History Before The X-Men
By Time And Life 21
It was an early morning in Bayville. The sun wasn't up yet as four teenagers with ski masks covering their faces were breaking into the Property of Xavier's Institute. There was still some prejudice of the students of the high school that do not like mutants. They were chuckling and were carrying spray cans as they went up to the walls.
"Huh, let's show these muties that they don't belong here." An older voice said as he shook the cans. He was about to spray on the wall when a twig snapped behind them.
"What was that?" One of the younger ones said frightened.
"Come on man, don't chicken out now." Another boy said. Another attempted to spray the wall was foiled as the smell of brimstone filled the air.
"Do you smell that?" Another boy asked.
"Yeah…what the hell is it?" The older boy asked as he stepped backward. But he ran into something. Something tall.
The younger boys were looking behind the eldest as he said, "There's someone behind me…isn't there?" He asked.
Their eyes were wide with fright.
"De…de…demon!" One of them said as he lifted a finger.
The eldest boy turned around and saw a crimsoned skinned, black haired, Armani suit clothed, goatee-wearing demon; his eyes were blue as coldest ice and there was a long scar on his right eye. He cried in horror as he fell to the ground.
"Well, well…what have we here? 4 naughty boys. My, my, hasn't your parents taught you anything?" He smiled wickedly, his fangs glimmering in the dark of the morning.
"Who…who are you?" One of the boys stuttered out.
The demon's spaded tail was languidly swayed behind him.
"Satan." He chuckled.
He could see the blood drain from their faces.
"Do you know what happens to naughty boys who don't respect others?" He said as he frowned at the four boys.
They shook their heads out of fear. He then disappeared in a puff of smoke and reappeared right in front of them, startling them, the sun was rising now as the first rays hit his face in a fiery way.
"They go to Hell." He said as he raised a clawed hand.
The boys all screamed and ran for their lives.
"I'm sorry!"
"We won't do it again!"
"Let's get out of here!"
As they disappeared out of sight, Azazel chuckled.
"Never get's old." He said as he dusted his Armani suit off and walked back to the Mansion.
He had appointed himself as 'Guard Dog' as Wolverine had so pointed out since The Elite had come home. The first few days they were stuck in the medical bay, having their heath being checked out and such. Spade was to have her stitches out today. She was lucky to have a slight healing factor into play, or when the stiches came out, they would have scarred her eyelids and eyes, blinding her. Even though their bodies were in good condition, they had to go through physical therapy, Renegade more so than anyone else. Muscular Dystrophy is not pleasant in the least. Azazel walked into the kitchen to see Blaze, or Thomas or Montmorency, as he called him when they were not on a mission or out in the field.
"Cooking breakfast? Ah, Hanna." Azazel made the connection.
The blond haired man nodded. He was in a pair of grey sweats and a tank top.
"She's stuck in bed again today. Hank wanted her to rest a bit longer before doing anything strenuous." Blaze said as he scrambled the eggs in the skillet.
"Strenuous? Don't let Scarlett hear you say that. She would, how you say… 'Twist your words'." Azazel smiled only slightly.
Thomas rolled his emerald eyes.
"You are not any better, comrade." He said mockingly.
The Russian lifted his hands in surrender and went over to the fridge and grabbed a fuji apple.
"There were мальчиков outside Institute. Ran screaming like girls." Azazel said as he chomped into his large apple.
Thomas laughed as the Crimsoned skinned man recanted his morning.
"Oh? Let me guess, you pulled the 'I'm Satan' crap." He chuckled. Azazel shrugged as he bit into his apple again.
"You did…" He laughed.
"You just reminded me when we were in Rome. Remember that?" Thomas smiled.
Azazel chuckled.
"You mean when I went into confession box and after I came out, priest had look of horror on face. He tossed entire bowl of holy water at me." He said as he smiled at the memory.
The frightened look on the priest's face was priceless.
"Ah, that was priceless." Thomas said.
"What was priceless?" Scarlett asked as she walked into the kitchen.
Her eyes were still sewn shut, but she navigated around the kitchen just fine; she had on capris and a large shirt that had a smiley face on it, she was bare foot.
"The priest and the holy water incident." Azazel spoke as he ate the core of the apple.
She smiled wickedly.
"Oh that, then I came in and the Priest started ranting about succubus and devils everywhere. That was hilarious. Though, mon pére would have called blasphemy on me if he ever got word on it." Scarlett said as she opened the fridge and grabbed an apple.
"I forgot that your family is catholic." Thomas said as he placed the eggs onto a plate next to the bacon and strawberries.
"Ah…thirteen years…I'm planning on leaving for a little bit and heading back to France to let him know that I'm alive. After I get my freaking stitches out…" She muttered the last sentence, then bit ferociously into the apple.
"I'm heading back down to the lower levels." Thomas said as he left his two friends in the kitchen.
As he was going down the elevator, he cursed himself. He forgot the milk. His wife had always had milk with bacon and eggs. He sighed. He hoped she'd forgive him. As the elevator opened, he made sure to look left and right as to avoid the younger mutants that live at the institute. They usually have danger room sessions very early in the mornings. Satisfied that there was nothing down here, he walked toward the medical bay where Hanna was. He walked through and turned on the lights. He heard a groaning noise that he could have mistaken it for a cow.
"You sound like a cow, darling." Thomas chuckled.
"Shut up, you handsome British man you…" He heard as he pushed aside the curtains and saw his wife lying in the bed stretching herself out.
"Why thank you darling, you look lovely yourself. The bird's nest you have is most becoming of you." He joked lightly. Hanna opened one eye and then the other. She blinked quickly, trying to get used to the bright light.
"You sure know how to make a lady feel confidant of herself." She spoke, slipping into her old twang of southern accent.
He then lifted the plate of Bacon and eggs and placed it on the table by the medical bed. She looked over and she furrowed her brow.
"No milk?" She said as she looked back up at him.
He just stood there stone cold faced. A minute passed by before she broke into a smile.
"It's okay. At least you didn't forget the toast…oh wait." She chuckled.
Thomas rolled his eyes to the ceiling and sighed. He knew he forgot something else. He looked back at his wife and she was laughing.
"Oh, you are so cute when you try and make food for me." She chuckled.
He rolled his eyes and sat at the edge of her bed as she started to eat. He had something nagging at the back of his mind for the past week. Ever since he woke up, he saw similarities of three of the X-Men at the institute.
Rouge.
Gambit.
Nightcrawler.
He knew his wife had the same thoughts.
"So…13 years…look at them." He said as he leaned back a bit, looking up at the ceiling.
Hanna ate a bit more slowly. She knew this talk would have come up sooner or later.
"I know." She said softly.
She had seen visions of the past and present leading up to where they were at now. Thomas furrowed his brow.
"What are we going to do? It's obvious that Azazel and Kurt are related. No doubt about that. A blind man would have seen the relation. He was muttering something last night about Darkhölme. I thought it would have been sooner that he would be ranting about her." Thomas said as he rubbed his forehead.
Hanna nodded after she swallowed a strip of bacon.
"Well it was obvious. But I'm just as surprised of Remy." She said as she pushed the last of her eggs around on her plate.
"I know Scarlett put him in New Orleans. The LeBeaus took him in. Even I'm surprised at that. It's a good thing that they never knew the colors of her eyes though." She smiled slightly.
"You gave her glasses to make sure they never noticed the connection. You plan ahead very well." He said thinking back to when Scarlett had to be on the run for a month.
It was dangerous work being in The Elite. Constantly making sure that certain things as mutant and human relations don't get out of hand. Working for SHIELD was hard enough. It was no place for a child.
"And what about Anna Marie?" Thomas said softly.
Silence went between the two. Hanna placed her fork down on the empty plate. She had seen the young Mississippi Spitfire. Reminded Hanna of her self when she was younger.
" I've already talked to Scarlett about it. We wait." She said as she lay back down on the bed.
"Oh? Are you sure that's wise?" Thomas asked genuinely concerned.
It was bizarre for The Elite. Knowing that they had children here at Xavier's.
"They'll find out sooner or later. Azazel asked Hank for a blood match between him and Kurt. There's no doubt that there will be a match. Scarlett may be leaving to go to France to meet up with her family after the stitches in her eyes are taken out, I already told her about Remy. We on the other hand…" Hanna chuckled.
"Well, Wolverine took over the father figure quite well." Hanna smiled.
Thomas huffed and crossed his arms.
"Did you find out what happened back there?" He asked as he looked at her.
Her face was darkened with emotion.
"My sister. Irene." She said as she wringed her fingers.
Thomas stood up and fire started to form in his hands.
"Destiny…that little…" He said as he gritted his teeth.
"Thomas…don't worry about it for now. For now, we wait, and we take positions as teachers here." She said as she placed the plate back onto the bedside table. Thomas glared at her.
"Are we just going to let this slide by? Your sister betrayed us!" He said as he ran his hands through his hair.
"Thomas…I gave her a warning…she didn't heed it. I'll be seeing her in the near future. But for now, let it go. I know how you get when you let your temper gets the best of you." She smiled sadly.
Hanna hated that fact that her little sister went turncoat on her, but she knew that Irene would regret it.
"Fine…" He said as he sat back down, feeling defeated.
"Did you tell her not to mess with the fate lines that you had set?" He asked.
"No…but I knew she would mess the future up anyways. This school went through a lot. The X-Men fought against Apocalypse." She stated as a matter of factly.
Thomas gave her a look of disbelief.
"Really?" He said as his eyes widened.
"Yup." She popped the 'p'.
"We had spent a year with SHIELD trying to find him, but never managed to. Had to drop the project. Freaking Destiny." She cursed her little sister.
"Oh well. What's past is past." She shrugged.
She had learned long ago that just because she manipulates fate, doesn't mean that it always ends the way she wanted.
"So, how about those Teacher positions?" She said as she pulled her legs up and wrapped her arms around them.
She lay her head on top of her knees and smiled at her husband. He sighed and ran his hand through his hair.
"Well, so far we haven't heard from SHILD or anyone else. For now, I say we stay here…though personally, I'd rather we have our own house." He said slyly.
Hanna's eyes glittered.
"Oh? Here? Now? What if someone were to walk in? In three, two, one…" She counted down.
The medical bay doors opened and Rouge came in with Gambit leaning on her for support.
"Oh, were we interrupting something?" She asked.
Hanna shook her head.
"Oh no, Honey, Thomas and I were just talking about staying here as teachers." She smiled.
"Really now? The Professor offered the jobs to you guys?" Rouge asked.
"Technically, I'm still a teacher here. But it's been a while since I have taught. You know, thirteen years in water, you miss a lot of things." Hanna said smiling.
"What happened to you?" Thomas nodded to Gambit; he was about to say something until Rouge beat him to the punch.
"He got shot in the leg by one of the lasers. Trying to get in my way of an opponent." Rouge glared at the Cajun that was leaning on her.
"I was jus' tryin' to make sure mon chérie didn't get hurt." He tried to smooth talk things over.
Thomas raised a skeptical eyebrow at the red on black-eyed young man. Hanna was chuckling behind her hand.
"Ah ain't ya chérie, ya swamp rat." She deadpanned as she decided to drop him onto the floor.
"Now if ya'll excuse me, I have school to go to." She looked down at him and left the room.
Gambit sighed as he got up and limped over to a spare bed. Thomas hid a grin. At least Rouge was one of those girls that are hard to get.
"Maybe next time you can ask her out." Hanna chuckled.
"Dat obvious?" Gambit said as he rubbed his leg.
Thomas looked at Hanna with a glare. Hanna gave him a look of 'We'll talk later.' Thomas was already regretting agreeing with his wife that they were staying here.
TAL21: I'm just getting The Elite to be settled into the Xavier Institute. The next few chapters with deal with them being teachers, and surprises all around! I'm finally on a roll here and not struggling with the Rescue arc (Which was freaking hard enough) and i hope you guys have an idea on what may be going on in this chapter. I can't wait to hear what you guys have to say about it. :D Now on to the SHOUT OUTS!:
Scarletnightscrawler: Nevada huh? Awesome! :D I bet it's warm down there! :) And i agree, X-Men Evolution should have continued, but they didn't. The monsters. And I sort of wished that they continued with the Wolverine and The X-Men Series as well. They made only one season about it! Thank you for your review! :D
Dark Lord of the X-Men: Oh yes, it was wicked to begin with! :D And yes, there will be drama coming in soon, no doubt about that, and secrets will be revealed! :D
ZellaStormz: I'm glad that you enjoyed the last chapter! :D I thought it was pretty kick ass myself, but as i have stated in the last chapter: I haven't written a decent fighting scenes for a while. So it was a bit rusty for me at least. And Renegade is pretty awesome! I thought about focusing the fix around her, but i wanted to add more character and depth to this fic. So it's turning out quite nicely. :) And i agree, i like the idea of the younger X-Men in their teens. I would have loved to see the Savage Lands arc and the Phoenix Saga as well. It would be awesome. :)
TAL21: That's it for shout outs! I hope you guys enjoyed the chapter! :D The next chapter will be Scarlett's stitches are getting taken out! Drama will ensue in a way, so have fun with your theories and please…LEAVE REVIEWS AND OPINIONS PLEASE! I'd love to hear from you! :D
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