Blake dropped to her feet and took a few steps forward. Following in the manhole behind her came Wolverine, Foresight, Phoenix, Cyclops, and Storm. They had just received an urgent message from Healer that Marrow had drafted an army of young Morlocks.
Their plan was to join with the brotherhood in storming the city above and start a senseless fight with the unsuspecting humans. Blake and Shylow were walking at the front of the group with Wolverine before Shylow stopped them dead in their tracks.
"Someone is coming... Coming fast!" He told them turning his head and outstretched palm to look down the tunnel to the left.
Just as Blake and Logan turned their heads, Blake felt herself being lifted from her feet and flying through the tunnel at a speed so fast everything became a blur. When she was sat back on her feet she was face to face with her boyfriend.
"Pietro what the hell was that about!" She spoke softly but with emphasis, "You realize Wolverine is going to come after your ass, right?" She told him looking down the tunnel smirking despite her irritation.
When she looked back however, her smirk faltered seeing him frowning.
"You shouldn't have come here!" He told her, brow furrowing.
"These people are my family and friends; do you really think I wouldn't have?" She asked him, scowling in response.
He sighed then shook his head, before he looked away for a minute. It was obvious to her he was seriously conflicted about this whole situation, regardless of her involvement.
"I don't want to see you get hurt!" He told her with another sigh.
"First of all, I'm a big girl, I think I'll be fine... Secondly I know you don't want to be doing this either babe... you know what the brotherhood is doing here is wrong!" Blake began, giving him a stern look, "Why don't you leave... let us take care of this and you go!" She continued, seeing him roll his eyes at that.
"What am I supposed to say when they ask where I went?" Pietro countered crossing his arms over his chest.
"Tell Mystique that Wolverine or somebody knocked you out and that they dragged you off somewhere else in the sewer!" She added gesturing down the tunnel.
"I can't lie to Mystique or my father... it isn't possible babe!" He told her shaking his head.
"Then don't lie!" She told him rolling her eyes.
"What do you mean don't-" He began before his sentence was abruptly cut short.
One adamantium filled fist to the temple and within seconds he dropped to the ground unconscious.
"Dammit Pietro, I didn't wanna have to do that!" she told his motionless form as she shook her head and turned, running toward the place where the group had come from.
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Blake, Wolverine, and Shylow met back up halfway down the tunnel that Pietro had carried the girl down. Shylow looked very concerned, and Wolverine had his usual frustrated look that didn't quite reach his eyes when he thought his daughter was in trouble.
"What the hell was that about?" Shylow asked looking down the tunnel in the direction the girl had come from.
"That Quicksilver guy grabbed me thinking that it would distract you guys!" She told them with a shake of her head.
Slowly they began making their way toward the rest of the team who had gone ahead with intent to gain intel while the others caught up.
"Where did he go pup?" Wolverine asked his daughter with a frustrated look in his eyes.
"Let's not worry about him!" She told him with a smirk on her face that made him feel a flame of pride in his chest.
He clapped her on the shoulder with a chuckle before the three rushed forward and around the corner. After about five minutes they could see Cyclops, Phoenix, Nightcrawler, and Storm peaking around a dark corner where shouting could be heard.
"Where is Quicksilver?" Mystique shouted over the crowd of Morlocks to Sabertooth who just shrugged his shoulders.
A moment later he was sniffing at the air and that evil hate filled look had crossed his face.
"WOLVERINE!" He roared running past the crowd and toward the corner where the X-Men were listening in.
Just as Sabertooth started heading their way Cyclops turned to the group.
"Wolverine, take care of Sabertooth, everyone else chase the Brotherhood back where they came from!" He told them before turning to the younger of the two feral mutants, "Blake go find Marrow and see if you can talk some sense into her!" She nodded firmly, running forward in the opposite direction of Sabertooth's path.
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Blake had managed to silently make her way around the crowd and into another passage where she heard three very distinct voices. One was Pietro's sister Wanda, the second she didn't recognize. But the moment the third spoke she felt a fire in the pit of her stomach, it was Marrow. She was shouting at the other two, telling them to leave the sewers. Blake was very confused when she heard what her stepmother was yelling.
"What's going on, who the hell are you and what are you doing to my mom?" Blake shouted running from around the corner and in front of a woman with silvery white hair and a third eye in the middle of her forehead.
With her two parallel eyes she turned to look at Blake with a frown on her face.
"Take care of her Scarlet Witch... I'll deal with this one..." she said motioning to Marrow who dropped from her knees down near flat against the ground, screaming and writhing in pain.
Blake looked from her stepmom to Wanda realizing that she was just standing watch for the other mutant. If she could get Wanda on her tail and get back to this spot, she might be able to take care of the other mutant before Wanda caught up with her. She shot out her claws, smirked at her boyfriend's twin and suddenly turned tail knowing what she had to do.
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While Wolverine was tearing into Sabertooth, the rest of the X-Men could be seen fighting both Brotherhood members and Morlocks. Wolverine had been thrown back and was standing when he saw his daughter running down a tunnel with the female Maximoff child chasing behind. A moment later she came running back and around him in a circle.
"Wolverine... Take care of her... I have something... I have to do!" she told him between breaths.
He gave her a half angry, half exasperated look before grabbing Sabertooth by the end of his duster and swinging him out into the crowd. A moment later he had his claws back out and was chasing Wanda down a tunnel letting Blake give her the slip.
After making her way through several yards of tunnels, Blake found herself standing behind the mutant who was torturing Marrow with her mind. Blake shot out both sets of claws and jumped onto the woman's back, knocking her to the ground and breaking her concentration.
Within seconds Marrow had come back to reality and saw Blake and the other woman rolling around pinning each other before being quickly flipped. Marrow shook her head then shot a bone spike toward both women startling the one who was pinning her adopted child to the ground.
"Blake!" she shouted seeing the girl leap forward and punch the other so hard in the side of the head that she went limp in a second.
"Thank you..." the teenager told her, slowly catching her breath, "What's going on here?" she asked Marrow as she tried to regain the air that had suddenly left her lungs. The older woman looked over at the passed-out mutant on the ground and sighed.
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The moment that Blake had knocked her mother figure's tormentor unconscious, the Morlocks who had been fighting the X-Men suddenly dropped what they were doing as though they had been in a trance and were looking around with great confusion. After a moment they noticed that the brotherhood members were looking nervous taking steps backwards.
"They did this, it was the Brotherhood!" A woman about Storm and Beasts age shouted pointing at Mystique as the crowd started to shout in agreement.
As they started to advance on the group, Mystique yelled for them to go before the Morlocks, or the X-Men could make a move. Avalanche went one way to go find Quicksilver as the others ran the other way toward the manhole in which all of them with the exception of Blob had come.
As the Brotherhood were retreating the Healer rushed to the front of the crowd calling for silence and explaining to his people what had happened.
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"So, she's a psychic and she was controlling you all with her third eye?" Blake asked her mother figure as she finished telling the girl what was happening.
"Yes, her name is Paramnesia... I've never had a run in with her personally, but I've been told she is on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s. most wanted list!" she replied nodding toward the woman on the ground.
Blake nodded in return and rolled her neck as she walked to the corner shouting for Cyclops and Storm. After a moment they came around the corner and Blake told them about the unconscious Psychic on the ground.
"Blake we've been told you have a relative at S.H.I.E.L.D., if we place her in the Sub-Basement brig could you contact them and have them come retrieve her?" Storm asked her to which she nodded, noting the confused look on Marrow's face.
"I... I'll tell you some other time!" Blake told her as she started to walk away, "Yeah Storm, I'll call Darius when we get back!" she added as she went to go find Wolverine, stopping when she heard Marrow say her name.
"Blake… Peanut…" She began to reach for the girl as she turned around.
Blake rolled her eyes before responding.
"It's Wolfpup…" she said calmly before walking away, making the older sigh and look at the floor.