The Blood Phoenix: An X-Men: First Class Fanfiction

Chapter 12: Betrayal

The crash. 

The blood on my hands and head. 

The smoke. 

I choked and gasped. I was on the floor and Erik and Charles were both gone. I looked around in panic, then stumbled to my feet. Charles was near me, standing, speaking telepathically. Putting my hands to my temple, I telepathically contacted Charles. 

'Charles!' I spoke telepathically. He looked at me, then knelt next to me.

'Are you okay?' he spoke back telepathically. 

'Yeah,' I said softly. I smiled at him. Just then I heard a sharp ringing in my head and I screamed. 'Charles! What the hell is happening?!' 

'Easy, easy. You're okay. Probably you coming into telepathic contact with Erik. I've got it.' Putting his hands to his head, he spoke to Erik. 'You're there, Erik. You've reached the void.' In my mind, I could see Erik going into Shaw's submarine. Then I heard him speak. 

'He's not here, Charles. Shaw's not here! He's left the sub!' 

'What? He's got to be there! He has to be! There's no where else he can be! Keep looking!' 

'And I'm telling you. He's not! Goddammit!' I scrambled to my feet and ran out of the wrecked plane. Putting my forefingers to my temple, I yelled telepathically. 

'Erik! I can feel Shaw! I can feel him. I'm coming!' 

'Adelaide!' Charles yelled out to me, but I didn't hear him. I ran through the wrecked sub, looking for Erik. I came into contact with both Erik and Shaw. 

'Erik, Adelaide, what a pleasant surprise! May I ask you something? Why are you on their side?' Before we knew it, we were in the void. I tried to fight it, but I couldn't connect with Charles at all. We had gone into the void. Then Shaw spoke again. 'Why fight for a doomed race who will hunt us down as soon as they realise their reign is coming to an end?' Erik hit Shaw. Hard. 'I'm sorry for what happened in the camps. I truly am,' Shaw spoke. Just then, he hit Erik against the wall and I screamed in protest. 

'Oh, child. What a feisty spirit you have.' He threw me into the wall and I groaned. I felt the wall of the void begin to crack. 

'Whatever you're doing, Adelaide, keep doing it,' Charles spoke in my head. 'It's starting to work.' I looked down and saw a shard of metal in my abdomen. I groaned again, this time in pain. I saw Shaw come close to Erik. 

'But everything that I did, I did for you. To unlock your power. To make you embrace it.' Taking me off of the shard, he threw me at the wall again. I fell to the floor in pain. 

'Dad,' I said faintly, holding my bloodied hand out to him. 

'Adelaide,' he said, looking at me. Shaw came up to Erik again. 

'You've come a long way from bending gates, Erik. I'm so proud of you.' I saw Erik move all the metal in the void to trap Shaw. 'And you're just starting to scratch the surface. Think how much further you could go, together.' He looked at me, laying on the floor, just holding on. 

'You have no power over us, Shaw,' I growled, still doing my best to master the pain in my body. Shaw, coming over, knelt next to me. 

'Lehnsherr's daughter. Just as strong as her father. Think of how much further you could go with your powers, sweetheart. I can teach you, make you be better. Not in the way that your beloved Charles wants. No. You can be more. The two of you. My weapons upon humanity. I don't want to hurt you. I never did. I want to help you. This is our time. Our age. We are the future of the human race. You and me, son and daughter. This world could be ours.' Then I heard Erik speak, softly at first, but it was loud enough for Shaw and I to hear.