Chapter Eleven
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Chapter Eleven
"Mutants….ever since their discovery they have been regarded with fear, suspicion often hatred. Across the entire planet debate rages, are mutants the next step of evolution for humanity? Or are they a new species of humanity simply fighting for their right to live in the world….sharing the world however has never been humanity's strong suit and that is a historical fact," Daisuke said as she read a book while she, Layla, Takato and Mizu sat at a table in a museum.
"Oh wow, you're a real historian aren't you?" Takato teased her and Daisuke rolled her eyes and she closed her eyes momentarily before she gasped. "Dai? What is it?" Takato asked her as Daisuke held her head.
"It's nothing," She told him as she shut her eyes and she saw multiple images. One of a man with a pointed tail jumping over a security guard and running down a hallway before vanishing in a cloud of smoke and another security guard speaking into a walkie talkie. Two men then ran into an office where a man and a women were and they ushered the woman out before telling the man to head to a card with them, then more men came into the room and locked the doors as the mysterious man kept vanishing and reappearing taking out guards as he went, soon he entered the locked room and took out all the guards before turning onto the man and pinning him to the desk and removing a dagger with his tail with a piece of fabric on the end. The attacker was then hit with a bullet and he whooshed away and the dagger landed on the table and the words on the fabric read. "Mutant Freedom Now,"
"What?" Takato asked Daisuke.
"I said that aloud?" She asked and Layla, Takato and Mizu nodded. "Sorry, every so often my telepathy power activates on its own. I don't know why, The Professor thinks it's natural from having so many powers,"
"Well okay, if you're sure," Mizu said to her and Daisuke smiled.
"I'm fine you two, nothing to worry about. But I feel something bad has happened, and someone has pinned it on mutants," She replied worriedly.
"Don't worry Daisuke, since people saw your fight with Sabretooth and then rescuing Rogue and saving the dignitaries at Ellis Island people are starting to trust us," Mizu said.
"Well at least some good came out of it," Takato said. "Say, any idea when Logan is coming back?"
"No. He went back to Alkali Lake and he could be gone for a long time," Daisuke answered.
"I hope he's alright," Mizu said. Meanwhile in Canada at Alkali Lake, Logan sneezed loudly before he sniffed.
"The hell? I shouldn't be getting a cold," He said to himself before he took a puff of his cigar. "Alright then, time to find the base where Daisuke was held. Hopefully I find some answers about myself as well," He then walked towards a cliff where he saw an old dam but other than that nothing but ice and snow, he sighed before he walked down a cliff. He then heard a growl and a wolf jumped out of the bushes and tackled Logan to the ground and tried to clamp down its jaws on Logan's throat. "Damn mutt!" He shouted as he threw the wolf away who whimpered and walked off. "Yeah! You better run," Logan walked off down towards the dam. Back at the museum several of the young students from the mansion where listening to Storm speak while standing in front of a Neanderthal exhibit.
"Neanderthals. We once believed that they were wiped out by years of conflict with the much more advanced branch of humanity called Cro-Magnon man, but recent research into our own DNA suggests that these two species may have interbred, evolving into modern humans in other words, into what?" Storm asked as one boy looked at girl eating an ice cream and she stuck her tongue out at him before he poked his tongue out which was blue and forked. "Artie!" Storm called as the girl looked away and Artie looked back at her. "Not here," She told him. In another part of the museum another student was looking at a skeleton of a Sabre-toothed cat, Jean who had cut her hair so it was just above her shoulder walked up to him.
"Come on, pay attention," She said to him and the boy walked off back to the others and Jean smiled and looked at Cyclops who smiled back at her, Jean then turned around as she heard overlapping voices echoing in her head and they got louder and louder as the electronics nearby acted up, Cyclops turned and he walked towards her.
"Jean, are you alright?" He asked her.
"Yeah. Yeah, I'm fine. It's just a….it's just a headache," She answered him and Cyclops sighed.
"It's not just a headache is it?" He asked. "I wasn't sure how to say this but since Liberty Island you've been…." He said.
"Scott," Jean said.
"You've been different," He finished.
"My telepathy's acting up. I can't focus. I hear everything," Jean said.
"Jean, it's not just your telepathy. A month ago you had to concentrate just to levitate a book across the room. Now when you have a nightmare the entire bedroom shakes," Cyclops said concerned.
"My dreams are getting worse. Scott….I keep feeling something terrible is about to happen," Jean said and Cyclops hugged her.
"I would never let anything happen to you," He comforted her.
"Hey, have you guys seen Bobby, Rogue, John, Daisuke, Takato, Layla and Mizu?" Storm asked walking up to the two of them.
"Something's happening in the food court," Jean said.
"Oh terrific," Cyclops groaned.
"My brother asked you a simple question," One boy said to John who was toying with his lighter.
"Why're you being such a dick?" The other brother asked.
"Yeah, why are you being such a dick," The first brother parroted.
"Cause I can," John answered as Rogue and Bobby chuckled.
"Can I have a light?" The second brother asked him again and John looked at his lighter.
"Sorry pal, wish I could help," He answered.
"Oh boy, this is going to be good," Daisuke said.
"John knock it off," Rogue told him.
"Why don't you stop showing off?" Bobby asked him.
"Oh, for her? I can't help it if your girl's getting excited," John said as one of the brothers looked down at Rogue smugly and she scoffed.
"We're trying to have a good time," John told Bobby.
"You're the only one having a good time," Bobby replied as the second brother snatched the lighter from John.
"Hey!" He shouted standing up but the other brother stood in his way while his brother lit a cigarette. "Real cute man," John said.
"What're you going to do about it? Suddenly you're not so tough," The first brother said as his brother took a puff of the cigarette.
"Hey, that's not yours," Layla said walking over to the brothers and frowning at them.
"What're you gonna do about it shrimp?" The smoking brother asked her before he shoved her away.
"Not me, him," Layla said with a smirk as John winked and the boys arm caught on fire shocking him and making the whole food court look towards him as he tripped over a chair and John chuckled, Bobby stood up and he shot some ice at the fire and snuffed it out when suddenly everyone except, Daisuke, Mizu, Takato, Layla, Bobby, Rogue and John.
"Bobby what did you do?" Rogue asked him.
"I didn't do this," he answered.
"No. I did," Everyone turned to see Professor Xavier moving towards them before he frowned at John. "And the next time you feel like showing off, don't," He cautioned as one of the students pushed one of the frozen people and he nearly toppled over.
"We're coming to you live from Washington where there's been an attack in the Oval Office of the White House. The evidence is still coming in but we have been informed that the president and vice president were not harmed. Sources say the attack involved one or more mutants…." A voice on a television said.
"I think we should leave Professor," Daisuke said.
"I think you're right," he replied to her and the mutants all left and everyone else unfroze and the boy who was set of fire looked around for any sign of Bobby and John. Soon everyone was back at the school with the X-Men and the Professor in his office.
"In my opinion Magneto's behind this," Cyclops said.
"I don't think so," Takato said.
"While Eric is possible of organising something like this from prison, for him it would be irrational and only hurt his goal of mutant prosperity," Xavier said.
"You mean superiority," Cyclops corrected him.
"Yes, if Eric had his way," The Professor replied.
"From the times I've visited Magneto in prison, I get the feeling he wouldn't simply plan something this blatantly obvious, he could have simply told Mystique to impersonate someone and kill the president that way. But why do something like this? And I'm not even sure the mutant did it of his own accord," Daisuke said.
'What makes you say that?" Mizu asked her.
"Earlier in the museum, my powers kicked in again. I saw the mutant as he attacked the president, it was like the lights were on, but no one was home…like someone was manipulating him somehow," She answered.
"Well it can't be Magneto. He's been in prison since Liberty Island," Takato said.
"So who else can make other people do what they want?" Mizu asked.
"I don't know, but this attack on the president is bad. The government could reintroduce the registration act," Storm said.
"Or worse," Xavier said.
"What's worse than that?" Daisuke asked.
"The president could declare a state of emergency, place every mutant in the country under arrest," Xavier answered.
"Well what do we do? Find this mutant and ask him what happened?" Mizu asked.
"Oh yeah that'll work. Hey Mr Mutant do you know who force you to attack the president of this country," Daisuke said sarcastically.
"It's won't come to that. I've been trying to track him with Cerebro, but his movements are inexplicably erratic. When I have more precise coordinates, Storm and Jean you take the jet and pick him up," The Professor told them. Meanwhile back at the White House a man in his fifties looked at the dagger still embedded in the desk.
"It was close. Closer than anyone's admitted," He said as the president picked up a bottle of whiskey and a cup.
"What do you need William?" He asked.
"Just your authorisation for a special operation," The man answered as he saw the president pour a glass. "Oh no thank you Mr President,"
"And here I thought you were here to talk about school reform," The President said.
"Funny you should say that," He replied as Senator Kelly walked into the room.
"Senator," The President greeted.
"Mr President. Thank you for having me," Kelly shook his hand.
"Senator Kelly, this is Colonel William Stryker," The President said.
"How do you do," Kelly greeted Stryker.
"He's been dealing with the mutant phenomenon since before my time," The President said.
"As I recall you were a stanch supporter of the Registration Act senator. But it seems your ideas on the mutant problem have changed," Stryker said.
"For the best I hope," Kelly said. "So what're you proposing Mr Stryker?" He asked.
"May I?" Stryker asked the President who nodded and Stryker laid some pictures of the X-Mansion down on the table. "We've managed to gather evidence of a mutant training facility in the Salem region if upstate New York,"
"How'd you come across this information?" The President asked him.
"Interrogation of one of the mutant terrorists from the Liberty Island incident," Stryker answered.
"Um…terrorists did you not see what that young girl did when the fight was recorded by a news helicopter? She saved that young girl and the UN dignitaries from Magneto's machine," Kelly said.
"Ah yes, Daisuke Motomiya…yes she did show mutants in a positive light, but we have evidence she has been speaking with Magneto," Stryker said.
"You have access to Magneto yourself I assume," The President said.
"Yes, my people designed the technology that built his plastic prison," Stryker said.
"This training facility as you call it. Is nothing more than a school for gifted youngsters," Kelly said.
"Sure it is. But then if it is as you say a school, what is that?" Stryker asked showing a picture of the X-Jet.
"It's a jet," Kelly said.
"What kind?" The President asked.
"We don't know, but it comes up out of the basketball court," Stryker said as the President stood and walked towards a window. "If we'd been allowed to do our jobs Mr President before this incident,"
"Alright listen. William you have what you need, you go in, detain and question. The last thing we need is the body of a mutant kid on the six o'clock news after all that's happened," The President said and Stryker smiled and he walked out and Kelly followed him after shaking the president's hand and he caught up to Stryker who had a woman with black hair in a ponytail wearing sunglasses.
"Mr Stryker?" He asked.
"Senator Kelly, this is Yuriko, my personal assistant," Stryker said pointing to the women who shook Kelly's hand firmly. "What can I do for you?"
"Eric Lehnsherr's prison, I'd like to arrange a visit if possible," Kelly said.
"It isn't a petting zoo, senator. In this conflict he is the enemy and you're the spectator so why don't you sit this one out?" Stryker asked.
"Conflict? Mr Stryker are you trying to turn this small incident into a war?" Kelly asked him.
"I was piloting black ops in the jungles of Northern Vietnam while you were still sucking on your mama's tit at Woodstock Kelly, don't lecture me about war. This already is one," Stryker told him before he left and Kelly's eyes turned yellow.
The end of the chapter
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