Dark Horizons
This is my fifth fan fic using the Elder Brothers, but its set in an alternate universe and I don't own any of the Marvel X-Men, Fantastic Four, or Avenger characters. This version of them is purely fictional. No profit is being made on this fan fiction and I don't own anything anyway. In my movie verse, Victor and James never worked for Stryker. Scott, Jean, Deathstrike, John Wraith, and the Professor are all alive and well. This is the sequel to A Blast from the Past. This is part of the Packs and Clans Universe.
I would also like to give a special thanks to GypsyWitchBaby for letting me borrow her Lupa character. She is a bit different here, but it's the same Lupa you'll all know and love from The Feral and The Dreaming Animal.
The Marvel and OC role call for this story. All of the OC characters, Packs, and Clans are creations of my crazy little mind.
The Elders: Sabertooth (AKA: Victor) – Mated to Wolf Girl (AKA: Lupa), Wolverine (AKA: James) – Mated to Deathstrike (AKA: Yuriko) , Black Bear (AKA: Old Man)– Mated to White Bear (AKA: Pinky) , Dragon Fly (AKA: Helena) – Mated to Rector Scale (AKA: Frank), T-Rex (AKA: Rex) – Mated to Portal (AKA – Odessa), Medusa (AKA: Snakes – a Split Beast) – Mated to Fang, Tigress (AKA: Aria) – Mated to Glitch (AKA: Eli), Witch Doctor (AKA: Haggar – a Split Beast) – Mated to TBD, Seer (AKA: Mahvep) – Mated to TBD, Wild Thing (AKA: Hannock) – Mated to TBD, Hammer Head (AKA: Hanse) – Mated to Shockwave (AKA: Lilo), Grizzly (AKA: Gary) – Mated to TBD, and Mad Dog (AKA: Banger) – Mated to Shimmer (AKA: Luna)
The Hunters in this story: Switchblade, Snake Eyes, Mace, Mirage, Drop Zone, Dupper, Seaweed, Pile Driver, Frogger, Taz and Jaz (identical twins and jokesters), Ghost, Scanner, Fire Fox, and Gateway
The Humans' in Project Wideawake: Dr. Deborah Hines, Oliver Trasker, and Dr. Watts.
Other Ferals at the School or in the Packs: Night Wing (AKA: Malcolm – Rex's old son, a Split Beast, and a Hunter), Neala (A Flasher), Emma (Neala's Mother), Red Wing (AKA: Sonja or Sony – a Split Beast and Tony's Twin), Black Wing (AKA: Anthony or Tony – a Split Beast and Sony's Twin), Crawler (AKA: Charlotte) - Mated to Beast (AKA: Hank), Thunder Cat (AKA: Ditu) – Mated to Storm (AKA: Ororo), Oracle (AKA: Narcissi – Charlotte's older Sister and the only tri-animal Split Beast around), Merlin – former Elder now deceased (Witch Doctor leads this Pack now) – Mated to Mirror – also deceased, Falcona – former Elder, Traitor, and deceased (Seer now leads this Pack) – Mated to Hawk, Tabitha or Tabby and Liza (both 11 years old and the two feral female children rescued from Stryker's facility now a member of Black Bear's Pack), Battering Ram: (AKA: Murdock – 14 year old male feral from Hammer Head's), Lion-o: (AKA: Cedric – 13 year old male feral from Hammer Head's Pack). Two more Feral children are at the school. They are all TBD at the moment.
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I'm in the process of finding a beta reader. This is does not have a beta reader. There will be spelling, grammatical, and context errors. I'm writing these stories for pure pleasure and my own brand of therapy from the real world. I am Dyslexic and truly can't "see" some of the glaring errors that offend some readers. If you can't stand spelling mistakes, grammatical error, and words used in the wrong context – my stories might not be for you. If you are interested in being a beta reader, please let me know.
Summary: Trouble has arrived. Will the Clans, Packs, and the X-Men survive? Or will project Wideawake destroy them all? This is the sequel to Blast from the Past. This is part of The Clans and Packs Series.
Chapter 11: Plans, Meetings, and Dens
When Yuri and Drop Zone returned, Victor, Haggar, Charlotte, and Rex were still outside laughing on the deck. Yuri went into the house with the food. She put it in the small kitchenette. She didn't scent Jimmy in the house. She followed his scent and found him a about a mile down on the beach. He was standing over some rocks overlooking a water alcove.
He had his sketch book out. His eyes were still Amber. He smiled and turned to her as she approached. "Fun with Rat Bird you have Little Cat Mate? Bring her feathers for me?"
Yuri held out Sonja's tail feathers for her Mate's inspection. He was smiling and pulled her to him sniffing at her neck. Yuri found herself tilting her head back and giving Jimmy more access to her neck. His scent had a wild hint of spice to it and she found that she liked it. Jimmy put down both the tail feathers and his sketch book. Two wolves sat down by the items. The others sat on top of the rocks facing the beach house.
Jimmy's eyes were still Amber but they now had rolling Feral Black dots in them. His sharp teeth were on her neck and he was nipping and licking her Mate-Mark. She was finding it hard to think straight at the moment. His tone was playful but she could feel and smell the lust coming from him. "Swim with me my Little Cat Mate?"
Yuri's own eyes turned Feral Black and she tossed her clothes by the feathers and ran for the water. Jimmy growled and stripped out of his own clothes after making a whining sound in his throat. The wolves would see to it they were not disturbed. He followed his Mate into the water. The new sketches could wait until he had some private time with his Mate.
Back at the Beach House (same time):
The others re-entered the house and found them both gone. They followed Yuri's scent out to the Beach. A quick look and sniff down the Beach and they located the couple in the rock enclosed alcove. All of Jimmy's wolves were sitting on top of an outer bank of rocks overlooking the alcove. Rex and Victor could both see the pile of clothes on top of some other things. They all noted the wolves facing them showing bared teeth, but making no sound. They all took the hint and left the couple to their privacy.
Rex suggested they use the time to repair the beach house. Charlotte had Drop Zone take her back to Tasha. F7's real name was Tasha. She was making some good progress, but she was going to be staying with the Clans Council for now. Tasha was most comfortable with both Charlotte and Yuriko. Hank and Charlotte were moving around as well. Hank's talents were being used to figure out that Mutant Suppression collar. If they could neutralize it, then it would be a none factor in a fight.
By the time, Jimmy and Yuri got back from their swim, the bedroom officially had a patio complete with sliding doors. Haggar had cooked the food and they all shared an evening meal. Lupa teleported out with Gateway. There was more news from the data feeds. Jimmy sniffed both of them up close and personal like, but didn't object to their presents.
In fact to Gateway, Jimmy said. "At Pier you were, hurt you I did. No mean to hurt. Better now you are?"
Gateway inclined his head. "It was not your fault Elder and it's not worth mentioning again. I would like to see Yuriko's 'Word' with Red Wing when Scanner has some free time." Everyone smiled again.
Lupa reported. "Doctor Hines is now moving to what she calls stage 1. She wants to test the Sentinels against real targets in the United States. She's going to select her target from anyone who registered their child or themselves willingly with the Mutants Affairs board. We weren't able to corrupt all the files before she hacked the system, so she has a target population of a hundred or so Mutants. They are mostly children, who's parents fear them. Can we use the Hunters to stop the Sentinels? The children wouldn't stand a chance against those things."
Victor was getting ready to answer, when Jimmy growled out. "No need Hunters we use. Bald No Legs - contact Cubs and Pups with head. Pick up those who run as told. Target for metal robots grown. Tell GI Man & Four Fantastic to run now. They are targets test for the Lab Bitch. Leave home now or die. Go to One Patch's flying boat. Victor set up meeting with One Patch and Widow Pup...only they know of it...snakes are close to them and snakes have many ears. Warn them of Trouble."
Jimmy pulled out his sketch book. It showed the Sentinels ransacking several empty half way houses for runaways. They didn't find their targets. No Mutant children were left. It showed the Black Bird in the distance flying away.
The other sketch showed both the Baxter building and the Avenger headquarters in flames. Destroyed by 15 to 20 Sentinels with only The Thing and Captain America surviving the attack and being taken away collared.
Another showed Nick Fury, the Fantastic Four, Captain America, Black Widow, a few other Avengers, Victor, James, and of the other Elders having a meeting. The were all at Black Bear's old Pack location at the underground in the shelter.
Jimmy's last sketch was of a device. It looked like several circles within circles and was built into the floor. The floor circles and push wheels were connected to generators. Some of the push wheels were 'powered' by livestock or pets getting walked and others by Adult Feral's or Children playing. It was a self powered generator on a massive scale. Jimmy had a few different versions of it: the self powered one, a solar power one, wind power, and water power (both above and underground). He had the names of the Elders by different versions and every Pack location was to have the self powered one in the common area. Victor and Rex both saw how simplistic the concept was and yet it was brilliant at the same time. Pack members could provide power to the generator and get exercise. It was a fail safe if they couldn't go to the surface or connect to any of their backup power plants.
Jimmy continued as they looked at the last sketch. "Victor get Egg Heads in Pack to build me this now - in all Packs underground dens with No Eyes and Ghost Girl. Tell and show Clans Cubs and Pups. Trouble begins now."
Jimmy was yawning again. His teeth didn't show any indication of dulling, but he was talking better in his fully Feral mode. It was actually giving Victor some ideas. Jimmy was a lot faster when he was Feral. If they could figure a way for him to go Feral and stay calm in a fight. They would have a winning combination.
Jimmy and Yuri were staying at the Beach House. Jimmy still didn't want to be around Lupa or the Pack. Tank and Mace were the Hunters assigned for the night. Haggar made sure that both Yuri and Jimmy understood they were to attach the Flash monitor at bedtime. Yuri agreed and everyone headed back to the Packs.
In the Morning:
At the Clans Council meeting, Victor was just calling the meeting to order. Everyone was seated and the doors openned. Jimmy and Yuri entered the room with two wolves. Victor was a bit surprised but then he saw Jimmy's sketch book in his clawed hand. Jimmy's eyes were still Amber, but they weren't as bright as they had been yesterday. His head still moved slightly from side to side. He took his seat to the right of Victor. Yuri was about to get a chair and Jimmy just pulled her on his lap.
While it wasn't inappropriate and was one of Victor and Lupa's preferred seating positions before she was carrying; it wasn't one that Jimmy and Yuri used out in public much. Yuri was conservative for lack of a better word. The Little Cat was currently beet red while sitting in her Mate's lap. Everyone present wisely chose not to mention it. Jimmy had a very pronounced wild smell emanating from his person at the moment and would take any ribbing regarding his Mate as a challenge. There was no doubt he had come to the Clans Council meeting for a reason.
Victor requested updates. Hank kicked off that part of the meeting. He had actually never seen James with sharp teeth or claws since he had been busy trying to save Yuriko's life at the time. The transformation fascinated him, but he knew James would most likely not appreciate any inquiries about it right now. "We believe we may have a viable option to neutralize the mutant suppression collars. They work on electric magnetic pulses that suppresses the wearer's X Factor. We believe they can also be counter acted the same way. We need the Council's permission to build a live model of the collar to test this theory. What say you?"
"The proposal has been submitted and requires a second?" Victor stated.
Medusa hissed. "I second the proposal submitted by Mad Dog's Pack."
"It's been moved and has a proper second. What say you?" Victor said. Everyone agreed. Jimmy's consent was growled, but
Victor let it slide.
Seer was next to speak. "Neala and Tony were both Flashing last night. Neala believes the robots have been given a target. Tony believes we will be betrayed from within, but doesn't know by who at this time."
Victor turned to Jimmy. Yuri was still embarrassed about their seating arrangement but was holding her tongue as well. "Ya got something ta add or do ya want ta show the sketches from last night?"
"Show Clans Cubs and Pups pictures and explain; then I add new one." Jimmy speech was still choppy, but it was faster.
Victor showed the sketches of the halfway house, the Fantastic Four and Avenger Headquarters in flames, the meeting with SHIELD, and the machine Jimmy wanted built.
Hank, Hanse, and Hannock were all studying the blueprint for the machine. It was very detailed but a very simple concept at heart. It would ensure all the Packs had power and they could make as much as they wanted with their own sweat.
Jimmy's Amber eyes reflected the morning light. It looked like they were glowing. Yuri pulled out the latest sketch. It showed Nick Fury surrounded by snakes. The snakes had Human faces. Jimmy knew who some of the spies where in Fury's organization. They were six of them, but two were very close to the top and one was a known entity to them. The Mutant Hawkeye had been brainwashed by one of Doctor Hines' telepaths. He too had a kill switch installed in his head. They could see him in the Lab having the metal plates put in his head with a dead eyed telepath's eyes glowing over him. Doctor Hines was telling the telepath what to do via a device.
They were going to have to proceed with care. Hawkeye was an Avenger, but he had been compromised. Both Tony and Neala had been correct and Jimmy was picking up on it as well.
Jimmy growled. "Hawk-man betray GI Man and Four Fantastic to stop Bring One Patch and Widow Pup here now. Hawk-man will try ta kill One Patch soon. Only bring Widow Pup and One Patch here use Gate Popper. Tell One Patch 'Sky is falling again' come he will with no question. Hawk-man needs fixing. Bald No Legs or Spider Sisters fix him. Hawk-man leak lies to Lab Bitch for us. Want One Patch alive. Helpful in fight with giant robot with brain. Other close snake also fix. Others watch and leave for now. If fix all Lab Bitch makes more drones. Shit Head change game One Patch other four snakes Human with factor X - not Mutants, but offsprings Mutants they be if born."
All the Elders were listening and while not all of them understood who was which person, most had figured out who James was referring to in his explanation. Victor summarized it for everyone. "The proposal has been submitted to contact Nick Fury and Black Widow of SHIELD. We would alert him of the spies in his organization and warn our other allies - The Fantastic Four and the Avengers. We would also work with the X- Men and collect the compromised Mutant children. Lastly we would assist in fixing the compromised Avenger Hawkeye with either Chucky or Narcissi and Charlotte. The proposal needs a second? What say you?"
Dragon Fly gave the second. All the Elders agreed. Jimmy growled his agreement again. He turned to Hammer Head, but said to the group. "Come now, I show Fish Boy new attack den. Underwater den, good place no one find it in fight. Egg Heads fix den, but first Twin Split Birds will make den ok to build in for us. I will show them how with Yellow Shit. First see den for selves. Bring all Splits to new den with us. Rat Bird, Horse Bird, Rat Snake, and some of Clan Pups and Cub and Watchers will make fire to fix it. Come I show now. Gate Popper take us to Beach Den and I will take all Cubs and Pups from there."
"OK - it looks like we're taking a field trip kiddies. Scanner? Let Night Wing know Oracle should teleport all of them to the Beach House." While Victor wasn't sure where they were going, he knew Jimmy had a knack for finding really good Hunter's Dens to create a base of operation. Most were hidden in plain sight and yet you didn't know they were there at all.
Gateway teleported the group of Elders and their Hunters. Oracle did the same with the Split Beast working on the Pier. Jimmy walked to the waters edge along the rock alcove. His eyes turned a Steel Grey and he raised his arms. They moved around his body in a random pattern. His head was going from side to side but four giant humpback whales appeared in the water along with a fleet of dolphins in the water alcove.
He stepped on the backs of two dolphins; the dolphins moved perfectly together in the water and Jimmy was a short way from the rocks. Several more set of dolphins waited for the other Ferals to get on them. Those that could fly did so as well. Several Ferals were in awe and Beast's "Oh, My Stars and Garters" was heard.
Upon reaching the whales, they opened their huge mouths and everyone got in. Wolverine growled out to the Ferals in the other three whales. "Make light you can do in Giant Friend. No make fire or hot stuff; spit you all out they will. Victor make Orange Shit. I tell Giant Friends and Small Grey Friends where to go underwater." His hands were glowing with his Yellow light to show them how to make a light orb. Narcissi, Dragon Fly, and Witch Doctor all followed suit in their respective whales. Victor made an orange orb in the whale and Jimmy continued to move his hands as the whale moved.
It was about a 30 minute trip by whale. They could feel the whales were going very fast. Faster than normal, but the did have their blow holes closed, so the Ferals inside their mouths could breathe the air.
The whales surfaced in an underground cave. It was massive. They were by the big island based on the sulfur smell of the lava flows. You could see the red glow of the lava flow in one section of the cave. Jimmy's Yellow light lit up the massive cave. They could easily house two to three entire packs in here if needed once they fixed it up. Since they were under or near the Big Island lava flow no one would ever think to look for them here. It was perfect.
Jimmy's light outlined the lava flow and they split into some new directions the lava wasn't going naturally along the cavern ceiling and flowed down to the cavern floor. The pillars down to the floor were evenly spaced out throughout the cavern. There were several large areas sectioned off the could be used for storage, weapons, training, or other purposes.
He turned to Sony and Tony. Sony was doing her best not to draw Jimmy's attention. He growled at them. "Owe me Blood you do Rat Bird. No collect Blood today. Now Twins move Red Glow to match my Yellow Shit. Fix walls make them stronger. Fix now Split Birds."
Hanse was an mechanical engineer in the Human world. He understood what James wanted to do and it was an excellent way to reinforce the cavern structure using the natural lava flow. "Scanner? Link the Twins to me. I know what the Elder Wolverine wishes to do with the lava. Elder? I am correct you wish all of the fire breathers to turn the lava pillars to stone along the cavern walls and floor."
"Yes, Fish Boy. Rock you make out of Red Glow pillars. Strong Den we will have when done. Fight robots from here. Hide Females, Cubs, Pups, Hatchlings if needed."
Everyone got to work and soon the cavern had been reinforced with the lava rock. The cavern was still massive but it now had a reinforced walls the thickness of a football field. It was a natural barrier to any electronic detection the robots might have built into them. The twins had left several air tunnels and created some new ones under Hanse's direction. These would all be equipped with air filtration devices. James intended this to be a Hunters Den. A place they would launch attacks from against the Sentinels.
Hank was saying. "We'll need to construct some underwater crafts to transport those of us who can't summon a breathing ship."
Jimmy growled out. "Blue Butt right. Egg Heads build me this shape." Again. Jimmy's hands started to move again and again his eyes changed from Amber to Steel Gray. The largest manta ray that any of them had ever seen in life surfaced in the natural water inlet of the cavern. The creature was easily 25 feet long and had to weight close to 5,000 pounds. It was the same size as Malcolm in his dragon form but much wider. The four whales and many dolphin were still in the water, but didn't scatter when the creature raised it's mighty barbed tail for their inspection.
From the air or at a quick glance, a ship in this shape would be mistaken for a manta ray. They were common in Hawaii. They again would be hidden in plain sight.
Jimmy was able to direct his yellow Feral Fury light all over the cavern but didn't have to move around to do it. It took the Twins close to four hours to make all the reinforcements. Jimmy had been sketching while the Twins and the Fire Breathers worked. Several of the flyers were call upon as well. Fire Fox and T-Rex couldn't fly on their own.
Jimmy new sketches showed how he wanted the Hunters Den set up. The Ferals not weilding fire or flying were reviewing the sketches as the others worked. It would have a water generator and geothermal heating and cooling systems. A rock dock would be constructed by the Twins at a later time. They would also burrow out the Hunters quarters from one of the rock walls. He listed the Hunters or Pack members that would be useful in manipulating the rocks. The underwater cavern had a natural water seep for fresh waters.
Jimmy turned to Mad Dog and growled out. "We build this attack den in both Packs - your and Dragon Pup's - Water Dens you have - show you location I will. Later - same design as this one. Different space. Shark boats for both you Pups not Wing Flyers boats."
Mad Dog nodded. Jimmy had been giving this some thought and all the Elders knew that meant War was coming sooner rather than later. In World War II, Jimmy had created one Hunters Den in Italy. It still stood to this day. Mad Dog's Pack had ended up in Australia vs Europe and Dragon Fly's Pack was in Asia. Both had many seaports within the Packs. Victor as well as Black Bear noted Jimmy was getting tired again. His teeth were dulling now.
When all of the new lava rock pillars had been created and blown to solid rock; Jimmy's yellow light only made light orbs. This allowed everyone to see in the dark space. Narcissi, Victor, and Haggar all added some of their own ones as well. All of them could see he was getting tired.
Jimmy eyes were back to a dull Amber again. He turned back to Sony and Tony smiling. Both Twins were tired from manipulating the lava flow all over the massive cavern. It wasn't a nice smile he gave the Hatchlings and Victor knew class was about to be in session for the Young Split Beasts. Jimmy was still pissed at Sony and his Baby Brother didn't forget anything.
Jimmy growled. "Call Small Grey Friends to take us to Giant Friends you two will do. Direct Giant Friends to the surface as well. I direct back to beach. Any Clans Cub and Pup that gets wet; cuff you they do. Watchers cuff as well if wet they get. Start now Little Hatchlings jokers. If my Little Cat Mate get wet, take more than tail feathers I do?"
Sony and Tony looked at each other in alarm. While they were Whisperers, they had never done it with water creatures and they could barely understand the dolphins chattering. Both of the Twins jumped forward and landed in the shallow water.
Two of the dolphins had actually yanked out some tail feathers from each of them. The dolphins promptly swam out of range using their tails to propel them above the waters surface. Everyone was laughing as the dolphins clapped their fins together and showed the plucked tail feathers in their respective mouths to the group of waiting Ferals.
Sonja was really regretting her 'joke' on James. It was clear to both the Twins, they would be paying for Sonja's poor judgment for several months to come from various sources: the Elder himself, Sabertooth, Medusa, Night Wing, Narcissi, Witch Doctor, Frogger, and Pile Driver just to name a few.
It took the Twin Hatchlings close to an hour with some growled directions from a laughing Wolverine to make the dolphins move together the right way. Since neither wanted any additional cuffings, they both were very wet by this time. They were practicing with each other verses any of the Elders, Hunters, Narcissi, Yuriko or Hank.
Finally Jimmy howled. "Starve to death I will waiting on Little Hatchlings to do. Other Splits will add this to your training list." The dolphins again came in pairs of two and collected everyone. Hammer Head dove into the water in his Feral form. He wanted to see how the whales and dolphins were accessing the underwater cavern and sub-terrainan lagoon. Jimmy had a pair of dolphins show him the way and he left before everyone had gotten to the whales.
Once everyone was back on the beach, Wolverine released the great whales and dolphins. Victor wanted to continue the meeting, so they would have a working lunch. There were more updates from the data feeds.
Jimmy and Yuri however didn't attend the second part of the meeting. Victor did grab Jimmy's sketch of the set up for the Hunters dens before teleporting back to the meeting hall. Jimmy was asleep before Haggar finished connecting the sensors. Victor, Haggar, and Gateway left. The Hunter would pick up food for the couple and return.
Back at the Meeting:
Victor and Haggar materialized with Gateway. Narcissi had taken the Twins to their quarters, they had done a lot in the caverns and Jimmy had mentioned going to the new locations later this week. They had earned their rest. Gateway popped out again to get the food for Jimmy.
All the Elders faced Sabertooth after he had gotten his plate and sat at the table. Black Bear inquired. "Does James have a timetable for when we will attack the robots? We have a lot of concurrent projects running at the same time and our manpower is getting thinner by the minute with the new addition of these Hunter's Dens."
Victor replied. "No. He was asleep before his head hit the pillow. We'll pick his brain later tonight. Hannock? Patch us up a connection to Fury and Black Widow now. We need ta set up that meeting fur tomorrow."
Helena chimed in. "We have several youths that can provide labor and some of the skills we need. We can redirect the work assignments. A few of the Packs are ready to move to Phase II and start stocking the underground shelters. We can begin moving our general population and reassign those work crews and Hunters to the new Hunter's Dens."
Aria added. "Our older Ferals would also be of assistance in setting up the shelters as most remember them from the last time we used them in World War II."
Banger also offered. "James' Pack also has several Mutants that can assist with the construction in my Pack and then help with others Packs. They would welcome the projects."
Gary said. "Those are excellent ideas. I propose we move to Phase II in Witch Doctor, Medusa, Tigress, Wild Things, Black Bear, Seer's, and my own Pack. Reassign the Hunters in those Packs to Mad Dog's, Hammer Head's, Dragon Fly's, and T-Rex's Packs to work on the Hunter's Dens or construct the main shelters."
Victor said. "The proposal has been submitted and needs a second? What say you?"
Seer gave the second and everyone approved the work reallocation. Victor was putting on his travel cloak and pulled up the hood concealing his face. He already had on his work gloves.
Nick Fury appeared on the laptop placed in front of Victor. Victor could see Hawkeye just behind Fury to the left of the picture. Hawkeye moved closer to the screen to the right. Fury said. "To what do I owe the honor? We haven't had any new Lab activity in a minute. We can't find the stinking facilities."
Victor merely brushed the side of his shoulder with his hand and said. "There has been a death in the Packs. Yur presence and the Black Widow are requested. The Labs are alive and well. They sent assassins this time as calling cards. We have several dead Ferals and an Elder. Are ya free ta attend Memorial? It would mean a lot ta their Kin?" Fury put him on hold and reappeared with the Black Widow in his personal quarters on the SHIELD ship. Victor had Hank secure the connection line again to be on the safe side.
The signal Victor had used by touching his shoulder meant he wanted to speak in private. Victor got to the point. "Ya have been infiltrated by the Labs. We were gonna have the meeting tomorrow, but one of the spies in yur organization was on the bridge when I called. We have new updates, but most of it ain't good. A common friend said ta tell ya 'The sky is falling again'. Drop Zone is gonna pick both of ya up from yur quarters in 5 minutes. Tell yur people yur coming ta a Memorial. Ya can enjoy some Pack perks tonight."
Drop Zone 'dropped' both Nick Fury and Black Widow after Fury told Victor they were all set via the laptop connection. Fury had one of men launch his personal plane with a female on board. As far as Hawkeye knew they left by the plane and it was heading to New York City. The agents would stay put until they heard directly from Fury.
Morning Meeting Next Day:
The Clans Council was going to be open to allies so both Nick and Natasha could hear the news. Xavier, Cyclops, Storm, Charlotte, and Narcissi were also in attendance as well. Nick and Natasha were catching up with Lupa, when Jimmy and Yuri entered the room. The two wolves with them joined Lupa's wolf by the door. The X-Men were chatting with Hank, Charlotte, and Mad Dog.
Jimmy's eyes were not quiet the right color, but more like normal. They were a hazel amber verse their usual hazel green, but the teeth and claws were gone today.
The Clans Council explained what was going on with the Labs to their guests. Victor outlined what they needed to do within Fury's organization. He also outline that both the Avenger and Fantastic Four's headquarter buildings had been targeted by Doctor Hines for Sentinel test sites.
He showed everyone the live footage of Doctor Hines Lab. Today, the Sentinels were testing their weapons systems in robotic targets. They could also see her getting a video update from Hawkeye and another spy named Agent Jones. Hawkeye told Doctor Hines that the Feral drones had killed some Ferals and an Elder. That Fury and Black Widow were attending a memorial for the Ferals dead. The good Doctor was very pleased with the news. She accessed a machine and it showed her four of the six Feral drones were dead. Unfortunate, but they had killed an Elder, so she was happy.
Her Human/Mutant drones worked the same way as her Feral drones. They would only contact the base and attack in groups of two or more drones. They might have to correct the programming in all six of the spies. They would have to play that one by ear.
Fury spoke first. "Sky is falling my Ass James. The sky is gone. You haven't moved on this Lady yet or shut down her little shop of horrors. What the Hell are you missing?"
"We ain't got all the Sentinel production locations. We only have two of the six located. There is also a mobile production unit we don't want put into operation called Mastermold. Mastermold is 150 to 200 feet tall and would have artificial intelligence. It also make Sentinels on its own. Doctor Hines is dangerous, but Oliver Trasker is crazy. He will put a certain set of programming chips in Mastermold that will change it's program to hunt every living person on the planet. Mastermold will kill him and plunge the world into War. We need all of the production locations including Mastermold, until we have that information we wait." Jimmy's speech was back to normal but his eyes glowed a bit when he talked. Fury had noted the color change, but didn't comment. Fury also wasn't challenging Jimmy's statements. The X-Men were quiet as well.
That confirmed what Victor had always suspected. Fury knew more than he should about what Jimmy could do and had never documented it with SHIELD. Jimmy and Nick were friends. Jimmy had saved Nick's and Steve Roger's hide during a War and exposed himself as a Mutant while doing it. The now Director of SHIELD that didn't age like a normal Human had never spoken of it. Captian America also didn't discuss what Jimmy could and couldn't do with the Avengers. When the Elder Brothers did work for SHIELD going forward there was always a large supply of fresh meat in their combat mess kits. The kits also included Cuban Havana Cigars, which until recently were contraband items in the United States. It was Fury's way of saying Thank You.
Victor followed Jimmy's statement. "We brought ya hear ta warn ya about the spies, the Fantastic Four, and the Avengers. Hawkeye and this Agent Jones are gonna try and kill ya soon. The second head snake also needs to be contained. We ain't willing ta reveal ourselves yet, so we need yur and Chucky's help. We need the production locations and then we'll be going ta War with the Lab Bitch and the Shit Head. We got some ideas on how to nuetralize the suppression collars. We're still working on how to take down the Sentinels."
Fury said. "We have some laser guns that might be of help. Natasha will get them to you personally, so you can test them on the Sentinel's armor plating and make them in mass quantity once we find one that works. Are there anymore spies I need to know about?"
Jimmy answered. "This Frail has several hundred dirty politicians and officials on her payroll. That makes for a lot of loose lips and potential liabilities. We'll get you our list, but keep it very close ta ya. Once Hawkeye and his backup, Agent Jones, are neutralize were only gonna communicate with ya, Natasha, Stevie, or Reed. We'll also only transport ya ta us with our folks. Sorry for the cold shoulder, but ya organization have been compromised. We will confirm Wraith is clean as well. This Frail only believes there are two Feral Packs and we want ta keep it that way."
Banger added. "She had selected her first target sites. They are going with concurrent attacks with 10 Sentinels being used at Xaiver's and 10 more for the Mutant Halfway House in Manhattan, NY. She'll be using 15 to 20 Sentinels each on the attacks on both the Baxter Building and the Avenger Headquarters. All the attacks are scheduled to happen in two days. The question is what are we gonna do about it?"
Jimmy smiled. "This Doctor Hines is about to find out that Shit happens and sometimes plans done work out. We're going to start dismantling her dirty pockets. Here's what were gonna do."
Jimmy outlined his plan and it was brilliant and didn't expose them in the least. The School was under going some renovations, so no one was home. That wasn't an issue for them. The good Doctor would be attacking empty walls.
The Mutant Halfway house was going to receive a bomb threat after Xavier reached out to those kids telepathically today. The X-Men and Junior team would collect those Mutants and Xaiver would place them inhis underground network for Mutants.
The Baxter building was going to have a gas leak. The Avenger Headquarters was going to have a sink hole that cause a total evacuation of the surrounding building. There was a lot of construction both areas. The utility company, power companies, and police were going to evacuate the surrounding area for safety.
The trouble for Doctor Hines would be the way she got all of this information. The various work order would be routed through two of Doctor Hines dirty city officials. They would be blamed for the slip up with both the Avengers and the Baxter building.
A well placed phone call from their respective city offices, which was completely traceable, would be placed tomorrow when both officials couldn't account for their wear abouts. Dupper would be impersonating both dirty politicians for the office cameras and place the phone calls.
They would make sure that Doctor Hines' minions found that footage and trouble would begin in her network. The accusations would fly back and forth and tear some of her network apart. Mirage would do the same for the Halfway house's bomb threat, but that time a dirty cop would demand more money before 'relaying' some Mutie information, which would turn out to be too little to late. Runaways after all were known to move around. Some key Friends of the Packs would make sure an investigations were launched in all three organizations. Some of Doctor Hines allies would cut ties and run. Official investigations would make some of her supports nervous. No one wanted to be exposed as a right wing Mutant Hate group that attacked children. The Packs would make sure the Mutant Hate groups took credit for the bomb threat on the Children.
This would on top of several of Doctor Hines' large drug shipments having gone missing or being intercepted by clean law enforcement. She had recently lost several million dollars worth of drug monies. She would most likely lose some key Mutant hate groups and drug cartels support due to incompetence. The big ones wouldn't tolerate failure after failure. Missing all four Sentinel targets on top of losing three very large drug shipments should put in her some deep Shit with her 'friends'. Add in the blame game the dirty city officials would be playing and Doctor Hines was about to be having a very bad day once all this Shit hit the fan.
She would need to show some good faith to her supporters. They hoped that would mean a show and tell of some of the some of the Sentinel production facilities. Their eyes would be watching very closely and know the location. She only referred to them as Site Alpha, Site Beta, etc in her computer files and never mentioned a location. They had found the two they knew about when she had done site visits in the past six weeks. She was due for another visit, but she only did them once a month. They knew some of them were outside of the United States.
Once Jimmy was done, everyone was smiling. It was simple for them to execute and would cause the good Doctor some trouble. The proposal was accepted, got a second, and was approved.
Jimmy turned to the X-Men. "We could use your help with the both the Hunter's Den and underground Pack location in Mad Dog's Pack. Kitty is an electronics wiz kid and ya ain't so bad yourself Scott. Plus ya got a lot of young Mutants with useful,powers and tons of energy that could be put ta good use. What say ya?"
Xaiver agreed and everyone was pleased with the outcome. Xaiver would handle both Hawkeye and Agent Jones with Narcissi's help. They could both do it at a distance, while in a car. Fury would make sure both compromised people were on a security detail transporting a person of interest to a SHIELD building tomorrow. They would also get the method they were contacting the good Doctor. They would make sure Hawkeye and Agent Jones continued to give updates to Doctor Hines; they would give only lies or misinformation the Pack wanted Doctor Hines to receive. The good Doctor's luck was about to take a turn for the worse.
Ferals as a race were patience when tracking their prey. This Doctor Hines lady was about to find that out the hard way. Victor was smiling as the meeting broke for lunch. Jimmy's plans had style to them that had been missed in the Packs while he had been missing. Victor's eyes met Rex, Banger, Medusa, and Black Bear's. They all nodded to one and other in silent agreement. It was good to have Jimmy back in the Packs. The Labs owned Jimmy Blood and he intended to collect it in full. Victor would help him deliver the bill as would the other Elders and Hunters in the Packs.
To Be Continued…
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