Chapter Twenty-Two

A Trip on the Blackbird

The jet took off as everyone took their seats.

"Who are you," Marie asked the blue guy with the tail, rosary, and three fingers on each hand.

"Kurt Wagner," he began. "But in the esteemed Munich circus-"

"Save it," said Logan in annoyance buckling his seatbelt, as others went to do the same.

"You okay darlin'," Logan asked remembering *her* being the one screaming after *he* got shot. She nodded pinching the area of skin between her thumb and pointer finger.

"What're you doing that for," he asked nodding to her hands.

"Acupressure," she explained. "Putting force here helps with headaches."

He raised his eyebrows. "Seriously," he asked. She nodded taking his hands and rubbing his palms. "That feels good," he commented. After that she released his hands.

The radio crackled and a voice came over the data lines.

"Lower your altitude to 15,000 feet immediately and we will escort you to the air force base."

"Somebody's angry," said Storm.

"I repeat lower your altitude to 15,000 feet."

Storm made no motion to lower the jet.

"They're going to fire!" Screamed Cameron.

Marie was trying franticly to buckle her seatbelt. She had been trying to console Bobby when they had gotten on the plane and now the plane was dropping into a downward corkscrew.

"Just like a roller coaster," Fallon told herself as the plane turned upside-down. "I want my daddy!"

"Don't we have any weapons on this thing," Logan yelled.

"What kind of question is that," asked Ruby. "John's a friggin' torch, Bobby's a human ice machine, Jean moves stuff with her brain, Cameron's a stop watch, and Ororo controls one of the elements essential to safe air travel. . . yea we got weapons. Where have you been dude?"

Storm had already summoned several baby cyclones, perfect for targeting the enemy jets.

Three missiles were fired before their chasers were lost.

Jean had to use all her telekinetic strength to redirected one of the missiles to hit the other. Her eyes glowed red in determination, but she missed the last juggernaut connected with the back of the Blackbird and tore it to shreds.

Everyone saw Marie sucked out the back, but only one of them was ready to act instantly.

Kurt teleported out of the plane, caught Marie, and teleported back into the plane in a blink of an eye. Not that it was much better in the plane, seeing as it was still crashing.

Suddenly the descent slowed and the plane began to put itself back together. At length the plane stopped and everyone realized Magneto was behind the strange occurrence.