Acid & Base
Chapter Six: Fire and Water
Author: Icy Flame
Disclaimer: Don't own them never will!
IF: This is longer than I had originally planned for this chapter so enjoy!
Wanda: Yea I'm pooped, I demand a break!
IF: Uh how about we discuss this over chapter seven?
Wanda: Grrrrr
IF: Eh maybe you're right…::mumbles to self:: Lazy Muse
Wanda: WHAT?
IF: ER Let's start the chapter!
Wanda: Whatever, Review Please! Thankee all those who did! J
IF: Later yo
~~~ Woods ~~~
"Come on guys pick up the paste! We have to find Rogue, she might be in trouble!" Scott ordered, forcing his teammates to move at a quicker pace. They stomped past the decaying plant life, not paying heed to it; their attention was focused on seeking out Rogue before something happened to her. A large bird mother bird gave a thundering cry to her children as the X-Men trampled where they thought the sounds had come from.
When they arrived on the scene they were quite surprised and most of them had their mouths gapping open. They were all stunned that an event such as this could come to pass. Of course this reaction was short lived for soon some of them were rolling on the ground, laughing. Jean was trying to hold a straight face, Scott allowed a large smirk to take command of his face, Evan and Kurt were on the ground gasping for oxygen, and Kitty was laughing her ass off.
"Oh::gasp:: I thought ::giggle:: Rogue was ::gasp:: in trouble ::giggle:: I can't believe ::giggle:: that it was them!" Kitty snickered, sucking in air in between explosions of laughter and words.
Before them a rather amusing scene lay. Wanda held a fainted Lance, in an insecure grip. She was trying to steady herself and was straining to stay on her feet, from her awkward position it was easily shown that she had caught him out of instinct instead of caring as if she had been trained to do so. Fred was breathing deeply and trying to calm his heart, sweat dripping down his head. Pietro was shielding a passed out Rogue. She was held tightly in his arms, curled up like a small child. It was rather adorable but this is not what held everyone's attention. Nope, what seized everyone's concentration with a great amount of amusing interest was the final member of the Brotherhood's actions.
Todd was clinging to a tree for dear life, Wolverine climbing up after him. The small amphibian boy was shaking like a leaf, twigs clamps firmly between his webbed hands. Wolverine was grunting from the effort of climbing the oak tree, sticking his claws into sections to pull himself closer to his prey. Of course all of this stopped when the X-men's presence was detected, Logan leaped down from the height and tried to hide the scarlet covering his cheeks.
Evan demanded, " Who was it that screamed like a pansy?" Todd glared at him, causing another wave of snickers to wash over the entire team. A small grin appeared on Jean's features.
"Yeah, laugh it up losers, it'll be the very last time you will ever laugh at the Toad!" Todd threatened; of course this didn't have his desired affect on them because everyone began laughing all over again.
Wanda growled 'we don't have time', "As much fun as this is we need to get someplace safe and guarded NOW!" the beeping was increasing. 'No, no they can't be that close?' Wanda's gray blue eyes narrowed, she ran over to Pietro and lifted Rogue out of his arms. Shaking her slightly as to awaken her partner. Rogue blinked her eyes lazily, looking up at Wanda. She smiled up at her and then frowned as she too started to pick up on the beeping.
"We have to move Base, they're closing in on us. Do you want to block them this time?" Rogue asked weakly, still a little woozy from her 'meeting' with the tree.
"I am gonna have to, you are in no shape." Wanda appealed.
"Ah am ta! As Acid Ah take on all missions all the time in this condition- whoa would ya stop moving Base!" The rest looked on in shock at this little conversation. The fact that they knew each other was odd and hadn't been missed by the audience but the fact that they kept referring to each other like they were playing army was what caught the foremost attention of the group.
"Why do you keep referring to each other-" Fred was interrupted, a crunching was audibly heard, someone was coming closer…fast.
"No dammit, we don't have time for this!" Wanda whined, looking around quickly for an escape route. "Just had to go into the woods huh Roguey?" She glared at the rest of them angrily.
"Well stop staring and help!" Wanda demanded of the Brotherhood and X-men. They looked at her curiously, not quite perceiving what she meant. Rogue swayed considerably before flailing in the air and landing on her ass.
"Ah'm ok Base, now come on and help me up!" Rogue insisted, getting up with the assistance of Pietro's hand. "Thanks shugah." She smiled at him slightly, causing a small blush to appear over his cheeks.
Scott turned to Kurt, "How many can you port with you?" Kurt gave him a confused look and shrugged his shoulders. He thought for a few moments and then got the idea.
" V'ell I can bring both of d'hem with me but are you sure Scott?" Kurt asked, hesitant if he should be helping Wanda, she was on the 'enemies' team. Cyclops glanced at them and nodded.
"Yea, I'm positive." The X-men leader assured the fuzzy teen. Of course he probably should have asked them if it was ok.
"NO!" Wanda and Rogue declined.
Rogue said in a way of explanation.
"We caused this, no just port everyone else Kurt, please." He bobbed his head back and forth between both girls and his leader, once again unsure of what he should be doing. On the one hand he was trained to take orders from Scott, no questions asked. But on the other Rogue and Wanda didn't want to be brought anywhere, and both of them could severely hurt him if he didn't do as they wished. He was in between a rock and a hard place, only instead of a rock it was a team leader and switched with a hard place was a witch and a vampire.
"What do you suppose we do yo?" Todd asked, hopping back onto the ground, Logan losing all interest in gutting him…for the moment. A few grunts of agreement were meet with this statement; everyone was a tad curious as to find out the battle plans.
Unfortunately for them time was not on their side in this battle. Right after Toad's question two men barged into the slight clearing. Everyone gasped and turned to see who it was that had been chasing them down. The sight scared both Rogue and Wanda, debatablely the most powerful members on both teams, shitless.
"I see we haven't changed now have we?" a man with deep green eyes stated with drastic sarcasm. The second man behind him stood about six-foot eight, the first one six-foot ten. They towered over the teenagers. The first had black colored hair, a trimmed mustache and beard. The second man, the shorter, was clean-shaven.
"Subject Acid, Subject Base we are here to collect you. You're mission is now complete." The taller man answered. Logan stepped forward protectively.
"There is no way that you are getting them, unless you go through me!" he glared menacingly, claws popping out. While most of the time this scared men shitless, neither of them flinched.
The green eyed man spoke, "Listen we aren't here to cause trouble, we simply would like to collect our agents. Perhaps we can go somewhere and discuss this?" Logan didn't trust them and there was no way that he was about to let them take Rogue with them.
"There ain't nothing to discuss yo! You ain't gonna get no one here!" Todd yelled, leaping up into the air as he screeched this…behind Freddy. The rest of the group agreed, Fred, Lance, Todd, Pietro, Scott, Kurt and Evan all wore glaring masks of fury while Jean, Kitty, Wanda, Rogue were intensely glowering ferociously. (wow say that three times fast!)
Lance shook the ground with a level five earthquake, centering it right under both men. Their knees caved in under them, forcing them to hit the ground. Kurt ported with tons of dirt onto the enemies, soon joined with the large rocks that Jean was tossing their way, the combined effort made it impossible for the targets to stand up let alone run away. . When the men broke out their guns Fred blocked the shots fired at the other mutants. Scott fired beams at the firearms, melting the metal into liquid with his optic blasts. Evan stepped up next, shooting two circles lined with his bone projections; imprisoning them. Pietro sped around the fenced in bad guys, eroding the land around their bone prisons. Escape was extremely improbable. Kitty grabbed Rogue's gloved hand and phased her into each circle, allowing her to use her power on each guy. They were knocked unconscious by her vampire energy-sucking gift. Todd spit out green goo, cementing the evil bad men in the cages to the ground as the goop hardened. Finally Wanda concentrated on affecting the probability of someone finding the guys, so that they would be left in their prisons.
They ended their battle by high fiving each other and congratulating each other on a job well done. Todd, Fred and Kurt let out whoops of victory while Pietro and Evan started doing victory dances. Scott was talking with Jean about how they created the traps. Kitty and Lance were flirting with one another. This left Rogue and Wanda with one another, chatting about their teammates.
IF: That is all for this chapter! Sorry for it taking so long, but ff.net was being such a pain!
Wanda: That's why it is so lengthy, we wanted to make up for
it! J
IF: I hope you guys liked it!
Wanda: She had a different ending, where Logan had agreed to discuss it but we didn't like it!
IF: Yeah it really sucked. That is why it took so long to get this out!
Wanda: Sorry again! We will try to get stuff out faster!