JUBILEE AND JUBILATION

PART FOURTEEN

THE CHANGING OF THE GUARD

Then Nick came back over. "Well you two got your body guards. The best we have. Had to pull them off a diplomat, but they're yours, they'll be herein about three hours. Ill stick around till they get here, and for a little while after that. Now back to the reason I originally came here, you can't think of a thing can you Logan?"

"Bub, I've got more enemies then you do, but I can't think of a single one that wouldn't come after me in person or at least send underlings. No one I know of would put a billon on my head."

"I figured as much. If you can, get the next assassin to me alive. I need to know what the hell's going on here. I don't like it when the largest bounty ever has been placed on a old friend.

"Hey bub, I'm not to thrilled either ya know."

"I doubt you are. Well Jubilation," he said turning his attention to Jubilation. "I was watching you. I think the Doc's right about you. But the president wants you watched like a hawk, and you made this deal. If you ever ditch these guards, I'll make you regret it. You asked for them so play by the rules. And the cardinal rule is, they stay with you at all times."

"Yes sir. I got it."

For three hours, Jubilation and I switched back and forth talking to every body. I was in control when, "Miss Frost the Shield people are landing now." Paige said over the intercom.

We had brought the other students into our talks, right after I was told I got the body guards. I didn't want them but Jubilation was right. If they're watching me, the may as well be useful. Paige though had volunteered to be in the security room to watch for the Shield personal. She said she could talk with us via the intercom. Frosty agreed.

"Well," Frosty said Let's meet the newest members of the household. Paige will you meet us in the entry way?"

"Yes Miss Frost."

So we were all in the entry room when the door got knocked on. Frosty answered. Their were three men and two woman on the other side. I'll say this about Shield. They don't care what you are, man woman, mutant, inhuman, cyborg, they don't care, as long as you're the best of the best. And these were shields top body guard team. They were the best of the best of the best.

"Welcome, ladies and Gentlemen, please do come in, make your selves at home. For this will be home for quite some time." Frosty said in a sickenly sweet tone of voice. She was pissed about this. But she had agreed with me that I had to make this deal.

"Captain Volex reporting for duty Sir." The man in the lead said, saluting Nick.

"This is the Potectie." He said Pointing to me. "Here is a her file, sorry about the sloppiness of it captain, but I had little time to make it."

He read my file, which was huge, comprised of everything the X-Men, Frosty, Doc Samson, and Shield had on me, with lots notes by Nick. After forty five minuets or so he had finished, passing it on to a woman, who started to read it. Thankfully when Frosty realized that he was going to read the whole thing, she had moved this to the living room.

"Sir."

"Yes captain?"

"I may not be an Expert in reading mutant power charts, but I can make heads or tails of them. Is the Omega Class not the highest? What class is she then? And why are we needed to guard someone so obviously used to protecting herself."

"I'm told that she's the only mutant to go beyond what the Onega Class is capable of, and as to why you're here, think about it, What if one of those so called supervillans, like say Doom, tries to brainwash her? We don't want that do we? This has come down from the president himself. Watch her. And protect her. I expect daily reports."

"Sir, the file also said she's an X-Man. Does she go on their missions sir? If so I don't see any choice but to go with her on the missions. And it will be almost impossible to protect her on any mission she goes on. Sir, do you realize you are asking us to guard a member of a unofficial superhero team? I'm not sure it can be done sir. I've read the files on the X-Men. They fight shit that is on par with the Fantastic Four and the Avengers. We are not equipped to handle those kind of threats. We'll need better armaments at the very least. Sir in my honest opinion, we can not guaranty the safety of a superhero, which is what your asking us to do. As body guards our job is to guaranty the safety of protectie. We can not do that with her life style. And honestly sir? We'd be cannon fodder if they went up against some of their more powerful enemies, like Magneto or Apocalypse."

Nick looked stunned. Frosty laughed and said "Well I don't think any of us thought about that. They're right though, to fully protect Jubilee, they'd have to go on the missions with her. And they don't seem to think they can protect her in the middle of a fight. Which is true. One person can not be protected in the middle of a battle, you have to protect yourself. So what you going to do Nick?"

"This is insane. I have orders from the president to watch and protect her. Well your going with her where ever she goes. I don't care if they go to the Shi'ar empire again, you're going with her. Got it?"

"Yes sir!" he said snapping to attention. "Sir? Where's the Shi'ar empire?"

"A couple billion light years that a'way." I said pointing up.

"How often is space travel involved?"

"A lot. Time travel too. Lost civilizations, other dimensions, other realities, and other plains of existence. Am I forgetting something? I know I'm forgetting some place we go a lot…" I said trailing off.

The woman reading my file broke in at this point. "Uh sir, a hate to interrupt hearing all the places the X-Men go, but I was reading her psych profile. Is this correct? Were guarding a split personality? And one of them is sociopathic?"

"Yes. It's correct Sergeant Colliff." Nick said massaging his nose.

Stunned silence from the Shield guards. "Sir? Would you explain why, if the most powerful mutant on the planet is crazy, were guarding her. No offence, but crazy people tend to do crazy things."

"Captain I find that highly offensive." Doc said. Hell I was mad too. Every body was. Including Nick. "I assume your just being ignorant, and will explain this to you. Just because she's a split personality that has a sociopathic side, does not make her a danger. If you read the file, that side is only interested in self preservation. It became sociopathic to deal with what was necessary for it to do to protect it's self. A sociopath fells no guilt for what it's done. It does not make it the killing monster that is the common portrayal of them. The only thing that she's dangerous to is anything she sees as a threat."

"I see. I'm sorry, I didn't know." He was only half, maybe a little more but not much more convinced. He decided to wait and see how I acted before passing final judgment.

'This guy's totally open minded.' I thought. 'He doesn't have a single pergedence against anything. He just wants to make his own judgments about everybody. He was just afraid that I was a danger, he hasn't had good experiences with mentally unstable people. They're usually his foes.' I had been scanning their minds since they walked in. Hey, I can't turn off my telepathy. Usually I just make it back ground noise, but indeed to know if I could trust these guys. And Frosty and even Jean scanned them too.

After his apology to all of us, saying that he had been uniformed, Nick signed the orders, placing me as a protectie of Shield. I was less then thrilled.