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Author's Note: I hope you guys like this chapter; the Warriors get a little field day with the X-Men!

Chapter 13: Rest in Peace

Jessica awoke to find herself in a small room, her hands and feet tied with rope, a large cloth covered object to her left, and two men were tied up with her to her right. She didn't recognize either of them. A door was directly in front of her and the only light in the room came from a small window next to the door. As she sat up she realized something was wrong, the room was moving, rocking more like it. Where was she? A boat? "Hello?" She asked the air, cause the other two seemed asleep or unconscious.

"Bout time you woke up." One of them said opening up his eyes. "I'm guessing you're from Xavier's. I recognize the holo-watch."

"Who are you?" Jessica asked raising a brow and realizing for the first time that her holo watch was still on.

"Name's Max Tripper, this here is Timothy Winter." He said nodding with his head the unconscious man next to him.

"Where are we?" She asked curiously.

"A boat it seems." Max answered. "Not sure though, nobody's been in or out since I woke up."

"Why'd they kidnap us?" Jessica kept asking questions.

"I don't know. Maybe an anti-mutant thing, maybe a personal thing, I have no idea." He said with a shrug.

Tim started to wake up and shook his head. "Tell me later, we've got to get out of here." He said struggling a bit. But he never really got the chance to do anything, the door opened.

"Good. You're finally awake." Said a guy about Jessica's age as he came in. "Sorry about the poor accommodations, the Ritz was booked." He said with a slight smile.

"Who are you?" Jessica asked looking right up at him.

"Ah, where are my manners. I'm an old friend of your brother's it seems. Zachary Johnson." He said smiling. "And you're going to help me."

"Wow that is lame." Max said laughing. "You need to work on your whole 'I'm the evil bad guy out for revenge and you're going to help me act.' Really, you do."

The man just smiled ever so slightly. "Oh, don't mistake me, you're not going to do anything but sit here, nice, quiet, tied up, and locked in."

"What do you want with my brother?" Jessica asked now a little angry, but even more curious. "He's not going to help you with anything."

"This isn't about getting him to help me." The man said with a smile. "This is about punishment."

Jessica raised a brow but he went on to explain. "You see this little thing here?" He asked pulling out and showing a button on a long cylinder. "I push this, this boat blows sky high. You're brother won't risk it, so he'll do what I tell him, thinking I'll let you go, and then I kill you anyway."

"Stinks to be us huh?" Max quipped.

The man smiled. "I guess it does. Have a nice day." He said with a smile as he closed the door behind him and left.

MEANWHILE

Joe, Chris, John, Nathan, Mike, and Will were all standing in the living room, pacing back and forth except for Nathan and Mike. Will was pacing on the ceiling. Mike and Nathan were sitting on a windowsill, Nathan reading something that Mike had written, an essay or a story or something. Chris and John were pacing along the floor. And Joe was sitting on the floor by the couch, where all the girls were sitting. Danielle, Grace, Elise, and Megan were sitting on the couch. No one really noticed that three of them were missing.

"Why'd the professor call us all here?" Chris asked.

"I dunno." Grace said with a shrug.

"Maybe Will broke a rule or something." John said with a smile.

"Why does it have to be me?" He asked seriously.

Everyone just looked at him, and he shrugged. "Okay, well if I did I didn't mean to."

"Maybe it has nothing to do with us." Megan guessed.

"Maybe it does." Elise added. "Who cares? I doubt it's anything really serious."

"It's quite serious." The professor said as he wheeled into the room. "Logan, Hank, Storm, Rogue, Cyclops, Spike, Shadowcat, and Jean Grey are all in the hangar waiting for me, so I'm going to be very brief about this." He began. "It seems that someone James knows has kidnapped Jessica, and the Travelers earlier today. James and Rebecca have already left to take care of it, but the X-Men are going as well. I want you all to remain calm, and stay here."

"Uh huh. I want a million bucks but that ain't happening either." Danielle said with a smirk.

"We can't take all of you along so you'll have to stay here." The professor started to explain.

"We're a team, we work as a team, we succeed as a team, and we fail as a team." John started. "If one of our teammates has been kidnapped, you better believe we're going after them."

"We don't." The professor didn't get to finish.

Joe stood up. "Grace, John, Will, Chris, and I are the only ones that need to go, the rest of our field team is already there. Nathan, Mike, Danielle, Elise, and Megan can stay here." He explained. "And we're going. We'll meet you in the hangar in ten, we've got to change."

MEANWHILE

"This is the place?" Rebecca asked looking over to James.

"Yup." James said with a nod. "Give me five minutes, and then head over and see what's going on. Be careful, they don't need more hostages, and Johnson won't hesitate to just kill you."

"Good luck." Rebecca offered weakly as she kissed him on the cheek.

"I'll need it." He said with a brief smile.

The warehouse stood on a dock by the ocean, the whole street was nothing but docks and warehouses, and most of them were abandoned. He could see a boat a long, long ways off in the water, he'd need the X-Jet or something to get out there, but there was also a smaller speedboat next to the docks by the warehouse.

He opened the door, leaving Rebecca a few blocks away, and entered inside. All the lights were on, and Johnson sat waiting for him. "Thanks for coming." Johnson said in an obviously mocking voice. "You're taller than I remember."

James smirked as he stepped forward. "Yeah? Well I was sixteen last time you saw me."

"Stop right there." Johnson said holding up a small device. "There's a boat about a mile out on the water. You step any closer, and that boat, with your sister and friends, gets blown sky high."

"Quit the bull, what do you want?" James asked as several more people came into the warehouse three were guys, two were girls.

"Three million dollars vanished the same day that you 'died' my friend. What I want is really quite simple. I want what you took from me." Johnson replied.

"I didn't take a bloody thing from you and you know it." James said shaking his head.

"Yeah, I thought you'd say that. Okay, open fire." He said looking to the five that had come in.

Quite suddenly bullets came flying from all over the place, behind, in front, to the sides. James smirked as the ones that hit him left him unharmed, and he simply moved forward, stopping when Johnson raised his hand with the detonator in it.

"It seems you've got a new trick. You didn't even have to touch your rings." Johnson said, slightly impressed, slightly afraid. "Plan B." Quite suddenly Johnson launched himself towards James with superhuman attributes. He landed his feet in James' chest and launched him backwards through the door that he had come through and out onto the docks. Johnson landed gracefully on his feet while James recovered and shook off the daze.

James just smirked. "Well that had even less affect than the bullets. At least they stung." He said coming forward again, but he never got to move beyond that. Chains, quite heavy ones, were suddenly wrapped around him, and were bolted to the warehouse itself. James went to break them, but he couldn't, and he had no idea why. Usually metal like that could be broken in his teeth, or in between his fingers. "What the?"

"Adanantium lining my friend made especially for you. What a job Tempest can do huh?" Johnson asked coming forward. "Now, if you'll look to your left."

MEANWHILE

"If… Only… I… could… reach… my… utility… belt…" Timothy said straining.

"Oh my God you did not just use that stupid joke." Max said. "I'd slap you if my hands were free."

"Well I can't reach the tech, so unless you stop hating my jokes and help, we're screwed." Tim said still straining a bit.

"Um… Guys… What's under here?" Jessica asked.

They both looked at her, she was up, standing next to the large thing covered with a cloth, and her ropes were on the ground in shreds. "How the heck?"

"Oh, I have talons on my fingers and toes, I just got tired of sitting so I decided to stand up for a while." She said innocently.

"Help us then!" Tim yelled at her.

She looked taken aback for a bit. "Well if you're going to act like that then I don't think I will." She said turning up her nose.

"He was kidding!" Max yelled. "Now untie us!"

"Fine, fine, calm down." She said crouching next to them and cutting off their ropes.

"What was under there anyway?" Max asked as he stood up.

"A clock. But it was counting the wrong way." She said with a smile.

"What do you mean 'counting the wrong way'?" Tim asked as he raised a brow and rubbed his wrist.

"It was counting down instead up. And it was going really fast. First it said that it was 1:10, and then it said that it was 1:09, just like that, really quickly." She said innocently.

Max rushed over to it and pulled back the cloth. "Tim!" He yelled. "Get your but over here, it's not a friendly clock!"

"Now's not the time for jokes." Tim said standing up.

"It's a bomb you idiot! We're tiny bits in about thirty seconds!"

MEANWHILE

Logan and Ororo were in the pilot's seats of the X-Jet, it was landed on a building roof. Rebecca had joined them, Chris had his wings out and was ready to go, Joe sat back waiting a bit, and the rest were listening to Rebecca as she told them to wait.

"Hey, there he is." Logan said as he saw James come out of the warehouse backwards. "It doesn't look to good." He said looking back to Rebecca. "We're going down there, now!"

The whole team was assembled and out there in less than a little bit. Wolverine and Hank were the first ones on the warehouse roof. "It looks like that young man is taunting him." Hank said looking down from the roof at Johnson who was talking to James who was chained and against the outside wall of the warehouse with his feet upon the docks.

"He's chained up, the chains are loose though, and they tie in here at the roof." Wolverine observed.

"Why hasn't he broken them?" Hank asked.

Wolverine sniffed, and then gave a low growl. "He can't, they're adanantium."

Suddenly, a red blast of light came through the air and blasted Johnson in the side, knocking him down in the process. Cyclops, Rebecca, Jean Grey, and Chris all ran up to James who was still standing there, laden in chains.

"Idiots!" James yelled. "Get out of here now! There's a whole league of gumen inside! He's got a detonater! Chris! Jessica's in the boat out on the water, about a mile from shore!" He yelled as they began to back up a bit.

Chris nodded. "All flyers to me! Storm, Jean, meet me in the air! Joe get to Wolverine, there's gunmen in the warehouse, you and him are going to have some fun!" He yelled into the communicator as he flew up into the air. Jean and Ororo meeting him as he did.

Johnson got back up slowly with a smile on his face. Chris, Jean, and Ororo were already over the water, flying as fast as they could towards the boat, but they were too late. Suddenly the boat blew up, stuff flying everywhere. Ororo turned the winds so that nothing came near her. Jean shielded herself telekinetically, and Chris began to fall towards the water as he wrapped his wings about him to protect himself, but even so a small piece of metal flew by and took a good cut through his leg.

James watched as the pummel of smoke rose from what had once been the boat, knowing that no one on there could have possibly survived that blast.

"NOOOOO!" He yelled as tears came from his eyes.

The warriors and the X-men stood in shock, looking towards the boat. The chains around James were pulled taunt, and as he screamed he pulled on them taking the warehouse with him, the whole front wall was ripped off, and flung over his head, directly onto Johnson who stood in front of him, destroying the dock that both of them stood on. James fell into the water, but was quickly pulled out by Jean and put on the shore. Chris was bleeding from his leg and in the x-jet. Tears came from all of the X-men and Warriors as they stood watching what little remained of the boat sink into the waters.

"Rest in peace." Joe whispered looking out towards the docks and the ocean as the warehouse collapsed and Ororo landed back on the shore.

Author's note: I know it was a little shorter than normal, but what do you think? REVIEW! FLAMES WELCOME!