The Uncanny R-Man: Yeah, I've been wanting to bring her back like
Forge, now I finally got the chance too. Question though, why do you
think it's him? He's lost in time right or did I miss something in the
final episode?
Supergirlhv: Well his name is Sinister, would you expect him not to? :) As for Danielle's powers she can make you see your worse nightmares.
NctrnlBst: LOL, nice one. Unfortunately you won't find out in this story. Sinister's agenda started off in Enter Mayhem, and will continue on throughout the stories until it's revealed. Although feel free to guess, though I doubt anyone will get it.
BlackRoseApocalyps: Yes I know, but what's a story without good villains? Kind of boring, and yes I think it's hilarious how Kurt is so overprotective.
jadestar123: Oh don't worry the Acolytes will be getting a major boost in members at the end, plus watch out for a new evil mutant team coming.
FAMILY AFFAIRS
CHAPTER 3 CROSSING PATHS
The Blackbird was currently flying to Manitoba. In it where Xavier, Logan who was piloting, Vincent, and Blink were chosen by Xavier to come along.
"So why is it we are here?" Blink asked them.
Xavier looked at the girl. "Well first thing, I think Vincent would appreciate going back to his native country for a bit." Vincent nodded his head to agree, but didn't say anything to interrupt him. "As for you, I felt it was time for you to get out more into the world. Besides I calm influence, and the girl we are seeing is slightly agitated with everything."
"Basically you don't come off as a threat." Logan said to her, while Xavier gave him an annoyed look.
"Oh, I'm fine with that, besides I've never been out of the country before. Vincent what's Canada like?" Blink turned to face her friend.
He just shrugged. "Depends on where you are. In Quebec they speak primarily in French, in Newfoundland they speak English, it's just hard to tell what they're saying some times. Saskatchewan is pretty much flat land where a lot a grain and stuff is grown."
"Certain cities are different too. For instance Vancouver barley gets any snow then the rest of the country. But they get more rain though."
"Aren't there like two territories also?" She asks.
"Well three now, part of the North West Territories was turned into Nunavut. But I don't know much about them, other then they're way up north. And for the record, we Canadians don't always say 'eh' at then end of each sentence, I know I've used it from time to time, but not that much."
"Just what ever you do don't comment on how clean thing look, or refrain from saying anything negative about Canadian beet or hockey, if you don't want to stand out as an American."
Blink absorbed all of it in. "O-kay. Why exactly shouldn't I say anything negative about the beer or hockey?"
"Because you'd most likely piss someone off." Logan said up front.
AT THE CLINIC
Gale was worrying herself sick. She didn't know what to expect from these people, so her father agreed to talk to them here, after it closed up instead of at their home, since she want' sure if she wanted them there.
She and her father were waiting for them to arrive. Then the front door opened, and she guessed it was them, since they were the only ones who were supposed to be here after they closed.
She didn't know what to expect, but this wasn't it. There was an older bald man in a wheelchair, a scary looking man, and two teenagers, the girl roughly her age and a boy slightly older.
Her father got up. "Mr. Xavier I presume?" Xavier nodded his head. "Yes, I believe you are Dr. Hunter, and this is your daughter also?"
Her father nodded his head and gestured for them to his office. "Please this way, we can be more comfortable in there."
Blink looked around the place. It was clean and painted a dull white, but was in good condition. She noticed Vincent looking around strangely. "Hey don't worry we're not going into the medical area." She said to him, knowing of his dislike of those kinds of places.
"It's no that. I just...got this weird déjà vu thing going on. Like I swear I remember that guy from somewhere, and this place seems familiar, yet different."
Blink looked at him confused. Vincent noticed her look. "Yeah I know sounds weird but I've been feeling this since getting on this street and this place."
They entered the office and sat down, while Xavier took up a space in front of the desk of Dr. Hunter's. "I believe you have some questions, so please feel free to ask them."
"Alright." Dr. Hunter said sternly. "First off I want to know how you found out about my daughter, and secondly why do you think she could benefit from you?"
Xavier knew he was looking out for his daughter and calmly began. "I have a device I call Cerebro that let's me locate mutants in the world, I found your daughter quite by accident."
"As for what she can get out of my Institute. She will be around other mutants her own age, some who feel the same pressures of being a mutant as she does. Also we can learn about her powers and help her to learn control, and if need be treat any side effects."
"Side effects? Like what?" Gale asked a little scared.
Xavier took a breath. "Well some mutations are difficult for some. We have one student who must always wear protective shades on to control his power, and recently a girl was able to finally get control over a power that before hand, didn't allow for any physical contact."
Vincent shifted a little, they knew who the Professor was talking about. "And some mutations also cause physical changes."
"Tell me about it." Gale said. "I used to have blond hair and brown eyes."
"You got off lucky." Blink said to her a little irritated at her attitude towards that little change. "What's that supposed to mean?" Gale said picking up on Blink's emotions.
"This." Blink said and turned off her hohowatch. "Oh." Gale said in shock. "Sorry I didn't mean anything by it, it's just well, I'm so sorry I didn't mean to offend you are anything, my life has just been real stressful and I'm lashing out, sorry."
Blink let out a breath. "Yeah, I kind of know what you mean." She turned her holowatch back on. "I'm just lucky the Professor got me this thing so I can go out now and not be stared at."
"I guess you do help other mutants." Dr. Hunter said but his mind was processing everything. If he hadn't seen it he wouldn't have believed it himself. The girl seemed so sincere about what she said about the Professor and even grateful.
Vincent was looking at the doctor closely now. He seemed so familiar to him. He began scratching the back of his neck with his left arm. Gale saw this and immediately noticed a scar on his arm.
It looked like an old surgical scar of some kind, and she wasn't sure but she thought she remembered something. Then it hit her.
"Excuse me but when did you get that scar? Was it about ten or eleven years ago?" Gale said completely focused on him, especially the eyes. Vincent looked surprised at this. "Uh, yeah how did you know that?"
"Dad I think it's him. That boy you once helped remember? He was all bleeding from a nasty cut on his arm, and then disappeared?" She said to him. Vincent looked back at the Doctor and realized it was him.
He was older and the beard is what threw him, he didn't have it then, and it's also why this place seemed so familiar. Because it was THIS place he ended up after he got away from those solider guys.
It looked different then it did back then, new furniture and paint, plus everything seemed smaller too. Vincent looked wide-eyed at the Doctor, who looked back at him realizing that Vincent knew what she was talking about.
"Good Lord." Dr. Hunter whispered. "Well...this is unexpected." Vincent said still shaken at this turn of events. Of course the others were just as shocked. Logan turned to Xavier and gave him a look that asked if he knew about this, but he was just as surprised as everyone else.
"I always wondered what happened to that child." Dr. Hunter said quietly. "Well at least now we know he's safe." Gale said trying to make light of all of this, but it didn't really.
What happened to you? Why did you leave? And how did you get so hurt?" Gale suddenly asked moving closer to him. "I mean, I remember seeing you so hurt on that table and then you were gone so suddenly."
Vincent shifted a little uncomfortably. "Well I'll give you short version. Basically I escaped from a lab, was on the run I got...injured from these commando guys that used to be chasing me, fell outside. And when I saw you Doc, I freaked since the only so called doctors used me as a test subject. That's why I left. I was scared out of my mind. I traveled all the way to Toronto and got a place at an orphanage and well I lived there up to a few months back until I went to Xavier's."
Gale could see his face becoming hard and serious, but she could also feel other emotions. Rage at what was done to him. There was also sorrow, sadness, loneliness and a deep pain. Her father was in complete shock at the revelation.
He had thought he was just a runaway and had gotten jumped by a gang or something nothing like this.
Gale moved closer to the boy she remembered. She saw him now not as that frightened hurt child but as someone who had grown up at a young age and was stronger then he was. Yet still carried the pain from those days.
"I'm sorry I didn't know." She said quietly. Vincent only nodded his head and looked her in the eyes. "I know you're not exactly sure about us, about any of this. But let me tell you, that you won't get a better offer from anyone else."
"I never regretted going to the Institute."
"Neither have I." Blink spoke up. "When I...changed. My parents couldn't get rid of me fast enough. They were members of the FOH and gave me over to them." Dr. Hunter was appalled at this. He couldn't imagine parents doing that to their own child.
"That wasn't the worst of it. I was sent to this place where this man Trask was making new model Sentinels and me and others were force to fight for our lives there. Some of them didn't make it until Xavier and his people saved us." Blink said quietly. She still had the occasional nightmare about that place.
"As you can see the world can be a cruel and dangerous place for mutants." Xavier solemnly told them. "I try and give them a place of safety and for them to grow and develop."
"I never knew things were that bad for mutants." Dr. Hunter sighed. He liked to believe the world was better then that. But if things like that could happen, what would happen to his daughter? If something like that happened to her what would he do?
SOMEWHERE IN NEW YORK
Graydon Creed was going home to his apartment. It had been a long day, they still couldn't fine where Trask was hiding himself, and his superiors didn't like it.
He put in the key to his apartment and opened the lock. He opened and went through the door and shut it behind him. He threw his keys onto a table by the door and was going to the fridge for a beer.
"Long time no see wimp." Came a deep all too familiar voice that chilled him to the bone. He quickly turned around to see Sabertooth. "What are you doing here freak!" He yelled out at him.
Sabertooth only grinned. "Is that any way to talk to your old man boy?"
Graydon felt sick at that reminder. "You are not my father! You or that bitch of yours are my family!"
"Now is that any way for a boy to talk about his mother like that?" Came a female voice. To his horror Graydon saw his mother, Mystique was also in the room with him. She came out of the other room where she had been waiting for him in hiding.
"What the hell are you doing here too?" Graydon demanded of her. She got a disgusted look on her face at him. "I can't believe I gave birth to a weakling human like yourself."
"What do you two want?" He asked them feeling wary of both of them in the same room. "Can't a mother and father visit their ungrateful child once and awhile?" Mystique teased him. She saw the look he gave her then decided to get to business.
"Fine listen up. We know you're with the FOH so we won't let it slip that you're the spawn of mutants if and only if you leave Bayville alone. Especially the Brotherhood boarding house. Got it?"
Graydon paled when she threatened to exposed his little secret. "Fine. Is that it?" He asked angrily.
"That will do." She said and left through the window in her crow form. Sabertooth glared at Graydon who moved back from him afraid. Creed gave a satisfactory grin that the Graydon was so easily intimidated by him. He moved to the window and jumped out.
Graydon sank to his knees thinking of what he should do.
Mystique and Sabertooth met up on the top of a building not far away. "You think he'll keep his word?" He asked her.
Mystique looked distantly at the building where her son lived. "Of course not, but that's what we're counting on isn't it?"
BACK IN MANITOBA
Gale had gotten to talking with Xavier and the others. This place seemed more and more like somewhere she could use. Xavier had already helped to ease the headache she constantly felt and he said he could teach her to shield herself from all the emotions she felt.
She didn't want to leave her father though, and asked for a minute alone with him.
"Dad. What do you think of all of this?" She asked of him. Her father looked up and ran a hand through his hair and breathed out deeply.
She could feel the concern and worry coming off of him. "Sweaty I don't want to be without you, that's for sure. But I have to realize several things. First I can't protect you from the world. Secondly I can't help you like they can, you said it your self you feel batter know then you did even with the pain medication for the headaches I've been giving you."
"But it's your choice and I will stand by your decision no matter what."
She could feel the love for her coming off of him and she immediately hugged him and he hugged her back. She didn't want to leave and go to some new strange place. But the headaches had gotten worse and worse and she needed help with them or she feared it would drive her nuts.
"I don't want to leave you daddy, but...but." She couldn't get the words out through her throat. She could feel the tears coming and she was beginning to choke up. "But I have to go." She said quietly.
"I know." He whispered to her.
It was decided they would return for her in a few days to allow her to pack and to spend time with her father. Gale wasn't sure about anything anymore. But she had made a choice and was going to stick by it.
BAYVILLE
Mesmero was lurking around the city looking for the perfect individuals. "I can't believe we have to live in a town with all of those mutie freaks." Came a voice. This caught his attention and he moved silently to it.
He found in a parking lot several boys ages through 17 to early 20's standing around. "Tell me about it, that one freak kicked me in the face once, and it was for no reason what's so ever." Said a tall blond boy.
"What about what he did to the rest of us Duncan?" Said another. "Not to mention all those other freaks." Came a third voice.
Memsero was pleased. He had finally found the right group of people. He would wait and put a mental command in their minds to meet him later. Soon everything would be ready for the test.
He grinned to himself. 'Soon everything would fall into place.' He thought to himself.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 4: ADJUSTMENTS
Supergirlhv: Well his name is Sinister, would you expect him not to? :) As for Danielle's powers she can make you see your worse nightmares.
NctrnlBst: LOL, nice one. Unfortunately you won't find out in this story. Sinister's agenda started off in Enter Mayhem, and will continue on throughout the stories until it's revealed. Although feel free to guess, though I doubt anyone will get it.
BlackRoseApocalyps: Yes I know, but what's a story without good villains? Kind of boring, and yes I think it's hilarious how Kurt is so overprotective.
jadestar123: Oh don't worry the Acolytes will be getting a major boost in members at the end, plus watch out for a new evil mutant team coming.
FAMILY AFFAIRS
CHAPTER 3 CROSSING PATHS
The Blackbird was currently flying to Manitoba. In it where Xavier, Logan who was piloting, Vincent, and Blink were chosen by Xavier to come along.
"So why is it we are here?" Blink asked them.
Xavier looked at the girl. "Well first thing, I think Vincent would appreciate going back to his native country for a bit." Vincent nodded his head to agree, but didn't say anything to interrupt him. "As for you, I felt it was time for you to get out more into the world. Besides I calm influence, and the girl we are seeing is slightly agitated with everything."
"Basically you don't come off as a threat." Logan said to her, while Xavier gave him an annoyed look.
"Oh, I'm fine with that, besides I've never been out of the country before. Vincent what's Canada like?" Blink turned to face her friend.
He just shrugged. "Depends on where you are. In Quebec they speak primarily in French, in Newfoundland they speak English, it's just hard to tell what they're saying some times. Saskatchewan is pretty much flat land where a lot a grain and stuff is grown."
"Certain cities are different too. For instance Vancouver barley gets any snow then the rest of the country. But they get more rain though."
"Aren't there like two territories also?" She asks.
"Well three now, part of the North West Territories was turned into Nunavut. But I don't know much about them, other then they're way up north. And for the record, we Canadians don't always say 'eh' at then end of each sentence, I know I've used it from time to time, but not that much."
"Just what ever you do don't comment on how clean thing look, or refrain from saying anything negative about Canadian beet or hockey, if you don't want to stand out as an American."
Blink absorbed all of it in. "O-kay. Why exactly shouldn't I say anything negative about the beer or hockey?"
"Because you'd most likely piss someone off." Logan said up front.
AT THE CLINIC
Gale was worrying herself sick. She didn't know what to expect from these people, so her father agreed to talk to them here, after it closed up instead of at their home, since she want' sure if she wanted them there.
She and her father were waiting for them to arrive. Then the front door opened, and she guessed it was them, since they were the only ones who were supposed to be here after they closed.
She didn't know what to expect, but this wasn't it. There was an older bald man in a wheelchair, a scary looking man, and two teenagers, the girl roughly her age and a boy slightly older.
Her father got up. "Mr. Xavier I presume?" Xavier nodded his head. "Yes, I believe you are Dr. Hunter, and this is your daughter also?"
Her father nodded his head and gestured for them to his office. "Please this way, we can be more comfortable in there."
Blink looked around the place. It was clean and painted a dull white, but was in good condition. She noticed Vincent looking around strangely. "Hey don't worry we're not going into the medical area." She said to him, knowing of his dislike of those kinds of places.
"It's no that. I just...got this weird déjà vu thing going on. Like I swear I remember that guy from somewhere, and this place seems familiar, yet different."
Blink looked at him confused. Vincent noticed her look. "Yeah I know sounds weird but I've been feeling this since getting on this street and this place."
They entered the office and sat down, while Xavier took up a space in front of the desk of Dr. Hunter's. "I believe you have some questions, so please feel free to ask them."
"Alright." Dr. Hunter said sternly. "First off I want to know how you found out about my daughter, and secondly why do you think she could benefit from you?"
Xavier knew he was looking out for his daughter and calmly began. "I have a device I call Cerebro that let's me locate mutants in the world, I found your daughter quite by accident."
"As for what she can get out of my Institute. She will be around other mutants her own age, some who feel the same pressures of being a mutant as she does. Also we can learn about her powers and help her to learn control, and if need be treat any side effects."
"Side effects? Like what?" Gale asked a little scared.
Xavier took a breath. "Well some mutations are difficult for some. We have one student who must always wear protective shades on to control his power, and recently a girl was able to finally get control over a power that before hand, didn't allow for any physical contact."
Vincent shifted a little, they knew who the Professor was talking about. "And some mutations also cause physical changes."
"Tell me about it." Gale said. "I used to have blond hair and brown eyes."
"You got off lucky." Blink said to her a little irritated at her attitude towards that little change. "What's that supposed to mean?" Gale said picking up on Blink's emotions.
"This." Blink said and turned off her hohowatch. "Oh." Gale said in shock. "Sorry I didn't mean anything by it, it's just well, I'm so sorry I didn't mean to offend you are anything, my life has just been real stressful and I'm lashing out, sorry."
Blink let out a breath. "Yeah, I kind of know what you mean." She turned her holowatch back on. "I'm just lucky the Professor got me this thing so I can go out now and not be stared at."
"I guess you do help other mutants." Dr. Hunter said but his mind was processing everything. If he hadn't seen it he wouldn't have believed it himself. The girl seemed so sincere about what she said about the Professor and even grateful.
Vincent was looking at the doctor closely now. He seemed so familiar to him. He began scratching the back of his neck with his left arm. Gale saw this and immediately noticed a scar on his arm.
It looked like an old surgical scar of some kind, and she wasn't sure but she thought she remembered something. Then it hit her.
"Excuse me but when did you get that scar? Was it about ten or eleven years ago?" Gale said completely focused on him, especially the eyes. Vincent looked surprised at this. "Uh, yeah how did you know that?"
"Dad I think it's him. That boy you once helped remember? He was all bleeding from a nasty cut on his arm, and then disappeared?" She said to him. Vincent looked back at the Doctor and realized it was him.
He was older and the beard is what threw him, he didn't have it then, and it's also why this place seemed so familiar. Because it was THIS place he ended up after he got away from those solider guys.
It looked different then it did back then, new furniture and paint, plus everything seemed smaller too. Vincent looked wide-eyed at the Doctor, who looked back at him realizing that Vincent knew what she was talking about.
"Good Lord." Dr. Hunter whispered. "Well...this is unexpected." Vincent said still shaken at this turn of events. Of course the others were just as shocked. Logan turned to Xavier and gave him a look that asked if he knew about this, but he was just as surprised as everyone else.
"I always wondered what happened to that child." Dr. Hunter said quietly. "Well at least now we know he's safe." Gale said trying to make light of all of this, but it didn't really.
What happened to you? Why did you leave? And how did you get so hurt?" Gale suddenly asked moving closer to him. "I mean, I remember seeing you so hurt on that table and then you were gone so suddenly."
Vincent shifted a little uncomfortably. "Well I'll give you short version. Basically I escaped from a lab, was on the run I got...injured from these commando guys that used to be chasing me, fell outside. And when I saw you Doc, I freaked since the only so called doctors used me as a test subject. That's why I left. I was scared out of my mind. I traveled all the way to Toronto and got a place at an orphanage and well I lived there up to a few months back until I went to Xavier's."
Gale could see his face becoming hard and serious, but she could also feel other emotions. Rage at what was done to him. There was also sorrow, sadness, loneliness and a deep pain. Her father was in complete shock at the revelation.
He had thought he was just a runaway and had gotten jumped by a gang or something nothing like this.
Gale moved closer to the boy she remembered. She saw him now not as that frightened hurt child but as someone who had grown up at a young age and was stronger then he was. Yet still carried the pain from those days.
"I'm sorry I didn't know." She said quietly. Vincent only nodded his head and looked her in the eyes. "I know you're not exactly sure about us, about any of this. But let me tell you, that you won't get a better offer from anyone else."
"I never regretted going to the Institute."
"Neither have I." Blink spoke up. "When I...changed. My parents couldn't get rid of me fast enough. They were members of the FOH and gave me over to them." Dr. Hunter was appalled at this. He couldn't imagine parents doing that to their own child.
"That wasn't the worst of it. I was sent to this place where this man Trask was making new model Sentinels and me and others were force to fight for our lives there. Some of them didn't make it until Xavier and his people saved us." Blink said quietly. She still had the occasional nightmare about that place.
"As you can see the world can be a cruel and dangerous place for mutants." Xavier solemnly told them. "I try and give them a place of safety and for them to grow and develop."
"I never knew things were that bad for mutants." Dr. Hunter sighed. He liked to believe the world was better then that. But if things like that could happen, what would happen to his daughter? If something like that happened to her what would he do?
SOMEWHERE IN NEW YORK
Graydon Creed was going home to his apartment. It had been a long day, they still couldn't fine where Trask was hiding himself, and his superiors didn't like it.
He put in the key to his apartment and opened the lock. He opened and went through the door and shut it behind him. He threw his keys onto a table by the door and was going to the fridge for a beer.
"Long time no see wimp." Came a deep all too familiar voice that chilled him to the bone. He quickly turned around to see Sabertooth. "What are you doing here freak!" He yelled out at him.
Sabertooth only grinned. "Is that any way to talk to your old man boy?"
Graydon felt sick at that reminder. "You are not my father! You or that bitch of yours are my family!"
"Now is that any way for a boy to talk about his mother like that?" Came a female voice. To his horror Graydon saw his mother, Mystique was also in the room with him. She came out of the other room where she had been waiting for him in hiding.
"What the hell are you doing here too?" Graydon demanded of her. She got a disgusted look on her face at him. "I can't believe I gave birth to a weakling human like yourself."
"What do you two want?" He asked them feeling wary of both of them in the same room. "Can't a mother and father visit their ungrateful child once and awhile?" Mystique teased him. She saw the look he gave her then decided to get to business.
"Fine listen up. We know you're with the FOH so we won't let it slip that you're the spawn of mutants if and only if you leave Bayville alone. Especially the Brotherhood boarding house. Got it?"
Graydon paled when she threatened to exposed his little secret. "Fine. Is that it?" He asked angrily.
"That will do." She said and left through the window in her crow form. Sabertooth glared at Graydon who moved back from him afraid. Creed gave a satisfactory grin that the Graydon was so easily intimidated by him. He moved to the window and jumped out.
Graydon sank to his knees thinking of what he should do.
Mystique and Sabertooth met up on the top of a building not far away. "You think he'll keep his word?" He asked her.
Mystique looked distantly at the building where her son lived. "Of course not, but that's what we're counting on isn't it?"
BACK IN MANITOBA
Gale had gotten to talking with Xavier and the others. This place seemed more and more like somewhere she could use. Xavier had already helped to ease the headache she constantly felt and he said he could teach her to shield herself from all the emotions she felt.
She didn't want to leave her father though, and asked for a minute alone with him.
"Dad. What do you think of all of this?" She asked of him. Her father looked up and ran a hand through his hair and breathed out deeply.
She could feel the concern and worry coming off of him. "Sweaty I don't want to be without you, that's for sure. But I have to realize several things. First I can't protect you from the world. Secondly I can't help you like they can, you said it your self you feel batter know then you did even with the pain medication for the headaches I've been giving you."
"But it's your choice and I will stand by your decision no matter what."
She could feel the love for her coming off of him and she immediately hugged him and he hugged her back. She didn't want to leave and go to some new strange place. But the headaches had gotten worse and worse and she needed help with them or she feared it would drive her nuts.
"I don't want to leave you daddy, but...but." She couldn't get the words out through her throat. She could feel the tears coming and she was beginning to choke up. "But I have to go." She said quietly.
"I know." He whispered to her.
It was decided they would return for her in a few days to allow her to pack and to spend time with her father. Gale wasn't sure about anything anymore. But she had made a choice and was going to stick by it.
BAYVILLE
Mesmero was lurking around the city looking for the perfect individuals. "I can't believe we have to live in a town with all of those mutie freaks." Came a voice. This caught his attention and he moved silently to it.
He found in a parking lot several boys ages through 17 to early 20's standing around. "Tell me about it, that one freak kicked me in the face once, and it was for no reason what's so ever." Said a tall blond boy.
"What about what he did to the rest of us Duncan?" Said another. "Not to mention all those other freaks." Came a third voice.
Memsero was pleased. He had finally found the right group of people. He would wait and put a mental command in their minds to meet him later. Soon everything would be ready for the test.
He grinned to himself. 'Soon everything would fall into place.' He thought to himself.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 4: ADJUSTMENTS