Disclaimer: This story will use a lot of characters from X-Men: Evolution and Xiaolin Showdown, and a lot of plot from X-Men: Evolution.
A/N: This story was inspired by a challenge post from Sakura Lisel, and most of the ideas from the challenge will be used in this story.
This chapter takes place near the end of summer between the first and second seasons of X-Men: Evolutions, and weeks after the Series finale of Xiaolin Showdown, anytime the world ended in Xiaolin Showdown, after the world was saved and put back to normal only the people involved remember just like with the Xiaolin Showdown's on the show.
It was a normal summer day at Xavier institute for Gifted Children, Professor Xavier and Ororo were out recruiting new students, while most of the students had gone home for the summer. All the remaining mutants were outside enjoying the day. Rogue was sitting under a tree reading, while Scott was waxing his car, and Logan worked on his motorcycle. They all stopped what they were doing when a dark metallic brown car (similar to a 1966 Chevy Impala*) with dark red tinted windows, dragging a trailer painted the same colors. The car drove up the road parking in front of the garage. The car wasn't the shocking part, what was a shock was that the gate opened up and none of the defense measures activated. A skinny, pale, red headed teen stepped out, he was wearing a black trench coat, black gloves, yellow goggles with a red spiraling line, (his head lights had the same yellow tint and red spiral,) he was also wearing a colorful metal back pack with an interesting face like design, he took a duffel bag out of the trunk while quietly singing to himself.
"You have shown me the light? It's a brand new day and the sun is high all the birds are singing -" he stopped looking up at Scott and Logan. "Hey guys," he looked at Logan's bike, "the fuel lines clogged." Logan grabbed the boy by his coat making him let out a yelp.
"How'd you get past the defenses?" the boy put on a cocky smile, as all the turrets nearby popped up pointing at Logan.
"You mean those defenses?"
"How did you do that?" Scott asked looking at them.
"With my mind," he said bragging.
"A technopath," Scott commented absentmindedly.
"Well that's the word Xavier used when he offered me a place here."
"Strange I don't remember a technopath on the list of possible new students," Scott commented darkly.
"Me neither," Logan growled.
"He came to me when I was six, my parents don't know I'm a mutant. I just got tired of my life back there so I decided to finally take Xavier up on his offer." Logan could tell he wasn't lying let the kid go, while shoving him slightly.
"So you can talk to machines?"
"Sort of," the teen said as all the turrets went back into the ground.
"And my bike's telling you there's a clog in the fuel line?"
"Pretty much," Logan turned around and went back to work on his bike.
"Don't mind Logan," Scott told the technopath comfortingly.
"Hey what's going on?" Rogue asked running up to the three guys. "Cool new Goth?"
"I guess so," Scott said with a shrug while the new teen stared at Rogue.
"I'm Rogue," Rogue said offering a gloved hand. The teen smiled and shook it.
"Jack Spicer E-B-Teen?" Jack sputtered he'd recently decided to drop 'Boy' from his title then realized 'Evil' should be removed to since he was trying to be good. Jack paused rubbing his chin, "Jack Spicer Mutant Teenage Genius!" He said then nodded to himself, "Yeah that has a nice ring to it."
"You're really weird you know that right," Rogue told him.
"Hey I'm Scott." Jack and Scott shook hands.
"So what can you do?" Rogue asked Jack.
"I'm a technopath...apparently." Rogue looked to Scott for an answer.
"He can control machines with his thoughts," Scott told her.
"So that's how you got in here," Rogue said mostly to herself.
"That's not all I can do," Jack said smiling. A turret popped out of the ground Jack removed his glove and took aim with his hand, a metal disc was launched out of the machine. Jack released a powerful ball of lightning from his palm, which completely missed the disc, as it sailed through the air, it exploded with an optic blast from Scott. Jack looked away from the other teens rubbing the back of his neck, and the turret returned to its place in the ground somehow looking a little ashamed itself.
"Relax Jack that's what we train for, you've got good control that's the most important thing," Scott told him.
"Not really I can only fire off softball sized balls of lightning, unless I wear my gloves, stand back." Jack held up his gloved hand his fingers lit up as the electricity shot out from every inch of his uncovered hand arced towards freedom, "see the glove prevents the electricity from escaping so it just flies randomly out of my fingers unless I'm touching something." Jack touched his car and the electricity dissipated flowing into it. "Xavier gave the gloves to me when we met; I cut off the fingers myself."
"Protective wear," Scott said with a smile. "We can relate, my sunglasses are the only thing keeping me from destroying anything I look at," Jack took a step away from Scott.
"Yeah and if I make skin contact with someone I could kill them," Jack took a step away from Rogue. Scott and Rogue couldn't help but smirk slightly at Jacks actions.
"So...where am I staying?" Jack asked with a smile changing the subject.
A/N: Sakura Lisel suggested Jack's powers be like Cooper's (from "Ben 10"), but I made them more like Mika's (from "Heroes"). He's able to mentally interface with programming, mainly to make things tougher on Jack. He does understand all machines; he can work on, repair, and find the problems in any machine.
*I was originally going to go with Ford Mustang but I saw a Chevy commercial with a Chevy Impala it looked cool and I thought round headlights would be better it mimic Jack's goggles, also I don't know too much about cars.