Feral's Worst Nightmare.
This is a sort of B-Side to Switched Loyalties with an evil Dairou and Sabretooth looks like he does in X Men Origins: Wolverine (movie) portrayed by Liev Schreiber not the comics.
What if there was a mutant that was so powerful that Sabretooth and Wolverine could consider putting their differences aside to defeat? A mutant far more powerful than Jean Grey, a Class 5 mutant which was considered the most powerful mutant on the planet and the most powerful a mutant could become...and Weapon X's worst nightmare returned from the dead.
It begins here in Kyoto, Japan. Sabretooth had disappeared off the radar for over 10 years, until everyone considered the super villain dead, even Wolverine eventually. But he was very much alive and intent to make Wolverine regret forgetting about him.
Scott Summers (Cyclops) and Piotr 'Peter' Rasputin (Colossus) are in the X-Men Gym watching Logan take out his fury on a punching bag.
"Today is the day, isn't it?" Peter whispers to Scott who nods "Yeah, the day he disappeared. Logan's never been the same ever since, becoming even more violent if that were even possible."
Peter shudders slightly at the thought, having once been on the business end of those claws, when he got between him and Victor Creed and almost didn't live to regret it "I don't want to be anywhere near him when he's like that. I thought he couldn't get angrier than that horrible day."
"Hey, stay calm, man." Scott tries to calm Peter down as tears form in his eyes "Good thing he didn't turn out like his dead brother, huh?" Scott smiles but Peter glares at him "I am sorry, Scott, but if he's coming on that mission today, I won't be coming."
Peter gets up to leave, only to turn face to face with Logan, who only glares at him in tears before walking out of the gym. Scott and Peter then follow him out as Xavier called a meeting.
X-Men briefing room, Scott and Peter enter to find Logan alone inside, not even acknowledging their presence, especially Peter's as he sits at the table's far end opposite to and away from Logan. Logan hasn't spoken word to anyone since the last time he battled Creed and Peter's unwanted intervention caused him to escape. Wolverine ended the two's friendship that day, even tried to kill him when he attempted to go after Creed. The rest of the X-Men team eventually entered the room. Jean, Xavier, Beast, Gambit, Nightcrawler, Iceman, Shadowcat, Storm and Emma Frost who is hell bent on chastising Logan for his recent actions. One look from Logan froze her in her tracks.
"Okay, I should tell you why we're here" The professor said as every mutant's eyes fell on him, especially Logan's fury filled blue eyes "We've finally located Sabretooth." Logan's eyes widen "Where?" he says finally breaking his silence "Closer than you may think, Logan. He last started using his powers near the empire state building when Cerebro picked him up. He's now in the Forgotten City" Logan gets up from his seat and walks to the door "That's all the info I need." Piotr gets up to follow him but Logan's claws were already his throat and stomach "I want you nowhere near Sabretooth, Rasputin! I have a bone to break with you when I get back."
With that, Logan left leaving a petrified Peter at his seat.
Xavier and Jean tried to read Peter's mind but were somehow forced out as silence filled the room full of surprised X-Men "What could you have done to suffer Wolverine's wrath, Colossus?" Beast asks breaking the silence Peter sighs "Last time he fought Sabretooth, I intervened before he could kill him. Sabretooth escaped and Wolverine has taken his rage out on me ever since" he says as he pulls off his shirt, revealing countless claw scratches and marks throughout his upper body.
The others gasp at his slashed up body as he pulls his shirt back on with slight sharp pain in his face.
"I'm going to find Victor Creed and finish this" Peter said getting to his feet "Alone" with that he left, going back to his room to pack a small knapsack.
He packed his knapsack and goes to the garage, only to be face to face with Logan as he worked on his bike. The two shared no words as Peter got into his off road Jeep Caravan and sped out of the Garage. Logan glares as he leaves, but if he thinks he's getting to Sabretooth before him, he has another thing coming.
Back in the briefing room...
Everyone didn't know who to be more horrified of, Peter or Logan. Remy looks around the room, sure he feared Wolverine but he feared Peter just as much when he had that look on his face "Scott, you remember what happened the last time Pete had that look, right?" Scott nodded and shuddered "Yeah, remember when Sabretooth kidnapped Kitty?" everyone noddedas he continued "I got in his way from finding and killing Sabretooth himself, when he turned on me throwing me against a wall, severely injuring my back and spine" he said as Beast added "He would have killed you too, if Wolverine and I hadn't detained him. Seems even a pacifist has his limits."
"You're lucky to be able to walk, Scott" Emma said as he agreed with a nod "It still hurt sometimes, Emma, but even if I couldn't walk at least I'd be alive"
"Yes" Storm said "Wolverine should tread lightly with how much of his attitude Peter would let himself put up with, while we have a Sabretooth to track down"
"There's, like, something I don't get here though" Kitty piped up as Kurt asks "What's zat?" Kitty continued "What connection does 'ol 'Sabreface' Creed and Wolverine have with this Forgotten City, anyway?"
"Why'd you ask that?" Beast wonders as Kitty looks at him "Cuz I think that's where he took me when he kidnapped me that day, only the place was almost in total ruin and very few people – human or mutant – rarely dared to go there. Even he was wondering why he came there when he took me. He didn't even tie me up or something, not like I'd know where I was going if I'd ran away from him." Kitty continued "He seemed to know that there was something even more dangerous than him there, just not what exactly. All I know is that he just started being so nice to me so I could help him with phasing around to find and destroy something."
"Possibly something even more dangerous than him or Wolverine, if he'd resort to that" Beast rubs his chin in thought as his eyes widen "Or someone. All of us should get to the Forgotten City before Wolverine or Sabretooth. I have a theory. I'll tell you on the way there." With that Hank made his way to his lab.
Meanwhile, in an almost desolate landscape, better known as the Forgotten City, Sabretooth had just arrived. He looked around the large place of what used to be a room. He'd kidnapped that talkative Pryde girl and was even nice enough not to tie her up or clock her over the head, not like she'd not known this place was and still is almost inescapable if you didn't know where you were going. He walks up and touches the wall and suddenly got a vision of a specific day back in his Weapon X days that he vaguely remembers.
"Yes, whatever happened here was Trask's and Weapon X's fault" he growled in his mind, but was interrupted by the sound of a vehicle approaching. Victor looks out, eyes widening in rage as he saw Peter drive by on an ATV-looking vehicle, stopping then going down the right path. The runt, Wolverine, wasn't far behind though he sniffed around before taking the left path. "The Russian seems to know this place" Sabretooth rubbed his chin in thought then smiles "Which means he'll find me long before the runt does. Good."
So said, so done, Sabretooth could hear the sound of his vehicle already and his scent said he was drawing near and probably more willing to kill the feral than help. That was a head scratcher, since he knew Lo- the runt was here to fight him wasn't hard to figure out, what did he ever do to the Russian and didn't he abhor killing?
"I'll have to be smart for this one" Sabretooth narrows his eyes on the angered Russian, cursing in some jibber-jabber "much smarter than he thinks I am. What're you doing here, R- Peter?" Victor said calmly with a serious but not angry face "Didn't think I knew yer real name now, did ya?"
Peter steps off his ATV with a confused look on his face "Why is Sabretooth acting so strangely? He'd acted strange before but this is too strange, even for him. And, wait, did he just call me Peter?" he shook himself from his thoughts "Sabretooth, was it you who just called me 'Peter'?" Sabretooth only rolled his eyes then nodded and smiled, Victor Creed smile not Sabretooth smile "That's your name, isn't it?" he said.
"Yes" Peter nods "I just didn't know you knew it." Victor rolls his eyes then frowns "I smell blood" he growls as Peter scratches his head "But, neither of us are bleeding"
"Not from us, nimrod" Sabretooth face palms and point to the structure in front of them "In there. We have to get in somehow."
After both pounding at the wall for god knows how long, the two break through a find a Japanese man on the glass covered floor, covered in his own blood, just then the blood's scent travels to Wolverine, who tracks them down like a moth to a flame.
"Creed!" Wolverine's voice could be heard in the distance as he drew ever closer. Peter walks over to the man "Hey, are you okay?" he shakes the man who was fairly larger and taller than he was, but no response. He turns to Victor to talk to him, but before he could the stranger easily grab him by the throat, almost suffocating him with one hand before throwing his unconscious body against the wall of the room.
The names 'Sabretooth' and 'Wolverine' seemed to both ring a bell and hit a wrong nerve with the man, as he picks up a long and sharp shard of glass and throws it with a marksman's accuracy, it would've taken Wolverine's head clean off his shoulders if Sabretooth hadn't pulled him out of the way just in time.
Wolverine rubs his throat "way too close for comfort" he groans prying himself off Sabretooth, who looks at him like the glass really went through his brain "What?" Wolverine stares back at him "We should go, now." Sabretooth says as the two men jump off of the building and escape.
The man seems beyond angry that they escaped, but that changed when he saw that they'd forgotten Colossus, who was just coming to.
Peter awakens to find Wolverine and Sabretooth gone, but this was the least of his fears as he would soon see. He turned to see red eyes looking at him, he jumps back startled. That is until the man cornered him and speaks. "I won't kill you" the man said as Peter replied in uncertainty "How am I so sure of that?" The man only smirked and drew closer with an evil chuckle "You're alive, aren't you?" Peter only nodded and decided to keep his mouth shut as the man walks away "Come. I'll guide you out of here, but you must do something for me in return." "And what is that?" Piotr replied as he got to his feet "Deliver a message to the men who were here with you and you get to leave and live."
Piotr's eyes widen "Wolverine and Sabretooth?" he said as the man only nods in reply "Tell them that their days are numbered and Dairou is coming to find and kill them." Piotr nods in reply and followed the man before he was left behind.
Dairou guides Peter to the entrance of the Forgotten City, but was gone as soon as Peter made it to the entrance, where he found his ATV, which he uses to return to the mansion, where he'd found Wolverine and Sabretooth and still considered killing Sabretooth, but didn't and delivered Dairou's warning to them.
"So, I take it that this was the man you've been searching for?" Xavier asks displaying an image of the man from Peter's memories as a distraught Peter, Logan and Sabretooth look on. Peter nods and turns to the ferals "He sent a message for both of you." He was no longer in the mood to talk to anyone, so he writes the message down on two stripes of paper, handing them to Sabretooth and Logan before walking out.
Both men froze at the message and even more the name of the man. Wolverine, whose memories were wiped clean by the Weapon X Program, had only known the man's face from flashback into his past that he got in his dreams but wherever this man, Dairou appeared gave him terrible nightmares forcing him to have many sleepless nights which was pretty much every night, as of recently. Sabretooth, on the other hand, had actually forced himself to forget this Dairou person although he knew he'd had a troubled past and like himself and Logan, he had lost almost his whole family, thanks to Weapon X. But, unlike them, he didn't take that loss very well and as if his anger wasn't a force to be reckoned with already, he went insane and single-handedly destroyed the city that once stood where the Forgotten City is today. He'd buried himself inside and was presumed to be dead. Until now.
"Hank" Xavier calls as the big blue mutant looks at him "Yes, Professor?" "Do you think you can take care of Colossus' injuries?" he asks as Beast has a confused, but confident look on his face "Yes, physically that is, but psychologically I'm not quite sure." The professor looks away as Hank continues "I can take care of the wounds, even the older ones but I think he's actually afraid of Logan. Didn't you notice today, that even though they were here early to find out if you'd found Sabretooth, he still wanted to help someone who clearly didn't want his help? What has been Logan's problem lately, anyway?" he asked the last part mostly to himself.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the mansion, Remy, like everyone else, even Sabretooth was starting to get tired of Colossus trying to make up with Wolverine and failing. So, he and Sabretooth has arranged a dinner for everyone in the house, surprisingly Victor Creed is almost as excellent a cook as Remy, they told and invited everyone except the two, just to get on both their nerves. Logan was now currently in his bedroom.
*sigh* "Why the professor let that Cajun in the kitchen? I swear he'll burn this place down one of these days." Logan thought to himself as he steps into the smoke filled kitchen and raises an eyebrow, seeing his older half-brother Sabretooth cooking, he turns to Remy "What's goin' on in here and why on planet earth is he cooking?!" He all but growls pointing his finger at Sabretooth as if he wasn't even in the room, who he turns to next "and you, what're you still doin' here and since when can the 'mighty' 'pain in my ass, sunuva...' Sabretooth cook?" he growls at Sabretooth who only flicks him on the forehead just to piss him off and replies "There are a lot of things you don't know 'bout me, runt."
"Why are you doin' this anyway, Cajun?" Sabretooth raises an eyebrow to Remy as Logan looks at him "You mean, you're helpin' him and you don't even know why?!"
"You can't push me around like Colossus, runt! Or do you want a repeat of what happened the last time you tried makin'me yer lapdog?!" Victor snarls at Logan who backs away, seemingly afraid of this thing Sabretooth did to him "Two words, bub. Breath mints." Logan growls walking out and bumping into none other than a very annoyed Peter, who glares down at the shorter man "We need to have a talk, Logan. In private." Peter glares down at Logan, who brushes him off with a simple "No, bub."
He leaves Peter standing there as Remy and Victor looks at the look in his eyes as he follows. "Oh, this is bad. Very bad." Remy says as he and Sabretooth follows the two "What does that mean? I've never seen the Russian like that before, even when we were part of the Brotherhood." Sabretooth asks as Remy fills him in "Remember the last time you an' dat' fool, Wolverine fought and he interrupted it?" he asks as Victor replies "Yeah."
"Well, what you probably didn't know was that ya' brother 'dere beat the shit outta him when we got back from that mission and nobody could get the two 'o them to go on a mission together or even talk ta' each other since." Remy explained. This only served to get Sabretooth angry, even angrier than usual as he listened closely "Oh, they're gonna talk it out, alright. Even if I gotta kill 'em to do so, they're talkin' it out." Sabretooth marched off after the two leaving Remy to go back to the kitchen.
Garage, Peter follows Logan to the garage and the two had a fist fight and wailed on each other. That is until a pissed Sabretooth jumps in and beat both their asses.
"Whadaya think yer doin'-?" Logan growls only to be interrupted by Sabretooth who pins both of them against the wall "Shut the fuck up an' listen, Jimmy!" Peter quirked an eyebrow to Wolverine "Your name's 'Jimmy'?" until Logan elbows his ribs "It's James and if you laugh or anyone finds out, you're a dead man."
Sabretooth raises an eyebrow at Peter then looks at Logan "Is he yer mate, or something, runt?" Logan's eyes widen in surprise at the question as Peter looked extremely confused "What? Hell no!"
"Uh, Logan, what does he mean if I'm your mate?" Peter asks looking at uncomfortably creepy grin Sabretooth was giving him, Logan pulls him close and whispers the answer in his question, which makes Peter give them both a crazy and somewhat disgusted look as Sabretooth put them down "So, that's what everybody thought you wanted to do to me?! I'm a man! Ferals are so disgusting sometimes" he berates Sabretooth who smirks proudly at him "Sex don't matter to ferals, once it's good and not boring. So you got between us cuz you wanted some ass, huh? Just so ya know, we don't do bottoms." his scowl turns into the creepy smile again and before you know it, Peter murmured something and bolted out of the room. Logan seems to have heard nothing, but Sabretooth heard it and followed him to his room and opened the door open giving Peter a once over "You can't hide it for long, y'know? I can smell it on ya and I'm sure the runt does too." With that he closes the door and leaves.
Meanwhile, on the other side of town, Dairou has been busy. He'd heard that Wolverine had a son that really hates him and was now tracking down Daken to local bar on the far side town. He entered the place, seated himself at the bar and waited until Daken arrives and tries to flirt with him.
"Hey, there, handsome. What're you doing here all alone?" Daken says as Dairou ignores the comment completely and stares at him coldly "No wonder he's not with Logan-san right now, he's a flirtatious little prick that thinks he can get whoever or whatever he wants" he thinks as he replies in an even and calm tone "Not gay, boy. Just looking for Akihiro Daken."
Daken's eyes widen "You're talkin' to him. What do you want?" Daken asks as Dairou draws him closer and chuckles wickedly "Take me to the Wolverine." He says calmly "Your pheromones don't affect me unless I want them to, so stop wasting your time, lover boy." He pulls out a knife and a small, partially finished wooden sculpture.
Daken knew this, but knew this man was too hot to get away from him, and you know how he gets when he really wants something, he smiles and walks away ignoring the man, when the paring knife was thrown and almost ended up in the back of his head, he turns to look at the man's sadistic stare "Is he crazy?" he then looks at the knife and gasps as it lands in the centre of a bulls-eye, reminding him of another mutant "Hate to say it but I could've been dead before I knew it. What is this man?" the man walks over to Daken and whispers in his ear "I do not take no for an answer. That was your first and only warning shot."
Dairou turns to leave the bar, having nothing of interest here until a hand on his shoulder stops him, he turns to see it was Daken "Well?" he asks as Daken tries his pheromone trick again. Dairou frowns in thought "This again? He really is his father's polar opposite, but does he think I'm that easy or is he just as crazy as I am?"
"If it's my father you're looking for" Daken says with a mischievous glint in his blue eyes "You should seek out a man named Charles Xavier. He's father's friend, runs that so-called school for gifted youngsters and is one of the world's most powerful telepaths." Dairou only nods and leaves ignoring Daken's existence as Daken thinks "Don't worry. You'll be back. They always come back."
Dairou made a few calls and eventually finds the number of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. He called the number, to his surprise, a woman he didn't know answers in a beautifully calm voice, he thought he might as well put on a 'show' for the girl. "Hello?" Jean Grey answers the phone "Yes, my name is Dairou and I can't control my mutations. Is this by any chance Xavier's school for gifted youngsters?" he said in a calm, fearful voice as she replied "Yes. Yes it is, but why didn't you just come here?" Dairou was starting to get sick of this conversation and needed to hang up on the poor girl "You see, it's my first time in New York and I don't have any family here, so I only heard about your school from someone in the area." Jean was silent for a while, and then replied "Okay, here's the address. Write it down..."
Dairou wrote down the address as given by Jean and hung up saying he'd be there in the morning. Now he was getting the feeling that he was being followed, by none other than this Daken character again. The boy just didn't know when to quit. Dairou got what, or specifically who he wanted, so Daken was of no further use to him.
He went to the door and waited and listened with a somewhat wicked smile. Daken's footsteps were silent as he smiled wickedly himself; but not silent enough.
"Dairou-sama, open up! I know you're in there." Daken said with a little anger in his voice, when suddenly a hand, broke right through the closed door and grabs Daken by the neck and squeezed "Please." Dairou growls "Come in, we need to talk!"
With that he pulls Daken right through what was the door and throws him on the couch, Daken pops out his claws in rage as Dairou sits across from him and he was seemingly defenseless "I told you" Daken warns "I always get what I want, and I want you."
Dairou's voice was as firm as the fierce look on his face "You just don't know when to give up, do you kid?" He walks over to large cabinet full of specialized throwing knives he made himself, he chuckles "Oh, yes. I forgot you didn't know that I'm a mutant." This immediately caused Daken to try attacking him for some reason, only to meet his foot and get sent flying.
"Guess I'll have to teach you a lesson." Dairou says as he pulls a sword and walks slowly over to Daken "the hard way." He strikes the sword at Daken, narrowly missing his face and giving him a small slash on his arm before he gets to his feet.
Dairou watches in awe as Daken's wound heals with a crazed smile and points at his healing wound "I like that. I think I'll cut you up some more!" he throws another dagger at him and misses again as Daken attempts to flee through the open window.
Dairou wasn't having it though, using a Lariat technique, he catches Daken by the neck with his forearm, flinging him across to a part of the room that had no windows, he then growls "Come on!" as Daken slowly staggered to his feet. He then charges Daken, punching him hard once in the stomach, causing a shockwave breaking almost every glass object around him and shredding the back of his shirt, before throwing his pain stricken body out the window with the sadistic smile never leaving his face "Better be gone by morning, or I won't hold back." He said dropping a dagger near his head to prove his point before leaving for bed as night came upon them.
Morning came in the X-Men household and Logan and Peter were at each other's throats...again. This time, it wasn't Peter's fault though Logan says it is, and the two beat each other, from the Danger Room early that morning, through almost everyone's bedroom until somehow, they got outside and Peter has had enough and went all out, wailing on the short feral.
"I'll kill you!" both men yell at each other as they roll around on the ground trading punches as the other tired X-Men and a grumpy Sabretooth come out to see the commotion. "What's going on out here?!" Storm yells as she steps out with her white hair all over the place, Sabretooth was chuckling as she steps out, but as Wolverine saw her, he'd forgotten completely about Peter and was on the ground, dying of laughter.
That is until she shot a lightning bolt, straight between his legs and inched from his nuts and growled with anger as Logan stared at the thoroughly pissed off weather witch with lightning crackling in her eyes "Do not forget how conductive the adamantium in your bones are, Logan. Stop fighting with Peter or you'll both regret it!"
Logan gulped as Victor's smile vanished as Storm passed him going back into the house.
Later that day Dairou arrived and greeted Jean at the door as Victor, Logan and Peter looked on with their jaws on the ground. He gave them the finger and a psycho grin as he and Jean passed them on their way to Xavier's office.
Logan was visible shaking at the sight of this monster in their house, as if Sabretooth wasn't enough to deal with. While Peter ignored it and Sabretooth hid to sneak attack him when he least expected it.
Later that afternoon, the four men sit alone in the living room, Dairou on one side and Sabretooth, Wolverine and Colossus on the other. One waiting for the other to make the first move.
Dairou sits back "I like the house, Wolverine. Wouldn't want to break something, is there somewhere we can take our stress out on each other with minimal damage to all this expensive looking stuff?" He licks his lips wickedly as Logan and Victor both have wide eyes "THE DANGER ROOM." Both men said as Dairou looks at them with confusion "Danger Room? What that?"
With that both men lead him to the Danger Room as Wolverine sets it on the highest level and the four enter, after kicking Kurt, Shadowcat, Rogue and Cyclops and tried to kick Storm out, only to get shocked by lightning as she was about to leave anyway before beating each other up.
A/N – Well, that's that for chap 1, but what are Dairou's plans for Logan and Sabretooth and is Sacretooth planning on joining the X-Men?
Warrior-of-Darkness015 out.
