Mutant Heart and Mutant Soul Chapter 5
We were all partnered up in our little groups.
Without question Wolverine and I partnered up together. I let him change into his costume first before the two of us headed down into our underground base bellow the mansion.
Beast and Jubilee also went down there with us but went off in a totally different direction.
As Logan and I were running through the corridors down there the same question was going through my mind.
Finally not long after the two of us started our search down in the base I finally popped out the question.
"Logan how do you know Morph anyway and what did he mean by leaving him behind to die," I said.
We now came to a stop in our search. We were now in the middle of a small corridor and we stopped right there when I asked that question.
Logan didn't speak for a couple of seconds and it wasn't long before I had gotten an answer out of him. Not to mention it was a very long one too. He leaned against one of the walls and let out a deep sigh. There was a sad look in his eyes as he did so.
He said '"It's a long story."
I leaned against the other wall in front of him and looked at him with a soft look in my eyes.
I said "I'm listening."
"We still need to search," he said.
I said "The others are helping out. I'm sure one of them will find him before we do."
Logan looked at me with a stern look still with those sad eyes. I just stared at him right back.
It seemed like hours, but he actually agreed to what I asked.
He said "All right I'll tell you so you'd better make yourself comfortable."
A wide smile appeared on my face and I did just as he asked. A moment later Logan started saying the whole story.
He said "I met him a couple of years ago. He arrived almost two years after I came here. He arrived half-starved and his powers were unstable he was changing nonstop until the Professor taught him to control his powers. You may have already noticed but like Mystique he's a shape shifter. It took him a while to learn how to control it and the Charles was the only one to teach him how. Unlike Mystique he keeps to a single form most of the time the one he was born with. Although he always had that craziness about him."
Logan actually smiled and chuckled after he said this to me. He then went on with history and that solemn look now returned to his face.
"Now as for the leaving him to die thing that's a totally different story," he said, his face falling a bit.
His words had caught some of my attention before and he had it fully because of what he had just said.
He said "It was a year before you came just when we found Jubilee. You see she was captured by one of our enemies so we came up with a plan to rescue her from Senator Kelly."
That surprised me a little bit.
I said "Wait a minute I thought President Kelly is someone that helps mutants."
"Oh he is now he just wasn't back then. Morph, Hank, and I were the ones chosen to go in there and get her out. Our mission was simple really it was just to go in there as quietly as possible as if we were ghosts. Unfortunately our mission didn't go as planned. We had to fight our way inside the building where they were holding Jubilee. There was too much security guarding the entrances. We did manage to get Jubilee out of there," said Logan.
He got even more surprise out of me when he said this it was seen clearly on my face.
"That's great, your mission was a success," I said.
Logan said "Not really." "What was so bad about it," I said.
Logan said "We lost Morph in the mission or at least we thought we did."
I was now feeling sorry for Logan I could see the pain that was building up in his face. Instead of saying anything I let him continue on with his story.
"On our way out Scott and Jean arrived with Rogue inside the black bird to pick us up and in case we needed back up. Their instincts were right we did need them back there. The three of them hid the black bird somewhere in the trees while they were coming to get us. Unfortunately for us enemies were hidden in the shadows. Without warning giant robots called sentinels came out of the trees and started attacking us with their lasers," said Logan.
Another short pause came between his stories again.
"I didn't seen them coming I was so stuck on getting Jubilee out of there that I didn't see them coming, but Morph did. I wasn't paying attention and Morph saw one coming straight for me. He tried to stop me before I got any closer, but I couldn't hear him. Morph took the blow that was meant for me. We were soon surrounded by a lot of sentinels and Scott gave us the order to pull out of there. I wanted to go back for Morph. Scott wouldn't let me and he had Hank knock me out so I wouldn't be able to go back. We thought he was dead," his voice broke as he said this.
This managed to surprise me even more. I'd never seen him lose control over him like this before. He said "I wanted to go back for him I really did, but there was nothing I could do."
Without a word I went over to my friend and gave him a warm and soft embrace to comfort him in this hard time. It surprised him very much and he returned the embrace that I gave him.
This didn't last very long, feeling embarrassed we both broke the embrace at the exact same time. Feeling awkward Logan and I returned to acting serious and went back to our mission.
I said "So where do you think he will be hiding? You know him better than I do."
"Well hiding is exactly what I'd think he'd do. But because of the circumstances and how he's changed I think he'd rather run away than stick around. So he'd be able to fight again when our guard isn't as high as it is now."
"How is he going to get out of here then? There's so many of us he can't get out of here unnoticed," I asked.
He said "He'd want to get out of here as quickly as possible."
At that moment when he said that a strange look came upon his face. Not a second later Logan grabbed my hand and he started running me down another corridor.
I said "Where are you taking me?"
Logan didn't stop running he just kept pulling me along with him. He said "We have to hurry I think I know where he's going to go."
Since the speed that we were moving at was so fast we arrived at our destination in record time which was the hanger bay. This didn't really surprise me when we came to this place. Logan said that Morph would want to make a quick getaway. So what would be faster than one of our mini jets or the black bird. As soon as we got there we hid inside the black bird for when Morph arrived and tried to use it to get away. Once we were inside of the black bird the two of us waited patiently inside until our guest of honor arrived there. We didn't have to wait long for him to arrive there.
I heard a door open somewhere outside the black bird. Not long after that we heard faint and fast footsteps. Even though Logan had the best hearing because of his powers I was the first one to hear them.
I made a movement to head outside of the black bird to attack only Logan held out his arm to stop me before I even made a move. He also held a finger to his lips for silence he noticed the same thing I did. Whoever was inside the hanger bay was heading straight for the black bird.
Logan now held up his hand ready to signal me when it's time to attack. I didn't have to wait long for that to happen. A button was pressed outside of the black bird and the steps that led inside of it lowered right out. Logon dropped his hand as the signal just when our guest of honor was coming up the stairs.
Morph was shocked to see the two of us standing there in front of him. His eyes widened and he backed up down the steps as Logan and I were heading down to meet him. Logan spoke quite calmly to Morph trying to make sure that he didn't run odd or try anything again.
He said "It's over Morph come along quietly."
"Never," shouted Morph.
Morph transformed into a perfect duplication of Logan wearing his costume and he attacked us just as we reached the bottom of the steps. Logan pushed me clear of it and with a snarl he fended off Morphs attack with his own claws. I knew that we were going to need help incase Morph turned into something bigger than what Logan was.
So even though I didn't have any of those mind powers I called out to the Professor with my thoughts. "Charles!"
Xavier heard my cry for help.
Charles back straightened his back when he heard my cry. "Huh, Silverstream."
Hearing his response I spoke back to him through my mind. "Professor Morph is in the hanger bay Logan is holding him off but I don't know how long that will last. Please send help." I then broke off contact with him.
Xavier called out to the rest of the x-men and told them to head for the hanger bay to give us a helping hand.
"X-men the search is over Wolverine and Silverstream have found Morph in the hanger bay. They need your assistance in catching him."
They all stopped in their search and headed for the hanger bay in the underground base.
In the meantime Wolverine was still fighting against Morph or more like defending himself against him. He didn't want to have to hurt his friend after all he still cared for him. I was watching this from behind the steps of the black bird waiting for my chance to come out and attack. But not before I figured out which Wolverine was the fake.
Eventually one of them saw me standing behind the steps and called out to me. He said "Silverstream you have to attack now."
My eyes widened a little bit at this but I didn't attack just yet. I still didn't know which one to use my power on.
I said "Who should I blind? I've got to stop one of them but which one?"
A moment later the other Wolverine spoke up and I got the answer that I needed. He said "You've got to blast us both it's the only way to get Morph." Once that was said I knew what to do.
Without hesitation I used my power to blind the one I thought was the fake. While my light was in his eyes this gave the person I thought was Wolverine the chance to attack the fake.
Unfortunately things didn't turn out as I had intended them to. The one I had blinded was the real Wolverine all along.
Just as Morph attacked the real Wolverine he turned to me with thumbs up. Confirming that he was the fake Wolverine he used his real laugh and that weird laugh came out of his throat.
"Thanks a lot," he said, changing back into his original form. He changed back into his usual form. He headed for one of the mini jets instead of the blackbird.
Instead of going after him I went over to Wolverine to check his injuries. At the same time the others came rushing in ready to stop Morph from leaving this place. They were too late Morph had gotten to one of our mini jets and was already flying out of the base.
"Morph, wait!" Scott tried to stop the jet before it could take off he was too late. It had already left the hanger bay.
Wolverine was coming to again within moments. He said "What happened?"
"Morph left taking one of our mini jets with him," Gambit said.
I said "I'm sorry Wolverine. I thought the real one would tell me to attack both of you not just one."
Wolverine put a comforting hand on my shoulder. "Take it easy Silver, I would've said the same thing he did. Morph knows me only too well," he said.
Beast said "It can't be helped now Morphs gone but he'll be back."
"And we'll be waiting," Storm said.
Wolverine said "Not all of us." We all turned to Wolverine when he said this to us.
Jubilee said "What are you talking about Wolfe?"
"I'm going after Morph," he answered.
"What? But you just got back," I said.
Wolverine said "I know that Silver, but I still feel that I'm the one responsible for what happened to him."
"That's not cool Wolverine, you know it wasn't your fault," Gambit said.
Wolverine wasn't listening he was heading for one of the other two mini jets. I followed him straight over to it.
As he was adjusting into his seat I tried to talk him out of going alone. "You're not going alone," I said.
He said "Yes I am."
"You shouldn't go after him alone let me come with you," I said.
He said "No!" With that he put on the speed and blasted out of the hanger bay from underground.
The jets wings barely missed me as it was leaving the base.
Hank managed to catch me before I could hit the ground. I looked up at Beast with a smile on my face. "Thanks Hank," I said.
I just stared out of the hanger bay doors where Logan left in the mini jet without a good bye. Once I got back onto my feet I shook my fist in that general direction. "That guy drives me crazy."
Some of the other snorted at what I said. I gave them a very stern look and they silenced at once.
The Professor now pressed a button in the control room so he could speak to us through a microphone. "Is everyone all right down there," he said.
Scott said "Yes but unfortunately Morph got away."
"Not only that Logan followed him on one of the mini jets," Storm said.
Charles sighed and spoke softly into the microphone. He said "Yes I know I've been watching everything from the control room."
"We're sorry Professor we failed," Rogue said.
Charles said "It's all right none of you failed we've just had a little bit of back luck today."
"Yeah try a lot of bad luck." I gave Jubilee a little punch in the shoulder when she said this. "Hey." She looked at me with a pained look as she was rubbing her shoulder.
Jean said "Knock it off you two."
Jean got Jubilee to look away from me and she still had that pained look on her face.
Xavier said "All of you still have injuries from a few hours ago. Go treat them in the infirmary and we'll all have an early dinner."
"I second that," Gambit said.
Laughing we all left the hanger bay together and headed for the infirmary to tend to the injuries that we had gotten by Morph before in the Professors study. Our injuries weren't that serious so it didn't take long for us to tend to them. Some of them had to be bandaged to make sure they wouldn't get infected by anything.
The Professor had prepared dinner for us inside the dining hall. This came as a surprise to us because the Professor couldn't really do much in his hover chair. It became obvious she used his powers to make us this meal especially in such little time as what we gave him.
Beast said "Charles this is astonishing how you made all of this?"
"Yeah we didn't know you could cook," Jubilee said.
Charles smiled at their words. "Thank you I only had time to make a simple meal so please enjoy."
And so we did just that.
Even though it was simple Charles had made an excellent meal of what was left of our food. We all complimented him greatly on it and he gave us his thanks when we gave them to him.
After our meal was finished we all went on with our routines. Some of us were tired from today's events and went to bed early because of them including myself.
Half of the night I laid awake in my bed worrying about Wolverine and how he was going to deal with Morph when he caught up to him again and. To do what he had to do in order to bring Morph back to his sanity and the x-men.