29: Rebels
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~Underground City, the Command room~
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—— Third Person's P.O.V ——
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Inside a dim lighted room, that is currently occupied by five individuals. The tension between them is so thick that it can be cut through a knife.
Suddenly an old man spoke, cutting the tension, and breaking off the silence.
"So, what do you know about our new guests, is it true that she's not my daughter." Asked the old Erik lenser.
"No, she said she doesn't know anyone by the name of Eric Lenser, and we don't know much about them, other than them being from a parallel Universe." Ororo answered the old Master of Magnetism.
Magneto tried to ask another question, but one of the other occupant beat him to it.
"By strong, how strong do you really mean." Asked the White Queen of former hellfire club.
Hearing Emma's question Ororo went in deep thoughts.
Logan who was silent ever since he met Bryan finally opened his mouth, and answered instead of Ororo.
"I don't know about the Witch, but that guy, he's strong, really-really strong. He gave me the same dangerous vibes as the Apocalypse if not more." Logan's answer caught them completely off guard. They know how good Logan is at these things, and if he said that he felt a similar dangerous feeling to what he felt from Apocalypse, then things would become complecated for them.
Logan didn't let them calmly think, and began talking again.
"Even with the newer version of power damping cuffs on his hands, I didn't felt different in his presence. It's like even with them on, he can kill me in a blink of an eye." Logan finally stopped speaking, letting the men and women gathered, finally process the information.
After few minutes the last occupant of the room spoke.
"What do you think Logan, are they trustworthy enough?" It was Sorcerer Supreme Wong who questioned that.
"He didn't lied when he said they were from the different Universe." Logan replied with a shrug as he moved towards a wall and leaned his back against it, seemingly not caring anymore.
"But, can he really fight the Apocalypse? Let alone defeat him, you guys seems forgetting what happened to the Inhuman king. Even his scream was useless against the Apocalypse." Emma raised an important question. They can't attack the Apocalypse just because Logan's gut feelings tells them too. It would be too idiotic.
"Why don't we test our guest's strength." Erick asked after thinking sometimes.
"And how do plan to do that?" Wong dryly questioned.
He is not wrong if they have ability to test someone of Bryan's caliber then they can also defeat and kill Apocalypse.
"We can use the Scarlet Witch as bait, and force him to show how powerful he is." Emma offered.
Logan laughed loudly after hearing her, making the Ice queen frown.
"You're too stupid if you think that will work, and let me warn you if something happened to that women then Apocalypse will be the last of our problem." Logan warned them gravely after he stopped laughing, making the whole room silent again.
"I think Logan is right, we shouldn't casually offend people of such strength." Ororo herself once believed that no-matter how strong a person was, they should follow the laws and rules of the society, but look where that Naivety brought them.
Most of the X-men dead by the hands of Apocalypse. The foremost follower of this policy Professor Xavier, his powers become the catalyst for the death of millions of people.
"She's not wrong, and now if you excuse me I'm an urgent need of a cigar and possibly something strong to drink" with that the Immortal man walked out of the room.
The occupants watched the man casually leave, but none of them stopped him as they knew how much the guy hated formal meetings.
"Leave this to me" it was the Ice queen that broke the silence this time.
"Emma my dear, we can't possibly leave this to you, knowing you, you would probably try to seduce the man, but let me remind you how possessive my dead daughter was, and if her alternate version is remotely similar, then the only thing stopping the man will be after us." Eric interrupted Emma, he knew Emma too well to believe her. Her manipulative personality, and how far she could go to achieve her goal is known by everyone in the room.
"Magneto is right, Storm already told us, how much the guy hated being cuffed and placed in detention. The only reason he complied to our request is because, Wanda Maximoff asked him to, and we can't let you offend Wanda Maximoff." Wong said, agreeing with the old master of magnetism.
Emma scoffed at them, and with a sneer she question them. "And who can better test his personality than me." The pride was barely hidden in her voice, and seeing them not denying, her beautiful cold face formed a smile of contempt.
"Even then we can't allow you to do that, your failure just doesn't effect you but us also, and while your success only benefits you." Eric still denied her and the other occupants also agreed with him.
"Fine, have it your way." Emma's compliance surprised the Sorcerer Supreme and Mistress of the Elements, but Magneto easily saw through her thoughts process and why wouldn't he, he was 'The' rival of the strongest telepath before the said Telepath's demise. Magneto also didn't plans to stop Emma secretly meeting and manipulating Bryan.
If the Ice queen succeed than it's all good, but if she doesn't, they can always ditch her, after all they 'tried' to stop her. It was all her decision and doing, they had 'nothing' to do with it.
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—— Emma Frost P.O.V ——
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I couldn't help but sneer at the old fool while exiting the room, and move towards where…Bryan Fury…and the Scarlet Witch are being monitored.
Magneto thinks, I don't know what he's doing…fool, but if he really tried to stop me I wouldn't have stopped even if I had to fight the old man.
This is a opportunity I can't miss, If I can get this man under my thumb-no only his favour, then I can finally have the world back in my palm-no not only the world but the universe itself.
If I can become the most influential woman from a weak and homeless woman, then I can do anything.
I was born to a Boston mercantile family, which arrived from England in 1600's and took part in American revolutionary war. Ever since I was little my father trained me and my sisters to be a perfect political tools for him.
That bastard even fired a teacher whom I had a crush on, and who was also my inspiration for becoming a teacher. My stupid past self even confessed love to that teacher: Ian Kendal, and had a relationship with him in my time at Empire State University, but when he accidentally found out I was a mutant, he broke our relationship. I can still remember the disgust he had on his face that day.
I have worked on minimum wages and even have washed dishes when my powers failed me.
My bastard of a father even sent me to a mental institution when he found my mental abilities, where I had been treated as a lab rat, I only escaped the fate of becoming a cold corpse when the Evil Mutant brotherhood kidnapped me. I have been beaten, toyed, harassed, and tortured countless times in my short life, and only after I gained power that I managed to escape the hell that has been my life.
I have seen the worst of humanity, and I have also seen the best.
I have been at the lowest point of the food chain, and I have been to highest.
And when I had finally managed to achieved my goal. Some mad man came and destroyed my years of preparation and hard work. That day when I met him, I realised the importance of Power. True Power.
Against it, everything is useless. Whether its Political power, Financial power or military power, everything is useless against the True Power, and in this case, The Apocalypse.
He conquered the whole planet Earth in less than a day, showing me the true meaning of power.
And no matter what, I will do everything to get that kind of power, and getting a man's favour is the easiest way possible.
I'm not stupid enough to believe that I can control him or even manipulate him. But one thing I know, that very few Men can resist the temptation of my body. And I hope he also falls for it.
"~gasp, really? Your world doesn't have Mutants!!! Then how did you get your powers!!!" I head the loud voice of Kitty Pride before I even reached the entrance of the room.
Hearing the topic, I didn't immediately enter the room, and waited to get any important information.
"Yes, our world doesn't have any mutants as far as I know. I got my powers through an experiment, and as for Bryan, he was born with them." A voice whom I recognised as Wanda Maximoff answered.
"A-an experiment?" Kitty's stutter worriedly, making Wanda and the other occupant chuckle.
"Don't worry, those experiments were painless, and those who did them also didn't do anything else other than just imprisoning us, they were programmed by 'Someone' to not hurt me and my brother." Wanda placating voice came from behind the door, but my focus was on that 'Someone'. I don't really need to think much to know who that someone is.
"What!!! Someone controlled them to experiment." What? How the hell did this women reached on such conclusion.
"What! Noo!" Wanda loudly exclaimed.
Not wanting hear anymore of Kitty Pryde's nonsense, I slide the door open and walked into the room, not before unbuttoning the upper most button of my cardigan.
Barging in the room, I bumped into….A Wall? And fell down on my butt.
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