Hi Agent G. Thanks for the quick review! The ending was meant to be vague. We don't know who they are or where. But it will all link up in the end. I hope.
I was gonna post these later. But I figured if I posted everything I'd written it would encourage me to write some more. So I'm gonna post all the chapters I've done. I managed to write four while on holiday!
I don't own the X-Men, just Mattie
One of the gang
The students were gathered in the Danger room. Earlier in the week Emma had run a couple of Danger room sessions with Logan and Jean. Now the professor wanted them to watch and learn about her mutant talent. Most of them were under the impression that Xavier just wanted them to do something productive with their Saturday. At least, that was Bobby's theory, and he had repeated it at great length for most of the morning.
"Why do we have to be here anyway?" Bobby asked quietly, watching Wolverine as he glared at them all.
"You know why." Amara replied. "We should be taking the opportunity to study a new talent and prepare ourselves in case we were ever forced into combat.
Bobby rolled his eyes. "Well sure, if you put it that way."
"Besides," Tabby muttered. "Don't you want to see what Little Miss Blonde Ambition is capable of?"
Amara giggle. "I changed my answer. What she said."
"Where is Emma anyway?" Paige asked.
"Waiting to make her grand entrance." Tabby said.
Mattie shot her a look. "Would you guys ease up. Emma's okay. You'd like her if you gave her a chance."
Jubes shrugged. "Anyone who can shop like she can is okay in my books."
"I thought we'd never get the two of you out the mall." Paige said. "Thank god for closing time."
"And you got to admit that is one sweet car she drives." Ray told them.
They nodded in agreement.
"I want to be rich." Rahne said with a sigh.
The others laughed.
Ray stared behind them with his eyes wide. "Holy…"
"What?" Paige asked.
The others all turned to look and their eyes widened.
Standing framed in the Danger room door way was Emma. She was wearing a white basque with matching panties, a pair of thigh high white boots and a long flowing white cape. The whole ensemble left little to the imagination.
"Wow." Roberto breathed.
"What the hell is this?" Logan growled, striding up to her angrily. "Where's your uniform?"
Emma raised her arms. "This is it." She smiled. "I modified it slightly."
Logan ran an un-admiring eye over her outfit. "Slightly?"
A few of the students stifled laughs.
"I'm a telepath. It helps me if people are distracted." Emma informed him.
She looked at Roberto and narrowed her eyes. "Bark."
Roberto dutifully barked, then frowned in confusion.
The students exchanged glances. "That's just creepy." Tabby muttered.
Emma smirked.
Logan glared at her. "You can get your butt into uniform or you can get your butt home. I don't care which."
Emma glared at him.
"Don't even try it. I've had better people than you poking around in my head."
With a final withering stare Emma spun on her heel and stalked away.
"You let her get away with stuff like that in your lessons?" Logan question Jean.
The red head shook her head. "No. You know I wouldn't have, Logan."
The other X-Men nodded. As fully fledged X-Men they were part of the teaching staff when it came to training. It was a role they all appreciated and took very seriously. None of them would have encouraged Emma to flaunt the rules like that.
"She's just a spoilt brat." Rogue said.
"Rogue." Cyclops scolded.
"What? You're all thinking it." She muttered.
"Girl can dress though." Spyke said, nudging Nightcrawler.
"Evan! That is, like, so inappropriate." Shadowcat told him.
"She's talented." Jean said. "I guess she just wanted to see how much she could get away with."
"Well she wont be getting away with it here." Logan growled. He turned to look over at the New Mutants on the other side of the room. "Alright, you're all suited up. Time to train, warm up laps. Chase, double time."
There was a collective groan, but they all started jogging round the room at an even pace. Wolverine's 'warm up' laps could be anything from three laps to half an hour solid.
"We did get to see her power." Amara said.
"Yeah, and it is definitely creepy." Jubilee added.
"It's just the same as Jean, or the Professor." Rahne pointed out.
"I can not believe she wore that costume." Mattie commented as she lapped them.
"I can." Roberto called after Mattie as she accelerated away from them.
"Yeah, we all noticed your reaction, Roberto." Tabby said. Roberto ducked his head and speed up.
"Thing is though." Sam said. "I've never seem Jean or the Professor use their power like that."
"To humiliate someone, you mean?" Paige asked. Sam nodded.
"I've never seen the Professor make someone bark." Jamie agreed.
Wolverine's shout cut short the rest of the conversation. "If you've got the energy to gossip I'm gonna have to come up with something harder!"
X
It was Saturday night. Unwilling to totally succumb to the reality of being back at school, the students had decided to go out. Unfortunately it seemed that everyone in Bayville had had the same idea.
"This queue goes on forever." Ray moaned.
"They are so clearly doing one-in-one-out." Amara sighed staring at the club's doormen. "It will take ages to get all of us in."
"We should just go." Sam told them.
Jubilee shook her head at her boyfriend. "Have you seen how long the queue is behind us? It can't be much longer now."
"Jubes, have you seen how long the queue is in front of us?" Sam argued back.
Mattie did a quick head count. "There's eight of us. So how long to you really think it will take to get us in?"
Bobby shrugged. "Who knows?"
Tabby sighed. "Could be hours."
Jubilee shot her a look. "It will not be hours."
"Guys?" Paige called out to get their attention. "Isn't that Emma?"
Sure enough Emma was stepping out of a taxi that had pulled up at the club doorway. A well dress guy stepped out behind her. He paused to pay the taxi before taking Emma's arm. Seeing them the doormen leapt to attention, one of them unhooking the velvet rope that blocked the entrance.
"Emma!" Tabby waved her arm and called out to the blonde.
"Tabitha." Ray hissed, as everyone turned to look at her.
"What are you doing?" Amara asked as Tabby again called out Emma's name.
"Trust me." Tabby hissed back at them. "Treatment like that. She's guest list. Now do you guys want to get in or what?"
Emma turn at the commotion and caught sight of Tabby and the rest of the students. She stopped. The guy said something to her then walked into the club. Emma waved back at Tabby then beckoned them over.
Tabby smirked at Ray. "Told you."
The eight of them slipped out of line and made their way towards Emma.
"Hi guys." Emma greeted them, she smiled at the nearest doorman. "They're with me."
"Yes Miss Frost." He motioned for them to enter.
"Cool." Paige grinned as they slipped inside, mindful of the glares from people still in the queue.
"How'd you swing this one?" Tabitha asked.
Emma gave a slight smile. "My father put me on the guest list on all the places I might want to visit."
"Sweet." Ray muttered as Paige dragged him and the others in the direction of the dance floor.
They danced until Bobby spotted a free table and made a dive for it. The girls were left to hold the table while the boys went for drinks.
"So who was that guy we saw you with?" Amara asked.
Emma paused for a moment, Amara's eyes lit up. "Boyfriend?"
"He was kind of cute." Tabby added.
"And he paid for the taxi." Paige noted.
"Very generous." Mattie agreed.
Emma shrugged. "He's just a friend. Someone I've know for years."
"Someone you've know for years who you fancy?" Amara pressed.
"Excuse her." Paige apologised. "She's a die hard romantic."
"He's just a friend, Amara." Emma clarified with a smile.
The boys came back with the drinks and they all squeezed up to make room, Mattie and Jubilee sitting on their respective boyfriends laps.
"Thanks for getting us in." Bobby said giving Emma a wink. "We'll owe you."
"Yeah, we'll even go easy on you in the Danger room." Ray laughed. Paige nudged him as Emma's face darkened.
"It's not really that bad." Mattie told her.
"I just don't see why I have to wear one of those uniforms."
"We all have to wear them." Sam said.
Tabby nodded. "For a uniformed look."
"I don't like them." Emma said with distaste.
"You could try talking to the Professor." Amara suggested.
"Better idea than making Logan angry." Paige agreed.
"Logan's always angry." Bobby said.
"Angrier then." Paige amended with a grin. "Anyway…" She got up and grabbed hold of Mattie and Jubes. "Time to dance."
Jubilee grabbed hold of Tabitha and Amara hauling them along with her.
"Emma?" Mattie struggled against Paige's pull, beckoning for the new girl to join them.
Emma shook her head. "Maybe later."
Mattie nodded and let Paige pull her towards the dance floor.
Emma leaned back into the space left by the five girls. "Not dancing?" She asked the boys.
"We'll get dragged up there soon or later." Sam said.
Ray smirked. "Five girls, all dancing together. It's nice to watch."
Bobby rolled his eyes, but couldn't repress a grin.
Emma wrinkled her nose. "Nice."
Ray just grinned wolfish at her. "Care to make it six?"
"Please ignore him." Bobby said. "We've tried everything we can to clean up his mind. Nothing works."
"Emma?" Sam asked. "Isn't that you guy to came in with?"
They all looked over to where Sam was pointing and Emma nodded. "That's him." She gave him a little wave and the guy inclined his head back at her.
"Why don't you invite him over?" Sam suggested.
Emma shook her head. "No, that's okay." Then she got up and made her way over to where the other girls were dancing, drawing her attentive suitors eyes with her.
"Okay." Bobby raised an eyebrow. "What was that?"
Sam shook his head totally bemused.
Ray rolled his eyes. "She's playing some sort of chick game with him. Who knows what she's doing."
"How is it possible that you have a girlfriend?" Bobby asked him.
Ray leaned back with his arms cross behind his head. "I've got buckets of charm."
X
The following weekend saw all the students suited up and gathered outside the front steps of the mansion for another training session.
"So is the plan that we get no lie-ins at all?" Mattie grumbled.
Someone grunted back at her, she wasn't sure who. It could have been anyone, all the students looked equally annoyed about the fact that they were up and not in bed. She noticed one or two half hearted glares in Emma's direction. The weekend training sessions were for her benefit really. Since she didn't stay at the Institute, she wasn't taking part in the daily morning Danger room sessions. But it was too early and they were too tired to put any real venom behind the glares. Mattie hoped that Emma wasn't reading their feeling, but if she was she didn't seem to fazed by them. The blonde telepath was pulling at her uniform with a disgruntled frown on her face. Mattie had never given much thought to the uniforms. They were just what they all wore. Sure the fully fledged X-Men all had costumes that were individually styled. But all the New Mutants wore the dark blue and gold costumes. She'd never considered that to be a bad thing. Her lips curved as she caught sight of Bobby and the way his uniform showed off his muscles, in fact sometimes it was a considerable bonus.
Bobby looked up as she was running an admiring eye over his uniform. Mattie looked away quickly, but she knew he had already seen the look on her face. Sure enough when she glanced back over, Bobby was grinning at her knowingly. Mattie felt her face grow warmer. Over a year. They had been dating over a year and he could still make her blush. Bobby raised an eyebrow suggestively while Mattie struggled to compose herself.
Wolverine cleared his throat to get their attention, he held up a red flag. "Right. This will be hidden somewhere in the grounds. You're job is to retrieve it and bring it back to this spot. You'll be in four teams and the X-Men will be around running interference. Powers are allowed so you are not to go into the house. Got it. I don't want to have to clear up after you again."
They all nodded and Wolverine started assigning the teams. Mattie found herself on a team with Sam and Jamie. Bobby was with Emma and Jubes. He grinned over at Mattie. "Mind a friendly wager, Drew?"
He was up to something. The use of her last name meant trouble. Fighting to keep a smile off her face Mattie eyed him coolly. "What did you have in mind, Drake?"
Bobby shrugged. "Winner chooses the prize."
"There are two other teams." Paige pointed out, her competitive edge coming to the fore. "Who says either of you will win it."
"Maybe you're up for a challenge of your own, Paige." Ray suggested from the fourth team.
Paige exchanged glances with her own team of Tabitha and Rahne. "What say you girls?"
Tabby ran an eye over Ray, Roberto and Amara. She shrugged. "Challenge excepted."
Amara grinned. "Can't wait to win then."
Logan handed the flag to Nightcrawler. "Okay, Elf. Hide it good."
Kurt grinned, his teeth a flash of white against his dark fur. He nodded, and in a puff of sulpha he was gone.
"How are we meant to find him?" Amara asked.
"Aww, poor Magma." Tabby teased. "You mean you don't have anyone on your team who can track?" She stretched out a hand to ruffled the fur of the already transformed Wolfbane who barked.
Roberto launched himself into the air. "I think I might find it faster."
"Alright." Wolverine growled. "Go!"
Mattie and Bobby exchanged glances. "Winner claims the prize?" She asked.
He nodded. "Winner takes it all."
"Right. Multiple, we need to cover some serious ground. I want you spread out."
Jamie nodded and started making copies of himself, each one chose a slightly different direction and headed off.
"Sam."
"Aerial support?" Cannonball asked as he propelled himself into the air.
"You got it." Mattie agreed. "Stay with me and let me know if you see anything." With that she was off, leaving Sam to chase after her.
Bobby watched her go with a grin on his face.
"Earth to Iceman." Jubilee called, waving a hand in front of his face. "If you could get your thoughts off your girlfriend for a second."
Bobby blinked and focused on Jubes, right. He had to win this thing.
"Emma, can you sense Kurt's thoughts?" He asked.
Emma frowned in concentration and then nodded slightly. "I think so. But he moves about so much it's hard to be accurate."
"A partial is fine." Bobby told her icing up. He helped Emma and Jubes on to his ice slide. "Just point me in the right direction and hold on."
X
Mattie glanced up as she ran, good, Cannonball was still with her. He was flying above the trees rather than wasting time having to wend his way though them. But she could see the trail from his flight, he was keeping up with her. She caught sight of a Multiple off to her left and slowed her pace. "Make sure you stay near by." She told him. The Jamie nodded at her. She knew that by telling just one of the Jamies she had in fact told all of them that. Which was totally nuts and would screw with her head if she let herself dwell on it. She'd once spent several hours trying to work it out. But today she had other things to worry about.
"See anything?" She yelled up to Sam.
He swooped down under the trees. "I can see Wolfbane and Boom Boom up ahead. No sign of Husk."
Mattie nodded. "Try and follow Wolfbane if you can. Watch out for Boom Boom, she'll be expecting company." She frowned. "I have a feeling your sister is planning something though."
Sam nodded. "Keep you're wits about you. Paige will be on the ground, and she's trouble."
Mattie nodded as he rose back up above the tree line. She knew only too well the kind of tricks that Paige was likely to play. Mainly because she and her room mate had played them on Sam and Bobby at some point.
A Multiple looked at her expectantly as he came running past. "Can you follow Sam, and leave me a trail to follow?" Mattie asked.
Jamie grinned at her. "Sure thing, Chase. Just follow me." A cluster of Jamies seemed to form around Jamie, then there was just one. He grinned at her again before running after Cannonball.
Mattie grinned to herself. "Okay, Husk. Let's see what you've got."