X-men: The Brotherhood back to School
Part 1: Plans and Visitors
In the front hall of Xavier mansion
"Are you sure the professor won't mind us playing cricket here?" asked Rogue as she lined up for the ball from Bobby.
"Of course he won't mind, plus he'd be busy anyway" he replied as he began the run up.
"But what happens if I hit it wide!" Kitty exclaimed as she hit the ball towards a glass vase. Almost instantly Bobby froze the ball and slid forward on a path of ice and caught it.
"That's what happens." He explained.
High up in the middle of a mountain
"Welcome back my comrades" began Magneto as he looked down on the rest of the brotherhood, Avalanche, Black Tom, Exodus, Mammomax, Sabretooth, Basilisk, Blob, Juggernaut, Mystique and Toad.
"Mystique here has found a chemical effective to both humans and mutants that can persuade anybody to do anything but once injected will need to be continually injected into the victim or they'll snap out of it." He paused to watch the reactions of his servants, "A group of us will go to the Xavier mansion and take back as many children as possible, train them while they're young and if in doing so you have to kill the X-men then even better. We'll wait till my undercover spy has more than enough chemicals and then we'll move out."
Back at the mansion
"Ready for this cause it'll swing!" called Rogue as she ran up for the ball.
"Bring it on!" called Bobby as he swung and sent the ball flying into the front door with a thump.
"Could've been worse." responded Rogue as she sighed deeply that didn't last long as there was two thumps from the door.
"Who would that be, all the X-men are back here?" wondered Bobby as he moved next to Kitty.
"It's open!" called Rogue. The door blew open by the wind and a person stepped into the hall, followed by leaves and a furry creature that jumped onto his shoulder.
"Do not worry about my monkey friend he's harmless" said the man as the monkey jumped off his shoulder and ran down the hall.
"Who are you?" asked Rogue as the man calmly took off his jumper and stepping into the light. He was a slightly short guy with dark blonde hair and his eyes were blue.
"My name is John but you can call me Psy" he replied as his eyes flashed white.
"Rogue look out!" cried Bobby but it was too late she was already beginning to rise in the air and was touching the ceiling with the books crying out in shock.
"Bobby do something!" she cried as she bumped her head again on the ceiling.
"Gotcha covered!" replied Bobby as he made an ice net around Psy stopping him from using his power, instantly Rogue and the books dropped which Bobby managed to catch.
"Thanks" said Rogue as she got to her feet.
"No problem, but you sir need to talk" replied Bobby but to their surprise Psy just smiled we haven't finished yet.
"I said my monkey friend was harmless but he is in another form…Now Brother!" he cried there was a loud crack and from the hall behind them came a massive steel gorilla.
"Ah I thought you'd choose this form" commented Psy as he smiled again as the gorilla threw Rogue into the other room and turned onto Bobby.
"This is your brother!" cried Bobby as he failed to stop the gorilla with an ice beam.
"Oh no this is one of his many forms but he likes this one for some reason, come Animal show them your real form!" commanded Psy.
With another painful sounding crack the gorilla disappeared and a strange boy was there instead. He was a big guy with brown eyes hidden by wild thick brown hair and he had claw like hands and feet, elongated canines and the most distinct feature was a thick powerful brown tail that he used for a belt for his ripped pants.
"Happy now….Bobby….is it?" said Psy as Animal broke the net with out thinking with his tail and continued towards Bobby till suddenly was thrown against the wall.
"What?" yelled Psy as he saw a woman and a man with a visor enter the room. Automatically Animal scaled the wall and stared down at the two new people with a look only a beast could give. Psy however didn't look so up himself now as the adult mutants walked directly up to him.
"Just what are you doing?" asked Scott as he stared down at the kid.
"Well they entered and thought we were a threat so they attacked us." Rogue explained, as she crawled out of a pile of books.
"And you lost? Against a cocky guy and his pet freak!"
As soon as the words were out of his mouth Animal leapt onto the light, swung down to the ground and charged at Scott, automatically he shot a beam at Animal but to everyone's shock it just bounced of his chest and he leapt at Scott claws raised and teeth bared. Just an inch before impact Animal froze in midair. Animal turned his head at Jean to see her hands pointing towards him.
"You don't have a way with words Scott" commented Jean as she walked closer towards Animal.
"Careful he may bite" warned Psy as he stayed close to the wall.
"Thanks for the tip kid" said Scott as he walked away from Animal.
"So who are you?" asked Jean Now looking at Psy but keeping Animal in the air.
"Well my name is Psy but my real name is John and that is Animal."
"What's his real name?" asked Jean looking back at Animal.
"I don't know" admitted John looking at Animal.
"You said he was your brother, how could you not know?" replied Bobby as he walked slowly towards Jean.
"He ain't really my brother we've just looked out for each other for awhile" commented John beginning to relax.
"So what are your powers?" asked Scott still looking at Animal,
"I'm a psychic and can hover which is really cool, Animal can turn into any animal at will, cover his body with steel, and he has acute senses, can scale the hardest terrain and claws as you've noticed." replied John.
"If I put him down will he attack anyone?" asked Jean.
"He shouldn't unless he feels he should or if I'm in trouble" said John. Very slowly Animal was lowered to the ground; he instantly sprung up and growled at Scott then climbed up the wall again.
"What are you doing here" asked Scott looking up at Animal who began to growl again at him.
"Well we had nowhere to go and we heard of this place so we came here" said John. "We needed somewhere to go me being fourteen and Animal fifteen."
"Alright, I'll find them some clothes then we'll show them to the rest of the school" said Jean as she gestured towards the hallway,
Next Day
Animal slid down the wall and headed along it with John and Jean behind him.
"Ladies and gentlemen we have two new mutants staying with us" began Professor Xavier as he looked round the eating hall, "So give a warm welcome to Psy a.k.a. John and Animal," as the door opened behind him.
First Psy walked out and rose in the air bowing for the applause while Animal slowly walked out, with his tail wavering behind him. There was a hush as he stood up and sniffed the air 'So much fear.' He thought as he growled softly to the applause.
"Please feel free to try and warm up to them but be slightly wary with this lad" continued Xavier pointing at Animal. With no surprise everyone tried to warm up to John not Animal, all except one girl who sat down next to Animal as he ate a chicken carcass to the bone.
"Hi my name's Kitty but with the X-men they call me Shadowcat, I can walk through solid objects." She said as she gazed at the big plate, Animal turned his head at the X-men, "Oh you don't know who they are, well, they are group of mutants that try look after humans and have to fight bad mutants like the Brotherhood." She explained then looking straight at him she said.
"Who are you?"
Animal hesitated 'Should he trust her?' he thought then not to scare her gestured to go out of the room. They continued down another hall till they stopped at a door.
"This is my dorm" said Kitty opening the door and sat down on her bed, "How could you possibly know?" she asked looking at him.
"Don't be scared" he growled as he closed the door and faced her. There was a loud painful sounding crack and Animal stood there with normal hands and feet, normal sized teeth and no tail, instantly the clothes he was wearing fell off because of being loose, he instantly bent down and scrunched his pants round his waist.
"This is the unscary me" said Animal with a slight deep voice as he sat next to Kitty.
"That's a cool trick" replied Kitty smiling at Animal and sighing inwardly, she new no-one could always be that intimidating
"I brought you here because I need to tell you something really important and I believe I can trust you" said Animal.
"Yeah, course you can" promised Kitty readjusting her sitting position.
"Well first of my real names Alex and my friend John isn't really my friend" he started, looking at Kitty.
"How so?" she asked.
"Well" he explained, "He saved me once when we were slightly younger so I had to help him out earlier but the main problem is that he is one of the youngest recruits for the Brotherhood."