Disclaimer: Aha… no.
A/N: And, revising the third chapter. This one will probably be revamped the most out of these first five.
Smoke swept over the small town in Northern Russia, but nobody noticed. Silence had swept over, and would never leave. Not one creature stirred, and nobody was in the position to notice anything. Nobody, that is, except for one man standing in the middle of the main road through the town. A grin had spread across his pasty white face, and the silver tentacles coming from his arms had curled in pleasure. Ah… the hunger of his life-draining abilities had been sated, and he felt as though an enormous weight had been lifted. He turned, and began to look for a vehicle. It was time to pay his old friend, Piotr Rasputin, a visit.
Rogue was not in a good mood. If she had been, that day might have been different. In fact, things might have happened differently; maybe things would have been better, or maybe things would have been worse. Whatever might have been, however, is irrelevant: she was in a bad mood. She had sunk into one of those snits which those who feel that life is basically crap often have. This greatly influenced her thoughts on recent events.
Rogue thought about the Professor's words at the meeting of the day before: "X-men, a new development has occurred in the evolution of the human race. Some of you already know of the four classes of mutant: gamma, a weak mutant with one defensive power, for example, Kitty; beta, a stronger mutant with a single dangerous power, like Scott; alpha, a mutant with multiple powers, like Kurt or Jean; and the omega class, consisting of mutants with one or more ultimate powers, capable of things beyond anyone's wildest dreams. This final class includes Rogue and myself, as well as others.
"The new development is a second mutant surge. The first one occurred around the time that you were all born. All of the sudden, people started gaining powers, and I recruited some of them. This new one has similar numbers, but it's omega class. A very small number of new Omega class mutants has appeared, and a number of previous mutants are advancing further. We've already seen the effect of that on Jean, Evan, and Rogue. Soon many of you may go through similar changes.
Anyway, we will have a new recruit soon. His power is likely as much a curse as a gift, so be sensitive."
Rogue got up and decided to go meet the new mutant with a curse supposedly so bad. She fixed a skeptical look on her face as she moved down the stairs, and then saw him standing by the front door with Scott, Logan, and the Professor. That pathetic-looking idiot down there was an omega? Yeah, right, sure Prof, and I'm the queen of England, she thought disdainfully as he looked over at her.
Well, thought Devon upon seeing her, at least I can't make her hate me by doing something stupid. Looks like she's already got the hate part down. He frowned. And she's hot, too. He, swallowed his nervousness, grinned cockily at her, and held out his hand. "Hi, I-I'm Devon March." Smooth, Devon, you stuttered.
"Ah'm Rogue."
Professor Xavier smiled benevolently at Rogue. "Rogue, please show Devon around." It wasn't a question.
"Ah, shit. Why do Ah have to do it? Couldn't Scott or Logan?"
"They are in an important discussion about the feasibility of Devon's going on missions."
"Hey! Why wouldn't I be able to go?"
"Devon, what is your power?"
"Well, I can burst into flames, and I can become invisible and intangible. I don't know how, of course, but isn't that what I'm here to learn?"
The Professor folded his hands, and appeared to consider. "Devon, we'll discuss your powers now. Rogue will show you around later."
Rogue smiled slightly. A moment's reprieve. As the Professor and Devon headed toward the Danger room, she turned to mope in her bedroom, and possibly read fanfiction on the internet.
Mike Emerson let a lazy grin pass across his face. "C'mon, you can't hurt me, I'll kick your ass."
"Yeah," came the reply, "I can. I can beat the shit out of you. Post up, now."
The two teens faced off, and Mike grinned again. "You take the first swing, or you won't get a fight, a'ight?"
Mike ducked the first punch easily, but came up just in time to realize that his opponent was faster that he'd accounted for. The second jab hit him square in the jaw. Even so, Mike didn't flinch; instead, his antagonist pulled his hand back yelling in pain. "Shit! Is your head solid bone?"
"I don't know, but my mom accidentally ran over my head in a van when I was a baby, and I didn't even bleed."
"It wasn't no accident, I bet."
Mike laughed, and flipped off the other. "Oh well, if you ain't gonna fight now, I'll beat your ass later. I got all the time in the world."
The other waited till Mike turned away then pulled out a knife. "Take this, bastard," he muttered, running forward. He jabbed Mike in the side of the head, then pulled back in horror. As the knife entered Mike's temple, a silver fluid surrounded it, and Mike suddenly burst out in a spray of the metallic liquid.
"He's a fucking mutie!" screamed Mike's rival. "Or, he was! I'm a hero, I killed the mutie!"
A cheer went up for him, but then began to die down as ripples flickered across the puddle of silver that Mike had become; then a human form sprang up, still silver, but beginning to harden. "You little… you really shouldn't have done that… I'll kill you!" Mike yelled, finally beginning to look human again. His skin turned back to normal, and he reached out for the attempted murderer, about to choke him; when a flood of other students, including those who Mike had considered his friends, attacked Mike in defense of the other. A chant went up of "Die mutie!" and Mike had to bow to the superior numbers and run.
Mike was breathing hard with the big mob about 50 yards behind him (mobs move slower than single people, and nobody had the courage to attack him without the rest of the group), when he stumbled across a ditch and fell. That's it. I'm dead. He thought, but the mob kept going. What the hell? He promptly passed out.
A/N: Well, that's it for my latest chapter.
Songs: "If I Had a Mutant Power" by Mikey Meyers as the theme song.