A Bar

Jubilee made her way into the run-down bar that she had decided was the best option to get her out of the warm weather. She had run out of the house so quickly that she had forgotten to grab anything more than her yellow jacket that was more for a rain storm than a hot summer night. Jubilee was a sixteen-year-old Asian girl who had just discovered that she was in fact a mutant, an orphan since she was a young girl, she was very surprised how her new adopted family reacted when her powers woke up.

She had been enjoying an anniversary celebration with the new family when out of nowhere there was a car accident outside, they all ran out of the house to help and while Jubilee was trying to help a young man out of a flipped car, bright colored energy pulsed from her hands and nearly caused an explosion from the car. Jubilee was overwhelmed and ran inside where within the hour she overheard her knew adopted mother on the phone calling the authorities.

Jubilee did the only thing she could think to do which was make a break for it, she climbed out of her bedroom window and started running. It had been a few hours and no cops had stopped her so she assumed nobody was looking for her yet. Getting from the suburbs of New York to the outskirts of the city had not been easy but if she could get a way out of the city, she could figure out everything else after that.

She took a seat at the bar and looked at the bartender who gave her a very clear not serving you look which she quickly smiled towards, she scanned the room hoping to spot someone who might at least buy her a little bit of food or water since she neglected to grab money in her escape. She spotted a group of bikers on her left side who stared at her with very animalistic and hungry looks that made her uneasy. The right side of the bar sat one man, with long hair that pointed up on the sides almost like a pair of ears with mutton chops running down the side of his face, he was ignoring her but she chose him to be the lesser of two evils.

Logan had watched the young girl enter and take her seat at the bar, clearly a runaway she had no bag with her but she smelled of nervousness and clearly had a lack of judgement to have walked into that particular bar at night. He had only been passing through and didn't feel like going farther into the city than he already had. Logan had lived far too long to stick around people much and he had to fight the urge to tell the girl to stay put when she stood up and made her way towards him.

"Umm…excuse me?" she said as sweetly as she could muster. Logan looked over at her with a non-caring face. "I was hoping that you might be able to buy me a meal or even just some water, I can pay you back at some point just not right now."

Logan sighed and was about to respond when he noticed the newest patron to the bar, a young blonde woman in a nice suit, the most jarring thing about her however was her perfume, Logan was not sure what the scent was but it was certainly going to stick out in his mind for the rest of time. She sauntered her way over to the bar and put herself between Logan and Jubilee. "Can I offer you some assistance young lady?" she said as she slowly pushed Jubilee back to the center of the bar.

Jubilee quickly found herself pushed somewhat closer to the bikers who had their eyes all over the blonde who was blissfully ignoring them. She smiled and leaned forward and spoke into Jubilee's ear "I know what you are." Jubilee froze as the woman talked.

Logan was intently listening to the conversation between the two ladies thanks to his very keen senses thanks to his mutant abilities, aside from his senses Logan had been gifted with three claws that popped from between his knuckles on both hands and a healing factor that not only healed every injury known to man, it also extended Logan's life well beyond what would be considered normal.

"I can offer you more than just food and water, I can offer you protection and a place to stay. I know what happened with your parents Jubilee…Humans are not capable of handling their superiors." Mystique had played this game so many times over the years for Magneto, she was a mutant with the ability to shape shift into anyone she chose and right now she was using the very attractive FBI agent she had murdered and replaced almost six months ago.

Jubilee thought the offer over quietly, noticing that the woman's eyes had not left her. She began to look around a little more when she saw that the man on her right side was watching the blonde very intently. "Something is wrong" Jubilee muttered to herself.

"Sorry, I didn't quite catch that my dear" replied Mystique who was sensing that Jubilee was not going to come with her quietly.

"I appreciate your offer but I don't think it would be in my best interest to accept it. I don't know you nearly well enough to just go walking out of here with you" stated Jubilee getting a disappointing nod from Mystique.

"Very well" Mystique replied as she stood up and pulled out a card "Well if you ever change your mind…here is my card." Mystique walked away from Jubilee and headed to the woman's restroom where she had just seen a female biker go. Mystique entered the restroom to find the biker lady leaned over a toilet and heaving up whatever she had been drinking the past few hours.

Mystique looked into the stall since it had no doors and reverted to her normal form, her skin was a natural blue and had scales with her red hair punctuated by her yellow eyes. Mystique never bothered with clothes given that in public she would change her appearance and could instantly make the clothes appear. She raised her barefoot and drove it into the back of the biker woman's head snapping her neck. Mystique flipped the woman over and looked her over and then changed her appearance to look like her.

Mystique left the bathroom and headed over to the group of bikers the woman she had just murdered was originally sitting with. She whispered into the ear of the man the woman had clearly been seeing "That girl over there is one of them mutant freaks, I saw her powers in the bathroom earlier." The lead biker looked at her and then at Jubilee.

He stood up and called his boys to join him "Hey" he said to Jubilee who looked over with great fear in her eyes. "You one of them freaks?" he asked causing Jubilee to stand up and try to leave when the much larger man cut her off. "I asked you a question…are you one of them freak mutants?"

Jubilee was frozen with fear and that fear made her lose control, her fireworks as she called them, went off destroying the stool next to her and causing one of the bikers to jump into the air. "I'm sorry" she yelled as the lead biker grabbed her by the jacket and raised his fist. Jubilee was waiting for contact when she heard a popping noise, the sound of something metal slicing through something hard and agonizing scream of the lead biker as he let her go and fell to his knees.

She looked down to find the biker holding his right arm that was now missing its fist, which was now laying balled up next to the biker. She looked to find the man she was going to ask for food standing over him with metal claws sticking out of his right hand.

"He's one too" yelled another biker who charged at Logan who popped his left claws as the bikers all converged on him.

Mystique sighed and took a seat watching the madness ensue as the bikers attacked Logan "Who the hell is this guy?" she openly wondered not noticing as Jubilee crawled her way through the action and escaped the bar unscathed as she made a break for it.

Logan had just cut his way through two more bikers when he heard the shotgun cock to his right, the bar owner had grabbed his weapon and was clearly willing to use it. Logan looked at the man in his eyes "I don't serve freaks like you…so get the hell out of here right now" he said as Logan looked at the bikers who were still itching for a fight.

Mystique stood up and decided to get the situation handled before she headed off to find the girl who Mystique missed leaving the bar. She picked up a chain one of the dead bikers had and shape shifted into him. She then quietly approached and used the chain so smack Logan in the face causing him to move towards the bar owner who out of reflex pulled the trigger.

As everyone reeled from watching Logan get shot in the head by a shotgun at close range, Mystique quietly exited the bar and returned to her car as she started hacking traffic cams hoping to spot Jubilee.

The bar owner was panicking when he pulled the trigger and he was in the process of dialing 9-1-1 when a hand popped up on the bar. Logan pulled himself off of the ground and groaned in pain as his head regenerated itself. When it was done Logan wiped off the blood and looked at the owner and the remaining bikers who all immediately made a break for the exit. The owner looked petrified as Logan started to leave. Logan turned back and looked at the owner "Do yourself a favor bub, don't be here next time I'm around" Logan said as he went through the doors and found himself on the streets of New York. He scanned the area, he knew that the blonde somehow set up the girl and he knew that someone like that wouldn't stop just because the girl escaped. Logan started sniffing and after a few moments found what he was looking for, blood had spilled on the girl's clothes from his attack on the lead biker. He could track her for miles now as he started walking, knowing he would have to find time to come back for his truck. Logan didn't want to get involved but the girl was going to need help and as isolated as Logan was, he was not going to leave her in the hands of someone dangerous.