Author's Note: I'm a terrible person. I know. I said I would post during Winter Break and then I didn't. So sorry yall. Anyway, this chapter I put in to do a overview of all the mutants I've introduced thus far and t state their powers so there's no confusion. Enjoy.
A New Age. A New Team
Chapter 12: United Techie Rundown
Saria walked down the long dark hallway with her head held high and her shoulder length brown hair was swinging from side-to-side in her high ponytail. She came upon a large metal door with an X enclosed in a circle on the door. She knocked lazily against the metal making a clanging noise that rang softly throughout the hallway she had just walked. A small camera zoomed in on her and then a retina scan went over her brown eyes that had flecks of blue and gold in them.
"Saria Williams." The metallic voice of some robot echoed down the long hallway as Saria was identified, "Access granted." The metallic voice said again and the large doors with the X on them slowly began to open.
"Geez you got tight enough security around ya hole in the wall?" Saria said in her thick New York accent as she walked through the doors and into the large lab area.
Saria paused as soon as she walked through the doors and looked around the gigantic lab area. "Hey! Where the hell ya at?" She shouted aloud and then put her hands on her hips, while occasionally tapping her foot in slightly annoyance that she wasn't greeted at the door.
"I'm in the back…" A distant voice shouted back at her. "Where I always am."
Saria slowly shook her head from side to side, which made her brown hair that was in a high ponytail softly shake with her head. Her hands dropped from her hips with a huff before she ventured forward towards the back of the large lab.
Throughout the large lab, there were metal machine and machinery from the ground to the top of the ceiling. The machines towered over all that walked through the maze of walls that they had created. It was easy for anyone to get lost, be lost within the lab, and disappear forever.
"Anyone eva disappeared in here and been lost foreva?" Saria teased as she made her way to the back; weaving in and out of the mechanical labyrinth.
"No… Or at least to my knowledge, no one has." The voice from the back of the lab was louder now, but still distant. "Why?"
Saria let out a small chuckle as she looked down at the ground while she shook her head. "I dunno. Maybe cause this place is a frickin maze?" She said as she closed her eyes while shaking her head as she looked up. "I swear, I don' know how ya eva find ya way round this join–" Saria started to say but quickly stopped mid-sentence when she opened her eyes to see the large computer monitor towering it front of her. "What the hell is that!" She shouted in disbelief but no one responded. "Jamal?" She asked with a hint of worry in her New York accent.
"What?" A man's voice asked as he rolled out from underneath the large monitor. "Oh hey Saria." A young African American boy with short dark brown hair and light brown eye, who looked about seventeen years old, smiled. "What do you think?" He said proudly as he slowly stood up off the piece of plywood on wheels and wiped his greasy hands on an old dirty towel.
"Ah." Saria started to say as she slowly walked closer to the boy, presumably Jamal. "Ah…" She took a deep breath in. "Like I said: What the hell is that?" She chuckled as she looked out of the corners of her brown eyes at Jamal.
"My database." Jamal said proudly.
"Your database?" Saria asked as she raised one of her eyebrows at him. "I'm not followin' ya."
Jamal sighed as he tossed the dirty towel onto a counter and disappeared behind the monitor; leaving Saria out in the open in front of the monitor alone. "Well you see." He huffed as reached for a plug behind the monitor. You think that with having the I.Q. of a genius, I would be smart enough to make sure I pulled the plug out to a point where I could still reach it… "Eureka!" He said triumphantly as he grabbed the plug and quickly inserted it into the wall behind the monitor.
"What? What'd ya do?" Saria leaned to the side to see what Jamal had done, but he had already walked out from behind the monitor.
"Come here and I'll explain it to you." Jamal said with a huge grin on his face as he quickly walked over to the keyboard set in the desk, which was among many other buttons, switches, knobs, and dials.
Saria couldn't help but laugh as she walked up next to Jamal's side. "I haven't seen you this excited since you cracked that old professor's old fashion computer's hard drive."
"Ah, you mean the late Doctor Henry McCoy…" Jamal lowered his head and closed his eyes. A fine mind and man indeed.
"Yeah, that one." Saria said in a nonchalant manner. "So ya were in the middle of showin' me what this thing does."
Jamal glanced out of the corner of his eyes at Saria for being so disrespectful of such a fine man like Doctor McCoy. Jamal. Stay calm. She didn't grow up on his teachings like I did… "Yeah, back to my database." He said as a smile grew across her face.
"Ya mind tellin' me bout it without that dorky smile on ya face?" Saria sighed as she cocked her right hip to the side while her hand rested on it.
"I'm sorry Saria, it's just one of my greatest masterpieces." Jamal chuckled. "Anyway, back when the old X-Men were around – GOD rest their souls – Professor Xavier had a machine called Cerebro–"
"Ain't that what runs your school?" Saria asked as she raised an eyebrow at Jamal.
"Yes, but I created a database that stores information on mutants within the mansion and mutants that we encounter." Jamal smiled as he sat down in the chair at the keyboard.
Saria walked behind Jamal, placed her hands on the back of his chair, and sighed. "Alright lets see how this thing works."
"With pleasure." Jamal smiled as he flipped on a switch and the large monitor in front of them came alive. Jamal typed a few series of codes into the computer until they came up on the desktop of the computer. "Sorry about that. I haven't worked it out so that I don't have to type those codes in. In due time though."
"I could help you with that if ya want…" Saria offered as she stared up at the monitor that towered way above her.
"I'd like that Saria." Jamal smiled softly as he glanced over his shoulder at her before looking back at the monitor. "Well let's just bring up some quick files." Jamal quickly typed in some things on the keyboard and windows began to pop up on the monitor left and right.
"Ever heard of a mouse?"
"Yeah… I just don't like them."
"Ya just like show off your computer smarts by using the keyboard instead." Saria smirked as she teased Jamal.
After a few minutes of typing, Jamal brought up Saria's file. "Here's your file." He smirked at the simple file that filled the giant monitor. It read:
Real Name: Saria Williams
Gender: Female
Codename: Switch
Power: Ability to warp reality to her liking (see Mesmero and Mastermind)
Features: 5'6, 132 lbs, Brown eyes with flecks of gold and blue, Shoulder length brown hair, Pierced ears, Pierced belly button, Two tattoos: small red and black wings on her shoulder blades and a gecko on her tailbone
Location:New York CityNew York
Affiliation(s): Freelance
"Sorry there's not a lot of information on you. There's not a lot on any mutant, more then that at least. I haven't had time to program it to do background research on people." Jamal sighed in annoyance. "Just the basics for now."
Saria's brown eyes read over the information on herself in front of her and nodded in approval. "Not bad… Not bad at all." She chuckled. "But I gotta ask…"
"What?"
"What's with the 'see Mesmero and Mastermind' thing next to my power?"
"Oh that." Jamal chuckled. "It's mutants from the X-Men era that had similar powers to yours. I programmed that in so that I can look back in the old records on those mutants and it just saves me a lot of trouble." A small hint of rose spread across his dark cheeks. "I'm lazy."
"Yeah. Ya. Lazy." Saria let out a loud laugh. "That's a good one."
"Ok, well that's lazy for me."
"True. Anyway, I came here to see if ya had any new toys for me to look at?" Saria smiled devilishly.
"Of course."
"Mind getting them?"
"It could take a few minutes…"
"That's fine."
Jamal gave her a nod once and stood up. "Now don't mess with the computer because there's still some glitches I'm working out." Jamal warned Saria as he disappeared into the shadow.
"Whateva." Saria huffed as she sat down in the chair in front of the keyboard and cracked her knuckles. "Let's see who all ya got on this pretty little thing…" She began to type furiously on the keyboard; bringing files up on people left and right. "Let's see who's under the freelance category besides me… Sparks?"
Real Name: Orion Paradox
Gender: Male
Codename:Sparks
Power: Ability to make things explode at his thought.
Features: 6'1, 183 lbs, Yellow eyes, Curly dark brown hair, One tattoo: across his back it says 'I am thine own enemy'
Location:RomeItaly
Affiliation(s): Freelance
"Insteresting." She said softly as she closed the 'Freelance' file and brought up to X² file. "Everything I've ever wanted to know about 'em." Saria smirked as she quickly brought up everyone's file.
Real Name: Jamal Cannon
Gender: Male
Codename: Cannon
Power: Ability to absorb energy around him and turn it into plasma to shot through his hands (see Havoc)
Features: 6'0, 187 lbs, Light brown eyes, Short dark brown hair, One tattoo: a large cross on his upper left arm.
Location: AtlantaGeorgia
Affiliation(s): X²
Real Name: Noah Grissom
Gender: Male
Codename: Clutch
Power: Ability to transform into a gargoyle-like state. Grows wings, skin turns to stone, and grows claws (see Colossus)
Features: 5'10, 150lbs, Grey/Blue eyes, Shaggy sandy brown hair, Long scar from shoulder to side.
Location:California
Affiliation(s): X²
Real Name: Tonya Sorenson
Gender: Female
Codename: Counterstrike
Power: Ability to absorb energy used against her, double it, and then fire it back.
Features: 5'4, 120lbs, Green eyes, Black dreadlocks, Lip pierced, Eyebrow pierced, Five piercing in each ear, One tattoo: a small biohazard sign on her left shoulder.
Location:LondonEngland
Affiliation(s): X²
Real Name: Dawn Kent
Gender: Female
Codename: Dreamer
Power: Ability to create whatever she imagines into reality (see Mirage)
Features: 5'2 ½, 115lbs, Dark brown eyes, Wavy dark brown hair, Double pierced ears, Ear cuff on her upper left ear, Beauty mark under her left eye, Two beauty marks just below her temples on either side.
Location:TorontoCanada
Affiliation(s): X²
Real Name: Unknown
Gender: Female
Codename: Hecate
Power: Ability to make a person comatose and she has super strength (see Nocturne, Psylocke and She-Hulk)
Features: 5'9, 140lbs, Deep blue, Long platinum blonde hair, Four piercing in each ear, Three tattoo: inside her right hand on her palm is a black crescent moon, on her left hip is a small black cross, and around her belly button is a black sun.
Location: Unknown
Affiliation(s): X²
Real Name: Jazmine Lee-Riuz
Gender: Female
Codename: Hell's Angel
Power: Ability to see in the night, fire breath, claws, and black wings (see Icarus)
Features: 5'6, 135lbs, Green/Brown eyes, Long dark auburn with brown highlights, Both ears pierced, Both cartilages pierced, Left eyebrow pierced, Two tattoos: inside her right ankle is the Japanese symbol for 'dream', a black griffin on her neck.
Location: Unknown
Affiliation(s): X²
Real Name: Unknown/Grim
Gender: Female/Female
Codename: Linx/None
Power: Ability to manipulate Limbo, the realms of the living and the dead, and Telekinesis (see Magikand Phoenix)/ None
Features: 5'7, 137lbs, Left eye is dark hazel and right eye is light hazel, Black hair with bright red highlights underneath, Both ears double pierced, Right cartilage pierced, Three beauty marks in the shape of a triangle underneath her right eye, One tattoo: a small very detailed black cross on the inside of her left wrist / 3'9, 65lbs, Left eye is dark hazel and right eye is light hazel, Medium length black hair pulled back with a white headband, Ears pierced, Three beauty marks in the shape of a triangle underneath her right eye.
Location: Unknown/Unknown
Affiliation(s): X²/Unknown
Real Name: Gabriel Octavian
Gender: Male
Codename: Octavian
Power: Ability to control shadows (see Psylocke)
Features: 5'9, 160lbs, Ice blue eyes, Long black hair, One tattoo: a design that twists down his arm.
Location:RomeGeorgia
Affiliation(s): X²
Leader
Real Name: Sean Parker
Gender: Male
Codename: Poseidon
Power: Ability to control water, super-strength, underwater breathing, ability to speak to fish, super speed underwater (see Sub-Mariner and Aquaman)
Features: 6'0, 176lbs, Brown eyes, Shaggy dirty blonde hair, Atlantean markings around his right bicep, Diagonal scar from his right shoulder blade to his left side, "X" on his upper left arm.
Location:SydneyAustralia
Affiliation(s): X²
Real Name: Samantha "Sam" Wilder
Gender: Female
Codename: Rage
Power: Ability to turn into half-cat (can grow claws and her eyes turn into cat eyes) AKA Feral. High levels of the five senses, extreme agility and speed (see Feral and Thornn)
Features: 5'7, 134lbs, Hazel/Green eyes (they turn yellow when she's half-cat), Shoulder blade length light auburn hair, Both ears are double pierced, Right nostril pierced, One tattoo: a small black paw print on her left shoulder blade.
Location: Nevada
Affiliation(s): X²
Real Name: Aurora Doyle
Gender: Female
Codename: Satine
Power: Ability to feel other's feelings (empathy) and telepathy (see Empath)
Features: 5'7, 120lbs, Green eyes, Curly red hair, Ear double pierced.
Location: Ireland
Affiliation(s): X²
Real Name: Grace Strokes
Gender: Female
Codename: Spitfire
Power: Ability to set things on fire through touch (see Pyro)
Features: 5'4, 125lbs, Green eyes, Short black hair with red tipped bangs and the back tipped orange, Right nostril pierced, One tattoo: a ball of fire on her right shoulder.
Location: ChicagoIllinois
Affiliation(s): X²
Real Name: Ndahiro
Gender: Male
Codename: Void
Power: Ability to control gravity and ability to kill telepaths that try to enter his mind (see Avalanche)
Features: 6'1, 183lbs, Dark brown eyes, Black cornrows with auburn tints to them, Each ear is pierced, Left cartilage pierced, crescent moon shape birthmark on left pinkie, scar birthmark on his back, Three tattoos: Japanese symbol 'invincible' on his right forearm, Japanese symbol 'immortality/eternity' on his left forearm, a large red serpent starting on his back and ending on his chest.
Location: California
Affiliation(s): X²
When she finished reading the X² files she glanced over her shoulder in the direction that Jamal disappeared to. "Ya alright Jamal?" She shouted back to him.
"Perfectly fine." Jamal shouted back. "Just getting everything that you'll enjoy."
"Well thank you kind sir." Saria smirked as she turned around and closed the X² files and opened the Chaos files, "Oh now this will definitely be interesting…" She said softly to herself.
Real Name: Mary-Lynn Walker
Gender: Female
Codename: Aphrodite
Power: Ability to produce pheromones that attract men to her and to produce a deadly poison on her lips and an antidote in her sweat (see Stacy X)
Features: 5'5, 124 lbs, Violet eyes, Curly blonde hair, Pierced ears, Beauty mark in the middle of her left cheek
Location:MontgomeryAlabama
Affiliation(s): Chaos
Real Name: Karen Gregoire
Gender: Female
Codename: Diamond
Power: Ability to turn herself and other objects into diamond (see White Queen)
Features: 5'4, 120 lbs, Blue eyes, Shoulder length blonde hair with pink tips, Ears pierced, Right cartilage pierced.
Location:France
Affiliation(s): Chaos
Real Name: Natalie Coal
Gender: Female
Codename: Miracle
Power: Ability to inflect a wound or disease on someone else, and the ability to cure a wound or disease of someone else's (see Infectia)
Features: 5', 130 lbs, Silver or dark gray eyes, Shoulder length wavy blonde hair with strawberry blonde streaks.
Location:LondonEngland
Affiliation(s): Chaos
Real Name: Ashley Walker
Gender: Male
Codename: Rush
Power: Ability to control water (see Sub-Mariner and Aquaman)
Features: 6'2, 165 lbs, Green eyes, Shaggy brown hair with blonde highlights, Left ear pierced.
Location: Copis ChristieTexas
Affiliation(s): Chaos
Real Name: Lucas Connelly
Gender: Male
Codename: Shocker
Power: Ability to control electricity and the ability to shot electricity blasts (see Jebediah "Jeb" Guthrie)
Features: 5'11, 176 lbs, Brown eyes with gold, Dark brown hair with auburn.
Location:GlasgowScotland
Affiliation(s): Chaos
Leader
Real Name: Rashad Cannon
Gender: Male
Codename: Sonic
Power: Ability to shoot plasma blasts from his hands, and the ability to fly (see Havoc)
Features: 6'0, 189 lbs, Dark brown eyes, Short dark brown hair, Ears pierced, Four tattoos: a detailed cross on his upper left arm, Superman symbol on the back of his neck, red Sonic the Hedgehog on his right forearm, and 'Thug Life' printed across his shoulder blades.
Location:AtlantaGeorgia
Affiliation(s): Chaos
Saria started at the profile on the screen for a moment. I didn't know Jamal had a brotha.
"What are you doing?" Jamal asked as he stopped pushing a shelf of weapons when he saw the profiles on the monitors.
Saria quickly looked over at Jamal and gasped in her breath. "I was lookin around." Saria said innocently.
Jamal quickly walked over to the monitor, typed a few things in on the keyboard, and then the monitor shut off. "I told you not to mess with it." He said defensively.
"What's the big deal? I said I'd help ya with it so I have to know what's on it and what it can do." Saria glared at Jamal. "What's the matta with ya? There's obviously something on that thing ya don't want people or me seein'…"
"It's just not something I want people snooping around on." Jamal sighed in defeat.
Saria stood up and walked over to the weapons. "Just forget bout it… What are these?"
Jamal followed Saria over to the shelf of weapons. "I brought out all the guns I've been working on." Jamal glanced over at Saria and smirked. "I know how much you love your guns."
"Oh Jamal ya know me too well." She chuckled as she flipped a gun up and aimed it. "Handles well."
"Well I made this one for you especially." Jamal bent down and pulled out a wrapped gun.
"For me? Ya shouldn't have." Saria smirked as she folded the cloth back to reveal a beautifully crafted silver and gun. "Oh Jamal." She gasped as if he just asked her to marry him.
"You like?" Jamal smiled from ear to ear.
In one quick movement, Saria grabbed the gun, twirled it on her finger, and then aimed it ahead of her. "I love it… It's beautiful."
"Well you can't very well walk through the school with that, so…"
Saria looked away from the gun and looked at Jamal, who was holding a black custom case for the gun. "Oh Jamal." Saria stared at the case and softly placed the gun inside. "Thank you." She whispered.
"Don't think anything of it." Jamal chuckled as he shut the lid to the case and locked it.
"I think the world of it… Thank you." Saria whispered as she took the handle of the case and walked towards the door of the lab with Jamal walking next to her.
"Come back soon, alright?" Jamal nodded to Saria who stepped on the other side of the door.
"Will do – Hey Jamal?"
"Yeah?"
"Why had ya neva mentioned ya had a brotha?" She cocked her head to the side as she looked at Jamal, who's face grew sad. "Did I say somethin wrong?"
"No." Jamal quickly said as he looked back up at Saria. "I'm just not real proud of everything he's done. I mean he's the leader of Chaos, my sworn enemies…" He said as his voice trailed off.
"Understandable." Saria sighed. "Well thanks for the gun again."
"Stop thanking me and get going to test it out." Jamal laughed as he typed the code in to close the lab doors.
"Don't have to tell me twice." Saria laughed as she watched the doors slowly close.
"Don't forget to tell me how it works!" Jamal shouted at Saria, who was walking away from the lab, as the doors came to a close.
Saria looked down at the ground as she walked forward and couldn't help but smile. "I won't… Trust me. I won't."