REALITY TRIP 2
CHAPTER 4: CLASS OF THE TITANS
Once more the mutants found themselves transported to a new reality. They looked around to find themselves in a massive gym and I mean massive. There were huge Greek pillars that held up the high foot it was at least three stories high. There was a race track around the area, various training equipment and other items they even had one of those rock climbing walls.
There were also massive statues that lined the walls. From the ground they went all the way to the ceiling. Everything about the design was like it was made to make you feel small and in the presence of something.
"Wow…this makes our gym look like crap even with the upgrades," Rogue said looking around at everything. "But what's with the statues?"
"Yeah a bit much don't you think?" Paige said looking at them there was one huge guy with a lightning bolt and beard. There was a mix of men and women around them. "He reminds meh of something."
"I think it's supposed to be Zeus," Jean told her looking at him she had liked Greek myths in school she even remembered doing a class project on it in her junior year. She looked around the place trying to pick out anything that may help give an idea on who they are.
"I think that's Hera, that one with the hammer I think is Hephaestus."
"Who?" Jubilee asked her looking at the guy with what looked like a large boot on his foot.
"He made things for the gods like their personal blacksmith," Jean clarified as she looked on at the statues, "There's Artemis, Athena, Ares…"
"I think that's Aphrodite, Persephone, Hades and Hermes," Vince said looking at the other side and then noticed a few looks he was getting and he just smiled at them with a shrug. "Hey after I saw Jason and the Argonauts for the first time it got me interested so I read up on Greek Myths."
"You mean like Hercules and stuff?" Jamie asked getting a nod from the older boy.
Jubilee grinned and elbowed Amara, "Hey didn't the Romans pretty much rip off the Greeks in things like the gods." That got a glare from Amara she took her faith seriously sure she knew that the Greeks and Romans shared the same gods basically just by different names and a few differences although not by much.
"Well at least the place looks nice I mean we can't get into any more fights here…Can we?" Blink asked looking around the area and then at the others. Given how the last two have gone she was looking forward to a little more relaxation. If she wanted to fight she would have asked for more Danger Room time. Plus she was still aching in a few places from the last fight they had.
Scott sighed wishing that Blink wouldn't tempt fate like that and he was about to say something when a group of seven teenagers came in through a large set of double doors. "I can't believe on top of regular schooling they want us to study for more tests." A girl with long strawberry blonde hair and dull green eyes sighed. She was in a red t-shirt and jeans and very shapely. "I mean I wouldn't mind but why do they have to assign them at the same time as the regular tests?"
"Yeah I know what you mean Theresa," A boy with spiked hair like Ray's only purple and in blue clothing and shorts. He also had this golden armor over part of his shin and covered his ankle on one of this feet.
"Uh guys we got company," A girl with bright green eyes and spiked back red hair in a t-shit and cargo shorts.
"What the-Who are you people," A boy with brown hair that was like Scott's only lighter and a strangely familiar voice as he pulled a weapon that looked like the hilt of a sword. It opened up and a blade shot out of it into a short sword.
"Whoa hold it!" Scott said raising his hands he really didn't want to get into another fight. "We can explain everything if you give us a chance."
The leader of the group with the sword gave them a look but so far they hadn't done anything so he might as well hear them out. "Alright but someone go get Hera and the others just in case I think they'll want to hear this too."
"I'll do it," The red headed girl said and ran off only she ran off a hell of a lot faster then anyone she moved almost as fast as Pietro in fact.
"Are you guys mutants or somethin'?" Rogue asked first seeing how fast the girl went off.
"Mutants?" The others asked.
As they sat down to talk things out both sides weren't sure to believe the other side. On the one hand there was the fact that mutants and interdimensional travel was something they didn't deal with. But when older adults came in dressed in old Greek robes and were introduced as the old Greek gods that was hard to take with the mutants.
The seven teens also were descendants of actual heroes of the Greek legends as well not to mention
An African American boy who was a bit short and with an afro and glasses immediately took a look at the devices on their wrists. Odie as the boy was named turned out to be a descendant of Odysseus well very distant as he said with a small laugh.
The others were a regal looking woman who appeared in her late 70s but held herself high was supposed to be Hera. There was another woman in purple that was Athena with short dark hair, an orange haired one in a matching toga was Artemis, and a man that had a balding head in armor was Ares who looked about as happy as Logan usually did.
There was a thin beauty with long hair that was Persephone she seemed reasonably calm and another god that was all hyperactive with winged sandals and an old flight hat that looked to be out of a World War I fighter pilot that turned out to be Hermes.
It was pretty strange to meet them all especially for Amara who was pretty nervous these beings were pretty much were the representations of her own gods and it was kind of strange to meet them in person. Sure they were from another dimension but how many times do you meet real gods?
"So you're all descendants of heroes then?" Wanda asked them as they finally got things settled down. They were in a large 'office' although it looked more like an atrium with couches and a desk. They had explained how the school and the seven heroes were there to fight Cronous the Titan that escaped from the Underworld.
"Yeah King Jason was my ancestor," Jay the leader of the group explained. "You're met Odie and Atlanta…" He gestured to the speedy redhead as she smiled and waved.
"Wait let me guess…Atlanta the hunter?" Vince guessed and saw the surprised looked, "Oh come on she was said to be really fast and after seeing her run and having her name it was kind of a given."
"Read up on Greek Myth-Uh I mean history," Odie said as she quickly covered it up seeing the looks of the gods at the word 'myth' given that he knew they didn't like that word. There were a few snickers at his little slip up.
Jay went on pointing to the girl with the long hair, "Anyways Theresa here is from Theseus' line," Jay continued and explained how that was the hero that killed the Minotaur in the maze. The one with the Purple hair was Archie of the line of Achilles the undefeatable warrior. Odie was introduced and then there was Harry a largely built man and tall for his age.
He was kind of like Colossus in size and it was no wonder since he was of the line of Hercules. "And finally there is Neil…Neil!" Jay said to a tall and very well groomed boy with perfect short hair looking into a pocket mirror. Actually it folded up into three different mirrors.
"What? I was just checking to make sure my hair was still in place." He said to Jay in a slightly bored voice.
Amara looked at Jay after seeing Neil, "Okay what kind of hero did he come from?"
Jay sighed saying it was Narcissus having a few blank looks until Jean looked at Neil and then something clicked, "Wait wasn't he the guy that fell in love with his own reflection?" Everyone cast a look at Neil was he was checking himself out a bit more and grooming his hair.
"Well that fits," Rogue muttered seeing him there.
"Oh god if you think that's bad you should see him in the bathroom," Atlanta told her folding her arms against her chest. "And the boys claim we take forever he spends twenty minutes just in the mirror alone."
There were a few laughs except for Vince as she cast a curious look at Rogue then at Atlanta. The redhead saw him looking at her strangely, "What?"
"It's just that…you two sound the same, well minus her accent of course," He explained and that got a few reactions from them and everyone else took notice of that.
"Ah don't think so," Rogue stated.
"Actually…I think he may be right…" Jay said hearing her voice and listening in more closely without the accent. "You think you can pull off her accent?" He asked with a grin on his face.
She sighed and rolled her eyes, "Lahke this?"
"Whoa he's right you do sound like her," Harry said as everyone was surprised at that. Both Atlanta and Rogue scowled at the others. There was a small laugh as someone made a comment on them having similar scowls as well as the same voices.
Rogue then looked at Jay and then Scott as she smirked noticing something herself. "Oh yeah well we ain't tha only ones, what about you two huh? God you two even look a lot alike too you know." She pointed at Jay and Scott and both teens looked at each other.
Jay and Scott did look a lot alike they even seem to have similar tastes in clothing. Not only that there was something else familiar with the two of them as sitting next to Scott was Jean holding his hand and next to him. With Jay even though they weren't holding hands Theresa looked a lot like Jean and they did seem close.
Jubilee picked up on this of course, "Hey are you two a couple?" She asked the two and the flustered and embarrassed looks were a telltale sign. "Oh man this is kind of freaky, hey you said she had mental powers right?" She asked the others.
"Yeah she sees stuff and can sense them," Archie shrugged not sure where this was going but Rogue groaned and palmed her face into her hands being the one that knew Jean and Scott the longest she saw all the signs.
"Oh great two more of them, let meh guess they lahke each other but won't admit it?" The goth asked the others there and they all rolled their eyes and nodded their heads to the protests of Jay and Theresa. "It's must beh some universal joke because these two were the exact same and took them lahke years ta get together."
"Hey!" Jean and Scott said back to her making some more laughter at all of this.
"So you guys get your powers and stuff because you're related to someone famous and not because you got born with some gene?" Jamie asked them changing the topic although the similarities were freaky between Jay and Scott it was like they were different versions of the same guy or something.
"Well something like that we call kind of take after who we came from basically," Odie said finished looking over the technology he kind of wished he could meet this Forge guy. This was some amazing work.
"Why don't you show them around then," Hera said with a small smile she didn't sense any malice out of them and it might do the others some good to relax among other teens that dealt with troubles in the world. "There is nothing really scheduled for today and I think their visit warrants a special day to relax."
The seven heroes were happy at this and immediately went to start showing them around the school well their part of the school at least. The rest of the students didn't know about the secret area which was of course magically concealed. And somehow it was bigger on the inside then on the outside too.
They decided to split themselves up Atlanta, Archie, Neil and Odie were taking Jubilee, Jamie, Paige, Amara and Blink around the place. They ended up in a large library at the moment and boy were they surprised to see not a man but an elderly centaur that was keeping track of all the books and scrolls.
"Oh hello there, these must be the young visitors that Hermes talked about," He smiled at them putting some books away.
Jubilee blinked a few times, "Okay I've seen a lot of things but Mr. Ed as a librarian that's a new one on me."
He looked at the Asian girl with a small glare as Atlanta tried to cover her mouth from a laugh, "Uh Chiron doesn't like the horse references."
"Oh…sorry about that."
"Wait a minute…THE Chiron?" Amara looked at the old Centaur, "They one that ran a school for heroes and trained a lot of the famous ones?"
He looked proudly at that nice for someone to have noticed that, "Why yes I did, I trained some of the greatest heroes in the past. And I'm glad how well they turned out they are legends now after all."
Amara looked a bit confused given what she read about him, "I thought Hercules killed you with an arrow?"
His face fell at that point and Archie decided to step in, "Yeah turns out that some of the 'history' that was written kind of got mixed up along the way. Trust me they teach us all about what did and didn't happened…Weather we want to or not," He muttered the last words.
Blink was looking around also out of her holowatch she felt a bit better after everyone had reacted well to her appearance. She didn't notice Neil walking up to her looking at her and she was a little startled, "C-can I help you?"
"You know I got to wonder what do you use on your hair? There are no split ends and I'd love to see if I can use it, you wouldn't believe how long it takes my hair to get to this level of perfection."
She blinked a few times given her looks and all he thought about was just hair products and hair care? This was a new one on her and hearing this Amara leaned over to Jubilee, "Man and I thought Pietro was bad this guy has more of an ego on his looks then he ever did."
Jubilee nodded seeing Neil and Blink talk about hair care.
Meanwhile the others were looking around and came to a nice area with a tapestry with four women of the seasons on it. "This is Persephone's room so be careful you don't want to know what she's like when she gets mad," Theresa warned them.
The place looked kind of nice as Vince took a closer took at the painting at least he thought it was until the women that was Spring winked at him, "Hey there cutie."
"Ah!" Vince jumped back into a small pillar cracking it with his body. "Oops, sorry about that but she…I mean…" He pointed to the painting where now all four women were giggling.
"You get used to it," Harry said looking at the damage, "Man and I thought I was tough…" He said to himself seeing the broken pillar he saw how strong they were when they demonstrated their powers and between that guy and his girlfriend he didn't want to get into a wrestling match sure he was strong but not that strong.
Just then two women came in both blondes but there was the slimmer Persephone and the talker one in red and was one hell of a knock out. "Oh hear we are I heard we got some new guests." She sounded like she was from the Bronx or something.
She went to the couples there, "Oh are you four so sweet looking couples I can see that you mean a lot to each other," She looked to Jean and Scott as if reading them, "Oh you two are definite soul mate material, and you two I can see that it's still young but strong bond between you two." She said to Rogue and Vince making them a little uncomfortable.
She gave Wanda a look and smiled, "Oh don't be afraid to let your feelings out whoever it is that you think about is bound to be a catch." That caught Wanda off guard at that as the woman went to look at the boys. "May oh may aren't you all the little cuties, I bet girls would always want to get up close to you two."
"Uh thanks," Scott said at her and Vince blushed a bit both boys seemed to be looking a bit too close as both Jean and Rogue elbowed them into the ribs.
"Who is this and why does she sounds like Fran Drescher?" Wanda asked the two heroes there.
"This is Aphrodite the goddess of love." Theresa explained and sighed a bit at how the males tended to look at the tall blond. She just had that effect on men it took a few times being around her to get over that effect. She just hoped their girlfriends wouldn't hold it against them.
"What happened here!" Persephone asked seeing the pillar, "What happened?" She said angrily and there was a thundering sound as her skin actually changed to a grey tone a very pissed off look as she just changed physically and mentally.
"It was just and accident the Seasons just surprised one of them," Jay stepped in fast.
She changed back into what she was looking all peaceful and kind again. "Oh, well no worries that can be fixed."
This left the others not used to her mood swings looking a little confused as the goddess went to work seeing how bad the damage was but Aphrodite just laughed, "Oh don't worry about that just a little side effect from her marriage to Hades she has to live half her life up here and then in the underworld. It kind of leaves an effect although what see sees in that place I'll never know. It's too dreary for my tastes."
They spent the rest of the hour swapping stories, they led some crazy lives. Like how they had to fight an evil god, giants, Cyclops, Harpies, Sirens, the Kraken, and other adventures while the X-Men told them about Magneto, FOH, Sentinels, Azazel, Hellions and other things. Things were going well until their wrist devices started to beep.
"Aww I was liking this world Odie was going to show me this game he made," Jamie said disappointed that they had to go. This world was really fun to hang out in.
"Yeah well we might as well get ready for all we know the next place might not be as friendly," Scott said getting up.
Jay stepped forward to him, "Well it was nice meeting you guys stop by again if you can."
They smiled and nodded and as soon as the sound ended they were literally gone in a flash off to another new world.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 5: KNIGHTS OF THE X TABLE
