" But vhy are ve going to steal from that factory, freund Pyro? It is only
a lab vhere they store old mining machines und equipment. I don't
understand vhy ve need to go there," Nightcrawler pointed out quietly
looking over at Pyro as the youth continued to flip his lighter lid open
and closed, open and closed looking at his feet as if in boredom despite
the fact that they were on a mission of high importance to Magneto.
Nightcrawler looked out the window of the helicopter they were riding and
he couldn't help but feel a little afraid since it had been a helicopter
that those soldiers had flown away with him on that night he was captured
and taken away from his sanctuary in the abandoned church. He looked at the
large factory in the distance black smoke spewing forth like a beacon to
them. He stretched his legs out slowly liking the feel of his new uniform
Mystique had given him an hour before they started off to the mission; it
was of a leather material that allowed him to perform flips and somersaults
without resistance and it was also one of his favorite colors, rusty red.
It even had a hole for his tail to go through and move around freely which
made him smile faintly.
Pyro shrugged a bit looking out the window from his own side not really looking at anything in particular, " Because Magneto told us to so that's good enough for me and it should be good enough for you, Nightcrawler," he said simply still flipping the lid open and closed looking at the tiny flame that came up each time he lifted the lid.
Kurt sighed softly and he shook his head a bit taking hold of his rosary and looking down at it between his deformed fingers still unsure whether or not it was ok for him to go and steal with his new team and his mother. " Thou shalt not steal." he said softly to himself.
" Say what now?" Pyro asked looking over at him and stopping his lid flipping for a moment an eyebrow cocked. He looked at the beads in Nightcrawler's hands and he rolled his eyes shaking his head a bit with a groan, " Not those weird beads again, Nightcrawler!" he said.
Nightcrawler turned to him still holding his rosary in his hands the beads clicking softly together as they were moved a bit, " One of the Ten Commandments; thou shalt not steal," he explained seriously. " If ve go in there und steal then ve are breaking one of the Commandments und I vill need to carve another sin into my skin," he explained quietly lightly touching his face.
" Nightcrawler, if we're going to get anything done around here then you're going to have to get rid of those stupid voodoo beads," Pyro said, " We're going in there to steal some of the parts from the humans and if your beads don't like that then they're going to be nothing but food for the fire of my lighter in a second to end the argument once and for all," he warned as he flipped open the lid and called the fire onto the tip of one finger pointing it at the wooden beads making it slowly grow longer and longer.
Nightcrawler placed the beads in one hand and he looked at Pyro seriously, " It is not the beads that make me believe vhat I believe but God who makes me believe vhat I believe! If you come close to my rosary vith that fire then I vill teleport vith only your head und leave your body here, mein herr!" he warned seriously his yellow eyes narrowed slightly his tail quivering as he defended his faith.
Pyro sneered pulling the fire back to nothing more then a fireball in the palm of his hand. " That's another problem we seem to be having, Nightcrawler. Since we both share a room now I think you need to stop praying for all hours of the night! I mean Christ! God forbid you go to sleep without praying and clicking your beads together for three hours straight first!"
Nightcrawler's tail lashed out and slapped Pyro across the face hard the tail still quivering in rage when it was done. " Don't you ever take the Lord's name in vain in front of me you understand?" Nightcrawler said, " Just because you have no faith in God that does not mean that I must give up mine for you!"
Pyro got up and he got ready to burn off the fur from Nightcrawler's body when Mystique intervened at once her voice harsh, " Sit down and buckle up, Pyro. We're going to be landing in one minute and if you and Nightcrawler don't stop arguing I'm going to kill the both of you easily and tell Magneto it was an accident!" she said softly, " and Nightcrawler, leave those beads in the helicopter when we go on the mission," she added.
Nightcrawler's tail shot up in protest as he shook his head a bit holding his rosary close to his heart, " But."
" No buts dammit!" she snapped suddenly her eyes narrowing in anger, " Leave the damn things in the helicopter!"
Pyro looked at the back of her head and he said nothing more sitting down and buckling up. There was just no arguing when it came to Mystique.
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" We're nearing the place now," Logan announced looking over at the screen where a layout of the factory came up. He pointed to a flashing white light far off to the left of the factory. " It seems the Brotherhood beat us to it though," he said looking over at Ororo when he said it.
" So what's the plan?" Ororo asked looking over at Scott.
" We're going inside the factory. It should be empty by now and if the Brotherhood has all ready gotten inside then we need to find out why they're in there first and then try to get them out with as little damage to the place as we can manage," Scott said as the Blackbird landed slowly with a faint bump.
With a soft moan Remy used the last of his sick bags grumbling softly in French about these damned airplanes. Rogue laughed softly and patted him on the back to try and comfort him as the back of the plane opened up to let them out. Swiftly Remy was the first one outside and he even kissed the ground for a moment before standing up and wiping the dirt from his lips with the back of one gloved hand.
Logan rolled his eyes getting off and watching Remy kissing the ground with such gusto. " Cajun, you better not act that weak when we get into a fight," he warned holding back a slight laugh, " I don't think I'd be able to get you out of a scrape."
Remy scowled and he spit out a bit more of bile from his mouth drawing a card ready to fill it with kinetic energy and throw it at Logan when a blast from Scott's eyes disintegrated it with a flash.
" We need to be serious guys," Scott said, " Now let's get inside before the Brotherhood figures out we're all ready here waiting for them!" They went inside and looked around in the darkened factory towering machines and equipment acting like mountains. " All right, here's our positions."
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" Once we're inside we have to steal some of the mining claws along with the computer program discs some of those machines have inside of them," Mystique explained as she looked over at factory, " And Pyro, we can't risk losing some of the equipment or doing anything that would make us noticed so be careful when you use your fire," she added looking over at the boy who was flipping his lighter lid once more as he looked at the locked door.
Pyro laughed softly and he nodded leaving the lid up and getting ready. " Don't worry, I won't mess this up," he assured her as he made a large stream of fire erupt and start to melt a large hole into the metal door. When he was finished he flipped the lid closed and he slipped it into his pocket walking inside without another word followed by Mystique who rolled her eyes and shook her head a bit at the youth.
Nightcrawler stayed behind for a moment watching them going inside. He sighed softly his tail swinging slowly from side to side in thought. He looked down at the beads at his side and he kissed the cross lightly as he placed them on the seat in the helicopter. He then got out of the helicopter and he followed after them stepping inside and looking around quietly at the empty factory.
" Nightcrawler," Mystique said turning to him having not noticed her son hesitating inside of the helicopter, " I need you to get me into the main computer room."
" I have to see vhere I am going first," Nightcrawler said, " I could teleport into an object if I don't."
Mystique took out a picture of the room and showed it to him, " Will this do then?" she asked.
Nightcrawler took the picture with his tail and he looked it over slowly, still feeling very nervous about teleporting into a place he had never been in. It was just like when Ororo had asked him to teleport them into Cerebro back at Alkali Lake. He closed his eyes for a moment in quiet thought.
Ororo.
Nightcrawler looked at Mystique and he nodded faintly taking her into his arms slowly closing his eyes slowly.
Pyro watched as the two teleported away and he snorted softly waving a hand in front of his face to try and brush away that horrid smell. " Loser," he muttered as he walked deeper into the factory. With his lighter he started to melt off the parts they needed to get. He barely was surprised when his lighter was suddenly engulfed in ice. " Bobby." he said simply turning around and facing the boy who was standing ready to fight. " I suppose the other X-men are here too?" he asked with a cocked eyebrow.
" Give it up, John," Bobby said as he formed a large ice ball in both hands ready to hurl them at Pyro.
" My name isn't John," Pyro said as the fire melted the ice away and his lighter was free once more, " It's Pyro!" With a large blast a stream of fire raced towards Bobby.
Nightcrawler and Mystique appeared unharmed inside of the computer room with a BAMF! Nightcrawler smiled faintly looking around the room at all of the monitors and various computers as Mystique began her work of printing out of all of the data from the computers disguising her voice for the ones that asked for vocal identification and so on moving with a serpentine grace. Nightcrawler looked over at the monitors as they turned on and he gasped softly. " Mother, the X-men are here!" he said.
" What?" Mystique asked looking up from printing out plans to make a Genoshen collar.
" Look!" he said pointing to one of the monitors. The X-men could be easily seen fighting with Pyro who was doing as best as he could to hold them off with five streams of flames raging in front of him as a shield.
" Go and help Pyro! I will come as soon as I can," Mystique instructed turning back to the computer.
Nodding Nightcrawler teleported to an overhang that was just above the fighting below. He watched and he grew sad as he saw Ororo slowly rising into the sky ready to make a storm rise up to stop the fire for good. He bit his lip but he knew what he had to do since she was within tail reach.
Ororo's eyes were pure white as she concentrated looking down at Pyro who was fighting as hard as he could making his fire so strong that some of the machines were starting to melt. She gave a soft gasp as something hard struck her upside the head and she started to fall to the ground.
Quickly Nightcrawler leapt down and he grabbed her in mid-fall teleporting her to the ground and laying her down. He looked up just in time to see a card soaring towards him and he teleported away to the left of the room hidden in the shadows.
Logan snarled softly seeing Nightcrawler strike Ororo down with his tail and with his keen eyesight he charged at Nightcrawler his claws out and ready to kill.
Nightcrawler teleported once more away from Logan and he came back crouched down behind Pyro who was starting to sweat heavily. " It's about time you did something to help!" Pyro shouted over the roaring fires.
" Try to separate them!" Nightcrawler said getting an idea.
Nodding Pyro made his flames separate and focus on one team member splitting them up. " What's your plan?" he asked but it was too late, Nightcrawler had teleported over to Remy and the two were fighting with Nightcrawler dodging most of the cards and teleporting all around Remy kicking and punching him when he could.
Remy was starting to get dizzy from the sudden disappearances and appearances from Nightcrawler; not to mention that the smell of sulfur and brimstone were effecting his stomach which was still weak from the flight to the factory. " Gambit t'inks he gonna be." he doubled over and he started to lose all of the food he had ever eaten in his life as he tasted some of last night dinner in his mouth. Nightcrawler wasted no time in whapping him across the temple with his tail knocking him out.
While Nightcrawler was fighting Remy Pyro was making the flames around Bobby become more intense making the boy unable to use his powers of ice. Bobby slowly backed up and he tried one last time to use his powers but the fires were too hot and he barely felt the fireball as it erupted against his chest sending him flying towards a set of mining claws that were glistening in the fire light.
Logan leapt through the flames his healing powers working swiftly as he caught Bobby in his hands but not before he himself was impaled on the claws. With a loud howl he pulled himself off of the claws and the wounds slowly started to heal as he looked down at the comatose Bobby with an angry snort laying him down.
" Logan."
Looking up Logan was leapt on by a copy of himself as Mystique entered the battle her own set of claws out and ready to fight.
" Kurt!" Scott shouted as Nightcrawler teleported behind him and used his tail like a whip to strike his arm, " listen to us!"
" Nein!" Nightcrawler said calmly as he leapt over his head and kicked him swiftly performing a somersault before landing in a crouch easily. He leapt up as a blast from Scott erupted and he laughed slightly as he performed a back flip ending with a teleport easily. He came back in the air and he fell directly at Scott ready to kick him when he saw him charging up a blast. He teleported quickly as the blast came the cloud in Scott's face completely and Scott was left sputtering and wheezing. He fell to the ground knocked out as Nightcrawler's tail struck him upside the head easily.
Rogue ran at Pyro and she leapt at him her ungloved hands ready when he turned and fired a large blast of flames at her knocking her to the ground screaming as her hair and clothes burned badly. Pyro's eyes were uncaring as he made the flames die down and he looked around smiling as he watched Logan and Mystique fighting as hard as they cloud claws clanging together making sparks rise up. He aimed his lighter at the real Logan and he fired one blast of flame that was shaped like an arrow.
Logan had his back to Pyro snarling as he fought trying to kill Mystique when he felt a burning pain sear into his back to his heart. He screamed and he fell to his hands and knees as the arrow continued to burn despite his healing powers.
Mystique smiled and she turned to Nightcrawler who was looking down at Ororo with worry and she had an idea, " We'll take her with us!" she said to him.
Nightcrawler looked up at her in surprise, " Vas?"
" We can use her to see if our new collar works!" Mystique explained as she looked over at Pyro who was walking over calmly with some of the parts they needed. " Now let's get out of here!" she said.
Nightcrawler looked at Ororo a bit sadly and he gently picked her up and he ran after Mystique and Pyro holding her close his heart racing as he thought to himself that the things he had just done were all sins that would need to be carved into his skin.
And he had loved every moment of it!
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Pyro shrugged a bit looking out the window from his own side not really looking at anything in particular, " Because Magneto told us to so that's good enough for me and it should be good enough for you, Nightcrawler," he said simply still flipping the lid open and closed looking at the tiny flame that came up each time he lifted the lid.
Kurt sighed softly and he shook his head a bit taking hold of his rosary and looking down at it between his deformed fingers still unsure whether or not it was ok for him to go and steal with his new team and his mother. " Thou shalt not steal." he said softly to himself.
" Say what now?" Pyro asked looking over at him and stopping his lid flipping for a moment an eyebrow cocked. He looked at the beads in Nightcrawler's hands and he rolled his eyes shaking his head a bit with a groan, " Not those weird beads again, Nightcrawler!" he said.
Nightcrawler turned to him still holding his rosary in his hands the beads clicking softly together as they were moved a bit, " One of the Ten Commandments; thou shalt not steal," he explained seriously. " If ve go in there und steal then ve are breaking one of the Commandments und I vill need to carve another sin into my skin," he explained quietly lightly touching his face.
" Nightcrawler, if we're going to get anything done around here then you're going to have to get rid of those stupid voodoo beads," Pyro said, " We're going in there to steal some of the parts from the humans and if your beads don't like that then they're going to be nothing but food for the fire of my lighter in a second to end the argument once and for all," he warned as he flipped open the lid and called the fire onto the tip of one finger pointing it at the wooden beads making it slowly grow longer and longer.
Nightcrawler placed the beads in one hand and he looked at Pyro seriously, " It is not the beads that make me believe vhat I believe but God who makes me believe vhat I believe! If you come close to my rosary vith that fire then I vill teleport vith only your head und leave your body here, mein herr!" he warned seriously his yellow eyes narrowed slightly his tail quivering as he defended his faith.
Pyro sneered pulling the fire back to nothing more then a fireball in the palm of his hand. " That's another problem we seem to be having, Nightcrawler. Since we both share a room now I think you need to stop praying for all hours of the night! I mean Christ! God forbid you go to sleep without praying and clicking your beads together for three hours straight first!"
Nightcrawler's tail lashed out and slapped Pyro across the face hard the tail still quivering in rage when it was done. " Don't you ever take the Lord's name in vain in front of me you understand?" Nightcrawler said, " Just because you have no faith in God that does not mean that I must give up mine for you!"
Pyro got up and he got ready to burn off the fur from Nightcrawler's body when Mystique intervened at once her voice harsh, " Sit down and buckle up, Pyro. We're going to be landing in one minute and if you and Nightcrawler don't stop arguing I'm going to kill the both of you easily and tell Magneto it was an accident!" she said softly, " and Nightcrawler, leave those beads in the helicopter when we go on the mission," she added.
Nightcrawler's tail shot up in protest as he shook his head a bit holding his rosary close to his heart, " But."
" No buts dammit!" she snapped suddenly her eyes narrowing in anger, " Leave the damn things in the helicopter!"
Pyro looked at the back of her head and he said nothing more sitting down and buckling up. There was just no arguing when it came to Mystique.
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" We're nearing the place now," Logan announced looking over at the screen where a layout of the factory came up. He pointed to a flashing white light far off to the left of the factory. " It seems the Brotherhood beat us to it though," he said looking over at Ororo when he said it.
" So what's the plan?" Ororo asked looking over at Scott.
" We're going inside the factory. It should be empty by now and if the Brotherhood has all ready gotten inside then we need to find out why they're in there first and then try to get them out with as little damage to the place as we can manage," Scott said as the Blackbird landed slowly with a faint bump.
With a soft moan Remy used the last of his sick bags grumbling softly in French about these damned airplanes. Rogue laughed softly and patted him on the back to try and comfort him as the back of the plane opened up to let them out. Swiftly Remy was the first one outside and he even kissed the ground for a moment before standing up and wiping the dirt from his lips with the back of one gloved hand.
Logan rolled his eyes getting off and watching Remy kissing the ground with such gusto. " Cajun, you better not act that weak when we get into a fight," he warned holding back a slight laugh, " I don't think I'd be able to get you out of a scrape."
Remy scowled and he spit out a bit more of bile from his mouth drawing a card ready to fill it with kinetic energy and throw it at Logan when a blast from Scott's eyes disintegrated it with a flash.
" We need to be serious guys," Scott said, " Now let's get inside before the Brotherhood figures out we're all ready here waiting for them!" They went inside and looked around in the darkened factory towering machines and equipment acting like mountains. " All right, here's our positions."
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" Once we're inside we have to steal some of the mining claws along with the computer program discs some of those machines have inside of them," Mystique explained as she looked over at factory, " And Pyro, we can't risk losing some of the equipment or doing anything that would make us noticed so be careful when you use your fire," she added looking over at the boy who was flipping his lighter lid once more as he looked at the locked door.
Pyro laughed softly and he nodded leaving the lid up and getting ready. " Don't worry, I won't mess this up," he assured her as he made a large stream of fire erupt and start to melt a large hole into the metal door. When he was finished he flipped the lid closed and he slipped it into his pocket walking inside without another word followed by Mystique who rolled her eyes and shook her head a bit at the youth.
Nightcrawler stayed behind for a moment watching them going inside. He sighed softly his tail swinging slowly from side to side in thought. He looked down at the beads at his side and he kissed the cross lightly as he placed them on the seat in the helicopter. He then got out of the helicopter and he followed after them stepping inside and looking around quietly at the empty factory.
" Nightcrawler," Mystique said turning to him having not noticed her son hesitating inside of the helicopter, " I need you to get me into the main computer room."
" I have to see vhere I am going first," Nightcrawler said, " I could teleport into an object if I don't."
Mystique took out a picture of the room and showed it to him, " Will this do then?" she asked.
Nightcrawler took the picture with his tail and he looked it over slowly, still feeling very nervous about teleporting into a place he had never been in. It was just like when Ororo had asked him to teleport them into Cerebro back at Alkali Lake. He closed his eyes for a moment in quiet thought.
Ororo.
Nightcrawler looked at Mystique and he nodded faintly taking her into his arms slowly closing his eyes slowly.
Pyro watched as the two teleported away and he snorted softly waving a hand in front of his face to try and brush away that horrid smell. " Loser," he muttered as he walked deeper into the factory. With his lighter he started to melt off the parts they needed to get. He barely was surprised when his lighter was suddenly engulfed in ice. " Bobby." he said simply turning around and facing the boy who was standing ready to fight. " I suppose the other X-men are here too?" he asked with a cocked eyebrow.
" Give it up, John," Bobby said as he formed a large ice ball in both hands ready to hurl them at Pyro.
" My name isn't John," Pyro said as the fire melted the ice away and his lighter was free once more, " It's Pyro!" With a large blast a stream of fire raced towards Bobby.
Nightcrawler and Mystique appeared unharmed inside of the computer room with a BAMF! Nightcrawler smiled faintly looking around the room at all of the monitors and various computers as Mystique began her work of printing out of all of the data from the computers disguising her voice for the ones that asked for vocal identification and so on moving with a serpentine grace. Nightcrawler looked over at the monitors as they turned on and he gasped softly. " Mother, the X-men are here!" he said.
" What?" Mystique asked looking up from printing out plans to make a Genoshen collar.
" Look!" he said pointing to one of the monitors. The X-men could be easily seen fighting with Pyro who was doing as best as he could to hold them off with five streams of flames raging in front of him as a shield.
" Go and help Pyro! I will come as soon as I can," Mystique instructed turning back to the computer.
Nodding Nightcrawler teleported to an overhang that was just above the fighting below. He watched and he grew sad as he saw Ororo slowly rising into the sky ready to make a storm rise up to stop the fire for good. He bit his lip but he knew what he had to do since she was within tail reach.
Ororo's eyes were pure white as she concentrated looking down at Pyro who was fighting as hard as he could making his fire so strong that some of the machines were starting to melt. She gave a soft gasp as something hard struck her upside the head and she started to fall to the ground.
Quickly Nightcrawler leapt down and he grabbed her in mid-fall teleporting her to the ground and laying her down. He looked up just in time to see a card soaring towards him and he teleported away to the left of the room hidden in the shadows.
Logan snarled softly seeing Nightcrawler strike Ororo down with his tail and with his keen eyesight he charged at Nightcrawler his claws out and ready to kill.
Nightcrawler teleported once more away from Logan and he came back crouched down behind Pyro who was starting to sweat heavily. " It's about time you did something to help!" Pyro shouted over the roaring fires.
" Try to separate them!" Nightcrawler said getting an idea.
Nodding Pyro made his flames separate and focus on one team member splitting them up. " What's your plan?" he asked but it was too late, Nightcrawler had teleported over to Remy and the two were fighting with Nightcrawler dodging most of the cards and teleporting all around Remy kicking and punching him when he could.
Remy was starting to get dizzy from the sudden disappearances and appearances from Nightcrawler; not to mention that the smell of sulfur and brimstone were effecting his stomach which was still weak from the flight to the factory. " Gambit t'inks he gonna be." he doubled over and he started to lose all of the food he had ever eaten in his life as he tasted some of last night dinner in his mouth. Nightcrawler wasted no time in whapping him across the temple with his tail knocking him out.
While Nightcrawler was fighting Remy Pyro was making the flames around Bobby become more intense making the boy unable to use his powers of ice. Bobby slowly backed up and he tried one last time to use his powers but the fires were too hot and he barely felt the fireball as it erupted against his chest sending him flying towards a set of mining claws that were glistening in the fire light.
Logan leapt through the flames his healing powers working swiftly as he caught Bobby in his hands but not before he himself was impaled on the claws. With a loud howl he pulled himself off of the claws and the wounds slowly started to heal as he looked down at the comatose Bobby with an angry snort laying him down.
" Logan."
Looking up Logan was leapt on by a copy of himself as Mystique entered the battle her own set of claws out and ready to fight.
" Kurt!" Scott shouted as Nightcrawler teleported behind him and used his tail like a whip to strike his arm, " listen to us!"
" Nein!" Nightcrawler said calmly as he leapt over his head and kicked him swiftly performing a somersault before landing in a crouch easily. He leapt up as a blast from Scott erupted and he laughed slightly as he performed a back flip ending with a teleport easily. He came back in the air and he fell directly at Scott ready to kick him when he saw him charging up a blast. He teleported quickly as the blast came the cloud in Scott's face completely and Scott was left sputtering and wheezing. He fell to the ground knocked out as Nightcrawler's tail struck him upside the head easily.
Rogue ran at Pyro and she leapt at him her ungloved hands ready when he turned and fired a large blast of flames at her knocking her to the ground screaming as her hair and clothes burned badly. Pyro's eyes were uncaring as he made the flames die down and he looked around smiling as he watched Logan and Mystique fighting as hard as they cloud claws clanging together making sparks rise up. He aimed his lighter at the real Logan and he fired one blast of flame that was shaped like an arrow.
Logan had his back to Pyro snarling as he fought trying to kill Mystique when he felt a burning pain sear into his back to his heart. He screamed and he fell to his hands and knees as the arrow continued to burn despite his healing powers.
Mystique smiled and she turned to Nightcrawler who was looking down at Ororo with worry and she had an idea, " We'll take her with us!" she said to him.
Nightcrawler looked up at her in surprise, " Vas?"
" We can use her to see if our new collar works!" Mystique explained as she looked over at Pyro who was walking over calmly with some of the parts they needed. " Now let's get out of here!" she said.
Nightcrawler looked at Ororo a bit sadly and he gently picked her up and he ran after Mystique and Pyro holding her close his heart racing as he thought to himself that the things he had just done were all sins that would need to be carved into his skin.
And he had loved every moment of it!
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