Live By The Sword
An X-Men: Evolution Fanfic

By: The Almighty J.T. Blade
Note: I do not own X-Men: Evo, but I own J.T. aka Slash (the OC I will be using)
Note 2: This fanfic is rated PG-13 for intense language, violence and possible sexual themes. Also rated for safety.
Note 3: This is my first X-Men: Evo fanfic, so go easy on the flames, please. Thank you.

Full Overview: Professor X just detected a new mutant. His power? He can turn his hands into deadly weapons. Kunais, swords, axes, that sort of weaponry. Magneto has also become wise of the guy and wants to use him as a weapon of mass murder. Professor X however wants to help him. Will the youth take the X-Men's offer for help? Will he join Magneto's fold?Or will he deem himself too dangerous being around? More twists in the plot than a pretzel factory, and possible character death.

Chapter 1: A Night At The Club

It was a pretty average, ho-hum night at the Xavier Institue. Professor Xavier was in the Cerebro room, scanning for any new mutants. And in North Carolina, he found just that. Down in a local nightclub in Raliegh, North Carolina, a young man with dark brown almost black hair, blue eyes, wearing a blue-on-navy blue t-shirt with tan shorts was sitting at the bar, drinking a soda. Just then, four men came over and started hassling him.

"Hey, what it is wit you! All you do is sit here an' drink," one guy shouted.

"What're you, the club owner? It's a free country. I can do as I please," the youth replied.

"Hey, who you think you talking to! Get outta here, man," a second guy exclaimed.

"You can't tell me what to do. Now leave me be. Even my temper has its limits," said the youth.

"Shit, who you think you are! Get out, you ain't got no business here," the third guy shouted.

"No," the youth replied.

"You wanna fuck with us! Fine then," the fourth guy exclaimed.

One of the four men spun his chair around.

"Get...the fuck...outta here," the first guy exclaimed.

"No," said the youth.

"That's it, you're going down," said the first guy.

The first guy threw a punch at the youth, but he caught it and tossed the guy into the bar, just barely missing the bartender! A second guy tried to throw a punch, but the youth caught his hand and punched him. However, before his hand met the guy's chest, hs hand turned into a dagger, turning his punch more into a stab! The man fell back and started gasping for breath.

"Shit, the guy's packing heat! Kill him," said the third guy.

The two men pulled out a pair of 9 millimeter pistols and tried to shoot the youth. However, before they could shoot, the youth chopped their guns away from him. And before that happened, his hands turned into razor-sharp swords, cutting the guns!

"You --you freak! Get away from me," the third guy exclaimed.

"Yeah, get him away from me," the fourth guy shouted.

Just then, a crowd started to gather around the scene. They began to murmor things like "murderer" and "freak". Then, a young woman walked out of the crowd.

"J.T., what happened?" she asked.

"Andrea, get away from me," he, name of J.T., replied.

J.T. ran out of the club, started his car and drove home in pure terror. He drove about a mile up the road and parked his car, ran up the stairs of the apartment building he lived in and ran into the bathroom.

"Wh -- what's happening to me? What did I just do?" J.T. asked himself.

Back in the Cerebro room, Professor Xavier had seen enough. He rolled himself to the living room and turned on the intercom.

"Attention, everyone please meet in the living room," said Professor Xavier.

Everyone sleepily made their ways to the living room.

"Professor? What's going on? It's liketwo in the morning," Kitty, alias Shadowcat, asked.

"Cerebro has just detected a mutant that desperatelyneeds ourhelp," Professor Xavier replied.

"What's wrong, Chuck?" Wolverine asked.

"The subject is a young man around 17 years of age. His mutation is that he can turn his hands into deadly weapons," Professor Xavier replied.

"So what happened? Where is he?" Rouge asked.

"First of all, his mutation revealed itself to even him when he was attacked by a few men. He tried to punch one of them in the chest and he in turn stabbed him with his mutant powers. Second, he's in Raliegh, North Carolina. Be warned, he is to be considered armed and dangerous," Professor Xavier replied.

"So? We just talk to him, he comes vith us, problem solved," said Kurt, aka Nightcrawler.

"There's more to it than that. He's absolutely terrified by his powers. He thinks he murdered the man he stabbed. His powers are wild and unpredictable," said Professor Xavier. "Scott, Kitty and Jean, you'll head down south and talk to him. And for all our sakes be careful."

"All right, we'll be careful. But one question," said Scott, better known as Cyclops.

"Yes?" Professor Xavier asked.

"Can this wait until morning?" Scott replied.

"Er, well, yes. I apologize for waking you at such an ungodly hour," Professor Xavier replied.

So, everyone went back to bed, aware of their new mission. The next day, everyone headed down to North Carolina, hoping to help J.T.