Do What You Have to Do, Part 0
By Tchabu

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Disclaimer--The X-men and all characters/entities/locations therein are owned by Marvel Comics, and not me. The Pretender and all characters/entities/locations therein are owned by Fox, NBC, and whoever else currently has the rights to them. I created Sarah, so I own her. Please don't sue me. I am making no money off of this.

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This is a Pretender/X-men crossover and the sequel to one of my stories, "Let There Be a Light," which can be read in the "Pretender" section of Fanfiction.net. However, you do not need to have read the first story, or even watch the Pretender, before reading this story. Here is a basic rundown of the show for those of you who don't watch it.

Pretenders are geniuses with the ability to become any person on earth, to think what that person is thinking, and even predict what that person will do next. There is a corporation in Delaware known as the Centre that kidnaps Pretenders when they are still young kids and exploit their genius for experiments and simulations of different scenarios. Jarod was one fot he first pretenders taken, and he escaped from the Centre after he had been there for thirty years. He basically goes around trying to right the injustices in the world, while Miss Parker (his childhood friend and Centre employee), Sydney (he raised Jarod and was the closest thing to a parent the boy ever knew at the Centre) and Mr. Broots (Centre technical expert) chase him around, trying to catch him and bring him back. Here are some other crucial characters:

Mr. Lyle--Miss Parker's twin brother, evil, has only one thumb, and a personal vendetta against a character I created. Oh, and he likes Asian women.

Mr. Raines--Another villain, old guy who hauls around a squeaky oxygen tank. He raised Sarah, my original character.

Angelo--An empath whose mind was destroyed by Raines, he can pick up emotions from objects and people.

Sarah--This is my character, who has never appeared in the series and so belongs to me. She is Jarod's younger sister, also taken by the Centre as a child. She has red hair, is in her early teens, and is a Pretender and Empath.

Kyle--He won't be actually in the story, but he will be mentioned. Jarod and Sarah's brother, he was raised by Raines at the Centre and trained to be an assassin. Eventually, he met Jarod and became less of a scary killer character. He was killed when Mr. Lyle tried to shoot Jarod, and Kyle got in the way.

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Hopefully you aren't too put off by this, so please, read and review. I want to hear what you really think about it, especially since this is my first fic involving the X-men. Also, if there are any real problems in character development or actions, as far as the X-men go, please, please, please tell me, because I have only seen the movie once and read all sorts of fanfics and character bios online.

Thanks, and on to chapter one!