Ch. 1

Death.

That's the last thing he saw come to his home. But that was before he was knocked out, of course.

When he finally woke up from only-god-knows how long, he couldn't help but gasp as he felt like he was…floating. He tried to open his eyes, but he couldn't, something cloth-like was covering his face. It was also tickling his nose. Badly. As he reached up to at least try to scratch his nose, he found out that they only came to reach so far up, making it clear to him that they were chained down. Just to confirm his curiosity, he wiggled and moved his feet and tail to be certain that they, like the hands, were chained down as well. They were.

Then, out of nowhere, this earsplitting…sound of some sort enters his head and hurts his ears badly. Temporarily deaf, he did not hear the head docter and his low class minion docters come into the room and saw him squirming to get the noise out of his head.

"Ah, I see zhe demon is avake." Said a deep German-accented voice with a low chuckle at the end. When he finally got the noise to somehow down to a bearing level, he heard what the man said and thought 'How dare he call me such a thing, vhen all I've done is nothing that compares to an animal like zat.' He wanted to yell the thoughts out to the man but his mouth was somehow staying clamped shut.

Even though the sound subsided a little, his head was throbbing from it and he couldn't think straight. He tried to think of when he had heard that voice before, for somehow it sounded familiar. He then thought back to when he last saw the news and had heard of an experimental lab exploding and with it the docters and 'patients' inside. The reporter was talking to the man that owned all of the experimental labs across the U.S. and the name of the man was flickering on the bottom of the T.V. screen. He tried to remember what it read but was soon yanked out of his thoughts when he heard a 'click' noise and was tossed back into darkness again.

-Meanwhile at The Xavier Institute For The Young And Gifted-

"Professor? You called?" Scott Summers said while barging into the office with Jean Grey, Kitty Pryde, Anna Marie "Rogue", and Evan Daniels in tow. It was Kitty who began all the questions: "So, like, what are we doing here, Professor? I mean, is it that impor-" "Yes, it is Kitty," said the professor, interrupting Kitty, "Now onto why I have called all of you here, the has been a little mishap in Bavaria, Germany and-" "Just a mishap, Charles?" Said Wolverine, who had come in while Kitty was blabbering, with narrowed eyes. " I'm afraid not, but one to whats at stake here," said the professor, who was getting tired of being interrupted. "There a mutant kidnapping that took place there, all except one was set free," as he was saying this, Charles showed them a picture of the mutant that was not set free. That had earned shocked and frightened gasps from everyone, including Logan. He didn't really blame them, he had surprised himself by how the mutant looked: Indigo velvet-like fur, a three-and-a-half long prehensile tail, hands with three fingers each and toes with two toes each, glowing yellow eyes, and gleaming-white canine-like fangs. The name Kurt Wagner flicked at the top of the picture of him and in small print underneath was Nightcrawler.

Charles gave Logan a look that meant it was time for them to leave. Logan took the look as a sign to go and barked at the others to get ready for departure. Somewhere in Germany, Kurt stirred and woke up with several wires and cables everywhere in his fur. And for the first time, he was truly frightened that he was going to die.