Serin Eridar- I know, I have issues with that sometimes, it can get really bad. I've been a bit distracted, obviously, but it should get better.
Wanda W- I did think that you would like that. I had more, and I wanted to put it in there, but I liked where it ended. It seemed natural, and it sets up the winning couple of my poll!
A/-N- KIMY WINS THE POLL! I had six people vote, and five of them voted for Kimy. Now I can't promise a Kimy here, it might be too far along in other areas, and I may have twisted something that might untwist badly. Look at that scene with Kitty and Pete; won't there be consequences if they aren't thrown together in some light? The world may never know.
The Right Cause
Chapter 8
Fan Club?
"So Pete got added ta yer fan club? Where is tha problem? Am Ah missing something here, sugah?" Rogue asks skeptically that night as they sit in the calm quiet of their bare hut.
"The fact that Pete, Piotr, Remy and most likely Pietro all make up that club. The four guys all have to live together for a very long time, and I could mess up our future." Kitty sighs slowly with her eyes closed tightly. "Now I just wish that things were like they were before, and we interacted with a lot more people."
"Well, who do ya want?" Rogue whispers softly in the small, dark room.
"You want me to be honest? I can see myself with Remy very easily, maybe even Pietro. Piotr is a stretch, and Pete is too much of a handful." Kitty admits shyly blushing. "He is a very good kisser, and I bet he is just about as good at everything else too. Now I don't want you to think that I am some little innocent. Lance was my first, my only, but it's not that I have never been… intimate. I am not new to men and their games, and I know that they love to try to kill each other. I'm sure the other guys are great kissers too though."
"Maybe not Piotr, Ah just can't see him with that many girls, sugah. He would be very supportive of you, but he would take a lot of time to get to know, and Ah don't think ya wanna do that. Yer not known ta be the most patient."
"With Pietro I run the risk of just being a short-lived fling. He's mouthy and arrogant, and I'm not sure I can handle being with a guy who checks himself out more than I check him out." Kitty admits seriously starting at the inner ceiling beams.
"Remy got jealous today. Ah think he'd be a good guy fer ya. Ah think that ya just need ta give them all a chance."
"I don't want their attention. Oh, but the house should be done tomorrow."
"Nice change of subject, sugah."
~*~
"Look, I'm in no way telling you that I don't think that you are qualified!" Amara screams at the top of her lungs at Evan. "I don't understand how this has happened. I think that you are one of the most moronic people I have ever met in my life!"
"I can't help it that I just happened to be on watch when this happened. Why don't you just put Pietro on constant duty then Amara? Nothing can move too fast for him to see! Like you just heard me tell Remy, all I ever saw was a breeze!"
"Ya had ta have been sleeping on tha job Evan. Ah've absorbed enough from Logan ta know that those marks weren't from someone like speedy." Rogue adds just as furious as Amara.
"And Remy has to agree. Remy knows a thing er two about trackin, and he knows somethin about tracks left behind. Dis person was sneaking, knew he'd get caught. Ya can tell dat da prints speed up after he passes yer post, obviously he wasn't worried about wakin ya."
'What is going on here?" Kitty asks coming into the clearing with Piotr following behind her. "I see you all first thing in the morning and you all are already fighting. I seriously doubt that there is anything at 10am to make all of us want to shoot each other."
"Mon chere, Remy needs ta talk ta ya alone. De three of dem are just making a mess of things. Remy's gonna tell ya the facts, and den ya can side with one of them." Remy says glaring at the three fighting mutants. "As joint head of defense, Remy thinks dat we have a problem." Remy adds taking her hand and walking her into the woods quickly putting space between themselves and the other mutants. "Dere be a letter found dis morning. It be addressed ta ya, and it doesn't look good.
"Somebody doesn't like another mutant group, and this is a threat that needs ta be met head on. Dere won't be much time ta talk, we need ta act immediately."
"Show me the letter." Kitty demands sighing and holding out her hand and Remy places the rough paper into her hands. "I have a feeling that I will be regretting this."
Mutant Scum your Pryde will need to be knocked down a couple of notches, if not assassinated beyond modern revival. Many of your members are among the Rogue. Now the question remains, how did we get this letter into your property, past your tall fence, and into your wooded domain?
Tomorrow's dinner is one that you should miss. Don't come, because if you appear, you won't leave. We will have our men out there, ready for you, and you will never make it in the building.
Many of your own teammates have turned, just like the Rogue influences that your Pryde can't counter balance.
"Well, that is cryptic. This gives us a change of plans. Piotr is now going in with me, I can't back down, and neither one of us can be hit, should the situation arise he and I can cover each other." Kitty fumes.
"Remy be in agreement. Ya don't need ta be seen runnin' away, though it may not be de best course of action to take charge of a whole organized crime organization." Remy replies pain written clearly in his demonic eyes. "Dis can get much worse."
"I agree that it can. Look, I need some time to think, and some time to cool off. No one goes anywhere alone, we need to get messengers to Xavier, Magneto and the Brotherhood, if this group is just attacking us, then we deal with it solo. If it's the entire mutant population, then we have to bring them in on this too. I could use some of the familiar faces, if you want me to be honest. We need to pair up, and make an organization out of ourselves."
"Remy agrees with dat. We need one offensive and one defensive fighter in da teams. We'd consider ya defensive, and Remy offensive. We need some pairings like dat. We need more den de two of us makin dese plans though, dey be a bit of a stretch for just de two of us."
"I agree totally. We need to pull the entire group together for this one. Let's go."
~*~
"Ah wanna consider myself defensive." Rogue announces proudly. "And Ah'd like ta see one of ya'll get through this." She dares raising a gloveless hand. "Considering it brought down the Juggernaut."
"I'm going to have to say that my powers are offensive." Pete says smirking. "I don't think that hot knives are the best of defenses, unless you consider that the best defense is a better offense then the other guy."
"I am gonna say porting is either." Kurt mumbles indecisively.
"We're gonna call it a defense, sugah." Rogue answers placing a hand on his shoulder. "But look at it this way, nobody on earth, not even a mutant, can track ya."" She adds bringing a smile to the fuzzy mutants face.
"Big win for the fuzzy man!" He cheers.
"I have an offensive power." Amara chips in laughing at Kurt.
"Count me in with Amara." Tabby says in a voice laced strongly with boredom.
"Well, I'm defensive, but we all knew this. And Pete, the best defensive is to not be able to be touched." Kitty taunts with a look that most of the group miss.
"So did we miss the party?" Logan asks walking up, with several scared mutants behind him. "You all look kind of shaken up. What's happening up here?"
"What happened?" Kitty asks staring at the pale, ghostly faces of Jean, Storm, Beast, Cyclops, and several of the newer recruits.
"The mansion was destroyed." Jean says slowly wringing her hands as she projects the scene to the group.
'To the X-Jet everyone,' the calm voice of Charles Xavier says telepathically. 'Prepare yourselves to never come back to this mansion. You have three minutes to be onboard before we begin takeoff. Please hurry, we can't wait.'
"That sure is weird." Jean says standing from the couch where she had been helping Rahne with a paper. Everyone let's hurry! No time to waste!" She calls out to the gathered students in the hallways.
'Jean, you must go, you can't linger here. Hurry, to the X-Jet. Trust me, when you take off head for Kitty's base. I will meet you if I can.'
'Ok, professor. Please, be careful.'
'I will Jean.' He says ending their psychic connection as she rushes mutants to the X-Jet before boarding herself. As the plane takes off from the X-Mansion they hear the boom of the explosion and feel the plane jerk wildly caught up in the turbulent air.
"Well, it isn't just us…"Kitty trails off slowly. "Let's get everyone settled into the new mansion, and let's get down to the serious topics that need to be discussed immediately."
"Shouldn't we wait on the Professor? I think his insight would be helpful." Jean says slowly in a monotone voice.
"We can't waste time waiting." Kitty answers coldly. "I'm in charge here, and I decide what happens. If he shows up then we will take his opinions into consideration, and if he doesn't then we will have to find a way to determine his condition."
"His…condition?" Rahne asks slowly.
"Whether he is alive or dead, Remy thinks dat we can't wait. He be a grown man, and he knew what he was getting into."
"Katherine, I'm afraid that these past months as a leader may have overblown your ego." Jean says in the same monotone voice.
"We're about to see now, aren't we?" Kitty asks in a tone the screams she had taken offense as she walks off into the new, large, four-story mansion with Remy close behind her. "Rogue, Kurt, please assign them rooms." She says passing through the threshold of the new house.
"Ya shouldn't write them off so easily. Dey might be able ta help us." Remy says in a soft voice as they walk into the lavishly designed entry hall.
"Nothing has changed. They either need to learn to show respect to people or they need to leave. I am in charge here, Charles Xavier won't just roll in here and take control. I will have to stop him if he attempts that. We currently need to change our plans for tomorrow night's dinner.
~*~
"Yes, I am not going to come with only one person, grandfather." Kitty says loudly into the speakerphone sitting on the conference table. To her left sit Kurt, Remy, Pietro and Logan. To her right sit Pete, Piotr, Storm and Beast, with Rogue at the other end. "I will have three teams in place. This will not go how they plan. Someone in your association is trying to kill me. So let's change the tone of this dinner."
"I would have to agree Katherine. Bring more than one person with you, I believe three or four would be a better number." The voice of an elderly man says in a harsh tone. "I shall get to the bottom of this by midnight; I will have the list very much reduced, if I can't pinpoint specific targets. You will know by no later than tomorrow morning how to proceed."
"Thank you grandfather, I hope that you can get me the information before morning." Kitty says before hanging up the speakerphone. "Storm we are going to need cloud coverage tomorrow, if it gets bad release hurricane-like conditions. I am not the same Kitty Pryde that left the mansion a few short months ago, something about this business has hardened me. Pietro, Remy and Pete will all three be going in with me. Kurt, Rogue and Jean will be standing guard nearby. Dr. McCoy, you will be with Jean and Storm tomorrow night. We can't fail people, the mutant population is at steak, if we can fight this out, we are one step closer to living in peace." Kitty says smiling.
Yeah! What do you all think? Yes, I have the next chapter planned out!