The Transcendentals

Apocalyptic Muse & Doyle's Angel

2

The Change

Piotr lead the way up the stairs to Rogue's bedroom. Mica was right behind him and Bobby was bringing up the tail end. Xavier had told them to find the girls some clothes. Jadyn had gone with Storm since they had guessed them to be about the same size. Mica however was smaller and a tad shorter and would more likely be Rogue's size.

Piotr knocked on a wooden door that looked exactly like every other wooden door in the hall way. An Asian girl answered the door, "Hey Bobby, hey Piotr, is this a new student?"

"Sorta." Bobby said.

"Hi, Jubilee." Piotr said, "This is Mica, Mica this is - -"

"Jubilee, I know she has the electric power and always wears a yellow coat." Mica said, "Her episode is one of the only ones I own of the original cartoon."

"Cartoon? What?"

"Long story, don't ask." Bobby said.

"I'm from another world where you guys are a cartoon and comic book and movie."

"Or you could just say that." Piotr said.

"Hey Jubes, who is it?" Rogue asked, she came out the bathroom that joined her room to Jubilee and Kitty's room.

"It's your boyfriend, his buddy, and a new student." Jubilee said.

Rogue came to the door, "Hey," she gave Bobby a quick peck then smiled at Mica and Piotr. "You must be the new student I'm - -"

"Rogue, you can't touch anyone over three seconds or you take their life force." Mica said shaking Rogue's gloved hand.

"Ok, you know a lot huh?"

"More about us than we do ourselves more than likely." Piotr said.

"Only a few of you. Jadyn knows almost everyone, but kids that show up only briefly in the movie, and mostly in the comic I don't know much about. You for example, I saw you for like two seconds in the movie so all I know is your name and that you're Russian."

"And for never meeting me before that's a lot."

"Alright let's continue this another time and get me some clothes."

Bobby started, "Oh yeah. Rogue, can Mica barrow some clothes, she only has her Pajamas."

Rogue nodded, she knew how it was to leave on short notice, "Sure."

Five minuets latter Mica was dressed in a mid-drift top and black spandex with black hi-tops. Glancing in the mirror Mica assessed herself and nodded in satisfaction. "Are you ready?" Piotr called through the door.

Mica glance at the door, "Yeah, I'm coming just give me a…" she glanced back at the mirror and let out a earth shattering scream.

- X -

Ten Minutes Prior…

Kurt followed Jadyn and Ororo up to her room to fetch Jadyn some clothes. He found it very amusing indeed how uneasy she seemed around him. She probably wished she would have kept a certain comment to herself earlier in the day. She kept looking back at him and turning pink. He would just smile at her good naturedly.

"Well," Ororo said, "here we are." She began pulling a few outfits out of her closet she thought Jadyn might be able to wear. "Pick what you like. I've talked to Scott and later we can go to the mall and some department stores and see if we can get you some new wardrobe."

"Thank you so much." Jadyn said, smiling at her.

"It is no problem."

Jadyn dug through the pile and picked out some denim shorts and a black v-neck tee-shirt. "I think this will do." She said, "can I borrow a pair of your sandals?"

"Yes, go ahead." Ororo handed her a pair of brown ones. Jadyn smiled as she realized she had a pair similar to them.

"Thanks again." She reached to pull off her shirt and then remembered Kurt was in the room. She turned to look at him. "Well?"

"Oh, uh, I guess I should leave now."

"Oh, no," Jadyn said sarcastically, "you can stay."

"Huh." He was confused for a moment.

Jadyn frowned. "Yes, get out!" She cried. He vanished in a puff of smoke. She shook her head. Men! Both she and Storm exchanged glances and smiled.

Minutes later she was fully dressed. She appraised herself in Ororo's full length mirror. The shorts were a little loose around her waist, but that was remedied by a belt and the shirt fit well enough, but, "I wish I had some bigger boobs, it just didn't look right." She spun to look at Ororo, and gasped. Apparently Kurt had decided to rejoin them. She went red again. Damn… why me?

Before anything could be said a blood curdling scream rang through the mansion. Kurt clamped his hands over his ears. "Mein Gott! What's that!?"

When they reached the source of the screaming they found Jadyn's sister as the culprit. She was standing before Rogue's mirror with a look of utter horror on her face. "Jadyn, oh my God. What's happening to me?" She turned to look at the twenty one year old.

Jadyn's eyes widened. Mica's blood colored hair was melting slowly into orange and black stripes. Her eyes had changed colors, becoming yellow. The pupil had become a slit, much like a cat's. Marks were appearing on her face. The tips of her ears had pointed, similar to Kurt's in a fashion, and had grown just a little. She raised her hands and her fingers became more slender. Her nails grew, shifting into a semblance of claws.

"She's not the only one." Jubilee said, her voice rising.

"What?" Jadyn asked.

"Jadyn, your hair." Kurt said.

Jadyn's change wasn't so dramatic as Mica's but it was no less as shocking to her. As she stepped in front of the mirror she was surprised to see the hair she had spent hours on getting it the perfect shade of dark blue was lighter, in fact it was a rich amethyst with underlying tones of gleaming silver. Her eyes that were only moments before emerald green were the color of lilacs.

"Wow…" Jadyn gasped, awed.

- X -

She felt her hair, making sure that it was real. This defied all possibility. Of course, she and Mica had already done that by just being in this world. As soon as the others heard of the sister's transformations they were taken to one of the sub levels. "Jean should be down here in a little while to check you out." Cyclops said. "I have to leave now. I have classes to get to. My students are probably about to walk out."

Jadyn gave Mica a warning look to hold her tongue. She had been about ready to speak. Mica really hated Scott for various reasons that Jadyn thought weren't quite fair. She used to dislike the leader but as she grew older and matured she gained a respect for him. She didn't particularly agree with his personality, but he was a good leader and meant well. "Jean's here?" She questioned, thinking back to the movie. "I thought she was supposed to be - -"

"Dead? For a little while we believed so. Let's just say after some very unpleasant circumstances we have her back." He answered.

Jadyn nodded. "Well, that's good to hear. I knew she wouldn't be gone for long. Well, then, I should let you get to your students."

"See you later then." He turned and exited.

Mica immediately gave her sister a disgusted look. "I don't see how you can talk to him. He's so… so…"

"Mica, for once, be nice. He's trying to help us."

"Heh." Mica crossed her arms over her chest.

Jean arrived not too long after. "Well, I see you're ready. I must say I wish I had seen you before this change happened, but I was preoccupied. Scott told me about the situation. Shall we begin?"

She did a regular check up on both of them and took a little of their blood. Jadyn flinched during this; she hated needles. After that they took some x-rays. Mica's showed just what they knew, that her skeletal structure had changed slightly to make her similar to a feline, giving her more agility and flexibility. Jadyn's wasn't extraordinary in physical terms, but there was some interesting readings on her MRI.

"Hm…" Jean raised her eyes to look at the young woman. "I believe you may have some psychic abilities, but I'm unsure of what exactly. I've never seen readings like this. I guess we'll just have to wait and see."

Great, Jadyn thought, that's just what I need a weird power that no one has seen before.

However, that wasn't the most interesting development in the case of Mica and Jadyn Griffin…

- X -

"You have what implanted in you?" Kitty Pryde exclaimed as Mica finished the story of that mornings tests. Jadyn had given up trying to convince Mica that they shouldn't say anything to anyone else until they knew more. Once Mica got an idea in her head she was unshakable. So she just sat there, attempting to read a book she had nicked from the library; A tale of Two Cities. She had always meant to read it.

"Chips, microchips!" Mica answered excitedly, like this was the most amazing thing that had ever happened in her life. Well, Jadyn figured perhaps it was, but after being sent to the X-Mansion she wasn't too thrilled with having a "chip" under her skin. It was actually quite boring.

"Wow, a microchip. Does Ms. Grey know how you got them?" Jubilee asked, leaning forward in her seat, enthralled with this news.

Teenagers. Jadyn thought dejectedly.

"No." Mica said in disappointment. "But she said she'd look into it. She's got the copies of our X-Rays and she'll look around. She said she didn't want to chance taking them out in case they were somehow connected to us."

"You mean you could die?" Kitty inquired.

"Doubtful." Jadyn interjected, sharply. "But it's a precaution. We have no idea what they're for, so to mess with them might cause some damage either to us, or to the chips, which might hold the key to why we're here."

"Oooh… do you think someone could control our minds with 'em?" Mica cried. Jadyn wanted to slap her.

"No, Mica. I do not believe they are mind control devices." Mica looked even more disappointed at this, and Jadyn wondered how it was possible that the two of them could be related.

- X -

Jadyn stared at the page, trying to ignore the voices of Mica and her new found friends. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. She read… for the seventeenth time. She was about to throw the book across the room. She didn't know if it was the distraction across the room that wasn't allowing her to concentrate on the book, or the book itself.

How many times have I tried to read this? She thought back. She had checked it out of the library back home five times, and only opened it three. She'd only gotten passed the first chapter once and…

"What are you reading?"

She jumped, then relaxed, realizing who it was leaning over her shoulder. "Tale of Two Cities." She commented, trying to sound as elegant as possible. She smiled at the German X-Man as he sat down at the other end of the sofa.

Kurt nodded. "How far are you?"

"I just started it."

"Ah. Well, Ms. Munroe and Wolverine will be down here shortly. Then I believe we will be headed toward the city to get the two of you some new clothes for your stay here."

"We?" Jadyn asked, suspiciously.

"I volunteered to go with you." He told her.

She laughed nervously, "great."

Well, that's all for now. If you like leave a review. Hell, leave a review anyway.

Next Chapter: The Tale of Two Mall Rats The sisters head to the mall to get some clothes. Jadyn talks with Kurt a bit and Mica runs into Pyro. O.o

See ya! - - The Muse (I'll get Angel to write something sometime. That's Brat J/K.)