Just passing in.
A couple of days passed by since Kurt arrived, and he was fitting in rather nicely. He did seem to have a rather interesting sense of humor, though interesting is not what Gohan, would use to describe what he thinks of it. Ridiculous was one of the words that he would use. As far as Gohan knew, all that humor of Kurt's did was get him into trouble. Yesterday, while said saiyan hybrid had been busy training as normal, Kurt, somehow had thought it would be 'funny', to try and lift up Gohan's weighted paddler, then hide it, while he wasn't looking. Of course unknown to the elf like mutant, Gohan already was aware of his presence, namely, the smell of when Kurt teleports. While Kurt didn't notice, the hybrid had been keeping an eye on him from the corner of his eye. Gohan was surprised when Kurt, who couldn't even come close to even budging the heavy paddler, somehow figured that it was stuck in the ground and decided to teleport away with it instead. When he did managed to 'puff' away with it, it ended up going through the floor of the living room, straight to the danger room and leaving a dent in the floor Luckily for Kurt, Logan was out at a local bar like normal so he managed to avoid his wrath, and The Professor was busy with the others in some location to notice. So in turn, Gohan decided to give Kurt some heavy weights on his arms and legs, that almost completely hindered Kurt's ability to even stand. He considered having one on his tail, but that would be possibly be going too far, considering how sensitive that was to him.
Asides from that little joke, life went by like normal in peace, which was something the saiyan hybrid took advantage off with endless training, meditation, and now school, which if he had to be honest was below him. He swear that he mentioned that he had been home schooled by his mother since he was 4 while not training and defending the he already knew more than what the school could teach him, though he didn't really learn any social skills which he suspected was the reason behind it. Not that he needed it,but what harm could come just from learning people skills? He was already more used to the new life style in the new world then he was when he first arrived, so learning a new thing or two could help out.
The half saiyan walked into the kitchen, his purple upper gi gone only his weighted paddler, showing his sweating chest. He brushed some of the sweat from his forehead before heading over to the fridge, looking for a 'small' snack. Though a small snack pretty much meant something equivalent in proportion to a full english breakfast. After pretty much emptying the fridges contents, the Saiyan hybrid noticed that Jean, and the Professor were at the lower levels where Cerobro was. Letting the curiosity take over, he made his way over to Cerobro, vanishing from any normal human sight and was at the Cerobro chamber in less than a second. He attempted to knock on the door, but it automatically opened up.
"Hey there Gohan, you can come in" Jean's friendly voice reached his ears, and without needing to be told again, he did. When he entered, Jean immediately noticed that he didn't have his upper gi on and his scarred and chiselled chest was exposed, she couldn't help the blush that came on her checks and turned her head before he could notice it.
Said telepathic and telekinetic mutant, and the Professor were close by the mutant detection device. From what Gohan heard, it could amplified any strong telepathic's mind so that he or she can sense new mutants across the globe.
"Gohan, that's good, just the right man for the job" Charles exclaimed, both a little too happy and a little nervous.
"What Job exactly? I can specialize in demolition" Gohan asked with a small tint of humor. Though he suspected what he was going to be asked wasn't what he had in mind and certainly not his version of demolition.
"Well, hopefully not. Last thing we want is a Michael Bay show. Anyway, a new mutant has been detected earlier this morning. Her name is Katherine 'Kitty' Pryde, and her rather unique gift is the ability to alter her density and pass through solid matter" Charles explained his findings from the morning. Early in the morning as well.
"Okay, so in English, she can walk through walls. That I get ( except for the Michael bay or whatever part), but still I don't get the point of this" Gohan said, mostly understanding.
"Well, she hasn't reacted to her powers in a, well positive way. In fact they manifested while she was asleep, and she has no doubt been left traumatized by it" Charles explained further "I believe it would be best if the both of you were to try and convince her to move over here to Bayville"
"But,why me and Gohan Professor? Jean asked, rather uncertain about Gohan coming with her.
"Because the two of you are roundabout the same age as her, and due to your experiences with your own powers, it'll mean more to her" The disabled mutant explained. He raised his hand up, stopping Gohan from asking his question "Yes, I know Gohan that your powers are not that of mutant origins, and your literally not from around here. You've had experience with your special powers since you were four, and that will help make a difference between her being able to control her gifts and improving them, or not being able to use them at the times of need". He was hoping that the two would be able to convince her, and hopefully before someone like Magneto tried to do so, otherwise nothing good would come out, even with Gohan on their side.
"Okay, okay. I think i get it anyway" Gohan mumbled to himself. He shifted his glance over to the displayed image. The new mutant. Kitty was quite a tall girl for someone of her age, though she was about an inch or two shorter than Gohan, properly reaching his chest. She had brown hair, tied back into a ponytail and she had blue eyes. In Gohan's opinion which he opted to not say out loud, she was cute. At the most she was cute.
Katherine Pryde, or 'Kitty' as her friends called her walked forward through the hallway. Having a nightmare about something crazy is one thing that could ruin your day, but when it happens to have actually happened, turns your life upside down, which certainly wasn't normal at all. Sure teenagers went through changes in some point of their lives, but phasing from her bed all the way down to the basement? That's something biology teachers surely didn't teach right?
She stood in front of her locker, trying to calm her nerves and not to get jumpy from all of the activity behind her. Thankfully she was solid, for how long she didn't know. She hated what she had become. Nothing more than a freak show, something that was thrown away in the wind with the garbage...
Her tail of thought stopped sharply, when she felt a pair of hands on her shoulders, then being pushed into her suddenly open locker.
"There you go pretty Kitty" The typical bully, though in this case, Kitty's bully said who then ran away for what it was worth.
"Hey like let me out of here!" The brunette girl said, knocking on the closed locker door. After a minute of banging the door to no avail, a sudden noise came to her ears, like some sort of spraying sound.
She cased her actions, taking the moment to breath in and then out, steadying her blood pressure. She needed to be calm if she wanted to do what she did earlier, then she could freak out as much as she liked later.
She practically went limp against the door, but her body went through the door like it was nothing. Her body felt properly the weirdest sensation ever, almost like swimming except it was on air and through a metal object. Whatever she felt familiar with the gift, just left her as she phased through her locker door and she tripped down onto the floor face first.
She stumbled onto her feet, looking towards the boy that she tripped over. He was about 16 years old at the most, certainly a senior. He had what appeared to be a spray can in his hand, which mostly caused that noise that she heard. She looked over to the other lockers, noticing them covered in red spray.
"Okay, wow that was amazing!" The boy said, his face covered in red paint, though he didn't pay attention to it.
"I didn't do anything!" she defended, though it was in vain since he had seen what she had done. Her freakishness.
"No no, it's okay. I've got powers as well" The boy, called Lance said,which surprised her. He rose his fist up, rolling his eyes back. The whole school began acting like there was a small earthquake, from his avalanche powers. All the lockers opened up, and books and other stuff started falling down to the floor, even a few bits of the ceiling began to fall down, which for some particular reason 'vanished' before they even got to the ground. After a few seconds he sighed, exhausted but proud and noticing how the ceiling pieces disappeared. However, Kitty on the other hand, was not sharing the happiness. At all.
"You're just a freak! That's what you are!" She shouted, trying to not accept the truth, yet it started to sink in and it was pointless. Without another word, she legged it out of his reach, already late for Physical Education. Didn't matter considering she sucked at it, it was the only subject that she didn't have an A in. On the plus side she got out of Lance's sight for the moment.
Unknown to the both of them though, a certain Saiyan hybrid had his eyes fixed on the brunette mutant girl. His senses had caught on to everything that they both said and did as he hovered at a safe distance outside. If there was a question on anything being wrong, then there was defiantly something wrong. The boy, whoever he was, meant trouble. A lot of trouble. His body language was practically screaming it out loud. And Gohan, after years and years of training with those like Piccolo, Vegeta and his father, could read people's body language like a book, and whenever or not the person's lying.
Several hours later, Kitty finally left the school, feeling frustrated. She,no doubt had the worst day in her entire life. She didn't think it could get any worse. Until she noticed an old bald man in a wheelchair and tall red haired girl, waiting for her.
"Miss Pryde. A moment of your time if you will alow us" The Professor requested politely. Immediately Kitty's defences went back up to full "My name is Professor Charles Xavier, headmaster of the Xavier Institute for the Gifted. This here is one of my students. Jean Grey"
"Hi there Kitty" Jean fretted, smiling friendly. However, it didn't have the effect that they both were hoping for.
" What do you want? I'm not really in the mood and I'm not exactly having a good day and everything is just confusing" Kitty asked, not trusting them.
"Don't worry, it's easy to get confused. Trust me on that, when my powers first emerged, everybody near by thoughts just flooded into my head without stopping" Jean said, attempting to be reassuring. However, it has the opposite effect as Kitty heard pretty carefully. A little too carefully.
"Your reading my mind!? " Kitty accused, jumping to conclusions.
"No! Wait, Kitty let me assure you tha-" Jean started, but Kitty wasn't listening.
"Just stay away from me!" Kitty screamed, running back into the school.
"Damm, I'm sorry professor, I screwed up big time there. Where's Gohan in all this?" Jean said, dismissing herself, while mumbling to herself the last part. Speaking of the Saiyan hybrid, he was already making his move.
Kitty ran straight into the nearest empty classroom, still remembering clearly that she had phased through the locker door. All she merely wanted to do was to vanish. Be reduced to nothing but ashes, then be blown away in the wind. Why was it that life has to spit on her NOW?
Gohan leaned his head closer, staring through the door's window. He noticed that the girl that he had come to retrieve, was in a bad emotional state. Sure he had been watching her and lance earlier, but now that he got a better look, he felt a little bit of sympathy for her. With a gentle amount of strength on the door knob, he opened the door and entered. Kitty had heard the door open.
"Listen Lance, I've told you before. Stay away from me, I want nothing to do with you!" Kitty busted out, not knowing that it wasn't Lance who had entered a room, or even a mutant. When she turned around and her eyes meet black orbs, her face went bright red.
"Oh sorry, I thought you were someone else" Kitty said sheepishly, her face going more red. Great, now she just needed a hole to find and die out of embarrassment and stupidity.
"Don't worry, It's okay. I understand " Gohan shrugged of with a small friendly smile. At least she didn't try and attack him or leg it, though the latter remained to be seen "But, then again there are only so many people in this world who could understand what you've been through. Though to be honest, I'm not expecting anyone to understand what I've been through" He muttered the last part quietly to himself, his face darkening for a brief second. Though the hint he gave out, had hit Kitty head on. Him as well? Well they say third time the charm right?
"So, do you also..." Kitty started asking, however Gohan had beaten her to the punch.
"Have powers?" Gohan said, rather casually. Despite mentioning it casually, Kitty's eyes widened "And I'm rather proud of them as well"
"Did you just read my mind?" Kitty asked accusingly, getting defensive again.
"Nope, I don't process that gift. Your body language gave it away. Though I have trained my mind so it cannot be invaded" Gohan replied, like it was another simple day. Whatever was his version of simple anyway. Though Kitty was taken back by him. Who ever he was, he certainly wasn't the normal fellow student. Sure he was taller than her, and older. But something about him was telling her that he hadn't lived a normal life. Plus, his body was defiantly nothing bad.
"I have to be honest. If I could walk through walls, then boy would that have saved a lot of money on rebuilding my house. Although I do often prefer to take a more direct approach." Kitty smiled by his comment, and grinned a little as he cracked his neck to one side. Which indicated what he meant.
"Gohan. Son Gohan" The hybrid introduced himself, bringing his hand forward.
"Kitty Pryde. Well actually it's Katherine, but my friends call me Kitty" she replied with a smile while mumbling slightly. The mumbling almost made Gohan face palm. Instead he crossed his arms over his chest, with a smirk on his face
"So, I take we're friends now right?" Gohan said, in a joking manner, arguably a mocking one "Well, i'm flattered" The brown haired girl chuckled. Gohan was certainly not a normal name. Then again, nothing was normal for her now, so an odd name wasn't going to do much harm. Besides she didn't care and found she felt rather calm around him even after just meeting him.
Although. She didn't know about any of his powers.
"So when exactly did you find out about your powers" Kitty asked, her curiosity getting the better of her. She noticed him frown as she asked "Sorry I just..."
"Don't worry about it. Just thought of something. Besides, for the record I was born with my powers. Though I only really discovered them when I was about 4. My father had them and so do I" Kitty was visibly shocked by the news. That's why Gohan was so calm. Living for most of your live with powers that ran down your family tree, not only made it easy to accept, but it also encouraged it. Though the frown that was on his face that came up when she asked, made her think somewhat otherwise. But she decided not to push her luck.
Still though, she didn't know what powers he even had.
"What kind of powers do you have then?" She asked. This time Gohan gave her a smirk that made her feel nervous and uncertain.
"That's almost a long story. But nonetheless it's interesting which starts with my mysterious granddad and ends with me turning my hair gold and sharp" Gohan replied jokingly, a thing he learned from Krillen besides the Destructo Disk. It seems to always ease the tension in the room. Kitty just stared at him, eyebrows risen and still nervous.
"Turn your hair gold? that doesn't sound much like a power" Kitty spoke her mind out, to which Gohan rolled his eyes. At least she didn't say the 'T' word.
"Actually, it's a bit more complicated than that. But I'll tell you later if you come with me" Gohan said, but Kitty didn't look so convinced about going to the Xavier Institute, however Gohan didn't finish there "Correct me if I'm wrong, but your thinking something along the lines of not being able to fit into society anymore. But your wrong. Having powers that others don't have is not something to hide from others who are like you. it's something to let out, to show how beyond you are normal people. Besides, what good would it be if you were just normal? I mean, I would literally kill myself if I was just a normal person"
Kitty allowed the info to be processed into her mind. It made a lot of sense to her since he put it that way. She wouldn't say it out loud, but the hybrid had a point there. Besides, he looked rather cute. Although, he wasn't really her type, and she already had her eyes for a certain web head.
They both talked some more, getting more comfortable with each other and increasing their friendship.
About half an hour later, the teenagers both left the classroom, both more acquainted with each other. Gohan sensed the Professor and Jean on their way over, so he began making his way over to meet up with them, with Kitty by his left side.
"Sorry that I snapped at you when you walked in earlier" Kitty apologized, Gohan placed a hand on her shoulder with a small grin on his face
"I will admit, that was rather annoying. Had it been anyone else, they might have taken your head off. Trust me I know one or two people who would have actually done so" Gohan said, his mind casting back to a certain Saiyan Prince and Namekian.
"Aren't I lucky?" Kitty asked with a grin of her own. Before the half saiyan could say something, his senses picked up someone else heading their way. Just coming round the corner was someone Gohan was hoping to not run into. He knew who he was, and knew that he was the wrong person, appearing at the wrong time. Kitty immediately tensed up next to Gohan.
"So your now leaving with Superboy over here aren't you?" Lance asked accusing.
"He's taken me to a place that can help us out. Come on Lance its not really bad" Kitty said
"You don't get a damn thing do you?" Lance blurted out "They don't want help us. They just want us to serve them like puppets while they pull the strings!"
"You idiot! Listen here, I may not have been here for long, but I can tell that the Professor..." Gohan interfered, his temper slowly rising and his trained emotions getting in the way. Trying to keep a cool head was extremely hard while dealing with Lance's hot-headed stubbornness and stupidity.
"I don't care about that dam Professor!" Lance snapped. He moved forward and reached out to grab Kitty's arm, to find that he couldn't even get his hand near her, as Gohan had grabbed his wrist extremely roughly and extremely quickly. So fast it appeared to have happened in an instant. Lance could not even register the action as he felt what he could only describe his wrist being crushed under something like an iron grip. He let out a cry of pain and dropped to his knees. Barely managing to squint open one eye, he saw the cold look in Gohan's eye and also how very very little effort he was currently putting into crushing Lance's wrist.
"Sorry, what were you intending to do?" Gohan asked sarcastically, more than aware to what Lance was intending. When Lance struggled to form words, a smirk came onto his face.
"Let me tell you a little secret. Remember earlier when you tried to show off your powers but failed?"" He asked, still keeping the pressure on Lance's wrist. While Lance couldn't nod while trying to claw his way out of the iron like grip while gritting his teeth, Kitty nodded.
"Well, I'm sure Kitty noticed some strange that happened when you did so. When parts of the ceiling started to collapse, it would have drawn all nearby attention to you and boy would you have made a big screw up. So, let's just say I made a very quick clean up" Gohan smugly explained with his smirk fully displayed. Kitty and Lance both looked shocked and disbelieving.
"Before you ask, all it took was a few low powered eye blasts through the walls and quickly flying through the open window to pick up the small pieces. If anything you should be thanking me, the secret is still a secret" Gohan continued, obvious to the widen eyes of the other two mutants nearby.
Finally gaining the strength (if he had any), to speck, Lance more or less spat out"What! You freak! What are you? You can't be a mutant! And your certainly not some normal pathetic human, a freaking monster perhaps..." His words made Gohan stop. His expression noticeably darkened as he listened. He knew and accepted long ago that he was not purely human like he thought for the first few years of his life, so for a start, he took offense to the insult. But. Freak? Monster? The words on the other hand...
'Your not a boy. Your a monster!''...reminded the hybrid of those exact words. Spoken 7 years ago in his own universe by Cell. During the Cell Games, right when he... With a loud primal growl that escaped his throat, he suddenly placed his free hand round Lance's throat. His eyes shifting from black pearls to emerald green as the emotions from the memory started coming back. He then threw Lance hard across the other side of the corridor, where he made a huge dent in the wall. While the words had both stung and practically pissed him off, Gohan still has enough control to not transform and use too much power and turn the single brain cell mutant into atoms. Ignoring the gasp that escaped Kitty's mouth, he 'dematerialised' from the naked eye and was already in front of the now crippled mutant. While said rebel mutant barely managed to stagger to his feet after the nerve crumbling throw. He counted at least 5 ribs were broken, along with his arms and legs and maybe a few dead brain cells, but due to Lance only having one, it was left unaffected.
When Lance did manage to get up, with some difficulty, he immediately began to gather his powers and created a mini earthquake, in the hopes to catch the demi-saiyan off guard. the school began to tremble and chunks of the ceiling began to fall down. A couple of huge chunks managed to fall above Gohan's head, but yet he remained there seemingly unaware of the danger above. The chunks landed on his head, but to Kitty's amazement and Lance's horror, they shattered when they came into contact, which he didn't even feel. His emerald green eyes, glared into Lance's soul
Before Lance could even blink, Gohan was already behind him, his finger jabbing hard at Lance's neck, hitting a pressure point, followed by a knife like tap to the torso, knocking the rebellious teenager out cold for the several hours. When he would wake up, he would find him self in a lot of pain, and absolutely no bladder control like the namekians.
Thankfully, it was enough for the hybrids satisfaction. But it didn't make Gohan feel any better, if anything he was still in a pissed off mood. Satisfied but pissed.
"You okay?" Gohan asked Kitty, turning towards her. When his emerald green eyes met hers, she took a step back as she found them looking down to her soul, more or less intimidating. She wasn't sure if he had even noticed the change of eye colour. Then again, how would he? Not to mentioned he didn't have a single cut, bruise or any injury on him.
"Your asking?" Kitty asked back. The alien hybrid shrugged his shoulders and turned his back to her and began walking towards the wall. One small blink with a tiny amount of energy, and the wall ahead shattered, making a circular hole to the outside world. He steeped out and started across the distance, with his glare on his face
"Jean and the Professor will be here in just a sec. They will take care of the rest. As for me. I need to do something and I won't be back for another couple of hours. Tell them that please, and make sure that this guy called Logan at the institute doesn't follow me" Was all he said and before Kitty could reply, a bright, fiery white aura exploded around him and he flew out leaving a white trail of energy behind. Going to a location that only God could tell. While leaving behind a gobsmacked Kitty, who had ran to the spot where he just was. She tried to see him, but he was already out of the area, and country elsewhere.
"Kitty? Hey what happened here?" A rather familiar voice called out. She tuned around to the the Professor and that red haired girl, who she presumed was Jean running over to her.
"Gohan knocked out Lance before he could do anything stupid. But he took of somewhere just now" Kitty said
"Where exactly did he go?" The Professor asked, who was surprisingly calm. Jean was visibly worried on the other hand, which was understandable considering a person capable of destroying the whole solar system and more, was MIA. Unless he told the brunette mutant he was sent to get.
"He didn't exactly say. Other than he won't be back for another couple of hours. Also, he doesn't want this guy called Logan to follow him" Kitty explained, expressing how vague Gohan had been towards her.
"Well, I guess what ever happened here must have been personal. Hopefully he'll be willing to talk about it later. Speaking of which, have you reconsidered?" The Professor asked with his usual calm expression.
"I made my mind a little while ago. I think I'll give the institute a try" She answered rather sheepishly.
"I imagined that would be the case. We will discuss this with your parents as well as your options in the future" Charles said with a small polite smile. Jean on the other hand was scanning over Kitty for any injuries on her. She found non-noticeable and was happy enough with that.
Several hours later, Kitty stepped out of her new bedroom just a few after her arrival. After a long talk with her parents and some moving here and there, she finally moved into the institute. So she stepped out in her pink pajamas which was just a simple long top and shorts that reached her middle thigh. She had already unpacked everything and everything was in the right place, including the poster that featured a certain someone in red and blue spandex. She got to her window and leaned on her elbows, arched forward as she stared out to the open world.
A sudden breeze of wind caught her attention. While it chilled her, she still remained at her place and searched around her for the disturbance. A bright blue beam of energy whizzed past her sight, so fast that she barely saw it and was knocked off her feet., yelping in surprise. Out in the dark, Gohan in his traditional purple gi and weighted paddler, was training with a single multiform at speeds faster than the eye could see. if one could track the hybrid at his suppressed speed and levels, then he/she would notice the tense look on his face. He only arrived back a few hours ago after his disappearance to wherever and had since remained silent and with and atmosphere that told everyone to not ask. Though they were all wondering, they knew that it would be suicidal to ask the person who was both not in a mood and could turn them to dust quicker than a blink. A few felt pity for the half saiyan, while those like Jean had been paranoid.
Kitty's eyes were fixed on the training hybrid, wondering how someone like him could be all worked up, and have more than enough energy to go to school and help convince other mutants to join the X-men. The fact that he eats a ridiculous amounts was properly it.
"Something wrong?" Gohan said, suddenly floating in front of her, arms crossed over his chest and a frown on his face. He was still in a mood and it didn't help that someone was watching him late at night. Kitty was surprised by his sudden appearance, jumping on her back once again. She got onto her feet again and blushed.
"No sorry. Just heard something outside" She replied sheepishly as she tried not to stare at him too much.
"Sorry if i woke you up, I always train before getting to sleep"The hybrid explained casually.
"Okay then. I think I'll just pop to bed now" She said, with her nervousness creeping up as she glanced at his black eyes that always seemed to look straight to her soul, to which she started backing away slowly.
"*Shrugs shoulder*, well then I'll be up for another hour or two before I head to bed. Get some rest and I'll see you in the morning" Gohan mumbled and flew away back into the open space to meet his double, who did not hesitate in going on the offensive. Kitty let out a sigh. Whoever Gohan was, he was certainly strange. Intriguing but strange at the same time.
Notes from Chapter 4:
Yea, yea this one is more or less like the on in X-Dragons as will the next one but after that the story will be different.
The location that Gohan flew off to is up to you readers to think about. Why he flew off will be mentioned again in a later chapter and it's properly not what you're thinking.
I was rather lazy with the last part of this chapter and if I get time, i might add some more to it.
If your wondering whats happened to Lance when Gohan struck him. Well lets just say he won't have proper bladder control for a few days and will be in extreme pain for a few hours. I just hate Lance don't I?
Speaking of pairings. There's about two clues on who I'm paring Kitty up with.
