Part 2

"Kurt that went in my hair!" yelled Betsy Braddock. Trying to yank the snow out of her hair. Kurt laughed and threw a few more snowballs at the English girl. Charles Xavier sighed and tried not to laugh too much at Betsy's attempts to hit Kurt with a snowball. Every time that Betsy threw a snowball Kurt would either leap out of the way or 'port' somewhere else.

Then out of nowhere hundreds of snowballs hit Kurt on the side of the head before he even managed to twitch. Betsy looked around to see a young man standing beside her. On the other side of the white haired man was a dark haired beauty wearing red.

"Pietro! Wanda! I thought both of you weren't going to come until next week?" said Xavier to the young man.

"My brother told me if I wanted to go early he would gladly take me. It saves you travelling across the globe when my brother can get us here in seconds," said Wanda.

"Why don't you both go inside and warm up, then I shall show you to your rooms," said Xavier. The two newcomers entered the house and sat in front of the roaring fire.

'Pietro and Wanda Maximoff are from Wundagore Mountain in a distant land. Pietro has the mutant ability to run at very high speeds past the sound barrier. Wanda can cast pockets of reality warping powers, most common is her hex blasts. I just hope they fit in with my other recruits. From the diary of Professor Charles Xavier.

The Savage Land.

"When's Magneto coming?" asked the mutant known as Rogue.

"No need to start pining Rogue. He's just getting a new recruit to our fold because in a few days we go against Charles Xavier and his students," said the former Morlock Marrow.

"I don't pine over Magneto," replied Rogue.

"Everybody knows you got the hots for Mags," teased Jubilee.

"Children please. Some of us are trying to concentrate on exercising," said the mutant from the future named Bishop.

The three females left the room still teasing the mutant from Mississippi.

Danger Room, Salem Center, New York.

Pietro there's one to your left Betsy said to Pietro via telepathy. Pietro swerved and ran up the robot'' back at super speed and yanked out a few wires. The robot shut down and crashed to the floor. Kurt 'ported from a robot's path and reappeared above it. Kurt fell onto the robot causing it to smash into the metallic floor of the Danger Room.

"SEQUENCE: ALPHA CHARLIE 001 IS NOW SHUTTING DOWN."

Charles Xavier walked out of the control room and entered the Danger Room.

"Congratulations my students. Now the real reason that I brought the five of you here was for one specific reason, a dream! I have a dream of peaceful co-existence between humans and us; mutants. You five plus me are to be the defenders of that dream. You are to be my X MEN," said Xavier smiling. Xavier set a box on the floor.

"These are to be your uniforms. When you are in them you shall leave your birth names behind and you shall answer to the codenames that I have made up for you." Xavier handed Kurt the first uniform. "Kurt you are to be the team leader and your codename is Nightcrawler!" Kurt smiled and headed into the changing rooms.

The next to receive their uniform was Piotr Rasputin and his codename is Colossus.

"Betsy this is your uniform and you shall be named Psylocke." Betsy smiled and thanked Xavier.

"Pietro you shall be Quicksilver. Wanda you shall be the Scarlet Witch. Now go and put on your uniforms."

'Oh what a sight they were. All dressed in black leather. They looked very impressive especially Colossus. His uniform stopped at the tops of his arms and with his organic armour he looked very imposing. I felt very proud of my students at that moment.' From the diary of Professor Charles Xavier.

The Savage Land.

Magneto descended dramatically into the massive complex of his power base. He wore crimson armour over his chest and a helmet of the same colour on his head. In Magneto's magnetic bubble was one of his newer recruits. Magneto had just come from the girl's house. Her real name was Jean Grey but Magneto had a special plan for her.

As soon as Magneto's feet touched the floor a mutant ran out towards him. A mutant who had become quite special to him in the last few months. Rogue! Rogue clasped her arms around Magneto, giving him a big hug. "You were gone for so long Erik. I thought that maybe the Sentinels had got you." "You shouldn't worry. I would have taken New York City down before they would have gotten me. Now take our new friend to a spare room and make her comfortable." "When are we going to attack Charles Xavier, Magnus?" asked Bishop. "Tomorrow. Tomorrow Lucas Bishop we shall crush Charles and his foolish dream."

Westchester Mansion, Salem Center, New York.

Kurt Wagner looked out of his massive bay window. The skyline was so much different in America than back in his native Germany. Kurt had never known a proper home, he had always lived with the circus but now that he lived at Westchester Mansion he felt at peace.

X Men to the Danger Room for an emergency briefing said Xavier's voice in his head.

Nightcrawler 'ported straight to the Danger Room and turned up standing right in front of Xavier. Quicksilver was already there. Scarlet Witch was the next to fly in. Psylocke and Colossus were the last to walk in.

"My X Men we have a small problem. Magneto is on the way."

"Whose Magneto?" asked Nightcrawler.

"Magneto is an old friend of mine, well up until a few years ago. He believes that a war is coming between humanity and mutantkind. He is the biggest threat to my dream. Please we must stop him and his Brotherhood."

The X Men then got their uniforms on. They needed to know when and where the Brotherhood was to attack. So Quicksilver did a quick scout around the grounds. He reported that they were moving very fast towards the mansion. Xavier did a quick scan of the oncoming minds and said them out loud to the assembled X Men.

"Magneto!" "Rogue!" "Bishop!" "Marrow!" "Phoenix!" "Jubilee!"