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Chapter 17: The Danger Room Siege- part 1: Erik vs. Forge

Observation Platform above Danger Room, Xavier Institute, Bayville, NY- May 17, 11:45 PM

As the battle raged, it was a blur to anyone trying to see what was taking place below, and Forge knew this as well as anyone. He knew this as he was trying to watch the action that was taking place below him from the computer room where all of the monitoring in a training session took place. Forge was typing furiously on the various keyboards in the room trying to regain a picture on the camera screen that let a trainer and/or observer to see the session going on below.

'Damn, I need to see what is going on down there if I'm to help them fight off Magneto,' he thought furiously as he typed and cursed when the static that had appeared when Erik had arrived remained on the screen.

Unfortunately, Forge didn't have his guard up so he was utterly surprised when he saw a piece of one of the laser guns used in Level 5 training sessions suddenly float up into the air and hover directly in front of him. What scared Forge about the metal was that it was glowing with orange energy, the energy he instantly knew belonged to Remy. Forge panicked and after looking around for a spilt second hit the ground and covered his head.

The explosion that occurred made everyone below look up at the monitoring room and saw it burst into pieces.

The X-Factor team looked up for a minute and felt themselves get hit when John and Wanda launched a double attack at them.

"What in the hell?" demanded Roberto but was hit by a hexbolt and forced to concentrate on the battle in front of him.

The X-Men looked up and then were all thrown back against the wall by a tackle from Fred and slime launched by Todd.

"Forge!" exclaimed Kurt as he 'bamfed' away from Todd's slime only to be tackled by Fred. "Ow…" muttered Kurt as he found himself falling unconscious.

"Tyne, what do we do?" asked Britt as she stood a bit behind the leader of the X-Sword Team, and watched wide-eyed as the battle consumed the other 2 teams.

"I don't know… I don't know…" muttered Tyne as she tried concentrating on turning into a giant hawk but failed because she was too nervous.

Devon was glancing around, and saw two decks of cards- glowing orange- heading their way. "Duck!" yelled Devon as he ran and pushed Erica down just in time but for the others it was too late. They were hit and knocked instantly unconscious.

"You okay?" asked Devon as he helped Erica to her feet, but was surprised when she swatted his hand off her and glared.

"I'm fine; leave me alone," Erica said slowly and vehemently. She was just about to walk away when she felt something hit her in the back of her head, and unable to react quickly enough, fell to the ground.

"Erica!" yelled Devon as he started towards the fallen teen but soon joined her when he was hit in the back of the head as well.

Pietro soon stopped beside the mutants, and, smirking, said, "Job well done, if I don't say so myself." He then created a whirlwind and carried all of the X-Sword team to one of two giant cages that Erik had constructed out of the metal present in the Danger Room.

Xavier, meanwhile, was struggling against Jason's illusions and didn't even hear the deafening explosion that had occurred moments before.

Back up in the monitoring room Forge heard all of the glass in the 5 huge windows and the monitors from the computers and cameras shatter and felt millions of glass shards cut into his arms. Forge silently sent a thank-you to his god that he had synthetic arms and not real ones, but he still felt the resounding pain emanating from them.

A few minutes later, Forge slowly opened his eyes and slowly rose to his feet, wincing at the pain coming from his arms, even though they were synthetic.

"Shit," he muttered as he examined the amount of glass embedded in his arms and thought to himself, 'Hmm… the glass doesn't look like it's in too deep… if I turn my arms into metal then maybe I'll be able to expel the glass and build some type of machine that will be able to help my side down there win…'

Forge closed his eyes and concentrated, and in a couple of moments his arms turned into two giant mechanical arms, complete with numerous buttons and controls. His right hand had tools at the end of it and the left hand was simply mechanical.

"Ahh, that's better," said Forge as he looked at his now mechanical arms, the glass now gone and the pain slowly receding, and thought 'Time to get to work.'

Just as he was about to grab pieces of scrap metal that were scattered about him as a result of the explosion he suddenly felt his arms become stiff. He yelled in pain as he stared at his now paralyzed arms and watched as they began to twist into weird designs and shapes, causing him immeasurable pain. He heard a laugh, and turned to face Erik, who, after having floated the giant piece of machinery charged with Remy's energy up to the monitoring room had levitated himself up when he felt Forge activate his mechanical arms. Forge gritted his teeth and tried to move his arms, but they wouldn't move an inch. Forge grew angrier as he heard Erik chuckle as he landed in the room and watched as he began to walk towards him.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, Dr. Forge," mocked Erik as he looked at the famous doctor and inventor; well, once famous. "You should know better then to activate your powers when I am around, now shouldn't you?"

"Bastard!" gritted Forge as he struggled to free his arms, or at least retract the metal and return them to their synthetic states, but neither thing worked.

"Shame on you again, Forge; shame on you. What makes you think I'm going to let you go so you can build some machine to help Xavier?" Erik asked as he stared at Forge, and saw surprise cross the doctor's face.

"Oh, yes, didn't you know? I, like Xavier, can also read minds; however, it only works on those who are close to me, as you are," smirked Erik as he looked at Forge, an evil glint present in his eyes.

"What are you going to do with me, Magneto?" asked Forge resignedly as he stopped struggling, realizing it was futile to try and escape.

"You and the rest of Charles' students are going to come with me to my new sanctuary: Asteroid Evolution ((I know, unique, right?)). Once there, you will all be my prisoners. Now, follow me," said Erik as he turned around and floated out of the monitoring room. He suddenly stopped on remembering that Forge was unable to move and turned to face Forge once more.

"Oh, I forgot…" mused Erik as he looked at Forge, turned around once more and snapped his fingers. Forge felt himself lift off of the ground and begin to follow Erik down into the middle of the fray.

As they floated above the chaos, Forge could only watch in disbelief as the X-Men, one by one, team by team, fell to the combined forces of the Brotherhood and the Acolytes.

When Erik had reached the floor with Forge in tow, he yelled to Remy. "Gambit, destroy the observation station!"

Remy saluted Erik, charged up a couple cards, and threw it at the station. Forge was allowed to turn his head and watched as the card made contact with the station and it consequently blew up.