Chapter Eight- The Others


Jean watched the helicopter fly by above, and felt relieved to see the helicopter escape the robot’’s wrath. The second the helicopter was out of his sight, Scott’’s mind immediately calculated how he and Jean were going to contact the others, and tell them to rescue them. They weren’’t really in danger, not anymore. The Sentinel had already retreated. Scott looked at Jean, still gasping for breath. She gave him a weak smile. He smiled back. They had just cheated death.

It felt good.

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““So what are we going to do now?”” Kitty quietly asked the team, but looking at Bobby. As they flew above the Atlantic Ocean, all teenagers were torn between being happy and sad. They were glad because they completed the mission, rescuing their friends, and depressed because the cost was too much. ““Now, we go back to Muir Island and wait for them to call,”” Logan muttered, groaning and getting up. Everyone glanced at him, even Bobby who was flying the aircraft.

““You’’re okay!”” Kitty squealed running towards Logan, giving him a loose hug. ““Yeah,”” Logan replied, ““and I feel like hell.””

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““Yeah, well, mine does too,”” Scott said.

““Where are we going anyway?”” Jean asked him, kicking a small rock on the ground.

““I don’’t know. We just have to find a phone or something……any way to contact the others and tell them to pick us up,”” Scott answered.

““I see…….””

““Yep.””

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““You’’re alright!”” Moira greeted them as they got off the helicopter. ““Long time no see,”” Logan replied, a small smile on his worn out face. Sean peered into the helicopter and found it empty. ““Where are Scott and Jean?”” he asked the teenagers. They all turned away, looking down on the ground, up at the sky, anywhere just not directly at the Irishman. ““They…….got left behind, Mr. Cassidy,”” Kitty finally answered, her voice ashamed. He frowned. ““What do ye mean?”” he asked her. ““Um, it’’s kind of a long story……””

““We got time,”” he insisted, ““Now tell me, what happened?””

““Hmmm……well, it’’s like this…….””

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Without making a sound, he made an crushing gesture with his fingers and right hand, and the metallic bars bended and creaked. The weather goddess looked up suddenly, wrapping her long arms around her sleeping nephew. Her eyes showed fear, but determination. And protectiveness.

““What are you doing here?”” she asked sternly.

““I am here to get you out of here,”” he replied quietly. ““Your other friends are also being rescued. Do not worry.””

““But why rescue us? You’’re the reason we were captured. Why are we supposed to trust you?””

““Do you want to be rescued or not? You will be safe with us. For now, the Brotherhood of Mutants and your X-Men are one. The true enemy are these…….. homo sapiens. I will explain more, but first, we will need to get away from here. Now, will you come?””

The African woman only hesitated for a moment. Then, she took his hand.

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““Gambit, what are you doing?”” Colossus asked. They had a mission, strange as it was. Their mission? To rescue the enemy.

““Gambit just gon’’ open up this door,”” the Cajun replied, a smirk on his handsome face. He held out his hand, a card glowing between his middle and index finger. He threw it casually at the sealed metal door. The explosion was loud, and soon the enemy will arrive. But the door was open, or to be more exact, gone. Inside were two mutants: a blue-skinned beast, and a very big and almost bald teenager. ““It’’s you!”” the Blob said, pointing a finger. ““Why are you here?””

““We are here to rescue you ,”” the Russian replied.

““Hey! You people ready yet? They gonna be here any second now!”” Pyro yelled from the hall, a plate-sized ball of fire floating between his gloved hands. ““Comin’’!”” Gambit yelled back. ““Boss sent us,”” he quickly explained to the mutant scientist. ““So ye two comin’’ or not?””

““Oh, we’’re coming alright. There’’s absolutely no way that I’’m staying here,”” Henry McCoy answered, stepping out of the cramped room. He shook his head. ““I just hope where we’’re going is……better. Did you know that they don’’t let us use the bathroom around here?””