Future Girl
Chapter 20: Assassination Plot
Amanda was slowly waking up to a very pleasant feeling against her body, there was something soft and warm pressed up against her. She tightened a bit wanting to bury herself in the warm sensation as she snuggled closer to it. It wasn't until she noticed that whatever it was slowly moving and so she slowly opened her eyes. She could see her hand resting on a chest she knew very well, it was Kurt's. She shifted slightly and felt the covers on her bare skin all over her as well as her body pressed up against his very naked body.
She blushed remembering last night and what they had done, but she didn't regret it. She couldn't stop the smile on her face as she rested her head on his chest listening to him breath. She felt his arm around her and his tail was wrapped around her thigh. She blushed a bit more remembering how inventive he had been with his tail, she never thought about his tail when she had wondered what sex would be like with him but after experiencing it she was wondering what else they could do once they got more experience?
Kurt moaned as she tried to move but not with her weight on him, this caused him to slowly wake up.
Kurt was staring at the ceiling wondering if last night had been a dream, at least until he noticed the presence pressed up against his naked body. He looked over to see Amanda's smiling face and he couldn't help but smile back, she looked beautiful in the morning. Even with her hair slightly messy she looked like an angel to him.
"Morning," She said.
"Morning yourself," he said back.
"Kurt, thanks for last night it was the best night of my life," she told him.
He grinned he hadn't been sure as he never had sex before. Sure for him it had been amazing but he had been worried that she might have been faking for his benefit but seeing the look in her eyes he could tell she wasn't lying to him. Truth was that last night had been the most beautiful memories of his life. Sometimes he thanked god that he found this angel in his life and he did so now.
"So, no regrets?" He asked.
"Never," she said sliding up and kissing him gently on the lips. He moaned as he pulled her closer to him he had to admit that waking up with a beautiful girl in your bed was nice and the way she felt against him was even nicer.
Unfortunately Amana could feel just how nice it was getting for him and pushed up, "Sorry Kurt I only had the one condom and we better not start again since we can't finish."
He sighed trying to push his hormones back down, which wasn't easy at the moment but she had a point. He looked at the time and groaned, "Looks like ve vill have to do zhis again later, even if you had ve vould be late."
Amanda looked at the time and sighed, she had been enjoying the morning cuddle and by the looks of it she would have to get back to her room quickly for a shower and change of clothing of they would be late for school. Amanda removed herself from Kurt's bed, no matter how much she didn't want to go she had to. She winced a bit feeling a few sore parts of her body, when Rogue and Jean mentioned a bit of their sex life they never mentioned that. But it wasn't too bad so she went to get her underwear back on at least.
Kurt couldn't help but steal a look, she looked better in the light but he knew that given how long it took him to shower he couldn't stare all day. He wrapped his arms around her kissing her neck telling how much he loved her. She smiled as she nuzzled his head with hers telling him the same before he made himself let her go so she could teleport to her room. Kurt just smiled as he went to the bathroom to make sure he was totally cleaned up.
Amanda saw her room when the light faded and was just about to get herself ready when she forgot that she didn't live in this room alone.
"Where were you all night!?" came a familiar voice that made the dark skinned teen jump.
Amanda quickly turned around to see a very worried Clarice there, "Oh god I'm sorry I forgot to tell you I might not be coming back."
"Well I was worried sick," Blink told her, "I mean I thought you were staying up late but when I woke up this morning and your bed wasn't slept in I was starting to worry. Where were you and..." it was then that Blink noticed that her friend was only in her underwear holding her clothing to her chest. "Why are you practically naked with your clothes like that?"
Although Blink had an idea of what Amanda had been up to but she wasn't sure if she should jump to conclusions. After all there could be a logical explanation for it, but then she noticed the love bits on the other girl's body. On her neck could be explained but not the one on her thigh or the one she saw just above the bra on a breast. Blink's eyes widened as she saw the blushing face of the girl in front of her as well.
"You didn't..."
"Yeah, I did," Amanda admitted.
"Oh my god you slept with Kurt," Blink was just more surprised than anything else. She thought they wanted to wait a bit more although she felt better knowing that she had been alright all that time.
"Sorry I worried you Clarice, but I just needed to go and see Kurt and well, I needed to tell him that I was ready and apparently so was he," Amanda put her clothing away as she went to pick out the new outfit.
Blink sat down on the bed, "Wow, well next time can you just give me some kind of warning when you guys are going to, well you know. Just so I don't worry sick like today. So can I ask you...how was it?"
"Clarice!"
"I'm sorry!" she said quickly, "it's just that I was curious, I mean you kept talking about how you wonder how your first time with him would be and I just wanted to know if it was what you thought it would be like."
"Well, it was close but it was better since it was real," Amanda giggled remembering a few moments in particular. "but we can talk later, I need to shower and get ready."
"Don't forget to cover up the scent." Blink said as Amanda started to walk into their shared bathroom.
Amanda groaned remembering how Vince and Rogue got caught after they had had sex for the first time because if had been on their clothing. She made a mental note to do her own laundry this time and to add in some perfume with some of her scented shampoo as well. Sometimes living with a few people with a strong sense of smell was worse than telepaths. At least the telepaths could block out thoughts but blocking out smells was a lot harder.
-Lower Levels-
Xavier was in the war room with the other adults (minus Storm as she was still angry with Gambit so they decided it would be safer for him if he kept his distance from her) as well as Gambit although they had found that he wasn't responsible they still weren't too trusting of him just yet. So far they had the information on Forge's retrieval of the device that Rachel gave him. So far there wasn't much only that there was the assassination of Kelly that was taking place in a few days.
"Isn't there anything more that we can get out of this thing?" Logan asked looking at the screen with the news paper scan on it.
"Sorry, I'm still sifting through all the data but so far nothing much more on this event," Forge told him. He was feeling a little tired as he had been pushing himself lately. This was the thing that he was good at, he wasn't much help in the field and that's why he wasn't on any of the teams. He felt like he was just a bench warmer at times and he needed to pull his own weight with this, this was something only he could really do and he had been working nearly none stop on it. It was taxing and Hank kept telling him to get some sleep but he had been skipping on the sleep, besides he could sleep in classes at NYU anyway as they were simple for him.
Gambit was looking at the image on the screen, it was kind of odd to see his own face there as police were hauling him off to prison for assassination. He read the article but it didn't say much although something was odd. "Hey, why does it say here dat Gambit shot him with a rifle?"
"Maybe because ya did." Logan said.
"Gambit doesn't know how to fire a rifle," he said glaring at him, "You need to know how to shoot one of those in order to hit someone and Gambit is sure dat he can't."
"How the hell do you know that?" Logan demanded.
"It...was an ex-girlfriend who knew dis kind of stuff," Gambit said not wanting to get into the Assassin's Guild and the mess that happened with Belle and her family. That was one thing he regretted, he had loved that girl but her family hadn't approved of him being from the Thieves Guild and then things got nasty, hence why he had to leave or there would have been war on the streets of New Orleans.
"If this is true then maybe Gambit was framed," Xavier wondered.
"Thank you!" Gambit threw up his hands as finally someone was starting to sound reasonable.
"At any rate we need to be there to prevent this," Xavier said as a map of the area was shown. "So far we can cover a good part of the area if there is an assassin there."
"Can we handle that much of an area?" Rachel asked looking at the map, there seemed to be a lot of ground to cover for a sniper.
"Kid's right about that," Logan said looking at it. "Maybe I can get in touch with Fury and he can put his own people in on this as well, although I sure as hell don't like to look forward to telling him just how the hell we know of an assassination plot against a senator before him."
"At any rate perhaps he should be called in," Xavier said. "If we do this without him things could get tense. We need more help and also with a matter like this he needs to know, plus if we tell him everything he can help prevent the future as well. We all need to work together or else we could end up making a bigger mess out of things."
"Charles?" Hank asked seeing a downcast look on Xavier.
"It's just that maybe we've been doing so much by ourselves, it's true we've only tried to help but at the same time if we had had more help certain things might not have turned out as they had." Xavier was remembering that conversation with the Mutant Underground not too long ago. He had taken on all these problems on his own and look at how some things had turned out because he had taken action on his own. If he wanted to help the world maybe he should try and share the burdens of it as well.
"Well I better go make a call," Logan grumbled as he left the room. He had to think of how to tell Fury without having the man think he was insane and hang up on him.
"So what about Remy?" Gambit asked. "You think dat Gambit is just going to sit back and let someone use him for this?"
"We don't know your full involvement into this so I think it is best that you stay here for your protection," Xavier told him. "If the assassin is out there and is planning to use your image to commit this crime or somehow managed to capture you and use you so if you're here then you're safe. Plus if whoever it is sees you it might change the plans they have too."
Gambit scowled at that, he didn't like the idea of just sitting around on his butt waiting for this to happen. He needed to do something but he knew that they wouldn't let him, so it just meant he would have to find his own way.
"Remy doesn't like this but guess he doesn't have much choice in dis," He muttered walking off. Although he had to see how he could get to DC with them without any of them noticing at least until it was too late to do anything about it when the time came.
-Washington DC-
Senator Kelly was walking the halls of the building he was working in. He was surprised when he was asked to join another senator and not just any senator either. This was Harold Saxon, this man had given him the large campaign fun that he needed to run for the election and not only that but he heard it was this man that made it possible for him to be put on the committee for superhuman affairs. In just a short time he had been put on a major committee, that was unheard of but it was all thanks to his man.
He was in truth a bit nervous about it, from what he heard Saxon was a very powerful man with a large influence in the political world. He made his way up the floors and came into the office of Senator Saxon, the secretary let him through and he was now standing in the office of a man that he actually owed his entire position in.
"Please take a seat Kelly," the man said as she was talking on the phone. He ended it quickly enough as the tall, broad man turned to look at him with a smile. "Well now I know you're wondering many things, such as why I called you into my office for starters."
"I'll admit I am wondering that," Kelly said a bit nervous.
"Tell me what do you think the greatest threat to this world is?" Saxon asked.
Kelly's face turned into a scowl at that, "Mutants obviously."
"Just them?" Harold asked him with a raised eyebrow.
"Well sure there are other threats but mutants are the worse," Kelly told him.
"Why, what makes them so dangerous?"
"Because of those powers of theirs? How can a normal human defend themselves against something like that? I've seen how destructive and dangerous those people are, they cause nothing but damage and threaten the lives of normal people everywhere."
"I see," Harold stood up and walked over to a wall. There was a small panel there as he punched in a few commands as the window shutters closed and a huge part of the wall moved away as a screen was shown.
"What if I were to tell you that there are others out there with powers like mutants but who are in fact are not mutants?" Saxon asked him as he took a remote and started up the screen. "I know what you're thinking but think about the name for a second of the committee you're in? The committee for super human affairs, if it was just for mutants wouldn't we have said mutant affairs?"
"B-but if that were true then why hasn't anyone said anything?" Kelly demanded shocked by the news. He only thought that there were mutants but to learn there were others out there with abilities was not something he had ever thought was possible. Plus why would this be kept secret if mutants were already exposed to the world? It just didn't make sense to him it was also frightening as well because now there were more freaks out there.
"You see in World War II, this country was the first to experiment with enhancing humans. Mainly this was used to fight the Axis powers of course, the most successful of that time was Weapon I, better known as Operation Rebirth." Tanks and science equipment were shown in black and white pictures.
"At first we used volunteers," images of all African Americans being injected with something were now shown.
"However there was only one partial success, the real success came with a figure you should remember from history," Now the famous icon was shown of a man in a suit that looked like it was pure patriotism. It was Captain America the hero of WW II.
"Well he was different, that man was a patriot," Kelly told him.
Saxon shrugged as though that meant nothing, "Still it didn't stop there. Germany had their own answer to him in the form of the Red Skull and it didn't end with the war. The old Soviet Union not wanting to be left behind did their own super soldier programs one of the most successful was this man."
A more recent image of a man with pale skin, white hair with metallic tentacles coming out of his wrists was shown.
"This is Omega Red, the Russian super soldier. Currently he's thrown his skills for the mutant terrorist Magneto although those in the intelligence community think this is only temporary as after the fall of the Soviet Union he's been jumping around from employer to employer. And he's not alone either, other countries for years have been experimenting on humans to create the next weapon. There are still those trying to recreate Operation Rebirth as well in this country. The last Weapon program I believe was the Weapon X program the tenth try."
"Now there are others as well who may or may not even be the results of experimentation. There are those that have been given their powers by accidents that should have by all rights killed them. Many of them have turned their powers to crime and hence are locked up in special prisons like The Vault where they are kept in secret. Sometimes they get out as well but others are still there."
Kelly watched as images of various things, there was small footage of the army fighting what looked like some giant green monster, people in costumes using strange powers and abilities, monsters and other such things appeared. He couldn't believe that anyone could keep this all so quiet for so long. Then an image he did know show up.
"Spider-Man?! I thought he was a mutant with a costume?"
Saxon chuckled at that, "Yes some thought he had been a mutant. But we've been developing a scanner for mutants but he's never triggered it and since there are so many various ways to get super human abilities it's just impossible to program something like that. So we've been trying to think of other means but so far nothing conclusive."
Kelly felt like the weight of the world was coming down on him, just when he thought he knew the major threats to this country it just looked like more had been there all along.
"The reason I'm telling you all this is because I liked your single minded determination when you ran for office," Saxon said as he shut down the screens and the shutters opened up again. "I need men like that but you also need to know that there is more out there then just mutants, I want your determination but I can't have you blinded by your hatred for mutants-yes I know you say you're just looking out for people but let's be honest here, what you have is nothing more than hatred for those that are different."
Saxon smiled as he got behind his desk, "Don't worry, hatred is an emotion that can be used as a weapon. What you have to understand is that the world is changing. Soon we won't be able to hide these, the Genetic Security Agency is one step we've taken but we need more than that. There are other forces out there that need to be controlled and I think you're such a man to help spearhead this new movement as well."
Kelly looked up in surprise, "Me?"
"Yes you, I think you're perfect. In a few days we're holding a speech for the people to let them know that we are the defenders of this country and that we will look after them. Some of what I've shown you has been approved to show in public and we will use this to help get public support on our side. Now the thing I want to know is that are you the man for this job? Will you help us keep this country safe?"
Kelly sat up straight in his chair, "I am."
"Good, I'll have the details sent your way and if you need any help with the speeches I know a few people who are good at this sort of thing."
"Thank you, you won't regret this I promise you." Kelly said smiling as he left the office.
Harold Saxon smirked as he turned to face the window he had to admit that Kelly was the perfect tool. He was so motivated by his hatred that he was blinded to anything else. It didn't hurt that the man was a fool as well. The only real reason that Saxon had pushed him and ensured that he won the election was because he was the perfect pawn. Kelly would jump through any hoops that were put in front of him if you knew the right bait for him.
Saxon sighed and shook his head at the level of stupidity that people voted into positions of power but then again that was one of the reasons he was in a position of power, because he knew how to exploit the masses. The truth was he didn't care much for mutants, humans or anything else. He would use anyone if it furthered the goals he was working for. All these people who had 'power' used them in the most idiotic ways either political power or super powers.
They all needed to be controlled that much was true but only because it was all part of the Master plan. Or should he say, the Master's plan for the world. He grinned at how easy it would be to manipulate the pieces of the board to get them all lined up and ready for the next part of the plan.
Next up chapter 21: Counting Down