Changes 3

Author's Notes: I had some serious writer's block here, so please forgive if it's a bit jumbled up. Anyway if you have questions, write them when you review. I'll answer them on the next chapter.

Disclaimer: Marvel characters belong to Marvel, and not to little old me. Shoot, life just isn't fair.

Jubilation Lee knew every single defense machination, which guarded the mansion walls. She knew how to invade every single trap, and sound alarms that they had booby trapped along the mansion. She wanted to do nothing but sneak into the compound, and like a shinobi ninja, quietly strike with a vengeance.

However she wanted to do things up front, and without a hidden agenda. She wanted the X-Men to welcome her back with open arms, and only then would she strike to kill. So she walked up to the front door, and she ranged the doorbell. In an instant she brought on the water works, as Nick stood behind her with a worried look on his face.

"Why are you crying luv?" Nick asked worriedly.

"Shh. It's all an act. Here comes some one, so be quiet."

The door opened, and at once she saw a face she hadn't seen in years. She looked at Bobby Drake, and the years had certainly been kind to him. Jubilee was surprised to see her old former partner in crime. He was all grown up, and Jubilee barely recognized him. He had a scruffy beard that made him finally look his age. He was dressed in some neatly pressed khaki pants, and a neat white collared shirt. Jubilee was genuinely surprised to see that his fashion sense, evolved from the nasty blue jeans and t-shirts that he'd always wore to something more stylish.

Bobby looked at the young girl that he used to know, and he immediately felt sorry for his former friend. He knew of the reports of her killing her husband, but deep in his heart he'd always felt as if those reports were wrong. Now as it would seem, Jubilee was back.

Bobby noticed the tall lanky man that stood right behind her, and for some reason he thought that it would be better if he kept an eye on the young man. For some strange reason Bobby instinctively knew that he couldn't trust the man, and made a mental note to keep an eye on him.

He looked down at the young girl crying, and for one brief instant he considered closing the door in her face. It was because of her that two young girls were virtually orphans, and they were both deeply affected in the process. How could he betray his friends by allowing her to walk into the house? How he could betray his new girlfriend Chyna, by allowing Jubilee to enter into their house as if nothing happened.

So he stood there looking at Jubilee crying, before he walked out the door. He closed the door behind him, and extended a hand out to her. She reached up and grabbed his hand. When he pulled her up, she stood there face to face with her old former friend. He looked through the side of his eye, cautiously watching the guy that was with Jubilee. Through a blanket of tears Jubilee began to speak, and Bobby's attention was directed back to the young girl.

"Bobby, Did you hear about Hank?"

"Yeah. We're burying him tomorrow, but I don't think now is a good time for you to be here Jubes." He said uncomfortably.

"I just wanted to pay my respects."

"I'm sorry Jubilee, but I can't do that. Scott would have a fit if I'd let you in the house."

"Since when do you start listening to old one eye Bobby? I leave for a few years, and you go and change on me."

"The only one here who has changed here is you Jubilee, or have you forgotten that."

"I have not changed Bobby."

"Jubilee you killed a man. As a matter of fact, you killed your husband. Is any of this ringing a bell now?"

"That wasn't me."

"Then who was it? Was it mystique? Let me guess it was Morph. Jubilee you killed your husband and you know it. Now if you'll excuse me I have a date tonight that I don't want to miss."

"Bobby just listen to me for one second. Do you remember when Bastion kidnapped me?"

"Yeah so?"

"The girl that escaped the compound wasn't me. She was some sort of doppelganger of me, and she was the one that married Bastion. It wasn't me. I was still locked away in that dingy cage, and I would've still been in there if it wasn't for Nick here."

"So let me get this straight. The Jubilee that married Bastion, even after we tried to persuade her not to, wasn't you? The person that married Bastion was some sort of doppelganger. Am I correct?"

"Yes."

"So you decide to wait years after Bastion's dead to come tell me this?"

"I was locked away in that prison until this morning. I would've still been in there if Nick didn't help me out of there. I mean it's not like you guys came for me, or anything. I stayed in that prison, hoping that somebody would get me out of there. Then I just so happen to run across today's paper, and I read that Hank has been murdered. Do you think that I would make up something like that?"

"I don't know Jubes."

"Bobby it's me. Would I ever lie to you?"

"I guess not."

"Can I come in please? I just need to talk to somebody. Is Wolvie here? I just need to talk to somebody about this whole mess."

"I'm sorry Jubes, but now is not a good time."

"Wrong answer bub." Jubilee shouted.

In one quick instant, Jubilee's hand shot out. She then grabbed Bobby by the throat, and immediately her mutant powers began to kick in. Bobby felt as if he was being electrocuted, and he tried to power up. Suddenly Jubilee let him go, and he instantly fell to the ground.

"Nick do your thing baby, but don't mess up his face."

Nick stood over the young man, who now was in his ice form. Bobby quickly threw an ice shard, which turned into some sort of ninja star. It spun around and around, until it landed into the young man's chest. Bobby expected to see blood coming from the young man, but was surprised when it didn't.

The ice star absorbed into the man's body, and he quickly snatched Bobby's hand in his. Suddenly Bobby reverted back to his normal mode, and looked at the young man in astonishment.

"You see my power is actually quite weird. I can absorb almost anything I want, with the exception of someone's life force. That's not all though. I can also melt the skin right off of your body. I could change you into a leper, or a one legged freak. Your body and your soul belong to me. So say goodbye to your body."

Bobby tried to scream, but there were no words escaping his lips. He tried to pull his arm away from the man, but his skin melted right away from his body. Pretty soon his entire body, melted into some sort of icky substance. The only thing that remained was Bobby's intact head.

Nick brought out a long bladed knife, and cut off the young man's head, from his skeleton corpse. He held it up as if were some sacred prize. Jubilee looked at the decapitated man, and lightly kissed his corpse. She then picked up the pile of clothes and bones, and threw them in a nearby bush. She made sure that nothing was showing, and she returned to Nick's side. Meanwhile, Nick stood in the pool of wasted blood. Almost immediately Nick's mutant powers absorbed the blood, and the porch was once again spotless. Jubilee looked into Nick's eyes, and made a move to kiss him. He backed away, and Jubilee looked at him confusedly.

"Not until you wash your face. There's no way I'm going to give you a kiss now. You did just kiss a bloody corpse."

"Jealous?"

"Of him, no way."

Jubilee turned back towards the door, and opened it up. She quietly walked into the mansion, noticing the varied changes throughout the main foyer. She scanned the entire living room, until her eyes fell upon a small table that held many pictures. She looked at the pictures of her former friends, with a look of sheer disgust. She took the severed head and displayed it as sickeningly as she could on top of the table.

She was just about to leave the mansion, before something caught her attention. She saw a picture of her two children, who were now living in the mansion. An evil smile crossed her face, and Nick leaned over to see what she was staring at.

Jubilee noticed that they were a little older, and that her older daughter resembled her a great deal. She felt an inward anger boil, and wanted to do nothing but annihilate Bastion's two evil spawns.

She suddenly heard Nick stifle a scream, and she turned around to find him floating across her. Her eyes were directed towards the long staircase that stood before them, and she noticed that Jean Grey was standing at the top of the stairs. She had a look of deep concentration on her face, and for once it appeared that the little mind witch was apparently weak. Jubilee didn't know the reasons why Jean was in such a weaken state, but she decided that she was going strike while she was able to.

She charged up the stairs, aiming to hurt Jean. However her efforts were diminished when she saw a blurred form shoot from behind Jean. In a quick instant Jubilee felt a powerful impact crash into her lower abdominal, as she was sent cascading down the long stairway. The moment she landed on the ground, she realized that Logan was now straddling her.

She focused much of her energy towards Logan's face, and sent him hurling towards a nearby wall. When Logan landed against the wall with a sickening thud, Jean looked over to where her husband was now lying on the ground.

Nick suddenly fell to the floor, and he charged over to Logan. Feeling that Logan would pose as a threat, he quickly grabbed on to his leg. Logan screamed in pain as he felt the skin of his leg melt off. However, as soon as his skin would melt off, a newer patch of skin grew back in place.

"What the bloody hell is going on here. This man won't die." Nick shouted out in rage.

"That's Logan. He's the one with the healing factor, so just use your other thing on him." Jubilee shouted as she blocked Jean from coming down the stairs.

Noticing what Jubilee was doing, Jean used the last of her strength by creating a psi-bubble, in which she floated down to be by Logan's side. Logan then used this time to slash his claws heavily across Nick's chest, and he was about to do the same thing again before Jubilee could pull Nick to safety.

Jubilee went over to Jean and Logan, and slowly began to recharge her powers. She looked down at them in disgust. She raised her hand, and was about to strike them down when a sudden red beam struck her. She flew across the room, and looked up to notice that Scott had just entered the front door. There were bags across his feet, as if he were out shopping.

Nick raced towards the young man, in attempts to kill him. Even though his chest felt like it was on fire, he ran like never before. Then he suddenly stopped running, and turned to face the newest prescience in the room. It was Jubilee's daughter Gabriela, and she was definitely a sight to behold.

He took one look at the slender dark hair beauty, and her eyes resembled fire. His entire body tensed up, and he had never felt such a deep fear in his whole life. She looked at him for what felt like an eternity, before she opened her mouth to speak.

"You will leave." .She said.

"Yes." Nick said as his head nodded up and down.

"You will do evil no more, and that means that you will not kill another living being."

"Yes."

"You will leave this house and you will never return."

"Yes "

"You will live a good clean life, and you will forget about Jubilee. You will forget about all that has happened today."

"Yes."

"You will never hurt or harm anyone ever again."

"Yes."

"If you do, I'll kill you. Do you understand me, Nicholas Fiennes Grant?"

"Yes."

"You will visit your dying mother, and you will take care of her."

"Yes."

"Do you understand all the things that has been said?"

"Yes."

Jubilee's daughter turned her attention towards her mother. The fire in her daughter's eyes burnt like the pits of hell, and it seemed like it was calling out to her. Jubilee didn't think she had ever been so afraid in her life.

Jubilee looked at her youngest daughter, and decided that she didn't want to stay any longer. It seemed like everyone's attention was on her daughter, and she quickly evaded the rest of the X-Men. She ran out of the mansion like her life depended on it.

As soon as Jubilee left the house Gabriela's eyes returned back to normal, and she looked at her teammates. She looked at each of her teammates, and gave them one of the most dazzling smiles that she could muster up. Suddenly, she closed her eyes, and slumped to the ground. Ororo Munroe, who had just awakened from the commotion, tenderly lifted the sleeping girl into her arms. She took her back to her room, as the others checked each other out for any serious wounds.

Jubilee ran blindly into the wooded section of the mansion grounds, and her thoughts were running around wildly in her head. Why was Nick listening to her, as if she was his master? Why was everyone so shocked? Surely they've seen her powers before? Right? Jubilee had a million of questions, and she stopped running to get one last look at the mansion. When she turned around to start running again, she ran into straight into somebody's chest. Jubilee landed on her butt, and looked up. She saw the last person that she'd ever expected to see, and that was her daughter Chyna.

Jubilee saw that they shared the same blue eyes, and dark black hair. Chyna looked down at her mother, wanting to do nothing but kill her in that blurry instant. She looked down at her mother, with pure hate and loathing. Chyna powered up her mutant powers, and aimed them at her heartless mother. The impact caused Jubilee to hit her head roughly against a Chestnut Tree, and she momentarily lost consciousness.

For a brief instant Chyna wanted to kill her mother, right then and there. However, she didn't want to be just as ruthless as her mother. So she stood over the unmoving woman, until Scott came up to her. He looked at the young girl, and gave her a reassuring pat on the back. They both looked at Jubilee, still disbelieving that she was capable of such chaos. Scott walked over to Jubilee, and lifted her over his shoulder. He turned to take her into the mansion, and Chyna grabbed his free hand and looked into his eyes.

"What are you going to do with her?"

"Lock her up."

"Will she be able to get out?"

"No. After she killed your father, we built a containment unit that she couldn't get out of."

"How long is she going to stay?" She said as they turned to walk back towards the mansion.

Jubilee started squirming and she slowly began to regain conciseness. In a move more out of desperation than anything else, Scott rammed the young woman's head into a nearby tree trunk. She instantly lost conscientiousness again. Chyna looked over at Scott, and a smile crossed her lips.

"You could've broken her neck" Chyna said with an evil smirk.

"I could've, but I didn't."

"You should have."

"Then that would've made me no better than her, is that what you really want?"

"No. That's not what I want. I'm just tired of her taking everybody that I love away from me. First it was my dad, and now it's Bobby. He didn't deserve that, and it's taking every ounce of my self-control to try to restrain myself from killing her. God, I'd wish that she would've died at that compound, then maybe my life would be just that much easier. What do you hope to accomplish here, by allowing her to stay?"

"I want answers." He said as he walked into the mansion.

"What the hell for. She's a murderer pure and simple. What she deserves is so much more than what you're giving her."

"Then I'd be no better than her."

"So how do you propose that we get any answers from the likes of her?"

"One of the most powerful telepaths of all time. Can you guess who that is?" Scott said mischievously.

"Oh let me see. Xavier's dead. Jean is one of the weakest telepath's in the mansion. My sister's not too reliable, and that only leaves Miss. Frost. Am I correct?"

"That you are." He said as he laid Jubilee down on a soft cot in a small room.

"So what can she do?" She said as they walked out of the room.

"Find out why Jubilee did what she did." Scott said as he tapped the numerical keypad outside the small room.

"Why does any monster kill? To get attention."

"You know I'm proud of you."

"Why? Because I didn't break down during this time of personal tragedy."

"Especially during this time of tragedy."

"Believe me I will. It might not be now, or even tomorrow, but eventually I will grieve."

"I'm sorry about Bobby. If you need to talk, I'll be here."

"Yeah thanks. Hey Scott. Just for the record, if I were you I'd keep an eye on her tonight. I mean the bitch killed my boyfriend, and I might change my mind about killing her later on tonight."

"I'll watch her like a hawk. There's no way she hurting any more of my friends. Hell, even I would kill her if she even tried."

Chyna gave Scott a soft peck on the cheek, and he gave her a tight hug in return. They looked in each other's eyes, and Chyna spoke softly enough to where only Scott could hear.

"You're not as bad as everyone makes you out to be Slim."

"You're not the all, leather clad, sassy talking youngster that I thought you were either."

"Being sassy can be a good thing Slim. Besides, you'll never know until you try."

"I'm up for almost anything, but being called Slim."

"Well Slim, just make sure you watch her."

"That's one thing you don't have to worry about kid."

"Kid?"

"That's for calling me Slim."

"Let's make a deal all right. You won't call me kid, and I won't call you Slim."

"You got yourself a deal."

Chyna walked out of the room, feeling a little better. However her heart was slowly breaking, as she thought about Bobby. They had just started dating seriously, and now it seemed like their little love affair was over. It seemed like her mother knew exactly whenever she was happy, because whenever she was, Jubilee would come and screw things up.

It was going to be a long night, and Chyna had to get her mind off of her mother. She knew that she had to be strong, because the last thing that she wanted was to ever turn out like her mother. So despite her feelings, to just go and kill her mother, she went to her room. She walked over to her dresser, and looked at the picture of Bobby. He looked so cute, with his hair sticking all over his head. She grabbed the picture, and put it to her chest. She lay down on her bed, with the picture in her hands. She tenderly kissed the smiling face on the photograph, and she cried. She cursed her mother for always hurting her. She cursed her for taking away everything that was ever good in her life. She cursed her for being chosen to be her mother. She cursed the day that she was even born, and those thoughts still didn't bring peace to her mind. So she cried and cried, until she drifted off to sleep.

Next chapter: The funeral is tomorrow, and emotions are running high. Jean and Storm get into it with each other, and it ain't going to be pretty. Emma's home, and she seeks to find answers from Jubes. Which X-woman is going to be the big winner? Where will this big brawl take place? Trust me it's the last place that you would've ever expected. Be there for this wild slobber knocker coming straight for you.

I'm the author and I totally hated it. I was suffering with a bad, bad, bad case of writer's block with this story, and this is what I came up with. Just leave a review. Trust me at this point I need all the constructive criticism that I can take at this point. So leave a review, and tell me what I already know. The next chapter should be a lot better. Anyway I hope that you enjoyed the story, that's if you could actually stomach it I mean. Hey if you have any questions about the whole Jubilee and Bastion thing, then don't hesitate to ask. Anyway, Bye-Bye.