We all figured that since the service area was right next door to the port Stryker had to be hiding there. The room was pitch black until we came in the lights shined so bright it blinded us for a moment. While Nina and Michael was blinded I glanced around the light and saw Stryker running on platform beside the lights. I pulled out a sawed off double header climbed up a ladder before following him and shooting at him while Mike and Nina followed up behind me.
"FREEZE! Stop and I won't shoot Stryker." I said creeping towards Stryker standing at the edge of the platform
Stryker slowly turned around, "Is that a fact? I would've thought you were the type that like settling scores." He said
"Yeah well I am that type but Trent wouldn't want me to shoot you he'd call it animal cruelty. I'd rather see a creature like you locked up than dead that way you can suffer just like he did." I said
"And who would believe a bunch of privileged little shits like you all? My father recreated you brats because he knew you were capable of handling his experiments. All of this was his plan he started this so I could finish it. He led you all believe in a false sense of security so I can drop the hammer down and since I've served my purpose I will inherit the entire world." Stryker said falling off the platform
I glanced over the rail and the hatch on some sort of machine closed up before it started up. As the machine marched forward it caused a small earthquake with every step it took it was twice the size of any advantage sentinel and was three times as powerful. It knocked down some of the wires connected to the platform we were standing on before opening it's hand underneath us. I grabbed hold of the side of platform while Nina slid down and grabbed hold of my waist and Michael grabbed hold of her legs, "PULL UP! Pull Up!" He yelled shooting at the eyes of the sentinel
"Loose Some Fucking Weight!" I yelled trying to pull up on platform until the another row of wires broke and almost made us fall into Stryker's grasped. If it wasn't for the axe head keeping us on the platform than we would have been crushed by now but I could tell the last row was about to give out.
"Need a hand?" Kurt asked popping out of nowhere grabbing my arm and teleporting us on the floor near everybody else
"You guys really need to understand that we're a team. You don't have to go through this by yourselves." Logan said
"Yeah. Take a load off we can handle this." Kitty said
"Handle what? I know all your weaknesses thanks to Miss. Brown." Stryker said from safety of the suit
"Yeah. We'll just have to see about that." Scott said leading the way
"Nina see if you can hack into the mainframe like how you did with the others and Michael try to blind him. I'm gonna go see what is this thing made of." I said running up behind everybody else
I was right to check out the sentinel and having Michael and Nina watch from the sidelines. There was something different about how this sentinel moved like normally they'd have a list of basic maneuvers and movements it'll go through but this one was completely different. It moved much faster and was more flexible as if it was an extension of Stryker himself. It was made with the same medal we use to shield the tanks the few wires that connected the system together were covered in rubber casing so I wouldn't be able to just phase through and by using the most updated software it made Nina on the breaking point of a mental breakdown. It would have been an easy cut for Logan and Laura if it wasn't for Stryker's giant magnet pulling them back across the room. The helmet Stryker was wearing was very similar to another mutant we encountered a few years ago named Magneto that seemed to counter or deflect telepathic attacks so Jean wasn't able to do much but overhear the multiple voices that protected his mind in hers. When Storm tried to come near him he trapped her in this odd containment unit that seem to shrink every few minutes. After letting Kurt pop around for a few minutes Stryker could calculate when and where he'll move next eventually Stryker caught Kurt in some strange net that kept him from teleporting. Stryker had taken a different approach with me Kitty Scott Nina and Mike and used weapons to try to take us out; AK-47, a mini gun, flamethrower, laser beam, a grenade and a rocket launcher all while tentacles of reverse tasers swarmed us.
"Holy shit! What kind of fucked up mech is that?" Mike asked hiding behind a pile of medal
"One that's designed to kill us.", I answered loading up a rocket launcher, "Sis how's infiltrating the main frame working out?" I asked taking aim at the sentinal's head before firing. Stryker moved back a few feet but when the smoke cleared I didn't even put a dent in him as a matter of fact I didn't do anything expected pissed him off even more.
"Oh Crap well thanks a lot Alex." Scott said before shooting at him
"The system is ran by a ghost code that changes every five minutes and knowing me it takes a good ten minutes straight for me to even crack a ghost code. Every time I even think I'm close to cracking the entire system restarts." She answered blinking away the information
"Oh Goody." I said rolling my eyes and throwing a grenade
"Can't you just overload and end this already?" She asked loading up the rocket launcher and shooting it
"I would but I need a large amount of electricity to turn into electricity so unless you can give me over one hundred million bolts of electricity to absorb than we're dead." I said
"She won't be able to give you that much but I bet this building can." Michael said
"What I missed?" Kitty asked dropping off a few weapons
"Shh. Michael has an idea and it sounds pretty good don't ruin this moment." Nina said
"I think I saw a fuse box in the other room and since almost every room is powered by a lot of electricity...need I say more?" He asked
"You know what? You're really smart whenever you're not hammered I'm gonna need some time and Kitty I'm gonna need your help to take me there." I said
"Of course." She said grabbing my hand and leading the way
"And don't worry about us we're on it." He said loading an Uzi and passing Nina an AK-47, "Lock load and stall for time!" He yelled before Nina and Scott joined him in a full on attack
~Meanwhile in the other room~
"What are we looking for again?" Kitty asked
"A fuse box. It should be up against the wall hidden in concrete or covered by an extra layer of paint." I answered scanning over the wall
"Is this it?" She asked pointing at a sliver panel on the wall
"That could be it but Stryker wouldn't have it out in open like this. It could be a fake." I suggested before noticing the lock on the side, "But just in case." I said punching the lock off and throwing it aside before shaking my hand out
"Your knuckles are bleeding." Kitty said trying to look at it
"Don't worry bout it let's just get this thing opened." I said trying to open it
Kitty just phased through the wall and punched it open from the inside out, "is it open? What's inside?" She asked
"It's the fuse box you might wanna get out of here." I said grabbing hold of the breakers
"Ummmm okay I'll go check on the others." She said
After I made sure Kitty moved I was free to absorb as much power as possible. The lights flickered on and off everything that was plugged into an outlet either shut down or shut off before rebooting but nevertheless they shut down along with all the machines manufacturing in both Stryker's and Marko's nanites. And since my wires weren't blocking the connection anymore I never felt more powerful than ever.
"Where the fuck is Alex!? We can't keep this up for long!" Mike yelled shooting at the Sentinel with Scott
"She's coming until than let's try to get everybody out of here." Nina said getting the net off Kurt
Jean managed to focus her attention on Kitty's thoughts and drown out the false voices that Stryker placed there while Kitty managed to phase Storm out the strinking box. The only people they had trouble getting was Laura and Logan until all the power in the room simultaneously shut off before coming back online excluding the magnet, "What the hell was that?" Laura asked
"I don't know but let's take this tin can out." Logan suggested showing off his claws and nodding at Laura
The duo quickly sliced and diced their way through the reserve taser tentacles and raced towards the sentinels dodging and blocking bullets. Logan ran up a head and started blocking bullets before kneeling down while Laura jumped off his back and went straight for the sentinel's neck. After Laura landing the ground the head fell off right behind her and the machine froze in place.
"HELL YEAH!" Mike yelled raising his fist in the air until the sentinel turned around and grabbed its head and placed it back on its body
"Oh...Come On! That's Bull Shit!" Nina yelled
"No Shit! You Little Bitch!" Stryker yelled before attacking everybody
He clapped Jean and Storm in between his hands like flies before watching them fall out the air until Kurt grabbed them out the air. Stryker's sentinel stomped on the ground so hard it broke apart the floorboards and caused everybody to fly back against the walls. Stryker looked around the rumble and targeted Nina with a rocket launcher before firing at her. Mike noticed how the missile was coming straight for Nina and without a second thought he got up and pushed her out the way a few seconds before it reached them.
"Bull's Eye!" Stryker happily yelled
"Mikey!?" Nina yelled before covering her mouth and trying to fan the smoke away
When the smoke cleared Michael could hardly stand on his feet. His body was suffering from third degree burns and blisters so deadly some his skin had to peal off before it could started healing "Y...you called me Mikey." He said before blacking out
"MICHAEL!" Nina yelled trying to get to him
"Not so fast you little brat." Stryker said grabbing Nina off the ground, "Now tell me where is your sister?" He asked still comfortably inside the suit
Nina struggled to get out of the sentinel's grip, "How in the hell should I know you fucking bitch!?" She said before the grip suddenly got tighter
"I'll crush your little ass like fucking bug you are now tell me where's your sister!?" He asked
"She's gonna drag your ass to hell if you don't let me go." She replied before feeling almost every bone in her body starting to break
"Where. Is. She?" He asked just before a row of lights burst off
"Damn! It took your ass long enough now help a bitch out! PLEASE!" She yelled before a flash of lightening ran around the room
"What the hell was that?!" He asked looking around the room
"That's your death unless you put me down." She said
"I'm not putting you down unless that bitch come out of hiding." He said before feeling a glitch in his suit
"Who said I was hiding?" I asked within his suit
Stryker visor on his helmet slowly lifted up as he turned around and saw me standing beside the ladder near the hatch, "How the hell did you end up in here?" He asked
"You should be more worried about I'm gonna get out of this shit hole." I answered before jumping inside the control panel
As soon as I got into the control panel I released Nina and fried the system before taking over complete control. Every time Stryker would order the sentinel to do something I would have it do the opposite. When Stryker would go left I would force it to go right he'd punch right I'd make it go left but when he pulled out the guns I made him shoot himself. Everybody on the outside couldn't believe the amount of damage the sentinel was doing to itself meanwhile on the inside the system caught on fire Stryker quickly dropped everything and ran towards the escape pod. On the outside the sentinel clasped on itself and everybody celebrated its down fall before noticing the escape pod shooting out the sentinel and flying out the building.
"He's getting away!" Laura said
"No he's not." Nina said checking on Michael
"Clearly he is getting away." Scott said
"Clearly you don't know my sister especially when she's pissed off." Nina replied
~ In The Escape Pod ~
"Take me far away from that freak show as humanly possible." Stryker ordered
"Routing location." A computerzied voice said
Stryker sat back and tried to relax after his embarrassing bitter sweet defeat and even though his master plan failed miserably he still had enough information and funds to restart somewhere else.
"Where to now?" He thought out loud
"To your office." The voice replied
"What? I said take me away from here." He said pushing buttons
"And I'm Telling You You're Going To Your Fucking Office!" I yelled sending the escape pod into a downward spiral
When we crash landed back into the office Stryker managed to hit an emergency exist on the pod that made him launch into the air but to bad for him his parachute didn't go off until the last second. After he pushed the parachute out the way and unbuckled his seat belt before trying to crawl out the room.
"You thought I was gonna let your good for nothing ass get away. AFTER EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE!" I yelled getting out the remains of the escape pod
Stryker looked around a found a gun on the ground before picking it up and shooting through the thick smoke at me until the clip went empty. When the smoke cleared every bullet Stryker shot hit me one hit me right in the middle of my forehead but shockingly not only was I still alive but I was still standing.
"Wh...Wh..what the hell are you?" He questioned backing up into a corner
"I'm your father's creation." I answered picking him up by his neck and slamming him through the wall before warping power cords around his neck
After I warped up the ends of the cords in my hands I sent small doses of electricity through them while I was using them to straggle Stryker or to break his neck whichever came last. His terrified scream didn't brother me at the slightest as a matter of fact I sent more electricity through them just so I could hear him yell louder.
"STOP ALEXIS!" Nina yelled pulling me away
Stryker clasped on the ground with second to third degree burns around his neck but somehow he reached over and grabbed hold of a syringe he dropped earlier.
"Why the hell did you pull me away!?" I yelled
"You were gonna kill him and you know for a fact Trent wouldn't want that to happen." She said
"But that son of a bitch doesn't deserve to live." I said
"And who are you to decide that? Look I know losing Trent is tuff on you but killing Stryker won't bring him back." She said unaware of Stryker standing up behind her
"But it could save your life!" I yelled pushing her out the way tackling him down slamming his hand against the floor until he let go of the syringe that I grabbed and shoved it into his neck
Even though the nanites killed Stryker quicker than I expected they did kill him in the most painful ways possible. Since I stabbed him in the neck the nanites spread up and down his spinal cord after they closed his throat. While he was struggling to breath the nanites did damage on his organs such as his lungs heart brain and kidneys. There could have been hundreds maybe even thousands of things that caused his death but nevertheless he died by his own creation. It had me thinking for a moment about how greedy he was when it came to control and power but he didn't count on the nanites being greedier than he was.
"We should go." Nina said pulling me off Stryker's body
"No not yet. Not until I get want we came here for." I said walking towards the safe
"And what would that be?" She asked
"Our freedom." I answered holding up our contracts
When we got back down to the remaining parts of the service area everybody was either healing or checking up on each other. The place looked completely destroyed wires hanged from the ceiling medal and broken glass covered the floors.
"Did you..." Michael started
I held up the contracts, "I didn't kill him for this but Trent did die for it." I said
"Only if there was a way to jump start him like how you would a car battery." Kurt said
"Wait. What was that?" I said
"You know jump starts like how you use cables to start a dead car battery." He explained
"Holy shit that could actually work. Kurt you're a fucking genus go get Trent." I said running over to sentinel
"Ummmm...sure." He said before disappearing
"What the hell are you doing now?" Nina asked watching me pulling out wires and picking up a medal rod
"Do you think this is strong enough?" I asked
"Strong enough for what?" She asked while I threw the rod on the ground and picking up a new one
"You know how I wrapped that cord around Stryker's neck and sent out electricity if I could do that with him maybe I can do it with Trent." I said stabbing the rod into the floorboards
"Do you know how much power it'll take to reboot him?" She asked
"That's where this rod and Storm comes in." I said getting a tight grip on the rob before ting my hand to it, "Mike help me tie these around my fingers." I said tossing him the wires
"Ummmmm sure near your palm right?" He asked
"The closer the better." I answered watching him tie them down
"What's the plan here?" Nina asked just as Kurt popped up with Trent's body
"First does he look like he decomposed yet if no tie these wires around his head chest both wrist and his waistline and make sure there tight. Second Jean I'm gonna need you to get inside his head I don't care if he doesn't have any brain activity just work with me on this please. And last but not least Storm I need you to strike this copper rod with the most powerful and the longest lasting lightening bolt you have ever created in your entire life." I said
It clearly took Nina a moment to realize that I basically turned myself into a pair of jumper cables. With Storm being the working battery that jump start everything me absorbing the lightening from the rod and transferring it into the wires it could safety get to Trent. The only down fall to this is me burning my hand or...
"Are You Fucking Insane!? That is way to much power even for you to take in at once. If you don't transfer the power just as fast as you adsorb it than You'll Die Before He Has A Chance To Live!" Nina yelled calculation my chances of survival
"Are you done?" I asked looking over at her
"NO! What The Hell Is Wrong With You!? Why Can't You Let Him Go!? Why Are You Risking EVERYTHING For Him!?" She asked
I sighed deeply while shaking my head, "I know I shouldn't ask this because I already know the answer and deep down you do too. If this was Michael and you had my abilities would you try to save him too or let him go knowing you could've tried something and spend the rest of your life regretting it?" I asked staring directly at her
She thought about it thinking she just glanced over at Michael but in reality it was a full blown stare and even thought the answer was obvious she looked back at me, "You better bring your smatass back here." She replied walking away to a safe place
"I love you too you pain in the ass." I said before redirecting my attention to Orora, "Well you heard her so you know I'm taking a huge risk but none of this can't start without you. So will you help not only me but will you help him too?" I asked
"Are you sure you want to go through with this? After all you're risking your life." She said
"He is my life. Without him I might as well be an android after all he became one just to protect me knowing he had a choice. Now I created one for myself problem is that you're the deciding factor in it. So I'm begging you Please help me." I said with tears flowing from my eyes, "Please help us." I said
Orora thought about it glancing over between me Trent and the sky for any other options and personally it was the longest five minutes of my life but she eventually decided to help. I wiped my eyes with my shoulder and thanked her but she wanted to know when I'vll reached my limited I refused to tell her instead I simply answered, "When I'm dead that 's when I've reached my limited."
Everybody was surprised by my answer but Nina somewhat knew where I was coming from, "I can't keep this up anymore." She muttered under her breath thinking back to my birthday when we were in the truck
"I'm getting to old for this shit." Michael mumbled under his before glancing over at Nina,"Do...Do you think she knew this was gonna happen or she wanted this from the beginning?" He wondered
The gray clouds soon rumbled with thunder and it seemed like the more pressure Storm forced place on the clouds the louder the thunder and the more powerful the lightening will be. While Storm was in the skies I started mediating thinking over just transferring the lightening to the wires instead of just adsorbing. After a while the thunder stop and as soon as I opened my eyes Storm strike the rod instantly burning my hand in the process. At first everything was going according to plan but I soon realized I underestimated the element and started to lose control. I was still transferring power but wasn't as fast as I was adsorbing it eventually when the lightening stopped I didn't even know if the plan worked or not hell I didn't even know if I was still alive. I couldn't feel anything or anyone around me I didn't see anything but darkness the only thing I was aware of was hearing Mike and Nina's voice echo in the back of my mind.
"Am...am I dead?" I asked looking around the darkness
"No you're not. You're stuck in between the afterlife and the life you're leaving behind." A familiar voice said making me freeze up and slowly turn around, "Hey you." Trent said with soft smile
"H...h...HI!" I happily yelled tackling him down
"I missed you so much." He said keeping me close
"I thought I lost you." I muttered crying on his chest
"I was lost for a long time actually but now you can help me back if you want to." He said wiping my eyes
"What do you mean?" I asked
"I can't go back it's not my time but you could move forward if you want." He said
"I just want you to come home." I said
"Show me the way?" He asked getting off the ground cradling me in his arms
After I stopped blushing and crawled out of his arms, "Follow me." I said grabbing his hand and leading the way
I woke up dazed confused numb lost but mostly irritated by the bright lights blinding my already blurry vision. I groaned barely able to open my eyes before hearing a switch flick off and opening my eyes to dimmed light room. It took a moment for my vision returned back to normal so I can look around. There was a flat screen TV hanging on the wall an IV pole standing and inside my left arm while my right hand was taped up from fingertip to my elbow.
"Sissy? Alexis can you hear me?" Nina asked
"Wh...what the hell happened?" I asked
"You had a seizure that led to cardiac arrest. Sissy your heart stopped after taking in so much electricity after they somehow brought you back you've been in a coma." She said
"How long have I've been out?" I asked
"It was the middle of October when you pulled off that stunt and it's January the 12th so...4 months give or take." She replied
"Holy shit!" I said leaning back
"Yeah so I hope you got plenty of rest you're gonna need it." She said sitting down on my bed
"Need it for what? I think I blacked out before I even knew if my plan worked out or not." I said before Michael pulled away a curtain that was on my left side
"Oh it worked alright! He won't shut up about you and another thing if you think you're gonna get any downtime without him Now...than You my favorite sister in law is doomed cause he's really gonna fuck your ass up." Michael said before getting pushed away and hit with a pillow
"Trent?" I asked sitting up
Trent crawled over to the edge of the bed with bandages wrapped up on all the areas I had wires on he still looked weak but when he smiled I knew he was back, "Hey again." He said
"Hey yourself." I said before Trent got up and walked over to my bed
Michael helped him out while Nina moved to make room for him. Once we were together again I felt like I had the other half of myself back and I can tell he felt the same way. While me and Trent was recovering Xavier realized he had a lot more kids than he remembered. Most of the kids that Stryker Sr. and Jr. experiment on were already mutants so once Hank and Jean removed their so called 'upgrades' they healed on their own. Realizing they were homeless or orphaned they had no choice but to stay so that means we had to stay just to help out and not let the school get overrun by kids. When me and Trent came out of recovery a few weeks later we grabbed Michael and Nina for a picnic in the woods between the Professor's school and our old house.
"Thank. You. God. I swear if I had to watch those brats for another moment I was gonna kill myself." Nina said laying down
"That makes two of us. I can't believe they got US teaching kids now." Michael said
"Well we did bring most of kids in and the X-men have been busy with the brotherhood. I guess this is our own fault we should have seen this coming." She said
"No duh like what did you think was gonna happened?" I asked
"So what are you guys gonna do now that you're all healed up?" She asked
"We don't know yet but I'm curious of what you guys are gonna do." I said
"Yeah bro what's your next move?" Trent asked before opening up a bag of chips
"Rehab." He answered
"Really? Still?" Me and Nina questioned
"Yeah. I've been giving this a lot of thought and I won't be able to stop drinking completely until I get to the source of why I started drinking in the first place besides I need time to grow up and figure out what I want. As a matter of fact I'm leaving tomorrow." He said before getting up and glancing over at Trent, "Still gonna sponsor me?" He asked
"Of course I will." Trent answered
"Cool thanks bro. I'm gonna go pack up my stuff and I guess this is goodbye for now." He said
"More like see you soon lil bro." Trent said
"Alright than bro see you around Alex and Nina good luck with whatever comes your way." He said walking towards the school
"Hey Mikey...if it's alright with you I'd like to keep in contact." She said
Michael smiled a little before looking back at her, "Yeah. I'd love that." He said
"So what about you sis? Any plans?" I asked
"I kind of made a deal with a good friend that I have to keep." She replied
"Seriously? So the trip with Warren is back on." I said
"Yeah. It's going down a few days from now." She said
"Knowing you and all the crap you're gonna take with you I recommend you should start packing up today." I said
"Whatever and I actually thought about bringing you something back but you can forget about it now." She said
"I do not care sissy you know this. I got all want right here in the USA." I said
"Not an official autographed Beatles album." She teased
"Fine. I'm sorry alright it's just you need to know you got to start to taking it easy." I said
"Take it easy? It's funny how I'm getting this from a girl who sacrificed herself to save her boyfriend." She said while Trent glanced up like wtf
"And I'm hearing this reply from somebody who would have done the exact same thing for her ex." I said while Trent glanced over at Nina
"I never answered the question." Nina said while Trent continued to watch for reactions
"Bitch please they way you stared at him is the way Trent looks at me hell it's the same way Warren looks at YOU so yeah you did answer. You just didn't want to admit to it at the time." I said
"I hate you. I really fucking hate your ass sometimes." She said folding her arms knowing that I was right
"I love you to sissy now bring it." I said getting up with my arms out, "Come on show me love cause this whole defensive thing really isn't your style." I said
Nina pouted for a second while I moved in closer she eventually caved in with a sigh and gave me a hug before smiling a little as we pulled away. She hugged Trent slightly wishing him good luck dealing with me before taking my advice on packing everything now for her trip with Warren. While she was running towards the house down the hill I realized that this will be the first time in a long time that we are separating from each other. I stared over the horizon at the sun slowly setting thinking what now?
"Hey do you think the Professor will let us..." I started turning around to see Trent down on one knee holding a ring in his slightly trembling hand
"Alexis Jordan Davenport. Will you marry me?"