The Human X-factor
by Orkoad
Based on characters and situations created and/or owned by Marvel Comics, Sunbow Entertainment, Kids WB and Orkoad.
Special thanks to Red Witch for the use of her character, Spyder.
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trouble fitting in
The next morning Ollie found herself streching and yawning as she felt the morning's sunlight pooring down on her from the open window.
She grumbled, rolling over in her bed, pulling the covers over her, trying to ignore the sound of birds cherping outside.
"HI!" A voice said cheerfully, cutting threw her atempt to sleep. Ollie gave another yawn as her eyes slowly opened, But when her vision cleared, and settled on the face of a girl with the pinkest hair she had ever seen, and the pure black eyes, she yelped, and fell backwards out of bed.
"You okay?" the girl asked as she raced over and helped ollie stand up. Ollie tried to find her words, with the exception of X she had never met another mutant before and the sudden shock had startled her.
"Yeah... im alright." She said, rubbing the bruse on her head. After taking a moment to catch her breath, Ollie noticed that in adition to her odd hair color and even odder eyes, this new girl had a set of shimmering insect like wings, four to be exact, to bigger ones up top, and two smaller ones below them, like a fairy from some kind of fairy tale.
"My name is spyder." She said nervously, scratching the back of her head. The winged girl smiled brightly, holding out her own hand.
"Megan Gwynn, but everyone just calls me Pixie." The pink haired girl said brightly, shaking ollies hand like a giddy schoolgirl. Ollie already felt this girl seemed just aliitle to perky, but then again ollie was usually perky to so maybe it would work out.
"so um.. how long have you been at this school, long?" Ollie asked, trying to make converation as she crawled back onto her bed. Pixie shook her head
"Not really, only been here about a month." She said as she sat down next to Ollie. "so, your my new room mate huh, i hope we can be good friends." Pisie said brightly. Ollie fought the urge to cringe, and just hope she could live without killing this girl who seemed to be full of care bear dna.
XxXxX
Jack found himself in a field of bright daisys, the sun brightly shined at his back, the air was clean and clear and the clouds in the sky seemed to form various shapes in an atempt to entertain him.
suddenly the sun seemed to move faster, floating over him to shine in his eyes. He shaded his eyes with his hand as he noticed something casting a shadow under the sun.
"Jack...." A siren like voice called out, making him shiver in a good way. He started walking, following the voice to the shaded form, which started to take shape in the form of a beautiful woman. He couldnt see her face, but that voice seemed to be familure. "Come to me..." the voice called out.
Jack stepped closer, but stopped when he saw the womans shape change. She grew taller, and as the woman started walking twoards him, he heard that laugh, that confidant, self centered laugh. A laugh he'd never forget, and caused his blood to run cold.
Finnaly he could see the woman's face, the face of the woman who took his whole life away, the face of evil, the face of Mystique.
"JACK" another voice called out. Jack sat up, sweat covering his face, the bedspread heavy and clinging to him as the sun burned in his eyes for a moment. After his eyes had a moment to adjust, he looked up to see Logan standing over him, a very angrey look on his face.
"Time to get up pal, you got a full day of work today." he said in a voice that almost seemed to growl. This guy scared jack, and even though jack may be a guy you could probably scare fairly easily, this guy was on the level of freddy kreuger or jason on the scary factor.
"Yes ." Jack said, trying not to groan as he sliped out of bed, as quickly as he could, trying to shake the horrible nightmare out of his head.
"Trouble sleeping?" Logan asked. Jack nodded. "Well, you better start going to bed earlier, cause i want you up at 5 every morning." Logan said, almost tricking Jack into thinking he cared for a moment, before leaving to let him get dressed.
"Jack wished he could take a shower but desided against it since he was already running late. As he wall pulling his jeans on... His only pair of jeans, he noticed that forge wasn't in bed. He wondered where he went as such an early hour, and hoped he wouldn't tell anyone about the idea's he had shared with him.
5 minutes later jack opened his room door and stepped out. Logan stood there, a cigar standing out from his mouth as he turned to face jack. He sniffed the wind and looked down evenly at jack.
"Next time take a shower before work." He growled as he started off. Jack sighed and followed Logan out of the mansion and into the tool shed next to the stables. There, logan used the small key to unlock the shed and walked in, jack following.
"Okay kid, take the push mower and mow the lawn, and when your done, come find me." Jack looked at the aging mower, then looked out the shed, and noticed for the first time how memens and massive the lawn acctualy was, it was like asking a fly to trim the hair on a large dog. Jack wanted to ask, WHAT ARE YOU KIDDING!", but he would not do that, he had alot of flaws and this was one flaw he was going to try hard to limit.
So jack simply nodded. Logan raised an eyebrow, but hid his suprise as he handed Jack the gas canister and showed him how to properly start the mower.
XxXxX
Despite her cold nature, X had to admit it felt nice to take a warm shower and sleep in an equally warm bed. She sat alone at the dinning room table, slowly chewing a spoonful of cereal, rolling around the thoughts in her head. The last time she was here, it was in an attempt to kill logan, and now she was actually considering becoming a student.
"Penny for your thoughts, nails." a familure voice called out. X looked up to see logan, and bit her lip, fighting the urge to growl. She had hated him for the longest time, but in recent months she had been able to let herself forget her hatred.
"Just... wondering what my next move should be." she thought out loud, scooping up another spoonful of cereal. Logan took a seat across from her, crossing his fingers and resting his chin on them.
"your wondering wether or not to stay here or to run off again." Logan stated, as if he knew her thoughts. She looked up at him nodding weakly. "Look nails, beleive it or not, i've been there, and while you were born with your bones," he said, as he lifted one fist, and let his set of three shimmering foot long blades spring out from within them, almost admiring them, "Those doctors cut me open and put them in me, now," He said, letting his claws leap back into his fist, "Your thinking your alone, that if you stay with anyone, people will come for you and hurt anyone to get to you." X fought back tears, noddng in agreement with logan.
"You dont have to be alone anymore kid, I'm here, and ive been in your shoes, you dont have to run anymore. And the Professor can help you work out some of the things in your head... like he did for me." X looked up at logan, with almost a hint of emotion in her eyes.
"HE.. he can help me... be normal?" X asked in an uncharicteristly hopeful tone. Logan sighed.
"Not exactly, but the thing is, im not good at these little uplifting speaches," He paused when he saw her momentarily happy smile fall fast, "but Xavier is, and i know he can help you... if you give him the chance." X thought for a moment, and just nodded, in her eyes, for the moment there was nothing more to say.
XxXxX
"What do you think Mr. Logans next training exersize might be, bobby?" The asian girl asked her male friend as they walked twards the instatute after school. Her friend shurgged his shoulders.
"I dont know jubilee, but with Mr. Logan in charge its going to be...." Bobby's words fell as they both heard footsetps behind them, and stopped to look to see who was behind them, and both of them paused in a moment of fear, "painful...." Bobby finnished weakly
"You dont know the meaning of pain, mutie." The leader of a gane of about twelve men said, all of them dressed like they belonged to some kind of unknown gang, and all of them weilding some sort of weapon, a club or bat.
Bobby and jubilee faced eachother, and started running. They were near the main gates, their hearts almost beating as one as they reached out for the gate, the sound of an engin going somewhere nearby.
when they reached the gate however, they learned to their terror that the gate was locked. they turned to see themselves serounded. They could use there powers to get away, but the professor had always told them never to do so eexcept in defence, and they both knew if they used them at all, it wouldnt look defencive to anyone watching.
"Whats going on here?" A voice asked. Bobby and jubilee turned to see a new boy, no older than them, on the other side of the gates, a lawnmower afew feet behind him as he walked up to the gates.
"Just gonna drop acouple of muties, you got a problem?" the leader of the small mob asked, clappingone hand against his bat. the boy smiled.
"Oh look, they've got toys, thats cool, i got one too." The boy said, pulling a pistol from behind his back, he had it wedged under his belt but now pointed it at the mobs leader. "Now, do we have a problem here?" the boy asked. The leader backed away slowly, his followers did the same.
"No... no problem pal." He said in a trembling voice.
"Oh good, cause for a moment i thought we had a problem here," The boy said with a smile, watching the fear in the mob leaders eyes. "Now, why dont you guys run off and play beat down somewhere else." The mobs leader nodded, and ran off, his crew following. Once they had left, the boy slipped the gun back in his belt and pressed the button on the back gate wall, opening the gates to let the two students in.
"How did Xavier ever let you keep a gun?" Jubilee asked in amazment. The boy just chuckled.
"Oh, its not real, its an old toy gun, good thing about toymakers making guns look orange and silly now, is that the older toys are old enough where kids today dont even know they were made." The boy said with a smile. Bobby walked over and shook his hand.
"Bobby drake, and this is jubilation lee, but we all just call her jubilee." He said with a smile, glad to be out of harms way.
"Jack carson, im the new hired help around here." The new boy said with a smile as he wiped a bead of sweat off his brow, he had been mowing for hours and only had half the lawn done, and he was getting real tired.
"You mean your not a student like us?" Jubilee asked.
"No, i dont have any..." Jack was cut off
"CARSON, BACK TO WORK!" Logan's voice boomed as he walked up to the three of them.
"But mr. Logan he..." This time he cut off jubilee.
"You two should be gearing up for your training exersize!" Logan barked. Jack nodded weakly, said nothing, and returned to mowing the lawn. Jubilee and bobby were lost in shock, but raced off tot he mansion, not wanting to anger their teacher.
XxXxX
7:25 pm, Jack had just finnished mowing the lawn and was weakly walking back into the mansion as he passed a small group of students. Bobby and jubilee were among them, as was their friend, Jean gray and her boyfriend, Scott summers. Jubilee saw him walk by, followed by a very angrey looking Logan. She coldnt take any more and had to know what the problem was.
"Jean, there he is... there has to be a way to know why Logan hates him so much... please." Jubilee beged. Jean sighed in defeat.
"I cant beleive you made me agree to this." Jean said weakly, as she gently pressed her fingertips to her temples, letting her mind clear, her mind seemed to leave her body, serching threw the air, finding the minds of Logan and jack, probing them, looking for a reason logan hated this boy so much, an then she found it, her eyes opening wide in shock and terror. "Oh my god... h.. how could the professor let this happan?" Jean asked out loud. The others stairing at her, waiting. when she said nothing bobby finally let it out.
"WHAT, what did you see?" Jeah finnaly found her voice, trembling.
"He... he was a member of the friends of humanity...."
End of chapter
Next chapter: Explination atempts