The Uncanny R-Man: I'm amazed you didn't comment already on the OCs. I
mean I got Vincent, Pam, Amy, Joseph, Gale and anyone associated with
them also are OCs too.
yae yang: Yeah I know more new people. You'll soon get why the story is called Family Affairs soon. Plus I think that's what someone would go through if two different set of memories started battling it out.
BlackRoseApocalyps: Well that and annoy the readers, lol.
DemonRogue13: Glad you like it.
Witch-Uk: It's always nice to hear from new people. Don't forget to check out the past stories for any back story you might have missed, and I'll try and put out the updates as fast as I can
Red Witch: Oh trust me I'm trying to make this my biggest work to date. Or just the best, depends on how many chapters I can come up with.
Ruby: I'll try to fit him in, if you could give me some info though it would help things along.
supergirlhv: Yeah I know, but don't worry things will eventually work out for her.
FAMILY AFFAIRS
CHAPTER 5: A SUFFER, A TOMBOY AND A WILD GIRL
HAWAII
Alex Summers. It still seemed strange to him now. He had finally gotten the paper work done and had changed his last name back to what it was originally. He was surprised how well his foster parents took the news.
He guessed they understood, after finding out his older brother was alive and well was incredible. It was so cool to have Scott back in his life, even if he lived all they way on the other side of America.
But it was still more then he had, then either of them had in years. He was hoping that his parents would let him move in with Scott at that place, but they felt it was too dangerous.
After he told them about what happened with Magneto they were afraid something like that would happen again. The whole Apocalypse thing didn't improve matters either. Luckily the whole anti-mutant sentiment was pretty lax here. He didn't have to worry about groups like the FOH or anything like that.
In fact he was still able to keep his mutation a secret. His joints still ached from time to time, but at least he hadn't done anything like blasted another shark or something when everyone was watching.
So far he was lucky, but sometimes he wished he wasn't so. That way it would be out there and maybe his parents would send him to Xavier's after all. But he wouldn't do it on purpose. That wouldn't be fair to them, and he promised them that he would control his powers as best he could, and not tell anyone about any of it.
He finished up an e-mail and sent it to Scott. Him and Scott had been e- mailing each other everyday, since they couldn't talk all the time on the phone. Which was an expensive call, they did this instead.
After reading every one of Scott's e-mails he was left with a feeling of how dull his life was. Scott got all of this excitement and everything. There were even two new girls at the Institute.
He slightly envied Scott living in a place where he didn't have to hide what he was with his friends. He wished he could do that here, but he just wasn't sure what his friends would think of it. Plus there was also the promise to his parents.
He leaned back in his chair thinking about the future. Maybe one day he would be able to live with Scott, they had been away from each other for so long, they had a lot of catching up to do.
He sighed and got up. He grabbed his surfboard and decided to go out and have some fun. He could stay in his room feeling all depressed for the entire day. Besides he heard today's weather would cause some great waves.
Just as long as it didn't rain he was happy. After what happened to him and Scott after that little episode, he swore off surfing in the rain. He never wanted to do that again in his life.
CUMBERLAND, KENTUCKY
A young girl of about thirteen is sitting in a tub of ice water believe it or not. Her shoulder length blond hair is still dry and she's wearing a bathing suit.
The tub was at the back of a barn on a farm. It was an old one that was let to rush out back, and sometimes used to clean up after chores before going back into the house, but today she had gotten a bucket of ice and poured it in.
"Paige Elisabeth Guthrie, what are you doing?" Came the sound of an adult woman. "I know it's hot but what in tar nation are you doin'?"
"Momma I'm just checkin' to see if I got any cold like powers." Paige said to her. Her mother, Lucinda Guthrie, looked at the child disappointed. "Look Paige I know ya want to be like your big brother Sam, but you may not be a mutant at all honey."
"But I want to be." She said pouting a little. "I mean I hear about all the cool things he and his friends do and I want to do that. Besides I think have powers would be fun."
Her mother shook her head at her daughter. "Now I know, I know. Ever since Sam got his powers I've seen how you look up to him even more then you did. Bt you might have to face facts honey. You may just be a regular human like the rest o' the family."
"Now way don't cha get out of that tub before you catch pneumonia or somethin'? I think one of your sisters could use help with the chickens."
Paige reluctantly got out of the tub. "Alright, momma." She said depressed. Paige grabbed up a towel and dried off on the way to the chicken house. She sighed along the way. She really wanted to be a mutant like her big brother.
She remembered the day when he was working in the mine and it collapsed. Everyone thought him; their dad and a few of the workers were going to die. Then there was a sudden explosion and Sam literally rocketed out, making a new hole for the trapped miners to escape.
After that he was a slight celebrity and soon after Xavier came to them. She remembered how calm and in control he seemed of himself. He told them about his school and that there would be others there with him.
It sounded cool to her. It was like a super-hero school or something. After all the letters they got of him telling them of what went on there, she wanted to go too. But the only way was if she was a mutant.
So lately she had been trying to see if she had any powers or could activate them. She jumped off the barn into a haystack to see if she could fly, she tried to see if she had heat beams, she tried a lot of different things.
She was beginning to feel like she would never manifest anything at all. She helped one of her sister feed the chickens then decided to go for a walk since there was nothing else to do on the farm at that moment.
With all of the brother and sisters she had, it was easy to get caught up to all that needed to be done. She found herself near the house and two of her sisters talking about a couple of boys they knew and what to wear on a date they both had.
She really didn't get it. Okay so maybe she knew of a few boys that were nice, but a couple of them said she wasn't 'girly' enough. Well she had proven one thing after that; even a girl can kick a boy's butt, especially if they piss them off.
Okay so maybe she didn't wear dresses, on only wore skirts when she felt like it, and she enjoyed playing sports, and nothing grossed her out like what some of the city girls were of.
She remembered how a spider once crawled up on the desk at school and the girl next to her from the city shrieked at it. Meanwhile Paige just scooped it up and placed it by the window.
She never understood what some girls did that. Well everyone was different she supposed. So some of the girls called her a tomboy, just because she liked to play with the boys at sports, always wore jeans at school and wasn't bothered to get dirty working on the farm.
She was glad of who she was, even if she didn't seem to be a mutant. Although if she did turn out to be one, that wouldn't hurt.
FOREST IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE
A girl of about fourteen, who was wearing all black leather clothing and had long brown hair, was stalking her prey. It was a deer she had been tracking for the last hour. She was perched in a tree above it. It wasn't easy to keep downwind from it, and she was being very cautious.
It was right below her now and she leapt down at it. She wanted to let out a growl, but kept it in, she didn't want to startle it. At the last moment she extended her two adamantium and plunged them into the neck.
It was over fast and she had her meal for the next few days. She hauled it all the way over to her temporary residents. Basically it was just a cave she had found. She went through skinning the deer and then started a fire.
She walked down to a near by river to wash off all the blood. She returned to find the fire burning just right and began to cook some of the meal. She had time to think. She really didn't know what to do with her life.
Her name was X23 she was free from Hydra and SHEILD. But what now? She had nowhere to go no one to go too. No that wasn't true. There was him. Logan.
He tried to actually help her, twice. He was the closest thing she had to family. But after everything could see just go to him? Would he still accept her?
She had wanted to be part of a family ever since she saw them in the park during her training. She saw all the happiness and the joy and all it did was make her angry. Why should they get to feel that and she just got nothing?
She had hated her life with so much passion and rage. She lashed out on everyone, even Logan. She knew now that he had nothing to do with her pain, and suffering. He was just used, just like her.
She began to rethink her idea of going there. She couldn't make up her mind. She knew Logan had ties to SHIELD so what would happen if they found out she was still alive? Would they use him to get to her?
She had been thinking about this for months. Being alone for so long gave you time to think. She may be free of her life in Hydra, but it was an empty life. She wanted more and he was the only one who could give her more.
She knew he actually cared about her, even though they barely knew each other. She knew he had gone trough a similar fate as her, he was most likely the only person who could understand her.
She wasn't sure of what to do. She decided to continue thinking on it. She had plenty to survive out here, and no one to bother her. She would use the time to think things through and decided on her next course of action.
But first she would eat. She was hungry and would need her strength for the next day.
SAVAGE LAND
Sinister was using the new Cerebro to find new recruits for Magneto. This version of Cerebro was only operating at 35% capacity but he had found several new potentials. Some of the ones he found turned out to be groups like the Morlocks, and Sinister considered them beneath him.
He found a few more possibilities. There were two separate signatures coming from Japan. One of them seemed to disappear and then reappear. The other trough some research seemed to be some kind of mutant celebrity. That one was too high profile for his taste.
He also found two others, one was in the wilderness somewhere and the other was Alex Summers. He knew Magneto had tried to persuade him to join but failed. Perhaps a different kind of 'persuasion' was in order.
It worked for that girl Prodigy 6 for years, with the addition of Legion and Psi-co to the telepathic pool, they had enough power to force any mutant under their control.
Something picked up then. Several mutants in one place but he couldn't get a lock on, in fact the signal soon disappeared. 'How odd. I think I should keep an eye on that area.' He mused to himself.
He then picked up a few more. Three of them to be exact and they were together, then one of the mutant signatures seemed to pulsate and the other two mutant signatures seemed to increase for a short time.
"Most Interesting." He said out loud. He pulled the location of that area. He would investigate this one himself.
UNKOWN LOCATION
They were dead all of the humans, all eight of them. "That's what you FOH assholes get for thinking you can take out mutants." Spat a large gray skinned male, with a bandana and shades on.
His right arm is currently reconfigured into a gun looking down at their work. "You are right about that Random."
Random turns to see the leader of their little group. "You got that right Cortez, thanks for the power boost by the way." As he finishes Random's size decrease slightly and his arm morphs back to its regular shape.
Fabian Cortez a tall handsome red headed man looks down at the bodies. His power is to either drain mutants of their powers, or to increase them. Alone he's not much, but with other mutants, he's dangerous to fight against him.
The other member a young female of about nineteen looks about. Her name is Static (no not the WB character in anyway) She runs a hand through her short brown hair looking around.
Normally her powers just shut down the nervous system and knock a person out. But with Cortez's power boost, even though it's for a limited time, her powers shut down everything in the humans' body, permanently. "We should leave before others show up. I don't know about you two but these creeps are one thing, cops are another."
Cortez nodded in agreement. "She's right, we should go."
Little do they know that soon they will meet a man that will change their lives forever.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 6: A NOT SO QUEIT AFTERNOON
yae yang: Yeah I know more new people. You'll soon get why the story is called Family Affairs soon. Plus I think that's what someone would go through if two different set of memories started battling it out.
BlackRoseApocalyps: Well that and annoy the readers, lol.
DemonRogue13: Glad you like it.
Witch-Uk: It's always nice to hear from new people. Don't forget to check out the past stories for any back story you might have missed, and I'll try and put out the updates as fast as I can
Red Witch: Oh trust me I'm trying to make this my biggest work to date. Or just the best, depends on how many chapters I can come up with.
Ruby: I'll try to fit him in, if you could give me some info though it would help things along.
supergirlhv: Yeah I know, but don't worry things will eventually work out for her.
FAMILY AFFAIRS
CHAPTER 5: A SUFFER, A TOMBOY AND A WILD GIRL
HAWAII
Alex Summers. It still seemed strange to him now. He had finally gotten the paper work done and had changed his last name back to what it was originally. He was surprised how well his foster parents took the news.
He guessed they understood, after finding out his older brother was alive and well was incredible. It was so cool to have Scott back in his life, even if he lived all they way on the other side of America.
But it was still more then he had, then either of them had in years. He was hoping that his parents would let him move in with Scott at that place, but they felt it was too dangerous.
After he told them about what happened with Magneto they were afraid something like that would happen again. The whole Apocalypse thing didn't improve matters either. Luckily the whole anti-mutant sentiment was pretty lax here. He didn't have to worry about groups like the FOH or anything like that.
In fact he was still able to keep his mutation a secret. His joints still ached from time to time, but at least he hadn't done anything like blasted another shark or something when everyone was watching.
So far he was lucky, but sometimes he wished he wasn't so. That way it would be out there and maybe his parents would send him to Xavier's after all. But he wouldn't do it on purpose. That wouldn't be fair to them, and he promised them that he would control his powers as best he could, and not tell anyone about any of it.
He finished up an e-mail and sent it to Scott. Him and Scott had been e- mailing each other everyday, since they couldn't talk all the time on the phone. Which was an expensive call, they did this instead.
After reading every one of Scott's e-mails he was left with a feeling of how dull his life was. Scott got all of this excitement and everything. There were even two new girls at the Institute.
He slightly envied Scott living in a place where he didn't have to hide what he was with his friends. He wished he could do that here, but he just wasn't sure what his friends would think of it. Plus there was also the promise to his parents.
He leaned back in his chair thinking about the future. Maybe one day he would be able to live with Scott, they had been away from each other for so long, they had a lot of catching up to do.
He sighed and got up. He grabbed his surfboard and decided to go out and have some fun. He could stay in his room feeling all depressed for the entire day. Besides he heard today's weather would cause some great waves.
Just as long as it didn't rain he was happy. After what happened to him and Scott after that little episode, he swore off surfing in the rain. He never wanted to do that again in his life.
CUMBERLAND, KENTUCKY
A young girl of about thirteen is sitting in a tub of ice water believe it or not. Her shoulder length blond hair is still dry and she's wearing a bathing suit.
The tub was at the back of a barn on a farm. It was an old one that was let to rush out back, and sometimes used to clean up after chores before going back into the house, but today she had gotten a bucket of ice and poured it in.
"Paige Elisabeth Guthrie, what are you doing?" Came the sound of an adult woman. "I know it's hot but what in tar nation are you doin'?"
"Momma I'm just checkin' to see if I got any cold like powers." Paige said to her. Her mother, Lucinda Guthrie, looked at the child disappointed. "Look Paige I know ya want to be like your big brother Sam, but you may not be a mutant at all honey."
"But I want to be." She said pouting a little. "I mean I hear about all the cool things he and his friends do and I want to do that. Besides I think have powers would be fun."
Her mother shook her head at her daughter. "Now I know, I know. Ever since Sam got his powers I've seen how you look up to him even more then you did. Bt you might have to face facts honey. You may just be a regular human like the rest o' the family."
"Now way don't cha get out of that tub before you catch pneumonia or somethin'? I think one of your sisters could use help with the chickens."
Paige reluctantly got out of the tub. "Alright, momma." She said depressed. Paige grabbed up a towel and dried off on the way to the chicken house. She sighed along the way. She really wanted to be a mutant like her big brother.
She remembered the day when he was working in the mine and it collapsed. Everyone thought him; their dad and a few of the workers were going to die. Then there was a sudden explosion and Sam literally rocketed out, making a new hole for the trapped miners to escape.
After that he was a slight celebrity and soon after Xavier came to them. She remembered how calm and in control he seemed of himself. He told them about his school and that there would be others there with him.
It sounded cool to her. It was like a super-hero school or something. After all the letters they got of him telling them of what went on there, she wanted to go too. But the only way was if she was a mutant.
So lately she had been trying to see if she had any powers or could activate them. She jumped off the barn into a haystack to see if she could fly, she tried to see if she had heat beams, she tried a lot of different things.
She was beginning to feel like she would never manifest anything at all. She helped one of her sister feed the chickens then decided to go for a walk since there was nothing else to do on the farm at that moment.
With all of the brother and sisters she had, it was easy to get caught up to all that needed to be done. She found herself near the house and two of her sisters talking about a couple of boys they knew and what to wear on a date they both had.
She really didn't get it. Okay so maybe she knew of a few boys that were nice, but a couple of them said she wasn't 'girly' enough. Well she had proven one thing after that; even a girl can kick a boy's butt, especially if they piss them off.
Okay so maybe she didn't wear dresses, on only wore skirts when she felt like it, and she enjoyed playing sports, and nothing grossed her out like what some of the city girls were of.
She remembered how a spider once crawled up on the desk at school and the girl next to her from the city shrieked at it. Meanwhile Paige just scooped it up and placed it by the window.
She never understood what some girls did that. Well everyone was different she supposed. So some of the girls called her a tomboy, just because she liked to play with the boys at sports, always wore jeans at school and wasn't bothered to get dirty working on the farm.
She was glad of who she was, even if she didn't seem to be a mutant. Although if she did turn out to be one, that wouldn't hurt.
FOREST IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE
A girl of about fourteen, who was wearing all black leather clothing and had long brown hair, was stalking her prey. It was a deer she had been tracking for the last hour. She was perched in a tree above it. It wasn't easy to keep downwind from it, and she was being very cautious.
It was right below her now and she leapt down at it. She wanted to let out a growl, but kept it in, she didn't want to startle it. At the last moment she extended her two adamantium and plunged them into the neck.
It was over fast and she had her meal for the next few days. She hauled it all the way over to her temporary residents. Basically it was just a cave she had found. She went through skinning the deer and then started a fire.
She walked down to a near by river to wash off all the blood. She returned to find the fire burning just right and began to cook some of the meal. She had time to think. She really didn't know what to do with her life.
Her name was X23 she was free from Hydra and SHEILD. But what now? She had nowhere to go no one to go too. No that wasn't true. There was him. Logan.
He tried to actually help her, twice. He was the closest thing she had to family. But after everything could see just go to him? Would he still accept her?
She had wanted to be part of a family ever since she saw them in the park during her training. She saw all the happiness and the joy and all it did was make her angry. Why should they get to feel that and she just got nothing?
She had hated her life with so much passion and rage. She lashed out on everyone, even Logan. She knew now that he had nothing to do with her pain, and suffering. He was just used, just like her.
She began to rethink her idea of going there. She couldn't make up her mind. She knew Logan had ties to SHIELD so what would happen if they found out she was still alive? Would they use him to get to her?
She had been thinking about this for months. Being alone for so long gave you time to think. She may be free of her life in Hydra, but it was an empty life. She wanted more and he was the only one who could give her more.
She knew he actually cared about her, even though they barely knew each other. She knew he had gone trough a similar fate as her, he was most likely the only person who could understand her.
She wasn't sure of what to do. She decided to continue thinking on it. She had plenty to survive out here, and no one to bother her. She would use the time to think things through and decided on her next course of action.
But first she would eat. She was hungry and would need her strength for the next day.
SAVAGE LAND
Sinister was using the new Cerebro to find new recruits for Magneto. This version of Cerebro was only operating at 35% capacity but he had found several new potentials. Some of the ones he found turned out to be groups like the Morlocks, and Sinister considered them beneath him.
He found a few more possibilities. There were two separate signatures coming from Japan. One of them seemed to disappear and then reappear. The other trough some research seemed to be some kind of mutant celebrity. That one was too high profile for his taste.
He also found two others, one was in the wilderness somewhere and the other was Alex Summers. He knew Magneto had tried to persuade him to join but failed. Perhaps a different kind of 'persuasion' was in order.
It worked for that girl Prodigy 6 for years, with the addition of Legion and Psi-co to the telepathic pool, they had enough power to force any mutant under their control.
Something picked up then. Several mutants in one place but he couldn't get a lock on, in fact the signal soon disappeared. 'How odd. I think I should keep an eye on that area.' He mused to himself.
He then picked up a few more. Three of them to be exact and they were together, then one of the mutant signatures seemed to pulsate and the other two mutant signatures seemed to increase for a short time.
"Most Interesting." He said out loud. He pulled the location of that area. He would investigate this one himself.
UNKOWN LOCATION
They were dead all of the humans, all eight of them. "That's what you FOH assholes get for thinking you can take out mutants." Spat a large gray skinned male, with a bandana and shades on.
His right arm is currently reconfigured into a gun looking down at their work. "You are right about that Random."
Random turns to see the leader of their little group. "You got that right Cortez, thanks for the power boost by the way." As he finishes Random's size decrease slightly and his arm morphs back to its regular shape.
Fabian Cortez a tall handsome red headed man looks down at the bodies. His power is to either drain mutants of their powers, or to increase them. Alone he's not much, but with other mutants, he's dangerous to fight against him.
The other member a young female of about nineteen looks about. Her name is Static (no not the WB character in anyway) She runs a hand through her short brown hair looking around.
Normally her powers just shut down the nervous system and knock a person out. But with Cortez's power boost, even though it's for a limited time, her powers shut down everything in the humans' body, permanently. "We should leave before others show up. I don't know about you two but these creeps are one thing, cops are another."
Cortez nodded in agreement. "She's right, we should go."
Little do they know that soon they will meet a man that will change their lives forever.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 6: A NOT SO QUEIT AFTERNOON