Florence POV

Forest? I couldn't of asked for anything better!

Bobby grabbed my hand and pulled me behind a bush, "Listen you're new here but that doesn't explain why you already have a codename and costume, care to tell me why?"

A tree to our left exploded. I pushed him to the right, "you really want to talk about this now? Seriously? I can help you, who is coming?"

He looked over the top of the tree we were hiding behind rather hopelessly. "It's Boom Boom and Nightcrawler, I think they are slightly lost." He knelt beside me, "what even is dark matter manipulation? What can you do?"

I grinned, I really did love my abilities. I am a particularly powerful mutant, Professor Xavier and the other staff said that I was most probably Omega-Level. Whatever that means..

"I can shoot energy blasts, I can manipulate weather, energy, magnetism, gravity and the elements and I can create objects. The professor said I haven't reached my full potential yet so I am still not 100% sure."

He looked pretty blank.

"What?" Did I say something wrong? "I don't have to use my powers.. I know some self defense techniques.."

"Um no, sorry its just.. You are pretty powerful" Oh gosh I'm blushing. "Come on Starhawk, lets take them down! I'm think divide and conquer, you take Nightcrawler and I will take Boom Boom."

"Deal." I ran to where I could hear Nightcrawler and Boom Boom arguing. I saw Bobby ice a tree and Boom Boom run after him. Nightcrawler was about to follow her until I stood on a stupid twig.

"Boom boom?" I kept quiet and crouched behind the rock he was in front of as he started to chuckle. "Listen new girl, it would be wise to surrender now, or face the consequences. You can't catch me."

I edged round the rock so that I could see his back and had a clear shot. I created a bat made out of pure dark matter. It's pretty damn cool. It's black but it gives off a red glow and it is completely indestructable. If I turn it into a shield then it is just as strong as Captain America's one. Whenever I handle pure dark matter, the yellow stripes on my uniform turn red, as do the blonde tips on my hair. Pretty groovy if I say so myself.

I raised my bat, smirked and knocked Kurt unconcious. "Teleporters think they are so freaking wonderful."

I heard footsteps and shouting coming from the trees in front of me, I ran in concerned that Iceman was in trouble. I sprinted through the trees as quickly as my legs would carry me, cutting my cheek in the process. Through the dense forest was a clearing, and in the clearing was complete and utter chaos.
Shadowcat and Colossus were fighting Cyclops whilst Sunspot and Berserke trying to take Jean down. Jubilee and Wolfsbane were trying to tackle Storm. Clearly they decided to give up on the whole 'stick together' thing. Rogue and Gambit were sparing with Wolverine, but Gambit was being completely immature and I could tell it was really getting on Uncle Logan's nerves.

Still, assuming Iceman took down Boom Boom, 7 people were still missing.

Someone tapped my shoulder and I swung around to punch them. "OW! Why did you do that? Not exactly teamwork!"

"Sorry Bobby! In my defence, you're the one who snuck up on me!"

He started groaning, "Is it broken? I think it might be broken."

I rolled my eyes at him. Boys. "Get a grip. It's not even bleeding. Listen everyone is here except Havok, Polaris, Cannonball, Magma, Siryn and Multiple. The flag is in the middle of all of this madness."

He frowned and pointed in the direction of Cyclops, "Cannonball and Magma are unconscious over there, Havok and Polaris.. I have no clue where they are and I have no clue where Siryn and Multiple are either. Ok that's good. We could definitely win this you know!"

Oh my gosh we actually could! "Yeah, the others have created the distraction.."

He continued, "So we can just walk through unnoticed?"

I nodded, "That's the plan." Admittedly it was a stupid plan and if I ever used it against my family in training I would never win in a million years. But the X-Men are a lot less experienced so it should work, hopefully. What am I saying? This is an awful plan. Abort mission! Nope, too late, Iceman is already holding my hand, guiding me past the various fights. Oh my gosh he's holding my hand, during a mission, surely this is breaking a rule?

And then suddenly we are at the flag.

Bobby smiles, incredibly similar to the Chesire Cat, "I never win. Do you mind if I actually take it?" He looks so hopeful.

I burst out laughing, "Of course you can dork. You know Iceman, I think we make a pretty good team."

He reaches out and snatchs the flag.

"Capture the flag complete. Winners are Iceman and Shadowstar."

The woodlands around us faded back to the large metal room. I instantly missed the feeling of safety I got from the tall trees and shadows. Strange right? Most girls are scared of going into the woods alone. Hell so are most boys! Not me.

Everyone in the room either stopped attacking each other or gained consciousness and surrounded me and Bobby, a look of surprise and admiration on most faces. Logan actually looked pretty proud.

Scott approached us, "well done both of you. I am sure you can see that achieving your goal can be very hard and that you need to work together to reach your target."

Bobby and I exchanged glances. "Actually Scott," Bobby began. "You were right about one thing; we did work together and personally I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship." I rolled my eyes at him yet again as he put an arm around me. He continued speaking, "But seriously dude, level 8 was pretty easy."

Scott frowned so I decided to clarify Bobby's point, "he means that there was no real challenge when it came to the terrain. We never really got a chance to use our powers! I only got to knock one person out."

Kurt grunted, he was rubbing the back of his head, "You really hurt me! What did you even hit me with?!"

"Pure dark matter." They all gave me a blank look. Do these kids know nothing?

Thankfully Mr McCoy appeared to explain, "dark matter is a substance scientifically theorized to make up most of the physical universe. It's indestructable."

Someone who speaks my language.

The Professor walked, I mean rolled, up to us, "Good work team! I see you joing us has already had a beneficial impact on us Florence. Everyone you have the evening off! Go and enjoy yourselves!"

We all slowly disbanded and made our way to our rooms, I walked and talked with Kurt, apologizing multiple times before I reached my door.