Disclaimer: I don't own the x-men evo characters. Also my original character was inspired by the parody "That's the spirit." Apparently there is a character in the comics called Belladonna. My character is not related to her in any way. I only used the name because it came from the play "That's the Spirit" (along with the sock).

Thoughts are italicized

Chapter 1

The students of the Xavier Academy waited in the professor's office. "I wonder what the professor wants now?" asked Evan.

"I glad you asked that Evan," Charles Xavier answered as he entered the office. Evan blushed. "We have a new mutant and I wanted you to all come welcome her."

"What aren't you telling us?" Jean asked, interpreting the frown on his face.

"Bella has had a difficult life. She may strike you as weird. However, we want to make her feel welcome and comfortable here. We cannot begin to work on her habits until she is fully adjusted to life here." The teenagers glanced at each other nervously; the Professor had never given them a warning about a new mutant before, not even Boom-Boom.

Before they had a chance to worry the door opened and the new girl walked in. She didn't look like a nutcase. She was slim with had shoulder length blond hair. She was also pretty although not a major head turner. She wore a violet shirt and dark-denim jeans. She surveyed her new teammates as they did the same to her. "Hi," she said nervously. "We're happy to be here."

"We?" Kitty asked raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah, me and Chester. I never do anything without Chester."

"Like, who's Chester?"

Bella reached into one of her suitcases and pulled out Chester. Everyone stared. It was the same sock her mother has thrust at her years ago. But it looked different. The sock was incredibly white and the eyes were evenly placed and straight. Brown hair had been sewn on the top and carefully styled with little curls. But this wasn't all. The sock had been dressed in a jean skirt and was wearing a blue top. "I'm Chester!" she made the sock say. Her mouth moved as she spoke, but only a little. When the mouth of the sock opened a red cloth tongue could be seen.

This was too much. Almost all of the teens tried to suppress laughter. Some did a better job than others. Bella glanced suspiciously around the room then looked back at her puppet.

"So you take that with you…"

"Everywhere," she responded coolly, finishing the sentence that Scott had not been able too. There was an uncomfortable silence.

"Rogue why don't you show Bella to her room," Xavier said breaking the silence. Rogue looked at the professor with a why me look. After receiving nothing back, Rogue picked up one of Bella bags and led the girl out of the room

"Professor you can't be serious?"

"I am Kurt," the only reply.

"Are you like, really going to let her wear that thing on her hand."

"At many points during her life it has been her only companion. I can't just take it away. She would do something drastic."

"Are you really saying she'd kill herself if you threw away that sock," Evan asked disbelieving.

"Yes. Such a situation has already happened to her and there was what could be interpreted as a suicide attempt. Besides," Xavier sighed and wheeled near his desk, "She has tied her powers in with that puppet." Before he could continue the door opened and both Rogue and Bella reentered the room.

"Finish already?" Jean asked carefully avoiding making eye contact with the sock.

"I don't have much stuff," she responded.

"Hey," said Kitty "Like, what's you power."

"Yes," the professor said, "Why don't you give them a demonstration."

"Which one," she asked Chester, surveying the students. "Scott, he looks good," she responded herself using Chester's voice. Scott braced himself trying to prepare for an attack although he had no clue what it was going to be. Bella stood up and concentrated. Something about the aura around her changed. She appeared harder and stricter. Wrinkles formed around her mouth and eyes giving her the look of a tough middle-aged lady.  Chester's mouth was open wide and he seemed to be sucking something in.

"Remove you glasses Scott," the professor said startling more than one person. Slowly Scott did as he was told. Everyone gasped. No laser beams were shooting from his eyes. Instead they could clearly see the color. Scott was enjoying this most of all. For the first time since Asteroid M he could see the world in its true color's instead of seeing everything with a reddish tint. Bella, although still standing stiff as a statue, began to slowly levitate. "She can absorb other people's energy and use it to do various things such as levitate. She uses Chester to help her with the absorbing," the professor informed the students.

While Scott was enjoyed seeing colors he felt something go wrong. He put his glasses back on just in time as he felt the power return. Bella ended her levitation as she crashed to the ground. Something was very wrong. Scott sensed so much more power that usual. He closed his eyes in an attempted to keep it in. Bella lay unmoving where she crashed looking pale and weak. "She is giving you her on life energy," said the professor in a scared tone. "She needs stop or she'll kill herself!"

"I can't hold this much power in," Scott exclaimed.

"I'll help you," Xavier said. "Jean try to call Bella, she needs to stop."

Jean nodded. She put her hands on her head and tried to reach the girl that was lying on the ground. She felt her mind enter an unfamiliar territory. "Bella, Bella," she called.

Then the girls voiced came, cool and controlling. "Jean, I'm here Jean. You can stop now." Jean felt relieved. She took a moment to see where she was. "Jean!" Bella's voice was cold now, "Get out of my head Jean."

"Right, sorry." It wasn't until Bella had stood up that Jean realized how scared Bella was off someone in her head. Was she hiding something?

"I think I'll go take a nap now." Bella stumbled out of the room leaving the bewildered mutants starring at her.

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