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

VIII

Canada

Atlanta groaned quietly from inside the chamber, or whatever the hell, it was that they were all stuck in now.

Then Peter screamed in shock.

"What?" Raven shouted.

"What?" Moira shouted at the same time as Raven, who had changed back to her preferred inconspicuous form.

"What's wrong with you? Is that gonna happen to all of us?" Peter asked as he looked at his hands and Atlanta groaned.

"No silver, it won't. Just stay calm. It's his totally mutated form. He found it a bit too hard to miss, so he made meds, to counter it." Atlanta grunted loudly, as she stood up against the wall.

Beast groaned as he looked at his hands and now everything was furry and blue. "No, I just left my meds in the house." Beast groaned as Atlanta held out her hand to him and Beast gladly accepted it as she helped him up.

"Where are we? What happened to us?" Moira asked and Atlanta looked up with a furious look on her face.

"Where are they, Stryker?" She roars at him and he laughed at her anger as if it was just an annoying fly, that was buzzing around his head.

"Hey!" Raven shouted.

"Hello Mystique. Hello, Dive." Major Stryker said as he pressed the button so that they could hear him.

"Major Stryker." The two girls spat at him and he laughed.

"And as for your kids, for I'm presuming that is who you're talking about Dive. Bring 'em in, boys!" He called out and the twins were dragged into the room.

"Colonel Stryker. I wouldn't get too close to the walls, if I were you. It may create some discomfort." Stryker said.

"I'm Moira MacTaggert. I'm a senior officer at the CIA." Moira said, as she strode forward to speak to him.

"I know who you are, Agent MacTaggert." The Colonel said as the men held the twins tightly, much to the fury of their mother who was down in the cage.

"You cannot keep me here, in this..."

"Actually, I can. A psychic event just destroyed every nuke from here all the way to Moscow. That event emanated, from exactly where we found you. At the home of two of the world's most powerful psychics." The Colonel's face was a nasty looking grin as he turned to the men, who were still holding the twins securely and they brought them forward to the mic.

"So you're going to tell me, or not of course if you prefer to watch your kids suffer... where is Charles Xavier?" He asked.

"You're a monster Stryker! They don't know a damn thing!" Atlanta shouted and Beast restrained her from runnin' into the wall.

"That one." He said, pointing at Trent and his face was slammed hard into a spot on the wall, and his nose was in a broken mess.

"Trent!" Silver screamed.

"Shut her up." Stryker calmly orders and the other soldier slapped her, and the side of her face was beginning to bruise.

"Stop it!" Atlanta shouted as she watched her kids get the guts kicked out of them.

"Do you really expect me to believe that? You can put on any face that you want, but I know who you are. What you are. Put the kids in the room with them, but only after a little more of our little... conditioning."

Stryker let go of the button as the twins were separated and began to be beaten as Atlanta roared from inside the cell, and it took everyone now to hold her back from charging into the door.

Cairo, Egypt

Apocalypse was looking at the two telepaths with a knowing look in his eyes now.

"Charles, Rebel, you will send a message to every living mind. You will tell them that this earth will be laid waste. That it is I, En Sabah Nur who will wreak this upon them."

Charles looked pleadingly at Erik, as Rebel looked at the other ones that he wasn't paying attention to, specifically the one with wings who had threats to Charles.

"Now... deliver my message." The monstrous Apocalypse demanded as the telepaths looked back at him with fury in their eyes as well as defiance.

"Even, if, I wanted to... I couldn't reach that many people. Nor could Rebel. I don't have Cerebro, neither does she." Charles spat at him and he scoffs at them both.

"You don't need a machine to amplify your powers. You, both of you, have me." Apocalypse declared and they both stared up at him silent.

Canada

Atlanta was hugging her kids to her chest as they looked sick and beaten bloody by Stryker's men. "I... I am so sorry." She whispered to them.

"You know him? Magneto?" Peter asked quickly of Raven, who looks at him with a surprised look, before she continued to study the cage.