Clara looked up from the cell, "Did you hear that?"
The others followed her look as the clamor outside seemed to be more like raised voices and arguing now. She could barely make out anything they were saying but neither could anyone else. All she knew was that no one was paying attention to them in the cell anymore. Something more threatening outside was working their way into the facility. Clara swallowed as she turned to the door, hoping there was some sort of switch nearby.
Clara ran her hands over the doors and the corners as the guards worry started to make her panicked. She slammed her hands on the door as she felt tears brimming her eyes. She felt a pair of hands pull her away from the door as she turned around to see Hank was doing it. Whether he was still mad at her or not, Clara hugged her friend tightly as he did the same.
A guard could be heard from up above, "Hey! Stay where you are!"
Clara looked up just as gunshots erupted from inside the viewing room, making everyone gasp. She stiffened as she saw a spray of blood on the window before a soldier was slammed into the window. Everyone let out a scream as they all ran over to the closest wall of the viewing room to be out of sight.
Hank panted, "Keep quiet! Hopefully whatever is up there didn't notice us"
"Hopefully?" Moira repeated.
Clara swallowed as she looked over to the green bars of light nearly close to her skin. She didn't know which would be worse now, to be seen by this unknown threat or to be zapped with this unknown electric force.
"I say one of the teachers goes out to see if that thing is gone" Peter opted.
Hank and Clara turned and looked to Peter as Raven said, "We'll go together"
"Alright" Hank nodded, "Now"
"Do you think he's gone?" Moira asked.
No one answered as everyone listened to the dead silence with only the alarms blaring overhead.
Peter stiffened up, "Someone's up there"
Clara watched as a blue figure popped up as he started to talk to everyone in the cell before Hank said, "Kurt"
"What?"
"What?"
"We can't hear you!" Clara shouted out.
Kurt glanced down before his voice came in through the now distorted speakers, "Stay away from the-"
"The what?"
"The do-" Kurt moved his hand, "Stay away from the-"
"Get away from the door!" Raven shouted.
"On three" Kurt announced, "One… Two…"
An explosion came from the door as Clara quickly rushed out to see Jean and Scott standing there before Jean said, "We know where the Professor is"
Scott continued, "I think we might have a way out of here"
"Well, you've been busy"
"We had a little help" Scott stammered before he ushered everyone to follow him, "Let's go"
Scott started running before a blue mist appeared in front of him, "Ah! Jesus!"
"Oh, sorry!" Kurt said as he ran with them.
"This way!" Scott turned right.
"I don't know whether or not I'm angry or glad to see you three here" Clara told Jean, "I guess we'll see how my mood is with you guys after all of this is over"
Jean turned and looked to her as she gave the woman a smile. Clara smiled back and patted her on the back, knowing it was incredibly brave what these three had done. Clara jumped over a fallen soldier, not really know whether or not to feel sorry about the man or glad they were dead. She then turned and looked at Jean, wondering if they were the ones who killed them but Jean just shook her head as Scott opened up a gateway to reveal a couple of jets.
Hank breathed out, "Nice"
Clara turned to him, "Hey, Hank, do you think you can fly this thing?"
"Yeah, I can figure it out" Hank shrugged.
"Hey guys" Scott said from the corner as he opened up a container, "Flight suits"
Raven looked over to Hank, "You got your warplane. Let's go to war"
"Are you still mad at me?" Clara asked Hank as he flew the jet, "You know why I did it, right? I didn't think the vision was much of a big deal and bringing him up would've only upset you. I know how much you hate him and I wanted to honor our friendship with never bringing him up to you. If I knew he was going to take Charles hostage I would've said something. You know that right?"
Hank smiled as he looked over his shoulder, "I could never be mad at you for long. I'm glad you were thinking about me first but I can handle myself, you know"
"I sometimes forget you're a big boy" Clara smirked as she ruffled his blue fur.
Clara heard a light voice behind her, "Were you scared? That day in DC, were you scared?"
"No" Raven quickly said, she was quiet for a couple of moments before she said, "But I was scared on my first mission. I was on a plane just like this with my friends about your age. We called ourselves the X-Men"
Raven leaned over to look at Scott, "Your brother was there. We used to call him Havok, he was a real handful but when it came down to it, he was very brave"
"What happened to the rest of the kids who went with you?" Kurt asked, "The X-Men?"
Raven shifted as she said, "Hank and I are the only ones left, I couldn't save the rest of them. I told you, I'm not a hero"
"Well, you're a hero to us" Jean turned to her, "Seeing you that day on TV changed my life"
"Mine too" Kurt said, making Clara smile that Raven's son felt that way.
Peter spoke up, "Mine too. I still live at my mom's basement but, you know, everything else is, uh… oh, it's pretty much the same. I'm a total loser"
Clara sighed as she mumbled from her seat in the front, "I hope we make it in time. I can't help but think back to Charles' message to the world. I highly doubt this… apocalypse guy wanted him to say those last words. But now that he did, now what? Is he going to punish him? He must have so many abilities now that who knows what he can do to Charles. I'm starting to have my doubts that Erik would let his man hurt his friend but seeing him like that is making me fear for the worst. We don't know what's going to happen the second we get to Cairo"
"We'll do what we can and save Charles no matter what… I have faith in our team" Hank turned and looked to Clara as she gave him a nod.