A/N: Wow… two chapters in one weekend… awesome, huh? Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I think this time I'll imitate Todd… maybe then I'll be able to get my certificate of ownership…
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Chapter 28: Imprisonment in the cells and Introduction of Jean
Up on Asteroid Evolution, Jason was using his powers to make sure each and every captured mutant was put into their own prison cell, each equipped with their worst fear, among other smaller ones. This fear, whether it was physical or mental, would be used against the captured mutant; but besides this, each mutant also had a mutation inhibitor device attached around his/her neck.
"Jason, you are sure this plan will work?" asked Piotr, who was with the prisoners as Jason moved them by force to their individual cells. He was there in case someone like Jean Grey-Summers, a.k.a. The Phoenix, who was the prisoner being moved at the moment, broke free and rebelled.
Jean Grey-Summers, also known as The Phoenix, was being controlled by Jason and forced to walk to where her cell was. Her waist-length hair had some dried blood in it and was a tangled mess. Her usually vibrant emerald eyes were now a pale yellow, signaling that she was under Jason's control. Her uniform was tattered from the battle and now consisted of a long sleeved shirt and knee-length shorts, the rest of her pants missing, along with her gloves and headband. Her silver hoops, one in each ear, flashed from the light that shone off them.
"Yes, this will work," responded Jason as he continued to control Jean, signaled by the yellow gleam in his eyes, signaling the use of his powers. "You see, Piotr, each mutant will be in their own cell, with each of them having to relive their most horrifying experience, whether it be physical or emotional. They will be unable to access their powers, but in case one of them manages to break free of their mental restraints, each of them is fitted with a mutation inhibitor device. This machine will prevent them from using their powers, as well as tapping into their minds and bringing out the worst fears present there, making them relive it over and over again. Therefore, you see, there really is no way for them to escape. There, now is that the last of them?" asked Jason as he put Jean into her cell, and closed the door. After a minute, they could hear her screaming in pain.
"Mastermind, Colossus. Is the task completed?" asked Erik as he came down the hall with purposeful strides, Raven and Pietro behind him.
"Yes Magneto. Every mutant we captured is in their own cell and dealing with their own fears," said Jason as he looked from Erik's ice blue eyes to the cell where Jean was screaming in pain.
"I see…" said Erik as he continued down the hallway, looking in through the cells' bars to see thorough reinforced door to the victim inside. He heard Scott yelling for Jean to not leave him and for her to not come any nearer to him because he didn't have his shades or visor from 2 hallways away, though to an observer it was obvious that he had his visor on. (Erik was in hallway #5, Scott was in hallway #3).
Two cells down, at the end of the hallway, Ororo was curled up in a ball, yelling for someone to help her out of the space she was crammed into.
"Let me out! Let me out!" screamed Ororo in fear as she imagined herself buried under a house, with her sister Vivian- a human- and her nephew Evan already dead under the rubble, and she herself was badly injured, pinned under a part of the inner wall.
"Logan, help me!" screamed Ororo as she curled herself into a tighter ball, hoping that she would be rescued soon, and by Logan, whom she had called out to through the rubble- or so she thought- and whom she knew would risk his own life to save her life. She knew deep inside that even if he didn't show it, he cared about her more than as a good friend.
'So, Storm cares for the Wolverine,' thought Erik to himself as he looked at Ororo once more, and then continued down the hall, with Jason, Piotr, Raven, and Pietro following him. 'I'll have to remember that… for another time, that is.'