Darwinian Rhapsody
By LejindaryBunny
A totally awesome X-men: Evolution Fanfiction
A/N: Hey, your authoress the great and powerful checking in. This is to date my only Evo fic, but as it is really cool it will be long. In fact I have no idea how it ends at the moment, or even if it does end. But I do have a good ten or so chapters planned. It even has *gasp* a plot! And Bad Guys! Like, not the normal Bad Guys, who are, like, almost good guys in this Fic. BUT the normal good guys ARE in it. (pretty damn unusual for one of my fics) And they're IN CHARACTER! There are however several new characters in the Fic, most notably my own character, Ebony, but a few of my friends characters might show up. Also, GAMBIT is introduced in this fic, as I am a huge fan of everyone's fav sweet-talking Cajun thief. The Sentinels and their creator show up as well. BWAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! Okay, now read the Fic. Oh, and a REVIEW is like a god unto ME. You shall be praised worshiped and sacrificed unto for doing so. And I mean that. All reviews (even flames)will be acknowledged and replied to in the next chapter. Inferiority complex? Nah, couldn't be. Now, On with the show.
Chapter one...Jumping at Shadows
Ebony hastily shoved those books that were necessary for her homework into her small black bookbag. The girl, diminutive at only 4'9 1/3, was the newest X- recruit. She had shining black eyes and knee-length raven hair that was tied in a ponytail that started at the small of her back. It was the Tuesday of her third week at Bayville and as it was January shehad alot of catching up to do, especially since she hadn't been to school for a month before then. She closed the locker.
"Yo," spoke the figure who had been standing behind her.
"eep!" Ebony squeaked, surprised, then, regaining her equilibrium," Um, hi." She looked up, seven inches taller than her stood the Toad, the only one of the Brotherhood whom she was unlucky enough to have in her grade. "listen, if you're going to pull any time consuming pranks on me could it wait until tomorrow? Because I've really got alot of homework and..."
"s'nothin' like that, yo, I jus' wanted to talk to ya, y'know," the dirty blonde mutant explained.
This surprised her more than a little. "Um, okay? But could you talk and walk at the same time? If I miss my bus I can't get a ride for another hour." She started down the hall passing the English office.
"So you're Ebony, right?"
"No, I'm like, Kitty. What are you, like, deaf and blind?" She twirled her hair in the proper fashion club manner.
"Sorry, yo. The cafeteria food's got hallucinogenic effects." He grinned." So Ebony your real name? Thought I heard a teach call ya Kim."
She made a face, "You must've eaten too much cafeteria food." She started down the stairs. "will that be all?"
"Nah, I'd like fries wit that, yo."
She surprised herself by laughing.
"Like I said I just wanna talk. That an' I was kinda wonderin' how ya manage to set the blue furred freak runnin' on sight."
Ebony stopped. "Go away," she growled flatly.
"Hey, sorry, yo. I thought ya were doin' it on purpose."
"Well I'm not, Happy?" she opened the door and looked around. "And now I missed my bus too. Thanks bunches." she sat down on the steps. "Now I have to ride home with Jean and Scott."
He sat, no, more like squatted, no, well, he did that frog thing, next to her. Contrary to what she had heard he didn't smell THAT bad.
"s'another thing, yo," he said.
"What," she demanded sharply.
"Why d'you hang out with the X-geeks if you don't like 'em. And it's obvious ya don't."
She crossed her arms petulantly. "That's not so. I like the Institute and the X-men just fine. It's just well, Scott's a jerk and Jean's a prep and Kitty's like, a valley girl , and Evan's a creep, Rogue's got pms 24/7 and Kurt-"
He cut her off. "So you like the X-geeks but nobody in the X-geeks?"
"That's, not the point." She grumbled and leaned back against the wall.
"Nah, s'not, yo. An' the reason I wanna talk to ya's we got sumthin' in common."
She sighed. What could possibly make him think that? "What?"
"Got no friends, yo." He waited for her to storm away indignantly.
But she didn't. Instead she asked quietly, "What's your name, anyways?"
He blinked. "S'Tolensky, Todd Tolensky," he replied Bond style.
Todd? Well that figured.
"So's your name really Kim?"
"Call me by it and I'll go Pink Power Ranger on your ass."
"S'cool,yo. So what's your power? I ain't seen ya do nothin'"
"Shadows. I can manipulate them, solidify them into simple patterns and turn myself into one. I'm working on carrying objects or people with me. I'm having alot of trouble with inanimate stuff though. Hence the clothing. "She gestured to her all black attire.
"Yo, you mean that stuff ain't nothin' but a SHADOW?" he asked, gaping at her.
"Correction, shadow CLOTHING. I patterned it off of stuff I saw at the mall. It's a shame I can only do black. See I can solidify shadows into any material," she touched the wall, drawing from it what seemed to be a contained black liquid. "This is it's natural state. I can solidify it's shape and molecular pattern into just about any separate material. Stone, plastic, wood, metal, cloth," she demonstrated as she spoke forming it into a small stone, a sheet of plastic, a wooded mallet, a metal blade and a ribbon." but it's always black." she sighed, dissipating the black ribbon. "And hey, look behind you."
Todd turned to see his shadow spontaneously waving at him. "Cool. So you can freak people out, make stuff an' turn inta a shadow? At's pretty cool, yo."
She nodded. "I can cast myself onto solid or liquid surfaces."
"Was it like bein' a shadow?"
"It's kind of weird. Sort of like a picture with no perspective. Everything's on the same plane. only two dimensions. All length and width no depth. That's what solidifying it really is, brining it into the third dimension."
"So's that mean since it's only two dimensions time don't affect you in Shadow mode?"
Ebony blinked.
"Time bein' the fourth dimension," he continued.
"Um, actually...I'm not sure, I never really thought about it." Now she felt dumb. She'd heard that the Toad wasn't particularly intelligent and she'd taken it at face value. She decided to get the subject away from her. "so, you jump, right? And you have that...tongue.."
He nodded a bit sullenly and this time he changed the subject. Ebony guessed that his powers were a slightly sensitive topic. Well, with powers like that who wouldn't be sensitive?
"So where ya from, yo?"
Damn, the discussion was back on her. "Grayling, Michigan," and, taking the question to mean more than place she continued. "A few months ago my powers manifested and I had a revelation. "Her smile turned dark.
"What?"
"My parents were rabid mutant haters. Yep, turns out they hated all of us unnatural mutie freaks."she smirked "I really don't want to think about them."
Todd nodded solemnly. "Know what ya mean, yo. So what'd ya do the? Or d'ya not wanna say, cuz that's cool too."
Ebony was yet again surprised, this time by the sensitivity coming from the usually snide if not completely rude freshman. She wondered what his parents must have been like. "I used my powers to sneak out, "she continued." Neither of them realized that if I cast myself onto the floor I could get under the door. Anyway there was this really old cemetery I knew about, with a little stone house for the gravekeeper that nobody used anymore and I already had some of my stuff there. It was where I hung out when I wanted to be alone. Nobody knew about it really so..."
"Hung out in graveyard, huh. How'd ya eat, yo?"
She shrugged. "Shadows don't set off mini-mart alarms, and nobody suspects a girl who looks eight of picking pockets. Then about a month and a half later Xavier and co. showed up. And hey, lots of things are better than graveyards, and I always wanted to see NYC. "She giggled."DO I really look eight?"
"Only from the back, yo."
She made a face but realized her anime status bust must look even bigger in comparison to the rest of her.
"Maybe you'll have a growth spurt."
"Somehow I doubt it. So where are you from?"
"Orphanage to orphanage, yo. An' normality free two years this June. Mystique 'adopted' 'bout a year 'n a half ago an' here I am."
She nodded and was about to reply when the noise of girls chattering came from around the corner.
"Guess soccer practice is out. I better catch my ride." She stood up. "Um, see you tomorrow?"
"yup. I better get back or Lance'll think I'm dead or somethin'. An' I wouldn't wanna get his hopes up, yo" He hopped up and off around the other side of the building.
Ebony crossed the parkinglot to where Jean was, headed for Scott's car.
"Oh, hi Ebony, did you miss your bus?" The redhead smiled down, over a foot taller than the shadow mutant.
She made a face and said in her 'sweet little girl' voice," Uh-huh. Can I get a ride with you and Scott?" she peered up with big dark eyes, "Please?"
"Of course. I wouldn't make you walk all the way back to the Institute."
Ebony thought she was much too patronizing. She hated people who assumed things about her because of her height. Next time she just might walk.
~*~
Well, what do you think of Ebony? Thank you very much for reading. DOMO ARRIGATO! Please review, as I said all is aprixxiated, positive or negative. We see more of the X-ge, er, X-men in the next chapter, and Ebony develops an INTERESTING PROBLEM as well as has a go in the DANGER ROOM. Till next chapter.
*LejindaryBunny*
By LejindaryBunny
A totally awesome X-men: Evolution Fanfiction
A/N: Hey, your authoress the great and powerful checking in. This is to date my only Evo fic, but as it is really cool it will be long. In fact I have no idea how it ends at the moment, or even if it does end. But I do have a good ten or so chapters planned. It even has *gasp* a plot! And Bad Guys! Like, not the normal Bad Guys, who are, like, almost good guys in this Fic. BUT the normal good guys ARE in it. (pretty damn unusual for one of my fics) And they're IN CHARACTER! There are however several new characters in the Fic, most notably my own character, Ebony, but a few of my friends characters might show up. Also, GAMBIT is introduced in this fic, as I am a huge fan of everyone's fav sweet-talking Cajun thief. The Sentinels and their creator show up as well. BWAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! Okay, now read the Fic. Oh, and a REVIEW is like a god unto ME. You shall be praised worshiped and sacrificed unto for doing so. And I mean that. All reviews (even flames)will be acknowledged and replied to in the next chapter. Inferiority complex? Nah, couldn't be. Now, On with the show.
Chapter one...Jumping at Shadows
Ebony hastily shoved those books that were necessary for her homework into her small black bookbag. The girl, diminutive at only 4'9 1/3, was the newest X- recruit. She had shining black eyes and knee-length raven hair that was tied in a ponytail that started at the small of her back. It was the Tuesday of her third week at Bayville and as it was January shehad alot of catching up to do, especially since she hadn't been to school for a month before then. She closed the locker.
"Yo," spoke the figure who had been standing behind her.
"eep!" Ebony squeaked, surprised, then, regaining her equilibrium," Um, hi." She looked up, seven inches taller than her stood the Toad, the only one of the Brotherhood whom she was unlucky enough to have in her grade. "listen, if you're going to pull any time consuming pranks on me could it wait until tomorrow? Because I've really got alot of homework and..."
"s'nothin' like that, yo, I jus' wanted to talk to ya, y'know," the dirty blonde mutant explained.
This surprised her more than a little. "Um, okay? But could you talk and walk at the same time? If I miss my bus I can't get a ride for another hour." She started down the hall passing the English office.
"So you're Ebony, right?"
"No, I'm like, Kitty. What are you, like, deaf and blind?" She twirled her hair in the proper fashion club manner.
"Sorry, yo. The cafeteria food's got hallucinogenic effects." He grinned." So Ebony your real name? Thought I heard a teach call ya Kim."
She made a face, "You must've eaten too much cafeteria food." She started down the stairs. "will that be all?"
"Nah, I'd like fries wit that, yo."
She surprised herself by laughing.
"Like I said I just wanna talk. That an' I was kinda wonderin' how ya manage to set the blue furred freak runnin' on sight."
Ebony stopped. "Go away," she growled flatly.
"Hey, sorry, yo. I thought ya were doin' it on purpose."
"Well I'm not, Happy?" she opened the door and looked around. "And now I missed my bus too. Thanks bunches." she sat down on the steps. "Now I have to ride home with Jean and Scott."
He sat, no, more like squatted, no, well, he did that frog thing, next to her. Contrary to what she had heard he didn't smell THAT bad.
"s'another thing, yo," he said.
"What," she demanded sharply.
"Why d'you hang out with the X-geeks if you don't like 'em. And it's obvious ya don't."
She crossed her arms petulantly. "That's not so. I like the Institute and the X-men just fine. It's just well, Scott's a jerk and Jean's a prep and Kitty's like, a valley girl , and Evan's a creep, Rogue's got pms 24/7 and Kurt-"
He cut her off. "So you like the X-geeks but nobody in the X-geeks?"
"That's, not the point." She grumbled and leaned back against the wall.
"Nah, s'not, yo. An' the reason I wanna talk to ya's we got sumthin' in common."
She sighed. What could possibly make him think that? "What?"
"Got no friends, yo." He waited for her to storm away indignantly.
But she didn't. Instead she asked quietly, "What's your name, anyways?"
He blinked. "S'Tolensky, Todd Tolensky," he replied Bond style.
Todd? Well that figured.
"So's your name really Kim?"
"Call me by it and I'll go Pink Power Ranger on your ass."
"S'cool,yo. So what's your power? I ain't seen ya do nothin'"
"Shadows. I can manipulate them, solidify them into simple patterns and turn myself into one. I'm working on carrying objects or people with me. I'm having alot of trouble with inanimate stuff though. Hence the clothing. "She gestured to her all black attire.
"Yo, you mean that stuff ain't nothin' but a SHADOW?" he asked, gaping at her.
"Correction, shadow CLOTHING. I patterned it off of stuff I saw at the mall. It's a shame I can only do black. See I can solidify shadows into any material," she touched the wall, drawing from it what seemed to be a contained black liquid. "This is it's natural state. I can solidify it's shape and molecular pattern into just about any separate material. Stone, plastic, wood, metal, cloth," she demonstrated as she spoke forming it into a small stone, a sheet of plastic, a wooded mallet, a metal blade and a ribbon." but it's always black." she sighed, dissipating the black ribbon. "And hey, look behind you."
Todd turned to see his shadow spontaneously waving at him. "Cool. So you can freak people out, make stuff an' turn inta a shadow? At's pretty cool, yo."
She nodded. "I can cast myself onto solid or liquid surfaces."
"Was it like bein' a shadow?"
"It's kind of weird. Sort of like a picture with no perspective. Everything's on the same plane. only two dimensions. All length and width no depth. That's what solidifying it really is, brining it into the third dimension."
"So's that mean since it's only two dimensions time don't affect you in Shadow mode?"
Ebony blinked.
"Time bein' the fourth dimension," he continued.
"Um, actually...I'm not sure, I never really thought about it." Now she felt dumb. She'd heard that the Toad wasn't particularly intelligent and she'd taken it at face value. She decided to get the subject away from her. "so, you jump, right? And you have that...tongue.."
He nodded a bit sullenly and this time he changed the subject. Ebony guessed that his powers were a slightly sensitive topic. Well, with powers like that who wouldn't be sensitive?
"So where ya from, yo?"
Damn, the discussion was back on her. "Grayling, Michigan," and, taking the question to mean more than place she continued. "A few months ago my powers manifested and I had a revelation. "Her smile turned dark.
"What?"
"My parents were rabid mutant haters. Yep, turns out they hated all of us unnatural mutie freaks."she smirked "I really don't want to think about them."
Todd nodded solemnly. "Know what ya mean, yo. So what'd ya do the? Or d'ya not wanna say, cuz that's cool too."
Ebony was yet again surprised, this time by the sensitivity coming from the usually snide if not completely rude freshman. She wondered what his parents must have been like. "I used my powers to sneak out, "she continued." Neither of them realized that if I cast myself onto the floor I could get under the door. Anyway there was this really old cemetery I knew about, with a little stone house for the gravekeeper that nobody used anymore and I already had some of my stuff there. It was where I hung out when I wanted to be alone. Nobody knew about it really so..."
"Hung out in graveyard, huh. How'd ya eat, yo?"
She shrugged. "Shadows don't set off mini-mart alarms, and nobody suspects a girl who looks eight of picking pockets. Then about a month and a half later Xavier and co. showed up. And hey, lots of things are better than graveyards, and I always wanted to see NYC. "She giggled."DO I really look eight?"
"Only from the back, yo."
She made a face but realized her anime status bust must look even bigger in comparison to the rest of her.
"Maybe you'll have a growth spurt."
"Somehow I doubt it. So where are you from?"
"Orphanage to orphanage, yo. An' normality free two years this June. Mystique 'adopted' 'bout a year 'n a half ago an' here I am."
She nodded and was about to reply when the noise of girls chattering came from around the corner.
"Guess soccer practice is out. I better catch my ride." She stood up. "Um, see you tomorrow?"
"yup. I better get back or Lance'll think I'm dead or somethin'. An' I wouldn't wanna get his hopes up, yo" He hopped up and off around the other side of the building.
Ebony crossed the parkinglot to where Jean was, headed for Scott's car.
"Oh, hi Ebony, did you miss your bus?" The redhead smiled down, over a foot taller than the shadow mutant.
She made a face and said in her 'sweet little girl' voice," Uh-huh. Can I get a ride with you and Scott?" she peered up with big dark eyes, "Please?"
"Of course. I wouldn't make you walk all the way back to the Institute."
Ebony thought she was much too patronizing. She hated people who assumed things about her because of her height. Next time she just might walk.
~*~
Well, what do you think of Ebony? Thank you very much for reading. DOMO ARRIGATO! Please review, as I said all is aprixxiated, positive or negative. We see more of the X-ge, er, X-men in the next chapter, and Ebony develops an INTERESTING PROBLEM as well as has a go in the DANGER ROOM. Till next chapter.
*LejindaryBunny*