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A/N: sorry for not posting this in a while, I've been busy and this ssl thingie won't let me login so I have to log in from a friends computer.. ok, on with the show(or was it story?)
Chapter Five: Going Home!
After that wild little adventure in the tourist town of Virginia Beach, Virginia, the X-Men had succeeded in recruiting the latest new students for the Xavier Institute. The young martial artist Hunter Pratt and the blue- haired, grey-eyed time controller Reese Wellington. Both of the new recruits hadn't been officially on the X-Men just yet, but they somehow managed to put some accomplishments to their files on their resume:
Hunter, with the aid of Bobby, took out some anti-mutant rioters. Reese, even though she froze an entire mall, prevented Gambit from destroying an entire section of the mall and preventing any lost of life. And oh, she kicked the Cajun's butt without any formal training. Oh yeah, newbie and Russian import, Nika, went head-to-head with a certain fire-crazed Aussie that doesn't need any mention...Okay, they fought a little then had coffee and flirted.
The X-crew set a course for home to get the new recruits to a safe place. That and dodge the police after the alley incident with Logan. So the X-Men and the two new recruits, Reese and Hunter, in tow, set to go back to Bayville to begin training, and stuff like that.
Hunter fell asleep when he got on the X-Jet, leaving the other four students awake.
"...And have you seen the other guy's eyes!" gushed Reese with excitement ,as she told her account of thered-eyed, charming card-throwing Acolyte member, that needs no introduction.
"They're so creepy! But they're so sexy at the same time. Creepy and sexy! And that accent is to die for!" Nika smiled and nodded in agreement to her new friend and teammate about the notorious, card-throwing lady killer.
Nika smiled and nodded in agreement to her new friend and teammate about Gambit. "Da, the red-eyed one was cool, yes. But he couldn't compare to John."
Reese looked at Nika innocently, trying to know who John was. All could she remember was Gambit and some red-haired guy during their little adventure from the mall "John? You mean that red-headed guy that has the creepy laugh and tried to burn you? That guy?" "That's John!" Nika said. She still couldn't get the pyrokinetic Aussie member of the Acolytes, off her mind. "Actually, he calls himself Pyro when he's out on his mission."
"Pyro? What kind of codename is that? I mean Pyro? It's soo lame!"
"It is not lame, Reese! It's cool!" Nika snapped loudly and defensively as Reese mocked her crush's choice of codename. Nika then lowered her voice back to her normal volume. "Cool and cute codename. Better than Iceman."
"Hey! All the cool ice-based names were taken!(Zing!) This was the only one I could get. Cut me some slack, will ya!?"
Kitty Pryde, also known as Shadowcat, was sitting next to Nika, forcing to listen with disdain and disgust, as her two new friends and teammates talked about Gambit and Pyro. "Oh brother." She quietly muttered as she admired the dark grey metal ceiling and the floor. Well, at least they were kind of right about Gambit at least. Those freaky-looking eyes Gambit had were kind of sexy. Well, he couldn't compare to Lance... Huh? Where did that loser came from and why was she thinking of him? She was so over him! Well, if that was the case, then why was she still thinking of him?
Kitty tried to force it out of her mind and think of something else. So she decided to turn her gaze to someone else, and saw the X-Boys, well two of her male teammates and one recruit. She saw Kurt, without his holographic disguise. He was blissfully devouring a Gut Buster Deluxe with six strips of bacon and three layers of cheese and...
"Three meat patties covered lettuce, onions, secret sauce, atop on a sesame seed bun!" Kurt sang terribly off-key in his thick German dialect "Yum!" The blue fuzzy demon saw Kitty staring at him strangely.
"Errr, Kurt?" Kitty innocently asked while she kept her patent 'I'm- officially-freaked-out' stare "What were you doing?"
Kurt turned a beat red underneath his azure tinted fur "Errrr ...Nothing. Just a little song I picked up from... a commercial. A commercial, yeah! Just a song from Burger Buster. Heh ,heh" Embarrassed, Kurt went back to eating his burger.
"Okay." Kitty just let the embarrassed Kurt eat his lunch.
Her eyes, then turned to Bobby, also known as Iceman. He was looking over his collection of numbers and E-mail address he got from the girls during the mission.
"Shayla." Bobby said with a smile as he went through his numbers "Cindy, Briana, Christina, Shana...Huh what's this? What does this say? Call me and I promise you'll have a good time! And I might show you my tattoo *Wink, wink *. It's official! I'm calling Shana first!"
Kitty just let out a chuckle as Bobby read the message on Shana' s card. The last guy she saw was Hunter, the young martial artist who helped Bobby take down some of the residential mutant bashers. Judging by what he said, he was fast and he managed to take down a guy who was at least two times his size. She wondered how could a guy with a frame like that could take a 6'1'' guy down without any problems.
Hunter was sleeping. He had been asleep for the last hour. Who could blame him for falling asleep and not to socialize for a while? There's nothing to do in the X-Jet. That , and after that fighting he was doing, he needed a rest. Hunter twitched a little indicating he was dreaming of something. Kitty let a dreamy smile form on her face as he observed Hunter stir a little.
For some reason, Kitty wanted to unbuckle, go over to where he was at, and pinch his cheeks. He didn't have the looks of...GRRRRRRRRRR! Why was she still thinking about him?! Why won't he leave her alone? She's over him she kept thinking to herself until thoughts of Lance Alvers faded from her mind. She snapped out of her deep thinking and came back to reality, Or back into reality in time to hear Nika's comments about Pyro...
"Those eyes, that hair..." Nika continued. "that accent. Oh that sexy accent. What is the word you Americans say here, Reese? Oh yes. John is a stud muffin!"
"And Gambit too!" Added the blue-haired Virginia Beach native "Gambit is one sexy beast!" That was it. What was with these girls and creepy Cajun guys and over-the-top crazy Australian pyromaniacs? Why couldn't they just stick to normal guys like Scott and stuff? Minus the highly destructive eye beams of doom, however.
"Um, guys?" Kitty innocently began. I know they're like, hot and stuff, and you want to date them and stuff, but here's the thing."
"And what thing is that, Comrade?" Nika asked innocently wondering, and fearing what the answer was.
Kitty then continued in her soft and normal voice. "The thing is, Nika, is that..."¨ She then went loud to hammer the point to home. "THEY'RE BAD GUYS! Bad guys! Bad guys! The one that will do creepy things to you and kill you and take over the world bad guys! Nika, wasn't like, Pyro trying to turn you into barbecue and stuff?! And dark and handsome over there with the red eyes like tried to kidnap you and stuff, Reese! They're bad guys, not dream boyfriends!"
The two new girls just shrunk in their seats after being reprimanded by Kitty, their faces glowed into beet red with embarrassment. Reese quickly got over that and resumed her position in her seat.
"Ehhhh, Gambit didn't do anything for me anyways. He wears too much cologne."
Kitty nodded with approval and Reese gave her best smile. She then looked at Nika. "That's good. Nika?"
Nika who didn't want to look bad in front of her friend, just cleared her throat and quickly responded. "How dare they try to kidnap Reese for their evil plans and tried to kill us! Damn those bastards! Damn them to hell! If I ever see them again, I'll burn them. No, no burning. I'll take a knife and stab them. Stab them until the life fades from their eyes! Then we'll chop their heads and use them as bowling balls! Then we'll cut them open and mail their still functioning organs to their boss, parents, and loved ones! After that, we'll grind their bodies into sausages! Ahahahahahahahahahahahahah!"
The strawberry blonde Russian stopped her insane laughter and looked for Kitty's approval. "So how's that, Kitty? Kitty? Guys? Guys?"
Everybody (Save for Hunter who was still sleeping like a baby)was staring at Nika. All of them were, honestly, a little frightened and scared of her as they started to question her sanity.
Reese who was cheery and chattering up a storm a while ago, just let out a quiet "okay.", played with her hair a little and admired the floor. Kurt who was eating his lunch, just heard what she said, and turned green with sickness underneath his fur covered body. "Ohhhh..." the Azure demon moaned "Suddenly, I von't feel like eating right now all of the sudden." Kurt just sickly rewrapped his burger in its foil wrapper and tossed it back into its bag. He then dropped the burger next to him. Bobby who was just admiring his winnings, stopped and looked at Nika strangely and being mildly disturbed by her comment.(And he was secretly getting off of it too. The sick little freak!)
"I'm not a sick freak!" shouted Bobby defensively. Then all the eyes went on him. "Well...I'm not." He blushed and went back to his numbers.
Kurt blinked at his sub-zero temperature teammate strangely. "Ooooookay..." he replied and went about his business. He also wondered if that was what Nika did to ex-boyfriends and made a mental note not to make her mad or bump into her when she has her period.
Nika shamefully turned to Kitty with a slightly embarrassed looked on her face. "Was that a little too much, Kitty?"
Kitty nodded. "Yeah. A little too extreme."
**Meanwhile at the cockpit of the X-Jet**
Ororo and Logan were flying the students back to the institute, and heard what was going on back there.
"Does her medical files covers her sanity?" questioned Ororo as she tried to get the mental images of Nika doing the deed to somebody, out of her head.
"Uh-huh" replied Logan as he controlled the plane and not taking his eye off of the sky. "She's pretty much sane. She blows hot air, Storm. Nothing to worry yourself about."
Ororo nodded after being reassured that the young Russian wasn't insane but couldn't shake the mental images out. "The last thing we want is a young psychopathic mutant." ******************************************************************Hunter slowly opened his eyes. The young African-American stretched his body and let out a huge yawn. He heard his bones popped indicting his skeletal system hadn't been involved in any physical activities ever since he and Bobby had been involved in the melee and when he boarded on the X-Jet.
Kurt was the first to notice Hunter coming to life "Look, guys! He's vaking up!" he cheerfully said.
"Welcome back to land of the living, dude!" said Bobby happily.
The girls watched Hunter wake up from his lengthy slumber. "Hey, guys." Hunter said as he smacked his dry mouth and scratched his head full of black and unruly hair "What's up? How long have I been sleeping?"
"Oh a good long vhile, mein friend." said Kurt with a welcome smile "After you boarded the X-Jet, you fell straight to sleep. That fight must have seriously drained you."
"And it was a cool one!" Bobby replied briskly and proudly. "Me and Hunter took out those guys without breaking a sweat and still had time to mack on the honeys."
"You're doing it again, Bobby" Kitty warned him rather curtly about his bragging.
"Okay, I mack on the honeys, but H-Man gave everybody a can of whoop Ass. Do you know it's possible to twist a person's arm into a 460 degree angle before the bone breaks?"
"I vould've love to see the fight. But I got stuck at Hunter's house." Kurt shrugged a little after say this.
That little mention reminded Kitty of something. Kurt kept repeatedly praising God for not staying in the Pratt household for long.
"Speaking of house, Kurt, what happened while you we're there?"
Kurt just shrugged fearfully. "Do you even have to ask?"
****Flashback*****
Kurt was in a dark room, being hooked up to a lie detector machine with a stern-looking Ms. Pratt at the end of it, with a glass of water, asking him questions while Logan and Ororo were looking on.
"Do you do drugs?"
"Errr...No, Ms. Pratt." Kurt answered honestly. Or seemingly honestly. The lie detector buzzed indicating he was lying. "Vhat?! That's vrong! I never did drugs! Okay! I smoked a joint about a week ago because I got into a dare and stuff! You know? Peer pressure? That's it!" The machine buzzed again. "Damn it!" Shouted Kurt. He really wanted to trash the machine right now.
"Kurt!" said a shocked Ororo. The lie detector buzzed again. Ms. Pratt interrupted them and asked him another question.
"Do you watch pornography of any nature?"
Kurt sweated nervously and stammered. "Uh...Uh..."
"Do watch pornography of any nature, Mr. Wagner?"
"No! I don't watch porn!" The lie detector buzzed. "Crap! Alright! I watch some of Mr. McCoy's videos and some of Professor's videos too! I'm guilty. Guilty! Mr. McCoy have a real thing for Asians and don't get me started on Professor! He's into some freaky stuff! Really freak stuff!"
"Fuzzy and Chuck actually have porn?" asked Logan with a sly smirk "I didn't think those two didn't have it in them."
"Logan!" Ororo turned to Kurt and gave him a disapproving glare "We're going to have a nice long talk about your "activities!"
"Way to go, Elf!" cheered Logan.
"Logan don't encourage him!" Ororo snarled.
Ms. Pratt handed the azure demon a small plastic cup. Kurt took the cup and looked at it. "Vhat?... Vhat? Am I supposed to do with this?" he asked nervously. "Urine sample, Solider." Ms. Pratt said. "feel it up." Kurt groaned and mentally beg for God to strike him dead already.
*******end of flashback*******
"And she then took my fingerprints and said I was a bad influence on children." muttered Kurt. "What is she? A cop?"
"Don't feel bad, Blue." Hunter reassured the cringing Kurt as he patted his shoulder "She does that to my friends too. She was an Lieutenant in the army and fought in Desert Storm, you know? She didn't leave the military behind you know."
Kurt shrugged. "That figures."
"And how you managed to stay sane with her around is beyond me." responded Bobby.
"Nod and smile." Hunter replied "Nod and smile and do what she says."
"Hiya, Hunter!" greeted Reese with her beautiful, friendliest and cheeriest smile ever "How was your sleep? Bobby told us you took out those guys back there. That's so cool!"
Bobby added "And he even pulled some stuff that you could only see in the Matrix!"
"Man! Now I wished I was there for the fight!" Kurt whined.
Hunter broke a sweat nervously , seeing that Reese was a girl, but he slowly tried to get over it. "Well... My...sleep was fine... thanks."
"That's so awesome, Hunter!" Greeted the azure-haired Virginia Beach native "I bet taking out those guys drained the mess out of you."
Hunter smiled and nodded, but he was still nervous around the girls. In attempt to dull his nervousness, Hunter tried to crack a joke. Albeit a lame one. "So, do we get any free peanuts and in-flight movie on this trip?"
"No peanuts on this tub, bub." Logan called out. "You're eating as soon we land in Bayville. And no movies neither. Besides Bobby been telling us about how you wipe those guys out... Pretty awesome, kid. And I haven't forgotten about you, Reese. I heard you kicked butt with Gambit. That's pretty impressive for somebody that didn't have any training."
Reese looked and she smiled a little, but it wasn't as lively and friendly as before. "Thanks. I was just lucky I guess. Kitty did most of the work, sir."
"Nah." Kitty said. "You so kicked his butt! And you also saved me and the people in the mall! Professor is going to be sooooo glad to hear what you guys did today"
"Heh." Was the only words that Reese could say.
"What about me, Mister Logan?" Nika asked "How did I do?"
To which Logan replied "Let me give you some advice about being an X-Men. Rule Number 1: Don't flirt with the enemy..."
Reese, Kitty, Bobby, and Kurt snickered and said some comments about Nika's fraternization with Pyro when Logan said that. A discouraged Nika who looked as if she was on the verge of tears, looked at them darkly. She shouted, "Shut up!"
"But other then that, you handle him pretty well." Logan said.
Nika smiled brightly when she heard that "Thank you, sir."
"And...And...I think you've done well too, Nika." Hunter complimented her, even though he didn't heard what happened.
Nika turned to Hunter and smiled at him. "Why thank you, Hunter."
"Anytime, Nika." stated dreamily Hunter "Anytime." nodded in approval. Finally, she noticed him. "Anytime."
"Looks like you runts will make it as X-Men after all. Wish I could say the same thing about Avni and Will."
"Avni?" Hunter asked, confused.
"Will?" Reese asked, raising an eyebrow. "They're recruits like you," Kitty answered "Avni she's so obsessed set on wiping out the Brotherhood."
Kurt added "Vhile Vill has a really, really short temper and likes blowing things up."
The two newbies just looked at them frighten. Kurt saw the look on their faces, and quickly added. "Don't worry, guys. Not everybody is crazy at Institute. We have another one named Jenny. She's really nice and I think she'll like you two guys. Scott and Jean too."
Reese and Hunter blankly looked at Kitty. "Brother...what?" Hunter finally dared to ask.
"They're another team that do bad things and stuff." Kitty replied "Mostly a couple of losers we beat up a lot."
"Yeah." Bobby answered "And you used date one of them."
Kitty just shot Bobby a major death glare and Bobby just nervously smiled and went back to his girl's numbers.
"That was so last year! I don't like Lance anymore! The loser!"
Nika sensed that Bobby might have tread on a field mine, so she attempted to lighten the mood. She turned to Hunter, to much of his delight, and back at her friends. "So since Hunter's up, we could show him our abilities?"
"Nah, you girls go ahead. We pretty much showed him our abilities."
Kurt teleported, leaving a "BAMF" and the scent of brimstone in his wake. The scent hit the young martial artist, causing him to fan his hand frantically to get the scent away from his face.
The young Russian blinked in surprised wondering where Kurt went to, just to shriek in surprise when he teleported next to her.
"Yeah, he pretty much knows vhat we can do." Kurt smiled and gave Nika a friendly little peck on her sun-tanned cheek. The team busted out in laughter. Nika tried to swat Kurt, just for him to teleported back to where he was sitting. Kurt loudly and mockingly proclaimed to the blushing Nika "You've been smooched by the fuzzy dude!"
"Sure." said Kitty "Just make sure Amanda doesn't find out."
Kurt's smile dropped into a fearful scowl upon realizing that he still had a girlfriend. "Ack! Don't tell her! Don't tell her! She'll have my tail in a fling if she finds out about this."
"Don't worry, Kurt." reassured Bobby. "We didn't see anything."
"Nope." Reese chimed in "Not a thing."
Kitty just shook her head in amusement. "Kurt, you're so bad. We just know it's a friendship kiss. But we won't tell."
Nika smiled and made a gesture of putting her finger and thumb on her lips and making a zipping motion across it, telling him her lips are shut.
"I'll never tell, Blue man." said Hunter still being amazed by Kurt's ability to teleport. Sure he had seen it, but it was still incredible. The girls nodded in agreement to show Hunter their abilities.
Kitty was first, and unbuckling her seatbelt walked towards Hunter. Hunter started to sweat bullets once she came over first.
"Can I see your bookbag, Hunter?" Kitty asked politely. The nervous Hunter just nodded his head. Kitty smile and grabbed his dark green bookbag with various patches and tags designed on it. Then she placed her hand on it and started to literally go through it.
Hunter let his mouth out drop in surprised. Her hand literally went through his pack! "Whoa!"
Kitty smiled and pulled out his CD player and handed it to him. Hunter took it and looked back her, still amazed at what she had done. "And it doesn't hurt at all?"
"Not at all, Hunter."
Nika giggled. "Me next! Me next!" Nika pulled out her trusty chrome black zippo lighter. She showed Hunter the lighter. She flipped the lighter and lighted it up. It looked quite boring at first, but Hunter kept watching.
"Yay. Nika could make her lighter light up." Bobby sarcastically noted of her seemingly unimpressive ability. "Boring."
Nika used a little bit of concentration and made the little flame jump into her free left hand making it dance a little. All the X-Boys just stared at her.
Kurt just gasped "She ...She Just. She just made that fire move...just like Pyro...She's..."
Bobby finished his words "She's Pyro with boobs!"
Nika playfully scowled at Bobby and made the flame jump from her hand to Bobby's foot. He jumped and frantically tried to put it out. "OW! Ow! Ow! Hey easy! I can melt easily you know?!"
Kitty looked at Reese, who looked like she didn't want to do it "Come on, Reese! Like dazzle your power and stuff."
Reese shook his head. "Remember what I said about my powers? They're a little hard to control sometimes .Sorry, guys. Maybe some other time."
"Nah it's cool." Hunter said "I'm sure your abilities are cool."
Reese smiled "Thank you."
Bobby also remembered something. Hunter haven't showed his abilities yet. They wouldn't be out there, recruiting him if he wasn't a mutant. "Hey, speaking of abilities, you haven't shown us yours yet."
"Yeah! Show us your powers!" Kitty chanted.
Hunter's eyes widened in surprise. He hadn't showed him or everybody else, his abilities yet. He sure has showed them to Bobby during battle somehow. Hunter looked around and seeing he was in a confided area. Can't show his abilities here. But maybe he could show them his physical mutation. He unbuckled himself and went for his right shoe. The others were looking at Hunter as he took off his shoe. The black and white sneaker was of. His right foot was unusually large for a 14 years old. And for his size. His height was about 5''4 and his shoe size should be about 9. But he wore a size 15 shoe. Then it was the sock's turn to be stripped. Hunter nervously and slowly slid his sock off and tossed it aside.
The young mutants couldn't believe what they were seeing.
"Oh..." Kitty muttered.
"My..." Reese added.
"God." Nika finished "Your foot"
"Make that feet." Hunter corrected, feeling like he was showing his friends his organs. His foot was abnormally large. Four times the size of a regular human's foot. The toes or appendages mimicking his toes were 4 times tall, almost resembling a human's finger. It even had a opposable thumb. The structure of his feet almost looked entirely that of a human's hand. Or a Gorilla's foot depending on their views of it. The toenail (Or fingernails) were black and a little bit brittle and unhealthy; looking as if he had them painted. For a couple of mutants, this was creeping them out. His foot was actually a hand. A third pair of hand when he was not walking.
The spooked Kitty asked Hunter "Can you... like move it, Hunter?"
Hunter lifted his left leg up and moved the "fingers" on his ape-like feet. "Can I shake your hand, Kitty?" Hunter positioned his "hand" and offered it for a hand shake. Having big hands for one thing but having a second pair of hands? That's weird. Bobby whistled in surprise
"Those custom made shoes must be a bitch to buy."
"Same as looking for shoes in those size." replied Reese still astonished and freaked out by his "feet." Kitty was a little afraid to touch it and Reese wanted to touch it, but still. The fact he actually had a hand for a foot was a little unsettling for her. Nika was just a little freaked out. Kurt , on the other hand, wasn't afraid at all. He was like Hunter in a way. Abnormal.
Wanting to break the looming depressing atmosphere. Kurt smiled and gave it a hearty handshake. Kurt chirped "You're a human sized monkey, Hunter!" Bobby got over his fright and quickly imagined what could Hunter do with those things if he was in a fight. The possibilities are endless with this guy he thought. "Cool! I bet you could kick ass with those things!"
"And crack nuts and pick my nose with them too!" Quipped Hunter. That comment offer him a collective "Ewww!" from everybody. "Well it works." Hunter said nervously.
Kitty suddenly thought it was cool. Not as cool as Kurt's look, but it was passable.
"This is so awesome." Bobby replied. "Yeah, why didn't you use them while we were in the fight? That would've kick so much ass!"
"Stick around long enough and you could see what I can do with these things."
The gang all looked at each other sinisterly and smiled darkly. Hunter wondered what they were doing. They all ganged up on him.
"Hey, Hunter" asked Bobby "we wanna know something? Are you ticklish?"
Hunter was about to flee, just to get pinned down by the gang. Reese started to tickle his ape-like foot first and everybody started do the same to tickle his feet.
"Hey... Ha...What are you doing...Hahahaha... Stop it!...Ha... I mean it...Ha... Stop it!."
The whole trip went smoothly as the X-Jet made its final destination to Bayville.
A/N: once again ,Sorry!!!! It took a very long time, I had classes, and my beta reader the nightmare king (who almost entirely wrote this and previous chapters *claps* love ya! Muack!) had classes and a lot of work, not to mention social life...and stuff...once gain, sorry, and I promise you chapter 6 will be up sooner than chapter 5..I promise! Ok, bye!
Nightmare king: What she said. Sorry for the long delay folks. College and RL called and the calls must be answered. That and I was working another fic for somebody. It's going to be great! Well, anyhoo, sorry if this chapter sucked. No actions and the jokes were kind of lame. It was more of a character interaction piece. But don't worry you'll get your action in the later chapter. And don't worry, the others will show up soon (And so does Mystique and her new croonie!) So how did we do? Review please! Chapter 6 is coming up and Surfer-girl got something special for you guys in that chapter. Watch for it! Check out Sioned136 "In The Beginning" and Fox Hansuok's "Bless Us, Xavier", "Brielle" and "Bombisticall Kawaii" Cool fics! And make sure to give her some reviews. She wants them. She'll worship you and build an temple in the name of you if you do. And check out the season premiere of Peaches13 "Thesis of A Black-Winged Angel¡" It's coming soon and it's going to kick some much ass! Hasta, kiddies! See ya when we see ya!
A/N: sorry for not posting this in a while, I've been busy and this ssl thingie won't let me login so I have to log in from a friends computer.. ok, on with the show(or was it story?)
Chapter Five: Going Home!
After that wild little adventure in the tourist town of Virginia Beach, Virginia, the X-Men had succeeded in recruiting the latest new students for the Xavier Institute. The young martial artist Hunter Pratt and the blue- haired, grey-eyed time controller Reese Wellington. Both of the new recruits hadn't been officially on the X-Men just yet, but they somehow managed to put some accomplishments to their files on their resume:
Hunter, with the aid of Bobby, took out some anti-mutant rioters. Reese, even though she froze an entire mall, prevented Gambit from destroying an entire section of the mall and preventing any lost of life. And oh, she kicked the Cajun's butt without any formal training. Oh yeah, newbie and Russian import, Nika, went head-to-head with a certain fire-crazed Aussie that doesn't need any mention...Okay, they fought a little then had coffee and flirted.
The X-crew set a course for home to get the new recruits to a safe place. That and dodge the police after the alley incident with Logan. So the X-Men and the two new recruits, Reese and Hunter, in tow, set to go back to Bayville to begin training, and stuff like that.
Hunter fell asleep when he got on the X-Jet, leaving the other four students awake.
"...And have you seen the other guy's eyes!" gushed Reese with excitement ,as she told her account of thered-eyed, charming card-throwing Acolyte member, that needs no introduction.
"They're so creepy! But they're so sexy at the same time. Creepy and sexy! And that accent is to die for!" Nika smiled and nodded in agreement to her new friend and teammate about the notorious, card-throwing lady killer.
Nika smiled and nodded in agreement to her new friend and teammate about Gambit. "Da, the red-eyed one was cool, yes. But he couldn't compare to John."
Reese looked at Nika innocently, trying to know who John was. All could she remember was Gambit and some red-haired guy during their little adventure from the mall "John? You mean that red-headed guy that has the creepy laugh and tried to burn you? That guy?" "That's John!" Nika said. She still couldn't get the pyrokinetic Aussie member of the Acolytes, off her mind. "Actually, he calls himself Pyro when he's out on his mission."
"Pyro? What kind of codename is that? I mean Pyro? It's soo lame!"
"It is not lame, Reese! It's cool!" Nika snapped loudly and defensively as Reese mocked her crush's choice of codename. Nika then lowered her voice back to her normal volume. "Cool and cute codename. Better than Iceman."
"Hey! All the cool ice-based names were taken!(Zing!) This was the only one I could get. Cut me some slack, will ya!?"
Kitty Pryde, also known as Shadowcat, was sitting next to Nika, forcing to listen with disdain and disgust, as her two new friends and teammates talked about Gambit and Pyro. "Oh brother." She quietly muttered as she admired the dark grey metal ceiling and the floor. Well, at least they were kind of right about Gambit at least. Those freaky-looking eyes Gambit had were kind of sexy. Well, he couldn't compare to Lance... Huh? Where did that loser came from and why was she thinking of him? She was so over him! Well, if that was the case, then why was she still thinking of him?
Kitty tried to force it out of her mind and think of something else. So she decided to turn her gaze to someone else, and saw the X-Boys, well two of her male teammates and one recruit. She saw Kurt, without his holographic disguise. He was blissfully devouring a Gut Buster Deluxe with six strips of bacon and three layers of cheese and...
"Three meat patties covered lettuce, onions, secret sauce, atop on a sesame seed bun!" Kurt sang terribly off-key in his thick German dialect "Yum!" The blue fuzzy demon saw Kitty staring at him strangely.
"Errr, Kurt?" Kitty innocently asked while she kept her patent 'I'm- officially-freaked-out' stare "What were you doing?"
Kurt turned a beat red underneath his azure tinted fur "Errrr ...Nothing. Just a little song I picked up from... a commercial. A commercial, yeah! Just a song from Burger Buster. Heh ,heh" Embarrassed, Kurt went back to eating his burger.
"Okay." Kitty just let the embarrassed Kurt eat his lunch.
Her eyes, then turned to Bobby, also known as Iceman. He was looking over his collection of numbers and E-mail address he got from the girls during the mission.
"Shayla." Bobby said with a smile as he went through his numbers "Cindy, Briana, Christina, Shana...Huh what's this? What does this say? Call me and I promise you'll have a good time! And I might show you my tattoo *Wink, wink *. It's official! I'm calling Shana first!"
Kitty just let out a chuckle as Bobby read the message on Shana' s card. The last guy she saw was Hunter, the young martial artist who helped Bobby take down some of the residential mutant bashers. Judging by what he said, he was fast and he managed to take down a guy who was at least two times his size. She wondered how could a guy with a frame like that could take a 6'1'' guy down without any problems.
Hunter was sleeping. He had been asleep for the last hour. Who could blame him for falling asleep and not to socialize for a while? There's nothing to do in the X-Jet. That , and after that fighting he was doing, he needed a rest. Hunter twitched a little indicating he was dreaming of something. Kitty let a dreamy smile form on her face as he observed Hunter stir a little.
For some reason, Kitty wanted to unbuckle, go over to where he was at, and pinch his cheeks. He didn't have the looks of...GRRRRRRRRRR! Why was she still thinking about him?! Why won't he leave her alone? She's over him she kept thinking to herself until thoughts of Lance Alvers faded from her mind. She snapped out of her deep thinking and came back to reality, Or back into reality in time to hear Nika's comments about Pyro...
"Those eyes, that hair..." Nika continued. "that accent. Oh that sexy accent. What is the word you Americans say here, Reese? Oh yes. John is a stud muffin!"
"And Gambit too!" Added the blue-haired Virginia Beach native "Gambit is one sexy beast!" That was it. What was with these girls and creepy Cajun guys and over-the-top crazy Australian pyromaniacs? Why couldn't they just stick to normal guys like Scott and stuff? Minus the highly destructive eye beams of doom, however.
"Um, guys?" Kitty innocently began. I know they're like, hot and stuff, and you want to date them and stuff, but here's the thing."
"And what thing is that, Comrade?" Nika asked innocently wondering, and fearing what the answer was.
Kitty then continued in her soft and normal voice. "The thing is, Nika, is that..."¨ She then went loud to hammer the point to home. "THEY'RE BAD GUYS! Bad guys! Bad guys! The one that will do creepy things to you and kill you and take over the world bad guys! Nika, wasn't like, Pyro trying to turn you into barbecue and stuff?! And dark and handsome over there with the red eyes like tried to kidnap you and stuff, Reese! They're bad guys, not dream boyfriends!"
The two new girls just shrunk in their seats after being reprimanded by Kitty, their faces glowed into beet red with embarrassment. Reese quickly got over that and resumed her position in her seat.
"Ehhhh, Gambit didn't do anything for me anyways. He wears too much cologne."
Kitty nodded with approval and Reese gave her best smile. She then looked at Nika. "That's good. Nika?"
Nika who didn't want to look bad in front of her friend, just cleared her throat and quickly responded. "How dare they try to kidnap Reese for their evil plans and tried to kill us! Damn those bastards! Damn them to hell! If I ever see them again, I'll burn them. No, no burning. I'll take a knife and stab them. Stab them until the life fades from their eyes! Then we'll chop their heads and use them as bowling balls! Then we'll cut them open and mail their still functioning organs to their boss, parents, and loved ones! After that, we'll grind their bodies into sausages! Ahahahahahahahahahahahahah!"
The strawberry blonde Russian stopped her insane laughter and looked for Kitty's approval. "So how's that, Kitty? Kitty? Guys? Guys?"
Everybody (Save for Hunter who was still sleeping like a baby)was staring at Nika. All of them were, honestly, a little frightened and scared of her as they started to question her sanity.
Reese who was cheery and chattering up a storm a while ago, just let out a quiet "okay.", played with her hair a little and admired the floor. Kurt who was eating his lunch, just heard what she said, and turned green with sickness underneath his fur covered body. "Ohhhh..." the Azure demon moaned "Suddenly, I von't feel like eating right now all of the sudden." Kurt just sickly rewrapped his burger in its foil wrapper and tossed it back into its bag. He then dropped the burger next to him. Bobby who was just admiring his winnings, stopped and looked at Nika strangely and being mildly disturbed by her comment.(And he was secretly getting off of it too. The sick little freak!)
"I'm not a sick freak!" shouted Bobby defensively. Then all the eyes went on him. "Well...I'm not." He blushed and went back to his numbers.
Kurt blinked at his sub-zero temperature teammate strangely. "Ooooookay..." he replied and went about his business. He also wondered if that was what Nika did to ex-boyfriends and made a mental note not to make her mad or bump into her when she has her period.
Nika shamefully turned to Kitty with a slightly embarrassed looked on her face. "Was that a little too much, Kitty?"
Kitty nodded. "Yeah. A little too extreme."
**Meanwhile at the cockpit of the X-Jet**
Ororo and Logan were flying the students back to the institute, and heard what was going on back there.
"Does her medical files covers her sanity?" questioned Ororo as she tried to get the mental images of Nika doing the deed to somebody, out of her head.
"Uh-huh" replied Logan as he controlled the plane and not taking his eye off of the sky. "She's pretty much sane. She blows hot air, Storm. Nothing to worry yourself about."
Ororo nodded after being reassured that the young Russian wasn't insane but couldn't shake the mental images out. "The last thing we want is a young psychopathic mutant." ******************************************************************Hunter slowly opened his eyes. The young African-American stretched his body and let out a huge yawn. He heard his bones popped indicting his skeletal system hadn't been involved in any physical activities ever since he and Bobby had been involved in the melee and when he boarded on the X-Jet.
Kurt was the first to notice Hunter coming to life "Look, guys! He's vaking up!" he cheerfully said.
"Welcome back to land of the living, dude!" said Bobby happily.
The girls watched Hunter wake up from his lengthy slumber. "Hey, guys." Hunter said as he smacked his dry mouth and scratched his head full of black and unruly hair "What's up? How long have I been sleeping?"
"Oh a good long vhile, mein friend." said Kurt with a welcome smile "After you boarded the X-Jet, you fell straight to sleep. That fight must have seriously drained you."
"And it was a cool one!" Bobby replied briskly and proudly. "Me and Hunter took out those guys without breaking a sweat and still had time to mack on the honeys."
"You're doing it again, Bobby" Kitty warned him rather curtly about his bragging.
"Okay, I mack on the honeys, but H-Man gave everybody a can of whoop Ass. Do you know it's possible to twist a person's arm into a 460 degree angle before the bone breaks?"
"I vould've love to see the fight. But I got stuck at Hunter's house." Kurt shrugged a little after say this.
That little mention reminded Kitty of something. Kurt kept repeatedly praising God for not staying in the Pratt household for long.
"Speaking of house, Kurt, what happened while you we're there?"
Kurt just shrugged fearfully. "Do you even have to ask?"
****Flashback*****
Kurt was in a dark room, being hooked up to a lie detector machine with a stern-looking Ms. Pratt at the end of it, with a glass of water, asking him questions while Logan and Ororo were looking on.
"Do you do drugs?"
"Errr...No, Ms. Pratt." Kurt answered honestly. Or seemingly honestly. The lie detector buzzed indicating he was lying. "Vhat?! That's vrong! I never did drugs! Okay! I smoked a joint about a week ago because I got into a dare and stuff! You know? Peer pressure? That's it!" The machine buzzed again. "Damn it!" Shouted Kurt. He really wanted to trash the machine right now.
"Kurt!" said a shocked Ororo. The lie detector buzzed again. Ms. Pratt interrupted them and asked him another question.
"Do you watch pornography of any nature?"
Kurt sweated nervously and stammered. "Uh...Uh..."
"Do watch pornography of any nature, Mr. Wagner?"
"No! I don't watch porn!" The lie detector buzzed. "Crap! Alright! I watch some of Mr. McCoy's videos and some of Professor's videos too! I'm guilty. Guilty! Mr. McCoy have a real thing for Asians and don't get me started on Professor! He's into some freaky stuff! Really freak stuff!"
"Fuzzy and Chuck actually have porn?" asked Logan with a sly smirk "I didn't think those two didn't have it in them."
"Logan!" Ororo turned to Kurt and gave him a disapproving glare "We're going to have a nice long talk about your "activities!"
"Way to go, Elf!" cheered Logan.
"Logan don't encourage him!" Ororo snarled.
Ms. Pratt handed the azure demon a small plastic cup. Kurt took the cup and looked at it. "Vhat?... Vhat? Am I supposed to do with this?" he asked nervously. "Urine sample, Solider." Ms. Pratt said. "feel it up." Kurt groaned and mentally beg for God to strike him dead already.
*******end of flashback*******
"And she then took my fingerprints and said I was a bad influence on children." muttered Kurt. "What is she? A cop?"
"Don't feel bad, Blue." Hunter reassured the cringing Kurt as he patted his shoulder "She does that to my friends too. She was an Lieutenant in the army and fought in Desert Storm, you know? She didn't leave the military behind you know."
Kurt shrugged. "That figures."
"And how you managed to stay sane with her around is beyond me." responded Bobby.
"Nod and smile." Hunter replied "Nod and smile and do what she says."
"Hiya, Hunter!" greeted Reese with her beautiful, friendliest and cheeriest smile ever "How was your sleep? Bobby told us you took out those guys back there. That's so cool!"
Bobby added "And he even pulled some stuff that you could only see in the Matrix!"
"Man! Now I wished I was there for the fight!" Kurt whined.
Hunter broke a sweat nervously , seeing that Reese was a girl, but he slowly tried to get over it. "Well... My...sleep was fine... thanks."
"That's so awesome, Hunter!" Greeted the azure-haired Virginia Beach native "I bet taking out those guys drained the mess out of you."
Hunter smiled and nodded, but he was still nervous around the girls. In attempt to dull his nervousness, Hunter tried to crack a joke. Albeit a lame one. "So, do we get any free peanuts and in-flight movie on this trip?"
"No peanuts on this tub, bub." Logan called out. "You're eating as soon we land in Bayville. And no movies neither. Besides Bobby been telling us about how you wipe those guys out... Pretty awesome, kid. And I haven't forgotten about you, Reese. I heard you kicked butt with Gambit. That's pretty impressive for somebody that didn't have any training."
Reese looked and she smiled a little, but it wasn't as lively and friendly as before. "Thanks. I was just lucky I guess. Kitty did most of the work, sir."
"Nah." Kitty said. "You so kicked his butt! And you also saved me and the people in the mall! Professor is going to be sooooo glad to hear what you guys did today"
"Heh." Was the only words that Reese could say.
"What about me, Mister Logan?" Nika asked "How did I do?"
To which Logan replied "Let me give you some advice about being an X-Men. Rule Number 1: Don't flirt with the enemy..."
Reese, Kitty, Bobby, and Kurt snickered and said some comments about Nika's fraternization with Pyro when Logan said that. A discouraged Nika who looked as if she was on the verge of tears, looked at them darkly. She shouted, "Shut up!"
"But other then that, you handle him pretty well." Logan said.
Nika smiled brightly when she heard that "Thank you, sir."
"And...And...I think you've done well too, Nika." Hunter complimented her, even though he didn't heard what happened.
Nika turned to Hunter and smiled at him. "Why thank you, Hunter."
"Anytime, Nika." stated dreamily Hunter "Anytime." nodded in approval. Finally, she noticed him. "Anytime."
"Looks like you runts will make it as X-Men after all. Wish I could say the same thing about Avni and Will."
"Avni?" Hunter asked, confused.
"Will?" Reese asked, raising an eyebrow. "They're recruits like you," Kitty answered "Avni she's so obsessed set on wiping out the Brotherhood."
Kurt added "Vhile Vill has a really, really short temper and likes blowing things up."
The two newbies just looked at them frighten. Kurt saw the look on their faces, and quickly added. "Don't worry, guys. Not everybody is crazy at Institute. We have another one named Jenny. She's really nice and I think she'll like you two guys. Scott and Jean too."
Reese and Hunter blankly looked at Kitty. "Brother...what?" Hunter finally dared to ask.
"They're another team that do bad things and stuff." Kitty replied "Mostly a couple of losers we beat up a lot."
"Yeah." Bobby answered "And you used date one of them."
Kitty just shot Bobby a major death glare and Bobby just nervously smiled and went back to his girl's numbers.
"That was so last year! I don't like Lance anymore! The loser!"
Nika sensed that Bobby might have tread on a field mine, so she attempted to lighten the mood. She turned to Hunter, to much of his delight, and back at her friends. "So since Hunter's up, we could show him our abilities?"
"Nah, you girls go ahead. We pretty much showed him our abilities."
Kurt teleported, leaving a "BAMF" and the scent of brimstone in his wake. The scent hit the young martial artist, causing him to fan his hand frantically to get the scent away from his face.
The young Russian blinked in surprised wondering where Kurt went to, just to shriek in surprise when he teleported next to her.
"Yeah, he pretty much knows vhat we can do." Kurt smiled and gave Nika a friendly little peck on her sun-tanned cheek. The team busted out in laughter. Nika tried to swat Kurt, just for him to teleported back to where he was sitting. Kurt loudly and mockingly proclaimed to the blushing Nika "You've been smooched by the fuzzy dude!"
"Sure." said Kitty "Just make sure Amanda doesn't find out."
Kurt's smile dropped into a fearful scowl upon realizing that he still had a girlfriend. "Ack! Don't tell her! Don't tell her! She'll have my tail in a fling if she finds out about this."
"Don't worry, Kurt." reassured Bobby. "We didn't see anything."
"Nope." Reese chimed in "Not a thing."
Kitty just shook her head in amusement. "Kurt, you're so bad. We just know it's a friendship kiss. But we won't tell."
Nika smiled and made a gesture of putting her finger and thumb on her lips and making a zipping motion across it, telling him her lips are shut.
"I'll never tell, Blue man." said Hunter still being amazed by Kurt's ability to teleport. Sure he had seen it, but it was still incredible. The girls nodded in agreement to show Hunter their abilities.
Kitty was first, and unbuckling her seatbelt walked towards Hunter. Hunter started to sweat bullets once she came over first.
"Can I see your bookbag, Hunter?" Kitty asked politely. The nervous Hunter just nodded his head. Kitty smile and grabbed his dark green bookbag with various patches and tags designed on it. Then she placed her hand on it and started to literally go through it.
Hunter let his mouth out drop in surprised. Her hand literally went through his pack! "Whoa!"
Kitty smiled and pulled out his CD player and handed it to him. Hunter took it and looked back her, still amazed at what she had done. "And it doesn't hurt at all?"
"Not at all, Hunter."
Nika giggled. "Me next! Me next!" Nika pulled out her trusty chrome black zippo lighter. She showed Hunter the lighter. She flipped the lighter and lighted it up. It looked quite boring at first, but Hunter kept watching.
"Yay. Nika could make her lighter light up." Bobby sarcastically noted of her seemingly unimpressive ability. "Boring."
Nika used a little bit of concentration and made the little flame jump into her free left hand making it dance a little. All the X-Boys just stared at her.
Kurt just gasped "She ...She Just. She just made that fire move...just like Pyro...She's..."
Bobby finished his words "She's Pyro with boobs!"
Nika playfully scowled at Bobby and made the flame jump from her hand to Bobby's foot. He jumped and frantically tried to put it out. "OW! Ow! Ow! Hey easy! I can melt easily you know?!"
Kitty looked at Reese, who looked like she didn't want to do it "Come on, Reese! Like dazzle your power and stuff."
Reese shook his head. "Remember what I said about my powers? They're a little hard to control sometimes .Sorry, guys. Maybe some other time."
"Nah it's cool." Hunter said "I'm sure your abilities are cool."
Reese smiled "Thank you."
Bobby also remembered something. Hunter haven't showed his abilities yet. They wouldn't be out there, recruiting him if he wasn't a mutant. "Hey, speaking of abilities, you haven't shown us yours yet."
"Yeah! Show us your powers!" Kitty chanted.
Hunter's eyes widened in surprise. He hadn't showed him or everybody else, his abilities yet. He sure has showed them to Bobby during battle somehow. Hunter looked around and seeing he was in a confided area. Can't show his abilities here. But maybe he could show them his physical mutation. He unbuckled himself and went for his right shoe. The others were looking at Hunter as he took off his shoe. The black and white sneaker was of. His right foot was unusually large for a 14 years old. And for his size. His height was about 5''4 and his shoe size should be about 9. But he wore a size 15 shoe. Then it was the sock's turn to be stripped. Hunter nervously and slowly slid his sock off and tossed it aside.
The young mutants couldn't believe what they were seeing.
"Oh..." Kitty muttered.
"My..." Reese added.
"God." Nika finished "Your foot"
"Make that feet." Hunter corrected, feeling like he was showing his friends his organs. His foot was abnormally large. Four times the size of a regular human's foot. The toes or appendages mimicking his toes were 4 times tall, almost resembling a human's finger. It even had a opposable thumb. The structure of his feet almost looked entirely that of a human's hand. Or a Gorilla's foot depending on their views of it. The toenail (Or fingernails) were black and a little bit brittle and unhealthy; looking as if he had them painted. For a couple of mutants, this was creeping them out. His foot was actually a hand. A third pair of hand when he was not walking.
The spooked Kitty asked Hunter "Can you... like move it, Hunter?"
Hunter lifted his left leg up and moved the "fingers" on his ape-like feet. "Can I shake your hand, Kitty?" Hunter positioned his "hand" and offered it for a hand shake. Having big hands for one thing but having a second pair of hands? That's weird. Bobby whistled in surprise
"Those custom made shoes must be a bitch to buy."
"Same as looking for shoes in those size." replied Reese still astonished and freaked out by his "feet." Kitty was a little afraid to touch it and Reese wanted to touch it, but still. The fact he actually had a hand for a foot was a little unsettling for her. Nika was just a little freaked out. Kurt , on the other hand, wasn't afraid at all. He was like Hunter in a way. Abnormal.
Wanting to break the looming depressing atmosphere. Kurt smiled and gave it a hearty handshake. Kurt chirped "You're a human sized monkey, Hunter!" Bobby got over his fright and quickly imagined what could Hunter do with those things if he was in a fight. The possibilities are endless with this guy he thought. "Cool! I bet you could kick ass with those things!"
"And crack nuts and pick my nose with them too!" Quipped Hunter. That comment offer him a collective "Ewww!" from everybody. "Well it works." Hunter said nervously.
Kitty suddenly thought it was cool. Not as cool as Kurt's look, but it was passable.
"This is so awesome." Bobby replied. "Yeah, why didn't you use them while we were in the fight? That would've kick so much ass!"
"Stick around long enough and you could see what I can do with these things."
The gang all looked at each other sinisterly and smiled darkly. Hunter wondered what they were doing. They all ganged up on him.
"Hey, Hunter" asked Bobby "we wanna know something? Are you ticklish?"
Hunter was about to flee, just to get pinned down by the gang. Reese started to tickle his ape-like foot first and everybody started do the same to tickle his feet.
"Hey... Ha...What are you doing...Hahahaha... Stop it!...Ha... I mean it...Ha... Stop it!."
The whole trip went smoothly as the X-Jet made its final destination to Bayville.
A/N: once again ,Sorry!!!! It took a very long time, I had classes, and my beta reader the nightmare king (who almost entirely wrote this and previous chapters *claps* love ya! Muack!) had classes and a lot of work, not to mention social life...and stuff...once gain, sorry, and I promise you chapter 6 will be up sooner than chapter 5..I promise! Ok, bye!
Nightmare king: What she said. Sorry for the long delay folks. College and RL called and the calls must be answered. That and I was working another fic for somebody. It's going to be great! Well, anyhoo, sorry if this chapter sucked. No actions and the jokes were kind of lame. It was more of a character interaction piece. But don't worry you'll get your action in the later chapter. And don't worry, the others will show up soon (And so does Mystique and her new croonie!) So how did we do? Review please! Chapter 6 is coming up and Surfer-girl got something special for you guys in that chapter. Watch for it! Check out Sioned136 "In The Beginning" and Fox Hansuok's "Bless Us, Xavier", "Brielle" and "Bombisticall Kawaii" Cool fics! And make sure to give her some reviews. She wants them. She'll worship you and build an temple in the name of you if you do. And check out the season premiere of Peaches13 "Thesis of A Black-Winged Angel¡" It's coming soon and it's going to kick some much ass! Hasta, kiddies! See ya when we see ya!
