Authors Note: Whats up guys? I'll have more to say at the bottom of the page, but for now, I just wanted to tell you that this is the chapter you guys meet the newest X-men! Enjoy!
"Are we there yet?" Cannonball asked for the ump-teenth time that ride. They had just taken off from Trask Headquarters 15 minutes ago and he started asking after the first minute was over. Havok thought he was going to loose his mind and get them all killed. He was piloting and it was hard to concentrate with Sam constantly asking the same question. Gambit sighed.
"No, Sam. We're not there yet. We'll be there soon." Gambit replied in hopes of getting Sam to quiet down. Sam seemed happy at the reply.
Ten seconds later...
"I cant take this! How much longer will I be stuck here? Are we there yet?!"
"Kid. Shut up. Please. I'm a cold hard piece of machinery who spent a year alone in the dark talking to himself and I'm still teetering on the edge of insanity. Plus, we're here. It's directly 1000 feet ahead of us." Keeper said. And boy, was he accurate. The X-mansion was in sight, and at the speed Keeper was moving, he had disappeared back into the tennis court which opened up as they arrived within seconds.
Keeper soon slowed to a quiet stop as he reached the second X-Jet Hangar. Once he came to a complete stop and turned to fact the exit again, everybody took off their seat belts and got up. After returning the Coms to the compartment with all the other Coms, the ramp opened up and everyone began to exit.
"I hope you've enjoyed the flight. Thank you for flying air Keeper. I do hope to see you again. No. Seriously. Being stuck in this dark room for hours upon hours bites."
"Later, Keeper." Havok said as he left. Everyone else followed his lead. and Keepers ramp folded back in. As they left the area back into the subbasement, the lights in both hangers dimmed and soon went off. Though, to Gambit surprise, he saw the other hanger occupied. The other X-men had returned and were waiting for them in the subbasement hallways. Cyclops gave them all a disappointed look. Wolverines claws might as well have been extended because the the stare he was giving them, they were were almost sure he would gut them all. But he calmed down.
"War room. Now." Cyclops said.
"You don't tell me what to do." Havok replied coldly as he got into Cyclops' face.
"Well I do. And believe me, you want to listen to what I say. Now get in there." said Logan who had pulled back Cyke and got into Havoks face. Havok then gave Logan a cold look and pushed past him. He walked down the hall into the War room. Everyone else followed.
"We have two issues to address to you guys today. We'll start with your mission." Cyclops said. Gambit had no idea how he did it, but he seemed to be staring them all in the eye at the same time even though he had his ruby quarts sunglasses on. "We got back about 30 minutes after you left, or so Storm tells us and we've been monitering your progress by linking the War room console to the X-Jet 2.0, courtesy of Nightcrawler." Nightcrawler was sitting at the desk next to the computer with his jaw hanging open. He was staring at Nocturne. Cyclops noticed the look on his face. He then realized Nocturne wasn't part of the X-men.
"Who the hell are you? Why are you wearing a Weapon X uniform?" Wolverine beat Cyclops the the question.
"And why do you look like me?" Nightcrawler added in. Nocturne rolled her eyes, though she was sure no one noticed since her eyes glowed a bright yellow. It was impossible to see her pupils. Same with Kurt.
"I'm a Weapon X clone of that guy." she said pointing her finger at Kurt and answering all their questions at once.
"Whatever. We'll have to talk more later. Back to the task at hand. Your mission was a complete failure. On top of that, you almost set off a nuclear explosion. Half of Trask Headquarts weapons crates are missing. We could be looking at World War III now because of you guys. But, on the plus side, if you guys weren't there, some way or another, someone would have been killed. There was absolutely no loss of human life. Sure, it wasn't the best job, but it wasn't the worst either. You all did ok. Thats all I really needed to say on this matter. Time for number two." Cyclops looked over to Logan. Logan took over.
"Alright Xmen. All of you in a line. Except Emma's students and anyone who isn't part of the Xmen. You all can now leave." Nocturne and Havok left. "That means you too Cannonball." Wolverine added. Cannonball groaned and walked out of the room. Everyone else got into a line next to Gambit and Angel. Wolverine joined them and Cyclops took his spot again.
"As you all know, a group of us left to take care of a different mission while Gambit was asleep. Thats not what we are going to talk about. We will address that later on today. It's who we met on the mission thats the issue. We ran into a curtain mutant a few of us met when we teamed up with Spider-man a year back. I know you wont like this, for those of you who know who I'm talking about, but he says he knows something about this apocalypse we're trying to learn about. Wade. Get in here." All of a sudden, a black and red costume wearing maniac walked into the room. He had two swords slung across his back.
"Deadpool!" Kitty, Colossus, Angel, Nightcrawler and Rogue screamed out in unison.
"Your that lune that captured us and Spiderman just so you could hunt us all down on live TV for money!" Kitty exclaimed. She hated the guy.
"Ah yes. Ultimate Spiderman, issue 91. Good times, good times." Deadpool said as he stared up at the ceiling. No one knew what he was talking about. "Don't hurt yourselves trying to think. You cant take the fact that we're all just comic book characters. Except now. I cant see my yellow thinking boxes. Man I love those. Right now, we're just part of some kids fan fiction."
"This guy belongs in an asylum! What is he doing here in the X-mansion?" Angel asked rudely to Cyclops.
"I already told you. He says he has info on Apocalypse."
"What does he get in return? This guy wouldn't give info without getting something back." Kurt said scowling. He almost looked as intimidating as Wolverine thanks to his glowing eyes and mouth.
"I want to stay at this school. Me and my pals got into a small problem with Apocalypse. They're dead, and I wanted to get revenge. I cant take him myself, so I want to join your team to waste him for them."
"We're not going to let you join the team just because you asked. We don't know anything about you." Wolverine said.
"Kinda thought you'd say that, so I came prepared." Deadpool the pulled a folder out of some compartment from the back of his costume that also held his swords. "Thats my bio I wrote up before I came to see you. It tells you everything important about me. Powers, history, and the works." Wolverine grabbed the folder from his hands and started reading.
"Says here you used to work for Weapon X." Wolverine stared at Deadpool with blood thirsty eyes. He handed the folder over to Cyclops.
"Your abilities. Super athletic, good tacticle skills, and a super hot body." Deadpool smiled at that last part, or at least it looked like he did since his mouth area on his mask moved. "It also says you have a healing factor that was derived from 'Weapon X' which was spliced with your DNA." Cyclops finished.
"Wasn't 'Weapon X' Wolverines code name back during his Weapon X days?" Storm asked.
"Yep. Looks like you share some of Logans DNA." Cyke said. Wolverines claws extended. He walked up to Deadpool and cut his arm clean off. Deadpool ignored the pain and a new arm healed back up in a couple of seconds.
"Thats nothing like my healing factor. It's much better." Wolverine noted.
"Yeah. Its how I surivived being blown up by that little cat." he said pointing to Kitty. "I was blown to pieces and killed but I was back by the time you all flew off in your plane."
"If we have the same healing factor, how come yours is so much faster?" Wolverine asked.
"Adamantium is actually a poisonous metal and it covers your bones. Its been keeping your healing factor occupied so it doesn't work to its full potential. I don't have any metal in my body so I'm ok."
"No metal? I thought you were part Cyborg." Angel said eyeing Deadpool with a suspicious look on his face."
"I already told you the phaser blew me up. I don't grow back metal parts so I regrew my old body."
"Why didn't you get rid of the metal parts before then?" Angel asked.
"They made me a more efficient fighter. They channeled all kinds of calculations and whatnot to my brain and made my reaction speed the equal of that of a computer. Now, I'm just a super agile human with a healing factor, swords, and good posture." With that out of the way, Cyclops continued reading.
"It says your healing factor had side effects on you. Insanity… scared tissue and skin…" Cyclops read. Deadpool took off his mask. His skin color was normal but it was scared with boils, scars, and whatnot all over it. It was a disgusting site to behold.
"That's not what your face looked like before!" Kitty exclaimed remembering that the last time they saw his face, it was part of a skull with brains and blood on the inside all incased in a glass jar.
"Yes. That was after I payed a visit back to a Weapon X facility. I found that they were running, and shut them down. Nobody got out alive. Including me. I set off a huge explosion that destroyed all the chemicals in the building and mixed with them. Everyone in the building who survived the explosion was poisoned. Not only was I already killed, I was poisoned by the chemicals, which handicapped my healing factor. It took me a while to heal back to my normal state, but I did it and my healing factor is back to normal." Deadpool explained. Cyclops then closed to folder deciding he read enough.
"Ok. Fine. You're on the team. But first, you tell us all the info you got on the apocalypse." Cyclops said pointing a finger at him.
"Whatever. First off, Apocalypse is a guy. Not a thing. Second, he's the first most powerful mutant in the world. I think. Magneto and Professor X might match him. And third, he's going to have four horsemen as usual. The Horsemen will most likely be Sunfire (or Firestar, as you guys call him), Angel (or Wolverine… or Gambit…), Hulk, and Polaris. I've only included people who have been introduced to the Ultimate Marvel verse. That's all I really want to share right now." Deadpool finished.
"And how do you know this?" Wolverine asked.
"Because that's how it was in your 616 versions lives." Wade answered.
"Whats 616?" Nightcrawler asked.
"Something your non-fourth wall breaking mind can't comprehend. You'll have to take my word for it."
"Alright. We'll have to talk more about this later. Back to the next problem at hand. Deadpool is a lunatic. I'm not going to give him a room with the students on the second floor, but all the top rooms are taken by the X-men and the more powerful mutants. Since that's the case, someone in this room needs to share a room with Deadpool here. Any volunteers?" Cyclops asked. All of a sudden, there was a gust of wind. Gambit turned around startled to see the door flying wide open. He looked around. Everyone had disappeared. "Thanks for volunteering Remy. You're a good guy." Cyclops told him.
"Wait! But--" Remy never got to finish those words. Cyclops disappeared just like everyone else. All that was left in the room was him, and Deadpool.
"We're going to have so much fun, roomy!" Deadpool said putting his arm around Remy's shoulders. He then led Gambit out of the room while discussing ways to decorate Remy's room now that Deadpool was there. He suggested painting it black and red.
Deadpool wasn't kidding either. Remy woke up one morning to find his entire room painted red and black. He ended up repainting it back to its usual color of white. Deadpool wasn't happy about it. He ended up splitting the entire room in half. He painted his side red and black and left Gambits side white. Gambit got the left side of the room. From the moment Remy met the dude, he thought for sure he would hate him. He actually warmed up to Deadpool the more he got to know him. His jokes were a bit dark and sadistic, and not really Remy's type of comedy, but he found them funny non-the-less.
Remy was actually enjoying Wades company. Wade preferred to wear a Hawaiian t-shirt with palm trees and shorts up to his knees when he was in the X-mansion or going out. He said he only wears his costume on missions. Remy asked him if people said anything about the way he looked. He told them the ones who did never woke up again once they went to sleep. Remy stopped asking questions there.
Remy eventually started training in the danger room. He continued to fight the Juggernaut over and over again. When Cain came knocking, he wanted to be ready to go.
Nightcrawler played his danger room games with Angel again and things were looking up for them.
Iceman and Firestar played video games together non-stop. They even got a new game to that series they both liked so much. This one was called Mega Ninja Annihilation. Bobby wouldn't stop talking about it.
Alex and Lorna continued dating, much to Scotts distaste.
Wolverine went out into the woods constantly. No one knew what he did there. Whatever it was, he did it alone. Just the way he liked it.
Storm spent many hours locked away in her room. When ever she left, she was on the brink of crying. Remy wanted to know what was going on, but she kept to herself.
With everyone occupied, Remy saw it as his chance to patch things up with Rogue. He left a note at her door to meet him in Storms garden to talk about their non-existant social life. He wasn't sure what he was going to say, but he sure as hell wasn't going to stand around doing nothing. He waited there for hours just staring at the sky. He actually liked doing that. It was calming. A good gettaway from life.
Unfortunetely, she never showed up. She had been trying to avoid all talk of the subject.
After taking a break for a day, Scott decided to get the X-men back to the danger Rrom sessions. They fought the Brotherhood in it again. This time, they got wooped over 7 times before they actually won. They tried it in different terrains with a new twist or turn here and there. They took the training for granted since they always woke up with aches and pains after, but they didn't know it was going to come in handy real soon.
A few days later, Magneto and some of the Brotherhood showed up on their doorstep. Literally.
Hey everyone. Sorry for the long wait. The good news is, I have my internet back. The bad news is, I have no charger to charge my laptop with, and I use my laptop to type my stories. Unfortunetely, my sisters stopped letting me use their chargers. It got annoying to have to constantly give it to me. I'm trying to get a new charger ordered in, but that has yet to happen. In the mean time, I'll use my moms computer to type. Also, more good news. Next week is christmas vacation. Two weeks of no school. There is a god.
Anyway, see you all next weekend. I'll continue this cliffhanger then.
