Ldypebsaby: You'll see what they want to talk about, glad you liked that thing with Morph and Polaris and Wanda ARE related she really IS Magneto's daughter in the comics. And before the end there will be a showdown I'm building up to it so be patient.
Xmenfan: Actually I'm going for a Annie/Alex/Polaris thing, since Annie does live in Bayville and Polaris doesn't (she's X-Force remember) but things will change now and then. I got this huge arc that might take months if not a year to tell about those three. Don't worry Wanda will be with the team when they go up against the Hellions and remember that Rogue IS the only other girl Wanda's age and she's still trying to fit in. Don't worry I had an idea about some of the students 'evolving' a little, but that won't be for awhile.
LadyDeathStrike1: I figured Sarah and her training would come in handy at times. As for the Doctor, you bet she won't like it, and believe me it's a major shocker.
Sparky Genocide: All the Hellions are canon characters that actually were Hellions. Where do you think Red Witch got the ideas for those characters? Anyways
Ruby631: Hope you like the Annie/Alex/Polaris thing I got going.
The Uncanny R-Man: Basically King Bedlam can screw with your mind making you incoherent. As for Empath/Amara sort of, since she only loved him because of his powers were affecting her he'll make her 'fall' for him when he's close but she won't like him. In fact I'm bringing Shadow back soon and if you remember she has a crush on him so you know things will get interesting.
slickboy444: Yeah I needed someone to liven things up and Morph is perfect for that. The Hellions won't get involved until X-Force leaves at least, but they're coming up soon I just have to hammer out the idea for that chapter a bit.
Red Witch: I guess they do, glad you liked my X-Force idea, what do you think of the line-up? And I have no idea what's up with
celtcath74: No Hellfire doesn't know about Fury's team and as for Cable, I'm not sure how to work him into this, you know with the whole alternate future plus I haven't even made his mom Madelyn Prior yet either.
Thanks to: X00001
ADJUSTMENTS
CHAPTER 22: GETTING TO KNOW X-FORCE
While the X-Force was getting to know the other, and Wanda went straight to the medical ward with Hank and Polaris to see if they were related Xavier and Logan were in his office with Dr. Deborah Risman and Fury. Xavier was behind his desk hoping that Logan wouldn't do anything to rash, he could feel the waves of anger at having the woman in that room. He was leaning against one of the walls with his arms crossed glaring at Risman while she and Fury took a pair of empty seats in front of his desk.
"What do you want?" Logan said sternly in an unfriendly manner.
Xavier sighed. 'So much for that thought.' He thought to himself.
Risman gulped and pushed back some of her shoulder length blond hair away as she looked at him but was still able to find her courage to face the angry Canadian. "I want to be able to see X23 while she's living here."
"WHAT? Why should I let you see her?" He yelled out. "Haven't you done enough to that girl?"
"I have a right to see her!" She said sternly.
"Give me one good reason!"
"Because...I'm her mother." She said and Xavier and Logan froze at that. Xavier raised both eyebrows while Logan stood there with his jaw hanging.
"What?" Logan said in a quiet and shocked voice.
"I'm her mother. We didn't have the ability to grown full grown clones in tanks when we started, most of the ones in the tanks died and those that did survive didn't last past the adamantium process." She began. "So we tried artificial insemination of your DNA, to try and ensure that the clone would live. I chose to use myself."
She drew a breath before going on, she had been younger back then and wanted to do anything to further her career in Hydra. She figured they might appreciate her devotion. "Anyways we used your DNA and spliced it with one of my eggs. Her DNA is mostly yours, but the ten percent difference is from me. You can check it if you want to, I'm sure Mr. McCoy could verify it."
"You're damn right I will have Hank do that!" Logan said enraged that this woman was claiming to be Sarah's 'mother'.
"Logan!" Xavier said sternly to try and force him back before things got anymore tense in the room.
Risman went on. "Why do you think I went straight to SHIELD when she left? Why do you think I was worried about her and wanted her back so much? I didn't mean to in the beginning but when she was growing inside of me I became attached to her. It broke my heart seeing her all the time yet I was told to stay away and follow the guidelines." She was becoming more emotional as she went on. "I didn't want to see her go through any of that but what choice did I have! They would have killed me and then who would look over her then?"
"Lady I thought Mystique was the most messed up mother out there but you really giver her a run for her money!" Logan shouted at her.
"I don't care about that! I did the best that I could!" She stood up to face him, her eyes slightly getting misty. "I just want to be able to see her."
Before Logan could say anything the door burst open and X23 was there looking pissed. She had been leaning against the door hearing everything, she had been just as shocked as the others when she heard what Risman had said about her being her mother. But the shock soon gave way to anger and she couldn't take it anymore, so she barged into the room.
"X23." Risman gasped seeing her after she had jumped from the sound of the door being forced open.
"My name is Sarah!" The young clone said angrily at her. "Sarah Logan! Learn it!" The anger and pain in her face was evident to everyone in the room. "I don't believe you! I may not know much about the world or about family, but I DO know that parents just sit back and watch as their kid gets tortured their entire lives!"
"Please listen to me." Risman pleaded.
"NO!" Sarah shouted. "If you WERE my mother then I would tell you to GO TO HELL! You're NOT my mother I won't believe it! Just stay away from me!" Sarah shouted tears starting to fall and she quickly turned and ran out the door.
Deborah reached out to her as Sarah ran off but stopped. Her heart ached at the scene, she knew this wasn't going to be easy and she couldn't blame her for her reactions. She knew she wasn't a mother to her, that she hadn't been able to love her like she wanted to. She sank down in her chair covering her face. She didn't want to others to see her state.
"Well...that actually went slightly better then I thought." Fury muttered as Logan went to see on his daughter.
MEANWHILE
Domino had an arm around Clarice as they walked on through the mansion. "So how are things been going for you kid?" Domino couldn't believe the sight of Blink when she saw her. The last time she seemed so timid and stuck in her shell after her ordeal, but now stood a more energetic and outgoing girl in a t-shit and skirt.
Blink smiled up, glad to see her friend from Trask's cell again. It had been too long in her opinion that she last saw her. "It's going great. Miss Ororo is my legal guardian here and she's great. I get to help her out with the cooking and with the plants, which I especially love to do. I even got my own little garden and everything. Plus I got a LOT of new friends, more then I had before I changed."
Domino was happy that the young girl had found a happy place to live. After everything she had gone through it felt right to her that Blink should be happy.
"FOR THE LAST TIME NO! YOU CAN'T WATCH ME AND MY GIRLFRIEND MAKE OUT!" Came a shouting voice. Domino knew it was one of the girls here and her and Blink shared a confused look.
"Please! Come on I've never seen actual lesbians make out before." Came a whinny-pleading voice that Domino knew who it was.
Domino pinched the bridge of her nose and sighed. "Now what has Morph gotten himself into?" She muttered. She noticed Blink's shocked expression so Domino decided to give her a little more information. "The guy is CONSTANTLY hitting on all the girls, even M's younger twin sisters."
"Twin sisters?" Blink asked.
"Oh yeah, you see X-Force has a reserve unit too, kind of like the New Mutants here. They're either replacements or support members for X-Force." Domino explained. "But what was that about a girlfriend?"
"Oh you see we got a new girl from Canada named Gale, she's the one with the blue hair and we also found out she's gay and is dating a girl we know. Actually I was the first to know about it but I was shocked when she kissed Amy during our sleep over but I was surprised when Amy kissed back."
Domino shook her head. "You have GOT to tell me about that."
Meanwhile Wanda was waiting in the kitchen alone. She was holding a small piece of cloth on her arm where the blood was taken for the test she just wanted it over with, and she really wanted it to be negative too.
"Mind if I sit down?" She turned to see Wonder Man gesturing to the seat near her. Wanda just shrugged and he sat down. "So...why exactly are you so hostile to Lorna? I thought you'd like the opportunity to have a little sister in your life?"
She turned to glare at him but he only smiled back at her, which just annoyed her. "Look, I don't want another member of my family, I already got a good-for-nothing father with delusions of grandeur and a backstabbing annoying twin brother I don't need a little sister wannabe Magneto."
"Well first off, back off on Lorna she's my teammate and friend not to mention a nice person. Secondly what's really bothering you about this and don't BS me, I used to live in Hollywood and have been around it long enough to smell it coming." He said sternly.
"Why do you care?" She asked sharply.
He shrugged. "Don't know. Call it my good nature or the fact I don't like to see a pretty lady upset."
Wanda raised an eyebrow at being called a 'pretty lady', she wasn't sure to feel complimented or annoyed. "You use that line one a lot of girls?"
He smirked at her and shrugged again. "Well to be honest yeah...but just between you and me...this is one of those moments I actually mean it...and stop avoiding the question."
Wanda sighed. "You won't go away until I tell you will you?" He shook his head his smile still there. She was tempted to see if he wanted to still try if she hex bolted him, but she stopped herself. 'Why does he seem to care?' she wondered, she also knew she might as well get this over with, if she told him maybe he'd leave her alone.
"Fine you want to know what's bothering me. I've done the math, if Magneto IS her father then he would have left me and Pietro shortly after we were born just to start a new family else ware, he just dropped us for her. And then what about my mom? Does that mean he was cheating on her too?"
Simon rubbed his chin and thought about it. "I can see why you're angry now but you're forgetting a few things. First off he LEFT Lorna just like he did you. And at least you knew who your father was, he left before she was born, and Magneto DID come back for you two and didn't come back for her...he might not actually knows about her anyway."
Wanda thought about it for a minute. Simon placed a hand on her's and she was surprised by the move. "Look I'm not asking to you to welcome into your life with open arms, but just consider it. If this proves that she IS your sister then think about that. You'd have at least one family member that you got a clean slate with. Just think about it." He said in a soft voice. Wanda wasn't sure why but she tried to think about it. If Lorna was her little sister then...she would be on good terms with at least ONE family member. And even if Pietro did leave her again, she did miss him.
"Can we...talk about something else please?" She said all the hardness of her voice was gone.
"Anything you want to talk about." Simon said to her flashing her a smile.
While Wanda was alone so Lorna was sitting on a chair in the living room watching her teammates get to know the X-Men and New Mutants. Theresa and Rahne were inseparable as were Domino and Blink. A few of the others were mingling too. She saw Strong Guy trying to get Piotr into an arm wrestling contest to see who was stronger, and she saw Shatterstar talking to a native girl Dani.
"You okay?" said a voice. She looked and found her breath being taken from her. In front of her was a gorgeous blond boy her own age with a deep tan and incredible blue eyes.
"Uh...y-yeah I guess." She could feel herself blush and mentally smacked herself in the head. 'Oh yeah nice way to start things off.' She thought.
But thankfully he smiled. "Well that's good. I'm Alex by the way, Alex Summers and you're Lorna right?"
She nodded "Yeah I am. Wait Summers, as in Scott Summers?"
"Oh yeah he's my big brother. In fact we didn't know each other had survived the plane crash until last year."
She smiled a little. "So you found you're lost long brother and I may just do the same with a half-sister."
Alex sat down next to her in a chair to her left. "Yeah I guess that's going to be interesting."
"To say the least." She muttered. She still wasn't sure if she wanted to know if Wanda was her sister or not. Wanda wasn't exactly friendly to her, in fact while they had been getting the blood drawn she didn't speak or even looked at her.
Alex saw how she seemed to be lost in thought and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Hey you alright?"
She shrugged. "Honestly? I don't know yet."
IN THE GYM
Sarah had needed a way to let off all the anger she was feeling, the gym was closer them the Danger Room, plus she had been told not to use it without supervision so here she was taking all her frustration out on a punching bag. She was punching and kicking with all her force not caring about padding since her knuckles would heal up soon after any skin was broken so she just let it all out.
She didn't know how long she was doing this, but she had worked up a deep sweat and was breathing hard. She found her blows being less powerful and was starting to feel tired.
"Ya goin' ta ware that out if ya keep it up." Sarah turned panting to face Rogue who had walked in on her.
"What do you want?" Sarah snapped.
Rogue wasn't phased by her anger. "I saw Logan looking for ya and ah asked him what was up? Ah figured ah should try to talk to ya first."
"Why?"
Rogue moved to a bench nearby and sat down. "Because ah know what you are goin' through. Remember Mystique my own 'mother'?" Sarah had heard of her and had read a file Hydra had on the shape shifter too. She knew that Mystique wasn't a nice lady to say the least. "Well then ah know how it feel sto find out that you mother isn't exactly the kind of person you dreamed of."
"I never thought I had a mother period." She said and highlighted the last statement witn one more punch to the punching bag.
"Same here. Ah know what's it's like to beh used, manipulated, lied to, only to have someone tell ya, that they're your mothah."
Sarah was quiet for a minute before she responded. "How can she be my mother? How could she let them do that to me?"
Rogue sighed. "Ah don't know, you'd have to ask her that."
Sarah thought about it but she was too angry to face the woman. "Maybe one day I will...but not now...I...I just can't face that woman just yet."
Rogue nodded and got up to leave. "You going to be alright?"
Sarah began to attack the bag again. "I don't know...but tell Logan and the others I just want some time alone...and Rouge...thanks."
Rogue smiled in sympathy for the girl and nodded. She knew that this wasn't going to be easy for her to come to terms with. Hell even she was still coming to terms with Mystique, so Rogue left Sarah alone and went to tell Logan to give her some space for a while.
LATER
Hours later Hank had called everyone together to make the announcement of the blood tests. When they went to gather Polaris and Wanda they found Polaris laughing and talking with Alex having a good time and what shocked a few of the others was when they found Wanda.
Wanda was talking to Simon and she actually looked like she was having a nice time. She was even smiling a little.
After a few minutes everyone was on edge waiting to know the results especially Wanda and Polaris. Dr. Risman wasn't in the room she was sitting alone in another part of the mansion wanting to be left alone while she 'composed' herself.
"Well what's the verdict?" Domino asked him as Hank came in with some papers with the test results under his arm.
He looked at the notes then began. "Well normally it would have taken a lot longer but Forge has helped me update the labs with a few new and improved equipment so I was able to gain the results more quickly."
"Stop stalling already!" Wanda snapped, the waiting had been getting to her. Thankfully she did have Simon to thank for distracting her while she waited.
"Yes well, the tests say that Lorna and Wanda are sisters." Hank revealed. The room was dead silence as everyone was either looking at Wanda or Lorna for their reactions. Both girls looked shocked to everyone at it the news.
"I think we should all leave the girls alone." Xavier said to everyone, and there were no disagreements. Everyone knew that those two had a few things to talk about. After everyone had left both girls looked at each other.
"Well." Wanda began.
"Yeah." Lorna said. There was an awkward silence between the girls both of them had no clue as to what was going to happen next. "Oh god!"
"What?" Wanda asked surprised by Lorna's sudden outburst.
"I just realized...I got to call my mom about this. I mean how do I explain that I got an older sister?"
Wanda smirked. "Technically you got an older brother too, remember I'm a twin."
Polaris cringed. She had read the SHIELD file on her and knew about Pietro. "I think I might skip that part for now, one heart attack at a time you know?" Wanda smiled at that, she could relate to that a bit.
After the girls had finished it was time for X-Force to get back to headquarters. Before they left a few had to say goodbye. With Fury's permission, Domino gave Blink a contact number so they could keep in touch. Roberto, who had spent the majority of his time with M whispered something to her and those that looked could see her blush a little yet smiled. She grinned at him and as she whispered something back no one noticed a card she slipped to him.
Wanda and Polaris had agreed to keep in touch, they wanted to try and explore a little this new sister relationship they found out they now had. Polaris on her way to the helicopter stopped and walked over to Alex. "Um...I know we just met and all...but." She couldn't hide the blush she had and tried to hide her face behind her long curly green hair. "But do you think that...well...the next time in town we could...you know...go out?" She asked hopefully.
Alex smiled at her. "Sure I'd like that."
"Really! That's great, well I'll call you when I'm in town then."
Alex smiled to himself as she walked away happily but he suddenly felt a dark presence behind him and turned to see Wanda. She looked at him sternly. "Now I may not know much about her, and she and I may not be close but she IS my little sister and if you hurt I suggest you run fast, and run far." Alex gulped and watched the older girl walk off.
Dr. Risman looked for Sarah in the crowd hoping to try one last time with her, but she was no where in sight. With a heavy heart the ex-Hydra doctor walked back to the helicopter but when she saw Logan she went up to him. "Look after her please." She said sadly to him, he nodded his head. 'At least she has people here that care for her.' She thought to herself as she went back to the helicopter.
Fury was one of the last to leave. He had gotten a file from the helicopter and walked right up to Vincent. "Look kid I know all about you too. I know about Project Prodigy and that you were Prodigy seven out of the group of twelve kids."
"How do you know about that?" The young Canadian asked defensively. So far mostly everyone he had met associated his past with the exception of April, hadn't been a good experience.
"Because it was SHEILD that attacked that lab kid." Fury said enjoying the shock on the boy's face. "How do you think we knew about mutants in the first place? Anyways this is a copy of a file I think you should have. There's not much in there since it's classified but there enough. You see kid, we got more mutants then X-Force here. We got three other kids that couldn't make this trip. You know them as Prodigy 8, 9 and 11." Fury didn't know it was possible but the look of surprise on Vincent's face was even more now then before.
Fury then handing him the file. "I told them about you and they want to meet you. Take a look through it since it has a contact number for them." Vincent took the file quietly in complete shock at what he was holding.
"T-thanks." He said quietly, Fury smiled and nodded and walked off as Vincent quietly walked back to his room to read up on the last of the survivors of Project Prodigy. For the first time since April was in his life, he felt an empty part of him that was no long empty.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 23: PARTY CRASHERS
The other try to celebrate Vince's birthday but the Hellions chose that day to 'introduce them selves.' And if you're wondering about why I chose to make Risman Sarah's mother it because one of the producer that created X23 based the looks of X23 and Dr. Risman after his actual wife and daughter so I decided to play on it, that and I wanted to shock the readers too.