One year, four months later...
"Cyke, I got a problem here. There is another mutant on their side, I repeat, another mutant. Specifically a girl who can teleport, fly, and shoot beams not unlike yours out of her hands. I'm doing the best I can to stay out of her way, 'cause I can't touch her, over."
"Logan, hold on, I'll get someone over there as soon as I can, over."
I jump backward, keeping the girl ever in my gaze, even when she teleports behind me, like now. She looks so fragile, and with her attacks and deep, soulless eyes she looks like the embodiment of innocence lost. I have several burns by now, so her beams aren't exactly like Scooter's, because his don't burn, just blast. I leap up and she gets close enough for me to punch a clawed fist at her. She teleports in time, but I succeeded in buying myself a few seconds. Soon, fortunately, clouds form and rain begins to fall out of nowhere, a telltale sign that Storm is nearby. The weather goddess herself appears then, and manages to blow her to the ground, although she just teleports away when lightning is thrown at her. I hear Cyke's voice on the com, "They're retreating; don't let the mutant get away if you can help it. Jean and I will be right there, over."
We have her mostly in control when Cyke and Jean show up, and Cyke nails her in the head from behind, finishing her off. We're done, so we get to cleaning up. We don't particularly care about the soldiers strewn about, but the mutants, in total three of them, are "of great interest" to Chuck, and are pretty interesting to the rest of us too. Jeannie floats the girl into the Blackbird while I get the smaller man and Storm pushes the blond brute ungracefully with a gust of wind. We manage to get all of them on board and we're back in the air before Jean suddenly exclaims, "These two, I remember them! It was a year or two ago. We were sent to pick up a girl and a feral man Magneto was interested in. These fit the description...and the Professor agrees, these are the two we were sent to find."
"What do we know about them?" asks Scooter, still in Fearless Leader mode.
"Well, they were graduates of the Weapon X program, the one Logan escaped, although not before they implanted the adamantium skeleton. From their dogtags, they are Rogue, Sabretooth, and Maverick," she said indicating the girl, the feral blond, and the smaller man. "The Professor believes that Rogue's main power is to absorb the thoughts and powers of those she touches, which then allowed her to absorb several other powers, the ones you just saw. Sabretooth is a self-healer, very much like you, Logan, and is also super strong, though that may be a result of the Weapon X training. Maverick apparently absorbs energy. Well, he absorbs kinetic energy, because you all saw the way he reacted to electricity, and then can release the kinetic energy in the form of a kinetic blast, just like yours, Scott."
"So if Magneto and we were both after those two how did they wind up in the hands of Weapon X?"
"I don't know, but it is clear that they were taken about the time we arrived. If you recall, the woman said they had left separately about 30 hours before we arrived. Logan found a trail, but it went cold, so we can guess that they left together, then were kidnapped in the woods and brought back to Weapon X."
"Do you have any idea how they will respond to being captured?"
"Well, I've never seen a graduate of the program either, but Logan was hard enough to accommodate, and he was only in the program for a month or two." It wasn't looking good. They would all survive, but I personally don't want three killing machines in my house, especially when one can teleport out of her confines and another can break 'em open. I say something to that effect.
"We'll decide what is to be done before they have a chance to break free. Anyway, I don't think there is any conditioning so strong that the Professor can't break it."
"Yeah, how about if their memories were wiped first? Not even he has helped me get my memory back."
"We'll decide once we get back to the mansion and get cleaned up."
"Cyke, I got a problem here. There is another mutant on their side, I repeat, another mutant. Specifically a girl who can teleport, fly, and shoot beams not unlike yours out of her hands. I'm doing the best I can to stay out of her way, 'cause I can't touch her, over."
"Logan, hold on, I'll get someone over there as soon as I can, over."
I jump backward, keeping the girl ever in my gaze, even when she teleports behind me, like now. She looks so fragile, and with her attacks and deep, soulless eyes she looks like the embodiment of innocence lost. I have several burns by now, so her beams aren't exactly like Scooter's, because his don't burn, just blast. I leap up and she gets close enough for me to punch a clawed fist at her. She teleports in time, but I succeeded in buying myself a few seconds. Soon, fortunately, clouds form and rain begins to fall out of nowhere, a telltale sign that Storm is nearby. The weather goddess herself appears then, and manages to blow her to the ground, although she just teleports away when lightning is thrown at her. I hear Cyke's voice on the com, "They're retreating; don't let the mutant get away if you can help it. Jean and I will be right there, over."
We have her mostly in control when Cyke and Jean show up, and Cyke nails her in the head from behind, finishing her off. We're done, so we get to cleaning up. We don't particularly care about the soldiers strewn about, but the mutants, in total three of them, are "of great interest" to Chuck, and are pretty interesting to the rest of us too. Jeannie floats the girl into the Blackbird while I get the smaller man and Storm pushes the blond brute ungracefully with a gust of wind. We manage to get all of them on board and we're back in the air before Jean suddenly exclaims, "These two, I remember them! It was a year or two ago. We were sent to pick up a girl and a feral man Magneto was interested in. These fit the description...and the Professor agrees, these are the two we were sent to find."
"What do we know about them?" asks Scooter, still in Fearless Leader mode.
"Well, they were graduates of the Weapon X program, the one Logan escaped, although not before they implanted the adamantium skeleton. From their dogtags, they are Rogue, Sabretooth, and Maverick," she said indicating the girl, the feral blond, and the smaller man. "The Professor believes that Rogue's main power is to absorb the thoughts and powers of those she touches, which then allowed her to absorb several other powers, the ones you just saw. Sabretooth is a self-healer, very much like you, Logan, and is also super strong, though that may be a result of the Weapon X training. Maverick apparently absorbs energy. Well, he absorbs kinetic energy, because you all saw the way he reacted to electricity, and then can release the kinetic energy in the form of a kinetic blast, just like yours, Scott."
"So if Magneto and we were both after those two how did they wind up in the hands of Weapon X?"
"I don't know, but it is clear that they were taken about the time we arrived. If you recall, the woman said they had left separately about 30 hours before we arrived. Logan found a trail, but it went cold, so we can guess that they left together, then were kidnapped in the woods and brought back to Weapon X."
"Do you have any idea how they will respond to being captured?"
"Well, I've never seen a graduate of the program either, but Logan was hard enough to accommodate, and he was only in the program for a month or two." It wasn't looking good. They would all survive, but I personally don't want three killing machines in my house, especially when one can teleport out of her confines and another can break 'em open. I say something to that effect.
"We'll decide what is to be done before they have a chance to break free. Anyway, I don't think there is any conditioning so strong that the Professor can't break it."
"Yeah, how about if their memories were wiped first? Not even he has helped me get my memory back."
"We'll decide once we get back to the mansion and get cleaned up."