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Emerald: I'm baaaaaaaaaaack! Thank-you so much for your wishes! Zozma did a pretty good job, I think. This chapter will feature the Acolytes, the meeting of Quicksilver and Morpheus, some action between the X-men and Brotherhood, tree-talk, and their first day of school! Not in that order.

Zozma: This is gonna be great. *Grins evilly*

Emerald: Now Zozma, be nice. We shouldn't terrify them before they read the chapter.

Zozma: Tch! Yes, Em.

Emerald: Oh yeah, Im4everaqt? *Cough, cough, cough* That's the best I can do, I've gotten better, at least enough to help with the story.

Zozma: Here it is.

*Telepathy*

[Thoughts]

\\Tree Talk//  

Scene: Acolyte HQ (Magneto's Mansion)

                "Good morning, chere." Remy greeted Jennifer, who was in the kitchen, looking for a snack.

"Good morning, Remy. Um…not to pry or anything but where is Sabertooth?" The cat-like mutant had all the new Acolytes nervous, what with his growling and glaring.

"Victor? Took off, alt'ough where, Remy does not know. Scares you, does he?" The Cajun pulled down a box of Cocoa Pebbles, grimacing slightly.

"How St. John eats dis stuff, Remy will never want ta know." He poured two bowls, one for himself and the other for St. John, who was just coming in. 

"You don't like this stuff? It's delicious! An' no, I do not microwave the milk for it." St. John started making hot chocolate, his substitute for milk.

"No, Sabertooth does not scare me, and whatever he wants to eat, he can eat." Jennifer sat down with two pieces of toast, buttered, not burned.

"De mission went well. Remy heard, however, dat you five ran inta a bit of trouble. Is dat true?"

"Yeah, some girl was trying to play hero. We got her good, but the X-men came." Jennifer said.

"That lot is really high an' mighty!" St. John muttered.

"What lot? And where is Pietro?" Charisma asked as she came into the kitchen.

"De X-men for your firs' question an' Pietro's checkin' on de Brotherhood ta see if de are gettin' better. Or at least ta see if de have new mutants."

"Oh. What do we have to eat?" She started poking around in the cupboards to find something.

"We 'ave Cocoa Pebbles wit' 'ot milk or 'ot chocolate, toast, eggs, and apples." St. John listed the menu.

"I think we should buy some more food. I mean that's all fine and dandy, but from the looks of things we're gonna run out of stuff tomorrow." Amy came in from the dining room.

"Chere, dis place was originally a headquartas' for a bunch of male mutants. We know not'ing of shoppin'."

"I figured as much, Remy. And now that you have some girls amongst you, you can learn!" Amy laughed as she started making scrambled eggs.

"Mmmmm…make some for me please!" Chloe looked bed-ruffled, but her eyes were lit up, ready for anything.

"Okay, no prob."  Amy added three more eggs in.

"Good morning!" Chloe sang out and grinned.

"Aren't we chipper today? What's with the cheerfulness?" Charisma asked.

"I just had a good sleep. If that makes sense. And why wouldn't I be cheerful? Did something happen that I should be uncheerful about?" Chloe asked.

"No, no, no. That's alright, be cheerful. Nothing happened, I swear." Jennifer said, surprised at the outburst.

"Oh, okay then." Chloe sprinkled a little bit of salt onto her scrambled eggs when Amy set down her plate. Amy and Chloe were eating scrambled eggs, Remy was eating Cocoa Pebbles with milk, St John with hot chocolate, and Charisma and Jennifer were eating toast.

"Y'know, if I didn' know better, I'd say we were almost a family." St. John said looking around the table.

"Remy t'inks you are right, mon ami."

"Weird." All four girls said at the same time. They looked at each other and burst into laughter.


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Scene: Bayville Junior High

                Rahne, Jubilee, Jamie, Bobby, Amara, and Lauren were going to school.

"So, Bobby, you are going to eighth grade because you missed so much school last year. Why'd you miss so much school? Play hooky?" Lauren glared at Bobby.

"No, my mutation was messing me up so much. Then the X-men came and I had to do this year over because of how much I missed." Bobby hurriedly ducked behind Jubilee.
               

"And I did not have these different levels of schooling. So I am at this year." Amara added.

"Well, well, well. If it isn't the muties." A heavyset boy and his friends were grinning evilly at the youngest X-men.

"Uhhh…Hey Joey. How ya been?" Bobby asked nervously.

"Ye lay off, pigs!" Rahne growled.

"Rahne!" Hissed Jubilee.

"Yeah! Rahne's right! Lay off!" Jamie exclaimed.

"Madrox. You should of learned by now." Joey grinned.

"Ahem! Mr. Stevenson? Shouldn't you be eating breakfast?" Principle Ellen Small said coolly.

"Yes ma'am." Joey and his friends hurried to the lunchroom.

"Thank-you, Miss Small!" Jamie and Bobby exclaimed.

"No problem boys. It's such a shame that others can't see you as people." Miss Small murmured. She believed all people should be seen as people, not as mutants and humans. She knew that her opinions were going to get her in trouble one day.

"Is that our new student?" She smiled and Lauren.

"Yeah, this Lauren Press. Lauren, this is the Principle, Miss Small, the greatest, kindest lady in the world." Jubilee said this with conviction.

"Hi ma'am." Lauren smiled shyly.

"Well I'm sure they told you that you can't use your mutation during school hours on school property. However if you use your mutation appropriately on school grounds not during school hours, you will not get into any trouble." She grinned mischievously. Everyone else returned her grin.

"My ears and tail~" Lauren started

"Are very cute and you can let them show. If the other students start giving you trouble, come to me immediately. I always have time for friends." Miss Small smiled warmly and walked back inside the school, waving as she did.
               

"Whoa, this might not be hard after all." Lauren and everyone else went inside to eat breakfast.
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Scene: Bayville High

                \\Annie, it looks like trouble. There could be a fight any minute// A nearby oak tree warned.

\\I know, I know. But I can't sit by and watch, we have to stop them// Anne replied. Scott and Lance were glowering at each other and they had both taken a fighting stance.
               

"Scott! We can't use our powers. Neither can they." Jean exclaimed.

"Fists aren't powers." Lance gritted his teeth, "Stay out of this, Red."

"I t'ink dat we should no' do dis." Trey was standing next to Rogue.

"Do what?" Rogue asked.

"Fight dem."

"We've ahways fought 'em. They've ahways fought us. New recruits arehn't gonna change tha'." Rogue muttered.

"If you say so, chere."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. How 'bout we see what newbies we each got, yo?" Todd asked. He was standing next to Ryka.

"That might be a goot idea. Let's try eet." Kurt said to Kitty.
               

"Okay, like, it's better than fighting." Kitty replied.

\\See, nothing bad is gonna happen now// Anne was relieved.

\\So you are right for now, Annie// The oak said mysteriously. Oaks were always mysterious.

"Okay, we got Ryka Kioku, Kyle Levi, Bill Hughes, and Mike Barton. You got?" Freddy said, leering Jean.

"We have Ryo Cadencey, Athena Lawence, Anne Morland, Ivonne Andros, Manuel Grant, Myesha, and Trey Huebner. Also Lauren Press, who's at the Junior High, Damen Robinson, Damien Anderson, and Alexandria Glenn. Those last three we're not sure where they went. And we might have Desiree Porter." Jean finally said.

"That's a lot, yo." Todd looked disheartened at the thought having to face all those new mutants.

"You asked, you received." Ryo said calmly.

"Yeah, you just wait! The humans at this school don't like either one of our groups. Let's see whose newbies gets kicked out first!" Lance grumbled.

"Whatever, Alvers."  Scott said. The Brotherhood walked into the building.

"They are trying to get us kicked out. Be careful." Jean and Scott both walked into the building.

"Like, Alexandria's at the college. Do you, like, think we should have told them that? I don't, like, think Scott and Jean knew that." Kitty said.

"I don't think they knew that either. I didn't know that." Athena answered.

"Oh well. Does tha' mean tha' Scott and Jean have someone to answah to?" Rogue asked hopefully. Okay she was hopeful that Jean did. Scott, she didn't mind as much.

"If only we were so lucky, chere." Trey smirked. He, too, did not mind Scott as much as he did Jean.

"Well, I think we should get to class." Manuel and Myesha also went into the building.

"Y'know, they're probably right." Athena looked rather annoyed.

"Took you guys long enough to get here." Damien said as he walked over to the group.

"Like, hey Damien." Kitty greeted him.

"Hm…oh, hi." [Some small interaction between him and Kitty. Kitty always is outgoing] Rogue thought.

"You guys all have a map of the school, right? Keehty, you printed some off and passed them out?" Kurt asked.
               

"Yeah." Kitty answered. She waved and went inside to her first class.

"Damen?" Trey turned towards the gothic mutant.

"…Do you have an extra map?" Damen asked.

"Ja, here, mein friend." Kurt handed him one.
               

"Well, I'll see you guys later." Ivonne smiled as she and Roberto went to their class.

"Yeah catch ya at lunch." Athena walked in leaving the gang behind. Everyone followed shortly. Kurt and Damen went to their lockers, Damien followed them to his own locker, Ray smiled as he followed Athena, and Sam shook Anne slightly to get her moving.

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                Damien was slightly peeved by the time it was time to go home. The cheerleaders, not realizing that he was mutant, had been bugging him in every class. Trey also had been bothered a bit. He finally started flirting with Rogue, who didn't make any signs of protest. Ivonne, Anne, and Myesha had been very friendly to everyone, making new friends. Amanda (Sefton) had been hanging with Damen and Kurt. Ryo had been talking to Tabitha. Manuel had been very friendly but mostly talked to Sam.

                Ryka had almost lost Captain Ginyu, much to her displeasure. She noticed that she felt warm when she saw Kurt, who happened to be a very friendly person. He had helped her out and they had every class together. Todd didn't mind, to her confusion. Bill had been friendly and gotten a few phone numbers from some girls. Mike, Kyle, and Lance had caused a little trouble and earned a detention.

"Hey-no-one-told-me-the-X geeks-got-new-recruits!" Pietro sped to the jeep at a slow speed. To him at least.

"Tha' boy's pretty fast." Trey muttered.

"Pietro Maximoff AKA Quicksilver. Evan hates him." Scott said.

"His mutation is super speed. Like, he's also a player." Kitty added.

"Call him over." Trey said.

"What? Are you kidding? We can't have a confrontation!" Jean exclaimed. Trey and Rogue glared at her.

"Hey! Pietro! Git over here!" Rogue called. Pietro raced over.

"What's-up?" He asked.

"How fast can you go in a minute?" Trey asked.

"Three-hundred-miles. If I haven't ran too much already."  Pietro answered.

"Same here." Trey answered.

"No-way! We-ought-to-race-sometime." Pietro said excitedly.

"As if you'd win." Trey challenged.

"You-just-wait." Pietro replied. Both glared daggers at each other. 

Zozma: Well there you go. Review please. Flames welcome. We'll give 'em to Pyro.




Emerald: Zozma had an idea.




Zozma: Oh yeah! Uhhh…The DarkWarlord? I was thinking, since you had no real choice on who you wanted Damien to be paired with and he is friends with Rogue and Kitty, that we could pair him with Rogue. But lots of people want to be paired with Rogue and I already chose who was gonna have their character with Rogue. So I then thought Kitty might be possible. So what do you think? It's just an idea.
 
Emerald: I like the idea. And Im4everaqt, thank-you so much for your review. I babble too. Everyone else? Thank-you, too! Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!
 
Zozma: What? Oh yeah if you guys are or know any good Saga Frontier writers, please tell me and Em.  We really wanna write a SF fanfic with me in it! I'm outta here. *Zozma fades away*
 
Emerald: What Zozma said before "I'm outta here." Please. And I will update my other fic so if you waiting for that, it should be up by Monday. Buh-bye!