X-Men: Exodus
"Maya Oh My" Part One
Maya Sanchez sat poised in her World History Class, intently working on her Math homework. History had never been her best subject, which explained her "D" in the class. She looked up as her teacher continued.
Teacher: Now, Harriet Tudman helped many slaves escape to freedom using a system of underground trails using what?
Damned if Maya knew. She looked over to see Misty Bridges, the smartest girl in the school. If only once Maya could show her up, it would be a sweet day. Misty smiled. She must have figured out the answer. at that moment Misty's voice was heard.
The underground railroad.
Only. nobody else heard her voice. Only Maya. it just. emerged from her mind, as if Misty was talking in her head. As Maya tried to figure out what happened, Misty began to open her mouth, to blurt out the correct answer.
Misty: The Unde..
She was cut off by Maya.
Maya: The Underground Railroad!
The class stared at Maya. This was the first time she had ever spoken a word in her History class, and for it to be the right answer to a question was equally scary. Maya giggled as Misty gave her extremely cold looks from her desk.
Maya figured out how she heard what Misty was thinking before she said it. Maya had finally inherited her family "gift". Every member in her family was able to read thoughts on the day of their 14th birthday. Today was her birthday. Today she finally received her gift. Thankfully it was the end of the day, as Maya ran home to tell the news to her parents.
The three X-Men of the newly formed Exodus Team sat in the Infirmary on the bottom floors of the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters. On one of the beds lay Ethan, shirtless with many prods and buttons attached to his chest. Brian was taking notes.
Jenna: Wow. Scarlet sure had some effect on you. She blasted you a week ago, and you still don't have your powers! Mystique is a lot smarter than I give her credit for.
Ethan: Well, I better get well fast because I don't have my powers. What if we get called on a mission, or we get in trouble? I am just a liability.
Jenna: Then we will burn that bridge when we get there.
Brian looked up from his notes with a frown.
Brian: Well, there hasn't been any change. We need you to take it easy for a while, to give us time to figure out how to fix this.
Ethan: Well this is great, JUST great. I swear if I ever get my hands on that girl again, I will kill her myself.
Ethan got up from the bed and pulled the plugs off of him. As he buttoned his shirt up, he looked at Jenna and Brian leaving the room.
Jenna: Sorry Ethan, we would stay but we are late for a training simulation class.
Maya had been having fun with her power at first. She could tell what her mom really thought about her clothes, what her friends really thought about her, and basically any answer she needed, she was close by to Misty Bridges. Over the weeks however, she began to lose focus on how to keep the thoughts out of her head. They kept coming in and invading her brain like nosy neighbors, now it was taking its toll on Maya. She lay in bed, in extreme pain, her head pounding.
Maya: ¿Mama, cómo puedo vivir con esto?
Mama: Maya, mi hija, es el regalo. Escuche por favor los pensamientos. Le ayudarán a facilitar el dolor.
Maya concentrated hard on the thoughts in her mind. She imagined the thoughts as a light switch. Something she was able to control. She tried her hardest to flip the switch, and slowly but surely, she flipped the switch off. The thoughts flowed out of her head.
Maya: ¡Mama, lo hice! Lo hice!
Mama: Es solamente temporal, pero para ahora, hará. Resto justo mi niño.
Maya hoped the thoughts would never return as she drifted off to sleep, her mother however looked extremely worried. Splat! Jenna was hit with an orange paint ball shot out of a hovering machine.
Professor X: Jenna, you were the leader, and you have just been eliminated. Who is the new leader?
Jenna: I will choose, Jubilee.
The students were in the amazing room known only as the Danger Room, a place where the students of the School participated in Training Sessions which helped them control their powers. Right now the mutants were in the middle of the desert, in the middle of a Sandstorm. Professor Xavier perched high above the room in the control center of the Danger Room.
Jubilee nodded as she was appointed new leader of the team. Three mutants (Jenna, Brian and Bobby aka Iceman) had been eliminated and now it was down to three. She raised her hands releasing light globules of bright colors and sparks that resembled fireworks straight at the hovering robot machine. As the globules hit, the bot began to fizzle as it shorted and fell to the ground.
Jubilee: Ok, Wolfsbane. Head into your Lupine Form, see if you can track any of the bots. We only have two left, then the safety zone. Go for it!
Wolfsbane, who was a mutant who could transform into a wolf, and into a form that was between a wolf and a human, which gave her extreme boosts of agility, dexterity, strength and vision. She could also track just like a wolf.
She transformed into her half wolf/ half human form as she began to track the area. She turned to Southwest as she began to pick up the last two bots.
Wolfsbane: Ah, I found the last two. Follow me guys!
Wolfsbane completed her transformation into a wolf as she began running to a nearby boulder, just about 10 feet from the bots.
Jubilee raised her hands at one of the bots as she released four of her light globules as they sent sparks into one of the bots. The bot fizzled as it regained it's control and shot a paint ball at Mirage, one of the last three mutants. Splat!
Professor X: Danielle, you are out.
Danielle headed back to the control room. It was down to just Jubilee and Wolfsbane.
Wolfsbane: What do you think we should do? Your power isn't enough.
Paint balls began to fly everywhere, Jubilee and Wolfsbane began to run behind a boulder for cover.
Jubilee: Hmm... look for a weakness in the bot, something I can aim for...
Wolfsbane transformed into her Lupine Form, running extremely fast around the bot, dodging paint balls and jumping off rocks as she returned to Jubilee.
Wolfsbane: He has got a weakness, it is at the bottom. It's where the engine is that enables it to shoot the paint balls, fry it and we fry the machines. I will distract them.
Wolfsbane, still in her Lupine Form, began to distract the bots by running around them. Jubilee ran behind the bots shooting two light globules at each of the bottoms of the bots. They fizzled as they sparked and fell to the ground, dead.
Jubilee: Rahne! We did it! Let's cross the Safety Zone line!
As Wolfsbane and Jubilee began to cross the line to the safety zone, The ground underneath them dropped, quickly Wolfsbane grabbed Jubilee's hand as she turned into a wolf and jumped high in the air, using her claws for gripping and jumped up out of the hole and into the safety zone. The once desert turned into the cold familiar steel walls of the danger room.
Professor X: Excellent work you two. Keep up this kind of performance and soon you could be wearing the X!
The girls blushed as Jenna wiped some stray paint off her training uniform and came up to the professor.
Jenna: We need to talk....
The Professor, Brian and Jenna headed up to his office to talk about their current situation, as they all took seats Jenna began.
Jenna: Professor, it's about Ethan...
Professor X: I take it his condition isn't improving?
Brian: No, not at all. It has been a week, I mean who knows how much longer this could take, and with Scarlet being such a threat right now...
Jenna: We need a temporary replacement... For just a week or two, until Ethan gets his powers back. Professor X: I see.. I understand where you are coming from, and it would be a wise decision. You will have your replacement by the end of the day, but you will have to break the news to Ethan.
Brian: Yeah, that's Jenna's job. I voted and well, she lost.
Jenna: MINE?
Brian: You know Professor, I would love to stay, but uh... I have some homework to get to! See ya!
Brian ran out of the room quickly and closed the door.
Jenna: Professor!
The Professor laughed under his breath and looked at Jenna.
Professor X: Somebody has got to do it.
Ethan looked enraged.
Ethan: Replacing Me! How could you guys! I mean it is not like I am completely useless!
The discussion wasn't going how Jenna had planned.
Jenna: Only until we can find a way to get your powers back, and besides, we don't want Scarlet to drain any more of your power than she already has.
Ethan: Well what am I supposed to do all day? I can't train at all, and that is all the other kids talk about!
Jenna: I am sure the Professor can find something for you to do.
Ethan: Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. I just hope this replacement doesn't get too comfortable in my spot, cause once I get my powers back.
Jenna: Yes, I know Ethan, you will show us what's what, now try and do something productive. I need to the Professor to meet our new team member.
Maya was walking through the mall with her parents. It was a Saturday afternoon so of course it was packed. Maya was starving, she needed to eat something. It had been her first outing since she got the thoughts out of her head.
Maya: ¿Mama, puedo tener un poco de dinero para conseguir un poco de alimento?
Mama: Seguro, tome esto, apenas no pierden adentro en el alimento de la chatarra.
Maya headed to the food court and straight to Casa Lupe, her favorite fast food restaurant. She order flautas, her favorite mexican dish and quickly got her food. While walking back to her seat, the thoughts creeped in.
Why does he always do this to me? Does she know how much that hurts? Why can't everyone just leave me alone? I wonder how much this sweater is. Claire is SO hot.
Maya grabbed her head in pain as she dropped her tray, food going everywhere. She fell to her knees. This was worse than any other attack she had ever experienced. The light switch technique was not working. She had to release the thoughts. Her hand began to tingle. Sweet Release.
Maya: GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!!
As Maya raised her hand in the air, three near by people sitting, casually eating their food went flying in the air, and so did their tables in chairs. The people went flying into the cold hard glass of the Old Navy Display Window as Maya opened her eyes, the thoughts gone.
Maya: What have I done? What is WRONG with me?!?!
Maya ran out of the food court, out of the mall, and into the streets. This was nothing like her family's gift. Her family had never hurt anyone, she was a monster. She needed to get away... FAR away.
Ethan continued to mope around his room before heading up to the Professor's Office to see his new replacement. He better not be a good mutant. He didn't want anyone out doing him.
Ethan: Hey Professor, has my replacement arrived yet? Came to look at an improved model.
Professor X: Stop talking such nonsence Ethan, you will get your power back soon. No, they haven't arrived yet, you are the first, and at a good time I might add.
Ethan: And why is that?
Professor X: I was just down in Cerebro and I picked up a mutant detection in Syracuse, New York. Her name is Maya Sanchez, and she is packing great telepathic powers. Her family is a line of natural telepaths, but with her mutant gene she is developing telekinetic powers as well. She is extremely afraid. I want you to try to bring her here.
Ethan: Me? But I am powerless, what if Mystique tries to get her?
Professor X: You may take one student of your choice. It will be good practice for them to face Mystique as well as for you. Good Luck Ethan, you can leave as soon as you choose your partner.
Ethan left the office, going over the many mutants he had met at the school, trying to pick the best one for the job.
Shortly after Ethan left the Professor's Office, Jenna and Brian entered his office, excited and nervous to meet their new team member.
Professor X: Hello Jenna, Ethan. I can tell that you are both very excited to meet the new addition to your team. I will tell you, it was a tough decision. I have been reviewing Simulation Logs, training tests, and power control files all day and I think I have found the perfect member to add some balance to the team.
Jenna: Professor, please kill the supsense, who is it?
Brian: Yeah, I am dying to know!
Professor X: Very well then, I guess the time is right. Oh new team member, you can come out now!!!
The doors behind Brian and Jenna opened, and in a newly polished X- Suit wearing the mighty X was...
"Maya Oh My" Part One
Maya Sanchez sat poised in her World History Class, intently working on her Math homework. History had never been her best subject, which explained her "D" in the class. She looked up as her teacher continued.
Teacher: Now, Harriet Tudman helped many slaves escape to freedom using a system of underground trails using what?
Damned if Maya knew. She looked over to see Misty Bridges, the smartest girl in the school. If only once Maya could show her up, it would be a sweet day. Misty smiled. She must have figured out the answer. at that moment Misty's voice was heard.
The underground railroad.
Only. nobody else heard her voice. Only Maya. it just. emerged from her mind, as if Misty was talking in her head. As Maya tried to figure out what happened, Misty began to open her mouth, to blurt out the correct answer.
Misty: The Unde..
She was cut off by Maya.
Maya: The Underground Railroad!
The class stared at Maya. This was the first time she had ever spoken a word in her History class, and for it to be the right answer to a question was equally scary. Maya giggled as Misty gave her extremely cold looks from her desk.
Maya figured out how she heard what Misty was thinking before she said it. Maya had finally inherited her family "gift". Every member in her family was able to read thoughts on the day of their 14th birthday. Today was her birthday. Today she finally received her gift. Thankfully it was the end of the day, as Maya ran home to tell the news to her parents.
The three X-Men of the newly formed Exodus Team sat in the Infirmary on the bottom floors of the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters. On one of the beds lay Ethan, shirtless with many prods and buttons attached to his chest. Brian was taking notes.
Jenna: Wow. Scarlet sure had some effect on you. She blasted you a week ago, and you still don't have your powers! Mystique is a lot smarter than I give her credit for.
Ethan: Well, I better get well fast because I don't have my powers. What if we get called on a mission, or we get in trouble? I am just a liability.
Jenna: Then we will burn that bridge when we get there.
Brian looked up from his notes with a frown.
Brian: Well, there hasn't been any change. We need you to take it easy for a while, to give us time to figure out how to fix this.
Ethan: Well this is great, JUST great. I swear if I ever get my hands on that girl again, I will kill her myself.
Ethan got up from the bed and pulled the plugs off of him. As he buttoned his shirt up, he looked at Jenna and Brian leaving the room.
Jenna: Sorry Ethan, we would stay but we are late for a training simulation class.
Maya had been having fun with her power at first. She could tell what her mom really thought about her clothes, what her friends really thought about her, and basically any answer she needed, she was close by to Misty Bridges. Over the weeks however, she began to lose focus on how to keep the thoughts out of her head. They kept coming in and invading her brain like nosy neighbors, now it was taking its toll on Maya. She lay in bed, in extreme pain, her head pounding.
Maya: ¿Mama, cómo puedo vivir con esto?
Mama: Maya, mi hija, es el regalo. Escuche por favor los pensamientos. Le ayudarán a facilitar el dolor.
Maya concentrated hard on the thoughts in her mind. She imagined the thoughts as a light switch. Something she was able to control. She tried her hardest to flip the switch, and slowly but surely, she flipped the switch off. The thoughts flowed out of her head.
Maya: ¡Mama, lo hice! Lo hice!
Mama: Es solamente temporal, pero para ahora, hará. Resto justo mi niño.
Maya hoped the thoughts would never return as she drifted off to sleep, her mother however looked extremely worried. Splat! Jenna was hit with an orange paint ball shot out of a hovering machine.
Professor X: Jenna, you were the leader, and you have just been eliminated. Who is the new leader?
Jenna: I will choose, Jubilee.
The students were in the amazing room known only as the Danger Room, a place where the students of the School participated in Training Sessions which helped them control their powers. Right now the mutants were in the middle of the desert, in the middle of a Sandstorm. Professor Xavier perched high above the room in the control center of the Danger Room.
Jubilee nodded as she was appointed new leader of the team. Three mutants (Jenna, Brian and Bobby aka Iceman) had been eliminated and now it was down to three. She raised her hands releasing light globules of bright colors and sparks that resembled fireworks straight at the hovering robot machine. As the globules hit, the bot began to fizzle as it shorted and fell to the ground.
Jubilee: Ok, Wolfsbane. Head into your Lupine Form, see if you can track any of the bots. We only have two left, then the safety zone. Go for it!
Wolfsbane, who was a mutant who could transform into a wolf, and into a form that was between a wolf and a human, which gave her extreme boosts of agility, dexterity, strength and vision. She could also track just like a wolf.
She transformed into her half wolf/ half human form as she began to track the area. She turned to Southwest as she began to pick up the last two bots.
Wolfsbane: Ah, I found the last two. Follow me guys!
Wolfsbane completed her transformation into a wolf as she began running to a nearby boulder, just about 10 feet from the bots.
Jubilee raised her hands at one of the bots as she released four of her light globules as they sent sparks into one of the bots. The bot fizzled as it regained it's control and shot a paint ball at Mirage, one of the last three mutants. Splat!
Professor X: Danielle, you are out.
Danielle headed back to the control room. It was down to just Jubilee and Wolfsbane.
Wolfsbane: What do you think we should do? Your power isn't enough.
Paint balls began to fly everywhere, Jubilee and Wolfsbane began to run behind a boulder for cover.
Jubilee: Hmm... look for a weakness in the bot, something I can aim for...
Wolfsbane transformed into her Lupine Form, running extremely fast around the bot, dodging paint balls and jumping off rocks as she returned to Jubilee.
Wolfsbane: He has got a weakness, it is at the bottom. It's where the engine is that enables it to shoot the paint balls, fry it and we fry the machines. I will distract them.
Wolfsbane, still in her Lupine Form, began to distract the bots by running around them. Jubilee ran behind the bots shooting two light globules at each of the bottoms of the bots. They fizzled as they sparked and fell to the ground, dead.
Jubilee: Rahne! We did it! Let's cross the Safety Zone line!
As Wolfsbane and Jubilee began to cross the line to the safety zone, The ground underneath them dropped, quickly Wolfsbane grabbed Jubilee's hand as she turned into a wolf and jumped high in the air, using her claws for gripping and jumped up out of the hole and into the safety zone. The once desert turned into the cold familiar steel walls of the danger room.
Professor X: Excellent work you two. Keep up this kind of performance and soon you could be wearing the X!
The girls blushed as Jenna wiped some stray paint off her training uniform and came up to the professor.
Jenna: We need to talk....
The Professor, Brian and Jenna headed up to his office to talk about their current situation, as they all took seats Jenna began.
Jenna: Professor, it's about Ethan...
Professor X: I take it his condition isn't improving?
Brian: No, not at all. It has been a week, I mean who knows how much longer this could take, and with Scarlet being such a threat right now...
Jenna: We need a temporary replacement... For just a week or two, until Ethan gets his powers back. Professor X: I see.. I understand where you are coming from, and it would be a wise decision. You will have your replacement by the end of the day, but you will have to break the news to Ethan.
Brian: Yeah, that's Jenna's job. I voted and well, she lost.
Jenna: MINE?
Brian: You know Professor, I would love to stay, but uh... I have some homework to get to! See ya!
Brian ran out of the room quickly and closed the door.
Jenna: Professor!
The Professor laughed under his breath and looked at Jenna.
Professor X: Somebody has got to do it.
Ethan looked enraged.
Ethan: Replacing Me! How could you guys! I mean it is not like I am completely useless!
The discussion wasn't going how Jenna had planned.
Jenna: Only until we can find a way to get your powers back, and besides, we don't want Scarlet to drain any more of your power than she already has.
Ethan: Well what am I supposed to do all day? I can't train at all, and that is all the other kids talk about!
Jenna: I am sure the Professor can find something for you to do.
Ethan: Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. I just hope this replacement doesn't get too comfortable in my spot, cause once I get my powers back.
Jenna: Yes, I know Ethan, you will show us what's what, now try and do something productive. I need to the Professor to meet our new team member.
Maya was walking through the mall with her parents. It was a Saturday afternoon so of course it was packed. Maya was starving, she needed to eat something. It had been her first outing since she got the thoughts out of her head.
Maya: ¿Mama, puedo tener un poco de dinero para conseguir un poco de alimento?
Mama: Seguro, tome esto, apenas no pierden adentro en el alimento de la chatarra.
Maya headed to the food court and straight to Casa Lupe, her favorite fast food restaurant. She order flautas, her favorite mexican dish and quickly got her food. While walking back to her seat, the thoughts creeped in.
Why does he always do this to me? Does she know how much that hurts? Why can't everyone just leave me alone? I wonder how much this sweater is. Claire is SO hot.
Maya grabbed her head in pain as she dropped her tray, food going everywhere. She fell to her knees. This was worse than any other attack she had ever experienced. The light switch technique was not working. She had to release the thoughts. Her hand began to tingle. Sweet Release.
Maya: GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!!
As Maya raised her hand in the air, three near by people sitting, casually eating their food went flying in the air, and so did their tables in chairs. The people went flying into the cold hard glass of the Old Navy Display Window as Maya opened her eyes, the thoughts gone.
Maya: What have I done? What is WRONG with me?!?!
Maya ran out of the food court, out of the mall, and into the streets. This was nothing like her family's gift. Her family had never hurt anyone, she was a monster. She needed to get away... FAR away.
Ethan continued to mope around his room before heading up to the Professor's Office to see his new replacement. He better not be a good mutant. He didn't want anyone out doing him.
Ethan: Hey Professor, has my replacement arrived yet? Came to look at an improved model.
Professor X: Stop talking such nonsence Ethan, you will get your power back soon. No, they haven't arrived yet, you are the first, and at a good time I might add.
Ethan: And why is that?
Professor X: I was just down in Cerebro and I picked up a mutant detection in Syracuse, New York. Her name is Maya Sanchez, and she is packing great telepathic powers. Her family is a line of natural telepaths, but with her mutant gene she is developing telekinetic powers as well. She is extremely afraid. I want you to try to bring her here.
Ethan: Me? But I am powerless, what if Mystique tries to get her?
Professor X: You may take one student of your choice. It will be good practice for them to face Mystique as well as for you. Good Luck Ethan, you can leave as soon as you choose your partner.
Ethan left the office, going over the many mutants he had met at the school, trying to pick the best one for the job.
Shortly after Ethan left the Professor's Office, Jenna and Brian entered his office, excited and nervous to meet their new team member.
Professor X: Hello Jenna, Ethan. I can tell that you are both very excited to meet the new addition to your team. I will tell you, it was a tough decision. I have been reviewing Simulation Logs, training tests, and power control files all day and I think I have found the perfect member to add some balance to the team.
Jenna: Professor, please kill the supsense, who is it?
Brian: Yeah, I am dying to know!
Professor X: Very well then, I guess the time is right. Oh new team member, you can come out now!!!
The doors behind Brian and Jenna opened, and in a newly polished X- Suit wearing the mighty X was...