Pietro groaned, his head was spinning. Where the hell was he?
He opened his eyes, everything was white, everything except some of the machinery.
"I must be in the infirmary! But how did I get here?"
/ Don't you remember Pietro? /
Pietro yelped. He tried to get up, but then a wave of dizziness came and he fell back onto the bed.
Erik, Charles and Hank McCoy (Beast) walked in. Pietro turned his head towards them and glared. "Don't do that! I hate it when you read my mind!" Charles just sighed.
Erik walked forward and placed his hand on his son's forehead, Pietro sighed and closed his eyes, he secretly liked the warmth of his dad, but he was too hard headed to admit it. "How do you feel Pietro?" Erik asked. Pietro opened his eyes and gave his dad a strange look, "Like someone tap danced in my head, what happened?"
Erik looked at him, "do you remember what happed last night Pietro?" Pietro closed his eyes again, and images came back to him. "I was outside and a girl attacked me, she popped out claws just like Logan did she was trying to slice me and she cut my arm."
"Do you remember anything else?" Hank asked, Pietro face screwed up.
"Yeah, uh I fell to the ground and she advanced on me I asked her why she was doing this, and she broke down crying. She said sorry and I forgave her and then Cyclops blasted her and-"he stopped abruptly
"What Pietro what happened?" Charles urged, receiving a glare from Erik. " Don't push him! He went through enough." Erik then turned to his son who was now crying. "Logan attacked her and she attacked him and then, I don't know, everything went blank."Hank went forward to do a check up on him. "Well other then that wound on his arm he is fine, but it will leave a scar." Pietro stopped crying and he began to get up, but Erik just pushed him back. "And just what do you think you are doing?" Pietro just stared. "I'm getting up, Dr. McCoy said I was fine." Erik just shook his head. "I want you to stay here and get some tests done I don't think you are fine Pietro."
Hank nodded, "Your Dad is right, I want to do a couple of examinations."
Pietro had no clue what was going on and he was giving them blank stares. " Okay, what's going on? Is their something your not telling me?" Erik just sighed. "Just get some rest Pietro!" but Pietro wasn't about to give up like that. "What happened last night? What happened to X-23?" That caught their attention.
"How did you know her name?" asked Charles, Pietro shook his head.
"She told me, I think." He whispered, and then he sighed and closed his eyes again."He's asleep now, best not to wake him, Hank do your tests and see what you can come up with." Charles said. Hank nodded.
Erik left the infirmary to the other room where X-23 was being kept. S the entered the room he heard snarling. Sure enough there was X-23 strapped down to the bed with a bandage on her forehead.
"Let me out!" she shrieked, "Your not going anywhere young lady, you will be staying here in the mansion." That made her even angrier.
"I'll kill you!" Erik just smiled and began examining her.
15 minutes later, surprisingly she had calmed down. Erik had taken off the bandage and examined her head. "Don't try using your claws for a while, because for some reason your knuckles are fractured." X-23 looked at him. " How did my knuckles crack? My skeleton is made of adamantium." Erik didn't answer. Just then Logan came in.
"How is she?" Logan growled. Erik looked up to him, and then he walked up and lead him outside the infirmary so that X-23 wouldn't hear. "Her knuckles are cracked, she can't feel the pain, but if she tried using her claws, she would be in agony." Logan looked astonished. "How in the world could do that?" Erik was silent.
"I believe that Pietro some how did it".
Logan stared at him. "Yeah right bub, Pietro has super speed, not the power to destroy adamantium.
Erik glared at him, "first of all don't call me 'bub' and second, people can surprise us with talents we don't know about." Logan just shook his head.
"I doubt it Erik, I just really doubt that." Logan stated before going back into X-23's room. Erik watched him and a tear trailed down his cheek. "I have doubted him for a long time, and I've regretted it since." Logan watched X-23 struggle under the straps. "Why did you come back kid?" she didn't answer, Logan sighed. "Look kid, sooner or later your gonna' tell me sooner or later, so in the mean time your staying here in the mansion. X-23 looked at him with strange eyes. He turned around and walked towards the door. Before he left, he turned around and gave his 'daughter' a smirk. "I really missed you kid" and then he left. As soon as the door closed a tear trailed down her cheek.
"I missed you too Father." Rouge, Remy (Gambit), Peter (Colossus), and Lance stared at the other x-men with disbelieving eyes. The x-men had told what had happened last night since all of them were out last night.
"Your serious? Right?" Lance asked Rouge frowned at him. "They wouldn't joke about Pietro hav'in some kind of new power!" Lance just shook his head. Remy and Peter were silent, know one had seemed to notice though.
Scott just sighed, it was pretty hard to believe it, but it was true. Kurt (Nightcrawler) scowled at the Cajun and the Russian. "Vell? Vat do you think about dis?" Remy and Peter looked at all of them. Peter went first, "I think that maybe Pietro had a second power that had manifested until last night, maybe his emotions had kept the new power inside him until he had cracked."
Jean, Kitty, Evan (Spyke) looked at Peter.
"Your maybe right Peter, with all the trauma he has had, it might be a good reason why this power hasn't been shown for a long time. Jean stated, Kitty nodded her head, "I like totally agree, we should make sure this emotions doesn't affect this power! Remember what happened to Wanda?" everyone shuddered.
But Remy shook his head, "Maybe we should make sure that this power doesn't effect his emotions!" Evan nodded. "I got to agree with Remy with this one, Pietro was really mean every time he used his super speed power and it ended up loosing our friendship."
Everyone was silent. "But what the new power anyway?" Kurt asked. No one knew.