The Pain Factory
Chapter 7
Creed carrying Nina entered the X-jet behind Beast. Thelma followed behind him. Looking around the jet cabin Creed was impressed by what he saw. Beast touched a panel on the wall and two medical units rose up from the floor.
"Mr. Creed, please place Nina on this bed and you get up on the other."
Creed did as Beast asked and gently laid Nina on the right-side medical unit bed and straightened out her arms and legs. He smoothed Nina's fur on her face and head and quietly said, "You're in good hands now kiddo. You're gonna to be alright."
Beast watched in amazement at seeing a side to Sabertooth that was out of character to the killer the X-men knew. Creed laid down on the left bed and glared at Beast and Thelma both and said, "I'm doing this for the kid. She needs a chance and I'm gonna give it to her. Let's get this over with!"
Quickly Beast brought out the blood transferal unit and hooked up Creed and Nina. In a few minutes Creed's life giving blood was flowing into Nina's parched veins. Creed laid still on the bed and closed his eyes. He could hear Beast moving around checking on both Nina's and his vitals with his scanner. Minutes passed slowly by and he dozed off. He startled awake when someone touched his head. He looked up and saw a pretty brown eyed brown hair woman taking his temperature by feeling his head with the back of her hand.
"Who are you? I thought I knew all of the X-Men?" He questioned.
"You know me, I'm Thelma. As there was no need for me to stay furred, Hank loaned me a spare uniform for me to wear. I thought I could help out with the critical cases that have been brought in. I use to be an ER nurse once upon a time."
Creed looked around the cabin and saw that there were five more medical units with patients on then. He then looked over to Nina and saw Beast checking her out. "How is she doing?"
Hank looked over at Creed and smiled. "She is still unconscious but has started responding to the healing factor in your blood. Her organs are no longer failing and have stabilized. Still, she is a very sick little girl and it is going to take time for her to fully recover from this ordeal. I was just about to remove the transferal unit from you two."
He did so and Creed sat up and got off the medical unit he was on. Thelma handed him a glass with orange juice in it and showed him a chair next to the unit Nina was on. He sat down on the chair and drank the juice while observing everything going on in the X-jet.
As Creed watched, Gambit carrying Wolverine slung over his shoulder followed by Shadowcat entered the jet through the open hatch. "Beast, Gambit here could use a little help. This here is one heavy guy!"
"Oh dear, I was afraid that this would happen!" Beast said as he rushed over to help Gambit with Logan. They laid him on the medical unit that Creed had laid on a short while before. Running the scanner over Logan, Beast checked out his friend's condition.
"Hank, is Logan going to be alright?" asked Kitty.
"Yes my dear girl. His collapse was the result of his healing factor being abused. He will be old self after some rest and recovery to allow his factor to recoup."
Cyclops and the rest of the X-men boarded the X-jet. Cyclops barked out a command. "Status"
"Both the humans and the mutants have gathered their dead and wounded with the exception of the critical cases here on board. There are no life signs left in the building not on the campus." Jean reported.
"All critical cases are stable and can be transported back to the mansion." Beast said.
"I have downloaded the complete files and have transmitted them back to our computer." Shadowcat added.
"Good. Storm take the jet up 50 feet and hover over the building." Cyclops commanded. Storm complied and soon the jet was hovering over the building.
Cyclops leaned out of the jet and fired a pulse of his ruby red optic blast at the building. The entire building started to glow with the ruby red light and imploded as Cyclops intensified his blast. After a couple of minutes the building was reduced to a fused mess of melted steel and concrete. Satisfied with his efforts, Cyclops backed away from the hatch and closed the door. He headed for the command pilot chair and sat down. Turning his head, he saw Sabertooth sitting between Nina and Logan's medical unit.
"Are you going to be a problem, Mr. Creed?" Cyclops questioned.
Sabertooth gave a toothfilled grin and shook his head. "I promise I will be on good behavior for now. Until Nina is feeling better and does not need me around, I will be a house cat."
"I will hold you to your word, Mr. Creed. Now people take your seats and let's head home." With those few words, Cyclops turned his head back to the controls and in a few moments the X-jet gained altitude and headed east toward the mansion leaving the remains of the Pain Factory behind.
