The Xavier Institute For Higher Learning
Kitty Pryde took two steps out of her room and walked right into a problem. A big commotion had started out of no where. A few students were about to get into a brawl. A young boy with red wings and a boy with porcupine like skin stood toe to toe with a large boy with a rocky texture to his skin and another boy with his fist ready to swing. A crowd of students surround the boys, waiting for the first person to swing.
"You know what Julian, Josh and I are gonna rip you into tiny little pieces," the porcupine said with his quills starting to stand up.
"Oh really Casey?" Julian says rolling his eyes. "What's Josh gonna do? Fly around and drop a few feathers on me? Let's get real for a sec, okay. You two don't stand a chance against me with Rockslide on my side."
"Rockslide," Josh says sizing him up. "That sounds about right to me, 'cause I'm gonna send him sliding across the school ground!"
The four teens rush towards each other, ready for impact, when Kitty emerges from the ground. Everyone stops, except Casey, who releases some quills in Julian's direction. She phases through them and Julian stops the using his telekinesis. Kitty gives an icy look at the crowd and they leave the scene in a hurry.
"Alright you four, what's the problem?" Kitty questions the boys.
"Julian started the whole thing," Casey answered. "He started talking about me and then started talking about Josh's family."
"Oh really," Kitty sighs. "What exactly did he say about your family Josh?"
"He said we were all nothing but a bunch of inbred hicks, who can't read." Josh says, fist balling up again. "He kept going and going. I was being calm and cool, but when he started talking about my pa, he crossed the line."
Kitty glares at Julian and Rockslide for a moment thinking of a good punishment. A light bulb goes off in her head and she grins. "Alright then Julian, since you and Mr. Santo like the Guthrie family so much, you both are going to get a weeks detention. Here's the kicker, you'll be spending it in the danger room with Cannonball and Husk. Now get to class."
Julian rolls his eyes and stomps off with Santo right behind him. Josh grabs a hold of Casey's hands and lifts them into the air. As they fly off, Kitty watches the kids go their separate ways. "You're a hardass Kitty," she says out loud to herself. "A real hardass."
A few hours later, lunch to be exact, the faculty members of the school meet up in the teacher's lounge to loosen up a bit. This whole 'teacher' thing is something new to most of them. Some of the teachers are former students themselves. But they see that some things never change.
"So what was all that commotion outside earlier?" Dani Moonstar asked as she tossed her ponytails back as she pours herself a cup of coffee.
"That Julian Keller was starting trouble again," Kitty answered as she continued reading her magazine.
"Oh I know all about that drama. I wonder why Emma lets him get away in everything. How does she expect the children to respect her if she doesn't enforce her own rules on 'her kids'???" Dani says.
"Or how does expect some form of respect with the way she dresses?" Xi'an asks the other ladies. The mutant known as Karma shakes her head in disgust, and continues grading her papers. "I mean let's get serious, who in their right mind would respect someone with their breast hanging out."
"The boys respect me a lot, Xi'an." Emma Frost says entering the room. She opens the fridge and gets a bottle of water using telekinesis. "And I'm pretty sure you respect my breast."
"Fuck you," Xi'an says in a hush yet stern voice.
"I know you want to." Emma responds. "But I'm not here to speak to you. I'm here to talk to Ms. Pryde."
"What," Kitty says coldly.
"I want to know, what gives you the right to go around punishing my students?" Emma wonders.
"I want to know, what gives you the right to let those kids of yours get away with anything they want?" Kitty asks standing up from her seat. She stands face to face with Emma and says, "But I forgot that you like to lay down for people."
"Oh, looks like someone has grown up and wants to hang with the big boys," Emma says with a smirk. "Now Kitty, I think I deserve an apology from you. You don't to go smarting off with your team leader do you?"
"Co-leader," Kitty responds gritting her teeth.
Emma pulls out her hand-held computer and begins writing in it. "I'm setting an appointment with you, Mr. Keller, Mr. Vaccento, and myself on Thursday, to discuss what the punishment should be."
While she continues to write, Kitty phases her hand through the mini- computer, making it explode in Emma's hand. She reaches to the table and picks up her book bag and heads towards the door. "See ya Thursday," she says exiting the room.
Dani and Xi'an share a silent laugh knowing who won the little fight. Emma slams the hand-held on the floor and storms out of the room. 'I will not be a joke to these people,' she thinks. 'They will give me their up most respect.' She slams the door shut, giving Xi'an and Dani a cue to laugh out loud.
He stands on top of the new Eden Hotel looking over the city he was about put into total chaos. 'Chaos,' he thinks. 'I like that.' He runs his fingers through his shaggy blonde hair and lets out a sigh of relief. He inhales and smells the peace and tranquility in the air. Something that he despises. He was ready for fear and anarchy to take over the city.
Maybe they would show up. It would make his job a hell of a lot easier. With the world already afraid of them, they would send the city into complete frenzy. The X-Men. Do they have any idea how bad that name makes them look? The black leather and adding the Juggernaut to the mix isn't making them sound any better. He reaches into his pocket and pulls out pack of cigarettes. He lights one and lets it sit on the edge of his mouth.
"Sorry I'm late," the voice of a woman emerging from a door. Her long blonde hair shook as she walked towards him. The sun made her blue and white cat suit glimmer every time she moved.
"Don't let it happen again," he responded. He takes the cigarette out of his mouth and taps the ashes off of it. "So, how are things on the Hellicarrier?"
"Everything is fine," she answers. "Everybody is relaxed and not doing too much. The inmates are either sleep or eating."
"I've been meaning to ask you, how do you sneak off that thing?" he asks tapping more ashes of the cigarette. "I thought S.H.E.I.L.D operatives are supposed to be on the Hellicarrier at all times."
"You know my powers," she says with a smile. "I can make people see what they want to see. So to them I'm still up there, 'fixing' one of the main computers. And they dare not to bother me when I'm busy."
"I see. So have you thought of a name yet?" he asks her looking down on the people.
"What do you think about Chimera?" she asks with a enormous grin on her face.
"I like it," he says without any emotion in his voice. A small breeze blows his leather coat and reveals a read and gold outfit underneath. "I'll be going by the name, Chaos."
"Nice," she says nodding her head in agreement.
"Hold on," he says aiming his hands at the hovering aircraft. "It's going to be a bumpy ride."
An explosion is heard above New York City and the citizens look up trying to find the source of the sound. A calm before the storm feeling passes through the people as the wait something to happen. Suddenly, the S.H.E.I.L.D Hellicarrier begins the sink from the clouds and the inhabits of New York City run in utter chaos.
{Emergency, All X-Men to Danger Room immediately! I repeat, all X-Men to Danger Room immediately!} Emma yells at her team telepathically. She pulled on her last glove and heard the door slide open. Cyclops walked in wearing the new uniform she helped design with Jubilee. 'The girl knows her fashion,' she thinks.
"What's the problem?" Cyclops asks adjusting his visor.
"I would like to know also," the Beast says leaping into the room. "I just started explaining the definition of nuclear reaction to my students."
"I'm sure they were overjoyed when you left," Kitty says dropping in fomr the ceiling.
"Very droll," Beast responds messing up her hair with his oversized blue paw. "I would like to think they enjoy my lectures."
"The key word in that sentence is like," she says putting her hair into a ponytail.
"That's enough you two," Cyclops says with an iron voice. "Emma, what is the emergency?"
"This is," she answers turning on the monitor in front of them. A horrific scene is laid out before them. The S.H.E.I.L.D Hellicarrier has crash landed into New York City. Buildings were beginning to fall and people began to run in panic.
"Oh my stars," Beast says in a hush tone.
"What caused this?" Kitty asks.
"As far as I can tell, this was triggered by a mutant," Emma answers. "Cerebra detected two mutant signature in the area the same time the Hellicarrier began to fall."
"And now everyone in America knows about S.H.I.E.L.D," Kitty says shaking her head. She begins to reminisce about her brief stint as a S.H.E.I.L.D agent. "How has it been since the carrier came down?"
"About ten minutes," Emma responds.
"Alright," Cyclops says turning from the group. "X-Men let's move out!"
Next: The X-Men battle Spider-Mans' greatest foes. And just who is Chaos and Chimera and why are they hell bent on destroying the world? All this and more in Chapter 2: "The Ones We Love".
Kitty Pryde took two steps out of her room and walked right into a problem. A big commotion had started out of no where. A few students were about to get into a brawl. A young boy with red wings and a boy with porcupine like skin stood toe to toe with a large boy with a rocky texture to his skin and another boy with his fist ready to swing. A crowd of students surround the boys, waiting for the first person to swing.
"You know what Julian, Josh and I are gonna rip you into tiny little pieces," the porcupine said with his quills starting to stand up.
"Oh really Casey?" Julian says rolling his eyes. "What's Josh gonna do? Fly around and drop a few feathers on me? Let's get real for a sec, okay. You two don't stand a chance against me with Rockslide on my side."
"Rockslide," Josh says sizing him up. "That sounds about right to me, 'cause I'm gonna send him sliding across the school ground!"
The four teens rush towards each other, ready for impact, when Kitty emerges from the ground. Everyone stops, except Casey, who releases some quills in Julian's direction. She phases through them and Julian stops the using his telekinesis. Kitty gives an icy look at the crowd and they leave the scene in a hurry.
"Alright you four, what's the problem?" Kitty questions the boys.
"Julian started the whole thing," Casey answered. "He started talking about me and then started talking about Josh's family."
"Oh really," Kitty sighs. "What exactly did he say about your family Josh?"
"He said we were all nothing but a bunch of inbred hicks, who can't read." Josh says, fist balling up again. "He kept going and going. I was being calm and cool, but when he started talking about my pa, he crossed the line."
Kitty glares at Julian and Rockslide for a moment thinking of a good punishment. A light bulb goes off in her head and she grins. "Alright then Julian, since you and Mr. Santo like the Guthrie family so much, you both are going to get a weeks detention. Here's the kicker, you'll be spending it in the danger room with Cannonball and Husk. Now get to class."
Julian rolls his eyes and stomps off with Santo right behind him. Josh grabs a hold of Casey's hands and lifts them into the air. As they fly off, Kitty watches the kids go their separate ways. "You're a hardass Kitty," she says out loud to herself. "A real hardass."
A few hours later, lunch to be exact, the faculty members of the school meet up in the teacher's lounge to loosen up a bit. This whole 'teacher' thing is something new to most of them. Some of the teachers are former students themselves. But they see that some things never change.
"So what was all that commotion outside earlier?" Dani Moonstar asked as she tossed her ponytails back as she pours herself a cup of coffee.
"That Julian Keller was starting trouble again," Kitty answered as she continued reading her magazine.
"Oh I know all about that drama. I wonder why Emma lets him get away in everything. How does she expect the children to respect her if she doesn't enforce her own rules on 'her kids'???" Dani says.
"Or how does expect some form of respect with the way she dresses?" Xi'an asks the other ladies. The mutant known as Karma shakes her head in disgust, and continues grading her papers. "I mean let's get serious, who in their right mind would respect someone with their breast hanging out."
"The boys respect me a lot, Xi'an." Emma Frost says entering the room. She opens the fridge and gets a bottle of water using telekinesis. "And I'm pretty sure you respect my breast."
"Fuck you," Xi'an says in a hush yet stern voice.
"I know you want to." Emma responds. "But I'm not here to speak to you. I'm here to talk to Ms. Pryde."
"What," Kitty says coldly.
"I want to know, what gives you the right to go around punishing my students?" Emma wonders.
"I want to know, what gives you the right to let those kids of yours get away with anything they want?" Kitty asks standing up from her seat. She stands face to face with Emma and says, "But I forgot that you like to lay down for people."
"Oh, looks like someone has grown up and wants to hang with the big boys," Emma says with a smirk. "Now Kitty, I think I deserve an apology from you. You don't to go smarting off with your team leader do you?"
"Co-leader," Kitty responds gritting her teeth.
Emma pulls out her hand-held computer and begins writing in it. "I'm setting an appointment with you, Mr. Keller, Mr. Vaccento, and myself on Thursday, to discuss what the punishment should be."
While she continues to write, Kitty phases her hand through the mini- computer, making it explode in Emma's hand. She reaches to the table and picks up her book bag and heads towards the door. "See ya Thursday," she says exiting the room.
Dani and Xi'an share a silent laugh knowing who won the little fight. Emma slams the hand-held on the floor and storms out of the room. 'I will not be a joke to these people,' she thinks. 'They will give me their up most respect.' She slams the door shut, giving Xi'an and Dani a cue to laugh out loud.
He stands on top of the new Eden Hotel looking over the city he was about put into total chaos. 'Chaos,' he thinks. 'I like that.' He runs his fingers through his shaggy blonde hair and lets out a sigh of relief. He inhales and smells the peace and tranquility in the air. Something that he despises. He was ready for fear and anarchy to take over the city.
Maybe they would show up. It would make his job a hell of a lot easier. With the world already afraid of them, they would send the city into complete frenzy. The X-Men. Do they have any idea how bad that name makes them look? The black leather and adding the Juggernaut to the mix isn't making them sound any better. He reaches into his pocket and pulls out pack of cigarettes. He lights one and lets it sit on the edge of his mouth.
"Sorry I'm late," the voice of a woman emerging from a door. Her long blonde hair shook as she walked towards him. The sun made her blue and white cat suit glimmer every time she moved.
"Don't let it happen again," he responded. He takes the cigarette out of his mouth and taps the ashes off of it. "So, how are things on the Hellicarrier?"
"Everything is fine," she answers. "Everybody is relaxed and not doing too much. The inmates are either sleep or eating."
"I've been meaning to ask you, how do you sneak off that thing?" he asks tapping more ashes of the cigarette. "I thought S.H.E.I.L.D operatives are supposed to be on the Hellicarrier at all times."
"You know my powers," she says with a smile. "I can make people see what they want to see. So to them I'm still up there, 'fixing' one of the main computers. And they dare not to bother me when I'm busy."
"I see. So have you thought of a name yet?" he asks her looking down on the people.
"What do you think about Chimera?" she asks with a enormous grin on her face.
"I like it," he says without any emotion in his voice. A small breeze blows his leather coat and reveals a read and gold outfit underneath. "I'll be going by the name, Chaos."
"Nice," she says nodding her head in agreement.
"Hold on," he says aiming his hands at the hovering aircraft. "It's going to be a bumpy ride."
An explosion is heard above New York City and the citizens look up trying to find the source of the sound. A calm before the storm feeling passes through the people as the wait something to happen. Suddenly, the S.H.E.I.L.D Hellicarrier begins the sink from the clouds and the inhabits of New York City run in utter chaos.
{Emergency, All X-Men to Danger Room immediately! I repeat, all X-Men to Danger Room immediately!} Emma yells at her team telepathically. She pulled on her last glove and heard the door slide open. Cyclops walked in wearing the new uniform she helped design with Jubilee. 'The girl knows her fashion,' she thinks.
"What's the problem?" Cyclops asks adjusting his visor.
"I would like to know also," the Beast says leaping into the room. "I just started explaining the definition of nuclear reaction to my students."
"I'm sure they were overjoyed when you left," Kitty says dropping in fomr the ceiling.
"Very droll," Beast responds messing up her hair with his oversized blue paw. "I would like to think they enjoy my lectures."
"The key word in that sentence is like," she says putting her hair into a ponytail.
"That's enough you two," Cyclops says with an iron voice. "Emma, what is the emergency?"
"This is," she answers turning on the monitor in front of them. A horrific scene is laid out before them. The S.H.E.I.L.D Hellicarrier has crash landed into New York City. Buildings were beginning to fall and people began to run in panic.
"Oh my stars," Beast says in a hush tone.
"What caused this?" Kitty asks.
"As far as I can tell, this was triggered by a mutant," Emma answers. "Cerebra detected two mutant signature in the area the same time the Hellicarrier began to fall."
"And now everyone in America knows about S.H.I.E.L.D," Kitty says shaking her head. She begins to reminisce about her brief stint as a S.H.E.I.L.D agent. "How has it been since the carrier came down?"
"About ten minutes," Emma responds.
"Alright," Cyclops says turning from the group. "X-Men let's move out!"
Next: The X-Men battle Spider-Mans' greatest foes. And just who is Chaos and Chimera and why are they hell bent on destroying the world? All this and more in Chapter 2: "The Ones We Love".