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Assigment: Amy
by Erik's Eternal Bride
Summary: A brilliant computer programmer is nearly kidnapped by Toad and taken to the Xavier Institute until they can figure out why the Brotherhood wants her so badly. Is she a key part in Magneto's latest effort to destroy humanity? Perhaps she will even find love. Logan/OC
A/N: Hello everyone, this is my first X-Men fan fiction so go easy on me if I get something wrong. Especially seeing as how I just saw the movies for the first time two nights ago. However, I have an excellent Beta, Jen-chan. Domo Arigato for beta-ing this chapter. gives Jen-chan a Nightcrawler plushie Her fan name is Young Lady Nightcrawler if you wish to read her Kurt/OC fan fiction.
The soft hum of the computers acted like a lullaby for the groggy computer programmer as she pushed her chair away from the machine and looked around for a place to take a nap. Her eyes ached from staring at the screen for far too long, one of the hazards of her occupation. So, after a short period of time spent searching for a good location to get some sleep before tacking the next bug, she decided that the small couch located in a corner of the office would just have to do.
Abandoning her swivel chair by the computer she walked over to the small worn out couch and lay down on it, falling asleep nearly instantly. What she didn't know, however, was that someone was looking at her sleeping form through the frosted door that lead to her office.
"I'll not tolerate any screw ups, Toad." Magneto's parting words rang loudly in the mutant's head as he nudged the door open. The hinged protested this abuse, issuing a loud screeching noise that had the same pleasant effect as nails on a chalkboard. Toad clamped his hands to his ears, his eyes quickly darting around the abandoned hallway to see if anyone had heard the noise. He quickly deduced that due to the late hour no one was left on this floor, save the one he had been sent to retrieve.
Quickly he opened the door wide enough that his lithe form could fit through, ignoring the protests of the hinges. On the adjacent wall was the old couch that was currently being used as a temporary bed. Toad was relieved that the girl had chosen to fall asleep, that would make capturing her less complicated. A struggle would be messy and the girl could get injured. Which could hurt the chances that she would cooperate with them.
He was now fully inside the room now; and walked over beside the couch. One green hand eased the sleeping body off the couch, while the other grabbed her before she could fall to the floor. He shifted her weight so he could carry her easier and slipped out past the door and into the once-deserted hallway.
One thing that the green-colored mutant hadn't been counting on when he left the office was the hallway being no so deserted anymore. And the fact that there were three mutants standing right behind him.
"I hadn't expected you to survive that lightning strike, Toad." a chilling voice stated from a few feet behind his back.
Reacting quickly Toad whirled around to come face to face with the woman who had tried to kill him back when he had been on Liberty Island. As if that wasn't bad enough she was joined by Cyclops and Wolverine, both of which were dangerous as was Storm. The green mutant used his tongue to grab hold of a sprinkler that was mounted on the ceiling and tried to swing himself past the group of mutants.
Anticipating this movement Cyclops used his eyes to destroy the sprinkler before Toad's tongue could attach itself. The green appendage searched a moment for something else on the ceiling to attach too but there was nothing. Storm used this moment to take advantage of his temporary and started up a lightning storm to electrocute him.
"Storm don't" Cyclops's voice rang in the white-haired mutant's ears. "You'll hit the girl"
Storm hadn't realized that and backed down, mentally scolding herself for acting rashly and forgetting something so basic. Her powers would be of no real use until Toad relinquished the girl from his grasp. At least it prevented him from jumping right over their heads; if he tried that, he would get fried. She glanced at Wolverine and Cyclops, knowing that they would have to try to get the girl free.
Cyclops realized this fact first, being the one to have warned Storm, and aimed a blast right at Toad, being careful not to hit the girl. However, Toad had enough time to run out of the way. He took this chance and started to run down the hallway with the programmer still in his arms.
"You guys are useless" Wolverine said harshly, and ran after the fleeing mutant with Storm and Cyclops following right behind him. He forced his metal claws to come out of his skin, causing the flash of pain that came with it. By now he was able to ignore it and concentrate on catching the Toad.
There was only one way out of the floor, and that was through the stairwell on the end opposite the one that Toad was running to. Usually this would have been protested due to the fire hazard that it posed, but the computer conglomerate had enough money to make this problem go away. Even so, Toad didn't need a stairway to get off the floor; all the needed was the window located at the end.
He cringed in pain as three claws slashed across his back, leaving tears in his clothes and blood seeping from his wounds. Toad turned, dropping the girl so that she would not impede his ability to fight. This rough collision with the floor jerked the girl from her heavy sleep. Usually she was a light sleeper, but when deprived of sleep she wouldn't wake up to anything short of a bomb going off. A pair of brown eyes jumped open and surveyed the situation taking place around her. The absurdity of the situation was mind-numbing. She was lying at the feet of someone with green skin and an insanely long tongue, while three people, obviously mutants, were running towards her. It made her just want to lie down and go back to sleep, since it had to be a dream. However, she knew that this was no dream, since she could feel the aching pain in her legs and back all too well.
Still rather frightened she crawled over to the wall and tried to get away from the fight that was taking place. Then a loud voice rang in the ears.
"Logan I've got him, go get the girl" Storm shouted, as she started to form a storm to take down Toad. Wolverine backed away from Toad and ran over to where the girl was lying against the wall.
"I'm not going to hurt you" he said gruffly when the girl backed away from him. He strode over to where she was still lying propped up against the wall and quickly picked her up in his arms before she would move further away. "I've got her" he announced and went back to where Cyclops and Storm were standing.
Under normal circumstances Toad would have prevented Wolverine from taking the girl he was supposed to be kidnapping, but the sight of Storm's thunderstorm was distracting him, a lot. He was still sore from where the lightning strike had hit him last time and just seeing the storm about to strike was flaring up all of those old burns. He prepared to jump away, but he wasn't fast enough.
Several lightning bolts traveled from the newly formed cloud and every single one made its way towords the Toad that was flying through the air. Two of them made contact, one with his leg and one in his back, propelling him through the glass window that he had been planning to use for an escape route.
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