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Shattered Like Glass: Scene 10The X-Jet arrived flying low over the building, making Sam's hair billow uncontrollably around her and Matthew's tie flap like a bird. Both of them had their faces turned upwards, they didn't notice the approaching military until the first tazer wires whipped though the air towards them. Just in time, Nightcrawler teleported in and wrapped his arms around Shockwave. She gave a small yelp of surprise before disappearing with the Elf in a cloud of smoke.
Matthew didn't fare so well. The tazer got him right in the left leg, the bolt of electricity coursing through his flesh making him stumble and fall. The X-Jet rose briefly as it came under fire, twirling on the air and passing away from the building. Matthew swore profusely. Okay so they'd got Sam back, thank God, but what about him? Were they going to just leave him here to get arrested?
He shouldn't have doubted them. This time when the jet passed back around Nightcrawler bamfed in with some back up. Gambit was sprinting away, drawing the enemy fire and charging a card before Matthew even knew what was happening.
"Lay still, mein Freund." Nightcrawler ordered, before pelting the man who held the tazer controls soundly in the stomach. The man flew backwards almost off the edge of the building, dropping the tazer. Nightcrawler unceremoniously plucked the tazer wires from Matthew's leg and flung the weapon away. With more strength than Matthew would have accredited to the slightly built German mutant, Nightcrawler hoisted Matthew up and teleported him back to the jet.
Matthew had never been teleported before. He didn't much care for the experience as the X-Jet's interior lurched into view around him. He nearly threw up, and then sat down heavily, hoping there would be a seat behind him. There was, and Sam was just across the way. She smiled at him reassuringly, or possibly smirked at the probable green colour of his face. Matthew couldn't return the expression as he rubbed the sore patch on his leg vehemently with both hands.
"I'm making another pass." Storm informed Nightcrawler as he came to stand behind her with a three fingered hand on the back of the pilot's seat. The X-Jet responded to her command, lifting to a safer altitude as they circled the roof. Still people were firing at them. Peering over Ororo's shoulder Nightcrawler watched as Gambit fended off the attacking men alone. Stood with his feet slightly apart, brown trench coat billowing around him, Gambit faced them grimly. It did not look good.
In a flash of movement, Gambit threw five or six cards at once in a spreading attack. Two of them hit, blasting armoured men in the chest and knocking them into their fellows. The others hit the rooftop, exploding in a flash of blinding kinetic energy. But Nightcrawler could see that the roof was weakening, cracks from the explosions were spreading to the edges of the building. They had to get Gambit out of there now!
"Storm hurry, I cannot teleport from so high up and so fast!"
"I know Kurt, I know!" Storm wrestled with the controls, fighting the jet's aerodynamics that made it want to carry on lifting in an updraft. "Oh no…"
Overrun by even more enemies, for every man he knocked down three more took his place, Gambit was getting uneasy. Taking his extendable staff from his pocket, he let it extend in his fingers and took it in both hands. Lifting it high above his head he filled it with his mutant power. The troops took their chance, moving closer to form a semicircle around him. He was getting pushed back towards the edge of the building and there was very little he could do about it. Waiting until they were just close enough, Gambit slammed the staff down. The weapon's impact reverberated up his arms just as his power reverberated in a ripple through the roof of the building. The kinetic power knocked many men down and sent more than one screaming over the building's edge.
Suddenly there was a whistling noise behind him, and Gambit turned just in time to see a missile hit the side of the building just below him. Already the tank that fired it was rearming and aiming at the X-Jet. Remy put a finger to the radio in his ear, his voice filling the X-Jet as he waved and shouted up at them.
"Storm go! It too dangerous! Get the…"
He never finished the sentence. The building under his feet crumbled and Gambit was pitched off the rooftop like an apple falling from a tree. Storm gasped, Shockwave cried out in terror, lurching to her feet. Nightcrawler readied himself to teleport, but Matthew put his hand on the German's shoulder just in time.
"Kurt no! We're still moving really fast, you'll be killed!" Kurt blinked and nodded, turning his face away as Gambit's body hit a bus shelter roof and went through it. Spotting the tank aiming straight at them, Storm cried out again.
"Everybody hang on!" The Weather Witch plunged them into a steep ascent, dragging them out of harms way.
"Is he alright?" Sam gasped, clutching onto a seat with all her strength as they pulled away. "Is Gambit alright?"
"I don't know." Storm answered, aiming the X-Jet back towards the mansion, knowing as Gambit had there was nothing that could be done. "I don't know…"