Me: Yay! Another chapter's up.
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Iman: Yes.
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Iman: Go read the story while he fumes over the lack of reviews.
Wolverine and Crew
"What the hell happened to him!" Wolverine cried out. "I'll go follow him, you guys free all the other mutants no matter who they are. Charles and the others have got to be in here."
"Sure thing, boss!" Boom-Boom replied, running the way Iman hadn't gone. "You're going to take care of him, right!"
"He will," Wolfsbane replied, transforming into her lupine form. She followed after Boom-Boom and Sunspot transformed as well.
"Well, we mig't as well go," Rogue stated, chasing after them. "Let's go, y'all!" Nightcrawler bamphed after them and Calico took a quick look at Jamie before he dropped to all fours and chased after the others and Wings flew through the halls.
"You gonna be alright on you own, man?" Spyke asked as he and Xerox were about to follow the others. "I mean, did you see what happened to him?"
"I sure did," Wolverine replied, letting loose his claws. "I'm gonna follow him while the rest of you get the others out of here."
"Sure thing, man," Spyke said. "Let's go, Xerox." Xerox watched as Wolverine ran after Iman and then he looked the way the others went. He nodded and they quickly followed the others.
"This place is bigger than we thought," Boom-Boom complained. "How are we gonna find our way to them?"
"I could bamph around," Kurt suggested.
"Too dangerous," Spyke stated.
"I know," Xerox said, looking at the floor. He stomped his foot on the ground and he multiplied. "They'll go." The clones of Xerox all nodded their agreement and started off in different directions. "We won't have anything to worry about as long as we use my clones."
Wolverine
Wolverine sniffed the area but could find no scent belonging to Claws. He growled and continued in the way he figured he had gone. Without thinking, he withdrew his claws and quickly bolted through the halls of the building.
After a short while, he heard growling and he went to it's source. Arriving to an open door, he peeked in and saw Claws tearing away at a second, reinforced door. Wolverine entered the room and Claws stopped. He sniffed the air and looked over at Wolverine. Claws returned to what he was destroying before Wolverine had entered the room.
"I'm sorry about this kid," Wolverine said, leaping onto Claws's back and put his claws through Claws's flesh. Roaring, Claws grabbed Wolverine and threw him across the room and then went back to tearing down the door.
"That kid has an arm," Wolverine said, getting up and he could feel his back regenerate. He went at Claws again who threw him across the room again before attacking the thick door again.
"What's in there that's so important to ya, Claws?" Wolverine asked, attacking him. "Get back into yer head, Claws!" At that, Claws rounded onto Wolverine and grabbed him with his hand and threw him out of the room, going back to destroying the door he was attacking. After a few more interruptions from Wolverine, the door was shredded and he broke threw it the rest of the way. Wolverine stood as his wounds healed and followed Claws into the second room. As he entered, he watched as Claws reverted to his former form and all his claws seeped back into his body and he walked towards a glass case, naked.
"Nicole," was all he said as he placed his hands on the case. Wolverine observed his back and saw that he had not even scars on him from where Wolverine had pierced the flesh of Claws's back.
"Claws?" Wolverine asked, growling slightly. Claws looked at him and smiled lightly before turning back to the boy in the liquid filled glass tube.
"Hey, Wolverine," Claws said, staring into the tube at the blood-red haired boy inside it. "This is Nicole Masters. He's a mutant like us. He can heal people and project his ethereal and astral bodies into this plane of existence."
"We need to find the rest," Wolverine said, stepping up next to him. "We also need to find you some clothes."
"Why? When I transform, to and back, I'll be naked again."
"Yeah, we're gonna have to fix that," Wolverine stated. "We can't have the girls see you like that." Claws looked at Wolverine with a raised eyebrow.
"Back up," Claws stated, drawing his fist back. "I'm breaking the glass." When his fist crashed into the glass, it bounced back and he clutched it with his other hand, hissing in pain. "What the hell!"
"What's wrong, kid?" Wolverine asked. "Don't you have super strength?"
"I thought I did," Claws stated. "Something must have happened."
"Try your claws," Wolverine suggested. Claws nodded and closed his fist, however, nothing happened. "Well?"
"It's not working," Claws replied. He then started a chain of swears in Arabic causing Wolverine to raise an eyebrow. Claws noticed this, "what? I can swear, can't I? Just because I'm Muslim doesn't mean I can't swear." Wolverine rolled his eyes and drew his fist back away from the glass and brought it forward extending his claws and shattered the glass. When the glass broke, the tube shattered and the wires withdrew from Nicole's naked body. Quickly picking the boy up, Claws turned towards Wolverine. "Now what?"
"We get the two of you out of here," Wolverine replied.
"Hey, just because I don't have my powers in this form doesn't mean I can't fight," Claws stated. "I still have the training I received when I was being trained to take you out."
"What?"
"Did I just say that in English?"
"Yes," Wolverine replied. "You were trained to kill me?"
"He was too," Claws stated, referring to the passed out boy in his arms. "Let's just go and talk about this later."
"We will," Wolverine replied, withdrawing his claws. "But first we need to get you two clothes." Claws looked at himself and then up at Wolverine.
"Why?"
"Typical," Wolverine stated. "Iman Iqbal Ikram."
"Oh crap, full name derogatory, I'm in trouble."
"We are getting you two some clothes, got it?"
"Fine," Claws said, rolling his eyes. "The first two people we see, we're going to take their clothes, happy?" Wolverine nodded and then went to the door but stopped. "What?"
"I am not walking around this place with two naked guys behind me."
"Why?"
"I just won't do it," Wolverine replied. "Wait here."
The Others
"Anything, Xerox?"
"Sorry, Rogue," Xerox replied as he absorbed his clones. "They didn't find anything."
"Let me borrow you guys for a second," Rogue said, touching Sunspot, Boom-Boom, Nightcrawler, and Xerox. She the bamphed to the end of the area and turned into a living solar panel. Backed up with Boom-Boom's explosive energy, she used some fire power and destroyed a large steel door and then returned to them quickly after sending a clone in the room. "Alright, let's go."
"You just made us look like we're just here for your enjoyment," Nightcrawler stated.
"I wouldn't be capable of doing that kinda stuff if you guys weren't 'ere," Rogue stated. "Yer powers did that, not mine."
"I never thought we could use our powers like that," Boom-Boom said, looking at Sunspot. "We should try that some time."
"Yeah, we should," came his reply.
"They're in there," Rogue said suddenly.
"They know we're here!" Xerox cried out suddenly. He spun around and threw out several of his clones. "I'll keep them distracted!"
"What!" Everyone looked at him.
"I left a clone back there to stand guard and he was killed," Xerox replied, making more clones. "Let's go, Xerox clones!" He immediately ran back the way they came and Rogue looked at them all.
"I'm going with him," Rogue stated. "Spyke, come with me, I'll need your help."
"Sure thing," Spyke said with a nod.
"You guys go save the others," and with that, Rogue ran after Xerox with Spyke hot on her heels.
"Let's go then," Wolfsbane stated, reverting to her lupine form. She ran ahead of everyone and Nightcrawler bamphed behind her with Sunspot flying above her. Calico looked at each group and frowned.
"I have to find Shade," he said. He then ran off in a completely different direction.
Claws
As Claws waited for Wolverine to return, he had laid Nicole down on a metal table and looked around for some equipment. During his search, he had found extra uniforms and laughed to himself. Grabbing two, he dressed himself and then put the second one on Nicole. He then went back to searching for the equipment he was looking for. After a while, he found a key card, a mutant detector, and a box of dried food. He pocketed both the key card and the hand held mutant detector, then brought the dried food over to Nicole.
"Nicole," Claws said, poking his friend awake. "Nicole, get up."
"Huh? What happened?" Nicole sat up and looked around. "Where am I?"
"Apparently you were caught," Claws stated.
"Im-"
"Claws."
"Claws?"
"Code name," Claws stated. "Use it when we're in the field."
"Okay," Nicole stated. "What's mine?"
"We'll probably call you Heals," Claws said with a chuckle. "Do you think you can walk?"
"Yeah," Nicole replied, getting to his feet. He nearly stumbled but quickly recovered. "I'm alright. I'm safe."
"Good, now we can bring our combat skills to their full potential."
"We sure can," Nicole agreed. "Let's go save everyone else. I know where they all are." Nicole then ran out of the room and Claws followed him.
Wolverine
"Damn it," Wolverine said, looking around. "Where is everyone?" Suddenly, alarms went off and he looked at the ceiling. "Damn it." He took off running and soon saw Xerox. "Xerox?"
"Clone," it said, pointing at himself. "We need to get to the others. I know where they are." The clone took off running and Wolverine followed it. "Don't worry, just keep up!"
As Wolverine followed the clone, they were met up with three more clones and they were soon met up with the original Xerox, Rogue, and Spyke.
"Wolverine? Where's Claws?" Spyke looked Wolverine up and down.
"I left him back there," Wolverine replied. "What are you guys doing here?"
"We are a distraction," Xerox replied instantly. "It was my idea!"
"Good one," Wolverine stated, patting Xerox on the head. "We need to get to the others immediately."
"I know where they are," Rogue stated. "Let's go." Rogue took off in a set direction and they all followed her, Xerox absorbing his clones to make more room in the halls as they joined back up with them.
Wolfsbane, Sunspot, and Wings
"Is that everyone?" Sunspot asked, looking everyone over.
"Yes, I believe so," Storm stated, stretching her arms. "Where is everyone else?"
"We're right here," Wolverine stated with a gruff. "Where's Calico?"
"He is searching for Shade," Professor X stated.
"Here they are!" Everyone turned and saw Nicole running into the room and stop suddenly. Claws was right behind him.
"Hey, everyone," Claws stated.
"Let us leave the hellos for another time," Beast stated, "for now we must make haste."
"I'm not leaving this place until it no longer exists," Claws stated. "They've killed to many of our kind already."
"I agree with Claws," Collosus stated. "We need to make sure no one else is killed."
"I see," Xavier stated. "All of you feel that strong about destroying this place. All of you." Xavier looked over the faces of all the mutants that had been captured and those who had broken in. I am sure that with our combined forces, we will be able to take down this place."
"Finally, we can have our revenge," Magneto stated, stepping up next to Professor X. "I will crush this place form the inside."
"Hey, leave some glory for us," a random mutant stated. "We want to get revenge on these scums too!" There was a chorus of agreement and Professor X nodded.
"So be it," he stated. "We will not leave until this place no longer exists. I am going to create a link between all of us so we will know when everyone is out. After that, Magneto will destroy this metal building leaving us to live safely." With that, they scattered.
Me: You know a story is bad if there are more chapters than reviews.
Jamie: Maybe it's not interesting enough.
Iman: Let's just start on the next one and then we'll worry about the reviews later.
Me: If you guys like this, review it! If you guys have any ideas, let me know what they are!
Iman: -drags TTS away from the vicinity-
Jamie: After he gets over the lack of reviews, he should get back to writing.
Me: ALL BETTER! Onto the next chapter!
