Author's note: Okay, so if you couldn't tell, I've changed the rating to R. It could be for the better. I don't even know yet. Also, some of you sound as if you think I was stopping at chapter five. Then again, I don't blame you, Until next time, does kind of sound like a closing. But don't worry I have some more planned for this story. I don't think it will be ending anytime soon. If all goes as planned that is. Sorry it took so long to post. I've been searching for a job and studying for the past week. Then I went to my friend's cabin in Payson over the weekend. So I didn't even start writing until Sunday. I hope I don't get this side tracked again. Thank you all who have reviewed.
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"Mr. Jager!" Fritz's Biology teacher, Mr. Hansen, yelled. The man had pronounced Fritz's last name with a "J" rather than a "Y", the correct German pronunciation. This annoyed Fritz almost as much as freshmen.
Fritz knew Mr. Hansen was smart enough to know how to pronounce his last name, but chose not to. He couldn't figure out why. Could it be that he hadn't done any homework for this class since he got there? "Yeah?" Fritz sat up strait in his chair.
"Have you heard a word of what I've said?" Mr. Hansen had picked up his meter stick. Fritz guessed this was to scare the students in his class. Maybe by holding a wooden stick in his hands, the kids would be more likely to listen to him.
"Of course." Fritz said with a yawn.
"How could you if you were asleep." Mr. Hansen walked around to Fritz's desk twirling the ruler in his hand.
"Was I?" Fritz hadn't meant to fall asleep. He just couldn't help it with such a boring class. Did he care about plants and trees and forests and crap? Not really. Fritz had nothing to say to Mr. Hansen. He only sat there behind his desk and waited for his teacher to speak again.
"Well?" Mr. Hansen stopped at the front of Fritz's desk smacking the meter stick against the palm of his hand. "You don't do your homework, you're late for class, and you constantly fall asleep. You're digging yourself a hole Mr. Jager."
There he goes again, the whole "J" thing. "I don't have a shovel." Fritz said as if he didn't understand what his teacher was talking about. This caused a few giggles around the room but nothing more.
"That's it. Go!" Mr. Hansen pointed to the door. "Just go to the attendance office."
Fritz got up slowly, packed up his backpack and walked out of the room silently. He wandered down the hall, not wanting to go to the office that much. So he made random detours like walking clear across campus in the opposite direction. He even stopped by Kitty's classroom just so he could see her face. He looked through the window and there she was in the middle of the room.
He stared at her for a few seconds before noticing the person next to her. He kept poking her and trying his best to tickle her. Fritz couldn't believe it, it was Lance. Kitty looked a bit annoyed by Lance's attempts to get her attention.
"Wait, isn't Lance old enough to be a senior? But he's in a freshmen math class. What a fucking dumb ass! He failed math three years in a row! Fucking retard." Knowing that didn't make Fritz feel any better though. Lance was in one of Kitty's classes and he wasn't. At least Kitty didn't look amused. Maybe that meant he still had a chance with her. Fritz tore his gaze away from Kitty and finally started walking towards the attendance office.
Fritz was actually feeling pretty good. He was told the mansion would be getting some new students today. He wasn't going to be the new guy anymore. Even better, the new mutants were all younger than he was; finally, some minions to control.
He was told the new mutants would be arriving all at once, at around one o'clock. Luckily he would be at school until 2:35 so he wouldn't be swarmed by a wave of freshmen. He couldn't stand freshmen. Well except one, Kitty. But she was an exception. He just couldn't stand their maturity level. Always annoying you and asking the dumbest questions that have no real answers, all for the shear joy of knowing they confused someone older than them.
After about ten minutes of walking around the school he looked at his watch. His next class was going to start in a matter a minutes. So he decided to stop avoiding the attendance office and started in its direction. However the bell rang seconds before he was about to open the door. "Damn. So close. Oh well, don't want to be late for third hour." He said aloud as he turned on his heel and walked casually toward his English class.
Fritz, Evan, Kurt and Scott jumped out of the red sports car after they pulled into the garage. Since Jean got an SUV all the girls, which was usually just Rogue because Lance drove Kitty to school every morning, drove to school by themselves. This way they could leave later giving themselves more time to do girl stuff in the morning.
The four boys walked into the kitchen all dreading the arrival of the new mutants. All four of them knew what it was like when they first got their powers. Scott blew a hole through his adopted parent's house. Evan would constantly pop basketballs during practice. Kurt teleported himself inside the women's changing room at the circus. And Fritz would accidentally mutate in public.
So they all knew what to expect when they walked into the mansion. In fact, they were greeted by a ball of ice smashing into the wall to their left. The four older mutants stopped where they were and contemplated leaving the mansion to go on a long drive. But just as Scott reached into his pocket for his keys, Logan walked into the kitchen heading towards the garage with a sour look on his face.
"I give up! You four are in charge until Xavier gets back." Logan left the kitchen and jumped on his bike before any of the four mutants standing in the doorway could respond.
Logan started his bike and sped off down the driveway and through the front gates. Scott dropped his backpack to the floor and leaned back against the kitchen counter with a fearful look on his face. "We...have to take care of...them?" Scott pointed into the foyer at the nine new mutants.
The foyer looked like a college party. All nine of the new recruits were blasting and shooting and jumping all around the room. "Everybody stop!" Scott yelled switching into fearless leader mode.
No one seemed to listen. To their right a small glowing ball blew up with a boom scaring the four older mutants. They jumped back and looked around the room. Two of the new mutants were firing who knows what out of their hands while another was propelling himself through the air. In the corner was a group of mutants that all looked the same and a dog that was running around a girl creating fireworks above everyone.
There were two mutants in the middle of the room. One looked red hot, and the other was more a black charcoal color. Another boom came from their left and they saw the source. The last new recruit sat in the corner tossing little explosives around the room.
"Everyone stop!" Scott yelled again in his loudest fearless leader voice. To no ones surprise, the new recruits didn't listen.
"Vhat now fearless leader?" Kurt asked plainly.
"Uh..." Scott looked around the room. "They're all in the same room, so all we have to do is get them to stop."
"Really?" Evan asked with a smirk.
"Shut up Evan," Scott softly pushed Evan back a bit. "You two," Scott pointed to Evan and Kurt. "Get everyone on the right side of the room to meet in the Danger room. Me and Fritz will get the other side."
"What do we say to get them to follow," Evan asked.
"I don't know, make it up." Scott said before he and Fritz ran off to their side of the room.
"So does anyone know where the Professor is?" Scott asked the nine new mutants standing in front of him.
"Said he was leaving for some type of urgent meeting." The blonde girl said.
"Really? He didn't tell us." Scott said a little confused.
"That's probably because if was urgent." The Asian girl said smartly.
"Yeah—well...how long has he been gone?" Scott asked feeling embarrassed that a girl almost four years younger than he was just made herself look smarter them him.
"He left about two hours ago; a little bit after we go here" The Spanish kid said. "He left Logan in charge."
"Well it looks like Logan had an urgent meeting to go to also." Scott turned around and looked at Evan, Fritz, and Kurt.
"Oh, this is Kurt, Evan, and Fritz. I'm Scott," Scott put in at the last minute.
"Roberto, Ray, Sam, Bobby, Amara, Jamie, Tabitha, Jubilee, Rahne." Scott heard from the group of kids.
"Uh...we might have to go over names again later." Scott said as he rubbed the back of his head. "Who's up for a little exercise?"
"Do we have-"One of the new mutants started but Scott cut them off.
"Good. Just hang out here for a minute." Scott turned around and walked out of the Danger room. Evan, Fritz, and Kurt looked at each other, shrugged, and then followed Scott outside.
They made their way to the control room above the Danger room. "So what's going on man?" Fritz asked after a few seconds of silence.
"If the new kids are occupied with the Danger room, then we won't have to look after them." Scott said. They got into the elevator that would bring them down to the control room.
"Hey Scott," Kurt said. "Vhat did you tell the new recruits to get them to shut up?"
"I said they'd get a chance to fly the X-Jet." Scott stepped out of the elevator and started up the main controls. "What about you two?"
Evan made sure he was far enough away from Scott before he told him. "Uhm...we told them they could drive your car."
Scott stopped what he was doing and whirled on Evan. "You what?!"
"Hey don't get mad at me." Evan moved back even more. "It was Kurt's idea."
"No it vasn't!" Kurt said defensively and punched Evan's arm.
"Ow." Evan rubbed his arm where Kurt hit him.
"Just forget it." Scott said angrily. He turned around and finished booting up the main controls. He flipped a switch and talked into a mic. "This is just a simple test. Think of it as P.E."
The four older mutants could hear the younger ones groan. "Just follow the course. Uh..." Scott was making this up off the top of his head. "First one to the finish line...gets ten dollars." He looked back at the other three mutants standing behind him and mouthed "sorry". He turned back around and spoke in the mike again. "Ready, go!"
The floor of the danger room shifted here and there as walls and other objects came up to block the new recruits paths. Some parts of the floor changed height others started spinning. In the end it looked like a giant fun house.
Fritz stood in front of the window looking down at the younger mutants. They all seemed to be doing pretty well except for Jamie. Every time he got bumped a few more duplicates of him would appear. This was a little hard for him because he had to run back and round up all of his duplicates.
Bobby was doing the best only because he was freezing the ground making the others slip and fall every time one of them was about to pass him up. All nine of them jumped, stumbled, and climbed over the obstacles blocking their path. Some of them made good use of their powers, but others however looked as if they had no idea they even had powers. They seemed fine in the foyer; maybe it was just the pressure.
Scott had made this coarse a little longer than normal so by now the new mutants were only about half way through. Fritz heard a hiss behind him so he turned around as the elevator door opened; in the center of the elevator stood Logan and in a wheel chair by his side, Xavier.
"How are they doing?" Xavier asked nonchalantly.
Scott spun around and looked at the professor. "Oh, hey professor. They're doing pretty good." Scott said nervously. "Sorry we didn't tell you we were going to run them in a sim. But you being gone and all..."
"It's perfectly all right Scott." Xavier rolled forward and took over the controls. "However, I would prefer them running simulations in their uniforms. Safety precaution." The Professor reached over and pushed a button. The computer screen asked for a password and he entered LEGENDS.
The Danger room floor once again shifted and moved around. The walls retreated and the obstacles shank back under the floor. The nine mutants down at the bottom stopped with confused looks on their faces.
"Don't worry, you didn't do anything wrong. My meeting is over, so if you all would join me in the study, we can finally get to introductions." Xavier said over the loud speaker.
The nine mutants walked sluggishly out of the Danger room. Xavier turned back to the older mutants in the control room. "Sorry I didn't tell any of you I'd be gone."
"No problem professor," Scott lied. "But if you don't mind me asking, what was the meeting about?"
"How to avoid being swarmed by teenage questions." Xavier said as he rolled back into the elevator.
All four mutants looked at each other in shock. The professor said nothing more, just waited for Logan to join him in the elevator. Logan walked past Fritz who looked away and moved to the other side of the room. It had been almost a week since Mystique tricked Fritz into brainwashing Logan. Logan forgave Fritz on the spot. He said it wasn't Fritz's fault. Mystique could be very persuasive. But Fritz still didn't feel comfortable around the Canadian. There was something that didn't feel right. Maybe it was Fritz's guilt. He didn't really know.
The elevator doors closed slowly with a clicking sound. Scott began shutting down the computers and control panels.
"I can't believe it." Evan said. "Xavier left so he didn't have to deal with the new kids."
"Yeah, but I think he wanted to teach us something." Scott said sticking up for the professor.
"Like what?" Fritz asked.
"Like, how to take care of things in case of an emergency." Scott said proudly.
"Shut up man," Kurt said. "He didn't want to deal with the freshmen and you know it."
"No he just wanted-"Scott was cut off by the other three mutants walking into the awaiting elevator. "Fine." Scott joined his fellow teammates and the doors shut.
Author's note: Sorry if some of the characters sounded a bit OOC. I forgot to include the New Recruits in the earlier chapters and I didn't want to just throw them in there. I know you probably didn't like reading about their powers and names and whatnot. Again, I didn't want to just throw them into the middle of the story. Hope this chapter wasn't too boring for you; had to be done. I'll try to get the next chapter up sooner then it took to post this one. Oh yeah, sorry to those freshmen who might be reading this. Please don't take the bagging on the freshmen stuff personal. You'll see what I mean in about two years. Please review.