Muir Island
It had been a long time since charles had cooked a meal standing up. Hell it had been just about as long since the last time he cooked, seeing as how jean and Strom always took turns but he wanted to do something for Moira so he attempted to make her sausage and eggs but it didn't quite go as planned. Needless to say, it ended with Xavier putting his hand under cold water and Moira getting the fire extinguisher.
A few moments later they were having coffee out on the front patio.
"Is your hand all right charles"
"Yes, Moira. Its all right. Thank you for asking."
"You know Charles, its going to take me awhile to get used to you looking the way you do." Moira said referring to his new body. She wasn't quite used to it yet. Every time she looked at him, she couldn't help but think of the man as the man who would never move but that had all changed.
"Well Moira, its going..." Charles began but never finished his sentence. He had a blank stare on his face and wouldn't answer when she called his name. At first she thought something was physically wrong but then she realized that she had seen that stare before. It was the stare he had when something mentally had caught his attention.
"Charles?"
"Yes?"He finally said after a few more minutes.
"What caught your attention?"
"Jean."
"Jean Grey? But she?s dead. You know that.?"
"No, Moira she's very much alive. Her power is what caught my attention. She'd back Moira and this time I don't know if we can stop her." Charles said. Moira realized that he looked exhausted. So she walked over to him and said, "Why don't I take you back to bed. I think this is all a little much for you."
"Yes, maybe that would be a good idea."
"Logan there's nothing but trees out here."Rogue said looking around. They'd been out in this forest for only God knows how long and still hadn't found anything. She was beginning to think that Calisto was sending them on a wild goose chase.
"Their here. I ..." Calisto began but let her sentence hang in the air.
"Calisto?" Magneto said, "Are you all right?"
"Yeah, fine. Mystique's gone and so is the other mutant she was with but the one their looking for, Warren, he?s still here and so?s another one. He can charge anything with kinetic energy. Class four. Very..."
Suddenly, a playing card charged with kinetic energy came flying through the air and nearly hit Wolveirne in the arm but missed and blew up the tree he had just passed.
"Close." Calisto finished
"You think you could have warned me darlin?"
"If I wanted to, maybe."
Wolveirne ignored Calisto's comment and payed attention to the man in front of them. He was tall, about Rogue's age, wore a trench coat and had a metal stick.
"You come lookin' for someone monami?" the man asked in a Cajain accent.
"What's it too ya bub?" Logan asked pulling out his claws. He didn?t take too kindly to someone who threw charged cards at him, espesually when he was looking from someone.
"Cause if ya are, Gambit's gonna have to teach ya a lesson about comin' onta other people's property."
"Bring it on, lil man!" Wolverine said as he charged Gambit, who spun his metal stick and when Logan got close enough, he jumped in the air and smacked him on the head, thinking it would knock the lone mutant out. It didn?t even slow him down, Wolverine grabbed Gambit but the neck, with on hand and with his other pointed his claws an inch away from the Cajian's face.
"Hope that was worth it for you." Logan said as Gambit, managed to place his left hand on Logan?s claws that were pointed at his face. Seeing this Logan simply said, "Give it up bub! You see what my skull did to your little magic wand? My whole skeleton's laced with this adamantium crap. You can't beat me."
"Gambit ..already..have." Gambit said, "See Gambit got the power to charge up anything and make it go boom. Long as its not organic. And since these metal bones of yours ain't flesh and blood, Ol' Gambit here's been heatin' 'em up as we speak. You so much as nick me, I blow you up from the inside out. Take half this forest with us."
"Should we go help him?"Colossus asked rogue. He didn't much care for standing there and doing nothing when he could be doing something to help the situation.
"No, let Logan handle it. We'll know when we need to help."
"So we're gonna wait until his head blows off?"
"Yeah. Pretty much."
"You're bluffin'" Wolverine said calling Gambit out.
"Tick, tick, tick.." Gambit said and that made wolverine think he wasn't bluffing so he retracted his claws and Gambit continued to speak,
"Smart move. And by the by..." Gambit charged the broken metal stick, "...ain't the size of the wand..." and stuck it in Wolverien's mouth, fully charged, ...
"it's the magic in it."
As Gambit jumped backwards, the kinetic engery in the wand exploded, taking half of Logan's face with it. As Logan dropped to the ground, Colossus, not metaling up, said, "No we take him?"
"Now we take him." Rogue said flying at Gambit as Colossus ran after him but Rogue never got there because the second she took off she was knocked down by a metal winged man, with blue skin and blonde hair and wore a black uniform with blue and red stripes on the arms. They hit a try and when Rogue was able to get a good look at him she realized it was Warren.
"Warren? Oh my God, who did this to you?"
"I am not Warren! My name is Death and I am a horseman of Apocolypse!" It was then that Rogue knew her friend had been brainwashed by who ever this Apocolypse guy was but she was determained to find out and there was only one person who could lead them to Apocolypse: Gambit.
Colosuss charged Gambit and punched him in the face. Gambit came back and threw a charged card at Colossus but missed and hit Calisto instead. She was thrown back, due to the blast of the card blowing up in her face, and was out cold. This angered magneto so he joined in on the action. Seeing that the only metal that Gambit had on him was his belt, Magneto manipulated it and wrapped it around the young cajain and managed to keep his hands from the metal and his cards because of it.
"Thanks," Colossus said to magneto, not believeing he was actually thanking his enemy for the help. They turned around and saw Rogue flying through the trees and trying to get away from a metal winged man.
"Rogue is that..."
"Yeah, Pete, it's Warren! He's been brainwashed!"
"Can you shake him?"
"What the hell does it look like I'm tryin' to do? Play him at chess? Yeah I can shake him. Be back in two shakes of a dogs tail."Rogue said as she flew off out of site. A few minutes later she was back and she landed and walked towards Gambit.
"Suga, you've gone and messed with the wrong crowd! Now who the hell is Apocolypse?"
"Gamibt ain't tellin' you nothin!"
"Oh you'll talk all right!" Rogue said taking her gloves off and was about to touch Gambit when Colossus said, "Rogue, behind you!"
It was Warren and he was back for Rogue but before he could get to her, he froze in mid air. Magneto had a hold of his wings and wasn't going to let go. Rogue looked at him and said, "You can thank me later. Continue."
She was about to but as everything had been going on, Gambit had managed to put his pinky finger on the metal and had slowly been charging it. He let go and it blew up sending everyone, including himself, flying. When Rogue stood to her feet, she heard Gambit said, however she could not see him, "Sorry, Cheir but maybe you'll have more luck capturing Gambit another time. Oravua!"
"He's gone." Colossus said
"For now." Rogue said as she turned and saw that Logan was still in the process of healing. "Pete, carry Logan. I'll fly us home. Lets go."
DISCLAMER: The lines shared between Logan and Gambit are not my own. They are from Ultimate Xmen vol. 10: Cry Wolf. I saw that scene and didn't think I could write it any better.
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