Hey, for fans of X-Men: Restoration, here is a little one shot for you! This takes place before Ella leaves the mansion but after Rainer came. What happens when a not so friendly ghost decides to terrorize the X Mansion…will Coralie and Camlin be able to put their minds together to stop him? Will the other X-Men be able to handle his antics? Read to find out! Review and let me know if you like these sort of one shots.
S.G.- If any of you read his review then please not that Logan's comment was a complete typo. It was supposed to say "Do NOT get yourself killed" Thanks S.G. for pointing that out.
Read X-Men: Restoration to get the original character backgrounds used in this story.
Disclaimer: I do not own X-Men: Evolution but the original characters are owned by their respective owners.
X-Men: Restoration presents The X-Spector
Chapter One: The Game Begins
It was a normal Saturday morning at Xavier's Institute for Gifted Youngsters when Professor Xavier and Professor Ororo were making their morning rounds to wake everyone for their mutant classes. Ansleigh was walking upstairs with a bowl of cereal and waved happily as she batted her catlike eyes at the light streaming through the window. She cowered behind her bowl.
"Good to see you up." Storm said. Ansleigh shrugged her shoulders.
"My eyes are sensitive to the light so I get up at sunrise every morning. Not my choice…" She laughed. Ansleigh hummed as she went off down the hallway with a skip in her step.
"Danger room!" Wolverine growled as he came down the hallway in the opposite direction. "Get up! ALL of you!" He hollered. He nodded to Ansleigh. Suddenly, the lights started to flicker.
"It must be a lighting problem. A generator is probably out. I'll go check it." Professor Xavier said as he took the elevator down. The Professor wheeled away as the students began to get up. Kitty phased through her door groggily as Kurt bamfed into the corridor still asleep. Behind him were Richard, Noah, Eric, and Mark were yawning. Mark lay down on the floor as Noah disappeared from sight. Storm raised an eyebrow at the spectacle. The lights stopped flickering but Storm knew that the kids wouldn't even notice. The Morlocks were huddled together in a mass not sure of what to do.
The girls started to rise from their rooms. Coralie and Camlin came out linked to each other as they leaned on each other's shoulders. Marina looked as if she was going to punch someone. Storm turned to Sakura who had a tall glass of water and splashed it on herself with the wave her hand. Reagan leaned against the wall disinterested. Ella sauntered out with her long hair in front of her face as her head hung low. Sarah yelped and turned into a mist. Ella surprised stood straight up as she cleared the hair out of her face. She beamed a smile as she closed her eyes contently. Sarah returned to her normal form as she hid behind Grace who was playing with a seed in her hands.
Wolverine let out a big growl as he counted heads. "Okay, let's go! Let's go! We have a lot of work to do. Invisible, you better follow suit or I'll cream you once I find you!" He yelled as everyone very slowly started to move towards the Danger Room.
They stood in the Danger Room intimidated by what looked like to be a massive robot.
"These things are Sentinels. You might vaguely remember from the Apocalypse battle a few years ago. I brought it back from the battle and let the Danger Room do its thing. Now…look at what the cat dragged in." Wolverine chuckled as he saw Rainier enter the Danger Room. He appeared upset. His fists were clenched and his step was heavy.
"Nobody waited for me! Am I not a part of this group?" He shouted as he pointed his finger at everyone there. They all stared at him in question.
"You earn your spot on this team. Charles may put his confidence in you but I still don't trust you, bub." Logan said as he wrinkled his nose in disgust. "Now, as I was saying…the Danger Room cloned these Sentinels. This is most likely what you are going to be going up against since Senator Kelly wants to reopen this program. Be careful, prepared, and do NOT get yourself killed." Logan and Storm walked out and as the metal doors clinked shut, all of them heard a laser powering up.
"No one said anything about lasers!" Mark yelled as he began to bolt off in the distance. Ansleigh and Eric teamed up against the Sentinel closest to them as they began to multiple across the room. A junkyard landscape emerged from the ground. The Morlocks awed at the spectacle as Rainier nodded. He was still impressed. Eric threw a lightning bolt at the Sentinel as Ansleigh concentrated on blowing it up. The head of the Sentinel blew off. Eric and Ansleigh high fived each other. Sakura raised her eyebrows at Marina. Marina nodded as she got an energy bubble ready, Sakura breathed in slowly as she began to rhythmically do a dance. A spout of water rose from the ground. Marina captured some of the water in the purple bubble as she kicked it at an approaching Sentinel. The Sentinel was not knocked over in the slightest bit but the impact of the water did some damage. The Sentinel arm marched towards them. Mark was shouting from the other side. His voice was a muffle among the iron warrior's ground thumping steps.
"SPREAD OUT! SPREAD OUT!" Mark yelled as he threw his dice up in the air and caught them in his hands. "Yes lucky seven!" Suddenly, a Sentinel tipped over. It fell towards Mark and he screamed as he ran out of the way. Ella laughed along with the rest of them as she spread out her arms and attempted to focus her energy around a Sentinel.
"I can't stop them for long so go at him." She said faintly as she fought off her weakness. Richard transformed into his dinosaur form as he attacked the slowed Sentinel who was moving in minute increments. Ella collapsed to the ground as she sighed. Richard wrestled with Sentinel as he pushed it over and scratched at the panels. Reagan sniffed the air as she cringed.
"There are too many!" She said as she picked up the scent of the Sentinels. She looked at Coralie and Camlin in question. "Can you guys, perform the sling shot?" They looked at her with widened eyes.
"I dunno if I can transfer ghost into Sentinels…" Coralie said. Camlin bit her lip as the Sentinels marched towards them. Suddenly, the lights in the Danger Room turned off. The lights started to blink nonstop to see the X-team surrounded by millions of Sentinels.
"The Danger Room is malfunctioning…get out of there! I'm trying to get the door to open." Storm said into the microphone. Kitty squealed as she phased through a Sentinel. Kurt started to bamf people out of the Danger Room. As soon as they were outside, they heard someone scream. It was Coralie as Camlin stared glassy eyed at the door to the Danger Room. A dim sparkle caught the X-team's eyes.
"It's a ghost…" She said quietly as Coralie cowered on the grounds covering her ears. Eric ran towards Camlin as he waved a hand in front of her face. "He wants us to get out. He says that he has control over everything. He says the only way he will give use the mansion back is if we play his game." They heard a crash from the lobby. They ran to see that the huge chandelier had crashed into a million pieces onto the ground.
"I don't like games and since he interrupted class…let's see what this ghosty has got." Logan grumbled as he unsheathed his adamantium claws.
"We can defeat this ghoul easy! We have him owned up by almost thirty..." Kitty laughed. Marina grunted. "Like seriously!" she pleaded.
Coralie gasped as she suddenly stood up and faced Camlin.
"You get out of her!" She screamed as she shook Camlin. Eric ran up concerned not sure what to do. Coralie closed her eyes as she breathed in deeply.
"Possession, a useful thing. It does feel weird living in a ghost talker's body." The ghost said using Camlin's body for his own needs. Eric got extremely angry. Coralie held him back as he attempted to approach Camlin. He had electricity coming off of him but Coralie still held him back as she got static shocked. He couldn't aggravate the ghost. She saw Logan out of the corner of her eye but Grace had it already taken care of when she threw out some seeds in front of him and made a wall of thick vines grow.
"Get out of her" Eric said holding back tears of his own.
"You wish…" Camlin snickered. "Good luck." Camlin disappeared. Everyone was left speechless. Coralie let go of Eric as she dropped down onto the floor.
"Oh, goodness." Ella said as she snapped her fingers. Everyone turned towards her with eyebrows lifted completely in disbelief at her reaction. They were standing at the top of the double staircase looking down over the foyer. Ella's eyes widened. "Get down everyone!" She managed to yelp as she hit the ground. They heard a pop and then a whizz. Suddenly a dozen firecrackers were thrown at them as they hovered midair. The X-men scattered throughout the house as Noah pulled Ella up from under the firecrackers with the help of Reagan. Mark carried Sarah who had fainted during the whole fiasco on his back as Marina threatened him, if he dropped her. They ran downstairs. Shiloh ran away with Spyke down the girl's hall. Zenith, Lyra, Laura slipped into one of the rooms in the corridor. The others were scattered throughout the mansion like a board game of Clue.
Wolverine stayed with Ella, Noah, and Reagan as Storm went off to find Eric and Coralie. Coralie seemed to be the only person that could get through to her sister who was now possessed by a mad man of a ghost. The lights all turned off as they heard the mansion go into lock down. The metal shields were snapped into place over the windows and the house became very dark. Logan scowled as he bumped into the railing. Noah pulled out a lighter. As the lighter illuminated the space the entire room was filled with dozens of sparkles as if glitter was falling to the floor.
"Um…are those…" Noah began to stutter as he saw the amount of sparkles grow. Logan hit him on the back of the head as they slowly went down the round staircase. Reagan shivered.
"Their presence is so cold and it smells like death…" She whispered.
"We need join up with the others soon. Our future doesn't look good." Ella whispered. Reagan turned towards her.
"Thanks for the optimism." Reagan said as they began to move faster. The lights began to flash rapidly.
"Okay, first thing is first we get the Professor then, we regroup with Storm." Logan said as they tried to avoid the falling chandelier pieces that had scattered across the floor.
"Are those pieces moving..?" Noah said. The chandelier rose into the air and the sharp shards with it.
"RUN!" Logan said as they ran towards an open door. It slammed shut. The pieces began to fly in every direction. Wolverine protected the students as he got scratched by the shards of glass. They heard a door open and a familiar voice.
"Come on, on your right!" Eric said as they sprinted towards it. Eric then shocked the chandelier and it fell to the ground for the second time. Coralie was sitting down on the floor in a mediating pose as Ella, Noah, and Reagan took deep breaths. Logan just sat down deep in thought. Kurt, Kitty, and Sakura bamfed into the room.
"Finally, ve found you guys!" He chuckled as Sakura and Kitty appeared to be stunned. Reagan pointed questionably to the two.
"Ve kind of just came from a room full of snakes…" He chuckled as he glanced around to see if anything was wrong in the room. Logan had healed from his wounds but there were plenty of cuts in his shirt and jeans.
"We need to get to Charles." Logan grumbled as he dusted off a scrap of fabric from his shirt.
"He's coming…" Coralie said ever so slowly as she opened her eyes. She got up and walked towards the door as everyone in the room watched intently. She opened it up as her hand shook.
The Professor wheeled in his chair and gazed at everyone.
"Let the games begin…" He grinned evilly. It was the ghost and now he had possession of the most powerful mutant in the mansion. They were all shocked, hadn't they already been playing the game? Their hearts skipped a beat as the lights turned off in the room. This was getting more serious than they wanted. What would happen to them all?