Explosions and Drama

Chapter 22

General Tyler stood amongst his technicians, watching a satellite video of Logan. Tyler saw Logan take down Jubilee, for a moment he was extremely pleased, until he saw Victor Creed hurling Logan off of the cliff. Once both parties disappeared into the wilderness, the satellite lost track of them.

Tyler stood there, wandering thinking, 'How did Logan lose to an animal like Creed? Normally he wins… He must be starting to feel his age. What puzzles me more is why Creed is so protective of this girl. I thought that he hated her…'

"Sir!" said one of the technicians, breaking General Tyler's thoughts.

"What is it?"

"Satellites have picked up on Logan's trail again. Do you wish to see the footage?"

"Not unless he does something, other than his daily routines."

"Yes, sir."

"If anyone needs me I'll be in my office."

"Yes, sir!"

Meanwhile…

An hour had past and Logan was still hot on Creed's trail. He made up lost time by running as fast as he could. In about fifteen minutes he was a hundred feet behind them. Their scent was strong, until the winds changed, which warned Creed that Logan was catching up fast.

"Damn!" cursed Creed, "The runt's right on my tail! If I wasn't carrying the frail I would have reached the U.S. boarder by now."

Hearing Creed's words Jubilee opened her eyes, "Put me down."

"What?" he looked down at her.

"Put me down. I can run on my own."

"Yer still weak, frail, an' I ain't puttin' ya down just for the runt to snatch ya away."

"Don't worry… I have enough energy to run."

"No."

"Do you want Logan to catch us?"

"I don't even want him near us."

"Then put me down and let me run on my own."

He put her down and growled, "Fine. But if he catches you don't expect me to come save yer ass again."

"I never asked you to save me in the first place." She stretched, until her back made popping noises, and then bolted. Still looking forward she yelled back at Creed, "Ya better start running, Creed. Otherwise the big bad Wolverine will get ya."

"Shut up, frail!" he yelled and bolted off after her.

A little ways behind…

Logan heard Jubilee's voice yelling at Creed. He sniffed the air to make sure he was still following them, when he was satisfied he began to run even faster.

Up ahead…

Jubilee had run for fifteen minutes, already she was getting tired, but she would not let Creed know.

Creed glance at her and noticed that something wasn't right. Before she was running just fine, but now she was struggling. Every once in a while he saw her loose her footing and then regain it. She was tired, but she refused to quit, and kept on going. Creed looked at her in awe for this.

They had reached an opening in the woods. Creed stopped, seeing that there was a large lake in front of them, but Jubilee was too tired to see it and fell right on in. She had fallen in the deepest part of the water, the cold water woke her, and she swam back up to the surface.

"Jesus! It's cold!" she cried.

Creed laughed at her, but stopped when he caught Logan's scent, "Shit! He's coming!"

"Fuck! What do we do!"

All of the sudden Logan popped out of the bushes with his claws extended, "I think surrendering sounds like a good idea."

"Oh, no…" she murmured, drifting backwards a little bit.

"Back off, runt! The frails my property!" growled Creed, getting into fighting stance.

Logan immediately got into fighting stance as well, "Forget it, Creed! I've got my orders."

"From who? Cue Ball ain't got that kind of balls to send ya after the frail like this."

"You're right, Creed. Charles didn't send me."

"Then who?"

"General Tyler from Weapon X, so ya better surrender now while you still can. If ya don't, then Tyler will track ya don't by satellite, which probably has a lock on us right now."

"Right now, huh?" said Jubilee, looking up at the sky. She aimed her arms up at the sky, "Let's give him an eye full of his handy work." Her body glowed a light red and then a large blast of red and black plasma blasts blasted threw the sky and threw the ozone layer, taking out the satellite that had been tracking them all this time.

All satellite images went black at the Weapon X base and when the personnel informed General Tyler of this he was not very happy.

Creed smiled at Jubilee, then returned his attention back to Logan still smiling, "Well, runt. It doesn't look like Tyler will be watching us anytime soon, so why don't ya do yerself a favor an' turn around an' head back to Xaviers."

Logan growled angrily, he looked dead at Jubilee, and stalked over to her, "I ain't leavin' without her."

Creed stepped in between them, "Ya want her? Then ya gotta go through me!"

"I was hopin' you would say that." Logan smiled and slashed at the larger man, penetrating the both skin and bone.

Creed stumbled backwards holding his chest, extending his own claws, and returned the slash. He slashed his claws down the front of Logan's face and across his eyes. Logan stumbled backwards, screaming, and holding his face. Creed laughed manically and kicked him down. He kicked him again as hard as he could. The forced of the kick sent Logan hurling back into a line of trees, two trees broke, and he got stuck in the third. Creed stalked over towards him, but stopped when Jubilee called to him.

"Creed, let's just go while we can!"

"Not yet, frail. I have some unfinished business with this punk."

Jubilee swan towards the shore, got out, and ran up him, grabbing a hold of his arm, pulling him towards, "Come on, Creed! Let's go already!"

Annoyed, he turned, and back handed her cheek very hard. She fell backwards a few feet, holding her red cheek; looking at him in rage.

"Now, stay down and behave! Otherwise I'll take my anger out on you." Just as he said that, Logan popped up behind him and slammed his claws into Creed's back. Creed roared in pain and fell forwards, "Get this monkey offa my back!"

Jubilee raised her hands at Logan, but then she dropped them, unable to bring herself to harm the one man who had meant the world to her, even if he was going to sell her out.

"Bitch! You better blast him or else I'll go after yer friends an' kill em' right in front of ya!"

At these words Jubilee did as she was told and blasted Logan, trying as hard as she could to hold back on her powers. The blast was pure white and had enough force to send Logan flying for miles through the trees. A tear rolled down the side of her cheek as she saw him disappear. Wiping the tear away she walked over to Creed and knelt down in front of him.

"Are you okay?"

Creed's hand shot up and grabbed a hold of her neck. He yanked her down on the ground to where she was lying on her back and pulled her towards him. His nose almost touching her, he growled at her, "Don't ever disobey me again! When I tell you to do something, you better do it! Got it?" she gulped, but did not reply, then he lifted her up a bit and slammed her back down very hard, "I said do you got it!"

"I got it! I got it!" she cried.

He let go of her neck and rolled over onto his back, which he really regretted, then quickly sat up. He saw the pathway that she had made and then at her, "We're you holding back?"

"I-I didn't want to kill him."

"Yer gonna have ta get over that fear, frail. One of these days, he might put ya in a situation where you'll have no choice but to kill him."

She rolled over and pushed herself onto her feet. Walking over to the water, she sat down on the edge, lowering her head in shame and in sadness. "I'm sorry."

Creed's ears twitched and he turned to look at her, "What was that?"

"I'm sorry…" she repeated, "I-It's just… Hard."

He looked at her with no expression, stood up, and walked past her along the bank shore. "Come on. We've got a ways to go."

She stood and followed, "Where are we going now?"

"To another safe house. Only this time in the U.S. Weapon X should have a hard time finding us there, specially with their satellite down now."