And your darling authoress presents to you another chapter. Kinda continuing on my 'Watch Digimon Tamers' thing so you may continue to see some Digimon inspired chars later on. Most of the ghosts are also based on my friends in rl. An odd bunch they are but I love them all the same.
Disclaimer: Seriously? What is the sense in these things? Shouldn't there be an automatic disclaimer as soon as you log into this site? Like what the hell? Either way, chars of Danny Phantom and X-Men: Evolution do not belong to me. The twins, random ghosts and the plotline are mine however, no matter how weird it gets.
~Phantom X~
"And both parents have joined them at the institute?"
Sophaya nodded. "She will begin training with them as a regular mutant. The father, the first generation, will be teaching them ghost fighting methods as will the mother."
"I see, so Samantha will be joining them," the man said, stroking his white beard. He heaved a deep sigh and got out of his chair. "And I'll have the young badger to deal with as well." He chuckled. "No worries, this is just a bump. Everything is proceeding as planned."
~PHANTOM X~
"You can't be serious!"
"Deathly," Wolverine grinned that scary grin that got Alexis' hair standing on end.
Alexis let out a pathetic whimper and hung her head. Below her was the danger room which Wolverine was proudly displaying all of its deadly artillery.
"Sorry for you sis," Alexi said, patting her back.
"Did I mention you're doing it too?" Wolverine said.
"Mutant say what now?" Alex said.
"You two are always showing off about how you're such a great team together we decided to test the theory out," Wolverine said.
"You're joking," the twins said.
"Nope he's serious," Danny said, appearing behind them.
"Ven did you get there?" Kurt demanded, scared down from his perch at Danny's sudden arrival.
"I was here the whole time," Danny said.
"H-how-?"
"Are the preparations finished?" Xavier said, just now arriving.
"Oh yeah, we just need to put the brats in and the test can begin," Wolverine said.
"Are you sure they can handle this?" Xavier whispered to Danny.
"80% positive," Danny said, flashing thumbs up.
"Aren't you worried?" Wolverine asked.
"Sure I am, but they've got to grow up at some point," Danny said, looking at the twins gape at the danger room. "This whole mutant thing just keeps reminding me that they've got to grow up a whole lot faster than I'd like."
"I suppose your children always grow up faster than any parent would like…" Xavier said softly.
Suddenly the twins turned to them with matching looks of determination. "All right! Let's do this thing!" they said with clenched fists.
Wolverine grinned and gestured to the danger room. Alexis took a deep breath before changing into Poltergeist. She took her brother's hand and phased them through into the centre of the danger room.
"Ready for this?" Alex asked.
"Nope," his sister replied.
Then, it began.
First, the lasers. Before they could blink, the small side doors on the walls shot open and lasers began shooting at them. In a flash, they rolled in separate directions to avoid the lasers. Just then, the four large balls rolled out from the wall and began tracking them.
"I got the lasers," Alex said. He focused for a second, gathering electricity around his core, before releasing an electric wave that outed the lasers.
Behind him, Alexis was distracting the spheres that seemed to have minds of their own.
"Over here!" she yelled, luring the balls away from her brother.
She dashed off as they tried surrounding her. "Oopsoe daisies!" Alexis split into two as a blade shot down on her. If she hadn't split she would have been cut into neat ecto-halves.
"Her clones still need a lot of improvement," Danny commented as her ghostly clone melted into ectoplasm.
"Not cool," Alexis muttered before ducking to avoid a laser. "I thought you said you had the lasers?!"
"I thought I had them too!" Alex replied.
"Switch!" the two said.
Alexis took a position close to the centre of the danger room then, focusing her ecto-beams, fired off quick shots destroying the lasers. While his sister did that, Alex released a large static wave that immobilised the destructo-balls.
"Decent team work," Wolverine commented, nodding slightly. He pushed another button and four walls sprang up, trapping the twins inside.
"Hey no fair!" Alex said. Suddenly the walls snapped together.
"Hey, that could kill them!" Kurt protested, dashing forward.
"Hold your horses!" Danny said, grabbing Kurt's collar. "Look."
As the walls returned to the ground it revealed the still standing twins. However, the two seemed a bit different from normal.
"Intangibility," Danny said. "Her reaction time's gotten better."
Wolverine pressed another button and the balls reactivated, this time revealing long octopus like limbs that had spinning blades at the end.
"Oh sweet baby James," the twins said.
This time, the balls didn't seem quite as stupid as they were before. The attacks were more coordinated and the twins barely had time to react.
"Maybe we should stop here," Xavier said. "They've proven themselves thus far."
Wolverine growled but a look from Xavier made him reach for the button but before he could push it, Danny suddenly grabbed his hand.
"Wait, look!" he said.
It seemed the twins hadn't lost all their fight. In fact, they seemed to be arguing over something while they dodged.
"You're crazy!" Alexis was saying. "Insane, absolutely bonkers!"
"So you're saying you'll try it then," Alex replied, backflipping to avoid a laser.
Alexis glared at him but nodded.
"Excellent!" Alex said victoriously.
"For the record I still think this is a bad idea!" Alexis yelled back.
"And I'm cool with that," was her brother's reply. "Ready?"
"If you are," she replied.
"Then let's get this show on the road!"
Then, stunned, the professor, Logan and Danny watched as Alexis turned intangible and proceeded to fly into her brother's body.
"What's she doing?" Xavier pondered.
"It's called overshadowing," Danny said making Xavier realise that he had spoken out loud. "It's one of a ghost's main abilities, the power to take control of a living person's body." Danny scowled. "But she hasn't truly gotten the hang of it yet. What's she thinking?"
The answer to that question came soon enough when Alex finally stopped struggling and became calm.
"Alex, you okay?" Danny called. The balls had paused for a second on Wolverine's orders. "Maybe we should call it quits for to-"
"No!" Alex said suddenly, except his voice sounded different.
The trio's eyes widened when they took a second look at Alex's body. His black and yellow training suit was now white and black (much like his father's in his younger days), and his long black hair was now streaked with white. His face looked distinctly more feminine and his body was a tad taller.
"We're going to see this through to the end!" Alex yelled. Now, in his voice, they could clearly hear Alexis' voice as well.
"Fine, if that's what you want," Wolverine said, and before Charles or Danny could stop him, he reactivated the balls once more.
Alex/Alexis' lips curled into a grin. "Let's put this to the test now shall we," they said. They took one step back, readying their body, took a deep breath and, just as the balls were on top of them, clapped their hands together and let loose an ecto wave charged with electricity that ripped through the machines, shutting them down.
"Peace!" Alex/Alexis said, flashing their thumbs up. "We done here?"
Laughing, Wolverine nodded even though they couldn't see him. "Yeah, we're done."
"Good job guys," Danny said.
"Indeed, it was rather impressive," Charles said.
"Good," Alex/Alexis said. "Nap time then," they muttered before collapsing.
"Alex! Alexis!" Danny panicked as he phased through the glass and shot to his children.
White rings travelled down Alex/Alexis' body leaving the now separated twins.
"We did good?" Alex asked.
"Yeah," Danny replied, grinning as he patted his son's head. "You did great."
"Good," Alexis said before they both slipped into unconsciousness.
~PHANTOM X~
I wasn't too sure about this chapter. I didn't get to my regular 2500+ words but I figured I'd been out of the game for so long that I figured I needed to get another chapter up.
For anyone who thinks the twins faint a lot, it's because they're not used to their powers yet. I don't want them maxing out on their powers and being in control of everything just because they're the main characters of this story. I'm trying as hard as possible not to make them Mary Sue, that would be horrible.
Just a question though, have they been Mary Sue so far? That's the only thing I'm terrified of.