Chapter Seventeen
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Daisuke slowly walked down the spillway disguised as Logan, she looked around cautiously in case Stryker had added defences. Her approach was caught on a camera and a soldier saw her coming. "Sir, there is someone coming up the spillway," He said to Stryker who stood from his chair and he walked towards the soldier at the same time Daisuke arrived at the end of the spillway.
"Stryker!" She shouted holding her arms out looking up to the camera above the door. "Stryker! Come out where I can see you!"
"I'm flooding it," The soldier said.
"No," Stryker stopped him, he then looked at who he thought was Logan. "Well, well. Look who has come home," He said, Daisuke then heard two hidden doors open up and she looked back to see six soldiers five of which pointed the assault rifles they were holding at her, the sixth soldier held in his hands a large piece metal with two hoops welded into it and the soldiers approached.
"Move and your dead freak," A soldier told her as the shackled her and the door opened up and they pushed Daisuke in and she saw dozens of soldiers were there pointing their weapons at her. A door soon opened and Stryker and Yuriko walked in and Stryker looked at Daisuke for several moments before he turned to a soldier.
"There's one thing I know better than anyone, and that's my work. Seal the room, shoot it," Stryker told a soldier.
"Seal the room! Step away!" The soldier shouted and Daisuke smirked.
"Activate Colossus," She thought and her body returned to normal and was covered in organic steel shocking the soldiers while Stryker looked on astonished. Daisuke broke her restraints and sent the six soldiers surrounding her flying, the rest of the soldiers fired their weapons at her but the bullets bounced off her skin. "Okay, my turn," She said before she fired optic blasts from her eyes at the soldiers and she ran towards the rapidly closing door and she slid under it just as it shut, but not before she gave Stryker the bird. A soldier looked at a screen as he saw Stryker approaching with a soldier behind him.
"We have a Metamorph loose. It could be anybody," He said to the soldier who turned to look at the screens.
"Anybody?" he asked as Stryker grabbed the soldier's gun and smacked the butt of the gun against his head before he did the same to the other guard, Stryker then walked towards the console and turned back into Daisuke and pressed a few buttons and the door to the room started to close as Stryker, Yuriko and several soldiers saw her in the room. Daisuke turned and she blew a kiss to Stryker as the door shut.
"Can you override the spillway mechanism?" Stryker asked a soldier.
"Everything is controlled from inside that room. That's why the doors are so thick," He answered.
"Oh. Really!?" Stryker asked sarcastically. "Get some charges, blow the damn door open!" He barked before he looked at a camera. "And take out these cameras!" He shouted and a soldier shot the camera.
"I'm in," Daisuke said into an ear piece.
"She's good," Magneto admitted.
"You've no idea, Magneto," Takato told him. Daisuke typed away at a keypad before she saw the mutant children in their cell.
"Storm. I found the children, they're here. And alive," She said.
"Thank goodness," Storm said over the earpiece. Two soldiers meanwhile strapped a large charge onto the door before they retreated.
"Fire in the hole," A soldier said as the explosive detonated and Daisuke heard the noise but the door stayed standing.
"What's happening?" Logan asked her.
"The idiots are trying to break inside the room, but so far no luck. Okay opening the spillway….now," Daisuke said pressing a final key and an alarm blared, the spillway door opened up and flashes of light appeared and the wind picked up.
"Sergeant, she has opened the spillway doors. More mutants have entered?" A soldier said.
"How many?" The sergeant asked.
"We've lost communications, some sort of electrical disturbance," The soldier answered him.
"Sergeant Lyman, gather your men and meet me outside Cerebro." Stryker said and the sergeant nodded. "You, carry on! When I come back I want this door open all the way," Stryker then told two soldiers who were prying the door open.
Meanwhile the professor was still trapped in Jason's illusion and he and the young girl headed towards Cerebro which scanned Xavier's eye before opening.
"Welcome Professor," A voice said.
"Don't leave me alone, please," The girl begged him.
"You can come inside," Xavier told her and the surroundings changed to reveal Jason behind the professor with a soldier pushing his chair, Xavier and Jason both moved into Cerebro two and the door shut behind them. Daisuke meanwhile was pressing keys when she heard the metal creaking and she saw a huge chunk of the door pulled away before it landed and Magneto was behind it with his hand extended. Jean and Takato threw the two soldiers into the wall as everyone ran into the room.
"About time you got here," Daisuke said.
"Have you found it?" Magneto asked her and she nodded.
"Yeah. A large amount of the dam's energy has been diverted to here," She answered before she walked off.
"Cerebro," Storm said.
"There it is," Magneto said.
"Can you shut it down from here?" Storm asked.
"I tried, but it's on a separate system. Stryker's a monster, but he's no idiot," Daisuke explained.
"Oh my god the children," Storm said looking at the children. "Kurt will you come with me?" She asked him.
"Yes," He answered.
"Where are they?" Storm asked as Mystique pressed a few keys on the computer.
"in a cell one level down," She answered her.
"Stryker," Daisuke said quietly looking at a screen seeing Stryker and Yuriko walking down a corridor, she looked at the other before she left leaving her ear piece behind.
"Come, there's little time to get to Charles," Magneto said.
"Not without us," Logan said and Jean nodded and Magneto looked at Mystique before he nodded to them.
"Okay, we'll get the children, then meet you at Cerebro," Storm said.
"What do we do?" Takato asked and Mizu nodded before he noticed something. "Where's Daisuke?" he asked looking around.
"He's right. Where is she?" Logan asked, Jean noticed her left behind ear piece.
"She's gone," Jean said and everyone looked at her.
"Okay, we'll find Daisuke then," Mizu said and they ran off and the others headed off as well. Outside Cerebro two soldiers were running around setting up a perimeter as Stryker and Yuriko walked towards the door, Stryker then keyed in a code and the door opened, he then walked over to Jason and leaned down and whispered into his ear.
"Jason," Jason's eyes widened as he looked at the professor. "It's time. Time to find our friends," Stryker said and the girl in Xavier's illusion walked up to him.
"Is it time to find our friend?" She asked.
"All of them," Stryker said.
"All of them," The girl mimicked.
"All of the mutants," Stryker said.
"All the mutants," The girl said.
"Everywhere," Stryker said.
"Everywhere," The girl said.
"That's right," Xavier answered.
"Every one of them?" The girl asked.
"Oh, yes," He answered.
"Good," The girl said.
"It's time to bring it to an end. Make me proud," Stryker said before he left the room and Xavier put on the helmet.
"Just don't move," He told the girl.
"Kill anyone who approaches. Even if it's me," Stryker told Sergeant Lyman before he walked off with Yuriko following him.
Meanwhile Magneto, Mystique, Jean and Logan were walking towards Cerebro when Jean shook her head and Logan heard something and he sniffed the air, Jean then threw her arms forward throwing Magneto and Mystique forwards as an optic blast crashed into the wall, Jean and Logan hid behind a wall.
"Go! We'll take care of him!" Jean told the two.
"This is one lovers' quarrel we cannot get involved in, my dear," Magneto said as he and Mystique ran off.
"Perfect. The one time I get to kick Cyclops's ass, and it's when he's being controlled," Logan grumbled, Jean then ran past him and held her hand out and Cyclops's flew through the air and he blasted a truck with his optic blast sending it flying before he crashed into a pillar. He then stood up as Logan ran towards him his claws shooting out of his hands, Cyclops's fired an optic blast at him which he rolled out of the way and Jean used her powers and she threw Cyclops over a ledge and he crashed into a wall before he fell down to the ground below.
"Scott!" Jean shouted as she and Logan looked over the side. "Scott?" She asked concerned.
"Come on," Logan told her. "Let's find him," Storm and Kurt meanwhile were walking down a corridor when they heard voices.
"Help us, anybody!" The two of them ran towards the source of the voice and looked through a window to a cell below.
"Listen," The heard another voice say.
"Jubilee?" Storm asked.
"Storm. Get us out of here," The girl said.
"Ok, we're coming," Storm told her, Kurt then whooshed into the cell below making the kids gasp, soon Kurt teleported the kids up one by one before he brought the last kid up.
"I'm gonna be sick," he said as he threw up. Daisuke meanwhile was walking down hallways searching for Stryker.
"Scott!" Jean shouted as she and Logan walked past several turbines looking for Cyclops. Cyclops walked behind them before he fired an optic blast at Logan sending him flying, Jean turned just as Cyclops sent another blast towards her but she held her hands up and skidded backwards. "Scott, don't do this!" Jean shouted at him as Cyclops continued to fire at Jean, Jean closed her eyes before she opened them up and fire was in her eyes as she threw her arms forwards and a massive explosion occurred sending Jean and Cyclops flying and the turbines were shaken and the outside of the dam cracked. Stryker and Yuriko heard the rumble and walked forwards when Stryker saw water pouring through the ceiling.
"Jean!" Logan shouted as he ran towards her amid rubble and sparks flying. "Are you alright?" he asked her and she nodded as Cyclops approached and Logan held his arm up at him as claws shot out.
"Whoa. It's me," Cyclops said.
"Prove it," Logan told him.
"You're a dick," Cyclops said with a grin and Logan rolled his eyes.
"Okay fine, help me," He said and both he and Cyclops helped Jean to her feet.
"Something's wrong," Jean said and at that same moment, Stryker and Yuriko walked into a room full of gauges.
"My God," Stryker said looking at them. "No!" He shouted before he stormed off.
"Have you found the mutants yet? Have you found all of them?" The girl asked Xavier.
"I'm trying. There are so many of them," He answered.
"Then concentrate. Concentrate. Concentrate." The girl said her voice echoing. Daisuke walked down a hallway when she heard something, she turned and walked back towards a flight of stairs and she walked down them and entered a room where she saw a large metal vat filled with water.
"What is this place?" She asked herself as she walked up to the vat and picked up one of the needles with was connected to a large container of bubbling liquid. "Is this metal?" She held her hand out and focused and the metal rose into the air before it dropped back down. Daisuke then noticed three claw marks on the vat of water. "Logan. Oh my God…what did they do to you?" Daisuke noticed several X-Rays on the wall.
"You know, the tricky thing about Adamantium is, that if you ever manage to process its raw, liquid form, you have to keep that way. Keep it hot." Stryker said as he walked down the stairs past Daisuke with Yuriko. "Because once the metal cools, it's indestructible. But you and Logan know that don't you?" He asked her.
"You're nothing more than a monster, you took Logan's life away! Any memories he had of family. He could have been married, had children. And you tore that away from him! And for what!? Just to give him some shiny new claws!" Daisuke shouted angrily at Stryker.
"I wouldn't expect a child to understand. Logan came to me, he let me do what I did to him. I never forced anything on him," Stryker said.
"Like I would believe anything you say. All you've ever done is try to kill all mutants, or use them for your own sick fantasies," Daisuke snarled angrily as Stryker walked off. "Get back here!" She shouted as she ran towards him but Yuriko punched her in the face making her fall on her back. "Look lady, get out my way. Don't make me kill you," Daisuke told her before she rolled backwards. "Access Wolverine!" She shouted and claws shot out of her knuckles, Yuriko held her hands out and her fingernails grew in length and Daisuke saw they were made of Adamantium.
"Oh shit," She said as Yuriko ran towards her.
The end of the chapter
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