AN: Time to meet more Glee characters in the game. I hope you agree with Blaine's choice later. Also, some Blangst~ Also, i'm going on a haitus after this that's why i made the chapter a bit longer. I have to finish my thesis so i graduate on time~
Chapter 4: Enraged
"Well that was easier than I expected." Blaine said as the Wrecker's form finally flashed away after another good slash.
Their battles against the A.I.M forces in the Finance District went smoother than the previous missions they conducted with none of the heroes needing some sort of healing to continue on.
M.O.D.O.K. didn't even present much of a challenge to their crew as the big headed villain easily went down from the arrows Mike fired. The closest call they ever got to a proper injury was with Wrecker throwing his enchanted crowbar at everyone in their squad. But the bleeds that Blaine gave with his katana were enough to slowly subdue him.
"Hey Blaine, the loot has finally dropped." Mike said as he and Tina picked up some of his arrows. Something Blaine found odd considering that his quiver never seemed to run out of arrows just like the ammos of most of the game's weapons.
Blaine picked up the loot which turned out to be a nifty gadget he used in the early stages of the game, a Nano-Nurse. He picked it up and it automatically disappeared.
Must be going to my inventory, I guess?, Blaine thought
"Way to continue your lucky streak, B." Artie commented as he made his way back to the group after sitting out the last fight because of the game's rules.
"I got a shawarma the last time, that's not really lucky." Blaine countered.
"I'm Iron Man here. Shawarmas are very lucky. Probably the best loot you ever got yet you didn't give it to me." Artie replied with a pout, trying to guilt-trip Blaine.
"I'll get you some later if you want." Blaine reassured him with not much conviction since his mind was somewhere else, or someone else to be more accurate.
"Mike, you done? " Blaine asked with a hint of annoyance and anxiousness.
His nerves were already stacking up as he envisioned seeing Kurt in this game; even though he's not a hundred percent sure that he would indeed show up as part of the free hero selection.
"Someone's excited to get back." Tina said with a wink. Having drawn to the same conclusion Blaine was thinking. "Let's go Mike. You don't need all those arrows anyway."
Tina dragged her not so ex-boyfriend away from his arrow picking spree to help Blaine out. They finally made their way back to the jet with Mike mumbling about his lost arrows form all the Arrow Volleys he used.
"My Little Pony, get your lavish mane out here and follow me. You have visitors crowding up the training room. And hurry up before one of them eats up our entire supply of poultry." Commander Fury barked.
Blaine had no idea whom she was referring to so he pointed one of his fingers towards himself flashing a questioning look at his former cheerleading coach.
"Of course I meant you Borat. You're the only one that can reach up to Porcelain's level of flammability. But the dancing Asian in purple tights comes close." She replied.
"Ugggh, the moment we get enough command points, you have got to buy me my alternate costume!" Mike whined.
Blaine ignored him as he made his way down the jet to follow Commander Fury. Excitement painted all over his demeanor.
Kurt's gotta be there. I have some sort of influence in this game, right? So he'll be out there if I think of it.
"Wait up B, we're coming with you. We wanna see who else joined this gaming party. "Artie said.
"And I have to go under training anyway. M.O.D.O.K. gives nice experience." Tina added.
"Will all of you pipe down?! I only have enough patience to deliver the obligatory congratulations speech assigned to me before I get tempted to slap you all silly with some raw chicken cutlet." Sue Fury yelled at the group that followed her and Blaine.
"Now, as a gift for accomplishing various missions for the benefit of S.H.I.E.L.D. blah blah blah, you get to choose another one to add to your group of misfit toys. Which makes your group stronger and my irritation that much bigger." She finished as they reached the Training Room.
"Oh, and choose wisely. Something you don't really do since your decision making skills are about as reliable as General McArthur selling our supposed fifty-first state, the Philippine Islands, to the Japanese for some skanky geishas, manuscripts to some badly drawn human feline cross-breeds and barrels of expired rice wine." She added before she left.
"I'm pretty sure that's historically inaccurate." Artie said.
"The Asian community will not be happy about that." Mike said, earning a nod from Tina and Blaine.
"Anyway, we have more important things to think about. Let's go meet our choices." Blaine said as he pushed the doors open.
The first thing that Blaine felt when he saw the five people in front of him was total disappointment. For Kurt wasn't one of them.
On one corner of the room, by the desk, was a green-skinned Coach Beiste eating a whole chicken accompanied by a big bowl of what Blaine guessed was Fettuccini Alfredo. If the number of calories on the food she was consuming wasn't scary enough, the image of her consuming it while dressed in leotard would do the job. Then there was Brittany who was adorned in Ms. Marvel's outfit, clearly distracted by her apparent levitation. By the weights and the punching bag stood two guys dressed up as Cyclops and Iron Fist. Blaine couldn't identify them immediately due to their costume but the bodies' built and sizes were far from Kurt's. And lastly, there was Marley by the far end of the room, trying to blend in like a wallflower using Invisible Woman's powers.
"Heya, pumpkins." Coach Beiste greeted as she finished the contents of her mouth. "Sorry, if I'm carbo-loading. I need to get more energy and protein in my system to full bring out my strength."
"So… I'm guessing you're She-Hulk then…" Blaine said trying to not stare at her body too long to not appear rude. The fact that she stood up from her chair and displayed herself in full leotard did not help the situation.
"You betcha, Blaine. The leotard's kinda tight and my skin looks like mashed collard greens but the muscle growth is amazing." She said as she flexed her arms, revealing bulging biceps.
Their ongoing conversation was heard by the other four potential recruits but only Brittany made her way towards the group.
"Hi guys, look, I can dance without touching the ground now." Brittany said as she did a twirl just to prove her point. "And Artie, I knew you were a robot! And you can fly too! You're like an airplane now." She added as she made her way towards Artie to give him an aerodynamic hug.
"Nice to see you too Brittany and woah, ease up on the hug, your kree strength is squeezing me." Artie said.
"Kristen? Kristen Stewart's here? Is she invisible too like Marley? Can vampires become invisible now?" Brittany asked a chain of question upon mishearing what Artie said.
Mike noticed that the people on the other side of the room were sort of scared to approach them (especially Marley because of Tina's glare like she was plotting revenge tactics on her). So he whispered to Blaine that he should try talking to the other three potential recruits.
Glad to have a proper reason to change scenery, Blaine excused himself from Coach Beiste to talk to the trio.
"Any idea who's Cyclops and Iron Fist?" Blaine asked Mike.
"And to think that you're the one with them in glee club for the past couple of months." Mike scolded. "That's Ryder and Jake." Mike replied surely. After all, he was the one that worked with them a lot as the school musical's choreographer.
"Sorry, I've never really interacted with them that much. I've been preoccupied a lot lately, remember?" Blaine defended himself, feeling his heart ache again in longing for Kurt.
"Hey guys, how have you been?" Mike asked the group.
"Okay, I guess. Kinda weirded out by the tight costume but it's fine." Ryder replied to his mentor. "Wish I was Wolverine though. How did I become Cyclops anyway?"
"At least everyone knows your character. I haven't even heard of Iron Fist till I played the game." Jake said
"We don't know exactly how we get our roles. It seems pretty random so far. I mean, have you seen Coach Sylvester? " Tina replied. "Though I think Blaine has some pull on the game since her former Dalton teacher and most of the Warblers are also on board."
Blane shot Tina a glare which sadly went unnoticed.
"Cool, so can you turn me into Wolverine?" Ryder asked Blaine. Or any other character I actually have a chance at spelling correctly, he thought.
"No I can't. If I have control over the game then Kurt would have already been here!" Blaine shouted, startling everyone in the room from his outburst. It was not every day that the usually calm and composed senior loses his cool like that.
"I'm sorry; I can't do this right now." Blaine apologized as he stormed out of the training room.
He wandered around the ship to clear his thoughts. He got so lost by the prospect of seeing Kurt today that it sent him toppling down to another breakdown when it didn't happen.
'I think Blaine has some pull on the game', Blaine replayed what Tina said over and over in his head and it just increased his annoyance every single time. He wasn't really angry at Tina for saying that, it's just what the statement implied.
You screwed up again, Blaine. Why can't you freaking get anything right, he scolded himself. He hated himself for not making Kurt appear if ever he did had some semblance of control in the game.
His directionless strolling somehow led him towards the hall leading back to the flight deck. He walked towards the exit to get some air when suddenly a force field threw him back to the hall.
"What the hell?!" he screamed as he tried to stand up, his body protesting somewhat protesting in pain form the impact.
He slowly made his way forward, careful not to trigger the force field again, to check what was up and find out why the deck was off-limits. That's when he caught sight of a red jet parked opposite his Sparrow flight deck jets. But that wasn't the best part, for he saw two figures standing near the jet. One was obviously her former teacher which he quickly identified because of her uniform. The other however had his back against him but he wore a long tattered red cape, a gray headgear like a visor and a black suit similar to the fabric most X-men wore. Blaine tried to remember which mutant dressed up like that but his brain was probably too shaken up by the force field collision to come up with a proper answer.
Looks like a new Spec Ops is starting, he thought.
He wanted to find out who the guy was but the force field was just not letting him cross and he was too far away to make any educated speculations.
Frustrated, and thinking that the only way to make it out of the building again was to finish the task at hand, he made his way back to the training room to choose which of the five he would add to his roster.
Halfway through his journey back to the training room, he literally ran into Artie and his iron armor when he turned a corner; causing him to topple back to the ground for the second time today.
"B, there you are. We've been worried about you." Artie said as he extended his armor covered arm to lift Blaine up.
"You should have a collision attack with that armor." Blaine said as he rubbed the back of his aching head.
"Sorry, why were you in a rush anyway?"
"We've been locked inside the building by this force field. I was thinking that it's the game's way of saying that we need to finish choosing a new hero for the team before we could continue on anything. Also there's a new spec ops apparently." Blaine explained.
"S-weet!" Artie said with extended syllables. "Who's the hero this time?"
"i was too far away to see properly with the force field acting up."
"Well then, let's get back to the training room pronto and go get you your new hero." Artie said as he plucked Blaine off the ground and carried him off
"Could you stop carrying me like a little kid.?" Blaine protested.
"Why? It's faster and easier this way." Artie said with a grin. And just to prove his point, Artie increased his armor's thrusters and no less than a minute did the duo arrived in the training room, blasting through the doors.
"One agitated and angst-filled hobbit, madam. Would you like fries with that?" Artie joked as he landed in front of Tina.
"Hey pumpkin, are you okay now?" Coach Beiste asked his student.
"Yeah, sorry 'bout the whole Wolverine/Cyclops thing. You could freaking turn me into Jean Grey for all I care" Ryder added, earning weird glares from the people in the room.
"Okay, scratch the last part." he said embarrassingly.
"It's alright, guys. Just wasn't thinking clearly that time." Blaine said.
"And speaking of not thinking clearly, do you know who to recruit now?" Mike asked.
"Actually not yet, so I was thinking, maybe you guys could help me choose?" Blaine asked sheepishly.
"Thought you'd never ask,B. Come on McTina Cohen-Chang Chang, huddle up." Artie said.
The foursome went outside the room to discuss which hero they were going to take in their ranks.
"Can I just say no to choosing Miss Barf-a-lot? We don't need her fainting while we're out doing missions." Tina said with resentment. "And besides, I'm the better infiltrator anyway."
The guys wanted to argue with her or try to scold her for her behavior but the murderous look she had scared them all into submission.
"Fine then. Besides, I'm not really that fond of force fields recently." Blaine said to please Tina. "How about Brittany? Ms. Marvel's Kree Speed works wonders."
"I'm not so sure about that Blaine. I don't think she even knows what's really going on." Mike said.
"Preach." Artie agreed, remembering what just happened a while ago when Brittany knocked her head in the ceiling when she was trying to an aerial somersault.
"Okay, how about Coach Beiste? We don't have a bruiser yet and Burst of Speed makes battles quicker." Blaine explained, since his preferred playing style is having more turns.
"I'm actually okay with that except for the fact that she's in a leotard. I don't think I can handle that kind of mental trauma." Artie countered, earning a nod from the other two Asians.
"Okay, then... Guess we're down with Cyclops and Iron Fist." Blaine said as a matter of fact.
"It's Danny Zuko all over again." Artie said.
"Well Cyclops does decent damage, better than mine actually." Mike said. "But he's also a tactician. I think we should go for some class variety."
"Mike has a point, and besides, Iron Fist has a great healing move so you wouldn't waste all of our silver on first aid kits." Tina said. "Plus, we can set up combos together."
"But are you guys okay with Jake? With his anger issues and such?" Blaine asked.
"Said the guy who just stormed out a while ago." Tina said rolling her eyes.
"Yeah, we've all blown up at least once or twice." Mike said, remembering the time he yelled at the glee club. "We could work with him."
"Okay, great. Iron Fist it is then, let's go break the news to them then." Blaine concluded.
He reopened the doors to the training room again but found no 'them' to announce the news to. Instead, inside was a frantic looking Jake searching the room for people.
"Guys, everyone just vanished. Not like 'Marley turning invisible' vanish but literally vanish." Jake said in panic.
"It's alright Jake, calm down. " Blaine ordered. "I think the game just took them out since we chose to recruit you out of the five."
Blaine couldn't really see through Jake's expression because of the mask but he guessed that he was shocked with the news.
"Why'd you even choose me? As far as I can recall, you guys don't even like hanging around with us newbies. I mean Tina practically wants to murder Marley and Mike didn't really help Ryder out when he was struggling with Gangnam Style." Jake pointed things out. "And have you noticed that this is actually the first time we ever had a conversation, Blaine?"
The seniors and Mike were dumbstruck by what Jake said because he actually had valid points though the way he said it and his attitude made Blaine and Tina's anger boil.
Sensing hostility, Artie quickly changed the topic.
"Look, we're sorry about all that Jake but I think having a Jerry Springer episode right now might not be such a good time." Artie said, trying to lighten up the situation. "Blaine, maybe we should check now if we're still trapped inside the building."
"Wait, trapped? How?" Jake asked worriedly.
"Force fields." Blaine said, annoyance clear in his voice. "C'mon guys, let's check out the new jet."
The group of five jogged towards the exit since Artie didn't have the capability to carry all of them there with his thrusters. Jake originally didn't want to accompany them because of the still present animosity but Artie convinced him too.
They made the turn towards the hallway leading to the exit and they could already catch a glimpse of the red jet parked on deck. They crossed the threshold where Blaine encountered the force field, and just as he expected, it was no longer there so they continued their journey to the deck where they now clearly saw the two people standing by the jet.
"That's Wiccan B, how could you not recognize him? He's like one of the few gay comic book characters in Marvel." Artie said.
Blaine, however, did not acknowledge what Artie just said to him for he was distracted by the conversation he was hearing (in French, no less) between his French teacher and Wiccan.
Oh dear Lord, he thought as his mind was trying to prove and disprove his suspicions at the same time.
But his speculation rang true as they got closer to them. He recognized the brown tuft of hair that held Wiccan's head piece and the soft-looking, almost pale skin contrasting with the black suit. And now he hated himself for not trying to break the force field when he first caught sight of them.
"Kurt?" He piped in a small, hopeful voice.
The figured dressed up as Wiccan turned around upon hearing his voice and Blaine was rewarded by the sight of his once boyfriend.
"Hi Blaine" Wiccan replied with an air of awkwardness.
"Wasn't he the guy that bitched at me during auditions?" Jake asked behind the group, earning him a jab on his side from Artie.
"Kurt… why'd you… I mean… Christmas and… you're here." Blaine mumbled, unable to construct sensible sentences in front of the love of his life.
Suddenly, Wiccan's communicator beeped and a hologram started flashing in front of them. It was Burt Hummel without his signature cap, revealing his bald head, sitting on a wheelchair like Professor X.
"Wiccan, we need you here now. Avalanche is causing destruction and Phoenix and Storm are preoccupied at the moment. We need your immunity against ground attacks to stop him." Burt said.
"I guess that's my cue to go then." Kurt announced, not meeting Blaine's eye. "Miss Clearwater, just brief them on what's happening. Hopefully you could help us soon."
"Kurt! Wait!" Blaine screamed as he ran towards Kurt but before he could even grab hold of him, Wiccan teleported out of the deck. Leaving Blaine only grasping the space where his ex-boyfriend once stood.
Blaine fell to the ground, sobbing. He already caught sight of Kurt again but he didn't even get a chance to speak up and tell him everything he felt. He thought that after what they did for Christmas in New York, the two of them could work things out but he was mistaken. Kurt grew more distant after his last visit and he just wanted to know how that happened. He promised Burt that he would take care of Kurt whatever happens with his cancer therapy but how could he take care of him if he still felt awkward being around him.
He wanted to get answers from Kurt right this instant. That's when he saw the red spec ops jet that would take him to where the spec ops missions were happening, to where Kurt was at the moment.
He dashed towards the jet and the moment he touched the stairs, he felt the jolt of another force field, throwing him away again.
"I am sick and tired of this God damn force fields!" Blaine yelled through his sobs.
Artie and Mike rushed to his side to assist him in standing up but the hobbit tried to shake them away.
"Agent Anderson, are you alright? You still must be briefed for you to be able to board the jet." Maria Hill stated.
Blaine was beyond reason right now as he was shooting daggers at her.
"Why don't you brief us now Maria?" Artie said as he restrained Blaine.
"Right. Well, reports have shown that the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants is out again causing mayhem in three key locations: Alcatraz Island, Utopia, and Avengers Tower. They seem to be plotting something big against the Avengers but they need something from Professor Charles to do it. That's why they're launching three different supplementary strikes. Wiccan's on the case since he is one of the bridges between the mutants and the Avengers and he needs your help to defeat the Brotherhood." She informed them.
"Okay, then. We're briefed. Can we go now?" Blaine asked, clearly frustrated and exasperated.
"You may Agent. This jet will take you to Alcatraz where the Brotherhood has based their operations, taking the civilians they forced to mutate with them there. Intel shows that Blob is out there with them.
"It wouldn't be that hard to find Blob." Blaine said as he climbed the jet. "Guys, we're wasting time, let's move out!"
"Blaine, maybe we can start this spec ops tomorrow or the day after that. The spec ops is tough and we're pretty low leveled. We might not be able to do this effectively." Tina reasoned.
"Yeah Blaine, and you're too angry to do this mission now. You even crashed into a force field just now when you know that that was a likely possibility. You're focus is down and that could cause trouble for us." Mike added.
"So what? We're gonna stand here like props while Kurt's out there battling those mutants?" Blaine screamed at them. "You guys are just a bunch of cowards. If you're not coming along then I'm going myself!" he said as he shut the jet's door.
Everyone on deck was stunned by his behavior. An awkward silence passed between them before jake spoke up.
"He can't take off without heroes with him, right?" he asked.
"Yep, so he'll be coming out of that jet in 3… 2… 1…" Artie counted and like clockwork, Blaine reopened the jet's door.
"Fine, I give up. Let's stay here then like freaking cowards." He said to them as he made his way back down to the deck before running off to the main building.
"Does he really need to be so flashy and overdramatic about everything?" Jake asked.
This time around, it was Mike who elbowed him, causing the younger Puckerman to wince in pain.
"Should we follow him? Tina asked.
"Nah, don't think so. Maybe later but right now, he needs some alone time." Artie replied.
Blaine spent a few hours in his room moping around and basically acting like the way he did before he started playing the game. But now he was in the game so he had no choice but to go back to his old routines.
While he had his face buried under his pillow, he heard his quarter's door slide open.
"Leave me alone!" Blaine screamed through his pillow.
"How ironic, the first person I could ever classify as a drama queen is a guy." The intruder said.
"Get off my case Puckerman!" Blaine yelled at the younger Puckerman as he threw his pillow which didn't even make the latter flinch.
"You have with you a gun and you throw a pillow at me. Really impressive. Also, you throw like a girl and-"
"Just tell me what you want so I could get you out of here sooner." Blaine said, seething as he cut him off.
"Actually, I want you to come with me. Artie sent me here to fetch you." Jake said with clear disinterest.
"Fine, whatever." Blaine said as he got up from his bed. He barely made a couple of steps when he accidentally tripped on something.
"Ugggh. This is not my day." Blaine complained as he saw the small chest box near his bed.
"You sure fall a lot for someone who performs and dances as a hobby." Jake commented, smugly.
"And I'm pretty sure you have all the poise and grace a professional dancer has." Blaine replied sarcastically as he opened the chest box revealing the Nano-nurse he picked up a few hours ago.
"I probably do. I've been taking ballet for a long time now." Jake admitted. "You would have probably known that if you actually talked to us newbies."
"I'm impressed. You actually sound decent for a change."
"Whatever. Can we go now? They might actually think that you're trying to kill me, as if you could." Jake replied. His smug badass façade back up again.
"Just a sec." Blaine took out his Spirit-76 and placed it at the chest box while he took the Nano-nurse and placed it at his belt's straps. "Okay Jake, lead the way."
They made their way to the training room where Artie and Tike were waiting for the duo.
"Well, with you look at that. They actually arrived in one piece." Mike said.
"The guy's gayer than a rainbow. What'd you expect? The deadliest thing he did was throw a pillow at me. "
Blaine wanted to strangle him (along with Tina) but he stopped himself since he didn't want to cause an outburst again.
"So, what is it Artie? Please tell me we'll actually go for the spec ops now?" Blaine asked hopefully.
"Not exactly." And with those words, Blaine's spirit dropped drastically again.
"But, I have a sort of proposition into how we can make that happen faster." Artie added.
Blaine moved his hands signaling Artie to go on, his spirit fluctuating up and down like his PVP ranking.
"Admittedly, we're still pretty low level to take on the Spec Ops so we have to do a few more missions to level up and farm and get better gear."
"Okay, so we should head back to ESU and the Finance District?"
"That's step two. Step one would be to get more information out of the current spec ops without visiting it yet." Artie clarified.
"And how do you propose we do that?" Blaine asked, clearly confused as to where this was leading.
"Simple, we break the fourth wall." Artie beamed. "And which Marvel hero loves doing that the most?"
"Deadpool?" Jake supplied.
"Precisely. We just need him here so we could use his laptop for a while to get some info." Artie said seeing Blaine's face light up."So here you go,B." Artie said as he brought out a small mobile phone, the one used for distress calls.
"Artie, you are a freaking genius!" Blaine said as he hugged his armor clad friend.
"It's the glasses effect. Everyone's a genius when they have glasses." Artie kidded. "Now go press that button and hope that I'm enough of a genius to calibrate that into patching in DP properly."
Without a second more to lose, Blaine pressed the distress button and the phone started vibrating vigorously. Suddenly, a slender, red leg popped out of the phone's speaker and then the other one and soon enough, Deadpool made his way out of the phone in the weirdest magic trick the people in the room has ever seen in their entire life.
"How was that even possible?" Tina asked Mike who looked just as confused and amazed as she was.
"Why hello there Mr. Sex on a Stick, I believe you requested for my assistance." Deadpool said in a very flirty and familiar voice.
"Oh hell no! I know that voice!" Artie said in alarm.
"Nice to know that you still remembered me Wheelie boy." Deadpool said as he removed his mask; revealing the meerkat-like face of the former Warbler ringmaster, Sebastian Smythe.
"Out of all the people that could possibly become Deadpool, it just had to be this guy?" Tina complained
"Cool it Tina Blowin'-Wang. I'm a changed man now, more or less." Sebastian smirked. "And I believe I haven't had the pleasure of meeting the little Oreo cutie here." He said as he made his way towards Jake.
"Sebastian Smythe, and you are?"
"Someone who wants to punch you right now" Jake said through gritted teeth.
"Ooh feisty, I love a challenge!" He said with a malicious smile, obviously plotting something to get into Jake's pants.
"Okay, that's enough Sebastian. You need to help us, remember?" Blaine reminded.
"Right, right. Sorry, the view is kinda distracting." He replied, eyeing Jake one more time. "What do you need? I'm pretty sure there are no spiked slushies in the game."
"We need to use your laptop for a while." Blaine said monotonously, anger seeping in his brain as Sebastian brought up the slushie incident like it didn't mean anything and didn't send him in an operating room.
"Not a chance Blaine. I could trash-talk your opponents to submission or maybe give other helpful favors for you and your friends but my laptop's off-limits."
"Look, you're going to do what he says or I will hit you, got it?" Jake said as he grabbed him by the scruff of his outfit.
Sebastian just pushed Jake away and out of nowhere, a baseball bat appeared on top of Jake and hit him in the head, knocking him down.
Out of reflex, Blaine took out his katana and directed it's blade towards Sebastian. Mike as well had his bow loaded, prepared to shoot him if necessary.
"Oooh, Sharp PointyThings, I'm so scared." Sebastian said mockingly. "I have immense healing capabilities; you think you could actually hurt me with those?"
"Fine, what do you want in exchange for the laptop?" Blaine asked. He had his non sword-wielding hand behind his back signaling something to Tina who was behind him.
Tina saw the signal and slowly began to make her way towards Sebastian's back using her infiltrator abilities as Blaine distracted him.
"How about seven minutes in heaven with the cutie?" Sebastian replied with excitement.
"Don't you dare agree to that, Blaine!" Jake yelled as he tried to stand up.
"Why not? I'll show you a good time. I swear." Sebastian said, not noticing that Tina was already behind him stealthily taking out his laptop from his pack.
"Actually, we won't be needing that anymore. You just got outwitted Sebby." Blaine said just as Tina made her way back behind him holding the precious laptop.
"Hey! That's mine!" Sebastian screamed as he brought out his guns, prepared to shoot them down.
"It's five against one Seb, even if you could heal enough; you'd still be highly outnumbered. Just drop the guns and let us use your laptop." Blaine negotiated, not wanting things to get even messier.
"Ugh, fine. But make it quick! And don't go snooping around my personal folders!" He ordered.
"Why? What are you hiding?" Blaine asked, clearly amused that for once, he had the upper hand against Sebastian.
"Things that you seriously don't want to see." He replied nervously. "Now, hurry up. I want to leave this place before the Warblers spot me here."
Artie accessed the laptop and soon enough, they made their way through the forums to get all the details they needed. He used his armor's built-in camera to take shots so they'll have references and copies of all the data they needed.
"Okay, done." Artie said as he threw the red and black Macbook Pro towards Sebastian which the latter quickly caught.
"This thing is expensive you know!" Sebastian screamed before he disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
"Finally. That guy was seriously creepy and offensive." Jake said.
"You said it. And to think that's already a mellowed down version of his self." Mike added.
"So what exactly are the things we need?" Blaine asked Artie, not even bothering to add to the small talk.
"For starters, lot's of CPs because there's the usual epic boss." Artie said. "Good news, we only need three heroes to recruit. Bad news, two of them are ninety cps."
"So who do we need?" Tina asked.
"There's me and Finn, which is Thor. Then two mutants, Colossus and Scarlet Witch." He supplied. "A total of 213 cps and we currently have only seven so far."
Instead of getting frustrated and depressed again by the big challenge presented upon them, Blaine started to spin things more positively, a first for the day. The isolation helped him realized that the more time he spent moping around and crying over spilled milk, the more time he wasted on the spec ops deadline. Now, he just feels invigorated by the challenge and without a doubt, he would succeed on this one or die trying.
"Well guys, I guess it's time we go back to doing missions then."
AN: So we have Jake joining the team. Any thoughts on that? Comments? Suggestions? Violent Reactions? Hit the review button so i could know what you guys think. I'll try to update one more time this month but no promises.
Also, any guesses who Colossus and Scarlet Witch will be?
That's all for now. Percival Jones, logging off.