[3] The New Ones {X-Men Apocalypse}

VII

Suddenly everyone was outside and Peter was standing next to Hank and they all looked confused as all hell.

"Maximoff?" Atlanta asked as she rubbed her head from getting tossed into a tree. "What the hell are you doing here?" She asked and cracked her neck. "Never mind. Don't answer that. You are apparently saving all of our asses, yet again." She grunted.

"... Wait... Where did you?" Hank asked sounding completely stunned but then a frantic call out for the kids began.

"Where are they?" Atlanta asked quickly and frantically, after she had searched the entire crowd for her kids.

"They took off. With Havok's kid brother." One of the other mutants called out and Atlanta looked at Hank who realized what she was thinkin' at the same time.

But then, everyone's attention was on Raven, who had accidentally changed back to her natural blue form.

"They look up to you." Hank explained to Raven as best as he could and Atlanta nodded, holding, back her emotions as best she could. "And right now, they need you." Hank said.

"That's not what they need." Raven insisted and she changed her form to the human form that she always used as her 'real face'.

"I was looking for the Professor and Rebel. I thought, that they both lived in here." Peter said and Atlanta looks up as the car raced in.

"They took them. Both of them. Rebel must have been wearing... something metal on her person. Erik dragged her just like he did Charles." Hank said to Atlanta.

"Wait, Magneto did this?" Peter asked and Atlanta looks at him, watching his expression carefully and she nodded.

"Rebel told me about it." She said as inconspicuously as she could and he nodded slightly at her, knowing what she meant by it.

"What happened here? Where's Alex?" Scott asked and the twins both leapt out of the car and looked at their mother, who hugged them at once.

"Pretty sure I got everybody." Peter said and Atlanta shakes her head at him with tears beginning to run, on her face.

"Sorry Peter, you didn't. Alex was too close to the blast." She whispered and the twins begin to break down as well as they realized what that meant.

"Alex was closest to the blast." Hank said as Scott ran toward the wrecked mansion, Silver followed her uncle to the wreckage, as Trent stays with his mother as he began to silently sob.

Suddenly, a helicopter had landed on the ground in front of the ruins and a familiar face appeared.

"Fire!" Major Stryker shouted and suddenly everyone hit the ground and Silver ran out to join her mother as the rest of them hid, but was only yet another mutant to be passed out by the soundwave emitting cannons.

"I want her!" Stryker pointed at Moira. "Him!" Pointing at Hank on the ground. "Him!" At Peter. "Her!" Silver was on the ground. "Her!" He called a bit louder and Atlanta was also being picked up. "Him!" Trent was dragged onboard. "And her!" He called at his men on either side, who had picked up Mystique now.

The helicopter, it had begun to take off along with the chosen mutants as well as the three tag-alongs that were not chosen as well.

Cairo, Egypt

Rebel and Charles groaned loudly, as Rebel managed to roll up into a sitting position.

Charles groaned as he tried to sit up and Rebel held out her arms to him as he gripped them to try and sit up even a little bit.

"Ow." Charles said as he sat up and Rebel moved over so that Charles was leaning on her shoulder. "You're all blocking me. How?" He asked and she looked at Apocalypse, who was really, the only explanation for this.

"I can shield their minds, from your... unique powers. It's one of the many gifts that I have acquired throughout the many millennia. But to see inside a mind. To control it... That's your gift. I see it in you as well, my young child."

Apocalypse said, turning his attention to Rebel, who swings her free hand, in his direction, and then a huge piece of rubble was flying towards him.

"Don't you ever call me child!" She shouted and another began flying at him, since her rage was growing worse and worse as rocks and rubble began to rise around her.

The boy with wings aimed a blade at Charles' throat and Rebel let the rocks and rubble all fall down, as she looks infuriated by them all.

"You saw it, didn't you? The glory, the majesty of what is to come of a world divided." Apocalypse said and Charles shakes his head, turning over his shoulder to Erik.

"You're going to take part in all this killing... and, destruction?" Charles' voice was breaking.

"It's all I've ever known." Erik insists to him and to Charles, it was like Cuba all over again.

"No, it isn't. You've just forgotten it, once again." Charles said sharply and Erik shakes his head at him.

"No, Charles, I remember. Your way doesn't work." Erik sharply said back to them and Rebel looked at Charles, a little bit more then just concerned with about where this was all going.

"I've shown him a better way." The slithering and evil voice, Apocalypse's was back in the conversation.

"No, you've just tapped into his rage and pain. That's all you've done." The Professor snapped at Apocalypse and Rebel nodded.

"I told you back then, from the very moment that we met that there is so much more to you, Erik. There is good in you, too." Charles tried to break a hole in his wall, but Erik was not having it at all.

"Whatever it is you think you saw in me, Charles. I buried it once again, in deep with my family." Erik snapped at them.