X-Men: Code Omega
Part 6
After being put to sleep by Professor Xavier's science lesson, then almost shocking the crap out of the prefect Callie, Thomas was ready for a break.albeit a break that would not come for a while. Thomas hated it when he promised his friends something and then he couldn't deliver so he decided that he would meet his friends in the entrance hall at the specified time. Dinner was just like the lunch and breakfast periods, but with a somewhat more relaxed mood because the students were given free reign of the school until 10:00 PM, which was their "lights out" sort of thing. As Thomas walked back towards his dorm after touring the school with Jennie and Jamie he gave them a reassuring wink so as to make sure they met him at the right time. Jamie was consistently late to anything and everything and Thomas didn't have time to waste waiting for her. He hoped that she would be better organized as she was bunking with Jennie who everyone knew as ill- mannered, but quite organized. Thomas returned to the small room only to find the illustrious Dr. Allosaurus reading one of the many books on dinosaurs that Thomas had seen him carrying around. The room was modest in its sense of size, but it was quite luxurious compared to most private schools. Each room consisted of two comfortable single beds, a desk complete with a computer for research, and most had a large window giving them a spectacular view of the grounds of Xavier Institute. Josh was lying on his bed, book open, and gave a slight glance to Thomas when he dropped onto his bed. It was clear that Josh was a big fan of the rules so Thomas thought it best that he wait until Josh was asleep to make his move. And of course if he stayed up too long Thomas could always give him a mild jolt of electricity to knock him out for the rest of the night, but only if Josh became a bother. Thomas wasn't into the mindless destruction thing, well at least today he wasn't. That could change as it always did. Thomas had always valued power and intelligence above all else, a mindset that left few people that he actually liked. It was fortunate that Jamie and Jennie both fit these parameters, although they didn't have his desire for eventual conquest of the Earth. He had been toying with the idea of world domination since he remembered and the discovery of his mutant powers only added to his ambitions. Being subtle was necessary until he fully mastered his powers, so Xavier Institute was the perfect place for him to attend. After endless pondering Thomas heard a groan and some words from Josh which satisfied that he was going to sleep. Thomas waited for another ten minutes or so then decided that the coast was clear. He crept slowly out of the darkened room into a dimly light hallway. Glancing around, he found his way down to the main entrance hall. Up ahead he was surprised to see that both Jennie and Jamie had beat him to the meeting. This was the last time that something like this would happen, Thomas thought, he didn't like to be late or for that matter beaten to something. Even though it was quite dim in the entrance hall he could see the impatient expressions on both of his friend's faces. "It's about time you got here," Jennie stated in a sarcastic voice, "we have been waiting for two hours!" "Whatever, Ruby, ignore her Proteus we just got down here like five seconds ago," Jamie interrupted very irritated by Jennie's lack of patience. "You know guys let's just get outta here before one of the teachers catches us," Thomas said in a matter of fact way, "you know the drill, grab my arm and don't move." First Jennie, then Jamie grabbed a hold of Thomas' extended arms being careful not to move. Thomas caught sight of an active light and began concentrating hard; as he was doing this sparks began to emanate from his eyes followed by sharp hisses. When he was ready Thomas completed the process and turned his friends and him into pure electrical energy, which directed towards the light he had spotted earlier. Traveling through power lines was a difficult and delicate art that Thomas had closely mastered. He selected the destination then willed his body through the millions of feet of lines until he found his exit vector. It was just a matter of stopping, which was something that Thomas still had some trouble with. Assuming that this was the right place he went straight through the opening in the circuit where all three teenagers were discharged into a dark alley, roughly 100 miles form the Xavier Institute. When the retransformation was complete Jennie, Jamie, and Thomas were three separate people again, slightly disoriented, but happy to be free once again.
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Taking in her familiar surroundings, Jennie looked over to see Thomas nearly fall down; it was very much clear that this traveling was becoming extremely draining to him. Jennie hoped that he would be able to take them home after their little romp through the temple. She hurried over to Thomas and grabbed hold of his left arm, with Jamie taking his right. "Proteus, are you okay?!" Jamie screamed, her voice coated with terror, "we're really sorry about making you take us! We didn't want to hurt you." "Uhh.umm I'm o..k.I just need some electricity to recharge me," Thomas gasped, electricity was the only thing that could fix him after such an extreme drain of energy. "Okay, Sapphire help him over to that power line," Jennie simply stated without a hint of emotion. Upon carrying Thomas over to the power line he immediately grabbed on; his eyes lit up with a yellow brilliance. It was an amazing sight as Thomas instantly returned to his normal cocky self. The energy boost would keep him awake for the next week unless he burned some of it off. "Let's just get to the temple guys, we don't have any time to waste," Jamie was half right, except for the fact that Jennie could alter reality and make it appear to be another time if need be, "lead the way Ruby." And so she did, first taking them out of the alley down into a slightly open manhole it wasn't easy to get to the temple. As usual Jennie had memorized the exact position of the temple entrance so they allowed her to lead them their. The sewer was like an old catacomb, obviously not in use; it was dried up and considerably cramped. Jamie had sensed the groups discomfort and lowered the tempeture in the long sewer by a few degrees. Jamie was very sensitive of other's emotions, even though Jennie knew she would deny it, Jamie was a sweetheart underneath. Leading her friends to their familiar hangout was something Jennie did at least once every week since they discovered it and she enjoyed being the only one to know its exact location. Although it was quite a pain, since Thomas couldn't simply teleport them there like he could to most places. The stench of the sewer hadn't died down for the past month that Code Omega had been there and Jennie did not expect it to any time soon; it smelled of rotten garbage and some other, not so pleasant, things. Luckily they could not see all of the things that had most likely been exposed after the sewer dried up, but Jennie imagined it would be disgusting and might cause her to throw up. "I always hate going through here, it is so freaking nasty!" Thomas blurted out, his energy must be making him cranky, or he is just being a jackass, thought Jennie. "Oh knock it off Proteus you always complain about this place until we reach the temple, then you are like 'wow this is so cool I wish I could live here,' so don't even start bitching!" Jamie said sarcastic like, "let's just get to the temple without hearing anyone complain, please!" "Fine, but don't blame me when we can't get back to the school because I'm too tired to teleport us there," Thomas added, he was acknowledged with a swift punch to the arm, "that's it I'm gonna fry some people's asses!" Thomas raised his hands and electricity began to flick from his hands, and Jamie's eyes turned frosty blue, her hands were extended with some ice generating on the floor. "Don't even start this crap Proteus, Sapphire, I don't want to have to melt the floor into goo so I can stop you," Jennie's intervention was swift and effective; both teenagers relaxed their powers and continued down the long tunnel.
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Finally they had reached the stone passage at the end of the sewer tunnel, Jennie again led the way with Jamie and Thomas following suit. Jamie squinted her eyes to catch just a glimpse of the passage, but managed to only see a few glimmers of rock and so dripping water. It was so dark that Jamie could see nothing in front of her save for Jennie and maybe a little bit of her hands. How they ever managed to find this place still baffled Jamie, though it wasn't the time to ponder useless questions. They rounded the last corner (Jamie thought so anyway) and ended up in a large chamber with a small gasp of light at the end of it. This chamber was constructed of some weird type of metal, which made metal detectors go nuts and blocked electricity for some reason. The floor was covered with layers upon layers of crusty dirt while the walls remained completely void and sterile. Jamie and her friends headed straight for the light, not taking the time to look around (they had been there many times).
The light was coming from a small crack which yielded to Jennie's reality altering powers; it expanded just enough to allow the three through and into yet another large chamber. This chamber was different from the last, filled with light and a large body of water which separated the room into half and half. Jamie's power came into play here in the form of an ice bridge that Code Omega used to cross the deep body of clear water. Stepping off of the long bridge Jamie looked ahead to see yet another door, which this time was suited to Thomas's power. It was made of the highly conductive metal gold and could not be opened. So the first time here Thomas had learned to do the next best thing, which was to transform Code Omega to partial electricity and walk straight through (of course Jennie could have went through with her atom shifting ability, but she couldn't spread it to her friends). Code Omega emerged to the goal of their expedition, a large circular room with ever present lit torches and another door at the end which none of them could figure out how to open. Flames danced across Jamie's eyelids when she looked around. The room conveyed a sense of majesty although different from the feeling exhibited by Xavier Institute it was still there. Jennie walked over to the alter and began to study the symbols on it, Thomas doing the same except examining the ones on the walls, while Jamie stepped up to the door to figure out how to open it; something they had been trying to do since they had found the temple itself.
After being put to sleep by Professor Xavier's science lesson, then almost shocking the crap out of the prefect Callie, Thomas was ready for a break.albeit a break that would not come for a while. Thomas hated it when he promised his friends something and then he couldn't deliver so he decided that he would meet his friends in the entrance hall at the specified time. Dinner was just like the lunch and breakfast periods, but with a somewhat more relaxed mood because the students were given free reign of the school until 10:00 PM, which was their "lights out" sort of thing. As Thomas walked back towards his dorm after touring the school with Jennie and Jamie he gave them a reassuring wink so as to make sure they met him at the right time. Jamie was consistently late to anything and everything and Thomas didn't have time to waste waiting for her. He hoped that she would be better organized as she was bunking with Jennie who everyone knew as ill- mannered, but quite organized. Thomas returned to the small room only to find the illustrious Dr. Allosaurus reading one of the many books on dinosaurs that Thomas had seen him carrying around. The room was modest in its sense of size, but it was quite luxurious compared to most private schools. Each room consisted of two comfortable single beds, a desk complete with a computer for research, and most had a large window giving them a spectacular view of the grounds of Xavier Institute. Josh was lying on his bed, book open, and gave a slight glance to Thomas when he dropped onto his bed. It was clear that Josh was a big fan of the rules so Thomas thought it best that he wait until Josh was asleep to make his move. And of course if he stayed up too long Thomas could always give him a mild jolt of electricity to knock him out for the rest of the night, but only if Josh became a bother. Thomas wasn't into the mindless destruction thing, well at least today he wasn't. That could change as it always did. Thomas had always valued power and intelligence above all else, a mindset that left few people that he actually liked. It was fortunate that Jamie and Jennie both fit these parameters, although they didn't have his desire for eventual conquest of the Earth. He had been toying with the idea of world domination since he remembered and the discovery of his mutant powers only added to his ambitions. Being subtle was necessary until he fully mastered his powers, so Xavier Institute was the perfect place for him to attend. After endless pondering Thomas heard a groan and some words from Josh which satisfied that he was going to sleep. Thomas waited for another ten minutes or so then decided that the coast was clear. He crept slowly out of the darkened room into a dimly light hallway. Glancing around, he found his way down to the main entrance hall. Up ahead he was surprised to see that both Jennie and Jamie had beat him to the meeting. This was the last time that something like this would happen, Thomas thought, he didn't like to be late or for that matter beaten to something. Even though it was quite dim in the entrance hall he could see the impatient expressions on both of his friend's faces. "It's about time you got here," Jennie stated in a sarcastic voice, "we have been waiting for two hours!" "Whatever, Ruby, ignore her Proteus we just got down here like five seconds ago," Jamie interrupted very irritated by Jennie's lack of patience. "You know guys let's just get outta here before one of the teachers catches us," Thomas said in a matter of fact way, "you know the drill, grab my arm and don't move." First Jennie, then Jamie grabbed a hold of Thomas' extended arms being careful not to move. Thomas caught sight of an active light and began concentrating hard; as he was doing this sparks began to emanate from his eyes followed by sharp hisses. When he was ready Thomas completed the process and turned his friends and him into pure electrical energy, which directed towards the light he had spotted earlier. Traveling through power lines was a difficult and delicate art that Thomas had closely mastered. He selected the destination then willed his body through the millions of feet of lines until he found his exit vector. It was just a matter of stopping, which was something that Thomas still had some trouble with. Assuming that this was the right place he went straight through the opening in the circuit where all three teenagers were discharged into a dark alley, roughly 100 miles form the Xavier Institute. When the retransformation was complete Jennie, Jamie, and Thomas were three separate people again, slightly disoriented, but happy to be free once again.
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Taking in her familiar surroundings, Jennie looked over to see Thomas nearly fall down; it was very much clear that this traveling was becoming extremely draining to him. Jennie hoped that he would be able to take them home after their little romp through the temple. She hurried over to Thomas and grabbed hold of his left arm, with Jamie taking his right. "Proteus, are you okay?!" Jamie screamed, her voice coated with terror, "we're really sorry about making you take us! We didn't want to hurt you." "Uhh.umm I'm o..k.I just need some electricity to recharge me," Thomas gasped, electricity was the only thing that could fix him after such an extreme drain of energy. "Okay, Sapphire help him over to that power line," Jennie simply stated without a hint of emotion. Upon carrying Thomas over to the power line he immediately grabbed on; his eyes lit up with a yellow brilliance. It was an amazing sight as Thomas instantly returned to his normal cocky self. The energy boost would keep him awake for the next week unless he burned some of it off. "Let's just get to the temple guys, we don't have any time to waste," Jamie was half right, except for the fact that Jennie could alter reality and make it appear to be another time if need be, "lead the way Ruby." And so she did, first taking them out of the alley down into a slightly open manhole it wasn't easy to get to the temple. As usual Jennie had memorized the exact position of the temple entrance so they allowed her to lead them their. The sewer was like an old catacomb, obviously not in use; it was dried up and considerably cramped. Jamie had sensed the groups discomfort and lowered the tempeture in the long sewer by a few degrees. Jamie was very sensitive of other's emotions, even though Jennie knew she would deny it, Jamie was a sweetheart underneath. Leading her friends to their familiar hangout was something Jennie did at least once every week since they discovered it and she enjoyed being the only one to know its exact location. Although it was quite a pain, since Thomas couldn't simply teleport them there like he could to most places. The stench of the sewer hadn't died down for the past month that Code Omega had been there and Jennie did not expect it to any time soon; it smelled of rotten garbage and some other, not so pleasant, things. Luckily they could not see all of the things that had most likely been exposed after the sewer dried up, but Jennie imagined it would be disgusting and might cause her to throw up. "I always hate going through here, it is so freaking nasty!" Thomas blurted out, his energy must be making him cranky, or he is just being a jackass, thought Jennie. "Oh knock it off Proteus you always complain about this place until we reach the temple, then you are like 'wow this is so cool I wish I could live here,' so don't even start bitching!" Jamie said sarcastic like, "let's just get to the temple without hearing anyone complain, please!" "Fine, but don't blame me when we can't get back to the school because I'm too tired to teleport us there," Thomas added, he was acknowledged with a swift punch to the arm, "that's it I'm gonna fry some people's asses!" Thomas raised his hands and electricity began to flick from his hands, and Jamie's eyes turned frosty blue, her hands were extended with some ice generating on the floor. "Don't even start this crap Proteus, Sapphire, I don't want to have to melt the floor into goo so I can stop you," Jennie's intervention was swift and effective; both teenagers relaxed their powers and continued down the long tunnel.
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Finally they had reached the stone passage at the end of the sewer tunnel, Jennie again led the way with Jamie and Thomas following suit. Jamie squinted her eyes to catch just a glimpse of the passage, but managed to only see a few glimmers of rock and so dripping water. It was so dark that Jamie could see nothing in front of her save for Jennie and maybe a little bit of her hands. How they ever managed to find this place still baffled Jamie, though it wasn't the time to ponder useless questions. They rounded the last corner (Jamie thought so anyway) and ended up in a large chamber with a small gasp of light at the end of it. This chamber was constructed of some weird type of metal, which made metal detectors go nuts and blocked electricity for some reason. The floor was covered with layers upon layers of crusty dirt while the walls remained completely void and sterile. Jamie and her friends headed straight for the light, not taking the time to look around (they had been there many times).
The light was coming from a small crack which yielded to Jennie's reality altering powers; it expanded just enough to allow the three through and into yet another large chamber. This chamber was different from the last, filled with light and a large body of water which separated the room into half and half. Jamie's power came into play here in the form of an ice bridge that Code Omega used to cross the deep body of clear water. Stepping off of the long bridge Jamie looked ahead to see yet another door, which this time was suited to Thomas's power. It was made of the highly conductive metal gold and could not be opened. So the first time here Thomas had learned to do the next best thing, which was to transform Code Omega to partial electricity and walk straight through (of course Jennie could have went through with her atom shifting ability, but she couldn't spread it to her friends). Code Omega emerged to the goal of their expedition, a large circular room with ever present lit torches and another door at the end which none of them could figure out how to open. Flames danced across Jamie's eyelids when she looked around. The room conveyed a sense of majesty although different from the feeling exhibited by Xavier Institute it was still there. Jennie walked over to the alter and began to study the symbols on it, Thomas doing the same except examining the ones on the walls, while Jamie stepped up to the door to figure out how to open it; something they had been trying to do since they had found the temple itself.