Still Holding Out For You
By Lady Trunks
Part 8
DragonBlond- I love Remy too. He's just so... Yummy. But I absolutly adore Pietro. As for the accent, he hasn't really talked that much (except for Stuff of Villans) so maybe the accent will magically apear?? They did change the eyes (Thank god!!).
Lucky439- You know, my first thought after I had written that was it sounded like Ms. Marvel. It wasn't meant to be though. And I agree, best marriages are between best friends.
Lady Aurra- I don't want to give anything away (but that is an excellent guess. ^^) And you can't get into the site?? )O.o Which address did you use?
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They arrived at the government facility located in downtown New York approximately ten minutes later. The building was surrounded by spectators and media held back by the police barricade surrounding the building. The jet landed gently on the roof, causing a slight uproar among the spectators as a few noticed the site.
The X-Men quickly exited and were met by a man dressed in a suit. "You must be the X-Men?" There was a nod from Logan, and he continued. "I'm Agent Simons. I'm sure you were briefed on the situation." Another nod. "Three of their men are stationed in different places around the building keeping watch. The fourth, who we believe is the leader is with the hostages." He proceeded to give them the run down on who was where and what thier best course of entry to access the three areas would be. When he was done, the team divided into there groups and set about to take out their prospective baddy [A.N. super hero terminology ^^].
Rogue and Pietro made there way towards the back of the building where the buildings security cameras had shown Cyclone at, apparently guarding one of the back exits. They came upon a room containing a man that matched the picture they had seen of their guy. He seemed to be occupied with a computer, and didn't notice them at first. Taking advantage of that, they crept slowly into the room, looking for some way to detain him. The plan was for Rogue to sneak up behind him and touch him long enough to knock him unconscious. Then she would also have the use of his powers to help with the others. It might have worked to, if Cyclone hadn't decided at that particular moment to look up and spotted them.
He immediately sent a huge wall of pressured air at them. Pietro used his speed and was able to avoid it but Rogue was caught by it and sent crashing into the wall with enough force to crack the plaster.
Pietro attempted to get near enough to him to cause some kind of damage. If nothing else a punch coming at him speeds over 100 mph would be enough to knock him unconscious. Unfortunately, he was being bombarded by a constant wind that was making it almost impossible to move forward. Seeing Rogue rising to his feet he changed tactics and instead of going forward towards Cyclone, he moved sideways around him, and started running in circles around him creating a twister. It didn't have much effect as Cyclone used his own powers to calm the wind. But it had the effect that Pietro was aiming for.
"Hey Airhead." Cyclone spun around and had a brief glance of Rogue before everything went black. Rogue stood over him holding the broken legs of the chair, the rest laying in fragments on the ground having been broken when she hit Cyclone over the head with it.
Pietro arched a brow at her. "I thought you were going to absorb him?"
"That was the plan. But between you and me, this was much more satisfying. Now let's go see if the others need help." Pietro hefted Cyclone over his shoulder and they left the room to check on the others.
They went back to the roof first to drop off Cyclone where he was immediately taken into custody. They were informed by Agent Simons that the others terrorists had already been taken into custody with the exception of the leader Illusion (something that upset Pietro since he hated anyone being faster than him at anything). He gave them the location of where the others had lured Illusion away from the hostages and they went to help them.
They arrived and saw that the other X-Men were having a hard time taking him out, and the reason was readily apparent. Whenever they got anywhere near the mutant terrorist he would alter the room. One second there would be nothing but floor and the next there would be a staircase going to nowhere in front of you, or a wall would suddenly appear blocking him from view, or in the worst case no floor under you (luckily Jean was able to use her telekinesis to catch Evan and float him back to solid ground).
"This is getting nowhere," Kurt complained as once again Illusion managed to evade them.
"If you have any bright ideas, Elf, we'd be happy to hear them."
"Hey, I'm not the brains of the group, I'm the beauty." Kurt joked barely managing to teleport in time to avoid falling backyards as the floor suddenly slanted down at an almost 90 degree angle.
"They said he could only alter the room he's in, right?" Rogue suddenly asked.
"Yeah. Why?" Logan asked her.
She smiled slightly, "I have a plan." She quickly outlined it to the others. After getting the go ahead Kitty and Rogue waited until Scott distracted Illusion by shooting a blast at him and phased down through the floor. Suddenly everyone began attacking Illusion in earnest. He was having a hard time of holding them all off simultaneously and was slowly being backed into the wall. When his back was pressed against it, a hand suddenly came through the wall and grabbed a hold of his face at the telepathic signal from Jean.
He let out a scream as his life force and powers were pulled from him before he collapsed in an unconscious heap on the floor. There was an immediate cheer as they knew that there mission was finished successfully. Rogue and Kitty phased through the wall and joined them.
"I hate to cut the party short, but were not finished yet." Rogue's voice cut through the celebration. Everyone immediately fell silent and turned to her.
"What do you mean?" Scott asked.
"I mean that they had someone on the inside. Someone that is one of the workers here."
"So we tell the police and they arrest him. It's no biggie." Kitty said.
"It's not that easy. Hell, it's never that easy. There's a bomb. And from what I got from Illusions mind, this other guy is the only one that knows how to diffuse it."
"Okay," Logan said, "Stripes and me will take care of the bomb. I want the rest of you to get a safe distance away."
"I think I should go also." Pietro chimed in.
Logan growled at him, not liking having his orders questioned. "And why is that?"
"You have your healing factor so that if the bomb goes off you might be able to survive. But what about Rogue? At least if I'm there I can get her out fast if we need to."
Logan considered this for a second and reluctantly nodded. "Okay the rest of you go. We'll contact you as soon as we have the problem taken care of."
Some looked as if they might protest but Storm and Hank ushered them out.
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I am so not an action writer, but I did try. If your wondering where on earth the angst is, some coming up soon… I think. Depends, because this fic is pretty much writing itself. Who knows what's going to happen next? The little blue bunny hiding behind the monitor.
