Dating an X-Man is Hazardous to Your Health

Chapter 8: Escape from Sentinel Tower

When Jubilee, Logan, and Kurt got to the castle, it was painfully clear that the guard patrol on duty was heavy. There were plenty of Sentinels that they could see just out on the grounds, let alone the few who were visible in the windows — and who knows how many others that they couldn't see.

"You think they know we're comin'?" Logan asked as he turned to Kurt, who just nodded and looked ready to tear the world apart if need be.

If the expressions on the bamf's faces were anything to go by — that was about to happen shortly. They were all growling and had their own little swords out, clearly upset. Jubilee looked at the bamf nearest her and frowned. "Why don't they just go get her?"

"Some sort of dampener — or disruptor... I'm not sure," Kurt said thickly. "I can't 'port in either, or I would. I'm not sure how they can stop the bamfs, though - unless this is hallowed ground ... which ... wouldn't surprise me in the least." He turned to his bamfs as one of them started jabbering away. "Yes. good. I understand. Thank you." He turned back to his friends. "They will fight — but they can't 'port once we're inside either."

"Well, too bad for them that we still have an army of them," Jubilee said with a little smirk before she pulled her sunglasses down and looked at Logan. "Ready, partner?" He just gave her a little smirk and the two of them started toward the castle walls at a dead run.

Jubilee had a look of pure concentration on her face as the plasma ball in her hands built. When she was reasonably satisfied, she threw it hard, and as it hurtled toward the castle wall, colored sparks flew from it, screaming and announcing their arrival before the ball hit the stone wall and blew a hole in the size of it big enough to drive a truck through.

Kurt and his bamfs teleported as close as they could before the three of them and the little blue army made it inside and scattered in search of Kate. Almost immediately, Logan and Jubilee came across a large number of Sentinels, but between the two of them — and the blinding flash that Jubilee let loose on them when Logan turned toward her and closed his eyes tightly — those Sentinels were in dire straights.

Logan simply shredded the ones that were too stubborn to stay down from Jubilee's plasma burst and the few that they came across that seemed to be self healing were dealt with as Jubilee tried to refine her subatomic micro bursts. Unfortunately, she hadn't had much time practicing them, and more often than not, those Sentinels exploded spectacularly in a hail of screaming, colorful plasma bursts that looked exactly like firework mortars.

Jubilee looked over to Kurt after she'd blown up the first wave of Sentinels and blew a huge bubble. "You need my help, or are you looking for princesses?"

"You two take as many down as you can — see if you can find Bastion. I am, indeed, looking for my princess," he replied with a stone cold serious glare before he rushed off in the opposite direction. Jubilee shrugged and turned back to Logan, who had already started in with a fresh wave of Sentinels.

Kurt was nearly to the dungeons when three bamfs came running back toward him and chattering rapidly — they had been down to the dungeons and searched everywhere but couldn't find any sign of Kate. He frowned and stopped dead in his tracks before he turned and tried to figure out the layout of the place. When another bamf came to him from the other direction and chattered at him too, also unsuccessful in his search, Kurt looked up and broke into a run for the spiral staircase he'd seen near Jubilee's new doorway.

He was halfway up the stairs before he had to fight the first Sentinel. He didn't hesitate in the least before he simply pounced, something like a snarl torn from his throat as he hardly gave the android time to get its defenses up. The fight was short, and it was just a matter of a few moments before he'd thrust both swords into the Sentinel's chest and crossed them before he forced them outwards to the Sentinel's sides — more or less tearing it in half before he leapt over the body and continued his rush upward.