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/lalala /- means the characters are thinking.
(~ lalala ~)- means I wanted to add something of my own.
Goku turned from the portal and quickly told the other Z fighters of their situation. They then flew off to tell the others at Kami House, all hoping Piccolo would be ok in the strange world.
"Hey! Where are they going?" Scott asked turning around to face Professor X.
"Probably to find help." said Professor X as he started to make his way back to the mansion from outside in the field where they found the portal.
"Did you see that they were all flying?" asked Beast as he too turned to walk back toward the mansion.
"Really?" asked Kurt walking behind Kitty.
"Well, what are we going to do with this guy?" asked Kitty, cutting off Beast from his next sentence.
"Well, I told the man I would help his friend return to full strength." said the Professor as he turned to face Wolverine.
"What man?" asked Logan.
"The man I was telepathically communicating with, Goku."
"How can a human converse with you? I mean that would have to make him a mutant, right?" asked Jean walking with Scott.
"He seemed to not know what a mutant was. But he is very powerful, I could feel it during our conversation."
"What 'ave we gotten ourselves into?" said Kurt.
"I don't know, but I do intent to fulfill my promise and fix this young man up."
"Does he have a name?" asked Rogue.
"Yes, his name is Piccolo."
"As in the instrument?" inquired Beast.
"I would suppose. Come, bring him to the infirmary*."
They all started walking inside. The boys and girls of the school stood in wonder as Wolverine brought in the unconscious Namekian.
/You know, he's really light without all that stuff on him. How can he have enough strength to carry all that stuff with his light form? Amazing. / thought Wolverine.
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/Whoa, where am I? My head really hurts. What is this place? / thought Piccolo as he woke up. He noticed that he was in an all white room that was not much bigger than Goku's house. There were wires everywhere and beside there were three chairs and standing next to one of them with it's back turned was a short and extremely muscular man with a lab coat drapped around him.
Beast heard his patient wake. He turned, walked over and introduced himself to the confused green man in the bed,
"Hello, my name is Henry McCoy, but just call me Beast. I'm your doctor. How are you feeling, my friend?"
Piccolo kind of stared at him for a moment, then said in English. "My head still hurts, and everything else for that matter. Wait a minute, ...you're blue?" Piccolo raised an eyebrow ridge and put a hand to his pounding head. (~I'll explain to you how it is that Piccolo knows English.~)
"Yes, I am," laughed Beast, "I am what we call a mutant, as well as everyone else in this school. However, you should be talking, you're green."
"Touché." Piccolo tried to sit up but when he did he became dizzy and felt nauseated, so he quickly laid back down. "Exactly what is a mutant, if you don't mind my asking?"
"A mutant is a human being with genetically advanced cells that give them extraordinary abilities. And this school" Beast looked around with his arms open to emphasize his point "is for young mutants who have been orphaned, or ran away because the outside world disapproves of and generally hates mutants."
"I'm not on Earth, am I?"
"No, you are on Earth, just another Earth."
"You mean as in an alternate dimension. I've heard of dimensions colliding, but I never thought it was real." Kami's knowledge leaking into the coversation.
"Well, it seems that is how you got here my friend."
Piccolo laughed somewhat. /Wait a minute. Since when do I laugh freely? I've never done that- well unless I was going into battle and I was laughing at something the villain did that I thought was incredibly stupid, but other than that, I've never laughed just because something was funny. Smirked maybe, yes, that's it, I smirk, never laugh. This place is definitely something else. /
Just then the door opened and a group of people entered the room, one in a wheelchair.
"Hello, it's good to see you've awakened." greeted the man in the wheelchair, "I am Professor Charles Xavier, more commonly called Professor X." He said all of this in Japanese.
"Hello to you too." said Piccolo in Japanese, "But, I am quite capable of speaking in your tongue." Now becoming very self conscious and wrapping his sheet tighter around his tall yet slim body, "Where's my cape, and turban?"
"How is it that you know Enlgish?" inquired Professor X.
Piccolo shrugged. "You learn a lot in heaven."
Professor X was about to ask him to elaborate when he raised his hand and said, "I'll explain later. Now, where's my cape and turban?"
"We put that in Logan's room for the time being." said Rogue.
Piccolo raised an eyebrow ridge, "Who are you all?"
"Just call me Rogue," She said winking.
The woman in all white came forward and said, "Let me do the introductions, I'm Ororo. This is Scott," pointing to the man with the red sunglasses, "Jean," pointing to the woman beside Scott with bright red hair, "Kurt" gesturing to the furry...um...elf, "Spyke" waving to the black boy, "Kitty" aiming at the young female with a ponytail, "Rogue I believe you already met, Beast our resident physician, and Wolverine who brought you in" pointing to the huge man with many muscles.
/He looks powerful. Might make a good sparring partner. / Piccolo thought when he was introduced to Wolverine.
"You said you put my stuff in Logan's room. I wasn't introduced to any Logan."
"That's me bub." Wolverine said while clearing his throat.
/Just my luck. / thought Piccolo sarcastically.
"Oh, Piccolo, Goku asked me to tell you to contact him as soon as you were awake." said Professor Xavier before leaving the room with the other X-Men, all except Wolverine.
Mumbled "Yeah, um...nice to meet you."s, "Cool antennae", and whispered "Is that guy really an alien?" where picked up by Piccolo's over sensitive ears and this all caused him to smirk. / These kids will be a lot of fun to mess with. / thought Piccolo before giving his attention to the only remaining person in the room.
"How does he know my name? And how does he know Goku's name?" Piccolo asked Logan, while trying to find a comfortable spot on the sickroom's board that they dared to call a mattress.
"You can try all you want but there's just no way to get comfortable on one of those things." Logan said as if reading his mind while sitting down in one of the chairs next to the bed. "As soon as we found you outside the grounds, that guy Goku and a bunch of other people came and got real angry when I pulled you out of that portal."
"Oh yeah, the portal. Man, that was a painful experience."
"I know, I pulled you out."
"How did you pull me out? I don't think even Goku would be able to do that."
Logan smirked, "My mutant powers allow me to rapidly heal myself from injuries."
"That must come in handy, Logan." Piccolo smirked as well. "I can do that too, which is probably why I'm not dead right now." He shrugged and then pulled up more of the blankets and tried, key word TRIED, to go to sleep.
/What is it about this kid that makes me feel protective? I hardly even know 'em! I'm definitally off my rocker. Can he really have the same power I have? / Logan gazed at the sleeping Namek and a brief smile over took his features before he quickly surpressed it. /Who is this guy? /
/Whoa, that was weird. He's still here. I've never felt like I had to impress anyone before. All I'm feeling is gratitude for him because he pulled me out. No one ever really wanted to save me, just me, only me ever before. Except maybe for Gohan, but he has this hero worship thing going on. I mean, when Tien and I fought Cell, Goku only came to help after Tien was beat up. Someone else had to get hurt before they would come to help me. I'm getting depressed. Think positive thoughts Piccolo. Positive. / Piccolo settled back down, feeling better that Logan was there. / Oh, I have to contact Goku and tell him that I'm fine. He probably won't care, but I have to do it for Gohan, he's probably going off the wall. / Piccolo smirked. He sat back up and started to concentrate on Goku's ki force.
Logan saw Piccolo's movement and was about to ask if he was all right, but just watched instead. He liked the way the Namek looked, and if he had an opportunity to just stare, he took it. / What!? I don't like guys! I've never liked guys! Especially green ones...who are tall, mysterious, handsome...Cut It Out! / Logan shook his head to try and get those thoughts out of his mind. "Are you ok? Need anything?"
Piccolo opened his eyes. "No. I was told I had to contact Goku as soon as possible."
"You're telepathic as well?"
A shrug. "I have various abilities. Telepathy is only one of them. Now quiet."
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/Goku, are you there? /
Goku suddenly stood up in the middle of the Kame House meeting. "Piccolo!"
"What, what is it Goku?" asked Master Roshi.
"It's Piccolo, he's contacting me. Now hush." Goku ordered and everyone became silent and quite scared- you don't want to make Goku mad when he was in 'serious mode'.
"Oh, sure thing Goku." Eeped Roshi as he settled back down to sit on a huge pillow on the floor.
/Piccolo! Are you alright? /
/Yeah, I'm fine, well considering everything. So what have you guys been doing on the plan to get me back home? /
/Well, we have to wait for Bulma to get here. We just called her, and she sounded like she has a plan to get you back. We don't know what else to do. I mean if we got the dragonballs and tried to wish you back over here that would work, but you know how long collecting all the dragonballs will take and Master Roshi and Oolong wished to have a life long supscription to PlayBoy last month. It would take a year to even USE the balls. Piccolo, all we can do is wait for Bulma, and if she can't get you out of there then we'll have to get the dragonballs. /
/I'm just concerned. This world is one of many questions and I intend them to be answered. I think we could learn a great deal from the people here. /
/What are you saying? Gohan is off the walls wishing you were back here. /
/Tell Gohan I'll be back as soon as I can, but I want to stay here for a little while longer. He should understand, considering he's learning to become a scholar. Have Bulma take a look at the portal none-the-less. / Piccolo smirked.
/Ok, but I don't trust the people there. I mean there are professors and scientists everywhere and you are a walking talking specimen, no offense. /
/None taken, but I'll be careful. Thanks, bye Goku. /
Goku sat back down. He didn't understand why Piccolo wanted to stay. What could he possibly learn from them?
Sensing something was wrong Gohan asked, "Dad, what's up? Is Piccolo ok?"
"Yeah son, he's fine. But, he wants to stay over there for a little bit."
"But why? Doesn't he want to come back over here?"
"He does Gohan, but he thinks he can learn something from the people there."
"But he does want to return, right Dad?"
"Yes, Gohan. He said that we should go on with our plan."
"That would take a long time."
"I know, all we can do now is what we've been doing...waiting."
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Piccolo laid back down on the mattress and tried in vain to catch sleep, but it kept evading him. All he could think of was how to get back home and how to make Logan quit staring at him. He was getting self-conscious again and he hated that feeling. Logan, on the other hand, was actually sleeping with is head propped up. Piccolo didn't know this because his back was turned to the sleeping man.
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"What is this place? It's some sort of a mansion."
A figure walked over to the gates and read the plaque to the right of the gates,
"'A school for gifted youngsters.' Well, why don't I have a little fun? I always loved kids." Laughed the shadow now entering the Xavier school.
Well, what do ya think? Chapter 4 will be up soon! Please review! I'm not getting a lot of feedback on this, I need something to keep me motivated!
/lalala /- means the characters are thinking.
(~ lalala ~)- means I wanted to add something of my own.
Goku turned from the portal and quickly told the other Z fighters of their situation. They then flew off to tell the others at Kami House, all hoping Piccolo would be ok in the strange world.
"Hey! Where are they going?" Scott asked turning around to face Professor X.
"Probably to find help." said Professor X as he started to make his way back to the mansion from outside in the field where they found the portal.
"Did you see that they were all flying?" asked Beast as he too turned to walk back toward the mansion.
"Really?" asked Kurt walking behind Kitty.
"Well, what are we going to do with this guy?" asked Kitty, cutting off Beast from his next sentence.
"Well, I told the man I would help his friend return to full strength." said the Professor as he turned to face Wolverine.
"What man?" asked Logan.
"The man I was telepathically communicating with, Goku."
"How can a human converse with you? I mean that would have to make him a mutant, right?" asked Jean walking with Scott.
"He seemed to not know what a mutant was. But he is very powerful, I could feel it during our conversation."
"What 'ave we gotten ourselves into?" said Kurt.
"I don't know, but I do intent to fulfill my promise and fix this young man up."
"Does he have a name?" asked Rogue.
"Yes, his name is Piccolo."
"As in the instrument?" inquired Beast.
"I would suppose. Come, bring him to the infirmary*."
They all started walking inside. The boys and girls of the school stood in wonder as Wolverine brought in the unconscious Namekian.
/You know, he's really light without all that stuff on him. How can he have enough strength to carry all that stuff with his light form? Amazing. / thought Wolverine.
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/Whoa, where am I? My head really hurts. What is this place? / thought Piccolo as he woke up. He noticed that he was in an all white room that was not much bigger than Goku's house. There were wires everywhere and beside there were three chairs and standing next to one of them with it's back turned was a short and extremely muscular man with a lab coat drapped around him.
Beast heard his patient wake. He turned, walked over and introduced himself to the confused green man in the bed,
"Hello, my name is Henry McCoy, but just call me Beast. I'm your doctor. How are you feeling, my friend?"
Piccolo kind of stared at him for a moment, then said in English. "My head still hurts, and everything else for that matter. Wait a minute, ...you're blue?" Piccolo raised an eyebrow ridge and put a hand to his pounding head. (~I'll explain to you how it is that Piccolo knows English.~)
"Yes, I am," laughed Beast, "I am what we call a mutant, as well as everyone else in this school. However, you should be talking, you're green."
"Touché." Piccolo tried to sit up but when he did he became dizzy and felt nauseated, so he quickly laid back down. "Exactly what is a mutant, if you don't mind my asking?"
"A mutant is a human being with genetically advanced cells that give them extraordinary abilities. And this school" Beast looked around with his arms open to emphasize his point "is for young mutants who have been orphaned, or ran away because the outside world disapproves of and generally hates mutants."
"I'm not on Earth, am I?"
"No, you are on Earth, just another Earth."
"You mean as in an alternate dimension. I've heard of dimensions colliding, but I never thought it was real." Kami's knowledge leaking into the coversation.
"Well, it seems that is how you got here my friend."
Piccolo laughed somewhat. /Wait a minute. Since when do I laugh freely? I've never done that- well unless I was going into battle and I was laughing at something the villain did that I thought was incredibly stupid, but other than that, I've never laughed just because something was funny. Smirked maybe, yes, that's it, I smirk, never laugh. This place is definitely something else. /
Just then the door opened and a group of people entered the room, one in a wheelchair.
"Hello, it's good to see you've awakened." greeted the man in the wheelchair, "I am Professor Charles Xavier, more commonly called Professor X." He said all of this in Japanese.
"Hello to you too." said Piccolo in Japanese, "But, I am quite capable of speaking in your tongue." Now becoming very self conscious and wrapping his sheet tighter around his tall yet slim body, "Where's my cape, and turban?"
"How is it that you know Enlgish?" inquired Professor X.
Piccolo shrugged. "You learn a lot in heaven."
Professor X was about to ask him to elaborate when he raised his hand and said, "I'll explain later. Now, where's my cape and turban?"
"We put that in Logan's room for the time being." said Rogue.
Piccolo raised an eyebrow ridge, "Who are you all?"
"Just call me Rogue," She said winking.
The woman in all white came forward and said, "Let me do the introductions, I'm Ororo. This is Scott," pointing to the man with the red sunglasses, "Jean," pointing to the woman beside Scott with bright red hair, "Kurt" gesturing to the furry...um...elf, "Spyke" waving to the black boy, "Kitty" aiming at the young female with a ponytail, "Rogue I believe you already met, Beast our resident physician, and Wolverine who brought you in" pointing to the huge man with many muscles.
/He looks powerful. Might make a good sparring partner. / Piccolo thought when he was introduced to Wolverine.
"You said you put my stuff in Logan's room. I wasn't introduced to any Logan."
"That's me bub." Wolverine said while clearing his throat.
/Just my luck. / thought Piccolo sarcastically.
"Oh, Piccolo, Goku asked me to tell you to contact him as soon as you were awake." said Professor Xavier before leaving the room with the other X-Men, all except Wolverine.
Mumbled "Yeah, um...nice to meet you."s, "Cool antennae", and whispered "Is that guy really an alien?" where picked up by Piccolo's over sensitive ears and this all caused him to smirk. / These kids will be a lot of fun to mess with. / thought Piccolo before giving his attention to the only remaining person in the room.
"How does he know my name? And how does he know Goku's name?" Piccolo asked Logan, while trying to find a comfortable spot on the sickroom's board that they dared to call a mattress.
"You can try all you want but there's just no way to get comfortable on one of those things." Logan said as if reading his mind while sitting down in one of the chairs next to the bed. "As soon as we found you outside the grounds, that guy Goku and a bunch of other people came and got real angry when I pulled you out of that portal."
"Oh yeah, the portal. Man, that was a painful experience."
"I know, I pulled you out."
"How did you pull me out? I don't think even Goku would be able to do that."
Logan smirked, "My mutant powers allow me to rapidly heal myself from injuries."
"That must come in handy, Logan." Piccolo smirked as well. "I can do that too, which is probably why I'm not dead right now." He shrugged and then pulled up more of the blankets and tried, key word TRIED, to go to sleep.
/What is it about this kid that makes me feel protective? I hardly even know 'em! I'm definitally off my rocker. Can he really have the same power I have? / Logan gazed at the sleeping Namek and a brief smile over took his features before he quickly surpressed it. /Who is this guy? /
/Whoa, that was weird. He's still here. I've never felt like I had to impress anyone before. All I'm feeling is gratitude for him because he pulled me out. No one ever really wanted to save me, just me, only me ever before. Except maybe for Gohan, but he has this hero worship thing going on. I mean, when Tien and I fought Cell, Goku only came to help after Tien was beat up. Someone else had to get hurt before they would come to help me. I'm getting depressed. Think positive thoughts Piccolo. Positive. / Piccolo settled back down, feeling better that Logan was there. / Oh, I have to contact Goku and tell him that I'm fine. He probably won't care, but I have to do it for Gohan, he's probably going off the wall. / Piccolo smirked. He sat back up and started to concentrate on Goku's ki force.
Logan saw Piccolo's movement and was about to ask if he was all right, but just watched instead. He liked the way the Namek looked, and if he had an opportunity to just stare, he took it. / What!? I don't like guys! I've never liked guys! Especially green ones...who are tall, mysterious, handsome...Cut It Out! / Logan shook his head to try and get those thoughts out of his mind. "Are you ok? Need anything?"
Piccolo opened his eyes. "No. I was told I had to contact Goku as soon as possible."
"You're telepathic as well?"
A shrug. "I have various abilities. Telepathy is only one of them. Now quiet."
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/Goku, are you there? /
Goku suddenly stood up in the middle of the Kame House meeting. "Piccolo!"
"What, what is it Goku?" asked Master Roshi.
"It's Piccolo, he's contacting me. Now hush." Goku ordered and everyone became silent and quite scared- you don't want to make Goku mad when he was in 'serious mode'.
"Oh, sure thing Goku." Eeped Roshi as he settled back down to sit on a huge pillow on the floor.
/Piccolo! Are you alright? /
/Yeah, I'm fine, well considering everything. So what have you guys been doing on the plan to get me back home? /
/Well, we have to wait for Bulma to get here. We just called her, and she sounded like she has a plan to get you back. We don't know what else to do. I mean if we got the dragonballs and tried to wish you back over here that would work, but you know how long collecting all the dragonballs will take and Master Roshi and Oolong wished to have a life long supscription to PlayBoy last month. It would take a year to even USE the balls. Piccolo, all we can do is wait for Bulma, and if she can't get you out of there then we'll have to get the dragonballs. /
/I'm just concerned. This world is one of many questions and I intend them to be answered. I think we could learn a great deal from the people here. /
/What are you saying? Gohan is off the walls wishing you were back here. /
/Tell Gohan I'll be back as soon as I can, but I want to stay here for a little while longer. He should understand, considering he's learning to become a scholar. Have Bulma take a look at the portal none-the-less. / Piccolo smirked.
/Ok, but I don't trust the people there. I mean there are professors and scientists everywhere and you are a walking talking specimen, no offense. /
/None taken, but I'll be careful. Thanks, bye Goku. /
Goku sat back down. He didn't understand why Piccolo wanted to stay. What could he possibly learn from them?
Sensing something was wrong Gohan asked, "Dad, what's up? Is Piccolo ok?"
"Yeah son, he's fine. But, he wants to stay over there for a little bit."
"But why? Doesn't he want to come back over here?"
"He does Gohan, but he thinks he can learn something from the people there."
"But he does want to return, right Dad?"
"Yes, Gohan. He said that we should go on with our plan."
"That would take a long time."
"I know, all we can do now is what we've been doing...waiting."
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Piccolo laid back down on the mattress and tried in vain to catch sleep, but it kept evading him. All he could think of was how to get back home and how to make Logan quit staring at him. He was getting self-conscious again and he hated that feeling. Logan, on the other hand, was actually sleeping with is head propped up. Piccolo didn't know this because his back was turned to the sleeping man.
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"What is this place? It's some sort of a mansion."
A figure walked over to the gates and read the plaque to the right of the gates,
"'A school for gifted youngsters.' Well, why don't I have a little fun? I always loved kids." Laughed the shadow now entering the Xavier school.
Well, what do ya think? Chapter 4 will be up soon! Please review! I'm not getting a lot of feedback on this, I need something to keep me motivated!