By the time we got there, the other xmen were already suited up. Well, minus the old New Mutants. (We were the new new mutants). Priya practically flew out of the car and started jumping around like an excited puppy. "We're gonna fi-ight, We're gonna fi-ight!" She started shooting flameballs in the air and lit a tree on fire with them that Bobby had to put out. The professor shot her a look and she quaked under it.
"Sorry. I'll be good. So what exactly is going on?"
"Well, the brotherhood has decided to try to knock down the mobile classrooms at your school. (Our new school had classrooms unattached to the school that were kind of like trailers.) You and the others will have to go stop them."
We all hopped into the xvan and also Jenn and Andy's cars.
"Now remind me again why we're actually trying to *prevent* them from knocking down the mobiles. It seriously takes like seven minutes to get from one side of the school to there. Not to mention how soaked we get when it rains." I asked.
"Don't forget, that's where all the foreign language classes are. Think of all the lovely Spanish posters that would be ruined." Kurt put in.
A very shocked look crossed my face. "Can't you drive any faster Jenn?"
By the time we got there, Lance was creating minor earthquakes, and the Blob was about to run into one of the walls. Knowing how thin they are, he probably would have gone straight through to the other side.
"The Xmen are here to stop you!" Scott yelled to them. It didn't have the desired effect. Instead of looking scared, they nearly fell over laughing.
"Does he always talk like that?" I asked Kurt.
"Only when he's being "The leader". So, yes."
Lance addressed us. "It's about time you showed. Magneto wanted to introduce you to the newest members of the brotherhood." Pietro, Toad, Wanda, and Tabby stepped aside to reveal two people. One was John, decked out in his full trenchcoat. "This is Smog." He opened his mouth and exhaled and the area 10 feet around him was covered in a dense fog that was very hard to see through.
"Andy, stop, I can see that. Stop making faces."
"Did I mention John can see through this stuff like its not there?"
John opened his mouth and it all disappeared.
"And this." Our attention all turned to the other person. "Is…"
"Dan!" Jenn, Priya, and I all yelled astonishedly. Jenn's ripples knocked over Andy.
Stalker Dan was standing there looking very proud. "They told me if I joined, I'd get to see more of you." He told me. "And see, they were right."
"What do you do?"
"Wait." He concentrated very hard and looked as if he was about to explode. He was even shaking. Then he morphed into something grey. And dense. And concrete.
He was a ramp. Like something you'd expect to see on a sidewalk. A *ramp*.
(AN: Priya made me put this in because of this one game on neopets. Its best not to ask or you might understand, which would be even more terrifying than being confused.)
I leaned over to Kurt and whispered "*That's* his power? He's a freakin ramp."
Not only that, but. He was back in normal form, shaking with concentration. Then he morphed into a brick.
"Puts a whole new meaning to dumb as a brick, doesn't it?"
"Fred came over and picked up Dan in brick form, then chucked him through a wall. We heard four thumps as Dan went all the way through the mobiles. (That's two classrooms and a hallway.)
"I *told* you the walls were paper thin." We saw Dan walking around, clutching his head slightly. He seemed kinda dizzy. But regardless, he held up his arms in triumph. "See, not even a scratch."
"Enough talk! Let's fight!" Someone yelled. It sounded kinda firey… (Hmm, I wonder who)
Priya threw a flameball at Stalker Dan, who screamed and ran around in circles before becoming a flaming ramp. He promptly tripped Andy, who was backing away from Lance, who was making minor earthquakes. Andy screamed as he fell, before hitting his head hard on the ground. He managed to mutter something sensible like, "The geeses, mommy, the geeses." Before completely loosing conciousness. Dan waited long enough to stop flaming before he changed back to a human and keeled over as well.
Scott, Jean, Evan, Kitty, and Kurt were all doing what they do best. (If you don't know what, then you need to watch more xmen). This was made extremely difficult by the fact that John had covered the area with a thick fog. They kept hitting the wrong people with their powers, or tripping over other people. Pretty soon, a good number of good and bad guys were unconscious on the ground. Priya was throwing fireballs everywhere and when the fog suddenly disappeared, I assumed that she'd hit John.
Jenn was knocking people over with her ripples before Fred fell intentionally on top of her and squished her half to death. "Jane Austen would find this highly immoral." Was all she managed to say before she too was lost to the realms of the dark. Priya quickly remedied the fact that Fred was still sitting on her by lighting him on fire. He ran around before running headfirst into a tree and falling over as well.
I meanwhile was going around looking for someone with hidden memories to see if I could knock them unconscious like I did Logan. I figured that if there was no one, I'd just traumatize someone with a childhood gone amok instead. During the time that John still had his fog around, I wandered around and grabbed random people by the wrist.
"Nope, Nope, *WHEN* did this happen Jean, Nope, unconscious, Rogue, Nope, Rouge again, Nope." Finally the fog cleared and I found one still conscious person to try. Wanda was currently fighting with Evan. I got hold of her wrist as she was shooting a funny blue light at Evan. She actually had some locked away memories. They had been re-written sort of. I tried to find the originals. There they were. A scene of her being dragged away by some men as she screamed for her dad. One of her when she was about 5, pointing at something and having it explode. She screamed in shock and then cried as her father smacked her, telling her to be more careful. A little white haired boy zipped to her side and then helped her off somewhere else. There were some other ones similar to this that came loose too. She collapsed on the ground, and I was suddenly kneeling besides. I blinked a little, still awake.
Evan had been knocked out from behind by Toad, who had caught another blast from Priya. I noticed that the only to still concious were that Priya and Quicksilver, my brother. I shook my head slightly. Ok, back to being myself. I hadn't even lost conciousness this time. I felt the blackness creeping around the corners of my eyes. Darn, I had spoken too soon. I watched Pietro whisper something to Priya and then they both got truly evil looks on their faces and he had picked her up and raced off. Then everything went black.
Father was there again. Hurting me, hitting me. Pietro was crying for him to stop, but he wouldn't. He smacked me between each word. "Why…Can't…You…Control…"…
"Beth, Beth! Are you OK." Liz was shaking me awake. Good Dan was over by Andy, poking him. "Dan and I were here late for Track. We saw the end of what happened." I Sort of nodded. Who was this again? Where was Father. Liz, that's it. "Are you sure you're OK? Cause If you're not, well, I can fix that."
"Whadya mean?"
She grinned and held up her hands. They started glowing with a white sort of energy. "I'm a mutant too."