Beyond Mutation: Evolution Continues
It's been several years since the battle against Apocalypse and the actions of the X-Men and the Brotherhood are all but forgotten.
All the X-men have graduated from school either following a career as a teacher at Charles Xavier's School for the Gifted or have headed to university.
Joining forces once more Magneto and Mystique have rebuilt the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and have been responsible for many terrorist attacks against the human governments around the world
And both Professor X and Magneto are looking for new recruits.
It had been a few weeks since Erika had finally recovered and joined the other recruits at the Institute. They'd all settled in easily enough and made friends quickly.
Today was the first official school day for the kids, but because of recent mutant hysteria they had to use the mansion as their school aswell.
"So class" Kurt Wagner said standing in front of the 7 new mutants staring at the board behind him. "Who can tell me vhat zhis phrase means?"
They all look up at the board Heißen Sie willkommen zu Deutsch 101
Pauli puts her hand up slowly "Err...Welocme to German 101?"
"Ja gut gemacht" he said while Pauli smiled to herself "Ok class. Today ve vill learn of German cities, who can tell me ze capital of Germany?"
"That's easy Berlin" Kim said sitting back in her chair
"Ja, correct. Ok now there is a map of Germany behind you could you point it out?"
"Your kidding right?" she said looking at the blank expression on his face
"No. Quite serious."
Shaking her head she got up and looked at the map for a few seconds before pointing at Berlin
"It's there. Can I sit down?"
"Ja" he said as she took her seat he turned to his desk as he picked up a folder, but as he did all the papers fell from it. Much to the amusement of the class. He sighed before picking up his papers and putting them back
"Ok zis is ze first class I have ever taught and I am a bit nervous."
"Don't worry teach your doing fine, just stop talking to us like we're 5" Neil said from the back of the room
"Very vell. Ok here are some textbooks to read. I vould like you to study pages von to seven. Zen in...20 minutes I vant you all to say who you are, vere you come from and vhat your power is. All in perfect German." Everyone groaned as they collected a book from Kurt
A few minutes in Michael put his hand up
"Yes...Michael?" Kurt asked as he looked at his new student
"I'm done, sir"
"Ja?" Kurt said quite surprised
"Yeah"
"Ok lets here it" Kurt said indicating for Michael to come to the front
Sighing Michael got up from his desk and walked to the front
"Gutten Morgan. Ich heisse Michael Moore. Ich wohne in Tennessee. Und meine Kraft ist Übermäßigkraft und Flug."
"Vow very impressive Michael. Have you studied German before?"
"Well kind of. My mom spoke it fluently and I learned some from her." he said before heading back to his seat.
"Ok has anyvone else got zheres done?"
As the whole class shook there head and went back to reading Kurt picked a sheet of paper and handed it to Michael aswell as a dictionary.
"Vork through this sheet until ze others are ready" he said before porting back to his desk and starting to look through timetable plan. He laughed out loud when he saw what lesson they all had next.
"What's so funny Mr. Wagner?" Jack asked quite confused
"You vill all find out in 40 minutes"
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Next Class
As the bell rang once more the whole class had congregated around a large steel door
"So what is this?" Paul asked looking at the other bemused students
"Only one way to find out" Jack said pressing a button to the side of the door. As it opened they all saw a man standing in the middle with his arms crossed tapping his foot
"Your all 3 minutes late" he growled toward them
"Yo, sorry teach these uniforms are hard to get into you know" Neil said walking up to him. As he put his hand on his shoulder the guy quickly grabbed Neil and flipped him on his back. 3 blades protruded from his knuckles stopping millimeters away from his eyes.
"Don't--touch--the--teacher" he growled as the blades returned to his hand. As Neil got to his feet he ran back to the others.
"Ok kids. My name is Logan or Wolverine. I don't go in for this Mr crap. Today is your first lesson in power control. Since I don't know what you can do can I have a demonstration." He looked at all the quiet students who were either staring at their feet or the vast space around them. "Anyone....Fine you, blondie"
"Me?" Kim asked pointing at herself.
Logan nodded as she walked forward. She concentrated for a second while 2 spikes came out the back of her hands.
"When I get angry they turn red, I dunno if that means anything" she said as Logan looked at the spikes.
"Do they just do that or can you throw them?" Logan asked.
"Oh yeah" she said as they both flew toward Logan.
He dodged one, but the other went into his shoulder
"OH MY GOD I AM SO SORRY MR. LOGAN!!!!"
"It's just Logan, kid." he said as he pulled the spike out, but then he fell to his knees and breathed in sharply. He got to his feet again and rubbed his temple. "There must be some sort of sedative in your blood. I nearly went out cold." he said as the hole in his shoulder finally healed over
"I'm sorry Mr....I'm sorry Logan"
"Don't worry kid. I've been through worse. Now who's next? What about one of the twins?"
Paul stepped forward and showed off his skin
"This is it. Unbreakable crust thing across my skin. Try anything you won't break it." as he finished Neil hit him across the back with 2 sledge hammers his hands had morphed into. Neil stumbled forward before turning toward Neil
"Hey your right." Neil said before laughing
Paul growled before running toward Neil. Turning his arms into shields again Neil braced himself. Paul practically punched straight through the shields leaving huge dents with each blow.
"ENOUGH!!" Logan shouted
As the 2 stopped Neil turned his arms back to normal and began rubbing his arms.
"Damn that hurt" Neil said under his breath
"Ok then. What about you?" he asked Pauli
"Well when I turn invisible I can move through things" she said disappearing and reappearing behind Logan
"Impressive. Your the first ghost we've had here"
Pauli smiled "I like that! That's what you can call me"
"What are you talking about Pauli?" Michael asked
"Well all the teachers have, like, code names . You know Logan is Wolverine, Mr. Wagner is Nightcrawler. Well I'm gonna be called Ghost."
"Ok, so what about the rest of you do you want codenames to?" Logan asked as the class nodded
"Call me...Barb" Kim said as she produced some spikes
"Then I'll be Carapace" Paul said punching his hand
"Carapace?" Neil asked
"It's what they call a turtles shell. You know since I have this shell all over my body."
"That's lame man"
"So what are you metal boy?"
"I'll be...Ironclad." he said as his arms changed shape
"I guess I could be Cascade" Erika said
"What about you Michael?" Logan asked as Michael flapped his wings.
"I don't need a name."
"Come on we all have one" Kim said
"Jack doesn't" Michael stated
"Well ok. I'll be...Chronoslide" he said creating a few time bubbles
"That just leaves you Michael." Logan said resting his hand on the giants shoulder.
"Fine. Call me Seraphim. That's what my mom used to call me"
"Well now that that is all sorted let's get on with your training" Logan said popping his claws "Ironclad. Your first"
"Aww damn" he said under his breath as he turned his arms into claws like Wolverines "Lets do this"
A small smile darted across Wolverines lips before he started running toward Neil
"Oh shit" he said under his breath
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Next Class
"Ahh welcome to English Literature" the professor said as the class limped into the room taking their seats "I see you have just had a training session with Logan"
"What...Ow...gave you that impression?" Kim said rubbing her hip
"Then you will all be glad to hear that this lesson is not only more subdued, it is also the last of the day. Now who has read any Shakespeare?"
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Outside, After class
Kim and Jack are outside. She is firing barbs in the air and he is trying to hit them with his time bubbles
"So what do you think of the others?" Jack asked as he hits another barb
"They're ok. Neil is a bit of a pain in the arse and I'm glad Pauli and Erika are here, I don't think I'd cope if it was just guys. What about you?" she said firing 2 more barbs
"Well Neil is a pain in the ass. Paul seems cool, but Michael is all mysterious. You know, I mean the fact he looks like a huge blue cat with wings is one thing, but he never hangs with us. He either stays in his room or spends time with Logan in that Danger room."
"He probably thinks you guys are too immature. Hey you missed one" she said as a red beam blew it to smithereens
"Hey you kids should be more careful!" Cyclops shouts over to them
"Sorry Mr.Summers" Kim shouted back as her and Jack headed back toward the mansion
"What do you mean immature?" Jack asked
"Well you guys are always playing on the playstation 2"
"You play on it more than anyone!"
"I know. I'm immature. Come on let's get Erika and have some real fun"
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A few minutes later
"Are you sure Michael isn't going to kill us for this?" Erika said as they headed upstairs with a buckets worth of water following behind them.
"Trust me" Kim said " This will totally lighten him up"
They stopped outside a door and Erika moved the water above it. Jack created a large time bubble and threw it at the water. Erika let the water go and it stayed in place. As Erika and Jack ran and hid behind a door Kim knocked and quickly followed.
The door opened slightly and Michael peered out. As he did Jack pulled the time bubble back and the water fell onto his head. As it did Kim came rushing out pointing and laughing hysterically.
"Lets see how you laugh when I rip that finger off" Michael said as he shook his head dry.
Kim smiled sweatily before running back to were she was hiding. Quickly grabbing Jack and Erika she ran down the stairs and as far away from Michael as she could, but they all laughed
Michael laughed a little before heading back into his room
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So here is the start of school, don't worry I wont describe every day like this. I'm skipping straight to the end of the semester and into a free time with some adventure. The 2 characters that Magneto and Mystique recruited will appear in the next chapter.
Anyway hope your enjoying, please R/R