For you my wonderfull fans!!! I wrote this manually (gasp) on paper before rushing it into type at a friends computer.
My internet and Cable service is still down since I'm in the middle of moving, but I just HAD to get this up for you all.
Ok, just wanted to gush praise for my inspiring fans. Starting with the signed who reviewed ch 8: Wierdlet, Trugeta (love your works!!!), AnimegirlH, Maikafuiniel, Silver falcon, and Lady-Snape7.
By the way, Lady-Snape7 I actually havn't decided the pairing for Todd yet, but I'll keep your Kitty recomendation in mind.
Now for my unsigned fans who reviewed ch 8: goddess, Skrlin, chad, Suzanne and
Dreams of Magic- Yes all his friends are mutants, but not all go to school with him. Some are older and graduated.
capitalist madhatter- Yup. New group of mutants, but you'll have to wait and see thier views.
Kate- Thanks. You'd think someone would have seen the Tadpole analogy before, huh?
Don't own X-men:evolution or Hot Topic, but I sooooooooooooo wish I did.
K. Here you go!
About seven o'clock early Monday morning four irritated teens sat around in the living room and waited. And waited. And waited. Justin and Lacy were totally oblivious to the wait, or the world around them for that matter, since they were completely involved in each other, but the other two teens were becoming quite frustrated. Tap tap tap tap tap….. "Will you quit that!", Rita snapped suddenly. Glaring over at her, Gabriel snapped back, "Well sorry! It's just not only is this supposed to be T…uh…Kicker's first day back, but it's also the first time I've ever gone to another school in another city, another state, and…Grrr! It's seven thirty already! Where the hell is he?!" "You're his sister, go find out what's keeping him. If he isn't up yet, go ahead and kick his ass.", Rita grinned, "That's what sister's do. Or at least that's what I do to Keith."
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Now in better humor thanks to the sisterly advice, Gabby busted out a wicked looking grin as she replied, "Sounds good to me! Not used to thinking sisterly yet. I just hope he doesn't wake up like he used to when he lived back in Texas, spitting first and asking questions later, or I'll miss school today trying to get the gunk out of my hair." She dropped her bag by the base of the stairs before running up them. Taking a sharp turn at the top she ran over to Todd's door and knocked loudly, "Oh, brother dearest! Wake-y, Wake-y!" She waited a moment for some sign that he had heard her. Nothing. "Yo! Bro! I said get up! Your going to make us late for school!", still nothing. Cautiously she turned the knob and cracked open the door. Peeking into the dark room, she spied his prone form sprawled across his bed. The comforter and sheets were pushed down to his waist, revealing his naked chest.
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She opened the door the rest of the way and strode in and over to him. Placing a hand on his shoulder she gave it a push, "Hey! Rise and shine!", then she ducked. No phlegmy wads came shooting over at her, he merely mumbled and shifted. Man, he has to be really out of it, she thought, All the stress and stuff must have really taken it out of him. Still, he is not going to make me late! Grabbing onto his covers she gave a sharp yank, causing them to come off the bed completely. With a loud thunk, Todd came with them. He thrashed around blindly for a moment before waking enough to figure out his surroundings. When he did, he relaxed a bit before spotting Gabriel with her arms crossed and glaring at him. He reached up and scratched his head through his sleep mussed hair. "What'd ya do that for Gabby?", he whined while glaring back.
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"I did it because it was the only way to get you up! You jerk! You're going to make me late to school!", Gabriel yelled. Todd just sat there a moment, groggily blinking his eyes while trying to wake up. Then his eyes widened and with a yelp he leaped straight up. Noticing he was clad only in his dark green silk boxers he yelped again and grabbed at the tangled blankets at his feet. Turning a light shade of red he hurriedly wrapped the sheets around him. "Ok! Ok! I'm up now Gabby so get out!", he ordered as he pushed her out the door with one hand while holding the sheets around him with the other. "Alright! Stop pushing already, but you'd better hurry up or I'll just barge right back in again.", she laughed as he shut and locked the door behind her. Giggling at his self-conscious reaction she trotted downstairs to wait with the others.
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As he heard Gabby's steps retreating down the hall and then the stairs he sighed. God, got to get an alarm clock again. Then he rushed over to the suitcase with the clothes he'd planned on wearing today. He wanted to make a kick-ass impression today so he'd had it all planned out. Too bad he now had less than five minutes, the length of Gabby's patience (he'd timed it), to try and make up his look. The clothes were similar to what he'd worn last night, but just a little bit cooler. This time it was tight black jeans with a black belt (no chains allowed in school). They had Chinese dragons outlined in green thread up the sides and hugged his body snugly, accenting his toned ass. The chicks always love that, he thought with a grin. He slipped on another classic muscle shirt on before putting on another dark green over shirt. This green over shirt had green dragons that matched those on his pants over the chest pockets and metallic multi-shade green flames along the bottom and sleeves. Added to the outfit was his customary silver earrings in his left ear, Hot Topic necklace, and silver watch on his left wrist completed his ensemble.
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Quickly combing his fingers through his hair, he grabbed his black backpack with a silver horned toad on the top flap and slung it over his shoulder on the way to the bedroom door. As he opened it he dodged to the side and just barely missed Gabby's fist as she prepared to knock harshly on it. Recovering her balance, she gave him a glare as if to say it was his fault before grabbing his wrist and hauling him after her. "C'mon, c'mon, hurry up! Man are you slow. Do you know that we've been waiting for almost an hour?! If we get there late then your getting a bulk sized can of whoop ass after school!", she jabbered as she dragged him down the stairs, out the door, and past the very amused Justin and Lacey waiting for them outside the front door. Quickly she shoved him into the backseat of the hummer next to Rita who was already in there before climbing in herself and slamming the door. She rolled down the window and shouted to the couple on the porch "Are we going or not?" Laughing at her demanding attitude the couple made their way to the driver and front passenger seats and without further a due they were off.
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Sitting in a vehicle with three people trying not to laugh at you while another is giving off irritated vibes is not comfortable Todd found, especially when you are full of a tense mixture of anxiety, dread, and excitement. Sensing his disquiet and having sympathy for him, Lacy turned on the radio and tried to break the mood by starting a conversation, "Hey Rita, are you going to be in any after school sports? I might go out for soccer or volleyball." "Nah, I'd just draw attention to myself if I got too excited and shifted into a big cat during a practice or game. That or crush something with my super strength. I've mostly got my flying under control so I probably wouldn't forget it and take off, but you never know. They'd so get on my case then and I'd probably get suspended or worse, so I decided I'm not going to try. What about you Gabby?", she asked turning to the still fuming girl on the other side of Todd.
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Suddenly in a better mood and apparently forgetting the earlier excitement, she smiled and turned to answer the girl she'd found she had the most in common with since she'd arrived, "I don't know. I mean, I kind of like track and stuff, but if they found out about my dark portals or dark energy manipulation they'd kick me out. I don't think I'll bother either." She sighed with melancholy. Trying to make her feel better, Todd laid a hand on her shoulder and said, "Hey sis, cheer up! Tell you what, how about we start sparing after school, like we did back in Texas. I've gotten a lot better since then and I might just beat you this time!" She grinned and replied with better humor, "Hah! I doubt it! I always laid you out in two minutes flat, max. I doubt that'll change either!".
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Smiling at the friendly bickering replacing the depressing talk in the back seat a thought popped into Justin's head. "Oh, before I forget, you guys better turn on those inducer thingies that we got from that Xavier guy you sent us to T- uh Kicker." Looking at Justin, then the other's with surprise Todd noticed for the first time the small watches both Rita and Gabby were wearing. They were more compact and delicate than the one he remembered Kurt wearing so he hadn't made the connection immediately, but now that he thought about it they did resemble his somewhat. Sighing in irritation both girls reached over and pushed the buttons on them causing a slight shimmer in the air around them. When the shimmer finished, their looks had changes a bit.
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Before, Rita's shoulder length dark blue hair had cascaded around her face in a silky waterfall of hair. Now her glorious, shiny, metallic, locks where replaced by fairly average strait black hair. Her shining, molten amber eyes were replaced by a dark brown that held less sparkle and life. Gabriel's hair was once lustrous and had diamond like sparkles throughout the curly/ wavy ebony cascade that reached to just above her waist. Now it just looked like average head of black hair belonging to anyone with some Hispanic heritage. Her glacier blue eyes that were lined with silver and had silver irises had become a more average color of blue with normal black accents. Hopefully the inducer would hide how her whites turned black when she used her powers too.
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Both girls looked grumpy that they had to change their looks, but Todd had felt it safer for them to hide that they were mutants as long as possible. From the public as well as Magneto, so he had insisted on it. He only now remembered it. Lacy was the only one of the three girls that didn't need it with her natural Mahogany brown locks and slightly darker brown eyes. Her wavy hair stopped just below her shoulders when she wore it down, but today she had it up in a French braid with two strands of her long bangs framing either side of her face. Her features complimented Justin's and they looked like the perfect couple. He had Dark brown hair in a fairly bowl like cut and eyes so light a blue they looked gray. When he was angry (which is rare) they flashed with a steel like look that intimidated the most violent opponents.
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Now that the changes to the girl's appearances was complete another thought occurred to Justin, "Hey Kicker, I also forgot to tell you, but that Xavier dude also told me to tell you to come see him sometime. He seemed glad to hear you were back and Ok. Like he'd been worried about you or something. Even that grouchy guy, what's his name…" Snapping his fingers together on his right hand he struggled to remember. "Logan, dear, his name was Logan.", Lacy supplied. "Yeah, that Logon guy seemed to chill out a bit more when we told them you were doin' fine." Xavier and Wolvie were worried about me? This thought brought a kind of warm fuzzy feeling to Todd's gut before it turned to ice at another thought. "Hey Justin who all did you tell I was back? I wanted it to be a surprise, yo." Looking in the rearview mirror, a flash of guilt crossed his features. "Well, Kicker, uh…"
Mwa ha ha ha ha! Who did Justin tell? Anyway, just to make things clear:
Rita can shapeshift into any big cat, has super strength and can fly without wings.
Gabriel can make portals through space that apear black so she calls them dark portals. Going through one is like steping through a door in one place and coming out somewhere else. She also manipulates a kind of dark energy that is like the Green lanturn without the whole having to use a ring thing.
Later I'll get into everyone elses powers and stuff.
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