Food gathering duty was both the easiest and the hardest duty out of the
bunch.
The easy part was that the flat-lines who owned the supermarkets, convenience stores and warehouses were predominantly stupid, and those who weren't, didn't like to admit to being out thought by mutants, even to the police, so they tended to explain the missing merchandise as the occasional shoplifter. Occasional shoplifters who managed to escape time and again with vast quantities of food that could never have been snuck out the front door unnoticed, and who defiantly *not* mutants.
The hard part was that the nearest food storage place was at least a state and a half away, as everyone wanted to be as far away from the 'Mutant state' as possible. Then there was the problem of transporting all the food back, a task that would have been impossible without some majorly helpful mutant powers and a foolproof plan. Lucky for Kitty, she had the majorly helpful mutant powers down packed and Sage was a foolproof plan personified.
When Sage had first scanned Kitty back in the camps, at the flat-scans oh so nice 'Do this or we'll hotwire your brain and make you' request, they had her report every mutants powers so that they could discover the best way to detain them. What they didn't want to know about was an individual's potential, something that Sage stored away for later use. In Kitty she had made a surprising discovery.
When Kitty 'phased' through objects, she didn't actually go through them, as travel through another dimension where they didn't exist, very much similar to a teleporting mutant she had scanned, but whilst he left this dimension entirely, Kitty's consciousness and essence remained rooted to her host dimension, which gave others the ability to see her whilst phasing. At least that's how Sage explained it when she later met up with Kitty in the cave system. Sage put forward the idea that if Kitty could somehow tap into the controls of the dimensional alignment she could travel long distances in her host world, whilst only traveling a short distance in the alternate dimension.
Kitty had no clue what most of the technical things meant, she just knew that after practicing a whole bunch of exercises that Sage had given to her, she could teleport, sort of. She could apparently fly also, by partially phasing and altering her weight to float in the breeze, but she hadn't had time yet to practice that yet.
Shadowcat's distance traveling powers took care of getting to the food sources, so long as she knew exactly how far she needed to travel, Sage's powers planned out what they needed to get and how to get it as stealthily as possible, and Rouge, as a special added advantage this time, could take out anyone who did see them.
As Rouge waited in a corner of the sewer system below today's food source, a warehouse, she tried to avoid falling foodstuffs as they fell from their shelves, through the ground and into a specially hung up net, which Rouge didn't trust at all.
"Don't forget Wanda's juice," She yelled to the ceiling. Shadowcat's head emerged upside down from the ceiling.
"I thought you were supposed to get that." She said grinning mischievously. Rouge stared at her wide-eyed.
"You're right there! Just grab some so we can go. I hate the sewers, as if weren't already dirty enough."
"Uh uh, no way. I'm not going to do your penance for you," She then disappeared back into the ceiling. Rouge stared in disbelief at the spot where Shadowcat had disappeared.
"I don't believe this! It's not even her juice it's the groups," Rouge appealed to Sage. Sage just stared blankly back at her, "Ugh, you're no help. Wait, what are the chances of me getting caught if I go up there to get juice?" Rouge asked.
Sage looked at Rouge, then at a nearby stream of light coming from a crack above.
"Judging by the time of day, your mutant camp attire and your distinctive hair colour, the probability of getting caught is 99.8%"
"HA! Tell that to little miss 'do your own punishment'" Rouge grinned triumphantly. Sage glared at her briefly before nodding. Just because her brain acted like a computer, this girl seemed fixated on treating her like one...but when she was right, she was right. IT would do the group no good if she got caught.
Rouge jumped out of the way as the net overflowed and 5 of the 20 packets of cereal landed right where she was standing, followed closely by a very pleased looking Shadowcat.
"Hey watch where you're landing! Sage has something to tell you"
"The probability of Rouge getting caught is 99.8% as opposed to you which is 2%," Sage said glaring at Rouge. Shadowcat looked apologetically at Sage, then jumped back through the ceiling, returning with a juice packet, and threw it at Rouges head. Rouge caught it and smiled.
"Thank-you" Rouge said falsely bright. Shadowcat fake-smiled back and began detaching the net, replacing the fallen items and tied it into a sack like creation.
"Alright, lets head out, this is all that will fit." She hefted the opening of the sack over her shoulder, whilst Rouge grabbed the back, and Sage held the middle. They were just about to leave, when Sage saw something out of the corner of her eye.
"Wait, something not right." She said, as the others put down the sack.
"What do you mean?" Shadowcat asked nervously. If someone had found out what they were doing, they might figure out where they were hiding, and force them back into the camps, or the more probable and worse option, kill them all.
"I saw a large something, appear over there and head off that way." Sage said pointing. Rouge went to the corner of the tunnel the thing disappeared into. There was something there, a blob like thing in the corner.
She slowly approached; as to not alert whatever it was to her presence. The blob moved slightly and Rouge could make out that it was something behind a pipe. It shifted again and she saw a flash of yellow, and then nothing. She ran to the pipe, hoping to see which way it went.
There was nothing there, no splash noise of footsteps, nothing.
"There's nothing here, it was probably a rat," she called to her teammates. A very big rat she thought to herself, then she wrinkled her nose, "Ugh, the sooner we get out of here the better, it smells like rotten eggs here."
Assured, even if falsely, the three picked up their stash and Kitty moved them all back to their base.
AN:
Hey all I'm back! I wrote most of this at the coast whilst listening to way too perky music, so I hope it turned out alright! Ok from this chapter on I'll accept submissions for any mutant not in x-men: evolution you want, male or female, and a cyber cookie to anyone who can guess why I'm doing this from THIS chapter!
Thanks to my reviewers, both new and returning:
Erikstrulove – You're welcome, I love explaining things!
Rouge Maverik – Here ya go!
Lyranfan – Yes, Pong was created for the sole purpose of creating video game junkies! It's surprisingly addictive, I used to have Commander Keen 4 and one of the side games was Pong and I think I spent more time playing that than the actual game! Also, Psylock was an after thought, I just needed someone who could move freely like her, I'm glad you like her. I did have a good time on my vacation, although it was way too short (I miss the air conditioning already!) I did manage to write this whole chapter, and a romance scene for later in the story...ohhhhhh can anyone guess who I'm gunna put together? It'll blow your minds!
The easy part was that the flat-lines who owned the supermarkets, convenience stores and warehouses were predominantly stupid, and those who weren't, didn't like to admit to being out thought by mutants, even to the police, so they tended to explain the missing merchandise as the occasional shoplifter. Occasional shoplifters who managed to escape time and again with vast quantities of food that could never have been snuck out the front door unnoticed, and who defiantly *not* mutants.
The hard part was that the nearest food storage place was at least a state and a half away, as everyone wanted to be as far away from the 'Mutant state' as possible. Then there was the problem of transporting all the food back, a task that would have been impossible without some majorly helpful mutant powers and a foolproof plan. Lucky for Kitty, she had the majorly helpful mutant powers down packed and Sage was a foolproof plan personified.
When Sage had first scanned Kitty back in the camps, at the flat-scans oh so nice 'Do this or we'll hotwire your brain and make you' request, they had her report every mutants powers so that they could discover the best way to detain them. What they didn't want to know about was an individual's potential, something that Sage stored away for later use. In Kitty she had made a surprising discovery.
When Kitty 'phased' through objects, she didn't actually go through them, as travel through another dimension where they didn't exist, very much similar to a teleporting mutant she had scanned, but whilst he left this dimension entirely, Kitty's consciousness and essence remained rooted to her host dimension, which gave others the ability to see her whilst phasing. At least that's how Sage explained it when she later met up with Kitty in the cave system. Sage put forward the idea that if Kitty could somehow tap into the controls of the dimensional alignment she could travel long distances in her host world, whilst only traveling a short distance in the alternate dimension.
Kitty had no clue what most of the technical things meant, she just knew that after practicing a whole bunch of exercises that Sage had given to her, she could teleport, sort of. She could apparently fly also, by partially phasing and altering her weight to float in the breeze, but she hadn't had time yet to practice that yet.
Shadowcat's distance traveling powers took care of getting to the food sources, so long as she knew exactly how far she needed to travel, Sage's powers planned out what they needed to get and how to get it as stealthily as possible, and Rouge, as a special added advantage this time, could take out anyone who did see them.
As Rouge waited in a corner of the sewer system below today's food source, a warehouse, she tried to avoid falling foodstuffs as they fell from their shelves, through the ground and into a specially hung up net, which Rouge didn't trust at all.
"Don't forget Wanda's juice," She yelled to the ceiling. Shadowcat's head emerged upside down from the ceiling.
"I thought you were supposed to get that." She said grinning mischievously. Rouge stared at her wide-eyed.
"You're right there! Just grab some so we can go. I hate the sewers, as if weren't already dirty enough."
"Uh uh, no way. I'm not going to do your penance for you," She then disappeared back into the ceiling. Rouge stared in disbelief at the spot where Shadowcat had disappeared.
"I don't believe this! It's not even her juice it's the groups," Rouge appealed to Sage. Sage just stared blankly back at her, "Ugh, you're no help. Wait, what are the chances of me getting caught if I go up there to get juice?" Rouge asked.
Sage looked at Rouge, then at a nearby stream of light coming from a crack above.
"Judging by the time of day, your mutant camp attire and your distinctive hair colour, the probability of getting caught is 99.8%"
"HA! Tell that to little miss 'do your own punishment'" Rouge grinned triumphantly. Sage glared at her briefly before nodding. Just because her brain acted like a computer, this girl seemed fixated on treating her like one...but when she was right, she was right. IT would do the group no good if she got caught.
Rouge jumped out of the way as the net overflowed and 5 of the 20 packets of cereal landed right where she was standing, followed closely by a very pleased looking Shadowcat.
"Hey watch where you're landing! Sage has something to tell you"
"The probability of Rouge getting caught is 99.8% as opposed to you which is 2%," Sage said glaring at Rouge. Shadowcat looked apologetically at Sage, then jumped back through the ceiling, returning with a juice packet, and threw it at Rouges head. Rouge caught it and smiled.
"Thank-you" Rouge said falsely bright. Shadowcat fake-smiled back and began detaching the net, replacing the fallen items and tied it into a sack like creation.
"Alright, lets head out, this is all that will fit." She hefted the opening of the sack over her shoulder, whilst Rouge grabbed the back, and Sage held the middle. They were just about to leave, when Sage saw something out of the corner of her eye.
"Wait, something not right." She said, as the others put down the sack.
"What do you mean?" Shadowcat asked nervously. If someone had found out what they were doing, they might figure out where they were hiding, and force them back into the camps, or the more probable and worse option, kill them all.
"I saw a large something, appear over there and head off that way." Sage said pointing. Rouge went to the corner of the tunnel the thing disappeared into. There was something there, a blob like thing in the corner.
She slowly approached; as to not alert whatever it was to her presence. The blob moved slightly and Rouge could make out that it was something behind a pipe. It shifted again and she saw a flash of yellow, and then nothing. She ran to the pipe, hoping to see which way it went.
There was nothing there, no splash noise of footsteps, nothing.
"There's nothing here, it was probably a rat," she called to her teammates. A very big rat she thought to herself, then she wrinkled her nose, "Ugh, the sooner we get out of here the better, it smells like rotten eggs here."
Assured, even if falsely, the three picked up their stash and Kitty moved them all back to their base.
AN:
Hey all I'm back! I wrote most of this at the coast whilst listening to way too perky music, so I hope it turned out alright! Ok from this chapter on I'll accept submissions for any mutant not in x-men: evolution you want, male or female, and a cyber cookie to anyone who can guess why I'm doing this from THIS chapter!
Thanks to my reviewers, both new and returning:
Erikstrulove – You're welcome, I love explaining things!
Rouge Maverik – Here ya go!
Lyranfan – Yes, Pong was created for the sole purpose of creating video game junkies! It's surprisingly addictive, I used to have Commander Keen 4 and one of the side games was Pong and I think I spent more time playing that than the actual game! Also, Psylock was an after thought, I just needed someone who could move freely like her, I'm glad you like her. I did have a good time on my vacation, although it was way too short (I miss the air conditioning already!) I did manage to write this whole chapter, and a romance scene for later in the story...ohhhhhh can anyone guess who I'm gunna put together? It'll blow your minds!