The young girl on the table looked so scared, confused and yet… sorry at the same time. Her hand was still dispensing grey smoke, but her hands also seemed to be glowing a very incandescent blue. The girl looked at Jean, who was lying on the floor, then at Logan, Hank and Scott, who were shocked, but Scott looked absolutely furious. His ruby sunglasses seemed to grow an even lighter shade of red as he looked at what the comatose girl did to his beloved Jean Grey.
"Where am I?" Shouted the young girl as she got off of the medical table. To Logan's surprise, she stood at a good 5' 7" and her golden brown hair ran down to the middle of her back. "I said," repeated the girl in a much more irritated tone, "WHERE THE HELL AM I?" "HEY," exclaimed Scott as he was helping a dazed Jean off the ground, "we'll be asking the questions here-"
Hank then cut Scott off and said calmly, "What Mr. Summers is trying to say is-" Hank was then cut off by Logan who asked "Who are you?"
The girl looked puzzled for a moment, putting her index finger on her bottom lip, and then admitting "I don't know who I am-" "Skylar." Everyone looked towards Jean, who Scott was still cradling in his arms like a sick child even though she was perfectly fine , "Your name is Skylar."
The girl then looked at Jean with disbelief nearly overflowing her ocean blue eyes and asked "H-How did you?…." Jean just smiled at the young lady, whose name had been identified as 'Skylar' and said, "I'm a telepath, I can read people's minds, and while you were asleep, I was trying to see if you were even still alive, you gave us all quite a scare."
At this point Jean had walked over to Skylar and put her slender hand onto Skylar's broad shoulder. Skylar then looked down at her hand and asked Jean, "What am I?…" Jean's smile just continued to get bigger as she explained to Skylar, "Don't worry, you're a mutant, a person who was born with a special gene in their DNA, your power seems to be… control of energy." Skylar just continued to look at her hands, then at everybody else in the room. She felt so alone and frightened.
Hank saw this and took the opportunity to get himself acquainted with this strange new girl, "Don't worry," cooed Hank as he took both of Skylar's hands in his large furry ones, "all of us here are mutants, so there is no need to be so self conscious!" Skylar looked at Hank, she thought that he was so intriguing, he was covered in blue fur, hand very large hands and feet, but also seemed to be very intelligent.
"I've also pin pointed your age," announced Jean, "you're about eighteen or so." "I could have told you that Jeannie-girl." Logan was standing right next to Skylar now, hovering over her like a tall tree.
"Ok, back up a second!" proclaimed Skylar as she backed away from the group, "I don't even know who any of you are!" Everyone just looked at each other for a moment before Hank finally said, "Oh my Stars and Garters, how rude of us, let me introduce my friends and I." Hank then grabbed Skylar's hand and lead her over towards the group again, "I am Henry McCoy, but you may call me Hank, of course, you've already met Jean, that man with the grey T-shirt on is Logan-" "And 'Slim' over there is Scott Summers." Logan then pointed over to Scott who was still standing in the exact same spot as when he stormed in, looking as solemn as ever.
"Don't take it too personally," reassured Jean, "I think that Scott is still a little shaken up from the death of a teammate of his named Emma Frost, God I hated that woman…"
Just then a woman ran through the doors of the med bay, "Logan!" yelled the woman, "The Brotherhood is at it again!" Skylar examined the woman and noticed that she was very muscular looking and had white hair cradling her face even though the rest was a light brown. "Rogue, what's wrong?" Logan rushed towards Rogue in a quick haste "The Brotherhood is attacking a whole crowd of people at an anti-mutant rally, and it's starting to get pretty messy out there, Logan!" Skylar noticed that Rogue talked with a sort of southern accent and thought that it was actually very pretty.
"Come on, we have to go!" Logan the n ran out of the room and everyone seemed to follow him, except for Jean, who was looking at Skylar a little worried. "Logan," called Jean ", what should we do with Skylar?" Logan looked back at the two woman and stated, "Let her come if she wants, we may need an extra hand with this one!"
"Wait, what's going-" but before Skylar could finish, Logan grabbed her wrist and ran with her in tow. Skylar didn't know what was happening, but Logan seemed very serious, as if he was the leader of… a team or something. When Logan finally let go of her, Skylar saw that she had been taken to a jet hanger. There was a large black jet and standing in front of it were Hank, Jean, Scott, and a lot of other new faces.
One of the people seemed to be a boy with tan skin and spiked golden hair, another seemed to be a girl with long brown hair, but some of it were in pig tails. Then, there were two women with light brown skin, one with white hair and the other with Lilac colored hair. The one with the lilac hair seemed to have a bit lighter skin than the woman with the white hair, but they still looked absolutely beautiful.
"Wait here for a minute, alright kid?" Skylar looked towards Logan, who was already walking away from her. Skylar felt so clueless and scared, she hardly knew anyone here. Skylar looked around for a minute and saw that the whole group of people all had uniforms on. Some were yellow and blue, but a few were either gray and black or black and white. Skylar felt pretty out of fashion all of the sudden, she only wore blue jeans, a black T-shirt , Chuck Taylor's, and her glasses with black rims. She held herself until Logan came back, he had changed his clothes, though.
Logan had replaced his grey T-shirt, blue jeans, and small cowboy boots with a yellow and blue uniform with a mask that was connected to the costume. "Alright kid, let's get a move on." "Logan, what's going on-" "By the way," said Logan as he lead Skylar towards the black jet ", call me 'Wolverine' when we get their, alright?" Skylar didn't know what was going on, so she just kept nodding her head and following Logan. "Oh, by the way, you can thank Storm for the new change of clothes."
Storm? New clothes? Skylar looked down at her outfit and saw that her T-shirt had a red X that was surrounded by a large circle. "Um…. Alright." Logan just smiled at the young girl behind him, she seemed so innocent, but then again, she was hurt pretty bad when Storm found her. Once on the jet, everybody seemed to all be staring at her. The woman with the lilac colored hair seemed to scowl at Skylar, but she didn't know why.
"Hey there, pretty lady, what's your name?" Skylar looked to her left to see the boy the golden hair turned his seat to follow Skylar as she searched for a seat on the large jet. "M-My name? It's Skylar…" "Well my names Bobby, good looking, but you can call me Iceman." Skylar wasn't very interested with Bobby's advances, she just wanted to find out what was going on!
"Oh, knock it off Bobby," Skylar then saw that the girl with the long brown hair was sitting in front of Bobby and saying ",she's obviously not interested!" The girl then looked at Skylar and smiled, "I'm Kitty Pryde." "Hi, Kitty."
"Alright everyone, we can continue with the meet-and-greet later," said Logan", but right now, we have to stop the Brotherhood before they hurt anymore people!" While Logan was talking, Skylar had finally found a seat that was right in between Jean and the beautiful woman with the white hair. Logan looked at Skylar, who was buckling her seatbelt, and asked "You ready for this?" Skylar hesitated for a moment before saying "I-I guess so…"
"Don't worry," stated the woman with the white hair, "we'll all do our best to protect you." Skylar looked at the almost goddess like woman and asked "Are you… um… a-are you Storm?" The woman smiled at Skylar and said "Yes, I am, and I must say, I am glad to see that you are feeling better!" "Thank you, and thank you for the new clothes." "You are quite welcome."
"Lift off in five." Skylar looked forward to see Hank piloting the large jet plane. "Get ready, newbie," said the woman with the lilac hair, " 'cuz I'm gonna blow your mind!"
Storm rolled her eyes and thought to herself 'Honestly, I have no idea why a man as sweet and gentle as Hank could end up with a woman as brash as Lilac is!'. "Lilac-" "Ah, relax Storm," ordered Lilac as she leaned towards Skylar, who was in the aisle next to her, "I'm just giving this little wannabe a rough time!"
Skylar had to admit, she was a bit intimidated, but not enough to actually admit it. All of the sudden, Skylar felt the plane start to hover in the air. Then the ceiling separated to create an opening in which the jet could go through. Skylar was looking out her window, amazed.
Logan saw how impressed Skylar was and smiled to himself. A girl as sweet as her should never have to go through what she had. Logan just looked forward and sat back in his chair, hoping that Skylar would make as good of a member of the team as he was hoping she would. He still couldn't shake the feeling that he knows her from somewhere. He, would have to think about it later, right now, he had to focus on the mission at hand, and how Skylar can prove herself to be one of the X-Men.
Running Through the Stars: Chapter two
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