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The day was finally here, they varied ‘teams’ were going to be sent out to take down the different prisons and rescue the hostages. Demitri was the only member of the Haven not going to take on Adien and Blake Frost. Yes he had beef with the duo for kidnapping Aislinn and over all just being the biggest pieces of shit, next to his dad, he’d ever known. However he knew that with David and Solangel taking on that mission to add him would just be overkill. So instead he agreed to take on Pryo. He’d never been a fan of the psycho path. And he was currently holding Mikali’s girlfriend Annai hostage as well as Jean Grey. True he had no connection to Jean, but she was the one mutant he knew could teach his little sister Lily how to control her telekinesis that she’d developed so early in life. So to ensure his sister could have a teacher he was all for rescuing Jean.

He was being joined by Justin, the boyfriend of Mikali’s sister Anita who as irony would have it was Annai’s ex boyfriend. And speaking of ex-boyfriends coming to the rescue Scott Summers had volunteered to take on the mission as well. Mostly Scott agreed to be on the team to rescue Jean because the team that would be rescuing Meghan was already full. Sure he could have tried to argue that he should be allowed to rescue his love interest, but there was no real arguing with Colin and Iver Kearney when this mission included saving their very pregnant sister. And really he didn’t feel like disagreeing with Duncan who’d chosen to go on that mission to ensure the human Azriel didn’t get himself killed.

The different teams gathered in the main room of the bunker ready to be teleported to the prisons by Kurt. The first group to go was Aurelia, John, and the human Colby. That trio was taking on what was arguably the most difficult mission. They would have to face off against Scarlet Witch the ring leader of the Acolytes herself. It wasn’t a mission many would have volunteered for. Not just because the prospect of having to face Wanda was an issue, but because there was no talking Aurelia, John or even Colby out of going. Scarlet Witch was holding Logan, Alison, Warren, and Mary hostage and given that Aurelia was the fiancée to Logan and John his elder brother there was no stopping the two of them from taking on this mission. Colby had volunteered because he wanted to save Alison while also making sure his good friend Aurelia didn’t get herself killed either.

After they left next went the team to take on Pretender, then the Hamilton sisters. When Anita walked into the room ready to go rescue her brother Justin watched her with worry in his green eyes. He’d only just gotten back from his own ordeal in California. It had been the thought of seeing Anita’s face again that had kept him going. He didn’t want to think about losing her today. Anita paused as she entered the main room and looked to him. Her sisters were already standing with Kurt waiting. “Let’s go Anita..”, her sisters called. “Just a moment.”, Anita said walking to Justin and taking his hands into hers. “Don’t worry about me, alright. My sisters and I can do this. We can defeat Christian and get Mikali and Max back.”, she said giving him an encouraging smile. “I’d just, I’d rather you have let me come with you. I thought I’d lost you once I don’t think I could live if I really do lose you.”, Justin said. Anita sighed and gently kissed his lips. “Justin I am coming back to you. I promise. You go with Demitri and Scott to get Annai and Jean. I’m sure Annai will appreciate a familiar face after all this is over.”, she said giving him a smile. He nodded. “Alright.”, he said quietly. “Vi, Teresa… I expect Anita to come back so I’m holding you to making sure she keeps that promise.”, he said looking to Anita’s sisters. “We are bring our family back no matter what.”, Teresa said firmly. Anita gave Justin one final goodbye kiss before letting his hands go and taking her sisters’ hands. And in a blink of an eye they were gone.

Scott placed a hand on Justin’s shoulder. “She’ll come back. Anita is a good leader and all three of them are strong fighters.”, he said trying to give Justin some reassurance. Justin looked to Scott out the corner of his eyes. “I know what they are all capable of, but I’m going to worry about Anita till I have her in my arms again.”, he said simply. Scott brought his hand back and nod. “Alright.”, Scott said uncertain of how to react to being dismissed like that. Not that he could expect much, since Professor Xavier died he’d been in a downward spiral. It was Meghan that had started to pull him out of the pit of despair he’d found himself in. But it was this attack that really brought him back to life. From this tragedy he realized he couldn’t just wallow in his own misery and ignore the world. He had to take a stand, he had to step up and be the man Professor Xavier had known he could be. But now was his chance to show that he could be that man. As they waited for Kurt he stood between Demitri and Justin, feeling a little uneasy about the situation. Sure he trusted Justin, but he’d never had to work with Demitri before. After all Demitri was a Haven mutant and typically was neutral in these fights between the X-men and other groups. Scott just hoped that Demitri was really on their side and wouldn’t just decide to go neutral when it came to fighting Pryo.

In the blink of an eye Kurt was back in front of them “Who’s next?”, he asked looking to the remaining two teams. Scott stepped forward. “We are. You two ready for this?”, Scott asked as he double checked his visor that controls the output of his optic energy blasts. Demitri nodded and stepped next to Kurt. “Let’s get this over with.”, he said taking Kurt’s hand. “I’m ready.”, Justin said cracking his neck before stepping next to Demitri and taking his hand. “Alright we’ll here goes nothing.”, Scott said taking Kurt’s other than. “I’ll be right back.”, Kurt said and then they were gone. He brought them to an outer wall of the building. “Alright you three, stay safe and remember if someone is too injured to carry on be it one of you or a hostage call me, I’ll get them and bring them back to Kisa.”, Kurt advised before disappearing.

The three turned and looked up at the structure they found themselves at. “Let’s do this. When I blast a hole into this wall alarms are probably going to go off. Let’s make sure we all know what our roles are.”, Scott said looking to Demitri and Justin. Demitri sighed, this was the reason he was neutral typically. He was not a fan of being told what to do. Sure for the Haven David was technically their ‘leader’ but following David was a little easier to deal with since they were best friends. But here he had to deal with Scott ‘The Tool’ Summers trying to lead him. “I already know what I’m doing. I’m blocking all paths that don’t lead us to the girls with my vines, knocking out walls or soldiers as needed, and otherwise zooming through this place to reach the hostages and take out Pyro.”, Demitri replied. “And I’m the eyes, I’ve got the best eyes here and am the most accurate shot, so I look for snipers.”, Justin said shrugging. “Oh, um alright sounds good then.”, Scott said thrown off his game a little by now being dismissed by Demitri.

“So, are you cutting a hole in the wall or am I just knocking it down?”, Demitri asked pointing to the wall. “Right, I’m on it.”, Scott said touching the dial on his visor and as the red beam of light started cutting a door in the wall. Scott walked up and just tapped lightly and the piece of wall fell inward. And as predicted the alarms started going off. “Let’s move.”, Scott instructed going inside and pulling out his map. “According to this Jean and Annai are being held on the fourth floor and Pryo should be on the fifth floor.”, he said putting the map away. “So let’s go.”, Demitri said before racing ahead in a blur. As he came to the first he stopped and peaked around the corner. He could see a group of soldiers heading their way. “Seven in coming. I’m going to slow them down with my vines and move on.”, Demitri said in the communicator since he was already far ahead of Justin and Scott. “Understood.”, Scott answered. “This guy is not a team player.”, Scot grumbled and he and Justin rushed down the hall not being able to catch up with Demitri’s speed. “He doesn’t have to be a team player, he’s not an X-Men. We just stick together, let him be the scout.”, Justin said.

Demitri continued ahead blocking off hallways with vines covered with razor sharp vines. The soldiers worked on hacking away at the vines when Justin and Scott came upon them. “Fish in a barrel.”, Justin commented before taking out some tranquilizer darts and loading his gun and shooting with deadly accuracy taking down the soldiers. Scott would blast a point in the ceiling to completely cave in the hallway to prevent any additional soldiers from being able to get through after they moved on. It wasn’t how Scott had pictured the mission from going, but it was getting the job done. Demitri was going to get to Jean and Annai first, but at least he was delaying the soldiers and then he and Justin could take them down. He just didn’t like Demitri seeming to take the lead.

Demitri reached the fourth floor and found his way to Annai’s cell first. She was lying on her bed, barely moving. “Annai..”, Demitri called. Her head moved slightly, her bruised face now slightly visible from the single light in her otherwise dark cell. “Demitri..”, her voice softly questioned. “Jesus Christ, I knew John was a psycho but… this is too far.”, he said grabbing the bars to her door and with a grunt pulled it from its hinges. He rushed over to her bed side to get a proper look at her. “It’s going to be alright. I’ll call for Kurt. He can get you to Kisa.”, he assured her looking for anything that would be stopping her from using her power. “How was he controlling your powers?”, he asked. Annai moved her arm slightly to show where needles had not so carefully been injected into her arm. “A serum.”, she explained. “Alright well then it should be able to be flushed from your system.”, he said hopeful on that prospect. “Where..where is Mikali?”, she asked. “He is in a different location. Don’t worry his sisters are there right now to rescue him.”, Demitri said. “Why..why are you here though? Haven doesn’t get involved in this stuff.”, she questioned. “We do this time. The Acolytes took one of our members too. So we are helping the X-men.”, he explained.

“Cyclops..Target..I’ve reached the first cell. I have Annai. Pyro has been injecting them with a serum to stop their powers. She’s in rough shape, so I’m calling in Nightcrawler to take her back.”, he said over the communicator. “Understood, we’re on our way from the third floor now.”, Scott answered. “Nightcrawler, need you to come pick up Annai.”, Demitri said on the communicator and in a puff of smoke Nightcrawler appeared in the room. “Annai, it’s going to be alright. I’ll get you to Kisa.”, Nightcrawler said gently picking Annai’s beaten body up from her bed and then they were gone. Demitri punched the bed she had been laying on, the bed breaking in half. “We should have gotten involved sooner, maybe then it would be this bad.”, Demitri said angrily. “God damn it Pyro.”, he cursed. “Now to find Jean.”, he said getting up and started searching the various cells but she was nowhere to be found. He’d looked all over the fourth floor but she wasn’t there. Scott and Justin finally reached him and looked at him confused. “Where’s Jean?”, they asked. “I can’t find her. I’ve searched every cell on this floor. Pyro has to have her upstairs.”, Demitri explained.

The three of them looked up to the ceiling both wondering what was in store for them on that fifth floor. All of them knew the type of twisted individual Pyro was. “So how do we take him on”, Justin questioned. “We need to take out his source of fire.”, Scott said. Demitri nodded. “Usually he carries a tank on his back and as backup he keeps smaller cartridges on his wrists.”, Demitri said going off memory from the days that David was on the same side as Pyro. “I can hit the tank, should be an easy target to take out. But the smaller ones on his wrists will be harder for me to hit with my laser.”, Scott said. Justin smiled and changed the ammo from tranquilizer darts to hollow points in his guns. “I’m a great shot, I’ll hit those cartridges even if he’s moving.”, he said still smiling. “Are you loading live ammo?”, Scott asked. Justin nodded. “I’m not going to kill him Scott. He will pay for his crimes, just first he might pay with his hands is all.”, Justin replied with a shrug. Scott opened his mouth to argue but Demitri shook his head. “Pryo gets taken down, I don’t care if he’s still breathing or not. While you two take away his fire I’m going to find Jean.”, Demitri added. “Agreed.”, Scott said glad they were finally working as a team.

Up on the fifth floor Pyro was getting ready for his intruders. From surveillance he at least knew there was two X-Men, one he knew was Cyclops for sure. But otherwise the third member of the group he couldn’t get sight on, it was just a blur on the video. He couldn’t think about whom from the X-men could be as fast as Quicksilver was, but either way he’d be ready for them. He had one of the hostages brought upstairs, the one he felt held more value to the X-men Jean Grey, then the soldiers were told to lay trip wire all around the fifth floor before going down to the lower levels to try and take care of the intruders. Jean was tied to a chair in the far side of the room, fading in and out as the dosage for her serum had to be doubled to keep her powers in check. Pyro looked over to her and laughed. “You look like hell Jean. Sorry I don’t have any make-up or something to make you look more presentable when your little ex-boyfriend Scott shows up.”, John teased with a laugh. He then checked all his fire sourced he’d scattered around the room for easy use but lastly he checked the ones of his wrists. “Yup, I’m ready for these pests.”, he said with a nod.

Demitri headed up to the fifth floor first to, what he thought would be quickly scouting the floor to find Jean. But he managed to trip on one of the wires Pyro had setup. “God damn it..”, Demitri grumbled. He got to his feet and started looking down and could see at random points something lightly shining in the light. “Trip wires.”, he grumbled. “Pyro’s put out trip wires. I’m going to make a layer of overgrowth to completely cover them so we have no further issues.”, Demitri said over the communicator before putting his hands to the floor. He took a breath and then a large thick ground covering ivy spread out from his hands and covered the whole floor of the fifth floor, engulfing the trip wires. “All clear to come up.”, he said standing up. “I’m going to look for Jean now.”, he said starting to raced around looking in every room. He was back to the stair door before Scott and Justin had reached it. “She’s gotta be in the control room with Pryo.”, Demitri said.

“Alright so let’s just do this the way we planned. I take out the larger canister and Target takes out the wrist canisters.”, Scott said. Justin and Demitri nodded in agreement and the three made their way cautiously down the hall to the control room. Demitri took a breath and stood directly in front of the door. He was the fastest so he could open the door and avoid any flames, so he was first. He raised a hand like he was going to knock but instead he punched the door down. In a flash Pyro shot his flames across the room to the door, but Demitri was too fast and ended up behind Pyro. “Hey John, you missed me.”, Demitri said tapping Pyro on the shoulder. Pyro turned to face Demitri,. “Demitri? You’re from the Haven what the hell are you doing here?”, Pyro questioned. “Punching your face..”, Demitri said before slamming his fist into Pyro’s face shoving him to the center of the room. “NOW”, Demitri yelled as Pyro stumbled trying to catch his balance.

“You broke my nose..”, Pyro complained blood pouring out of both his nostrils. “We’re going to break more than that.”, Demitri said with a smile just as Scott blasted the tank of Pyro’s back and Justin rushed in behind Scott. “GOD DAMN IT!’, Pyro yelled. He spun and used the wrist canisters to shoot flames at Justin. As Justin dove to cover he got two well aimed shots off. The canisters on Pyro’s wrists exploded burning his wrists. Pyro screamed in pain and went to his knees as he looked at his burned wrists. “You are going to pay for that.”, he growled. Scott moved into position to flank Pyro as Justin moved to Pyro’s other side pointing his guns at him. “I wouldn’t move if I were you.”, Justin commented. “Untie Jean.”, Scott said to Demitri keeping his eyes focused on Pyro.

Demitri turned and quickly pulled the ropes off Jean who slumped into his arms. “Jean? Jean wake up.”, Demitri said trying to get something from her. “What the hell did you do to her?”, Demitri asked seeing all the bruises on Jean and even the broken fingers on both her hands. “Had fun..”, Pyro answered. Scott and Justin both glanced to Jean and were horrified at the damage she’d endured. Pyro used this chance to pull out his radio. “I’m over run. I’ve got X-Men and a HAVEN mutant here.”, he called into the radio. Demitri stood up cradling Jean in his arms. Scott and Justin both turned back to Pyro and Justin shot the radio out of Pryo’s hands. “No calling for help.”, Justin said. Then a voice came over the radio, “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.” Pyro started laughing maniacally. “Too late my lady is taking care of all of you.”, he said still laughing.

“We need to get out of here NOW.”, Demitri said. “The two of you better just grab my jacket or something.”, Demitri ordered which not really having a better idea they did. In a flash Demitri started running to get out of the building. He didn’t know what Wanda was going to do, but he knew he didn’t want to be there when it happened. He’d gotten over a hundred miles from the prison when he was over taken by a purple light. He skidded to a stop. “What the hell…”, Justin said. Then in an instant a blue light hit them and as the colors faded there was nothing.

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The day was finally here, they varied ‘teams’ were going to be sent out to take down the different prisons and rescue the hostages. Demitri was the only member of the Haven not going to take on Adien and Blake Frost. Yes he had beef with the duo for kidnapping Aislinn and over all just being the biggest pieces of shit, next to his dad, he’d ever known. However he knew that with David and Solangel taking on that mission to add him would just be overkill. So instead he agreed to take on Pryo. He’d never been a fan of the psycho path. And he was currently holding Mikali’s girlfriend Annai hostage as well as Jean Grey. True he had no connection to Jean, but she was the one mutant he knew could teach his little sister Lily how to control her telekinesis that she’d developed so early in life. So to ensure his sister could have a teacher he was all for rescuing Jean.

He was being joined by Justin, the boyfriend of Mikali’s sister Anita who as irony would have it was Annai’s ex boyfriend. And speaking of ex-boyfriends coming to the rescue Scott Summers had volunteered to take on the mission as well. Mostly Scott agreed to be on the team to rescue Jean because the team that would be rescuing Meghan was already full. Sure he could have tried to argue that he should be allowed to rescue his love interest, but there was no real arguing with Colin and Iver Kearney when this mission included saving their very pregnant sister. And really he didn’t feel like disagreeing with Duncan who’d chosen to go on that mission to ensure the human Azriel didn’t get himself killed.

The different teams gathered in the main room of the bunker ready to be teleported to the prisons by Kurt. The first group to go was Aurelia, John, and the human Colby. That trio was taking on what was arguably the most difficult mission. They would have to face off against Scarlet Witch the ring leader of the Acolytes herself. It wasn’t a mission many would have volunteered for. Not just because the prospect of having to face Wanda was an issue, but because there was no talking Aurelia, John or even Colby out of going. Scarlet Witch was holding Logan, Alison, Warren, and Mary hostage and given that Aurelia was the fiancée to Logan and John his elder brother there was no stopping the two of them from taking on this mission. Colby had volunteered because he wanted to save Alison while also making sure his good friend Aurelia didn’t get herself killed either.

After they left next went the team to take on Pretender, then the Hamilton sisters. When Anita walked into the room ready to go rescue her brother Justin watched her with worry in his green eyes. He’d only just gotten back from his own ordeal in California. It had been the thought of seeing Anita’s face again that had kept him going. He didn’t want to think about losing her today. Anita paused as she entered the main room and looked to him. Her sisters were already standing with Kurt waiting. “Let’s go Anita..”, her sisters called. “Just a moment.”, Anita said walking to Justin and taking his hands into hers. “Don’t worry about me, alright. My sisters and I can do this. We can defeat Christian and get Mikali and Max back.”, she said giving him an encouraging smile. “I’d just, I’d rather you have let me come with you. I thought I’d lost you once I don’t think I could live if I really do lose you.”, Justin said. Anita sighed and gently kissed his lips. “Justin I am coming back to you. I promise. You go with Demitri and Scott to get Annai and Jean. I’m sure Annai will appreciate a familiar face after all this is over.”, she said giving him a smile. He nodded. “Alright.”, he said quietly. “Vi, Teresa… I expect Anita to come back so I’m holding you to making sure she keeps that promise.”, he said looking to Anita’s sisters. “We are bring our family back no matter what.”, Teresa said firmly. Anita gave Justin one final goodbye kiss before letting his hands go and taking her sisters’ hands. And in a blink of an eye they were gone.

Scott placed a hand on Justin’s shoulder. “She’ll come back. Anita is a good leader and all three of them are strong fighters.”, he said trying to give Justin some reassurance. Justin looked to Scott out the corner of his eyes. “I know what they are all capable of, but I’m going to worry about Anita till I have her in my arms again.”, he said simply. Scott brought his hand back and nod. “Alright.”, Scott said uncertain of how to react to being dismissed like that. Not that he could expect much, since Professor Xavier died he’d been in a downward spiral. It was Meghan that had started to pull him out of the pit of despair he’d found himself in. But it was this attack that really brought him back to life. From this tragedy he realized he couldn’t just wallow in his own misery and ignore the world. He had to take a stand, he had to step up and be the man Professor Xavier had known he could be. But now was his chance to show that he could be that man. As they waited for Kurt he stood between Demitri and Justin, feeling a little uneasy about the situation. Sure he trusted Justin, but he’d never had to work with Demitri before. After all Demitri was a Haven mutant and typically was neutral in these fights between the X-men and other groups. Scott just hoped that Demitri was really on their side and wouldn’t just decide to go neutral when it came to fighting Pryo.

In the blink of an eye Kurt was back in front of them “Who’s next?”, he asked looking to the remaining two teams. Scott stepped forward. “We are. You two ready for this?”, Scott asked as he double checked his visor that controls the output of his optic energy blasts. Demitri nodded and stepped next to Kurt. “Let’s get this over with.”, he said taking Kurt’s hand. “I’m ready.”, Justin said cracking his neck before stepping next to Demitri and taking his hand. “Alright we’ll here goes nothing.”, Scott said taking Kurt’s other than. “I’ll be right back.”, Kurt said and then they were gone. He brought them to an outer wall of the building. “Alright you three, stay safe and remember if someone is too injured to carry on be it one of you or a hostage call me, I’ll get them and bring them back to Kisa.”, Kurt advised before disappearing.

The three turned and looked up at the structure they found themselves at. “Let’s do this. When I blast a hole into this wall alarms are probably going to go off. Let’s make sure we all know what our roles are.”, Scott said looking to Demitri and Justin. Demitri sighed, this was the reason he was neutral typically. He was not a fan of being told what to do. Sure for the Haven David was technically their ‘leader’ but following David was a little easier to deal with since they were best friends. But here he had to deal with Scott ‘The Tool’ Summers trying to lead him. “I already know what I’m doing. I’m blocking all paths that don’t lead us to the girls with my vines, knocking out walls or soldiers as needed, and otherwise zooming through this place to reach the hostages and take out Pyro.”, Demitri replied. “And I’m the eyes, I’ve got the best eyes here and am the most accurate shot, so I look for snipers.”, Justin said shrugging. “Oh, um alright sounds good then.”, Scott said thrown off his game a little by now being dismissed by Demitri.

“So, are you cutting a hole in the wall or am I just knocking it down?”, Demitri asked pointing to the wall. “Right, I’m on it.”, Scott said touching the dial on his visor and as the red beam of light started cutting a door in the wall. Scott walked up and just tapped lightly and the piece of wall fell inward. And as predicted the alarms started going off. “Let’s move.”, Scott instructed going inside and pulling out his map. “According to this Jean and Annai are being held on the fourth floor and Pryo should be on the fifth floor.”, he said putting the map away. “So let’s go.”, Demitri said before racing ahead in a blur. As he came to the first he stopped and peaked around the corner. He could see a group of soldiers heading their way. “Seven in coming. I’m going to slow them down with my vines and move on.”, Demitri said in the communicator since he was already far ahead of Justin and Scott. “Understood.”, Scott answered. “This guy is not a team player.”, Scot grumbled and he and Justin rushed down the hall not being able to catch up with Demitri’s speed. “He doesn’t have to be a team player, he’s not an X-Men. We just stick together, let him be the scout.”, Justin said.

Demitri continued ahead blocking off hallways with vines covered with razor sharp vines. The soldiers worked on hacking away at the vines when Justin and Scott came upon them. “Fish in a barrel.”, Justin commented before taking out some tranquilizer darts and loading his gun and shooting with deadly accuracy taking down the soldiers. Scott would blast a point in the ceiling to completely cave in the hallway to prevent any additional soldiers from being able to get through after they moved on. It wasn’t how Scott had pictured the mission from going, but it was getting the job done. Demitri was going to get to Jean and Annai first, but at least he was delaying the soldiers and then he and Justin could take them down. He just didn’t like Demitri seeming to take the lead.

Demitri reached the fourth floor and found his way to Annai’s cell first. She was lying on her bed, barely moving. “Annai..”, Demitri called. Her head moved slightly, her bruised face now slightly visible from the single light in her otherwise dark cell. “Demitri..”, her voice softly questioned. “Jesus Christ, I knew John was a psycho but… this is too far.”, he said grabbing the bars to her door and with a grunt pulled it from its hinges. He rushed over to her bed side to get a proper look at her. “It’s going to be alright. I’ll call for Kurt. He can get you to Kisa.”, he assured her looking for anything that would be stopping her from using her power. “How was he controlling your powers?”, he asked. Annai moved her arm slightly to show where needles had not so carefully been injected into her arm. “A serum.”, she explained. “Alright well then it should be able to be flushed from your system.”, he said hopeful on that prospect. “Where..where is Mikali?”, she asked. “He is in a different location. Don’t worry his sisters are there right now to rescue him.”, Demitri said. “Why..why are you here though? Haven doesn’t get involved in this stuff.”, she questioned. “We do this time. The Acolytes took one of our members too. So we are helping the X-men.”, he explained.

“Cyclops..Target..I’ve reached the first cell. I have Annai. Pyro has been injecting them with a serum to stop their powers. She’s in rough shape, so I’m calling in Nightcrawler to take her back.”, he said over the communicator. “Understood, we’re on our way from the third floor now.”, Scott answered. “Nightcrawler, need you to come pick up Annai.”, Demitri said on the communicator and in a puff of smoke Nightcrawler appeared in the room. “Annai, it’s going to be alright. I’ll get you to Kisa.”, Nightcrawler said gently picking Annai’s beaten body up from her bed and then they were gone. Demitri punched the bed she had been laying on, the bed breaking in half. “We should have gotten involved sooner, maybe then it would be this bad.”, Demitri said angrily. “God damn it Pyro.”, he cursed. “Now to find Jean.”, he said getting up and started searching the various cells but she was nowhere to be found. He’d looked all over the fourth floor but she wasn’t there. Scott and Justin finally reached him and looked at him confused. “Where’s Jean?”, they asked. “I can’t find her. I’ve searched every cell on this floor. Pyro has to have her upstairs.”, Demitri explained.

The three of them looked up to the ceiling both wondering what was in store for them on that fifth floor. All of them knew the type of twisted individual Pyro was. “So how do we take him on”, Justin questioned. “We need to take out his source of fire.”, Scott said. Demitri nodded. “Usually he carries a tank on his back and as backup he keeps smaller cartridges on his wrists.”, Demitri said going off memory from the days that David was on the same side as Pyro. “I can hit the tank, should be an easy target to take out. But the smaller ones on his wrists will be harder for me to hit with my laser.”, Scott said. Justin smiled and changed the ammo from tranquilizer darts to hollow points in his guns. “I’m a great shot, I’ll hit those cartridges even if he’s moving.”, he said still smiling. “Are you loading live ammo?”, Scott asked. Justin nodded. “I’m not going to kill him Scott. He will pay for his crimes, just first he might pay with his hands is all.”, Justin replied with a shrug. Scott opened his mouth to argue but Demitri shook his head. “Pryo gets taken down, I don’t care if he’s still breathing or not. While you two take away his fire I’m going to find Jean.”, Demitri added. “Agreed.”, Scott said glad they were finally working as a team.

Up on the fifth floor Pyro was getting ready for his intruders. From surveillance he at least knew there was two X-Men, one he knew was Cyclops for sure. But otherwise the third member of the group he couldn’t get sight on, it was just a blur on the video. He couldn’t think about whom from the X-men could be as fast as Quicksilver was, but either way he’d be ready for them. He had one of the hostages brought upstairs, the one he felt held more value to the X-men Jean Grey, then the soldiers were told to lay trip wire all around the fifth floor before going down to the lower levels to try and take care of the intruders. Jean was tied to a chair in the far side of the room, fading in and out as the dosage for her serum had to be doubled to keep her powers in check. Pyro looked over to her and laughed. “You look like hell Jean. Sorry I don’t have any make-up or something to make you look more presentable when your little ex-boyfriend Scott shows up.”, John teased with a laugh. He then checked all his fire sourced he’d scattered around the room for easy use but lastly he checked the ones of his wrists. “Yup, I’m ready for these pests.”, he said with a nod.

Demitri headed up to the fifth floor first to, what he thought would be quickly scouting the floor to find Jean. But he managed to trip on one of the wires Pyro had setup. “God damn it..”, Demitri grumbled. He got to his feet and started looking down and could see at random points something lightly shining in the light. “Trip wires.”, he grumbled. “Pyro’s put out trip wires. I’m going to make a layer of overgrowth to completely cover them so we have no further issues.”, Demitri said over the communicator before putting his hands to the floor. He took a breath and then a large thick ground covering ivy spread out from his hands and covered the whole floor of the fifth floor, engulfing the trip wires. “All clear to come up.”, he said standing up. “I’m going to look for Jean now.”, he said starting to raced around looking in every room. He was back to the stair door before Scott and Justin had reached it. “She’s gotta be in the control room with Pryo.”, Demitri said.

“Alright so let’s just do this the way we planned. I take out the larger canister and Target takes out the wrist canisters.”, Scott said. Justin and Demitri nodded in agreement and the three made their way cautiously down the hall to the control room. Demitri took a breath and stood directly in front of the door. He was the fastest so he could open the door and avoid any flames, so he was first. He raised a hand like he was going to knock but instead he punched the door down. In a flash Pyro shot his flames across the room to the door, but Demitri was too fast and ended up behind Pyro. “Hey John, you missed me.”, Demitri said tapping Pyro on the shoulder. Pyro turned to face Demitri,. “Demitri? You’re from the Haven what the hell are you doing here?”, Pyro questioned. “Punching your face..”, Demitri said before slamming his fist into Pyro’s face shoving him to the center of the room. “NOW”, Demitri yelled as Pyro stumbled trying to catch his balance.

“You broke my nose..”, Pyro complained blood pouring out of both his nostrils. “We’re going to break more than that.”, Demitri said with a smile just as Scott blasted the tank of Pyro’s back and Justin rushed in behind Scott. “GOD DAMN IT!’, Pyro yelled. He spun and used the wrist canisters to shoot flames at Justin. As Justin dove to cover he got two well aimed shots off. The canisters on Pyro’s wrists exploded burning his wrists. Pyro screamed in pain and went to his knees as he looked at his burned wrists. “You are going to pay for that.”, he growled. Scott moved into position to flank Pyro as Justin moved to Pyro’s other side pointing his guns at him. “I wouldn’t move if I were you.”, Justin commented. “Untie Jean.”, Scott said to Demitri keeping his eyes focused on Pyro.

Demitri turned and quickly pulled the ropes off Jean who slumped into his arms. “Jean? Jean wake up.”, Demitri said trying to get something from her. “What the hell did you do to her?”, Demitri asked seeing all the bruises on Jean and even the broken fingers on both her hands. “Had fun..”, Pyro answered. Scott and Justin both glanced to Jean and were horrified at the damage she’d endured. Pyro used this chance to pull out his radio. “I’m over run. I’ve got X-Men and a HAVEN mutant here.”, he called into the radio. Demitri stood up cradling Jean in his arms. Scott and Justin both turned back to Pyro and Justin shot the radio out of Pryo’s hands. “No calling for help.”, Justin said. Then a voice came over the radio, “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.” Pyro started laughing maniacally. “Too late my lady is taking care of all of you.”, he said still laughing.

“We need to get out of here NOW.”, Demitri said. “The two of you better just grab my jacket or something.”, Demitri ordered which not really having a better idea they did. In a flash Demitri started running to get out of the building. He didn’t know what Wanda was going to do, but he knew he didn’t want to be there when it happened. He’d gotten over a hundred miles from the prison when he was over taken by a purple light. He skidded to a stop. “What the hell…”, Justin said. Then in an instant a blue light hit them and as the colors faded there was nothing.