Chapter 6
"Hello Serpent, fancy meeting you here." Magneto stated as he and his small Brotherhood of mutants came walking over from the large door to the left. Serpent growled and tried to move, but seeing as she had metal going throughout her entire body she was stuck. Rogue reached up and touched the white stripes in her hair in the painful remembrance of a few years before.
"What do you want?" Lisa asked, crouching on the ground on all fours with her long green scaly tail twitching restlessly behind her.
"I would greatly appreciate it if you, Reptile, and you, Serpent, joined my Brotherhood for mutants." Magneto said, not releasing his metallic grip on Serpent.
"We, join you? Oh you make me laugh, why would someone like us join someone like you?" Elect asked, chuckling out loud.
"Elect, shut your trap or your going back inside." Serpent hissed.
"So that is a no then?" Mystique asked with her odd voice. Lisa cocked her head to one side in confusion at the sound of her voice, seeing as it was quite like her own without the watch, which she had turned off at the moment.
"You bet it is!" Serpent shouted, trying not to wince as Magneto slowly started to pull her apart.
"Put us back Serpy and lets show this Magnet what we can really do." Blaze whispered, knowing that Serpent's keen hearing would pick it up and also having recovered from wanting revenge.
"You'd better let me go Magneto," Serpent said in a low voice, as the voices slowly started to disappear from view and reappear inside Serpent's head. "Because you're goin' down."
Telepathic shield to hide all metals from the magnet's senses up! Ty shouted as she typed madly on her computer. Serpent could feel herself being released from Magneto's stronghold and lazily started walking around with her shield, it had turned all of her a darker colour, as if she had a shadow around her. Ty quickly expended it to go around the entire room, which then also looked like it had a shadow on it.
"What's happening?" John demanded, making himself known. Bobby glared at his ex-best friend and put an arm around Rogue. Magneto looked surprised and kept trying to get a hold of the metal inside Serpent and around the room.
"You did know that I was a telepath, right?" Serpent asked with a wicked glint in her steel gray eyes. Lisa smiled her infamous vampiric smile with her long, white fangs showing.
Let's show them my whip. I'm sure they'll really like it. Elect stated, unleashing her mutation into Serpent.
Stand back guys, I don't want you to get hurt. Serpent said inside her new friend's minds. Bobby, Rogue, Kitty and Ramses all backed away and watched Reptile slowly stand up and thrash her tail around, tapping her clawed and webbed hands on her scaly crossed arms.
"You guys are going down. Shoulda brought more mutants to back you up." Reptile stated in her semi-thick British accent.
"Shoulda, coulda, and I guess didn't eh?" Serpent replied for the opposing side.
"You should learn to speak when you're spoken to Serpent, or should I say… die Tochter von Teufel?" Magneto questioned, still in a bit of shock about not being able to sense the metal running through Serpent's entire body or in the room. Serpent looked at him in horror at her old nickname; it was what the hunters had called her for centuries. She saw Ramses look at her with wide eyes.
"Never EVER call me that again!" Serpent yelled, her eyes turning purple quickly, electricity cackling wildly as it ran through her hair. Controlling it to take the form of a whip, she thrashed it at the three members of the Brotherhood.
"Don't hog the spotlight Serpy!" Reptile called before turning to the blue mutant before her.
"You know, we aren't so different." Mystique stated, circling the green scaled mutant. Reptile looked at her with saddened hazel eyes.
"I know, but the thing is… I am good and you're evil. I have a tail, you don't. I have fangs and claws, you don't. We're actually really different if you think about it." Reptile replied, crouching onto the ground again. She then smirked and let out a very scary roar of a crocodile before lunging at Mystique with her sharp claws extended. While the two coloured mutants were going at it, Serpent was doing her best to try and get Magneto and John to go away with her whip of electricity.
I can make a teleportal on the wall behind them, all you have to do is pick a destination and then make them to into it. Tele stated, wildly attacking the keyboard in her little bubble.
Lisa, make her go into the portal that Tele is going to create on the wall over there. Serpent sent the message to her green scaled friend, who nodded in response as best she could while receiving and throwing punches.
"Hold still!" Lisa cried out in exasperation as the very flexible blue mutant dodged almost every hit that Lisa tried to throw. Ramses, Rogue, Kitty and Ramses watched helplessly from the sidelines as they watched everything play out before them. Serpent clapped her hands together and pointed her right hand to the wall behind John and Magneto before creating a large explosion of electricity in front of them, sending both mutants through it. Lisa's tail somehow managed to get Mystique in there too.
"Two pointer!" Lisa exclaimed, giving her long tail a high five on the spade part.
"Well, that was very eventful now wasn't it?" Kitty asked, walking towards the two panting mutants.
"Very, you alright Reptile?" Serpent retorted, looking over to her friend, who was crouching on the ground yet again.
"Of course, I just really need to work on controlling this thing." Lisa replied, jerking her head towards her restless tail. As a response, her tail smacked its owner in the head. Lisa whirled her head around and began to chase her tail on all fours like a dog. "Oh when I get my hands on you…"
"Is she alright?" Rogue asked, looking at the unique mutant that was now cussing her tail out while still trying to catch it.
"Perfectly fine, no better than myself really, 'cept I don't chase my tail around." Serpent replied, walking over to the opposite wall and opening up another teleportal to let all of the other mutants out of the safe rooms.
"Wow, you didn't kill anything Serpent. This has to be a new record," Shock stated as he looked around the large dome-like room.
"Ha, ha, very funny. We should get going, I'm going to another school now and leaving you as manager Shock." Serpent stated, trying not to laugh as Lisa finally caught her tail and was now wrestling with it and loosing very badly.
"Really? Me?" Shock asked, in disbelief. Serpent nodded and smiled as Shock ran over to the other science people to brag probably.
"I'll be back once in awhile to check up on things, but we should get going right now." Serpent called after him before walking over to her other friends. Lisa called uncle because her tail had her in a headlock and she had no idea how to get out of it.
"So, you're really leaving the mall?" Lisa asked, looking down at her bare, scaly feet. Her tail "looked" down at the floor too.
Lisa should come; she's only fifteen-almost-sixteen and she still needs you. Ani stated, spinning around in her chair.
"Lisa, Ani says that you should come to the school with us." Serpent said for her little voice, receiving odd looks from the other students there.
"I don't have any extra money though." Lisa muttered in her unique voice.
"You don't have to pay," Kitty said, "you just need… well… nothing really."
Lisa looked up from the floor and grinned. "Count me in then." She stated. "Shock! Get someone to replace me in my store! I'm leaving too!"
Shock nodded in response but didn't say anything.
"Lets go get your stuff then we can leave." Rogue said. Lisa nodded and got up from her spot on the floor with Bobby's help.
"Hey Serpent, can I ask you a question?" Kitty asked as the small group walked towards the main floor so Lisa could get all of her stuff.
"Ya, of course." Serpent replied, watching Lisa try and open up her shop with her tail getting in the way.
"What does 'die Tochter von Teufel' mean?" asked Kitty. Serpent stopped laughing at Lisa and glared at the phaser.
"Nothing, nothing at all. Just a little nickname I received awhile ago." She replied; fed up with Lisa and her tail fighting over the keys so she stuck one of her claws into the keyhole and forced it open.
"I could have done that too you know." Lisa stated, walking into her store and starting to pick up a few of her favourite items of clothing and shoving them into a green backpack.
"Do you always do that, just go and pick up random clothes and keep them?" Bobby asked. Lisa smiled and grabbed a few special watches, necklaces, bracelets and rings from a display case.
"Yup, it's mine until I step out of the shop again so might as well take whatever I can. Oh and Serpy, your special clothes are over there with a new set of leather gloves too. I tested them out myself, nothing will cut through them 'cept admantium." Lisa pointed a black claw over to a side of the room that was away from everything else. Serpent smiled and jogged over to the small box of new clothes, quickly putting on the black leather gloves with half fingers or as Lisa called them, thieves' gloves.
"You sell gloves?" Rogue asked, looking around the store in interest.
"Actually, I make nearly everything in this store. Not everything mind you, but most of my clothes and Serpent's special clothes." Lisa replied, grabbing a few bolts of fabric from the back room and shoving them into a large bag. Ramses was about to ask how they were special, but Serpent read his mind beforehand.
"This is how Ramses," she said. Serpent took one of her new T-shirts and extended her right claws, tearing a long gash in the piece of clothing. The others watched in amazement as the fabric began to repair itself.
"Now that is cool." Kitty stated, looking through some of the other articles of clothing. "How does it do that?"
"A mixture of chemicals and fabric of course. I invented it, there are a lot of things I can do with chemicals around. Well, I'm ready. Serpent, carry this and I'll carry this and yours." Lisa commanded. Serpent picked up the overstuffed duffel bag as it only weighed as much as a normal backpack and handed her own bag over to the reptilian.
"Let's get going, teleportal back to the mansion." Serpent said, taking off her gloves and clapping her palms together before pointing her right one towards the back wall. Everyone quickly walked through it before anyone else came by the store, but not before Rogue grabbed a pair of long brown leather gloves that Lisa said she could have.
At the mansion…
"Now that was cool." Lisa said, turning on her hologram but leaving her long tail out in the open. "I love going through the teleportals." They had reappeared in a hallway near Xavier's office.
"Okay, Ramses and I are going to watch TV so… see ya later." Bobby stated, before walking down the hall with "fairy boy" following him. Kitty rolled her eyes and knocked on the office door.
"Come in," was the reply from inside. Lisa took a deep breath and handed Serpent's bag to her tail before following Kitty and Rogue through the open door with Serpent coming up in the rear.
"Hey Professor! This is Lisa." Kitty swung her arm towards the now brown haired mutant as she stood quietly near the door.
"Hello Lisa," Xavier said with a warm smile on his face.
"Hi," Lisa said shyly.
"Kitty, why don't you and Rogue go and see if Dr. McCoy needs any help." The professor said. Rogue and Kitty looked a bit annoyed, but did as they were told and left.
"Dr. McCoy's here?" Lisa asked, looking up from her bare feet.
"Yes he is and you can go see him in just a few moments. Will you two girls please take a seat?" Serpent and Lisa set down their bags and sat down in the chairs that were placed before the desk.
"First off let me introduce myself. I am Charles Xavier and I run this place with the help of other mutants. My mutation is telepathy."
"I am more than pleased to meet you Mr. Xavier, I've always wanted to finish up my education but ever since my mutation… well, it's been really hard."
"What is your mutation Lisa?" Lisa glanced over at Serpent for the okay signal, which she received. She took a deep breath and pressed the off button on her watch, revealing her green hair, golden eyes, fangs, claws, webbed fingers and toes, and of course her green scales. Her tail twitched, clearly annoyed by the lack of attention.
"I have all this plus I think I can shift my tail, teeth, tongue and voice into that of any type of reptile's… I'm not really sure, I have never tried with success…" Lisa got interrupted by her tail poking her in the shoulder. "And I don't really have any control over my tail. It kinda has a mind of it's own."
"Do you have any control over everything else?" Xavier asked.
"Of course, it's just this thing…" Lisa replied, jerking her thumb as best she could towards her tail as the spade part of it started looking over the things on the desk. "It's a seven foot long menace to society." Her tail looked sheepish and cuddled up to her scaled cheek.
"Although it likes to suck up to her sometimes." Serpent said, trying not to laugh.
"Well Lisa, I think I have enough information. You can share a room with…" Xavier was about to finish when Lisa interrupted.
"Excuse me sir, but may I share a room with Serpent? She has nightmares sometimes and her claws go wild and since my scales are really hard and won't hurt me as much…" Lisa looked guilty for intervening. Xavier smiled at her.
"Of course you can," he said. Lisa smiled, showing off her long fangs.
"Just send a map to Serpent's mind and if you need any more information about me just read my mind, I'm used to it." Lisa said, putting the hologram back up and picking up the two backpacks. Xavier did as Lisa suggested and the two girls were off.
"Kiya!" Lisa squeaked, picking up the unsuspecting Lynx as she passed by to try and get to her master.
Serpent! Why did you bring her here? Kiya meowed in protest and tried to wriggle out of Lisa's grasp.
"Because she really needs to learn how to control her mutation." Serpent replied to her pet. "Would you rather me bring out Elect?"
On second thought, I missed Lisa so much! Kiya stated, as she stopped struggling.
"Lets hurry and find the room because I want to see Dr. McCoy." Lisa said, waiting at a doorway as Serpent grabbed her things from her old room.
"Why, you're not thinking about doing more experiments are you?" Lisa gave her a wicked grin.
"You bet you bottom dollar on it. If there's one thing in the world I'm good at, it's Science and Math… wait a second that's who things."
Oh ya, she's real good at math. Frost said, rolling on the floor laughing. Ani looked up from her game of Monopoly that she was playing with Ty and Elect and raised an eyebrow at the ice voice.
Is she going to be all right? Ani asked, moving her playing piece around the board.
"I think so," Serpent said as she, Lisa and Kiya walked down the hallway a bit to their new room.
"Quaint little thing eh Serpent?" Lisa asked, walking into a medium sized room with two beds and a small beanbag bed for Kiya.
"So, you two get your own room together? Don't you like us Serpent?" Kitty asked, fake tears welling up in her brown eyes as she and Rogue walked through their open door.
"No, I like you guys and all, it's for another reason." Serpent replied, taking off her gloves and inspecting the cut on her right hand carefully.
"Well, I don't know about you people, but I want to see the school, get something that's not fast-food to eat, then have a shower and sleep in a real bed." Lisa stated, making everyone laugh.
Things were really looking up for Lisa; no one had ever really been comfortable around her ever since her mutation, even other mutants! Maybe she finally found a place where she could fit in without having people tease her… or maybe not.
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Thank you to my few reviewers, you have been very supportive. I don't have time to respond to you individually because I want to get this chappie up! One small point that I would like to make though is that this is not a crossover with "The Day After Tomorrow" anymore because it would have to happen really soon and I want to develop the characters more and stuff like that. Sorry if I disappointed you. I don't have chapter 7 finished yet, so you may have to wait a bit, but please review this chappie, and I shall try to update as soon as I can. REVIEW!