Long ass chapter. Got carried away.
Chapter 18: Wolvie gets kicked out.
The Friends of humanity stared down the X-men, police choppers circled nervously.
Logan'd barely worked through the dream, and was a bit on edge. As a "Friends of humanity" member approached him, He popped out his claws, and quickly separated the mans head from his body.
He ran through the street, killing off members of the Friends of Humanity, the enemies soon began to run from Logan, who pursued them vigorously.
Rogue and Kitty worked their way through the streets, Logan ran past them quickly, attracting fire from an enemy. "Logan!" Kitty shouted, losing her footing. He didn't hear her.
A police chopper clipped one of the buildings, the rotors bending and the chopper going down quickly, right over kitty. "Shadowcat!" Rogue shouted, running to try and help her, Logan just kept punching the man he had caught, perfectly abled to see the two girls, and within range to help both. He didn't.
Kitty's scream was the last thing he heard before the chopper hit the two of them. The man in Logan's hands disappeared, as did the street. "LOGAN!" Professor Xavier called out, the simulation shutting down and the walls of the danger room returning. "You were directly responsible for the death of two of your team members!"
Logan snarled, keeping his claws out. "Don't say a word!" Xavier said. "This operation was to subdue the enemy without killing! You failed that, and you failed in your duty to the team! You aren't fit to be an X-man!"
Rogue shakily helped a sobbing Katherine Pryde off the ground. The other students gathered and looked at Logan expectantly. Heather took a step to Logan. "Don't." He said, looking at Xavier.
"I ain't fit, huh. When these bastards are gunnin' down yer students, there ain't a whole lotta time to worry 'boutcher actions, chuck."
"An X-man must know restraint!" Xavier said, glaring the teen down. "We can't have someone as volatile as you on the team, Logan! You are hereby no longer an X-men, nor a student of this academy!"
The others said nothing. Rogue looked at Xavier, hoping that he would take it back, but knowing he wouldn't.
Logan just growled, retracting his claws slowly and threateningly. He walked out of the danger room. "You can't 'spect yer "X-men" T'do well workin' under this crappy morality, Chuck!" Was all he said. Heather bit her lip, looking slightly anxious. Once everyones' attention was gone, she turned and left the danger room, heading for the garage.
Logan had left already, heading to the town. Great, now where am I gonna stay...? He thought, glancing around the streets tiredly. A woman walked past him, and he put on his "Don't talk" sneer and kept going. He threw his bag over his shoulder and glanced about the streets. Empty.
"Bastard." Logan muttered, speaking about no one. He heard a scream from behind him, and turned around to find the woman being held at knife point from behind. The back of the muggers shirt read: "F.O.H."
He snarled a bit, setting his bag down and starting to come up behind the man. "Fuckin' mutie..." The man said, pointing the knife at the woman's back. "Hope Y'enjoy hell!" Then the man made a noise similar to a duck being sucked into a vacuum cleaner.
Logan had kicked the man in the back of the knee, then grabbed the man around the neck with his arm, and grabbed the mans knife arm with his other hand. "Got a problem with mutants, bub?" Logan asked, the man shuddered slightly as Logan extended his claws.
The woman took off into the alley at the end of the building, Logan tightened his grip on the mans neck until he felt the man stop struggling. He glanced around the streets, then dragged the man into the center of the road, lifted a manhole cover and dropped the man into the sewer.
"S'ok, Lady." Logan said, retracting his claws and heading to the alley. "He's gone."
He stepped into the alley, seeing a pair of glowing yellow eyes. "Hey..." He leaned in to get a better look, just in time to feel the rag cover his mouth before he passed out.
Later, he woke up, bound to a wall. In front of him stood a woman with short red hair, and her face covered by her black and grey uniform. The uniform looked military issue, and Logan could only guess how many weapons she had on her.
At the other end of the room was a man with black hair that was tied back in a pony tail. He wore snow colored camouflage and a sly smirk, a pistol holstered under his arm. "Looks like the new recruit's awake."
Logan growled. "Jus' fuckin' peachy. A kunoichi and a butt pirate."
"Watch your mouth, 'bub'." The man said. "M'names Jenz, and this is Misty. You mighta known her as "Heather"?"
The kunoichi just looked over and waved. "Sorry, Logan. Had to get close to you to capture you."
He snarled a bit. "The moment I get free..."
"The moment you get free you're going to help us." Jenz said. "You don't have much of a choice."
"How D'you figure..?" Logan asked, not liking where this was going.
"You had a dream involving Thomas Mcleish." Misty said, crossing her arms over her chest. "Ol' Tom isn't exactly a friend of ours, and his talent at channeling the dead is getting annoying."
"But he's dead.." Logan said.
"Right." Jenz said. "Now that he's on that side, he's damn near got infinite power. The one that manages to channel him therefore gets that power."
"..." Logan said nothing, waiting for what the hell all this meant.
Jenz sighed. "Anyone ever told you you're kinda slow?"
He growled, Misty laughed. "You remember the "Shiva virus" that magneto stole?"
Logan nodded a bit.
"Magneto's been a busy man. He's been using his methods to tamper with the virus, creating a type of "Temporary death" weapon. With this, his astral form can go beyond the world of the living, and into that of the dead."
"An' when he does this, he goes after Mcleish...?"
"Yep." Jenz said. "Then all Magneto has to do is find him. Then he gives a psychic the virus, and makes the psychic remove Thomas's soul. Givin' Magneto one hell of a killing machine."
"An' why D'you need me?" Logan asked.
Misty sighed. "Two people can only get so far. We've found Magneto's citadel, but getting in is going to be a problem."
"More so now that the Friends of Humanity was created." Jenz said. "It was an accident, you know."
"What?" Logan looked at Jenz, blinking.
"Graydon Creed. The kid who started all of that shit." Jenz started. "Creed sound familiar?" He asked, Logan raised an eyebrow. "Magneto and the acolytes went after Graydon's 'father', who was a paranormal invesitgator involved with the Spirit operation in 1990."
"Spirit?" Logan asked.
"Sub-Paranormal Investigation Regarding Indescribable Terror." Jenz said. "The American government, in cooperating with France, England, Germany, and Russia, conducted tests on whether the spirits of the dead could indeed effect our world. They called it that because seventy eight percent of the scientists involved either went insane, or were killed."
"Killed." Logan said. "How?"
"One man had his lips, teeth, tongue, and esophagus removed." Misty said. "The guards there protecting the scientists were found inside the walls. Either fully in, or just.. Sticking out."
Logan winced, imagining what it would feel like to be in a wall. "What came outta this?"
"That's what made Graydons 'father' so important. His father was the only living scientist who had actually spoken with a number of spirits, including Thomas Mcleish." Misty said. "The conversations were all recorded, and are being kept in the vault underneath mount Washington, right in that bomb shelter."
"Somethin' important on there?"
"The future." Jenz said, walking over and releasing Logan from his restraints. "Each spirit that spoke to this man, told him almost in exact detail what would happen in the next few years. Each spirit told a different number of years. ninety-one through ninety five, Ninety five through two-thousand and three, so on."
"More importantly, during Thomas's discussion, Thomas gave the man a precise description of the "World of the dead". Including where Thomas would be found."
Jenz shook his head. "Magneto wanted this information from Graydon's 'father', so he had Sabertooth interrogate him. Sabertooth "Accidentally" killed the man."
"Whaddaya mean Accidentally?" Logan asked, rubbing the joints where the restraints had been.
"Sabertooth is working for someone that isn't Magneto." Misty said, removing her mask. Her skin was far more pale than Heather's was, which Logan felt a bit strange about. "He could've let the interrogation go until the man broke, but instead he killed him."
"But somethin' went wrong." Logan said, understanding.
"Yes." Misty said. "Magneto told Graydon that they were mutants. Sparking the hatred that would later create the Friends of Humanity."
"So?"
"So!" Jenz said. "The friends of Humanity wasn't supposed to be created! No where in the conversations of the future did any of the spirits mention the friends of humanity being created!"
"Maybe the forgot." Logan said, shrugging.
"They forgot something that big, but predicted a pissant detail like a girl being unabled to touch someone without hurting them? I doubt it!" Jenz said. Logan stayed quiet. They predicted Rogue...?
"Do you see why you've got to help us, Logan?" Misty asked. "They predicted that a man with an adamantium skeleton would save the living with the aide of a Kunoichi and the embodiment of thunder.."
Logan glanced at Jenz. "I'm guessin' that's you."
The air turned blue and crackled with electricity. "Yup." Jenz said, smirking proudly. "If you don't do this, it'd be impossible to know what effects it would have on the flow of time."
Logan thought about everything they had said, shaking his head slowly. "Yer in luck. I jus' got kicked off M'team."
Misty and Jenz both smiled. "Good, because we're running out of time."
(Almost) The end.
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