After a long and tiring search, the three found what they were looking for.
"So, what the heck do you think it is?" Toad asked, looking more closely at the weird shaped metal object. Nightcrawler shrugged.
"I don't know, but it matches the description Forge gave us and the locations about right, so lets just get it back, before they send a search party after us" Avalanche said.
Nightcrawler nodded and extended both of his hands for the other two to take. Ten teleports later, they arrived at their base of operations, a hollowed out mountain not far from the X-mansion.
Whilst the mansion was still half standing, it was way too dangerous to stay at, as the Sentinels had been programmed to scan it twice as many times as anywhere else, as it was a known mutant hideout. So when the group of some 20 male mutants needed a place to hide out, it was up to their self appointed leader, Scott Summers to find an alternative. Lucky he and some of his fellow X-men had stumbled across this cave after fleeing from the authorities after the Sentinels initial attack. He secretly hoped that if any of the X-women had escaped, they would think to head for that cave, but so far, there was no luck.
The grim face of Scott Summers and the mutant genius known only as Forge met the three as they teleported to the assigned meeting place.
"You're late" He glared at Avalanche. Avalanche went to say something, but thought better of it, and settled with just death glaring Scott.
"Did you get it?" Forge asked anxiously. Nightcrawler held up the weird looking metal thing and Forge nearly bowled him over grabbing for it and running off to his 'inventing corner'.
"YOU'RE WELCOME" Kurt yelled after the excited inventor. He liked the guy, but most of the time, Forge had such extreme tunnel vision, that nothing else mattered. But, if that was the price to pay to have a guy who could invent almost anything, it was worth it.
"Sorry Kurt, thank you, this is exactly what I needed, the signal scrambler should be finished in no time," Forge's voice came through Kurt's watch, a device that Forge had created for them so they could keep in contact when outside the base.
"Um ok," Toad said. He turned to the others "Do we even know what he's working on?"
"It's a device of great importance and could be pivotal to our future survival." Scott said, adjusting his glasses.
"So you got no idea either?" Todd asked. Kurt choked back a laugh. Scott cleared his throat, supposedly not bothered by Todd's comment, although his cheeks went red.
"So I take it there were no problems?" Cyclops eyed them all carefully. They all shook their heads. Scott raised an eyebrow, "Are you sure? Because even small problems could lead to huge problems in the future. And if by chance you knew of a future problem, wouldn't you like us all to be prepared?" He paused for dramatic effect and smiled inwardly to himself, 'Guilt works 8 times out of 10'. "Were there any problems?"
Lance and Kurt shook their heads, their lives before the institute had trained them well in lying to authority figures, but Todd looked unsure. Scott noticed this.
"Alright you can go." Kurt teleported out of the room, and Lance headed off towards the kitchen Forge had constructed for them. Unfortunately Todd wasn't quite as fast as the other two. "Oh Todd? Could you wait back a bit?" Todd gulped nervously, Scott was the one that was responsible for him attending the institute, and he had known him the longest out of all the X- men, besides Jean, so even if they weren't the best of friends, Todd respected Scott, and really didn't like lying to him.
"Yeah Scott?" Scott stared at him for a while. "What?" Todd asked, getting very anxious.
"There was a problem wasn't there?"
"What makes you think that?" Scott stared at him again. Todd fidgeted a bit more, even though he couldn't see the older boy's eyes, he could still feel them boring into him. "Alright, alright, but it wasn't so much of a problem, as an...unexpected event"
Silence
"Well maybe it was more like a snag we hit."
Silence
"A snag that Nightcrawler hit."
Silence
"Agh, Nightcrawler was spotted by sewer people, there are you happy?" Todd rushed, hoping away quickly before Cyclops entered 'loudly lecture anyone who will listen' mode.
Scott hit his forehead with the palm of his hand in frustration. An unexpected event? More like a potential catastrophe. He'd have to find Nightcrawler as soon as possible; these 'sewer people' may be a problem. He activated the communicator on his watch.
"Kurt, get back here" A bamf noise announced the arrival of the blotchy Nightcrawler, whilst predominantly blue, the hair on the top of his head still held some of it's original black colour, and where the others only had cuts and scratches, Kurt was also missing fur, which made his appearance quite strange, if not comical.
"Yeah, what's up?"
"Sewer people apparently. Why didn't you tell me that you were spotted?"
Kurt shrugged nonchalantly. "Didn't think it was important"
"You didn't think it was important? Do you have any idea what could have happened? You could have been followed." Kurt waved Scott off.
"But I wasn't. Who could follow me?" At Scott's unamused look, Kurt continued, "Look, if anyone else was here, Forges sensor gizmo would pick up they didn't have one of these uberwatches on and start going off it's head, we're totally fine."
"It's not just that you could have been followed, if a non-mutant..."
"Flat scans"
Scott ignored Kurt's racist interruption, "saw you then the government would be sure to up the number of sentinels on patrol, and that means trouble for everyone. We need the non-mutants to believe that the sentinels captured all people who escaped."
"Yeah, yeah, be more careful next time, got it. Can I go now?" Scott waved a hand in well-hidden disgust at Kurt and he disappeared. He didn't like lecturing the others, but if there was no one to set the rules, then there would be chaos and they would all be captured in no time.
He was headed off to the kitchen to find a snack, when a victorious yell echoed down the hallways. Heads popped out of every room to see what the commotion was about.
Forge came running down the corridor to the main living area, where everyone was now gathered.
"I finished it, it works" He exclaimed. There was an excited murmur amongst the group. Then one of the youngest mutants there, a red head named Rusty called out what all were thinking.
"Great, what the heck is it?" There was a small ripple of laughter before Forge answered.
"A highly sophisticated encrypted signal based communications device."
A bewildered silence fell over the room. Forge rolled his eyes.
"Super two way radio," The group replied in a single noise of recognition.
"Great, but we don't have anyone to call." Kurt exclaimed.
"Oh I think we do." Forge replied smugly. Scott caught on first.
"You don't mean......I mean you couldn't know how to contact..."
"Nothings impossible, it's all technology and that's what I'm a master at. I think it's time to find out a bit more about these 'Outsiders'"
AN:
Hello again everyone! Sorry for the wait, but I just started back at university (Ahh 2nd yr classes are scary!!) so I was getting ready for that. I also worked out some kinks in the rest of this story, so I'm pretty sure I know what's going to happen now. Aren't you all glad, the author kinda, sort of, maybe knows what's going to happen, reassuring huh? I also drew out some of the characters... not that that matters any to the story, I just like drawing them (Ha, Wanda the ex-cheerleader, if only normal Wanda could see it, oh there would be bloodshed!).
Thanks go out to my reviewers:
Demonrouge13 – I'm glad you like it, and I defiantly will continue this for a bit longer!
Goofn1 – I'm not that big of a Lance fan, but I think he defiantly deserves some more time in this story (that way it's not overrun but comic characters). I will try to put in as much Lance/Kitty as I can...hmmmm I just got a great idea, hehehehe, Oh there will be Lance/Kitty, * Evil laugh*...*Cough* Sorry a Lance/Kitty sub-plot snuck up on me.
Thank you for reading and reviewing.
NEXT TIME: Ehhh I haven't decided yet...maybe some pretty little reviews will help me decide... it's worth a try ;)
"So, what the heck do you think it is?" Toad asked, looking more closely at the weird shaped metal object. Nightcrawler shrugged.
"I don't know, but it matches the description Forge gave us and the locations about right, so lets just get it back, before they send a search party after us" Avalanche said.
Nightcrawler nodded and extended both of his hands for the other two to take. Ten teleports later, they arrived at their base of operations, a hollowed out mountain not far from the X-mansion.
Whilst the mansion was still half standing, it was way too dangerous to stay at, as the Sentinels had been programmed to scan it twice as many times as anywhere else, as it was a known mutant hideout. So when the group of some 20 male mutants needed a place to hide out, it was up to their self appointed leader, Scott Summers to find an alternative. Lucky he and some of his fellow X-men had stumbled across this cave after fleeing from the authorities after the Sentinels initial attack. He secretly hoped that if any of the X-women had escaped, they would think to head for that cave, but so far, there was no luck.
The grim face of Scott Summers and the mutant genius known only as Forge met the three as they teleported to the assigned meeting place.
"You're late" He glared at Avalanche. Avalanche went to say something, but thought better of it, and settled with just death glaring Scott.
"Did you get it?" Forge asked anxiously. Nightcrawler held up the weird looking metal thing and Forge nearly bowled him over grabbing for it and running off to his 'inventing corner'.
"YOU'RE WELCOME" Kurt yelled after the excited inventor. He liked the guy, but most of the time, Forge had such extreme tunnel vision, that nothing else mattered. But, if that was the price to pay to have a guy who could invent almost anything, it was worth it.
"Sorry Kurt, thank you, this is exactly what I needed, the signal scrambler should be finished in no time," Forge's voice came through Kurt's watch, a device that Forge had created for them so they could keep in contact when outside the base.
"Um ok," Toad said. He turned to the others "Do we even know what he's working on?"
"It's a device of great importance and could be pivotal to our future survival." Scott said, adjusting his glasses.
"So you got no idea either?" Todd asked. Kurt choked back a laugh. Scott cleared his throat, supposedly not bothered by Todd's comment, although his cheeks went red.
"So I take it there were no problems?" Cyclops eyed them all carefully. They all shook their heads. Scott raised an eyebrow, "Are you sure? Because even small problems could lead to huge problems in the future. And if by chance you knew of a future problem, wouldn't you like us all to be prepared?" He paused for dramatic effect and smiled inwardly to himself, 'Guilt works 8 times out of 10'. "Were there any problems?"
Lance and Kurt shook their heads, their lives before the institute had trained them well in lying to authority figures, but Todd looked unsure. Scott noticed this.
"Alright you can go." Kurt teleported out of the room, and Lance headed off towards the kitchen Forge had constructed for them. Unfortunately Todd wasn't quite as fast as the other two. "Oh Todd? Could you wait back a bit?" Todd gulped nervously, Scott was the one that was responsible for him attending the institute, and he had known him the longest out of all the X- men, besides Jean, so even if they weren't the best of friends, Todd respected Scott, and really didn't like lying to him.
"Yeah Scott?" Scott stared at him for a while. "What?" Todd asked, getting very anxious.
"There was a problem wasn't there?"
"What makes you think that?" Scott stared at him again. Todd fidgeted a bit more, even though he couldn't see the older boy's eyes, he could still feel them boring into him. "Alright, alright, but it wasn't so much of a problem, as an...unexpected event"
Silence
"Well maybe it was more like a snag we hit."
Silence
"A snag that Nightcrawler hit."
Silence
"Agh, Nightcrawler was spotted by sewer people, there are you happy?" Todd rushed, hoping away quickly before Cyclops entered 'loudly lecture anyone who will listen' mode.
Scott hit his forehead with the palm of his hand in frustration. An unexpected event? More like a potential catastrophe. He'd have to find Nightcrawler as soon as possible; these 'sewer people' may be a problem. He activated the communicator on his watch.
"Kurt, get back here" A bamf noise announced the arrival of the blotchy Nightcrawler, whilst predominantly blue, the hair on the top of his head still held some of it's original black colour, and where the others only had cuts and scratches, Kurt was also missing fur, which made his appearance quite strange, if not comical.
"Yeah, what's up?"
"Sewer people apparently. Why didn't you tell me that you were spotted?"
Kurt shrugged nonchalantly. "Didn't think it was important"
"You didn't think it was important? Do you have any idea what could have happened? You could have been followed." Kurt waved Scott off.
"But I wasn't. Who could follow me?" At Scott's unamused look, Kurt continued, "Look, if anyone else was here, Forges sensor gizmo would pick up they didn't have one of these uberwatches on and start going off it's head, we're totally fine."
"It's not just that you could have been followed, if a non-mutant..."
"Flat scans"
Scott ignored Kurt's racist interruption, "saw you then the government would be sure to up the number of sentinels on patrol, and that means trouble for everyone. We need the non-mutants to believe that the sentinels captured all people who escaped."
"Yeah, yeah, be more careful next time, got it. Can I go now?" Scott waved a hand in well-hidden disgust at Kurt and he disappeared. He didn't like lecturing the others, but if there was no one to set the rules, then there would be chaos and they would all be captured in no time.
He was headed off to the kitchen to find a snack, when a victorious yell echoed down the hallways. Heads popped out of every room to see what the commotion was about.
Forge came running down the corridor to the main living area, where everyone was now gathered.
"I finished it, it works" He exclaimed. There was an excited murmur amongst the group. Then one of the youngest mutants there, a red head named Rusty called out what all were thinking.
"Great, what the heck is it?" There was a small ripple of laughter before Forge answered.
"A highly sophisticated encrypted signal based communications device."
A bewildered silence fell over the room. Forge rolled his eyes.
"Super two way radio," The group replied in a single noise of recognition.
"Great, but we don't have anyone to call." Kurt exclaimed.
"Oh I think we do." Forge replied smugly. Scott caught on first.
"You don't mean......I mean you couldn't know how to contact..."
"Nothings impossible, it's all technology and that's what I'm a master at. I think it's time to find out a bit more about these 'Outsiders'"
AN:
Hello again everyone! Sorry for the wait, but I just started back at university (Ahh 2nd yr classes are scary!!) so I was getting ready for that. I also worked out some kinks in the rest of this story, so I'm pretty sure I know what's going to happen now. Aren't you all glad, the author kinda, sort of, maybe knows what's going to happen, reassuring huh? I also drew out some of the characters... not that that matters any to the story, I just like drawing them (Ha, Wanda the ex-cheerleader, if only normal Wanda could see it, oh there would be bloodshed!).
Thanks go out to my reviewers:
Demonrouge13 – I'm glad you like it, and I defiantly will continue this for a bit longer!
Goofn1 – I'm not that big of a Lance fan, but I think he defiantly deserves some more time in this story (that way it's not overrun but comic characters). I will try to put in as much Lance/Kitty as I can...hmmmm I just got a great idea, hehehehe, Oh there will be Lance/Kitty, * Evil laugh*...*Cough* Sorry a Lance/Kitty sub-plot snuck up on me.
Thank you for reading and reviewing.
NEXT TIME: Ehhh I haven't decided yet...maybe some pretty little reviews will help me decide... it's worth a try ;)