And here we are, chapter three of four. Now you all get to see exactly what Sean's powers are and you get a explanation from his mom too. In the next chapter, everything should be wrapped up and you all can go back to enjoying the anticipation. But this is fun for me because I get to wrote a different style of fighting, compared to other stories I have written.

Anyway, here you go!


Immune

"It's a little more complicated that." Marianne admitted.

"But you said that his power was immunity. Isn't that where he can't be affect by any viruses or illness?" Hank asked curiously and Marianne laughed weakly.

"Um, no, I'm afraid not." The newly arrived doctor shifted uncomfortably. "You see, Sean's power is to be immune to getting injured or being harmed in general. This presented itself first when we were in Germany, when he and his brother, Davis, were wandering around Berlin when we were visiting my late husband's family. That's when it happened."

"What happened?" Hank asked and Marianna sighed, biting her lip.

"Sean was hit by a drunk driver and pinned to a wall, yet he walked away without a scratch." The newly arrived doctor explained. "He can't be hurt, by physical or psychic means. He's the perfect defender because his defense is absolute."


The taller teenager rolled his neck as he stood up, his shaggy hair still stuck balsted sideways over his head. Some of the scorch marks were still there and some of his shirt had been chewed away, but this guy was fine.

This was why he was freaking out Meltdown a lot. His power wasn't something that you could just brush off like them or just recovered from so easily. He expelled controlled amount of atomic energy that had a high level of heat and it generate a lot of force when released. It was like burning your hand on the oven, you don't just brush it off!

"What the hell? What's your power?" Meltdown yelled as he turned his attention to this new guy.

"Um, basically? It's immunity." The guy said to him as he messed with his hair.

Which didn't stay like that for long, since Freddy Dukes, the Blob, came out of no where and slammed his over sized stomach into this guy. The new guys went flying across the grounds and literally went through a wall at the fast food joint there. Not wanting to take a chance with this new punk, Meltdown formed a long spike of energy flicked it at the place.

The glowing red and yellow dart spun as it flew into the hole that the guy had gone through and after about fifteen seconds, Meltdown released the energy. The explosion was beautiful and it even shot the roof up a few feet before that came crashing down. Something set off the fire and the rubble glowed with the burning embers, people running and screaming everywhere.

Meltdown sighed in ecstasy as he inhaled the scent of chaos; smoked and sweat. He then turned back to the X-Men and his sneer said everything as his hands glowed in earnest.

"Still think we're screwing around?" His question seemed to bring everyone to life.

"What the hell were you thinking, Matt?" Lance yelled, ignoring the pain to grab his teammates arm.

"You probably killed him, you moron!" Wanda snapped at him, Meltdown growling at them.

"Oh, wasn't the two of you that told me that I should stop wasting our time and stop making them think we're losers?" He shot back, both of them looking conflicted. "Well, now they know we're dead serious."

He turned back to the X-Men and chuckled at the distress faces they all seemed to wear on their face. Man, he had no idea that it would have been that easy to break their confidence. Cyclops actually looked scared of him and Jean was making some futile attempt to cover the others from his view.

"How could you?! He wasn't even one of us!" Rogue screamed at him, her hands clenched tightly.

"Heh, might as well as have been." Meltdown reasoned, playing with one of the glowing spikes in his hands. "I saw how powerful he was and I knew I couldn't let you get your hands on him."

Scott yelled something and lifted his glasses from his face, Meltdown gathering power in his free hand. As the red lasers from Scott to the energy abundant mutant, Meltdown threw his fist in the path and the laser bounced off. He then reared his other hand back and threw two of spikes he had in his hand at them. Jean caught them and threw them into the air, the explosions momentarily out shining the sun.

Now this was how the fights should go! The X-Men were completely out of it and unable to fight them, while the Brotherhood had the upper hand to crush them. Meltdown then threw one needle at Jean and another at a crowd, the psychic catching both. He wondered how far he could stress her psychic powers like this. He then threw about ten or eleven shards around, one even landing in front of Rogue while Jean tried to pull them all away.

"Come on, doesn't anyone else have any fight in them?" Meltdown called out, triggering the explosion and waited in the aftermath for answer.

"I might!" And then the fist collided with Meltdown's face with a crack.


"That is an incredible power." Xavier mused in awe.

"It is but it has also lead to him developing a sever anxiety disorder because of how strong he is." Marianne said, sipping her tea.

"What do you mean, Mrs. Farris?" Ororo asked her curiously.

"Well, when Sean was about twelve, he and his friends were riding around a dirt track and they weren't paying attention. Sean and his friend slid out and they both hit a stack of bricks." Marianne explained, resting her head on her hand as she gazed off. "I remember it so well because Sean had a panic attack when his friend broke his arm and some ribs. It bother him so much because his friend had hit him, not the bricks."

"Oh my…"

"That's why he agreed to go and train with his friends in the gym and in martial arts. So that he knew how strong he was and that he knew he could defend his friends without hesitation."

Xavier was about to say something when his brow furrowed and Marianne watched him closely, fully aware he was having a mental conversation. She could tell that it wasn't good because of the face that Xavier was making and it involved Sean because the professor kept looking at him. He suddenly looked up and Marianne was already aware of what he was worried about.

"Dr. Farris, just what would happen if a fight broke out in front of Sean?"

"He would feel compelled to stay in and stop the fight." Marianne knew that her son was already in trouble at Bayville. "He's in a fight, isn't he?"

"I assure you, my students-"

"They're in good hands. Sean is quite a talented defender."


Sean sighed as he crashed through the wall, barely feeling the concrete giving way underneath his skin. He felt himself wedge into something and when he looked down, Sean groaned at the grease on the grill smeared all over him.

Forcing himself out, he never got a chance to calm down the hysterical serving girl and the panicking cook when he saw the long red and yellow shard fling through the hole. He knew that thing had no good intentions, grabbing the woman and tackling the cook as the explosion ripped out through the food joint.

He felt the shirt on his back burn on and the cooking oil spilled over on his skin, a spark setting it ablaze. But the girl and the older man under him were unharmed, staring at him in shock and a touch of horror. Sean managed to look over his shoulder in time to see the roof coming down through the smoke. Grabbing and tear the grill off the oven, the indescribable teenager slammed it on his back. Tensing his back, the roof crashed down them and Sean felt the earth under his hands sinking.

He was unbreakable and impenetrable and that was a double edge sword right now, as he began to sink down atop of them. The weight would force his body to crush the people he had just saved and he would not be able to anything about it. Sean's teeth clenched and his eyes narrowed as he forcible reset his footing and pushed up against the weight bearing down on him. He managed to get half a foot between him and the people underneath his stomach, the girl just staring wide eyed at him.

Suddenly something was ripping chunks off of the weight that was atop of him and Sean forced himself to push against the weight even more. Slowly, a gleam of light appeared by his head and Sean punched up against the material with all of his might and speed. His body couldn't be harmed and as a result, thing would either break against him or be pushed away.

Hence why a massive slab of debris exploded back from his hand's contact, which created a hole large enough for them to escape through.

"Come on, get out." Sean hurried, the two workers quickly scampering out and he then hefted himself out.

Even though he wasn't tired, he took several deep breaths to calm his racing heart. It was the anxiety, the fear that his power and his strength would been useless to help defend someone. Sean felt his legs weaken and he had to sit down, ignoring the scalding hot feeling under his legs. The fear that he almost wasn't strong enough was making his hands shake…

Until a slender pair of arms wrapped around his neck and a firm hand slapped him on the back.

"Thank you so much!"

"Yeah, thanks a bunch, kiddo."

Sean saw the serving lady was hugging him with her head buried in chest and the cook was patting him on the back, both no worse than covered in grease or smudges. Sean smiled and nodded, before standing up and separating away from the two of them and nodded to the both of them.

"Get some where safe, alright?" Sean told them, ripping his worthless shirt off and began walking back to the fight. "I think a kid over here needs a spanking."

But even as he said this, he wondered if he could do any good. He wasn't even sure he should stay involved. It clearly was an argument between the two groups and maybe he should focus on protecting the people around fight.

But then he saw the shard land near Rogue and he found himself racing to her. Grabbing her bare shoulders, Sean barely acknowledged the jolting feeling as pulled her back and turned, the force of the next explosion washing over him. He didn't understand Rogue's wide eyed look of shock but assumed it was because he had been seen in the explosion and turned back to where that kid was standing. He could make him out in the smoke because of his glowing face, turning back beginning to run and as he ran up a table, leapt at the other boy.

"Come on, doesn't anyone else have any fight in them?" The cocky kid asked, Sean soon close enough.

"I might!" Sean snapped, his right fist smashing into the other mutant's face.


Rogue couldn't believe it. One moment, she was about to burned for unknown time when someone had grabbed her shoulders and pulled her away. It was until she felt the strong body that she knew she was making skin contact.

She wanted to get away, she didn't want to kill this person that had just saved her but his grip was stronger than that. And it seemed to get stronger. In fact, it didn't seem that he noticed she was draining him. Rogue gasped as the flames washed over them and she was shocked to realize that they weren't hurting her.

She looked up and felt her mouth fall open at the fierce blue eyes of Sean Farris as he shielded her from the explosions that were going off around them. She couldn't believe it. He shouldn't be able to hold on for this long, it was impossible!

But here he was, holding Rogue and then setting her down, turning his attention back to Meltdown. He was unaware that he had just let her imprint his power, his perfect defenses. She felt like she was untouchable and then she felt one emotion she managed to get from him.

Fear….


The other mutant stumbled back as Sean landed and the invulnerable spun around to slam his elbow in the boy's chest. The second blow landed the energy maniac, holding his chest as he wheezed and Sean turned to the sound of heavy feet racing at him. A massively overweight man came at him, the same one that had sent him flying before, and he swung his stomach at Sean.

Lifting his arms by his head, Sean countered this flying stomach by kicking the man's gut aside and then stepped up onto the massive stomach with his other foot. Sean dropped down onto his opponent's head with his elbow, the fat man's head jerking down. Sean tried to knee him in the stomach but that seemed to do squat, side stepping a punch and smashing his elbow into his opponents as he did so.

The fat man slumped forward, holding his head in pain and moaning like the energy kid was already doing. Sean swept back as he checked his other opponent and then saw Lance and another girl approaching him. He kept his hands ready but he relaxed when he saw then Lance was raising his hands in a peaceful gesture.

"Hey, we didn't come here to fight, man." Lance said in a defusing tone and Sean eased up. "These guys are just way too hot headed at times."

"Really? Never would have guessed." Sean said sarcastically. "So what happened now?"

"Well, we're goanna take these guys back and- "

"I don't think so, Lance!" Scott said as he stepped forward and lifted his glasses.

Sean spun and raised both arms, sliding back as he stopped Scott's attack. The force put him perfectly and equally between the two and Sean slowly lowered his smoldering arms. He then shook his head, glanced back at Lance.

"Get em' out of here, Lance." Sean said as he walked to Scott. "I think I got a long day ahead of me yet."


Yay, now that the fight is done, maybe the X-Men will get filled in about Sean and maybe Rogue will get some answers too. But I guess we can wait for that to come. So, talk to ya'll later!

– Lin