I looked at my brother who was leaning back in the driver's seat of
the green jeep thinking. I had no clue what was wrong, but there was
something. We were waiting for Fred and Todd to probably pull Pietro away
from a mirror or something and I finally asked three words that would
complicate my life even further.
"What's wrong, Dom?" I still called him by his name sometimes, it was how I knew him.
"You really want to know?" I nodded silently. "My history teacher, Mr. Coux, started talking about how we're entering a new age where men will have to fight to keep their freedom. We were discussing world war two and the holocaust and someone brought up if that was wrong was what was happening to some mutants was wrong. He said no, that mutants weren't human and that to protect humans they had to be controlled." He frowned. "It was the new kid who asked, I think his name was Joe or Jordan or something, the whole class agreed except him, me, and Scott."
I shook my head disgusted with those other seniors who'd agreed. "There are also people who think humans and mutants can coexist."
"Yeah, but with the Friends of Humanity coming up I'm thinking maybe we should join with Xavier and the X-men, might be the only place we're safe."
I shook my head furiously knowing I was told not to tell him but fighting with myself because he was my brother and if he did decide to join the X-men, well, that could end up disastrous. "No," I snapped, "Xavier isn't what he seems." I just got looked at strangely and wondered how I could tell him this. As long as he thought someone was going for us it was ok, right? Oh, life was getting way too confusing to keep track of everything.
"What do you mean, Cami?" He turned to look at me and blinked a couple of times.
"What she means is," Electro, easily identified and remembered by the yellow bleached bangs that fell in his face and black rubber gloves leaned against the hood of the jeep and looked at Lance, "Xavier isn't up to any good."
"Get off my car, what's your face, you weren't welcome at the game you aren't welcome here." Lance got out of the car and I quickly followed not even opening the door. I landed funky on my ankle and fell but got up and put my weight on the other foot.
"Hey, our guardian just decided to move us here since it was such a 'lovely little town'." He rolled his eyes at that and stood up away from the jeep. Why were they here? Had something I said to Mystique brought them to Bayville?
"You still aren't welcome." My brother snapped looking really pissed at Electro, or his real name had been Keith hadn't it?
"Am I?" I glanced back to see 'the less deadly version of Rogue' smiling at Lance in a bit of an impish way.
"Not if you slap me again," he muttered and Keith was immediately between the two.
"Look, where are the rest of the 'brotherhood'. We don't have time to mess around and Raven wants to see you guys." He and Lance did not like each other, any idiot could tell that, even Daniels.
"Raven?" It took a moment for him to remember that Raven was in fact Mystique. "Tell her to forget it, she abandoned us so now we're abandoning her."
"Lance…."
"Stay out of it, Cami."
"How about that history teacher?" It was a guy I didn't recognize but Lance seemed to. "What a jerk huh? Friends of Humanity, they're acting like we're bombs!"
"Uh," out of no where a girl appeared fading into view, "Jordan? You kind of are."
"Quiet, Mak, no one asked your opinion."
Lance was looking extremely confused and myself, since I knew two of them, really didn't care much.
"Ok, Alvers, who are your friends?" And cue Scott to complicate things. There he was with Rogue, who looked like she just wanted to go home, and Daniels who was looking for Pietro to continue their stupid little feud.
"You want to know who we are?" Keith cracked his knuckles and smirked, for not liking each other he and Lance seemed a like.
"I believe that's why he asked." I looked behind me and saw Jean with Kurt and Kitty.
"It's our first day, we don't want a fight, ok?" Too bad Mak wasn't visible anymore and Mimic was…. somewhere. Suddenly Daniles got his legs knocked from under him and Mimic appeared, glasses off, and looking directly at Rogue. "Or maybe we do, can never tell."
"Rogue, drop her," Scott ordered and Rogue turned around yanking off a glove and pressed her hand against Mimic's cheek. Mimic yawned and put her glasses back on.
"This was predicted, decided to try it out." Mimic sauntered around Rogue and away from the girl's hand. "Copying your power makes the two cancel each other out." She grinned and placed her hand taking off her own, finger-less gloves for Rogue to touch. Rogue was stunned that she could actually touch someone.
"Rogue," Scott snapped as Daniels fought with an invisible girl and Kurt ported over to help him. "Rogue!"
"Summers, she hasn't been able to touch anyone since her powers emerged," Lance snapped, "so why don't you back off of her?'
Scott mumbled and pushed Lance out of the way more than irate. He looked directly at me. "Who is this anyway?" This was not Scott, I could tell that. "Some new little bit…"
"She's my sister!" Lance yelled getting right in Scott's face. "I'm not going to have you picking on her or anything. So take your little freaks and leave!"
"We aren't freaks anymore than you are, and since when do you have a sister?" So Keith and Lance had stopped their testosterone battle for Lance and Scott to start one, wonderful.
"Since I was three, that answer your question?" I climbed back into the jeep to wait for them to get tired and leave. I could see Todd and Fred coming, Pietro suddenly next to me asking what was going on.
"We were waiting for you and Electro over there wanted us to go see Mystique but Lance didn't want to go and then Scott and the X-geeks came and this happened." I waved my hand at the scene and looked uninterested.
"Oh, ok." Pietro say something invisible beating his rival up and shrugged. "So how was your day?"
"Pretty much…" And at that moment there was a large explosion and I whipped my head around to see dust from something and a rock from the edge of the parking lot hovering in the air. Suddenly the rock exploded without warning and I covered my eyes from the dust. It seemed to have made everyone stop.
"This is not what we want," a very angry Jordan growled. So that's why Mak had called his a bomb. "We want to be normal! Mak, show yourself and stop beating the poor boys up!" Mak appeared and frowned crossing her arms and keeping an eye on Evan and Kurt.
"He's right," Keith muttered. He hadn't made any move to take his gloves off and seemed pretty calm. "It was going to be fun beating you guys up, but oh well. We aren't allowed to touch the German guy anyway."
"You can't just…" Scott didn't get any more out as Mimic placed her bare hand on his and he dropped like a sack of potatoes. Then she took his shades and put them on.
"Ok, I know you can't hear me, but you're screwed up," Jewels said to the passed out Scott. "Can we go home now? I got a headache."
"You can't just…"
"You want to be next, Jeanie girl? Wow, you're a bitch you know that. I almost feel sorry for Scott… almost." Everyone else didn't move as the girl with now red shades started away grabbing Electro's had and t he Jordan's careful not to touch their skin. "You five, come with us or I'll drop y'all and take ya with me!"
"C'mon, Todd," I hopped out of the jeep again and we followed them as Chameleon hit Evan one last time and joined her friends.
"Ah, what the hell, come on Fred, if it gets us away from the X- geeks." Pietro was immediately beside me and Fred's shadow was coming up on us.
Then I stopped and turned around. "Lance?"
He stared at us for a while, amazingly the conscious X-men not making a move since we were backing off. "Move it Pryde," he told Kitty walking passed her and hooking his arm around my neck. "Come on, Shrimp, but we're only going there to listen."
"It's not to much to explain, all Raven wants is to help us have normal lives," Chameleon explained looking back. The others nodded. "Sometimes it's like an after school special gone horribly wrong."
"Hey, you get…" Jean started, but Mimic turned around and lowered the red shades to shoot a narrow red beam at her feet.
"Um… my jeep." Lance looked back and I wiggled out of his grasp.
"We can get it later, walking won't hurt ya guys," Keith put his hands behind his head and the four took turns telling us everything and anything they knew. Then we stepped into the door of a large house painted light gray with green trim and door. It was two stories and in a normal neighborhood. Not shabby, not a mansion, but an actually normal house.
Inside the house wasn't as normal. In the living room a girl with reddish brown hair lying on her stomach watching the TV, normal except for the marvelous dragonfly wings on her back. A blonde with red highlights was concentrating on the ivy decorating the wall and it slowly crept over the white painted wood. Then in the dining room I could see Mystique talking with a woman with black glasses on and a cane resting on the table by her.
"We're home, Irene," Jordan called bounding into the kitchen and stopping in front of the woman.
"I know that Jordan, Raven…"
Mystique stood up and walked into the hallway and smiling gently at Lance, Pietro, Fred, and Todd. "Welcome home boys."
(A/N: And cue credits! Also cue the audience gapping and going 'that was it'? Sort of I did at the end of The Fellowship of the Ring. Don't fret my adoring admirers. More, better stories to come!)
"What's wrong, Dom?" I still called him by his name sometimes, it was how I knew him.
"You really want to know?" I nodded silently. "My history teacher, Mr. Coux, started talking about how we're entering a new age where men will have to fight to keep their freedom. We were discussing world war two and the holocaust and someone brought up if that was wrong was what was happening to some mutants was wrong. He said no, that mutants weren't human and that to protect humans they had to be controlled." He frowned. "It was the new kid who asked, I think his name was Joe or Jordan or something, the whole class agreed except him, me, and Scott."
I shook my head disgusted with those other seniors who'd agreed. "There are also people who think humans and mutants can coexist."
"Yeah, but with the Friends of Humanity coming up I'm thinking maybe we should join with Xavier and the X-men, might be the only place we're safe."
I shook my head furiously knowing I was told not to tell him but fighting with myself because he was my brother and if he did decide to join the X-men, well, that could end up disastrous. "No," I snapped, "Xavier isn't what he seems." I just got looked at strangely and wondered how I could tell him this. As long as he thought someone was going for us it was ok, right? Oh, life was getting way too confusing to keep track of everything.
"What do you mean, Cami?" He turned to look at me and blinked a couple of times.
"What she means is," Electro, easily identified and remembered by the yellow bleached bangs that fell in his face and black rubber gloves leaned against the hood of the jeep and looked at Lance, "Xavier isn't up to any good."
"Get off my car, what's your face, you weren't welcome at the game you aren't welcome here." Lance got out of the car and I quickly followed not even opening the door. I landed funky on my ankle and fell but got up and put my weight on the other foot.
"Hey, our guardian just decided to move us here since it was such a 'lovely little town'." He rolled his eyes at that and stood up away from the jeep. Why were they here? Had something I said to Mystique brought them to Bayville?
"You still aren't welcome." My brother snapped looking really pissed at Electro, or his real name had been Keith hadn't it?
"Am I?" I glanced back to see 'the less deadly version of Rogue' smiling at Lance in a bit of an impish way.
"Not if you slap me again," he muttered and Keith was immediately between the two.
"Look, where are the rest of the 'brotherhood'. We don't have time to mess around and Raven wants to see you guys." He and Lance did not like each other, any idiot could tell that, even Daniels.
"Raven?" It took a moment for him to remember that Raven was in fact Mystique. "Tell her to forget it, she abandoned us so now we're abandoning her."
"Lance…."
"Stay out of it, Cami."
"How about that history teacher?" It was a guy I didn't recognize but Lance seemed to. "What a jerk huh? Friends of Humanity, they're acting like we're bombs!"
"Uh," out of no where a girl appeared fading into view, "Jordan? You kind of are."
"Quiet, Mak, no one asked your opinion."
Lance was looking extremely confused and myself, since I knew two of them, really didn't care much.
"Ok, Alvers, who are your friends?" And cue Scott to complicate things. There he was with Rogue, who looked like she just wanted to go home, and Daniels who was looking for Pietro to continue their stupid little feud.
"You want to know who we are?" Keith cracked his knuckles and smirked, for not liking each other he and Lance seemed a like.
"I believe that's why he asked." I looked behind me and saw Jean with Kurt and Kitty.
"It's our first day, we don't want a fight, ok?" Too bad Mak wasn't visible anymore and Mimic was…. somewhere. Suddenly Daniles got his legs knocked from under him and Mimic appeared, glasses off, and looking directly at Rogue. "Or maybe we do, can never tell."
"Rogue, drop her," Scott ordered and Rogue turned around yanking off a glove and pressed her hand against Mimic's cheek. Mimic yawned and put her glasses back on.
"This was predicted, decided to try it out." Mimic sauntered around Rogue and away from the girl's hand. "Copying your power makes the two cancel each other out." She grinned and placed her hand taking off her own, finger-less gloves for Rogue to touch. Rogue was stunned that she could actually touch someone.
"Rogue," Scott snapped as Daniels fought with an invisible girl and Kurt ported over to help him. "Rogue!"
"Summers, she hasn't been able to touch anyone since her powers emerged," Lance snapped, "so why don't you back off of her?'
Scott mumbled and pushed Lance out of the way more than irate. He looked directly at me. "Who is this anyway?" This was not Scott, I could tell that. "Some new little bit…"
"She's my sister!" Lance yelled getting right in Scott's face. "I'm not going to have you picking on her or anything. So take your little freaks and leave!"
"We aren't freaks anymore than you are, and since when do you have a sister?" So Keith and Lance had stopped their testosterone battle for Lance and Scott to start one, wonderful.
"Since I was three, that answer your question?" I climbed back into the jeep to wait for them to get tired and leave. I could see Todd and Fred coming, Pietro suddenly next to me asking what was going on.
"We were waiting for you and Electro over there wanted us to go see Mystique but Lance didn't want to go and then Scott and the X-geeks came and this happened." I waved my hand at the scene and looked uninterested.
"Oh, ok." Pietro say something invisible beating his rival up and shrugged. "So how was your day?"
"Pretty much…" And at that moment there was a large explosion and I whipped my head around to see dust from something and a rock from the edge of the parking lot hovering in the air. Suddenly the rock exploded without warning and I covered my eyes from the dust. It seemed to have made everyone stop.
"This is not what we want," a very angry Jordan growled. So that's why Mak had called his a bomb. "We want to be normal! Mak, show yourself and stop beating the poor boys up!" Mak appeared and frowned crossing her arms and keeping an eye on Evan and Kurt.
"He's right," Keith muttered. He hadn't made any move to take his gloves off and seemed pretty calm. "It was going to be fun beating you guys up, but oh well. We aren't allowed to touch the German guy anyway."
"You can't just…" Scott didn't get any more out as Mimic placed her bare hand on his and he dropped like a sack of potatoes. Then she took his shades and put them on.
"Ok, I know you can't hear me, but you're screwed up," Jewels said to the passed out Scott. "Can we go home now? I got a headache."
"You can't just…"
"You want to be next, Jeanie girl? Wow, you're a bitch you know that. I almost feel sorry for Scott… almost." Everyone else didn't move as the girl with now red shades started away grabbing Electro's had and t he Jordan's careful not to touch their skin. "You five, come with us or I'll drop y'all and take ya with me!"
"C'mon, Todd," I hopped out of the jeep again and we followed them as Chameleon hit Evan one last time and joined her friends.
"Ah, what the hell, come on Fred, if it gets us away from the X- geeks." Pietro was immediately beside me and Fred's shadow was coming up on us.
Then I stopped and turned around. "Lance?"
He stared at us for a while, amazingly the conscious X-men not making a move since we were backing off. "Move it Pryde," he told Kitty walking passed her and hooking his arm around my neck. "Come on, Shrimp, but we're only going there to listen."
"It's not to much to explain, all Raven wants is to help us have normal lives," Chameleon explained looking back. The others nodded. "Sometimes it's like an after school special gone horribly wrong."
"Hey, you get…" Jean started, but Mimic turned around and lowered the red shades to shoot a narrow red beam at her feet.
"Um… my jeep." Lance looked back and I wiggled out of his grasp.
"We can get it later, walking won't hurt ya guys," Keith put his hands behind his head and the four took turns telling us everything and anything they knew. Then we stepped into the door of a large house painted light gray with green trim and door. It was two stories and in a normal neighborhood. Not shabby, not a mansion, but an actually normal house.
Inside the house wasn't as normal. In the living room a girl with reddish brown hair lying on her stomach watching the TV, normal except for the marvelous dragonfly wings on her back. A blonde with red highlights was concentrating on the ivy decorating the wall and it slowly crept over the white painted wood. Then in the dining room I could see Mystique talking with a woman with black glasses on and a cane resting on the table by her.
"We're home, Irene," Jordan called bounding into the kitchen and stopping in front of the woman.
"I know that Jordan, Raven…"
Mystique stood up and walked into the hallway and smiling gently at Lance, Pietro, Fred, and Todd. "Welcome home boys."
(A/N: And cue credits! Also cue the audience gapping and going 'that was it'? Sort of I did at the end of The Fellowship of the Ring. Don't fret my adoring admirers. More, better stories to come!)