Author's Note: Okay this is my first story ever, I hope people will like it.
Disclaimer's Note: In no way whatsoever do I own any of the X-men characters depicted in this story nor am I making any money off of this. This only that is mine is Sparks.
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Chapter 1 - A Rude Awakening
A young girl lay in a hospital bed hooked up to IVs and other medical machines, all that could be heard was the monotonous sound of beeping signifiying that her condiction was stable. It the middle of the night, the wing of the hospital was dead quiet, like the calm before a storm. Suddenly but slowly the machines began to show signs that the girl was waking up.
She could hear a beeping sound in her ears but her eyes still felt a little heavy to open. Slowly she opened one eye at a time after becoming thoroughly annoyed with the sound. The girl eased herself up into a sitting position looking around. There was fear in her dark blue eyes. 'What's goin' on, where am I?' frantic thoughts kept running through her head. She immediately ripped the tubes off her arms, her breathing beginning to quicken and the hospital room lights blinking on and off while doing so. She didn't know where she was or what any of this stuff meant. She looked across the room seeing a neatly folded pile of clothes. She didn't know who they belonged to, but she didn't care at the moment and quickly changed into them. She stared at the plastic medical bracelet around her left wrist reading Keilantra D'Mar, who was that person? Was that her? The name sure didn't have any once of familiarity to her. With that question and several others running through her head everything just snapped, the lightbulbs over head exploded causing her to shriek with startlement, and the machines began to spark and overheat. Her breathing began to race, her eyes darted around the room in panic looking for a way out. Her eyes fell on a small case sitting by the window, she wasn't sure why she bothered to brab it before frantically running out of the room. Everywhere she ran the blinking and exploding of lights and any other electrical device followed her, even right down through the crowded Atlantic City streets.
"Jean, I think the professor was right. I'm getting signals of power failure the closer we get to the city, we're gonna have to land just outside." Storm said.
Jean sighed, "Well I guess it has to come down to that." She replied lowering the jet to the small forested clearing just outside of the city.
"How are we gonna find this teen if we can't even get our equipment to work?" Scott asked once they reached the city.
"Follow the string of burnt out lights, 'cause it sure don't look normal." Logan replied with a grunt.
The four mutants managed to trace the teen back to an old abandoned power house on the city limits.
A young girl sat huddled in a corner, tears running down her cheeks as she stared at her hands, where strings of neon yellow electrical charges kept erupting from her fingertips. Her head darted up hearing the approach of a small group of people.
"Stay away from me!" she yelled frantically as she desperately tried to shake the bright electricity from her hands, but only managed to have several small balls form and accidentally be thrown at the four strangers.
Her hand grabbed on to a coil-like metal object that electricity would normally flow through. Her head darted around hearing and seeing generators begin to start up. She looked down at her hands again, her breathing turning into hyperventilating. She was scared, she didn't know what was happening but she wanted it to stop.
Scott looked around the power plant "Man, this girl has enough energy in her to power a whole city." He looked back at the scared girl across the room "Jean, we gotta do something, it looks like she's about to pass out any minute now." He called seeing her press her hands to her head and teeter back and forth slightly.
Scott caught the girl just before she hit the ground "This must be the easiest rescue we've ever done." Logan muttered as he walked out of the building, Scott following in tow with the girl in his arms.
The young girl awoke up in the infirmary of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. "Huh, what? Where am I?" she asked a little frantic immediately sitting up.
"Shh, you need to lay back down." A woman told her gently pushing her back down on the bed.
The woman was pretty in a conservative sort of way, she had short red hair that came just past her chin.
"My name is Dr. Jean Grey." She said calmly "But you can just call me Jean. You're at Xavier's School for Youngsters. You're here because we found you had a special gift that set you apart from everyone else. What's your name?" she asked kindly.
The girl looked at her and then down at her hands "I don't remember." She mumbled quietly.
"Can you remember anything from before, anything at all?"
"No!" the girl said a little more forcefully than intended which caused the lights to flicker and then one of them explode.
"It's okay, we'll figure everything out."Jean said "Well, you must be hungry." she continued hearing the girl's stomach rumble "I'll help you upstairs to the kitchen."Jean said helping the girl slowly sit back up and walk upstairs with her.
When they reached the kitchen they both were greeted by a table full of people. "Hey Jean." a boy said, he had light brown hair and bright blue eyes. He was sitting next to a girl with long brown hair and white streaks framing her face.
"Bobby." Jean said nodding her head. "Now everyone, this is . . ." Jean paused for a moment "Well this is the girl that arrived late last night, so please give her a nice welcome."
The young girl sat down at an empty seat, next to the girl with streaks in her hair and across from a guy with plastered brown hair who kept flicking a shark zippo. She glanced around a little warily, unsure what to expect.
"Ah'm Rogue." the girl next to her said.
She just smiled, she didn't know what to say.
"So, what's your name?" the boy who Jean had referred to as Bobby asked.
The girl looked away, down at her hand again and mumbled something inaudible even to Rogue next to her.
John rolled his eyes "Sorry, didn't catch that. You usually have to move your lips to talk."he said sarcastically.
The girl's head shot up instantaneously hearing the voice across the table "I said, I can't remember!" she said a little harshly as a yellow electrical current erupted from her fingertips and a few light bulbs exploded. But what made it more eerie was how her dark blue eyes seemed to shift even darker, and it looked almost like a reflection of lightning across the surface of her black eyes.
"Well then . . ." John said backing off a little but grinning all the same "Let's call you Sparks, I think id fit."
No one said anything for what seemed like forever, it was just one of those big awkward silences.
"John." Jean said looking down at disapprovingly.
"Sparks . . ." the girl said staring down at her hands, transfixed with the electricity her eyes had already returned to normal "That's kinda cool, has a sort of va ring t' it."
"Rogue do you think . . ." Jean paused for a moment "Sparks will beable to room in with you in your dorm?" she asked.
"Yeah, sounds cool, it'll be fun." she replied.
A/N: Okay so basically that was it for the first chapter, I know Angel didn't appear yet but I promise he will be in the next chapter.