Less than an hour later Kurt was signaling Aimee to help with the landing. Even with her best help the X-Jet still took down afew trees. "Damn! I knew-" Aimee cut Scott off. "I'd told you it'd be tight." Cyclops sullenly pushed the button to open the jet door and the door opened with the sound of metal and wood. The door finally opened as much as it would, hanging lopsided. "Kurt-" "On it!" Nightcrawler said, teleporting to the roof of the jet to inspect the damage. "There's damage to the right hinge." Those in the jet filed outside to get a better look. "We'll probably be able to close it once and get it home but I don't think it'll do more then that." The grim look on Scott's face prompted Aimee to shadow up the nearest tree. "May I take a look" Aimee called down from her branch. With a nod from Kurt Aimee gracefully dropped to the jet's roof.
The rod that held the three parts of the hinge was broken and one of the parts were bent out of shape. "Remy I need your bo." "Mah bo? You gonna leave meh bo?" "Remy, you don't even know what mah bo, can do." Gambit tossed up the bo, which Aimee tried to twist open. Being unsuccessful she began beating the bo against the jet. Ignoring Scott's and Gambit's cries of protest the Shadow Girl manged to loosen a compartment inside the bo and pulled out a thin piece of metal. Rooting around in her bag a bit Aimee pulled out a hot pink liquid in a small test tube which she handed to Kurt. "Where'd you get that bag, Mary Poppins?" Kurt asked laughing nervously; as Aimee put on a large pair of leather gloves. "Should I be holding this...?" The Canadian rolled her eyes, taking the test tube in question, uncorked it and put a few drops on to the piece of metal. A small hiss sounded and the metal become pliable enough to rap around the hinge. "That'll do until we go back." Kurt and Aimee teleported to the ground together and Aimee tossed the bo back to Gambit. "Did you scratch the X-Jet?" Scott asked alarmed. "Not compared to the hinge." Aimee replied tartly. Cyclops eyed the hinge wearily, but it closed successfully.
"Okay, listen up team!" Scott called finally turning his back to the plane. "According to the Professor and Jean there are five robots in the area, three to the north east and and two to the north west. Aimee what do you know about the terrain?"
"The east is rather flat with a lot of small lakes, and the west is more rocky with random slopes, I also wouldn't drink the water to the west." "Alright, Kurt's team is going east, My team will go west, meet back here by sundown or when all the robots in your area have been accounted for."
The teams headed out and after twenty minuets Gambit's team found the first robot which was no doubt made by Magneto. As Aimee did her best to draw a picture of wrinkly looking robot constructed from one piece of metal; before she was done Tabby pointed down the hill they were standing to where a crude robot was sticking it's head into a puddle.
Scott asked Tabby to try and snap what could be called the robot's neck but because of the angle and Boom Boom's enthusiasm the robot was blown to pieces. After rummaging though the debris Cyclops's declared there was nothing salvageable and they moved on.
Four hours later, Gambit, Kurt and Kitty's group found all they're robots and were heading back to the jet. Since the other group was bring back an almost intact robot for analyzing back in New York. Scott called it a day and they headed back to the meeting spot.
"Wait!" the group leading said suddenly in a hushed tone, pointing now to the edge of a small stream. Tabby lighted a small bomb as she saw the last of the robots but Scott signaled for her to de-power it. Crouching down Cyclops was able to sever it's neck with an optic blast.
But to the surprise of all of them the robot with nothing but it's body and two legs turned tail and sprinted away.
Thinking quick Aimee shadowed in front of the robot and scooped it up in her arms. But the water friendly robot was not without defenses and began scratching her with the claws attached to it's legs. "Hold still!" Scott called hand on his visor. "Dah ya Dare!" Aimee yelled back, her face clearly whiter. They had to do something, the claws were ripping though the Canadian's many layers and into her flesh. "Just hold still" Tabby said rushing forward creating two very small bombs and quickly broke the robot's legs. Aimee stood still just long enough to drop what was left of the robot into Tabatha's arms and shadowed twenty feet back and shiver like someone had just dangled spiders in front of her face.
Aimee remanded silent until they were all back at the Jet and loading the robots into the cargo area. "Can I see the other robot really quick?" Kurt gladly handed it over. Aimee ran her hands all over the body of the robot and called over Scott.
"There's something different about our robot" Aimee said showing him a quarter sized smooth area. "Remy, I need your powers" Aimee said, digging though her bag and pulling out a sewing needle. "You need mah powers?" Gambit asked smirking. Ignoring his remark Aimee stuck the needle into the small disk and Gambit shocked it causing the top part of the metal came off to reveal a small computer. Placing the needle within the microchip Gambit zapped it again and Aimee handed it to Cyclops and said "Monsieur Professur will want to see this".
This is really crappy sorry, it goes up here I promise.
