Author's Note: Yes, I put us in here. I'm not in it, but you guys
are. Now, I don't want anyone to be offended by how I put them in the
story, especially Maelstrom and Mad With Power, whom I make very serious
and kind of intimidating with Kurt when they have to be. I mean no offense
by anything in this story. *Holds up shield just in case * Enjoy
everybody!
*** Kurt cocked an eyebrow, his tail curling up very slowly in curiosity.
"Nightscrawlers?" he asked. SheCat nodded, smiling a bit as she turned and headed down the thin walkway.
"Exactly!" she said. Ty stepped aside; letting Kurt walk a head of him to make sure he didn't get lost as more tunnels appeared more and more.
"We use these temples to move all around this city. It helps us with get aways and swift attacks against the Reich." He explained, smiling fondly as he looked around.
"Haven't they figured it out by now?" Kurt asked, cocking an eyebrow. SheCat laughed, shaking her head a bit as she looked over her shoulder at him.
"Some of them have." She said. "But do you see how many tunnels there are around here? They get lost, and we take down the ones who don't get killed from falling into traps or get picked off by the rats who live down here; right, Bamfman?" she asked, winking at him.
"But you don't have your whole group down here do you?" Kurt asked, cocking an eyebrow. "I mean, if you did, someone would find it." SheCat stopped at a ladder and then started to climb, stopping to look down at Kurt and Ty once.
"You sure ask a lot of questions." She said. "You better be ready to answer a lot instead of asking them when we get back to the camp." With that, she vanished through a manhole.
"Don't mind, SheCat. She just doesn't trust a lot of people when they first come down here." Ty assured him.
"Well I would be to in a world where Nazis won Word War Two!" Kurt said, slowly starting to climb after her. Ty looked at Kurt in confusion, frowning faintly as he tilted his head to one side. Shrugging it off, he climbed after Kurt.
"Easy does it, blue boy!" SheCat said, helping Kurt out of the hole.
"My name's Kurt." He said. "Guess I forgot to tell you that." SheCat shrugged, shaking out another cigarette and popping it into her mouth.
"We never really asked you for your name." She said. "That's why you didn't tell it to us!" Laughing softly, Kurt shook his head and looked around as Ty climbed out of the hole. They at the very outskirts of the city, in one of those abandoned areas he had first found himself in. When he looked away from the city, he saw that he was looking at a small forest in the distance.
"Let me guess," he said, cocking an eyebrow. "Your camp is in that forest?"
"It may look small from out here, but those Gestapo can never find us! We've got traps in there, not to mention that there are natural traps and mazes in there that they still can't figure out." SheCat explained. "Come on."
She headed for what looked like an ancient motorcycle with a little buddy attachment. Mounting the bike she smiled at Kurt and Ty.
"Hop in boys!" she laughed. Ty calmly got into the side attachment, handing Kurt a helmet.
"You can sit behind SheCat." He said. Slowly, Kurt climbed on behind SheCat and he sighed, wrapping his tail around her waist to stay on. ***
"Where is he?" Moira screamed, making Callisto wince. "I thought I told you to put this city on lockdown!"
"We have, Reichminister. We have soldiers checking every nook and cranny for the boy as we speak!" Callisto said, trying to calm Moira's wrath.
It wasn't working.
"You're not trying hard enough!" Moira shouted, slapping Callisto as hard as she could. Callisto was a strong woman, who could withstand a punch to the face by a man and still be able to kick his ass. Moira's slap was nothing, a feather might as well have landed on her cheek, but Moira had power, the kind that could have Callisto gassed in ten minutes with a simple snapping of her fingers.
Cringing, Callisto stepped back, bowing to Moira.
"We will find the boy, Reichminister. If he does not come back willingly, I will kill him myself." She promised.
"If you want to see another sunrise, you had better!" Moira growled, narrowing her eyes. Saluting, Callisto left the room, letting out a sigh of relief when the door closed behind her. ***
They got off the motorcycle just before they reached the first group of trees in the forest. Dismounting, Ty and SheCat covered the motorcycle in some branches, making it look like a harmless bush before they led Kurt into the forest.
Searching through one of his pockets, Ty withdrew a wooden whistle. Twirling it once in his fingers, he placed it in his mouth and he blew as hard as he could.
Not a sound was heard.
"A dog whistle?" Kurt asked, cocking an eyebrow. Nodding, Ty put the whistle away.
"That's why the Gestapo always get lost in the forest." He explained. "We always move camp and only a locating dog can lead us back to it!" A few minutes later, a Border collie mix* came running towards them, panting happily.
He looked like an old dog, gray surrounding his eyes and around his mouth. He had white on his chest and belly, including a bit on each foot to make it look like he was wearing socks. The last bit was on the tip of his tail.
"Hey, Barney!" Ty laughed, stooping over and scratching the dog behind his ears, making him make a murring noise in contentment. "Go show us the way back!" With a single bark, Barney turned and started to trot off.
They followed Barney over a small lake and through some thick patches of trees and bushes. As they traveled, Kurt looked around, his tail swaying side-to-side as he smiled faintly as the birds that sang softly. The only thing that depressed him was that there was such a small amount of birds in the trees, not to mention barely any small animals like squirrels and such.
It made him miss his home.
Home.
Was he ever going to be able to go back there? He knew that Excalibur had needed to use Widget and...
How did they know how to get back to this world? They had said that they couldn't know for sure where they were going...
There was just too many questions that couldn't be answered about this, and it was starting to make Kurt's stomach hurt.
"Kurt?" SheCat asked, placing a hand on his shoulder. "Kurt, are you all right?" flinching, Kurt shook his head to clear it and he looked at Ty and SheCat, finding that they and even Barney were looking at him with worry.
"I'm fine." He said softly. "I guess me mind was just wandering back to my home and family."
"We've reached the camp, Kurt." Ty said. Kurt took a deep breath, brushing everything aside to make him ready for this.
"I'm ready." He said. Nodding, Ty and SheCat brushed away from overhanging vine, and they revealed a camp filled with people young and old from different places, involved in different activities at the moment.
One of these people was a woman wearing blue shoes who was in the middle of painting something. Looking up, she saw SheCat and Ty and she smiled, waving at them as she set her brush down and walked over.
"We wondering what took you guys so long." She said, placing her hands on her hips. Cocking an eyebrow at Kurt, she looked him over slowly before she turned to Ty.
"Who's this?" she asked.
"This is Kurt, Bluefooted." Ty said. "He escaped from Moira, and you won't believe how." Looking at Kurt with more interest, Bluefooted smiled faintly and tilted her head to one side.
"You'd be a nice subject to draw." She said matter-of-factly. "But we'll talk about that after you've been cleared by some of the head people here. Which one do you want him to see first?" she asked.
"We'll start with whoever isn't busy." SheCat said.
"That'll be InterNutter." Bluefooted said. "She's just watching some of the younger kids over there." She turned and pointed the way, just in time to see one rambunctious boy go speeding off wearing sunglasses and going yo yo yo**.
Kurt couldn't help but laugh as he followed Ty over to where a woman was standing in exasperation, shaking her head with her hands on her hips.
"I swear, that boy will make my hair was white as Magneto's before too long!" InterNutter groaned, before she turned to SheCat and Ty. "Who's this?" she asked, indicating Kurt with a slight head bob.
"This is Kurt." SheCat said. "He's a bit odd, and I don't just mean his looks." InterNutter snorted softly.
"Everyone in Nightscrawlers is a bit odd, that's what makes us one of the best at what we do!"
"And what's that? Steal lines from Wolverine?" Ty asked, his face perfectly straight. He laughed and held up an arm defensively as InterNutter gave him a friendly punch.
"Don't get smart with me, Bamfman!" she said. "Now what makes him so odd, besides the fact that he's light blue with a tail and yellow eyes?" she asked.
"He escaped Moira by teleporting." Ty said. InterNutter's attitude changed from laughing and friendly to dead serious.
"Are you lying?" she asked. When Ty and SheCat both shook their heads, InterNutter looked at Kurt with more interest. "I think I need to get the others." She said. "Sit him down somewhere and have him wait. This is serious."
With that, she was off.
*That's my real dog Barney!
**Don't hurt me, InterNutter. It's supposed to be cute and make you smile!
*** Kurt cocked an eyebrow, his tail curling up very slowly in curiosity.
"Nightscrawlers?" he asked. SheCat nodded, smiling a bit as she turned and headed down the thin walkway.
"Exactly!" she said. Ty stepped aside; letting Kurt walk a head of him to make sure he didn't get lost as more tunnels appeared more and more.
"We use these temples to move all around this city. It helps us with get aways and swift attacks against the Reich." He explained, smiling fondly as he looked around.
"Haven't they figured it out by now?" Kurt asked, cocking an eyebrow. SheCat laughed, shaking her head a bit as she looked over her shoulder at him.
"Some of them have." She said. "But do you see how many tunnels there are around here? They get lost, and we take down the ones who don't get killed from falling into traps or get picked off by the rats who live down here; right, Bamfman?" she asked, winking at him.
"But you don't have your whole group down here do you?" Kurt asked, cocking an eyebrow. "I mean, if you did, someone would find it." SheCat stopped at a ladder and then started to climb, stopping to look down at Kurt and Ty once.
"You sure ask a lot of questions." She said. "You better be ready to answer a lot instead of asking them when we get back to the camp." With that, she vanished through a manhole.
"Don't mind, SheCat. She just doesn't trust a lot of people when they first come down here." Ty assured him.
"Well I would be to in a world where Nazis won Word War Two!" Kurt said, slowly starting to climb after her. Ty looked at Kurt in confusion, frowning faintly as he tilted his head to one side. Shrugging it off, he climbed after Kurt.
"Easy does it, blue boy!" SheCat said, helping Kurt out of the hole.
"My name's Kurt." He said. "Guess I forgot to tell you that." SheCat shrugged, shaking out another cigarette and popping it into her mouth.
"We never really asked you for your name." She said. "That's why you didn't tell it to us!" Laughing softly, Kurt shook his head and looked around as Ty climbed out of the hole. They at the very outskirts of the city, in one of those abandoned areas he had first found himself in. When he looked away from the city, he saw that he was looking at a small forest in the distance.
"Let me guess," he said, cocking an eyebrow. "Your camp is in that forest?"
"It may look small from out here, but those Gestapo can never find us! We've got traps in there, not to mention that there are natural traps and mazes in there that they still can't figure out." SheCat explained. "Come on."
She headed for what looked like an ancient motorcycle with a little buddy attachment. Mounting the bike she smiled at Kurt and Ty.
"Hop in boys!" she laughed. Ty calmly got into the side attachment, handing Kurt a helmet.
"You can sit behind SheCat." He said. Slowly, Kurt climbed on behind SheCat and he sighed, wrapping his tail around her waist to stay on. ***
"Where is he?" Moira screamed, making Callisto wince. "I thought I told you to put this city on lockdown!"
"We have, Reichminister. We have soldiers checking every nook and cranny for the boy as we speak!" Callisto said, trying to calm Moira's wrath.
It wasn't working.
"You're not trying hard enough!" Moira shouted, slapping Callisto as hard as she could. Callisto was a strong woman, who could withstand a punch to the face by a man and still be able to kick his ass. Moira's slap was nothing, a feather might as well have landed on her cheek, but Moira had power, the kind that could have Callisto gassed in ten minutes with a simple snapping of her fingers.
Cringing, Callisto stepped back, bowing to Moira.
"We will find the boy, Reichminister. If he does not come back willingly, I will kill him myself." She promised.
"If you want to see another sunrise, you had better!" Moira growled, narrowing her eyes. Saluting, Callisto left the room, letting out a sigh of relief when the door closed behind her. ***
They got off the motorcycle just before they reached the first group of trees in the forest. Dismounting, Ty and SheCat covered the motorcycle in some branches, making it look like a harmless bush before they led Kurt into the forest.
Searching through one of his pockets, Ty withdrew a wooden whistle. Twirling it once in his fingers, he placed it in his mouth and he blew as hard as he could.
Not a sound was heard.
"A dog whistle?" Kurt asked, cocking an eyebrow. Nodding, Ty put the whistle away.
"That's why the Gestapo always get lost in the forest." He explained. "We always move camp and only a locating dog can lead us back to it!" A few minutes later, a Border collie mix* came running towards them, panting happily.
He looked like an old dog, gray surrounding his eyes and around his mouth. He had white on his chest and belly, including a bit on each foot to make it look like he was wearing socks. The last bit was on the tip of his tail.
"Hey, Barney!" Ty laughed, stooping over and scratching the dog behind his ears, making him make a murring noise in contentment. "Go show us the way back!" With a single bark, Barney turned and started to trot off.
They followed Barney over a small lake and through some thick patches of trees and bushes. As they traveled, Kurt looked around, his tail swaying side-to-side as he smiled faintly as the birds that sang softly. The only thing that depressed him was that there was such a small amount of birds in the trees, not to mention barely any small animals like squirrels and such.
It made him miss his home.
Home.
Was he ever going to be able to go back there? He knew that Excalibur had needed to use Widget and...
How did they know how to get back to this world? They had said that they couldn't know for sure where they were going...
There was just too many questions that couldn't be answered about this, and it was starting to make Kurt's stomach hurt.
"Kurt?" SheCat asked, placing a hand on his shoulder. "Kurt, are you all right?" flinching, Kurt shook his head to clear it and he looked at Ty and SheCat, finding that they and even Barney were looking at him with worry.
"I'm fine." He said softly. "I guess me mind was just wandering back to my home and family."
"We've reached the camp, Kurt." Ty said. Kurt took a deep breath, brushing everything aside to make him ready for this.
"I'm ready." He said. Nodding, Ty and SheCat brushed away from overhanging vine, and they revealed a camp filled with people young and old from different places, involved in different activities at the moment.
One of these people was a woman wearing blue shoes who was in the middle of painting something. Looking up, she saw SheCat and Ty and she smiled, waving at them as she set her brush down and walked over.
"We wondering what took you guys so long." She said, placing her hands on her hips. Cocking an eyebrow at Kurt, she looked him over slowly before she turned to Ty.
"Who's this?" she asked.
"This is Kurt, Bluefooted." Ty said. "He escaped from Moira, and you won't believe how." Looking at Kurt with more interest, Bluefooted smiled faintly and tilted her head to one side.
"You'd be a nice subject to draw." She said matter-of-factly. "But we'll talk about that after you've been cleared by some of the head people here. Which one do you want him to see first?" she asked.
"We'll start with whoever isn't busy." SheCat said.
"That'll be InterNutter." Bluefooted said. "She's just watching some of the younger kids over there." She turned and pointed the way, just in time to see one rambunctious boy go speeding off wearing sunglasses and going yo yo yo**.
Kurt couldn't help but laugh as he followed Ty over to where a woman was standing in exasperation, shaking her head with her hands on her hips.
"I swear, that boy will make my hair was white as Magneto's before too long!" InterNutter groaned, before she turned to SheCat and Ty. "Who's this?" she asked, indicating Kurt with a slight head bob.
"This is Kurt." SheCat said. "He's a bit odd, and I don't just mean his looks." InterNutter snorted softly.
"Everyone in Nightscrawlers is a bit odd, that's what makes us one of the best at what we do!"
"And what's that? Steal lines from Wolverine?" Ty asked, his face perfectly straight. He laughed and held up an arm defensively as InterNutter gave him a friendly punch.
"Don't get smart with me, Bamfman!" she said. "Now what makes him so odd, besides the fact that he's light blue with a tail and yellow eyes?" she asked.
"He escaped Moira by teleporting." Ty said. InterNutter's attitude changed from laughing and friendly to dead serious.
"Are you lying?" she asked. When Ty and SheCat both shook their heads, InterNutter looked at Kurt with more interest. "I think I need to get the others." She said. "Sit him down somewhere and have him wait. This is serious."
With that, she was off.
*That's my real dog Barney!
**Don't hurt me, InterNutter. It's supposed to be cute and make you smile!