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Chapter 29: Pietro's Feelings and a Dealt Punishment

Hallway#11, Asteroid Evolution, Orbit of the Moon, Milky Way Galaxy- May 15, 8:15 AM

As Erik continued to walk down the hall, Pietro decided to go ahead of his father and see which of the hallways a large amount of screaming was coming from. Pietro sped over to hallway #11, and looked at the two cell occupants, one of which was Ray, who was desperately trying to keep himself from screaming but was unable to, seeing his loved ones killed.

"Don't die, no!" screamed Ray as he clutched his head and fell to the bottom of his cell, screaming and crying in pain.

Pietro shook his head in pity and then looked for the other occupant in the hallway and froze on seeing the cell a few feet away from Ray's which contained a screaming Lexie, who was clutching her head in pain.

Pietro winced as he listened to Lexie screaming in pain. Lexie herself was feeling needles put into her, and saw herself being taken by force back to the now rebuilt organization of HYDRA to train her once again to be a killing machine with no emotion. She had never relished this idea, but up until she had formally joined the X-men, it was all that she could do or think about.

"No, no, I don't want to go back! I hate that place! Can't you see that I am happy here? Can't you see that I feel like a real person instead of some sort of killing machine? Someone help me! Please! Anyone? Help!" screamed Lexie as she clutched her head at the pain she felt.

'Lexie…' thought Pietro as he looked at the screaming woman. Although he wouldn't admit this to anyone, he had more than a crush on Lexie, but made sure that no one but maybe Wanda knew; certainly not Lexie herself- yet. The reason stemmed from the fact that if Logan found out about it, he would make sure that Pietro never saw the light of day again. Another reason was that Logan would probably gore Pietro on the grounds of "I can't trust him as far as I can hurl him".

"Pietro, whatever is so interesting?" asked Erik as he came up behind Pietro quietly, causing him to jump and blush a bit, which he didn't appreciate doing because his pale skin didn't hide blushing in the least.

"Nothing Father; why?" asked Pietro as innocently as he could. He knew that his father wasn't fooled by any of Pietro's acting, as he knew all of Pietro's tricks, having learned them over the past 8 years.

"Oh, no reason…" mused Erik as he looked from his son to the screaming Lexie. It dawned on him what was going on and he stored this bit of information away for future use.

"Come along, Quicksilver. I want to see the mutant that is needed for my plan to work," said Erik as he began walking away from Lexie's cage and towards the door at the end of the hall. He then crossed another hallway and opened a titanium door with his powers, and entered, followed by the four mutants accompanying him. This led to another hallway, which contained three cells: one for Avalanche when he got his hands on him, one where the human Amanda Sefton was screaming in pain, and one for the mutant Shadowcat. The hallway was numbered #16, and was situated close to the infirmary on the space structure.

When he got there, however, he was shocked to find the hallway empty, excluding Amanda, and on seeing it, began to anger. This caused the bars on the cells and the walls of the complex itself to begin shaking in response to his powers. Pietro, on seeing this, used his speed to race to Erik and put on his helmet, which his father had been carrying in his arm, so that his powers could be contained and not go out of control.

"Where is Shadowcat?" asked Erik in a dangerous tone of voice as he regained control over his powers. He glared at Pietro and Raven, both of whom had been in charge of the operation, as if expecting them to produce the mutant and say that they had been keeping her in a separate area or something along those lines. On getting no response, however, he asked again, "Where is Shadowcat?"

"You mean she isn't there?" asked Pietro as he looked at the cell, knowing it was a useless question to ask but wanting to buy himself some time while he thought of an excuse.

However, Erik accessed his limited telepathic abilities and read Pietro's mind. When he found out about this, he knew that Pietro was trying to buy time, and got mad. He used his powers to twist the metal from the door of one of the empty cells and then wrapped them around Pietro in a hold that not even Piotr or Fred could escape from.

"I will now ask you Raven," said Erik as he turned away from Pietro (who was pleading for release), "Where is Shadowcat?"

"I do not know, sir," responded Raven in as firm a voice as she was able to manage, but Erik could sense her fear of the punishment she was about to get, and also sensed loathing at the fact that she had to take orders from him.

"Well since neither of you know where she is, I will have to find her myself," said Erik in a calm tone of voice, scaring the mutants with him.

As he walked down the hall towards a room at the end of it, he waved his hand in the air and Pietro, still covered in the twisted metal, was dragged out of the cell he had been in. Then, the metal around him came loose and wrapped itself around Raven, leaving Pietro kneeling on the hallway floor to try and regain his breath. Raven, on the other hand, found herself with a severely limited amount of air and in the cell Pietro had just been in.

"That is your punishment, Raven," stated Erik matter-of-factly as he continued to walk, "for having the nerve to loathe me when you know very well that I can sense what you are feeling and thinking through telepathy. The rest of you; come." Erik opened another metal door that led to a separate part of the complex, walked down the hall for a few minutes, opened that door with his powers, and left both doors open for the Acolytes and Pietro to follow. He left Raven trapped in the twisted metal and in the cell meant for Kitty, with barely enough room in the metal to breathe.

Piotr and Jason walked quickly towards the door, and Pietro followed a few minutes later, walking slowly to ease the pain he felt in his chest because of the metal's hold on him a few minutes earlier. The door to first the room in the hall, and then the door to the hallway, slammed shut, leaving Raven in the cell and the whole of the Institute trapped, with 2 people in each hallway, some hallways having only one. There were a total of 30 hallways spread throughout the base. Everyone except Xavier was experiencing their worst fears over and over again, and without the use of their powers, they had no chance of freeing themselves and screamed as they slowly lost their minds and themselves.