Deal With the Devil

Chapter 18

Wolverine was riding his motorcycle on the highway at 3'o clock in the morning. It was late so there wasn't really anybody on the roads at all.

After Jubilee had left the mansion he finally began to calm down. He regretted his words to Jubilee, he wanted to say that he was sorry, but his pride wouldn't let him. Especially since she got herself involved with Sabertooth.

He looked down at his watch to check the time, he sighed, "It's late and the Professor wants all of us to get some rest in case something big happens. I guess I better head on back now." he turned the motorcycle around sharply and headed in the opposite direction that he was originally going. He was about half a mile down the road when he was suddenly blown away by the air force of a military chopper, "What the hell?!"

The helicopter hovered above the ground about 20 feet in the air. The men inside the metal craft turned four spot lights on him. Then suddenly a male voice boomed loudly from a mega phone that was inside the craft, "Wolverine! This is Weapon X. We have you surrounded. Surrender now and we will not fire on you or your motorcycle."

"What makes ya think that I'm gonna surrender without a fight?" he roared back.

"You have no choice. If you don't surrender willingly right now, then we will radio our men who are stationed at the Mansion, and tell them to trigger the bombs that they planted all around the Mansion. It's your call, Wolverine."

If it was one thing that he hated more than Sabertooth, it was being backed into a corner, with only two choices of escaped end badly. He growled irritably and surrendered, waiting for the chopper to land, and for Weapon X's soldiers to come and take him away. When they brought him inside of the chopper, he was surprised to find that they didn't bother trying to put him into restraints. Curious, he scanned the men that surrounded him, until he spotted one that wasn't an ordinary soldier. It was a man that he didn't recognize.

General Tyler walked up to Wolverine and greeted him with an extended hand. "You must be, Wolverine. I'm General Tyler. I'm glad that we finally get to meet each other."

Wolverine stared at the hand as if it was something so filthy that even he wouldn't want to touch it. He glared into General Tyler's eyes and growled, "Cut the mumbo jumbo crap, Tyler. Get to the point and tell me what you want with me!"

Tyler smiled a wicked smile, "What would you say if I told you that there was a way for Weapon X to leave you alone once and for all. No more surprise visits. No more bull shit kidnappings. Just peace and quiet. As if none of this ever happened."

"I'd say that you're full of it."

"What I have to offer you, Wolverine, is no lie. All's you would have to do is one little favor for me."

"What's that?"

"An experiment of ours has been stolen a certain someone that you know. He worked with you, Maverik, and Silver Fox back in the day."

"Sabertooth." he said the name in an angry growl.

"Yes. He has our experiment and I believe he plans to use her for his own advantages."

"Who is it?"

"How good of terms are you on with this person?"

"Who is it?" he repeated.

"I believe you know her as… Jubilee."

His eyes widened, "What?!"

"Originally we were after Sabertooth from the start, but found her instead at one of his hidden cabins up in Canada."

"You mean to tell me that she's still with him?!"

"I suppose so. You should have seen the way she looked at him when he came and stole her from us." In the back of General Tyler's mind he was eagerly, but slowly trying to get Wolverine riled up. "One of our surviving professors informed me of something interesting that she said before they left the base."

"What?"

"I believe that they said that they heard the young girl tell Sabertooth that she was happy to see him and that she even loved him." General Tyler paused for a moment to watch Wolverine's facial expressions change from anger to shock to hurt and then to anger again. "There is something else you should know, Wolverine."

"What?"

"We were doing tests on her with an experimental truth serum. We couldn't make out too much of what she was saying, but I distinctly heard her say something about killing someone by the name of Kitty and Amiko."

At these words, Wolverine knew that Jubilee would never say such things, but the grudge that he held against her and Creed was stronger. He looked up at Tyler and said in a deadly voice, "When do I begin?"