Misfit- Chapter 8
Disclaimer- We're all living in a yellow submarine… a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine… Well… all except Anything but Ordinary3 who lives in a shoe where tiny elves and goblins stare and point at her all day. Also not in my submarine are all those characters who belong to Marvel. No, they live in a more expensive Red Submarine that pulls up next to mine now and again. So don't sue me if they come to visit sometimes Marvel, maybe you should put more air in your submarine!
Notes- Ok Anything but Ordinary3. You can come to tea in my submarine… if you bring the tea. Retribution X is still on going to people check it out. Ncsgirl's fics are both funny and funny, so might I suggest a little peep at her stuff because she's nice to me? She can also come to tea. And to ZilentZombie, Xx-Disturbed-xX and Darkthedestroyer if they want to the tea pot is still warm. They can come too. But they might have to squeeze in a bit. I don't think my submarine was made for so many people.
Oh and P.S- Ncsgirl… about Lizzie being a teleporter… you were wrong.
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When Elizabeth next awoke she found herself in the silver bowels of the X men's base, although she had no idea that that was where she was.
Her first knowledge of the fact that she was awake was the heavy-duty lights that were above her making the opening of her eyes a labour and not a pleasure. She was glad to discover however that whatever she had been injected with had worn off and given her full control of her body again. Another thing she did dislike however was the fact that someone had stripped her of her clothes from the night before and put her in her nightgown, who she didn't know but wanted to find out.
"Hey, how are you doing?" A soft voice from above asked, then and only then she realised that she was in the presence of someone else, someone else she was glad to see was recognisable.
"Storm." She sighed in gratitude, "Thank god, I thought that they…"
"Had taken you? No, this is the medical facility under the school. We brought you here when you got back. According to Kurt you passed out about halfway between here and New York." She paused, "We just wanted to make sure that they didn't do anything to you before Logan and Kurt intervened." She added softly.
It was a close call, Lizzie remembered, a few more minutes and… god knew what those bastards would have been doing to her, and if anyone could have stopped them.
But there was a more pressing matter on her mind.
"Is the Professor mad at me?" She queried, unsure if she wanted the response.
Storm sighed, looking at her sadly as she pulled the blanket around her a bit better, to hide the curves she denied having. "Well he's disappointed as are we all." She emphasised "But at the moment he's more concerned in who attacked you and why."
Sadly, Elizabeth sank down into the covers and looked directly above herself again, falling into a world of her own for a second "Don't you see Storm…" She sighed, "They wanted me."
"I don't understand." Conceded a confused Storm.
"Don't worry, didn't expect you to." Replied Elizabeth in a daze, before turning to storm again. "Are there showers down here? I really need to get all this make up off." She said reaching for her hair and pulling out two hairgrips attached to orange and black hairpieces that fell like streaks against her blonde hair.
Storm directed to a door just a short distance away. She moved forward and helped ease the girl off the metal gurney and pad slowly across the floor to it.
As the door opened Storm felt compelled to ask… "Logan said some strange things happened inside that club last night, things he'd never seen before. Do you know what caused it?"
The girl paused on the threshold, wondering about what to say before finally deciding what to do. "No." She answered, shaking her head. She turned as the door started to close behind her, "But I can show you it all over again after I've had my shower."
In the arboretum an hour later the X men were collected. They sat behind the desks like their students, else on the desks. Logan was the only one standing leaning back against the doorframe. They were waiting, patiently for the arrival of Lizzie and Storm.
There was a clatter of heels against the hard wood floor at the distant end of the hall and all those collected turned sharply to see if it was them… it wasn't.
"What is taking them so long?" Scott asked exasperatedly to no one. Rogue and Bobby's body language said the same silently. Kurt just sat perched on one of the desks, knees against chest. And Professor X just sat calmly at one of the desks. "They're on their way Scott… they'll be here any…"
The sound of heels again echoed down the hall. This time however a turn wasn't needed… A young woman's voice touched with anxiety echoed with the footfalls.
"It's Showtime…" Elizabeth said entering in front of Storm and walking straight to the spot where the black board had stood until moved by Logan.
The light from the windows encircled her, just as it had Storm the day before and she looked angelic. She paused, removing her jacket and roughly throwing it to an empty desk letting the light caress her bare shoulders and arms.
She stood in front of them looking sheepish as they all leaned forward expectantly. None of them could deny that that they were interested in her and her powers- powers that had been used to out fox them and possibly to save them… although that wasn't clear yet.
She looked over at Logan "That weird stuff that happened last night… the falling glass? That was me." She stated calmly.
Logan grinned smugly "I knew it."
There was a pause as they all thought about the extent of the power that had been show in the club… what had happened was still uncertain but that the girl had caused it was incredible.
"You're a telepath?" Xavier asked.
"No." Lizzie denied strenuously, "It not telepathy…"
"Then what?" Scott asked confused, "What else could make shattered glass freeze in midair and just hang there?"
"They didn't just hang in midair, Mr Summers." She smiled formally "I froze them…"
"I don't understand…?" The Professor admitted.
She lest out a small sigh of frustration. "I froze them, right where they fell…" Still no one grasped it, "I froze them in time."
Logan scoffed "Excuse me?"
"I said I froze them in time, its not like I turned them into sugar candy or anything as preposterous as that. So theirs no need to think I'm pulling your leg."
The group just looked at her… what she was saying wasn't as strange as half of the mutants powers that had been demonstrated in these hallowed halls. It was just that after the secrecy and disappearing acts she had performed it was still a little hard to trust her.
"You don't believe me?" She laughed, interpreting their reaction. "What do I have to do to prove it to you people?"
"HEADS UP!!!" Bobby called to her as he threw a ball of solid ice at her. It was about the size of a fist and would have winded anyone it came into contact with… but it didn't come into contact with anyone. Instead she turned quickly and it stopped in its tracks… hanging in midair a yard away from her chest. She just looked at it annoyed and then looked up at Bobby "Nice test." She said walking forward towards the ball and the man who'd thrown it, "Better than some of the ones I've had to go through to prove myself… quite ingenious really."
Everyone just looked at her, stunned, as she put her hand forward against it, and slowly it started to move again at a fraction of the rate it had been at. She lent on it as it moved at a snails pace forward like a mime on a balloon. Then after a second to let this trick sink in she straightened and plucked the sphere of Ice out of the air, and throwing it to the floor where in real time it smashed into a thousand pieces.
The group looked on amazed though as each of the pieces hovered as the main sphere had done in the air centimetres above the floor before being left to drop by the girl controlling them.
"That's only part of what I can do of course… I can do other things too." She smiled calmly as though what she had just done was an everyday occurrence.
"Like what?" Rogue asked breaking the astonished silence.
"KURT WATCH YOUR…" She burst out with no warning, turning as she did to face the mutant.
A clatter could be heard as Kurts tail connected with a pencil pot and sent the tin rolling off the desk. It froze in midair… pencils half in and out of the pot.
"Tail." She conceded sadly "Oh well can't win them all."
"How did you know I would hit it?" The German asked in shock.
"Because it happened before." Lizzie smiled before walking letting the contents and pot drop to the floor. She then looked down at the little heart shaped watch that had been hidden by her jacket but now sparkled, "about a minute I think that was…"
"A minute?"
"That's how far I went back. After Kurt knocked it off I travelled back in time to when Rogue asked me what else I could do. It's hard to demonstrate that kind of thing… if you can't take the entire room back then only I'll have memories of the minutes that existed before… it's complicated."
Logan stood open mouthed "You can travel through time?"
"Only backwards." Lizzie grinned "and only for about 5 minutes, 5:30 if I push it, but that wares me out." She stared down at her nails bored.
"five minutes!" The professor exclaimed, shocked. "You can travel in time."
Plus I can…" She paused for a second weighing out her options- hatching a plan.
She looked up instantly at Rogue… "I don't normally do this but can I demonstrate something on you Rogue? It won't hurt I promise…"
The other woman looked curiously at the younger girl then at her boyfriend…
"It won't hurt you will it? Cause if you touch my skin…"
"It won't hurt me…" She paused walking a little towards her, "but it'll be a shock for the rest of you… for you especially bobby. You don't have to if you don't…"
"I want to." Rogue interjected.
Sadly she looked to the other teachers then looked into Rogues eyes.
"Say a poem… or a nursery rhyme or something… Something quite short no need for a huge amount just something that springs to mind."
"OK." She paused in thought… "Right…
Daisy, Daisy give me your answer do… I'm half crazy all for the love of you… It won't be a stylish marriage… I can't aff…" Suddenly she stopped, halfway through a word- her mouth open her eyes frozen. No movement at all.
"I'm sorry friend." She said sadly.
"What have you done to her?" Bobby asked, slowly waving his hand before her eyes. Lizzie just frowned.
"She'd frozen, like the ice ball."
"Can she be un-frozen?" Then man asked.
Lizzie blinked a flash passing through her blue eyes.
"…ord a carriage… but you'll look sweet upon the seat of a…"
"Thanks Rogue, that's enough." Lizzie said patting her on the shoulder.
Rogue just looked at her blankly "But you haven't done anything yet."
The group looked at one another, like the students the day before. This was amazing. All this power… and she was barely a girl.
"Well that was an interesting…" Professor X started.
"That's not all I can do." She exclaimed.
"You can do more?" Storm asked, stunned.
The girl simply nodded.
"See, this is the reaction I always get when I show people my powers. They always get like that. What can you do? I show them some bits and they think that's it. Thought you wanted to see the bigger picture."
"We do." Logan rumbled at the back, glaring at her. "Like how you got away from us?"
She wickedly looked at him, like she was contemplating more mischief. "I will, but I'll show you something better first." She stepped back into the centre. "But I'll need your help Logan."
He looked at the small girl… he could eat a girl like her for breakfast- with powers like hers or not. There were girls like her at the academy that shivered with fright as they passed him in the hallways this girl however was calling him out for some kind of magic trick. He didn't like it but he wanted to find it out… he just hoped whatever she was going to do, he would have some conscious memory of it.
As he approached, she dropped into a fighting stance extended her hand signalling for him to attack her.
He just stood puzzled. He could hoist her over his head and snap her in half and she wanted to fight him… in a dress and high heels? He burst out laughing.
She however wasn't in the laughing mood.
"What you think I can't take you?"
"No I just think you should reconsider doing whatever you're planning with someone that's as weak and defenceless as you. Scott for example."
From behind his shades Scott shot him a look of pure distain. Logan didn't respond or even notice.
"Look kid I don't want you getting hurt."
"You know that's not true." She smiled calculatingly. "I know you don't like me Logan. Now's your perfect chance to beat me to a pulp and you're walking away."
Logan returned the smile, but his was of disrespect. "That's exactly why I ain't fightin' ya. I wouldn't be able to control myself."
He turned and walked away… he never in his life though he'd be doing that.
"Why, has the Wolverine been tamed, or has he just forgotten he's got claws?" Then she giggled girlishly. "Or maybe he's been spayed!"
"LOGAN!" Profesor X warned as Logan was filled with anger. The man turned and looked at the girl facing him down. She stood innocently, looking at him with wide eyes, not flinching- instead smiling- when his claws started to emerge from his arms.
Without a warning Logan ran screaming at the girl who didn't show any sign of concern. He kept running, Claws aimed at were her midsection was… but when he reached her she wasn't there. Instead he kept running and imbedded his claws into a tree that had been directly behind him.
He turned back to see as he was pulling his claws from the wood, the young girl back in the same spot smiling and waving in provocation.
"Why you little…" He cracked.
"Logan, no claws." Warned the Professor, who was watching concerned, yet gripped by what Lizzie was doing.
As per the command, Logan retracted his claws and ran at her again. This time she was gone again, but Logan went crashing to the floor. He turned his head back when his momentum had stopped carrying him forward, crouched on the floor with one leg outstretched into what had been his path the girl smirked.
"You're gonna pay for that."
"I certainly hope so." She smiled.
He leapt up and ran again, however she didn't disappear she stood waiting. He went to deliver a punch to her abdomen but found her own hand there clutching his fist. She let go of it. He sent his other hand for an uppercut. Again her hand stopped him before it could do any damage. He punched and fought and kicked but every blow, no matter how fast or full of force he did it was blocked or defended against.
She was moving faster then he had ever seen.
Finally as she blocked a punch she got a kick of her own in, she hit him with such force he flew for a second and crashed to the ground. She straightened up and looked down on him as he lay confused- she didn't have that much strength… she couldn't have.
"Now for my turn." She smiled as she leapt into the air all eyes on her. She arched in the air, turning so that when she landed she'd be facing the mutant, it was acrobatic and graceful and completed with flair.
"I knew dad paid for those gymnastics lessons for something." She said to herself as Logan picked himself up. "Back for more, Rat man?"
"Wolverine." He grunted.
She shrugged "Same diff." Then she kicked him round the head, her leg completing a full circle and her heel causing a cut to open on his forehead. Instantly she changed from one leg to the other and kicked him square in the gut. He doubled over in pain and she took a step back, running at him and using his back as a vault to post off of. She landed with a flourish worthy of a gold medallist, she then thrust her leg behind her kicking Logan on the ass, sending him back to the floor.
Logan however wasn't going to let a little girl defeat him. Instantly he was back on his feet throwing punches again she either dodged them or blocked. Then she flipped out of the way and went for another swift kick but Logan caught her boot before it reached his chest. He pulled swiftly and Lizzie went tumbling to the floor, and he leaned in to gloat… but she wasn't there.
"Looking for me Loggie?" Came a voice from high above. The teachers looked up only to find Lizzie sitting in one of the trees eating an apple. She dropped it and before it reached the ground she was gone from her seat on the branch and on the floor ready to catch it, which she did.
"What in the hell?" He screamed at her as he walked closer, this time however she let herself be grabbed by the waist and thrown by Logan into the air. She flipped as if expecting it and came to rest in a crouching pose.
She stood smartly smoothing her dress. "That is the end of my demonstration, many thanks to Logan for helping me." She smiled quickly, tossed her apple core underneath one of the trees, rolled her eyes back in her head and fainted.