Title: Different Roads
Genre: X-Men
Disclaimer: I do not own any characters from the X-Men, but I do own Cyrus Knight and Rose Falcon. Cyrus' powers are to the ability to shoot rapid optic blasts from his hands and fingertips and he can also fly. Rose has the ability to heal people. Cyrus, Bobby and Rose are 17. Angelo is 16, so is Rogue.
A/N – This is an alternate universe, where some X-Men have been aged and de- aged.
This is also my first fanfic, so please be kind. Constructive criticism is appreciated. Not the mean kind, please.
Chapter 2: Getting to know one another
After several weeks since Scott has joined the X-Men, the students are trying to get to know Scott, and let Scott know more about them. The children are outside behind the mansion, doing different stuff. Scott is sitting down, watching Angelo and Rogue play hackeysack, Cyrus is trying to do tricks on his skateboard and Rose is sitting under a tree reading a book. Bobby joins Scott and sits down with him.
"Hey Scott, how do you like it here so far?" Bobby asked.
"I love it here to be honest, nothing like where I grew up."
Scott looks at the other X-Men and then starts to talk again.
"I know who you guys are, but I don't really know their backgrounds." Scott said
Bobby looked at the others, smiled and then replied, "Would you like to know?"
"Yeah, I would." Scott said.
"Ok well, first is Cyrus. He has been here as long as I have been here. We're pretty close friends in and out of this school. He plays jokes with me to others and stuff like that. But his past is not a pretty one to look back on. When he was around 8 years old his folks split up and his dad got him. Well later on the years his dad started to beat him, probably because he realized he needed his wife back, so he took his anger out on good ol' Cy for cheating on his wife. Rose is very quiet, she's the brains here. She has some weird fears though, like spiders, any kind of spiders. Her childhood was a pretty good one. Her parents hardly fought, she always got good grades, and she always listened, whether someone needed help or a teacher told her what to do. Now don't get to comfy with Rogue, I know you Goths dig other Goths but you can't have skin-to-skin contact with her. If you were to touch her skin she can absorb little of your mutant power and may knock you out for a period of time. Now Angelo has six extra feet of skin with, so his power is to stretch his skin to get the enemies. His past a bad one, so don't mention it." Bobby stopped and looked at Scott, then got up and went inside.
**
Later on that day Logan and Hank are in the danger room with Scott. Scott walks out of the locker room with a X-Men uniform on and goes to Hank and Logan.
"You guys actually fight in these?" Scott asked while looking down at his uniform.
"They aren't all that bad, kid. And don't worry, you all have different kind of uniform."
Logan said.
"Mr. McCoy, do you, the teachers, have uniforms too?" Scott asked.
"Why, yes we do, Scott. Even us teachers have to fight the good fight sometimes. But you're in uniform, so I can't call you Scott." Hank said with a smile.
Scott looked at him puzzled.
"Cyclone… no, that won't work." Logan said then stood there and thought of a codename for Scott. Just then a light bulb turned on in Hank's head.
"I know, how about Cyclops?" Hank asked Logan.
"Yeah…" Logan looks at Scott, "that would be a perfect codename for the kid."
Just then the Professor goes and joins them in the danger room.
"Charles, we have a codename for Scott here." Hank said.
"Oh, and what would that be?" Charles asked.
"Cyclops. Nice, huh?" Hank replied.
"Cyclops… I like it." Charles commented.
"Professor, you said there are other mutants against the X-Men, who might they be?" Scott asked.
"Good question, Cyclops. A man named Magneto is probably our greatest threat. He is the master of magnetism. His real name is Eric. And he has a Brother Hood of mutants with him, to help him fight anyone against them." Charles said with his hands together by his head.
While Scott is talking to them in the danger room, other students are doing other things.
Cyrus stood at the sink, grumbling to himself at his misfortune of having dishes duty, especially when Ms. Frost cooked. The burnt pans alone took at least a half an hour. He was grateful, at least, for the little bit of help that came from the girl next to him.
"Hey." He nudged her. Rogue looked up at him, her arms covered to her elbows in suds.
"Yeah?" She asked, looking at him.
"Thanks for… you know, offering to help me with these tonight. I would have been here forever if you hadn't."
"Hey, no problem, I…" She cut off, looking down at her hands, which were still submerged in the water. Cyrus did a double take. That water looked awful smooth…
"Bobby Drake!" She screamed, trying to free her hands. "You better pray this defrosts slow, because when I catch you, they're not even going to be able to show the things I'm going to do to you on the news.
Bobby finally peeked his head into the room. "Well, I'll be looking forward to that." He said, grinning widely and waggling his eyebrows at her. She screamed out in frustration, and Cyrus laughed. Bobby Drake was a dead man.
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Rose sat, enjoying the quiet of the night, from her favorite spot on the whole campus: beneath the large willow tree that sat nestled off to the side of the main path. Soon, that silence was broken as Bobby ran past her, a wide grin on his face that bordered on downright evil. She sighed, and shook her head. 'I wonder what he did to Rogue now.' She thought. A few moments later, she could hear sounds of a struggle coming from the house, and a sound like that of breaking glass. Moments later, Rogue went running by her at a breakneck speed, small blocks of ice still clinging to her fingers. Rose smiled to herself. 'I don't even want to know.' She went back to her book. Soon, she could hear more footsteps approach. She sighed again, placing her bookmark on her page and closing her book. She looked up to see Cyrus come crashing through the bushes.
"Cyrus?" She asked, looking at him.
"Have… Rogue… Bobby… gonna kill him…" He wheezed, holding his side, then collapsed onto the ground.
"Yeah." She smiled slightly. "I figured so. They ran past here, oh, about five full minutes before you did."
He looked at her, and rolled his eyes. "Unnatural, I say, the way they run. It's gotta be another power of theirs." He rolled over onto his stomach, breathing steadily now. "Whatcha reading?" He asked her.
"What?" She asked, momentarily stunned by his question. Had she been reading? She looked back at him. He looked pointedly at her book. "Oh. OH." She said, feeling a blush rise to her cheeks. "Um, I don't… You wouldn't like…" She stammered, looking down.
"How do you know I wouldn't like it, if you won't tell me what it is?" He grinned at her, and she could feel her cheeks heat up even more. "Sorry, I… It's, um, it's Hamlet, yeah, that's what it is." She said and sighed; glad she got through that without getting any redder. Cyrus looked at her in the eyes and she looked down, knowing he was looking into her eyes. "Well, in my opinion, I like Hamlet. By far one of Shakespeare's best pieces ever." Cyrus said
Emma looks out a hallway window, only to see Rogue chase down Bobby for the prank he played on her. Hank walks up to Emma and stands next to her, watching the children outside, which always brings a smile to Hank's face. Emma notices the big smile on his face and just sighs. Hank happens to hear Emma's sigh and turns his head to look at her.
"Something troubling you, Emma?" Hank asked while holding his hand behind his back.
"It's nothing, McCoy. It's just… just how do you always find pleasure when one wants to kill the other?" Emma asked. Hank laughed for a second and answered her, "now Emma, you know as well as I do Rogue doesn't really want to kill Bobby, they're kids, let them be kids while they have the chance to do so." Emma looked at Hank, knowing that he was right, and just walked away.
**
Angelo is in his room, sitting on his bed and he is looking at a picture of an old family member. As Angelo looked at it, a tear came to his eye. He put the picture under his bed and sighed deeply. He lay on his bed, with his hands behind his head and started to think. But out of nowhere, he heard a woman scream from outside. He quickly got up and looked out his window. He looked down and smiled, only to find that the girl scream wasn't Rogue, but it was Bobby.
**
Outside the mansion, Bobby is walking backwards only because he doesn't trust himself to look away from Rogue while she is charging at him. "Robert Drake!" She screamed.
Bobby looks behind his shoulders only to see a big puddle of mud. "Now Rogue, you wouldn't do that… this is one of my favorite shirts." He said, hoping she wouldn't push him in.
She looked at him, smiled and said "yah never heard of a washer and dryer?" She then pushed him in the puddle of mud, but he held on to her wrist and she fell with him. She then went up on her knees, only to see mud covering her face. Bobby just lied there and laughed hard. She looked at him, got a hand full of mud and smeared it on his shirt.
"Now how do yah like that, Drake?" She asked. He looked at her and smiled even more.
"As much as I like this!" He said then threw a hand full of mud in her hair and she screamed. They started rolling in the mud, getting even dirtier than they were already.
**
Later on that day, after Bobby and Rogue got cleaned off, the children were just chilling out together in the living room.
Cyrus is lying on the couch, Rose sitting on his feet. Rogue is sitting Indian style on the ground next to the couch and Angelo is lying on his back on the ground a few feet away. Just then Bobby runs in the room.
"Hey guys! Want to go to the carnival?" Bobby asked.
"The carnival? It's here already? Heck, I'll go then." Cyrus said and stood up on his feet.
"I'll go too." Rose said.
"I can't pass this up!" Angelo replied and jumped up on his two feet.
Bobby looked at Rogue and then she looks down at the ground, her hair covering her face and a smile forming on her lips. Bobby walks over to her and kneels down to get close to her.
"Rogue…" he said with a smile.
Rogue looked up, hiding her smile, and replied with a "what?"
"You know you want to go with us." Bobby said.
"Nah, yah'll go have fun, I will just stay here with Scott and help him with his powers." Rogue said.
"Oh? How are you going to do that when he's going to be with us?" Bobby asked.
Rogue laughed and then said, "OK, I'll go with you guys."