AN: He guys!!! Here's the next chapter. I have a feeling it'll be a bit long, but who cares. R&R my peeps. :)
Chapter 8: Freedom
"What do you mean you don't know how to land!"
"Ah told ya, simulation. Never got ta learn how ta land."
"Crap."
"Question."
"What?"
"Is that guy gonna wake up? Ah see em movin."
"Simple answer. I'll just whack him in the head again."
"Don't that cause aneurysms?"
"Who cares?"
"Right."
"Finally!"
"What?"
"Head east, I see land."
In the back of the helicopter the soldier opened his eyes in spastic flutters. He seen to small female figures in the pilot and co-pilot chairs.
He reached into his vest, pulled out a small silver canister, got up from his seat behind them.
The two girls didn't notice a tall shadow coming from behind them until he put his hands around Rogues eyes and pulled her head back into the headrest of the pilot chair.
"AAHH!"
"Get off her!" X jumped from her seat and tackled the soldier out of the cockpit. The helicopter dipped down then veered off to the side.
"Get em!"
X and the soldier slammed against the walls of the chopper. X crashed into the red lever that opened the door.
A strong wind entered the cabin and took all three by shock. Rogue panicked and jerked the joy stick causing both X and the soldier to fall out.
X was able to climb in. I guess all that training was useful, I guess. She looked down on the man staring up at her with wide frightened eyes.
His black hair whipped in the strong winds as his honey eyes begged to be helped. He did not want to die in freezing ice water. X walked up to him and was about to step on his gloved fingers and sent him to his icy death.
"NO!" Rogue looked back from her chair at X. "Don't ya dare. X, we can use em."
"He'll kill us." Her words were venomous as she hissed them down towards him.
"He's at our mercy. X pull em in!"
Outrage crossed X's face as she heard the older girl yell back to her a duplicitous demand. "NO!"
"If ya save em X, he owes ya his life. A lotta people hold that higher then loyalty; ya save em he'll have no choice but ta help."
The words she said sounder wrong to X, but the older girl had more experience with people then she did. She didn't want to deep down, but there was something deeper inside of her that told her that Rogue was right, she needed to save him.
He was holding onto the rail under the helicopter by his fingertips when she grabbed him by the wrist. "You better be grateful for this." His eyes grew even wider as she began to pull him up into the safety of the cabin. This mutant... no this girl had saved his life. She let him live.
"So, how is our progress going?" Trask looked over to the Cerulean blue eyes of Dylan Nash. They were red and irritated. She had learned two hours ago that her brother was taken by those horrible mutants.
Trask had told her that he was already dead if they had gotten their hands on him.
-flashback-
"I am so very sorry Nash... Dylan, do you need anything. Name anything."
"What?! No, no it can't be. Not my brother, not Ben." The tears streamed down her bloodless cheeks, the shock of hearing that 'those dangerous mutants' had her brother.
Trask put his hand on her shoulder, in mock comfort. "Dear, we will get those damned mutants. If your brother is alive, we'll find him. If not, when we find them I'll let you have your time with them."
"How would that do anything?"
"You could exact your revenge. You could kill them."
Kill them...
Kill them...
Kill them...
-end of flashback-
Kill them...
"How are we going to find them?"
"That is not my problem. My problem is getting them back here as least harmed as possible."
"What are talking about? Least harmed?"
"Why?" His honey eyes were plagued with the question.
"What!" X was conflicted, angry but not angry.
"You pulled me in. Why?"
"Wasn't my idea." She looked over to Rogue.
He looked over to the bald headed girl. "Hey." She looked back for a second. "Why did you tell her to save me."
Rogue looked down at the joy stick at her frail looking hand. "Sometimes we need ta be saved. If ah was in your position ah'd hoped someone woulda done the same fa me."
The look on his face was careful and thankful to the girl in the pilot seat. "But aren't... don't mutants... want humans dead?"
In her seat X almost busted into laughter. "Where the hell do you come from." He raised an eyebrow at her question. "Come on. I haven't been around normal people or mutants long and I know that's a..."
Rogue looked over at the young girl getting the gist of what she was going to say. "X!"
"What?!"
"He don't know. Don't go and ridicule the poor guy."
"Why? He has it coming with such a stupid question."
"Ah can't believe ya."
"What!?"
"You are definitely letting it show ya weren't raised by anyone." A growl escaped the young girls lips. "Ooh, ah'm so scared, ah'm shakin in my tattered gown."
"Ladies? Maybe you should postpone this fight until we are safely on the ground."
The two girls glared at each other making a silent agreement. "Did you figure out how to land it yet?" X asked through her teeth.
"Kinda. Ah jus gotta figure out what buttons what, an we'll be fine."
"Buttons?" A male voice came from behind them.
"Hey, ya never been in this thing?"
"Once." He admitted. "I never got to see them fly it."
"Start pressing things then."
"NO! Don't touch any of em!"
"Why?"
"These things sometimes have locator's. If ya switch the wrong button they'll probably be able ta find us faster."
"What do you mean find you. You're participants gone nuts."
In unison the girls yelled "WHAT!"
"None a us are here by will."
The shock spread across his face like wildfire. "But they said..."
"We were taken. We would of never have come here wanting to come here."
"You...No..."
"Yes. Ah got inta a fight with my family an jumped on the ducati an drove away ta clear my head. The bastards ran me off the road, last thing ah remembered was seein my own blood in my eyes an... an ah passed out."
"Why would Mr. T..."
"He's evil! That's why." X was unemotional almost disconnected from what happened.
"He helped me and my... Dylan?!"
"Who's Dylan?"
"My sister. She's a... a... a mutant."
"Is she the blond?"
"Blue eyes, about 5'8''?"
"Yeah, sure. They called her Nash."
"That's our last name."
"I guess it was her then."
"Ya might wanna strap yaselves in, we're gonna land. It ain't gonna be pretty."
The three of them strapped themselves onto the chairs. Rogue wasn't sure how to land it right, but she sure was gonna try.
She lowered the helicopter close to the ground. She tried to remember anything from those training sessions with Logan on the f aux chopper. The joy stick stuck on her tattered gown and she began to pull it free, she pulled with all her might and the downward thrust of the joy stick made the helicopter slam into the ground.
The glass broke into thousands of tiny pieces and the metal was dented and twisted. The helicopter was unable to fly, destroyed.
The red lights flashed all throughout the base. No one was escaping. What was happening?
"What the hell is going on!"
"Sir, someone hacked our defenses again. They're messing with our alarm system, we can't get them out without Ben Nash."
"Do something! If someone finds out what's happening here, you'll pay for not having stopped it in time."
"Sir, please. I don't have the skill to do such a task."
"Find someone who does then!" Trask seethed. His blood pressure skyrocketed as he sat in his dark office.
"Kitty?"
"Yeah?"
"What are you doing?"
"Nothing, like I was trying to get through this weird defense system located in Antarctica."
"Antarctica?"
"I totally know it's probably like some global warming research team, but I need to do something."
"Kitty, it's been a year."
"SO! I'm not going to like give up on my best friend, Scott."
"The professor said."
"He wasn't sure. He can't tell. There was no way of telling, she's out there."
"But, the professor said... he said there's a possibility that..."
"Don't you dare! I swear if you say it... I'll... I'll... I'll never forgive you." The tears began to well into Kitty's big blue eyes clouding her vision of the computer screen.
"Kitty I... I don't want to believe it. If she was we would've found something."
"She could be hiding." She choked out her words as the tears rushed down her cheeks. Her tear drops fell upon the keyboard, she didn't want to hear anything about Rogue not still being alive.
-flashback-
The last thing they found of her was at the crash site. The bike was totaled and there was scraps all over.
A stone wall surrounded it's house. It protected it's home from the assault of a body being thrown at going 30 mph.
There was a blood stain that no one could look at decorating the wall. The place of impact was the outer edge of of the wall. It smashed the face shield in onto her face. It had to have felt horribly painful. The plastic shards being thrown into her face with such force. Kitty shuttered.
It had looked so dark and eerie that day. She remembered before they found out there was an accident it had been such a beautiful December day.
It had just started snowing when the professor told them to suit up. They didn't know until Wolverine briefed them once they had gotten to the site. It had gotten suddenly darker.
Kitty tried to shake the memory, but it kept coming. Kitty couldn't breathe. She couldn't even imagine what Kurt must have felt at the moment. He was her younger brother, he must have felt like he was dieing inside.
Every hospital in a twenty mile radius, none had gotten a girl in her late teens that had been hit by a car on a motorcycle. Wolverine, Jean and the Professor personally checked every hospital for any trace of her. But, in every hospital they turned up with nothing.
"Where could she have gone" was all anyone could ask. They even pressed their luck and reported her missing.
The police wouldn't help once they learned she was a mutant. No one was human enough to help find a teenage girl who was horribly wounded, possibly dieing. None even looked up into their faces, the faces of a family missing one of its children.
How could they be so cold? How could you hate a child you never met so much? Could you have let a child die, if you were asked for help in saving a young girl, would you?
The professor sat in his place with the fear of losing one of his own in such a horrible way. The thought made it to hard to breathe. He asked them to help, to save an innocent girl who would have helped any number of them without them having to ask. His heart broke all he could think was why?
-end of flashback-
Kitty shut down the computer. Her heart hurt. All she wanted to do was help, helping find her best friend made it easier to sleep at night in their empty room. Her things are still in their places from where she left them on December 18th of last year.
A Year...
One whole year...
Not even a year... 16 months... She had to be dead... if she wasn't why didn't she come back home?
AN: So what do you think??? SO, I had to bring in our little computer genius, who else woulda hacked a complex computer defense system??? My first one with more x-men. It was a spur of the moment thing, I didn't plan it, it just happened. R&R Please X.(
