X-men: The Next Evolution

Disclaimer: I don't own the X-men, wish I did but I don't, I do however own all the OCs that appear in this fic

Chapter one: The new kids on the block

Professor Xavier looked out of the window of his study, located on the top floor of the Xavier institute, it had been a reasonably peaceful day, something he'd had precious few of in the months before when Apocalypse was released from his prison and had tried to turn everyone on Earth into mutants. He'd been one of those brave (or perhaps, he though, suicidal) enough to try and stop him and had been destroyed and become one of Apocalypse's horseman for his trouble and had very nearly helped Apocalypse succeed in his plan and he'd almost killed several of his own students in the process.

Despite knowing Apocalypse was a madman a part of him couldn't help but wonder, deep down, if Apocalypse's plan to turn everyone into mutants wasn't as insane as it had first sounded, if would certainly stop all the anti-mutant hysteria that had been sweeping the world ever since Apocalypse had been defeated. Every day Cerebro was picking up more and more mutants and it seemed like every day now there was some form of anti-mutant violence occurring somewhere in the world, or at least, in Bayville. He quickly dissipated that idea and he heard someone knock on the study door.

"Come in" he called, placing the book he'd been reading back on the table and Wolverine walked in.

"Ah yes, what's the matter Logan?" he asked Wolverine.

"Did you forget? Today's the day the new students get here, must be getting senile in your old age huh Charles" he said, smiling slightly.

"Perhaps I am Logan" the professor replied, also smiling, he knew Wolverine was far older than he was, he'd barely been alive at the time of world war two but Wolverine had actually fought in it, assuming his memory of the conflict wasn't false, like some of his other ones.

"How are the new students?" the Professor asked, moving his wheelchair over to the window to look down at the students assembled below in front of the institute.

"Well, I'm glad I never used up any of my sick days" Wolverine said, looking down at the students as well.

A boy wearing white was floating in mid-air and holding his hands up towards the sun, a few seconds later they glowed and became covered with white flames which he formed into two orbs and threw them into a nearby fountain, vaporizing the water.

Another boy was floating on a cloud nearby and split a small part of the cloud off, which flew over to the fountain and re filled it by raining down into the dry fountain.

A timid looking girl was sitting nearby, not meeting anyone's gaze and seemed to be mumbling to herself.

There was a boy sitting in the shade of a tree nearby to her and there was another girl wearing dark sunglasses and a boy drawing something on a sketchpad sitting on either side of him, there were two more people, a boy and a girl, sitting next to the girl with the dark sunglasses, there was also another figure on the other side of the tree but he or she was wearing a heavy hooded coat. There was a boy with red hair sitting near the figure and girl with black and green hair sitting next to him. Two more figures finished off the group, one was a boy with bright blue hair and the other one was a girl, both sitting out on the grass, watching the others silently.

A few minutes later the front doors to the institute opened and the new students all looked towards who was coming out of the doors. Professor Xavier appeared flanked by Wolverine on his right and Cyclops on his left. He smiled briefly before transmitting a telepathic message to the new students.

"Welcome to the Xavier institute. Welcome to the X-men"

In chapter 2: The new students (and some old ones) get settled in at the mansion and head into Bayville to enjoy what's left of their summer, only for Bayvilles mutant haters to crash the fun.