The Legendary Man Himself: You're right; Mike is growing on Jean (as well as all the girls I suppose) in that little brother/confidant sort of way. He's the guy to vent to when you have a problem, an always-listening ear with a shoulder that you can cry on. And Lance, well him admitting that he was a coward just didn't ring true in my mind.
ldypebsaby: Yes, Nathan went out clubbing, what problems that might cause…
Mark C: What if Mike's not around to control his powers by the end of the story?
Mourning Star Under the Moon: I'll answer your questions in order. Maybe. I don't know. And no, when Logan does end up touching him, he does get hurt (a lot) but he doesn't die the flesh that burns off grows back. James did find out about his sister being able to look normal, but his reaction isn't shown in this story, it'll be told in another one that I'm writing.
Milo: I do apologize that this update has taken a while. Mid terms, that's my excuse this time.
Chapter 11: Guys Night Out
"I know he's not here now, but you still need to talk with him Logan." Xavier said as the two traversed through the halls of the lower floors.
"I will. Tomorrow, after school." Logan said with a nod.
"Tonight, when he gets back." Xavier said with a stern look on his face.
Logan sighed. "Fine." He said with a shrug.
Suddenly as Xavier opened the door to the hangar there was a small explosion, blasting Logan back but Xavier shielded himself telekinetically. "What the?"
He got his answer soon enough as a man, a man in his early twenties, leaped out of the room towards the professor. His clothes were rugged, and he was badly hurt, but there was no evidence of damage in the hangar other than what had happened because of some unexplained explosion. No traces of anything to cause an explosion remained, other than one other man, or teenage boy, face down on the floor.
"Are you…" He looked with a raised eyebrow. "It must've worked… Tim! It worked!" He yelled back to the other boy.
The boy on the floor stood up slowly, not looking up at first. When he did the professor saw that he was in his early twenties, but when he saw the professor he quickly seemed to recover, and leapt at him with knife drawn. "AHH!" He screamed but was knocked back by Logan.
"Tim! It's okay! Look at him! He's in a wheelchair!" The man yelled to his partner. To that Xavier took slight offense. What was going on here?
Tim looked over to him and then at Logan. "Oh… Sorry about that."
"What's going on here?" Xavier asked wheeling forward.
"I can explain everything, but uh… get Wolverine off of me." Tim said with a small smile.
"How the hell do you know my name?" Logan asked drawing his claws.
"Logan." Tim said sternly. "I'll explain it, after you put away those… Claws of yours."
Wolverine looked over to Xavier, who nodded, and then withdrew his claws and let Tim stand up.
The man who had been next to Xavier ran over to help his friend up, and then stood by while Tim began to explain. "You see first of all, we're mutants." He began. "My name is Timothy Winter, and this is Mark. We're travelers. We travel from dimension to dimension helping those we can. I'm sorry I attacked you professor, but believe when I say that in the last world I was in, you were truly different than I'm sure you are now. We were in the middle of a mission to stop you from wiping out the last remnant of the X-Men."
"I don't…" Xavier began but Timothy held up a hand to cut him off.
"In the Last world, you'd turned your back on the X-Men, and instead of fleeing when you and Eric had your falling out, you killed him, well… turned him into a vegetable. And it wasn't long until you'd taken over most of the world's governments. Logan here was an underground mutant that wasn't registered with your program. With the Weapon X training his and Victor's minds were the only ones you couldn't penetrate and control. Give or take a few. And so they led a force against you."
"Quite a tale." Logan said gruffly.
"Isn't it though?" Said the other man. "But it's true. If you want I can open another trans-dimensional vortex and show you that it's true."
Logan smirked and looked to the professor.
"That won't be necessary. I believe you." Xavier said, as he turned around a bit.
"Oh yeah, almost forget for a second about your mutation." The other guy said with a smirk.
Meanwhile
The club was full; most people were on the dance floor. Scott, Nathan, and Kurt were at the bar drinking their sodas, the rest of the guys, Chris, John, Will, and Evan, were all on the dance floor living it up. John had found some twins that he and Will were dancing with, Evan had been asked to dance by some random girl, and Chris had gone up and asked someone else to dance.
"You friends sure know how to have a good time." Kurt commented to Nathan as he sat down.
"Yeah, well this is more Will's thing than anyone else's." Nathan said with a smirk. "How come you're not out on the dance floor with everyone else?"
"I'm tired." Kurt commented as he hung his head. "Dancing can be tiring."
Scott smirked. "It can't be that bad."
"Why don't you try it Mr. Summers?" Nathan asked looking over to him. "Go ask that girl right there."
"What girl… Oh hey, I know her. That's Taryn from School." Scott said looking back to Nathan.
"All the more reason to go ask her to dance. She looks lonely." Nathan said as he took a sip of his drink.
"Why don't you?" Scott asked, but suddenly realized the stupidity of his question as Nathan turned and gave him a glare that would crack stone.
Kurt smirked. "I'll be right back." He said with a smile as he started off to the bathrooms. But he didn't go to the bathrooms. Instead he ended up next to Taryn.
Seconds later there was a tap on Scott's shoulder. "Would you like to dance?" Taryn asked looking up at him with a smile.
"Uh…" He looked around and saw Kurt waving from the other side of the room where Taryn had been. "Sure." He said with a slight smile. Taryn led him out to the dance floor and they started dancing, although Scott wasn't dancing too well.
Kurt laughed as he came back. "What, you don't think that was funny?" Kurt asked as Nathan turned a bit towards him.
"It was hilarious." Nathan said with a slight smirk that quickly faded. "Now if you'll excuse me." He said getting down from the chair. "I'm going outside to get some fresh air."
A girl came up before he managed to make it to the edge of the bar. "Would you like to?"
"No." Nathan cut her off before she finished her sentence and left.
The girl looked hurt, as if she'd really liked him, despite all his piercing and everything, his gothic outfit. She herself was dressed somewhat like a Goth.
Kurt recognized her. "I'll dance you with Risty." He said giving her a slight smile.
"No. That's okay. Is Rogue here? I saw Scott, but I haven't seen her." The purple haired girl asked with a slight smile.
"No. This is a guys night out type of thing, she's back at the Institute I think." Kurt answered with a shrug.
Meanwhile
"Are you sure you can afford this restaurant?" Rebecca asked as she and James entered into it. It was a real fancy place, Italian maybe, but definitely a suit and tie event, however both of them were dressed for it.
"Don't worry about it." James said with a smile. "I do have some money you know."
"That's not what I meant, I just mean… well… look at this place." Rebecca said looking up to the large muscular James.
"I know, but don't worry." He said coming up to the waiter.
"Do you have a reservation?" The butler like guy asked as they came up.
"Yes, under the name King." James said as he looked to the waiter, and Rebecca took his left arm in hers.
"Ah yes, right this way sir." The butler said with an almost knowing smile. He led them to a table in a back room, where no one else was eating, it was fancy, dressed in red table cloth, two tall candles were lit a small thing of roses laid in the center, and a window with beautiful drapes made for a nice background overlooking a park with a lake.
"Wow." Rebecca said as they were seated.
James smiled. "Something wrong?" He asked raising a brow.
"No… It's just… More, than I expected." She said with a slight smile.
Meanwhile
Nathan nearly laughed when all of a sudden, out the front door, came Will flying, and the rest of the X-Men and Warriors following shortly after. John helped Will up. "What the hell happened?" Nathan asked coming up to them.
"Turns out I was dancing with some Jock's girl." Will said as he got up and shook himself off. "He's lucky he had his friends there or I would have whipped his but."
Chris laughed. "He was twice your size." He said with a smile. "Come on, where to now, back in the club? To a buffet of some kind? Back to the mansion?" Chris asked.
"I don't think we should go back in the club." John said shaking his head at Will. "And it's still too early to go back to Xavier's, so I say… Buffet. So long as Will can behave himself." He said with a smile.
"Hey, there's no way you can blame what happened in there on me. I had no idea she had a boyfriend, she didn't seem to care that she did." Will said shaking his head.
"There's a good buffet down a few blocks, it's one of the Chinese all you can eat, places." Evan said as he looked to the group.
"We'll head there then." Will said with a smile. "Let's hope they have enough food for all of us." He said with a smile.
Meanwhile
Xavier, Logan, and the two 'Travelers' were now walking in the upstairs halls of the mansion. "You two can stay here if you like until you move on. When exactly will you be moving on?"
"Well I figured that we could recoup a little while, find something to help with, and then head on. Usually we come to a dimension just before something happens. Other times nothing at all happens. It's weird. It's random really. But we'll wait and see, and then we'll be out of here by day seven." Timothy answered. "Oh, and incase I forgot to introduce him, this is Maxwell Tripper." He said pointing to the other man that was with him. "He's a good friend of mine from our 'home' dimension."
"I see." Xavier said with a nod. "Well this is your room, please help yourself to the kitchen or any other such thing that you'll be requiring. Let me know though before you leave."
"Will do." Tim said with a smile.
Meanwhile
"Rebecca." James said with a smile.
"Yeah?" Rebecca asked curiously, wondering why he'd suddenly seemed to switch the subject of conversation.
"I uh… I have something to ask you." James said with a brief smile.
"What is it?"
"Well, I'm going to feel really stupid and vulnerable asking this so please don't laugh at me." He said with a nod.
"Okay." She said with a smile.
"Well, you know… When I had that heart attack, there was one face that flashed before my eyes… and well… I have something to ask you… Rebecca… Will you marry me?" James was now on one knee on the side of the table, holding aloft a small black box, which was open to reveal a ring with a huge diamond cluster on a silver band with sapphire jewels going around it.
Meanwhile
"Look at all this food!" Will exclaimed as he sat down with a huge plate full of nothing but a massive heap of some odd food or another.
"That's why they call it a buffet." Nathan said who was sitting at the end of the table. Unlike the others he didn't have a plate, just a cup of water.
"Don't ruin my fun with your logic!" Will said as he began to scarf down the massive heap. Kurt was right there beside, him, joining him. John was eating his rather properly, small portions, cutting everything, eating it with a fork. Evan was still getting food. Chris had lots of meat, and little or no bread.
"They can cook you fish for you right up there, the way you like it." Chris said as he bit into a large piece of fish. "And the Sushi is good too."
Scott made a face. "Sushi?"
"It's not that bad." Chris said with a smile. "You might be surprised. It kinda tastes like chicken."
"Everything tastes like chicken." Kurt commented.
"Not Macaroni and cheese." Will retorted.
"I don't even want to know how you thought up that comparison." John commented as he ate more of the food on his plate.
"We need to go cause some mayhem, or better yet, find something that needs doing and do something." Chris said with a smile. "Remember the old days when we'd hunt down the gangs and have some fun?"
"Have some fun?" Scott asked raising a brow.
"Me in full form, scaring the living daylights out of them." Chris said with a smile. "The photos are great from New York, I'll show them to you sometime."
Meanwhile
Rebecca rushed into the living room, where all the girls, and Mike, were sitting on the couch, and most of the girls were tear filled already, as was Rebecca.
"Rebecca what's wrong?" Elise asked being the first to see her arrival.
"James and I are getting married!" She blurted as soon and as loudly as she could.
"I'm getting a sister!" Jessica yelled and leapt upwards, and forwards, springing over the couch and the people in it and tackle hugging Rebecca.
The girls all rushed from the couch, partially dragging Mike with them, but he stayed behind on the couch. All hugging Rebecca, except for maybe the girls with the X-Men, and rushing off to another room. When all was said and done Mike, Jean, and Rogue were the only ones left. Rayne, Amara, and Kitty had all gone with the others.
"Well I guess that's the end of the movie." Rogue said with a shrug.
"Or we could just watch it." Mike said with a shrug looking over to Jean and Rogue.
Rogue ignored him and just turned it off.
END
Author's Note: I hope this was worth the wait! Review! REVIEW! FLAMES WELCOME!