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Onto Chapter 2…
X-men: Memories of the Fallen.
Episode 2. The Team APart.
A week had gone by since Kail learned his name and he was having some difficulty integrating into the school. He had never had this type of interaction with other people and he found himself constantly doing something wrong. His first night had grown very cold so he did what he always did and started a fire in his room with wood that he brought in form the forests outside. The next day he attempted to strip and wash himself in the indoor pool as he thought it was like any other lake. He said the wrong things to people all the time, whether it was telling females about their inadequacies or calling a person a name that could be offensive after hearing others use the same phrases. He didn't mean to mess up all the time and Professor Lisa realized it. She had begun to understand his lack of social skills. Needless to say he had no friends at this institution no matter how hard he tried.
Kail was currently siting in his room reading the Iliad again. He had read the story so many times he had it nearly memorized. He loved the battle tactics used in the story, such as Odysseus's Trojan Horse, and he wondered if he could ever be a hero like the characters of Homer. His memory drifted back to the fight with the Sentry's. He didn't know how he did any of the things he did and frankly it scared him. He never knew about his powers and hadn't used them since. He was awoken from his thoughts by a knocking at the door. He walked over and opened it to find Talon standing is his doorway.
"You need to come with me." She said in a commanding fashion.
"Where to?" Kail asked.
"Professor Lisa asked me to bring you to the training area. She thinks that it's time to see what you can do."
"I don't know if I can do it again."
"Not my problem bub, now move your ass." She said as she turned around and began walking towards a bookshelf.
Kail didn't really understand why she was so cold. Had he done something to offend her? He figured it would probably be smartest to just follow her. He didn't want to get into any more trouble.
As he followed her she stopped in front of the book case and looked at the titles in silence. He thought it was a little strange since she said they were going to a training area. He guessed she meant mental stimulation. All of a sudden she reached out and took hold of the book titled "A tale of two cities". As she pulled the book back a loud click was heard and the bookcase began to swing open revealing an elevator.
"Whoa!"
Lisa chuckled slightly at his expression. "Your easy to impress huh. Get a move on we don't have all day."
The two stepped into the elevator and Talon pushed the button marked 2. The bookcase closed on them as they began moving downward. Talon noticed Kail looking at her hands and she found it annoying.
"Can I help you?"
"Do those knives really come out of your hands?"
She shot a glare in his direction and He decided that he shouldn't bring it up again.
"So…is that your real name? Talon?"
"Look bub, things around here will go a lot easier if you keep your mouth shut and stop with all the questions. Until I see if you are worth my time you are nothing but an inconvenience to me, and a waste of my time. Get it….Good."
The elevator reached the correct floor and the door opened. There was a long metal hallway in front of them. Talon began to walk forward and Kail followed a few paces behind. He didn't know why she was so curt towards him, but he determined that letting it go was the best option. As they continued walking Kail began feeling a strange pull coming from Talon. He didn't know what it was so he began to focus on the pull. All of a sudden Talon swirled around and grabbed Kail by the throat and pinned him to the wall she raised her other hand and slowly her three claws began to extend until they reached his neck. She had a wild look in her eyes and it scared the carp out of Kail.
"I don't know what you thought you were doing, but if you ever use your powers on me again I will tear you into pieces. And don't you dare think that I am joking bub. I do not like you magnetics and I would be glad to kill you."
Afterwards she threw him to the ground. As he landed the doors behind him opened and three people stepped out of the room. The first was Professor Lisa, and the others were the boys who helped rescue him. Professor Lisa looked upset while the other two had smiles on their faces.
"Amber Howlett I expect more from you. He still doesn't understand his powers just as you once didn't. I understand your feelings on the subject but as the leader of this team…"
"Co-leader." The boy who had the uniform with the hour glass shape interrupted.
"…Co-leader, my apologies Christopher, as co-leader of this team you should show more restraint."
"My apologies professor." Amber said quietly
Kail was stunned at the way Talon, or Amber, reacted to the professor. This woman must be more powerful than she lets on to get a reaction like that.
"Come on Amber lets go watch from the viewing room." Christopher said to the girl."
"You know I've got to say with just the three of us I don't see the need for co-leaders. Besides all five of us know that I'm the best." The other boy said snarky. Strangely his whole demeanor changed to a more professional one, as he bowed to the two others in the room and apologized. As Christopher and Amber walked away he looked over into a reflective mirror. "One should behave himself in front of a lady." He seemed to speak to himself quietly in a chivalrous manner. His demeanor again changed to a more reserved feel and he took out a book and began drawling as he walked. Kail just looked at him like he was crazy.
"What the heck is up with him?" Kail said under his breath hoping that the professor didn't hear him.
"His name is Vincent and his mutant ability has caused him to have three different personalities that compete in his head for supremacy over his body. I would ask that you try to keep an open heart and an open mind for the others that reside here. I know they have not been very welcoming to you but you are strange to them as well. Now follow me." Professor Lisa instructed.
They walked into a large circular room with a dome ceiling. The walls were covered with square metal paneling except for one section of glass. Behind the glass stood Amber, Christopher and Vincent. Professor Lisa stood near the middle of the room looking to Kail.
"This school was created to help young people learn how to control and use their mutations in a safe and effective way. From what our information on you has shown you seem to have magnetic qualities. You also seem to be able to change your body into a metallic alloy."
"I don't know how I did those things."
"I know that, which is why we are here. This is our Training and Development room, or as many students have referred it as, the Danger Room. In here you will be able to safely test your powers in a controlled environment. The first thing we will do is figure out your triggers."
"My triggers?"
"The emotion that allows you to access your abilities. Everyone has a trigger, unless the ability is passive. Yours seems to be active so we need to know your trigger."
The door opened and the boy named Nicholas walked into the room.
"You asked for me professor?"
"Yes Nicholas I was hoping that you could access Kail's mind again to tell me the emotions that led to him discovering his abilities."
"You want me to go inside his head again?" Nicholas asked apprehensively.
"Yes, don not worry you don't have to push very far just to that night."
"Okay, if you want me too then I guess."
Nicholas walked up to Kail and lifted his hands to the sides of Kail's head. The jolt went through Nicholas again as he experienced every thought and emotion that had gone through Kail's head that night. The fear, panic, and sadness. The waiting for his capture, and the need to survive against the sentry's. When he was finished he backed away quickly as he felt a pull from Kail's mind to try to draw him in farther.
"What did you find?"
"There was allot of fear in his head. That and a need to survive."
"Ok thank you Nicholas, you may go and stand in the observation room with the others. Now Kail, we are going to put you through some simulation test where we will attempt to give you control of your powers. I will only do this with your permission, but know this without control you risk unleashing your powers on to the world at any time and you will not be able to do anything about, which could lead to people getting hurt.
Kail looked to the ground. He was nervous to do this but he understood the repercussions of not doing it. He raised his head to meet her eyes. They seemed to be caring and honest and he felt that he could trust her.
"Ok I'll do it."
"Fantastic, now I will leave you in here, and the simulation will start soon. Good luck." On that note Lisa walked over to the door.
"Christopher, start him on a level 1 Sentry simulation."
"I think that he can handle more that, don't you guys?" He said jokingly. His smile left his face as he felt a chill going down his back.
"Christopher, we will not do this again. Start him on level 1." Lisa said strictly.
"Yes mam."
Kail watched as a panel wall opened up. Out of it came three of the soldiers who had been following him the previous day. As Lisa watched on she picked up a helmet from the control panel and placed it upon her head. She began to use this helmet to amplify her ability throughout the room.
"Hey guys what's going on in here?" Kail called out.
The Sentries raised their weapons and walked towards him. He didn't think that this could actually be happening. There was no way these people were going to turn him over to them. He looked over to the glass but it was gone. The room they were in was now black. All of a sudden her heard a large firing noise and his arm broke out in pain, causing him to grab it on reflex. He looked down and saw blood running down his arm.
"Come with us, and we will hurt you no further." The sentry said to him.
Kail was terrified. They shot him and the others had left him here to die. As the Sentries approached him he grew more afraid. He didn't want to die. He didn't know why he was there, or who he really was, but he knew one thing and that was that he wanted to live. All of a sudden the he heard the Sentries begin to freak out. He opened his eyes to see them hovering in the air. His hand was out and pointing towards them. He remembered Amber saying that they were machines, which meant they were made of metal. He felt that pull again as they hovered in the air and allowed the feeling to have control. The Sentries began to scream as they were pulled apart by his magnetic field. This shocked Kail so much that he dropped his power and what was left of them fell from the air causing loud crashes to sound through the room. One of the bodies flew toward him through and just before it hit him he felt his skin go cold. The Sentry crashed into him and he felt nothing. He looked at his hands and they were covered in metal. No, they were metal He tried to move his fingers and found that it was difficult to do so. He remembered that before his arm had become some kind of blade. With that in mind he pictured his arm becoming a sword and his arm began to melt away and mold itself into a long incredibly sharp blade.
Four more Sentries walked into the room and Kail looked from them to his arm. Feeling that familiar pull in his gut he thought about them flying towards him and he reached out to them with his mind and tugged at the metal in their bodies. One flew towards him and he jabbed his arm out impaling the Sentries chest. He smiled at what he was able to do. He felt nearly invincible. He did the same thing to the others, pulling them towards him, but this time he ran forward and slashed his way through the remaining three. All of a sudden he grew tired and his body reverted to normal. He looked to his arm and the blood was gone, as was the bullet hole. He fell to the ground, exhausted.
Professor Lisa, Amber, Christopher, Vincent, and Nicholas had watched the whole thing astonished. The only magnetic mutant they knew of was Magneto, an enemy of Professor Charles Xavier and his X-Men. Amber was impressed by the level of control that Kail had already seemed to be able to accomplish. Christopher on the other hand was fuming about it.
"Not too bad, if you ask me." Nicholas said to the others.
"Well it's a good thing no one did then huh." Christopher said clearly irritated.
"Christopher, you must calm down." Lisa told him. "We all achieve our control in our own time."
"Time…..that's amusing." He said as he turned around and walked out of the room.
Amber looked over to the Professor and gave a slight smile. "He will be fin. If not I'll just kick his ass into shape."
"Colorful as usual Amber."
Vincent sat silently drawing in his book. He stood up and gave a bow to the professor and walked out of the room.
"So that one's in control this time huh. Well at least it's not Mr. crazy, or Mr. chivalry." Nicholas said a little too loudly, before he walked out of the room.
"Amber, I want you to work with him. He will make a great addition to your team."
Suddenly amber grew stiff and her whole demeanor changed.
"We do not need him, or anyone else for that matter." He challenged. "The team is fine just the way it is."
"Amber I understand how you feel about this." Lisa said trying to be comforting. "But you need to realize that just because Wa….."
"I don't want to hear it. You want to send this kid out there to get killed fine be my guest. But don't you dare try to replace anyone who we have lost because you can't." Amber left the room pissed off and looking to be holding back her sorrow.
…
Kail woke up a few hours later in his bed. He looked over and saw Lisa sitting in a chair reading a book. He found himself growing angry at her for allowing the sentries into come for him.
"Ah your awake then."
"I thought you said I could trust you." He said coldly.
"I did say that, have I shown you otherwise?"
"You let those things come for me. They shot me. I could have been killed!" He shouted at her.
He found himself bewildered as she began to smile at him.
"Do you think that this is funny or something?"
"You were never in any danger. Your trigger seemed to be fear, and your will to live. So I had to make you believe that you were in trouble, and could possibly die. You were never actually shot. I have the ability to alter what your brain sees, feels, and hears. I can project images into your mind and make you believe that something else is there that really isn't. So for you I showed you sentries coming after you, and made your body believe that you were shot when you really were not. In the end it worked and you were able to access your mutant ability. I told you that you could trust me and you can."
Kail still questioned the things that she was saying to him. Even more so now learning about her powers.
"If your powers allow you to mess with my mind, then how do I know that any of it was real. How do I know that I'm really here and not in a cell somewhere. I don't know what to think."
"I understand your feelings. We will show you that you can have faith in us. This is where you belong."
"Have you seen the way people act toward me. Obviously the people here don't want me here. I don't feel like I belong here."
"Kail, you need to trust me. I know that it may be hard right now, but you are in no danger here. I'm going to let you sleep on it for a while. Come down to the danger room tomorrow if you decide that you want to stay, if not then I am truly sorry. I do hope that you choose to stay."
Kail laid back in his bed and wondered what he should do. He remembered Lisa telling him that if he didn't master his abilities he could end up hurting people, and he didn't want that. But how could he know if anything was real. He was released from his thoughts from a knock at his door. He walked over and opened it. The red haired girl from the previous day named Daniela was standing in his doorway.
"I heard that you might be leaving." She asked with a tone of disappointment in her voice.
"I don't know."
"Well I hope not. I could be fun having you here." She walked over to him and sat down next to him on his bed. "Professor Lisa asked me to do some research on you. I am pretty good with biology and medical science so I did as she asked. When you first came here I took a blood sample and I found out some very interesting things. Would you like to know."
"Great so there's one more thing that the professor hid from me."
"Don't act like that. She is a very good person. All she wants to do is help you. " Daniela said slightly irritated.
"Ok so what did you find?"
"Well it would seem that your DNA shows a match to the atomic structure of adamantium which leads me to believe that you are somehow merged with the metal on a genetic level which explains your ability to literally become living metal. I don't know if this was a natural occurrence or something else. I would love to help you figure it out as it could help to discover the rest of your life. But I can only help you if you stay. You do belong here. I hope you stay." Daniela stood up and left the room.
Kail decided to sleep and in the morning he would make his choice. As he slept he had the same dreams that he had been having. Dreams about a laboratory, and excruciating pain. It caused him to wake up in the middle of the night sweating profusely. He looked at the time and it was 2 in the morning. He wanted some water so he walked out of his room. As he walked down the hall he noticed that the bookcase was open. He walked over to the elevator and rode it to the same floor as earlier. He saw the door to the danger room was closed and above he saw a sign that said simulation in progress. He looked to his right and saw an open door so he walked into an observation room.
There was a large glass window that revealed the inside of the danger room. He figured this was the room that everyone had watched him from. He looked into the room and saw Christopher alone standing in the center of the room. He was wearing the black outfit he had worn when he helped save Kail. He had two swords strapped to his back and guns in holsters on his legs. A voice seemed to echo throughout the room. Simulation level 15 active, Weapon levels lethal.
Panels around the room began to open to reveal laser turrets and cannons surrounding Christopher, as well as about 30 Sentries standing in a circle around him. The lasers began firing at Christopher as he darted and dodged the lethal blasts. The Sentries began to engage him in combat as he pulled out his swords. He slashed his way through the robotic humanoids without being touched by them. He dropped one of his swords and threw a Sentry into a laser blast destroying it. As the sentries fell around him, Christopher pulled out his guns and began to shoot at the cannons, and turrets. It took one shot each to cause them to fail and stop functioning around him. All of this took roughly three minutes and the room's voice said simulation complete. Kail looked on, astonished at the ability he had just witnessed. Christopher turned around and looked at Kail. Seeing him he walked to the exit and came into the observation room.
"What the hell are you doing in here."
"I'm sorry. I was curious about why the elevator was open so I came down. That was incredible though. Is that you mutant ability, the fighting in there."
"No. That is four years of hard work."
"So what is your power?"
"None of your business."
Kail had had enough. There was no reason for the way he was currently being treated. He wanted to know why.
"Look I don't what I did to deserve the way you guys have acted towards me but this is ridiculous."
"You have zero respect for the power that you have! You have a mutation that seems to be fairly simple to use once you found your "trigger" as the Professor puts it, but not everyone has that luxury. So tell me why I should respect you."
"Hey it's not my fault that she wants me here or on your "Team"."
Christopher took a few steps toward Kail. "You might end up on the team, but you will never replace the ones we lost."
"Who said I was trying too."
"No one I just want that fact to be know." Christopher turned around and walked out leaving Kail alone.
Kail turned back to the glass window and saw that the room was cleaning itself and repairing all the broken robotics.
"Don't worry about him. He has a gift that he can't control and it cost him dearly, so to see how easy it was for you upset's him." Daniela said as she walked into the room.
"Were you watching all of this."
"I was working down the hall but I heard everything."
"What can he do?"
"He can control the time around him. I've seen it before. He tried simulation level 20 against the Professor's wishes. Got hurt pretty bad, almost died. When we found him he had frozen the lasers around him in midair. He was hospitalized for weeks. He can't choose when his powers activate, they just do occasionally. When he first came to the school it wasn't under happy circumstances and he didn't come out of his room much for the first year. Warren helped with that a bit."
"Who?"
"Never mind. Umm…..so maybe you should head on back to bed."
"Yeah sure. I'll see you tomorrow?"
"Definitely."
As Kail went back to his room Professor Lisa was waiting in the Hospital room for Daniela to return. Daniela walked back in and sat down next to her.
"So is everything better then?"
"I hope so."
"Do you think he will stay?"
"I hope so."
"I was looking through your findings, are you sure about all of this?"
"I've triple checked."
This is unbelievable."
"Yeah I know but he may share some traits of Colossus, but his father is definitely Magneto."
"That may complicate things."
"Should we tell him."
"No not yet. Keep this between the two of us for now."
"I don't like keeping secrets like this."
"I know Daniela but it is best for now.
…
The next morning,
Kail woke and prepared himself for the day. After his long night he had finally made his decision. He needed to speak with the Professor and inform her of his choice.
He quickly walked down the hallways heading to her office. Classes in this school wouldn't start for another hour so he knew she would be there. He found her door and knocked,
"Come in." She answered.
He walked into her office and found Vincent, Daniela, Nicholas, Christopher, and Amber in there as well. Daniela had a smile on her face as she hoped that he would stay.
"Kail, have you reached a decision yet?"
"Yes I have."
"And what is it you have chosen?"
"I know that you have lost members of your team. I don't know who they were or how they were lost but I just wanted it known that no matter what I have no plans on taking the place they left behind. I am new to all of this and I don't know how to be part of a team and frankly it kind of scares me, but I will work my hardest to belong here. I do not expect anyone's help, or pity, nor do I want it. All I want is to find my own place here, and I will do whatever it takes to find it. So my decision is that I want to stay, if you would still have me."
Professor Lisa, Nicholas, and Daniela smiled. "I am glad that this is the choice you made."
"Don't expect us to go easy of you bub." Amber said
"I wouldn't dream of it."
"Well then, Metal Head, welcome to the team." Vincent said his cockiness was back.
Daniela walked over to him and handed a key. "Welcome home." And at that moment he actually thought that he was home.
Elsewhere,
Three hooded figures walked down a long dark corridor. A symbol was on their backs in the shape of a circle around a hexagonal star. In the middle of the star was an upside down cross. The three entered a room where in front of them was a crescent shaped table with five people sitting down in it. The three hooded figures sat in the three chairs that were in the middle if the crescent. The figure seated in the middle of the table stood up and held out his hands.
"My brothers and sisters, tonight we are joined by three new members of our family. They have survived the process and are ready for their true initiation. For years we have stood by silently, waiting in the dark for our moment while our friends, The Brotherhood, have enacted their great works. But the time has come for the world to inherit a new order. To inherit S.O.U.L."
All who were in the room bowed their head in agreement.
"Do the three of you promise to uphold the views of our S.O.U.L, and help to create our order upon this fallen world."
"We do." The three said in unison.
"Do you promise to fight all injustice of our mutant kind and send the apes to the hell in which they deserve."
"We do."
"Do you promise to change the lives of Homo Superior everywhere by taking us to the platform in which we so rightly deserved."
"We do."
"Then my brothers and sisters. You will take your place amongst our family. Soon, very soon, S.O.U.L will rise. Remove your hoods and look upon us as equals in right, equals in evolution, equals in power, and equals in divinity."
They removed their hoods and were met by eyes darker than blackest night.
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Well thanks for reading chapter 2. I hope that you all enjoyed it. I also thank everyone for their review. Please keep them coming and let me know things that you like or don't like. Depending of reaction to specific characters I may end up doing origin stories for them. If this is something any of you would like to see than I will definitely give it some thought. I will try to update as frequently as possible but with my new classes starting it will cause some time restraint. Though with the good reaction I have had so far I have had more desire to write this chapter faster. Thanks again to all and I hope to hear back from all of you.
