Chapter 1
The X-Men
Eight months had passed since the Sentinel attack on Middleton, and Kim, and her friends had roamed the country, never staying in one place for too long, always knowing, in the back of their minds, that one day, those mutant hunters would come after them again, and in greater number.
"Where are we?" Ron said groggily from the seat beside Kim, Bonnie was on the driver's side of the back seat, sandwiched between Monique, and the window,
"New York." Kim said, sitting behind the wheel of the old car they were all in.
Kim had squirreled away enough money to buy a car, nothing special, just something that could handle a lot of driving.
All of them still remembered the looks on their parents faces when they told them what had happened, and the decision they came up with,
"Where are you going, Kimmie-cub?" Mr. Dr. Possible had asked, when Kim had told him what they had planned,
"I don't know, dad, but I do know one thing, I'll not let one of those killing machines take me alive. I'll go down fighting if I have to." Kim had replied,
"Just remember this Kimmie, you're always welcome here." her mother said, making Kim smile.
The same thing played out at Brick's, Ron's, and Monique's. But Bonnie's parents were furious,
"Get out of this house, and don't come back, mutie." Bonnie's father shouted at her, as she walked out the door, and into the waiting car,
"They kicked me out. They kicked me out for being a mutant." Bonnie cried, never thinking that her parents would treat her this way.
During the last eight months, the five friends became closer to each other, living as they needed to live, finding ways to feed, and clothe themselves, getting by on what the five of them could make, doing various odd jobs around the country.
Their travels had brought them to New York, where they were going to seek out someone that Ron's father had mentioned to him,
"If you ever get up to New York, look in on an old friend of mine, his name is Charles Xavier, he runs a school there, and he's a mutant, just like you, Ronald." Mr. Stoppable said,
"How'd you meet him?" Ron asked,
"We attended college together, we were dorm mates." Mr. Stoppable said, smiling,
"And you think he can help us?" Ron asked,
"Oh, yes, he's been doing it for a long time now." Mr. Stoppable said, smiling slightly,
"What's the name of the school?" Ron asked,
"The Xavier Institute, address, 1407 Greymilkin Lane, Westchester, New York." Mr. Stoppable said, repeating the name, and address as if he knew it by heart.
"What's that address again, Ron?" Kim asked, looking at Ron, snapping her boyfriend out of his thoughts of home,
'Has it been eight months, it seems like it was only yesterday.' Ron thought to himself, as he struggled to remember the address,
"1407 Greymilkin Lane." Ron repeated, finally remembering the address that his father had given him,
"Okay, I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm hungry." Kim said, stopping the car at a Burger King near the eastern edge of where they needed to go,
"Sounds good to me, I need to stretch my legs anyway." Bonnie said, massaging her thighs,
"A woman after my own heart." Brick said, earning him a playful punch from Monique,
"Just remember, you're spoken for." she said, a slight giggle to her voice,
"So's Kim." Brick replied simply,
"Let's just get something to eat, my stomach's growling so bad, I can hear it over the radio." Bonnie said,
"Bonnie, the radio in this car hasn't worked since Ron electrocuted it in San Francisco, remember?" Kim said,
"Yeah, if I remember correctly, you didn't like the music they were playing." Brick said, a huge grin on his face,
"And then some, they were slamming mutants too." Ron replied,
"I forgot about that, then where's the music coming from?" Bonnie asked,
"You wanted some traveling music, I thought I'd oblige." Monique said, smiling,
"Don't you guys just hate psychics." Bonnie said, looking at Monique with a smile on her face,
"Yeah, but they do come in handy sometimes, remember Salt Lake City?" Ron said, remembering a hostile crowd, and Monique being able to stop the entire crowd with a ghostly image floating above them,
"Hey, I did what I had to do, I'm not gonna let a bunch of mutant haters beat up on my friends." Monique said,
"I think we could've handled them, Monique." Kim said, earning a smile from her longtime best friend,
"Maybe, but there had to be at least fifty people in that crowd, and they all had murder in their eyes, so I thought I'd make their worst nightmare come true." Monique said, unable to contain her laughter.
A few minutes later:
As the five friends were making their way to the old car they owned, a strange group of people made their way towards them, one of them looked as though he were dressed in furs, even though it was the middle of summer, and the only female of the group had blue skin, and vivid red hair,
"Kim Possible?" the woman asked,
"Yeah?" Kim replied, recognizing the woman as a mutant,
"Get her!" The woman said, making the others around her move quickly, that was all the cue that Kim needed.
Concentrating all of her energy ahead of her, she sent out a pulse blast that hurled the group backward, and onto the ground, just long enough for the rest of the group to get into the car.
In a screeching of tires, Kim took off out of the parking lot, an extremely fast young gentleman, in a silver suit was gaining on them quickly, when, from out of nowhere, a red beam of light hit the tailgater square in the chest, knocking him into the building to the car's left.
Kim hit the brakes hard, standing in the middle of the road was the strangest looking man she had ever seen, his sandy brown hair was combed into a wave, he was wearing a black outfit, with gold gloves, and boots, a short sleeved shirt hid his massive chest, and over his eyes, he wore a yellow colored visor, with a red shield, emblazoned on the shirt, near the left side of his chest, was a symbol, a red disc, with a black 'X' design,
"Do you want to live?" the man asked,
"Yeah." the five friends said in unison,
"Then come with us." the man said, motioning around to an assembled lot of people that Kim had only heard of, but had never seen,
"You're The X-Men." she said, a tone of awe in her voice.
And there's the meeting, can you guess who the unwanted guests were, go ahead, take a wild guess, let's see if you get any of them right.
In the next chapter, Kim, and the group meet Professor X, and their training, and indoctrination into The X-Men begins, stay tuned.
As always, keep the reviews coming.
Doug
