Trickster Chapter 4

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I DON'T OWN ANY X MEN ONLY ADRIANA.

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Now! Onward ho!

Adriana POV:

It was the next day and Charles, Erik, Raven and I were walking across the field towards the satellite which I earlier found out from Hank that, it used to by a radar instillation that he turned into a transmitter designed to amplify brainwaves. So when Charles uses it, it will amplify his telepathic abilities in order for him to find other mutants to be recruited for the Division. Let's just say that I was beyond impressed.

As we walked towards the transmitter I looked down at what I was wearing. It was one of the many new outfits that Raven got for me. I had one a high neck, sleeveless, black crop top, a lace peach skirt that rested mid-thigh, black, 3 inch, suede heels, a classic short, tan trench coat and my golden bracelet. I felt very spoiled. I had my hair down in curls with a braid woven across the back of my head in to the rest of my hair. I had chosen to stay in my natural golden form from now one as Hank was right yesterday. I'm amongst other mutants, I don't need nor want to hide anymore. When I had walked into Hanks lab to meet up with the other 7 minutes prior Raven looked at me with shocked awe, Charles with a pleasant and proud grin, Erik with a satisfied smirk.

Charles walked up the stairs followed by Raven then me and then Erik. I looked around in awe at all the scientific looking equipment and the stand that's right in the center with what looks like a helmet hovering 6 feet above it with hundreds of wires coming from it. I catch Hank's eye and smile at him in marvel. It's amazing that someone that young can make something so magnificent. Hank smiles back at me with adoration as he observes my golden form. I look down at my feet shyly before looking back up at him. As Charles starts to gaze around at all the equipment in bewilderment, Hank starts to explain everything to them.

"I-uh, I call it Cerebro." He reveals nervously.

"You-" Charles cuts himself off letting out a breathless laugh.

"As in the Spanish for brain." Hank continues for confidently.

"Yes." Charles agrees looking around as if he is a small child at Connie Island for the first time.

"Okay, so the electrodes connect Charles to the transmitter on the roof. When it picks up a mutant, his brain send a signal for a relay." He informs us walking over to one of the machines. "And then the co-ordinates of their locations are printed out here." He concludes as Raven Erik and I take a closer look at the machines and Charles looks at the helmet.

"You designed this?" Raven asks in wonder.

"Yeah." Hank breathes bashfully.

"You really are one of a kind Hank." I tell him walking up to stand beside him and he grins as Charles stands underneath the helmet and pulls it down over his head.

"What an adorable lab rat you make Charles." Erik teases moving around in front of Charles.

"Don't spoil this for me Erik." Charles banters back.

"Oh I've been a lab rat." He says pointing to himself. "I know one when I see one." He continues as we all surround Charles and Hank starts fiddling with the helmet.

"Okay… Ready. Are you sure we can't shave your head?" Hank asks Charles

"Don't touch my hair." He replies rapidly in vanity and Hank walk back over to the machines.

He starts flipping a lot of switches as Raven and Erik watch Charles with slight concern in case anything goes wrong, but I have complete faith in Hank and his intelligence. The floor that opens up for the stairs shut, the white sphere wall around us darkens and Charles' helmet starts to glow blue as we watch and then it quickly glows white and Charles lets out a quick yell and grabs the bar in front of him. He starts breathing heavily and is looking forward but not seeing us, then he lets out a short wondrous laugh.

"It's working." Hank says joyously and Charles starts laughing again in awe. I walk over to Hank and place my hand on his shoulder looking at everything that's going on. I pay close attention to the co-ordinates being rapidly printed out. There's so many of us. I give an excited smile and give Hank a quick kiss on the cheek.

The next few days were hectic. Charles and Erik were in and out of the facility travelling over North America to find mutants to recruit. I spent my time with Hank and Raven and we all became really close. Raven told me about the story how she and Charles met when she was stealing food from his kitchen and how his mother and step-father adopted her into the family. And Hank told us about how he was a child protégée, graduating high school at 12 and Harvard at 15 and then recruited by the CIA at 16 and has been working here for the past 4 years. In return I told them about me. They already knew about my time on the streets so I them other things about me. Like how I collect vinyl records as a hobby and how I have a sweet tooth and could live off Chee-tos, Lays, Reese's and Hershey bars for the rest of my life.

When the first recruit came I transformed back to my normal looking form as I didn't want to give away my powers until all the recruits got here. Her name was Angel Salvadore and she was a beautiful girl with mocha coloured skin and sultry dark brown eyes who worked as a stripper. The next was a slim, African-American man called Armando Muñoz who preferred to go by the nickname: Darwin, who drove Taxi's. Next was a broody, handsome blond haired blue eyed 20 year old called Alex Summers who Charles and Erik found in solitary confinement. And finally the last was an 18 year old boy with red hair (Woohoo! Go red heads!), blue eyes and a cocky attitude called Sean Cassidy.

The night Sean arrived, we all (excluding Charles and Erik) gathered in one of the facility lounges and got to know one another. Hank was sitting in the middle of one of the couches, Raven to his left and me on his right leaning against the arm rest with my left leg tucked up in front of me. Next to Raven was Alex sitting on one of the two arm chairs drinking a soda, and to his left was Sean sitting in the other arm chair. Next to Sean was Angel then Darwin who were sharing the other couch opposite raven, Hank and I.

"We should think of codenames." Raven came out with randomly. "We're government agents now. We should have secret codenames… I wanna be called Mystique." She continued excitedly.

"Damn I wanted to be called Mystique." Sean whined sarcastically and we all laughed.

"Well tough I called it." She teased and then quickly shifted in to Sean, raising her eyebrows at him shocking all of us and making us all laugh. Hank and I knew what she could do but it was still weird to see 2 Sean's. "And I am way more mysterious than you." She finished in a mysterious tone, and then shifted back. We all gave her a well-deserved round of applause as she blushed modestly. "Darwin what about you?" She asked him.

"Well-er, Darwin's already a nickname and you know. Sorta fits. Adapt to survive and all." He told us nodding. "Check this out." He told us walking around the couch to the fish tank watching all of us. Angel and Sean turned around as Darwin dunked him head under the water. We all watched in extreme fascination as gills formed on the side of his face and he opened his mouth and looked over at us grinning, and we let of 'woops' of awe and admiration as Hank said: "That's incredible" clapping along with the rest of us. He pulled his head out of the water and shook it off and gave out mocking 'Thank You's' and then came back over to sit back down. "What about you?" Darwin asked pointing at Sean, and he sat up straight.

"I am going to be… Banshee." He informed us.

"Why do you want to be named after a wailing spirit?" Hank asks inquisitively.

"You might want to cover your ears." He warned us. I confusedly covered my ears with my hands as Sean crouched down at one end of the mini-table and focused on the glasses in front of him and breathed in really deeply, and then gave out a high pitched whistle that shattered the whole window, and we all looked at it in shock, even Sean but then we all started laughing. "Your turn." He declared pointing at Angel and she stood up.

"Well-er, my stage name is Angel." She tells us shedding her jacket and Sean gives out a low whistle. "Kinda fits." She said as she turns and her tattoos, peel from her skin creating beautiful dragonfly wings.

"Wow! You can fly?" Raven asks shocked.

"Uh-huh." She confirms looking back at her. "And um." She trails off turning towards the now windowless window and spits out some sort of acidic fireball and it land on the head of the statue of Agent Black, which is ironically black and we all laugh. It felt great to finally let loose and have fun.

"What's your name?" Angel askes Hank putting her jacket back on, and Hank looks down self-consciously not wanting to answer and I reach for his hand that is on the cushion next to me and I tangle my fingers with his.

"How 'bout Bigfoot?" Alex asks arrogantly. And I immediately come to Hank's defence.

"Well you know what they say about guys with big feet." I tell him unfazed as he looks at me. "And erm, yours are kinda small." I inform him snidely as everyone busts up laughing, I look up at Hank and he smiles in amusement and gratitude and I squeeze his hand in comfort with a smile.

"Adriana, Show them what you can do!" Raven exclaims excitedly. I groan teasingly but get up to my feet and stand 5ft in front of the shattered window.

"Okay. So the multiple thing that I can do with my mutation." I say as they all look on curiously. I flex my fingers as I let go of my illusion I turn metallic gold, again excluding my hair, eyes, black high waist shorts, light pink and white lace sleeveless top and my gladiator sandals and bracelet. "This is my natural look." I inform them as they all look at my skin in wonder.

"So are you a shape shifter like Raven?" Darwin asks.

"No. I'm an illusionist. How I looked just is how I looked before my x gene took over, and I used that image to get by day-to-day so other wouldn't suspect what I was. I can change how something looks, I can make people see what I want them to, make them believe something that not there or that's not true. I can make thing appear out of thin air, something are harder than others. And one final thing is that I can make myself look like an animal, it's very good for pranks as one or two of you might already know." I told looking pointedly at Hank and Raven as I played the same trick on Raven as I did Hank, except I was a rat. Such a fun day.

"Awesome! Show us." Sean cried in delight, I smirked, this was gonna be fun.

"Who wants to be my Guinea Pig?" I asked wickedly and like I guessed from my tone no one volunteered. "Fine I'll pick." Hmm. Who shall I embarrass? I looked at them until my eyes landed on my fellow red head and smirked. "Sean get up."

"Aw! What! Why me?" He groaned getting up as everyone else laughed.

"Because you were the one who was so eager to see my power." I responded to him. "Don't worry. You're not the only one who's going to get embarrassed." I carried on darkly.

"Embarrassed?" He balked as everyone else shouted out a: "What" or "Come on."

I quickly focused on Sean and trapped it in my mist and everyone saw the now blank look in his eye. I closed my eyes and thought about I wanted him to do for the next minute and then cemented it into place. My eyes snapped open and he burst into motion.

He quickly crouched down, placed his hand on the floor and started panting as if he were a dog. Everyone burst out laughing and I joined. He started spinning around as if he were chasing a tail. He then focused on Angel. She let out a firm "No" before Sean pounced on her grabbed her hand and started repeatedly licking it.

"EWWWWW! GET HIM OFF! GET HIM OFF!" Angel started screaming in disgust as the rest of us carried on laughing.

Sean then quickly turned to Alex and quickly crawled over before he started to hump his leg.

"OH MY-! ADRIANA GET HIM OFF!" Alex yelled at me whilst he attempted to keep Sean at bay. By now Raven, Hank, Darwin and I were hysterically laughing, Raven even had tears streaming down her face. Even Angel was laughing even though she was sanitizing her had at the same time.

Finally Sean backed away and sat back on his chair, the blank look coming over him before he was released from the illusion and he looked around at all of us.

"That was awesome!" He laughed. "Apart from the humping, obviously. Sorry dude." He said looking at Alex who looked traumatised, whilst everyone still laughed. "It was weird like I knew what I was doing but I couldn't stop it. And there was a gold tint over my vision. Does that happen every time you do that?" He asked.

"Yep." I told him as I sat back down.

"Trickster." Hank spoke quietly but everyone heard him and they turned to look at him. He cleared his throat before carrying on looking at me. "Trickster were God's or Goddess' who play tricks on other people who also had the capability to transform into other animal like the Norse Trickster Loki, the-uh, God of Mischief could turn into a horse, and then there's the Native American First Nations legends about Coyote's being seen as Trickster, and how Tricksters were sacred to them. So I thought that could be a good name for you." He tells me with a small shrug.

"I love it." I tell him and he looks up at me. "Trickster… It's got a nice ring to it." I carry on smiling at him. Sean then ruins the moment by wolf whistling and Angel smacks him round the back of the head. Darwin tries to defuse the tension.

"Alex what is your gift, what can you do?" He asks him as he is the only one who hasn't shown.

"Uh it's not-um," He trails off looking down then looks back up. "I'm, I just can't do it." He tells us. "I can't do it in here." He finishes.

"Can you do it out there?" Darwin asks patiently.

"Why don't you just do it out there?" Raven questions and Alex looks undecided.

We all start chanting Alex's name until he finally gets up and everyone lets out a yay.

"That's the spirit." Darwin encourages him.

"Get down when I tell you." Alex orders us as he stalks outside. We all walk over to the window and lean out to watch him. "Get back." He tells us. We lean back for 2 seconds before moving back again the see Alex with his arm up. "Get back!" He commands but none of us move. "Whatever." He says before bringing his hands together then back out and swinging his hips and torso around in a circular motion producing 3 rings of red energy and manically launching them away in front of him. We all stumble back as two fly off and the final one cuts diagonally through the statue in the centre of the court yard. Leaving both halves on fire.

We all let out cheers of and woops of laughter.

It had been two hours since we all revealed our powers. We had turned on the jukebox and I had made all sorts of different candy and drinks appear on the tables. Currently Angel was flying around the room dancing and drinking, Raven was dancing on the couch, Sean and Alex were hitting Darwin with different pieces of furniture to see if it affected him and Hank was hanging from the fan by his feet swinging around. I was standing in front of him twirling around and eating a bag of Chee-tos, every couple of minutes we played the game where I threw a piece of food at him to see if he could catch it in his mouth. I lined up another shot and launched it at him, he swung forward and caught it in his mouth.

"Woo!" I screamed before eating some myself and lining up another shot. However before I could throw it another voice interrupted.

"What are you doing?" Moira shouted at us and we all turned to her and stopped what we were doing whilst Hank flipped down from the ceiling turning to her. "Who destroyed the statue?" She asked firmly.

"It was Alex." Hank let out quickly and I giggled when Alex turned around to him looking peeved spreading his arms out in a: 'What the hell?' motion.

"No Havok." Raven interrupted. We have to call him Havok, that's his name now." She announced walking over to the window. "And we were thinking, you should be Professor X." She said pointing at Charles. "And you should be Magneto." She carried on with a smile pointing at Erik.

"Exceptional." Erik replied dryly. Then walked off Moira not far behind him,

"I expect more from you." Charles declared looking at her disappointedly as he walked off.

We all looked around guiltily.

Longest chapter yet! Few! I'm exhausted! Hope you enjoyed finding out the full extent of Trickster's power. Next chapter: Shaw's attack.

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