'Why do people keep knocking me out? Is there something wrong with me? Well besides the screwed up childhood, four different personalities and not caring about the law one bit. Oh great now I am arguing with myself I must have truly lost it.' Gabe thought as he came to lying on his back on a metal operating table. "Hey doc your little sparkplug of a patient is awake." I knew that voice it belonged to that freak in the red mask that shot me in the neck. 'Just what I need a nut case brought me to another nut case.'
I tried to move but strong leather straps kept me immobile on the metal operating table. The table formed a t keeping me arms out with my palms facing up. I felt tugging in my wrist and tried to ignore it, but the tugging continued to the point I needed to address it. That happened to be a mistake. Straps held my arm above the elbow, at my elbow and around my hand. A doctor stood over my arm working on it. He looked at me revealing his pale features as well as his pure red eyes. "Hello there, my name is Dr. Robert Windsor and you my dear boy are my patient subject twenty-six." An evil smile spread over his ghostly pale face as the words continued to spill out of his mouth. "I am augmenting your powers to allow me to understand them and even improve them. I had to shut your dismal healing factor off it did not want to cooperate with me. Your powers are strange and pose difficulties in studying but you do not need to worry. I will solve them or you will die in the process and then I will use your DNA to clone you and continue my research." I felt him start to tug on the muscle in my forearm again before he suddenly stopped and stepped away.
The doctor began pacing at the edge of my vision. He mumbled to himself, until he came over and stood over me. "It seems I have miss judged your age my young patient."
"Dis ain't good mon ami." Gambit said to Logan as they sat in the control room watching the young recruits in a simulation. Logan merely grunted in response to his Cajun friend. "Éclair been gone fer three weeks now. He is one ta honor his deals. I do not like dis. He would be back by now if he knew dis place was safe." Remy explained as he shuffled cards at random while watching Serenity struggle with the simulation.
Logan glanced at what Gambit was watching. "It seems she and Laura got close to the sparkplug and his absence has caused plenty of trouble. Chuck has been looking for him, but the kid has not used his powers much and when he does, it is just about pointless. Chuck can't pin down his location." Gambit merely nodded to the older man while he continued to think and watch the students below.
After the simulation, the men started heading towards the Professor's office. They went in without knocking and took the chairs facing the bald man with his hands clasped in front of him. "Hello Logan and Remy to what do I owe the pleasure of your company?" The professor asked the two men who sat down before him uninvited. He chose to follow his own advice and stay out of the men's heads and not read their minds.
"We are worried about the kid Chuck. He has been gone too long and he has not checked in. Not even Furry knows where he is. Gumbo and I also noticed Sparky's absence has affected some of the students." Wolverine explained to the bald man who sat behind the desk in his wheelchair.
Greg came to landing on the ground as a blue mutant flew over me with metal wings. "I am Archangel and Dr. Windsor has decided to allow you to roam free while he observes you mutant." He called down to Greg before flying away. Greg did a quick personal inventory checking for injuries and anything else out of the normal.
Once he determined he had nothing wrong with him Greg started in towards the town that lay out before him. The town seemed familiar to Greg but he could not quite place it in the predawn light. He continued to walk without direction. He found peace in the simple movement of walking. Greg made it down to the center of the town before he noticed that he was barefoot. He chuckled and sat down on a small bench inside a park beside a set of train tracks. He rubbed his bare feet only slightly sore from walking the miles into the town. "Who and where am I?" He asked himself.
"You're Gregory and why in de Holy Mere's name are ya up and about while de rest of us were forced ta sleep? Not even Gabe is up yet!' George asked
"Who are you? And who is Gabe?" Greg asked rubbing his head. As he looked around making, sure nobody was around. Why was he doing that? Something in his gut said it was common but he did not know why.
'You filthy thief hurry up and get the area studied so I can point out the good stuff.' Gail complained to his twin brother.
"Who is that?" Greg asked as he scratched his head. The information was in his head, but for some reason he could not figure out who the voices were. Suddenly he noticed an older man heading towards a chess table he held a metal case under his arm. A yawn sounded in the back of his mind, but Greg barely noticed as he started to walk towards the chess table.
'Oh joy now Gabe is waking wait who the heck is that?' Greg asked, as he seemed to be searching for the right words. 'Which one are you, oh, you must be the thief experiment 26c and that makes you experiment 26d.' the pale figure nodded toward Gail paralyzing the assassin in fear. 'You three are interesting in the manifestation of experiment 26's powers but I am here to help keep the telepaths out of this space and see if he can become more by combining the three of you into one.' Dr. Sin, as the boys called him, explained to the frightened New Orleans twins.
Greg nodded toward the older man accepting an unspoken challenge to a friendly game of chess and acknowledging the voice. "So you want us to become memories and protectors for this Gabe person?" he said softly so that the old man would not hear him.
'That is what will happen wither you like it or not.' Dr. Sin explained.
One Week laterGambit wanted to swear up a storm as he listened to Henri tell him about a thief seeing Éclair a week ago playing chess with and beating one Erik Lensherr. Once He was off the phone Remy went to see Xavier.
Charles Xavier has never been known as an ill-tempered man but when a certain Cajun woke him up in the middle of the night by nearly breaking down his door. The Professor was not pleased, but he climbed into his wheelchair in order to sooth the raging Cajun just as he had been doing for the last month with both Gambit and Logan. "Xavier, I need ta know where yer old friend Monsieur Lensherr happens ta be right now. Little Éclair was with him last week." Gambit stated coldly to the bald man who was a mentor to most the students in the mansion.
Xavier took the new information calmly before he started to go towards Cerebro. Gambit followed the old man without waiting for an invitation. Xavier sat in his chair waiting before he called his old friend while trying to locate him at the same time.
Magneto answered the phone but used his powers to pull it towards him allowing Xavier to lock onto his old friend's position. "Charles to what do I owe this unexpected call?" The magnetic powered mutant asked.
Charles smiled to knowingly himself knowing that Erik would not resist him with Magneto's children resisting their father. Clearing his throat to stop Gambit from yelling at the phone Xavier began to speak to his old magnetic friend. "Erik it has been brought to my attention that last week you met with a young mutant for a friendly game of chess."
The phone began to shake from the magnetically powered mutant's anger. "Are you spying on me or my young friend who opens his games with a very distinctive move that is used by one of your students, the thief's gambit?" Magneto stressed as he used his powers to get his helmet from the closet. Unbeknownst Magneto he was being watched by the young confused electrical mutant that stood as his opponent in the game of chess the telepath happened to be referring.
Gabe was on his guard now that the voices in his mind were all but gone. He only had two others people in his mind now one a pale figure and his other half Greg who seemed to absorb both of the Cajun twins affecting his personality greatly. Both the two in his mind were by each other's sides constantly. Greg seemed to pale with each passing day as the good Doctor Sin seemed to be getting stronger but Gabe did not care much. The two men stopped speaking to him a few days ago allowing him to feel at peace in his own mind, something he had never felt before.
