Underground Shenanigans | By : cathayshu Category: X-men Comics > Slash - Male/Male Views: 1448 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Nightcrawler tightened the anchoring coil of his tail on the ceiling bar. (He broke a chandelier one too many and Professor Xavier adapted. All of the ceilings in the public areas of the Mansion were upgraded with catch holds after the umpteenth time it got demolished as collateral damage in a grand epic battle.) Satisfied that he wasn't going to be dropping away from the ceiling without his say so, could put his full attention to towards the opening credits of the first film up on his “Kelly and Kelly” marathon. Gene Kelly. Grace Kelly. Screen legends, back to back to back to back. He hugged himself; this Saturday was going to be fabulous!
And just to make sure that nobody was going to interrupt his little euphoric entertainment bubble, he'd even bamfed around this one room multiple times. He was very sure that it was more than enough deterrent for anybody without a cold stuffing up their noses. People with colds weren't going to be wandering around anyway, in his estimation. He unfortunately didn't take into account telepaths. “Kurt?” Frost's voice pinged in his mind. “No. No, no, no- I don't hear any explosions, screaming, structural damage, OR Magneto laughing. There is no emergency and I am not to be bothered!” he protested. “I'm very sorry,” Frost ignored Kurt's mental snort of disbelief. “But Scott requires your immediate presence. Even if it's not an emergency.” The presence in his head faded. Kurt clicked the screen off and sighed. Fine, he'll go and since it wasn't an emergency, it shouldn't take up the whole day. He was going to take his popcorn too. No sense in letting it go cold. When he arrived, it quickly dawned on him that it didn't look like it wasn't an “emergency”. Some veins were sticking out alarmingly on Scott's neck. Logan met his gaze briefly in greeting and he resumed smoking his cigar. Logan's posture was even more oppositional than usual around Scott. That sent a flare of unease through Kurt. “Will there be others, or is it just us?” “Just you and Logan.” “...Oh,” Kurt's tail did a fiddly coiling and uncoiling. “Um. Well. It wasn't our fault. Complete accident, even.” Scott's visor managed to communicate confusion while Logan coughed with amusement. “What? No, Kurt, you aren't in trouble for anything.” “Really? That's good,” Kurt smiled with relief. “Would you like some popcorn?” “No. Thank you.” Scott had somehow managed to get even more tense after hearing that Kurt or Logan or BOTH had managed to do something that Kurt was feeling guilty about on top of Kurt trying to distract him from that realization with popcorn of all things. “This is the last week of March,” Scott announced. “We have been so occupied that none of us paid any attention. And this may be the last chance.” He made a portentous pause. “Last chance? For what? You aren't being very clear at all!” Kurt was starting to get really exasperated with the mystery. “April Fool's Day,” Logan supplied. “He means that this is our last chance to preempt.” “Why would we want to do that? The children wouldn't do anything too outrageous-” “Not the kids, Elf.” “Bobby,” Scott usually reserved that tone of voice for naming villains on the level of Mr. Sinister or Doctor Doom. “This year's going to be a doozy,” Logan reluctantly agreed to Scott's point. “Bobby? This has all to do with Bobby?” Kurt crossed his arms, incredulous. “This year, he's managed to get his hands on one of Magneto's helmets. Now nobody is safe.” Kurt's tail froze in midair for the moment he took to digest this new, improbable addition to the absurdity of it all. “...I cannot believe that I'm missing “Singing In the Rain” for this!” Kurt finally shouted. “Scott, if Emma's so very concerned about shoe polish in her shampoo or itching powder or whoopee cushions, she can surely take a one day sabbatical!” And buy herself a sense of humor, Kurt added in his head. “Slim's making a unilateral decision to divert X-Men resources towards this mission,” Logan was very obviously amused by Kurt's uncooperative stance. “Namely, you.” Serves Slim right, he thought. He'd told Scott already that Kurt was simply never happy about missing his movies. But does Slim take any of his actual knowledge as advice? No. He made a gesture with a hand and Kurt passed the popcorn bucket to him. “I've made extensive review of the subterranean levels,” Scott's voice was verging on placating this time. Not going to happen, was the message Kurt's tail swishing broadcast. “I've narrowed down likely locations of his stash,” Scott pulled up a holographic projection of the X-Mansion's blueprints. “Then you can go yourself,” Kurt very reasonably pointed out. “Unless you are suffering some sort of leg injury. And even then, you could borrow one of Professor’s spare wheelchairs.” Logan shoved more popcorn into his mouth. He'd actually never had to see Scott running up against Kurt's wall before. Kurt was just so... Kurt, that when he finally did get upset and obstinate, nobody ever expected it or knew what to do. “You can go through all the locations more efficiently.” “Call in Northstar, then, if you want speed.” “He's not trained for recon-style operations.” “Gambit.” “Would be more likely to sit back and watch the mayhem or even participate than prevent it.” “X-23 can do it. Better, she doesn't have much of a sense of humor either.” “That means she wouldn't know what pranking paraphernalia looks like in the first place.” They went back and forth like this, long enough for Logan to get to the bottom of the popcorn bucket. Kurt had a really impressive roster of every single field capable operative the X-team had or knew in memory. Which would make total sense, seeing as he's an actual field leader when Scott bothered to assign him teams to lead. “You can confiscate ALL of the Cocoa Puffs, Twinkies and Reeses Pieces in this mansion as collateral and MAKE Bobby reveal his stash in exchange!” “All right, that's it! You and Logan are now in trouble for what you did and this is your punishment,” Scott finally snapped. “...Noooo, because you don't actually know what happened!” “But you admit that you did do something!” “Not conclusively and Logan never said anything to collaborate so you don't have anything! I refuse to be punished when the one assigning the punishment doesn't know what did or did not happen!” Logan could actually hear Scott's teeth grinding. He lit a fresh cigar. “Kurt-” Scott went still for a suspicious moment. Calculating. “Kurt. I'll give you tickets to the next Berlinale, no interruptions for the entire course of the film festival, if you do this one thing.” Kurt's eyes widened for a beat. “...Really?” “Yes, Kurt.” Kurt's tail-spade rollercoastering in the air was a total tell, Logan snorted. He was giddy from the prospect of getting his hands on tickets. “Okay. Thank you very much for the tickets, Scott,” Kurt's biggest grin flashed out at Scott. “I'll change into uniform and we'll get started right away!” * bamf* “You'll be working on this end with him,” Scott turned to Logan. “Yeah, yeah, Slim,” Logan walked over to a console and putting a comm headset on. “Nobody's having fun today. Not on your watch.” “...I'll get you a six-pack while you're here, how about that?” Scott was worn out of any further arguing. He hadn't thought that Kurt was resolved on naming literally everybody possible instead of himself for the job. “So no fancy-shmancy tickets for me, huh? Like for the Stanley Cup?” Logan deadpanned. Scott's jaw clenched one last time from annoyance and he walked out of the room. Kurt bamfed back, they set up the desired comm frequency, Kurt locked on to the first coordinates, and bamfed out. “Okay, Elf, what do you see?” Logan finally asked. “This is a very scenic dead end. Typical examples of native Westchester bedrock, some fascinating examples of modern plumbing and oooh, look, industrial railings!” Kurt's voice had an echo. Logan smirked at Scott, who had returned with the beer just in time to hear Kurt's too sarcastic report. Scott didn't acknowledge the smirk as he put the beer down and left the room. “Hey, Elf? I could give you the next coordinates and you can go from your current position, right? That way, the both of us get out of this quicker,” Logan suggested. “Copy that. Good idea.” The next coordinates were sent out. Logan heard the bamf. “...OH!” “Elf?” “Bats. They found this place for roosting and- EW! I just stepped in-” Logan quickly sent over the next set of coordinates. He didn't want Kurt down there dealing with more guano than necessary. *bamf * “EW EW EW-” “What are you in this time?” “Nothing! Just-” Logan opened a beer and took a drink while Kurt composed himself. “You okay, now?” “Yes. Yes, I am. Now we have... Um.” “Um? Elf, that's not intel.” “Logan? Can you give me the coordinates to the first dead end? Please? I'm really not comfortable right now. Please.” Mystified, Logan gave him that and he heard another bamf. “The hell, Elf? Come on, here.” “That was a den of inequity, Logan,” Kurt's voice managed to be very prim despite the echoing. “A what of whosit? Elf-” “There was pornography, copy that? All over the walls and the ceiling and- a mattress that stank of- of- I don't want to think- and-” Logan sat up. “Porn? Like, skin mag centerfolds? All over the walls and the ceiling?” “Why am I not surprised that you'd be enthused about that?” “Hey. That's the best discovery we found all day, Kurt. Was it any good?” “How would I know?” “I don't need to remind you that you aren't actually a priest, Kurt.” “Seeing as I don't know what encompasses “good” when it comes to pornography of any sort because I do not make a habit of pornography consumption, I can't objectively say, now, can I?” “Kurt, it's funny when you do that to Slim. You don't get to do that to me.” “What? What's that? The sound of me not caring? I do believe it is!” “Fine, fine,” Logan threw up his hands. “I'll go down there myself later to find out.” The next set of coordinates put Kurt in a tunnel. “Well, this calls for some actual investigating,” Kurt began wall crawling. “Finally.” “Okay,” Logan took another drink of beer. “Say. Who do you think “owns” that Den o' Porn?” “Not me nor you.” “Great deductions, Sherlock. They look like Bobby's type?” “I am not listening to you.” “Come on, this'll pass the time!” “This kind of speculation is vaguely tawdry.” “Vaguely, nothing. It IS tawdry and that's how it's supposed to be. Quit your sidetracking. Bobby, yes or no?” “With nary a one with green hair nor a preponderance of Asians, I'd say no.” “Worthington's not about to go mucking around underground when he actually has multiple houses to hide his own stash. Stashes,” Logan mused. Kurt made no reply as he made his way forward. “Hank? How about Hank?” “Alas, there was a distinct lack of fur on the models,” Kurt rolled his eyes. “Okay. Give me more clues to work with, here.” “Brunettes, mostly. I suppose there was a really noticeable lack of peroxide blondes.” “So who do we know who really needs to jerk off, has a thing for brunettes and private hide-y holes?” “Gambit,” they both said over the comm. Logan took an extra large swig of beer to celebrate their successful deduction. “Logan, I'm seeing boxes.” Logan heard shuffling, shifting sounds. “There's a gazillion whoopee cushions.” “A gazillion whoopee cushions?” “Affirmative. Can we say that I've completed the mission now?”While AFF and its agents attempt to remove all illegal works from the site as quickly and thoroughly as possible, there is always the possibility that some submissions may be overlooked or dismissed in error. 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