Xavier's New Student
A Digimon - Xmen Cross-over.
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Disclaimer: Neither Digimon nor ANY of the X-related titled Comics
are mine! "Digimon" (the Anime) is the property of it's creator, Houso Miyoshi,
and Toie Amination, while the dubbing rights belong to Hayim Saban; The X-Men,
New Mutants, Generation X, and any other X-characters belong to Marvel Comics.
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CHAPTER 01
Things were not looking at all well in the Digi-world. In fact, things were looking
rather depressing.
Ishida Yamato swore under his breath, hoping no one else could hear him. Angry, worried eyes shot around the nine other young people with him in various stages of fatique. Gabumon looked worriedly at his friend and partner. Motimiya Daisuke and V-mon were busy trying to shepherd Hida Iori and Armadimon and Inouye Miyoke and Hawkmon along to keep the aching cold
from claiming them. Izumi Koushirou and Tentomon and Kido Jyou and Gomamon were wearily scanning the terrain for places to hide and enemies to hide from. Kamiya Taichi and Agumon and Takenouchi Sora and Byomon and Gatomon and Patomon were busy trying to keep Taichi's sister Hikari warm enough to keep up with the rest of the group. But where was Takeru? After a frantic, albeit
quiet, search, Yamato angrily swore at himself, this time, he was sure, loud enough for the others to hear.
"Do not worry, Oni-san!" Takaishi Takeru reassured his brother. "I am here."
Yamato spun around, surprised at his brother's voice, and almost fell backward. Takeru steadied his brother.
"Gomen nisai!" Takeru apologized. "I did not mean to startle you, Yamato! I was just scouting ahead. This part of the Digital-World has little to offer. Shelter is rare, and food and water is even rarer.."
"Hai." Yamato gave a grim smile. "Whoever brought us here has us right where they want us."
"And how they want us." Takeru added. "Our Digimon are too weak to digi-volve! But, I have found some shelter, and some water. It is not much, but it will do." Takeru then whispered. "It will have to do! We also have a friend there. Palmon."
Koushirou and Jyou moved up to meet with Yamato and Takeru.
"Palmon?" Jyou pondered. "It is too bad Mimi is not with us! With her here, Palmon would be able to digi-volve."
"Mimi is not here?" Takeru asked.
"Iie. I've run the scan that Yamato and Taichi asked for, Takeru!" Koushirou said. "We appear to be the only ones here in the Digital-World."
"No sign of Mimi?" Yamato asked.
"Iie." Koushirou said with a sigh. "I have not received her signal since we came here!"
"I wonder if she could be here," Taichi asked, "just weakened like us?"
"I do not know, Taichi." Yamato sighed then leaned against a rock. "We came here so full of energy and enthusiasm, and now we are all sapped. She may be here, but too beat to even register!"
"Do you suppose whoever brought us here already has her trapped?" Takeru asked in a hushed tone, hoping not to alarm the others unduly.
"I do not think so!" Jyou speculated. "If they had captured one of us, I think we would have known by now." He raised his glasses back on his nose. "As well as known who our captors are."
"Hai." Yamato agreed. "However, that still leaves one question! Where is Mimi?"
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Tachikawa Mimi was laying on the bed in her room trying to regain her bearings after class. "Who knew brainwork would be so tiring ?" She sighed as she slowly closed her eyes, and then tried to block the outside world from entering her mind. Just then, she was interrupted by a knock at her door.
"Tachikawa-san?" A female vioce asked from the other side of the door. "Are you alright?"
"Hai, Katarin-sama." Mimi answered, opening her eyes. "Come in."
"Are you sure?" The voice asked with concern.
"Hai. You may enter."
Kathryn Pryde phased through the door. "Are you tired, Tachikawa-san?"
"Hai, Sensei." Mimi sighed. "The Danger-Room exercises are draining!"
"They can be." Kathryn Pryde grinned and laughed a little. "After my first round with the Danger-Room , Professor Xavier decided to 'upgrade' the room to give me a proper workout!" Shadowcat winced at the memory.
"I can guess!" Mimi surprised herself with laughing out loud. Kathryn was an upperclassman, and even helped teach the classes, but she made everyone who knew her feel at ease. In all the ways that mattered, Kathryn Pryde, AKA the X-Man "Shadowcat", was the older-sister Mimi Tachikawa always wished she had!
"But I am also thinking about my friends back in Nippon!" Mimi suddenly developed a worried, faraway look. "I worry for them. The news from 'back home' is not good."
"It rarely is." Kathryn frowned.
"Anyway, I hate being the bearer of bad-news, Tachikawa-san," Kathryn smiled apolegetically, "but the class on computers is starting in ten minutes."
"No rest for the weary.." Mimi hesitated slightly before continuing. "Sensei?"
"I'm afraid not." Shadowcat smiled warmly. She told herself to just get used to Mimi's
formality. Kathryn had witnessed Japanese formality a few times before, but could hardly get used
to it.
"Arigatou.. Pryde-sama." Mimi Tachikawa bowed. "I will be down shortly."
Mimi Tachikawa made her way to the computer-room at Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Students, which was also the headquarters of the outlaw group of mutant superheroes, the X-Men, at a leisurely stroll. But then, something happened.
'EMERGANCY!!!' Came a telepathic cry. 'The computer room has been invaded!!!'
"That cry.." Mimi gasped as she quickened her pace. "Summers-sensei!!"
With some thoughtful concentration, Tachikawa Mimi diappeared.. and reappeared right outside Xavier's Computer Lab!
What Mimi saw in the Computer Lab almost stopped her heart. Then, after about a minute, her faltering breath came back in a quiver.
"Wizardmon? Is.. that you? Or.. your ghost?"
"Iie, Tachikawa-san! I am very much alive." Wizardmon replied. "But I could not return until I had found my destined partner!"
"There is another Digi-Destined?" Mimi asked.
"In a way, Tachikawa-san!" The Digimon-Wizard bowed.
"You know this being, Madchen?" Nightcrawler asked.
"Hai, Wagner-sama." Mimi answered with a bit more strength in her voice. "But.." She turned back to Wizardmon. "Why did I not sence your presence here, Wizardmon? Are Digimon able to shield their thoughts from humans?"
"'Digimon?" Emma Frost asked. "Is that what this being is?"
"One of them, Emma-Sensei!" Mimi bowed to the White Queen.
"I am sorry, Mimi-chan!" Wizardmon bowed. "But, after setting off what can only be an alarm, I thought it best to magically shield my presence, until my mission was complete and my partner found, except from one man."
"And your partner is.. ?" Shadowcat asked as she entered the room.
"Ah! Katarin-sama!" Wizardmon bowed. "You are just who I was sent to see! You, and Mimi-chan." Wizardmon then walked toward the Shadowcat and handed her a digivice. "This, I believe, is yours! Sholom, Rabbi!"
"A digivice!" Mimi eclaimed in a hushed tone.
"Hai." Wizardmon turned to address Mimi. "Much has changed in the Digital World! It has evolved along lines that no one can control, because none knows of them! Their consequences will be tragic if left unchecked- for all concerned!"
Wizardmon then turned back to Shadowcat. "Katarin-sama! Mimi-san and her friends have fought the Dark Forces in my realm many times before, but this time, they will need a guide for the days to come. That is where you
and I come in. We are destined to help them. But, the decision to help
them is, ultimately, yours!"
"When do we leave, Wizardmon?" was all Shadowcat asked.
"Whenever you wish to go." Wizardmon nodded.
"Are you sure about this, Kitten?" Ororo Monroe, aka "Storm" of the X-Men, asked.
"As sure as I am on anything else, Storm." Shadowcat reassured her friend.
"Maybe you oughtta take some backup, Kitty." Wolverine said. "Just in case."
"I'll be alright, Logan." Kathryn smiled.
"Before you leave, Kathryn," Professor Xavier called from the doorway, "I have something for you. Here." Professor Xavier handed Shadowcat his journel. "Since you are obviously going to the Digital World to help Miss Tachikawa and her friends, this may be of some help."
"Thank you, Professor!" Kathryn bowed to Charles Xavier and accepted
the journal. Then she turned to the other X-Men. "Don't worry. I'll be careful. Wizardmon? Mimi? I'm ready."
Mimi pulled out her Digivice and aimed it at one of the school's computers. "Digi-port, open!" With that, a portal was open to the Digital World.
"Hmmm.." Kathryn pondered, "is that the portal?"
"Hai, Sensei!" Mimi said with a hint of worry.
"We're going through the computer?"
"Hai, Katarin-Sensei!" Mimi smiled. "We're going 'online', in a way."
"We MAY have a problem, then." Kathryn grimaced.
"Nani?" Wizardmon looked to his new partner.
"It's my phasing-abilitiy, Wizardmon." Kathryn explain. "When I pass through electrical fields and circuits in my intangible state, I tend to short them out."
"A problem." Wizardmon stated.
"Hai." Kathryn agreed.
"I have a solution! I think." Mimi said. "I'll just scan for my friends in the Digi-world and teleport us there!"
"Can you do that, Mimi-san?" Jean Grey-Summers asked. "Have you ever teleported across dimensions?"
"Not yet," Mimi confided to her teachers, "but it SHOULD work! I can teleport to wherever my mind can touch another mind, allowing me to 'see'
my surroundings. And the portal allows me to contect my friends in the Digital-world! So, it should provide a clear passage! 'Should'."
"A plausible theory, child!" Emma Frost smiled.
"Well, it seems the only choice we have!" Kathryn said. "Go for it!"
"Contact made!" Mimi took Kathryn's and Wizardmon's hand. "All clear!"
"Scott? Kurt?" Shadowcat called out.
"Yes, Katchen?" Kurt Wagner, also known as "Nightcrawler", responded.
"Make sure someone's at the computers at all times until we're back," Shadowcat said, "or until you hear from us!"
"Ja, Fruelein Pryde!" Nightcrawler saluted his teammate. And Kathryn giggled.
'So, Mimi-san!' Kathryn spoke through her mindlink with Mimi. 'How are you going to explain the school uniform?'
'I'll just tell them honestly!' Mimi then giggled. 'At least, then, I'll be able to explain that I stopped dying my hair auburn!'
Kathryn, Mimi, and Wizardmon teleported to a canyon in the Digital- world.
A Digimon - Xmen Cross-over.
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Disclaimer: Neither Digimon nor ANY of the X-related titled Comics
are mine! "Digimon" (the Anime) is the property of it's creator, Houso Miyoshi,
and Toie Amination, while the dubbing rights belong to Hayim Saban; The X-Men,
New Mutants, Generation X, and any other X-characters belong to Marvel Comics.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
CHAPTER 01
Things were not looking at all well in the Digi-world. In fact, things were looking
rather depressing.
Ishida Yamato swore under his breath, hoping no one else could hear him. Angry, worried eyes shot around the nine other young people with him in various stages of fatique. Gabumon looked worriedly at his friend and partner. Motimiya Daisuke and V-mon were busy trying to shepherd Hida Iori and Armadimon and Inouye Miyoke and Hawkmon along to keep the aching cold
from claiming them. Izumi Koushirou and Tentomon and Kido Jyou and Gomamon were wearily scanning the terrain for places to hide and enemies to hide from. Kamiya Taichi and Agumon and Takenouchi Sora and Byomon and Gatomon and Patomon were busy trying to keep Taichi's sister Hikari warm enough to keep up with the rest of the group. But where was Takeru? After a frantic, albeit
quiet, search, Yamato angrily swore at himself, this time, he was sure, loud enough for the others to hear.
"Do not worry, Oni-san!" Takaishi Takeru reassured his brother. "I am here."
Yamato spun around, surprised at his brother's voice, and almost fell backward. Takeru steadied his brother.
"Gomen nisai!" Takeru apologized. "I did not mean to startle you, Yamato! I was just scouting ahead. This part of the Digital-World has little to offer. Shelter is rare, and food and water is even rarer.."
"Hai." Yamato gave a grim smile. "Whoever brought us here has us right where they want us."
"And how they want us." Takeru added. "Our Digimon are too weak to digi-volve! But, I have found some shelter, and some water. It is not much, but it will do." Takeru then whispered. "It will have to do! We also have a friend there. Palmon."
Koushirou and Jyou moved up to meet with Yamato and Takeru.
"Palmon?" Jyou pondered. "It is too bad Mimi is not with us! With her here, Palmon would be able to digi-volve."
"Mimi is not here?" Takeru asked.
"Iie. I've run the scan that Yamato and Taichi asked for, Takeru!" Koushirou said. "We appear to be the only ones here in the Digital-World."
"No sign of Mimi?" Yamato asked.
"Iie." Koushirou said with a sigh. "I have not received her signal since we came here!"
"I wonder if she could be here," Taichi asked, "just weakened like us?"
"I do not know, Taichi." Yamato sighed then leaned against a rock. "We came here so full of energy and enthusiasm, and now we are all sapped. She may be here, but too beat to even register!"
"Do you suppose whoever brought us here already has her trapped?" Takeru asked in a hushed tone, hoping not to alarm the others unduly.
"I do not think so!" Jyou speculated. "If they had captured one of us, I think we would have known by now." He raised his glasses back on his nose. "As well as known who our captors are."
"Hai." Yamato agreed. "However, that still leaves one question! Where is Mimi?"
------
Tachikawa Mimi was laying on the bed in her room trying to regain her bearings after class. "Who knew brainwork would be so tiring ?" She sighed as she slowly closed her eyes, and then tried to block the outside world from entering her mind. Just then, she was interrupted by a knock at her door.
"Tachikawa-san?" A female vioce asked from the other side of the door. "Are you alright?"
"Hai, Katarin-sama." Mimi answered, opening her eyes. "Come in."
"Are you sure?" The voice asked with concern.
"Hai. You may enter."
Kathryn Pryde phased through the door. "Are you tired, Tachikawa-san?"
"Hai, Sensei." Mimi sighed. "The Danger-Room exercises are draining!"
"They can be." Kathryn Pryde grinned and laughed a little. "After my first round with the Danger-Room , Professor Xavier decided to 'upgrade' the room to give me a proper workout!" Shadowcat winced at the memory.
"I can guess!" Mimi surprised herself with laughing out loud. Kathryn was an upperclassman, and even helped teach the classes, but she made everyone who knew her feel at ease. In all the ways that mattered, Kathryn Pryde, AKA the X-Man "Shadowcat", was the older-sister Mimi Tachikawa always wished she had!
"But I am also thinking about my friends back in Nippon!" Mimi suddenly developed a worried, faraway look. "I worry for them. The news from 'back home' is not good."
"It rarely is." Kathryn frowned.
"Anyway, I hate being the bearer of bad-news, Tachikawa-san," Kathryn smiled apolegetically, "but the class on computers is starting in ten minutes."
"No rest for the weary.." Mimi hesitated slightly before continuing. "Sensei?"
"I'm afraid not." Shadowcat smiled warmly. She told herself to just get used to Mimi's
formality. Kathryn had witnessed Japanese formality a few times before, but could hardly get used
to it.
"Arigatou.. Pryde-sama." Mimi Tachikawa bowed. "I will be down shortly."
Mimi Tachikawa made her way to the computer-room at Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Students, which was also the headquarters of the outlaw group of mutant superheroes, the X-Men, at a leisurely stroll. But then, something happened.
'EMERGANCY!!!' Came a telepathic cry. 'The computer room has been invaded!!!'
"That cry.." Mimi gasped as she quickened her pace. "Summers-sensei!!"
With some thoughtful concentration, Tachikawa Mimi diappeared.. and reappeared right outside Xavier's Computer Lab!
What Mimi saw in the Computer Lab almost stopped her heart. Then, after about a minute, her faltering breath came back in a quiver.
"Wizardmon? Is.. that you? Or.. your ghost?"
"Iie, Tachikawa-san! I am very much alive." Wizardmon replied. "But I could not return until I had found my destined partner!"
"There is another Digi-Destined?" Mimi asked.
"In a way, Tachikawa-san!" The Digimon-Wizard bowed.
"You know this being, Madchen?" Nightcrawler asked.
"Hai, Wagner-sama." Mimi answered with a bit more strength in her voice. "But.." She turned back to Wizardmon. "Why did I not sence your presence here, Wizardmon? Are Digimon able to shield their thoughts from humans?"
"'Digimon?" Emma Frost asked. "Is that what this being is?"
"One of them, Emma-Sensei!" Mimi bowed to the White Queen.
"I am sorry, Mimi-chan!" Wizardmon bowed. "But, after setting off what can only be an alarm, I thought it best to magically shield my presence, until my mission was complete and my partner found, except from one man."
"And your partner is.. ?" Shadowcat asked as she entered the room.
"Ah! Katarin-sama!" Wizardmon bowed. "You are just who I was sent to see! You, and Mimi-chan." Wizardmon then walked toward the Shadowcat and handed her a digivice. "This, I believe, is yours! Sholom, Rabbi!"
"A digivice!" Mimi eclaimed in a hushed tone.
"Hai." Wizardmon turned to address Mimi. "Much has changed in the Digital World! It has evolved along lines that no one can control, because none knows of them! Their consequences will be tragic if left unchecked- for all concerned!"
Wizardmon then turned back to Shadowcat. "Katarin-sama! Mimi-san and her friends have fought the Dark Forces in my realm many times before, but this time, they will need a guide for the days to come. That is where you
and I come in. We are destined to help them. But, the decision to help
them is, ultimately, yours!"
"When do we leave, Wizardmon?" was all Shadowcat asked.
"Whenever you wish to go." Wizardmon nodded.
"Are you sure about this, Kitten?" Ororo Monroe, aka "Storm" of the X-Men, asked.
"As sure as I am on anything else, Storm." Shadowcat reassured her friend.
"Maybe you oughtta take some backup, Kitty." Wolverine said. "Just in case."
"I'll be alright, Logan." Kathryn smiled.
"Before you leave, Kathryn," Professor Xavier called from the doorway, "I have something for you. Here." Professor Xavier handed Shadowcat his journel. "Since you are obviously going to the Digital World to help Miss Tachikawa and her friends, this may be of some help."
"Thank you, Professor!" Kathryn bowed to Charles Xavier and accepted
the journal. Then she turned to the other X-Men. "Don't worry. I'll be careful. Wizardmon? Mimi? I'm ready."
Mimi pulled out her Digivice and aimed it at one of the school's computers. "Digi-port, open!" With that, a portal was open to the Digital World.
"Hmmm.." Kathryn pondered, "is that the portal?"
"Hai, Sensei!" Mimi said with a hint of worry.
"We're going through the computer?"
"Hai, Katarin-Sensei!" Mimi smiled. "We're going 'online', in a way."
"We MAY have a problem, then." Kathryn grimaced.
"Nani?" Wizardmon looked to his new partner.
"It's my phasing-abilitiy, Wizardmon." Kathryn explain. "When I pass through electrical fields and circuits in my intangible state, I tend to short them out."
"A problem." Wizardmon stated.
"Hai." Kathryn agreed.
"I have a solution! I think." Mimi said. "I'll just scan for my friends in the Digi-world and teleport us there!"
"Can you do that, Mimi-san?" Jean Grey-Summers asked. "Have you ever teleported across dimensions?"
"Not yet," Mimi confided to her teachers, "but it SHOULD work! I can teleport to wherever my mind can touch another mind, allowing me to 'see'
my surroundings. And the portal allows me to contect my friends in the Digital-world! So, it should provide a clear passage! 'Should'."
"A plausible theory, child!" Emma Frost smiled.
"Well, it seems the only choice we have!" Kathryn said. "Go for it!"
"Contact made!" Mimi took Kathryn's and Wizardmon's hand. "All clear!"
"Scott? Kurt?" Shadowcat called out.
"Yes, Katchen?" Kurt Wagner, also known as "Nightcrawler", responded.
"Make sure someone's at the computers at all times until we're back," Shadowcat said, "or until you hear from us!"
"Ja, Fruelein Pryde!" Nightcrawler saluted his teammate. And Kathryn giggled.
'So, Mimi-san!' Kathryn spoke through her mindlink with Mimi. 'How are you going to explain the school uniform?'
'I'll just tell them honestly!' Mimi then giggled. 'At least, then, I'll be able to explain that I stopped dying my hair auburn!'
Kathryn, Mimi, and Wizardmon teleported to a canyon in the Digital- world.