Chapter 40: Saving Private Wade (Part I)
By the time S.H.I.E.L.D. agents inspected the entire Three Mile Island, Bucky and Raven had left the island in stealth aircraft.
"Mr. Barnes, it looks like you've withdrawn from Three Mile Island, and I'm worried that the sudden arrival of S.H.I.E.L.D. will affect your actions."
Bucky's mind suddenly remembered a man's voice, warm and familiar, Professor X was talking to Bucky through his telepathic abilities.
Although Bucky doesn't like people suddenly appearing in his mind, Professor X's strong mental power is something that Bucky can't resist, and now Bucky also wants to know if Vanessa and the mutants who were imprisoned by Stryker have been safely evacuated.
"Professor, are the imprisoned mutants safe? Is Vanessa also in there? ”
Bucky directly passed on his thoughts to Professor X through his psychic powers, which surprised Professor X, most people will show varying degrees of rustiness when they use psychic powers to communicate with others for the first time, but Bucky is obviously very proficient in this. However, Professor X remembered that Anna had said that Bucky knew a lot about the abilities of mutants, and he was relieved, and he thought that maybe Bucky had communicated with other mutants with telepathic abilities with psychic powers.
Actually, it's true that Bucky does have the experience of communicating with others with his psychic powers, but the object of communication is not other mutants with telepathic abilities, but the spiritual power of the Nemesis that exists in the fragments of the Stone of Self.
"The kids are safe, and so is Ms. Vanessa, and we're off Three Mile Island and on our way to New York."
Hearing that Vanessa and those children were safe, Bucky finally breathed a sigh of relief, didn't he spend a long time just to help Wade get Vanessa out, and finally did not work in vain. Immediately after, Bucky suddenly remembered that he didn't know if Kayla had also been rescued safely, she was Anna's sister, and Anna would be very sad if something happened.
"Professor, do you have a lady named Kayla on the plane, she's Anna's sister?" Bucky then asked.
After a few moments, the professor's voice came back to Bucky's head, "Kayla was saved, too, on the plane, but her husband Logan wasn't here, and she looked depressed right now." ”
Hearing that Logan was not with the professor, Bucky was not too worried, with Logan's strong recovery ability and an Edman alloy skeleton, Bucky believed that Logan would be fine. Bucky's only concern is that Rogan will suffer amnesia from being wounded in the brain by Stryker with an Edelman bullet as in the movie.
In fact, what Bucky feared did happen. At this time, Logan was sitting on the small ****** of the card king Remy, covering his head in pain, and kept whispering to himself: "Who am I, why do I have no memory at all?" ”
"Man, you're Logan, Wolverine Logan, and I'm your friend Remy LeBeau. Don't be too anxious, you'll remember everything slowly, I'll take you to New Orleans first, maybe you can find some memories there. ”
Remy Lebbo piloted a small ****** in the direction of New Orleans.
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Three Mile Island was close to New York, and it wasn't long before Raven's plane flew over Xavier's school and landed slowly on an empty meadow.
As soon as he got off the plane, Bucky saw a weak young man in his mid-thirties with glasses waiting there, who was staring at Raven behind Bucky without blinking, with some obsession in his eyes.
"Hank, long time no see!"
Raven stepped forward and gave the man a warm hug, which immediately made his face red. Bucky also knew from Raven's title that this person was the beast Hank who had helped Anna two days ago, and sure enough, as in the movie, Hank before his transformation was a purebred little white face.
Walking forward, Bucky greeted Hank warmly, then pointed to Wade on his shoulder, and said, "Hank, I want to borrow the school's infirmary, I don't know if it's convenient?" ”
At this time, Hank's eyes fell on Wade, the headless body and the lonely head really made Hank wonder what was the use of Bucky asking for the infirmary.
"Your friend, need healing?" Hank pointed at Wade, his tone full of suspicion.
Bucky can completely understand Hank's attitude, even mutants have never heard of a situation where they can survive after their heads are cut off.
Nodding, Bucky explained, "This guy is special, take your head back and come back to life." ”
Bucky said so, and Hank stopped questioning, glanced at Raven again, and walked with Bucky like inside the house.
After turning a few corners, Hank led Bucky to the infirmary, which was already crowded with people, and at a cursory glance, Bucky saw that they were all mutants rescued from Three Mile Island. The mutants were lining up to enter the infirmary one by one.
Looking at Bucky's somewhat confused eyes, Hank explained, "They had positioning chips installed in Stryker's body, and now they need to take them out." ”
"Bucky?"
Hearing someone call him, Bucky looked up and saw Vanessa coming out of the infirmary, presumably having just taken out the positioning chip in her body.
Immediately after, Vanessa's eyes fell on a head that Bucky was holding, and although Stryker's experiment caused Wade's face to change a lot, Vanessa recognized it at a glance as the head of her husband Wade. Staring at the head that had been separated, Vanessa's tears suddenly flowed unstoppably like a flood that had opened the floodgates.
Trembling in front of Bucky, he carefully took Wade's head with both hands, and looked at the familiar face, Vanessa couldn't hold on any longer, and cried bitterly.
Looking at Vanessa, who was kneeling on the ground, holding Wade's head and crying bitterly, Bucky coughed a little embarrassedly and said, "Calm down Vanessa, Wade can still be saved." ”
Bucky's words were like a lifesaver, igniting Vanessa's hope, and her tearful eyes stared at Bucky, stammering, "Really...... Really, you didn't ...... You didn't lie to me, did you? ”
"Don't worry, you're also a mutant now, you should know that an existence like ours can't be judged by the standards of ordinary people, as long as Wade's head is connected to his body, I promise, he will be fine."
After receiving Bucky's assurance, Vanessa finally put away her tears, hugged Wade's head, followed Bucky, and walked into the infirmary.