Call for Help (Sammy)

[the_next_avenger]

(Immediately following this.)

 

Joe headed down to the garage and got on his bike, kicking the engine to life. He put in his bluetooth and dialed Sammy's number, waiting for his oldest friend to answer.

"Hey, I need you. Something just happened and I need some back-up. You available?" Joe asked as he sped away from the house.

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[the_next_avenger]

"H-hey! I didn't have a choice. Do you know what that guy can do? He killed two of my friends in the yard for looking at him wrong!" the guy said.

Joe just stared the guy down.

"You better hope I don't see you again, pal. Or you won't have to worry about what Landon will do to you." Joe said.

"Come on, Sammy. Let's get back to New York. He could be after...anyone." Joe said, though a few particular faces came unbidden into his thoughts just then.

Roxanne. Sammy. Mom. Dad.

If anything happened to them, any of them, because of him...

Joe turned and left the room.

[agent_timeout]

"Then you'll be safer in SHIELD custody. You can look wrong at all of our other guests and see what happens." The scared look was nice to see. SHIELD should cause fear in the right people.

She followed Joe out, running after him with his long strides. "Three months. That's an awful lot of time to be free and causing trouble. No clue up to now?"

[the_next_avenger]

"No, none. But some of the stuff that happened before you showed up suddenly has a little more meaning to it." Joe said.

"He was out there this whole time, probably watching and waiting. But why hit now? He might have gotten me awhile ago and this whole thing would be over already." Joe said sadly. He was tired of this. Tired of the guessing, the looking over his shoulder.

He was tired of feeling guilty.

"I left Roxanne home alone. If he's watched her at all, he knows what she can do. He might have back-up for that."

[agent_timeout]

You have back-up now, Joe. Little Sammy is watching out for you.

"As soon as we're out, you call her. I'll call the colonel. By the time we get back to New York, we can have some of the prelim done. You better start thinking up every detail you can about Jason Landon for the hacks to work on."

[the_next_avenger]

"Got it. Melissa talked about him all the time, but I know that he's ex -Special Forces. And I know that he can kill people as easily as looking at them but Melissa never let it slip that he was a mutant." Joe said, looking to one of the guards.

"You want to talk to the warden while I bring the car around?" he asked.

[agent_timeout]

"SHIELD has files on mutants who don't even know they're mutants," Sammy said. She nodded. "Go make your calls outside. I'll be out as soon as I make arrangements to ship our friend back to the Vault. Bet that'll make the warden's day. His collars aren't working and he might have more than one prisoner under a wrong name."