Disclaimer and Such: Update! Yay! I, unfortunately, own nothing. All characters used are property of Marvel. Though if I did own them you can be sure the Juggernaut would be much more prevalent and on the side of the X-Men. :)

This story started because of a dream I had a few years ago when all I knew about was X-Men: Evolution. Since then, I've become much more of a Marvel fan and have incorporated a few ideas found in comicverse [the last chapter contains most of this]. If you don't read the comics, it's okay. The story should be looking much more like Evo now.

The lines between paragraphs indicate a switch in POV.

"Telepathic conversation."

Thoughts.

Odd Situation Chapter Three

Professor Charles Xavier looked out across the black lawn of the Xavier Institute. It was nearly midnight; all of the students were asleep. The only resident still outside waiting with him was Logan, codenamed Wolverine. Charles wasn't forcing Logan to be there, he hadn't even asked him if he would stay. Logan had simply known that that was his place for the moment.

"Where are they, Chuck?" Logan asked in a husky Canadian voice. It shattered the quiet that had completely enveloped the two men, leaving behind it a tense, uncomfortable silence.

"They're close, Logan," the Professor responded. Another question had formed in Wolverine's mind but it was answered before it was spoken. "No, he isn't wearing his helmet."

"What?" Logan asked in disbelief, pulling the nose of his fierce looking uniform up. That movement freed his face, his dark eyes boring into the Professor for more answers.

A primal growl escaped Logan's lips as he thought, "Then what is he doing with Kit, Jubilee, Rogue and Rahne?"

Charles sighed to his feral friend and said, "Their thoughts are jumbled and confused. The only thing I know for sure is that they're all safe and in close proximity to my half-brother."

By the end of the sentence Logan had his nose in the air, sniffing deeply and quickly. He suddenly stopped, however, as his visual sense picked up where his nose left off.

"They're here."

The Professor still couldn't see anything; the moon was new, leaving his eyes sightless in the utter darkness. He trusted Logan's eyes, though. They had been made to be the best in the world and so far he had no reason to believe they weren't.

After a minute or two Charles could finally see, and even hear, them.

"The gate's shut and locked!" Rogue whispered urgently in her Southern twang. Her shadow was the one that was pulling at the gate. The petite shadow beside her must be Kitty, the smallest of the group. Two other dark spots stood close to those two, Rahne and Jubilee.

With surprising grace for its size, a huge black object lumbered to stand behind the four girls' dark shadows. Logan, too, had seen the shape and recognized who it was.

"Juggernaut," he said loud enough for the Professor to hear but softly enough so the new arrivals wouldn't.

Before Charles knew what was going on, he heard the metallic snikt of Logan's claws as they slid out of his right hand. With his left, he tugged the mask down into place before releasing those Adamantium claws as well.

"Logan wait," the Professor commanded him telepathically. A growl reverberated inside Charles's mind. "He hasn't done anything wrong."

"Yet," Logan interjected.

"And we have no reason to believe that he will."

"Other than the fact that he's the Juggernaut and he's been known to kill people!" Logan's psyche yelled back.

Professor Xavier sighed and watched the scene unfold before him.

"Here, you're all going to have to grab hold of me and I'll just like, phase us through the gate," Kitty Pryde whispered in annoyance to her comrades. They'd been standing just outside of the grounds of the Xavier Institute, a locked wrought iron gate between them and the warmth of the common room.

The three girls exchanged looks with each other before looking warily at Cain Marko. Sure, Kitty's powers had proved to have evolved and grown; she was now able to phase multiple people and there had been rumors of her even phasing a jet once. Still, the Juggernaut was known to have a resistance to most mutant abilities and the other three girls weren't entirely sure if Kitty could do it.

Kitty saw their eyes drifting between her and the Unstoppable Juggernaut and took their glances as they were intended, doubtful. I can do it, Kitty told herself. She continued to repeat this mantra, similar to the way the Little Engine That Could had done, as everyone took hold of her.

Rogue's hand, sheathed in her black leather glove, as usual, slipped into Kitty's left hand. She squeezed her hand, a manner that Kitty was sure was supposed to be uplifting but it only made her more nervous that maybe she couldn't do it, as Jubilee, who had taken Rahne's hand, linked her left arm with Kitty's right. The final feeling of worry settled in her stomach as Cain's giant right hand found its place atop her shoulder.

"Ready?" Kitty asked. When everyone had given her an affirmative sign, she took one last breath and walked straight towards the gate. The weightless feeling of phasing overcame her body as she walked, only interrupted by the slight tickling sensation that she was going through something. She opened her coffee colored eyes and saw that they were no longer separated from the mansion by a fence.

"Kitty! You did it!" Rahne exclaimed beside Jubilee in a heavy Scottish accent.

"Shh!" Someone else hushed to the group. Kitty soon realized the voice to belong to Jubilee as she continued in a whisper, "Do you want to wake the whole mansion up or what?" Jubilee unlinked her arm from Kitty's, as everyone else unhitched from her as well, and they began sneaking across the grounds. Well, they were sneaking as well as they could, considering that one of their party members was the Unstoppable Juggernaut.

"Think the Professor knows we're coming?" Kitty whispered to the group after a short silence, filled only with the dew encrusted grass whispering against their shoes.

"Yes, I do," Charles Xavier's voice said inside their heads. Everyone stopped dead and they all, except Cain, gasped. Lights inside the mansion suddenly sparked to life, drowning the lawn in yellow light and exposing the fact that the Professor was not alone.

"Logan," Rogue said in a surprised tone with a hint of grumbling. Logan was like a father to her. Seeing the obvious disappointment is his face made her feel ashamed, but it also angered her. Who was he to tell her who she could and couldn't fraternize with?

"Professor," the other three girls addressed their Headmaster in unison, all with the same shocked tone.

"Charlie," Cain said, drawing the attention of the girls away from the other two men present. Even Logan turned his hard eyes away from Rogue to glare at the Juggernaut.

"Cain," Professor Xavier responded, "Welcome home."

Author's Note: I apologize for the excessively long wait for this update and thank all of you, my readers, for being so patient and giving me feedback! It's so great to know that people like and want to read more of my writing! Thank you so much!

With that said, I feel it's only fair to warn anyone who read any of my work that I'm one of the slowest and most sporadic updaters ever. Explanation: college. I'm in my third year at school and juggling fanfiction, classes, homework, clubs, friends and a job is rather difficult but I'm trying my best to stay on top of all of it. I don't promise any sort of timeframe for another chapter of this story other than I have a plot laid out for it and have a word document dedicated to it. :)

Reviews are always appreciated! Please, tell me what you think of incorporating some comicverse into last chapter and how that flows into this chapter!