This is my first attempt at writing X-Men Fiction, so please be kind. In fact, I have never read any of the comics, just enjoyed the movies, and began watching Evo.
***Disclaimer---I own nothing in the story, all is property of Marvel, including my name**
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UNDER THE SEA
Alex Summers pulled himself out of the surf, and collapsed on a beach towel not too far from the shoreline. There he pondered the question that had been evading him all day—"How come Superman could stop bullets with his chest, but always ducked when someone threw a gun at him?"
He didn't have too long to ponder the question, his attention was drawn away to a girl sitting not too far from where he lay. Clad in a black wetsuit, she had long dirty blonde hair that fell down across her shoulders. What truly registered in Alex's mind was the muscular man sitting beside her.
"Come on, Baby, just tell me your name. Joel don't want to hurt you, he just wants to get to know you."
"Do you have any idea of how annoying it is when people talk in third person?" the girl replied. "And I don't want to get to know Joel, so please go away."
"Ok, I'll leave. But you got to give me a kiss first," Joel replied and winked at the group of guys standing not to far from the beach towel.
"I'm telling you, go away!"
"What's the matter baby, think I'm more than you could handle? I bet I could handle you pretty well"
Alex decided he had about enough with Joel. He stood up and walked over to the beach towel. "I think she said to leave." Joel looked over at the surfer boy who had dared to confront him.
"Why don't you just leave, pretty boy."
"Not until you do"
Joel stood up and took a step closer to Alex. "I told you to go, she" he referenced to the girl on the towel, "and I are just having a little talk. We don't need a little pretty boy like you around pestering us. So leave now, or I guess I'll have to make you."
Alex just smiled. In the week since he had fought Magneto at Apocalypse's Mexican temple, he had been craving a good fight. "So if I'm the pretty boy, I guess that makes you the butt ugly one right? I mean, lets face it, my man, why would a girl who looks like her want to go anywhere with a guy that resembles a dogs ass?"
The guys clustered behind Joel started laughing. Joel, however, didn't seem to find the comment all that funny. He swung at Alex, but Alex easily stepped out away from Joel, causing him to stagger a little.
"So what then? You think you can take me asshole? I've fought with guys a lot more frightening then you. You want to hurt me? I'd like to see you try."
Joel launched himself at Alex, but again, Alex sidestepped the loser. Because he was in the process at laughing at Joel, he didn't notice that one of Joel's friends had snuck behind him, but his presence was quickly noticed when the guy pulled Alex's hand behind his back. Alex was just about to fire up his powers when he remembered that policemen frequented this beach. One hint of his powers, and there would be hell to pay. Besides, he could take on these losers without powers, right?
Just then Joel landed a punch into Alex's gut, knocking the wind out of him, followed quickly by a second, then a third. A gleam of silver lit into the air as a knife opened. "Will you still be so pretty when I cut up your face?"
"Leave him alone!" the girl screamed and launched herself at Joel, jumping on his back and pulling his hair. "BITCH!" Joel screamed as he threw her off, and his buddy's quickly grabbed her by the arms. Figuring the situation was out of control, Alex began charging his hands…
"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOUR NECK" one of Joel's buddies suddenly screamed. Joel quickly turned around and both he and Alex noticed that the neck of the girls wetsuit had came unzipped, and there they saw three slits on either side, that opened and closed when she breathed. "HOLY SHIT, YOU'RE ONE OF THOSE MUTIES, AREN'T YOU?"
Alex had apparently been forgotten as Joel advanced on the girl with his knife. The girl was obviously struggling against the freaked out co-eds. Suddenly, the guy behind Alex screamed, as Alex blasted him in the stomach. Then turned his attention to Joel. With red glowing hands he demanded, "Leave her alone!"
"GOD DAMMIT! YOU'RE ONE OF THOSE FREAKS TOO? NOW I DON'T KNOW WHO TO FUCK UP FIRST."
"I don't think you're getting it, asshole. You're the one about to be fucked up, not us. Now get the hell away from her."
The girl screamed, and as Alex whirled around he noticed the guy who had been holding him was now aiming a gun at him. With a quick blast, Alex knocked the gun out of the guy's hand, sending it flying across the sand, sending a group of onlookers screaming in the opposite direction, and one of the guy's who were holding the girl running after it. The girl used this to her advantage and elbowed her remaining captive in the stomach. Alex ran towards her, shooting blasts towards Joel as quick as he could. He grabbed the girls hand and started pulling her towards the parking lot, when they both noticed two policemen heading towards them, guns drawn.
"This way," the girl dragged Alex down towards the waters edge, and into the Surf. Still holding Alex's hand, she pulled him under the water and into the tide. Together they swam down farther and farther until Alex's lungs began to burn. He tugged at the girls hand, indicating that he had to go up, but she was still swimming, holding on to his hand so tight he couldn't get out of her grip. His head started to spin, and things started to go blurry in front of his eyes, when the girl suddenly stopped, and pressing her lips to Alex's exhaled a stream of oxygen down his throat. Pulling away, she watched him for a second, then repeated the process. Then she pulled him back down, and together they swam along the current, pausing frequently for the girl to fill Alex's lungs with air, and then continuing along their way.
When they finally reached the beach the girl was obviously aiming for, a beach covered in tourists, who wouldn't notice two people rising from the surf, they did just that, the girl zipping her wetsuit back over her neck to hide what were obviously gills. Alex headed straight for the pay phone to call his parents.
When they answered the phone, they quickly informed him that he had been identified at the beach, and the police were searching for him, identifying him as a "dangerous mutant," and without saying it, implied not to come home, for his own safety. Alex hung up the phone, and then placed a second collect call, one to a place where he knew would be safe.
"Kitty? It's Alex. I need to talk to the professor….Yeah, you heard about it? My parents called you? Yeah, we need him to come get us…"he paused and looked at the girl. "Where are we?" "Kahuka" "Hey Kitty, we're at Kahuka. Yeah, we'll be waiting. Thanks."
He hung up the phone and turned to look at the girl. "By the way, I'm Alex Summers. I don't think I introduced myself earlier, what with Joel and his goodtime buddies harassing you."
She smiled. "Namorita Prentiss. But my friends call me Nita."
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Ok guys, please review and tell me what you think. I'm being very careful with Nita, choosing to sidestep the fact that she is actually Homo Mermanus, and not entirely human. I am making her a mutant, and just choosing to ignore the fact that she is half mermaid, and the fact that she is a clone (There is no room for clones in my story—sorry X23, please don't kill me.)
BTW: I am looking for a few muses, so if you are willing to be one, let me know.
