MKSG The X-Men: Survival - Issue #12
MKSG The X-Men: Survival - Issue #12
X-Mansion, The Danger Room
Iceman and Magneto stand in The Danger Room. In front of them, a Purifier named Elizabeth is strapped to a metal chair.
“It's a shame we don't have a telepath with us anymore. Charles or Jean would be so useful right now…” Colossus says. He and the other students, as well as Nightcrawler and Magneto's new acolytes, stand nervously in the observation deck. They have the speakers on so they can hear everything that's going on as Elizabeth is interrogated.
“First question: Are Cyc-... Scott Summers and Ororo Munroe still alive?” Bobby asks, in his ice form, trying to be intimidating.
“No. We need to know where Stryker is! Where is the coward!?” Magneto cuts him off. Elizabeth smirks.
“I'm not telling you anything…”
“Not to worry. There are ways of making you talk!” shouts Magneto.
He lifts his hands and the metal chair starts to crinkle and bend. The seat begins to curl tightly around her lap and the chair legs twist around her shins. Elizabeth starts to squirm and wriggle, but she isn't giving anything up.
This is making Iceman uncomfortable. He agreed to interrogate her, not to torture her. But he wants answers, just as desperately as Magneto does.
He waits, but he can't stand it. He pushes Magneto, breaking his concentration.
“Stop this! This clearly isn't going to work!”
Magneto sighs, and returns that chair to normal as he gets up from the floor of The Danger Room.
“And what would you suggest, Iceman?” he asks.
“Something that actually works… Maybe.” Bobby replies. He looks at Elizabeth, and she looks back at him concerned.
10 minutes later
“Who developed it, may I ask?” Magneto queries, as he and Iceman re-enter The Danger Room, with Bobby holding a set of injections.
“Beast did, the clever bastard. Finally put his biochemical engineering degree to good use, rather than turning himself into a blue furry.”
As they approach Elizabeth, she still looks very concerned. Scared, almost.
“W-What is t-that?” she says, her voice stuttering. She's beginning to tremble.
“Doesn't have an official name, so let's just call it good old-fashioned ‘Truth Serum’”
“Please don't! I'm begging you, don't! I don't want that thing messing with my head!”
Iceman inserts the needle into one of the vials and begins to fill it up slowly.
“What about the CHILDREN who begged you not to capture them!? Did you show them mercy!?”
“I'm sorry! I didn't, you're right! Just lease stop, I'll tell you anything you want to know!”
Iceman stops filling the needle.
“Well, tell us about Scott Summers and Ororo Munroe! Did you kill them?” Bobby says desperately.
“No no! We faked their deaths! That day, when we chased a kid here, we figured out that they were The X-Men! And so Stryker and Risman set up a trap, on The Stryker Show!” she shouts back at them, terrified.
“And what did Stryker want with the Mutants he's capturing?” Magneto pressures.
“He sells them to a company: Trask Technologies. They're the ones who employed me, and made me work with those Purifier freaks like Risman.”
“So you're… not a Purifier?” Iceman questions.
“No. I just work with the freaks because I'm great at what I do: tracking people. I work for Trask Technologies, like I said! I don't even hate Mutants!”
“So where is Stryker? And Risman?”
Elizabeth hesitates for a second. Iceman raises the needle, threatening her with it.
“They both took off. Stryker took the girl with him, Storm, and Risman took the guy, Cyclops.”
“But where are they!? And where are the rest of the Mutants you've captured!?”
She sighs.
“They'll kill me if they find out I told you…” she pleads.
“And we'll kill you if you don't,” Magneto says, and her chair begins to rattle again.
“Stryker went to Trask. I don't know where their base is, honestly. But Trask wanted Storm immediately, so he got her.”
“And Risman? Where's Cyclops? And the rest of the kids?!” Iceman asks, almost begging.
“Trask Tech. They have this… boat. A huge military vessel where they keep most of the prisoners. But it's… miles off the coast of Anchorage, Alaska, in international waters…”
“Finally. An answer, a location. ” says Iceman.
“Thank you for your cooperation, Elizabeth,” Magneto says to her, as they turn to leave the room.
“I'm so glad that worked,” Iceman says under his breath as they walk out.
“But you didn't use the serum…” Magneto says, puzzled.
“Good. If I did have to, she would've realised it was a placebo,” says Iceman. As he does, he can't help but have a smile across his face.
“Ha! The cheek! So what was really in the vials?” asks Magneto. For a few seconds, the pair of them have forgotten that there was a crisis at hand.
“Gatorade.” Iceman says, as he closes the circular door behind them.
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MKSG The X-Men: Survival - Issue #12
MKSG The X-Men: Survival - Issue #12
X-Mansion, The Danger Room
Iceman and Magneto stand in The Danger Room. In front of them, a Purifier named Elizabeth is strapped to a metal chair.
“It's a shame we don't have a telepath with us anymore. Charles or Jean would be so useful right now…” Colossus says. He and the other students, as well as Nightcrawler and Magneto's new acolytes, stand nervously in the observation deck. They have the speakers on so they can hear everything that's going on as Elizabeth is interrogated.
“First question: Are Cyc-... Scott Summers and Ororo Munroe still alive?” Bobby asks, in his ice form, trying to be intimidating.
“No. We need to know where Stryker is! Where is the coward!?” Magneto cuts him off. Elizabeth smirks.
“I'm not telling you anything…”
“Not to worry. There are ways of making you talk!” shouts Magneto.
He lifts his hands and the metal chair starts to crinkle and bend. The seat begins to curl tightly around her lap and the chair legs twist around her shins. Elizabeth starts to squirm and wriggle, but she isn't giving anything up.
This is making Iceman uncomfortable. He agreed to interrogate her, not to torture her. But he wants answers, just as desperately as Magneto does.
He waits, but he can't stand it. He pushes Magneto, breaking his concentration.
“Stop this! This clearly isn't going to work!”
Magneto sighs, and returns that chair to normal as he gets up from the floor of The Danger Room.
“And what would you suggest, Iceman?” he asks.
“Something that actually works… Maybe.” Bobby replies. He looks at Elizabeth, and she looks back at him concerned.
10 minutes later
“Who developed it, may I ask?” Magneto queries, as he and Iceman re-enter The Danger Room, with Bobby holding a set of injections.
“Beast did, the clever bastard. Finally put his biochemical engineering degree to good use, rather than turning himself into a blue furry.”
As they approach Elizabeth, she still looks very concerned. Scared, almost.
“W-What is t-that?” she says, her voice stuttering. She's beginning to tremble.
“Doesn't have an official name, so let's just call it good old-fashioned ‘Truth Serum’”
“Please don't! I'm begging you, don't! I don't want that thing messing with my head!”
Iceman inserts the needle into one of the vials and begins to fill it up slowly.
“What about the CHILDREN who begged you not to capture them!? Did you show them mercy!?”
“I'm sorry! I didn't, you're right! Just lease stop, I'll tell you anything you want to know!”
Iceman stops filling the needle.
“Well, tell us about Scott Summers and Ororo Munroe! Did you kill them?” Bobby says desperately.
“No no! We faked their deaths! That day, when we chased a kid here, we figured out that they were The X-Men! And so Stryker and Risman set up a trap, on The Stryker Show!” she shouts back at them, terrified.
“And what did Stryker want with the Mutants he's capturing?” Magneto pressures.
“He sells them to a company: Trask Technologies. They're the ones who employed me, and made me work with those Purifier freaks like Risman.”
“So you're… not a Purifier?” Iceman questions.
“No. I just work with the freaks because I'm great at what I do: tracking people. I work for Trask Technologies, like I said! I don't even hate Mutants!”
“So where is Stryker? And Risman?”
Elizabeth hesitates for a second. Iceman raises the needle, threatening her with it.
“They both took off. Stryker took the girl with him, Storm, and Risman took the guy, Cyclops.”
“But where are they!? And where are the rest of the Mutants you've captured!?”
She sighs.
“They'll kill me if they find out I told you…” she pleads.
“And we'll kill you if you don't,” Magneto says, and her chair begins to rattle again.
“Stryker went to Trask. I don't know where their base is, honestly. But Trask wanted Storm immediately, so he got her.”
“And Risman? Where's Cyclops? And the rest of the kids?!” Iceman asks, almost begging.
“Trask Tech. They have this… boat. A huge military vessel where they keep most of the prisoners. But it's… miles off the coast of Anchorage, Alaska, in international waters…”
“Finally. An answer, a location. ” says Iceman.
“Thank you for your cooperation, Elizabeth,” Magneto says to her, as they turn to leave the room.
“I'm so glad that worked,” Iceman says under his breath as they walk out.
“But you didn't use the serum…” Magneto says, puzzled.
“Good. If I did have to, she would've realised it was a placebo,” says Iceman. As he does, he can't help but have a smile across his face.
“Ha! The cheek! So what was really in the vials?” asks Magneto. For a few seconds, the pair of them have forgotten that there was a crisis at hand.
“Gatorade.” Iceman says, as he closes the circular door behind them.
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