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Chapter 15: Face Off, Part I
Storm, Scott, Jean and Kitty walked down the ramp of the X-jet. Before them was parked the first truck, its driver already standing beside it. Even though the tunnel was dark, they could still see her, mainly because of her glowing cat-like eyes that seemed to reflect her want to kill. Jean stepped forward, "I'll keep her busy, you guys go find Kurt."
"We can't leave you here alone," Scott said, "If Jack is nearby he might use you. I'm staying." The red head couldn't argue with the older teen, so she allowed him to stay. Storm and Kitty nodded to each other and began to run past the woman. She didn't seem to care about them, her hair lifted a little when the two other mutants ran past. Turning back to her opponents, she gave a smile of amusement, deciding that the battle would be quick.
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"I vill take care of zese pests!" Urs said, pulling on his black gloves, and looking towards the copter as three mutants exited it. One was in a wheel chair, another was larger than the other two and rather burly, the third was nothing more than a teenage girl. Who, as he put his on, took off her gloves. "You go help your precious Cat." Von just stared at Urs for a moment, not sure they should underestimate the mutants. But when the other man didn't seem to want to change his mind, the Spider retreated.
Urs watched as Von ran towards one of the trucks. Using his four insect legs, the man pulled himself up on top of one of the trucks and began to crawl away. Smirking at his fellow perform, Urs put on a hard face as he began to approach the ones whom had stopped their movement. His muscles flexed under the tight T-shirt.
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"Robin," the girl was caught off guard as she had been watching what was going on with Catrina. Looking up, she saw six eyes staring down on her. "Von?" the man leapt from the front of her truck and landed next to the girl. All four of his insect legs pricked up, ready to fight. "Vhere's Catrina?" The girl pointed to the front of the trucks. When Von looked around he saw four mutants standing before her, then two came running towards them.
"Alright, listen to me. Guard Kurt-"
"Hov do you knov about Kurt?"
"Radios darling, radios." Von pulled Robin to behind the truck, so the two mutants wouldn't see her. Lifting up the flap to the back of the truck, Von allowed the girl to get in. "Here," one of the insect legs picked something out of the corner of the tuck bed and handed it to the girl. Robin took it and held it in her hands as the flap closed and Von shot two strands of his web to the ceiling of the tunnel before pulling himself up.
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Storm and Kitty moved down the first truck, "We should check like all of them!" Kitty said, turning to the back of the truck. Storm stopped and walked up beside the girl. As Kitty went to lift the flap, a sudden burst of white caught the girl and sent her to the ground. Struggling at first with the sticky white substance, the teen remembered her power and fazed through the web. Helping her up, Storm soon found herself pinned against the wall of the tunnel, the web now around her.
Kitty turned around to help Storm, her senses on full alert, when four insect like arms grabbed onto her shoulders and pulled her towards the ceiling. Becoming a bit panicked, the brunette forgot about her powers completely.
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"We must hurry, I can sense Jack, he is close by." Xavier said, while beginning to move into the tunnel. A tense Wolverine and angered Rogue followed him. As soon as they were into the tunnel, the light went almost out. Leaving them in a dark space. They could still see the trucks and a bit of light coming out of the other side of the tunnel, but it would be hard to track a moving person. Fortunately, Urs wasn't one to scurry around.
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Catrina stood there before the two teens, her sly grin fading suddenly as she flicked up her hands and spread her fingers like claws. Giving a quick hiss, the woman ran forward. Cyclops twisted the knob on his visor and sent a beam towards the Russian beauty. However, she was a professional, and easily dodged the beam by ducking close to the ground. Stopping as the beam went over her head, the woman gave another hiss and leapt from her crouching position. Jean put two fingers to one temple and held out the other. Stopping Catrina in mid flight.
Wriggling from Jean's grip, Catrina fell the ground, bending her knees as she landed. Keeping her head down, so her hair covered her face, Catrina slowly stood with one arm in front and the other behind her. Suddenly snapping up her head, the woman's back hand swung forward producing a knife that went straight for Scott's visor.
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Wolverine grabbed the professor's chair and pulled him to the side as Rogue jumped out of the way of the truck as it fell down in between them. The driver in the seat hung upside down from his seat belt, blood running from his head. The wheels of the large vehicle spun a bit as the man's foot fell from the peddle. The front end of the truck was completely smashed in, as if hit by a large force. Smoke was produced from the destroyed engine, causing the little vision the X-men had to become even smaller. However, they could not miss the deep laughter coming from inside the smoke, as a large figure emerged from it.
Cracking his knuckles, Urs stepped forward, cracking his knuckles as he laughed through his teeth. Standing on top of the damaged truck, the burly man looked to the right, then to the left. "Zis is vhat Jack vas afraid of?" he asked, rather sarcastically. "Vell, he shall not fear the brat's friends any longer." Gritting his teeth, the man looked towards Rogue first, who stood in a fighting stance with her hands ready to take hold of the man.
Wolverine took his opening as he had done with Jack. Only this time, there would be no healing for his opponent. Leaping from Xavier's side, the man landed just behind the equally large man. Drawing out his claws, Wolverine swung at Urs's unprotected back. However, the German performer heard Wolverine land and jumped forward, off the truck.
Logan cursed as Urs landed right in front of Rogue. The girl was about to charge forward with her ungloved hand when the man suddenly banged his knuckles together. Feeling a sudden force hit her, Rogue was slammed against the wall. When the force let go, she fell to her knees, her ears ringing and her vision becoming blurry. Suddenly feeling a bit woozy, Rogue fell to the ground unconscious.
Smirking at how easy that was, Urs turned back up to the main threat. The man upon the truck with the silver claws. The German stared at the Canadian before he hit his knuckles together and sent the truck flying towards the wall of the tunnel, right on the professor. Wolverine didn't have enough time to react and fell on his stomach atop of the truck. As the vehicle slammed into the wall, it caused bits of the tunnel to fall from the ceiling.
Shaking off the impact, Wolverine looked behind him at where the professor was. "Charles!" he called and jumped down from the truck. When a voice came to him, "It's alright Logan, I'm fine. Apparently, the force of the impact caused the truck to slide on an angel. I'm trapped, but not injured. Take care of Rogue." Wolverine sent a confirmation to Xavier before he turned back to the man whom had caused the accident.
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Scott couldn't react in time to the knife, but fortunately Jean could as she pushed the teen out of the way. The knife went flying and hit the side of the X-jet. Showing her fangs in anger as the knife fell to the ground with a clang, Catrina charged once again. Scott sent another beam her way, but the woman knew his tricks and jumped high in the air, doing a front flip of an acrobat and landing behind the two teens.
Before either one could turn around to face her, Catrina fell to the ground and kicked out their legs from under them. As they fell, she leapt back and picked up her weapon. As Jean and Cyclops began to rise to their feet, Catrina produced a second knife from her boot. Her long hair wavered in the wind that blew in from the front of the jet.
Glaring at the two teens as if they were her prey, she met their eyes when they turned around. Both of them were almost surprised to see the hatred and determination in the woman's eyes as she looked upon them. Her face was beautiful, but dangerous. Suddenly, her lips broke into a fierce smile as her hands came up tossed both the knives at the teens.
Scott shot a beam at the one heading for him, as Jean lifted herself into the air. Unfortunately, the red head wasn't fast enough as the weapon struck the side of her leg. The knife then continued and broke the glass of the truck behind them. As Jean fell to the ground, Scott ran to her side. She winced when he touched the shallow cut on her thigh. "Hold on, this is going to hurt," closing her eyes and gritting her teeth, Jean allowed Scott to close the wound.
Turning down his visor to minimum power, the teen shot out a small beam that burned Jean's wound shut, stopping the bleeding but producing pain. "C'mon," Scott said, lifting the red head up as her arm wrapped around his shoulder. Limping on one leg, the girl let go of Scott and placed her hand on the hood of the truck for balance. Scott would have liked to get her to the jet, but that was not an option as Catrina blocked the way.
Turning back to the Russian woman, the teen was ready to fight with full power as he turned up his visor. It was obvious that Catrina was ready to kill, so they had to be prepared to take on the ferocity in which she would attack. However, as Scott got ready to fire, he noticed something. Catrina's face had softened. It no longer held the hatred he had seen, but a bit of understanding.
Lowering his hand from his visor, Scott tried to figure out the sudden change in her feelings. However, this was short lived as Catrina tensed up and began to run for him. Scott raised his hand again and aimed another beam for Catrina. This time, the woman wasn't as lucky, as the red beam hit her stomach when she tried to jump over it.
Flying back into the jet, Catrina hissed in pain. Her head banged up against the metal as her back took most of the impact. Falling to the ground face first, the woman just laid there. Her hair strewn about her head. Thinking she was unconscious for the moment, Scott took hold of Jean and carried to the jet. Climbing up ramp, he got right inside the door way, before a clawed hand reached up and took hold of his ankle.
Dropping the red head in his arms, Cyclops was suddenly pulled out of the jet by Catrina, her strength exceeding Scott's expectations.
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Robin felt the item that Von had given her and found a knob at the base of it. Turning the it, she found the object to be an electric lantern. Looking down at it for a moment, the girl turned around the back of the truck bed. Being startled by the two pairs of eyes on her, Robin jolted the lantern back. Recognizing both faces however, she moved forward, crawling on her hands and knees until she sat next to the cage that held a long lost friend.
"Vhen did you get in here?" Robin asked, looking at the man sitting next to the cage. Jack simply smiled as he took off his top hat and pointed up towards the window that allowed one to see into the back of the truck from the cab. It was closed now, and a curtain drawn over it from inside the cab. "Magic mein vogel," the man said in his calm voice.
Nodding in understanding, the girl then put the lantern down between Jack and the cage so that she could see both of them. Looking through the bars, Robin's blue eyes came upon a solemn Kurt. He was sitting as far away from both of them as he could, his knees up to his chest and his head resting up them. His tail was curled around one of the bars, releasing the anger he felt.
"Hov are you?" Robin asked, wanting to talk to Kurt, but knowing she had to be careful around Jack. The blue mutant simply looked up at her, then turned his head away quickly. "He's not talking, to eizer of us." Jack said. Robin looked to the man, then back to the locked up mutant, thinking 'I vonder vho's fault zat is?' Sitting with one side against the cage and her back against the wall of the truck bed, Robin allowed them to continue in silence.
Then there was the sound of a loud bang further down the tunnel and another. Then the cry of a girl just outside the truck and then a few moments of silence, before there was a loud thud right atop the truck. Grabbing the lantern, and holding it close, Robin looked up at the top of the truck. Jack looked as well, then stood from his spot. "My guess is zat Kurt's friends have decided to start a fight." At his words, the blue teen looked up at him, his eyes wide in wonder. Seeing the movement from the corner of his eye, Jack looked down upon him and gave a half smile. "Machen nicht sein besorgt, I'm sure zey vill not suffer."
Kurt snarled at the man and leapt from his corner of the cage. His gloved fingers wrapped around the bars of the cage as he pulled himself closer. Chuckling, Jack began to walk towards the end of the truck bed. Lifting the flap, "I vill be back," the man jumped down and disappeared from their sight.
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A/N: So… Whatcha think? C'mon people, you gotta review on this. Don't ya have any questions? Anything! Please, I'm begging you! REVIEW! Oh, maybe I should leave the outcome of the fights entirely up to you… nah. Cause no one will review. :,( please REVIEW.