{Gravitas Adhaerens}
"Ah much better!"
All of the delta force operators and other random guards came to a halt, their fingers firmly glued to their triggers, unable to move. The only one i left out of this was the president who was currently turning in his swivel chair to look at his men who had suddenly ceased movement. I noticed his nervousness and fear as his eyes slowly fell across the after effects of my spell and then eventually onto me. Moving himself whilst sitting ,adjusting his neck tie with his right hand as he did so he began speaking.
"Umm, could i ask, who you are? And, who you represent?"
"Good question and original unlike all these bozos. I am currently a representative of those mutants from that school. I have the direct permission of Professor Xavier who is the principle of said school."
"Ah, so this is about the black operation i had just been informed about... Could you please elaborate on what happened and the steps we could take to deescalating the situation?"
"Of course. Colonel William Stryker using his authority ordered an attack on the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning. Through this he attempted to not only kidnap innocent children, but to obtain access to a powerful mutant's powers, with which he could then use to fuel a device called Cerebro and kill all mutants on Earth, effectively committing genocide."
The president dropped his forehead to his desk as he groaned out in frustration and anger, his mood obviously souring by the second as i continued on.
"Not only this, but we have reason to believe that he has been doing experiments on Mutants since the 1980's and has affectively created two nigh-unkillable super regenerative mutants."
He lifted his head up slightly only to drop it back down onto his desk, the scene looking completely comical amongst the stone-still people pointing their guns at me still.
"What, what can we do to throw this under the rug?"
"I am glad you asked that..."
Half an hour later I had come to terms with the president who had accepted most of the proposals without much conflict. There were a few that he said affected defence matters too heavily and thus i dropped it, it was mainly me being greedy to be honest. But at the end I had secured the support of Delta Force and other American Military branches to destroy Stryker's operation fully on the grounds that he is released into the custody of the American Government for a fair trial and punishment. Secondly i was able to scrounge up an extradition treaty between the Mutant's of the school and the American Government as a side deal, to sweeten up relations. Magneto was now put in house arrest at the school and could not leave the premises otherwise there would be instant military reaction. I accepted finding the terms understandable. The third thing was an easing on Tony Stark as much as possible as he was considered a 'friend' to the mutants. To get all of these deals i of course handed over the subsequent documents that pertained to Stryker's dealings and goings-on, thus all of my conditions were agreed upon.
The last thing that was discussed and agreed upon was that i would be a consultant/adviser for the government pertaining to mutants. I wouldn't officially have a job with the government, i couldn't be told what to do or anything of that nature, i made sure of it completely, i simply had to be a line of communication every now and then between the President and the Mutants. I honestly thought that it was easy enough and that with me being in that sort of position i could try to rectify years of stupidity on both sides.
When we both finished speaking i dropped the spell. All of the soldiers immediately seized up and grunted in pain as all of their muscles were allowed to finally move causing them to cramp up. The president grimaced before presenting his right hand to me as i stood before his desk. I reciprocated and we had a hardy handshake before i started walking towards one of the doors, disappearing halfway to the door itself, leaving behind awestricken people and a rather content president.
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(Illyana's Perspective)
I stood behind one of the dark metallic chairs of the X-men Jet as Jean co-piloted for Storm who was currently flying us directly towards the place Emelia had told us about, Alkali Lake. I couldn't see anything but clouds from the front windows so i decided to sit down next to Rogue who was thoroughly clothed from neck to toe, her face being the only amount of skin visible on her.
I was a bit nervous as this was my first official mission with the X-men and Jean. I had always dreamt of becoming an X-man at some point because my brother was a member and Jean, the one who had originally aided me in Limbo, was a part of it. It was surreal and i couldn't even grasp the chain of events that led to this moment. I was always a damsel in distress for someone, i couldn't save myself and it was always others having to clean up after my slack, i didn't like it. My fist tightened as i remembered the time I was laying on the pedestal shackled whilst Emelia, the selfless and beautiful woman who had already came and saved her three times. I felt a slight disparity in my thoughts as the image of wings extending from her back replayed in my mind but i swiftly ignored it and focused back on the main point, she had done all she had done that day for her.
The jet shuddered and shifted, the gravity yanking omnidirectionally as it came to a hover. I steadied myself by grasping the belts of the chair i was on before slowly looking towards the front of the jet where Jean and Storm discussed sensor readings. I couldn't really hear too much but it seemed as if they had found something of interest, thus i decided to approach and see if i could help in any way. The jet began to descend the loud humming of the engines calming down into a more gentle thrumming noise. I wasn't really concerned by the mission itself as it couldn't nearly be as bad as Limbo, but i had a sickly feeling tickling my insides as I looked out the window towards a dam that had come into view now that the jet was lower. What is this feeling? Why do i feel dread when i look at it?
The jet landed in a plain stretch of pine forest, a faint snowfall creating a frigid winter wonderland before our eyes, yet, despite the beautiful scenery a sense of wrongness slithered through my mind and heart as my eyes stared unblinkingly at the dam.
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