X-Force: X-Force Only Comm

I'm back. Astonishingly, neither Dom nor I have done anything stupid (besides smash a few things - thanks Doug) in the last 24 hours, in the face of remarkable provocation.

Amanda was right - my little tantrum yesterday was because I put together some of the research you all did the other week, and Emma made a few calls and confirmed my suspicions, and we found out that Lense is currently working for Sebastian fucking Shaw. His putting Nate in a coma is personal on any number of levels.

Dom and I very nearly fucked off to slot Shaw there and then, but sanity just about prevailed. Killing him will only bring a shitstorm down. So, new job: reprisals. Lense, however personal this is for him, is the monkey. I want the organ grinder. So we need to work out why Shaw is in bed with Trask, but more importantly, we need to send him a message. So: find me something he owns that we can fuck with - factory, warehouse, investment portfolio, I don't care what it is. Just find me something that's his that we can take from him. Nothing major, nothing he can't get by without, and preferably off US soil. Just enough to bloody his nose and send him a message.

Right then. I'm just back from Xaviers's Halfway House for Criminals, Substance Abusers and People Who Can't Be Trusted With Anything Sharp. I have been visiting Nate, for what good that might do. I don't have so many old friends that I can spare one, and some fucker has put him in a coma. Guess how happy I am?

Anyway, while I was there, I checked in with Summers, and Dom, who is in town for obvious reasons, and as I'm sure you can all imagine, even less happy about this than I am, which only makes my mood worse. Anyway, it turns out that one of the coma-dispensing shitbags in question is John fucking Lense, late of Mistra, and apparently not terribly happy about the "late" part, the ungrateful cunt.

I'm going to make some calls, because I suspect even the US Government aren't stupid enough to let a special-forces trained mutant out of psychiatric care without trying to keep some kind of tabs on him, even if they do believe he's "recovered", despite what Summers got off the rehab-scheme people when he spoke to them. It'll give us a starting point anyway, but I want to know what the fucker has been doing, and preferably, where we can find him now, because there is a lengthy queue of people lining up to hurt the bastard - I believe I'm in fourth place, behind Moira, Dom and Angelo, but the very important part about this is that behind me there are a large number of ex-Mistra types who are taking this really personally, and if we don't find something fairly fast, they may decide to start smashing things at random on the basis he has to be hiding behind something.

Dom's told them we're looking into it, so they'll sit on their hands for now, but Mistra did not select for patience and willingness to sit around doing nothing when they picked people to screw with. As Dom put it, she can keep them from going off the reservation for a while, but it'd be much better if they had a target, and we could all go off the reservation together and teach the fucker his lesson.