Sorry this took long to update. I had thousands of graduation related things to do and I wanted to wait a while for dramatic effect but now that my summer has started, I have more time to write if writer's block doesn't find me.
The website for Random Things (since it didn't come out) is There's a chat-room to play with other people.
I have created a holiday! May 28 is unofficially X-Men Appreciation Day according to me! This day is to be spent reading X-Men comics, watching X-Men or X-Men Evolution episodes, playing X-Men charades, watching the movies, and reading X-Men fanfiction. I would have posted this then but I had a bunch of friends over to celebrate and couldn't find time.
I'm not one for answering reviews but there were some questions that just had to be answered. If you didn't ask them, read anyway. They might be questions you have and just are too lazy to ask in a review.
Wen1: The necklace isn't really important but Scott thinks that it's a huge issue that it's off center. Obsessive compulsive people have to have everything perfect, right down to the last millimeter. Jean's just super cranky. I personally don't like anyone touching me when I'm cranky. As for the food? C'mon! Logan and Hank are on the plane. Their fridge is obviously stuffed (40 of its contents being Canadian beer)
jenskott: Yes, Emma has started breast feedingbut only on the grounds that Beast pays for her next surgery. (I swear, if you stab that woman she'll bleed plastic)
Lavender Gaia: If you remember, in Ch. 3, Rachel runs a hand through her hair to find it bloody. She's suffering from head injuries so any large use of telekinesis or telepathy is going to result badly (more on that in this chapter)
beyondthebatman: Yes it has been changed.
The title of this chapter is the name of a song by Brand New. There is a certain verse in it that reminds me of the Emma/Scott/Jean crisis. It says, "And I've seen what happens to the wicked and proud when they decide to try and take on the throne for the crown"
Disclaimer: If I had the power to own X-Men, I would also own James Marsden (Cyclops), Hugh Jackman (Wolverine), and Shawn Ashmore (Iceman) in tight leather pants (mee-ow).
Ch. 6 of "The seatbelt sign should be on at all times" called "Jaws Theme Swimming"
"Are those fins?" Rachel asked Logan as the X-men looked off in the direction that he was pointing.
"No, they're ducks" Emma said sarcastically as she shrugged off Hank and Betsy and took her baby from Logan, still glaring at Jean who glared back equally as hard.
"Really?" she inquired in a curious baby voice.
"No, Rae. They're fins all right" Scott said as he squinted in the general area Logan had indicated. Rachel whimpered and hid behind Jean who had also shrugged off her captors and was looking nonchalantly at the fast approaching fins. She carefully levitated baby Jessica over to where she was to land her gently in her arms.
"How long until they get here?" asked Betsy who wasn't that awesome when it came to the fearless Creatures of the Deep.
"Well," Hank pondered, "judging by the speed and presumed body mass, judging by their fins, I'd say…"
But he didn't get to say as the Jet was suddenly rammed from the opposite direction, sending the seven X-Men and two infants sprawling into the water.
Jean immediately levitated herself and Emma out of the water before they even fell completely into it. She levitated them back onto the hood of the jet and then went to pluck out the others muttering as she past Emma to not get any ideas; that she did it for the babies.
Rachel also made an attempt to levitate herself and the others out of the water but stopped abruptly as she screamed and dropped back to the water.
"Rachel!" Logan called out. He grabbed her by the hair to pull her head back before she drowned in the water. He held her tightly as Jean levitated them out of the water. Once they were back on the jet, he laid her carefully on the deck. She had passed out.
Betsy ran over to the side of the Jet where they had been rammed, psychic blades ready. She saw the tips of a fin disappear into the shadow of the Jet in the water.
"How long until they get here?" she asked sarcastically. Hank just gave her the shut up look and shook the water out of his fur like a dog.
Cyclops went over to where Rachel was lying with Logan watching over her protectively. He gently stroked the side of her face and noticed the pool of blood that had formed underneath her head that leaked into the ocean.
"Just what we needed…" he murmured.
When another slam rocked the boat, the X-Men were ready. As if reverting to the natural instinct to protect the children and injured, Scott, Logan, Betsy, and Hank formed a circle around Emma, Jean and the unconscious Rachel. Scott fired several optic blasts into the water while Betsy threw psychic blades. Logan and Hank held their ground due to the fact that if they fought, they would get more blood into the water.
Shark blood or theirs.
As it turns out, the sharks currently attacking weren't the ones that they saw first. That was a whole new pack that had just arrived at the Jet. They slowly circled the aircraft, dodging optic blasts and psychic blades.
>Jean! Can't you telepathically tell the sharks to take a hike?>
>Scott, we've been through this. Telepathy with animal minds isn't the same with human minds for the sole reason that animals HAVE NO MINDS! They run completely on instinct with little to no free will of their own>
>Thanks for the biology lesson, Jean> Emma said cutting in to their conversation. >Care to contribute to the 'Keeping Us Alive' Fund?>
"Happily" she said. She put a TK shield up around the jet which startled the sharks but didn't stop them from coming.
What did stop them from coming was much more unexpected.
"Gah!" spoke the infant known as Emily.
The sharks stopped their attempts at ramming Jean's shield.
The X-Menshot bewildered looksat Emily and her mother.
"Gah!" Emily repeated, her small blue eyes on the sharks' cold black ones.
They went under water.
She smiled a toothless grin and swayed her right arm slightly.
A single shark swam upwards, broke the water's surface, jumped up in the air and flipped.
Two other sharks joined in with cork roll turns and another one did a back flip.
The X-Men stared blankly at the sharks-turned-dolphins while they continued to perform their acrobatics.
"Gah!" she squealed, obviously pleased with herself.
"Telepathy with animals?" Logan inquired, still looking at the sharks.
"Actually, I think it's the ability to control animal instincts" replied Hank, always the scientist.
Emily moved her arms again and the sharks all jumped at the same time.
Jessica looked over to where Emily was and then turned her head the other direction to snuggle back into her mother.
'Show off' she seemed to say.
It's a bit shortI know butI already have the rest of the story in my head. It gets good. I just have to fill in the small spaces in between the big parts. No more long periods of waiting.
Till next chapter, Stray