DP Road Trip pt13: Island of No Return

[Mercy]

Mercy had looked away when Juggernaut had practically knocked Deadpool's head off. She'd seen plenty of really bad beatings, but even the toughest G's from the streets would have pissed themselves at the sight of this big-ass thug.

She certainly wasn't too keen to just stand still and wait for some kind of sign that they either could come in or needed to run away as fast as they could. So Mercy carefully turned her attention to her Senses, and found that they'd answered her unspoken question before she'd even though it at them, hoping that maybe they connected on some kind of telepathic level.

Telepathy did exist, right? Yeah, that red-headed lady going crazy and obliterating Alcatraz...She'd had telepathy, right? Mercy thought she remembered seeing something on the news to that extent.

Apparently they were more connected mentally than Mercy thought - or wanted to think, perhaps. But her Senses agreed to keep William and Mercy covered, and Mercy trusted them enough to step outside of the tree trunk. "Let's roll," she hissed under her breath to William--she couldn't see the tree trunk that was supposedly there, though she knew the illusion was still intact. "Who the hell was that guy? Is that the guy from that mutant crazy group? They had some huge-ass guy with them, I saw it on the news..."

[deadpool]

William nodded, and was glad to see the girl had taken some strength from somewhere and was moving. She was made of hard stuff. “Yes, the Juggernaut. He's powerful... at least Class Four. I hear he's impossible to damage, and one of the physically strongest mutants in the world. Though I did hear that the X-Men incapacitated him briefly in Baltimore. Should worst come to worst, I'm afraid you and your senses may be the only thing that can really stop him... assuming he's not completely immune to mental attacks as well.”

They worked their way through various underbrush and foliage side-tracking the circumference of the island. Occasionally they would pause for what sounded like some snarling beast or another moving nearby.

“If the Juggernaut is here, then there is the possibility that the Brotherhood in whole may be here as well. That could prove most distressing for Master Wilson.”

[Mercy]

Mercy paused to consider what that meant for them, if the entire Brotherhood were on that island. She'd seen the news about them over the last year, but never paid extremely close attention, since she'd never been involved in the conflict. She'd viewed The Brotherhood's actions as wrong - yes, mutants were persecuted by some people, and that was wrong, but it wasn't as if the government was rounding them up and throwing them in camps. The Brotherhood wasn't defending their race in attacking and killing, they were just attacking and killing for the sake of it. If they'd been being more heavily persecuted, then she might be able to understand their actions.

Either way, they were obviously extremely dangerous. Mercy began to long for the mafia that Deadpool had off-handedly commented might be on the island. Guns and knives were much easier to fend off than super-strength and...hadn't that one guy had fire that shot out of his hands or something?

"Well, they can't keep killing him forever," she said reasonably as they crept out of the trees and started to move along the beach. She knew that they were covered from view, but she still moved cautiously, looking around warily for signs of other people. "But...what are we looking for? How is he going to send us a sign from inside?"