A/N: Hey guys! Sorry for the long wait, had a bit of writers block and also been tired but here is the finished chapter!
This is my take on the episode where Spyke is recording with the camcorder and Sabertooth's big entrance!
Lemme know if you guys are enjoying the story so far!
I DO NOT OWN XMEN EVOLUTION!
(Brief description; Evan has to do extra credit to get his grade up for science but Sabertooth attacks the Institute after finding footage and tries to take some x-men hostage to get to Logan.)
Chapter 7: School Project
It was a normal day like any other, the X-teens going to school like usual. Evan, however, was either skipping class or fooling around, but today in particular he was playing with his eraser and making a skateboard out of it as the teacher passes back their homework assignments. The bell rings and Evan jumps up to leave with everyone else, but noticed his grade. "Hey Teach, I see the note on my assignment." He says as he goes up to his teacher who was at the board.
"Oh, yes," His teacher turns and looks at him. "The assignment was on the Star Wars program, not the movie. I can't give you a complete grade."
"Ah man! Hey, man, is there any way I can make this up? Extra credit?" Evan asks, hoping he didn't have to show his Aunt his grade-she was worrying about him after all.
The teacher thinks for a moment, then smiles, pulling out a camcorder from his desk. "Actually, there is! You can use this and make a documentary about you to make up for the assignment."
"Hey thanks man! I'll be doing "The Evan Perspective"." Evan grins as he examines the camcorder.
He exits the classroom, turning the device on and starts to film. "Let's see what we can find."
Evan walks around the halls, filming as he goes. "Vat zats?" Kurt asks as he pops into view.
"I'm filming a documentary for extra credit, say hi, Kurt." Evan grins as he held up the camcorder.
Kurt grins, waving. "Cool! I can't vait to see how it turns out! How do I look?" He fixes his hair as he asks.
Evan notices a couple of the other X-teens walking in the halls, holding his camcorder up to record what was going on. "What do we have here?" Evan asks to himself as he watches.
"Hey, Piotr, how was class today?" Kitty asks, a friendly smile on her lips.
"It was good." Piotr responds as he looks forward while they walked.
"Cue the love triangle." Evan comments as he noticed Lance pull up besides them.
"Hey, Kitty," Lance smirks as he puts his arm around her. "How 'bout you and me go out on a date say Wednesday?"
Piotr twitched a bit, glancing briefly at the Brotherhood member. Kitty looks at Lance, slightly pushing him back. "I told you earlier, Lance. No."
"Come on, please?" Lance begs. "I'll take you out for dinner."
Kitty places her hands on her hips, sighing. "Well… alright, but just this once!"
"Yes! I'll pick you up at 6 Wednesday!" Lance grins, then he gives Piotr a smug look, the metal mutant flashing an icy look to him.
"Katya, perhaps you should reconsider." He comments once Lance was out of earshot.
"What do you mean?" Kitty looks up at Piotr curiously.
"Uh-well…" Piotr notices Evan with the camcorder facing them, his eyebrow raised in question. "Vat are you doing , Evan?"
"Hey! Were you recording us the entire time?" Kitty asks.
"Uhhhh…." Evan smiles sheepishly. "Listen it's for extra credit!"
"I see." Piotr nods.
The day continues and soon the bell rung, Evan immediately going on his skateboard and getting back into recording. He records himself do a couple tricks, not knowing a large figure was stalking him and watching his every move. He slides down the railing of a flight of stairs, pausing to look at what he has so far of his footage. He got a shot of the mansion from one of his classroom windows-showing a glimpse of Logan entering through the gates, then it panned over a small view of Bayville. He smiles but it drops when he hears someone come up to him. "Yo, Evan! I hear you're making a movie!" Toad smiles as he stands on top of the railing of the stairs.
"Yeah, why?" Evan asks.
"I wanna be a part of your movie. I can do some cool tricks!" Toad starts to show off with his jumping skills, trying to impress the X-teen. "See?"
"Forget it man. I got more important things to do." Evan starts to skate away, Toad deflating.
"Aw man." Toad makes a face, then he hops away.
Evan looks at his footage as he slowly rolls forward, the hairs on the back of his neck sticking up as he felt he was being watched. In a swift motion, Evan gets flung off his skateboard and into a pile of rubbish, sighing in relief to himself he had his helmet on but angry at whoever shoved him. He jumps up, looking around, noticing his camcorder was missing. "Aw man! Where'd it go?" Evan looks around for it, frantically.
As he searched, above him a big, burly man was looking through the footage, grinning when he sees the clip of Logan. "Heh. Found ya." His sharp teeth glint, then he jumps down and sets the camcorder aside, quickly disappearing into the shadows.
Evan turns and finds the camcorder on the ground a couple feet from his skateboard, making him sigh in relief. "Phew. That would've been close."
He starts to skate towards the direction of the mansion, the man watching from the shadows as he chuckles darkly to himself.
Evan enters the mansion grounds, filming some more throughout the day. It wasn't until after dinner where Logan and Scott were training outside, Piotr and Remy had joined just to see what the two oldest residents were doing. Evan was filming as he snuck through the course Logan had set up, not paying attention when a saw blade heads towards him, only to fall when a charged card made it explode in front of him. "Spyke! Watch it!" Logan growls.
Evan looks around, camcorder in hand as he gives Logan a sheepish grin. Logan walks over, a gruff look on his face as he grabs the camcorder. "Hey! I need that!" Evan yells, jumping up.
"Well, not anymore." Logan says, clearly pissed, as he starts to going through some footage, only to pause when he notices a shot of him entering the mansion grounds and have it cut to the man from earlier grinning in the lens.
"Thanks for showing me where Logan lives, kid." The man grins with his fangs glinting.
Logan growls. "Sabertooth." He shoves the camcorder back at Evan, sniffing the air as his claws pop out.
Suddenly, the gates screech open, the man named Sabertooth ripping them open with inhumane strength. "Knock knock Wolverine!" Sabertooth grins.
"Get back! I can handle him!" Logan growls to the four teens.
"RAAAARGH!!" Sabertooth lunges forward, tackling Logan as the two engage in battle.
The perimeter alarms went off as the intruder fought Logan, slashing at his skin with his long sharp claws. The four teen boys watched, wondering if they should help as their instructor was being torn apart. The other teens run out, Storm and Hank following with the Professor. "Sabertooth, how'd he get here?" The Professor asked.
"It was an accident. He must've been the one who ambushed me and found my footage of Logan entering the mansion on my way home from school." Evan rubs the back of his neck.
"Should we help him Professor?" Scott asks.
"This is a fight for Logan and Logan only. You will get hurt, none of you are ready to fight someone as strong as Sabertooth." Charles looks to Scott, a serious expression on his face.
"We could handle him, Professor. We just won't get close. It'll help him get off of Logan." Scott argues.
The Professor sighs. "Alright, but keep your distance."
"You heard him, X-men!" Scott switches his shades for his visor, the others preparing.
Logan tries to get the larger man off of him as he uses his claws to stab and slash back at Sabertooth who slashed back in response. "Hey! Sabertooth!" Scott yells, the larger and hairier man looking up from his assault, both Logan and him splattered in each others blood.
Scott blasts him with an optic blast, Logan getting up immediately and cracking his neck as his healing factor heals up the wounds. "Thanks Cyke." Logan nods. "Now leave the rest to me."
"No way, we're helpin' ya." Rogue argues.
"You're all going to get hurt." Logan growls.
"Not if we don' get close." Remy grins and charges up several cards and throws them at Sabertooth who gets blown back from the explosion.
Sabertooth growls. "Didn't know you need kids to save you, Logan."
Logan growls. Evan releases some spikes towards the Sabertooth, Jean using her powers to hurl saw blades from the training course machines. Kurt teleports Kitty and she uses her powers to bring Sabertooth into the ground, gasping when he goes to claw at her but his hand phases through her.
Bobby freezes his hands and arms the ground, the others enclosing in on him. Sabertooth growls, roaring as he struggles a bit to get the ice loose. He notices Rogue coming towards him out of the corner of his eye as she goes to take her glove off, but he uses enough force to break free and grab her and toss her backwards. Remy's eyes widen, Sabertooth then lashing out and slashing across his chest as he throws him back.
Bobby goes to use more ice to pin him but Sabertooth tries to slash at him, but luckily Kurt teleported him away before that could happen. His eyes were ferocious as he lashes out at the others, clipping a few of Warren's feathers, tossing Scott into a bush, swiping at Kitty arm as she jumps back. Piotr tackles him in his metal form, pinning him back down as Logan throws punches in fiery. Storm summons thunder while Hank helped Piotr pin the larger berserker man down. "Professor, what should we do?" Jean asks, eyes widened.
"We need to sedate him." The Professor says. "Before he hurts anyone else."
Rogue gets back up, gritting her teeth as she held her side but manages to limp towards the others, her ungloved hand stretching out. "Ah got it." She growls as she touches her finger tips to Sabertooth's forehead, the man crying out as Rogue's powers absorb him.
He goes unconscious, Logan sighing in relief. The others gather together, most sustaining some sort of injury but okay otherwise. "Told you we could handle him." Scott huffs out.
"He nearly cut us up into pieces man!" Kurt looks at Scott with wide eyes, his arms gesturing to Kitty's bleeding arm, Remy blood soaked shirt, Rogue's bruised and scratched body and Warren's missing feathers on one of his wings.
"Yes, while Sabertooth has been knocked out, I told you you weren't ready to take him on just yet." The Professor looks to Scott as he and Jean come up to the group.
"He's down, yeah? We have to learn at some point and there will always be risks, Professor. If you don't let us try, then what's the point in training us?" Scott argues.
The Professor looks at him, deep in thought, then sighs. "Perhaps you're right, Scott. But this just proves you must train even hard, especially if you are all to go against Magneto someday. Now then, let's get you all bandaged up."
Logan looks towards the sleeping Sabertooth, clenching his jaw. "I'll take care of him, Chuck."
The Professor nods, Logan picking Sabertooth up and taking him away as the others head inside with Hank to be patched up. Remy grimaces at the stinging sensation across his chest, his red on black eyes glancing over to Rogue who was putting her glove back on. "Y' okay?" He asks.
"Ah should be askin' you." Rogue says as she glances up to him.
"'Ve had worse." Remy tries to grin but it comes out as a grimace.
Once in the medical wing of the mansion, Hank assess each of their injuries and patches them up. Remy puts his torn shirt back on over his head, Rogue walking past him and catching a glimpse of his toned bandaged chest. A light blush runs over her cheeks as she quickly looks away and heads towards the Beast.
Remy glances over to see Rogue's back walking towards Dr. McCoy, his own feet moving towards the exit of the room as he had to go change his shirt.
He passes Logan in the hall, the short man in a sour mood. "How did y' know dat guy?" Remy asks, stopping in his tracks.
Logan pauses, looking back at the teen. "He just a part of my past that I can't forget. I moved him far from here, but if he ever shows his face around here again, none of you are to interfere."
"We're only tryin' t' help." Remy shrugs.
"I don't need any help. My beef with Sabertooth is mine alone." Logan growls lightly, then starts walking in the direction he was originally heading.
Remy frowns, then he heads upstairs, noticing Evan sighing as he looks at his camcorder. "Man. The others wouldn't be hurt if he hadn't gotten my camcorder…" Evan groans.
"Don' blame y'self. 'M sure Sabertooth still would've found out where Logan lives even wit'out y' camcorder." Remy pipes up.
"I guess you're right," Evan rubs the back of his neck. "If he comes back, we'll be ready."
Remy shakes his head. "Logan says he'll be takin' care o' 'im if he comes back."
"Aw man. We totally had him though. We'll get him next time though." Evan crosses his arms.
Remy shrugs. "Hopefully he don' come back t' soon. Now 'm gon' have scar from dat slash mark." He absentmindedly puts his hand over his chest where he got slashed at, feeling the aching underneath.
"Yeah, hopefully." Evan nods.
Remy starts to walk away, heading back to his room as Evan continues to play around with his camcorder. A few days pass, Evan continuing his project while Logan had the mansion on lockdown as he smelt Sabertooth's scent near the mansion grounds again. Kitty was talking to Rogue about her date with Lance that was coming up, complaining she had "nothing to wear" and needed help with a new wardrobe as Piotr sulked in a corner with his book as the two walked by him.
Remy glances to his metal changing friend as he was playing with his cards, noticing his mood change coming off of him. "Y' okay mon ami?" He asks.
"I am fine." Piotr says calmly.
Remy raises an eyebrow. "Y' seem jealous."
"I am not."
"Y' emotions say otherwise."
"How do you know?"
Remy blinks. "'M not sure.. Always knew how people felt."
"Is it possible you have empathic abilities too?" Piotr looks up from his book.
Remy purses his lips a bit. "Possibly."
His eyes glance towards Rogue who was talking with Kitty. He can tell by the way Kitty gushed about the date it made Rogue feel lonely and sad, but she was smiling at her friend as she gave advice. She was masking her true feelings and Remy can see right through her.
The two girls exit the room, Remy looking away after they were out of sight, Piotr sighs as he looks at his book. "I wouldn' worry t' much 'bout Kitty," Remy says to cheer up the metal teen. "Once she realizes Lance is a losah and jerk, she'll have t' come t' y' and realize y' de betteh option."
"I appreciate you trying to cheer me up, Remy, but it is fine. Katya is free to date whomever she wishes." Piotr gets up calmly and exits the room, book closed and in hand.
Kitty and Rogue head for the front door of the mansion, Logan walking across from them and noticing them. "Where are you two going?" He asks gruffly, brow raised.
"Like, to the mall." Kitty smiles innocently.
"Nu uh. Not under my watch. Sabertooth may be off the premises but he could find you two and tear you to shreds." Logan crosses his arms. "No one's leaving until I confirm he's away from our perimeter."
Kitty and Rogue look at each other, sighing. Logan walks away, heading towards the Professors office, then Rogue grabs Kitty's arm and drags her to the garage that was in the opposite direction. "Rogue-!" Kitty starts.
Rogue shushes her with a finger to her own wine red lips, a small glare on her face. Once they were in the garage, Rogue grabs one of the cars keys. "Like, what are you doing?" Kitty asks.
"What does it look lahke?" Rogue asks back. "We're goin' shoppin'. We could handle fur ball if he shows up."
Kitty grins. "You are, like, so bad. Alright, let's go!"
Rogue starts up the car, opening the garage before she puts it in drive. She moves the car forward only to stop when she notices two individuals outside. "Crap." She hisses.
Evan points his camcorder in their direction on his skateboard. "Sneaking out against Logan's orders?" Evan smirks.
"If you tell, ah'll pluck every last one of ya spikes." Rogue narrows her eyes.
"Fine, but I am coming with you." Evan shrugs and places his skateboard in the backseat.
"Who knew yer a rebel, chére." Remy chides playfully as he walks up to the car.
Rogue sinks into her seat a bit. "Eithah ya get in the car or.. ah run ya ovah."
Remy shrugs, hopping in the backseat. "Y' wouldn' run me over." He says softly in her ear then relaxes against his seat next to Evan, to which made Rogue step on the gas and the car speeds forward.
Kitty phases them and car through the gate, Rogue speeding down the road towards the direction of the Bayville mall. A figure in the bushes watches the car drive by, Sabertooth grinning. "Looks like a few kids are leaving the nest."
Scott and Warren walk across the foyer, Scott's car keys in hand, while Logan walks in their direction. "Just going for some burgers." Scott says.
"Oh no you ain't. No one is leaving until Sabertooth is out of our area." Logan shakes his head.
"Then why did I see one of the cars leave the garage and phase through the gate?" Warren asks.
Logan's eyes widen, then he growls. "Goddammit." He curses under his breath as he heads for the garage.
Logan sniffs around, making a face as he catches Rogue, Kitty, Evan and Remy's scent in the area. "Of course they snuck out." He mumbles to himself.
He gets on his motorcycle, having the gate open up as he speeds out of the grounds. Meanwhile, Rogue was driving along on the road, Evan recording the ride as Kitty was fidgeting with the radio and Remy playing with his cards but his eyes glancing to the back of Rogue's head every now and then.
They get to the mall and park, the girls walking into a few stores as the two boys hang out in waiting. Evan recorded some areas of the mall, a little montage of Kitty showing different outfits to Rogue for her opinion. Then they were heading back to the car. Remy going in front of Rogue to offer to put her bags in the trunk, to which the southerner accepted. Kitty puts her bags in the trunk, hopping into the passenger seat after. Rogue starts the car once everyone was back in and heads out of the parking lot.
As they drove back, Evan records the scenery, zooming in on a motorcycle that was speeding up. He gasps softly when he sees who was on the back of it, turning his head to Rogue. "Yo, Rogue! Speed up!" Evan alerts her.
Rogue looks in her rearview mirror, catching a glimpse of Sabertooth gaining on them. "Crap." She curses under her breath. "Evan, you and Remy slow him down."
"Wit' pleasure, chère." Remy smirks, charging up a card and pressing a button to roll down the window.
Evan does the same with his spikes and the two hurl the objects at the incoming Sabertooth. He dodges their efforts, speeding up and getting close to their car, Remy throwing a charged card at his face as he does. Sabertooth growls and roars.
He speeds up and drives along side them, slashing at their tires both front and back and slamming into the side. Rogue tries to steer the car straight but the tires exploded and the car started to crash and roll into a ditch. Everyone hangs on as the car rolls onto its roof, glass going everywhere while the airbags go off. Rogue moans softly, touching her forehead and finds blood. "Ya'll okay?"
"I think so." Kitty groans.
Remy and Evan groan, Remy gasping when he sees some spikes in his face. "Ah!" He jolts a bit, Evan giving a sheepish smile.
"Sorry man."
"I still got my head luckily." Remy sighs.
"Alright, I'm going to like phase us out of here." Kitty says. "Everyone grab onto my arm."
Rogue peers over Kitty to try to look out her window, nodding to her friend when she saw the coast was clear. Kitty phases the four of them out of the wreck, the group shakily getting up and dusting themselves off. "Where'd he go?" Evan asks, eyes narrowed.
"Don' know…" Remy looks around.
With their backs turned to the wreck, they didn't notice the large, feral man climb up on the car and jump down behind them with a roar-snapping them into flight or fight mode. His claws on his hands were sharp and extended outward, Kitty shielding herself and phasing her body out of harm, while Evan's spikes came out in protection. Remy agilely dodges out of the way and charges up several cards and throws them at the large man. Sabertooth gets flung backwards into the wreck, causing a dent in the vehicle. He growls as he glares at Remy. Remy sends him a grin as he sends more charged up cards towards him.
Sabertooth jumps out of the way, the car exploding and sending the four backwards into the grass. "Logan and Xavier are right. You kids aren't ready to face what's to come." Sabertooth grins as he stands over the group. "But I'll make this quick for you."
He grabs Remy by the throat, Remy glaring at him as he struggles to make him let go. Sabertooth's other hand opens up, claws ready, but before he could send a stab to Remy's chest, Rogue flings herself on top of Sabertooth's back and readies an ungloved hand. Sabertooth roars, dropping Remy to the ground hard as he flails his arms to try to get her off of him.
Rogue presses her ungloved hand to his face, gritting her teeth as she starts to absorb him while Sabertooth cries out. Kitty hears a motorcycle rush forward, Logan coming into view. "Hang in there stripes!" Logan yells as he runs forward.
Rogue felt herself slip a bit as Sabertooth kept flailing, finally grabbing her arm and throwing her over his shoulder. He sends his claws through her stomach, a gasp escaping her with some blood spurting out of her mouth. Kitty screams, while Evan and Remy stood there wide eyed. Logan yells in anger and anguish as he tackles Sabertooth. Sabertooth growls at Logan as he skids across the grass, his claws digging in the ground. What the two weren't expecting was a massive slam of kinetic energy from Remy. His red on black eyes glowered at the larger man as he stood next to Logan who was just as surprised.
Evan joined in with throwing spikes at Sabertooth, hitting him in the shoulders and chest. The trio kept hitting Sabertooth, causing the man to back up to a small ledge that dipped down into a small ravine. "End of the line Creed." Logan growls.
"I ain't going down easily, Logan." Sabertooth glares at the trio.
He jumps towards them, the three ready, but were surprised when a force shoves him off the small ledge. The three boys look over in shock to find a panting Rogue with claws and her wound healed up. "Rogue!" They all yelled in unison.
"I like didn't want to ruin her coming back to life moment." Kitty smiles in relief.
The three hug her, surprising the girl, but she smiles. "Heh. For a moment I kinda forgot Creed had a healing factor like me." Logan admits.
"Dat would've been nice to know moments befo'." Remy purses his lips with his brows furrowed.
"Ah'm fahne." Rogue smiles.
They release her, Logan smiling a bit, then he turns to Remy. "How'd you do that big burst of energy, Cajun?" Remy shrugs. "You should keep practicing how to do that. Could come in hand again. Now then. Let's get you all home. But as punishment for sneaking out and almost getting killed, you're all doing a danger room sessions with for a week."
The group groans, but Logan just smiles. He calls for Scott to send the blackbird for pick up, Evan grabbing his camcorder from a bush. As the next couple days go by, Evan submits his extra credit after doing some editing, handing it over to his teacher to be graded. The teacher smiles and gives him a rubric with an A, to which the boy whoops in happiness and rushes out of the class.
As Evan sprints through the halls, Remy was leaning against the locker next to Rogue's as they were talking. "Y' see anythin' when y' absorbed Sabertooth?" He asks.
"Only flashes. An' bits of his past which had Logan in it…" Rogue looks at him after grabbing her backpack.
Remy opens his mouth to speak, but was interrupted by Kitty bouncing up to them. "Come on guys, we're gonna be late to Logan's danger room session."
The two groan, then Rogue looks at Kitty. "Hey, how'd that date with Lance go?"
"He was a total jerk, but he like wants to take me out again. I don't know what I'm gonna do." Kitty sighs. "Now come on, we don't want Logan to extend our punishment."
"We're comin' chat." Remy rolls his eyes but smiles at Rogue who smiles back.
A/N: And that's chapter 7! Hope you enjoyed! Next chapter is the fight against Juggernaut. Stay tuned!
