Disclaimer: Marvel owns the X-world and all those who are members of that world. DC owns the DC world and all those who are in it. Crossovers are fun and I might do more than just a mention or two of different characters in each world. The Cat is mine. This is just for fun not for profit so no harm, no foul. I have decided to move away from the X-men movie world and go in my own direction though there are other movies and TV shows tie-ins that are not of the Marvel World.
Chapter 3: A Little TripA week had gone by and after I made sure I had put some money in my hidden pocket in my necklace/collar before heading out. As soon as I left the apartment I shifted and headed for Logan's apartment. I climbed the fire escape up to his apartment and saw him inside talking on a cell. Good he was still in town. He is as bad as I am on disappearing for days on end
I clawed the window and he looked over and saw me. He came over and raised the window and I pussyfooted in. As I brushed by his legs, I gave them a rub.
"Well cat, where have you been? I thought you had left me. But you picked a bad time to return as I have to leave for a while." He said as he picked me up. He looked at my collar and the Bast pendant hanging from it. "Nice collar. Your owner must have let you out, so you decided to come and visit."
He put me down on the couch and headed for the bedroom. I jumped off the couch and followed him. He pulled out a duffel bag and placed it on the bed. He quickly filled it with several days' worth of clothing. After clinching the bag shut he put on an old battered leather jacket. Logan swung up the bag and then noticed me on the bed. He picked me up and carried me over to the window and set me out onto the fire escape.
"I have to go cat. You be good and head on back to home." Logan shut and locked the window. I watched as he left the apartment and I quickly ran down the fire escape and jumped down to the alley below. I ran around to the front of the apartment building just as he came out. He headed up the street to a parking garage and went inside it. I followed him.
Logan went up to an old jeep and threw the bag in the back. He pulled out his keys and got into the jeep behind the steering wheel and put the key into the switch and turned the engine over. I jumped up into the passenger seat beside him.
"Were did you come from, cat?" Logan looked at down at me and patted me on my head. "Well if you want to come along, it looks like I am going to have some company on this trip."
He backed out of the parking space and drove out of the garage. As he stopped at the exit, a man with a gun ran up to the jeep and pointed it at Logan. "Git out of the car!" He screamed waving the gun around.
Logan looked at the man and extended the claws of his left hand. "I don't think so, bub." And pulled into the street and drove away leaving the man chasing after us, screaming. "Don't leave me you dammed mutie!"
"Well don't that beat all, he pulls a gun on us and calls me names and still wants a ride. I might have given him a ride if he would have asked nicely."
Driving through the city I noticed that there was a strange sense of unease with the traffic backing up and on several of the side streets there were screams and sounds of fighting. Logan looked around and saw a gang of people rushing toward the traffic jam we were currently in and quickly moved the jeep up onto the sidewalk and headed down an alley. By leap frogging through the alleys and side streets we quickly outpaced the mob of people. It was as if someone had dropped a crazy bomb in New York. It seem like just minutes had passed before we were driving across the Hudson and heading upstate.
Looking back toward the city I noticed smoke from fires rising over the buildings in a lot of locations and National Guard helicopters heading toward the city. I started wondering what in the world was going on and how could it happen so quickly. When I got up this morning and headed over to Logan's apartment there was no sign of any sort of trouble. I looked up at Logan and noticed a worried look on his face and wondered if I should reveal myself to him as a shifter. I decided no to while he was driving it could wait until we got to where ever we were going to.
We drove in quiet down the country roads until he pulled up to a gated estate with the gates shut. On plate next to the gates was a sign stating that this was the Xavier School for Gifted Children. Without Logan asking for entrance or pressing a control button the gates opened and he drove through them. I looked behind and saw that the gates were closing and wondered what in the world have I gotten myself in. We drove through a winding road through a heavy forested estate before pulling up to a very large manor house. He stopped and turned the motor off, getting out of the jeep he grabbed his bag and headed for the door. I followed him into the manor house.
As we entered the entrance hall of the manor house we were met by a young woman with long dark chestnut brown hair with a white stripe on both sides of her face. She smiled when she saw Logan and said "Hi Logan, I am so glad that you made it before the shield goes up." And then seeing me, she added, "And who is your little friend?"
"Hi Marie, this is Cat. She decided to join me on the drive upstate. Is the Professor in his office?"
Marie bent down and picked me up and started petting me. Logan gave her a puzzled look and she explained, "As long as I don't touch skin it is ok and the Professor is in the Situation Room."
Logan set his bag down on the bench and headed toward the elevator down the hall. I jumped out of Marie's arms and followed him in to elevator there was no way I was going to be left behind. I just needed to find out what was going on. He pressed the down button and down the elevator went. The doors opened to reveal a hallway that could be on the Starship Enterprise. Leaving the elevator we headed down the hall and approached a double door that slid open again just like on Star Trek.
I thought well, this must be the Situation Room as it would fit right in on the Enterprise as we walked into the room. Logan snarled and popped out his claws. "What are they doing here!"
The bald man in wheelchair, who I found out later was the Professor, calmly replied, "Magneto and Mystique are the ones who brought us warning of what is starting to happen all over the world."
Logan slid his claws away. "When I left New York, people were starting to riot and I saw the military choppers heading in to New York. You are telling me that this craziness is happening all over world."
"Yes," Magneto said. "Mystique and I barely left when I learned out the outbreak that is occurring. It is like nothing I have ever seen or heard of before. People, human and mutants both, are being affected by this plague. Those affected attack like rabid animals and pull their victims down and start eating them. The victims in turn change within a matter of minutes into mindless rabid animals and head off to attack the next unaffected person. Nothing seems to stop these … I don't know what to call them."
"I do!" Exclaimed the bright blue fuzzy man that just entered the room behind Logan and me. "For lack of a better name – they are zombies!"
