The ride to the CIA secrets bases was boring. Robyn never was one for small talk.
Charles tried a while to make conversation, but after a few minutes he gave up. Robyn was too deep in thought. He didn't blame her. She just left her home to help a few strangers she just met. Charles was relieved that Erik didn't provoke her in the car, like he did by the lake. Things could get ugly.
When they arrived by the CIA, Charles personally escorted Robyn to the room the other mutants stayed. He knew Robyn was nervous. She never had any friends and she was afraid they wouldn't like her.
"I am sure they are going to like you" he said to her while they were walking.
"Did you read my mind?" Charles shook his head.
"I didn't have to. It is written all over your face". Robyn let out a sigh.
"We will see" after that neither Charles or Robyn said a word. Soon they reached the building. When they entered the room, there were six other people. Two girls and four boys.
"Hello everyone, this is Robyn" introduced Charles her. "Make her feel comfortable" He threw a glance to the blond girl in the room and left. Robyn stood a bit awkward by the door. The blond girl immediately walked towards her.
"Hi I am Raven" the girl smiled friendly. "I am Charles his sister." Robyn smiled back.
"Nice to meet you. I am Robyn".
"Come Robyn I will introduce you to the rest" and Raven took her the other side of the room where the rest of the company sat.
"Hey everyone this is Robyn" Raven said. The five other people stopped what they were doing and walked towards Robyn. A boy with glasses and a friendly smile extended his hand and Robyn took it.
"nice to meet you Robyn" He said while shaking her hand "I am Hank McCoy" Robyn smiled nervously back.
"My name is Angel" Angel smiled at Robyn, but Robyn didn't have a good feeling about her, but she shrugged it off.
"I am Sean" Sean seemed nice.
"Alex" said the boy with the blond hair. He kept his distance from everyone. He seemed a bit of a loner.
"And I am Darwin. Welcome Robyn" Darwin was the last one who introduced himself.
"now you know everyone, let me show you your room" and Raven grabbed her wrist and pulled her away. "Believe me; You are going to have a great time here" and Robyn believed her.
"We should think of code names" said Raven enthusiast. "We're government agents now, we should have secret code names. I want to be called Mystique." Sean laughed
"Damn! I wanted to be called Mystique." He said mockingly.
"Well, tough. I called it. And I'm way more mysterious than you." And with those words she turned in to Sean. Robyn was amazed. She never saw something like that. The other looked at Raven in shock. Then Raven turned in herself again. Everybody applauded. "Darwin, what about you?"
"Well, 'Darwin' is already a nickname, and, you know, it sort of fits. Adapt to survive and all. Check this out." He stood up and walked towards the aquarium. Then he put his head in the water. He turned his head and Robyn saw that he now had gills. Then he got out of the water and the gills disappeared again.
"That was incredible." Said Hank, clearly impressed.
"Thank you." Darwin sat down again and looked at Sean. "What about you?". Sean thought about it for a minute. Then he knew.
"I'm going to be Banshee." Hank was surprised by that answer.
"Why do you want to be named after a wailing spirit?" Sean got up from his seat and kneeled before the table his face towards the window.
"You might want to cover your ears." warned he. Robyn did what he said. She didn't want become deaf or something like that. Then Sean opened his mouth and let out a high pitch scream. So high is was ultra sound. The window shattered in a million pieces. "Your turn." said Sean to Robyn when he sat in his chair again.
"ehm I don't know… haven't really thought about it" stammered Robyn, who didn't expect he would ask her.
"Well what can you do?" asked Raven Robyn.
"yeah show us!" said Sean enthusiast.
"All right" Robyn stood up and walked towards the aquarium. She concentrated and let some of the water fly through the air. Everybody looked amazed. Then Robyn froze the water and after that she made it liquid again and put it back into the aquarium.
"what you think of… Aqua!" Sean looked proud of the name he came up with, but Hank shook his head.
"No that's a cliché. How about 'Azul'. It means blue in Spanish. It kind of fits you"
"I love it Hank. Azul it is. What about you?" the question was for Angel, who smiled and immediately got up.
"My stage name is Angel. It kind of fits." She took off her jacket, which really got Sean's attention. Robyn rolled with her eyes. Then Robyn looked at Angel again and she saw that Angel's tattoos turned into wings.
"You can fly?" Raven was really excited about that. Angel nodded.
"And..." then she spit a fireball threw the broken window on the statue. Angel turned around and smiled at Hank. "What's your name?" before Hank could answer, Alex felt the need to make a comment.
"How about Big Foot?"
"shut up Alex" snarled Robyn. Hank didn't looked that happy and Robyn liked Hank. It was Raven however who put Hank in his place.
"You know what they say about guys with big feet." She threw a quick glance at the feet of Alex. "And yours are kind of small."
"Okay, now." Darwin tried to calm everyone down before there was going to be an argument.
"Alex, what is your gift? What can you do?" Alex looked really uncomfortable after that question.
"It's not..." he began "I just can't do it. I can't do it in here." Everyone began to protest.
"Can you do it out there?"
"Why don't you just do it out there?"
"Come on!"
" Alex! Alex!" everyone began to encourage Alex. And it worked. He gave in and walked outside.
"That's the spirit!" said Darwin excited. Everyone was really curious about what Alex could do.
"Get down when I tell you." He said. The company nodded, but stayed were they were. Alex tried again. "Get back." An again nobody listened." Get back!" Alex sighed." Whatever." Then Robyn found out why Alex was so afraid to show what his powers were. He was shooting laser rings or something like that out of his body! The statue Angel had damaged was now decapitated. After Alex was finished he received a grand applause.
Ten minutes later music was playing. Hank was hanging at ceiling, Angel flew through the air, Raven and Robyn were dancing on the couch and Sean and Alex were hitting Darwin with wooden sticks. Robyn was having fun. She never had friends and she was enjoying every minute of it. Until…
"what the hell?" Moira was perplexed. "what are you doing!?"Then she saw the statue. "Who destroyed the statue?"
"It was Alex." Said Hank really quickly.
"No, Havok. We have to call him Havok. That's his name now. And we were thinking, you should be Professor X and you should be Magneto." Raven was enthusiast about the codenames, but Erik and Charles didn't share that opinion.
"Exceptional." the tone Erik used was sarcastic, but Charles reaction was even worse. He looked angry and disappointed.
"I expect more from you." And he walked away. Raven's smile fell after that.
"hey wait a minute!" Charles turned around and saw that Robyn was following him. "Why were you so mean? She didn't deserve that"
"She should be more mature, not destroying everything!"
"you shouldn't be so hard on her. This wasn't her fault" defended Robyn Raven. "we were just having fun"
"This isn't about you Robyn. Stay out of it" said Erik harshly. She glared at him.
"whatever" and she turned around and walked away from them. "Apologize to Raven" heard Charles say her and then she was gone.
"that went well" commented Erik. That earned him an angry glare from Charles.
"this isn't about you either Erik" Charles rubbed his temple. "I am going to apologize" and he disappeared in the direction Robyn had gone to.
"Robyn, are you there?" Charles asked when he knocked on the door. A few seconds later the door opened.
"yes? Can I help you?" the tone was venomous and Charles cringed a little.
"you were right" he said. "I shouldn't have said that to her" Robyn's expression became a bit more friendly.
"no you were right. We shouldn't have destroyed the statue" Charles chuckled.
"No you shouldn't. Moira want to see blood." She began to laugh.
"I can believe that" there fell a silence. "I should apologize to Moira too"
"Maybe you should" then Robyn realized they were still standing in the door opening.
"You do want to come in?" asked she, but Charles shook his head.
"It's better if I don't come in. Good night Robyn" and he walked away, leaving Robyn really confused about that comment.