What's a Mutant?

Chapter Thirty

Chapter 30:

~Sean~

                The next morning we awoke to find Breeze and Helena gone.

~Helena~

                “What do you want with me?” I yelled at the wall.

                I had awoken in a black room with no door or windows, but only one light bulb in the middle of the ceiling.

                I started kicking the wall in anger.

                “I thought the army was suppose to protect the people not attack it. You fools choose to attack us even though we are all Americans. How could you do this to your own people? We did not attack Miami! That was the Botherhood you idiots! We would never do that, we were getting ready to fight them so we could protect you stupid people from them. You can’t fight them, but we can!” I screamed as I attacked the wall. “We want peace between us and humans. Don’t you incompetent fools understand?”

                “Yelling at them won’t help,” a familiar voice said.

                I turned to see Professor X with his always gentle face no longer gentle, but full of grief and pain.

                “Professor, what are you doing here? How did you get in?”

                He smiled a little. “There is a door behind me. Hidden by design, but there.” His smile fell. “We have all been taken by the government. They recognize me as the leader and believe I have leeway over all of you. If only they knew how much I cannot control your actions.”

                “They would be in for a hell of a shock. What do they want with us anyway?”

                “They want to know what we are exactly.”

                I nodded. “Experiment on us.”

                Professor X gave me a worried look.

                “What will they find?”

                He shrugged. “I have not cut any of my students open so I would not know, but maybe our molecules are made up differently or the atoms that make up our molecules are new ions to this world.”

                “Sounds like a bunch of chatter to me,” I spat. “The point is we are here. Does it matter how we got here? What good would knowing what we are made up of do?”

                “I think they want to find a cure.”

                My eyes narrowed. “What I am is not a disease. I would gladly fight for my survival if they attack me or anyone I care for.”

                Professor X closed his eyes and I saw the pain in his eyes. The look sent free through my body.

                “Who are they hurting and why aren’t you doing anything about it?” I screamed.

                He frowned. “I am locked in here too. They have threatened to kill her if I try anything.”

                “Her? Kill her? As in my sister Breeze?”

                The look on his face answered my question.

                I let out a scream that hurt my eyes. I could feel my anger channeling and the walls started to shake. Lightening was flashing all around. With all the power I was releasing the explosion should not have been a surprise. My lightening made a hole in the wall just large enough for me to go through.

                Without a second thought, I jumped out of it into the hall.

                It was weird; it was like I could feel everything around me. I could feel the men running towards me. I could feel the bullets when they shot. They hit a wall of lightening. Closing my eyes so I did not have to look at the guns and the bullets flying towards me, I started running towards the armed men in front of me.

                “STOP!” someone yelled, but I kept going with my lightening around me making a protective barrier.

                They shot until they were all but one hit by my lightening and knocked out.

                Opening my eyes I looked at the last one left.

                He stared at me with fear. His gun fell to the ground and he held his hands up in surrender.

                “Where is my sister?” I asked him.

                He shook his head. “I-I-I don’t kn-know.”

                With no use of him anymore, I ran past him and down the hall desperately trying to find my sister. I was not going to lose her again. Not after running away and then finding her just to go through hell for a year. No. I was going to get my sister back and I was going to stop anyone that got in my way.

~Breeze~

                I screamed as the electricity ran through my body. The pain was horrible and it hurt the very insides of me. My vision blacked over and for a few seconds I did not even know who I was. Soon it stopped and my body got a chance to relax.

                “Tell me,” someone hissed, “where did you people come from?”

                “I told you. I don’t know,” I sobbed.

                “Again,” someone said.

                The pain entered my body at a new intensity. Every nerve I had seemed to explode. I could not bear it much long before I blacked out. Thankfully it stopped.

                “Now tell me where you people came from or we will go back to the bucket.”

                “I don’t know,” I cried.

                The things they stuck to my body were ripped off and I was pulled off the table to my feet, but they would not hold me. They had to drag me to the bucket before they pushed me to my knees.

                “One more chance.”

                “I don’t know,” I said again before my head was pushed into the water.

                At first the cool water felt nice on my hot and sweaty face, but then my lungs started to ache for oxygen. My heart started hurting and I could feel it speeding up before slowing. I was in so much pain just from my need for air that I just wanted to all to end.

                “It’s okay,” a wispy voice said in my ear. “Let yourself leave your body. I will hold onto you.”

                Whoever it was, I felt connected to them somehow, so I did what they said. It felt natural to just let my mind leave my body. The pain weakened to just a mere prickle before completely dissipating.

                Replacing the pain were memories. Years and years of memories. I remembered Helena from when we would play in the garden and I remembered the yogurt shop where I met Sean and I remembered all the pain I went through, that my parents put me through.

                I could remember everything now, including how to fully use my powers with Helena’s.