Fire inu: Actually that was X-Factor I just changed the name to X-Force cause I liked it more, but basically yes that was it.
LadyDeathStrike1: Let's just say that when Fury arrives it won't be with welcome arms and I haven't forgotten about her either. X-Force was originally made up of the New Mutants under Cable and Donimo, but that fell apart a while back. It was basically a mutant strike tream.
cammy: Whoa that's a lot, okay I'll do this in order of your questions. I try to give X23 more depth as a character, I call them X-Force cause that fits more and personally X-Factor is kind of a lame name. Well I do got something for Pietro that you might like later on, and I'm glad you understand the Rogue/Vincent thing. Although someone called it Vogue once and I kind of liked it.
Ruby631: Yeah I wanted it to be longer but couldn't think of anything more to write, besides that was the perfect place to leave off.
The Uncanny R-Man: Yeah that's were I got those ideas from, only I used them differently. I'm thinking of Logan/Ororo but not too sure.
slickboy444: Thanks, I really tried to get those two closer together as a family and I've been thinking of having Ororo and Logan hook up. Then if they do I guess that will make Blink and Sarah 'sisters'.
Red Witch: Glade you liked their moment, and hope you like the line-up, let me just say it's different then what you'd expect it to be.
X00001: Hope you've read the past stories too since this is 6th in a series.
Thanks to: Ldypebsaby, Sparky Genocide, TheLegendaryManHimself
AN: Sorry for the wait I was suspended for a week because an old story was a list fic and I didn't noticed that rule and it was taken off.
ADJUSTMENTS
CHAPTER 21: THE NEW TEAMS
The next morning Sarah stirred in her bed and slowly blinked her eyes open. She looked and saw the clock on her stand read seven in the morning and she slowly got up. It was then she noticed the dried mud on her and then she remembered what had happened last night. She had hoped that it had been a nightmare that it hadn't happened but it had.
She also noticed another sent in the room and on Paige's bed she saw Logan there fast asleep. She blinked at the sight of him still in the cloths from last night too. She wondered why he was still there she walked over to him and was about to shake him away when she stopped and decided to let him sleep some more.
She looked down at herself and sighed at her state then she looked to her bed and noticed mud stains and let out a low growl. She knew she would have to clean that up but first herself. She quietly picked out a black T-Shit and a pair of blue jeans and some black socks and went to the bathroom and gently closed the door.
She took a shower and mad sure to get all the old mud off of her body. She had to admit while she had been in the forests and wilderness by herself she always had to bath in cold water and it was a welcomed change to actually use warm water for once. She dried herself off and looked at herself in the mirror.
By looking at her you'd think she was just an average fourteen-year-old girl...but as she looked closer especially in her eyes they told another story. One of pain, suffering and hardship. She looked away not wanting to see anymore. She finished drying herself off and put on the new clothing.
She walked out with the wet towel and dirty clothing and noticed Logan was gone. She shrugged and placed the bundle of clothing she had in the hamper in her room for later. She also stripped off her muddy bed sheets and folded them up and placed them inside too. She would deal with them later after some more important business.
She walked down the halls knowing that most of the students were still sleeping in and made her way to the medical ward to see Paige. She wanted to apologies for last night to her, when she got close to there she heard some voices from the room.
"Will you let it go already?" Paige's voice yelled out.
"Paige she cut ya, and you're just lucky it wasn't worse or that your powers helped ya out." Came the worried voice of Sam, Paige's older brother.
"It was an accident, how many times to we have to go through this? Haven't you ever had an accident with your powers?"
"Well...that's not the point."
"Yes it is Sam, you may be my big brother and I know you're just worried about me but accidents happen all the time. Can you honestly say that if you hit someone by accident you wouldn't hurt them?" There was a moment of silence after that then she went on. "Look Sam, she's my friend and I know she didn't want to hurt me, she was having a nightmare and given what ah learned from her past it's no surprise. Besides you didn't see how freaked she was that she had hurt meh, she ran off scared about what she had done and ah'm worried about her."
Sarah was torn between walking away and avoiding Sam and going in to see Paige. She wasn't scared of Sam but she really didn't want to face him either. She didn't want to look into his eyes. When she heard Sam say he'd think about it and his footsteps getting closer she looked for a place to avoid him but there were no doors nearby.
Sam walked out of the medical ward and down the hall not bothering to look up and see Sarah up there stretched out on the ceiling holding herself up by her claws. When she was sure he was gone she dropped silently to the floor and retracted her claws.
She was glad she was bare foot seeing that she had to use her foot claws and those ruined her socks every time she used them. She walked into the medical room and stopped slightly. She suddenly got flashbacks to her time at Hydra and all the experiments and had a strong urge to get out of the room.
Paige had noticed her near the door. "Hey Sarah, I'm glad you came."
Sarah snapped out of her thoughts and walked solemnly to the other girl. She stopped by her bed side and she couldn't look into the other girl's eyes. "I'm sorry I hurt." She said in a near whisper she suddenly felt a hand on hers and looked up expecting to she her angry or something but she wasn't.
"I'm fine, I know you didn't mean it...so how are you doing. After you freaked out last night I was worried you left or something."
Sarah looked away again. "I think I nearly did...I...I never had a friend before...having friends like you make me feel." She searched for the words to describe what she was feeling. For so long all she felt was anger, hatred and fear. Now living here she was feeling new things and she liked them, they were much better then the only three emotions she ever remembered having.
But last night she experienced something else. She felt pain inside her without getting injured and it still hurt. She felt...bad, about what she had done. Very rarely did she ever feel bad about doing a lot of the things she had done, but last night she really hated what had happened.
"Happy?" Paige offered the slightly older girl.
Sarah thought about it. Was she happy now? Was living here and those warm feelings of comfort she was getting making her happy? "I think so." She said not completely sure but it felt right to say it, like it wasn't a lie to say so.
Paige could see that Sarah wasn't used to showing her emotions, at least when it wasn't her anger. She knew Sarah had had it tough, and she didn't want to know the kind of nightmares she had or the things she had gone through. She could also see that underneath the tough exterior was just a scared girl.
Paige swung her feet over the bedside so she was closer to her. "Hey you should be happy. You're not in a lab, on the run, being hunted, and you're in a place where you can belong and be safe and have friends like me. So what's not to be happy about?"
Sarah couldn't help but a small tug of her lips in a small short-lived smile at the girl's optimism. Just in the door opened with Jamie carrying a tray of food. "Hey I brought you-oops." He said seeing Sarah and Paige in there. "Sorry I thought I'd bring you breakfast since, well, Mr. McCoy said he wanted to run a few more tests and all."
Paige couldn't help but smile at his kindness and the growling in her stomach said it all. They all heard it and Paige blushed from embarrassment. "Uh...thanks."
"Well I better get going." Sarah said. "I should go and get something to eat too." She turned to Paige and nodded her. She left the room feeling a bit better about herself, she did feel bad about what she had done, but the pain she felt had seemed to lessen a little.
It was later in the day and things were getting back to normal. Most of the students were outside playing Sarah was sitting this one out, still a little wary of how the others would feel towards her and just watched from the sidelines next to Logan.
She felt content with just his presence there, it seemed to make her feel a little more at ease with him around. Then they both heard something in the distance. The others couldn't hear it yet but they both knew that sound.
Helicopters.
Logan stood up. "Everyone inside NOW!" He barked at them. Immediately they all stopped and with the way he had said it everyone scramble for the entrance since by just looking at how tense he looked, they knew something was up. Logan turned to Sarah. "Go inside and hide." She was about to argue saying she could take care of herself but he interrupted her. "Look just do it. If it's who I think it is I don't want him to see you."
She could think of only one person he was refereeing too so she nodded and left to go inside.
They all watched as the helicopters came and landed from the windows and when the blades stopped rotating the side door with the SHIELD logo on it slid open and in his usual trench coat and uniform out stepped Nick Fury. Some of the kids who saw him for the first time were a little surprised at how this man with graying hair, and an eye patch seemed to have a commanding presence around him.
He walked to the fountain out front and waited there.
Logan let out a low growl as he stepped out the front door and went to him. "What do ya want here bub?" Logan asked him the slight hostility in his voice evident.
Fury wasn't fazed by it. "Look Logan I know the girl is here." Logan tried no to let his surprise show on his face. "When you got those adoption papers it flagged something at SHEILD and when I looked into it a surveillance team identified her."
Logan gave a low growl. "You're not taking her Fury, she doesn't belong to ya."
Fury wasn't phased by it at all. "Are you going to stop me and my men?"
"Yeh." He said popping out the claws in his right hand.
"And he won't be alone either." Both turned to see Scott coming over with his visor on with Jean right behind him. He stood next to Logan and started right at Fury. "She belongs here with us."
"Why do you say that kid?" Fury asked.
"Because she's one of us." Jean said to him standing tall.
"And because she's our friend." Came yet another voice, this one of Paige walking out with Jamie, Rahne, even Sam.
"And we don't hand over our friends just like that." Fury and Logan looked up to see Vincent, Storm, Warren and Rogue hovering there in the air. Soon all the students were there standing defiantly at Fury, even the Professor himself was by the door looking calmly at him, but Fury only smirked.
"I figured you'd try something like this, and I told my superiors that making an enemy of you all well...that's not exactly something any of us want. Especially since you all were able to stop Apocalypse while all we did was just irritate him."
"So what are you here for then?" Logan growled out at him.
"I wanted to talk to her." Everyone had been so focused on Fury and Logan that they didn't notice a tall blonde woman with shoulder length hair step out of the helicopter and approached them. She was Dr. Deborah Risman, the woman responsible for the X23 project of Hydra.
"What the Hell do YOU have to say to her?" Logan said nearly snarling at the woman who had brought Sarah into this world but also had watched as they did horrible things to her as well.
"It's personal Logan." She replied a little intimidated by his reactions.
"I think the three of us need to have a talk." Fury said then looking at the others. "In private."
"What if I say no?" Logan said to him sternly.
"Then we got a problem, since then you'd have to deal with my own team." Fury said with a hint of a smile at his ace in the hole.
"What team?"
"Us." Replied a familiar voice and they all turned to see eight others coming out of the helicopter all wearing black uniforms with the SHIELD logo but with an X on the bottom of it. She had long black hair, white skin with a black circle over one of her eyes and was someone most of the students had met once.
"Domino!?!" Logan said completely surprised to see the young woman again. The last time they had seen her was after they dropped her off after they had rescued her, a Japanese boy and a few of their own from Trask and his new Sentinel testing facility.
"Long time no see there hairy." She said to Logan smiling at him.
"What are you doing here?" Logan asked completely shocked to see her.
She smiled at his reaction. "Well let me brake it down for you. After you guys dropped me off I got a offer to lead a Government sanctioned team under SHIELD. Well one-eye here got me interested, so since I had nothing else going for me I said 'yes' and here I am leading X-Force."
"X-Force?" Logan asked.
Fury shrugged. "Some idiot wanted to name it X-Factor for some reason but I shot the idea down. This is a military team not some kind of sports team or something."
Domino looked to Logan. "Now I know you guys out number us, and I really don't want to fight you guys, especially since I still own you guys, but this should just take ten minutes of your time. Besides if we get into a fight...well...then there's the injuries, and the damage to this place, and most likely someone will call the cops and then this place will become a three ring circus after the media get called in...so...do you really want that or will you just hear them out?"
Logan thought about it but Xavier stepped in. "I think we will discuss this all. Please come inside and we can all talk in my office."
Fury nodded. "Fine with me." He turned to Domino. "Why not let the teams mingle at bit."
She smiled at his suggestion. "Great I can look up an old friend."
Fury, Dr. Risman, and Logan walked to the front door and followed Xavier to his office. Sarah who had been watching it all was feeling a lot of things over all of this. There was the terror of being taken away from the only place that was a home to her, to the anger at seeing Risman again. She also felt something else. When the others had stood up for her she felt something. She wasn't sure what but she felt a warm sensation at seeing them willing to fight for her and to protect her.
She put the thoughts aside as she would think on that later. She wanted to know what was going on so she would wait for them to enter Xavier's office and she would get close for her enhanced hearing to pick up what was being said.
Outside Domino had her team line-up and began introductions. "Well I better get this out of the way first." She said with a smirk. She pointed to a sixteen-year-old boy with a slightly long face, brown hair and a smile that seemed to be plastered on his face. "This is Kevin Sidney."
He nodded to them. "Please call me Morph, and if you're wonder what I can do, well then." He then changed into the Fonz from Happy Days. "Eh." He said giving two thumbs up. "Let's just say I can do impressions."
Domino rolled her eyes. "In other words he's a shape shifter." Then she pointed to a sixteen-year-old girl with a mane of green hair. "This is Lorna Dane."
She took a step forward to them all. "I'm also called Polaris and I got magnetic powers and before you ask." She cut in at the last moment seeing them tense slightly at her powers. "I don't got any relation to Magneto...I think."
"You think?" Wanda said looking at her intently.
"Well...I...uh...never knew who my real dad is, and my mom said he had disappeared not long after I was born, and she never saw him again." She admitted being a little intimidated by the older girl.
Wanda stepped right up to her, looking at her with narrowed eyes trying to see any family resemblance, then she turned to Hank. "I want a blood test." She said angrily.
"What?!" Polaris said shocked.
"I want to make sure." Wanda said glaring at her. Polaris wasn't sure why she was so angry with her but there was just something intimidating about her.
"I say go for it." Domino said with a smirk, Polaris whirled to face her with a response but Domino cut her off. "Look on the bright side. If it's positive then not only would you know who you're father is, but then you'd get a sister out of the deal."
At that Polaris just stood there frozen with her mouth hanging open as the thought hit her. Sure she had wanted to know who her father was, but knowing it was a mutant terrorist wasn't exactly appealing but she was also getting a big sister out of it too. She looked at Wanda and felt it was kind of bitter sweat. "Um...uh...okay...I...I guess we could do that."
"Well wait until the introductions are over first." Domino said. Both girls nodded but Polaris seemed lost in thought about what the test could prove.
"Well next up is M here." She pointed to a very attractive seventeen year old with long black hair and a lightly dark skin, who definitely looked like she could be a model one day.
She stepped up. "My name is Monet Yvette Clarisse Maria Therese St. Croix, or just Monet." She said in a cultured voice that reminded the X-Men of a little of Amara for some reason, especially the way she carried herself. "My powers are superhuman strength, speed, agility, endurance, reflexes, invulnerability and intelligence, night vision, hearing, healing factor, telepathy, and finally flight."
Roberto whistled at the list. "Damn, she's got all that and great looks too." He said to himself while staring at the lovely young woman. Monet smiled at the comment and noticed him staring and winked a little. She thought she should give him a little thrill for recognizing her abilities.
Bobby nudged Vincent in the ribs with his elbows. "Guess you aren't the most diversely powered mutant anymore buddy."
He was scratching the back of his head. "No kidding, she's got me beat in that department."
Next up was a heavily armed seventeen-year-old guy with a long red hair in a ponytail and a red star tattoo over his left eye. His name was Benjamin Russel or Shatterstar. He had superhuman strength, speed, agility, endurance, reflexes, and senses, personal regeneration, convert sonic frequencies into a vibratory shockwave that he channels through his swords, daggers, shurikens and throwing blades that he had equipped all over his person.
Next was a Theresa Rourke Cassidy or Syrin who was a tall, sixteen-year-old, redhead with an Irish accent. Her uniform had these 'wing' like things on them and she could have this 'scream' that could be used as a weapon or allow her to fly. As soon as she stepped forward Rahne had ran over to her.
"Teresa! It's good tae see you again!" She said excitedly and hugged her. Theresa was just as thrilled and hugged her back.
"Uh...Rahne a little help here?" Jubilee asked her.
Rahne turned them all. "This is Theresa, she and I met while I was sent back home. Her father and me mum are close and while he was livin' there we were together and became good friends."
"I'll say." Teresa said smiling. "It's so good to see you again."
Next was a very large boy of seventeen with a little piece of pure white hair on his almost bold head and goggles on. He was Guido Carosella or Strong Guy for obvious reasons as he had superhuman strength that he could temporarily increase.
Lastly was an eighteen-year-old boy with short dark hair, sunglasses, tall, handsome and was in very good shape, on his black uniform there was a giant red W on it. He stepped forward and smiled a million dollar smile at them. "Hi I'm Simon Williams or Wonder Man. As for powers, well basically I got superhuman strength, durability and stamina."
"Hey I know you!" Tabitha said pointing at him. "Weren't you that actor? You just seemed to disappear off the face of the Earth, and I was a fan of those days when you were a kid actor too."
Simon smiled. "Well I had to quit since...well...I'll show you." He took off his glasses and they saw his eyes were actually glowing. "I couldn't hide this so I stepped out of the lime light."
"We'll that's everyone then." Domino said "Why don't we all go inside for now?"
NEW YORK – HELLFIRE CLUB
In one of the sub levels of the Hellfire Club a group of teens were seated in chairs in a plain white room facing a stand and a projector scene. "So when is Frosty supposed to get here already?" A blond boy asked.
"How should we know?" Ask a girl with a French accent and long dark hair, who was playing with some tarot cards. "She's most likely just likes to have us wait."
The door to the side opened and Emma Frost in a white leather coat, hot pants and a T-shirt that covered little walked in. A large guy leaned over to the blond boy. "You got to admit ya got to love how she enters a room, too bad she doesn't dress a little more like Selene thought." He whispered.
"Careful, she IS a telepath and I don't think you'd want her OR Selene hear those kinds of thoughts. Emma would give you a nightmare for a week and as for Selene." The boy shuddered. "What she would do to you WOULD be a nightmare." The large boy gulped and nodded they all knew Selene's reputation.
Emma walked behind the podium and looked at the Hellfire Club's most elite students. There was Christopher Aaronson or King Bedlam a bald African American of nineteen with a goatee and the second in command, he had the power to mix the signals in a person's brain causing all kind of chaos. Next to him was a Sharon Smith or Catseye, who like Rahne of Xavier's could transforms into a cat or cat like forms. She was fifteen and the most noticeable features here her purple hair, cat eyes and a cat like tail too.
There was also a Spanish boy named Manuel who was sixteen and she felt he could be very promising. He went by Empath because of his Empathic powers. Next to him was a French girl with long dark hair called Marie-Ange Colbert. She was seventeen and went by the name Tarot because of her ability to make her tarot cards come alive.
There was a huge boy only known as Beef. He was eighteen and was massive for his size. He also wasn't that bright and liked to pick on others. Close by was yet another French girl in a skimpy shirt and shirt. She was blond and eighteen. Her name was Jennifer but she also went by Roulette because of her energy disks that could make a person have good or bad luck. She was also in Emma's opinion a big flirt.
Lastly there was the other blond French boy named only Bevatron. He seventeen and had powers similar to Ray of the Xavier's and was always eager for a fight.
She looked over them all as the elite and the best there were. "Now." She said to them all. "As Selene is getting our new home ready I'm going to go over the X-Men and New Mutant members that you will meet. We will go through whatever background we have on them, their powers and especially their weaknesses. We're going to make our presence known soon to them, and we will show them what evolution truly is."
The others grinned at those words. They considered themselves the best in the world and they wanted to prove it.
"Now then let's get started." Emma said and flipped a few controls in the podium in front of her. The lights dimmed and a projector at the back came alive and an image of the Xavier Institute was one screen. Emma then starter to brief them all on the X-Men and who they would go up against.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 22: GETTING TO KNOW X-FORCE
Okay before I get a lot of the same questions, here are a few answers. First off if you're wondering why Jetstream wasn't included in the Hellions it's because I think he's too lame to be in it. He's basically a weaker rip-off of Sam plus I really don't see him useful in a fight. So I replaced him with King Bedlam.
Thunderbird/Firestar isn't in it, because I hate using villains who aren't really bad and who later become heroes. (Yeah I know about Emma Frost but she's one of those characters that are good wither way you write them)
Empath will be toned down a little or else I would have to start writing the fics I had with that guy in the R section for the stuff I could do with him.
And to those that caught on, yes I know I introduced Annie earlier to Alex and that Polaris is here too. I figured I would add a nice little thing with those two competing for his affection. Also I though about dragging out the revealing of Polaris' father, but I can't honestly think Wanda as the patient type, plus I had a few good idea I wanted to use now then later.