Chapter 2: New Recruits

The next morning, Warren climbed out of his bed and went to his full-length mirror. "Well shit, I'll be lucky if I can fly before the week is over." He said as he looked at the damage his wing had suffered in battle against Pinpoint, AKA Scott Summers, of the brotherhood, or he was a member at one time, as he disappeared after their battle.

After their battle, Colossus had leaked some important information, that soon the only safe mutants were those that worked for Magneto. But why? Warren asked himself as he slipped on his uniform.

Today's an important day for the X-men. Today is the day they go out and find as many mutants that can help their cause, no matter what their power is, or what their past is like. Warren decided to stay with the Professor in the jet while the others go in the missions, as in his current state, he's rather useless. Too useless Warren though as he boarded the jet with the others.

As Warren flew the plane, many thoughts went through his head. Am I going to be able to go back to school after this? Will teachers be biased against me when the find out I'm a mutant? Will that girl I gave my number to call? What did I eat for breakfast? Because what ever it is, it's coming back with a vengeance.

Warren! The professor screamed in his mind, bringing his attention back to flying. The jet was heading downwards, close to the mountains, but Warren quickly pulled up, and the jet didn't suffer any damages.

"Hey, next time, pay attention, moron." Marrow ridiculed and crossed her arms. Goth wannabe. Warren thought to himself. As the jet continued to fly, a screen appeared before everybody but Warren's face.

"Each of you have been assigned a mutant to talk to, and when you're finished, you each use the communicators located in your watches to contact us so we can pick you up. Please don't start any fights, and hide your powers as best as you can." The Professor said that last part looking at Pietro, " Each of your mutants are relatively close to each other, so while you search for you mutant, me and Warren will keep watch from above. Please keep in my mind Magneto may be looking for the same mutants and such."

First, the jet flew over New York City, where Storm used the wind to quickly land on a building as the jet flew off with the others. Next, the jet flew to Albany where Pietro got off. "Where are you Mr. Drake?" Quicksilver asked as he ran off. Finally, at the Canadian border, Marrow was dropped off.

"What are we going to do?" Warren asked the Professor as the jet flew into the air. "I'm going to use the jet's Cerebro to search for other mutants, I want you to watch the radio for others." The Professor said, and placed the helmet on his head. Good news is that now he's too preoccupied to read my thoughts. Bad news is if the others need help all they get is the wonder wing. Warren thought.

"Help.any.ne.ou..ther...ser..sly...help!" Warren looked around and saw that the voice was coming from the radio. "Who is this?" Warren asked as he picked up the speaker. "This is Kitty Pryde...th...girl..bone..body..no..movin.help!" Suddenly the radio just stopped. "Marrow." Warren thought aloud, and turned the plane back towards where he dropped off Marrow.

As he landed the plane, he tried to get the Professor's attention, but to no avail, so he put on some body armor and a comlink, and opened the jet's hatch. "This is the Angel, is anybody out there?" He asked, but no answer. I'm too far out of range of the others with this, but I should be able to contact Sarah. Where is she? He thought and started walking through the forest when he saw a girl running towards him.

"Help me!" She screamed, tears coming from her eyes. Her face and hair were burned and soiled black with smoke, but she was still well enough to keep running. "What's going on?" He asked, but she pointed behind her. Walking there was a guy in red-orange armor, flamethrowers on each arm. Following him was a green winged pterodactyl man, carrying Marrow in his arms.

"Leave me alone!" the girl screamed, and ran into a tree, literally. "Leave the girl alone and give me Marrow!" He screamed at them, but the flamethrower guy laughed. " I'd love to, honestly, I would. But she looks like she's going to burn very well." He said with a devilish smile. "Sauron, take care of this guy while I take her and Pryde back to the foundation." "Yes Pyro." Sauron said, and handed him Marrow.

"Great.now I know what I'd look like if I was a dinosaur." Angel said to himself, but Sauron screeched at him. "I'm gonna fucking die." Angel said as Sauron stretched out his wings, which were easily bigger then Warren's. "I will feast on your energy!" he screamed, rushing at Warren and slashing his arm.

"Your blood is delicious." Sauron smiled as he licked his talons. "After this I'm gonna break off your horn and shove it in your eye." Angel said, and used his wings to throw himself at Sauron, knocking him into a tree. "Is that the best you got?" Sauron asked, and punched Angel onto his back.

"You wish!" Angel said, and used his good wing to throw Sauron into the air. Sauron quickly recovered and dive bombed Angel, only for Angel to dive out of the way and for Sauron to crash into a branch.

With Sauron temporarily down, Angel checks for Pyro, but the only things that even showed he was around were a few burnt stumps. Wait, wasn't that girl in on of those trees? Warren asked himself, but Sauron recovered faster then he thought, and bit into his good wing.

Sauron shook Warren angrily, knocking his feathers all over, before throwing him into the air. "Taste's like Chicken." Sauron said, but instead of continuing the attack, he let Angel fall onto the earth, covering the nearby grass and soil with blood. "If you survived, maybe I'll get a promotion." Sauron laughed, and dragged Warren's body across the dank earth.

"What.where am I?" Warren asked as he woke up. "You, my dear boy, are in the world's most secret organization." A voice said behind him, Angel slowly got up, he saw that he was in a cell, sort of like a jail cell, only the walls were lined with what seemed like porcelain. "What? Let me go!" Warren screamed, but they guy just laughed at him. "I'd offer you a chance to attack, but your wings have been sprayed with a serum that will make them unusable, after we repaired them of course."

Warren looked at his wings, and they had seemingly re-grown, but were now line with a metal that followed the wings slightest movement. "Yes, we bonded an experimental metal to your wings, but you should consider yourself lucky. The guy in the cell next to you has an entire skeleton made out of another metal, type 003, also known as Adamantium. It's also what your bars are made of, but mostly because it's the most powerful metal we've ever discovered."

The man walked to Warren's bars, and they opened near his presence, and shut behind him. "And don't try anything foolish while you're here, or we'll kill you. And we still need to experiment on you." The man said as he walked away. Suddenly, the porcelain walls pulled back slightly, opening the cells to each other, but not to the outside.

"Welcome." A blue-furred boy said in the next cell over, but Warren ignored him. "Guten-tag?" He asked. "No, I speak English." Warren answered, and the boy smiled and set on a bunch rising from the floor. "Lucky you. They forced me to learn English with memory implants, and I was beaten if I used an accent." He said, looking away, but he quickly changed the subject. "Anyway, in this cell block your roomies shall be me, James, Kitty, and Eddie. We're mutants too."

"What's your name kid?" Warren asked. "I'm Kurt Vagner." He smiled, but then electricity spasmed through his body. "Wagner, WANGER!" He screamed, and the electricity stopped. "So, what's your power?" Warren asked, and Kurt teleported to his side. "Me and Eddie are teleporters, Kitty can phase through stuff, and James is.insane." He said. "Stop calling me that elf!" A voice screamed from the next cell. "Do you mean insane or your name?" Kurt asked.

"Both!" He screamed back, and some claws popped through the wall. "Yeah, you don't want to make him angry." Another voice said. There were two girls waiting coming over from Kurt's cell. One was the girl from earlier, while the other one was a girl with green-blue skin.

"Ouch, nice wings." The green girl said, and Kitty and Kurt laughed along. "Don't worry, Eddie and me have both been experimented on." Kurt said, "Yeah," The girl with green skin said, " I used to always fall asleep after teleporting, and Kurt could only travel short distances, but now I only get tired after five teleportations without rest, and Kurt can easily make 4 mile jumps." Kitty was relatively quiet, but Kurt quickly grabbed her leg with his tail and pulled her closer into the group. "I'm sorry I sucked you into this." She said to Warren.

"Look, It's not your fault, me and my friends would've eventually tried to find out what happened to Marrow. Of course, by then our team would've been slightly larger and possibly able to rescue you all, but my friends will still come for me, not to mention the Professor is still outside." Warren started to laugh, but the other mutants just looked at him.

"What?" He asked. Eddie was the first to speak up, "Who names their kid Marrow?" "No, that's her codename, like mine's Angel." "So, you willingly have codenames?" Kurt asked, and Warren nodded. "I'm sure it's more enjoyable if you get to choose your own name. Mine's ghost, Kurt is Demon, and Eddie's is Port." Kitty said, sitting closer with the group.

"Of course, I can see why they'd call you Angel." Eddie said, slowly running her hand across Angel's wing, making the hair on his neck stand on end. "Somebody likes that." She said flirtatiously, and although Warren smiled, but he was totally freaked out. "Impure thoughts make people feel the opposite, but it's easy to get past." Kitty said with a smile as she hugged Kurt who at first freaked, but then returned the hug.

"Yeah, but any sexual act is responded by a crippling electric wave, ten times worse then the kind Kurt gets." Kitty said, "Which mean's I'm gonna die a virgin." Eddie laughed. "How come I was experimented on before Kitty?" Warren asked. "It's because she's only been her for about a week. That's why we tried to help her escape, but those traitors stopped her." Kurt said.

"That's when I ran into that other girl. She tried to stop them, she even gave me her communicator, but it was no use." Kitty said. "You people should have learned already." James said from his cell, "There's no escape from Weapon X."

I bet you people are wondering a few things, and Here I am to answer them. James Howlett is Wolverine's real name, read the comic book. And Eddie isn't an original character, she's U-Go Girl of X-Statix [X-force at her time of death.]. And by weapon X, I don't mean Wolverine's old codename; I mean the program that created wolverine. Hopefully that's all the questions, but if there anymore, post it in your review and I'll answer with the next chapter.