NctrnlBst: I'm glade you like it, and believe me the action scenes are the hardest things to write especially if I get bored of writing it and sometimes skip it and don't finish it until I have too.

yae yang: Glad you liked the arena (Yeah I know about Jubilee I was afraid I couldn't figure out a way for her to win and not seem too cheap) So you want a girl Ninja or Samurai huh...well I could always introduce Psylock in a future story, at least until after I get Warren into the story.

fire inu: Nice to hear from you and I guess that means you've read the first one right? Well I'm glad you like this one.

Shadow-Spider: Yeah I figured you liked that character from your last review, and I don't mind the outburst to me it means I really got a response from the story.

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CHAPTER 16: RESCUERS

Amanda and the others just got back from yet another trial in the arena and they were beat. Not to mention sporting a few new injuries, some of which were still from the last time.

Amada limped over to a bead and fell down onto it. Her leg had been bruised a little and she didn't want to move it. The others were doing better though, nothing major, and a few stitches were needed for Shadow when he went into a duel with one of the sentinels and got cut in the arm.

But luckily no one was hurt worse than that. They pretty much just went to sleep, while they all silently prayed for this to end, and for Amanda to see her parents and Kurt again.

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At the mansion things were getting tense, with no leads on the whereabouts of their friends everyone was getting more and more tense. There were a few more fights than usual and sometimes people had to be pulled apart.

Even Vincent and Rogue had a huge fight over something and didn't talk to each other until that morning when they made up. Actually that had calmed everyone down a little because when THOSE two got mad let alone at the same time it was best to stay out of their way.

They were all minding their own business trying not to tense up so much when Xavier called them all through telepathy.

*Students could you all come to the war room* They all heard his thoughts and they started to make their way to the war room.

They had all gathered in the war room again waiting for the adults to show up. Then the huge door at the end of the room opened and in rolled Xavier flanked by Ororo.

Then what they saw was Logan who looked ragged and his clothing torn in several places pushing someone in a red and black costume forward, who had their hands restrained behind his back and was equally ragged.

"Sit down and shut up Wilson." Logan growled at him as he shoved him into a chair.

"Hey watch it hairy I bruise easily." Deadpool said in mock anger. Logan just growled at him and glared. "Shutting up." Deadpool said quickly.

"Logan who is this?" Scott asked.

"Kids this is Wade Wilson AKA Deadpool, mercenary, and also one of the scumbags that took our friends." Logan said never taking his eyes off him.

At the last part nearly everyone there was glaring at him and several started towards him with definite looks of violence on their faces.

"Uh...okay look here kiddies." Deadpool said nervously. "It was business nothing personal, and they should all be alive and well...I think..."

"You better start talking." Scott said to him.

"But he (motions to Logan with his head) told me to shut up." Deadpool whined.

Scott just looked at him then to Logan. "Is this guy for real?"

"Unfortunately yes." Logan said.

"Hey come on, look I'm a mercenary I do what I'm paid to do, besides I'm willing to help you guys out." Deadpool said to them all.

"Oh and why is that?" Xavier asked.

"Well for the right price not only will I tell you guys everything, I'll even help out." He said happily.

"You expect us to PAY you for helping us?" Scott yelled out, unbelieving what he just heard.

"Well I do need the money." Deadpool said slightly shrugging.

"I could always read your mind." Xavier said to him and rolled closer.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you baldy, my mind is not a fun place to be." Deadpool warned him. The Professor just arched and eyebrow and began to gently probe his mind. What he found though was too much for him to take in.

The Professor cried out then reeled back. Jean went to his side immediately. "Professor what's wrong?"

"His...mind...too much to take." He wearily said.

"I warned him." Deadpool said. Scott had had enough of this and walked over to him.

"That's it no more playing around." He reached to take the mask off his head. "Scott I wouldn't do that." Wolverine warned him but he didn't listen.

As Scott took the mask off everyone gasps in horror at his face. Bobby actually covered his mouth looking pale. While Roberto left the room to the nearest bathroom, Amara had turned her head and shut her eyes.

And everyone else had varied reactions like the others about Deadpool's face.

"Man your face...it looks like..." Ray started to say, but Deadpool finished for him. "Yeah I know like a giant scab, my whole freaking body looks like this." He said vary annoyed then turned to Scott. "And YOU can put my mask back on anytime now."

Scott did just that, he REALLY didn't want to see that face more than he needed to.

"Alright Wade, listen up your going to tell us everything or else." Logan threatened.

Deadpool looked over at him, not sure of what to do. Then Logan unsheathed his claws and saw the look in his eyes and that was all it took.

"Alright, alright I'll talk, just put those things away I don't think I completely healed from the LAST time." He said and Logan reluctantly put them back in.

He told them everything, hell it was no skin off his nose, that is if he still had a nose, or at least a full one. He was paid to do a job and that was it, he didn't care about the FOH and their motives or their beliefs.

He told them about who hired him, and at the name of Graydon Creed, Logan spoke up.

"Creed?" Logan asked him, knowing full well that Sabertooth's real name was Victor Creed.

"Yeah I though it was familiar too, but I doubt he's a mutant if his father is Victor, although they do seem to share the same personality." Deadpool told him.

He continued his story on how he phoned in after he got the girl and was given directions to a warehouse outside of Bayville. He also told them that Graydon was furious at Bullseye for killing that guard.

"He was saying things like how he was trying to protect humanity not kill it, but that's what you get when you hire assassins and not mercenaries, especially a psycho like Bullseye. I mean I know I'm not exactly a same person but at least I don't get my jollies from killing people."

"Okay I do, but they deserve it, I don't do innocent people...unless their in the way...but only as a last resort, usually I just hurt them if they are in the way."

He continued on about how he saw all the other get loaded onto some kind off fright elevator and someone else standing there. He heard the man referred to as Trask and saw then go down it.

At the mention of Trask everyone had the same thought going in their minds. Sentinels.

"Great just what we need, I though SHEILD had that guy under wraps." Scott said looking to Logan, since he had the connection to Fury.

Logan just let out a low growl. "I think I need to have a talk with him soon, but we got more important things right now, such as where exactly IS this place you took them too." He said as he leaned closer to Wade.

Deadpool gave them the exact location of the warehouse, it they had to go through a old road that wasn't in use anymore in the middle of nowhere. He threw in a few details about the place also, not wanting Wolverine to get mad at him or blame him for anything.

After his information they decided they couldn't risk having him lose since they didn't trust him, and thought he wouldn't hesitate to sell them out for the right price. So they decided to keep him in a secure room until they decided what to do with him.

"So when do we leave?" Bobby asked them all. Logan gave him a look that pretty much said, what-makes-you-think-you're-going look. Bobby saw this and instead of dropping it like he normally would challenged this instead.

"There is no way I'm staying behind. I let Jubilee down and I am NOT doing so again, I'm going even if I have to walk there myself." Bobby said right to Logan's face. This pretty much startled everyone and Logan only raised and eye brow.

"Don't worry Bobby you won't be left behind." Xavier said to him. "Now that we know Trask is involved I don't think we can afford to leave anyone behind." The Professor said gravely.

Scott, Logan and Ororo just looked at him shocked. Scott was about to try and say that only the most experienced members should be involved but the Professor beat him to it.

"Scott with Trask involved that means there could be Sentinels and you know the kind of problems those can be, also we have no idea of the size of forces we will face, and I don't want to go there unprepared."

Scott didn't like it, but it also made a kind of sense, so he would back down.

Forge spoke up then. "Uh does that mean me too, because I really have no combat experience at all."

"You'll be with me in the jet Forge, we may need your technical abilities but you won't have to go into the fight unless there is no other way, I'm truly sorry and I wish there was a way but I don't think there is any other way around it." He sighed to himself.

"Well that's okay, I may not be much in a fight, but I do want to help anyway I can, even if it's just as support." Forge told him.

Everyone else went to get ready, they desided to take both the Blackbird and the XM-Velocity, since they needed the room, and they didn't know if any other mutants were there that they needed to get out.

After one last check to make sure Deadpool couldn't get away and set the security just in case he did, they loaded up and left.

It would take a few hours to get there and everyone was getting ready, both physically and most important mentally.

Rogue had sat down next to Kurt worried about him. "Kurt we'll get her back, we'll get all of them back."

Kurt smiled a little. When Rogue showed that part of her the part that cared about others in the open like that, it meant she really meant what was said and that she really did care.

"Ja I know...thanks sis." Kurt said with a little smile on his face.

Rogue had a ghost of a smile herself and nodded.

When they landed outside of the warehouse it looked deserted and unused. As they all entered the place they could see a metallic security door on the floor big enough for a freight elevator to fit in the middle of the room. That must have to be where the elevator Deadpool told them about comes up from the ground.

Kitty and Hank went over to a panel by the wall and examined it. After a while Scott came up to them. "Well?" he asked them.

Hank sighed. "It's some kind of locking device that appears to require a DNA scan."

"And like knowing these guys it must have something to detect the X-gene so no mutants could get in." Kitty said to the rest.

"If you phased through it, would it short out the door and open it?" Scott asked her.

Kitty looked at it and grimaced. "I don't think so, and it might set of an alarm."

Scott let out a disappointed breath. "I don't think the alarm is going to be the problem, I doubt we could keep this quiet anyways."

"So let's knock first." Vincent said and powered up with his hands and eyes glowing. He raised his hands to the door on the floor and looked at Cyclops.

Scott and Wolverine looked at each other. "Might as well, I doubt we'll get in any other way, even if we got Forge here it could take a while and the longer we're up here the more of a chance we could be discovered and the others might need us right now."

Scott nodded in agreement, then looked at Jean. Jean and the Professor had been trying to find a way to communicate with the others but had no success. "Sorry Scott but I think the place is shielded somehow."

Then Scott looked to Vincent and nodded.

FOH CELL

The others were laying around on their beads after finishing their evening 'meal'. Basically the same horrible stuff they served everyday. They were still worn out from their battle earlier that day.

"Man and I thought the Danger Room and Vincent's training sessions were something." Jamie muttered to himself, he still ached in places he didn't know had existed until that day.

"What exactly is it you two do?" Jubilee asked him.

"Well first off he has me stretch out, then katras then he shows me a new set of moves, I train on that for a while then it's sparring. Whenever I get hit hard enough for me to multiply he has them pair off.

"One does the attacking the other gets defense."

"What happens if it's an odd number?" Rahne asked, who was getting interested in this.

"He has the odd one either watch or practice more katras until the session is over or he gets a partner." Jamie told Rahne. "Then there are the days when we do weight training, and has me run for awhile also."

"Why on Earth does he train just you like that?" Domino asked.

"Because I asked him too, I got tired of being the weakest one, so he told me he could train me, so when Logan felt I was old enough for the higher levels of training I would be more than ready and wouldn't fall behind the others."

"Oh." She said. "Well the fact that you're still here I think it was a good idea, might be the reason your still alive, I've seen bigger and stronger guys then you not make it."

Jamie wasn't sure how to take that. On the one hand he felt a note of pride at that, but also he felt bad that others had died in this, and he and the others could too.

Domino saw the look on his face and realized maybe that wasn't the best thing to say. They all didn't need to be reminded of what could happen to them. "Look kid sorry about that, I didn't mean nothing by it..."

"That's okay I know." Jamie said a little depressed now.

"I really wish the others would get off their butts and hurry with the timely reascue about now." Jubilee said angrily.

"You know they're trying Jubilee, it can't be easy." Amada said to her trying to be calm at what she said.

Jubilee sighed. "I know I'm sorry I'm just a little stressed out."

Amanda breathed out hard. "Yeah I guess we all are."

"I know it's not like just saying it will make it happen but I really wished they would get here all ready." She said as she placed her head in her hands while her arms were propped up on her knees.

Then a rumbling was felt through the facility. The others looked at each other.

"You don't think..." Jubilee started to say as her hopes got up. Then an alarm sounded in the facility. "YES!" She shouted and jumped up. "ABOUT TIME THEY GOT HERE!" She said happily.

The others brightened up at the fact that a rescue was on its way.

NEXT UP CHAPTER 17: BIG TROUBLE

And I mean BIG trust me on this one. So don't forget to review, and if you want tell your friends...yeah I know I'm begging, but I feed off of reviews and they've been dropping and when that drops my creativity, will to write, and motivation drop too.