Angry Burrito
"I can't believe you're here." Eel muttered to zirself sat on the edge of the couch. Ze felt naked and bare, under the blankets, without the rest of zir tail and other body parts. Magneto's gaze burned into zir back.
Whatever, ze was going to stay rolled up in the blankets. Buried under the pillows. Somehow Magneto's heavy gaze penetrated zir pillow fort.
Ze sighed.
Fucking Daken.
Fucking Magneto.
Fucking Laura and fucking Dr.Kinney who still had to exist, triggering Daken to loose his shit, causing him to get quasi-adopted by Magneto, leading to Magneto realizing ze existed, which led to zir trapped on the couch by a concerned Magneto. Not fucking helping that Magneto's wife, Magda, was also raised by Logan, making the man a weird step-brother in law.
Ugh, did this make Daken...zir step-uncle?
Fuck.
This was all Daken's fault.
Why the fuck did zir idiot brother have to dump zir off on Magneto's couch...one of his couches. The man had too many fucking couches. So Ze passed out at the goth club after not sleeping for 4 days. So what? That was what the stim drugs were for. S'not like ze wanted to sleep during Dia de los Muertos, not with all the dead lab-siblings that needed to be mourned and remembered.
Ugh.
Ze had a headache.
Daken was supposed to drop zir off back at the boat in times like this.
….Not Magneto's house. Family-complex. Whatever.
And with all zir cybernetics stripped off outside of the cyberjack and spinal rig.
...so it wasn't safe or comfortable with sleep with them on after passing out of exhaustion but STILL.
That was the crux of the matter.
"Child."
"I have breakfast."
Magneto.
MAGNETO.
Leader of the free mutant world, one of the most powerful mutants to exist.
Ze was related to zir, that ze had been engineered out of the man's stolen blood.
Fucking Daken.
Daken explaining everything in a paper note with a smiley face.
What a fucking dick.
Ze leg nubs itched, zir nub socks itched. Ze rubbed zir thighs and nubs against each other like some kind of mutilated oversized cricket. Ze felt the dried sweat crusts on the sock.
This sucked.
This fucking sucked.
The roll of blankets wrapped around zir, felt hot and heavy, ze sweated beneath the layers of body paint and glued on silicon scales.
After reading the note that Daken had left and seeing Magneto, ze had merged with the blankets and pillows, like hell ze was going to look at zir genetic source.
Ze couldn't fight him,couldn't out-talk him into letting zir go, and with zir cyborg body parts needing to be charged....leaving via stealth would be difficult.
Nearly impossible while equipped with only fleshy meat nubs and Magneto's electro-magnetic senses. Too hungry to wrap light around zirself like blankets for invisibility.
"Child." Magneto's voice, became edged with impatience.
Eel squeaked before ze could bit zir tongue.
Great job, Eel. The almighty Magneto is definitely going to respect you now.
Ze heard sighing and a meaty thump on the chair beyond the coffee table.
"Little one, there is salmon and lox on the coffee table. Child. Please. Emerge. I wish to see you. I am not going to harm you. ….I ...I need to see that you are okay."
Ze was going to kill Daken.
Painfully. Slowly.
Start out with psychological torture by denying zir lab brother his regular tattoo sessions. Yes, yes, great idea.
Ze shifted and stuck out an arm out of the pillow fort. Just an arm. The room must've been faraday-caged, because could only pick up on the magnetic fields in the room, though Magneto's field overpowered all other electro-magnetic stimulus.
Ze shuddered.
"Child....what-."
Magneto paused, Eel could feel his gaze burning into zir arm. His eyes tracing the garish mish-mash of brown skin, body paint, scar tissue, and the dull glow in the dark silicon scales.
"...are you doing?"
Zir hand felt around for the plate of bagels with salmon. Textures of slippery cheese, firm bread and slick fishmeat squooshed into zir hand.
Another arm wormed its way out of zir pillow fort and the plate disappeared into pile of bedding....only the plate.
Eel heard the thump of bagels hitting the floor.
"....fuck."
Eel heard the slap of hand meeting face and a groan.
Well this was fun. It's not like ze could eat the plate. Ze growled and threw the plate to the floor, it clattered, it made a dink sound when it thumped at Magneto's boots.
Zir hands clawed at the floor, reaching for the bagels.
Magneto's home wasn't Transigen and there was no other littermates to swipe the nourishment, but old habits died hard.
Ze ignored the rustling of pant fabric, the crinkle of the couch as Magneto got up and the thuds of his boots as he walked over. Ze bit zir tongue, trying to get the floor bagels before some asshole took it away like back in the labs.
Eel was half hanging out of the blanket pile at this point, ze was about to slide on the floor and land face first into the pile of salmon, dirty bread and cream cheese smeared metal. Zir eyes stayed shut however, in denial of the reality of being out of the pillow fort's protection.
This was fine. The last thing ze needed was to see zir genetic relative and freak out
Right when ze located a dirty bagel, Eel's other hand felt the smooth leather of a boot. Ze patted it for good measure.
...not edible, despite boots being chewy.
"Enough. I've seen enough of this and this isn't acceptable."
Magneto's tone was sharp and slice through zir denial. Eel opened up zir paintstreaked eyes and looked up. It was the Emperor for sure. Magneto's metallic blue eyes looked down on zir.
Fuuuuck.
Eel yelped and backed up on the couch, weight pressed down with zir hands and leg nubs flailed benath the blankets
With a sweep of a hand, Magneto had his magnetic fields tore through the room, sweeping up Eel and zir blanket pile, into the otherside of the sofa, while Magneto plopped his rear end on the sofa's other-end. The bagels and plate clattered into a neat pile. Cream cheese and salmon streaked the once shining floor.
Eel just stared at the ruined breakfast. Magneto's heavy breathing while he leaned back on the pillows was a nightmare.
Out of the corner of zir eye, it looked like his eyes were scrunched together while he pinched his nose.
Well, Mags didn't try to hit or yell at zir....sooooo, ze was most likely safe from punishment. Maybe? If ze had the rest of zir cybernetics installed, zir moodlights would be an ugly mustard yellow.
Cautious and anxious, but not about to melt down.
"...bagels aren't magnetic...". Ze clammed zir mouth. Great job, Eel, now you got Mags' attention. Again.
Ze felt his side-eye burning into zir. Eel wrapped the blankets around zir, wishing ze had enough food in zir stomach to turn invisible.
"Everything has a magnetic field. With enough power, anything can be lifted and manipulated. Of course, Transigen neglected that in their...." Magneto paused and looked away, his voice heavy and bitter.
Eel could hear the elder mutant gritting his teeth and exhaling through his teeth. He looked back at Eel and ze avoided his gaze.
"...treatment of you."
Eel's sharp nails dug into zir palms. Great, fucking Daken. Of course, the fucking Emperor knew about Transigen. Ze vowed to hide all of Daken's hentai and to wipe his laptop. To cancel the birthday strippers that ze had pre-paid for months ago with Logan's stolen credit card.
Zir stomach grumbled.
Fucking stomach turned traitor.
"I see you take after your genetic mother." Eel sunk deeper into the blankets and started to nudge a pillow in front of zir. Ze could feel the other mutant's gaze rake into zir black hair streaked with various neon colors. And taking in zir golden brown skin.
"Doesn't explain the paint or the scales however, both look of synthetic make and coloring."
Eel melted into the blankets even more. The pillow got nudged off via another magnetic sweep.
Yup, ze was going to kill Daken. Daken was going to find his ....ugh gross, adult toys thrown out.
"Stop hiding, you should be proud of your lineage." Magneto sighed and shook his head.
"And stop trying to eat food from the floor. Not dignified, not acceptable and I'll go make you some more food. "
The elder mutant stood up, his gaze still on Eel, eyes flicking over zir built arms, strong shoulders and firm neck. " Hmmph. At least you look like you've been fed these past few years."
Eel bared zir teeth, split tongue running over zir sharpened teeth. Without zir tail, moodlights, and cyberfins to flare out and emote, ze was starting to go from anxiety into wanting to run.
"Don't need anyone to feed me." Ze spat.
Mags raised an eyebrow and stared flatly at Eel, looking not amused.
"Without your prosthesis, you need aid to get around. And they are charging, child. Do not antagonize me."
So Magneto was lecturing zir. Great, just fucking great. Zir nails dug into zir palm deeper. Eel closed zir eyes, exhale and turned over, face buried into the couch's leather hide. No point in responding to Mags.
Ze was going to ignore him. Time to take stock of the situation.
First. Ze was hun-
Magneto cut into zir thinking. Damn it.
"Really, little one?"
Magnetic fields twisted around zir and Eel found zirself flipped over, laying on zir side and facing Magneto's disapproving glare.
"I WAS THINKING."
Eel snapped, angry shocks of electricity roiling down zir arms, crackling down the couch, and into the floor.
Nails digging into the couch, ze huffed.
Of - fucking course, no adaptive collar on either. Ze would've noticed if Magneto hadn't fucking cut into zir train of though. Ze hoped Daken had put it away, before Mags saw it, otherwise ze was fucked.
Ugh.
Another bolt of electricity crackled down zir thighs. Eel raised zirself on the zir palms, striked the couch with zir leg stumps, grounding the electricity onto the floor.
The blankets slid down as ze did this, revealing zir leg stumps and the crusty nub socks.
Fucking GREAT. Daken's clothes were all going to be thrown overboard. See how, he feels about being nude to the world.
Eel flopped back onto the couch, pulling the blanket back over zir. The creamcheese on zir hands had streaked the couch and blanket.
Magneto stayed silent through the whole thing. Weird. Usually the man monologued forever.
"....who did this to you?" His voice cut through the silence like the voice of an angry deity. His tone was quiet, with barely controlled fury. His own eyes were starting to glow. Just like how Eel did when ze lost zir shit and let the killing programming take over.
The elder mutant's own magnetic field started to feel heavy, like the air before a thunderstorm.
"Lab accident." Eel spat.
Relief mixed with annoyance twisted in zir stomach. So Magneto wouldn't punish zir for loss of control and emotional outbursts.
Ze could work with this. At least ze was safe in this respect, Magneto turned his wrath to those who hurt zir, not towards the symptoms of the pain.
"Daken told me you were an amputee, but its one thing seeing it, compared to hearing about it."
Mags said in a low tone, concern mixed with rage.
Eel sighed. Time to see where Mags put the line at disrespect.
"Calm your tits, I'm used to it. Just need the rest of my body parts on."
Magneto inhaled and exhaled, while the legs on the coffee table curled and split and spiraled, the metal screeching as it bent into unnatural shapes.
"We'll get to that, after I get you cleaned up and fed."
Okay.
Nice to know that the man also did shows of power when upset. Eel bit zir tongue and shook zir head to clear away a memory.
"What."
Fuck.
"Nothing."
"Child. Don't lie to me."
Sooo Magneto tolerated random electrical bolts and being told to calm his tits, but didn't like emotional boundaries/lies. Ugh.
Relatives. Daken was going to find himself thrown overboard while asleep.
Zir fingers hooked onto nubsocks and ze peeled them off. Ze dropped the crusty mess onto the floor.
Eel looked past Magneto, voice flat and apathetic, eyes glassy. It was always easier to talk about the lab while disassociated.
"Unauthorized displays of powers and loss of control led to corrective treatment."