Ch.30

As the young woman was finally set free, she stared at us both before finally sitting down and grabbing some of the food Frenchie made earlier. Just as she was settling in, Frenchie, received a phone call, from the sounds of it, it was from his lover and close friend, Cherie. He then hangs up and gives me a nervous and worried look. 

"I'm burned! They found my place and Cherie had to ditch it!" Frenchie says to me as my face darkens. 

"Grab our things, this place is no longer safe. However, I know a place we can go to. Grab what we need and set fire to the rest," I say standing up and calling the others while Frenchie and I quickly gather our things. With the young woman watching us confused. 

Frenchie and I quickly gathered everything of value while setting fire to our current hideout. Then we quickly leave outside with the young woman following right behind us. As she was looking around with narrowed eyes we explained to her our cover was blown and we needed to move. 

Just then I heard the quiet breaths and footsteps of a person about to jump us. I pushed Frenchie away as Black Noir appeared stabbing me in the chest twice. Black Noir then kicked me away while engaging the young woman in hand to hand but she was very outclassed. Black Noir was slowly cutting her up, while I grunted and stood up with Frenchie rushing to me and seeing my wounds close up. 

I then kicked Black Noir from behind as he was about to finish off the young woman. He was sent flying several feet and crashed into the building nearby cracking the wall slightly from impact. He gets up and turns to us as the young woman and I share a quick nod. 

She runs in using her hands like claws cutting at Black Noir who is easily dodging her strikes. However, before he can retaliate I move in with my superior fighting ability quickly pushing him back. Black Noir seeing he is becoming overwhelmed kicks the young woman away while taking a heavy hit from me rocking his head back. 

Black Noir stumbles from my strike, however, before he can escape I grab him and lift him up over me. Then like Bane, I bring him down over my knee snapping his back in half. Black Noir convulses while letting out a grunt in pain, I drop him to the ground. Though I walk to his neck and stomp down on it hard hearing another snap as he goes limp. 

"We need to leave now before others come," I say as Frenchie nods running to the van and starting it. 

The young woman limps over and gets inside as I toss Black Noir's body inside too. The young woman is slowly healing up. I use my one claw to cut open Black Noir's right shoulder where the tracking device should be. As Frenchie is driving, then I dump the tracking device in the city sewage drain which will lead them on a hopeless chase. 

"Drive to this location," I say handing Frenchie my address to the home the CIA gave me. 

"Logan… you are a supe, oui?" Frenchie says to me with a hardened face. 

"Yes and no, I will explain more once we get there," I say with a sigh as Frenchie nods his head. 

We then arrive at the house I've lived in for several decades. I grab Black Noir's body and bring it to the back of the house. Frenchie and the young woman follow me, I bring out my claws as Frenchie stares at me with wide eyes. I then cut up Black Noir's body before dumping it in my fire pit and lighting the fire. 

"Clean the van, deep clean. I don't want anyone following the scent of him here. Once the fire is done, I will ensure the smell doesn't lead here either," I say as Frenchie nods walking off the clean the van after I show him my cleaning supplies. 

"Follow me I will show you where the shower is and get you some clean clothes," I say bringing the young woman inside who stops me. She then writes on a paper in Japanese saying her name is Kimiko Miyashiro.

"Nice to meet you, Kimiko, my name is John Logan. You can call me Logan though," I say shaking her hand as she nods her head and smiles at me. 

I then leave Kimiko inside to shower and change as I make sure the body of Black Noir is completely burned away. I sit by the fire while smoking a cigar, with Frenchie coming back over later while Kimiko comes out too. They both take a seat by the fire, with Kimiko taking a notepad to draw or write to me on it. While Frenchie smokes some cigarettes. 

"So, how are you like a supe but not a supe," Frenchie says to me. 

"I consider myself more of a mutant… not like a freak of nature, though I suppose that isn't wrong. I just think I'm the next step of human evolution, while the supes are not natural. I have a feeling they are not natural, then again they might be like me too. Plus I believe I am the first 'supe' since I haven't met one outside myself before WW2. And I was around in the early 1830s," I say to Frenchie who just stares at me in awe trying to take in this information. While Kimiko is humming to herself blissfully ignorant of what we are discussing. 

"You've been alive almost two hundred years?!" Frenchie says to me as I nod my head. 

"Mon Dieu," (My God) Frenchie says while taking a deep draw on his cigarette. 

"So what you told me about your parents… was that true?" Frenchie says to me and I nod my head. 

"Yeah, all of that was true… Plus I was in the American Civil War, the Union side, and both world wars… My life has been mostly fighting and killing, with a few years in between the fighting and killing," I say to him as I sigh and add more lighter fluid to the fire. 

"I see… Well, I'm glad you finally told me. I can understand why you would keep it a secret. Both MM and Butcher especially hate supes, I'm not sure they will take kindly to knowing you are one of them," Frenchie says to me as I nod my head. 

"They should know too though. When they get here I will explain to them what happened and who I really am," I say as Frenchie nods his head. 

Then for the next several hours, Frenchie asks me all sorts of questions about my past which I answer. We then bond over some of my past as the fire slowly dies down with only the bones of Black Noir left. Once the fire is only embers, with the help of Frenchie and Kimiko we dig a very deep hole where I dump his bones. 

Then I quickly hunt down a deer before tossing the body a few feet above Black Noir's bones. This will confuse the scent of most tracking animals and supes, if they dig this up for whatever reason they should stop after finding the dead deer. By the time we finished this, MM, Butcher, and Hughie finally arrived. 

"Well, ain't this a fancy place. Did Grace give us the fancy safe house?" Butcher says as they walk inside to see Frenchie with his guns like normal. While I'm talking with Kimiko who is drawing her questions to me in Japanese. 

"Oi! What the hell is crazy bitch doing out of her chains?!" Butcher says as Kimiko stands up and gives him a very angry look. MM and Butcher instinctually grab their guns at her threatening poster. 

"Jesus calm down. She is now a part of the team, like it or not," I say as MM nods his head putting his gun away. Butcher glares at her while slowly putting his gun away, with Kimiko staring back at him. 

"Ain't no way I'm working with a supe," Butcher says while glaring at her. 

"You are and you've been working with one since the beginning," I say turning to him as MM and Hughie look confused. 

"What, fuck that. Plus the bastards we used, I wouldn't say we worked with them," Butcher says confusing my statement. 

"Not them, I'm a supe," I say and bring out my claws while still smoking my cigar with my other hand. The three stare at me with wide eyes processing the information. 

"Fuck!!" Butcher says drawing his gun on me as I stare at him with a blank look. 

"Butcher calm down! He is not like the others, he has been helping us the whole time and I'm sure Grace knew about him too," MM says while looking to me for confirmation and I nod my head. 

"This is bullshit! You've been one of them the whole time and didn't say anything?!" Butcher says while still holding onto his gun with anger all over his face. 

"I didn't say anything because of this very reason. Do you see your reaction to the information, if you knew from the beginning do you think you would be a part of the task force?" I say to him as she glares at me before letting out a heavy sigh. 

"Fuck me," Butcher says while sitting down and putting his gun away. 

"Now shut up and listen, then you can ask all the questions you want," I say and explain to them what I told Frenchie. 

They ask a lot of questions, well at least MM and Hughie ask me a lot of questions. While Butcher just sits there in silence not saying anything staring off while lost in thought. MM was mostly interested in the Civil War and the Civil Rights movement. While Hughie was curious about both world wars and the moon landing. 

"Anything you want to ask me, Butcher?" I say as the others seem to have asked all the questions they had. 

"Yeah, just one… Do you think you can kill Homelander?" Butcher says to me with a curious and hopeful look. I stare at him for a bit while thinking about what I know of Homelander. 

"Possibly… Though it would be very circumstantial. Meaning, I do believe I can cut him with my claws, how deeply would remain to be seen. Even if let's say I can decapitate him, I'm not as fast or strong as him, so it would take a surprise attack or help of others to distract him or hold him down long enough for me to kill him," I say giving my thoughts on the matter as Butcher nods his head thinking. 

"Then we just need a few more stronger supes and we can get him," Butcher says with a smirk. 

"It's not that simple Butcher and you know that," I say to him as she grumbles. 

"We need a better plan than to just walk in there and fight him," MM says agreeing with me. 

"Plus, if I kill him without exposing who is to the world, they will make him a martyr and me a criminal. I doubt even my connections could save me at that point and I'd rather not be on the run for the foreseeable future," I say to him as Butcher stands up annoyed but can understand our points. 

"Fine, so we just keep to the plan? Expose Vought for the fuckers they are and then the supes, after we can go after him?" Butcher says as we all nod our heads. 

"Fuck!... Fine, then what's next? They will be trying even harder now to find us after we killed two of thier people" Butcher says while giving us all hard looks. 

"I'm not sure… we need to think," I say rubbing my eyes tiredly since we are now in a very shitty situation.