JUBILEE AND WEAPON-X

PART TWO

GETTING BACK IN TOUCH

A few days later they got to Ontario, and Jubilee singled to Sabertooth to stop. As they did so, she looked up Mac and Heather Hudson, found their address and memorized it.

They pulled up in front of their home about an hour later, they had only taken two wrong turns, and they got off their bikes.

"Dude, just wait here till I signal. I got to prep them for ya, Ok?" Jubilee said as Sabertooth just grunted in acknowledgement.

She walked up and knocked on the door, hoping they were home. After a minute the door opened showing Heather Hudson.

"Jubilee!" she screamed. "Where on earth have you been? Every one thought you were dead! Every one but Logan. He's still looking for you. Where were you, enough come in, sit down and tell me."

"Heather," Jubilee started standing in the door way. "I was captured by Weapon-X, they restarted, but I wasn't there alone for all of it. Half way through, they caught some one else, and I just escaped with him, can he come in too? He owes me, and has promised to behave, and has kept his word, so far."

"Who is it?" she asked suspiciously. She had a bad feeling she knew the answer.

Jubilee saw the look on Heather's face. "I think you guessed. Victor Creed."

"My god! You've been traveling around with him!" She yelled.

"God, can you be louder, sheesh. Yes I have. Now, can he come in or not, cause I'm not coming in without him."

She sweated a little. She couldn't leave Jubilee out side, but letting Victor Creed into her home? In the end, she had no choice, she had to help Jubilee, and if it meant helping Victor as well, so be it.

"Yes he can come in, now get in here, the both of you."

Jubilee signaled to Victor, and they both went in.

As they sat down Heather kept a close eye on Sabertooth, and listened as Jubilee explained what had happened in the last four years. As Jubilee talked, Heather stopped focusing on Victor and paid all her attention to Jubilee.

"That's, that's just horrible." Heather said as Jubilee ended her explanation. "What can I do to help?"

"Well we were hoping you could give the X-men a call, and like have them pick us up."

"Sure I can do that." She said getting up. She dialed the number and told them that Jubilee just showed up at her door with Sabertooth, claiming to have just escaped a new Weapon-X program.

"They'll be here in an hour or so." Heather said sitting down. "Can I interest you in some food or,"

"Sugar Bomb-Bombs? Or anything with a ton of sugar? Please?" Jubilee said excitedly.

"No Sugar Bomb-Bombs, but I do have some corn flakes and a sugar bowl." Heather started as Jubilee ran to the kitchen finding the milk corn flakes and the oh-so important sugar bowl. She made a bowl of corn flakes adding milk and a quarter of the full sugar bowl to it.

"MMMMM!" Jubilee moaned as she sunk into her sugar bliss. Victor and Heather Just stared at her, then looked at each other in shared wonderment that someone could down that much sugar, and then she made another bowl with the same amount.

"I was going to ask for a stake, but I think I just lost my appetite." Victor said shaking his head. 'How could anyone, even with a healing factor down so much sugar.' Victor thought.

Jubilee stopped eating cereal, only because she ran out of sugar. She then moved onto pancakes with real maple syrup.

As Jubilee started another batch, Heather said "Jubilee, I don't think you should be eating so much sugar, it's not healthy."

"Ah, but it is for me, my Paffs need them. But all I've gotten in the last four years is consent glucose shots. No sugary goodness for me. Now to make up for lost time." She said using the other half of the syrup bottle.

As she was looking for yet more sugar, she heard a plane land. And as Heather opened the door, Jubilee stood in front of Victor. "Now listen Tooth, Let me handle this, and if any one attacks you I'll handle them, don't attack back, we don't want a royal rumble in hear got it?"

"Yes." Was the curt reply. She had drilled him enough on this. Defense only, no offence. "She knows the Runt will want to attack me, and after hearing what she says, I'm a good target to vent on.' He thought. 'Still seeing him get his clock cleaned by her would be worth missing a fight with him.' He continued to think.

Logan was, of course, the first through the door. He stopped at the site of Jubilee, his little darling, standing in front of that monster Creed, like she was going to protect him from harm. He pushed that aside, he was told they escaped together, but he had to hear the story from her, then he could gut Creed.

"Darling, what happed? I've been looking for you for years! Every one said you were dead and to stop. But I knew you weren't! What happened? Where were you? All they said was you showed up here with him after escaping some one but they wouldn't tell me who."

'Hoo-Boy, they didn't tell him, now I have to.' Jubilee thought. Out loud she said "Thanks guys! Well you're looking at test subject two and three of Weapon-X. They restarted and caught me to be their little ginny pig. Even gave me some of your DNA, namely your healing factor, so they could test out a new version of the adamatiam bonding process. Then they messed with my paffs, my head and started me in combat training. Vic came two years after me. And when they told us that we were going to spar, 'to see our development' as they put it, I came up with a plan that would get us out of there."

"Yah, she did. The plan took real guts too. It was a live or die plan, runt. With better odds on us dieing. I told her if this plan works, I'll stick with her for life. I've pledged my loyalty to her runt. Look at it. She's trying to protect me from you at the moment. You know me runt. If I say I'll do something, I do it. In this case I follow her orders."

Logan was shocked. Victor Creed was hardly a man of his word, but he still had some honor. He could sense that he was telling the truth, he said he'd follow her and, for now, he'll do it. He still didn't trust him though, so he'll have to keep a close eye on him. But that's all he could do for now. So he'd just move on to the next item. "What was the plan?"

"You tell him Tooth, I know you want to. Hell you left everyone in the damn room wondering."

"Fine." Victor said smiling. He wanted to see the look on the runts face when he heard this. "We had inhibiter chips that doubled as bombs attach right here." he said pointing to his neck, just below the base of the skull, and just above the first vertebrae. "The plan was utter simplicity, in the fight I use my claws to rip out hers, while she blows mine up. I then since I would wake first, because her fake healing factor isn't as strong as yours or mine, and she knew it, I would take care of any guards that came till she woke up and could take care of the rest."

"What rest?" Logan asked.

"I atomized the base." Jubilee said flatly.

"You what?" Scott yelled.

"I said I atomized the damn base. Don't go all wholly then thou on me either. I didn't want to do it, but it was necessary to get us out."

Scott was not happy to hear this, but then nobody in the room really was.

Trying to break the tension, Henry said the first thing that came to mind. Unfortunately it was, "Well let's get the two of you home. I need to get you to the lab to see what they did to you."

"LAB!" Jubilee and Victor yelled in unison.

"IDIOT!" Logan and Heather shouted in unison at the same time.

"What? Oh I see. Those fools give the rest of us scientists a bad name." Henry said shaking his head reliseing what he said wrong.