Chapter 79: ISSUE # 76
After recovering from Korvus' surprise attack, the crew of mutants gathered around their new guest to discuss what they were going to do now that Xavier and Darwin were gone.
" Well, what are we to do if" Kurt was trying to speak, but was quickly shut down by Warpath, who was ready to live up to his name.
" No, I'm talking now, Kurt, and I say we stop listening to the guy who attacked us all!" Warpath exclaimed. " I can't be the only one with trust issues right now."
" You're not." Ian told the man.
" Well, why haven't we killed this guy yet?" Warpath asked.
" I want to... But stop and think about things for a minute. We're still stuck without any stargates. Our only expert on the Shi'ar and their ships is gone now. Now, the only hope we have to finding Xavier and Darwin is Korvus, whether we like it or not." Ian explained to the man.
" And what happens when he betrays us again?" Warpath asked.
" IF, he betrays us... He dies. I think that's incentive enough to not betray us. Now, Korvus continue. How are we going to chase after your ship?" Ian asked the man.
" That's what I was saying... You can't. It has its own jump drive. It can create its own star gates." Korvus explained.
" Then what good are you?" Ian asked the man; he was completely flabbergasted.
" Then it's gone? They're already out of our reach? I can't believe that." Lorna stated.
" There may be another way, if you two are what Rachel says you are." Korvus spoke up once more.
" Me and Lorna?" Alex asked. " What can we do?"
" You can help us create a star gate of our own." Korvus explained.
" We can what?!" Ian asked the man. " How would we do that?"
" We only have to bring the jump engines back online... But they'll need a power source. And that's what we will be." Korvus explained.
" You want to be an external power battery. Use your individual powers to supply the engine with the power it needs to make the star gate." Ian spoke.
" Yes. And she will need to keep the machine from falling apart before we are finished." Korvus explained as he pointed at Lorna. " Our power isn't what the machine was made for, so, Lorna will need to use her powers to keep our power from ripping the machine apart and leaving us stranded outside space and time."
" Of course, it's gotta be dangerous. Nothing good ever happens to us." Ian mumbled.
" It's worse than that." Korvus stated.
" How so?" Ian asked.
" Assuming we survive, when we arrive, the most powerful of us will be spent. And our impulse drive will be offline." Korvus explained.
" I wouldn't worry about that. I might not have energy-based powers, but I'm tough. You should know that personally Korvus, seeing as how your little energy blade barely hurt me at all." Ian told the man, with a sly bit of confidence in his voice.
" That's not all of it." Korvus told the boy, killing his thunder. " Following your teammates where my ship's jump coordinates are set is out of the question. We need somewhere safe to rest and refit the engines... Before we leap into the fray." Korvus explained.
" The Starjammers?" Kurt spoke, almost as if he was asking a question.
" That's what I was going to say." Alex spoke up. " The professor had their most recent location in the navcom."
" Uh, anyone wanna tell me who the Starjammers are?" Ian asked.
" The starjammers are led by Scott and Alex's father Corsair." Rachel explained.
" Oh, what a loser, Scott named his team after his dad.... Actually, I like it." Ian stated.
" If that is the truth... Then perhaps our luck is not all bad after all." Korvus smiled for the first time since had been on the ship.
" All right, I know a bit about fixing tech myself. Let's get to work gentlemen." Ian stated.
Korvus agreed and he, Kurt, Warpath, and Ian all got to work on trying to fix the engines.
" That doesn't go like that." Korvus stated.
" Yes, it does. See? Look, it fits right here like this." Ian replied.
" Okay, yeah just jam it in there, that's real safe." Korvus replied.
" Do you want this to work, or do you want it to be safe?" Ian asked.
" I want to live, if possible, yes." Korvus told the boy. " Where'd you even learn to fix a damn ship engine?" He asked.
" Kitty Pryde, just happens to be one of the best teachers at Xaviers. Especially for a tech wiz. I uh... Also had a chance to study some of earths greatest inventors when I was younger. I was a big fan of Stark and Richards. When you can't play sports, you find other ways to entertain yourself. My way was studying Tony's nanobot theory." Ian explained.
" Those guys may be geniuses on earth, but in space they're like kids. You can't trust what they know and then apply it to Shi'ar tech. It's thousands of years more advanced." Korvus explained.
" Right, look do you want to debate earth teachings or are we going to fix a ship?" Ian asked the man.
" Right, let's get this done." Korvus replied.
Kurt and Warpath watched as the went back and forth, bickering like children, and just stared at each other.
" So, how much longer until the engine is ready? How much longer will this take?" Kurt finally asked.
" It's nearly ready, Nightcrawler... But I have not worked on engines like this since I was a boy." Korvus told the man.
" Well, we talked about me. What about you, Korvus? Was your father a mechanic for the empire?" Ian asked the man.
" No. This was after his death... When I was in the slave workforce... Before I became a man, and they locked me away." Korvus explained.
There was an awkward silence amongst the three mutants, who only looked at each other.
" That's rough buddy." Ian finally spoke up bluntly, as he continued working on the ship. Though as he fixed the engines capacitor, he found his mind drifting elsewhere. To a place full of anguish... Rachel's dreams. " Ugh." Ian groaned.
" What is it?" Warpath asked the boy.
" Nothing... Just my mind drifting elsewhere." Ian replied.
" Ughhhh!" Warpath yawned. " Well, I'm useless here, right? All the heavy lifting is over." Warpath stated.
" Go and get some rest, both of you... We'll finish this." Korvus told Nightcrawler and Warpath. " I can't sleep this night anyway."
" Are you sure?" Kurt asked.
" Yeah, ugh. We got it." Ian replied. He could feel it growing, Rachel's tension. Through their connection, he could see her nightmares, and if that was the case for him, then... Could she see his? Ian wondered that all through the night as he and Korvus worked on the machine.
Two hours later.
" Can I see that wrench?" Ian asked Korvus as he wiped the sweat from his head. It was hot in the engine room and the constant work made it worse.
" One second." Korvus' deep voice replied from underneath the engine.
The door to the engine room opened and Ian turned towards it to see Rachel standing there in a short top that barely covered her upper body and a new pair of black and yellow pants.
" What's up, Rach?" Ian asked the girl.
" You're in my head." Rachel told the young man.
" Yeah? Well, you're the telepath you know. Can't you just turn it off?" Ian asked the girl as he wiped his hands.
" It's happening to you, too?" Rachel asked.
" Something is... Yeah, ever since I smashed that damned blade of his." Ian stated.
" Hey, don't blame me. I didn't tell you to try and break the phoenix blade." Korvus said from underneath the engine.
" Ian, it's like I have pieces of your memories mixed with mine..." Rachel explained. " Korvus, tell me about this sword. How is it connected to the phoenix?" Rachel asked. She wanted to try and understand better what was happening to her.
Korvus, sighed and slid out from under the engine and grabbed his sword and pointed it out,
" Hundreds of years ago Rook'Shir was possessed by, well they called it the Phal'Kon then... He was where the Shi'ar legends of the Phoenix truly originated.... The story they kept quiet. They knew long ago that the energy could join with those it chose." Korvus explained.
" Wait, I thought Jean Grey was the first Phoenix. You telling me there were others? How many?" Ian asked.
" There were at least two others that are known of each ending in disaster... Rook'Shir destroyed worlds... He had the Phal'Kon in him for only days and yet he killed so many. And somehow when they finally slew him, a small piece of the phoenix remained within his sword... But it is not the true phoenix." Korvus explained.
" No, it's more like a faded blue shadow.... Or an echo of it." Rachel spoke.
" Which isn't such a bad thing. It's a lot less power, but it's easier to control." Ian stated. " It's a lot safer now that I did try to break it at least. You're welcome Korvus." Ian said to the man sarcastically.
" Whatever." Korvus replied. He slid back under the engine and continued working on it.
" But having said that, I bet it can't be easy to only have such a small piece of such a great power leave you. I can only imagine what power like that feels. Even though it was but a fraction." Ian stated.
Rachel placed her hand on Ian's forearm and squeezed it.
" Even a fraction of the phoenix wants to be used." Rachel spoke.
Ian simply stared at Rachel as her grip on his arm loosened.
" Stop staring at me like that." Rachel told the young man.
Ian felt like he was about to fall forward from. What Rachel had said had come from out of nowhere.
"Like what?" Ian asked.
" Like you know me." Rachel told the man.
" I do know ye silly?" Ian replied.
" No, like you know me, know me." Rachel clarified for the man.
" Oh.... Well... I do know you. I shouldn't. But I do." Ian told the girl. " I can feel you in my mind, even know. I can see your whole life as if it were my own. I feel like I could have gone mad... If I hadn't had experience trying to juggle multiple personalities." Ian said to the woman. " I also know why you're here in those new clothes, you made, instead of sleep."
" Stop." Rachel told the man. Ian approached her from behind and hugged her.
" It's the same reason I can't sleep." Ian told the woman.
" Stop." Rachel whimpered.
" I can't." Ian replied.
They could both feel themselves growing hot. Whether they knew the other felt the same burning in their chest or not, they couldn't know. But that feeling was growing hotter and hotter by the second.
Rachel leaned back into Ian's chest and reached back and grabbed a headful of his hair and kissed him right on his lips. Ian responded by grabbing a fist full of her red hair and pressing even further into the kiss, slipping his tongue inside her mouth and taking his time to explore every corner of it.
After a moment the separated with a look of satisfaction on both of their faces.
" Oh god... We are really in trouble now." Rachel stated.
" I've known nothing in my life but trouble, Rachel. Trust me... We'll survive." Ian told the girl. He grabbed her cheek and kissed her again.
He reached down for Rachel's buckle and undid with a pop and began to try and slide her pants down.
" Ahem!" Korvus coughed real loudly and the two were instantly brought back to reality.
Both of them were extremely embarrassed, with each of them turning as red as their own hair.
" Why don't you two go to your rooms. I got this." Korvus stated.
" You sure?" Ian asked.
" Yeah... Just don't... Do that here." Korvus replied.
Ian and Rachel both coughed out of embarrassment and left the engine room behind. After a short walk they arrived back in the room that Rachel was using to sleep.
Rachel and Ian both sat down on the woman's bed, an awkward silence filling the air.
" So.... about what was happening back there." Rachel started.
" I'll be the first to say... It felt nice." Ian told the woman. " I enjoyed the feeling... It was... Different from what I was used to. But in a good way. An energizing way. I've been questioning so many things for quite some time. But not this. This feels right... Rachel." Ian said to the woman. He placed his hands on the woman's chin and guided her gaze towards his. Her eyes filled with doubt. " If you feel any doubt, now is the time to stop me." Ian told the woman. He leaned and kissed Rachel... And the woman accepted it.
Rachel, once again, grabbed a fistful of Ian's red hair and allowed the young man to push her down onto her back.
Ian slid his hand back down to her buckle and undid it with a pop. He unbuttoned her pants and slowly slid them down her soft legs. The way her hips swayed side to side, as if trying to help get her pants off faster, only increased the burning sensation in Ian's chest.
Ian pulled back long enough to slip his shirt over his head, but the burning feeling returned again, and Ian once again returned to Rachel's body. His hands making quick work of her bra and thong.
Rachel herself got to work in between kisses to slip her hands down to Ian's pants and unzip them.
Ian helped the woman, by nearly tearing his pants off himself.
There they laid atop of each, kissing each other so intensely that they were struggling to breathe.
Ian eventually broke the kiss, and turned his attention to Rachel's neck, giving it a deep kiss, sucking and biting down on her flesh like a beast in heat.
Rachel gasped in pleasure. She could feel his teeth latched hard on her flesh, and down below she could feel his rod prodding against the entrance to her hot walls. Her body was on fire her pussy ached and each time Ian would rub his penis against her it felt like a wave of relief would flow over her body for just a moment and then the heat would return.
" I need you inside me. It burns so much!" Rachel yelled.
Ian brought his lips back to Rachels and kissed her to silence her shouting while his hand moved down to his penis, he positioned it at the entrance to Rachel's pussy and thrusted hard inside of her, making the girl yelp with joy.
It felt like both their bodies were melting, every time Ian thrusted forward. It was like bliss to Rachel.
* Pah! Pah! Pah!
The sound of skin slapping against filled throughout the room, and maybe even to the other rooms, as Ian plowed into Rachel's sweet hole. And soon enough the feeling of climax reached both of them.
Ian began thrusting harder and faster as Rachel bucked her hips against his pelvis to push his penis deeper inside of her.
" Agh!" Rachel moaned. Her hands dug into Ian's scalp, and her lip began quivering as the feeling inside of her began to build more and more. " Agh! Gonna cum! Fuck!" Rachel cursed.
Ian grunted hard, his breaths becoming more and more shallow and as if on instinct or maybe just out of curiosity, Ian bit down hard on Rachel's red nipple and Rachel screamed. The feeling of pain was quickly overcome by the feeling of her climax rushing through her body.
Her legs started quivering and her pussy clenched down tightly onto Ian's dick, pushing him over the edge as well.
His legs went stiff, and his penis began pumping thick spurts of his semen into her slimy walls.
With their tension relieved, Ian collapsed next to Rachel struggling to catch his breath, just like she was.
Ian grabbed Rachel's waist and pulled her close to him and Rachel wrapped one of her legs over his and clung onto his chest, neither one of them caring that a mixture of her quim and his semen were flowing down their legs.
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