Hello Everyone! Quick update: Chapters 1 & 2 have been edited by KingShadowOmega, who is writing a TMNT Fanfiction AND also my brother in real life. So go look him up if you are interested. I OWN NOTHING...SADLY :(
Tony's P.O.V.
A few weeks have past since the funeral for my 'beloved' mother. All I have been receiving is food from people that knew her, they all thought I was to stressed to cook. Well they are correct, I am stressed, but I have chefs who cook for me.
Lately my only thoughts have been about my sister, who doesn't like me. She flipped me over and yelled at me, most females don't do that. She even had someone crack into JARVIS. That was also different for me. Soon she will move in here with the rest of us and frankly no one was really excited to have her come here. Natasha doesn't like that someone found her personal information, and Cap wasn't happy that violence was taken at the funeral. Pepper was unusually quiet about the whole situation, Jane was actually very excited to have Christi- Chrissy coming here. She was hoping Chrissy could help her with some project she was working on. Bruce didn't really have an opinion, Clint was probably the most excited. He wanted a strong sparring partner and mutants were on the strong scale.
Chrissy's room was already finished. I couldn't wait to see her expression, she'd love it. Darcy jumped at the chance to help me decorate it. Claiming she understood Chrissy's personality at the funeral. The walls had different designs on them, one wall had a giant red rose painted on it with vines going up and down the wall. She had a queen bed, that was held by a black border. All the furniture was black. She had lights dangling all across the ceiling. Darcy was positive Chrissy would love this room.
"Sir, a Mr. Summers is here to see you." JARVIS spoke. Summers, who is that? I went to the lobby to see the boy from the funeral talking to Bruce and Cap.
"Mr. Stark, nice to see you again." Summers spoke.
"Uh, yeah. What's your name again?" He was wearing those red shades again. It was rather cloudy outside I didn't see the purpose.
"Scott."
"Right, what can I so for you."
"This is for you. In a few days will be Chrissy's advanced combat test, most of the student body will be watching it. The professor assumed you may be interested in seeing it too. If you sign into this during the time period, you'll be able to see the test."
"Advanced Combat?"
"Chrissy is a very skilled fighter, advanced combat is for students that can provide safety to others out on the field. This is a test to see how far they've come. You'll like it, everyone at school places bets on which students and teachers will survive the longest."
"Teachers take the test too?" Cap asked.
"No, it's five teachers and other obstacles against five students." Scott responded and handed me the paper with the information on it.
Chrissy's P.O.V.
Apparently I was distant, very distant. One thing I knew about my abilities was that if I am stressed some abilities work without my knowledge. For example, the last few days my mind reading has been off the charts. I would read all the minds I came across. Peters thoughts were mainly about finals. It was kind of annoying, I couldn't really turn it off. Q all his thoughts were of video games, that boy didn't even need to study. My dad's thoughts upset me, his thoughts were of my soon to be new home this summer. All what if scenarios, 'What if they don't feed her?', 'What if they make her uncomfortable?', 'What if she gets hurt?'. I mean I get it he is worried, and I'm grateful, but I don't want him to worry.
I was almost officially packed and ready to leave, well physically not mentally. The professor assures me that my time with Tony will be a wonderful experience. He believes I'm being too hotheaded in my anger towards Tony. Which he isn't wrong, I'm not necessarily sure where the anger is coming from. I was really reluctant in the beginning until I talked to Hank yesterday.
"Chrissy do you have a moment?" Hank asked quietly walking beside me. I nodded and let him continue. "I understand you are not very excited to be moving in with your brother. However, I would like you to start a project while you're away."
"What kind of project?" I asked getting intrigued.
"Bruce Banner lives at stark tower, along with everyone else. Have you read about Dr. Banner?"
"Yes, he was a scientist who got struck with a large amount of gamma radiation and that turned him into a giant green beast."
"That's correct, but tell me wouldn't that much gamma radiation kill a person?"
"Most definitely, the only humans I can think of that could survive are humans that are actually mutants who's powers haven't shown." Hank gave me an open eyed stare with a giant smile. That's when it clicked, "You think Dr. Banner is a mutant?" I said smiling.
"I do, actually it is your theory that got me thinking this way. When we were in class the other day you gave an explanation on gamma radiation and how different level would do different things to mutants and humans. Perhaps his abilities never came to light."
"Wow, this is certainly a possibility. However, there isn't a way to prove the theory, is there?"
"That is where you come in; you'll be living with him. If you could get some of his blood, or maybe even get him on board of this theory then maybe we can see if he was a mutant. Or maybe help him find a cure, or something."
After that conversation I was very excited to go live with my brother. In fact, this entire summer is about to be an experiment. I would test Hanks theory about Bruce and hopefully it is true. It would definitely explain a lot about Dr. Banner. Not only that bit maybe I could find out why I was angry with Tony, maybe I could get along with him. I mean I doubt it, but I do love a good experiment.
I'd be leaving soon and all I planned on doing before that was studying for tests and spending time with my family. Q, Peter, Kitty and I were all sitting on the second floor study hall. Q wasn't actually studying, but helping Kitty with her class. I was currently flipping through flash cards testing myself.
After an hour of studying Q, Kitty, Peter and I went to my dad's class, Advanced Combat. We went down to the second sub-basement to the danger room. The danger room generates solid, realistic imagery by manipulating high resolution force fields and holograms. The room capacity is up to twenty people at a time. For the test it is 5 on 5. The teacher against the students, Q, Kitty, Peter, and Bobby were in my group. Our opponents were Logan, Scott, Ororo, Hank and Remy. Professor Xavier and Jean would write notes on our progress and everything. I knew I would pass the test, I know my partners strengths and weaknesses and they know mine. Not only that, but when you put us together we are pretty much indestructible.
Once we were all suited up we entered the danger room. Our suits came with a backpack, that had bandages, water and food. On the side stood Logan talking to Ororo and Remy. Remy was going to be a little of a challenge, his powers were unique. Remy had the ability to take potential energy stored in an object and convert it to colored kinetic energy. The kinetic energy also gives him superhuman physical abilities. He can also deflect my ability to read his mind, the scary part about his ability is his hypnotic charm, it allows him to take influence over sentient beings, making them believe what he says. He used it on me once, saving a lot of people, but now that I know about it, it is useless. Other than that Remy's physical appearance is nice too. Remy has long brown hair and he is rather tall, not only that he also happens to be quite the ladies man. He is only a few years older than I am, he joined out school a few years ago because of Logan.
"Hello students. Today is your last Advanced Combat course as students here, well everyone except you Kitty." Professor Xavier's voice rang over the intercom from the communications room. We all looked at Kitty and gave her a soft smile. "Your goal is use what you have been taught against your teachers. Not only that, but there are five flags scattered in different places, your goal is to get them. Once a flag is obtained it cannot be taken from you. Fight past your teachers, fight past random obstacles. Work both together and individually. The bracelets on your bodies will allow us to watch your body signals, such as heart rate, blood pressure, and any thing else that will tell us it is time to pull you out. When the bracelet on you gives us that warning you will be withdrawn from the test. The time limit on this test is unlimited. This is the advanced course, all of you are here because you have either worked on the field or will be working on the field. Good luck my students, get ready!" He called off.
I fist bumped Q and Peter and looked ahead to the teachers. In the communications room you could see Professor Xavier and Jean! and half the student population. On the floor below us the number 16 glowed and then disappeared. The simulation was about to start. Levels 1-5 are for level one mutants. Level 16-20 are for level five mutants, which most of us are. Other students thought they needed to be strong to get through the levels, they are wrong. What you need is tactic, strength and speed are just features, brains and patience were mandatory. If you run head first into battle with something unfamiliar you'll most likely fail.
The room darkened and the teachers disappeared. The ground soon felt like dirt, the air changed to the smell of the out doors and smoke. Kitty had her knees bent ready to go down at any moment, Q was already on high alert. We all stood around observing our area, so far no one was insight. I learned from Logan that hearing was more important that seeing.
"Should we move forward?" Bobby asked. He looked at me for the answer, I nodded. Peter motioned his hands for Kitty and Q to take the left side, while he and Bobby took the right and I stayed in the middle. We stayed in a 'V' formation, not on top of each other but close enough that we could get to one another.
I walked cautiously, observing the area in front of me. Mud, a lot of mud, then I smelled it: fire. I was going to go towards it when I heard Kitty scream. I changed my direction and headed towards her. I could hear Peter and Bobby calling out behind me. Kitty was surrounded by Robots, most physical attacks were unless against her, however right now they were shooting lasers at her non stop that she could solidify her body without getting hurt.
Quicksilver was attacking the lasers, running and hitting the guns away from Kitty. I ran forward and attacked the robot right in front of Kitty, but was cut off by Scott.
"Sorry sis." He muttered before taking a swing, but it was a bad choice since I already anticipated it. I dodged and flipped him down, Bobby froze Scott around the face so I could go to Kitty. Off to the side Peter was busy fighting three robots alone. I pointed my hands towards the ground below the robot and gave a little battle cry. Within seconds I was manipulating the ground below and causing the ground to cave inward. That ability I 'copied' from a fellow student named Petra.
Peter was pounding a robot into the ground when Scott broke out of the ice and went for him.
"COLOSSUS!" I screamed trying to warn him. He turned to late Scott was going to get him, but Quicksilver jumped in front first and saved Peter. Kitty jumped on Scott's back and sank him into the ground. With a giggle she applauded herself. Once things were calm we decided to leave Scott and move forward. Once we were a safe distance I asked, "anyone hurt?" They all shook their heads. "Good. Let's keep going. Scott will get out of there eventually, stay alert."
Peter walked in front, fully armored. I watched him as he walked, his body was firm, ready for an attack, yet also ready defend the rest of us. During our last test he really stepped up and save Quicksilver. I wasn't sure what happened, but the test was cut short because Q was dying. When I saw them that day Peter had the most damage done to him, but Q, his chest was ripped open, his arms broken in almost every place. It was a frightening sight, Q thought he was ugly for months, then his personality healed and he was himself.
Bobby walked over to me and said, "Think you could scout above?" I shook my head and declined.
"To risky with Storm here. If I went up there I could almost count on being shot down. He nodded and scanned the area.
I looked ahead of us again and closed my eyes. Trying to focus on sound, then I heard it a growl. It could only be one of two animals. My dad or Hank, then I realized it was both. They both jumped out of trees, Logan heading for Kitty and Hank for Bobby. Hanks ferocious face set fright into a lot of people, sometimes even me. Bobby jumped out of the way, and Kitty sunk herself into the ground. My dad went for Quicksilver and Colossus, I stood and examined the area that's when I noticed the flag. It was directly above us, hanging on a branch.
"FLAG! DIRECTLY ABOVE!" I shouted alerting my partners. Kitty and Bobby nodded as Hank went to attack them. I jumped in front of them.
"Get the flag!" I ordered. I'd fight Hank, I always like a little teacher-student fight. Hank was also called Beast. His body was large like a great ape, and colored blue. His arms and legs all like hands could perform amazing tasks. His abilities gave him super strength, speed and agility. He was great at hand to hand combat.
He ran forward taking a swing, I leaned back dodging. He kept throwing punches and I tried dodging, eventually I had to throw and attack. I opened my mind to see how my partners were doing. Quicksilver was too focused on the giant bugs that had surrounded him while Peter fought Logan. Kitty and Bobby were still working to get the flag. I jumped quickly into the air, I needed to weaken Hank and help Q. What hurts animals? Then it hit me, screaming. Sound vibrations hurt animals. I ran back from Hank and yelled ear plugs. Colossus and Q immediately crouched to the ground, while Bobby threw a barrier around him and Kitty. I opened my mouth and yelled so loud that Bobby's shield broke. Hank and Logan tried to cover their ears, but they were too slow. I ran forward kicking Hank threw a tree. I ran over to my dad and punched him to the ground. The bugs had gone limp. I grabbed Quicksilver and ran with him towards Bobby and Kitty. Peter had Kitty in his arms, and when we reached he launched her into the air. She grabbed the bright blue flag, we all cheered. First flag down, four to go. This was going to be a long test, I assumed we were already an hour or two into the test. Hank and Logan got up and ran into the darkness, we watched them go and then sat down.
I had a tear on my right sleeve, but now wound. 'I must have healed', I thought. I looked over at everyone else. Kitty had various cuts same as Bobby, but Q had the worst. His arm was turning a different color.
"Q, what happened? You're arm...it's turning black." I asked moving towards him.
"One of those bugs nicked me, man! Do you think I'm going to die?" He bellowed. I turned to Bobby, "can you freeze the infected area?" He nodded and put an ice band over the wound. "Cold" Q complained.
"Kitty want ice-aids too?" Bobby asked.
"No thanks. We got a flag, what now?" She asked. They all looked between Colossus and I.
"Now, we take a break. We all got our emergency packs right. Take some water or food if you need it. Don't think because one of us doesn't need it that you don't. This may be a test where we need to work together, but it is also an individual test. Take care of your bodies. Five more minutes then we leave." I said and Peter nodded.
I walked a little to the side thinking of what else could happen. I thought too soon, soon I smelled it. It was faint but it was there.
"Q, get up. Do you smell that?" I said pointing in the direction we came from. Q got up and went to go check it out, when he came back a second later he yelled, "POISON GAS". We all gather out packs and ran. Q slowed his pace to stay with us, Bobby tried to put up a wall but it wasn't working, the gas was catching up to us. We were gonna die, that is all I could think. How do we get out of this? It's a test, right? Then there must be a way out of the gas. We were running but the gas would catch up with us any second. We need to get the gas away...wait the source of the gas. It has to come from somewhere doesn't it? I stopped running.
"Bobby for a shell and put yourself and Kitty inside. Colossus suit up, Q, with us." They all looked at me. "Now!" I shouted. Bobby closed a nice shell around Kitty and himself. Peter formed into his metal self.
"What now, run Q run around and disperse the gas, make a path for Colossus and me. Were going to find the source, once we do you and I are going to push the gas back where it came from." He nodded, and Colossus agreed.
Q ran off and the gas started turning into a cyclone following Q. Peter and I ran forward and started looking for the source, we were running for quite sometime. Peter doesn't need to breathe, I can heal, Q was susceptible to the poison, but he was the only one who could do this. I could of used his ability, but I had to help find the source.
The gas was a golden color, and the trees that were enclosed by the gas were melting. We ran for a good portion, I kept my mind in Q's making sure he was ok.
"Up ahead!" Colossus called over to me. I looked for ward and there stood maybe 15 robots along with the giant bugs, we were surrounded. We needed to get rid of the gas.
"Go on ahead, I'll take care of this." I told Peter. He nodded and ran forward.
"Red, I have to move forward with Colossus, you gonna be ok?" Q shouted. I nodded and he left. The robots tried to follow, but I jumped up and started attacking them. I turned my arm into a sheet of metal cloning Colossus' ability on me. I ran my hand through one robots bodied and used its own weapon to take out the other robots. I jumped off one and started attacking the giant bugs, sadly that's when I screamed. A giant spider was approaching me, yes I am terrified of spiders. I quickly set fire to myself, making a fire barrier around me. As the bugs approached I set them on fire with me. I turned my body to full steel and started pounding everything around me. The giant spiders kept coming towards me. I felt my heart race pick up, this was not going well.
I was surrounded by spiders, every direction they came at me. I thought I was going to be taken out of this test, but then I had an idea, swimming. I pointed my hands to the ground and created a moat around me, then I summoned rain, sinking the spiders, before they were able to climb out I created a sheet of solid ice over the moat. I nodded and felt better, I ran off into the direction of Bobby and Kitty. When I got there they were still in the ice shell. I knocked on it and Bobby and Kitty came out.
"Poison gas gone?" asked Bobby who looked tired.
"I hope so, we have to wait till the boys get back."
"You left them?" Kitty looked astound.
"I was fighting robots and bugs, yes I left them. They should be back soon." I stated and pulled my water out of my pack. After another 15 minutes Peter came back carrying Q. Quicksilver's skin looked in terrible shape. The poison gas definitely took its toll on him.
"We got really lucky, we got the second flag. It was hanging by the vent where the gas came from." Peter said.
"We can't stay here. We've been here to long. Bobby, Kitty take shouting positions. Bobby in front, Kitty in the back. Peter carry Q on your back so I can patch him up while we walk."
As we walked I pulled out the bandages from my pack and started patching him up. He wasn't conscious right now, but hopefully he would awaken soon. I told Peter I finished on Q and went to trade places with Kitty. As we walked the ground changed, all of a sudden we were in a building with tiled floors. The floor had a new glowing number:17. We just went up a level, thugs were going to get interesting.
As we continued further inside the building Quicksilver woke up and we found the third flag. No interruptions. That was the first sign that something was being planned. I took note that we haven't seen Storm or Gambit yet.
"Man I'm starving!" Q hollered making an echo in the hallway. I glared at him, "yes Q, give away our position." He muttered an apology and I smiled. We took out a few cans of food that were in our bags. We spit the food and ate fast, then we continued forward. We took a few turns every so often, when Peter said, "the walls are changing."
"What?" All of us said in unison. He pointed behind us and the right turn we just took is gone. We were in a maze that changed.
"Great, this couldn't get any worse." Then the ground started to shake.
"You just had to say something." From behind us in the hall came giant boulders. They all looked at me and hit me in the arm. I clearly spoke too soon.
"Run!" I ordered and we all ran. The only one who had to run fast was Bobby, the spikes on the boulders would severely wound him. Kitty and I could phase through it, Peter could get hit by it and not be hurt, and Q could just run ahead of us.
We were all running quite fast, when the floor caved in below us.
"AHHHH" we all screamed. Bobby quickly pointed his arms to the ground and when we landed the floor was covered in a soft pile of snow.
"Everyone alr-" I was flung out of the way by Bobby who landed on top of me, to the side a giant boulder landed where I was sitting.
"Thanks." When we got up we saw the next flag. Kitty got excited and ran for it, but then I noticed the glowing red light.
"NO! Look out!" Kitty stepped too close and the bomb went off. Luckily nothing hurt her, or any of us. I ran towards her when a ray hit me in my arm. I started to bleed, there further in darkness stood cyclops. He ran forward and tried hitting me, out from the shadows came Hank and Logan with more robots. The robots had weapons in their hands other than guns. They had knives, blow torches, and chains. They wanted to capture one of us.
Bobby fought hand to hand with Scott, while Peter resumed his fight with Logan. Q and Kitty were fighting Hank, I went of the robots. I armed myself with Peters powers and went forward. I was being hit in all directions.
I flung myself into the robots, feeling my body grow weak. I looked around and I saw that we were all getting beaten. "Change it up!" I yelled. I went up against Logan now, Peter fought Hank, Kitty fought Scott and Bobby and Q fought the robots.
"I ain't gonna go easy on you because I love you," Logan said.
"I wouldn't have it any other way dad."
He lunged forward, claws coming down on me. I didn't try to dodge instead I grabbed his arm and twisted it behind his back. I then picked him up with my mind and flew him backwards. When he tried to get up I turned my fist to ice and punched him down.
"You do get I heal right?" He asked getting to his feet. I nodded and then continued to fight. I was exhausting my powers by using so many abilities. I knew I had to get us away from them and soon.
"Bobby, Q give us cover, time to run. Forget the flag for now." The all nodded and Bobby started to produce snow and Quicksilver started running around to spread the snow. Once it was to hazy to see anything we all ran away. When we recovered out from the building, Kitty and Peter were missing.
"What do we do? Should we go back?" Quicksilver asked.
"No, we cant. They know the risks. They'll push forward, we have to move on too." Bobby looked upset, but understood I was right. As we continued the ground changed yet again, now the ground said: 18. We went up another level, things were going to get a lot harder now.
We continued further into our test, the fights were a lot more difficult now. We haven't seen Storm or Gambit yet, and I hope Kitty and Peter haven't run into them yet either. Every robot we faced now was stronger than the last ones we fought. We were chased by crazy looking animals with sharp teeth and claws. Spikes popped out of the ground and fell from the skies, giant birds attacked in every direction.
Bobby and I had many injuries because of the spikes. I used so many of my different abilities that my healing was slow. Q wasn't badly injured because he was fast enough to dodge. When we were out of harms way we took cover under trees and walked cautiously. Things were quiet, very quiet. I opened my mind and listen for any voices and I found some, Kitty and Peter were close. Soon we heard shuffling and I ran towards it.
"Peter?"
"Rini?" When I rounded one of the tree I saw them, they were in terrible shape. "What happened to you guys?" I asked looking at Kitty's bleeding arms.
"Gambit attacked us, we were caught in quicksand, well I was caught in quicksand and couldn't help Kitty." Bobby and Quicksilver helped attend to their wounds. After a long break we continued forward. That's when we were attacked, we were all spaced from each other, none of us could get to one another, that's when I noticed it.
On the ground around each of us were lines in the ground. Before I could scream barriers shot up around all of us. In front of Quicksilver dropped Scott, Kitty got Storm, Peter got Logan, Bobby got Beast and then Gambit dropped down in front of me.
"Hello doll, ya look good. Ya ready ta fight?" He said with a twist of tones. Before I could answer he threw four playing cards towards me. I ran and dodged to the right, they all explodes within seconds of each other. I stood up and ran from Gambit, I'm still trying to recharge my abilities. I looked over and Bobby wasn't doing so well with Beast.
"Ya should neva take ya eyes off ya opponent." Gambit said throwing his fist in my face. I went down to the ground and then roll to the opposite direction to escape. I got to my feet and charged full force at Gambit. Yet all he did was dodge and kick me down, every time I tried to get up he threw cards near my face and they exploded. I got up and armed myself full metal and then took the explosions head on. Gambit ran for me and I jumped into the sky and attacked him from the air. I used storms ability and started summoning lightening. My body felt very weak, I couldn't understand why. I used these many abilities on a daily basis. It must have been the gas that was making me tired. When the lightening flash it temporarily blinded Gambit and I took my chance to attack him. I went for his legs and took him down, I reached to separate the staff from his reach, but he charged it to me and shocked my entire body. I groaned as a burn mark was etched into my skin.
We started fighting each other hand to hand, but every so often he would thrust his staff towards me, I dodged it as best I could. It scraped me every so often and left tears in my skin. I was getting tired of fighting Gambit. I charged him setting fire to my right arm and punched him down to the ground, I urged the ground to wrap him into the ground. I thought he was going to to get back up but then the barrier blocking me in went down. I looked to my side and Kitty was finished, her bracelet went from yellow to red. Her time in the test was finished, I looked over to Bobby he too was finished. I looked over to see if Peter and Q were doing ok, they were and they weren't. My dad was covered in blood, but now wounds due to his healing factor, but his stamina was dropping. Peter's left arm looked broken from where I stood. Q was worse for wear, his whole body looked like it had been slashed in every direction. Scott's rays cut through Q like butter, quicksilver may be fast but being boxed in didn't give you a lot of places to run too. Their fights still continued, but soon after their barriers dropped. I didn't understand why, all four of them were still standing, then Peter dropped. I mean he literally fell forward and landed unconscious.
Soon a section in the danger room opened up and Kitty, Bobby, and Peter were escorted out of the test. I ran over to Q and by the time I got him up all out teachers were gone and a flag was left I the middle of all the barriers. Four flags completed. The test didn't end for Q and I, we still had one more flag to get.
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