Chapter 4

The New X-Men

It had been a week since the five friends had their first session in The Danger Room, and so far, they were getting better, they had decided to keep at it, until they were able to feel confident with their powers,today was no exception,

"Alright, take it easy, and focus on your target." Cyclops said to Monique, who had decided to go into the room first this time.Today, she was wearing an X-Men style uniform, somewhat form fitting, in a light blue, with silver piping around the shoulders, and the elbows, with silver gloves, and boots, over her back, she added a silver cloak,

"Say goodnight." Monique said, knocking a training robot across the room with a huge mallet that had been conjured from nowhere,

"Behind you." Cyclops said, causing Monique to turn around, and see a robot bearing down on her,

"Oh, you want a piece of this?" Monique said spinning on her toes, and hitting the robot with a huge wave of telepathic power, that sent the robot hard into the wall,

"Okay, that's enough, come on up, Monique." Cyclops said, making the young woman smile,

"Who wants to go next?"Wolverine asked, looking at the group of young adults in front of him,

"I will." Kim said, making her move to the door,

"Be careful, KP." Ron said, taking Kim's hand before she entered the room,

"I will, Ron." Kim said, standing on tiptoes, and planting a kiss on Ron's lips, before walking into the Danger Room, to begin her session. She was still in her battle suit, but it now had a few slight changes, courtesy of Beast. On the high collar were two small medallions, the X-Men symbol, done in the blue, and white pattern of her suit, and the new belt buckle was the X-Men symbol motif, attached to the blue utility belt that Wade had made for the battle suit,

"Alright, Kim, get ready." Cyclops' voice boomed over the loudspeaker,

"Ready as I'll ever be, Cyclops." Kim replied,

"Alright, let's do this." Cyclops said, activating the room's mechanics, and putting Kim through her paces, about thirty minutes later, Cyclops called a halt to Kim's training, she was followed by Ron, who was wearing the same outfit as before, Brick, who was wearing a standard X-Men uniform, with no gloves, then, finally, Bonnie, who was wearing a red two piece outfit, which exposed her toned stomach, with gold piping on the shoulders, elbows, and above, and below the knees, the boots, and gloves were gold as well, and in her ears, were earrings, in the X-Men logo,

"Okay, Bonnie, let's do this, just concentrate, and keep control." Cyclops said,

"Let's get it on." Bonnie said, cracking her knuckles, and bracing for a fight.

Cyclops pushed a few buttons on the console, and activated the room, within seconds, Bonnie had incinerated the first three robot opponents she faced, the fourth, however, had snuck up behind her, knocking her off her feet, and leaving her with a small bruise on her arm,

"Oh, it's on now." Bonnie said, jumping to her feet, and hitting the robot in the chest, then, getting a bright idea, she left her hand there, and heated the area up to 100 times the room temperature, melting the robot into two pieces,

"Uh-huh, who's bad?" Bonnie said, laughing slightly, as she turned around, and lit up two other robots, the other two that had been bearing down on her from the left suddenly stopped. She looked up at the control room, and asked,

"'Sup, why did we stop?"

"Come up to the control room, and I'll explain." came, not the voice of Cyclops, but the voice of Professor X himself,

"Sure thing Professor, I'm on the way up now." Bonnie replied, heading for the exit door, and back into the control room.

Once she had gotten back into the relative safety of the control room, Professor X spoke,

"We have made a decision regarding the five of you, and I would like to extend to you, an invitation to join The X-Men." he said,

"Us, X-Men, are you serious?" Brick asked,

"Very serious, Mr. Flagg, I believe that the five of you can handle the responsibilities of being X-Men." Professor X replied, smiling slightly,

"Okay, I'm in." Kim said,

"Me too." Ron added,

"Count me in." said Monique,

"Oh, yeah, let's fire it up." Bonnie said, smiling brightly,

"Hey, in it to win it." Brick said,

"Alright, now that you're in, we need to figure out codenames for you." Professor X replied,

"I've already got mine," Kim said, "how about Shockwave?"

"Good choice." Cyclops said, smiling,

"Ron?" Beast asked, looking at the slender blonde in front of him,

"I haven't given it much thought." Ron replied honestly,

"I've got one, what about Staticfire." Cyclops said, smiling,

"Perfect, Ron, do you mind?" Professor X asked,

"Not at all." Ron said, smiling,

"Bonnie?" Cyclops asked, looking at the tanned beauty in front of him,

"I'm like Ron, I haven't given it much thought." Bonnie said,

"I got one," Wolverine said, making his presence known, "Wildfire."

"Me like, I'll take it." Bonnie said, smiling widely,

"Monique, I got one for you, if you don't already have one." Professor X said, making the young African-American girl look at him,

"Do you really want me on the team, I mean, I could lose control again, and I don't know what would happen if I did." Monique replied, her head hanging,

"Yes, I really want you on the team, and as for losing control, don't worry about that, we'll deal with it when the time comes." Professor X replied, his voice was calm, but somewhat stern, as though driving home a point,

"Okay, and I don't have a name picked out." Monique replied,

"That's quite alright, I have one for you, as your powers are based on the dreams, and nightmares of others, I thought of giving you the name Dream Weaver, what do you think?" Professor X asked,

"Dream Weaver, me like, me like very much." Monique said, a bright smile coming to her face,

Now, Mr. Flagg, do you have a codename picked out yet?" Professor X asked,

"I thought of one, Mold, what do you think?" Brick replied,

"Good, we can work with that." Cyclops replied,

"Alright. Now, I need the five of you to investigate a place that I believe the Brotherhood to have visited within the last couple of minutes, the fighting is still fierce there, so I need you to use extreme caution." Professor X said, looking at the five new members,

"What kind of a place is it?" Kim asked, looking at the Professor with a bemused expression,

"A space laboratory." Professor X said,

"Where at?" Bonnie asked,

"Middleton Space Center, you five are going home for a while." Professor X said,

"Is the X-Jet prepped?" Kim asked,

"Jean, and Rogue are standing by, waiting to take you to your destination, and then to get you out of there. Remember, stop the Brotherhood, and find out what they're up to, take prisoners if you have to, but above all, do not kill, unless it is absolutely necessary, you have your mission, X-Men, God speed." Professor X said, now ushering the five new X-Men out of the Danger Room, and to the hanger.


Middleton Space Center:

Kim and Ron were the first out of the X-Jet, followed by Brick, and Monique, then Bonnie, Jean, and Rogue,

"We'll wait here for y'all to get the job done." Rogue said,

"I'll guide you as needed." Jean added, smiling to the new X-Men,

"Thanks, Jean, alright, X-Men, let's move out." Kim said, slipping into mission mode.

The five friends could not have been inside of the facility for more than a few minutes, when they encountered their first person, he was wearing a red outfit, and a black visor over his eyes,

"These guys aren't with the Brotherhood, they're Drakken's henchmen." Kim said, recognizing the outfit,

"Who?" Jean asked, speaking with the group telepathically,

"Drew Lipsky, a.k.a. Dr. Drakken, he's a clueless scientist, who's bent on taking over the world, mutant, and human alike." Kim replied,

"This should be a piece of cake." Monique said,

"Drakken's easy, but, don't underestimate Shego." Kim said, looking over at Monique,

"I forgot about her." Monique said,

"Keep your focus," Jean said, "and take out that guard at the entrance."

"On it, Jean." Brick said, now turning his right arm into a baseball bat, "Swing, and a long drive, home run." he added, lifting the henchman off his feet, and onto the floor where he moved no more,

"Nice shot, Brick." Kim said, looking over at the former quarterback, smiling,

"I do try." Brick replied, smiling just as widely,

"Let's find out where Drakken's at." Ron said, walking into the room the henchman was guarding, and walking into Shego,

"Uh-oh, not good." Ron said, ducking Shego's plasma blast,

"Well, well, Kimmie, I thought I'd seen the last of you." Shego said, lighting up her hands,

"I wouldn't try that if I were you." Kim said, standing to full height,

"Oh, but you know me, I don't give up, princess." Shego said, charging toward Kim in a flat out run,

"I did warn you." Kim said, locking eyes with Shego. In one swift movement, Shego found herself going backwards faster than she had ever moved in her life, slamming hard into the wall behind her,

"MUTANTS!" she yelled, looking at Kim with a terrified look in her eyes,

"She catches on fast, doesn't she?" Bonnie said, smiling,

"A little." Ron said, now moving onto Shego's right, with Monique to the left, and Kim facing her,

"Give it up, Shego, you're surrounded." Kim replied,

"Don't think so, Kimmie." Shego replied, now going after Ron, who hit the raven haired woman with a huge bolt of electricity that knocked her to the floor,

"Shocking, isn't it?" Ron quipped, smiling at Shego,

"I still got one option, that gene-joke over there." Shego said, now pointing at Monique,

"Is that a challenge?" Monique asked, stung at the insult that Shego threw at her,

"Call it what you will, pumpkin, but I'm gonna wipe the floor with you." Shego replied, now charging after Monique,

"Okay, don't say you weren't warned." Monique said, now closing her eyes. The entire room, minus Drakken watched, as suddenly, a huge black bat appeared in front of Monique, between her, and Shego,

"AHH! BATS!" Shego said, now running the other way, knocking Ron over in the process of getting as far away from the offending animal as possible,

"Woah, I never knew that Shego was afraid of bats." Kim said, watching, as the raven haired woman ran as though her life depended on it.

Meanwhile, Drakken, and Bonnie were looking each other square in the eye,

"Mutant, or not, you'll soon bow before me." Drakken said, in his prolonged evil laugh,

"Doubt it." Bonnie said, her voice menacing. Before the blue skinned evil scientist could even move, Bonnie had hit him at least five times, leaving a huge bruise over his left eye,

"Oh, that looked like it hurt," Bonnie said, smiling evilly, "let me see if I can take your mind off of it."

Concentrating, Bonnie moved her right hand in the direction of Drakken's posterior, setting the back of his lab coat on fire,

"You're on the hot seat now." Bonnie said, laughing,

"Kim Possible, you think you and your friends are all that, but you're not!" Drakken said, all the while, he was patting his bottom, attempting to put out the fire that Bonnie had set.

"Good one, guys, now, let's get back to the X-jet, and back to the mansion." Kim said, walking out of the space center, and to the large black jet.


And that's chapter 4, who would've thought that Shego would be afraid of bats. And that's the first mission of the new members of the X-men.

In the next chapter, the five get a trial by fire, going after Pyro, and Mystique, who comes out on top? You'll just have to wait for it.

Thanks to Captainkodak1, who helped me come up with the codenames for Ron, and Brick.

I got the codenames for Monique, and Bonnie from old songs of the 70's; "Dream Weaver" was sung by Gary Wright, circa 1974, and "Wildfire" was sung by Michael Murphy, circa 1975

Kim's codename was pretty much a no-brainer, she can create sonic pulses, that can get as powerful as a huge sonic shockwave, thus, the name.

As always, keep the reviews coming.

Doug