Justice sat in the car deep in his own thought and
tried to concentrate on keeping the car on the road. He sighed feeling a little
rude when he looked at Rayne huddled up in the passenger seat.
He reached over and touched her arm
lightly and gave her a smile, "You need anything?"
"Jus’ ma brother," She mumbled
and moved her arm away from him.
"Excuse me?" Justice said trying
to concentrate on her words.
"Nothin’," She stretched,
"Ah don‘ need anyt’in’. Ah‘m fine."
"If I can do anything at all to make
you more comfortable just let me know, ok?" Justice smiled but stopped
short, hearing Alex's voice in his head, ‘Uh oh. I’m in trouble.’
Rayne guessed he was being contacted
telepathically and started to worry when the SUV veered off the road slightly.
Justice sighed, pulling the vehicle back
onto the road while trying to use his telepathy as well.
Rayne tensed up more when Justice’s
concentration to who he was talking to was still affecting his driving,
"Somebody important talkin’ ta yo’?"
He turned to answer her but his eyes still
glowed and it took all his concentration and effort to keep the car on the
road.
Rayne wondered who was in more pain
between them. Justice looked dog tired, and she felt like death warmer over.
Once his eyes stopped glowing he sighed and looked at her with a little smile.
"Who called?" Rayne joked a
little.
The phone rang next to Justice and Rayne
jumped slightly.
Justice stifled a giggle and clicked the
speaker button and the ringing stopped as the phone call was piped through the
stereo speakers.
"Justice, you idiot! What do you think
you are doing? You couldn't even keep your telepathy going long enough for me
to finish yelling at you!" Alex’s voice yelled through the speakers.
He dropped his chin against the steering
wheel, "Uh well, at least I can do more than I could this morning,"
He laughed.
"That's not the point here,"
Alex snapped, "We already have two siblings in danger and you’re off
trying to get yourself hurt as well. And what do you think your doing taking
Rayne along? Have you lost it completely?"
Rayne snickered, "She really
mad at yo’, homme."
Justice grinned, "Well you were
asleep and I didn’t think you would be able to help."
Alex’s voice grew angrier, "I
am fine Just’. Beast, Warren and I will go and retrieve them. You bring
yourself and Rayne back here immediately!" Ty's voice could be heard in the
background screaming, ‘I'm going too!’
"Alex, you aren't fine," Justice
argued. "You didn't even wake up when I asked you to borrow your
keys," He lied.
"Justice, is Rayne ok? She is
with you, right?" Alex asked quickly. Rayne started to speak up but
Justice raised his hand to take the blame, "I needed her to find the
others so I kidnapped her."
"WHAT?" Alex screamed,
"She’s not there by her own free will? I am not the only person who’s
going to kill you now. Gambit will kill you if his sister is harmed!"
"I couldn’t get my telepathy to work,
and I needed to find them," Justice groaned. "That's not
surprising," Alex snorted, miffed at her brother.
"He didn' kidnap me," Rayne said
quickly.
"Rayne?" Alex said hopefully,
"Make him bring you back, Please. Neither of you is in shape to be out
there."
"Ah’m goin’ ta find Remy," she
reasoned, "He's in trouble an ah wan’ help him."
"I know doll, but…," Alex sighed,
"I wish you two would come back here."
"What do you mean you know?"
Justice demanded.
"I got in Hayley's mind for a
minute," Alex admitted with a sigh. Justice was losing his patience,
"AND?"
"They’re under attack," Alex said
slowly.
"We ain’t far from dem now,"
Rayne added after pulling her head in from the open window, "Ah can smell
dem."
"Who attacked them?" Justice was
losing his temper.
"All I saw was Sabretooth and the
Scarlet Witch," Alex added quickly, "Justice if you don't bring my
SUV back right now I am going to be on your ass with the X-men!"
Justice turned the power off. “Lousy
conversation,” he shrugged to Rayne, "You want to go back?"
"No! Remy needs me," Rayne's
eyes were wide as saucers thinking about her brother being in danger.
"Me either," Justice winked,
"direct me faster ok?" He put all his concentration on driving now as
Rayne stuck her head back out the window and urged him on.
Alex slammed the phone down and looked at
Hank. The sight of an angry Alex amused him a little because she was always so
calm and confident.
She thrust a finger in the air and began
waving it, "I am going to kill him." Then she started out of the lab.
Beast grabbed her arm, "Wait. You
cannot go after them like lost vigilante." Beast glared at her.
Storm ran in clasping her robe but
realized quickly that she walked into something more than she expected, "I
am looking for Justice." She smiled at them.
"It would seem that Justice has gone
for a joyride with a patient," Alex pointed to Rayne's empty bed.
Storm sighed and looked at them.
Alex began to pace and Cyclops came in
quickly. "Do we have a location?" Scott said quickly.
Alex nodded, "Yes, and they are
under attack." Alex wanted to scream from all the waiting. She huffed and
made her way for the door, "I know I can find them, so I am going to. With
or without help." Hank stopped her and looked at her meaningfully.
"Don't try to stop me Hank," she touched his hand, "All my
siblings are in danger and two of their unborn."
She sighed and looked at Scott, "And
two of your X-men as well, not to mention that poor girl. I don‘t know what
Justice was thinking taking her along! So I am leaving and if anyone else wants
to go fine but if your not, then don't get in my way." She pushed her way
to the doors and left quickly.
"We can't all go and leave the
students and children unprotected," Scott mused, "Storm stay here
with Jean and Beast." He looked at Xavier's sleeping form and wished he
were awake to guide them, "Warren, Tyler and I can go round them up."
Tyler bounced to his feet, "YES!"
He was young and loved the excitement.
Beast sighed, "If you don't keep up
with Alexandra you will not find them at all." Scott and Tyler hurried out
finding Warren just outside of the infirmary.
Ally sat up in time to see Logan running
for Sabretooth before he could advance on Ally and Gambit.
Gambit made his way to Hayley who seemed
to be taking her time getting to her feet. Hayley pushed herself up on her
palms and looked into Remy's concerned eyes, "I am all right." Then,
a look of Horror crossed her face and she jumped to her feet. Remy turned in
time to see the Scarlet Witch's attack flying at them.
Hayley pushed him back as Wanda’s
lightening bolt hit but Hayley absorbed it easily. She gave Wanda a smile and
pushed her hands together as a fireball danced between her fingers. Wanda
stared at her curiously until the fireball came flying at her.
Wanda wasn't sure what exactly Hayley was
doing until she was nearly on fire and then she narrowed her eyes coming closer
with another attack.
Logan leapt for Sabretooth growling but he
knew with their healing factors and similar fighting skills, the fight would
only end up as a stalemate. He recalled how Sabretooth held Ally in his grasp a
moment ago, much like during a fight when he almost killed her, and that anger
drove him further into the battle.
Pietro woke to find a blue face slapping
him awake as it insisted he 'get up now'. He blinked and realized it was
Mystique.
"Taking things in your own
hands?" She hissed at him, "We need to work together on this."
He grabbed his head and found some blood.
He was angry at the redhead now but turned his anger at Mystique instead,
"You weren't doing very much to help get the cats. Are you afraid they
will push you out of the Brotherhood?" He stood and watched Wanda dodge
exploding cards. And he noted that Sabretooth was in battle with Wolverine, and
Pyro was being defeated by Fire-cat with Hayley’s help.
Mystique ran off towards Hayley. She had
a score to settle with the black haired cat.
Pietro sized Ally up and figured she was
easy prey.
Hayley found that between she and Ally,
Pyro was nearly finished. Hayley absorbed his fire and threw back lightening.
Ally moved to help Logan with Sabertooth,
but quicksilver cut her off so rapidly that she lost her footing.
"Come with us," Quicksilver
cooed, "What happened earlier today should prove to you what human and
mutant co-existence is really about." She shook her head and tried to get
to her feet but Pietro jumped on top of her to keep her down.
He reached to her belly catching her off
guard, "Humans hate mutants and they will kill your child as well as
you," he reasoned. Ally felt ill under his grasp and tossed him back with
her telekinesis but before she could get to her feet he sat on her legs.
"Can't get rid of me that
easily," He laughed in her face.
Hayley began to run for Ally seeing Pyro
was down but a blue foot found slammed in her hard in the face.
"We have a score to settle,"
Mystique grunted. Hayley put her leg along the side of her head to show how
nibble she was, but Mystique only looked back at her coyly, "Is that the
best you can do?"
Gambit saw the change of hands as Ally kept struggling against
Quicksilver. He dealt a hand of well placed cards at Wanda's feet knocking her
back then ran to help his friends.
Pietro was hefted to his feet and in his
confusion found Remy's fist in his face. Ally began to say thank you but saw
Wanda back on her feet so she threw her down again with her telekinesis. Then
she threw Quicksilver before he could gain his footing.
Remy turned quickly to see the witch
flying backwards and smirked. He turned to Ally giving her a hand to her feet.
Switching opponents helped, "We make a good team, non?"
Ally smiled but pushed Remy out of the way
as Pietro came running back bowling Ally over grinning in her face, "Miss
me?"
Ally saw Remy's charged charge and wiggled
out of the way as the card hit Pietro.
A loud growl from Sabretooth caught
everyone's attention. Wolverine was winning against the mammoth mutant and
scored a beautiful blow to Sabretooth's shoulder.
Suddenly Mystique's foot hit Logan from
behind and they began to double team him. Hayley ran to grab Mystique again but
Sabretooth knew he was weak and figured Hayley as the easier prey. He wrapped
his arm around her neck holding her securely.
Pietro smiled seeing the horror filled
expression on Hayley's face and her lack of fight. She looked like a deer
caught in headlights.
He ran to Sabretooth happy it looked like
they had one of them. He planned to keep her caught. He meet Sabretooth's eye
and knew his carnal spirit. Everyone stopped except for Mystique who kept
Wolverine busy.
Wanda joined her brother as Sabretooth
grabbed at Hayley's rounded belly tearing the cloth and exposing her pregnancy.
Tears filled Hayley's eyes but she only felt paralyzed against this mutant.
Sabretooth bent down to her tiny frame
taking in the scent of her and on her. He could smell the other male on her and
growled as he scanned to the other mutants.
He pointed his claws into her belly as
Remy and Ally advanced and he could feel Ally's tug to throw him. She didn't
throw him mentally yet because he held her sister and the other mutants knew
it. Wanda and Pietro guarded him as he stood there holding the Fire-cat. He
gestured to the two side by side to make his point.
"Move, and I will gut her." He
let his claws dig slightly into her belly as Wanda and Pietro's faces filled
with surprise. Sabretooth watched her heal as he cut her and he too smiled now
sure that the bastard child she carried was his. He leaned to her ear and he
realized why she didn't move. She was still sickened of him by the rape.
He played with her new healing ability
letting his claws drag on her flawless skin as her body began to heal the
scratches.
He looked to Remy as he did. "This
whelp is mine," He growled at the red-eyed man. He could smell him on
Hayley and realized one of the smells was sex.
His animal nature took over and he wanted
to kill the man who had his woman while his child grew within, "I was here
first, runt."
Remy watched Wanda produce a metallic
helmet as she approached Hayley. He watched Hayley's face then looked to Ally
for a clue as to why the woman he knew as a tiger, wasn’t fighting back.
Instead, tears ran down her face. He grit his teeth as he watched Sabretooth
stake Hayley as a claim.
The joy on the witch's face as she walked
over with the helmet caught both Ally’s and his attention.
'We have to move,' Ally touched his mind, 'That
helmet will stop her abilities once it’s on.'
'Why won't she fight?' he asked her back. If
Hayley would wrestled enough to break free, they would have a better chance of
getting out of there.
'Because of him,' Ally told him
mentally, 'I think he raped her.' Ally became angry as she and Gambit
realized what Sabretooth's words meant.
It was his child yet Sabretooth would
gladly kill her. "She reeks of you, runt," he growled at Gambit,
"Maybe you bed her but she and the kid belong to me." Sabretooth grew
angrier as could smell the other man on her more clearly, "And I can do
whatever I want to with them."
Pietro realized what he would do.
"No Sabretooth, we need her alive."
Gambit wanted to take him apart for what
he did to Hayley. But this had to be handled delicately. Remy gave him a coy
look, "Me, Ah t’ink yo‘r not‘in but a weak, pat’etic crapaud. Pickin‘ on
femmes an bebe‘s." Remy laughed at him, "Sabretooth, da measly slayer
of small and weak t’ings. He runs away from any real fight," Remy saw
Sabretooth relaxing his hold and he laughed again at Sabretooth to push him
over the edge, "Yo’r a pat’etic coward."
Sabretooth dropped Hayley and ran for
Gambit, "I’ll show ya weak, runt." He pushed small trees over to get
to Remy causing Mystique and Logan to dodge the trees, as well as each other.
He lunged at Remy, knocked him over landing on top of him and prepared to tear
him to peices.
Suddenly, Sabretooth went flying
violently back from Ally telekinetic toss. Remy took a deep breath of relief
then produced his Bo-staff. He saw Hayley moving slowly, trying to get up,
until the witch clasped the helmet on her head.
He narrowed his eyes and joined Ally,
"Let's end dis now, eh chere?" he said angry at the sight of Logan
also taking a beating.
Mystique went flying back as Ally rose off
the ground with electricity crackling around her.
Remy's eyes grew wide realizing she had
channeled her sister's powers. He gave a smile seeing Logan was now free and
was moving to help Hayley, as he began to run for her.
Wanda had Pietro over her shoulder,
"We have to get her out of here. She's healing herself and might get
strong enough to break free. One cat is better then none."
He growled looking at the restrained
Fire-cat. Wanda checked that the helmet was fastened securely as Hayley's hand
flew to her head.
Hayley then realized what had happened.
"Not this thing again," She sighed and stood. Putting her palm flat
in Wanda's face knocking her to the ground roughly. Pietro was also surprised
as she kicked him in the chest.
"Funny thing is, this helmet doesn't
stop my fighting ability," Hayley took a defensive posture.
Ally sighed, seeing her sister's fight
return and with Sabretooth out of her way she looked over at Remy who smiled at
her.
Gambit pointed at Hayley with his Bo
staff, "Dat's de tiger ah know." He grinned.
Ally saw him first and grabbed Sabretooth
as he lunged at Gambit. Before his claws touched Gambit she tossed him far away
again, "Remy be careful, he wants you dead."
Logan ran to Hayley before Wanda and
Pietro could get to their feet. He quickly cut through the metal helmet and
Hayley smiled.
He pulled her to him, "Let's get you
outta here." Wanda's lightening on Logan's metal body stopped that idea
quickly.
Pietro decided to try the other sister and
rushed Ally again, "Can’t we change your mind?" He laughed.
Ally said nothing, but met his eyes linking
his thoughts with hers and he froze unable to move. He opened his mouth to
argue but no sound was permitted. He reached for something to stop his fall to
the ground but he was asleep before he hit the ground.
Mystique moved to help Wanda and Pietro
but was unceremoniously knocked on her butt from a well placed kick by Gambit.
Justice knew they were close now. He had
heard a mental call from Hayley. It was tearful and it brought tears to his
eyes thinking that she might fall the same fate Ally had once. He knew Victor
Creed would kill her and from the quick message he got he knew she was in dire
trouble.
Rayne touched his arm, "What is it?
What‘s wrong? Are they hurt? Is Remy hurt?" She worried.
Justice brushed his eyes of the tears,
"No." Rayne looked at him for a clue. "I heard a cry from my
sister Hayley."
Rayne smiled despite herself.
"Not cool," Justice scolded,
"I wouldn't wish your brother dead for being with my sister."
"Remy not pregnant," she
hissed.
"He would be if he could be,"
Justice joked.
They turned into the gas station and he
pointed to his car, "That's my car!" Before he had the car stopped,
Rayne leap through the window and ran towards the scent of her brother. Justice
took a deep breath wondering why he brought her along. He kept telling himself
he had to do this for the sake of them all. But when he saw Rayne leap off into
trouble, he cringed. Not only were his sisters going to kill him but Gambit was
too.
He got a quick telepathic signal off to
his sisters, "I’m here," He grinned as he ran from the car and
followed Rayne, "Time for the strong arm of Justice!" Both weakened
mutants raced to find their loved ones.
Justice overtook and stopped Rayne,
"Stay out of the way now," he glared at her, "you promised me
you wouldn‘t do anything to get yourself hurt, remember?"
Then he sped off once they hit the cover
of the woods. Hayley laughed as Wanda tossed her lightening and she absorbed it
easily. They danced a dance Hayley knew she would win.
Logan found Sabretooth on top of him
suddenly and his claws stabbed him in the thigh. Suddenly something slammed
into Sabertooth knocking him off of Logan.
Wolverine looked to see Justice standing
there smiling weakly. He grabbed Logan and urged him to his feet. Warning bells
went off in Logan’s head as he remembered Justice's weakened condition,
"Go home kid, we got this."
"That's why Alex and I heard Hayl
screaming?" Justice heard an ear-piercing screech and looked to see Rayne
was on top of Mystique clawing at her face wildly.
"You didn't?" Logan growled
looking at the small mutant who jumped in her brother's battle with the blue
woman.
Remy knew that Mystique had been toying
with him, feeling him out and soon she gained the upper hand. He was as agile
as she was and could match her blow for blow but he held back with the thoughts
of her being female, remembering how Ally was hit by that man.
Suddenly a screaming demon jumped on
Mystiques back clawing wildly. Remy's eyes opened wide with disbelief as he saw
Rayne.
His sister clawed and screeched, "Don’
yo’ hurt ma brother!"
Suddenly, he didn't care if Mystique was a
woman because Rayne was there now, and he knew Mystique would use her against
him. He slammed his Bo staff along the side of Mystique's head forgetting that
Rayne was attached to her, and both hit the ground hard. He slid to the ground
and gathered his sister onto his lap.
"Rayne, girl," He said clutching
her tightly to him. Her eyes fluttered open and she smiled seeing his face,
"You okay, petite?"
She snapped to life, "Ah came ta help
yo’, Remy."
He couldn't help but to laugh, "I can
see that chere, but mebbe yo’ should fight when yo’ feel better, non? Leave dis
battle ta Gambit."
"Don’ worry none Remy, ah feel
fine," She groaned as she tried to get to her feet.
Mystique rose with a chuckle and Remy
pushed Rayne behind him hoping she would stay there as he heard Rayne growling.
Ally ran to them realizing that Rayne was
a handicap for Remy. She saw Mystique was on her feet now and so she moved a
little faster. She took to the air and landed in front of Remy and Rayne.
Remy smiled grateful to his friend and he
picked Rayne up and quickly carried her away from the fight. He looked for a
place to hide her knowing that he wouldn't be able to fight if he had to stay
and protect her.
"How yo’ get ‘ere, petite?" His
heart melted thinking of how she came to his rescue. Then he saw Justice
swinging weak punches at Sabretooth and Logan trying to push him to safety. He
too was a handicap and Logan suffered another blow to the shoulder defending
the weaker man.
"Did Justice bring yo’ ‘ere?" He
said angrily, "Ah’ll kill him fo’ dat!"
Rayne scoffed to displace his anger,
" Nah Rem, ah made him bring me. Ah tol’ him ah’d put a gris gris on him
if he didn’ bring me along."
Remy laughed despite his anger,
"Bet dat homme don’ even know what a gris gris is Rayne. Yo’ a terrible
liar girl, yo’ know dat?"
She smiled sheepishly and shrugged,
"Dat’s cause yo’ do all da lyin’ fo’ me Rem."
Suddenly a war like cry caught everyone's attention when Justice
'tried to help' again and Logan was tossed to the side like a rag doll an lay
unconsious.
Sabretooth pushed Justice to the ground
easily in his weakened state, grabbed Justice up and hauled him into the air.
He pulled back for a fatal blow but an invisible attacker knocked Sabretooth
back and Justice fell to the ground with a loud grunt.
Remy was torn between helping his friend
and staying to defend his sister. He noticed Ally had thrown Sabretooth down
but it had distracted Ally and Mystique gained the upper hand.
Sabretooth reached for Hayley as she stood
over Justice to protect him. The fright on her face was evident but she didn't
back down. He seized her by the hair angrily and reached to stroke her face.
Hayley tried to use her powers against him but fear kept her paralyzed.
Remy's eyes became angry narrow slits and
even Rayne understood as she buried her face against his chest, he was going to
kill her. Remy watched as Sabretooth's cruel mouth twisted with an idea and he
began to tear at Hayley's clothing.
Hayley squirmed in panic and became hot
but Sabertooth held her still allowing his hands burn. He relished every
squirm, every bit of panic and fear she showed him. She thrust her hands
against the stronger man's chest as the tears rolled down her cheeks.
"Remy, help her. He goin‘ do
somet‘in bad," Rayne couldn't say the terrible act she suspected that he
would do to Hayley in front of everyone.
Remy's heart raced, "No, he ain’t, petite." Remy started to
get up as he charged a rock but the witch ran at them threateningly. He stood
to protect his sister and was shocked when a red blast sent the witch flying
backwards.
They both looked back to see Cylcops, Alex
and Warren joining the fight. He watched the Angel fly in to defend Hayley and
he was easily knocked aside by Sabretooth. Warren lay next to Logan who was
also defeated by the sadistic mutant.
Alex stopped seeing Rayne sitting on the
ground, "Get her to the cars Remy."
Gambit shook his head no and gathered
himself to help Hayley. Alex stared at Sabretooth Hatefully but it was Scott's
well place beam that knocked him from Hayley.
"Get her out of here Gambit,"
Alex said forcefully, "She’s going to get hurt."
Wanda retreated as she and Mystique
grabbed Quicksilver and ran from the fight. Pyro had been about to attack
before the other mutants arrived but stayed out of sight and then ran when the
others did.
Sabretooth snarled at Scott's wanting to
protect Hayley and he loomed closer. Sabretooth took another optic blast when
he saw the other mutants retreating. He let out a bellow of protest then jumped
into the trees dodging the attacks of the angry mutants.
Justice slowly pulled himself up to see Hayley curled into a ball and
sobbing. He grabbed his sister to his chest and saw that her clothes were torn
pretty badly.
He pulled his jacket off and covered her.
Scott walked up but Justice waved him away. Whatever was wrong she wasn't going
to respond to more than one person about and certainly not Scott Summers.
Alex began to look Logan over and sighed
with relief seeing that he was already healing himself. She looked over at
Hayley and Justice as he sat and talked reassuringly to her and forced himself
to pick her up from the ground. Alex watched him command his weak body into
being strong for his sister.
Remy breathed deeply to calm himself
as he watched Justice struggle to lift Hayley.
Ally
moved to them and he frowned at the new bruises he saw already on her. He was
sure she received them protecting him and Rayne from Mystique.
Ally merely looked at him and smiled,
"Is Rayne all right?"
Gambit nodded and Ty held his arms out,
"Need a ride, fair damsel?"
Rayne looked at him and laughed, "Yo’r
crazy, yo’ know dat? Ah seen da way yo’ drive."
Remy looked at his sister, then Ty,
"Yo’ two know each other?" He eyed Kamikaze suspiciously,
"Ah’ll take her to da car, homme. She ma sister."
Rayne smiled at her brother and Ally looked
at Rayne and touched her hand with a smile. Anybody that went through all that
trouble for her brother was all right in her book. "Ty, Scott will need
help carrying Logan out," She sighed as Justice carried Hayley towards
them Ty almost laughed, "Maybe I should carry Justice?"
"No," Ally shook her head,
"Whatever happened to Hayley, I get the feeling Justice knows something
about it."
Ty stood dumbfounded, "Well
Sabretooth damn near raped her in front of us all." Ty gestured to where
he had been.
Rayne interrupted, "She right,"
Rayne pointed to Ally, "He does know. An now we all know dat the chile‘s
papa is dat monster," Rayne suspected the truth from her intuition and
when she saw Justice touching Hayley protectively she knew her intuition was
right.
She saw that Remy was really upset with
the news and her heart broke for her brother. Ally sighed, "Thank goodness
Justice is a big guy," She smiled seeing their brother's jacket hanging
off Hayley loosely and covering most of her.
Alex ran to Ally and threw her arms around
her neck glad she was safe. Then she pulled back pushing tears from her eyes
watching Justice walk slowly to the cars with Hayley.
Hayley didn't look at anybody but had her
head pushed hard into Justice's chest and they heard her gentle sobs.
Remy looked at Rayne and remembered when he
did the same for her.
"What happened to her?" Alex
asked Ally.
"I am not totally sure yet,"
Ally sighed but smiled at the sight of Logan groggily making his way to them.
Ty laughed as he passed. "We couldn't
lift his metallic ass," He shrugged, "So Scott slapped him
awake."
They all chuckled lightly and followed
them into the clearing.