Team Obliteration : The Destruction Cube

Chapter 6

Logan's P.O.V.

Professor X simply stared at Magneto. He looked very upset.

"Yes," he replied, his fingers still to his temple. "It's been a long time indeed. But what do you want with my X-Men?!" Nothing had been going on lately, and then, suddenly this attack had come out of nowhere.

Logan looked at Magneto. His arms were crossed, and he was hovering in the air, looking very commanding, the way he always did. Logan could tell that every single X-Men was itching to take down Magneto once and for all, but they all waited patiently for Charles to finish.

"I just wanted to make sure nothing got in my way," he replied calmly.

"Got in your way of what?"

"Mmm... something that you human protectors wouldn't like." Magneto smirked. "You see, if you could at least stop defending the humans, I'd leave you alone. They hate us, Charles. You've seen the evidence yourselves. I just don't get why you can't understand."

Charles didn't react.

"You forced me to do this," Magneto sighed. He thrust his hand out, and the Professor's wheelchair began to float.

"Professor!" Storm and Cyclops both cried out as they lunged after him, but Magneto flung the wheelchair against a wall, and the Professor crashed onto the ground, unconscious.

Just then, Logan heard the last bomb whirr to a stop. Everything suddenly seemed quite. He turned around to see the Brotherhood back in action, tackling the X-Men once more.

He ran to join the fight, and caught a glimpse of Magneto gesturing to them. They seemed to back off from the mansion, and Logan didn't understand why.

That was until Magneto threw something in their direction, and Logan was running straight into it when dirt and soil flew up into the air and threw him far back. Way farther than he would have imagined possible.

He blinked twice, sprawled on his back, as he saw the blazing fire, and then only registered the BOOM that had sounded earlier. But the fire was different. It glowed electric blue instead of a bright orange.

He tried to run back, desperate to save his fellow X-Men, when a resounding crack landed against his skull. He turned to find Mystique, suddenly out of nowhere.

"Fine day to meet you once again, eh, Logan?" she said with an evil grin as she uppercut him. He was totally unprepared for this. He was tired, and he needed to get back to his friends.

"You did this," he growled at her and tried to swipe at her with his claws. "You placed the bomb."

"So you figured it out, huh?" she said, still having that stupid grin plastered across her face. "But I guess it's too late, isn't it? Didn't follow your animal instincts, this is what you get." She stressed the word 'animal' in a way that seemed unpleasant to Logan.

Logan growled and lunged at her, but she sidestepped just as easily. He heard a scream from behind him, and turned to see what was going on. Every second he spent fighting with Mystique meant more danger for his friends.

While he was distracted, Mystique kicked him right in the face. As he spun and fell on the dirt face-first, Mystique laughed. "You'll never get to your poor friends in time, I'm afraid."

He got up and ignored her, rushing to the explosion. "Too bad," she hollered after him. "There's no way they would've survived that."

Logan ignored her comment and continued on. How could she say that? What was she, stupid? The X-Men had survived so many things, surely this... this small explosion wouldn't hurt anyone that bad.

Logan neared the blue flames and stepped in. He knew his healing factor would take care of everything, but still, the pain from this explosion was... unnaturally excruciating.

He stepped in further, and soon he began to feel like his very being was getting torn apart. But he prodded on.

"Storm? Kitty? Bobby?" he called out blindly through the flames. His energy was being sapped real quickly, for some reason.

Just go on... He pushed himself. One more step...

And then the ground rushed up to meet him.

Alexandra's P.O.V.

"Hurry," Alex said to Cassie. "Is everyone alright? All the X-Men here? The Professor?"

"All the kids are okay, and all the X-Men seem to be here..." Cassie said, her index finger tapping on her chin thoughtfully as she scanned the crowd. "But I have a hunch that someone's missing."

"Someone's missing?!" exclaimed Alex in shock.

"I told you, it's just a hunch."

Alex and Cassie had successfully succeeded in stopping all the bombs from doing any further damage, and they had rounded everybody back up inside the mansion. The injured would later be brought to the infirmary.

Alex scanned the crowd of people. Cassie could be right... maybe someone was missing.

"You know," Cassie said, flying up next to her. "It's a really good thing that tomorrow's the start of the summer holidays. Cause if not, I-"

"LOGAN!" Alex exclaimed in shock as she dashed out of the mansion, realizing that, indeed, someone was missing.

"I know you're obsessed with him but I don't care," muttered Cassie as she watched Alex fly off.

"Oh, wait."

Alex reached the site of the explosion just as she watched Logan fall to the ground. She put up a small barrier around herself using her telekinesis to prevent herself from getting hurt by the flames. She knew that this explosion was NOT ordinary, at all.

She flew right through the flames and scooped Logan up, at least she tried to.

"Oh boy," she said in a strangled voice as she tugged his right arm. "Never knew a person could be so heavy. Then again your skeleton is metal." She gave up and used her telekinesis to pick him up instead. She brought him back inside the mansion and studied him.

He was hurt quite badly, and he had a few bruises here and there alongside the scorch marks that the flames had left.

"How is he?" asked Cassie as she walked over and knelt next to Alex.

"I guess he'll heal..." Alex replied. "...eventually."

"He's a strong dude, and you know that."

Alex nodded.

"Oh yeah, Cass? Could you help to put out the flames?"

"How the hell do you expect me to do that? I mean, the thing definitely can't be put out with water." She gestured to the fire. "Just look at it."

"Well," said Alex thoughtfully. "you do know a few spells that should be able to help with this, right?"

Cassie sighed. "I'll go try."

"Don't forget your magic wand!" Alex called playfully after her. She simply laughed it off as she brought her axe with her outside.