While a battle was about to erupt at the X mansion, Magneto was off searching for Wanda, while she was searching for Pietro. Wanda was in town, going places where she thought she might be able to find her brother. She tried to figure her brother inside and out to get a clue of where he might have gone.
She checked at the arcade, but he wasn't there since it was about to close down. She walked down the empty sidewalks, and meandered the corner where she found her father, waiting for her. "Huh? Father? What are you doing here?" She asked astonished at his sudden presence. "Wanda, I hear that you're looking for Pietro." he said in his casual voice. "Well, yeah I am. Do you know where he is?" Wanda asked, hoping that her father knew where he was.
"Yes. If you follow me, I will lead you to him." He said beguilingly. Wanda was relieved and went with her father. Magneto was not yet informed of Pietro's capture. He was beginning to think that Pietro just might be a little too much for the brotherhood to handle. So he devised a win-win scenario to have Wanda walk straight into his hands and have Pietro face the consequences of his treachery.
Magneto and Wanda glided through the air. He led them down to the shores of New York. "Is he here?" Wanda asked. "You appear to be worried about Pietro. Tell me, how did you come to be in this much despair?" Magneto asked, feigning knowledge and concern. "Well," Wanda started melancholic "ever since yesterday, he's been acting really weird. I don't know how to explain it, but he told me this evening that he was trying to protect me from something. He never said what it was. All I know is, I can handle myself. He knows that, but he still feels as though he has to help me." She explained bleakly.
Magneto placed an assuring hand on her shoulder. "No need to worry anymore. I'm sure he's fine now. And whatever this 'something' is, then I'd be sure to assist you. But for now, I need you to relax. Pietro will come to you, and when he does, he'll come to me." he spoke in a very sinister tone, just before Mastermind emerged from the shadows.
Wanda gazed at the awry stranger. She tensed as he came closer to her. "Relax Wanda. This man here will help dissolve the stresses you are dealing with." Magneto spoke as Mastermind held both sides of Wanda's temple. Wanda's face was filled with discombobulation as the man gripped her head firmly. "you'll find that you no longer have to worry about Pietro, when in fact, he has to worry about you." Magneto ended ominously.
Mastermind began projecting false memories in her head. He projected time when she and Pietro would constantly fight against each other. How he'd constantly remind her that he was their father's favorite. The jealousy he had for her and her powers. How he tried to terminate her when he thought that she was their father's favorite. How he tried to terminate their father for having a stronger bond with her. How Magneto stepped in to prevent Pietro from hurting her. Etc.
As those false memories filled her head, she began to feel nothing but malice and hatred for her brother. He powers were fueled by the rage boiling inside of her. Every time an image of Pietro's face flashed in her mind, she grimaced in anger.
When the process was complete, Wanda fainted. When she awakened a few minutes later, she woke with a whole new agenda. She was going to find Pietro and confront him. "Where is he?!" She shouted with rage. "Take it easy Wanda. You'll find him. But first, we have some place to be as of now. Perhaps we could obtain some information on the X men." he spoke with sheer vengeance.
Magneto beckoned to Mastermind that his service was complete. He then took Wanda by the hand and glided off to the X mansion.
At the X Mansion
The Juggernaut was making his way toward Pietro and Kitty. Lance was making his way to Scott; Pyro to Bobby; Sabretooth to Logan; Blob to Rogue and Jean; Toad to Kurt; Colossus to Gambit. Mutant powers were erupting from left and right.
As the Juggernaut charged at both Kitty and Pietro, they waited for the perfect opportunity to run out of the Juggernauts way. When that opportunity came, Pietro ducked out of the Juggernaut's path and Kitty phased through him; allowing him to crash into the mansion walls.
Since Colossus had his metallic skin engaged, Gambit used his metal pole that was charged with kinetic energy. Gambit knew Colossus's speed wasn't as great as his strength, so he used it against him. Whenever colossus threw a punch, Gambit eluded it and swung at him. When the pole made contact, the force of kinetic energy coming from Gambit's pole was of ten hits at once.
Logan and Sabretooth battled it out as they always did. Sabretooth leaped at Logan; he missed and Logan ceased the opportunity to kick him away. However, Sabretooth landed on his feet and leaped at Logan again. They exchanged punches, almost evenly matched.
Hank thought he could even things up by helping out. Logan and Hank double-teamed Sabretooth. He had a hard time escaping the two mutants so he faked them out by pretending to flee behind a tree. Logan and Hank ran after him. Since Hank was the fastest, He reached the tree where Sabretooth was hiding. As he came closer, Sabretooth jumped out in front of him and hit him with a large branch.
Hank landed inside one of the metallic spheres that the Acolytes arrived in. Logan was charging toward Sabretooth with all his might. Sabretooth stood there and then jumped out of the way, causing Logan's adamantium skull to hit the sphere with Hank inside. The impact caused the sphere to roll towards the cliff. There, it lingered.
Blob charged at Rogue and Jean. Jean used her telekinesis to halt him from charging and held him in the air for Rouge to touch him with no problem. After having his power absorbed, he was weakened and Jean used her abilities to throw him against the fountain that was in the center of the yard. The impact caused him to pass out completely.
Now that Blob was down and out, Rogue and Jean looked around to see who else they could assist. "Ah think Kitty and Pietro needs a little help ova' there." Rogue pointed out. She and Jean ran to their aid.
Kitty and Pietro held out against the Juggernaut by remaining out of his reach. "Why is this guy targeting me?! What did I ever do to him?!" Pietro inquired with irritation and confusion. "Ah don't know, but ah'm about to find out!" Rogue said as she came to their rescue.
She slid the glove off of her hand. Jean used her powers to push the Juggernaut away. She knew her powers wouldn't be enough to withhold him. "Pietro! I could use some help here!" Jean called to him. Pietro got on the job. Jean kept the Juggernaut still enough so Pietro could create a whirlwind around him. He had to move as fast as possible to make the winds strong enough to hold him up.
Next, Kitty jumped in the whirlwind. It carried her up to where the Juggernaut was. Jean guided Kitty over to him safely. Kitty made contact with his helmet and she phased it off. Pietro ceased the winds. The Juggernaut came down with a large crash while Kitty landed in Pietro's arms.
Rogue went over to the Juggernaut and touched his face. She absorbed as much energy as possible. When she was done, she gasped at the memories she had taken from him.
The Juggernaut still had some fight left. He was a bit dizzy from Pietro's winds so he had a hard time telling what was what. But his daze soon cleared as he spotted the white-haired boy. He charged at him and Rogue countered, knocking him away. "Jean! You're the only one who has a mind like the professor's! Ya have to use ya powers to disable him!" Rogue yelled. The Juggernaut was worn down enough for her to pull it off. She began sending waves of telepathy through him. He grimaced in pain while his mind was being suppressed.
Since Jean's power is much greater than the professor's, she used more force in which she unintentionally made a nervous disconnection in the Juggernaut's brain, disabling him for good. The amount of energy she used caused her faint.
Pyro was having it out with Bobby. Bobby threw a few ice blasts and Pyro threw some heat blasts. "You know what they say mate. If it's too hot, then ya betta' get outta the kitchen!" Pyro mocked Bobby's ice powers. Bobby was breaking a sweat, trying his hardest not to become overpowered by Pyro. Robert de Costa saw that Bobby needed help, so he pitched in, despite the fact that he had little experience in the battlefield. "It may be too hot for him. But it's not for me! How 'bout we fight fire with fire!" He challenged. "You're on!" pyro replied like a wild maniac.
Robert threw hot blasts at him. Pyro only manipulated the fire that Robert threw at him and turned them against him. He formed a fiery horse and it charged at Roberto. Bobby stepped in and cooled things down by making an icy barrier. The horse ran into the cool wall and both objects fizzled away, creating a large amount of water vapor.
The mist clouded the view of Bobby and Robert. All they saw was a glow. That glow came closer and revealed it self to be a fiery, rampaging bull. Their reactions were too slow and the bull bulldozed into them, knocking them out.
More students began to pitch in to help win the battle. Jubilee,Tabitha, and pinball. Storm and the professor could see that the other students needed help defeating their foes. So they hurried to the door to make it downstairs.
Since Storm could fly, she made it out faster. The professor was rolling his wheelchair to the door when it slammed on him. His chair lifted from the ground and was thrown against the wall with him in it. He crashed on the ground from the impact, but was still conscious. The windows suddenly flew opened harshly. Subsequently breaking the glass. Magneto glided in with Wanda by his side.
The professor gaped at the sight. Magneto smiled a sinister smile and spoke, "I cannot let you go out there Charles. You must not be seen." "What are you doing Magnus?!" The professor demanded an answer. "I'm simply here to stop you and your pesky school from plunging a fork in my plans. I never wanted anyone to know what I was doing. But unfortunately, Pietro decided to take it upon himself to gain information that was not meant for him, which ensued in my having to do this." He explained with a malignant tone.
"Can't you see that you're pushing your own son away from you?! Pietro wasn't trying to bring anyone harm. In fact, he was only trying to save a life that is very dear to him and that should be dear to you as well!" The professor tried to yell some sense into him. He continued, "How could you be so ignorant of your own son's pleas?! Why would you risk one of your own just to make a difference?! A difference that we don't need!"
"How could you say this is a difference we don't need!" Magneto raged. "We mutants should be the ones who are superior! Not the ones cowering every day of our lives, hoping the world will give us a fair chance! If you want respect in this world, you have to take it! And that's what I'm doing." He ended viciously.
"You're making a mistake Magnus! You don't know the extent of Wanda's powers! You may want to reshape the world, but how will you know that reality will be reshaped in your image?" The professor rebutted. "It is like I've said before Charles, I'm a realist. And being that I am a realist, I'm going to make my thoughts become a reality." Magneto declared.
"Are you willing to give up the life of..." Before Charles could finish, Magneto wrapped his mouth with pieces of metal from his wheelchair. Afterward, he spoke "Listen Charles, I'm willing to give up anything just to balance out this chaotic place. Mutants no longer have to struggle with everyday life. Being tortured and ousted.
You will soon come to realize that there are many who would gladly assist me in helping the unfair circumstances that we face. What you can't seem to understand Charles, is that you're stripping mutants from a normal life.
What a mutant wants more than anything else, is to be looked at as someone and not something. You'll be denying them of this privilege by stopping me. Let me carry on in my plans, or I will be forced to do it he hard way."
While Charles was on the ground, helpless, he was trying to warn Wanda telepathically of what was to come to past. Listen to me Wanda, I know you probably won't believe me when I tell you this, but I assure you that whatever you hold in you memory, they are false. You have to help your brother! What your father is doing isn't right. You have to fight against him Wanda! He plans on using you to...
Before Charles could fully explain himself, Magneto caught sight of Charles using his telepathy on Wanda. He used his powers to make the wheelchair squeeze him, breaking his concentration. "You're still up to your old mind tricks, Charles." Magneto stated. "Don't even think about poisoning her against me. She knows what I'm doing is right! And she knows why we're here! And together, we are going to achieve this nearly impossible goal!" Magneto spoke with determination as the chair squeezed the professor into unconsciousness.
The Battle
Scott was trying his best to get a good aim at Avalanche. But the frequent moving of the ground threw him off balance and concentration. "what's the matter Cyclops! Is your world a little too rocky for you to function!" Avalanche teased in a menacing tone. Cyclops, getting tired of Avalanche's audacious speeches, took another shot. It was off balance, but it managed to hit Avalanche in the shoulder. "Oh, that is it! Take this you four-eyed freak!" Lance yelled to him. He used more of his powers to shake the ground more violently. A wave of turbulence whipped through the ground and flung Cyclops in the air. His glasses flew off elsewhere.
Scott couldn't open his eyes to see his target. Avalanche knew he would have an advantage over Cyclops should he be without his glasses. Jubilee detested the unfair situation and intervened. "Say your prayers Summers because you're about to get squashed!" Lance yelled. Before he could muster up enough energy for massive earthquake, Jubilee hit him in the back with her plasma rays.
Lance whirled around to see where the attack came from. All he was met with was a shoe to the face. Jubilee kicked him directly in the face with her right foot, and then kicked him again with her left foot that was charged with plasmic energy. "And that my dear foe, is called the Jubilation!" She said enthusiastically while he flew across the room.
Jubilee then ran over to give Scott his glasses back.
Kurt was fighting off Toad. The pair of them kept slipping from each others' grip. "Hold still you fuzzy fool!" Toad yelled after him. "I may be fuzzy, but I'm not some slimy toad like you!" Kurt shot back. Toad got angry at his remark and shot out his tongue. Kurt caught with his hands and tried to yank Toad towards him. But the rest of Toad's tongue wrapped itself around Kurt's hand and instead, snatched Kurt towards him.
Toad kicked Kurt away. Before Kurt hit the wall, he teleported. Toad didn't know where the blue mutant went. All he felt was a tap on the shoulder. "Huh?" Toad wondered who was tapping him. He turned around and met Kurt's fist, followed by a right kick in the gut, and a tail grab around the waist where Kurt teleported in the air and slung Toad down to the ground. Toad was down and out.
Colossus was still dealing with Gambit. Gambit tried to take another swing at colossus with his staff, but colossus caught the stick and slung Gambit into the wall. He then took the staff and broke it in half and threw it aside. He sauntered over to Gambit and held him up by the collar. Just as he was about to take a swing, pinball flew into him, causing him to drop Gambit.
Pinball was accompanied by Tabitha. "Alright big man, let's dance!" Tabitha yelled. Colossus stampeded over to them. Tabitha released her psionic energy spheres in the air. They exploded in front of Colossus's face, blinding him. Pinball launched himself at him and Colossus crashed into a nearby tree.
Although Colossus took a hard hit, he wasn't done yet. He rubbed his eyes, trying to regain his vision. When he opened his eyes, his vision was blurry, but the light from Tabitha's psionic spheres and Gambit's cards were visible enough. They exploded by his feet which made him lose his footing. He stammered backwards and Pinball hit him again. This time, instead of Colossus hitting the tree, he flew in the air and crashed on top of Blob, who was trying get up from his earlier battle.
Colossus's weight and metallic body knocked him out again followed by himself. Tabitha, Gambit and Pinball gave each other a three-way high five.
Gambit turned around to see Logan still struggling in his fight with Sabretooth. Logan kicked Sabretooth to the opposite side of the lawn. Sabretooth made it back on his feet and both feral mutants clashed with each other. They both gave each other a blow that knocked them out in two different directions. Sabretooth made it back to his feet before Logan did.
He saw that Logan was still down and took advantage. As he was charging at Logan, Gambit stepped in and used his trench coat like a Matador's cape. The coat blocked Sabretooth's view and Logan kicked him in the air. Gambit picked up one side of his severed stick and used it like a bat. "Batter up!" Gambit yelled. Sabretooth was the baseball and he swung at him, knocking him out.
Gambit walked over to where Sabretooth landed. "Ah do believe that this is mine ." He said while taking his jacket that covered Sabretooth's face. When he turned around, he saw Logan scowling at him. Remy raised a brow. Logan walked over to him slowly. He stuck out his hand to shake Remy's. Gambit smirked and then shook Logan's hand. "Not bad Cajun. Not bad." Logan gave him gratitude in his own way.
Storm made her way down to see Pyro fighting with Scott and Jubilee. Scott and Jubilee both tried to blast Pyro, but he kept deflecting their attacks with his fire in the shape of a shield. "Aw, come on. I was so sure you X men had betta' fight than this!" Pyro teased.
Storm created a raincloud over Pyro's head. The water from the rain put out his fire. "Aw, crud!" Pyro yelled disgustedly. Scott and Jubilee thrashed him with their powers combined. Pyro was only seconds from a total knock out, so Storm did the honors by hitting him with a lightning strike.
All of the X men had successfully defeated their opponents. Or so they thought. Jean, Bobby, and Robert were out. Gambit, Logan, and Scott were spent.
Rogue, Kitty, Pietro, Kurt, Jubilee, and Storm all stood along side each other. Over yonder, Hank managed to come to and climb his way out of the sphere. But he had to mind how he climbed out as the sphere was only a few inches from falling. Hank gingerly used his weight to make the sphere roll backwards, away from the cliff. Once it was safe enough, he climbed out.
When he looked back at the mansion, he saw how disastrous it was. What caught his attention was the professor's window. The windows were busted and that was the last place he remembered the professor being.
He used the rest of his energy to climb the trees the led up to the window. When he was up, he saw the professor lying on the ground, intertwined with the wheelchair's metallic parts. "Professor?" Hank called out to him. He got no response. He then forced the metal off of the professor, thus freeing him. He took up the professor's comatose body and sat him in one of the office chairs.
He was just about to go back out with the others until he caught a glimpse of the syringe that was lying on the professor's desk. He darted over to it and grabbed it. "I hope this makes some kind of difference." He said to himself out loud before jumping out of the window.
He met with the others just as Magneto emerged from the sky. "Magneto!" Pietro called to him with rage and malice in his voice. "Ah, Pietro. I see you're still standing, standing against me that is! Tell me, why can't you ever be patient?! Everything was going perfectly! This world could have been ours and I was seconds away from achieving it! Why?!" Magneto yelled back to him. "Because I'd rather have a world with my sister than without her! And you're selfish enough to give her to me one moment and then take her right back! And then you were going to make me forget that I even had a sister after it was all over?! What kind of a father does that?!" Pietro yelled back. "It was a sacrifice for us all Pietro!" Magneto debated. "Well it wasn't a sacrifice that I was willing to make! And I'm thankful for my impatient attitude otherwise I never would have seen you for who you really were!
You don't care about anyone but yourself! This isn't about making the world safer for mutants! This is about you making humans the minority and mutants the majority while you're ruler of it all! I see through your facade! You may have fooled me all the other times, but you're not fooling me this time!" Pietro presented the scorn he had for his father.
Magneto was growing dangerously furious at his son's remarks. "Pietro! I've given you chance after chance to think rationally. Don't you see what I'm trying to do for you! I would never hurt you Pietro!" Magneto said, trying to win Pietro over.
"That's not true!" Rogue shouted. "Ya wanna know why the Juggernaut was after ya tonight?" She said speaking to Pietro. "It was because Magneto told him that ya terminated the professor so the Juggernaut would come after you instead!"
"This is precisely why you were my first victim!" Magneto cried out with rage, figuring that they somehow brought down Mystique. Pietro squinted his eyes in a devious manner. "Don't wanna hurt me huh? Well it looks like to me like that's what you were planning on! Lance even told me that he was going to capture me and then turn me in to you! Then you send the Juggernaut?!
Sounds like you want my head on a pedestal! So now that you find out that I survived your deadly game of torture, you figured you'd try to sweet-talk me over! How low can you go?! And now that I see it, you're spineless! As a matter of fact, you're pathetic!" Pietro shouted in disgust.
Magneto detested Pietro's rebellion and attitude. "I was thinking about giving you another chance, but since you insist on having things go this way, you left me with no choice. Magneto brought forth Wanda by controlling the metal discus she was standing on.
Pietro along with everyone else opened their mouth's in shock and disbelief. "Wanda?!" Pietro called with concern. "Pietro." She said harshly cruel and indifferent. He couldn't understand why she had called his name in that way. Before he knew it, Wanda was using her hex powers to pick Pietro up and sling him against the mansion's walls.
Magneto used the metal from the metallic spheres that were lying around to trap the remaining X men in a giant sphere. Of course the attempt was futile since Everyone made contact with Kitty and she phased them all out. "Of course." Magneto said with disgust.
Wolverine, Gambit, Hank and Storm went after Magneto. Scott, Kurt, Kitty, Rogue, and Jubilee went after Wanda.
Wolverine of course, was made out of metal, so Magneto used Wolverine's body like a wrecking ball, crashing him into Hank. The blow from Wolverine made Hank drop the syringe on the ground. After Hank, Magneto tried to make wolverine crash into Storm and Gambit. They ducked out of his way.
Storm gathered strong winds to stir up the pile of bad guys and threw them at Magneto. Since none of them were made of metal, albeit colossus is but he wasn't in his metal form, he was unable to block all of them at once. While he was able to dodge a few, hew wasn't able to dodge all of them as Blob, Lance, and Sabretooth crashed into him, knocking him out of the air. Logan was set free of his magnetic grip.
Meanwhile, Scott was trying his best to get a shot at Wanda. Wanda diverted his laser attack toward Jubilee. The blast went through Jubilee as Kitty made contact with her and phased the blast through her. "Well this is a bit of deja vu." Jubilee said. Kitty didn't have time to laugh so she only smirked for a few seconds.
Kurt tried teleporting, but he soon found that he had teleported inside the mansion. "Aw man!" He tried teleporting again, but found himself in the air as he had teleported above Rogue. Wanda then made Rogue's glove come off, so when Kurt fell on her, he made contact with her skin, therefore causing Kurt to black out. "Aw Kurt! Ah am so sorry!"
Even though Wanda was countering the X men attacks, she was seeking her brother's blood on her hands. "I'm going to put an end to you Pietro. You thought you could get away after all you've done, but you're not going to!" She yelled. "What are you talking about Wanda?! What did Magneto do to you?!" He asked nervously while in a disarray. "You tried to take our father's life just because you were insecure!" She yelled with accusation. "wait a minute what are you talking about?!" he asked quickly.
"Don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about!" She demanded "But that's the thing, I don't know what you're talking about! You know what never-mind. Forget that I said that. Whatever it is that I've done, then I'm terribly sorry. So can we put that aside for now and get back on good terms?" He ended with an unnerved smile.
Wanda only became more infuriated. "What's up with your sister?" Scott asked. "How am I supposed to know? One minute she's worried about me and the next she wants to murder me! I think Magneto did something to her. It's just like the time she was mad at him, he some how got her to be on good terms with him.
If you ask me, I think he did the same thing again, but this time, she's not on good terms with me." Pietro explained. "You mean this has happened before?" Scott inquired, the pair of them standing side by side in attack mode. "Yeah." Pietro answered in a duh tone.
As Wanda came closer, Kitty, Rogue and Jubilee stood by them. Wanda waved her hands and all kinds of destruction started to take place. The water pipes from underneath the ground began to rise up. She broke the pipes with her powers and began flinging them at the X members. Scott skillfully deflected them with his blasts. It then started to pour down raining.
Jubilee tried her hardest to hit Wanda with her plasma blast, But it wasn't helping. Kitty tried her best to phase so the pipes would go through her, but Wanda canceled out her intangibility. She had no choice but to run away from them. However, Wanda used her powers to keep Kitty in one place. "How is she using her powers on all of us at one time!" Kitty screamed in frustration.
Just as she was about to get hit by a long metal pipe, Pietro zoomed in and moved her out of the way. That only made Wanda even angrier. "Look Wanda! I don't wanna fight you!" Pietro shouted as he placed Kitty down. Wanda wasn't buying it. "You fought with me all of the other times! Why is this one any different?" She yelled.
Before Peitro answered, she took hold of him with her hex abilities and began to lift him off the ground. He was trying his best to break from her grip, but couldn't. She threw him aside where he landed near the fight that was with Magneto.
Magneto was on the verge of losing. Storm had surrounded them in a large puddle water. Since Magneto had the power over metal, she was using the water to create a great conductor for lightning. Magneto however, didn't notice. Gambit served as a result to get Magneto to use metal. He was in hand-to-hand combat, which he managed to overpower him in.
It was made to make Magneto have no choice but to use metal in his defense; which he did eventually. He glided from the ground to evade Gambit. "You'll pay for your impudence Gambit!" Magneto threatened. As soon as he lifted a metal object, Storm released a massive lightning strike that was conducted through the metal, and then spread to the water that was covering his body. He screamed in agony as he was stuck down.
He fell down to the ground in the halfway flooded yard. The small flood allowed Pietro to see the syringe that was floating in the water. He took hold of it and struggled to his feet. While he was there witnessing his father's defeat, Scott and Jubilee released plasma and laser rays, which Wanda used against them. She split the rays into many and fashioned the rays into daggers of plasmic energy and sent it back at them. It was so many that it was nearly impossible to evade. Some of them hit Scott and knocked him out.
Rogue tried to use Kurt's ability to teleport to get to her, but it was vain. Wanda made her teleport at the edge of the cliff. She tried to teleport again, but found herself in the same spot. Wanda wouldn't let her go anywhere else.
Some of the energy daggers she made from Scott and Jubilee's blasts were still at hand and headed after Kitty and Jubilee. Kitty tried to phase them underground to get away. Once again, Wanda canceled her intangibility. She had only phased them halfway in the flooded ground when her powers canceled. Wanda sent the energy daggers at them with full force.
"Hey Wanda, you didn't forget about me did you?!" Pietro yelled catching her attention. All of her attention went to him that her powers let go of Rogue, Kitty and Jubilee. The energy daggers diminished into thin air. Kitty and Jubilee were able to come out of the ground. Kitty sighed a breath of relief.
Pietro began running around, purposely wanting himself to get caught in her chaotic grip. Wanda did exactly what he wanted her to do. She used her powers to grip his legs and retained him from running. She then began to pressure his legs, threatening to break them as well as fracture his pelvis. It was painful and Pietro tried to think straight rather than concentrate on the pain.
His legs might have been bound together, but his arms were still free. Wanda spoke with nothing but pure cruelty, "I'm going to put an end to you Pietro! Once and for all!" She screamed, her powers growing. Pietro grimaced in pain. He managed to retort, "Instead of 'once and for all' you're gonna have to say 'twice and for all' because this once, you're not going to put an end to me!" He spoke through a voice filled with pain.
He used his free arm with the syringe and whirled around quickly and then released the syringe. He put so much speed behind it that it was like a bullet when he let go. It was so small and so fast that Wanda couldn't catch it in time, The needle plunged into her right shoulder and spewed the cellular paralysis bio-fluid into her veins.
Her powers began to wane slowly, releasing him from the pressures of her hexes. Wanda began to get woozy. Her knees buckled and then caved. She then fell out in the flooded yard. Magneto was conscious enough to see Wanda fall. So he hastily formed a metal sphere. Logan tried to stop him but Magneto only forced him back.
Storm let out another lightning strike, but Magneto had made it safely inside the sphere. Gambit tried launching a few charged cards, but that didn't help either. The sphere glided toward Wanda and Magneto took her up with him and fled.
"Hey! Give her back!" Pietro shouted. But Magneto was long gone after his last word. He wanted to go after them, but his legs and hips were still in pain from the pressure Wanda applied on him. Storm, Logan and Gambit ran over to him. "well it looks like he got away." Gambit stated before seeing a fatigued Rogue by the cliff. He immediately ran over to her aid.
Wanda had put the teleportation under some kind of spell of repeat where the energy used to teleport gave out and left her fatigue. Gambit helped her to her feet. "Thanks." She said raspy. "Anytime." he smiled at her.
Some time afterward, Jean, Bobby and Roberto regained consciousness. "What happened?" Jean asked groggily. She looked around and saw that the whole lawn was flooded by maybe nine inches. She looked around and saw the ground littered with friends and foes. She jumped to her feet when she saw Scott hurt.
Jubilee ran to Bobby; Gambit helped Rogue over to Kurt; Storm flew into the office window to aid Xavier who was just waking; Tabitha and Pinball was already helping out Roberto. Kitty Shyly walked over to Pietro who was still looking in the direction where his father escaped.
Kitty lowered her head and bit her bottom lip out of nervousness. She finally stammered out what she wanted to say. "Um, Pietro...I'm sorry you couldn't save Wanda, but you did your best." She said trying to cheer him up a little. Pietro only replied in disappointment. "If I dd my best then she'd be here right now. Apparently I didn't try hard enough."
Kitty felt really bad for him. Her eyes glistened with tears and she sounded with a woeful voice. "Well don't beat yourself up about it. You're not going to get her back that way. If anything, it sounds like you're giving up on her anyways." Pietro looked at Kitty with an intense yet sensitive look. "Why are you crying?" He asked with a bit of perplexity. "Because, maybe I could have helped more. Maybe there was something I could have done before but didn't do." She sobbed.
Pietro laid a hand on her shoulder. "None of this is your fault Pryde. If anything, I'm glad I got a chance to see what kind of person Magneto really was. And what I found out is he only has the best intentions for himself. That lets me know for sure that I don't want to be anything like him in the future." he explained calm and low without the use of sarcasm and a burlesquing attitude. That made Kitty feel a lot better.
Scott had awakened to find himself in Jean's arms. "Jean, you're okay." he said in weak felicity. "And it looks like you are too." She replied with a smile. Soon, she got a mental message from the professor. Jean, I would like for you and Storm to clear the area of the brotherhood and the Acolytes immediately. I have already put their minds at rest so they would remain in a comatose state for a little while longer.
Jean helped Scott to his feet before helping Storm remove the unconscious villains. Storm used her powers over the wind to sweep them all in one location. Jean used her telekinesis to gather them from the ground. She carried them down to the city's junkyard accompanied by Storm. There, they released them and left them to themselves. Except for the Juggernaut who was returned to Stokes County maximum security prison.
Now that the mansion was clear of enemies, everyone went back inside the beaten and worn down walls. They were all hurting and soaked to the bone. Even though Hank had a few injuries of his own, he still made sure everyone else was alright.
Kurt regained consciousness a little while later. "Did we win?" he asked sluggishly. "Yeah, we did." Rogue answered.
"Not yet we didn't!" Pietro said, having heard Rogue's reply. Everyone looked at him as though he was crazy. "What do ya mean we didn't win?! Those guys got pummeled tonight." Rogue protested while everyone in the background agreed. "That may be true Rogue, but that doesn't mean that Magneto is giving up.
Magneto is relentless. Trust me, I know this for a fact. He isn't going to stop until he gets what he wants. And right now, he has my sister. Who knows what other tricks he's got under his sleeve! But I know he isn't done planning. He's bound to come up with something else." Pietro explained.
Scot spoke up, "Even if he is planning something, we're going to beat him just like all the other times." Everyone agreed with his statement. Pietro began to become upset at their ignorance. But before he could say anything against Scott, the professor, who was coming down with Storm, intervened.
"I admire all of your enthusiasm Scott, but I'm afraid that Pietro is right. You see, Magnus and I knew each other for most of our lives. And one thing that I understand is, he somehow manages to get two steps ahead.
If it wasn't for Pietro's impatience, then life as we knew it would probably be over. Magnus was never the type to forgive. After all that he has faced with humanity, there may have a been a slight chance that he would have wiped them all out leaving nothing but mutants.
Over the years, Magneto has grown more and more contempt against the non-mutated humans. Each plan he devised was more deadlier than the previous. I have seen what he was capable of of. And I very well believe that he is capable of doing something horrendous such as that." Xavier explained thoroughly.
Once the professor gave his speech, Pietro turned towards the doors of the mansion and prepared to leave. Pietro, you do know that the Xavier institute is always opened to you. The professor reached out to him before he could speed off. Yeah, I know. Pietro responded, feeling really weird talking to someone in his head. You could reside here for as long as want when you're ready. The professor assured him. Pietro only nodded and then headed out the door.
Kitty hated to see him go, but she wasn't going to admit that to herself. Nor to anyone else. She only hoped that he would be back soon now that he was out of the brotherhood. Thinking about the brotherhood made her think on another subject. Lance and I are like, so totally over! I don't think I have to say anything for him to figure that out. She thought, becoming flustered.