Total Chapters: 33
Rating: PG-13 for violence
Summary: What happens when a team of fanfic authors crash-land in the Marvel Universe? Hang on to your socks, and fasten your safety belts...'Cause you're in for a RIDE!!!
Disclaimer: All Marvel Characters copyright © Marvel Comics. Amanda, Arac, Anon, Athena, Cara, Hope, Jamar, Jonas, Leilee, Maria, Ryan, Sammi, Teb, Ymela, and other non-comic characters belong to the fanfic authors of this story. We are not making any money off of this Story.
Notes: Welcome to the first installment of Reality Bites. This is a round robin story, written in the summer of 2000, on the Wolverine and Jubilee storyboard. It took the combined effort of many talented writers to create it. These talented authors are, in alphabetical order: A.C., Admiral, Jason_Barnett, Chaos, Dreamweaver, Maria_Cline, jubilee_79, Lady_Yann, Le Fae, Leilee, Rainfall, riverdreamer, snowbaby, and TEB.
Warning: The story is long... But it sure is/was a fun ride. ;-) --Rainfall
She opened her eyes and was almost blinded by the light. The last thing she remembered was the car skidding out of control on her way home from the comic store. The last thought she remembered thinking was that she would never get to find out if Cyclops was dead.
Slowly Amanda picked herself off the ground, carful to avoid further injury. As she glanced about to gain her bearings, her eyes did a double take at what they were observing. Instead of being on a deserted road, sh was stand in front of a huge Victorian looking mansion. Instead of it being pouring wet, it was a beautiful day.
( I don't think I'm in L.A., thought Amanda)
Strange or not she needed to find a phone somewhere. At twenty-three, she was still living with her mom. Part of the reason was that her mom still hadn't recovered from her dad's death last year.
(She'll freak if I don't call), thought Amanda.
"Well, any port in a storm." she stated out loud as she walked towards the mansion's door, " I'm sure these people would let me use the phone. I mean how strange can this place be."
With this said she knocked on the door. At first there was no response, so she tried again. Still there was no response. Figuring that they were not home, Amanda was about to leave when the door opened. When Amanda glanced at the person behind the door, she felt herself starting to faint. Her last thought was that the claws looked smaller in the comics.
A.C.
Amanda woke up in what looked to be the most spotless advanced hospital room she had ever seen. A large blue furred man was standing over her. She screamed rolled of the bed and pushed herself backwards sliding into the corner. Sounds that alternated between squeals of terror a simply heavy breathing escaped her throat.
"Madre de Dias, McCoy you've got to stop doing that." A dark-skinned woman with dread locks approached her. "Easy miss, don't be frightened. Hank's just an overgrown Cookie Monster."
"I heard a scream," a new voice stated. "Is the chick Wolvie gave the heart attack to awake?"
"Indeed. I really wish you would refrain from opening the door in such a manner from now on."
"Thought she was a solicitor. Ya gotta make an impression to keep 'em from comin' back."
Amanda looked up to see a real Wolverine and someone she guessed was Jubilee from the blue eyes on an Asian and the wild fashion sense.
She looked at Cece and Jubes first. "You all aren't supposed to be here."
Jason Barnett
Jubilee turned to Wolverine and motioned her fingers in the universal crazy sign. Wolverine smiled slightly at Jubilee's gesture, but he keep his eyes on the girl. His keen senses telling him that the girl was truly afraid. He also notice that her fear was not based on the fact that they were mutants. In fact she seem more afraid that they existed, period.
Cece tried to calm the young lady, " I know you are slightly confused. You have suffered a slight concussion..."
"Oh thank Goodness! That's it! I must be dreaming. I'll wake up any moment." stated Amanda to herself.
"My dear, I can assure you are quite conscious. You are just suffering from slight head trauma which was not helped by my friend's rather harsh greeting." informed Hank glaring at Wolverine.
"I felt better when I thought I was dreaming." mumbled Amanda.
"How ya ended up on our yard, kid?" questioned Wolverine.
"I'm not a kid." answered Amanda with a smirk. ( I always wanted to say that), she thought.
Jubilee could barely contain her laughter at Wolverine's expression. Other then herself, no one had the guts to talk to Wolvie liked that. This girl had real guts. Jubilee thought that she could hang with her.
"My friend refers to many people like that. Please, do not take it too personal." Hank explained.
Better play along until I can get home, she thought." Okay. How did I get here. Good question. I was wondering that myself. You..."
Just then the alarms went off. As the X-men sprinted off, Amanda looked up to the sky.
"Please don't let that be Magneto or Sinister.... I have to get home before I ended up getting killed." she shouted to the sky as She head out the door the X-men had just used.
A.C.
Amanda ran to see a group of X-Men standing around some figure. "Another young confused girl!" Hank exclaimed as he glanced at Amanda. "Do you by any chance know her?"
Amanda walked up to see a young woman about 20 years old. She had short brown hair and glasses. "No." she replied.
"Oh my ---." the girl muttered as she stared out with a dazed expression. "This is the weirdest dream I ever had."
"Dream?" Jubilee asked.
"You guys look just like the X-Men."
"We are the X-Men." Logan said as he stepped up to her. Like the other girl, she seemed scared but not at the fact that they are mutants. "What's yer name?"
"M-Maria. Maria Cline. Am I at the X-Mansion?"
"Maria!" Amanda exclaimed, "Do you participate in the Round Robins at the website? It's me, A.C. But you can call me Amanda."
"A.C." Maria repeated. "Whoa, so, is this real?"
"I guess."
"What are you two doing here?" Jubilee asked.
Maria Cline
Before Amanda or Maria could answer, another alarm went off. Then a strange thing happened. As the two of them watched, the faces of all the X-Men zoned out for a few seconds; as if they were hearing something the two girls could not.
Amanda and Maria looked at each other, both with one explanation in their minds: The Professor!
{What could he be saying to them?} wondered Amanda, worriedly.
~X-Men, report to the war room immediately, except for Dr. Reyes. Dr. Reyes, please escort our guests to Guest Quarters; they are not to leave.~ The Professor mentally instructed. He was in the war room already, and was looking at something on the computer screen; something which bothered him greatly.
{This can't be,} He thought to himself.
"No time for explanations, Jubes. We better get goin'," said Wolverine, as he hustled Jubilee towards the door.
"But, things were just getting interesting! Two strange girls ending up on our doorstep in one day?! If they're staying, can I interrogate them?" Jubilee said, her blue eyes twinkling mischievously. Wolverine only chuckled.
One by one, the X-Men went back inside, except for Dr. Reyes. Maria and Amanda stared wide-eyed at each other, then at Dr. Reyes. Their eyes got wider still, as Dr. Reyes began to usher them wordlessly back into the mansion.
{And just where in my job description does it mention anything about Babysitting?} Wondered Dr. Reyes to herself.
riverdreamer
~Nightfall~
Amanda nervously paced up and down the narrow walk-way between the beds of the guestroom. No-one had been in to see them since Dr. Reyes brought them dinner, and Amanda couldn't help but wonder what was wrong. What had that alarm been for?
She looked over at Maria, who was curled up fast asleep on one of the beds. Amanda was also tired, but her headache wouldn't allow her to sleep. She sighed to herself, and resumed pacing.
Seventeen year old Cara had just gotten off of work, and was walking down main street to the nearest comic book store. She planned to buy the newest issue of "X-Men". As she rounded the corner however, her plans took an immediate detour; a bright flash of light lit up the sky, and the ground in front of her suddenly opened up. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Cara screeched, as she pitched forward into the spiraling vortex, and the hole closed up after her....
{Great. Now I know what it feels like to be sucked through a straw. As if I wanted to know that. Is this thing ever going to open up and let me out? I've been in it an awfully long time,} Cara wondered, as she was being pulled through the tunnel. Cara got her answer rather abruptly, as the vortex suddenly opened and spit her out, about NINE FEET off of the ground. "AACK!!!" she screeched, as she saw the ground rushing up at her; she was falling head first. Then her gymnast's nature took over.
Cara quickly pulled her knees in and used her momentum to turn her in a right-side-up position; then, just as quickly pushed her legs out, meeting the ground feet first; did three back-hand springs across the lawn (lawn?!) and ended in a crouched position.
She looked up at the vortex just as it disappeared in a blinding flash of light. "Ouch!" Cara muttered, as bright polka dots filled her eyes. She blinked rapidly to try and clear her vision. As it was clearing, she glanced up at the clear night sky, and gasped in shock.
"It was clouded over before! And I'm sitting on grass instead of concrete! Where am I?" She wondered desperately.
She looked frantically behind her; there was a huge mansion, and it looked rather dark and scarey at that moment. Cara wasn't about to go there, not for any reason. She turned her attention toward the tall brick wall that surrounded the property she was on. {I wonder if I can climb it?} She thought to herself, and she started to walk toward it.
She had taken only about four steps, when suddenly.....
"SNIKHT!" A sound like long knives being unsheathed stopped her dead in her tracks. "Hold it right there, bub!" said a low gravely voice, a few meters behind her.
At about the same time, a beam of red light exploded against the brick wall, just to the left of Cara.
"That was just a warning shot. Believe me. Now put your hands in the air and turn around. Nice and Slow," said another man, in a rather authoritative tone of voice.
Cara raised her hands in the air, and slowly began to turn around in the direction of the two men.
As she was turning, she was thinking to herself, {Could it be? No. That's impossible. It couldn't be. Could it? No, things like that don't happen to normal teenagers like me. Do they?!}
By this time, Cara had turned around and was facing the men. One of them shone a bright light in her face.
{Great. Just what I needed. More polka dots,} Cara thought miserably.
She could just make out the silhouettes of the two men. The one holding the flashlight was tall, and the other man was short.
{Well,} thought Cara, {let's just put the pieces to this puzzle together, shall we?}
{First, the tall man is wearing some sort of visor. I'll assume that the authoritative voice and red laser blast came from him. That means the short guy standing next to him has the gravely voice with attitude, and the knives, or rather Claws, that go 'SNIKHT!'. Which can only mean one thing. Or perhaps two. Either I got hit by a car and am in a coma, or I really did travel across space and time, because I am facing none other than Cyclops and Wolverine of the X-MEN!!!}
Cyclops warily watched the girl. She seemed to be just a scared kid, but, was she really? How had she gotten on the property, or past all of the security defenses? There was more to this girl than that which met the eye.
"Who are you, What are you doing here, and HOW did you get here?" Cyclops demanded of the girl.
Cara knew that Cyclops was just questioning her, because she had appeared out of nowhere; that, for all he knew, she could be dangerous. She also knew if she stepped wrong, or pissed these guys off, they could blast her to kingdom come. She knew all this, and normally would be a bit more cooperative; after all, she was trespassing, and they did deserve an explanation. But circumstances being what they were, her reply was thus.....
"Well, for starters, my name wouldn't mean anything to you. As for what I'm doing here, I have no idea. And how I got here, you probably wouldn't believe me if I told you," Cara snapped.
She knew snapping at them was a stupid thing to do; But she had just been through a rather traumatic experience, what with being whisked off probably billions of light-years away from home and family. She didn't know if she would ever see them again. She was alone in a strange world, and very scared; something that Cara really didn't like being. The last straw was the tone of voice Cyclops was using. As soon as she got home, if she got home, she was going to take that poster of him off her wall and rip it to shreds. She really didn't like that tone of voice.
"Watch it, kid!" growled Wolverine.
He sniffed the air, and could smell the various emotions that were emanating from the girl. Fear, confusion, anger and worry were at the top of the list. But there was something else that he smelled as well. He couldn't quite place it, but it was something out of the ordinary. Wolverine started walking toward the girl.
Cara's eyes grew huge and round as she saw Wolverine advance. Her feet were rooted to the ground, and even if she could run, she had no place to go.
{Great! Just Great!} Cara thought wildly. {Now I've gone and done it! He's going to kill me! This is really, really bad! What do I do? What do I do? What do I do?}
"EEP!" yelped Cara, as she found herself eye to eye with Wolverine.
Wolverine's eyes flickered in slight amusement. He'd heard some strange sounds from people before, but EEP!? Wolverine got back to business, and began to sniff the air around the girl's face. He soon picked up a faint trace of ozone. It was the kind that clung to inter-dimensional travelers, like Bishop and Longshot.
{That answers HOW she got here,} Wolverine thought.
Up until this point, Cara thought that she had been handling her situation rather well. At least, until Wolverine began to sniff at her face. Hysteria mounting, Cara did what any other person would do in her position. She collapsed on the ground in a fit of hysterical laughter.
Cyclops and Wolverine just stared. Was this girl crazy?
~Cyclops, Wolverine. Bring the girl and report to the war room. Immediately.~ The Professor telepathically ordered them.
~Yes, Professor,~ Cyclops and Wolverine answered the Professor on the mind link.
They stared again at the now silent girl, who was sitting on the lawn, and staring solemnly back at them.
Cara had fallen silent when she felt a strange, tickling sensation in the back of her mind. {Was that the Professor?} she wondered. She was convinced that it had been when she saw the look on Wolverine and Cyclops's faces.
Wolverine held out his hand to the strange girl. She took it, and he pulled her to her feet.
"You'll have to come with us, Miss," said Cyclops.
"Ulp! You're taking me to your leader?" Cara nervously asked.
{Great. Did I really just say something so stupid?} Cara thought, as she felt her face turn several rather amazing shades of red.
"Something like that," answered Cyclops, his lips beginning to twitch.
Maria woke up with a start when she heard someone begin to open the door. She quickly put her glasses back on, and nervously ran her fingers through her short, brown hair.
Amanda had been staring out the window, but turned around to face the door as it opened. It was Dr. Reyes.
"I hope you've had a good rest," she said in her most professional tone of voice. "There is someone who wishes to speak with you. If you will please follow me."
She held the door open, waiting for them to step through. Maria and Amanda walked out, and followed her down the long, broad hallway.
{This place is a lot bigger than in the comics,} thought Maria.
Rainfall
Maria and Amanda followed the doctor through the hallways. Maria couldn't help but marvel at the various technologies around the place. "Wow."
They entered a room with a circular table like the meeting room of King Arthur and the knights.
Amanda and Maria glanced at the various X-Men. There was Wolverine, Psylocke, Angel, Jubilee, Phoenix, and... Cyclops.
"OH MY ---!!!" Maria exclaimed, "CYCLOPS?!"
Scott looked at the young girl with confusion. Her face had gotten pale as her eyes seemed to bulge out. "Yes?"
"Oh ---."
"What?" Amanda asked. Maria gave her the 'you know'. "Oh." Amanda said as she nodded as well. The two looked at Scott with confusion.
"Excuse me?" another voice asked.
Maria and Amanda looked to their right to see a bald man in a wheelchair. "Professor Xavier?" Maria asked in a nice tone.
"Yes. You heard of me?" Xavier asked.
{Wow, he does look like Patrick Stewart.} Maria thought.
"Who are you?" another person asked. Maria and Amanda glanced to see another girl standing there confused.
"I'm Amanda and this is Maria." Amanda said.
"Hi."
"*Ahem*" Xavier said to get the girl's attention. "It seems to me that all of you are confused. I am having a hard time reading your thoughts due to your confusion. Where are you from?"
"Indiana." Maria replied. "Er... ah..." At that moment, Maria's stage fright took hold and she wanted to vanish. Suddenly, she faded away.
"Maria!" Amanda exclaimed.
"What?" Maria's voice asked confused.
Maria Cline
/That hurt.../ A man also about 20, pushed himself off the ground...
Looking up in to the treetops from where he had come falling down only second's ago.
Whipping the dirt off his blue jeans and brown jacket, and picked up his black School bag that had decided to tag along.
/When did I end up in a forest... where is the train station?/ he shook his head, dizzy.
/Might as well try and find a way out./ he didn't get very far, but was stopped by a man in a trench coat, holding a long metal stick, Smiling wide.
"Vem e du." (who are you? *Swedish*) He quickly asked the new figure, backing away slightly.
Gambit looked at the young man looking to be about 1,85 meters, brown short hair, Rogue landed behind him grabbing his hands.
To all of their surprise, the young man not only panicked, but easily threw Rouge away...
Seeing that he was just as confused as the rest of them, Rogue stood up.
"You speak English. What is your name?"
The man looked up suddenly realized who he was looking at... "Jonas... Jonas Ljungberg..." he fainted.
Admiral
Suddenly, Leilee heard a door slide open. She jumped up and prepared to face whoever was coming out. Nobody. She inched closer, to see why the door opened, and was suddenly yanked in by one blue gloved hand.
"Let me go, you creep!" she shouted, kicking against his shins.
He set her on her feet, only to extend one claw to the side of her face. A tall man with brown hair and red glasses stood next to him. "Who are you?"
"Where the H*ll am I?"
The clawed man pressed his claw a little closer. "Answer the question."
"Bite me, Barky."
Wolverine stepped up and growled at her. She growled right back at him. Suddenly the two were flung apart telekinetically.
"Break it up, you two," The redhead said, shaking her head. "Could you please answer the question, Miss?"
Leilee turned to glower at her and turned away. "Fine. I'm Leilee. I'm from S. Philly."
Professor Xavier looked at her. "How did you get here?"
Leilee shrugged. "No clue. Now. I know who you all are. But," she said as she turned to the other girls, "Who are you?"
Leilee
"I'm Amanda. This is Maria, and Cara." Amanda said, as she introduced herself and the others to the new arrival.
Just then, the door of the war room slid open, and in walked Rogue, with Gambit not far behind. Rogue was carrying a man that none of the girls had seen before; the girls exchanged glances.
{He must be one of US,} thought Cara.
"Who's the new guy?" Wolverine asked the Cajun.
"Says his name is Jonas, mon ami," answered Gambit as he lounged against the wall, and twirled a card between his fingers.
"Ah had just a little trouble with this one, Professor. He seems to be about as strong as Ah am!" Rogue said.
She set the man down in a chair; he was beginning to come round.
{Could these five be the key to what's happening?} wondered the Professor to himself.
He glanced again at the computer, his brow furrowed at the readings.
Rainfall
"Look like it's not only girl's falling in on us." Gambit said and helped the new guy sit up.
"Another one?" Rogue pointed at Leilee.
"Yes... and I have a name." Leilee said whit a frown.
Jonas lifted a finger and was about to say something... but cut himself off and placed his head in his hands.
Cara, Leilee and Amanda looked at each other forgetting for a moment about Maria who was again invisible.
"Eh, would someone please explain to me why I'm here? I mean there have to be a reason why." Jonas stood up throwing out his arms lightly... hitting something.
Maria was sent flying in to the far wall... "Hey, what the hell are you doing... are you crazy?"
Jonas jumped as a voice came out of thin air, knowing he had hit something.
"Eh. Sorry... who are you... or more correctly where are you?" Jonas said, afraid that he had hurt some one... somehow he was stronger... much stronger.
Xavier started to talk. "It would seem that there is some sort of dimensional rift, I can not pinpoint the exact location, however the signal seem familiar somehow."
He turned to the new arrivals. "Somehow... and for some reason you have been pulled out of your world and in to this..." he paused...
"And the rift is not closing..." Jean looked at Xavier, concerned.
"So we might expect more people to drop in on us? But why here, why these particular people?"
Xavier looked concerned, "I'm not sure, but from what I have gathered from the information... the rift is..." he looked sadly at the new people, now standing side by side.
"...One way... I can't see that there is a way back."
Leilee frowned. "Great... just GREAT..."
Maria waved her hand, not that any one saw her... "Excuse me... but why can't you see me?"
Admiral
Amanda had stood quietly be through most of this. She had made a few introductions, but had pretty much stayed out of this. She was concern about Xavier's reaction. Something was happening that he wasn't tell them about. Being a long time Xavier fan, Amanda knew she could read him like a book. Maybe she should show him that they weren't so out of the loop.
" I think it is time for a few confessions." Stated Amanda in her best Cyclops impression.
All of the X-men turn towards her. The others did as well, but they had a good idea about what she was going to say.
" You see," she explained," all of us ( indicating to the stranded authors) are from a dimension where you guys are nothing but top rating comic book characters."
The X-men started at the girl with expressions that mirrored disbelief, confusion, and laughter.
(They think I'm nuts, Amanda thought, I'll show them)
Maria, who was still trying to figure out how she got invisible, began to smile. She was a little sick of some of the rudeness. It wasn't as if they had all decided to plan a visit. They were the ones who were lost.
"So I see you don't believe us," continue Amanda," so I guess all of us get to play name all the X-men deepest secrets. Anyone want to start?"
A.C.
Leilee grinned evilly. "Oooh! Me first. When the Marvel universe and the DC universe fought each other, Jubilee 1)Kissed Robin before the fight began in the balloon warehouse. 2) He kicked her butt without hitting her ONCE, 3)They made out in Gondola in Venice, 4)She convinced Access to take her back to the DC universe just so she could see him, 5)He dumped her 6)They beat the crap out of Two Face, and 7) they got attacked by the Scorpion, With Jubilee nearly getting skewered by his tail."
Everyone stared at her in shock. she shrugged. "I'm a Jubilee fan. She's an awesome character. But this is the truth. RIGHT, Jubilee?"
Jubilee blushed. "Yes. I did. But the fighting wasn't that bad."
At those words, Wolverine freaked out. "I'll kill him!"
Leilee snapped her fingers, effectively muting him "Ok. Who's next?"
Leilee
Maria reappeared and replied, "Okay, I got something. Scott, you were married once before to a woman named Madelyn Pryor, with whom you had a son named Nathan; who you called Christopher at the time, because you hated the name 'Nathan'. Oh, Nathan did know about the truth behind 'Slymm' and 'Redd' before you told him, at the time when Legion tried to tinker with the past." Maria paused and added, "Oh, and Scott once threatened to hit Gambit with a truck; no, a really big truck if he ever had the opportunity to kiss Jean."
"How?" Scott asked.
Maria replied, "Oh, I'm a Cyke fan. I can also name the various Summers... Cyclops, Phoenix, Rachel, Alex, Corsair, Katherine... Tyler Dayspring, Hepethath is one by marriage--she's married to your father, umm... Franklin in a possible future, and Gambit and Adam X are possible Summers brothers candidates. Next?"
Maria Cline
"Oh, and I forgot Cable." Maria said as she smacked her head. She became invisible again.
"Hmmm... perhaps, this girl is a mutant." Hank said.
"Well, people do ignore me once in a while." Maria said. "Oh and Gambit is in a distant way responsible for Sinister being able to shapeshift. Is Courier female or male at this time?"
Maria Cline
"Oh, let's not forget the others folks." sneered Amanda, who was enjoying the X-men squirming.
(This is what they get for wasting valuable comic space, whining about their powers) she thought.
"Let see who should we rat out next: Rogue, Warren, Xavier, or Wolverine? Let's leave Xavier for last. Does anyone want to go?" she questioned her fellow authors. They all raised their hands.
As the next one was about to speak, Amanda sent a telepathic message to Xavier. (I know you can here this. I'm you biggest fan and I know you're hiding something. I want to know what, NOW.)
A.C.
Leilee laughed. "I got Wolverine. Don't get me started on your list. Like how you did the nasty with Mystique."
Everyone made a face. "Ew....."
"And then there's the whole thing about how Sabretooth is really your son or your father....guess that's why you haven't killed him yet," she said with a wink. "Oh, and just so you know, It's all your guys fault that Jubilee's a straight C student. Anyone with common sense would know you don't compare a child who has gone through severe emotional trauma to someone who is perceived as perfection. But then again, this IS the X-men we're talking about... She used to have straight A's, you know."
The X-men all turned to look at Jubilee. She shrugged.
"Oh! before I forget. Logan, Jubilee was very impressed with your....package," Leilee giggled.
Leilee
Jubilee's jaw dropped, and her face turned white as a sheet. Then her eyes narrowed in to small slits...
"How dare you speak about me like that!" Jubilee stammered angrily.
Static charges from her pyrotechnics began to swirl around her hands, as she crouched down into a fighting stance.
"Just for that, I'm gonna PAF ya to kingdom come!" She shouted, as she glared at Leilee.
Wolverine had been in a state of shock, but he snapped out of it. "SNIKHT!" went all six of his claws.
"You'll have to wait in line, darlin'," he said to Jubilee, as he prepared to take Leilee down.
Leilee smiled. She'd always wanted to do this. "Let's GO!" she said to Wolverine.
Before they could fight, however, they were interrupted by a nervous voice coming from the corner of the room.
"Uh, guys?" Cara nervously said, as she looked down at the chair she had been holding. It had begun to glow...
Gambit looked stunned. He knew that glow all to well...
"Everyone! Out of the war room! Now!!!" He shouted to the others. There were only a matter of moments before it would blow.
Phoenix knew there wouldn't be time to get everyone out. She quickly telekinetically pushed Cara out of the way, then raised her Psi shield around the chair...Just in time.
She gasped as her psi shield absorbed the sudden concussive blast, and then, passed out.
Cyclops gently carried Jean over to a chair, and put her in it.
Everyone was looking at Cara, the fight momentarily forgotten.
"Um, Cara? What color are your eyes supposed to be?" asked Maria. She was visible once again.
"Green," said Cara, stunned at the question.
{What does she mean, "supposed to be"?} she thought to herself.
"Well, they're not green now," said Leilee, a small smirk on her face.
"What?!!!" said the confused girl.
She walked over to the computer console, which had a mirror-like surface, and looked at her reflection. She seemed normal enough, but her eyes were glowing red.
"EEP!" yelped Cara.
Rainfall
Jonas had been quiet for a long time; the situation was starting to get out of hand...and he still had no idea how the hell he got here.
He saw that the girl Leilee was likely to get diced by Logan if she was going to keep this up, she was eyeing Logan again...the bad way.
"Enough of this crap..." Jonas grabbed Leilee by the wrist, (to grab Logan would be too risky) and held her a bit off the floor.
She really wanted out of his grip, he noted.
"First, you girls obviously all seem to know each other... have you got any idea why we are here?" Jonas sounded serious... and irritated.
"Who made you boss?" Leilee snarled and tried to squirm out from his grip.
"I'm not, she obviously got top position." He nodded to Amanda. "But we have to get down to earth with the situation... or where ever we are."
Amanda looked shocked, she was boss? Suddenly she felt a psi transition from Xavier to the rest of the x-men.
"I would like to be able to get home, not get in to a fight with the..."
Amanda's telepathic voice sounded in his head and cut him off. ~They are going to try and take us out.~
Jonas saw that most of the X-Men took up positions. /This is not good.../
Cyclops was aiming to take out the leader quick...and decided to fire a low intensity blast at Amanda to knock her out.
Jonas threw Leilee away...and jumped in front of Amanda instinctively just as Scott fired... /What am I doing... THROWING MYSELF IN FRONT OF CYCLOPS BEAM!?!/
The beam hit, but had no effect, he barely felt it, he stood still for a moment, had he missed?
The next hit was more powerful, and Jonas jerked forward slightly as the beam hit him again. /THAT I felt./ he thought.
"OK, that's it, if you guy's don't wanna play nice." Jonas ran at the x-man that was closest.
Leilee was already heading for Wolverine...
"Not good!" Cara, Amanda and an invisible Maria said in one voice...
Admiral
Cara was normally a peacemaker. She didn't fight very much (even though she could), and instead would usually try to talk her way out of situations like these.
{But, then again, I've never really been in a situation quite like this,} she thought to herself.
She wondered if there was anything she could possibly do to diffuse the situation, before any real damage was done; at least, she did until she caught a blast from Jubilee.
Cara was knocked against the far wall of the room, and slid to the ground as her world erupted in a blinding flash of red pain. She shook her head to clear her vision, and felt the back of her head. There was a lump beginning to form, and she could feel a little blood on her hand.
Her eyes narrowed in cold anger, and she bared her teeth in a menacing smile. Slowly, she raised herself off of the floor, and looked up to meet the icy blue gaze of Jubilee.
"You wanna fight, sister?" she asked Jubilee, as her red eyes glowed dangerously. "'Cause, girl, you just got one!"
With that, Cara launched herself at Jubilee...
Rainfall
Maria isn't a fighter. But she couldn't bear to watch her fellow fans get clobbered by X-Men. She ran up to Storm and hit her.
Ororo returned with a well placed kick at the invisible woman. Maria was flung to the floor and that was when she got mad. She became visible again and her body tensed.
"STOP IT RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!" Maria yelled out.
All of the glass shattered and the fighting people stopped and put their hands on their heads in pain. Maria clasped her hands over her mouth and became invisible.
There was a meek voice. "Did I do that?"
Maria Cline
Jonas stopped the pounding he had going on with Rogue, only to realize that they were both flying...
"Ah guess we should stop." Rogue said looking at her opponent that seemed to have similar powers as herself, maybe stronger, but she was way more agile then him.
"Your choice... you people started this." Jonas said and pushed her away from him, still floating in mid air.
"Well maybe we should start this from the top." Amanda said as she cleared her head from Maria's sonic scream.
"Good idea bub, no more screaming if yer happy with that face." Logan said, obviously in pain.
"Will you two stop." Jonas drifted down to the only two people still fighting; Cara and Jubilee.
Grabbing them by the collars, separating them and holding them in mid air.
"Let me go you... you..." Jonas handed Jubilee who was kicking wildly at him to Logan.
Settling his feet on the floor... surprised how quickly he was settling in whit the sudden superpower.
Standing he suddenly realized that he was still holding Cara two feet off the floor.
"You can let go now." Cara said eyeing him angry.
Admiral
Jonas gently set Cara on the floor, an apologetic smile on his lips.
"Thanks," Cara muttered, as she shrugged out of his grasp.
She turned and stalked off to a corner of the room, still eyeing Jubilee warily.
Xavier thoughtfully eyed the inhabitants of the war room; scanning the faces of the two groups. Then he turned his eyes to look at the war room itself. The destruction from the fighting was immense; Broken glass and furniture littered the once pristine room.
He cleared his throat and prepared to address the lot of them.
"Ahem. Perhaps we should continue this meeting in another room? Preferably one where the computer hasn't been destroyed?" he said, glancing at Maria, who was visible.
"Oops!" Maria squeaked in a tiny voice, as she blushed and faded again.
Rainfall
As they walked down the hall, Jubilee glared at her. "Why do you have to be such a bitch?"
Leilee rolled her eyes. "Ok. I got in a fight at school with my best friend, I just got told I didn't get the solo I wanted for my dance class, I got mugged at knife point on my way home, had to run after him and beat the crap out of him to get my money back, and then I get suddenly transported here, I fall on and hurt my butt, and the HAIRBALL you call Wolvie threatened to kill me. I think I have every RIGHT to be bitchy! Plus, I'm beginning to feel sick. I think I'm gonna...." Suddenly she turned slightly and puked in Professor X's lap. "Oops....Sorry. If it's any consolation, I feel better now...."
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"Ewww... gross!" Maria said as she hid her invisible eyes.
Xavier turned green as he said, "I'm going to get cleaned up." Scott went with the professor as they went to his room.
"I'm sorry about what happened to you." Maria said as she tried to reappear again.
"Yeah well. I would like it if you didn't vanish like that."
Maria reappeared and she said, "Well, I was at home when this happened. My family must be worried sick about me by now."
The group went to the med lab and Hank said, "It appears that all of you have gained some mutant powers. We will need to do some tests. If that is okay."
Maria Cline
Jonas backed off. "Test? As in medical test?"
Hank looked puzzled. "Yes, blood work And..."
Jonas cut him of quickly. "NO WAY, stay away from me..." he yelled out as he saw Reyes prepare to take a blood sample.
/I'm freaking out.../ suddenly the room cramped in on him... the disinfectant smell filled his nose and it was way to crowded... the white robe that Hank was wearing was not helping.
"I assure you, Jonas, that this will only take a moment, and you will barley feel a thing." Hank said putting on a big grin... Bad move.
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