Chapter 12 part 2

When we left off I was able to bring Abigail's mood back up to sea level by asking her to a new art exhibit that opened in a museum she was talking about before. As it turns out there is a "small" charge for entry which I "gladly" paid to get us in. Do I regret spending all of my spare money on taking a girl who acts like a ticking time bomb to a museum that is about as interesting as staring at a white wall for hours? Yes. Yes I do. This is the most boring TWO HOURS of my life. At least she seems happy

I'm standing in front of an incredibly weird looking statue that I'm certain is supposed to be two people getting it on, happy someone in this place is having a good time. I yawn and scan the museum with my eyes, looking for something that could make me interested. Abigail rushes up beside me, a big grin on her face as she holds up the map of the museum. She starts listing off the places she wants to see, her eyes open wide and shining like crazy. "You really like this stuff." I can't help but smile. "Art's something you can't really learn from books and studying alone, you know." She tells me, blushing as she crinkles the map in between her hands. "It's a personal expression of your soul. No matter how hard I try I can't make anything as beautiful as a real artist can." "I don't know." I say. "If it's an expression of your soul then I'm sure anything you make would be pretty awesome." Abigail's cheeks go cherry coloured. "At least it would be better than this." I point at the statue. "If this guy's expression of his soul is two people doing it then he's probably a pervert." "That's a moose." She tells me. "It's abstract. So you see what you want to see." She smiles up at me with a big smug grin. "So, who's the pervert?"

We move to a new part of the exhibits. This one's full of huge statues and stuff that reach up to the ceiling. We look around for a few moments before the same realization hits us both. We're alone. "Abi-" I start to call her name but she spins around at the sound, slamming into the wall behind her. "W-W-W-W-W-W-What is it?" "We're alone." "I kn-know…so what?" Someone's nervous. I would make fun of her right now if I wasn't just as nervous as her. "What's this?" I ask her, pointing at the nearest statue I can find. "That's a support beam." D@^^* it. I'm an idiot. "Oh."

There's a long, long silence between the two of us as we pretend to look at sculptures. "It's kind of cold in here." Abigail tries to end the silence any way she can. "Here. This'll warm you up." I walk up to her and take off my jacket. She backs up agains the wall, teeth chattering behind red cheeks and her eyes mashed shut. "Wait!" She yells out. "What are you doing in the museum!?" She opens her eyes when she feels a wait on her shoulders. "I'm not that cold so you can use my jacket." I tell her. She sighs in relief. "Oh, that's what you were doing." "What did you think I was doing?" I ask her and she jumps. "N-Nothing! We've got more stuff to look at." I start walking up beside her and humming. "Abigail is a perv." I sing to the tune. "Shut up!" "She thinks about doing dirty things in museums." "I said shut up! It's your fault!" "My fault?" I ask her. "Because you said all those things in the Danger Room." I think back. "You mean about the whole Cougar thing? What does that have to do with this?" "You where saying all those weird things about not being abel to hold back. What the hell am I supposed to think?" "Oh." I get kind of depressed…okay a lot depressed…I stopped walking and sat down to mope.

The tables turn pretty quick. "Wait." Abigail spins around. "I didn't mean that." "It's alright." I tell her. "I get it. No one can trust someone like me. I'm just a dirty minded psychopath. No one would trust me. No one trusts me." "I didn't mean it." She tries as hard as she can to make me feel better. "I trust you really." "Yeah right." "If I didn't trust you why would  ask you out?" "I dunno." "I'm really sorry. Can't I do anything?" "There is one thing." I look up at her with a devil grin and she knows she was just trapped. "How about a kiss?" She's back to red again. "That's what you where planning!?" She nearly screams. "You where after my lips this whole time!" "You're the one who broke my little heart and made me cry." I tell her with a wink. "I'm just curious about that little treat in the Danger Room. Was it a one time thing or do you really have feelings for me? If not we can just continue on. If you do kiss me." "That's ridiculous." She snarls but can't hide her embarrassment. "I'm not ready." "So, you do have feelings for me." I hit the nail on the head. "You're just not ready to tell me." She's totally frozen. "I didn't expect you to kiss me." I tell her. "I wouldn't want you to do it to prove a point anyway." "Why are you so mean today!?" She spazes like a kid having a tantrum. "I guess I am being a little mean." I apologize. "I'm just a little excited today because you asked me out." She turns around to avoid looking at me. "Oh." She says. "So, I guess you where like this when Cora asked you out too." "Not really. I was pretty normal. For some reason I just like picking on you." "That's terrible." She sighs. Have you ever felt like the world around you started to shake. Right now it's doing that but pretty literal.

The ground beneath the two of us began to shake for a moment but soon subsided. "Weird." I say, not knowing what else I could really say. Before I can think I'm flung through the glass windows and tossed into the park outside. Abigail runs up after me. "Prepare to meet your demise." A figure floats in from the sky. He's dressed in a red t shirt and black pants which look like they where pulled from a garbage can. Another one flies in from behind. He has red skin and is wearing a stained white shirt with grey sweat pants which are obviously too big for him. The one with the red shirt looks like Magneto but I'm getting a familiar feeling off of him. The other behind me I don't recognize but he has slicked back hair that looks like horns at the side of his head. "Clones." I say, remembering what the feeling was. I've fought enough of these to know when I'm looking one in the face. A magnetic manipulator and a telepath/telekinetic. Too bad Clifford the big red clone doesn't have omega in him or I'd be spotting some cool new psychics. "Professor Castings would like to have a sample of the mutant known as Skylar Medley." The red one tells me. "We are willing to use force." "Cute." I freeze up some blades on my arms. "So am I."

The battle's on. Me and Abigail against these two. "I think the red one was taken from Exodus." She tells me. "He's a very powerful mutant." "I know." I say, getting a little excited. "Alright. We doing this?" I ask and the two raise their hands. Exodus trapped my arms and legs under his control and holds me out so I'm defenceless and Magneto forms a spear from a nearby lamp post. They try to impale me with it but I transform into water vapour and reform out of harms way. I go in to slice off Magneto's head with my ice blade but I'm stopped in mid air and flung straight into the ground by a psychic wave. I can't move and Magneto is about to deliver a nice light post to my head. The post goes through me, leaving me unharmed. I look up and Abigail is attached to the pole. "Nice save." I tell her. She focuses a punch at Magneto, sending him flying back with her psychic power. "Telekinetic too?" I ask as I get to my feet. "That is so hot." I whip out a few blasts of energy. Magneto forms metal shields to defend himself. Abigail goes after Exodus but he blasts her with psychic energy, easily overtaking her. I save her by blasting his face. He sends another wave of psychic energy at me but I activate my own psychic just in time, not waiting to turn them off immediately after using them. I'm already fatigued just from that one usage. D@^^*.

Knives of iron come down on me from above. My body moves on its own and creates a shield of ice around my arm to deflect them but the get stuck in the frozen liquid. The iron liquifies to its masters will and circles around me like a snake. I dodge the incoming attack by punching the ground and creating a pillar of ice to take me out of the danger zone. I flip off of the pillar and land on my newly formed ice slide and glide towards the Magneto clone who flies out of my way, avoiding the energy blasts I send at him. I raise one arm and form the energy surrounding it, launching a dragon form from my fist when I thrust. The clone evades but is forced to form a shield of metal when the dragon circles around and comes back. I use the time that grants me to check on Abigail. She's holding up as best she can but is thrown away by the superior psychic powers of the Exodus clone. "D@^^* it!" I curse as I let the ice beneath me melt away and run to her aid. I run out in front of her and fire two blasts of energy at Exodus. He shields himself with a psychic barrier. "They don't seem to have the same power levels as the originals." Abigail tells me. "I know." I confirm. "They both have high levels of power but they're nothing compared to the real ones. I remember reading up the originals files. But that doesn't make them any less of a threat." "What do we do? The Magneto clone is messing with the magnetic waves around here so I can't call the others and they're too far out of range for telepathy." "Don't worry about it." I form my ice swords newly revised form. It's new because I sharpened the blade and weighed it down with my more advanced control over ice and water and my new muscle strength. I also did a lot of nice new stuff to make it look cooler. I've even got the dragon head the blade is supposed to come out of just right. I form a similar one with thermal energy. "I'm going to keep you safe, so don't worry. These guys are nothing." I don't notice her blushing behind me. "Don't say something so D@^^* corny." She tells me. "It just makes you look like an idiot." "Whatever."

I charge straight forward at Exodus and he defends with a blast of psychic energy which I side step and turn within the spilt second it takes me to cut down three metal shards Magneto sent at me and continue on to slash a bloody gash across Exodus's face. Exodus cries out in a fury and slashes at me with his clawed fingers. The strike misses and I use the chance to knock him to his back with a blast of electricity, then I fire another blast, this time made of heat. His body starts to smoke but he stands again. "Persistent." I Ice over both arms and start wailing on his face but he evades me each step. "The good doctor put quite some effort into our creation." He tells me. "You will not be able to kill us as easily as you did our brothers." "Easy or not it's still inevitable." I talk back and unleash a blast of lightning energy from my finger. Magneto comes in to help Exodus by attacking me with another light pole but it stops in the air. "What!?" He gasps and I take Exodus out with a flying spin kick. "Didn't you know?" I call up. "Magnetism relies heavily on electrical charges. Positive and Negative. Just like with Micro's microwave energy or Vibe's sound." He nearly chokes on his own spit when he realizes what I just did, but I clarify anyway. "That means I can render your little power useless." I turn the light on him and use it like a bat to knock him out of the sky. I stand over him triumphantly, putting my new ice sword to his neck as a sign of victory. "I won't kill you if you leave in peace, alright?" I say, trying to show some compassion. "Skylar medley." The Magneto clone looks up at me.

I'm still waiting for the Magneto clones answer when Exodus fires a shot at my back. I look back and see him with Abigail held by the neck and his long protruding claws pointed at her temples. "Be a good boy and put that nasty sword away." Exodus commands. "Or we may have an accident." I let the sword evaporate and hold up my arms in defeat. "Idiot!" Abigail scolds me. "Attack him you moron! Don't worry about me!" I laugh at her. "A hero's got to put his life on the line for the girl he likes once, right?" I say with a smile, making her blush again. "F-Freaking idiot! This isn't the time for stupid heroics!" She tells me. "I hate that macho crap! Just save yourself!" "No can do." I tell her as the Magneto clone stands up and then puts a metal blade to my neck. "The hero also has to save the girl from the bad guys." "What are you-?" She starts but is cut off as Exodus's claw is thrown away from her temple. "This is gonna hurt." I smirk as I send a blast of psychic power into Exodus's mind and cause him to throw his hands to his head and writhe in agony. Magneto tries to cut into my neck but the blade bursts open with a web of electricity and I flip him over my shoulder, kneeing him in the stomach as he comes down. I freeze Exodus in place and run over to Abigail, turning off my psychic powers before it takes too much of a tole on me. She slaps me when I get close. "You B@$+@)D!" She yells. "Never do something like that to me again! I was scared out of my mind!" "Sorry." I tell her but she continues anyway. "I am not a damsel in distress. Never try to play the hero like that and pretend your helpless again! I thought they where gonna kill you!" "You where scared for me?" I ask. "Duh!" She snarls. "I can faze through stuff! You're the one who could've gotten hurt!" "I forgot." I tell her genuinely.

Magneto clone gets up from the ground and walks over to his teammate. He holds out his hand and pulls back. The metal in my blood reacts to him and a small squirt of blood bursts from my arm. "Ow!" "I didn't want to do that. There's no sport in it." He tells me. "But it seems I had no choice. You are far more powerful than the professor told us. But I shall now leave you in peace." "Not with my DNA." I tell him. "I could continue to fight you, but I want to end this now." He responds. "But I would rather wait until my DNA has fully mastered this body." "What?" I ask, totally interested now. "I am a collaboration." He explains. "Two mutants DNA where merged to crete me. One being Magneto and the other Charles Xavier. I will manifest both of their powers in an attempt to reach an omega level. That is why I require your blood." "And what if I take it back?" "You won't. I know this because you wish to gain more power. An omega level mutant psychic with both the powers of Charles Xavier and Magneto combined. You want that power. Psychic power with no limits. I can see it in your eyes." He looks into my crimson eyes as if he was peering into my soul. "Despite your avarice you are an honourable fighter. If only our battle was one on one. You feel it too. But you will allow me to leave simply so that I can be complete and you can take my power." "Then go." I tell him. "Get stronger. Become an omega and feed me more power until I finish you off in combat. But don't think I won't hesitate to kill you on the spot if you ever try to harm anyone but me." "I understand completely." The Magneto clone tells me and he lifts his companion onto a slab of metal and walks off. "I too am looking forward to our next meeting." I can't wait.

The walk home is a little quiet. "You let him go." Abigail finally speaks to me. "Well, yeah." I say, feeling kind of guilty. "What would you do if he killed someone?" "You're right." I say, suddenly realizing what I did. "Well," Abigail decides to switch up her side before I become too depressed. "At least you didn't kill him. Unlike the others he seemed pretty human. We should tell mr.McCoy." "RIght." "By the way." "What?" I get a smack to the head. "You forgot something before, after you saved me." "What?" I ask, rubbing my aching cheek. "The hero's supposed to kiss his girlfriend." "Girlfriend?" I ask with a half formed smirk. "When did that happen?" Abigail gets blushy again and takes another swing at me, missing this time. "Well," She says. "If you want me to I could be…your girlfriend." "What was that?" I ask, pretending not to hear her almost whispering. "I want to be your…" "Little louder please." "I WANT TO BE YOUR GIRLFRIEND!" She stands there all red, steam practically coming out of her ears. "I'd like that." I tell her, letting her off the hook now.