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Chapter 5

"So, how do you feel?" Xavier asked Dodger as they all stood in the danger room. It was a custom for the new member to receive their uniform in front of the rest of the team.

He was examining the black one piece very form fitted outfit with a raised eyebrow. "No offense but I fell like a dick…" He said, looking at it.

Scott and Logan glanced at each other, neither one all too happy that he was even getting a uniform to train in. Logan leaned toward Scott and grinned, "I could say something right now…." Their hatred for each other seemed to have been forgotten with Dodger's arrival.

"Now, it's specialized for you." Xavier said, smiling slightly. "Just like Logan's suite molds back together, Kitty's suite allows her to phase, and Julia's repels electricity, yours will form to any shape you take without hindering you in any way." He set the tips of his fingers together with his elbows on the hand rests of his wheelchair. "Give it a try."

Dodger looked at him and then shrugged, his gray eyes went much lighter as a white ring appeared around the pupils and there was a multicolored flash. When they looked up he was gone. Gambit leaned toward Rogue, "Mon chère, does he become invisible?" Gambit asked, watching a fly buzz around the professor a few times.

Rogue shook her head, "He's a shape shifter…" There was another flash and there he stood, his eyes back to gray. "See?"

He stared at his arms. "Not too bad." He said with a slight grin, looking at the professor. "What exactly do I do with it?"

Xavier smiled and looked up at the upside down dome in the ceiling. "I will tell you that once I've gotten to the control room." He pushed the joystick on the armrest of his wheelchair and rolled out of the room, he large doors closing behind him.

"I don't think you look like a dick.." Kitty said with a grin, pulling Julia with her toward Dodger who grinned slightly. "At least not any more like one then we do." She smiled.

"Good to know." Dodger said with a smile, glancing at Logan who was glaring at him, "'Scuse me." He added, winking as he went past them to stand away from the others.

Scott looked up and saw the professor wave to him before reaching for the counsel. "Here we go everybody." Scott said, putting a hand up to his visor.

The computerized voice said cheerfully, "Danger Room code s8867531, sequence beginning."

There was a sudden upheaval as the floor jerked and began to come alive with tentacles and moving pieces of metal. Dodger looked almost surprised for a moment but there was a flash and he was gone, a dog running and avoiding the tentacles that were grabbing for him.

Kitty phased through a wall as it tried to crush her and she grinned as she watched Dodger knowing at some wire's connecting to the gun that was trying to shoot him. Julia stood behind her, her hands outstretched and large bolts of electricity jumping from her to the electrical obstacles. She dove into the ground as something shot at her from the ceiling.

Gambit had been tossing cards and blowing anything that moved sky high as he watched out for Rogue who wasn't focusing on the current situation. "Mon ami, wa'sh wah' ya are doin' eh?" HE said as she nearly got grabbed by a tentical that she narrowly dodged.

She glared at him, "Ah'm fine Gambi'." She said angrily, missing a pair of pistons that had short from the wall on either side of her by inches.

Scott shot the tentacle grabbing for his leg and turned his head to get rid of the floor that had been lifting him up toward the ceiling. As the floor went back down out of no where Dodger came flying at him and he tried to move to the side. Much to Scott's horror Dodger's teeth sank into his shoulder and his dog's body collided with Scott, knocking him backward.

"What the hell?" Scott asked as he hit the ground and Dodger let go of his shoulder. "Whay the hell did you just…?" He flinched as he tried to get up and the dog bite shot a signal up his shoulder that it was a bad idea to move it.

"Sequence terminated."

Logan came up behind him and grabbed him by the suite. "What'a ya think you're doin' bub?" He asked, holding dodger by the front of the shirt but being shorter he couldn't lift him up.

"Saving his life, will you stop touching me?" He said, pushing Logan's hands away and motioning to the pair of walls that had been closing on Scott and had gone unnoticed. "You dumbass." He added, walking past Logan as the doors opened and the professor came in.

"What seems to be the matter?" The professor asked with a generally worried look on his face as Dodger walked past him.

"Ask them." Dodger said shortly, walking out of the room and leaving the group to stand there and stare at one another.

"What's wrong with you guys?" Kitty said, frowning at them before she followed after him, phasing as the doors closed.

Dodger was sitting in the small men's changing room, one hand transfigured into what looked like a paw complete with claws on each finger and the other arm sitting upside down on his leg. His shirt lay forgotten next to him on the bench as he stared at the pale of the bottom of his arm which contrasted sharply with the dark denim of his jeans. His upside down arm had a long scratch from his wrist up to the inside of his elbow. He stared at it dazedly for a moment as it started to bleed in a few of the deeper places.

"Dodger?"

He turned his arm over and put his hand in his pocket to keep his arm turned away from whoever was there, his other hand changing back to a hand. "Yeah?"

"Are you, like, dressed? I mean, if I came in…. You've got pants on and everything…?"

"Yeah kitty, I'm dressed." He said, not bothering to stand up as she walked in and saw him sitting against the lockers.

"Oh wow…" She stared at him for a moment and then blinked, turning slightly pink. "Are you ok? They got really mad at you in there for trying to help…" She was staring at the floor. "I just thought… It wasn't your fault for trying to help…"

He grinned, she was avoiding looking at him because he didn't have a shirt on. He wanted to laugh. "Life's too short and there's too many people in the world to be nervous around them Kitty." HE said with a grin as she looked up at him, "Especially a freak like me."

"You're not a freak…" She said as he reached for his shirt, still grinning. "Oh god, what happened to your arm?" She said suddenly.

He looked down at his arm. The scratch was bleeding now, the red liquid running down his arm and now dripping on the bench slightly as he reached out. "I didn't even notice it…"

"It's bled all over your pants…" She said, walking forward and crouching in front of him to look at it. "There's some gauze and peroxide in the cabinet over there, I can fix it if you want…" She was holding his arm like it was a piece of meat to be appraised.

"If you want." He said without much thought. He really would rather let it bleed, normal red blood.

"Here, just don't move it." She said with a grin, walking to the cabinet and taking out some gauze and a roll of bandages. She came back over and sat down on the bench beside him, pulling his arm over so she could lay the gauze on it. "It shouldn't hurt to bad if you just leave this on it until it scabs." She grinned and tore the gauze off at his elbow, setting it over the cut. It turned pink even as she wrapped the bandages around it. "There, that should be better…" She smiled and stuck the metal holder into the end of the bandage and where it wrapped around his elbow. "And that should keep it on."

He leaned back against the lockers and stared at the bandages. There wasn't anything all too important about them. "Thanks…" He said quietly.

"What're those?" She asked, reaching out a hand and running her fingers over some slightly faded bruises on his chest and torso.

He looked down at his pale figure and saw several large darker spots across the skin. "Bruises." He said without much emotion, "When they give you drugs and ther-rape-me and it doesn't work they'll resort to anything."

She looked up at him and then stood up, "Wow, so I guess I shouldn't be in the guys dressing room." She grinned and folded her arms behind her back, "So I should be going…"

He grinned, "Alrigh." He picked up his shirt and stood up, stepping toward her and standing much closer then he probably should have, "Thanks for the help Kitty Cat." He winked and she felt herself blush as he walked around her and out of the room.