Death Be Not Proud, And A New Student
Rita paced uneasily in front of the large living room window, waiting for Charles to return, glaring ominously at anyone who told her to relax. She was still a little jumpy from her encounter with Sabretooth two days ago. Logan stood in the back of the room most of the morning, just watching Rita walk back and forth, back and forth. He had already asked her to sit and wait for Charles at least 5 times but she wouldn't hear of it.
Finally, after six hours of pacing all morning Professor Charles Francis Xavier wheeled into the living room. "Hello Rita, Logan. I expect that you were waiting for me." Charles turned to look at Rita who nodded a 'yes' to his statement.
"Charles, please, just let me kill Sabretooth." Rita's voice was full of pleading when she looked into the bald man's clam, blue eyes.
"I'm sorry Rita, as an X-Men we are not here to incite violence, but to stop it. I hope you can understand that, it is true that what Victor Creed did was very wrong, but killing him is not the answer. I assure you though, that I will try and contact Magneto and talk to him about this." Charles spoke calmly, trying to make Rita understand.
"But Chuck, Creed deserves more then just death after what he did. He entered this institute and took Rita away from her children, which means that this isn't such a safe place anymore." Logan was on the verge of just letting go of the animal inside him and killing Sabretooth.
"Yes Logan, your right, this isn't safe anymore, which is why I'm going to look into the mansion's security system and upgrade it, in the meantime don't leave anyone here alone, and don't go looking for Sabretooth." Charles nodded to Logan and Rita then turned and wheeled out of the room.
Rita looked pissed, with her lips pressed into a tight line, pacing back and forth again. "What are you pacing for now?" Rita glared at Logan and continued pacing until he grabbed her shoulders and made her face him. "What is it?"
"It's not fair Logan! Sabretooth does something so wrong, and I'm the one under a 24-hour watch from Scott and you." Rita yelled at Logan, pushing him away to continue her pacing.
"That's what this is all about?"
"Yes Logan, of course it is. You should be watching Shawn and Marie, not me!" Rita looked at Logan, hoping he would back down and she would win the argument.
"Fine then, I'll watch Shawn and Marie and stop watching you so much. I'll still look after you, but not as much. And as for Shades watching you, well, I'll scare the crap out of him so he can't watch you." Logan smiled slightly as Rita sighed and stopped fighting, she had won.
Rita was about to say something to Logan as loud ring went through the mansion, letting the mutants know that someone was at the front gate. Rita walked to the font door and punched a few buttons on the security system, opening the gate for the visitor.
Rita turned around to continue talking to Logan when Holly walked into the living room. "What the hell is she doing here?" Rita turned and looked at Logan.
"Well, um… a few days after you left for France, Holly and Evan started going out." Logan took a step back as Rita's face turned pink, then deep red from anger.
"You mean that mutant-hating tramp is going out with Evan?" Rita looked even more pissed about this then about the fact that she couldn't kill Sabretooth.
"I don't hate mutants, I just hate you, and by the way, I'm not a tramp. Besides, everyone at school knows the truth, you're the one getting raped which means you must be the slut here." Holly smiled, proud of herself for coming up with a good insult.
"Did you stay up all night figuring out how to insult me?" Rita turned and looked Holly's smiling face.
"Ha ha ha, very funny Rita, but no I didn't." Holly sighed and looked around the stairs. "Evan!"
Evan ran out of his room when he heard his girlfriend's voice and saw Rita downstairs with a very red face. "Hi babe, um, Rita I guess you found out about me and Holly."
"Uh, yeah I did. When were you planning to tell me Evan? Or were you trying to be the first to give a 19 year-old girl a heart attack?" Rita looked up at Evan, the red slowly leaving her face as she began to calm down.
"Hey, be nicer to my man." Holly glared at Rita then walked up stairs and wrapped her arm around Evan's arm, walking downstairs with him. Holly smiled as Evan dropped the subject and walked towards the door, but not before Holly looked back at Rita for a second. "Bitch." Holly smiled and walked off with Evan.
Rita's face very quickly became red again as she ran outside and stood in front of Evan and Holly, grabbing Holly by the neck and shoving her against a wall with full force. "Holly, I'm really pissed right now and I don't need to hear from you, so I'm giving you the chance to take that back and walk away right now."
"I'm so sorry that I upset her royal highness, the Ice Princess (A/N for all my friends from school, she's saying Rita is like Mimi)." Rita's eyes widened in shock as Evan dropped his skateboard, finally figuring out what kind of person Holly was.
"That was cruel Holly." Evan walked over to Holly, not even trying to free her from Rita's deadly grip.
"Well, she had it coming, I've seen the way she dresses, I'm surprised it took this long for her to actually get raped." Holly coughed loudly as Rita started to choke the human.
Rita glared hard at Holly as she took her away from the wall and slammed her into it again, harder this time, choking her the whole time. Rita looked to the front door as Jean and Scott walked outside, and gasped when they saw Rita. Rita turned her attention back to Holly and let Holly drop to the ground, dead.
"What did you do Rita?" Jean looked shocked, the wonderful and perfect red head actually witnessed death.
"Take a look Jean, she's dead, ok? Holly had it coming to her, and that last commit about what Sabretooth did to me the other day." Jean looked shocked that Holly would actually bring something like that up.
"Maybe it wasn't right for her to bring that up but you still had no right to kill her." Jean walked over to Rita and tried to put a hand on her shoulder Rita just shrugged it off and started to leave the institute before she heard Charles over the intercom that was placed in every room and outside. "X-Men, suit up and come to the lower levels." Rita turned around and ran to the front door, right behind Logan, Scott, Jean, and Evan. The four went to the lower level locker rooms and changed to their black leather X-Men suits and ran to the room that had the X-Jet in it, under the basketball court, meeting Kurt, Rogue, Remy, Kitty, Ororo, and Charles.
"What is it Chuck?" Logan walked to Charles and stood next to him and Ororo.
"Cerebro has picked up a new mutant in New Orleans. Now, I'm sending Remy, Rita, Logan, Ororo, Kitty, and Jean to New Orleans with the X-Jet. Since Scott isn't going Remy will take charge of this mission, he knows the streets of New Orleans better then anyone else. Good luck X-Men." Charles smiled to the 6 X-Men that were going on the mission.
"But Professor, why aren't I going?" Scott looked at his old mentor.
"Because Scott, this new mutant is a young girl and I think it would be best if the girls talked to her." Charles told Scott.
"But why do Logan and Remy get to go?" Scott was pissed because he wasn't going on the mission, the first mission that he hadn't gone on, and was going to make a big deal about it.
"Logan is going to make sure that nothing goes wrong and Remy is going because he grew up in New Orleans and knows his way around the city. Now, enough of this Scott." Charles wheeled out of the room, followed by a very angry Scott as the other X-Men got onto the plane, Logan was flying the jet.
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A half hour later they were landing in the backyard of the mansion that Remy grew up in, Remy said that the backyard of the thieves guild was huge and no one would pay much attention to a plane landing there.
The X-Men filed out of the jet as they were met by an older man. "Aw, welcome home mon garcon." Remy put an arm around Rogue's waist and walked with her to the man.
"Bonjour père." Remy smiled and hugged the man who seemed to be his father.
"This your new fille?" the man eyed Rogue up and down.
"Oui père, that she is. Her name is Rogue." Remy hugged her father again
before he turned to the rest of the X-Men. "This is Remy's père, Jean-Luc."
"She's a beauty this time mon garçon" Jean-Luc said after he gave Rogue a hug.
"Mon petite frère." Remy smiled when he heard Lucas's voice from behind him, it was a long time since Remy had seen his big brother.
"Remy? Is that you Remy?" a large woman came running outside and hugged Remy.
"Bonjour Tante Mattie" Remy hugged his aunt back.
"So this is the new fille petite frère?" Remy nodded as Lucas and Tante Mattie hugged Rogue.
"Père, these are the X-Men. Remy left Magneto for the good guys, we came here to look for a new mutant, who Remy's guessing must be Katie, so we landed in your backyard." Remy told his father.
"Oui, that it is. Katie will be so happy to see you Remy; it's her 14th birthday today." Jean-Luc told Remy as everyone heard a loud scream, which came from some girl.
The X-Men ran to where the sound came from and saw a teenage girl with blue on black eyes, almost like Remy's and it seemed a statue of a teenage boy. "Katie! Emil!" Remy and the other X-Men ran toward the girl as Remy put a hand on the frozen statue of the boy. "What did you do to him Katie?" Remy waved Rita over to him as Rita put a fiery hand on the statue and the ice melted away, leaving a very cold boy.
"I, I don't know Remy. I just kissed him when Jean-Luc and Tante Mattie left and then, he was frozen." Remy hugged his old friend Katie and looked at his cold cousin.
"Emil, what have you gotten yourself into mon cousin?" Remy smiled and hugged his cousin as Remy's other cousin, Theo, walked up after he heard Katie scream.
"Remy's right cousin, you just can't stand not being in trouble can you Emil?" Remy smiled and shook Theo's hand. "Good to see you again cousin, we thought you were dead by now, knowing that risks you take." Theo smiled at Remy and looked to the girl that Remy's arm was around; she was beautiful with auburn hair and two white locks falling on both sides of her face. "What a beauty you have here." Theo bent down, kissing Rogue's hand.
"She's hands-off cousin." Remy warned his cousin before his jaw dropped as a beautiful, slender, blonde haired woman stepped into Remy's view.
"Welcome home Remy, I've been waiting too long." The mysterious women walked over and kissed Remy's cheek, resting her head on his shoulder, but on Remy's other side Rogue was pissed.
"Glad to see your still alive Bella." Remy smiled at the blonde as she kissed him again, before Rogue glared at Remy.
"Wanna tell tha rest of us swamp rat?" Rogues deep southern accent surprised most of the LeBeau family; Remy's new girl was a little southern belle, hidden behind dark make-up.
"Well Rogue, this is Belladonna, she's the daughter of the owner of the Assassin's Guild, the rivals of the Thieves Guild, and she was an old girlfriend of Remy's." Remy smiled to Rogue, as Rogue seemed to settle down a bit.
"Well Remy didn't tell you everything, it's true, I'm his old girlfriend, but I'm also his current fiancée." Bella smiled at Rogue before turning her attention back to Remy.
"Fiancée ?" Logan sounded pissed when he saw the hurt expression on Rogue's face.
"Yeah, because I'm the son of the owner of the Thieves Guild, and she's the daughter of the owner of the Assassin's Guild, we were supposed to get married, then I kinda ran away to be with Magneto. But since my older brother is already married to a mutant girl named Tessa, I have to marry her." Remy took a step away from Bella and put his arm around Rogue again. "But, I never liked Bella in the first place."
"Ok, this is nice and all but I'm tired of standing here when I can be home, so lets go get the mutant and take her home, then Jean, Ororo, Rita, Rogue, and Kitty can talk to her." Logan was getting very impatient as Remy nodded and the X-Men turned their attention back to Katie.
"Katie? Hi, I'm Rita, and I was wondering if you wanted to come with me and my friends, and Remy, back to New York to see our mentor. He owns a mansion and turned it into a school for the gifted, tons of kids live there and our teacher helps us to develop our powers." Rita smiled at the young teenager, who seemed scared after what she just did to her boyfriend.
"Who is your teacher? Is he the man who took Remy? The one with white hair?" Katie looked up at Rita.
"Oh no, that was Eric Lensherr, otherwise known as Magneto, he's our enemy. Our teacher is Professor Charles Francis Xavier, the world's most powerful telepath." Rita smiled when the young girl nodded and took Rita's hand.
"I think I wanna see your teacher. Bye Jean-Luc, Emil, Theo, Tante Mattie." Katie hugged all her friends and family, then followed all other mutants into the X-Jet.
"So, who are all of you? Besides Rita and Remy, what can you do?" Katie looked around at the others.
"Well like I said, I'm Rita, and my codename is Hell Angel, I can control black fire, that's Jean and she's telekinetic and telepathic, there's Kitty, she can pass through walls and her codename is Shadowcat, that's Ororo or Storm, she can control the weather, and that's Logan, or Wolverine, he has a healing factor and enhanced senses, his whole body is also laid with a rare, indestructible metal called adamantium, which give him 9-inch long claws, plus he's my husband." Rita pointed out each of the X-Men in the X-Jet, telling Katie what their powers were. When Rita came to talk about Logan Katie was looking very confused when she started talking about the metal. "Uh, Logan, show Katie what I mean by the metal please." Logan sighed and the next thing Katie knew she heard a loud *SNIKT* and Logan had three long metal claws on the hand he was holding up for her to see.
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After they had shown Katie around the institute and introduced her to Professor Xavier, with him explaining that he had business to do and was sorry that he couldn't come talk to her, all the mutants in the institute were gathered around to see Katie. "This is Kathryn, she has the same mutations as Bobby, so I'm sure that Bobby can talk to Kathryn if she needs help."
"Actually, call me Katie, everyone does." The mutants said hi to Katie then went back to whatever they were doing, and Charles turned to talk to Katie. "So what is this place?"
"It's a school for the gifted, or mutants. I believe that if you learn how to use your powers wisely then it's a gift, it can also be a curse to some, but only if you let it. The students here all attend Bayville High School, where I will enroll you as a freshman. The two mutants that you have not met are Hank McCoy, or Beast, and Kurt Wagner, Nightcrawler, but they should be here soon." As if on cue two blue, furry people walked in the front door, they had been out in the woods when Katie arrived. Kurt smiled at the new girl as he disappeared, then reappeared with an arm around the girl's waist, causing her to scream. "Zorry for zhat. I'm Kurt Vagner." Kurt told her as he shook her hand and beast walked up to Katie. "And I'm Hank McCoy, but you can call me Beast, or Hank if you prefer. I'll be one of your teachers when you come home from Bayville High." Beast shook her hand as well, while the two furry dude's learned about Katie.
"Nice to have you here Katie." Beast said before walking off to his office to grade the student's science work.