So here is the second Chapter of my little story, any improvements people want to suggest or factual errors please let me know. Hope you enjoy what i've got so far.
The first thing Xavier heard when he woke was the 'Szinct' noise as Logan's Adamantium claws ripped out of the top of his right hand, Xavier
opened his eyes to see someone standing over him with a sharp object and then Logan sailing into this person, throwing them both out of the
window sending glass flying out into the night. He automatically put out a telepathic call for help to the rest of the X-Men. Cable hit the grass
outside of the mansion with a crunch, with Logan right on top of him. Logan sent a left handed cross into the side of Cables face.
"What the hell are ya doin' bub!" Cable neglected to reply and attempted to throw Logan from his chest, but Logan was held on tight and
punched him again. "Don't make me use the claws." Cable once again tried to throw Logan and this time succeeded, Logan landed feet first
a couple of feet away from Cable, this gave Cable enough time to get to his feet.
Scott and Jean were woken
up sharply at the sound of a window being shattered, a second later
Xavier's voice appeared in their minds telling
them what he had
just seen.
"Cable?" Scott sat up. "Nathan?" Jean jumped out
of bed and grabbed for her dressing gown in the dark. Scott at
this
flicked a light switch dazzling them both with 60w of light yellow
bulb."We need to get
outside." He squinted and then made a move towards the door.
Logan readied himself as
Cable stood to his impressive height, Cable starred at him with a
dead look in his eyes. Logan's eyes flicked to the
scimitar that
Cable had managed to keep hold of. He and Cable had gone toe to toe
before and it hadn't been pretty but had ended up in a
draw, Cables
telekinesis giving him an edge most people don't get. Logan
wondered why he hadn't found himself in the grips of that power
yet, that was unlike Cable, but then so was looking dead in the eyes
and trying to kill Xavier. At this moment Cable swung the scimitar
towards
Logan's head, though Logan was no longer there, he had
leapt up and over Cable landing solidly behind him. Logan turned and
kicked Cable
squarely in the back, he heard as the air was knocked
out of his lungs. That shouldn't have worked Logan though
to himself, Cable was
normally far too aware through telepathy and
skill to be caught by such an easy counter attack. Cable stumbled
forward and then turned on
Logan, staring at him with dead eyes. He
swung the scimitar in a downward angle towards Logan's neck, Logan
stepped left and in towards
Cable and then with his off hand claws
slashed the scimitar in two. At this moment Scott and Jean appeared
outside the Mansion.
"We had better do
something before Wolverine does something Cable regrets, come on."
Scott started towards the fighting pair.
The fight
had descended
into a fist fight, Logan had retracted his claws as to avoid any
serious damage to Cable though his patience was running out.
Cable
came at him with a powerful left jab and tried to follow this up with
a standard cross, Logan blocked these and stepped in closer to
Cable
to make it harder on his offense. As Logan did this Cable swung in
with an uppercut which caught Logan unawares, making his teeth
shudder and dazing him for a second. Logan's restraint at this
point dissipated. "Fine then, we do this my way bub." Logan
swept his left
arm underneath Cable's defense and simultaneously
lifting it, popping the claws on his right hand and then driving
those into Cable's right
shoulder. Logan pushed his weight into
this action and toppled Cable over as he registered the pain and let
out a surprised shout. Logan
retracted his claws and let Cable fall
to the ground. "Nathan!" He heard over his shoulder as he Jean and
Scott running towards him.
Jean arrived there first and dropped to
his side, she looked blank for a second as she tried to read his
mind. Scott stopped next to Logan
and watched his wife and son.
"I'm sorry Cyke nothin' else I could do." Logan trailed off.
"Logan its fine, I saw
what happened, he wouldn't have given up, lets get him inside."
Using her telekinesis
Jean carefully lifted Cable while applying pressure to his shoulder
wounds into the mansion and down to the infirmary.Shortly after they
were joined by McCoy, Rogue and Ororo, somehow the sound of a
shattering window hadn't disturbed the vast majority
of the estate,
this was unusual in itself. McCoy set himself to work attending to
Cable's wounds, cleaning it and then stitching it back together.
"Cable's lucky you're a good shot Logan, or a bad one."
McCoy winked at Logan, he responded with a grunt.
"So wait ah minute."
Rogue chipped in. "Cable walks into the mansion ta kill the
Professor, ah don't buy it." Her southern accent seemed
particularly thick tonight.
"It ain't nothing to
do with buying it, I know what I saw and what he then tried on me,
the whole thing ain't Cables
style an' he don't smell right."
He walked across the infirmary and stood next to Cable's
unconscious form. The infirmary was 30 metres
wide and 20 metres
long, the wall with the door was covered in selves and cupboards
containing various items of medical equipment and
drugs. The
opposite wall had worktop space and draws, to the left were freezers
in the case that someone died. In the centre was the
operating table
upon which Cable laid on. McCoy leant closer to Cable and sniffed
the air around him.
"I don't pick up anything unusual Logan, are
you sure it's not something else in here?"
"I've been in enough
sick rooms to know the difference,
something ain't right about him,
he smells like he's someone else or something."
"He's right." Jean
suddenly turned away from Cable.
"I can't get through to him,
it's as if he isn't even there." She rubbed her hand over his
forehead.
The Summer family tree was unique if nothing else, Cable
while being Scott and Jeans son was in fact only a few years younger
than them
and more battle scarred than a young man should be. Some
time ago Jean Summers had died and while Scott was grieving he had
met a
woman who looked exactly Jean and married her. It turned out
that she was in fact a clone produced by Sinister so that he could
harvest
the potential power that the Summers/Grey gene pool could
produce. When their son Nathan was born he was infected with a techno
organic virus by Apocalypse, the purpose of this virus was to slowly
turn Nathan into a lifeless robot. At this time a woman named the
Askani mother appeared from 2000 years in the future declaring that
she would have to take Nathan away to the future so she could save
him, what they didn't know at the time was that the Askani mother
was in fact Rachel Summers, Scott and Jeans daughter from another
reality.
The real Jean Grey/Summers then reappeared and Scott left
the clone after realizing what she was. Sometime later Scott and
Jean were
married and on their honeymoon their minds were transported
2000 years into the future to take care of Nathan in an Age of
Apocalypse,
they were there for years though it only appeared to take
the duration of their honeymoon in this timeline.
Professor Xavier appeared
at the door in his remote controlled wheelchair. "How is the
patient Hank?" Sudden Cable's eyes opened and he
bolted upright,
the entire room looked round at him and Jean was thrown back as Logan
jumped in front of her claws out pointing directly at
Cable's
throat. Cable blinked and looked up at Logan. "Wolverine you want
to sheath those things before I break one off and ram it down
your
throat?"
Logan stopped short, he
sniffed at Cable. "Well whadda ya know, laughin' boys returned."
He retracted the claws and stepped away.
"Nathan." Jean said
and wrapped her arms around his neck. Cable grunted in pain, this
was not something he was given to doing often,
obviously Logan had
damn a fair amount of damage. "Anyone want to tell me why I'm
here?".
No one spoke, none of
them were quite what
to say, Logan grunted and was about to start
when Xavier interjected. "You came here to kill me Nathan."
Cable looked puzzled.
"Want to run that one by me again Professor,
I don't recall coming here to do such a thing, in fact I don't
recall entering the country." He swung
his legs off the side of
the table and rubbed his head and then inspected his shoulder. "Nice
job Hank, couldn't have done it better myself."
"An artist always
appreciates a good testimony." McCoy smiled.
"All we know Cable is
that Logan walked into the Professors room and
found you standing
over him with a scimitar. What's the last thing you remember?"
Scotts business like voice cut through the niceties.
"Hmm I was in
Madipoor doing some recon and I had positioned myself in a bar near a
window to keep an eye on a few people. Next thing
I remember is
being faced with pointy over there." Logan raised an eyebrow at Cable then
shifted his weight off his left calf.
"Cable, will you permit
me to enter your thoughts and see if I can reveal any of this lost
time to you?" Xavier moved his wheelchair closer
to the bed.
Cable nodded and straightened himself up, Xavier reached his arms out
and rested his hands on the side of Cable's head. There was
a
quiet few moments before Xavier moved his hands to the arms of the
wheelchair. "There's nothing there, your memory skips from
Madipoor to
here. No mental blocks or blank spaces, not even in your
sub conscious. This is the work of an extremely powerful telepath."
Xavier cleared his
throat and appeared to be in deep thought.
"Cable who were you
searching for in Madipoor?" Scott once again cutting back to
business.
Sometimes Jean couldn't get over how similar Scott and
Nathan sounded, even if they didn't look that alike, Nathan with
short white hair and
Scott with his short dark brown hair. She had
never discovered why Nathan's hair was white. Cables voice brought
her back to the conversation.
"I had heard reports of
a mutant in the area causing problems, disrupting business and
threatening politicians, all I had was his surname, Harper.
Not
entirely sure what his powers involve, heard some stories of
projectiles and others of a shielding effect."
"Sounds like a field
trip to Madipoor
is in order then, wonder if we'll be anymore
welcome than we normally are?" Logan began walking towards the
door.
"Hold on Wolverine I'm coming with you." Cable slid
himself off the bed and grunted as he landed. "I don't think so
bub, you ain't in the condition,
and anyways whoever did this
knows who you are."
"Logan's right
Nathan, he'll be better off on this one alone." Jean rested her
hand on Cable's
shoulder stopping him, he didn't have the fight
in him to protest so he simply nodded. This was very unlike Cable,
the whole experience had left
him extremely drained and he was
beginning to realize that he had been neglecting the control of the
techno organic virus that daily threatened to
consume him. "Be
careful Logan." Jean called over to him. Logan allowed himself a
fleeting look at her as he went through the door. "Hmm well
a good
doctor always prescribes sleep for his patients, so Nathan I'm
ordering you to bed." McCoy broke the brief silence that hung after
Logan walked out. "Who am I to argue Doc?" McCoy led Cable out
of the room.
Almost simultaneously the group realized how early in
the morning it was and decided they should do the same, everyone
filed out besides
Professor Xavier and Scott. "A worrying turn of
events wouldn't you agree Scott."
"More than worrying
Professor, Nathan is one of the
strongest telepaths on this planet
who could do such a thing as to control him besides you or Jean?" Scott
ran his hand through his short hair.
"I really wish I could
say Scott, there is always the chance that a new telepath has been
born that I've missed, it's unlikely but entirely possible,
lets
hope Logan turns some information." Xavier started his wheelchair
towards the door.
"I suppose if anyone's
going to find anything out it'll be him." Scott watched Xavier
go.
"Goodnight Scott, get
some sleep."
