Chapter 1: It takes a Mimic!

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(New York City)

A figure in a blue and white costume with white angel wings flew over the streets of New York. Calvin Rankin was just an ordinary kid until exposure to chemicals his father created gave him the ability to assume the abilities of nearby beings. Encountering the X-Men he eventually joined them as the Mimic, the team's first non-mutant member, however Calvin's undiagnosed bipolar disorder caused many problems with the team leading to his time on the X-Men being brief at best. From there things only went downhil for the young man, first seemingly dying absorbing the Hulk's gamma energies to save the world from his out of control power, to turning up alive and joining the Brotherhood of Mutants, participating in numerous horrid acts including the murder of X-Men ally Moira MacTagert, the very woman who had helped diagnose, and treat his bipolar disorder. It had seemed Calvin was doomed to remain little more than just a straight up villain for the rest of his life.

But fate it seemed had other plans.

(Flashback, several months ago.)

Mimic had been incarcerated in the Raft, not long ago. Shortly before being released on good behavior (The prison staff had put him on stronger medication mellowing him out a bit.) A figure came to him in a vision. It was him... Or rather an alternate universe counterpart of him. But this one was different. He was a villain who had remained a hero through and through, eventually joining a reality hopping team of superheroes to save the multiverse before sacrificing himself against the villain Proteus. His spirit visited the one world he had traveled to with a Mimic that needed his guidence.

"Hey Cal'." The blonde wingless version of himself told the man. "You look like you're in a bind, you could use some guidence."

"Don't give me that rubbish." Calvin scoffed. "Professor X, Captain Britain, Dr. MacTagart, they failed to steer me on the right path, what makes you think you can."

The other mimic just smiled. "Because I'm actually part of you. I'm not just an alternate universe version. I'm also deep down, the Mimic you always wanted to be. You wanted to be a hero, to be respected, to have friends. I know where you are coming from. I was there just the same as you are, and I can tell you, it's still not too late, you can better yourself."

Calvin just looked at him sadly. "Tell me... What is it that makes you different than me... What was it you did, that I didn't that led me down this path?"

The other Mimic just walked over and put a hand on my shoulder. "When the X-Men came calling. I swallowed my pride, my arrogance. I wasn't anymore special than them. I was just like everyone else. In more ways than one. He then reached in and hugged Calvin with a smile. "My life is over now, but yours has just begun."

A white flash of light followed, and Mimic swiftly jolted awake. Part of him wanted to flat out dismiss it as a dream, but deep down, he wanted it to be real.

"No more... I can change."

(End Flashback, present time.)

Mimic was trying to reinvent himself as a true hero now. The kind of hero he truely wanted to be. He just didn't know quite where to start. He flew over the city countless times on patrol. Trying to find something to do. Mostly he just broke up a few robberies here and there, but most supervillains he came upon were already being fought by other heroes, and Mimic didn't want to risk a fight with them over a misunderstanding if he could help it.

He flew up to the roof of a nearby building to rest, as he touched down on the cold ground, he was inwardly thankful he started wearing boots for once in his carreer.

"Hello Calvin." A voice rang from behind the Mimic. He turned and saw he was not alone on this rooftop.

Cyclops, Jean Grey, Beast, Iceman, Archangel, Emma Frost, Warlock, and Wolfsbane (the last of who'm didn't seem in a very good mood."

"Keep your distance team." Cyclops warned the members who knew less about Mimic. He can only Mimic you if you get too close."

"Speak fer yer'self Scott!" Wolfsbane snarled shifting full wolf. "After what this basta'rd did to Moira, I'ma gon' make 'im pay dearly!"

"Wait! I don't want to-" Mimic tried to take off into the air, but Wolfsbane was already on him in full wolf form, knocking them both over the edge of the building.

"RAHNE! NO!" Warlock cried watching his wife go over the sides.

"Jean!" Scott yelled.

"I'm on it!" The redhead telekinetic said diving off the side of the building her telekinesis manifsting to try and break Rahne, and Calvin's fall. She managed to stop them at the halfway point of the building and seperate the two from each other.

"What th'e hell 're ye' doing Jean!?" Rahne snapped shifting into a transition hybrid form. "Have ye' fergotton what this son of 'a bitch did to Moira."

"I'm genuinely sorry for that." Calvin interjected. "I wish I could take it back, but I can't." He flapped his wings so he could float on his own without Jean's telekinesis. "If you had bothered to let your friends scan my mind, you'd clearly see I was trying to go legit."

"He's right Rahne." Jean said. "He's not here to fight, and Moira's back from the dead anyway. There's no need for bloodshed her-"

*BOOOM!* Just then an explosion rang out in the streets down below.

"I'm not your enemy X-Men, I'm here to save lives, to be a hero." Mimic said. "Allow me to prove it." He circled behind Rahne and grabbed her around the waist.

"Ack!" The scottish lychanphrope mutant gasped. "Mister Rankin. Git yer hands off me. Ah'm 'a married woman!"

"You can slap me after the fight is over." Mimic countered. "We have a bad guy to fight!"

"Now yer talkin." The redhead grinned as Mimic made a nosedive right into the ground.

(The Streets below)

Malcom McBride (aka the Supervillain known as Carrion.) was busy stealing an expierimental data chip from the Brand Corperation building when he saw a winged figure swoop down in front of him dropping off a Redheaded werewolf, and spinning around to hover overhead.

"Boy... You just picked the wrong building to steal from." Calvin said letting loose the most powerfull eye beams copied from Cyclops he could muster!

To be continued

Next Chapter: Wolfsbane, and Mimic vs Carrion.