The Wolf Inside

Chapter 3

“I hope my mission was as successful as I thought it was.” Lunar looked at Stryker and he gave her a satisfied nod.

            “Yes. The whole world knows how far mutants are willing to go for their freedom… though it would’ve gotten a bigger reaction if he had killed the president.”

            Lady Deathstrike smirked at her from where she stood in the back of the room. “I would’ve stayed to make sure he died.”

            “Yeah well next time why don’t you do my mission and I’ll stay here and relax.”  She suggested.

            “Enough, both of you, just because this went well does not mean we can sit back and watch things fall into place.” Stryker chided. “We must be sure that everything goes as planned.”

            “So what’s next then?” Lunar asked.

            “We need to find a machine called Cerebro… It was used around the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis to find mutants to stop other mutants.” He showed them a picture of it before continuing. “I need one to kill off the mutants. I believe a certain telepath has one but unfortunately he’s been well hidden and we can’t locate him. That’s where our mind control comes in again.”

            “Magneto…” Deathstrike grinned as she saw where he was going. “He’s still in prison. We could use that to find out!”

            “Precisely.”

            “When do we leave?” Lunar asked.

            “In a two hours. Both of you are coming so go get ready.” Stryker ordered.

            “Right away sir.” Lunar and Lady Deathstrike responded.

            Lunar walked out and went to the kitchen to grab some food to eat before they had to leave. Afterwards she went to her room and grabbed a gun and some knifes, she couldn’t use her powers all the time, and put them in the hidden compartments on her suit. By the time she had finished Lunar only had a half hour left before they left so she took out her favorite knife and sharpened it before twirling it around to test the balance, she heard a huff of annoyance from her doorway and looked up.

            “You are such a show off.” Lady Deathstrike commented.

            “Do you really want to know what I think of you?” Lunar snapped back. “I could beat you any day.”

            “Sure.” She sneered back. “A wolf could totally beat me, a human, with unbreakable nails.”

            Lunar narrowed her eyes at her, though the glasses prevented Lady Deathstrike from seeing her eyes, and swallowed the growl rising up inside her. Instead she shoved passed her rival and into the hallway, she could already guess why she had shown up and turned towards where Stryker would be waiting for them. Stryker saw them coming and got into the jet while Lunar went into the pilot seat and turned it on, Lady Deathstrike got in much to her disappointment but she didn’t complain, if she did Styker would threaten to take away her free mind and make her completely dependant on him for orders. He had before and Lunar had no doubt he would threaten it again, of course he also got advantages in not putting her under his control, she could make better split second decisions that could save a mission, fight better, and of course stay alive. Half of the beginning mutants he’d used the serum on had died, they couldn’t survive the missions they had been sent on though they probably would have if they could think better.

            “What’s the estimated time of arrival Phantom?” Stryker asked.

            Lunar checked the screen. “About four and a half hours sir.”

            “Good.”

            “Sir… what if the telepath has a larger guard than we anticipated?”

            “You two can handle it. After all you lasted this long and I’m sure through much worse missions than this.” That was so true, some of the missions she had gone on were almost suicidal seeming, luckily she had Stryker to train her or she might not be here today.

            “This is going to be a long trip.” Deathstrike muttered as Stryker put more of the mind controlling serum onto her neck.

            You have no idea. Lunar sighed mentally as she wished she could pay more attention to creating a fighting strategy instead of flying.