Ivory woke up on a metal table, wearing a paper dress. She lifted herself up in a seated position and stretched her arms, with her eyes still closed. Her bottom was aching for some reason. She reached behind herself and rubbed the area that hurt. The only thing that confused her was there seemed to be a stump in that area. She gripped on to it, too lazy to open her eyes and too tired to realize something was wrong, she ran her hand along the stump around three feet until she got to the spaded tip. Confused, she asked, "Kurt?"
Finally, she opened her eyes. She looked at what she was holding, then she looked at her hands. Both were blue, and furry. Eventually, it clicked.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"Hank, have you come to a conclusion of Ivory?" the Professor asked his friend. All of the X Men were gathered in the 'waiting room' outside of Ivory's facility.
"I believe so. Her x-gene allows her to make a copy of any other x-gene she comes in contact with. It's very similar to Rogue's power, except more permanent with less damage. Also, nothing but the mutant power goes to Ivory. No thoughts, personalities, anything."
"Interesting. Do you have any idea of how long she will keep Kurt's powers?"
"To tell you the truth, I have no idea."
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"I think she may have woken up," Scott said. They all moved into the room they heard the scream from. What they saw awed them.
Ivory stood in the middle of the room holding her own tail. Her legs were shoulder length apart and trembling. The arm that wasn't holding her tail was on top of her head. Her expression was one that couldn't be described. She looked exactly like Kurt, other than her hair was a much lighter shade of blue.
"What's going on?" her voice crackled.
"Ivory, I need you to calm down. Before I tell you anything you must breathe and sit down."
"Xavier, I can't. I can barely move. Just tell me what happened."
"Alright. Your mutant gene does not make you capable of flight like we thought before. Instead, it allows you to copy any mutant you come in contact with."
"So…"
"So when you touched Kurt's hand, you gained all of his mutant powers. It's probably permanent. Now you need to answer me as best you can. Have you ever possibly came in contact with any other mutant?"
"Actually, yes. My mother could fly. I figured it was just hereditary."
"That makes sense. And also, we don't think you will faint every time you touch a mutant. The only reason it happened to Kurt was because it was so physical."
"Alright."
"Do you need anything? Rest? Food?"
"No. I'm fine. Can I just get my clothes?"
Jean stepped in. "We thought that you might want to look more from today, so I got some of Kitty's clothes you could borrow."
"Oh, alright. Thank you." Jean gave her a pair of jeans and a long sleeve shirt. "Um, you mind if I destroy these?"
Destroy? "Uh, no, I guess. They're kind of old." Ivory started tearing off the sleeves. "Why are you doing that?"
"It's summer. It's hot. I'm done with wearing long sleeve clothes." She looked behind her at her tail. Then Ivory took the pants and shredded a small hole in the back with her teeth. "That should do. Could you guys leave now? I need to change." They all left.
"Well, she, like, got over that easy."
In a minute Ivory came downstairs in a t-shirt and jeans. You could have thought she was any other normal girl, if you didn't look at the blue fur too long. Before she thought anyone could see her, she slipped through a back door. Around her was the forest that surrounded most of the mansion. She walked forward, looking at each of the new plants she saw.
She thought no one saw her. But Kurt saw and followed her out. He kept following her, watching her stop and look at the smallest things in the world and for a minutes, he forgot about all of his problems. Suddenly she jerked up from her crouching position. Her ears twitched. He decided he was hiding long enough.
"Ivory? Sorry to scare you." He jumped down from the tree. "I just wanted to talk."
"It's fine Kurt." She sat down on a log and patted the space next to her. He sat down too. "What did you want to talk about?"
"Really, I just vanted to apologize for vhat happened. I'm sorry I damned you to zhis forever," Kurt said as he looked down at the ground and twiddled his thumbs.
"Why are you apologizing? You didn't know it would happen, I didn't know it would happen. No one in the world could possibly imagine that it would happen. You shouldn't apologize for something that's not your fault."
"It's just, you're just like me, permanently. You'll never be normal again."
"Kurt, I wasn't normal before. Right now I am living in my dream world. I'm with people who befriended me no matter how different I was. I finally feel like I belong. Don't ruin it by telling me I'll never fit in. Besides, now they'll never find me," she said the last part a bit softer than the rest. She scooted closer to Kurt and grabbed his hand.
"Vas? Vhat vas that last part?"
"Oh, dang. Could you just imagine I didn't say that? I really don't want to run away right now."
He nodded. "Me neither." Kurt leaned in closer. So did Ivory…
Hey Kurt, the Brotherhood's causing trouble again. Do you know where Ivory is? His emergency walkie talkie rang out. Kitty's voice was crackling.
Ivory swiftly jerked away and put her hands between her knees. She looked the other way. Kurt spoke back in the receiver, She's vith me. Ve'll get to the Blackbird hangar.
"Sorry," she said.
"Don't be. Come on."
Kurt rushed them to the hangar. "Where are we going? Who's the Brotherhood?"
"I'll vill tell you on the vay there. Hurry up." They finally ran into the giant metal room.
"Oh my goodness. What is that thing?"
"It's the Blackbird."
"Okay, I am not that stupid. I've seen a black bird before and that is definitely not the same thing."
Kurt chuckled. They boarded the jet, seeing that everyone else had already gotten on.
"Hey Ivory, there's, like, a uniform in the bathroom, if you want to change," Kitty recommended. Ivory saw that everybody was wearing some sort of one piece suit except the Professor and Kurt. She went to change. She came back out in a few minutes. Her uniform was much like Kurt's, except without the gloves, and the coloring was black and white.
"So will anyone tell me what we are doing now?" Ivory asked, annoyed.
"Sure, Ivory, you could know," Jean answered calmly. "We, the x-men, have some enemies. Like the Brotherhood. We stop them and others from destroying the town and stuff."
"So where are we going now? And what are we in?"
"We're going to a small town just outside of Bayville. We don't know what they're doing, but we know they're in a park at night, so we figure they're planning something. Right now we're in the Blackbird."
Ivory sighed, "No way! This is not a bird."
"Not literally, Ivory," Kitty chimed in. "It's just a jet. We call it the Blackbird."
Ivory glared at Kitty. "What. Is. A. Jet."
Kitty cocked her head to the side. After a moment, she replied, "Oh, it's just a flying object."
"Oh, I could fly!"
"Yes you can Ivory. Now listen closely. I do not want you to purposely touch anyone. We don't completely knows what would happen."
"What? We know what happens. Nothing. Look at Kurt. He's fine. You said I wouldn't pass out every time I touched someone."
"Well sure, but there still might be some underlying conditions we didn't notice. Will you just promise me this?"
"Fine, Mr. Xavier."
"Hey look, we're here."
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