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X-Men: Restoration
Chapter Thirty Three: Danielle Adams
"Let's go in for extraction." Danielle whispered in her radio as she glanced about in the darkness of the night. She saw Natalie, Lila, and Mila, in the SHIELD issued jet, looking oblivious to the situation. "You three stay here, you are needed here."
She jumped out of the jet, landing on the roof of an apartment building. She melted herself into the shadows. Two other agents were beside her as she scaled across the roof skillfully. She signaled for one of the SHIELD agents to open the door and they descended down the stairs. They got onto the penthouse floor and slowly went down the dark hallway. They stopped in front of the door and Danielle happily kicked it down and pointed her stun gun inside. She saw four mutants standing above two non-mutants on the ground, specifically Senator Kelly's wife and child.
"Go get the targets, I'll handle the mutatees." Danielle said. Danielle knew the four mutants and saw that they had gone through with their plan.
"So we meet again, RJ, Aria, Napier, and Ian" She said causally walking in front of them as the other two SHIELD agents stood by to grab the woman and child. "After you saved SHIELD from those Sentinels. I made a deal with you to disappear. Guess that was a bad decision on my part. Attacking helpless people now, aren't we?" She said dropping her stun gun on the floor, "Let's do this, mutant style." She cracked her knuckles and let them charge at her.
"With pleasure," RJ scowled stretching long. The others got in battle stance and she smiled.
"Now you made a bad decision on your part," Danielle said as she made their shadows wrap around each of them and constrict them. They yelled in agony as she tightened the shadows around each of them. The two agents grabbed the little boy and the woman and took off running. Suddenly, a tiger jumped out at her and she had to dodge to avoid it. "Napier, you don't think I would fall for that." She grabbed the tiger with another shadow.
"No, I didn't." Napier said breaking out of his shadow hold, he touched another tattoo of an alligator and it began to crawl off of his leg.
"Why are you guys doing this!?" she said doing a front twist tuck over the alligator. She grabbed her stun gun and beamed it at Napier. It made direct contact and he fell over unconscious. The alligator and the tiger disappeared.
"We want to be respected, we want power. We aren't going to be imprisoned any longer." She covered the three of them in her shadows, binding her hands together trying to hold them.
"You can have respect. We are trying to integrate mutants into society." She struggled as they all broke free of the shadow grip. She was blown backwards. RJ whipped up and wrapped around her, constricting.
"Integration is a foolish move. The nonmutants will imprison us when someone gets to violent." Aria said. Danielle gasped for air as she tried to gain a sense of her mutant abilities. They were in a dark room and the shadows were on her side. Before she could even lift a finger she heard several yells.
"Why don't you pick on someone your own size, traitor" Lila said flipping her rainbow colored hair over her shoulder.
"You are the traitors!" Aria spit. Lila and Mila lifted an eyebrow. RJ let go of Danielle, surprised by the two girls in the room.
"What are you doing here? What about the target drop?" Danielle said, noticing the tension between them. This is not the time to have a family reunion she thought. No one follows protocol anymore.
"They are fine. Those two agents are going to drop them off at the nearest hospital and turn the chopper round." Lila chimed. Danielle smacked herself in the head. They will so get a lot of training rounds later and beat down from her. What was Fury going to say about this?
Before she knew it Aria was spin kicking her as she quickly blocked it with her hand just in time. She returned the favor by jabbing her in the shoulder. Aria frustrated, began to punch in the air as Danielle dodged each one. Suddenly, they heard an unlikely voice speak.
"We need to coexist, you bitter maniac! We will always be here and they will always be here. One day, they will realize we are just like them. We all have our downfalls and apparently yours has come and stayed, give it up. Your act of denomination ends today, this has been declared by mutants everywhere." Mila said as she projected holographic images of mutants shaking hands with regular people. Mila was usually the silent type but Danielle guessed she really wanted to voice her opinion on this one. Then there was Caliban who had broken away from the Morlocks to start the revolution that RJ stood for but he was holding a sign that said "Mutant Integration."
"Stop, everyone stop! Who is going to accept this? Who will? I had everything before and now I have nothing. Nothing at all…" He began to yell in frustration as he wiggled out of the shadow grip with his flexibility. He pointed at his twisted and elongated form.
"RJ we will accept you but stop with this angry rampage. Remember all of the good times. We are trying to make it right. We know you are frustrated, bitter and angry." Lila pleaded. RJ calmed down as he stood there facing them, his old buddies.
Danielle grabbed the screen from Lila quickly and started to play Natalie's speech.
"They are heroes. They are our silent, unrelenting heroes." Danielle watched RJ's reaction during the entire speech. His brow unfurrowed and he dropped his clenched fists at his sides. Danielle turned it off and gave it back to Lila as the last words were said.
"We don't need to listen to any of this, RJ. I'm tired of people trying to advocate peace in a world of chaos." Ian said changing back into his human form. The little boy went over to Napier and helped him off the floor. RJ looked up at him with concerned eyes and looked at his hands.
"I could never be a hero. Everyone would run away in horror." He said with an overwhelming sense of calmness. He looked up at Danielle, Lila, and Mila. "I'll leave them alone. Like you said, there is no sense fighting what is already here." RJ smiled for the first time in a long time, he was tired of fighting something he couldn't win. In the end, all he really wanted was to be accepted and he had had that all along. Mila and Lila embraced him while Aria and the others stood in the background in shock at what had occurred.
"What?! You are going to their side? They are government agents now and you can't trust them. You can't trust anyone. I know this! Bamback and all of his cronies are still out there experimenting, I don't believe it!" Aria screamed and she ran out of the room with Napier and Ian following behind. They were grabbed by SHIELD agents and stunned. RJ pushed away both of his so-called friends.
"What are you doing?" He asked.
"We can't have them hurting anymore people, we are going to take them to rehabilitation and eventually integrate them into society. You will have to go to since you have been deemed high risk mutant for a while. With a compliant attitude you will be released in no time. Please, RJ do this for us." Mila begged but RJ just scowled.
"Mutant rehabilitation? You have to be joking." He raised a hand at Mila and was going to slap her when Lila whipped out her stunner and stunned him. Mila turned and saw her cousin spit on him.
"THAT'S FOR LEAVING US BEHIND AND TRYING TO SLAP MILA! You don't slap my cousin, ever!" Lila grunted.
"So much for talking it out girls" Danielle muttered hauling the long body to the chopper.
"RJ was always a pain to deal with. We would be here for another hour trying to get him to go to rehab. Though I think we should change the name 'rehabilitation' so it doesn't scare any future rehabbers off." Lila said spinning her stun gun through the trigger loop.
"This is Director Nick Fury reporting to Chopper 23. You are needed at the X-Mansion. Pronto." Fury said over the radio as the girls loaded the chopper. All three girls smiled at each other.
"Finally some real action!" Danielle sounded. They rerouted their chopper and saw the army of Sentinels marching towards the mansion.
"I am going to meet you at the rendezvous point 2. We have a mission for you, Agent Adams. We need to shut down the Sentinels and get Magneto and his team out of there. I have the control to set them off but we need an inside man…or in this case a woman." Fury commanded. Danielle smiled. They arrived at the rendezvous point and Fury handed her a box. "This needs to be in the center of the Sentinel army. It will disengage the Sentinels. Agents Hawk and O'Henry proceed to capture Magneto."
Danielle nodded at Fury and she went into the middle of the Sentinels, dodging their large robotic feet. One of them saw her running and started to aim the lasers at her. Danielle ducked and rolled just in time. She grinned.
"You are messing with the wrong girl!" Danielle shouted as she used the shadows around her and grabbed the Sentinels. They started to sink into the shadows. She heaved a heavy sigh as she enveloped more of them and then threw in the box Nick Fury gave her into the dark abyss. A blue energy what she thought was an electronic pulse came up out of the shadow cavity and was sent through a few straggling Sentinels who were battling a few X-Men. All of the Sentinels stopped moving. Her thoughts were confirmed when she looked at her communicator watch. It was blank. Great, Fury.
Now, she had to stop Magneto and his posse. She bent over, needing a minute to catch her breath and looked at the trodden ground. Most of the Sentinels were sent to the shadow realm, thanks to her mutation but a few were just laying or standing around, looming over them. She felt beads of sweat drop off of her face, breathing in a nice long breath. The smell of metal, grass, and grime filled her nostrils. SHIELD never gives her break but she wasn't one of their top agents for nothing.
"Who are you and how did you do that?!" One of the X-Men exclaimed. She held up a finger and then stood up straight.
"I am SHIELD agent Danielle Adams, here to help you in your time of crisis." She said pointing to the red insignia.
"Oh, I don't think we are supposed to like you much but thank you for coming to help!" He said multiplying into a dozen copies of himself. She raised an eyebrow.
"Where's Magneto and his goons. My communicator is offline due to the electronic pulse I just released." She said.
Suddenly a zap of lightning hit the mansion. She really needed Lila but she ran towards the mansion as fast as she could before the stragglers could say anything. She saw a flash of a rainbow and smiled as she disappeared from the outside and came to the inside of the mansion. She blinked and saw Lila next to her. They heard a thunderclap of exploding noises.
"Good timing," Danielle whispered and Lila nodded in acknowledgement. They turned towards the fight scene that was going on in the hall.
"You want to hurt my friends? Why don't you take a little piece of your own medicine!" Ansleigh said taking off her sunglasses and staring at Sean with her catlike eyes. "I see anger but there is weakness within in you. Acid may run through your veins but that doesn't make you invincible. For Camlin and Reagan!" Ansleigh said her golden eyes burning with the sense of justice. She rose up her hands over her head and brought them down swiftly.
Sean flipped his hood back and let all of the green acid he could muster shoot out of his hands, trying to burn the lights and their fixtures before they exploded next to him. He was too late because he was knocked against a wall. She laughed. Sean lifted his hands spraying acid at her but she just made them explode as soon as it left his hands. He screamed in pain as the acid made contact never feeling the horrible sting of his own acid.
"That's the point of my mutation. I make things explode; it doesn't have to be electronic. So try me." She said in a dark tone as she punched him in his face as he laid there hissing from the pain. He clocked out after that. "Now, who are you two." She said, darting her cat eyes at them.
"Danielle Adams, SHIELD. Lila Hawk. We are here to help in any way possible." Danielle spouted as they heard more yells down the hallway. Ansleigh raised her eyes above them and turned and ran. Danielle followed with Lila behind her. They heard a roar like a dinosaur as the house shook. "We have to get to Magneto."
Ansleigh slid down her sunglasses and bolted through the wreckage. They ran into another enemy Vanessa who was opening portals every which way. She cried as she did it. They grabbed onto something nearby which was a door frame. Danielle dug her nails into as Lila tried to transport them somewhere else but she couldn't get enough steadiness to do it. They were desperately trying not to get sucked in but they heard a voice.
"I'm sorry, Nessa." Levi said as he knocked her out with a blow to the gut. "You will always be beautiful whether crazy evil or normally irritated beyond belief." Rainier rolled his eyes and lifted an eyebrow at Danielle and Lila. Ansleigh shrugged her shoulders.
"They are here to help and frankly we need all the help we can get." She said. Levi smiled coyily.
"Well, three more gorgeous ladies aren't going to hurt the dynamic duo." Levi said high fiving Rainier. All of them followed the sounds of the fight. They found it in no time since a dinosaur was ripping through the walls like they were rice paper.
Magneto stood in the middle of it all as he threw Wolverine around like a rag doll. He fought off the others by holding them back with various pieces of metal.
"Oh, Erik. I think you better stop before you lose this battle," Professor Xavier said sitting there with a piece of metal wrapped around him, lodged in the wall.
"I won't lose anything, Charles. I am in charge now. I will rule over human kind because they will think I am a god once I give them what they want which is secure isolation of the most powerful mutants everywhere on my mutant paradise, Genosha. They don't appreciate us, Charles. This way they will and when they least expect it, we will claim our place as gods, as superior beings over them." He said.
"We highly doubt that." Natalie said stepping forward.
"Is that Natalie Foster I hear?" He smiled as he flung another piece of metal at her but she stared him down with those oh-so-persuasive eyes.
"Drop everything." She boomed walking closer to him each step heavier than the next, eyes still locked with Magneto. The pieces of metal fell away from everyone and he snapped back.
"What?" He said. "Is that all you have?"
"Yes, frankly but now you will have to deal with all of them and SHIELD after that." Natalie laughed. Magneto stared at all of them. Magneto stared at all of them, and realized he had lost.