Lexi stood across the small hallway from Pyro, holding the flames in her palm and giggling like a child. She had a look upon her face that clearly said she was enjoying the shock and awe upon his. While Lexi was caught in her thoughts, Pyro snatched the lighter from her grasp. But before he could conjure up his own ball of fire Lexi threw hers at Pyro, instead of hitting the boy the flames split in two and Pyro was then holding two fireballs. Lexi took this as her cue to start running.
She turned abruptly to make her exit and Pyro immediately launched his attack. The mass of flames was within two inches of Lexis face before she realized what was happening. Luckily her hands were much quicker than her mind, and the flames were once again hovering above her palms. She threw the fire back at Pyro, but he already had new flames to launch at her. They continued on with this game of Flaming-Dodge Ball for another ten minutes before Lexi decided to end it once and for all.
Waiting until she had all the flames in her possession, Lexi then forced them all upon Pyro. While he hurried to retain all the flames, Lexi's face once again took on a look of fierce concentration, and her eyes and hair once again swirled and gleamed. Suddenly Pyro couldn't move. He tried to move his neck to see what was happening, but he couldn't. Suddenly he felt his feet leave the ground and just as suddenly he found himself becoming intimate with the nearest wall. The fire he had been controlling was frozen in mid-air, where he had been just a moment ago. Pyro quickly regained his composure, gearing himself up to fight once again, but Lexi was gone.
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Lexi slumped against the door to her loft in an attempt to catch her breath. She had run out Club Lotus' back door, and hadn't stopped running the twelve blocks back to her home. Fighting for her was nothing new, it was almost a way of life with all of the men constantly ogling and groping her, but fighting with fire and mutant powers was certainly not something she did on a daily basis, she much preferred fists to balls of fire.
A sudden gust of wind caused all the drapes and papers in the spacious loft to blow about, causing Lexi to rise from her spot on the floor in an attempt to catch as many as possible. The dark room was suddenly illuminated by a flash of lightning, and in the far right corner Lexi could see several figures. She immediately attempted to freeze them in place, and succeeding in doing so to all but one of the intruders. A bald man in a wheelchair moved forward and her face softened, "Alexia, how good it is to see you again. It has been quite a while."
"Yes it has, what are you doing here Charles?"
"I've come with a proposition for you Lexi, one I think you'll be inclined to accept"
"What kind of proposition?"
"Well I'll tell you, but first why don't you let go of my colleagues"
Lexi looked back over to the corner and remembered that she still had a telekinetic grip on all five of Charles' 'colleagues'. She released her power over them and they all moved forward to stand behind Xavier.
"Lexi I'd like you to meet the X-Men. This is Scott Summers, Ororo Monroe, Bobby Drake, Rogue, and Logan." Lexi looked over the group once more and noted which was which, Scott was the handsome man with the visor, Ororo was the woman with dark skin and platinum hair, Bobby was the boy who looked to be about her age, Rogue was the girl next to Bobby with two platinum streaks in her hair, and Logan was the rugged man behind Rogue.
"It's nice to meet you all, sorry about the whole freezing you in place thing"
"Its no problem", drawled Rogue in a deep southern accent "we're pretty much used to things being frozen everywhere", she then smiled at Bobby next to her and he stepped closer to her.
"Now Lexi, back to my proposition…"