Hi, my own chapter this time, I hope it is ok, it should show some insight into Fliss's powers

SuperminionXD


Previously on X-men: Evolution-

All of a sudden my eyes felt really weird, the black seemed to fade into grey, with blobs of lighter and darker shades. What was happening? … It's almost like those cameras they use in nature shows to see nocturnal creatures like foxes or badgers.

I awake suddenly with a jolt. I am… falling? My sleep-muffled mind tries to comprehend this. I scream as the ceiling retreats through a hole the exact shape and size of my bed before chunks of rubble join my path, though somehow slower. A loud crash announces my arrival on the ground floor and the bed breaks under the strain.

'Fliss, your powers are... evolving in ways we did not foresee'

What was happening to me?... What if it happens again?... What if I can't stop it?

And now…


I am sitting in the common room as everyone is watching a film but I don't really feel like watching, I am tired and my head hurts so I curl up in the corner of the sofa. Mr Logan comes in and soon notices.

"Alright, Nightlight, off to bed with ya" he announces, the others seem too engrossed in the film to notice but I look up at him sleepily and drag myself off the sofa and up the stairs to my newly repaired room.

I sink into a deep sleep as soon as my head touches the pillow, but apparently it is not to last, I wake in the middle of the night, my head is pounding and my throat dry plus I feel queasy. I drag myself out of bed and down the corridor to the shared girls' bathroom, not having the energy to turn on the light I simply use the light from the corridor to find the cabinet above the sink and take out a glass. I fill the glass with water then sip it perched on the edge of the bath, the cool liquid soothes the pounding slightly but doesn't stop it. I stand up and make to go back to bed, but in doing so I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror on the front of the cabinet.

Strange, my hair seems to look darker than normal, and even in the dim light it has a pink tinge and is it just me or is it shorter than usual? I can feel it tickling my neck when normally it goes over my shoulders, must be my imagination, I dismiss and continue my way back to my room. When back I place the half full glass of water on my bedside table and climb back into bed, I lay my head back on my pillow and notice something else strange, there appears to be loose locks of fair hair strewn across it. No it can't be, I must be dreaming, I take another sip of water and lay back down. The pounding seems to subside and I am pulled once again into oblivion.


When I wake again my headache is still there, though it is more of a dull throbbing, and my body feels tingly all over. I lie there semi-lucid trying to figure out what woke me up when a shout comes down the corridor.

"D.R. in five!" Scott's voice yells. I sigh and try to pull myself upright, my eyes still closed, I am slightly dizzy, when all of a sudden there is a sharp tug on my skull, as if someone has pulled my hair. I try again with the same effect; I feel a strange silky substance under my elbow and lift it up, the pressure stops. What on earth? It felt like… hair? But my hair isn't that long; at least it wasn't when I went to bed last night! And if anything it was shorter when I woke in the middle of the night! Footsteps come down the corridor.

"Oy, Nightlight, I can't hear you getting up!" Mr Logan's voice is punctuated by a series of wraps on the door. I turn towards the noise and open my eyes.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" I scream and jump out of bed, everything is dark and black, outlined by grey, but that's not why I'm screaming.

"Nightlight? Fliss? What's wrong?" his voice demands from… a skeleton. A cold white skeleton, stark against the black world, with three claws sheathed up each wrist. "What is it?"

The skeleton opens the black, grey outlined door with the white handle, and comes in. I jump off my bed and back away. The skeleton follows me, walking forwards with its empty eye-holes and grinning teeth. I turn and run through the now unoccupied door. I flee down the now Black and grey corridor with the occasional white of light fixings and some white lines that I'm not sure what they are. Unfortunately I run slap-bang into another Skeleton, this one rubs the back of its head while staring emptily.

"Whoa, man, wha'sup?" Evan's voice emanates from the somehow animated pile of bones, "And what's with the hair?"

I quickly turn round but the clawed Skeleton is back, I run as fast as I can past the second one and on down the corridor, another appears through a wall startling me.

"Like, Hey!" Kitty's voice exclaims as I run full pelt in the opposite direction. I continue through seemingly endless corridors of black and grey, until I find some black, grey outlined stairs with white bannisters, eerily similar to those at the institute, that's it! I am still here! Whatever the Skeletons have done to my head, I am still at the institute! I have to escape, get help! For the others, wherever they are. My heart beats wildly as I pound down the stairs, but I soon find my way blocked by two other Skeletons.

"Fliss? Is that you?" Jean's voice comes from one of the Skeletons, I stare back at its hollow eye holes, what had it done to Jean?

"It's ok, we won't hurt you" Scott's voice comes from the other skeleton which extends its hand towards me. No! It's a trick! I back away from the sinister beings; they're trying to trick me! This isn't real! It can't be real! I turn and flee once more; I can feel my hair streaming out behind me. Even in my panicked state I manage to follow my theory that this strange shadowy place is in fact the institute to find my way out to the main foyer.

Realising I have reached my goal I slow down, and for the first time I glance down at my own body. No! I lift up my hand, and sure enough the white bony hand lifts as if it were my own, my feet, my legs, my chest, everywhere! I am one of them! They turned me into them! I don't want to be a skeleton! Yet it's strange, I don't feel like a skeleton, you'd think if you turned into a skeleton you'd feel all bony and brittle, but I just feel normal. I can even feel the sensation of the large t-shirt I wear to bed against my skin, even if I can't see it, and hair brushing my ankles, wait ankles? How did it get there?

No! I banish the thoughts from my mind, I have to get away, if this is all a dream then I'll wake up, if it isn't at least I'll be safe. I push the now light grey outlined door and go out into the grounds. Outside is blacker and greyer than the inside was, but I can see some white bits, mechanical things hidden in the bushes and the fountain. I stop and see how strange everything looks, but that proves to be my worst mistake as suddenly I am surrounded by the skeletons. I instinctively jump into the air only to find that two of the skeletons are already there, blocking my exit.

"Be calm, child" Storm's voice comes from one of the floating skeletons.

"It's just us!" Stresses the other one using Jean's voice. No! It's a trick! They're just trying to get me! I try to dodge but the flying demons are too quick and I am blocked off once more.

"Stop!" the Professor's voice commands, I look down on the ground and see that the clawed skeleton is pushing another in a white wheelchair. I am blocked off, I can't escape. There is only one thing left to do. I close my eyes and brace for the Skeletons' attack.

But the attack never comes, instead I hear the Professors calming psychic voice.

'Fliss, you must calm down' the words emanate from nowhere in particular and fill my head.

'But Professor! The Skeletons! They're going to get me! They're going to…'

'Open your eyes, Fliss' The Professor's more powerful voice interrupts my own.

'But the Skeletons!' I protested.

'Look again' then it's as if something turned off inside my head, I open my eyes a tiny crack and see once again a strip of green and blue. I open them properly and jump at the scene in front of me. I see Storm and Jean floating either side of me, and all the rest of the X-men standing all around on the ground, Mr Logan standing behind the Professor's Wheelchair, in short in the exact positions I had seen the Skeletons in only moments before. It strikes me, I have been running from my friends and I didn't even know!

"I-I'm s-sorry" I choke out, before a pain appears in my chest, I gasp and wobble in the air, the pain grows until it fills my body, extending down my arms and legs. I can feel myself glowing brighter and brighter until I cannot see anything but my own pink light. The pain grows, sharp and burning.

Falling…

Darkness…


The next thing I know I am lying in a bed, the covers pulled up to my chest and tucked in as if by someone else. I frown slightly; my eyes still closed, and try to remember what happened. Words and images bubble up in my mind, Skeletons, only they weren't they were friends. How? I open my eyes and see the white tiled ceiling of the Med-bay, a face, the Professor's, leans over me, I turn to face him.

"You're awake" he acknowledges, I nod and try to sit up. Once successful I look back down at the space the top half of my body had occupied, it was filled with a venerable waterfall of long, wavy, candyfloss pink… hair? I reach and tug the long rose coloured strands, feeling a sharp tug on my own head I realise it is my own. What am I? Rapunzel?

"As you've noticed there have been some… physical changes" the Bald Telepath explains, I stare wide eyed and the hair in my hand, the strands seem thicker than normal hair and bare a resemblance to optic fibres, they seem to act like them too as I see small stars of pink light at the ends which are trailed off the bed. I rub the threads between my fingers, it is then that I notice they've changed too. The skin has a shiny texture, as if it were made of wax or marble, it is a pale rose colour, several shades darker than my normal, pale skin.

I take the mirror the Professor hands me and look into it. The reflection that stares back looks like more of a plastic doll than a real girl, my face is made from the same waxy skin as my hands, right up to the roots of my now candy-pink hair, the only thing that remains the same are my neon pink eyes, though they look slightly less alien than before. I look at the-my- reflection, I blink hoping somehow it will change back to normal, nothing happens. I look with wide eyed shock back at the Professor.

"I can make you and inducer like Kurt's" he suggests, I nod hopefully before resuming my shocked staring.


Hi, I hope you liked this chapter, the next chapter will run simultaneously with Episode 6 but probably won't make more than a passing mention, the chapter will be about Fliss learning to control and testing her new powers (Yes that's plural) I am debating between having Dr McCoy or the Fantastic 5 (The four plus my OC) coming to test her, leaning slightly towards Dr McCoy but tell my your preferences.

I am considering introducing another OC into this series, she won't come in until season 3 but tell me what you think.

Bye for now

SuperminionXD

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