Act - On Impulse
Disclaimer: Trust me if they were mine it wouldn't have been Kitty Lance went after...get my drift?
Archive: Ask and thou shalt probably receive
Rating: A saucy R as in Frrrrrrrrrrrrrriendly! (I'll get a boot in the head for that one I know it)
Couples: Lance/Scott (mainly)
Warnings: SLASH ergo: Do not read if it squicks you - - - Like D'uhhhhhhhhhhh! Oh and its pretty much completely AU.
Dedications: I suppose to Fallen Angel Overlord for convincing me to write and helping me, to Morwen because I love her fics even if she has no clue who the hell I am. To BatE because her fics rule also, but she doesn't know who I am. And many other writers I've read...corny or what? But seriously the above-mentioned writers sort of inspired me to scribble slash! So I owe them that much! READ THEIR FICS! After this one...of course.
Summary: Lance and Scott 5 years on...and still pigheaded. Thank heavens for odd reunions. Plus: What became of the teams!
Notes: Thanks to Fallen Angel Overlord for creating the character Philippe/Macabre for me and giving me all the other characters in the Brotherhood from his twisted mind. Mucho Gracias to Xwriter for letting me use Dana Harvey/ Magnetix coz I like her...yes I do! And also letting me use Rae/Psionic. His fic can be found at (remaining un-updated for, like, 3 years. And it was a good site too.)
---Thoughts---
---God I hate reunions--- Scott kicked the balloon and watched Duncan and his wife Adriana (he'd never thought Duncan would marry a mutant but the blue skinned Green haired woman had won his heart after The Blockades). Duncan was still the hero he'd always been.
And Scott was one of the X-terminators. He'd wiped out the evil mutants with a band of humans and mutants alike. Destroyed the Monster sentinels and battled the Four Horsemen... the Horsemen. Angel had broken free of that...but at a price. Rogue had become Death for a while after she drained him and broken the brainwashing. During the Second incarnation (a freaking month after the X-terminators destroyed the first bunch, they couldn't catch a break). Wolverine had been forced to be War and two Morlocks had wound up as Pestilence and Famine.
They'd freed Death and War and ended the other two. War I was buried under three buildings. Pestilence I had fallen off a bridge thanks to Rae and his Psionic blitzkrieg that hadn't just dropped her into the middle of traffic but also collapsed a few bricks on her. Famine I ...messy Kitty had phased the woman's cerebral systems out and kicked her into a river to drown. Then the other two Morlocks...one had all the Iron in his blood torn out by Dana. And the other was beaten to death by Mystique.
Now here he was, a year later in Bayville, in the repaired school and watching the people from his class, the people who'd survived the Blockades...happy to relive their youth. Most of the X-terminators had disappeared to rest.
"Scooter" Scott turned and felt his jaw hit an unfortunate Panda somewhere in China.
Lance was standing there, slightly shorter hair, same skin, eyes and body. But weathered and tired...sad. Of course, Natasha.
"Hey" Scott managed at last. "I – uh – I thought you..."
"Were dead?" grinned Lance. "Course not Scooter, Magneto hit Genosha hard, but I created a tunnel at Xavier's orders. We all got out okay, but that moron of a commander insisted the others run out. I was about to leave when one of the women went into labour. I stayed. They died and I only just got through the red tape. Miss me from the X-terminators?"
"Yes" Scott said too quickly. "I mean, the team was without you...during the clean ups. Xavier said you might be dead but we trusted our guts..."
"Xavier still kicking?"
"Yeah" smiled Scott. "Want to Walk?"
"Very much" nodded Lance. "Duncan's dancing is nice and all and the fact pretty much all-mutant hate has been erased is...good but...the man has a very undesirable wiggle".
Scott put the cup down, straightened his jacket and nodded towards the doors. He and Lance walked out of the old gym and around the scorched school.
"So...hear from the others?" Scott asked.
"Not really" Lance said. "I was stuck in Genosha, I heard about them finally finding Magneto's body. Kinda relieving." He shrugged. "So how's everyone?"
Scott laughed. "You asked a Mouthful!" he grinned.
"Spill" shrugged Lance.
"Okay...Kitty and Dom are working together...you'll be listening to him blubbering about his broken balls soon enough, ehh, metaphorically and maybe physically" he grinned.
"My cousin has no idea what he's in for"
"He's a rock-tumbler just like you Lance, he'll be fine"
"Yeah but Kitty's little-miss-ninja now" Lance said. "Natasha always said that a Petros man never stood a chance against a woman who could hi-kick"
Scott shrugged. Dominic Petros... Quake, currently the owner of a magazine publishing company. He and Lance had once been identical in powers. Now Dominic disintegrated rocks too (and even steel). And he was a partner with Kitty Pryde the toughest editor in Glamour! Magazine history! His resemblance to Lance was pretty impressive too. Kitty's powers had leapfrogged; she'd learned how to speed her molecules up and slow those of others she touched and suddenly turned into a ninja with some training and a lot of air walking to perform flips. She'd even stopped abusing the word LIKE.
The Catalyst had made all the X-terminators fully develop...their powers increased to unforeseen levels. And they'd won the day.
"Dana's got a recording-modelling-and-acting deal," said Scott. "And she doesn't need a bodyguard, she publicly threatened to magnetize a man to a moving train if he didn't stop harassing her at a press conference. And suddenly purple is all the rage" he smiled, remembering the feisty Londoner and niece to Sean Cassidy. Dana Harvey... superstar, supermodel and superheroine.
"Yeah I heard, that song...Adrift? Pretty good" Lance mused staring at Scott's shades thoughtfully. "Fred is a huge fan. He plays her music at all his shows". Fred Dukes had gained full density control after the Catalyst, he'd gone back to the Monster Truck circuit, driving and performing. People still loved his show, especially the rodeo clowns.
"And Evan and Pietro are getting hitched next February" smiled Scott. "Evan's signed a deal with some soft drinks company, one of Warren's who's still blue but his bloods saving lives since he started donating and Pi..."
"And Pietro's running a courier service...Quickie Couriers? That is such a laugh... but accurate too" Lance smirked. "Who know what "tips" he gets"
"He's cocky but faithful," chided Scott. "We both know it".
Evan had gained control over his mutation and learned how to shape his spikes even more then before. Pietro had gotten slightly faster and even learned how to speed his molecules up in a sort of phase vibration. Though he got a lot of complaints for his occasional sonic boom.
Either that or he needed to change his diet.
"How's Rae?" asked Lance.
"Angelo's telepathic tangle saved his sanity. Destroyed the schizophrenia and gave Rae his brother back. Rae and Angelo opened a business empire with their trust funds. Angelo's marrying Dream at some point but he put that ring on her finger the Day Of Operation Catalyst".
"Still no date?"
The telepathic, telekinetic twins Michelangelo and Raphael De Marquez were incredibly powerful and now that Angelo was himself again his lethal lieutenant had become his #1 woman. Rae was still single but people worked to rectify that. Their powers had jumped up, fused and gave them the strength they needed.
"Nope, Dream is working with the military to make sure all the Master Moulds are gone and negotiating a deal to get the world armies to join into a defence force against robots and...well...aliens" Scott said. They were out there. Believe it.
"You mean there might be some Sentinels left?"
"There's always that chance" sighed Scott sadly. Dream the polymorph who could copy DNA had gained the ability to morph even bigger and better then before, even increase and decrease her mass and density somehow.
"Can you believe Todd is marrying Woodstock Chapman?" smiled Lance. Cheering the mood. "As in Woodstock-The-Moth-Chapman?"
"I can't believe he has women throwing themselves at him since he was in the newspapers" smiled Scott.
The Catalyst had affected Toad physically in a bizarre way. The looks he felt he never had, which had stopped him being charismatic, came to him, made him sleeker and stronger. Given him a boost.
Plus Woodstock had insisted he bathe more often.
Woodstock was the daughter of two hippies, she had been able to transform to various forms of an insect and in the end, through the catalyst, been able to become her fully evolved form, a woman butterfly with great power. Her link had been with the Brotherhood and always been the soothing voice...that'd fallen in love with Todd Tolansky even before he became pretty, well...damn handsome.
Toad was settling into suburbia nicely with Woodstock. He had a job teaching PE. Woodstock sold herbal remedies and worked in their garden. She blatantly refused to cell marijuana. "They're living in Boston, aren't they? In a small suburban white picket fence setting...weird, huh?"
"Well not if you consider Toad's libido, it normalizes the image by reminding you that they probably..."
"Mental image...actually not all that disturbing now" Lance mused. That caught Scott's attention but Lance had moved on. "Alex and Johnny are running that cruise ship in Hawaii right?"
"Yip" Scott said, his mind still preoccupied as he and Lance walked into the old school. Down the halls, there were bullet holes and such still in the walls but the economy had yet to recover...
"Johnny Tsunami and Havok" chuckled Lance. "A pair of surfer dudes through and through..."
"They were helpful ending the Blockades" Scott mused. "They surfed into the Fortress and Johnny riptide-ed the generators"
"What morons would keep back up generators beside water?" sighed Lance.
"The morons that caused unequalled damage to the Global economy and cities of the world" Scott said darkly. He looked down at his feet. "But they probably weren't expecting Havok and Tsunami"
Alex had lost the pain in his bones and limbs thanks to the Catalyst and gained much more control. Johnny Tsunami was a Hawaiian surfer with control over water, which he could also turn into. Thanks to the Catalyst he'd been able to control an entire lake into a giant demonic form. Now the pair had started a cruise ship hotel in Hawaii that toured the islands.
"Hey what happened to Frosty?" Lance asked.
"Bobby is working for the CIA" Scott said. "Screwing Pyro too...but I think that's because St. John's in the Pentagon and there's the rivalry..."
"Wow, lot of gay mutants"
"Is it relevant?"
"Not really."
Bobby had been strong before the power of the Catalyst; suddenly he could evaporate and reform or grow to a giant size in ice. He was pretty damn powerful. John had finally developed a power that didn't rely on having flames nearby. He could magnify heat, no matter how small and use it to shoot blasts at people. He'd even learned how to transform into raw heat or flame for short spans of time.
"What about Rogue and Gambit? I haven't heard much from them," Lance said.
"Rogue's a supermodel in case you haven't seen every major magazine. The whole new Dark and Brooding supermodel. She's actually sobered the industry, these days' preps are non-existent and everyone is their own person because she does her own thing. Plus she's a writer so that puts brains and beauty on the catwalk."
"And Gambit's running that casino?" Lance asked.
"Yeah but he travels after Rogue if she feels like doing a fashion show somewhere, follows her like a dog. I mean they broke up 10 or 12 times in five years!"
"Rogue creating individuals by using something she once loathed and considered vapid, empty and downright evil? People actually playing cards with Remy? Strange, strange world" Lance smiled. "Did you hear about Philippe? He's actually pursuing a dream"
"What?" Scott asked. Remembering the vampire of the Brotherhood team.
"Rogue" smiled Lance. "I thought you remembered they were rivals for her affections. To be honest she has more in common with vamp lad"
"Hmm" considered Scott. "Rogue's still a Goth angst machine and writer, but she's a feisty and famous supermodel...part Philippe-type and part Remy-type respectively."
Philippe had found himself no longer unable to control his feral rage. Not only that but he no longer needed to drain energy for strength and had even mastered his powers, he was even free to walk in direct sunlight without sunglasses or eye coverings.
Rogue had gained complete control and found herself able to touch people once more. She even went back to Cody for a brief period...until he was killed in action against a rogue sentinel. Rogue had blasted the thing to Kingdom Come with a rocket launcher and some colourful and creative words.
Remy's powers increased so he could charge himself with energy and even made his stamina and endurance peak. He was a kinetic energy battery and pretty damn tough.
"How about Kurt?" Lance asked. "The Blue dude was pretty tough"
"Yes, Kurt and his Circus act! Travelling the continents to bring joy to all, plus he's got a kid on the way" Scott said. "I caught a show, he's married Amanda and she's the ring mistress, I was surprised to see her using a whip and wearing fishnets but she's very different when the curtain goes down."
Kurt's teleportation range and the amount of people he could take had become even more powerful, he'd also found acceptance for what he looked like when the publics view on mutants changed for the better.
"Wolverine and ...Deathstrike...I mean Yuriko?" Lance asked as they peaked into the old chemistry lab.
"Researching Weapon X. It looks like they spent a lot of time in their lives together and she's not devoted to killing him anymore" chuckled Scott. "If I didn't know any better I'd say he was falling for her and her for him."
"Well he wasn't quite straight enough to be gay," Lance said. Another something in his eyes but he continued before Scott could ask about it. "Colossus is working to rebuild in Russia, I know that..." Colossus had gotten stronger and tougher with the Catalyst and even found he could heal his body as well as been given incredibly strong bones. "And Wanda is meditating for peace in Tibet". Wanda was trying to find her full powers through a journey of self-discovery by travelling the globe.
"Mystique and her orphanage" said Scott. "I heard and I fainted...okay my jaw dropped. Can you believe the woman has a soft spot for children?"
"She's reliving her childhood through them. She's also working for the government I believe," added Lance. "She opened the Adler home and she's..."
"Working for the CIA in the special Anti-Terrorism branch that deals with the weird and the wonderful. Specifically evil mutants, destructive robots, old government projects that are unleashed, anti-mutant plots and genetic tampering"
"How do you know all that?" asked Lance.
"She's my Boss," replied Scott. "She's actually not all that bad, just really cold-hearted and manipulative...but she knows what she's doing and she's dedicated to making mutant rights last so she does her best so no one can say she did her worst."
"Boss...ow"
Lance and Scott walked into the principal's office, it was empty, and the school wasn't ready to be opened again, not just yet.
"Irene's remembrance ceremony is in a few weeks I would have gone there but then I heard you would be here to Remember The First Day by being at this pseudo-reunion thing so I decided I'd catch it" Lance said walking around the room.
"Yeah I lost the bet. You know, I bet it was rigged!"
Lance grinned. "So...I'm living in Genosha now...have a place in San Francisco and I'm happily single...man this place brings back memories"
"What are you doing with your free time out of the X-terminators?"
"Working on rebuilding whatever was destroyed in Genosha..." he stopped. "I remember we had to destroy Phoenix," he said slowly. "Every time I go to the mountaintop... I see the place the Fortress was, its old island"
"Jean murdered Irene, aided the forces of evil and had hundreds killed because she got a dose of too much power. We did what we had to. How's Natasha?"
"Fine" Lance said, thinking of his cousin Natasha Petros. "She's on Genosha, working on locating mutants...helping them."
Operation Catalyst was a fresh memory even after a year. They'd broken into the fortress, gotten to Cerebra and used Natasha's powers to catalyse their individual powers. They destroyed the generals, Jean/Phoenix in their midst, and faced off against the evil guided by their mentor.
Their mentor...Cassandra Xavier, Charles's long lost sister.
It hadn't been over until Magneto and Xavier merged into Onslaught...and the humans had moved in, joining with the Mutants to hold Onslaught down...as the Sentinels were focused now on the two-in-one they'd once served to capture mutants. The Sentinels were defeated but by that time Cassandra had already amped up Cerebro and hit Onslaught with the joint minds of everyone on the planet – Magneto and Xavier had begun to squabble over the power and destroyed each other.
Cassandra was alive, working to build her own life after years trapped. Her body in a chamber under the school and her mind within her brothers. Most of the mutants were with her. Tabitha (the de-construction worker), Sam, Jubilee, etc.
Scott looked at Lance.
"Hey Lance," he said.
"Yeah Scooter?"
---Since when am I Scooter? ---
"What—How've you been?"
Lance walked towards Scott. Standing so close Scott could smell the cologne and the earthy scent that was Lance. "Hey, I'm fine Scooter...I'm an Architect now. Saving the world had its bonuses. I got myself a career"
---I could kiss him--- Lance thought. ---Just lean in and...NO! He's straight as a ruler and twice as regulated. Plus he's CIA, aren't they all libido-less? ---
---He's got nice lips...kinda pouty but thin and...so kissable...Whothewhatnow? Where did that come from? Did I think that! ---
"I have to be honest," Lance said. "When Kitty dumped me way back when... I was glad". Scott seemed slightly dazed but he nodded...he was thinking, debating. "We're actually close friends now, she's sassy and feisty and everything Philippe said she was deep down...just not evil. But I suppose he wasn't really either."
---Mmmmm Pretty--- Lance's brain was on another wavelength.
"Besides I used to have this...fantasy" he smiled.
"What was it?" Scott whispered.
"Well we, me and my crush, would for some reason end up being taken to the office and the principal would leave...and we'd make out like bandits on his desk... possibly more if I put my Alarm clock under the stairs."
"You and Kitty?"
"Unh-uh" Lance whispered as he leaned in. ---Sweet Jesus YES! --- "You".
The kiss was slow and hot and it made Lance go all tingly and fluffy in his gut. And it made Scott feel hot and need more and get really, really aggressive.
---Talk about roles reversed--- Scott's brain said. ---But what a way to reverse rolls---
Lance's hands were on his hips, snaking around him to pull him closer. "I waited forever for that" Lance managed when they broke free. "Since when are you gay by the way?"
"I'm kinda bi really" Scott shrugged. "You?"
"Ditto...didn't realize it until I saw you in your battle gear...then everything was out the window and I realized guys could be hot and I was denying it forever. And believe me, the leather battle suit you wore during the Blockades made for a HELL of a stronger quake. Sexual tension, geometric tension and nothing stays standing"
"Hmm" Scott said. "Actually I slept with a few guys"
"Ditto...who?"
"I don't know who you slept with!" exclaimed Scott. "What are you some sort of—yes you probably are"
"No who did you sleep with?"
"Ugh...this'll come back to bite me I know it" Scott said putting his forehead on Lance's shoulder. "Dfinukinan"
"Who?"
"Duncan" Scott repeated. "When we were pissed drunk. He's straight, but we did it a few times...meaningless, drunken and pretty ho-hum"
"Who else?"
Scott shook his head. "Guy called Jack Winters...and...I don't want to talk about it"
Lance didn't pry. "I slept with Pi," he said. "And might I state for the record that he's super fast at a lot of things but not the---more important ones"
"Uww" Scott said, musing at the thought. "I should call over and see him and Evan"
"You into that?"
"Possibly" shrugged Scott.
"What about...here?" Lance asked tilting his head at the office floor.
"Maybe" Scott said. "But—I – Am – Not – About – To – Put – Out – So – Easy"
He licked Lance's bottom lip and pulled away.
"Damn I am fucking Horny!" Lance moaned.
"Keep it in your trousers" Scott said as he opened the door. "I'm sceptical about you... I have to wonder if all you're after is Sex"
"I'm a guy of course I'm after sex"
Scott shrugged and walked away. "I'll catch you around" he called.
"Where do you live?"
Scott turned and faced him. "San Fran" he shrugged. "Maybe we'll meet each other there. I like Chinatown"
Lance watched him leave and pulled out his phone. He dialled the number.
"Hello?" a voice came.
"Kit Kat?"
"Lance!" the woman exclaimed. "I'm in the MIDDLE of my training! What have I told you, this time is phone free zone!"
"Then why do you keep it on?"
"I'm a working girl, gotta pay the rent, gotta make the cut and gotta keep business, what's the prob?" she asked.
"I just kissed...are you sitting down?"
"Kissed who? Details!"
"Scott Summers"
"HOLY SHIT!" now that was Un-Kitty-like. Even with her tougher persona.
"Yeah...I know! He seems to want me to pursue him," Lance said. "I mean I was at his side through all the shit during the Blockades and yet he thinks I want to screw and run!"
"Well how many people have you done in the past while?" Kitty asked.
"Hey, I was in hospital for a while" Lance said.
"So what? You screwed the doctors and the nurses! Bedside Manner my butt" snorted Kitty. "You want to get Scott?"
"Definitely"
"Be his friend, win him over..." he could hear Kitty's smile. "And try make him lust after you like you lust after him! I am so jealous" she sighed.
"Why?"
"Coz, all the good ones are either gay, married (not that it stops most of them) or intimidated when I break a cinderblock with my toes" she sniffed.
"Well...do you know how I can win Scott over?"
"Possibly" she said. "Do you want him?"
"Like oxygen"
"Then hop on a flight, the sooner you do, the sooner you can hop on him" Kitty grinned. "And maybe you'll kick some sense into your cousin. Does he not understand I HATE IT when people tell me I'm preppy? I am soooooooo over that!"
"Kitty...I'll see you soon"
"Okay, but I might have murdered my...you're not jerking off are you?"
"NO!"
"Well its just Scott rejected you..."
"Hey he didn't reject me, no one rejects me! He offered a challenge and I accept it"
"Talk to you when you get back" sighed Kitty. "And remember your manners around him, don't kill the spark of a chance just yet".
"Okay...thanks for the vote of confidence Kit"
"I know, I'm wonderful," she giggled. "Now scat I have training and meditation and layouts"
"Arrivederci"
"Ciao"
Lance hung up and removed his black jacket. He swung it over his waist area. ---Damn it Summers" he grumbled. "Couldn't you have at last had some sort of...gigantic overbite? Made oozing green acne? --- He grimaced.
He walked past the gym. Scott was at a podium, talking about how the world was a better place and would grow and survive because of the cooperation between mutants and humans. Everyone agreed, they all knew it and that was how it went. Lance liked this world, it was like his life made sense, after hell, seeing mutants and humans die because of hate...the only answer was for them to work together and...after the world saw death and destruction on the scale because of prejudice and that only working together could stop it...
Everyone found peace. Even Lance Alvers...the guy with the really hard groin...DAMN YOU SUMMERS!
He stomped towards his rental. ---Why are his cute lips and tight ass I knew I should have groped more haunting me! I knew I shouldn't have been coy about it! Now I'm living with regrets ---
He was going to get Scott Summers!
If It Was The Last Thing He Ever Did!
Finis?
Review me I crave it. Big thanks to Fallen Angel overlord because he helped me write it and I owe him big time. Should I continue? I had planned to kill multiple characters off but DAMN IT I love them all! Well not Jean she was a pain in the ass and MY GOD did she ever stop whining? And Charlie isn't as cool As Cassie! I know that I should have covered The Blockades and The Catalyst and all that in more detail
But I was in no mood...I needed some sort of mystery I guess
Now move your keester meester! Click the SUBMIT REVIEW up, Click GO! And REVIEW ME!
Ow! Okay! Thank you for the boot in the head Fallen Angel overlord...God we need to abbreviate that.
