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CHAPTER 5: MEET SHADOW
It had been a quiet couple of days in the house. Vincent had finally gotten Jack and Jill to open up more to the others. They had even shown him the medallions they wore. He was surprised to see two identical metallic disks with Japanese words of Strength and Courage written on them.
They told him they were from the other him. He found it strange thinking on it. He was actually saddened that he never got to meet him. It was strange when he thought about it, two nearly identical people who have totally different lives.
From what he read in science books and all the sci-fi he'd seen and read he knew that there were infinite number of realities with many versions of him. He would have loved to compare notes, to see what had caused them to have two different lives. Him with the X-Men, and himself right here.
'Did I just refer to myself in the fourth person?' Vincent thought. 'I'm really starting to hate other realities.' But he still thought about it, especially all the other types of lives he could have led. But a lot of those thoughts were dark and he didn't want to think about it anymore.
After he was taken at the age of three, then with all the experiments and the 'training', then escaping and living on the streets for a year before finding the orphanage. Well there were many things that might have happened in those years he didn't want to think that actually happened to him in another reality.
It was too depressing.
He 'woke up' from a short meditation exercise he walked out of his room and down the stairs. He saw Liz doing some of the education teaching. She was teaching some math skills. Since some of the kids either weren't comfortable in schools, or hard to hide, they had to home school the children.
He didn't mind though, he actually liked teaching, whether it was martial arts or something else. In fact tomorrow he was scheduled to teach some history and spelling. But today he had the 'day off' as it were.
But since he had no social life it was mainly boring. These kids and the other adults were basically his whole life, and he wasn't complaining. He liked his life so far he adored the kids. Never having a family he felt this was the closest thing he had ever had, or might ever have with his life.
He found Mary and Benny in the kitchen talking over some coffee. "So Vince what's up for ya today?" Mary asked him. He just shrugged. "Oh come on you have to come out with us tonight. There's a new club and we're going to check it out."
"Yeah, and maybe you'll find a nice girl and get some, I mean when's the last time you got laid." Benny said. Vince gave him an annoyed look and Mary smacked him upside the head.
Vince thought about his personal life, or lack there of. Him and Mary were an item once in their teens but that had changed. They were both happy back as best friends. After her however it was just a string of bad dates, and one-night things. Mainly he had to break it off with a woman when after he strategically asked about their views on mutants.
When they gave the kind of answer that he hated to hear he broke up with them the next day and cut them out of his life. He couldn't be with someone who was against mutants. And he had to admit it had been a while since he left the house, let alone on a date.
"Come on man, you need to unwind at least." Benny said to him.
Vincent sighed. He could use a break from everything and go have some fun with his best friends again like the old days. "Sure what's the worst that could happen?" He said to them. Both of them smiled at his reaction.
LATER....
After about nine o'clock the three made their way to this new club. They used the van since the only other mode of transport was a bike Vince had in the garage. They made their way across the town to near the city limits.
As they got out they saw the building in near the edge of the town. There weren't many placed around which was most likely a good thing since they could hear the music from outside.
"Well let go already." Benny said racing to the building. Vince and Mary took their time going in. It was a nice place, it had a large dance floor, lasers going off around the place, a stage, but it only had a DJ on it playing Techno music. There was a bar at one end.
"Do you see Benny?" She asked him over the music. Vince looked around and shook his head. "Great. Let's split up, you know how he can get into trouble." Vince nodded not wanting to yell over the music and they moved off.
After a while the trio were enjoying their time. Mary was getting a drink when she bumped into someone. "Oops sorry about that."
"Hey if it gets me to meet a gorgeous woman like yourself, there's nothing to be sorry for." Said the stranger. He was tall, dark hair man with a cocky grin plastered on his face. She wasn't sure if he was just over confident, arrogant, a jackass or all of them.
"If that's the best pick-up line you got then you're out of luck buddy." She said to him, but he only smiled more.
"That's nowhere near my best babe." He said to her.
She rolled her eyes. "Look guy, first don't call me babe unless you want to swallow all your teeth. Secondly you really need to improve on your game if you want to ever get a date."
He was about to respond when they heard a commotion to their left. "I say you're a mutant!" Came the voice of a drunken man. Him and his buddies were picking on a woman with green hair.
"I'm telling you it's just dye." She pleaded with them.
"That's just a cover!" One of them said.
"I wonder it the carpets match the drapes then." One of them said leering at her. She moved away from that one. She was terrified what these men were going to do.
The stranger then turn to Mary. "Excuse me I have to take care of this." He walked over to the lead man and with no talking or anything he casually kicked him in the nuts. The man went down to his knees. "That's no way to talk to a lady pal, why don't we all step outside and talk about this in a manner of extreme violence and pain?" He said grinning.
The others after picking up their friend were all too happy to oblige. Mary didn't like the odds and went to get Vince and Benny.
The stranger only known as Shadow to the world was looking forward to this. He had taken some personal time off and had decided to take a trip. He first started out in upper New York and on a whim decided to go into Canada. He had been feeling a little energetic and if he wasn't going to get anywhere with the blond then kicking the crap out of some mutant haters was fine with him.
Little did they know that he was a mutant himself, and he was looking forward to their expression in their faces too. He waited for them to start up. They encircled him and a few started to attack first.
Those he took down with a few kicks and punches. They were a little too drunk to really put up a fight. After about minute of having a little fun they apparently had had enough. Some of them went for whatever they could get their hands on as a weapon.
One of them came at him with a tire iron, so Shadow decided to use his powers. He could create shadows and make them solid, so he created a shadow shield on his arm to block the attack. With his other arm he made a fighting stick and took the knee out of the man.
He was about to turn it up a notch when he suddenly got a blinding amount of pain in his head. He fell to the ground his vision swimming and a major pain in his head. While he was so focused he hadn't noticed that one of them had picked up a rock and had nailed him on the head.
He knew he was a sitting duck if he didn't et up but didn't seem to be able to move properly. He managed to roll himself onto his back and looked up at one of the men with a bat. 'Oh crap...this isn't going to be pretty.' He thought.
The next thing he knew someone had tackled the man and he heard the sounds of fighting. He was still wasn't too lucid, and he couldn't tell what exactly was happening. After a little while the sounds of fighting ended.
The man known only as Shadow to the world looked up. His head hurt and his vision was blurred. He did notice that all of the guys he had been fighting were either gone or laying around on the ground.
Then he noticed someone was standing over him. He looked up and the face he saw was one he wished he would never see again. "Oh no...not you again." He said before falling into unconsciousness.
Mary looked to Vincent. "How does everyone know about you?"
He just gave an innocent look and shrugged. "How should I know? I've kept a low profile all my life, Hell the town doesn't even know I am a mutant or with the Underground, since they think we run an half-way house."
"Well anyway we better get him back to see Liz, I don't like that cut on his head." Mary said looking at the wound.
"Why do I suddenly got this feeling of impending doom?" Vince muttered to himself.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 6: GETTING TO KNOW SHADOW
CHAPTER 5: MEET SHADOW
It had been a quiet couple of days in the house. Vincent had finally gotten Jack and Jill to open up more to the others. They had even shown him the medallions they wore. He was surprised to see two identical metallic disks with Japanese words of Strength and Courage written on them.
They told him they were from the other him. He found it strange thinking on it. He was actually saddened that he never got to meet him. It was strange when he thought about it, two nearly identical people who have totally different lives.
From what he read in science books and all the sci-fi he'd seen and read he knew that there were infinite number of realities with many versions of him. He would have loved to compare notes, to see what had caused them to have two different lives. Him with the X-Men, and himself right here.
'Did I just refer to myself in the fourth person?' Vincent thought. 'I'm really starting to hate other realities.' But he still thought about it, especially all the other types of lives he could have led. But a lot of those thoughts were dark and he didn't want to think about it anymore.
After he was taken at the age of three, then with all the experiments and the 'training', then escaping and living on the streets for a year before finding the orphanage. Well there were many things that might have happened in those years he didn't want to think that actually happened to him in another reality.
It was too depressing.
He 'woke up' from a short meditation exercise he walked out of his room and down the stairs. He saw Liz doing some of the education teaching. She was teaching some math skills. Since some of the kids either weren't comfortable in schools, or hard to hide, they had to home school the children.
He didn't mind though, he actually liked teaching, whether it was martial arts or something else. In fact tomorrow he was scheduled to teach some history and spelling. But today he had the 'day off' as it were.
But since he had no social life it was mainly boring. These kids and the other adults were basically his whole life, and he wasn't complaining. He liked his life so far he adored the kids. Never having a family he felt this was the closest thing he had ever had, or might ever have with his life.
He found Mary and Benny in the kitchen talking over some coffee. "So Vince what's up for ya today?" Mary asked him. He just shrugged. "Oh come on you have to come out with us tonight. There's a new club and we're going to check it out."
"Yeah, and maybe you'll find a nice girl and get some, I mean when's the last time you got laid." Benny said. Vince gave him an annoyed look and Mary smacked him upside the head.
Vince thought about his personal life, or lack there of. Him and Mary were an item once in their teens but that had changed. They were both happy back as best friends. After her however it was just a string of bad dates, and one-night things. Mainly he had to break it off with a woman when after he strategically asked about their views on mutants.
When they gave the kind of answer that he hated to hear he broke up with them the next day and cut them out of his life. He couldn't be with someone who was against mutants. And he had to admit it had been a while since he left the house, let alone on a date.
"Come on man, you need to unwind at least." Benny said to him.
Vincent sighed. He could use a break from everything and go have some fun with his best friends again like the old days. "Sure what's the worst that could happen?" He said to them. Both of them smiled at his reaction.
LATER....
After about nine o'clock the three made their way to this new club. They used the van since the only other mode of transport was a bike Vince had in the garage. They made their way across the town to near the city limits.
As they got out they saw the building in near the edge of the town. There weren't many placed around which was most likely a good thing since they could hear the music from outside.
"Well let go already." Benny said racing to the building. Vince and Mary took their time going in. It was a nice place, it had a large dance floor, lasers going off around the place, a stage, but it only had a DJ on it playing Techno music. There was a bar at one end.
"Do you see Benny?" She asked him over the music. Vince looked around and shook his head. "Great. Let's split up, you know how he can get into trouble." Vince nodded not wanting to yell over the music and they moved off.
After a while the trio were enjoying their time. Mary was getting a drink when she bumped into someone. "Oops sorry about that."
"Hey if it gets me to meet a gorgeous woman like yourself, there's nothing to be sorry for." Said the stranger. He was tall, dark hair man with a cocky grin plastered on his face. She wasn't sure if he was just over confident, arrogant, a jackass or all of them.
"If that's the best pick-up line you got then you're out of luck buddy." She said to him, but he only smiled more.
"That's nowhere near my best babe." He said to her.
She rolled her eyes. "Look guy, first don't call me babe unless you want to swallow all your teeth. Secondly you really need to improve on your game if you want to ever get a date."
He was about to respond when they heard a commotion to their left. "I say you're a mutant!" Came the voice of a drunken man. Him and his buddies were picking on a woman with green hair.
"I'm telling you it's just dye." She pleaded with them.
"That's just a cover!" One of them said.
"I wonder it the carpets match the drapes then." One of them said leering at her. She moved away from that one. She was terrified what these men were going to do.
The stranger then turn to Mary. "Excuse me I have to take care of this." He walked over to the lead man and with no talking or anything he casually kicked him in the nuts. The man went down to his knees. "That's no way to talk to a lady pal, why don't we all step outside and talk about this in a manner of extreme violence and pain?" He said grinning.
The others after picking up their friend were all too happy to oblige. Mary didn't like the odds and went to get Vince and Benny.
The stranger only known as Shadow to the world was looking forward to this. He had taken some personal time off and had decided to take a trip. He first started out in upper New York and on a whim decided to go into Canada. He had been feeling a little energetic and if he wasn't going to get anywhere with the blond then kicking the crap out of some mutant haters was fine with him.
Little did they know that he was a mutant himself, and he was looking forward to their expression in their faces too. He waited for them to start up. They encircled him and a few started to attack first.
Those he took down with a few kicks and punches. They were a little too drunk to really put up a fight. After about minute of having a little fun they apparently had had enough. Some of them went for whatever they could get their hands on as a weapon.
One of them came at him with a tire iron, so Shadow decided to use his powers. He could create shadows and make them solid, so he created a shadow shield on his arm to block the attack. With his other arm he made a fighting stick and took the knee out of the man.
He was about to turn it up a notch when he suddenly got a blinding amount of pain in his head. He fell to the ground his vision swimming and a major pain in his head. While he was so focused he hadn't noticed that one of them had picked up a rock and had nailed him on the head.
He knew he was a sitting duck if he didn't et up but didn't seem to be able to move properly. He managed to roll himself onto his back and looked up at one of the men with a bat. 'Oh crap...this isn't going to be pretty.' He thought.
The next thing he knew someone had tackled the man and he heard the sounds of fighting. He was still wasn't too lucid, and he couldn't tell what exactly was happening. After a little while the sounds of fighting ended.
The man known only as Shadow to the world looked up. His head hurt and his vision was blurred. He did notice that all of the guys he had been fighting were either gone or laying around on the ground.
Then he noticed someone was standing over him. He looked up and the face he saw was one he wished he would never see again. "Oh no...not you again." He said before falling into unconsciousness.
Mary looked to Vincent. "How does everyone know about you?"
He just gave an innocent look and shrugged. "How should I know? I've kept a low profile all my life, Hell the town doesn't even know I am a mutant or with the Underground, since they think we run an half-way house."
"Well anyway we better get him back to see Liz, I don't like that cut on his head." Mary said looking at the wound.
"Why do I suddenly got this feeling of impending doom?" Vince muttered to himself.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 6: GETTING TO KNOW SHADOW