Charlotte's POV
You know when I thought up the idea of escaping from Stryker I didn't think it would be this hard. Especially for my brother and I. Yet here we are, epically failing. He is at least confusing Stryker's men by multiplying himself and I can take them out with ease thanks to my claws but they just keep coming.
"Not your best idea Charlie." He smirks as he fights people off.
"Yes I realize that thank you Archer."
"Hey we have company."
"More men?"
"Not exactly...take a look."
I look over and see four more mutants...one with claws like mine. I'm paying too much attention to them that I miss two guys coming up behind me. The one with the claws takes them out before looking at me.
"Are you just going to stand there?" He ask gruffly.
"Logan be nice." Says the women who has white hair.
Just then I see a red beam and I see it coming from the other guy. "What the hell."
"Charlie watch out." Yells Archer.
I turn around just in time to stick my claws in a guy before kicking another one and knocking him out. I notice the other feral smirking at me. "What are you just going to stand there?" I retort.
"Funny." He says before he begins fighting again.
We continue to fight for twenty more minutes until we finally get them all. I check to make sure Archer isn't injured before looking to the others.
"We should get out of here, knowing Stryker he'll send more men...or worse." Says Logan.
"How do you know Stryker?" I ask helping Archer up, he of course hurt his leg.
"I'll explain that later but we should leave." He says.
"I don't take orders from strangers." I growl.
"Charlie." Warns Archer.
"You can trust us." Says the other women.
"How do I know?"
"Charlie we don't have a choice." Archer whispers.
"Archie..." Just then we hear more men coming. "Fine." I groan. "Lead the way."
I help Archer walk and we trail behind them making our way to a plane...who the hell are these people. We quickly get on jet and Archie and I sit down while two of them start the jet up. Logan sits across from us and the other women sits on the ground in front of Archer to check on his leg.
"Is now a good time to ask who you guys are? And how you know Stryker?" I ask Logan.
"I'm Jean Grey." Says the one helping my brother. "And you already met Logan. Up front is Ororo Monroe and my husband Scott Summers."
"Well how did you find us?"
"We come from a school for mutants. Our head master Charles Xavier found you both having a hard time there and sent us to help out. Though by the looks of it I say you had it almost covered."
"Well thanks..." I mumble. "Explain Stryker." I say to Logan.
"You're really not patient are you?" He ask.
"No she isn't." Smirks Archer.
"Yes I know that, there are a lot of things I'm not good at. Now explain...please."
"Let's just say I was the first to have claws like those." He says.
"Wait...you're Wolverine?"
"The one and only."
"So I have the unfortunate pleasure of knowing your brother?"
"Victor?"
"Creed?"
"Yes."
"That's your brother?" Ask Archer as Jean finishes wrapping his leg.
"Unfortunately yes."
"He and Charlie are the best of friends." Smirks Archer.
"I want to rip him apart." I say quickly.
"Most do." Laughs Logan. "What was your interaction with him?"
"Let's just say anytime I got in trouble I got to go a few rounds with him."
"It never ended well." Says Archer.
"It usually doesn't." Says Logan. "I'm sure he loved it though, sick bastard."
"Wait...where are you taking us?" I ask.
"Back to the school." Says Jean. "Unless you have somewhere you want us to take you."
"We don't exactly have anywhere to go..." Says Archer.
"Then you can stay with us." Smiles Jean. "We have plenty of room."
"Thanks." I say quietly.
"So brother and sister?" Ask Jean. "You two have very different mutations."
"Half siblings." Says Archer. "Same mom."
"And how did you end up with Stryker?" Ask Scott. "It's not easy to get on his radar."
"When Archer's dad found out about our mutations...he kicked us out of the house. Stryker found us and told us he would take us in, he didn't tell us about the experiment part of that."
"How old where you when he coated you in the adamantium?" Ask Jean.
"That was three years ago so...23. He had us for 10 years."
"And Archer how old are you?"
"20." He answers.
"So Logan you're like me and Scott has those awesome lasers from his eyes. What can you two do?" I ask Jean and Ororo.
"I can read minds and move stuff with my mind." Says Jean.
"Control the weather." Says Ororo from up front.
"Cool." Says Archer.
Just then we land and I help Archer up before following the other four off the jet. Logan and Ororo walk off and Jean and Scott turn around to look at us.
"We'll show you guys to your rooms and we talk more in the morning." Smiles Jean.
"Thanks." Says Archer.
The four of us walk upstairs and Jean shows us to two different rooms that are right next to each other and tells us where to find her if we need anything. I say goodnight to Archer before walking into my room. My room…that's a weird thing to say. I haven't had my own room for almost 11 years. I take a shower before changing into clothes that Jean left outside my door. I then crawl into bed and get the first goodnight of sleep I have had in a long time…finally I'm free.
When I wake up in the morning I get up and change clothes and walk out of my room and knock on Archer's door. He answers it and smiles at me looking well rested.
"How's the leg?" I ask.
"Better." he smiles. "How'd you sleep?"
"Good." I smile.
Just then Jean walks over and smiles at us. "You two hungry?"
"Yes." smiles Archer.
"Follow me, Professor Xavier wants to meet with you two after breakfast."
"Okay…" I say nervously.
Archer and I follow Jean downstairs to the kitchen and I'm not going to lie I'm a little overwhelmed. There are kids everywhere. Archer quietly laughs at my reaction and I glare at him before quickly grabbing a plate of food and going to sit at a table with Ororo, Logan, Jean, Scott and a few others that I don't know. The only two seat options are either next to Scott or next to Logan. I choose the one next to Logan. I sit down next to him and he looks at me before returning to his food.
"I guess we should introduce you to everyone else." Says Ororo. "So next to Logan is Dr. Hank McCoy. Next to him is Bobby Drake and Kitty Pride. And then we have Rogue, Remy, and Jubilee. Everyone this is Archer and Charlotte."
"I go by Charlie." I say.
"Nice to meet you both." Smiles Rogue.
"Same goes to you." I say before eating.
"Are you staying?" Ask Hank.
"Yeah." Says Archer. "We don't really have anywhere else to go."
"Most of us don't." Says Jubilee.
"What are your powers?" Ask Kitty.
I pop a claw which earns a smirk from Logan and a surprised face from everyone that wasn't there last night. "Just like Logan." Says Remy in amazement.
"I've never seen anyone else with that mutation...well except Victor." Says Kitty.
"I know him all too well." I say before retracting my claw.
"What about your Archer?" Ask Bobby.
"I can duplicate myself and I have enhanced agility."
"Pretty cool." He says back.
"It's pretty fun to mess with people." Smiles Archer.
After we are done eating we go up to meet with Professor Xavier with Jean, Scott, and Logan. We walk in and I'm a little surprised to see a bald man in a wheelchair.
"Welcome Archer and Charlotte."
"Hi." I say nervously. I'm always unsure of new people.
"Please take a seat." He smiles. I sit down next to Archer, Logan leans against the wall, and Scott and Jean sit on the other couch. "I understand you two where taken by Stryker." says Charles.
"Something like that." I say.
"He offered us a place to stay, little did we know it would lead to the experiments. He really wanted Charlie, I was just an added bonus." says Archer.
"I see…" says Charles. "Well I'm glad you will both be staying with us."
"He'll be looking for us." I say.
"She's right." says Logan. "He isn't going to let this go, he lost two valuable assists."
"How would he know where they are?" ask Scott.
"I don't know." says Logan.
"Trackers." I say after a minute.
"We should go check." says Jean. "The longer we don't know about them the longer Stryker has the advantage."
So that is how I end up in the lab, I was not a happy camper in fact I refused to go in unlike Archer who was willing to do anything. It took Archer ten minutes to convince me to go in. I just don't like the look of the place, it reminds me of the lab that we just came from, I don't like it. Jean and Hank end up finding tracking devices in our necks and Hank has to put some sort of special collar on me to get it out so that I don't try to heal while he is taking it out. Once he is done he take the collar off and I heal in a few seconds before speeding out of there. I stand outside the door waiting for Archer and Logan smirks at me.
"Don't like it in there?" he ask.
"How'd you guess?" I say flatly.
"Lucky guess."
"All done." says Archer walking out.
"And they are destroyed?" I ask.
"Hank's doing it right now." says Jean walking out. "Charlotte what do you say we go get you some clothes."
"Okay…"
"Archer you can come too…or we can pick some stuff up for you."
"I think I'll stay here." says Archer. "But you have fun Charlie."
"I hate you." I say as he leaves.
"Love you too." He says walking upstairs.
"Logan see if he wants a tour." says Jean.
"I'll have Bobby do it, I was going to work on my bike." says Logan leaving.
"Of course he is going to dump that." says Jean. "You ready?"
"Sure."
Jean and I head to the mall with Ororo and I get some clothes and we get some stuff for Archer before heading back to the mansion. When we get back I go up to my room and change into clothes that are actually mine and put my long black hair into a braid before going to look for Archer. I get a little lost but I run into Kitty who is happy to point me in the right direction.
"He is in the game room with Remy and Bobby playing some game, it's right down the hall."
"Thanks."
"Hey Charlie?"
"Yeah."
"I'd be happy to give you a tour if you want, I'm done teaching all my classes for today."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah."
"Thanks."
Kitty shows me around the whole school, the campus is huge and has a barn, a outdoor basketball court, a pool, and a huge yard. We go into the garage and the cars in there are amazing, I'm more impressed by the motorcycles though. Apparently one belongs to Scott and the other belongs to Logan. All in all it's a pretty cool place…I think I might like it here.