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Charles Xavier, the man in the wheelchair. Cryos was under no illusions that this was an ordinary person. This man had a sense of power that was almost tangible in the air around him, but Cryos couldn't sense his energy as being any higher than an ordinary person's. His power came from a different source.
He looked down at the ground where Kentra lay. She was just waking up. That lightning bolt had given her quite a shock. Cryos picked her up before walking over to check on Zon.
The bug wasn't in very good shape. A big chunk of shell on his side was gone, flash-fried from the lightning bolt that had struck him down. But as Cryos bent over to inspect the wound, he saw it was already beginning to cover over with a slimy substance. He'd be fine.
"Cryos," Kentra spoke weakly. "What's going on?" . Cryos had set his translator microbes to English to warn the wild looking guy away from Kentra. Now he set them to basic so Kentra could understand him.
"Relax Kentra, I'm not sure what's happening, but I'm going to find out." After he said that, Kentra passed out.
Cryos walked over to the Professor and looked him in the eye. He waited a second while his translator microbes reset back to English, then said, "What do you want? Why did you attack us?"
"We received reports of a mutant-related disturbance in Hollywood," He said, "so we had to investigate. We can't afford to be to careful you know. When we arrived, we saw the two of you tangling with the 'Friends of Humanity,' those anti-mutant psychopaths, and we were forced to intervene. I'm afraid Logan got a little, overzealous. He attacked you, but you defended yourselves admirably. I hope there are no hard feelings."
"Hard feelings?!" This whole thing was a misunderstanding?! "I don't even know what you're talking about! And what's the deal with mutants anyway?!"
"Professor!" The wild haired man. He was sniffing the blades that had gotten Cryos's arm. Just seeing those blades made Cryos's arm hurt. But the deep gauges were gone, his healing powers at work. The only evidence of the damage left were the rips in his hologauntlet. And that was broken already, so it didn't matter too much. "I don't know what these guys are, but they aren't mutants. They aren't even human!"
The white haired woman drifted down to the ground like a leaf in the breeze. "If they aren't mutants, then what are they?"
"I believe," Began the Professor before Cryos cut him off.
"I believe we can speak for ourselves! My name is Cryos. This is Kentra, and the big bug over there is Zon. We are travelers, you'd call us aliens. And we prefer to avoid attracting attention to ourselves! Not get attacked first by people who call us mutants and then by people who really are mutants!"
"I see you're upset." Said Professor Xavier. "That is Logan there." He pointed at the wild man who had cut Cryos's arm. "Codename Wolverine. That's Ororo, codename Storm. Scott Summers is down on the beach. He's codename is Cyclops. And that is Jean." He indicated the red haired woman who was helping Cyclops out of the ocean. "Perhaps you'd like to come back to the institute and we could sort things out."
Cryos thought it over a minute, then asked, "Do you have a hospital there?"
"Of course." He answered. "The best."
Cryos glared at him a moment longer, then said, "Ok, but only to help my friends. And I'll be keeping an eye out for any tricks. So don't try anything funny."
Cryos set Kentra in the black jet. (It was a rather impressive plane. Some kind of modification on the SR-71 Blackbird. He'd have to race it sometime so see if it was any faster than the original) Then he put Zon on as well. But he didn't really trust these people yet, and stood guard over his friends.
During the flight, he heard all about mutants, and these mutants who called themselves the X-Men. A sort of self-appointed police force for renegade mutants. And he heard about the anti-mutant hate groups. The Friends of Humanity was one of the largest.
He also told them about himself. Who and what he was, where he came from, and what he was doing on Earth.
Eventually, they arrived at the Xavier Institute. It was a school for mutants. Cryos saw people, mostly kids, who could fly, teleport, shoot lasers, transform, control fire and just about anything else you could imagine.
True to his word Xavier had a top rate medical center, it received dozens of strange cases every day. Burns, frostbite and severed body parts were daily occurrences.
But it was good that neither Kentra or Zon needed any real medical attention. Because Cryos didn't think these people understood alien physiology. All they needed was a day or so to rest in safety and they'd be fine.
Cryos wished he could have protected Kentra better. If he kept getting her in danger, someday she'd get hurt really bad. Or even worse. It was then that he decided to train Kentra to use her power to the fullest. He had already seen that she had great untapped potential. Weather it was her own or something she had absorbed from him was irrelevant. She'd be training with him as soon as she was well.
While he was waiting for them to wake up, he broke open a packet of translator microbes and gave each of his unconscious friends a dose. He only had packet of microbes left. But it was worth it, Kentra and Zon would have to be able to speak and understand English when they woke up.
Cryos stood watch over his friends until Zon woke suddenly and told him to go and learn everything he could about these people. The bug said he'd watch over Kentra until Cryos returned.
When Cryos spoke to him, Zon gave him a funny look. Cryos told him a little bit about translator microbes and said he's tell him more when Kentra woke up.
At first Cryos didn't want to leave her side (And there was the unspoken issue of Zon himself. Cryos wasn't completely sure he could trust him yet. After all, they'd only known each other for one day) But in the end Zon won when he convinced Cryos to at least learn his way around the place, in case they had to make a quick exit. Xavier had given them all full access to the mansion, someone might as well take advantage of it.
So Cryos started his exploration of the mansion. Starting with the upper levels (mostly bedrooms) he worked his way down through the kitchen (dinner smelled excellent) and back to the lower levels. He thought he was done until he spotted the elevator.
It went down, he was sure of it. There were no elevators in the upper levels, so it had to go down.
He went to open it, but before he could push the button, the door opened all by itself and Scott Summers, A.K.A. Cyclops, came out.
"Where do you think you're going?" He demanded.
Before Cryos could say a word, Professor X came out of nowhere and answered for him. "He's going to see the training facilities. He wishes to train the girl to defend herself. Do not worry, I'll go with him."
Cyclops didn't like it, but he just grumbled as he walked away.
Cryos looked at the professor. "How did you know I wanted to train Kentra? And what kind of training equipment do you have down there?"
"Come with me." He simply said as he rolled into the elevator. Cryos stepped in after him just before the door closed. "My mutant power," Said Professor X as the elevator started down, "is psychic power. I can both read minds, and alter what people think and know."
"You didn't do anything to us, did you?" Cryos was afraid. What could this guy have done to him?
"Oh, do not worry. I wouldn't alter your memories even if I could. You and your two companions minds are simply not human enough for me to get into. Not that I would want to."
Cryos just thought that over for awhile as the elevator went further and further down. Just before the doors opened he said, "You probably don't have the kind of training equipment I need anyway. My training sessions are pretty intense." The elevator door opened. "Or I could be wrong."
The Danger Room, as Cryos later found out it was called, was a huge metal dome. There were lasers, blades, pits, holographic environments, walls that popped up out of the ground, you name a weapon, it was probably in that room. And everything was programmable. You could set it to whatever difficulty you wanted. This place was perfect!
Cryos was about to test it out, but Elfour made a buzzing sound. "What is it Elfour?" Asked a very annoyed Cryos.
"It's Kentra. She's calling on the comm you gave her during the tournament. She's asking where you are."
"Tell her I'll be there in less than a minute." Cryos didn't even wait for the elevator. He just went out the car's roof and up the elevator shaft to the door. He was by Kentra's side in about fifteen seconds.
She was still a little weak, but she wasn't going to let that stop her.
Zon was doing even better. The only sign of the injury he'd had not an hour before was a dark spot where the shell had grown back.
When Cryos asked them how they were feeling, Kentra looked at him a little funny. It was almost the same expression Zon had shown before. "What's with your voice?" She asked. "It's like your speaking another language but I can still understand you."
"That's exactly what it is." He said. "I gave both of you some translator microbes while you were asleep. Try concentrating in my words. Hold the words and what they mean in your mind for a few seconds."
"I don't see what that is going to-" Zon started to say but stopped when he realized his words were in English.
Kentra said, "Whoa, that's cool." Then covered her mouth. Her words were English as well.
"That's how you reset your translator microbes." Cryos told them, a little amused. He went on to tell them about the Danger Room. They both wanted to try it. And Kentra loved the idea of getting some training.
The professor showed up and invited them to watch Cryos try out the room. It was set to Logan's Run, the hardest setting, and waiting for him.
So it was back down the elevator to the room. Kentra, Zon and the professor watched from the control room as the machinery started up.
Whirling blades popped from the wall. They never even got close to him.
Lasers began firing from somewhere near the domed ceiling, and Cryos launched an energy bomb that shut them all down at once.
More and more dangerous machines attacked Cryos, and he loved every minute of it. This thing is great! He thought. I'll have to get Washu to build something like this!
Ten minutes later, the course ended. Cryos looked up to the control room where Zon was nodding approvingly, the professor looked shocked, and Kentra was looking rather pale.
She leaned over to the microphone and asked, "I'm not supposed to do that, am I?"
"Well, not just yet." Kentra relaxed a bit. "But judging from your potential, I'd say you could at least keep up with me in a week or so." She went pale again. Relax Kentra, I've got to teach you how to use your power before we can even try the Danger Room obstacles."
"Well," She asked slowly, "When can we start?"
"There's no time like the present." Said Cryos.
