Chapter 5: Help!
Peering through the sheet, the door bursts open and three figures entered. I try channelling to them.
//Who are you? Say your names aloud!\\
"Its Evan, Jean and Wolverine." I hear Evan's voice. "Where are you?"
I appear and greet them. They're happy to see me and then Jean asks where Kurt is. I unveil the sheet to show Kurt's beaten and bruised body. I tell them how Magneto had planted a device on him making him try to kill me, that's why he was out cold. Wrapping him in a sheet I hand him over to Logan and we make for an exit fast.
Suddenly a gush of wind past blowing us off our feet. Its Quicksilver coming to make trouble, he runs rings around us until Jean lifts him off the ground. Evan shoots a few spikes out, pinning Quicksilver to the wall.
"Your not going to get out that easily. This place is sealed like a nuclear warfare bunker and you need the master controls to get out!"
"Well, you can show us where they are or…" Evan says in aggressive tone. "Or Wolverine can dice you up. Which would you prefer?"
's fist is close by Quicksilver's face, flexing his claws just missing the boy's face. He is petrified, but to make sure, Evan punches him in the gut causing him to jerk forward closer to Logan's blades.
"Ö.K.! I'll show you but you better give me a shiner or something."
"Why?" Jean asks.
"So it looks like I didn't give up without a fight. So go on, hit me!"
Evan is all too happy to step forward and do the honours, giving him a big ol' black eye and a bleeding lip. He goes again for another swing, but Wolverine stops him before making contact.
"We need him to remember the way out, then seek your revenge later." He says, not impressed by Quicksilver's request to be injured.
Unpinning him, he stands up a little shaken and runs down the corridor, opens a door and we follow him up three flights of stairs. He is about to stop to rest but sees Evan coming up from behind and quickly takes up the pace once more. After going through some open doors, down corridors and into an elevator, we reach a huge metal door. Jean opens it and checks out the inside.
"There's no lights, but you can see the buttons' light up on the keyboard." She reports back.
"Is there a janitor closet around here?" I ask.
"What for?" They all reply back, except for Kurt who remains in his state of mind.
"You'll see."
Quicksilver points to a supply cupboard a few paces away, so I walk over and have a look in it. It has power boards, microchips, buttons and back-up monitors waiting to be used. In the bottom are some cables so I grab the and return to the others.
//Jean, I'm coming back to tie up a lose end. Make the guide comfortable.\\
//Will do, Sel.\\
On entering back to the control room, Quicksilver is sitting in a chair facing away from the door and Jean behind him. I came up from behind Jean, tapping her on the shoulder. Then she and I quickly placed the coil of cable over him, and pulled tightly, securing him to the chair.
"What's this you're doing to me? Get me outta here!" He wriggled and squirmed but not freeing him.
"I think I've found the switch to open the door, I'll give it a flick." Evan said and pushed a big red button which turns green. From the window beyond the keyboard, a small opening begins to widen pouring light down to the floor, we were in some sort of hangar. After a few minutes, a helicopter comes through.
//Come Xmen, get out of there quickly!\\ The Prof.'s words were clear.
Jean smashes the glass. "Out of here, I'll send you all down first and then myself."
Everyone hops out of the window, leaving me with Quicksilver and Jean left.
"Come one, you're next!"
"You go on ahead, I have to do something first."
She gave me a confused glance before hoping out the window and joining the others below.
//Selaeste, come at once!\\ The Prof. sounded a little anxious to get out.
//Just chill Prof., I gotta do something first, oh! And you might want to cover your ears.\\
I clenched my fists and thought intensely, to make that sound but it came out so softly, not effecting the machinery around me or doing anything else dramatic.
"Ahhh! What are you trying to do, give me an ear ache?!!!" Quicksilver heard it but it wasn't enough.
I knelt down to him, so he was slightly above me. "Sorry, but what I have to do will hurt more than just your ears." Giving him a kiss on the cheek, I undid the bandage on one of my hands, picked up a glass fragment and held it in my palm forcing the glass to cut into my hand. Then, using this pain I tried again.
It was coming but only slowly, probably because I had been spent fighting with Kurt, but I tried harder concentrating on the consequence of the glass edging its way into my flesh.
//Sel, let's go, come one! I can get you down now!\\
//Just a minute, Jean. I'll be there in a sec.\\
The glass was about to give way, I didn't know how long it would be until it would go right through my hand but it was the only way how. My body was burning in pain all over, blood flowed from my fist and my temples were pounding from the intensity of the pain I inflected.
SNAP!
The sound became louder, higher and crazier as the glass broke into pieces pushing into my tendons and scraping against bone. Buttons flashed in a frenzied light show, the keyboard began to sizzle and smoke erupted in blasts as sections of the keyboard blew off.
When I had created enough chaos, I wearily made my way to the smashed window and signalled to Jean. I was so weak, my eyes were so hard to keep open and I felt my conscious slipping away fast. Looking down to the floor, everything shook and my balanced had left me. I noticed Jean nearby the helicopter, her hands raised and yelling at me to jump. Before closing my eyes, I channelled a last message to Jean , then I took a blind step out and followed through falling.
// Jean, CATCH!\\
A.T.-Sorry about the whole self infliction of injuries, but that's how she makes that sound I guess, when she's frightened or in a great amount of pain.
Peering through the sheet, the door bursts open and three figures entered. I try channelling to them.
//Who are you? Say your names aloud!\\
"Its Evan, Jean and Wolverine." I hear Evan's voice. "Where are you?"
I appear and greet them. They're happy to see me and then Jean asks where Kurt is. I unveil the sheet to show Kurt's beaten and bruised body. I tell them how Magneto had planted a device on him making him try to kill me, that's why he was out cold. Wrapping him in a sheet I hand him over to Logan and we make for an exit fast.
Suddenly a gush of wind past blowing us off our feet. Its Quicksilver coming to make trouble, he runs rings around us until Jean lifts him off the ground. Evan shoots a few spikes out, pinning Quicksilver to the wall.
"Your not going to get out that easily. This place is sealed like a nuclear warfare bunker and you need the master controls to get out!"
"Well, you can show us where they are or…" Evan says in aggressive tone. "Or Wolverine can dice you up. Which would you prefer?"
's fist is close by Quicksilver's face, flexing his claws just missing the boy's face. He is petrified, but to make sure, Evan punches him in the gut causing him to jerk forward closer to Logan's blades.
"Ö.K.! I'll show you but you better give me a shiner or something."
"Why?" Jean asks.
"So it looks like I didn't give up without a fight. So go on, hit me!"
Evan is all too happy to step forward and do the honours, giving him a big ol' black eye and a bleeding lip. He goes again for another swing, but Wolverine stops him before making contact.
"We need him to remember the way out, then seek your revenge later." He says, not impressed by Quicksilver's request to be injured.
Unpinning him, he stands up a little shaken and runs down the corridor, opens a door and we follow him up three flights of stairs. He is about to stop to rest but sees Evan coming up from behind and quickly takes up the pace once more. After going through some open doors, down corridors and into an elevator, we reach a huge metal door. Jean opens it and checks out the inside.
"There's no lights, but you can see the buttons' light up on the keyboard." She reports back.
"Is there a janitor closet around here?" I ask.
"What for?" They all reply back, except for Kurt who remains in his state of mind.
"You'll see."
Quicksilver points to a supply cupboard a few paces away, so I walk over and have a look in it. It has power boards, microchips, buttons and back-up monitors waiting to be used. In the bottom are some cables so I grab the and return to the others.
//Jean, I'm coming back to tie up a lose end. Make the guide comfortable.\\
//Will do, Sel.\\
On entering back to the control room, Quicksilver is sitting in a chair facing away from the door and Jean behind him. I came up from behind Jean, tapping her on the shoulder. Then she and I quickly placed the coil of cable over him, and pulled tightly, securing him to the chair.
"What's this you're doing to me? Get me outta here!" He wriggled and squirmed but not freeing him.
"I think I've found the switch to open the door, I'll give it a flick." Evan said and pushed a big red button which turns green. From the window beyond the keyboard, a small opening begins to widen pouring light down to the floor, we were in some sort of hangar. After a few minutes, a helicopter comes through.
//Come Xmen, get out of there quickly!\\ The Prof.'s words were clear.
Jean smashes the glass. "Out of here, I'll send you all down first and then myself."
Everyone hops out of the window, leaving me with Quicksilver and Jean left.
"Come one, you're next!"
"You go on ahead, I have to do something first."
She gave me a confused glance before hoping out the window and joining the others below.
//Selaeste, come at once!\\ The Prof. sounded a little anxious to get out.
//Just chill Prof., I gotta do something first, oh! And you might want to cover your ears.\\
I clenched my fists and thought intensely, to make that sound but it came out so softly, not effecting the machinery around me or doing anything else dramatic.
"Ahhh! What are you trying to do, give me an ear ache?!!!" Quicksilver heard it but it wasn't enough.
I knelt down to him, so he was slightly above me. "Sorry, but what I have to do will hurt more than just your ears." Giving him a kiss on the cheek, I undid the bandage on one of my hands, picked up a glass fragment and held it in my palm forcing the glass to cut into my hand. Then, using this pain I tried again.
It was coming but only slowly, probably because I had been spent fighting with Kurt, but I tried harder concentrating on the consequence of the glass edging its way into my flesh.
//Sel, let's go, come one! I can get you down now!\\
//Just a minute, Jean. I'll be there in a sec.\\
The glass was about to give way, I didn't know how long it would be until it would go right through my hand but it was the only way how. My body was burning in pain all over, blood flowed from my fist and my temples were pounding from the intensity of the pain I inflected.
SNAP!
The sound became louder, higher and crazier as the glass broke into pieces pushing into my tendons and scraping against bone. Buttons flashed in a frenzied light show, the keyboard began to sizzle and smoke erupted in blasts as sections of the keyboard blew off.
When I had created enough chaos, I wearily made my way to the smashed window and signalled to Jean. I was so weak, my eyes were so hard to keep open and I felt my conscious slipping away fast. Looking down to the floor, everything shook and my balanced had left me. I noticed Jean nearby the helicopter, her hands raised and yelling at me to jump. Before closing my eyes, I channelled a last message to Jean , then I took a blind step out and followed through falling.
// Jean, CATCH!\\
A.T.-Sorry about the whole self infliction of injuries, but that's how she makes that sound I guess, when she's frightened or in a great amount of pain.