Chapter 8
"MRL is getting out of hand." Logan said "You can't do anything with out the rest of the team."
"Logan, calm down mate. Pine Gap is getting pretty fishy, but learning this will change everything about these wacko portals that keep popin up everywhere." Zach said
"Knowing that MRL is hunting out mutants that just happen to walk by is an important matter. It will get worse when they expand their search to other countries." The Professor sighed.
"What about the portals, they are being controlled by Pine Gap." Storm said
"Oh not all of them. Only the first. But that set of an imbalance if the energy field, causing plasma to rip apart, creating wormholes, and that is the reason Raptor calls them Sierra Rips, it is just plasma ripping apart, creating a huge void that allows animals from other world to pass through." Beast finished
"Do your X-Men know this?" Dr. Metzger asked
"I only hope Raptor has told them, unless they are not willing to listen to her." the Professor said with great dread.
"I have a felling that they aren't believing her and that will create a unfathomable outcome." Dr. Metzger said
KER-SPLASH. Tobius jackknifed into the pool. It was an unbelievably warm day, at 85 degrees. (I'm only saying that for the warm conditions I'm having here in Illinois.)
"Tobius, your like getting me wet!" Kitty yelled as she was tanning
Sorry. Tobius morphed into a dolphin.
Kathy just shook her head. She was in the tree reading Mothman Prophecies, the book that inspired the movie about the Mothman and the Point Pleasant bridge collapse. (I suggest you watch the movie because the book is hard to find, but I own out.)
"Hey Kathy come on in! Za vaters fine!" Kurt yelled
"No, I think I will read a little."
"Ach come in, za book von't valk avay."
Kathy rolled her eyes. She put down her book and jumped out of the tree. The shade was nice, but cool water would be better. She walked over and slipped into the pool. She climbed unto an inner tube and sun bathed.
"Kathy how about going in za vater?"
"Haven't you heard? I'm solar powered." Kathy said smiling.
Kurt dived under Kathy and pulled on her tail, causing her to fall into the water.
Kathy swam up and gasped. She climbed out of the pool and hunched her shoulder. Kurt swam over and smiled at her. Kathy looked at him straight in the eye, then she pushed him back into the water.
"I'm going to get you for this blue boy." Kathy got up and puffed up her water logged feathers to get all the water off. She walked away.
"Vhere are you going?" Kurt asked as he climbed out of the water.
"You'll see." Kathy smiled.
Kurt looked confused. He turned around to back to the pool. Then ice cold water hit his back. "Yahh!" Kurt yelled and turned around.
"I told I was going to get you for this blue boy." Kathy held a super soaker in her hand.
Kurt's eyes widened,
BAMF
Kurt teleported away.
Kathy looked around she was confused. "I know you're here blue boy, I just don't know where."
BAMF
Kurt nailed Kathy with a water balloon. "Two can play at zat game." He threw another but Kathy's reflexes were too quick
"Boy, I thought you were supposed to be fast blue boy." Kathy got him with the super soaker again.
"Hey! Zat vater ice cold!" Kurt crawled up the tree. He was out of ammo.
"Any last words, General Custer?" Kathy said as she pointed the super soaker at Kurt.
"I surrender!" Kurt cried out. Kathy put the super soaker down and laughed. "You zink zat is funny!? Your cold, you know za."
"Only to you fuzz ball."
"Stop calling me zat. It's humiliating."
"Fuzz ball, fuzz ball, fuzz ball!" Kathy cried out.
"I rather be a fuzz ball than be a lazy fossil zat used to kill people." Kurt said trying to hurt her.
"Well EXUUUUUSE me!" Kathy said.
BAMF
Kurt teleported down from the tree. "You are unput-downable, aren't you?"
"Yup, it's hard to be hurt emotionally when your mother calls you the worst things imaginable."
Kurt hated it when Kathy talked about how her parents hated her so much. He felt bad for her, even though he looked different his parents still gave him love.
Kathy walked away, she was thinking about the thing her mother called her. Monster, freak, beast, and worse things. Kathy waked into her room. She fell into her bed and cried into her pillow. She hated to think of her past, but it kept coming back. Hiding in the shadows of her past never helped. She turned over and looked at the ceiling. "Why did she hate me, for what did I do? I never deserved to be treated like a piece of crap." Kathy took the remote control for her TV and flipped it on. She closed her shades and changed. She looked at her uniform. It had a black long jacket and a black leather pants that stopped at her ankles. A black leather top that she cut for a midriff look. Gloves that the finger tips were cut out for her claws. "I don't deserve to have this. To be treated like a person for what I use to do."
Kathy turned around and flipped the channel. A news report came up saying that in Eastern Part of Canada odd creatures of huge sizes are inhabiting the forest.
"What the?" Kathy turned the volume up.
"No one knows what these things are, but they have killed at least 5 people." The anchorman said.
"Oh no. No, no, no." Kathy turned her TV off and ran down the stairs.
"See! I was right. My theory was true. We have to stop these things." Kathy said franticly. Everyone was in their uniform ready to go.
"Look, Kat. We can't-" Scott tried to finish, but Kathy broke in
"Listen to me you laser shooting moron. Theses things are killing people, and if we don't stop them mutants will blamed."
"Raptor, if we do go there, the media will say that we are part of it. You know that Kathy, and we all know that. You have to face reality, we can't just jump in." Scot said
"Look Cyclops, you might be the leader, but you don't lead the way I think. If we don't stop these things, they are going kill e people. These thing won't stop. And more portals are opening and we can't stop them. So either we get rid of these aliens, or we sit on our lazy arse's and just watch!" Kathy looked Scott in the eye.
"You want to get us killed, and have the world hate us even more, the be my guest. It is these risks that will make everything crumble beneath our feet."
"You don't get anywhere without taking risks my friend." Kathy said smiling.
"Yeah, and this is coming from the girl who used to kill people for money! Face it Raptor, you lived a crappy life, and now you want to make up for it be stopping some aliens from killing people. Well guess what, that won't work." Scott said back to her.
Kathy stopped cold. What Scott said went through her heart like a knife. She turned around. "You think your such a hot shot don't you? Oh look at me I'm Scott leader of the X-Men, I can shove people around while I have my ego circling around me like a fly attracted to bullshit."
"Well Raptor I would rather have that than being a mutant that always focuses her anger on writing or drawing. I guess none of us understand because we didn't have parents that treated us like shit! But wait, maybe because they were right." Kathy looked at him coldly.
"Your going to pay for that summers." Kathy leapt and attacked. She slammed Scott on the wall. "I could kill you right now Scotty boy. My claw could puncture you neck, but miss you jugular vane be and inch, then bring it out, careful not to slice it. Because you know that would cut off your blood supply to your brain and you would die, but your still alive because I didn't cu it yet. Then with one tug you would fall like a sack of potatoes." Kathy leaned over and whispered into his ear. "Don't you ever screw around with my past. Or I'll be picking my teeth with your bones." Kurt pulled Kathy off of Scott.
"Your crazy Raptor."
"Let me Hurt Him!" Kathy yelled trying to get free of Kurt's grip.
"Nien Kathy. Let him live. Get a grip on your self."
Kathy stopped struggling. She heaved hard breaths. Kurt let go of her. She looked around. The others were staring at her. Kathy backed down, her pride defeated.
"Well then, I think we should go with Kathy's plan. She is right Scott we just can't sit here and do nothing." Jean said
"You think she's right? What are you people, stupid? Your all crazy. We're walking into certain death!" Scott yelled.
"Sometimes death is the only way you can see reality." Kathy said in a low weak voice.
They all looked at her. "I'm right though, for it took me 2 years to see reality through all my killings. I saw that it drove you insane, it was like a drug. I saw the people I knew be engulfed by killing, even to killing his own son. It is the only way you can actually see life the real way, you appreciate it more than." Kathy stopped and lowered her head. Kurt put his arm around her.
"Well then, I guess we march off to die." Tobius said with great pride