Chapter THREE

Power, Rebirth and loss

Deep and powerful sadness lingered throughout the school. "The pain of the loss of Jean was unimaginable. She was the heart that brought great love to all those who had the privilege of meeting her and to those who loved her back. She will be missed." The words said at Jean's memorial by the professor. Everyone felt pain from losing her especially Cyclops and Logan. They didn't like each other before Jean's death let alone after it. They both loved her and hated the other for loving her. But life had to move on for new and interesting people were about to enter their lives and needed help to grow and learn. Now you may not have noticed but Daniel both loves and hates getting new powers. Each time he gets one, he needs to learn how to control it, faster than the original owner of the power due to Daniel gets the power at full evolution. It makes him extremely deadly and out of control. So he loves to get powers so he can both help the original owner to grow with the power and so Daniel can help more in battles if they arise. So you can understand how he both hates and loves to gain new powers. Sadly for Daniel he was about to get a massive dose of "kick in the nuts" worth of powers. Daniel and all the other students had to go for a school assembly, the first since Daniel arrived to the school. The assembly was about the safety and security of the school and its students. After how easily Striker got into the school, the school's defenses had to be upgraded to a large scale. So if there was a person wishing to enter the premises, they must first be Okayed by a staff member. Then the staff member has to greet them at the entry using an access code. Otherwise the alarms go off and lockdown the school. The lockdown sequence is; all windows get sealed with steel shutters, the doors are sealed the same, all of the basement area is locked down even harder and the only way to move through the school is to have the staff member's codes. So yea security was upgraded massively. So Daniel, being stuck in a room full of mutants, with an array of awesome powers, was forced to gain a few powers (all of them). Daniel felt a surge through him as if the powers just wanted to explode. The pressure was intense and too much to handle so Daniel had to race out of the hall and straight into the danger room so that he could start the process of controlling the powers before anyone got hurt. After the assembly, the Xmen went down to see if Daniel was ok. He had been there for a few hours and he still was trying to get a handle on the fifty or so powers he gained. Logan went in to help him out and became the test dummy for Daniel to attack at. The new powers were intense, while in the assembly he sensed the powers of everyone, so he gained the power of magma control, electricity manipulation, the ability to control technology with his mind, the ability to breath under water like a fish but be able to move faster the a bullet under water. There were many, many more but you understand how powerful and dangerous some of his power can be. Slowly, over a small time, the rest of the Xmen, except for Cyclops, went into the danger room to help as well. After a few more hours it was tea time and Daniel had a good control over all the powers, thanks to the Xmen assisting. He still needed work but at least he won't kill anyone. They had tea and Daniel was asked to meet the Professor to talk about the assembly and his new powers. The conversation went for a while but in the end the professor thought it be too dangerous, for the students, for Daniel to be gaining so many powers at once, Daniel agreed and said that he should just remain at the school for a while and train in the danger room till he gained full control of all the powers. An awkward silence came to the room while the Professor looked for the words to tell Daniel of what he had planned. The professor decided that the next day to have an open day to allow new mutants to look at the school so they can meet the Xmen and see the facilities available to help them. Daniel freaked out and said "what about me? What am I going to do?" the professor replied with, "I think this is a great opportunity for both the potential students to see how strong and in control they can become over their powers while both you can gain new powers in a safe environment and they get to have a little show of you using their powers at their fullest extent." Daniel saw they value of the idea and so he went along with it, with a lot of caution, this could end up being extremely dangerous.

This was the day to see how in control Daniel was of his powers. Slowly the students came to the school and had the grand tour. The professor would keep in telepathic contact with Daniel to ensure that Daniel was ready to have a new power. When Daniel gave the ok, the professor would start on showing the underground facilities were the students will have access to train their individual abilities and learn to control them. When they reached the danger room control area, the professor introduced Daniel and told the new student and her family a bit about Daniel and his abilities. While the professor was talking to them, Daniel was able to access to girls mind and saw her power, the ability to control the wind and use the wind to fly. Daniel already had the ability to control the weather thanks to Storm, so this power was easy to Control for Daniel. He decided to be a smartass and fly up to the control room using the girl's powers and showed her how her powers could be used. The girl noticed and was amazed by Daniel's skills. The parents were a little scared but the professor talked to them and convinced them to let her stay.

After a few hours many more potential students arrived and it came to the point where the Xmen were giving tours in small groups of twenty. Sadly for Daniel that meant anywhere between five and ten of the people were mutants. The worst part was that there was no communication between the tour groups and either Daniel or the professor. So at any one time there were two or three groups at the control room and Daniel had to control the new power and show it off to each of the new students. It became so hard that Daniel had to stop, he sent a telepathic message to all the Xmen to stop send groups to the danger room, Daniel was losing control and need to gain control of what powers he just gained in order to be able to continue. Logan then ditched his group on Storm and raced down to the Danger room to assist Daniel in controlling the powers. The professor then organized for all the groups to meet in the assembly hall so he could tell them all of what is happening at the moment and what was planned for the rest of the tour. He started off by telling everyone about Daniel. That Daniel was a mutant born in the early 1700's and because of meeting a special mutant he gained the ability to live forever. The professor told them of Daniel's ability to absorb other people's abilities. A lot of the parents got scared or worried but the professor calmed them by telling them that he was sealed in a room that was built for training the students and that it could handle all the powers that Daniel had. Men while in the danger room, Daniel and Logan were training like there was no tomorrow, so that the tours could continue. Thankfully most of the powers were repeated from previous powers or were very similar to other powers Daniel had. All the new powers did was increase the strength of the old powers. After about an hour Daniel told the professor, through telepathic abilities, that it was all good to continue the tours but to make them smaller groups and send in one family into the control room at a time. That way Daniel had a chance to get a small amount of control before the next family entered.

The day went by quite well considering the problems that occurred. As the day ended and dinner time arrived all the families went home to decide about letting their children to go to the school. Daniel finally had some decent amount of control over the new powers and was able to go have dinner without harming anyone. The next day was the most intense day the Xmen had ever faced. Cyclops decided to leave the school to go to the lake in Canada where Jean died. He was searching for some sign that she had survived. Shortly after he arrived he was met by someone that he knew and was greeted with foul intentions. At the school the day was going by nice and smoothly, Daniel was in the danger room still trying to get full control over his new powers, Logan was in the Danger room helping Daniel, Storm was teaching classes and the professor was in Cerebro trying to find out what was causing him these strong and unnerving feelings. The next thing he felt was Cyclops being disintegrated by some extremely powerful force. The professor called for all the Xmen to go to the lake and find out what happened. Daniel was left at the school to look after all the students and to keep them occupied. The Xmen arrived at the lake, it was very foggy and you couldn't see anything. Storm moved the fog away and they found rocks and other objects that would be normally on the ground, up in the air floating. The Xmen were confused but continued on to find Cyclops. A short while they found someone, but it wasn't Cyclops. They found Jean! She was meant to be dead. She was unconscious and she looked very different. She had fiery red hair and her eyes had a red tinge to them. They kept looking for a little longer to find Cyclops but the professor had a feeling what had happened. When they arrived back to the school, Daniel felt a power surging from Jean, so powerful that he absorbed it and lost control instantly. With all the powers he had he never felt something so amazing, so powerful, he felt like a god. The jet landed and the Xmen took Jean to the medical ward to examine her. Daniel was screaming in pain for he couldn't control this power that he gained he accidently used his telepathic powers and screamed into the minds of every persons in the New York state. Storm stayed with Jean while everyone else ran to see what was with Daniel. They found him exploding with flames, the flames looked to be in the shape of a giant bird. The professor talked to Daniel telepathically and tried to calm him down. The professor told him to lock the power away, somewhere deep in his mind where it couldn't be released. Daniel was confused as to why the professor would tell him to lock the new power away. Daniel refused and said that he would gain control over the power like the rest of his powers. Logan ran into the danger room to help out, but Daniel wouldn't let him in, the powers were so intense that Daniel didn't think Logan would survive being hit by the flames. Daniel stood there screaming in pain, enduring the suffering until suddenly the powers eased off and Daniel slowly started to control them. While Daniel was trying to control the new power, the professor was using his powers to try and lock away this new power that Jean had. Logan caught the professor and tried to talk him out of doing it. The professor was knocked out all of a sudden and was placed into a medical bed nearby. Jean woke up with Logan sitting next to her waiting. She said "this feels familiar." Logan looked at her and started to cry with joy. Jean sat up and started to seduce Logan, she wanted the animal in Logan to come out. It was slowly working but Logan gained control of himself and stopped. Jean didn't like that so she went a little crazy and escaped the school through the ceiling of the medical ward. Daniel sensed what was going on and ran into the medical ward to help Logan. Jean had already escaped and she was extremely dangerous. The professor woke up and was able to tell all the Xmen what was going on with Jean. "She is no longer Jean", the professor said "when she was a child Magneto and I found her, she had such immense powers. So powerful she couldn't control them. So I placed a barrier to lock them away and slowly release the power when I found she was able to control it. As the years went by it slowly grew its own personality, it called itself the Phoenix." The Xmen started arguing at the professor and he told them not to question what he had done. Everyone was angry at him for it. Daniel said, "Is that why when I gained her powers the flames appeared as a fiery bird." The professor said, "Yes it is Daniel, but it was worse for you. If you give a mutant a rating out of five, I am a three, same as Storm and Logan. But when it comes to you and Jean, you are a five and if I wanted to make it more realistic, you are more a ten out of five if you get my meaning. Jean is a five as well, but cause you can absorb abilities, that makes you the most powerful mutant ever." "Wow so as long as I gained powers I'm a five but if I didn't." "Then you would be a one, not even that because you wouldn't have even been able to use any powers for you didn't really have any." Daniel started to remember as to why he and Logan are so much closer now than ever before. For it was because of Logan that Daniel was able to live for so long and for Daniel gaining all of these powers.

They stopped talking and went to find where Jean ran off to. While all of this was happening, a human scientist was developing a drug that would suppress the mutant gene. They found the idea when the met a boy who had the ability to suppress a mutants powers when they came into a close vicinity of the boy. After hearing of this Magneto decided to try and find himself some new friends. He went to an old church where a large group of mutants were rallied to talk about the new drug and to form a governing group to try and peacefully get rid of this drug. Of course magneto decided to use the knowledge of the drug to his advantage and spread fear into the people. He told them that the army and government would make it into a weapon and use it forcefully. The people of the church were in such fear that they rallied together and joined Magneto in his fight. While at the church magneto met a girl who had the ability to sense what powers other people had and the level those powers were at, she also had the ability to move very fast. Magneto used this to help him find Mystique. Meanwhile Rouge heard of this drug and lined up to take it, her powers were dangerous for her to touch people and she wanted to be able to kiss Iceman without hurting him. Mystique was captured by the military and was being transported to a military facility along with some other high priority criminal mutants. Magneto was able to find the truck transporting them and freed all the mutants. Sadly for Mystique she was shot with one of the weaponised drugs and she turned into a human. Magneto left her there, he doesn't care for humans and she was one of them. Magneto went to a camp site he found and got all of his followers to hold up there. He then found that Jean was reborn and he left to find Jean just like the Xmen were. They all met up at Jean's childhood home and both the professor and Magneto went in alone while the Xmen and Magneto's new lackeys, Juggernaut and Multiman, stayed out front. Juggernaut has the powers of super strength and when he starts moving, he cannot be stopped. On top of all that he is also the professor's half-brother. But the professor prioritized and ignored him. Now Multiman has the ability to make duplicates of himself and rejoin them all back together. Now I'm pretty sure you can guess what happen to Daniel. He gained the strength and the unstoppable ability and also was able to make duplicates of himself. While Daniel was trying to control these new powers the professor and Magneto were trying to convince Jean to come back with them, but both had different reasons. The professor wanted her suppress her powers again, when Magneto wants her to have her powers fully unleashed upon the world. Jean became frustrated and went crazy. She attacked both of them and started to destroy the house. The Xmen and Magneto's group started to fight trying to help their leader and stop the other group from getting to their leader. Magneto's team was defeated badly and the Xmen ran into the house. Just as they got there everyone was thrown around the house and made it hard to get to where the Professor and Magneto were. By the time Logan was able to open one of the door, Jean was disintegrating the professor and left Magneto alone. The professor smiled at Logan just before he disappeared. When Jean calmed down, Magneto took Jean back to his little hideout. The Xmen where distraught over losing the professor and it brought back the losses of Cyclops and Jean all over again. So many people died so recently, and with all the events that have happened no one has truly been able to grieve. The Xmen went back to the school and were deciding to shut it down. Without the professor how would it continue running, he was the whole reason it started in the first place. They had a funeral for both Cyclops and the professor, all of the school was there and so was Henry McCoy, Henry was the science teach when Daniel and Logan first arrived at the school. After the funeral Storm, Logan and Daniel met up with Henry and had a little talk about what was going on. Henry's code name, back in his Xmen days, was Beast, because he looked like a big blue beast. He was a scientist and became a politician to represent the needs of the mutant community by the professor's request. While they were talking about their plans to stop Magneto and find out what he was up to, a young man came into the room. He had blonde hair, blue eyes and Caucasian skin. He went by the name of Warren Worthington. He was the son of the scientist who created the drug to suppress mutant powers. Beast, Storm Logan and Daniel all realized what magneto's plan was and why.

They needed to find out when Magneto was going to attack so Daniel and Logan both went off to find where Magneto's hideout was. When they found it they were greeted by a guy who could throw bone shards that come out from the wrist. He was chasing down Daniel and Logan till finally Logan stabbed him in the stomach with his claws. They then made their way to the main area where everyone was gathered. They wore hoods to hide their faces and joined into the crowed. Daniel was having a very hard time trying to control all the new powers he was gaining, he still didn't have full control over the abilities he gained from Jean. After a short time Magneto came out of a cave along with Juggernaut, Multiman, Pyro, Jean and the girl who could sense powers. As soon as they exited the cave the girl who senses powers sensed someone even more powerful than all the mutants there combined. Magneto realized it was Daniel and called out for Daniel to reveal himself. "This my brothers is the ultimate power that protects the humans." Magneto said as Daniel took off his hood. "Hello Magneto, I'm here to stop you from starting a war that will destroy any chance of human and mutant co-existence." Magneto did a little mono-logging while Logan snuck around to get Jean. "This war is inevitable, it will happen and it is better to happen now rather than later, at least now we have the advantage of them not knowing what we are capable of." "If the humans knew of what we are capable of they wouldn't be as scared of us." "You sound just like Charles, he too thought those naive ways but no longer." "Yea because you just stood there and let him die, you didn't even have the guts to save your oldest friend. The man that stood up for you when everyone put you down. He saw the good in you when no one else did. He loved you like family." Magneto then realized what Logan was doing and stopped him then tried to stop Daniel, but Daniel learnt how to reverse the magnetic powers so that they didn't affect him. Daniel and Logan were able to escape after some struggle, but without Jean. They got back to the school and Daniel, Storm, Logan, Beast, Iceman, Colossus, and a new girl named Kitty Pride, who had the ability to move through solid objects, all got onto the X-jet and flew off the facility where the drug was being made. While they were flying there, Magneto was almost there as it was. He used his powers to break off part of the Manhattan Bridge and use it to carry all of his group over to the facility. Now the facility was located on "THE ROCK" also known as Rikers Island. The island had been redesigned to be a research facility instead of a prison. Magneto and his Brotherhood made their way over the bridge and were standing on the edge of the bridge when the Xmen arrived and set themselves up in defensive positions. All were ready to fight and Magneto mad the first move. He sent out all the weaker powered mutants like pawns, to be slaughtered and to see what the Xmen's next move was. The Xmen just fought them off as quickly as they could. Suddenly Juggernaut was sent into play. He was sent to grab the boy with the power to suppress mutant abilities. Kitty Pride went after him to try and get to the boy first. The fight continued and many of Magneto's team were being slaughtered, they were no match for the powers that they were facing. Kitty made it to the boy first after making Juggernaut sink into the floor and forcing him to rip his way out of the ground. Juggernaut was very close behind Kitty when she found the boy, so she tried to run out through a wall with the boy. She failed cause of the boy's powers and he had to remind her about it. So instead of trying to go through walls she decided to use Juggernaut's strength against him, he came crashing into the room and ran straight at Kitty and the boy, and because of the boy's powers, Juggernaut hit the wall a fell unconscious. Kitty escaped to the roof of the building where the X-jet was and got the boy inside. Seeing the boy in the Xmen's hands, Magneto sent out Jean. The devastation and destruction that she cause to the island and the facility was insane. Magneto's team and the soldiers that were protecting the island were disintegrated, structures around the island were flying around the air and no one could see away to stop her. Just as Magneto sent her out, the Xmen made a plan to stop Magneto. Logan got Colossus to grab him and throw him at Magneto to distract him while beast snuck up behind him and injected him with the cure. The plan worked, Magneto was no longer a threat. But Jean was. That plan wouldn't be able to work on her so Logan got the idea to make sure everyone escaped and then walk right up to Jean and ask her to stop. He was one of two people that could do it. So up he went, Jean tore his flesh off his skin as he walked up to her. He endured the pain just to save her, he loved her so dearly. The love that Daniel saw reminded him of the love that he had for Victoria. Logan made it up to her slowly healing the wounds that she created. He asked her to stop, and all she said was "Logan I can't stop, help me." Logan cried out "I love you Jean" then he released his claws and stabbed her. She died instantly and all the structures that were left were dropped to the ground. We cried out in an agonizing whale, "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!" He was forced to relive the death of jean all over again. So much lose and so much death occurred on this island just like it did back when the prison was still operational. Everyone left with their wounds, both physical and emotional. The Xmen left for the school and to try and live their lives once more. After a few days a memorial was done for all three lives that the school had lost and Storm dedicated herself to continue the school in the memory of the professor, Jean and Scott. Slowly a new Xmen team was created, consisting of; Iceman, Kitty Pride, Colossus, Logan, Beast and Daniel. Storm became the new headmaster of the school and tried to keep back and be the brains behind the Xmen instead of being one of the team. After a few weeks Rouges powers returned to her, she was kissing Iceman when the returned and she nearly sucked the life out of him. He survived but she realized that she would never be rid of her powers.