Chapter 18

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I spent the entire night running and hunting down any animal I could find just so I could drink their blood. I needed to prepare to today. While running and killing creatures, I made up my mind on what I must do and it's for the best...for everyone. When I returned before dawn this morning, Jean had the jet fixed and we were all ready to go. It didn't take long to get us there but on the way I spoke to no one not even Logan. Jean and Storm landed the plan a little ways from the facility I had fled and everyone began suiting up. Evidently it's their working attire.

"Why don't we get uniforms?" Bobby asked curiously.

"They're on order. Should arrive in a few years." I couldn't help but snicker at Logan's sarcastic comment as his zipped up one of the suits.

"All right, this is a topographic map of the dam. This is the spillway. See these density changes in the terrain?"

"They're tire tracks." Logan answered as I looked over the map. I didn't need a damn map to know how to get in.

"That's the entrance. And this shows the depth of the ice
covering the ground."

"This is recent water activity." Storm replied.

"If we go in, Stryker could flood the spillway."

"Can you teleport inside?" Jean asked as she turned to Kurt.

"I have to be able to see where I'm going...otherwise I could wind up inside a wall."

"I'll go. I've a hunch he'll want me alive." Logan said volunteering.

"Whoever goes into the dam needs to be able to operate the spillway mechanism.
What do you intend to do?
Scratch it with your claws?" As they argued about who would be going in, I slipped out of the jet and started running towards the facility's spillway I had seen on the map. If sacrificing myself will keep all of them safe...then that's what I'm going to do.

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~~Logan's POV~~
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"Whoever goes into the dam needs to be able to operate the spillway mechanism. What do you intend to do? Scratch it with your claws?"

"I'll take my chances." I said with a bit of a snarl. I don't care what this Magneto guy says. Stryker wants me and I should be the one to go in.

"But I won't." Magneto looks over to the blue woman he called Mystique and she smirks.

"Wait a minute. Where's Chey?" I look behind me expecting to see her there but she wasn't. What the hell?

I quickly walk off the jet and look around but she's no where to be found.

"Chey!" I waited for her to appear but she didn't before I yelled again, "Chey where are you?"

"Oh God. She's in the spillway."

"Damnit! I've got to get her back." I said and as I began to walk away Jean grabbed my shoulder.

"No Logan. We stay with Magneto's plan. Mystique can get in there and get her back." I looked at Jean as Magneto and Mystique walked out of the jet. The blue woman changes quickly to look like me.

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