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"Let's go kid," Logan said as he opened the door to Kurt's room.

Logan had made Kurt go to bed for a while. He realized that Kurt was dead tired from the events of the day. Kurt tried to convince Logan that he was fine, but the coughing fit he lapsed into did not help his argument. Logan finally persuaded him to take a nap by explaining that they could do nothing until Mystique acted and promising that he would wake him as soon as they knew something.

Kurt slowly got up, he's only driving force was the thought of Mystique having his friends. He took some more Tylenol and grimaced as the water aggravated his already raw throat. He took some cough syrup and the feeling was the same, with a hint of cherry. The nap had not helped. If anything, he felt worse…if that was possible.

He threw on his suit and made his way downstairs to where Logan was waiting, in his uniform as well. Logan noticed that Kurt looked drained. He though for a second about whether or not Kurt should accompany him on the mission. Kurt might prove to be more of a liability than an asset. But, Logan also knew that he couldn't leave him alone, so Kurt was to come along.

"Vhat's going on?" Kurt asked, his voice sounding worse than it did earlier.

"Mystique is moving, her signal is getting weaker." Logan replied, looking at the tracker.

"How are ve going to find her if her signal iz veaker?" Kurt asked, his clouded mind not really comprehending what Logan was telling him.

"We drive around until we find the area where the signal is strongest." Logan knew Kurt felt like crap, but he could not mask the irritancy in his voice.

"Vell, let's go," Kurt walked outside towards the jeep, his head swimming, "How am I goin' to do zis?' He muttered to himself as he walked.

They drove around town for a few hours, the tracker leading them to dead ends frequently, but finally, around dusk, they came upon an area where the signal was extremely strong.

"She's close," Wolverine sniffed the air, "I can smell her,"

They quickly searched the area, relying on the tracker as well as Wolverine's sense of smell. They moved quickly, Wolverine briskly walking towards the scent, while Kurt tried desperately to keep up, not wanting to slow them down, and attempted to conserve his energy at the same time.

Finally, Logan stopped in front of a large, run down warehouse. He pretended to study the tracker, while, in fact, giving Kurt a much needed rest.

"Zis the place?" Kurt asked after he regained his breath.

"Yeah, she's in there alright," Logan though about how he would do this, planning was not his strong suit. Normally he would just rush in, then wing it from there, but the kid couldn't…well, maybe he could…

"Kid, go up to the top of the building. There should be a skylight there. See exactly what we are up against, then come back here, I'm gonna go scout the entrances" Logan gave the instructions to Kurt, silently hoping he wouldn't do something along the lines of pass out.

"Ja," Kurt took a deep breath and bamfed to the top of the building. He was a bit surprised he had the energy to do it, but pleased none the less. True to Logan's word, there was a skylight atop the warehouse. Kurt carefully walked over to it, knelt next to it and peered inside. He could see strange machines, all blinking colored lights, but besides that, the warehouse was bare. He looked again, this time for people. He saw, in a corner on the far side, a group of people. He looked closer, the X-Men! Kurt looked around the warehouse carefully once again, looking for any signs of Mystique or any of her flunkies. None. He gathered his strength and bamfed back to Wolverine.

He took a moment to catch his breath, the reported, "Ja, zey're zere. Against ze far vall. Zey must be trapped by somezing, or zey vould not have just been sitting zere. And I zink nobody else is in the room."

Logan thought for a moment. There had to be a catch, but he was willing to take the chance. "Alright, listen to me. There are two doors to get inside. One on the far wall, one on the left wall. I'll take the far side and you can either port in or use the door on the left side." Logan gave the kid an out if he was too tired to use his powers.

"Ja, I'll port in." Kurt started to collect his strength.

"Okay…be careful kid," Logan turned and sprinted to the other side of the building.

Kurt gave him a minute's head start, then bamfed into the building. He was terrified to see Mystique standing next to the glass prison the held his friends, while a huge, horrible, thing, proceeded to finish knocking Logan out. Mystique turned to a box on the wall, opened it, pushed some buttons, and a small opening appeared in the glass box. The thing that had knocked Logan out, picked him up and roughly tossed him into the confinement. Mystique quickly pushed another button and the opening closed.

"No!!! Logan!!" Kurt was not aware of his screaming.

Mystique turned to him and the thing that had defeated Logan ran at him, fangs bared. Kurt bamfed out of the way, but was too tired to keep that up for long. Soon, the thing had him in a choke hold. As Kurt passed out, the genetically altered mutant raised him over his head, preparing to chuck the limp body into the concrete wall, when Mystique called him off.

"No, bring him with me," Mystique walked out the door, into another room with her creation following, carrying the limp Kurt, while the other X-Men watched in horror.


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