Animal I Have Become
Hey everyone, how's it going? Not much to say except that I do not own anyone in this story, except for the major X-man, Stan Lee!!! Oh, and Marvel too!
Part Four: Awakening
When Kitty had arrived home that evening she wasn't quite surprised that Scott, Jean, Logan, Kurt, the Professor and the others were already waiting for her in the main room. As she gave a sigh and dropped her bags, she knew that Scott and the others didn't really approve of her hanging around with the Brotherhood bad boy and to even skip a day of Logan sessions just to spend time with him was absolutely crossing the line. Kitty prepared herself for what might soon become the worst. "I'm back," she said in a minor happy tone.
"Welcome back," Kurt said softly as his eyes looked over to Logan and the Professor.
"See that you skipped a session today," Logan began as he crossed his arms, "to hang out with that rocker of yours."
"I did," Kitty replied calmly, "we had some fun together. Nothing wrong."
"Kitty," Scott sighed out as he placed his hands on his hips, "we saw what happened on the news. How can you say nothing went wrong? He totally demolished an entire mall!"
"Scott," the Professor began as he held a hand up, "Kitty, we know that you had done nothing wrong, but Lance…" he paused a bit at his words and sighed. "What we mean to say is that, well…Cerebro had picked up Lance's power earlier, moments before the news today. And to our surprise, he has indeed gotten stronger."
"Professor, that doesn't really explain and help much," Jean put in.
"Actually it does," Xavier continued, "because, just like you Jean, when your powers evolve you have a much harder time controlling it."
"Are you saying that Lance can't control his growing powers well?" Kitty asked.
"Unfortunately, yes," Xavier sighed out, "with his lack of control, he will soon be able to make automatic waves of destruction with just a flick of a finger soon. But what makes matters worse is that emotion also influences power. If Lance cannot control himself, his power might become too dangerous, even for him."
Kitty went silent after hearing this; her eyes looked upon the floor. She thought about today, and what had happened. How Lance had gotten angry so quick and with that small wrist shake of his was enough to start the floor to break. She soon worried about him as she remembered how uncontrollable Jean was when her telepathic powers were developing. How she was unable to sustain herself even. Thinking more deeply about this, Kitty didn't want to think about how much this might impact the Avalanche. Just how uncontrollable could Lance be anymore than how he was now? She didn't want to think about it.
Logan could see how darkened Kitty's face had become and gave a sigh. "Look half pint," he began as he put a hand on her shoulder, "the Prof's got something that could help him out. He'll help Alvers deal with emotional control if he's willing to go for it too."
Kitty looked up, "I don't know if he'll do it, but I hope he does."
"Knowing Alvers," Scott spoke, "he'll only do it for Kitty. But knowing that he's becoming stronger as well, he won't need any help until it gets serious."
"Let's just hope it doesn't come to that," the Professor sighed out.
"Well, look who's home." Toad announced as he turned to look at their leader come in through the door.
"The house looks pretty clean," Lance commented as he observed the house, "but what's with the tone, Toad? You sound a bit happy to see me."
"Actually," Pietro began as he tossed the book he was currently reading, "we are. Saw what you did to the mall today. Classic, Lance."
"You guys were there?" Lance asked as he propped himself on the couch.
"Nope," the speedy boy said as he shook his head, "saw it on the news actually. Watched that entire mall fall to dust from you."
"How much stronger did you get, Lance?" Fred asked as he put away his comics, "Before, you couldn't really bring down a newly built building. Now, you brought down like it was nothing!"
"Can't really say," Lance confessed, "but it just feels unbelievable. Like having all this energy that was stored away. That kind of feeling."
"Never had that before," Fred said under his breath.
"Well who cares about that? Now you'll be able to join Magneto and the Acolytes, maybe." Pietro put in.
"Really?" Toad and Fred gasped out.
"Well yeah," Pietro answered, "that was the whole point of the Acolytes, only the strong. Only the best."
Lance stretched back and gave a bored sigh, "Maybe I'll pass." He wasn't interested in joining Magneto's group anymore. The thoughts of him joining had long gone since he knew that he was no longer wanted or needed. He knew that he would just be used and then discarded later. Why put up with all that? Forget it. Now with this power, Lance wondered how long it would take before Blob and Toad's powers would evolve, if it did, taking out the X-men and the Acolytes would be cake to them. But right now, he was now the strongest of the Brotherhood. And it was that position that he wanted to stay as. "I have no interest in joining up with Magneto."
"Say what?" Toad exclaimed, "What's the deal, yo? Being part of Magneto's gang would be the shits for us! Do you even understand that?"
"Of course I do!" Lance snapped, "Do you think I'm fucking dumb or something?" the house soon began to shake.
"Whoa, whoa. Ease up, Lance." Fred urged as chunks of the ceiling soon began to fall. The shaking soon stopped.
"You guys are fucking dumb," Lance snorted as he headed upstairs. Walking to his room, Lance kicked the door open. Slamming it shut behind him, he then picked up the phone and contemplated on whether not to call Kitty. After the mall incident, and after he had promised to never change, she had managed to calm down but was still unsure of him. What couldn't she understand? Just because his power was growing, that didn't mean that was going to turn into some u animal. Shit like that happening was just unreal. Unable to happen. No one or anything had control over him. As far as he knew, he was the one in control. Just as he had made up his mind to dial down the number, Toad began to call him down.
"Hey, yo! Lance!" he called from downstairs, "Get a load of this, yo! Hurry your ass up!"
"Shit," he grunted as he placed the phone to the side, "alright, alright! I'm coming down!" Getting out of his room and walking down the stairs, Lance arrived in the living room to find the guys glued to the television screen. "What's up?" he asked.
"Check it out," Pietro informed as he turned up the volume and pointed to the screed.
"Senator Kelly, you say that the Bayville mall destruction was caused by a mutant?" the reporter on the screen asked as the camera focused on the former principal of Bayville High.
"Yes, I strongly do. And if you want anymore of our town to become the result of what happened to the mall, you will do the right thing and vote. Vote for all mutants of Bayville to leave and never to return! Do not let them terrorize our town anymore!"
Lance growled as Kelly's talk continued. Seems like the old man didn't know when to give up, but he knew that because of today's destruction, he had only furthered the persistent the old fart. But as he listened to this crock of bullshit, a part of him almost wanted to put the fear of mutants into Bayville. Wanting to show that mutants were people that weren't meant to be fucked around with. Pietro watched as Lance began to listen inventively to Kelly's rant, somehow the expression that he was making on his face began to make him both uneasy and curious. He knew something was now going on in that crazy mind of his, but what? Never had he seen such an intense look like that on his face before. So serious, even deadly that look was.
"That senile geezer," Lance snorted as he suddenly got up.
"Yeah man," Toad agreed, "so whaddya gonna do about him, yo?"
"Let's just say I already have something in mind," Lance hinted as he made his way out of the room.
As the guys watched the earth shaker leave, each of them looked at one another. "Yo man, am I the only one here that thinks that Lance is somehow…different?" Toad asked as he swirled a finger around on the side of his head, hinting craziness.
"I don't think it's only you," Fred said as he turned to them, "I mean, when you look at it, he's become much more of a full fledged leader now."
"Leader?" Pietro asked hardly believing it, "Since when did he know anything about leadership?" Getting up from his spot on the couch, the silver haired boy walked to the center of the room, "If you ask me, I think that because of his powers becoming stronger, that hard head is letting it get to his head." He then gave an irritated growl, "And it's an attitude like that which pisses me off the most."
"Why?" Toad asked as he scratched his head.
"Don't you idiots get it?!" Pietro exasperated, "If I was having a power surge like Avalanche up there, I'd make my first priority in taking out the X-men! That way, we won't have to deal with them fucking up our plans!"
"You got a point, Pietro," Fred confessed, "but we can't. Our powers aren't changing, Lance is the only one and he won't do it."
"Oh yeah he will," Pietro returned, "did you see what I saw? Hmm? Did ya? Well our Lancey-poo there was getting all worked up over Kelly's speech. If we were to convince Lance into ruining Kelly and Bayville, he would do it!"
"I see where you're getting at, yo!" Toad smirked, "Then them X-men will be showin' up and try to do the whole save the day shit."
"By then, Lance will be too pissed and fuckin' wipe em out!" Fred cheered.
"Exactly!" Pietro devised, "Which is why we have to take action, now." The silver haired boy then looked out into the window, grin wide across his face. 'Bayville get ready for some Brotherhood rocking!'
Sorry for the long wait!! I was having too much fun with my Wii and being harassed by the school work! R&R and wait for the next installment! Sorry for the shortie!