Hey everybody! Well, I'm going to keep this short, because I get to do a few shout-outs! Yes! You wouldn't believe how excited I am about this. I really need to get out more. Anyways, for all of you who reviewed: thank you! Don't forget to review this chapter!
Idypebsaby- you know, I think you're the only one who mentioned that Jamie doesn't have his medicine. You've figured out the plot. I congratulate you. Hah, I didn't even know congratulate was a word.
Animejunkie1008- my little sister likes your review and she says it was her idea to write it about her, but it wasn't. Thanks for your review.
Agent-G- ah, yes, I am over being grounded over whatever it was before, I think my parents forgot about that one, but they're on this 'chores' kick, so I've been doing the wildest arrange of chores, so the updates are still going to be slow.
Dru- ah, yes, the great Pirate Kit, one of my favorite authors. Yes, I have read 'the Private life of Jamie Madrox', more times than you would believe actually. But, since I was not blessed with her sense of humor, my kidnapping will actually have to be boring old regular kidnappings. Alas, why couldn't I have been blessed with humor instead of being cute? Lol.
TheDreamerLady- yes, I think I do have control of my fingers again, some of what happened here was a bit surprising to me, but I think most of it had planned before.
And now, since I've finished my incredibly fun shout outs, on with the story!
Jamie and Pyro had been talking for a while now. It had been a little bit more than a day. Every once in a while, Pyro would leave to get them food, and give Jamie a chance to go to the bathroom in private. They slept for a few hours, but Jamie didn't feel safe enough to sleep soundly.
It was boring, but, since Jamie didn't have anything better to do, and Pyro got bored by himself, they made do. Jamie was starting to look at Pyro as a friend, instead of a warden like he originally thought. When they ran out of things to talk about, Pyro would show off his fire tricks, which led to more interesting conversations about their powers.
"I love my fire an all," Pyro was saying, "but I think I want Baldy's powers. After all the things I've done, it'd be nice to just make everyone forget all the stuff that happened. Yeah, that would definitely be nice." He leaned back in his chair, dreaming of being able to take over people's minds.
"That powers nice," Jamie said, "but I'd want Bobby's powers. I mean, not only does the ice part rock, but, he can say all the cool sayings and it works."
"What?" Pyro asked.
"You know, like, he can say 'freeze' and they stop, or something like, 'you need a cooling off period, and wham," he jumped up, holding his hand out, obviously trying to get some ice to come out. He fell back in his chair, exhausted.
He had been feeling tired for a few hours now, and he was starting to get a headache, he was out of his medicine.
"Hey, Pyro, why does Magneto want me?" he asked.
"I think he wants to put you in the machine in the back room," Pyro said, absently clicking his lighter on and off. "You know, the one that makes you fully evolved, he figures he can have a whole army, and when you're an adult, and you should be able to control your copies."
"So he wants a mind-controlled army?" Jamie asked, to which Pyro nodded. Jamie had heard about Magneto's machine on asteroid M, but he didn't know he had made a new one. His eyes started to droop, he was so tired, he didn't really care anymore.
"What's wrong mate?" Pyro asked, noticing how tired Jamie looked. As if in answer, the IV pack Jamie had to wear started beeping. "What's that?" Pyro asked.
"It's my medicine, I have to change it," Jamie explained.
"But we don't have any doctors," Pyro said.
"I think I can do it myself, but I don't have any of it with me," Jamie said, trying to think of someway to get his medicine. "Can I talk to Xavier through this thing, like, telekinetically?" He asked Pyro.
"No," Pyro said, "Mags has the same stuff in the base has he does in his helmet, Xavier's locked out of here."
Jamie was starting to feel sick, his head was hurting, and he was really cold. His medicine should have been changed the day before, and he was already starting to feel the effects of the withdrawal.
Pyro looked scared; sure, he had seen lots of people die, but never little kids, especially one who he had talked to for a day and a half. He ran to a cupboard, and got out a blanket, then opened up Jamie's cell.
Jamie's first thought was, 'I can escape now', but his head was hurting to bad to want to move.
Pyro wrapped the blanket around him, and put a hand to his forehead. "Sheesh, you're burning up! Why are you so cold?" He quickly ripped the blanket off of the shivering Jamie. He started pacing around the tiny cell, muttering to himself. "Why is he cold? I don't get it, you're supposed to put a blanket on, that's what my mum did. Think, think, think…" He said, pounding his head, impersonating Winnie the Pooh when he was faced with a problem.
It looked like a light bulb went on in his head. "Of course!" he yelled. "My mum, girls always know how to handle sick kids."
He ran to the bottom of the stairs, leading to the main room. "Mystique! Get down here!" After yelling for a few seconds, Mystique finally came down, with Magneto and Gambit accompanying her.
"What is it?" she asked Pyro, looking thoroughly upset that her plans had been disrupted.
"It's the kid, he's burning up, but he's shivering," Pyro said.
Mystique looked scornfully in at the cell, where Jamie was shivering, beads of sweat coming down his forehead. She silently cursed, then went into the cell. She put a hand on Jamie's forehead, quickly taking it off when she felt how hot he was.
"Get him some ice, or an ice pack or something," she ordered Gambit, to which he quickly complied.
"What's wrong with him?" Magneto asked.
Mystique studied Jamie for a few seconds, her eyes trailing toward his waist, where his IV pack was. She picked it up, and the machine beeped again, asking for more medicine.
"It's his medicine, it's gone," she told Magneto.
"Well, put some more in," he said, and started to walk out.
She rolled her eyes. "If we knew what kind of medicine he needed, or if we had it here, we might be able to, but we're not even sure how to get it in."
"I think I know how," Jamie said, holding his head, trying to think past the fever. He didn't understand, he shouldn't be so sick yet; he should have a couple more hours before he was feeling this bad, the doctor had told him so.
Mystique looked at him scornfully. "You don't happen to know what kind of medicine you need, do you."
"No," Jamie said.
"Figures," she mumbled under her breath.
"Gambit's got ice," Gambit came in, holding a bag of ice.
Mystique grabbed it from him, holding it to Jamie's forehead. She sat there, thinking for a couple of seconds. "Remy," she said, "do you know how to break into medical files?"
Remy laughed. "Remy can break into anything."
"Get Jamie's medical file, find out the medication he's on, where to get it, and how to change it." Remy started to walk out. "Oh, yes," she called after him, "find out what he has."
Magneto stood in the doorway of the cell, feeling kind of useless. He wasn't used to Mystique giving orders, instead of him. Unfortunately, he had no clue when it came to kids.
"Don't just stand there," Mystique snapped at him. "Take him to the infirmary."
"We have an infirmary?" he asked, wondering when that got laid in the plans.
"Yes, just take him there, we need to get him out of here, it's too…well, I don't know, but we should get him up to where there's a bed."
Pyro watched in fascination as Magneto used his powers to take the shivering Jamie to the infirmary. He knew he should help somehow, but he didn't have a clue about what to do, and decided it would be best to stay out of the way, and went to go bug Sabertooth.
Mystique was having trouble trying to think of what to do for Jamie. He was fine just a few hours ago; she didn't understand how he could have gotten so sick so quickly. There was also the fact that she didn't have any motherly instinct to speak of. She never really had to worry about sick kids, she only had Kurt for a little bit, and the Brotherhood was too old for her to worry about. She didn't know what to do.
Fortunately, twenty minutes after they got Jamie to the infirmary, Gambit came in. He handed Mystique a piece of paper, with all the information she had asked for. He quickly left the room, before she could ask anything else from him.
Mystique studied the paper. "Shoot," she said, "I haven't even heard of this disease, let alone the medicine, where are we going to get it?" she asked Magneto.
"We've got bigger things to worry about;" Remy came in. "Somebody just broke in here."
Flashback: yesterday.
The new recruits were all ready for their rescue mission. They didn't know how long they would be gone, or even where they were going, so they packed a lot of money and food. Tabby had also sneaked down to the infirmary, and gotten the medicine Jamie needed. Jubilee and Amara were upset that they were left behind, but promised to keep the others off their tails as long as they could.
They decided to bring the X-van, mainly because it was big enough to fit all of them, and none of them were crazy enough to mess with Scott's car- again.
Tabitha sat in the passenger seat, Bobby was driving, Sam and Ray were in the middle, and Rahne and Roberto were in the back. Tabby was telling Bobby were to go, because she was really the only person who knew how to get to where they were going…the Brotherhood house.
When Tabitha knocked on the door, Todd opened it, and tried to shut it again, but Tabby stopped it with her foot.
"Sorry Toad," she said, opening up the door, and grabbing Todd by the neck, her plasma bombs forming in her hand. "We need some directions, and you're going to give it to us."
"No way, yo," he said, struggling to get free, "give me one good reason why I should help you." Tabitha threw one of her bombs in the living room, blowing up the couch. Todd stared in horror for a second. "Yeah, I guess that's a good reason."
"It had better be," Tabitha said.
"Okay, he said, to turn left here," Tabby was reading off the directions Todd had given her. "And the entrance should be a big metal door here…" she paused, looking at enormous Cliffside, with no door in sight. They had driven most of the day yesterday, only stopping to sleep, and a lot of that day. Most of it was off road, driving along the beach side. "The little Toad, he gave us the wrong directions!"
The others started getting out of the car anyways, if only just to stretch. They had been driving too long that day, it was already getting dark.
"I thought he gave in to easily," Ray said.
Rahne had transformed into her wolf form, and was sniffing the floor around the rocky cliffs.
"What is it, Wolfsbane?" Bobby asked.
She ignored him, and kept sniffing the sand. She changed form into her human state. "I've got Jamie's scent! It starts right here," she pointed to where the orb had opened up for Jamie yesterday, "and it ends right here," she pointed to what looked like ordinary rocks.
"So, do you think Magneto's door is hidden," Sam asked.
"Well, not for long, everybody aim at it," Bobby commanded. They all aimed their powers at the wall. It was loud, but once Sam crashed into it, they had a clear entrance in.
"X-men, let's move," Bobby said. Tabby stared after him a second, once everyone else left. "What?" he asked.
"I never thought I'd say this, but Cyclops does that better than you," she said, running off after the others.
Bobby ran after her. "This isn't the right time to be making jokes," he said when he caught up with her.
"Who was joking?" she asked.
They were in a huge room, with electronics all around. Not knowing what they were, Ray did the only thing he really paid attention to in Logan's sessions- blow everything up.
As Ray was busy short-circuiting the electronics, Rahne and the others were looking for Jamie. She was in half-wolf form, so she could still talk.
"I smell him going that way," she growled, "but it stops down there." She pointed towards the stairs, leading to the cells.
Roberto ran down the stairs. "He isn't here anymore," he said.
"Where did he go then?" Ray asked.
"To the infirmary," Pyro said, coming up the stairs with Roberto. "He's really sick; did you bring the stuff he needs?"
Bobby went back into his normal form, puling out the bag that went in Jamie's medicine dispenser. "Take us to him," he told Pyro.
"Remy don't think it will be that easy," Remy said, coming from a doorway along with Mystique, Sabertooth, and Magneto.
"I'll have a few words with you later," Magneto told Pyro, who looked like he didn't care.
"But we've got to get this medicine to Jamie," Sam said.
Magneto looked confused for a second, someone dared to defy him?
"If we don't get it to him, he'll die," Ray said, in the deepest voices he had, trying to show Magneto they meant business.
"Die?" Jamie asked, coming out from the infirmary.
"Jamie!" the others yelled, trying to run over to him, but they were blocked by Sabertooth.
"You're not going anywhere," he growled.
"No, Sabertooth," Magneto said, shocking the others. "He's no use to us dead, and even if we keep him, it'll be too expensive to get his medicine. It is a waste to keep him."
The recruits cheered, and threw Sabertooth out of the way. Bobby gave the medicine to Rahne, who helped Jamie put it in.
"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Mystique asked Magneto.
"I said Multiple could go, I didn't say anything about the others," he whispered to her. He thought he said it quietly, but Rahne's super sensitive hearing caught it.
She didn't say anything at first, but once she finished changing Jamie's medicine, she quietly told Bobby what was going to happen.
Bobby relayed the information to the others, who still thought they were getting out without fighting. They made Jamie sit near the wall, to keep him out of the way; he was still too weak to fight.
"X-men, attack!" Bobby yelled, glaring at Tabitha, daring her to say something, but she didn't. The new recruits scattered around the cave, causing as much destruction as they could.
Cannonball was crashing into anything he could, which included Mystique, Bobby iced Sabertooth up, but he quickly broke free, Tabitha was throwing bombs everywhere she could, and Ray was doing what he could to blow up Gambit.
After a couple minutes of fighting, it was clear that Magneto and his team was clearly outnumbered, especially since Pyro wasn't helping, and they started to run to the back, but were blocked by Roberto, who was powered up. They ran out towards the entrance, Magneto already starting to make metal orbs.
The recruits let them go, and settled for just destroying the base. Rahne dragged Jamie out of the cave, and Ray and Tabby threw as much as they could as they ran out.
Tabby threw one last huge bomb in the cave, once everyone was out. Fireworks started shooting out everywhere.
"Is this Christmas, or the fourth of July?" Sam asked.
"Hey, that's right; it's Christmas Eve, huh?" Ray asked.
Suddenly, the wind started to pick up, and sand started flying everywhere. The X-jet was flying down, full of a team of angry X-men.
"You guys are in so much trouble," Scott said once they had landed, and gotten out.
"Well, they did do a good job of defeating Magneto, and they got Jamie's medicine," Hank said, looking at Jamie, and checking his vitals.
"You all did a good job," the Professor said, "but, you are still in trouble for stealing the X-van without telling us."
The recruits groaned, but turned back to the cave for a final explosion.
"Merry Christmas, shrimp," Bobby said, wrapping an arm around Jamie.
I got a Christmas special in! Yes! Okay, so it was only like, one line, but still, it's Christmas-y. Well, now that I think about it, this could be a good end to the story. I hate long stories, so it can't be to long, but I might have one more wrap up chapter. Review and tell me what you think, please!