Cousin Jethro
(An NCIS - X-Men Crossover)
None of the Characters used in the work are mine. The cast of NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles belong to Donald Balisario. The characters from the
various X-Men titles belong to Marvels Comics and their - over the years - various editors, artists, and writers! I am just borrowing them to play with.
Cousin Jethro
(An NCIS - X-Men Crossover)
None of the Characters used in the work are mine. The cast of NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles belong to Donald Balisario. The characters from the various
X-Men titles belong to Marvels Comics and their - over the years - various editors, artists, and writers! I am just borrowing them to play with.
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This is what happens when you read too many fan-fictions! Other writers start giving you ideas! I'd like to thank DimensionalLover for
helping to put this idea into my head! This will be the first of (what I hope) is a four-story crossover-series, featured around NCIS!
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Cousin Jethro
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Jethro Gibbs, Emma Frost, Abby Schuitto. Kathryn Pryde, and Jennifer Stavros (the Hellion "Roullette") stand as still as statues in the middle of MTAC.
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Thirty minutes after Illyana Rasputina bolted from MTAC, Leroy Jethro Gibbs slowly walked the young woman back into the auditorium.
Gibbs acted as a protective-shield between Illyana and the X-Men being questioned, especially Collosus!
"Kathryn?" Illyana asked in a petulent voice. "May I.. sit with you.. please?"
Kathryn arose silently, made a spot for the young sorceress to sit protectively beside, the quietly beckoned her:
"Come, Illyana. Come home."
As soon as Illyana sat down next to Kathryn, the rest of Kat's bodyguard, including Danielle Moonstar and Emily Fornell, collapsed in
around them!
"I am.. sorry.. for..." Illyana sniffed.
Rahne hugged the little Russian protectively and lovingly. "Ye do not have to apologize to us, or anyone, Illyana," she glared over Ilyana's head
to Piotr, "for something that was not yuir fault."
"Excuse me, Illyana? I have something to do." Kate spoke in a low, reassuring tone. "It should only take a minute, two at the most! Guys? Watch
over her until I'm back."
As her bodyguard said yes to Kat's request, she walked over to Collasus:
"It is NOT incest, Katya!" Piotr defiently stated. "For, she is NOT my sister! NYET! My sister DIED in LIMBO! This.. this is.. some demonic WHORE!
She made me..."
"Poitr Nikolaevich!" Kate's tone was cammanding; not overly loud, but clear enough that all in the auditorium heard and understood. "We are
well-aware of what Illyana can and CANNOT do! And, I am well aware of what YOU can do! You and I are no longer friends, Nikolaevich! And, from this
moment, we are no longer even allies. Nothing will happen to you, here in the District. But. If I even hear of you within a mile of the girls or I?
I'm issuing a Shoot-to-Kill-Order on you! No questions will be asked about why you were near. As for being a demon? you are fitting the part more
than Illyana ever could!"
And, Illyana broke-down, crying in Rahne's lap, wailing like the damned!
Rahne tried to envelope herself protectively around the fragile Snowflake.
"It's a good thing Gibbs flew me and Ziva out to the Normandy!" Tony whispered to Tim. "The X-Men would be missing a few members, and NCIS
would be blamed for it!"
"Hettie certainly knew what she was doing giving you and I an order to assist Abbie downstairs, Eric." Nel whispered. "Even though I hate
firing my weapon, I would have gladly put a bullet in that idiot's brain!" She motioned towards Collasus.
"I think you would have had to aim between his thighs to hit anything vital, Nel!" Deeks replied in a whisper, overhearing the conversation.
Henrietta Lange drew in a deep, sharp breath to keep from laughing!
Owen Granger was just grinning like a Cheshire Cat!
"Dammit, Owen!" Hettie hissed. "I HATE how you, and only you, are able to pull that off!"
"Just wait, Henrietta." Granger drawled. "It might get better."
Kathryn then walked over to Professor Xavier:
"Charles? The girls and I are on sabbatical, for an unknown length of time. If, by some miracle, you are still associated with the school
when we get back? The girls and I fly like quail. Forever! And, if you - try - to 'persuade' us to come back to the school? I'll field-dress you
myself!"
"You're right, Owen!" Hettie grinned mercilessly, "It JUST got better! They'll never make it out of Washington, alive!"
"Xavier looks like he's heard from a ghost!" Gibbs chuckled mercilessly. "Or? Hid death-angel!"
"I believe he has." Ziva stated matter-of-factly. "My father had to meet with Charles Xavier once or twice. He confided ito me that he was never
impressed with the man. At least? Not as inpressed as Xavier was with himself. He used to say that the professor reminded him of a couple of M.K.s
he had the displeasure to work with! Alway over-confident in his own abilities, snd a bit condescending toward others and their abilities."
After laying down her ultimatums, Kathryn returned to her seat.
"Are we ready to continue the hearing, your Honors?" Kathryn asked crisply, and a bit curtly.
"Something is wrong with Katchen, Herr Logan." Nightcrawler observed wrily.
"Yeah, Elf!" Wolverine smirked. "Chuck's usual reasonin's ain't gonna do him a bit o' good, now! The Guthries are even on edge.
I can smell it!"
"We are ready to procede." Captain Turner spoke. "Is there any more .. collaberating-evidence from the Plaintiff?"
Kathryn and Allison glanced around at her bodygaurds.
"No, sir, your honor!" Allison Blair stated.
"Do the defendents wish to cross-examine?" Leutinant Vance asked, eyes searching the room.
The X-Man "on the docket" (as it were) looked at each other nervously.
"I think..", Owen chuckled, "they better say something in their defence?"
"What can they say, Granger?" Sam Hannah smirked.
"They've already said too much." Hettie replied. "Trying to excuse their actions would just dig their graves deeper!"
"They already need a sandhog-crew to bury them, Hettie!" Owen chuckled low.
"No, your Honor!" Scott stood up to speak. "We.. choose.. not to cross-examine."
"Because they would habr to listen to the CDs, again, probably!" Gibbs chuckled low.
'Yeah. Vance is merciless, that way.' Gibbs heard Mike Frank's voice in his head. 'Too bad the things Storm, Collasus,
Grey, and Xi'an Coyh pulled can't be prosecuted here in D.C.!'
"I wouldn't worry about that, Mike!" Gibbs whispered. "I'm sure Leon has that figured out."
"In that case?" Captain Turner stated. "This hearing will recess for one hour! We will announce our decisions, then!"
Soon, Theresa, Kathryn and her bodygaurd - imcluding Emily Fornell - were eating lunch with Abbie and Ducky in Autopsy.
"I SO apologize for the setting, girls1" Ducky explained. "While it's TRUE it MAY lack in Ambience and decor, it
is - quite literally - clean enough to eat of the floor!"
"That alright, Dr. Mallard!" Danielle said as she ate her Chinese take-out. "This part of the Naval Yard has one thing
that makes it the BEST part of the Yard, right now!"
"Oh?" Abbie asked, grinning. "And, what's that, Ms. Moonstar?"
"No X-Men!" Dani stated after taking a sip of water.
"And Congregation beth Mutant said..?" Kathryn started.
"AMEN!" Two voices chorused from the examination tables.
And Danielle Moonstar jumped up from the table and spun around!
"Easy, Dani!" Doug Ramsay grinned as Marie-Ange Colbert fought a losing-battle not to giggle. "Today is NOT a good day to die!
Unless your name's Collasus, or Storm, or Karma."
'CYPHER! TAROT! What are you doing here?" Dani's heart started to race. "How did you get here? Aren't you dead?"
"Don't you remember me introducing all the ghosts a couple of day ago, Dani?" Kathryn asked. "Doug and Marie-Ange were there!"
"When did you become a Medium, Pryde?" Danielle asked.
"Dunno!" Kathryn shrugged. "Me an' Jethro seemed to have inherited this gift from somewhere, all I can figure?"
"Clairvoience and Claitaudience, the gifts that just keep giving - trouble! As for why you're friends are here?" A voice replied from
Danielle's other side. "They're here with me."
Danielle jumped a second time!
"Not really used to the dead, is she?" The voice replied.
"Oh, Kelly! You're so bad!" Kathryn giggled into her water. "Danielle? I'd like you to meet my cousin, Kelly Gibbs! Kelly is
Jethro's daughter. Where's Shannon, Kelly?"
"Mom's with Diane and the Davids' in the Mess keeping company with the X-Flunkies!"
"She sure sounds like she should have been Sargeant Gibbs' daughter!" Mirage muttered.
"Hey! Kathryn giggled. "I'll have you know that Shannon was JUST as bad!"
"Why they both hit the road out of Stillwater?" Rahne grinned.
"You think?" Kat returned the grin. "Mom said her cousin had a short fuse, and chose the Marines over jail! She said she always
thought that Shannon and Jethro would make a great match!"
Kelly giggled creepily-enough to make the hair on the back of Dani's neck stand on end!
"Dammit, girl!" Dani spun around and pointed at the ghost. "You're as bad as Manuel de la Rocha!"
"De-la-who?" Kelly asked Kathryn.
"Manuel Rodrigo de la Rocha, Shannon!" Kathryn said after slurping in a noodle. "Spanish Hellion who goes by the name 'Empath'.
Even when he was in Massachusetts, Emma Frost tried to keep him on a tight leash."
"He's not here, now?" Kelly asked.
"No?" Kat pondered. "And, I wonder why?"
Soon, Agents Tony DiNozzo and Tim McGee came done to Autopsy to retrieve Kathryn and her friends.
"Soeey to break-up the lunch-date!" Tony said. "But? Director Vance told us to get you back up to MTAC for Captian Turner's decision!"
"Both of you came to get us?" Jubilation Lee asked. "Don't get mr wrong! I LOVE the eye-candy bodygaurds! But..."
"You would have preferred Ziva?" Tim smirked.
"TIMOTHY McGEE?!" Abbie screeched while girls and ghosts howled with laughter! "You've been hanging around MR. DiNOZZO, Junior,
too long!"
"Anytime, McGee!" Jubilee retorted, causing Abbie to drop her jaw, then quickly snap it shut. "But? What I was gonna ask was does
Captain Turner expect us the jump ship at this point? Which we won't! By the way! Where is Agent David?"
"Director Vance requested she and Eleanor help the Boss watch over the X-Man!" Tim smirked.
"Hold it!" Kathryn held her hand in front of McGee. "Director Vance 'requested' David and Bishop to watch over the X-Men? They're
as much 'Shoot-First-and-Never-Ask-Questions' as Jethro is!"
"I am pretty sure, Miss Pryde," Hettie Lange said as she entered the room with Callen and Hannah, "that is the reason Director Vance
asked the two ladies to stay with the X-Men!"
"As if three Davids weren't already enough to scare them?" Tony chuckled.
"So, you smelled that aroma coming from Xavier, too?" Tim asked with a wry grin.
"How are you doing, Little Star?" Callen asked Illyana. "Doing better than this morning?"
"Somewhat, friend Callen." Illyana answered weakly. "Somewhat? I feel like I did back in my first-childhood! Nyet! Brother did
not steal childhood-innocence away, then!"
"What is Illyana talking to Callen about?" Abbie asked Kathryn.
"Something only another Russian orphan would understand, probably." Kat sighed, then nodded towards Duckie. "Abbie? I need to talk to
you and Ducky in a far corner!"
"Part of me REALLY wishes the girls would have let me come alone." Kat let out another sigh. "Illyana doesn't need to be reminded of
this, again. I have some physical-evidence I kept to myself for now. Doesn't haave a thing to do with Congress' case against the
X-Men." She pulled a baggie with a pair of soiled panties from her purse. "Abbie? These are Illyana's, from? About three months
back. And this", she next handed the goth a baggie with a blood-stained glove in it. Was from a fight Nikolaevich and I got into
shortly thereafter! If you find anything on the panties? Compare it to what's on the glove! You have my DNA from the last time I was
here."
"I.. kinda don't wanna do this, Kat. Ya know?" Abbie softly whined, then muttered, "I already hate the Russian! But? If I find what we
think I'll find? I'll want to kill the bastard!"
"Get in line, Ms. Schiutto." Callen whispered. "From what I hear, Piotr Nikolaevich' firing squad will be a big one!"
"Illyana Nikolanovna is my friend, Callen!" Kat said, "But? She's also my sister since she was brought to this country! And? The
closest thing I may ever have to a daughter! If Nikolaevich did what we suspect? He's dead and damned!"
"Hate to break up the chit-chat!" Tony announced. But? We need to get going! We have some impatient men, upstairs!"
"Don't worry, Kitty-Kat!" Abbie said. "Ducky, Jimmy, and I will have your evidence analyzed in three hours!"
Later, upstairs at MTAC, Captain Turner called the Inquiry back to order:
"Ladies and geentlemen of the United Staes Navy, FBI, and honored guests? We are hereby finished with the fact-gathering portion
of this inquiry! Professor Charles Xavier? You are hereby bound-over to appear, with Mr. Scott Summers, with Mr. James Logan, Mr.
Kurt Wagner, and Ms. Kathryn Pryde as witnesses, before a Congressional Committee no later than October of 2015! The CD-tapes that
we have heard, along with the notes of the late Fred Duncan, Agent of the FBI, collaborate fully with the testimony of Ms. Kathryn
Pryde. Now? I will let Liutenant Vance speak."
"Thank you, Captain Turner!" Director Vance replied. "As to the charges of Sexual Misconduct and Sexual Assault brought to light by
this hearing? Unfortunately, since they did not happen on naval premises, neither NCIS nor JAG can get directly involved! However!"
Vance rolled a toothpick around his mouth. "I DO have other avenues at my disposal! I have been in touch with officials in Westchester
County in the State of New York! As of now? The Sexual-Predator Task Force is very interested in talking to Jean Grey-Summers, Ororo
Monroe, Poitr Rasputin, and Xi'an Coyh Manh! And? the Boards of Education for the State of New York and County of Winchester wish to
speak to the teachers and headmaster of Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters."
"There goes Xavier's School!" Joshua Guthie said. "No great loss, considerin' the last year! But? What's gonna happen to us?"
"I wouldn' worry too much 'bout that, Josh!" Paige replied. "I've been around Shadowcat since I've been at school! And, Sam's been around
her more than me! She may hate most of the other teachers - for good reason - but? She cares about the kids too much to just leave us out
in the cold world!"
"Ye got that right, sis!" Sam answered his siblings, then looked around and grinning lightly:
"In fact, Ah think Ah see her answer to that problem! Though? Some folks may not like it!"
Paige and Joshua Guthrie looked in the directions Sam had glanced in. "Tough!" They unisoned.
"Just great." Roberto groused. "There goes our santuary! There will be NO ONE to teach us or look after us!"
"I HATE to disappoint you, Mr. DeCosta!" Director Vance apoke up. "But? Despite your premonition of a ghost-facility, or new Federal
detention-center - Captain Turner and I have already discussed the ramifications of our seperate-actions! Most of the faculty of Xavier's
Institute are not under investication! And? Of those who aren't, Only Kathryn Pryde and Rahne Sinclaire might not be returning to the school!
To fill the vacancy of Head-Mster due to the absence of Charles Xavier, and pending consultation, Max Eisenstadt and Emma Frost will be asked to
fill-in the post of Head-Master!"
"Magneto and the White QUEEN?" Sunspot blrw up like a volcano! "Leaving us to the ENEMY? MGNETO hates Xavier and the X-Men! We found
that out just before we came here! He will DESTROY The Professor's legacy! And the White Queen will help him! It would not surprise me
if the Hellfire Clubs's Inner Circle were behind the Sentinals the the Master of Magnetism plays with! May they all rot in Hell!"
"I would hold that tongue it I were you, DeCosta," Kat spoke up as she moved over to the Brazilian, "before you choke on it! The Navy's
going to examine Max and , for security-reasons, but? The reasons their names are up so quickly is becsuse I recommended them!"
"You.. spoke up for thwm, Shadowcat?" Roberto almost whispered. "How.. COULD YOU? You are one of US, aren't you?! No! You are a Hellion!
Always were one, just PRETENDING to aide us!"
"DeCosta's getting closer to having Duckie examine him!" McGee murmurred.
"The question becomes," Tony sighed. "who kills him?"
As if in answer to the agebt, Rahne growled deep in her thraot.
"All of this because of that Devil's whore that shares your bed," Roberto chuckled manacing, "we all knew she was a bad-seed!"
"If Kate don't kill him?", Sam told him brother abd sister, "Ah will!"
With a feral cry, Shadowcat buried the knuckles of her right hand in the carotic arteries of Roberto's neck, while pulling a fishing
knife from her boot and pressing it against Roberto's windpipe!
And Logan and Kurt bolted over to Kate, in hopes of keeping her from killing anyone!
"DeCosta? My MOM never even THOUGHT that way about me! And, I don't think that way about Illyana! And? She's never tried to touch me ONCE!
As for Being a Helliom? Maybe I should've been! Would've kept Monroe away from me! And? If you EVER speak like that again, about my girls?
I will mail you, piece be piece, to your daddy in Rio!"
She then, slowly, circled the tip of her knife unde his chin. "Maybe, I'll start with that tongue that always gets you into so much trouble?"
Rahne and Dani were watching their leader, with the most-satisfied of grins on their faces.
Kat then slid her knife to his groins. "Or, maybe I'll start with what you're, obviously, using to think with! Who knows! Maybe, you'll
start using your brain, again? NYAH! Probably not. But, who knows? Miracles have happened, before? Just, remember this warning I gave
to Nikolaevich - as soon as we leave D.C.? Stay as far away from the girls and I as possible! If you wish to stay whole!""
"Dammit, Kens!" Deeks grinned. "She sounds just like you!"
"When she'd get the new knife, Theresa?" Jethro asked his cousin.
"Gave it to her on the Normany!" Theresa smiled. "Have it made in New Orleans."
"Looks like a good blade!" he noted.
"Should be!" Theres grinned wickedly. "Doubles as an oyster-shucker!"
"Sharon? Jubilee? Emily? Help watch over Illyana! I'm sensing trouble from the Defendant's side of the theater!"
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"Hello, Karma." Danielle spoke quietly as she came up to Xi'an Coyh Manh.
"This has to stop, Danielle!" Xi'an Coyh said in a commanding tone. "This is doing no one any good. Katherine is.. gyurk?"
The Vietnamese mutant found Danielle's knifetip pressing aginst her windpipe.
"Bobby's just getting what he deserves, Xi'an Coyh!" Dani hissed. "And, if you even start to possess anyone here? So will you!
You showed your colors when we were in Interrogation with Kathryn! And, later? With Ms. Lange! One more trick like that? You'll
learn just WHY the Cheyenne were so feared as warriors! And, why I'm called a Dog-Soldier!"
"Kathryn! Danielle! Stand down!" Emma Frost steppped down to the Naval personnel. "Max and I will deal with the students.
Dealing with teachers and students is - after all - what Headmasters do!"
"You just earned a stay, Karma!" Danielle whispered to a visibly-shaken Karma. "Enjoy it!"
"And, for the committee's information, and yours, too, Sergeant Gibbs," Emma said, "even a pompous ass like Roberto DeCosta
can be right about some things! Although I did not have anything to do with their re-building, the Inner-Cirle of the Hellfire Club
DID re-design anf re-build the Sentinal-Program! One of the things I came here for, Sergeant Fibbs, was to disclose the Sentinals
recent-origins! I was one of the FEW Inner-Circle members that saw the DANGER in the Sentinals. When I started out in the Inner-
Circle, I was just like the rest of them - thirsty for power and not giving a DAMN how I got it or used it! But? As Sabastian Shaw
and I planned for and collected the Hellions to counter Xavier's school - and, lsteeeeer, as I helped to train others - I found myself
worrying about my charges and becoming what I thought I'd never BECOME! A 'Mother-Hen'."
'It happens, Emma!' Shannon Gibbs whispered in Emma's head.
"Brrrk. . !' Kelly Gibbs cackled.
"Thst's enough torment, girls." Gibbs lightly chuckled as he stepped in back of Miss Frost. "Alright, Emma! I'll bite! If you didn't
help rebuild the damned things, who did? Would you like to inform the committee?"
"The Sentinal-Programs ess re-designed and re-built by Sabastian Shaw and Harry Leland, the former - Black King and White Bishop of the
Inner Circle of the Hell-Fire Club!"
"Heard of the organizations, bOTH of them!" VanCe said. "Even before meeting Miss Pryde! Scuttlebutt had it the places could be dangerous!"
"The scuttlebutt is truer than it knows, Leutinant!" Emma nodded. "And? Sabastian and Harold were the worst of the worst! They even scared me!
I played in their schemes - when it was, either, to my advantage to do so, or? When I had no other choice! BOTH Sabastian Shaw and Harry Leland
had a well-earned reputation for use whoever they wishhed.. and, desposing of them when their use had ended!"
"Lovely gentlemen!" Gibbs commnented. "Knew families like that in Stillwater! Mineowners ans Timber-Execs, mainly."
"You said they 'had' a reputation, Miss Frost?" Captain Turner asked, "Why 'had'? I ask because both Shaw AND Leland disappeared from
government Radars a few years after the Sentinal-Project was - officially - taken offline! Aa you said, Shaw built the SentinALS under government-
contract - black-op - and the Imtelligence-Community get antsy when those types of Contractors vanish with their particular skills and funding!"
"Dey built dem robots?" Gambit asked. "But, dey mutants, too! Dem robots go after dem, no?"
"I am sure, Remy," Kat sighed, "that they built blind-spots into the program that hid them, comfortably, so that they could rule from the shadows!"
"Sounding too damned much like Stillwater, Jethro!" Theresa groused.
"Do we have to put International-BOLOs out for these two jokers, Miss Frost?" Vance asked.
"No, Director!" Emma grinned. "I can say - with all honesty and relief - you don't have to! A police-report from Yellowknife - about three years
back - reported the discovery of two bodies that, later, were positively identified as Leland and Shaw! The bodies were in such a terrible state
that forensics took a year to identify what remained. The two had had a falling out, and had beaten each other to death in a brawl! Every bone in
Leland's body was broken, and many muscles were reduced - in the words of the report - 'to so much pudding'! Shaw's ability was to take someone's
kinetic-energy, and multiply it by his own potential-energy for reuse! However? Although he killed Leland, Shaw fall victim to Harry's ability!
Harry Leland could take any given mass and multiply it, and Sabastian's internal organs had crushed in on themselves."
"Whose in charge of Shaw Enterprises, now, Miss Frost?" Captain Tyrner asked. "And, will anyone have to worry about him or her?"
"Shimobi Shaw is Sabastian Shaw's 'bastard-son', and now head's Shaw Enterprises, And? The Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club! but? Shinobi's
grudges have always been with Sabastian and Harry Leland, never with the X-Men. Now, that's not to say that Shinobi wouldn't USE the Sentinals!"
Emma warned. "But? If he ever did, it would be to use the information that Sabastian built the Sentinals to bring ruin to his father's reputation!"
"Real nice family Shaw had, Miss Frost!" A young woman chuckled in back of her!
"Ah, Jennifer!" Emma smiled. "You know that my family-tree isn't much better!"
"Hey!" Jennifer laughed. "I haven't said a thing about Cordelia! Yet?"
"Cordelia?" Jethro asked Kat.
"Emma's baby-sister, Jethro." Kathryn replied. "Black-sheep of the Frost Clan!"
"Best damned one of us in the clan!" Emma chuckled. "Why I tend to ignore my patents and siblings."
"Tend to ignore reunions, Emma?" Gibbs grinned.
"If I didn't, Gunnery-Sergeant? I'd probably put them all in a mental-hospital! Or, poison them!"
"Sounds like how I've gotten along with my folks!" Tim grumbled.
"Hey! St. Kathryn!" Jennifer went over to hug Shadowcat. "Doing Okay, Kat!"
"I was," Kat moped, "until the Cavalry came to rescue me!"
"Speaking of which..", Jennifer turmed to face Danielle, "glad to see another 'Lost Cause' on the side of the
Good Guys, Mirahe. And, ah, why is Empress Xi'an Coyh Manh hesitant to make eye-contact with anyone over here!"
Rahne growled low in slight-irritation, albeit less-offended in tone than before..
"Nice to see you, too, Roulette!" Dani responded. "As for why Karma's gun-shy? She and I had a discussion about
five minutes ago!"
"Put the Dragon-Lady in her place, I hope?" Jennifer smiled.
"For now!" Dani affirmed.
"Oh-oh!" Jennifer said, glancing toward the exit-doors of MTAC, "Goth-Lady in a white lab-coat just came in!
And she doesn't look happy!"
"Oh, Damn!" Kat hissed. "That's Forensics' Expert Abby Sciutto, Jenni! And she's FURIOUS!"
"GIBBS! GIBBS!" Abby called out. "We got more responces from our BOLOs! Eleven of our rats have boarded ships
in the Chesapeake and out in the Atlantic! As of now? Their butts are in the brigs! That still leaves six rats
in the wind!"
Abby then turned to face, Kat with fire in her eyes and evidence-bags in her hands:
"Little Gibbs? Jury's in! The bastard's guilty!"
"Excuse me, again, Illyana?" Kat kissed the young lady's forehead and the walked over to Abby:
"The evidence is still permissible? The results conclusive?"
"Yes, and yes!" Abby responded. "These results are valid in every State in the union! Including", she glanced over
disgustedly to Collasus, "New York!"
"Miss Blair? Miss Pryde?" Captain Turner asked. "What do you have there?"
"Collaborating-evidencem your Honor!" Allison Blaire said as she examined the bags, "for the CD of Illyana Nikolovna
Rasputina!"
"May we see the evidenceand Ms. Schiutto's results, please?" Captain Turner asked.
"Yes, sir!" Allison Blaire responded.
After a careful read-through of Abby Schiutto's recordings, Captain Turner gave the evidence to Director Vance.
Leon growled manacinglt after he read-through the evidence:
"Piotr Nikolaevich Easputin? After hearing your confession to Ms. Pryde, which - by the way - has been recorded,
and viewing this evidence Ms. Schiutto has just analyzed, you are lucky I cannot order you executed on Naval Grounds!
As it is? I am torn between having New York try you for Sexual Assault, or sending you back to Russia for Putin to
handle!"
At that exact secondm, Emma Frost, Jethro Gibs, Abby Schiutto, Kate Pryde, and Jennifer Stavros -aks "Roulet" -
stood as upright and still as trees!
"What the hell...?" Gibbs said. "Dif snyone else see that?"
"See what, Gibbs?" Vance asked in a concerned tone.
"A bright flash of yellow in the room, Director." Abby explained. "Like a lightning-flash!"
"It's a yellow caution-flag!" Roulette spoke. "From Empath!"
"De la Rocha's HERE?" Kat asked.
"Yes he is, St. Kathryn!" Jennifer said. "Hellion Early-Warning System!"
"And, if he went off...?" Kate asked.
"The Human League is planning an attack!" Gibbs announced. "GET THE X-MEN TO SAFE-QUARTERS!"