Sparky Genocide: Well I'm not surprised you're not offended by femslash
since you got that one fic. Hope you like it, but don't think Gambit
will win out.
X-TREM-X23: Glad you liked their punishment. I'll put her in a relationship eventually but I think she needs some time to get used to her freedom and new life, but thanks for the idea.
celtcath74: Which Doc I've done several in my stories? Glad you found it funny.
Ruby631: Glad you're back and I hope you had a good time.
Ldypebsaby: Oh yeah blackmail is fun, well not for the boys at least. You'll find out where she'll end up later on.
LadyDeathStrike1: No problem but I got a whole lot of characters to go through and not all of them can get equal time. But don't worry I got a Logan/X23 chapter coming up soon for ya. Illyana has stepping disk that can teleport her (like Blink) but she mainly has magic abilities
BlackRoseApocalyps: So glad you like it, I wasn't sure how funny it was.
Red Witch: Well they did have it coming glad you found it funny.
The Uncanny R-Man: Yes I was you'll see a little of Selene in this and a little more later on too.
AnthonyR: Thanks, and I try believe me I do, but work, plus writers block and other stories equals that not all stories get updated fast.
DemonRogue13: Well let's just say he's thick headed.
TheLegendaryManHimself: Never underestimate the resolve of several pissed off girls, but you still got to feel a little sorry, but only a little, the rest you can just laugh your ass off.
ADJUSTMENTS
CHAPTER 11: THE TROUBLE WITH MAGIC
A couple of days had passed since the sleep over and everything was getting back to normal. The boys and the girls had made peace with each other, Amy and Gale were seeing a little more of each other for obvious reasons although they hadn't been on any official date as of yet.
Illyana was getting used to her new life. It was different from her life in Russia and a whole lot better then when Magneto had her. Plus she and her brother were also making up for lost time. They talked, played and joked together, it was so good to see him again.
It was a new morning and she was enjoying sleeping in. That is until her roommate started shaking her. "Wake up already." Gale told her. "How can one person sleep for so long I have no idea." She muttered to herself.
"What?" Illyana asked Gale still slightly asleep.
"We got training today and your going to miss breakfast." She stated.
"Five more minutes." She said, only in Russian.
Gale just snorted. "Forget this then." She said and then grabbed the covers and whipped them right off of her and put them on the ground. "There if you want the cover and go back to sleep you'll just have to get up first." She said grinning.
Gale went off to breakfast leaving Illyana in her bed. After about a minute Illyana finally managed to get up. She stretched out her body and went to the bathroom to get ready. She turned the faucet for some water. It was a little warm and she wished it was a little more colder.
Then she had to jerk her hands away from the sink. The water was freezing suddenly and then it turned to ice. Her first thought was Bobby, but how would he freeze her sink and not the entire water system. She turned on the shower and found it was fine.
If it had been Bobby he would have had to freeze the main water pipe or something and that would freeze all the water. She was wondering how that had happened when she remembered how the fireplace burst into flames a few days ago.
'Am I really doing this?' She wondered. 'Was Dr. Strange right in saying that my powers could be dangerous if untrained? NO! I won't go! I don't want to leave my brother and friends!' She silently screamed out.
She sunk to the floor bringing up her knees to her chest and holding them. 'I can control this, I don't need to leave to learn how to control this.' She told herself.
I took a little longer for her to get ready. Luckily it looked like the water was melting so she made sure the sink was turned off so it wouldn't overflow when she left. She walked alone down the halls and found the majority of the mutants in the dinning room with the long wooden table eating.
She saw Sarah eating and at one moment snagged two sausages with her two claws and put them on her plate. Kitty saw this. "Eww. I like told Logan this, but those things will clog your arteries." Sarah just shrugged and went on eating.
Illyana took an empty spot and started to dig in.
"So how are things?" Her brother asked her from a few seats down.
She brightened up. "After being in a cell for several months this is great." Piotr couldn't help but smile at his little sister. To him she was so full of life and had no idea what was troubling her, in fact no one did and she wanted to keep it that way. She liked it here and she didn't want to leave no matter what.
"Hey. This seat taken?" She turned and saw Alex Summers gesture to the empty seat. She shook her head. She didn't know why but for awhile she always felt like her stomach had butterflies in it, and struggled to say anything around the tanned boy.
He made her feel so light on her feet. Then she noticed the saltshaker slightly rise. Even the grains were floating. She quickly grabbed it before anyone noticed it. 'Damn it not now!' She silently cursed to herself.
"Hey Illyana pass the salt." Ray said to her.
She panicked a little but she calmed herself and passed it to him. "Hey this is pepper!" Ray's said. Illyana was shocked. She could have sworn it was salt, in fact she clearly remembered it being salt.
"Alright listen up." Logan said to them all, everyone knew better then to go on when Logan had something to say. "We're going to have three separate training groups today." There were a few groans but he ignored them. "First up the X-Men, then the New Mutants and finally all the newbies since we need to know where to put you all."
"Wanda, Piotr, Paige, Alex, Illyana, Gambit, and Sarah. You all will be last." He told them.
"I'm telling you right now I am not wearing one of those recruit uniforms." Wanda said to him folding her arms.
Logan sighed. "If you got somethin' to wear then wear it then, I'm not going through this whole uniform thing ever again." Then he looked to Illyana. "You might need extra training though in hand to hand and how to use a sword that you can use. Vincent think you can handle that since you know how to use a sword."
He scratched his head thinking about it. "I don't know if I got the time. I mean with Jamie's training and that Paige asked me for lessons too, I don't know. Plus I use a katana and use a Japanese style. She's got a long sword and I don't know how to properly use that kind of weapon."
"I could show her." Kurt spoke up and many people's attention was drawn to him. "Vell I do know how to fence, my papa taught me how and since Bayville doesn't have a fencing team I never send for mien swords I left back in Germany."
Logan raised and eyebrow. "And you never told us this now?"
Kurt just shrugged. "It never came up." He said in his defense.
Illyana was a little nervous. She knew that the Soul Sword was a powerful weapon that she would have to learn to use since it was bonded to her. But she was also afraid of it. After everything that was going on she really didn't need the sword to go berserk on her.
Later in the day the third group was entering the Danger Room. Wanda was in a reasonable replacement of her old uniform. Piotr was wearing his own uniform that he still had as did Gambit and Sarah especially since hers allowed for her claws. Paige, Alex, and Illyana were in the recruit uniforms.
Logan was in the control room along with Hank overseeing the exercise. Logan spoke into the microphone. "Alright we're going to go slowly and move on up." He started up the Danger Room and already what he saw disappointed him. After a few minutes they were all going at it alone and only a few of them actually helped the others out.
X23 since she also decided to use that as her codename, was going at it like she was berserk. "Energetic isn't she?" Hank said looking at her trashing all the equipment she was trashing with a look of range on her face.
Logan grunted made a note to try and help the girl to control her anger. She was so much like he was before Charles had helped him. Wanda was doing well, she just needed to help with teamwork, something the Brotherhood never had. Alex and Paige was doing well considering they weren't that trained.
Alex blasted the obstacles and Paige had ripped off her skin for a metallic one. She took a few hits but it must have been a dense metal so she was fine. Gambit and Piotr since they had worked together before made an interesting team.
Gambit would take out the target from afar and Colossus went in close. Illyana he noticed stayed behind others the entire time. Then she got separated from the group and she froze for a moment.
Then she summoned the sword. The blade instantly got the white flame and she attacked whatever she could. Her attacks were sloppy since she didn't know how to properly use a sword but she held her own when she used the flame from it to incinerate a few of the turrets going after her.
Logan was looking them all over then something caught his eye. The fire off of Illyana's sword suddenly got intense and she was surrounded her and it grew even more. "Illyana hold it with the fire!" Wanda said jumping out of the way.
"I-I can't stop it!" Then the fire broke off in several directions and became like living tentacles lashing out at everything. The others dodged them as best they could. Logan shut off the simulation but she was still going.
Piotr yelled out to his sister and tried to get to her but he was hit by one of the white flaming tentacles and was sent into one of the walls. Illyana saw this and screamed. She didn't know how hurt her brother was but she tried everything to stop it. She just wanted it to go away.
Then the flames suddenly started to reseed back into the sword. She thought she had done it. "Illyana look out! At your feet!" Alex cried out to her. She looked at him confused then saw a swirling energy being formed. The next thing she knew she had fallen throw it.
ACROSS TOWN
Selene was overlooking the construction of the new home for the Hellions. At the time of Illyana's uncontrolled use of the sword, Selene the immortal dark sorceress of the Hellfire club felt it all.
She felt the power of the sword. "So it's been awakened." She said. It had been so long since she was in the presence of someone who wielded the blade. She knew that the sword chose it's users and she wasn't stupid enough to try and take that weapon from someone.
But the fact that it was so close wasn't a good sigh. If someone had the sword and if they were that close then they could be either a powerful ally, or a very powerful enemy. If this person was an enemy this could be very big trouble for her and the Hellfire club.
She quickly tried to focus on the power and where it was but as soon as it appeared it was gone again. 'I'm going to have to keep an eye out for that power again.' She thought to herself.
SOMEWHERE OTHER THEN EARTH
She found herself in a very dark place. She looked around and it was like a wasteland all around her. The sky if it could be called that was dark and murky. She had never been so scared in her life. This was like out of a nightmare and all she wanted was to get back home.
Something moved off to the side and she looked. "Wh-wh-who's there." She asked frightened. A giant shadow moved and a huge un-humanly shape was coming towards her. AS it got closer she saw the most horrible thing she had ever seen, if she had to choose a word to describe it monster would be close. But demon was closer.
It was huge, four armed, a dark purple with an ungly face with large teeth. It growled at her and She wanted nothing more then to get away. 'I just want to o home!' She shouted in her mind and once again the energy disk thing that took her here appeared as the creature lunged at her.
She fell through it just in time. As she looked around her new surroundings she gasped. She was back at her family farm in Russia. It was abandoned and grass and weeds had grown everywhere. The blackened home that had been destroyed by a fire that took the lives of her parents stood in front of her.
She walked in. She couldn't help herself it had been so long and it was the only home she had known growing up, all her childhood was in this burnt out husk of a home. She looked around and it seemed like the ghost of the past haunted this place.
He could remember her parents sitting at the table eating and laughing. She walked down the small hall and looked into her room now nearly stripped bare of all items. She remembered how her brother would read to her as a child in her bead. She sat down on her bed.
Her parents were gone now, and now she only had her brother left in the world. She missed the old days when things were so simple and easy. She wanted to be held in her mother's arms just once more and for her to tell her it will be all right, and that everything was fine.
She felt the tears coming down her face. They would never be the same, not anymore. Her life had chanced now forever and there was nothing that could chance it back to the way it was. She saw something at the bottom of the bed sticking out. She reached down and picked it up.
It was a ragged old teddy bear, her's to be exact. She remembered getting it for Christmas all those years ago. She hugged it close to her chest. She thought she had lost it in the fire, but the fire hadn't reached her room totally. It was slightly damaged but it could be fixed.
This was the only thing she had of her old life now. She looked around the rest of the house but found nothing interesting. She had hoped a photo had survived but couldn't find one. She stepped out into the morning light. Then a thought had hit her.
It was still daylight in Bayville how could the sun be out in Russia? She put it aside and thought how could she get back. Then an idea hit her it was risky but she had to try it. She would try and focus on the Institute and hope that whatever it was that kept moving her around would do it again.
She took a few breaths and concentrated as hard as she could. She could feel the energy of the disk now and felt herself fall. This time she landed in the foyer of the Institute but it was night.
"Illyana!" Came several voices. She turned and found Tabitha, Sam and Roberto looking at her like a ghost.
"Where have you been?" Sam asked her. "Piotr has been worried sick and you all been gone for two days!"
"Two days!?" Illyana said shocked. "But-but, I was just gone for under an hour. How could I have lost two days?" She pleaded with them. They didn't have an answer and now she was more confused and frightened then ever.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 12: THE DOCTOR IS IN
Dr. Strange makes his return, and will Illyana have to give up her life at the Institute?
X-TREM-X23: Glad you liked their punishment. I'll put her in a relationship eventually but I think she needs some time to get used to her freedom and new life, but thanks for the idea.
celtcath74: Which Doc I've done several in my stories? Glad you found it funny.
Ruby631: Glad you're back and I hope you had a good time.
Ldypebsaby: Oh yeah blackmail is fun, well not for the boys at least. You'll find out where she'll end up later on.
LadyDeathStrike1: No problem but I got a whole lot of characters to go through and not all of them can get equal time. But don't worry I got a Logan/X23 chapter coming up soon for ya. Illyana has stepping disk that can teleport her (like Blink) but she mainly has magic abilities
BlackRoseApocalyps: So glad you like it, I wasn't sure how funny it was.
Red Witch: Well they did have it coming glad you found it funny.
The Uncanny R-Man: Yes I was you'll see a little of Selene in this and a little more later on too.
AnthonyR: Thanks, and I try believe me I do, but work, plus writers block and other stories equals that not all stories get updated fast.
DemonRogue13: Well let's just say he's thick headed.
TheLegendaryManHimself: Never underestimate the resolve of several pissed off girls, but you still got to feel a little sorry, but only a little, the rest you can just laugh your ass off.
ADJUSTMENTS
CHAPTER 11: THE TROUBLE WITH MAGIC
A couple of days had passed since the sleep over and everything was getting back to normal. The boys and the girls had made peace with each other, Amy and Gale were seeing a little more of each other for obvious reasons although they hadn't been on any official date as of yet.
Illyana was getting used to her new life. It was different from her life in Russia and a whole lot better then when Magneto had her. Plus she and her brother were also making up for lost time. They talked, played and joked together, it was so good to see him again.
It was a new morning and she was enjoying sleeping in. That is until her roommate started shaking her. "Wake up already." Gale told her. "How can one person sleep for so long I have no idea." She muttered to herself.
"What?" Illyana asked Gale still slightly asleep.
"We got training today and your going to miss breakfast." She stated.
"Five more minutes." She said, only in Russian.
Gale just snorted. "Forget this then." She said and then grabbed the covers and whipped them right off of her and put them on the ground. "There if you want the cover and go back to sleep you'll just have to get up first." She said grinning.
Gale went off to breakfast leaving Illyana in her bed. After about a minute Illyana finally managed to get up. She stretched out her body and went to the bathroom to get ready. She turned the faucet for some water. It was a little warm and she wished it was a little more colder.
Then she had to jerk her hands away from the sink. The water was freezing suddenly and then it turned to ice. Her first thought was Bobby, but how would he freeze her sink and not the entire water system. She turned on the shower and found it was fine.
If it had been Bobby he would have had to freeze the main water pipe or something and that would freeze all the water. She was wondering how that had happened when she remembered how the fireplace burst into flames a few days ago.
'Am I really doing this?' She wondered. 'Was Dr. Strange right in saying that my powers could be dangerous if untrained? NO! I won't go! I don't want to leave my brother and friends!' She silently screamed out.
She sunk to the floor bringing up her knees to her chest and holding them. 'I can control this, I don't need to leave to learn how to control this.' She told herself.
I took a little longer for her to get ready. Luckily it looked like the water was melting so she made sure the sink was turned off so it wouldn't overflow when she left. She walked alone down the halls and found the majority of the mutants in the dinning room with the long wooden table eating.
She saw Sarah eating and at one moment snagged two sausages with her two claws and put them on her plate. Kitty saw this. "Eww. I like told Logan this, but those things will clog your arteries." Sarah just shrugged and went on eating.
Illyana took an empty spot and started to dig in.
"So how are things?" Her brother asked her from a few seats down.
She brightened up. "After being in a cell for several months this is great." Piotr couldn't help but smile at his little sister. To him she was so full of life and had no idea what was troubling her, in fact no one did and she wanted to keep it that way. She liked it here and she didn't want to leave no matter what.
"Hey. This seat taken?" She turned and saw Alex Summers gesture to the empty seat. She shook her head. She didn't know why but for awhile she always felt like her stomach had butterflies in it, and struggled to say anything around the tanned boy.
He made her feel so light on her feet. Then she noticed the saltshaker slightly rise. Even the grains were floating. She quickly grabbed it before anyone noticed it. 'Damn it not now!' She silently cursed to herself.
"Hey Illyana pass the salt." Ray said to her.
She panicked a little but she calmed herself and passed it to him. "Hey this is pepper!" Ray's said. Illyana was shocked. She could have sworn it was salt, in fact she clearly remembered it being salt.
"Alright listen up." Logan said to them all, everyone knew better then to go on when Logan had something to say. "We're going to have three separate training groups today." There were a few groans but he ignored them. "First up the X-Men, then the New Mutants and finally all the newbies since we need to know where to put you all."
"Wanda, Piotr, Paige, Alex, Illyana, Gambit, and Sarah. You all will be last." He told them.
"I'm telling you right now I am not wearing one of those recruit uniforms." Wanda said to him folding her arms.
Logan sighed. "If you got somethin' to wear then wear it then, I'm not going through this whole uniform thing ever again." Then he looked to Illyana. "You might need extra training though in hand to hand and how to use a sword that you can use. Vincent think you can handle that since you know how to use a sword."
He scratched his head thinking about it. "I don't know if I got the time. I mean with Jamie's training and that Paige asked me for lessons too, I don't know. Plus I use a katana and use a Japanese style. She's got a long sword and I don't know how to properly use that kind of weapon."
"I could show her." Kurt spoke up and many people's attention was drawn to him. "Vell I do know how to fence, my papa taught me how and since Bayville doesn't have a fencing team I never send for mien swords I left back in Germany."
Logan raised and eyebrow. "And you never told us this now?"
Kurt just shrugged. "It never came up." He said in his defense.
Illyana was a little nervous. She knew that the Soul Sword was a powerful weapon that she would have to learn to use since it was bonded to her. But she was also afraid of it. After everything that was going on she really didn't need the sword to go berserk on her.
Later in the day the third group was entering the Danger Room. Wanda was in a reasonable replacement of her old uniform. Piotr was wearing his own uniform that he still had as did Gambit and Sarah especially since hers allowed for her claws. Paige, Alex, and Illyana were in the recruit uniforms.
Logan was in the control room along with Hank overseeing the exercise. Logan spoke into the microphone. "Alright we're going to go slowly and move on up." He started up the Danger Room and already what he saw disappointed him. After a few minutes they were all going at it alone and only a few of them actually helped the others out.
X23 since she also decided to use that as her codename, was going at it like she was berserk. "Energetic isn't she?" Hank said looking at her trashing all the equipment she was trashing with a look of range on her face.
Logan grunted made a note to try and help the girl to control her anger. She was so much like he was before Charles had helped him. Wanda was doing well, she just needed to help with teamwork, something the Brotherhood never had. Alex and Paige was doing well considering they weren't that trained.
Alex blasted the obstacles and Paige had ripped off her skin for a metallic one. She took a few hits but it must have been a dense metal so she was fine. Gambit and Piotr since they had worked together before made an interesting team.
Gambit would take out the target from afar and Colossus went in close. Illyana he noticed stayed behind others the entire time. Then she got separated from the group and she froze for a moment.
Then she summoned the sword. The blade instantly got the white flame and she attacked whatever she could. Her attacks were sloppy since she didn't know how to properly use a sword but she held her own when she used the flame from it to incinerate a few of the turrets going after her.
Logan was looking them all over then something caught his eye. The fire off of Illyana's sword suddenly got intense and she was surrounded her and it grew even more. "Illyana hold it with the fire!" Wanda said jumping out of the way.
"I-I can't stop it!" Then the fire broke off in several directions and became like living tentacles lashing out at everything. The others dodged them as best they could. Logan shut off the simulation but she was still going.
Piotr yelled out to his sister and tried to get to her but he was hit by one of the white flaming tentacles and was sent into one of the walls. Illyana saw this and screamed. She didn't know how hurt her brother was but she tried everything to stop it. She just wanted it to go away.
Then the flames suddenly started to reseed back into the sword. She thought she had done it. "Illyana look out! At your feet!" Alex cried out to her. She looked at him confused then saw a swirling energy being formed. The next thing she knew she had fallen throw it.
ACROSS TOWN
Selene was overlooking the construction of the new home for the Hellions. At the time of Illyana's uncontrolled use of the sword, Selene the immortal dark sorceress of the Hellfire club felt it all.
She felt the power of the sword. "So it's been awakened." She said. It had been so long since she was in the presence of someone who wielded the blade. She knew that the sword chose it's users and she wasn't stupid enough to try and take that weapon from someone.
But the fact that it was so close wasn't a good sigh. If someone had the sword and if they were that close then they could be either a powerful ally, or a very powerful enemy. If this person was an enemy this could be very big trouble for her and the Hellfire club.
She quickly tried to focus on the power and where it was but as soon as it appeared it was gone again. 'I'm going to have to keep an eye out for that power again.' She thought to herself.
SOMEWHERE OTHER THEN EARTH
She found herself in a very dark place. She looked around and it was like a wasteland all around her. The sky if it could be called that was dark and murky. She had never been so scared in her life. This was like out of a nightmare and all she wanted was to get back home.
Something moved off to the side and she looked. "Wh-wh-who's there." She asked frightened. A giant shadow moved and a huge un-humanly shape was coming towards her. AS it got closer she saw the most horrible thing she had ever seen, if she had to choose a word to describe it monster would be close. But demon was closer.
It was huge, four armed, a dark purple with an ungly face with large teeth. It growled at her and She wanted nothing more then to get away. 'I just want to o home!' She shouted in her mind and once again the energy disk thing that took her here appeared as the creature lunged at her.
She fell through it just in time. As she looked around her new surroundings she gasped. She was back at her family farm in Russia. It was abandoned and grass and weeds had grown everywhere. The blackened home that had been destroyed by a fire that took the lives of her parents stood in front of her.
She walked in. She couldn't help herself it had been so long and it was the only home she had known growing up, all her childhood was in this burnt out husk of a home. She looked around and it seemed like the ghost of the past haunted this place.
He could remember her parents sitting at the table eating and laughing. She walked down the small hall and looked into her room now nearly stripped bare of all items. She remembered how her brother would read to her as a child in her bead. She sat down on her bed.
Her parents were gone now, and now she only had her brother left in the world. She missed the old days when things were so simple and easy. She wanted to be held in her mother's arms just once more and for her to tell her it will be all right, and that everything was fine.
She felt the tears coming down her face. They would never be the same, not anymore. Her life had chanced now forever and there was nothing that could chance it back to the way it was. She saw something at the bottom of the bed sticking out. She reached down and picked it up.
It was a ragged old teddy bear, her's to be exact. She remembered getting it for Christmas all those years ago. She hugged it close to her chest. She thought she had lost it in the fire, but the fire hadn't reached her room totally. It was slightly damaged but it could be fixed.
This was the only thing she had of her old life now. She looked around the rest of the house but found nothing interesting. She had hoped a photo had survived but couldn't find one. She stepped out into the morning light. Then a thought had hit her.
It was still daylight in Bayville how could the sun be out in Russia? She put it aside and thought how could she get back. Then an idea hit her it was risky but she had to try it. She would try and focus on the Institute and hope that whatever it was that kept moving her around would do it again.
She took a few breaths and concentrated as hard as she could. She could feel the energy of the disk now and felt herself fall. This time she landed in the foyer of the Institute but it was night.
"Illyana!" Came several voices. She turned and found Tabitha, Sam and Roberto looking at her like a ghost.
"Where have you been?" Sam asked her. "Piotr has been worried sick and you all been gone for two days!"
"Two days!?" Illyana said shocked. "But-but, I was just gone for under an hour. How could I have lost two days?" She pleaded with them. They didn't have an answer and now she was more confused and frightened then ever.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 12: THE DOCTOR IS IN
Dr. Strange makes his return, and will Illyana have to give up her life at the Institute?