Chapter 4: -insert more creative title than this here-
I own Elizabeth, my closet, and Lyndsey (actually Lyndsey owns herself, but you know what I mean) – sadly I do not own the X-Men or anything else.
I am so so SO sorry that this took so long! :( My dad took away my laptop, which has my stuff, which I had yet to post...well, I've got more than one chapter for you, at least.
Also, my many thanks to everyone who has ever reviewed and continues to read. You have wonderful patients.
Last time on X-Men: Evolution
"What about you?" Asked Lyndsey. Then she mentally face palmed. Of course she would say something like that. How cliché.
"Oh, Gambit'll be just fine, don't you worry."
Liz sighed. "Never tell a girl not to worry, 'cause we worry more."
Our fellow fangirls raced into the forest, trying not to trip.
"Fuck, we are dumb." Liz said and sat on a big tree root.
"Hey, speak for yourself." Lyndsey retorted as she looked up. "I can barely see the sky."
Liz continued. "You know what, I blame Gambit. Who the hell sends two girls like us into the woods with no compos or map - we have no sense of direction."
"Again, speak for yourself."
Liz just huffed and watched Lyndsey walk around. It was maddeningly boring in the woods. Liz loved nature but couldn't stand camping for more than one or two nights at a time. And by camping she means hard core. As in 'no showers or toilets or anything to make pancakes on other than fire and a flat rock.' Even her girl scout leader had brought a portable stove thing and there was plumbing when she last went camping.
WHOOOOOSHH!!! Came the sound of a jet engine. The two L's looked at each other and said the same thing.
"The X-Jet!"
They started dashing back toward the hide out when Lyndsey stopped. "Wait! What if it isn't the X-Men and we get our butts kicked by Magneto?"
Liz thought for a moment. "I was going to say, 'Then pray that Gambit and Wolverine burst in to save us' but I don't really want my butt kicked."
"Let's wait here. If it is the X-Men, then they'll find us."
Liz walked closer to Lyndsey. "But if we wait here and it's not the X-Men, then we get our asses kicked by Magneto when he finds us." She picked up a stick and twirled it.
"But they haven't found us yet, so they probably won't find us. And if it is the X-Men they won't find us because…Wait, what are we talking about?"
"…I don't know but you make a good argument." Liz waved the stick to make her point and-
"HOLY CRAP - THAT'S NOT A STICK!!!"
Yeah, that.
Instead of a stick, Liz now held a short sword. Lyndsey gaped at Liz as she freaked and flailed. In a poof the sword turned back into a stick. Liz stopped flailing and slowly put it down before backing away.
"Well…" Lyndsey said slowly. "At least we know what your power is."
Liz continued to stare at it for a while. "Dude…THAT WAS FREAKIN' AWESOME!!!" She exploded. "Did you see that?! It was like 'Poof! I'm a sword!' then it was like 'Poof! I'm a stick now!' and I was like 'Omg wth?!' and your face was like 'Holy crap!'" Liz's breath was borderline hyperventilation.
"Okay, okay breath." Said Lyndsey.
GRRRRR!
Lyndsey groaned and Liz yelped. Liz picked up the stick and waved it around, trying to get it to transform. "Why won't it work?!"
Sabertooth burst from the bushes and ran at them, his claws ready kill. Lyndsey took out one of the chair legs and chucked it at Sabertooth. It hit him in the face and he stopped in his tracks to grab his nose.
"Run!" Lyndsey grabbed Liz's arm and started running through the woods. They ran until they reached a clearing, and stopped to catch their breath.
"Dude," Liz huffed from her seat on the ground. "Where did you get that wood?"
"Oh…" Lyndsey leaned against a tree. "I took them…from a chair."
"Really? Nice."
There was a rustling sound and they tensed in fear. Gambit stumbled through the brush and shook his leaf covered head. The girls sighed and relaxed a bit.
"Gambit glad to see da big old pussy cat didn't get ya." He said as he walked over to them. "We got to go though. Da X-Men came to help Gambit bust out, and Gambit thought you could use some help."
"That's all fine and dandy," Liz said. "But then why did you send us into the damn woods." She said annoyed as she grabbed his coat.
Gambit raised his hands in surrender. "Gambit didn't know when da X-Men would show up."
Liz let go of him. "Well…can we get out of here before big, blond, and hairy shows up."
Gambit smirked and pointed to a space between two bushes. "That's da way to da X-Jet. C'mon." He nudged Liz and grabbed Lyndsey's wrist. Lyndsey grinned so much that her cheeks hurt and her face turned red as she blushed. She struggled to hold back a hysterical laugh.
Liz rolled her eyes but couldn't hold back the excitement at the thought of Wolverine coming to her rescue. The three traveled the path for a few minutes before coming to and even larger clearing.
The most badass jet sitting in said clearing.
Liz felt her mouth water as she looked up and the sleek, shining, jet. "Shiney." She said, mesmerized.
As Lyndsey was being mesmerized by Gambit. He led them to the ramp and up onto the jet. He let go of Lyndsey to pick up a headset. "Gambit to X-Men. Gambit rescued da girls like he said, and he suggest you come back to da jet before Sabertooth does."
The girls gulped. Sabertooth wasn't in the best of moods lately and they certainly didn't want to run into him after today.
Gambit nodded to something and turned to Lyndsey and Liz. "Gambit suggest you take a seat and hold on. The X-Men might have company."
They grabbed seats next to each other and buckled up.
Not long after they heard a few shouts and some people run onto the X-Jet.
"Get zis stupid thing moving, vill you?!"
They looked at each other with matching grins. They also saw a flash of black and white as Storm helped Gambit pilot the jet.
The ship shook before slowly lifting off the ground.
"Wait! We can't leave yet, Logan is still down there!" Came a southern twang.
Liz looked at Lyndsey with a worried and determined expression. Lyndsey nodded and handed her a chair leg from Horatio. Liz unclipped the buckle and jumped from her seat. As she turned she saw Kurt, Rouge, and Evan looking back at her.
"Storm, get lower and drop the ramp!" She yelled firmly.
Storm turned in surprise. "But-"
"Do it!" Liz can be assertive when pissed off. And nobody messes with her Logan.
Surprised by her assertiveness, Storm did as Liz said. "I can't lower the jet all the way to the ground, in case we have to take off. You'll have to jump a few feet from the ramp."
Liz gulped but made her way down the ramp to the edge. She could see Logan, dressed in his Wolverine suit, wrestling with Sabertooth at the edge of the clearing.
"Liz!"
Liz turned in time to catch another stick and see Lyndsey at the top of the ramp. "Kick his butt for me!"
Liz jumped the three feet to the ground. She ran over to the guys as Sabertooth pinned Logan. Liz bashed him over the head with one stick and, amazingly, it didn't break.
Sabertooth roared and lunged at Liz. She tried to run backward but tripped and ended up on her back. She stuck out her feet, hoping to toss him over her head, but he was too heavy. He had stopped, her feet against his chest, and smirked. Sabertooth grabbed her ankles and Liz's eyes widened.
She hit the chair legs against his wrists and weakened his grip enough to roll away. Liz looked up in time to see Logan grab Sabertooth and toss him against a tree. She looked down at the pieces of wood and focused only on them.
Just as Sabertooth was about to move, he found that his clothes were pinned to the tree by two swords. He looked up to see Liz sticking her tongue out at him, before running back to the X-Jet with Wolverine.
Logan jumped onto the ramp and held out a hand for Liz. Liz frowned. Her jumping skills were seriously lacking. She grabbed his hand - while fighting a blush, mind you - and was yanked up.
As the ramp closed behind them Liz slid down in the chair next to Lyndsey. "That was…and adrenaline rush from hell." She said in amazement. Liz had taken some Karate and Tai Kwon Do, but she never thought she would have to fight someone like Sabertooth.
Lyndsey sighed as she realized that Liz was alright. The last thing she wanted was to be stuck in X-Men without her friend. That and Liz made her look way more normal.
"Oh, crap!" Liz sat up in her seat. "I forgot to kick his ass! Dammit!"
Logan and Lyndsey laughed and Storm scolded Liz for her language.
Wow, that's a lot of L's.
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