Hi, and here is episode 3, don't expect all my updates this quick I am simply writing this due to the fact that there is a festival going on across the road from me and I can't sleep, not that I have anything against festivals but it's the middle of the night for goodness sake, and I have exams!
SuperminionXD
P.S. I got bored of writing Kurt's accent so from now on I will just type it normally and you can imagine the accent.
'X-Men, report to the Danger Room'
I jump at the Professor's telepathic summon, I'm not very used to it yet.
"I, like, wonder what it is?" Kitty exclaims as we meet on our way to the sub levels,
"Storm says Logan's doing a demo" Scott comments as he and Kurt join us in the lift, Kitty edges away slightly.
The lift whirrs to life and we all get out at the right level and find the Danger Room control room. Jean and Storm are already there, Kurt hangs upside down and begins eating a bowl of popcorn I didn't even realise he had been holding. Kitty still seems wary of him; it's strange that she can cope with my physical mutation but not his. I hover into the air and cross my legs like you do in infant school; it looks almost like I'm levitating by meditation or something. Soon after the Professor brings up a video on the screen, it looks like a live feed and shows a black clothed figure dodging the weapons in the garden, it is slightly unnerving that there are guns there but apparently it is for our own protection. The figure manages to get into the mansion through an air vent, like in a spy film or something, he jumps over several LASERs and then he drops down and looks around suspiciously.
"Impressive, you got past the automated defences by going through the air vents" Storms voice comments as she steps from behind a wooden pillar which is strange since she's still in the room with us, "but you won't get past me!"
She causes a window to open and wind blows through the room, the invader jumps back up into the air vent.
"Testing me hmm? It's time you remember why they call me Storm" she shouts, her powers causing a lightening like aura around her. Dark clouds fill the previously blue sky and thunder rumbles, rain pours into the chimney flushing the figure down the air vent and into the danger room.
"You're looking a little flushed, and the forecast isn't good" Storm, the one with us, comments to the figure who tries to jump but is blasted by ice courtesy of her. He breaks free scattering ice everywhere.
"Now that was cold" he announces.
"Then let's warm you up" Storm suggests, guns unfold from the walls and fire at the intruder who dodges then unsheathes blades from his knuckles and proceeds to stab the gun with them causing it to electrocute him and throw him off, exploding in the process.
"Got any other party tricks?" he asks, the mechanism whirrs to life and a circle of the floor lifts up and extends some rotating claws. The figure dodges the spinning arms and rips the centre mechanism with his 'claws'.
"Stop! It is, at the moment, as much as we can afford, Wolverine" the Professor speaks over the microphone.
"Hey, when I give a demo, I give a demo" the figure shrugs and takes off his mask to reveal Wolverine, not that it wasn't obvious already.
"Was that Demo as in Demolish or Demonstration?" Scott asks, causing me to giggle slightly. "What was the point?"
"The point, young Cyclops, was to teach you something about finding the weak points in sophisticated security systems" Storm explains.
"That's right, bub, and I'd say ours needs a little work" Mr Logan says as he walks in to the control room.
"That was tight; I give it two thumbs up!" Kurt exclaims, failing to realise that he is upside down so his thumbs up are actually pointing down.
"The vents were pretty easily breached, maybe we should electrify it or install poison gas sprayers" Mr Logan suggests to Storm.
"Wolverine" Storm warns.
"Alright, alright, knock-out gas" he resigns.
"Is it just me or is anyone else, like seriously freaked by all this?" Kitty asks, on getting no response she continues, "Oh right, it's just me, great"
"Relax Kitty, you'll be fine!" Kurt comforts before teleporting next to her to jump, "We are right beside you!" he ports to her other side, "Popcorn?" she jumps away "Sorry, next time I'll honk before I port!"
"Whatever, look guys it's late, if it's no biggie to you, I'm gunna, like, drop out" Kitty announces then phases through the floor.
"She is fully not into the Fuzzy dude, not that I blame her" Kurt says downheartedly.
"It's ok, she just needs time Kurt, she'll come around" Jean comforts.
"X-men, we have an emergency, Scott get the Blackbird prepped for launch, and since it's a weekend assemble the full team" the Professor announces.
"What's the mission" Scott asks.
"Cerebro has detected a new mutant in Caldecott county, Mississippi, my mental impressions from the scene indicate a highly disturbed individual, this mutant is a danger to herself, and possibly others as well" the Professor explains, "X-men, we have a Rogue"
"Ok everybody ready?" Scott asks when we are all changed and in the Blackbird, everyone makes their various replies then he turns to me, "Laser?"
"Y-yes" I reply nervously, he smiles reassuringly but the others look at me strangely.
"You spoke!" Kurt exclaims, it was in fact the first time any of them, besides Scott and Mr Logan, had heard me speak, unless you count singing.
"Yes" I reply.
"But you never speak, the Professor said you didn't!" Kurt persists
"The Professor was correct, however I have decided that due to need for communication I will do so during missions and training" I inform them.
"If you're ready Kurt?" Scott asks.
"Yes sir!" Kurt exclaims before taking the controls and driving us down the underground runway and out the waterfall exit.
"Stealth mode stable, levelling off at 10000 feet" Kurt informs Scott.
"Ok, now hold it right there, and, you've got it, nice job Kurt!" Scott exclaims, "You'll make a pilot yet!"
"Thanks!" Kurt says as he leans back in the chair and begins directing the plane using his feet, which makes me feel worried.
"Or maybe not" Scott corrects himself, "I've logged our flight plan with the FAA, we're cleared through to Jackstone, we'll take the van from there"
"Good, you're picking up logistics quickly Scott" the Professor praises. Kitty and Jean begin debating Scott's cuteness for some reason and then suddenly Kurt teleports out of his seat. He reappears on the outside of the plane, standing with his arms spread out, but the wind blows him towards us, he 'ports mid fall and continues falling sideways only to land on Kitty who screams.
"The Blackbird is not the place to be fooling around" the Professor tells Kurt off, "You scared Kitty"
"Sorry Kitty" Kurt apologises
"Eew, just, like, stay away from me!" she exclaims undoing her seatbelt and walking to the front of the plane.
"Kids" Wolverine comments sarcastically.
"So does this bite or what?" Kitty asks as her, Kurt and I follow Wolverine as he tracks the Rogue
"The Prof says the girls mind is confused and difficult to pinpoint, so keep looking" Wolverine replies then he sniffs as if he can smell something.
"Vas? Got a scent?" Kurt asks.
"Yeah" Wolverine replies, "I smell fear"
We all run to keep up with him as he follows the scent, we quickly come across a gothic looking girl talking to a blind woman in an alley. The girl spots us and runs away leaving the woman holding a glove.
"That's gotta be her!" Wolverine exclaims and we run after the girl, I am out of breath and cannot run much more so I let myself float into the air and shoot after them, my glow lighting up the night.
"Wolverine, wait" Kurt exclaims after porting in front of him, "She seems to be terrified by you, let me try"
"Ok kid, just don't mess up, capeesh?" Wolverine agrees
"Yes sir!" Kurt salutes
So we go and find the girl while Wolverine goes back to find the Professor, and Kurt activates his hollowatch. Kitty and I are left behind as Kurt ports ahead. We catch up and find Kurt talking to the girl.
"She doesn't look so tough to me!" Kitty comments then she proceeds to jump on the girl pinning her to the ground, she escapes somehow. Kurt tries to stop her but in her struggles she deactivates his inducer causing him to be once again blue and furry. She shrieks and pushes him away but in the process touches his face with her bare hand, then something strange happens, they both scream as if they are in pain then she ports in the exact way Kurt does and Kurt falls to the ground unconscious. Both me and Kitty rush to his aid.
"Nightcrawler? Nightcrawler!" Kitty shouts as she tries to shake him awake, "Nightcrawler! Kurt?"
What do we do? Is he ok? I think franticly, come on first aid or something, what are you supposed to do when someone collapses, is he even alive? How do I tell that?
"Say something Kurt, tease me, scare me, anything!" Kitty frets, "Please don't be dead"
Wait pulse. I bend over and take hold of Kurt's wrist and, taking off his glove and mine, try to find a pulse under his blue fur. Relief floods through me as I do.
"He has a pulse" I tell Kitty, she also seems relieved.
"But what do we do? Think, what would Wolverine do, besides dice up half the landscape" Kitty says more to herself than me.
"Wait the Professor can read minds, maybe he can hear our thoughts" I suggest
"It's worth a try" Kitty agrees, she concentrates some time passes in silence, "they're coming! But shouldn't we, like, try to help him while we're waiting?"
"Try putting him in recovery position" I suggest, remembering when a girl in my class had fainted in P.E. we both roll him over onto his side.
"Come on Kurt, wake up!" Kitty tries again to wake him, "You know I'm still not great with facial hair but, like, the pointy ears are starting to work for me!"
"Alright, let's get the Elf back to the Prof" Wolverine says while vaulting over the fence, he picks up Kurt "Half-pint, Nightlight, follow behind"
He turns and vaults back over the fence while still holding Kurt, Kitty and I follow, Kitty phases through the fences whereas I fly over them. Suddenly the sky fills with clouds and lightning flashes.
"Storm?" Kitty asks.
"That's not Storm" Wolverine replies, nodding at the figure of the girl with the clouds swirling around her, I hear a crash but then it all stops, the clouds dissipate and the girl's figure disappears. We catch up with the Professor who leads us to Scott, Jean and Storm.
"What do you think happened to the Rogue?" Scott asks
"She's gone, somewhere" the Professor replies "her mind is a jumble, I can't trace it but I strongly suspect the hand of another in here"
"Mystique" Wolverine says darkly, "She can change her body but not her scent"
"Then we have to go after her!" Kitty exclaims
"There's been enough damage done today and the girl must come of her own free will or not at all" the Professor explains, "Let us attend to our own"
At that moment both Kurt and Storm wake up.
"Looks like I missed quite a party" Kurt comments on seeing the destroyed landscape.
"Kurt, you're alright!" Kitty exclaims running up to him, he almost falls over again, "Easy you fuzzy elf, everything is going to be just fine"
She hugs his arm causing him to look even more confused and making me giggle slightly. I was glad we could all be friends now.
Hi, I finished the chapter, it is now the next afternoon and you'll be pleased to know I did get some sleep XD. I hope it is ok, I am trying to get Fliss to speak more, I may even get round to explaining why she doesn't.
Bye for now
SuperminionXD
