X-Men: The Experiment

Chapter Thirteen

Flashback~~Bella~~3rd person

Bella looked from the address Pietro gave her to the skyscraper in front of her.

If Bella had known beforehand that he was sending her to a weapon-making multi-millionaire superhero war machine, she would never have agreed.

Bella sighed. What am I even doing here? she asked herself before entering the building.

"Oh, sorry!" Bella apologized as someone bumped into her.

"Oh, don't worry about it. I bump into people all the time," the man replied, turning to face Bella.

"Um--uh...you're...Tony St-Stark, aren't you?" Bella stuttered as she recognized her ticket to freedom.

"The one and only," he said sarcastically with a mock smile and a roll of his brown eyes. "Can I help you?"

"Uh, yeah actually. My--er--friend set up some sort of appointment thing with you. For me. Wait..." Bella stopped herself, confused. "He set up an appointment. For me. With you. There we go."

Bella gazed up at Tony expectantly.

He cleared his throat.

"Yes, well, seeing as I'm very busy at the moment, I guess we'll just have to reschedu--"

Bella snorted.

"No, you're not. You have nothing planned for today except for our meeting. Oh, and a date with someone named Pepper Potts at 5 o'clock."

Tony stared at Bella in shock.

"H--how do you know all that?" He asked in bewilderment.

"I just hacked into the Stark Industries mainframe, looked at what was on the day's agenda, found out your at-home electronics were hooked up to the same wi-fi network as your company building, used that as a gateway into your phone, looked at what was planned on your personal agenda, and compared it to your work agenda. Simple." Bella shrugged as if it was nothing.

"Huh. Well, how about that meeting, then?" Stark led Bella to the third floor and into a rather official - looking conference room. All the while, Bella could have sworn on her entire month's allowance that she heard Stark muttering, "How could this have happened? More security...gotta get more security...."

Present~~Bianca~~1st person

Jenna walked on and on and on and...well, I think you get the idea. She walked so fast and so far, that I was surprised that she didn't pause to catch her breath. Whereas I, on the other hand, had to stop a lot!

Jenna didn't talk much. Or at all. So I took this as a sign to talk until I dropped. Heh. Rhymes.

"So, Jenna..." I said for what seemed like the millionth time. "Have any hobbies? No? Okay. Well...what about...uh...favorite colors?"

Still no answer.

I sighed.

"This is getting me nowhere," I muttered to myself.

"Then why don't you stop?" A cocky voice asked.

I turned around to see Pyro standing with his arms crossed and his head tilted to one side. He had gotten a lip piercing since the last time I saw him, which was a few years ago.

"Wow, Pyro, I thought I would never see you again! Well, actually, I was hoping I would never see you again, but that's besides the point," I said.

Pyro put a hand up to his heart.

"Ouch!" He exclaimed. "When did you become so mean?"

"When did you become so evil?" I countered.

Pyro walked around me.

"You know..." he began, completely ignoring my comment, "I was going to tell you how to get out of here, but...." Pyro sighed. "I guess you're just not wanting the help."

Pyro smirked.

I rolled my eyes.

"Alright, what do I have to do?"

"Well, first off we need your friend, here." Pyro pointed to Jenna, who I noticed had stopped walking and was now staring off into the nothingness that surrounded us.

I scowled. "Why do we need her?"

Yet again, Pyro smirked.

"You'll see," he answered crypticly.

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Author's note:

Okay, so I am EXTREMELY sorry that it has taken me 2 months + to up date. I only have the weekends to work on it, and I get distracted REALLY easily. But don't worry. My summer break starts on the 21st, and then I will be able to work on this wonderful story every other week. . That's right, be happy. XD!!!!