Summary: A new mutant arrives at the Academy an decides to help Rogue with her isolation from her powers. (Chapter 5)
Disclaimer: No, I only own Jordan. And the plot, of course.
Reviews: Man, I got a good bit of reviews even thought I didn't send out any notices... o_0. Well, thanks to everyone who reviewed! And I'm gonna try and prolong this story a bit. But I can still only think of two chapter's worth of stuff. And when I do end the story, I am going to write a sequel. My sister is making sure of it, along with one of my other friends, who has threatened to jump the border and find me if I stop. You know who you are.
Lucky439: Thanks, i'l try to keep going, at least in this story.
Post: Hmmm... didn't exactly see that at first, but now I get it. As to when they discussed the ides, in Chapter two near the end, Jordan says he has an idea to talk about. That is when the idea is supposed to be discussed. Also, twice he writes some idea down that he repeats later during his explanation. Hopefully I didn't hide those facts too much o_0.
Tenpi Shojo: Cool. "Too good to stop." I like that. Thanks. Lol.
Jen: Thanks. That's two people that buy into this pairing. That's good. Lol. Thanks for reviewing.
It Will Begin
"One more day until the weekend," Jordan commented to himself. He was getting ready for school, about to head downstairs. They had just finished the Danger Room session for the morning. Jordan's uniform was slightly seared from where a flamethrower had torched him. He had barely enough time to put up a layer of high melting point metal before it hit him.
Jordan walked out of his room and down the hall.
'Maybe I should ask Rogue out for another date' he thought to himself. 'It'll be the first one as a true couple. Man, that sounds wierd. "A couple." Maybe I should find another phrase.'
Jordan laughed, then headed downstairs to eat his breakfast and head out. Rogue was already waiting at the door by the time he finished breakfast. They left the Institute and headed toward school.
"Hey, Rogue," Jordan said, beginning the conversation. "Would you like to go out on another date? It's Friday, so we don't have to worry about schoolwork for a while."
"Sure," Rogue answered. She had begun to feel close to Jordan, the first person she had ever touched since before she could remember. Except, of course, when she had been draining a person's memory. "Where are we gonna to go?"
"Well, seeing as I don't know much of the town yet, you get to choose," Jordan stated.
"Ah get to choose again," Rogue repeated to herself. She thought for a moment, thinking. Then she smiled at Jordan, who suddenly got the feeling he shouldn't have made the choice so general.
"Where to?" Jordan repeated, almost dreading the answer.
"We are going to go to the mall to look around," Rogue replied, giving her boyfriend a hug. "There's a CD Ah've been wanting to get."
"Okay, that doesn't sound too bad," Jordan stated. "But then we have to go eat somewhere."
"Ah'll think of someplace," Rogue said, just as the two arrived at school. They were a little later than usual, so they had to go to class. They kissed quickly and parted, deciding to go out at around five that evening.
Donnng... Donnng... Donnng...
"Finally, the weekend," Jordan said, walking out his last class, Spanish. "Even thought it was a short week, I'll never like school. Except the classes I have with Rogue..."
The two arrived back at the Institute. Rogue had decided to go the same restaraunt as last time, seeing as how they both enjoyed the food there. It was only 2:30, so Jordan decided to go work on creating adamantium in his skin for a while. Rogue went up to her room to see if there were any other music CDs she wanted to get.
Jordan arrived in the lab again and took out the sample of adamantium. The metal was the strongest yet discovered, able to withstand almost any force if the metal was thick enough. Jordan sat down in a nearby chair and rolled the metal between his hands. It felt cool, soothing, almost as if its strength gave Jordan a greater sense of security. He set the metal down on his pant leg, remembering that the Professor had mentioned that some powers worked best if used subconsciously. He took out the pad of drawing paper from his bookbag and flipped through it. Most were of places he had been through as he traveled from the town where the people feared him to the Institute. His parents couldn't afford to bring him to the School for the Gifted themselves, with the possibility that the people they lived near might suspect that they had helped him escape. Their neighbors had wanted to send Jordan to jail, saying he was dangerous. But his parents remembered an old friend whom they had gone to school with. He had talked of helping people with special needs. His name was Charles Xavier. So Jordan had been told to go to the Institute on foot.
Finally, Jordan turned the page to the picture he had begun of the students when he had first met them. It was still unfinished. That was soon changed. Jordan added the finishing shapes, colors, and shadings. It was a rather good picture by his standards. He set the pad aside and looked down at his watch.
"Man, almost 3:30," Jordan commented aloud. "Okay, let's see if I can form this metal now."
He set the adamantium aside and concentrated on the feel it had. The coolness and the underlying strength.
Jordan's arm stiffened.
"Wow, I did it," he commented to himself. "Better tell the Professor."
Professor? Jordan called mentally as he walked toward his room, hoping Xavier would pick up his thought. I can create adamantium now. 'Well that sounds clicheish.'
A moment later, Xavier responded. Good. You finished sooner than I had hoped. Would you mind letting Mr. McCoy have a look to make sure the metal is pure?
Actually, I do kind of mind right now, Jordan responded. He told the Professor about the date he had with Rogue. Xavier agreed to let the two go again, saying that Jordan would have the metal inspected later when he returned.
"Rogue! You ready?" Jordan asked, knocking on the door to the goth's room. Music was coming from inside. It turned off and the door opened. Rogue waslked out in her usualy attire.
"What do you think?" Rogue asked. "Ah've been waiting for ya since we arrived back here."
Jordan laughed at Rogue's attempt at sarcasm. Rogue began laughing also and the two headed out, holding hands.
They arrived at the nearby mall and headed right into a music store, where Rogue found the CD she had been looking for, along with two others. She decided to buy all three.
"But Ah don't seem to have enough money," Rogue concluded after counting her money.
Jordan laughed inwardly.
'I knew this was going to happen' he thought as he handed Rogue enough money to make up for her shortage. 'The girl never seems to have enough money when she's on a date. Not that it matters any. I have plenty of money for a while.'
"Thanks," Rogue said, taking the money and paying for her CDs. They couple walked back out and started looking around the mall, burning time until they felt like eating.
After a little while, they sat down in one of the many benches throughout the mall. Jordan sat quietly, leeting Rogue look at he new CDs some more.
'I wonder how my parents are doing' Jordan thought to himself. 'It's been a while since I've talked to them.' Rogue leaned against him, breaking his train of thought. Jordan hugged her against him and went on thinking about different things that had been going on lately.
Then another thing disrupted his thoughts. And nowhere nearly as nicely as Rogue had done. A flood of people ran into the mall, screaming as if some terror was bent on getting rid of them.
"What the?" Jordan exclaimed, standing up and running through the crowd toward the exit, Rogue only a few steps behind him. They stepped outside the mall and found that several cars had been overturned. By a huge crack in the asphalt.
"Yo guys, look who it is. It's Roguey and the metal freak."
Jordan turned to see The members of the Brotherhood standing nearby, dressed in their uniforms and appearing somewhat ready for a fight. Boom-Boom was even with them this time.
"Don't call him a freak, Todd," Boom-Boom said. "I think he's kinda cute."
"Yeah,wellyouthinkthatabouteveryguywesee," Quicksilver stated. "Butwe needthepracticetogetreadyfortheplan,soyouhavetofighthim,whetherornothe'scute."
"Uhhh... what do we need to do?" Blob asked, looking confused at Quicksilver's long string of words.
"We need to teach these guys a lesson," Avalance answered, his eyes rolling back and one hand outstretched. "No one defeats the Brotherhood!"
With that, a trmpling began, the majority of it aimed toward the already toppled cars.
"Look out!" Renegade yelled, pushing Rogue to the side and jumping out of the way himself as a flying car smashed where they had just been standing. Rogue landed on her side, propping herself up soon after she stopped moving. Renegade landed on his feet on the other side of the car and ran toward the Brotherhood members, creating a very thin layer of adamantium over the bones in his hands. He jumped toward Quicksilver, hoping to catch the speed demon by surprise.
"Gotyou!" A blue streak said from behind Renegade. His arms were pinned behind his back.
'Obviously, I missed' Jordan thought to himself. Suddenly, the hold on his arms went away and he heard a thunk behind him where Quicksilver had been. Rogue ran passed her boyfriend at an amzing speed, using her newly stolen powers.
Toad jumped high into the air, dodging the blurred black form. Blob braced himself for an attack, but he was saved by Avalanche, who sent a curling wave of blacktop in Rogue's direction, knocking her off balance. Toad landed feet-first on Rogue's back, causing her to yell.
Toad suddenly found himself thrown through the air roughly by an angry Renegade.
"Get away from her!" he yelled after the flying Toad before turning toward the other opponents. Blob was charging toward him like a freight train, causing small shockwaves through the ground. Renegade braced himself, filling his legs with heavy lead and enforcing his entire skeleton with a titanium/adamantium alloy.
Blob crashed into him. Renegade stood his ground, holding the giant mutant from moving any further. As the two attempted to throw each other to the side, Rogue got up and ran to engage Boom-Boom, who was just getting into the fight. A ball of light finished, the blonde teenager hurled it at a swiftly approaching Rogue. Rogue sidestepped it and tackled Boom-Boom, sending them both flying across the parking lot.
"Get off of me!" Boom-Boom yelled, shoving Rogue into the air in a skilled throw. Boom-Boom got up quickly and called the remaining members back to her, telling Blob to pick up Quicksilver.
Blob nodded and stepped sideways, almost knocking Renegade off balance. He picked up and ran after the other retreating members, Avalanche carrying Toad, who had been dazed by his landing. The earth-mover sent a parting schockwave at the two victors. It tossed Rogue up into the air toward Renegade. Still weighted fown by the metal in his body, Jordan simply caught Rogue.
"We'll be back!" Avalanche yelled. "Our plan hasn't even started yet!"
"Yeah, whatever," Jordan yelled back, still holding Rogue up. "Get out of here!"
The short battle over, Renegade looked down at Rogue. She looked unsure of herself.
"Oh, sorry," Jordan apologized, setting the goth down on her feet.
"It's ok," Rogue replied, flushing slightly, a result of being still unused to being touched that much. She looked in the direction that the Brotherhood had retreated. "They always seem to attack when we're on a date, huh?"
"Seems like it," Jordan agreed. He heard someone run up behind him. He turned around to discover Scott and Jean looking around at the damage.
"What happened here?" Scott asked. "Looks like an earthquake... Let me guess. Avalanche?"
"Almost," Jordan answered. "All of them. They said they were practicing for something."
"Man, I wish those guys would just leave people alone once in a while," Scott exclaimed.
"Yeah, just like some other people I know," Jean commented aloud, pointedly looking at Scott. "It's nice to hang out with a friend without someone asking if I'm with Duncan."
Scott took the hint and stopped his complaining almost before it started.
"Well, you two have a good time," Jean said to Rogue and Jordan, turning to head back into the mall.
Scott remained for a few moments watching Jean leave.
"Ya like her, don't ya?" Rogue asked him after a few silent moments.
"Yeah..." Scott replied absent-mindedly. He turned around quickly, just realizing what he had said. "What? No, no, I don't like..." He stopped talking, seeing the look on both of the other's faces. "Yeah, I guess I do."
"I doubt you're guessing," Jordan stated. "Better tell her before someone else does."
Scott thought for a moment. "Yeah, I will, but not yet. I don't want to interrupt her again."
"I completely agrre with you," Jordan replied.
Scott laughed and headed back to his car, leaving Jordan and Rogue by themselves once more.
"Ya still want to eat?" Rogue asked her boyfriend.
Jordan smiled. "Yeah, why not?"
Jordana and Rogue walked back inside the Insitute after eating their meal and hanging out for a little while longer at the mall. As they were walking by the commons room, Jordan peeked in. Scott and Jean were sitting next to each other on a couch, talking quietly with each other. Jordan waved Rogue over and she looked in. Then the two left, happy to have helped a friend in some way. They walked upstairs to the quarters hall.
"Vwhere did you two go?" asked Nightcrawler as they passed by his room. "Out on a date?" He added, laughing.
"What does it matter to ya, elf boy?" Rogue asked hotly.
"Hey, Rogue," Jordan said calmly. "You don't need to blow up. Yes Kurt, we went out to the mall together."
"Oh," Kurt said, deciding that didn't seem to be a good time to be playing jokes, for whatever reason. "Sorry, Rogue."
"It's ahlright," the goth replied, cooling her temper. 'I gotta get used to not blowing up when someone makes a joke' she thought to herself as her and Jordan headed to their rooms.
"Oh, man, I forgot," Jordan exclaimed a moment later. "Mr.McCoy wanted to check the adamantium to see if its pure."
"Ya can make adamantium now?" Rogue asked, turning to him as they stopped.
"Yeah, I got it down just before we left," Jordan explained. "I used it when I was fighting Blob."
"Oh, okay," Rogue said. She kissed Jordan for a moment, before telling him she was going to her room to listen to her new CDs while he went through his tests. Jordan headed down to the lab, where McCoy was working on some chemistry experiment.
"Be careful," McCoy warned when Jordan strayed too close to a vial of clear liquid. "HCl isn't very good for you if it gets on you."
"Hydrochloric acid?" Jordan asked, slightly alarmed. He backed away from the container.
"Now, let's see a sample of this metal of yours," McCoy instructed. Jordan nodded and formed a portion of his hand into the metal he thought might be the completed adamantium. At a instruction from McCoy, Jordan placed his hand under a large, powerful microscope.
After several minutes, Mr. McCoy told Jordan that the metal was, indeed, pure adamantium.
"Amazing," McCoy said aloud. "To be able to create andy metal with just thought. Most people would have alreday tried making gold or platinum."
Jordan nodded in agreement. "I don't need it, I get enough money from my parents." 'Speaking of which' Jordan tohught to himself. 'I should probably call them.'
After getting permission from Mr. McCoy, Jordan left and headed up to his room, where he dialed his family's home phone number. His father answered and Jordan began talking about the past few days, purposely leaving out the more dangerous events. His parents had sent him to the Institute to be safe, not exactly what had been going on.
Hanging up after talking for almost an hour with his parents, Jordan laid down on his bed an looked over at the clock alarm. It was almost 9:00. Deciding to go see Rogue for a few moments, Jordan walked down the hall to her room and went inside. They listened to Rogue's new CDs for a while before they both turned in, deciding to catch up on the sleep they had lost during the school week.
Jordan told the Professor about what had happened at the mall through a telepathic link before going to bed. He fell asleep quickly.
Jordan woke up and looked around his room. It was dark and everything was silent, except for the fan he had left running. The clock read near midnight. Jordan stood up and looked out the closed window. He heard a noise behind him and he turned around, expecting some joke by one of the younger students.
Jordan blacked out a moment later, suddenly realizing that it was not one of the other students.
So, how was it? Like the cliffhanger? I've had this idea stuck in my head for quite a while. Well, one more chapter left, then perhaps a prologue. Then a sequel. Well, please R&R! I love getting new reviews. Oh, yeah, I'm giving credit to Post, who suggested that Xavier was somehow related to Jordan, hence their easy relationship. That's where I got the idea for Xaier being Jordan's parent's friend. Wow, that was wierd. Jordan's Parent's... never mind. O_0. Lol. Well R&R!.