To Err is Human
By Todd Fan
Disclaimer: "You know, it's becoming increasingly obvious the only thing we have in common is DNA"
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Here's my late-ish update, for which I apologise, most of the start of this week involved me visiting relatives who kept jabbing me in the arm, reminding me of the impending doom of reaching the 'adulthood' of 21 tomorrow.....I'm planning on keeping a baseball bat next to me all day, if maturity is coming to get me, I'm going down fighting!
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Chapter 16 - The baby shower from Hell
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The next day had arrived, and with it the day of the much awaited baby shower. Storm had barricaded herself into the common room, which was now full of ballons and baby related items. Storms sister had arrived, leaving Evan's father at home. Vi Daniels was determined that this baby shower was going to be a PROPER one. That meant no men, under any circumstances. This made for quite a small baby shower, as Storm pointed out all her friends of her own age were, in fact, male. So that left her, Vi and Forge's mother. Luckily, the teenage girls of the institute had invited themselves, and so saving the party.
"Oh, I've never been to a baby shower before!", squealed Kitty, dancing around happily as Hank tried to carry a very large plate of VERY heavy cupcakes made by the teenager, "this is great"
"Yes, I'm sure", said Hank, depositing the food on the table, wincing as it creaked under their weight, Kitty apparently not noticing, bouncing off into the common room.
Hank glanced at the couch, where Forge was lying face-down.
".....Has anyone else noticed the half-concious inventor on our couch?".
"Yeah, I'm thinking of putting a throw over him", chuckled Logan.
"Shut up", said Forge dozily, then groaned as femine squeals came from the common room.
"...Storm's started her baby shower, huh?", said Hank.
"No", said Logan sarcastically, "the girls are having a squealing contest while passing around things for babies".
"..You're hilrarious", said Hank, then poked Forge's head, "don't you want to do anything while Ororo's having her baby shower?"
"Yes, yes I do", said Forge's muffled voice, "I want to sleep on this couch for as long as is possible before my day returns to holding her hair up while she throws up and takes out her mood swings on me".
"You don't want to have any fun yourself?"
"This is fun", said Forge, in a monotone voice "this is the best of fun, whoo-hoo".
"You're scared to go near her sister, aren't you?", smirked Hank.
Vi Daniels certainally didn't aprove of her younger sister's choice of husband. She was a stright arrow kind of gal, and Forge was...well...he was Forge. She didn't like the idea of Ororo marrying, quote 'A odd young-old hippie with an unsteady job'. Storm had pleasantly told her to jump off the nearest bridge.
"Could not be more terrifed", replied Forge, "plus, I think it's best if I keep my distance from my mother...she keeps trying to cleanse my aura".
"You know somethin', Forge", grinned Logan, "meetin' yer mother has explained ALOT about why you are like you are"
"Shut up, Logan", muttered Forge.
The door to the mansion opened, Evan walking in, Callisto on his arm.
"Hey, we're not late, are we?", he grinned.
".....By half an hour", said Hank dryly, he picked up the rock- ca...errr...cup-cakes, handing them to Callisto, "they're in the common room".
He nudged the Morlock leader to the door, pulling Evan back.
"You don't want to go in there", he said, "really, you don't".
Evan blinked, before sighing.
"My mother has taken over, hasn't she?", he asked, defeated, watching sadly as Callisto walked through the doors.
"Yes", said Logan, wincing, "she's a very scary lady"
"So, how is everyone?", said Evan, looking around, "I haven't been here since the wedding fiasco"
Forge gave another groan. The wedding fiasco was one that both bride and groom had opted never, ever to speak of again. Mutants and weddings really, really don't mix well. [1]
"Sam's depressed, Bobby's trying not to be depressed, Roberto and Danielle are vengefull and Jamie....err..."
Evan looked up as Jamie plodded past them.
"Heeey little man", he said, cheerfully, "how's it going?"
"My life is an empty husk", said Jamie, his voice still squeaky from it breaking, so it didn't hold the effect he felt it should have, "I want to crawl into a hole and die"
Evan blinked, watching Jamie plod off.
".....Oh-kay"
"See what I mean?", said Hank.
Evan sighed, plopping down on the couch next to his uncle.
"Mom gave you 'the glare' again, didn't she?".
"Yes, yes she did", said Forge, "she tutted too".
Evan winced.
"I hope things go better for Callisto"
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Callisto was hoping things were going better for Evan. She'd walked in, putting down the curiously heavy cakes, before realising everyone was staring at her. He gave the best smile she could, clearing her face.
"...Hello"
"Hello", said Storm, blinking, recognising the woman from the sewers, "....why are you here?"
"I...err...came with Evan", said Callisto, looking around at the blank faces, "...my boyfriend".
"WHAT?".
Callisto winced, inhanced senses didn't do well when people started yelling. Vi didn't look too happy, at all.
"My baby boy has a girlfriend from the...ugh...sewer-phase he has been going through?", said Vi.
Vi had not taken her sons choice of living arrangments very well, when Storm had told her, and she'd been living in her own little world that it was just a phase and one day, he would come home.
"Yes", said Callisto bluntly, "and he's really a great assest to the Morlocks, he protects us all with his life, you should be very proud, Mrs Daniels"
"But...but....", stammered Vi, "it's...the sewers!"
"It's where we have to hide", said Callisto, sighing, "most of us are not able to go topside for fear of the prejudice we'll face".
"Humph", replied Vi.
Storm looked between them, clearing her throat, the last thing they needed was a punch-up.
"Hey, I know, now we're all here...."
"You KNEW he had a girlfriend?", Vi glared at her sister.
"Well....yes", said Storm, "Evan tries his best to keep in touch with me"
"Why didn't you tell ME, I'm his mother", she said, then eyed Callisto, "and I don't aprove very much, she looks to old for him"
"She's only two years older than him", pointed out Storm, "and he wanted to tell you himself".
She glanced around nervously, at Callisto and Vi started to stare each other out, this wasn't going well.
"Oh, now, there's no need to be all scrunchy over this, we're here to celibrate!"
Storm let out a sigh of relief, she could kiss her mother-in-law. Everyone turned to look at her. The best way to term Forge's mother was....'out there'. She wore a bandana to tie back her long, black-but-greying hair and wore a dress which looked like a rainbow had thrown up on it. As Logan had pointed out, this woman explained ALOT about Forge's state of sanity.....the woman SCREAMED 'flower child'. [2]
"We have lots of presents for Ororo to open", said Aenohe, "and of course, we're here to welcome the new life into our family unit" [3]
"Yes, present opening!", said Storm quickly, chosing not to let her mother- in-law launch into song...or interprative dance..or something involving smoking things they shouldn't.
"Oh, that reminds me", said Vi, handing a box to Kitty, "take that out to the men, I thought they'd like something to amuse themselves with while we do this"
Kitty looked at the box with a wrinkled nose.
"Do I want to know what's in it?"
"It's a game", said Vi, "take it out"
Kitty blinked, leaving Storm to her family, walking out to where the guys were sitting, depositing the box on the table.
"Storm's sister says you have to play this", she said bluntly, before leaving.
Logan blinked, picking it up and opening it, reading the instuctions.
"Who's having this baby anyway?" he said, "the first player who makes it through fourty weeks of pregnancy and dialates to ten centremeters, wins" [4]
The men blinked as one.
"That is, without a doubt, the most disturbing concept for a board game I have ever heard of", said Evan, then grinned, "lets play it!"
They opened it up, Logan, Hank, Forge and Evan each taking a piece.
"Apparently, we start in the conception area", said Hank, then sighed, "where else would you start?"
Logan shuddered.
"It scares me that the first trimester card has a picture of a bun in an oven", he said.
And so the game played on. The rules, the guy's weren't quite sure of, but they did their best.
"When dad comes home from lunch, there is a message on the voice mail from mom. She has lost her mucus plug. Dad has called in every hardwear store trying to find a new one. Move ahead one week", Evan wrinkled his nose, "ewww, Auntie O is gonna be passing mucus?!"
"You don't have to live with her", said Forge, "you're safe in your tunnels..where she won't go. Mmm, maybe I should make myself a little box to hide in that her claustraphobia won't let her in"
"Good luck with that", chuckled Logan, looking at his card.
"Dad is thinking, if Mom is screaming this loud for leg cramps in the middle of the night, he better bring earplugs to the birth"
Forge frowned.
"Why is 'Dad' an idiot?", he said, "I'm not that stupid....am I?".
The other three shifted uncomfortably.
"Oh, thanks for the vote of confidence, guys", said Forge crossing his arms.
"You're not stupid, Forge", said Hank, coughing, "you are, after all, a genius, it's just...."
Logan growled frustratedly.
"You haven't got a clue how to be a father!".
Forge whimpered.
"That's not fair!", he protested, "I can be a great father"
"Forge...look at your position in the game", said Logan.
Forge blinked, looking down. His counter had moved three spaces.
"Oh", said Forge, then groaned, putting his head in his hands, "I'll be terrible father! I don't know anything about babies, and, hey, guess what? THE BABY IS COMMING!"
"Forge, take a breath", said Hank gently, "you'll be fine. It'll all come....err..naturally"
"No it won't, not being able to see the baby on the sonogram was an omen, AN OMEN!"
"Yeah, yeah, an omen", said Logan, "your daughter will grow up to resent you"
Forge whimpered, banging his head on the table.
"Thanks alot, Logan", said Hank with a growl, "Forge, you'll be fine, every first-time dad goes though this, you read it in that stupid fear book Storm gave you"
Forge blinked.
"Oh...yeah", he said, "huh....and I thought I was a freak, not having any of them"
"There you go", said Hank, patting his shoulder, "you just got them all in one go. Now come on, I'm getting close to delivering my baby, I'm gonna win this game!"
And so, the shower when on, ending in Vi trying to convince her son to return home, in which he and Callisto had made a beeak for it while Anehoe provided a distraction by playing a strange song which had something to do with Sticky Shoes. [5]
Vi had become terrifed that such a song would make a bad impression on her niece-to-be, and had confiscated the hippie's guitar, which ended up in Anehoe swearing bad Karma on Vi. Forge had eventually been brought in to try on convince his mother that it was time to go home, and Vi really didn't mean to touch her guitar. Needless to say, when everyone had gone home, the mansion breathed a collective sigh of relief, and swore never again to hold anything close to a baby shower ever, ever again.
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In Sebastian Shaw's hidden training ground, the man himself had paid a visit.
"How is she?", he said as he got inside, a henchman taking his coat.
Donald Pierce, the Inner Circle's White Bishop smiled.
"Follow me, Shaw, you'll be suprised"
Shaw followed after his cyborg comanion, finally coming to an enclosed garden, rich with plantlife, it looked more like a jungle.
"We imported some rich botanical life, as asked", said Pierce with a smirk, "she's quite an impressive mutant, given the right....persuasion"
He clicked a button, a door opening on the other side of the garden, letting out a small figure. She wore a pitch black uniform, her face hidden by a gold-coloured, expressionless mask. Her now pale green eyes glowed duly from the eye holes.
"Lets see what she can do, shall we?", said Shaw, arching a brow.
Pierce nodded, pressing a few buttons, letting out a group of Inner Circle soldiers. They began firing rifles at the figure. She glanced over at them, before moving with fluid relexes. She ducked out of the way of the bullets, raising her arm. Underneath two soldiers, the grass became wild, gorwing quickly, soon burrying them under it, their cries for help muffled. Another soldier made a dash for her, brandishing a knife. A thick vine lashed out from nowhere, coiling around him like a snake, leaving him dangling helplessly in the air. She grabbed the kife as it dropped, throwing it at the remaining soldier, pinning him to a tree by his shoulder. She looked around her, before pulling off her mask, her long black hair falling free.
"Very good, Botanica", said Pierce with a smirk, then looked at Shaw, "well?"
"I am impressed", said Shaw with a nod.
"She has trained well, in her short time with us", said Pierce, "soon, she will have mastered the use of any weapon she can come across, perfect for her purpose. Your serum works perfectly. Her powers have gone past their normal limitations, what would have taken her years to control, she can now master"
"Good", said Shaw with a firm nod, "because we already have a...client for her services. It's time she did her first field work"
His smirk widened.
"And who would suspect a thirteen year old girl is an asassin?"
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[1] - A nod to the comics, whenether an X-person goes to a wedding, most of the time something goes wrong. It's quite humerous.
[2] - Imagine a cross between Phoebe from Friends and Darma's mother from Darma and Greg and you got her.
[3] - Pronounced Ahh-no, Cheyenne for 'Hawk', Forge's parents were never given names in the comics, so I used my imagination :D
[4] - As terrifying as the fact is, this game is REAL. It can be found in most online babystores. Before anyone asks, I was on a baby shower site looking for inspiration, and boy did I get it!. Incidentally, all the 'game cards' are real too.
[5] - 'Sticky Shoes' is one of Friends Phoebe's wonderfully odd songs, this one was sang in 'TOW Phoebe's Ex Partner', and is one of my favorites. 'Late one night, not much light, I stepped in something icky'
Dum dum duuuum! And there is another chapter done. In the next chapter, Shaw's plans start to become obvious, as a result, I have to up the rating of the fic to an R, so it won't be shown in the 'just in' section anymore. Just a heads up ;) Do review. Until next time...
By Todd Fan
Disclaimer: "You know, it's becoming increasingly obvious the only thing we have in common is DNA"
---
Here's my late-ish update, for which I apologise, most of the start of this week involved me visiting relatives who kept jabbing me in the arm, reminding me of the impending doom of reaching the 'adulthood' of 21 tomorrow.....I'm planning on keeping a baseball bat next to me all day, if maturity is coming to get me, I'm going down fighting!
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Chapter 16 - The baby shower from Hell
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The next day had arrived, and with it the day of the much awaited baby shower. Storm had barricaded herself into the common room, which was now full of ballons and baby related items. Storms sister had arrived, leaving Evan's father at home. Vi Daniels was determined that this baby shower was going to be a PROPER one. That meant no men, under any circumstances. This made for quite a small baby shower, as Storm pointed out all her friends of her own age were, in fact, male. So that left her, Vi and Forge's mother. Luckily, the teenage girls of the institute had invited themselves, and so saving the party.
"Oh, I've never been to a baby shower before!", squealed Kitty, dancing around happily as Hank tried to carry a very large plate of VERY heavy cupcakes made by the teenager, "this is great"
"Yes, I'm sure", said Hank, depositing the food on the table, wincing as it creaked under their weight, Kitty apparently not noticing, bouncing off into the common room.
Hank glanced at the couch, where Forge was lying face-down.
".....Has anyone else noticed the half-concious inventor on our couch?".
"Yeah, I'm thinking of putting a throw over him", chuckled Logan.
"Shut up", said Forge dozily, then groaned as femine squeals came from the common room.
"...Storm's started her baby shower, huh?", said Hank.
"No", said Logan sarcastically, "the girls are having a squealing contest while passing around things for babies".
"..You're hilrarious", said Hank, then poked Forge's head, "don't you want to do anything while Ororo's having her baby shower?"
"Yes, yes I do", said Forge's muffled voice, "I want to sleep on this couch for as long as is possible before my day returns to holding her hair up while she throws up and takes out her mood swings on me".
"You don't want to have any fun yourself?"
"This is fun", said Forge, in a monotone voice "this is the best of fun, whoo-hoo".
"You're scared to go near her sister, aren't you?", smirked Hank.
Vi Daniels certainally didn't aprove of her younger sister's choice of husband. She was a stright arrow kind of gal, and Forge was...well...he was Forge. She didn't like the idea of Ororo marrying, quote 'A odd young-old hippie with an unsteady job'. Storm had pleasantly told her to jump off the nearest bridge.
"Could not be more terrifed", replied Forge, "plus, I think it's best if I keep my distance from my mother...she keeps trying to cleanse my aura".
"You know somethin', Forge", grinned Logan, "meetin' yer mother has explained ALOT about why you are like you are"
"Shut up, Logan", muttered Forge.
The door to the mansion opened, Evan walking in, Callisto on his arm.
"Hey, we're not late, are we?", he grinned.
".....By half an hour", said Hank dryly, he picked up the rock- ca...errr...cup-cakes, handing them to Callisto, "they're in the common room".
He nudged the Morlock leader to the door, pulling Evan back.
"You don't want to go in there", he said, "really, you don't".
Evan blinked, before sighing.
"My mother has taken over, hasn't she?", he asked, defeated, watching sadly as Callisto walked through the doors.
"Yes", said Logan, wincing, "she's a very scary lady"
"So, how is everyone?", said Evan, looking around, "I haven't been here since the wedding fiasco"
Forge gave another groan. The wedding fiasco was one that both bride and groom had opted never, ever to speak of again. Mutants and weddings really, really don't mix well. [1]
"Sam's depressed, Bobby's trying not to be depressed, Roberto and Danielle are vengefull and Jamie....err..."
Evan looked up as Jamie plodded past them.
"Heeey little man", he said, cheerfully, "how's it going?"
"My life is an empty husk", said Jamie, his voice still squeaky from it breaking, so it didn't hold the effect he felt it should have, "I want to crawl into a hole and die"
Evan blinked, watching Jamie plod off.
".....Oh-kay"
"See what I mean?", said Hank.
Evan sighed, plopping down on the couch next to his uncle.
"Mom gave you 'the glare' again, didn't she?".
"Yes, yes she did", said Forge, "she tutted too".
Evan winced.
"I hope things go better for Callisto"
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Callisto was hoping things were going better for Evan. She'd walked in, putting down the curiously heavy cakes, before realising everyone was staring at her. He gave the best smile she could, clearing her face.
"...Hello"
"Hello", said Storm, blinking, recognising the woman from the sewers, "....why are you here?"
"I...err...came with Evan", said Callisto, looking around at the blank faces, "...my boyfriend".
"WHAT?".
Callisto winced, inhanced senses didn't do well when people started yelling. Vi didn't look too happy, at all.
"My baby boy has a girlfriend from the...ugh...sewer-phase he has been going through?", said Vi.
Vi had not taken her sons choice of living arrangments very well, when Storm had told her, and she'd been living in her own little world that it was just a phase and one day, he would come home.
"Yes", said Callisto bluntly, "and he's really a great assest to the Morlocks, he protects us all with his life, you should be very proud, Mrs Daniels"
"But...but....", stammered Vi, "it's...the sewers!"
"It's where we have to hide", said Callisto, sighing, "most of us are not able to go topside for fear of the prejudice we'll face".
"Humph", replied Vi.
Storm looked between them, clearing her throat, the last thing they needed was a punch-up.
"Hey, I know, now we're all here...."
"You KNEW he had a girlfriend?", Vi glared at her sister.
"Well....yes", said Storm, "Evan tries his best to keep in touch with me"
"Why didn't you tell ME, I'm his mother", she said, then eyed Callisto, "and I don't aprove very much, she looks to old for him"
"She's only two years older than him", pointed out Storm, "and he wanted to tell you himself".
She glanced around nervously, at Callisto and Vi started to stare each other out, this wasn't going well.
"Oh, now, there's no need to be all scrunchy over this, we're here to celibrate!"
Storm let out a sigh of relief, she could kiss her mother-in-law. Everyone turned to look at her. The best way to term Forge's mother was....'out there'. She wore a bandana to tie back her long, black-but-greying hair and wore a dress which looked like a rainbow had thrown up on it. As Logan had pointed out, this woman explained ALOT about Forge's state of sanity.....the woman SCREAMED 'flower child'. [2]
"We have lots of presents for Ororo to open", said Aenohe, "and of course, we're here to welcome the new life into our family unit" [3]
"Yes, present opening!", said Storm quickly, chosing not to let her mother- in-law launch into song...or interprative dance..or something involving smoking things they shouldn't.
"Oh, that reminds me", said Vi, handing a box to Kitty, "take that out to the men, I thought they'd like something to amuse themselves with while we do this"
Kitty looked at the box with a wrinkled nose.
"Do I want to know what's in it?"
"It's a game", said Vi, "take it out"
Kitty blinked, leaving Storm to her family, walking out to where the guys were sitting, depositing the box on the table.
"Storm's sister says you have to play this", she said bluntly, before leaving.
Logan blinked, picking it up and opening it, reading the instuctions.
"Who's having this baby anyway?" he said, "the first player who makes it through fourty weeks of pregnancy and dialates to ten centremeters, wins" [4]
The men blinked as one.
"That is, without a doubt, the most disturbing concept for a board game I have ever heard of", said Evan, then grinned, "lets play it!"
They opened it up, Logan, Hank, Forge and Evan each taking a piece.
"Apparently, we start in the conception area", said Hank, then sighed, "where else would you start?"
Logan shuddered.
"It scares me that the first trimester card has a picture of a bun in an oven", he said.
And so the game played on. The rules, the guy's weren't quite sure of, but they did their best.
"When dad comes home from lunch, there is a message on the voice mail from mom. She has lost her mucus plug. Dad has called in every hardwear store trying to find a new one. Move ahead one week", Evan wrinkled his nose, "ewww, Auntie O is gonna be passing mucus?!"
"You don't have to live with her", said Forge, "you're safe in your tunnels..where she won't go. Mmm, maybe I should make myself a little box to hide in that her claustraphobia won't let her in"
"Good luck with that", chuckled Logan, looking at his card.
"Dad is thinking, if Mom is screaming this loud for leg cramps in the middle of the night, he better bring earplugs to the birth"
Forge frowned.
"Why is 'Dad' an idiot?", he said, "I'm not that stupid....am I?".
The other three shifted uncomfortably.
"Oh, thanks for the vote of confidence, guys", said Forge crossing his arms.
"You're not stupid, Forge", said Hank, coughing, "you are, after all, a genius, it's just...."
Logan growled frustratedly.
"You haven't got a clue how to be a father!".
Forge whimpered.
"That's not fair!", he protested, "I can be a great father"
"Forge...look at your position in the game", said Logan.
Forge blinked, looking down. His counter had moved three spaces.
"Oh", said Forge, then groaned, putting his head in his hands, "I'll be terrible father! I don't know anything about babies, and, hey, guess what? THE BABY IS COMMING!"
"Forge, take a breath", said Hank gently, "you'll be fine. It'll all come....err..naturally"
"No it won't, not being able to see the baby on the sonogram was an omen, AN OMEN!"
"Yeah, yeah, an omen", said Logan, "your daughter will grow up to resent you"
Forge whimpered, banging his head on the table.
"Thanks alot, Logan", said Hank with a growl, "Forge, you'll be fine, every first-time dad goes though this, you read it in that stupid fear book Storm gave you"
Forge blinked.
"Oh...yeah", he said, "huh....and I thought I was a freak, not having any of them"
"There you go", said Hank, patting his shoulder, "you just got them all in one go. Now come on, I'm getting close to delivering my baby, I'm gonna win this game!"
And so, the shower when on, ending in Vi trying to convince her son to return home, in which he and Callisto had made a beeak for it while Anehoe provided a distraction by playing a strange song which had something to do with Sticky Shoes. [5]
Vi had become terrifed that such a song would make a bad impression on her niece-to-be, and had confiscated the hippie's guitar, which ended up in Anehoe swearing bad Karma on Vi. Forge had eventually been brought in to try on convince his mother that it was time to go home, and Vi really didn't mean to touch her guitar. Needless to say, when everyone had gone home, the mansion breathed a collective sigh of relief, and swore never again to hold anything close to a baby shower ever, ever again.
-----
In Sebastian Shaw's hidden training ground, the man himself had paid a visit.
"How is she?", he said as he got inside, a henchman taking his coat.
Donald Pierce, the Inner Circle's White Bishop smiled.
"Follow me, Shaw, you'll be suprised"
Shaw followed after his cyborg comanion, finally coming to an enclosed garden, rich with plantlife, it looked more like a jungle.
"We imported some rich botanical life, as asked", said Pierce with a smirk, "she's quite an impressive mutant, given the right....persuasion"
He clicked a button, a door opening on the other side of the garden, letting out a small figure. She wore a pitch black uniform, her face hidden by a gold-coloured, expressionless mask. Her now pale green eyes glowed duly from the eye holes.
"Lets see what she can do, shall we?", said Shaw, arching a brow.
Pierce nodded, pressing a few buttons, letting out a group of Inner Circle soldiers. They began firing rifles at the figure. She glanced over at them, before moving with fluid relexes. She ducked out of the way of the bullets, raising her arm. Underneath two soldiers, the grass became wild, gorwing quickly, soon burrying them under it, their cries for help muffled. Another soldier made a dash for her, brandishing a knife. A thick vine lashed out from nowhere, coiling around him like a snake, leaving him dangling helplessly in the air. She grabbed the kife as it dropped, throwing it at the remaining soldier, pinning him to a tree by his shoulder. She looked around her, before pulling off her mask, her long black hair falling free.
"Very good, Botanica", said Pierce with a smirk, then looked at Shaw, "well?"
"I am impressed", said Shaw with a nod.
"She has trained well, in her short time with us", said Pierce, "soon, she will have mastered the use of any weapon she can come across, perfect for her purpose. Your serum works perfectly. Her powers have gone past their normal limitations, what would have taken her years to control, she can now master"
"Good", said Shaw with a firm nod, "because we already have a...client for her services. It's time she did her first field work"
His smirk widened.
"And who would suspect a thirteen year old girl is an asassin?"
----
[1] - A nod to the comics, whenether an X-person goes to a wedding, most of the time something goes wrong. It's quite humerous.
[2] - Imagine a cross between Phoebe from Friends and Darma's mother from Darma and Greg and you got her.
[3] - Pronounced Ahh-no, Cheyenne for 'Hawk', Forge's parents were never given names in the comics, so I used my imagination :D
[4] - As terrifying as the fact is, this game is REAL. It can be found in most online babystores. Before anyone asks, I was on a baby shower site looking for inspiration, and boy did I get it!. Incidentally, all the 'game cards' are real too.
[5] - 'Sticky Shoes' is one of Friends Phoebe's wonderfully odd songs, this one was sang in 'TOW Phoebe's Ex Partner', and is one of my favorites. 'Late one night, not much light, I stepped in something icky'
Dum dum duuuum! And there is another chapter done. In the next chapter, Shaw's plans start to become obvious, as a result, I have to up the rating of the fic to an R, so it won't be shown in the 'just in' section anymore. Just a heads up ;) Do review. Until next time...