Chapter 49: Briefing, Assassination Attempt
Colossus was very happy with the announcement, his broken English turning into Russian as he expressed his feelings to Illyana, who at this point was bright red and looking at me with teary eyes, telling me to save her.
'Ugh, okay.'
"Hey Colossus..."
"Piotr, you can call me Piotr."
"Oh, okay, Piotr why don't we have some breakfast and you can explain how it was like having Illyana as a sister?"
"Oh! A spectacular idea. Is it not Illyana?"
Illyana nodded whilst being hugged tightly by her brother who had only just started to release her. We all sat down and started to have small talk relating to Illyana and our experiences with her, especially Piotr, he seemed to enjoy speaking on his little sister. He had a pride that gleamed out of him as he spoke about how she was a kind loving child when she was younger and that they used to wait up all night waiting for their older brother to come back. There was a sombreness that followed their older brother but it was quickly overshadowed by the pride he began to emanate when he described how she escaped Limbo at the early age of 13.
Apparently she was kidnapped and Xavier realised her presence had disappeared on Earth, leading the X-Men to chase after her captors and try to reclaim her. When they got to Limbo with the aid of the Sorceress Supreme they saw Illyana fighting off the demons surrounding her, Belasco in the distance. It was only after they fought with the demons and Belasco, drawing the Sorceress Supreme to the dimension of Limbo, that they escaped with Illyana this was what soured relations between the X-men and the Sorcerers as they were supposed to stay on Earth, not invade other realms.
Illyana, after the whole Limbo incident was mentally scarred and traumatised to the point that they thought she wouldn't be normal ever again, love ever again, etcetera... This was supposedly why Piotr was so happy for her finding me.
'This shit is tear inducing... Especially because he loves his sister so much.'
[He certainly is brotherly.]
The stories were set to continue, that was until a psychic message from Xavier called out to all of us.
`Come to the Briefing room.` ( The symbol: ` , will now show telepathic communication)
All of us looked at each other, some with concern marring their features and others with genuine curiosity. Piotr was immediately standing up, his body turning into solid metal much like his movie counterpart from my original world.
Me and Illyana followed behind every other X-Men member as we all started walking towards the briefing room.
When we got there I noticed several people standing around, teenage looking and very moody. There was Rogue who looked like she was uncomfortable with the people around her and lonely to boot. A young blonde haired man with bright blue eyes and prince charming looks. A older teenage girl with perfectly combed brown hair and hazel eyes, her hand halfway phased through the wall behind her. The last was one was another blonde haired man but this time with a quaffed hairstyle, the hair flowing to the right, and he also had blue eyes... What really made me blanche at the man, who seemed around 18 or 19 years of age, was the sun tanning on his skin.
I looked at him and he looked at me, as I approached. Illyana was giving me weird stares and other members of the X-Men who noticed me and his behaviour gave us weird looks.
We didn't care. We just continued the stare until we got close enough to talk.
"What do yah want love?"
"Dunno maybe a fuckin smoko? You got one?"
There was complete silence from every one else, as almost every other person within the room had their mouths agape or had some sort of facial expression showcasing their exasperation.
"Haha! Nice to meet yah, it's real hard to find an Aussie like meself in this country filled with Americans."
The man's voice was like music to my ears causing years of memories to surface to my mind, growing up In Rockhampton and moving to Ipswich just outside Brisbane.
"Oh, you don't know the half of it mate... I bloody woke up in the place, originally in Ipswich Queensland then, poof, In a bloody graveyard."
"Could you maybe not swear, there are teens present."
Storm tried to intervene to stop our convo, but i simply waved her off whilst the man just ignored her.
"That's one hell of a story mate, shit, I'd need at least five beers after going through that. Hey, what's yah name mate?"
"Emelia, you gotta name as well or will i have to call you Bruce?"
"Nah me bloody names Davis, don't you dare name me after a shark from Nemo..."
"Haha, just a joke i shared with me dah."
"Your dad? Fair nuff."
The shock of the crowd continued, Storm practically fuming at the dismissal from both of us. Piotr was chuckling a little at the interaction whilst Illyana simply smiled at the antics. Our conversation was about to pick up again when Xavier wheeled out of the doorway.
"Could you please finish this later, our meeting is due and there is some rather grave news for our situation."
My open mouth closed whilst Davis's did the same, our attentions completely absorbed by Xavier's news. We all quickly hustled into the meeting room, Jean already sitting at the other end of the room, her eyes tracking me for a few moments before settling on the teenage members.
"Do we really have to bring them into this Professor they are still teenagers, give them two, three years, then they'll be ready."
"Jean, we've been through this already, they have to get introduced to their duties early otherwise when they join the full X-Men group they won't be able to deal with the threats, politics and hassles of the world."
Her expression hardened from the tone of the professor who had a seriously tired tone. I grimaced at the tone he was using as well, it was very much so a: 'I know better than you tone'. It set my Australian off a little.
Finally, as everyone entered the room, the darkened briefing room with a large circular table with a hologram image floating above it lit up. There were enough chairs for everyone and there were no windows in the room. The room itself was fully enclosed and encased in steel and other materials i probably have no clue about. Silence prevailed for a few moments as following that Xavier spoke up.
"First of all i would like to thank Emelia for saving a family member of Colossus as well as being there to aid me in fighting Limbo and it's master Belasco."
There was small amounts of golf clapping around the room, I didn't really react because i didn't do it for recognition, i did it for my woman. Clapping ceased as the image above the table changed. In the image a scene of the Whitehouse was played, specifically the Oval Office.
'Oh no... So that's where were at.'
Xavier spoke over the silence, his words hanging in the minds of everyone heavily.
"There was an attack on the President of the United states, by a mutant. We do not know why the mutant did what he did, all we know is that his alias is Nightcrawler."
The hologram finally started moving, the day of the President going by as usual. The sun was shining in the room as a blonde haired man took away some documents from the desk, the President signing some more papers behind the desk. Several secret security members stood to the sides of the room, pistols in holsters at their sides.
Finally there was a black and blue flash of energy and a portal emerged, the 'Nightcrawler' appearing out of nowhere and hitting one of the guards to the ground. In that instant all hell broke loose as pistols were drawn from their holsters and the walls concaved in as several fully armed, automatic assault rifle wielding secret service operators came to the side of the president, semi-dragging him away. The blue portal appeared multiple times targeting several secret service members and guards. Finally at the end of the 'show' he got in front of the president, one of the final remaining secret service members throwing himself in front of the Nightcrawler, his assault rifle unloading in the direction of the mutant, finally wounding him enough for him to run away. The hologram stopped on the face of the president who looked frightened and livid.
"Holy shit..."
Davis was the first to react followed by a large amount of hubbub between the different members of the X-men. I looked at Illyana who was looking at me, she had concern in her eyes. I extended my left hand and took her right hand, squeezing it reassuringly. This cause her worries to fade somewhat as she smiled lightly.
"Quiet please."
The room went silent again as Xavier spoke.
"We can't assume this wasn't an organised attack, we can't rule out that it was purely Nightcrawler that carried it out either... Thus i will use Cerebro to find him and then we can question him and discover anything that may have happened to him. Nefarious or otherwise."
Cyclops, Storm, Jean, Rogue, Davis, The other blonde teen and the brown haired teen all nodded in agreeance. The only ones that didn't nod Colossus, Illyana, myself and Logan (Wolverine) and that was more due to the fact we didn't really need to agree to it.
I stepped forwards up to the table drawing many of eyes in the room as i did so. With my En i could feel Illyana looking in my direction with curiosity as i had let go of her hand to step up.
"I would like to add something."
Silence.
"I have a sixth sense about certain things, the sorceress supreme and Illyana can attest to this."
Everyone turned to Illyana to see her nodding her head in affirmation.
"I would like you all to please remember this name..."
The silence was deafening this time, people completely drawn into my presence, waiting on my words.
"Alkali Lake."
"BULLSHIT!"
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