Chapter Twelve

Renewed

Logan quickly brought Yoshiko/Keiroshi down to the rehabilitation center, with Xavier leading the way and Rahne not too far behind with Mr. McCoy. Scott looked up and saw Xavier first, he was about to ask if they brought Yoshiko back when Logan entered the room as well with Keiroshi passed out in his arms.

"Is she okay?" Scott asked, he sat up in his bed, "What happened?"

"Professor! You got her!" Jean looked at the small limp body, "Is she okay?"

"Here, place her on one of the empty beds," Xavier said, "She'll be fine, is Forge still in his lab?"

"Um, no," Jean said, "In fact, he's down stairs. He came up here earlier wondering where you were Professor."

"Good! Your here!" Forge entered the room with what seemed to be the helmet to Cerebro, "I finally got it done! Just in time too!"

Forge, a mutant, has the ability to create his metallic arm into anything, a gun, a screwdriver, even a bazooka if he really wanted to. Xavier was never sure if Forge being a genius was part of his mutantcy but either way, it didn't matter.

Cerebro is a machine that Xavier had created to track down mutants, it can identify a mutant just by the mutant using his/her ability. It will tell them by name, age, location, family, school, and mutant ability just by using it.

"What are you doing with Cerebro!?" Scott said, he glanced at the helmet, "What's this have to do with Yoshiko?"

"I told Forge to create a machine that will stimulate the non-active parts of Yoshiko's cerebrum," Xavier looked to Yoshiko, once again it accrued to him as odd to see her sleeping like that, "The brain is the major organ of the central nervous system and the control center for all the body's voluntary and involuntary activities. It is also responsible for the complexities of thought, memory, emotion, and language." Xavier was handed the helmet which he placed on Yoshiko's head, "There are three distinct regions-- the brain stem, the cerebellum, and the largest of three the cerebrum. The brain stem controls vital body functions, such as breathing and digestion. The cerebellum's main functions are the maintenance of posture and the coordination of body movements. The cerebrum, which consists of the left and right cerebral hemispheres joined by the corpus callosum, is the site of the most conscious and intelligent activities. In other words, thought and memorization."

"We found out that Yoshiko's cerebrum is unusually large, and the cerebellum is being scrunched in the back of her head," Forge added, "The cerebellum is the control center of balance, which explains a bit of her being a klutz and all. But the only way for the cerebrum to acutely enlarge, and evolve into a larger size, is if it evolved over time! Yoshiko's mind had to evolve to contain all those memories! It also proves that Yoshiko must be over thousands of years old! Millions perhaps!"

"Oh my," Ororo was awake and was listening from her bed, "But, then how can she look so young!"

"Like Logan, she has a very active gene in healing," Xavier continued, he watched as Forge pressed a few buttons on the helmet Yoshiko was wearing, "It doesn't allow her to heal herself like Logan, but it allows her to stay young, almost like being locked in an ice chamber inside herself. Logan's body does the same thing, only it mainly center's it's self on Logan's health and not his body's youth."

"So, if Yoshiko gets a cut it won't heal automatically like Logan, it'll heal like normal humans" Scott pointed out, "But Logan is slowly aging, and Yoshiko is aging like every million years her body gains a year in looks... right?"

"Exactly," Forge stepped back from Yoshiko's body, "This machine I created is suppose to reactivate all those lost memories Yoshiko's brain had, well 'hid'. If she had more of her past memories, then perhaps she can take more control of her powers, of her past, of Keiroshi..."

"That still doesn't explain why it looks like Cerebro...." Rahne glanced at Forge.

"Oh, I had a mind block on what the machine would look like specifically so I just stole the idea of Cerebro," Forge looked to the Professor, "But don't worry! Cerebro is still functioning and has all it's parts! I just noticed your idea wasn't patented Professor."

"It's okay Forge, you got the job done," Xavier looked to Ororo, "Feeling better?"

"Much," Ororo leaned back in her bed, "But, something tells me that Yoshiko is going to have a major headache when she wakes up."

"Nope!" Forge smiled, "I figured I wouldn't be able to bring back all her memories, so I just programmed it to bring back the years in which Yoshiko was under control of her body and not Keiroshi. I also programmed it to only bring back the year that Yoshiko lost her memories, so like, um..." He thought it over, "Year one and year two will be absent but year three will come back, and that third year her mind would have done that erase thing. So, then it'd skip the first and seconded year, and then it'll bring back the third! Doing the whole process over again! Sure, she'll still have 2/3 of her memory still missing but 1/3 is better then none!"

"So..." Mr. McCoy said, he was also concerned for Yoshiko's sanity after wards, "... what now?"

"We wait," Xavier watched as small lights flashed from under the helmet, "We wait..."

"Tasandra! Where are you off to?" A voice for a faceless person, "Rachel, what's that in your hand?" Memories flooded back, "Crystal, I told you to go down to the bakery." Voices changed, so did the names, "Brittany, are you okay?" Accents flowed as freely as water, languages she completely understood, how? She didn't know, "Sarah, come on! We're going to be late!" Faces started to come with the voices, "Juan! Oh, your such a klutz!" Memories of far off lands, "Michelle, are you done yet?" Vast oceans, open plains, crowded markets, cold cellars, "It's okay Willow, your going to be fine," Warm summers, cold Christmases, "Doreen, are you okay?" Surrounded by many laughing friends one moment, lost, alone and confused the next, "Ruthy, it'll be fun! Come on!" A light? She walked to the light, shadows surrounded her and reached to her as they tried to hold her back, "Ameila? Ameila is that you? Come out of those shadows... come out of those shadows...... shadows........ shadows.........."

She gasped, her eyes snapped opened as she looked around to familiar faces. They seemed warm and inviting, a man, a bald man was sitting in a chair with wheels by her bed side. What was his name? Oh yes, Charles Xavier. The Professor.

"Keiroshi?" He asked her, that name sounded so familiar, "... Yoshiko?" But that one sounded even more familiar, "How are you feeling?"

She looked at him, wondering, who was she? She knew who she was, of course! But, what was her name? Choose a name? Just pick a name, Ameila? That one sounded pretty, she liked how it had brought her into the light.

"Pro-Professor Ch-Charles X-x-Xavier?" She stuttered, she wasn't sure why but she kept on stuttering, she couldn't really control it.

"Yes, that's right," He smiled down at her, she felt the warmth of his smile, how welcoming it was, "Are you okay? Do you have a headache?"

"I-I came out from the sha-shadows," She lifted a hand, and touched his face, "Into the light, and war-warmth of your smile. It was you ra-right? It was you that I-I saw?"

"Oh course it was," He pushed her back down into her bed, and pulled the covers up to her shoulders, "You've had quite a trip, I suggest you rest..."

She didn't have to be told twice, her eyes felt heavy, she slowly but surely closed them and went into her mind. Back to those memories she lost so long ago, but have now found.

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Ameila ran down the halls of the Xavier Institute for the Gifted, her giggles filled the air around her as a few faces popped out from their rooms to see the back of her turning a corner. Her giggles were sweet and child like, her white hair danced around her face. Her eyes shone with darkness and white brilliance once again, making her balanced mentally, physically, and spiritually. Ameila ran down another hall and saw the main stairs coming closer as she ran faster, she quickly jumped onto the stair's railing and slid down, her giggles turned into a small scream of joy. Her voice stopped and her eyes widened when she saw a person standing at the bottom of the stairs, it was Scott.

"Scott!!" Ameila yelped, "Lu-look out!!"

Scott whirled around to see what she meant only to get tackled to the ground, a grunt came out from him as he landed on his back. Ameila quickly got off of him and clasped her hands over her mouth.

"Oh my goodness!" Ameila gasped, "A-are you o-okie Scott?"

Scott chuckled as he sat up, he arched and cracked his back. He looked up at Ameila and smiled.

"I'm fine, I'm fine," Scott said, "But how many times has the Professor told you not to run around the Institute?" He looked at the stair case, "Or slide down the banister?" He stood up and tried to crack his back again, "You... or others, could get hurt you know?"

"I-I'm sorry Scott," Ameila stammered, "I-I won't do it again."

"I some how doubt that," He chuckled and ruffled her hair, "Don't you have a speech session with Mr. McCoy?"

"Y-yes, I was just on-on my way." Yoshiko nodded, with a wave and a smile she was off and running.

"Hey! No running!" Kurt said as he teleported next to Scott, "Geez! How many times do we have to tell her that?"

"She's only a kid Kurt," Scott said as he watched Ameila turn the corner, "She's only a kid."

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So? How'd you peoples like it? Please R&R! I was thinking, if I get enough coments on my story about how they liked it, I was think I would make a sequel. Sounds good?

I would also like to take this time to note that all the characters in this story is own by Marvel Studio Comics, and the Worner Brother's Studio and Productions. Yoshiko/Keiroshi Seika, Dekua the Monk, and this story is owned by Made By Me Corperations. (CW. 2002)

Hey, gotta go. Hope you liked the story, BAI!!! =^^=

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