Sins of the Father

Chapter 13: I Need Answers, Fearless

It had been long enough since Sinister's interference in their lives that the X-Men were started to get back to normal. K was getting back the details she was missing just as Logan had said she would — to Kurt's utter and obvious relief — and Hank had cleared the rest of them. Even the little twins seemed to be picking up on the slightly better mood and had discovered how much they liked giggling at each other — which was definitely helping, since literally no one could be sad around madly giggling babies.

But that didn't mean that things were quiet around the house — especially not when they still had a seven-foot problem in their basement. Though that was soon to be addressed, too.

Noh had asked Forge to look over his capsule designs to be doubly sure that Sabretooth would not be able to escape his newest jail, and the two men were hard at work running through their final checks of the failsafes and alert systems when Jubilee arrived. She was munching on a Twizzler as she leaned against the wall and watched them for a moment.

"Looks kinda small," she said when she saw Noh poke his head out from underneath the capsule.

"Comfort was not foremost in my mind when I was designing it," Noh replied with a little smirk.

"Well yeah, duh." Jubilee bit another chunk out of the Twizzler. "I would hope not."

"We are quite close to being finished," Noh told her. "As soon as Forge double-checks my alert system."

Forge also peered around the capsule at Jubilee and gave her a little grin. "This thing should stay in orbit for a century at least without maintenance, but we figured we wanted an early alert system just in case he decided to test that theory."

"Good." Jubilee looked over the little capsule with a slight frown.

The two men went back to their checks for a moment before Forge called out to Noh, "Looks good from here. All that's left is the occupant."

Noh looked to Jubilee with his head tilted to one side. "Are the others ready?" he asked. "I can help if need be."

"Everybody's just waiting on you two," she replied. "K has two of those shocker things that Iron Man gave her."

"Doubt she'll use them if she gets the chance," Forge said with a little laugh. "I believe she was hedging for 'accidentally' removing his head."

"Accidentally," Noh repeated with a little smirk before he gestured for Jubilee to lead the way. "I think I'd like to see this as well."

The three of them headed back toward where the X-Men had been keeping Sabretooth locked up for the last few weeks, Noh and Forge tossing back technical jargon between the two of them as they ran through their mental checklists the whole way down.

When they arrived, K was hanging back, well out of the way, though she was watching carefully. She had promised Logan that she would keep as far away as she could without being gone entirely, and Tyler was sticking close to her, still feeling a bit protective over her after everything that had gone down with Sinister. And for her part, she'd decided that if nothing else, she'd keep Tyler from getting too close when they moved Victor — also feeling a bit protective over him, all things considered.

Logan and Scott were the ones to actually pull Creed out of the specially-designed cell, and when they finally got to the point where they had to handle the monster, Logan was sure to warn Victor that if he was dumb enough to make a run, he might forget about the X-badge for a hot minute and just do whatever came into his head first. To Victor's surprise, Scott didn't argue the point in the least.

Even so, the two ferals were still unable to not growl at each other as Victor half-shuffled out of his cell and toward where the pod waited. It was going about as well as could be expected — right up until they reached the capsule.