Wrath and Revenge

Chapter Twelve

We are living in difficult times at the mansion. Almost everyone is working on the mission to blow off the mutant prisons which are run by the organisation 'Friends of Humanity' alias human pricks, as like I call them. Our teachers have prepared the most skilled students, who are actually the older students, in combat and in using our powers so that we would survive a fight. We had to spend almost our whole day with Danger Room sessions in all kinds of scenarios for the last two weeks. Every force is needed since we found out that there are more than a dozen of these prisons worldwide and the governments don't believe us. The Professor and I have spent hours with trying to convince each government of the concerned countries. All attempts have failed so I spent days with translating and arguing for nothing. The problem was that no one wanted to believe us.

Today is the day on which we, the chosen ones, are trying to complete these freeing missions in mutant style. I was assigned to go to Austria with Storm, Iceman, Shadowcat and Wolverine as our leaders and of course my beloved friends Rachel, who accepted the mutant name Transcendence, Lena, alias Warp, and Sorina, or Sapphire. It took me quite some time to convince everyone to let us go in this constellation but after we have mastered our last Danger Room session with a perfect result, they let us become a team. Hank and I have even tailored us our individual suits for this purpose. Storm likes them but the others were not really amazed by them. In my opinion, our colourful suits look better than those depressing black ones they have to wear.

Back at the mansion, all four of us were incredibly excited and we even pretended that we are the new heroines of the world, unbeatable and strong, but meanwhile on the jet, I can sense that the euphoria has mostly vanished from their hearts. For me, it's no big deal anymore. I wasn't really afraid the first time I was on such a prison break mission and I am not now on my second one.

"How much time do we have left?", Lena asks. She is not afraid either but Sorina is influencing her a little. "Twenty minutes till we land.", Wolverine grunts. This guy is almost 24 hours grumpy. Even yesterday, as we all have celebrated that Scott and Jean are expecting their first child, he was just sitting in a corner trying to get drunk with the beer he hid in his room.

"It's getting serious, guys.", Rachel whispers to us. She is right. We are just twenty minutes away from the real action and the excitement is boiling up. "Oh yes. We're going to have an amazing time.", I say half giggling. Sorina and Rachel, who are sitting in front of me, are staring at me annoyed. They cannot relate my optimism. "Yeah... it's going to be a fun holiday. Others in our age visit beaches in their holidays, we crash prisons.", Lena says with a slight hint of sarcasm in her voice. "C'est la vie, mon amie.", I add and Lena starts giggling. "Seriously, we will do great, mates."

We are slowly landing in a forest area and everyone is taking their last deep breathes before the storm. I tie my hair up in a bun and adjust my glasses before I lean back in my seat to wait for the jet to land. The others just exchange some looks.

Storm finally lands the jet on a rough soil in a deep forest. Those FoH prisons all seem to be hidden in forests. How creative of them. We fasten our seatbelts as the engines are turned off and exit the jet fast. "Everyone remember the plan?", Storm asks once we're all out and the jet is locked. We all nod in response and follow her deeper in the forest.

The forest is silent except for some birds but what else can you expect at six o'clock in the morning? No one is hesitating and we make our way to the hidden entrance which Storm tries to locate with a small metal scanner.

The more we enter the deep forest, the more I can sense human minds and they are coming closer. "Hold on. People are in our near and they are not friendly.", I whisper and everybody stops. Wolverine sniffs and can sense them, too, as it seems. The troop of armed wannabe soldiers is coming nearer and nearer. Do they know about our presence? "Sofia! Start a distracting manoeuvre with Sorina while we try to reach the entrance. We will contact you when we're in.", Storm sends me. I grab Sorina's sleeve and nod to the direction where the people are. She understands and takes off fast into the air. We fly to their direction in complete silence on a low level, just around three meters over the ground.