Here we are with the next chapter and nearing the end of the current arc! Wow, the amount of reviews exploded on Monday alone if I remember correct. From three reviews to ten, thanks guys. So, watched Sonic the Hedgehog on Monday, it was fucking amazing! The easter eggs were great and the post-credits scene definitely shows promise for a sequel.

Lemme answer some questions.

Juhiko02: Mimic's has all of the powers in a codex, meaning he doesn't lose them, they're always there. And the name Mimic was just something I thought of on the spot, didn't have anything else to think of. Chances are the name may change in the future though, after all, Dick Grayson isn't only Robin. Oh, and his appearance does change, depending on the powers, we'll see more in the future.


An Asian Psychic in London

"Who are the Friends of Humanity? And who is Graydon Creed?" Piotr asks.

"The Friends of Humanity are a mutant hate group, like the Purifiers but they aren't religious lunatics." I explain.

"And Graydon Creed's their leader," Logan adds. "And he's just like his father, no matter how much he denies it."

"You know his dad?" I ask.

Logan just folds his arms and sinks into his chair. "Bad blood. That's all I'm sayin'."

"Whatever. So, Scotty, we staying at another five-star hotel once we hit London?" Bobby leans forward, resting his arms on the pilot's seat.

"Ask Nolan." Scott replies.

Everyone turns to me. "Thanks to the money from Sinister's company we have a good amount of money. We can stay with my Grandma, I just gotta tell her we're coming." I explain.

"Must be nice having money. Your grandma wouldn't mind if Remy…took a few things, would she?" Remy wiggles his fingers around playfully and has a smirk on his face.

"As long as it isn't too important," I answer. Remy's smirk grows, but I have my own smirk. "But I would."

Taking that cue Rogue not so lightly smacks his hands down.

Meanwhile, Kurt is currently is looking through the holographic system in awe, which reminds me of something. I turn my chair around and lean towards Logan, he raises his hat slightly once he notices my actions. "What is it, Shifty?"

"When Creed was going to shoot Kurt, Mystique went ballistic on him. And I've noticed some similarities: pure yellow eyes, blue skin…kind of. Know what I mean?" I whisper.

"I do. Can't even tell if they have the same scent. Mystique's scent isn't solid, it's hard to pin down, so I can't be certain if she's his mom or not," He leans back, "Knowing our line of work the truth'll come to light, we just have to wait." Logan puts his hat over his eyes again.

Well, guess that mystery won't be solved until later, though I'm pretty sure I'm right. Eventually we get the familiar message that we're landing, the butterflies in my stomach double. It feels like forever since I've been here, can't wait to see Grandma, ooh, maybe I can use our time here to call Mom and Dad.

"Guys, I've scanned the private airport where the Blackbird's gonna land." Jean begins.

"And?" Scott asks.

"Elizabeth's there waiting for us."

"Oh, for fucks sake! Is it too much for me to just visit my Grandma?" I shout in anger.

"C'mon Nol," Kitty says, placing a calming hand over my own. "Shingen waited for us at the airport, we still stayed for a day there. And Piotr and his dad met us at the landing spot, we still stayed for a day."

"You aren't wrong about that. Let's see how this goes then." I grumble.

Bobby turns around and taps his head. I create a link between the two of us. "Jean's getting pretty powerful with her telepathy pretty fast, huh?"

"You've got that right. Hell, I've had it longer than she has, and she's surpassed me." I reply.

"Professor tell you anything?" Bobby asks.

"Nothing. I'll be sure to ask him next time I can." I reply.

"You haven't contacted him this entire time?" Bobby questions.

"Haven't been able to, don't know why. Hope it's nothing." I answer.

"Same here. Talk to you later." Bobby leaves the link.

The ramp to the Blackbird lowers, at the end of it we see an attractive Asian woman, around Scott and Jean's age, with purple hair, wearing grey skinny jeans, a white t-shirt, and a purple jacket over it, waiting for us. "You're the X-Men, aren't you? My name's Elizabeth Braddock, you can call me Betsy, I need your help."

Kurt pulls up her file and shows us her picture. In it she's a Caucasian woman with light purple hair. "She looks nothing like ze picture." Kurt warns.

"How do we know you're the real deal?" Scott asks.

For a moment she has a look of surprise on her face, it quickly morphs into annoyance. We feel her presence attempt to enter our minds. Well, she enters the minds of the others, me and Jean have strong defenses, but we still have to fight back. She's powerful.

"She's the real deal." Scott affirms.

"How can you tell?" Piotr questions.

"When you've known telepaths as long as I have, you tend to know what's the truth and what isn't," Scott turns to her. "What do you need help with?"

She looks around, as if we're currently being watched. "Not here. Do you have a place we can stay at?"

Hell, fucking yes. I step forward. "I've got a-"

"Nevermind, we can go to my safehouse. Follow me." She interrupts.

What?

Hold the fuck up. No. C'mon universe, do me a solid, yeah?

An explosion sounds off in the distance, we all look to see a pillar of black smoke in the distance. "Shit. That's probably my safehouse."

Universe, I love you!
Jean not so lightly elbows me in the ribs, bringing me back to the moment. "If that really is your safehouse then don't worry, I've got a place we can stay at."

Betsy studies me with a critical eye before relenting. "Let's confirm if it really is, one or two of you can come with me."

"And if it is?" Bobby questions.

"The rest of you can stay at Nolan's place, I'll send a text regarding Betsy's safehouse. Logan, you're with me." Scott orders.

The three of them get into Betsy's car waiting at the edge of the landing strip. I start walking towards the limo. "Come, friends! My home awaits!"

They all share looks. Piotr then turns to me. "Were you not going to call your grandmother?"

I shrug. "I was. Then I thought, 'Why tell her I'm coming when I can surprise her?' Man, I'm the best grandson ever, am I right, Kit?"

Said girl just makes a so-so motion with her hand.

"Thanks for having my back, I appreciate it. Really," I sarcastically drawl out. I turn around and run to the limo. "Come! We've wasted enough time! Off to the Belmont home!"

"Wait, your grandma's the Belmont? What about your dad?" Bobby asks as he begins to follow me.

My run slows from a walk to stationary. Huh, now that I think about it, why did Dad take Mom's name? Normally she'd take his or keep her own. "I-I actually never questioned it. I'll call them, see if I can't get any answers."

We enter the limo and head towards Grandma's, but my butterflies have dwindled in number. What was Dad's original last name?


Scott, Logan, and Betsy

"You mind telling us who's on your ass?" Logan questions.

Betsy stays silent as she drives out of the private landing strip. "Guess not." Logan mutters.

"I'd rather say it once we're all together. I don't like repeating myself." Betsy replies.

Scott nods. Makes sense, he also prefers to say things when the most people are there, makes repeating less annoying. Scott turns to look out the window as Betsy drives. "So, how far to your safehouse?"

"About fifteen minutes," The sirens of emergency vehicles can be heard approaching. Betsy and everyone else driving pulls to the side for a small fleet of emergency vehicles. Betsy sighs in annoyance. "But it could be longer. Dammit."

Logan and Scott share a glance at Betsy's impatience. "Why do you have a safehouse? I mean, you're a Braddock, don't you guys have a mansion? Why don't you stay there?" Scott questions.

Betsy grimaces as she drives, eventually she sighs and looks at Scott from the corner of her eye. "I have my reasons. Besides, this is personal."

Logan growls in annoyance. "How much longer 'til we get there?"

Betsy has a look of annoyance cross her face temporarily. Scott turns to her. "Don't worry about him, he's like this," He looks outside, more firetrucks pass by. "But seriously though, how long until we get there?"

Betsy sighs in annoyance as she parks the car. "At this point we'd be faster on foot. Come on."

The three get out of the car and maneuver their way through the growing crowd as they near the source of the explosion. Eventually they make it, once there they find law enforcement standing behind the fire department as they deal with the shrinking fire.

"Stick with me, I'll give us a telepathic cloak." Betsy's eyes glow purple as a feeling of invisibility washes over the three. Scott and Logan look at each other, a similar thought going through their minds. Another telepath.

Walking into the building the three find what's left of the safehouse. "Dammit." Betsy mutters.

Crouching down she wipes some rubble off a picture, on it Logan and Scott see Betsy in her original body alongside a young man around her age with blond hair and a man older than them with brown hair.

"My brothers," She explains. "My twin Brian's the blond one, Jaime's the brown haired one, he's ten years older than us."

"Where are they?" Scott asks.

Betsy sighs. "Brian's home, or he's out with Meggan, who knows. Jaime's…I don't know."

"You don't have to say more," Scott says. "Now, any idea who blew up your safehouse?"

"I have one."

Betsy points to one of the few intact walls. On it the two see a red handprint, a kunai holding up a note. Logan walks forward and tears the note from the kunai. "'Come to the Place. Alone. If you want it back'."

"What's 'it'?" Scott asks.

"My body. My original body. I don't know what the process was, but one day I was in my original body, the next I'm in this one," She explains. "Let's go."

She exits the building, Logan and Scott follow.


The team

After an hour of driving we finally arrive at the Belmont home. Fuck yes, fuck yes, fuck yes! It feels like forever since I've been here. As we stand at the door, I knock on the door excitedly, the door opens to show Ashley, the maid. Her eyes widen as she sees me.

"Ashley! How are ya?" I wrap her in a giant bearhug.

As I lift her up, she wraps me in a hug as well. "Nolan! What are you doing here? And who are your friends?"

"These are my friends: Jean Grey, Bobby Drake, Kitty Pryde, Anna Marie (Call her Rogue), Remy LeBeau (Keep an eye on our shit), Jubilation Lee (Call her Jubilee), Piotr Rasputin, Shiro Yoshida, and…" Wait, where's Kurt?

"Kurt?"

From one of the bushes at the gate Kurt's head pokes out, his hood up. Realizing that all eyes are on him he walks reluctantly walks towards us. Once he reaches us, he slowly reaches for his hood, he then takes it down slowly as well.

"Oh! Well, I've seen weirder. The world is becoming stranger and stranger as the years go on." Ashley reassures.

Kurt smiles in thanks. "Danke."

"Is Grandma here?" I ask.

Ashley smiles and turns around. "Come with me, I'll lead you to her."

Going through the house I give the others quick history lessons. "So that's a picture of my great grandfather, Alistair Belmont, he fought in World War II. And that's a picture of my Mom, Grandma, and…him."

The portrait has Grandma sitting in an ornate chair when she was in her early thirties, Mom, around seven maybe eight, sitting on her lap, and Nathaniel Essex standing behind them, his hand resting on Grandma's shoulder.

"Isn't he pale white? And where's the diamond on his forehead?" Jubilee asks.

"He's capable of cellular shapeshifting, meaning he can do basically anything to his body." I inform.

"Wait, cellular shapeshifting? Our archives just have shapeshifting." Bobby says.

"Yeah, with it he can do a whole lot with his body, become semi-liquid or harden to being like armor. Weirdly enough, when he wants to look like a normal human, he tends to just alter his physical appearance." I say.

"Guess we'll need to-" Jean gasps loudly as we pass by the photos on the fireplace. She picks up one and places it next to my face. Shit, I know exactly which picture- "Look at you! You were a cute wittle baby, weren't you!?" Yup. It's the photo of baby me.

Well, not baby me, more me when I was about four. On the photo I'm standing in front of an amusement park, wearing a hat my Dad won for me. Everyone else circles in to look at the photo, Rogue and Jubilee coo with Jean. "Wow, how'd something that cute become…that?"

I give her a blank look. "Thanks Rogue, I appreciate it."

"Wow, I almost forgot how cute you were Nol." Kitty comments.

"And how do I look now?" I smirk.

She blushes lightly and looks away.

"Ashley? Who's-oh." Grandma comes from down the hallway, taking off her gardening gloves.

"Grandma!" I move forward, the two of us wrap each other in a hug. "How are ya?"

"I'm good, Nolan," She looks at the rest of the group. "I see you've made new friends."

"Right: these two are Anna Marie (Call her Rouge), and Remy LeBeau, we met them in Louisiana. Keep an eye on Remy, he's a thief."

"Hey, Remy knows when to keep his hands to himself. No need to worry." Remy says, holding his hands up.

"Nice to meet ya, thank for lettin' us stay here." Rogue says.

"This is Kitty Pryde." I continue.

"Oh! You've grown, haven't you?" Grandma greets.

Kitty smiles. "Nice to see you again, Mrs. Belmont."

"Guess you two do remember each other. This is Jubilation Lee (Call her Jubilee). Met her in Cali, that was fun." I introduce her.

"We got kidnapped!" Jubilee holds her two thumbs out and has a large smile on her face.

"Shiro Yoshida of Japan."

Shiro just bows slightly.

"Iron Giant here's Piotr Rasputin, we met him in Russia." I wave my arm out to him.

"Privyet." He says.

"Last but not least, Kurt Wagner! We met him at a circus in Germany." I finish.

Kurt timidly walks forward and offers his hand to shake, Grandma takes it without any problem. "My ex-husband's pale white, has red eyes, and sharp teeth. Nothing phases me anymore."

"You got anything to eat?" Bobby interrupts.

Jean elbows him in the gut. "Bobby!"

Grandma lightly laughs and waves it off. "It's fine. A few years ago, the first thing Nolan did when he and his parents visited was go straight for the fridge."

I groan at the memory. Mom gave me the riot act after that, wasn't fun.

Right. Gotta call them. "Hey, Grandma, is your computer still in your library?"

"Yes, why?"

"Bobby brought something to my attention, so I gotta call Mom and Dad to figure it out." I answer.

"What do you need to ask?" Grandma questions. The two of us separate from the group, Ashley leads the others to the kitchen as we walk to her office.

"I wanna ask Dad about his last name," I say. Grandma stiffens momentarily before continuing to walk. Strange. "You know something, don't you?"

Grandma sighs as she opens the doors, heads to her computer, and enters her password. "Nolan, trust me when I say this: your Father's original last name shouldn't worry you."

"Grandma, you know me, when I have a mystery, I solve it. I got it from Mom, who in turn got it from you, so this is kind of your fault from a certain point of view." I smirk.

Grandma smirks as well as she shakes her head. "Don't say I didn't warn you. I'm going to go with your friends, learn more about them. And Kitty." She leaves the room.

Why the hell did she single Kitty out? Eh, whatever. I open the video call app but pause just before I begin the call. Would they be awake right now? It's the afternoon here, so it'd be midnight in the states, right? Who am I kidding, those two are night owls, we all are. That's problematic, right?

After two rings the screen shows my parents at home, looks like they're on one of their laptops in the kitchen. "Nolan! Hey baby, how are you?" Mom begins.

"I'm good, travelling the world and all that. It's fun. How are you guys?" I ask.

Dad shrugs as he balances a pen between his nose and upper lip. Mom just rolls her eyes in annoyance. "Can't complain. Not that we don't mind but, why are you calling? I mean, you already did last week."

I scratch my head and begin to second guess myself. Was Grandma correct? Would it be better to not ask this question? Nah, gotta do it, it's now or never. I take a deep breath and look at them, Dad more.

"When we got here Bobby brought something to my attention, something I should have questioned long ago: what is your original last name, Dad?" I inquire.

I notice the two of them stiffen, Dad's pen falls out of balance. He quickly fumbles around to grab it, once he does, he gets back up and looks at me intensely through the call. "That's a question I hoped to never hear. Then again look at you, you're a smart kid, was stupid of me to think that would never come to light."
I don't like the sound of this. Maaan, what if I'm related to another villain? Like Doctor Doom or Baron Zemo. That'd suck.

Dad sighs. "This is a conversation we need to have at a later time. Once you come back to the states we'll talk, alright?"

I nod. "Yeah, sounds good," There's an awkward silence, Mom looks between the two of us. "Any news on the superhero front?" I change the subject.

Dad gains a giant smile as he basically bounces in his seat. "There's this new team called the Fantastic Four out there, they fought some weird green creature a week ago. Captain America was also found."

I blink a lot. Wait, what? THE Captain America? "He's alive?"

Mom nods. "The Avengers found him in the Arctic, now he's one of them. Pretty sure Angel, Beast, Ant Man, and Captain America had a team up just recently."

Warren and Hank, you lucky bastards! "I hope I can meet him someda-"

The doors to the office open, Grandma comes in and stands next to me. "Julie, Cayde, how are you two?"

"We're great Mom, thanks. Nolan has to hop off?" Mom says.

Grandma nods. "Some more of his friends came, they say it's important that they all meet."

"Bye Mom, bye Dad, love you guys." I get up.

"We love you. Bye!" Mom and Dad say in unison.

Grandma stays to talk to my parents. As I near the kitchen I hear voices talking, mainly Scott. "Now that Nolan's here we can begin this meeting. Right, Betsy?"

"Last week I was kidnapped, but I was still in my original body. Over the week my mental fortitude was constantly tested, then one day I woke up in a new body. This body." Betsy begins.

"Do you know who did this to you? And where your original body is?" Jean asks.

"The Hand. An ancient order of ninjas. I don't know why they wanted me exactly, maybe it has to do with my brother, Brian." Psylocke answers.

"Who's Brian? And why is he important?" Bobby asks.

"Brian's my brother. And next in line to be Captain Britain after my Father's time is done." Betsy says.

"Woah. Your dad's Captain Britain? Holy shit. Next thing you know Captain America's gonna come back." Bobby comments.

I cough and look to the side awkwardly. Everyone looks at me, Bobby's eyes widen. "No. Fucking. Way."

"He was found in the Arctic by the Avengers. Warren and Hank had a team up with him and Iron Man not to long ago." I explain.

"Those lucky sons of bitches!" Bobby shouts.

"We're getting off topic," Betsy interjects. "When we arrived, we found a note left by the Hand."

Logan places the note on the table. Remy steps forward to read it. "'Come to the place. Alone. If you want it back'. Remy's guessin' that 'it' is your original body?"

"Remy would be correct. But if there's anything I know about the Hand, it's that they won't honor this." Betsy says.

"So, you want us to be there with you?" Jean asks.

"Yes. My body will be there, that's for certain, we just need to take them out before they could move it away." Betsy plans.

"Let's say this works," Kitty interjects. "What about this body? I mean, who's is it?"

"I don't know, but chances are, the Hand has the original owner's soul somewhere nearby. Or they could be in my body. We've wasted enough time; we need to go now." Betsy turns around and heads towards the door.

"One quick problem: Where's 'the place'? That doesn't sound really specific." Jubilee adds.

"Follow me." Betsy calls out as she nears the door.

"Ninjas. Dope." Bobby follows after her.

We all share looks, Scott shrugs and follows, the rest of us behind them.

I turn around to Amy before we leave. "Well, we'll be back in a bit, Amy. Tell Grandma I said bye."

Amy waves as she walks towards the office.

Well, time to fight some ancient ninjas.


I dodge the slash from one of the ninjas. As his blade is embedded into the ground, I grab him by the wrist and shock him using my Thor powers. A pillar of ice slams into him, launching him and some other ninjas around.

"You good, man?" Bobby asks as he lands next to me. He stomps, another ice pillar erupts from under a few ninjas, some of them recuperate mid-air.

I raise my arms up, my eyes glow, I then drop my arms down, two giant lightning strikes come down, colliding with a group of them. One rolls away, but as soon as she gets up Rogue puts her hand on her face. Once the ninja falls over Rogue grabs her weapons and moves around as if she were one of them. Any ninjas left up as she runs through them are attacked by fireworks from Jubilee.

A ninja sneaks up behind me and attempts to cut my head off, before she could swing a metallic fist punches her in the side of the head, sending her flying. I turn and give Piotr a nod.

"Nolan!" Scott shouts, barely dodging some kunai thrown at him. "Take to the sky and assist Jean and Shiro!"

I swap to my Northstar powers and take to the air, firing blasts of light as I do. Flying back to back with Shiro the two of us shoot at the ninjas jumping at us. Thanks to Jean's telekinesis any kunai or shurikens launched at us are deflected.

I notice a ninja sneaking up on Kitty, before I could shoot him a burst of black smoke with a BAMF sound appears from behind him. Kurt's tail snaps out and wraps around his wrist holding the sword. Kurt kicks the ninja in the face and uses his tail to take the sword, Kitty turns around and punches him in the neck. Kurt grabs Kitty and teleports as one of Gambit's cards connect to the ninjas side, the explosion sending him and any nearby ninjas away.

I see a dogpile growing, flying towards it Shiro and I hit it with beams of energy. Eventually Logan bursts from the pile, he grabs a ninja by the arm and stabs him in the leg, he then turns around and slashes another's arm.

I land next to him; an area of effect explosion of light erupts from my landing. I stand back to back with Logan. "Anyone know where the body is?" Logan shouts. He ducks and slashes one in the arm with his claws.

"Ah think Ah see it!" Rogue shouts. She continues to jump around the ninjas, throwing kunai and slashing them as she does.

"Where!" Betsy demands. Her eyes glow pink purple as she stabs a ninja through the head with her psionic knife.

Oh, right. Betsy's powers of telekinesis allow her to make psionic weapons, with them she can stab people without killing them if she doesn't want to. They're cool powers, not gonna lie.

In the distance five ninjas can be seen around a ritual circle, in between them is a casket. Chances are her body's in there.

"Nolan!" Scott shouts.

"On it!"

I take to the air and fly towards them. As I near the group I hear their chanting, I fire a concussive blast into the back of the nearest one. He falls over onto the casket, the one next to him pushes him off. I reach out for the casket, once I touch it the four ninjas disappear.

What? No.

A shout of rage comes form behind me. Turning around I see Betsy holding the one ninja from the ritual by his clothing. All the other ninjas are gone as well. What I really mean is that their bodies are gone, their clothing and armor are still here, reminds me of Cell's victims from Dragon Ball Z.

"Where is it!? Where the bloody hell is my body!?" Betsy demands. Her psionic knife is placed on his forehead.

The ninja just chuckles.

Jean uses her telepathy. "Nothing. It's strange, I don't think he's even real."

"Or you aren't trying hard enough." Betsy growls. Her glowing eyes increase in intensity.

The two glare at the ninja, their telepathic invasion ongoing. Bobby places a hand on my shoulder and glances at Jean. Yeah man, it's strange seeing her quickly get more powerful.

Eventually the two sigh and leave the ninja's head. "She's right," Betsy reluctantly accepts. "There is nothing in his head. He isn't even real."

Logan takes that cue to cut the ninja's head off. Instead of a splatter of blood we see a black ink-like substance spurt out of his neck and head. The body and head then dissipate into dust-like particles. Guess they were never real.

Thing's are silent for a moment. Betsy then turns to us. "Where to next?"


The next day we find ourselves in the Blackbird, Scott's beginning the flight to Ireland, our last destination. Jubilee turns to Betsy, who is currently sitting next to her. "So, you got a codename?"

"Codename?" Betsy asks.

"Yeah! I go by Jubilee, Scott's Cyclops, and Jean's Marvel Girl, for example. What's yours gonna be?" Jubilee explains.

Betsy thinks it over for a bit. She then shrugs. "Psylocke."

"Welcome to the team, Psylocke," Scott says. "Alright team, next and final stop, Ireland!"


And that's the end of that chapter. Sorry it's short, things have been getting really busy for me lately. On that note: after the next chapter, which will be the end of this arc, I might put this story on a hiatus as I deal with school. There'll be a more definite answer by next weeks chapter. Thanks for understanding!

Quick note: Cayde's original last name is important, we'll find out more in the future. Although it may be ridiculous, but hey, this is a comic book story, everything's ridiculous!

That's all from me. Please leave a constructive criticism and remember to stay awesome! See you next week.