Disclaimer: I do not in any way, shape, or form own X-Men, X-Men: Evolution, or their characters; all of it belongs to Marvel Comics and their individual creators. The characters of Stacey Lofton and Vicki Byrne belong to Stacey Lofton. Aliana LeBeau belongs to Aliana LeBeau. Mithra Gale belongs to stormelle. I reserve the rights to this fiction, its story line, Leila Stone, Leonora Traviata, Carolyn Darjay, Niccolò Traviata, Pricilla Kenes, Christopher Swainison/Meltdown, Toby McGrathe/Phantom, Karl Angler/Armour, and Emmeline Hayes/Glint.
A/n: Sorry about the extreme lateness of this chapter everyone. I've been really busy lately with ACTs and competitions coming up fast and haven't had much time for writing. What time I have had has gone into writing my book, so fanfics got pushed down a little bit on my list of things to do. But I have time now and I'll have plenty of time on a few long bus rides coming up as well. Okay, I'll stop blabbering on and let you get to the fic now.
Confessions of a Future PastChapter 12: New Management
2029-Mithra's Apartment in Mutant Town, NYC-Three hours to Kelley's speech
"We need to leave, now," Lelia said as she quickly pulled the curtains closed and headed for the door.
"Duh," Mithra answered and snatched a black and orange jacket off the hook near the door and quickly unlocked and opened the door of her apartment.
While she was doing this Stacey rushed over to the exit, the air around her crackling from her sudden overcharge of electricity as a result of the strange storm. "Any idea when they'll get here?" she asked once they left the apartment building behind. She looked up at the ominious sky and hoped it wasn't any time soon.
"Last time the storm started a few hours before the Futurians showed up, but no guarantee," Mithra answered and they both quickly followed Lelia through the abandoned streets of Mutant Town.
Half an hour later they were at the other side of Mutant Town, where the new Xavier Institute stood out against the crumbling buildings everywhere. The gates stood open, one hanging crooked on its hinges. The three girls ignored the blank expressions of those mutants on the lawn gawking at the sky and rushed into the building.
"Come on, he's this way," the redhead said as she led the small group down the hallway. Then she opened a door on the right to a small library of sorts where a man in his forties sat reading a book through red tinted glasses.
"Scott, is that you?" Mithra stepped slowly towards him.
The man looked up from his book and stared at the younger woman, then her friends behind her, searching for their faces in his memory. "Mithra, Stacey, Lelia, what are you doing here? I thought you guys were supposed to be in hiding."
"Oh please, it'll take more than a few aliens and government agents to keep us cooped up," Stacey commented.
Ghost cocked her head to the side, thinking on what the man had said. "Didn't you know we were coming? Melty said that everyone was planning a big attack on the Futurians. Bobby was supposed to-"
"Meet you here and show you were the captives are," Bobby said from behind her. "You've been gone a long time girls, Scott's not in charge here anymore."
"And you are?"
"We're all going to die," Mithra commented quietly.
"Yeah I am, but enough talking we've got to go. Armour and Phantom are waiting outside," Bobby quickly explained and led them out the door away from Scott. Ghost hesitated in the doorway, looking back at her former leader, then followed Bobby.
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2029-Press Conferenece—30 minutes to Kelley's speech
"Well, sorry, we didn't want to live according to some stupid book," Bobby said.
"Did you even-?" Glint started, but couldn't finish. She fell to her knees, hands at her temples.
"Emmy! Are you okay, what's happening?" Vicki asked distressed.
"She's getting her memories back. Leonora actually did something right for once," Bobby scoffed.
Emmeline remembered her parents were mutants. She remembered a big fire at her house, and lots of yelling about mutants being bad. She remembered being saved by some older kids in black uniforms. And she remembered Xavier taking her away from the fire to live at his school.
She lived as an orphan without powers at that school for years, until a newly married couple living at the Institute adopted her. She received her powers when she was twelve, she could control the wind. She remembered continuing to stay at Xavier's taking classes and trying her hardest to become a member of the X-Men. And she remembered a classmate, Jason helping her train.
Worst of all she remembered fighting, and failing, to stop the first Futurian attacks. She was captured by the aliens, but was rescued, only this time not by mutants. She was rescued by sentinel agents and was taken back to their headquarters to experiment on her. They took away her memories, and her powers. When they tried to replace her powers they were different, she could create powerful shields, but couldn't control the wind.
But her parents, and their team came and rescued her and a few other mutants that were captured. She returned to Xavier's a completely different person.
"What do you remember?" Vicki asked after Glint opened her eyes.
"Everything, well, mostly, there's still some holes," she answered, wiping the tears from her face. "But something really important, the Futurians aren't aliens."
A/n: Okay, so I cut this one short, but I wanted to leave you with that last line. Next chapter you'll learn more about the Futurians, the missions will start, and you might even find out who Jason is! Please review!