The Weapon X Project

Chapter 11: Awakening Giants

All eyes where pointed at him, the boy who had just jumped out of thin air and landed in the middle of dinner. It was lucky for him that he had landed in his own chair this time as he was more commonly known to land in the middle of the dinner table thoroughly bathing it's occupants in a deluge of food, drink and silverware. However, the shock of Kurt landing where he meant to land was enough to make Scott's fork lodge in his throat. Pulling it deftly from its chokehold on Scott's throat almost instinctively, Rogue looked at her little brother with a bemused giggle. "You finally made it to the chair, fuzzy." She ribbed.

Kurt smiled sheepishly and shrunk into his chair with a bright purple color tingeing his cheeks. Then it hit him, Where were X23 and Blaise? As if sensing his quandary, Blaise, in a malevolent cloud of rusty fumes, appeared over his table and came crashing down into the middle of it, relodging the nefarious fork back into its place in Scott's throat as Rogue jumped into his lap from fright "Blaise!?!" wondered Kurt

"Master, the violent, stupid girl's trying to kill me!!" Blaise squealed

"What did you call me?" howled X23 as she marched down the stairs with her murderous intent gleaming from the adamantium attached to her white knuckles with a fervor that seemed reminiscent of the monsters Kurt had accidentally let loose in the world the previous year. As she noticed X23, Blaise latched onto Kurt's head feigning terror as she began to knead his face with her breasts.

Kurt mumbled incoherently as the two spheres massaged his face from a rush of blood to a certain part of his human anatomy. For a brief second the function returned to Kurt's brain and he lost no time in using it to detach Blaise from his person. He was just in time to see X23 lunge at her with her radiant metal cleavers extended, stopping just short of making him a two-headed monster. Suddenly a luminescent, eruption exploded from Professor X's head as everyone found himself or herself unable to move. Blaise vanished in the same cloud of Rusty fumes as X23's face crash landed in Kurt's lap, the exact spot that Blaise had vacated only moments earlier. With a calm motion he wheeled himself passed Scott, grabbing the offending fork and wrenching it from his throat, only to stop in front of the obscenely prone X23 and Kurt with Blaise nowhere to be found.

Blaise poked her head over the shoulder of Professor X, seemingly unaffected. "So that's the famous mind-fart." she mused with a mischievous grin etched across her fanged mouth.

"Kurt, Who is this girl?" He inquired the very question on his mind.

"I'm Blaise, pleased to meet'cha!" She chirped as she floated above them by her use of the ebony, bat-like wings that where attached to her back.

"Can we get up now?" mumbled X23 into Kurt's crotch as he did his best to ignore the vibrations her voice gave.

"Can you behave yourselves?" wondered Professor X

"YES! Please let her up." Gurgled Kurt. Professor X blinked and everybody was able to move again. X23 pulled herself from Kurt's lap, going slightly pink in the process, and pulled out a chair next to Kurt. Again Blaise disappeared and then reappeared, one-tenth her original size, sitting with her legs crossed on Kurt's shoulder with her wings fluttering quietly across his ear. Without having the time to answer Dr. McCoy burst into the kitchen looking, besides utterly famished, very worried. He stopped as he noticed the small girl sitting on Kurt's shoulder. "Oh an Oni." He sputtered as he paused for half a second and rushed the refrigerator.

"I knew there had to be someone, who knew what was going on!" Blaise sighed from what looked like relief.

"Wait a minute, you know what she is?" asked Scott

"A creature from Japanese mythology, often summoned by someone pure of heart or black of soul to do their bidding. Often without the consent or wish of the summoner. Doesn't everyone?" He stated as-a-matter-of-factly with a large pre-made sandwich in his mouth. "But that doesn't matter right now. Our guests are awake."

"What?" was the collective gasp that oozed from the occupants of the kitchen.

Mere seconds later the Professor, Scott, Rogue, Kurt, Blaise and X23 had arrived in the medical bay. They had approached the bed of the girl that had attacked them on the cruise ship. She seemed like a girl who wasn't much older than many of the students at the institution; She was a small girl with long flowing red hair and several scars under her collarbone and shoulders. Beast lurched over her and caught her gaze. "Ishtarr, tell them what you told me."

"I'm hungry." She said exhaustedly

"Um no," Beast prepared some Jell-O. "About what you remember."

"There was a giant room, labs I think, where hundreds of people where in these tubes. Well I think they where people, they where mangled and ugly." Groaned Ishtarr.

"I only remember seeing about ten or twenty tubes where I found them the first time."

"Which means…" said Rogue

"Which means that what you found the first time wasn't the only site where they are experimenting on people." Finished Scott.

"Exactly!" chimed Beast

"Scott, gather Logan and Storm. Have them begin an ultrasonic scan of the city. Rogue, X23, join them and offer any help you can." Ordered the Professor as everyone hopped to comply with his or her orders.

"Professor, may I speak with Kurt for a second?" inquired Dr. McCoy

"Very well." He wheeled himself out of the medical wing. Dr. McCoy looked down at the small girl hovering attentively around Kurt's head.

"Alone." Beast muttered annoyed. Blaise let out a small grunt of protest but one look from Kurt and she accepted her fate. She vanished into a small puff of smoke. "Listen, There was a story of a man that could go anywhere with a thought. One day that man had a serious tragedy befall him. As he sat grieving, he was visited by an Oni. This Oni promised to serve his for the rest of his days until he would agree to go back to her world with him as a mate. The man agreed, welcoming the company. However, he was visited by a maiden, who offered him the same contract. This time he refused because he had already made a pact with the Oni, but he decided that he would be kind and allow her to stay with him for the rest of his days. She accepted and they all lived quite happily until the time came for his death. As he lay dieing both women came to his side and he had fallen deeply in love with both. In the end his heart was torn apart and soul destroyed because he had made too pacts."

"What does this have to do with me?"

"Kurt I've monitoring your recent activity. Every human and mutant give off a single energy this is what gives us such as things as our sense of direction, but yours has just recently changed. It has split into two separate energies: one with a negative charge and one with a positive charge. Kurt I think it may be affecting your teleportation powers and fashioning them into dimensional gate abilities. Kurt these abilities have the potential to destroy you if you are not careful."

End Chapter 11