Well... it seems chapter 8 of my story caught someone's attention. Thank you Lady Queria for adding me to both your favorite author, and favorite story list... now then... you didn't review... eh, it doesn't really matter anyways. Anyways, here's the beginning of chapter 9, started on

Started chapter 9-4-07. Finished Chapter 9-19-07. If i keep up this pace, that'll be great. Doubt it though. I haven't lost interest in X-men, but I won't be doing this as well as I usually would. For one, they don't show the show on tv anymore, so no information from there. The person who got me to begin writing this story isn't writing any X-men oriented stories, so no motivation or information there... and I lost my paper that had all the information on the characters and plans... so ya... it will be continued, but I'm not sure if it will be as good as it would have been otherwise. And sweet, before I even finish this chapter, I'm getting a review... sheesh, I leave for a year because nothing is happening and then I return for a few weeks and I've got more stuff happening than ever before... not that I'm complaining now. Anyways, thank you other reviewer... too tired to go check who you are, but i still care for the review

Devilish Mutation

Zeo lay there, staring at the ceiling.

"Two... in the morning... I woke up at two in the morning" he thought, annoyed.

Before this mutation, he had been really used to waking up at two in the afternoon when he went to sleep at 10.

Now, if he went to sleep at ten, he was up and ready by 2 in the freakin' morning!

Not a very easy habit to deal with when everyone else was a teenager as well.

"Well... hell, I gotta do something" he thought as he got up and rubbed his side.

Even though that had been a deep cut, there was no scar, or any indication he had been damaged there.

"Heh, guess I'll do some danger room training now. If I try and do it around the other open time, someone else might come in like before for a scheduled training session. Logan's right though" he thought. "I'm too strong for the new mutants, but I can't deal with that bastard Scott... I don't wanna lead the team, so it's impossible for me to go back without a fight about who's in charge coming around" he muttered as he headed towards the Danger Room.

"Then lead the New Mutants bub" Logan said from behind him, causing him to jump.

"Er... huh?" Zeo asked intelligently.

"The New Mutants main problem is that they don't have a leader. If you've watched em in real battles with some kind of leader, you'd realize that. They're all pretty strong, and could probably pull off the same moves as the main team if not fer the fact that they don't respect Scott, so they won't listen to 'im" Logan said.

"Er... okay... but... what are you doing up so early?" Zeo asked.

"Eh? My regeneration powers. They allow me to regain energy quicker... you should know that, considering you got the same power" Logan said with a smirk as he looked at Zeo's side, where the sword had pierced him.

"Um... why are you looking at my side?" Zeo asked, hoping it wasn't for the reason he thought.

"Ya think I couldn't smell the blood when I entered yesterday? Training on your own ain't allowed fer students" Logan said with a smirk.

"... well I have to get stronger somehow! I mean..." Zeo began.

"I'll watch ya." Logan said, causing Zeo to look at him funny.

"You... serious?" Zeo asked, confused.

"Yep. I saw what those guys could do first hand, and from what I heard of the argument between you and Scott, it sounds like you had the winning argument. Teamwork'll help, but it ain't gonna change the fact that they're better than us on own ability already." Logan said.

"And yer at least doin somethin bout it. More than Scott's doin." Logan said with a sigh.

After the whole Apocalypse thing, Scott had become like a dictator over his team. He thought he knew everything.

"... thanks" Zeo said, still not understanding the choice.

"Eh, don't worry about it. Well, come on." Logan said.

"Huh?" Zeo asked. "Danger Room. That's what you're up for right?" Logan asked as he walked off.

"Uh, ya!" Zeo said as he ran after him.

"Heh, that's a surprise, Wolfy boy's got a soft side" he thought as he followed Logan to the danger room.

As they entered, Zeo looked around the room as if he had never seen it before.

That was mostly because... well, nothing was on yet.

The danger room was so different when the lights were off.

"Alright bub, so what level did you have it on last time?" Logan, who was now in costume, so was Wolverine, asked.

"Um... well, I put it on level 15 for survival training and had it set to deactivate when I didn't move for more than a minute" Zeo said.

Logan raised his eyebrow. "Well, I don't expect to win! This is training for my stamina. If I can keep on training like this, and get better each time, I'll be able to get stronger!" he said.

Logan only nodded at that.

This was a well known training style.

By forcing someone into battles far above their level, they either died quickly, or became stronger at a fast rate.

Due to the fact he had found a way to do this with training, the only thing that could happen is him increasing in power.

If it weren't for Xavier's way of thinking, he would have had everyone do this style of training.

"Well than..." Logan muttered as he activated the machine and put in the commands for the danger room.

As the room activated, Zeo immediately jumped into the air, barely dodging a blast from a droid that had appeared.

He then turned his body in mid air to dodge a laser from a nearby turret.

As he landed, he did a low spinning kick to one droid.

It did little damage due to how the droid was made.

But the backfist that followed was devastating and destroyed the droid.

Zeo then dropped to the ground and flattened himself in order to avoid a spear that was thrown by one droid.

He then jumped up to avoid a stab from under the ground.

"Damn it" he thought as he kicked off the wall and slammed into a droid that had an energy blade.

"Let's hope this works" he thought as he focused his energy.

The blade, which had gone out after being unattached from the droid then flared to life, now filled with Zeo's energy.

"Hell's yeah!" he yelled as he ran forward, using the blade to deflect lasers and cut through a few droids.

He then dropped the blade and released the energy, allowing it to return to him.

"Damn it... using energy takes way too much" he thought, panting as he dodged an attack from a droid.

He was too tired to pay attention to what type of weapon the droid was using, but it didn't really matter.

He then jumped to the side, dodging a saw that had shot off the wall at him.

"Ain't falling for that again" he muttered as he spun and slammed his fist into the head of a droid that had attempted to sneak up on him.

Needless to say, the droid didn't move after that.

He then kicked off of the droids remains and brought both his arms out into a straight line across his body.

His arms slammed into two droids in his path, one holding a laser gun, the other a spear.

As Zeo crushed those two droids, he grabbed the spear, looked as it, cut off the top that was sharpened, using his hand, and then spun around, using it as a staff.

"Now you guys are screwed" he muttered with a grin as he charged forward, slamming three droids to the side and sending them flying into the wall.

At the same time, he spun the staff around, using two fingers and then slammed it into a nearby droid, who he then grabbed and used as a shield as about 20 lasers shot toward him.

"I can't believe I'm winning" he thought before something hit him from behind and stabbed into him.

He pulled it out and looked at it.

It was the spear tip he had cut off.

"Damn" he thought, not noticing as a droid appeared and slammed him with a large hammer, knocking him unconscious.

Logan immediately deactivated the room.

"Gotta admit, the kid did well" he muttered as he picked him up, throwing him over his shoulder.

He then headed back to the boy's dormitory, walking past his room and dropping Zeo off at his before heading back.

"Heh, that kid's got a lot of potential" Logan thought as he sat on his bead.

"A lot indeed" someone said, millions of miles away.

"It seems one of our tests was successful after all."

Later that day

"Alright! I win!" Zeo yelled with a grin as he nearly threw the PS2 controller into the air.

"... that's not fair! This is my game, and I was unbeatable until you came along!" Jamie complained, looking at his PS2.

Granted, half the reason he had been unbeatable was because no one wanted to play, but still... who the hell like's losing anyways?

"Well? Time for you to pay up!" Zeo said with a grin as Jamie sighed and reached into his pocket.

He brought his hand out now holding a large bag of candy... which wasn't so large about ten seconds later after Zeo got a hold of it.

"Hey! You just ate the whole bag!" Jamie complained as he stared at the candy.

"Huh! What's your point?" Zeo asked, mouth still full of candy.

He would have never done this before the mutation.

Hell, before the mutation, he would usually stop himself from having sugar since he got so out of control if he had any.

"Wait... since when does the mutation stop the effect of sugar?" he thought before the sugar high kicked in.

"Alright! I love sugar!" he yelled as he ran off.

"Oh, forgot about that part. I've got a logical side that is wondering what the hell I'm doing, and then the... sugar coated side that doesn't care" he thought before sighing.

"Ah hell, who cares anyways right?" he thought as he jumped out the window and grabbed a piece of fruit from a nearby tree as he went out.

"Hell, this is so much fun!" he thought as he kicked off the tree, doing about 20 back flips at high speed before landing and turning around, throwing the fruit forward while running back up the tree.

The piece of fruit slammed into the back of none other than Scott Summers.

"Hey! Who threw that!?" Scott yelled angrily as he looked around. Luckily, Zeo was now hidden in the tree, so Scott didn't see him.

"Well... wasn't aiming for him, but that worked either way" he thought with a grin before snapping his fingers.

"I'll prank Scott!" he nearly yelled as he used his enhanced speed to get to Scott's room and when he entered, he saw a Radio/ CD player.

"Perfect!" he thought as he slipped one of his CD's in there.

To be specific, Disturbed.

"Let's see how Mr. Perfect like's Down with the Sickness!" he thought with a grin as he turned up the volume and bass to full blast as he slipped out.

"Now then, that set's up another prank, let's get down to business!" he thought as he slipped to where Scott usually sat for lunch.

He had a wooden seat for some reason.

Mostly because he thought he deserved it, being leader and all.

"Heh, this is perfect!" he thought as he went outside, used his powers to cot some wood and made a fake seat top.

He then placed that on top of some weak cardboard that would break apart if any weight over 20 pounds was applied.

Inside of the cardboard, and under the seat was a whoopie cushion.

"Another prank set!" Zeo said with a grin as he placed it and left. (Sorry if that prank is hard to understand. I don't usually do pranks, but heck, most stories I've seen that were really good had a chapter devoted to pranks. Granted, most had pranking back and forth, but, as I know nothing about pranks, I'm going to do things my way).

"Now then... hell, it worked in the movie!" he muttered as he headed back to Scott's room.

He was no prankster, so he was beginning to run out of idea's at this point.

As he entered the room, he grabbed the shampoo, poured out the contents and replaced it with bright pink hair dye.

"Damn, if he had a swimming pool, it would be perfect!" Zeo thought with a grin.

(Has anyone guessed the movie yet? The hair dye was orange in the movie) "Now then... not quite perfect, but I'm out of ideas" Zeo muttered with a grin.

"Now to watch" he thought with a grin as he slipped out the window of Scott's room. \

A few minutes later, Scott entered, exhausted from the danger room training.

"I need to take a shower" he muttered tiredly as he stumbled into his bathroom.

About thirty minutes later, Scott's yelling could be heard all throughout the Mansion.

"Damn it! Who did this?" Scott yelled angrily, looking into the mirror.

His hair was pink... his hair was pink!

"How could this happen?" he thought angrily as he put on a hat and walked off to go grab lunch.

"As long as no one see's there won't be a problem" he thought as he sat down before getting back up instantly as part of the seat broke and he landed on a whoopie cushion that Zeo had set up.

Everyone just stared at him strangely before noticing something.

"Hey... like, why's your hair pink?" Kitty asked, trying not to laugh.

"What?" Scott said confused before looking down.

His hat had fallen off at some point in time.

"Damn it!" he thought angrily. After lunch was over, he headed back to his room to relax.

"Some music should be just what I need" he thought as he turned on his CD player.

The second it turned on, the music went off, causing Scott to jump back about ten feet as the CD player suddenly began playing music he had never heard before.

"Who the hell did this?!" he yelled as he attempted to turn it off.

Unluckily, the handle was jammed, mostly due to Zeo adding super glue to it.

Scott finally figured that out and unplugged it.

"I can't take this anymore!" Scott yelled angrily as he walked off, set on finding out who had done this.

As soon as Scott was gone, Zeo fell down, laughing hysterically.

"That was so funny!" he yelled out, still laughing.

"So... it was you!" Scott yelled from about thirty feet away.

"Er... look over there!" Zeo said, pointing randomly.

It had no effect. "Damn!" he thought.

"None of these things work in the real world" he complained.

"Why did you do this?" Scott yelled angrily.

"Er... one, you're an asshole, two, I had sugar, and three, it's frickin hilarious!" Zeo yelled as he fell over laughing again.

"Shut the hell up! We don't have time to deal with your stupid tricks. My team needs to work on their teamwork before we get attacked again. And need I remind you that the reason we were attacked is because of you anyways?!" Scoot screamed, his entire face completely red.

Zeo stood up calmly and looked at him.

"Deal with it, I'm not on your team anyways. I have my own team, and I'm sure they don't really care that I did this either, heck, most of your team thinks what I did is hilarious. You're the only one with a problem here so shut the hell up and don't blame your problems on me." Zeo said coldly.

"That's it, I can't take it anymore!" Scott yelled angrily, completely losing control.

He pulled his glasses up and attempted to hit Zeo with his powers.

Zeo quickly dodged the blast before looking at Scott, shocked.

"So, that's the divine judgement ability of the leader of the X-Men? A two year old has more control than you!" Zeo yelled angrily.

"Shut up!" Scott yelled as he attempted to blast Zeo once more.

"That's it, I'm tired of this!" Zeo yelled angrily as he dodged and charged forward.

He hit Scott in the stomach at the same time Scott blasted him from point blank.

Both were sent flying back into a tree.

"Damn you" Scott muttered as he pushed himself up and faced Zeo once more.

Zeo also forced himself up.

"Not as powerful as Rio's, but damn that hurt" Zeo muttered as he stared towards Scott.

"You're fucking dead!" Zeo yelled as he ran forward.

Scott did the same and a fist fight commenced.

Though Zeo was stronger and faster when it came to close combat, he still seemed to be losing.

"Damn it! Why am I losing?" he thought as Scott continually hit him.

"I have experience, unlike you! All you have is your power. Without it, you wouldn't be willing to do any of this, now would you?" Scott said confidently, as if he had read Zeo's mind.

"Shut up!" Zeo yelled angrily as he let loose an explosion of energy that sent Scott flying back.

The loss of energy also forced Zeo to lose consciousness.

About three hours later, both woke up in the infirmary.

"Uh, my head" Scott muttered.

"Good job, I'm not sure who you two fought, but you seemed to win.

Musta been a pretty strong opponent" Logan said to the two of them.

"Huh?" they said in unison.

"Well, when we got there, the place was trashed, and both of you were unconscious, so you must have fought someone tough" Logan said, glancing at everyone else in the room.

The look he was giving them proved one thing.

He knew what had happened, but he didn't want the others to know.

With the fact that Zeo was the newly instated leader of the New Mutants, this news being revealed would only split the groups even more.

As if Scott hadn't already made the split large enough, now this happens.

"Heh, I'm outta here, oh, and after you two are out, find me" he said calmly, but the look in his eye's wasn't exactly calm.

It was more of a, "I can't say what you did now, but I'll beat you to a bloody pulp when I get the chance" look.

"Well... I'm screwed" Zeo thought as he continued to lie there.

Using that energy blast wasted too much energy.

"Well, this really sucks" he thought before thinking of something.

"Hey, I know! I'll do what the fourth hokage did on the Naruto show! It said he created the Rasengan while in the hospital since he was too tried to move his arms! Or was that in a Fanfiction? ... oh well! I can use my energy in place of chakra in order to do at least that move!" he thought with a grin as he began to train.

About a week later, he was able to move again... and he still didn't even have the basics down.

"Okay... yeah, looks like I need to get some balloons" he muttered as he left the mansion and bought some balloons.

He then stayed outside of the Mansion as he worked on the move.

"Damn! This is harder than it looks!" he complained.

Scott was also released, and, lucky for him, by the time he was out, his pink hair had washed out.

"Damn that asshole" he thought before looking out the window when he saw Zeo.

'What... is he doing?" Scott muttered, confused before shaking his head.

"Who cares anyways?" he muttered as he left.

I finished this chapter a week ago, but I had no time to space it out. School was that overwhelming for about a week... and I was spending all my free time playing a game I've been trying to get for about 5 years so... ya, sorry, here's chapter 9