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Retribution X: Dear Susan…
I hated shopping! So why was I at the mall doing just that I hear you ask, quite simple I was badgered into it by my team mates and Bobby. Kat recently returned to our side after a brief moment of stupidity and becoming a traitor by becoming Wolverines informant, causing us to enact our revenge (it seems she now thought that we were the scary ones not Wolverine!!) by staging a showdown between her and Pyro, let's just say her pride (and her sanity) had not yet recovered. So now we were controlling her by having attached a tracking device and an electric dog collar on her, the latter especially was proving more than helpful on this trip out.
"I thought you said this would be a treat!" I moaned
"It is, isn't it" Jubes smiled "you're graced with our presence!"
I took my sheer frustration and boredom out on Kat by zapping her with the electric dog collar causing her to run behind me and cower at my feet.
"God Ashley is this what shopping does to you?" Mel asked almost angrily
I ignored her and watched as Kat ran off towards the whirlpool centre piece of the mall on the edge of which people where sitting eating their McDonalds.
"So where to next?" Evelyn asked peering at the map with the list of shops on
"I wanna go home!" I protested
"I thought you wanted to get a new football?"
"Correction: I wanna new football then I wanna go home" I said awkwardly
"Well I want to go to the shop that sell's…." Mel was cut off by a scream
On instinct I pushed the button to zap Kat however this was one situation that was not helped or solved by electricity.
"Help Me!" I heard her cry as I ran to the edge of the whirlpool to see her being sucked into the middle of the display. However her body was convulsing slightly due to the electrical charge I had sent to zap her being conducted through the water. Oooppsie!!
"Oh God she can't swim…" I muttered "…well."
Where was Bobby Drake, I was going to kill him I didn't know why yet but I'd think of a reason like him being supposed to look after Kat or something.
"Do something then!" Jubilee exclaimed clutching my arm
"What am I supposed to do?" I asked "We can't help her now we may as well let her die as an embarrassment as she lived her life, as opposed to in honour on the battlefield which she was rubbish at."
"I'm going to miss the little fella!" Jubes sniffed wiping a tear from her eye.
"I no but it's for the best!" I nodded sagely
"How is it for the best? Such an innocent life! How can it be for the best?"
"I don't know it just is okay!"
"Why?"
"Because I bloody say it is okay?"
"Sniff Okay! Who wants a coffee?"
Oh yeah I can remember why it was for the best now "She's a traitor!" They looked at me puzzled before remembering Kat.
Bobby Drake it seems was not one to give up on Kat as easily as us however, launching into full iced armour mode he froze the water to stop it drowning Kat. His plan was as inspired as it first seems however as he had frozen Kat into the water, meaning she couldn't move. This shopping trip was suddenly becoming more inviting.
"Great I'm not going to be eaten by Sharks!" She squealed before trying to move "Oh no I'm stuck now I'm going to starve!"
Kat was drawing quite a crowd it was suddenly in my better interest to keep her around, she could make us quite a little profit at a freak farm
"Kat you could melt the ice!" I suggested
"Oh yeah" was her bright reply.
Kat had soon melted the ice only to find herself getting sucked into the whirlpool again. I put my hand in the water.
"Kat stand up!" I yelled at her as she obeyed the water not even coming up to her knees "Christ all that noise and you could just walk out, right that's it I'm going home!"
"What about us?!"
"Walk" I had driven them as I was the only one who could drive and me leaving would leave them transport less.
"Can we come with you?" Bobby asked apparently over the whole nearly freezing Kat thing already.
In my car on the road.
"What the hell is that?"
"Is that the X Van?"
"Mmm...I'm an aeroplane!"
"Is that Juggernaut?"
"Stop the car?"
These were just some of the questions being asked all at the same time. I stopped the car suddenly jumping out.
"The cavalry's arrived!" I informed the various X-men either charging at or being charged at by Juggernaut. Today's X-team seemed to be comprised of Wolverine, Morph, Cyclops, Psylock, Rogue and Gambit
"We can handle this kid!" Wolverine shouted at me while being thrown through the air
"Sure looks like it!" I said as I was joined by the other members of Retribution X and Bobby.
"Awww…come on Wolvie we never get top see the real action we only get dumped of Sabretooth or FOH duty!" Jubilee whined
"Well I for one ain't asking permission" I said charging myself up with a ZZZZzzzzz
"Oh my hairs stood on end!" Kat announced.
"Hey Bucket head you got any brains in there for me to fry" I said throwing a ball of electricity at Juggernauts metal helmet
"Apparently not!" Mel said enveloping Morph and Cyclops in her protective shield in order to protect them from Juggernauts attack.
"I know lets melt his shoes!" Kat giggled throwing balls of flame at Juggernauts boots making them slowly melt as Jubes paffed Juggernaut temporarily blinding him.
"Tsunami, Tantalus gotta minute!" I asked "Kneel down" I indicated to Mel and climbed on her shoulders.
"Oww your heavy!"
"Aww quit your whining" I remonstrated I looked at Tsuni (we called her that short for Tsunami) she got was I was saying immediately and squirted the highest force of water up in their air. I jumped off of Tantalus shoulder and onto the water, the force of which shot me up high allowing me to descend onto Juggernauts body. I clung on for dear life as he tried to shake me off. I knew I had to get his helmet off (we'd learnt that in a lesson a few months ago) I quickly began to undo the clips holding it on with my lithe, dexterous fingers. Just as I undid the first one he whizzed around causing me to go flying through the air his helmet in my hand, before flying with a thud and a jolt of pain into a building.
In the X Van
"I coulda driven" I protested even though it was blatantly obvious I couldn't due to the horrible swaying of the objects around me and the sick feeling in my stomach.
"No way kid!" Wolverine said from behind the wheel of the van.
"I don't trust Scott to get it back safely!" I glowered at him
"What your car's a heap!" Morph said surprised that anyone could imagine it in a worse state that it already was
"It may be a heap but it's my heap brought with my own hard earned cash!" I turned my glower at Morph (code named Scooby Doo for his laugh by Retribution X) "Besides you try driving Kat about and keeping you car all nice"
"She's gotta point chere" Gambit interjected
"When you get back your going straight to see Hank" Wolverine lectured
"I'm fine stop acting like an old woman!" I snapped at him resulting in sniggers from the others (excepting Psylocke) and a Scooby Doo laugh from Morph.
I touched the bump and the blood that was matting my hair at the back of my head from where I'd hit the building. It stung and it felt like Kat had been singing extremely loudly for over 3 days the way my head hurt.
"I just need some sleep" I said more to myself than anyone else
"You sure sugah, coz you hear loadsa stories bout people with concussion not waking up" Rogue said looking at me worriedly
"Jeez when did God die and make you all my collective mother"
Back at Retribution X's Wing
"What the hell did ya all think you were doin'?" Logan shouted
"Helping you out!" I groaned massaging my forehead-jeez can't the guy shout any quieter
"You are not ready ta be goin' out on proper missions, people get killed ya know! It ain't all superman stuff!"
"If we hadn't been there who knows what would have happened to you guys, I think we proved ourselves today we finished Juggernaut in what 5 minutes, we want no need more responsibility before we look elsewhere for it….or at least before we have no choice and get thrown into a battle that's bigger then we've experienced before then mess up big time down to lack of experience" I shouted at him throat burning "We can only stay in the danger room for so long, we need freedom!"
"Ya finished kid?" Wolverine asked almost coldly
"Yes" I glared at him
At that moment Mel wandered into the kitchen interrupting our staring match "Has anyone seen today's newspaper?"
"No you know you're the 3rd person to ask me that today!" Kat, Wolverine and Jubes had all asked me the same thing before we went shopping today "What is everyone's fixation with it? Has it got an X-men special in it or something?" I winced at the pain in my head.
"You okay kid?"
"Yes will everyone stop bloody asking me if I'm okay!" I said getting up from the table and wobbling when the room span "…Or I will be once I've washed this horrible blood out of my hair"