Reliving the Time
AN/ Hello everyone and welcome to my third X-Men fan fiction! This is a first time I am going to introduce a new character though so I hope you enjoy! As I say in my other stories, the more reviews I receive, the more motivated I am to write! Thanks for reading and REVIEW!
Bry
Sumerstormes@aol.com (I love to talk to fellow fanatics!)
Disclaimer: I do not own anything from the X-Men world! I swear I don't have Shawn Ashmore hiding in my closet! DON'T SUE ME! I do own Cecelia Vanders aka Dehydra and Tina Walkers aka Transporta. They are MINE! MAHAHAHA!
Chapter One
Going Back
The sirens could be heard through out all of New York City. Bands of special forces filled the streets searching for their mutant prey. Their eye vision was amplified by their glasses, which had the capacity to look through stone. They marched through the City streets like toy soldiers, leaving no alleyway unlooked.
Boots clamored down the dark alleyways. Puddles were avoided to prevent the police from overhearing. The smallest sound could be picked up from the high tech equipment. Cecelia Vanders gasped for breath as she plastered herself against the concrete. Her worn gloves caressed the concrete walls. Her best friend Tina Walkers ducked down behind her. Both girls were terrified. Some lowlife creep had reported to the police about two mutants causing trouble in the Restricted part of the City. The thought of that happening had caused the police to set the Mutant District under house arrest and advised the humans in the reported area to be on the look out.
"What are we going to do, Cissy?" Tina whispered.
Cissy looked around the bend and crouched down more. "Ice told us to meet him at his shop tonight." She clutched the wall. "So I figure we go there."
Tina sighed at her blond haired friend. "Of course, why don't we? Since, oh, half of Manhattan is searching for us, that wouldn't be a problem!"
Cissy's green eyes shone bright. "Not if someone teleported us there."
Tina started shaking her head. "No, No! Cis, ya know that I can't teleport that far!"
"Come on! What's the point of being Transporta if you don't ever use your power? All you have to do is transport us up there." Her bare finger tip almost poked through her glove as it pointed to the buildings roof. It stood a hundred flights up since it was one of the buildings built around the turn of the century. "That way we could move freely through the City." Her friend's eyes looked doubtful. "Oh come on Tina, shouldn't you put your lessons from Nighty to good use?"
"I think I found something George! This way." A man's voice echoed down the alleyway. Tina let out a little shriek as she wrapped her arms around her best friend. "Oh, you owe me, Cis. Everything covered?"
Cissy nodded against her coat. A bright light revealed on the duo, and two men held guns at them. Tina and Cissy closed their eyes. Wamf! The cops stepped back from the bright light. The smoke cleared and the two were gone.
Cissy let out a snort of laughter as she watched the men search around the dead end. "You think the Police Chief would hire some smart police officers with that new budget they received. What was it called again, Tina? Oh yeah The Mutant Handlement Budget, obviously they can't handle us!"
Tina stared at her friend. Covered from head to toe in rags, Cissy stood just above 5 foot. Her long blond hair was classic except for her blue tips. Most people thought she was just being retro, but whenever the hair was cut it changed blue, almost like it was dying. Her green eyes were enormous and a smile rarely left her face. Well almost rarely. She had been living on the streets since a child since her power came forth. All the mutant teenagers did. The law restricted mutant and human activities and if the any human's child became a mutant, the government looked the other way if they decided abandoned them to the street.
"Yo, Tina. Anyone I know in that side trip."
Tina shook her head. Her deep red hair curled wildly and her faint blue skin deepened. "Sorry. Are we going to go?"
Cis smiled again. "Yeah, wouldn't want to keep Ice waiting!"
Robert Drake ran a hand through his graying blond hair. After hours of tinkering with the time machine, he knew he had it set properly. All that was left to do was to wait for them to show up. He hoped they were ok ever since the first siren sounded. His shop was locked up, but he doubted that they would look there. The only reason he was allowed to have this shop in the middle of the Human District was because of the new identity Xavier gave to each of his students before the Registration Act went into effect. The X-Men activities continued after the act but not that much longer. The group disbanded when Xavier was murdered by a mutant activist. The funds dwindled and no one could agree with leadership anymore.
Every city in the country became segregated again. Within 25 years, mutants were treated terribly; none of the children went to school and few lived past the age of 20. Having decided against going to college to avoid all the paper work, Bobby decided to take the little money he had and go to work in New York City. Since he was considered human, he received a job in a mechanics shop. He worked long hours until the owner decided to retire and left the shop to him. Robert Drake's Repairs was born and none of the opinionated humans knew that the fine repairs they bragged about were done by a mutant.
But the X-Man in Bobby did not leave him. He fought against all the prejudices he could and opened the top apartment of his shop as a mutant house. He cared for as many abandoned children as he could. The world around him had very little sympathy for all the lost lives. The police raids became more frequent and more mutants were being sent off to the special camps. He regretted the loss of the X-Men as much as he regretted the loss of his Marie.
When he first left for the city, Marie decided to go with him. But after all the commotion… Bobby bit on his lip. Even though it was over 17 years since she died, it still hurt.
So after letting the pain build up inside him for so long, he decided to try to change it. He wanted to change the world. He paced around the room. The way the world was shaping up, not many people were going to be living. When the mutants decided to revolt, atomic weapons could be used and after what happened to San Francisco in the 10's, the world wouldn't survive another attack.
Bobby was shaken out of his thoughts when something dropped on the ceiling. Bobby climbed up the ancient steps and sighed at the giggling pair. Cissy was on top of Tina and they were laughing hysterically.
"I don't know since when having the whole Island searching for you two is considered funny!" he said sternly.
They detangled themselves from each others arms, and Cissy walked over to him. He hit him softly against the chest. "Calm down Ice! Worried the bad policemen will come after you." She walked past him and started down the steps.
Tina sent him a regretful look. "Sorry Ice, you know Cissy. Loves to stir up trouble."
"That's what worries me." Bobby murmured.
Cissy looked out of the cupboard and sent her a death look. "Just because I wouldn't let that creep rape me, doesn't mean I like to stir up trouble." She pouted.
"Mmhmm" Bobby murmured as he went over to toy with his machine. "Sure he did."
Cissy shrieked outrageously and launched herself at Bobby. "You are a real jerk, Icey!"
Bobby laughed as he gave her a hug. "Well this jerk puts food in your stomach." He pushed her away and his look turned serious. "There is something you both have to do for me."
Cissy bite into the apple she found in the cupboard. "Don't expect me to go find something outside for you. I am done being chased by doughnut eaters!"
"I want you to go."
"Go!" Tina and Cissy exclaimed. "Go back to the streets?"
He looked exasperated. "No, go back in time."
Looking upon their confused expressions, he explained. "I made a machine that should take you back to 2003. I want you to prevent the passing of the Registration Act….It is not impossible. I trust both of you to do it. The only thing is you can't say who you are. I mean you can't say you are from the future." He sighed.
Tina looked shocked. "Are you serious?"
"Deadly."
Cissy looked defiantly. "Why don't you go back?"
"Because I am already back there! I am going to send you to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. I told you both about it before." The air temperature dropped as Bobby forgot to keep control. "You will tell them as much of the truths as you can about yourselves but do not mention that you are from the future. I don't want to risk history to repeat itself or become worst!"
Cissy thought about it. "You are serious. When would we come back?"
Bobby sighed. "That's the thing. You won't. You will have the opportunity to live normal lives. That is if you could stop the Act, stop the Professor's death…oh just stop this hell hole from happening!" His face flushed. "Will you do that for me?"
Tina and Cissy looked at each other. They nodded. "We could never resist that face, right Tina?"
"Right Cis."
He briefed them about their mission: what to say, what to do, how to act. And then did a final check of their clothing to make something was not obvious that they were from the future. He hugged Tina goodbye and then turned to Cis.
"I will miss you munchkin."
Tears fell down her face. "I love you, Ice. I will make sure to see you again, I promise."
He caressed her shoulder. "But I won't know you, and I better never find out. Got it?"
She smiled. "Got it."
Tina and she entered the capsule and Cissy stuck out her head. "How do we work this thing?"
Bobby gave her a final smile and pushed her in and pressed a button. Instantly the pair disappeared. "You don't."
AN/ So what do you think? Please review! I write faster when I receive them! And if you like my work, go read Untouchable and It Was All A Dream! Thank you!
Bry
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