Man I'm starting to get a real fan base here :)
Eden: Yeah his past was bad, now you now why he gets a little angry (even ballistic) at times, and the sadness and pain he hides from everyone. Oh and thanks for saying it was well written, I tried my best on that chapter.
Shadow-Spider: Your right no ones does, now you know why Rogue was crying when she had his memories, wouldn't you be after getting memories like that from a person with a photographic mind? For the end I was trying to lighten it up a little, I was getting a little depressed writing that chapter.
BlackRoseApocalyps: Thanks for the review glad you liked it, and as for Vincent, the guy took on Juggernaut without flinching, believe me Shadow would be smart to run like hell.
moondragon-1001: Thanks for the encouraging words, and don't sell yourself short I noticed you only just started so don't worry.
Damn-my-name-was-taken: Yes I know the feeling when my younger brother gets on this computer he plays three different games back to back and takes up hours. And since you asked I'll give you the title of the next story "Enter DayTripper" if you don't know who she is do a web search and you'll soon find out.
ENTER MAYHEM
CHAPTER 22: REACTIONS AND PLANS
After Vincent had left everyone broke up and went off to think about things. McCoy and Forge went back to work on Cerebro and to fiddle around with Sinister's robots that he left behind.
Xavier went to his office alone to think on things, Ororo went to her plants in her greenhouse, they always calmed her and she did her best thinking there at times.
Logan was in the back yard thinking heavily on this. He sat down in one of the chairs and lit up a cigar. A lot of things now made sense to him now. How the kid seemed to be so serious at times, especially in the Danger Room and on missions. His face was solid and composed, and those eyes of his.
Logan had seen the very same eyes every time he looked in the mirror. 'That kid and me have been through the same crap, experimented on, faced death, been hunted, been absolutely alone in the world, all of it.'
Logan never voiced it but the kid kind of reminded him of himself at times, yet Vincent was better at a few things, like controlling his anger for starters. He leaned back into the chair.
'I can't fault the kid for anything he's done, hell I've done worse things than him and those deaths were not his fault. But I can see it eats away at him still and I just hope he realizes that it's that guilt that makes him a better man then others. I've seen people kill for a lot of reasons, money, revenge, even sport. He did it in self-defense and accidentally, but is still haunted by it while others it doesn't even bother them at all.'
'And worse yet he was just a little kid. What the hell kind of messed up world we live in where a kid is put into a position like that in the first place. That couldn't have been easy for him opening up like that.'
Logan unsheathed his claws on his left hand and looked at them. 'Yeah me and him are a lot alike, just amazed the kid isn't totally screwed up.' He let out a snort as a piece of irony hit him. 'I can't remember my past and I want to, the kid can't forget his past and wants to. Probably a moral or a lesson in there somewhere.'
*****
Kurt was on his balcony thinking like everyone else. He too knew how cruel the world could be for those who were different. He thanked God he had his parents to be there for him, he doubted he could have gone through his life without them.
'Yet he had to.' Kurt looked at his hands, and thought about how people called him a freak, or monster because of his looks, he had once thought that if he was normal people wouldn't say such things.
Then he came here and got the holo-watch, and for a time he was right, but when people found out he was a mutant the names came back. He thought of Vincent's face and voice when he recalled to them the times he was called a freak and monster and saw the same pain and hurt he knew was on his face at times.
At times Kurt though he was a monster because of his looks, he realized Vincent thought the same of himself at times because of his actions. 'Maybe the two of us are no so different from each other.'
*****
The New Mutants were all in the rec room talking about, well what else, Vincent.
"Man you wouldn't think to look at him he went through all that." Tabby said. (See I wasn't lying) "That is until you see him without a shirt and see all those scars."
"Yeah and after we heard I don't think all of them are on his body." Jubilee said referring to the emotional scars he must have. They all nodded in silent agreement at that.
Tabitha then noticed Jamie sitting alone in the corner his face seemed to be both sad and angry. She went over to him and sat down. "Hey little man what's wrong?"
Jamie looked up to her. "Why did so much bad things have to happen to him?"
Tabitha didn't know what to think. "I don't know Jamie. The world can be a harsh place at times, I mean look at my family. My no good thief of a father used me to steel for him, and my mother was a wreck."
"Yeah and my family kicked me out when my powers came about." Ray said next. "Even living with the Morlocks wasn't exactly great but at least I wasn't alone."
"Aye and I never got to knew me ma either." Rahne sadly said.
"I thought your mother was someone named Moira?" Bobby asked her. She looked at him and he could see the hurt there in her eyes.
"Her name is Moira MacTarggart, she's my legal guardian, she basically took me in and has been like a real motha ta meh. My real ma I'm told died in child birth."
Roberto went over to her and placed his arm around her. "Why didn't you ever say anything about that? I never knew."
She shrugged before answering not looking into his eyes. "Well I just couldn't come out wit it. I only told Jubilee because we're roommates and best friends, but if Vincent could go through telling us all of that, I guess I could find it in me to let that go too."
"So bad things just happen to good people then." Jamie said to them all. They all knew that Jamie was the youngest and this was like telling a kid the truth about Santa Clause, the tooth fairy and other things like that. They knew he would never see the world the same again after today.
"Yeah it does partner." Sam said to him. "I recon that seems wrong to ya, but it's how the world works."
Jamie looked more angry than sad after that. "It's not fair. Vince is a good person I like hanging out with him, he doesn't treat me like a little kid and I love the training sessions we have, even though it's hard, he makes me feel better about myself."
"I don't care what he did, he's still my friend!" He shouted, they were all taken aback by his outburst, then he calmed down and continued. "He's been like a brother to me, always there, helping me out, sometimes I wished I really did have a big brother, and Vincent is what I always though he would have been like."
"He's right, Vincent's a good guy and still our friend no matter what." Taby said to everyone.
"Yeah and I don't blame him for taking out those creeps, after what they put him through I would most likely done the same." Ray said to everyone's surprise.
"Ray how could you say something like that!" They all turned to see Jean coming from the doorway and Scott trailing after her.
"Oh come on red you heard him, those guys had it coming. I mean after what they did and they were going to kill him at the end!" Ray shouted at her.
"That doesn't make it right, killing is never the answer Ray." Jean shot back.
"Your both right and wrong." Scott said calmly yet commanding at them. They both looked at him in surprise especially Jean.
"Jean's right about killing not being a good thing, in case you can't tell it bothers Vincent a lot what happened that day and you can see it haunts him still." Scott said to not only those two but everyone present. "And Ray's right about not blaming him. It was an ACCIDENT, remember he didn't mean to do it, and he WAS defending himself."
"But THE most important thing is that Vincent is not a bad person and IS our friend, it couldn't have been easy to say all of that, and now that I know everything I realize why he always avoided talking about his past before, he wanted to forget that and I don't blame him."
"You can see he didn't tell us because he's ashamed of it all, and that we would be ashamed of him. He needs our friendship more now then ever because he went through what everyone here fears what will happen to them."
"Experimentation, hurting or killing someone with out of control powers, and being alone in the world with no one to turn to."
Scott looked around the room, and saw that his words had struck home. "Fearless leader is right." Tabitha said to them all.
*****
Rogue went to see how Vincent was doing after everyone left. She opened his door and couldn't see him in his room, then noticed the balcony door was open. She walked towards it and saw him outside on the ground. It looked like he was meditating.
She turned to leave and give him some space. "You don't have to go Rogue." She jerked around and went over to him, sitting down beside him. "How did ya know it was meh?"
He opened his eyes and smiled a little. "First you would be most likely the first person to see me, and secondly everyone has a distinct walk, and I heard you come in and knew those footsteps of yours."
She cocked an eyebrow "Ya know mah footsteps?"
Vincent shrugged a little then tapped his head. "Photographic memory I never forget a sight, sound, or sensation. That and I know a few other things, like how you always seem to roll your eyes to the right, how cute you look when you get that little smile that pulls on the right side of your face, how when your nervous you ring your hands like now."
She looked down and noticed that she was, and quickly pulled them apart. "What do ya do stare at meh all the time when ah'm not looking?" she said light heartedly.
"Only a little, I have a tendency to go back into my memories of you from time to time and notice things I've missed before."
"Ya think about meh a lot then?"
He smiled even more. "When you're not around and when I'm not busy. Also I like to remember a few choice memories of you, especially before I go to sleep, or in meditation to help me sleep or helps me to find my center."
She didn't know how to respond at first. "So what where ya thinkin' of before I came in?"
"I was thinking about that day after we had that double-date with Taby and Sam, what I said I saw in you and when we were together in your room."
Rogue smiled at her own memory of that day. "Ah think that was when we first started to feel more than friendship with each other." She saw him nod in agreement. "What you said to meh that day was the best thing anyone has ever said to meh. It really touched meh."
She placed her gloved hand onto his face, and began to gently trace the side of his face with her index finger. She looked into those eyes so hard yet so filled with caring and feeling especially for her. "Ah wish ah could just touch ya, even once."
He gently took her hand and kissed it then placed in over his heart. "You do touch me, where it counts the most." He said to her.
She felt her eyes tear up slight and she shook her head slightly. "How is it ya can say stuff like that with a straight face?"
Vincent just shrugged. "At times like this I like to speak from the heart."
**** An hour later
Kitty was working on the Robot's memory banks to see if there was any information in it, but was being kept out by firewalls. She had asked Mr. McCoy if she could do anything so he had her start on any data recovery she could find.
She just really wanted to get busy though. She didn't want to stand around waiting for something to happen. Also she was having trouble concentrating, he couldn't get all the things about Vincent out of her head.
She stopped working and began to rub her eyes from the constant strain of looking at a computer monitor.
"Need any help?" She turned around to see Vincent by the doorway.
"Oh! Um, yeah I could this thing is driving me crazy, there are just way to many firewalls, watchdogs and a whole bunch of other things guarding the program."
"Too tough for your skills?" He joked to her. She rolled her eyes at him. "As if, I can totally do this it's just going to take a lot longer because I can't move at super-speed like SOME people." She said shooting him a look.
HE smiled at her and held up his hands to her. "Well you got me there, how about something to drink before we start?" She nodded her head and he was off in a blur and back just as fast.
He set down two Pepsi cans on the table and got out another computer interface hooked up for himself. Kitty was about to open her drink when Vincent stopped her.
"Whoa there, trust me you don't want to open that for at least a few minutes. Those were traveling at super-speed remember and that just like shaking those things up."
She arced an eyebrow at him. "Is that like from experience?"
Vincent looked slightly embarrassed as he recalled learning that the hard way. "Well I guess that answers that question" she said to him, she was a bit easier now, and to tell the truth Vincent seemed to be in a lighter mood now, and she was glad for it.
After about twenty minutes they decided to take a break, and opened their drinks.
"Vince." She said to get his attention, he looked across the table to her. "I'm sorry for what you had to go through, and....I don't think you're a bad person and you shouldn't think so either."
He looked at her and after a couple of seconds a small smile was on his face even though the rest of his face was slightly sad looking. "Thanks.....I really appreciate that."
After an uncomfortable silence appeared Vincent wanted to break it. "So how long have you've been a hacker?"
"For about three years now, I just got into it and I only know one other hacker than you. So how long have you've been at it?"
"About the same, and I now of a few hackers but only one of them I consider a friend, I still talk to her from time to time through IM."
"Really, like me too. I met this guy about two years ago, we were both hacking into this system and kind of had a duel to see who was better."
Vincent was about to take another drink when he stopped after he got a major case of déjà vu, then continued to drink.
"Oh and you know what he's from Toronto too, he goes by 'V-boy'."
At that Vincent spit out his drink and started cuffing.
"Vincent! Are you like all right?" She said worried that he had taken his drink down the wrong pipe.
"K-K-Kitten?" He managed to get out.
Kitty sat there at first wondered what he meant by that, then it hit her that only one person called her that. "It can be."
He looked at her just as dumbfounded as she was. Then he burst out laughing.
"Like what's so funny?" She said slightly annoyed.
"I just can't believe we've known each other for years and didn't know it." He continued to laugh and soon Kitty joined in.
****
Xavier was in Cerebro attempting to see if he could locate the other one Sinister was evidently building. He was at it for hours searching with the new enhancements, then when he was about to give up he felt it.
It was a mind searching the world like him only he could feel that it wasn't natural it seemed amplified and Charles knew he had him. He felt the mind retreat and try to lose him. Charles stayed with it and followed it to it's location.
It was somewhere in the mountains of British Columbia, he searched and could pin-point it to a couple of miles, then the signal was cut-off.
Xavier made a note of the location and went to the lab to find Hank. He found him and Forge looking over data that apparently Kitty and Vincent had gotten from the Robots.
"Have you found anything?" he asked them.
Hank looked up and answered first. "It seems these two were able to get some kind of blueprints of a base, and entry codes."
"Unfortunately until we find the place they're pretty much useless." Vincent solemnly said.
"Actually I believe I have found Sinister's base." Xavier said to them all.
"So we can finally take the fight to him for a change." Vincent said to him, his voice had a slight chill to it.
"Exactly, we have some plans to make, because I want to be prepared for this." Xavier then maneuvered himself to leave. "Hank get everyone to the war room, we have a mission to plan for as soon as we are ready."
NEXT UP CHAPTER 23: DEMONS OF THE PAST
Sorry if this is a little shorter than most chapters but I really couldn't think of anything else I could put in that was relevant.
Just so you know if everything goes right the next chapter is the second last, and don't worry I'm already have been writing the 1st chapter of the next story....and another one I'm working on....and something in between....and writing down a few ideas......I really either need to get a life or a vacation.
Eden: Yeah his past was bad, now you now why he gets a little angry (even ballistic) at times, and the sadness and pain he hides from everyone. Oh and thanks for saying it was well written, I tried my best on that chapter.
Shadow-Spider: Your right no ones does, now you know why Rogue was crying when she had his memories, wouldn't you be after getting memories like that from a person with a photographic mind? For the end I was trying to lighten it up a little, I was getting a little depressed writing that chapter.
BlackRoseApocalyps: Thanks for the review glad you liked it, and as for Vincent, the guy took on Juggernaut without flinching, believe me Shadow would be smart to run like hell.
moondragon-1001: Thanks for the encouraging words, and don't sell yourself short I noticed you only just started so don't worry.
Damn-my-name-was-taken: Yes I know the feeling when my younger brother gets on this computer he plays three different games back to back and takes up hours. And since you asked I'll give you the title of the next story "Enter DayTripper" if you don't know who she is do a web search and you'll soon find out.
ENTER MAYHEM
CHAPTER 22: REACTIONS AND PLANS
After Vincent had left everyone broke up and went off to think about things. McCoy and Forge went back to work on Cerebro and to fiddle around with Sinister's robots that he left behind.
Xavier went to his office alone to think on things, Ororo went to her plants in her greenhouse, they always calmed her and she did her best thinking there at times.
Logan was in the back yard thinking heavily on this. He sat down in one of the chairs and lit up a cigar. A lot of things now made sense to him now. How the kid seemed to be so serious at times, especially in the Danger Room and on missions. His face was solid and composed, and those eyes of his.
Logan had seen the very same eyes every time he looked in the mirror. 'That kid and me have been through the same crap, experimented on, faced death, been hunted, been absolutely alone in the world, all of it.'
Logan never voiced it but the kid kind of reminded him of himself at times, yet Vincent was better at a few things, like controlling his anger for starters. He leaned back into the chair.
'I can't fault the kid for anything he's done, hell I've done worse things than him and those deaths were not his fault. But I can see it eats away at him still and I just hope he realizes that it's that guilt that makes him a better man then others. I've seen people kill for a lot of reasons, money, revenge, even sport. He did it in self-defense and accidentally, but is still haunted by it while others it doesn't even bother them at all.'
'And worse yet he was just a little kid. What the hell kind of messed up world we live in where a kid is put into a position like that in the first place. That couldn't have been easy for him opening up like that.'
Logan unsheathed his claws on his left hand and looked at them. 'Yeah me and him are a lot alike, just amazed the kid isn't totally screwed up.' He let out a snort as a piece of irony hit him. 'I can't remember my past and I want to, the kid can't forget his past and wants to. Probably a moral or a lesson in there somewhere.'
*****
Kurt was on his balcony thinking like everyone else. He too knew how cruel the world could be for those who were different. He thanked God he had his parents to be there for him, he doubted he could have gone through his life without them.
'Yet he had to.' Kurt looked at his hands, and thought about how people called him a freak, or monster because of his looks, he had once thought that if he was normal people wouldn't say such things.
Then he came here and got the holo-watch, and for a time he was right, but when people found out he was a mutant the names came back. He thought of Vincent's face and voice when he recalled to them the times he was called a freak and monster and saw the same pain and hurt he knew was on his face at times.
At times Kurt though he was a monster because of his looks, he realized Vincent thought the same of himself at times because of his actions. 'Maybe the two of us are no so different from each other.'
*****
The New Mutants were all in the rec room talking about, well what else, Vincent.
"Man you wouldn't think to look at him he went through all that." Tabby said. (See I wasn't lying) "That is until you see him without a shirt and see all those scars."
"Yeah and after we heard I don't think all of them are on his body." Jubilee said referring to the emotional scars he must have. They all nodded in silent agreement at that.
Tabitha then noticed Jamie sitting alone in the corner his face seemed to be both sad and angry. She went over to him and sat down. "Hey little man what's wrong?"
Jamie looked up to her. "Why did so much bad things have to happen to him?"
Tabitha didn't know what to think. "I don't know Jamie. The world can be a harsh place at times, I mean look at my family. My no good thief of a father used me to steel for him, and my mother was a wreck."
"Yeah and my family kicked me out when my powers came about." Ray said next. "Even living with the Morlocks wasn't exactly great but at least I wasn't alone."
"Aye and I never got to knew me ma either." Rahne sadly said.
"I thought your mother was someone named Moira?" Bobby asked her. She looked at him and he could see the hurt there in her eyes.
"Her name is Moira MacTarggart, she's my legal guardian, she basically took me in and has been like a real motha ta meh. My real ma I'm told died in child birth."
Roberto went over to her and placed his arm around her. "Why didn't you ever say anything about that? I never knew."
She shrugged before answering not looking into his eyes. "Well I just couldn't come out wit it. I only told Jubilee because we're roommates and best friends, but if Vincent could go through telling us all of that, I guess I could find it in me to let that go too."
"So bad things just happen to good people then." Jamie said to them all. They all knew that Jamie was the youngest and this was like telling a kid the truth about Santa Clause, the tooth fairy and other things like that. They knew he would never see the world the same again after today.
"Yeah it does partner." Sam said to him. "I recon that seems wrong to ya, but it's how the world works."
Jamie looked more angry than sad after that. "It's not fair. Vince is a good person I like hanging out with him, he doesn't treat me like a little kid and I love the training sessions we have, even though it's hard, he makes me feel better about myself."
"I don't care what he did, he's still my friend!" He shouted, they were all taken aback by his outburst, then he calmed down and continued. "He's been like a brother to me, always there, helping me out, sometimes I wished I really did have a big brother, and Vincent is what I always though he would have been like."
"He's right, Vincent's a good guy and still our friend no matter what." Taby said to everyone.
"Yeah and I don't blame him for taking out those creeps, after what they put him through I would most likely done the same." Ray said to everyone's surprise.
"Ray how could you say something like that!" They all turned to see Jean coming from the doorway and Scott trailing after her.
"Oh come on red you heard him, those guys had it coming. I mean after what they did and they were going to kill him at the end!" Ray shouted at her.
"That doesn't make it right, killing is never the answer Ray." Jean shot back.
"Your both right and wrong." Scott said calmly yet commanding at them. They both looked at him in surprise especially Jean.
"Jean's right about killing not being a good thing, in case you can't tell it bothers Vincent a lot what happened that day and you can see it haunts him still." Scott said to not only those two but everyone present. "And Ray's right about not blaming him. It was an ACCIDENT, remember he didn't mean to do it, and he WAS defending himself."
"But THE most important thing is that Vincent is not a bad person and IS our friend, it couldn't have been easy to say all of that, and now that I know everything I realize why he always avoided talking about his past before, he wanted to forget that and I don't blame him."
"You can see he didn't tell us because he's ashamed of it all, and that we would be ashamed of him. He needs our friendship more now then ever because he went through what everyone here fears what will happen to them."
"Experimentation, hurting or killing someone with out of control powers, and being alone in the world with no one to turn to."
Scott looked around the room, and saw that his words had struck home. "Fearless leader is right." Tabitha said to them all.
*****
Rogue went to see how Vincent was doing after everyone left. She opened his door and couldn't see him in his room, then noticed the balcony door was open. She walked towards it and saw him outside on the ground. It looked like he was meditating.
She turned to leave and give him some space. "You don't have to go Rogue." She jerked around and went over to him, sitting down beside him. "How did ya know it was meh?"
He opened his eyes and smiled a little. "First you would be most likely the first person to see me, and secondly everyone has a distinct walk, and I heard you come in and knew those footsteps of yours."
She cocked an eyebrow "Ya know mah footsteps?"
Vincent shrugged a little then tapped his head. "Photographic memory I never forget a sight, sound, or sensation. That and I know a few other things, like how you always seem to roll your eyes to the right, how cute you look when you get that little smile that pulls on the right side of your face, how when your nervous you ring your hands like now."
She looked down and noticed that she was, and quickly pulled them apart. "What do ya do stare at meh all the time when ah'm not looking?" she said light heartedly.
"Only a little, I have a tendency to go back into my memories of you from time to time and notice things I've missed before."
"Ya think about meh a lot then?"
He smiled even more. "When you're not around and when I'm not busy. Also I like to remember a few choice memories of you, especially before I go to sleep, or in meditation to help me sleep or helps me to find my center."
She didn't know how to respond at first. "So what where ya thinkin' of before I came in?"
"I was thinking about that day after we had that double-date with Taby and Sam, what I said I saw in you and when we were together in your room."
Rogue smiled at her own memory of that day. "Ah think that was when we first started to feel more than friendship with each other." She saw him nod in agreement. "What you said to meh that day was the best thing anyone has ever said to meh. It really touched meh."
She placed her gloved hand onto his face, and began to gently trace the side of his face with her index finger. She looked into those eyes so hard yet so filled with caring and feeling especially for her. "Ah wish ah could just touch ya, even once."
He gently took her hand and kissed it then placed in over his heart. "You do touch me, where it counts the most." He said to her.
She felt her eyes tear up slight and she shook her head slightly. "How is it ya can say stuff like that with a straight face?"
Vincent just shrugged. "At times like this I like to speak from the heart."
**** An hour later
Kitty was working on the Robot's memory banks to see if there was any information in it, but was being kept out by firewalls. She had asked Mr. McCoy if she could do anything so he had her start on any data recovery she could find.
She just really wanted to get busy though. She didn't want to stand around waiting for something to happen. Also she was having trouble concentrating, he couldn't get all the things about Vincent out of her head.
She stopped working and began to rub her eyes from the constant strain of looking at a computer monitor.
"Need any help?" She turned around to see Vincent by the doorway.
"Oh! Um, yeah I could this thing is driving me crazy, there are just way to many firewalls, watchdogs and a whole bunch of other things guarding the program."
"Too tough for your skills?" He joked to her. She rolled her eyes at him. "As if, I can totally do this it's just going to take a lot longer because I can't move at super-speed like SOME people." She said shooting him a look.
HE smiled at her and held up his hands to her. "Well you got me there, how about something to drink before we start?" She nodded her head and he was off in a blur and back just as fast.
He set down two Pepsi cans on the table and got out another computer interface hooked up for himself. Kitty was about to open her drink when Vincent stopped her.
"Whoa there, trust me you don't want to open that for at least a few minutes. Those were traveling at super-speed remember and that just like shaking those things up."
She arced an eyebrow at him. "Is that like from experience?"
Vincent looked slightly embarrassed as he recalled learning that the hard way. "Well I guess that answers that question" she said to him, she was a bit easier now, and to tell the truth Vincent seemed to be in a lighter mood now, and she was glad for it.
After about twenty minutes they decided to take a break, and opened their drinks.
"Vince." She said to get his attention, he looked across the table to her. "I'm sorry for what you had to go through, and....I don't think you're a bad person and you shouldn't think so either."
He looked at her and after a couple of seconds a small smile was on his face even though the rest of his face was slightly sad looking. "Thanks.....I really appreciate that."
After an uncomfortable silence appeared Vincent wanted to break it. "So how long have you've been a hacker?"
"For about three years now, I just got into it and I only know one other hacker than you. So how long have you've been at it?"
"About the same, and I now of a few hackers but only one of them I consider a friend, I still talk to her from time to time through IM."
"Really, like me too. I met this guy about two years ago, we were both hacking into this system and kind of had a duel to see who was better."
Vincent was about to take another drink when he stopped after he got a major case of déjà vu, then continued to drink.
"Oh and you know what he's from Toronto too, he goes by 'V-boy'."
At that Vincent spit out his drink and started cuffing.
"Vincent! Are you like all right?" She said worried that he had taken his drink down the wrong pipe.
"K-K-Kitten?" He managed to get out.
Kitty sat there at first wondered what he meant by that, then it hit her that only one person called her that. "It can be."
He looked at her just as dumbfounded as she was. Then he burst out laughing.
"Like what's so funny?" She said slightly annoyed.
"I just can't believe we've known each other for years and didn't know it." He continued to laugh and soon Kitty joined in.
****
Xavier was in Cerebro attempting to see if he could locate the other one Sinister was evidently building. He was at it for hours searching with the new enhancements, then when he was about to give up he felt it.
It was a mind searching the world like him only he could feel that it wasn't natural it seemed amplified and Charles knew he had him. He felt the mind retreat and try to lose him. Charles stayed with it and followed it to it's location.
It was somewhere in the mountains of British Columbia, he searched and could pin-point it to a couple of miles, then the signal was cut-off.
Xavier made a note of the location and went to the lab to find Hank. He found him and Forge looking over data that apparently Kitty and Vincent had gotten from the Robots.
"Have you found anything?" he asked them.
Hank looked up and answered first. "It seems these two were able to get some kind of blueprints of a base, and entry codes."
"Unfortunately until we find the place they're pretty much useless." Vincent solemnly said.
"Actually I believe I have found Sinister's base." Xavier said to them all.
"So we can finally take the fight to him for a change." Vincent said to him, his voice had a slight chill to it.
"Exactly, we have some plans to make, because I want to be prepared for this." Xavier then maneuvered himself to leave. "Hank get everyone to the war room, we have a mission to plan for as soon as we are ready."
NEXT UP CHAPTER 23: DEMONS OF THE PAST
Sorry if this is a little shorter than most chapters but I really couldn't think of anything else I could put in that was relevant.
Just so you know if everything goes right the next chapter is the second last, and don't worry I'm already have been writing the 1st chapter of the next story....and another one I'm working on....and something in between....and writing down a few ideas......I really either need to get a life or a vacation.