Spykes, blonde hair and fingerless gloves
By Caith
Note: Um, okay, I'm back.... Marvel owns X-men: Evolution, but I'm stealing them for a while. Alice is my character, anyone who steals her will answer to me ... I'm Attizzikah's little sister, the one she's always ratting about....
It's an Evan + OC, not really a romance, but it is classified as one.... Stupid sisters, let this be a warning to never let them download your stuff for you, romance ... jeeze ...
(Fic writer runs of mumbling desperately pursued by two men in white suits.)
A small professor suddenly appears on the screen
" The fic writer asks that you please forgive Rogue's dialogue. For example, saying both I and Ah, which mean the same thing, and for any really bad grammar in the last two chapters. Thank you.
(Small professor walks off the stage.)
As the story continues....
Wait! WAIT!
Fic writer runs on, panting.
Just had to tell you, I'm not certain that I'm getting the school right, or their teachers and classes right, so bear with me.
Thanks.
(Fic writer passes out. Narrator narrows eyes. )
Ahem, and the story continues.
Chapter 3 - First day of school
" Come on, Alice! Wake up already, it's quarter past!"
" Wahh...?"
*Thump*
Alice groaned as she tumbled out of bed ... until she looked at the wall clock.
" Jesus Christ! I'm late!"
THe Montana girl ran to her dresser, extremely glad that she had showered the night before. Yanking on a black top and blue jeans, she raced for her boots, and shoved them into her bag with the rest of her new school stuff. Running down the stairs, glad that her hair was short, it didn't take so long to brush-
She ran into Rogue.
" Jeeze! Ah thought I'd have to go wake you up again! Man, your first day, and you sleep like a rock! You are aware that you don't have any shoes on -"
" I know, Rogue, my roller blades are downstairs, but I have to get going! Has Scott left yet?"
" Not, no one has, we're all kind of lazy, but you'd better hurry."
" Right."
Alice zoomed down the hall, glad for her mutated senses and physical power. She could smell the others downstairs; she had catalogued them in her 'scent file' when she found out she'd be going to school with them. Jean always smelled of baby powder and seriousness, and, when she looked at Scott, a funny scent that Alice had realized was love. The secret kind.
Kurt smelled like Sulfur, big surprise there. It was very faint, but, then again, with a sense of smell five times that of the most perfect bloodhound, you realize these things. Kitty smelled -always-of enthusiasm and - well - that smell that you always find in the mall.
Scott smelled like his English leather cologne, and a serious personality that copied Jean Grey to a T.
Alice made a mental note to herself to try and get them together, if they weren't already, as soon as possible.
Evan ... he smelled like ... the sun, was the only way Alice could put it. Dusty, sort of airy, but with a warm yellow around it.
And Rogue- Rogue smelled always of bleakness, and even though She had no telepathic power, Alice had learned that, along with normal scents, emotions had their own scents, too - most of which were weird, as far as she was concerned.
" I'm going, I'm going!"
" And don't stay after today!"
" Why?" Alice turned to Rogue, who had stuck her head out the door of her room.
" The professor wants to talk to you!"
: oh, great ...:
Alice got into the kitchen - and slid, in her socks, on the freshly waxed floor, her enhanced reaction time allowing her to glide like an ice skater to a final stop in front of her fellow mutants.
" Ta da!"
" Neat!" all seated at the table applauded, and Kurt pulled up a chair for Alice. The girl sat down to eat, and listen to the bits of advice thrown at her from around the table.
" don't eat the potatoes, their evil."
" Steer clear of the principal, he's a madman."
" don't procrastinate in Gym, the teacher will have your head!"
" Find your locker and put a lock on it, you wouldn't believe some of the people here-"
" Steer clear of the brotherhood-"
" The what?"
All at the table stared at Jean, who had given that little tidbit of advice.
" The brotherhood is what we call a group of four mutants who don't live here with us. their names are Pietro, Todd, Fred, and Lance. they live together near the school."
" really? Do you know what they can do, just curious?"
Jean looked uncomfortable .
" Well ... Lance can create shakes in the earth, like an earthquake, but it gives him a headache. Pietro can run at super fast speeds, I don't know exactly how high he can go. Todd- well, his knick-name is Toad, and you need to see him to get my drift. And Fred is really fat, he's really strong, and almost invulnerable, I think he can get a cannon ball hit into his gut without flinching. Not a nice lot, and they don't like us ."
Alice grinned at all around the breakfast table, showing her larger than usual canines .
" Don't worry, unless they pick a fight, I'll ignore them."
" It's good we got that settled, because it's time to go." Rogue walked into the room, her eye shadow as dark as usual.
Scott glanced at the clock.
" Your right, it is time to go. Bye, professor."
" Bye, all of you. Keep Alice out of trouble."
" Trouble? me ? why, I wouldn't dream of it."
Wolfing down a last piece of toast, Alice jumped up and ran to the door, yanking on her roller-blades and calling back,
" Hey, Scott! last one to the school's a rotten egg!"
What Alice didn't know was that no one was listening to her, because they were all staring at the plate that had been in front of here that had once upon a time, held a whole shit load of toast, but now held only crumbs.
At the school ...
Alice bladed in, ignoring the stares of other kids, and trying to figure out how to block her nose. the odors, the emotions, the sweat, the food, and - ugh - the tacky perfume were all overpowering. She had to grin, though, as Scott pulled into the parking lot, and her two day friends jumped out. She skated over to a bench and looked around, since the bell hadn't rung yet.
The school was a nice place, filled with kids. the scent of lying was thick in the air, though.
And then, she smelled - swamp water ?!? What the -
She turned around - and froze the upper part of her body .
There, obviously, was what the others called the Brotherhood. Four guys leaning against the wall like they didn't have a care in the world.
The first one had ripped jeans and messy brown hair. For some strange reason, he was eyeing Kitty with interest. Ohh. a crush . intresting.
The next one had blonde hair in a mowhawk and was - abnormally- fat . He didn't look to mean, though he could be a formidable apponent in a fight . This must be Fred. She wasn't sure about the brown haired guy.
She settled her sights on the other- sort of- normal looking one. He had white hair that was about four inches long, and bright blue eyes. She wasn't sure who this one was - until he sped out of the way of two senior girls, running faster than the eye could see. Pietro . It had to be .
The last one was the one who had brought her to attention. He had skin that was a mottled green, and eyes that were abnormally buggy. She tried not to recoil as he snapped out his long tongue at a passing fly. Toad. Todd. No wonder . Then the one with the brown hair had to be Lance, the Earth Shaker.
She froze as all four, in continuum, looked at her. She mentally forced herself to push as much cold resistance into her gaze as her iron pupils could handle . In the end, it was the four who looked away, and she got up when the others approached. Talking happily, she and Rogue went off to class, comparing schedules, which was pointless, since Alice was in all her classes , curtasy of Charles Xavier.
In another grimy corner of the courtyard -
" Here they come, guys."
" Who?"
" The X-freaks ."
" Like you can talk, Toad ."
" Yo, leave me alone!"
" Comeonyouguys,stopitnow-"
" Pietro, normal speed."
" Come on, guys, quit it ."
Fred growled as he looked at his friends .
" Pietro, two o' clock girl ."
The white-haired boy raced out of the way as the two seniors walked by, eyeing them with distaste .
It was then that he noticed the girl .
She was sitting at a bench, all alone . And, to put it lightly, she was gorgeous .
Short blonde hair going curly at the bottom, a black tummy tank barly containing a ... formidable form.
She had roller bladed to school since the skates were still on her feet. She seemed to have noticed them.
" Heyguys."
" Yeah?"
" What?"
" huh?"
" there'sagirloverthereandshe'snewandshe'slookingatus-"
" Pietro ! NORMAL SPEED!"
The white haired mutant looked meekly at the others .
" There's a new girl over there ."
All four looked - and froze.
She was looking at them with pure ice in her eyes. The cool way she seemed to regard their presence was .. frightening...
And then Rogue walked up to her and started talking.
" Damn," muttered Lance, eyes narrowing. " She's an X-mutie ."
" Yeah. Talk about your bad luck," said Todd as the girl glided into the school.
" Not exactly."
three turned to look at Lance.
" She's a mutant, right? So lets find out her power. Eh? It'll be fun!"
They all silently agreed, and ran inside to get to first period before the bell rang.
Alice sighed as she removed her roller blades and put on her boots. She had English first, and that was the only class that she didn't have one of her friends - namely Rogue - in . She wondered then why they had accepted her so quickly. she shows up on Sunday, it's a day off Monday, but still they gain her friendship in forty-eight hours. Man, these so called X-men confused her . Majorly. Rogue had explained about the brotherhood and the X-men that night, out of hearing, of course, of Jean and Scott. She had also explained about the nicknames that the X-men and Brotherhood dubbed themselves with. Alice had to grin. Maybe it would be fun, beating the heck out of other mutants to save the human race. She hadn't been asked, and yet she was sure that was what the Professor was going to talk to her about .
She wasn't sure what she thought of all of them ... she had gathered, though, That Ororo Monroe, nicknamed Storm, was the aunt of Evan Daniels, on what side of the family she did not know. She liked the Professor, and he demanded respect in an aura of that confidence that old men gain. He also smelled faintly of books and ink.
Logan ... she wasn't sure what she thought of the blue-haired Canadian, but she knew one thing-he was dangerous, with a capital D. There was also something familar about him ... something her enhanced senses couldn't pick out, and yet her mind screamed was there ... maybe her mother knew him ..?
Ororo .. she was just cool. she smelled of a breeze, light and carefree . She also seemed to smell like plants. Alice had heard from Evan that his Aunt kept plants in her room.
Ring,ring.
: Oh, great, the bell. I'm gonna be late if I don't hurry.:
Alice ran down the hall, faster than usual, and into the English room. A middle aged lady with brown hair and gold rimmed glasses stared at her .
" Hi, I'm Alice Greenfeild? The new girl?"
" Ah, yes, Miss Greenfield, why don't you sit down over there, buy next to Pietro."
" .... yes, ma'm ."
Damn! How could she not have noticed that white-haired boy in the back of the room? Pietro Maximoff, aka Quicksilver. Great.
She started for the back of the room, ignoring the stares of teeny-bopper girls and drooling boys, struggling to make sense of all the smells as she set her books down and pulled out the chair.
" hi."
" ...." Alice said nothing as she sat down and stared straight ahead.
" Heeello? Are we on the planet? What's your name?"
" Shut. up."
Pietro stopped, and stared at her. A far cry from the X-men he knew, this girl seemed to have an aura of cold stone around her. It was like ... well, like Kitty Pride and her imparsible abilities. Only, no one could pass through Alice.
" Hey, what's up with you? Man, a guy tries to be nice .."
It was not hard to hear the smirk in the boy's voice. Alice slowly turned in her seat and stared at him with a look of pure contempt.
" Did I not just say, Shut Up?"
It was then that she reached out and touched his notebook, which, under direction of her eye, hurtled into his face and slammed shut on his nose.
" Hey! What the-"
" Mr. Maximoff, would you like to take a trip down to principal Kelly's?"
Pietro blushed as his head lowered.
" No, Mrs. Wyldemoon [1] ."
" Good. Now then, the complex sentence. Amanda, would you like to start?"
As a chubby girl with brown pigtails explained the complex sentence, Pietro looked at Alice. He was sure that she knew he was looking at her, and was making a special effort to not turn around.
: Man, this is weird ... Levitation, but she had to be touching an object .... what else can she do? It's not telekenetic ... that's Jean Grey ... :
And Pietro was left wondering the whole class .
After getting confused in Biology and nearly pummeling some red-headed boy who kept saying she was a fox, Alice was all to ready to go to lunch . As she sat with her friends, she found her eyes kept straying over to the table that housed the brotherhood. she didn't know why, but the boys fascinated her, in a disgusting and vile way. After her last classes of the day, Alice walked outside the school and sit on the same bench as she had this morning. It had been an okay day. she seemed to have been branded resident most wanted, since she had had several boys deliberatly walk into her path all day. And she was begining to get really nasty looks from the girls in her grade, which meant that a few break-ups had occured. Alice was full aware that she had looks to die for, but any man that asked her out on a date would get his arm ripped off. What her unknown father had done to her mother was enough to make her think twice about boys.
It was then that Alice got a feeling ... someone was coming up behind her. She twirled around - to face the Brotherhood.
" Well, well, well." said Lance, circling her like a shark, " We have a new mutant in town."
" Get the hell away from me, all of you, or I'll rip your lungs out." this was said with much calmness, but it didn't discourage him.
" Gee, we're only curious to know about what you can do, right, guys?"
Pietro nodded. He had told them of the notebook episode, and Lance was eager to see it for himself.
" If you mean my powers, you'll just have to wait until you piss me off a bit more, Lance," she said coolly, gazing levelly at him,
"Because there are people around, and I don't really feel like committing manslaughter in front of a bunch of high school students. Wouldn't be good for their minds."
Todd rolled his eyes and snapped at a fly in passing.
" Look, girly, just do as he says, alright? Or we'll all make you wish that you'd never been born."
" Strong words, for one who spends so much of his time in the mud."
This was all Todd heard before he was plunged into blackness.
When Fred saw Alice whack Todd in the neck with a judo kick, his slow brain went into high gear, and he reached forward, intent on making the girl pay. Alice, well knowing what was coming, dodged to the side and ran, everyone around her a blur. she very well knew that if the Brotherhood sent Quicksilver after her, she would have no means of escape. He would be way faster than her, even though her speed rivaled that of an angry cheetah. she could only hope to get out of seeing distance before they had time to react.
She heard a voice call out to her and tagged it with Jean. she was yelling something about 'over here' but Alice couldn't afford to stop now; she had just realized numbly that she was gliding instead of running, and, looking down at her feet, she saw that she was wearing her roller blades. Oh, good.
At least, it was - until she saw something flash beside her, and turned her head- to glare straight into the eyes of Pietro Maximoff .
Damn. DAMN!
" Hello, sweetie," he said, smiling oily, " Now if you'll just slow down-" Alice ignored him as she saw an alleyway coming up ahead. an idea was swiftly forming in her mind.
" Hey, Pety, know what type of metal a garbage can is made out of?"
Pietro looked at her as though she was crazy, wondering what in the world she was thinking of.
" I don't know."
" Steel," and, since he had slowed down, Alice slammed him into the alleyway, smiling as she heard a satisfying crack.
Turning her head at a yell, She saw Scott's car rolling along , and Evan standing up, waving to her. she waved back, and jumped one handed into the car as is rolled by.
" What happened?" ordered Jean, sitting in the front while the others were sandwiched in back.
" Well, they just came over and started bothering me.." Alice told the entire tale, happy for the audiance.
" And you broke something?" asked Jean when she had finally gotten to the end of her tale.
" Yes ... I didn't mean to," she said hastily under the telekinetic's glare, " It was the thrill of the moment. adrenaline, you know?"
Jean scowled and turned around. Rogue smiled at her, and Kitty looked kind of shocked, but proud. Kurt, wearing his holo-watch, looked impressed, but Even looked sick. Alice decided she wasn't going to ask why.
When they got the mansion, all jumped out- to face the worried face of Ororo, the gruff scowl of Logan, and the dissapointed stare of Charles Xavier.
" Which of you did this?" he questioned as they went inside to the lounge, where the news report was still blaring,
" The young man was shipped to the hospital for broken bones, but he refuses to state what happened. Eyewitnesses say that they saw a black blur throw him into the alleyway, but truth has not been found."
Everyone was dead silent. Darn media, always poking their noses where they shouldn't be.
Alice struggled with her thoughts. She wanted to be accepted here - so she had to face the consequences ... it had been her fault, after all, no sense in getting everyone else into trouble.
But before she could say a word, Evan stepped forward.
" It was me. Quicksliver chased me, and I had to get away from him, so I shoved him."
Ororo looked shocked. Logan huffed in disbelief, and Charles simply nodded.
" Evan, you are not allowed to use your powers until you get home from school tomorrow. that includes tonight. Now, go."
Everyone exited the room, thinking his or her own confused thoughts. But not Alice. She stayed, thinking her confused thoughts in the lounge. Charles turned around to face her .
" Alice?"
" Rogue said you wanted to see me after school, professor."
" Yes. I did. Look, we need a little bit of information from you."
" ... I know. what do you want to know?"
" What's been going on ?"
Alice looked at Logan and Ororo, uncomfortable. But when both made it clear that neither was going to leave, she decided to continue.
" .. My mom raised me in Diamondback, a little town in southern Montana. I was six when my first gifts began to appear, and my mother nurtured them, taught me how to use them, and taught me never to reveal them in front of anyone I didn't trust. All went well for a while. You should know my mom, Professor- she knew you. Ruby Greenfeild."
Charles nodded. " Ruby. I remember her. she was the most powerful telekinetic I knew, next to Jean."
" Yeah. I got my levitating powers from her. Problem is, I had to be touching an object, then I had to mentally direct it, not like a telikinetic. Well, I'm getting off track ..."
" Everything went well, until about six months ago, when some crazy whako started following me and my mom around. Everywhere we went, he was there. My mom knew who he was, but she refused to tell me anything. I think it might have had something to do with my Dad. But, anyway ..
" He just shows up at our house one night, six months ago, with some jerk-off named Sabertooth. He's got a flamethrower with him, and when my mom refuses to hand me over, he wrecks the place. My mom barely got out with me before the entire house came down. Mom took me to a cave in the desert outside of town, but he found us there, too. It was then that mom gave me all that money and told me to run."
She looked at the three adults in the room, not a tear falling down her face as she stated,
" And that's the last I ever saw of her."
Xavier nodded and turned to look at Logan. Then he looked to Alice.
" We got the results back from the bone X-ray." He said quietly.
Alice braced herself. She knew what was to come.
" You told everyone else that you had but one more power out of the four. You showed only three. Now, show us the fourth." Alice's hands clutched the side of the chair, turning her knuckles white. She looked at the Professor, a pleading look in her eyes. To that, Ororo said,
" We won't tell any of the kids, but to be honest is something that is valued here. Please."
Alice sighed - and opened her hands .
Shooting out of her knuckles were twelve inch claws, gleaming silver and ivory in the light. Not straight and perfect like Logan's, hers were wavy and curled - like bone.
" I thought so," said Charles softly. " Alice, you know that that is adimantium fused with your bone fiber?"
Alice nodded, close to tears.
" Mom wouldn't tell me why ... she never liked my claws ... said they reminded her of -"
Alice cut off here.
At that, Logan glared at the Professor, then at Ororo, and then out the window. He then turned his gaze at Alice.
With an un-hidden shik, his claws slipped out. Alice lifted her tear streaked face ... and stared at the blue haired man's hands.
" Alice," said Ororo quietly. " Meet your father."
By Caith
Note: Um, okay, I'm back.... Marvel owns X-men: Evolution, but I'm stealing them for a while. Alice is my character, anyone who steals her will answer to me ... I'm Attizzikah's little sister, the one she's always ratting about....
It's an Evan + OC, not really a romance, but it is classified as one.... Stupid sisters, let this be a warning to never let them download your stuff for you, romance ... jeeze ...
(Fic writer runs of mumbling desperately pursued by two men in white suits.)
A small professor suddenly appears on the screen
" The fic writer asks that you please forgive Rogue's dialogue. For example, saying both I and Ah, which mean the same thing, and for any really bad grammar in the last two chapters. Thank you.
(Small professor walks off the stage.)
As the story continues....
Wait! WAIT!
Fic writer runs on, panting.
Just had to tell you, I'm not certain that I'm getting the school right, or their teachers and classes right, so bear with me.
Thanks.
(Fic writer passes out. Narrator narrows eyes. )
Ahem, and the story continues.
Chapter 3 - First day of school
" Come on, Alice! Wake up already, it's quarter past!"
" Wahh...?"
*Thump*
Alice groaned as she tumbled out of bed ... until she looked at the wall clock.
" Jesus Christ! I'm late!"
THe Montana girl ran to her dresser, extremely glad that she had showered the night before. Yanking on a black top and blue jeans, she raced for her boots, and shoved them into her bag with the rest of her new school stuff. Running down the stairs, glad that her hair was short, it didn't take so long to brush-
She ran into Rogue.
" Jeeze! Ah thought I'd have to go wake you up again! Man, your first day, and you sleep like a rock! You are aware that you don't have any shoes on -"
" I know, Rogue, my roller blades are downstairs, but I have to get going! Has Scott left yet?"
" Not, no one has, we're all kind of lazy, but you'd better hurry."
" Right."
Alice zoomed down the hall, glad for her mutated senses and physical power. She could smell the others downstairs; she had catalogued them in her 'scent file' when she found out she'd be going to school with them. Jean always smelled of baby powder and seriousness, and, when she looked at Scott, a funny scent that Alice had realized was love. The secret kind.
Kurt smelled like Sulfur, big surprise there. It was very faint, but, then again, with a sense of smell five times that of the most perfect bloodhound, you realize these things. Kitty smelled -always-of enthusiasm and - well - that smell that you always find in the mall.
Scott smelled like his English leather cologne, and a serious personality that copied Jean Grey to a T.
Alice made a mental note to herself to try and get them together, if they weren't already, as soon as possible.
Evan ... he smelled like ... the sun, was the only way Alice could put it. Dusty, sort of airy, but with a warm yellow around it.
And Rogue- Rogue smelled always of bleakness, and even though She had no telepathic power, Alice had learned that, along with normal scents, emotions had their own scents, too - most of which were weird, as far as she was concerned.
" I'm going, I'm going!"
" And don't stay after today!"
" Why?" Alice turned to Rogue, who had stuck her head out the door of her room.
" The professor wants to talk to you!"
: oh, great ...:
Alice got into the kitchen - and slid, in her socks, on the freshly waxed floor, her enhanced reaction time allowing her to glide like an ice skater to a final stop in front of her fellow mutants.
" Ta da!"
" Neat!" all seated at the table applauded, and Kurt pulled up a chair for Alice. The girl sat down to eat, and listen to the bits of advice thrown at her from around the table.
" don't eat the potatoes, their evil."
" Steer clear of the principal, he's a madman."
" don't procrastinate in Gym, the teacher will have your head!"
" Find your locker and put a lock on it, you wouldn't believe some of the people here-"
" Steer clear of the brotherhood-"
" The what?"
All at the table stared at Jean, who had given that little tidbit of advice.
" The brotherhood is what we call a group of four mutants who don't live here with us. their names are Pietro, Todd, Fred, and Lance. they live together near the school."
" really? Do you know what they can do, just curious?"
Jean looked uncomfortable .
" Well ... Lance can create shakes in the earth, like an earthquake, but it gives him a headache. Pietro can run at super fast speeds, I don't know exactly how high he can go. Todd- well, his knick-name is Toad, and you need to see him to get my drift. And Fred is really fat, he's really strong, and almost invulnerable, I think he can get a cannon ball hit into his gut without flinching. Not a nice lot, and they don't like us ."
Alice grinned at all around the breakfast table, showing her larger than usual canines .
" Don't worry, unless they pick a fight, I'll ignore them."
" It's good we got that settled, because it's time to go." Rogue walked into the room, her eye shadow as dark as usual.
Scott glanced at the clock.
" Your right, it is time to go. Bye, professor."
" Bye, all of you. Keep Alice out of trouble."
" Trouble? me ? why, I wouldn't dream of it."
Wolfing down a last piece of toast, Alice jumped up and ran to the door, yanking on her roller-blades and calling back,
" Hey, Scott! last one to the school's a rotten egg!"
What Alice didn't know was that no one was listening to her, because they were all staring at the plate that had been in front of here that had once upon a time, held a whole shit load of toast, but now held only crumbs.
At the school ...
Alice bladed in, ignoring the stares of other kids, and trying to figure out how to block her nose. the odors, the emotions, the sweat, the food, and - ugh - the tacky perfume were all overpowering. She had to grin, though, as Scott pulled into the parking lot, and her two day friends jumped out. She skated over to a bench and looked around, since the bell hadn't rung yet.
The school was a nice place, filled with kids. the scent of lying was thick in the air, though.
And then, she smelled - swamp water ?!? What the -
She turned around - and froze the upper part of her body .
There, obviously, was what the others called the Brotherhood. Four guys leaning against the wall like they didn't have a care in the world.
The first one had ripped jeans and messy brown hair. For some strange reason, he was eyeing Kitty with interest. Ohh. a crush . intresting.
The next one had blonde hair in a mowhawk and was - abnormally- fat . He didn't look to mean, though he could be a formidable apponent in a fight . This must be Fred. She wasn't sure about the brown haired guy.
She settled her sights on the other- sort of- normal looking one. He had white hair that was about four inches long, and bright blue eyes. She wasn't sure who this one was - until he sped out of the way of two senior girls, running faster than the eye could see. Pietro . It had to be .
The last one was the one who had brought her to attention. He had skin that was a mottled green, and eyes that were abnormally buggy. She tried not to recoil as he snapped out his long tongue at a passing fly. Toad. Todd. No wonder . Then the one with the brown hair had to be Lance, the Earth Shaker.
She froze as all four, in continuum, looked at her. She mentally forced herself to push as much cold resistance into her gaze as her iron pupils could handle . In the end, it was the four who looked away, and she got up when the others approached. Talking happily, she and Rogue went off to class, comparing schedules, which was pointless, since Alice was in all her classes , curtasy of Charles Xavier.
In another grimy corner of the courtyard -
" Here they come, guys."
" Who?"
" The X-freaks ."
" Like you can talk, Toad ."
" Yo, leave me alone!"
" Comeonyouguys,stopitnow-"
" Pietro, normal speed."
" Come on, guys, quit it ."
Fred growled as he looked at his friends .
" Pietro, two o' clock girl ."
The white-haired boy raced out of the way as the two seniors walked by, eyeing them with distaste .
It was then that he noticed the girl .
She was sitting at a bench, all alone . And, to put it lightly, she was gorgeous .
Short blonde hair going curly at the bottom, a black tummy tank barly containing a ... formidable form.
She had roller bladed to school since the skates were still on her feet. She seemed to have noticed them.
" Heyguys."
" Yeah?"
" What?"
" huh?"
" there'sagirloverthereandshe'snewandshe'slookingatus-"
" Pietro ! NORMAL SPEED!"
The white haired mutant looked meekly at the others .
" There's a new girl over there ."
All four looked - and froze.
She was looking at them with pure ice in her eyes. The cool way she seemed to regard their presence was .. frightening...
And then Rogue walked up to her and started talking.
" Damn," muttered Lance, eyes narrowing. " She's an X-mutie ."
" Yeah. Talk about your bad luck," said Todd as the girl glided into the school.
" Not exactly."
three turned to look at Lance.
" She's a mutant, right? So lets find out her power. Eh? It'll be fun!"
They all silently agreed, and ran inside to get to first period before the bell rang.
Alice sighed as she removed her roller blades and put on her boots. She had English first, and that was the only class that she didn't have one of her friends - namely Rogue - in . She wondered then why they had accepted her so quickly. she shows up on Sunday, it's a day off Monday, but still they gain her friendship in forty-eight hours. Man, these so called X-men confused her . Majorly. Rogue had explained about the brotherhood and the X-men that night, out of hearing, of course, of Jean and Scott. She had also explained about the nicknames that the X-men and Brotherhood dubbed themselves with. Alice had to grin. Maybe it would be fun, beating the heck out of other mutants to save the human race. She hadn't been asked, and yet she was sure that was what the Professor was going to talk to her about .
She wasn't sure what she thought of all of them ... she had gathered, though, That Ororo Monroe, nicknamed Storm, was the aunt of Evan Daniels, on what side of the family she did not know. She liked the Professor, and he demanded respect in an aura of that confidence that old men gain. He also smelled faintly of books and ink.
Logan ... she wasn't sure what she thought of the blue-haired Canadian, but she knew one thing-he was dangerous, with a capital D. There was also something familar about him ... something her enhanced senses couldn't pick out, and yet her mind screamed was there ... maybe her mother knew him ..?
Ororo .. she was just cool. she smelled of a breeze, light and carefree . She also seemed to smell like plants. Alice had heard from Evan that his Aunt kept plants in her room.
Ring,ring.
: Oh, great, the bell. I'm gonna be late if I don't hurry.:
Alice ran down the hall, faster than usual, and into the English room. A middle aged lady with brown hair and gold rimmed glasses stared at her .
" Hi, I'm Alice Greenfeild? The new girl?"
" Ah, yes, Miss Greenfield, why don't you sit down over there, buy next to Pietro."
" .... yes, ma'm ."
Damn! How could she not have noticed that white-haired boy in the back of the room? Pietro Maximoff, aka Quicksilver. Great.
She started for the back of the room, ignoring the stares of teeny-bopper girls and drooling boys, struggling to make sense of all the smells as she set her books down and pulled out the chair.
" hi."
" ...." Alice said nothing as she sat down and stared straight ahead.
" Heeello? Are we on the planet? What's your name?"
" Shut. up."
Pietro stopped, and stared at her. A far cry from the X-men he knew, this girl seemed to have an aura of cold stone around her. It was like ... well, like Kitty Pride and her imparsible abilities. Only, no one could pass through Alice.
" Hey, what's up with you? Man, a guy tries to be nice .."
It was not hard to hear the smirk in the boy's voice. Alice slowly turned in her seat and stared at him with a look of pure contempt.
" Did I not just say, Shut Up?"
It was then that she reached out and touched his notebook, which, under direction of her eye, hurtled into his face and slammed shut on his nose.
" Hey! What the-"
" Mr. Maximoff, would you like to take a trip down to principal Kelly's?"
Pietro blushed as his head lowered.
" No, Mrs. Wyldemoon [1] ."
" Good. Now then, the complex sentence. Amanda, would you like to start?"
As a chubby girl with brown pigtails explained the complex sentence, Pietro looked at Alice. He was sure that she knew he was looking at her, and was making a special effort to not turn around.
: Man, this is weird ... Levitation, but she had to be touching an object .... what else can she do? It's not telekenetic ... that's Jean Grey ... :
And Pietro was left wondering the whole class .
After getting confused in Biology and nearly pummeling some red-headed boy who kept saying she was a fox, Alice was all to ready to go to lunch . As she sat with her friends, she found her eyes kept straying over to the table that housed the brotherhood. she didn't know why, but the boys fascinated her, in a disgusting and vile way. After her last classes of the day, Alice walked outside the school and sit on the same bench as she had this morning. It had been an okay day. she seemed to have been branded resident most wanted, since she had had several boys deliberatly walk into her path all day. And she was begining to get really nasty looks from the girls in her grade, which meant that a few break-ups had occured. Alice was full aware that she had looks to die for, but any man that asked her out on a date would get his arm ripped off. What her unknown father had done to her mother was enough to make her think twice about boys.
It was then that Alice got a feeling ... someone was coming up behind her. She twirled around - to face the Brotherhood.
" Well, well, well." said Lance, circling her like a shark, " We have a new mutant in town."
" Get the hell away from me, all of you, or I'll rip your lungs out." this was said with much calmness, but it didn't discourage him.
" Gee, we're only curious to know about what you can do, right, guys?"
Pietro nodded. He had told them of the notebook episode, and Lance was eager to see it for himself.
" If you mean my powers, you'll just have to wait until you piss me off a bit more, Lance," she said coolly, gazing levelly at him,
"Because there are people around, and I don't really feel like committing manslaughter in front of a bunch of high school students. Wouldn't be good for their minds."
Todd rolled his eyes and snapped at a fly in passing.
" Look, girly, just do as he says, alright? Or we'll all make you wish that you'd never been born."
" Strong words, for one who spends so much of his time in the mud."
This was all Todd heard before he was plunged into blackness.
When Fred saw Alice whack Todd in the neck with a judo kick, his slow brain went into high gear, and he reached forward, intent on making the girl pay. Alice, well knowing what was coming, dodged to the side and ran, everyone around her a blur. she very well knew that if the Brotherhood sent Quicksilver after her, she would have no means of escape. He would be way faster than her, even though her speed rivaled that of an angry cheetah. she could only hope to get out of seeing distance before they had time to react.
She heard a voice call out to her and tagged it with Jean. she was yelling something about 'over here' but Alice couldn't afford to stop now; she had just realized numbly that she was gliding instead of running, and, looking down at her feet, she saw that she was wearing her roller blades. Oh, good.
At least, it was - until she saw something flash beside her, and turned her head- to glare straight into the eyes of Pietro Maximoff .
Damn. DAMN!
" Hello, sweetie," he said, smiling oily, " Now if you'll just slow down-" Alice ignored him as she saw an alleyway coming up ahead. an idea was swiftly forming in her mind.
" Hey, Pety, know what type of metal a garbage can is made out of?"
Pietro looked at her as though she was crazy, wondering what in the world she was thinking of.
" I don't know."
" Steel," and, since he had slowed down, Alice slammed him into the alleyway, smiling as she heard a satisfying crack.
Turning her head at a yell, She saw Scott's car rolling along , and Evan standing up, waving to her. she waved back, and jumped one handed into the car as is rolled by.
" What happened?" ordered Jean, sitting in the front while the others were sandwiched in back.
" Well, they just came over and started bothering me.." Alice told the entire tale, happy for the audiance.
" And you broke something?" asked Jean when she had finally gotten to the end of her tale.
" Yes ... I didn't mean to," she said hastily under the telekinetic's glare, " It was the thrill of the moment. adrenaline, you know?"
Jean scowled and turned around. Rogue smiled at her, and Kitty looked kind of shocked, but proud. Kurt, wearing his holo-watch, looked impressed, but Even looked sick. Alice decided she wasn't going to ask why.
When they got the mansion, all jumped out- to face the worried face of Ororo, the gruff scowl of Logan, and the dissapointed stare of Charles Xavier.
" Which of you did this?" he questioned as they went inside to the lounge, where the news report was still blaring,
" The young man was shipped to the hospital for broken bones, but he refuses to state what happened. Eyewitnesses say that they saw a black blur throw him into the alleyway, but truth has not been found."
Everyone was dead silent. Darn media, always poking their noses where they shouldn't be.
Alice struggled with her thoughts. She wanted to be accepted here - so she had to face the consequences ... it had been her fault, after all, no sense in getting everyone else into trouble.
But before she could say a word, Evan stepped forward.
" It was me. Quicksliver chased me, and I had to get away from him, so I shoved him."
Ororo looked shocked. Logan huffed in disbelief, and Charles simply nodded.
" Evan, you are not allowed to use your powers until you get home from school tomorrow. that includes tonight. Now, go."
Everyone exited the room, thinking his or her own confused thoughts. But not Alice. She stayed, thinking her confused thoughts in the lounge. Charles turned around to face her .
" Alice?"
" Rogue said you wanted to see me after school, professor."
" Yes. I did. Look, we need a little bit of information from you."
" ... I know. what do you want to know?"
" What's been going on ?"
Alice looked at Logan and Ororo, uncomfortable. But when both made it clear that neither was going to leave, she decided to continue.
" .. My mom raised me in Diamondback, a little town in southern Montana. I was six when my first gifts began to appear, and my mother nurtured them, taught me how to use them, and taught me never to reveal them in front of anyone I didn't trust. All went well for a while. You should know my mom, Professor- she knew you. Ruby Greenfeild."
Charles nodded. " Ruby. I remember her. she was the most powerful telekinetic I knew, next to Jean."
" Yeah. I got my levitating powers from her. Problem is, I had to be touching an object, then I had to mentally direct it, not like a telikinetic. Well, I'm getting off track ..."
" Everything went well, until about six months ago, when some crazy whako started following me and my mom around. Everywhere we went, he was there. My mom knew who he was, but she refused to tell me anything. I think it might have had something to do with my Dad. But, anyway ..
" He just shows up at our house one night, six months ago, with some jerk-off named Sabertooth. He's got a flamethrower with him, and when my mom refuses to hand me over, he wrecks the place. My mom barely got out with me before the entire house came down. Mom took me to a cave in the desert outside of town, but he found us there, too. It was then that mom gave me all that money and told me to run."
She looked at the three adults in the room, not a tear falling down her face as she stated,
" And that's the last I ever saw of her."
Xavier nodded and turned to look at Logan. Then he looked to Alice.
" We got the results back from the bone X-ray." He said quietly.
Alice braced herself. She knew what was to come.
" You told everyone else that you had but one more power out of the four. You showed only three. Now, show us the fourth." Alice's hands clutched the side of the chair, turning her knuckles white. She looked at the Professor, a pleading look in her eyes. To that, Ororo said,
" We won't tell any of the kids, but to be honest is something that is valued here. Please."
Alice sighed - and opened her hands .
Shooting out of her knuckles were twelve inch claws, gleaming silver and ivory in the light. Not straight and perfect like Logan's, hers were wavy and curled - like bone.
" I thought so," said Charles softly. " Alice, you know that that is adimantium fused with your bone fiber?"
Alice nodded, close to tears.
" Mom wouldn't tell me why ... she never liked my claws ... said they reminded her of -"
Alice cut off here.
At that, Logan glared at the Professor, then at Ororo, and then out the window. He then turned his gaze at Alice.
With an un-hidden shik, his claws slipped out. Alice lifted her tear streaked face ... and stared at the blue haired man's hands.
" Alice," said Ororo quietly. " Meet your father."
