Professor Xavier's Office:
"I thought it might be best to inform the rest of you before we proceed" the Professor began looking to Jean and Logan who stood silently side by side. Jean frowned .....she hated it when the Professor neglected to tell her things....things that she would definitely want to know about.
"Proceed?" she urged.
"Yes, as you all may have noticed Ororo hasn't been sleeping well" The sound of her name peaked Logan's interest.
"She said it was just stress" he pointed out. the Professor nodded
"That among other things Logan---to give you the short version there is a mutant power that is trying to take over her mind....at the moment it is not controlling her but only implying things about us all to her---who ever it is is trying to turn her against us" Logan did not reply.
"Turn her against us? Professor can't you block it?" Jean crossed her arms over her chest.
"I have tried---many times Jean and each time I only get a glimpse of what this it is doing to her" Logan's lip tightened
"So what's going to happen to her?"
he asked trying to maintain his nonchalant attitude which was holding up pretty nicely.
"Well somehow the mutant in her mind is increasing her over all mutant ability...anything could happen the homo-superior being can only with stand so much every day their power's grow but at this rate people could get hurt." The Professor rolled his Wheel chair near the door "We have all discussed it...Scott, and I and we think it would be safer to quarantine her in the lab until we can figure out what to do" Logan sneered
"That's your solution?---stick her in a box and see what happens?" The Professor remained calm
"There is not much more we can do Logan, and Ororo feels the same way--- reluctantly, but she agrees" Jean turned to him
"What about her Claustrophobia will that be a problem?"
"Storms claustrophobic?" Logan frowned surprised that there was something he didn't know about her.
"Chronically" Jean glanced to him. the Professor
"Hopefully it won't become an issue if we move quickly." "I don't like this" Logan growled.
The X Mansion sitting room:
Ororo hugged her legs to her chest and began to rock back and forth. THEY DON'T CARE NON OF THEM CARE...... THEY WANT TO PUT YOU IN A BOX A SMALL CELL AND FORGET ALL ABOUT YOU......ARE YOU GONNA LET THEM GET AWAY WITH THAT?! The voice was louder now. Screaming into her ears demanding that she listen. Storm didn't think she could take much more of this. When she closed her eye's she could only see his face so she kept them open....but now he even haunted her in the light. Fear struck her as she saw his dark Shadow fall over her and a familiar hand on her shoulder. She remembered their first encounter so well.
Then she had only be about 13 when he came to her from the shadows talking in his smooth voice and whispering things to her that she needed to hear. I can protect you he had said.....No one else wants you but I do I will make you my.........Queen. She couldn't let this happen again he would not once again run her life. On impulse only Storm bald her fist and effortlessly gathered the throbbing energy inside of her. Her smooth hand began to tremble and sparks of lightning coursed between the creases of her hand. The feel of so much power was so intoxicating and she wanted more. Without thought she swung her fist toward the figure and The shock of lightning cracked and energy roared in her ears as the Shadow launched from in front of her slamming against the far wall that was more then 10 feet away.
Bobby fell to the floor unconscious. What had just happened? Rouge came to his side careful not to touch him. "Oh God! Bobby---Bobby wake up!" She looked up from the boys limp body and saw Storm the women who had become her mentor standing from the near by couch. Ororo seemed to be in shock her arms clutching her stomach and tears filling her now white eye's. Rouge wasn't sure what to think and simply returned her attention to Bobby who wasn't moving and didn't seem to be breathing.
X Lab:
"He's gonna be alright" Jean concluded as she tossed a used needle into the trash.
"Are ya sure?"Rouge asked worried biting absently at her finger nails.
"I'm positive he's just got shaken a little...It would have been worse if---" Jean stopped herself "He'll be fine" she said. Scott, Logan and the Professor stood near by looking to the boy worriedly. Logan himself was more concerned about Storm who wasn't to far away pacing in the corner. His first instinct was to go to her...but what would he say in all honesty even when he tried he wasn't very good at the comforting thing. I just hope she's OK he thought. yet she didn't look OK. Her smooth skin had seemed to had lost it's glow and was replaced by a dull color......her hands were clamped behind her neck probably from the tension and she hadn't spoken a word since that kid got shocked.
"Rouge" The Professor said softly "I need to know every thing that happened" Rouge shrugged her eyes still locked on Bobby whose heart beat was being measured by the machine nearby.
"I---I don't know We cam in and saw her on the couch--B---Bobby wanted to ask her something about a report or a test I can't remember. Any way me and Bobby came up and he called her name a few times. She didn't answer. He put his han on her shoulder and boom" they all exchanged glances. Professor X looked to Scott
"Scott go and talk to her see if she's alright" Scott didn't reply and simply made his way toward his friend. Logan immediately wanted to punch the guys lights out....but now wasn't the time.
Storm was shaking all over. What was going on here? There was just too much.....she couldn't understand any of this...no one could and Bobby poor Bobby. She didn't acknowledge Scott when he approached and could hardly hear him over that screaming voice in her head.
"Storm are you alright?!" Storm just shook her head
"I--Is Bobby alright?"
"He'll be fine. But it's you we are all worried about" Storm ignored his remark
"I'll never forgiver myself for that" Jean, Logan and The Professor were soon at Scott's side.
"It wasn't your fault" Jean assured her.
"Wasn't it!?" Storm snapped surprising them all. Scott scratched absently at his face
"Storm the sooner we get you in Quarantine the sooner we can--"
"You can what?! Watch me fester and die.....You all want to see me suffer don't you? I knew it....I've always known it!" Storm started to tremble violently now and she didn't know if she could stop. Jean's expression softened
"Ororo your sick" Storm turned away from them.
"We just want to help Storm" Logan said his own voice sounding odd....perhaps from worry. Storm was silent then her eyes turning white and her shoulders relaxed. A wicked smile spread a cross her face and a stomach curling laugh seemed to follow. Low at first the laugh grew into a sound that echoed with in the Lab startling them all.
"I know you do" she said in a light tone. "But just answer one thing for me"....she turned to them with a wide smile "Just who the Hell is Storm?"
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