mattb3671: Glad you liked it and the explanation of the name, also that I got such a strong reaction out of someone too.
TheLegendaryManHimself: Glad you liked the names bit, and Sinister and the Acolytes will shoe up. Slayer is a mutant and you can read about him in two stories by Slickboy444, and you'll see a lot of people in this town.
celtcath74: There was a show called murder in small town x once, but this has nothing to do with that and it's my own creation.
Erich: Sorry no Spyder will show up I'm just using her for the Spider X story, yeah something sinister will show up in the town, Good point about the training with Vincent, I'll put something about that when they get back,
Slickboy444: Actually that's why I had Logan and Sarah there, so they could bond some more, I'm glad you feel I'm doing Slyer justice, and I hope I can keep it up and I think you'll like the town.
Aaron: Oh well close enough for her name, glad you liked the talks with those two groups and what can I say? I like writing X23.
ViciousAssassin: Sorry you're wrong about Slayer, and you're right Sinister will stop on by, and look for some Sarah/Logan bonding and more about the town.
Thanks to: The Uncanny R-Man, ldypebsaby, Winblades, Janusi, X00001, Red Witch, Sparky Genocide, LadyDeathStrike1, Ruby631, Ranndie Mazda
Disclaimer: The OCs: Riley(Chaos) belongs to Ranndie Mazda. Thomas (Jedi) Larsen belongs to Darkness1. Jaeger, Jasper, Celeste belong to Damn-my-name-was-taken. Marianne (Fantasy) Jong & Michael (Gun) Johnson belong to BlackRoseApocalypse. Mallory (Rue) O'Bryanson belongs to Matt3671. Valerie (Venus) Rush & Damien Hunter belong to Aaron.
All other OCs are mine and all canon character belong to Marvel.
ADJUSTMENTS
CHAPTER 32: A LOOK AROUND TOWN
The four of them looked at the stranger. "So...what? We go meet these Elders and then what?" Vince asked him.
"That's for them to decide...but I don't think you got anything to worry about." Slayer told them.
"So do like drive in or..."
Slayer smiled. "I got a faster way." He walked towards them that he was close enough and started to mumble something and his symbols started to glow. Then a mist started to form around them and soon all they saw was white and then it faded away and they found themselves in a wood paneled floor in a room with a long table with three old people sitting there.
"Okay...what was that?" Rogue asked Slayer.
"A little trick I learned, helps me get from place to place."
"So these are the strangers?" To woman asked looking at them and trying to gage their appearance. "So why are you four here?"
"We've with Charles Xavier ma'am." Rogue said stepping forward. She guesses as the 'leader' of this group she should be the one to speak for them, although she knew if she messed this up it could go bad. That thought didn't ease her nerves any but tried not to show it.
"Ah yes, we know about him and I take it your four are part of that X-Men team?" Said the man who still had hair on his head. He leaned back in his chair and seemed pleased by that. "I have a great respect for Xavier and do many here actually. He's trying to help the world accept out kind...not sure if he'll accomplish that dream and I doubt any one of us will live to see it, if it does but he has my respect."
"I'm Elder Callahan, the lady next to me is Elder Fiona and the one scowling over there is Elder Steward."
"So again please continue as to why you're here." Elder Steward said, he didn't like unauthorized or uninvited people to the town, it was his duty to ensure the safety of the community.
"Well tha Professor picked up on a lot of mutant signatures then they vanished. Ya see he's got this machined that can help him find other mutants. When all those mutants showed up then vanished he feared maybe somethin' was up, like tha military or somethin' was experimenting on mutants or worse."
Elder Fiona nodded. "I see...well...as you've seen we've had machines that hide this town from sight, sound and from psionics, we have a few mutants with intelligence mutations who built the devises but even with all things, we were having a glitch. The shroud as we call it was down for a few seconds. We're repairing it, but it might go off line a few more times."
"Whoa, that's got to like take a lot of power, this valley is huge." Kitty stated going through the numbers in her head on how much power it would take.
Callahan chuckled at that. "Yes it would but you forget child that this town has many mutants in it with a wide variety of powers. We've managed to dig our way to the magma below the valley for a geothermal power, as well as wind and solar power too. We supply all our own power and have facilities for everything, we're a self sustaining with everything, including wells for fresh water and we recycle almost everything."
"Cool." Kitty said, she liked the sound of this place she always was one for eco-friendly technology.
"Can I ask something?" Vincent said as something had been bothering him. "How do you know about the outside world and how do people get here too?"
Fiona answered that on. "That is because we are allied with an organization call the Mutant Underground. It was formed years ago before mutants were known."
"Yes, thanks that that one." Steward said to them in distain.
"Hey! That wasn't our fault, Magneto was tha one that wanted that, he just dragged us into it." Rogue said sternly to him.
"We figured that, that man is an annoyance to say the least." Fiona said with a bitter tone in her voice, she didn't like Magneto or anything about him either.
"But enough about that." Callahan said to everyone. "We were actually trying to come to a consensus about Xavier and now it seems we have no choice but to talk about it." He seemed to like that fact with the broad smile on his face. "You see we know about Xavier and his work elsewhere like with his friend at Muir Island, there were elements in both the Underground and here that see him as a hope for the future."
"Or a fool." Steward muttered under his breath but he was mainly ignored.
"Anyways we've tried to contact the Morlocks in your area as well as other groups like that but they seem...resistant to trust outsiders...and there are other mutant groups too that aren't with Magneto but are not exactly peaceful either."
"Yeah we've kind of met two of those groups, the Hellions under some the control of something called the Hellfire Club and this other group called Neyaphem." Vincent spoke up referring to the new group trying to set up shop in Bayville and the other group led by Kurt's biological father Azazel.
"Yes, well that's just the tip of the iceberg I'm afraid." Fiona told them with a sigh. "Not all of them are as powerful or as troublesome as those two but we are a diverse people. Town X so far has allied with those groups on the outside whose views mirror our own."
"I don't see why we need to tell them anything." Steward said harshly. "I don't trust Xavier, he teaches peace but trains these kids as his own personal army."
The four teens started to argue this point but Rogue got them to quiet down and stepped forward. "Look ah ain't the best person for speeches and stuff but let meh tell ya this pal. You're an idiot." That got a snicker from both Callahan and even Slayer who was standing in the back just watching. "Yes he teaches us how to use our powers, and yes we do train. But it's only so that we can defend not only ourselves but also others. We only fight when we got no other choice, we don't go lookin' for trouble, in fact all we want is the right to live our lives like everyone else."
"That's what the Professor wants, but he also knows that the world can beh a violent place and he wants to make sure we can survive, and after everything that ah've seen and done and been through ah can see why. I should have died a few times by now and even the whole world was nearly taken over by Apocalypse but he didn't because he fought him. Ah once heard that the only way evil wins is from not to fightin' it, and ah'll be damned if ah just roll over and do nothin' while maniacs like Magneto are out there causing trouble for everyone and innocent people are getting' hurt."
Fiona smiled at her words. 'She may be young but she's got a fire in her.' She thought. "Well then I agree with you young lady, and I'm glad to see that some of the youth of today know when to take a stand."
"I believe the counsel will discuss the matter, please feel free to look around the town. And maybe see a few of our facilities. If we chose to vote in favor of letting you and Xavier in on the town then maybe you could help out with his resources."
"What happens if you don't vote in favor?" Piotr asked them.
Steward smiled. "Then we have some of our telepaths wipe your minds of this place." That didn't put them at ease and Slayer escorted them out of the place and outside. It was their first look at the town and it looked like a growing community. It looked like any small town except there were obvious mutants walking around like it was all normal and no one was giving them dirty looks or anything.
"Well let's get you back to your car then." Slayer said and once again the mist appeared and then soon found themselves by the car.
"Okay how do you like do that?" Kitty asked the tall man.
"Would you believe magic?" He said with a grin.
"Yeah." Kitty said simply and the honestly of that surprised him. "I got a pet dragon and we know of a few magic users, in fact Illyana who is Piotr's little sister is studying magic under Dr. Strange and so she would use the Soul Sword."
"Oh-WAIT A MINUTE!" Slayer said as his brain caught up to that last bit. "The Soul Sword! That's one of the most powerful swords that's supposed to exist and his sister has it? Well...at least Strange is a good teacher for her...maybe I should stop by his place sometime."
"Wait you know the guy too?" Vincent asked him.
Slayer nodded. "We've met a few times, even learned a few things from him too. Nice guy actually if a little well...strange."
"Hey ah got to let Logan know we're all right before he comes here for a rescue." Rogue told him. He considered this and figured it was okay, as long as she didn't say anything about the town to him yet until the Elders had passed their decision, and told her as such.
Rogue agreed and pulled out the phone and pressed the auto-dail. "Hey Logan? Well I think we may have got somethin'...ah...can't say...because ah just can't...look we're all right but we're going ta have to spend the night...look there is a group here but they want ta make sure of us okay?" She sighed then. "Look if ya don't hear from us at say...ten in the morning that means we're in trouble okay? Fahne...look Logan just enjoy your time with Sarah...oh please ah know you wanted to spend more bonding time with her...it's really sweet." She nearly laughed when she heard the growl and hanged up on him before he could say that he wasn't bonding with her. She looked over at the others then. "Alright we're ready."
-The Crash pad-
The Crash pad was a place normally where teenagers and young adults like to go to in the town to relax. There was an arcade through a set of doors, and during the nights the large floor on one side with a stage was used by local bands and dances were done here like a nightclub.
Actually the place was a combination of a nightclub, sports bar, restaurant and coffee house. There were pool tables, dartboards and other stuff, but since it was an all ages place there was no alcohol. There was a bar in town were you could drink but not here. The place was about half filled and the girl only named Riley, well she also went by Chaos, was working her sift.
She was seventeen and a bit on the short side, only 5'5. Her hair was sea green, long and in a lot of layers, she also got this tattoo on left upper arm that showed through her T-shirt and strange purple eyes. Of course living in a dessert climate she didn't have to wear bulky clothing for a few reasons. First was after living in London ever since she was eight, well as far as she knew she couldn't remember anything before that.
She liked the warm weather, that and she liked flirting with the other boys here and all the revealing clothing helped. She managed to sneak herself into a plane for the states when she was young since she had been living on the streets and the Underground had found her not long after she made it to this country, and now she had a job, a place to live, yeah life was great.
She adjusted her gloves that she had to constantly wear. She had two powers the first was these force bolts the other was...well...if she touched anyone or anything with her bare hands...let's just say if she ever touched someone with her bare hands it wouldn't be pretty.
She looked up seeing a group come in and grinned. Six people walked in wearing the black uniforms of the town Defenders. The group was responsible for defending the town and trying to keep the peace. She saw one of them wearing an all black, with mask that was in four sections. Grey combat boots and gloves, belt and another on going across his chest. Small shoulder pads, pouch on left thigh. He took off the mask and she saw the handsome face of Thomas Larsen a boy from Norway of about eighteen who went by the name Jedi. She found that a bit funny how he picked his name from Star Wars, but he was cute, plus she loved his white hair. That and his eyes got this blue glow to them at times too.
Next came Mallory O'Bryanson, a tall boy of over six feet tall with kangaroo type legs and red fur over his body and whiskers too with long red hair in dreadlocks and gray eyes, his arms were a little short but not too noticeable. He went by Rue and had great jumping abilities and some kind of defensive shield or something. Riley didn't really care about the specifics.
A smile formed on her face as she saw her best friend Valerie Rush and her boyfriend Damien Hunter. They were both natives of the town who had grown up here. Both were about a year younger then her and Valerie or Venus had blue and black hair, as it was actually turning blue for over the last year. She also had these wings she could grow out of her back, which was why she liked to wear backless shirts so she could whip them out whenever she wanted to.
Her boyfriend Damien had long black hair and about average height. He cold also blow up anything within a five-mile radius. Which might be why he got along with Jaeger over there sitting with her twin brother Jasper. If you could believe that, Jaeger was 16 and has ice-blue eyes and long, wavy blond hair that's always pulled back in a ponytail, plus she was kind of pretty and could blow up anything the size of a football in her line of sight. Her brother...well that was another story, Jasper was completely different.
He had these huge dragon-like wings. He had horns sticking out of his forehead, small, one-inch spikes running down his spine, a lion-like tail, and horse-like ears. Oh yeah, did I mention the incredibly large claws! Instead of fingers this guy's got talons both have the same blond hair, other then that you wouldn't know they were twins. Although he was a nice guy despite his appearance.
She walked over to see what they wanted, since they looked like they just came back from the Pit, which was this huge gravel pit where mutants liked to go and test out their powers or to train. "Hey guys have fun training?"
"Oh yeah I just loved that." Jaeger said then glared at Mally. "That is if someone didn't kick that rock in my direction!"
"I said I was sorry Sheila." Mally said raising his hands in defense with an Australian accent. "I didn't see you there, I was just tryin' to warn you."
"Yeah 'Look out!', that was original. You're just lucky it was just big enough to blow up, anything larger and I would have to go see the healers." Said the young blond folding her arms across her chest.
"It was kind of funny how you landed on your butt though." Jaspers snickered then yelped as his sister kicked him in the shin as he grumbled a few words.
"So where's Mr. Leader?" She was of course refereeing to Michael 'Gun' Johnson, the oldest and most experienced.
Mally smiled. "Of with his girl of course." Riley rolled her eyes, she should have known he would go strait to Marianne Jong. Those two were inseparable.
Riley shook her head, say what you will but Jaeger was never boring. "So the usual?" She got a round of yeses and then got a mischievous look in her eye. She bent down in front of Thomas. "So Tommy...you got a date for tonight?" She said in her most sexy voice. She knew that Thomas was one heck of a fighter but was a little shy if you will around girls, at least those he either liked or flirted with him, one of the reasons she found him so cute, and she whished just once he would get up the courage to ask her out.
"Uh...n-no not really." The Norwegian he was never really comfortable when she flirted with him or any girl for that matter, he always got nervous but he tried to compose himself, although the others could see him blushing.
She smiled and traced a finger under his chin. "You know one of these days you should say yes before I find someone else to spend my time with."
Just then two new faces came in. Everyone noticed the two new arrivals. One was a petit girl with brown hair in a ponytail in blue jean shorts, and a pink backless top. She came in with a tall well-built boy with dark hair and with jeans and a large red shirt that still seemed to be slightly tighter then it was meant. Riley liked the look of the big buy already. "Damn...look at the man meat."
Valerie just laughed at her friend. "You never fail do you?"
"Hey I like what I see and I always go after what I like too." She replied and went to get their orders before going after the new guy.
"Wonder who they are?" Damien asked everyone at their table. "Never seem them before, what do you guys think?"
"I think the girl is kind of cute." Jasper said then nudged Thomas. "What do you think?"
"Uh...she looks nice." He admitted, Jasper grinned at that.
"Forget it guys I think she's taken, I mean look at those two." Valerie told them and they saw the big guy pull the chair out for the girl that giggled and blushed a bit and he did seem to sit kind of close to her plus the girl put his hand on his too. "Looks like those two are dating at least."
"How can you tell?" Jaeger asked.
The older girl shrugged. "I can just tell about these things, beside I know that look those two got, I look at Damien the same way she said linking her and in his.
At the other table Kitty and Piotr were looking around, they were sent by Rogue to check out the town while she and Vincent looked at some of the others places like the local hospital to see if they might need any special medical equipment. Since Vincent was there they didn't have to worry about writing it all down considering he would just remember it all.
"This place is actually kind of nice you know?" Kitty asked Piotr.
"Da it is Katya." Piotr said to her. "Very quiet and safe place."
Then a girl with green hair with a nametag that said Riley on it came over to them. "Can I help you two out with anything?"
"Um...what kind of drinks do you have?" Kitty asked her.
"Pretty much anything." Riley shrugged. "I could get you an menu if you wanted." Then she looked over at Piotr. "Can I get you something handsome?" She said with a wink. Piotr blushed a little and Kitty saw this and linked her arm with his to enforce that he was taken.
"I think a menu fill be fine." Kitty said a little coldly. Riley smiled nodded and walked off to get on.
-Meanwhile-
After stopping by a three-story hotel of shorts with the car and got two separate rooms. Piotr and Kitty had gone to check out some of the places while Rogue and Vincent went to check out a few of the other places that Slayer had suggested before taking off after he gave them directions.
They were at what looked like a one story clinic but it was the hospital for the Town. They walked in and saw someone by the desk. It was a woman about middle age in a white jacket. "ah hello you two must be the X-Men I heard about."
"How did?" Rogue tried to ask but the woman smiled.
"News travels fast in a small town especially big news, I must say that you guys are kind of like celebrities in this Town. I mean I think there's even a fan club at the high school. I'm Stella the nurse, unfortunately Dr. Steven is out on a house call but we do have a few of the others here you can talk to."
"Um...thanks that will beh fahne." Rogue said a little surprised that not only that she knew but also because of a 'fan club' here...that was weird in of itself. They were led to the back with three people there, two were teenagers and another was an adult with blond hair. Rogue tried to think but the teenaged girl and woman looked familiar.
She looked over at Vince and she saw him recognize them from the look in his face. "Do we know them?" She whispered.
"Other realities." He simply said and then it came to her. She recognized the woman as Celeste a mutant healer that had been teaching at the Institute at one of those realities and the eighteen year old brunette that was about average looking looked like a younger version of Marianne Jong. In the reality they had met her she was in charge of a safe house in the Mutant Underground and was a doctor.
"Ah think we shouldn't mention the other reality thing." She whispered to Vincent who seemed to nod his head, that would take too long to explain at the moment...not to mention was pretty out there too and they might not believe it.
"Damn it Foley watch were you put those!" Marianne said glaring at the golden skinned boy.
"I'm sorry alright." He held up his hands, he knew that she wasn't much of a fighter but she was definitely not someone you want to piss off. "It was an accident. Besides I'm only taking this medial training because of my healing powers, I'm not trying to become a doctor like you are."
"Thank God for that, because you'd be hopeless as one." Stella cleared her throat and they all turned to see the new people. "Oh...uh...hi." Marianne said a little embarrassed they had seen that.
"Everyone these are tow members of the X-Men here to see if there is anything their group could do to help out the town." She turned to face Vince and Rogue. "This is Celeste, she's a teacher at the high school and works part time here because of her healing powers. The golden boy is Josh Foley also known as Elixir and has healing powers as well. The last girl if Marianne Jong also known as Fantasy because of her illusion powers. She's actually here training under the doctor to learn more about medicine."
"Hi, ah'm Rogue and this is Vincent."
"Cool! I always wanted to meet you guys! You guys are freaking awesome!" Josh said shaking their hands, while Marianne roller her eyes at his attitude.
Celeste came over to them. "Well I hope you can help us out, getting certain supplies has always been a problem."
"Well what do you need?" Vincent asked getting ready to make mental notes.
Celeste looked a little uncertain. "I'm not sure I'm not a doctor but Marianne practically is though."
Marianne stepped forward. "Now that I can do, I hope you guys got a pen cause I know of a lot of things we could use." She said with a smile on her face. Little did they know they would spend the next hour going through enough inventory to give Vincent a headache and they only got a break when a boy a few years older then Marianne showed up.
His name was Michael Johnson and when those two got together Rogue and Vince watch with little smiles on their faces seeing the two together. They could tell that the two people obvious were in loved and weren't afraid to show it either. Rogue leaned closer to Vincent. "Ah think we should leave them alone, we can meet up with Kitty and Piotr."
"Yeah, plus I'm getting a headache with all the stuff she had me look over." Both teens easily made their way out of the room as the two other were oblivious to the world around them.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 33: NIGHT ON THE TOWN
Here are the stories you can see some of the OCs in, and please if you haven't check them out and R&R too.
Riley(Chaos) - Chaos Rises by Ranndie Mazda
Thomas (Jedi) Larsen – Enter the Knight by Darkness1
Jaeger, Jasper, Celeste – Pigs on Wheels by Damn-my-name-was-taken
Marianne (Fantasy) Jong & Michael (Gun) Johnson – Mutant Underground series (Just a Girl/Fighting Destiny/Vacation/Shattered Resistance) by BlackRoseApocalypse
Mallory (Rue) O'Bryanson – Xman is Australian for Mutants by matt3671
Slayer – Evolution of the Heart by Slickboy444