Chapter 10
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After examining the boy the looks on both Charles and Jean's faces were grim .. Both were Telepaths and Jean had medical training.. Then Hank, Bruce, Stephen and Doctor Cho followed out behind them wearing equally grim expressions..
Wade was waiting in the giant waiting area with basically two whole teams of Heroes.. Logan was talking with Bucky and Natasha, probably giving them as much information as he could on the kid that was apparently made up of genetic materials ftom all three of them..
The reason for so many doctors is the boy did need a lot of medical observation and care plus each team of Heroes had their own doctors with their own specializations and seeing as how the kid was made from genetic materials from people on both teams, both teams had an interest and personal investment in the boy's health and recovery..
They were currently at The Avengers Compound.. A compromise because while The X Mansion had great medical facilities those facilities weren't exactly equipped for something like this plus X Mansion was also a school full of people who were strangers to the boy and Peter already didn't do so great with new people or at least under the current circumstances he was having problems..
Peter had already almost killed Stephen Strange, Helen Cho and Jean Grey while screaming a high pitched keening scream at Wade and Logan that they had promised no one would hurt him ever again and calling them liars..
In hindsight maybe it wasn't the greatest idea to take a boy who had been born, raised, tortured, raped and experimented on inside a lab for most of his whole life and put him in a room that looked exactly like any of the rooms he had been hurt in and then having at least one person wearing a lab coat enter that room..
It was easy to see why Peter lost his shit .. The room and a person in a lab coat were the last Triggers the poor traumatized kid needed to be exposed to so soon..
It had taken three times more of the special sedatives used to sedate Steve or Bucky and even then it had only barely slowed the kid down enough for both Charles and Jean to get into the kid's mind and all that and Doctor Strange still had to use the Time Stone to hold the kid immobile and basically frozen in time for Hank, Bruce to be able to get scans and samples while Jean and Charles examined the boy's memories and mind..
To see all of the doctors coming out looking so grim..
It must not be good news...
Bucky, Logan and Natasha all straightened up as the doctors approached them..
"Perhaps this discussion is better had away from all of the prying eyes, yes?" Charles asked and gestured for Natasha, Bucky and Logan to follow ..
Later when the three reappeared looking pale and shaky, Wade pulled Logan aside..
"The kid.. Peter.. Those bastards put some kind of chip in his brain.. It's a Kill Switch.. At any moment whoever has the right control can simply decide to just push a button and the kid will fall down dead.. And it's too dangerous to remove.. The only thing we can do is hope we destroyed the only copies of files with the commands to activate the Kill Switch.."
"Damn.. Poor kid.." Wade replied
"Charles and Jean told us only some of what they saw in his mind and his memories.. It's so much worse than anything those files and tapes showed, I have no idea how the kid is even alive let alone somewhat sane.. Well somewhat sane considering his mind and actions have hardly ever been his own.." Logan looked on the verge of breaking.
A look around showed that Bucky and Natasha were doing just as bad.
"Well.. The kid is strong, Logan.. We'll all help get him through this.. By any means necessary.." Wade assured his friend.
"I get why the others.. But you don't have to .."
"Wolvie.. I'm the one that found that kid in that shithole.. I was the first one to see evidence of what those monsters did to him... So I'm just as invested in making sure that kid gets a chance at life as the rest of everyone else here.. Capiche?" Wade asked..
"Yeah.. I capiche.." Logan agreed with a huff of a laugh..