Chapter 1: The Beginning

Disclaimer: I am very new to the x-men. I have only watched it a few times so if there are any imperfections please go easy on me.

Disclaimer #2: To all who know what I am talking about, if I got something wrong or messed the character up in any way, I am completely sorry.

"There she is!" Sal shouted running towards a table in the middle of the room.

We all ran after him. Carrie was lying on the table. She was very pale.

"She is out cold," said Luke, "I wonder what they did to her.

Suddenly, the lights went out and were replaced by and eerie red glow.

"Oh crap, we are all gonna die," said Chuck.

Oops, sorry, I am getting ahead of myself there. Lets start at the beginning.

The first time I say her, we were waiting to try out for our middle school vocal ensemble. I was nervous and she was angry. She was mad that our choir teacher wouldn't let her in to the upper choir even though she had been in choir at her old school the year before. We both got in to vocal and we were friends ever since.

This is what I know about Carrie Henderson. She transferred into my middle school in eighth grade. She is now a whole year older than me and a whole lot more mature. She never liked touching people and people touching her. I knew virtually nothing of her past even though we had been best friends for three years. She had been hiding a secret in her past, one that even I couldn't fathom.

In freshman year, Carrie got really sick and had to stay home for an entire semester. During that time, she got into her X-men phase, or at least I thought it was a phase.

Sophomore year, I stopped telling her things and she stopped telling me things. I didn't understand why she always had to be so secretive.

One day, my cell phone rang, "Hey Carrie," I answered.

"We need to talk," she said in a serious tone.

"Alright, go ahead."

"No, meet me in the park."

"Ok, see you in five minutes."

The Park

"I am leaving."

"What?!"

"I am leaving,"

"Why?! When?!"

"Someone found out my secret. I have to leave. I am leaving right after we speak."

"I don't understand."

"Well, since I am leaving and you are my best friend, I want you to know what is going on."

"Alright."

"When I got sick last year, I wasn't really sick." My eyes opened wide.

"I am a mutant. I was born a mutant. My parents had to move because people began to threaten them. Last semester, I was undergoing testing. Every five years I have testing. This time they decided that I have to move to a correction facility, a new home, again."

"So you are a mutant?"

"Yeah."

"What is your power?"

"You know how I don't like to touch people and I don't like people to touch me?"

"Yeah."

"Well, if I touch people, I take their power and memories away from them." I recalled once when she got very excited and accidentally hugged me on her birthday. I had wondered why I couldn't remember what happened. Now I knew. "I started to feel really alone. Then I found the X-men and realized that I wasn't alone. The characters are just like me. Especially Rogue."

Just then, a lady in a white coat walk up behind me and said, "Carrie, it is time to go." She glanced towards the parking lot where a car I hadn't noticed before was parked.

"Please don't go," I whispered.

"It's alright Jodi, Carrie will be fine," the lady said.

Carrie got into the car with the lady. Then, as quickly as that, they simply drove away.

Just as I thought I would never see my best friend again, I say a piece of paper ion the ground. She must have dropped it, I thought. I picked up the paper and gasped as I read what it said. I am going to need help, I realized, lots of it.

Disclaimer #3: I know the first chapter was pretty boring, but it gets better, I promise. Please R&R.