POINT OF INFORMATION: Just so you know, in this story, even though Wolverine has his admontium skeleton, I've left it that the people in the Weapon X program didn't put admontium in his neck. Jeez, it's not like Wolverine's going to die or anything COME ON! He's WOLVERINE for pete sake! Oh, and for you Cyclops fans out there, I have nothing against Cyclops. I really like his powers, but he's a jerk. So don't be upset if I do some crazy things with him.
Ch. 6 – Rescue
The team sat around in the War Room,
as Slash and Beast entered. The team
was huddled around the table. They all
rose (except Xavier) when Slash entered. They returned to their seats, as Slash and Beast each sat down. For some reason, Xavier had a blank
expression on his face. Something was
definitely on his mind.
"I would like to clear our friend
Slash from the infirmary. I am pleased
to report that there was no major injury sustained. And Wolverine's neck is also back in one piece."
"Did a good job there bub. I'm still feeling that snapping. Actually, I needed a back breaking too. Felt pretty good."
"I'm just glad that you all have
accepted me after…well…you know, shooting people and all that. I hope to make it up to you by your making
me a member of the team." At this Xavier
spoke up.
"We have a new problem, and this one
involves some old friends. Morph,
Shadowcat, Nightcrawler, and Psylocke have all been ambushed and are being held
at a secret FOH camp somewhere in the west. They are all badly hurt. I'll
get more definitive information once I use Cerebro. We need to get them out of there. Suggestions?"
Cyclops piped up first. "A quiet operation would be best. Sneak in, grab 'em and get back here."
Slash spoke up here. "I'm an expert at covert ops, and rescue and
recovery." A few of the members
squirmed in their seats. "What we
always did was make several small groups and each group got a different
assignment. Like insertion, mission
objectives, extraction, etc. That way,
each person no matter who they were got their say in how we would proceed. Also, may I suggest only taking in part of
the team, and not everyone. The less
people that actually go inside. In the
SEALs, only one squad would enter, why the other setup a perimeter around to
ensure the safety of the team inside." Cyke looked a bit agitated. He
had always been the one planning, and it was his skills that were always called
upon. "I know Cyke is your best
planner. How about he takes the most
dangerous part, the mission objective inside him, with Rogue, Beast and
Wolverine. Xavier can take insertion
and approach with Jean. Gambit can work
with Storm on different possible methods of extraction or ways to get out in
case something goes wrong. I can walk
through and provide support to all the groups with the necessary supplies or
maps. I know how to tap into government
satellites. Oh, and Cyke, I'm in on the
inside job. I've rescued to many
American hostages not to be there."
"Good. Let's do that. We'll meet
back here in an hour." Xavier
said. The team got up, but before they
left, Cyke stopped Slash.
"This is MY team. You may have been your company's commanding
officer, but here, we do things My way, you got that?"
"Yes sir." Slash snapped off a smart salute, turned, and walked out to the
computer room to tap into the satellites. Xavier knew that Cyclops was jealous. He had never really been ordered around by anyone before. Yeah, Wolverine undermined his authoritei,
but no one had actually taken it from him. Xavier came to him.
"Don't worry. He's just doing what comes natural. He was a trained leader in missions like
this. Instead of despising him, why not
use it as an asset?" Cyke said nothing
as Xavier disappeared down the hall.
In one of the meeting rooms, Xavier
and Jean labored over the maps that Slash had downloaded from the government
satellites. They found the camp that
their friends were at was near Sacramento, California. The X-Men would land the Blackbird in a
clearing more than a mile away. The
insertion team (to be determined by Cyclops and his crew) would walk in, and
they would leave the Blackbird on standby.
Gambit and Storm took off at the end
of the insertion group's job. The
Blackbird would be the primary route of evacuation. Now, the team leader Cyclops' team would take over. If he/she felt they could make it back, to
radio in "We are in the green." If the
leader felt they could not make it, but it was safe enough to proceed back to
the plane, then they were to radio "We are in the yellow." If it appeared that they could not make it
back at all, they were to radio "We are in the red" twice. Then the team on the ground would attempt to
escape to the alternate-landing zone, where the Blackbird would be waiting.
With these ideas, the mission team decided on who would go it. The primary players were the commander of
the ground force, four ground personnel, and the pilot. Despite Cyclops being against the idea, he
was to be the pilot of the Blackbird since he was the best pilot they had. They had even decided that the ground team
would be Gambit, Wolverine, Storm, Beast, and Slash, but they were unsure who
would be the leader. They wanted Storm,
but she felt she could not lead effectively while being in such close
quarters. That left Beast of Slash. Beast declined, saying he was needed more to
get one of them out of there. So the
leadership fell to Slash. The team
headed to their quarters to prepare for the rescue.
Slash changed into his battle
uniform and pinned his last Eagle and Trident on his uniform. He walked over to his gun wall. He pulled off the Colt Carbine, now known
among the "Wolvestopper," off the wall, and prepared the five clips he had for
it. Slash put in 100 rounds in the
clips, and placed them all on his belt. He then pulled the MP-5 off the wall and prepared the six clips of 30
rounds a piece. He took Wolvestopper
and strapped it across his back, almost exactly like Cable. He shouldered the MP-5 and headed to the
Blackbird. He was the last one
there. Everyone was completely
surprised that he pulled out his old SEAL weapons. Not one of them really handled a gun before because they had
always relied on their mutant powers.
"What are you lookin' at? I never go into battle without these babies,
especially the Wolvestopper." Wolverine
just rolled his eyes.
"Oh shut up squid." They all boarded the Blackbird and within
seconds, the plane was taking off headed out west to rescue their old
teammates.
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