Chapter 2
Disclaimer: Once again, I do not own any of these characters that are in the Marvel universe…
With that, Marie turned around and thought she was going to walk off.
"Well, looks like someone's developed their ability." Logan said.
"Uh… Um…" Marie stuttered.
Logan grabbed his daughter by the arm and started walking with her towards the school.
"Where are we going?" Marie asked.
"Well, I'm proud of you, but I'm pretty mad at you too." Logan said. "We're going to the danger room."
Logan picked a small cell phone out of his shirt pocket and pressed a speed-dial number. He waited a moment.
"Hey, Professor, Marie's developed some sort of power or… powers, here. Can you meet me in the danger room?" Logan spoke over the phone. He waited a few moments and then clicked his phone.
"So… I get to use the danger room!" Marie said, excitedly.
"Yeah, kiddo. Finally… right?" Logan laughed.
Marie, jokingly punched her dad in the shoulder. Immediately her dads arm swelled up and turned purple.
"Super strength?" her dad said, rubbing his shoulder. Quickly, his arm turned back to it's dark tan hue.
"Sorry about that, dad." she half-smiled. She really didn't know what her ability was. Not yet. She hoped that the Professor and her parents could help her figure it all out.
When they got to the danger room, Logan set his daughter up in the large metallic room. Professor Xavier and Ororo soon walked in.
"So, what do you suppose Marie's ability is?" Ororo asked her husband. She leaned closer to him and locker her arm with his.
"I'm not sure. It seems like super strength, but it's also more than that. She destroyed one of the basketball courts." Logan told his wife.
"What?" Ororo laughed. "You're joking, right? I mean, female mutants don't usually have… super strength!"
"Well, I saw what I saw. We'll see what it is, though. Just wait." Logan said.
Pretty soon, Professor X had started the training demo. He fired up a large scene, put in two sentinels which, where quite small to say the least, and waited for Marie to attack, or defend. Whichever she was good at doing.
"Okay, Marie." the Professor said over the intercom. "The idea is to find a way to destroy a sentinel. This should be quite easy."
Marie stood there. She watched as two sentinels landed in front of her. Each one was about eight feet tall.
The first sentinel stepped forward. "You are under arrest, mutant!" it said in a robotic voice.
"Ha! I don't think so!" Marie laughed. Before the sentinel could even make a move, Marie had jumped into the air and flipped over the sentinel. She landed then, behind the large robot and grabbed it's legs. She quickly crushed them in her hands and then jumped back into the air. This time, she landed on top of the sentinels head and crushed it into it's body. She grabbed at a few wires and ripped them out, exposing electricity to the area around her.
The sentinel dropped to the ground. The next sentinel flew up into the air out of her reach.
"Marie, try and find a way to lure the sentinel down to you." the Professor said over the intercom.
Marie grabbed at a nearby telephone pole. She started rubbing it, trying to crush it. It wasn't working! She tried harder and harder.
The sentinel zoomed closer to her. It's hands in an attack form. It's palms grew to be a glowing yellow color.
Marie turned around right in time to see the glowing yellow extend out of the sentinel's hand and hit her.
Marie lay there. It seemed like it had been an hour before she got up. Though, it was only a minute… She stood up. She sentinel was picking her up. All of the sudden, out of nowhere, her hands formed into a ball and instantly, the sentinel exploded. She dropped to the ground and looked around.
She looked upwards. "Professor? I'd like to further my practice. Is that okay?"
"Yes indeed," came the voice over the intercom. "I'm very surprised at what you've done so far."
Pretty soon, a whole band of thugs came out of nowhere. She was now in a back ally. She jumped over their heads and smashed into the side of a wall. She ricocheted off of it and smashed into the opposite wall. The bricks in the walls started to rattle. She jumped back down to the ground and slammed it. Four large pieces of tar popped off of the ground and where sent flying up into the air, with three of the thugs on them.
"Hey!" one of them yelled. He took out a gun and shot.
Marie quickly tried to jump out of the way, but she instantly felt the bullet pierce her leg. She dropped to the ground and watched in horror as the walls crashed down, releasing the whole group of bricks on top of her and the thugs.
An hour later, she woke up. This time, she was on a small cot in the nurses office.
She raised her head and looked around.
The nurse walked out of the corner of the room. Or, maybe not. Kitty Rasputin walked through the walls and towards Marie.
"How are you feeling?" Kitty asked.
"Not to good. I have this head banging headache. I mean, this doesn't make sense. My powers…"
"Yeah, I heard. You seem to be like the mutant 'Lifeguard', except you have a few differences. Has your mother ever told you about her?"
Marie shook her head. "No. Never heard of her."
"Hmm." Kitty sighed. "Well, I guess you better head off to the cafeteria. Supper will be served in a few minutes.
With that, Marie got up and headed out the door.