I want to thank Chattypandagurl for being my first review. I appreciate your comments. Again for changing Gambit's real name was due to my action of making him without his accent. A guy named Remy without his accent sounded weird. So, I'm sorry if I offended anyone, but I just don't like his accent. He is still my favorite X-Men character. Don't worry either about Alex. She is not the type of girl to be pushed around. You will see her temper in This Chapter. And yes, I did notice my grammer and type-o's. I kicked myself for seeing them after I submitted it, even after I reread it. I guess I was too excited to update my story. Anyway enjoy my new chapter!
Chapter five
"Alexxxxxxx!!" screamed Gambit and Brian in unison. Immediately the soldiers behind them tightened the hold they had on their arms. Both gasped in pain as their arms were stretched beyond their limits.
"I suggest you shut it and we'll make your death fast." shouted an officer, who had situated himself in front of Gambit and Brian barking orders to the soldiers around them. The bustling of soldiers around them, alarmed Brian to extreme measures.
"Gambit, what are they going to do?" whispered Brian. Gambit lifted his head from it's earlier bowed position.
"Probably figuring out how they're going to kill us." replied Gambit in a calm tone. Brian was completely shocked by Gambit. Gambit looked like the fighting type, but right now he was just sulking. Brian wasn't going to take it.
"Gambit what is your problem?! We need to rescue Alex!" shouted Brian as quietly as he could at Gambit. Again Gambit just bowed head. Brian sighed and looked to the group of soldiers that had assembled on his left a few yards away. They all looked like they were examining a group of guns. Brian's eyes immediately widened, while his imagination went wild trying to come up with the worst torture possible involving guns.
"Come on, Gambit. Don't you care about Alex?" questioned Brian. The last question had caught Gambit's attention.
"What do you mean, I care about Alex?" asked Gambit. Brian sighed and turned his attention to Gambit.
"Come on, man. I can see the way you look at her sometimes. And just now, you're upset because you couldn't save her,"Brian took in a large breath of air before continueing,"Now's your time to make up for it. If we can get away soon, we could catch up with the van."
Gambit looked off in the direction of the van. It's true he was upset about not being able to rescue her. He had allowed that preverted officer to take her, and some of the things he was saying just made him sick. He had to get to her before he tried to pull something.
Amongst all this thinking Gambit was doing, the soldiers had moved the boys to some nearby trees and tied their arms around the trunks. This made the situation even more difficult, since their arms were farther apart than they were. Gambit began to think about how they were going to get out of here.
"Hey, Brian I have a plan." whispered Gambit to Brian. Brian looked up surprised. Maybe his little prep talk did help out.
"What you got?"smiled Brian. They were going to get out of here and save Alex just like he promised.
"First before I explain it, what is your mutation?" asked Gambit. Brian seemed surprised that Gambit needed to know his power, but he explained it to Gambit anyway. He told Gambit that his mutation was he was able to run really, really fast.
Gambit seemed a little skeptical about how fast he could run. "Exactly how fast you are talking about?" asked Gambit.
"Something about faster than the speed of light." smirked Brian. Gambit stared wide-eyed at Brian. He was pretty impressed. He had never known anyone with that type of mutation.
"No wonder you're the star of your football team." laughed Gambit. Brian agreed, but wanted to continue on with the plan Gambit had in mind.
"Anyway, the plan." whispered Gambit. Unknown to the soldiers gathered around the officer getting orders, Gambit and Brian were plotting how they were going to get away and rescue Alex.
Five minutes later, their plan was in full account. Gambit told Brian that he would blow the rope off their wrists with one of his cards. Then when the men were distracted by the noise Gambit made, Brian was to race forward, grab the guns and stash them so they couldn't find them. Then once the guns were hidden, came the hard part. They'd have to fight the men one on one till they were all down. From there they'd track down Alex.
Waiting till the soldiers had all their backs to them, Gambit pulled out the spare card from his back pocket and placed it between the knots of the rope behind them. In a matter of seconds the card blew and the ropes fell off their wrists with ease. The soldiers turned in time to see the outline of Brian fade away and the other man approach them. Turning abruptly to grab their guns, they found them gone. Panicing they all split up and approached the young man from different sides to bring him down, but he proved to be too much. He had to be skilled in defense, because he took down two men in one swift move.
Gambit didn't have to be alone for long for Brian came back quickly. Both of them punched and kicked their way through the crowd of soldiers. Each going down easier than the last. In five minutes time, they had taken down all of the soldiers, who laid scattered on the forest floor, beaten and unconscious.
Brian looked at his handwork, smirked and turned to Gambit. "Nice work."
"Thanks. You did a good job too." Gambit laughed at Brian's comment. He looked at the young man next to him, who was now smiling with pride.
"Well, that's what they get." replied Brian suddenly turning serious.
"Come on, let's go get Alex." said Gambit. Turning around he headed towards the road with Brian behind. Upon reaching the edge of the road, the sound of crunching twigs behind them became aware.
Turning around they found that the general had made his way from his fallen comrades and was standing a few feet away from them, holding his gun at Brian. "You shouldn't have done that." smirked the general before firing.
Upon seeing the true intent of the general, Gambit rushed forward, pushed Brian aside, refretting the bullet to hit Gambit and not Brian. The bullet ended up hitting Gambit in the arm. Brian yelled out when he saw Gambit fall down thinking he was hit somewhere fatal. Brian felt a surge of anger flow through him. Leaping from the spot he lay, he rushed forward and tackled the general. For several minutes he pounded the man till an inch of his life, until the sound of Gambit's voice rang out.
"Brian!" shouted Gambit from where he lay upon the ground. Brian ended his abuse toward the general, got up and ran to Gambit's side.
"Are you okay?!"asked Brian, already in panic mode.
Gambit smirked and slowly got up, careful not to pull the muscles around his arm. He failed miserably. The pain surged from the top of his arm to his entire body, causing him to fall back down crying out in pain. "It's just my arm."
Slowly he rose again. The pain returned, but he surpressed his cry through gritted teeth. "Come on, we need to get Alex." he said while walking towards the road in the direction the van took.
"Alex is going to kill me, if we don't do something about your arm." murmured Brian, while he scrambled up the side of the road to catch up with Gambit.
"Don't worry," remarked Gambit while he turned in circles trying to think of where would they take Alex, " It's not the first time I've been hurt. Come on, they went this way."
"Wait, on the injury thing, what have you gotten hurt on before that compares to a gunshot? And how do you know what direction they went in?" asked Brian, who now stood next to Gambit questioning his knowledge.
Gambit sighed, while holding his shoulder where he was shot. "One, I won't comment on the injury thing, and two there's skid marks on the road facing that direction." commented Gambit, while he turned to Brian. "Someone was in a hurry."
"Well, let's go then." sighed Brian.
Both men started walking in the direction the skid marks faced, hoping to reach Alex's location before too late. Hopefully, Gambit thought, they'll stop to get rest.
Alex was continully swearing to herself under her breath. She was now sitting in a back of a van huddled in a corner, far away from the preverted general as possible. Again she kicked herself over and over again for letting them take her. True, he had a knife to her throat, but honestly, come on! Last year she kneed some guy she didn't know for whistling at her. She wasn't a weak girl and she wasn't going to take this anymore.
"What are you thinking about, Missy?" asked the officer sitting in the back with her. He was constantly picking at his fingernails with his pocket knife, and the noise it made was disturbing her. Who picks thier fingernails with a pocketknife? Apparently he does.
"Thinking of a way to get out." answered Alex truthfully. Again the man laughed. He had the type of laugh that creeped out from the pit of his stomach and out of his mouth in one swift moment. It gave the distinction of higher authority, thought Alex.
"There's no way of getting out of here. There's three officers in here, you wouldn't be able to make a move without catching our attention. Then, we could just pull over the van and sedate you." smirked the general.
Alex looked at this man. He just thinks he's the it thing, doesn't he. "What makes you think I care? I've had more trouble with my mom trying to force cough syrup down my throat." Alex smirked back.
"What makes you think you're smart enough to come up with a plan to get you out of here?" He asked. Apparently he thought he had a good point. He obviously wanted to win.
"Of course I'm smart!" shouted Alex. Her temper was beginning to come over her. Good, she thought, I need it. I'm not going to show these guys mercy.
"And why's that?" He questioned.
"I'm a woman." said Alex, while she crossed her arms in front of her chest. All she had to do was keep this man talking and her plan would be soon finished. The whole time she'd been making small talk with him, she'd been losing the gun that lay on a hook just above the driver's head.
"Fine, I want to hear this little plan of yours." asked the general, while he paused his cleaning of his fingernails for a brief moment.
"Or better yet," Alex looked up at the man from her head's bowed position, immediately the man gasped. Her eyes had turned from her normal dark brown to total pitch black. Flames erupted from her hands, consuming her arms in a matter of seconds, "I'll show you." she smiled, that gave a look of death to all men on the truck.
The gun above the driver's head had finally come loose during Alex's pyro presentation. Using her telepathic abilities she swung the gun and it forcefully hit the drive in the back of his head. Immediately he lied unconscious, his head on the steering wheel. The van began to spiral out of control.
The general barked orders to the man in the passenger seat to grab hold of the wheel and get it back in control, but Alex was still way ahead of them. Again using the gun, she impelled it towards the passenger. He too was unconscious.
Upon seeing this act of violence coming from the girl he tried frantically to open the doors and get out.
"Here, let me help you." laughed Alex, in her most evil tone she could muster. But the look on the generals face gave away the fact that the laugh was enough to scare anyone. Again using her mind she pushed forth the door with the general along with it.
Jumping from the burning carcass of a van, she made her way to the sprawled body of the general several feet away. "You really shouldn't mess with a girl like me!" Alex yelled over the nosie of the screeching van, who just a second ago had rammed into a base of a tree and blew. The bodies of the unconscious men laid slain inside, never to see the light of day again.
Even though her mind was screaming at her that she had just killed two men, she continued her slow walk towards the general. She was contiplating the many possible ways of torture she could do to him. Several feet from his body she found his gun laying upon the ground. Picking it up and hiding it behind her back she proceded to walk towards the man.
Slowly he rose from the ground in time to see the burning figure of the young girl walk towards him. The fire had totally engulfed her body, and yet he thought it wan't even hurting her body. Instead of the normal shades of orange and yellow for her fire, it was blue.
In the matter of time it took her to ignite the fire in her palm, the fire engulfing her body vanished, leaving only the black eyes behind. "I have a plan for you general. That's why I spared your life."
Still standing in the position he was in, he continued to brush off his uniform. His face was black with soot, and his lungs were consumed with it. He soon would be coughing unbareably. "What makes you think I'll go along with your plan for me?" He barely managed to say.
Alex smirked and stopped just three feet away from the general. Pulling her arms away from her back, she pointed the gun at him. "Because I've got your gun."
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