X-Men Evolution : OmniMutant
Chapter Two : Acolytes & X-Men
Ron and Jean had been walking across town for the past five minutes without speaking but at the same time Ron's curiosity got the better of him.
"Hey where're we heading? How'd you get here in an hour? How many other people live at the institute? What power's do you have?" Ron asked one question after another.
"Would you shut up with you constant idiotic questions!!!" Jean snapped back at him.
Ron back-pedalled for a moment at Jean's attitude before deciding to remain quiet for now.
A minute later Jean turned into a dark alleyway and Ron followed a moment after wards, Jean was just standing there facing him.
"Umm, Jean? What're we doing here?" Ron asked.
"She brought you here on my orders" a deep voice said from the shadows of the alley.
Ron squinted his eyes as four people emerged from the darkness behind Jean. The most noticeable one was a man wearing a red suit made of metal with a dark purple cape flowing behind him, his head was covered by a red helmet and his body seemed to be floating a meter in the air.
The other three weren't as strange as the floating man but they were still each unique in their own way. One was decked out in orange armour and a orange glass visor covering his eyes, blond hair poked out above the visor. Another man had brown hair and was dressed in a long brown coat, his face was bordered by black fabric and his eyes had a strange black & yellow tint, in his right hand he held a metal bow staff. The last one looked very intimidating, he had long messy blond hair with long sideburns, he wore a long light brown coat with the arms torn off revealing his hairy muscle bond arms with sharp claws on the ends of each finger.
"W-Who are you?" Ron asked whilst backing away a few steps.
"I am Magneto…" the one in red armour, obviously the leader, spoke. "… this is Pyro, Gambit, Sabertooth…" Magneto gestured to each of the other men in turn before turning to Jean. "… and I believe you've already met Mystique"
Right on cue Jean's entire body from the head downwards changed, her red turned to a darker shade of red, her skin turned blue her eyes turned white and her clothes vanished and was replaced by a two tank top & skirt with black boots.
"You…You're not Jean Grey!" Ron realized
"No, she's not, I had her bring you here to make you an offer Mr. Stoppable, I want you to join us" Magneto revealed.
"Join you? To do what?" Ron asked, his eyes were already scanning to alley for ways out.
"We are mutants and for years now Mutants have been prosecuted by the humans, my group is dedicated to securing the future of mutants by whatever means necessary…" Magneto explained.
"What do you mean the future of Mutants?" Ron asked growing more and more wary of this group.
"You saw it yourself didn't you? In New York when those humans shot you… when your girlfriend betrayed you… and then at your school when that boy tried to run you down… they treat us like a disease, like a pest to be exterminated… but they have it the wrong way around, we Mutants are the next stage of human evolution and they are the pest to be exterminated, Mutants and Humans can never co-exist, it's either them or us, the superior species will always triumph over the weaker and make no mistake, we are the superior species… now what is your answer?" Magneto asked
"… So let me get this straight, you guys have a vendetta against humans and you want me to join you?" Ron asked.
Magneto simply nodded and waited for Ron's answer. Ron thought about it but it didn't take long to answer.
"No thanks… I think I'll pass…" Ron answered straight and directly, he then turned around and walked towards the entrance of the alley. He didn't make it very far, after taking only a few steps the fire escape on the building to Ron's right suddenly ripped itself away from the wall and crashed into the alley in front of Ron effectively blocking his way out.
"Very well, just remember we could have done this the easy way… Sabertooth!" Magneto commanded.
Immediately Sabertooth jumped into action, with a growl he jumped to Ron just as he turned back around and wrapped his arms around Ron before he cold even react.
In less than a second Ron found his arms pinned to his sides as Sabertooth picked him up in a crushing bear hug.
"Ahh! L-Let go!" Ron yelled at his attacker.
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Scott, Jean and Logan all sprinted down the street following Ron's scent when suddenly Logan stopped and sniffed the air.
"Logan, what is it?" Cyclops asked
-Snick!-
Three atamantium claws snapped out of each of Logan's fists.
"Sabertooth!" Logan growled through clenched teeth.
Scott's and Jean's eyes widened, first Mystique, now Sabertooth, things were getting dangerous.
Jean quickly placed her hands against her temple and concentrated.
"Professor, can you hear me? We have another problem" Jean said mentally.
"… BRAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" a feral roar ripped through the area from a few blocks away earning the three X-Men's attention
"W-What the hell was that?" Scott asked in shock.
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Sabertooth continued to add pressure to his grip, Ron found his vision starting to dim as he struggled for air.
"L-Let go…" Ron wheezed
Sabertooth continued to squeeze harder and harder, pretty soon cracking sound started coming from Ron's arms.
"Ahh…" Ron tried to scream but couldn't find the air.
'… I… I have to change… come on, change!…" Ron tried to will himself to change into any of the forms he had discovered, the four-armed one, the fast one, the crystal one… any of them.
'Come on… change… change… CHANGE!!!'
Suddenly the iris of Ron's eyes changed to neon green and just a moment later both he and Sabertooth were both enveloped by a flash of green light.
"RRRAAGGHH!!!" Sabertooth screamed in pain as he let go of Ron and fell back holding his arms which were badly burned.
The green light dissipated and Ron's body was revealed, he was made out of glowing molten rock with a flaming head.
"Aww man…" Ron said in a cool voice as he waved a hand in front of his 'nose' "… burnt hair, nasty!" Ron said earning a chuckle from both Pyro and Gambit.
"Sabertooth's anger rose, he crouched down a little flexing his claws and baring his teeth"
"GrrrrrRRRRAHHHHH!!!" Sabertooth let out a feral roar that sounded a little like a lion's.
Ron's instinct took over, his body was bathed in a green light and he changed again, when the light was gone, Ron had transformed into the no-eyed orange gorilla/lion creature. As that description flashed through Ron's mind he made a mental decision, he really needed to come up with names for these different bodies.
'Hmm… Wildmutt… as good a name as any…"
"Grr, BRAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Wildmutt let out a vicious roar right back, five times as loud as Sabertooth's and ten times more terrifying, it caused Pyro, Gambit, Mystique and even Magneto to back-pedal a little.
When the roar ended Wildmutt quickly turned towards the wall of the alley and jumped, Wildmutt's claws dug into the wall and he immediately started scaling the wall.
"Sabertooth go! We can't let him escape!" Magneto shouted.
Sabertooth growled before jumping up the wall following his prey. Magneto flew after them while Pyro, Gambit and Mystique ran after them on foot.
Wildmutt reached the top and kept running, his bounded across rooftops trying to escape his pursuers, he had made it nearly a block away when he was tackled from behind by Sabertooth. Wildmutt tried to roll with it but Sabertooth ended up being dominant, he grabbed Wildmutt and raised him high above his head for a moment before throwing him.
Wildmutt sailed across the air before disappearing over the edge of the roof.
However the very moment Wildmutt disappeared a green flash appeared over the edge. A moment later a new creature flew up high into the air. It had a red body with yellow flaps of skin attached from it's arms to it's legs, it had a small red tail hanging from it, it had green eyes and yellow marks around it's head. It looked like a strange mixture of a bat and one of those flying squirrels.
"What the hell are you supposed to be?" Sabertooth growled up to Ron's new form.
"Hmm… how about… Jet!" Ron named his new form as he flapped his new wings
"Grr, how about dead meat!" Sabertooth roared before he jumped up into the air towards Ron.
Ron panicked he didn't expect Sabertooth to be able to jump that high, Ron felt a sudden prickling feeling behind his eye, then a moment later a blast of green energy shot from his eyes and smashed into Sabertooth's chest sending his back towards the rooftop.
"Woah!" Ron exclaimed as he discovered his new power.
As Sabertooth picked himself back up Ron smiled as flew towards his enemy
"Correction, the name's Jet… Ray!!!" the newly named Jetray said the last part loudly as another blast shot out of his eyes and slammed against Sabertooth's chest.
"Rrahh!" Sabertooth let out another roar as the beam hit him and sent him flying over the edge of the roof. Sabertooth fell five stories before smashing into the roof of a parked car.
Jetray flew overhead and looked down seeing Sabertooth hurt but still moving trying to pull himself out of the car.
"Oh, I don't think so!" Jetray said just as he was bathed in a flash of green light.
When the light disappeared there was a large round yellow object falling through the air.
"Cannonbolt!!!" Ron named this form as he fell through the air.
Cannonbolt's wrecking ball-like body fell five stories heading for Sabertooth.
Sabertooth looked up and his eyes widened for only a second as he realised what was about to happen.
Cannonbolt slammed into Sabertooth's body with such force that the car under him buckled and the ground under the car buckled throwing dust into the air.
There was a flash of green in the dust and a moment later Ron walked out of the dust in his human body. Behind him was an unconscious Sabertooth laying at the bottom of a crater on top of a crushed car.
Atop the roof Magneto watched the scene in fascination.
"Such incredible power…" Magneto mumbled to himself, this boy he was trying to recruit, this boy who had discovered his mutant abilities only the day before had defeated Sabertooth, a mutant who even Wolverine had trouble with.
Ron felt a tingle go up his spine, he turned his head and looked up at the roof he and Sabertooth had fallen from and spotted Magneto looking down at him. Ron braced himself, ready to try to transform at a moment's notice. Just as he was about to turn around and start running again he suddenly felt a pain in his back as something impacted it and exploded.
"AHH!!!" Ron yelled as he stumbled forward with smoke raising from his back where a hole had been singed through his shirt. Ron regained his footing and turned around to see Gambit leaning against the building on the opposite side of the street fingering what looked like a deck of cards.
Ron quickly concentrated and tried to change again but nothing happened.
"Dude, what the hell?" Ron cursed as he tried to transform again only to get the same result.
"Sorry, nothing personal…" Gambit spoke with a certain accent that Ron couldn't quite place. Before Ron could say anything Gambit flicked his hand up holding three cards between his fingers, the card took on a light glow a moment before Gambit flicked the cards at Ron.
Ron couldn't react fast enough, the cards struck the ground in front of Ron causing an explosion far more powerful than the first. Ron explosion threw Ron backwards through the air, Ron's body smashed through the display window of a bakery and just kept going, just as he flew over the counter his body exploded in a flash of green light, the light quickly dimmed revealing Ron's new body made completely out of green crystal. Ron's still airborne body smashed through the double doors leading into the kitchen, Ron finally came to a stop when he smashed headfirst into a metal fridge door.
Ron slowly picked himself up rubbing his head, he looked at the fridge and saw a huge dent the shape of his head.
"Woah, good thing my head was made of diamond, otherwise my brains would be mush… hmm, Diamondhead" Ron named his body with a grin as he looked at his crystal hands.
Diamondhead's attention was drawn form his hand when he felt something impact against his back and explode, it didn't have nearly the effect it did last time. Thanks to his new body it didn't feel like more than a hard slap. Diamondhead spun around and saw Gambit standing in the entrance to the kitchen still fingering his deck of cards.
"Round two" Gambit said with a smirk before flicking three more glowing cards at Diamondhead.
Diamondhead acted on instinct, he lashed out his hand and three shards of crystal shot out of his arms, the three crystal shards slashed the three explosive cards right out of the air.
Gambit saw his chance, with his bow staff he jumped at Diamondhead bringing the staff down hard on top of him. Diamondhead saw it coming and quickly brought his hand up to try to catch the staff but instead something unexpected happened, his fingers all merged together and his entire hand morphed into a blade that sliced through Gambit's staff like it was wet toilet paper.
Gambit brought his staff down and looked where it had been slashed.
"… Uh oh…" Gambit muttered in a worried voice before looking up at Diamondhead.
Diamondhead smiled before pulling his now normal fist back and smashed it into Gambit's face, Gambit flew backwards and smashed into pantry causing close to a hundred bags of flour to fall on top of him.
"Uhhhhh…" Gambit winced in pain while buried under the bags
Diamondhead smirked and turned away from Gambit.
"Nobody beats me in a kitchen!" Diamondhead proclaimed as he made his way back through the wrecked bakery and out to the street where Sabertooth was still unconscious. His attention was drawn by two people running down the street towards him, Pyro and Mystique.
"This has gone on long enough Mr. Stoppable" a voice came from above Diamondhead. Magneto slowly floated down from the roof to the street and approached Diamondhead.
"You have defeated not one but two of my acolytes, that is no small accomplishment, shall ask one more time, join us!" Magneto roared.
"Never gonna happen tin head!" Diamondhead roared as he waved his arm at Magneto causing several shards of crystal to shoot at the flying mutant. Magneto avoided the projectiles easily by simply hovering out of the way.
While Magneto was distracted, Diamondhead stabbed his sharp crystal fingers into a nearby manhole cover and lifted it with ease, he pulled his arm back and flung the manhole cover at Magneto like a Frisbee. With a wave of his hand Magneto made the manhole cover veer to the side and smash into a building.
Only after the manhole cover was dealt with did Magneto realise that Ron's last attack was only a distraction, while his attention was elsewhere Ron had disappeared into the manhole.
"Damn it… Pyro you're with me, Mystique you stay here in case he doubles back" Magneto commanded.
"Eric we have to hurry, the X-Men are likely only minutes away!" Mystique said in concern.
"I know, this won't take long" Magneto assured her before floating down into the manhole quickly followed by Pyro.
Magneto and Pyro followed the sewer line for a minute in silence until Pyro broke the silence.
"Aww man, it bloody stinks down 'ere, how long do we have'ta keep following this guy?" Pyro asked in as Australian accent.
Magneto didn't answer, he stopped walking and held up and hand to stop Pyro.
"I know you're there, come out Mr. Stoppable" Magneto growled.
Somebody stepped out of the shadows to the right but it wasn't Diamondhead, this one was new, it had a humanoid body that was completely dark green apart from the head which was a blend of dark red, black and yellow in a flaming fashion, he looked like a human shaped plant with glowing green eyes.
"Why won't you just leave me alone!" Ron growled angrily with his fists clenched.
"As I said before Stoppable, it's either the humans or us, our goal is to completely wipe out all humans and if you won't aid us then you'll hinder us, your mutation is too powerful to remain unchecked, thus you must be eliminated… unless you changed your mind about joining us?" Magneto offered.
Ron shook his head in annoyance and thought for a moment before answering .
"I'm Jewish…" Ron proclaimed causing Magneto to raise his eyebrow in curiosity. "… during World War two, over three quarters of my family were wiped out during the holocaust… but that doesn't mean I should hate all Germans… I can't blame the whole for the actions of a few, I can't hate all humans for what a handful have done to me… that's why I won't join you! From the way you talk, you're well on your way to becoming history's next Hitler" Ron proclaimed with a growl
Magneto felt a twinge in his left forearm, a phantom pain coming from a certain tattoo.
"Pyro… finish him…" Magneto growled
"My pleasure… sorry mate, the boss man says you gotta go, so you gotta go!" Pyro said with a grin as he pointed his wrists at Ron's plant like body.
"Ok, but before you do I think I should tell you both something" Ron said with crossed arms.
"That smell that's been bugging your nose for the past few minutes… that's Methane" Ron revealed with a grin.
Magneto's eyes widened when for the first time he noticed a some kind of gas seeping from Ron's new body. Magneto spun to Pyro as quickly as possible.
"PYRO NO!!!"
Too late, Pryo let out a blast of flames from the launchers on his wrists and the entire sewer tunnel was ignited.
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Logan, Jean and Scott finally followed Ron's scent to a deserted street that was wrecked, there was a large crater in the ground and the front of a bakery had been completely destroyed.
"Woah, what happened here?" Scott asked
Logan sniffed the air before moving towards the crater with his claws at the ready.
"Saber… tooth?" Logan blurted out as he saw the state of his long time enemy. He was laying at the bottom of a crater on top of a crushed car.
"No way, the new kid beat Sabertooth?" Scott said in shock.
Logan was about to say something when suddenly the ground shook violently.
"W-What is that, an earthquake?" Jean asked while subconsciously looking around for a certain mutant.
"No, it's an explosion…" Logan said as he sniffed the air. "… gas!"
Down the street manhole covers started exploding off the ground and flew into the air followed by a blast of flames.
"Get back!" Logan yelled just before the nearest manhole exploded which was oddly already missing it's cover.
Suddenly something shot out of the nearest Manhole and the three X-Men were immediately on guard. The thing looked like a human/plant hybrid with a red head, after the plant man landed a blast of flame exploded out of the hole.
"Heh, and that's why I call this one Swampfire!" the newly revealed Swampfire shouted down into the manhole.
"Hey, who're you?" Scott asked while placing his hand on his glasses ready to pull them off at a moments notice.
Swampfire turned to the three and was immediately on guard.
"Oh come on, how many more of you guys do I need to fight?!" Swampfire said in an annoyed voice as two balls of fire ignited in his hands.
Jean noticed something about the way he spoke and immediately stepped between Scott and Swampfire.
"Wait, wait… Ron is that you?" Jean asked.
Swampfire saw Jean but didn't drop his guard.
"You again! Leave me alone!!!" Swampfire yelled.
"No wait please, I'm Jean Grey, the one who Auntie Anne called about your gift…" Jean said in a kind voice as she slowly approached him.
Ron thought about it for a moment before speaking.
"Yeah? Well forgive me for not taking your word on it but I've already met one Jean Grey today already, so prove it!" Swampfire demanded.
"Umm, how?" Jean asked.
"You're supposed to be Kim's cousin right? Well tell me, what's the name of Kim's sister?" Swampfire asked.
Jean smiled when she understood what Ron was doing.
"That's a trick question, Kimmie doesn't have a sister she has two brothers, Jim and Tim" Jean answered
Swampfire finally dropped his guard and smiled, Swampfire stepped forward and his body suddenly flashed green for a moment, when the light disappeared Ron was standing in front of them in his normal human body.
"Good to meet you face to face Ron, oh, this is Scott and Logan, they both live at the institute" Jean introduced.
"Yeah, yeah, sorry to interrupt this touching moment but we need to get going, it's not a good idea to still be here when these guys wake up" Logan said roughly.
"Logan's right, we need to…" Scott was interrupted when a loud scream pierced the air.
"R-Ron!!!" somebody screamed in a desperate voice.
Ron & Jean both recognised the voice and spun around with wide eyes, across the street was Gambit with his arm wrapped tightly around the throat of Ron's (ex)girlfriend.
"K-Kim?" Ron said with wide eyes.
"Ron, p-please help me!" Kim said desperately with tears in her eyes.
Ron's eyes suddenly flashed green but he didn't change.
"LET HER GO!!!" Ron screamed in anger as he rushed at Gambit.
Logan looked at Kim and noticed something, she was trying to conceal a smirk then he saw light reflecting off something in her hand.
"KID NO!!!" Logan yelled at Ron but he either didn't hear him or didn't care.
Ron reached Kim and pulled his fist back ready to slug Gambit right in the face but he stopped when he felt a sudden sharp pain in his stomach.
"NO!" Logan growled as he suddenly sprinted towards them.
Ron felt numb, he tried to take a step back but couldn't, he looked down and his eyes widened, Kim was holding a knife that was buried in his stomach, blood covered both the knife and Kim's hand.
"K-Kim?" Ron asked with pleading eyes
Kim simply smirked.
"Not quite…" with that said Kim started changing from the head down, her skin turned blue and her eyes turned white, Ron recognised her and realised his mistake, it wasn't Kim, it was Mystique "… nothing personal kid" Mystique said with a smirk as she pulled the knife roughly out of Ron and he fell backwards with his vision dimming.
-Snick!-
"GRRAAHHH!!!" Logan roared as he jumped through the air at Mystique with his claws at the ready. At the same time Jean used her powers to catch Ron on a psychic cushion and floated his towards her and Scott.
Logan was less than a meter away when he suddenly felt his body freeze and hang in midair unable to move, a moment later Logan shot across the street and slammed into a car.
Scott and Jean turned and saw who had caused it, Magneto had just floated out of the same manhole that Ron had jumped from, his armour was scorched and most of his cape had been burnt away.
Magneto waved his arm through the air, two parked cars shot from their place on the street and flew through the air towards Scott, Jean and Ron.
Acting quickly Scott lowered his glasses and opened his eyes, a blast of red energy shot from his eyes and slammed into each of the cars and blasted them away.
"That's enough!!!" a voice of authority shouted drawing everyone's attention.
Down the street Professor Xavier approached them in his wheelchair, when he reached Jean and Scott he looked down at the barely conscious Ron with a badly bleeding wound.
"Eric what have you done?" Xavier asked in shock.
"I have done what I had to do Charles" Magneto answered as he raised his arms ready to use his powers again to finish the job.
Before Magneto could do anything, the street was suddenly filled with an extremely strong gust of wind, the wind was so powerful that it sent both Gambit and Mystique flying through the air away from the X-Men Magneto struggled for a moment raising his arms in front of his face to block the wind, the wind blasted him hard in the face again and he too was sent flying down the street.
The X-Men looked up and saw a sight for sore eyes, the X-Jet with a woman standing atop it with long white hair and dressed in a blue outfit complete with a long cape flowing behind her, Ororo Monroe, aka, Storm.
"You shall not harm this child again!" Storm spoke with a powerful voice, gale force winds gathered behind her and shot towards Magneto's acolytes blowing them away. At the same time the X-Jet quickly lowered towards the street and a ramp descended.
Jean used her telekinetic abilities to raise Professor Xavier up the ramp first then she levitated Scott up into the jet and then raised Ron as gently as possible to the ramp where Storm had just arrived, she gently took Ron into her arms and carried him into the jet.
"Logan, we have to go!" Jean called to Logan as she levitated up to the ramp.
Logan looked like he was fighting the urge to jump at Magneto and slice him to ribbons, in the end he let out one last growl before retracting his claws and jumping up to the X-Jet's ramp in one try. With everybody aboard the ramp retracted and the jet raised into the air and it's main engine's activated, in less than ten seconds the jet was out of sight after disappearing into the clouds.
Magneto watched as the jet disappeared.
"Magneto, what do we do?" Mystique asked as she rejoined him.
Magneto looked at the state of his team, Gambit was struggling to remain standing, Pyro was only now climbing back out of the manhole and Sabertooth was still unconscious.
"Nothing… we do nothing…" Magneto said as he turned around and started walking away.
"W-What? We can't just do nothing! They're getting away!" Mystique struggled to keep her tone in check.
"… and what would you suggest we do Mystique? The boy is too powerful, we couldn't beat him when he was alone, now that he's with Xavier the chances of us eliminating him are nil… don't worry, we'll get another chance someday" Magneto assured her before he continued to walk away.
"… somebody wake up Sabertooth" Magneto added in annoyance.
Gambit and Pyro looked at each other with worry.
"You do it" Gambit said immediately.
"Are you bloody mad? You do it!" Pyro shot back
"No way, I can barely stand as it is" Gambit argued
"You can barely stand? I just got my own fireball shoved up my ass!"
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High above Middleton three figures stood atop a skyscraper watching the entire show below with binoculars, the one in the middle was none other than Colonel William Striker. The man on strikers right was dressed in dark green camo body armour, over his head he wore a black balaclava with the eyeholes covered by a pair of goggles, he wore a pair of holsters on the left and right side of his chest each holding a high calibre handgun, across his back was another holster holding a Remington shotgun, this mans name was irrelevant but his code name was Maverick.
The last man was dressed in a tight red & black body suit complete with mask, on his back were a pair of Katanas crossed over his back in an X fashion this man's code name was Deadpool.
"We're too late!" Striker growled in frustration
"Why don't we just follow them back to New York and take them all out? Get rid of them once and for all?" Maverick asked with his arms crossed.
"We can't risk it… if the X-Men or the Acolytes find out about Project Hephaestus then we are screwed! Our plans are already far behind schedule thanks to that idiot Drakken. All of our years of planning will go down the drain if we're discovered! We will keep the X-Men under surveillance, and we will wait for the right opportunity to capture the boy" Striker commanded before turning around and walking back to the stealth chopper parked in the centre of the roof.
"Hey, can we stop by Bueno Nacho on the way back, I'm starved!" Deadpool asked with a cheery voice.
"Shut up Wade!" Striker barked at his underling.
"Yes sir, sorry sir, you look very nice today sir, very dashing sir" Deadpool said very quickly.
"SHUT UP!!!" Striker shouted at him
Wade, aka Deaddpool always had a big mouth, so much so that he had earned the nickname 'The Merc with the Mouth'
"… So… is that a yes of the Bueno Nacho?" Deadpool asked hopefully.
Striker raised a hand and rubbed his throbbing temple.
"Can I shoot him?" Maverick asked
Deadpool looked at his 'partner' with a cheery smile under his mask
"Nah, you can't kill me yet! It's only Chapter 2!"
"… what the hell are you talking about?" Maverick asked, he hated how random Deadpool could be sometimes.
"Oh, umm, nothing…" Deadpool replied as he rubbed the back of his head nervously.
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"Storm, how is he?" Professor Xavier asked as he wheeled towards the back of Jet where Jean and Storm were tending to Ron's stab wound.
"It looks like she missed any vital organs but the wound is still deep, he could still bleed to death if we don't hurry, he's already fallen unconscious" Storm warned him
"Well we're really pushing the envelope with the engines…" Logan said as he approached the group leaving Scott to fly. "… we should be back at the institute in ten minutes, that is if we don't burn out the engines first"
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Deep below Xavier's Institute for Gifted Youngsters were several large high tech rooms, one of the most advanced one was the Danger Room, the X-Men's training room. Right now two young mutants walked… or rather limped out of their scheduled training session. One was a boy dressed in black and red, his skin was covered in blue fur and he had pointed ears and a long tail with a point on the end. Kurt Wagner, aka Nightcrawler
The second was a young woman dressed in a green and dark blue, her hair was dark brown with white streaks at the front. Rogue.
"Aww man… when Logan said he was gonna make the Danger Room more challenging I thought he meant for him, not us!" Kurt spoke with a German accent.
"I know what yah mean Kurt, I've got bruises on mah bruises" Rouge said with a southern accent as she rubbed her sore back.
"Out of the way!" a shout came from down the hall.
Rogue and Kurt turned just in time to see Scott and Logan rushing down the hall whilst supporting somebody with their shoulders, they only caught a glimpse of him before they rushed past followed by Jean, Storm, Dr McCoy and Professor X.
"Hey did you see that?" Kurt asked.
"Yeah, that guy they were carryin' was bleedin' pretty bad" Rogue commented as she spotted a blood trail leading from the X-Jet hanger to the medical room.
"Hey, I heard Kitty mention that the Professor was going to pick up a new student today, you think that was him?" Kurt asked
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A few hours later a meeting was held in the common room, everyone was present apart from Dr McCoy. The room was pretty loud, all of the students were trading rumours they had for the reason everyone had been called. The rumours ranged from minor like 'Kitty kept drinking all the Orange Juice' to the just plain wrong like 'Rogue was dating Toad'… it didn't take long for Rogue to squash that rumour.
"Now, now everyone settle down so we can get started" Professor X said as he entered the room followed closely by Logan.
"Now, as many of you have probably heard from Kurt…" the Professor said as he shot a glance at the blue fuzzy mutant shot looked embarrassed. "… we have had a new arrival at the institute"
"Jeeze, another one? The manor is already, like, totally packed" said a young girl with chestnut hair pulled back into a loose ponytail. This girl was Katherine 'Kitty' Pride, aka Shadowkat.
"Indeed, I'm sure that at least a few of you have seen this tape…" the Professor said as he picked up a remote to a large TV and hit play on the VCR.
The news report showing what happened on Liberty Island the day before showed up, some nodded in recognition when they saw it but other like Kurt and Rogue who hadn't seen it yet watched with interest and awe, they recognised the blond boy as the same one Scott and Logan had carried into the medical bay.
The tape ended when the blond boy changed into a spinning yellow ball and barrelled straight through the police shooting at him and splashed into the water.
"Hold up, so that guy is the new student?" Asked a young African-American boy with buzz cut blond hair, this boy was Storm's Nephew Evan, aka Spyke. Professor answered with a nod.
"His name is Ronald Stoppable, his mutant ability emerged yesterday in the worst way possible, publicly and on national TV to boot… since then he has lost everything, his parents kicked him out of his home, his classmates rejected him and his girlfriend betrayed him, in addition it seems that a boy at his old school also tried to run him over with a car."
As the Professor explained everything a lot of the student looked down sadly, some of them had the same thing happen to them, but never that quickly.
"An old friend of mine convinced him to give life here at the institute a try, we left to pick him up a few hours ago… unfortunately Magneto beat us there"
Now the Professor had everyone's full attention.
"Magneto and his Acolytes confronted Ron before we got there and tried to convince him to join them, he refused and they attacked him… it seems that Ronald managed to beat several of them including Sabertooth and Magneto himself however temporarily"
"Dude, he beat Sabertooth and Magneto?! I am seriously glad this guy is on our side" Kurt interrupted excitedly.
"Yeah no kidding, from what I saw on that tape and if he really did beat Sabertooth and Magneto then he's like, totally not somebody I'd want as an enemy" Kitty said in agreement.
"Indeed, unfortunately Magneto had the same thought… he decided that rather than let Ronald join us, it would be better to eliminate him" Professor X said sadly.
"Eliminate? What do yah mean eliminate?" Rogue asked.
"What do you think it means?" Logan said deeply, "You saw it yourself didn't you? That wound he had when we brought him in…"
Rogue and Kurt both thought back to when they saw them carrying Ron, how much blood there was.
"When Jean, Scott and Logan arrived and met Ron it became clear that Magneto couldn't capture Ron… so they took drastic measures, Mystique got the drop on Ron, she stabbed him in the stomach with a knife" the Professor revealed drawing gasps from most of the students there.
"I-Is he ok?" Rogue asked, suddenly worried about the boy she had never met.
"It was touch and go for a while but we managed to stabilize him, he is resting in the medical bay at the moment and should be back on his feet in a few days" the Professor reported allowing the students to relax a little.
'Professor Xavier, I need to speak with you immediately' a familiar voice said over the intercom, most of the students recognised it was Dr. McCoy's voice.
"Well I you'll excuse me, the meeting's over, I just wanted to inform you all of the situation" Xavier said before turning around and wheeling out the main doors followed closely by Logan.
"Decided not to tell them eh Charles?" Logan said as soon as they were out of earshot of the other students.
Xavier understood what Logan was talking about.
"They don't need to know that Ronald actually died a couple of times during the surgery… he's fine now and I'm having doubts about even telling him" Xavier said as he entered the elevator and hit the button for the sub-basement.
A few minutes later Xavier wheeled into the medical room, Ron was still fast asleep with the sound of a heart monitor beeping in the background.
"Hank, you wanted to see me?" Xavier asked.
Dr. McCoy, aka Beast, looked very worked up about something.
"Yes Charles, take a look at this and tell me what you see" Beast said as he stepped back away from a computer screen. Xavier scanned the information on the screen, it looked like DNA sequencing information.
"It's DNA, mutant DNA to be exact" Xavier answered.
"Correct, now look at this" Beast said as he tapped a few keys and some more information came up.
Xavier looked at the information and came up with the same answer.
"It's the same, mutant DNA" Xavier answered.
"Yes, but now comes the incredible part… those two sets of information both came from one blood sample, Ronald's." Beast revealed.
Xavier looked at Beast like he was crazy.
"That's not possible" Xavier asserted.
"Professor, it's not just possible right here in front of us, … the DNA from both samples are almost identical with just one little difference, the X-Gene in both stands of DNA are different… Charles, Ronald's mutant ability isn't to change into those different creatures… each of those creatures is actually a separate mutation!" Beast revealed as he tapped a few more keys on the computer, suddenly twenty different sets of information popped up on screen, on each on the DNA was identical apart from the X-Gene which was different in each one.
"This… this shouldn't be possible, with all those mutations his body should be destroyed" Xavier voiced his thoughts trying to understand how Ron was still alive.
"I think I've figured that out too… it seems that his X-Genes are dormant right now, I think each X-Gene becomes dominant during a time of emotional of physical stress allowing him to transform but only one X-Gene becomes dominant at any one time, while his other X-Gene's remain dormant" Beast explained.
Beast turned to Charles only to see him staring at Ron while deep in thought.
"Charles… I'm sure you understand the implications of this?" Beast asked.
Xavier nodded in agreement.
"Yes I do… we've always known that mutants are the next stage of Evolution for humans… but Ronald here… he may very well be the next stage of Evolution for mutants…"
To Be Continued…
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Hey guys, hope you enjoyed the chapter enough to review it.
Right now i just thought i'd explain something about the character Deadpool, and his 'Chapter 2' joke. I know that a lot of people don't like it when the fourth wall is broken, but in marvel comics Deadpool actually has the habit of breaking the fourth wall on a regular basis, so i just had to do it, lol.