Crisis Conundrum
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Chapter 4: We're Here to Rescue You…We Hope!
Gambit pointed to the abandoned building,
"There's the building."
Logan took a sniff and growled,
"Oh, yeah. Definitely AIM."
Crisis looked around,
"So, how do we do this?"
Cyclops looked at the red-eyed powerhouse,
"You're the precog and you don't know."
Farrah hissed,
"It's not his fault. He can't control what he sees."
The leader of the X-men groaned,
"Oh, that's just great. Now you decide to tell us this. Why not just tell them your blind or something? That's a lot easier to handle."
Iceman raised his hand,
"Uh, Cyclops…"
Cyclops continued, oblivious to what the ice-making mutant was saying,
"I mean, what's the point of having precognition if you can't control it. It's like having a cold drink with no ice. I mean, it's…"
Rogue said,
"Uh, Scott, maybe you should listen…"
Cyclops looked at the absorbing mutant,
"What? What is so important that you have to tell me-?"
He then turned and saw a group of AIM soldiers, all dressed in yellow, staring at them. All of them had various blaster weapons, and they all seemed to be focused on the X-men. Persiana blinked and said,
"I'm no expert in tactics or anything, but, I think they heard us talking."
One of the AIM soldiers said,
"Freeze, mutants!"
Iceman grinned,
"Gladly!"
He launched an ice blast at the leader's weapon and it got frozen to his arm, preventing it from working. The other AIM soldiers then moved in for the attack.
Cyclops fired his optic beams at several of them when he said,
"Crisis, this is all your fault!"
Leon spun around, deflecting a laser shot with his sword,
"My fault? How is this my fault?!"
Scott answered angrily,
"If you were so smart and knew how your precognition worked, then we wouldn't have been taken by surprise!"
Leon kicked one of the AIM soldiers into a group of them. As he finished delivering his kick, he shot back,
"Oh, like you haven't been ambushed before? I heard the Misfits would ambush you five times a week, and you had TWO telepaths! Explain that!"
Nightcrawler and Persiana did a series of acrobatic flips, and, as the teleporter watched, Farrah bent and twisted around one enemy, using obvious acrobatic talents to evade her attacker, and then spun on her hands and delivered a spinning kick. Kurt nodded,
"Very good."
Farrah flipped back up with hardly a sweat,
"I know, I'm special."
The fuzzy blue elf then looked around,
"I don't suppose there are going to make this easy, ja?"
Farrah shrugged,
"I don't know."
A sly grin came on her face,
"But, you know what would really set 'em off? Getting inside that base and causing all sorts of crazy stuff."
Nightcrawler shared the same grin and, grabbing Persiana, the two disappeared in a pillar of smoke.
The battle should have been over quickly, but, as the X-men continued to lay waste to the AIM soldiers, it seemed they were not going down. In fact, there seemed to be more of them than had previously stopped them. Logan sliced one with his claws,
"Is it me, or are these guys multiplying?"
Crisis shrugged,
"I don't know. This isn't the first AIM base I went into, and I know they just send people into a meat grinder, just trying to slow intruders down."
Gambit pulled out a deck of cards and, energizing them all, sent them flying into as many AIM troops as they could. All of their weapons were destroyed. Then, it became obvious as to what was happening. Gambit said,
"Look."
Sure enough, some of the unconscious or dead bodies of the AIM troops began disappearing, as if they were fusing into others. Cyclops said,
"That's probably why they wanted Jaime. They can create an army of troops from a single person, creating a near limitless army-."
Logan grunted,
"We figured that out, slim."
Remy raised his hand,
"Uh, I figured that out."
Rogue looked at her boyfriend,
"Yet, you can't program a DVD player."
The Cajun thief whined,
"I can't help it! Those things are death traps! One of them tried to rip my arm off!"
Iceman rolled his eyes,
"Right, the crazy DVD player story again. We've all heard it and even Forge checked it out. It wasn't possessed."
Gambit spun his pole and delivered a powerful blow to each AIM agent that was surrounding him,
"I keep telling you; the DVD player is possessed!"
Cyclops cleared a path with his beams and said,
"Where's Nightcrawler?"
Storm summoned the elements and, with a mighty gust of wind, began spinning, capturing several AIM agents in a tornado funnel,
"This is as far as you go!"
The screaming AIM agents then fell suddenly as the weather manipulator caused the tornado to dissipate. One lonely AIM agent was on the ground, huddled against the wall to the entrance of the building. Crisis picked him up and said,
"There are two ways this can go; you can tell me where you took Multiple, or you can tell him…"
He then pointed to Logan, who had his claws fully out and a savage grin on his face. The AIM agent shouted,
"All right! He's inside! MODOK has him! I only signed up for the dental plan anyway!"
Leon looked at Logan,
"Still want him?"
The terrified AIM agent screamed,
"No! You said you wouldn't kill me!"
Leon shrugged,
"I'm not. He is."
He threw the AIM agent at Wolverine and, when the AIM agent promptly saw what Wolverine was going to do, he screamed and tried to flee. Unfortunately, when the agent turned to run, he ran right into the wall, knocking himself out. Logan shrugged,
"Well, that went well."
Next Chapter:
Inside the base, Persiana and Nightcrawler cause all kinds of insanity! Stay tuned, fellow readers!