Ch 2
"Hey kids, we're here." Logan shook Jake, Bobby, and Amara so that they would wake up. The trip back was fairly peaceful except when he tried to show Bobby a thing or two about flying a jet. It certainly wasn't something he planned on doing again. The three finally got up and joined him walking out of the blackbird and were greeted by the professor and Hank.
"Hello Jake, I am Professor Charles Xavier and this is Dr. Henry Mccoy. I run this school. It's a school for gifted children." Like yourself and I.
"Whoa what the…" That freaked out Jake and he was beginning to wonder what he got himself into.
"I'm sorry about that, Jake, I am a telepath. I have the ability to speak into people's minds. Mr. Mccoy here will escort you to the medlab so that he can run test to examine your health then, I'll have someone show you around." The professor wheeled out of the way and motioned for Jake to follow Hank.
Jake didn't say a word the whole way. He was to stunned by Mr. Mccoys appearance to say anything. Finally Hank stopped and turned to look at the boy. "Jake you need not be afraid of me. This is my mutation. Unlike yours, mine changed the color of my skin and I grew hair all over. Other than that, I'm just as human as the next person." He motioned for Jake to follow him to an examination table. He started to go but he caught sight of a mirror and noticed that he had no wounds from the fight earlier.
"What the?"
"What is it?"
"Earlier when I caught fire, I was in the middle of a fight with some people. One of them hit me in the nose and I thought for sure I would have a black eye but it doesn't even look like I got into a fight."
"That is strange, we'll examine your powers a little closer as soon as I check out your health." Jake nodded his head and laid down on the table. It only took a little bit for the doctor to do his thing and then he was escorting him down the hall to what he called the danger room.
"Enter hear, I'll be upstairs and I'll run some more test to see what exactly your powers are doing." Jake walked into the room and waited for Mr. Mccoy. He looked around and it just looked like a vast room all the walls were made of steel and they had a room up top overlooking the whole room.
"Cool, isn't it." He looked over to see Bobby walking towards him. "When I saw it for the first time, I had the same expression on my face. This is a pretty cool place but you may grow to hate it sooner or later."
"Alright, Jake. I asked Bobby here to help you out if you need it. I'm not going to run any simulations with you just yet, I just want to see the extent of your powers right now. Just try to think of what may have triggered them before."
Jake tried to make the flames again but he couldn't. Bobby saw this, "Hey man, when I first had trouble with my powers I thought of a lot of things, the first thing was how my parents treated me when my mutation came along. The same thing might work for you."
Jake figured it wouldn't hurt to try it out. The moment he started thinking of them his powers started to surface. His vision was a bit different in this form though. Every thing he saw was a reddish orange color but he figured he would be able to see great in the dark like this. It was the same as last time, that burning sensation along his skin, only this time it didn't hurt. It actually felt good. It felt like he was weightless.
"Wow, thanks man." He looked to his side at Bobby to see his eyes agape and a smile on his face. He didn't know why Bobby looked like that but then he realized he wasn't touching the ground, he was flying. He started to raise himself into the air until he was about 15 feet in the air. This was by far the coolest thing he had ever done.
"Alright Jake, I'm getting a good reading on all your powers, I just want to test one thing. Do you see that robot over there?" Jake nodded, wondering where it came from. "Its part of a simulation. It won't attack you I just want to test out your powers a little more. I want you to try and focus the fire surrounding you and direct them at the robot."
Again Jake had that same dumbfounded look on his face and Bobby helped him out once again. "Focus the rage and anger at that target. Once you feel the power for the first time and get used to it. It'll come with ease."
Jake turned to the fire and gathered himself a little. He then thrust his hand forward towards the robot and a beam of fire hit it. He tried a couple more times to see just how it felt once again.
"Okay Jake, you can take it down now, we're through here. I'll let Bobby show you around a little bit and then we can meet up in Professor Xavier's office so that I can go over with you a little about your powers.
"Oh my god!" Amara exclaimed.
"What is he really that hot?" asked Jubilee.
"Girl he is very hot, plus from what I saw of his powers, he's gonna be very popular around here." Amara was in the middle of telling Jubilee, Tabitha, Dani, and Rahne all about Jake. They immediately crowded upon getting back and began to question her about the newest arrival.
"So what does he look like?"
"Well, he's kinda tall. About 6 ft I guess. Brown hair, the most gorgeous hazel eyes…"
"Well, well, well, looks like we ran in on Amara talking about you to all the girls." Bobby was just about to show Jake the rec room when they walked in on Amara and some of the other girls. Jake was surprised about this since back at home, him being from a trailer park didn't attract too many girls. Bobby saw this, "Don't worry bro, around here, people don't really care where you from. You being nice and all goes a long way around here. Ladies, I would like to introduce you to our newest peer, Jake Crain."
"Hi, girls."
"Jake, I would like to introduce you to Tabitha, one of my best friends, Jubilee, Dani, and Rahne. I'm sure you grow to like them." Amara said pointing each one out.
Tabitha strolled up to him and put one hand on his shoulder. "So J what is it that you do anyways?" He started to bring the temperature up in his body to the point where it would almost burn Tabitha's hand. "Whoa, that's hot."
"Actually Tabitha it gets much more hotter than that." Hank walked in to the rec room alongside Logan and Professor Xavier. "I know I told you we would go over what the test came back with a little later but we decided to go ahead and come tell you now, if anything it'll save you having to tell some of the other students a little later.
"From what I gathered about your powers, that fire that surrounds your body does more than just get hot. It gives you the ability to fly, which we found out earlier. But it also serves as a healing factor, that explains why your face wasn't bruised when you looked in the mirror earlier. The fire won't actually harm anything unless you focus on it. The beams of fire you shot at the robot in the danger room will melt just about anything except adamantium."
Professor Xavier wheeled next to the boy and put his hand on the boy's arm. "Welcome to the Xavier Institute Jake. We all look forward to helping you with your powers and helping you get along. Let me take you along and introduce you to the other students here. Then I'll have Bobby show you around. And since you and Bobby seemed to have formed a friendship I'll have you room with him.
As they went around the mansion Jake was surprised in the least to see how vast this place was. It had everything he could even dream of. The pool looked great and he couldn't wait until spring to swim. He met all the students and instructors here. Remy Lebeau and Piotr Rasputin were outside on the grounds training with each other. Piotr was throwing disk into the air in his metal form as Remy was charging cards and throwing them at them. Not to far away Jean was throwing disk around using her powers of telekinesis while Scott shot optic blast from his eyes at the disk. On the other side of the house, a bunch of the kids were playing what they called mutant ball. It looked like it could be fun. He couldn't wait to get his chance at it. Back inside in the kitchen Rogue and Kitty were cooking while Kurt and Bobby were sitting around with them.
"Bobby if your would, please show Jake where your room is." He started to leave but turned around and said, "I've got Remy coming to bring you to the mall so that you can get some clothes. I'll see you when you get back."
"No problem prof." He motioned for Jake to follow him and took him up to the third story to their room.
When they got there, Jake was surprised to see the size of it. It was 3 times the size of the room he had back in the trailer. "This is awesome man. Whats this box here?" On his bed was a box that had his name on it.
"Oh that's probably your new mutant uniform. All the students get one when they get here. Go ahead open it." As soon as he opened it, Bobby was shocked to say the least. It wasn't some ordinary black new mutants uniform. It was black but with orange stripes down the sides. "Well I guess your gonna be part of the X-men. We all have codenames out there. They're usually something to do with our powers, what you gonna call yourself man?"
He sat there for a minute just thinking about it then it came to him. "Blaze."