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Note: The pictured for the dresses in the previous chapter is now posted on my profile page if anyone is interested in getting a look at my inspiration for the girls' characters. :-)
Do You Believe in Fairies?
The alarm rang throughout the headquarters of the Acolytes waking all the members except one. Remy LeBeau had just come in from a night out and was in the process of pulling the covers over him when the alarm went off. "Merde," he cursed. "Why is it dat de alarm always goes off as Remy's about to get some much needed sleep?" He kept grumbling as he went to the closet to pull out a clean uniform only to realize that there wasn't any. "Johnny," Remy exclaimed, "you were supposed to do laundry dis week!"
The red headed pyro maniac burst through the door with a wicked grin on his face. "Now mate, you should know better then to trust me with the laundry." Dodging an ace of spades that came flying at him the crazy redheaded Pyro ran down the hall towards the metallic spheres the Acolytes always traveled in.
When Remy walked into the hanger he sees that Piotr, John, Pietro and Magneto are all ready and waiting for him. "And what kept you Gambit?" Magneto growled at him.
"Sorry monsieur, but Johnny boy was in charge of laundry and so ah had to hunt down a decent uniform," Remy replied with a sarcastic bow in Magneto's direction.
Magneto scowled before motioning everyone into their orbs. Remy wondered where Sabertooth had gotten to but decided not to push his luck by questioning the boss. As he settled in for the ride he decided to get a nap in to make the trip go faster.
It didn't take but an hour for the team to land on the beach in South Carolina. They got out and Magneto split them up to cover more of the beach. As they were heading out the X-jet landed not far away. Going into battle mode the two teams faced off across a little strip of beach. As they were about to attack they were startled to hear a musical voice call out to them. "There will be no bloodshed on this beach!" Both teams whipped around and stared at four of the most beautiful women any mortal had ever seen.
"Who are you and why are you here?" Xavier asked. While questioning them he tried to probe their minds and discovered their mental shields were too hard for him to penetrate, alone anyway, and he didn't want to push against their barriers too hard and alert them to what he was trying to do.
"Who we are is not your concern at the moment. What is your concern is answering our questions," Lexa said as she stepped forward. Pietro took that moment to come flying up to her and taking her hand.
"Well, it's impolite to leave a gentleman without a ladies name," he said with an overconfident smirk on his face.
"Well, I do not see a gentleman so if you do not mind we have other matters to deal with," Lexa replied with a disgusted look on her face.
Rogue shook her head at the impetuous young fairy. "We are in need of some assistance and we thought that perhaps you could point us in the right direction to find it." She looked over the strangely dressed people and wondered at how the world had changed since the fairies left. She had heard all the stories about Earth from Ororo who had been taught the stories from tutors who were taught the stories and so forth. I hope all the people on earth do not dress this way. I would hate to have to wear such outfits all the time.
"We will try to assist you in any way possible," Professor Xavier said to the women in front of him, "but I believe you should give us a little more information about yourselves before we reveal too much."
"Fine, we will answer your questions if you answer ours." Kitty stepped forward and nodded at Rogue when she started to protest. "We cannot expect to get full cooperation from anyone if we do not give up something in return." Rogue nodded her agreement and the three groups returned to the cabin the four had been using.
The X-Men and Acolytes watched each other wearily thinking the other was going to try something but Magneto and the Professor engaged each other in conversation while their 'hosts' went into one of the bedrooms for a private discussion. When they returned the room fell into silence waiting for one of the women to speak.
Wanda stepped forward and folded her arms across her chest. "Alright, we are here to find some people to help us and we need some information. Is there anyone that you know of that would be able to help with a fight against someone who is capable of wielding magic?"
It was Magneto who answered, "We might if we were to know more about the situation."
Wanda glared at the older man and realized that he looked a lot like her birth father. "Fine, here is what we know. Queen Ororo is concerned about the safety of her subjects since there was a spy in the palace. He was caught but not before passing on important information and managed to kill himself before he was thoroughly questioned. There are only a couple of people who would go against our queen since she is the most judicial queen we have had in a thousand years and most people are happy under her rule. The people who could possibly be planning a coup again her are powerful sorcerers who have a great deal of power at their control. We have some powerful sorcerers and sorceresses in our court but none powerful enough to stand up to our opponents. Now answer the question."
"My dear you are looking at two of the most powerful mutants on Earth, if anyone could defeat these beings it would be us and our teams," Magneto announced.
"Exactly what are mutants?" Kitty questioned. She had never heard this term before and wanted to understand exactly what they were getting into.
"Mutants are humans with special powers. For example I can manipulate the magnetic energy around to do whatever I want, the Professor here is the most powerful telepath on the Earth," Magneto began to explain.
"Interesting," Lexa mused. "So what can the rest of you do?"
Kurt was the first to step forward and was surprised when the girls didn't flinch at his appearance. "My name is Kurt and vell; I can teleport almost instantaneously as long as I know vhere I am going within a two mile radius." Rogue nodded at him and gave him a small smile before turning to the next person.
Jean stepped forward with a smile, "My name is Jean and I have the powers of telepathy and telekinesis."
Scott was the next one to step forward, "My name is Scott or Cyclops on the field and I have optic blasts."
Betsy was the next to step forward, "I'm Betsy and I'm also a telepath. My power can be concentrated into a powerful blade that can render a person unconscious or kill them depending on the amount of energy behind the attack."
Bobby stepped forward next, "Hi, I'm Bobby and I can control the moisture around me and form it into ice."
Gambit was the next to step forward. He smiled winningly at the girls before giving a formal bow. "Remy LeBeau at your service mon chères and ah have de ability to blow t'ings up." He smiled at the four women before backing up to join his teammates.
John came forward with his lighter and started flicking it on and off, "My name is John and this is my lighter Bess." He then made a small fire dog that ran around the room. All the girls in the room gave a little giggle while the guys just rolled their eyes at his antics.
Pietro zoomed up to the four fairies and announced. "I'm Pietro and I'm the fastest man on Earth."
"In all things," Bobby announced to the room, "if you get my drift." He wiggled his eyebrows at the girls causing another burst of laughter to fill the room.
Pietro scowled at the X-Man before returning to the group. He had thought about giving him a wedgy but didn't know how to go about doing it while the he was wearing his spandex uniform. He probably has a permanent wedgy anyway from that stupid uniform of his.
Piotr was the last to introduce himself. "My name is Piotr but my American friends find it easier to call me Peter. I can turn my skin into living metal." He gave a quick demonstration before falling back with his teammates.
The four girls gave each person a nod before continuing on the conversation. "Well," Rogue commented, "it would seem that you would be good candidates for helping us, if you are willing."
Magneto stepped forward. "I will have to discuss this with my team, if you could give us a few minutes. But first I would like to know about you four. Why were you sent to find help? Why not send some more powerful people?"
"We have been trained by the Queen herself and are some of the most powerful fairies in our land," Kitty answered for them. She seemed to be the only one to trust these strangers with any information. "We are what you would call mutants ourselves in that we have powers other than the usual ones. I can walk through solid objects and can communicate through the breeze in the air. I can also read where the wind has been and what has happened there. Rogue can absorb parts of people through skin contact allowing her to see their thoughts and personality. She is very helpful in the justice department for finding true criminals; she also has the ability to communicate with planets and animals. She can convince plants to grow and animals to avoid harmful situations or to help the Fae, or fairies." Rogue sent a warningly glance at the girl trying to warn her not to say too much.
Kitty ignored Rogue feeling that these people deserved as much information as possible to best make their decision. "Wanda there can change the probability of events that are happening and can cause impossible things to occur as well. She also controls the element of fire. Lexa is probably the strongest of us with her ability to heal herself and her enhanced senses. She controls water in much the same way that I work with air. Now we will leave you and allow you to discuss what your decision will be." With that said she turned and walked back into the bedroom with the other three following along behind her.
Magneto turned to his team and the X-Men, "Well, what should we do?"
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Well, what do you think? This was a little boring to write but I felt like it needed to be done to help set up the story. Next chapter should have more action as the mutants make their decision and we head back to the fairy world:-) Please let me know what you think.