Disclaimer: I don't own X-Men:Evolution, The X-Men comics series or any of Marvel's characters. Just my OC, Molly Callum/Creature and any original characters/background characters that may pop up from time to time.
After a few hours, Molly and Remy took a break from looking for an escape. The day had proved to be beyond tense and absolutely exhausting, and they really hadn't gotten a chance to rest all day. However, this gave Dax and Kelly lots of time to start getting to know them better.
"...I know how you feel. I'm the youngest of twelve brothers and sisters," Dax said to Molly as they relaxed on a kind of giant pink bean bag, able to fit five people. He was laying on his side holding his head up with his arm after they'd got to talking, "They tease me all the time too."
"Well, you're tall. You can stick up for yourself!" Molly said, sitting upright, "I never had an advantage until I got powers."
Dax laughed. "I'm tall compared to you earthlings. My brothers and some of my sisters are much bigger then me.
Korikkin genetics can be a bit random, but generally, we're all considered a large, intimidating, very strong people.
We were warriors first, then we became explorers, gardeners and artists."
"That's fascinating that a whole culture could turn around like that to become peaceable," Molly smiled, "It's inspiring."
She looked over at Remy, on the couch in the living room. He was watching Kelly ramble on, looking bored. And sleepy.
Except Remy kept looking over at Molly, making sure she was alright and always where he could see her. He didn't trust Dax, but Molly couldn't blame him. No guy had really shown interest in Molly like this before, so it was natural for Remy to feel jealous and threatened.
"Well, your beauty is inspiring," Dax was charming, "I've seen lots of pictures of earth girls, but none of them _looked_ like you. Do other girls have demensions and shape like yours, or are you unique? Your body is...forgive me...gorgeous."
Molly was more then surprised. Only Remy had ever said such things.
"Dax, you're very nice, but-"
"Molly isn't unique," Remy appeared behind Molly, pulling her to stand up, then holding her against him,
"I'm sure you can find your own girlfriend with similar demensions _somewhere_ on earth."
Remy pulled her away to the living room couch, seething as he held her tight against him.
"Remy, this is very sweet, but I can't breathe," Molly choked out.
Remy loosened his grip, but kept his arms around her. He mumbled something in French. "Cherie, I will not sit here and see you taken in by that...that giant green bean!"
"'Giant green bean'?" Molly echoed with a smirk.
"It's been a long day. I'll come up with a better insult tomorrow."
"It has been a long day," Molly stretched her arms over her head, "I think I'm finally getting hungry. What's there to eat in this place?" She didn't know how they'd staved off hunger, and she didn't care. Food would help them have energy again. So would some sleep tonight, if they got that far.
"We have a big kitchen," Kelly said, "There's lots of food. Jason liked earth cake the best."
She led them into the kitchen.
It was painted entirely the same shade of blue, down to the cabinets and appliances, except for the white tiles under their feet. There were the usual ammenities of a coffee maker, toaster oven, regular oven and microwave. Except for the obsession with the color blue, it could have been any other normal American kitchen back on earth. It was stocked with alien and earth food alike. Purple things that looked like brussel sprouts, brocolli, various meats, orange things with red spikes, fruit, fresh breads, pasta, and more alien food. Even a microwave and some frozen meals. Everyone ate, but Dax and Kelly ate alone, which gave Molly and Remy time to talk again. They sat at the table.
"Feel better now?" Molly touched Remy's hand.
"I won't feel better until we're out of here and away from Dax," Remy looked sour.
"I know. So, after this we'll keep looking for a way out? Maybe put that jealous energy into it instead of staring daggers at him?" Molly said, "You know you're the only man in the world, and now the galaxy for me, Remy. Dax is tall and built, but he hasn't save my life a bunch of times. He hasn't been there for me in my worst moments. That was you. I love _you_, please don't forget that."
"I know. I've just never seen a guy look at you the way I do before," Remy said, "It's unsettling. I love you too. Thanks for reminding me of all that, Petite. We'll look around a bit more, but we have to sleep sometime."
The next morning, they woke up early and made breakfast. The orange spiked things, (They tasted like oranges, but sweeter), some eggs and bread.
"So I had a thought last night," Molly said over breakfast, "What if..." She whispered something in Remys ear. They were being broadcast, Molly had to remember that. Having the element of suprise on their side was crucial. Life saving, even.
"I like that idea." Remy smiled.
A few hours later, Remy had blown a hole in the ceiling out of sight, and the two of them had cleared a way through the roof as subtly as they could manage after Molly morphed a huge, muscular anaconda, barreling through the wood and insulation like it was made of matchsticks. Snakes weren't as scary as people made them out to be, especially in such insane situations as this, their shape actually proved quite useful.
Still, Molly could tell the anaconda morph really creeped Remy out.
"We have to get out of here, you two coming?" Remy asked Kelly and Dax. Molly stood by his side.
They had to make sure everyone was ready to leave before attempting their escape.
"We'll go. I miss my family. It's been so comfortable here, we've hardly felt like prisoners," Kelly said.
"I want to leave," Dax nodded, "We're with you all the way."
"Good. Kelly, stick with me. Dax, you look like you can handle yourself. We're not going to get out of here without a fight." Molly explained.
"We understand, Molly," Kelly nodded.
They made their way through the hole and to the top of the roof, slowly but surely, lined up from biggest to smallest. Molly flew them down to the floor, one by one. The four of them looked around. "Well, we might have five minutes before they figure out we left," Dax said.
"Yeah, so we need to get moving," Remy led the way. Molly changed to tiger form, just to be safe.
They walked a few yards before there was an attack of men dressed in red and black uniforms with red masks that had creepy smiling faces molded on. The attack was from all sides. The men carried red laser blasters to match that looked similar to flare guns. Molly pounced one, ripping the blaster from his hand and tossing it aside. Molly watched, a little impressed as Dax threw the men around like toys. Meanwhile, Kelly was cowering behind Molly, and Remy was blowing up enough cards to take down a legion of fighters, knocking many from the small army back and knocked out cold.
"Keep going!" Remy kept running when there was a break in the throng. They were shot at repeatedly, but no fatal hits were made yet. Some near misses as the the bright red lasers zoomed past them. Molly suddenly roared, getting shot at the hip. She had to keep running.
ZZARP! Molly looked back to see they'd shot off her back left leg! She hobbled along, trying to change back as she ran.
It took a lot out of her to grow back a whole leg, but she had to force herself to keep running. They made it as far as the middle of the room, except that was when things suddenly became much worse.
The giant woman rushed in, blocking their path in a tackling stance. And there were still a few Red Men behind them. Remy threw more cards, taking care of the men, but it was going to take a lot of quick thinking to evade the giant redheads hands. Molly got an ingenious idea. Turn it around on them. She was spent on energy, but she had to push herself. Molly turned into a t-rex. The giant had to be a robot. There wasn't any way an alien that big could be a real being. Molly gathered what little strength she had left, running forward and sinking her many huge teeth into the huge, oversized leg. The redhead screamed in horror, writhing around, horrified. Her arms flailed about, knocking against massive picture frames and furniture, but thankfully not causing anything to fall on the ragtag team of four.
Molly drew her mouth back, scraping skin. She looked to see the immense leg seeping blood.
Uh-oh.
Molly changed back, waving her arms around wildly to her friends.
"Stop! STOP! She's...not a robot! She's...r-real..." Molly fell back onto the carpet, exhausted.
Molly woke up to see three worried faces looking back at her, plus one really huge one.
"What happened?" Molly slowly sat up.
"We had a little talk. Riley here is just as much a prisoner as we are," Remy pointed a thumb at the giantess.
Molly looked at Riley. She'd bandaged up her leg and was sitting near them.
"I'm sorry. Mojo makes me capture people. I wasn't going to hurt you, but I had no choice," Riley said.
"Well, now that we're out of one trap, it'll be easier to get out of here," Molly said, "Thanks for, uh, not killing us. And sorry for chomping down on your leg. You okay?"
"I'll be fine. I destroyed the cameras for you while you were knocked out, so they can't see us right now." Riley smiled, "The downside is that you and Remy are going to get sent to another show soon."
"We'll come back and rescue you. We promise," Remy said.
Molly couldn't stop it, just stand there and stare as Riley scooped Remy up into her hand, giving him a gentle kiss on the side of his face. "Thank you." She carefully set Remy back down next to Molly.
"She crossed a line there," Molly had a dry look, talking under her breath, "She knows we're together, right?"
"Now who's jealous?" Remy smiled.
POP!