The Right Cause
Chapter 3
Teamwork gets more done
"Well, here we are." Kitty says unenthusiastically at the deteriorating house. "I can't say it's much. There is a reason that no one has lived here. It's supposed to be haunted, and not nicely." Kitty says nervously giggling.
"We have some work ahead, yes?" Piotr asks placing his large right hand on her shoulder. "Do not worry Katya, we shall get this done."
"Petey be right, Remy thinks dat we can do dis. We can tear down the house, or we can fix it. Either way, Remy has his ways of getting things."
"Well, since the once white walls are now peeling, and you have white paint instead of flowers trimming the house, and that staircase looks like it won't survive for long, I say we rebuild." Bobby says surveying the collapsing house.
"Well, I can blow it up to high heaven, if that is the plan, and then we just need some cover for a while, while we rebuild this place. You have a ton of land Kit." Tabby says smiling in awe. "How come you never told me you were rich?"
"Well, had you known, what would you have done when your father was making you rob places?" Kitty asks sternly. "Plus, I don't have money, my family does, and they currently don't wanna see me in danger, so they are willing to fund whatever we need."
"You're right, as usual, I'm not sure what my dad would have done." Tabby agrees sadly.
"You mean we have no budget?" Jubilee asks slowly.
"Nope, none. We just have to make sure that we can live once the house goes down." Kitty says slowly nodding.
"I was not raised with your modern conveniences, I can rock this. How I was raised was in a mud and timber hut, and I know that Piotr and Kurt didn't have it much better." Amara says looking around at the forest that borders the land. Let's split into teams. We need a few things, and a few of them tonight. Firstly, we need water, and we need fuel for a fire. We also need to erect some type of shelter temporarily, and food would be a very nice idea, even though we have some, it won't last long." Amara says placing her hands on her hips, full of pride that her childhood lifestyle was coming in handy.
"Ok, sounds good." Kitty agrees quickly. "Remy, Tabby and Kurt, I need you three to go into the house, and figure out how to make it fall quickly. Kurt, if that house starts to fall, get them out, fast. Pietro, scan the land, try to find a source of food and fresh water, then come back to me, but get something to get a fire going while you're out there, and bring back enough to last a while."
"Got it." Pietro says zipping off into the woods.
"Well, let's try this house. If a thief and acrobat and a juvenile delinquent can't make this house fall, I'm not sure what can." Tabby jokes as the three head toward the three story monster that was falling apart at the seams.
"Piotr, you can knock down some trees, right? We need ones that can be used to make temporary housing, since there is no way that I'm using my parents money to make a log cabin. Rogue, Amara and Jubes, I need you three to find a decently secluded spot to put up a few cabins. They aren't going to be very big, but we will be using them for a while. Plan on two or three, and then get back with Piotr and show him, and get his opinion, and he can get the logs there. Does that work?" Kitty asks rubbing her temples.
"Da, I can get the wood, and then help them choose a location." Piotr says nodding slowly before walking off and changing into his metal form.
"So what are we doing?" Bobby asks as Rogue, Jubilee and Amara walk off.
"Oh, um…" Kitty stalls thinking for a second. "I know fire isn't your thing, but can you try to get some wood? Please tell me you were in boy scouts and you know how to start a fire, right?" Kitty asks hopefully.
"Of course I can start a fire, and get wood, but what are you going to do?"
"I am waiting on Pietro, and then he and I are going to go into town, talk to my grandfather, and get some supplies. We may come back with a truck, I think we need it." Kitty says nodding to herself. "Oh, and then we're going to need some kind of defense, so think on that. People will be able to find us, but they won't come yet. They will hopefully wait a few days, but I'm going to get contractors to put up a solid fence around the entire property. It will be up by the end of the week." Kitty says smiling at the shrugging teen.
"Have fun." Bobby says walking off as Pietro runs up.
"Found water, there is some food, but there isn't much, we could clear some land for crops, looks good enough to do it, you'll still have to ask the resident farmer. The woods to the west are really open, so you should probably fix that, saw a couple bears we should probably take care of quick before Jubilee and Amara freak out, or Piotr decides to wrestle them. All in all, not much living off the land yet." Pietro says dropping his large, heavy armful of random wood.
"What do you say to a thirty foot fence?" Kitty asks giggling. "I mean thirty foot metal encased in cement, with an additional three feet of highly electric fence on top?"
"I like that idea, but leave defense to Remy. If anyone can find a way past a defense it's him. Steel is not a good idea. Magneto would rip through that in a second. The cement won't stop his control of the metal underneath, and Juggernaut could just rip through your cement. Logan and Sabertooth could both probably scale the wall, come up with a new plan."
"Damnit Pietro, I hate you." Kitty seethes. "Nothing can keep Juggernaut out if he wants in. I say we do concrete enforced brick. I don't trust either of those on their own."
"I still say ask Remy." Pietro says sighing in boredom.
"Fine! Go get him them, and you go help Kurt and Tabby. Make sure that that house falls, and make sure it gets cleaned up. Don't do anything drastic until I get back, I won't be gone long." Kitty says as her hair is thrown back violently by a fierce wind.
"What do ya need Remy for?" He asks as Kurt ports him to her, then ports back to his task.
"We're going to town. We're trading this old rental van for two off road 4 wheel drive vehicles that can handle the road here until we can get it fixed, and we're getting basics covered. We need to hit up a camping store of something, and we need to talk defense." Kitty says smiling at the older mutant. "You with me? I need you to help me, because I don't know all the mutants we could run into, and you do."
"Remy understands what yer doing. Remy be a thief, and ya want him ta plan dis so dat no one can get in easy, non?"
"Correct. Now let's head into town." Kitty says smiling as she opens the driver side door of the huge, ugly black van.
"Let Remy drive petite, ya scare him."
"Fine." Kitty says throwing the keys at him and stomps off to the other side.
"No offense Mon chere, Remy just drive faster, and be a smother talker out of tickets." He says smiling at her.
"This house is gonna go down easy," Tabby says as they mark another support to be bombed when the chaos would begin. "I really don't want to stay in here much longer. Let's get this started."
"Be patient Tabby," Kurt warns. "We can't redo this if we don't do it right."
"Well, then just have Piotr run at it full speed in that metal mammoth form." Tabby retorts. "I am sick of doing this slowly Kurt. We have places marked in every room down here to blow. I think it will fall."
"Tabby is right, Piotr could run through this building and not get hurt at all, let's just blow this." Pietro agrees causing Tabby's face to light up joyfully.
"I like this more when Remy was with us, he was careful, as am I." Kurt says scowling.
"This looks good." Amara says as she, Rogue and Jubilee reach a clearing that only had the dim forest lighting. "We can build small huts, not cabins like Kitty wants. We can put three people in them, and they can be fairly small. We just need something tonight."
"Ah agree, Ah could sleep on tha ground if Ah have ta."
"Eww…" Jubilee complains loudly.
"Get over it, Jubes." Rogue snaps.
"I just have a bad feeling about this, sorry that I didn't jump on the train with you all this quickly.
'It will be fine." Amara reassures her. "Remember how out of place I was when I first came here, and you were so supportive, you even helped me learn how to use everything?"
"Yea…" Jubilee agrees slowly grimacing.
"Now it's my turn to teach you, just remember if I can learn to live with it, you can learn to live without it." Amara says smiling warmly.
Ok, read and review people! Typically I wait for at least two reviews to update, but I just felt that I had to update this after I got this freaking awesome review! Lol. Anyway, private message me any ideas, that way if I use them not everyone who reads the story can guess. If you have any pairing ideas, then send them my way in either a review or a private message, and if you know of a mutant that isn't normally in stories that could make a nice addition, or one that I have missed in a main team that might make a nice addition tell me. I don't wanna miss out on people. I do have some plans for what is to happen to this rag tag group, but I don't think of everything, anyone who reads my stuff knows I only use a few of the many mutants that I could be using.