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Chapter Five
Jason started as the alarm began to whine even though he was prepared for it. Like a shot he was out of his chair and slamming his baton into the back of one of his fellow guard's backs. Someone else yelped in protest but he was soon silenced as well. Within moments all five of the guards that had been in the room where knocked out. Jason went out the door and locked it with his master key. He turned and joined the other guards who were reluctantly stomping out into the cold to find the mutant with the faulty collar. Routine after all, these things did happen.
What they weren't expecting was a small army of angry and free mutants.
"As they say, what goes around comes around." Remy said throwing a handful of cards into the wind. They exploded with colorful flashes, half blinding the guards. The Cajun ran forward and jabbed his elbow into someone's stomach. He grabbed a baton and began swinging.
Gar backed up as he was slowly surrounded. He grinned evilly and suddenly morphed into a Tyrannosaurus Rex. With a roar he charged through the men, leaving no one unscathed.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Raven yelled. Black energy surrounded huge chunks of snow and threw them harshly into the group of guards. She sank to her knees in the snow and threw her hands up to the sky. Instantly twenty of the guards doubled over in such pain that they passed out within two minutes.
Rogue dodged a baton narrowly and rolled in the snow to avoid being plowed down. As she jumped to her feet she pulled off a glove, "I ain't so sure 'bout this Remy." she said as they edged closer to each other.
"I trust ya cheri; just take a tap. Logan's got my back if I go down."
"That's comforting." the Southern beauty muttered. She turned around to find Remy standing over her. She reached up and gently tapped his forehead. It seemed like an eternity but it was only a few seconds. With a yell Remy pulled away and nearly fell in the snow. Rogue grabbed his gloved hand with her own and steadied him while Logan and Xian kept the guards away.
"That was not exactly what I was expecting." Remy admitted woozily.
"Are ya okay?"
"I'm fine; you got the cards and beads?"
"Yep, I think I got a little bit of stick fighting too."
Remy smirked then handed her a charged card and jumped back into the fight. Rogue threw the card into the face of a guard and jumped over his head with new energy.
"You're hurting my ribs."
"Quit whining." Amanda snarled.
Holly glanced up into the shadowed ceiling, "Didn't Logan say that you two weren't allowed to talk to each other until we get there?"
"Do you see Logan anywhere?" Kurt replied playfully.
The girl sighed and tried to square her shoulders as she passed through the hallways, it was weird to think that she looked exactly like Jason; she didn't really feel any different. Her hand was wrapped tightly around the key card that the man had given her to gain access into the control room. She looked up again as someone let out a muffled grunt.
"Take a right." Kurt whispered from the darkness.
Holly obeyed and found herself faced with a short hallway leading to a door. She glanced back out into the main hall and made sure no one was nearby. Then she waved to Kurt and the young mutant climbed down to the floor with Amanda clutching tightly to his back. The girl looked flushed from having all the blood rushing to her head.
"Okay, once the door's open let me go inside and kick some butt. I'll come back out when it's safe for you to come in."
"You're not going to kill anyone are you?" Amanda asked, wrinkling her nose.
"Only if they aim a gun at my innocent fuzzy head, I'll try not to get blood everywhere." Kurt replied, crouching close to the floor so he would be ready to spring into the open door.
Holly rolled her eyes and swiped the card. The door slid open and Kurt sprang with all his might, inside there was a muffled shout and a loud crash. Holly and Amanda winced as someone yelled in pain then was silence by another crash. After a few minutes of scuffling Kurt stuck his head out of the door, "You coming in or what?"
Inside six men were bound and gagged in the corner; they were all knocked out with large lumps on their heads. Kurt was sitting on a chair looking at security cameras, "We'd better hurry they're starting to get beat back towards the fence."
Amanda jumped into a chair and ran her fingers over the computer interface, familiarizing herself with the machine. Finally she began working, her fingers flying over the keys as she went through a list of commands then began searching for the defensive controls.
"Is there anybody coming Kurt?" Holly asked as her appearance remorphed into her own.
"None that I can see. Ha! Todd just slimed one of the guards. Priceless man, priceless."
Amanda snorted loudly and clicked a few more buttons. Finally she tapped a large button to her left, immediately an alarm began to wail. Holly jumped while Amanda got to her feet looking smug, "There, all defenses are down."
"I stand corrected; you do what you're doing." Kurt said with surprise. He grabbed batons off the guards belts, "Now start smashing, we can't let them turn anything back on."
Rahne growled as viciously as she could and leapt at a man's chest trying to knock him down, he hit the snow sending up a spray of the white stuff while Rahne jumped on to her next victim. A few feet away Pietro was breezing past all his attackers and knocking their feet out from underneath them. Wanda was wreaking havoc with the guard's guns, the blue glow surrounding every weapon she could manage.
"Where's fuzzy?" Logan grunted as he threw a man over his shoulder.
"I don't know but we can't keep this up much longer." Rogue replied as she kicked a man in the head, she'd run out of ammo long ago.
"Speak for yourself Rogue." Gar snarled as he returned to his human form momentarily. He morphed into a python and wrapped himself around one of the guards, squeezing with all his might.
"Behind you!" Raven yelled.
Logan whirled around only to be blindsided by a group of fresh guards. He raised his feet to meet the charging man in the chest but the guard slammed into a wall of black energy. The mutants slowly got to their feet finding themselves under the protection of a large shield conjured by Raven.
"Can you guys handle this while I go find Kurt and the others?" she asked struggling to hold the wall under the guard's blows.
"We'll be fine kid, but how-?"
Raven's body transformed into the same black energy in the outline of a bird. She soared away and the force field fell down. Remy grinned as he charged up four batons he'd picked up, "Come and get it hommes(1)."
Raven melted through the metal walls as she followed the telepathic link to Kurt. Finally she went through a final wall and ran into the threesome. Holly and Amanda screamed while Kurt hissed, his fur standing on end.
"Calm down, it's just me." Raven said her body reappearing once more. "Did you disable the defenses?"
"Yep, we're all set." Kurt grabbed the three girls by the hand and with a loud BAMF, teleported them out into the middle of the fight. Amanda narrowly ducked a blow to the head and dodged behind Raven who was making her way over to Logan with the others following close behind.
"You sure this is gonna work?" the man yelled.
"I'm sure. Everyone get close to me!"
The mutants obeyed, still throwing attack to keep the guards at bay. Jason dove over the heads of some of them and grabbed ahold of Pietro's ankle.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!"
In a flash of energy and a crack the mutants were gone leaving the guards confused and looking around waiting for them to reappear.
"They've disabled the systems!" someone yelled.
"Code red, they've escaped."
CRACK! The group tumbled out of thin air, only Raven ended up in a dignified position. The others were tangled up with each other and trying to free themselves.
"Not breathing!" Gar yelped, from the bottom of the pile.
"Eww! Todd, get your tongue back in your mouth!" Holly squealed.
Kurt was swearing in German earning him a jab from Amanda. The blue mutant finally teleported out of the pile and stood with Raven while the others detangled themselves and checked for injuries.
"Everyone okay?" Logan asked brushing snow off his clothes.
"I'm gonna be sick." Pietro groaned, holding his stomach. "What just happened?"
Xian helped Wanda steady the speedster as he emptied his stomach. The young man was so exhausted he nearly fainted. Jason took him from the girls and began digging through a pack for an energy bar.
"That was quite a trip Raven." Gar muttered, from where he was still lying in the snow.
The sorceress offered him a hand and pulled the changeling to his feet. "Is everyone here?"
Remy took a quick head count, "Everyone's here and in one piece. But we'd best be finding us some shelter before this wind picks up again."
Gar sniffed the air and pointed down the hill, "I think there's some caves down there that we can stay. It won't be very warm but it's better than nothing."
"It's definitely better than nothing," Holly said wrapping her arms around herself attempting to keep warm, "Can we go now? My feet are starting to go numb."
As Gar had predicted there were a collection of caves at the bottom of the hill, one was large enough and deep enough to house the entire group of mutants. They huddled inside where Remy immediately began to build up a fire.
"We need to save that." Logan said snatching up a fire starter. "And they're still looking for us; smoke is going to make things worse."
"Would you rather freeze to death?" Remy asked quietly. "If we get frostbite we won't be able to walk and then just how are we going to get to New York?"
Gar sighed heavily as they continued to argue. He transformed himself into a large grizzly bear and lay down beside Raven and Pietro. Wanda had her head lying on Pietro's lap and Raven was meditating with an annoyed look on her face. Suddenly she opened her eyes and pointed at the pile of damp wood Remy had scraped together, "Shahari!"
A blast of flame shot into the wood throwing sparks into the two men's faces. They recovered and looked at Raven who glared at them, "If you two are finished yelling I'd like to meditate, sleep and starve off this headache."
"Why didn't you tell us you would do that?" Logan demanded.
"You're still yelling." Raven retorted calmly. "And you never asked."
Remy shook his head and went to spread out a collection of blankets. "Gar, can Holly and Raven sleep next to you? They're the smallest so if you stay in bear form it'll keep them warm and we can use the extra blankets."
Gar nodded and laid his head on his massive paws. Holly slowly approached him and was soon asleep, nestled in his thick fur coat. Raven lay down and let her eyes close as she listened to the others talk and argue long into the night.
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