Author's Note:
So it's the second part. Sorry to took so long. I don't really have an excuse why, it just kind of happened. Anyways, I would like to thank those who put my story on their Favorite and/or Alert lists.
Thank you so much. It makes me feel so good inside to know that you liked it.
Now for those who reviewed. A special thanks to you. You get a hug and a cook from me (smiles). I really do appreciate reviews. They help motivate me to write more. If you have any comments/questions/suggestion/anything, you can review (I will answer all reviews) or you can message me. Now for me to comment on my reviews.
alchemists19: Thank you!
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Mystique: When I first read your review, I thought it said "Mystique, I am interested." It took me a day and to look at your review again to realize that Mystique was your name. (laugh). I have one more part after this to review and edit.
Now I'm going to respond to your reviews together because they are basically the same, no offense. If you want to know where I got the idea for this crossover, I had read a story by dracohalo117. I like the theme so much that I wanted to write one like theirs just so there was more to read. I didn't want to out right steal their story, so I started to think about it. It was when watching X-Men: Evolution and Ben 10 series, I saw something in X-Men: Evolution that made me think of Ben 10. It was just a small connection, but from it bore this. I'll tell you more later, I don't want to ruin it for you.
The Quarrelsome Sage: Don't worry there will be more. I have one more part after this to edit. Then back to Medical Strings. That one needs a little editing. After that, I don't know, maybe one more chapter of this then I might start a new story. I don't know.
Back to the author notes. Anyway, with Kurt's and Rogue's accents, I'm only going to change a few works. I don't want Kurt to sound like Count Dracula. I also don't want Rogue to sound like a backwards hick or something. That will be why their works will be a little . . . erratic or something.
Speaking: "Hi, I'm Bob."
Thoughts: "Did I lock the doors?"
Physic Speaking: "Bob, you left the doors open." "Thanks Mike."
Omni Evolution Chapter 2: Poor Kurt
It had been a few hours since Gwen had arrived. After Charles left her, he returned to his office and told the others to give Gwen some space until dinner. So they went and continued with what they would normally do.
================================Kitty's Room================================
Kitty and Kurt were working on their homework for Monday. Kurt was laying on the floor with his left hand propping him up, while the he wrote with the other. Kitty was siting on her bed with her books on her lap.
"Kitty, I don't get this algebra question," Kurt said to Kitty.
"Like let me see it." Kitty pushed her books to the side and took a look at the worksheet he was working on. "Well, first yo . . ." She was interrupted by a knock at the door. "Come in," Kitty said as she and Kurt turned to see who was at the door.
The door opened and in walked Ororo. "Hello Kitty and Kurt. Can you two go get Gwen for me? Dinners ready."
"No problem, ve'll go get her now," Kurt replied quickly. Before Kitty could say anything, Kurt grabbed her hand and teleported away. He was excited about the new girl and wanted to get away from his homework. "Any excuse not to do homevork is ah good one. And it doesn't hurt that it involves ah pretty girl."
Kurt and Kitty appeared before Gwen's door. Kitty was coughing because of the teleportation's smoke. She turned to the blue furred mutant and shouted, "KURT! Like totally warn someone when you are like going to do that. It totally smells of like rotten eggs."
"It's not that bad," Kurt replied, almost sounding dismissive. He turned to look at Gwen's door. As he went to knock on the door, Kitty could be heard mumbling "I think I like swallowed it."
"Gwen, it's Kurt and Kitty. Ve're here to get you for dinner," the blue mutant said.
"Just a second," replied Gwen. They waited for just a few moments before Gwen opened the door. When she stepped out, she had her bag strapped around her waist, so that it rested on her right hip.
Kitty saw the bag and wasn't so sure what to say about it. "I um . . like you bag." The way she said it wasn't very convincing.
"Thanks?" replied Gwen.
"I think it's cute," said Kurt. He went to touch it, but before he was even an inch away from it, the bag's mouth opened and snapped at him. Kurt clutched his hand to his chest as he though "Those look sharp."
"Did she get you?" Gwen asked, reaching out as if to grab his hand.
"No, I'm alright. See," replied Kurt. To show her, he waved his hand at her.
Kitty was standing there just watching. She was too shocked at first to say anything. "Did her bag move on it's own?" It took her a couple of minutes for her to respond, but she eventually did. "WHAT IS THAT THING!"
"Calm down, it's just Saifu. She's my magical bag," stated Gwen. Her tone said that this was normal for her.
"Magic isn't real," was the similar thought of Kurt and Kitty, but Kurt was the one that voiced this.
"There's no such thing as magic," he said.
This Gwen countered with "Just as there is no such thing as mutants." With that said she walked down the hall towards the dining hall or at least were she thought it was. Kurt and Kitty found it hard to dispute what Gwen said. If you asked most, they would say that super powered people didn't exist. They quickly gathered themselves and followed her down the hallway, the whole way asking and discussing the reality of magic.
Everyone was gathered in the dining room, waiting for Kurt, Gwen, and Kitty. They were waiting patiently, well most of them were.
"Yo, can we start eating. I'm like starving over here," said Spyke. He was seated to the right of Charles, who was sitting at the end of the table. It was easier this way with his wheelchair. Plus he was the Professor, and it just seem right to everyone at the mansion that he sat at the head of the table.
"Evan, that is rude," Ororo replied. She was a little embarrassed by his behavior. Her seat was right across from her nephew. "I thought grounding Evan would put him on his best behavior, especially with a new student at the mansion, but I was wrong." She was going to say more, but Charles beat her to it.
"Show a little patience Spyke," Charles said.
"Well, we don't usually wait. Everyone knows the time for supper is 6:30. It doesn. . .," Spyke replied, but was interrupted by Charles.
"And we don't usually have a new student," Charles said. It was when Spyke heard this, that he realized why they were waiting. "To be polite to Gwen," he silently thought.
Spyke was quick to say "I'm sorry" as he hit his forehead with his open palm. "Dude, I'm so stupid."
"That is alright Evan. As I said, you just need to show more patience, it is a good ability to have," replied Charles. He was going to explain a little more about Gwen's situation, but just then they could hear Kitty, Kurt, and Gwen. He didn't want to explain it in front of her, so he waited. Everyone could hear laughing as they entered. They turned and in walked a giggling Gwen and Kitty. The two girls turned to look back down the hallway they had just come from.
"Come on, (laugh) it like isn't totally that bad," Kitty said as she tried, and failed, to suppress her laughter.
"Kurt, I just need to locate the reversal spell and then you'll be back to normal," Gwen said in a soft comforting tone. She quietly opened the spell book in her hand and started looking for a spell that would work. She honestly felt bad about casting a spell on Kurt.
"Fine. . .But you guys better not laugh," Kurt said the last part loud enough so that the people siting at the table could hear him. He then teleported into the room in front of the girls. What everyone saw was shocking. Somehow Kurt's fur went from blue to bright pink.
Charles just folded his hands together with his elbows on the table and rested his chin on them. Ororo turned partiality around (so she could keep an eye on Evan) and gasped. Scott and Jean (who where sitting next to Ororo respectively) turned fully around. Scott raised an eyebrow with a look on his face that said "you don't see that everyday" and Jean had a blank look on her face. Spyke was going to give an smart ass remark, but a look from his aunt told him to shut it. Logan (who was sitting next the Spyke) didn't have anything stopping him from saying something.
"Well I guess I should start calling you Fairy instead of Elf now," Logan said with a smirk on his face. This seemed to be to much for Rogue (who was next to Logan), who started cracking up.
"(laugh) That's (laugh) priceless (laugh)," Rogue said between laughter. This was surprising, usually Rogue would laugh a little and then go back to her moody self. Seeing her crack up was everyone's breaking point. One by one, the people started laughing. They weren't trying to be mean, it was just too funny.
Kurt didn't find this funny at all, it just felt bad to him. He feared something like this would happen one day. He might like to make people laugh and all, but that was when he was trying to be funny. This wasn't one of these time. He was going to teleport away, but was stopped.
Charles and Jean felt what Kurt was feeling and were going to put a stop to the laughs, but someone else had felt Kurt's feelings and beat them to it.
"SILENSEO," shouted Gwen. She had felt bad about this whole thing in the beginning, but now she felt horrible. So she cast another spell, an enchantment of silence. Everyone that had been laughing, found that they couldn't make a sound. It was as silent as a tomb, as the ones effected by the spell tested their voices to see if they would work. Gwen walked over to Kurt and put her hand on his shoulder.
"I'm really sorry Kurt," she said as she lead him into a seat next to Jean and she took the one next to him.
Kitty stood in the door way for a few moments and then took a seat next to Rogue. She was kind of in shock from not beeing able to talk and didn't want to sit near the one that caused it at the moment.
Kurt could tell from Gwen's tone that she was genuinely sorry and felt horrible about it. "So, how long vill they be silent," he gestured to the ones at the table.
"Well it depends on how much noise they were making at the time the spell was cast," Gwen replied. This made a few of the people at the table nervous and caused Kurt's mood to lighten. He thought for a minute and then burst out laughing. "You mean they can't talk at all?"
"Not just that, they can't make any sound," confirmed Gwen. This caused Kurt and everyone else to stop for a minute. Gwen reached down to her bag, unzipped it and pulled out a small metal bike horn.
"Vhy does she have that in there?," thought Kurt.
Gwen looked over to Kurt and gave the horn a squeeze, causing it to made a loud honking noise. She then handed it to Kurt, who turned it around in his hands and looked at it confusedly until he decided to speak.
"Vhat does this got to do vith them making noise?" Kurt asked and as if to enforce the question, he honked the horn.
"I just wanted to show that it worked. Now give it to Kitty," Gwen said.
Kurt gave her a doubtful look, but threw it to Kitty. The horn went in a large curve and landed softly in front of the girl. Kitty was still in a little bit of a shocked state. The horn gave a squeak as it landed and that seemed to give her a start. She sat there just looking at the horn like it was going to bite her. Everyone was watching to see what would happen.
After a few minutes of waiting, Gwen said in a soft tone "Kitty," at which said girl looked up. "Give it a try."
Kitty hesitantly picked it up and gave the horn a squeeze. Everyone, except Gwen, was shocked as it didn't made a sound. She tried it a few more times with equal results. Kitty dropped it as if it had the plague.
As Gwen started speaking again everyone turned there attention to her. "As I said, they can't make a sound. At all," she said this with a factual tone.
When realization hit Kurt, he fell right out of his chair with laughter.
"I hope that they will gain back their voices by Monday, Gwen," said Charles. He looked at the shocked faces at the table and could tell, without reading their minds, that they wanted to why he could talk and they couldn't.
"I was effected, it just didn't last very long because I only gave a chuckle. I was more curious as to how Gwen altered Kurt's color, than amused by it," Charles said.
This reminded Gwen that she needed to find a reversal spell for Kurt. She quickly opened her spell book and started to look through it. She decided to answer Charles's indirect question as she looked.
"I can manipulate mana. People that can do this can cast spells and other magic. Some people are born able to do this better then others, but that doesn't mean that it can't be learned by anyone. It just means that some have to take years of training to do it. If an. . ." Gwen's explanation was cut short by Ororo's stern voice.
"Evan Daniels! What do you think your doing!" She had an angry and disappointed look on her face. Those around wondered what the matter was and why she could talk already. The first was easy to answered by looking next to Spyke. On the floor was a plate smashed to pieces.
Spyke had been listen to Gwen and thought "No sound at all. I wonder . . . " He had picked up his plate and held it in the air at his side. Then he dropped it, waiting for the crash, yet it never came.
Spyke thought "It made no noise, that's just plain freaky." He turned to face his aunt and saw that she was waiting for an explanation. He tried his voice but nothing happened. Giving a defeated look to his aunt, he shrugged his shoulders.
"We'll speak of this later. . .that is, when you can speak again," she said with a slight chuckle to her voice. At hearing this Spyke slumped back in his chair, crossed his arms and had a look on his face that was almost a pout. Ororo laughed a bit at his look, which was followed by everyone contributing to it, even if they still couldn't make a sound. This seemed to lighten the mood for the rest of the meal.
The meal was eaten in mostly silence. The people that could, talked about the normal dinner table stuff. Gwen was still looking for a spell to change Kurt from pink back to blue. It took most of the meal for her to find it.
At the end of the meal Gwen turned to Kurt and said "I found a spell that should make your fur normal again."
"Okay. Vhat do ve gotta do?" asked Kurt.
Gwen turned towards Kurt and said "Nothing really, just sit still." She raised her left hand so that the palm faced the pink boy. Her eyes glowed pink and her hand was surrounded by the same energy. "Pigmenta Metamorphosis," Gwen said with a calm even tone.
Kurt was encased in an orb of the pink energy. In a flash of bright light the boy was back to his blue normal self. He was so excited by it that he teleported to the middle of the dinning table and stared to dance. His arms would point out to his left, then travel in a curve until they pointed out at his right side and the process would be repeat. He stuck out his ass and would bring it back and forth. His tail squirmed around the whole time. It was the uttermost embodiment of the happy dance anyone at the table had seen. Also, it was the most hilarious thing they had seen.
"Kurt, I know you are happy" said Charles, making Kurt freeze mid-dance. "But could you not dance on the table." His tone was full of amusement.
"Sorry Professor," Kurt said, then teleported back to his seat. He knew that he shouldn't have danced on the table, but he was just so happy to be normal again. "Vell, me normal."
"It's quite alright Kurt. Now I think everyone should get to bed early, we have an training session tomorrow morning," Charles said.
With that little reminder, the kids gave a collective sigh and everyone helped to clean up. As she was helping, Gwen thought "What is so bad about training."
When the table was cleaned up, the kids headed to their rooms while the adults stayed to talk.
==============================In Gwen's Room==============================
Gwen flopped down onto her new bed. She reached over to her night stand and picked up her book on chi. Reading helped her to relax, but she couldn't help thinking about all that had happened today. Setting her book to the side, Gwen stared at the ceiling as she thought "New home, new school and possibly . . .new friends with similar . . differences. I don't think it will be so bad here." With that final thought, Gwen got up and went over to the dresser. Opening it, she pulled out a pair of light blue pajamas. As she was getting the pajamas, she noticed that there was a brown package that she hadn't put there or packed. "This wasn't there when I put my clothes here." Before Gwen could get suspicious, she saw a white envelope taped to the top. On the front of it, in big fluent cursive letters, was the word "Kiddo".
"Grandma," Gwen said out loud. She was only slightly surprised by Verdona doing this. "This is so something grandma would do," Gwen thought as she opened the letter and began to read it.
"Hey there Kiddo, thought I would get you a little something so you stand out in training tomorrow. With lots of love, Grandma Verdona."
After putting the note off to the side, Gwen began to open the box. "How did she . . ." Gwen stopped speaking as she saw what was in the box.
A smile spread across her face as she said "Thanks Grandma." She put the box down on her dresser top and went to bed.
==============================The Next Morning==============================
Gwen was awoken by knocking at her door. She slowly got up to answered it.
Turns out it was Kitty at the door. "What is she wearing?" thought Gwen.
Kitty had some kind of weird outfit on. It was mostly black and looked skin tight. There was a light purple triangle on her front and back, with the point ending at her crotch. The top of the collar was a pale yellow and the bottom was light purple. She had on pale yellow gloves that had a large cuff at the end, giving it a gantlet kind of look. On her feet were light purple boots that had a bit of armor on the front of them. Around her waist was a pale yellow metal belt with a red circle with a black "x".
Kitty realized the look on Gwen's face and quickly said "It's like totally a training suit. Like everyone has to wear one, when we train."
"Or when we go on a mission," Kitty thought to herself.
"So where are we training? In that forest out back?" Gwen asked.
"Sometimes, but not today. We're like going to the Danger Room," replied Kitty.
There was a silent moment as Gwen sarcastically thought "That sounds pleasant", but said "Where is this . . Danger Room?"
"That's why I was sent to get you, to like take you there," said Kitty as she gave Gwen a smile.
"Okay. I just want to get dressed, then we can go." She turned to go get dressed, but stopped, faced Kitty and asked "Anything I should wear to training?"
Kitty thought about if for a moment and said in a tone of slight embarrassment "Not really, we . . uh . . kinda," here she gave a nervous laugh, "forgot to like prepare a uniform for you." She was anxious that Gwen would feel bad about it.
Gwen looked at her and laughed. "I'm not surprised. I did just drop in out of the blue." She gave Kitty a fake snobbish look, turned her nose up and said "Anyways, who would want to be caught in that fashion nightmare."
They were silent for a moment, then burst out laughing. They slowly stopped and smiled. Gwen turned to Kitty and said "I have just the thing. Now if you don't mind." She gestured for Kitty to leave.
It took Kitty a minute to get it. When she did, she blushed and said "Oh. Sorry, I totally get it. I'll give you a moment to change." She backed out of the room and Gwen closed the door.
Gwen went over to her dresser and looked for some of her old clothes. She found an old outfit that would be appropriate and put it on. The long sleeve shirt was a baby blue along the sleeves and the shoulders. The rest of it was a pale blue that was almost gray. The sleeves ended around the middle of her forearm. Right in the middle of the chest area was a cute little cat head design, the same color as the sleeves and shoulders. The white pants she wore, ended about two inches bellow her knees. On her feet were white sneakers.
Grabbing her magic bag, she tied it around her waist. "Now Saifu," Gwen said looking down at the bag, "We're going to training." The bag, Saifu, gave a nod. "Now I want you to hold something for a bit." Saifu opened her mouth, as she waited for whatever Gwen wanted her to hold.
Gwen took the box from Verdona and inserted it in the magical bag's mouth. After the bundle was completely swallowed, the bag quickly zippered her mouth and it almost looked like the bag had a small satisfied smirk on her face.
After looking in the mirror, to make sure her hair was good, Gwen went to leave. Upon opening the door, she was greeted to the sight of Kitty standing there playing with her bangs.
"Like, ready to go?" Kitty asked.
"Yeah," relied Gwen.
The two of them walked down the hallway and chatted about different things, nothing really important just small stuff. It was nice and comfortable. As they descended the mansion's huge staircase, Kitty started to tell Gwen about the Danger Room.
"So it is like this huge circular dome room. It has all kinds of things to test different abilities." Kitty looked at Gwen and gestured at herself. "It can put up like a series of walls so that I can phase through them. If I don't focus, I could totally run straight into a wall." She gave a wince as she said this. "And trust me, that totally hurts."
"Ouch," Gwen said with a painful look on her face as she imagined running face first into a wall.
They reached the bottom of the stairs and took a right. As they continued on, Gwen noticed something at the end this hallway. It looked like the doors to an elevator. When she got closer, Gwen saw that to the right of the doors was what looked like a green touch screen in the shape of a hand with a keypad. "Maybe this is the danger room? And why does this look so familiar?" Gwen thought.
When they were in front of the doors, Kitty put her palm on the screen. It scanned her hand print with a bright green light and after a moment the doors opened.
"You know, the Professor had the security system totally upgraded because of an incident including a grodie toad," Kitty told Gwen.
"A toad?" Gwen asked as she thought "What did a frog break in or something?"
"Like ask Kurt if you want to know more about it," Kitty said as she walked into the elevator.
Gwen followed behind her. "I just might."
Inside it looked just like any other elevator with just a few differences. The walls weren't the reflective metal that standard elevators had. They looked like metal that could take a blast. The other thing was the buttons. They too weren't the type you would expect, instead being another screen with a keypad, which at the moment had "Mansion" on the screen. Kitty pressed a button on the keypad causing the elevator doors to close and the elevator itself to go down.
Gwen thought to herself "Why does all of this make me feel like I've seen it before? It's like . . ."
"I've been here before," Gwen said quietly.
"What did you like say?" Kitty asked, she didn't hear what Gwen had said.
"I said that I've been here before." She paused and looked around. "This is how I entered the mansion." Gwen looked at Kitty and said "They picked me up in their jet. ."
"The Blackbird," Kitty interrupted.
"Yes, that, and we landed in the hangar behind the waterfall in back. Then we walked to this elevator and went to the mansion," Gwen said more to herself then to Kitty.
"O-Kay," Kitty said as she gave Gwen a look that said you're acting kind of crazy on me.
Seeing the look Kitty was giving her, Gwen quickly said "Sorry. With all that was happening to me yesterday, I guess I was kind of in a daze and forgot." Gwen blushed slightly feeling embarrassed.
"Like no problem. I know how totally brain frazzling this whole mutant thing can be. I mean it's like hard enough being a normal teen," replied Kitty.
After a long moment of silence and the elevator still going down, Gwen thought "How big is this place?"
While Gwen was preoccupied with her thoughts, Kitty decided to break the silence. "So," she said and then waited for a reply. When one didn't come, she continued. "Is there anything you like want to know?" Kitty asked.
Gwen, without thinking, voiced her last thought. "How big is this place?" Her voice carried a tone of confusion.
"You know, I like totally never thought of that before." Kitty gained a thoughtful looking expression on her face and said "I guess it's like pretty huge." Then she started to count off fingers as she said "There's the Danger Room, Hangar Bay, Med-bay, and . . ." she paused thinking "I think there is like more, but I haven't been to them yet."
"That is . . . Wow," Gwen said, sounding amazed. It was at this point that Gwen thought "So they have some sort of huge underground facility, they wear uniforms, and they train. It almost sounds like they are preparing for a war. I would be worried if Grandpa didn't vouch for the Professor."
Just then the elevator stopped and the doors opened. They got off and proceeded down the the hallway. The walls were similar to the elevator walls. Every so often there was a screen with a keypad.
As they were walking, Gwen turned to Kitty and asked "Is there somewhere I can use . . . the restroom?" Gwen put her hand on Saifu and thought "So I can change. Won't Kitty and the others be surprised."
It only took a moment for Kitty to realize what Gwen was asking. "Oh. Like, just this way." She quickly took Gwen back down the hallway they just came from. They took a turn that they walked past earlier and stopped in front of a circular door. It looked like it could have been to a large bank safe. It was flat and had a large "x" on it. Beside it was an other screen and keypad.
"Guess they really like their privacy," thought Gwen as she looked a the security pad next to the door. Something pink at the top of the door caught her attention. Looking up, she saw that there was a rectangular sign that said "women" siting above the door. It was lit with a pink light.
Kitty caught Gwen looking at the sign and started laughing. Gwen turned her attention to Kitty and had a look on that said what's so funny. Before she could voice this, Kitty spoke.
"Sorry, I was like just remembering something you know." She laughed again. "The boys' has a blue one. The reason that the Professor like had the signs installed was because you totally couldn't tell any of the rooms apart. And let's just say that Evan had a nice little trip in the girls' room." The look that Kitty had on her face was positively evil.
Gwen imagined what it was like for Evan to walk into women's room where all the females had mutant powers. "He must have gotten his butt beaten by them. I have to get Kitty to tell me about it sometime." She laughed at the thought and Kitty joined her. The really funny thing was that they were both laughing at the same thing, a beaten Evan.
After their little giggle fit, Kitty touched the keypad and the door opened vertically down the middle. She lead Gwen through the doors and what Gwen saw made her jaw drop open in surprise. "I guess that Professor X wants his students to be comfortable."
The inside looked like a spa and locker room combined. To the left, there were three rows of lockers with a bench on both sides of them. A little bit away and on the right, there was a huge square tub. There was a bit of steam rising from the tub making it look warm and inviting. Gwen would later find out that behind the tub there was a steam room and sauna. On the far wall away from the entrance was a row of showers. There were about six of them, with a curtain in front of each stall.
"I could get used to this," Gwen thought as she envisioned herself soaking in that tub after a hard day. She turned to Kitty and said "This is nice."
"I like totally know. It is totally killer to relax in after a training session," Kitty replied. She then turned around and started to walk out the doors. When she was on the other side of the threshold, she said "So, I'll just chill out here while you do your . . . business." Kitty then touched the keypad and the doors closed, giving Gwen some privacy.
Gwen walked over to the last row of lockers and sat down at the bench. Looking at her bag, Gwen said "Saifu, can I have that box I gave you earlier." The bag unzipped her mouth and then spit it out onto the bench.
Gwen picked up the box, took off the top and started to change. When finished changing, she folded the clothes she just took off, put them in the box and had Saifu swallow it again. Gwen looked up, saw a wall mirror a little ways off and walking over to it. She faced her reflection, observing her new outfit.
Gwen was wearing a skin tight whole body suit. It was a very dark purple, nearly black. On her feet were what looked almost like ballet shoes. Because the shoes and the body suit were the same color, it looked like she was just wearing a body suit that covered her feet. She wore light purple gloves with over sized cuffs. Around her waist was a light purple belt with square pouches all along it. In the middle of the belt was a black circle, outlined in light purple, with a red "x" on top. Underneath this, Gwen had tie Saifu's strap around her waist so that the magic bag hanged on her right hip. The attribute that stood out the most was the face mask. The top had curved points that were reminiscent of cat ears. It was mostly black. It covered the top half of her face and sat on the bridge of her noise. The eyes were surrounded by black with the ends curving up into a swirl near the cat ears. This was surrounded by light purple that went up into the insides of the cat ears. Gwen had her hair tied back into a ponytail, high up on her head.
"Well . . this is revealing," Gwen said as she stood there. Saifu gave a slight nod in agreement. Then she started to make different poses in front of the mirror.
First, she put her hands behind her head and stuck out her chest. Giving the mirror the best sexy look she could, Gwen said "Hey there" in an erotic voice. "Not bad." She looked herself over for a few moments before she struck another pose.
Gwen turned around, so her backside was facing the mirror. She slightly twisted her waist so that the left side of her chest could be seen in the mirror. Then she put her hands on her hips with the elbows pointed backward. Gwen turned her head and looked in the mirror. She had a innocent look on her face with just a hint of naughtiness in it. Then she made a feminine giggle, it wasn't just for the pose either. She found the way she was acting silly, but fun.
For the final pose, Gwen turned around and faced the mirror. She put her right hand on the back of her thigh. Her upper body was twisted somewhat so that her left shoulder was a bit forward. Turned a bit to the right and bent ever so slightly down, her head was positioned so that both eyes could be seen in the mirror with the left one more so then the right. Using her left hand, she took the mask off and held it in front of her stomach. Then Gwen gave the mirror a look that said "I get what I want". She held the pose for a few moments before she put the mask back on and just stood there.
After a minute of silence, Gwen burst out laughing. Her laughs were followed by Saifu making small sounds that almost sounded like giggles. "I (laugh) can't believe how (laugh) silly I was acting." She took a couple of deep breaths. "I can't begin to imagine how embarrassing that would have been if anyone saw it." A blush crept onto her face as she thought of it. Saifu shook a little as if she could feel the embarrassment Gwen felt.
Gwen started to think about how the outfit looked and said "I like it. Looks great on me." Agreeing, Saifu gave a nod which Gwen felt.
Looking at the bag, Gwen asked "You ready to show them what we can do?"
At hearing that, Saifu gained a huge smirk on her face. When Gwen saw it, she said "I'll take that as a yes."
Seeing as there was nothing else to stall her, Gwen headed over to the entrance to the locker room. When she got there, Gwen looked at the keypad next to the door and something came to her. "I don't know how to open the door." Gwen looked over the keypad, the screen above it and realized that all she would have to do was press the "open" button.
"You would of thought that it would be harder than that. But it kind of makes sense, you wouldn't want to have to enter a code or something every time you go to or leave the bathroom," Gwen thought as she pressed the "open" button for the door.
Kitty had been playing with her hair as she waited. Her thoughts had been all over the place, from high school and homework to her powers and the X-men. Out of nowhere "Lance is cute" ran across her mind. "What did I just think? As if! I like totally couldn't of thought that." She paused and sighed. "OK, so he is like kinda cute, but he is totally like a thug and jerk." Kitty was so lost in her thoughts that she didn't notice the door open or Gwen standing there in her new outfit.
Kitty would have continued her thoughts but a loud cough brought her attention to Gwen. She gasped at what she saw. "How did Gwen get her own uniform?"
"So, . . what do you think?" asked Gwen as she stood with her arms spread out as if she was saying "Ta-Da!".
"OMG! That is totally rad," Kitty replied sounding excited about Gwen's outfit. Then she asked "So, where did you get it? Did you like use . . magic to make it." Kitty didn't believe in magic and normally she would have used air quotes as she said "magic", but she didn't want to insult Gwen.
"Thank you for the complement." Gwen said as she thought "Is rad a good thing? It sounds like it if her excitement is anything to go by."
"And no I didn't use magic. My grandma gave it to me," replied Gwen. As if an after thought, she said "But she probably did though."
This surprised Kitty and it must have been visible on her face because Gwen laughed. Before Kitty could say anything, Gwen started talking again.
"If you want to be technical and don't really belief in "magic" in the traditional sense, then you can think of it as a form of energy manipulation," Gwen said with a smile.
"Wait. Magic isn't like just magical?" questioned Kitty.
"Yes and No." At seeing Kitty's blank look of confusion, Gwen said "It's complicated, so let me explain it a little bit on the way to the Danger Room."
"Sure," Kitty said as she started leading the way.
Gwen began in what sounded like a lecture voice as they walked. "Magic is the ability to manipulate energy. This energy is known by many names. Mana, life force, chakra, chi, quintessence, and so on. I personally like the name mana. It is in every living thing." Gwen paused then asked Kitty, "You following so far?"
Hesitantly, Kitty said "I like . . think so."
Hearing that Gwen continued. "There are different ways to control it. Spells, charms, incantations, hexes, jinxes, curses, enchantments, rituals. These are just some of the ways. As I said at dinner the yesterday, anyone can learn to do magic. It just takes practice."
"Wait does that like mean that you could . . like . . you know, totally teach someone to do it?" Kitty asked as she thought "It would like be totally awesome to do some of the things Gwen has done."
"Yes, and I would have offered it yesterday, but got interrupted." A smirk come on to Gwen's face as she said the next part. "Magic isn't as tough as it seems. The key in learning magic is mostly knowing just one thing."
"Like, what is that?" Kitty asked. She was amazed that it sound so easy.
"Sorry, but can't tell you. It's a trade secret," teased Gwen.
When Kitty heard this, she almost fell flat on her face. She was surprised that Gwen would be so forthcoming with everything else, yet not this. Kitty would have said something but she realized that they were standing in front of the door to the Danger Room's control room. "Wait like when did we get here? Whatever. I'll just like ask Gwen about that secret later."
Kitty opened the door and in they went. Gwen looked around the room, thinking "This doesn't look like what I imagined for a room call the Danger Room. Looks more like a control room of some sort." It was a circular room. The walls were lined with what looked like control panels or computer screens. Around the room there were a couple of tables and chairs. The room look large enough to comfortably fit about 15 or 16 people.
Turning to look at Kitty, Gwen said, "This is the Danger Room," using air quotes for Danger. "Because it doesn't look it. Looks more like a control room."
"Well, that would be correct Gwen," Charles said, causing Gwen to jump slightly. Gwen had been so involved in observing room that she didn't notice the Professor siting at what looked like the main control station. Behind him, were nine screens displayed three by three, so that they made a square. "This is the Control Room. From here we can monitor and operate the Danger Room."
"So where's the Danger Room?" Gwen asked.
"Below us. Just look down," replied Charles as he smiled.
Slightly confused, Gwen looked down. She saw that the center of the room's floor was clear and that she could see the room below. It was a huge dome shaped room. It was simply amazing, but she was left wordless by what was going on in the room.
========================Down below in the Danger Room========================
Logan and Ororo had decided that they would have the students do a little training while they waited for Kitty to return with Gwen. They broke off into 3 groups and went to different parts of the Danger Room.
==========================With Storm and Nightcrawler==========================
Ororo was with Kurt. She was wearing a black skin tight spandex suit. When the light hit it, the color almost look like a very dark blue. The sleeves were baggy and ended just after her elbow, leaving the rest of her arm bare. The ends of the sleeves were a pale yellow. Around her waist was a band of the same color yellow. On her hands were gloves and on her feet were high heals, both white with loose-fitting cuffs. She wore a cape over all this. It was the same color as the body suit with the inside being a light gray. In the middle of her chest was a round amulet that looked like it held the cape on. It was red with a black "x" on top.
Kurt, who was walking to the left and slightly behind her, couldn't help notice how Ororo's uniform showed off her legs and backside. "That's sexy, . . . vhat am I thinking?" Kurt shouted in his mind. "Storm's old enough to be my mothah." After that he started to think about his uniform.
Kurt wore a black spandex body suit. The pattern on the torso area was similar to Kitty's, except the triangle was black and the other part was red. His shoulders ended in a point. On his hands, he wore tight fitting pale yellow gloves that end a bit before his elbow. There looked like a circle was cut out on the ends of them. He didn't wear typical footwear. Because of his mutation, he could use his feet like a second pair of hands so he wore something similar to red gloves. These ended around the middle of his shin. Around his waist was a pale yellow belt that had a red square with a black "x" in the middle. His tail wasn't covered so the blue fur could be seen.
"I vonder if anyone finds me attractive in my uniform?" A little voice in the back of his mind told him "no", but he didn't let it bother him too much. "Like mom said to me, there is someone out there for everyone."
Kurt was broken out of his thoughts by Storm's voice. "Nightcrawler, what would you like to practice, your fencing or acrobatics?" Storm had stopped at a control panel on the wall and turned around so she faced him.
Nightcrawler thought about it for a moment. "I vorked on fencing last time vith Volverine." He shuddered at the memory and quickly said "Acrobatics."
Storm turned to the controls and typed in "Nightcrawler1". Panels on the floor opened and up came several acrobatic bars and rings. The same thing happened to the ceiling. The floor around all the equipment was covered in mats. When everything stopped moving, the section that they were in looked like some sort of Olympic acrobatic race was going to take place.
"I want you to get that," Storm said as she point at a ball that hung in the middle of metal ring, about 20 feet above the ground. It was the finish line for the bars and rings.
"Piece of cake" thought Nightcrawler. He smirked and was just about to teleport to the end when he was stopped by Storms voice.
"Without teleporting straight to the end," Storm finished. The blue furred teen gave a nervous laugh as his left hand rubbed the back of his head. Storm had an amused smile on her face as she spoke. "As you go, I'm going to try and stop you." This time she gave him a smirk. The look on her face told Nightcrawler that he wasn't going to like this training session. "We can begin whenever you're ready."
Nightcrawler's shoulders slumped at what Storm said and the look she gave him."This isn't going to be fun."
Nightcrawler walked up to the first bar. It was seven feet high. Looking up at the bar, he jumped up and landed on the bar in crouch. Turning to Storm, he said "I'm ready."
Storm nodded her head. She watched and waited for him to jump to the next bar. "Now," she thought as Nightcrawler leaped into the air. Storms eyes glowed white and her hands shot out in the teen's direction. She used her ability to sent out a gust of wind. It wasn't huge, just enough to push Nightcrawler so that he would miss the next bar.
Nightcrawler felt the wind on his fur and realized that he was knocked off course. As he past the vertical support to the bar, his tail grabbed it and pulled the rest of him to it. His feet and hands joined his tail to hold on. "That vas close," he thought as subconsciously his tail wrapped almost completely around the pole. Storm saw this and thought it was kind of cute.
Looking around until he saw Storm, who had floated up to be level with him, Nightcrawler said a bit loudly, "Vhat vas that for?"
"I did warn you that I would be trying to stop you," replied Storm.
"Maybe I should show him I could be doing worst," she thought as a cloud started to form above Nightcrawler.
Looking up, the teen saw the cloud. Just before it started to rain, Nightcrawler was able to teleport to the next ring. "Maybe I should have chose fencing instead," he thought as he jumped to the next ring just narrowly missing another gust of wind from Storm.
So the game of cat and mouse began. And it really was. They both knew that if Storm really wanted to she could of blown him away, literally. But Nightcrawler wasn't going to give up, so he just kept on spinning and twirling through the air to get to the next ring/bar and to avoid Storm. He tried to avoid teleporting because each time he did, it seemed that Storm would increase the pressure of her wind bursts and decrease the interval between each gust.
Storm smiled as she saw that Nightcrawler wasn't just teleporting from bar to bar. "I glad he figured out that each time he teleported, I would increase my attacks."
"I'm almost there," Nightcrawler thought. He was only two rings and one bar away from his goal. As he was leaping to the next ring, he was too lost in thoughts of victory that he didn't see his instructor was in striking distance.
Storm hit him dead on with a strong gust. It found its target, launching Nightcrawler tumbling through the air and about 12 feet away. It was strong enough to leave him breathless. As he was falling, he realized that he wasn't near anything to grab onto, so he used his only option.
Teleporting to the second to last bar, Nightcrawler hung upside-down facing away form his goal. His arms dangled as he held on with is feet. "That is going to leave a bruise," he thought, putting his hand on his left side.
"I'm just one jump away from the last ring, my goal." Looking around, Nightcrawler saw that Storm was heading straight for him. "I better hurry."
Swinging from front to back, Nightcrawler rocked the bar until he could reach the last ring. He grabbed the ring with his hands and brought himself into a upside-down crouch, facing away from Storm.
Upon seeing this, Storm thought "He shouldn't turn his back on an opponent, he could get hurt that way. " She watched as Nightcrawler used his tail to reach up and take hold of the ball. He brought the ball to his hands and then let go of the ring. As he was falling, Nightcrawler brought his knees up to his chest and wrapped his arms around them, with the ball still held in his hands. He did a couple of rolls with his tail trailing behind him. When he was about 7 feet from the ground, he teleported. In a small cloud of smoke he appeared a few feet above the ground at the beginning of the course. He landed gracefully on the ground.
Nightcrawler straightened out with his arms raised and spread. The ball was in his left hand and his right a fist. "Voo hoo, I did it," he said excitedly.
All of a sudden a burst of wind took the ball from his hand. He watched as the mini twister brought it to Storm. She took hold of the ball with both hands and the wind disappeared. "Yes you did," Storm said as she walked over to Nightcrawler, who had lowered his arms. "You did a really great job." She saw the teen smile at her.
"I kind of hate to do this," Storm thought as she continued. "But," when she said this, the smile on the teen's face left. "You left your back open to me when you were obtaining your goal." Her tone was that of an instructor to a student.
"It's not like you vere going to attack me," replied Nightcrawler. He had a slight look of defeat on downward tilted head.
Sighing as she spoke, Storm said "That may be true, but I'm your instructor and not a real enemy." Walking over to Nightcrawler, she put her hand on his shoulder. The action made the teen look up into the face of his instructor.
Once she had his attention, Storm continued speaking. "I'm not saying you did a bad job, in fact you did excellent." That brought a smile to the teen's face, which in turn brought a smile to the woman's. "I'm just saying you need to keep your eyes on your opponent. You don't want to leave yourself open to attacks." Storm turned and started to walk away with her cape flowing behind her. "I didn't attack this time, but next time I will."
Because her cape was flowing behind her, Nightcrawler got an eyeful of Storm's well shaped backside. The sight caused a stray thought to entered his mind. It was of her bent over a bed with her ass raised slightly in the air. She look over her shoulder, then started to lick her lips and gained a seductive look. It was so stunning, that he was frozen for a few moments as a blush formed on his furry face. Giving himself a mental slap, he thought "Vhy do I keep on thinking about this stuff?" It took a couple of seconds for the answer to come to him, causing him to mentally scream "Damn you teenage hormones. I need a girlfriend, but . ." He hesitantly started to think, "Vhat girl vould vant someone that looks like me. It vould be a miracle if I find a girl that could overlook the fur, ears, tail, and all the over stuff. No I can't think like that. The right girl is out there for me . . . I hope."
Storm turned slightly to look back at the blue teen and saw that he wasn't following her. He looked like he was lost in thoughts. "I think now will be a good time to reinforce today's lesson," she thought as she quickly turned around and lobbed that ball at Nightcrawler. It went in a large curve towards the oblivious boy's head.
Not paying attention, Nightcrawler didn't even see the ball coming towards him. It harmlessly hit him in head and bounced a few feet away. That got his attention. Looking around, he saw the ball and Storm without it. He put two and two together, figuring out that she threw the ball at him.
"Can you put that back for me?" Storm asked him with a slightly playful voice.
In a cloud of smoke, Nightcrawler teleported over to the ball. He picked it up and disappeared again. Reappearing at the last ring, Nightcrawler put the ball away and teleported back over to Storm.
Standing next to her, Nightcrawler looked over and asked "Vhat now?"
Storm looked up as she thought of an answer. What she saw was a girl in a dark purple outfit in the Control Room. "Is that Gwen? When did Charles get her a uniform? He usually asks me about helping designing them. . . I like it. It's a little over the top, but it's still nice." She looked over to Nightcrawler and saw that he was still looking at her waiting for an answer. "I'm glad he didn't realize I was spacing out there. He hasn't even looked in the direction of the Control Room."
Storm said "I think we should check the Control Room to see if Gwen and Kitty have shown up yet," as she thought "I'm glad he hasn't even realized Gwen is up there. This will surprise both or them." The image of Nightcrawler teleporting into the room surprising Gwen as he was surprised by her, popped into Storm's mind. The look on their faces' made Storm think, "This is going to be good."
Storm held her hand out to Nightcrawler. He looked at her for a moment in confusion. It took him a minute to think of the answer. "She vants me to teleport us there."
Reaching out his hand, Nightcrawler took hold of her's. It caused a blush to form on his face because of his thoughts from earlier. He looked to Storm's face and saw that she either didn't see his blush or she ignored it.
"That's good," Nightcrawler thought as he teleported away in a cloud of black smoke.
