X shook his head, opening his mouth as if to speak, then shutting it again. He made a slight crack, before stopping to collect his words - and thoughts.
How to approach this....
Knock the whelp flat?
No, not the way to do this...
He then looked back to Lavinia for a moment, immediately recognising the fading of her eyes, X muttered, just loud enough for people around him to hear, "... little prick didn't seem to pay any damned attention, during that 'emergency...' "
With that said, he re-folded his helmet, pulling a small fluorescent red tube out of the injector positioned on his upper back, and replacing it with a blue tube of the same size, the machine whirring slightly as it accepted the tube. Within an instant, he set off, disappearing in the halls of the derelict.
