Chapter One: Enter the Static Charge

Disclaimer: I own no Marvel characters, movie or otherwise. Chi is me, and Chu's my sister, so I hope you won't steal us... Like you couldn't come up with something more creative...

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It had been a nice day so far. I just had woken up, feeling good for once, which is quite rare, considering that I always feel like I haven't gotten enough sleep. I sat up slowly in my bed, glancing across the luxurious room I had only recently come to inhabit. In the other bed across the room, my sister Chu was still asleep. We had moved here, to the Xavier Institute for Gifted Children, only recently. Crawling out of bed, I walked over to the dresser for my clothes. A moment later, Chu yelped. I turned to look at her, holding my clothes.

"Chi, what did you do that for?!" She demanded.

"Do what why?" I asked dumbly, standing frozen like a deer caught in headlights.

Bzzzt!

"THAT!" Chu cried angrily. "Quit using your powers on me!"

"I'm not trying!" I exclaimed, beginning to change my clothes. Since we had moved here, we had both shown mutant powers growing steadily. Unlike me, Chu had complete control over her ability, which was water manipulation. Although it took considerable effort for her to do anything with it, it was still considered less of a trouble than my power.

You see, I had gained an uncontrollable charge of electricity. When I walked down the hall, the carpet built up a charge of static electricity, light bulbs broke and I didn't dare touch the light switch, lest I fry the wiring for the entire mansion. But as annoying as it was, I couldn't count on it always being there. There were moments when I could touch computers and not crash them, but despite the hopes of Professor Xavier and staff, I was not controlling it in those moments.

"I know, I'm going..." I grumbled. Now fully dressed, I left the room. As I walked down the hall, grumbling the whole way, I caught a glimpse of myself in a mirror. My hair was frizzing out in any direction imaginable. Although it had always been a bit curly, since my powers had begun to manifest, it had decided to completely defy all laws of gravity.

"Stupid hair, almost wish I had the heart to cut it..." I grumbled to myself, continuing down the hall. I wasn't really watching where I was going, which led to my unfortunate collision with Bobby Drake, better known as Iceman. We bumped right in to each other, as neither had really been paying attention.

Bzzzt!

"Ouch!" Bobby yelped. After realizing it was me, he mumbled something like "Oh it's you..."

"Yes it is, Robert Drake, and I will thank you kindly to keep out of it!" I snapped, making little sense, even to myself, then continued down the hall. I could tell that I wasn't exactly welcome company for anyone in the Institute. No one really had resistance to electricity, at least not the kind that would be needed to be around me. I walked in to the kitchen, and the others began to file out slowly.

"IF YOU'RE TRYING NOT TO HURT MY FEELINGS, YOU MAY AS WELL JUST GET OUT QUICKLY AND SAVE YOURSELF THE TROUBLE!" I roared at them from the fridge. They quickly turned and fled, abandoning their breakfast. "It's not like I want company anyways, but I wish they would be more honest with themselves." I mumbled to myself, reaching for a container of strawberry yogurt.

Bzzzt!

The light bulb in the fridge broke. I stood and stared at it for a moment.

"I didn't do it..." I said in an all-too-innocent tone, closing the fridge and walking over to the cupboard for slivered almonds to put in my yogurt. I sat down at the kitchen table, pushing someone's scrambled eggs out of the way.

"I hate people." I snarled as I stuck the spoon in my mouth.

"Please, try to be patient with them."

"Hello, Professor." I looked over to the door, which he was just pulling in to. "You risk being near the Walking Static Charge?" I asked, calling myself by what I had heard others whisper about me.

"Please, do not refer to yourself as such, Chi." He said kindly, coming over to the table.

Bzzzt!

He jumped slightly, jolted.

"See? You don't like it any more than they do." I said pointedly, secretly glad my powers had chosen that moment to illustrate my point. "I just wish you all wouldn't be such backstabbers about it. I hate backstabbers more than anything, and if you have to wait until you think I'm asleep to say something, you shouldn't mind going out of my earshot before saying it." I thought out loud, knowing that he could get it directly from my mind, so I may as well let him hear it physically.

"It is not like that, Chi." He tried to reassure me.

"With all due respect sir, put a sock in it." I said, standing up and throwing away my empty yogurt container. "I'm going now."

As I left, Xavier almost asked where I was going. His mistake was to assume that I was intending not to leave the mansion.

I, however, wanted to go somewhere that I could be entirely a stranger to everyone, and this was not the place.

Thus, I borrowed one of the many vehicles from the garage, ignoring the fact that I didn't have my drivers license yet.

And I drove off in to the morning.

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Bzzzt!

"Ouch!" A nearby woman cried. She had been walking peacefully with her boyfriend, until my powers got her.

Another couple destroyed by me... I nearly chuckled as I watched the woman ask her boyfriend what that was, leading to an argument between them. But I sighed instead. I was sitting at an arcade in the mall, and the recent outburst of electrical energy had caused the video games to go dead.

"And I had been doing so well too..." I sighed again and quietly made my way out of the arcade. In fact, I didn't stop with leaving the arcade. I left the mall, walking out to the parking lot to look for the car I had borrowed.

However, the car had different plans in mind. It had been stolen, and I couldn't find it anywhere. I sighed again.

"Stolen. Just great." I began to wonder what I should do now when...

Bzzzt!

The spark started the engines of all the nearby cars, causing them to rev in place.

"There can be only one!" I cried at the top of my lungs, raising my arm high in to the air. A moment later, the cars died, and I felt terribly awkward standing there like that.

"Oh well. Guess my Highlander days are over." I shrugged, then said, "You're certainly active today, aren't you?"

I had been speaking to my powers, which were fickle as ever. They didn't respond. Not that they ever spoke to me, but I sometimes felt better scolding them than receiving a scolding for what they did.

"Not that I'm ever scolded for not having any control..." I mumbled to myself as I walked slowly down the row of cars.

There was a light footstep behind me, and an accented male voice said "I can help you with that, you know."

I immediately turned, expecting to see some muggers or something, but instead, I saw Magneto wearing a fine gray suit, smiling at me.

Of course, I knew right away that it was Magneto, since I had been a big X-men fan before the world somehow twisted up and I had become a student at the Xavier Institute.

But my mouth fell open, and I went "Huh?"

He came closer to me.

"Are you not Chi, a recent addition to the Xavier Institute, the one gifted with extraordinary electrical abilities?" He asked in an almost charming manner.

"Yeah... What's it to you?" I asked, feeling quite uncomfortable.

"I desire for you to join forces with me." He stated in a soft tone.

"So..." I paused for a long moment, trying to think of what to say next. "Oh, I get it. Your magnetism and my electrical abilities are kind of alike. So you want..." I paused again, thinking hard. "Me to be your minion?"

There was a moment of awkward silence before Magneto cleared his throat.

"Minion is not the term I would choose. It is more of a..." He paused, looking for the right word.

"Lackey? Subordinate? Flunkey? Follower?" I paused also. "Assistant?"

"Yes, that's it. Assistant." He smiled deceptively.

"You know, you're actually kind of creepy when you're persuading minions..." I frowned. "Still, you always have been one of my favorite characters." I mumbled to myself for a long moment before giving my decision. "Let me think about it a little bit. I need to consult Chu." I nodded decisively. Then I remembered. "Oh wait, my car got stolen."

There was another long moment of silence, before I decided what I should do from here.

"Okay, sure. I'll join you, and be the very best minion ever!" I paused. "Except for maybe Starrie, but she doesn't exist because I made her up for fanfics... Come to think of it, this feels an awful lot like a fanfic... But it's been like that since I got my powers!" I smiled.

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But surely, if you've read any of my other stories, you know that I'm so obsessive with Magneto! Besides, it's hard for a story to go along without the bad guy's perspective! If you don't know what they're doing, it's not as much fun! ^_^; Really! Anyhoo, review if you liked it! If not... Well, DON'T! ^_^ Luv ya all!