The Experiment: Chapter 2
A/N: This is now officially an AU, I wasn't sure if it was going to be, but now it is, so please review.
Disclaimer: I don't own X-Men, just my own characters.
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~Meghan's POV~
I crouch down, the pavement hard on my hands as I look ahead on the track.
"Ready?" I ask Allison, one of my only friends.
She nods, stopwatch in hand and ready to use.
"Go," she says.
Even though the word is quietly said, the reaction isn't.
I explode forward, running as fast as I can.
It's been a year now since I found out that I am a mutant.
It started when I was losing weight.
I ate as much as I usually did, but I kept on getting thinner each day.
Doctors were baffled, and so was I.
Then a blood sample was taken, and they found out I was a mutant.
To hide how thin I am, I wear baggy clothes, with a belt to hold my pants up.
I also have incredible speed and stamina.
Finally, I can shoot energy beams from my hands.
I practice for track every day.
Only three other people other than my parents know my secret.
I slow down, exhausted.
"Good job, chere. You'll beat the pants off all the other runners for sure this year." Remy LeBeau says, slapping me on the back.
I grin at one of my only other friends, "Thanks, Remy."
"Here, you look thirsty." Warren Worthington (A/N: I dropped the III part, he's not rich in this AU.) offers my water bottle.
I take a sip of water, and then pour it all over my head to cool down after running in the Louisiana heat.
"Thanks, we'd better get going to the party that my parents set up." I say, smiling.
It's surprising that they're celebrating my fourteenth birthday; usually they just totally ignore my birthday.
They even invited my friends over.
I still remember the day that they found out.
~Flashback~
"CANNONBALL!" Allison yells, jumping off her dock of her summer camp that her family owns.
I laugh wiping the water from my eyes as she swims to the surface. "I'm going to get you for that." I say threateningly.
"Oh yeah? Try me." She challenges me.
Remy and Warren cheer, rooting for me.
I smile as I climb out of the water, my damp baggy t-shirt clinging to me like an extra layer of skin.
"Uh, Meghan, I don't want to be the one to say this, but it seems that you've gotten a lot thinner from when you went in." Allison points out.
I freeze as I look down, seeing that my secret is exposed.
That's what made our bond even stronger.
With Allison, the ability to phase through anything, and bring whoever she wants with her.
Warren, the ability to fly, and with my weight, I can ride on his back, and he can carry someone in his arms.
Remy, the ability to charge things and blow them up.
And finally me, the ability to run fast and fire energy beams.
We've been closer ever since that fateful day.
~End Flashback~
Allison pushes me, making me stumble forward, "Hey!" I say in mock outrage.
She giggles, "can't have you in daydream land during the party."
"Especially one that's for you, chere," Remy teases me.
"Well, red-eyes, if it's any of your business-"
"Who're you calling 'red-eyes,' stick girl!"
"Guys-"
"What feather brain?!"
"Feather brain?! Why I ought to-" Warren says angrily.
"Can't we keep the peace for one day?" Allison asks us as we fight.
"No, transparency girl!"
All of us crack up at this point, laughing until we're wiping tears from our eyes.
"We should be super heroes, with the names that we make up!" I say in- between gasps of laughter.
"Yeah, I can picture it now, 'Feather Brain stops a bank robbery.'" Allison says still laughing.
"Well, it's better than transparency girl," Warren says defensively.
"That's what you think-"
The good-natured teasing continues as we head to my house.
Little do we know that our lives are about to be changed forever.
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~General POV~
Two figures in a van watch all that's going on between the friends.
"There's the kid," one of the men says, handing his binoculars to the person next to him.
"Which one?" The other one asks.
"The girl with the hazel eyes and the brown hair, the shortest one. Not the girl with the brown hair and brown eyes, who's taller than the other girl." He says.
"You mean the really short one?"
"Yes, dimwit, that one."
"Why are we aiming for her?" The second one asks.
"Because the freak was our lab rat thirty-four years ago, now we need to claim her back."
"But how?"
The first man smiles coldly, eyes glinting like a maniac: "We crash her party, that's how."
TBC.
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A/N: My first AU, whoohoo! Until the next chapter, please review.
A/N: This is now officially an AU, I wasn't sure if it was going to be, but now it is, so please review.
Disclaimer: I don't own X-Men, just my own characters.
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~Meghan's POV~
I crouch down, the pavement hard on my hands as I look ahead on the track.
"Ready?" I ask Allison, one of my only friends.
She nods, stopwatch in hand and ready to use.
"Go," she says.
Even though the word is quietly said, the reaction isn't.
I explode forward, running as fast as I can.
It's been a year now since I found out that I am a mutant.
It started when I was losing weight.
I ate as much as I usually did, but I kept on getting thinner each day.
Doctors were baffled, and so was I.
Then a blood sample was taken, and they found out I was a mutant.
To hide how thin I am, I wear baggy clothes, with a belt to hold my pants up.
I also have incredible speed and stamina.
Finally, I can shoot energy beams from my hands.
I practice for track every day.
Only three other people other than my parents know my secret.
I slow down, exhausted.
"Good job, chere. You'll beat the pants off all the other runners for sure this year." Remy LeBeau says, slapping me on the back.
I grin at one of my only other friends, "Thanks, Remy."
"Here, you look thirsty." Warren Worthington (A/N: I dropped the III part, he's not rich in this AU.) offers my water bottle.
I take a sip of water, and then pour it all over my head to cool down after running in the Louisiana heat.
"Thanks, we'd better get going to the party that my parents set up." I say, smiling.
It's surprising that they're celebrating my fourteenth birthday; usually they just totally ignore my birthday.
They even invited my friends over.
I still remember the day that they found out.
~Flashback~
"CANNONBALL!" Allison yells, jumping off her dock of her summer camp that her family owns.
I laugh wiping the water from my eyes as she swims to the surface. "I'm going to get you for that." I say threateningly.
"Oh yeah? Try me." She challenges me.
Remy and Warren cheer, rooting for me.
I smile as I climb out of the water, my damp baggy t-shirt clinging to me like an extra layer of skin.
"Uh, Meghan, I don't want to be the one to say this, but it seems that you've gotten a lot thinner from when you went in." Allison points out.
I freeze as I look down, seeing that my secret is exposed.
That's what made our bond even stronger.
With Allison, the ability to phase through anything, and bring whoever she wants with her.
Warren, the ability to fly, and with my weight, I can ride on his back, and he can carry someone in his arms.
Remy, the ability to charge things and blow them up.
And finally me, the ability to run fast and fire energy beams.
We've been closer ever since that fateful day.
~End Flashback~
Allison pushes me, making me stumble forward, "Hey!" I say in mock outrage.
She giggles, "can't have you in daydream land during the party."
"Especially one that's for you, chere," Remy teases me.
"Well, red-eyes, if it's any of your business-"
"Who're you calling 'red-eyes,' stick girl!"
"Guys-"
"What feather brain?!"
"Feather brain?! Why I ought to-" Warren says angrily.
"Can't we keep the peace for one day?" Allison asks us as we fight.
"No, transparency girl!"
All of us crack up at this point, laughing until we're wiping tears from our eyes.
"We should be super heroes, with the names that we make up!" I say in- between gasps of laughter.
"Yeah, I can picture it now, 'Feather Brain stops a bank robbery.'" Allison says still laughing.
"Well, it's better than transparency girl," Warren says defensively.
"That's what you think-"
The good-natured teasing continues as we head to my house.
Little do we know that our lives are about to be changed forever.
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~General POV~
Two figures in a van watch all that's going on between the friends.
"There's the kid," one of the men says, handing his binoculars to the person next to him.
"Which one?" The other one asks.
"The girl with the hazel eyes and the brown hair, the shortest one. Not the girl with the brown hair and brown eyes, who's taller than the other girl." He says.
"You mean the really short one?"
"Yes, dimwit, that one."
"Why are we aiming for her?" The second one asks.
"Because the freak was our lab rat thirty-four years ago, now we need to claim her back."
"But how?"
The first man smiles coldly, eyes glinting like a maniac: "We crash her party, that's how."
TBC.
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A/N: My first AU, whoohoo! Until the next chapter, please review.