BEEN THERE DONE THAT...AGAIN: CHAPTER 4: LET'S GET BUSY


Senator Kelly looked at her in it be possible? Look at him thinking of what is possible! Here he was laying in a med-lab in a place for mutants and he was now one of them. The look on her face of was one of anger, pity and disgust. Not from the fact he was now a mutant…but what he had wrought on the world by his bigotry and hatred and fear. Fear….that's what this was all about. Fears of the unknown…fear of what is different…fear of the future that wasn't as what he saw it as. It was a short walk to hell from there and he had started walking it the moment that he spoke and wrote up that bill. He gulped and sighed both in regret and pain.

"Well, blondie….I'd love to stay around and bid you ado…but I have to go prepare to save the world…..again. Ta ta!" Andie said gaily and turned to leave the med-lab giving him a cheery wave good-bye as she walked out the door. He heard the doors whisper close.

He lay on the hard bed alone thinking. How could've he been so blind and stupid…not thinking that there would be those who would fight back against him. He thought that he was right…. that all mutants were dangerous and evil. Evil was not a word to be tossed about carelessly. She had put him in a very small stomach twisting category….with Hitler and all the others of that kind. He was to go down in history with his name uttered in the same breath as with Hitler! My god, what had he done?

Andie went to her room; she put on her black outfit. At least it would match the X uniforms now. She wrapped the black bandana around her head and covered her hair, making sure that it didn't get into her eyes. She pulled on her boots and gave them an affectionate slap. She picked up her retractable staff, there was a good chance she would use it, or not. Either way, if she left it behind she'd felt like she was going naked.

She heard the scream of "Professor!" Andie knew that it was getting close to the time to go to Liberty Island to continue the duel for the world's leaders' lives. A half hour later Jean decided to use Cerebro to find Rogue. Andie would have told them where they were going, she did that once and the recuperations from that were extensive; so she stayed silent.

Loading into the Blackbird the five of them strapped themselves in. Scott was still a little antsy about letting Andie go, but he had remembered seeing her defeat Sabretooth with just a touch. She'll be a help, he supposed. Could she work in a team? He didn't know that about her at all. He knew that Logan would be a pain in the butt. Logan would not stand by while Rogue was in danger and do nothing. He knew that Logan would go after her himself, by himself if he had too. Best not press his luck any further.

"You actually go out in these things?" Wolverine asked quietly.

"What would you prefer?" Scott said deadpanned, "Yellow spandex?" Everyone gave him a side glance and Andie stifled a chuckle and covered it with a weak cough.

With Storm giving them fog cover, the jet approached Liberty Island quickly.

"You call that a landing," Logan said in the same tone he used before about the uniforms. So, Andie thought, this is where the teasing about piloting started.

They disembarked from the jet and walked over to the Statue of Liberty. Looking up they immediately noticed that Magneto had done some new decorating himself on the old girl. The entered and walked thru the gift shop and thru the metal detector which Logan was obliged to skewer with his claws when it protested his entry with a piercing whine of alert. It died a horrible death as Cyclops glared at him then smiled when Logan presented him with one claw extended.

"Someone's here." Logan simply stated and started to walk off. "Keep an eye out, Cyclops." Logan stated and left the room searching. He came back from another direction.

"Did you find anyone?" Cyclops asked.

"No, but I know they're here," and was interrupted by an attack by another Wolverine as he attacked….himself. The look on everyone's face was priceless as the two Wolverines attacked one another. It was obvious who the fake one was at first when a smile came over his face and sent the other one a kiss.

They both held up a hand and said "Wait!" One of them slashed a rope with his claws and the door came down separating the team into two groups.

Toad found himself floating by Jean's telekinetics and he was shooting some sort of mucus out of his mouth at Jean that Black Fire sent right back into his own face.

"Hope you have an antidote for that stuff, Morty." Black Fire said chuckling. Jean started laughing so hard that she dropped him. He hit his face hard on the floor and the dried mucus shattered and he jumped up and ran away. Jean was about to go after him.

"Don't worry, Storm will take care of him. We need to get together with Scott." Working together they were able to unlock and open the door to free Scott from the next room that Mortimer had pushed him into on his initial attack.

"Wait, it's me." Wolverine said.

"Prove it." Cyclops said simply.

"You're a dick." He said matter of fact.

"Okay." Black Fire and Jean snickered at Cyclops simple reply.

"Don't you just love that male trait?" Black Fire asked conversationally.

"Immensely," Jean smiled broadly. Storm soon joined them and as a team they went up Lady Liberty's stairs.