Evan was bored. He was grounded and his aunt had taken his skateboard.
Evan had tried to skip school so that he could go to the skateboard championships, he'd been caught, and was now grounded for a month.
He wandered around the mansion, and then he went outside. The others were inside but he couldn't face them. He knew that Kurt would say "I told you so" and Jean would be disappointed.
He went into the area of the garden with trees with the vague idea of climbing one.
"Bored, bored" he hummed, scuffing his foot along a tree.
BANG!
Evan was thrown onto the grass by a huge force that came from behind him. He turned his head and saw a bubble appear in mid air. It looked like an ordinary bubble except that it was about the size of Even's head and was slightly blue. Every now and again the bubble would fold on itself.
Evan jumped behind a tree, a large array of sharp spikes appeared from his arm. He was ready to fight if he had to.
The bubble got larger until it was about the size of a doorframe. It then turned a fiery red, and a beautiful woman was thrown out on to the grass. She was about 25, possibly 30. All that she was wearing was a tight red dress. She had been in a fight because the dress had huge rips and creases all over it. A large portion of it's middle had been ripped out and one sleeve had been torn off. The woman herself had long, golden- brown hair down to her waist. He face had cuts and bruises but her long eyelashes were still visible. Evan suddenly became aware that she had an enormous scar across her stomach that was bleeding openly. She needed a doctor. The woman got up shakily, the dress probably used to cover her feet; it now had a large slit that started up her leg and had been ripped down and across. The dress itself ended near her knees.
"I'm free!" she hushed, looking around her "I'M FREE!!!" She laughed and spun around "Ahh!" she cried. She pressed her hands against the wound and screwed her face up in pain. She collapsed.
"I have to find.. Xavier" she trembled a little. At hearing the Professor's name Evan brought in his spikes and ran to help her. He took of his t- shirt.
"Press this as hard as you can against the wound," he told her. She was beginning to black out but did as she was told. "I'm going to get help"
"Xavier?" she whispered shakily
"Yes, I'm going to get Xavier" hushed Evan. He got up and began to run back to the mansion.
Kurt was sitting on the sofa eating some popcorn. He didn't have much to do. He was mainly waiting for Evan to come in so that he could say, "I told you so". While he was waiting he watched Kitty send her parents an e-mail. Jean was reading a book for school, Rogue was writing in a History book. Scott wasn't there and neither was Alex. They all jumped as Evan threw himself through the doors.
"Evan! What's the matter?" asked Kitty.
"Get Xavier! There's a woman dying in our back garden, she's got lots of wounds!" yelled Evan.
"Vhere?" asked Kurt
"Around the front, near the trees" said Evan. Kurt disappeared to find the professor and Logan. Evan told the others to follow him.
She was unconscious when they found her again. She was holding Evan's now bloodstained t-shirt in one hand. The other hand was stretched out; she'd tried to drag herself to the mansion.
"We have to get her help!" Said Jean. She leant by the woman. Rogue noticed a small necklace around her neck; a ring was on the chain. Gently she took it off.
"What are you doing?" asked Scott.
"There's writing on it, maybe it's her name." Rogue began to read, "It's in German! Wait there's also something on the inside, 'Louise Triban-slash-'" Rogue nearly dropped the ring in shock.
"What is it?" asked Evan
"'Louise Triban-slash- Wagner" she looked up "She's related to Kurt!" The others stared at this woman.
"She doesn't look like Kurt," said Evan slowly
"Her breathing's becoming irregular!" Cried Jean. "We're talking critical condition!" Kurt appeared in a puff of smoke.
"The professor told me to take her inside so that he can treat her" he touched the woman and they both disappeared.
"Um, so," started Evan "Who's going to tell him?". They all pointed at each other. Then they all pointed at him.
"Crud" he muttered. Two days later, Louise was in a coma. Xavier said that she should be out of it soon the way her condition was improving. Kurt sat on a chair, staring at her. She was related to him. Kurt only knew of one person in his family and this woman didn't look like him in any way. Xavier had already told them that she was 100% human and had probably been married into Kurt's family but Kurt didn't care. She could still tell him things about his families past. Kitty came in.
"Still here huh?"
"Yeah" he shrugged.
"Could you translate the writing on the side of this ring?" she handed it to him.
The ring was Gold and the engraving had been done in an elaborate hand.
"Show your true colours and no one vill fear you" Kurt was a little surprised at this. "I guess being a freak runs in ze family"
"You shouldn't talk about yourself like that, you know," said Kitty before leaving again.
After another few minutes something happened. Louise' breathing became erratic all over again. She sounded like she was about to scream. Kurt got up quickly so that he was next to her. He tried to pin her arms back down before she hurt herself. Her left hand clasped his arm. Suddenly he felt light headed and faint. He looked at his bare arm and began to scream.
Xavier was at seribro as this happened.
"New mutant found" said the computer.
"Vicinity?" asked Xavier.
"America, Bay Ville" The map pinpointed the location.
"Oh my!" whispered Xavier. He turned to Logan.
"It seems that Louise is, in fact, a mutant."
"But I thought that you'd already checked her out?" said Logan.
"Mutant levels reaching critical" said seribro.
"Professor!" Kitty ran in "Something's, like, happening to Louise. And I think I can hear Kurt screaming"
"I believe that Louise may be a very powerful mutant," Xavier informed her. "We need to get down there as quickly as possible"
Scott forced himself into Louise' room followed closely by Rogue, Jean, Alex and Evan.
"Kurt are you okay?" he asked. Kurt had his hologram on which Scott thought was odd. "Kurt, I'd turn off your hologram," he said
"It's not on" he replied, not taking his eyes off his hands. Scott suddenly saw Louise. She was still unconscious, but now she had three fingers on each hand, a tail that was hanging limply over the side of her bed and her skin was now a dark blue. Scott's mouth opened.
"Whoa!" he looked at Kurt. He was repeatedly feeling the new spaces between his new fingers. Louise began to shudder, within a second; she was just as she had been. Scott looked at Kurt, expecting to see his blue friend back to normal. He wasn't.
Kitty ran in, Xavier and Logan were behind her. They stared at Kurt.
"You're not wearing your watch!" hushed Kitty. Kurt's face suddenly changed. The broadest grin Scott had ever seen crossed it.
"Yes!!" he yelled. Getting up, he began to jump about speaking very fast in German. Then he realised that the others were staring at him and stopped.
"Uh!!" came a voice. Louise was waking up. Her hand massaged her head.
As Louise' eyes fluttered open Xavier went to her side.
"Hello, Louise Triban/Wagner" a confused look came over the woman's face. She turned to Xavier.
"How did you know that I'm engaged?" asked Louise "Oh! He told you-" she looked closer at the professor "You look a lot younger than I-" she saw the others "Children!!" she looked like she was going to faint. "I did it! I found you guys!"
"What?" asked Scott. She looked at Scott. "Scott summers, Jean Grey, Kurt Wagner, Even Daniels, Alex Summers, Kitty Pryde and Rogue, sorry, I don't know your real name" Louise sat up in her bed.
"Never the less, naming each one of them must have been quite a feat," said Xavier.
"No it wasn't, you are the X-men," she paused "I mean, you ARE the X-men, right?"
"Yes Louise, we are the X-men. Evan has told us about how you appeared in the garden, perhaps you'd like to tell me how that happened"
"Ah, the whole 'Vortex' thing" Louise leant forwards as she spoke. "Well, um, the first thing you need to know is that there are other dimensions. Loads of 'em. And there was a man called David. Now, David couldn't stand Mutants."
"Whoa! Whoa! Time out!! You mean humans know about Mutants?" asked Scott.
"Sure they do!" laughed Louise "Why'd you think I was here?"
"You're human?" Evan pointed at Kurt "You did that to Kurt! That's not human!!!" Louise blushed
"I'm getting' to that! Right, David is really jealous of mutants because they have powers. So he managed to create a whole new dimension but he also created a unique climate that GAVE HUMANS MUTANT POWERS!" she let that sink in.
"So, like, where do you come into this?" asked Kitty. Louise's face changed. Her eyes fell to her lap and she began to play with her hands. She sighed.
"He-he wanted to test the new dimension out. So, he began to search for someone," she smiled sadly "guess it was my lucky day. He chose me and-and kidnapped me. My god! The things he did to me!" tears began to fall down her cheeks.
"Don't tell us any more if you don't want to." Said Jean kindly
"No. You need to know this. David dressed me up like a doll, if I didn't do as he said, he'd show me pictures of my family and threaten me. I was helpless. Then something horrible happened," she shivered
"Vhat?" asked Kurt.
"David wanted me to marry him" another tear fell "As if I could love him!" she regained herself. "I managed to find a way out but I had no idea where that portal would lead" she smiled at Evan "Thank you" Evan blushed slightly as Louise carried on "I, um, I'd heard about you guys from my, my fiancé" Everyone noticed how her voice shook
"Is he a relation to Kurt?" asked Jean Gently
"Yes, he's-he's" the tears were cascading down her cheeks "He's dead, died protecting me and He told me about you guys" Louise's gaze fell and she looked at her hands. Kitty opened her mouth to say something but Xavier cut across her
"We'll give you some time alone" Louise nodded and wiped away some of her tears before yawning
. "Okay, I'm done. Tell me if you want any more explanations but I'm beat, night, night" she laid back and fell asleep again. The others left.
Louise was only pretending to sleep. The second they had left. She threw herself down onto her pillow and burst into tears. The lies she had told were choking her, she felt like she'd never be clean again.
'Children!' She thought 'they are only children! Now I shall never get home!' Louise was careful to make sure that her sobs were stifled, no one must know that she was crying.
Behind her door, Kurt took his hand away from the door knob and
silently went back to his room. He had been planning to say thank you. Now he was just confused.
Evan had tried to skip school so that he could go to the skateboard championships, he'd been caught, and was now grounded for a month.
He wandered around the mansion, and then he went outside. The others were inside but he couldn't face them. He knew that Kurt would say "I told you so" and Jean would be disappointed.
He went into the area of the garden with trees with the vague idea of climbing one.
"Bored, bored" he hummed, scuffing his foot along a tree.
BANG!
Evan was thrown onto the grass by a huge force that came from behind him. He turned his head and saw a bubble appear in mid air. It looked like an ordinary bubble except that it was about the size of Even's head and was slightly blue. Every now and again the bubble would fold on itself.
Evan jumped behind a tree, a large array of sharp spikes appeared from his arm. He was ready to fight if he had to.
The bubble got larger until it was about the size of a doorframe. It then turned a fiery red, and a beautiful woman was thrown out on to the grass. She was about 25, possibly 30. All that she was wearing was a tight red dress. She had been in a fight because the dress had huge rips and creases all over it. A large portion of it's middle had been ripped out and one sleeve had been torn off. The woman herself had long, golden- brown hair down to her waist. He face had cuts and bruises but her long eyelashes were still visible. Evan suddenly became aware that she had an enormous scar across her stomach that was bleeding openly. She needed a doctor. The woman got up shakily, the dress probably used to cover her feet; it now had a large slit that started up her leg and had been ripped down and across. The dress itself ended near her knees.
"I'm free!" she hushed, looking around her "I'M FREE!!!" She laughed and spun around "Ahh!" she cried. She pressed her hands against the wound and screwed her face up in pain. She collapsed.
"I have to find.. Xavier" she trembled a little. At hearing the Professor's name Evan brought in his spikes and ran to help her. He took of his t- shirt.
"Press this as hard as you can against the wound," he told her. She was beginning to black out but did as she was told. "I'm going to get help"
"Xavier?" she whispered shakily
"Yes, I'm going to get Xavier" hushed Evan. He got up and began to run back to the mansion.
Kurt was sitting on the sofa eating some popcorn. He didn't have much to do. He was mainly waiting for Evan to come in so that he could say, "I told you so". While he was waiting he watched Kitty send her parents an e-mail. Jean was reading a book for school, Rogue was writing in a History book. Scott wasn't there and neither was Alex. They all jumped as Evan threw himself through the doors.
"Evan! What's the matter?" asked Kitty.
"Get Xavier! There's a woman dying in our back garden, she's got lots of wounds!" yelled Evan.
"Vhere?" asked Kurt
"Around the front, near the trees" said Evan. Kurt disappeared to find the professor and Logan. Evan told the others to follow him.
She was unconscious when they found her again. She was holding Evan's now bloodstained t-shirt in one hand. The other hand was stretched out; she'd tried to drag herself to the mansion.
"We have to get her help!" Said Jean. She leant by the woman. Rogue noticed a small necklace around her neck; a ring was on the chain. Gently she took it off.
"What are you doing?" asked Scott.
"There's writing on it, maybe it's her name." Rogue began to read, "It's in German! Wait there's also something on the inside, 'Louise Triban-slash-'" Rogue nearly dropped the ring in shock.
"What is it?" asked Evan
"'Louise Triban-slash- Wagner" she looked up "She's related to Kurt!" The others stared at this woman.
"She doesn't look like Kurt," said Evan slowly
"Her breathing's becoming irregular!" Cried Jean. "We're talking critical condition!" Kurt appeared in a puff of smoke.
"The professor told me to take her inside so that he can treat her" he touched the woman and they both disappeared.
"Um, so," started Evan "Who's going to tell him?". They all pointed at each other. Then they all pointed at him.
"Crud" he muttered. Two days later, Louise was in a coma. Xavier said that she should be out of it soon the way her condition was improving. Kurt sat on a chair, staring at her. She was related to him. Kurt only knew of one person in his family and this woman didn't look like him in any way. Xavier had already told them that she was 100% human and had probably been married into Kurt's family but Kurt didn't care. She could still tell him things about his families past. Kitty came in.
"Still here huh?"
"Yeah" he shrugged.
"Could you translate the writing on the side of this ring?" she handed it to him.
The ring was Gold and the engraving had been done in an elaborate hand.
"Show your true colours and no one vill fear you" Kurt was a little surprised at this. "I guess being a freak runs in ze family"
"You shouldn't talk about yourself like that, you know," said Kitty before leaving again.
After another few minutes something happened. Louise' breathing became erratic all over again. She sounded like she was about to scream. Kurt got up quickly so that he was next to her. He tried to pin her arms back down before she hurt herself. Her left hand clasped his arm. Suddenly he felt light headed and faint. He looked at his bare arm and began to scream.
Xavier was at seribro as this happened.
"New mutant found" said the computer.
"Vicinity?" asked Xavier.
"America, Bay Ville" The map pinpointed the location.
"Oh my!" whispered Xavier. He turned to Logan.
"It seems that Louise is, in fact, a mutant."
"But I thought that you'd already checked her out?" said Logan.
"Mutant levels reaching critical" said seribro.
"Professor!" Kitty ran in "Something's, like, happening to Louise. And I think I can hear Kurt screaming"
"I believe that Louise may be a very powerful mutant," Xavier informed her. "We need to get down there as quickly as possible"
Scott forced himself into Louise' room followed closely by Rogue, Jean, Alex and Evan.
"Kurt are you okay?" he asked. Kurt had his hologram on which Scott thought was odd. "Kurt, I'd turn off your hologram," he said
"It's not on" he replied, not taking his eyes off his hands. Scott suddenly saw Louise. She was still unconscious, but now she had three fingers on each hand, a tail that was hanging limply over the side of her bed and her skin was now a dark blue. Scott's mouth opened.
"Whoa!" he looked at Kurt. He was repeatedly feeling the new spaces between his new fingers. Louise began to shudder, within a second; she was just as she had been. Scott looked at Kurt, expecting to see his blue friend back to normal. He wasn't.
Kitty ran in, Xavier and Logan were behind her. They stared at Kurt.
"You're not wearing your watch!" hushed Kitty. Kurt's face suddenly changed. The broadest grin Scott had ever seen crossed it.
"Yes!!" he yelled. Getting up, he began to jump about speaking very fast in German. Then he realised that the others were staring at him and stopped.
"Uh!!" came a voice. Louise was waking up. Her hand massaged her head.
As Louise' eyes fluttered open Xavier went to her side.
"Hello, Louise Triban/Wagner" a confused look came over the woman's face. She turned to Xavier.
"How did you know that I'm engaged?" asked Louise "Oh! He told you-" she looked closer at the professor "You look a lot younger than I-" she saw the others "Children!!" she looked like she was going to faint. "I did it! I found you guys!"
"What?" asked Scott. She looked at Scott. "Scott summers, Jean Grey, Kurt Wagner, Even Daniels, Alex Summers, Kitty Pryde and Rogue, sorry, I don't know your real name" Louise sat up in her bed.
"Never the less, naming each one of them must have been quite a feat," said Xavier.
"No it wasn't, you are the X-men," she paused "I mean, you ARE the X-men, right?"
"Yes Louise, we are the X-men. Evan has told us about how you appeared in the garden, perhaps you'd like to tell me how that happened"
"Ah, the whole 'Vortex' thing" Louise leant forwards as she spoke. "Well, um, the first thing you need to know is that there are other dimensions. Loads of 'em. And there was a man called David. Now, David couldn't stand Mutants."
"Whoa! Whoa! Time out!! You mean humans know about Mutants?" asked Scott.
"Sure they do!" laughed Louise "Why'd you think I was here?"
"You're human?" Evan pointed at Kurt "You did that to Kurt! That's not human!!!" Louise blushed
"I'm getting' to that! Right, David is really jealous of mutants because they have powers. So he managed to create a whole new dimension but he also created a unique climate that GAVE HUMANS MUTANT POWERS!" she let that sink in.
"So, like, where do you come into this?" asked Kitty. Louise's face changed. Her eyes fell to her lap and she began to play with her hands. She sighed.
"He-he wanted to test the new dimension out. So, he began to search for someone," she smiled sadly "guess it was my lucky day. He chose me and-and kidnapped me. My god! The things he did to me!" tears began to fall down her cheeks.
"Don't tell us any more if you don't want to." Said Jean kindly
"No. You need to know this. David dressed me up like a doll, if I didn't do as he said, he'd show me pictures of my family and threaten me. I was helpless. Then something horrible happened," she shivered
"Vhat?" asked Kurt.
"David wanted me to marry him" another tear fell "As if I could love him!" she regained herself. "I managed to find a way out but I had no idea where that portal would lead" she smiled at Evan "Thank you" Evan blushed slightly as Louise carried on "I, um, I'd heard about you guys from my, my fiancé" Everyone noticed how her voice shook
"Is he a relation to Kurt?" asked Jean Gently
"Yes, he's-he's" the tears were cascading down her cheeks "He's dead, died protecting me and He told me about you guys" Louise's gaze fell and she looked at her hands. Kitty opened her mouth to say something but Xavier cut across her
"We'll give you some time alone" Louise nodded and wiped away some of her tears before yawning
. "Okay, I'm done. Tell me if you want any more explanations but I'm beat, night, night" she laid back and fell asleep again. The others left.
Louise was only pretending to sleep. The second they had left. She threw herself down onto her pillow and burst into tears. The lies she had told were choking her, she felt like she'd never be clean again.
'Children!' She thought 'they are only children! Now I shall never get home!' Louise was careful to make sure that her sobs were stifled, no one must know that she was crying.
Behind her door, Kurt took his hand away from the door knob and
silently went back to his room. He had been planning to say thank you. Now he was just confused.