Feral Family Affairs

Heroes Rescue

The little group had split up when the alarm sounded out and Betsy was quick to rouse Kurt again so that he wouldn't be in any further danger by not being aware. The three X-Men shared a glance and parted ways. Remy found a nook to hide in and Kurt had simply climbed the walls to where the shadows were more prominent between light fixtures. Betsy had managed to disappear into the shadows as the alarm continued to scream – or so she thought. She'd almost made it to the elevator when Logan got a hold of her and yanked her from the shadows backward. She swore as he pulled her by her hair and one arm, though her retaliation was swift. She managed to catch him with her psychic blade, putting her all into it as she angled it just so. She felt terrible doing it - but she couldn't see how else to stop him.

Logan stumbled just a few steps before he fell, eyes open in a daze, though that on its own was barely her chance to get away from him. "Run!" she shouted to her comrades in arms, but while Betsy had attacked Logan, Remy hadn't been so lucky. He didn't see all of what had happened to K. While Betsy and Kurt were watching what was happening in the room, Remy had been watching their backs.

So when K stepped out as he was fighting back the grunts that swarmed him, he didn't even know it was a mistake when he turned his back to her. A split second before she hit him, Kurt tried to call out a warning to Remy, but it was just too late. Remy cried out in shocked pain as K's claws erupted from high in his chest. He crumpled to his knees, bleeding and not at all prepared for the hit – she'd punctured a lung, and shocked him enough that he simply didn't react before he was overpowered by the ninjas around him.

Kurt had made his way over to them and was swearing to himself as he tried to get Logan to snap out of it. He hadn't seen Betsy attack him, and at the last moment, she was shouting for him to get to the elevator.

K glanced toward Logan, and on seeing him on the floor with Kurt over him, she let out a growl just before Kurt took off, angry and complaining about the tech in the building as he was forced to abandon his best friend. K looked beyond him to Psylocke. The elevator doors were closing as Kurt slipped in with her and their gazes met. Mind controlled or not, it was clear that she wasn't going to catch up to them in time.

Instead, K calmly walked to Logan, checked his pulse and headed back to the board room to report, though even that had her fighting the urge to look over her shoulder at where Logan was laid out. She informed the men in the room of how the alarm had ended, though she was watching all of them warily.

"They've slipped away then," the professor said with a disapproving scowl. "Take your mate back to your quarters and wait for my directions." By the time she got back to where Logan was still on the ground, the rest of the hall had more or less cleared. K took a moment to figure out how to get him up ... and though he was heavy for her to move, once she had him leaned on her properly, she could at least manage it. It was slow, but ... not beyond her. When they got to the little room, she dropped him on the bed and took a seat next to him as she waited for him to recover from the psychic assault. She wanted to try to help him more, but she honestly couldn't. Any impulses she had were things she couldn't act on. Not without an order. And when the door she'd just come through sealed shut with a final sounding snap, k took a precursory look around herself, at least able to see the cell for what it was.

Deadpool met the panicked duo of Psylocke and Nightcrawler on the roof of the building and couldn't help but point out the obvious. "Hey, you're short a Cajun and a pair of ferals. What happened?" he asked as she looked around nervously, finally able to contact Angel.

"I put him down. He won't be able to wake up until I rouse him. It was the only way I could circumvent the programming," Betsy said as she fiddled with her comm.