Chapter Twenty Five

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Daisuke groaned as her eyes slowly opened up and she saw a familiar ceiling above her, she then realised she was somehow back in the X-Mansion. She then tried to sit up but winced in pain and agony. "Ow," She managed to say as the door to the room opened and Sam walked in and saw she was awake.

"Glad to see you're still with us Daisuke," He told her with a gentle smile and she looked at him. "What's the last thing you remember?" He asked her.

"Me and Kari….in Jean's old house. Then a giant explosion….but nothing after that…" She answered.

"Okay…you haven't lost your memory. That's good." Sam said.

"Where's Kari?" Daisuke asked him and she saw his expression fell.

"She couldn't be found. It's most likely that Magneto took her before the X-Men could get back into the house after what happened," He informed her and Daisuke shot up before screaming in pain, she looked down to see the majority of her body covered in bandages.

"Why am I still like this? I should have healed by now," She said in confusion.

"The Professor deduced that your encounter with Kari and the phoenix trying to atomise you reduced your healing factor for a while. You're gonna be in bandages for a few days," Sam explained and Daisuke grumbled. "Since you're up. The Professor wants to talk to you in his office," He told her and he saw her frown. "I know you're angry at him. But he's a good man, don't condemn him for one foolish choice," He told her.

"Fine. But no promises…" She said and Sam chuckled as he helped Daisuke up before she managed to walk under her own power. She then entered the top part of the mansion and walked straight towards the Professor's office.

"Hey kid, glad to see your up," She turned to see Logan and Yuriko approaching and she nodded.

"Yeah. But my healing factor is slower than normal," She informed them. "Now, sorry to cut this short, but I need to see Xavier." And with that she walked off towards Xavier office where she opened the door and shut it behind her. "You wanted to speak to me?" She asked looking over at the professor who was looking out the window of his office.

"I did, Daisuke." He answered turning to face her. "I heard about what had happened with Kari…I am sorry," He said. "I was a fool, I shouldn't have tried to contain the phoenix in Kari without her consent, and now I fear Eric has a powerful mutant in his fold," Xavier said.

"Well….I'm sorry too. For acting the way I did when you told me what you were doing, I was just worried for my friend," Daisuke said and Xavier nodded in understanding. "But now Magneto has her, and I don't know where to find her," She said.

"You are in no shape to go after them Daisuke," Xavier informed her and Daisuke grumbled before she nodded her head and looked at her bandaged body.

"Yeah I know. But I hate being so useless when one of my friends is in danger and I can't help them," She said angrily before she walked off. Later that Rogue was in her room when she looked out the window and to her surprise she saw Bobby and Kitty walked towards the fountain out in the grounds, Bobby then touched the water and it froze instantly. She then saw Kitty and Bobby putting on ice skates before they started to skate on the ice and Bobby grabbed Kitty's hand and sped up around the pond before Kitty nearly tripped and Bobby caught her and Rogue frowned before she walked off. She soon was walking towards the door of the mansion fully dressed and was carrying a bag in her hand.

"Need a lift?" She turned to see Logan leaning against the wall.

"No," She answered him.

"Where are you going?" He asked her.

"You don't know what it's like to be afraid of your powers, be afraid to get close to anybody," Rogue said to him.

"Yeah I do know what it's like." He replied.

"I want to be able to touch people Logan. A hug, a handshake. A kiss," Rogue said.

"I hope you're not doing this for some boy." Logan said and Rogue looked away from him briefly. "Look, if you want to go and do this. Then go, I won't tell anyone. But be sure you're doing this for the right reasons, and it's what you want," He told her.

"Shouldn't you be telling me to stay? To go upstairs and unpack?" Rogue asked him.

"I'm not your father Rogue. I'm your friend. Just think about what I said Rogue," Logan said as he walked off.

"Marie," Rogue told him.

"Marie," Logan corrected himself before he walked away and Rogue left the mansion.

The next day in a large forest Magneto's army were setting up their camp while Kari who now wore a crimson trench coat and she was standing on a small hill overlooking the mutants. Magneto walked up to her and over-looked the mutants as well.

"You know. When I first looked at you Kari, you know what I saw?" Magneto asked her and but she didn't look at him. "I saw the next stage in evolution, what Charles and I dreamt of finding. But then I thought to myself why would Daisuke want to turn one of her friends, a fellow mutant and a goddess among men into a mortal?" He then said before he took out the gun that held the cure in it. "I can control the metal in this gun, but you can do anything you want with it," He said as he floated the gun in front of Kari and she took it and dismantled it and she pointed the needles at Magneto and started to advance them towards him. "Kari…that's enough. Enough!" He shouted and the needles fell to the ground and Kari turned to face him.

"You think you can order me around? Like all those fools down there?" She asked as Magneto was lifted into the air and turned upside down and Kari glared at him. "Let's get one thing straight, you do not control me, and I am not expected to listen to you. Understand?" She asked him and he nodded. "Good," She said as she let Magneto go and he fell to the ground.

"I only want what is best for you. As nature intended, that cure is meant for us all, if we want our freedom we must fight for it. And that fight begins now," He said to her standing up and he walked off.

"We shouldn't have her here with us," Callisto said as she and Pyro started to walk beside him. "Her power is completely unstable,"

"To those who cannot control it," Magneto said.

"Do you trust her?" Pyro asked.

"She is not an X-Men," Magneto answered.

"But's she's friends with one of them. We should have killed her when she came here, like you should have let me kill the professor," Pyro said and Magneto stopped him and looked at him.

"Charles Xavier has done more for mutants than you will ever know, you will do well to respect him," He told Pyro before he walked off. Meanwhile back at the mansion the X-Men and Hank were in Xavier's office.

"You want to close the school?" Takato asked him in shock.

"I can't believe this," Storm said.

"With the fact that Eric is gearing up for war, I cannot risk the children's safety," Xavier said.

"So we're not going to fight for this place. For every mutant in this place?" Daisuke asked in shock, just then Warren slowly walked into the room.

"I'm sorry for interrupting, but I heard that this place was a safe place for mutants," He said.

"It was son," Xavier said.

"And it still is," Storm said making everyone look at her. "We'll find you a room. Scott, Jean, Hank tell the students that the school is staying open," She said and everyone smiled at her. Bobby then walked out and headed to Rogue's room and he knocked on the door but he got no reply and he opened the door and saw the empty room.

"Rogue?" He asked looking around before he walked out of the room to see Colossus walking past. "Hey big guy, have you seen Rogue anywhere?" He asked him.

"Yeah, she took off," He answered and this made Bobby worried. Daisuke meanwhile was outside the mansion, most of her bandages now off her body.

"Daisuke…" She heard and she turned around. "Daisuke, Daisuke. Daisuke…"

"Kari?" She asked before she held her head. "Stop it,"

"Daisuke! Where am I Daisuke!?"

"Shut up!" She roared before she sent a blast of fire at some trees and incinerated them before she panted heavily. She then went to her room and started to pack a bag, Takato then walked into the room and saw what she was doing.

"So, you're leaving?" He asked her.

"You wouldn't understand," She told him.

"She's gone Daisuke." He said.

"You don't know that. It's the Phoenix inside her, the Kari I know is still in there," Daisuke said before she walked to the door but Takato stopped her.

"Why can't you see she's gone? She nearly killed you twice Daisuke." He said and Daisuke frowned and walked back into the room. "It's time you decided, they made the first move, it's time to make ours. Are you going to lead us, or abandon us?" He asked before he walked off leaving Daisuke alone and she sighed. Soon she was leaving the mansion and heading off in search of Kari using her super speed. Meanwhile outside a health clinic, protesting mutants were behind a barricade while there was a line of mutants heading into the clinic to receive the cure. Bobby moved through the protesting mutants searching for Rogue.

"Getting the cure, so you can go back to mommy and daddy?" He heard Pyro asked him.

"I'm looking for someone," Bobby said.

"Ah, you're girlfriend. She always was pathetic," Pyro taunted and Bobby's hands became ice and Pyro created a small fireball. "Come on Iceman, make a move," He said but Bobby walked away. "That's right. Same old Bobby, always afraid of a fight," Pyro said before he sent a fire blast at the clinic and set it on fire making everyone panic.

"Today's attack was our first salvo. So long as the cure exists our war will rage, your cities will not be safe, your streets will not be safe, you will not be safe. And to my fellow mutants, I make you this offer, join us or stay out of our way. Enough mutant blood has been spilt already," Magneto said on the TV that everyone in the mansion saw as did the president.

"We're trying to track him sir, we're working hard," Trask told him.

"We can't let him do this. This is now a national security matter, I want troops equipped with cure weapons on Alcatraz Island immediately. If Magneto wants a war then we will give him one," The president told Trask who nodded his head.

Daisuke meanwhile had arrived at the forest where the Brotherhood were hiding out at and she looked around carefully. "Where are you?" She thought before she was knocked over as a bone like weapon embedded itself in her arm and two more hit a tree next to her, she then saw a mutant hold two more in his hands as they came out of his arms. She then ran off with the mutant sending projectiles towards her but he kept missing, one mutant then heard the impacts and he looked at another mutant and both walked off towards the source of the noises. Daisuke hid behind a tree and pulled out the bone and she groaned as the hole healed up, she then saw the mutant heading towards her and she threw the sharp bone weapon at him and she hit him in the leg sending him down. She then climbed into a tree as the two mutants slowly walked towards her but they could see her until she jumped down and stabbed them with her claws and she ran off stabbing and slashing at the mutants before she stabbed the same mutant from before in his chest and killed him. She then gasped as she pulled two bone weapons out of her stomach and the wounds healed up quickly making her smile. "About time they healed up," She thought as she then heard shouts and cheers from nearby. She decided to climb a tree and she jumped from tree to tree and saw Kari, Magneto, Pyro, Juggernaut, Calisto and her gang in front of the army of mutants.

"They wish to cure us, but I say to you, we are the cure," Magneto said making the mutants cheer. "The cure for that imperfect condition called Homo-sapiens," The mutants cheered loudly. "They have their weapons, we have ours," Magneto said looking at Kari who glanced at him and Daisuke resisted the urge to attack then and there. "We will strike with a vengeance and a fury that the world has never witnessed. And if any mutants stand in our way we will use this poison against them. We shall go to Alcatraz Island, take control of the cure and destroy its source. And then nothing cans top us!" Magneto shouted and the cheers became thunderous. Kari looked up slightly and her eyes widened when she saw Daisuke and the mahogany haired mutant smiled as she saw a slight glimmer of Kari still alive and well.

"I need to warn the others," She then said before she quietly left the tree tops and she ran off before she saw Kari standing there. "Kari," She said and her friend looked at her.

"Daisuke," She replied before she held her hand out and Daisuke was thrown into a tree. "You shouldn't have come here,"

"Well, isn't this a surprise," Daisuke heard Magneto say as he walked into view behind Kari.

"I didn't come to fight you," Daisuke told him.

"Smart girl," Magneto said.

"I came for Kari," Daisuke growled.

"You think I am keeping her here against her will?" Magneto asked.

"No. but I know you have no damn idea what you're dealing with. You saw what she can do, and you think you can control her like she's a common pet?" Daisuke asked him angrily. "You're getting too overconfident in your abilities Eric. It's only a matter of time before you slip up and when you do. I hope I'm there to see it. I'm not leaving without her,"

"Yes. You are," Kari said as she waved her hand and Daisuke went flying through trees before she crashed into one far away and was covered in cuts, scratches and lacerations.

"Now then my dear, off to Alcatraz. It will end where it all began," Magneto said to Kari who glared at him before they walked off. Daisuke meanwhile opened her eyes and sat up in pain.

"Damn it! I have to save Kari, but right now. I need to get back and warn the others," She said before she sped off.

The end of the chapter

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