[center][img]https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PmgxYBuD_mI/hqdefault.jpg[/img][/center]

[hr]

[right][b]Austin, Texas. 1850HRS Local Time.[/b][/right]

[color=fff200]"Colossus! Hold up!"[/color] Ruth ran down the dirt track to the main road from the farm trying to catch up with him. He hadn't waited for her, she had been safe back in the farmhouse so by the time she turned around he was gone. He wasn't really in the mood for staying behind. What good was this gift, the strength, when he couldn't help others? It was frustrating, even more so that the Brotherhood continued to undo their own work in bridging the gap between regular humans and mutants. Everyday the Brotherhood grew in strength, and what many of their numbers didn't realize is that they were the ones helping create the stigma against their kind. With groups such as the [i]Purifiers[/i] and the [i]friends of humanity[/i] springing up all over the place one the country was only one catastrophe away from things getting much, much, worse. Or so the people who understood these things better told him.

[color=fff200]"Colossus!"[/color] Shaking himself out of his reverie he turned to Ruth. [color=fff200]"You alright big guy?"[/color]

He weighed his answer for a moment, before shaking his head. [b][color=00a99d]"No, I do not believe I am. Though-"[/color][/b] He flashed her a smile.[b] [color=00a99d]"-I will be. At least we know that once the authorities arrive that those men will never conduct anything like this again."[/color][/b] As soon as he finished his sentence he saw how easy she became. Something wasn't sitting right. [b][color=00a99d]"What?"[/color][/b]

[color=fff200]"Yeah, about that. I don't [i]think[/i] they're going to be held for long."[/color] She was scratching her left shoulder. She always did that when nervous, this wasn't good. 

[b][color=00a99d]"What do you mean?"[/color][/b]

[color=fff200]"Well just think about it. Two mutants turn up, the priests son who just [i]also[/i] happens to be a mutant kills his father then himself? I don't think this is going to spin in our favour. Even with how brutalized the boys body is[/color]." When she was right, she was right. He turned back to the farm house. Even staying wouldn't do anything, him and Ruth would likely be the two to end up being incarcerated. 

[b][color=00a99d]"At the end of the day comrade, we still won."[/color][/b] She stopped as he said it, a perplexed look on her face as she tried to replay through the events in her head.

[color=fff200]"No offense, but... how was this a [i]win?[/i]"[/color]

Colossus just smiled. [b][color=00a99d]"We did what was right, at the end of day that is what matters."[/color][/b] She nodded to herself, returning to her more cheerful self. There had been a time after everything that had happened that she had been unable to have these happy moments. Bullied outside of the institute, and shunned when in it for strange speech patterns and her seemingly lack of respect for other peoples mental privacy. When the Professor asked for the first time for him to take her on a mission he had his concerns, now he would not have it any other way. 

[color=fff200]"You know, if we're going to be super-heroes we should really look into getting a new set of wheels-"[/color] She pointed at the [url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Toyota_Land_Cruiser_HZJ76HV_001.jpg]car[/url] that the Professor had rented for Colossus to use while in Texas.[color=fff200]"-That is not a good image for a pair of strapping young heroes. I mean even that crazy [i]Batguy[/i] has a fancy car."[/color]

[b][color=00a99d]"Bat-man."[/color][/b]

[color=fff200]"What?"[/color]

[b][color=00a99d]"I believe that he is calling himself Bat-man."[/color][/b]

[color=fff200]"You're missing the point."[/color]

[b][color=00a99d]"You do realize we aren't super-heroes? We are just ordinary people, with special abilities."[/color][/b]

[color=fff200]"You're meaning to tell me, if you were to see a robbery you would just walk right past it?"[/color] Ruth positioned herself on front of Colossus so he couldn't continue to the car with a stern look on her face. He had to give it to her, she was much more capable of pulling a stern and commanding face than he was. Intimidating, he could do. This face was [i]commanding[/i]. That in itself was frightening.

[b][color=00a99d]"No, but intervening would be doing my civic duty. Not being a superhero."[/color][/b] Had she had eyes, he was sure she would have rolled them as she kicked her head back and sighed before moving out of his way. 

[color=fff200]"You're impossible, you know that? Right?"[/color]

[b][color=00a99d][b]"That depends, do you want to stop for Ice-Cream?" [/b][/color][/b] He opened the driver side door fo the car and got in, the suspension creaking under his weight as he did so. It wasn't really necessary for him to remain in his metallic form anymore. Though after the outing of mutants he had decided not to hide who he was. He wasn't ashamed. Did it make things complicated? Yes. He had to be careful in the streets and shops that someone didn't get the wrong idea of his intentions. Especially careful at airports, though any plane he got on had to be private anyway. After registration he couldn't hide the fact he was a mutant anymore, with the nature of his mutation he wasn't able to go on any public flights. For reasons of [i]national security[/i] of course.

He turned the key as the engine came to life, turning to look at her. [color=00a99d][b]"Well?"[/b][/color]

[color=fff200]"Yeah I want Ice-Cream..."[/color] Colossus smiled and turned the steering wheel. Bringing the car out of where it was parked he began driving down the road. [color=fff200]"Though don't think this conversation is over! I still think we need our own car. I mean the X-Men get a jet, surely the reserves get something too."[/color] With that, Colossus just laughed.

[hr]

[center][i][color=8882be]"Yeah, two of them were here. Just as you predicted. The boy acted according to the plan. What do you want us to do next?"[/color][/i][/center]