Just got back from my first mission. I've only left New York state a couple of times before, and that was to visit my Great Aunt in New Jersey, but I just got back from a trip to practically the other side of the world, and I've definitly had some weird experiences.
Weird thing #1: I'm scary.
We arrived at the nuclear plant, and just as Bobby said, the guards there thought of us as just more mutants, so we had to fight them and the Brotherhood as well. The moment I changed into my molten rock form, most of the guards as well as a couple members of the Brotherhood looked like they were about to wet themselves. It gave me a bit to consider. Since I learned I could change myself into a being of molten rock, I never thought about what I seemed to other people. Despite that it was a huge fight nonetheless.
Weird thing #2: I saw a guy who could lift a bazillion tons cry because he was feeling totally helpless.
We located Colossus holding up a nuclear regulator about the size of an elephant. His cousin Dimitri was welding the support brackets who held it in place.
While Beast with his strength, and Jean with her telekinisis helped Colossus lift, Cyclops and I used our powers to help weld the brackets while the rest of the X-men fought the remaining Brotherhood members.
After we finished all of the X-men turned to fight and the Brotherhood decided to retreat. Colossus refused to leave his sick sister Ilyanna, and Jean offered to take her to a mutant research center somewhere called Muir Island. I spent the next few hours comforting him as he stood crying over his inability to help his sister, and It really hit me just how human all of us are. Before my powers surfaced, people I knew talked of mutants as if they were all something different. I feel like an idiot for not realizing how wrong they were. At Muir Island after Dr. Moira Mctaggert studied her he sent her readings to Professor Xavier, he said he recognized these types of readings, then told Jean to bring Ilyanna to the Institute.
Weird thing #3: Cyclops is being all secretive.
Dimitri told us that another mutant manipulated the radiation around the reactor so Magneto could take the materials. Cyclops eyes seemed to perk at this. Then later I overheard on Muir Island, I overheard Cyclops talking to someone else over the comm. Cyclops said, "I knew it was you, Alex. What do you think youre doing?"
Alex replied, "Look, Scott, you really have to see this. It's really important."
Cyclops than saw me and said, "Excuse me Alex but our conversation is no longer private. Magma, do you mind?" and I left despite my curiousity.
Then as soon as we got back to the institute Cyclops just took off in one of the smaller planes turning over command of the team to Storm.
I asked Jean what's going on and she told me, "It's not really my place to say. Try asking Scott again when he get's back."
Hello, as I write these words I am sitting on the fountain in front of the institute and a limosine just entered the institutes main gate.
I guess, Weird thing #4: Who has a licence plate with the words WHITE QUEEN?
Guess I should find out.
Later
Allison "Magma" Crestmere