The Uncanny R-Man: I didn't know that about Sinister. I thought what
they did on the cartoon of the X-Men on FOX was how it went down. Yeah
I'd figure it anyone would defend Canadian beer to the grave it would
be him.
yae yang: Thanks and if you're worried I might pull another thing on her like I did with April don't worry about it, she's in for the long haul. Plus something interesting relationship wise that I'll be building up to.
BlackRoseApocalyps: Yes I know, but you got to admit it does keep the readers coming back for more. Beside all will be made clear in future chapters.
DemonRogue13: Why thank you, it's nice to hear from you again.
jadestar123: Yeah I know villains make interesting stories. I already got Magneto and his growing army, the FOH and a new canon group.
FAMILY AFFAIRS
CHAPTER 4: ADJUSTMENTS
Gale had finished backing the night before. Her room was so bare now, and empty. Well except for the boxes. She had already said goodbye to her friends and her father and her spent most of the last day together.
She barely got any sleep for her last night. And when morning came she was regretting the night had ended. She and her father spent the time together waiting for Xavier to come and get her.
When they came it was the same group as before except with a goth girl, a tall red head and a boy with red shades. "Hi, I'm Jean." Said the red head. She seemed a little perky to Gale. "I'm Scott, nice to meet you." Scott said to the girl and put out his hand for a handshake.
"I'm Rogue." The goth said plainly. Gale could sense some kind of irritation coming from her, like she wanted to do something else or something.
"So what do you got for us to move?" Vincent asked her smiling. Gale showed then to the bedroom and the boxes. "This shouldn't take so long." He moved to one of the larger and heavier ones.
'No way he's going to lift that.' She thought, and waited to see him throw out his back for playing Mr. Macho. When he lifted it with no problem that came as a surprise. "Super strength." He said matter-of-factly and walked out with it.
The goth girl, Rogue did the exact same. Jean seemed to make a couple of them float. She was expecting Scott to do something along the same lines, but to her disappointment he did it the old fashioned way.
She shrugged and pick up one of her boxes and walked out to the kitchen to the front door. But instead she saw Scott walk through some kind of portal. She just stared at it.
"Don't worry it's safe." Blink said to her. She noticed Blink was holding a hand out and staring at the portal. "Are you making that?" Gale asked her.
"Yeah, it leads to the jet we'd figured it would save time. But could you hurry? Keeping this open is really tough."
"Oh! Okay, sorry about that." Gale stepped up to the portal. She closed her eyes and stepped through. The next thing she knew she was in a metallic space. She saw the others there unloading everything. "Whoa. That was cool." She said looking around.
Not long they had unloaded everything and Blink was sitting in a chair in the kitchen drinking up a coke and relaxing. Keeping that portal opened really drained her. Gale was hugging her father goodbye.
"I call, write and e-mail as often as I can dad." Gale sadly said to him. "I know, and I'll be counting the days until you're back here for the holidays." He said to her.
After they had broken up, Gale took one last look of her home. She was really going to miss this place there were so many memories here. "Hey Gale can I ask you something?" Vincent said to her. She nodded her head. "Go for it."
"Before I leave Canada again can you point me in the direction of the nearest Tim Horton's. I've been craving something from there for about a month now, since there isn't one in Bayville."
Gale couldn't help but let out a laugh at his question and of Rogue rolling her eyes at his request. "Yeah sure, do you guys mind if we take one last trip there before we leave?" She asked the professor.
"Of course Gale, Logan and I will return to the Blackbird for you. Why don't the rest of you join in also." Xavier offered.
An hour later Gale was sitting in the Blackbird finishing up her bagel and drink. She was sitting next to Blink who was telling her all about the Institute. She was still getting over the fact they had their own military type jet.
She didn't know what it was when she moved everything in the back, but when they came to it from the outside, she couldn't believe it. She looked around while listening to Blink's talking. She noticed a few people seemed a little close and she could sense a real bond with Jean and Scott. Also the bond between Vincent and Rogue seemed just as strong.
"Hey Blink what's the story couple wise? I mean I'm getting a few things from those four." She whispered to her. Blink looked at to who she was pointing to and smiled.
"Where to begin? Well I'll give you the small version. Scott & Jean are like the grown-up pair. They're the first couple and known each other the longest. Rogue and Vincent have been going out for a few months, although at times it seems like more, the way they act sometimes."
There's also Jubilee the shopping mall queen and Bobby the prankster. There's Tabitha the wild girl who's with Sam, a real nice guy. Rahne the resident were-wolf, and yes a really mean that, is going out with a human friend of ours Joseph, although she insist that they are 'just friends', but some of the girls are working on that."
She continued on with the couples and a little history on them. "Finally there's Kurt and Amanda who had a Romeo & Juliet style thing going on, but thankfully it all worked out."
"So the only single girls are you, me, Amara and the new girl Dani?" Gale asked. Blink blushed a little. "Well...I'm not good with relationships, in fact I've never got up the nerve to ask a guy out yet."
"Well I guess that means we have enough members to make a singles group to hang out with each other now." Gale said smiling. Blink couldn't help but smile also. Amanda and her were becoming good friends, but she and the others did spend time with their respected couples now and again. So it would be nice for the four of them to hang out together.
Gale spent the rest of the trip learning about the others there. She learned to try not to be freaked out by Mr. McCoy or Kurt when she saw them. Blink even thought ahead and had brought pictures of the students to help familiarize herself with them.
Gale was astonished seeing Kurt and Hank. She really wanted to get over that part before seeing them. She also memorized the names and faces, since Blink didn't have that advantage when she came there, she thought it best for Gale to get a head start.
After an hour she noticed the Logan left the pilot set and go the back for a 'break'. Scott took over and Gale watched him fly it with ease. "How long did it take you to learn to fly this thing?" She openly asked him. He grinned. "Well first was a few months in the simulator then a few more flying in the air before I learned to do a takeoff and landing by myself."
"Cool. So how many people know who to fly this?"
Scott thought about it for a moment. "Well there's me, Logan, the Professor, and Ororo. Jean and Vincent back there are still taking lessons, and I guess Bobby if you're suicidal."
Blink turned to Vincent. "Why are you learning to fly this and the Velocity anyway? You already can fly."
He just shrugged. "It could come in handy one day. Besides what if we need to get people from one place to the next? Me and Rogue couldn't carry everyone and fly all the way there. We'd might drop dead tired halfway if we did."
"What's the Velocity?" Gale asked after his explanation. "Oh that's right I forgot. We also have a helicopter too." Blink said. Gale shook her head, wondering what else they had at this place.
It was in the afternoon when they finally made it to the Institute, and to her surprise they landed underground in a secret hanger. She stepped out and was amazed at the size of the hanger she was now in.
She was carrying a box in her hands walking into the large area. "So where to I set up?" she asked them. They lead her down a hall and up an elevator and down some more halls, which were the girls' wing of the mansion.
She still couldn't believe the size of the place. When Blink described the Institute she didn't think it was so huge. When he saw it from out the window of the jet she was completely taken aback.
Now they lead her a door. Jean was in first since she opened the door with her mind since everyone else's hands were full. She couldn't believe the size of her room. It was big enough for two, maybe three people and she had it all to herself.
"This...is going to get some taking used to." She said looking around.
"Tell me about it." Blink said setting down a box. "I share a room, and still can't believe all the space I got."
They helped her unpack for the most part, but she said she wanted to put away her cloths by herself so she'd know exactly where they would be. So she was now finishing up. After the last piece of clothing was done, she laid down on her new bed and looked up at the ceiling.
'I hope I did the right thing.' She silently prayed to herself.
Meanwhile Dani was in her and Kitty's room. She was looking for something she had put away. "There it is." She happily exclaimed. She reached into the closet and pulled out a bow and her arrows. She had set up a target outside and wanted to keep her skills up.
She gathered it up in her arms careful to also grab the leather forearm protector on the table before she left. She walked down the hall and nearly into a girl with blue hair. They both jumped at the near miss.
"Oh sorry about that. Are you the new girl Gale?" Dani asked her. Gale nodded. "Yeah and you are?"
"Oh I'm Danielle Moonstar or just blain Dani." She said. "I'd shake your hand but my arms are full."
Gale smiled at the joke. "Do we have some kind or archery class or something here?"
"On no, this is something I like to do. I was going to give a little demonstration outside. Care to come?"
Gale shrugged. She really didn't have anything else planned so why not. "Sure, as long as you lead the way, I don't know my way around." She confessed.
Dani laughed. "Yeah I know they really need to put up those maps you see in malls around here or something." Gale couldn't help but laugh at that.
Outside there were mostly the New Mutants and Hank, who was there mostly to make sure no one gets hurt. Gale had seen the pictures but actually seeing him is anther thing entirely.
"Oh hello there, you must be gale." Beast said smiling broadly. Gale felt no negative emotion from him except for worry. She figured it was mainly about her reaction to him. So she swallowed any fear and hesitation down deep.
"Hi, and I guess your Mr. McCoy, unless you have a twin or something."
"No I don't, and despite what you think me and Kurt aren't related." He said humorously. Gale remembered the image of Kurt and she had to admit they did seem to share a lot in common in the looks area.
Soon Dani was showing the others her skills. She showed them how she aimed and of course how important it is to wear an armguard like she had on.
Gale watched as she made several bulls eyes and made vary closed groupings. She was impressed with her ability. The target was over fifty feet, and the fact that she hit it so well was most impressive.
Dani then showed those who wanted to try it how to aim and shoot. Ray and Roberto went in thinking they would nail it. But Ray had to try three times just to hit the target. Roberto did just as well as him.
It was harder then Dani made it appear and after about an hour everyone got a turn and some help. Dani was sitting on the steps drinking a glass of iced water, cooling herself down in the summer heat.
Gale walked and sat down next to her. "That was pretty good out there, even though I'm no expert."
Dani smiled at the compliment. "Thanks I've been doing that since I was a little girl, and I really needed to practice after what happened."
Gale could feel some fear coming off of her for some reason. "What happened? What ever it was I can tell it was bad." Dani gave her a look that said 'how can you tell what I'm feeling' look. "I'm an empath, sorry I'm still learning to control it."
Dani sighed. "Well basically I was trapped in a cave for about two years, before Kitty found me and got me out. My mutation kept me alive all that time, and I was so scared and lonely for so long down there."
"I'm sorry to hear that." Gale said sorrowfully. She decided to change topics. "So your mutation is some kind of stasis?"
Dani shook her head. "No not really. I have no idea how it did that. Xavier or Hank don't seem to know either. My real power seems to be nightmares. I can make a person see their worse nightmares. I have no control over what they see, it's like I just reach in blindly and pull out the worse things they fear in their mind."
"That doesn't sound too pleasant."
"It's not. Especially since I can see what they're afraid of." She sighed deeply feeling a little down at what her powers were capable of doing to others. "But that's why I'm here. To learn to control this."
Gale nodded. "I think I'm beginning to see your point. I mean I have no control over my empathic powers, or my healing powers. Not to mention the headaches I get from time to time."
"I guess all things do come with a price." Dani said looking in the distance at some of the others. She saw how they were enjoying to summer and having fun. "Well I'm depressed now how about you?" Gale asked the young native girl. Dani nodded in agreement.
"Well I don't know about you, but I say we go over there and join in. and forget all our problems for the moment." Gale said standing up and gesturing for her to follow.
Dani broke a smile and put her drink next to her archery stuff and rose up. "You're right. It's a beautiful day so why not enjoy it and have some fun instead of brooding."
"That's the spirit girl." Gale told her and they both took of to join the others.
BAYVILLE PARK
Wanda was sitting alone in an empty area of the park. She was sitting near a bond looking at the water.
She was still having the same nightmares. She wanted someone, anyone to tell this too, but she strongly felt she couldn't trust the Brotherhood. And with all the fighting between the X-Men she couldn't go to them
Her eyes were staring to get bags under them from all the restless nights. Her memories seemed the worse. Some things seemed to fade an others grew in sharpness. It was getting to the point where she didn't know what memories were there first, or which were real or not.
It felt like her mind was splitting in two. It was two people fighting it out in her head. She wanted it to stop, she wanted it to be like it was before, when she was so sure of herself and everything.
"I just want it to stop!" She cried out. Her powers made ripples in the bond, the few animals near her ran away and the bark of the trees closer to her started to spit.
She held her head in her hands beginning to cry from it all. All she wanted was to know who she was again. She wanted to get ride of the uncertainty. She just wanted to be able to wake up in the morning and know who she was again.
NEXT UP: A SUFFER, A TOMBOY AND A WILD GIRL
Two characters from the show make their first appearance in my fics and the introduction of another.
yae yang: Thanks and if you're worried I might pull another thing on her like I did with April don't worry about it, she's in for the long haul. Plus something interesting relationship wise that I'll be building up to.
BlackRoseApocalyps: Yes I know, but you got to admit it does keep the readers coming back for more. Beside all will be made clear in future chapters.
DemonRogue13: Why thank you, it's nice to hear from you again.
jadestar123: Yeah I know villains make interesting stories. I already got Magneto and his growing army, the FOH and a new canon group.
FAMILY AFFAIRS
CHAPTER 4: ADJUSTMENTS
Gale had finished backing the night before. Her room was so bare now, and empty. Well except for the boxes. She had already said goodbye to her friends and her father and her spent most of the last day together.
She barely got any sleep for her last night. And when morning came she was regretting the night had ended. She and her father spent the time together waiting for Xavier to come and get her.
When they came it was the same group as before except with a goth girl, a tall red head and a boy with red shades. "Hi, I'm Jean." Said the red head. She seemed a little perky to Gale. "I'm Scott, nice to meet you." Scott said to the girl and put out his hand for a handshake.
"I'm Rogue." The goth said plainly. Gale could sense some kind of irritation coming from her, like she wanted to do something else or something.
"So what do you got for us to move?" Vincent asked her smiling. Gale showed then to the bedroom and the boxes. "This shouldn't take so long." He moved to one of the larger and heavier ones.
'No way he's going to lift that.' She thought, and waited to see him throw out his back for playing Mr. Macho. When he lifted it with no problem that came as a surprise. "Super strength." He said matter-of-factly and walked out with it.
The goth girl, Rogue did the exact same. Jean seemed to make a couple of them float. She was expecting Scott to do something along the same lines, but to her disappointment he did it the old fashioned way.
She shrugged and pick up one of her boxes and walked out to the kitchen to the front door. But instead she saw Scott walk through some kind of portal. She just stared at it.
"Don't worry it's safe." Blink said to her. She noticed Blink was holding a hand out and staring at the portal. "Are you making that?" Gale asked her.
"Yeah, it leads to the jet we'd figured it would save time. But could you hurry? Keeping this open is really tough."
"Oh! Okay, sorry about that." Gale stepped up to the portal. She closed her eyes and stepped through. The next thing she knew she was in a metallic space. She saw the others there unloading everything. "Whoa. That was cool." She said looking around.
Not long they had unloaded everything and Blink was sitting in a chair in the kitchen drinking up a coke and relaxing. Keeping that portal opened really drained her. Gale was hugging her father goodbye.
"I call, write and e-mail as often as I can dad." Gale sadly said to him. "I know, and I'll be counting the days until you're back here for the holidays." He said to her.
After they had broken up, Gale took one last look of her home. She was really going to miss this place there were so many memories here. "Hey Gale can I ask you something?" Vincent said to her. She nodded her head. "Go for it."
"Before I leave Canada again can you point me in the direction of the nearest Tim Horton's. I've been craving something from there for about a month now, since there isn't one in Bayville."
Gale couldn't help but let out a laugh at his question and of Rogue rolling her eyes at his request. "Yeah sure, do you guys mind if we take one last trip there before we leave?" She asked the professor.
"Of course Gale, Logan and I will return to the Blackbird for you. Why don't the rest of you join in also." Xavier offered.
An hour later Gale was sitting in the Blackbird finishing up her bagel and drink. She was sitting next to Blink who was telling her all about the Institute. She was still getting over the fact they had their own military type jet.
She didn't know what it was when she moved everything in the back, but when they came to it from the outside, she couldn't believe it. She looked around while listening to Blink's talking. She noticed a few people seemed a little close and she could sense a real bond with Jean and Scott. Also the bond between Vincent and Rogue seemed just as strong.
"Hey Blink what's the story couple wise? I mean I'm getting a few things from those four." She whispered to her. Blink looked at to who she was pointing to and smiled.
"Where to begin? Well I'll give you the small version. Scott & Jean are like the grown-up pair. They're the first couple and known each other the longest. Rogue and Vincent have been going out for a few months, although at times it seems like more, the way they act sometimes."
There's also Jubilee the shopping mall queen and Bobby the prankster. There's Tabitha the wild girl who's with Sam, a real nice guy. Rahne the resident were-wolf, and yes a really mean that, is going out with a human friend of ours Joseph, although she insist that they are 'just friends', but some of the girls are working on that."
She continued on with the couples and a little history on them. "Finally there's Kurt and Amanda who had a Romeo & Juliet style thing going on, but thankfully it all worked out."
"So the only single girls are you, me, Amara and the new girl Dani?" Gale asked. Blink blushed a little. "Well...I'm not good with relationships, in fact I've never got up the nerve to ask a guy out yet."
"Well I guess that means we have enough members to make a singles group to hang out with each other now." Gale said smiling. Blink couldn't help but smile also. Amanda and her were becoming good friends, but she and the others did spend time with their respected couples now and again. So it would be nice for the four of them to hang out together.
Gale spent the rest of the trip learning about the others there. She learned to try not to be freaked out by Mr. McCoy or Kurt when she saw them. Blink even thought ahead and had brought pictures of the students to help familiarize herself with them.
Gale was astonished seeing Kurt and Hank. She really wanted to get over that part before seeing them. She also memorized the names and faces, since Blink didn't have that advantage when she came there, she thought it best for Gale to get a head start.
After an hour she noticed the Logan left the pilot set and go the back for a 'break'. Scott took over and Gale watched him fly it with ease. "How long did it take you to learn to fly this thing?" She openly asked him. He grinned. "Well first was a few months in the simulator then a few more flying in the air before I learned to do a takeoff and landing by myself."
"Cool. So how many people know who to fly this?"
Scott thought about it for a moment. "Well there's me, Logan, the Professor, and Ororo. Jean and Vincent back there are still taking lessons, and I guess Bobby if you're suicidal."
Blink turned to Vincent. "Why are you learning to fly this and the Velocity anyway? You already can fly."
He just shrugged. "It could come in handy one day. Besides what if we need to get people from one place to the next? Me and Rogue couldn't carry everyone and fly all the way there. We'd might drop dead tired halfway if we did."
"What's the Velocity?" Gale asked after his explanation. "Oh that's right I forgot. We also have a helicopter too." Blink said. Gale shook her head, wondering what else they had at this place.
It was in the afternoon when they finally made it to the Institute, and to her surprise they landed underground in a secret hanger. She stepped out and was amazed at the size of the hanger she was now in.
She was carrying a box in her hands walking into the large area. "So where to I set up?" she asked them. They lead her down a hall and up an elevator and down some more halls, which were the girls' wing of the mansion.
She still couldn't believe the size of the place. When Blink described the Institute she didn't think it was so huge. When he saw it from out the window of the jet she was completely taken aback.
Now they lead her a door. Jean was in first since she opened the door with her mind since everyone else's hands were full. She couldn't believe the size of her room. It was big enough for two, maybe three people and she had it all to herself.
"This...is going to get some taking used to." She said looking around.
"Tell me about it." Blink said setting down a box. "I share a room, and still can't believe all the space I got."
They helped her unpack for the most part, but she said she wanted to put away her cloths by herself so she'd know exactly where they would be. So she was now finishing up. After the last piece of clothing was done, she laid down on her new bed and looked up at the ceiling.
'I hope I did the right thing.' She silently prayed to herself.
Meanwhile Dani was in her and Kitty's room. She was looking for something she had put away. "There it is." She happily exclaimed. She reached into the closet and pulled out a bow and her arrows. She had set up a target outside and wanted to keep her skills up.
She gathered it up in her arms careful to also grab the leather forearm protector on the table before she left. She walked down the hall and nearly into a girl with blue hair. They both jumped at the near miss.
"Oh sorry about that. Are you the new girl Gale?" Dani asked her. Gale nodded. "Yeah and you are?"
"Oh I'm Danielle Moonstar or just blain Dani." She said. "I'd shake your hand but my arms are full."
Gale smiled at the joke. "Do we have some kind or archery class or something here?"
"On no, this is something I like to do. I was going to give a little demonstration outside. Care to come?"
Gale shrugged. She really didn't have anything else planned so why not. "Sure, as long as you lead the way, I don't know my way around." She confessed.
Dani laughed. "Yeah I know they really need to put up those maps you see in malls around here or something." Gale couldn't help but laugh at that.
Outside there were mostly the New Mutants and Hank, who was there mostly to make sure no one gets hurt. Gale had seen the pictures but actually seeing him is anther thing entirely.
"Oh hello there, you must be gale." Beast said smiling broadly. Gale felt no negative emotion from him except for worry. She figured it was mainly about her reaction to him. So she swallowed any fear and hesitation down deep.
"Hi, and I guess your Mr. McCoy, unless you have a twin or something."
"No I don't, and despite what you think me and Kurt aren't related." He said humorously. Gale remembered the image of Kurt and she had to admit they did seem to share a lot in common in the looks area.
Soon Dani was showing the others her skills. She showed them how she aimed and of course how important it is to wear an armguard like she had on.
Gale watched as she made several bulls eyes and made vary closed groupings. She was impressed with her ability. The target was over fifty feet, and the fact that she hit it so well was most impressive.
Dani then showed those who wanted to try it how to aim and shoot. Ray and Roberto went in thinking they would nail it. But Ray had to try three times just to hit the target. Roberto did just as well as him.
It was harder then Dani made it appear and after about an hour everyone got a turn and some help. Dani was sitting on the steps drinking a glass of iced water, cooling herself down in the summer heat.
Gale walked and sat down next to her. "That was pretty good out there, even though I'm no expert."
Dani smiled at the compliment. "Thanks I've been doing that since I was a little girl, and I really needed to practice after what happened."
Gale could feel some fear coming off of her for some reason. "What happened? What ever it was I can tell it was bad." Dani gave her a look that said 'how can you tell what I'm feeling' look. "I'm an empath, sorry I'm still learning to control it."
Dani sighed. "Well basically I was trapped in a cave for about two years, before Kitty found me and got me out. My mutation kept me alive all that time, and I was so scared and lonely for so long down there."
"I'm sorry to hear that." Gale said sorrowfully. She decided to change topics. "So your mutation is some kind of stasis?"
Dani shook her head. "No not really. I have no idea how it did that. Xavier or Hank don't seem to know either. My real power seems to be nightmares. I can make a person see their worse nightmares. I have no control over what they see, it's like I just reach in blindly and pull out the worse things they fear in their mind."
"That doesn't sound too pleasant."
"It's not. Especially since I can see what they're afraid of." She sighed deeply feeling a little down at what her powers were capable of doing to others. "But that's why I'm here. To learn to control this."
Gale nodded. "I think I'm beginning to see your point. I mean I have no control over my empathic powers, or my healing powers. Not to mention the headaches I get from time to time."
"I guess all things do come with a price." Dani said looking in the distance at some of the others. She saw how they were enjoying to summer and having fun. "Well I'm depressed now how about you?" Gale asked the young native girl. Dani nodded in agreement.
"Well I don't know about you, but I say we go over there and join in. and forget all our problems for the moment." Gale said standing up and gesturing for her to follow.
Dani broke a smile and put her drink next to her archery stuff and rose up. "You're right. It's a beautiful day so why not enjoy it and have some fun instead of brooding."
"That's the spirit girl." Gale told her and they both took of to join the others.
BAYVILLE PARK
Wanda was sitting alone in an empty area of the park. She was sitting near a bond looking at the water.
She was still having the same nightmares. She wanted someone, anyone to tell this too, but she strongly felt she couldn't trust the Brotherhood. And with all the fighting between the X-Men she couldn't go to them
Her eyes were staring to get bags under them from all the restless nights. Her memories seemed the worse. Some things seemed to fade an others grew in sharpness. It was getting to the point where she didn't know what memories were there first, or which were real or not.
It felt like her mind was splitting in two. It was two people fighting it out in her head. She wanted it to stop, she wanted it to be like it was before, when she was so sure of herself and everything.
"I just want it to stop!" She cried out. Her powers made ripples in the bond, the few animals near her ran away and the bark of the trees closer to her started to spit.
She held her head in her hands beginning to cry from it all. All she wanted was to know who she was again. She wanted to get ride of the uncertainty. She just wanted to be able to wake up in the morning and know who she was again.
NEXT UP: A SUFFER, A TOMBOY AND A WILD GIRL
Two characters from the show make their first appearance in my fics and the introduction of another.