X-MEN EVOLUTION: RISE OF ODESSA
By Deathsheadx
PART 5: friction and decisions
((telepathic speach))
Odessa lay in bed twisting and turning as she drifted off into sleep suddenly she was old what was she doing? She remembered now she was helping guard Kitty Pryde while she attempts to change the past suddenly she was under attack… Sentinels! She flew up into the air and fired on one Sentinel disabling it but then another Sentinel fired a spear, which impaled her she fell to the ground her life ebbing away, and then Odessa woke up
"Damn! Not again." she said angrily she hated that dream… she jumped out of her bed and stretched and threw off her nightgown she admired her naked body and then she opened her window and flew into the sky… she made a small shower which she used to cleanse herself and flew back to the mansion she looked through the clothes she had been donated and sighed these girls had no taste. She pulled on a bell bottom jeans and a tight t-shirt and made her way down to the breakfast table…
"Good morning Odessa!" said Michael Wagner the elder duplicate of Nightcrawler.
"Morning Mike how was Kurt's first fencing lesson?"
"He is useless," sighed Michael "it's going to take a lot of work…"
"Don't I know it! I don't understand this version of the xmen, sure their teens but most of them have no drive!" sighed Odessa
"It's all about boy's, girl's, school, and grades," groaned Michael
Odessa sighed "I know its hard to believe when there's stuff like hydra and cobra out there along with the Sentinels and magneto… the sad thing is as much as magneto's the bad guy he's right."
Michael nodded "well I'm off for a morning jog after breakfast you want to come?"
"Sure that would be fine!" She sat down at the table and had some cereal and a grapefruit… suddenly she noticed bobby staring at her but not at her face then she realised what he was staring at. She gestured with a hand and caused a gust of wind to tip his chair open
"What did you do that for Odessa?" asked Cyclops
"Iceboy was being rude."
"How?"
"He was staring at my chest…"
Cyclops looked at the chest in question "Ohhhhh!" he said blushing as he looked away slightly embarrassed
"Maybe you should wear a bra." said Jean…"it gives off the wrong impression."
"Yeah like your nipples are showing through that thin top you don't want to give boys ideas," said Kitty
Odessa looked at Kitty "do you like, have to repeat everything she says and in such an annoying way?" She said in a perfect mimicry of Kitty
"Hey what's your problem! I was only giving you some friendly advice!"
"Well I don't need it." said Odessa as she got up and walked away
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"Its amazing." Muttered the beast as he watched Rogue play with Charles lenshurr
"What is hank?" said Charles Xavier watching the scene before him "it's a know president that there is a certain level of immunity among families"
"That's just it Charles…Charles Jr in there isn't immune to Rogue's power"
"What?"
"Rogue's absorbsion power has somehow been turned off! I know because I saw her take the plate of pancakes from Kurt bare handed in the normal ruckus at the breakfast and the hub-bub with Odessa nobody noticed…"
"How can this be?"
"I would say it's a subconscious thing she doesn't want to hurt her son and so she turned off her power… if we can discern how she subconsciously did it we may be able to teach her how to do it consciously" muttered The Beast thoughtfully
Professor x nodded and watched as Joseph sat down next to Rogue and chatted away while playing with Charles…
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Odessa raced beside Michael "so tell me how are you adjusting?"
"You mean to being here? Its okay I'm a little frustrated with some things Cyclops is a pain in this reality," replied Michael
"Tell me about it!" groaned Odessa "and Jean is worse she's the ultimate horror the most popular girl in school with a dark mutie secret!"
"Ouch I think I can visualise what you mean…it must of killed her to lose her social position when outed…"
"Yeah well she's taken to applying her social order to the kids at the institute. You've seen how Amara, Kitty and now Sam's sisters follow her she's like the queen…"
"You're really irritated by Jean aren't you?" said Michael softly
"Yes! She's just sooooo petty!" ranted Odessa.
"Oh well that's the beauty of this world!" said Michael with a smile "its so innocent it allows them to have the time to behave in such a way…"
"But that's just it Michael! They don't have time I can see the signs this world is heading towards catastrophe"
"Man that's a downer, maybe we should do something about it?"
"On our own we cant stop the tide and the xmen wont take the steps needed to give us a shot at surviving…"
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Wolverine arrived home from his mission with shield it would be a while till shield was ready to use the theta accelerator cannon on Steve and fury promised to notify him the moment the did he sighed as his thoughts drifted back to the good old days back when the invaders were together as he turned into the driveway of the Xavier institute the hairs on the back of his neck bristled…"Creed!" He snarled as he put the pedal to the metal he arrived at the front doors to the institute and rushed in his claws unsheathed and then he saw it victor Creed was walking through the institute lobby towards him only he looked different somehow, less feral…
"Sabertooooth!" he roared his claws extended
Mr Creed dodged the initial attack and snarled "Logan you got it all wrong! I'm not who you think I am!"
"I think you're a mass murdering sonovabitch!" Roared Wolverine
"Well you got me there but this isn't what you think!"
"Yeah righttttt. I'm taking you down before you hurt the kids!" Suddenly Wolverine was hit by a strange energy and the next minute he was outside falling from a height of 200 feet "what the flaming heck is going on?" he suddenly found himself unable to move.
"Logan calm down!" Said Joseph as he flew out of the mansion towards Wolverine
"What the hell is going on and since when did you get so young magneto?"
((Because he's not the magneto you know Logan nor is the man you attacked the Creed you know.)) Came Xavier's telepathic call ((come inside and I'll explain…))
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"An alternate reality? A chronal drive overload! Chronal duplicates? I go away for a two weeks and return to find a madhouse!" Said Wolverine. Wolverine turned to the version of sabertooth before him "so…Mr Creed you're a good guy hmm?"
Mr Creed nodded "in my reality I fought the good fight we won but we lost. We defeated apocalypse and sent the time traveller Bishop through the timestream to stop apocalypse from ever regaining power but well me blink and little Charles are the only survivors…"
"Well then Mr Creed I admit that I don't trust you yet, too much bad blood between me and sabertooth but I'm willing to give you a chance…"
"That's all I ask for." said Mr Creed
Odessa sat in the institute study room at a computer terminal she started to type in search criteria first she typed in Sebastian Shaw and watched as Shaw enterprises came up on screen… "Now then I wonder if the Hellfire club exists here?" she muttered to herself. "Oh yeah! I know someone who would know!" she typed in a web address and typed in a password she quickly entered in a search for files on the Hellfire club and frowned
Well that's different it seems that professor x is the former white king of the Hellfire club…Bruce Wayne is the white knight of the Hellfire club Emma frost is the current white queen…. Shaw is the black king…she thought to herself "oh no way in hell are you going to spike my system!" said Odessa quickly deactivating the incoming spike… "What do you take me for? I know S.H.I.E.L.D inside and out! Well maybe not this version of S.H.I.E.L.D but my version is awfully similar! The codes are quite close it's easy to crack… hmm lets check other problems…lets check out Trask's Sentinel project…"
"Hey Odessa what are you doing?" asked Kitty Pryde. Interrupting Odessa's work
"Hacking into shields mainframe." Said Odessa as she read up more data on the world she lived in
"Are you crazy?" Said Jean storming over "that's illegal!"
"To you maybe but to me I remember being a shield agent its perfectly legal to me I needed information shield had it…"
"You just can't go breaking into government files! Turn it off!"
"No."
"Odessa! Stop being so stubborn! There are rules in this institute and hacking into systems without permission is forbidden and its illegal to boot so you've got to turn it off!"
"I don't have to do nothing and another thing who made you the boss of me?"
Jean sighed and the computer shorted out.
"What did you do that for!" shrieked Odessa
"I asked you to turn it off." Said Jean firmly.
"ASK! Ask?" shrieked Odessa her eyes glowing violently and electricity arcing off her body. "You demanded not asked! You are not my mother! You are not my boss and the next time you stick your nose where it doesn't belong I'll cut it off you got that missy?"
"Must your answer to everything be a threat?" Snapped Jean
"If the shoe fits! Now get out of my way…" said Odessa shoving past jean
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Michael walked down the street deep in thought. He had to leave. He couldn't stay at the institute anymore. Because of one person…
Kurt.
It wasn't like Odessa's problems with storm, it was just Kurt had something that Michael didn't he had Amanda's love and every time he saw Kurt he was reminded of that fact. And he didn't want to hate Kurt so he needed to get away from him he needed to clear his head get his priorities straight. Just then he heard a familiar voice swearing and cursing. He looked in the direction of the cursing and swearing and his suspicion was confirmed it was Odessa. He walked over to her
Odessa saw Michael approach and relaxed he wasn't like the others he was like her, out of sorts, not much of an xman player… "Hi Mike." She said with a sigh of frustration.
"Odessa vhats up?"
"Oh just Jean…"
"You and Jean REALLY don't get on do you!"
"She just cant mind her own business she thinks she has to be every ones mother"
"What started of your latest argument…"
"Don't want to talk about it Mike…so what are you doing out here all by yourself?"
"Just thinking about the future."
"Ohhh. What do you mean?"
"I'm thinking of leaving the institute and striking off on my own"
"Great minds DO think alike!" said Odessa grinning
"You? You're thinking of quitting as well?"
"I'm not quitting as I'm not part of Xavier's zombies…. "
"You really have a mad on for Xavier and co don't you?"
"Mike…they're fools…"
"For believing in Xavier's dream"
"No not that there insular Xavier has breed an isolationist attitude into them. They hide in the mansion doing their training with little experience in the harsh reality. They only come out to deal with magneto or the brotherhood. What lies around the corner is going to destroy them…"
"What do you mean?"
"Michael I've the experience of 4 alternate storms plus the storm of this reality… almost every one of them followed Xavier's dream and met horrible ends I know of the age of apocalypse the coming of the Sentinels, the legacy virus and the hounds… in each of those realities I've seen the xmen crushed because the weren't ready they hadn't trained enough, hadn't built a support network strong enough to fight back…in one reality 16 million mutants died in one day killed by Sentinels the xmen couldn't handle it."
"So what are you saying?"
"I'm saying the xmen are weak. They are holding onto Xavier's dreams so tightly they don't see the bigger picture…"
"You know what… your right." said Michael thoughtfully. "I mean the xmen should be more proactive…but they wont…I say lets go we travel around find ourselves someplace to set up camp and do what the xmen seem unable to do…."
"You wait outside of Bayville I'll go say goodbye for us…"
End of part 5
Next up: saying goodbye