The Cale Storyline Story 13 Chapter 6

Attention: Generation X and their villains, as well as any other mutant mentioned in this story, is property of Marvel Comics. The character Richard Cale is named after family relations. Any other reference to anything copyrighted is a chance happening.

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Win Some, Lose Some

Chapter 6: Abducted (updated)

Emma walked through the main building. Hank had told them it would be a while until Rich awoke, and that it might be best if he talked to the lad first. At least all the students and guests were eating something. Last thing she wanted to deal with was hungry, panicy people. The whole nightmare incident had made almost everyone nervous, and she couldn’t blame them. The only problem right now was that no one knew what the nightmare was. It still bothered her, and she just had a feeling that today would not be a good day. She was almost startled when she heard a pounding at the main door. She walked over to the door and openned it just enough to see a young man at the door. She just said, “Can I help you?”

She could see a panicked look in the boy’s eyes. He just looked at her and said, “Is Richard here? I need to talk to him.” She didn’t want to panic the boy any more than he was.

Emma opened the door and let the boy in. “He’s here, but he’s unavailable at the moment. Is there anything I can help you with.” She wanted to try and calm the boy down, but decided against it. Last thing she wanted was to make the boy forget why he was there.

The boy just looked at her and said, “No, I need to talk to Rich himself.”

Now Emma was more worried than she was before. She had a bad feeling about it. She just said, “Alright, I’ll see if I can get him.” She escorted the boy to a room and said, “Just wait here for him. By the way, who should I say is here?”

The boy stepped in the room and sat down. He then said, “Just tell him it’s Weasel. He knows who I am.” As she closed the door to the room, she could see that the boy was anxious and nervous. Something was worrying the boy.

When she had the door closed, she started toward the med center. She just said to herself, “Why is the boy so nervous? And why just Rich, unless...” A terrible thought entered her head. Yvette still wasn’t back. She wondered if it was about Yvette. She started to run to the med-center. If anything was wrong, Rich needed to find out, since he knew the boy better than anyone else.

Rich awoke with a feeling of dread. Something was going to happen. He opened his eyes and looked around. Then he knew something was wrong. One was he wasn’t in the apartment. The next one was that he didn’t have his glasses on, yet saw everything perfectly. The third was he could barely remember his nightmare. When he finally got his senses together, he heard Hank McCoy say, “Well, Richard, you are finally awake. You might want to get dressed.” He looked around, but couldn’t see Dr. McCoy in the room. Then again, it might be wise for the two not to be in the same room. As he got dressed, he heard Dr. McCoy say, “As you might have guessed, Richard, you now have perfect vision. I figured that you may want to keep up an appearance of visual imparemant, so I’m removing the lenses from your glasses.”

When Rich was finally dressed, he just said, “How long have I been in here?” He left the room, and saw Hank working at a table.

He was surprised to hear Sean behind him. “Ye have been in there for a few hours. It’s almost noon.”

Now he was a bit worried. He looked over at Sean and said, “Sean, what all happened to me?” He was starting to be concerned for everything. He knew he had a nightmare, but he couldn’t remember it, and anything could have happened until now.

He then heard the Beast say, “To put it simple, you apparently had the mother of all nightmares. It took both Emma’s and Yvette’s psi abilities to calm you down.” He figured that would explain why he couldn’t remember the nightmare. Hank then said, “When I arrived, they had gotten you here. I checked you out, made sure your eyes were ok, and we have all been awaiting your return to the waking world.”

Rich’s feeling of dread continued to escalate. He looked at Sean and said, “Are the girls alright?”

He watched as Sean nodded and said, “Aye lad, the lasses are still with us. They might be eating lunch right now.”

Rich felt part of the dread subside, but not all of it. He could only remember fragments of the dream now, but they were enough. He then said, “Gabe and Cartier, where are they?”

He then heard Emma say, “With the others, and Yvette went into town.” He knew why she had done that. The dread was almost gone when Emma then said, “But, there is a boy here, named ‘Weasel’, he wants to talk to you, and apparently only you.”

The feeling of dread started to swell again. He then said, “Is he alone, cause if he is, something is definitely not right?” He saw a grim look cross Emma’s face, and he said, “Don’t say it, I’ll head right over. But first, I need to keep the appearance up.”

He watched as Hank looked up and said, “Done. All you have is the frames here, so be careful with them.” Rich nodded. He put them on and looked in the mirror. It should be just enough.

He turned to Emma and said, “Ok, show me the way, Emma. Weasel is usually the nicer of the two, but rarely is alone.” As Emma lead the way, he could tell by her pace she was worried. He was worried, too, but he couldn’t show it just yet. He had to hope that his imagination was going wild. If it wasn’t, he had a bad feeling about the whole day.

Weasel sat in the room and tapped his foot constantly. After seeing how that girl killed Dorian, and the others taking Yvette away, he was scared. He had told Dorian once that one day he’d regret some of the things he had said about mutants. He wondered if Dorian realized what he had done before he died. He himself had no gripes with mutants. He could careless if any body was a mutant. He did suspect Yvette was a mutant, but he noticed that sometimes she was a bit scared of things. He almost jumped when he heard the door open, but was glad to see it was Rich. He just said to Rich, “Rich, you are not going to believe this.”

Before he got anything else out, he noticed that Rich was looking around the room. When he stopped, he heard Rich say, “Trust me, not much can surprise me now.”

Weasel just sighed and said, “Ok, but at least sit down.” He watched as Rich did so. He then said, “I’m not sure how to best say this to you, but the person who told me insisted you be told. Today at the comic book store, Dorian and I ran into Yvette, and then this chick comes in. She had to be a mutant cause after she kissed the owner..”

He was almost surprised when he heard Rich complete his sentence, “the owner died.” When he nodded, he heard Rich ask, “What happened to Yvette?”

He could see worry in Rich’s face, more so then he would expect. He then said, “A bunch of mutants kidnapped her. I think it was the leader who wanted you to get the message of where to find Yvette. When Dorian said he wouldn’t help mutants, the one that kissed the owner kissed him.”

He watched as Rich stood up. He was almost surprised at the look on Rich’s face. It was as if the whole news hadn’t phased him. He then pulled out a piece of paper and said, “Weasel, call this number. It will bring the FBI to the crime scene. They will take care of everything.”

Weasel was about to question about the FBI, but decided not to. Maybe they were the best people to call in this scenerio. He then handed Rich a piece of paper and said, “It the location of the hideout. Are you going to have the FBI go there?” He noticed that Rich seemed distant. He then said, “I think you’ll know what to do best.” He then ran out. He didn’t want to seem like he was rushing Rich, but he felt that Yvette was not in good hands.

Sean watched as the boy that had come to visit Rich left. He stood watching with Emma. Emma just said, “Sean, I have a very bad feeling about this. The way the boy had acted was almost as if something terrible happened.”

He could tell she was concerned about it as much as he was. He just looked over at her and said, “It might be nothing. Sometimes people over react about small things.” He was hoping that all it was was that the boy overreacted about minor bad news. When he heard the main door close, he watched as Rich opened the door to the room the two were talking in. When the lad look up at them, Sean could see the lad was extremely distressed. He and Emma ran down to the boy, and he said, “Lad, what’s wrong with ye?”

Sean then saw how distressing the situation was as Rich started to tensed up. They both knew better than to touch him or Yvette if they were like that. Rich looked at them, and Sean swore he saw dispair in the lad’s eyes. “T-T-They c-c-captured h-h-her. T-T-They c-c-captured Y-Y-Yvette.”

Sean felt his heart drop when he heard that. He was more worried now then ever. “Who had kidnapped Yvette? Was it Emplate wanting a trade for the gals?”

He was almost relieved when Rich shook his head and said, “N-N-No. I-I-It w-w-was C-c-claudette a-a-and h-h-her cr-cr-crew. T-T-They k-k-killed W-W-Weasel’s fr-fr-friend, a-a-and t-t-the o-o-owner o-o-of t-t-the s-s-store.” Sean heard Emma gasp in horror. Then he heard the worse news of all. “I-I-I h-h-have t-t-to r-r-rescue h-h-her o-o-or G-G-God k-k-knows w-w-what w-w-will h-h-happen t-t-to h-h-her.”

Sean looked at the lad and said, “Alright, lad, we will do something, but we need to think of what to do. We can’t all go after her, or that will leave the other lasses vulnerable to an attack.” He watched the boy nod in an understanding way. Sean then turned to Emma and said, “Emma, summon all the kids together, except for the four lasses. And get Rich’s friends here as well. We need to plan this all out. Last thing we need to do is abandon the lasses and Yvette at the same time.” When Emma walked out of the room, Sean just said, “Lad, ye might want to get ye sword. I have a feeling ye are going to need it.” With that, he went with Rich to retrieve the item.

Angelo sat in the room where Emma had asked everyone to gather. He wasn’t surprised that the four girls weren’t there, but he was surprised to see Cartier St. Croix and Rich’s friend, Gabe there. As they all waited, he heard Darrett say, “Something must be up. I wonder if Emplate is planning another attack.”

Angelo was afraid that Darrett’s comment might upset Cartier, but noticed that man was not phased by it. He then heard Jubilee say, “Hey, where is Penny, Rich, Sean and Frosty?”

He glanced around the room and said, “They might be on their way. I wonder if it has anything to do with the guy I saw run to the building earlier.” He had to admit, it was odd to see one of the townies running to the school, and stranger still to see the kid being let in.

He then heard Paige say, “Yuh don’t think they think were mutants, do you?” He could tell Paige was nervous. He was a bit nervous as well. If that was the case, it wouldn’t be long until a mob arrived at the doors to the school.

He felt relief as he heard Sean say, “It aint that, lass. However that might be better than what we do have.” Angelo saw Emma, Sean and Rich enter, but Rich appeared different. He was tense, and was holding his sword.

Angelo knew that that wasn’t a good sign. Now he had an idea of where Yvette was, but he didn’t want to say it. However, he did hear Everett say, “What happened to Yvette?”

It was Emma who spoke next, and Angelo had an idea why. What she said only confirmed it. “Rich was notified that Yvette was kidnapped, and apparently it is Claudette behind it.”

He then heard Cartier say, “Do you believe she knows that Marius wants the other girls?” He wondered if Cartier had come to the same conclusion as everyone else did.

Sean then said, “We dinnae think that is the case. If Claudette was helping Emplate, she would have struck at the school. This was planned in advance.”

He then heard Clarice say, “That’s why Grimore was spooked the other night. They must have been spying on us out there. The kidnapping seems to be to lure Rich to them. If he’s going to rescue her, I’m going as well.” He saw in her gestures that she would not take no for an answer.

He then heard Darrett say, “I’ll go as well.”

He watched as Rich shook his head and said, “N-N-No, D-D-Darrett. Y-Y-You n-n-need t-t-to s-s-stay h-h-here.” Rich was really tense, because he almost struggled to say each word.

Emma then said, “Darrett, you’re ability will be more useful protect the girls. Do we have any others who want to go on the rescue.

Angelo watched as Daria, Jubilee, Everett and Jono raised their hands. He then heard Cartier say, “You might need me there. Maybe I can help get Monet back to normal.” He watched as Rich nodded.

He then saw Sean say, “Alright, the rest of us will stay here and guard the gels. Remember, we can’t let anything happen to them. Rich, can ye handle leading this team.” He watched as Rich nodded.

Angelo then said, “Don’t worry, Skitz, we won’t let the chica’s get captured.” When they all got up, he swore he heard movement near the door. He opened it and looked out only to catch movement disappear around the corner. With that he said, “I think we might want to be on our toes.” He didn’t know who had heard them, but he did hope it wasn’t the one they suspected of helping Emplate.

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