Alright, after this it's time to get out of America, and into the rest of the world! Just gonna throw this out there now, I've never travelled to places like Louisiana, Illinois, and California, hell, I've never left North America to begin with, so yeah, bear with me with the out of states part of this story.
So, this here chapter's influence by the amazingly perfect 90's animated series. So yeah, let's get going, shall we?
The Fourth of July in September
I really am glad that the Blackbird's extremely fast, but it also sucks, cause we can't exactly enjoy the places we land at, and considering the fact that California's next is a real travesty. I mean, I know I came here before with Hank, and once when I was younger, but still, I wanna go to the beach again, is that too much to ask?
The jet lands, once we exit, we find yet another limo waiting for us, except this one's bigger, looks like a hummer limo, nice. Kitty turns to Scott as she pulls her luggage with her. "Where'll we find Jubilation?"
"She lives with foster parents over in Beverly Hills, due to her age I want you three girls to come with me and Bobby, if you're all up for it, of course." Scott says. The girls nod at this. As the car drives towards the hotel we see a small fleet of heavy vehicles barrel down the street, on their side are the letters 'MCU'.
"Goddammit, the Mutant Containment Unit's here. What now, Slim?" Logan asks.
"Jean, can you get in contact with-"
"Already on it, Scott." Jean interrupts.
"Jean, what message do you have now, how goes the recruiting?" The Professor asks.
"Wait, who's dis?" Remy asks, confusion clear in his emotions. Kitty and Anna Marie have the same feelings washing off of them as well.
"I am Professor Charles Xavier, the one who runs the school. It's a pleasure to meet you, but I feel as though this isn't a check-up call." The Professor answers.
"You're right about that, sir, we have a problem: Some MCU trucks just rolled by, most likely heading towards Jubilation's home, can you do anything about that?" Scott asks.
"Regretfully I cannot, I have an important meeting coming up and my full attention will be needed. Let me see who it is they are looking for at least. Ah, it's just as I feared, they are after Jubilation Lee." The Professor replies.
"Then we gotta get to her place quick. If they capture her then fighting them to rescue her might make this harder than it should be." Kitty said.
While you are correct Miss Pryde there is a change to your plan that is necessary: She is not at home, but rather at the nearby mall. Oh no. X-Men, listen, you must hurry, Sentinels are on their way. Damn, I must go, my meeting has arrived, good luck X-Men, you can do this." We feel the Professor's presence leave.
Looking ahead we see two of the three trucks separate themselves from the group, considering the fact that the sole truck was headed towards her home we deduced that the other two were headed towards the mall. In the sky we then hear the unmistakable noise of Sentinel thrusters, looking up we see two Sentinels, one following the two to the mall, and the other heading towards Jubilation's home.
"Dammit, if only we had two cars. Okay, Logan, Bobby, you two head towards her home, Jean, Nolan, and I will head towards the mall." Scott ordered.
Remy coughs loudly as he glares at Scott. "What about de rest of us?"
Scott shakes his head. "You're not X-Men, I can't ask you to fight, at least, not yet."
"Das bullshit. Chere and Remy did pretty damn good against you an' Bobby back in Louisiana." Remy argues.
Bobby looks away and grumbles something along the lines of "You caught us by surprise, that's all."
Scott, on the other hand, thinks it over before looking at Remy, Anna Marie, and Kitty. "Okay, if you want to fight, you can, but you don't have to if you don't want to, we won't judge you."
The three of them share a look before looking at Scott and nod. "Okay, Remy, you'll join us, your explosives would help greatly. Kitty, Anna Marie, you'll be with Logan and Bobby, help hold off any MCU troops until we get there, got it?"
"One quick thing," Anna Marie says, with a finger raised. "Ah realized that 'Anna Marie' is kind of a mouthful for y'all, so Ah wouldn't mind if y'all called me by Rogue."
"Oh, thank God." Bobby and I say at the same time.
"Alright. We all have our assignments, lets split X-Men, Logan, you're in charge of Gold Team." Scott says as the limo begins to park.
Logan nods as he and Gold Team exit the limo, running towards Jubilation's home. "Alright, Slim, what's de plan?" Remy asks as he shuffles a stack of cards that come from who knows where.
"You, Jean, and I will attack the MCU and Sentinels, gain their attention, and while all of this is happening Nolan will use the chaos to try and find Jubilation." Scott says. Scott then throws a holographic screen towards me, stopping it I see a picture of Jubilation, well, now I'll know what she looks like.
"Wait, what about the plan? I mean, it's pretty FUBAR now, but why not have Jean look for her while the three of us blow shit up?" I ask.
Jean turns to give me an intense stare. "Have you ever thought about the fact that I might want to blow shit up, Nolan? I mean, if you look at it, you've been at the center of all these battles, are you hogging the spotlight now?"
I gulp as I lean back in my seat. "No. No, it's fine, you wanna blow shit up? Then blow shit up!" I whimper. I feel Remy place his hands on my shoulders in a comforting manner.
"We're here, let's get ready people." Scott says as he jumps out of the car, followed closely by Jean, a feral smirk on her face.
"Damn, she's scary." Remy so eloquently states.
I do nothing but nod as Remy exits the limo, I wait for the fireworks to start. After a minute of waiting explosions and gunfire can be heard outside, activating my Mystique powers I shapeshift into one of the MCU troops and sneak my way in.
"Nolan, which one are you?" Remy asks as he throws cards around at large groupings of troops.
I highlight my presence in the mental link, that way they won't attack me by accident. Successfully sneaking past the carnage, I make it inside, here I find chaos, people running around, MCU troops trying to corral them, and fireworks going off indoors. Wait, fireworks? Who the hell has fireworks in September? I mean, January isn't for another couple of months, isn't it a little early to have fireworks now?
A group of four MCU troops make their way towards the fireworks display, one of them notices me and approaches me. "Where are your weapons?"
Quick, need an excuse. "They were destroyed by the mutants outside, when they hit with their first attack, caught me entirely by surprise." Man, I'm good.
"Damn muties. Here, take my pistol. Now come on! The one we were called for is at the fireworks, I think those are its powers." He turns away and heads towards the fireworks display. Well, now they're not fireworks, but instead where I'll find Jubilation.
Following the group of four I decide to keep my cover, it'd be easier that way. We eventually make it to the location of the fireworks; here I find a group of six troops trying miserably to enter the store. At least Jubilation knows how to use the location to her advantage. Staying in the back I look at the other six and come up with a plan. Go for the guy in front of me, then work my way forward, simple, but effective.
I use his own pistol and aim it at his legs, thank you John for teaching me where to shoot for non-vital injuries. I fire the gun, two of the others turn around once he yells, before they could retaliate, I shoot them in their legs, causing them to cry out in pain also. "You!" One of the troops shouts as she aims her gun at me.
I dodge out of the way and tap into my Loki powers-that's right, I've got the powers of a god, although I have no idea what I really can and can't do though, should check that out when I can-and fire an ice blast, freezing her in place. Concentrating deeply, I create an illusion of two large bears, they rise onto their hind legs and roar at one of the remaining troops, he drops his gun and runs away.
Two left, looking over the trash can I see that the fireworks have stopped, the other two troops on the ground knocked out. A head cautiously peeks out of the store, after looking around the rest of Jubilation Lee exits the store. She's short and young, probably thirteen, maybe even twelve, she's wearing a long yellow jacket with a pink shirt under and blue skinny jeans, her hair is short and wild, and she has pink shades over her eyes. She locks eyes with me and has her arms out, bright energy crackling between her fingers.
"Whoa, did you take these guys out by yourself?" She asked, looking around in awe.
I blink, that's…that's not what I expected her first question to be, whatever, I'll roll with it. "Yeah, name's Nolan Belmont, I'm with the X-Men, and we're here to recruit you." I offer my hand out for her to shake.
To my surprise she basically leaps forward and grabs my hand in a vice grip, shaking it wildly. "Oh my God! You're one of the X-Men!? That's so cool! Which one are you? Wolverine? Nah, you aren't hairy enough, which means you aren't Beast either. Cyclops? No, you don't have the cool visor. Thunderbird? Wait, you don't have enough muscles-"
"Hey!"
She gasps. "You're that new guy, Copy, was it?"
I give her a flat look as I finally pull my hand out of her grasp. "Mimic. The name's Mimic. Look, you're a mutant, we go to a mutant school, we came here to recruit you, but we gotta go now, there's a Sentinel outside."
Something crashes into the roof of the mall. A distance away we see a heavily damage Sentinel land in the food court. "Inside. The Sentinel's inside," I turn around as I grab a hold of her arm. "C'mon, we gotta go."
She begrudgingly follows my lead. "Why can't you fight it? I mean, you're an X-Man, besides, it's heavily damaged, you could take it out, no worries. Could we take it out together?"
"Nope, no, not at all, that ain't happening," I immediately shoot down her idea as I shake my head no. "You aren't trained to take on a Sentinel, and besides, they have a surprising number of tricks up their sleeves. Arms. Whatever."
"MUTANTS DETECTED. ENABLING CAPTURE PROTOCOLS." The Sentinel raises its arm and fires a net towards us. Grabbing Jubilation, I throw the both of us out of the way, we quickly scramble up and continue to run away.
"You can copy powers, right? Why not copy Marvel Girl's powers and brain blast that thing?" Jubilation says.
"What? No, Jubilation-"
"Jubilee. I go by Jubilee." She interrupts.
"Jubilee, telepathy only works on living things with brains, Sentinels aren't living," We dodge another net. "And they sure as hell don't have brains."
The world around us explodes. Shaking my head to regain my bearings I find the Sentinel looming over me, after it grabs Jubilee it reaches down for me and picks me up, before I could react it places me in some sort of bubble, taking away all of my energy almost immediately. Well shit.
Outside things begin to heat up for the rest of Blue Team, what with the arrival of more MCU troops and another Sentinel. While this is all happening one of the MCU troops turns his head to the side and places his fingers to his ear, after a moment he does a hand signal. "What's dat mean?" Remy asks as he throws another card.
"No idea. Jean, how's Nolan?" Scott asks, dodging a blast from one of the Sentinels, firing back in response.
The troops enter their vehicles and begin to drive away, the Sentinels staying behind. Confused, Remy looks around. "What's goin' on? Why are dey leavin'?"
Jean's face pales. "They got her." She immediately ducks into cover and reaches out telepathically. "NOLAN! Where are you?" She turns back to Scott, a frantic look on her face. "He's not answering."
"What's happenin'?" Remy demands, destroying one of the Sentinels in the process.
The heavily damaged Sentinel rockets out of the mall. "Remy! Stay focused on this Sentinel! We'll deal with that one later." Scott orders.
With the help of Jean and Remy the three mutants use a focused attack on eventually destroy the last remaining Sentinel. Remy walks up to Scott and puts his hand on Scott's shoulder. "What's up wit' dem leavin'? Where are Nolan and Jubilation?"
"The Sentinel that escaped captured the both of them, they left to protect it as they go to their facility," Scott says. He notices Remy's wide eyes immediately. "Don't worry, we'll rescue them. First, we have to rendezvous with Gold Team."
"Let's just rescue 'em now! We did pretty good against dat group and two of 'em." Remy protested.
"We won't make it in time. Besides, we'd have a better chance of success with Gold Team alongside us. Trust me, Remy, this is the right way to do this." Jean counters.
Remy's face goes through a multitude of changes, anger, rejection, then understanding. He looks at Jean and Scott and nods. The three quickly head towards the car, hoping to reach Gold Team in time.
"Okay, they only sent one truck to the house, meaning we've gotta deal with ten of 'em. Frosty, you're with me, Kitty, Rogue, stay in support, only intervene when you absolutely need to," He pauses to give the two an extremely pointed look. "Understand?"
The two girls nod. Bobby ices up and Logan pops out his claws, getting up, the group stealthily make their way towards the group, stopping a few feet behind them. Once Gold Team nears the house, they notice Jubilation's parents outside, talking to one of the MCU troops. Logan turns towards Kitty. "Half-Pint, new plan. While Bobby and I are drawin' their attention you sneak by, get her parents outta there so we can really take 'em out."
"What about me?" Rogue asks.
"Stay in support, I don't want to put you in any unnecessary harm." Logan says. He gets up and roars, drawing the attention of everyone outside of their homes in the neighborhood.
Bobby stands up and ices up. "Well, let's get this party started." He jumps into the air and creates and ice slide. Bobby uses his superior movement to circle around the troops, freezing two before they could register his being there.
Kitty turns to Rogue and winks. "See ya later," She runs along the homes in the neighborhood, using the chaos as cover. One trooper notices her, however. Using her powers, she phases through the trooper, confused the trooper turns around, they become an ice statue shortly after. Reaching the porch, Kitty stops in between the two. "Hi! I'm here to save you, don't freak out please." The three of them phase through the front of the house.
Logan dodges the butt of a rifle from one of the troopers, in retaliation he slices at the chest of the two troops in front of him, making sure to not go too deep into their skin. Five down, five to go. Turning around Logan finds another two frozen solid. Seven down, three to go. Looking around Logan notices only one, the other two are missing.
The remining visible trooper raises her gun, arms shaking the entire time. A giant hand of ice grabs a hold of her, a few seconds later the hand becomes a small iceberg, the trooper in the center.
A bullet flies into Logan's shoulder, turning around he finds another trooper. Before anyone could do anything, the trooper drops his gun and slowly drops to the ground. Once he falls the two X-Men see a triumphant Rogue standing over him, she reaches down and grabs his rifle, expertly handling it.
"He was the only one, seemed like the safest time to move in, right?" Rogue rhetorically asks.
"He wasn't the last, there was a tenth, remember? We have no idea where he is, well, Logan does, where is he Logan?" Bobby asks. Gunfire goes off from within Jubilation's house. "Found him."
The three hurry into the house, breaking down the door as they do. Inside they stop and stare in shock as they see Kitty standing over the unconscious body of the tenth trooper. "I took some martial arts; I think I'm pretty good."
"What is this!?" Jubilation's dad roars. "Why did you bring these men to my home, why did you break my door, and who the hell are you!?"
"This was a raid done by the Mutant Containment Unit. We didn't bring them here, your brat did. We broke the door cause of her," Logan points at the MCU trooper. "And we are the X-Men. Got a problem with that?" Logan crosses his arms as he seemingly stands over Jubilation's father, even though Logan was shorter than him.
"My daughter? What does Jubilee have to do with these people, you're the mutants." He continues.
"Yeah, she's one too." Bobby says.
"W-what? No, my Jubilee isn't a mutant, she's a nice, normal girl." Her mother denied.
Logan growls, the two back up in fear. "You got a problem with mutants?"
Before this could continue the sound of a car quickly approaching can be heard from outside, sniffing the air Logan recognizes the scents of Jean, Scott, and Remy. Logan's eyes narrow. "Blue Team's back, but Nolan and the kid aren't with 'em."
"What?" Kitty says.
She runs outside, followed closely by Bobby and the rest of Gold Team, Jubilee's parents following after a minute. Scott walks lowers the window. "We have a little problem. One of the Sentinels got Nolan and Jubilation."
"WHAT!" Jubilee's dad screams. "Why are you here? Save my daughter," He runs his hand through his hair and begins to pace. "The only reason she was kidnapped was because of that Nolan, isn't it?"
Angry, Kitty marches up to Jubilee's father and stabs a finger into his chest, pushing him back due to his surprise. "It isn't Nolan's fault she got kidnapped! Your daughter's a mutant! Why can't you get that through your thick head?"
Logan grabs Kitty by her shoulders, dragging her towards the limo. "C'mon Half-Pint, let's go save your boyfriend."
Kitty blushes intensely as she phases out of Logan's grip. "He isn't my boyfriend. I just wanna save a close friend, that's all."
"Whatever you say Kitty Cat, we believe you," Remy says smugly as he opens the door for Gold Team. He then turns to Scott, leaning forward in excitement. "Alright, what's de plan?"
Scott activates some holographic screens in front of everyone. "There's Sentinel Services facility a few miles away from here, it doubles as a mutant containment center as well. Thanks to Forge and Nolan's efforts from a couple of months ago we have a backdoor into their servers, but don't count on it, they could have countermeasures."
"How're the team setups going to look like?" Bobby asks.
Some of the holographic screens change to gold. "Logan, Kitty, and Rogue will be Gold Team, you'll rescue Nolan and Jubilation. The rest of us will attack the facility and draw as much attention as we can."
"I wanna be on the rescue team." Remy protests.
"No. Look at the team compositions: Gold has our stealthier members because they're the rescue team. Blue is filled with destructive powers, and your abilities are pretty damn destructive. You're at your best with us, trust me." Scott counters.
Remy folds his arms and leans back, an angry yet accepting look on his face. "Fine. Remy does see the point in your plan."
"Alright, guys, let's go save our friends." Scott says. The limo begins the drive, the X-Men preparing themselves for a difficult battle.
I hate being restricted by giant ass handcuffs, it's annoying. Opening my eyes, I find myself in a clear box, surrounded by MCU troops and members of Sentinel Services, looking left I see Jubilee looking around frantically. Eventually she and I make eye contact, I nod reassuringly, she calms down but is still frantic.
One of the MCU troops slams his gun into the front of my box. "Look who's up. How was the beauty sleep, mutie, you need it." He has a large grin on his face, showing off his chipped teeth.
"Holy shit, dude, what'd you do to piss off the tooth fairy? Your teeth remind me of a bag filled with shards of glass." I counter.
His grin immediately drops, doesn't help that the others all laugh at my remark. He pulls out a device from his pocket and presses a button, the handcuffs tighten to a painful degree and the power dampening collar lets out a massive shock. Screaming in pain I can barely hear Jubilee's cries, but I could definitely hear the roaring laughter from the MCU troops and the Sentinel Services members.
Once the shock dies down I breath heavily to regain my composure before glaring at him. "Wow, you're so skilled, shocking a defenseless kid, your mother must be so proud of you." I breath.
He lets out a roar of rage as he presses another button, the front of my containment box opens. He marches in and punches me across the face. Yep, that's a broken nose alright, gonna have to swap to some regenerating powers after this. He grabs me by the collar and yanks me forward. "Don't you dare talk about my mother! She was a saint, and you muties took her from this world!"
What? Great, this guy lost his mom to some mutants, that can only mean one thing: He's batshit insane. Lovely.
"Alright, that's enough, Henderson, we don't want to break the property as soon as it gets in, do we?"
Asshole turns around and exits the box. In the distance I see a tall, lanky man approach us, two bodyguards at his side. On his name tag it reads Dr. Hernandez. "Hello, my name is Dr. Hernandez, no need to tell me your names. You are Jubilation Lee, from her in California, adopted at a young age, you don't know what happened to your parents, do you?"
Jubilee jerks forward, only stopped by the chains holding her to her seat. "What do you mean? What did you jerks do to my parents?" She demanded.
Dr. Hernandez just laughs. "We did nothing, they did. This all happened because your father called us. I must thank him the next time I see him."
Jubilee's face paled. "W-what? What do you mean h-he called you?"
"Well, it wasn't about you, per say, more along the lines that he believed one of your friends was a mutant, we sent out a team to the mall after he called, he was worried you were falling in with the wrong crowd. Imagine our surprise when we found out that your friend wasn't the mutant, you were." Dr. Hernandez smiles at the look of shock and denial that crosses over Jubilee's face.
He then slowly turns around and walks towards me, a shit eating grin on his face as he stops in front of my containment box. "And you. I know exactly who you are," One of his guard's steps forward and hands him a tablet. Dr. Hernandez turns it around, showing footage of mine and Forge's attack on the Sentinel Services facility months ago. "I did some digging, thankfully the internet helped, that's a first, isn't it? You're one of the X-Men, Mimic, to be exact, but your birthname is Nolan Belmont. Son of Cayde and Julie Belmont-"
"YOU LEAVE MY PARENTS OUT OF THIS!"
All of the guards and troops back away in fear and raise their weapons at my outburst, Dr. Hernandez's smirk just grows as he leans forward. "Well, touched a nerve, didn't I? Where was I? Oh, right. Born in London, England on the date of November 11, 2000, grandson to Helena Belmont, formerly Helena Essex when she was married to your grandfather, Nathaniel Essex. Your family moved to New York City in December of 2005, since then you've lived there. Did I miss anything."
I just glare at him. Damn, really wish I had my Cyclops powers now, I really want to hit him with a full powered blast. He just backs off to the side and makes a sweeping motion with his hand, our containment boxes resume movement. A giant door then opens, showing a multitude of containment boxes, stopping nearby a giant crane machine our boxes are placed next to each other, the handcuffs release and drop onto the floor.
I take deep calming breaths as I rub my sore arms. After counting to ten I turn to Jubilee, who's still in shock from the news given to her by Dr. Hernandez. "He wouldn't do that, would he? And why didn't Mom stop him? There has to be some explanation. There must be." I hear her mumble. Jubilee curls into the fetal position as she continues to rant excuses for her father.
"Jubilee, Jubilee," Dammit, she isn't listening. "JUBILATION!" She jumps up and slowly turns towards me. "Calm down. Don't worry, the others will come for us, and once they do, we'll get out of here, no problem. Alright?" I reassure her.
"How c-can you be so sure?" She asks.
"Because I know them, if I think they'll come rescue us, they'll come rescue us, as simple as that. We just have to hold out until they do, thankfully it won't be long." I say. I sit down on what passes as a bed in my cell and begin to think things over. I look back up and see Jubilee curled up on her bead, her jacket wrapped tightly around her.
I hear footsteps approaching from the right side of my cell, getting up I look to see the asshole guard from earlier, he stops in front of my cell and smirks as he leers at me. "Ain't so brave now, are ya?"
I just ignore him. For another few minutes he taunts me, but honestly, it's just sounds like 'blah blah blah'. I hear the door to my cell open, looking up I see him marching towards me, glaring intensely. He grabs me by the hair and punches my already broken nose, causing an extreme spike of pain. He throws me down and kicks me, taunting me as he does.
Before the next kick could connect, he stops and lets out a gasp. Looking up I see a hand emerge from his chest. I knew they'd come and save us. Kitty then trips him, causing his head to hit the corner of my bed. Holy shit, who knew she was so ferocious? Her look of pure rage quickly shifts into immense concern once she looks at me. "Oh my God, Nolan, are you okay? What did that asshole do to you?"
She offers her hand to help me up, before I fall over and hit the ground due to the immense pain coming from my nose, she places her hand on my chest to support me. "Thanks Kitty, appreciate it." I somehow manage to get out.
Looking to my left I see Logan supporting Jubilee, helping her out of her cell. Surprisingly enough, he's gentle, not pushing to hard, and he's asking genuine questions. The three of them notice my condition and walk up to me, Rogue carefully puts a band-aid over the bridge of my nose.
"Wait, how'd you guys get in here? What about the guards? How'd you get the med kit?" I ask, raising my head up to allow Logan access to my collar. He cuts it off, I immediately feel a rush of energy.
"Absorbed the skills of a guard, took his stuff." Rogue says. She quickly turns around and fires two accurate shots into the hands of two guards, they drop to the ground in pain.
"I think he gave you some intense head injury, Nol," Kitty says, holding my head. "How many fingers am I holding up?"
"Two." I say confidently.
The group shares a concerned look. "I'm holding up one." Kitty says.
"Oh," Getting up, I look over the railing and notice a riot going on. "Oh. How'd I not notice the riot?" In the distance I hear the unmistakable sound of one of Gambit's cards, the high-pitched whine that happens before the explosion.
"You were hit in the head a couple of times, they sounded pretty hard too." Jubilee tells me.
"C'mon, kid, use my powers and heal, we've gotta meet up with Blue Team and get the hell outta here." Logan says, turning around to throw one of the guards over the railing as he attempts to sneak up on Logan.
I activate my Wolverine powers; my nose quickly heals. Taking off the band-aid, feeling at the bridge of my nose I feel a little scar already healing over. "Nice, at least this scar has a better story than your lip scar." Kitty says cheekily, smiling brightly as she does.
I feel my face flush immensely, I'm honestly surprised I didn't catch on fire. "Wait, you know how he got his scar?" Rogue asks.
"We can talk about Nolan's scars later, we gotta get outta here. Now." Logan orders. We all look at each other and nod.
After running through groups of guards we near a hole in the west side of the building, here we see Sentinels, MCU troops, and Sentinel Services guards struggling against the mutants they once held captive. In the distance I see Blue Team fighting three Sentinels, I immediately recognize the one that brought Jubilee and I here.
Before we could do anything Jubilee darts forward, surprising us all with her speed and agility, seeing as she avoided everyone who tried to detain her. "Jubilee! Wait up!" Quickly getting over my shock I follow after her, the other follow to.
Jubilee stops at the foot of the Sentinel. "Hey you! Jerkface! I've got something to show you!" The Sentinel turns around and does nothing but aim its hand at her, ready to fire. Jubilee's hands glow brighter than I've ever seen. She throws her hands up, her fireworks collide with the Sentinel's palm just as it fired, due to the collision of the energy attacks an explosion erupts, sending Jubilee flying towards us and destroying half the Sentinel's already heavily damaged body.
"Damn, dat was one hell of an explosion, if Remy says so himself." Remy says in awe.
"Agreed, but we aren't done yet!" Scott lifts his glasses and fires into the chest of one of the Sentinel's, sending it back a few feet.
In the distance I hear a car starting up, turning to it I see Dr. Hernandez and his two guards entering the vehicle. I see nothing but red, both figuratively and literally, as I (unconsciously) swap to my Sinister powers, my eyes and the diamond on my forehead glow brightly before firing a powerful beam at the car, the ensuing explosion sending everyone around it all over the place.
"I'll be back," I growl. I vaguely hear Scott call out for me, I ignore it and march towards Dr. Hernandez, any who attempts to stop me gets flung to the side by my telekinetic shield. I stop and stand over Dr. Hernandez, glaring down at him as he looks up at me, fear evident in his eyes. "Hello there."
"G-g-g-general Kenobi. Heh, see, I watched it too," He stutters. I see his hand stealthily reaching back. Using my telekinesis, I swing his arm back into its previous place, ignoring the sickening pop that comes form my actions, and his screams that follow. I manipulate the matter of the ground around him to rise up and surround him, similar to what I did to the rhino back at the Oscorp facility. "N-now I am aware I may have come off as cocky, but trust me, I really meant you no harm. Please have mercy."
I tighten the grip of the ground on him, he lets out a loud yelp of pain. "You lost that chance as soon as you brought up my parents."
A strong punch connects with the back of my head, sending me into the wreckage that was the car I destroyed. What the hell? Looking up I see one of the guards tear up my natural prison for Dr. Hernandez. My eyes begin to glow, I then fire a blast at the two of them, the guard grabs Dr. Hernandez and dodges my attack, he then runs into the distance, completely ignoring everything else happening. Again, what the hell?
Looking around I notice everything begin to die down, the mutants slowly leaving the area, an untold amount of destroyed Sentinel parts all over the place. Well, guess that's done. Walking towards the group I notice the looks on their faces, fear on Remy's Rogue's and Jubilee's. Concern on the X-Men's faces, and a mix of both on Kitty's.
"What? Am I missing an arm? I did have one hell of an adrenaline rush just now, so I wouldn't really notice if I did, would I?" I say.
"No. Nolan, you're using your Sinister powers." Scott tells me.
Quickly I look at my pure white hands, reaching up to my forehead I feel the different texture of the diamond. I shift to my Thunderbird powers as soon as I realize this.
"What do you mean 'Sinister powers'?" Rogue asks.
"My, uh, my grandfather is Mister Sinister, you know, that pale white guy who wears red and black, he's extremely dangerous." I tell them.
"Wait, your mom's dad is a super villain?" Kitty asks incredulously.
"Yeah, he is," Jean answers for me. She brings me in for a side hug and rubs my shoulder to help comfort me. "C'mon, let's get back to the limo, we've gotta go to Jubilee's house and ask her parents if she can come to the school."
"No way!" Jubilee argues. We all stop walking and turn around, shocked at her response, well, everyone but me. "This all happened because my Dad (who isn't my biological Dad, by the way) called these guys. I'm not going back home. No. Matter. What." She stops and folds her arms, standing as tall as she can to look defiant.
"Fine, you can do that, we won't stop you," Scott says. Jubilee smiles and begins to speak, but Scott interrupts her. "But you have to tell them you're coming with us, and it has to be in person. We really don't want to deal with any legal problems in the future. Once was enough."
Jean, Bobby, and Logan all shiver at some unpleasant memory.
Jubilee pouts as she deflates. "Fiiine. Let's just get this over with." She marches forward.
"Limo's this way." Bobby says, pointing in the other direction.
"I knew that!" Jubilee shouts.
The group heads towards the limo, Bobby, Scott and Remy in the front, followed by Logan, Rogue, Kitty, and Jubilee behind him, Kitty would look back every now and again. Jean and I in the back, her arm still around me in a comforting manner. "Are you sure your okay, Nolan? We know you don't like using those powers." She says.
I take a shaky breath as I nod. "Yeah. Yeah, I'm fine, really. Let's just ignore it for now, please?" I look up and give Jean puppy dog eyes. She sighs and looks away, trying to avoid my greatest superpower. It doesn't work.
"Fine, but we're going to talk about it later, no avoiding it." She says, laughing lightly at my little dance of celebration.
Finally sitting in the comforting seat of the limo I sink into it, letting out a sigh as I do. "Let's get the hell outta here please, I really wanna go to Japan soon."
"Woah, Japan? We're going to Japan?" Jubilee says.
Not gonna lie, I'm really impressed with how quickly she can regain her energy, even after being told her adoptive father betrayed her. That's a definite strength in my book.
Kitty laughs as she gently pulls Jubilee down by her shoulders. "Yeah, we're travelling the world to get more people to join the X-Men, or join the student body, like us. You're actually the last person in America that we're recruiting."
"Where're we going? Where're we going?" Jubilee asks excitedly. Rogue activates a hologram and places it in front of her, Jubilee 'ooo's in awe at it and immediately starts swiping, looking over the names.
"Hold up, don't you dare rest yet, Nolan. Ah remember Kitty talkin' about your scar. There's somethin' about your lip scar you didn't have time to say there, well, you have time now, how'd you get your lip scar?" Rogue says, a victorious smirk on her face.
Everyone stops what they're doing and look at me. "Yeah Nolan, how'd you get it?" Kitty says smugly.
"Y'know something, even I don't know how he got the scar, and we've been roommates for almost a year now." Bobby says.
I feel my face flush intensely again as I look down. "You don't need to know."
"C'mon Nolan, don't teams work better together when dey share secrets?" Remy pushed, not so softly punching me in the chest.
"Look, maybe I'll tell you guys about the scar later, right now, you don't need to know. Jean, you better not read my mind or Kitty's to get the story," I say as I look at her angrily. She starts laughing. Oh, oh no. "What the hell!?"
She slowly stops laughing, actually wiping a tear away as she begins to speak. "It's not my fault, it's on the forefront of both of your minds, you may as well be shouting the story to me. Holy crap, Nolan, I thought you were the smart one."
"Hey!" Bobby exclaims.
"You gonna tell us?" Jubilee asks excitedly.
Jean lightly pats her on the head. "Sorry, but no. If Nolan doesn't want me to share it then I won't."
They all look at Kitty expectantly. "Same." She simply says.
They all mutter in annoyance, Remy, Bobby, and Scott promise to do whatever they can to find out the story behind my lip scar. I sigh deeply and sink into my seat, falling into a slumber.
Waking up I hear distant screaming, sounds like an argument. Sitting up I stretch, noticing Kitty sitting across from me now, watching a video on a holographic screen. She looks up once she notices I'm awake and smiles. "Hey Nol, how are you? Is your nose okay, and why hasn't your scar healed over?"
I instinctively feel at the scar on the bridge of my nose. "Yeah, I'm fine, nose is too. Whenever I swap to my Wolverine powers after getting injured the healing usually isn't complete, a few months ago a saw cut into my arm, it's still a little stiff sometimes," I notice the look of alarm on her face and quickly intervene. "I'm fine, the pain's all gone, soon my arm will be as good as new, don't worry."
She still looks at me in concern before looking away, rubbing her arm in worry. "Is this common? Destroying schools, getting kidnapped, getting your arm nearly sawed off for God's sake?" She looks up as I get up and sit next to her. "Is this really the life you want to live, Nol?"
"Yeah" I say without hesitation. "Before this I didn't really know what I wanted to do, I mean, back at Midtown I just wanted to be under the radar cause I felt like no one understood me, with the X-Men it's different, I can be me."
I can see a multitude of thoughts go on in her head, she then looks into my eyes, determination easy to see. "Well, guess I have to stay on the team. To keep you out of trouble, at least." She says with a cheeky smile.
"Ha. Ha. Very funny," I pause. We then realize how close we've gotten and backed away quickly. Blush, go down now. Dammit, you are my body, listen to me! Blush, begone! The argument from the distance increases in intensity. "Hey, what's going on with the argument outside?"
"You can hear them arguing?" Kitty asks surprised.
"Yeah, Thunderbird, the big Native American guy on the team who wears black and red, has enhanced senses as a part of his powers. If I focus my senses even further, I could hear what they're talking about specifically, just don't feel like it right now." I explain.
"Right. Well, Jubilee went to tell her parents she's coming with us, an argument broke out, so now Jean and Scott are staying with her as support." Kitty tells me.
"Where're the others?" I ask, exiting the limo.
Kitty follows out, at the end of the neighborhood we see Logan smoking a cigar, he nods at us once he notices us, we wave back. "Bobby, Rogue, and Remy went to a local McDonald's about five minutes ago, said he was gonna get you your 'crave food'. Whatever that means."
"Oh, Bobby, you are a true bro." I say.
Logan walks up to us. "They're comin' outside."
Sure enough Jubilee, Scott, and Jean march outside, using the hole that used to be the front of her home. Jubilee's parents following close behind. "Jubilee! Stop right now and listen to your father!" Her mom orders.
"No. I won't listen to you, I-I mean, you called the Mutant Containment Unit on me for crying out loud! No father does that to their kid." Jubilee screams.
"I didn't know you were the mutant, why must you blame me for that mistake?" Her dad argues.
"Okay, so you didn't call them on me, you still called them on one of my friends! I mean, who the hell does that?" Jubilee continues her rant.
"Language." Her dad warns.
"No. Fuck you. Come on guys, let's go." Jubilee turns around and pretty much throws her luggage into the car. Looking at her parents we see them stay in place, their mouths open in shock.
"Let's…let's go." Scott softly says, slowly walking towards the limo.
"Damn, didn't think the kid had it in her, guess I was wrong." Logan says, slight awe in his voice.
We all enter the car and drive away, an awkward silence in the air. Jubilee then tries to activate a holographic screen, Kitty scoots over and helps her activate a holographic screen. Nodding in thanks Jubilee presses a few selections from the main menu, rock music blares to life in our section of the limo.
"Shut that off!" Logan roars.
"Heh, sorry." Jubilee lowers the volume considerably. Feeling my ears, I bring my fingers before my eyes, yep, that's blood. My ears are bleeding.
We stop at the nearby McDonald's outside we see the rest of the group outside, holding massive bags filled with food. "Yo, yo, yo-wait, is that Pearl Jam? Who's playing this?" Bobby says, handing us our food.
Jubilee raises her hand as she takes her food. She and Bobby high-five. We then begin conversing about a whole bunch of stuff, shows, video games, music, and all that other good stuff. I can hear Logan mutter under his breath. "This is gonna be a long trip."
Hell yeah it is, may as well have some fun while we're at it. Goodbye America, hello Japan.
A few hours ago
The guard ran away from the battle, Dr. Hernandez under his arm. "You're not one of my people. Who are you?" Dr. Hernandez asks.
The guard stops, creating a small ditch as he dragged his feet through the ground. The guard throws Dr. Hernandez to the ground. "Stop talking."
Dr. Hernandez slowly gets up, dusting the dirt off of his jacket. "Your voice changed as well. Again, who are you?"
The guard punches Dr. Hernandez in the stomach, winding him. The doctor folds over and throws up, the power behind the fist was far more than he was expecting, that's for sure. Behind him he hears a noise, turning around Dr. Hernandez sees a jet land. Once the jet finishes its landing sequence the ramp lowers, and the person at the top causes two feelings to become prominent within Dr. Hernandez: Surprise and fear.
"Hello, I need your assistance, 'no' won't be taken for an answer."
The guard punches Dr. Hernandez in the back of the head, knocking him out.
Yeah, so the last chapter wasn't my biggest chapter, this was! It's entirely possible that chapters will get bigger in the future, if they do, I'll probably cap at about 10,000 words per chapter. By the way, the Mutant Containment Unit and Sentinel Services are two different companies, MCU is more based off of manpower while Sentinel Services is about tech, although they're different companies they frequently work together.
Thanks for reading, please leave a constructive review and remember to stay awesome! See you next week.