Chapter 10
Serpent walked silently down the halls… or so she thought.
"Who's there, Serpent?" Logan's voice echoed through the hallway.
Go invisible again. Visi instructed, diving into her Battle Bubble and unleashing her mutation into Serpent.
"I'm sorry Logan." Serpent whispered, walking down the stairs.
Logan looked around confused and sniffed the air cautiously. When nothing came up, he continued down the hallway towards Xavier's office.
Serpent walked as silently as she could once more down the long, silver hallway until she reached the door to Cerebro.
Okay, I just need you to put your hands on the metal stuff and I can open it with electricity! Elect stated happily.
"I'm going to be in so much trouble." Serpent said, placing her hands on the metal door.
How long is this going to take? Ty asked. The purple haired voice made a face at her while she looked over the electrical components of the machine.
Hold your horse's girl, I'm working on it!
On the streets of New York…Lisa was sitting in a small café, looking at a picture of her and Serpent that was in her wallet. A few more tears escaped her golden eyes and disrupted the hologram, but not enough for people to see her green scales.
"I'm sorry, miss, but we're closin' soon. You're gonna have to leave." the waitress said, standing in front of Lisa's table.
The mutant was about to reply, when screams were heard out on the streets and the sound of metal moving stopped her.
"Oh no," Lisa whispered, grabbing her bag and rushing out the front door, only to find Magneto flying down to the city. "He's found me!"
Back at the school…Serpent had small beads of sweat growing on her face with the concentration on her power.
Done! Elect stated triumphantly as the door to Cerebro opened with a: "Welcome Serpent" instead of Professor. See that was my idea.
Serpent walked in, while turning visible again, she kneeled down in front of the machine and just stared at it.
Meanwhile…In the game room, Ricky's head was beginning to hurt as one of the ghosts of the mansion tried to talk to him. He sighed and walked out into the hall, only to be met with the ghostly pale figure of a woman, he winced slightly as his eyes went a milky white to get a clear picture of the spirit in front of him. He smiled when he looked up to see a red headed woman, looking slightly frazzled.
"Ricky, I need you to tell the professor something for me, all right?" the woman asked. Ricky nodded and smiled at the ghost. "The new student there, Serpent…"
"I know her, met her in the medical bay a few days ago, she's really nice." Ricky interrupted.
The ghost looked a bit flustered. "Yes, I know, but that's aside the point."
"Then what is the point of you talking to me, my head's starting to hurt." Ricky complained, rubbing his head slightly.
"Serpent is using Cerebro!" the ghost cut in, not wanting to get interrupted again. "She's using it to find her friend, Lisa, who ran away a few hours ago."
Ricky opened his milky white eyes wide. "I'll go tell the professor right away!" he called, running down the long hallways, trying not to get hit by the passing students. He sighed in relief as his eyes went back to normal and he burst into Xavier's office where, much to his luck, were most of the teachers.
"Hello Ricky, what brings you here?" Xavier asked.
Ricky panted for breath. "S-Serpent."
Logan's head snapped up from his light daze at his sister's name. "What's wrong with her?"
"She's using Cerebro to try and find her friend, Lisa I think, who ran away." Ricky finished, getting slightly intimidated by Logan.
"How do you know this?" Scott asked.
"A ghost told me," Ricky replied, thankful that for once, his mutation proved to be helpful instead of being just a pain. "Her name is Jean, Jean Grey."
Cerebro…Serpent took a deep breath and set the hat-like-thing slowly onto her head.
"Ty, make this work." Serpent said, closing her now black eyes in order to focus as the whole of New York began to turn a few shades darker.
Rogue and Adrian were talking in the kitchen with Storm, the only one who hadn't been in the office, when Rogue noticed a shadow was beginning to cover everything.
"Storm, what's happening?" Rogue asked in a slight panic.
The weather goddess looked around as everything was now consumed in it. "I'm not sure, you two go make sure that it's not one of the children and I'll go see the Professor."
Rogue was about to run out of the room, when a thought came to mind. "Storm, I don't think it's one of the usual students… I think it's Serpent. Whenever she's connecting to someone or something, it's covered in a shadow."
Storm shook her head. "Professor Xavier said that her telepathic mutation isn't strong enough to go farther than a span of ten feet."
"What if," Adrian started to say, thinking carefully, "what if she were to use Cerebro?"
"That is exactly what she is doing, Adrian." Xavier said, wheeling into the room with Scott, Logan and Dr. McCoy following him. "Come, we must get to her before it is too late."
Back to Lisa…The scaled mutant whimpered in spite of herself as Magneto and his Brotherhood began to walk towards her.
Pyro smirked at her as he began to play with his lighter.
"What do you want from me?" Lisa called out, watching them advance more onto her spot, she began slowly backing up.
"Only for you to join my little group, Lisa, a place where you can be yourself." Magneto said sweetly. Lisa made a face and was about to reply when the city was covered by a strange shadow, and her watch began sparking.
Lisa! Serpent's voice cried out inside her head as the watch broke, causing her scales to become visible again.
Lisa began running down the street, dodging screaming people and cars. She turned down another street, only to be met by the police pointing their guns at her.
"Put your hands up, mutant, and we won't hurt ya!" one of them yelled.
"Hey! Leave the green girl alone!" a bubbly voice called out.
Lisa turned her head towards the source of the voice and saw that it was Elect, with her short purple hair, shorts and tank top, and a whip strapped to her hip in the back of the formation. In the front was Hope; in her usual white outfit with her staff; to her right was Ty and her two scythes. To her left was Blaze, with a long sword held in her left-gloved hand and her long red hair blowing in the breeze. Frost and Visi were behind her, with nothing in their hands, only their powers and martial arts. Ani wasn't there, she didn't like fighting or using her powers to make animals do things for her, therefore, she stayed back in Serpent's head.
"You heard her, leave the mutant alone!" Hope demanded in a harsh, loud voice. She turned and nodded to Ty, who reached out with what little strength she still had left of her telepathic mutation and commanded the police to leave, which they quickly did.
"You may have defeated the humans, but how are you against your fellow mutants?" Pyro asked, flicking his lighter open and collecting the fire from it.
"Lisa, get back to the school! Blaze, take the fire," Hope commanded, telling the others who to take on. Lisa was quick to obey Hope, as she ran quickly in the opposite direction.
"You think you can defeat me, what is your mutation?" Pyro asked Blaze as she walked towards him.
"Do you really want to know?" Blaze asked in a deadly low voice, flaming up the sword she held. "I think that's self-explanatory, don't you?"
While the voices were fighting the Brotherhood, Lisa was running as fast as she could away from the battle, with Mystique following her every move.
"Why do you always run, Lisa?" she asked as Lisa ran down another street only to face a dead end.
"I run because I have nothing better to do," replied Lisa casually, not wanting to betray her real feelings of fear.
Mystique attacked and Lisa did her best to fend off the taller, older, more experienced mutant, her tail did most of the fighting. Mystique threw Lisa up against the brick wall of the building beside her, and while Lisa was trying to get back up, Mystique shifted into the form of Carol and picked up a nearby dumpster with her super strength.
Lisa curled up into a ball and tried to protect herself as Mystique/Carol held it above her. She waited for it to drop, but a small explosion made her look up, just in time to watch someone run into the alley and see the dumpster fall onto her right leg. It didn't crush it, as it would have a normal person, because of her tough hid and bones, but when she tried to move it to stand up, it made a sickening crack and then she couldn't feel it. She fell back against the pavement in pain.
Whoever it was who defeated Mystique, knelt down beside her and began to stroke her green hair. She slowly opened her reptilian eyes and looked upwards.
"Remy?" she asked weakly.
The sly Cajun smirked. "Oui, Remy LeBeau at your service. Anythin' else Remy could do for y'?"
Lisa never got to respond, as a few more figures appeared in the entrance of the alley, Remy stood up and reached into his trench coat for his deck of cards.
"Logan?" Lisa asked, not wanting to move from her spot on the ground. "Remy, don't hurt them, they're my friends."
The Cajun looked them over from behind his dark sunglasses. "Dese be y're friends, petite?"
"Yup, and we're here to take you back home, Lisa." Logan replied, causing Lisa to sigh in relief.
In the jet on the way back to the school…Logan had managed to lift the heavy object off of Lisa's leg with some difficulty, and they were finally on their way back to the school.
"I'm sorry, Lisa, but your leg is broken, in two places actually." Storm stated, as she checked the young mutant's injuries.
"So, how do you two know each other?" Logan asked, gesturing from Lisa to Remy.
"I used to own a store in the Mutant Mall, and Remy here would always come by to buy stuff." Lisa replied from her spot on a stretcher.
"Never met de fille dat owned it tho', dat Serpent girl." Remy said, sitting casually on the seat along the wall. "Remy met Stormy tho'."
"It's a long story," Storm explained, seeing the confused look on Lisa's face. "I'll probably tell you sometime."
"Where is Serpy, anyway?" Lisa asked, feeling rather tired at the moment.
Storm and Logan exchanged wearied glances. "What, what happened to her? What did she do?" Lisa asked, in a slight panic as she tried to sit up.
"She used Cerebro to find you, Lisa." Logan said quietly, causing Lisa's eyes to open wide. "By the time we got into it, she only managed to send me a mental map of your location before going unconscious."
"But, but, but using that much of her telepathic mutation could have killed her." Lisa said quietly. "This isn't going to be pretty when she wakes up."
"Why?" Storm asked, setting Lisa's leg as best she could.
"Because she nearly killed herself trying to find me." Lisa replied.
"Why did y' run away in de firs' place?" Remy asked.
Lisa cast her gaze downwards. "I think that's a story for another time, Remy." She replied as the jet finally landed. "How is Serpent?"
Storm smiled at the young mutant. "You can ask her yourself, when you wake up." she replied softly.
Lisa was about to protest, but then Storm placed something filled with sleeping gas over her mouth, and she fell into a deep sleep.
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