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Chapter 1
Being invisible and becoming in tune with nature.
'Ignore them.' His brain told him as a reflex. He winced as he felt a bottle break at his feet. "Get lost freak!" yelled a football player as he leaned dangerously over the light metal rail of the school football field screaming profanities with the rest of his little buddies.
Blood dripped from Pietro's hands on account of the pressure he was applying to them. 'Ignore them.Ignorethem.Ignorethem!' he repeated to himself. Todd's voice crept up on his ears unexpectedly. "Yo, maybe coming back to school wasn't such a good idea." The young mutant stated, his voice shaking slightly.
Pietro licked his chapped lips as his voice came out, portraying much more confidence then he actually had. "Shut up Toad." He told the boy. 'The last thing we need,' he thought to himself, 'is for Todd to start doubting himself in times like this.'
"Leave Freaks!"
"Get lost fucking Muties!
"Rot in hell freaks!"
'Ignore them..' His hands shook. Wanda was pissed. Todd was scared. Freddy was embarrassed, and Lance wasn't speaking to him. This sucked. The shouts pounded in his head. Teeth bared, hands bleeding, he shook. 'Ignore them. Ignore them..'
Suddenly he felt the ground begin to shake. What the hell did Lance think he was doing! He spun around on his heel to look for his teammate and former friend. Glass from the street light burst onto many of the unexpecting hecklers, and before Pietro could blink (which had to be fast) a car blew to the air. Flipping up skyward as it exploded.
He looked to Wanda as if demanding an explanation. She shrugged in response. As if saying it was not her. They came back to school after all this, practically begging the dumb principal to give them another chance and this is what happened? Not if he could help it.
"Guys get inside!" he yelled. He waited for one of them to argue. No one did. They complied as he turned around, his sapphire eyes searching for Lance as he fought to ignore the rush of bodies moving swiftly past him in pandemonium. What the hell was going on?
Lance clutched his head as he fell to the ground in pain. His knees scraped the cement as he tried desperately to tune out the screaming. He had been so mad..furious. At first his powers had simply began to act up.but then the light, then the car. It seemed as he got angrier or more pained things began to explode.
'Okay' he breathed deeply as he tried to calm himself, 'just breathe.' It took every ounce of control and self-discipline he had to calm himself down. But suddenly things stopped to explode. He smiled as he stood shakily.
"Lance!" he heard being called as he stood, "Lance!" Looking over to the source of the voice he spotted Pietro. "What on Earth?" he voiced aloud in confusion. He was standing right in front of him. How could he possibly not see him?
He walked right up to the dove haired boy as he began to wave his hand in front of him. He couldn't possibly be...? But Pietro couldn't see him.. Invisible? He saw the concerned look that the boy had etched on his face.
Lance began to realize the dilemma. "Oh shit. How do I become visible?" Could Pietro hear him? "Pietro!" he directed. No luck. How was he to fix this? But more importantly why was this happening? And how was he going to control it? They had just gotten used to the idea of being a team again, and coming back to school was a large step for them. Especially now that the world had been exposed to mutants.
"Pietro!" he called as the younger mutant flew past him swiftly, probably to extend his search. "Shit!" he cursed as he ran in the direction he had come. School was about to start!
Jean stared out the window of Scotts car, worry etched all over her face. Where was the Brotherhood? She knew from experience that the student body wasn't the most accepting of mutants.
She felt Scott's hand on her shoulder and she sighed knowing that he knew what she was troubled over. "Don't worry about it Jean. They can take care of themselves." He reassured her.
"I'm aware of that Scott, but they always use their powers. What if someone gets hurt? And now are the times when mutants need to stick together. No matter of past confliction." She told him. Looking up to his ruby clad gaze, she wondered what his eyes looked like at that moment.
She sighed. Those thoughts weren't for her anymore; she had called off their relationship saying that with all chaos she couldn't give the relationship the attention it needed. He, being Scott, had understood and promised to move on, just like she had asked him too. Even though he hadn't yet.
"She's right Scott. We need to stick together. I think we should split up and look for them. Make sure that everything is alright." Rouge said as she hopped over the door of the car. Kitty nodded as she phased out of the car.
"Okay," Scott began, "Jean and I-" But he was cut off by Kitty, who knew that the last thing Jean needed was to be alone with Scott when she still had feelings for him. "I think you and Rouge should check out the places they normally hung out while me and Jean go to the places Jean might pick up on." Scott looked as if for a moment he was going to argue, but instead nodded as Rouge drug him off.
"Thanks," Jean said kindly, "I needed that." Kitty shrugged, "No problem. And besides," she said motioning to the other two mutants as they walked off, "You wanted Scott to move on. And I think I found the right person."
Jean tilted her head to the side. Scott needed someone who could understand him and Rouge needed someone that could help her understand that the world wasn't filled with only pain, but love too. She smiled, "I think you did too."
"Good!" Kitty giggled clapping her hands together, "Let's go find Lance!" Jean looked at her with an eyebrow raised. "Hehe..I meant the Brotherhood." Jean shook her head, "Right Kitty...whatever you say." They ran off to the football field where Jean sensed a member of the Brotherhood. Problem was.they didn't know which one.
Pietro collapsed next to a large oak tree as he took a break from looking for Lance. Glancing at his watch he noticed that there was only thirty minutes until school began. He had to find Lance, and soon. But he was just so tired. Why?
'You okay there, kid?' asked a small squeaky voice from above him. He looked up blinking as he did so. No one was there. "What the hell." he trailed off. Suddenly he was hit in the head with an...acorn?
"That's it!" he voiced out loud, "I am as of now officially freaked!" He shrieked and fell backwards as he was bombarded by more acorns. As he opened his eyes he came nose to nose with a small squirrel.
"Oh sweet God don't bite me, please," he begged the squirrel, "The last thing I need is rabies!" Then all of a suddenly the squirrel....talked? "Well I never!" said the squeaky voice that Pietro had heard earlier. "AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Pietro screamed as he jumped up and the squirrel fell off his chest.
The squirrel sighed, "First human to understand me and he has to be crazy!" it complained. Pietro looked at the squirrel and did the next thing any other teen would do in his situation. He fainted of course.
Jeans head snapped to the side as she heard a scream. "AHHHHHHHH!!!!" Turning on her heel she headed to the side of the football field. "It came from this way!" she told Kitty as she pointed to an old Oak tree near the end of the field.
As they reached they found Pietro on the grounds unconscious, the only thing near him was....a squirrel? Kitty and Jean exchanged looks as they tried in vain to get Pietro back to consciousness.
"Pietro," Jean began as she lightly tapped the side of his pale face. She frowned. Something must have really freaked out the young speed demon if he had passed out. Not to mention he wasn't looking too healthy. 'What could have scared him?' she thought.
"Look!" Kitty shouted frantically as she pointed to the school parking lot at the chaos and pandemonium that they hadn't even noticed. Kitty jumped to her feet as she began to run to the scene.
"Kitty, wait!" Jean called as the girl ran off. She sighed knowing she had to stay and wait for Pietro to wake. She only hoped he would hurry so she could find out what exactly was going on.
Kitty ran past the fiery cars and screaming students as she looked for Lance. "Kitt-" she heard her name be called before it was cut off, then it came back, "Kit!" She looked around frantically for the voice as she located the area it had come from. Yet when she looked she saw nothing.
All of a sudden Lance appeared then flickered away much like Kurt did when he disappeared. Disappeared..that was it! Lance was going invisible! But why could she only hear him when he was visible? And how was she supposed to reach him?
She sprinted towards where she had last seen him. "Lance!" she called as she phased through anyone or anything that got in her way. Suddenly she ran smack straight into a body she assumed was Lance's seeing as it was not something she had seen.
Opening her eyes she found herself wrapped in Lance's visible arms. Not embarrassed and more than a little pleased she hugged him. "Lance I'm so sorry." She whispered into his shoulder, "I never meant to hurt you or dump you like that..forgive me?"
Lance looked down at her almost ready to tell her where she could put her apology, but the moment he looked at her he couldn't. She was lying there with him in the middle of all this chaos with tears shining in her pale blue eyes and was being open to him with her emotions and he couldn't hurt her like that. He nodded dumbly.
With a smile she threw her arms around his neck. "Lance, what's going on?" she asked as she pulled away from his embrace. "I don't know," he told her truthfully, "I- I think I might be getting some new powers though..."
Pietro groaned as a bright, white light (3 rhymes in a row) invaded his eyes. He could just barley make out the edges of a soft, feminine figure. As he squinted up at her angelic outline he could not determine who she was. Sure he believed in God but he doubted he would ever go to heaven.
"Ugh. There aren't supposed to be angels in Hell!" he moaned. He heard a soft giggle, "You aren't in Hell and I'm not an angel."
He blinked open one bright blue eye, then another. Jean Grey? He sat up swiftly. "I knew that!" he told her arrogantly not wanting to let the enemy have any advantage over him.
"Whatever ya say kid you know you got the hots for her!" said the same damn squirrel from earlier. Hr jumped up and ignoring Jean began to interrogate the squirrel. "Okay first off," He began to rant, "You're a squirrel. How can you even talk? Number two! I do not have the hots for anyone in this general area and lastly, why the Hell do you have a Brooklyn accent. And why the Hell am I talking to a squirrel!?"
The squirrel shrugged, "If you can understand me it either means you're in tune with nature or..... you can control it."
Jean whom had never been more confused in her life looked back and forth between the squirrel and Pietro. "Pietro," she began gently, "I can't understand you. You're going to have to speak English."
Pietro's head snapped towards her and a look ran over his face as if he just realized she was there. "I was speaking English." He said yet she shook her head to him.
"Pietro.. can you talk to animals?" she asked him. "I don't know. but that squirrel said something about controlling nature. That if I could talk to him I was either in tune with it or could control it."
"I think you should come with me to the professor." she trailed off. Too freaked out to argue with her he said, "Hold on, I want to try something." She watched as he waked up to a random tree. He closed his eyes and stuck his hands out, palms up.
Jean sighed waiting till he was done being silly. Yet all of a sudden the tree's branches began to swing viciously and it's roots tore out of the ground, lighting struck behind her as the Earth began to shake.
Was Pietro doing this? 'Controlling nature. He was either in tune with it or could control it! He was doing this! He just couldn't control it!
"Sorry," she whispered knowing she had to stop this before it turned the school to rubble. Closing her eyes she used her powers to knock him out. She had to get him to the Professor quick.
She bent down and picked up Pietro's slight form surprised at how little he weighed. "Jean!" she heard a shout. Turning around she saw Lance and Kitty running towards her, Lance looking bloody and exhausted.
"We've got to see the Professor!" they both shouted at the same time. "Why for you?" asked Jean quickly as she met up with them and reluctantly let Lance take Pietro.
Kitty walked along side her as they headed to the car. "Lace is developing new powers." She explained breathlessly. Jean nodded, "So is Pietro." She told the younger girl.
"Weird," Kitty began, "I'll tell Scott that we're-" but she was cut off. "Already sent him a mental note (no pun intended) so he knows what's going on." Jean informed her.
"Good," Lance said as they climbed in the car, "Can we hurry now so we can see Baldy and find out what the fuck is going on here?" he barked frantically as he laid Pietro down gently.
"You know Kitty," Jean whispered to her, "You really need to up your taste in guys." Kitty being the mature teen she is stuck her tongue out and imply said, "Just drive."
Jean nodded as she began speeding out of the burning parking lot, determined to find out how and why this was happening. Little did she know that this would change everything.
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Chapter 1
Being invisible and becoming in tune with nature.
'Ignore them.' His brain told him as a reflex. He winced as he felt a bottle break at his feet. "Get lost freak!" yelled a football player as he leaned dangerously over the light metal rail of the school football field screaming profanities with the rest of his little buddies.
Blood dripped from Pietro's hands on account of the pressure he was applying to them. 'Ignore them.Ignorethem.Ignorethem!' he repeated to himself. Todd's voice crept up on his ears unexpectedly. "Yo, maybe coming back to school wasn't such a good idea." The young mutant stated, his voice shaking slightly.
Pietro licked his chapped lips as his voice came out, portraying much more confidence then he actually had. "Shut up Toad." He told the boy. 'The last thing we need,' he thought to himself, 'is for Todd to start doubting himself in times like this.'
"Leave Freaks!"
"Get lost fucking Muties!
"Rot in hell freaks!"
'Ignore them..' His hands shook. Wanda was pissed. Todd was scared. Freddy was embarrassed, and Lance wasn't speaking to him. This sucked. The shouts pounded in his head. Teeth bared, hands bleeding, he shook. 'Ignore them. Ignore them..'
Suddenly he felt the ground begin to shake. What the hell did Lance think he was doing! He spun around on his heel to look for his teammate and former friend. Glass from the street light burst onto many of the unexpecting hecklers, and before Pietro could blink (which had to be fast) a car blew to the air. Flipping up skyward as it exploded.
He looked to Wanda as if demanding an explanation. She shrugged in response. As if saying it was not her. They came back to school after all this, practically begging the dumb principal to give them another chance and this is what happened? Not if he could help it.
"Guys get inside!" he yelled. He waited for one of them to argue. No one did. They complied as he turned around, his sapphire eyes searching for Lance as he fought to ignore the rush of bodies moving swiftly past him in pandemonium. What the hell was going on?
Lance clutched his head as he fell to the ground in pain. His knees scraped the cement as he tried desperately to tune out the screaming. He had been so mad..furious. At first his powers had simply began to act up.but then the light, then the car. It seemed as he got angrier or more pained things began to explode.
'Okay' he breathed deeply as he tried to calm himself, 'just breathe.' It took every ounce of control and self-discipline he had to calm himself down. But suddenly things stopped to explode. He smiled as he stood shakily.
"Lance!" he heard being called as he stood, "Lance!" Looking over to the source of the voice he spotted Pietro. "What on Earth?" he voiced aloud in confusion. He was standing right in front of him. How could he possibly not see him?
He walked right up to the dove haired boy as he began to wave his hand in front of him. He couldn't possibly be...? But Pietro couldn't see him.. Invisible? He saw the concerned look that the boy had etched on his face.
Lance began to realize the dilemma. "Oh shit. How do I become visible?" Could Pietro hear him? "Pietro!" he directed. No luck. How was he to fix this? But more importantly why was this happening? And how was he going to control it? They had just gotten used to the idea of being a team again, and coming back to school was a large step for them. Especially now that the world had been exposed to mutants.
"Pietro!" he called as the younger mutant flew past him swiftly, probably to extend his search. "Shit!" he cursed as he ran in the direction he had come. School was about to start!
Jean stared out the window of Scotts car, worry etched all over her face. Where was the Brotherhood? She knew from experience that the student body wasn't the most accepting of mutants.
She felt Scott's hand on her shoulder and she sighed knowing that he knew what she was troubled over. "Don't worry about it Jean. They can take care of themselves." He reassured her.
"I'm aware of that Scott, but they always use their powers. What if someone gets hurt? And now are the times when mutants need to stick together. No matter of past confliction." She told him. Looking up to his ruby clad gaze, she wondered what his eyes looked like at that moment.
She sighed. Those thoughts weren't for her anymore; she had called off their relationship saying that with all chaos she couldn't give the relationship the attention it needed. He, being Scott, had understood and promised to move on, just like she had asked him too. Even though he hadn't yet.
"She's right Scott. We need to stick together. I think we should split up and look for them. Make sure that everything is alright." Rouge said as she hopped over the door of the car. Kitty nodded as she phased out of the car.
"Okay," Scott began, "Jean and I-" But he was cut off by Kitty, who knew that the last thing Jean needed was to be alone with Scott when she still had feelings for him. "I think you and Rouge should check out the places they normally hung out while me and Jean go to the places Jean might pick up on." Scott looked as if for a moment he was going to argue, but instead nodded as Rouge drug him off.
"Thanks," Jean said kindly, "I needed that." Kitty shrugged, "No problem. And besides," she said motioning to the other two mutants as they walked off, "You wanted Scott to move on. And I think I found the right person."
Jean tilted her head to the side. Scott needed someone who could understand him and Rouge needed someone that could help her understand that the world wasn't filled with only pain, but love too. She smiled, "I think you did too."
"Good!" Kitty giggled clapping her hands together, "Let's go find Lance!" Jean looked at her with an eyebrow raised. "Hehe..I meant the Brotherhood." Jean shook her head, "Right Kitty...whatever you say." They ran off to the football field where Jean sensed a member of the Brotherhood. Problem was.they didn't know which one.
Pietro collapsed next to a large oak tree as he took a break from looking for Lance. Glancing at his watch he noticed that there was only thirty minutes until school began. He had to find Lance, and soon. But he was just so tired. Why?
'You okay there, kid?' asked a small squeaky voice from above him. He looked up blinking as he did so. No one was there. "What the hell." he trailed off. Suddenly he was hit in the head with an...acorn?
"That's it!" he voiced out loud, "I am as of now officially freaked!" He shrieked and fell backwards as he was bombarded by more acorns. As he opened his eyes he came nose to nose with a small squirrel.
"Oh sweet God don't bite me, please," he begged the squirrel, "The last thing I need is rabies!" Then all of a suddenly the squirrel....talked? "Well I never!" said the squeaky voice that Pietro had heard earlier. "AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Pietro screamed as he jumped up and the squirrel fell off his chest.
The squirrel sighed, "First human to understand me and he has to be crazy!" it complained. Pietro looked at the squirrel and did the next thing any other teen would do in his situation. He fainted of course.
Jeans head snapped to the side as she heard a scream. "AHHHHHHHH!!!!" Turning on her heel she headed to the side of the football field. "It came from this way!" she told Kitty as she pointed to an old Oak tree near the end of the field.
As they reached they found Pietro on the grounds unconscious, the only thing near him was....a squirrel? Kitty and Jean exchanged looks as they tried in vain to get Pietro back to consciousness.
"Pietro," Jean began as she lightly tapped the side of his pale face. She frowned. Something must have really freaked out the young speed demon if he had passed out. Not to mention he wasn't looking too healthy. 'What could have scared him?' she thought.
"Look!" Kitty shouted frantically as she pointed to the school parking lot at the chaos and pandemonium that they hadn't even noticed. Kitty jumped to her feet as she began to run to the scene.
"Kitty, wait!" Jean called as the girl ran off. She sighed knowing she had to stay and wait for Pietro to wake. She only hoped he would hurry so she could find out what exactly was going on.
Kitty ran past the fiery cars and screaming students as she looked for Lance. "Kitt-" she heard her name be called before it was cut off, then it came back, "Kit!" She looked around frantically for the voice as she located the area it had come from. Yet when she looked she saw nothing.
All of a sudden Lance appeared then flickered away much like Kurt did when he disappeared. Disappeared..that was it! Lance was going invisible! But why could she only hear him when he was visible? And how was she supposed to reach him?
She sprinted towards where she had last seen him. "Lance!" she called as she phased through anyone or anything that got in her way. Suddenly she ran smack straight into a body she assumed was Lance's seeing as it was not something she had seen.
Opening her eyes she found herself wrapped in Lance's visible arms. Not embarrassed and more than a little pleased she hugged him. "Lance I'm so sorry." She whispered into his shoulder, "I never meant to hurt you or dump you like that..forgive me?"
Lance looked down at her almost ready to tell her where she could put her apology, but the moment he looked at her he couldn't. She was lying there with him in the middle of all this chaos with tears shining in her pale blue eyes and was being open to him with her emotions and he couldn't hurt her like that. He nodded dumbly.
With a smile she threw her arms around his neck. "Lance, what's going on?" she asked as she pulled away from his embrace. "I don't know," he told her truthfully, "I- I think I might be getting some new powers though..."
Pietro groaned as a bright, white light (3 rhymes in a row) invaded his eyes. He could just barley make out the edges of a soft, feminine figure. As he squinted up at her angelic outline he could not determine who she was. Sure he believed in God but he doubted he would ever go to heaven.
"Ugh. There aren't supposed to be angels in Hell!" he moaned. He heard a soft giggle, "You aren't in Hell and I'm not an angel."
He blinked open one bright blue eye, then another. Jean Grey? He sat up swiftly. "I knew that!" he told her arrogantly not wanting to let the enemy have any advantage over him.
"Whatever ya say kid you know you got the hots for her!" said the same damn squirrel from earlier. Hr jumped up and ignoring Jean began to interrogate the squirrel. "Okay first off," He began to rant, "You're a squirrel. How can you even talk? Number two! I do not have the hots for anyone in this general area and lastly, why the Hell do you have a Brooklyn accent. And why the Hell am I talking to a squirrel!?"
The squirrel shrugged, "If you can understand me it either means you're in tune with nature or..... you can control it."
Jean whom had never been more confused in her life looked back and forth between the squirrel and Pietro. "Pietro," she began gently, "I can't understand you. You're going to have to speak English."
Pietro's head snapped towards her and a look ran over his face as if he just realized she was there. "I was speaking English." He said yet she shook her head to him.
"Pietro.. can you talk to animals?" she asked him. "I don't know. but that squirrel said something about controlling nature. That if I could talk to him I was either in tune with it or could control it."
"I think you should come with me to the professor." she trailed off. Too freaked out to argue with her he said, "Hold on, I want to try something." She watched as he waked up to a random tree. He closed his eyes and stuck his hands out, palms up.
Jean sighed waiting till he was done being silly. Yet all of a sudden the tree's branches began to swing viciously and it's roots tore out of the ground, lighting struck behind her as the Earth began to shake.
Was Pietro doing this? 'Controlling nature. He was either in tune with it or could control it! He was doing this! He just couldn't control it!
"Sorry," she whispered knowing she had to stop this before it turned the school to rubble. Closing her eyes she used her powers to knock him out. She had to get him to the Professor quick.
She bent down and picked up Pietro's slight form surprised at how little he weighed. "Jean!" she heard a shout. Turning around she saw Lance and Kitty running towards her, Lance looking bloody and exhausted.
"We've got to see the Professor!" they both shouted at the same time. "Why for you?" asked Jean quickly as she met up with them and reluctantly let Lance take Pietro.
Kitty walked along side her as they headed to the car. "Lace is developing new powers." She explained breathlessly. Jean nodded, "So is Pietro." She told the younger girl.
"Weird," Kitty began, "I'll tell Scott that we're-" but she was cut off. "Already sent him a mental note (no pun intended) so he knows what's going on." Jean informed her.
"Good," Lance said as they climbed in the car, "Can we hurry now so we can see Baldy and find out what the fuck is going on here?" he barked frantically as he laid Pietro down gently.
"You know Kitty," Jean whispered to her, "You really need to up your taste in guys." Kitty being the mature teen she is stuck her tongue out and imply said, "Just drive."
Jean nodded as she began speeding out of the burning parking lot, determined to find out how and why this was happening. Little did she know that this would change everything.
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