Look who is back

April 10, 2019:

Kurt and Nate find Logan lurking at Harry's. Kurt brings him up to date on current troubles.

Harry's Bar in Salem's Center

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NPCs: None.

Mentions: Sage, Prestige

Plot:

Mood Music: None.


Fade In…

The bar isn't exactly overflowing with people on a Wednesday afternoon, but that's kind of what Logan likes about it. Busy bars are full of people and people smell. Yeah, he's gotten used to it, but he doesn't mind a bit of relief. Plus, he can pick whatever he wants on the jukebox.

In this case, he's got some Dolly Parton going, matching his cowboy hat and boots as he takes up a table, his feet kicked up and crossed at the ankle as he sits back in his chair. He's almost about to take a nap, probably from the angle of that hat. Technically, he's not supposed to smoke in here, but he's got a wink-wink relationship with the bartender. Plus, who's going to tell him to put it out? So there's half a stogie in the ashtray, lazily drifting smoke in the air.

Not a bad day to be the Wolverine.

*

An uncommon sight, to say the least, Kurt steps through the doors of Harry's. Image inducer on and projecting his usual human self - though the beard is new. Muttering to himself, and blinking at the sight of Logan, the small German man chooses his path - though with the lack of a crowd that's not hard, settling at the shorter man's table, turning the chair to sit in it backwards. "Guten Abend, Logan. Long time no see, ja?" he smiles a bit, looking to the bartender and calling out, "Schnapps, bitte!"

*

It is not a bad day all things considered. Spring is here, but it is still cool. Mutant hatred is all times high, but for all the speeches and crap the government is being quiet about it for once. And Nate has a task, which is why he is not where he should be, at the school.

Instead he came here to relax, and ponder how to proceed away from children, and the other telepaths.

At this time of the day in a normal school day he didn't expect anyone from Xavier's here. But then again, he doesn't come that often. He is more a coffee guy than a beer guy.

He spotted Kurt's image inducer right away, but stayed by his seat at the corner. Until the German mutant said 'Logan'. Logan is always hard to find with telepathy, so he turns and sure… the ever wandering Logan is back in town. So he stands up and walks closer. "So, the old wolf is back," he comments with a lopsided smirk. "Yeah. It has been a while."

*

Logan lifts up his hat and looks at the two mutants. Inducer or not, Kurt's scent and sound are relatively easy to recognize. He brings down his boots and gestures to the empty chairs at his table, "Elf. Kid. Yeah, well, I had a bit of trouble, personal type, that I had to handle. And, like the King, I believe in takin' care o' business," he grins.

"So, I figure the world's probably gone to hell in a handbasket while I weren't lookin'. Anybody dead? Anybody back from the dead?" he says.

*

Kurt shrugs a little, frowning as he adjusts his chair, trying to make sure he doesn't pinch his concealed tail in the legs, "On the gates of Fegefeuer, but the almighty has not called us home yet…" he offers more of a grimmace than a grin, hands folding on the table top. "Mark III sentinals for one thing though - hunting Avengers it seems. I've only been back long enough to say hi to a few and then get attacked at Stark Tower."

*

"Alex is back from some kind of travel to other Earth," mentions Nate. Settling at the table with a mug of cooling coffee. "Most everyone is acting weirdly, but that is the normal," he adds, and glancing at Kurt. "Some Sentinels are out. The government says they are rogues, but I think it is bullshit. They are also acting strangely, and programming cyborgs, I think Sage is in the case. I have been in Gotham lately."

*

Logan picks up his stogie and takes a puff, "God damn robots. No matter how many we tear up, they always seem to make more. That's some smart thinkin', though, kiddo. Never believe it when a suit tells ya somethin' is an accident. They're always playin' dirty."

He shakes his head, "I got enough trouble with this Earth, I can't be messin' around with others. Unless there's one where I'm married to Sofia Loren. I could deal with that world."

*

Heaving a muffled sigh and perfoming the sign of the cross as Logan blasphemes, Kurt shakes his head, "Ach… you und redheads Logan, really." he looks then to Nate, addressing them both, "I have spoken with Dr. Strange, and I think it was Wonder Girl - so the Justice League is involved now. Personally I am conflicted." his rosary is out, as if by some act of the man upstairs, one bead clicking over as he silently finishes a hail mary, "They are not hunting our kind, ja? But how long till they start. I almost prefer to let the Avengers and the JLA deal with it - let them know what it is like to be hunted as we are, but it is a bad thought, and I hope He can forgive me my moment of weakness."

Another bead clicks over. "They adapt faster than ever - I don't know if even you or Victor could match up to them." offering Logan's paralel as a comparative.

*

"I wasn't impressed by the Genoshan Sentinels," mentions Nate. The Age of Apocalypse’s Sentinels were far more formidable, after all. "The newer Mark III Kurt mentions are supposed to be more formidable. But we have yet to fight any of those. The one you saw avoided fighting Iron Man, right?" He asks Kurt.

Which was odd behavior for a Sentinel, granted.

"It is nice to see the League and the Avengers getting involved too, but I am quite sure it will be up to us at the end," he adds, "besides, Sage said the Cyborgs that killed hundreds in Mutant Town were also Sentinels. We gotta find them."

*

Logan raises an eyebrow, "I'd rather not be impressed by 'em. I like my enemies pitiful and easily beaten. I mean, I never get it, but it ain't too much to hope, is it?" He shakes his head in amusement. He respects Kurt's piety, even if he doesn't share it. It's a nice quality, but a luxury his long life hasn't afforded him.

"Well, what we can or can't do don't matter. What we gotta do does. If they're hard to kill, then we find a way. Ain't no real choice is there? The other option is a hole in the ground."

*

"Ja, you're right… " Kurt admits, "It was avoiding hurting Iron Man - they had no compunction against firing mini-guns the moment it saw me and called me by name. I could not even teleport onto it to stab without it immediately lighting up like a downed powerline." another bead goes over, "And we cannot even use your nose, old friend. They stole my gig, ja?" Kurt manages a weak smile.

*

Nate uhs. Kurt's gig is teleportation. That is definitely not good. It also would explain why no one can find a bunch of 20 feet tall robots. "I gotta get back to the school. Ray wanted to do some… uh, telepathic thing." He handwaves explanations. It is a 'telepathic thing', but mostly it is a not-siblings thing.

"I'll try to be around more often," he offers, "at least until we find those 'renegade' Sentinels and whoever is behind them. At least the Brotherhood seems to be lying low," famous last words, too. He heads out.

*

Logan shakes his head, "Can never quite figure out that kid. But I guess that's part o' bein'…different, huh? Ain't we all?"

He takes a fresh sip of his beer, "No offense, but teleporting is annoyin' as all hell when you're on the other side of it," he says. "Guess it gives you a taste o' yer own medicine. I'm sure some o' the big brains got some plans. One of the good things about bein' a knucklehead brawler - nobody looks to me to figure out what to do."

*

"Except for when they cannot figure out how to fight it, then you're all they think of, Logan. Like Saint Peter to their Dragon." he sips his drink finally, making a brief grimmace before continues, "Frankly, I am beginning to think things have been too reactionary, and we may need to do things your way."

*

Logan grins, "I gotta admit, I do have a talent for makin' things bleed, can't be denied. Sometimes I think I'm best as a distraction - I may not be able to kill everything that is, but I can sure make it work hard enough that it ain't lookin' at anyone else while they line 'em up in the scope."

He nods, "Gotta be some way to track where they're comin' from. Ain't that many places you can be buildin' giant robots, not without gettin' noticed."

*

"It's while I wish we could find Cable, or Forge - they'd be the best I could think of for putting together something that could track these things." Kurt notes. "I thought I heard something of them putting together cyborgs, like what attacked the mutant district in the city. Maybe if we can get ahold of a few of those - which is where we'd need you to help get them pulled down."

*

Logan nods, "I get the scent of 'em, I can find it sure enough, long as somebody can get me in the general vicinity. Forge'd prob'ly be able to tell how the stuff was made and the kind of place able to make 'em. Wherever it is, I'm bettin' it's more secluded than urban - they need privacy."

*

"I wonder what their ranges are, for teleportation - or if there is a way to lure them out while you're around to get a scent. Even if all we did was get away from them eh?" Kurt tilts his head, "If you had the scent, and they teleported downwind of you, if I am using the right terms, could that work for tracking?"

*

Logan nods, "It might. Depending on how clean the scent was and how much else is in the air. I can't never guarantee nothin'. Some o' them synthetic type things don't have much in the way of smells. Kinda makes me wonder if they're accountin' fer me specific. Not like there aren't plenty of government types who know what I can do."

*

"Regarding the sentinals - ja I would think they were Logan." Kurt finally breaks into a grin, "We need more of us there, Scott, Ororo, Anna-Marie - I'd even tolerate Wade at this point. But it truly is time to stop running, and perhaps you being here we have our best chance at getting others to believe it."

*

Logan finishes off his beer, "I never mind bein' the point man. It ain't like I go down easy. I'm more'n happy to take a bullet for any of ya, you know that. But you're right - we need a full team and not just a couple of us here and there, if we're gonna actually nip this thing in the bud. Maybe even the Avengers and Justice League, like you said."

*

"Ja. Perhaps we should put out word to Herr Strange then, and see if we can get some of the Avengers to listen to us. I have not heard much since the Stark tower happenings, so I don't know if they're even around still." Kurt frowns "I wish we knew how to bate them at least, too."

*

Logan lights a fresh cigar, "I dunno, elf. Maybe we oughtta be glad for what little peace we get," he says. "Don't get me wrong, we gotta be on our toes an' I'm all for huntin' 'em down and puttin' an end to 'em. But if they ain't goin' after mutants willy nilly, that's a good thing…but it also means they might have a different agenda altogether."

*

"Ja, like getting whatever information S.H.I.E.L.D. has on us for an even bigger database. Iron Man mark Endgultige Losung" Kurt frowns, "I was having the same thoughts, but how can I breath easy knowing others have those things chasing after them? Especially when I have been in that position?"

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