Fighting Till Forever

Chapter 16

Angel pov
Maybe I should have fought harder, maybe I didn't take it seriously enough. Maybe I could have saved them. Those were my thoughts of the outcome of that final battle. Just a bunch of maybes and ifs.

I'm going to start from where my best friend Jean left off. We had just defeated the second out of the last three bases of the Founders. She came back with some more kids, no casualties. "Hey Jean!" I say hugging her when she gets done with putting kids in rooms and checking on Fang for us. "I'm starved, let me grab something then I will catch you up." She says and walks to the kitchen. When she gets back we all go to the professors office. "Ah Jean, good to see your back." He says smiling. The professor turned 30 last week. He had lost that young 20 year old look of his. "Good to see you to." She says sitting down. I had been already here, I was looking over maps. Logan comes in, drinking a beer. "It's 8 in the morning and your having a beer?" I ask him. "Kid if you were me, you would be drinking way earlier than this." He states. Then he proceeds to pop the top off with one claw and then take a sip. Ok....."So who's ready to take down the Founders once and for all?" I ask. "Angel, we will get there, I know your excited, but please settle down." The professor says to me. I shut up and lean back in my chair. I was just trying to bring the spirit up in the room. Everyone else looked dead. I must have zoned out, or something because the professor says in my mind "Angel? Angel." He snaps me out of it. "Yes." I say looking over at him. "Your team, remember?" He says. "Oh, right, so for my team, I'll be taking Fang, Jean, Bobby, Kitty, Rouge, and Alex."
"We're going to need all the people we can get, Max volunteered to go with you as well." The professor states. "I'll add her to the list...." I say.
"Who's watching over Ronnie?" I ask after that.
"There will be other kids that are older that will look out for her, Nudge and Iggy are staying behind." Jean says. "How many besides them?" I ask. "10, plus a few teachers." The professor says.

Maybe that should have tipped me off. Everyone leaving the school, no one staying behind except like 10 kids? We were going into a battle that none of us would know the outcome of. Well I admit we all were thinking 'We will win this war easily, just this last show down.' But the aftershocks to follow, the consequences, those would be nothing any of us were thinking about, let alone prepared to face.