Chapter 15 finally got here. Sorry if it's not what you were expecting, and sorry it's been so long between updates, but senior year is just a pain. Too much work for such a small prize, so it may be longer in-between updates, but don't worry the story will be finished one day. That's right I'll be finishing even if someone tries to kill me, you know who you is.
Blix: Good Zack's amusing; I try and clearly succeed slightly. Not an Emma fan eh? Well some authors have been giving her like a soul and stuff but in what I've read she doesn't exactly have that…but hey to each their own. Secretly, I kind of agree with u on the slutbag part.
A dragons wings: Okay fine do a short review see if I care. At least you did review though so thanks.
DarknessofDawn: Yes I live, though I'm not sure about the almighty part. Thanks for the kind words though, clearly enough people are enjoying the fic to keep me going. Love the characters…well that was definitely not the responseI was expecting (I mean that in a good way) but glad u liked them. If you want to use both of them then good luck to you with that. I'm using many in mine and I'm always forgetting one, guess which one everybody. Good luck in Basic.
Chapter 15-
The dreams of heroes
Xavier MansionEmma had found Katie's location in London, however out of respect the assembled members of the F.O.M.E., Beelzebub, Shift, and Alex Rogers had decided to wait for Jessica's return before leaving. Alex was continuing his watching of Amara, or "stalking" as Zack continually dubbed it. Jack left Magneto's office in an aggravated mood slamming the door behind him, he called Magneto a few names and made sure the old man went blind when he got up causing him to trip and fall on his face. Zack was in a situation he too was uncomfortable in.
Inside the dugout for the mutant ball field Zack stood staring at his hand that he managed to convert into a small television. His team named the "Roberto Rangers." Had managed to tie with Ray's team the "Berzerkers." Zack had managed to snake his way out of ever getting on the field he had also not paid attention at all to the game, the rules eluding him, thanks to his television hand even though he could only see pictures of paintings he had seen. That's when it happened.
"Yo Zack, you're up. We're tied so you better not screw this up!" Roberto said from outside the dugout.
"What? ME? WHY! I don't want to play, I don't even know the rules." Zack replied as he changed his hand back.
"Come on its just like baseball, now get out there"
Zack got up grumbling, "I don't like you and I hate baseball. Assface." He approached the plate and prepared for the pitch.
"Bottom of the ninth, two outs, Bobby Drake feels the ball…" Bobby continued to narrate for himself.
"Hey Drake, pitch the damn ball before I come out there and shove that thing so far up your ahH!" Zack ducked as the ball was thrown at his head. "That's it." Zack increased his arm size and his legs strength. He waited for the pitch and swung in time and sent the ball soaring through the air. He quickly ran to first base.
"RUN! RUN!" Roberto yelled from outside the dugout.
'Oh I hate moving.' Shift groaned as he quickly changed to Cyclone and ran to second base letting his hands tag it, he made it to third and knocked down Jamie just as the boy caught the ball, as he fell he made a dupe of himself and had that one pitch the ball to home. Zack charged for home just as the catcher through off his helmet revealing Sam Guthrie smiling as he caught the ball and went flying after Shift.
The two took up to the air, Shift narrowly avoiding Cannonballs charging while Cannonball did his best to tag the shape shifter. Shift avoided Cannonball once more, he began to fly passed the New Mutant only instead of seeing him, and he felt the mutant crash onto his back sending both hurtling into the ground in a puff of dust.
As the dust settled Shift's foot fell onto home plate while Cannonball let the ball slip out of his glove before tagging Shift. There was some cheering, Shift only heard ringing while Cannonball shook off the after effects.
The ball field cleared leaving the danger room in its wake and the hurt shape shifter was pulled off the ground. "How ya doin'?" Sam asked as he set the mutant on his feet.
Zack reverted to his clothes and placed a hand on his head. "I feel like someone just used their superpowers to slam me into a metal ground that was supposed to feel like a baseball field." Zack replied keeping his eyes closed.
"At least yah won." Sam replied as he patted Zack on the back causing the shape shifter to jump.
"Oh the spin is rooming." He continued to groan and walk side to side as he made his way out of the danger room and onto the elevator. "Have to play in the stupid Danger Room instead of outside cause of the stupid human students. If I see one more human student I'll kick their ass." As the elevator door opened the said student ran passed Zack. "Next one." He groaned as he continued to walk.
Zack managed his way through the spinning mansion to the kitchen Ororo had finished putting the last of the food on the table for lunch. "LUNCH!" she yelled which was met by the sound of hundreds of feet each trying to get some food. Zack cursed and became trampled for the food.
"Up you go." Zack felt himself pulled up and looked to see Griffin holding him up, smiling. "Hah you got crushed! Novice. You can't eat here and just stand there you have to fight for it." Griffin said leaving Zack alone to get his own food.
"Hey wait what are you doing here?" Zack asked as he looked at the food but after getting dizzy again settled for a glass of water.
"Eating…" Griffin replied sarcastically. "Jack called us and said," Griffin lowered his voice and puffed his chest to mimic Jack's voice "Be ready for anything when we get to London, and Jessica's hissy fit when she gets back." Griffin replied as he walked outside and walked over to the pool passing by Alex Rogers.
Zack quickly followed. "Hey I've been stuck with Amara's stalker here this entire time, so stop moving so fast will you?" Zack said chasing after his teammate and patting Alex on the shoulder.
"Sounds like hell, so then I'm guessing you missed me?" Griffin replied with a smirk as he stuffed his face full of the various foods.
"Right team, wrong member. So no not you I missed, someone a little smaller and bigger boobs." Zack replied as he took a seat on a chair next to Griffin. "So care to give me a bit of a backdrop into the X-Men here?"
Griffin looked around as a few people made their way to the pool. "Okay there. The blue one, Kurt, his sister is Rogue the Goth."
"That's why she wears all that makeup? TO cover up her blue fur?"
"No, see she was adopted and Kurt's mom is Mystique. Mystique as an evil shape shifter, famous or infamous really depending on how you want to look at it, Kurt's girlfriend Amanda is actually his sister.
"I thought you said Rogue was his sister?"
Griffin let out a sigh. "Don't speak it goes by faster. Amanda is Kurt's sister from his adopted parents though Amanda's parents hid themselves so Kurt wouldn't recognize them or Amanda, hence the hating of Kurt and them not wanting the two together." Griffin paused as he ate the last of his food. "Yeah family is tricky when it comes to the X-men. There's Spyke of the Morlocks, he used to be an X-Man till his powers went out of control. He's Ororo's nephew. Then theirs the Professor's brother."
"Who?" Zack asked he had only met Magneto.
"The leader and financial backer to this place. Xavier, Professor Charles Xavier. Anyway, he's got this stepbrother Juggernaut. Evil dude powered by some gem so he's invulnerable, doesn't need to eat, drink or sleep. Basically unstoppable save for the one weakness of anyone psychics. Anyway giant criminal guy right, and has a hard-on for killing Xavier and his students. His name is Cain Marko."
Zack paused for a second knowing the name sounded familiar until it hit him. "Wait! The chick from the ghost town? Holly is the dude's daughter, XAVIER'S HER UNCLE!"
"Sort of, but yeah that one. Crazy shit huh? And she calls herself Corpse. That reminds me, do your boxers really say 'Hunni Bunni' on them?"
Zack nodded "And their pink." He replied with pride.
The silence was broken as someone shouting rang through the mansion grounds "ZACHARY!" Zack went pale and thousands of ideas ran through his head.
"QUICK! What did I do before I left? Come on damn it why does she want me dead!" Zack continued to panic, as Bailey's form appeared making her way to them.
"THERE YOU ARE!" She screamed as she pointed her finger at him.
Zack gulped and quickly jumped over a hedge and ran inside locking the door. He stood with his back against the door and breathed a breath of relief. Bailey materialized in front of him using her liquid powers to slip through the door crack. Quickly the shape shifter left again accidentally knocking over a few kids in the process as he ran up the stairs only to trip and fall before reaching the top floor. Suddenly everything slowed until it stopped; Zack got up and looked around his face full of confusion.
The people were frozen in time, including Bailey who he took extra time to look at; he looked out the windows but only saw black. Then before he realized it he was in a car in the passenger seat next to Jack. "How did you?"
"I'm the head mutant of the FOME, don't think for a second there is anything I can't do." Jack replied with a smirk as he put the car in neutral and drove off.
"And where are we going almighty master?" Zack asked as he buckled in his seatbelt
"I like the sound of that name, maybe you should start calling me that all the time. And we're going to stop a bank robbery." Jack replied nonchalantly as he drove off in the direction of the bank.
"I'm going to get shot aren't I?"
At the Xavier Mansion the sun sets casting an orange glow over the Institute grounds. In an instant a giant silhouette of a fiery bird covers the mansion, then as quickly as it had come it was gone. Nothing is affected, the only thing changed is Jean Grey's room where her windows are shattered and her light bulbs followed suit.
At the front gates of the Institute the two F.O.M.E. members Zack and Jack waited for a response from inside. Zack was continually hitting the buzzer on the intercom, Jack stood calmly at the gates.
"Come Zack, let's see just how well you can avoid death." Jack said as he scaled the gate and landed on the other side.
"How did you do that?" Zack asked with an incredulous look on his face. The young shape shifter quickly took flight in his Cyclone form and landed next to his leader who looked at the Mansion.
"Oh this is bad…" Jack said as he ran off towards the Xavier Mansion. "Find the others!"
"What do you mean find the others? And where are you going?" Zack called back, feeling more and more confused by the moment. He was about to give chase after his leader when from out of the ground the mansions defense systems arose and began to try and stop the young mutant. "Shit"
Zack burst through the mansion doors slamming them closed behind him and resting against them for support as his heart began to wind down. He turned his head to look at his shoulder and looked at the small bullet wound that was bleeding rather profusely. "First stop a bank robbery and get me shot then come back to a safe haven for mutants and nearly get blowed up." With a sigh he pushed off the door and made his way towards the mansion kitchen.
The kitchen was empty which was unusual for this place especially with Kurt living at the mansion. He turned to go back the way he came but was stopped by Jamie. "Hey little buddy where is everyone?"
"We've been looking for you." Replied Jamie, his face showing no emotion.
"Great, well I'm here now so where is everybody Jamie?" Zack asked as he followed Jamie to the mansions elevator.
"Oh I'm not Jamie." The young boy replied as the Jamie look faded and in its place stood the scantily clad Emma Frost. She grinned a wicked grin. "And your return is most unpleasant for my plans."
With a girlish scream Zack ran off in the opposite direction and up the stairs. He turned the corner down the girl's wing and was hit in the face with a large object causing him to fall to the floor holding his face in his hands and curse.
"That's for going to meet Emma Frost!" An angry voice yelled. Zack had been on the receiving end of that voice enough times to know it was Bailey. "This is for looking at other naked girls!" she yelled as she hit him again. "This is for gawking at them!" She continued to pummel Zack with the fold up chair she found in one of the rooms. After ten minutes of beating the young shape shifter she finally finished. "This is for running from me when I came here!" with that she gave one final smack into the teenager then threw the chair on top of him.
Zack rolled onto his back and using his powers got rid of his bleeding nose, his body and face were full of an assortment of bruises, cuts and scrapes along with the already bleeding bullet wound from the bank robbery. "I…love…you…too…" He managed to spit out between spitting up blood.
"Oh my god you've been shot!" Bailey screamed as she got onto her knees and pulled back his shirt to look at the small cut. "Oh you big baby it's a scratch. Now quit bleeding."
"Yeah that's why I was groaning…yes ma'am I'll stop bleeding on your shoes." Zack replied as he picked himself up and rested his body against the wall as he fell in and out of consciousness.
Bailey kicked him in the shin and yelled again "You got blood on my shoes!"
Zack groaned and fell on top of her and kissed her with his bleeding lip, "Now I bleeded on your pretty face."
Bailey laughed slightly, much to her dismay, and found herself kissing back. "Bleeded ain't a word." She replied.
Zack pulled himself off of Bailey and stood up. "Let's go kick that blonde bitch's ass…try and fool me will she." He put his hand up into the air trying to take a heroic stance only to have himself pulled down by Bailey back on top of her.
"Blonde later, Bailey now." She said as she pulled him in for another kiss.
A few more kisses and some rolling around later the two teen mutants were prepared for the mission at hand.
"They've got everyone in the holding cells." Bailey said as she began to walk towards the banister.
"Great…where are those?" Zack replied following close behind Bailey.
The redhead groaned and hit a part of the wall where a large capsule like elevator opened up. "Men are so useless."
Zack pretended to have not heard the girl's statement. "Ooh does this mean we get to be in an enclosed space together?" Zack asked as he looked at the small elevator.
Bailey stepped in and turned to face him, she smiled and pulled him in. "That's right and you better not keep your hands to yourself." The door slid closed behind the two leaving them to their own devices.
The elevator they were in was specially designed for fast travel so Zack had no time to take his hands away from his self. As the door slid open he fell out onto his back. "That's it I so hope this mansion blows up, its been the source of way to many of my beatings."
Bailey walked right past the fallen teenage boy and made her way to where the others were being held. Zack got to his feet and followed behind her. The door opened and inside three Jamie's stood guard each looking angry.
Bailey whispered into Zack's ear, who began to fidget from the tickling feelings her whispering, was causing him to do. "So you go in there and beat them up." She said
Zack thought for a moment then shook his head, "I got a better idea, my way is much more covert. I just wish my theme song would play while I did it." Zack stepped back and turned himself into the mirror image of Bailey in a crop top showing a large amount of cleave and a mini skirt. He let out a very unlady like burp and began to tug under his skirt. "How can you girls where thongs they really ride up on you…" he groaned in Bailey's voice.
"Sexy" Bailey sighed as she pushed him into the holding cells where the male members of the F.O.M.E. were confused as to Bailey's attire.
Inside Zack's head as he pretended to be Bailey he sung his theme song to himself, "Zack, Zack he's a Lego-maniac." And began to hum it as he approached the Jamie's. He pushed his boobs together and bent over slightly. "Hey boys." The Jamie's looked at "Bailey" then their eyes slowly drifted lower. "Bailey" let out a giggle then lifted up the top flashing the boys who then fainted. "Wait till I tell them the first boobs they saw weren't really a girls." The imposter Bailey said in Zack's voice.
As Zack reverted back to normal, though still in drag, he began to hit a few keys on the computer in the corner, to no avail. "Damn it!" He cursed and he paused then a thought came to mind. "Fuck this!" he groaned as he used his powers to increase his strength, causing his top to rip, and pulled the computer out of the wall causing the grid trapping the New Mutants and the members of The Friends Of Mutants Everywhere to disappear releasing them.
"Zack nice clothes…" Paul said looking at his teammate.
"Yeah mate, nice boobs too." Pyro replied with a small smile.
That's when it occurred to Zack everyone had just seen Bailey's boobs. "Damn it!" Zack cursed again. "Hey where are the real X-Men? Or the old folks?" Zack asked as he looked around at the people there
The New Mutants gave some small glares, them being slightly offended. "The X-Men are in the Danger Room going through training, the Jamie's figured it'd be best to keep them busy." Ray replied.
"Yeah and when I get my hands on Jamie…" Bobby said and an evil grin spread across his face.
Jack slid through the open window of Xavier's study and out into the open hallway where a stray Jamie Madrox was walking. He put his hand to the young boys neck, pinched the right nerve and he fell unconscious. He closed the door and made his way up the stairs knocking out each Jamie clone. He thought about using his powers but with the fact that Emma was doing something to further her own goals, using his powers could help her.
He made his way to Jean Grey's door and heard a few hushed voices on the other side. He sighed, and kicked the door open. "Emma dear, have you no originality? Keeping this girl in her room are you nuts?"
Emma Frost just turned to him and smiled. "That's enough Jason." She said as she placed her hand on a man kneeling at Jean's bed, as he turned the ugly face of Jason Wynegarde was shown instead of Emma's bodyguard. "You're too late Jack."
Jean Grey's eyes burst open as she sat straight up over her body a small fire outlined her. She felt immense malevolent power within her.
"ZACK!" Yelled a voice causing the shape shifter to jerk awake from the bed he was sleeping on at the mansion. He looked and saw Bailey standing there smiling. "Come on we're leaving for London let's go." She said with a warming smile as she walked away.
Zack shook his head to get out of the daze, his dream was so real and he felt like that chair had hit him. He scratched at his shoulder only to wince in pain. He pulled back his shirt to see a large wound scabbed over but a slight trickle of blood from where he scratched. "I'm going insane," he said to nobody as he left the room he'd slept in and passed by Alex Rogers who was hugging everyone goodbye.
"Hey A-Rog what's the dillio?" Zack asked as he noticed the newest member's demeanor.
"I'm staying here, to learn to use my powers and …other stuff."
Zack smiled. "Take care of Magma lady." Zack turned to the New Mutant Magma. "Hey princess lady! HE DIGS YOU!" with that the shape shifter left the mansion with his fellow mutants, leaving a blushing Alex behind.
Well I pretty much hate myself for the long updates especially since it wasn't writers block cause I have it all planned out already it's just I couldn't seem to bring myself to write…so hopefully it won't happen again but don't be shocked. The next chapter though will be super fast done since I wrote that one first. Some of this might be out of date since I've been such a jerk with so long between updates. Also if there is a difference between how I usually do mental discussions, thoughts and what have you it's cause I take so long I forget just what I used the last time. Now I must go get some sleep its 2:30 am, my cousins boyfriend just broke in the house so its either sleep or cops so I choose sleep for now…
Sorry one last thing, sorry it got all confusing near the end but I just wanted to finish this chapter, like the other crappy ones before it, so forgive me won't you? Also I may have misspelled Jamie's last name I couldn't remember Maddox or Madrox…so I'm sorry about the confusion.
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