AN: This reality is based on the fic Sinister Soldiers by Slickboy444 where Jean, Scott, Vincent, Wanda and X23 were taken from a young age to be trained in a block op military organazation. It takes place a few months after that fic.
REALITY TRIP 2
CHAPTER 6: SINISTER SOLDIERS
The next place they seemed to have landed if you could use that term seemed to be right back home at the first glance. They were in the foyer with the glass front doors and the large stairway leading to the next level. By all accounts it looked like home although they had seen this a few times.
"Are we back?" Blink asked them looking around the place. "I thought we would end up back in Forge's lab or was us appearing here kind of one of his little glitches in his devices?"
"Hard ta say a few of the places we were last tahme looked lahke home but turned out it wasn't." Rogue said looking around the place.
Jubilee had and idea and she looked to a potted plant near the wall, "Hold on let me check something out." She walked over and moved the plant aside to look at the wall behind it. "Nope we're not home just some alternate reality version of it."
Wanda crossed her arms looking at her a little strangely with an eyebrow raised up slightly, "How did you know that?"
Jubilee smiled sweetly at them trying to look innocent, "Well…There is supposed to be kind of a hole in the wall."
"What kind of mark?" Jean asked her wondering where this was going.
"It's nothing," Jubilee insisted and saw both Jean and Scott looking at her like well adults she sighed and just shrugged, "Lockheed and Bobby were being…Well you know he threw an ice shard and he missed thankfully although I don't think he was trying to hit him. Anyway it missed and went into the wall."
"I thought someone had moved that," Vince stated looking at the plant and looked at Rogue, "See next time I say something was moved believe me I do got a photographic memory." She just rolled her eyes and nodded. She remembered when they had gotten back one day he stopped and looked at the pot asking her if someone had moved it she thought it looked like it had been in the same place at least.
Scott gave Jubilee a little 'we will talk later about this when we get back' look to her making the other girl cringe a bit. Since she knew Xavier would be called into and most likely she and Bobby would be stuck plastering over the hole, Bobby for making it and her for obviously helping to hide it.
They started to hear voices calling out as from the sounds of it several people were running their way. They saw several of the New Mutants show up and Jubilee saw another version of her and so far she didn't look too different.
She was running with Rahne, Tabitha and Roberto and Bobby, "Come on guys I want to hurry they start that movie and I don't want to be late." The other Jubilee said.
The traveling one couldn't resist and jumped up in front of her double, "Hey there me."
"Ahhh!" The other her shouted out and fell back as the others were just as surprised as this. "What the hell!"
The others looked at the rest of them, "I'm awake right? This isn't some freaky dream where I think I'm awake but then I wake up?" Bobby asked the others so Tabitha pinched him, "Ow! Damn it you didn't have to do that."
"Well at last you know you're not dreaming," Tabitha grinned at him and then looked to the others. "Damn this is some freaky Twilight Zone stuff, did someone make anymore clones or something? I mean are you liked like X?"
"You mean X23 is here?" Paige asked wondering what that version of her friend is like.
"Yeah…But you are you?" Roberto asked and Paige's face fell at that as did her shoulders. It hit her that either she didn't exist in this reality or she wasn't a mutant either. That was something she never thought about a world where she wasn't around.
She felt a hand at her shoulder and saw Jamie giving her a sympathetic look and she looked at the others. "Ah'm Paige Guthrie, Sam's little sister from back home?"
She only got blank looks back but then again Sam had a large family so it could be possible since they really didn't remember all the brothers and sisters Sam had back home. But Rahne decided to get back to the heart of the matter. "Okay so what is goin' on here? Who are ye all and why do some of ye look like us?"
"Would you believe we're from an alternate reality?" Jean asked them as the residents of this world looked at each other and started talking to each other.
They looked back at them and Roberto looked at Jean a little strangely, "Well that would explain why you look different from the Jean we know."
"I'm different?" She was surprised by that most of her counter parts had look roughly like her even the Queen in that last reality had been very similar that they could have been twins just how different was she in this one?
"Not just you," Bobby said looking a little freaked out at a few of them as he pointed to Scott, Vince and Wanda, "You three look different here too and what's with that thing on your face?"
"My visor?" Scott asked him and Bobby nodded as he noticed they were staring at it, "It's how I can control my powers without it I can't open my eyes or else I just start blasting everything I see. Are you telling me that I-that is the other me doesn't have that problem?"
"Nope, maybe we should get the Professor or something?" Roberto asked them.
'Don't worry I'm now aware of things maybe we should meet in the living room,' Xavier's voice rang out gently in their heads.
"Some things never change," Wanda muttered as they walked on noticing the strange glances she kept on getting she had half a mind to snap at them. Just what was their issue with her? Oh well at least in this reality she must have been with the X-Men still and nothing like being with her father.
When they entered the living room they could see Xavier was there and looking pretty surprised at the sight before him. "Well I must say that this is certain different." He rolled forward and looked at them as they did the usual explanation of what was going on to them.
"Yes I can see there are a few key differences," Xavier told them looking at certain ones.
"Okay why are you guys staring at a few of us strangely?" Vincent said to them he had been noticing it as well and it was starting to give him the creeps. "I mean are a few of us dead or something?"
"Not…Exactly," Xavier wasn't sure how to break this to them he had called in several of the others that would like to see this and he could feel them coming in as well. "I think maybe it's best to show you."
"Yeah and trust me they'll be surprised," This world's Jubilee whispered to her counterpart who gave herself an interesting look. It was kind of strange seeing herself like this sure in the last reality she heard she had a counter part that wasn't there but seeing a mirror image was weird.
"You wanted to see us Professor?" Came a very familiar voice as another Jean, Scott, Wanda and Vincent walked in only there were very different. Jean had shorter hair a little taller and even looked a bit better then the other Jean but they also noticed the slight bulge in her stomach showing she was several months pregnant.
If that wasn't enough Wanda too looked slightly physically different and she wasn't a goth, Vincent was there only he was more built physically not to mention so was their Scott and the fact he had different hair but wore no shades or visor.
There was also X23 with Logan and Ororo as they both sides froze at this with several jaws dropping. There was a moment of silence between the two groups until the taller Scott got over the shock first, "What the hell is going on here?"
"Apparently they seem to be from another reality," Xavier explained to them as X23 came up and sniffed the air they were kind of the same but the scent was off. Logan noticed it as well looking at them.
"Oh come on are you serious? I know that we saw a lot of stuff in Shadow Cell but this?" The other Vince said pointing at the other group.
"What's Shadow Cell?" The dimensional traveling Vince asked his counter part and got a strange look at him. "What? I honestly never heard of it."
"You're kidding…Well where the hell did you live for the past several years?" SS Vince asked him he couldn't believe as well as the others that they never heard of the organization that they had lived at, trained and worked in for years before they gained their freedom several months ago.
"I was living in Toronto at the orphanage." With that Vince saw his counterpart literally freeze up. "What?"
He then noticed how the other Wanda gently ran a hand over his arm in a caring manner making him seem to unfreeze a bit. He looked pretty shocked though as he looked at him and tried to ask a question. "Are…Father Michaels, Mr. Kansuke and the rest still around?"
Vince could tell by the sound of the voice which was his own and so he would know what was behind the tone. "Yeah they're all fine in my reality I lived there until the summer when I joined up there." He told his counter part in a serious tone and saw him deep in thought about something and Vincent suddenly got the feeling something seriously bad had happened to them in this world.
"It's okay," Their Wanda said to him and both Wanda and Rogue looked at her strangely. Wanda looking at her counterpart wondering why she was being to nice to him and Rogue noticing little things that only a couple would do.
Rogue stepped forward looking at the non-goth Wanda, "Are ya two a couple of something?"
SS Wanda was a little surprised and a little defensive of the tone of voice Rogue was using at her. "Yes we are, we've known each other since I was a child when Shadow Cell took me out of that asylum and we're lovers."
"What?" This was from the real Wanda, Rogue and Vincent looking at the two copies.
"Okay first off you actually got out of that hell hole?" Wanda said to her counter part she couldn't believe that, the last one had never been in one but to learn that while she was stuck in that place this version of her had gotten out. "I only got out last year! And you're with him?"
"Hey!" Rogue said sharply to her, "What's wrong with him?"
"Yeah I'd have to agree with what she said," SS Wanda nodded to Rogue linking her arms in her Vincent.
"Boy and I thought it was messed up before," Amara said to the others that were standing watching what was going on. It sure was something as Rogue and both Wandas started to get into a small argument with both Vincent's either coming to their girlfriend's aid and defense or started to argue with each other about certain things.
When they learned that Sinister had been behind Shadow Cell both groups got even worse and Shadow Cell looked like they wanted to kill someone when they learned that he was not only alive in another world but working for Magneto of all people.
"Hey what's going on in here?" They all turned to see Mystique walk in wondering what the noise had been about. This was something they never expected and Rogue forgot the little argument with seeing her walk in and focused only on her as her anger took over.
"You!" Rogue screamed out and with speed that no one in this reality expected to see didn't just go at the blue shape shifter but flew at her grabbing her by the neck and lifting her off her feet into the wall.
"Holy crap you're Rogue can fly?" Bobby shouted seeing that happen.
"Charles! What's going on?" Mystique said grasping the hand at her throat.
"Rogue please let her down now she lives here now and is no longer our enemy." Xavier told her and Rogue gave him a strange look like he had lost his mind but then she felt a hand on her shoulder and saw her Vince there giving her a look and she sighed and released her.
"Fahne…Just keep her away from meh," Rogue muttered and turned around walking out of the room she needed some air and this place was messed up as it was.
"Will somebody please explain how Rogue did that, why she attacked me and why there seen to be several copies running around?" Mystique glared angrily at everyone there.
After a very lengthy explanation on both sides as to why Mystique was there and why Rogue attacked Mystique felt better knowing that wasn't her Rogue and that her Rogue was out on a date with Gambit.
"What the bloody hell is all going on here?" A tall Japanese woman with purple hair walked in with Warren. "We just came back and we see Rogue up in the sky did she take Ororo's powers or…" She trailed off seeing the extra and copied mutants.
"Okay can someone explain?"
"Long story short meet an alternative members of the X-Men from another reality," Tabitha said to them.
"Actually some of us are New Mutants and X-Factor as well," Blink spoke up and then looked at the Japanese woman. "But who are you?"
"I'm Betsy Braddock."
"What?" Came from everyone wearing a dimensional traveling bracelet.
"But you're…Japanese I mean how can you be Betsy?" Jamie asked first seeing how different this version was from their version. "Back home she's not Japanese she's just…well…"
"A white girl basically although you do got the accent and hair," Wanda told her not one to step around the issue plus she really wanted to stop thinking of seeing her well the other her with that Vincent. Sure he was nice but she just thought of him like a friend and not in that way.
It was kind of uncomfortable for her to see it actually.
Betsy sighed as how this wasn't her original body but she had swapped bodies years ago, "It's a long bloody story."
"And I get the feeling there is going to be a lot of those today," Warren muttered as he just knew this was going to be one very long and extremely weird day for him.
Paige was talking to X23 at the moment telling her all about the one from her world. "Wait so in that world you and I are room mates I never got out of Hydra until a few years ago, Magneto kidnapped the other me and my name is Sarah?"
Paige recapped, "Yeah what's you name here?"
"Laura."
Paige frowned, "That's weird why would it be different?"
X23 just shrugged this was beyond her she was never one for the broader thinking anyway and all this alternate reality stuff was giving her a headache.
After some time Jean and Scott were with their counterparts in the kitchen as SS Jean was taking time out to relax and getting to know each other. "So you're telling me in your world I still have my family, grew up normal, had a normal life and now you're becoming a doctor?" The pregnant Jean asked her after living most of her life in a hardcore military life style for so long seeing that she was like if she had actually had a normal life was pretty different.
"And you can't see without that thing on your face?" SS Scott said pointing to the visor he couldn't believe what it was like having to live like that although at least his counter part was at least some what military. Sure the hair wasn't traditional cut but at least he wasn't as laid back as the other versions of his team were.
He also couldn't believe that his brother was alive in their world as well and that they had only found each other over a year ago. It was strange he was just getting used to the idea of him having another life but never once thought about if his family had lived.
There was a reality where he was leader of the X-Men, dating Jean, going to University, and had his brother living with him. Sure there were down sides like Sinister still alive and the eye thing but in a way he envied this Scott.
"Yeah and I just can't believe in this my-our family was killed and taken as a child for some military program. And I thought Prodigy and Weapon X were bad enough," Jean shook her head at that. Living that kind of life was definitely not something she would want to have.
Jean then looked at her counter part and got a small smile, "So…How far along are you?"
SS Jean smiled and patted her stomach, "Only five months we hope to get the house finished next month."
"House?" Scott asked her.
His counter part nodded, "Yeah it's nice here and all but we want to raise this child and with all the people in here we figured it would be nice to have some privacy. So we're building a small one on the property."
"Yeah I guess that would be nice having some privacy trust me we got a lot more people at the mansion then here and we had to expand." Scott told him thinking about how nice it would be for him and his Jean to have their own place. "How can you afford that though?"
The pregnant Jean sighed not really wanting to get into everything, "Trust me it's a long story but basically we came into a lot of money and let's just leave it at that." Jean didn't want to push the topic as it sounded like a sore subject and decided to focus on other matters.
Mainly what it was like being pregnant because at what point can you ask 'yourself' how it's going to be before you do it yourself?
After some time Rogue finally came back cooling off although she stayed the hell away from Mystique and after they filled in Mystique at why Rogue was so pissed at her she decided to give her the space she obviously wanted. She was anxious to leave this reality as quick as possible and when the wrist devices started that little warning she was actually thankful for it.
"God it's about tahme I want out of this place," She said sourly seeing both Mystique and a version of Wanda and Vincent kiss once when she came back was enough for her. They gathered up and she gave her Wanda a sharp look.
"Oh get off it I already got a boyfriend!" Wanda snapped seeing her glare directed at her, she didn't like this anymore then Rogue did. The others just sighed knowing that this would be something that would take a few jumps to get over. When the flash happened everyone in that reality looked at the empty spot.
"Well…On a scale of one to ten on weirdest things that's ever happened this is a nine." Vincent from Shadow Cell stated with his companions nodding.
"Nine?" Bobby asked surprised giving them a look, "What the hell is a ten then?"
"You want to have nightmares for the rest of your life?" Scott asked him and Bobby shook his head, "Then don't ask."
NEXT UP CHAPTER 7: RETURN OF THE FUZZY CHICK
This is a return to the R-Man's story 'chicks dig the OTHER fuzzy dude'.
