Allie was walking back to what she called home, the home of Warren Worthington the 3rd. She was out doing her almost daily walk on the brisk fall day. The walking helped her stay in shape to use her powers to the fullest. She was three blocks away when a hawk swooped down and almost took off her head! The mysterious bird circled her head just feet above it. It let out another squawk.

Allie picked up her pace, but the bird followed. "What do you want beast?" she asked to no one in particular. The hawk did another dive, this time missing her head by millimeters. "Stupid homicidal bird," she yelled as the bird slowly flew ahead of her. She raised an eyebrow and mumbled, "Where are you going?" She decided to follow it.

Underground, over rocks, through the forest. Into the thick brush she went deeper and deeper. She thought about abandoning her curiosity until the bird landed in a small clearing deep in the woods. Even as she neared, the hawk sat there glaring at her. Suddenly, out of the shadows came a girl with short black and red hair, and boy with bad hygiene, and a boy with white hair. They all centered around the hawk with out taking their eyes off of Allie. She backed up a few steps and got into her attack stance. She heard a, familiar, evil woman's laugh. The unknown bird slowly unmorphed into Mystique. Allie knew who she was. Warren told Allie about her. "What do you want from me lady?" Allie asked, hardening her attack stance.

"I am Mystique"

"I know very well who you are"

"Then you will know why I need you"

"No, I kind of don't, that's why I asked in the first place"

"You seem like a smart girl. Good powers. Excellent control of them. I would like for you to join me"

Allie got out of her stance and put her hands on her hips. "Join you?, and the brotherhood?"

"yes"

"nah, I work alone"

Allie started to walkout of the clearing. Before she could, the boy with white hair, Quicksilver she presumed, ran right in front of her and leaned on a tree. "hey baby, don't leave so soon"

"I wouldn't dare to dream of leaving you babe"

"Join us Allie, and maybe we won't hurt you," Mystique said morphing into Allie herself.

"You're gonna hurt me?"

She suddenly realized why the girl with the black and red hair looked so familiar, it was Wanda, a girl she'd seen at school.

"Don't make this harder than it has to be…Smokey," Wanda said making a tree branch fall right next to Allie.

"FINE!! This is the third time you've done this, I'll join. Just keep that… toad… away from me". Peitro quickly commented, "I like her already."

"Smokey!" Silence. "Allie!!"

A young teen groaned, burying herself further into her bed covers.

"Alexandra Rogers!"

"What?! What do you want?!" A pair of cold, silver eyes snapped open angrily.

"Now, dammit!"

"Let's go, yo! She won't…stop….scream…in'…" Green-skinned, toad-like, Todd Tolanski began to drool as 18-year-old Alexandra "Allie/Smokey" Rogers walked passed him and Fred Dukes. "Wow, yo."

"It's 5:30 in the morning, Raven. What do you want?" First mistake: Allie called Mystique "Raven". No one gets away with that. Second mistake: Allie stood in the kitchen, glaring at the "boss" of the Brotherhood. Third mistake: She was wearing a pair of skimpy, black shorts and a tank to that showed off her figure.

"School starts soon. And you have a ways to drive." Mystique ignored the girl's attitude.

"And..?"

"And…I have a mission for you. Here's the deal: The X-Men have a new girl. Near a body of water, she is as dangerous as Rogue herself. We need her here."

"How old is she?"

"All you have to do---"

"Dammit. I know what I have to do. Become an X-Men, win her over. How old is she?!"

"16."

"Sixteen?! Jesus Christ, Mystique! She's just a kid!" Allie shook her head. "Send Shakedown, send…Speedy…" She trailed off, her silver eyes catching Pietro checking her out in her skimpy PJs as he passed.

"Sexy," he whispered in her ear.

Allie blushed and turned back to Mystique who was continuing with the 'Briefing."

"…And so, I have decided to let you handle it."

"Fantastic. I'll start…After school?" Allie grinned and ran out of the room. At the top of the stairs, a pair of arms scooped her up. "Speedy!!"

"You can't leave. We'll send Lance. I forbid you to leave!"

In a flash, Pietro was holding Allie, leaning on his door from inside.

The helicopter carrying Professor X, Jean, Scott, and Ororo was approaching the waterfall. It wasn't as big as Niagra Falls, it was only about a 70 ft. drop. There was a pond with the diameter of the drop. There was a girl in the middle moving some water and making waves. She was wearing a deep blue two-piece with a white swim skirt. Amazingly, her hair wasn't wet and went down to her waistline. It was moonlight white with two locks of pure blue hanging in front of her shoulders, to about half the length of the white.

She noticed the helicopter wanted to land, so she froze the water and got out of the way. They landed, Ororo was the first to get out. "who are you and what are you doing in my home? Tell me or I'll drown the 'copter," the girl said forming an ice-spear in her hand.

"we won't hurt you. We are like you"

" no ones like me. Only one person, and its not you!"

"my name is Ororo. I am a mutant, just like you"

"you are?"

"yes"

"what can you do? Show me"

Ororo made a few storm clouds, lightning, the works, then made it sunny again.

"you are welcome here," she said letting her spear turn back to water.

"thank you. There are some people I would like you to met"

"more?! Who?"

"do not worry, they are all mutants, like us. Professor, Jean, Scott, she is ready"

they all came out and walked to her. They introduced themselves. Last was Jean.

"I'm Jean"

"hi. Sapphire"

"I've never seen eyes like yours, they're beautiful"

"thanks"

her eyes were unique. The left one was pure white, like paper. It the light shined on it just right, it would turn silver. The one on the right was cerulean. The Professor told her about his school. It took a while for her to think it through, but she decided to go with them. She didn't want to face another winter without heat.

The first person she saw when she got inside the mansion was Kurt.

"you're blue!!"

"you're not scared?"

of course not, blue's my favorite color"

the professor chimed in, "Kurt, will you show Sapphire around the mansion please?"

"of course, Professor. Follow me Sapphire, I'll show you you're room, its just down the hall from mine"

"k"

Allie laughed. "Pietro, let me go," she said patiently. He did, but he stayed against the door and kept his arms around her. "Thank you. Now, listen. I'll be a few weeks, but I'll see you on the weekends. And, in school, once I transfer..."

Pietro pouted, but consented.

A FEW DAYS LATER

"Come on, Muties! Let the new girl play!"

"Oh, go eat a tree."

"Let's go, Skunk-Head. We can take ya!"

"Rogue. Forget about zem. Zey's no' vorth it."

"Yer rahgh'. Come on…"

The group of teens walked into the school and split up. Kitty, Kurt, and the new girl, Sapphire Crowns, were left outside of Kurt's locker.

"Don' mind ze people here. Zey are so…" He thought of a word.

"So, like, jealous. They act all, like, tough around their friends, but, like, if alone, they're totally intimidated."

Sapphire chuckled. "Well, this isn't so bad…" She smiled as Kitty departed.

"Hey, you're eyes are so pretty," Kurt said suddenly.

Her eyes were two different colors. One was white, the rim outlined by black. The other was a beautiful cerulean blue.

Saph blushed. "Thanks."

The bell rang. "Hey, come on. Ve haff firs' period togezzer."

The day went on rather uneventfully. Even the remaining Brotherhood members in school (Pietro, John, Lance, and Wanda) were behaving. When they got home, there was a new student. Her silver eyes seemed to watch Scott and Jean jealously.

"Everyone, this is Allie Rogers. She's Angel's cousin and she can mimic others' powers and create fire." Xavier smiled. "Allie, this is Kurt Wagner, Sapphire Crowns, Rogue, Kitty Pryde, Piotr Rasputin, Jean Grey, and Scott Summers. Everyone else you've met already…"

Sapphire noticed Scott looking Allie over from behind Jean, his girlfriend. "So, you can, uhm, mimic others' powers?"

"Mmmhmmm…"

"Can you manipulate water molecules?"

Allie's smirk matched the one on Scott's lips, but for different reasons. Scott figured she didn't understand the question, but she does…

"It depends."

"Depends on what?" Scott asked.

"It just does…"

Sapphire chuckled. "Could you give us a demonstration?"

"Of which?" Allie smiled shyly.

"Kurt's—" Bampf "—teleportation."

Allie studied the young man as he now stood before her, image inducer off. "Fascinating," she whispered. In an instant, there was another bampf as Allie reappeared on the mantle.

"Cool!" Saph said.

"Thanks…"

A few days passed with no incident. Allie, a senior, had 3 classes with Sapphire, a junior. Two classes had X-Men in them (as most of their other classes did), but their last period class, Gym, there was only Pietro and the "normal" people.

Sapphire could see the immediate attraction between Pietro and Allie. They were frequently found bickering, flirting, and altogether, competing. Pietro, the master of speed, always somehow seemed to let Allie keep up. Sapphire decided to ask Allie about it as they drove home one day. They had become fast friends, after all.

"What's up with you an' Maximoff?"

"Sp—Pietro?" Allie laughed. "He's cute and all, but so not my type…"

"Uh huh…"

"W-Well, what about you and Elf?"

"We're just friends. He just broke up with Amanda last week, you know…" /Thank God/ she thought to herself.

"Which means he's single…" Allie prompted.

"Hey! Don't' be gettin' any ideas now!"

"Oh, hun, don't worry," she said with a laugh as they approached the mansion.

"Vhere haff you two been?! Every-von else gott here 20 minutes ago!"

Allie smirked. "Worried about Saph gettin' hurt?" she teased. Kurt nodded, and then frowned.

"Now vait jus' von—"

"Smokey!!"

Allie looked to the door. "Yes Logan?" she said, her teasing tone quickly shifting to a rather bored and tense one.

"Touch my beer one more—"

"Logan, how do you know it was Allie? It could have been the Cajun. He jus' got back aftah all." Rogue was just walking into the kitchen where Sapphire, Kurt, Logan, and Allie were.

Allie paled. "C-Cajun?" she whispered.

Logan smirked. "Scared of Gumbo, Smokes?"

"Smokes? Where? Remy hasn' had one in awhile."

"Remy! Vhere haff y' been?"

"De prof sen' Remy on…" Remy's red eyes flashed violently. "Smokey," he growled dangerously.

Color had returned to her face. Both teens were holding an object at hand, both objects glowing red.

"Wha' are y' doin' here?!"

"I could ask you the same thing, Gambit…"

"Y' don' agree wit' anydin' here. So, Remy ge's de answer firs'."

"Wai' jes' one second! You know each other?" Sapphire said, confused.

"Gumbo and I go way back." Allie's eyes continued to flash as she defused the object and dropped her stance. "Let's talk this out like…mature adults."

Remy hesitated. He followed suit and swore as Allie slapped him.

"How dare you! How dare you tell Henri what happened!"

"Me?!" No one failed to notice he slipped out of first person. "I tol' Henri exactly wha' I was supposed t'! I' was y' who came 'ome wit' de hickey on y'r neck."

"Oh, that's rich; blame it on the one not in on the "higher rankings" of the Guild. Must I remind you that—"

"Oh, s'il vous plait! Le's no' go dere," he said sarcastically. Allie just continued.

"—/you/ that gave me that hickey?"

"Consider it reminded," he grumbled darkly. "Allie Rogers, y' are de mos' insolent, bitchy—"

"Hey!"

"—whiny, arrogan' self-absorbed tramp—"

"Wait a—" Remy just raised his voice.

"—dat Remy has e'er me'! An' dat's sayin' somedin'…"

Sapphire decided to interject now. "Remy, calm down. Allie…Allie! Where are you going?"

"Nothing, and I repeat, nothing, is worth dtaying the same room, let alone same house, as that pig!" Allie was outside, walking towards her jeep, Sapphire following.

"That's what he wants ya to do! Are you gonna give him the satisfaction that he's won?"

Allie started the jeep. "It's Friday, Sapphire. I'll be back probably tomorrow or Sunday. Tell Logan not to wake up…"

"Allie!" Sapphire threw her hands up as she watched her best friend drive off. "Coward!!"

"Saph, relax. She vill come back," Kurt assured her as he draped an arm around her shoulder.

She looked up at him with her different colored eyes. She smiled and sighed. "Yeah, I know. She just left so angrily…How is Rogue taking the, erm, argument?"

"Surprisingly, very vell. She seemed to find it amusink. Guess she's absorbed Remy von too many timez."

"Seems so…" The two proceeded to walk into the mansion. Everyone that passed them smirked smugly. It was the beginning of a nice relationship.