Chapter Twenty Three
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Kari was still unconscious as she rested on a table with instruments hooked up to her body back at the X-Mansion, Xavier was by her head while Daisuke was standing off to the side looking down at her friend in concern. "From your account of how your fight with Kari went Daisuke, I can only speculate what has happened to her. But from what I can gather she has powerful telekinetic abilities, far beyond anyone I've seen in my life," Xavier told Daisuke.
"Well, that's all well and good but it doesn't explain anything. Like how did she survive that massive explosion that happened when she tried to atomize me?" Daisuke asked. "She doesn't have a healing factor or anything,"
"You're right. She doesn't have a healing factor. But the only possible explanation is that Kari's powers wrapped her in a cocoon of telekinetic energy to deflect the blast," Xavier hypothesised.
"Well, is she going to be okay?" Daisuke asked the Professor who looked at her.
"Daisuke, there are classes that define a mutant, depending on their mutation." Xavier said.
"What does that got to do with anything?" Daisuke asked frustrated.
"Daisuke, you are a class six level mutant. You're one of the most powerful in existence. Kari I believe is a class five, a very powerful mutant whose power is practically limitless, her mutation is seated in the subconscious part of her mind and therein lay the danger," Xavier explained.
"What do you mean?" Daisuke asked him. "Professor, what the hell is wrong with my friend?" She asked again more forcefully.
"Daisuke, you must understand something. I do not believe Kari's powers are natural," Xavier said.
"Are you saying someone gave Kari her powers?" Daisuke asked him.
"No. not someone, something," He replied. "Twenty years ago, Eric and I went to bring Jean to the school to learn and control her powers, she was the most powerful mutant we had ever seen…but something happened that day, Jean's powers went out of control nearly killing her parents and Eric and myself, I managed to subdue her but not before an apparition escaped her body. It was shaped in that of a phoenix,"
"Phoenix?" Daisuke asked. "You're saying something escaped Jean's body twenty years ago, and then hanged around for two decades just to possess Kari?"
"Yes. And this time I don't think it will leave, it has taken over. It is warping your friends mind and soul, giving her extraordinary powers at the cost of losing her life," Xavier explained.
"Can we do anything?" Daisuke asked worried.
"Yes, but first we must determine if the girl in front of us right now is Kari Kamiya that you know, or the Kari Kamiya that has been warped and twisted by the phoenix," Xavier said.
"What is the phoenix anyway?" Daisuke asked. "If we know what it is, we might be able to save Kari,"
"It is a purely instinctual creature. One of all desire, joy and rage," Xavier answered.
"Well she looks peaceful enough," Daisuke said.
"Because I am keeping her that way," Xavier told her.
"What?" Daisuke asked him.
"I am trying to create psychic barriers in Kari's mind. The cage the beast and hopefully save your friend," Xavier said and Daisuke looked at him with a frown.
"What have you done to her?" She asked him angrily.
"Daisuke, you must understand…" Xavier tried to reason with her.
"You're talking about a person's mind here, about Kari. One of my best friends," Daisuke told him.
"She must be controlled," Xavier said.
"Controlled!? Well sometimes professor you try to cage a beast and it gets angry at you," Daisuke snarled walking towards Xavier.
"You have no idea. You have no idea what your friend is capable of like this," Xavier said to Daisuke before he tried to erect more barriers in Kari's mind but Daisuke grabbed his arm.
"No professor, I had no idea what you were capable of," She said.
"This is a difficult choice to make. I am taking the lesser of two evils Daisuke," Xavier said.
"This should be a choice made by Kari, not you. You don't even know her like I do," Daisuke told him.
"I don't need to explain myself Daisuke, especially not to you," He said and Daisuke lost it as her body became covered in organic steel and she grabbed Xavier threw him back from Kari and he tumbled from his wheelchair and Daisuke picked him up and held him against the wall with her left hand and claws shot out of her right hands knuckles.
"Give me a reason not to do it!" She shouted at Xavier angrily, the door to the room opened and the rest of the X-Men saw what was going on.
"Hey Daisuke, calm down!" Logan shouted at her as he and Cyclops pulled Daisuke away and Storm and Jean helped the professor.
"Don't bother helping that bastard!" Daisuke shouted angrily as she tried to break free from Logan and Cyclops's grip.
"Calm down!" Cyclops shouted at her.
"What's going on?" Yuriko asked.
"He's trying to screw with Kari's mind. All because she's too powerful," Daisuke answered angrily.
"She's a danger to everyone around her Daisuke," Xavier said calmly as Jean and Storm helped him back into his chair.
"For everyone? Or just a danger to you?" Daisuke asked before she stormed off angrily but not before glaring at the Professor once more. "If you hurt Kari, I will not hesitate to end you," She threatened before she walked off and Takato followed her.
"Daisuke, hold on," He told her as he grabbed her arm and he saw she was crying. "Dai…"
"Kari's my friend. And he's just messing around with her mind like it's a lump of clay. What if he messes up….what if…if…what if my friend is gone forever because of this?" She asked through sobs and Takato hugged her comfortingly.
"Don't worry Daisuke, I know the Professor, he wouldn't do something like this if there was another way," He told her.
"I know. But I am just so angry that he would do something like this without consulting Kari," Daisuke said.
"For all we know Daisuke, if Kari woke up, she might attack everyone in the mansion. Then we would all be in trouble. And with no way to stop her," Takato told her.
"Fine. I'll go along with this for now, but if he crosses the line he will pay," Daisuke said and Takato sighed but he nodded nonetheless.
Meanwhile outside a building in San Francisco a crowd of mutants had gathered behind a barricade while another line of mutants led into the building. "History will be made here today. This is the first time that the mutant cure will be available to the public, with mutants on both sides of the line. Some mutants are desperate for this cure, while others are offended by the very idea of curing their mutation," A news reporter said, meanwhile up at the top of the tower the man who had invented the cure, Mr Worthington was looking down at the crowd.
"Is Secretary McCoy going to be a problem?" He asked Dr Rao.
"Hard to say. His political views seem somewhat at odds with his allegiance," Rao answered.
"Excuse me sir. You're son has arrived," A woman told him.
"Send him in," Mr Worthington said.
"Are you sure you want to start with him?" Rao asked him.
"I think it is for the best," He replied as a young man with blonde hair wearing a jacket walked into the room.
"Hello Warren," Dr Rao greeted him.
"How are you son?" His father asked him.
"Fine," He answered.
"I am proud of you for doing this. Everything will be better I promise you," Mr Worthington said to his son who looked unsure as he was strapped to a slab and his jacket and shirt were removed, Dr Rao removed a vial of grey liquid and inserted it into a needle.
"The transformation can be a little painful," She said.
"Dad can we talk about this?" Warren asked his father.
"We've talked about it son," His father said.
"Wait I can't do this anymore," Warren said as he tried to break free of the restraints.
"Warren, calm down son," His father told him.
"No I can't do this!" He shouted as he broke free of his restraints and two large wings emerged from his back.
"Son, it's a better life for you," His father said.
"For me? Or for you?" Warren asked before he ran towards the window and broke through the glass and then flew away and Jimmy watched him from Alcatraz Island. The convoy that Mystique was in was driving down the highway when the head car saw Magneto in front of them, he lifted his hand and the first car flew into the air and was crushed before it was thrown away, the second car was crushed before it was also thrown away, the cars at the back were also thrown to the side leaving the semi-truck on its own. Magneto then threw the cab over his head and he brought the trailer to a stop just before it hit him, the guard inside slid down to Mystique's cell and he sat up, Mystique then grabbed his neck and snapped it.
"I told you I would kill you," She said as he took the keys from his corpse and unlocked her shackles and Magneto walked to the back of the trailer and he opened the door just as Mystique exited her cell and walked towards him and Pyro. "About time," She said.
"I was busy," Magneto answered her. "Did you find what you've been looking for?" He asked her.
"The source of the cure is a mutant. He's being kept on Alcatraz Island, without him they have nothing," She answered him, Magneto then brought the clipboard into his hand before he handed it to Pyro.
"Read off the guest list," He said and Pyro walked off to one cell.
"Cell 41205. James Mavericks," Pyro said.
"This one robbed seven banks," Mystique said as Magneto opened the door to the cell and six identical men exited. "At the same time,"
"I could use a man of your talents," Magneto said to the mutant.
"I'm in," He said.
"Welcome to the Brotherhood," Magneto welcomed him as he, Pyro and Mystique headed to the other cell while Mavericks walked out of the truck.
"Be careful with this one," Mystique said.
"Cain Marco. Solitary confinement. Check this out, prisoner must be confined at all times, if he builds any momentum nothing can stop him," Pyro said.
"Fascinating," Magneto said as he opened the cell door to see the mutant restrained. "What do they call you?" He asked.
"Juggernaut," He answered.
"I cannot imagine why," Magneto said.
"You gonna let me out of here? I need to pee," Juggernaut said and Magneto freed him and he jumped out of his cell waking up the other guard in the trailer.
"Nice helmet," Pyro said.
"Keeps my face pretty," Juggernaut said as the second guard pulled out a gun and slipped in a cartridge.
"He will make a fine addition to our army," Magneto said.
"Yeah," Pyro said as Mystique saw a laser on Magneto's back.
"No!" She shouted as the guard fired a needled with the cure in it at her and she gasped making Magneto and Pyro look at the guard, Magneto took the gun from him and Pyro incinerated him. Mystique shook and gasped as her skin became normal and her orange hair turned black and her eyes turned blue, she looked at her hand in shock.
"You saved me," Magneto said to her.
"Eric," Mystique said as he turned to leave and he turned back to her.
"I am so sorry my dear. You're not one of us anymore," He said before he walked off with Pyro and Juggernaut. "Such a shame. She was so beautiful," He said as they left Mystique alone in the trailer and she started to cry.
The end of the chapter
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