"Where the heck are we?" Theressa said as she hit the steering wheel. This was getting on her nerves. She came out here to save her daughter and the rest of her friends and now she had gotten them lost. Her scar was a reddish violet. They had been driving in silence, or as silent as you can get when Theressa had her Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue by Toby Keith. She had it playing rather loudly. For some reason, unknown to Theressa, country music seemed to calm her down a little when she was upset. With or without music, everyone knew to leave Theressa alone when she was frustrated or angry. They where in the middle of nowhere and had been of hours on end. Everyone knew they were lost only no one said any thing.
"This is really ticking me off. Where are we, Chris?"
"According to Coordinates we are in the PINEY WOODS?!" Theressa stopped the car.
"What? How did we manage that?"
"Well, mom." Andy said coming out of her hiding place in the back. "I hate to tell you but your coordinates are upside down."
"Andrea Hannah Knight!" Theressa jumped out of the H2, slammed the door and then opened the door to the way back. "Andrea, What did I tell you?"
"I know mom, but I wanted to be part of the action. She is my sister you know."
"Go sit next to Auntie O. I'm taking you back."
"No!"
"What did you say young lady?"
"No!"
"You have no choice. I am the parent and you are the child. You will go back!"
"Fine, but I do know how to hot wire your motorcycle."
"Andrea I wouldn't push your mother any further." Scott warned.
"My cycle is busted. It's just a regular bike. We would get in and out before you ever get there. Besides you are only thirteen. You don't even have a license,"
"Then I'll take another bike. Uncle Logan said that you flew the blackbird when you where a year younger than me. Then you got your bike when you where fourteen. So I don't see why I can't ride it."
"Uhhh!! Get in the car now!!" Theressa said as she slammed the door, again, and started the car. Theressa decided to through on the boosters and flight for good measure to make up for lost time.
Wolverine and Nightcrawler finally found the cell that held Jean and Mian. Wolverine saw that the bars where made of metal. Evidentially the electric bars where only for him. Somehow he felt responsible for everything that happened. From what he could tell these goons didn't hurt them.
"Red wake up. The elf and I are here to bust you out."
"Logan? Is that you?" Jean asked sleepily.
"Yeah. Wake the kid and lets get out of here."
"Logan how are we going to get out of this cell?" Logan looked at Jean then at Kurt. Snikt. Jean heard Logan's claws come out. Even though it was pitch black that sound was unmistakable.
"Red, I got you covered."
Finally they got the coordenints right and arrived at their destination. "Okay Andrea. Where is the building?" Theressa asked her daughter as they got out of the car.
"My guess is," Scott started. "that it's under ground." Storm, Chris, and Andi shock their heads.
"T, you might want to look up." Chris said. When she did she saw a huge circular building in the sky.
"Yah, think they would get an invisibility cloak or something." Storm said. Scott turned to Theressa.
"How many can you carry?"
"Including myself four or five but it depends on how light or heavy they are."
"I'll take us up there." Storm said. "I'll have the winds take us up."
"Okay Storm, but just to be safe I'll put a teke shield around us."
Storm's eyes turned white as the wind began to churn and they began to lift up in the air. When they were twenty feet in the air Theressa generated a telekinetic shield to keep them from falling should Storm be forced to stop. Finally they landed on the "walkway" that lead up to the building. As they began to walk to the building Theressa broke the silence.
"You know Chris, we really need to come up with a new name for you." Just as they reached the building a sentinel came flying by. "Oh great! More tin cans." Theressa said as she got her psi knife and was ready to attack if necessary. The twenty-foot robot began to talk.
"Surrender Mutants! Resistance is..............."
"Can it Bub. We've heard this speech before." Theressa said. "Scott on my marc. Fire!"
Cyclops shot an optic blast while Theressa shot a couple of lasers. Storm started to hit it with lightning. She fried the main secrets but couldn't get to the back up ones. This made the sentinel really mad so he shot some sort of laser at Storm but Chris pushed her out of the way and took it instead. Theressa turned around.
"Christopher!"
Suddenly the sentinel shut down. "Password Accepted. Shut down sequence activated." said a voice form the sentinel.
"Oh I need a new name do I?" Chris said as Storm and Andy helped him to his feet.
"Okay fine you don't need a new name. Wait a sec. If the password was Christopher, then that means............" Theressa didn't finish her scentence. Just as Chris walked up next to his wife her knees collapsed. He caught her but then fell back. The two of them sat on the ground as the others crowded around.
"That means what mama?" Andy asked.
"Shah. I'm trying to think." Theressa decided to finish her sentence telepathically with Chris. That means that Nicholas Christopher Fury is still alive but I killed him along time ago. It couldn't possibly be him could it?
We wouldn't know unless we go in and find out.
"Where to now Unc. Claws? It seems that we've been going around in circles." Mian complained. "Where are we anyway?"
Logan was growing tired of Mian's complaining but he guessed that's the price he paid for bringing a thirteen year old girl. Logan saw something on the ground out of the corner of his eye. He moved toward it. It was a circle that looked like a sewer top. He knelt down next to it.
"Is that a way out?" Jean asked. Logan nodded and lifted the top to revel clouds and a very, very, very, long way down.
"Maybe not unless you want to die on the way down. Red can you take us down?"
"Are y'all leaving so soon?" a new voice said. "The party hasn't even gotten started." Jean, Mian, and Kurt felt the tip of some type of gun digging into their backs.
"Logan!" Nightcrawler said. "Ve've got some unexpected company." Wolverine rose slowly to his feet.
"Elf, I think the warning came a little too late. This is one heck of a welcoming if you ask me." Wolverine was now face to face with a man that Logan had known as long as he could remember. This was a man that at times Logan didn't even consider him a man at all. This was a beast that was an enemy and would stay an enemy forever.
Outside of the building the X-men were debating what to do next. "T, are we just going to walk in here like we own the place?"
"Chris, do you have a better idea? Besides, if we get caught we'll just end up with the others. The only problem is getting out." Andy looked around and saw the entrance to a ventilation system.
"Mom, we could go threw the vent."
"All right." Theressa said. One by one they climbed in. Scott was in front and Theressa was in the back for back up. Logan had taught her everything she knew. So she was the best person for the job, not including Wolverine of course. Theressa wondered why no alarms had gone off. Had Fury purposely not put any alarms in the vents. What if he had put a tracking devise instead. Theressa's thoughts were interrupted when storm spotted Wolverine and Mian being held at gunpoint.
"Where's Jean?" Scott asked. Theressa knew he was talking to her.
"I can't see her but I hear her thoughts. She's fine Scott. They have done no harm to them. Which I find unusual."
"How are we playing this?" Chris asked. Scott thought for a moment. He was the mastermind behind just about every strategy that the X-men had ever done. For some reason he couldn't think of one. Maybe it was because he was so worried about Jean. Finally he had something.
"What if Theressa went down as a distraction, while we get the others and get out of here. I have to admit that this is not one of my more ingenues plans but it should work. Besides it's all we got." The should work was the part that bothered Chris. He didn't want to come face to face with this villain any more than the next guy did.
Fox lowered herself out of the vent and flattened herself up against the nearest shadowy wall. She could see all four captured mutants but no sign of the culprit. Suddenly five goons walked in to the room. Including the ones that were already in the cell room, there were now thirty goons.
"How many puppets does this guy have?" Theressa asked herself. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Scott, Chris, Storm, and Andy lowering themselves from the vent and making there way across the opposite wall.
"Let's just hope they don't get caught." She took a deep breath and inched her way along the wall. Then, she felt the tip of a small handgun push into her back. It took her a few minutes to figure out what type of gun it was. When Wolverine had trained her in hand to hand combat he made her memorize the tough of just about every gun. This one was a twenty-two and it didn't fire bullets. I fired laser and lightning balls. Theressa spun around on her heals and grabbed the gun out of the goon's hand. Then she kneed him in the gut and watched him fall.
"That was too easy."
"Nothing is ever too easy, my dear." Said a voice that Theressa had not heard in nineteen years. Theressa turned around and saw the face that had haunted her since she was twenty-three. It was the face of Nicholas Christopher Fury.