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Chapter 18: The Danger Room Siege- part 2: X-Factor Females vs. Wanda
Southern Portion of the Danger Room, Xavier Institute, Bayville, NY- May 15, 12:00 AM
"Oh, man, I think we're out of our league here!" yelled Bobby as he shot streams of ice at the approaching threat- Wanda and John.
"You think, o fearless leader?" spat Lexie as she found herself, much to her dismay, being forced to retreat against the wall of the Danger Room with her teammates.
"Hey, Bobby!" yelled Tabitha as she threw a mixture of her two bomb types at the pair of attackers only to see them absorbed by a fire shield thrown up by John to protect himself and Wanda. "What's our next move here?"
"Um…" replied Bobby as he found himself backed up against the wall and his streams of ice starting to melt as soon as they left his hands.
"We need a plan now Drake!" snapped Rahne as she fought her wolf instinct to go and attach herself to her attacker's throats and hang on until they were dead. She was both surprised and happy to see that Roberto had once more powered up to his solar persona and stepped in front of her to make sure she didn't do anything rash and to also protect her.
"Rahne, you need to calm down," said Roberto as he turned quickly to flash a brief smile at her and Rahne found herself smiling in response and nodding in agreement. Roberto then turned to John and Wanda and prepared to attack them but was stopped when John threw up a gigantic firewall that surrounded the two mutants and kept X-Factor from attacking directly.
As Bobby continued to attack he spotted John and Wanda run in opposite directions, John to the left and Wanda to the right. Bobby suddenly cut his attack and signaled to his team to do so as well.
"All right, since we can't attack directly we'll divide and conquer. Now, spilt up!" yelled Bobby as he gestured which directions to go and who to go in said directions. He then began to run left while signaling Jubilee to go right. The remainder of the team glanced at each other and spilt up, the males following Bobby to fight John while the women, with Lexie muttering about how Bobby's plan was going to fail, followed Jubilee to attack Wanda.
A few minutes later found the female members of X-Factor surrounding Wanda, who had both of her hands glowing a dark blue and eyeing her opponents, looking for a chance to attack.
The females had Wanda surrounded on all seven sides, with Rahne and Lexie facing her, Jubilee and Tabby facing her from the back, Amara and Danielle on either side, and Lorna floating in the air above her.
"Now!" commanded Jubilee and she began to attack, sending dozens of streams of firecrackers at Wanda. Following her were Tabby creating a large blue-white bomb and hurling it at Wanda with all of her strength, and Amara once more turning into her fire state and shooting dozens of lava streams at Wanda.
This was the first wave of attack, and Wanda merely smiled and, closing her eyes, threw up a psychic barrier and repelled all three of the attacks back at a surprised Jubilee, who was unable to dodge in time and was hit dead on.
Jubilee screamed in pain as she felt her own attack hit her, combined with both Tabby and Amara's, and after the attack had ended, her teammates gasped in horror as they beheld their second in command. She was barely standing, her uniform in tatters except for material that clung from her neck down to her stomach and her pants which went down to her knees. Jubilee wobbled for a minute and then collapsed on the ground, sparks sizzling around her as she unintentionally let out a small stream of energy on her landing.
"That's it… no one hurts my teammates and gets away with it, even if they are my friends!" screamed Lexie as she snapped her eyes from the fallen form of her teammate to Wanda, who felt a small twinge of fear run through her. She then quickly felt it leave as she stared into Lexie's eyes, which were filled with anger and hatred.
"Now!" commanded Lexie, once more unsheathing her hand claws and running towards Wanda. The rest of the females began to attack as well, with Rahne changing into her werewolf form and leaping in front of Jubilee, who was now unconscious. Tabitha once more created a giant blue and white bomb and hurled it at Wanda, Amara shot more lava streams, and Dani closed her eyes and concentrated on bringing Wanda's worst fears to the surface. Lorna used her powers to take some metal plating from the wall and hurled it at Wanda, and Lexie ran towards her friend and prepared to slice her across the chest.
Just as Wanda was about to get hit she brought her arms above her head and closed her eyes. Her whole body began glowing with dark blue energy and Rahne watched, dread growing as each moment passed, and started when she heard Dani scream and sensed something had gone wrong. She looked over to her friend and saw Dani screaming as her powers began to backfire on her. Wanda did this by using her hexing abilities to cause Mirage's worst fears to come to the surface instead of Wanda's. Dani was now on her knees, clutching her head as she saw herself falling back into the earth like before, except she had no way of returning and was falling to her death.
"Dani, are you alright?" Amara asked anxiously as she quickly glanced at her fallen teammate, but soon was forced to return to the battle when she heard Rahne growl menacingly at Wanda. Amara started when she saw Wanda's aura glow a deeper blue, and then she concentrated more on harming Wanda.
Rahne then saw all of her friends' attacks get sent back at them, with Amara's lava streams hitting Tabitha and Tabitha's bomb hitting Lorna. Lorna then fell to the ground, and her powers changed from focusing on the metal plating to Lexie, who was now screaming in pain as she felt her whole body react to her teammate's control over metal. Rahne then saw Amara's lava streams being sent towards her, the reason being that Amara had unintentionally gotten in Lexie's way and because of Lorna's powers acting on her, Lexie had accidentally slashed Amara across the chest, causing her to fall to the ground in pain. This caused her lava streams to become redirected from Tabitha to Rahne.
Rahne thought quickly and turned, grabbed Jubilee, and leapt out of the way, just as the lava streams burned the spot where they had been a moment before. Wanda then turned to the only female left standing- Rahne. Rahne gently put Jubilee down against one of the sections of the Danger Room wall that was relatively unharmed, and turned, snarling, to face the Scarlet Witch.
She then began to circle Wanda, who was looking at her warily, and suddenly began to run around her in circles, trying to confuse her. Wanda simply closed her eyes and concentrated, and threw a hex-bolt at Rahne, who yelped in pain as she was hit. Rahne landed a few feet away, and then got up slowly, turning into her full wolf form as she did so. Then, snarling once more, she leapt at Wanda, who was caught off-guard, preparing to slash her throat and rip her jugular vein, but as she was about to land, she saw Roberto in her mind. She then remembered how she had silently promised him that she would not kill anyone ever again after an incident a few years ago with a wild animal. She then slowly shifted out of her full wolf form and into her werewolf form and prepared to tackle Wanda, but with that one instant of hesitation Wanda had gotten an attack ready and threw it at full strength at Rahne.
Rahne was hit directly and thrown up against the wall, landing a few feet from Jubilee, and whimpering in pain, unconsciously shifting from her werewolf form to her wolf form, and then to her human form. Her uniform was smoking from the force of the hex-bolt, and Rahne, before drifting into unconsciousness thought she saw Wanda stagger as something hit her and saw Roberto in his solar form floating above the fallen Wanda.