Still, Gambit knew that Sabertooth was sometimes a little slow when it came to matters of tact.
“Mon ami… perhaps ‘Nice Rack’ wasn’t exactly the best thing to say, eh?
“I think comrade Sabertooth could use some bed rest.”
“You could at least wait until he’s conscious anyway.”
Colossus’s skin took on a silvery sheen as he began to unwrap the hospital bed from their teammate.
“What do you think did that to our fearless leader anyway?”
Gambit shrugged “John, I t’ink we had best be getting wit’ the major juju if we wanna avoid a similar fate. This stinks of magic and not a type I wanna deal wit’. “
Ranma grinned unnoticed as he followed them, cloaked in the Umisenken.
Well… almost unnoticed.
Pyro’s eyes widen slightly as he watched a trail of wet footprints walk towards them.
“So what would this magic look like?” He asked with a tremble in his voice as he played with his lighter nervously.
“Don’ know. If I did you can bet Gambit would be settin’ up protections already.”
Pyro flicked his Zippo open and suddenly the world was made of flame.
****
Wanda stared at her father. She still couldn’t believe Ranma had been able to do that to him.
The only reason she wasn’t laughing like crazy was because when Ranma has rushed off she had suddenly remembered he was dead.
Apparently Name Rank was shorthand among the ectoplasmic community for powerful beyond the bounds of sanity.
He had a physical presence (Boy did he!) when he wanted one and enough power to change someone’s sex as a prank. While she could tweak local probabilities he could simply twist reality. Just being around him had filled her with energy.
Holding up a hand she let her power bubble to the surface. Blue flames danced along her fingers.
‘As easy as breathing. It should take hours to concentrate and draw this much power.’
When he was in the same room as her, it was literally impossible for her to think of him as dead. The sheer amount of life he exuded just shoved the possibility from her mind.
The fear of cats was a dead giveaway though. Cat’s were the guiding spirits for the dead in Egyptian mythology. For a spirit hanging onto this plane cats would be terrifying.
He wasn’t an evil spirit thankfully. Everything he did was just to pass the time until he could see his mother again.
His actions proved it if nothing else did, he had checked to make sure her ‘Mom’ was ok before he had rushed off, saying he didn’t realize it was so late and he should have been sparring with the Acolytes hours ago.
So the wave of flame that washed down the hall shortly thereafter came as no surprise. Nor the girlish screams that followed.
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