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Shattered Like Glass: Scene 11"What happened?" Logan knew something had gone wrong as soon as the X-Jet opened up and Shockwave staggered out with Kurt's arm supporting her.
"Gambit…" Storm tried to explain. "He fell… We couldn't do anything…"
"What!" Blaze keened, eyes wide in horror. "No! Storm…"
"Is he still alive?" Wolverine asked, placing a hand on Blaze's shoulder that she shrugged off violently.
"He is." The voice was Professor X's, coming in directly from Cerebro. "Gambit is not only alive, he is for the most part uninjured. He says to tell you that Storm did the only thing she could." Xavier looked piercingly at Blaze, who did look like she was about to spontaneously combust poor Ororo.
"Why do I feel there's a 'but' coming?" Storm moaned apathetically.
"He has however been taken captive by the same troops that came after Shockwave." Xavier sighed heavily. "At the moment he is in transit, but so confident that escape will be a possibility that he has requested that we hold off on any rescue attempt until he has gathered more information."
"Gumbo'd still be cocky if he was goin' one on one with Apocalypse with his hands tied behind his back Professor. " Wolverine didn't sound convinced. "You sure he's up to this?"
"I have faith in him Wolverine. But you are right, he may well need assistance earlier than he would probably call for it himself." Xavier turned from his X-Men, Matthew and Sam and headed back the way he'd come. "Which is why I will be in Cerebro. Raise the alert level, we may have to move at a moment's notice."
"I don't like this." Blaze muttered darkly. "I really don't like this." Truthfully all her nerves were screaming that this was very wrong. Wolverine could relate, he wasn't too impressed with the whole thing either, but there wasn't a thing they could do about it. Not that he'd try and tell Blaze that, as she stormed off to a back corner of the hangar and preceded to kick a can of engine oil against the wall viciously.
"Lets get you two to the infirmary and get you checked out." Logan suggested to Sam and Matthew. They nodded synchronously, both looking dazed. With Kurt supporting Sam and Logan being Matthew's crutch, the four of them left the hangar. Only Storm hung back.
"I only did what I had to Blaze." Ororo tried to explain, holding her hands out placatingly towards the fire elemental. "It would have been a whole lot easier if we hadn't had to rescue Matthew as well…"
"Don't try and pass the blame Storm, it doesn't suit you." Blaze snapped.
"What would you rather I did if not explain this as best I can for both of us?" Storm retorted right back, staring Blaze down.
"As far as I'm concerned, you can go wallow in it." Blaze returned, stomping past her friend and back into the subbasement levels. "Just be grateful he's not dead…"
"Blaze I am grateful!" Storm didn't like the suggestion that she wasn't concerned about Gambit's safety.
"I meant for your own safety Storm. If he was dead, you'd be cremated." With that, Blaze was gone. Storm could only shudder, troubled by Blaze's sudden darkness. She hadn't been the same girl since her first mission to extract information out of Pyro over a month ago. Ororo could only hope that if that chapter was over, Blaze might yet come round to herself again…