X-Men

The Soap Opera that Never Ends

Author's Note: I do not own the name "X-men" or any of the characters belonging to said "X-Men" and Marvel Comics. However, most of the mutant students in this fic do belong to me: Amera Walker, Danel Walker, Crystal Groves, Kylia Smith, Sonora Thomas, Aykra (belongs to Talia), Khadrim (ditto), Brian Phillips, Thomas Miller, Ayrin Wood, Trent Gaillard, Riley Quartermaine, Sakura Takanawa, Oliver Takanawa, Anya Hino, Vaughn Hino, Keifer Lupin, Harley Simpson, Megan Davis, and Sean Sparrow.

I do focus the majority of this story around Amera, so if you don't like that, tough titties. And, I have taken liberties with this story, combining characters from X-Men: Evolution into the movie world. Also with how the dormitories are laid out.

Takes place during X2. Will expand into X-Men 3.

Please don't be harsh when reviewing! It's not very good, I wrote it a few years back...


Chapter One

Run Away

"Funny," Rogue said sarcastically as she looked down the hallway at the multiples of flyers that had been posted. Someone had thought it would be amusing to draw a picture of Rogue and Bobby kissing, and, seeing as how she cant do that safely, in the picture Bobby's eyes were bugged out and his hair stood on end. Rogue hated it.

"I thought it was," Amera Walker replied, receiving a murderous glare and an elbow in the rib from Rogue.

"Just don't worry about it," Amera's fraternal twin, Danel Walker said, trying to calm their friend down. The three girls began the trek to their dorm on the other side of the mansion.

"I'll try not to kill the person when I find them," Rogue said with a growl.

They reached their room in a couple of minutes, Rogue pulling down the flyer that had been taped to their door and ripping it to bits. Their room was just like the others, in the furniture department at least, with one bed on each of the four walls. At the head of each bed was a desk that held I-Mac computers and at the foot, a dresser. (I said I took liberties! The bedroom is one of them!) Each of the girls had their own area this way, which they could decorate any way they choose. Above Amera's bed were posters of heavy metal and punk bands, such as Korn, Marilyn Manson, My Chemical Romance, and Good Charlotte, and she had a huge collection of Living Dead Dolls on top of her desk. Danel's taste was a little more normal you might say, since she had her posters of Simple Plan and Sum 41 actually straight, and her desk was decked with stuffed animals and the punk rock series of Bratz dolls. Rogue was a little bit of both of them in personality, but her collection of posters and things were more indie-style bands like the Ataris and All American Rejects, and she had porcelain dolls atop her desk. Kitty Pryde was is the room already, and her portion looked like a prep student's would, with pictures of home, boy bands, and her pet dog, Woofles.

Amera immediately flopped onto her bed, narrowly missing her guitar that was in its stand next to her desk, and put headphones over her ears, playing Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams". Rogue sat on her bed and began pulling homework out of her bag that she hadn't done the day before. They would have had to turn it in today if all the teachers weren't leaving town. They were being left with Logan, a good friend and savior of Rogue's. "I see you saw that picture," Kitty giggled when she noticed Rogue's huffiness. "It wasn't so bad, was it?"

"I'm going to kill them," Rogue said, then started on her physics assignment.

"Don't say that, some of the younger students are afraid of you as it is," Danel frowned.

"Grr," Rogue said playfully and returned to her work.

Amera started rustling through her sketchbook that was filled with anime and manga doodles. She closed her eyes for a moment as she kissed a picture she had drawn of Hatsuharu Sohma from Fruits Basket, and a loose sheet of paper fluttered out of the notebook to the floor without her noticing. Danel picked it up and her face turned red, then she sputtered out some laughter. "Rogue, you might want to see this," she said, handing it to the aforementioned girl.

Rogue took it and her face dropped. It was the dreaded picture. She pursed her lips and hurled a pillow as hard as she could at Amera's head. "What the!" Amera cried then sat up instantly. "What was that for!?"

"You drew this!" Rogue said, waving the picture at her.

Amera snorted. "You think I drew it? Someone gave me the original after those flyers were already copied!"

"Liar," Rogue said, crossing her arms and looking at the ceiling. "If you're telling the truth, who drew it?"

"I… I can't tell you," Amera said, blushing furiously.

"I know that look," Kitty said, pointing and suppressing a laugh. "It's obviously some boy that Amera likes."

"No, no, not at all!" Amera said, shaking her hands in front of her.

Rogue got up and took one of the Dead Dolls off of Amera's shelf. "Tell or else I will kill the Dead Doll by means of microwave."

Amera bowed her head in defeat. "Okay, okay, put the doll back…" Rogue slowly put the doll back on the shelf. "Piotr did it, alright? Let the Dead Doll live!"

"Hmm…" Rogue wandered back to her bed and picked up her books, but didn't go back to work. "Now to think of some form of payback…"

"Payback for what?" Bobby Drake asked from the doorway. He came to get Rogue and Danel for their daily game of foosball with John Allerdyce in the recreation room. Amera sighed in relief and put her headphones back on, then lay back and kicked her heels up on top of the dresser.

"The flyers that it turns out Piotr drew," Danel said as she pulled her hair into a ponytail.

"Eh, I thought they were funny," Bobby said with a shrug.

"What was funny?" John asked as he appeared next to Bobby in the doorway.

"That picture that's up all over school," Bobby replied.

"Oh yeah, me too-" John started, but he received a glare from Rogue and he stopped short. "Uh, let's go, shall we? We don't want to kick Kylia and Jaime off the foosball again, do we?"

"Right," Danel said, taking his hand as Rogue took Bobby's. The two girls both wore gloves, not allowing either of them skin contact with the boys they loved so as to not hurt them with their powers. Rogue's powers took the very life force of anybody she touched, and in the case of a mutant she temporarily gained the use of their powers, and Danel possessed people with a touch, so in a way they were the same. Both of them suffered greatly since they couldn't touch their boyfriends at all. They walked, hand in hand, downstairs.

Sonora Thomas walked in seconds after the others had left. Her brightly colored faerie's wings stuck out behind her as she entered. She took the liberty to fly over to Rogue's bed and sat serenely on the edge of it. "Since we didn't have classes today, anyone want to go train?"

"Nope, not at all," Amera said as she waved her hand at a bottle of water and it floated through the air towards her. It wasn't that she had telekinesis, it was the water itself, and she could control it. She called her ability "hydrokinesis," which nobody else at the institute had.

"Lazy," Kitty laughed.

"You don't want to either," Amera said, sticking out her tongue at her roommate.

"True," Kitty replied.

"Hello ladies," Oliver Takanawa appeared at the door now, shirt half open and revealing his hairless chest. That was gorgeous in and of itself, but then Piotr, who was taller and buffer, showed up behind him wearing no shirt at all. "Anyone want to train with me?"

"Oh, thanks for showing me up," Oliver pouted and slouched away to his room.

"Anytime," Piotr called after him. "So, any takers?"

Amera had been preoccupied with staring at his chiseled abs, so she didn't really hear what he was saying. "Um, uh, yeah! I'll go!" Sonora and Kitty exchanged glances with a grin then all of them left the room.

Everyone in the Institute awoke to a shrill scream that echoed everywhere, and all of them covered their ears in pain. It was obviously Siren, but she only screamed in dangerous situations. Her scream ended abruptly, allowing everyone to get up. Suddenly, before Amera or her roommates could get out of bed, two men in camouflage and spy-looking gear came bounding through the door, guns pointed at the girls. Kitty's first instinct was to make herself immaterial and "phase" through the bed and floor to the story below, and Amera's first instinct was to turn her molecules into water and, in a puddle, slide out of the door. Rogue ran as fast as she could and somehow avoided getting shot, and Danel touched a guy on the face with her bare hand, and, being in his body, shot the other man with what looked like tranquilizer darts. He fell to the floor unconscious as Danel left his body and rushed out the door. "What the hell is going on!?" Amera said, solidifying herself as Danel neared her.

"Just run!" Danel said as they joined a herd of students.

Oliver couldn't exactly do anything to save himself as a man burst into his dormitory, so since his power was speed he just ran out the door. The tranquilizer darts just barely missed him and ricocheted off of Piotr's metal frame just as Piotr turned his skin into a strong armor. He made his way out the door behind Oliver and could hear Logan close by, so he headed that way. Khadrim, the other boy in their dorm, made to follow Piotr through the mass of younger kids, but one stray tranquilizer hit him in the neck. He lost control over his powers and his right arm turned into a sword against his will. "Khadrim!" Kitty yelled when she saw that Khadrim was out of it as she came out of a wall. She grabbed his left arm and phased both of them through the next wall.

Vaughn Hino and his cousin Harley Simpson were the only ones in another hall and were cornered by one of the camouflaged men. "Don't make me do this…" Vaughn urged the soldier as he backed away, making sure Harley stayed behind him. He held his hand out toward the guy, and he began to wheeze, choke, then he passed out on the ground.

"Vaughn!" Harley said as he ushered her away.

"Don't worry, he's still alive," Vaughn said as he pulled her away.

"No, that's not what I mean!" Harley corrected. "We can't go this way…" Images had filled her mind of government helicopters taking some of the students away to some unknown place.

"Where's Anya?" Vaughn asked as they ran down another hallway. He couldn't help but worry about his sister.

Anya was in trouble. She and Aykra, one of her roommates, were cornered by three men, their only protection being Aykra's shield of psyonics and fire, but she couldn't hold it up forever. Anya was schizophrenic, and with her ability to raise demons from hell, her dark side was getting nearer and nearer to cracking and doing so. At the last second, Aykra shot out a strong blast of telekinesis knocking the men down and trapped them in a locked closet.

Others got out with much less trouble, since their powers made escape simple. Crystal Groves made herself invisible and walked through the walls and made her way to the shelter. Sonora had simply cast an illusion spell on the attackers so they could not see her as she escaped. Riley Quartermaine blended into walls and other surroundings to make her way out of the mansion, and Ayrin Wood had frozen time temporarily to make her escape.

"Piotr!" Amera called when she saw him leading a group of younger students to one of the secret escape passages. He hit the wall to open the passage and ushered the smaller kids in as Logan approached. Amera and Danel ducked into the passage as Logan handed Piotr a small, unconscious boy.

"I can help you," Piotr said as Logan turned to fight.

"Help them," Logan replied and stalked away.

Piotr groaned, then carried the boy into the passage, where he just noticed Amera for the first time. "Thank God you're okay," he said with a sigh and closed the door before they headed down the chilly tunnel.

"What?" Amera asked, having not heard him.

"I mean… nothing, let's just get out of here."

I wrote this a few years ago, and never posted it. So now it's the time!! Please R&R!!