Karma

Chapter Seven: Smidgen of Both

Author: Icy Flame

Disclaimer: Don't own them never will!

Wanda: WAHAHAHAHHA

IF: Forgive her, she is on a sugar high!

Wanda:  ::glazed look in her eye:: they never gave us pixie sticks in the asylum!

IF: ::Says to herself:: I wonder why.

Wanda: What was that?

IF: Uh I like chocolate pie? Ehehehe ^.^;

Wanda: Riiiiiight, anyways here is chapter seven! Please review, it helps out!

IF: Was anyone else like WTF in the end of Day Of Reckoning when Scott went and through "Xavier" out of his wheel chair? I was, my eyes bugged out of my head until I realized it was Raven!

Wanda: Ditto here babe! Oh god I have been around Petey too much!

IF: AHAHAHHAHA You're picking up his lingo! Hehehehe Anyways enjoy! Hey do I ramble? NM don't answer that! Later yo

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~~~ Brotherhood Manor (where we left off) ~~~

"Uh a book, we were laughing over a book." She replied in a bored tone, giving Mystique a condescending apathetic look, this caused Mystique to go over the end. A deep rumble came from her throat, as she tightened her iron grip on the speedster in irritation. Raven simply swore under her breath about children now a days all having holes in their heads.

  Pietro mouthed quickly before Raven would notice "Thanks". Lance just shook his head at him and Wanda smiled softly at her brother's actions. 'Things are getting better between them evidentially, I could of sworn she was gonna tell' Lance thought as he looked over towards her.

    Todd, not being the brightest light bulb, chose this time to add in his two cents. He wandered into the room, not noticing Raven because of the Harry Potter book he tightly clutched in his webbed hands. His little buggy eyes scanning the pages, soaking up the words like a sponge. Fred wasn't too far behind him with another Harry Potter book in his massive hands, making the piece of literature seem like a tiny baby book.

"Yo Pietro, me an' Fred were wonder'n if we could borrow da next book ta da Harry thang."

Pietro rolled his eyes and groaned, "Just take it Todd."

  Todd still not gazing up at the people before him flipped a page in the book. Todd replied as his yellow eyes scanned the page before him greedily.

 "Yo I waz up in dere 'fore but you were all like in your boxers man! Now that's just wrong not ta worn us an all.  Actually once I think about it, your clothes were all over the place, not like you at all. In fact it is more like RoguMUFHP!" He was incapable of speech because Lance's hand now covered his mouth. Raven gave the rock punning boy a smoldering glare. Toad tried to ask a question but it came out muffled from the eldest boy's hand. Todd was about to slime Lance's hand when he cast his narrowed yellow eyes around the room and they widened when they landed on Pietro being held incarcerated by Mystique

  "Hey little buddy didja ask him why that vampire book was in his room?" Blob asked him, stopping and looked up well actually down. "Oh, erm maybe later." He amended when he saw the situation with his own eyes. Both Harry Potter fans turned towards the stairs and began moving up them…and then taking a seat on the top ones. They started to make bets over what the fight was about most likely.

"It has to be over him burning her bras!"

"No way yo, it's bout him selling her panties on ebay!" Mystique simply sent them a glare, somehow forcing them to shut up. When she retuned her icy glare towards the silver haired boy Todd got in the last words.

 "This should be interesting," grinned Todd, Fred simply nodded back as they watched, Harry Potter momentarily forgotten.

    Mystique was fed up; she would not be made a fool of; especially not by a bunch of misfit of hooligans. A snarl came from deep within her throat. "If someone doesn't fess up to what happened, I will be forced to use physical methods of extracting information! You first Lance, what was so funny 'about a book'?" She rasped, not believing the lie for a second.

 "Uhhh I think that Wanda would be able to explain it better." He dodged, unable to come up with a believable excuse in that short amount of time. Sure with any other adult or person he could have had decent lie but Mystique was like a human lie detector, the guys had even made a few cracks about it being her other mutant power.

  Of course Wanda hadn't been expecting the switch to her and was left dumbfounded. 'Ah shit rockhead is useless. Man the only people even worth my time- why the hell is she looking at me like that?' She remained vocally silent, their leader started giving her an unblinking stare.

     Wanda and Raven held each other's gazes. Yellow met gray blue. Both colors staring into one another, swirling together as neither combatant was willing to give in and blink. A small bead of sweat ran down Wanda's face but she simply swiped at it. Raven gritted her teeth as she felt the muscles in her face tense together, attempting to twitch, almost blinking.

     The staring contest caused a chain reaction. First Todd and Fred betting on who would win - Mystique or Wanda, Fred thought Mystique while Todd stuck with Red Witch. Next Lance and Pietro searched for an exit. And the event that ended this little war for power was Agatha coming in and smacking both Wanda and Rave on the head.

  "Quit it, this is getting childish! I would expect this from them but you, Raven! We have to plan some things, come along!"

~~~ TV Room ~~~

  "Oh my god! I so can still no believe that Rachelle is having Ross's child!" Kitty squealed, hugging a pillow to her. Scott, Kurt and Evan all rolled their eyes at the valley girl. Jean just nodded along with Kitty as her eyes were glued to the screen. It had been the girls' night to choose what they would watch on television and unfortunately for the guys it had been Friends.

  At commercial break Rogue walked into the room looking quite disappointed. She was pouting slightly and had her hands balled up into tight fists. She stomped over to the couch.

  "Evan do you know where your aunt is?" Rogue asked, looking at the bleach blonde boy. He looked up at her and smiled before scrunching up his face in thought.

  "I think her and Mr. McCoy went on a mission or something, why?" he answered with a confused smile.

   Rogue sighed, "Oh, we were going to have a session in the danger room." This caught the attention of the other members of the X-men team. They looked over at the gothic girl and noted for the first time that instead of her normal get up she now was supporting a pair of baggy PJ pants with a loose nightshirt that rose above her belly button. With a closer examination one would note a slight disappointed look marring her face at the moment.

    "Vhat session?" Kurt also wore a confused look similar to Evan's only in blue. Rogue waved a hand impatiently at them. 'It's not like they would care anyways. I guess I better tell them before Jean goes into my head for it' Jean got a ticked off look on her face as they waited for Rogue to explain what she had meant.

  "Come on Rogue, spill!" Kitty encouraged, grinning at her roommate foolishly.

  Rogue was a tad hesitant but answered the question that had been on all their minds.

    "Evan's aunt is teaching my these meditation routines. That's why Ah wasn't around today. If anyone needs me, A'll be in the danger room." She excused her self just in time for Friends to come back on and for the television to regain the concern for the female population.

~~~ Danger Room ~~~

  "Run Rogue C67886901" commanded Rogue, sitting her self down on a near by rock. She had taken the time before dinner to have a program created specially for her. She had to black mail Kitty to assist her but had completed it just before Ororo had called all the students for the final meal of the day. It had been good, a thick stew with homemade bread and veggies on the side. Everyone had enjoyed it but after the meal Rogue had gone up to her room to change. Once she had comfortable clothes on she went into the Danger Room to wait for Ms. Monroe. When ten minutes had gone by she had gotten restless and when twenty had passed she had decided to stalk down her teacher. When she had come upon the other students in the T.V. room she felt a pang of anger and loneness for not be offered to join them.

   She cleared these thoughts from her mind as she tried to calm herself down. Breathing in and out deeply she prepared herself to go into a trance. As she recalled her lesson from earlier she did as she had been instructed.

~~~ Flash Back ~~~

   "No, no, no! Child you mustn't let your power control you, you must control you power! Finding a peaceful place in your mind is half the battle, once you have achieved that then you will be able to take control of your life once again."

  "Ah…ah don't understand what you mean. Are you saying that-"

    "I am not implying that this will be simple, easy or quick child. All I am saying is that with practice you should be able to find your inner peace. With that in mind you will then begin your journey towards control.

   "If you say so."

~~~ End Flash Back ~~~

   'If all I need is inner peace it shouldn't be that hard right? I guess it is like when I had everyone else's powers. All I had to do then was think and I could use them, but I only thought- wait oh my god that is it! I could control their powers because each of them had a sense of control over them, although some more limited then others, all I have to do is somehow combine all those memories and then maybe I can make-up a new technique for my own.

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Next Day

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~~~ Kitty & Rogue's Room ~~~

 "Like oh my god Rogue wake up!" Kitty once again shook her roommate, for the sixth time. Jade eyes met blues as Rogue lazily peeped open her own before rolling over.

  "Harpy leave me alone! I need sleeeep" complained the tired gothic gal. She was once again awaken by Kitty's feverish shaking

  Kitty explained, "But look! Some one left you this plastic rose!" Pointing to the flower that was held firmly in Rogue's bare hand. Rogue's eyes widened and she sat up straight in bed to look down at her hand…that was bleeding from the rose's thorns.

  "OUCH dammit! That little motherfucker ain't fake, it just pricked me-wait a second. How, how can I be holding this? I have to show this to Ororo ASAP! Kitty can you ask Ms. Monroe to meet me in the danger room?" asked her slightly jarred roommate, too shocked to refuse Kitty phased out towards Storm's room. Rogue jumped into her X-Man suit and dashed down the stairs towards the elevator. Once she got into the metal box she slammed some of the buttons so that now it was headed towards the danger room; where some how Ororo Monroe sat in her program, smiling up at Rogue.

~~~ Throughout the Xavier Institute ~~~

 'X-Men assemble in the Danger Room now.' Came the Professor's voice from inside their skulls.

 Ray asked, "Is it just me or is that still freaky?"

  "Yay and like how he knows that you're about to knock on his door and tells you to come in!" Roberto added, all the others sitting around the breakfast table nodded their agreement before they departed to suit up.


~~~ Danger Room ~~~

"Rogue? Rogue? Come on you need to come around now." Ororo urged her student, shaking her shoulder slightly. Rogue blinked a few times and looked up at her teacher and smiled apologetically.

 "Come child, the professor wishes to have another training session in here. I believe he has assembled all of the other students."

 "Uh ok" Rogue acknowledged, getting up from her Indian style sitting position on the floor. The Danger Room's door slide open to reveal her teammates, she cocked her head to the side and looked back at them. Everyone came in and waited for the exercise to begin.

 "Scott do you know what this is about?" Kitty asked their leader, he shrugged his shoulders and then squared them as Charles Xavier's voice filled the room.

  "I am sure that you are all wondering why you have been gathered here. You are all to be active in this session. Jean and I have created a program to prepare you for what will await you in the world. Program four-three-eighty-seven-drill begin" He ordered from the control room, typing at some buttons so that the session could begin.

  All around the kids a ruff gray environment popped up, rocks growing to mountainous heights. Bobby began to gather an ice shield around him and his teammates when all of the sudden a large flying object spit out orange goo at them.

 "Bobby and Jubilee please exit the room, once you are hit you automatically lose." Voiced Charles, shaking his head disappointedly.

~~~ Control Room~~~

"You know that they will never be ready so why do you keep this up Charles?" He swung around in his wheel chair to confirm what he already knew to be true. His brown eyes widened in shock as his eyebrows rose. His mouth was open in surprise, Mystique stood before him, although she was in a slightly altered appearance from after Asteroid M.

 "I thought that-" he was interrupted.

"You thought wrong, and for that mistake you and your precious students shall pay dearly Charles!" Raven screamed, she leaped from her position towards the unsuspecting bald man. With a karate chop to the throat she laughed in glee. Taking up the microphone she altered her appearance to that of Charles Xavier.

 "I want to see you all in the planning room, now!"

~~~ After Scott's Episode ~~~

"Gees I wonder what's crawled up his-" Lance mocked, leaning up against the wall near Kitty.

" LANCE! I don't know what, maybe it was you being a jerk!" She glared before moving away from the senior, Lance frowned at this, and crossed his arms across his chest.

 "Theanserssimple,astick!" Pietro grinned, speeding around the room, stopping in front of Rogue. Smirking at her he threw an arm over her shoulder.

 Evan and Bobby both tensed at this action, along with some of the other male recruits. They sent some glares towards the speedster and were about to do something when Charles cleared his throat.

 "This is not a make out zone!" came a shout seemingly high for someone with a deep voice like Xavier but the students didn't note this and so it went disregarded.

IF: SHIT AND THE LIGHTBULD EXPLODES!

Wanda: Opps! Sorry, I was just too tired! That and Monty Python is coming on!

IF: That does not excuse- wait what? Ohhh Umm well ehehehhe till next time!

Wanda: Review with what you think should happen next! The flash back was from their first session together incase you were wondering, sorry I know it's a total plot hole!

IF: I added some stuff into this from Day Of Reckoning!

 Important NOTE: I MAY change this chapter later on, I was kinda in a hurry to get it up and my lil bro wants to watch Monty Python with my so PLEASE FORGIVE MY MISTAKES and I will probably be posting up the next thing in my Acid & Base soon later!