Notes: sorry I took so long to update my life has been a tad problematic also the Pride is a group from the comic runaways I used them as an explanation because when ever you read comics they never happen in Los Angeles or California usually only in New York I wondered why so I just used the Pride as to why the Pride collapsed in 2004 and this part of the story is two years ago so this part takes place in 2003. I don't own them I also don't own wonder man or Jubilee or the vanisher.
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The next day I awoke hoping it was a dream but it wasn't it was real but instead of being angry I was more concerned about what I was going to do I knew the mall was about 3 miles away what else could I do but go there and hope things work out. The walk took forever and it was so cold felt like the street stuck to my foot. People kept laughing at me and pointing I don't blame them I had charred clothes and a grey blanket quite the fashion statement all the rage in Paris But I made it there then I realized I can't go into the mall looking like this. I mean I looked like if I was beaten alive not to mention less money people were staring at me a lot there to man what was the big dear haven't they ever seen someone who was burned alive before I mean this was Los Angeles. So I just looked inside the mall eventually I went in wandering aimlessly finally I sat down on a bench man did my feet ache. Here is where my life gets good I remember a voice some girl screaming.
"You still can't catch me"
An angry guard shouted "I hate her call in the police we can't have her here anymore she ruins everything"
Another guard said "look she is doubling back we can catch her right at the entrance besides this is the only amount of police that will respond to her"
The girl running franticly she ran up the stairs but another guard cornered her she says in a tired voice
"Man how many of you are there" the guard replied
"You going downtown lady"
The girl gasps looks at the guard slowly advancing on her she smirks and said "I am downtown Beverly Hills mall is down town what kind of police officer are you" she jumps off the guard rail and grabs on to an exhibit which unhinges sending her swinging she lets go flips and lands on her feet she then said "what no judges score I expected a warm welcome". A guard grabs her from behind and says
"I give you a 7 for the landing but a -1 for the escape" I got up and said
"I have to help her" I rushed inside as fast as I could I shouted "let her go"
The guard laughed at me and said "kid get lost better let get some clothes where have you been a blast furnaces"
I got cocky and said "let her go now or else"
The guard says "or what your bore me to death"
I tried to start my powers but nothing nada zip I also didn't see another guard that guard hit me over the head with a nightstick damn that hurt like crazy. I fell over the guard said "go home kid and make sure you know what your doing before you do it".
I realized This is why I must think before I act I always wondered why my mom said that bloody hell did that hurt I hit the tile floor they really need to clean that thing.
Upon impact my blanket fell off but the only thing that hurt was my pride. Appently this act off stupidity got me the results I needed. My eyes glowed red I looked upward but the guard had already turned away which in retrocept was a good thing. Because once again fire shot from my mouth only this time it was is a small cylinder shaped beam I thought "well alright then". The guard freaks at this so does the other one they run and both jump in the fountain the fire stops my eyes returned I think
The girl said to me "nice save"
I says with as much wit as I can muster "what I don't get a score"
The girl smiles and says "fine I give you a 7.6 good save but kind of sloppy I guess you a mutant like me"
I said "hey I just saved your butt I deserve at least an 8 and I am a crappy mutant my powers don't even emerge when I want them to them come when they feel like it." One of the guards climbs out and said "you little !" the girl said "crap I have to go you coming"
I thought "what did I have to lose only my blanket" so I said "sure I'll come" I picked up my blanket and both off us started to run
She said "I'm jubilation lee pleased to meet you" I replied "I'm David what about the guards". Jubilation said "don't worry about them they will be fine".
I fallowed her back to her hideout which was underground she says "we kind of like the morlocks you see due to a gang called the Pride almost no superhero or villains come out her except for wonder man but he doesn't count really."
I said "what's the pride"
She replied "they were a super powered villain gang that came to power in 1993 they declared no other super hero or villains could enter southern California if they did they got sent back to where they came from in a box. Even the X-men and the Avengers obeyed this so any mutants that emerge here are on their own."
I said "great so why was wonder man allowed here"
She said "cover there are 4 million people here ever other city has some superheroes thinks would look odd if their was no one and after the West coast avengers shut down in 1990 he is all this city has. He doesn't do crap thou he'll save a few people from a fire or stop a bank robbery but he does nothing to stop the pride or any other gang" I said "how do you know this"
She said "it's common knowledge they run the entire city even the police even wonder man is subjective to them the only ones they don't control are the homeless but enough about them where going to my soon to be our "home" so David welcome to the group thinks will get rough and bad things will happen"
She wasn't wrong apparently their were tones of mutants who were homeless. I was suppressed I had no idea their were so many mutants in L.A. We were the abandoned ones we had to steal to get food or anything else. It wasn't a good life but it was the only way we could get anything we were outcast shunned from the world and because we were mutants not even the church would help us. Now I was part of that I would pray at first that my curse would be lifted and I could go home and forget all this it was not lifted. At first stealing didn't feel right but what choice did I have soon I stopped caring and stole with out second thought I had to survive I had to press on. I had stopped prayed god has Abandoned me and so my life as David was over and I was reborn as Firestarter.
(Hey sorry if the chapter sucked I just wanted to end the flashback and get on with the story next chapter is in the present time the x-men do appear finally please read and review)