Here we are with the beginning of the third arc: The Recruitment Arc! I've been waiting for this one, now I can finally include all of our fan favorite X-Men, starting with Rogue and Gambit! Quick note: As I said in the previous chapter, this chapter and the next will take some elements from the television series X-Men: Evolution.
By the way, there's a little mistake I made back in the Mimic and Forge chapter: I said that Avalanche and Toad were already a part of the Brotherhood, when in fact they aren't. Not yet, at least. I made a little edit, thanks.
Well, that's enough from me, on with the story!
The Raging Cajun and the Southern Belle
Here we are, the last week of August is among us, and that only means one thing: Time for a recruitment run. Right now, the team is in the hangar, some ice clones from Bobby and I are putting our things in the Blackbird, along with the rest of the team. The five of us-Scott, Jean, Bobby, Logan, and I-are standing together with the Professor as he gives us credit cards and our passports and whatnot.
"Hey, Professor, why do we need passports if we're using the Blackbird?" Bobby asks.
"You will need to land the jet in private airports that either I or one of my colleagues own, but your passports will still be needed to avoid any unnecessary confusion. Any other questions?" The Professor turns to the rest of us.
Logan lets out a grunt. "How long is this trip gonna last, and how old're they? Cause if they're kids then count me out, can barely handle these two."
"Hey!" Bobby and I say in indignation.
The Professor chuckles before adopting a sheepish look on his face. "Sorry, Logan, but most of them are around Nolan and Bobby's age. In fact, only four of them are older."
Logan growls. "Dammit," He sighs before heading towards the Blackbird. "Let's get this over with."
The ice clones melt into nothing, signifying that the work to fill the jet is now done. Forge sends a message to Scott's phone. "Alright, like before, Anna Marie and Remy LeBeau are still in Louisiana, for some reason, good luck you guys, see you in a few months."
"What do you mean 'for some reason'?" Jean asks with a raised eyebrow.
"The two of them have been on the run for a while now, about a month after we found them, actually. I honestly thought they'd be out of Louisiana a long time ago," Forge says. He steps forward and gives each of us a hug, well, except for Logan. "That's enough from me, see you guys later!"
We all say our goodbyes before separating, the five of us to the Blackbird, the other five back to the school. Well, time to make new friends, next stop: Louisiana.
"C'mon chere, we gotta go, Remy can feel her lookin' for us." Remy whispers.
Currently Anna Marie and Remy LeBeau can be found at a dock, well, not at the dock exactly but under it. The two have been running through Louisiana for the past month, why you ask? Because some redheaded woman was hunting the two down for reasons they don't know, well, they have an idea why.
"Why can't we fight her? Ah can do it easily, Remy." Anna Marie says indignantly, ready to pounce at a moment's notice.
Remy places his hand on her shoulder, she jerks away as a reflex. "We can't, chere, who knows what she can do. We'd be better off gettin' outta here. Now."
Before Anna Marie could argue, a noise can be heard in the distance. From around the corner comes a boy around her age, he has black hair and orange eyes, is rather tall for his age and wears a black jacket over a black shirt with an orange 'X' on it. "Come out, come out wherever you are," He kicks over a trash can. "I just wanna talk, nothing else."
Remy and Anna Marie look at each other, where'd the redhead go, why's this guy here? Anna Marie's face quickly becomes determined. "C'mon Remy, he's a lot younger than she is, we can take 'im out easy."
"No. For all we know he could be wit' her," Remy argues. He looks back through the space between the boards and sees that the boy has disappeared. "Chere, we got a problem: he's gone."
"Uh, ah found 'im." Anna Marie says shakily.
Turning around Remy sees the boy a few feet away from them, a smirk on his face. "There you are, I've been looking everywhere for you," He offers his hand out to them. "Come, I have an offer you can't refuse."
Remy sneakily jerks his arm; a playing card appears in his hand. Once the boy gets closer Remy quickly throws the card at him, the card glows pink and lets out a high-pitched noise as it flies through the air. Once it collides with him an explosion erupts. Remy takes a hold of Anna Marie's arm and runs away. "C'mon, chere! Let's get de hell outta here!"
Once the smoke clears Nolan gets up from his spot on the ground, growling as he wipes the dust off of his jacket. "Well, that didn't work out like I thought it would," Nolan then shifts into Scott. "Let's try that one more time."
"GET UP!"
A foot kicks into the side of my seat. God, what the hell? Opening my eyes, I see an annoyed Logan look down at me, I glare, he smirks in response. "Get up, kid, we're here."
Getting up from my seat I see an equally groggy Bobby get out of his seat, complaining the entire time. "The hell, man, couldn't you have shaken us or something?" He complains. He's gotta point though, then again, it is Logan, that's what's considered a nice wakeup.
"How long was the flight?" I ask as I put on my black jacket.
"About an hour," Jean answers. "Honestly, I'm surprised at how quickly you two fell asleep."
Bobby and I smirk. "When you stay up all night playing Halo you learn to sleep when you can, I honestly think it's my greatest superpower." I boast.
Scott chuckles as he lowers the ramp. "Alright, the Professor called ahead, there's a hotel nearby, he already got us three rooms, one for Jean, another for Logan and me, and one for you two. It's a precaution though, our plan is to recruit as fast as possible, so we probably won't stay for long."
We get off the ramp and find a very nice car, a limousine to be exact, waiting for us right now. Damn, the Professor's got money on top of money, I wonder where it all comes from. We enter the car, where one of the Professor's old friends can be seen in the driver's seat, the five of us in the back watching some random show on the TV in the back. As we drive an emergency broadcast from the local news goes off.
"This just in: At one of the local docks an explosion had occurred, although there was something strange about this explosion, it was pink. Local authorities are currently lost on how to deal with this mysterious event, although many believe this to be caused by either metahumans or mutants. If you have any information to share, please call this number." The newscaster says.
Logan leans forward in his seat. "You hear that?"
The limo turns. "Yes, already on it Mr. Logan, sir."
"Okay, Logan, Nolan you two use your enhanced senses, try to figure out who was there. Jean, use your telepathy, see if anyone has anything to add to this little mystery of ours, and while you're at it could you make us look like we belong there? Like, we're detectives, or something," Scott asks with a hopeful voice. "Bobby, we'll ask questions, look for anyone strange. Got it?"
Logan nods, the rest of us give a thumbs up. The car stops, once the door opens, we find ourselves at the scene, and holy crap, that was one hell of an explosion. We walk right by the yellow tape, no one looking twice as we do. I swap to my Thunderbird powers and use my specialized tracking powers. Well, that's interesting.
Logan walks up next to me. "There were three people here, one of 'em was Mystique."
I nod. "Yeah. The explosion was caused by the guy, it has his mark on it. Far as I can tell him and Anna Marie were running from Mystique, but that makes me wonder: how'd she get so close to them?"
"Mystique's powers may not be the flashiest, but they're still damn effective. Besides, she's got the skills to get the most use outta her powers." Logan growls.
Jean walks up to us. "There's someone here, Remy." Logan and I look at her in surprise.
"What's he doin' here, where is he?" Logan asks, arms ready to pop out his claws. "If he's here Mystique could be nearby."
Bobby and Scott join us. "One of the people was nearby last night, said Remy and Anna Marie looked like they were being hunted when they got here," Scott looks at Jean and I for this next part. "Said they were being hunted by a redheaded eighteen-year-old young woman who then became a black haired, orange eyed fourteen-year-old boy, after that she became a brown-haired young man wearing red sunglasses."
Jean and I look at each other in surprise. "The hell? D-did you get a-" I ask. Bobby raises a notebook, showing a very clear sketch of Jean, he turns the page and I see one of me, and on the next page one of Scott. "Ah, shit. I see what she's doing: she's transforming into us and attacking them, that way they wouldn't trust us when we get to them."
"You're right. Damn, this is gonna be problematic. Let's get outta here, but stay close, Remy's here, don't want to lose him. Jean, could you get ahold of the Professor?" Scott orders.
We go to the car; Jean drops our illusion as she begins the telepathic call towards the Professor. "Ah, Jean, how goes the search?"
"It's not starting out so hot, Professor. Mystique got here before we did, she shapeshifted into Nolan, Scott, and I, most likely to make them less likely to trust us." Jean informs the Professor.
"I see, this will be problematic. How has your progress been in finding the two?" The Professor asks.
"Remy and Anna Marie were together when they were attacked by Mystique, Remy caused an explosion, we checked out the scene and found him there." Scott says…thinks? I never thought about that did I? Wait, getting off track.
A knock can be heard on the window behind me, I turn around and lower the window, coming face-to-face with Remy. He's glaring at me with his black and red eyes (Which are fuckin' cool, even to this day). I see a glowing pink card in his hand. This is not going to be fun. Thankfully I still have my Thunderbird powers active, cause next thing I know there's a giant pink explosion and I'm now flying through the air.
Leaning up from my spot on the ground I see what's left of the limo, thankfully the driver is safe, so are Scott and Jean, Bobby's in his ice form and I see Logan healing from the damage. I get up, but before I could take a step forward an extremely soft hand grabs me by my hand. Confused, I follow the hand to see an even more surprised Anna Marie looking at me. "How-" She jumps away from me, before I could ponder what just happened another card collides with me.
"Why are you attackin' us!? You better tell Gambit now, or else." He flicks his wrist, five cards are in his hand, glowing menacingly.
"Lemme say this now: we weren't the ones who attacked you earlier today, hell, we just got here." I explain. It's futile.
Three of the cards hit the ground around me, while I'm falling from the sky, I see him throw one at Jean and Scott and the other at Logan and Bobby. I see Anna Marie sneaking up behind Jean, her hand ready to grab her, what is her power?
I land in a heap and quickly shift into my Marvel Girl powers, I hear screaming from both of the ladies, Jean slowly falls into unconsciousness, Anna Marie grabs her head in pain. "What's happenin' to me!? SHUT UP!"
A massive telepathic blast erupts from her, knocking everyone but me out. Good thing I swapped-
Anna Marie is currently in the fetal position, in agony from all of the voices in her head. Why won't they stop? It's her fault, that redhead did this. Anna Marie looks up to see that the guy with black hair is still up somehow, wait, he's knocked out. A woman with red hair, blue skin, and yellow eyes stands over him, her hand still out in a chopping motion.
"M-mama?" Anna Marie's head has another pulse, more voices sound off in her head. "W-what's happenin' to me? Ah keep hearin' voices."
Mystique walks towards Anna Marie, she carefully places her hand on her shoulder in a calming motion. "My dear girl, it seems to be her fault," She points to an unconscious Jean. "But I know how to help."
"Wait, those two, the guy with black hair and the one with brown, they attacked Remy and me, she did too, why?" Anna Marie asks as the pain in her head begins to fade away.
"I don't know, let's take her with us, we can ask then. Bring your friend." Mystique orders as she grabs Jean by under her shoulders, Anna Marie puts on her gloves and does the same to Remy. The two leave the area, dragging Remy and Jean with them.
Ow, my neck fucking hurts, what the hell happened? I rub my head as I get off of the ground, looking around I notice paramedics around us, and people watching us, recording us with their phones. I look around and see that Anna Marie and Remy are gone, so is Jean.
I hear a groan from Logan, turning to him I see him get up, rubbing his head and a look of immense annoyance on his face. He looks around and growls at one of the paramedics who attempts to help him, once he notices that I'm up he walks to me and offers a hand.
Once Logan helps me up, I wipe the dust off my shoulders. "We've got a teensy tiny problem: Jean's gone."
His eyes widen, he looks around frantically and begins to sniff the air, after a minute he growls in anger. "Dammit, they took her. Mystique was here too."
"That must be how I got knocked out," He looks at me confused. "I swapped to my telepathic powers before Anna Marie let out a telepathic burst, knocked everyone in a wide radius out."
"She's a telepath?" Logan asks. Bobby and Scott begin to wake up.
"No, it was weird, she placed her hand on Jean, once that happened, they both screamed, and Jean was then knocked out. But that's not the weird part, she did the same to me, but nothing happened, she seemed more shocked than me when that happened." I explained.
"What happened? Where's Jean?" Scott asks.
"Kidnapped." Logan and I reply.
"WHAT!?"
"Calm down, Slim, I'm already on it. Frosty, how are ya?" Logan turns to Bobby.
Bobby rubs his head as he raises his other hand in a so-so motion. Logan looks at what's left of the car before looking at me, giving me a look. I roll my eyes before activating my time powers, I repair the car, ignoring all the sounds of intrigue from the civilians watching.
"Well, did you find them?" Scott asks, with a little bit of franticness in his voice.
Logan growls for the umpteenth time. "Mystique's learnin'. Pretty sure she placed down some chemical that stops me from properly sniffin' them out."
Scott makes a noise of disappointment before sighing deeply. "Nolan?"
I swap to my Thunderbird powers. I use what I now dub my hunter senses and collect everything I can from the area, I close my eyes and see things in a birds-eye-view, watching the path made by Mystique and Anna Marie, dragging along Jean and Remy with them. Where the hell are they going? After a few minutes of intense focus from Anna Marie, Remy's eyes burst open, I can see the three of them talking, hm, Anna Marie's looking pretty friendly with Mystique. Eventually Remy takes a hold of Jean, the group continues to walk through back alleys and empty streets, they then enter an abandoned building at the edge of the city.
"Found 'em. Abandoned building, way down south of here." I announce.
Scott marches towards the car. "Come on, what are we waiting for?"
Logan pats me on the shoulder, what'd I say, compliments from Logan are just something else. Bobby and I fist bump before we head to the car. Once we enter, we see Scott in the driver's seat. "Nolan, get in the passenger seat, you'll lead us to them."
For the next hour drive, which makes me wonder, how long were we out for? This Anna Marie's pretty dangerous when she wants to be. Now that I think about it, she wasn't in control when she had the telepathy, did she? That's problematic. "Guys-oh, left here-when Anna Marie had Jean's powers she was screaming, I don't think she has control over her powers, that might pose a problem, don't you think? Here it is."
Scott parks the car a ways off, he then turns it off. "Alright, you guys heard Nolan, Anna Marie can't control her telepathy, we need to be careful. But remember, the goal is to recruit them, so don't attack them, only defend yourselves, Mystique's the one we've gotta go for."
"That's the thing, Anna Marie looked pretty cozy with Mystique in my hunter vision, take that how you will." I warn the others.
Scott's face immediately drops, well, looks like Remy and Anna Marie aren't gonna have a good time, are they? He shakes his head before adopting a neutral look again. "That doesn't change the mission, it's entirely possible that Mystique's manipulating her."
We nod before exiting the car, advancing slowly to scope out the place. "Now what?" Bobby asks, icing up in the process.
"Bobby, you and I'll burst in from the front door, gotta get their attention. Logan, find Mystique and take her out. Nolan, find Jean. Got it?" Scott orders.
We all nod, from behind his glasses Scott's eyes glow intensely, he raises his glasses, destroying the entire front part of the abandoned home, before the dust could fully settle Bobby fires in a beam of ice. While this is happening Logan and I sneak to the back, we find a cellar door locked by a chain, we go through the cellar door, no longer locked by the chain.
I touch the ground first, and as soon as I do a brick swings into my face, thankfully I have my Thunderbird powers active, so the brick was only effective in blinding me temporarily. Logan lands quietly and becomes a blur, avoiding every other trap in the basement. Knowing about the traps I begin to keep an eye out for any other traps, while I do this, I hear explosion from up above, seems like Remy's putting up a good fight. Looking through I find a door partially open; I look inside and find Jean. Mission success.
Before I could push the door open any further a trio of claws pop in front of my face. "Oh, hey Logan," Looking at the claws I notice they're not adamantium, they're bone. Wait, what? Another trio of bone claws erupt from the door, in reflex I jump back, the claws stop a few centimeters from my face. "You're not Logan!"
The door is torn off the hinges to reveal a feral looking Anna Marie. Wait, is she like me? "Hey, hey, HEY!" The first two 'heys' were my attempt at getting her attention, the third was from me avoiding a swipe from her. "Hold up, listen to me!"
"Why should Ah!?" She roars in response. She nicks me in the shoulder, the bone tips break as they connect with my face, sadly may jacket didn't fare so well. "All you and your friends have done is attack Remy and me! What did we do?"
She lunges at me, I grab her arm and swap to my Wolverine powers, my claws erupt from my knuckles, she stops and stares in surprise. Before this revelation could continue my nose picks up a familiar scent, looking behind her I see Logan on the ground, knocked out. I look back at her with a stern look in my eyes. "What'd you do to him?"
Her claws return inside, I can feel her calm down, so I let go of her arm. "Are you like me?" She asks.
"That's what I'm wondering, but I feel like there's something different about our powers. It looks like the powers you gain cause the person to, what, fall asleep. I just copy powers by seeing them in action," I explain. "Wait, where's Jean, is she okay?"
"The redhead? Yeah, she's fine, Mama just wanted to keep her knocked out cause of her telepathy," She replies. We look in to see Jean a sleep on a bed, her limbs tied together. "Don't worry, she's fine. Wait, weren't your friends fightin' Remy and Mama just now? Cause it's pretty quiet now."
Looking up I notice that she's right, it is eerily quiet. I look towards the stairs, neither Scott nor Bobby are coming down, shit. Turning around I come face to neck with something white and blue, looking up I see a smirking Mystique standing where Anna Marie was, double shit. Turning around I find the actual Anna Marie, who is currently iced up, and Remy coming down the stairs, dragging Bobby and Scott down the stairs, triple shit.
I feel the barrel of a gun placed on the back of my neck. "You're outnumbered, boy, give up while you still can." Mystique orders.
Plan. I slowly turn around, as I do, I swap to my Remy powers, or would it be Gambit, he did call himself that earlier. I look Mystique in the eyes, she looks at me confused before her eyes quickly widen, I take a hold of her gun, and dodge as she fires, I feel the molecules of the pistol accelerate, it glows orange and lets out a familiar high pitched noise. Mystique and Anna Marie leap back, Remy does the same to one of his cards, we throw our weapons at each other. The explosion from the collision causes intense damage to the basement, everyone flies from the explosion.
Huh, that's interesting, the explosion doesn't have as much of an effect on me as it did earlier, thank you new powers! Mystique is currently on one knee, getting her bearings, Anna Marie's leaning on a wall, Remy's up, three more cards in his hand.
"Why are you guys huntin' us down!? Answer me!" He throws the cards at me. Thanks to my training I easily dodge the cards. I grab some small pebbles and super charge them, throwing them in return, he does the same.
"We just wanna talk! Hell, we just got here, if you'd stop and listen, you'd know that we weren't the ones to attack you, goddammit!" I argue back.
"Liar! You, her, and the brown-haired guy with glasses have been attackin us for a month now!" Anna Marie screams.
"I have a question: What are Mystique's powers? C'mon, I'll give you three guesses." I ask. C'mon, take the hint you two.
Both of their eyes widen, Anna Marie looks down, I can tell she's having trouble accepting this information. Remy, on the other hand, narrows his eyes at a now perturbed looking Mystique. "Hate to say it chere, but he's gotta point, your mama can shapeshift."
"Mama?" Anna Marie looks at Mystique with extreme hurt obvious on her face.
"Don't believe him, darling, he's lying. And you, Remy, can you really believe the boy who you've known for only a short time, and during that time he's done nothing but fight you, I've been helping you two for weeks now." Mystique falsely pleads.
Wow, if I hadn't known her, I would have believed her. Shit, he's looking like he's starting to believe her now, what do I do, what do I do? Aha! I activate my telepathy and connect the four of us, I then put us into a telepathic conference room, something I've just recently mastered thanks to Jean and the Professor.
"What is this? Let us out of here." Mystique demands.
I smirk in response. "This right here is a telepathic conference room, here no secrets can hide."
"Let us out." Anna Marie gets up from her seat.
Remy places a hand on her arm, she jerks away in response, guess her fear of being touched is really deep seated. He looks at her with determined eyes. "Chere, if he wanted to, he could've taken us out wit' a telepathic blast," he folds his hands together. "Let's here 'im out."
"Thanks. Well, without further ado, let's look at Mystique's memories. Or should I say…Raven?" I smugly say. She jumps out of her chair; it wraps around her and locks her in place.
The room around us becomes a first-person view of someone in a hotel room, this person is currently in the bathroom, looking in the mirror, staring back we see Mystique. "This is her memories, you two, straight from the source." I explain.
Her frown becomes a smirk as she shapeshifts into Jean, I can hear a gasp from Anna Marie. She exits the room and begins her hunt. Looking through the memories I see nothing of importance, so I skip ahead to a few hours before stopping, we can see a diner across the street, in one of the booths we can see Remy and Anna Marie together.
She enters the building, and from there we see the beginning of Mystique's terror campaign against the two. I skip ahead through days, showing Mystique's constant invasion into their lives, eventually we get to late last night where she shapeshifts to me, from there I stop.
"Well, you look pretty stupid right now." I mock.
She growls at me before turning to the two. "Don't believe him you two, he's a telepath, this is all fabricated! Please, you must listen."
Remy looks at her with narrowed eyes, Anna Marie looks at her disappointed. "Mama, my short time as a telepath taught me something important: how to tell which memories are fake and which are real, and that felt real. Just, why? What do you gain from this?"
Mystique growls once she realizes this lie won't work anymore. "I'm making you stronger, what we're planning in the future will only help mutants, and I want the two of you with me," She glares at me. "Not with those pathetic X-Men."
"Wait, X-Men? Dear god, you had us fight the X-Men!? Are you crazy!?" Remy yells at her. "Remy's seen enough, get us outta here."
I deactivate the telepathic conference room. Opening my eyes, I see my teammates standing over the three of them. Mystique's currently trapped in an ice prison courtesy of Bobby. "Nice one, Nolan, couldn't have done it better myself." Jean compliments.
"Damn-" Mystique disappears in a blur of blue and silver.
Scott and I look at each other before a look of anger comes across both of our faces. Goddammit, Quicksilver was here again.
Anna Marie gets up and cautiously taps Jean on the shoulder. "Hey, uh, ah'm sorry for earlier, ah didn't know."
Jean smiles. "It's okay, Mystique's one hell of a manipulator, no hard feelings, for either of you."
Anna Marie and Remy smile in thanks. The house then rumbles, ah, right, Remy and I caused a pretty big explosion, didn't we? The seven of us quickly run out of the house, exiting through the cellar door, we turn around to see the house collapse in on itself. From the distance we can hear sirens.
"We shouldn't stay here, c'mon, we've got a car," Scott says. We all head to the limo, the driver quickly gets us out of there. "So, how was your day?"
Remy looks at him with a raised eyebrow. "Oh, y'know, pretty average, was manipulated, fought de X-Men, blew up a house, which was awesome, by de way." He and I fist bump.
"Are you really the X-Men?" Anna Marie asks.
"You know it," Bobby boasts. He leans towards her, getting in her personal space, she leans back in response. "Name's Bobby, by the way, or Iceman if ya feel like it."
Remy glares at him before pushing Bobby back by his face. "As pretty as chere is, ya don't wanna get to close, trust me, I tried."
We all look at a blushing Anna Marie. "Mah powers allow me to absorb the life force of anyone ah touch through skin contact, ah can't control it."
"But you touched me earlier, and nothing happened, what's that about?" I ask.
She adopts an equally curious look on her face. "Ah don't know, what are your powers?"
"I can copy the powers that I've seen, or the person who has them has to thoroughly explain them to me. Maybe it's because our powers are so similar that yours just don't work." I answer.
We eventually make it to the airport, once we exit the car Anna Marie and Remy stop and stare in shock at the Blackbird. "Yeah, we've got our own jet." Scott boasts.
"Do you have any clothes and other things? I can go with you to get them." Jean offers.
Remy coughs awkwardly. "All our stuff was in de house, sooo yeah."
That's problematic. "Don't worry, we've got toiletries in the jet, and we can buy you guys more clothes." I tell them.
"Thanks, we really appreciate it. So, are we goin' to New York now?" Anna Marie asks as she takes a seat next to Remy.
"Nah, we've got a list of people to recruit," Logan activates the hologram in front of their seats, they look at it in surprise. "We'll be travellin' the world, you guys were first, we're headed to Illinois next."
"Ooh! A thought just came to my head: superhero names! What're you guys gonna call yourselves?" Bobby asks excitedly.
Anna Marie and Remy look at each other before both shrugging. "I could be, uh, Gambit?"
"And…Rogue?" Anna Marie offers.
"Nice, nice, I like it. Well, as I said before, I'm Iceman, Nolan's Mimic, Scott's Cyclops, and Jean's Marvel Girl." Bobby says.
We all then talk about random things, getting know each other better as we begin the flight to Illinois, which should last a couple of hours. Well, time to meet you, Katherine Pryde, and to finally figure out why your name is so damn familiar.
Outside of Louisiana a blur of blue and silver stops. Mystique's temporary ice prison melts due to the friction from the speed, she is then gently placed down by Quicksilver. "Are you okay?" He asks her, genuine worry in his voice.
Mystique waves away his concern. "I'm fine, really. Thanks for getting me out of there, by the way. So, where's our ride?"
Quicksilver points up. A jet comes down from the sky, once it lands the ramp comes down, from the top three people can be seen, on the right is a young woman with brunette eyes and brown hair, a red headpiece around her face, she's wearing a scarlet red form fitting trench coat. To the left is Mastermind, looking extremely angry, a black eye prominent on his face.
In the center is a tall, muscular man wearing red and purple armor, a cap flourishing behind him and a helmet over his head, his face exposed. Looking at the man one can easily see the relation between him and Quicksilver. He walks to the bottom of the ramp and stops in front of Mystique. "Any new information on their new recruit?"
"His name's Nolan, his powers allow him to copy other powers that he's either seen or had explained to him by the one with the powers. They got Remy and Anna Marie." Mystique answers.
"A setback, but not one we can't recover from. Why were they here, just for them?" He continued.
"Yes, I believe the X-Men are on another recruitment run, I'd make the suggestion that we get our people out there, cause them problems, Magneto." Mystique answers.
Magneto folds his arms and hums, after a few seconds of thinking he turns around, the other three following him. "Stay down here, you will be in charge of our own recruitment, don't fail me. Quicksilver, assist her" Mystique and Quicksilver nod before walking away.
Magneto sits in the passenger seat of the jet, Mastermind in the pilot's seat. "Well, Charles, I see you've made your first move, good play, good play. Now it is my turn."
First chapter of the third arc done! Thank you for reading, I appreciate it. So, if you don't mind can you tell me how well Rogue and Gambit's accents were? I'd really appreciate it. Oh yeah, fun fact: Mystique's pretty tall, she's 5'10, like, damn, you tall.
MAGNETO WAS RIGHT! I can't wait to write more of him in the future, he's such an interesting character. So yeah, this isn't just the X-Men's Recruitment arc, it's also the Brotherhood's, so look forward to that.
Thank you again for reading, please leave a constructive review, I'll see you next week. And remember stay awesome!