Chapter 3: The Mutie Dinner
You may find humor in this story at parts, but don't forget the seriousness of their situation. I like to put humor in it, but that's only certain times. This is not at all meant to be a parody.
Robert squirmed uncomfertabley in the backseat of Bobby's car. It had been so long since he had last ridden in car, it was kind of fun. The car was filled with akward silence, nobody said anything, Robert and Samantha just looked out the windows at the world rushing around them. Robert and Samantha jumped at the sound of Bobby's voice.
"Tonight we're going to have introductions from the other students. That should be pretty intresting, you've probably haven't had any human contact in a while, have you?"
Before Samantha could answer, a rumble came from the car and it stopped, right in the middle of the road.
"Ahhh dammit!"
"Don't worry I got it..." Samntha said confidently as she stepped out of the car. Bobby's car was the essecence of crap. Samantha was suprised it even made it as long as it did. It was an old cadillac, the paint chipped off, rust was devouring the old thing. Samantha made a small wave of her hand and a huge clicking was heard from the engine. Samantha triumphently got back in the car, Bobby slammed on the gas and they were on their way.
"We're here!" Bobby said proudly, and beamed as he pointed to an abandoned, broken down house. Robert looked in disgust, and disbelief. This was their new home. Samantha felt deflated. She was expecting something grand, a mansion. Bobby walked up to the door and pressed a little button disguised in the wall. A little pedastal raised out of the wall, he placed his hand on it, it receeded. The front door slid open, Bobby stepped in.
"C'mon, hurry up!" Bobby said annoyed. Robert and Samntha stepped in with him, the doors slid closed. Robert felt the room move swiftly down, an elevator. It came to an abrupt stop, and the doors slid open. Something was directly in front of Robert, and it started to talk. It scared the holy crap out of Robert, who threw a punch (see...I just had to put this part in here...I couldn't resist!)
"Hi, I'm Scott Sum-" He was interrupted by a puch to the side of his head, the man stumbled back. His dark sunglasses flew off his face, a bright red beam of energy flew out of his eyes and into a chair, which exploded. Robert grinned somewhat, and laughed. Scott gave him a dirty look as he quickly put on another pair of sunglasses and said "Like I was saying, my name is Scott Summers. I run this school for mutants and I welcome you. You probably all saw my power thanks to this fiesty little boy!" Scott said, patting Robert's head. Robert clenched his fists in anger.
"Fiesty? FIESTY? I'LL SHOW YOU FIESTY!" Samantha backed away from Robert. His unnatural hate for Scott was amazing. She hadn't seen anything like it before. Bobby had already jumped out of the little elevator. Another punch to Scott's face, this time the floor took the damage, leaving a scorching hole.
"STOP HITTING ME!" Scott yelled, his hate towards Robert already established. "Now listen, in an hour, we're going to have a ceremonial dinner, where you are to give a demonstration, and your name, plus anything else you'd like to add. Ok? And Robert, make sure you take a shower, you smell funny."
Robert prepared to sock Scott again, but Samantha stopped him.
"Let it go...c'mon" Samntha said soothingly.
They stepped out of the elevator, and saw the true magnifigance of the mansion. Beautiful chandelears hung from the ceiling, and were beautifully lit up. The hard wood floor was shiny, Robert could see his reflection in it. The walls were also wood, but not quite as shiny, but still, the overall appearence was grand, it made it feel warm and at home.
Bobby came around the corner. I'll show you the way to your rooms. Good job punhing Scott, Robert. That's something i've always wanted to do. But you got to do it twice. Now there's a treat."
Robert and Samantha followed him through a light of stairs and a long hallway, when he stopped.
"Ok, here's your room. I hope you will find it rather comferable. I'll be back up here in an hour, make sure you like nice too. And please do take a shower." With that, Bobby turned away and walked back down stairs. Samantha rushed into the bathroom to take a shower.
"Hey, not fair at all..." Robert complained childishly.
Robert had a look at the pretty large room. It had everything he never did. A computer sat on a desk, a mini cooler sat on the nice plush carpet. There was a giant bed in the middle of the room, it looked like it was meant for a king, rich red blankets were laid on it. Even a fairly nice t.v. was attached to the wall. He walked over to the closet, and pulled out a few shirts he thought were cool. To his suprise, they fit him exactly. Robert really started to wonder how the school acquired all of these pleasures, it seemed impossible. He picked out a new outfit to wear and laid it out, awaitng for Samantha to finish up.
The bathroom door flew open, steam swirled out around Samantha's feet. Robort was stunned. A decade of filth and L.A. atomosphere had been removed from her, her skin was a nice glowy tan color. She was in a pair of new jeans, and wore a longsleeve shirt with a dragon on it. She even took the time to paint her nails, green with blue stars in the middle. She smiled at the fact she was actually clean. She still looked a bit malnutrioned, but her frame was still muscular and intimidating.
"Ok your turn!" Samantha said cheerfully.
"O.K." Robort said and ran into the bathroom.
25 minutes later, Robert came out, also rather refreshed. He had a pair of jeans and a short sleeve shirt with a pack of wolves on it. His hair was cut nicely, and was combed back. Robert's frame was a bit more bony than Samantha's, but still had an abnormal amount of strength due to his mutant power. He actually wore a true smile, proud of how he looked. Still it was noticable that he was malnutritioned, huge black bags were under his eyes from the lack of sleep, and vitamin deficiency.
"Time to go! C'mon!" Bobby said through the door.
"O.K. we'll be right down!" Samantha yelled back.
As they approached downstairs, a delictable smell came into their noses. They both started wondering when the last filling meal had came their way. They were ravenous, after having to satiate their appitite with refined foods, and other inexpensive crap.
A huge table was spread out where they had enetered earlier. A small stage was set up in front of the table, a tall muscular man wit white hair and a glowy white eye was standing up there, shuffling some papers, tapping the microphone, making sure everything was in a working order. The table had was full of a buch of intresting looking teens. Samantha sat next to a minute little man, who resmebled some type of insect. Robert sat down next to Samantha, an exetremely obese boy sat next to him. He glanced down the rest of the table, noticing three girls, appearently triplets, a red headed girl, and a lean bodied teen guy, and some type of horribley disfigured man, long claw nails, rows of teeth that resembled a sharks.
Samantha suddenly noticed the piles of food on top of the table, huge platters of it. Almost every kind of food she liked. She reached out to the nearest platter of food, which happened to be a turkey leg. She was starting to pull it back when a little hand grabbed onto it and pulled it away. Samantha looked up with rage, and saw that the little turkey grabbing hand belonged to a miniature boy, short white hair, frail little body. He bit into the turkey leg greedily, and sneered at Samantha. Robert looked over and saw Samantha's hands moving conspiculously. He tapped her on the back, she turned around and Robert simply nodded no. She bit her lip and stopped.
Suddenly a voice that Robert wanted to punch filled the room. Scott.
"Hello all! Welcome to Xavier's Los Angeles School For the Gifted. We'll be giving presnetations in a minute, but we'd better feed you first! Hahahahaha!" The room erupted with laughter, Robert stared unimpressed at Scott.
"Seriously though, you all need to eat, being malnutriened and all.This is the school where you can learn to use and expand your powers. Guarenteed no humans will ever discover this place. Before we get to introductions, I'd like to introduce the other teachers of this school. I'm Scott, you may call me Cyclops when in battle or the danger room."
Bobby walked onto stage. "Hi, I'm Bobby Drake! Iceman when in combat or danger room.I beleive I'm the most fun of all three teachers here, so feel free to joke around."
The burly white haired man with the glowy eye walked onto the stage. "I'm Cable." Cable stated simply. Scott gave him a look and walked back to the microphone.
"Alright, who want's to go first?" Scott said, with a bright smile. Before anyone else could even consider going first, Zach rushed onto the stage.
"Hello fans..." appearently he was a bit of a ham also. "My name's Zachary Adams, 14. And my power, much better than the rest of yours, is to turn into humanoid insects. Watch!"
Zach closed his little eyes and concentrated. His skin became shiny and black, a shell. His face mutated groutesquely, his body doubled in size. Two pairs of insect arms burst out of his side. He was a giant beetle, but stood tall and resmebled a man/bug. He concentrated again and he was back into his little body. He walked off stage, grinning. Samantha stared unimpressed at the kid.
Robert was stuffing his face greedily, even the large boy next to him looked at him disapprovingly. Robert ignored it and continued eating. The triplets walked up, their steps in unison.
The one with black hair bun spoke first. "Hi. We're the Walter sisters, all 16! I'm Eliza!" The one with a ponytail spoke next. "I'm Barbara Walters." Then the one with long black hair spoke. " I'm Jessica Walters." "Our powers are Earth, Wind And Fire." They said together. Eliza stuck out her hands, a small pile of pebbles appeared in her hands. Barbara stuck out her hands and cast a small breeze across the table. Jessica stuck out her hands, a small flame appeared. Then they all walked off stage, smiling.
The lean bodied guy dashed onto stage next. "Ello" He said with a scotish accent."I'm Tom McMayhan, 16. I have super speed and the ability to make energy arrows. WATCH!"A bow appeared in his hand, glowy green, he pulled an arrow out of nowhere and shot it at Scott. Moments before it punctured the meat ball of what was Scott's head, Tom had caught it. He dashed to his seat, igoring the loud profanities coming from Scott.
Robert couldn't help stifle his laughter. Scott gave him a vengeful look and shook his fist at him, Robert managed to stifle his laughter. Scott smirked evilly. "Hey Robert, why don't you go next?"
"Ummm... okay.." Robert said reluctently, and got up and walked onto the stage.
"Hi everyone. I'm Robert Smith, 15. Now watch this. I have very sensitive senses, very agile and very strong. But all these are amplified once I turn into a wolf..." Robert trailed off, concentrating. He tried his hardest to show off as his wolf like features took place. He tightened all his muscles and gave an ear shattering roar for show.. Scott looked at him unimpressed. Robert walked back to his seat as he transformed back, letting the amazed glances go to his head.
Samantha laughed once he took a seat, she knew he was doing it all for show. "No Robert, you did it wrong, this is how you do it." She said, and walked onto stage. "Hello everyone, I'm Samantha Smith, 15, and I have the power to kill all of you!" Samantha said smiling cutely. She let it sink in for a second before she continued. "Seriously, I have the power to change the probabitlity of things. Like the chance of Zach's plate breaking right now? Probably not that high at all. Now watch." Samantha snapped her fingers and Zach's plate shattered, his food splattering all over him. Samantha smiled at him and took her seat, ignoring the angry gestures towards her. "See Robert, that's how it's down." Scott looked disprovingly at her.
The readhead girl walked on the stage, slowly and elegantly. "Hello. I'm Katie Brudd, 18. I have the power of waste. A clean glass of water, poisened, fresh food, rotting. Hence the gloves. It can be fatal to a human if I touch them long enough. Watch." She grabbed a glass of water and took off her glove. There was no fingernail, just a white finger. She dipped it in the water, witch became green as fungeses grew inside it. Katie then walked off stage and sat down non-chalently.
The large boy next to him stood up with some grunting, and slowly hobbled unto the stage, which threatened to crack open."Hi. I'm Adam Welch, 19. I have the power to turn into pure rock, granting me super strength. I'd rather not show you right now, I'm afraid this little stage may break. Thank you." Adam shuffled off the stage and a minute later was grunting, trying to get back in his seat.
The last teen, the horribley disfigured kid, walked up the stage hastily. "Hi. I'm Carl Carplos, and as you can see, I have plenty of physical mutations. My nails and teeth can inject a deadly acid which melts things. I have to be very careful with them, somebody's gonna end up hurt." He tapped the little stand in front of him,his claw stuck in the wood, it melted like wax in a fire. Scott look disheartend at him, and came back up to the stage.
"Well... all of your powers were very... intresting. I hope you all have a wonderful night here tonight, you have to go to your rooms now, but you don't have to go to bed. See you all bright and early then!" Scott smiled and waved, everyone began to disperse at the table.
Robert and Samantha fell asleep almost instantly once they hit their beds.