Hello again to all my friends. I don't own X-men, but regardless the original characters that I'll be using in here do belong to me.

Wow, thirty chapters, and I'm no where near done with all the ideas I've got for this bad boy. Woot! Thanks for all the reviews, and the favs.

Chapter 30

Naomi was curled up in a pitch black room. There were no windows, there was a small amount of light twinkling in through the bottom of the door, but her shadow was no where to be seen. She felt so drained, her body trembled on occasion. Her skin had cracked along what felt like all of her veins in her body when Recharge had sapped her.

She closed her eyes tightly and curled up tighter. Looked like she was right back where she'd started. She wondered who they were trying to draw out, Recharge had said it wasn't Rune they were after. Maybe that was to put them off center as to why they took her. It could be Beast, he'd probably do anything to get her back from this Shadow Brotherhood.

"Are you there Emily?" She whispered. There was no reply. She was alone. The silence was only broken by the footsteps outside the door, and the occasional angry mutter from Pyro. Naomi kept expecting the door to fly open and see the shadow of her father standing over her, his voice trickled back hauntingly into her subconscious, berating her for her stupidity, throwing things at her while telling her that none of it would of happened if she was normal.

"She cut clean through those pipes." Recharge stated then giggled, Naomi half listened since there wasn't anything else to do, "You sure you don't just want to keep her? She seems pretty strong even without my help."

"No, not that we don't want strong recruits she seemed pretty attached to the X-kids." He sighed, there was a clatter of metal on floor, "Magneto could fix this in no time." They fell quite for a moment, "They should show up pretty soon. From the look on your ex's face he was pissed, don't know who will come with him though."

"Good," Recharge said in a huff, "Should I dose her, just in case?" There was too much happy in her voice at the idea.

"I haven't heard her move since we got back." Pyro said, "She's talked to herself a few times, but nothing else."

"Can I play with her then?" Recharge's voice sounded like she was grinning.

Naomi shuddered at the thought, Pyro told her damaged bait didn't work very well. She put her hands out in front of her and began to walk them finger to finger up. In her mind singing the nursery rhyme 'The itsy bitsy Spider.' There was no shadow cast but as she watched the wall a very pale outline of an arachnid began to form, she grimaced as she felt the skin split wider all over her body. She kept going until she let her hands fall to the ground, a pale gray spider about the size of her palm crawled from the wall and into her open palm. It's head tilted to the side watching her.

A tear ran down onto the floor. "I'm at fault, I thought I was stronger than I use to be. I'm not. I'm Reckless." She whispered.

The door opened, the spider scuttled away to hide in the darkness. "What was that little princess?" Recharge was standing in the door way, she tilted her head to the side. She smirked, "Look Pyro, she doesn't even have a shadow except for that little gray outline around her." She made a face, "Eww, look at her skin it looks like she's broken already."

"No, that's what she really looks like," Pyro stated, Naomi could see him fiddling with the fire making machine again, "The normal looking stuff is a personal defense I guess. Her skin's all that black color, her hair's white too."

Recharge fluffed her red hair and pushed it over her shoulder, "Not even close to Rune's type, why is he so interested in her," She nudged Naomi with the toe of her boot, Naomi flinched. "Probably just caught him on a day he wasn't sane."

Laying on the floor she gritted her teeth, "You're the one who's not sane." She muttered, "I don't even think Rune ever was interested in you."

Recharge grabbed her by the hair and pulled her up into to her knees, Naomi didn't make a sound, the other girl's gloved hand slapped her hard across the face, "I dare you to say that again, I'll drain you dry of whatever energy you have." Pyro stood and grabbed hold of Recharge's free arm.

Naomi grabbed the wrist pulling at her hair with her hands, "You think that scares me?" She locked eyes with the girl. To Recharge's surprise they were calm and held no anger, nothing, they were perfectly neutral. She slapped her again. Naomi laughed, "You're weak."

A fist collided with Naomi's jaw, the hand in her hair was torn free as she went back from the blow. She rolled over once, her eyes were watering while her jaw ached. Recharged walked toward her again, Pyro grabbed her and pulled her out of the room. "No, we need her to be alive remember?"

"I don't give a damn! No one calls me weak and gets away with it!" She kicked and struggled while Pyro closed the door putting Naomi into the darkness again. "Reckless." Naomi said, she was actually starting to like the sound of it for a name, it did describe her perfectly.

As soon as Logan had stopped the car Rune had gone into the garage and gotten on one of the motorcycles. Curse ran out and stood eagle spread before him, "I know you want to go get Naomi, but we've got to think this through, we don't even know where they went Rune."

Rune started the bike, "I know exactly where they went."

"Mind sharing that with the rest of the class?" Storm came out and stood next to Curse, "What happened?"

Rune gritted his teeth and went to swerve around them. There was the sound of released air, he turned, Logan stood back up while the back tire let out the last of its air, "Huh, a flat, who would of guessed." He looked to Storm, "Pyro and some of the other Brotherhood decided to crash the party, they took Naomi, said something to the extent she's bait for someone, or something."

The bike's engine cut out while Storm dialed on her phone, Rune put his head against the handlebars, "Its my fault."

Fallen climbed out of the other car and looked at the others, "So, we're just standing here? Cool, I'm sure Naomi's going to be great."

"Don't be stupid," Sparky stated, "We have to go get her!" Everyone, especially Hart, looked at her curiously, "What? If anyone is going to beat up on her its going to be me." She crossed her arms stubbornly. "Besides, Hart's her friend and he'd be sad if she died."

Storm closed her phone, "Curt went to pick up Hank, Logan could you get ArchAngel and Prism," She turned to the others, "The rest of you get inside and go to bed."

Rune laughed, "Yeah right, I'm going with you."

Rael cleared his throat, "I am with Rune on this matter, I think getting Reckless back is more important than a few hours of sleep."

Ivy shook her head, "I for one am going to bed. I'm pretty sure that we'll just get in the way of the teachers." Feathers agreed, saying she'd likely be little help.

Sparky tried to make a point that she could be help but Hart covered her mouth, "I'll stay, so will she, and Curse too."

Curse immediately began scavenging though her bag, she produced the little doll she always had with her. "Take this, with you. She can get into all sorts of places, I'll make sure she listens to you and follow orders." She handed it to Rune as ArchAngel and Prism came around into the garage with Logan. The doll curtsied to Rune, who then tucked it into his sleeve.

Logan raised an eyebrow, "Let 'em come, let 'em learn what a real fight's like."

Storm shook her head, "Fine, Rune, Rael you stay behind us."

"Emily," Rune said suddenly, "Can you find Naomi?"

"Too far away." Came the reply

Rune nodded, "Then I'm right." they looked at him, "They're at the docks, there's an abandoned building they've been staying in."

Storm ushered the others indoors. There was a sound and exhaling of smoke, Beast and Nightcrawler stood between Rael and Storm.

"What's going on, Curt said something happened to Naomi." Beast asked.