I have never liked Logan's training sessions. He always made me fight one of my teammates-or himself-and I found it hard to pretend they were evil.
"Come on Inkling! Hit me with your best shot!" Wolverine hollered.
"But Logan, I don't feel comfortable-"
"-Hit me!" He exclaimed.
I became scared and punched at his face. He flung backwards.
"Sorry!" I cried.
"Don't be sorry Inkling and hit me again!" Wolverine said, shaking his head.
I hesitated for a moment, but threw another swing towards him, jabbing him in the jaw bone.
"Come on Susan!" Jean called.
"Yeah! Hit him where it hurts!" Kitty exclaimed.
Wolverine glanced at Kitty. "You're next!"
I kicked Wolverine in the chest and he fell backwards.
He grinned and got up, patting me on the shoulders. "Did well kid. But you ain't always gonna be fighting the bad side."
Later on that day I was sitting in the library reading the Hunchback of Notre Dame, my favorite book. Kurt appeared in a puff of black smoke and had a silly grin on his face.
"What?" I asked looking over the brim of the book.
"I didn't know you were going out with Tough Tony!" He said.
I sighed. "I'm not."
"Do I hint a little passion in your defiance?" Kurt taunted.
"Yeah. I passionately hate you Kurt Wagner!" I said.
"Tony and Susan, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G…First comes love then comes-"
"-Kurt knock it off." I said, becoming agitated.
Kurt stared laughing, shaking his tail in my face.
I took the book I was holding and threw it at him. Kurt jumped out of the way in the knick of time and my book smashed into the door, wedging itself halfway in the room and halfway out.
Kurt stared at it for a moment, mouth open. "Whoa Susan…Look what you did!"
I gaped as he did. The book had stuck into the door. We both stood there in silence.
"PROFESSOR!" Kurt hollered, running into the hallway.
"Kurt!" I exclaimed, "You made me do it!"
"I didn't make you do anything!" Kurt said.
I managed to grab him by the tail. "If you tell the professor-"
"-Tell me what?" Professor Xavier said behind us.
"Oh noth-"
"-Susan threw a book into a door!" Kurt said, spilling the beans. He thrust his blew hands proudly at the door.
I blushed bashfully.
Professor Xavier frowned at the book in the door. "Susan, how did you throw it hard enough?"
"I-I…I have no idea." I said honestly.
The professor didn't seem the least bit worried about the door.
"Have you been experimenting with supplements Susan?" Professor Xavier asked seriously.
My eyes grew wide with shock. "Oh professor I'm not taking steroids if that's what you're thinking!"
A smile grew on his face. "Kurt would you mind going away?"
Kurt scoffed. "If Susan would let go of my tail!"
I let his tail fall out of my hands and he disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
"Am I in trouble?" I questioned in a small voice.
"Not at all," He replied, "You're just growing."
"Everyone goes through this?" I asked.
He nodded.
"Seriously?"
He nodded again. "At this point in time your powers are developing, making your body change as well as your powers."
My heart skipped a beat. "What? I lost my old powers?"
"No," He said with a chuckle, "Your body is just adapting to it's environment and it just so happened that it increased your strength. I'll tell Logan right away and he'll get you started on a new training program with Colossus." Professor Xavier said, rolling past me.
"Oh great." I muttered under my breath.
Professor Xavier chuckled. "Please don't curse in your head. I can still hear it."
I blushed and pulled the book out of the door, returning to my reading.
