I could have chosen not to break this part up the way I did, but I decided this way was more fun... for me anyway. :) I apologize for the lack of explanation and I *really* apologize for the lack of bro-hood focus in this chapter... Lance doesn't even make an appearance O.O
So anywho, I'll try not to make you wait too long for the next chapter when I actually clarify what the heck happened somewhat lol.
Review Responses- In general... I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!
SilverFox1- I love them like that too... but it's a problem lol, cuz they be pretty ooc... but hey, who the heck cares :)
KS-Fan- I think Lance's air sick thing is one of those fun character traits to mess around with. Cuz as little character as they get to begin with, its fun to use the ones they do get.. Did that make sense? I should work on the grammar and clarity in my A/Ns... nah. Anyway, I was hoping the Pietro being pushed to perfection thing would fit with him... so im glad u thought it did hehe. Poor Lance, Mr. Tough guy all weak and stuff but trying to pretend he's not... I love Lance, anyway. Note on the long hair... I'm obsessed with long hair on guys (I blame it on the guy I had a crush on for like 2 years...wow, I'm like way more distracted that usual while writing this...) so I bring it in whenever I can... even if it is while someone's puking ;) And last but not least... the location of the clinic... bummer bummer bummer! Lol, I think what I did was change it around a few times and then just forgot to switch it in all the places it needed to be switched. It *should* have been across the state... like far away... cuz I wanted a somewhat lengthy plane ride... so yeah, you're right :)
IceBlueRose- YAY! I made someone like Evan (a little). That's exciting hehe. Yeah, just Todd and Pietro I think worked well. I was actually pretty pleased with that chapter... and I rarely say that! Lol
Testament1- He's baaack...sorta?
Maikafuiniel, K.C.2007, Yma- :)
ImpulsiveThoughts- Yeah, I figured he must... wonder if it helps him out with skating...
Black Arachne- Aww thanks :)
Please review guys! I so seriously love them. And sorry if anyone is mad at me after reading this lol.
Chapter 15- Panic
Pietro lay in his bed, wide awake. He wanted morning to hurry up and come so that he could visit Lance. Todd he knew, had only just fallen asleep an hour or so ago. The younger boy seemed a lot more at ease now than he had been in weeks.
He sighed and attempted to block an annoying sound out with his pillow, but to no avail. He wasn't sure when the noise started, but it was certainly obnoxious. 'I wish Lance woulda let us stay over night again. Stubborn idiot.'
Lance's nausea had worn off eventually, and he agreed to let the other X-Men in to see him when he was finally able to form a sentence. Thankfully, Hank had kicked them all out before Lance became too tired to pretend to feel alright. Hank promised that he would be at the clinic the entire night, as he was going to assist Elenore in another surgery, and Logan assured the boys that he would fly them back first thing in the morning.
Pietro suddenly heard Todd stir on the mattress above him and then without warning, toad leapt onto the floor and went into some sort of coughing fit.
Pietro's first reaction was to run to him, but something stopped him. He looked at Todd curiously for a few moments, and stood up. He was seeing things in the same way he saw them when he was running. Everything was sort of jerky and blurred, almost like a strobe light was blinking throughout the room.
He walked to Todd and his suspicions were confirmed. He was moving in his hyper state.; he had reached his friend in a mere blink. He noticed for the first time that his heart was racing. He hadn't noticed before because all he was doing was trying to fall asleep.
Panic took over him as he watched Todd, now on his hands and knees. He was coughing up slime and his tongue seemed to occasionally be choking him.
Todd looked up at him, fear in his eyes, and fought for air. He didn't understand why Pietro was just standing there staring at him with his mouth hanging open. He needed help and the speedster was just gaping at him like an idiot!
A loud crash caught his attention and Sam came spiraling through the wall. Through the hole in the wall, Todd could see that the entire room was filled with ice, and Bobby was in the center of it, his hands trapped within his own creation and adding to the mountain of frozen liquid growing within his room. Sam was panting furiously and suddenly went spiraling off again into the ceiling.
Todd gagged again and gasped as he tried to fill his lungs with air. He looked pleadingly at Pietro and then realized what was going on. His panic suddenly increased as Pietro swayed slightly, and fell to the ground, flat on his back. Pietro kept perfectly still and tried in vain to slow his heart rate.
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"Wake up! Come on, wake up!" Shaking her, Rogue tried desperately to rouse Kitty from her comatose state.
Kitty moaned and looked over at Rogue. "Like, what's your deal? It's two in the morning."
"Kitty, listen ta me. Do you hear that? That ringing?"
Slightly more alert, Kitty noticed the strain in Rogue's voice. She sat quietly for a minute as the shrill ring echoed across the walls. "Yeah, I hear it, and now I'm gonna have to hear it like, all night because I won't be able to get back to sleep. It already took me forever "
"Kitty, Ah don't like this. That ain't a normal noise, even for here."
"Yeesh. You are so totally paranoid, Rogue. It's...Ahhh!" Kitty yelped as her body quickly disappeared into her bed, then through the floor.
Stunned, Rogue headed for the door. Before she got there though, she felt a surge of power rip through her body, sending her to the floor. It was different then the last time this had happened. Rogue was still keenly aware of who she was, but all the powers she had absorbed began to take control of her body.
Several short blasts of red ejected from her eyes, followed by a soft *bamf.*
Finding herself in Logan's room, she tried to tell him what was wrong. The wolverine, however, was tearing the room to shreds with his claws, snarling and growling as he went. He momentarily pulled himself together and his eyes locked with Rogue's just before she changed into the form of mystique.
Logan's attention flickered and he looked down at his claws. They were trying to force themselves out even further. Blood began to seep from his hands and a few cuts began to open up along his face, heal themselves, then reopen once more. He looked up at Rogue, who was now causing lightning to ricochet off the walls.
"Get out of here, Rogue! Now!" His eyes grew cold as he again lost his grip of control. Growling he prepared to lunge at the girl.
Rogue forced herself to concentrate and tried to run. She ended up back in her room, having teleported once again. She felt so weak. Dropping to the floor she took on her own form again and tried to make all the entities in her head sort themselves out. She gasped as she began to phase through the floor.
Landing with a soft thud, she recognized the room as Kurt's. She clutched her head as the thoughts of everyone she'd ever made skin contact with whirled in her head. She began to add her own screams of anguish to Kurt's interrupted ones, hoping that someone would know what was going on and come to help them.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Kurt twitched slightly in his bed. His pointed ear perked up and he cracked an eyelid. Something was definitely off. He tried to focus and shake the sleep out of his mind. A faint, shrill, ring was echoing across the walls of his room. He winced as the ring became louder. Suddenly, he was jolted wide awake. He teleported to the ceiling and fell back down to his bed.
Gasping for air, Kurt looked around the room in shock. 'Ok, stay calm, you just teleported yourself because you were tired and confused.' But he knew he was fooling himself. He knew without a doubt that 'BAMF' had been completely out of his control. He gasped and once again appeared in the air, surrounded by his trademark blue smoke. Landing on the floor this time, he began to panic.
"What in za..." *BAMF!* "ck is" *BAMF* "ing on!" *BAMF*
Kurt tried in vain to keep himself stationary but it was useless. He was porting himself randomly, all across his room. A horrifying thought filled his mind. 'Walls!'
Another scream entered the teen's room. Kitty landed with a clunk on Kurt's dresser. She groaned, then shrieked again as she began to phase through the drawers.
Not knowing what else to do, and not really having any other options, Kurt let out the loudest scream he could muster, only to have it cut off repeatedly as he hopped dimensions.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Scott sipped his water slowly and leaned against the sink. Waking up with a dull headache behind his eyes, he had hoped a trip to the kitchen for some asprin and a glass of water would help, but his movement had only increased the pain. 'It would help if that annoying ring would stop. For crying out loud what *is* that?'
Without warning, the pain behind his eyes increased tenfold. Moaning, he grabbed the sink for support. He gasped as he felt his eyes being forced to open wider. Before he had a chance to realize what was happening, the powerful energy behind his glasses surged, flinging the ruby quartz to the wall in front of him.
Horrified, Scott tried to force his eyes closed, but they wouldn't shut. The red energy was at its height, destroying everything in its path. Scott was completely helpless. He could literally feel the soft skin at the corner of his eyes beginning to rip.
He was suddenly aware that he was getting soaked. He had blown the sink to bits and the pipes had now let loose a torrent of water. Panicking, he started to yell for help, hoping someone would hear him over the rush of water. He spun around, desperately trying to find help. Logic, however, finally took over and he forced himself to keep his head perfectly still.
The solid beam of light broke through every wall it came too, and stretched over the large amount of acres behind the mansion. Scott felt that his head was going to split open at any moment. He could feel the beam intensifying, then weakening randomly. Sometimes he could almost see through the thin red film in front of him, and other times he could swear his eyelids had been blown off.
'Why isn't anyone coming? Where the hell are they!' He let out another scream, partially for help, and partially for pain.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Completely oblivious to the faint ringing echoing throughout the mansion, Evan slept soundly. He didn't feel the tingle running down his arms and spine; didn't wake until rows of bone spikes erupted from his skin and wedged themselves into his mattress and ceiling.
He sat up in shock. Even when his powers were first developing, he had never had them go nuts in the middle of the night, without any apparent cause. Besides, he was a lot more efficient at keeping them under control now than he used to be.
He felt the familiar tingle run down his spine again and felt his bones shift slightly as he tried to forced the tingling to stop. He failed, and before he knew it, a new row of spikes became lodged into his walls.
Suddenly, Kurt appeared above him and fell on top of the blonde, sending them both rolling to the floor.
"Kurt? What the heck is..." He was cut off as a searing pain traveled down his spine.
He gripped at the carpet and rolled over so that he was on his hands and knees. He was faintly aware that Kurt had teleported out but then the pain returned again, even more intense than the first time and he retched violently.
Feeling light headed, he tried to crawl towards his door. Before he got there however, his spine felt like it had exploded. He gasped for air as a thick piece of bone, at least half a foot wide, slid slowly out of his back, forcing the two sheet like plates that usually covered his shoulders to split and slide open. The enormous spike continued to force its way up and over Evan's head and he could feel it extending from behind his neck to the small of his back.
He knew that no amount of calcium was going to help him now, and hoped desperately that Kurt had gone to get help.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Kitty braced herself as she felt her body phase once again. She had started to run upstairs every spare second she got, fearing that she would end up deep in the ground if she didn't keep herself up. She couldn't even slow herself down. Part of her ability was being able to control how tangible she was. The more tangible, the slower her decent through the floor. It seemed to be coming in completely random waves however, so all she could think about was staying up high.
All the lights along the hall sprung to life, then blew out again as blue electrical energy encompassed them. Ray appeared at the end of the hall, his hair and clothes crackling with static. Several Jamies began to appear behind him, followed by a shot of red energy. Alex stumbled into the hallway, clutching his hands together and trying to aim his intense force of energy away from the others.
Kitty didn't get a chance to find out what was going on with the boys. Her body was slowly sinking this time and it wasn't until she was thigh deep in the carpeting that something completely unexpected happened. She winced as she felt her body slowly solidifying. Gasping, she tried to pull herself out of the floor. Pain encompassed her thighs as her body tried to force itself to merge with the wood. She had never felt anything like it, and struggled to keep herself conscious.
She suddenly dropped through to the next floor. She screamed wildly as she fell directly into the path of Scott's optic blasts.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Jean had managed to make her way to the professor's door before the pain completely took over. She fell to her knees and clasped her hands around her ears in a vain effort to block out the screams inside her head.
It was just like when her powers had nearly killed her. She couldn't control anything and suddenly everything that wasn't bolted down was flying wildly around the hall.
In the mess of flying objects, the door to the professor's room was knocked open and she saw, with shock, that Xavier was having a very similar problem. The moment he saw her, he tried to reach out to her mentally.
~Jean! Try to strengthen your mental shields!~
He sounded so far away, and Jean could tell it was taking every ounce of his energy to get the message to her. She tried as best she could to do as he said, but she couldn't focus long enough.
Amara appeared in the air above her head and was temporarily caught up in the telekinetic whirlwind Jean was creating. The girl had burned straight through the floor and the faint howling of Rahne could be heard from the room above.
Amara was thrown into the wall and, in her volcanic form, managed to light the drapes on fire. From the window, Jean briefly caught sight of Kurt landing ungracefully to the grass, but he was gone again a few minutes later.
AN: :) Ok so...yeah lol.
So anywho, I'll try not to make you wait too long for the next chapter when I actually clarify what the heck happened somewhat lol.
Review Responses- In general... I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!
SilverFox1- I love them like that too... but it's a problem lol, cuz they be pretty ooc... but hey, who the heck cares :)
KS-Fan- I think Lance's air sick thing is one of those fun character traits to mess around with. Cuz as little character as they get to begin with, its fun to use the ones they do get.. Did that make sense? I should work on the grammar and clarity in my A/Ns... nah. Anyway, I was hoping the Pietro being pushed to perfection thing would fit with him... so im glad u thought it did hehe. Poor Lance, Mr. Tough guy all weak and stuff but trying to pretend he's not... I love Lance, anyway. Note on the long hair... I'm obsessed with long hair on guys (I blame it on the guy I had a crush on for like 2 years...wow, I'm like way more distracted that usual while writing this...) so I bring it in whenever I can... even if it is while someone's puking ;) And last but not least... the location of the clinic... bummer bummer bummer! Lol, I think what I did was change it around a few times and then just forgot to switch it in all the places it needed to be switched. It *should* have been across the state... like far away... cuz I wanted a somewhat lengthy plane ride... so yeah, you're right :)
IceBlueRose- YAY! I made someone like Evan (a little). That's exciting hehe. Yeah, just Todd and Pietro I think worked well. I was actually pretty pleased with that chapter... and I rarely say that! Lol
Testament1- He's baaack...sorta?
Maikafuiniel, K.C.2007, Yma- :)
ImpulsiveThoughts- Yeah, I figured he must... wonder if it helps him out with skating...
Black Arachne- Aww thanks :)
Please review guys! I so seriously love them. And sorry if anyone is mad at me after reading this lol.
Chapter 15- Panic
Pietro lay in his bed, wide awake. He wanted morning to hurry up and come so that he could visit Lance. Todd he knew, had only just fallen asleep an hour or so ago. The younger boy seemed a lot more at ease now than he had been in weeks.
He sighed and attempted to block an annoying sound out with his pillow, but to no avail. He wasn't sure when the noise started, but it was certainly obnoxious. 'I wish Lance woulda let us stay over night again. Stubborn idiot.'
Lance's nausea had worn off eventually, and he agreed to let the other X-Men in to see him when he was finally able to form a sentence. Thankfully, Hank had kicked them all out before Lance became too tired to pretend to feel alright. Hank promised that he would be at the clinic the entire night, as he was going to assist Elenore in another surgery, and Logan assured the boys that he would fly them back first thing in the morning.
Pietro suddenly heard Todd stir on the mattress above him and then without warning, toad leapt onto the floor and went into some sort of coughing fit.
Pietro's first reaction was to run to him, but something stopped him. He looked at Todd curiously for a few moments, and stood up. He was seeing things in the same way he saw them when he was running. Everything was sort of jerky and blurred, almost like a strobe light was blinking throughout the room.
He walked to Todd and his suspicions were confirmed. He was moving in his hyper state.; he had reached his friend in a mere blink. He noticed for the first time that his heart was racing. He hadn't noticed before because all he was doing was trying to fall asleep.
Panic took over him as he watched Todd, now on his hands and knees. He was coughing up slime and his tongue seemed to occasionally be choking him.
Todd looked up at him, fear in his eyes, and fought for air. He didn't understand why Pietro was just standing there staring at him with his mouth hanging open. He needed help and the speedster was just gaping at him like an idiot!
A loud crash caught his attention and Sam came spiraling through the wall. Through the hole in the wall, Todd could see that the entire room was filled with ice, and Bobby was in the center of it, his hands trapped within his own creation and adding to the mountain of frozen liquid growing within his room. Sam was panting furiously and suddenly went spiraling off again into the ceiling.
Todd gagged again and gasped as he tried to fill his lungs with air. He looked pleadingly at Pietro and then realized what was going on. His panic suddenly increased as Pietro swayed slightly, and fell to the ground, flat on his back. Pietro kept perfectly still and tried in vain to slow his heart rate.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Wake up! Come on, wake up!" Shaking her, Rogue tried desperately to rouse Kitty from her comatose state.
Kitty moaned and looked over at Rogue. "Like, what's your deal? It's two in the morning."
"Kitty, listen ta me. Do you hear that? That ringing?"
Slightly more alert, Kitty noticed the strain in Rogue's voice. She sat quietly for a minute as the shrill ring echoed across the walls. "Yeah, I hear it, and now I'm gonna have to hear it like, all night because I won't be able to get back to sleep. It already took me forever "
"Kitty, Ah don't like this. That ain't a normal noise, even for here."
"Yeesh. You are so totally paranoid, Rogue. It's...Ahhh!" Kitty yelped as her body quickly disappeared into her bed, then through the floor.
Stunned, Rogue headed for the door. Before she got there though, she felt a surge of power rip through her body, sending her to the floor. It was different then the last time this had happened. Rogue was still keenly aware of who she was, but all the powers she had absorbed began to take control of her body.
Several short blasts of red ejected from her eyes, followed by a soft *bamf.*
Finding herself in Logan's room, she tried to tell him what was wrong. The wolverine, however, was tearing the room to shreds with his claws, snarling and growling as he went. He momentarily pulled himself together and his eyes locked with Rogue's just before she changed into the form of mystique.
Logan's attention flickered and he looked down at his claws. They were trying to force themselves out even further. Blood began to seep from his hands and a few cuts began to open up along his face, heal themselves, then reopen once more. He looked up at Rogue, who was now causing lightning to ricochet off the walls.
"Get out of here, Rogue! Now!" His eyes grew cold as he again lost his grip of control. Growling he prepared to lunge at the girl.
Rogue forced herself to concentrate and tried to run. She ended up back in her room, having teleported once again. She felt so weak. Dropping to the floor she took on her own form again and tried to make all the entities in her head sort themselves out. She gasped as she began to phase through the floor.
Landing with a soft thud, she recognized the room as Kurt's. She clutched her head as the thoughts of everyone she'd ever made skin contact with whirled in her head. She began to add her own screams of anguish to Kurt's interrupted ones, hoping that someone would know what was going on and come to help them.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Kurt twitched slightly in his bed. His pointed ear perked up and he cracked an eyelid. Something was definitely off. He tried to focus and shake the sleep out of his mind. A faint, shrill, ring was echoing across the walls of his room. He winced as the ring became louder. Suddenly, he was jolted wide awake. He teleported to the ceiling and fell back down to his bed.
Gasping for air, Kurt looked around the room in shock. 'Ok, stay calm, you just teleported yourself because you were tired and confused.' But he knew he was fooling himself. He knew without a doubt that 'BAMF' had been completely out of his control. He gasped and once again appeared in the air, surrounded by his trademark blue smoke. Landing on the floor this time, he began to panic.
"What in za..." *BAMF!* "ck is" *BAMF* "ing on!" *BAMF*
Kurt tried in vain to keep himself stationary but it was useless. He was porting himself randomly, all across his room. A horrifying thought filled his mind. 'Walls!'
Another scream entered the teen's room. Kitty landed with a clunk on Kurt's dresser. She groaned, then shrieked again as she began to phase through the drawers.
Not knowing what else to do, and not really having any other options, Kurt let out the loudest scream he could muster, only to have it cut off repeatedly as he hopped dimensions.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Scott sipped his water slowly and leaned against the sink. Waking up with a dull headache behind his eyes, he had hoped a trip to the kitchen for some asprin and a glass of water would help, but his movement had only increased the pain. 'It would help if that annoying ring would stop. For crying out loud what *is* that?'
Without warning, the pain behind his eyes increased tenfold. Moaning, he grabbed the sink for support. He gasped as he felt his eyes being forced to open wider. Before he had a chance to realize what was happening, the powerful energy behind his glasses surged, flinging the ruby quartz to the wall in front of him.
Horrified, Scott tried to force his eyes closed, but they wouldn't shut. The red energy was at its height, destroying everything in its path. Scott was completely helpless. He could literally feel the soft skin at the corner of his eyes beginning to rip.
He was suddenly aware that he was getting soaked. He had blown the sink to bits and the pipes had now let loose a torrent of water. Panicking, he started to yell for help, hoping someone would hear him over the rush of water. He spun around, desperately trying to find help. Logic, however, finally took over and he forced himself to keep his head perfectly still.
The solid beam of light broke through every wall it came too, and stretched over the large amount of acres behind the mansion. Scott felt that his head was going to split open at any moment. He could feel the beam intensifying, then weakening randomly. Sometimes he could almost see through the thin red film in front of him, and other times he could swear his eyelids had been blown off.
'Why isn't anyone coming? Where the hell are they!' He let out another scream, partially for help, and partially for pain.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Completely oblivious to the faint ringing echoing throughout the mansion, Evan slept soundly. He didn't feel the tingle running down his arms and spine; didn't wake until rows of bone spikes erupted from his skin and wedged themselves into his mattress and ceiling.
He sat up in shock. Even when his powers were first developing, he had never had them go nuts in the middle of the night, without any apparent cause. Besides, he was a lot more efficient at keeping them under control now than he used to be.
He felt the familiar tingle run down his spine again and felt his bones shift slightly as he tried to forced the tingling to stop. He failed, and before he knew it, a new row of spikes became lodged into his walls.
Suddenly, Kurt appeared above him and fell on top of the blonde, sending them both rolling to the floor.
"Kurt? What the heck is..." He was cut off as a searing pain traveled down his spine.
He gripped at the carpet and rolled over so that he was on his hands and knees. He was faintly aware that Kurt had teleported out but then the pain returned again, even more intense than the first time and he retched violently.
Feeling light headed, he tried to crawl towards his door. Before he got there however, his spine felt like it had exploded. He gasped for air as a thick piece of bone, at least half a foot wide, slid slowly out of his back, forcing the two sheet like plates that usually covered his shoulders to split and slide open. The enormous spike continued to force its way up and over Evan's head and he could feel it extending from behind his neck to the small of his back.
He knew that no amount of calcium was going to help him now, and hoped desperately that Kurt had gone to get help.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Kitty braced herself as she felt her body phase once again. She had started to run upstairs every spare second she got, fearing that she would end up deep in the ground if she didn't keep herself up. She couldn't even slow herself down. Part of her ability was being able to control how tangible she was. The more tangible, the slower her decent through the floor. It seemed to be coming in completely random waves however, so all she could think about was staying up high.
All the lights along the hall sprung to life, then blew out again as blue electrical energy encompassed them. Ray appeared at the end of the hall, his hair and clothes crackling with static. Several Jamies began to appear behind him, followed by a shot of red energy. Alex stumbled into the hallway, clutching his hands together and trying to aim his intense force of energy away from the others.
Kitty didn't get a chance to find out what was going on with the boys. Her body was slowly sinking this time and it wasn't until she was thigh deep in the carpeting that something completely unexpected happened. She winced as she felt her body slowly solidifying. Gasping, she tried to pull herself out of the floor. Pain encompassed her thighs as her body tried to force itself to merge with the wood. She had never felt anything like it, and struggled to keep herself conscious.
She suddenly dropped through to the next floor. She screamed wildly as she fell directly into the path of Scott's optic blasts.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Jean had managed to make her way to the professor's door before the pain completely took over. She fell to her knees and clasped her hands around her ears in a vain effort to block out the screams inside her head.
It was just like when her powers had nearly killed her. She couldn't control anything and suddenly everything that wasn't bolted down was flying wildly around the hall.
In the mess of flying objects, the door to the professor's room was knocked open and she saw, with shock, that Xavier was having a very similar problem. The moment he saw her, he tried to reach out to her mentally.
~Jean! Try to strengthen your mental shields!~
He sounded so far away, and Jean could tell it was taking every ounce of his energy to get the message to her. She tried as best she could to do as he said, but she couldn't focus long enough.
Amara appeared in the air above her head and was temporarily caught up in the telekinetic whirlwind Jean was creating. The girl had burned straight through the floor and the faint howling of Rahne could be heard from the room above.
Amara was thrown into the wall and, in her volcanic form, managed to light the drapes on fire. From the window, Jean briefly caught sight of Kurt landing ungracefully to the grass, but he was gone again a few minutes later.
AN: :) Ok so...yeah lol.