Here comes the next chapter of Phantom Evolution Rewrite. Wow, I finished the chapter way sooner than I originally thought I was. Well, I hope you guys enjoy the chapter. Remember this will be 3 months from the recent chapter. I own nothing in this story.
3 months later
Danny Fenton stares out of the window from his room watching the newer students have fun messing around with their mutant powers. He sighs happily and walks away from the window. He opens his laptop and pulls up his contact list for the video chat. He looks at the list of people online and sighs when he sees that Sam and Tucker were offline. "I wonder if I did the right thing." He mutters sadly.
He hears his laptop beep and looks at the contact list to see that Sam was online. He leaves the video chat immediately. He puts his elbows on the desk and lowers his head in defeat. "You need to stop doing this." Aelita says as she fazes through the door into his room.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Danny mutters back in denial. "Sam and Tucker were offline when I checked."
Aelita looks at the laptop then at Danny sighing at the situation. "I thought things were going to get better between you guys when you spoke to them last month." She admits while walking over to his bed.
"I thought they would have too, but Sam…" Danny turns around in his chair as Aelita sits down on the bed. "Sam…why does she believe that she knows what is best for me when she knows nothing about this life?" He asks curiously. "I mean…I know her parents are trying to control her life and all, but it doesn't mean she can pass it onto me as well."
Aelita shakes her head and smiles, "It goes to show you that the moment you left was when she started to change."
Danny snickers and crosses his arms over his chest. "Yeah, as good as a bad change is going to get. Tucker even admitted she was changing after she left the chat from our argument."
"At least your friend Tucker understands, right?"
Danny's anger softens at the question, and his frown becomes a soft smile. "Yeah, I guess you're right about that. We should have gone to the soccer game for Jean though."
"You know why we don't go to that stuff." Aelita says while moving around a bit on the bed until she was lying down on it with her head on his pillow.
"Right…" Danny trails off knowing neither of them were big fan of sports. "Anyway, enough about Sam and Tucker how are the Lyoko Warriors doing?"
"They're doing great, especially since they started training under Hawkeye." She answers with a smile. "I'm glad Yumi changed her mind at the idea of being a hero."
"I still can't believe we're the only ones taking the advance training course with Logan." Danny brings up getting Aelita to groan in pain. "You're still hurting from yesterday?"
"Please don't remind me of that. Logan isn't taking it easy on either of us recently."
"We already know why too." Danny mutters with a sigh getting Aelita to sigh in agreement. "We have training again in a couple hours too."
"How is Rogue doing?" Aelita asks suddenly getting Danny to flinch slightly.
"We still talk to each other." He starts then sighs in defeat. "She's still mad at Sam and rarely talks to me because of that conversation."
Aelita shakes her head and asks, "When did our lives become so complicated?"
"Please don't ask me that question." Danny hears his phone vibrate and grabs it to see a text from Kurt. "Well, Jean's soccer team won the game."
"That's good. Guess that means we can go see the championship game since it is important for Jean." Aelita gets up off Danny's bed and looks out the window. "Do you think Professor Xavier would be okay if we went to France?"
"Why do you need to go back to your home? Does it have to do with Jeremy?" Danny asks as he gets up from his chair.
Aelita nods her head. "Yes, while my father's letter did not leave any clues to where my mom is at the moment, I did figure out that I could see if my father left any hidden information back at our old house. I am hoping to find at least something that could lead me to the other house my family lived in before my mom was captured." She explains while walking over to the window. "I know this is a long shot Danny, but I need to figure things out soon."
Danny sighs, "Alright, but it will have to be this weekend. Our new principle is coming to school tomorrow, and Jean's game is that evening."
Aelita nods her head in agreement. "Ok, we'll go ahead and do it then. I need to go check up on Jimmy and Sidney and make sure they didn't blow up the new lab…again."
Danny chuckles at the memory. "I find it hilarious they were trying to make gum that we couldn't faze out of."
"Don't remind me." Aelita mutters in disgust. "I still think I have some of it in my hair."
"It's been longer than a month since the accident."
"I know." Aelita walks through the door leaving Danny alone in his room.
"Ok, we connected the wires and made sure we are not overloading any of the circuitry this time." A teen with black hair says as he looks over the project carefully. "Are you certain that we need to use the outlets for this to work? We can still use a surge protector to be safe."
"We could, but the surge protector will take away some of the necessary components of electricity we need to make sure it works." The brown haired teen replies back as he put the goggles over his eyes. He stretches the yellow gloves on his hands and tightens the lab coat around his waist. "Let's see how this one goes."
The black haired teen moves his goggles over his eyes and grabs the lever on the wall. "I still think this is a bad idea."
"It will work. You can trust me on that."
"Okay…" The black hair teen pulls the lever and watches the electricity run through the wires.
The other teen keeps his eyes on the device then frowns noticing something wrong immediately. "Turn it off!" He yells at his partner.
The other teen pulls the lever up, but the device keeps pulling electricity into it. "Is this supposed to happen?"
The brown hair teen shakes his head and pulls the electricity out from it into his hand. He stops pulling the energy from it and sighs in relief as the extra electricity disappears. "Where did I go wrong this time?" He mutters in despair.
"I don't know if trying to create a constant electric energy source is possible Jimmy."
"It needs to be Poindexter. If I can create an energy source for me to keep feeding off of, then I won't have to steal it from everything around us." Jimmy replies back while removing the gloves from his hands. "If only I could conduct it automatically, but my powers don't work like that."
"We've been over this before Jimmy."
"I know Sidney, but I just hate the thought of stealing the electrical currents from other machines and buildings. I know Aelita said it would be tough to complete, and I followed the instructions to the tiniest detail."
"What if we're missing something important then?" Poindexter asks curiously. He taps his chin in thought. "I know Aelita is really smart, but she can't know everything. We are just as smart as she is."
"I created a jet pack when I was a kid, a cheese ray that could literally transform anything into cheese, and robotic dog out of scrap parts, but I can't create a special induced energy source for me to have unlimited electrical energy." Jimmy moves his goggles on top of his head and sighs, "What are we missing?"
"You're overthinking it Jimmy." Aelita says as she fazes into the room. "You seriously are putting too much thought into it, and I am not telling you what you need to do for it to work properly."
"Come on Aelita. I might be a genius, but how can I be overthinking the idea of having a constant battery source that will allow me to have unlimited amount of electricity running through me and the source itself?"
Aelita shakes her head at Jimmy's question and says, "You need to find out on your own with that one."
"That is easier said than done for Jimmy." Poindexter points out as he examines the wired contraption on the table. "Maybe we need to reroute just one of wires."
"If that's true, then which one needs it?" Jimmy asks as he walks up to the contraption.
Aelita sighs, "I'm not going to say anything." She activates her wings and fazes through the ceiling leaving the two boys alone with the contraption.
Max Tennyson walks into Professor Xavier's office holding a cup of coffee in his right hand and smiles when he see Logan and Charles looking outside. "They're a lively bunch, huh?" He asks them.
"A bit too lively if you ask me." Logan admits as a fireball goes flying across the window. "I was just telling Charles that we might need some more instructors and a couple tanks."
"It isn't that bad." Max looks out the window to see the back porch covered in ice. "Ok, I might have to speak with them again about their powers."
"That won't be necessary Max." Charles tells his friend. "Besides Danny and Aelita can help out with the teaching since they are far more advance in their skills than the other students."
"What about Rachel?" Max asks suddenly catching Charles and Logan's attention.
"What about her?" Logan asks curiously.
"She's starting to advance further into the training more than we even expected. Do you think she's worthy to start the advance training as well?"
Charles looks back out the window as Rachel walks out the front door putting up force fields around everyone outside. "Hm, you might be right about that." Charles says as Rachel looks at the damage done to the front porch.
"She is a bit strict with the newer students though, but she doesn't do it without a reason." Logan explains with a nod. He crosses his arms and smirks, "I say she's ready to help as well."
"Hm, I sometimes wonder how she can deal with them so well. We have enough trouble to keep them obeying us." Max says as he sets his mug down on the desk.
"Makes you wonder what she went through before coming here." Logan remarks before turning around and grabbing the remote on the desk. He turns to the picture on the wall and presses the power button which turned the picture into a television.
"Eye witnessing accounts are conflicting, but all agree that the call falling was somehow deflected by this strange red flash." The screen changes to a car falling off the bridge that gets hit by a flash of red. The car hits the bridge then crashes onto the ground missing the bus below it. "Its source is still a mystery."
Logan turns the television off and groans at what they just heard and watched. "Well, that's just great." He mutters in distaste.
"So much for keeping things under wraps." Max mutters with a sigh. "I'll have the students get ready for training before Scott and the others arrive."
Charles nods his head and turns his attention back to the view from his window. Logan looks over at his friend and sighs, "Charles, we can't keep this a secret forever."
"I know Logan, but it is too soon for the world to know about mutants." Charles replies with a disappointing sigh escaping him.
"What about Danny and Aelita? The world knows about them as Phantom and Angelic Code." Logan points out.
"There isn't a day I try not to worry about those two, but it is hard when those two are almost out of my own power." Charles admits intertwining his fingers together in front of his face. "I wasn't sure about Danny becoming a hero when Fury confronted us for that mission he sent Danny on. While we got a new student from the mission, Danny and Aelita are already straying from what I've been teaching them. I fear for their safety every single day that I almost can't focus on everything going on around us."
"That has got to be tough." Logan admits while rubbing his neck with his left hand. "I could talk to them if you want."
"It won't matter now. They're already known to the public, and if they suddenly stop going public, people will start to wonder what is going on, and I can't have them stop doing their work."
Logan puts his hands in his pockets and shrugs, "Well, we just have to trust them then. They seem to know what they are getting themselves into."
"I hope you're right Logan. I would hate to see terrible things come their way, because they are what most of the public could end up fearing." Logan grunts in agreement knowing what Charles was meaning.
"Scott's almost here." Charles tells Logan putting their conversation about Danny and Aelita on hold.
"This is definitely not going to go well." Logan mutters as he and Charles leave the room.
Ororo walks down the hallway with her arms crossed over her chest and stops when she hears something squishy beneath her feet. She looks down and sighs as she see the water trailing from a certain bedroom. She opens the door and sees a black hair teen girl lying on the floor with water on the ground around the girl. "Stacy, you're leaking water into the hall again." Ororo tells the teen.
"I'm sorry Miss Munroe, but it isn't easy for me to control my body, since it is made of water." Stacy says as she gets up off the floor.
"Why are you on the floor child?"
"I was hoping I could lay down and not get something drenched." Stacy looks at the floor and smiles slightly, "At least I didn't get the floor entirely wet this time."
"Are you forgetting something?"
Stacy looks out her door and frowns, "Oh right, I forgot." She closes her eyes and mutters, "Ok, let's see if I can do this."
Ororo watches Stacy as the girl concentrates on her power. She glances down at the carpet and smiles as she sees the water come out of the carpet in tiny portions. She moves over to a dry part of the carpet and watches in amusement as the carpet around Stacy's feet became completely dry first. 'She's actually progressing.' Ororo thought with a small smile.
Stacy feels the water enter her body and mutters, "I need to stay focused. I need to absorb all the water from the carpet and make the carpet feel like I never leaked water earlier." She opens her eyes and sees the water coming out of the ground and into her body. She reaches both of her hands out and smiles as the water becomes absorbed by her hands. She stops what she was doing and looks around the carpet to see it was still wet everywhere except for three inches around her feet. "Ok, this is still going to take some time."
"You have improved Stacy." Ororo says getting the teen to look at her in surprise.
"Wait really? I've actually improved with my powers?" Stacy asks getting a bit excited.
Ororo nods her head then looks down at the carpet. "Indeed, but you should probably absorb the water the natural way you've been learning instead of trying to be fancy about it."
Stacy cheeks turn pink in embarrassment while she rubs the back of her neck nervously. "Sorry, I'm still getting use to the idea that it's easier than I'm making it." She raises her hand up and closes it getting all the water in the carpet to move towards her. The water goes through the carpet and is absorbed through Stacy's feet.
"What were you trying to do anyway?" Ororo asks curiously as Stacy finished absorbing the water from the carpet.
Stacy shrugs, "To be honest, I have no idea. I'm so use to Candace's brothers doing so much building during the summer that I thought I could be creative with my powers." She makes a small ball of water form in her hand and sighs, "I barely have any control as it is, and oops…" The water falls from her hand and splashes on the floor before getting absorbed into Stacy's feet again.
Ororo giggles lightly at Stacy's little accident and says, "I get what you mean Stacy, but you should worry about learning to control your powers before you start thinking of being fancy with the water."
"I know, but it still isn't easy." Stacy mutters as a small glob of water forms in her right hand. She tosses the water into her mouth and sighs, "I don't have to worry about getting a drink at least."
"It takes time child."
"I know Miss Munroe. I'm just use to Candace getting overworked about busting her brothers that I'm starting to act a bit like her in this situation." Stacy explains before sitting down on her bed. "I wish it was easy for me to control these powers as it is for everyone else."
"You know that not everyone can control their powers."
"I know, but they can still go out in public without feeling like they were a water hazard." Stacy ends with a small joke. Ororo raises an eyebrow at the joke which got Stacy to laugh nervously. "Sorry, I wanted to lighten the mood, but you know what I mean."
Ororo sighs and walks over to the door. "Indeed I do Stacy, but you do have training in a few minutes."
Stacy groans, "Oh yeah, that escaped my mind." She sets her feet up on her bed and asks, "Do I still have to train with the rest of the mutants in the Danger Room, or am I going to train outside with Danny again?"
"You got training with Danny today since Jean's game is this Friday, and he plans on going to it." Ororo explains as she grabs the door knob. She turns to Stacy and smiles, "He's a good teacher Stacy."
"I know that, but I rarely get to train with the other new students. I don't want to feel like I'm a liability to them." Stacy admits with a frown.
"You aren't a liability. We'll talk about this later. You have to get to training, and I doubt would like it if you are late again."
Stacy's eyes widen at the reminder from the memory of what she went through last time she was late. Stacy grabs her bag and runs out of her room saying, "Thanks for the talk Miss Munroe!"
Ororo giggles at Stacy's behavior and closes the door behind her. 'The only fear I have about Danny, Stacy, is if he will have you and the other students want to become heroes as well.' Ororo thinks as she walks down the hallway to see her nephew.
"The thing that almost gets me is that I hesitated." Scott explains the situation on why he used his powers. "I was so worried about anyone seeing me that I almost acted too late, and why? I mean, helping others and saving lives should be the most important thing we do with our powers."
"Scott, I know this is a confusing issue." Xavier says. "Yes, helping others is the right thing to do, but we must also try to remain anonymous at least for the present."
"What about Danny and Aelita? They're out there using their powers protecting people." Scott balls his hands up in frustration. "They've done so much the past couple months that I want to go out and join them. I want to make a difference Professor, and it feels like the rest of us are just hiding in shame. Why can't the rest of us go out like Danny and Aelita?"
"Because people are not ready to accept the fact that mutants walk the earth. I worry about Danny and Aelita every day I hear about the heroics those two are doing. Sometimes I wonder what made them become determined to do this, but I am waiting to see if they are willing to talk about it." Charles sighs as Scott leans against the wall in thought. "Look Scott, I'm not blaming you for what you did, nor am I blaming Danny and Aelita for becoming heroes. I would have done the same thing if I was in your place or in their place. I'm just saying you need to do what you can without revealing what you are."
Scott sighs and walks a few steps away from Professor Xavier. "I don't know Professor." He stops and turns his head back at Charles. "I'm having a hard time with this one." He leaves the office and puts his hands in his pockets. 'Danny, Aelita, if what the Professor says is true, then what happened to you guys to stay out of hiding?' He asks himself mentally.
"Penny for your thoughts?" Jean jokes as she walks by Scott.
Scott chuckles lightly, "Funny, but I got some things on my mind right now." The two stop to look at each other as they talked. "You ready for the semi-finals in a couple days?"
"I'm ready to show them that our team can win the game." Jean replies back with a smile but frowns when she notices Scott's uneasy smile. "Is there something wrong Scott?"
Scott sighs, "Sorry Jean, I just finished talking with the professor, and I'm still thinking about the conversation we just had."
Jean nods her head and asks, "Do you want to talk about it?"
"Not right now Jean, I need time to think about it, and I promised my brother that I would video chat with him after school." Scott explains pointing back at his room. "I'll speak to you later. I promise."
"Ok, I'll talk to you later." Jean says. Scott nods his head and walks away with Jean watching him as he walks away. 'Things have started to become complicated between us. Why is it so hard to hang out with Scott here than it is at the school?' She wonders before heading off to her room.
Rogue looks out the window in her room while sitting on her bed in thought. She hears the door open but doesn't pay attention to it with her mind being somewhere else. "What did Sam say to you that is making you avoid Danny?" She hears her roommate ask.
"Ah'm not avoiding him." Rogue denies.
"He believes you are." Aelita counters getting Rogue to look at her in surprise. "He knows that Sam has something to do with it, but he doesn't mention what happened."
Rogue smiles softly then sighs happily. "Good, he kept his word." She mutters then turns her attention back outside. "Ah know yah worry about us, but Ah need time to think. Is it so hard to let a girl think about some stuff?"
"If it takes more than a month, then yes, it does." Aelita replies back getting Rogue to look back at her with wide eyes. "You haven't realized how long you've been thinking about it, huh?"
"No, Ah thought…" Rogue trails off now understanding why Danny feels neglected. "Ah need to go see him."
"He's going to start Tracy's training in a couple minutes. I would probably wait until after that." Aelita tells Rogue before sitting down on her own bed. "Either way, everyone is worried about you two. What did Sam say that is making you like this Rogue?"
Rogue looks away and pulls her legs up against her chest. "…"
Aelita just stares at Rogue for a few seconds then sighs in defeat. "Fine, I won't push it, but I at least expect you to talk to Danny after training is over."
"Ah can do that." Rogue replies back.
Danny hovers above the pool looking down at Stacy who was floating on top of the pool with an unamused expression. "Please don't tell anyone about this." Stacy tells him. "I rather avoid unnecessary teasing from the others."
"From walking on water?" Danny asks curiously with a raised eyebrow. "Stacy, your body is mostly made out of water now. We want you to be able to control your powers, but walking on water was your idea, and Xavier agrees that it would help with your control."
"It helps me tremendously, but I'm more curious as to why I slip on water while trying to walk on it. It makes no sense to me, and the water isn't like the ocean that always moves. The pool is smooth and unmovable, if you don't get scientific about it." She finishes with an afterthought. "You know what I mean."
Danny sighs, "Let's get to something else and worry about walking on water later."
Stacy nods her head and has the water push her body to the edge of the pool. "What are we going to do today?" She asks curiously as she gets out of the pool with dry clothes.
Danny lands on the other end of the pool and smiles, "You're going to try and get me wet."
Stacy pouts at the mission. "Are we seriously going to keep doing this mission? I don't really see a point to this since you can turn intangible allowing the water to go through you and all."
"Then think creatively about it."
Stacy blinks a couple times then looks down at the pool. She looks back at Danny and lifts a finger causing a small bubble of water to come out of the pool. She flicks it at Danny who tilts his head to the left allowing the water to fly past his head. 'Think creatively about it?' She makes two more small bubbles of water and flicks them at Danny and watches as Danny tilts his head and moves his right leg slightly dodging both bubbles of water. She walks out onto the water and splashes right into it causing the water to go up and to fall down on Danny who turns intangible to stay dry.
Stacy pops her head out of the water and groans, "I was hoping I would walk on the water while staying focused on you."
"This is going to take a while." Danny mutters making himself tangible.
Danny enters his room and stares at Rogue who was lying on his bed reading a book. "Ok, I'll bite. What did I do this time?" He asks her closing the door behind him.
Rogue slams the book shut and moves to a sitting position on his bed. "Yah didn't do anything, Sugarh, but Ah came to apologize for ignoring you the past couple weeks. Ah lost track of time."
"I probably would have too if my mind was on what Sam said about you."
Rogue snickers and crosses her arms over her chest. "Yeah, Ah bet yah would be, but Ah'm sorry for ignoring you."
Danny sits down next to Rogue and puts his arm around her. "Relax Rogue, I'm not mad at you, but I was wondering if things were still going on between us."
"Of course things are still going on between us. Despite what your friend said to me, Ah do not see a reason to stop dating yah." Rogue sets her head down on his shoulder and asks, "Do you have anything planned for this weekend?"
Danny sighs, "Yeah, Aelita and I are planning on going to France."
Rogue looks up at him asking, "Why are yah going to a country where the city of love happens to be?"
"It's where she lives Rogue." Danny says holding in his nervousness. "She found out her father was alive in the digital stream." Rogue removes her head from his shoulder looking at him with wide eyes. He glances at her and chuckles, "He sent Aelita a message telling her that her mother was still alive."
"No way…if both of her parents are still alive, then she's going to need all the help she can get. Ah can…" Rogue stops talking when she saw the serious look in his eyes. "She only wants yah to help her with this, doesn't she?"
Danny shakes his head. "No, we're searching for information to see if we can get a clue on her mother's whereabouts." He removes his arm from Rogue's waist and gets up off his bed. "She doesn't want the people searching for the digital world to know she's back in France looking for information about her mother. If those people were able to find out, then it could mean bad luck for her and her parents."
Rogue gets off the bed and removes her gloves. She cups Danny's cheeks and kisses him on the lips. "All Ah ask is that yah come back unharmed."
Danny smiles and grabs her hands lovingly. "I can promise that."
The next day
Scott flips the page of the book he is reading and feels his school friend elbow his arm. He looks up to see his friend pointing out at Jean who was looking around for a seat. He smiles and get up from his seat. He waves down at her and smiles when he sees her look in his general direction. She waves back, but Scott frowns when he sees Duncan get up and wave down at her. He sits back down and sighs in defeat before turning his head to see Danny and Rogue sitting there. "Ok, when did you guys get here?" He asks them.
Danny smirks at Scott. "It's a mystery." He replies back with a chuckles getting Rogue to giggle at the joke.
"I didn't even see you guys come up here though." Scott's friend says in confusion.
"That's why it is a mystery." Danny remarks.
Scott shakes his head and sighs, "Whatever you say Danny. I'm just glad to see you and Rogue hanging out again."
"Yeah…" Danny trails off not liking to talk about the subject, and Scott got the message. "Is Duncan still in the way for you to hang out with Jean?"
"Don't remind me. She wanted to talk yesterday, but my mind was thinking about other things, and I promised to call my brother."
"Your brother lives in Hawaii right?" Scott's friend asks curiously.
Scott looks at his friend and nods his head. "Yeah, I try to talk to him whenever I can, and we had a good talk, but I'm still a bit upset that I blew Jean off."
"Then hang out with her after the game." Rogue says getting the three guys to look at her in surprise. "If yah care that much then see if she wants to hang out after the game tonight. Ah mean the worst she can say is she made other plans, but it doesn't hurt to try."
"She's right." Danny says turning his head back to Scott. "After the pep rally is over go talk to her and see if she wants to hang out after the game."
"Thanks you guys. I really mean it." Scott says before the four turn their attention to the teacher clearing his throat into the microphone.
"And now everyone, let's give a warm Bayville High welcome to our new principle, Mr. Edward Kelly." The teacher announces as Principle Kelly walks up to him. The two shake hand, and the students cheer and applause for their new principle.
Suddenly the ground starts to shake catching everyone off guard and stops after the principle falls on the ground along with the teacher. Danny, Scott, and Rogue glance down at the Brotherhood of Evil and notice Lance was not there. The ground start shaking even harder than before. Everyone feels the ground rumble then looks up to see the scoreboard shake a bit before falling down straight for the new principle.
Jean pushes the sign away with her telekinesis and sighs in relief as it crashes onto the ground behind the teachers sitting on the chairs that are out on the gym floor. 'That was too close for comfort.' She thinks feeling a little exhausted from the sudden push.
The new principle gets up and adjusts his glasses. "Since when is Bayville on a fault line?" He asks which made some of the students laugh. "Anyway, I want to welcome you all to a new semester. I know that filling the vacuum for Principle Darkholme is not an easy job, but it is a challenge to which I am looking forward. With that, I hope it brings the theme to the new semester, meeting new challenges. You know most of us go through life thinking we're not so different from the people around us." He picks up the microphone off the podium and continues, "And that's a mistake. Because I'll wager that some of us here has some unique talents. Some special gift, some special ability that makes us stand out from the crowd. With that said I want your second priority to be...supporting the girls' soccer team for the championship!" Everyone starts cheering from the crowd. "And that means I want every one of you to turn out tonight for the big pre-game rally. Can we count on you?" Everyone starts cheering louder than earlier which makes him smile.
After school Danny pulls his truck around the front of the school and sees Lance and Kitty arguing with each other. He pulls his truck over behind Lance's jeep getting the group's attention. "Uh oh, Danny's here." Todd mutters with worry.
"Lance, you better drop it before Danny gets angry at us. He's the only one who can kick all our behinds without even trying." Pietro tries to reason with his partner.
Danny gets out of the truck and walks up to Lance with a serious expression. "Why did you pull that stunt back at the gym Lance?" Danny asks as he walks up to the Brotherhood.
"He was trying to impress me." Kitty answers before Lance could.
"Come on Kitty. I said I was sorry about the scoreboard." Lance tries to apologize to Kitty.
"That isn't the point Lance. You're actions are starting to make even more of a jerk than I already think you are." Kitty counters as she walks over to Danny.
Lance reaches out to grab Kitty's arm but stops when he sees the warning in Danny's eyes. "Fine, be that way. I'll show you that I am worth your time Kitty. I will prove to you guys that I am worth your time." Lance says angrily as Kitty walks over to Danny's truck.
"For what it is worth Lance, you could end up getting together with her, but right now you have no chance." Danny tells him before walking to his truck.
Lance and the others watch Danny enter his truck with Kitty getting in the passenger's side. "He sure told you, huh?" Todd asks rhetorically.
Pietro snickers, "Yeah, too bad though. He and Aelita are now well-known teen heroes, and we're stuck in hiding with our powers."
"Then why don't we go public with our powers?" Lance asks suddenly.
"But Mystique said…"
"Forget Mystique!" Lance interrupts Fred. "She ain't around no more, and if Danny and Aelita have already gone public with their powers, why shouldn't we?"
"You got no argument from me, yo." Todd says pointing back at himself.
"Ok, if we go public with our powers, where would we do it anyway?" Fred asks curiously.
"Uh duh, we do it at the soccer game tonight, big guy. We do it while the X-dorks are there for us to reveal them as well." Pietro explains getting the others to smirk in agreement. "The only down side is that Danny and Aelita will be there, but that's a risk worth taking."
"Agreed." Lance says before getting into the driver's side of the jeep. "Let's go get ourselves ready to go public with our powers."
That evening
Danny pulls his truck into the parking lot of the school with Scott pulling up next to him with his convertible. Kurt and Evan jump out of the back of the truck while Danny, Aelita, and Rogue exit the vehicle. Rachel jumps out of Scott's car and smiles as Scott, Dawn, and Kitty exit the vehicle after her. "This game is going to be good." Rachel remarks as the nine of them gather in the parking lot. "When do the Professor and Ororo get here?"
"They'll be here soon." Scott answers with a smile. "We better go get ourselves some seats before more of the students show up."
"Some of us already have it covered." Evan says before running off towards the soccer field with Kurt, Dawn, Aelita, and Kitty following him.
Rachel chuckles, "I swear sometimes that guy enjoys sports way more than he lets on." She leans against the hood of Scott's car and asks, "What do we have planned after the game?"
"I plan on hanging out with Jean if she agrees to go with me." Scott answers while rubbing the back of his neck nervously.
"You didn't meet her after school?" Danny asks.
Scott sighs, "I never got to see her. She's been hanging out with Duncan and the rest of the soccer team at school recently."
"Sounds rough for you." Rachel remarks while crossing her arms over her chest. "You need to meet with her immediately after the game though. If Duncan beats you to the punch, then you never know when the next time will be."
"When did you become an expert on relationships?" Rogue asks Rachel raising an eyebrow at her.
"I'm not, but I do know that Duncan hangs out with her way too much at school, and I find it that Jean barely makes time to hang out with any of us." The blond explains moving her hair behind her right ear. "She had to cancel helping me study for the test I had today, and guess who she went to hang out with."
Scott face-palms and sighs in defeat. "I get your point Rachel. I'll try to talk to her before the game if possible."
"Then go get her lover boy." Rachel jokes as Scott runs off leaving the three behind.
"Did she really cancel?" Danny asks Rachel.
Rachel looks at Danny and nods her head. "Yeah, I would have understood if it was about her soccer game victory, but she went to study with Duncan instead. I know Duncan is a bad influence, but Jean, she's too nice for her own good to hang out with him."
"Agreed." Rogue and Danny reply at the same time.
"Go ahead and save our seats Rogue. Rachel and I will wait for Professor Xavier and Ororo to show up." Danny tells his girlfriend.
"Ok, Ah'll see yah there." Rogue kisses his cheek and walks away leaving the two alone.
"How's the secret hero business going?" Danny asks Rachel quietly.
Rachel looks around carefully and says, "People still don't know that there has been another hero out there helping you and Aelita. I'm surprised that Xavier and the others haven't found out."
"I don't know why you are keeping yourself secretive right now Rachel, but we trust you." Danny assures her getting her to nod in appreciation. "Are you planning on coming with me and Aelita to France?"
"If it has to do with Lyoko, I see no reason not to, but I am curious on why she wants to go to France."
Danny sighs, "Right, I forget Aelita leaves out some details." He runs his hand through his hair and looks around as people run by them towards the stadium. He see Xavier's vehicle pull into the parking lot and says, "It has to do with her mom. She found out her mother is still alive and hopes to find a clue to her mom's whereabouts."
"Then I'll go." Rachel and Danny turn their attention to the vehicle as Charles comes out of it and onto his wheel chair with Ororo holding the handles. "Glad you guys could make it Professor."
"Well, this is definitely a different greeting." Ororo remarks when she sees Danny and Rachel waiting for them.
"Evan and the others went to save us some seats, and Scott went to talk to Jean before the game starts." Danny assures them.
Charles nods his head and smiles, "Good, we better not keep them waiting. I'm still not sure it was a good idea to leave the other students back at the Institute with Max and Logan." Danny and Rachel chuckle and lead the adults to the stadium to watch the game.
"They're about to start the announcing of the players." Toad tells his group as he looks out at the soccer field.
"Ok, Toad, you make sure to get the microphone. I'll announce what we are and expose those X-freaks, and we'll wreak havoc to the school showing that we are meant to be feared." Lance explains while the others smirk in anticipation.
Toad glances back out at the game and nods his head. "They just finished announcing the players. Now the principle is showing off our new school mascot torch thing." Toad tells them.
"It's show time guys." Pietro says rubbing his hands eagerly to get some revenge.
Toad grabs Lance and jumps them up to the top of the announcer's booth. Toad shoots his tongue out and grabs the microphone and hears. "Hey give me that."
Toad's tongue comes up to the top and drops the microphone in Lance's hand. "Scuse me folks." Jean stops running with the ball and hears, "Hey, can I have your attention up here?" He waves his hand, and everyone looks at him.
"Lance?" Kitty asks surprised that Lance was on top of the announcer's box.
"What's he up to?" Scott asks getting up from his seat.
Danny and Aelita glance at each other and get up from their seats walking by Professor Xavier. 'Don't do anything rash you two.' Xavier thinks.
Pietro speeds up and moves one of the spotlights right on top of the announcer box. Blob walks out into the light with his arms by his side while Toad hops out a few feet behind Lance with Quicksilver stopping behind Toad with his arms crossed over his chest. "That's better. My name's Lance; I also call myself Avalanche, because I'm a mutant."
"He wouldn't." Scott narrowed his eyebrows and sat back down.
"Where are Danny and Aelita?" Evan asks looking between the team members.
"They're already getting prepared." Rachel says as she pulls a mask from under her shirt. She ducks down into the bleachers catching the others off guard with her quick movement.
"That's right. Me, Toad, Blob, and Quicksilver here, we're all mutants. Born different." Kitty gasps at what Lance is doing. "What you might call freaks."
"I can't believe he's doing this." Kitty says surprised with what she was hearing.
"Hey you get down from there." The announcer says while climbing up the ladder.
Toad got up in his face. "Sorry y'all, mutants only." He shoots mucus in the guy's face while laughing at him.
"You see there's lots of mutants at Bayville High. Scott Summers over there," Lance points at the group, "he's one, and so is Jean Grey, your soccer star, and also most of their palls at the Xavier Institute, which kind of is a school for weirdo mutant nerds. I personally like to say Danny Fenton happens to be the most powerful of them all."
"Man, we're busted big time." Rogue says then looked back at the group.
"Now being mutant means we have these special powers we can use to make improvements. For instance, we thought this game would be more fun if the goals were farther apart." Lance sticks his hand out and starts to split the field in two. "And we thought the new Principle better have a little perspective on his student body." Pietro runs at Principle Kelly only to smack straight into an invisible barrier.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Did I stop you from having fun?" A masked teen asks as she jumps out onto the field.
"Who are you?" Lance asks angrily.
"I'm just someone who is stopping you guys from making a mistake." The masked person replies as Quicksilver gets back up on his feet.
"My fight is with the X-freaks not you."
The teen smirks and removes her mask getting the Brotherhood to look at her in surprise. "Now, who said I wasn't one of them? Plus, I'm only the distraction."
Blob feels someone tap his shoulder and looks behind him to find Phantom standing there with his arms crossed and a frown on his face. "Uh Avalanche we got company." Blob tells his teammate nervously.
"Now what…" Lance stops his complaining when he sees Danny and Aelita standing behind them in their superhero clothes. "Oh, we should have thought this through better."
"Yes, you should have." Aelita says firing an energy field at Lance's chest blasting him off the box onto the ground.
Blob and Toad jump off the box and land on the ground as Lance gets back up and Quicksilver rejoins the others. "I'm sick and tired of you X-freaks pushing us around like we're yesterday's trash." Lance remarks angrily.
"Listen Avalanche we haven't done anything to you and your team, but you guys are seriously bothering the members of the school with what you are doing." Rachel tells them as she puts the mask back on her head.
"It doesn't matter. Mutants are now shown to the world, and the humans will learn not to mess with our kind." Lances balls his hands up and starts making the ground shake hard.
A blast hits Lance in the back knocking him down to the ground again. "Forget it Avalanche. We have your team outnumbered here." Cyclops says as he and the rest of the X-men except Jean walk onto the soccer field in their uniforms.
Jean glances over at the soccer team to see their shocked and scared looks at her and the others and sighs in defeat before walking up next to Scott. "You guys better go before we make you Lance. You did enough damage to the school already, and I hope you're ready to face the punishment for your actions."
"This isn't over bot by a long shot." Lance says as he got back on his feet.
"We're out numbered Lance, and as much as I want to fight the X-men, we're outclassed with Phantom and Angelic Code here as well." Pietro tells his friend.
Lance growls angrily at the situation and sighs in defeat. "Fine, you win this time Summers, but you'll be facing us again when your heroic friends don't get the drop on us." The four members of the Brotherhood of Evil leave the soccer field leaving the X-men and the heroes alone.
"We won." Evan mutters sadly.
"Sure, doesn't feel like it." Kitty mutters as the X-men look around the damaged soccer field.
Principle Keely walks past the X-men and stops in front of Danny, Aelita, and Rachel in their hero attire. "Thank you for taking care of the threat. I am grateful you were able to stop those hooligans from destroying the school property, but the soccer field will take some time to fix though." He tells the three. "May I talk to you three privately?" He asks glancing at the X-men from the corner of his left eye.
"Sure, I guess." Danny answers with a shrug.
Later that night
"The game gets rescheduled, everyone believes the incident was just an earthquake, and we are still able to keep our powers in hiding." Evan summarizes as he and the other X-men wait outside the infirmary in the Institute.
"I'm glad the professor did that, but do you really think it worked?" Kitty asks curiously.
"Professor Xavier assured us that he can alter their memories of that incident, and we have to believe him. That's all we can do at the moment." She answers with a sigh. "Either way, Danny and Aelita saved the school from major damage, but Rachel…"
"Who would have thought she was doing hero work behind everyone's back?" Evan asks curiously.
"It doesn't sound like her zough." Kurt points out.
"That's probably what she wanted us to think." Dawn says as she stays sitting on the chair in her meditating position with her eyes closed. "I didn't even see that part inside her aura until she showed her face behind the mask."
"How did she hide her aura though? She can only create barriers." Kitty asks narrowing her eyebrow confused on how Rachel could hide part of her aura.
"Maybe her barriers can go a bit deeper than we originally thought." Evan suggests shrugging his shoulder.
"You're probably right, but the rest of her aura could be seen easily." Dawn tells them before opening her eyes. "Professor Xavier is awake."
Jean smiles, "Good, we better go ahead and leave him alone. We can talk with him tomorrow."
The others nod, and everyone leaves the room except Dawn who stays sitting on the chair looking at the room with a curious look in her eye. 'Aelita, what's going on with you?' She thinks. She gets off the chair and feels a small animal get on top of her shoulder. "You don't need to tell me what they are talking about. I already have a pretty good idea what they're talking about." She tells the animal.
Danny, Aelita, and Rachel walk into the hanger with determined looks in their eyes. Aelita makes the hatch open to the Blackbird, and the three teens board the plane without a second thought. "The others are not going to like this." Rachel says as they start getting the jet ready.
Scott walks into the hanger with a sigh. "Things are better with our power hidden from the public." He stops mumbling when he sees the Blackbird starting up. "Wait, why is someone starting the Blackbird?" He runs over to the Blackbird and boards it right before the hatch closes.
Rachel looks over her shoulder from the passenger's seat and says, "Nice to see you're joining us Scott."
"What's going on here? Are you guys seriously trying to get Professor Xavier more worked up than he already is?" Scott asks trying to hold in his temper.
"It's complicated Scott." Aelita says loud enough for the teen to hear.
"Then you better start explaining."
"It's about her mom." Danny says catching Scott off guard. "She was kidnapped when Aelita was younger, and she recently found out her mom is still alive."
"Aelita…" Scott rails off with a sigh. "This has to do with the project, doesn't it?"
"It is how I found out, and yeah, she was kidnapped because of some things my father did a few years ago." Aelita replies back as the hanger door opens.
Scott sits down on the other passenger's seat behind the co-pilot's seat and says, "I'm coming too."
"Scott…"
"No arguments Danny. I might not know what the project is, but when someone's family is involved, I will help anyway I can." Scott tells them with a determined look in his eyes. "Did you leave some type of message for the professor?" He asks as he buckles up.
"Nope."
"Wait what?!"
Aelita flies the Blackbird out of the hanger and stares straight at the sky with a determined look in her eyes. "Get ready Scott. We're heading to France."
'What did I just get myself into?' Scott thinks as he starts having second thoughts at the situation. 'And I just agreed that keeping our powers under wraps is better. This just keeps getting better.'
Ah, I love making endings for chapters like that. The next chapter we'll be in France with these four, and I did plan on having Kurt or Kitty join them as well, but it went to Scott for different reasons. I hope you guys enjoyed the chapter, and we'll be getting a couple special guests the next chapter as well.
Yeah, I added Sidney Poindexter from Danny Phantom as a student of the Institute. I think it would make a nice approach to have someone who doesn't get much recognition as the rest of Danny's enemies and allies do. I'm also glad to say that I have no idea what to give him as a mutant power since not much was revealed with his powers from the show. I know he has telekinesis, but I want to know if I should give him something else or give him that power. I would love some input about that.
Jimmy Neutron can control electricity but cannot create it, and Stacy has her body completely made up of water. Honestly, I thought up both of those powers the moment I wrote them in the story. I hope you guys like it.
I will also mention that I did finish this chapter way sooner than I thought I would, but I still love some ideas of shows you would want to be added into the story. It would be nice to get that input. I might as well sign off saying R&R.
