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(Vol 2: Xavier?)
"Xavier? Xavier? Xavier? What is Xavier?" she said. She walked past a sign that said "Xaiver's School for Gifted Youngsters." She continued walking until she got to the gate she started to go for the door bell when her metal bracelet flew off her arm.
"My dear what are you doing here?" A floating man with an odd helmet said in a kind voice.
"I don't know." Damnation said.
"You must have a reason?" He asked kindly.
"I don't." She simply responded, Damnation didn't like this, this man was too nice.
"What is your name?" He asked kindly as well.
"Dam-Damnation." She replied hesitant.
"Hahaha" he chuckled mildly. "No I mean your real name."
"It's? It's?" She quickly clutched her head tightly images were flashing by a house, a young girl holding a doll, the same house burning down, and a young girl dropping the doll into the street as she was pulled into a police car driving away from the fire.
"AHHH!" she shouted in agony. The ground crumble, light bulbs popped.
Even the magnetic field holding the man up quivered which caused a lapse in his levitation. He quickly went to her side and put a firm hand on her shoulder. "You don't have to remember if you don't want to."
"What are you?" She asked.
"I'm just like you." He said offering her a hand.
"A Freak?" Damnation said.
"NO!" Magneto said showing some of his rage. He took a deep breath "Never call yourself that. You have been gifted with such wonderful powers. Those who do not have those powers will never understand."
"And this Xavier?" She asked him.
"He is an old friend, like you and I he also holds extraordinary gifts, unlike us he wants to hide your incredible gifts." He said passionately.
"Who are you?" Damnation asked.
"All in due time my young girl, all in due time." He repeated in his kind tone. He led her to a strange metal sphere that opened like some form of futuristic door way.
"Why?" She asked.
"Why what?" Magneto asked.
"Why do you call this a gift?" Damnation continued.
Magneto was taken aback by this question. "I call it a gift because we were blessed by some force to be the most powerful beings on this planet."
"I don't call power a gift. All it is, is a reason to be weak." Damnation said looking at the ground now.
"I don't quite understand." Magneto said doubting he could persuade this girl to join him.
"Why?" Damnation said.
"Because your logic doesn't have facts I can confirm." Magneto said annoyed.
"That is exactly my point. No one person can truly understand another. So why do you fight?" Damnation said passionately.
"You want to know why I fight, here." He said as he unrolled a sleeve to his arm. The tattoo held the numbers 214782. "My parents were killed right next to me, yet I survived. That's why I fight so that people like those never hurt people like us again."
"Like you maybe. Not me." She said in a terribly cold tone to him.
"What is the difference between us?" Magneto asked slightly curious of the girl's ideals.
"You want your powers, I don't." She said bitterly.
On those words Magneto knew he could not convince her to join him. "Some just can't be helped." He whispered to himself.
"What?" She asked.
Magneto suddenly made motions with his hands that in turn caused Damnation to float.
"AHH! What are you doing?" She asked surprised.
"I'm sorry my dear, but it seems your ideals won't work with mine. And if you aren't with us you are against us." He said.
"I am sorry as well then." She said.
"Why?" Magneto asked.
"I have to fight back." She said with a sad look in her eyes. She then moved her left arm.
"What?" Magneto said shocked.
She then moved her right arm. Suddenly pieces of a dark metal looking substance formed close to her arm. The parts flew together in the form of a cannon sized gun. She aimed the weapon at his head, the weapons taking half the gap nine foot between the two of them.
"Silly girl, Bullets can harm me." He said mildly amused at this.
"When did I say I used bullets?" She said as she pulled the trigger.
His eyes widened at this. Magneto immediately set up a Magnetic Force-Field.
It took the cannon mere seconds to charge up and fire the blue energy as ammunition.
The first shot didn't destroy the field but it severely damaged it. Magneto knew he needed to do something before she fired again. He then realized. With a quick thrusting motion he sent a piece of his own suit in the path of the weapon
The colliding forces caused a massive explosion hurling Damnation towards the city but still close to the ground. She immediately stabbed the gun into the ground which slowed the momentum only a little. As she looked behind herself Damnation saw a massive dragon made of fire which was leading from a man's suite.
"Looks like the big man said you're a no go." The man with the suit said. The dragon lunged at a trajectory bound straight for her.
Damnation immediately pulled the trigger on her gun when she saw this. A second afterwards right before the fire made dragon reached her, the powerful energy weapon shot her straight in to the air. Damnation turned around mid air and aimed directly for the man's obscenely large fuel tank. She pulled the trigger and a small energy shot whizzed through the dragon and hit the tank in the dead center.
"That bitc.." was all Pyro could say before the tank exploded.
As she was flying further and further she passed over a sky scraper in which she saw a man holding a bo-staff and a deck of cards. He immediately threw one of the cards that was glowing, at her.
The card was five feet away when it exploded, which caused her to change direction again.
She was flying straight for one of the taller skyscrapers. She crashed through one of the windows which caused thousands of broken shards of glass to lodge into her back. She stopped with a thud hitting the other wall forcing the shards of glass to dig deeper. Damnation immediately turned the glass into water while she couldn't see any opponents. And she quickly dispersed her weapon. The blood was nearing the surface just before she caused it to change into a dermis of skin and repaired muscle. She stood up and brushed of the shards of glass that had only landed on her, not pierced.
Suddenly a crack appeared in the wall with a large knocking. Damnation quickly stepped away from the wall.
One more knock appeared on the wall. Then suddenly a giant metallic hand shot through floor and pulled her under.
She laid on the ground looking into a large man's face, but it was metallic. And behind him was a man who seemed to not know what a shaving kit was.
"I'm sorry about this but ve have no further use for you." He said in a heavy Russian accent. He raised his fist for the finishing blow when the sky suddenly turned black.
A bolt of lightning suddenly curved unnaturally through the window Damnation fell through and curved again through the hole in the floor which hit the metallic man, the sudden wattage caused him to fly backwards into his companion and out of that floors window.
Suddenly what seemed like a jet hovered next to the broken window. A bay opened on the rear of the aircraft and three people walked out one girl was pale as Damnation herself; she had an odd combination of white and brown hair and green eyes. The man had a weird visor that was made of a red material. And finally the woman with red hair, and sporting a spandex costume as well as the rest of those two people. Their costumes shared one similarity of a bright yellow.
"Jean get her on the ship, quickly." The Cyclops said.
"Okay." Jean responded then she held out both her arms which caused Damnation to levitate.
Surprised by this Damnation immediately formed her cannon again and shot at them this time with weaker yet more rapid energy shots than what she previously used.
The man responded by pressing a button on the side of his visor which caused a red energy beam that seemed only to cancel each other out. "Jean knock her out." He said.
Suddenly the redheaded woman closed her hand which caused a wave of white to fade over Damnation's mind. She felt faint, her mind was about to fade into unconsciousness, her gun disappeared, suddenly a memory flashed. The young girl she saw before was in a room she was covered by something.
"What is that?" she thought. Suddenly she saw the corpse of a girl much older than the young girl.
At what was a slow movement of floating Damnation close to the jet, quickly changed as she thrashed about, she opened her eyes. The weapon reformed but it instantly transformed into something different there were three barrels connected into a large compartment for compression like a Gatling gun, a compartment that was blue was attached to the side of the weapon as well.
The man quickly pushed the visors button again releasing the red beam again as Damnation pulled the trigger.
The beam and the bullets of energy stalemated for awhile, but then the gun accelerated in its rotation of the three barrels and the beam was pushed back.
Suddenly the energy that seemed to be bullet like reached Cyclops. The suit absorbed much of the damage but Cyclops fell off the platform.
Jean turned her attention from the girl to Cyclops. "Scott!" she shouted as she lifted him up onto the platform with strained movements. This change in actions caused her to drop Damnation
"Rouge get her." He ordered.
"Aye-aye captain." The woman shouted in a thin southern accent with a sarcastic tone. She removed one of her gloves and ran into the building and reached to touch Damnation, but the floor under her quickly turned to water. Without the friction all Rouge did was fall. She caught on to the edge of floor that wasn't transformed into water.
Damnation walked over towards Rogue and pointed all three barrels at her face. As she was about to pull the trigger a sudden bolt of lightning hit her directly. Damnation fell unconscious.
Cyclops went to grabbed Rogue. "Get her onto the ship. And make sure she doesn't wake up." He asked Jean politely.
Jean pulled Damnation in quickly and set her into one of the seat and pulled several tethers around to restrain her.
(X-Mansion)
Damnation woke up on a metal table. She wasn't strapped down, but she did have company.
Six people, three of them were the three she was taken by. The others she didn't recognize, there was another man who obviously didn't know the meaning of a shaving kit. Next to him was a black woman that had silky white hair and a serious look on her face. Finally in between those two was a bald man in a wheelchair.
As she took in the situation, Damnation sat up formed her gun to face the bald man.
Suddenly the sideburn guy that was standing next to the black lady pulled his fist towards her neck with a little bit over a foot of distance, then suddenly three large metallic claws extended from his fist. "Girl you might not want to do that."
"It's alright none of us are here to hurt you." A voice echoed through Damnation's mind.
"Who was that?" She shouted.
"That was me." The bald man said.
"What are you?" She asked shocked.
"We are just like you. We are mutants." The voice echoed throughout her head.
"My name is Charles Xavier. And we are the X-men." He said out loud now.
"Xavier?" Damnation responded. She immediately lowered her gun. "What do you want with me?" she asked defensively.
"Nothing, we were actually curious what you wanted with us." Charles said.
"Three words, trapped in my mind "Damnation" "Freak" and "Xavier" only one I understand why. All I am doing is looking for answers." Damnation said looking at the ground.
"I don't get it, why would she have your name in your mind Chuck?" Logan asked.
"She is obviously a powerful mutant. Maybe she came to ask for help with her powers. That's probably Magneto was after her." Scott added in.
Damnation just continued to look blankly at the floor.
"She obviously knows how to use her powers. So why did she come here?" Ororo said.
"Hey guys, why don't we ask her why she came here?" Rouge said agitated "I swear the worst thing ever, is to have people talk as if you weren't there."
"Oh right." Charles said. "Why did you come here miss…um?"
"Damnation." The girl said, purposely directing it to Rogue.
Surprised by this the whole group seemed to let Rogue take over the questions.
"So…why did you come here?" Rogue asked.
"I-I want him to take away my powers." Damnation said as she pointed to Professor Xavier.
"What why?" Jean asked.
All Damnation did was stare at her blankly.
"Why?" Rogue asked.
"I don't want them. All they ever do is cause trouble for me and those around me." She said looking at the floor again.
"I'm sorry, but the professor can't truly take away your powers." Rogue said.
"Do you know anyone who can?" She asked Rogue in a hopeful tone.
"There are a few, but are you sure you want these powers gone?" Rogue asked Damnation.
"There is no assurance that it will happen either." Scott added in.
"I don't care. I had two options from the start, a cure or death." Damnation smiled at the last word she spoke.
"That never is the answer." Charles said as he rolled next to the girl.
"What is your real name?" Rogue asked of her own curiosity.
"Its...It's?" She instantly clutched her head again.
They all realized what had happened to her then.
"How much do you know about yourself?" Rogue asked for the group.
"Name: No memory, Age: 16, Height: 5ft 2, Race: Japanese, Eye Color: Gray, Hair Color: Black (very)." She said as if she were reading from a file. "And apparently I am gifted."
"You poor thing." Rogue said as she put a hand on Damnation's shoulder.
"Chuck, we need to talk outside." Wolverine said as he wheeled the professor. The white haired lady went with them.
The door closed and Damnation seemed to fall into an even sadder mood after she said "They are talking about me aren't they?"
No one responded which she took as confirmation.
"You want something to eat?" Rogue offered.
"No thank you, but could I get something to drink please?" Damnation said opening up a little to Rogue.
Rogue Walked out of the room only to find the three arguing.
"She must not leave Magneto has tried to take her life, he may try again." Charles debated.
"She wants nothing to do with mutants either way. She is a free person. If she really wants this she will stay." Logan argued.
"This girl literally has nothing right now besides the clothes on her back and her powers which she hates more than what she values her life for. You two will not allow her to leave until she is safe from Magneto and herself." Ororo said furiously.
The look on both Logan's and Professor Xavier was priceless to Rogue.
She quickly walked through the war zone that the three were battling in. Rogue came to one of the elevators leading to the mansion. As the elevator was traveling up to the mansion, Rogue thought of what to think of the girl. "She doesn't seem to naturally be hostile. Her behavior isn't self destructed, but who knows what she will resort to when she has no choice."
Rogue didn't have long to focus on that, as she reached the mansion floor.
Suddenly a familiar head phased through the elevator floor. "Is she alright?" Kitty asked.
"Yes she is, and she wants something to drink." Rogue responded calmly, she had trouble getting use to people either teleporting in or just popping up, but recently the sensation of surprise faded away. "Are you the only one on the other side of that door?" Rogue asked.
"Um…. Yes." Kiddy said hesitantly.
"I don't like this Kitty, who else is there?" Rogue asked annoyed.
"Uh, almost everyone." She said as the door opened and Beast, Nightcrawler, And a good portion of the entire students were behind Kitty.
"Just great." Rogue said rubbing her temples "Look I know you guys are curious, but for now only a few of you guys can come down with me."
All the younger children had a look of disappointment.
"Kurt could you..?" Rogue began to ask.
He disappeared in a flash, and two minutes appeared in the same spot with a bottle of water, a pop can, and a bottle of juice. "Already done." He said with a smile on his face.
"Okay come with me." Rogue said making a simple hand gesture.
Everyone moved towards.
"Not you." Rogue said towards the disappointed group of kids.
Rogue, Beast, and Shadowcat all squeezed into the elevator.
"See you down there." Kurt said smugly
"Rogue get everyone capable to the Danger Room as fast as possible" The professor said to all four of them through a Psi Link an urgent tone in his voice/thoughts.
After everyone heard this they grabbed onto Kurt before he teleported.
"Hey vharn a guy before you do that." He shouted after the reentry.
"No time, we need to get to the danger room." Rogue shouted as she ran towards the Danger Room.
"Everyone get into the observatory." Charles communicated to them through his powers.
"Why?" Kurt said.
"Let's find out." Rogue responded.
They burst into the observatory of the danger Room to see Damnation fly past the window of the observatory with her weapon and what seemed to be a katana in the other hand. She was followed by what seemed to be flames from an explosion.
"What happened?" They all asked at once towards The Professor, Ororo, and Logan.
"She stuck herself in there." Logan responded calmly.
"How?" Beast asked.
"One moment we were out in the hall arguing about what to do. The next the girl bursts through the door and seemed to have randomly picked the Danger Room of all places to hide." Ororo said.
"Unfortunately the room thought that the sudden occupancy was a signal to start the last programmed exercise." Xavier said not straying from the window.
"Who's exercise was that?" Kiddy asked walking over to the window.
A sudden explosion erupted close to the window.
"I was in the middle of a session when we left to save her." Logan said.
"What?" Rogue said as she saw, saw tendrils and several machine guns pointed at the position where Damnation just landed from one of her evading leaps.
"Shut it down she has never been in there before she could die." Kitty yelled.
Beast headed for the button that shut down the simulation when Logan stopped him
"Look at what she can do." He said pointing to where Damnation was.
The machine guns and the rotating saw tendrils were all destroyed. Suddenly several of the holographic panels flipped to reveal turrets and claw tendrils.
Damnation dodged the first few claws but several attached to her waist and the upper torso underneath her armpits. The tendril retracted back into the wall which happened to be next to two turrets. Both machines rotated to face her.
"Stop this now." Rogue shouted.
"Wait!" Ororo said.
Damnation took the gun pressed it against the wall and pulled the trigger. The force caused pulled the tendrils with her. The turrets fired anyways destroying the metal cables and each other. Suddenly several boxy machines popped up from the floor, they instantly shot rotating saw blades at her.
Damnation reduced the first two to scrap with several well placed slashes. But the third she had to redirect with her blade, the saw was redirected but part of the path caused the blade to cut a deep gash on her cheek. After the first round of blades stopped she ran towards the devices that fired them slashing and shooting the devices into pieces.
As a last retaliation the room set the middle of the Danger Room form five large turrets to rise up in a pattern of the dots on the fifth side of a die.
Before the middle one raised up Damnation ran towards the middle turret still rising, she destroyed the two turrets she had to pass by to get to the middle one by slashing one with her Katana and the other one was obliterated by the sheer power of her cannons fire. She made one quick thrusting leg jump, while pivoting in the air so she could immediately face the turrets. She shot down the others that surrounded the middle turret, but not before the middle one fired off several shots into her abdomen. Covering the rest of her body with her cannon like weapon, she through the Katana into the last turret which caused a short circuit and the machine blew up in a fiery explosion of destruction. Suddenly a wall turret opened up directly behind her, Damnation aimed the gun behind her head and pulled the trigger. After a little pulse of force caused by the gun's shock and the shock of the turret exploding caused Damnation immediately feel the full force of gravity and fall, she landed on her feet with little to no signs she was affected by the simulated bullets besides holding her stomach with one hand.
"Simulation over, congratulations "Logan" this is a new record." The preprogrammed voice said as the fake terrain faded away.
"Wow! Now she's badass." Kurt said amazed by her performance.
"How long was she in there?" Beast asked.
"Four minutes thirty two seconds, my best was thirty three." Logan responded with a hint of anger mixed with shock in the tone of his voice.
"How was she defeated by The Acolytes so easily then?" Logan asked.
"That's what I'm about to find out." Professor Xavier said as he tried to probe Damnation's mind. A few seconds passed before he opened his eyes again.
"What happened Chuck?" Logan asked.
"Her mind it isn't amnesia or even wiped. There are five barriers her mind has been split into six levels the first two have been unlocked already, but the other three they're flawlessly crafted." He said terrified.
"What do you meant by that Professor?" Kitty said.
"The only way to breach the inner levels of her mind would be for her to unlock them herself." He explained.
"What did the first two levels hold?" Beast asked.
"As far as I can tell the second one was unlocked sometime after she encountered The Acolytes. Rogue did anything strange happen?" he asked Rogue.
"Well at first it seemed as if we had her when Jean tried to knock her out with her physic powers, but while we were about to get her in the ship she started thrashing around and came conscious and her weapon changed, and it was as if she was a different person her moves were more precise and planned out." Rogue explained.
"I see this is not good, not good at all. I believe she somehow sealed away her powers in an attempt to get rid of them, but it back fired and sealed her memories, emotions, fighting skills, and even her true personality along with pieces of her powers." Xavier analyzed.
Suddenly a loud metallic banging noise interrupted the silence.
"Hey could I get that drink now?" Damnation asked the camera.
"Sure you can." Kurt said as he popped up behind her.
Damnation jumped a few feet away and summoned her cannon directly pointed at Kurt's head.
"Whoa girl, no one is here to hurt you." Rogue said trying to lowering the gun.
After looking at Rouge and Kurt a few times Damnation finally pulled the cannon to the side so it was even with her shoulder, she then dispersed the gun.
"That's a cool gizmo, how do you make it?" Kurt asked as he handed her the bottle of water.
"I don't know. It's just like everything I make. I just think of what I want it to be instead of what it is and suddenly poof it turns that way, but with my Shooter it sort of comes whenever I want it or when I am in trouble it always does what I want." Damnation opened up.
"I'd hate to interrupt, but why did the little tike run away in the first place?" Logan asked over the intercom.
"I ran away because you were going to offer me a place to stay." She shouted towards the window. "Last time I was offered that by people like you, they tried to kill me just because my views were different." Damnation explained. "I guess this was no different."
"No wonder she's so closed to any of us." Beast said.
"I assure you young lady. We have no intentions of killing you." Xavier said over the intercom.
"Just in case." Damnation said as she held out her arm, suddenly the Katana rose from its unnoticed position and flew into her hand.
All three of them walked up the set of stairs leading to the observatory.
As they reached the top Kitty quickly introduces herself and Damnation was asked an important question.
"Would you like to stay with us?" Xavier asked with a kind tone.
A long pause created even more tension than the blank yet serious look on Damnation's face.
"For now." She said.
Just as Rogue was leading Damnation she quickly walked over to Ororo and whispered in her ear "Next time you hit me with that attack again I won't fall unconscious." She then walked slowly out of the room.
"How did she know?" Ororo asked herself.
"Xavier? Xavier? Xavier? Who is this Xavier and what does he want with me?" Damnation thought as she left the room.