Disclaimber: I own Serpent, I own Lisa, I own the M Mall, I own Ramses... preety everything else that you recognise i do not own. but if you e-mail me and ask nicely, i might let you use some of my ideas...

Chapter 5:

"Wow," was all Bobby could think of saying as he saw how many mutants there were.

"Seeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrpppppppppyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!" yelled someone as the six walked out into the open.

Oh no, anyone but her! Frost groaned, flopping onto her bed of ice. Ouch… say nothing. Serpent tried not to laugh at the little voice and also as a short, long blond haired mutant came running through the crowd, knocking a few people over in the process, and tripping over the hem of her skirt to get to her.

"I thought you'd never get here! Hi, I'm Lisa or Reptile as a lot call me." She exclaimed, hugging the taller mutant and looking over the others with her curious green eyes. "Who are all you people, or should I say, mutants? Oh and also what are your mutations?"

"I'm Kitty and I can phase through any object. You can also call me Shadowcat."

"Hi, I'm Bobby and I can create ice. Iceman's the nickname."

"And I am Ramses, I can fly and control water. I don't have a nickname yet."

"This is Marie, or Rogue as she likes to be called. She can't touch unless you want her to get your memories, mutation for awhile and life." Serpent said as Rogue stayed quiet.

"That is super cool, I would rather have that then have what I have now." Lisa said, sticking her hands inside the pockets of her jean skirt and wincing for some odd reason.

"Why? What do you have now?" Rogue asked, wondering what could possibly be worse than her mutation. Lisa looked at her oddly.

"You can't tell… oh yeah! I keep forgetting I have this thing on." Lisa said, pointing to her watch. "Follow me to my little store and I shall show you my mutation that caused me to run away from my very rich family and swim all the way from Europe." Lisa stated dramatically as she skipped over to her store a few seconds away.

"How did she swim over the ocean?" Ramses asked Serpent as they all followed her, even Shock.

"She likes to exaggerate, she was living with her aunt when I found her and took her here to be safe. It was about four years ago." was the reply he got. Lisa walked into her own clothing store and motioned for the others to get inside.

"Come in, come in, I won't bite… okay so maybe I will but that's only if I feel threatened." Lisa stated.

"I think I should get back to my post, see all yeah later for the fighting matches." Shock said before walking away. Lisa watched as he did so.

"Hello? Earth to Lisa, why did you call me here?" Serpent asked waving her hand in front of her friend's face.

"Hmm? Oh right, she's in the back behind the locked door and please don't kill it again!" Lisa replied after Serpent as she started for the back of the large store.

"What's so special about these clothes here?" Kitty asked, picking up a pink belly top and examining it.

"I'll have Serpy tell you after. Now about my mutation…" Lisa replied. She pressed a button on her watch and the hologram that was on her quickly disappeared revealing her true self… which was green hair, longish, curved nails/claws, webbed fingers starting at her knuckles and golden coloured eyes. The biggest change though was that her skin was actually green scales and she had a scaly tail that was about six or seven feet long! It looked like Kurt's too. "My tail can also shift into almost any reptile's tail on the planet… including those that are extinct as of now, although I am having a bit of trouble doing so. My tongue, teeth, hands and feet do that too and I'm not sure but I think I may be able to shape shift into them too." Her voice changed a bit too, as if she were underwater. Like Mystique's voice sort of.

"I will never be able to thank you Miss Serpent! Here's your money and thank you again!" a young girl said before running out of the shop with a bandage on her forearm. Serpent followed her out and stopped at her friends with a new coloured streak added to her hair, yellow as she counted her money with a thick bandage around her left hand.

"Fun?" Lisa asked, walking over to the cash register and picking up a semi-small box and setting it on the counter.

"If you call trying to locate an invisible mutant who is scared of me then yes it was fun." Serpent replied curtly. "How has the machine been working now?"

"Ever since Dr. McCoy came by and gave the science geeks a few pointers it's been going great, no problems and no more of Him." Lisa replied, making a face at the thought of this Him person as she started to unpack the box.

"Dr. McCoy knows about this place?" Bobby asked, quite surprised.

"Of course, who else would have the technology that gave me this watch that provides me a hologram to cover my true self in public. I actually made a few adjustments to it myself but that's no matter." Lisa replied, swatting her tail away as it tried to help take clothes out. "No tail, bad. This is my job. Go bug someone or something else would you."

"I swear you are worse than me when it comes to talking to weird stuff." Serpent muttered, rolling her eyes.

"Oh and you're one to talk Miss I-have-seven-no now-eight-little-voices-inside-my-head. I only have my tail to talk to thank you very much… oh I have to close up shop now, the fights are about to start." Lisa said throwing the unpacked clothes into a red and black backpack before shoving it into Serpent's arms.

That was SO not nice! Elect shouted. Serpent, tell Lisa that I am going to beat her in the ring!

Now you needn't be so hasty Elect. Ty said, hopping into her little bubble with the others following pursuit.

"Lisa, Elect says that she's going to beat you in the ring." Serpent whispered to her scaly friend. Lisa smiled widely, revealing two long fangs, like those of a snake.

"Elect, you are going down." Lisa replied to the little voice as everyone walked towards the center of the mall. Lisa waved good-bye to them as she ran into a small change room while the others went into the arena.

"Welcome all old and new mutants! This is the highlight of the day for most of us, the fighting ring!" a middle aged man announced in the center of the ring as the seats filled in quickly. "I want no killing, no sucker punches or seriously injuring your opponent. First up today we have our returning champion, Black Widow!" Most of the crowd went wild with shouting as the black haired mutant stepped into the ring.

Oh please, she only beats them because she pays the people to lose. Lisa said in her mind, but Serpent picked it up of course.

"And the challenger, Reptile!" the announcer continued. Lisa walked out of the opposite side wearing green sweatpants and a dark blue T-shirt with her long green hair up in a bun. She also had her hologram on too, that was because she still wasn't comfortable with her unique appearance quite yet.

Hey! I wanted to fight the scaly freak! Just kidding about the freak part Serpent… Elect stated, shrinking back in her bubble.

Uh oh… Ty said suddenly.

"What's the matter now?" Serpent whispered, turning away from the others.

Get out of there now and I mean fast, because you're new little voice will be arriving shortly and it is really going to hurt. She finished, rolling over to the main computer and started to type madly on it.

"I – uh – need to go and get something from – uh – the food court… bye." Serpent stated, quickly creating a teleportal and teleporting to the hallway, leaving four confused friends behind. And not a moment to soon because she took not even a step before a searing pain shot through her head as her new mutation became a little voice.

Whatever you do, don't scream. Blaze instructed having recovered from her little breakdown the previous day. Serpent bit her bottom lip to follow that order and soon, it was over and a new voice entered her head.

Who are you? Hope asked, looking at her with a raised eyebrow. The new voice had bright yellow hair, yellow eyes and was wearing a knee length yellow shirt and a yellow tank top. Serpent held her head as she carefully stood up.

I am Serpent's new invisible mutation that she got a few minutes ago from my original owner. The voice replied quietly.

Welcome to the club for annoying little voices inside Serpy's head. Elect stated, shaking the new voice's hand.

"Serpent! What are you doing here?" Shock asked, walking up behind her. Serpent jumped and spun around with her claws out.

"For pity sake Shock! Don't' sneak up on me you idiot!" Serpent yelled, putting away her claws and holding her racing heart, trying to calm down. "I could have killed you!"

"Shock! We've got trouble!" another mutant yelled from inside the control room. Both mutants ran into the room quickly.

"What is it now?" he asked walking over to a young woman of about twenty five with short brown hair and a larger figure.

"I don't know how, but Magneto's found us!" she exclaimed, almost hysterically. "Something must have been wrong with the machine because not even Professor Xavier could have found us here!"

"What! How in the world did this happen? Shock I thought you said that he would never, ever find this place!" Serpent yelled turning to the taller youth in rage.

"This is not entirely my fault. We need to get everyone into the safe rooms, teleport there and do that, we'll try our best to stop him before he gets here." Shock stated, taking change of the scenario and jumping into a roily chair and rolling over to a loud speaker to announce the terrible news.

Let us all out and we can help because there are 1, 2, 3… 8 of us and only one of you. Frost stated, counting everyone. Serpent ran out of the room and created a portal… which unfortunately lead to the middle of the arena where Lisa and Black Widow were trying to beat each other.

"What in the –ouch- world are you doing – umf – here?" Lisa asked, between hits and lunges.

"Everyone stop and be quiet!" Serpent yelled at the top of her lungs. The arena grew silent as everyone stopped dead in their tracks. "Magneto somehow got word of this place and everyone needs to get to the safe rooms, get down here and go through a portal, that I will create, in an orderly fashion!" no one had to be told twice as they got down there by their own means of transport.

Let us out and we can help you! Elect screamed inside her head.

"I know I'll regret this later, sure just don't do anything stupid." Serpent put on a pair of dark sunglasses to hide her soon to be multi-coloured eyes and quickly let seven of her eight voices out. Her invisible one stayed behind this time because she was rather weak still from the transfer.

"Yo! Peoples! Right here is the portal!" Tele yelled, gesturing to the large portal forming on the wall. She was wearing a large dark blue robe that was quite snug on her. Truth was that none of the voices looked like Serpent save for Ty and Hope because they were her original voices. But the rest of the voices looked and most acted like their first owners.

"We'll stay behind and help with ya Serpent." Elect stated, letting purple coloured electricity flow about her slim body. Hope and Ty also walked over with pieces of cloth covering up the bottom half of their faces.

"We will never leave you my friend." Hope's wise voice rang out, while all of the mutants in the room, save for a few, ran through the portal into the safe rooms.

"Is everyone in there?" Shock asked, running down to the arena with a few other scientists behind him.

"Ya, you'd better get in there too. It's me he wants, and I can handle myself." Serpent replied, her arms tensing up.

"We ain't leavin' ya Serpent." Rogue stated.

"We aren't?" Kitty asked, looking a tad panicked.

"You didn't leave me in the dust at the camp Serpy, so I'm not leaving you." Lisa stated, running her snake tongue over her pointed teeth. Which, for some odd reason, didn't cause her to have a lisp as it should have.

"Everyone is in the safe rooms aside from us." Tele stated, walking over to the group.

"Great timing too," Serpent said.

"Why do you say that?" Ramses asked.

Serpent moved her sunglass-covered eyes towards him. "I can't move…"

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Okay, not too many reviewers but that's all right. Thanks anyway! I'm updating now because I'm going away for a while to NC for vacation. Super sorry to leave you at this cliffie for, like, two weeks! Review! oh and, thanks for the muffin Maid of the Mer!