X-Men: Code Omega
Part 5
Jennie stepped through the small door with the rest of her classmates. The door itself lead to yet another series of hallways. She took a quick look at each hallway as she passed them; Professor Logan was leading them deeper into the school than any of them had been before. As they left the upper levels, which were full of light and in pristine condition, the hallway began to degrade into a dust covered corridor. All light was now coming from the few lamps that were projecting a small luminance, just enough to allow one to see ten feet or so in front of their feet. Finally, Professor Logan stopped at an old, rusted, metal door that was shut so tightly that he had to kick it with his feet. Jennie followed the rest of the students into what appeared to be a remodeled dungeon. Jennie gave Thomas and Jamie a look of longing, like she couldn't survive without some clue as to the disappearance of the natural light. Needless to say Jennie didn't care for this place very much; she was used to being waited on hand and foot in a well kept mansion. While the upper school resembled her own home, this part reminded her of a back alley where some homeless guy would live. There were chains hanging from corroded hooks attached to the stone ceiling, and about 12 desks arranged in a haphazard way; like someone had just thrown them in. Jennie watched as Professor Logan took a seat at the only thing that looked half-way decent, which was his rosewood desk. You would not think of Professor Logan as someone who would want to make something appear pleasant, but his desk was a sign of his devotion. It looked as though he polished it every day. The desk shined with the brilliance of the one light that adorned the very cramped "room". "Okay everyone, I hope you know how to get back here," Professor Logan's first words nearly brought tears to peoples' eyes; the long winding path to the dungeon was not something that could be learned the first time through, "Today we're going to do the usual things that you do on the first day of a new school year, which is rule reviews.as some of you may know I don't care much for rules, but Charley..umm, Professor Xavier says we have to do them so that's what were gonna do." At this time Jennie and the rest of the students had chosen there desks, Jennie, Jamie, and Thomas of course sat together, but Jennie was surprised to see that Josh had taken a desk right next to Tegan and Callie, the wretched prefects who deserved nothing less than an energy induced comma. Josh had struck up idle, hushed small talk while Professor Logan continued with his speech. The fact that she knew Logan could hear the conversation, but did nothing about it was puzzling Jennie thought, Why didn't he stop them? Just so as not to make Jennie curious any longer Professor Logan looked over and proceeded to explain his views on people interrupting him. ".now I want to make sure that you know how I feel about being talked over.I don't like it at all and if it continues you will all be facing a lot more home work than I usually give out," Though Logan didn't yell you could infer by his tone and the sheer seriousness of his expression that this was one of the few things that really irritated him. * * * * *
After navigating his way through the endless corridors back to the lobby for lunch, Thomas was tired, dead tired to be exact. The grueling review session of the day was mildly exciting, especially when the professor yelled at Dr. Allosaurus, but from that point on it went down hill. Thomas was glad it was over, and he had a full hour of lunch to spend with his friends. Code Omega almost ran through the majestic entrance hall to the area that Logan had indicated as the mess hall. The entrance to the mess hall was being flooded with students, apparently they were late. Just another perk to being locked in a dungeon with a psychotic egomaniac hell bent on turning Code Omega into something Logan liked to call "tough". The politics of it all were quite baffling and annoying to no end. No matter it was time to talk with his friends and forget the cruel troubles of the real world. As it was most of the time Jamie flanked his right while Jennie took the left. All three proceeded to push through the growing crowd; all three helped move through the crowd with an occasional zap of electricity, a frozen arm or leg, or a melted book or two. It was all great fun. They stepped into the mess hall with a look of triumph on their faces. All three of them looked around, taking in yet another beautiful room of this school. While not as vast as the main audience chamber the mess hall was quite large easily sitting 150 or so people. A few of the circular tables remained unoccupied so Code Omega went to the one closest to one of the six large windows in the room. "Darn it I hate being in that cursed dungeon it is way to cramped for even five people to stay in for more than two hours," Jennie's constant irritation was common place so no one save for the surrounding students was surprised by Jennie's outburst, "Oh well, it looks like this school could be useful. I've heard it has one of the best records for a private school." "Really? Me too Ruby, but it still sucks that we can't go out and explore it more," Jamie sounded very disappointed. They all knew Jamie really wanted to scope out her competition, "So you guys going to eat or what?" "I think the 'or what' is probably what I'll be doing, how 'bout you Ruby?" How could they expect Thomas to waste his time eating when something so exciting was happening? "Yeah, me too sorry Sapphire, but I don't think I can eat after sitting next to Tegan and Callie for two hours, they gross me out, not to mention that nasty eyebrow Callie has.and can you believe what Josh did.what a suck up," Jennie needed to get some things off her chest apparently. "I know it is freaking sick! I wouldn't be caught dead with something like that!" even Thomas could be quite mean at times, "I really feel sorry for her though, it was funny when you froze her and I zapped the crap out of her hehehe!" "Oh stop bragging Proteus, if it wasn't for you I would have melted them into puddles of smelly goo," Thomas guessed that Jennie was still sour over the whole interfering with her fight thing, "Anyway, I think that we should go to the temple tonight, we haven't been there since we got her and we are so close to cracking the secret that I can taste it!" Jennie spoke of an ancient underground temple that the group had discovered when playing with a metal detector. "Ssshh! We don't want anyone to know about that remember.shesh.okay, but make sure no one follows you, we'll meet in the second floor library," Jamie's secrecy was well placed as the group thought that the temple would be pillaged if someone else were to find it. "You guys I don't know if I can get us there this time, the transportation is making me really weak!" Thomas protested recalling how he had used his power to transform all three of them into electricity and travel through power lines to arrive at the temple more quickly, "this might be the last time I can do this, and it is really painful." "Well, at least you're getting practice!" Jamie's cold disregard for Thomas' pain was insulting, but Thomas knew she didn't mean it, "Let's just keep on doing it as long as you can do it I think we should keep working on breaking that weird code." "Okay everyone agreed?" Jennie looked around to see the customary nods, which she expected would come any moment, and of course they did, as they always did.
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The rest of the day was filled with a few more hours with Logan than an introduction to their science teacher, Professor Xavier himself. Professor Xavier's classroom was just past the lunch room on the right hand side. It was filled with books upon books, upon books ranging from physics to genetics. His room looked quite different from Logan's; it was slightly quaint, very clean, orderly, and very bright. Windows were placed all around the room giving a good view of the backyard of the Xavier Institute. When Jamie arrived in the class, along with Tegan, Callie, Josh, Thomas, Jennie, and Harrison, Professor Xavier was seated at a conservative Victorian desk; equally encumbered with books and to Jamie's surprise, quite a few pictures of all of the professors they had seen thus far. Not limited to just the professors Jamie and the rest had met, Professor Xavier's desk had pictures of many teachers, some older, while some looked brand new. Xavier smiled at everyone as they entered the room and took their seats, which were unfortunately labeled. Jamie searched for hers and the result was not pleasant, she was seated right next to Callie the prefect. She gave Jamie an almost unnoticeable glare as Jamie set down. This is war, thought Jamie, a war which I intend to win. Jamie observed that Thomas was seated next to the Harrison kid and Jennie was paired with the other prefect, Tegan. Jamie immediately labeled this as an invitation for disaster. After everyone was settled Professor Xavier began to project more images of quite through his vast mental powers. Jamie did precisely that. "Hello everyone I will be teaching your science class this year, first we will start on physics, then move on to biology, and we'll see where fate takes us from there. Please turn to page one of the physics books which have been placed at your seats, and we shall began today's introductory lesson," this guy was much quicker than he appeared thought Jamie, yet another surprise that he has in store, she wondered what else he had up his sleeve.
Jennie stepped through the small door with the rest of her classmates. The door itself lead to yet another series of hallways. She took a quick look at each hallway as she passed them; Professor Logan was leading them deeper into the school than any of them had been before. As they left the upper levels, which were full of light and in pristine condition, the hallway began to degrade into a dust covered corridor. All light was now coming from the few lamps that were projecting a small luminance, just enough to allow one to see ten feet or so in front of their feet. Finally, Professor Logan stopped at an old, rusted, metal door that was shut so tightly that he had to kick it with his feet. Jennie followed the rest of the students into what appeared to be a remodeled dungeon. Jennie gave Thomas and Jamie a look of longing, like she couldn't survive without some clue as to the disappearance of the natural light. Needless to say Jennie didn't care for this place very much; she was used to being waited on hand and foot in a well kept mansion. While the upper school resembled her own home, this part reminded her of a back alley where some homeless guy would live. There were chains hanging from corroded hooks attached to the stone ceiling, and about 12 desks arranged in a haphazard way; like someone had just thrown them in. Jennie watched as Professor Logan took a seat at the only thing that looked half-way decent, which was his rosewood desk. You would not think of Professor Logan as someone who would want to make something appear pleasant, but his desk was a sign of his devotion. It looked as though he polished it every day. The desk shined with the brilliance of the one light that adorned the very cramped "room". "Okay everyone, I hope you know how to get back here," Professor Logan's first words nearly brought tears to peoples' eyes; the long winding path to the dungeon was not something that could be learned the first time through, "Today we're going to do the usual things that you do on the first day of a new school year, which is rule reviews.as some of you may know I don't care much for rules, but Charley..umm, Professor Xavier says we have to do them so that's what were gonna do." At this time Jennie and the rest of the students had chosen there desks, Jennie, Jamie, and Thomas of course sat together, but Jennie was surprised to see that Josh had taken a desk right next to Tegan and Callie, the wretched prefects who deserved nothing less than an energy induced comma. Josh had struck up idle, hushed small talk while Professor Logan continued with his speech. The fact that she knew Logan could hear the conversation, but did nothing about it was puzzling Jennie thought, Why didn't he stop them? Just so as not to make Jennie curious any longer Professor Logan looked over and proceeded to explain his views on people interrupting him. ".now I want to make sure that you know how I feel about being talked over.I don't like it at all and if it continues you will all be facing a lot more home work than I usually give out," Though Logan didn't yell you could infer by his tone and the sheer seriousness of his expression that this was one of the few things that really irritated him. * * * * *
After navigating his way through the endless corridors back to the lobby for lunch, Thomas was tired, dead tired to be exact. The grueling review session of the day was mildly exciting, especially when the professor yelled at Dr. Allosaurus, but from that point on it went down hill. Thomas was glad it was over, and he had a full hour of lunch to spend with his friends. Code Omega almost ran through the majestic entrance hall to the area that Logan had indicated as the mess hall. The entrance to the mess hall was being flooded with students, apparently they were late. Just another perk to being locked in a dungeon with a psychotic egomaniac hell bent on turning Code Omega into something Logan liked to call "tough". The politics of it all were quite baffling and annoying to no end. No matter it was time to talk with his friends and forget the cruel troubles of the real world. As it was most of the time Jamie flanked his right while Jennie took the left. All three proceeded to push through the growing crowd; all three helped move through the crowd with an occasional zap of electricity, a frozen arm or leg, or a melted book or two. It was all great fun. They stepped into the mess hall with a look of triumph on their faces. All three of them looked around, taking in yet another beautiful room of this school. While not as vast as the main audience chamber the mess hall was quite large easily sitting 150 or so people. A few of the circular tables remained unoccupied so Code Omega went to the one closest to one of the six large windows in the room. "Darn it I hate being in that cursed dungeon it is way to cramped for even five people to stay in for more than two hours," Jennie's constant irritation was common place so no one save for the surrounding students was surprised by Jennie's outburst, "Oh well, it looks like this school could be useful. I've heard it has one of the best records for a private school." "Really? Me too Ruby, but it still sucks that we can't go out and explore it more," Jamie sounded very disappointed. They all knew Jamie really wanted to scope out her competition, "So you guys going to eat or what?" "I think the 'or what' is probably what I'll be doing, how 'bout you Ruby?" How could they expect Thomas to waste his time eating when something so exciting was happening? "Yeah, me too sorry Sapphire, but I don't think I can eat after sitting next to Tegan and Callie for two hours, they gross me out, not to mention that nasty eyebrow Callie has.and can you believe what Josh did.what a suck up," Jennie needed to get some things off her chest apparently. "I know it is freaking sick! I wouldn't be caught dead with something like that!" even Thomas could be quite mean at times, "I really feel sorry for her though, it was funny when you froze her and I zapped the crap out of her hehehe!" "Oh stop bragging Proteus, if it wasn't for you I would have melted them into puddles of smelly goo," Thomas guessed that Jennie was still sour over the whole interfering with her fight thing, "Anyway, I think that we should go to the temple tonight, we haven't been there since we got her and we are so close to cracking the secret that I can taste it!" Jennie spoke of an ancient underground temple that the group had discovered when playing with a metal detector. "Ssshh! We don't want anyone to know about that remember.shesh.okay, but make sure no one follows you, we'll meet in the second floor library," Jamie's secrecy was well placed as the group thought that the temple would be pillaged if someone else were to find it. "You guys I don't know if I can get us there this time, the transportation is making me really weak!" Thomas protested recalling how he had used his power to transform all three of them into electricity and travel through power lines to arrive at the temple more quickly, "this might be the last time I can do this, and it is really painful." "Well, at least you're getting practice!" Jamie's cold disregard for Thomas' pain was insulting, but Thomas knew she didn't mean it, "Let's just keep on doing it as long as you can do it I think we should keep working on breaking that weird code." "Okay everyone agreed?" Jennie looked around to see the customary nods, which she expected would come any moment, and of course they did, as they always did.
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The rest of the day was filled with a few more hours with Logan than an introduction to their science teacher, Professor Xavier himself. Professor Xavier's classroom was just past the lunch room on the right hand side. It was filled with books upon books, upon books ranging from physics to genetics. His room looked quite different from Logan's; it was slightly quaint, very clean, orderly, and very bright. Windows were placed all around the room giving a good view of the backyard of the Xavier Institute. When Jamie arrived in the class, along with Tegan, Callie, Josh, Thomas, Jennie, and Harrison, Professor Xavier was seated at a conservative Victorian desk; equally encumbered with books and to Jamie's surprise, quite a few pictures of all of the professors they had seen thus far. Not limited to just the professors Jamie and the rest had met, Professor Xavier's desk had pictures of many teachers, some older, while some looked brand new. Xavier smiled at everyone as they entered the room and took their seats, which were unfortunately labeled. Jamie searched for hers and the result was not pleasant, she was seated right next to Callie the prefect. She gave Jamie an almost unnoticeable glare as Jamie set down. This is war, thought Jamie, a war which I intend to win. Jamie observed that Thomas was seated next to the Harrison kid and Jennie was paired with the other prefect, Tegan. Jamie immediately labeled this as an invitation for disaster. After everyone was settled Professor Xavier began to project more images of quite through his vast mental powers. Jamie did precisely that. "Hello everyone I will be teaching your science class this year, first we will start on physics, then move on to biology, and we'll see where fate takes us from there. Please turn to page one of the physics books which have been placed at your seats, and we shall began today's introductory lesson," this guy was much quicker than he appeared thought Jamie, yet another surprise that he has in store, she wondered what else he had up his sleeve.