Chapter 4: The truth

~*~*********************~*~

"Sorry, my lovely new friend, I'll try to remember tat from now on. I swear on it."

"Yeah, be sure to do that Toad." Pietro snikers. "This is Mercy, or as Gambit and I decided to call her, Painful Death." He holds his arm around her shoulders only not touching them or another part of her in the least. "I think I should warn you the name fits her and if you touch her, where's she's clothed or not, you'll find out why we decided on that name."

"Whatever. God this place is such a mess doesn't anyone know how to clean now days?"

"Huh? Who's this?" Blob asks walking in. He squeezes into the room.

"Dose no one know how to knock before entering a room." Mercy asked narrowing her eyes at them. "I'm Mercy."

"Painful Death." Toad says with a smile "So why is it they named you that?"

"Alright. Im questionphobic! And peoplephobic too." She moves and sits down on the bed. "They called be that because if you touch me you'll die a very painful death."

"How?" Blob asks siting down. Mercy catches herself before she falls on top of him when the bed tilts under his weight.

"Ah! Don't you get the point of saying not to touch me, if I wouldn't have stopped then you'd be I some serious pain by now. I'm poison. If you touch me then you get poisoned. It goes in through the pours of the skin, into the blood system stopping at the major organs and devouring them. Then it eats through the rest of your flesh and you turn into nothing. And they can do nothing to cure you from this." She frowns and moves off the bed sitting on the floor. She hugs her knees. "Were's is my pizza?"

"Is that all you can do?" Pietro ask giving her a wired look.

"No..."She mutters. "I can steal others powers, or life force."

"Rouge." Blob says with a nod.

"I also have the powers to control objects and minds, shake the ground, and some other freaky stuff...I haven't used more then once...yeah, the power Rouge has."

"Hum...cool. So if you can't touch people without killing them how do you steal their powers?" Toad asked.

"I.. haven't had this power for very long. I learned to control the others...given sometimes the ground dose shake when I'm really mad." She laughs slightly. "But I can't help that."

"Chère, pizza's here." Gambit calls walking into the room. He clears off the small table inside the room with a free arm and lays the pizza box down. Mercy jumps up.

"Great, perfect timing!" She throws open the box top and grabs a slice taking a bite out of the end." Oww...hot!" She takes another bit and looks around at the people staring at her. "W-What?"

"Can we..."

~~~~~~~~~************************~~~~~~~~~~~

"She's gone? The brotherhood stole her.. Is that what your saying?" Rouge asked as the professor explain what had happened the night before.

"No, she wasn't stolen. She left on her own will. Which is not a good thing. I believe that it is to risky to fight her."

"So what are you saying? We should just forget it and run whenever they come around?!" Scott asked in rage.

"For now...yes."