Chapter Twenty Six "Armageddon, Thy Name is Ultron Part Two."
"It's upgrading itself."
Harry and Gwen raised an eyebrow at this statement given by Batwoman but it was Jan who came through with a statement that was on the tips of both of their tongues.
"You're kidding me!"
That declaration was loud and Batwoman gave the younger woman a glare which caused her to back off.
"Right, you're not kidding me," Jan offered her in a nervous voice. The woman placed her hands on the top of her head and sighed as she was now in pure panic mode. "Oh boy, oh boy."
"We'll trace this signal back to the source," Gwen told them both as she tried to scan the skull of the robot and as a result blinking lights started to glow from within in it.
The robot head should not be working but yet the head was blinking, the lights going on and off in a weird pattern. Gwen frowned as she placed her hands on the top of the head, the blonde trying to figure out what was going on, with a little help from Extremis.
"I don't think Pym could have come up with something this complex….the robot has been upgrading itself for weeks if not months," Gwen told Jan and she raised an eyebrow. This was news to her.
If the robot had been upgrading itself, that means that it was planning to do this for an extremely long time. That was one horrifying conclusion that they all came to immediately.
"There's someone coming," Batwoman warned the group and Harry, Gwen, and Jan focused their gaze nervously to the source of the thumping noise that escalated all around them.
Harry could see it as well and he ducked and rolled. Flicking his wrist, he sent a magically created EMP pulse with his hand.
The droids, now a dozen of them, stepped forward, not even being dinged by the attack. Harry frowned as he looked at his hand.
"Fine, magic, magic, it doesn't work, I can adapt just like you," Harry remarked as he propelled himself towards the droids at super speed.
His hand smashed through the robot, causing it to crush like a can from the impact. His hand reared back once again and he smashed into the robot a couple more times for good measure.
Gwen dodged the attacks, applying the training that she learned. She allowed Batwoman to wrap a grapnel around one of the droids and sprung up, drilling both of her feet into it. She used the severed arm dropped from one of the robots to back it off.
Batwoman flung herself in the air, throwing a set of pellets from her belt at a small pack of robots as she did so. The pellets landed on the ground between them and an explosive charge went off rocking them all due to the impact. The woman landed beyond one of the droids in a crouch and as she rose to her feet she snapped a back kick into one of the robots.
The robot crunched to the ground due to the drilling force of her blow and she hooked up a portable computer to it in an attempt run a diagnostic scan on it. The woman was trying to download whatever she could from the robot, only to find out she would need to break into it's systems in order to so.
It was encrypted heavily but she liked a challenge. The woman pushed herself forward and pulled out a Baterang. She took aim and then flung it towards another Ultron drone. The razor sharp object was caught within it's hand, a half second later a click heralded a huge explosion that disintegrated the robot due to it's force. But several more ambled forward to take it's place.
Batwoman dodged backwards after her attack.
"They just keep coming," Wasp grunted as she blasted the robots.
"And we'll just keep fighting," Batwoman told her.
Wasp agreed as she buzzed around a robot. She wondered about it, she wondered how something that was harmless, albeit creepy, robot had ended up turning into something like this.
"Any luck?" Harry asked as he blew up another robot and turned to Gwen who'd taken up Batwoman's hand held computer for an update on their attempts to hack into it's systems, although he could not keep his eyes off of the situation for too long.
"Working on it," Gwen offered as she was glad that Batwoman was keeping the attackers off her.
Batwoman propelled over a pair of attackers and latched onto them, wrapping a grapnel around them. Yanking on the cables hard she sent the two robots smashing into each other, there was a loud clang as crunched against each other. With that done the dark haired crime fighter launched herself back up into the air. At the apex of her jump she launched a series of Batarangs at her enemy, knocking them backwards to the ground.
Gwen bit down on her lip; she'd finally been able to break the encryption protocols and now she was running through what she found there, trying to track where they were getting their marching orders from. The blonde's gaze hardened as kept working through the systems, trying to work her way back to their origins. There was a thumping that went through the back of her head, it was hard to ignore the sensations that went through her mind but she was focused.
"Just about got it," Gwen managed as she closed her eyes.
She almost had it and Harry gave her a smile which bolstered her confidence. The blonde clutched her hands together and waited for Harry to give her the good word.
"Keep it up, closer," Harry breathed towards her.
Gwen nodded as she kept frantically working through it, trying to trace the link. Her smile was wide as she got it.
"I think I've got a trace," Gwen told him.
"A trace to a trap," Harry remarked as he finished off another droid.
"Well, it's all we got," Batwoman told him as she snapped the line from her grapnel towards her enemy and sent them flying backwards.
Harry was ready to do anything, anything at all. He was bound and determined to stop things before they got too out of hand.
Thor propelled himself through the air. He returned back home to Asgard for a few days only to return back to Midgard to find that his fellow Avengers had been missing in action. The God of Thunder was concerned about his comrades in arms as he landed in a crouch.
"I do wonder what witchcraft has been brought upon my fellow Avengers," Thor stated gruffly as he took a step towards his destination.
He leaned forward resting his forehead on the head of Mjolnir, as he thought through everything his hands gripping the heft of the weapon tightly.
"The Masters of Evil!" Thor breathed to himself as he stepped forwards. "Of course, it must be they who have taken down my comrades in arms."
The Prince of Asgard scrambled forward, preparing himself for battle as he walked towards them. He saw the Wrecking Crew, always dangerous enemies, although perhaps not the brightest bulbs in the box.
"Halt!" Thor yelled and he decided to add the extra punch by swinging his hammer with a huge crack into the chest of Piledriver.
An energy field appeared around him suddenly and then the Abomination grabbed him from behind. Thor tried to break himself out of the titanic grip of his enemy and shifting he braced his feet against the mid-section of his foe. Using the leverage he gained he broke free of his enemies hold with a titanic roar.
"Hands off me, fiend! Be gone!" Thor yelled at the top of his lungs as he hammered his foe with a thunderous throw of Mjolnir.
Abomination was knocked back and Thor grabbed him around the head but an energy blast caught Thor from behind.
"This…this is unprecedented," Thor growled as he summoned his hammer back towards him and used it to deflect another energy blast back at his attacker. "What have you done with the Avengers?!"
The Masters of Evil scrambled towards him and Thor moved forwards to meet them in battle. Motioning for them to just bring it on when he heard a loud growl as a green shape descended from the air.
The Hulk came crashing to the ground in a thunderous explosion that caused the Masters of Evil to scramble for their very lives.
"Robots. Good," Hulk grunted as he raised his arms then brought them together in a thunderous clap, causing the robots to go down in a shockwave of Hulk induced destruction.
"Robots?" Thor questioned and then he smiled, he did not have to hold back, not any more. He pulled his arm back with a smile etched over his features.
"Yes, robots, more of them for me to smash!" Hulk bellowed at the top of his lungs and he reared his hand back for an added amount of emphasis.
The robot was smashed with a thunderous slam as Hulk sent it flying backwards and it crumpled into nothingness. He folded his arms with a smile on his face.
"And they don't make them like they used to," Hulk commented as he picked up one of the robot and flung it high into the air. It went up high and came down low with a thunderous impact as it smashed hard onto the concrete.
Suddenly a bolt of energy caught Hulk in the back of the head, causing him to clench his fists in agony. There was a thunderous explosion as Hulk tried to fight out of the attack. Three more bolts of energy blasted him from behind and Thor watched it, horror flooding through his eyes as he scrambled forward, his feet slipping and sliding in front of him. His hand wrapped around the handle of Mjolnir….
"Hang on my friend…."
There was a huge blast with Thor being nailed with an explosive bolt that nailed him in the back of the head.
Thor was down and he looked up. There was a lethal looking blast of light that shot through the air and then there was a moment where time seemed to stand still. He wondered what was going to happen next.
Before he could get blasted hard again, the young wizard showed up and grabbed the arm cannon of the attackers, twisting around and nailing him with a hard blast. The robot flew back at the super strong punch and the supersonic blow sent it flying head over heels.
An explosive shot was fired at him by one of the robotic enemies but Harry ducked, swerving around it.
"Figured you'd be last on the list," Harry offered to Thor and Hulk picked up a large piece of the sidewalk. Harry followed the sidewalk piece with his eyes as it smashed into the face of one of the robots.
"So, you know what's going on here?" Thor commented lightly as he brought the thunder down. The lightning blast frying the robots. Although he had to put a great deal of power into the blast, once it hit them, the results were amazing.
"Yes, I have an idea," Harry told him as he kept the heat going. He thought about calling for more backup but there was more than enough bodies flying out there. Wasp blasted one of them. The bolt of bio energy was blocked and Gwen scrambled over next to him. She dodged an attack by one of the enemy and her distraction allowed Batwoman to jump in and knock it down with swift impact. "It's Pym's robot, Ultron…."
"That thing?" Thor asked in a surprised tone as he brought his hammer down on one of the droids.
"Yes, that thing," Harry agreed with him as he levitated a parked car then slammed it down on top of two of the robots. He might not be able to harm them directly with magic but indirectly was another thing entirely. His eyes started to light up as he smelt gas leaking.
He blasted a huge pulse of heat vision at a line of gasoline, and there was a loud humming before there was a miniature explosion that resounded around them all. Harry shielded the civilians, as Gwen managed to help herd them out of the way. She had a hood over her face, charmed to obscure her features, which was good because she thought she saw her father amongst the police officers that were trying to restore some kind of order.
"So, any more of these things coming?" Thor asked as he crunched one of them underneath his foot.
"Keep em coming, I can go on all night," Hulk growled as he plowed through them and caused the flying robot parts to go in every which direction. He was about ready to smash the real thing.
"I think that's it," Gwen commented.
Hulk just nodded as he cracked his knuckles and Batwoman dropped down.
"He's got a hideout by the waterfront, that's where this signal is originating from," Batwoman stated and Jan's eyes widened as it hit her.
"Hank has a hideout there, a secret lab," Jan told them and Harry nodded, he figured as much.
Harry read the plans, trying to find a flaw. Something that not even a robot could find and he thought he had something. He let Gwen in on the plan on their way here.
The problem was getting in position to do it.
That was always the problem.
Ultron watched his droids, a temporary distraction until he figured out his original plan, get knocked off line.
"Looks like the superior robot didn't think about this," Carol remarked in a slightly mocking voice but Ultron's gaze twisted towards the blonde woman. It was as close to a callous expression as the robot could deliver.
"Arcane thinks that he has outmaneuvered me," Ultron remarked as he calculated everything.
"Yeah, he does that to a lot of people, don't feel bad," Tony offered glibly.
Ultron's eyes flashed as he calculated the steps that would be needed to take in order to do away with his adversary. He's eyes kept glowing with intensity that could not be matched despite the fact that he was a robot.
"I'm not one of your garden variety enemies, I've taken you out, I will take Arcane out and then I will do the same to the rest of humanity," Ultron told them.
"Yeah, well instead of talking about doing it, you should actually do it," Clint remarked to him. "You villains are all the same, always yack, yack, yack, but never do anything."
"I am learning of your and his tactics to ensure that there are no complications, taking what little of you is of value, and then you will suffer annihilation," Ultron stated and no sooner did he say that, there was a thump on the outside.
Another thump and then that thump was followed by a crack. Thump, thump, thump, followed by a crunch as there was a hole in the defenses, before there was an explosion as Harry showed up, with Thor, Hulk, Gwen, Wasp, and Batwoman.
"ULTRON, WE'LL HAVE WORDS WITH THEE!"
The thunderous voice of Thor echoed as he held his hammer up and energy circled around it, from where he stood with the rest of the group.
"You think that you have defeated me by coming here but I intended for you to be here," Ultron remarked as he pulled a lever and an energy dome popped up around them. Harry blasted the dome with all that he could give. "You will be captured, just like the rest of them."
"Less talking, more action," Harry commented to him and he pushed himself up blasting several of the droids back as they went for him.
Gwen tried to lock onto Ultron with her powers, but his programming was too complex.
"You think that you've got a hold on me, your powers may be based off of technology but your mind is still human," Ultron commented as he blasted Gwen back.
Harry caught her in his arm and watched as Wasp blasted her enemy with a huge jolt of energy. Her hands raised as she drilled her enemies with shot after shot. The rapid fire shots overwhelming her enemies although they eventually blocked the attacks.
"Okay, that didn't work," Wasp managed as she closed her eyes and grew to a huge height.
Wasp smashed the Ultron bots with a huge thunderous fist. Harry was rather impressed as he watched her do so.
"I didn't know you could do that," Harry told her.
Jan smiled. "Didn't think that I could either but I guess that you don't figure out these things until you try."
Harry was not going to deny that as he took note of Gwen, Thor, and the Hulk's location but he didn't see Batwoman anywhere. Then again, neither did Ultron.
Harry's eyes took note of the vents and using his x-ray vision saw Batwoman had slipped inside. He had an idea and he blasted through the window on the other end.
Ultron was keeping track of his behind, above, and front but like humans, he had a blind spot, a blind spot that Harry could exploit. Harry was going to go for broke even though he could very easily get busted.
Hulk growled as he rushed towards the edge of the force field and smashed into it. He summoned all of his strength, raising his large green fists and hammered it into the energy shield. It flickered when his fist made contact against it and Hulk brought his hand back once again. He slammed and punched into it, hammering it in his frustration. A huge thunderous punch walloped against the edge of the field, Hulk could his knuckles stinging from the force of the massive punch.
"Just wait, I'll get you," Hulk growled as he brought his arms back and in overhand hammer blow smashed through the force shield.
Ultron saw Batwoman appear behind him and he blasted an energy orb towards her. She dodged the attack with great skill.
"What do you hope to do, you have no powers…."
"No, but I have this," Batwoman commented as she clicked the detonator underneath her glove.
There was an explosion that went off as Harry burst from the floor in the same exact instant.
A blur knocked Ultron in the jaw and sent the robot hurling up into the air, head over heels. The robot flew around and Harry bolted in front of it and smashed it once again.
The pods restraining the rest of the Avengers opened and Iron Man stepped out with a tentative expression on his face. Captain America walked over and grabbed his shield.
"So, do you want to do the honors?" Iron Man asked to Captain America.
Captain America smiled before he said the two words. "Avengers, Assemble!"
The Avengers did assemble and they tried to circle around Ultron to finish him off once and for all.
Normal villains would back down and surrender when faced with the full might of the Avengers. However, Ultron was far from a normal villain, his eyes were burning with fury.
Thor jumped up and tried to smash the robot but Ultron blocked it and grabbed Thor around the head. He whipped him down to the ground by the hair.
Captain America threw his mighty shield at the robot but Ultron blocked it. This left him open to a series of three arrows fire at him by Hawkeye.
Liquid foam wrapped around the body of Ultron and he was trying to push out of the attack. His body heated up and caused energy blasts to shoot at him.
"Take a nap, Ultron!" Ms. Marvel stated as she blasted him with the hardest punch that she could manage.
The hardest punch that Carol could fire off only staggered the robot back a couple of steps. She closed her eyes and reared back for another attack, her fist cocked and ready to unload. She unload the punch and it rattled the robot, sending it staggering backwards. Following it up Carol grabbed the robot by the arms and there was a huge impact as she sent Ultron smashing into the closet wall with a thunderous explosion.
"Hold him, I'm going to try something," Harry told her as Carol tried to grab it but she was thrown off instead.
Hulk reared his arm back and went to nail the robot. His arm was blocked by Ultron who responded by firing off electrical pulse which arced through him. His knees buckled and he slowly turned back into Bruce Banner, laying on the ground and twitching from the shock.
Banner's mind was placed in a state of calmness thanks to the neural energy blast from Ultron.
"I didn't even know that he could do that," Ant Man stated in a horrified tone.
"Wait….didn't you build him?" Clint asked as he sent an electric arrow at Ultron the same time Black Widow did the Widow's Bite on him.
The electricity did not short circuit Ultron, in fact it might have charged him up even more. Both agents of SHIELD were knocked down to the ground.
"I think I've….JARVIS please tell me that I've got something," Tony remarked to his unboard computer.
"No, sir, Ultron….he's upgraded himself with futuristic technology, resembling that of Kang the Conquerer," JARVIS commented.
"Actually….that was me, I'd figure that there were a few more upgrades needed for Ultron," Pym commented meekly.
Harry could not even be bothered to give a lecture about why this was not a smart idea, mostly because he had to block an energy beam from nearly slicing his head off.
"You built it, surely you can unbuild it!" Clint yelled frantically as he shot a series of arrows at it.
The arrows bounced off the energy field as Ultron was learning, adapting ,and growing.
Harry looked over his shoulder to the Avengers.
"You should cover your ears," Harry suggested to them and he lifted his hands, clapping them together with a thunderous smack.
The shockwave resounded around them and Ultron staggered just a little bit. Harry grabbed his hand and charged it with a spell before pulling his arm back before ramming into the chest of Ultron. With his hand now buried in the robots chest he released an energy blast into it, rattling it severely.
The robot was rattled but it stood straight.
'Gwen, now,' Harry thought to her in a frantic voice and the blonde nodded, it was do or die, no question about it.
Gwen placed her hands on the base of the robot and tried to use the Extremis formula to hack into it.
This was harder than anything she ever did but the robot was fixated on taking the Avengers down and Harry especially. This allowed Gwen to sneak in the back door and try to make her way inside the programming while it was focused on other things. A blueprint was brought up as she cycled through it's binary code. Thankfully she had taken a look at Kang's technology thanks to Harry, so this made it easier.
'What do….what do you think you can do?' Ultron started as she tried to hack into him.
Gwen was blasted back and she screamed out loud. She nearly got him.
"Harry, you were right, we need to tap a certain thing in its mind," Gwen told him in a breathless voice.
Batwoman smiled as she bounced off one of the walls and threw a series of ice pellets at it. The robot melted the ice before it could be properly trapped by it. The glowing energy blasted forth from its hands as it melted the ice around him.
Harry took the portable computer with the data, the program that he created here and inserted it into Ultron.
"No technology on Earth can defeat me….."
"You are the greatest danger to your own plans," Harry told him as Gwen's Extremis powers gave him a jolt.
The robot's eyes glowed in frustration but no matter what, the data was downloaded in it, correcting flaws in its programming.
"You're against humans but given that your brain waves were based off of Hank Pym's, I think we can figure out that flaw," Gwen told the robot in a matter of fact voice. "Therefore, aren't you technically human as well?"
The robots eyes flashed as the flaws in his logic was corrected. That was true, he was….he was devoid of any logic.
"If I have to destroy humans…..I have to….start with destroying myself," Ultron managed as his brain started to short circuited.
The logic was overwhelming in his mind. It's head was rocking back and forth as it tried to escape.
"Take it out, this is your chance!" Harry yelled.
Thor smiled as he raised his hand and nailed Ultron, causing it to fly backwards. There was a huge impact as it landed hard in a thunderous crash.
Ms. Marvel and Arcane performed a combination attack, rearing their hands back before smashing them into the wicked robot in a huge explosive double team punch. It was rattled by the thunderous blow and flew backwards.
"Error, error, reboot, error," Ultron stammered and Thor crushed it's head with a tremendous blow form Mjolnir. Sending spark flying in every direction.
Captain America got in one more shot before red light began to flash all around them.
Stark's eyes widened as he looked around and he spoke in a calm voice, well as calm as he could manage at least. "Yeah, we better….we better get out of there."
The group scrambled for the nearest exit, nearly tripping over their feet. Banner was scooped up the Avengers made it out with double time.
The explosion resounded throughout the warehouse and it went sky high into the air. There was a few more explosions that went off and they were outside.
"Unbelievable," Pym breathed as he placed his hands on the top of his head. He tried to work things over in his mind.
"Yeah, it's pretty unbelievable….why did you think this was a good idea?" Clint asked as he watched the man.
The scientist thought about this experiment, Artificial Intelligence was a complete crapshoot as it was. He knew that but he wanted to prove it wrong. The Ultron project was something where he wanted to prove people wrong. He thought that it was working well over the past few months, the robot was a calm lab assistant, able to help him improve on his projects. It was created off of his brain waves, so he doubted that it would end up going rogue.
This was, well this was a horrifying result, no question about it. Pym did not need to be reminded where he went wrong; he used technology from the future. He thought that he would be able to improve upon the robot and it would only help humanity.
It almost helped humanity into extinction. He could not feel any lower if he tried and he closed his eyes, to sink into his own despair.
"Hank…."
"I could have wiped everyone out," Pym remarked to him.
Natasha was not going to say anything but she thought that he was right. He was reckless and he shouldn't have thought that technology he barely understood would be useable in his robot. Future technology….well they saw how dangerous it was when Kang employed it. The woman didn't say anything, however, because Pym seemed to do good job with beating himself up without any other input.
"Yes, you could have," Tony remarked as he sighed. "But I'm not one to throw stones."
He had a few armors go rogue on him and it was not among his most enjoyable experiences. Yet, he made his mistakes, as they said, AI was a crapshoot.
Harry remained silent although he was thinking a little bit. Given his own experiences with AI, he knew that things could go pear shaped rather quickly. It was not the fault of anyone, human technology had not progressed to the point. Lara informed him that AI had to be done perfectly, for if there was one flaw, it could caused a cracked personality that would be prone to delusion. It was almost like Lara had some experience with that although Harry had no idea what that would be. His mother had been tight lipped for the most part although she told him not to create an AI unless he could put his full and undivided attention on it.
"I could have…."
"I know what you could have done, I would destroy all of the plans, any backups, all of them," Harry told Pym and he nodded.
"I'm already on it," Pym remarked to him in a strangled voice.
He turned around; he was not going to have much sleep over the next few days. He recalled that point with positive clarity. His eyes were quite raw already. He was not looking forward to all the work that he had to do.
Fury showed up right on time.
"It's been done, Fury," Harry told him.
Fury nodded gruffly. Thanks to the information that Batwoman gave them, he was able to block the hacking attempts that Ultron attempted along with safe guarding several other key outposts.
"I wouldn't be sure we've seen the last of Ultron," Fury said gruffly.
'Wow, I think you might agree with Fury,' Gwen thought to him and Harry smiled.
'Of course I agree with him or rather he agrees with me,' Harry remarked to his girlfriend as he grabbed her around the arm. 'I scanned them all…..thankfully Ultron didn't leave anything behind.'
'That was a concern,' Gwen commented as she rubbed the top of her head and Harry gave her a look. The blonde shook her head. 'I'm fine, Harry, just a bit….out of it.'
'That's good, I'm glad,' Harry told her with a smile on his face.
"So, that could have gone better," Tony stated as he was imprisoned for four days but thankfully nothing was damaged. Well unless one counted his pride, which was a key point of contention for Stark. He placed his hands over each other with a smile crossing his face.
"Don't we say that after every mission?" Clint asked him.
Steve smiled at them. "Look on the bright side, everything could have gone a lot worse."
That was true, any mission where they did not get destroyed, that was a good day for them. The First Avenger clasped his shield, the paint job was a little scratched up but thankfully it could have gone worse.
Harry saw that he was no longer needed here and decided to walk home or he would if Carol walked towards him.
"I'm surprised it took you so long," Carol told him.
Harry smiled. "Well I thought that you ladies could take care of yourself."
Natasha raised an eyebrow as she faced Harry. "Well…that does show that you think a lot of us."
Harry smiled as he raised a hand and gave a motion that indicated that he was guilty as charged.
"Well, I'm glad but next time, if we don't check in after twenty-four hours, there's a good reason," Natasha told him. "Given that we are that capable."
Harry made a mental note and placed his hands on them.
"I'll buy you breakfast in celebration," Harry remarked to them.
"Well given that we haven't had it for five days, you might rack up quite the bill," Carol told him.
"But I can afford it," Harry told them and they would have to agree.
Back at the Stronghold, Harry dropped down onto the couch, seeing Jean laying spread out on the floor, doing her homework.
"So, tough day?" Jean asked him as she looked up from the pile of books that she was immersing herself in.
"Well yeah, but nothing that I can't handle," Harry told the redhead who smiled at him and she placed her hands on her chin.
"I saw the news, the mysterious Bat was in town," Jean commented lightly.
"And the bat is a female," Kitty added as she turned up. She greeted Harry with a hungry kiss which he returned, wrapping her arms around his waist and holding herself up to him. "Which seems to make me think that you'll be adding her to your collection soon enough."
Kara smiled as she watched from the hallway. She thought that it went without saying. Any woman who was not underneath Har-Rell's tender loving care, well they must be suffering, at least in her biased opinion. The blonde folded her arms over each other as she rocked her head back and crossed them over her chest.
"I heard about what happened tonight," Kara stated as she rushed forward and Kitty stepped back, allowing Kara to have her moment with Harry.
Kara was hoisted off of her feet and Harry gave her a searing kiss on the lips. She returned the favor, her tongue working against his in a corkscrew motion.
The blonde was pressed against his chest and she pulled back with her swollen lips, it was amazing.
"Yeah saved the world from a genocidal robot," Harry remarked as he sat down, Kitty on one side of him and Kara on the other side of him. "Thought about calling you guys but….the real show would have been over."
"No, you handled it well, plus you don't want too many people tripping over each other," Jean remarked as she returned back to the homework that she'd immersed herself in it, flipping through the pages.
Harry thought about that and would have to agree. That's why he tried to split the girls up into smaller teams of three and four with separate missions during the team building exercises. Along with adding a random factor to it. The more cooks that were in the kitchen, the harder that it was to get everyone's shit together without tripping over each other.
"That's true, you've learned well," Harry told her and Jean peaked over her shoulder, a smile crossing her face.
"I've had a good teacher, the best," Jean remarked with a smile.
There was a pink haired girl that skidded to a stop outside the door. She watched them nervously but Harry took note of her with a smile.
"Hey, Megan, what can I do for you?" Harry asked the Welsh girl.
Megan was nearly tongue tied but she recovered fairly quickly with the smile on her face. The pink haired girl crossed her arms and she leaned towards Harry.
"Well….I was wondering….actually….I was wondering if I could…." she breathed and Harry reached towards her, grabbing her hand firmly and squeezed it reassuringly.
Megan's eyes flooded over as she breathed heavily as Harry leaned towards her, a smile crossing his face.
"Take your time, Megan, calm yourself down, and tell me what you want," Harry commented.
'Well…come to….come to think about it, no Megan, focus,' the young mutant stated.
"I was having trouble with the charm that you taught me and I was wondering if you could show me again, in private," Megan commented.
Kara and Kitty exchanged a knowing smile with each other although it was lost on Megan as she watched him.
"Of course," Harry told the girl with a smile that caused heat to go through her body. He placed a hand on her hip and looked into her ass. "So when do you want me to do it?"
Megan's smile crossed her face but she recovered quickly. "Well, now….if you want to."
"Sure Megan," Harry told her as he allowed her to lead the way.
Kitty and Kara smiled.
"Another hopeless girl succumbing to the cult of the Star Child," Kara told Kitty.
"Totally," Kitty told her with an evil laugh.
Jean rolled her eyes.
"You two scare me sometimes," Jean offered to them.
'So sayeth the girl with the cosmic entity in her head,' the Phoenix remarked.
"Thanks," Kitty said chirping brightly and Jean sighed in exasperation palming her face