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My eyes shoot open. I'm not happy.

"WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?"

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"UGH!" my alarm *ZAP* is no more. What time is it? 5:30? Ugh. twenty minute shower. Then Danger room. I repeat 'ugh'. I lay Sally down on my pillow and slip into my shower.

"Mmmmm...shower feel good." It was over all too quickly though, phase the water off and that saves time. Get dressed. Boxers. Blue jeans. Black wife beater. Socks...sock. I like having only one sock on...don't know why. Time to go to the D-Room. Time to walk? I look at my watch. 5:59:56. 57. 58. 59. 6:00:00. Hmm, convenient. I teleport to the DR and look around sleepily. Everyone was there to make introductions, or watch while I did. Lets see - Jean, Scott, Rogue, Kitty, Kurt, Tabitha, Evan, Bobby, Ray, Roberto, Jamie, Rahne, Jubilee, Amara, Ororo and Logan.

"Hey deadbeat,"

"Hi Logan."

"Get yer ass over here and give us a little demo." I shrug

"Okay."

"And two sock or none, choose, that drives me crazy."

"Okay." I'm too tired for this. I take off my sock and put it in my pocket. "Hi, I'm Danny. I've been clean for four years." Logan's hand smacks the back of my head

"Knock it off deadbeat" I glare at him..it's way too damn early for this.

"I paint, read and am so musically talented that I'm my own band." Evan snorts

"Yeah right. Five bucks says he can't even play two songs." I glare and call him out

"Five bucks it is, right before dinner. You game?" he's cocky

"Of course, just make sure you have five dollars ready for me."

"Whatever." Great, now I have to play for someone...the mouth, not the smartest thing to use when not yet awake. "Anyways, like I said, I'm Danny and I have too many powers."

"Like, how many do you have?" Kitty? Probably...too tired to tell.

"Dunno, wanna count?"

"I do!" Tabby? Was she here? Yeah, probably

"Okay." I'm so groggy "Invisibility, intangibility, flight, enhanced strength, slight invulnerability, a higher healing factor, ecto-blasts, ecto-shields, ecto-energy manipulation, cryo-blasts, ice manipulation, eye blasts both ecto and cryo," deep breath "cloning, limited telepathy and telekinesis, teleportation to anywhere, limited weather control, I can see and feed from people's auras, or emotional energies some might call it, and then there's my ghostly wail."silence "How many is that Tabby?"

"Uh, nineteen, twenty? I wasn't sure if the whole aura thing counted as two different things."

"Lets say it's nineteen, then make it twenty-one because I forgot about opening portals and overshadowing people." she gave me a look that said 'overshadowhatnow?' "I can posses people." people backed away a tiny bit and I roll my eyes "I'm not gunna do it," I tell them, jeeze, what did they think of me? "much." okay, so maybe, maybe they're a bit justified, but the pranks wouldn't be that bad...okay so I can't even lie to myself, they would be that bad...but it would be so worth it. A hand shoots up, Bobby.

"You do realize you just named like, half of our powers right?" I nod wearily

"Yup."

"When did they show up?"

"Lab accident when I was fourteen." They want more but I won't tell them, not now.

It's dinner time, so of course Evan gathered everyone in the back yard for everyone to witness my pitiful attempts at music. I was going to enjoy this. Everyone is in the back yard waiting and as I get past the crowd I keep walking and let three clones walk out of me and we create a five foot tall angled ectoplasmic stage under us. The four of us reach into the stage and pull out a mic and stand, two took guitars, a drum set and speakers, all acid green and glowing. While my three clones manned an instrument each I took the mic and spoke into it

"For this song I need a reluctant volunteer." My eyes fall on Rogue, I whisper to Sally who claps and flies off and as Rogue tries to back away Sally drags her forward and sets her on the stage. She resisted at first but Super strength does have its benefits. When we got her on the stage I made a throne for her to sit on and she pouted and put her head in her fist looking off to the side as if she were forced to do this...okay, she was, but still, Sally looked cute sitting cross legged on top of her. "Hello, my name is Danny, I'm here to win five dollars then eat dinner so this one is for you Rogue!" She gave an exasperated sigh as my clones counted off

"One!"

"Two!"

"Three!"

"Go!" We began to rock with Kryptonite by Three Doors Down

"I took a walk around the world
To ease my troubled mind
I left my body laying somewhere
In the sands of time
But I watched the world float
To the dark side of the moon

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If I go crazy then will you still
Call me Superman
If I'm alive and well,
Will you be there a-holding my hand
I'll keep you by my side
With my superhuman might
Kryptonite
Yeah!"

After I finished playing the song everyone but Evan, Rogue and Logan cheered so I put my fist in the air for a second and Rogue rolled her eyes. I smirked

"This next one...is for me, and every one of you." that got me some looks until I start playing Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day

"I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But it's home to me and I walk alone

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My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone up there will find me
'til then I walk alone..."

More applause and cheering

"Sally likes! Sally likes!" She giggled some more and claps her hands on top of Rogue's head. She insisted on talking like a four year old, and I let her because...well...she really is cute.

"Ororo, can you step up on stage for a moment?" she shoots me a quizzical look but flies to the stage beside me "Good. Now, look pretty. Excellent, you already are!" she smirks and shakes her head at my antics but says nothing. I turn to the crowd "Evan, if you can sit through this you don't have to give me my money." he looks at my evil grin as I start playing, ten seconds in he recognizes the song - Stacy's Mom by Fountains of Wayne, only I changed the lyrics a bit. Ororo laughs good naturedly, Logan stares hard at me, Tabby cat-calls and Evan of course is bright red

"Evan's Aunt has got it goin' on!
Evan's Aunt has got it goin' on!
Evan's Aunt has got it goin' on!
Evan's Aunt has got it goin' on!"

For the first two lines he's too shocked to do anything, then he flushes bright red, then he shoots a spike for my head. I laugh and hide behind Ororo, who is still laughing, while Evan shouts at me. The stage lowers to the ground and everything I created dissipates. Ororo leaves and Evan holds me by my collar

"You are so dead man!"

"No, I'm only half dead!"

"What?" he shouts

"You don't know?" Sally asks from atop her new perch A.K.A. the top of Evan's head.

"Know what!" I look at Ororo and Logan

"You guys never told anyone?"

"Kid, it's your past, your story."

"Like, what's he talking about?" Kitty asks Rogue

"Ah don't know, but we're gunnah find out." the students surround me. They want to know.

"What were you talking about?" Evan asks, he's calmer now. I look around and address the group.

"Guys, I'm not a mutant." they look at me confused for a bit. "That lab accident I told you about, it didn't trigger my powers or mutate me." I extend my hand into the air and think *Sally, form.* Without another thought she flies into the air and stretches to become her weapon form, my bardiche. As she lands in my outstretched hand white rings form around my body causing Evan to drop me in surprise as I change into Necro. My hood is up, everything about me is un-naturally still. I crouch upon landing, then slowly stand up, head cocked to the side. Nothing is disturbed, my clothes and all of my body remains deathly still. No one speaks in the supreme silence. My voice echoes like a whisper though the crowd "It killed me."