There were threads of decency in Mystique, her truthfully maternal attitude toward Rogue being an example. She did, occasionally, seek to turn herself around. Unfortunately, her tendency to think in the manner of the ends justifying the means usually brought her back down the path of villainy.
Then there was the fact that her past often made it difficult for others to trust her.
Mystique was currently in a state of being forced to "redeem" herself with the rest of Freedom Force, and not by her own choice. She prowled her quarters irritably, considering her situation. They had been hanging on since their abyssmal failure in Desert Storm, but it was obvious that they were soon going to be cut and then each of her team would return to their prisons. Perhaps with a year or two removed from her sentence.
Her thoughts were cut short as the realization that something was wrong in her "home." Then the wave of dizzyness came over her as the door opened and she recognized the Marauders from their files, even as distorted as they seemed to her senses.
She tried to shake off the dizzyness and charged forward to attack, aware of the penalty for defeat. She, mostly by luck, snapped her foot under Vertigo's chin and instantly the dizzyness was gone and she was able to target the large man with the gun aiming towards her.
She slashed outward with her fist and struck a knife hand into the man's throat and pulled his gun away. Noticing Vertigo waking up she smashed the butt of the weapon into her face to knock her out again before turning the gun on the other marauders and firing.
"You didn't really think I'd go easy, did you?" Mystique asked pausing from a burst. "No I suggest you leave before the rest of my team or the guards..."
"The rest of your team is temporarily powerless," a scrawny oriental man said. "And the guards are mostly taking a nap...a long nap. Do you still want to try this?"
Mystique frowned, her shapeshifting was practically useless if she shapeshifted in front of them, and apparently she was alone. A large man started hulking toward her, and she unleashed the gun again."
Unfortunately Scalphunter hadn't designed the gun for Blockbuster, and the nigh-invulnerable mutant easily closed with the desperate Mystique. He snatched the gun from her hand smashed it with a broad smile on his face.
Mystique, trapped between a wall and the marauders kicked out vainly at Blockbuster, doing nothing but giving the brute her leg. She grimaced, gritting her teeth as the mutant snapped it at the knee and dropped her. Unable to stand on the shattered knee, she slipped down only to be grabbed about the throat and slammed against the wall.
"That's enough, Blockbuster," the small Korean, Scrambler she remembered, said as she slipped unconscious. "The master wants her alive after all."
As Mystique fell limp in Blockbusters hands, she was released and thrown over his shoulder.
"What do we do about her team?" Scalphunter asked as he recovered from the knife shot.
"Let them escape on their own," was the answer. "The authorities will assume they escaped on their own."
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