❌ Nothing Else Matters [ COMPLETED ] ❌

Chapter Seven

Traveling down the dirt road, I sat in the front, driving the army vehicle as Moria sat in the passenger seat next to me. We were quiet the whole ride, though she glanced at me from time to time like she didn't trust me behind the wheel with Charles, Erik, and a handful of soldiers in the back.

I knocked on the hatch that allowed us to talk to Charles and let Moria open it to tell him of what we are seeing a couple miles up the road. Guards were situated with dogs alongside the road waiting for us to stop and let them look at our cargo.

"We got a problem." I said as soon as the door opened. Pointing at the soldiers in front of us, I kept driving, but slowed down occasionally to listen to what Charles and Erik had to say.

"No matter what happens, act normally and I'll take care of this, all right?" Charles reassured Moria and me as I stopped at the gate.

Leaning out the window, I waited for a guard to walk over and ask me some questions. They just kept pointing at the truck and whispering to each about God knows what.

"Where are you going?" One finally came over and asked me in Russian. Soldiers with large dogs walked around the vehicle, searching for signs of others besides Moria and me.

"To our farm. Our father is waiting for us to arrive." I responded unbuckling my seatbelt. Hearing the dogs barking, I got a little unsettled, but I knew Charles had everything covered.

"Open the back." The guard commanded monotonous as I got of the truck and headed around back to the large doors. Unlatching it, I looked to the soldier and swung the doors wide open.

Emptiness. Charles, Erik, and the soldiers weren't there anymore. The soldier next to me stared in as I looked shocked, but soon masked it with confidence.

"Anything back there?" Another soldier asked from the front of the vehicle. The guard replied and I shut the door as I gave a slight smile to Charles for saving our hides.

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"Cassandra," It was Moria talking. "Did you know the recruits gave you a nickname?" Nicknames are very childish, though mine can't be all that bad.

"What did they call us?" I asked taking the binoculars from Erik to the right of me. Moria looked over at me and I stared back waiting for her to respond.

"They named Charles, Professor X, right?" He hummed back in response. "Erik, um, Magneto and you Echo." Moria finished with a snicker.

"The hell is that? Echo?" I questioned angrily as I dropped the binoculars from my eyes. Erik took them from my hands and patted my shoulder.

"At least yours isn't Magneto, Cassandra." I chuckled at his comment and shook my head at the kids for giving all of us such idiotic names that made us sound like children. A low sound of a chopper could be heard in the near distance.

Across the grassy field, we saw, through the binoculars, Emma Frost exit from a private helicopter. Erik looked up surprised as I took the looking glass from his hands.

"Where's Shaw?" Erik asked looking over at Charles and me. Sneaky bastard thinks he has a plan all set out, but Shaw doesn't know that I am always just a couple steps ahead of him.

"I don't know. She's a telepath and if I read her, she's going to know we are here. I'll try something else." Charles placed his pointer and middle finger to his temple and concentrated hard on a figure standing in the doorway of the building.

"I'm going in," I whispered to Erik as I placed the binoculars down. "Once she is gone, then Shaw won't be that hard to take care of." Erik placed a hand on my forearm and looked ahead at what Charles was doing to make sure it worked.

"Shaw's not coming," Charles said dropping his hand as I removed Erik's hand from my arm. "What do we do now?" Charles wasn't willing to target Emma to make a path towards Shaw, and that makes the anger boil over in me.

"Attack." I responded as I stood up and sprinted across the pasture with my hands stretched out in front of me. Taking what I see from the future, I moved the barrels of the guns that the soldiers held and pointed them up to the sky.

Seeing the barbed wire coil next to the gate move and wrap around a guard, I knew Erik was right behind me, helping me. Still charging the soldiers, I dropped my arms and made the weapons fall out of soldiers hands so Erik could take care of them as I made my way inside the mansion.

Two guards stood between pillars blocking the doors and training their guns on me. Pulling out a pistol from my waistband, I took aim at the closest man and fired off a couple rounds to the head, doing the same to the other.

When I made it inside, I didn't notice the two guards advancing towards me with guns in their hands. There was no time to react and I was either forced to give up or get shot, and I would rather choose the latter.

The guards didn't fire their weapons, but the bullets did come flying out of the magazine as Erik manipulated the metal and disarmed the soldiers of their guns so we could continue through the house. Erik pulled the guns up into the soldiers chin to knock them down.

On our way past them, I kicked one that was trying to sit up, back down and brought my foot onto his face. Catching up to Erik, I heard heavy footsteps coming down the hall and this time I was ready.

Taking an attack stance, I held out an arm and waited for the figure to appear from the doorway. He came out and passed in front of my out stretched hand and I felt all his emotions and past feelings.

"Ah, Cassandra, its me!" Charles cried out as I dropped my hand and felt the room becoming dizzy and my body shaking uncontrollably. "Careful where you point that thing." He gave me a glare as he ran after Erik down the now empty corridor.

Following the men, I stood behind them as a door at the end of the hallway shot open and revealed Emma and an occupied Russian general. Frost looked over at us shocked and surprised as she stood up to fight.

"Who are you?!" The general asked as he pulled out a gun. Charles stopped him and told the aging man to go to sleep. He then concentrated on Emma who was now in her crystal form and unable to read.

"You can stop trying to read my mind, sugar," Emma said as she slowly circled around to stand at the edge of the bed where the army general was asleep. "You're never going to get anything from me while I'm like this."

"He's not," I said stepping forward into the room between Charles and Erik. "But I will." Emma stared at me as she waited for me to advance. Holding my hand out at her head, I slowly started to step towards her.

She was hard to get into at first, but like everyone else, there is always a chinch in the armor. Emma has a soft spot for Shaw and I know just the way to show her he doesn't feel the same. Bringing up one of my many, torturous memories of him, I twisted it to be pointed towards her.

"Stop!" Emma cried out as her crystal form wavered across her body and disappeared as she fell to the floor at the bed post where Erik tied her up with the metal bars. I dropped my hand and crouched to her height as I smirked lightly at her.

"Where's Shaw?" I questioned as Charles tried to read her mind and Erik tightened the restraints around her wrists. "Answer!" Erik made a pole wrap around her neck and started tightening it slowly.

"He's five steps ahead of you." She sneered out as Charles made Erik stop. I've been played, at my own game. Shaw planned all of this, he knew we would be looking for him here, so he went somewhere where we would never guess.

"The recruits." I breathed out.