Brave New World 3
Authors: lirpa - liroa15@yahoo.ca
shana
Dedication: To all those who have inspired us.
Distribution: Our site, if you want it just ask.
Disclaimer: They belong to Joss and Marvel, not to us. If they really did this wouldn't be on the internet.
A.N: I don't know very much about the X-Men comics. I own a few, but that's it. I'm apologizing in advance if we screw up the dialects. Just for the record I'm also a grammar freak so the dialects might not be as involved as they normally are.
There have been some concerns raised that the characters are OOC. If you find this to be the case we apologize. It was never intentional and probably has more to do with our individual writing styles than anything else. The fact remains that the story is written and while minor revisions may be made during the editing and typing processes there is little I can do for the main idea at this point in time. In fact, this story was completely finished before anyone, besides my self and my co-author, saw the prologue. What I can do to make the characters more in character I will try to do, and if it helps, think of it more as the movie Wolverine. The only reason that the comics were needed at all was to bring Gambit into the story. So if it helps to place it in the movieverse, have at it.
Questions and Answers to follow. This is where I'll answer your questions, and the questions anyone has. It's actually a kind of novel idea because I've never had to do this before.
To Alec at ff.n. Yes, there is the issue that the papers would have been destroyed in the final battle. However, having lost my mother myself, when I was thirteen, I feel that Buffy's first priority would be to save anything that belonged to her mother. As for why it took so long, saving the world comes first always. Now she would have gone through her mother's financial papers fairly soon after Joyce's death, but that doesn't guarantee she'll go through Joyce's personal things. To me, it is quite plausible that in the beginning she would have put it off, not ready to confront whatever she imagined lurking in the papers. Eventually, with Dawn to care for and her death and revival all the way up to the end of season 7, I just don't believe that she'd have had the time.
To CPTSkip at Twisting the Hellmouth, I'm sorry that you found the "meet and greet" to be a little flat. We
were going for a kind of shocked feeling. Part of the remoteness may also be attributed to the initial awkwardness often experienced at first meeting. While Scott felt he knew Joyce quite well he'd never before had any contact with Buffy. And if that doesn't satisfy you I'd like to say that this is the first time either myself or shana has written either the Buffy or the X-Men characters so there's bound to be a few initial problems. Hopefully, they will all be worked out to your satisfaction.
To Darklight at ff.n. While we believe that Logan's strength is considerable we also believe that Faith would have the edge, after spending several years fighting vampires and demons at least as strong as Logan. This is also why Buffy is able to pin him, in case you were wondering. Also, the Buffy crew do not yet know that the X-Men are, in fact, mutants The fact that Dr. McCoy is a mutant is fairly apparent. However, most of the mutants that we're dealing with look fairly human and could probably pass as human without close inspection We believe that Logan would not want to jeopardize any chance he had a pretending to be human and because of this his full strength is never used.
To restive at Twisting the Hellmouth. Thanks for your support. We really appreciate it.
To Prophetess of Hearts at ff.n. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
To Plato at ff.n. As it stands, no Buffy is not paired up with anyone. We were, however, thinking about writing a sequel in which some more of these issues may be addressed, if the interest was there. If not, I feel confident in the way the story will end, as previously mentioned it is completed, and I have several other projects to devote my time to. I'm sure shana feels the same way.
To Harry2 at ff.n. As it stands the story is written and there isn't all that much Buffy/Jean interaction, you'll see why in future chapters. Again, if the interest was present that might be something that could be worked into the sequel. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
To nalaniangel at ff.n. I'm sorry that it confused you but that's simply the way I write. I won't speak for shana as these two chapters were mine, but how I write is something I cannot afford to compromise, it's what makes this story partly mine.
lirpa
Brave New World 3
by lirpa and shana
After a moment Xander cracked. "Well, that explains the temperaments."
"I am not related to him!" Faith returned, almost screaming. "I refuse to be."
Hank frowned. "Regardless, you are. Genetics does not lie, my dear."
Logan swallowed. "Welcome to the family, kid."
"I am not part of your family! This is absurd, I don't even know you. How can you be my father?"
"Yer askin' me?" Logan shouted.
"Well if you're really my father you would have been there."
"It was a long time ago, Faith," Xander soothed. "The guy might have just forgot."
"Shut up, Xander."
"Shutting up."
Faith turned to glare at all of them before stomping from the room, slamming the door behind her."
"Well, Slim," Logan observed the carnage that was once Scott's office door, "looks like ya need a new office door."
Scott rolled his eyes. "She's definitely your daughter, runt."
"Mes amis, shouldn' we go after de femme?" Remy suggested.
"Faith?"
"Oui."
"Why?" Buffy questioned. "You want to get in a fight?"
"Non, chere."
"Then leave Faith for now."
Suddenly Xander spoke up. "Where's an apocalypse when you need one, huh?"
"Apocalypse?" Scott nearly shouted.
Buffy rolled her eyes and let out an expressive sigh. "Yeah, you know, the end of the world."
"Oh."
"Yes, oh. We probably wouldn't have to do anything right now, she's that pissed."
Hank cleared his throat. "I could double check the test results," he suggested hesitantly.
"You do dat, mon ami," Remy agreed. "And Remy will go lookin' f' de femme."
Buffy stared at him in shock. "Are you deaf? Trust me, she's better off alone right now. Let her blow off some steam."
By dinnertime everyone in the mansion knew that Logan had a daughter, and those few who had seen Faith were busy sharing their impressions of the dark Slayer.
"She doesn't look at all like him," Bobby stated. "And they didn't seem to like each other much."
Both Buffy and Xander were uncomfortable in the gathering of mutants.
Jean moved to Scott's side. "Your cousin looks uncomfortable, Scott," she noted. "And her shields are excellent, the boy's as well."
"Strange."
Jean only nodded.
Meanwhile Ororo was watching both Remy and Logan closely. Logan didn't seem to know what to make of a full grown daughter landing in his lap. Remy seemed resigned to it.
"So Logan," Storm began carefully, "where is you daughter?"
Logan only shrugged and grunted in reply.
"She not so happy dat le Wolverine's her papa," Remy explained. "She stormed out of Scotty's office like a bat out o' hell. Left de door in pieces too, Stormy." Remy's eyes twinkled with mirth.
"She does realize that she's a mutant, doesn't she?" Storm pressed on.
"Oui, but de femme don' believe."
Storm closed her eyes. "That could present a problem."
Remy actually laughed. "Oui, mon petite Stormy."
"Didn't anyone go looking for her?"
"Her amis dought it best to wait."
"Friends?"
"De Fearless Leader's cousin and de boy."
"Logan's daughter is friends with Scott's cousin?" Storm queries disbelievingly.
"Oui."
"Goddess help us all then."
Just then a dirty, wet, and tired Faith threw open the main door to the mansion. "B?" she called.
"Yeah?"
"Scratch ten."
A small smile twitched at the corners of Buffy's mouth. "Good."
"Also, unknowns coming."
Buffy rolled her eyes theatrically. "Just great." Her eyes darted over to Xander, standing pretty much in Bobby's shadow.
Buffy crossed the room to join Faith. "How many?" she whispered.
"Two, tops," Faith whispered back. Logan focused on hearing this conversation.
"Vampires?"
"No, mutants probably. They set off the spidey sense, but not the same way."
"Kinda like these people," Buffy finished for her.
"Exactly."
"Are they a threat?" Buffy demanded in an undertone.
"No. Are these people?"
"No, they're good people Faith, even your father."
Faith snorted at that, promptly ending the whispered conference.
"Hey girls," Xander called, "come over here."
"In a minute, Xan," Buffy answered for them both, absently scanning the room. Most of the people from dinner had migrated into the foyer with faith arrival, or return.
"Where's you cousin?" Faith demanded.
Buffy shrugged. "Who knows? Who cares? He's on our side, Faith. Trust me."
"I'm trusting a lot of people lately," Faith returned sourly. "I don't like it."
Buffy sighed. "I know, but we do what we have to do."
Just then the doorbell rang, scaring the living hell out of both Slayers and half the X-Men.
A moment later, when no one had moved to answer the door, Xander asked, "Well is someone going to open the door?"
Embarrassed, several X-Men rushed to do just that while Faith sidled up to Xander. "So, what have you learned, Xan?"
Xander smiled. "These are the X-Men, Faith. They thought I knew or they wouldn't have told me."
Buffy and Faith both looked at him disbelievingly. "No shit," Faith agreed.
"Okay, okay," Xander defended himself. "I realize that was an incredibly obvious statement."
"Well then you're halfway there," Faith teased.
Jubilee stormed through the house, heading straight for Logan.
"Wolvie!"
Logan caught the young girl easily, which seemed to piss Faith off, though only her friends could tell.
Emma Frost stood just inside the doorway. "Where's Scott?" she demanded.
"Right her." And suddenly Scott was standing just behind Buffy, who didn't jump at the sound of his voice.
"B?"
"Yes, Faith?"
"Let's get out of here."
"'Kay. Where do you wanna go?"
"Not out."
"'Kay." And with that both girls started up the stairs as silent as they could manage, which was pretty damn silently.
When Scott broke from his conference with Frost he looked for his cousin, only to see her nowhere in the room. Faith was also missing. The boy, Xander, was still there however.
"That's strange," he muttered.
"What's strange?" Emma all but demanded.
"Oh, nothing," Scott temporized.
"Looking for someone," she queried.
"That's none of your business."
Frost smiled. "Quite."
Scott turned to watch Logan and Jubilee interact.
"I wonder what she'll think of Logan's daughter," he mused to himself.
"Logan has a daughter?" Emma asked skeptically.
"Well, Hank is running the tests again but their personalities are enough to convince me. Nevertheless, the X-Men will take good care of Jubilee."
Frost smiled coldly. "Of course." And with that she slipped out of the mansion and back to her car.
"Where'd de femmes go?" Remy demanded, finally pinpointing who was missing from the room.
"Buffy and Faith? They left not long after the other two showed up," Xander replied easily. Suddenly, the heard a tremendous crash upstairs.
"What was dat?" Remy demanded.
"Probably Faith, if they're fighting hand to hand. Anything else and it could be either one."
Logan and Scott, with Jubilee tagging along, were all racing for the source of the crash.
What they discovered was that Buffy and Faith had rearranged all the furniture on their rooms to give them as much room as possible to work with.
"You okay, Faith?" Buffy panted.
"You know it, B," Faith returned, spitting out a mouthful of blood.
"Good," Buffy agreed as Faith came up swinging.
"Wouldn't want to make this easy for you, B," Faith replied, landing a solid punch to the midsection that would have broken several ribs of a normal person.
Neither Slayer notice the small crowd gathering at their door, or if they did they ignored them.
"Holy sh-" Jubilee began.
"Jubilee,: Logan growled warningly.
"It's true," she argued, eyes glued on the fight, which was getting progressively faster, with both Slayers landing harder and harder blows.
"Think we should tell them about the Danger Room, Slim?" Logan questioned, eyes never leaving the fight.
"Probably."
"Shouldn't we, like, stop them?" Jubilee suggested.
"Probably," Scott agreed again.
"Girls," Xander called above the loud buzz of whispered conversation.
"Yeah?"
"You can stop now, you're scaring the locals," Xander joked.
Buffy and Faith wound down, fully conscious of the multitude of eyes on them.
"Don't you people have anything better to do?" Faith demanded acidly.
"We heard a crash," Logan defended himself.
"I'm only going to say this once, so listen close. I don't need you!" And with that Faith stormed through the crowd, which parted like the Red Sea.
Buffy sighed. "Now you've gone and pissed her off again. Are you really that stupid?" Then she too stalked off.
"Well, de femmes shouldn' have any problems in a fight, Remy dinks," Gambit stated.
Xander laughed. "You don't know the half of it."
It was Jean and Storm who found both Slayers out in the woods later that night.
"You can come out," Buffy called. "We know you're there."
Both mutants exited the cover with amazed looks on their faces.
"How did you know we were there?" Jean demanded.
"Spidey sense," Buffy shrugged.
"Spidey sense?" Jean queried.
"Yeah, you know how Spiderman can sense danger. It's like that."
Jean frowned. "I've never heard of a mutant ability like that before."
Buffy rolled her eyes. "That's because it's not a mutant power."
Neither mutant chose to comment on that statement.
"What's wrong?" Storm questioned, trying to sound comforting.
Buffy shrugged. "We're just having acceptance issues."
"Acceptance issues?" Jean pressed.
"Yeah." And after that Buffy refused to elaborate.
Suddenly both Slayer started to attention.
"What is it?" Jean asked, sensing the sudden tension in the air.
"Something's wrong, back at the house." Without saying anything more both Slayers headed back to the house as fast as they could run.
The front doors were blown in, twisted hunks of metal, when both Slayers arrived, well ahead of the X-Women.
"What the hell happened here?" Faith demanded, taking in the devastation.
No one answered.
"Let's find Xander," Buffy commanded.
"And the others?"
"Xander is our first priority."
"Gotcha," Faith agreed.
Quickly and efficiently the Slayers worked in tandem, searching the house for the cause of the disturbance.
"Well look, it's tin can man," Buffy observed, laying eyes on Magneto.
"Don't you know who I am?" Magneto thundered.
Buffy pretended to think. "No, and you know what? I really don't care."
The look on Magneto's face was one of pure, unadulterated shock.
"Hey, B?" Faith called.
"Yeah?"
"Who's the metal freak?"
"Don't know, don't really care either."
"Good en-" Faith bit her tongue as they began to float.
"What the hell?" Buffy demanded irritably.
"We're floating, and flying."
"I can see that, Faith," Buffy replied sourly.
"You are in my magnetic shield," Magneto interjected arrogantly s they landed near a 'ship.
"Okay," Buffy drawled, noticing Scott's unconscious body lying beside the airship. "What the hell is this?"
Fin Chapter 3.
Authors: lirpa - liroa15@yahoo.ca
shana
Dedication: To all those who have inspired us.
Distribution: Our site, if you want it just ask.
Disclaimer: They belong to Joss and Marvel, not to us. If they really did this wouldn't be on the internet.
A.N: I don't know very much about the X-Men comics. I own a few, but that's it. I'm apologizing in advance if we screw up the dialects. Just for the record I'm also a grammar freak so the dialects might not be as involved as they normally are.
There have been some concerns raised that the characters are OOC. If you find this to be the case we apologize. It was never intentional and probably has more to do with our individual writing styles than anything else. The fact remains that the story is written and while minor revisions may be made during the editing and typing processes there is little I can do for the main idea at this point in time. In fact, this story was completely finished before anyone, besides my self and my co-author, saw the prologue. What I can do to make the characters more in character I will try to do, and if it helps, think of it more as the movie Wolverine. The only reason that the comics were needed at all was to bring Gambit into the story. So if it helps to place it in the movieverse, have at it.
Questions and Answers to follow. This is where I'll answer your questions, and the questions anyone has. It's actually a kind of novel idea because I've never had to do this before.
To Alec at ff.n. Yes, there is the issue that the papers would have been destroyed in the final battle. However, having lost my mother myself, when I was thirteen, I feel that Buffy's first priority would be to save anything that belonged to her mother. As for why it took so long, saving the world comes first always. Now she would have gone through her mother's financial papers fairly soon after Joyce's death, but that doesn't guarantee she'll go through Joyce's personal things. To me, it is quite plausible that in the beginning she would have put it off, not ready to confront whatever she imagined lurking in the papers. Eventually, with Dawn to care for and her death and revival all the way up to the end of season 7, I just don't believe that she'd have had the time.
To CPTSkip at Twisting the Hellmouth, I'm sorry that you found the "meet and greet" to be a little flat. We
were going for a kind of shocked feeling. Part of the remoteness may also be attributed to the initial awkwardness often experienced at first meeting. While Scott felt he knew Joyce quite well he'd never before had any contact with Buffy. And if that doesn't satisfy you I'd like to say that this is the first time either myself or shana has written either the Buffy or the X-Men characters so there's bound to be a few initial problems. Hopefully, they will all be worked out to your satisfaction.
To Darklight at ff.n. While we believe that Logan's strength is considerable we also believe that Faith would have the edge, after spending several years fighting vampires and demons at least as strong as Logan. This is also why Buffy is able to pin him, in case you were wondering. Also, the Buffy crew do not yet know that the X-Men are, in fact, mutants The fact that Dr. McCoy is a mutant is fairly apparent. However, most of the mutants that we're dealing with look fairly human and could probably pass as human without close inspection We believe that Logan would not want to jeopardize any chance he had a pretending to be human and because of this his full strength is never used.
To restive at Twisting the Hellmouth. Thanks for your support. We really appreciate it.
To Prophetess of Hearts at ff.n. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
To Plato at ff.n. As it stands, no Buffy is not paired up with anyone. We were, however, thinking about writing a sequel in which some more of these issues may be addressed, if the interest was there. If not, I feel confident in the way the story will end, as previously mentioned it is completed, and I have several other projects to devote my time to. I'm sure shana feels the same way.
To Harry2 at ff.n. As it stands the story is written and there isn't all that much Buffy/Jean interaction, you'll see why in future chapters. Again, if the interest was present that might be something that could be worked into the sequel. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
To nalaniangel at ff.n. I'm sorry that it confused you but that's simply the way I write. I won't speak for shana as these two chapters were mine, but how I write is something I cannot afford to compromise, it's what makes this story partly mine.
lirpa
Brave New World 3
by lirpa and shana
After a moment Xander cracked. "Well, that explains the temperaments."
"I am not related to him!" Faith returned, almost screaming. "I refuse to be."
Hank frowned. "Regardless, you are. Genetics does not lie, my dear."
Logan swallowed. "Welcome to the family, kid."
"I am not part of your family! This is absurd, I don't even know you. How can you be my father?"
"Yer askin' me?" Logan shouted.
"Well if you're really my father you would have been there."
"It was a long time ago, Faith," Xander soothed. "The guy might have just forgot."
"Shut up, Xander."
"Shutting up."
Faith turned to glare at all of them before stomping from the room, slamming the door behind her."
"Well, Slim," Logan observed the carnage that was once Scott's office door, "looks like ya need a new office door."
Scott rolled his eyes. "She's definitely your daughter, runt."
"Mes amis, shouldn' we go after de femme?" Remy suggested.
"Faith?"
"Oui."
"Why?" Buffy questioned. "You want to get in a fight?"
"Non, chere."
"Then leave Faith for now."
Suddenly Xander spoke up. "Where's an apocalypse when you need one, huh?"
"Apocalypse?" Scott nearly shouted.
Buffy rolled her eyes and let out an expressive sigh. "Yeah, you know, the end of the world."
"Oh."
"Yes, oh. We probably wouldn't have to do anything right now, she's that pissed."
Hank cleared his throat. "I could double check the test results," he suggested hesitantly.
"You do dat, mon ami," Remy agreed. "And Remy will go lookin' f' de femme."
Buffy stared at him in shock. "Are you deaf? Trust me, she's better off alone right now. Let her blow off some steam."
By dinnertime everyone in the mansion knew that Logan had a daughter, and those few who had seen Faith were busy sharing their impressions of the dark Slayer.
"She doesn't look at all like him," Bobby stated. "And they didn't seem to like each other much."
Both Buffy and Xander were uncomfortable in the gathering of mutants.
Jean moved to Scott's side. "Your cousin looks uncomfortable, Scott," she noted. "And her shields are excellent, the boy's as well."
"Strange."
Jean only nodded.
Meanwhile Ororo was watching both Remy and Logan closely. Logan didn't seem to know what to make of a full grown daughter landing in his lap. Remy seemed resigned to it.
"So Logan," Storm began carefully, "where is you daughter?"
Logan only shrugged and grunted in reply.
"She not so happy dat le Wolverine's her papa," Remy explained. "She stormed out of Scotty's office like a bat out o' hell. Left de door in pieces too, Stormy." Remy's eyes twinkled with mirth.
"She does realize that she's a mutant, doesn't she?" Storm pressed on.
"Oui, but de femme don' believe."
Storm closed her eyes. "That could present a problem."
Remy actually laughed. "Oui, mon petite Stormy."
"Didn't anyone go looking for her?"
"Her amis dought it best to wait."
"Friends?"
"De Fearless Leader's cousin and de boy."
"Logan's daughter is friends with Scott's cousin?" Storm queries disbelievingly.
"Oui."
"Goddess help us all then."
Just then a dirty, wet, and tired Faith threw open the main door to the mansion. "B?" she called.
"Yeah?"
"Scratch ten."
A small smile twitched at the corners of Buffy's mouth. "Good."
"Also, unknowns coming."
Buffy rolled her eyes theatrically. "Just great." Her eyes darted over to Xander, standing pretty much in Bobby's shadow.
Buffy crossed the room to join Faith. "How many?" she whispered.
"Two, tops," Faith whispered back. Logan focused on hearing this conversation.
"Vampires?"
"No, mutants probably. They set off the spidey sense, but not the same way."
"Kinda like these people," Buffy finished for her.
"Exactly."
"Are they a threat?" Buffy demanded in an undertone.
"No. Are these people?"
"No, they're good people Faith, even your father."
Faith snorted at that, promptly ending the whispered conference.
"Hey girls," Xander called, "come over here."
"In a minute, Xan," Buffy answered for them both, absently scanning the room. Most of the people from dinner had migrated into the foyer with faith arrival, or return.
"Where's you cousin?" Faith demanded.
Buffy shrugged. "Who knows? Who cares? He's on our side, Faith. Trust me."
"I'm trusting a lot of people lately," Faith returned sourly. "I don't like it."
Buffy sighed. "I know, but we do what we have to do."
Just then the doorbell rang, scaring the living hell out of both Slayers and half the X-Men.
A moment later, when no one had moved to answer the door, Xander asked, "Well is someone going to open the door?"
Embarrassed, several X-Men rushed to do just that while Faith sidled up to Xander. "So, what have you learned, Xan?"
Xander smiled. "These are the X-Men, Faith. They thought I knew or they wouldn't have told me."
Buffy and Faith both looked at him disbelievingly. "No shit," Faith agreed.
"Okay, okay," Xander defended himself. "I realize that was an incredibly obvious statement."
"Well then you're halfway there," Faith teased.
Jubilee stormed through the house, heading straight for Logan.
"Wolvie!"
Logan caught the young girl easily, which seemed to piss Faith off, though only her friends could tell.
Emma Frost stood just inside the doorway. "Where's Scott?" she demanded.
"Right her." And suddenly Scott was standing just behind Buffy, who didn't jump at the sound of his voice.
"B?"
"Yes, Faith?"
"Let's get out of here."
"'Kay. Where do you wanna go?"
"Not out."
"'Kay." And with that both girls started up the stairs as silent as they could manage, which was pretty damn silently.
When Scott broke from his conference with Frost he looked for his cousin, only to see her nowhere in the room. Faith was also missing. The boy, Xander, was still there however.
"That's strange," he muttered.
"What's strange?" Emma all but demanded.
"Oh, nothing," Scott temporized.
"Looking for someone," she queried.
"That's none of your business."
Frost smiled. "Quite."
Scott turned to watch Logan and Jubilee interact.
"I wonder what she'll think of Logan's daughter," he mused to himself.
"Logan has a daughter?" Emma asked skeptically.
"Well, Hank is running the tests again but their personalities are enough to convince me. Nevertheless, the X-Men will take good care of Jubilee."
Frost smiled coldly. "Of course." And with that she slipped out of the mansion and back to her car.
"Where'd de femmes go?" Remy demanded, finally pinpointing who was missing from the room.
"Buffy and Faith? They left not long after the other two showed up," Xander replied easily. Suddenly, the heard a tremendous crash upstairs.
"What was dat?" Remy demanded.
"Probably Faith, if they're fighting hand to hand. Anything else and it could be either one."
Logan and Scott, with Jubilee tagging along, were all racing for the source of the crash.
What they discovered was that Buffy and Faith had rearranged all the furniture on their rooms to give them as much room as possible to work with.
"You okay, Faith?" Buffy panted.
"You know it, B," Faith returned, spitting out a mouthful of blood.
"Good," Buffy agreed as Faith came up swinging.
"Wouldn't want to make this easy for you, B," Faith replied, landing a solid punch to the midsection that would have broken several ribs of a normal person.
Neither Slayer notice the small crowd gathering at their door, or if they did they ignored them.
"Holy sh-" Jubilee began.
"Jubilee,: Logan growled warningly.
"It's true," she argued, eyes glued on the fight, which was getting progressively faster, with both Slayers landing harder and harder blows.
"Think we should tell them about the Danger Room, Slim?" Logan questioned, eyes never leaving the fight.
"Probably."
"Shouldn't we, like, stop them?" Jubilee suggested.
"Probably," Scott agreed again.
"Girls," Xander called above the loud buzz of whispered conversation.
"Yeah?"
"You can stop now, you're scaring the locals," Xander joked.
Buffy and Faith wound down, fully conscious of the multitude of eyes on them.
"Don't you people have anything better to do?" Faith demanded acidly.
"We heard a crash," Logan defended himself.
"I'm only going to say this once, so listen close. I don't need you!" And with that Faith stormed through the crowd, which parted like the Red Sea.
Buffy sighed. "Now you've gone and pissed her off again. Are you really that stupid?" Then she too stalked off.
"Well, de femmes shouldn' have any problems in a fight, Remy dinks," Gambit stated.
Xander laughed. "You don't know the half of it."
It was Jean and Storm who found both Slayers out in the woods later that night.
"You can come out," Buffy called. "We know you're there."
Both mutants exited the cover with amazed looks on their faces.
"How did you know we were there?" Jean demanded.
"Spidey sense," Buffy shrugged.
"Spidey sense?" Jean queried.
"Yeah, you know how Spiderman can sense danger. It's like that."
Jean frowned. "I've never heard of a mutant ability like that before."
Buffy rolled her eyes. "That's because it's not a mutant power."
Neither mutant chose to comment on that statement.
"What's wrong?" Storm questioned, trying to sound comforting.
Buffy shrugged. "We're just having acceptance issues."
"Acceptance issues?" Jean pressed.
"Yeah." And after that Buffy refused to elaborate.
Suddenly both Slayer started to attention.
"What is it?" Jean asked, sensing the sudden tension in the air.
"Something's wrong, back at the house." Without saying anything more both Slayers headed back to the house as fast as they could run.
The front doors were blown in, twisted hunks of metal, when both Slayers arrived, well ahead of the X-Women.
"What the hell happened here?" Faith demanded, taking in the devastation.
No one answered.
"Let's find Xander," Buffy commanded.
"And the others?"
"Xander is our first priority."
"Gotcha," Faith agreed.
Quickly and efficiently the Slayers worked in tandem, searching the house for the cause of the disturbance.
"Well look, it's tin can man," Buffy observed, laying eyes on Magneto.
"Don't you know who I am?" Magneto thundered.
Buffy pretended to think. "No, and you know what? I really don't care."
The look on Magneto's face was one of pure, unadulterated shock.
"Hey, B?" Faith called.
"Yeah?"
"Who's the metal freak?"
"Don't know, don't really care either."
"Good en-" Faith bit her tongue as they began to float.
"What the hell?" Buffy demanded irritably.
"We're floating, and flying."
"I can see that, Faith," Buffy replied sourly.
"You are in my magnetic shield," Magneto interjected arrogantly s they landed near a 'ship.
"Okay," Buffy drawled, noticing Scott's unconscious body lying beside the airship. "What the hell is this?"
Fin Chapter 3.