The Attack On Muir Island

"The weather's a little choppy but we should be at Muir Island in about twenty minutes or so," Logan reported from the Velocity to the Blackbird.

"Excellent," Xavier spoke. Both vehicles were connected via intercom. "How is Foresight doing?"

"Okay, the Doc and Rina's keeping him company for the trip," Logan said. "How are things over at your end?"

"Smooth sailing," Scott reported as he flew the Blackbird. "See you on the ground in twenty. Cyclops out."

"Can't believe how many of us are going," Kurt remarked. "It's kind of a little cramped in here."

"She indicated to me that she wanted to study the after affects of the nanites in all of us," Xavier said. "Besides a lot of you could use a change of scenery."

"Yeah nearly getting killed a couple of times as well as saving the world does tend to wear you out," Kitty sighed.

"Are you feeling better?" Jean asked her.

"We're okay now," Danielle told her.

"Yeah, I mean we're handling what happened with Stryker," Kitty admitted. "But still..."

"I know how you feel," Jubilee said. "It's like after I was captured and my parents were killed…Well I still have moments where I wake up shaking. But compared to what Rina and Wolvie have been through…Not to mention Foresight, I feel pretty lucky."

"I think everything will be fine as long as we'll get some peace and quiet," John told them. "What the hell…?"

Several large black stealth jets zoomed near them. "This is STRIKE Seven one niner," The leader spoke. "You have been identified as carrying several mutant signatures. Identify yourselves."

"This is the Blackbird and Velocity," Scott spoke. "We're the X-Men on a medical delivery to Muir Island."

"What's going on?" Jubilee asked.

"Are they gonna fire on us?" Kurt asked.

"Calm down," Xavier told them.

"Blackbird and Velocity you have been cleared for landing," The lead pilot spoke. "Please stay within your escort."

"What the hell is going on?" John asked. "Has this MacTaggert lady upgraded her security or what?"

"Those are STRIKE jets," Xavier frowned.

"STRIKE?" Kurt asked.

"Think of it as a British equivalent of SHIELD and throw in a bit of James Bond stuff and you've got it," Scott told them. "Logan told me about them."

"Wonder what's got their panties in a bunch?" John grunted.

"Oh my god!" Rahne shouted. "Look!"

Down below there was dozens of helicopters flying all over the place as well as several boats surrounding the island. But the biggest shock was that half the building was destroyed. "The place is trashed!" Kurt gasped.

"Who could have done this?" Rahne asked.

"I suspect we'll find out soon," Xavier told them as they came in for a landing.

At the landing field STRIKE soldiers as well as three other mutants met them. Thornn and Theresa were there with a familiar face. "There they are," Angelo Espinosa said. "We thought you guys would never get here!"

"Skin?" Jubilee remembered him from when Trask captured them. "What are you doing here?"

"I needed to get as far as I could from my old life," Angelo told her. "The Professor thought that Muir Island would be far enough."

"Oh yeah I remember your father was putting together a small squad of mutants together," Rahne told Theresa. "But what's happened? Half the place is trashed and the other half is crawling with secret agents!"

"I'm afraid we have problems," Sean sighed as he walked up with a few more STRIKE officers. "Big ones."

"Excuse me I have a patient here who needs to be stabilized," Dr. Reisman said. "He needs medical attention."

"You can take him to the post op with all the others," One STRIKE Agent said.

"You take Foresight Dr. Reisman," Xavier said. "Sean what happened here?"

"Legion attacked us," Sean grunted. "He wanted to capture some mutants and we repelled him, but it cost us."

"That jerk trashed a hospital?" Scott roared.

"Aye, but that damage was minimal to what happened after," Sean breathed out. "Two of the kids I was training were killed."

"Killed?" Jean gasped.

"So much for a nice quiet holiday," Kitty rolled her eyes.

"We were lucky we weren't squashed," Thornn grunted.

"I'll introduce ye to what's left of my squad later," Sean sighed. "Right now we have bigger problems. Moira's under house arrest."

"Arrest? Why?" Xavier asked. "Legion was the one who attacked Muir Island. Moira had nothing to do with it."

"Arrest is a strong word," A tall muscular Welshman in a trench coat and fedora walked up to them. "She's merely in protective custody for her own safety. Considering the circumstances that happened after the attack…"

"After the attack? What the hell happened here?" Logan barked. "Who are you?"

"Sgt. Dai Thomas of STRIKE," He said. "We had an escape of a particularly dangerous mutant here."

"Escape…Who…?" Xavier began to ask.

"He got loose Charles," Moira said with a heavy sigh as she walked up to them. "During the attack his stasis chamber broke and when we tried to fix it…"

"Oh god no…" Xavier turned white. "Not Kevin!"

"Who's Kevin?" Rahne asked.

"My son," Moira confessed. "And god help us all he's on a rampage…"

"Your what…?" Rahne gasped.

Next: Proteus goes nuts and we meet more mutant guest stars! Like there weren't enough of them in this fic!