Re: Excalibur: status reports
He was already on the move when he replied to Jamie's report, giving Kitty a few moments to report herself before answering. When he didn't hear from her by the time it was time to turn the next corner, he spoke up again. "Affirmative, Madrox. Can assist. Location, please." He changed course to get outside, cutting his way out a service door with his thermal knives. Warpath's team had done a bit too good a job at blocking all entrances, he thought, cursing under his breath.
"Pryde, report! You got your ears on?" he said tensely as he jogged towards the van where Ruth was being held. "Anyone have eyes on Pierson?" He was quite unhappy to not hear from Kitty, seeing as she was so young and untried. He really didn't want another death on his conscience that wasn't a bad guy.
He arrived at the van to find Jamie on the job and he helped him get their injured teammate to safety. Speaking to Ruth, he said in his usual dry, sardonic deadpan, "Can't take you kids anywhere, can I? Next time you get the blinding idea to go on vacation, you had best bring a friend along. Now, if you are quite done pissing around, young lady..." In reality, he was concerned and rather furious with the people who had done this to Ruth, although by looking around at the corpses he knew most likely Logan had robbed him from getting his pound of flesh. The important thing now was getting Ruth to a healer and finding out what on earth had happened with that bastard Pierson.
"God help that bloody tosser if we lost one good soul to save his bleeding hide," he muttered darkly under his breath.