As Sabretooth came closer, Melody and Kurt were about to attack, when suddenly:
"Sabretooth!" called a demanding voice. The massive man stopped, and looked back to the voice's owner. A man with a red and purple helmet was floating towards them, his purple cape flowing in the wind. "We don't want to scare them." The man said. His voice was deep and demanding. The man floated down to the ground and landed softly. Sabretooth growled and began to back away from the smaller mutants.
"Vhat do you vant vith us Magneto?" demanded Kurt, not wanting Melody to be taken away as soon as he was getting to know her.
"I don't want YOU, demon- boy, just the girl." Magneto snarled.
"Then vhat do you vant vith her?" Kurt was getting angry now, in those few minutes they were together, Kurt began to feel a connection.
"It's simple, fuzz-ball, I want her to join me so we can conquer the world, and make a new one where mutants are the dominate race."
"Kurt was right…" thought Melody. "That's the only thing they want, but, that's impossible! I've tried it already…" Magneto turned to Melody and said,
"Aren't you tired of being constantly attacked and accused? Aren't you tired of stealing from Goodwill's so you can survive?" Melody blushed at this, because it was true; heck! The clothes on her back were stolen from there! And she's been wearing them for at least two years! Kurt growled.
"She's coming vith me, and ve're going to make sure she has a great rest of her life vith us at the Institute!" Kurt declared at the large man dressed in red, black, and purple. The man chuckled, and said,
"Well, if you insist she's going to come with you, then I may have to persuade her in a, different manner…" and at that, Magneto snapped. At that command, Sabretooth grabbed the elf-cat and hoisted him in the air over his head, and started to bend in. Kurt screamed and swore in German at the pain and at the mutant holding him. Melody was used to seeing worse than this, and when she did, she usually didn't care about the person in pain, but this time, she almost started to cry.
"NO! Stop it! Kurt, can't you teleport or something away?" she cried out to him.
"Ug! Not, vrealy… In- too- much- pain!" Kurt managed to wheeze out. As Kurt began to cry under the extreme pressure his spine was feeling, Magneto turned to Melody.
"You have ten seconds to decide whether you want to join us, the stronger side, or them; the side that crumbles under the slightest storm…" and at that, Magneto began to count down, "ten, nine, eight…" Melody began to growl at the two men causing Kurt such pain. Her heart beat began to quicken as she could feel her emotions getting the best of her.
"Don't, you, dare HURT KURT!" she screamed as she lunged towards the two men. She attacked Sabretooth with a flurry of punches and kicks, and then knocking him back, and also knocking Kurt out of his grasp with a sudden flash of light and fire emanating from her hands. She made sure Sabretooth wasn't going to attack her from behind by stringing him up telekinetically between two trees, then freezing his hands to the trees. Turning her attention to the last standing adversary, she screamed, and sent out an ear shattering sonic boom that broke the man's helmet to reveal a man in his approximant late forties. The blast had also sent him flying into her make-shift home, a pile of rocks, where he then hit his now unprotected head on the stones. Her eyes began to glow an ominous green as she walked toward the man, her hands still glowing from the fire-power.
"If you aren't gone in the next two seconds, I'll kill you and your little kitty." The man had some fear in his eyes, but he wasn't about to let some teen see him scared. He simply chuckled and stood, brushing the dust off of his black pants, and ignoring the small trickle of blood that was going down his temple.
"Come Sabretooth, seems this wild-child needs to be broken in first, I'll let the X-Men deal with THAT part." Sabretooth broke the ice with some difficulty and walked next to older-looking man. Magneto began to float once more, this time taking Sabretooth with him. "I WILL see you again, Melody." Magneto chuckled evilly as he left the two mutants on the ground. Melody glared spitefully at him, and the remembered that Kurt was hurting. She rushed to his side and found that he had some bruising and that the spade at the end of his tail had been broken, and was now bleeding profusely.
"Are you okay Kurt? Does it hurt anywhere besides your tail?" the redhead worried.
"Nein… just, mein tail…" Melody looked at the poor tail, and leaned down next to it, then, kissed it gently. Kurt gasped slightly in pain and closed his eyes tightly shut. When he was no longer hurting, he had noticed that his tail was now in full working condition, and showed no signs of ever being broken.
"Mein Gott! Zhat's amasing! How did you do zhat?" Kurt questioned. Melody shrugged her shoulders.
"I dunno. I've been able to do that for as long as I can remember…" She smiled warmly at the elf-cat and winked, earning herself a deep purple to splash across Kurt's face.