Well, I didn't really know how to do this next chapter, but I finally got
it sort of worked out, which may or may not be a good thing, your decision.
Tabitha peered through the opening in the bushes where she and Bobby were hiding.
"This is NOT a good idea." She said
"Yeah, Logan will be furious." Bobby agreed.
"It's so dangerous."
"We could get killed."
"But if our plan works..then we won't be the ones staying at home all the time."
"We'll show them how valuable we are."
"But there's a good chance it won't work."
"Should we do it?"
"Yeah." They both said. They were not supposed to be here, hiding in the bushes behind the New Mutanthood base. They had been given orders to stay at the mansion, and they were deliberately breaking those orders. But the thought of rescuing Capslock and proving their worth to the team outweighed the knowledge of the consequences if their plan failed. There was a rustling in the bushes behind them and a quiet thud. Both disobedient mutants whirled around, Tabby with an energy bomb and Bobby icing up. It was Hank.
"What in bloody blazes are you doing here?!" Hank hissed, quietly though.
"Rescuing Capslock what else? And since you're here you can help us." Tabby replied, dissipating her bomb.
"Yeah, you can sneak in while we distract Deadshot and get him to tell us what went so wrong in the past to make this future." Bobby added
"He comes around every 10 minutes, he's on patrol." Tabby explained.
"Wait wait wait. I never said I was helping! For one thing, we are NOT supposed to be here. For another, we don't even know which cell is Capslock's or where it is or what other defenses they have in there! What you two are doing is very foolish." Hank said.
"That's why we'll get Deadshot to tell us."
"tell you what?"
"Where Capslock is!"
"Why would he tell you anything?"
"Just a hunch? Besides, we can always threaten him, we've got it under control."
"I don't think so. I'm shocked and surprised you two would do anything so utterly irrational. You are grown adults, but you are acting like children! We are all going back to the mansion right now!" Hank said, raising his voice a bit.
"To late." The cold, hard, and completely emotionless voice cut through their whispered conversation. They all turned their heads to see Deadshot's sniper rifle barrel aimed precisely at the center of Bobby's forehead. Deadshot's hard eyes stared calculatingly at them.
Tabitha broke the tense silence, "Deadshot, we need your help."
"My help?"
"Yes, we need to know some things, will you tell us?"
"Depends."
"Where is the mutant Capslock's cell?"
"Cell number 54, bottom level."
"And what critical things happened in the past to make things.how they are today? Like the government and Cyclops changing and all."
"If I understand your question sufficiently, three main things happened. I will briefly summarize them for you. Frank Chester and his associate Riley Courtright gained power, files from Cerebro were stolen, part of the result was Professor Charles X. Xavier was killed."
"Ok, Thanks!" Tabitha managed a bright smile.
"Woa woa woa!!!! Hold on here, why are you telling us all of this?" Bobby asked, surprised that he had actually told them something.
"It is not against my orders to do so."
"But..we're your enemy!" Bobby pointed out.
"I hold no personal feelings of anger or enmity towards you. Neither do I hold personal feelings of devotion or agreement to Cyclops or his cause." This was true, Deadshot held very few personal feelings of any kind at all.
"Well then, why do you serve him?"
"I took an oath."
"Well which team would you rather be on?"
"Neither, I prefer to be an independent operator."
"Well then why did you take an oath?" Tabitha's turn to talk.
"He forced me. He tricked me. Don't bother to ask how." (that's not part of this story, probably because I have no idea how.)
"Well why don't you just break the stupid oath then?!"
"I have killed, stole, deceived, cheated, and exploited every weakness I could find in my enemies." there was a hint of regret in his otherwise completely controlled voice; a hint that only brushed the surface of his fierce self-hatred that lurked in the dark confines of his blackened heart. The same extreme guilt, remorse, and loathing he held for his own twisted soul that he numbed himself to it by cutting off all emotion. This way, his reason based mind reasoned, was the only way to save himself, from himself, and to save other people as well. When he killed, he did not enjoy it, so only killed when necessary. "But I have never broken an oath, or a promise. That is the only shred of moral fiber I have left, the only clean, untainted thing left in my heart. That and the basic primal will to survive are the only things that drive me on. If I break my oath I break myself, and I do not want to die. I do not expect you to understand, but that is why I will never break my oath. I am bound to Cyclops's order until he releases me or dies."
"Oh, well then, what-"
Then several things happened at once: Deadshot noticed Hank was missing just as Hank leapt through the air from a tree, landing right in front of the door behind Deadshot. Bobby iced up and shot an ice wall between Hank and Deadshot just in time to stop the lethally aimed bullets from hitting their mark. Tabitha ducked and rolled and lunged forward, sprinting behind the ice wall to stand beside Hank.
The bullets shattered through the ice but by the time they reached the other side they were going too slow to be harmful. Iceman renewed his ice wall before Deashot could shoot through the holes his previous bullets had made. Iceman sent a freezing blast of ice at Deadshot, in response, Deadshot blinked out of visibility. There was a mini explosion as Tabitha blasted the lock off the door and she and Hank disappeared inside.
"Shit! " Iceman thought, "now he's invisible!" He created a semicircular wall all around the door so Deadshot couldn't follow his teammates inside the building. Iceman made a huge sweeping blast of ice, hoping to hit the sniper by chance. No such chance.
Deadshot rolled invisibly on the ground he didn't even have a shadow. He would focus on this enemy and worry about the others later. He rolled up into a kneeling position and snapped off a shot at Iceman. A blast of ice intercepted the bullet and it shattered when it made contact with Iceman's icy armor. This could be difficult, even for Deadshot.
Meanwhile, Storm was driving back from Hourglass's house with Hourglass. She had gone to check on the older woman, and Hourglass decided she wanted to come and stay at the mansion so she could be there when Capslock was rescued.
When storm pulled into the garage she was surprised to see that two other vehicles were gone. She contained her curiosity and politely helped Hourglass out of the car and into the main hall. Storm called for the others to come down and greet their guest, nobody answered. Then Storm knew, she didn't know exactly how she knew, she just did.
"What is it dear?" Hourglass asked, her wrinkled face becoming more wrinkled with concern.
"They've gone to rescue Capslock."
Tabitha peered through the opening in the bushes where she and Bobby were hiding.
"This is NOT a good idea." She said
"Yeah, Logan will be furious." Bobby agreed.
"It's so dangerous."
"We could get killed."
"But if our plan works..then we won't be the ones staying at home all the time."
"We'll show them how valuable we are."
"But there's a good chance it won't work."
"Should we do it?"
"Yeah." They both said. They were not supposed to be here, hiding in the bushes behind the New Mutanthood base. They had been given orders to stay at the mansion, and they were deliberately breaking those orders. But the thought of rescuing Capslock and proving their worth to the team outweighed the knowledge of the consequences if their plan failed. There was a rustling in the bushes behind them and a quiet thud. Both disobedient mutants whirled around, Tabby with an energy bomb and Bobby icing up. It was Hank.
"What in bloody blazes are you doing here?!" Hank hissed, quietly though.
"Rescuing Capslock what else? And since you're here you can help us." Tabby replied, dissipating her bomb.
"Yeah, you can sneak in while we distract Deadshot and get him to tell us what went so wrong in the past to make this future." Bobby added
"He comes around every 10 minutes, he's on patrol." Tabby explained.
"Wait wait wait. I never said I was helping! For one thing, we are NOT supposed to be here. For another, we don't even know which cell is Capslock's or where it is or what other defenses they have in there! What you two are doing is very foolish." Hank said.
"That's why we'll get Deadshot to tell us."
"tell you what?"
"Where Capslock is!"
"Why would he tell you anything?"
"Just a hunch? Besides, we can always threaten him, we've got it under control."
"I don't think so. I'm shocked and surprised you two would do anything so utterly irrational. You are grown adults, but you are acting like children! We are all going back to the mansion right now!" Hank said, raising his voice a bit.
"To late." The cold, hard, and completely emotionless voice cut through their whispered conversation. They all turned their heads to see Deadshot's sniper rifle barrel aimed precisely at the center of Bobby's forehead. Deadshot's hard eyes stared calculatingly at them.
Tabitha broke the tense silence, "Deadshot, we need your help."
"My help?"
"Yes, we need to know some things, will you tell us?"
"Depends."
"Where is the mutant Capslock's cell?"
"Cell number 54, bottom level."
"And what critical things happened in the past to make things.how they are today? Like the government and Cyclops changing and all."
"If I understand your question sufficiently, three main things happened. I will briefly summarize them for you. Frank Chester and his associate Riley Courtright gained power, files from Cerebro were stolen, part of the result was Professor Charles X. Xavier was killed."
"Ok, Thanks!" Tabitha managed a bright smile.
"Woa woa woa!!!! Hold on here, why are you telling us all of this?" Bobby asked, surprised that he had actually told them something.
"It is not against my orders to do so."
"But..we're your enemy!" Bobby pointed out.
"I hold no personal feelings of anger or enmity towards you. Neither do I hold personal feelings of devotion or agreement to Cyclops or his cause." This was true, Deadshot held very few personal feelings of any kind at all.
"Well then, why do you serve him?"
"I took an oath."
"Well which team would you rather be on?"
"Neither, I prefer to be an independent operator."
"Well then why did you take an oath?" Tabitha's turn to talk.
"He forced me. He tricked me. Don't bother to ask how." (that's not part of this story, probably because I have no idea how.)
"Well why don't you just break the stupid oath then?!"
"I have killed, stole, deceived, cheated, and exploited every weakness I could find in my enemies." there was a hint of regret in his otherwise completely controlled voice; a hint that only brushed the surface of his fierce self-hatred that lurked in the dark confines of his blackened heart. The same extreme guilt, remorse, and loathing he held for his own twisted soul that he numbed himself to it by cutting off all emotion. This way, his reason based mind reasoned, was the only way to save himself, from himself, and to save other people as well. When he killed, he did not enjoy it, so only killed when necessary. "But I have never broken an oath, or a promise. That is the only shred of moral fiber I have left, the only clean, untainted thing left in my heart. That and the basic primal will to survive are the only things that drive me on. If I break my oath I break myself, and I do not want to die. I do not expect you to understand, but that is why I will never break my oath. I am bound to Cyclops's order until he releases me or dies."
"Oh, well then, what-"
Then several things happened at once: Deadshot noticed Hank was missing just as Hank leapt through the air from a tree, landing right in front of the door behind Deadshot. Bobby iced up and shot an ice wall between Hank and Deadshot just in time to stop the lethally aimed bullets from hitting their mark. Tabitha ducked and rolled and lunged forward, sprinting behind the ice wall to stand beside Hank.
The bullets shattered through the ice but by the time they reached the other side they were going too slow to be harmful. Iceman renewed his ice wall before Deashot could shoot through the holes his previous bullets had made. Iceman sent a freezing blast of ice at Deadshot, in response, Deadshot blinked out of visibility. There was a mini explosion as Tabitha blasted the lock off the door and she and Hank disappeared inside.
"Shit! " Iceman thought, "now he's invisible!" He created a semicircular wall all around the door so Deadshot couldn't follow his teammates inside the building. Iceman made a huge sweeping blast of ice, hoping to hit the sniper by chance. No such chance.
Deadshot rolled invisibly on the ground he didn't even have a shadow. He would focus on this enemy and worry about the others later. He rolled up into a kneeling position and snapped off a shot at Iceman. A blast of ice intercepted the bullet and it shattered when it made contact with Iceman's icy armor. This could be difficult, even for Deadshot.
Meanwhile, Storm was driving back from Hourglass's house with Hourglass. She had gone to check on the older woman, and Hourglass decided she wanted to come and stay at the mansion so she could be there when Capslock was rescued.
When storm pulled into the garage she was surprised to see that two other vehicles were gone. She contained her curiosity and politely helped Hourglass out of the car and into the main hall. Storm called for the others to come down and greet their guest, nobody answered. Then Storm knew, she didn't know exactly how she knew, she just did.
"What is it dear?" Hourglass asked, her wrinkled face becoming more wrinkled with concern.
"They've gone to rescue Capslock."