Thanks eden, I'm glade you liked the last chapter
ENTER MAYHEM
CHAPTER 9: NEW FRIENDS?
Amanda and Kurt were being playful with each other while eating. Amanda had nearly died laughing when Kitty told her of what Vincent said to Kurt earlier that day, and of how Kurt reacted.
Rogue however was thinking of Vincent and where he could be. 'Damn it Ah, new Ah should have stayed with him, they hadn't seen him yet and she was beginning to worry.
"Sorry I'm late guys, hey Amanda."
Rogue jumped at Vincent's voice from behind her. "Damn it, don't ya make any noise while walkin'?"
"No, not really." He simply said, with that smile of his and sat down beside her.
"So like what took you?" Kitty asked him.
"Let's just say that I ran into a few people on the way here."
"There wasn't any trouble was there?" Rogue looked at him intensely.
"Nothing I couldn't handle."
"Do Ah even want to really know?" She groaned.
Vince slightly shook his head "Not likely, Rogue."
"Mind I we join you Vince?"
They all turned around to see two girls and a younger boy behind them. Vince smiled then he had hoped he had gotten through to them.
"I'm glad you guys are here."
"Yeah well I DID say that if a mutant was ever nice to me I'd give them a chance, so here I am, and the others wouldn't leave me to go off alone so I got them to come too" Pam said.
Kitty looked at Vince and narrowed her eyes "Uh Vincent who are these three and what are they talking about?"
"Uh well you see, uh" Vince started to nervously scratch the back of his head.
"If you must know some jerks were harassing us in the parking lot, and he kicked all their butts." Pam plainly stated.
"He did what ?!" Rogue, Kitty, Amanda and Kurt said in unison.
Pam went through the whole story and was enjoying the look on their faces.
"Vincent ya should know better than ta use ya powers in public." Rogue scolded him.
"But I didn't" He threw his hands up is defense.
"Well maybe I can tell you if he did, what can he do?" Pam asked Rogue.
"He has super-human strength, speed, can fly, invulnerable and can shoot out energy." she told Pam, never taking her eyes of Vincent.
Pam though about it and she believed he hadn't used his powers. "Well I don't think he used any of those, if he had I bet those guys would be in a hospital by now."
Vince eagerly agreed with her, hoping to stop getting glared at by both Kitty and Rogue. "Yeah like she said, those jerks would be in intensive care by now, instead of limping back to whatever hole they crawled out of."
"Well it's not like Duncan and those jerks totally hadn't had something like that coming to them for awhile anyway." Kitty said.
"I'm going to have to go with Kitty here, though usually I'm not one for beating someone senseless he was protecting others." Kurt declared.
"Damn I almost believed he was serious there." Pam said looking at Amanda.
Amanda looked right at Pam. "He IS serious, Kurt the kind of guy that would help another no matter what."
Pam looked right into her eyes and could tell she meant every word of it. "He really does, does he." It wasn't a question.
"Remember what I said earlier about some mutants being good Pam?" Vince asked her. "Well Kurt I can safely say is one of the best people I've known in my entire life."
Everyone there could sense that he was serious about it and truly meant it. Kurt was taken aback a little. People usually only saw the goofy side of him, and only a few people ever saw anything else.
After that there was a slightly uncomfortable silence so Kitty tried her best to break it. So looked over at Amy who hadn't said anything and thought that she recognized her. Then it hit her.
"Excuse me, but didn't we have Mr. Clark's math class this year?" she asked Amy.
Amy had jerked at the question, she hadn't expected to be asked, in fact she hoped that her 'natural ability to blend in' as she liked to call it would have kicked in. She was the kind of person that didn't stick out, and at that moment wasn't glad that she did this time.
"Um, y-y-yes I usually sit at the back though." Her voice was almost a whisper.
Kitty could tell that she was uncomfortable "You like don't have to be afraid of us, I mean we're just people like you, well not exactly, but it's like only one gene, and before my powers manifested I was just as normal, I mean I got picked on and..."
"Kitty you're ramblin' again." Rogue interjected, she knew that whenever Kitty got nervous she rambled and they could be here all day.
"Oops, like sorry I tend to get a little carried away." Kitty slightly blushed being a little embarrassed about her nervous habit.
"Oh that's OK, beside Amy's not exactly what you call a people person, she's a little on the shy side." Pam said.
Amanda spoke up then "But she is right, you guys don't have to be afraid of them, I've hung out with these guys in fact they had a pool party not too long ago and it was fun."
"Really, you know I've always wanted to ask you something Amanda, did you know about Kurt before mutants came out?" Pam leaned over, she was curious for the answer.
Before she had always pegged Amanda as one of those preppy girls who thought they were better than everyone, but when it came out that Kurt was a mutant, and she was still dating him, she had started to rethink her opinion of her.
"Actually yes I did, I was looking at him in the hall when he...."Amanda almost told them his image inducer went off "uh....teleported away, and I knew that he was different than other people."
Amy spoke up then, she couldn't believe that Amanda knew about mutants before everyone else. "But weren't you scared?"
"Well at first" Amanda then looked over at Kurt "But I also remembered that I liked Kurt because he was kind, gentle, and cute."
Kurt began to blush deeply, with the inducer you could really see it, instead of a slight tint change on his face in his natural form. He cared for Amanda deeply and everyday he was glad to have her in his life, because she cared about what he was on the inside and not by the outside.
Joseph spoke up for the first time then. "You can teleport? How?"
Kurt decided to skip the part about going trough another dimension "Vell I disappear in a puff of smoke and reappear up to two miles avay."
"He like also leaves behind a smell of sulfur that totally stinks." Kitty said.
"Not to mention he always seems ta 'port in at tha worst tymes." Rogue continued.
"Hey vhat is dis pick on Kurt day? First Vincent and now you two." Kurt said in mock hurt.
Amanda put her arm around him "That's okay Kurt, I love teleporting with you."
"Wow you must have the same powers as that blue guy that me and Amy saw in class." Pam said.
Kurt turned around sharply to face her. "Vhat are you talking about?" as far as Kurt knew he never went to class without his image inducer on, well he did have a few nightmare about it, but that was it.
Pam turned to Kitty then. "Remember Kitty you and that blue guy teleported into class that one day both of you in your pajamas."
Kitty covered her face and muttered an "Oh God". That was one of the most embarrassing days of her life, when Kurt had been sleep teleporting when they were sick and she went along for the ride.
Vincent perked up at this "Excuse me, what happened?"
Kitty just muttered through her hands at him. "It's a looong story, please, PLEASE don't ask."
Rogue got an evil smile then and leaned over to Vincent "Ah'll tell ya later." She whispered.
Amy remembered that day, and she took a closer look at Kurt she could see a resemblance. "Kurt, you and Kitty were both sick that day, and you kind of look like that blue guy, was.....was that really you?"
Kurt got this panicky look on his face, this has going so good, now they'll know he's a 'freak' and that will be the end of it.
Pam seeing his expression, and with what Amy said, put two and two together. "Kurt you really are that blue guy aren't you? How do you do it, is it some kind of shape-shifting power, come on I won't tell."
Kurt looked at the others for help but he could see that they had no ideas of what to do. Then Amanda was holding his hand. He looked at her and into her eyes, he knew that she would support any decision, and on a few times had encouraged to show people the real him.
Kurt turned to them with new found strength, he enjoyed walking around without people staring at him, but he also hated to have to hide as well.
"Ja that's was I really look like, you see mein watch?" He lifted his holo- watch "This is really an image inducer, it makes a hologram around me to appear normal, so I can walk around without people..." Kurt couldn't finish he knew exactly how people would react.
"I think I understand Kurt." Pam said her voice had a sad tone to it. "People wouldn't understand, and I guess before today I would have been one of those people."
Kurt smiled then, it was nice to find some new people willing to give him and his friends a chance.
They all continued to talk, and even Amy and Joseph were starting to feel more relaxed around them. The more they talked to them, the more they realized that these mutants were just like them, they had all the same fears, and hopes like any other teenager.
After lunch they hung out a little, Rogue and Pam headed over to Hot Topic for a while. Joseph, Kurt, and Vincent hit the Electronic Boutique and then the arcades. Amy, Kitty and Amanda went shopping together.
Kitty was especially excited because Amy and her seemed to like a lot of the same things, and talked nearly non-stop.
Vince even meet up with Rogue later looking through the book store. He was in the Sci-fi and Fantasy area and she went to look through the horror section.
They all met up later by the water fountain.
Pam sat down by Amy and Joseph "Well this day started off kind of horrible, but I got to say this afternoon was a lot better."
"Tell me about it, I'm so glad I've found someone who totally likes to shop as much as I do." Kitty said being very perky. Amy was smiling, while looking through her bags. "I know what you mean Kitty, Pam never likes to shop at the stores I like to go too."
"Hey, it's not my fault I clothes that are a little more as you say 'out there', then what you ware. And at least Rogue has similar tastes to me so I finally didn't have to drag someone kicking and screaming for once."
Amy had her mouth open at that last statement for a moment. "I'm not THAT bad Pam, you're exaggerating."
Pam's only response was the laugh. Amy always looked so funny to her, with that annoyed look on her face.
Kurt had looked at his watched and noticed the time. "Aw man, look at the time ve should get back before the others get worried."
They all looked at their watches and noticed that they had spent several hours already.
Amanda sighed "Yeah I need to get home soon too, can I get a ride with anyone?"
"Sure my older brother is coming to pick us up soon and you can ride with us" Pam told her as she and the others got up to leave.
"Thanks" Amanda then gave Kurt a kiss on the cheek as she left. "See you soon Kurt."
Kurt with a huge grin on his face waved to them as they left. He still had the grin even when they got to the van.
Kitty was about to enter the driver's seat when Vince stopped her. "Whoa! Hold on there Kitty, remember our deal, I get to drive back."
Kitty made a pouting face hoping he would give in. It didn't work and he eventually go the keys from her.
***
Later that evening Vince was about to pop in a new DVD into his PS2 to watch in his room, and looked over at his laptop. He had an several e- mails.
Better get this out of the way, he thought.
The first few were junk mail, and trashed them. The next was from Father Michaels, he was checking up on him.
Vincent remembered how long it took him to teach him how to e-mail, now he was doing it constantly. The next was what really shocked him. It was from Mary.
Vincent stopped he couldn't open it. He couldn't face whatever she had to say about him. He left it alone. He decided he'd look at it tomorrow, today was going too well, and he didn't want to spoil it.
The last was from his IM friend, katgirl 201, telling him to meet her later at 7:00pm.
He glanced over at the time and it was 6:58 now. He put away the DVD and logged on to their chat board.
[V-boy] Hey Kitten you here?
The answer was almost immediate.
[katgirl 201] Hey V, how has your new life going in the states?
[V-boy] Pretty well, there was a few incidents but nothing I couldn't handle.
There was a long pause after that.
[V-boy] You still breathing?
[katgirl 201] oh yeah, it's just that what you said reminded me of something that happened today.
[V-boy] Anything good?
[katgirl 201] actually yeah, we made a few new friends today thanks to the new guy.
[V-boy] new guy?
[katgirl 201] Oh yeah we got this new guy a little while ago
[V-boy] what's he like?
[katgirl 201] well he's kind of cute, really well toned, he's kinda funny and helps out a lot around the place. He's kind of polite, but he has this serious side to him that really makes him seem way more mature than his age.
[V-boy] sound like you really like this guy
[katgirl 201] He's nice but I'm already seeing someone, besides I think my old roommate kind of likes him. : )
They talked on about computers and a few other things going on in their life before they said goodbye to each other.
Vince went back to watching his DVD.
***
Kitty had put away her own laptop, just then. It was nice to talk to someone, even if she didn't know who V-boy was. She had been talking to him for over a few months now and it seemed she knew a lot about him, but still nothing at all.
Plus she had this nagging feeling like deja-vu or something. Like he reminded her of someone.
She just shrugged it off. She didn't really care about who he was, only that she had someone to talk to that wasn't here, someone neutral and who would listen.
*** Sinister's Base
Sinister was looking over all the data the Mystique had stolen from the mansion, when both Mesmero and Mystique came up to him.
"Well what have you learned from the data and the blood samples Sinister?" Mesmero impatiently asked him.
"Quite interesting I assure you, I now have all of Mr. McCoy's data on all the mutants, but apparently he wasn't finished with the new one, Vincent, his data was incomplete.
"Incomplete how?" Mystique questioned him. She had hopped nearly getting caught was worth it, even though the EMP apparently did something to this 'Vincent'.
Sinister walked over to the computer and brought up Vincent's data.
*
NAME: VINCENT JONATHON FREEMAN
BIRTH: 1986 (roughly, exact date unknown)
AGE: 17 (roughly)
NATIONALITY: Canadian
POWERS:
-Super-strength (max limit unknown)
-Super-seed (max limit unknown, but can only use for short periods of time)
-Invulnerability (max limits unknown, has stated that knifes and guns have no effect)
-Flight (max altitude unknown)
-Energy manipulation: Can create destructive or passive (Stunt) attacks of energy blasts, bombs, etc. through the hands. Max limits unknown.
PERSONAL NOTES:
Vincent suffers from nightmares from traumatic childhood events. It is evident that his X-gene was manipulated through experimentation by as yet unknown person(s).
Subject carries both emotional and physical scars from experience, and has yet to open up, and may not at all.
He has also much anger over the events of his past, but has control over it, he also seems to have a pathological fear of medical labs, for obvious reasons, and has rounds of deep depression and a fear of being alone.
*
"That's a lot of unknown factors Sinister, we should have waited a little longer." Mesmero angrily told him
Sinister wasn't phased by his words in fact he was actually smiling. "Yes I would have to agreed, but I also remembered something from reading this data and when I ran his blood sample through my records and I found something interesting."
Again the computer had new data on the screen.
*
Blood sample is 100% match to record 3805623
Matched subject: PRODIGY-7
*
Mesmero was shocked after reading that. "Prodigy-7, but I though the only survivor of your Project Prodigy was number six?"
"So did I, he had escaped but there was an...'incident' and we had thought him terminated." Sinister coolly said.
Mystique had no idea what they were talking about, and she HATED being out of the loop. "What the Hell are you two talking about? What is Project Prodigy?" she yelled.
Sinister turned to her, he had forgotten that she wasn't up to speed on all of the experiments he had performed.
"You see my dear, about seventeen years ago under the guise of Dr. Nathaniel Essex, I created a program to create the ultimate mutants.
However SHIELD had infiltrated my labs, and attacked. I was only able to save number six, but seven had escaped and after a month of chasing him, we thought he was killed. Apparently we were wrong."
Mystique wasn't impressed, she had been a part of mutant experiments before, and this was nothing new to her. "So one of your experiments are still around and now lives at the Institute, so what."
"So my dear, I'd like to know how powerful he has became, the scientist in charge of number seven, had some brilliant theories about him, and tried new experimental treatments, that showed great promise. I'd like to see exactly what the effects were, and if it works, we could use it as a way to enhance all mutants."
"And how will you test him Sinister?" She asked him.
A wicked smile formed on his lips then. "By the extreme of course, I know of someone that would be delighted to work for us, if the price is right of course."
Mesmero didn't like the idea of some mercenary in their group. "And just who is this individual?" the distain obvious in his voice.
Sinister turned to both of them with a huge evil smile on his face. "Why Cain Marko of course."
There was nothing but silence for a few heart beats, both Mystique and Mesmero wanted to believe they hadn't heard that.
"THE JUGGERNAUT!?" both cried out in surprise and horror.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 10:THE JUGGERNAUT COMES
Yeah that's right, major smack down next chapter so stay tuned and PLEASE send me some reviews.
A/N: oh and in case some of you are doing the math while seeing Vincent's birth date, this story takes place in 2003 summer, not yet 2004 like it is when this was written, so he is 16 and not 17, I may be a lousy speller, but Math I was good at. (
ENTER MAYHEM
CHAPTER 9: NEW FRIENDS?
Amanda and Kurt were being playful with each other while eating. Amanda had nearly died laughing when Kitty told her of what Vincent said to Kurt earlier that day, and of how Kurt reacted.
Rogue however was thinking of Vincent and where he could be. 'Damn it Ah, new Ah should have stayed with him, they hadn't seen him yet and she was beginning to worry.
"Sorry I'm late guys, hey Amanda."
Rogue jumped at Vincent's voice from behind her. "Damn it, don't ya make any noise while walkin'?"
"No, not really." He simply said, with that smile of his and sat down beside her.
"So like what took you?" Kitty asked him.
"Let's just say that I ran into a few people on the way here."
"There wasn't any trouble was there?" Rogue looked at him intensely.
"Nothing I couldn't handle."
"Do Ah even want to really know?" She groaned.
Vince slightly shook his head "Not likely, Rogue."
"Mind I we join you Vince?"
They all turned around to see two girls and a younger boy behind them. Vince smiled then he had hoped he had gotten through to them.
"I'm glad you guys are here."
"Yeah well I DID say that if a mutant was ever nice to me I'd give them a chance, so here I am, and the others wouldn't leave me to go off alone so I got them to come too" Pam said.
Kitty looked at Vince and narrowed her eyes "Uh Vincent who are these three and what are they talking about?"
"Uh well you see, uh" Vince started to nervously scratch the back of his head.
"If you must know some jerks were harassing us in the parking lot, and he kicked all their butts." Pam plainly stated.
"He did what ?!" Rogue, Kitty, Amanda and Kurt said in unison.
Pam went through the whole story and was enjoying the look on their faces.
"Vincent ya should know better than ta use ya powers in public." Rogue scolded him.
"But I didn't" He threw his hands up is defense.
"Well maybe I can tell you if he did, what can he do?" Pam asked Rogue.
"He has super-human strength, speed, can fly, invulnerable and can shoot out energy." she told Pam, never taking her eyes of Vincent.
Pam though about it and she believed he hadn't used his powers. "Well I don't think he used any of those, if he had I bet those guys would be in a hospital by now."
Vince eagerly agreed with her, hoping to stop getting glared at by both Kitty and Rogue. "Yeah like she said, those jerks would be in intensive care by now, instead of limping back to whatever hole they crawled out of."
"Well it's not like Duncan and those jerks totally hadn't had something like that coming to them for awhile anyway." Kitty said.
"I'm going to have to go with Kitty here, though usually I'm not one for beating someone senseless he was protecting others." Kurt declared.
"Damn I almost believed he was serious there." Pam said looking at Amanda.
Amanda looked right at Pam. "He IS serious, Kurt the kind of guy that would help another no matter what."
Pam looked right into her eyes and could tell she meant every word of it. "He really does, does he." It wasn't a question.
"Remember what I said earlier about some mutants being good Pam?" Vince asked her. "Well Kurt I can safely say is one of the best people I've known in my entire life."
Everyone there could sense that he was serious about it and truly meant it. Kurt was taken aback a little. People usually only saw the goofy side of him, and only a few people ever saw anything else.
After that there was a slightly uncomfortable silence so Kitty tried her best to break it. So looked over at Amy who hadn't said anything and thought that she recognized her. Then it hit her.
"Excuse me, but didn't we have Mr. Clark's math class this year?" she asked Amy.
Amy had jerked at the question, she hadn't expected to be asked, in fact she hoped that her 'natural ability to blend in' as she liked to call it would have kicked in. She was the kind of person that didn't stick out, and at that moment wasn't glad that she did this time.
"Um, y-y-yes I usually sit at the back though." Her voice was almost a whisper.
Kitty could tell that she was uncomfortable "You like don't have to be afraid of us, I mean we're just people like you, well not exactly, but it's like only one gene, and before my powers manifested I was just as normal, I mean I got picked on and..."
"Kitty you're ramblin' again." Rogue interjected, she knew that whenever Kitty got nervous she rambled and they could be here all day.
"Oops, like sorry I tend to get a little carried away." Kitty slightly blushed being a little embarrassed about her nervous habit.
"Oh that's OK, beside Amy's not exactly what you call a people person, she's a little on the shy side." Pam said.
Amanda spoke up then "But she is right, you guys don't have to be afraid of them, I've hung out with these guys in fact they had a pool party not too long ago and it was fun."
"Really, you know I've always wanted to ask you something Amanda, did you know about Kurt before mutants came out?" Pam leaned over, she was curious for the answer.
Before she had always pegged Amanda as one of those preppy girls who thought they were better than everyone, but when it came out that Kurt was a mutant, and she was still dating him, she had started to rethink her opinion of her.
"Actually yes I did, I was looking at him in the hall when he...."Amanda almost told them his image inducer went off "uh....teleported away, and I knew that he was different than other people."
Amy spoke up then, she couldn't believe that Amanda knew about mutants before everyone else. "But weren't you scared?"
"Well at first" Amanda then looked over at Kurt "But I also remembered that I liked Kurt because he was kind, gentle, and cute."
Kurt began to blush deeply, with the inducer you could really see it, instead of a slight tint change on his face in his natural form. He cared for Amanda deeply and everyday he was glad to have her in his life, because she cared about what he was on the inside and not by the outside.
Joseph spoke up for the first time then. "You can teleport? How?"
Kurt decided to skip the part about going trough another dimension "Vell I disappear in a puff of smoke and reappear up to two miles avay."
"He like also leaves behind a smell of sulfur that totally stinks." Kitty said.
"Not to mention he always seems ta 'port in at tha worst tymes." Rogue continued.
"Hey vhat is dis pick on Kurt day? First Vincent and now you two." Kurt said in mock hurt.
Amanda put her arm around him "That's okay Kurt, I love teleporting with you."
"Wow you must have the same powers as that blue guy that me and Amy saw in class." Pam said.
Kurt turned around sharply to face her. "Vhat are you talking about?" as far as Kurt knew he never went to class without his image inducer on, well he did have a few nightmare about it, but that was it.
Pam turned to Kitty then. "Remember Kitty you and that blue guy teleported into class that one day both of you in your pajamas."
Kitty covered her face and muttered an "Oh God". That was one of the most embarrassing days of her life, when Kurt had been sleep teleporting when they were sick and she went along for the ride.
Vincent perked up at this "Excuse me, what happened?"
Kitty just muttered through her hands at him. "It's a looong story, please, PLEASE don't ask."
Rogue got an evil smile then and leaned over to Vincent "Ah'll tell ya later." She whispered.
Amy remembered that day, and she took a closer look at Kurt she could see a resemblance. "Kurt, you and Kitty were both sick that day, and you kind of look like that blue guy, was.....was that really you?"
Kurt got this panicky look on his face, this has going so good, now they'll know he's a 'freak' and that will be the end of it.
Pam seeing his expression, and with what Amy said, put two and two together. "Kurt you really are that blue guy aren't you? How do you do it, is it some kind of shape-shifting power, come on I won't tell."
Kurt looked at the others for help but he could see that they had no ideas of what to do. Then Amanda was holding his hand. He looked at her and into her eyes, he knew that she would support any decision, and on a few times had encouraged to show people the real him.
Kurt turned to them with new found strength, he enjoyed walking around without people staring at him, but he also hated to have to hide as well.
"Ja that's was I really look like, you see mein watch?" He lifted his holo- watch "This is really an image inducer, it makes a hologram around me to appear normal, so I can walk around without people..." Kurt couldn't finish he knew exactly how people would react.
"I think I understand Kurt." Pam said her voice had a sad tone to it. "People wouldn't understand, and I guess before today I would have been one of those people."
Kurt smiled then, it was nice to find some new people willing to give him and his friends a chance.
They all continued to talk, and even Amy and Joseph were starting to feel more relaxed around them. The more they talked to them, the more they realized that these mutants were just like them, they had all the same fears, and hopes like any other teenager.
After lunch they hung out a little, Rogue and Pam headed over to Hot Topic for a while. Joseph, Kurt, and Vincent hit the Electronic Boutique and then the arcades. Amy, Kitty and Amanda went shopping together.
Kitty was especially excited because Amy and her seemed to like a lot of the same things, and talked nearly non-stop.
Vince even meet up with Rogue later looking through the book store. He was in the Sci-fi and Fantasy area and she went to look through the horror section.
They all met up later by the water fountain.
Pam sat down by Amy and Joseph "Well this day started off kind of horrible, but I got to say this afternoon was a lot better."
"Tell me about it, I'm so glad I've found someone who totally likes to shop as much as I do." Kitty said being very perky. Amy was smiling, while looking through her bags. "I know what you mean Kitty, Pam never likes to shop at the stores I like to go too."
"Hey, it's not my fault I clothes that are a little more as you say 'out there', then what you ware. And at least Rogue has similar tastes to me so I finally didn't have to drag someone kicking and screaming for once."
Amy had her mouth open at that last statement for a moment. "I'm not THAT bad Pam, you're exaggerating."
Pam's only response was the laugh. Amy always looked so funny to her, with that annoyed look on her face.
Kurt had looked at his watched and noticed the time. "Aw man, look at the time ve should get back before the others get worried."
They all looked at their watches and noticed that they had spent several hours already.
Amanda sighed "Yeah I need to get home soon too, can I get a ride with anyone?"
"Sure my older brother is coming to pick us up soon and you can ride with us" Pam told her as she and the others got up to leave.
"Thanks" Amanda then gave Kurt a kiss on the cheek as she left. "See you soon Kurt."
Kurt with a huge grin on his face waved to them as they left. He still had the grin even when they got to the van.
Kitty was about to enter the driver's seat when Vince stopped her. "Whoa! Hold on there Kitty, remember our deal, I get to drive back."
Kitty made a pouting face hoping he would give in. It didn't work and he eventually go the keys from her.
***
Later that evening Vince was about to pop in a new DVD into his PS2 to watch in his room, and looked over at his laptop. He had an several e- mails.
Better get this out of the way, he thought.
The first few were junk mail, and trashed them. The next was from Father Michaels, he was checking up on him.
Vincent remembered how long it took him to teach him how to e-mail, now he was doing it constantly. The next was what really shocked him. It was from Mary.
Vincent stopped he couldn't open it. He couldn't face whatever she had to say about him. He left it alone. He decided he'd look at it tomorrow, today was going too well, and he didn't want to spoil it.
The last was from his IM friend, katgirl 201, telling him to meet her later at 7:00pm.
He glanced over at the time and it was 6:58 now. He put away the DVD and logged on to their chat board.
[V-boy] Hey Kitten you here?
The answer was almost immediate.
[katgirl 201] Hey V, how has your new life going in the states?
[V-boy] Pretty well, there was a few incidents but nothing I couldn't handle.
There was a long pause after that.
[V-boy] You still breathing?
[katgirl 201] oh yeah, it's just that what you said reminded me of something that happened today.
[V-boy] Anything good?
[katgirl 201] actually yeah, we made a few new friends today thanks to the new guy.
[V-boy] new guy?
[katgirl 201] Oh yeah we got this new guy a little while ago
[V-boy] what's he like?
[katgirl 201] well he's kind of cute, really well toned, he's kinda funny and helps out a lot around the place. He's kind of polite, but he has this serious side to him that really makes him seem way more mature than his age.
[V-boy] sound like you really like this guy
[katgirl 201] He's nice but I'm already seeing someone, besides I think my old roommate kind of likes him. : )
They talked on about computers and a few other things going on in their life before they said goodbye to each other.
Vince went back to watching his DVD.
***
Kitty had put away her own laptop, just then. It was nice to talk to someone, even if she didn't know who V-boy was. She had been talking to him for over a few months now and it seemed she knew a lot about him, but still nothing at all.
Plus she had this nagging feeling like deja-vu or something. Like he reminded her of someone.
She just shrugged it off. She didn't really care about who he was, only that she had someone to talk to that wasn't here, someone neutral and who would listen.
*** Sinister's Base
Sinister was looking over all the data the Mystique had stolen from the mansion, when both Mesmero and Mystique came up to him.
"Well what have you learned from the data and the blood samples Sinister?" Mesmero impatiently asked him.
"Quite interesting I assure you, I now have all of Mr. McCoy's data on all the mutants, but apparently he wasn't finished with the new one, Vincent, his data was incomplete.
"Incomplete how?" Mystique questioned him. She had hopped nearly getting caught was worth it, even though the EMP apparently did something to this 'Vincent'.
Sinister walked over to the computer and brought up Vincent's data.
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NAME: VINCENT JONATHON FREEMAN
BIRTH: 1986 (roughly, exact date unknown)
AGE: 17 (roughly)
NATIONALITY: Canadian
POWERS:
-Super-strength (max limit unknown)
-Super-seed (max limit unknown, but can only use for short periods of time)
-Invulnerability (max limits unknown, has stated that knifes and guns have no effect)
-Flight (max altitude unknown)
-Energy manipulation: Can create destructive or passive (Stunt) attacks of energy blasts, bombs, etc. through the hands. Max limits unknown.
PERSONAL NOTES:
Vincent suffers from nightmares from traumatic childhood events. It is evident that his X-gene was manipulated through experimentation by as yet unknown person(s).
Subject carries both emotional and physical scars from experience, and has yet to open up, and may not at all.
He has also much anger over the events of his past, but has control over it, he also seems to have a pathological fear of medical labs, for obvious reasons, and has rounds of deep depression and a fear of being alone.
*
"That's a lot of unknown factors Sinister, we should have waited a little longer." Mesmero angrily told him
Sinister wasn't phased by his words in fact he was actually smiling. "Yes I would have to agreed, but I also remembered something from reading this data and when I ran his blood sample through my records and I found something interesting."
Again the computer had new data on the screen.
*
Blood sample is 100% match to record 3805623
Matched subject: PRODIGY-7
*
Mesmero was shocked after reading that. "Prodigy-7, but I though the only survivor of your Project Prodigy was number six?"
"So did I, he had escaped but there was an...'incident' and we had thought him terminated." Sinister coolly said.
Mystique had no idea what they were talking about, and she HATED being out of the loop. "What the Hell are you two talking about? What is Project Prodigy?" she yelled.
Sinister turned to her, he had forgotten that she wasn't up to speed on all of the experiments he had performed.
"You see my dear, about seventeen years ago under the guise of Dr. Nathaniel Essex, I created a program to create the ultimate mutants.
However SHIELD had infiltrated my labs, and attacked. I was only able to save number six, but seven had escaped and after a month of chasing him, we thought he was killed. Apparently we were wrong."
Mystique wasn't impressed, she had been a part of mutant experiments before, and this was nothing new to her. "So one of your experiments are still around and now lives at the Institute, so what."
"So my dear, I'd like to know how powerful he has became, the scientist in charge of number seven, had some brilliant theories about him, and tried new experimental treatments, that showed great promise. I'd like to see exactly what the effects were, and if it works, we could use it as a way to enhance all mutants."
"And how will you test him Sinister?" She asked him.
A wicked smile formed on his lips then. "By the extreme of course, I know of someone that would be delighted to work for us, if the price is right of course."
Mesmero didn't like the idea of some mercenary in their group. "And just who is this individual?" the distain obvious in his voice.
Sinister turned to both of them with a huge evil smile on his face. "Why Cain Marko of course."
There was nothing but silence for a few heart beats, both Mystique and Mesmero wanted to believe they hadn't heard that.
"THE JUGGERNAUT!?" both cried out in surprise and horror.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 10:THE JUGGERNAUT COMES
Yeah that's right, major smack down next chapter so stay tuned and PLEASE send me some reviews.
A/N: oh and in case some of you are doing the math while seeing Vincent's birth date, this story takes place in 2003 summer, not yet 2004 like it is when this was written, so he is 16 and not 17, I may be a lousy speller, but Math I was good at. (