Crisis Conundrum

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Chapter 2: Favor Owed

Beast looked at Crisis,

"I take it, from your reaction, that that was not a good one."

Crisis nodded,

"You got that right."

Rogue raised her hand,

"Ah thought you had precognition."

The red-eyed swordsman explained,

"It's more complicated than that. I can't control it, and it causes violent headaches, sometimes enough to render me unconscious."
He shook his head,
"This is bad."

Cyclops asked,

"If Jaime isn't with SHIELD, then where is he?"

Before Crisis could answer, Persiana said,

"With AIM."

Emma was surprised,

"Advanced Ideas and Mechanics?"

Logan grunted,
"I know 'em too. Bad news."

Crisis nodded,
"Yeah, they're a division of Hydra, the same ones that created X-23."

The white-haired cat-woman added,

"And, what they did to me, too."

Beast surmised,

"Another one of their experiments."

Persiana nodded,

"Yeah, but Crisis rescued me."

She kissed him on the cheek and purred,

"My hero."

Nightcrawler looked at the red-eyed young man,

"Don't you ever get tired of her being so mushy?"

Farrah smirked,

"You won't, especially when Wanda has you all to herself."

Emma asked,

"I have been meaning to ask, Kurt and Wanda get together?"

The feline nodded,

"Yeah, and they do have a kid together. A daughter. Leon told me."

Iceman raised his hand,

"I thought Wanda was getting together with that Simon Williams guy from the Avengers."

Leon pulled Farrah close to him and whispered,
"They aren't supposed to know that yet."

He cleared his throat,

"But, let's get back to the business at hand; rescuing Multiple."

Rogue asked,

"So, any idea where AIM took him?"

Farrah shrugged,

"If we knew that, we wouldn't be here, would we?"

Leon looked at his girlfriend,

"What Persiana means is, I don't know where he is per se. I just have a feeling he hasn't left Bayville."

Cyclops looked at him skeptically,
"I think that with Frost as a telepath, she would have known that Jaime was here."

Emma then turned away suddenly, and Rogue got suspicious,
"What is it?"

Wolverine narrowed his eyes,

"You know somethin', lady. Spill, now!"
Frost turned back, attempting to dignify herself a little,

"Well, when I was part of the Hellfire Club, I had heard Selene talking to AIM and Hydra into studying magical creatures and figuring out how to augment their abilities into their troops."

Leon admitted,

"That's probably why they took Multiple. Imagine the possibilities of a whole unit one can simply split off from."

Wolverine nodded,
"Makes sense."

Beast asked,

"So, what type of demon did Selene give them?"

Leon tugged on his collar a little as an audible growl came from Persiana. He looked at her, quietly saying,

"Farrah, calm down."

The white-haired cat-woman then snarled,

"Satana."

Emma rolled her eyes,

"Oh, her."

Rogue looked at the telepath,
"Ya know her?"

The former White Queen nodded,

"Yes, and she was trouble from the get-go. Apparently, her over-protective brother came crashing through the gates of one of our bases and got Satana loose. Of course, she drained all of Hydra's troops of their life essence and…"

Leon interrupted,

"And she ran into me. Needless to say, it was not pretty."

Iceman asked,
"Why do you say that?"

Leon answered,
"Satana has a thing for me, which did not sit well with Persiana, or Satana's brother, Hellstorm."

He lifted the sleeve on his coat, a nasty looking burn on his forearm,
"I still have scars from that day. I hate hellfire magic."

Cyclops tried to turn the conversation back to Multiple,

"So, if Multiple is here, and Hydra has somehow developed tech that can hide him from telepaths, then, how do we find him?"

As Leon was about to answer that, a sing-song voice called out,

"With my help!"

Leon groaned and held his head,

"No, please, don't tell me she followed me."

A lithe Goth woman with bright red hair, dressed in a purple halter top and purple tights, with a chain around her waist, was hanging upside-down from a street light above them. She waved and clicked her high heeled boots together, grinning,

"Hi, Leon. Missed me?"

Next Chapter:
As if the insanity could not get any worse, Satana's brother Hellstorm joins the mix! Will the X-men eventually get to rescue Jaime? Stay tuned, fellow readers!