AN: I have finally made it back into an X-Men Evolution mood and I am able to give a little focus to continue the story of the next generation of X-Men. I lost internet after I posted the characters that I wanted to introduce to you all. So I continued to work on this one chapter sorry if it is a little on the long side.
Chapter 5
My father stepped back very quickly away from his wife. "Well mon river rat please calm down I only met them yesterday. I already told you about their mother Bella." He continued to back away from his bride as if she were the scariest thing in the world. I was trying hard not to laugh at the former Ragin Cajun.
My twin sister was not so successful and started to laugh. Her reaction broke me down but for a different reason than my sister. "You left momma for this angry river rat." She said with such passion and humor in-between laughs that it went nearly unnoticed.
Unfortunately, for Leonie, both Gambit and his wife noticed what she said. "What was that you little southern girl with no tact?" The stripped haired woman asked with anger in her eyes.
My father and I both acted on an instinct that was with us from birth and formed to be the only acceptable reaction by Tante Mattie. We stepped shoulder to elbow in front of my sister and would not move out of the way. "I can't let you do that Rouge. They are my children and I will not let you lay a finger upon them." My father said with tears in his eyes. "I know that she takes after her mother and does not know how to behave herself very well around others and her brother is as hot tempered as me and she combined especially towards Remy as he proved last night."
I nodded in agreement with my father as much as I hated the knowledge of agreeing with the fool it was my gut instinct trained into me by my aunts. "Even if we have only recently met as siblings I cannot allow her to get hurt especially by someone who would be my stepmother." I declared as my whole body started to glow a dull blue color as I overloaded the inhibitor or my wrist.
Remy saw the state I was in and he seemed to start to panic. "Virgil, would you please calm down." He said hesitantly as the glow around me started to strengthen and brighten from the pale dull blue to a more vibrant blue edging toward cobalt and still strengthening even more to neon and expanding outward from my body. "Everyone run away now!" My father yelled as he grabbed my sister's arm and started to sprint away from me with his wife carrying her daughter as they fled from the glow that was my power. I enveloped the plane into my blue light of death just before I could not take the pain anymore. I gave out a sigh and released my power but the explosion I expected never came.
Before everything went boom my father grabbed hold of the charge trying to contain the power but we all knew that it would be pointless for him he could not hold my powers. His wife stepped up and touched my face with a sad smile while Leonie and the other girl, I think they called her Bekka, moved away from us. I felt my powers seep out at her touch, and I was able to regain control over the raging energy that wanted to be released. The southern bride of my father did not seem affected by my excess energy even though it should be burning her. "Damn sug, your boy can pack more a punch than you." She said to her husband with a smile on her face. Once my power was once again contained within my young body all of us began to relax. "Let's get back to the institute before anything else goes wrong." She said grabbing my hand and pulling me in the direction of the exit with the deadbeat and girls following behind us. "Swamp rat you will have to drive the van while I keep your boy from blowing everything up." The woman I finally remembered went by Rogue explained as she threw keys to her husband.
Once we were all in the car with Remy driving and his young daughter beside him. Rogue climbed into the back leaving me pinned in the middle between her and Leonie. My sister started to fidget while we drove and it started to make me nervous especially when her hands started to glow a pinkish color. Rogue's grip on my hand tightened as my power tried escaping again, with my stress level increasing. It felt like the bones were about to be crushed into dust. "Leonie listen ta moi and roll down your window." I said quickly she glared at me, but she did as I advised. "Stick these hands out the window before you blow open the car." The glare continued even as her hand went out the window and released a plasma blast from her palm. The car rocked sideways and Leonie slammed into my side. Gambit simply put his foot down on the accelerator forcing weight to shift to the rear of the vehicle.
Gambit fished out a cigarette and let it with his powers before he started smoking rapidly as our speed continued to increase. The tires squealed around every turn and the giggling from the passenger seat never seemed to end. The daughter of the devil and a southern spitfire could not contain herself. I hoped that the car exploded at that moment so that I would be free but I knew I could do that it is not proper for me to flee like that. Rogue's grip tightened on my hand to painful extremes but the city was quickly fading into trees that I hoped meant we were getting close to our destination but the pink glow started up again from my sister. Rogue saw this and tossed a phone to her daughter. "Bekka call your grandfather Logan and get him to open the gate and clear a path to the danger room." She instructed as she reached across me and grabbed hold of my sister's glowing hand, which instantly faded, and she began to slump over onto my shoulder which shocked Rogue to no end. My instinct took over and I wrapped my arm around the assassin princess to steady her in the wild vehicle. I felt true fear once again although this time it was not for me but in a way, it might have been. If anything happened to the Assassin's Princess, my maternal grandfather would kill me.
I heard my half-sister in the front seat get rather short with someone on the phone. "Now is not de time Chat Noir. Go yell for Logan and tell him to get the gates open unless he wants to be replacing them and then we need an open path to the danger room." She explained quickly before pausing and waiting for a response. "Non we ain't being attacked Mon frère aîné is just having a little bit of trouble with his powers right now and mama is the only thing keeping the car from blowing up. So get ta yelling at that old clawed man." She said before hanging up the phone without waiting for a reply from the other end of the line. "I sure hope she hurries and gets it done or else we may end up having a problem. Xavier don't want to replace de gate again after dat visit from Hudson and Tommy." The Yankee who actually sounded southern said looking at her father with worry. "Dat reminds me Pere now dat I have my powers and I am eleven can I meet the local thieves?" She asked sweetly.
Gambit tensed gripping the wheel tighter than he already had been as he drifted the van around a turn through a halfway open gate causing it to fling away from the vehicle. I tightened my one arm grip on my sister's shoulder. We may be from rival guilds but that does not mean that I can abandon her now that I know our relationship. Gambit swerved to the side and slammed the brakes twisting the van to a halt with my sister's door facing the entrance to the mansion. I opened the door and yelled "Medic, I need a healer here." However, before the first word was out of my mouth Rogue had my sister and I out of the vehicle and flying into through the open front door. She had me under her arm, I held my sister in a death grip as fear, and worry filled me. There were doors to an elevator shaft open before us and she literally flew straight down into them taking us down into the basement before she leveled out and she flew us to a spherical room setting down and pushing a button on the wall making me instantly feel wrong. I could not place what the exact problem was but something did not feel right to me.
Our stepmother dropped us and walked out of the room in a hurry. I went to my sister and made sure she was all right. "Wake up vous princesse stupide." I said shaking her in fright as the room started to morph around us. I pulled her out of the way as walls formed around us and beds rose out of the ground. The grey paneling turned to pastel colors that hurt to look at. I mean who make an artificial sun with an actual smile on it. I eagerly wanted out of here but that would not be as easy because I did not know the layout of this place. A large furry blue beast came into the door with his hands raised in surrender before I could calculate my next move.
Well he was not entirely blue. Where normal people had hair on their heads and a goatee his was more grey than blue. I took that as a sign of his age. "Hello there, my name is Hank McCoy better known as Beast. I am a doctor of sorts and I have come down to check on you and the young lady there." He said peacefully before looking up at the roof. "Please change the simulation to a medical ward so that I can help the patients and bring in some of my equipment if you can." After he finished speaking the colors on the walls changed and the rom became a two-person hospital room.
Before anything else could be said, an explosion was heard and the room shook violently, but the big blue guy did not seem to care as the door then opened and in walked a teenager with a tray full of medical things. "Mrs. LeBeau is having a little trouble controlling their powers doc. She just blew up the boathouse. Ms. Frost went to see if she could help since the professor is sleeping right now." The guy, who clearly needed to remove the stick from his cul before I would ever get along with him, told the beast.
Mr. McCoy gave him a sad smile before nodding and addressing him. "Please set the equipment on the table and then you may go assist her Nathan." The young man let out a huff as if he would rather not help this Frost woman before he did as the doctor told him to. The Doctor walked up to me as I kept Leonie behind me with a frown covering his animalistic features. "Perhaps your sister would be more comfortable on a bed? That will also assist in a speedy recovery from the shock of Rogue's powers." I nodded my acceptance but when I went to stand, I could not help but stumble. The doctor caught me and set me on one of the beds before he lifted my sister up and placed her on the other bed.
"What is going on?" I asked holding my head in my hands as I attempted to steady myself while the world felt as though it was spinning and tilting out of control around me.
The doctor pushed me down onto the bed and lifted my legs up turning me so that I ended up lying on my back. "This is the danger room. The students use it for training." He started to explain which I found very irritating. "It can negate powers similar to the way the bracelet you have on does but based on your reactions I am assuming that the bracelet was ineffective." He continued to ramble as he removed the device from around my wrist and tossed it aside. I wondered if he was ever going to get around to actually answering my question. "Your powers are completely cut off in here not even the strongest mutants can use their powers here tanks to the help of Leech. I know that even Apocalypse would simply be relying on his physical abilities with this room the way it is currently set up." Man this guy must really be a doctor he talked but never came out and told you anything straight at least not until he bored you to near death first just like Alexander the guild's doctor. "Now for you much like your father, your mutation helps you with your agility and balance and with you suffering from the effects of the power negation like you did proves that you have always had that reliance on it because you have never been without it. I had always suspected as much but with only being able to observe Gambit for the last thirteen years, I had no way of proving this theory to be the case with him. However your mutation has just manifesting with its explosive potential, it is now confirmed that special awareness and the boosted agility are indeed a natural thing that is part of his powers and been with him since birth." The blue furry man continued to rant as he took blood samples from both my sister and me. Then began humming to himself as he hook up heart, and brain monitors to Leonie. "I am going to run a few test on your blood. Please rest easy here." He said that before walking out the door and leaving me alone with the Assassin Princess, that was my soeur.
I sat up Indian style on the bed and pulled out the deck of cards given to me by my sperm donor and attempted to shuffle them. Key word there is attempted because I could barely control my normally agile fingers. After collecting the cards for the fifth time, I went back to basics and started placing cards face down one on top of the other before I cut the deck and did a simple bridge. Then cut it again by flipping them into my other hand held close to prevent the cards from going everywhere a sixth time. I continued to shuffle that way for a while before I dealt myself a game of solitaire to pass the time. I felt relieved that my analytical mind did not suffer from the power negation that the blue doctor kept going on about. I did not try to keep track of how many games of solitaire I played but it helped pass the time and my coordination improved the more I shuffled and dealt the cards. I continued to follow the simple movements even though my brain was not really focusing on the action. I heard a few more explosions but none of the shaking that was heard before. After a few hours of mind numbingly simple solitaire, I heard a groan from my side but did not even move to acknowledge it. My mind was focused on figuring out how I could function with so little energy now. I felt drained and the only reason possible for it was that I did not currently have access to my powers. "Will you stop it with those cards already?" Leonie said as she sat up holding her head. My hands froze at the sound of a Cajun female's voice in pain. I dropped the cards and quickly jumped off the bed over to her, stumbling as I did so, causing her to laugh at my incoordination before her brow crinkled in confusion. "Where are we and why is it so bland in here?" She asked me.
Her question gave me time to recover from my lack of balance now that my powers were gone while in here. I would have to set up a training regimen without my powers at all so that I could function even if they were removed from me. "We are in a place dese people call de danger room it keeps any of our powers from working. As for de décor dat is because de doctor wanted it to look dis way. It is supposed to be a hospital room for us while we recover from whatever it was dat caused you to faint and to keep moi from blowing dis whole place up. Although by de sound of it our belle-mere is doing a fine job of dat without mon help." I explained to her chuckling to myself. Before I could recover from my mirth, the doors opened and in walked the doctor followed by his overly formal assistant with the stick up his cul.
I noticed that Hank was rubbing the back of his neck as the two approached us. "I have finished running my test on the blood I took from the two of you and I have good news. You are both heathy you mutants with energy manipulation powers." He said hesitantly as both of us scowled at him.
Leonie was the first to speak up after his proclamation. "And what is de bad news, homme?" She asked in the dry tone that warned every thief the assassin that said it was a hair's breath away from snapping in anger.
The doctor looked a little taken aback by her tone but quickly recovered. "Well for you Miss LeBeau." He never have to finish his sentence.
Leonie jumped off the bed and slashed at him with her knife that she kept in her sleeve. "I am not a dirty LeBeau. I am a proud Boudreaux. I am not a stupid bumbling thief. I am the one that will end all thieves because my powers are stronger than my mother's since I can kill with my blast and she can't." She continued to try to slice up the blue mutant who dodged her attacks as best he could but he still took on wounds.
Mr. stick up his cul decided to intervene as he stepped out the door giving the bestial looking mutant more room to maneuver but when he did so his left eye began glowing a pale blue color and Leonie's knife flew up into the roof. Therefore, he must have telekinetic powers. Her shook from the knife disappearing from her grasp was enough of a reprieve for the beast to grab both her arms lifting her off the ground. "Oh my stars and garters, you have one fiery temper young lady. One may even think you were the daughter of Rogue." I stood and pulled out my tonfas at that insult but my sister did one better by spitting in the beast's face.
"We do not take kindly to such insults Monsieur McCoy." I said as I somehow managed to smack his arm and sweep my sister behind me away from the beast's grasp.
"Our mere is Bella Donna Boudreaux and I am proud to bare the Boudreaux family name even if I did not inherit their eyes." The proud voice of my sister stated from behind me.
The giant furry man rubbed his elbow that judging by the crack I heard on impact is more than likely broken and I could not find it in me to care. "Very well then, as you put it I do have some bad news. Leonie with some training you should be able to control your powers without any problems, just like any other student that has come through this school, but it will take time. Virgil is it?" He asked of me after explaining my sister's situation to which I silently glared back at him. "Your powers are at such a magnitude that control is a near impossibility without aid of something to siphon off your energy. Your body simply produces it too quickly for it to be safely discharged without harm to others. It will take Forge and I time to make something that can hold back your powers enough for you to begin training." He explained to me.
My sister could not hold in her frustration and it seemed by her reaction to be torn between joy and rage. "Let me get dis straight. LeBeau here gets to stay down here and kick back while you figure out a way to fix him while I have to go and be with all those other freaks and take classes to control Mon powers?" She demanded of the doctor.
"Ah would be careful about using dat word round here shug." Rogue said as she walked into the room with Gambit following her.
"Your brother there is unstable and he could easily destroy the world if we leave him unchecked. Le prince des voleurs will not be sitting here doing nothing, dat much I can assure you. If I know Mon fils, based on what Mon pere told me, he will be demanding a change of scenery so dat he can train in his craft without his powers to aid him. Ain't dat right Virgil?" I nodded my head at my father's declaration and question. "I think we can use dis as a way to start training de others in both stealth and combat without deir powers, non?" He asked the other adults present.
Beast had a thoughtful look on his face as he replied. "It would be a good experience for them if they ever run into a situation where they find themselves without their abilities. I find the idea most intriguing. It may even help some of them with their control. We will have to bring it up with Scott." The large mutant said to the others before people came running down the hall.
"Hey teach I heard we got some new students tucked away down here." A golden teenager yelled as he a boy with red wings and a girl with blue hair approached the door. Upon seeing my sister and I, his grinning face fell. "I thought they would be our age. Too bad they are just more kids." He said dejectedly.
I hate being called a kid so acted on instinct and leapt at him passing out of the doorway and felt my powers go full blast all at once generating a blue field around me. "Rogue grab him. Noriko take Josh to the medical lab to heal his injuries now." My father shouted as he stepped out and placed his hand on the light blue floor to keep it from exploding.
Once I was back in the room my sister pulled me away from the doorway and held me to prevent me from attacking anymore foolish enough to come near the room and talk about us in a derogatory manner. While still restraining me my sister turned to look at Beast. "I dink I will stay here with Mon frère if dat is alright with you Monsieur McCoy. Dat way I can keep him from taking up the Boudreaux family profession." She explained to him. I will admit even though we were raised separately the two of us have always respected each other and privately got along like you would expect siblings to. We will fight with each other but if someone tries to mess with one of us, the other will turn around and hurt them.