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Re-Introduction
*** Three Years After M-Day***
Saffron Saotome-Grey looked down at the massive structure below him. Hovering high above it, the supposedly Omega-class mutant waited for any of the occupants to come and greet him pr else he might be viewed as an intruder. It was a large complex, built on what was once Magneto's Brotherhood base, Asteroid M. Underneath the asteroid, from what Saffron had read in the papers, lay the remnants of Namor's people after an attack by a villain of the Avengers, a woman called Morgan La Fey.
"Oh my god, little-Saffron?" a female with a heavy Southern accent called out to him. Saffron turned to see a beautiful brown-haired woman with a streak of white in her hair flying toward him.
"Not so little anymore, Ms. Marie," Saffron politely replied with a nod of his head, to which the woman rolled her eyes.
"Call me Rogue, sugah. Gawd, it's only been three years! What the hell happened to ya?" Rogue asked as she hovered. She knew she was supposed to take in a new student, but she never imagined it'd be little-Saffron. The last time she'd seen him had been after a certain pigtailed boy's funeral. Back then the winged boy had only looked around five or six. Now he looked more like a teenager, around fifteen or sixteen.
Saffron sighed and told the abbreviated story of his last few years...again. How he and the Fantastic Four's family ended up on another world and had to live there until Reed Richards was able to build a device to bring them back. The undertaking was staggering; the genius scientist had to advance through the stages of technology, starting from the stone age all the way to the modern age. He did that in ten years. Well, him and Valeria.
"Wow… and there was no way to reverse it?" Rogue asked, looking at the former kid she had once known.
"No," Saffron shook his head softly. Reed Richards had tried to find a way but, after the experiences they all had growing up, neither the Richards siblings or himself were eager to grow up again.
Rogue looked at the boy critically. He was wearing a spandex version of what Ranma used to wear. Mostly white, while the trimming, edges and buttons were red. His short, fluffy hair that used to make him look adorable was now long and tied in a ponytail. Perhaps in an effort to emulate his father? He looked fit, tall, and he had a pretty face. In fact, the only thing that did seem out of place was his wingspan, it looked the same size as when he was a child. Sure, he was flying with it, but it didn't compare to Angel or Icarus'. She wondered why that was. Unfortunately, Saffron noticed her stare and ducked his gaze, clearly embarrassed. The shy action was decidedly cute.
"So you ended up choosing Utopia, hmm? Why not Wolverine's school?" Rogue tilted her head casually.
"He did name it after your momma."
Saffron frowned a bit, but shrugged. "Me and him never really got along, although I'm grateful he rebuilt mother and father's graves."
And Saffron truly was grateful. To learn that while he was in another world, stuck in another time, the Xavier Institute was destroyed by Sentinels made him furious.
"Wow, ya sound like a bit of a stiff there, Saffy," Rogue teased the teen before her with his childhood nickname.
"Auntie Sue's lessons, I'm afraid," Saffron gave a long suffering sigh. The woman was a slave driver, but he loved her all the same. She was almost as warm as his real mother. Sure, the circumstances surrounding his parentage were explained to him when he was old enough to understand, but he didn't care. They were his parents. They cared for him, loved him. Even his father, despite how he always grumbled otherwise.
"I always knew she'd be a straight ruler," Rogue joked before she asked a question that was weighing on her mind.
"Still, why did ya decide to leave home? The Baxter building is just as good, right?"
Saffron suddenly looked uncomfortable, but he answered truthfully. "My father would have wanted it that way."
Rogue's eyes widened and misted for just a second before she nodded. Saffron recalled how his father's advice had helped him solve a major problem at the Richards' residence. Saffron could remember it like it was yesterday.
It had been the final day of their training trip, after they met Ms. Ukyou. They had spent the night at the Saotome residence. Myst and Laura had shared a room while Ranma doubled up with him.
'Who's Ukyou, Daddy?'
'My best friend when I was a kid.'
'… If she was your best friend, why did she want to hurt you?'
'Son?'
'Yes, Daddy?'
'Want some advice for the future?'
'Un!'
'If you ever find a girl you view like a sister after you, wanting to marry you. Run. Run as far as you can and don't look back.'
'Run?'
'Run.'
'Okay!'
And Saffron took his advice literally, as Utopia was literally on the other side of America. That should put enough distance between him and Valeria.
"Well, enough chit chat, let's get you to your new home!" Rogue winked as she motioned for him to follow her.
Saffron spread his wings and flew after the woman to a courtyard where several mutants were mulling around. He saw several people turned their heads to look at him. He looked down to make sure everything was okay. Was it his clothes? He had other clothes, of course, but he decided that this was going to be his combat uniform.
"Oh my! Who's the new hottie?!"
"Pixie, are you okay? Girl, talk to me!"
"Close your mouth before you catch flies, Loa!"
Saffron blushed a bit, hearing what he did. He couldn't help having great hearing. He chalked that up to his avian nature. Rogue landed pretty soon after and he was greeted by Miss Frost and Mister Summers.
"Saffron," Scott Summers, aka Cyclops, was the first to welcome him with a firm handshake. "I'm glad you choose to reside on Utopia. I really am. I had thought you'd go to Wolverine's school because..."
"Most of the people I'm familiar with are here, Mr. Summers. It just made sense." Saffron explained to the visored mutant. "Besides, my father would have preferred for me to learn how to fight, rather than focus on studying."
"Well, we are glad to have you here, Mr. Grey," Ms. Frost greeted him, before her expression turned evil. "But even though we train all of our students to fight, we are STILL a learning institution. You will be attending classes with everyone else, young man."
Saffron groaned a bit and sighed. More learning again? He had learned enough for a lifetime at the Richards', maybe even two! He wanted to have fun and learn how to fight, like how his dad had started teaching him. Though it had been a while, he still recalled with clarity some of the moves his father had shown him. They were all so very cool!
"In the meantime, however," Scott Summers cut in while shaking his head at his lover. "I suggest you get yourself familiar with the facility. I do believe classes start tomorrow."
Saffron smiled as the two adults left. He guessed the X-Men veterans were so used to weird things happening that him suddenly aging ten years in three years was no big deal.
+++ Utopia +++
"Finally, there's the bathrooms, if you need it. Boys to the left, girls to the right," Rogue was in charge of getting Saffron acquainted.
He saw a lot of stares directed his way; he guessed that when the mutant population was so small, any new ones were bound to turns some heads.
"And I think that's it. You'd be bunking with the boys, since space is pretty much at a premium here," Rogue explained apologetically as she opened the door, only for Saffron to see three people already in the room. The first was a Latino male with black hair, the second looked Japanese, although his face was severely mutated, and the last one was a stocky blonde-haired white boy who was acting like a dog as he ignored Rogue's entrance and continued to lick his crotch.
"Teon!"
The blonde-haired boy, that would normally be considered handsome, looked up and smiled brightly at the southern belle.
"Bad boy! Bad!" Rogue chided the animal-type mutant while wagging a finger at him. "I'm gonna tell Hope!"
Hearing the word "Hope," the animal mutant actually looked contrite.
"Don't give me that puppy dog look, mistah! " Rogue was not having any of it. However, before that she turned back to Saffron. "Enjoy, dinners at six. Just follow these boys. Tah tah."
Saffron watched as she walked away, mumbling about dog-type mutants.
"So, the names Gabriel, I'm from Mexico. This here is Kenji, Japan obviously," the handsome Mexican teen introduced himself and his companion in a very friendly manner before pointing to the last boy.
"That there is Teon. He's…. special."
The blond stocky boy had gone back to licking his crotch through his pants in full view of everyone once Rogue left.
"I can see that..." Saffron trailed off before he extended a hand to the boy. "I'm Saffron Saotome-Grey, pleased to meet you."
"So what can you do?" Gabriel smiled at the white-haired pony tailed boy. "I can sorta slow down time..."
Saffron wondered why the Mexican teen trailed off like that with a frown on his face, but decided to answer the boy since it was only fair.
"I can generate fire and use it offensively."
"Hmmph, another Idie," the Japanese man, Kenji, sneered. Saffron frowned at the man's attitude.
"Idie is an elemental user, with fire being her primary so far," Gabriel explained before he turned to his friend. "Hey, come on Ken. If you use that tone people will think you're a prick. Kenji here is not what you call a -err, people person. Can't really blame him after what happened."
Saffron looked at how hideously scarred the man was, and decided that it probably had something to do with his mutation. He then turned to the final member of the group, noticing that Gabriel looked a bit relieved when Saffron did not take offense.
"Ah, Teon here, well, he's more beast than man. But because of that he can tell if someone is good or not," Gabriel explained the final member of their group's powers, who had stopped licking his crotch and went over to sniff at Saffron's hand. Whatever the blond boy found was apparently satisfactory, as he rushed out of the room a moment later.
"Oh shit! I forgot to leash him!" Gabriel looked panicked. "The Cuckoos said if he tried to hump their legs again, they'd neuter him!"
Saffron watched as the latino boy ran out the door, frazzled. He decided to follow to see if the dog-mutant would be gutsy enough to do it. Sure enough, after a minute the two found the feral boy.
"HOPE SUMMERS! CONTROL YOUR PET OR IT DIES!"
A bit too late, unfortunately, as three very irate blonde teens in short skirts that did a very good job of showing off their legs were glaring at the animal-mutant with their hands on their hips. Saffron recognized that stance. It meant someone was about to get destroyed.
"Hey~~~ladies, he didn't mean it! I mean, if you think about it logically, it's a compliment that he finds you girls so attractive that he can't help but look for you three every single chance he can when he gets the urge!" Gabriel talked fast and put himself in front of his friend.
"What say we just forgive and forget, eh?"
The three Cuckoos gave matching death glares to the boy, only to stop a moment later when they saw the winged teen behind him. The middle one was the first to react.
"BRAT?!" Gabriel, seeing the hot triplets were distracted, decided to sneak off with Teon.
"Nice to see you too, Homewrecker," Saffron replied with a grin as he approached the three girls who, oddly enough, only seemed to have aged a bit.
"Irma, remind me later to kill Tendo for teaching Saffron that word," Celeste Cuckoo told her sister, who was already hugging the boy. A moment later Phoebe joined in, then finally Celeste.
"It's been awhile, huh?" Saffron smiled warmly at his three caretakers from when he was younger. He viewed them, in part, as something akin to young aunts.
"What the hell happened to you?" Celeste looked the boy over from head to toe. "You kind of look like from when… well, when you went crazy."
Saffron blushed at the reminder. He couldn't believe he had tried to kill his father. TWICE! He was surely a bad son.
"Ah, don't worry about it," Celeste patted the boy on the shoulder. He was taller than her now. "Anyone that ever liked that doofus also wanted to kill him at one time or another."
"Not everyone, sister dear," Phoebe spoke up and gave a cheeky grin to Celeste. "We liked him because he annoyed you. Never hated him or wanted to kill him. That was ALL you."
"Shut up!" Celeste spat back and pointed a finger in her sister's face. "If you had backed me up back then I would have had my revenge! Now-… now..."
The reminder of his deceased father tainted the joy of the reunion with a bit by sadness. Saffron looked down and saw the hurt expressions on the Cuckoo's faces. He was touched that his father's death still affected them.
"Is Auntie Myst here too?" Saffron decided to broach a more comfortable subject. Old acquaintances.
"Oh, she's out on a mission. And before you ask, your 'cool uncle' Evan is with her," Celeste told the winged boy. Anything else they wanted to discuss was interrupted when a redhead jumped in between him and the Cuckoos. She had her back turned to him, but the way she had her hands on her hips told him she was not very happy. The girl immediately launched into the blonde triplets.
"Where's Teon?! What did you girls do to him? So help me if you -"
"Errr," Saffron placed his hands on the girl's shoulder before she could attack his friends anymore.
"Gabriel helped him esc-"
The girl, upon feeling Saffron's hand on her shoulder, turned to glare at the owner of the offending appendage, only to lose focus when she saw his golden-red irises.
Saffron's felt something heat his body up as he stared into the green eyes of the redhead. Her coloration reminded him so much of his mother's. That's when he saw the phoenix brand in the girl's eyes, a brand that reflected in his own eyes as well. He knew nothing else after that as he blacked out.
+++ Infirmary +++
Saffron woke up to the sound of machines beeping. Having lived with the Richards, he could tell immediately that it was medical equipment.
"Unnnn~~"
"He's awake," a voice Saffron did not recognize announced.
Saffron opened his eyes and slowly sat up, only to see Scott Summers there with Emma Frost in front of him.
"Tell us what happened Saffron, tell us everything," The leader of the X-Men demanded right away. The man's stance showed how aggressive he was, which surprised Saffron compared to how welcoming he was earlier.
"What happened between you and Hope?"
"Hope?" Saffron looked confused. "Who's Hope?"
Cyclops and Emma looked at each other and slowly moved out of his view to reveal a redheaded girl sitting on the edge of another medical bed directly across from him. The moment she saw him, however, her face morphed into a glower as if he had offended her somehow.
"Uh..." Saffron looked away from the girl and back to the two adults. "She's Hope?"
"You… don't feel anything?" Emma scrutinized the boy's every expression.
"Am I supposed to?" Saffron asked, a bit perplexed as to why Cyclops kept on looking from him and the redhead gi- oh, he supposed it was Hope now. He gave her a weak wave, only to see her still glaring at him.
"I'll be blunt; do you see Hope as a mother figure?" Emma Frost cut to the chase as she folded her arms. All of her telepathic probes showed the boy was confused and nothing else.
"M-Mother figure?! What?!" Saffron jumped off the table and looked at the two adults as if they were crazy.
"Why would I do that?!"
"You did it with Jean," Cyclops remembered when the winged mutant first hatched all those years ago.
"Then again with Ranma. The Cuckoo's saw a phoenix shape outlined between the two of you before it flared out and you two were rendered unconscious."
"Okay?" Saffron answered uncertainly under their stares. "Umm... No, I do not view her as my mother, or with any family relation. She's just a girl."
"And you don't have any feelings of protectiveness or have any desire to…" Cyclop's mouth formed into an expression of distaste. "Mate with the girl?"
"Errr..." Saffron thought back to everything his Uncle Johnny taught him. "Shouldn't I at least buy her dinner first?"
"NO way in HELL you are touching me, Phoenix boy!" Hope glared at Saffron as if he had wronged her somehow. The girl then folded her arms and turned her nose up at him. He was generally mild mannered. But when he was angered, and it had happened before, well, he could give as good as he got. And this girl had been giving him nothing but flack since he woke up!
"Well, I don't like haughty girls like you anyway, you-you-!" Saffron grasped at possible insults he could throw at the girl, but the Richard matriarch household was a tightly-run ship. Even his mother had policed her language around him. So he drew upon his father's stories of his engagement with Auntie Akane.
"-Uncute tomboy!"
The redhead slowly turned her head and gave him the frostiest glare he had seen, one that would have made Ms. Frost proud.
"What did you call me, little-wing boy?"
Saffron opened his mouth in shock and looked at his wings. He was a bit sensitive about them. Sure, they hadn't grown out all the way yet, but Aunt Sue said he was still young! They could grow magnificently in the next year or so!
"Oh yeah, w-what would a flat chested TOMBOY like you know anyway!" Saffron roared at the girl. Insult his wings, would she? Well, he could also see something she was lacking in, something he learned girls were sensitive about from his father.
Hope jumped off the medical bed she was sitting on. Her red face showed just how livid she had become.
"You! You.. YOU!"
"Me- me-me what?" Saffron taunted and was amazed at how much fun it was to really make your opponent flustered. His dad was right all along!
"YOU-" Hope suddenly leveled a hand at Saffron, red fire pulling into her hands. "-LOUDMOUTH-"
"Emma, stop her!" Cyclops ordered his lover before he turned to the winged-mutant boy. "Saffron stop provoking Hope!"
"-JERKKKK!" Hope fired a powerful stream of condensed fire at Saffron, who was not expecting a girl who he only met for like a minute to use his own attacks against him.
Sure, Saffron was immune to fire, but that was normal fire started by normal people. His own fire, however, was more potent and had a special property to it that was always referred to as magic by his tribesmen. Whatever it was, it smashed into him and knocked him off the bed, through the infirmary and into the wall, knocking him out cold again.
"Now that," Emma gave Hope a look of approval. "He had coming."
"Emma!"
+++ Later +++
Saffron grumbled as he followed a little minibot guide, a little mouse looking drone, back to his dorm room. Scott and Ms. Frost had been the only ones there when he woke up from the girl's cheap shot. They had not chided him, but just wanted to make sure he felt nothing for the girl. Did annoyance count?
"Stupid tomboy," Saffron grumbled as he started to see familiar hallways. He was about to enter the room when he saw a familiar redhead exit.
"You!"
Hope turned and saw the boy she had attacked earlier. "You!"
"Errr, you two met then?" Gabriel came in between the two. "That's good! This is Hope, Saffron, she's the mutant Messiah and the one who helped me stabilize my powers!"
Saffron was shocked while the redhead just looked irate.
"Gabe!" Hope glared at her friend; he knew she hated being called the Messiah. She then turned back to the winged boy and watched out for any counter attack he might launch to pay her back. Her dad, Nathan Summers, had taught her to never let her guard down.
"You want to go again? We all remember what happened the last time around."
Saffron watched her raise her flaming fists- correction, HIS flaming fists- those were his moves! His fire! His fists ignited on his own to counter her, ready to throw down with the girl. He didn't care what his dad taught him about not hitting girls. His mother and Aunt Sue said girls wanted to be treated as equals. Well, he was willing to go all equal-opportunist on her a-behind!
However, before the two could to get into it, even with Gabriel and Teon putting themselves between the two, the flames of both teenagers were snuffed out by a condense gust of wind.
"What the?" The two teens echoed at the same time.
"No fighting in the hallway, children." A gentle voice spoke up. Hope immediately became contrite and looked away while Saffron stared at the new arrival.
"Auntie Akane?!" the winged teen asked in shock. Kiima still looked like Akane's teenage form, but the woman before definitely him did not.
"Hi, Saffy-chan," Akane Tendo, full-time X-Men, smiled gently at the little boy she used to know. Well, correction, he was no longer a little boy.
"Ms. Akane, you're this jerk's aunt?" Hope face looked incredulous as Akane sighed and brushed her long hair over her shoulders. She had matured in the intervening years, both in terms of figure and temperament.
"Well, not by blood," Akane corrected, but turned to examine the grown-up boy before her. Him being an adult now meant some crazy Nerima or X-Men stuff must have happened to him. Perhaps those mushrooms again. Either way, it wasn't particularly surprising. After all, she remembered the battle for the infant Hope happening a year ago, only to have her show up as a fifteen year-old a month back.
What did surprise Akane, however, was that she could not see any traces of the cruel man who had tried to kill her and Ranma years ago. The boy's eyes were soft and kind as he looked at her. Only yo be ruined as it turned to anger when he looked to Hope, but it was not the savage type of anger. It was normal.
"You grew up well, Saffron."
"If he's not blood-related to you, then why does he call you his Aunt?" Hope asked, genuinely curious. Out of all the people here at Utopia, who mostly put her on a pedestal, only Ms. Akane treated her like a normal girl. She did not have any expectations and even taught her how to cook.
"I was once engaged to his father," Akane explained, to which Hope's expression became horrified.
"Wait, you're the son of Ranma Saotome?!" Hope pointed at the winged teen in disbelief. "B-but Cyclops called you a Grey!"
"Saffron SAOTOME-Grey," Saffron puffed up his chest in pride at his father's name.
"Noooo!" Hope wailed as she clapped her hands to her cheeks in horror. "Why did you have to be his son?!"
"What's wrong with me being his son?!" Saffron went from proud to offended within a second.
"Ranma Saotome is brave, heroic, handsome, the best fighter in the world, loved by all and you're…" Hope struggled to find an appropriate word before she waved her hand dismissively at Saffron. "Well, you."
Akane suddenly sweated a bit. Perhaps she shouldn't have only told Hope about Ranma's good points. But the girl was feeling so lost after Nathan's death, and so alone. She responded well to the adventures of a little boy who was also torn away from his mother, raised by a father-figure to be the best fighter in the world. Who, at Hope's age, fought against martial arts masters and demons, suffered under magical curses, who was thrown into the world of the X-Men, who survived it, who earned their respect through sheer will. A boy who went on to actually SAVE the world by the accounts of all present that day. A boy who was actually inducted into the X-Men posthumously and made an honorary Avenger, also posthumously.
Akane's fond memories of the pigtailed boy made a very big impression on Hope. She even dared to say the girl had a bit of hero worship and a teenage girl crush on Akane's deceased ex-fiancee. Still, the way Saffron looked wasn't too good, as his eyes were glowing red now.
"You, you-!" Saffron pointed at the girl before he recognized the look on the girl's face.
"Well, you'd have never interested my father. What with your gorilla-like temperament and boyish body! He only had eyes for real developed women like my mother, the Stepford Cuckoos or even Auntie Akane here!"
"Hey!" Akane did not know whether to take Saffron's comment as a compliment or insult. The boy had his head tilted back while laughing mockingly at the girl.
Hope however, let out a screech of rage as a flaming fist made its way over to a smug looking Saffron who didn't even see it coming. Gabriel had already decided he did not want ANY of that as he dived out of the way. However, before the fist could hit the unaware teen, Akane intercepted it with her hands, dispersing the fire in the girl's punch.
"Hope! I taught you better than this!" Akane chided the girl harshly, before she turned to Saffron and gave him a glare. The boy genuinely quailed under her gaze.
"And you, it appears you have a bit too much of your father in you. And I don't mean the good parts."
Saffron looked stricken, he did not want to drag his father's name through the mud and looked apologetically at the woman.
"Don't like at me like that, apologize to Hope," Akane ordered the boy. "Let bygones be bygones."
Saffron looked chagrined, but decided his father's reputation meant more than his pride. "I- I'm sorry for calling you all those name in the infirmary..."
Akane nodded and then turned to the smug-looking Hope. "And you, apologize to him for hitting him. Use your words, not fists, when it comes to your fellow classmates, Hope."
Hope opened her mouth to protest, but Akane quickly cut her off.
"I know what your dad taught you, but you are among friends now. People who care about you. Your go-to solution for everything should not be violence."
"It shouldn't?" Hope asked, additionally surprised when she heard the boy she just had a falling out with echo her question at the same time.
"No!" Akane felt a twitch in her eyes. "Fighting should always be your last resort!"
"But… Dad always said fighting solved all of the problems he ever encountered. Was that not true?" Saffron looked up at the woman who knew his dad better than most.
Akane opened her mouth to deny it, but then thought it through.
'Let's see, there was Kuno...oh. Ryoga? Nope, always kicking him around. Hmmm, even our simple ice-skating date ended up resolved by him fighting with Mikado. Copy Cat Ken was beaten, his engagement to Kaori Daikoku was resolved by him fighting her in an Anything Goes take-out battle… didn't he talk it out with Tsubasa- No, wait. He beat the cross-dresser too...'
Saffron and Hope waited patiently when the woman fell oddly silent as she cupped her chin thoughtfully. The two shared a perplexed look before they turned back to the woman.
'Ryu Kumon, was beaten badly, Herb, Saffron, Taro, Rouge, even the issue of his reputation at the Xavier school his first week was repaired by beating Saffron within an inch of his life from what she heard... Huh.'
Akane finally came back from her thoughts and saw two teen faces really close to her and jumped back a bit in surprise. She saw the two teens look at her expectantly, but what could she say?
'Damn it, Ranma! You really DID solved everything with violence! You stupid dead BAKA!'
"Ms. Akane/Auntie?" the two spoke up at the same time in concern for the woman.
"Ahem," Akane coughed into a balled-up fist and looked at the two. "Your father's life was different, okay? Your life is not like his, so please, consider using violence ONLY as a last resort."
"I knew it," Hope smirked as she looked smug, then realized it was about Saffron's father. Well… since the boy was his son, maybe he wasn't all that bad. She tentatively stuck her hand out.
"Truce?"
Saffron looked at the hand and smiled. His father always said real men don't hold grudges, and if they do they turned into small lying black pigs. At the time Saffron thought his father had been oddly specific…but still!
"Truce."
He then recalled what his father taught him about pleasing girls so they wouldn't stay mad at you.
"Ahem," Saffron cleared his throat and shuffled his feet a bit shyly before looking away from the girl.
"Ah-I'm sorry for calling you those names. I… know they aren't true. You're actually very... cute...pretty really."
Hope suddenly sported a deep blush. "Ah, well, I, I didn't mean-"
"Stop! Just stop!" Akane waved her arms in a panic between the two before it could continue. "Hope, you need to get to class. Teon can get a bath later."
"Uh- right, Ms. Akane." Hope turned and walked away with a spring in her step.
'Shit!'
Akane then turned to look at Saffron. "You, mister, will learn everything in the student handbook about befitting conduct."
Saffron nodded as he walked into his dorm room, wings flapping a bit happily while Akane could only shake her head. She was pretty certain there was no Saotome blood in Saffron, yet he was pulling the same tricks her deceased ex-fiancee had once upon a time. If he kept this up, the girls of Utopia would be at each others' throats by the end of the week! The entire place could turn into a warzone!
"Ranma no baka!' Akane thought unkindly. Even in death, he was still giving her headaches.
*** Nowhere ***
In a white, blank room as far stretching as far as the eye could see in any direction, a figure in deep slumber suddenly sneezed, scratched his side and then rolled over to a more comfortable position.
TBC...
AN:
Alternate Title for this is called AvX: Prologue. THATS RIGHT! AvX or better known as Avengers vs X-Men. So the opening Theme for next chapter that fit is-
(Mai Otome Op 2: Crystal Energy) The short version.
Because I couldn't say it in House of M , First of all thanks to the people that stuck with me. Through thick and thin, I knew that I had a lot of flack and flame for House of M event and keeping it close to the chest. I enjoyed the flames, COME AT ME BRO! However, I was faced with one very major problem.
House of M tone, when I wrote it, I WANTED it to be bittersweet like that. However, because of that, Tonally, it did not fit at the end of Homo Superior OR In front of ALL New Homo Superior. It had to stand alone by itself for it to be taken on it's own merits and flaw. AND BOY you guys were NOT happy about it. I will say this, a lot of people guessed right on exactly what happened, I gotten reviews and P.M that said Ranma regressed. However, the first part with the grave scene show that he was still the same as ever. Its only when House of M happened when he was split that he or rather SHE became more ... aggressive.
Of course, One of the major point I would like to point out is, while Ranma is now Okay with his girl half, at that current stage in his life, there was no way in hell he'd would want to be stuck as a female full time. If Wanada death could put him back, he'd do that, He'd fought Herb for less. This was his man hood was on the line and simply put he doesn't know Wanda like he knew Akane. In Nihao my Concubine, had it been anyone else, Ranma might have let them jump into the water together. I would say there is a strong chance.
It was also my intention to let Ranma-chan be in on that event level adventure. And it was pretty much Ranma induction into the Marvel universe. HIs name is out there now as is his deed.
I was also told to take a break, but you guys don't realized a lot of the chapter and pretty much all of AvX has already been written at the exact same time as Apoc SinWar. So its one continuous flow. I am literally just waiting for editorial to come back, scrub it clean a bit more and then post it. I've been raiding in Wow and watching anime/reading manga.
Again, feel free to disregard House of M, and this if you like Homo Superior. The world has changed, and I wanted to play in that world to be honest. If someone would like to write a side story that branch out from Homo Superior themselves, feel free!
However, with this new Seven parter, and yes, it is about the length of Apoc-Sin War, House of M cannot be disregard.
Lordy, I kept it under wraps for so long, feels good now! You see there was two phase to this, Ranma introduction to the marvel universe through the X-Men (Homo Superior) and the repercussion of his actions. What we see now. There is no phase three. As for what is All New Homo Superior Endgame, those that read the comics will know, those that don't? Enjoy the ride :D
Once again, thank you for all the reviews ,love, even flames on House of M, but, it's go time now!
As always C+C welcome, reviews Appreciated!