Cami: I was called a Mary Sue!
Neko: Um, you kind of are.
Cami: *glares homicidally*
Scott: *hurriedly to avoid the wrath of Cami* But we all still love you!
Fred: And it was only one person. Lots of other people like you.
Cami: Still! Is it my fault Pietro had a crush on my older brother and when
he couldn't have him it was 'Oo, little sister and no one calling me a
homo' is it?
Fred: Somebody needs a hug.
Cami: *sees mass of Fred with arms open coming at her* AH!!!! *runs away
screaming*
Scott: I thank you for that.
It was already dark by the time Scott finally stopped due to lack of gas. "Minor set back," he told Lance getting out of the jeep. Lance was all moody again and looked pretty pissed. "Come on, should be a gas station close."
"Maybe this means we aren't supposed to go."
"What is with you?" Scott threw his hands up and walked around the front of the jeep, opened the passenger's door, and pulled Lance out. "They're your team yet it's like you don't want to go get them."
Lance pulled away from the other. "I don't want to see more people I care about die!" The outburst was only semi-unexpected. "At least this way I can pretend they're fine and that I haven't lost them as well." He started to storm down the road.
"So you're not even going to try?" Scott yelled after him angrily. "Just going to give up all hope!"
Lance paused in his tracks and turned half way around. "I learned hope won't get you anywhere a long time ago, Summers!"
Scott practically growled. Lance's negative attitude was starting to get to him. Then in a total irrational spur of the moment act, the laser charged the earthquake and tackled him. "I am not going to let you do this to yourself," he hissed, "for some reason I care too much about you to let you. You pretend you don't care what happens to them but I know you do, so stop it."
X
"So where did they have us before we came here?" Fred asked Phoebe as Pietro looked around, Ray continued moping, and Todd was Todd.
"Quarantine," the unusually chipper girl replied, "so you wouldn't get any of us sick. And to make sure none of you were sick or injured, if you were then they'd take you to the medicine lab."
At the word injured Pietro listened, knowing that's where Cami would be. "Where's the medicine Lab?" He focused on her waiting for a reply.
Phoebe blinked once and then twice before she realized he actually meant it. "You actually think I know?" she asked pointing to herself with wide eyes. She shook her head closing her eyes as she did so. "Your guess is as good as mine, maybe even better."
"If I had this collar off of me I could search the entire place in less than seconds," Pietro muttered pulling at the metal around his neck.
Phoebe blinked again then shook her head, "There have been some rumors that enough power could short it out, but it's just rumor." A basket ball from the court rolled over to them and she picked it up tossing it to a large boy with his shirt off playing three on three, shirts and skins.
"Shouldn't have given him the idea," Todd pointed out as Pietro began to scheme.
"Where's the electrical box?" Pietro asked after a moments thought.
"Again you ask me like I know. How do you get your hair to stay like that?" Phoebe asked totally off of topic.
The speed demon ignored her and instead addressed his team mates. "We'll spread out and look for it, meet back here in half an hour." Before there were any protests he was gone, as he usually was before one of his plans could be questioned.
"Yeah, it's really going to be where we can get it," Ray muttered walking off nonetheless.
"I'll check around the cafeteria," Fred said, he was hungry but he also was iffy about cafeteria food. He was that hungry though.
"And I'll," Todd paused losing his sure look and shrugging, "I don't know, wander."
X
"I can get you two out of here," Jonathan told the mother and daughter as Cami finally summoned enough energy to stand up. He'd found some extra lab coats to give them so they didn't stick out in the maze of disgustingly clean hallways.
"No," Cami had her face covered with her hands feeling something inside her that didn't feel right, almost made her insides feel empty and tormented, and split her fingers apart enough to look at the floor. "Not until I get them out." She leapt off the ground moving her hands from her face and out to balance her in the air and glided over to the door, hovering as her hand rested on the knob. "Where are they?"
"I have to suggest you forget about,"
"Where are they?" This time her voice was more forceful and demanding as she squeezed the metal knob. "I'm not leaving here without them!"
"I won't let you," Jonathan was shut up by a gust of wind slamming him into the bed in the middle of the room. This feeling was eating her up inside making her feel more aggressive than usual, on the defensive, ready to maim anything in her way.
"Cami," Maya tried in a motherly tone, "we can come back for them when we're more prepared and have a plan."
Her daughter was silent for a while, then sneered chuckling slightly after a moment of thought. "No, I'm not leaving them like you left me." The door knob clicked as she turned it and cracked the door open, she suddenly had a hatred for her mother, for leaving her, for taking Lance away from her. "I'm going to find them even if I get caught in the process." She didn't look back, let them run. Her wounds ached to encourage her to rest and heal but she couldn't.
The sun stung her eyes as it flooded her after an unknown time of wandering. She saw humans of all ages in what resembled a prison yard once her eyes adjusted to the light. There were no fences, no guards, but they all stayed there seemingly unhappy. A flash of corn silk blonde caught her eye and ice blue eyes caught sight of her.
X
Nothing anywhere. He'd looked for some trace of where the electricity was coming from and nothing. He had learned about the people in this hell hole. He'd actually stumbled on what resembled a graveyard with little piles of rocks marking the sites. He'd asked some people there what all this was from and was answered with experiments gone wrong. They also told him of the latest death, a strong young man who never would've died if he hadn't been used as a test subject. When he asked what the test had been the small group of girls and boys was silent for a while before a younger one spoke up. It'd been a shot to give the boy super strength but it'd gone wrong. He became more aggressive slowly and complained about an empty, tortured feeling in him. The results were abnormal strength but he just fell over one day and multiple sores opened up on his body and he bled to death.
It was after being told that Pietro decided they needed to get everyone out or shut this place down. He refused to admit that his father was right, that they would put mutants in concentration camps and study them, but that's what was happening.
He walked around in search more, turning when he felt eyes trained on him. She wasn't healed, she was still bloody and bruised but she smiled at him and started to run toward him. Naturally he ran to meet her, overjoyed that she was safe.
"You're ok," he folded her in his arms the moment he could unsure if he was more glad that Lance wasn't going to kill him or that she was alright.
"As ok as I can be," she replied pressing her face into his shoulder. They stayed like that for a while before she stepped back. "Where are the others?"
"They're around here," the speedster replied trying to shake the feeling that something was different about her. "Everyone is safe and Fred might have even found a girlfriend."
She pulled away from him and frowned rather suddenly looking around her as she hugged herself. "That's good for him, he's a nice guy." She turned and looked up at the sky as it darkened. It'd be dark soon. "How long have we been here?"
"They kept us apart from everyone for a day and when we were put out here it was the afternoon, so not long compared to some of the mutants here."
Her fist reddened as she clutched it at her side. Empty, hallow, tortured, she couldn't get rid of those feelings. "We have to destroy this place." It was like a bomb, the wind concentrated around her body and then rippled throughout the holding area, shaking trees and flipping over tables. It was then Pietro knew something was definitely wrong; she'd never had that much power before.
"What do you suppose we do?"
Recklessness with some sort of method to it proved to be in her bloodline as she turned to face him. He'd seen that look before on Lance right before he came up with an idiotic plan, like outing mutants. A cold smirk that would make even the strongest of people shiver.
"Get the others," she said calmly, "leave the rest to me." She turned, the white lab coat she still wore flaring out behind her as she did so.
"I do not like where this is going."
A/N: Rather short, but yep, thought that'd be a good place to stop.
Now I've decided to tell people why I created Cami: As some people who watched the original X-men show or read the original comics they know Avalanche's real name was Dominic Petros. This is a lot different from Lance Alvers and it was bothering me for no reason. So I just came up with an explanation for myself that gave him a sibling. A friend of mine read a short little thing no one but a select few have seen about Lance reflecting on his past and this unknown sibling and they wanted to know about this sibling. So I decided on giving him a little sister since the Brotherhood doesn't have enough girls and decided to intro her into some stories to be able to venture into Lance's past. Originally Cami's code name was Chameleon and her power was (obviously) camouflaging herself into the background. She was a new mutant at the Xavier Institute and was first in a story I wrote after another strange day at school where at a dance the theme was opposite. So naturally the B-hood boys went as girls except for Fred who stayed home and watched TV. Lance didn't want to do this but Pietro talked him into it. Then at the dance Lance saw Jean being a bitch like she usually is to Scott and being 'oh I really like you' and then running off with Duncan. So of course Lance, being the bonehead he is decided to go and teach Jean a lesson and of course it backfired on him and he ended up having a good time with Scott who didn't know he was Lance. This was all while I was reading Romeo and Juliet in English so it was generally messed up in a Shakespearean way.
Anyway, Cami started out as Bobby Drake's partner in crime and general trouble maker. It was when I found out just how common her power was that she evolved into Whirlwind, sort of coupling her power with Lance's his being control of the ground hers being control of the air. Her original codename was Breeze and that lasted a few days before she became Tornado and finally Whirlwind. I forgot what made me decide to just have her thrown in directly with the Brotherhood, but she was. That was in my first fic 'Truth be Told' which is filled to the rim with original characters but I've noticed that's how most people start out writing so that there's less of a chance of making the characters act against their personalities. The others got dropped after I was comfortable with how I wrote the X-men Evolution characters but Cami stayed.
I never actually intended for her and Pietro to hit it off. At first they were ready to kill each other because Pietro didn't trust her and was afraid that Lance would spend even less time with the team. Eventually they came to an understanding and Lance actually seemed to start spending more time with the team so Pietro was happy. And it kind of went from there because I'm a Pietrance fan as well as a Scance fan. I just like Scance more so my brain decided one day on a sugar high 'hey, we've got Lance's little sister for Pietro to corrupt, that way everyone can be happy'. Generally I myself didn't like this idea but it grew on me and so hints of that relationship kind of started to throw themselves in my stories. (So blame sugar for that one)
Now Phoebe is a different story, she just kind of decided to show up in my head one day when I noticed the lack of Fred in just about everything and decided big boys need love too. Of course she had to end up a petite little blonde that could see passed Fred's exterior. I had to make her eccentric too just for the fun of it. She got inserted in this fic due to lack of a home.
So now you know.
It was already dark by the time Scott finally stopped due to lack of gas. "Minor set back," he told Lance getting out of the jeep. Lance was all moody again and looked pretty pissed. "Come on, should be a gas station close."
"Maybe this means we aren't supposed to go."
"What is with you?" Scott threw his hands up and walked around the front of the jeep, opened the passenger's door, and pulled Lance out. "They're your team yet it's like you don't want to go get them."
Lance pulled away from the other. "I don't want to see more people I care about die!" The outburst was only semi-unexpected. "At least this way I can pretend they're fine and that I haven't lost them as well." He started to storm down the road.
"So you're not even going to try?" Scott yelled after him angrily. "Just going to give up all hope!"
Lance paused in his tracks and turned half way around. "I learned hope won't get you anywhere a long time ago, Summers!"
Scott practically growled. Lance's negative attitude was starting to get to him. Then in a total irrational spur of the moment act, the laser charged the earthquake and tackled him. "I am not going to let you do this to yourself," he hissed, "for some reason I care too much about you to let you. You pretend you don't care what happens to them but I know you do, so stop it."
X
"So where did they have us before we came here?" Fred asked Phoebe as Pietro looked around, Ray continued moping, and Todd was Todd.
"Quarantine," the unusually chipper girl replied, "so you wouldn't get any of us sick. And to make sure none of you were sick or injured, if you were then they'd take you to the medicine lab."
At the word injured Pietro listened, knowing that's where Cami would be. "Where's the medicine Lab?" He focused on her waiting for a reply.
Phoebe blinked once and then twice before she realized he actually meant it. "You actually think I know?" she asked pointing to herself with wide eyes. She shook her head closing her eyes as she did so. "Your guess is as good as mine, maybe even better."
"If I had this collar off of me I could search the entire place in less than seconds," Pietro muttered pulling at the metal around his neck.
Phoebe blinked again then shook her head, "There have been some rumors that enough power could short it out, but it's just rumor." A basket ball from the court rolled over to them and she picked it up tossing it to a large boy with his shirt off playing three on three, shirts and skins.
"Shouldn't have given him the idea," Todd pointed out as Pietro began to scheme.
"Where's the electrical box?" Pietro asked after a moments thought.
"Again you ask me like I know. How do you get your hair to stay like that?" Phoebe asked totally off of topic.
The speed demon ignored her and instead addressed his team mates. "We'll spread out and look for it, meet back here in half an hour." Before there were any protests he was gone, as he usually was before one of his plans could be questioned.
"Yeah, it's really going to be where we can get it," Ray muttered walking off nonetheless.
"I'll check around the cafeteria," Fred said, he was hungry but he also was iffy about cafeteria food. He was that hungry though.
"And I'll," Todd paused losing his sure look and shrugging, "I don't know, wander."
X
"I can get you two out of here," Jonathan told the mother and daughter as Cami finally summoned enough energy to stand up. He'd found some extra lab coats to give them so they didn't stick out in the maze of disgustingly clean hallways.
"No," Cami had her face covered with her hands feeling something inside her that didn't feel right, almost made her insides feel empty and tormented, and split her fingers apart enough to look at the floor. "Not until I get them out." She leapt off the ground moving her hands from her face and out to balance her in the air and glided over to the door, hovering as her hand rested on the knob. "Where are they?"
"I have to suggest you forget about,"
"Where are they?" This time her voice was more forceful and demanding as she squeezed the metal knob. "I'm not leaving here without them!"
"I won't let you," Jonathan was shut up by a gust of wind slamming him into the bed in the middle of the room. This feeling was eating her up inside making her feel more aggressive than usual, on the defensive, ready to maim anything in her way.
"Cami," Maya tried in a motherly tone, "we can come back for them when we're more prepared and have a plan."
Her daughter was silent for a while, then sneered chuckling slightly after a moment of thought. "No, I'm not leaving them like you left me." The door knob clicked as she turned it and cracked the door open, she suddenly had a hatred for her mother, for leaving her, for taking Lance away from her. "I'm going to find them even if I get caught in the process." She didn't look back, let them run. Her wounds ached to encourage her to rest and heal but she couldn't.
The sun stung her eyes as it flooded her after an unknown time of wandering. She saw humans of all ages in what resembled a prison yard once her eyes adjusted to the light. There were no fences, no guards, but they all stayed there seemingly unhappy. A flash of corn silk blonde caught her eye and ice blue eyes caught sight of her.
X
Nothing anywhere. He'd looked for some trace of where the electricity was coming from and nothing. He had learned about the people in this hell hole. He'd actually stumbled on what resembled a graveyard with little piles of rocks marking the sites. He'd asked some people there what all this was from and was answered with experiments gone wrong. They also told him of the latest death, a strong young man who never would've died if he hadn't been used as a test subject. When he asked what the test had been the small group of girls and boys was silent for a while before a younger one spoke up. It'd been a shot to give the boy super strength but it'd gone wrong. He became more aggressive slowly and complained about an empty, tortured feeling in him. The results were abnormal strength but he just fell over one day and multiple sores opened up on his body and he bled to death.
It was after being told that Pietro decided they needed to get everyone out or shut this place down. He refused to admit that his father was right, that they would put mutants in concentration camps and study them, but that's what was happening.
He walked around in search more, turning when he felt eyes trained on him. She wasn't healed, she was still bloody and bruised but she smiled at him and started to run toward him. Naturally he ran to meet her, overjoyed that she was safe.
"You're ok," he folded her in his arms the moment he could unsure if he was more glad that Lance wasn't going to kill him or that she was alright.
"As ok as I can be," she replied pressing her face into his shoulder. They stayed like that for a while before she stepped back. "Where are the others?"
"They're around here," the speedster replied trying to shake the feeling that something was different about her. "Everyone is safe and Fred might have even found a girlfriend."
She pulled away from him and frowned rather suddenly looking around her as she hugged herself. "That's good for him, he's a nice guy." She turned and looked up at the sky as it darkened. It'd be dark soon. "How long have we been here?"
"They kept us apart from everyone for a day and when we were put out here it was the afternoon, so not long compared to some of the mutants here."
Her fist reddened as she clutched it at her side. Empty, hallow, tortured, she couldn't get rid of those feelings. "We have to destroy this place." It was like a bomb, the wind concentrated around her body and then rippled throughout the holding area, shaking trees and flipping over tables. It was then Pietro knew something was definitely wrong; she'd never had that much power before.
"What do you suppose we do?"
Recklessness with some sort of method to it proved to be in her bloodline as she turned to face him. He'd seen that look before on Lance right before he came up with an idiotic plan, like outing mutants. A cold smirk that would make even the strongest of people shiver.
"Get the others," she said calmly, "leave the rest to me." She turned, the white lab coat she still wore flaring out behind her as she did so.
"I do not like where this is going."
A/N: Rather short, but yep, thought that'd be a good place to stop.
Now I've decided to tell people why I created Cami: As some people who watched the original X-men show or read the original comics they know Avalanche's real name was Dominic Petros. This is a lot different from Lance Alvers and it was bothering me for no reason. So I just came up with an explanation for myself that gave him a sibling. A friend of mine read a short little thing no one but a select few have seen about Lance reflecting on his past and this unknown sibling and they wanted to know about this sibling. So I decided on giving him a little sister since the Brotherhood doesn't have enough girls and decided to intro her into some stories to be able to venture into Lance's past. Originally Cami's code name was Chameleon and her power was (obviously) camouflaging herself into the background. She was a new mutant at the Xavier Institute and was first in a story I wrote after another strange day at school where at a dance the theme was opposite. So naturally the B-hood boys went as girls except for Fred who stayed home and watched TV. Lance didn't want to do this but Pietro talked him into it. Then at the dance Lance saw Jean being a bitch like she usually is to Scott and being 'oh I really like you' and then running off with Duncan. So of course Lance, being the bonehead he is decided to go and teach Jean a lesson and of course it backfired on him and he ended up having a good time with Scott who didn't know he was Lance. This was all while I was reading Romeo and Juliet in English so it was generally messed up in a Shakespearean way.
Anyway, Cami started out as Bobby Drake's partner in crime and general trouble maker. It was when I found out just how common her power was that she evolved into Whirlwind, sort of coupling her power with Lance's his being control of the ground hers being control of the air. Her original codename was Breeze and that lasted a few days before she became Tornado and finally Whirlwind. I forgot what made me decide to just have her thrown in directly with the Brotherhood, but she was. That was in my first fic 'Truth be Told' which is filled to the rim with original characters but I've noticed that's how most people start out writing so that there's less of a chance of making the characters act against their personalities. The others got dropped after I was comfortable with how I wrote the X-men Evolution characters but Cami stayed.
I never actually intended for her and Pietro to hit it off. At first they were ready to kill each other because Pietro didn't trust her and was afraid that Lance would spend even less time with the team. Eventually they came to an understanding and Lance actually seemed to start spending more time with the team so Pietro was happy. And it kind of went from there because I'm a Pietrance fan as well as a Scance fan. I just like Scance more so my brain decided one day on a sugar high 'hey, we've got Lance's little sister for Pietro to corrupt, that way everyone can be happy'. Generally I myself didn't like this idea but it grew on me and so hints of that relationship kind of started to throw themselves in my stories. (So blame sugar for that one)
Now Phoebe is a different story, she just kind of decided to show up in my head one day when I noticed the lack of Fred in just about everything and decided big boys need love too. Of course she had to end up a petite little blonde that could see passed Fred's exterior. I had to make her eccentric too just for the fun of it. She got inserted in this fic due to lack of a home.
So now you know.