"Whoa, Logan sure seemed to think we could do this," Danial said as the three teens mounted their bikes again.
"Accourse," Steph said, sticking her tongue out at him.
"Why'd ya go call'em?" Remy demanded angrily. "We told ya not t'!"
"They were worried about us- Professor Xavier's almost found us a couple of times with Cerebro, I had to block him and I could feel how anxious he was. I thought maybe they'd feel better if I called, and I was right!" Danial said defensively. Remy just growled and then sped off on his bike, speeding up until even Steph was nervous with how fast he was going.
"Wait!" she yelled over the wind. "Mailboxes went that- AHH!" Steph screamed as Remy swerved in the road, making a long skid mark as he did a 180 turn and immediately caught up to Danial, who had seen the turn off before hand.
-We shouldn't race, there are other people here, cars on the road.- Danial said in Remy's head.
-He's right, we'll end up- - Steph started.
"Den fly," Remy snarled to her, swerving suddenly to avoid a car.
"OH MAN!" Steph yelled. Suddenly Remy felt her let go as she launched herself from the bike, shooting up into the air and following them through the sky. Remy looked around and turned sharply as the path of ruined property took off down another street.
-Remy, slow down!- Danial said angrily.
-We need t' get t' Doc before he's killed, I ain't slowin' down.- Remy replied, now riding at a purely suicidal speed, Danial stubbornly following and Steph flying above him.
Suddenly there were no more damaged signs, boxes, or fences. Remy slowed considerably and turned around, going back to the last piece of evidence.
"Whoa, what happened to this place?" Danial asked, getting off his bike and looking around. Remy had to agree as Steph fell from the sky and landed silently on all fours, standing slowly.
The house was a mess. Besides the chipping paint and broken windows the yard was overgrown and torn up, the brick path smash in some areas a foot into the earth.
"Dis is so cliché," Remy muttered, rolling his eyes.
"It does remind me of a billion other houses, only they're supposed to be haunted," Danial said. "You think they're in there?"
"I bet," Remy said as he left his motorcycle in the front yard and walked up to the porch, which had a few holes in it, then looking through the dirty window. "Empty," he said, trying the door, which after a good tug swung open.
"There aren't any alarms, but there is something in the back," Danial said, closing his eyes. Remy looked at him.
"How'd ya know dat?" he asked. Danial shrugged.
"Telepathic scan," he said. "Showed up a while ago, not too difficult but not completely accurate either."
"Great," Remy said, stepping in and hearing no alarm he entered the house fully.
"I'm checking out the back," Steph said, pushing past Remy roughly, making him fully aware that she was not too happy with him. Probably because he had told her to fly instead of risking her neck with him.
"C'mon," he said to Danial, following his best friend into the back, past dusty furniture and broken lamps that clearly could never be repaired again. "What do ya see chere?"
"A door," Steph said simply, pointing at a door that looked out of place, as it was clean and unbroken, and white.
"Any alarms?" Remy asked Danial, who shook his head.
"Can't tell," he said. Remy sighed and Steph moved out of his way.
"I'm assuming you're not just going to barge through that?" she said.
"Is dere anyt'in else t' do?" Remy countered, and Steph smiled.
"'Course not, please, hurry up and we can grab Blue and get outta here. I bet they're some lousy basement gang. We'll probably find Hank unconscious in a corner because they couldn't find any chains," she laughed hoarsely. Remy shrugged and reared back, slamming his foot into the door and causing it... to do absolutely nothing.
"Ah!" Remy cried as his foot bounced back and he fell over, scrambling off the filthy floor.
"Or maybe they're a lousy gang with a very nice, very tough door," Steph observed, then looked at a silver panel next to the door that had a panel of buttons on it.
"Oh," Remy said. "Dis is your t'ing chere."
"Boys," Steph said, rolling her eyes as she examined the panel closely, getting up close to the panel, so close her eyelashes nearly touch the buttons.
"Uh, what is she doing?" Danial asked.
"Figurin' out de code," Remy replied.
"How, by having a staring contest with the buttons?" Danial kidded, earning and disapproving look from his older companion.
"Hah, staring contest my ass, lookit," Steph said, straightening and punching in a few of the buttons. There was a buzz, and suddenly the door swung open and Steph beamed, folding her arms on her chest and nodding in approval.
"How'd you manage that?!" Danial cried.
"Shh, it was easy," Steph said, "You look for the fingerprints in the dust to tell you which buttons are used, then the dustier ones have been hit first, it's the only problem with having button codes in dusty locations."
"Oh," Danial said. "Could you teach me that sometime?"
"Doubt it, you use glasses don't you?" Steph said. Danial nodded. "Then no, you need excellent eyesight for that, but I have a couple other tricks you can use," Steph said. Remy sighed and walked through.
"C'mon," he said. "We gotta hurry 'fore dey find out we got in."
"That is cool though," Danial said as they entered. Steph made a shushing motion with her hand and followed Remy down the hall they had just gotten into. It was the exact opposite from the rest of the house, gleaming silver walls and not a speck of dust anywhere. The hall lead down for about ten feet to a staircase that spiraled down, and everything was lit with bright, florescent lights inside the ceiling.
Remy motioned for the others to follow him as he crept down the hall, Bo staff ready, tense and on full alert for any unseen danger.
"Dan," he whispered. "Search 'round fer any traps or alarms now."
-Don't you think we should be really quiet right now?- Danial replied. Remy nodded and hid a smile. -I can't find anything, but as I said previously, my powers are not always 100 percent accurate, I haven't had enough time to develop them.-
-Dey aren't old news?- Remy asked, somewhat surprised.
-Nah, why do you think I haven't been on many missions myself? Besides Mom being really overprotective that is,- Danial grinned.
I didn't t'ink you were into dat kinda stuff, Remy admitted, walking past two doors and ignoring them, then down the stairs and finding himself in a huge room. Huge being big enough to put a couple churches inside the interior of the silver cavern. Remy whistled and stopped, looking around. The walls were all silver, no distinguishing marks on any of them, no way out.
"I don't like this," Steph murmured from Remy's side.
"Nah, I don' either," he said. "Dere's nut'ing in room dis big? Somet'ing is wrong."
"Why would you..." Danial broke off as a room suddenly opened up in the wall to their left and eight uniformed men jumped out with guns, grabbing the teens before they could do anything all three had two guards grabbing their arms and clamping steel collars around their necks. As his was placed on Remy suddenly felt a draining motion and he bellowed, trying to reach for a card.
"Keep a hold on them!" One of the men shouted as Remy heard Steph and Danial also crying out, then Danial's wail above the others.
"My telekinesis, it isn't working! Help! My powers aren't working!" he screamed, trying and failing to break free of his guards. Remy gulped and then managed to see a flash of orange- Steph's hair.
"Steph, scream!" he shouted.
"What?! Are you-" Steph cried out as a guard hit her in the stomach and she doubled over, supported and imprisoned by the men holding her.
"Steph!" Remy yelled, outraged.
"Ok, I am so screaming now," Steph growled, looking up furiously.
"What does she mean?" One of the men asked his partner.
"Hold onto your eardrums!" Steph yelled, mustering up the mutated voice inside of her and then letting out a piercing scream. Remy waited to be knocked unconscious or even killed by the deadly voice, but it never happened, and as Steph realized her powers were also dysfunctional she stopped yelling abruptly.
"Whoa, she's got a pair of lungs on her," one of the men said in the afterward silence.
"Maybe this'll get them to shut up," another growled as Danial, Steph, and Remy immediately started to struggle again. Suddenly the wall they were facing, about a basketball court away, opened to reveal a white cell, and all three Junior X Men froze when they saw what was inside.
"Hank!" Steph cried when she saw the slumped form of Dr. McCoy inside a white cell, his hands chained behind him and head bowed. His clothes were ragged and torn, and his chest was barely moving. Immediately the three teenagers started to struggle against their captors again, yelling and trying to rip the collars from around their necks or at least get free.
"ROOOOOOOOWRRRRRRRRR!" Everyone stopped as they heard the booming roar from down the hall, and all of a sudden a huge white tiger was in their midst, swiping at the guards with mammoth-size paws that did just as much damage as a club without a two inch long razor sharp claws that came equipped with them. Fangs this size of knives, ripping and tearing through air, clothing, and flesh accompanied the sheer size of the animal, which was enough to make Remy want to rush back into the arms of his mother and cry like a little child.
"AHH!" Danial screamed as the beast pounced at him, but it didn't touch him, ripping into the guards and rendering both dead within seconds, moving as quick as lightning with muscles of liquid steel, leaving Danial on the floor as it towered over him, growling and glaring at him through its huge yellow eyes.