This is so AU -_^
~blah~ equals animal talk (I've been watching the Wild Thornberries,
horrible animation but entertaining none the less)
Angelique leaned against the head of her bed, a small breeze blowing into her open window as she waited for the raven. A large black figure glided through her into the dimly light room and landed on her foot board chattering and clacking it's beak. ~Calm down,~ she cawed back at it waving her hand, ~I can't understand you when you talk like that.~ She waited for the bird to calm down and then held her arm out for it to perch on. ~Ok, now what did you say?~ ~House fell.~ the raven answered as best he could. Though he was indeed an intelligent creature getting used to a human speaking his language and human grammar was difficult. ~Ghost dog destroyd, blue human taken, brought back here. Blue and red lights already there.~ Angelique nodded slowly. So that mission Magneto had sent some of the others on was successful but the cops were already on it, that could make the man's mood go either way. ~What about the people who lived there?~ She took a strand of silver tinsel she'd braided into a lock of her hair that gleamed a red that was near black. The raven stared at the shiny material and clacked his beak again. ~They left, ran from ghost dog.~ He stopped and didn't talk until the tinsel was drapped around his neck. ~Stopped at park, talked there. Kah didn't understand.~ Kah was infact the raven's name and sometimes it could confuse those he knew. ~Humans have funny language. Kah understands only Flidais.~ The young woman stood up still holding the large black bird on her arm and walked to the window. "I swear you're worse than Remy when it comes to speaking in third person." The bird just looked at her not understanding but really not caring. ~Keep an eye on them,~ she told him, ~tell me of anything that happens.~ By now she didn't even have to tell Kah why he should cooperate, through doing as she asked he would be rewarded by meat or something shiny to give to his mate. Without another sound large black wings carried him into the air and across the ash night. X "Petite, we've watched this five times now," Remy stretched out in the recliner, "Gambit gettin' bored. Why don't you put something else in?" Teo turned her brown eyes on the cajun and clenched the remote. "What do you suggest," she asked strangely calm that made Alec, who was sitting next to her, wary. "All the good shows are canceled so that the news can show your mess and panic the general public." "That's why we got tapes," the Cajun answered. "Come on, chere..." He was cut off by a pillow smacking him in the face. "Nope." The hawaiiian turned back to the TV ignoring Blue as he chuckled and sat on the couch between her and Alec. "Better be careful, Remy," the owner of the ghost dog Kah had told Angelique about warned, "don't want her becoming Teo the Cajun slayer again." Alec grinned blowing some of his sunstreaked hair out of his steel gray eyes. He didn't care much for watching the same thing multiple times, but invocking the wrath of Teo was not a smart thing to do, as Remy had found out the hard way when one day Teo got bored and angry and chased him around with a handful of toothpicks. It'd taken her a good hour to get bored of playing Cajun slayer and then watched every Brad Pitt movie in the house. "I'm going to get out of here before things get ugly," the Orange County native got up and stretched before heading toward the used to be a counciler's office. Through the narrow glass window he could see Peter with his arm around Dawn as they watched the TV. Both looked a bit upset and Johnny was saying something to try and lighten things up. It really wasn't working. "The news is going to have anything on and turn it bad," St. John was saying with a shrug as Alec walked into the room. "They like making people panic. If a bunch of rabbits got loose they'd claim homicidal rabbits were trying to take over the world." The dream manipulator shook her head, brown hair swaying slightly with the motion and sivler highlights catching the light making her appear to have a halo. "If they ever find out about us," she stood up and shrugged on her leather jacket over her silver tank, "Magneto will only be able to protect some of us." She looked at Alec almost worriedly with bright hazel eyes giving away what she was really feeling, "there won't be anything he can do for anyone over eighteen, will there?" Alec sighed and flopped onto the couch not wanting to think or talk about it about it but knnowing he had no choice. "Probably not, has legal custody of you and the other younger ones, but only way we'd stay if they came is by force." He cracked his left knuckles not liking the idea very much, but if push came to shove... "Let's not think about it," Kaze replied from the corner, watching the mutants on the screen and the scene switching to earlier events with blank black eyes, "nothing we can do except wait for them all to calm down." Tama lied at his feet ignoring the humans altogether cleaning her right paw. "I'm going to bed." With that he retired for it had grown late and he hoped that in the morning the news would shut up about this whole mutant thing, though it was highly unlikely.
X
"This is royally screwed up," Matt complained as he sat with Avril watching Jackass. He didn't want to, but he had to admit the girl was good company and was semi-nice without being insane, which was rare in this household.
"No one's keeping you here, feather butt," Avril smirked hidding the remote under her seat coshion. "And I refuse to see another show where a rat gets eatten."
Maya didn't as much as glance at the two as she passed behind the couch, in fact she nearly ran into Hoshei who was headed to the bathroom with her favorite bubblegum scented bubblebath.
"Hey," the chinese girl reformed her arm and frowned, "watch where you're going., Doe." She then continued on her way not waiting for an answer. She needed bubbles!
"Sorry," Maya mumbled taking the stairs two at a time until she was on the second floor. She entered the third door down and saw the large window open letting a cool breeze blow in and the sound of crickets penetrate the concrete walls. She stepped through the metal frame onto the graveled surface of the first floor roof that extended from the second floor recognizing the figure standing at the far corner just gazing into the night sky. She looked up to try and see what the other was looking at and when she looked back at him there was nothing.
"Funny how the sky is so beautiful at a time that's generally feared, "Sean whispered from behind her. Not sleeping gave one a lot of time on their hands and with all the commotion about mutants going on, and the feeling of his team mates, he had plenty of hate on which to feed off of.
"I suppose it is." They were silent for a while just looking at the black emptyness penetrated only by points of light that may have gone out years ago. "Magneto is going to deal with Tel in the morning, he put him in the guest bedroom for now."
Strife nodded, his pale skin seemingly glowing by the light of the mooon. "Anymore paintings?"
"No," Maya retorted shaking her head, she'd had no time to let her feelings flow across the page, she used to have all the time she wanted when she lived with Magneto's associate and all of the dark artr wouldn't fit in her room so Sean had taken some of it, probably just to be nice. "I wish I had more time to do more than just battle."
"What would you do?"
The question stumped her. "I don't know, write and paint and read. I don't know," she repeated. "Maybe I actually wish I had less time." She was so confused for everytime she acquired a power a part of that person would stay with her forever and she felt like she was slowly slipping away. The new aggression of Wolverine was hard to deal with when up against the gentleness of the person she'd gotten the power to send people into sleep from, the protective nature of the telepath her empathy had originated from, and the dark emptyness that was her. "I'm just so confused."
"Don't worry about it, we all are. I've seen a lot and I know that is one thing everyone, humans and mutants, have in common. They're confused."
X
Kitty stretched and winced when her back cracked, "I am not made for, like, sleeping on the floor." She rubbed her eyes and saw that Scott, Lance, Logan, Storm, Fred, and Beast were already up. "Eek!" She screamed and hid behind Logan as a tongue caught a fly by her head.
"What?" Toad asked swallowing, "high in protein, yo."
"Well at least someone gets to eat," the valley girl muttered sticking out her tongue. "This really sucks, you know. Whose bringht idea was it to sleep in a cave anyway? And where did you two disappear to last night?" She eyed Lance and Scott.
"Relax, Kitty," Lance soothed leaning against a rock wall like they were at school instead of being chased, "we went to see how deep this stupid hole in the wall went, not to kill each other."
The brunette rolled her eyes, "That's a miracle, but you two have been like best friends lately or something."
"I think you're delusional, Kitty," Scott added walking toward the light at the mouth of the cave and peering outside, "I'd rather take up Toad's eating habits before I got along with Alvers for any reason other than I had to."
"What's so wrong with my eatin' habits?" Todd looked up insulted after slurping a worm up like speghetti. "Least I ain't picky, you guys ain't gonna get any food because you're close minded, that's what you are!"
"Oh yeah," Cyclops muttered under his breath, "real close minded." For a while last night the world wasn't so cruel, of course that was after Lance jumped him. In truth they actually had been looking further into the cave, but Scott had found himself suddenly pinned between Lance and rock. The shaded mutant had complained that they could get caught, but that only made Lance smile and Scott had given in, and he was glad he did afterwards. Everyone had thought they'd gotten into another fight and that was just fine.
"Well we can't just waltz into McDonalds," Lance grumbled crossing his arms and eyeing Blob, "Fred put the worm down, we're all hungry but just think for once." The largest mutant put down the worm just to have Toad snag it with his tongue.
"Mmm, earthy."
"May I just say gross?" Kitty asked sticking out her tongue, "Jeeze, you think survival training would prepare us for stuff like this."
Todd had abandoned his search for breakfast and had now taken to watching Wanda sleep. "Yeah, but it didn't. Good grades ain't everything, Pryde. Actually I seem to 'member somethin' abouit eating insects if you were lost in the wild." He scanned the floor till he saw another worm, as it was dark and moist so there were plenty of them, and picked it up holding it out to Kitty as an offering. "Bonappetite."
"I'm like going to be sick."
The sun was completely up now and Lance didn't waste any time getting out of the musty cave. He looked back after deciding it was clear and motioned to Todd. "Come on, we'll get something." He wasn't going to say where they were going to get it, Kitty was in enough distress as it was. "You too, Summers, five eyes are better than four." Pietro would usually come with them, but Pietro was with his daddy probably eating pancakes and eggs while Magneto read the newspaper. Something messed up from a sitcom or something like that.
"I have two eyes, Alvers," Scott glowered, "and I'll show you to them if you'd like." He stalked after the two Brotherhood boys anyway though.
"So, McDonalds or Burgerking?" Todd asked walking infront of the older teens rubbing his hands together.
"We can't go in either one," Scott pointed out trying to keep a steady pace on the slope, "without a swarm of cops on our asses."
"Ooo, Summers cussed, Lance has been a bad influence on you," Todd 'tsked and shook is finger in a shame-shame way.
The ground rumbled and the toad like teen fell flat on his face.
"Hey." He gulped as the two stood over him. "Please no," he threw his hands over his head, "I'm not that way!" He wasn't suprised when Lance lifted him up by his shirt. He was used to being punished for having a big mouth.
"What are you talking about?" The earth shaker asked in a slow even tone that scred Todd to death.
"Nothin', nothin' what so..." He cringed as the earth started to shake again. "Ok, ok, I saw you two yesterday, happy now? Wanted to gouge my eyes out, I'm sorry," he covered his head, "please don't kill me, I'm totally cool with it. Whatever makes you happy I say." He shivered as Lance dropped him none too gently.
"How much did you watch?"
"Not much," Todd lied because it'd been like watching some morbid horror flick, you wanted to look away but you just couldn't. "Just you press him against the wall and, you know." Why do I have to open my big mouth? Todd silently whined.
Lance looked at him for a long moment then spoke again. "Keep you mouth shut Toad," he growled, "it's hard enough being a mutant." With that he continued into Bayville not waiting for Scott and Todd to follow.
"Man, yo, someone needs their coffee." Todd got up and brushed himself off ready for Scott to pound him now. "Folgers was not in his cup."
"He just worries," Scott replied following after Lance, pausing to make sure Toad was behind him, "thinks you guys would look down on us." Himself? He was only half worried about that, really didn't care much, as Todd had said: Whatever makes you happy.
"So you steady or just bed buddies?" And there goes my big mouth again, Todd thought. "Not that I'm implying that you'd do something like that, Lance would, but not to you of course, I mean... Are you two serious?"
Scott was silent as he thought. "I'll have to ask him," he finally said ignoring the other's nervous rambling.
"You want to be steady?"
Scott just starred at Lance's back not knowing the answer. Then, after the Toad was positive he wasn't going to answer, he replied, "Maybe, I just hope we live long enough to find out."
A/N: Yes, I got another chapter up. Um, something I forgot to mention when introducing this interfic to people is that some characters will die like censored and if you are ok with that then tell me. OH! And also I have decided that if any other people who are obbsessively interested in this (like none of you are) that if you want and you get permission from whatever people's persona you use that other authors who just need help getting over writter's block can put in little parts, just e mail me it and I might add it in or if I get enough I'll start a collection of stories under one fic with Crash and Burn mini-fics. and vote for who you want to join the Acolytes! Magneto is probably going to recruit some more people from ther other side. Why? Because I told him to.
Next Chapter: Mystique get's a taste of what Magneto's recruits can do when she refuses to tell Magneto where Xavier is and Lance, Scott, and Todd find themselves in a tight spot and are saved by some unlikely people.
Angelique leaned against the head of her bed, a small breeze blowing into her open window as she waited for the raven. A large black figure glided through her into the dimly light room and landed on her foot board chattering and clacking it's beak. ~Calm down,~ she cawed back at it waving her hand, ~I can't understand you when you talk like that.~ She waited for the bird to calm down and then held her arm out for it to perch on. ~Ok, now what did you say?~ ~House fell.~ the raven answered as best he could. Though he was indeed an intelligent creature getting used to a human speaking his language and human grammar was difficult. ~Ghost dog destroyd, blue human taken, brought back here. Blue and red lights already there.~ Angelique nodded slowly. So that mission Magneto had sent some of the others on was successful but the cops were already on it, that could make the man's mood go either way. ~What about the people who lived there?~ She took a strand of silver tinsel she'd braided into a lock of her hair that gleamed a red that was near black. The raven stared at the shiny material and clacked his beak again. ~They left, ran from ghost dog.~ He stopped and didn't talk until the tinsel was drapped around his neck. ~Stopped at park, talked there. Kah didn't understand.~ Kah was infact the raven's name and sometimes it could confuse those he knew. ~Humans have funny language. Kah understands only Flidais.~ The young woman stood up still holding the large black bird on her arm and walked to the window. "I swear you're worse than Remy when it comes to speaking in third person." The bird just looked at her not understanding but really not caring. ~Keep an eye on them,~ she told him, ~tell me of anything that happens.~ By now she didn't even have to tell Kah why he should cooperate, through doing as she asked he would be rewarded by meat or something shiny to give to his mate. Without another sound large black wings carried him into the air and across the ash night. X "Petite, we've watched this five times now," Remy stretched out in the recliner, "Gambit gettin' bored. Why don't you put something else in?" Teo turned her brown eyes on the cajun and clenched the remote. "What do you suggest," she asked strangely calm that made Alec, who was sitting next to her, wary. "All the good shows are canceled so that the news can show your mess and panic the general public." "That's why we got tapes," the Cajun answered. "Come on, chere..." He was cut off by a pillow smacking him in the face. "Nope." The hawaiiian turned back to the TV ignoring Blue as he chuckled and sat on the couch between her and Alec. "Better be careful, Remy," the owner of the ghost dog Kah had told Angelique about warned, "don't want her becoming Teo the Cajun slayer again." Alec grinned blowing some of his sunstreaked hair out of his steel gray eyes. He didn't care much for watching the same thing multiple times, but invocking the wrath of Teo was not a smart thing to do, as Remy had found out the hard way when one day Teo got bored and angry and chased him around with a handful of toothpicks. It'd taken her a good hour to get bored of playing Cajun slayer and then watched every Brad Pitt movie in the house. "I'm going to get out of here before things get ugly," the Orange County native got up and stretched before heading toward the used to be a counciler's office. Through the narrow glass window he could see Peter with his arm around Dawn as they watched the TV. Both looked a bit upset and Johnny was saying something to try and lighten things up. It really wasn't working. "The news is going to have anything on and turn it bad," St. John was saying with a shrug as Alec walked into the room. "They like making people panic. If a bunch of rabbits got loose they'd claim homicidal rabbits were trying to take over the world." The dream manipulator shook her head, brown hair swaying slightly with the motion and sivler highlights catching the light making her appear to have a halo. "If they ever find out about us," she stood up and shrugged on her leather jacket over her silver tank, "Magneto will only be able to protect some of us." She looked at Alec almost worriedly with bright hazel eyes giving away what she was really feeling, "there won't be anything he can do for anyone over eighteen, will there?" Alec sighed and flopped onto the couch not wanting to think or talk about it about it but knnowing he had no choice. "Probably not, has legal custody of you and the other younger ones, but only way we'd stay if they came is by force." He cracked his left knuckles not liking the idea very much, but if push came to shove... "Let's not think about it," Kaze replied from the corner, watching the mutants on the screen and the scene switching to earlier events with blank black eyes, "nothing we can do except wait for them all to calm down." Tama lied at his feet ignoring the humans altogether cleaning her right paw. "I'm going to bed." With that he retired for it had grown late and he hoped that in the morning the news would shut up about this whole mutant thing, though it was highly unlikely.
X
"This is royally screwed up," Matt complained as he sat with Avril watching Jackass. He didn't want to, but he had to admit the girl was good company and was semi-nice without being insane, which was rare in this household.
"No one's keeping you here, feather butt," Avril smirked hidding the remote under her seat coshion. "And I refuse to see another show where a rat gets eatten."
Maya didn't as much as glance at the two as she passed behind the couch, in fact she nearly ran into Hoshei who was headed to the bathroom with her favorite bubblegum scented bubblebath.
"Hey," the chinese girl reformed her arm and frowned, "watch where you're going., Doe." She then continued on her way not waiting for an answer. She needed bubbles!
"Sorry," Maya mumbled taking the stairs two at a time until she was on the second floor. She entered the third door down and saw the large window open letting a cool breeze blow in and the sound of crickets penetrate the concrete walls. She stepped through the metal frame onto the graveled surface of the first floor roof that extended from the second floor recognizing the figure standing at the far corner just gazing into the night sky. She looked up to try and see what the other was looking at and when she looked back at him there was nothing.
"Funny how the sky is so beautiful at a time that's generally feared, "Sean whispered from behind her. Not sleeping gave one a lot of time on their hands and with all the commotion about mutants going on, and the feeling of his team mates, he had plenty of hate on which to feed off of.
"I suppose it is." They were silent for a while just looking at the black emptyness penetrated only by points of light that may have gone out years ago. "Magneto is going to deal with Tel in the morning, he put him in the guest bedroom for now."
Strife nodded, his pale skin seemingly glowing by the light of the mooon. "Anymore paintings?"
"No," Maya retorted shaking her head, she'd had no time to let her feelings flow across the page, she used to have all the time she wanted when she lived with Magneto's associate and all of the dark artr wouldn't fit in her room so Sean had taken some of it, probably just to be nice. "I wish I had more time to do more than just battle."
"What would you do?"
The question stumped her. "I don't know, write and paint and read. I don't know," she repeated. "Maybe I actually wish I had less time." She was so confused for everytime she acquired a power a part of that person would stay with her forever and she felt like she was slowly slipping away. The new aggression of Wolverine was hard to deal with when up against the gentleness of the person she'd gotten the power to send people into sleep from, the protective nature of the telepath her empathy had originated from, and the dark emptyness that was her. "I'm just so confused."
"Don't worry about it, we all are. I've seen a lot and I know that is one thing everyone, humans and mutants, have in common. They're confused."
X
Kitty stretched and winced when her back cracked, "I am not made for, like, sleeping on the floor." She rubbed her eyes and saw that Scott, Lance, Logan, Storm, Fred, and Beast were already up. "Eek!" She screamed and hid behind Logan as a tongue caught a fly by her head.
"What?" Toad asked swallowing, "high in protein, yo."
"Well at least someone gets to eat," the valley girl muttered sticking out her tongue. "This really sucks, you know. Whose bringht idea was it to sleep in a cave anyway? And where did you two disappear to last night?" She eyed Lance and Scott.
"Relax, Kitty," Lance soothed leaning against a rock wall like they were at school instead of being chased, "we went to see how deep this stupid hole in the wall went, not to kill each other."
The brunette rolled her eyes, "That's a miracle, but you two have been like best friends lately or something."
"I think you're delusional, Kitty," Scott added walking toward the light at the mouth of the cave and peering outside, "I'd rather take up Toad's eating habits before I got along with Alvers for any reason other than I had to."
"What's so wrong with my eatin' habits?" Todd looked up insulted after slurping a worm up like speghetti. "Least I ain't picky, you guys ain't gonna get any food because you're close minded, that's what you are!"
"Oh yeah," Cyclops muttered under his breath, "real close minded." For a while last night the world wasn't so cruel, of course that was after Lance jumped him. In truth they actually had been looking further into the cave, but Scott had found himself suddenly pinned between Lance and rock. The shaded mutant had complained that they could get caught, but that only made Lance smile and Scott had given in, and he was glad he did afterwards. Everyone had thought they'd gotten into another fight and that was just fine.
"Well we can't just waltz into McDonalds," Lance grumbled crossing his arms and eyeing Blob, "Fred put the worm down, we're all hungry but just think for once." The largest mutant put down the worm just to have Toad snag it with his tongue.
"Mmm, earthy."
"May I just say gross?" Kitty asked sticking out her tongue, "Jeeze, you think survival training would prepare us for stuff like this."
Todd had abandoned his search for breakfast and had now taken to watching Wanda sleep. "Yeah, but it didn't. Good grades ain't everything, Pryde. Actually I seem to 'member somethin' abouit eating insects if you were lost in the wild." He scanned the floor till he saw another worm, as it was dark and moist so there were plenty of them, and picked it up holding it out to Kitty as an offering. "Bonappetite."
"I'm like going to be sick."
The sun was completely up now and Lance didn't waste any time getting out of the musty cave. He looked back after deciding it was clear and motioned to Todd. "Come on, we'll get something." He wasn't going to say where they were going to get it, Kitty was in enough distress as it was. "You too, Summers, five eyes are better than four." Pietro would usually come with them, but Pietro was with his daddy probably eating pancakes and eggs while Magneto read the newspaper. Something messed up from a sitcom or something like that.
"I have two eyes, Alvers," Scott glowered, "and I'll show you to them if you'd like." He stalked after the two Brotherhood boys anyway though.
"So, McDonalds or Burgerking?" Todd asked walking infront of the older teens rubbing his hands together.
"We can't go in either one," Scott pointed out trying to keep a steady pace on the slope, "without a swarm of cops on our asses."
"Ooo, Summers cussed, Lance has been a bad influence on you," Todd 'tsked and shook is finger in a shame-shame way.
The ground rumbled and the toad like teen fell flat on his face.
"Hey." He gulped as the two stood over him. "Please no," he threw his hands over his head, "I'm not that way!" He wasn't suprised when Lance lifted him up by his shirt. He was used to being punished for having a big mouth.
"What are you talking about?" The earth shaker asked in a slow even tone that scred Todd to death.
"Nothin', nothin' what so..." He cringed as the earth started to shake again. "Ok, ok, I saw you two yesterday, happy now? Wanted to gouge my eyes out, I'm sorry," he covered his head, "please don't kill me, I'm totally cool with it. Whatever makes you happy I say." He shivered as Lance dropped him none too gently.
"How much did you watch?"
"Not much," Todd lied because it'd been like watching some morbid horror flick, you wanted to look away but you just couldn't. "Just you press him against the wall and, you know." Why do I have to open my big mouth? Todd silently whined.
Lance looked at him for a long moment then spoke again. "Keep you mouth shut Toad," he growled, "it's hard enough being a mutant." With that he continued into Bayville not waiting for Scott and Todd to follow.
"Man, yo, someone needs their coffee." Todd got up and brushed himself off ready for Scott to pound him now. "Folgers was not in his cup."
"He just worries," Scott replied following after Lance, pausing to make sure Toad was behind him, "thinks you guys would look down on us." Himself? He was only half worried about that, really didn't care much, as Todd had said: Whatever makes you happy.
"So you steady or just bed buddies?" And there goes my big mouth again, Todd thought. "Not that I'm implying that you'd do something like that, Lance would, but not to you of course, I mean... Are you two serious?"
Scott was silent as he thought. "I'll have to ask him," he finally said ignoring the other's nervous rambling.
"You want to be steady?"
Scott just starred at Lance's back not knowing the answer. Then, after the Toad was positive he wasn't going to answer, he replied, "Maybe, I just hope we live long enough to find out."
A/N: Yes, I got another chapter up. Um, something I forgot to mention when introducing this interfic to people is that some characters will die like censored and if you are ok with that then tell me. OH! And also I have decided that if any other people who are obbsessively interested in this (like none of you are) that if you want and you get permission from whatever people's persona you use that other authors who just need help getting over writter's block can put in little parts, just e mail me it and I might add it in or if I get enough I'll start a collection of stories under one fic with Crash and Burn mini-fics. and vote for who you want to join the Acolytes! Magneto is probably going to recruit some more people from ther other side. Why? Because I told him to.
Next Chapter: Mystique get's a taste of what Magneto's recruits can do when she refuses to tell Magneto where Xavier is and Lance, Scott, and Todd find themselves in a tight spot and are saved by some unlikely people.