I decided to make this just before the end of the Fox cartoon of X-Men.
REALITY TRIP 2
CHAPTER 8: ALL GROWN UP
Once more the mutants found them selves in a place that looked like the mansion well a mansion at least since the place was a lot different then the one they were from that was for sure. Nothing looked like it should have if it was supposed to be their mansion although with all the furnishings and the large rooms did tell them it was a mansion just not theirs.
"Well…This is new," Vince said looking around the place, "Where ever we landed it looks peaceful at least."
"Yeah but doesn't thinking that usually come to bite us in the ass?" Wanda asked as they started to move around. The place was totally unfamiliar to them all but then Jean stopped a moment as she felt something two strong minds trying to focus on her.
"Guys…We're not alone." She told them.
There was a sudden roar as what looked like Wolverine only in a yellow suit jumped out at them from a set of stairs. Vince reacted first firing an energy beam from his hand at what he assumed was Logan knocking him onto his back. "Oh crap not this random fighting thing again," Vince said knowing that when Logan got up he'd be extremely pissed.
Vince then got an explosion in the ribs shredding part of his shirt not to mention making him think of a few curses I his head. He had thought he was lucky enough to not get any clothing ruined this time around and here he was losing yet another shirt. 'I swear I'm going to run out of shirts one day if this keeps happening.'
The explosion came from an adult looking Gambit, "Gambit may not know who you are but even though takin' down de Wolverine gets you points with me can't let you all just walk in and attack our home."
"Hey you attacked us swamp rat!" Gambit turned to the somewhat familiar southern voice and the name that went with it as only one person called him that although what he found was a younger and somewhat angrier looking goth Rogue.
"Chere?" He asked a bit confused.
"Not exactly," She smirked and grabbed his face and let her powers out. She felt the strength and memories and his powers pull into her. She hadn't had to do this since Supergirl and even before then it had been awhile. She really didn't like using these powers but it was the easiest way to take him out of the fight.
Gambit slumped to the floor and she felt his mind started to surface as she pushed it back, "Great now ah'll have another Gambit in mah head."
"What did ya do ta him?" Came a shout and Rogue turned only to be tackled by well…Her. Only this one was grown up with long hair in curls, in a green and yellow skin tight suit and bomber jacket with a headband. The younger one was now in the air grabbling with her adult version and unfortunately her older self was a bit stronger then her most likely due to her age.
Logan got up and growl and lunched himself at the boy that had nailed him with the energy beam only to have him fly out of reach.
Scott saw this and called to Jean to hold him, when he used the name Jean that got Logan's attention as he saw a somewhat familiar red head reach out and lift him up into the air. The others were now getting ready to fight as well.
'Please that is enough all of you.' Came a voice into their minds.
In the doorway in a golden floating hover chair was Xavier, with an adult Storm, Beast, Jean, Scott and a teenaged Jubilee there as well. The adult Cyclops walked forward and looked at the teenagers and he couldn't help but notice the similarities. "Okay who wants to start talking first?"
After the usual long talk and Gambit giving Vince a shirt to replace the one he blew to shreds, something Vince was a little uneasy about given that he and the Gambit of his world never got along when he had been at the mansion.
After hearing their story Xavier had to admit this was unexpected to happen. Although he couldn't deny what they were seeing, "So you're all younger version of the X-Men?"
"Well actually we're three teams, the X-Men, New Mutants and X-Factor," Paige said to him wondering if she should mention the floating chair to Forge it would be cool for the Professor back home to have something like that.
"Just how many rug rats you got in that place?" Logan asked his mask pulled back and him lighting a cigar.
"I think we're at over thirty now I kind of lost count," Jamie said trying to remember how many people were there now. That got surprised looks from everyone there they never thought of having that many mutants in their mansion before in fact this mansion might not have seen over thirty people period in decades.
"Well looks like in this world things are different but how come Jubilee gets her own double that's the same age and the rest of us don't exist?" Amara asked slightly annoyed that only Jubilee of the original New Mutants were here. "I mean there's no Paige, Dani, Sam, Rahne, Jamie, Wanda, Kurt or anyone else."
"Actually I believe that there was a Rahne Sinclair and James Madrox who went by the names Wolfsbane and Multiple Man in the government team that was called X-Factor." Beast spoke up remembering that government team. "And you said there is a Wanda?"
"Yeah I'm right here," Wanda said slightly annoyed as they hadn't known who she was, was she really that different in this world that they didn't know who she was? But by the surprised looks she was seeing she guessed that her counter part on this world was extremely different. "You know what…Never mind I don't want to know what your Scarlet Witch is like given one of the ones I heard that went nuts I think I'm better off."
"And as for Kurt we met him," The Adult Rogue said and everyone had noticed the major difference in her. Even Vince had to admit if this was what Rogue could grow up into it was definitely nice, taller, more shapely and the longer hair wasn't bad. He also must have been looking a bit too close when he got an elbow in his ribs.
He grunted and looked at an annoyed Rogue, "What? She is you after all."
Rogue just rolled her eyes at his response although she noticed Jean and Scott were taking looks at their counterparts. Those uniforms the adults wore seemed to show off all the right things, hell that adult Scott sure was puff and of course Jean's adult version was just as pretty of all things so no surprise there.
Rogue was sitting in a living room with her more adult self it was kind of new for her she had never seen herself grown up before and she had to admit even though this world was very different from her own she filled out more. Hell she could give Jean a run for her money in the looks department and wondered if this was what Vince saw in her, past the makeup and dark clothing?
"Ya know ah got ta admit this sure is different," Adult Rogue said to her gothic counterpart. "Ah never saw myself as a goth."
Younger Rogue just shrugged, "Yeah well growin' up wasn't nice and then ya got the whole no touching thing."
"God that sucks especially at your age I remember the first boy I tried to kiss…" She sighed at the memory of putting Cody her best friend growing up and her first crush into a coma. Then he was infected by those Brood aliens and she lost him for good. She wasn't sure which hurt more.
The younger one could see some pain in her eyes, "Well mine happened at a party so you can bet how bad that went." The older on cringed at that she knew how bad it could be with getting more then just one person at a time or how it happened the first time. "But ah got mah brother Kurt, mah friends and of course Vince."
The older Rogue noticed the small smile, "Ya really like him, so was there no Gambit in your world?"
Goth Rogue sighed as she explained the whole thing, yes there was and how he was on the other side. But she did admit she had a crush on him then the whole thing with him in New Orleans. But then she got into how Vince came into her life and things changed, there was a moment when she wasn't sure who she liked more but in the end Vince had won out because he had been there for her and Gambit hadn't.
"Well ah can see why ya made your choice and ah bet there are other worlds were we are datin' someone else," The adult one laughed as she thought about that.
"That is true…You ever wondered about if you could date who would you? Ya know if you were single."
Adult Rogue thought about it, "Well other then Johnny Deep, ah always wondered what Spider-Man looked like under that mask. We met him and he had a nice body at least and was funny."
"You got him in this world too?" Goth Rogue was surprised at that she never thought of the same heroes being in the same world. "We got him too although what are the odds of a version of us datin' him? I think it's about the same as Kitty datin' him." Both of them laughed a bit at that.
Gothic Rogue looked at her counter part, "Have ya ever stopped havin' your powers like actually able ta kiss someone?"
The other Rogue smiled and nodded, "Once in the Savage Land me and Remy kissed and then…Well there was this boy too…" She didn't want to get into how Cody had kissed her because he was turning into an alien. "What about you? Ah mean ah noticed how ya got no gloves and showing more skin."
Rogue was a little unsure about telling her adult version. "Yeah ah learned to control mah powers a few months ago. It was in this accident and kind of did somethin' ta meh but don't ask me what it's way over mah head."
The older one had on a sad smile, "Well at least one version of me can hold hands and kiss a nice boy."
"Actually…" Goth Rogue trailed off not sure what to say next. "Me and Vince…We've gone all the way…"
The older version was clearly surprised sure kissing was something she wanted but sex. Hell she was in her prime and was still a virgin and here was a younger version of her that had that already. Being totally honest with herself she was jealous of that, "You've got ta have sex?"
"Yeah…even broke mah bed once," She said a little embarrassed.
The older version just blinked trying to process all of this. Plus breaking a bed? She looked at her younger version for awhile and as she processed it she was curious about and who better then to ask herself? "So…What's it like…You know having sex?"
The younger Rogue had no idea were to even start.
In the lower levels the two Jubilees were having fun the one from this world with the shorter hair was leading her counterpart to a computer room. Jubilee looked at her counter part with the shorter hair and it looked kind of cute on her. She was wondering if she should get her long hair cut shorter it might be nice look for her.
Her counter part had just heard how the girl next to her was doing romantically. "So you're saying you're dating Iceman?" She had to admit she hadn't had one single real date while living here. It kind of sucked after all she was the youngest one so it was lucky that in the other world the mansion had lots more kids her own age.
"Oh yeah and he can be a goof but he's sweet at times, like this one time I got kind of mad at him for this prank that pack fired and got me instead. I find a note that says there was something in the freezer for me." AGU Jubilee smiled at the memory it was one of the things that Bobby could surprise her at times.
"Well I went down there and when I opened it there was this little ice sculpture of me only as an angel and it was so detailed and everything."
"Oh that is sweet," FOX Jubilee smiled at that.
"Yeah it had to take him some time because it was really detailed he told he that was his fifteenth try to get it perfect. I wish I still had it but it broke when someone went to reach for the ice cream." Jubilee sighed at that she wished she had taken a picture or something.
"Well that sucks but let me show you what our Bobby looks like," Her counterpart on this world giggled. She remembered seeing him once and he was pretty cute guy too, she worked the controls as the computer showed various clips of the X-Men in the older days.
"God what were they wearing?" AGU Jubilee said seeing the uniforms.
"I know man those were bad oh wait here's a good shot of him," The other one said freezing a more current image of her Iceman in this world, that of a grown up man in a blue, white and black uniform that showed off his physic really well.
"Wow…" Jubilee said looking at the image if this was what Bobby could start to look like down the road she had nothing to complain about.
"Yeah a total hotty huh?" Her other self said as both girls went into giggles as they looked at more images of Bobby.
Upstairs Blink was getting to know this world's Storm it was a shock to know that she had no sister and that Evan didn't exist, Ororo was surprised she had a sister and nephew in Blink's world. They were sitting in the kitchen drinking tea it always helped to calm both of them down and to relax.
"It's hard to think that I have a sister and nephew and a brother in law too," Ororo mused to herself taking a sip, "And this Evan is with the Morlocks? Well we've met them before and it has been…difficult at times."
Blink sighed and nodded, "Yeah they can be like that, plus Vivian is expecting her second child which should be really great."
Ororo smiled at that and felt a bit of sadness at that, "It's good about that but is there anything for me on your world, any chance of a family of her own?"
"Well…actually…I am her daughter…" Blink said shyly she wasn't sure how this Ororo would take that. "Well adopted daughter at least but she's really great as a mom."
Ororo looked at the young girl next to her and the thought of having a daughter was very pleasing. She smiled as she brushed away a strand of hair from her lavender skinned face, "Well then she's very lucky you seem to be a nice young lady."
"Thanks," She blushed at this, "But if it's any consolation you seem a lot like my Ororo and I'm sure you'd make a great mother." Ororo smiled at the compliment and it would be nice to raise a family one day she never had any family of her own anymore and this whole thing made her wonder.
The only problem was how do you find someone you want to spend the rest of your life with? Then there was given how messy her life could get with all the dangers out there. Maybe her counterpart had the right idea in adopting? Well anyway as she got to know this young girl she started to like her and was a bit envious of her counter part for having such a sweet girl.
Jean and Scott were of course getting to know their counterparts and were surprised to learn they had just married only a few months ago. It was nice to see this although jean wasn't sure about the ponytail her adult version wore. She liked her hair the way it was as they were holding a telepathic conversation while the two Scotts were talking business.
Mainly the kind of battles and enemies when Scott learned how Sinister ruined the first wedding of his adult counter part Scott would be put on alert when he and Jean married. He'd be sure to have the priest mentally scanned just in case. He would take no chances with his own wedding being messed up.
And he knew that he and Jean were meant to be together after all in every reality they were together, in one they were King and Queen, in another married with a child and another being married. It was pretty nice to see all of this and only helped him to realize that Jean was the one for him and no one else.
Despite that one world with him and Emma Frost, he didn't want to think of that.
The others were looking around and getting to know the other adults, the place was different and they had a few different things. They even had smaller personal flight vehicles that could be an interesting idea since the Blackbird and Velocity were pretty large and it was hard to hide those let alone a place to land them.
Plus they also had to ask just what was Xavier's hover chair worked, and did it use batteries or had to be plugged in at night? That got an amused smile out of Xavier it had been a long time since there were any young people around besides Jubilee. Seeing this maybe it was time to expand his teachings to a new generation?
It certainly gave him thought and the fact they managed to train and help so many students with so little adults said something. Perhaps it was time to look for new children to help after all it was what he made this place for.
All in all it had been a nice visit, Vince got kind of the cold shoulder from Logan most likely a little pissed that the fight had ended without him getting in his own shot at the kid that shot at him. But either way it was a nice visit and they just knew when they told Forge of Xavier's chair in this that would keep him busy for a month at least.
Jubilee hugged herself goodbye when the beeping was starting up, "Hey see ya later and maybe I can visit or bring you over to ours?" Jubilee asked her double.
"Oh that would be so cool!"
"I don't think so kid there is no way in hell I'm lettin' you go off into another freakin' reality." Logan said sharply.
"Oh come on Logan I don't got any kids my own age to hang out with and just once I'd like to have some friends that when I was a baby were in high school." She pouted back at him. There was a sudden flash as everyone vanished and Jubilee sighed, "I hope they come back, no offence guys but it would be nice to have at least some teenagers around here."
Xavier looking at this felt that maybe he should start looking into getting more younger students soon after all. Jubilee could use others and she could help out with them as well. "Don't worry Jubilee I'm sure that things will work out soon." He smiled at her.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 9: HELLFIRE
This will be in the Hellfire and Brimstone story next that me and Slickboy444 wrote. IT will be after the Emma and Vince spin-off for time line when Emma had her baby.
