept her black curls out of her face and walked down the hall, entering the lab. The defenses were down since the X-Men had ripped the place apart. She heard glass drop and turned to see who it was. It was Abby. The small girl was standing there with her arms crossed, and a twisted face.
"What are you doing?" she asked bitterly, leaning against one of the lab desks.
"Making everything right." Natalie said walking through the lab's freezer locker. Abby's mouth dropped open as her arms dropped to her sides.
"What?!" Abby exclaimed. "Everything is going to go wrong. Magneto's plan to dominate and have power over the nonmutants. Genosha, what is it all for?" Abby argued becoming red in the face.
"Why? Why are we doing this?" Natalie replied dropping several test tubes on the ground. "We spread a terrible virus among them. We instill fear among them and to be a savior among them to just have mutants move away to Genosha isn't going to help. We have this great power, these mutations give us strength and intelligence to help them, not take advantage of them. We can be heroes not power mongers."
"You have it all wrong. You must have been dropped on your head or something a few hours ago you were so behind this plan. You loved it, you bathed in it at the idea you could have power over the nonmutants. We were given this power for a reason and it was to create order among the world, it was to take power. There is no reason to coincide with the human race. We are better than them." Abby scoffed. Natalie turned and stared at her.
"We are people just like them. What gives us the right? The Institution has taken advantage of us too. Why should we let them? We weren't supposed to be this strong. They experimented on us to make us their weapon. I'm tired of being used, I finally feel like myself again and it is no thanks to those X-Men. So are you going to help or do I need to teach you a lesson?" Natalie said walking out of the freezer locker.
"I used to idolize you but now I know you are just as sad and pathetic as those X-Men. You aren't getting those vaccines. It will be over my dead body." Abby snickered, brushing her and black and red striped hair out of her eyes.
"Oh, really? This will be fun." Natalie said setting her fedora on the table. Abby cracked her knuckles and started to raise her into the air. Natalie struggled but remained calm.
"You can't beat me! I can control your every move." Abby exclaimed, throwing Natalie's body across the room. Natalie got the wind knocked out of her as she breathed in inflamed air. Her mangled black curls falling over her face.
"You may be able to control my movements, but your mind is weak." Natalie stared at Abby as she walked towards her, her concentration focused. Abby lifted her hands at her trying to stop her, Natalie struggling but still walking forward.
"Be a good girl and sit down on the lab stool." Natalie hypnotically whispered. The words sliced through the air and Abbydid as she was told. She sat down on the lab chair still gritting her teeth.
"You think you can hold me here?" Abby said. Natalie laughed but was thrown backwards, hitting the laminate floor hard. "I don't need my hands to play with you just like a puppet." Natalie was lifted into the air, her arms and legs swinging back and forth.
"SLEEP!" Natalie commanded, as her hands began to punch herself. She cried out in pain, feeling the swelling and bruising. Suddenly, she dropped onto the floor with a smack as Abby fell asleep on the stool. Natalie quickly ran forward so the scary girl wouldn't fall off the stool and lifted her onto a lab table. "Sleep, for a long time and think about the good of humanity." Natalie sealed the spell with a kiss on the cheek. Hopefully, Abby wouldn't grow into the manipulative monster she became. Battered, she walked to the freezer again and saw that all of the vaccine boxes were gone. Did the X-Men take them?
"Miss Natalie Foster?" someone said from behind her. She whipped around ready to fight but it was someone quite different. She hesitated but stood her ground. She was dress from head to toe in a black uniform similar to the X-Men's but it had a bird insignia on her patch. It was S.H.I.E.L.D. She was a younger agent a few years older than her. She was very suspicious of S.H.I. . since they were always snooping around. "I won't hurt you. I have a proposition for you." Natalie raised an eyebrow at her. "I am an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. My name is Danielle Adams. I am here to help, as you can see a group of agents have already extracted the cure and they are ready to ship it out but we would like you to do a press conference on the mutant revolution. You can 'make it right for the X-Men' but on one condition."
"Alright, I'll dance with you but what is this condition you are speaking about? " she asked Agent Adams. She sauntered slowly over to her letting the point of her shoe graze the floor. She had to be ready to kick Adams if she tried to hurt her.
"Become an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and you can make the X-Men heroes in their own right. We have several mutant recruits already in tow. I broke them out of the MRD and they agreed to my terms. Besides, haven't the mutants wanted this all along? You can become a heroine to everyone. All you have to do is work for us." Danielle said taking a step closer putting her hands behind his back. Natalie was stunned but took a step back from the agent.
"Why would you offer anything to a mutant who has hurt so many?" she said as her voice lowered to a whisper. Danielle glanced at the floor and then looked up at her.
"Are you telling me that you did it willingly? We have been trying to shut down The Institution but we never got a lead until the X-Men did. You will be called a victim if you just do what S.H.I.E.L.D. asks." Danielle said glimpsing at Abby. Natalie stepped over in the line of his view.
"I guess I don't have much a choice. I'll do what you ask." Natalie smiled. "And no I never did anything willingly." She laughed. Agent Adams looked up with small, shy smile forming on her face. She thought she might as well become an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. so she could figure out what they were up to. She had the persuasion on her side. Two more S.H.I.E.L.D. agent came out and took Abby's sleeping body. Natalie looked at Agent Adams with a look of confusion. "What are you doing with her? She definitely won't agree to your terms." The agent smiled.
"We are taking her to a place where she can hurt no one any longer. She will be safe." She said. Natalie's jaw dropped opened.
"I don't like her much but I will not let you lock her up." Natalie said with an edge of anger.
"Listen to anything S.H.I.E.L.D. says so follow me and let's get on the chopper. You will be representing the X-Men, we have several speeches for you to choose from." Danielle sternly said. Natalie sealed her lips together, following behind the rule loving agent. She had her work cut out for her. She was loaded into the helicopter and they flew towards town hall. Natalie braced herself for what was next.
She was before a crowd of sick, helpless people who were are marked with the infamous black X. There were a few healthy people straggled in between them barricading themselves with layers of clothes and filter masks. She saw the glaring lights and all of the news casting crews. She looked down at the prewritten speech before and began to read:
Hello, citizens of Bayville, I am Natalie Foster. Our city has been covered with an epidemic of great proportions taking our loved ones away from us mutant and nonmutant. This epidemic was not caused by mutants or anything else like them. It was a virus manufactured in a laboratory to create fear in us of someone different than our kind.
Hope stood at the front of the lines, healthy and happy as ever taking back what was rightful hers beside her new friends. She barked out the weaknesses of the Sentinels as everyone blasted them with all of the power that they had. She saw Rainier and Levi, fighting side by side as they clobbered each Sentinel with one blast from the iron hard fists. They had to win for what was right.
But I am here to stand as a fellow mutant proud of what I am. Mutants are people and should be treated like people. Everything that has happened over the past year was a fabrication. The massacres were not real but digital projections of mutants. The subway car incident was a set up to make innocent by standing mutants take the fall, and last but not least the X-Men are not the enemy. There are good people and bad people. There are good mutants and bad mutants.
The X-Men fought off the Sentinels as long as possible. They kept coming at them. Sakura was crying bitter tears as she whipped the Sentinels in half as her water like arms flew through the air. Wolverine was slicing through them like they were smooth as butter. Magneto threw him against the mansion wall, laughing at his demise. He floated up the mansion steps towards Cerebro. Storm made the skies hail down huge chunks of hail the size of baseballs trying to slow their movement. They kept coming. Xavier was in Cerebro trying to take control of the one mind that he thought could stop this all, but it was no use. Shiloh and Vince were whimpering from the noise outside.
Many mutants, including myself were experimented on against our will to be made into weapons. The X-Men rose to the occasion and saved us. They broke into the laboratory and got the cure for you. They saved you. We will administer the vaccine at the various pharmacies throughout Bayville. The X-Men are not the enemies today. They are heroes. They are our silent, unrelenting heroes.
Senator Kelly sat at his desk watching the television as he sat before the document waiting for it to pass in congress. It would be moments from now when everything would rain down on those filthy mutants. A ring of his phone he sat up about to take it when out of the darkness three figures stepped forward. He gasped at their grotesque features and pushed his rolling chair back as he stood up afraid of them. He saw a rainbow filter in and a girl appear at the end of it with a girl with ivy like arms. They fought the three mutants in front of him. The three mutants were knocked out cold. The two girls approached him with beaming smiles on their faces. "Director Fury would like to say a few words to you." The rainbow girl said as a big, muscular man walked in wearing an eye patch in a black uniform. Senator Kelly's eyes widened at the sight.
Yet, we never noticed their heroic actions in our daily life and instead of congratulating them we protest against mutant kind. We join Doctor Bamback's protests when he was the one who made all of these incidents happen. Yes, I tell you that Doctor Bamback and his laboratory were responsible for everything that the mutants were framed for. He created the virus; spread it among you, the subway incident, and the massacres to instill fear in you all. He and everyone who did this with him is the enemy.
Dr. Bamback was pleased to see his son gone from this world. He had been a nuisance and a burden long enough. He had caused him to turn like this. Why did you have to be a mutant? He saw destruction around him and now he was surrounded by several mutants who were angered at their friends deaths. He knew Magneto would protect him, he had done so much for him and he had his fun projects standing beside him. But they were turning on him as he realized Specimen 321 had her gun pointed at him as she cried tears.
"You made me kill them! How could you? How could you?" she cried as he heard the laser loading up. He had his failsafe method and pulled out a pocket pointer. The other mutants stepped back afraid of what he might do.
"If you do anything, I can kill you in a heartbeat and all of your friends. I made you what you are. You are more powerful with me. When I found you, you could only stop time for several moments but now you can travel in time. You can do anything as long as you have me. If you do anything to me, and that gun on your wrist will explode." He said nervously glancing at the Sentinel army. Magneto was nowhere to be found.
"I was never supposed to be this powerful. It is a risk I am willing to take." Specimen 321 launched herself at him but as he pressed the button, Bayville faded around them. He saw a glimpse of a field and realized she had sent him back in time. But then everything turned black.
They sent out the Mutant Response Division and reactivated the dangerous Sentinel program for you all. We cannot roam the streets any longer without fear of the Sentinel. Our children are living in fear. But today it ends. We shall judge the unjust, honor the heroic, and save Bayville. Let us do what is right for Bayville and rise against the enemy with the X-Men by our side.
Senator Kelly glanced at the television with Fury looming over him as he ripped up the documents about the mutant registration act. He decommissioned the Sentinel program and gave the controls to Fury. Fury walked out of the office with two new S.H.I.E.L.D. recruits behind him, the two girls high fived each other, cousins and best friends for life.
Thank you citizens of Bayville may you make the right decision and support mutant integration. Please proceed to your designated pharmacy for your vaccines. Natalie smiled as the people clapped and cheered. She didn't even have to use her mutation to convince them. The roar of the crowd was a thundering boom. They were filled with joy and hope. She whispered thank you in the air to the ghost girl that had brought her to her senses. She smiled at the sense of calm that came over her. The city of Bayville was finally on the X-Men's side. She had repaid her debt.
YAY long chappie! Really long chapter but I was hoping that this chapter really hit it home for a lot of you reviewers! Thank you to all of my lovely reviewers! I loved loved writing this chapter. The next two chapters should close it up nicely. More about S.H.I.E.L.D.'s involvement in the sequel. Please check out deviantart!