Characters I wrote for: everyone that LisaOak didn't write for.

Characters LisaOak wrote for: (OC)Lisa, all the pokemon, Scott, Ororo, and Pyro

Thoughts

'Telepathy'

[Mewtwo's telepathy]

Xavier pulled his hand back, feeling the energy. He was about to call for Jean, but figured that the pokemon might have a better understanding of what to do. He wheeled over to the still-sleeping Mew and attempted to wake her up.

Mew woke up and she sat up seeming confused. 'Huh... is it time for the next class?' she asked sleepily. 'Woah what's that?' She obviously felt the energy as well.

"Lisa collapsed," Xavier stated. "I was hoping you or Mewtwo might know what to do."

Mew frowned and she floated over to Lisa, looking her over. 'I-I dunno what to do, but this isn't good. It seems like her powers knocked her out'

"She's that powerful?" Xavier asked, surprised. He went through possible solutions to get her to wake back up, but nothing he could think of would work.

'Well, her powers aren't just telepathy, at least not anymore. It is just a small branch of them,' Mew said with a tilt of her head. 'Best we can do is take her to the medical room or her room even and watch her 'til she wakes up'

Xavier nodded. He went through the mutants who weren't currently teaching a class. Since everyone was at their elective, Hank was free. He called Hank to the office, giving a quick description of what had happened. While waiting for Hank, Xavier moved Lisa into a position that should be more comfortable, and easier to be lifted when he gets there.

Mew sat down next to Lisa and she checked her over. 'Lisa doesn't know about her powers, aside from the second sight she has and the telepathy.'

"Second sight?" Xavier asked, but Hank came in.

"So she just randomly collapsed?" he asked, lifting Lisa up.

"As far as I know." He glanced over at Mew. 'You're going to have to explain Lisa's powers to me, if you can,' Xavier telepathically told the pokemon.

Mew nodded and she floated over to Hank. 'Lisa's not feeling good. She needs to rest a little.'

"Her room or the medical room?" Hank asked Xavier.

"I think her room will be just fine," Xavier stated. "Mew, could you watch over her? If you need help, you can contact Jean."

'I thought I was gonna tell you what was going on,' Mew said, tilting her head to the side

Hank left to get Lisa to her room.

"Hank and I have classes to teach in a few minutes, and Lisa needs someone watching her," Xavier sighed. "Do whatever's easiest - go get Mewtwo to watch Lisa and stay here to tell me, or watch Lisa and tell me from her room."

Mew nodded and she teleported out of the room for a little bit. She returned, having gotten Mewtwo to watch over Lisa as she recovered from her black out spell.

She quietly floated over to Xavier and tilted her head to the side curiously. 'Where do I start?'

"Start where it's easiest to," Xavier stated. "I'll tell you if there are gaps that need to be explained."

'Okay... you know what aura and life-force are right?' She asked, tilting her head to the side.

"If not, I have a pretty good guess," Xavier said with a nod. "Life-force is pretty much a person's life, and aura is like their invisible signature."

Mew nodded at this 'Yup. Lisa's powers ties together these two different forces with her telepathy, as well as a second way of seeing,' she began. 'She is what we call an Aura Channeler, or Wave Guider. She uses a small fraction of her own life-force, and with that, she morphs and transmutes her own aura into different forms. She can also see other people's auras; her telepathy picks up on the auras, naturally making certain types of psychic energy difficult for her to block. The fact that her aura guiding powers are starting to awaken means that her 6th and 7th senses are starting to sharpen, which is what is causing this strain. On top of this if Lisa doesn't use enough energy her life-force keeps growing, and then that gets too much to handle as well.'

"That could also explain her difficulties with blocking her telepathy," Xavier said, leaning back in his chair. The bell rang, signaling the end of the elective period. "If there's more to the explanation, we'll have to wait until I get the students working on their own."

Mew nodded, but she tilted her head to the side. 'Oh, what are we gunna tell the teacher? Lisa's probably gunna miss a little of her next class.'

"I'm sure Ororo will understand," Xavier said. "She knows that Lisa is a... special case."

Mew nodded and she turned invisible, and disappearing from the room with a faint 'Call me if you need me, Mr. Xavier!' and a small giggle as the next class entered the room.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~*~*~*~*~

It was about ten more minutes before Lisa woke up. She panicked and went to her next class, though she had Mewtwo following her closely to make sure she didn't have another episode.

Lisa quietly opened the door and Ororo looked up from her lesson, beckoning to her. "Feeling better, I hope," she said, looking to Lisa.

"I-I think so," Lisa said, rubbing the back of her neck, seeming embarrassed. She took a seat.

"So, now you're the late one," Astin said, leaning back lazily in his chair, feet on the table. Turns out, he was sitting next to the seat Lisa took. "This class is the most boring for me. None of my friends here, really. Tin-Man there, I guess could count, though." He pointed to the student on the other side of him, who looked very muscular for his age.

"I passed out in my last class," Lisa said sheepishly. "I'm Lisa, by the way. Alyssa said your name was Astin, right?" she said quietly, looking up as Ororo went on teaching.

"Correct," Astin said with a bit of a nod. "Nice to meet you, Lisa." He spoke quietly as to not interrupt the class, but he didn't care if Ororo caught him or not.

As fate would have it, Ororo had taken a moment to walk around the room while giving her lecture. She tapped the top of Astin's shoes with a text book and gave him a look as she continued, suggesting that if he didn't remove his feet he was going to get in trouble.

Lisa blinked and took this as her mild cue to pay attention. She listened to the lecture, though about half way through, she gave up and made a mental note to go through her textbook later and read to catch up.

Astin sighed and put his feet on the floor. "Not one for world history?" he asked, noticing Lisa's mind wander. Part of his power is close to telepathy. If the mind is actively thinking of something, he gets nothing. But he has a sense of when one's mind starts to wander and daydream. He hasn't yet gotten to the point where he can see the daydream, though. Just know they're getting into one.

"Actually, I'm completely lost. I'll have to read on it and catch up later," she said quietly. "That, and I'm starting to get a mild headache again."

The student addressed as Tin-Man by Astin had been listening since his nickname was mentioned. "If you need, I can help with catching up," he stated, Russian accent apparent in his voice. "My real name is Piotr, by the way."

"Oh! Nice to meet you. Kitty said you were in this class," she said with a smile. "I would really like some help though," she said seeming embarrassed.

"And there they go," Astin sighed.

"It is no problem," Piotr replied. "I get some of this stuff a second time from my art teacher. I know the subject pretty well."

"That's good. Your world history is nothing like mine," she said with a curious expression.

"You are... from another world?" Piotr asked, tilting his head a bit.

"Alyssa never told me anything about that," Astin pointed out, suddenly interested in the conversation.

"Yeah," Lisa said with a small nod. She looked up as there was a loud shout from the hallway as Scott had tripped over one of the Totodiles. He now had the angry pokemon attempting to bite him as he ran down the hall.

"That's something you don't see every day," Astin pointed out, laughing, as Scott came by the classroom. Piotr just shook his head.

Lisa raised her hand and Ororo called on her. "May I be excused so Mr. Summers doesn't get used for a Chew toy?" she asked.

"Nice way of putting it," Astin commented, still laughing.

Ororo couldn't help but chuckle and she nodded. Lisa left the room and bolted down the hall, chasing the totodile. About 5 minutes later, a very wet Scott Summers trudged past the class room door. Lisa entered, holding the small gator in her arms, who was happily chewing on a rubber ball.

"You're going to have to tell me what happened," Astin stated, trying (and for the most part, failing) to hold back his laughter.

"Maybe after class," Lisa said, sitting the pokemon under her desk and instructing it to behave.

The totodile put on its best innocent face, which was very cute, and squeaked. Lisa's expression faltered somewhat before she became stern again. She repeated the instructions once more to make sure they got through, before sitting up right.

"What... is that thing?" Piotr asked, staring at the creature.

"He's a Totodile. A water aligned pokemon with very powerful jaws," Lisa explained quietly as Ororo resumed her lesson.

"I can think of a million more questions to ask," Astin said. "But if we talk much more, Ororo might get angry at us." One reprimand from Ororo was enough for the day. He's seen in the Danger Room what she can do when she gets angry.

"I'll show you guys the pokemon when school is over," Lisa said with a nod as she wrote down some notes.

Surprisingly, the small Totodile remained in the spot where he had been told to stay, and his twin had come to join him after a little while.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Soon, the bell rang signaling the end of the period.

"Finally!" Astin said, getting up to stretch. "Can both Tin-Man and I come see the pokemon?" he asked. Piotr stood up quietly, not even really noticing Astin's use of his nickname instead of his real one. Between him and Logan, he's gotten used to it. He nodded in agreement, though, at the question.

"Of course! They like meeting new people, plus, the more people they get used to, probably the fewer problems we'll have in the long run," she said, picking up both of the totodiles and juggling them carefully. The two quarreled a bit in her arms, snapping at each other and opening their jaws, but once they got comfortable they settled down.

"Scary teeth," Piotr pointed out, making his way out the classroom, Astin following.

"And they were after Scott," Astin brought up the incident that happened a couple minutes ago.

"Totodiles are famous for their bites. Even their trainers have to be careful because playful nips can result in serious injuries," Lisa said as she walked to her room to get something. "Okay you two, I need my hands so wait in the hall with the guys and behave," she said, setting the pair on the floor and petting their heads before going into her room for a moment. The Female totodile sat down on the floor and yawned while the male one bounced energetically in place.

"Why do we have to baby-sit these two?" Astin asked no one in particular, a bit wary of the pokemon. Piotr seemed more relaxed, however, even kneeling to get to the pokemon's level.

Sago looked over at him, seeming curious. He sniffed at Piotr while wagging his tail slowly, though he looked up as Lisa came out of the room. He squealed happily and bounced so high that he easily reached the girl's eye level.

"They don't all look like this, do they?" Astin asked, acting more curious than scared.

"No; totodiles are just one of the many species of pokemon. Even then, the Twins are just babies," she said with a smile. "That's why they're so attached to me. I'm sorta their mom,"

"Well, let's go see the rest of them," Astin said, seeming bored again. That is, until he had a thought. "Wait, do these pokemon have anything to do with the odd thunder-tiger everyone was talking about?"

"That was Raikou. He was the one that led your teachers to me," Lisa said, looking back at them as she started to walk towards the door. "I plan to let him out as well. He needs to stretch a bit, and I need to see how his side is healing."

"I think Alyssa mentioned something about a fight. You and her against the Brotherhood?" Astin mentioned. In truth, though, he found out one of the nights he got bored. He decided to go "dream-walking" and Alyssa happened to be dreaming about the fight. It seemed so real, it had to have been a memory.

"Yeah. Raikou got hurt by the one called Sabretooth, trying to protect us. The others are all fine, but they are a little stressed still," she said with a frown.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~*~*~*~*~

A few minutes later, when they were all outside and had plenty of space, Lisa tossed several pokeballs up into the air. In a large display of white light, pokemon began to appear. First was the tiger, Raikou, who roared loudly and savagely upon his release. He yawned and sat down, purring, as Lisa scratched his neck and checked his side. The others were Bipin the torterra, Sade the leafeon, Kaiyou the vaporeon, and a large golden colored bird with cloud-like wings.

Astin was surprised a bit when Raikou was released, but laughed when he started to purr.

"Introductions?" Piotr asked, sitting down and coaxing Sade and Kaiyou to come to him.

Sade came first and gave a call up to Piotr as he circled his legs. "Leafeon!"

Kaiyou followed as well. "Vapor! Vaporeon!" he called as he came over.

"The green one is Sade and the blue one is Kaiyou. The big one there is Bipin. This is Raikou, and the last one over there is Ahti," She said, pointing towards the golden colored altaria.

Piotr held out his empty hand to the two. He didn't really know how to react around pokemon, so he decided to do it the same way as one would with a cat or dog; starting with letting it sniff his hand.

Meanwhile, as Lisa helped take care of some of the pokemon, one of them she had forgotten that she had let out was just starting to wake up from a nap. She squeezed into the door that Mew had left open for a moment. It was a small brown and white scruffy looking raccoon-like creature with pretty, green-colored eyes. It stood up on its hind legs and sniffed the air, though this was promptly forgotten as someone dropped some change on the ground. As they went to pick it up, the small pokemon swiped it and took off down the hall like a bat out of hell.

Gambit, who had nearly gotten run into by the raccoon pokemon, stopped in his tracks.

The student who had dropped the change just stood there, surprised. Recognizing the scene of a "nab-and-run" as he liked to call it, he decided to look for Lisa. From his experiences, he learned that she was the best one to handle the pokemon.

The small raccoon was now under the couch of the lobby and was batting at someone's soda, which was on the floor just in reach.