Chapter Five- I’m Not a ‘Kid’


After more than two hours of planning, suggesting, arguing, debating, disagreeing, and of course, agreeing, they finally came up with a plan. It was quite simple really. Basically, they just had to find where their friends were being kept (they already had an idea where. It must be somewhere near the underground place where some of the members had fallen before……), then sneak inside, look for their captured friends, grab them, and leave. Assuming of course that the rescuers would not be captured. The rescuers consisted only of six members. Why? Well, as Cyclops had put it: ““the lesser, the better.”” Actually, the real reason was that just in case that the rescuers might encounter any problems, Cyclops wanted to make sure that there was a second batch of rescuers, to rescue the first batch of rescuers, and the originally captured ones, and so on and so forth. Smart thinking.

The six rescuers were: Cyclops, Jean, Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, Iceman, and Avalanche. Lance wasn’’t originally in the rescue team, but he had insisted. Or actually, to be more specific, he had threatened to cause a major earthquake if he wasn’’t allowed to come. O Fearless Leader is still trying to figure out why Lance wanted to come with them so badly.

Each had his/her own assignment. Cyclops would be the leader, of course, giving out commands, etc. and also be the main offensive attacker (if needed). Jean would help with the communicating, using her telepathic abilities to link the members with one another. She would also be their main defense, providing a protective TK shield (again, if needed). Kurt’’s duty was much simpler. He will help with the transportation to get inside, etc. Kitty would also help in getting inside, using her phasing abilities to phase through walls and doors, or hacking computer-locked doors with her uh, hacking abilities. Bobby would be the pilot, just in case a quick escape was needed, and Lance, well, he can shake the ground or something to slow down the enemy…….if need be.

Cyclops landed the X-Copter, as Bobby now called it, in the middle of the woods about 500 feet from the outside fence surrounding the ““secret”” underground base. Iceman and Avalanche stayed in the aircraft, while the other four walked towards the wired fence. And again, Lance had wanted to come with them, but this time, Kitty persuaded him to stay.

It was very easy to get to the other side of the fence, just simple teleporting and phasing. But it took a tiny bit longer to go to the underground base. The huge hole where the three had fallen, was now gone. So they had to count on Shadowcat to find a way inside by phasing through the ground back and forth looking for a corridor or room or something like that underground. When she finally did, she was then given the task to phase them all through the ground, since good `ol Nightcrawler could not teleport to a place that he had not seen before, without risking any disastrous results.

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Meanwhile…….

““So, uh, how’’d you guys find me?”” Logan asked. He was still sitting against the wall, near the bathroom. Rogue looked up. She hesitated. ““Um, actually we weren’’t really trying to find you…….we were fighting Magneto and his new recruits, but……it’’s really kind of a long story……”” She shrugged.

““Well, it kinda looks like we’’re gonna have lotsa time to spare,”” Logan replied, with a small grin.

““Ah can’’t believe you’’re making jokes at a time like this.””

““Hey, was just trying to ease the tension, kid.””

Rogue winced when he said ““kid””, but she smiled back.

““Thanks.””