Chapter 21
The group of mutants and two humans walking back to the Institute made quite an sight for any human that glanced at them on the way back.
Pyro and Quicksilver wouldn't shut up the entire way back to the Institute and one would have thought that the situation wasn't quite so dire if they were the only ones there. However, the rest of the group was rather grim. Gambit was beside Rogue and rolling his eyes while at Pyro and Quicksilver while Rogue was glaring daggers at the two laughing hyenas.
"Why don't you do everyone a favor and touch them chere?" Gambit asked.
Rogue snorted. "Like I want any of them in mah head."
Jean and Scott were completely freaked out about the whole situation, but no one would have known from looking at them. They were the complete picture of calm, but that was more for Kurt and the new mutants benefit than theirs.
Besides, the new mutants were already whispering comments about what could be going on and each scenario was more terrifying than the last. Unfortunately since Bobby and Sam were whispering rather loudly, the only thing they accomplished was to put Kurt on edge and make his parents more hysterical than they already were. Hearing about an attempt on your child's life was one thing, but actually seeing it was every parents worst nightmare come to life.
Kitty was standing between Kurt and his parents, trying to calm Elisabeth down and draw Kurt out of his stupor.
Kurt had actually been in a daze ever since he started following Magneto back to the Institute. During the walk he'd noticed that the other mutants had moved to form a defensive circle around him. Whether that was intentional or a subconscious decision Kurt wasn't sure. And his mind was too chaotic to care at the moment.
'Finally. I'm going to have all the answers I've always wondered about since I was dumped at the Institute gates three months ago' Kurt thought to himself.
Why was this done to him? Why was someone trying to kill him? Why him for a male pregnancy? There were plenty of other male mutants and quite a few were physically stronger than him.
However, Kurt had no choice but to keep these questions to himself for the time being. Out in public was certainly not the place to blurt out that he was pregnant. But he practically had to bite his lip to keep from yelling questions at Magneto. And as angry as Kurt was at the other mutant, it wasn't that hard to restrain himself from trying to tackle or maim Magneto since he didn't have the energy to do it anyway.
Magneto and Colossus headed off the front of the group, their stoic and grim expressions daring anyone to try and get in their way. The few humans who actually crossed paths with them on the way home, were smart enough to step out of the way and let everyone past. But not before they stared quite a bit at Kurt.
However, Kurt just ignored them. He was quite used to being stared at.
The only time the group had a problem was when they were passing by a church were service had just gotten out. When the people saw the group of mutants walking down the sidewalk with grim expressions on their faces, many of them promptly started screaming.
"Mutants!"
"How can they just let those things out in public!"
"Look they really do have a demon!"
"Call Father Taylor. He'll be able to protect us!"
Kurt visibly cringed at all the battered insults. The church was little and out of the way, but close to the Institute which is why until a month ago Kurt had still attended services there. Despite the fact that everyone knew he was a mutant.
However, all that had stopped when Kurt's image inducer had been hit off at school by Principal Kelly. Word had spread quickly around Bayville about the supposed 'demon' that had been on the news, and that the demon was none other than Kurt Wagner.
But what made the insults especially hurtful to Kurt, was that less than a year ago these same people had been his friends. Apparently they didn't take the words of God to heart very well.
Magneto was just about to retaliate and fight against these people with Pyro and Quicksilver joining in, but he was cut off by Jean.
*Don't do this Magneto. Our priority is to get Kurt to the Institute and away from danger. Up until last month Kurt attended services with these people and getting into a fight would only hurt him. After what you've put him through you can at least back down for his sake*
Magneto seemed a little shocked at the words that Jean projected into his head, but she did have a point. Nightcrawler had been through quite a bit in the past three months and as far as the X-Men were concerned, all of it was Magneto's fault.
'If only they knew' Magneto thought. 'But they will soon enough.'
But Magneto backed down. Both because of Jean's words and the fact that while Jean had been telepathically communicating with him, Mastermind had quickly moved to the front of the group and started altering the memories of the people. There were too many of them for Mastermind to completely alter in so short a time, but it was enough to confuse the humans and give the group a chance to get away without any fists being thrown.
And a few minutes later, the group arrived at the gates to the Institute.
*Professor* Jean started *We have some ... unexpected guests*
*I know Jean* his voice came back. *I was actually able to pick up your powers since I was using Cerebro at the time*
Jean sighed to herself. *What do you want me to do?*
There was a slight pause before the Professor answered. *When you come in send Magnus and Kurt to my office. I'll explain what is going on to everyone else later*
*But Professor ...*
*I'm not trying to exclude anyone Jean. However, I'm sensing some very strong emotions from Kurt and I don't think it would help to have this discussion in front of an audience*
Jean glanced over at Kurt, and decided within a split second that the Professor was right. One didn't have to read minds to figure out that Kurt was angry and humiliated.
*Alright Professor. But you might want to get an explanation out of Magneto fast. The whole Institute is getting quite nervous about what's going on.*
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Despite the protests of Kurt's parents, Magneto and Kurt headed off towards Xavier's office by themselves with Kurt promising that everything would be explained later.
Nevertheless, Kurt left several impatient people behind as he and Magneto walked upstairs together.
Even though Kurt didn't say so much as a word to Magneto, the older mutant was easily able to sense the anger and resentment radiating off of Kurt. Unfortunately Kurt would probably only feel angrier after Magneto explained everything, but hopefully he'd understand why it had to be done.
With that on Magneto's mind, the two of them entered Xavier's office to see the Professor sitting quietly behind his desk and Logan leaning against the wall with a scowl on his face.
"I thought you would be explaining things to the rest of the X-Men later Charles," Magneto said, nodding his head at Logan.
Charles gave Magneto a stern glance. "Logan was in the room when Jean contacted me and when he found out what was going on he refused to leave. But that's not the point Magnus. You have quite a bit of explaining to do. Starting with, why are there so many attempts on Kurt's life?"
"Ja," Kurt yelled suddenly coming out of his stupor, "I have never felt anywhere near as threatened as I do right now. Why try to kill me?" Kurt and the Professor already had some idea of who the assassins were actually trying to kill, but not why. And who was behind the attempts?
"Apocalypse is putting some humans under his control in an attempt to kill Kurt because he's too weak at the moment to make a direct assault on the Institute. In the park just now his little puppet Mesmero was controlling some humans to do the same thing," Magneto replied.
The Professor, Kurt and Logan all looked stunned by Magneto's information.
"Apocalypse is behind these attacks?" Logan asked in disbelief.
Magneto nodded gravely. "It's not Kurt he wants dead, but Kurt's child."
Kurt started trembling once again while Logan was growling, so it was up to the Professor to take hold of the conversation.
"Why kill a child?" the Professor asked.
"Because," Magneto started, "he knows that a mutant child with the combined genetic structure of several mutants will be his downfall unless he kills it."
Logan walked up to hug a very upset Kurt while the Professor narrowed his eyes at Magneto. "So that's what you did with the blood samples you collected from the other X-Men," the Professor said to him.
"I also used blood samples from myself and my own Acolytes. I then used the blood samples and injected them into an egg cell with no genetic make-up. I combined the egg cell with a sperm cell from Nightcrawler before implanting it in his ... extra organ. So the child is mostly his," Magneto added.
Kurt looked up at Magneto, but said nothing. He didn't think he would be able to form words at the moment.
"Magnus," the Professor started, "why do I have a feeling that Kurt having this extra organ is also your doing?"
Kurt gasped in shock at the Professors words while Logan muttered under his breath, "that better not be the case bub."
However, Magneto didn't even try to deny it. "The extra organ was a dormant gene that I activated shortly after Kurt was born. Unfortunately several other dormant genes were activated which gave Kurt his tail, fur, six fingers, and toe configuration."
"Vhy?" Kurt asked, finally gaining his voice. "Vhy me?"
Magneto sighed. This was the question he had been dreading more than anything else.
"Because you were meant to do this Nightcrawler," Magneto said, "it was told in a prophecy hundred's of years before your birth, shortly before Apocalypse was imprisoned. A child would be born to a mutant and this would be the only hope of defeating Apocalypse."
"How did you know about this prophecy, Magnus? Was it written in some ancient text?" the Professor asked.
Magneto shrugged. "It might have been. But if it was the text would have been destroyed by Apocalypse's supporters a long time ago."
"Zhen how did you know about it?" Kurt growled at him.
Magneto didn't answer, but simply turned towards the door a split second before it opened from the other side.
"I'm sorry Professor," Rogue said, as she came in followed by another woman who the other X-Men didn't know. "But Irene said she needed to see you and Magneto right away."
Magneto smiled at Irene. "Perhaps you would like to hear the rest of this tale from Destiny."
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Grrr... I don't like the way this turned out, but I'm also a tough critic on myself and I wanted to save Destiny's explanation for the next chapter. I actually wanted to get this posted yesterday, but I was too tired to stay up late and get it done. Oh well, it's up now. By the way, the whole thing with passing Kurt's church ... I do have a reason for that. The cartoon doesn't get much into Kurt's religion, but I know in the comics it was a big part of who Nightcrawler is so I wanted to include it in the story.
Note: I'm not trying to promote religion by doing this. I've had bad experiencing with people trying to push religion so I would never do that.
Anyway, on to the reviews.
Shadowwalker: You're kind of weird with your reviews. That's okay. I like weird people! Hee hee. Stick around. I think the story will pick up speed.
~C~ Thanks for the review. I don't get enough anymore. sob.
Internutter: I found only one other mpreg for X-Men Evolution and since it was last updated in 2002, I doubt it will ever be continued. So, because of the lack of mpreg in this genre I think I'm actually going to encourage you to write your own take. Just two things: 1) don't copy me. I won't make a big deal out of people taking a couple of my ideas, but ... MAKE THE STORY YOUR OWN. Me and Becky on daughtersofgondor had this problem when somebody took our Whose Line story, changed only a few things, and tried to call it their own. I think your account can actually be deleted for this, and that story certainly was. So, don't copy my idea. 2) when you start the story please let me know about it! I would love to read another mpreg!
Raskolian Phoenix: I'm planning on starting the attraction between Rogue and Remy in this story, but I don't think they'll get together until a little ways into the series. This is one series I really want to pace.
Thanks for the reviews!
~Ice~
The group of mutants and two humans walking back to the Institute made quite an sight for any human that glanced at them on the way back.
Pyro and Quicksilver wouldn't shut up the entire way back to the Institute and one would have thought that the situation wasn't quite so dire if they were the only ones there. However, the rest of the group was rather grim. Gambit was beside Rogue and rolling his eyes while at Pyro and Quicksilver while Rogue was glaring daggers at the two laughing hyenas.
"Why don't you do everyone a favor and touch them chere?" Gambit asked.
Rogue snorted. "Like I want any of them in mah head."
Jean and Scott were completely freaked out about the whole situation, but no one would have known from looking at them. They were the complete picture of calm, but that was more for Kurt and the new mutants benefit than theirs.
Besides, the new mutants were already whispering comments about what could be going on and each scenario was more terrifying than the last. Unfortunately since Bobby and Sam were whispering rather loudly, the only thing they accomplished was to put Kurt on edge and make his parents more hysterical than they already were. Hearing about an attempt on your child's life was one thing, but actually seeing it was every parents worst nightmare come to life.
Kitty was standing between Kurt and his parents, trying to calm Elisabeth down and draw Kurt out of his stupor.
Kurt had actually been in a daze ever since he started following Magneto back to the Institute. During the walk he'd noticed that the other mutants had moved to form a defensive circle around him. Whether that was intentional or a subconscious decision Kurt wasn't sure. And his mind was too chaotic to care at the moment.
'Finally. I'm going to have all the answers I've always wondered about since I was dumped at the Institute gates three months ago' Kurt thought to himself.
Why was this done to him? Why was someone trying to kill him? Why him for a male pregnancy? There were plenty of other male mutants and quite a few were physically stronger than him.
However, Kurt had no choice but to keep these questions to himself for the time being. Out in public was certainly not the place to blurt out that he was pregnant. But he practically had to bite his lip to keep from yelling questions at Magneto. And as angry as Kurt was at the other mutant, it wasn't that hard to restrain himself from trying to tackle or maim Magneto since he didn't have the energy to do it anyway.
Magneto and Colossus headed off the front of the group, their stoic and grim expressions daring anyone to try and get in their way. The few humans who actually crossed paths with them on the way home, were smart enough to step out of the way and let everyone past. But not before they stared quite a bit at Kurt.
However, Kurt just ignored them. He was quite used to being stared at.
The only time the group had a problem was when they were passing by a church were service had just gotten out. When the people saw the group of mutants walking down the sidewalk with grim expressions on their faces, many of them promptly started screaming.
"Mutants!"
"How can they just let those things out in public!"
"Look they really do have a demon!"
"Call Father Taylor. He'll be able to protect us!"
Kurt visibly cringed at all the battered insults. The church was little and out of the way, but close to the Institute which is why until a month ago Kurt had still attended services there. Despite the fact that everyone knew he was a mutant.
However, all that had stopped when Kurt's image inducer had been hit off at school by Principal Kelly. Word had spread quickly around Bayville about the supposed 'demon' that had been on the news, and that the demon was none other than Kurt Wagner.
But what made the insults especially hurtful to Kurt, was that less than a year ago these same people had been his friends. Apparently they didn't take the words of God to heart very well.
Magneto was just about to retaliate and fight against these people with Pyro and Quicksilver joining in, but he was cut off by Jean.
*Don't do this Magneto. Our priority is to get Kurt to the Institute and away from danger. Up until last month Kurt attended services with these people and getting into a fight would only hurt him. After what you've put him through you can at least back down for his sake*
Magneto seemed a little shocked at the words that Jean projected into his head, but she did have a point. Nightcrawler had been through quite a bit in the past three months and as far as the X-Men were concerned, all of it was Magneto's fault.
'If only they knew' Magneto thought. 'But they will soon enough.'
But Magneto backed down. Both because of Jean's words and the fact that while Jean had been telepathically communicating with him, Mastermind had quickly moved to the front of the group and started altering the memories of the people. There were too many of them for Mastermind to completely alter in so short a time, but it was enough to confuse the humans and give the group a chance to get away without any fists being thrown.
And a few minutes later, the group arrived at the gates to the Institute.
*Professor* Jean started *We have some ... unexpected guests*
*I know Jean* his voice came back. *I was actually able to pick up your powers since I was using Cerebro at the time*
Jean sighed to herself. *What do you want me to do?*
There was a slight pause before the Professor answered. *When you come in send Magnus and Kurt to my office. I'll explain what is going on to everyone else later*
*But Professor ...*
*I'm not trying to exclude anyone Jean. However, I'm sensing some very strong emotions from Kurt and I don't think it would help to have this discussion in front of an audience*
Jean glanced over at Kurt, and decided within a split second that the Professor was right. One didn't have to read minds to figure out that Kurt was angry and humiliated.
*Alright Professor. But you might want to get an explanation out of Magneto fast. The whole Institute is getting quite nervous about what's going on.*
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Despite the protests of Kurt's parents, Magneto and Kurt headed off towards Xavier's office by themselves with Kurt promising that everything would be explained later.
Nevertheless, Kurt left several impatient people behind as he and Magneto walked upstairs together.
Even though Kurt didn't say so much as a word to Magneto, the older mutant was easily able to sense the anger and resentment radiating off of Kurt. Unfortunately Kurt would probably only feel angrier after Magneto explained everything, but hopefully he'd understand why it had to be done.
With that on Magneto's mind, the two of them entered Xavier's office to see the Professor sitting quietly behind his desk and Logan leaning against the wall with a scowl on his face.
"I thought you would be explaining things to the rest of the X-Men later Charles," Magneto said, nodding his head at Logan.
Charles gave Magneto a stern glance. "Logan was in the room when Jean contacted me and when he found out what was going on he refused to leave. But that's not the point Magnus. You have quite a bit of explaining to do. Starting with, why are there so many attempts on Kurt's life?"
"Ja," Kurt yelled suddenly coming out of his stupor, "I have never felt anywhere near as threatened as I do right now. Why try to kill me?" Kurt and the Professor already had some idea of who the assassins were actually trying to kill, but not why. And who was behind the attempts?
"Apocalypse is putting some humans under his control in an attempt to kill Kurt because he's too weak at the moment to make a direct assault on the Institute. In the park just now his little puppet Mesmero was controlling some humans to do the same thing," Magneto replied.
The Professor, Kurt and Logan all looked stunned by Magneto's information.
"Apocalypse is behind these attacks?" Logan asked in disbelief.
Magneto nodded gravely. "It's not Kurt he wants dead, but Kurt's child."
Kurt started trembling once again while Logan was growling, so it was up to the Professor to take hold of the conversation.
"Why kill a child?" the Professor asked.
"Because," Magneto started, "he knows that a mutant child with the combined genetic structure of several mutants will be his downfall unless he kills it."
Logan walked up to hug a very upset Kurt while the Professor narrowed his eyes at Magneto. "So that's what you did with the blood samples you collected from the other X-Men," the Professor said to him.
"I also used blood samples from myself and my own Acolytes. I then used the blood samples and injected them into an egg cell with no genetic make-up. I combined the egg cell with a sperm cell from Nightcrawler before implanting it in his ... extra organ. So the child is mostly his," Magneto added.
Kurt looked up at Magneto, but said nothing. He didn't think he would be able to form words at the moment.
"Magnus," the Professor started, "why do I have a feeling that Kurt having this extra organ is also your doing?"
Kurt gasped in shock at the Professors words while Logan muttered under his breath, "that better not be the case bub."
However, Magneto didn't even try to deny it. "The extra organ was a dormant gene that I activated shortly after Kurt was born. Unfortunately several other dormant genes were activated which gave Kurt his tail, fur, six fingers, and toe configuration."
"Vhy?" Kurt asked, finally gaining his voice. "Vhy me?"
Magneto sighed. This was the question he had been dreading more than anything else.
"Because you were meant to do this Nightcrawler," Magneto said, "it was told in a prophecy hundred's of years before your birth, shortly before Apocalypse was imprisoned. A child would be born to a mutant and this would be the only hope of defeating Apocalypse."
"How did you know about this prophecy, Magnus? Was it written in some ancient text?" the Professor asked.
Magneto shrugged. "It might have been. But if it was the text would have been destroyed by Apocalypse's supporters a long time ago."
"Zhen how did you know about it?" Kurt growled at him.
Magneto didn't answer, but simply turned towards the door a split second before it opened from the other side.
"I'm sorry Professor," Rogue said, as she came in followed by another woman who the other X-Men didn't know. "But Irene said she needed to see you and Magneto right away."
Magneto smiled at Irene. "Perhaps you would like to hear the rest of this tale from Destiny."
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Grrr... I don't like the way this turned out, but I'm also a tough critic on myself and I wanted to save Destiny's explanation for the next chapter. I actually wanted to get this posted yesterday, but I was too tired to stay up late and get it done. Oh well, it's up now. By the way, the whole thing with passing Kurt's church ... I do have a reason for that. The cartoon doesn't get much into Kurt's religion, but I know in the comics it was a big part of who Nightcrawler is so I wanted to include it in the story.
Note: I'm not trying to promote religion by doing this. I've had bad experiencing with people trying to push religion so I would never do that.
Anyway, on to the reviews.
Shadowwalker: You're kind of weird with your reviews. That's okay. I like weird people! Hee hee. Stick around. I think the story will pick up speed.
~C~ Thanks for the review. I don't get enough anymore. sob.
Internutter: I found only one other mpreg for X-Men Evolution and since it was last updated in 2002, I doubt it will ever be continued. So, because of the lack of mpreg in this genre I think I'm actually going to encourage you to write your own take. Just two things: 1) don't copy me. I won't make a big deal out of people taking a couple of my ideas, but ... MAKE THE STORY YOUR OWN. Me and Becky on daughtersofgondor had this problem when somebody took our Whose Line story, changed only a few things, and tried to call it their own. I think your account can actually be deleted for this, and that story certainly was. So, don't copy my idea. 2) when you start the story please let me know about it! I would love to read another mpreg!
Raskolian Phoenix: I'm planning on starting the attraction between Rogue and Remy in this story, but I don't think they'll get together until a little ways into the series. This is one series I really want to pace.
Thanks for the reviews!
~Ice~