The Uncanny R-Man: Yeah I haven't really done anything with the three
new guys yet, I guess I should think of something, glad you like the
telebubbies line, I thought it was too good to pass up.
celtcath74: Really I it did? Cool! Thanks for reminding me about that, I was going to work that in but forgot about it. Now you just gave me a great idea.
jadestar123: Your welcome, as for my ideas, sometimes I get them from old or new comic book plots with my own twist on them, or sometimes I just like to explore certain aspects of a character that I find would be interesting to tell. (Oh and technically this is the 5th story in a series, you missed two others)
yae yang: Well if I am you'll just have to wait and see.
NctrnlBst: Oh trust me all hell will break lose, and hopefully then some.
Red Witch: Hey would I lie, of course not, at least not about that
Ruby: lol, two days. It usually takes me two days at least to do some chapters. Sometimes more, depending on how my muses are doing on certain days (and the amount of reviews I get). Yeah I know even thought she's a twisted psycho she does care for her kids (well at least Rogue & Kurt) even if it's in a weird way. Nice thing you had there, in fact I was going to use something like that too. (Minus what Kurt said of course)
FAMILY AFFAIRS
CHAPTER 13: POWERS REVEALED
XAVIER'S MANSION
Bobby and Jubilee walked into the living room. They had just come from outside and saw a few people already in there, a few also had glum expressions on their faces.
"Hey guys, what's going on?" Jubilee asked.
Vincent sitting in a chair facing away from them turned his head slightly. "Just had a visit from a guy who walked out of a portal and who is talking to the Professor."
Jubilee and Bobby blinked. "O-kay." She said.
Bobby shrugged. "Anyway you think the Professor would let me keep this? I found it outside." He said and standing next to Vincent held out a garden snake he had. Vincent saw it, his eyes widened.
"SHIT!" He yelled and went straight up into the air and was pressing himself against the ceiling. "Get that thing out of here!" He yelled.
Bobby was laughing his head off. "Are you telling me big bad Vince is afraid of a little harmless snake?"
"Look there are a few things I either hate and/or fear in life." He told him still not moving from the ceiling. "Medical wards and hospitals, needles, and SNAKES!"
"You know, you think you know a guy." Pam said looking up with an amused look on her face.
"Well I know how he feels!" Amara said cringing from Bobby as best she could.
"Great you too huh?" Jubilee said seeing the frightened look on her face then turned to Bobby. "I somehow doubt the Professor will let you keep something people are afraid of Bobby."
Bobby looked a little down. "You guys aren't afraid of a fire breathing dragon, yet you're afraid of a harmless snake...figures." He says and then goes to the backyard to let it go. The others are still looking at Vincent who is watching Bobby leave.
After he does he slowly floats down to the seat. "Hey what are those?" Amy said pointed at the ceiling. There were ten little holes up there now.
Vince blushed from embarrassment. "Uh...I think my finger went into the ceiling." He said looking down at his feet. Everyone looked up then back at him and couldn't help but laugh.
"Man it's like that cat in that old cartoon that when he gets scared he flies up to the ceiling and hangs there with his claws." Roberto said between laughs, which prompted more laughter from the others with that visual in their heads.
Vincent however was holding his head in his hands trying to hide his face from embarrassment.
HAWAII
Alex was sitting in his room alone. He was just sitting there in his chair by the computer, alone. He'd seen the messages in his e-mail from Scott but couldn't answer them he just couldn't get the will to.
All he could do was replay the events of the last few days in his head.
...a few days earlier...
Alex was just with his friends, Sue, Roy, and Jack. They were his friends for years, they were all suffers like him. Sue was a native of Hawaii, like her twin brother Jack. Roy was born in LA originally but had moved here a few years back.
The four of them were close and always hung out and surfed together. But they also didn't know Alex was a mutant. He knew what happened to friends of mutants who came out as it were.
There were the four groups. First the ones were the ones disgusted with them and wouldn't be near them, then there were the ones who had an irrational hatred to mutants, those were the worse. Then there were those that were uncomfortable and would either leave or stay as friends depending on how close you were with them.
Then there were those that would stick by you no matter what. Those were the true friends. The problem with Alex was, he couldn't tell which was they were.
Currently they were catching some waves out in the water. They were spread out and Alex was close to Sue. They were having a good time so far, there wasn't a cloud in the sky and the weather was perfect.
They went to the beach that they always went to since only the people who lived in the area and so it was free of all the tourist that came. It was only them and a few others that day. It was going great until they all heard Sue scream.
Alex looked over and saw the one thing all surfers dread.
A fin in the water.
A shark normally doesn't go so close unless hungry like the day his powers kicked in. It was like that day all over again only it was Sue getting attacked and not him this time.
He heard her brother scream for her, but he really didn't notice everything seemed to slow down. He could see the fear on her face and then the shark had finished circling and was aiming right for her.
Its head was rising out of the water and Alex knew it was now or never. He raised his right hand and aimed and let fly a blast of energy at the shark's head. It struck home and he could see Sue whip her head around to him.
"Get back to land!" Alex shouted at her. She turned her board and starting to swim back as fast as they could. He could see the shark still going for her and fired again and this time the shark stopped going after her.
It went for him instead. He repositioned himself on the board and this time used both hands and fired a powerful blast. It went through the water slamming into the shark. He could see the water seem to cave in and even steam rise. Then a split second later the water then sky rocketed into the air.
When the water went away he looked around but couldn't see the shark anywhere. He decided to make a break for it while he could. He went back to shore with no problem at all. When the water was shallow enough he picked up his board and ran to the others.
He could see Sue on the ground shaking like a leaf. He went up to them. "Sue are you okay?"
Then she saw the look of fear in her eyes but it wasn't from the shark it was from him. The others had the look too. "What are you Alex?" Roy asked clearly frightened of him.
"Guys." Alex said in desperation, he took a step forward and they flinched backward. Then he heard it, from one of the other suffers.
"Get away from them you mutie freak!" Alex turned to see a couple of surfers coming towards him.
The next few moments were a blur to him. All he could think was to get away, and he ran he didn't remember to where but he when into the jungle. He wasn't sure for how long but when he got back to the beach everyone was gone.
He found his board and when he turned it over he could see someone had scratched a message on the board. 'GO HOME MUTIE' was the message scrawled into it. He left it there on the beach. The groves were too deep to fix and he really didn't want it around. Not after today.
...present...
For the past few days he sat in his room mostly. His friends avoided him, he tried calling, e-mailing, and even trying to talk to them. But they wouldn't hear him, or see him. "I didn't do anything wrong." He said softly to the empty room. "So why are they doing this?" He asked the emptiness, but there was no answer only silence.
CUMBERLAND, KENTUCKY
It was nighttime and Paige was alone outside. For a week she had been trying to see if she was a mutant. She was sitting out in the on the grass on the edge of the farm. The farm was near a forest and she liked to go there to think or to be alone.
She wanted nothing more then to be like her big brother. She tried everything. She hated her life here, no her family she loved them, but the farm life was not for her. She didn't hate it but she didn't love it either.
She wanted to go somewhere and to do something with her life like her brother Sam. She would love to see the world and other places. She also wanted to be unique like him. She wanted to be special.
She was sitting on the cold grass and holding herself. She wanted to change her life around, she wanted to be a mutant. She sat there and prayed, begged and even cried. She wanted this more then anything, but she guessed it was not meant to be.
She began scratching her arm. In the moonlight she could see very little but see could see enough. She began to run her hand through her hair and stopped, she noticed something on her fingers.
She looked closely at it. It looked like skin, then she checked her arm and found her arm looked like the flesh was ripped off, but there was skin underneath and no blood or pain.
She gently took the skin and pealed it back and it came freely off. She did it again and again and soon she found that all her skin could be ribbed off. She laughed as she did. She ran back to the home and to the bathroom.
She looked at herself in the mirror. Her face had half of her skin falling off and in other places too. She ripped off all the loose skin and placed it in the garbage. She looked again and found nothing wrong.
She felt her skin. It felt normal and she wondered if that was all she could do. She looked at the marble counter top and then felt something. She wasn't sure what but she went with it. Her skin felt a little itchy and she scratched at it again.
It pealed away but now the skin underneath was now marble like. Her eyes bulged out of her head. She ripped off another layer of her whole arm and it was marble. It took a little experimentation but she found out she could take off the new skin and have her normal one underneath.
She wondered what else she could do. But the first thing in the morning she knew she was going to tell her parents. She smiled then. It had finally happened, and she knew her life was going to change forever.
FOREST IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE
The girl only known as X23 was running. It wasn't for prey, or for exercise it was because for the last hour she had been trying to run away from a small group that had been chasing her for the better part of an hour.
She was just minding her own business, looking for some food when the large pale man she remembered as Omega Red attacked her. She remembered that Hydra had sent him after her once before.
They didn't exchange words or banter they just attacked each other. Then the large one with armor came. She had tried to use her claws but they were useless against him, and he was strong too.
She cringed and held her ribs on her left side still running. The large one had thrown her into a tree breaking some of her ribs. It was times like that she wished her bones were unbreakable, but she was only given the claws because of her age, and the fact that she was still growing.
A metallic skeleton would be more of a problem since it wouldn't grow with her. But times like this she might not mind. At least she had her healing factor still going for her. Soon her ribs would be healed and hopefully she had lost them.
She didn't know how they had found her before but whoever they were working for she wouldn't go down without a fight. After she healed she would double back and attack them first for a change.
She leaned up against a tree to catch her breath. Then she caught a sent in the air. It was unfamiliar and seemed to be coming from above her. She looked up and saw a man in red and black armor with a helmet and cape floating down to her.
"Well you are indeed you father's daughter." He said with a deep voice. "I am Magneto, and you will serve me well in the fight against humanity."
X23 snarled at him and unsheathed her laws in her hands. "I don't belong to anyone, or serve anyone any more!" She spat at him.
"I didn't say you had a choice." He said darkly. The next thing she knew she was being lifted in the air. She couldn't move her hands or feet they seemed stuck. "I guess I should tell you that I control all metal, you those claws of yours are your greatest weakness not your greatest strength against me."
She didn't know what to do. She never had her own claws used against her like this. She was effectively paralyzed since her hands and feet couldn't be moved. Then she saw four metallic sphere's drop from the sky.
"I'll have to go and pick up Juggernaut and Omega Red, but soon you will be in a new home, that is until I have Mastermind deal with you." She said coldly to her.
X23 didn't completely know what was going to happen to her, but she got the feeling it wouldn't be good.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 14: O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU
What can I say? I liked that movie.
BTW, I know X23 appeared in a NYX comic but did they give her a name? I was going to give her a name but I didn't know what it was if they did.
If they didn't I'll just have to make something up. Suggestions for her name are appreciated.
celtcath74: Really I it did? Cool! Thanks for reminding me about that, I was going to work that in but forgot about it. Now you just gave me a great idea.
jadestar123: Your welcome, as for my ideas, sometimes I get them from old or new comic book plots with my own twist on them, or sometimes I just like to explore certain aspects of a character that I find would be interesting to tell. (Oh and technically this is the 5th story in a series, you missed two others)
yae yang: Well if I am you'll just have to wait and see.
NctrnlBst: Oh trust me all hell will break lose, and hopefully then some.
Red Witch: Hey would I lie, of course not, at least not about that
Ruby: lol, two days. It usually takes me two days at least to do some chapters. Sometimes more, depending on how my muses are doing on certain days (and the amount of reviews I get). Yeah I know even thought she's a twisted psycho she does care for her kids (well at least Rogue & Kurt) even if it's in a weird way. Nice thing you had there, in fact I was going to use something like that too. (Minus what Kurt said of course)
FAMILY AFFAIRS
CHAPTER 13: POWERS REVEALED
XAVIER'S MANSION
Bobby and Jubilee walked into the living room. They had just come from outside and saw a few people already in there, a few also had glum expressions on their faces.
"Hey guys, what's going on?" Jubilee asked.
Vincent sitting in a chair facing away from them turned his head slightly. "Just had a visit from a guy who walked out of a portal and who is talking to the Professor."
Jubilee and Bobby blinked. "O-kay." She said.
Bobby shrugged. "Anyway you think the Professor would let me keep this? I found it outside." He said and standing next to Vincent held out a garden snake he had. Vincent saw it, his eyes widened.
"SHIT!" He yelled and went straight up into the air and was pressing himself against the ceiling. "Get that thing out of here!" He yelled.
Bobby was laughing his head off. "Are you telling me big bad Vince is afraid of a little harmless snake?"
"Look there are a few things I either hate and/or fear in life." He told him still not moving from the ceiling. "Medical wards and hospitals, needles, and SNAKES!"
"You know, you think you know a guy." Pam said looking up with an amused look on her face.
"Well I know how he feels!" Amara said cringing from Bobby as best she could.
"Great you too huh?" Jubilee said seeing the frightened look on her face then turned to Bobby. "I somehow doubt the Professor will let you keep something people are afraid of Bobby."
Bobby looked a little down. "You guys aren't afraid of a fire breathing dragon, yet you're afraid of a harmless snake...figures." He says and then goes to the backyard to let it go. The others are still looking at Vincent who is watching Bobby leave.
After he does he slowly floats down to the seat. "Hey what are those?" Amy said pointed at the ceiling. There were ten little holes up there now.
Vince blushed from embarrassment. "Uh...I think my finger went into the ceiling." He said looking down at his feet. Everyone looked up then back at him and couldn't help but laugh.
"Man it's like that cat in that old cartoon that when he gets scared he flies up to the ceiling and hangs there with his claws." Roberto said between laughs, which prompted more laughter from the others with that visual in their heads.
Vincent however was holding his head in his hands trying to hide his face from embarrassment.
HAWAII
Alex was sitting in his room alone. He was just sitting there in his chair by the computer, alone. He'd seen the messages in his e-mail from Scott but couldn't answer them he just couldn't get the will to.
All he could do was replay the events of the last few days in his head.
...a few days earlier...
Alex was just with his friends, Sue, Roy, and Jack. They were his friends for years, they were all suffers like him. Sue was a native of Hawaii, like her twin brother Jack. Roy was born in LA originally but had moved here a few years back.
The four of them were close and always hung out and surfed together. But they also didn't know Alex was a mutant. He knew what happened to friends of mutants who came out as it were.
There were the four groups. First the ones were the ones disgusted with them and wouldn't be near them, then there were the ones who had an irrational hatred to mutants, those were the worse. Then there were those that were uncomfortable and would either leave or stay as friends depending on how close you were with them.
Then there were those that would stick by you no matter what. Those were the true friends. The problem with Alex was, he couldn't tell which was they were.
Currently they were catching some waves out in the water. They were spread out and Alex was close to Sue. They were having a good time so far, there wasn't a cloud in the sky and the weather was perfect.
They went to the beach that they always went to since only the people who lived in the area and so it was free of all the tourist that came. It was only them and a few others that day. It was going great until they all heard Sue scream.
Alex looked over and saw the one thing all surfers dread.
A fin in the water.
A shark normally doesn't go so close unless hungry like the day his powers kicked in. It was like that day all over again only it was Sue getting attacked and not him this time.
He heard her brother scream for her, but he really didn't notice everything seemed to slow down. He could see the fear on her face and then the shark had finished circling and was aiming right for her.
Its head was rising out of the water and Alex knew it was now or never. He raised his right hand and aimed and let fly a blast of energy at the shark's head. It struck home and he could see Sue whip her head around to him.
"Get back to land!" Alex shouted at her. She turned her board and starting to swim back as fast as they could. He could see the shark still going for her and fired again and this time the shark stopped going after her.
It went for him instead. He repositioned himself on the board and this time used both hands and fired a powerful blast. It went through the water slamming into the shark. He could see the water seem to cave in and even steam rise. Then a split second later the water then sky rocketed into the air.
When the water went away he looked around but couldn't see the shark anywhere. He decided to make a break for it while he could. He went back to shore with no problem at all. When the water was shallow enough he picked up his board and ran to the others.
He could see Sue on the ground shaking like a leaf. He went up to them. "Sue are you okay?"
Then she saw the look of fear in her eyes but it wasn't from the shark it was from him. The others had the look too. "What are you Alex?" Roy asked clearly frightened of him.
"Guys." Alex said in desperation, he took a step forward and they flinched backward. Then he heard it, from one of the other suffers.
"Get away from them you mutie freak!" Alex turned to see a couple of surfers coming towards him.
The next few moments were a blur to him. All he could think was to get away, and he ran he didn't remember to where but he when into the jungle. He wasn't sure for how long but when he got back to the beach everyone was gone.
He found his board and when he turned it over he could see someone had scratched a message on the board. 'GO HOME MUTIE' was the message scrawled into it. He left it there on the beach. The groves were too deep to fix and he really didn't want it around. Not after today.
...present...
For the past few days he sat in his room mostly. His friends avoided him, he tried calling, e-mailing, and even trying to talk to them. But they wouldn't hear him, or see him. "I didn't do anything wrong." He said softly to the empty room. "So why are they doing this?" He asked the emptiness, but there was no answer only silence.
CUMBERLAND, KENTUCKY
It was nighttime and Paige was alone outside. For a week she had been trying to see if she was a mutant. She was sitting out in the on the grass on the edge of the farm. The farm was near a forest and she liked to go there to think or to be alone.
She wanted nothing more then to be like her big brother. She tried everything. She hated her life here, no her family she loved them, but the farm life was not for her. She didn't hate it but she didn't love it either.
She wanted to go somewhere and to do something with her life like her brother Sam. She would love to see the world and other places. She also wanted to be unique like him. She wanted to be special.
She was sitting on the cold grass and holding herself. She wanted to change her life around, she wanted to be a mutant. She sat there and prayed, begged and even cried. She wanted this more then anything, but she guessed it was not meant to be.
She began scratching her arm. In the moonlight she could see very little but see could see enough. She began to run her hand through her hair and stopped, she noticed something on her fingers.
She looked closely at it. It looked like skin, then she checked her arm and found her arm looked like the flesh was ripped off, but there was skin underneath and no blood or pain.
She gently took the skin and pealed it back and it came freely off. She did it again and again and soon she found that all her skin could be ribbed off. She laughed as she did. She ran back to the home and to the bathroom.
She looked at herself in the mirror. Her face had half of her skin falling off and in other places too. She ripped off all the loose skin and placed it in the garbage. She looked again and found nothing wrong.
She felt her skin. It felt normal and she wondered if that was all she could do. She looked at the marble counter top and then felt something. She wasn't sure what but she went with it. Her skin felt a little itchy and she scratched at it again.
It pealed away but now the skin underneath was now marble like. Her eyes bulged out of her head. She ripped off another layer of her whole arm and it was marble. It took a little experimentation but she found out she could take off the new skin and have her normal one underneath.
She wondered what else she could do. But the first thing in the morning she knew she was going to tell her parents. She smiled then. It had finally happened, and she knew her life was going to change forever.
FOREST IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE
The girl only known as X23 was running. It wasn't for prey, or for exercise it was because for the last hour she had been trying to run away from a small group that had been chasing her for the better part of an hour.
She was just minding her own business, looking for some food when the large pale man she remembered as Omega Red attacked her. She remembered that Hydra had sent him after her once before.
They didn't exchange words or banter they just attacked each other. Then the large one with armor came. She had tried to use her claws but they were useless against him, and he was strong too.
She cringed and held her ribs on her left side still running. The large one had thrown her into a tree breaking some of her ribs. It was times like that she wished her bones were unbreakable, but she was only given the claws because of her age, and the fact that she was still growing.
A metallic skeleton would be more of a problem since it wouldn't grow with her. But times like this she might not mind. At least she had her healing factor still going for her. Soon her ribs would be healed and hopefully she had lost them.
She didn't know how they had found her before but whoever they were working for she wouldn't go down without a fight. After she healed she would double back and attack them first for a change.
She leaned up against a tree to catch her breath. Then she caught a sent in the air. It was unfamiliar and seemed to be coming from above her. She looked up and saw a man in red and black armor with a helmet and cape floating down to her.
"Well you are indeed you father's daughter." He said with a deep voice. "I am Magneto, and you will serve me well in the fight against humanity."
X23 snarled at him and unsheathed her laws in her hands. "I don't belong to anyone, or serve anyone any more!" She spat at him.
"I didn't say you had a choice." He said darkly. The next thing she knew she was being lifted in the air. She couldn't move her hands or feet they seemed stuck. "I guess I should tell you that I control all metal, you those claws of yours are your greatest weakness not your greatest strength against me."
She didn't know what to do. She never had her own claws used against her like this. She was effectively paralyzed since her hands and feet couldn't be moved. Then she saw four metallic sphere's drop from the sky.
"I'll have to go and pick up Juggernaut and Omega Red, but soon you will be in a new home, that is until I have Mastermind deal with you." She said coldly to her.
X23 didn't completely know what was going to happen to her, but she got the feeling it wouldn't be good.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 14: O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU
What can I say? I liked that movie.
BTW, I know X23 appeared in a NYX comic but did they give her a name? I was going to give her a name but I didn't know what it was if they did.
If they didn't I'll just have to make something up. Suggestions for her name are appreciated.