Changes Chapter 28

The old warehouse definitely neutralized their advantage. Logan looked around, tried to hear or see anything. But not the slightest sound echoed through the room, which could tell him where exactly the enemy was hiding. His eyes met Storm's. She hid behind a column and also scanned the area. Suddenly, she moved, still limping because of her injured leg. She made her way to him and took cover next to Logan. Her eyes were fixed on the upper level. "Do you sense them?", she asked him, but he could only shook his head.

"Nope…" His headset made a crack and Bobby's voice echoed through it.

"Hey, where are you guys?"

"Downstairs, where are ya?", Logan asked in return, while checking his surroundings again.

"Upper level. Any signs of them?"

"No", Storm said.

"Here's Scott, Regroup at the front door, now!"

Logan raised an eyebrow. "Are you kidding, bub?" Storm was also frowning. "It's too dangerous to walk through the whole warehouse without knowing where the enemy is…"

"You heard me, Logan!"

"He's right, Scott!", Storm said and looked around again. "It'd be the perfect opportunity for them…"

Scott snorted. "Regroup at the front door!"

"What do you think, Logan?", Bobby asked insecure.

"Who's with ya, kid?", Logan asked him in return, while his eyes were fixed on the upper level.

"Peter. I don't know where the others are…"

"Stay where you are then!", Logan grunted and looked around the corner. "We're coming to get ya!"

"Since when are you in command here!", Scott's voice echoed angrily through the headset. "We're an even easier aim for them if we stick all together!"

Logan only snorted while he took Storm by the hand, advising her to follow him. "It strengthens our defense, bub!"

"Who's responsible for the defense here? Not YOU as I recall it!"

"Scott, leave it!", Storm nearly shouted, since she really began to feel pissed off. "Logan's right!"

They heard Scott cursing for a brief moment before he said "Sure, whatever!". Then the connection went dead. Both mutants carefully headed towards the staircase and climbed up the stairs. Soon, Peter and Bobby came into view. Both were hiding behind several barrels.

"You alright?", Logan asked them and they nodded. "Good! Come on!" He looked at Collossus. "Change into your organic form and cover our back! I'll take care of the front!"

"Okay", Peter said and soon his body was shining silver metallic.

Logan popped his claws and moved towards the next corner. He sniffed. Something was different. "Stay here and take cover!" He turned around, his claws ready to strike and sniffed again. Suddenly, one of the barrels in front of him began to move. With an angry growl, he ran towards it. One claw covering his chest, while the other was above his head. Furiously, he saw how the barrel changed into a blue body. Logan gritted his teeth and a primal scream left his throat, as he rammed his raised claw to the ground with all his strength. Mystique moved quickly aside and he cut the barrel into slices. Quickly, he turned around and punched her with the back of his hand, before he kicked her so hard that she slammed against the opposite wall and hit her head. Growling, Logan jumped at her, claws first. Mystique shook her head slightly. Trying to get rid off the stars in front of her eyes, she shrieked as Wolverine hit her hard and buried his claws deep into her chest. With a growl he pulled them out of her body again and watched her dropping to the ground. He turned his head towards the others and nodded after he'd checked his surroundings again. Storm and the others joined him and they kept on moving…

"Hank?", Storm asked while activating her headset for talking. "Do you read me?"

"Yeah, I do! Where are you guys?", his voice sounded in her ears after a moment.

"We're looking for you and the others. We're you right now?"

"He's close by…", Logan suddenly said sniffing. Finally, he looked up. "There!" He pointed towards the ceiling.

Storm looked up and saw Hank hanging head first from it. "Hank, look down!"

Within a second, he landed next to them. "Nice job over there, Wolverine!", he smirked.

"Don't mention it!", Logan grunted, still looking out for new threats.

"So you knew where we were!", Storm said angrily.

"Not really", Hank corrected her and got into position next to her. "I saw Wolverine fighting and then something on the other side caught my attention…"

A crash made them turn around. "Must have been me!", Juggernaut smiled as the wall fell into pieced.

"Watch out!", Logan told the others and positioned himself with Collossus at the front while Hank was covering Storm's and Iceman's back.

"Guys, we need help on the upper level!", Storm said into the speaker and watched Juggernaut running towards them with full speed. Logan growled and came to meet him as fast as he could, his claws ready to strike. Collossus followed him a few steps behind. Juggernaut laughed madly before he bent his head down, his steps echoing from the walls. Logan remembered the moved Nightcrawler had taught him and gained speed before he jumped. In the air he made a 180° turn, before he took hold of Juggernaut, thrusting his claws into his back. The mutant underneath him screamed but kept on running unstoppable towards the others. Collossus already prepared himself for the attack. With all his strength he tried to stop the giant mutant in front of him, but before he could even took hold of him, he crashed into a wall.

"Jump aside!", Logan yelled and buried his claws as deep as he could into the back of Juggernaut. While Hank took hold of Storm and jumped aside with her, Iceman sent a beam to the ground, causing it to freeze immediately and turned it into an ice rink. One last time, Logan cut into the flesh, before he grabbed the helmet and pulled at it with all his strength. As he got a good grip on it, he jumped off the giant mutant and landed on the floor heavily breathing and sweating, while Juggernaut shrieked as he began to stumble on the ice rink. Soon, he landed on his chest and hit his jaw, before he smashed into the wall. Everyone paused until they were sure that he wasn't a threat anymore. Logan handed the helmet over to Collossus who squeezed it until it was completely useless. The grown up wiped off the sweat from his face. "Everyone alright?"

"Yeag. No one got hurt!", Hank said.

"Good. At least two more are left, so watch out! Take your defense positions again!" Logan led them into the next room, where Shadowcat was. She ran towards them immediately.

"Pyro has Jubilee!", she told Logan who narrowed his eyes.

"Where's he?"

"He went through that door!" Kitty pointed towards a huge metal double door on the other side of the room. "I already tried, but I can't open it."

Logan headed towards it, followed closely by the others and took a closer look on it. "Hey, Tinmen, can you open it?"

Collossus joined him. "I'll try…", he answered and punched it with all the strength he could come up with. Leaving a dent in it, which became bigger with every punch that followed.

"Try to damage it as good as you can."

"Shall I go through it?", Kitty asked, but Logan hold her back.

"Too dangerous, kid!" He turned around when he heard a noise behind them. Logan growled and relaxed after he noticed that it was Angel who'd dropped Scott to the ground and landed next to them

"Finally arrived, eh?", Logan asked angrily and eyed Cyclops, who ignored him.

"How are we?", the man asked as if nothing had happened.

Storm snorted. "Good. Pyro only caught Jubilee and Magneto hasn't shown up so far… You can call or situation perfect!", she gave him an angry look.

"That's all I can do…", Collossus suddenly said. He was completely exhausted and changed into his normal form again.

Scott already had his hand on his visor, when Logan buried one of his claws into the dented door. He felt his claws reappearing on the other side. Thank God, Collossus had been able to make the thick door much thinner. He only asked himself how much he could do here…nevertheless he had to thought about Jubilee and that was what kept him going. With all the might he could come up with, Logan moved his arm upwards, trying to cut the metal open.

"We'll help ya!", Hank said and joined his side. While he grabbed one side of the already cut open hole the claw had left, Collossus changed again and grabbed the other. Both were tugging at the material, while Logan kept on cutting through it. Finally, a piece of the door crashed to the ground, big enough for them to go through it.

"I'd be faster…", Scott grunted.

"Yeah, and you could have injured Jubilee if she'd been on the other side…", Storm only said, before she joined Logan again, leaving Scott boiling with anger.

They walked through the next room, immediately feeling the heat rising. "We're close by…", Iceman said and kept looking around.

"She's there!", Logan suddenly said and pointed towards an oval container. As they approached further, they recognized the girl, who was hammering against the thick, unbreakable glass.

"Damn it!2, Storm cursed and took a closer look at it. "How do we open that thing?"

Suddenly, Logan groaned and everyone turned around to see him gritting his teeth. "He's…here…!", he said in pain, before he crashed against a wall on the upper level and was pinned against it.

Afraid, the remaining X-Men looked around until they saw Pyro standing on a rising on their right, while Magneto approached on the left. Logan watched the scenery heavily breathing. "Damn it!", he cursed since he hadn't smelled neither of them. He looked at the ground closely on which the others were standing, before he turned his eyes towards the two enemies who were one level above the X-Men. He groaned. The voice in the back of his head was telling him that something was seriously wrong here… Magneto was still pinning him to the wall on the same level as the two Brotherhood members were standing, while the others gathered underneath him. "Peter!", Logan yelled. "You've got to change back! Otherwise he can control you, too!"

"Sorry!", Collossus answered and switched back to his normal form.

Suddenly, Magneto raised his free hand and the ground began to move. In an instant, the X-Men were captured in the middle. Before they could even move, Pyro had spread huge flames everywhere. Helplessly, Logan watched how his friends got trapped…

"Okay, keep calm!", Storm said. She had to do something,…but she couldn't come up with anything useful… She knew the kids were afraid…but what could she do?

"Iceman, attack him!", Cyclops sand and pointed towards Pyro who looked down at them with the most arrogant smile they'd ever seen.

"What about Jubes? We should get her out there first!", Bobby protested.

"She's save in there!"

Storm looked up until her eyes met Logan's. She asked herself what he would do… So far he handled every situation perfectly…

"Storm, you attack Magneto, Iceman attacks Pyro. Hank, try to reach the ladder up there!", Scott said and looked at every X-Men.

"Are you kidding!", Beast asked. "The flames are too huge!"

"Okay, freeze them first!", Scott said to Bobby who looked at him in confusion.

"I thought I should take care of him?", he asked and pointed towards Pyro.

"Watch out!", Logan suddenly yelled and they barely evaded the huge flame, which Pyro had sent into their direction. Cursing, he fixed his eyes on the others. "Damn it, get Jubilee out of that thing!", he yelled angrily. "She's choking to death in there!"

"She's save in there!", Cyclops shot back at him.

"No, Logan is right! She isn't getting any air in there", Hank said worriedly and tried to figure out how he could open the container quickly.

"Damn…", Cyclops cursed.

"Do something!", Storm shouted at him. "You wanted to be the leader, so be one!"

Kitty had her hands on the glass, while she was watching her friend in fear. Bobby shielded another attack of Pyro, before he shot an ice beam back at him. "Could someone please come up with something?"

Logan groaned in pain as his bones were torn apart by Magneto. He met Storm's eyes, noticed how lost she was. The sweat was running down his face, while his mind was thinking… An angry growl escaped his throat as his eyes caught Jubille, who'd already dropped to her knees. "Damn it, Cyke, what are you doing you idiot?", he yelled when he saw that Scott had his hands on his visor. "You gonna kill here you freak!"

"Are you nuts?", Storm shrieked and pushed Scott's hand away.

"We've got to get her out of there, storm. If I blast away the…". He said harshly, but was cut off by her.

"Oh, really?", she shot back sarcastically. "I thought she's safe in there…!"

"Guys, do something!", Bobby suddenly screamed. "I can't stop him anymore!"

Logan snorted and the anger rose within him. If he could only move his arms, he would have cut Cyclops into pieces. He ignored the pain which Magneto caused him to endure and narrowed his eyes. He had to do something… "Furball, go help Collossus to smash that thing and get Jubes out of there! Storm, help Iceman against Pyro. Kitty!", Logan yelled and the girl looked up. "Go through the fire and…"

"Are you out of your mind?", Scott asked furiously.

"You can do it! Trust me!", he continued and ignored Cyclops completely. "Go and try to get your hands on Magneto's helmet!"

"And what am I supposed to do, smart ass?", Cyclops demanded to know angrily. God, how he hated this guy, he thought furiously.

"Just shut up and learn!", Logan yelled back.

Kitty stared into the fire. She's never tried it before… What if she would burn to ashes? Her skin was already burning like hell… She turned around and saw how Storm flew upwards, while Iceman kept Pyro busy, who was shooting heavy flames at them. She saw how Jubilee tried to breathe inside of the container, how she covered her ears and closed her eyes in pain, since Collossus desperately punched against it. Logan trusted her…up to now he'd right… With one last look at him, she ran towards the flames and disappeared.

Logan had his eyes fixed on Magneto, while the noise of the fight underneath them echoed through the room.

"Storm, help me!", Bobby suddenly shouted as flamed hit him hard. Immediately, he changed into his ice form to protect himself.

Storm's eyes glowed white in anger and she attacked Pyro with a whirlwind. "No!", she shrieked, as the storm caught fire and was sent directly back towards her. Bobby reacted immediately. While his hands pointed to the ground, he created an ice rink in the air on which he jumped. Being able to fly with it through the air, he reached her just in time and froze the whirlwind. "Thanks!", she said breathlessly. He smiled at her and with a 180° turn in the air, he glided on his ice rink towards Pyro.

Logan still had his eyes on Magneto. The pain was unbearable and his breathe and heart rate were completely out of control. Still he waited and did his best to ignore it… All of a sudden, two arms appeared through the all right behind the master of magnetism and grabbed his helmet. Surprised, Magneto turned around, letting go of Logan for a second.

One second too long, since the Wolverine had reacted immediately and attacked him with a loud primal scream. Blood splattered against the wall and the leader of the Brotherhood dropped lifelessly to the ground. Heavily breathing, Logan calmed down and took control Wolverine again. He waited for Kitty to reappear. "You alright, kid?"

"Yeah…", the girl nodded, still not being able to realize what just had happened.

He turned his head towards Pyro. Storm and Iceman had managed to trap him in a corner of the room and kept on attacking him. Logan retracted his claws. "Come here, kid!", he said and took Kitty into his arms. She took hold of him with her hands as she realized what he wanted to do. He jumped off the rising right into the fire, just to step out of it a second later. He dropped the girl to the ground and joined Hank and Collossus, who were still working on the container.

Growling, Logan hit his claws against the glass, but left three scratches on it only. The heat within the room became unbearable. Scott looked up to the ceiling, following the pipes which were running there, until he found the right one. While he worked on his visor, Logan cut into the material of the container and sliced it open. Noticing that it wasn't enough, he pushed even harder, ignoring the loud crack in his shoulder as he dislocated it again. His suit looked like as if he had hit a shredder, tearing even more as he pushed his arm muscles to their maximum. With his free hand, Logan pulled Jubilee out of it, who immediately wrapped her arms around him and started to sob heavily. He turned his heads towards the others, while holding her tight. Storm and Iceman had finally managed to knock out Pyro and landed next to him, while Hank and Peter breathed heavily. They winced shortly as Cyclops shot a beam towards the ceiling.

Logan looked up frowning, narrowing his eyes, while he tried to soothe Jubilee. Suddenly, hi eyes widened as he realized that his team mate had hit the wrong pipe accidentally. In slow motion, Logan saw the yellow liquid falling down right towards the fire.

"Damn!", Scott cursed as he realized his mistake.

As the first drop hit the flames, which still surrounded them, they shot high into the air, blew up even more pipes at the ceiling, causing them to mix their liquids into a deadly and explosive substance. As the flames rushed towards the X-Men, Logan quickly looked toward the right corner and yelled "End simulation!" Heavily breathing, they watched as the flames hit them. Suddenly, they became blue and turned into small squares, before they disappeared completely…

Storm swallowed hard and, as the others, tried to calm her racing heart. Jubilee still clung to Logan, who shot deadly looks at Scott. "Congrats, Cyke…", he growled angrily. "You just killed us all!"

Sorry but it took me a bit longer to type up this time. I still had some stuff to do for college. Thanks for all the nice reviews again! I still have to figure out who number 100 was. Hope you liked this chapter. I said the next one will be shocking, but had to change it, since the next one is quiet long again. So, I think Chapter 30 will end with the cliffie… ; ) Hope you enjoyed reading! See ya!