X-Dragons
Hello everyone. I bring you two chapters for my story. Guess I was inspired. I've been welcomed by the community so this story will stay until the very end.
Well, enjoy!
Chapter 2: A New Place
The half Saiyan looked at the sky outside through the windows of the Blackbird airship. Sure the aircraft was fast but the alien really hated to travel that way. It was just way too slower than his own ki flying technique. Even with the weighted clothes on he outmatched the black plane's flight by notches.
Wolverine was on the controls with Ororo as the copilot and using her powers to keep any fog or cloud out of their way. But though she was looking to the storm that might form on their path, she was occasionally turning her head checking how the boy was. He only seemed to be staring out of the Blackbird thinking to himself. The boy was a bigger mystery that what it looked like. Apparently his trust would have to be gained in due time.
"Ororo, Logan, what's your situation?" The mental call from Professor X reached their minds.
"We still have our limbs, if that's your concern, Chuck" Logan mentally said, his 'humor' coming into play. Storm rolled her eyes and so did Professor in the mansion.
"Thanks for explaining Logan, but I was more concerned about the young guest" Charles replied wanting to find out about a certain youngster.
"We are all fine, Charles. But the boy isn't going to trust us until we put some common ground between us" Wolverine explained through the mental call.
"Not to confuse you Charles, but he doesn't look like a mutant" Ororo said her opinion not sure if she should.
"Neither do I, yet here I am, flying a jet through the night sky" Logan joked again. And again Storm rolled her eyes by the antics.
"I mean, there's something different in this child. Something is off, like if he doesn't belong here" Storm explained her theory. It was a sixth sense she had.
"Whatever, let's just not make him angry until we get to the mansion" Logan offered, to which Storm agreed seconded by the Professor. The mental link broke and the mutants flew to the mansion along with a half human/Saiyan boy. Logan saw the control panel when he had first entered the aircraft but he dismissed it like nothing important. It said that the ship had extra weight. Sure the child was aboard, but come on, he surely didn't weight more than seventy pounds.
A few minutes later, the ship entered the secret X-Hangar landing with a small thud. Gohan came outside inspecting everything around him. It looked like Capsule Corps, though he couldn't define which one was the most technological one out of the two of them.
"Follow us" Storm said to him walking besides Logan to the elevator. Gohan followed along, and after a few minutes of going through lab corridors and the inside of an amazing house, the three people reached Professor's studio. Inside was the wheelchaired Professor Xavier, accompanied by two other teenagers. A seventeen year old boy, who stood nearly six inches above Gohan. His eyes, though, were covered with red sunglasses. That was something Gohan considered off, for the fact they were inside a house, at night, without sunlight.
Next to him was a teenage girl, as old as the boy, with long fiery red hair flowing down to her back. She had emerald eyes that seemed to shine with friendship. And her body was quite nicely developed. Gohan controlled his mind. Been a hormonal teenager was not going to help him get answers.
"Hello, young one" Charles said, pulling his chair closer. "My name is professor Charles Xavier. I'm the headmaster of this Institute for especial gifted people" Professor extended his hand.
"The name's Gohan" The half Saiyan said, extending his hand and shaking it with the headmaster "Son Gohan" The old man emanated leveled mind and peace, something Gohan decided to trust.
"I guess introductions are required" Charles said before waving his hand to the other mutants. "Everybody, why don't you introduce yourself with Gohan?"
"My name's Scott Summers, or Cyclops for better" the elder boy said, shaking hands with Gohan with a friendly smile. The Demi Saiyan smiled back.
"I'm Jean grey, and well, I don't have a secret name like shades here" Jean said, pointing her last comment to Scott, who blushed so much that it seemed like his eyes had camouflaged with his skin. Everyone chuckled by the little display.
"My name is Ororo Monroe, or Storm" The woman who traveled with him said, smiling friendly.
"The name's Logan or Wolverine. I'm the best in what I do..." He rose his hands, from where three metallic claws came out "...And what I do, isn't very nice".
Gohan smiled to his inside. The man Wolverine didn't seem like one to be trusted with, yet that indicated he could trust him. He reminded him of Piccolo: a hard exterior that didn't want to be invaded, and at the same time, a great heart that would stop beating, if that meant it would save his friends. Sometimes life was very ironic in trusting issues.
"Well, as you know I'm Son Gohan, no other name" the half Saiyan said, trying to make some joke.
"Well Gohan, we've heard you took care of a few loose tie, so to speak" Professor said, bringing the attention of both Jean and Scott.
"Yeah, who was the cave man, by the way?" Gohan asked like if it wasn't a big business. Logan chuckled to himself. 'Cave man' that was a new one.
"He's a man, who goes by the name of Sabretooth" Charles explained, bringing some shivers through the two first students he had. Both Scott and Jean had met the wild man on a regular basis, and all of them ended in utter ass kicking. Against them, of course. "His mutation allows him to heal any injury he has in small amount of time."
"Mutation? What do you mean?" Gohan asked, totally confused now. Mutants were really a topic he had never discussed before.
"Sabretooth is a mutant, which means he was born with an especial Gene, that gifts him with abilities no human has" Charles explained the mutant X-Gene. The half Saiyan pondered the information in his mind. He had heard of people with especial abilities, all of his friends, actually. And non of them had healing. Sure they could fly and release energy, something totally uncommon for people, but to consider someone like Krillin as a mutant, seemed like an insult.
"So Gohan, Ororo told me you needed some answers" Charles asked, trying to at least make some conversation. The more he knew of Gohan, the better.
"Yes professor, first, where am I?" Gohan asked.
"Bayville, more specifically, The United States of America" Charles explained. Gohan's eyebrows rose. Bayville? America? Was he joking?
"A bit more specific, please" Gohan said. "Like, what planet I'm in?"
"Earth" Charles said confused. Everyone looked to each other surprised.
Gohan started to rub his temples, feeling a real headache. For the human/Saiyan hybrid, this made no sense. He lived on Earth for fourteen years of his life. How was it possible that things have now changed? What happened?
"Gohan, are you okay?" Jean asked concerned by the sudden change of the new student.
"Yeah, I just... need to sit down for a couple of minutes" The demiSaiyan said, moving to the nearby chair he had. But his rear only lasted a second on it, before the chair crumbled to smithereens.
"Hey, you okay?" Scott asked in concern, offering his hand to take him back. But the half Saiyan just waved his offer off.
"I'm fine" Gohan said, back to his feet. "I just forgot I had the paddler on" Gohan removed it, though with some slow movements. Logan's eyes recognised the weight inside it. It was an old method of training. Once your body adapts to the weighted clothes, and you then improve, you later take the clothes off, and you would be even better.
"Weighted clothes?" Logan asked. After Gohan's nod, he continued "I've heard of them, but I never saw anyone actually using that training method."
"Well, maybe because they are hard to use. Especially when it weights ten thousand tons" Gohan said, not caring the sudden wide eyes he opened.
His eyes closed, his mouth opened wide, yawning for what it was worth. Apparently moving to another Earth took the tool out of Goku's son.
"Can we skip the questioning for tomorrow professor? I need to sort out a lot of things of my mind" Gohan said. Not that he cared the questioning, but rather the questions he had for himself.
"Of course Gohan. Putting pressure on anyone doesn't lead to anything good" Charles said, looking to his telekinetic student "Jean, would you care to show Gohan one of the spare rooms we have?"
"Sure professor" Jean said, though her green eyes remained on the mysterious comer.
Some minutes later, Jean entered the study again. The five X-Men stood nearby the chimney fire, discussing the Gohan topic.
"Well, he's a very particular case, that has to be admitted" Professor said his theory. As nobody complained against him, meant the others thought likewise.
"Professor, do you actually think he was carrying on his shoulders ten thousand tons without any kind of effort?" Scott asked in disbelief. "It's just preposterous!"
"That would explain why the Blackbird indicated we had an overweight" Logan added his two cents.
"He may also came from a total new class of mutant never found before" Xavier pondered, rubbing his chin in deep thought "If evolution created us mutants, then it's also possible that evolution decided to step even more forward. Of course it's just a theory, but I think it's the most plausible, with the information at our disposal"
"Professor" Scott decided to put his own possible solution. "What if we... you know, keep an eye on him?" he finished, making his point. Jean looked scandalized to her oldest friend. Was he actually suggesting of spying on the boy?
"Forget it, one eye!" Logan scowled, taking everyone aback. "You do that, and we'll lost what little trust he has on us. Trust me when I say that you don't want his powers against you"
Logan wasn't one to suddenly protect kids, especially those he didn't knew at all. But the fact the boy blasted Sabretooth to China, already put the kid on his good side. Well, not yet, but at least it meant Wolverine wasn't going to slowly kill him. Unless the boy gave him a good reason.
"Why don't we go and rest for the night?" Charles suggested, trying to easy the tension around "Gohan is welcome to explain his story on his own time, and of course, he has a place in the mansion, like any other in the case he wants to stay" Everyone agreed, and left for their own rooms.
The teenager Gohan could be considered like a heavy sleeper. Almost every Saiyan had that natural ability. But that, of course, only counted when the Saiyan was already asleep. Something Gohan wasn't.
The half Saiyan was lying in the soft bed, racking his mind with a lot of theories. Many would think that they were ideas from a mad Thinker, but Gohan was a Saiyan. And any Saiyan that had some respect, would defile logic at least at one point of their lives.
His first theory, was that he had time traveled into the future. Again, a very loony theory, but he had seen Trunks doing it, with a machine specifically called 'Time Machine'. If that was illogical, then everything in life was too.
His second theory was that he had been abducted. That may sound totally crazy but Gohan saw many aliens before and it sounded very possible. Though the aliens he knew were more like conquerors or villains, always bumbling about how powerful they were, only for their asses ending in the after life. Frieza never abducted him, also.
His third theory was... and his mind was putting all the eggs in that basket, was that he had moved into another dimension. If he had to be honest, that was the most acceptable one. He didn't have a time machine, and he hadn't met an alien for two years. The last ones were a space pirate called Bojack and his gang. And they were not the abducting ones, but the 'we'll conquer your planet' ones.
How many chances did anyone had of suddenly appear into another dimension, which had its own Earth? For a normal person, not even in three reincarnated lives. And if you were a Saiyan? Well, then he should be lucky of even arriving on Earth.
"At least I didn't appear on some weird planet, where all the people are green, and have shape-shifting capabilities, which they use against their also green enemies, because they are looking for control over the universe" Gohan thought to himself, amused. If that was even possible he would eat his paddler.
Next morning, a young half human/Saiyan woke up, his keen smell sense catching the food's scent. Smell of waffles and beacons along with butter on toasts. A Saiyan's sensible nose was something to be afraid off. Especially, if the Saiyan was hungry.
The half human/Saiyan walked down to the dinner room, now without his paddler. He really didn't want to push the professor's patience by breaking more chairs. Even when Gohan could recreate them thanks to the Magical Materialization that Piccolo tought him, the demisaiyan wasn't one to make the same mistake twice.
When Gohan entered, the five X-men were peacefully chatting with one another.
"Hi there Gohan. Hope you were comfortable" Professor said acknowledging his presence. The others greeted him too, though Wolverine seemed cautious. Gohan wasn't surprised though. He had learnt that you can't blindly trust anyone you have just met.
"Hey Gohan, nice sleep?" Jean asked him, once he sit next to her. She always saw the good in others, but maybe she shouldn't do it with Gohan. He was already a good guy. Scott surveyed Gohan carefully, already with suspiciousness in his paranoid mind. Whoever got near Jean would make him to do that.
"Yes I did" Gohan said, wanting some food. He grabbed what he had at hand reach, which meant everything. And he ate. And ate and ate. The others looked how he filled himself endlessly with food.
"Dam Bub, where do you pack all that?" Logan said, after Gohan finished his breakfast. With nearly twenty empty plates on the table.
The half Saiyan smiled, before releasing a sigh. "I know you all want to know who I am, so I'll try to explain. Just be patient" The mutants looked to each other, making nods only they could see. Gohan's tone indicated he was serious and that this kind of information couldn't leave the room.
After nearly an hour or two, Gohan finished explaining his life. From his baby time to his yesterday training with Piccolo. He didn't remember however, how the hell he had been transported to this new world. It still made no sense to him.
"Now that explains the lot" Logan growled as usual, though his interest was in full mode. A half human alien that may come from another dimension? He would like to say it was plain crazy, but his metallic skull made him remember that nothing was what it looked like.
"Well, that's my life up to this point, so far" Gohan said with a shrug.
"And we appreciate the fact you trusted us with it, Gohan" Professor said smiling "Rest assure, only we will know of it" The others smiled to him too. Not Logan, but he at least gave a growl that indicated he agreed too.
"Thanks" Gohan smiled back "I was also wondering if I could stay here. I know I'm not exactly a mutant, but let's face it. I don't actually have a way home, right?"
"Of course Gohan. Any gifts are welcome in the Institute" Xavier said. In fact, having someone like Gohan was a great benefit. His fighting knowledge and abilities could come handy for training future mutants to come.
"Why don't you show us what you can do?" Jean asked getting curious. After hearing Gohan's adventures, she was a bit intrigued in finding out what he was fully capable off. Energy beams, power ups, all he had said sounded cool.
Logan smirked evilly. The kid might have survived terrible battles, but he would not survive Weapon X.
"So, was my performance of your liking?" Gohan asked, coming out of the Danger Room with an obvious mocking tone. Sure he had sweated slightly but nothing more. He could do far more dangerous things than dodging lasers or acid. Dodging Piccolo's fists, now that was something dangerous.
The other members of the X-Team looked aghast to him, totally speechless. Wolverine especially. He had created the Danger program, specifically to stop anyone from beating it. Even he, who knew what expected him, hadn't passed it a single time. And now a fourteen year old half human alien from another dimension kicked his ass out, by beating the Danger Room at its top difficulty. The fact the kid hadn't taken off his weights during the whole session only added salt to the open wound.
Wolverine felt embarrassed, and at the same time, proud. The father of the kid, must be proud. Gohan was a force that no one wanted to cross, in good or bad days.
"You guys mind if I go train outside?" Gohan asked "Not that this place doesn't work, but I tend to break stuffs, and I really don't want to rebuild the lab from ground zero" After Professor's nod, Gohan left at blurring speeds.
"Well, that was interesting" Scott said smirking towards Logan, who saw the action.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Logan growled
"Nothing, nothing" Scott said, raising his hands defensively. "It's that you put so much effort in the Danger Room, only for a kid to screw you up!"
"Then why don't you go and do it at the same level he did?" Logan said with his smirk "Or you afraid of him beating you too?" Scott remained silent, not wanting to push the subject or he would have to train with an angry Logan. Now that would be a suicide he would rather not have.
"I need to see what that kid can do with my own eyes" Wolverine said, walking out, hands in his pockets.
Wolverine had his arms folded as he looked at Gohan, training in mid-air. The half Saiyan no longer had his upper purple Gi, revealing his chiseled upper body. However, he still had the paddler on. His arms and legs were a simple blur, that attacked the 'enemy' in front of him. Flying from one place to the other, the demi Saiyan was like teleporting, landing a powerful straight fist in one place, reappearing into another place, firing a spinning kick. Logan looked amazed to the display. If this kid was good with the weight on, then everybody was screw when he decided to drop them.
Storm came to his side, looking to Gohan too. Her eyes remained on him far too much.
"So what do you think of him?" Ororo said, eyeing Logan.
"The kid has fought before, and no one will stop him from fighting again" Logan commented "I don't think there's anything we can do to stop him, if his eyes are fix on something. Yet it doesn't mean I won't try it on the next training session" His metal claws popped up.
"Same old Logan" Storm smiled to him.
"What's Chuck doing about him?" Former Weapon X asked. Storm took some seconds to respond.
"He's already creating a background, so the boy can assist school with the others" Ororo said. Logan growled to himself. That boy and school, didn't sound like a good combination.
"You wanted to talk to me Professor?" Gohan asked, entering Charles' study a few hours later of training outside. His well constructed body by years of training was at full display. Jean looked away, a bit blushed on the face mixing with her fiery hair. Honest to herself, not even ten Duncans could compare to Gohan's physique. Scott looked a bit envious. He had his own share of muscles but Gohan was even younger and better. Logan just stood stoic.
"Yes Gohan" Professor said, surprised by Gohan's look but he said nothing about that. "As any other student of the Institute, you will have a basic education in Bayville High school. It's always important that a great body..."
"Needs a great mind" Gohan finished surprising Professor and everyone. "My martial arts teacher Piccolo used to tell me the same thing. He taught me how to meditate and to keep my mind protected from mental attacks. He used to say that training just the body and not the mind is like building a temple on shifting sand" Professor was rather shocked. Whoever Piccolo was, Gohan had been very lucky to have him as a teacher. Such a young man to know how to take such levels of responsibility without breaking was very unusual. And also very welcomed.
"Well, that saves a lot of time" Logan said now.
"And Gohan" Charles said now with a more direct tone "You are not allowed to use any of your powers while on school. We need to keep the fact mutants are here, as a secret" Gohan arched his eyebrows.
"Why? I'm not afraid of what people might say" Gohan said confused. Ignoring what idiots said to him had been one of the first lessons he had had with Vegeta's sparring. The prince' arrogant comments were eventually brushed off by the half Saiyan without much of an issue for him.
"The truth is Gohan, many people believe that mutants are abominations, with no kind of emotions" Jean talked now, forgetting her deep blush. "That's why we remain hidden at plain sight. People isn't ready to accept the fact someone is different" Gohan thought that conclusion in his mind. Jean had a point there. He remembered that many people in his own world thought of Cell as a monster for what he did. But at the same time, people hailed heroes, like that Mister Satan guy, no matter how many weird abilities they had. People from this Earth were surely the same.
Of course, been screamed that he was cool and super, wasn't exactly what Gohan wanted for a life.
"I understand professor" Gohan said. The alien, however, scratched his long hair a bit sheepishly "But I kind of have a problem there. I've never been to school before, so I don't know where to start"
"Seriously?" Scott asked in shock "Never?"
"My mother used to make me study at home, but I don't know what level I might be" Gohan said shrugging his shoulders. He had always enjoyed reading books. Gohan just never liked that his mother forced him into doing it because he could read without someone nagging at him. It was the same as saying that a Saiyan after having lunch was forced to have dinner.
"That's no problem, Gohan. You can have some tests and see where you are" Charles advised, and Gohan nodded.
The half Saiyan was dismissed, going back to his training in the ample yard. This world wasn't so bad after all.
Notes from Chapter 2:
I know that ten thousand tons on the Blackbird sound too stupid. But it's Dragon Ball, you want me to explain the logic of it when there isn't?
Gohan knows how to perform the Magical Materialization, thanks for training all those years with Piccolo. It's actually all about controlling one's ki energy and shape it accordingly to what you want to create.
Well, Gohan has revealed himself and has some things to do. See next chapter and look at the situations he will get into!