Jack, Callie & Veil
Location: Emma Frost Memorial Hospital
Jack still had a bit of a mystery that he had been trying to solve all on his own. What was that mystery? How the hell was he still living. While the others had been deciding to figure out how best to get used to being on Genosha or how everything worked, he had still been trying to figure things out on his own. Unfortunately, he was starting to realize that he couldn't exactly find the answers all on his own, despite his attempts. So he was heading for the Tiki Bar, to see if he could find a few people. The main thing was, he didn't want a whole lot of people to be involved, so maybe one or two would be fine, just not a large group. You couldn't really do any investigating in a large group after all anyway. Eventually, he found Callie and Veil at the bar, and walked up to them,
"I need your help with a mystery, one that I'd prefer to not have too many people involved in..." he explained simply to the pair, looking at them, and he didn't really wait for an answer before explaining more.
"I need your help figuring out how come I'm not dead... Since I should have been seriously injured at the least, but when I woke up, I didn't end up in the hospital like everyone else, and others clearly know what happened, but they aren't saying anything and I've been trying to uncover things myself, but it isn't exactly easy..."Callie had decided to go to the Tiki Bar that was suggested with Veil, leaning herself up against the bar with a beer in hand she leaned back turning to look at everyone else in the bar, when Jack approached them. Callie took a sip of her beer before setting the glass down listening to Jack as he explained. She didn't really know how Jack's powers worked other than that he could easily stretch and change his appearance as wel to. She wasn't sure why he wanted all of this secrecy either but it would be a good chance to learn more about this place as well to, looking over at Veil for a moment.
"I wouldn't mind helping out, maybe we should search around the hospital records or something?" Callie suggested it was probably the best place to start.
Veil was sipping a virgin pina colada - she didn't feel comfortable with the idea of being intoxicated here yet, despite being the one to point out to her twin that maybe it was time for them to move on. There was something sinister lurking underneath all of the happiness and bliss, something she couldn't identify but still warranted that she keep her guard up. Hearing Jack's request though made her think that maybe this was it - maybe Jack's mystery was why she couldn't relax on Genosha just yet. And once it was solved, all the secrets would be out in the open - and she could truly enjoy this new mutant homeland where they were free from violence and persecution.
"I'm guessing you didn't ask anyone what happened to you," Veil surmised, putting down her drink.
"Course we'll help. That's what family's for."He was fairly glad that they decided to help him out, even though he didn't even really give them a full explanation as to why he was keeping quiet about everything. Callie suggesting that they look at the hospital records caused him to shrug slightly.
"Maybe, though I swear just about everyone has been trying to stop me from finding anything... But that's at least worth a try too start off with."Callie thought that it was really weird that the people here were preventing Jack from finding out about what happened to him. She quickly finished drinking her beer setting the glass down before standing up patting Jack on the shoulder.
"We'll figure it out together." Callie said looking at Veil, for a moment her abilities would be able to help them sneak in and do a bit of snooping in there.
"I'm ready to head out if you guys are.""There are a lot of telepaths here, it's too bad... it's too bad Glimpse isn't around," Veil commented, setting her drink down unfinished. She fluffed out her hair and stood up, figuring that she would make them invisible once they weren't in the middle of the bar. Someone was bound to notice them vanish from sight here.
"Yeah," Jack said simply with a bit of a shrug, before leading the way out of the bar. Things were going to get interesting, that was for sure. He wasn't too sure how things would work out with this little mystery of his. The thing he was glad for was that Veil and Callie agreed to go with him. This would make things a lot easier hopefully.
Callie started to followed Jack out of the bar.
"So, what have you been doing for the last few months anyway?" Callie decided to ask making some small talk along the way as well to.
Veil didn't know what to say, since Callie was clearly more or less talking to Jack, so she followed along with them quietly.
"Did you ever try to leave the island?""...I haven't been doing a whole lot actually, just trying to get a few things sorted out in my brain... Enjoying the piece and quiet that comes with not having Casper around... As for whether or not I tried to leave... Well I thought about it... Thought about it a lot actually, since if I'm being honest something is seriously off about this place, at least with the way my brain has been thinking... They hide behind secrets even though they are supposed to try building trust with people who don't typically trust them... There is something really weird going on but I don't know... They really like to guard their secrets rather closely... Hence why it's taken me a little while to figure this out, plus didn't exactly have help, Sunshine hates me and James kind of was at the time not too thrilled with me for whatever reason, so I kind of didn't have anyone to potentially help me out to figure this stuff out sooner..." Jack said a lot of what was on his mind. The others hadn't know about his weird "how am I alive" situation until Sapphire's
ghost said something. That's mainly because he didn't tend to share everything with people. Havok had been right, he didn't know the group too well, there were only two reasons why he ended up with the Underground, one was certainly less tragic than the other. The first obviously being that Colossus wanted to ask for help with something, and that's the only reason he had any sort of connection to the group. The other thing that chased him into the Underground was when the Purfiers attacked the Morlocks and tried to destroy them all, and took out a decent amount of them. If things bugged him, he just preferred not to really mention it at all.
Callie couldn't help but agree with Jack there was really something off about this island at least in her opinion since the place was ran mainly by the Hellfire Club. She didn't really see any of the X-Men there either which was really weird, not that she really cared for Professor X's group of heroes really.
"Hopefully there isn't anything really sinister happening here, but I do agree that there's something really off about this place in my opinion." Callie said.
Veil didn't know whether or not she agreed with Callie and Jack has to there being something sinister in Genosha. The only irregularity she had found was Jack's lack of access to information about his own health. She wasn't sure whether that was something to do with the Quiet Council - or just from the fact that Jack's father was Mister Sinister and his mother was an ex-flame of Professor X. James and Sunshine both seemed to have flourished here. And the Hellfire Club could've easily let them die rather than spend all of that time and energy bringing them back.
"Do you know if it's Genosha or not just you?" Veil asked Jack.
"Your parents both seem shady."Hearing what Veil said, he did know that was a question he asked himself constantly since he ended up in Genosha.
Was there something wrong with him? He hadn't been able to really accept much of anything, it was weird sort of thing in the back of his brain.
"...In all honesty? No, I don't know... Hell I've asked myself if there was something wrong with me for the past several months at this point, so that is also a possible explanation to everything, I don't know, and it bugs me that I don't know.""Well maybe we can find something in the hospital when we do get there they could have test results and whatnot in there to. If the records are clean then you should be fine hopefully." Callie said shrugging slightly looking over at Veil.
"What are your thoughts on this place anyway?" Callie asked her friend wondering what she thought of Genosha.
"I don't think I've seen enough to have a full opinion," Veil admitted.
"But from what I have seen... Mutants are safe here. Kids are growing up not learning to be afraid. Even with the Hellfire Club having put it together... there's some good here.""I mean, that is true... Though them keeping secrets isn't exactly all in good faith or whatever is it? I want to trust everything, I really do, but just not exactly really easy at times for me when the one thing I'm curious about everyone just decides to shut up about it." He glanced over at the building as they walked up to be near the hospital now.
Callie nodded slightly as she continued to follow her friends stuffing her hands into her pockets while looking between Veil and Jack.
"I do agree that people seem to be really happy and at peace here. I just don't really trust the people in charge of this place though." Callie said shrugging slightly seeing that they were getting closer now.
"So, how do you guys want to play this, just go in and once we are in the records we go invisible or, just sneak in right in?" Callie asked Veil and Jack.
"Have you ever tried just asking for the records here? If you haven't, maybe an honest approach. But I also don't mind making us invisible and grabbing them," Veil said with a shrug, looking at Jack - this was his mission more or less.
"Believe it or not I did try that, several times actually. They shut me down over it every time... We're better off sneaking in to get to them," Jack said looking at the building.
"Alright then stealth it is, do you know where they would be kept, also whats the security here like?" Callie asked looking over at Jack since he had been here the longest out of all of them.
Veil nodded, before focusing for a moment - it didn't take as much effort as it once did, to turn a group of people invisible. She had a lot of practice at cloaking thanks to the Mutant Underground and in a matter of seconds, the three of them vanished from view.
"Can you lead the way?" Veil asked Jack, also interested in the response as to the security at the hospital.
"There's a medical record room a few floors up, it doesn't have a whole lot of stuff in it yet, so odds are we should be able to find what we're looking for... As for the security involved, there is a telepath, but that shouldn't be a problem," he explained with a shrug. Of course, there was a telepath playing security guard, and since Veil's invisibility didn't exactly protect against telepaths. He wasn't going to mention it, just deciding to try and use his own telepathic powers and use them to protect the three of them. It took a few tries, but he managed to pull it off, before he lead the way inside towards the area they needed to go.
Callie watched as Veil made the three of them invisible and started to walk forward a little bit, surprised that there was just one telepath it seems, though they were ones you don't want to mess with. But just one seemed to be pretty easy to deal with then, usually hospitals she had gone to had more security staff.
"Seems like an easy smash and grab then, lead the way, we probably should take the stairs as well to."Veil raised an eyebrow.
"How are we getting through the telepathic security? We don't have Glimpse with us," she asked Jack.
"Did you get your hands on psychic dampeners?" she followed up. She knew that such things existed. A lot of human politicians tended to have them on hand, just in case a rogue psychic tried to overthrow the government.
"I guess you could say that," he said rather vaguely, heading for the stairs,
"We need to just go up 2 floors and we'll be there." He didn't really
want to explain everything as to how he knew that they didn't have to deal with the telepath. That was a can of worms he did not want to open up. Eventually though, after going up a few floors, they'd find the room that they were looking for. After making sure no one was coming or inside of the room, he opened the door, allowing the other two to walk in ahead of him.
Callie followed behind Jack and into the room, she headed over towards one of the various filing cabinets within the room, as she skimmed through some of the files she managed to find one with Jack's name on it. Putting it onto a nearby desk and opened it, seeing a death certificate on it, and the physician's account on the body being shattered. Taking a moment and looked over at Jack wondering what was actually going on before waving the two of them over.
"Hey guys I think I may have found something."Veil frowned ever so slightly, uncomfortable with Jack's lack of explanation. She didn't press him further on it, instead maintaining their cloak of invisibility as they ascended the hospital floors. There was something strange going on here beyond his lack of access to his records - something that sent a chill down her spine. She wasn't a particularly religious person, but had she been, she might have felt it was something unnatural - perhaps even unholy. But the feeling passed as quickly as it had come. They had made it into the records room and Spark Plug produced a file really quickly. Veil walked on over and peered at the file, her eyebrows shooting up from the documents she saw.
"A death certificate..." she muttered, questioningly.
He was silent for the moment, walking into the room after the other two, when Callie found something. Looking over her shoulder, what he saw gave him a hell of a lot more questions than answers.
"Ok, now I'm seriously confused. Since clearly I'm not dead if I'm standing right here. So what the hell?"Callie looked at Jack, she really didn't know or have any of the answers sadly, and he most likely had a lot more questions now.
"I have no idea what any of that means." Callie said as she handed Jack the file, and started to look for any other files related to Jack. She managed to find one of his mothers, and opened it seeing what was on it seeing that his mother has early stage lung cancer. She decided to not say anything about it and handed it towards Jack.
"You should maybe read that privately." Callie told him.
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