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The prison was under attack and he knew by whom. He’d heard the deep roar of a dragon and the screams of terror when the beast came into sight. He’d only just been able to see the sight of the full sized blue dragon as he swooped down through the night sky. It had been the first time he’d seen Bubbles at his full size, he’d only seen him as the size of a tattoo worn on John’s left bicep. It was truly an unforgettable sight. He’d remember to never make fun of Bubbles again.

It had been a well placed blast from Bubbles that took out the power to the prison. All the doors swung open and every mutant being held captive had found their freedom. He didn’t know what had happened to Warren, as before the attack he’d been taken back down to the interrogation room for Wanda’s favorite pastime, torture the Wolverine. But when the power went out Wanda left the room to go and see what was going on. She’d left two guards to watch him apparently she figured he wasn’t going very far in the condition he was in. How wrong she was.

The power going out meant the power-eliminators that were stopping his healing were out of order to. It only took a couple minutes for his healing to start back up to the point he could bring himself to unleash his claws. His strength was slowly returning and with a burst of energy, knowing where there was a Bubbles he’d find his brother he tore free from his bindings. “I’ve gotta get to that roof. I’ve gotta find John.”, he said to himself his breath still short as he was far from even a quarter healed. “Hey what the hell are you doing?”, the guards yelled as they raced into the room to stop him. “I’m going to find my brother and then tear this place apart.”, Logan growled as he managed to bring up his arms and slam his exposed claws into their throats. As they fell to the ground he grabbed their guns and ammo and headed for the stairs.

Sure it took him a while to get through the hallways, having to stop to regain his strength. To reserve his strength to just get to the roof he used the guns to take out the soldiers as he made way through the halls. At one point he nearly shot Colby Delaney, by accident of course, but Colby identified himself. “Holy Fuck Logan! Don’t shoot me! It’s Colby.”, Colby yelled. “Head to the roof John and Aurelia are up there. I’m heading down to find Alison.”, Colby advised pointing up the stairs. “Aurelia’s here? Wait…Alison?”, Logan said trying to make sense of what was going on as his body was still trying to recover from not only the torture but the poisoning of the adamantium. “Yeah Aurelia’s here. You think she’d sit out on rescuing you? No one was talking her out of being here. And yes Alison, Dazzler whatever you want to call her. I’m not letting the woman I’m in love with stay here a minute longer. Stay safe and I’ll see you top side.”,. Colby said patting Logan’s shoulder before heading further into the prison. “Love? Alison and Colby?”, Logan said before shaking the thoughts from his head. “I’m not even going to linger on that. I gotta find Aurelia. If she gets hurt by these assholes I’ll murder them all.”, he grumbled before continuing up the stair case.

He finally pushed open the door to the roof, the cool autumn air hitting him. He breathed in the fresh air for the first time in nearly a month. It was so freeing to feel the wind on his face. He just wanted to slump to the ground and enjoy the air, but he knew he couldn’t. He had to keep moving. He hadn’t found Aurelia or John yet. He used one of the assault rifles as support as he stumbled forward. He could hear the roar of Bubbles above him. Through his swollen and bloodied blue eyes he could see the chaos that was the roof. Bodies of soldiers were everywhere, most looked like they’d drowned as they were covered in water. The Logan remembered Bubbles didn’t breathe fire he shot water. These were the fools who got in Bubbles’ way. He kept looking around trying to find John and Aurelia. ‘Where are they? Colby said they were up here…”, he said starting to get concerned.

As he stumbled across the roof he heard something familiar and his nose caught wind of an all too familiar scent. “Aurelia..”, he said turning to the direction of the scent. And there in the mists from the cold ocean waves and Bubbles water blasts he could make out the outline of a large wolf jumping from soldier to soldier taking them down with ease with claws and teeth finding the weak points of their armor. In the moment the mist started to clear his eyes locked with that of the wolf and the wolf’s rampage stopped. The wolf leapt off its last victim and as it leapt it transformed from large red wolf to the long legged red haired beauty he’d proposed to. “LOGAN!!!!”, she yelled as she raced across the roof to him. Hearing her voice for the first time in so many nights made his heart seem to stop. He’d lived over a century and had more lovers than he’d care to count but what he felt for Aurelia was different. She had been his one thought every day he’d been held captive. There was no woman till her where the idea of life without her seemed impossible. To see her face, to smell her scent, to hold her in his arms again was the only thing that kept him from just giving up.

“Aurelia..”, he called, his voice still weak, as he stumbled forward. Aurelia got there barely in time to catch him but his weight with the adamantium was a bit much even for her. But now she had a chance to really see how bad off he was. She’d been told by Colby it was bad, but he never gave details. And as she looked at the bruises, the layers of dried blood, and untended wounds she could understand why Colby didn’t want to go into detail. It was a sight that she’d never forget and never forgive. Seeing him like this only made her want to rip Wanda’s heart out even more than before. “Are you…are you alright?”, she managed to ask as she grunted trying to keep him on his feet. “I’m better not pup. The uniform looks good on you.”, he managed to comment on the fact she was wearing an X-men uniform. Aurelia shook her head and was going to give a sassy retort, but stopped when she noticed his eyes had closed. “Logan?!”, she shouted at him. His body was starting to shut down from all the blood loss and adamantium poising. He wasn’t able to even hold his own weight as his knees buckled. Aurelia found herself struggling to keep him standing. “JOHN! JOHN! I NEED YOU!”, she shouted into the communicator built into the collar of the uniform.

High above the roof John rode upon the back of the great dragon Bubbles giving direction to where to blast next. He heard his name called over the communicator, it was Aurelia. “I’m on my way.”, he replied and nudged Bubbles to swoop down. As they got closer he saw why Aurelia had called, she’d found his brother. “JAMES!”, he called out as he jumped from Bubble’s back. “If it’s not one of ours, they are your snack.”, John ordered to Bubbles. The great dragon happily flew up and began diving here and there taking down soldiers. John raced from the section of roof that he’d landed to where Aurelia was struggling to keep his brother up. “James!”, he yelled as he reached them. “James wake up! You need to stay awake!”, he said helping Aurelia move his brother over to a vent. “Here set him down.”, he said as they let Logan slump against the vent. John and Aurelia both knelt down on either side of Logan to keep him up right. “James…can you hear me? Please respond”, John urged. He tried to open Logan’s eyes but they were too swollen. “His healing has been out of commission too long. I don’t know if it will kick in fast enough. We need to get him to Kisa. She’s his only hope.”, he advised Aurelia. “I can call Bubbles, he can take you and James back. I’ll stay to make sure the others get out.”, John advised. “I..I want to get Logan save but I want Wanda dead..”, she said torn between leaving the battle with her injured fiancée and killing the person who’d done this to him. “I’ll deal with Wanda. He’s my baby brother, but when he wakes up he’s going to want to see your face. Go with him.”, John argued.

What neither John nor Aurelia realized was that Wanda had made it to the roof. She scanned the destruction and then saw them. “Wolverine…”, she growled. Over the near month of having many of the X-Men captive her annoyance with the stubborn Canadian had become on the verge of irrational hatred. He took the most abuse of any in the prison but no matter what she did to him he didn’t even scream. The others never gave up the X-Men and where they’d have gone to hide, but at least they screamed in pain. She had found it especially fun to listen to Warren scream as she pulled out feathers and even took a small hand saw to his wings. But Logan never yelled he hardly twitched to everything she did to him. If she was going down she was going to make sure Logan died that night. She picked up one of the fallen soldier’s guns and made her way to them and shot John, the bullet piercing his right shoulder. John howled in pain. Both John and Aurelia turned their attention to Wanda. “You have got to be kidding me.”, John said holding his shoulder for the few seconds it took to heal. “How dense are you child? I may not have the metal like my brother but I heal just as fast. And unlike him I have been without my power for a month.”, John growled standing. It was a side of John that no one had seen, angry.

“You are going to pay for what you’ve done to my brother.”, he said lunging at her, his bone claws piercing her forearms. Wanda screamed in pain and dropped the gun backing away. “Logan has a brother? God damn it how many Howletts are there in this world.”, she cursed. “There’s more than enough to see you and your team in the ground for your crimes.”, John growled kicking the gun away from her. Aurelia didn’t want to let John have all the fun, but she had to stay with Logan. “What…”, Logan said fading back into consciousness. “Logan, I’ve got you. It’s going to be alight.” Aurelia assured. Aurelia took his hand and held it tightly. “Just stay with me okay? You aren’t allowed to leave me.”, she ordered. With Aurelia’s attention on keeping Logan conscious, John fought Wanda. Despite her new injuries Wanda was light on her feet and in the hand to hand combat style she was managing to hold her own against the elder Howlett brother. Their fight lead them close to the edge of the roof, Wanda had to stop as she felt her boots reach the edge as she backed from John’s offense. As John went in for what he thought would be his kill shot Wanda used her powers to alter their positions. She moved away from the ledge and instead John was left lunging at air and fell from the roof. Wanda began to cackle thinking she’d defeated one Howlett. What she didn’t know what John had managed to grab a piece of metal a few floors down. “BUBBLES!”, he yelled.

With John ‘taken care of’ in Wanda’s mind she turned her attention to Aurelia and Logan. Logan’s eyes opened just enough that he could see Wanda getting closer. “Aurelia…”, he started wanting to warn her. “Aurelia, huh? So you’re the reason he wouldn’t break?”, Wanda said before taking a blade from her boot and stabbing Aurelia in her left shoulder, sinking the blade to the hilt and giving it a twist. “I guess if I get rid of you then I’ll officially have broken the great Wolverine.”, Wanda hissed. Aurelia howled in pain. “I’m going to grip your heart out, you fucking bitch..”, Aurelia said through clenched teeth and she transformed into her dire wolf form and shook Wanda from her back. “Oh now I see it. You’re both animals. Well I’ll be happy to put you both down.”, Wanda said getting to her feet and grabbing her knife once more. “Leave her alone Wanda!”, Logan managed to shout. “I don’t think so Logan..”, Wanda said before lunging at Aurelia. Logan sat helpless, unable to move as he watched Aurelia claw and bite at Wanda while Wanda sliced at Aurelia randomly as they tumbled across the rooftop. The two stopped at the ledge, Wanda having pinned Aurelia with her wolf head hanging off the edge. “I’ll get rid of you the way I did his brother, hope you enjoy the fall.”, Wanda said laughing nothing but madness in her eyes.

“You can’t get rid of a Howlett that easily girl. Now I believe my brother said to leave Aurelia alone!”, John shouted from the back of Bubbles. Wanda turned her head shocked by John still being alive, more shocked by being stared down by a real live dragon. Bubbles partially opened his mouth and with a strong blast of water Wanda was sent flying across the roof to land hard into the door the lead inside. John slid off Bubble’s back and rushing to Aurelia’s side. “Aurelia..”, he said as she transformed back to a human, the loss of blood from her various wounds having taken their toll. “We need to get out of here, you and James need medical attention.”, John said starting to pull Aurelia to her feet. With John trying to help Aurelia neither was giving attention to Wanda who they both figured was at least down for the moment.

Wanda managed to pull herself to her feet. Her communicator had fallen from her pocket and she could hear a jumble of voices. All her team was calling out for help, all reporting their locations being overrun by not just X-Men but Haven mutants. She slammed her fist into the door. “Fucking Frost boys, had to kidnap Aislinn. Had they left her alone the Haven wouldn’t be involved.”, she cursed aloud. “I refuse to lose. We’ve come to damn far, we’ve done so much damage to the X-Men. They may have mustered this retaliation, but it’ll be a while before they are back to full strength.”, she said her mind racing as she tried to decide what she could do from here. Then it hit her, it was a dangerous decision, but it would let her and her team walk away from this without a scratch or an ounce of blame but still leave the X-Men broken. It would take every ounce of her to pull this off, she’d never tried to change something this big. She wasn’t even sure it would work, but it was their last hope.

She grabbed her communicator. “Everyone, shut up and listen to me. It may look like we aren’t going to win this battle. But I’m going to change our odds, we are all going to walk out of this without a scratch. Now I can’t guarantee that what I’m going to do will really work. So before I change things I want to say, despite our faults and internal problems I want to say I wouldn’t ask for a better group of Acolytes. So here goes nothing guys, it was a pleasure fighting alongside you.”, she said giving a final speech to her group. She pulled herself to her feet and brought her hands in front of her, channeling as much of her power as she could into a massive purple orb. She kept her stare on John and Aurelia fueling her power with her anger and focusing on exactly what she wanted to change.

Logan saw the orb of energy and that Wanda’s sights were set on his brother and Aurelia. He had to do something, he had to protect them. He pulled as much of his strength as he could and got to his feet. He felt like he would fall back down, but his mental toughness wouldn’t let him. The only thought he had was he had to protect Aurelia and John. He wouldn’t let Wanda harm them, even if it cost him his life. Sarael needed John to return to her and Aurelia was still young and had a whole life a head of her to live. It saddened him that if he fell tonight he wouldn’t be in Aurelia’s future. But his life didn’t matter as long as Aurelia did get to have a future. As Wanda went to release the ball of energy Logan lunged forward putting his bloodied and beaten body between Wanda’s ‘attack’ and his family shouting, “No!”. In an instant the orb pushed forward, hitting him and turning everything purple then in the same instance a flood of blue over took the purple then it was nothing.

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The prison was under attack and he knew by whom. He’d heard the deep roar of a dragon and the screams of terror when the beast came into sight. He’d only just been able to see the sight of the full sized blue dragon as he swooped down through the night sky. It had been the first time he’d seen Bubbles at his full size, he’d only seen him as the size of a tattoo worn on John’s left bicep. It was truly an unforgettable sight. He’d remember to never make fun of Bubbles again.

It had been a well placed blast from Bubbles that took out the power to the prison. All the doors swung open and every mutant being held captive had found their freedom. He didn’t know what had happened to Warren, as before the attack he’d been taken back down to the interrogation room for Wanda’s favorite pastime, torture the Wolverine. But when the power went out Wanda left the room to go and see what was going on. She’d left two guards to watch him apparently she figured he wasn’t going very far in the condition he was in. How wrong she was.

The power going out meant the power-eliminators that were stopping his healing were out of order to. It only took a couple minutes for his healing to start back up to the point he could bring himself to unleash his claws. His strength was slowly returning and with a burst of energy, knowing where there was a Bubbles he’d find his brother he tore free from his bindings. “I’ve gotta get to that roof. I’ve gotta find John.”, he said to himself his breath still short as he was far from even a quarter healed. “Hey what the hell are you doing?”, the guards yelled as they raced into the room to stop him. “I’m going to find my brother and then tear this place apart.”, Logan growled as he managed to bring up his arms and slam his exposed claws into their throats. As they fell to the ground he grabbed their guns and ammo and headed for the stairs.

Sure it took him a while to get through the hallways, having to stop to regain his strength. To reserve his strength to just get to the roof he used the guns to take out the soldiers as he made way through the halls. At one point he nearly shot Colby Delaney, by accident of course, but Colby identified himself. “Holy Fuck Logan! Don’t shoot me! It’s Colby.”, Colby yelled. “Head to the roof John and Aurelia are up there. I’m heading down to find Alison.”, Colby advised pointing up the stairs. “Aurelia’s here? Wait…Alison?”, Logan said trying to make sense of what was going on as his body was still trying to recover from not only the torture but the poisoning of the adamantium. “Yeah Aurelia’s here. You think she’d sit out on rescuing you? No one was talking her out of being here. And yes Alison, Dazzler whatever you want to call her. I’m not letting the woman I’m in love with stay here a minute longer. Stay safe and I’ll see you top side.”,. Colby said patting Logan’s shoulder before heading further into the prison. “Love? Alison and Colby?”, Logan said before shaking the thoughts from his head. “I’m not even going to linger on that. I gotta find Aurelia. If she gets hurt by these assholes I’ll murder them all.”, he grumbled before continuing up the stair case.

He finally pushed open the door to the roof, the cool autumn air hitting him. He breathed in the fresh air for the first time in nearly a month. It was so freeing to feel the wind on his face. He just wanted to slump to the ground and enjoy the air, but he knew he couldn’t. He had to keep moving. He hadn’t found Aurelia or John yet. He used one of the assault rifles as support as he stumbled forward. He could hear the roar of Bubbles above him. Through his swollen and bloodied blue eyes he could see the chaos that was the roof. Bodies of soldiers were everywhere, most looked like they’d drowned as they were covered in water. The Logan remembered Bubbles didn’t breathe fire he shot water. These were the fools who got in Bubbles’ way. He kept looking around trying to find John and Aurelia. ‘Where are they? Colby said they were up here…”, he said starting to get concerned.

As he stumbled across the roof he heard something familiar and his nose caught wind of an all too familiar scent. “Aurelia..”, he said turning to the direction of the scent. And there in the mists from the cold ocean waves and Bubbles water blasts he could make out the outline of a large wolf jumping from soldier to soldier taking them down with ease with claws and teeth finding the weak points of their armor. In the moment the mist started to clear his eyes locked with that of the wolf and the wolf’s rampage stopped. The wolf leapt off its last victim and as it leapt it transformed from large red wolf to the long legged red haired beauty he’d proposed to. “LOGAN!!!!”, she yelled as she raced across the roof to him. Hearing her voice for the first time in so many nights made his heart seem to stop. He’d lived over a century and had more lovers than he’d care to count but what he felt for Aurelia was different. She had been his one thought every day he’d been held captive. There was no woman till her where the idea of life without her seemed impossible. To see her face, to smell her scent, to hold her in his arms again was the only thing that kept him from just giving up.

“Aurelia..”, he called, his voice still weak, as he stumbled forward. Aurelia got there barely in time to catch him but his weight with the adamantium was a bit much even for her. But now she had a chance to really see how bad off he was. She’d been told by Colby it was bad, but he never gave details. And as she looked at the bruises, the layers of dried blood, and untended wounds she could understand why Colby didn’t want to go into detail. It was a sight that she’d never forget and never forgive. Seeing him like this only made her want to rip Wanda’s heart out even more than before. “Are you…are you alright?”, she managed to ask as she grunted trying to keep him on his feet. “I’m better not pup. The uniform looks good on you.”, he managed to comment on the fact she was wearing an X-men uniform. Aurelia shook her head and was going to give a sassy retort, but stopped when she noticed his eyes had closed. “Logan?!”, she shouted at him. His body was starting to shut down from all the blood loss and adamantium poising. He wasn’t able to even hold his own weight as his knees buckled. Aurelia found herself struggling to keep him standing. “JOHN! JOHN! I NEED YOU!”, she shouted into the communicator built into the collar of the uniform.

High above the roof John rode upon the back of the great dragon Bubbles giving direction to where to blast next. He heard his name called over the communicator, it was Aurelia. “I’m on my way.”, he replied and nudged Bubbles to swoop down. As they got closer he saw why Aurelia had called, she’d found his brother. “JAMES!”, he called out as he jumped from Bubble’s back. “If it’s not one of ours, they are your snack.”, John ordered to Bubbles. The great dragon happily flew up and began diving here and there taking down soldiers. John raced from the section of roof that he’d landed to where Aurelia was struggling to keep his brother up. “James!”, he yelled as he reached them. “James wake up! You need to stay awake!”, he said helping Aurelia move his brother over to a vent. “Here set him down.”, he said as they let Logan slump against the vent. John and Aurelia both knelt down on either side of Logan to keep him up right. “James…can you hear me? Please respond”, John urged. He tried to open Logan’s eyes but they were too swollen. “His healing has been out of commission too long. I don’t know if it will kick in fast enough. We need to get him to Kisa. She’s his only hope.”, he advised Aurelia. “I can call Bubbles, he can take you and James back. I’ll stay to make sure the others get out.”, John advised. “I..I want to get Logan save but I want Wanda dead..”, she said torn between leaving the battle with her injured fiancée and killing the person who’d done this to him. “I’ll deal with Wanda. He’s my baby brother, but when he wakes up he’s going to want to see your face. Go with him.”, John argued.

What neither John nor Aurelia realized was that Wanda had made it to the roof. She scanned the destruction and then saw them. “Wolverine…”, she growled. Over the near month of having many of the X-Men captive her annoyance with the stubborn Canadian had become on the verge of irrational hatred. He took the most abuse of any in the prison but no matter what she did to him he didn’t even scream. The others never gave up the X-Men and where they’d have gone to hide, but at least they screamed in pain. She had found it especially fun to listen to Warren scream as she pulled out feathers and even took a small hand saw to his wings. But Logan never yelled he hardly twitched to everything she did to him. If she was going down she was going to make sure Logan died that night. She picked up one of the fallen soldier’s guns and made her way to them and shot John, the bullet piercing his right shoulder. John howled in pain. Both John and Aurelia turned their attention to Wanda. “You have got to be kidding me.”, John said holding his shoulder for the few seconds it took to heal. “How dense are you child? I may not have the metal like my brother but I heal just as fast. And unlike him I have been without my power for a month.”, John growled standing. It was a side of John that no one had seen, angry.

“You are going to pay for what you’ve done to my brother.”, he said lunging at her, his bone claws piercing her forearms. Wanda screamed in pain and dropped the gun backing away. “Logan has a brother? God damn it how many Howletts are there in this world.”, she cursed. “There’s more than enough to see you and your team in the ground for your crimes.”, John growled kicking the gun away from her. Aurelia didn’t want to let John have all the fun, but she had to stay with Logan. “What…”, Logan said fading back into consciousness. “Logan, I’ve got you. It’s going to be alight.” Aurelia assured. Aurelia took his hand and held it tightly. “Just stay with me okay? You aren’t allowed to leave me.”, she ordered. With Aurelia’s attention on keeping Logan conscious, John fought Wanda. Despite her new injuries Wanda was light on her feet and in the hand to hand combat style she was managing to hold her own against the elder Howlett brother. Their fight lead them close to the edge of the roof, Wanda had to stop as she felt her boots reach the edge as she backed from John’s offense. As John went in for what he thought would be his kill shot Wanda used her powers to alter their positions. She moved away from the ledge and instead John was left lunging at air and fell from the roof. Wanda began to cackle thinking she’d defeated one Howlett. What she didn’t know what John had managed to grab a piece of metal a few floors down. “BUBBLES!”, he yelled.

With John ‘taken care of’ in Wanda’s mind she turned her attention to Aurelia and Logan. Logan’s eyes opened just enough that he could see Wanda getting closer. “Aurelia…”, he started wanting to warn her. “Aurelia, huh? So you’re the reason he wouldn’t break?”, Wanda said before taking a blade from her boot and stabbing Aurelia in her left shoulder, sinking the blade to the hilt and giving it a twist. “I guess if I get rid of you then I’ll officially have broken the great Wolverine.”, Wanda hissed. Aurelia howled in pain. “I’m going to grip your heart out, you fucking bitch..”, Aurelia said through clenched teeth and she transformed into her dire wolf form and shook Wanda from her back. “Oh now I see it. You’re both animals. Well I’ll be happy to put you both down.”, Wanda said getting to her feet and grabbing her knife once more. “Leave her alone Wanda!”, Logan managed to shout. “I don’t think so Logan..”, Wanda said before lunging at Aurelia. Logan sat helpless, unable to move as he watched Aurelia claw and bite at Wanda while Wanda sliced at Aurelia randomly as they tumbled across the rooftop. The two stopped at the ledge, Wanda having pinned Aurelia with her wolf head hanging off the edge. “I’ll get rid of you the way I did his brother, hope you enjoy the fall.”, Wanda said laughing nothing but madness in her eyes.

“You can’t get rid of a Howlett that easily girl. Now I believe my brother said to leave Aurelia alone!”, John shouted from the back of Bubbles. Wanda turned her head shocked by John still being alive, more shocked by being stared down by a real live dragon. Bubbles partially opened his mouth and with a strong blast of water Wanda was sent flying across the roof to land hard into the door the lead inside. John slid off Bubble’s back and rushing to Aurelia’s side. “Aurelia..”, he said as she transformed back to a human, the loss of blood from her various wounds having taken their toll. “We need to get out of here, you and James need medical attention.”, John said starting to pull Aurelia to her feet. With John trying to help Aurelia neither was giving attention to Wanda who they both figured was at least down for the moment.

Wanda managed to pull herself to her feet. Her communicator had fallen from her pocket and she could hear a jumble of voices. All her team was calling out for help, all reporting their locations being overrun by not just X-Men but Haven mutants. She slammed her fist into the door. “Fucking Frost boys, had to kidnap Aislinn. Had they left her alone the Haven wouldn’t be involved.”, she cursed aloud. “I refuse to lose. We’ve come to damn far, we’ve done so much damage to the X-Men. They may have mustered this retaliation, but it’ll be a while before they are back to full strength.”, she said her mind racing as she tried to decide what she could do from here. Then it hit her, it was a dangerous decision, but it would let her and her team walk away from this without a scratch or an ounce of blame but still leave the X-Men broken. It would take every ounce of her to pull this off, she’d never tried to change something this big. She wasn’t even sure it would work, but it was their last hope.

She grabbed her communicator. “Everyone, shut up and listen to me. It may look like we aren’t going to win this battle. But I’m going to change our odds, we are all going to walk out of this without a scratch. Now I can’t guarantee that what I’m going to do will really work. So before I change things I want to say, despite our faults and internal problems I want to say I wouldn’t ask for a better group of Acolytes. So here goes nothing guys, it was a pleasure fighting alongside you.”, she said giving a final speech to her group. She pulled herself to her feet and brought her hands in front of her, channeling as much of her power as she could into a massive purple orb. She kept her stare on John and Aurelia fueling her power with her anger and focusing on exactly what she wanted to change.

Logan saw the orb of energy and that Wanda’s sights were set on his brother and Aurelia. He had to do something, he had to protect them. He pulled as much of his strength as he could and got to his feet. He felt like he would fall back down, but his mental toughness wouldn’t let him. The only thought he had was he had to protect Aurelia and John. He wouldn’t let Wanda harm them, even if it cost him his life. Sarael needed John to return to her and Aurelia was still young and had a whole life a head of her to live. It saddened him that if he fell tonight he wouldn’t be in Aurelia’s future. But his life didn’t matter as long as Aurelia did get to have a future. As Wanda went to release the ball of energy Logan lunged forward putting his bloodied and beaten body between Wanda’s ‘attack’ and his family shouting, “No!”. In an instant the orb pushed forward, hitting him and turning everything purple then in the same instance a flood of blue over took the purple then it was nothing.