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After the second set of rumblings from his stomach, it was decided as Logan walked into the kitchen to find something to eat. He had a splitting headache and the 2 hours of sleep he had wasn't helping for it to go away. What the hell is she made of, he thought to himself. He had spent the last hours thinking about the encounter with the girl that was like no other. The way she moved was as graceful as a ballerina, precision and accuracy on every point. Yet the intent behind each blow was flawless and deadly as a tiger on the hunt. Never had been taking out in a fight so fluidly. He did remember Xavier telling him something about her being trained in about every martial art there was.

He had his healing powers that made him the wicked one in battle.

She had her fighting abilities that distincted her.

He knew they'd face off again. It felt inevitable to him.

The question was would he be ready?

To be honest, it kind of put him on edge that she was still within the mansion.

He grabbed some coke and an aspirin and walked out the kitchen into the living room. He flicked through a couple channel but that didn't work for him.

He wasn't used to the house being so quiet, but with the Christmas holidays mostly everyone was gone except for a few of them. Either they didn't have families to go home to, or... they just didn't want to.

For some reason his thoughts kept flowing back to the brunette who he'd fought earlier. He kept revisiting the part of when he grabbed her and held her. If she hadn't electrocuted him, his intention of killing her might not have intensified.

He still regretted trying to hurt her, yet he couldn't deal with the fact that they wanted to rely on this "teenager" for her help.

Not like her powers were all that great, but he couldn't deny the fact that she handed his ass to him on a silver platter.

He slowly got up and walked toward the elevator and got on to ride towards the basement. Lets see how our little soldier is doing

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Max had awoken suddenly accessing her surrounding and growled in frustration at the cell she was being held in. Most wouldn't call it a cell. Actually it wasn't a cell except for the fact that there were thin steel bars that blocked her from getting out and were somehow able to retain heat at the temperature of 300 degrees+, Max found out that breaking out would be a bit harder than the normal prison.

She was pretty sure it wasn't Manticore. Manticore would have her in a gray cell with not even enough room for her to think twice before feeling claustrophobic.

She walked around the "room" for a couple of minutes analyzing every detail. After about 3 minutes she realized there was no way out. Well unless she had the ability to shape shift into a rat she could fit through the air ducts, but that was one thing she did lack. 7 bars down, 10 across 284 tiles all together in the room. The following night had evaded her mind and she started to recall the events...

"Went to stake out the house. Correction mansion, but failed to realized that it was something of more than a mansion.

Ended up fighting with Logan at first. Whooped his ass, she laughed silently to herself , then his friends appeared. I'm assuming this cant be manticore because their way bigger on things like this. I'd be in a steel box with not as much room to blink. So where the hell am I? And who the hell captured me?

Her thoughts came back to Logan. Weirdly she wondered if he was okay, as the last thing she remembered was sending him face forward to a tree. She growled as she arched her back and felt a little sore. Whatever kind of weapon that was, was pretty powerful as it took her down with one shot.

A girl was hungry and was about to serious to call out to someone, when her sensitive hearing picked up movement from down the hall. She look out through the bars waiting for perhaps soldier or the guy with the visor ready to snap.

"You know if you wanted me in your house all that bad all you----" She stopped her sentence short when the man that she heard appeared in front of her cell.

"Logan"

"Max"

They stared each other down for what seemed like eternity. Each of them analyzing each other appearance and the situation at hand.

"You call me Wolverine. You haven't earned that right yet"

"If I wasn't behind these bars, I'd whoop your ass again" Max said in a deadly voice.

Logan laughed at her." Maybe its better for you on the other side of the bars." He walked a little closer.

"Why were you at the Mansion" he started off trying to see if he could get under her skin

"Why wouldn't I be at the mansion?" She asked him sarcastically

"Thought you were going to steal from us. Luckily I was out---"

" Yeah Logan you were in those woods for a moonlight piss, you knew I was there. My question is how. And how do you know my name. I see I got some groupies out for me?" She inched a bit closer to the bars wanting to get to the bottom of this mystery. Logan matched her stance with his own and dropped his voice

" I have my ways, but I'm asking questions now, your being held captive. I ask questions you answer them. Got it. Hey! Where'd you go!"

Max, who was growing tired of him talking, suddenly changed colors as she was no longer apparent to the naked eye.

" A girls gotta pee, and hell if you see me do it" Seconds later the familiar sound of tinkling began and ended as she washed her hands. She walked back within view of Logan and turned off her camouflage.

" Look her Logan. I don't know what your talking about. Look I know what you and your guys can do. You know what I can do. You cant hold me here forever. I will find a way out. The sooner you let me out the easier this will be for you. I might pass a second judgment of leaving without your ass being sore."

" You think so little girl," Logan grew even closer to the hot bars." You have no idea of what we can do." With that he moved so close to the bars that he started sweating. She watched closely as he reached out and touched the bars which immediately began to burn his flesh, scalding it. He looked intently into her eyes as he held the bar even tighter. His face grew into a smile.

Max let out a small gasp and stepped back as she watched Logan remove his hand. The flesh on his palm was burned but at the same rate it burned, it was beginning to heal its self. The skin coming back as if she watching it on fast forward

"Like I said.. Maybe it better for you on the inside of these bars.." And with that Logan walked away leaving Max looking bewildered and more confused than ever.

Charles Xavier could be argued to be one of the most powerful mutants on earth, and with the simple fact that he used a motorized wheelchair to get around.

What was known of his mutants powers to most was he was a telepath. His destruction of mental powers lied dormant in which he could kill a person without blinking 3 times, let alone twice.

But Charles would never do that. He was a pacifist, and saw to it to try to help the mutant kind with there powers and how to be civilized and to trust all. But Charles knew that sometimes pacifistic ways were not always the key to a solution.

Charles always seemed to awaken at 7 everyday. Maybe it was due to his powers, but never once had he overslept.

Following his usual routines, he did what he like to call a "sweep". Which he basically checked what was going on in the mansion.

"I see they apprehended Max. Of course I'd be mad too. Her and Logan are talking. Where's Scott? On the phone. With none other than jean probably.

Logan, Logan..tsk tsk. Storm is still asleep. Beast is in his laboratory. Interesting, I'll have to ask him about his newest experiment on the new plant life he discovered. I see its going to rain today. Hmm afternoon rain? Storm was supposed to be taking me into town. No worries about that rain. Bobby is in his room. Kurt is..is..in Rogue's room. We are out eggs. I'll have to send---"

"Charles!"

"Good Morning Logan, what seems to have you trouble---" He stopped as Logan started to project within his mind the images of last night.

"I'm pretty sure you know what went down. Charles I don't think she's going to want to stay. She's already one the defense and it seems that she's ready to kill the first person that opens that door"

"Don't worry, I'm pretty sure after a long talk over something to eat, apparently she's hungry, will help for all of us to be okay. Go downstairs and open the--"

"Charles you know what she can do. And opening that door might be lethal."

Charles laughed out loud. And it was Logan who said she wasn't worth the fight.

"Fine, I'll have Bobby do it. I need you to prepare something for me, The Danger Room. She might need some reassurance of what we can do"

Bobby, or on the field Iceman, wasn't a morning person. But once he was up he was hyper.
The unique thing about this fellow mutants, hence the name, was his ice powers. Able to generate and solidify water molecules within the air to solid ice that could

freeze and cap lock most organisms on earth.

Bobby knew that something had happened last night as he recalled what he had witnessed.

It was late at night as he was dozing off to sleep before being awaken by the sudden growl coming from the menacing mutant that had just appeared 5 ft from him. Behind him stood Kurt and Cyclops as they both looked down to the floor.

"Take her downstairs to the holding cell NOW!" Logan half-shouted making him jump. He wasnt able to see what "her" was, but he could see them carrying some type of limp body to the elevator, as he inched closed to actually see the face, Wolverine suddenly blocked his view with his 6 ft frame.

"What you looking at..?" He asked the younger boy in a voice that would have made most dog piss on themselves. He didn't even wait for an answer as he walked away towards the elevator.

Now he finally had his chance to meet what he had failed to see yesterday.

The professor was on his way down stairs to meet him but he didn't really feel like waiting. The professor told him to go down and "talk" to the guest, but not to open the cell for the girl for she could be very lethal within a 10 ft radius. He took the elevator to the basement and walked down 2 corridors till he came to the holding cell, and gasped

Inside was a beautiful young female probably not to much older them him. She had curly hair that was flowing a few inches down her back. She had the body of a model, yet the tone of a fighter. She had on a cat suit which showed to much for the pubescent boy, yet he knew to keep his cool. When he had approached the room she was already looking into his direction as if expecting him.

"Professor, told me you were dangerous. What's your powers?"

"Open these cells and let me show you" she smiled at him flirtatiously.

"Your not a telepath are you..?" He licked his lips giving in to the demand of the flirt. She didnt even look deadly, and plus she was cute.

"No, I'm not a telepath. My powers are... I'm able to throw fireballs" she lied on the spot not expecting for the lie to actually---

"Really, that's awesome! I' have ice powers. Want to see?" Iceman asked wanting to impress her. She looked at him mentally forming a plan.

"Yeah, hit the bar with one." Max was starting to get weirder out but her first priority was getting the hell out of there. If only she knew that it was basically impossible.. but of course she didn't.

She smiled at him and licked her lips as Bobby smiled at her. He then raised his hand and out came ice hitting the bars at once. Max didn't want him to notice the steam that was arising from the ice hitting the heated bars she jumped up and down knowing that her breast were also which mesmerized the boy.

"It is a little hot in here" she said with unzipping her cat suit just a bit. She giggled to her self, wondering what Logan would think of her now, not even realizing that she was actually thinking about Logan.

"Hey if your so good.. hit all the bars with your powers.." she challenged him before smiling and sat down on one of the chairs propped in the room.

Inside she was bubbling. As much as she didn't want to admit it, the display of ice excited her. She never seen anything like it.

Not even Manticore was this advanced.

Bobby hit the bars wit the ice and they began to freeze and freeze.

She smiled at him one more time before finishing the finale of her plan. She kicked out with a spin kick pivoting one foot. As her foot connected with the bar it shattered. The bars were already thin, and she knew that being that they were already heated weakened the molecules holding them together. By freezing them twice hit helped to weakened them more to the point of a strong impact could break them.

"Hey what are you--" he started to say as she started to break the bars one by one at a speed of only she could master.

Bobby looked up to see her cartwheel sideways out of the gap she had broken.

"Stop right there." Bobby recovered and held a hand at her.

"Okay so I lied. I cant shoot fireballs." She started towards him as he frowned at her.

" But I can do something better"

She was about 3 ft away from him as he looked at her and pointed his hand at her as ice flowed from his palm, but Max was already adapted for this performance of his. She moved to the left dodging the ice blast and hit him hard on the side.

"You move pretty fast, but you cant get away" He got up and looked up to see her gone. He walked around observing the scene. There wasn't many places she could go, and it was only doors down the corridor

" So you able to disappear huh? Well I've seen it before " He started to blast ice around the hall at random spots

She was ready to go. All she needed was for him to give up or tire out. The human snowman was blasting at a fast rate and had already almost hit her twice. She couldn't even get close enough to him to make her move. She would have made it for the door if only he wasn't in front of hit.

First she had someone able to disappear and reappear with in seconds and now she had someone actual creating ice without the use of anything, It should have been humanly impossible to be able to perform that. Then it hit her. Humanly Possible. They weren't actually humanly people. She ran over about 10 simulations of a plan to take down Bobby and then stopped as she heard someone.

The funny thing was she knew she heard someone, but at the same time, she didn't hear them.

"Good Morning Max"

"Good… Morning?" She said aloud, realizing a split second to late as she made her self audibly visible and Bobby with the precision of a life-trained sniper hit the corner from the where he heard her voice with a ice blast. She fell as she felt the ice freeze her into place.

"No need to talk aloud. What I mean is, you can think the words, as when you talk to yourself in your mind."

"That would mean you were also doing the same" Max she said aloud again starting to get pissed.
It was as if she was at some weird museum where after each corner, things just kept getting weirder and weirder.

Bobby walked closer to the spot that he had frozen. He knew she was underneath as he could tell from the outline.

"Become visible, or I'll keep it up, and no matter what you can do, you'd still freeze to death"

She sighed growing irritated with the fact that this was the second time these people had gotten the better of her.

She was beginning to feel her core temperature drop and began to shiver. She then did as she was told and Iceman could see her.

"I'd let you out, but I think I'll let the professor deal with you". He started to walk away before stopping and then looked as if pondering.

"Who the hell is this Professor you guys keep talking about. How come you guys cant just--"

"I am the Professor they keep talking about. You might not believe this, or better yet, not want to believe this. And no Max, or X5-452, I'm not from manticore."

She turned her head sides as she heard something of a mechanics coming down the hall with footsteps trailing the way.

" Told you that you might be better off inside the bars.. Now your going to freeze to death" Logan said as he saw her on the ground frozen in place.

In front of Logan was a man who looked to be in his early 50's perhaps. She knew he looked familiar as if she had seen him somewhere.

"Hello, nice to meet you in person Max. I'm Charles Xavier"

(Not much of a cliffhanger but don't worry.. In the next chapter, we'll find out how and why Xavier wants her on there team.. And also why he wanted Logan to prepare the Danger Room.. J )