Carol and Marie made it back to Logans shelter as quickly as they could. Which wasn't
very fast at all. First, they didn't have the luxury of really rushing. If they rushed
and ran into the wrong people it could be taken, and often were when people
rushed, as if they were running away from someone or something. Most likely from a
mutant hunter or two. Life in the modern times, paranoia be thy name. And secondly there
had been an accident while Marie was 'home' talking to Hank and Carol which made it nigh
near impossible to get across one street for several hours. Carol could have flewn them over
but all things considered, attention was the last they needed or wanted. So when they
finally had made it to Logans shelter, the time had already flewn to 5 in the afternoon.
"You took your sweet time" Logan said when they met him inside the shelter.
"Does it matter, sugah?"
"Nah, but was beginning to worry."
"Sorry." Marie said and gave Logan a quick kiss. "Meet Carol Danvers, Logan.
Our flying knight. She has no armour though except her skin."
"Nice to meet ya. Let's go in here" Logan said leaving towards the 'community' room
"Blob and Proudstar are waiting for us."
"Now that we're all here, let me recap the plan" Logan began.
"Carol, you will go first taking down all the globes negating our powers. Rogue tells me you can
fly and have superhuman strength? That's right?"
"It sure is."
"So that poses no problem then?"
"No. But I'll have to warn you that that will almost certainly be all I can
do. Using both strength and flying at the same time is very exhausting. How many
globes are there anyway?"
"About 30 and if you take 'em down, you've done more than your share. 36 to
be exact. Just find some place to take cover afterwards. Blob, you and Rogue
heads for the prison-cells and gets them out of the damn place while me and
Proudstar takes on the guards. His strength and my claws should be enough to take
care of them. Any objections?"
Everyone was silent and Logan continued "Good! Let's go then and kick some
ass!"
The small band of outlaws made their way out to the Westchester camp and
taking their time. On purpose. They were going to take advantage of the dark as far
as possible. Almost everywhere else they would most likely have run into at
least one hunter in the dead of the night but not there. First, because
the authorities thought that was the one place in Westchester where mutants
would stay as far away from as possible. Why would they take the risk of
losing their powers and be captured or retired for? Normally they would
be right. And secondly because the hunters didn't bother with being
there because if any mutants would show up by any chance the guards inside
the camp were supposed to deal with them. Both of those things played right
into the hands of the freedom fighters.
They hid away outside the gates of the former mansion, surveying their
surroundings and waiting patiently for when it would be dark enough
for their purposes. Both Marie and Logan felt sadder almost by every
passing second - the place was too filled with old memories. But then
Logan noticed something and had to fight hard from burst out laughing.
"Do you see that?" he said.
"What? The rest of does not have your keen eyesight." Blob answered.
"All of the security cameras look inwards! They are only meant to
monitor the prisoners, not to give a warning for potential intruders.
That over-confidence will cost them dearly" he said, extending his claws
for good measure. "Time to act, don't you think?" he then asked. Everyone
agreed and Carol almost immediately flew up and headed towards the first
globe and smashing into smithereens and moving right along to the next one.
It didn't take long until enough had been destroyed so the rest of them
could make their entrance with Proudstar ripping the gate open. If that
was what triggered it or not was unclear but all of a sudden an alarm went
of and searchlights was lighting up the sky. Everyone felt like it was too
late to turn back anyway so they went ahead with the plan.
Nothing looked the same as when Logan and Marie had lived there. There were
only two buildings on the grounds, two almost identical square concrete
buildings. Logan immediatly left for one of them and shouting at Marie and
Blob to get the prisoners out of the other. They ran towards it as fast as
they possibly could. Blob was surprisingly fast for his size and could keep up
with Marie quite easily. They looked behind them to see how Logan and
Proudstar were doing and saw that they did not have to worry one bit. They were
mercilessly knocking down and slicing up guards left, right and center.
When they reached the prison house, Blob threw his impressively large
body towards the prison-door and it fell of the hinges immediately.
They went inside, finding prisoners looking impossibly thin and haggard
everywhere. It wasn't easy to convince them that they were there to save
them but succeeded with one after one. The prisoners wouldn't be of
much use, if any, in their fight though. First because of the trauma
they all had been through and secondly because it was obvious that most
of them were not there because of their formidable powers but because
of their looks. Most of them were obvious mutants. Several had tails.
At least one had what mostly looked like gills. One had a set of antennas
on top of her head. Anyway, they were not their to recruit. They were
there to save.
Eventually they had gotten everyone out of the building and were headed
towards the exit. Blob carried two and a few of the former prisoners
were helping the most worn out ones. Marie was a bit behind the others
when she heard something behind her and tried to turn around.
Too late. Someone or something swept up behind her, grabbed her around
the waist and flew up into the air bringing her with him. Or it
she realised. A it her powers wouldn't do squat against. A flying
robot. That was when she noticed Carol flewing up against her and the
robot, intending to save her no doubt. Not that it did either of them
any good. The robot just used the arm he didn't use to hold Marie with
to knock Carol over the head, knocking her out. Before she fell to the
ground the robot caught her and flew of towards Manhattan with its
two prisoners.
Logan, meanwhile, stood on the ground looking up in disbelief and utter
horror. And feeling as useless as it was humanly possible to feel.
He and Proudstar had defeated all the guards and the prisoners
were free but Logans world was about to shatter.
"Marie!" he screamed before falling down on his knees, weeping in defeat.
very fast at all. First, they didn't have the luxury of really rushing. If they rushed
and ran into the wrong people it could be taken, and often were when people
rushed, as if they were running away from someone or something. Most likely from a
mutant hunter or two. Life in the modern times, paranoia be thy name. And secondly there
had been an accident while Marie was 'home' talking to Hank and Carol which made it nigh
near impossible to get across one street for several hours. Carol could have flewn them over
but all things considered, attention was the last they needed or wanted. So when they
finally had made it to Logans shelter, the time had already flewn to 5 in the afternoon.
"You took your sweet time" Logan said when they met him inside the shelter.
"Does it matter, sugah?"
"Nah, but was beginning to worry."
"Sorry." Marie said and gave Logan a quick kiss. "Meet Carol Danvers, Logan.
Our flying knight. She has no armour though except her skin."
"Nice to meet ya. Let's go in here" Logan said leaving towards the 'community' room
"Blob and Proudstar are waiting for us."
"Now that we're all here, let me recap the plan" Logan began.
"Carol, you will go first taking down all the globes negating our powers. Rogue tells me you can
fly and have superhuman strength? That's right?"
"It sure is."
"So that poses no problem then?"
"No. But I'll have to warn you that that will almost certainly be all I can
do. Using both strength and flying at the same time is very exhausting. How many
globes are there anyway?"
"About 30 and if you take 'em down, you've done more than your share. 36 to
be exact. Just find some place to take cover afterwards. Blob, you and Rogue
heads for the prison-cells and gets them out of the damn place while me and
Proudstar takes on the guards. His strength and my claws should be enough to take
care of them. Any objections?"
Everyone was silent and Logan continued "Good! Let's go then and kick some
ass!"
The small band of outlaws made their way out to the Westchester camp and
taking their time. On purpose. They were going to take advantage of the dark as far
as possible. Almost everywhere else they would most likely have run into at
least one hunter in the dead of the night but not there. First, because
the authorities thought that was the one place in Westchester where mutants
would stay as far away from as possible. Why would they take the risk of
losing their powers and be captured or retired for? Normally they would
be right. And secondly because the hunters didn't bother with being
there because if any mutants would show up by any chance the guards inside
the camp were supposed to deal with them. Both of those things played right
into the hands of the freedom fighters.
They hid away outside the gates of the former mansion, surveying their
surroundings and waiting patiently for when it would be dark enough
for their purposes. Both Marie and Logan felt sadder almost by every
passing second - the place was too filled with old memories. But then
Logan noticed something and had to fight hard from burst out laughing.
"Do you see that?" he said.
"What? The rest of does not have your keen eyesight." Blob answered.
"All of the security cameras look inwards! They are only meant to
monitor the prisoners, not to give a warning for potential intruders.
That over-confidence will cost them dearly" he said, extending his claws
for good measure. "Time to act, don't you think?" he then asked. Everyone
agreed and Carol almost immediately flew up and headed towards the first
globe and smashing into smithereens and moving right along to the next one.
It didn't take long until enough had been destroyed so the rest of them
could make their entrance with Proudstar ripping the gate open. If that
was what triggered it or not was unclear but all of a sudden an alarm went
of and searchlights was lighting up the sky. Everyone felt like it was too
late to turn back anyway so they went ahead with the plan.
Nothing looked the same as when Logan and Marie had lived there. There were
only two buildings on the grounds, two almost identical square concrete
buildings. Logan immediatly left for one of them and shouting at Marie and
Blob to get the prisoners out of the other. They ran towards it as fast as
they possibly could. Blob was surprisingly fast for his size and could keep up
with Marie quite easily. They looked behind them to see how Logan and
Proudstar were doing and saw that they did not have to worry one bit. They were
mercilessly knocking down and slicing up guards left, right and center.
When they reached the prison house, Blob threw his impressively large
body towards the prison-door and it fell of the hinges immediately.
They went inside, finding prisoners looking impossibly thin and haggard
everywhere. It wasn't easy to convince them that they were there to save
them but succeeded with one after one. The prisoners wouldn't be of
much use, if any, in their fight though. First because of the trauma
they all had been through and secondly because it was obvious that most
of them were not there because of their formidable powers but because
of their looks. Most of them were obvious mutants. Several had tails.
At least one had what mostly looked like gills. One had a set of antennas
on top of her head. Anyway, they were not their to recruit. They were
there to save.
Eventually they had gotten everyone out of the building and were headed
towards the exit. Blob carried two and a few of the former prisoners
were helping the most worn out ones. Marie was a bit behind the others
when she heard something behind her and tried to turn around.
Too late. Someone or something swept up behind her, grabbed her around
the waist and flew up into the air bringing her with him. Or it
she realised. A it her powers wouldn't do squat against. A flying
robot. That was when she noticed Carol flewing up against her and the
robot, intending to save her no doubt. Not that it did either of them
any good. The robot just used the arm he didn't use to hold Marie with
to knock Carol over the head, knocking her out. Before she fell to the
ground the robot caught her and flew of towards Manhattan with its
two prisoners.
Logan, meanwhile, stood on the ground looking up in disbelief and utter
horror. And feeling as useless as it was humanly possible to feel.
He and Proudstar had defeated all the guards and the prisoners
were free but Logans world was about to shatter.
"Marie!" he screamed before falling down on his knees, weeping in defeat.