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Jubilee & The Undercover Sabretooth
Chapter 3
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Victor didn't like his room. It was too artificial. No earth beneath his feet since they were in a floating airbase, the air was stale and circulated, and the walls were made of steel. Yep he didn't like it one bit.
There were a lot of things he didn't like though. He didn't like that Blink somehow teleported him to a parallel world where he was a mutant serial killer. Was he surprised to hear about good old Sabretooth? Nope, if he hadn't met Blink he might have ended up just like the guy. Still he could do without the reminder of what he could have become. But now he had to go and pretend to be the guy. That is if he wanted Nick to find Blink for him.
Knock knock!
"Yeah come in," said Victor as he tensed up. He could smell the girl's scent before she had even come to the door. He hoped she didn't go and throw more of those exploding fireworks at him this time. Nick made him promise not to hurt the girl. Would hate to have to break his word.
"Hi um its me Jubilee," said Jubilee as she slowly entered. Then for the next five minutes there was silence. Finally Jubilee cleared her throat.
"Sorry about blasting you into the air like that," said Jubilee. Well not the worst greeting he was expecting. The girl seemed uncertain and awkward. Probably didn't know how to act around the dimension double of a guy who tried to kill her.
"I've had worst done to me Jubes. So we're going to be working together huh?" asked Victor as he tried to give his most friendly grin. It was hard to do when you had teeth as sharp as his. The grin seemed to only make the girl tenser. He could smell the fear and caution oozing off her.
"I need to ask you some questions before we do this whole partner thing," said Jubilee. Victor just stood there and waited.
"Why didn't you end up like the Victor Creed in our world?"
Victor knew this question would come. At first he was going to say it was because the world turned so crappy with Apocalypse and he wanted it to be a better place. But that wasn't the truth really. That wasn't what really changed him and stopped him from being a monster.
"I fell in love with a woman," said Victor. The fear he smelled on her completely washed away and was replaced with disbelief.
"Yyyeeaaahhh right, look how about we try the truth this time," said Jubilee. She wasn't even pretending to believe him. Now he was getting pissed. It wasn't like it was easy for him to admit that he was in love. He was a guy for crying out loud and a feral guy at that. It went against every instinct he had to say something as sappy as 'love'.
"Look Jubes! You want to hate me because I have someone's face that's fine. You want to be afraid that I'll kill you that's fine. But don't assume I'm a fucking liar just because I say something your having trouble believing," yelled Sabretooth. His voice had risen with each word. He was just getting more than a bit sick of this girl. He expected the girl to raise her hands again and begin shooting those nasty fireworks. Instead though she just nodded.
"I'm sorry, it's just… you don't strike me as the romantic type," said Jubilee. Victor couldn't stop himself from snorting.
"Never said I was, but even thugs like me can fall in love Jubes," said Victor. Ugh if the runt ever heard him say something like that he'd never live it down. The girl was staring intently at her. He returned the stare knowing what she was trying to do. She was trying to see if she could find any of the Victor she knew in him.
"My gut feeling says I should believe you. But my mind is saying that I should keep away from you," said Jubilee. He could smell how mentally torn she was.
"Always went with my gut feeling myself," said Victor.
"That's what Wolvie always says," said Jubilee with a smile. It was a sad smile, as if she was thinking of better times in her life.
"Yeah I read that you were the runts sidekick in all those files Nick gave me. So the runt is one of these X-Men fighting the good fight huh? Kind of funny since he was an assassin in my world," said Victor. This caused the girl's eyes to flare up with anger.
"Bullcrap, Wolvie would never be any assassin," said Jubilee. But there was uncertainty in her voice. As much as she didn't want to admit it, she knew the guy had a dark side that he could embrace.
"Yeah, whatever Jubes. So got anymore questions?"
"So what's her name?"
"Clarice Fergeson."
"What was she like?"
"None of your damn business."
"So how did you get here to this world?"
"When Apocalypse forces were just about to tear us to shreds, Clarice created a portal that somehow brought me here. That's what she does, create portals, but this is the first time she created one that brought me to another world. I lost sight of her when we entered the portal, but I know she jumped in after me. I didn't see her though when I woke up," said Victor. And he knew with certainty that Clarice must have jumped in after him. She must have… He wouldn't let himself believe otherwise.
"Why are you helping Nick?"
"Nick found me with some sort of SHIELD satellite that picks up dimensional tears. We have a agreement, I help him with this spy crap and he uses his fancy SHIELD technology and people to find my woman," said Victor. He didn't doubt Nick Fury wouldn't keep his end of the bargain. He struck Victor as a man of his word and he smelled completely honest when saying he'd do everything he could to find Blink. Victor was hoping she had just teleported to this world at a different spot that SHIELD hadn't picked up. Or maybe the portal would take her here at a different time. Who knows how those portals of hers worked? All he could do was keep hoping that some sign of her would appear soon.
"So basically your girlfriend zapped you to this world
and herself as well. But she
didn't show up in the same place you did so you need SHIELD to search for her.
Am I right?"
"Yep, now it's my turn to ask some questions.
Why are you willing to do this Jubes?" asked Victor.
Jubilee was startled by the question, obviously not expecting it.
"Who says I have to answer your questions," said Jubilee in a guarded tone.
"I do if you want us to be partners. This getting to know each other doesn't go one-way Jubes. You don't trust me, that's obvious. And I also don't trust you. So I need to know some stuff about you before we can become partners. Now are you going to answer?"
"I wanted more danger in my life," said Jubilee. It was the truth, but not the whole truth. But he'd let it go for now.
"How close are you and Wolverine," said Victor. He was trying to get along with this girl so he would have to stop using that runt nickname for now.
"We're best buds."
"You're lying," said Victor. The girl flinched at the words. Then she nodded slowly while glaring at Victor. That's what you get though for trying to fool someone who can smell lies.
"Yeah I'm lying. We used to be best buds, but we grew apart. I'm not answering anymore questions about him."
"Fair enough, think you can work with me?"
"I don't know, you're right when you said I don't trust you. But the thing is I know I'll have to if we're going to be partners. Its just that it isn't like a on and off switch you know? I can't just make myself all of sudden trust you," said Jubilee. Victor's respect for the girl rose up a few points. She was at least being honest this time. And she wasn't as stupid as Victor thought she had been at first.
"WARNING! WARNING! ALL SHIELD OPERATIVES GO TO HANGER B3!"
Red lights began to flash in the room and the voice could be heard echoing through the hallway. Both of them nearly jumped startled. They weren't exactly at ease to begin with.
That hanger B3 was right next to his room. He might as well see what all this was about. Without another word he passed Jubilee.
"Hey where are you going?"
"To Hanger B3, we're now SHIELD spies right?" said Victor as he dashed down the hallway. He could hear the girl trying to keep up as she muttered some nasty curses. He was going to have to get used to that smart mouth.
Keeping up with a man who had longer legs was not an easy thing to do. At the moment she wasn't even certain why she was trying to tag along with the guy. Maybe she just wanted to see what all the noise was about as well.
The more she talked to the guy, the more she was beginning to see him differently from Sabretooth. There was regret in his voice when he spoke of not knowing where Clarice was. It was the eyes though that really made her see him differently. Those eyes just didn't have that same cunning and killer intensity to them that she saw with Sabretooth. There was more human emotion in his eyes. She saw pain and even love when he mentioned Clarice. In fact those eyes reminded her a lot of Wolvie. So why did she still have the urge to paf the guy? Maybe because she knew just how much he could hurt her with those claws or tear her throat out with those teeth of his.
Within ten minutes they reached the doors to Hanger B3. Men with SHIELD uniforms holding laser rifles were there. Victor grabbed one and pulled him over.
"What the hell is going on?" asked Victor. The man swallowed and pointed towards the door.
"One of our mechanical-combat terrorist-units suffered a malfunction and is now going crazy. His already destroyed most of the aircrafts in the hanger with his missiles and now we're going to try to terminate him," said the man nervously.
"A Mechanical what?!"
"He means a robot," said Jubilee as she rolled her eyes.
"I knew that," muttered Victor as he let the man go. The SHIELD man nervously stepped away.
"Sure you did, just keep telling yourself that," said Jubilee while shaking her head. Well it looks like he had Sabretooth's dense thinking.
"Look all of you stay here, I'll take care of it," said Victor in a voice that just screamed macho manly ego.
"I'm going in with you," said Jubilee. Like she said before, she didn't trust the guy yet. And she wasn't about to trust him to go do something like this on his own.
"Fine, just stay out of my way," said Victor as a deadly glint got in his eyes. Now he was starting to look like that Sabretooth Jubilee knew by heart.
"Same to you," said Jubilee softly. None of the SHIELD men argued. One reached for a button and pressed it. With a swishing sound the doors opened and both Victor and Jubilee dived forward. The doors quickly closed behind them. First she heard a whirling sound. Looking up she saw three missiles moving straight towards them. Old instincts took over and she raised her glowing hands. She shot three pafs in the air, each one hitting a missile and causing it to explode. Then she began running to the left, remembering how Wolvie said a moving target is less likely to get hit. All those lessons and training she learned years ago were coming back.
Pieces of jets were all over the floor. She jumped over one debris after another. Unfortunately while her mind was remembering what to do, her body was still a bit rusty when it came to this sort of thing. She tripped on a piece of a wing that she would have easily made pass during her teenage hero years. Now though she wasn't used to this sort of thing and her foot got caught. She landed on the floor with a thud. Gritting her teeth, she turned around and saw someone running straight towards her. At first she thought it would be the robot trying to finish her off. But it wasn't… it was Victor.
He had his claws stretched out and was running at her full speed. Like a tiger about to take its prey.
"Shit," muttered Jubilee as she raised her hands. So much for him turning out to be a good guy. He was going to kill her and everyone would assume it was that stupid robot. He had her exactly where he wanted her.
She fired a shower of pafs, but she was still dizzy from the fall. Several missed him and those that did hit him only burned his skin some. She needed to concentrate, she needed to focus.
She needed more time…
It seemed almost to be in slow motion when Victor pounced upon her with a growl. She tried to prepare herself for the pain when those claws shredded her. But the pain didn't come. Instead she felt warm arms surround her and was pressed against his chest. For the first three seconds she heard his heartbeat.
BOOOM!
Than the sound of an explosion made her winced in pain. The arms that held her grew slack and slowly Victor took a step back.
"Ya know, you really are a pain in the ass," said Victor woozily before he fell to the ground. The flesh on his back was blown away to show bone and muscle. He had taken a missile squarely in the back for her.
She raised her head to see the robot aiming a missile launcher attached on his arm at her. Than laser fire filled the air. The robot was hit by at least five laser blasts and exploded. It seemed the SHIELD soldiers got tired of waiting. Jubilee slowly lowered her head to stare at Victor's body. His healing factor was already kicking in, knitting together muscle and skin. She simply sat there though, staring at the man who saved her life.
Knock knock!
"Come in," said Nick. The door to his office opened and a raven-haired woman entered. Her code name was Siren and she was one of Nick's senior officers. Dependable, trust-worthy, and very clever.
"Heard one of our robots suffered a malfunction," said Siren with an arched eyebrow. Nick simply nodded as he continued looking through papers.
"Strange that it never happened before."
"Yep,"
"Even stranger is the fact that it happened right near our two new recruits," said Siren. Nick dropped his papers on the desk and gave her a smirk.
"Yep, quite a coincidence," said Nick.
"They could have been killed," said Siren. She didn't say it as if she cared, but just as if it was a simple fact.
"I could control the missiles that the robot fired by remote. If Victor hadn't gotten to Jubilee in time, I would have just had it swerve away," said Nick. Siren gave him a smirk of her own.
"You're one clever son of a bitch Nick," said Siren.
"Well I didn't get to be the leader of SHIELD because of my looks," said Nick as he rubbed his chin.
"Now that I can believe."
Slowly Victor woke up. He didn't open his eyes right away. From the sound of the beeping, he'd say he was attached to a heart monitor. And he could smell that there was only one person in the room. Jubilee who was sitting right next to him. He slowly cracked his eyes open, trying to ignore the glaring white light.
"Hi," whispered Jubilee. She had her hands in her lap and was three feet away.
"My back is killing me," growled Victor. Wasn't the first time he got hit by a missile, but maybe if he was lucky it would be the last time. Aw who was he kidding?
"Hey Vicster," said Jubilee. Victor gave her an annoyed glance.
"Yeah?"
"I trust you."
"Well great, now I feel all fucking warm and fuzzy inside," said Victor. Jubilee just gave him a smile. A friendly, honest smile that he never saw on her lips before. Maybe they wouldn't end up killing each other after all.
