Sorry it's late as usual lol but here it is thanks for the reviews and could I have more please.

Road Trip Part 2

Simon reached forward and crushed the engines of the first two motorbikes causing them to explode. Flames licked the ground as the thick black smoke rose into the air.

'Noooooo Simon!' yelled Adam when he saw the devastation.

'What's happening?' asked Wanda as she turned her head to try and see what was happening, this was a bad idea as the bus careered into a wall causing the rubble to fly through the windshield and strike Wanda. Her body crumpled to the floor in an unnatural pile, the blood trickled down her forehead and onto the floor leaving a large puddle.

'Miss Maximoff' yells Adam as he rushes to her side and shakes her 'she's alive' said Adam as he felt for her pulse.

'Wont be for much longer when they get through the fire' said James as he watched the inferno that had spread to old oily rags on the floor and was creeping closer to the near gas station. The flames parted for a second as a large figure strode through the smoke, it was Simon. His craggy rocky skin made a audible grinding noise as he walked and black scorch marks covered his stony hide but he didn't even seem to notice.

A chain shot through the flames and wrapped around the neck of Simon as another went around his feet and dragged him to the floor and back through the flames.

'Oh my god oh my god oh my god what can we do' repeated Adam as he paced nervously backwards and forwards.

'We have to help him' said Maria 'it's the only way.'

'How do we do that?' asked James as he watched the fire trying to see what was going on on the other side.

'Were mutants aren't we, we have powers' said Maria as she stared at the fire.

'Were mutants but you have powers' said Adam 'I just have no skin.'

The two teens look at James waiting for him to offer his powers 'I can sense what people are feeling that's it like I can tell that someone here has a crush on Simon' said James as he shot Maria an accusing glance and shrugged.

'Hey don't look at me, your powers must be screwed up. You're an empathy then you should be able to influence peoples emotions' said Maria as she fidgeted, it was her defense mechanism she knew she should do something but couldn't so she fidgeted to get her mind off of it not that it helped really.

'Not really I can transmit emotions to others but I cant control it it just happens and I have to feel that emotion for it to be radiated at the minute I only feel anger and fear which won't really help us' said James as he seethed with anger at the gang and himself for not being able to help.

'We have to do something though' said Maria 'I'm going whether you come or not.'

'I'm in, I'll try' said James as he braced himself for the feeling of heat on his face as he opened the door.

'Me too I guess' said Adam as he stepped away from Wanda and walked towards the back of the bus.

'How are we going to get passed the fire?' asked James as he was totally unsure.

'Hold on' said Maria as she grabbed the two. The two of them suddenly felt like they had been through a mixer, the wind on their faces the force on their body it felt very strange and then it was over, the heat was behind them not in front now. The three looked on as the ten strong gang tried to break their way through the rocky skin of Simon with little luck.

Two of the gang suddenly went flying and Maria seemed to appear from no where her arms moving rapidly as she sat on another big guy pinning him to the floor with punches from her super fast arms. 'When things move fast it hurts a lot more huh? It's the difference between you running into the front of a train or the front of a moving train running into you.'

'Fear might work' thought James as one of the men grabbed hold of Maria and wrapped her up in his elastic arms so she couldn't move, they tightened and her eyes bulged, she could feel internal organs crying out for help as he wrapped her even more.

James concentrated on his emotions on his fear, it was overwhelming but e was there and trying to combat it that's what bravery was, he slowly felt him mind branching out and connecting with some of the gang who suddenly widened their eyes, their adrenaline was pumping and they were finding it hard to catch their breath. They let out an ear splitting scream and began to run away from the fight. 'Five down and five to go' said James as he looked at the remaining five, one wrapped Maria who was slowly (which is unusual for her) freeing herself. Surge, the gigantic Strong guy, Acid and Psych.

Psych grabbed hold of Adam and lifts him into the air 'kid I should just blow your mind away right now but I want to make you suffer' laughed the green mutant with a third eye. Adam began to scream and kick but Psych just laughed at him, Psych suddenly stopped laughing as a look of shear terror crossed his face, he threw Adam to the floor and Adam quickly scurried to the backdoor of the bus to watch as Psych's skin slowly started to vanish and recede up his body. 'I'm sorry for everything I've done please don't let this happen' cried the hardened gang member as he backed slowly away from the fight his skin was completely gone and left only his muscles.

'Help me!' screamed Maria, Simon took this as his cal to action as his body transformed back to wind and vanished from the chains that had been holding him. The wind whips around the one called Acid who was beginning to fire what Simon assumed was acid at James. Acid rises into the air yelling before he is plowed into a wall by the hurricane force wind exerted on him. The wind simply stops as rock Simon reappears and smiles, same pieces of dust, dirt and gravel fall from his craggy face as he does so. He grabs hold of the stretchy mutants who has wrapped Maria by the head, this of course doesn't hurt the mutant as he molds his head to Simon's fist.

'How do you hurt a mutant who can shift his body to your every attack?' laughed Stretch which caused Simon to laugh, he pulled hard on the mutant.

'Hold on Maria' ordered Simon in his deep voice as he began to twirl round and round spinning the mutants at arms length. He suddenly stopped and snapped his wrist back towards his body which caused a whip effect down Stretches body freeing Maria who hurtled backwards before stopping her self in mid air and shaking of her dizziness. Simon whipped Stretch back towards Maria who grabbed hold of his legs and flew at top speed towards the strong guy tying him up as fast as lightning with his friends body.

Surge looked around at the fallen mutants before growling, his body seemed to vanish into electricity as it blasted across the street toward James, faster then even Maria could see Surge had James by the throat as the electricity crackled around him and James's face turned red from the choking that was been given to him.

'Everyone get back' ordered Surge, Simon growled and took a step towards them only to get blasted with a full force blast from Booster who had sneaked behind them.

'What?' asked Booster as Simon just stared at him 'You should be dead after a pure blast like that" cried the mutant who was visibly shaken and ready to run, he turned just as Maria appeared in front of him and buried her fist into his face.

'Just stay back' ordered Surge or you wont have a friend to protect he said as he charged his hand which held James's throat.

'I don't need their protection' gasped James as he clamped his hands across the side of Surge's head and stared deep into his eyes. James's eyes burned with hate as Surge's slowly opened wide with a sheer look of terror and collapsed to the floor releasing his grip on James. Surge let out one last ear piercing scream before collapsing totally into the fetal position with tears running down his face.

'What did you do?' asked Adam as he approached the teen and looked down at the quivering mess of villain.

'I have no idea?' said James simply 'What was that thing you did with Psych?'

'I don't know how but it turns out I can pass this thing on to others' said Adam as he looked down at his own skinless body with disgust.

'We have more things to worry about like getting Miss Maximoff to a hospital' said Maria as she made her way to the bus.

'One wind delivery system coming up' said Simon cockily at him being the recent MVP in a fight.

'No they wont treat her if they see her flying, they don't treat mutants round here" said James simply 'Maria will have to run her then walk normally the final block then come back and get us.'

Maria was gone in a second, a minute passed then another and then another before Maria returned okay she's dropped off and will be fine, she came around when I was running and seemed okay.'

'I want Hank to check you out as soon as you get to the mansion' said Wanda as she handed Simon a drink of soda after hearing about Booster's attack.

'I'm fine I don't even feel pain' laughed Simon who was still overjoyed with his performance, to the point everyone else was sick of him.

'Where are we off to next?' asked Adam as he bit down on the apple he was eating which caused James to wretch as this was the first time he had seen the boy eat.

'We aren't going anywhere I'm going to L.A to get some kid called Brian who is interested in joining the school, you four are going straight back to the school.'

'Aw come on you need us, what if something like this happens again?' cried Maria as she impatiently fiddled with a paper clip she had found on the floor.

'I don't care..' began Wanda before she was interrupted.

'You know that even if you make us stay here when you leave we'll still follow, now four defenseless teenage mutants traveling from New York to L.A could get into or cause a lot of trouble' smiled James who was smug with his intelligence and blackmail.

Wanda sighed a little and shook her head to herself not believing what she was about to say 'Fine…I'll go see how long the bus will take to repair.'

Four hours later Wanda angrily shooed the kids onto the bus 'Damn hospitals, damn mechanics I'm going to be broke by the time I get back to the mansion.'

'I'm telling you I know you have a crush on Simon' said James in a hushed voice as he leaned over his seat talking to Maria as not to let the others who were playing cards hear.

'I am telling you emotion boy that I don't' growled Maria angrily as she glared at the boy.

'I know what I'm talking about it's what I do, it's my power' smiled James thinking that Maria was just trying to hide her feelings for the teen.

'Look I swear it wasn't and isn't me' cried Maria.

'Look I know when people are bluffing, lying and bending the truth it's one of the non-mutant skills you pick up being a poor kid in New York and I know for a fact…you're not lying are you?' asked James shocked as he looked at Maria and felt a wave of her emotions.

'We'll ho was it that…' James trailed off as he shot a glance over at the others, Simon laid down a card as Adam looked at him. Adam's lips or at least the muscles under his lips started to up turn ever so slightly at the corners as he smiled at the teen.

'No…you don't think …really?' asked Maria as she realized what James had been thinking.

'That's the only thing it could be' said James as he smiled at the girl 'Adam must be gay.'

'Three green bottle standing on a wall. Three green bottles standing on a wall..' sang James happily as they neared L.A.

'Would you please shut up!' cried Maria as she struck the back of the boy's head from behind him. 'You have been singing that song for the past three hours, I cant take much more.'

'You made me loose count' cried James as he rubbed his head pretending that it hurt 'One thousand green bottles' began James again before Simon spoke up.

'Actually lets not start that again please' said Simon.

'It is quite annoying' added Adam quietly as his eyes moved showing that he was finally awake, the others had gotten used to him eating and digesting but that was the thing that freaked them out still because he had no eyelids his eyes stared at you when he slept they occasionally flipped around when he was dreaming.

'Trust you to back up Simon' said James before he bit back on his own tongue 'why didn't you speak up before now?' asked James as he tried to change the subject.

Adam realized he had been rumbled by the empathy as his eyes went wide and the wave of fear, embarrassment and worry cascaded towards James. When he felt it he merely sent back happiness and relaxing feelings to let Adam know his secret was safe. 'I don't like confrontations' said Adam shyly as he answered James question.

'You're going to be an X-man and you don't like confrontation?' asked James confused.

'I'm not going to be an X-man, I just came to this school for safety. I figured it would be the best place for me' said Adam 'you can all hide your power if you needed to, mine you can't that's why my house got torched. My family die in that fire and I was found unconscious in the rubble' said Adam as he wiped a tear from his face.

'You okay man' asked James as he patted the guy on the back and wiped his own tear, this was a problem with empathy sometimes other peoples emotions overpower your own when they are strong enough. 'You find out who did it? How'd you survive?' asked James as more questions raced through his mind.

'Friends of Humanity and no one knows but the falling beams didn't even touch me' said Adam.

Wanda flinched at the mention of the FOH, they were a mutant hate group and their numbers grew everyday. They were mostly undereducated, low income thugs who just wanted to hate someone if they weren't doing this they would have been outing on pillow cases and hunting blacks or hanging around nightclubs to attack gay people. The thing which really boiled her blood though was the educated members such as doctors, scientists, teachers and politicians who were passing on the messages they even had someone running for president and not doing too badly for gods sake. 'Maybe if you all share some of your past we can persuade James to tell us about his' said Wanda as she tried to change the subject to something less heavy then the FOH.

'I'm eldest of five kids, we all have the same mother but my dad is different to theirs, him and my mom had a one night stand after they left school and I turned up 9 months later when she was dating George. George is my brothers and sister's dad and my adopted dad, he is more of a dad then my biological dad ever could be, don't know him don't want to know him' began Maria as she smiled happily about her life, it didn't seem to bother her at all that she didn't know her father.

'My powers emerged when I was about nine and running away from a dog, one minute I'm running from the dog the next I'm running straight into a wall. I was in hospital for three days, that's how I got this scar' said Maria as she pulled back her hair revealing a little scar on the side of her head.

'Oh oh I have a question' said Simon as he waved manically at Maria 'Why don't you fly when it's much faster then running and much more fun' said Simon as he thought of when he rises from the floor in his flame or wind forms.

'I know it sounds silly' she said as she blushed 'especially for a flying mutant but I'm scared of heights.'

'That's okay everyone has something they're scared of' said Adam 'I'm terrified of clowns' he said with a shudder which made the others choke back a laugh including Wanda.

'I'm an only child, my parents were abusive drunks who didn't care about me' growled James 'aint nothing more to say about them.'

'Well I'm the middle child in my family, one sister one brother, two parents all of whom are really supportive' said Simon as he tried to change the subject away from James bad past which it was obvious he didn't want to talk about.

'Well it's good to hear it's only me with terrible parents' grumbled James as he sunk in his chair and his depression which made everyone else on the bus depressed because when James feels something everyone does.

'Way to go Wanda' thought the Scarlet Witch as she sunk into her depression 'get them to share their past what an idea…man I got to turn off his powers' thought Wanda as she hurled a hexbolt at James which seemed to cheer everyone up except James of course but he knew it was for the best.

Wanda approached the door of the house, they had finally reached L.A. and now everyone was getting on much better including Wanda and the kids who were starting to feel a real bond. Wanda banged on the door but there was no reply.

'Maybe no one is home' offered Simon as he danced on the doorstep needing the toilet.

'No someone is in' said James as his eyes went wide with terror 'there is usually a lot of happiness in this house but now all I can sense is fear and anger.'

Wanda pushed the door gently open once she realized the lock had been broken, she and the other mutants glanced round the door to see a trashed room, tables, chairs and all the other furniture had been smashed and over turned leaving the room looking like a war zone. In the centre of the room lay an unconscious teenage boy above him written in graffiti was 'get out mutant scum signed FOH'.

The boy quickly came round and was faced with the group which stood over him 'you're from Xavier's' said the boy.

'I guess he's a telepath' said Maria as she shrugged.

'No I'm not I can only read peoples semantic minds so I know what they've learned not what they think or memories, someone here has memorized a map of the school to find their way around' said the boy.

'That was me' said Adam 'I'm not good with direction' he laughed slightly.

'We have time to worry about your powers later but first what happened here?' asked Wanda as she helped the boy to his feet. He was black and had dark hair, his glasses were broken but it didn't seem to bother him that much.

'First can we worry about where your bathroom is' cried Simon as he continued to dance and hold his crotch.

'Up the stairs and to the left' said the boy 'I'm David, some FOH punks broke in attacked me and kidnapped my sister, I tried my hardest to fight them off, there was a few black belts among them so I learned their skills but there were just to many.' David wiped a tear away from his eyes when he thought about how he had let his sister down.

'We'll help you get her back' said Maria as she put her hand on the boys shoulder.

'No we won't, we'll alert the authorities and get them to handle this' said Wanda 'we can't just take the law into our own hands when there is another choice'.

'The authorities won't do anything, they're just the same as the FOH around here' said David 'there's nothing we can do I don't know where they are.'

'Well since there's no choice' said Wanda as she removed her cell phone and hit a button 'Wanda Maximoff, Scarlet Witch, 36364576. Hello Nick I need the location of FOH in L.A., yeah yeah okay.' 'Near the docks, we'll start driving then get the full details in a couple of minutes' said Wanda as she hung up her phone and started towards the door followed by the mutants including David and Simon who slowly walked behind fastening up his fly.

'So what exactly is your power again?' asked Maria who was still a little bemused.

'That's enough Mark' said the girl as she pushed the larger boy out of the way. She walked over to the chair and picked up the girl and put her back into an upright position.

'What's up Dani are you a mutie lover now?' asked Mark as he teased his neighbor whom he'd gotten into the FOH.

'No I hate them just as much as you but she isn't a mutant and she's only a kid' said Dani as she pushed the boy further away.

'Exactly she's a kid so she might be a mutant still, her brother is and it is genetic' said Mark.

'I don't care Mark I thought we went to far when we kidnapped the girl, I thought we were just going to scare them into leaving town' said Dani as she stood between the boy and David's sister.

'Really Miss Rice is that what you thought, well isn't it lucky you're not in charge' said the large middle aged man as he entered the room 'This is to teach the mutant scum a lesson.' Said the man as he pulled a gun from his belt and the several men who flanked him did the same.

'They're in there' said Wanda as she led her mutant class slowly and calmly down the dock towards the abandoned dock building 'now if we just go in calmly and check out the situation.'

'Got it' said Simon as he stepped forward transforming into his rock form. The dock creaked under his added weight. Simon looked at the others worried as the boards beneath him gave way and plummeted him into the water below.

'Simon!' screamed Maria as she rushed (which is very fast) towards the hole he fell through. She looked down into the water where she could just make out the shape of Simon in his rock hard form just smiling up at her.

'Who the hell are you!' yelled one of the FOH goons before he grabbed his radio after seeing or should that not seeing Adam's skin. 'Everyone out front we've got visitors' ordered the guard.

'Maria, you, James and I will handle the guards. David, you and Adam hide till we draw them out then go get your sister' ordered Wanda which caused David and Adam to duck behind some boxes as she charged her Hexbolts and James and Maria got in position. The first wave of guards were handled easily with a mix of a couple of well placed Hexbolts, quick punches and inspired fear which James was feeling in waves.

'Go now' ordered Wanda as the second wave of guards burst from the building with bats and other various weapons in hand. The mutants began to battle as David and Adam made a break towards the side entrance of the building.

'Maria if you have a spare millisecond could you see if Simon is okay and get him out of the water' yelled Wanda as Maria laid her fist into the face of a guard before momentarily disappearing ten appearing again looking confused and concerned.

'He seems okay but I don't think he can transform into any other form' said Maria as se darted across the dock and punched a guy who was just coming out of the door.

'Sounds like all hell is breaking loose out there' said Mark as he eyed the front door through a hole in the wall.

'Forget out there, worry about in hear. I cant believe you are seriously thinking about shooting her' said Dani who was trying to be the voice of reason to Mark and the man from earlier.

'Miss Frost I know you are not telling me what to do, no one tells Graydon Creed what to do. Why don't you understand? Mutants are scum they will destroy this country if we let them and then the whole world. Trust me I know' growled Creed as he passed the gun to Mark.

'How do you know?' asked Mark as he held his gun nervously.

'I just do okay, it's none of your business' growled the man as he turned slightly towards the door as it creaked open. David stood before tem his glasses resting crookedly on his nose with one of the lenses smashed.

'Let my sister go' cried David as he stared harshly at the three figures in the room. Mark raised his gun up towards David, his hands shook as he pointed it.

'Get a grip Mark, you can do this you hate mutants, Don't you?' thought Mark to himself thinking back to his friends opinions and his fathers and his families.

'Pull the trigger' ordered Creed gruffly.

'Don't do it Mark' said Dani who had decided that not even being popular was worth murder.

Mark realized he had never actually thought about his opinion, he had always worried about others opinions but now there was only him. He thought for a second of what to do, he didn't hate mutants…He despised them. Mark pulled the trigger causing a bang as the bullet whistled through the air.

'No…' screamed Dani as she watched her friend since they were in kinder garden destroy his own life by pulling the trigger. A large black portal crackled into life in front of David, the bullet sailed into the swirling vortex before vanishing.

'What the hell?' asked Mark, Graydon and David as the portal vanished from sight.

Graydon cast a look at Dani, her skin was now a distinctive pink colour.

'Mutie' screamed Creed as he looked at the girl before him.

'No you can't be' said Mark as he dropped the gun, tears welled in his eyes as he looked at the girl he had always loved since they met in kinder garden. He ran past David out the door as he barged into him and the other mutants who were walking towards the door into the room.

Creed grabbed the gun and quickly turned towards Dani and the chair where David's sister was tied up. He quickly discovered she wasn't tied up anymore, Adam had snuck up behind the girl and freed her and was now hiding behind a near pillar with her.

'You little bit…' began Creed as he pointed the gun but was quickly silenced as the portal opened before him and the bullet that had been fired moments earlier flew out and connected with Creed sending him reeling backwards and the gun flying into the corner of the room.

'The police are on their way' said Wanda as she fired a Hexbolt at Creed freezing him in place.

'You're a mutant' said the now normal Simon as he approached Dani 'come with us, you can learn how to control your powers.'

'I'm nothing like you…I'm not a freak' said Dani as she pushed past hi and broke into a sprint causing a portal to open directly in front of her which she disappeared into before she and it vanished.

Dani walked down her street, she didn't want to believe she was a mutant but she was pink for gods sake and she had emerged from some alternate dimension thing in the woodland about fifteen minutes from her house, that's where she had always gone as a child and she was scarred or upset. She walked slowly up the road as the rain gently drizzled on the pavement. She rounded the corner of the street to where her porch was clearly visible and she was visible from the porch so it would seem, one of the boys who was sitting there nudged another one of the boys and Mark. She walked apprehensively up the path till she was at the steps of her porch.

'Mutie' growled Mark, the hate in his eyes obvious.

'I'm not a mutant…I'm just different' said Dani as she felt the tears welling up in her eyes. 'Let me past I want to go home' said Dani as she took a step forward before being pushed back.

'They don't want you anymore and neither do we…no one wants you' growled Mark as he pushed Dani hard to the ground, the other boys took this a as sign as they began to attack her violently. Dani cried and screamed as the pain ripped through her body but no one came to help her, she looked up at her house to see her parents looking through the window towards the group.

'Help me…' she said as she stretched her hand out towards them, her father looked down at his feet as her mother let the curtains fall over the window leaving Dani to her fate.

'David we'll be fine, now that the police are involved we have nothing to worry about' said his father as he hugged his son.

'This is the best thing for you, you can learn how to handle your powers and it's apparently one of the best high schools in the country' said his mother as she kissed his forehead 'Take care and we'll be in touch soon'.

'Thanks bro' said Charlotte as she hugged her brother 'and as soon as I get my mutant powers I'll come and visit.'

'If I didn't know better I'd swear you were trying to get rid of me' laughed David as he took a step back from his family towards the bus.

'Take a hint and get out of here then I want to move my stuff into my new room tonight' laughed Charlotte as she waved at her brother jokingly.

The bus slowly creaked into movement as David waved goodbye to his family when a familiar portal opened and out stepped a pink skinned girl who was still bloodied.

'What are you doing here?' asked David angrily as he looked at the girl.

'I have no where else to go, I was hoping the invite was still open' said Dani shyly as she looked at the angry looking group in front of her.

'You have got to be kidding…' began James before he was cut off by Wanda.

'You're welcome to come if that's what you want?' said Wanda.

'You have to be kidding me…after what she did to my sister…she's part of the FOH' screamed David as he aggressively approached the girl, James of course was angry which had its usual effect on the others.

'Look I have done some bad things in my time but I had a second chance, she deserves one too' said Wanda 'She'll just be riding with us to our last stop and then back to the school after that she'll probably be reassigned and you'll hardly see her but we cant leave her especially in this state…no arguments' lectured Wanda as she glanced in the rear view mirror at the disgruntled mutants who all slumped to their seats leaving a very upset looking Dani standing in the aisle before she sank into her chair.

'What took you so long?' asked Creed as he strolled out of jail talking on his cell phone.

'No…no…really it's fine' said Creed as he hung up 'I don't know what I pay him for' growled Creed to the man who accompanied him as the man handed him a file.

'So you have found them then…excellent begin phase two' smiled Creed evilly and handed the file containing the headed Creed/Darkholme back to his companion.

The End