Unwilling Weapon

Sinister Honeymoon

The teasing about wedding traditions had more or less died off by the time Logan came back inside, though the overall jocular mood evaporated when they saw the set to his jaw that gave away just how irritated he was.

"Suit up, we're headed out," he grumbled before he set his mug down and just made a beeline for the hangar.

The group shared a look before they all but scrambled to do just that — even the newer team members knew enough to put off asking any questions when Logan looked like that.

No one seemed willing to consider asking what was going on until they were in the plane and ready to head out. And then it was Jubilee, who had decided that she'd be least likely to either get yelled at — or, if she was, she'd blow it off quickest anyhow. "Where to, big guy?" she asked as she slipped into copilot next to him.

"Hawaii," he replied in a low grumble, which had Kurt's eyebrows raised as he and Kate exchanged looks. After all, they knew about the Marauder they'd spotted at the wedding, and since Annie and Scott were honeymooning in Hawaii...

"Is the head creepy guy there?" Kate asked quietly. "Because if he is, I need to run back real quick and get some more putties and explosives."

"Send a bamf," Logan told her. "I'm not waiting."

Kate didn't even argue, just turned to the nearest little guy, who nodded, wide-eyed, and teleported away. Three of the bamfs reappeared a moment later with the extra quiver carried between them — which Kate very carefully set aside, considering the contents.

She glanced at Kurt and saw the raised-eyebrow look he was giving her before she said, quietly, "Learning from last time." She still had her mind on the first time she'd run into Sinister, back when she first met Kurt. Then, the only thing that had seemed to do any good had been to blow him up or putty his hands together to keep him from... working.

Logan didn't turn from his seat in the cockpit at all, but he did seem to pick up on the tone of Kate's voice as he tipped his head the slightest bit. "Kurt, did you ever give her a full rundown of everything Essex can do — just in case?" he asked.

"We were ... working up to it," Kurt admitted. "I was honestly hoping we wouldn't need to deal with him again for a little longer."

"Well, at least give her a rundown of what he's capable of," Logan said with a sigh. "Probably be good if Noh knew going in too."

Kurt sighed. This was exactly what he had been hoping to avoid — Sinister was always hard to deal with, and Kate hadn't reacted well the first time they'd run into him, either. But he turned to the former Young Avengers in the jet all the same and folded his hands in front of himself as he thought over just what, of all the many things involving Sinister, needed to be covered first. "We've been through his ability to turn off mutant abilities, as well as his telekenetic powers and mind control — that's where we've been working with Rachel," he said, just as much to Noh and Logan as to Kate.

"Which just means he'll know we're coming before we get there," Logan added.

Noh frowned at the obvious tactical disadvantage before he tipped his head, clearly working it out. "You mentioned that he can turn off mutant abilities... Do his prohibitive abilities work on non-mutants?"

"I have no idea," Logan admitted.

"Then we shall find out," Noh decided before he gestured to Logan and Kurt again. "I've interrupted; please continue."

Logan paused and tipped his head Noh's way for a moment before he explained, "He's not even a real mutant. Just a gifted geneticist that figured out how to forcibly mutate himself with other people's abilities. He's got a little bit of everyone in him."