It took us awhile before we finally made it to the mansion while it was being rebuilt. "Re-modeling the place?" April asked. "Somethin' like that." I said. We both headed to the entrance to see Warren open the door for us. "Oh, there you are Logan." He smiled at me. He turned his head to see April. "Oh, hello there." He grinned. "I'm Warren." He held out his hand for her. I didn't like the way he was looking at her. "April O'Neil," She shook it.
"This is our newest member," I explained. "Oh, whats your power?" He asked her. "Telepathy and telekenesis." April said. "Wow, just like Jean, except your eyes are blue and hers are green." Warren stated. April laughed. "Are you an X-man?" She asked him. "Not anymore, my dad will cut off my credits if I join." He said. "Well, where's Jean? I wanna meet her!" April said. "Sorry, but she's missing at the moment." I told her. "What happened to her?" She asked. "Its a long story, anyway, the school is almost done. So you can come inside in a few minutes." Warren said. "We could use another telepath to find the professor." I said. "Who's the professor?" April questioned. "He's our mentor, and he's the founder of this school." Warren explained. She nodded in response.
"So, how's cerebra doin'?" I asked. "Its almost done." He replied. "So, does that mean I'll have to use it?" She said. "If you want." He shrugged. "I'd love to." She smiled at him. Well at least I hoped it was a friendly smile...
(At the basement: April's POV)
When Warren told us that it was okay to live down here Logan offered to show me around, but he wanted to introduce me to some of his friends. He first introduced me to Forge, he reminded me of Donnie. Then we met Hank, he reminded me of Master Splinter even though he had blue fur. Hank told me about what happened to the professor and why the school was being re-built. "So, there was an explosion, who caused it?" I asked.
"That is the hard part, my dear, we have no clue." Hank sighed. "Well maybe when we find out who the hell did this and make them pay!" I exclaimed angrily. "Easy, kid, we need to find the others first." Logan told me. "Who are the others?" I asked. "You'll know when you meet them." He said. "Why don't we go show you to serebro?" Hank suggested. I nodded in reply.
Then Hank and Logan showed me to where serebro was...
(At cerebra)
I opened my mouth in shock at how huge it was in here. There was only one way in here and out, and at the far end of the path was some kind of machine that reminded me of the krang.
We made it all the way to the machine-thing. I noticed all these wired controls and a helmet that was attached to it. "Forge helped re-build cerebra." Hank explained. "OK, so how do I work this thing?" I asked. "Just put on the helmet and we'll tell you the rest." Logan said. I put the helmet on. "Now what?" I asked. Hank told me how to use it. I leaned on the thing. "What do you want me to find?" I said. "We need to find a young man named Bobby Drake, also known as Iceman." Hank replied. I started to find him.
I noticed visions of people's memories, I searched through them until I found something. It was about some family who were worried about their son, I also noticed there was a kid playing around with his powers. The kids parents made him stop. I figured that was the Iceman they were looking for. I got out of the memories. Breathing heavily. "April, are you alright?" Logan asked worriedly. "Yeah... I've just never used... Something like... This before..." I panted. "You'll get used to it." Hank smiled.
"Where's Bobby?" Logan changed the subject. I told them...
(At Bobby's house: Bobby's POV)
"But thats not fair!" I argued. "I want to go with them," mom turned to glare at me. "Bobby, wait for us upstairs!" She yelled. Hank tried to reason with her. But my folks shut the door on them. Logan kicked the door open. "You coming or what?" He demanded. I ran to them. "Your son is a mutant, deal with it." He added behind his back.
We got onto the helicopter. "Alright! The X-men are back!" I exclaimed happily. "Not exactly, its just us and a new member." Jean said. "Does Jean have amnesia?" I thought. "Do you have amnesia?" I asked her. "No, my name is April. And you must be Bobby." She smiled. "Well, do you know that they call me Iceman?" I grinned, making a flower for April out of ice. Handing it to her. She took it. "Thanks, she smiled. I'll have to keep this in the fridge."
"Hey, April, can I see that?" Logan asked. She moved the flower with her mind, Logan grabbed it and with out second thoughts he threw it out of the plane. I watched it go down somewhere. "Why did you do that?" April asked. "There was no way in hell I'm gonna open the fridge and be forced to see a damn flower inside everyday." He growled. "Haven't you been able to find Kitty?" I changed the subject.
"You know where she is?" April asked me. "She told me she was heading to Genosha." I said. "Her ship left this morning." I added, the helicopter turned around so we can go get Kitty...
(At a cargo ship: Kitty's POV)
I was looking at a poster that had a picture of Magneto on it, reminding me of the times I had to fight him with the X-men before we disbanded. The flyer soon flew out of my hands. I looked up excitedly to see Logan in there. I walked backwards and jumped to phase through the copter. "Its about time." I commented. I noticed a girl with red hair. "Jean!" I exclaimed, hugging her quickly. "Nice to meet you too." She laughed.
I let go of her to see she had blue eyes, and she did look like Jean. "Oh, sorry, I'm Kitty." I smiled blushing. "April," she smiled back. "She's our new member." Bobby told me. "What are you powers?" I aksed her. "Telepathy and telekenisis." April replied. I was shocked. "Wow, you look like Jean and have the same powers as her too!" I commented.
We were joking around during the ride back to the mansion...
(Back at the institute: April's POV)
We got to the sub-levels to find a girl with brown hair in a ponytail. She had a white streak on her bangs. "Rogue!" Bobby said. "I knew you'd be back." They were about to run to her until Logan stopped them. "Why don't we get you into some uniforms that aren't schorched or burned." Hank told them, they walked off somewhere.
"What are you doing here, Rogue?" Logan asked, raising an eyebrow. "I, uh, I want to come back." She said. "Really? Why?" He demanded. "I thought I was like them but... I am not an assasin." She sighed, I felt bad for her. Although another part of me was saying that what she was telling us now was too good to be true. "Alright, Rogue, tell us what you know." I said. "They're gonna hit Senator Kelly at the pres conference, twelve noon." She replied. "Then we don't have much time." Logan stated. "Lets go." He looked at me, "you need to suit up." He told me. I nodded, and we walked our separate ways...
(At April's room: Kitty's POV)
I wanted to talk to April some more so I went to her room, well, she asked me to come to her room. I knocked on the door. She opened it. I noticed what she was wearing, it was an orange jumpsuit, her gloves were white and her boots were black. "Nice outfit." I said. "Thanks, I wear this on missions." She replied. "So whats up?" I asked. "Whats up with Rogue? Is she an old friend?" April asked me. "Well, she was a part of this school before the explosion." I answered. "Does she have any problems with you guys?" She said.
"No one except for Logan, they kind of have like a father-daughter relationship." I replied. "Why?" I said. "I think that Rogue is planning something against us." April told me. "What? Thats impossible! We're her friends." I argued. "I had a friend, she betrayed my trust though." April said. I wanted to know what she meant when Hank walked in. "Pardon the interruption, ladies, but Logan wishes that we all head to the sub-levels." He told us. We nodded and followed him there...
(At the pres conference: April's POV)
We made it to the conference to see that the senator was already being attacked. "We're too late, its happening!" Rogue exclaimed. "Shadow Cat, phase us in." Logan ordered her. "Alright, hold on." She said, phasing us through the building. We got out of the copter to make sure that everyone was safe. I was making sure that no one else got hurt.
I used my telepathy to find that someone was behind me. I turned ready for battle when I noticed that it was an MRD guard who was on the floor. I looked up to see Logan smirking at me. "Thanks." I told him. "You owe me for that." He said, he still had that smirk. I used my telekenisis to make the MRD guard that was behind Logan punch himself in the gut. He fell to the ground. Logan turned just in time to see him on the floor. He turned back to me.
"Now we're even." I smiled. Punching an MRD in the face, he dodged and kicked my leg. I fell, punching him in the gut also. "You thinking what I'm thinking?" I asked Logan, standing up. "You mean that this was all a set up and that the brotherhood used Rogue." He stated without any mistakes at all. I just nodded in reply. "X-men, lets go!" He yelled. We all ran out.
"Wait, where's Rogue?" Hank asked suddenly. "Come on! She must be still inside!" I said, we were about to go back until a limo stopped us. The window went down to show Warren's face. "Get in." He told us. "Not without Rogue, she's still in there." Logan said. "No she left, I saw her. Now get in!" Warren said. We all got in without any second thoughts. Warren drove us back to the mansion...
(Back at the institute: Logan's POV)
I heard footsteps, I knew it was April. "This seat taken?" She asked, standing next to me while I was sitting down on the entrance. "Go ahead." I grunted. She sat down, "good news or bad news?" She said. "I'd like to hear some good." I replied. "Warren says that the MRD don't have Rogue, so she must have ran off, maybe blamming herself." April told me. "What about the bad news?" I asked. "The registration act will be signed tomorrow." She replied.
"Should've asked for the bad news first." I groaned. "Hey, you know, I might not know Charles Xavier that much like you do. But you tried to save a man who hates us. And by the stuff my dad said about him. I'm pretty sure that Xavier would be proud." She told me.
"I'm sorry." I said. "About what?" April questioned. "The regestration act, your family might not ever be able to go where ever they want anymore because of me." I sighed. "If it makes you feel any better, my dad got turned into this alien thing or whatever." She joked. I turned my head to look at her. "Well... Its a funny story, my old team accidently used this stuff called mutagen on my dad that turned him into an odd alien-like creature... I know its hard to believe, but its true." She said. "So your expecting me to believe that your dad got turned into a mutant alien?" I gave her a look.
"Trust me, my life is anything but normal. And something tells me that it won't end." She added. "How is this suppose to make me feel better? I just put mutants in danger." I groaned. "Go me," I muttered. "Your not the only one with problems." April told me. "You ain't helpin'." I said. "Sorry," she replied. Walking away...
