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Chapter 10: Carol Danvers
Three figures lay hidden in the shrubbery. They where far enough away from the Institute that neither the Professor or Jean would notice them, unless they were searching for intruders. One spy had high powered binoculars up to his eyes as he watched for any activity from the occupants of the mansion. Since the teenager with the backpack full of equipment had driven up, nothing of interest had happened. But before that, before the younger X-Men had gone to school, the spy had seen someone that was new to the Institute, and if his suspicions where right-
"Gambit?"
Gambit sighed. "Oui Pyro?"
"Nothing's happening. I'm bored. Why are we here again?"
"As he has told you before, Gambit has suspicions."
"I think it is time you told us what your suspicious are of." said Colossus.
Gambit put down his binoculars. "Pyro did tell you 'bout Magneto's plan to get 'im new recruits? Mainly Pyro and Gambit's doubles in another universe?"
"Da. But it didn't work." Colossus paused. "Right?"
"Gambit been rememberin' that night, and he remember seeing two of de X-Men at de location. He also saw dem leave wit' two people he never seen before. We where in de wrong location for de machine to work, or so we thought, but what if it did work? What if the two X-Men were in de right spot to attract dere doubles?"
"And you think that the two extra people you saw leave with them are their doubles?"
"It is possible, non?"
Pyro had been listening silently. Now he spoke up. "Why didn't you tell Magneto about your idea?"
Colossus and Gambit looked at each other over top of Pyro's head. Gambit said "Why should Magneto need to know?"
Watching the three figures was another member of the Acolytes. And he listened to everything that was said before heading back to his boss.
~*~ x ~*~
Later that day, the school going X-Men returned to the Institute, tired and hungry. Once again the kitchen was mobbed, this time for afternoon snacks. ~Kitty had just returned from helping Forge with the messier part of the invention, and her hands and face were smeared with oil.
Kitty immediately noticed this. "Hey, like, do want to come up to my room? You really need a manicure, and I'd like to know more stuff about your dimension."
~Kitty smiled. "Sure. Sounds fun." She had wondered what she was going to do for the rest of the day, and a manicure sure sounded good right about now.
"Okay," Kitty said brightly, "and we can, like, talk girl-talk. Rogue, I share a room with her, isn't the best, like, conversationalist, you know? And I have to tell you about this guy, in my Chemistry class...."
~Kitty listened to her prattle on, and counted how many times the word 'like' was used. *I don't sound like that, do I?* she wondered as she followed Kitty up the stairs.
Rogue was already in the room, trying to do her homework.
~Kitty watched as Kitty flopped on to her bed and reached under it, pulling out a bag of hand care essentials. She un-zipped it and allowed all the items to fall out in a pile.
Rogue stared at, what she considered, the implements of torture. A nail file, hand lotion, nail clippers, nail buffer, a jar of nail polish remover, various metal sticks to push back cuticles, and many colorful bottles of nail polish lay in a seemingly innocent pile. Rogue glanced at her own hands, and was suddenly grateful for her gloves. At least Kitty wouldn't want to give her a manicure.
"Wow...you sure do have a lot of pink nail polish." ~Kitty observed as she picked up a bottle of nail polish, called "Passion Pink."
"Yeah, it's, like, my favorite color."
Rogue smirked and said, "Who'd uh thunk?" Kitty was wearing her pink sweater, and her notebooks, which she had brought upstairs, were mostly pink and purple.
"Hey, at least it's cheery." Kitty said as she scanned Rogue's apparel, which consisted of a dark purple long sleeved shirt, black skirt, dark gray leggings, and combat boots, which she had relaced with purple shoe laces.
Rogue ignored her, and continued her homework.
"Anyway," Kitty said, as she held up some nail polish to ~Kitty's hand, judging if it was a good color for her, "I wanted to know about Colossus in your dimension. He's one of the X-Men?"
"Yeah, he was a X-Men before me." ~Kitty said as she ran the file over her nails.
Rogue looked up from her U.S. History book. "Ah noticed that Ah' was not mentioned in the history that was told yesterday, does that mean Ah don't exist in your universe?"
"Oh, no, you exist, but your older and you've just joined." ~Kitty said, not mentioning that she didn't really like the Rogue in her universe.
"Do Ah have the same power's and look the same?"
"I dunno, what are your powers? Your hair is different, its shorter and the white streak is thicker, and goes from your forehead to the back of your head."
"Ah can suck the powers and memories from whoever Ah touch, and for a brief time Ah can use their powers."
"That's some of what she can do, but she can also fly, and is super strong."
"Really? That's interesting. Ah'd like to be able to fly." Rogue said thoughtfully.
~Kitty thought about if she should explain why Rogue was able to fly. She decided she should. "The only reason she is super strong and can fly is because she took another mutants power."
Rogue and Kitty stared at her. ~Kitty continued hurriedly, "She didn't mean to take it permanently...I don't know the whole story, but she somehow stole Carol Danvers powers when she touched her and it stayed with her, and left Carol striped of her powers and any memory of who she was."
Rogue shuddered, remembering the times when she had briefly thought she was someone else after touching them. She could still hear their voices inside her head if she tried. But the people she had touched had always been alright, after the first shock. Well, except Cody. But that had been a prolonged touch, and when her mutant powers had first manifested itself. "Was Carol an enemy or something? Or did the other me touch her by accident?"
~Kitty looked decidedly uncomfortable. "Uh, well, you were the bad guy."
"Like, wow." said Kitty.
"What?" said Rogue, like she hadn't heard right.
"Umm, you were with Mystique and the Brotherhood before you joined us."
"Rogue, that's like what happened here too. Mystique tricked her into joining the Brotherhood for awhile." Kitty explained to ~Kitty.
"So how'd Ah, Ah mean she, end up joining the X-Men?" Rogue asked.
"She came to ask help from the Professor, she couldn't tell which memories where her own or Carol's. I remember what she said, 'Ah look into a mirror and see a strangers face!'. Carol's memories didn't fade away like the other people she had touched. She said Mystique didn't understand, and couldn't help her. When the Professor tried to read her mind to see if she was telling the truth, he said he couldn't read it very well since there were 'two diametrically opposed thought patterns' in her mind."
"What happened to Carol?" asked Kitty.
"She never fully regained her memories, even though the Professor tried to help. But she was able to move on with her life."
Rogue asked "What happened to me?"
"Our Rogue joined the X-Men, and is still with us, but when Carol found out the Professor had let her join, she was real mad, and we haven't seen her since." ~Kitty, along with the rest of the X-men, had been friends with Carol, and ~Kitty still hadn't quite forgiven Rogue for what she had done to Carol, and couldn't help the hint of resentment in her answer.
If Rogue noticed it, she didn't let on that she had. She said "Kitty, ya should stop rubbing in that lotion before your hand gets prunie." Kitty, throughout the conversation, had been mindlessly applying hand lotion to her arms and hands, and rubbing it in repeatedly. Now she looked at her arms and noticed they were slathered in lotion. "Ick." she said, holding her arms out in front of her, so the lotion wouldn't touch her cloths. "I'll be back after I wash this off."
When she had left, Rogue asked "Was the Professor able ta help her?"
"A little. Carol's memories didn't try to take control over her own anymore, but the slightest touch transfers that person's memories and abilities to her. With that, he hasn't been much help."
*Just like it is here.* Rogue thought.
Kitty came back into the room and said "You know what?"
Rogue waited for her to continue, but ~Kitty said, "What?"
"I want to go do something. Like go to the mall or something. Yeah, the mall. You want to come ~Kitty?"
"Okay."
"What about you, Rogue? Feel like it?"
Surprising herself and Kitty, Rogue said "Alright. Got nothing better ta do." Then she chucked her text book into her open book bag and didn't look to see if it made it in.
Kitty smiled. "Great! I'll go see if Jean wants to go."
Rogue rolled her eyes, but Kitty didn't notice as she went out of the room in search of Jean. But ~Kitty did.
"You don't like Jean?" she asked Rogue.
"Noticed that, did ya?"
~Kitty didn't answer that, and Rogue said "She's just...to perfect. In everything and every way. It...irritates me."
As ~Kitty followed her out of the room, she wondered if Rogue didn't like Jean for the same reason the Rogue in her dimension hated Dazzler, because she was a mutant with all the things Rogue could never have.
~*~ x ~*~
Sabertooth sped back to Magneto's hide out. Upon reaching the seemingly abandoned warehouse, he pushed a hidden button and a small keyboard reveled itself. Quickly punching in his password, he then placed his clawed hand on the screen which was above the keyboard. His fingerprints and palm were scanned and then a beep signaled that the door was opening as the screen and keyboard went back into hiding.
Sabertooth made his way to the innermost room, to Magneto's office. Remembering what had almost happened to Pyro when he hadn't knocked, (Magneto had threatened to impale the poor Australian with paper clips, which would be a rather grisly death) Sabertooth rapped on the door. A quit 'Come in.' greeted him, and he did so.
Inside he found Magneto receiving a report on the Brotherhood from his son, Pietro. Quicksilver sneered at him, and in return Sabertooth growled softly back.
"That will be all, Pietro. Report back to me when you have actually made progress with those delinquents."
Pietro glared at his father, Magneto chose to ignore it, and then used his mutant ability to remove himself from the office, meaning he ran super fast out of the room.
"What is it, Victor?" Magneto asked.
Sabertooth then summarized what he had heard when he had been spying on Remy, John, and Piotr. Or Gambit, Pyro, and Colossus, whatever you prefer.
After he had finished, Magneto looked thoughtful. "Thank you Victor. You've given me much food for thought. Please return to Xavier's Institute, and keep an eye on our erstwhile colleagues."
Sabertooth started to leave, when Magneto postponed him. "And make sure you find out if Gambit's theory is correct."
Nodding his head, Sabertooth left Magneto, who was pondering this new information.
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I think that is my longest chapter yet. From now on I will try to make my chapters this long. Now, when you review, wish me Happy Birthday, because it is my birthday today. It will be like little Happy Birthday cards, when I see all your lovely reviews. So humor me please.
Now click the purple button, and make my day.
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Shout out's: Rogue151- thanks for reviewing and for the update. Here's more Rogue for you!
Nightcrawler03- you liked that? Good. I was trying for humor. :)
Auramistealia-thanks for reviewing, and for your help with my spelling needs, lol.
bant- yes! School is evil! Mine especially! I don't understand, school's always been hard for me, but this is ridiculous! I thought it was supposed to get easier once you became an Upper Classman. *sigh* Yeah, Comic Kitty was real good with computers and stuff. Thanks for reviewin'.
Beboots- glad you like it. :) I like the comic Kurt the best, first of all, I guess, because I read the comics first, and second because he's supposed to be scary. I don't think the Evo Kurt is scary. Cute is more like it. But I love all the Kurt versions, movie Kurt last in popularity though. Yay to all the Kurts!
Georgia Peach-yeah, I have zero time too, with working on homework all the time, and I'm still going to fail the classes! Arg.
Rogue Pryde- don't worry, I will try my hardest not to abandon it. Thanks for reviewing!
sci-fi fan- Sorry, Lockheed won't be in the Evo universe, at least, I'm not planning on it at the moment. lol, I can see him attacking Toad, though.
Chapter 10: Carol Danvers
Three figures lay hidden in the shrubbery. They where far enough away from the Institute that neither the Professor or Jean would notice them, unless they were searching for intruders. One spy had high powered binoculars up to his eyes as he watched for any activity from the occupants of the mansion. Since the teenager with the backpack full of equipment had driven up, nothing of interest had happened. But before that, before the younger X-Men had gone to school, the spy had seen someone that was new to the Institute, and if his suspicions where right-
"Gambit?"
Gambit sighed. "Oui Pyro?"
"Nothing's happening. I'm bored. Why are we here again?"
"As he has told you before, Gambit has suspicions."
"I think it is time you told us what your suspicious are of." said Colossus.
Gambit put down his binoculars. "Pyro did tell you 'bout Magneto's plan to get 'im new recruits? Mainly Pyro and Gambit's doubles in another universe?"
"Da. But it didn't work." Colossus paused. "Right?"
"Gambit been rememberin' that night, and he remember seeing two of de X-Men at de location. He also saw dem leave wit' two people he never seen before. We where in de wrong location for de machine to work, or so we thought, but what if it did work? What if the two X-Men were in de right spot to attract dere doubles?"
"And you think that the two extra people you saw leave with them are their doubles?"
"It is possible, non?"
Pyro had been listening silently. Now he spoke up. "Why didn't you tell Magneto about your idea?"
Colossus and Gambit looked at each other over top of Pyro's head. Gambit said "Why should Magneto need to know?"
Watching the three figures was another member of the Acolytes. And he listened to everything that was said before heading back to his boss.
~*~ x ~*~
Later that day, the school going X-Men returned to the Institute, tired and hungry. Once again the kitchen was mobbed, this time for afternoon snacks. ~Kitty had just returned from helping Forge with the messier part of the invention, and her hands and face were smeared with oil.
Kitty immediately noticed this. "Hey, like, do want to come up to my room? You really need a manicure, and I'd like to know more stuff about your dimension."
~Kitty smiled. "Sure. Sounds fun." She had wondered what she was going to do for the rest of the day, and a manicure sure sounded good right about now.
"Okay," Kitty said brightly, "and we can, like, talk girl-talk. Rogue, I share a room with her, isn't the best, like, conversationalist, you know? And I have to tell you about this guy, in my Chemistry class...."
~Kitty listened to her prattle on, and counted how many times the word 'like' was used. *I don't sound like that, do I?* she wondered as she followed Kitty up the stairs.
Rogue was already in the room, trying to do her homework.
~Kitty watched as Kitty flopped on to her bed and reached under it, pulling out a bag of hand care essentials. She un-zipped it and allowed all the items to fall out in a pile.
Rogue stared at, what she considered, the implements of torture. A nail file, hand lotion, nail clippers, nail buffer, a jar of nail polish remover, various metal sticks to push back cuticles, and many colorful bottles of nail polish lay in a seemingly innocent pile. Rogue glanced at her own hands, and was suddenly grateful for her gloves. At least Kitty wouldn't want to give her a manicure.
"Wow...you sure do have a lot of pink nail polish." ~Kitty observed as she picked up a bottle of nail polish, called "Passion Pink."
"Yeah, it's, like, my favorite color."
Rogue smirked and said, "Who'd uh thunk?" Kitty was wearing her pink sweater, and her notebooks, which she had brought upstairs, were mostly pink and purple.
"Hey, at least it's cheery." Kitty said as she scanned Rogue's apparel, which consisted of a dark purple long sleeved shirt, black skirt, dark gray leggings, and combat boots, which she had relaced with purple shoe laces.
Rogue ignored her, and continued her homework.
"Anyway," Kitty said, as she held up some nail polish to ~Kitty's hand, judging if it was a good color for her, "I wanted to know about Colossus in your dimension. He's one of the X-Men?"
"Yeah, he was a X-Men before me." ~Kitty said as she ran the file over her nails.
Rogue looked up from her U.S. History book. "Ah noticed that Ah' was not mentioned in the history that was told yesterday, does that mean Ah don't exist in your universe?"
"Oh, no, you exist, but your older and you've just joined." ~Kitty said, not mentioning that she didn't really like the Rogue in her universe.
"Do Ah have the same power's and look the same?"
"I dunno, what are your powers? Your hair is different, its shorter and the white streak is thicker, and goes from your forehead to the back of your head."
"Ah can suck the powers and memories from whoever Ah touch, and for a brief time Ah can use their powers."
"That's some of what she can do, but she can also fly, and is super strong."
"Really? That's interesting. Ah'd like to be able to fly." Rogue said thoughtfully.
~Kitty thought about if she should explain why Rogue was able to fly. She decided she should. "The only reason she is super strong and can fly is because she took another mutants power."
Rogue and Kitty stared at her. ~Kitty continued hurriedly, "She didn't mean to take it permanently...I don't know the whole story, but she somehow stole Carol Danvers powers when she touched her and it stayed with her, and left Carol striped of her powers and any memory of who she was."
Rogue shuddered, remembering the times when she had briefly thought she was someone else after touching them. She could still hear their voices inside her head if she tried. But the people she had touched had always been alright, after the first shock. Well, except Cody. But that had been a prolonged touch, and when her mutant powers had first manifested itself. "Was Carol an enemy or something? Or did the other me touch her by accident?"
~Kitty looked decidedly uncomfortable. "Uh, well, you were the bad guy."
"Like, wow." said Kitty.
"What?" said Rogue, like she hadn't heard right.
"Umm, you were with Mystique and the Brotherhood before you joined us."
"Rogue, that's like what happened here too. Mystique tricked her into joining the Brotherhood for awhile." Kitty explained to ~Kitty.
"So how'd Ah, Ah mean she, end up joining the X-Men?" Rogue asked.
"She came to ask help from the Professor, she couldn't tell which memories where her own or Carol's. I remember what she said, 'Ah look into a mirror and see a strangers face!'. Carol's memories didn't fade away like the other people she had touched. She said Mystique didn't understand, and couldn't help her. When the Professor tried to read her mind to see if she was telling the truth, he said he couldn't read it very well since there were 'two diametrically opposed thought patterns' in her mind."
"What happened to Carol?" asked Kitty.
"She never fully regained her memories, even though the Professor tried to help. But she was able to move on with her life."
Rogue asked "What happened to me?"
"Our Rogue joined the X-Men, and is still with us, but when Carol found out the Professor had let her join, she was real mad, and we haven't seen her since." ~Kitty, along with the rest of the X-men, had been friends with Carol, and ~Kitty still hadn't quite forgiven Rogue for what she had done to Carol, and couldn't help the hint of resentment in her answer.
If Rogue noticed it, she didn't let on that she had. She said "Kitty, ya should stop rubbing in that lotion before your hand gets prunie." Kitty, throughout the conversation, had been mindlessly applying hand lotion to her arms and hands, and rubbing it in repeatedly. Now she looked at her arms and noticed they were slathered in lotion. "Ick." she said, holding her arms out in front of her, so the lotion wouldn't touch her cloths. "I'll be back after I wash this off."
When she had left, Rogue asked "Was the Professor able ta help her?"
"A little. Carol's memories didn't try to take control over her own anymore, but the slightest touch transfers that person's memories and abilities to her. With that, he hasn't been much help."
*Just like it is here.* Rogue thought.
Kitty came back into the room and said "You know what?"
Rogue waited for her to continue, but ~Kitty said, "What?"
"I want to go do something. Like go to the mall or something. Yeah, the mall. You want to come ~Kitty?"
"Okay."
"What about you, Rogue? Feel like it?"
Surprising herself and Kitty, Rogue said "Alright. Got nothing better ta do." Then she chucked her text book into her open book bag and didn't look to see if it made it in.
Kitty smiled. "Great! I'll go see if Jean wants to go."
Rogue rolled her eyes, but Kitty didn't notice as she went out of the room in search of Jean. But ~Kitty did.
"You don't like Jean?" she asked Rogue.
"Noticed that, did ya?"
~Kitty didn't answer that, and Rogue said "She's just...to perfect. In everything and every way. It...irritates me."
As ~Kitty followed her out of the room, she wondered if Rogue didn't like Jean for the same reason the Rogue in her dimension hated Dazzler, because she was a mutant with all the things Rogue could never have.
~*~ x ~*~
Sabertooth sped back to Magneto's hide out. Upon reaching the seemingly abandoned warehouse, he pushed a hidden button and a small keyboard reveled itself. Quickly punching in his password, he then placed his clawed hand on the screen which was above the keyboard. His fingerprints and palm were scanned and then a beep signaled that the door was opening as the screen and keyboard went back into hiding.
Sabertooth made his way to the innermost room, to Magneto's office. Remembering what had almost happened to Pyro when he hadn't knocked, (Magneto had threatened to impale the poor Australian with paper clips, which would be a rather grisly death) Sabertooth rapped on the door. A quit 'Come in.' greeted him, and he did so.
Inside he found Magneto receiving a report on the Brotherhood from his son, Pietro. Quicksilver sneered at him, and in return Sabertooth growled softly back.
"That will be all, Pietro. Report back to me when you have actually made progress with those delinquents."
Pietro glared at his father, Magneto chose to ignore it, and then used his mutant ability to remove himself from the office, meaning he ran super fast out of the room.
"What is it, Victor?" Magneto asked.
Sabertooth then summarized what he had heard when he had been spying on Remy, John, and Piotr. Or Gambit, Pyro, and Colossus, whatever you prefer.
After he had finished, Magneto looked thoughtful. "Thank you Victor. You've given me much food for thought. Please return to Xavier's Institute, and keep an eye on our erstwhile colleagues."
Sabertooth started to leave, when Magneto postponed him. "And make sure you find out if Gambit's theory is correct."
Nodding his head, Sabertooth left Magneto, who was pondering this new information.
~~~~~~
I think that is my longest chapter yet. From now on I will try to make my chapters this long. Now, when you review, wish me Happy Birthday, because it is my birthday today. It will be like little Happy Birthday cards, when I see all your lovely reviews. So humor me please.
Now click the purple button, and make my day.
~:b~
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