Disclaimer: I do not own X-Men Evolution or anything else in this story except Bryan, Jack, and Simon Youngst, and Samantha Ingst.
( The only reason I am doing this is because a friend who had a fanfic up on a website just got a lovely letter from the company saying if he doesn't add one of these things on he'd be sued, and they said they were being generious…)
Story Chapter 8- Reunions
Bryan woke up just in time to see the rest of the kids heading off to the museum. Jack wasn't there, as usual. Kitty was sitting by the door, apparently waiting for him to start there "homework" session. Which he knew was just another pitiful attempt to get him to act normal; he didn't know what there problem was. He was doing the acting part, just not getting the real feel of it.
Then again, feeling was something that he hadn't done in a long time. He watched all of the student's get into the bus, or car, or whatever they chose to take to the museum.
Kitty walked towards him. "Like, you wanna get started on your homework?" She asked with a wide grin.
Bryan just shrugged. "I guess so."
He went to his room, and got out the list of English assignments that he had to complete, and took it up with him. When he went into the dining room, he noticed Kitty's eye widen at the stack of papers.
"Pretty much my reaction when I first saw it." He told her.
"Yeah, like I heard that teachers did this, but like I didn't believe it." Kitty said still shocked.
They started, and as it turned out, he was glad that she had volunteered. With her always saying "like," and all the other words, Bryan figured she was just some dumb brunette who slept with her teachers in order to pass. However she seemed to be very intelligent, answering all of his questions he had without having to think about it for more than a few seconds.
Bryan wondered how long it was going to be until she tried to talk him out of his gloomy self, and it wasn't all that long.
"Like, you know that everyone around here knows that you're like, not happy. Like, I know what it is to try to act happy, but when inside it's killing you. It's not a good thing, trust me. Just like, let everything go." Bryan couldn't help but laugh at that. "Like what, did I say something funny?" Kitty said confused.
"No, it's just the last time I did that…" Bryan stopped after realizing the mistake he made.
"After the last time you did that, what?" Kitty said looking narrow eyed at him.
Bryan gave out a long sigh. "When you see Simon again, I'll tell you everything. It will make much more sense." He assured her.
"Like okay. But still, you need to like lighten up. It's really depressing to see someone in your state. Like, all the other students don't know what to say to you. The professor doesn't want to see you end up like your brothers…" She stopped, and Bryan knew she knew she had gone too far.
Bryan only sighed though. And he could see the bizarre look. "Look, I know you want to help me, I've gotten that much from you guys even just saying hi to me. I know I need to act different. There is just something, inside of me that won't let me." He said with a sigh.
"Listen, we'll help you with whatever you need. We're the X-men, it's like, what were trained to do." She assured him with a smile that he knew couldn't be faked. And for the first time he felt himself smile, not a fake one that has been put their, and he saw that that Kitty knew it. "You know, you like, have a really nice smile. Let's just see it more. Look, I've got to go get something upstairs. Just continue, your doing fine on this." She said walking out.
**
Kitty was wearing a big smile on her face. Jeans not the only one who can help people. Kitty thought triumphantly walking into her room. She now kind of knew why Jean always wore that seemingly endless happy face. It must feel good always knowing that you've helped out individuals.
She walked around the room looking for something that she had forgotten. She decided that it was better to just go back down stairs and help Bryan with his homework. She didn't really know why, but it made herself smile to see him actually smile.
She heard a voice downstairs. "Man, I didn't think anyone was going to be here today!" And she ran down fearing it was a member of the brotherhood, or one of Magnetos men.
When she ran down she saw Bryan standing right in front of him, and she saw him go from a weird fighting stance, to just casually standing. She looked at the face of the guy who was there, and gasped. "Evan? Evan?" She said running towards him.
"Man, next thing I know the professors going to be upstairs." Evan commented, but didn't reject her as she hugged him.
"Like, where have you been? You've had Ororo worried sick!" She said hitting him on his shoulder.
"That's the Kitty I remember." He said grinning. "I learned that supposedly all of you were going to be out of the institute today, so I figured I was going to drop by and leave some notes. But man, looks like I got busted." Evan replied.
"Like, we've missed you." Kitty said calmly, still shocked to see him. He still had spikes growing out from out of him, and it was almost hard for Kitty to look at him.
"Yeah, I could of figured that. So, what have you been up to?" Evan asked her, and she knew this really had messed up his plans.
"Not much. You like, really didn't plan on seeing anyone, did you?" She asked him sadly, and his nod gave her the answer.
"Didn't really plan to. I'm just, not ready yet." He said pulling out letters from his backpack. He still carried his skateboard, she noticed. "I wrote letters that I had originally planned on giving you guys in your rooms while you were gone. So, if you don't mind?" He said already running up the stairs.
"Yeah like, just make sure you say goodbye before you leave." She said, and he nodded.
She noticed Bryan who was now back in the living room, and he was doing his home work, being respectful as to what was happening.
It was another five minutes before Evan came back down. "Like, it was good to see you, again. So like, when do you think you are going to be coming back here, on a like, more permanent basis?" She asked hoping he would say soon.
"I don't know. It might be soon, it might be never. Alright, I'll talk to you later." He said already zooming off.
"Wait." She said and he stopped. "Just a few things. Do you want me to say anything to Ororo, and do you want this little meeting to stay secret?" Kitty asked.
"Everything I have to say to Auntie O is in the letter. And I guess it wouldn't hurt you to tell them about this. Alright, I'll talk to you someday." He said leaving.
"Bye, Evan." She waved, and he waved back. She went back into the living room, where Bryan was sitting.
"So that was Spyke?" Bryan asked calmly. His blue eyes actually showing compassion, but at this moment she didn't really care for them.
"Yeah." Was all she said on the subject.
They worked on for another hour and a half. Bryan was a quick kid. He was learning things that took her a few days at least to pick up on in minutes; he only needed answers on the trick questions, to which she was glad to answer. Kitty also took the time to take care of her other homework. It was her last year in high school, and even with all the schools changes in the past year, including utterly switching there starting date, she still had to work hard, even though she much rather would of slacked off in all her classes.
After that hour she decided to get some food, Bryan declined when she offered him anything, to which she just shrugged and walked off. She was back within fifteen minutes. When she got back she noticed that his homework was on the ground, and he was shaking violently.
She blinked to make sure she was seeing strait, and when she saw he was shaking, confusion hung on her face. "Like, is something wrong?" Kitty asked him in a worried tone.
"He's here…" Bryan said softly. Kitty didn't have to ask whom the 'he' Bryan was speaking of.
Before she could even ask anything else, the door flung open, and the man she had seen at school the previous Monday was standing there, smiling.
"You, where is Jack?" Simon demanded pointing towards Bryan.
"How would I know? Why don't you just leave now? Remember what happened last time?" Bryan said in an aggressive tone.
That only made Simon laugh harder, and left Kitty confused. "You no longer have power. You are nothing. Jack, he is something… he is the only one who is powerful enough to oppose me. Tell your little girl friend to stay quiet too, or else she'll die. Just like our loving parents. You remember that, don't you?" The man said and Bryan now gaining a look of pure hatred.
"What do you want here?" Bryan asked.
"Just to remind you. Remember the day I found you. I was surprised you withstood such an attack; of course you had let yourself go. That's the only explanation, but nonetheless it was still shocking. I remembered, all of their blood on your face. It was a… soothing feeling to my heart." Simon smiled. Kitty looked back towards Bryan who was now on the ground, tears in his eyes.
"How far gone are you?" Bryan said choking on his tears.
Simon smiled a demonic smile, or at least that was the only way Kitty was able to describe it. "I've always been gone, brother. You know that. But, I'm not as far gone as you are, and I very much doubt I will ever need to go that far." He said popping his fingers.
"Good for you." Bryan said still having a choked tone in his voice, and it seemed to Kitty trying to end the subject.
Simon laughed. "You still remember it, don't you?"
"Every second, you bastard!" Bryan said now back on his feet in a defensive position.
Simon laughed. "Must've been painful. But I wonder how painful it was for those that you killed. The look on their faces was far more painful than that of our beautiful sister, who lay on your lap the last time I saw her. Face still screaming out in pain, you could almost hear the lovely screams." Simon stopped and breathed in the air. "And there were so many of those that you killed, there must have been at least sixty." Simons face was now looking around, Bryan was still on his feet, though he was about to fall back to his knees, and Kitty could barely see his tears.
"Like, what do you want? Jacks not here. And like, leave!" She said yelling at him.
Simon in response went over to Bryan and kicked him in the face. Like, super strength and super speed, so not good. Kitty thought to herself.
"Brother, brother, brother. Did you think you're the only one who can make themselves more powerful in moments?" Entered the confident voice of Jack.
"You… bastard." Simon replied.
It all happened within a moment. Simon and Jack were out of the room and battling, she couldn't see anything that was happening. But what she could see, Jack was coming on top of every blow, and now Bryan was back up and standing beside Kitty.
"I'll get you!" Simon said and then teleported off. Like, this is scary. Kitty said to herself.
Jack came back into the room, and went to his room. Bryan stood for a moment, waiting for Jack to come back up, and in a few minutes he did, with his stuff.
"I'm leaving." He said.
"I know." Bryan replied.
"I'll be back in six months, if I don't" Bryan put up his finger in a gesture to tell him to be quiet.
"You won't be. Not unless you haven't killed Simon. You act like I've never gone far before, and you went much farther than you needed to." Bryan said accusingly, and Kitty was still in shock.
When Jack was leaving, Kitty went out to go ask why he had to leave, and Bryan took her hand. "Don't, he might kill you." Bryan warned her.
"Like, what are you talking about? He seemed perfectly fine, like just yesterday, now you'll telling me he's going to kill me?" She said starting to get annoyed with Bryan.
"Maybe even just an hour ago he wouldn't have, but that was an hour ago." Bryan said in shame.
"Alright, no more lies, no more half truths, I want to know everything like right now!" Kitty screeched at him, making him cover his ears.
"Are you sure? The story of Bryan Youngst is much more tragic than any book or movie has had to say about it." Bryan told her with pain written on his face, and she nodded aggravated with his stalling.
Bryan sighed. "Okay, as you could of guessed. It started four years ago. Simon came home, saying he had some kind of revelation. I walked into the living room, and saw my mom's head rolling on the floor. He then proceeded in killing my father, saying he was a pitiful excuse for a human being. Then he proceeded to call my thirteen year old sister at the time a whore, accused her of sleeping with every guy at her school, and then a weird light came out from his hand, and it went right through her. To me, he said nothing personal, and blasted me. I survived through; well I'll explain that in a few moments. Pretty much, for three days I stayed there, lying with my family, crying. Smelling, seeing their corpses decay." He choked for a moment. "Pretty much, Simon picked me up three days later, and I actually listened to him, and a few weeks ago Jack finally persuaded me to join his side." Bryan finished looking down at the ground.
Kitty looked at him shocked. She figured he had some kind of horrible story, but nothing could of possibly prepared her for this, but she had to ask more questions. "Like, you talked about going farther, like what does that mean?" Kitty managed to say. She knew she shouldn't even be asking the question, but she had a feeling that if she didn't ask now, she would never know.
Bryan gulped before starting again. "Well, let my start on that by saying, that my brothers and I, do possess the possibility for limitless strength, and for limitless speed, and many other helpful things. I don't know, but from what I've seen, we have mind abilities, like able to control minds, open things, float things. I'm not quite sure of what that's all called. We can teleport long distances, as you saw with Simon. I don't know what else we can do, but I know there was more. But, it's not just like we get this as though nothing happens. It costs our sanity. As we become more powerful, we lose apart of ourselves. Our memories, feelings, conscious, our souls. It all goes little by littler, or you can lose it all at once. But it's a painful experience, and you can always remember feeling the pain." Bryan shuddered. "It's painful, and the only thing that satisfies that quench is more powerful, and then theirs the final gift." Bryan bowed his head, as if remembering something.
"Like, what's that?" Kitty asked now intrigued.
"It's where you get the ultimate powers. It costs you everything. As where the other parts, as long as you have one or two, or even more links to keep yourself in check, you can still consider yourself alive. The final gift, or curse what I call it, is where you let go of those things that keep you connected to life. You no longer live, you no longer have feel of pain, feelings, memories, or anything. You only care about killing. You feel nothing, no love, no thirst, well save for fighting. All the things you remember are pulled from you, and it hurts, it's not just the physical pain either, it's the most excruciating method of physical pain ever, but on top of that, you can feel it leaving you, you can feel your life getting sucked out, and some vile creature enter you. You aren't yourself anymore. Me and my brothers, we are too selfish to admit it, but apart of ourselves like living, we like feeling. When it happens, you realize that it wasn't worth it, and worse, because of the physical pain, you can't stop it." Bryan said with a long sigh. "I guess I forgot to tell you. From anything before the final gift, you can come back. At least if the link you have isn't the reason why you're getting the power, and if it's strong enough." Bryan finished, still looking at the ground.
"Like, I'm really sorry and all. But I just have one more question. I'm guessing like, Jack has gone now or whatever, but like, Simon and Jack both hinted that you've gone even farther than they have. So like, how far have you gone?" Kitty asked, letting more excitement into her voice then she should of, then after seeing the pain on his face, instantly regretting asking it.
"I've done the final gift." Bryan said now closing his eyes.
Kitty sat in shock. "I like, thought you just said there was no coming back from that."
"There shouldn't have been. I still remember every second of pain, everything leaving me. My contacts for remaining alive were vengeance, and that was a strong contact, and when I let that go, I had power that my other brothers feared. But When I awakened, I immediately saw a family gathering…" Bryan said with pain echoing throughout every word.
"No, you didn't…" Kitty said, wondering now if Bryan was really deserving of being treated with sympathy.
"I didn't have a conscious. I killed them all, and like Simon said, I did it worse than how he killed my family. Before I killed them I replayed all the horrible images that each one had done in there life, and then made new ones that showed them being even crueler, and then I damn near killed them, only to revive them. I did that at least five times before actually killing them." Kitty backed away and tripped over a chair.
The thoughts eventually hit her of what all he had said. "Bryan, I don't know what to say. Like, I should hate you, and be telling you to get the hell out. But like, the pain on your face, you really like, said what you meant, you were like, not in control of yourself, and yet, now you remember everything? Like, but you still haven't answered my question, how did you come back?" Kitty asked, just now standing up.
Bryan looked up towards her. "Jack. That day that he said Simon sent me out against him, well let's just say I found him myself. I don't know what happened after that, but he was bleeding pretty badly, and all I could remember was that I was hungry. And everything else that had happened, too."
"Like, I've got to go into my room, I've got some things, to like, think about." She said staring at him, making sure he was okay.
"Alright, I understand. But what should we tell them when they get back?" He said regarding Xavier and the other students. "Sorry, but I don't really want people knowing. How about we just tell them about Evan?" Bryan asked her.
She shook her head, remembering that he had came today. "Like, that feels so long ago. Anyways,, just tell them I took you out to lunch and when we got back I found a note on my door with a spike in it, and noticed one in Rogues. Tell them it's from Evan. I like, don't want to be rude, but you've seen Ororo, she is still like, obsessed with finding anything out about Evan she can." Kitty said, and she could see Bryan looking at her for the inevitable follow up question. "Like, I know this is kinda rude. But does this like mean, your going to return to your like, gloomy personality?" Kitty said hoping.
Bryan laughed, and she could see it wasn't a forced one either. "No, you were right earlier. It's easier to live. If anything, I think telling you has been a huge burden off of my shoulders. And besides." Bryan said looking outside a window. "Jack went through that kind of pain for me, it's the least I can do to live a normal life." She knew he left the 'when Simon comes back I'll deal with him then.' Part that he had written on his face out.
She was kind of tired though, and she hadn't even read her message from Evan. She ran up the stairs and pulled out the spike that hung on the wall, and started reading it.
Like hey, Kitty, like what's up? Everything is like totally going good over her, and like the stuff is… Heh, sorry. I don't even know if you still talk like that anymore, but I just couldn't resist. Anyways, life has been really busy with me, we've been doing assaults and mutant raids on things (confidential, if ya get me.) Some of the people here still have the tendency to creep the livin' hell outta me though. But it's all good. It's hard living in the sewers when theirs so few places to skate at, but that's life I guess.
Anyways, I do get out a few times, and I do hear some rumors about you guys. Heard you and Lance got back together. To tell you the truth, if the guy wasn't friends with that arrogant bastard Pietro I wouldn't have any problems with him whatsoever. Anyways, hope things work out for you, I'll talk to you later.
Your old bud, Evan aka Spyke.
**
Bryan was in his room when they came in. He just decided to do some homework while he was waiting. He decided not to tell the group about Evans visit, he himself didn't even know the kid, and decided it would be better to let them find things out for himself.
He replayed the battle in his head the whole time, inside thinking that they were so slow, yet knowing himself couldn't do any better at the moment, it was a painful feeling. When he decided to go upstairs, the whole house was talking about Evan, and even though Storm didn't find out that Kitty had actually seen Evan, Kitty was getting questioned by her nonetheless.
Xavier was the first one to take notice of him amongst the big crowd taking a look at all their letters. He motioned for Bryan to go over to one of the corners and Bryan obeyed.
"I had a most rather interesting and informing encounter with Robert today." Xavier told him.
"Yeah, what a surprise there." Bryan said with a half grin on his face.
Xavier cleared his throat. "He told me about what it actually means to let it go." Bryans face showed a bored look. "He also told me about how far you've gone." Xavier followed up with. This caught Bryan a little more off guard, but then again, Bryan guessed that the man had seen him when he had done the final gift, but he still managed to show a no care look.
"Listen professor, Kitty already pried all of this out of me, plus a little more." Bryan said, still unsure how she was going to act around him.
"Yes, I see that makes sense. Hopefully you'll be more talkative, as you are with me right now. But, what happened when your brothers both showed up here today, and I'm guessing that Jack is now gone?" Xavier asked, and this had caught Bryan off guard, and as hard as he tried it showed.
"More ways than one, if you get my drift. And yea, they both showed up here. Simon doesn't see me as a threat, so I very much doubt I'll be seeing him for awhile." Bryan said, almost as calm as his brother use to talk.
"Alright, it would probably be wise for you to go to sleep, and I also know about that." Now Bryan had to hold his mouth open in shock that was one thing he didn't even bother to tell Kitty.
"Xavier, how the hell do you know all this?" Bryan asked.
Xavier chuckled. "Let's just say I have my sources." Then he left, to join the crowds who were now reading there letters out loud.
Bryan figured that tomorrow would be the start of a new life, and he'd make sure it would be. Although when he lay down he had thoughts of the girl Samantha, she was practically the only person who he talked to at school. He didn't know why he thought about her so much, and the truth was, he didn't care why, it brought a warm feeling to him, even when he thought he wasn't able to feel anything.
All right, I may of put a little bit too much information on this chapter, as pretty much the entire intrigue of their powers is now gone, but hey, I plan of having the inevitable final battle in not too long, should have this story done by this Saturday at the latest.. Anyways, if you've been reading this, or just started it, this is obviously the chapter where you find out about their powers. Anyways, I'll probably have the next chapter up either later today or tomorrow. Hope people are enjoying this.
