Authors Note Part one: Hey guys, thanks for all the lovely words of support and encouragement I really appreciate it. And because of you lovely reviewers here's another chapter and currently working on some more, don't start my new job till Monday so I'll write like mad now that I have some holiday time!
Disclaimer in Chapter One!
CHAPTER THIRTEEN.
Remy felt as if he had been at the mansion forever, it had only been three months in actuality, in that time they had recruited another new member – a kid by the name of Iceman – Bobby Drake.
The kid had been beaten up by scum-bags FOH – it had been the first mission the X-men had, Remy was proud that he had the honour of going on that first mission…
Remy walked into the lower levels, looking around in awe, he was shocked, impressed and stunned all at once.
He was about to go with the group on their first mission, Logan had unfortunately left three days prior – to finish his private detective work.
Professor Xavier was sitting in a silver room, the team all stood before him.
"OK we know that there is to be an anti-mutant rally tonight, and we know that during these hideous rallies the FOH turn up and torture a mutant to death, well tonight we put an end to this tradition." Charles Xavier stated in the most determined voice any of the others had ever heard.
"But before I send you out there, please go to the locker that has your name over it, you will find inside it a uniform that Hank has made, I had wanted you to train in them first, but the mission has arrived first." Charles stated, he and Hank had made the uniforms together, and Hank had used the most indestructible fabric he could find.
Each of the X-men in turn opened their lockers.
Scott opened his locker and smiled, the uniform was black – the fabric looked like leather, although it was more giving. Scott noticed that it was an all in one bodysuit that zipped up the front, his uniform was all black and Scott smirked, picking his uniform off of the rack and going into a changing room.
Jean opened her locker and grinned widely, her uniform was all black like Scott's, but hers had red detailing, and was more fitted, it tapered in at the waist and had a belt.
Jean plucked hers off of the hanger and rushed into a changing room.
Ororo watched Jean rush around with a smile on her face, she opened her locker and smiled with delight, her uniform was similar to Jean's, only it had silver detailing, including a silver cape, Ororo grinned and went into another changing room.
Hank already had his uniform on.
"Remy my boy, I must say I did not know that we would have another addition to the team so soon, Logan's uniform will not fit you, but I have got two spares, one of which will most certainly fit you – however it will remain a spare, and as soon as I have time, I will immediately begin making your uniform." Hank explained.
"Merci Henri, dat is mighty kind o' y' mon ami." Remy said and took the offered spare and went to the last available changing room to put it on.
Remy had customised the spare uniform by putting his long trench coat on over the top of it.
"My X-men you all look a sight to be proud of, now I have one more surprise for you." Charles stated, and he led the X-men to another room, a room that none of them had ever been in before.
"I have a friend, who is also a mutant – one who does not wish to join the X-men as of yet, but one who is eager to help our cause, his name is Forge, and he and some friends made this for us." Charles said and he opened the door, everyone – including Remy – let out a gasp of shock.
There before everyone lay a jet, the most expensive looking, state-of-the-art fighter jet Remy had ever seen in his life.
"X-men – this is the Black-Bird. The name was chosen by Forge." Charles stated with a smile.
"My stars and garters – that is a phenomenal piece of machinery." Hank stated completely awed.
Remy had to agree with him – it was an amazing machine.
"Hank seeing as you have had flying experience please would you be the one to fly the jet?" Charles asked.
"It would be an honour Charles." Hank said and then bounded towards the plane like an excited child
On the plane the team discovered that it was as amazing inside as it was on the outside.
They didn't have to fly very far, just to Manhattan, but they knew that it would look more impressive if they arrived by jet.
They had arrived in record time, Scott had spent the short plane journey briefing everyone on their mission, they already all knew what they had to do, as Charles had explained it, but they wanted to show that they supported Scott, in his new leadership role.
They had decided that rather than split up, they would all attack in a group, it would have more of an effect that way.
The x-men stealthily made their way over to the mob, watching as they grabbed the young man by the neck and threw him to the staging area, which in reality was just some ratty ply wood.
"We need to show these scumbag muties who the boss is!" The lead punk shouted and the mob screamed in delight.
"So we'll make an example outta this little shit – we caught him trying to impress one of our women, by turning his entire body to ice – well we ain't impressed!" The man screeched and again the crowd roared.
"Kill the Mutie! Kill the Mutie! Kill the Mutie!" The crowd chanted loudly, getting more and more boisterous, the kid, who was about eighteen just lay still looking terrified beyond belief.
"That's a good idea, but here's a better one – give us the boy!" Scott said loudly and firmly, his voice carried and the mob fell silent.
"Who the hell are you freaks?" The leader – a fat man with rotten teeth spat, seeing the group of leather clad heroes.
"We are the x-men – and you will give us the boy!" Scott said sternly.
"Not gonna happen freak-show, now fuck off!" The crass man screamed and the crowd roared again.
"Did your mother never tell you, that you should not speak like that in front of a lady?" Ororo said sternly.
"Well I don't see no lady, just a slut in leather." The man jeered loudly and Ororo's eyes narrowed.
"I shall be happy to be the one who teaches you a lesson." Ororo said angrily.
"You and what army toots?" The man said arrogantly.
"Myself and the elements, Wind and water and ice, join together and wrap this man in his own cocoon of discontent!" Ororo said loudly, her unusual blue eyes lightened until there was only white where there had been colour, she raised into the air and the wind picked up whistling then roaring, rain poured joining the wind and the temperature dropped until it became bitterly cold.
With a wave of her hands, the wind and rain rushed around the leader until he seemed to be surrounded by a miniature tornado the wind dropped suddenly and there was a small ice dome covering the foul man.
The crowd roared in anger, exclamations of "She's a mutie!" filled the air.
Jean saw them not only advancing on the team, but the young mutant as well, so she spread her arms and focused, using her telekinesis to float upwards, she saw with horror that some of the mob had guns, and they took aim at her and fired.
Jean screamed and was surprised when no bullets hit her, she had somehow been able to put a shield up around herself.
Scott had seen the humans take aim and Jean and he'd set his visor to stun and shot at the disgusting yobs, they went down.
Jean quickly floated over to the boy and extended her shield so that it covered him too, she was too weak to use her powers to float them both to safety however, as she had exhausted them.
So Jean just focused on using her powers to keep them both safe, and she watched the fight.
Scott had been using his powers to wipe out small groups at a time but now he found himself engaged in hand to hand combat with someone much bigger than himself, although he wasn't worried in the slightest he knew that he would be able to beat him.
Hank let out a loud roar and threw himself at a group of the FOH punks and he fought hard, letting his animal side out for once, he kept it in check enough so that he didn't hurt anyone but he knew he would do some damage.
Ororo took to the skies, she knew that she could do some serious damage with her powers if she lost control, and she was so angry with these people that she felt as if she could lose control at any minute, so she decided to provide the distraction, she formed some evil looking black clouds and thunder rumbled loud and ominously, Ororo smirked and directed lightening bolts to the ground watching in satisfaction as the group panicked and ran around in terror.
Remy meanwhile was revelling in the fight, he hadn't had a good fight since he had left New Orleans, and these people, they were deserving of every bit of pain and punishment he inflicted onto them.
The team were so busy with the fight that they didn't notice the media attention they had garnered.
The X-men made short work of the rally and Scott ran over to Jean, when she caught sight of him she relaxed and finally let her shields down, relieved that the battle was over.
"Jean!" Scott shouted helping her up, he saw how pale she had gone.
"I'm fine." Jean said and promptly fainted.
Scott lifted Jean into his arms and rushed back to the jet, Remy who was with him helped up the kid.
"You take Jeannie t' the jet Homme, Remy got de Ice Kid." Remy grinned and grabbed the kid and helped him up, they all then ran to the jet ignoring the news helicopter flying overhead and the sounds of impending sirens.
"What the hell was that?" The kid finally spoke up as the jet took off.
"That was us saving y' ass!" Remy stated with a sly smirk.
"Who are you people?" The kid asked he was starting to sound slightly hysterical.
"We're the X-men. We're also mutants, I am the team leader Scott Summers." Scott introduced himself.
"I'm the resident doctor, scientist and beast, Henry McCoy" Hank introduced.
"Cool." The new kid smiled.
"I'm Jean Grey – I'm a telepath and a telekinetic and I also can't believe I passed out!" Jean said with a bright smile.
"I am Ororo Munroe, I can control the elements." Ororo said and the new kid smiled shyly.
"I be Remy LeBeau I'm an empath and can charge object wit' energy making them explode." Remy said with a slight smirk he was glad that he didn't last long as 'the newbie'.
"Cool, well I'm Bobby Drake – the Iceman. What are all your code names?" Bobby asked excitedly.
The group all looked at each other.
"Well, we don't have, any." Scott said slowly looking embarrassed.
"What? What the hell kind of superheroes are you?" Bobby asked looking horrified.
"Well this is actually our first mission, and we hadn't really given much thought to code names." Scott said and everyone wondered how they could neglect such a thing.
"But look at all the superheroes around, you've got Superman, but he has a secret identity Clark Kent, Batman, real name Bruce Wayne, The fantastic four, you had The Invisible Woman, The Thing and the others." Bobby rambled and the others laughed.
"Ok at debriefing we'll discuss code-names." Scott stated.
As soon as they arrived at the mansion, they all sat in the meeting room in the lower-levels, Charles told them of the media interest, he also told them that he was incredibly proud of the team.
They also soon got to discussing code names.
"Scott, remember the time that Logan and you were arguing and he called you one-eye?" Jean said with what everyone knew was her mischievous grin.
"Ye-es." Scott said slowly wondering where this was going.
"Well how about we call you Cyclops?" Jean smiled.
"I love that dude!" Bobby shouted excitedly and everyone laughed.
"Well seeing as everyone loves it so much, sure why not." Scott said and Jean hugged him for being a good sport.
"Jean you're marvellous!" Hank said laughing.
"Ok so, Jean that's a good name, how about we call you marvellous girl?" Scott said, he was only joking but Jean seemed to like it.
"Actually that's not so bad slim, but how about shortening it to Marvel Girl?" Jean said looking pleased.
Scott looked at Jean incredulously.
"Oh-kay, Ororo?" Scott said slowly.
"How about Tempest?" Hank stated and Ororo looked at him with a smile.
"I do like that, but I think that after my stint as a 'Goddess' I should have something simpler." Ororo said respectfully.
"How about Storm?" Bobby said, luckily he was simple.
"I like that. Thank you Robert." Ororo said softly.
Bobby smiled shyly.
"And I think that Hank should be The Beast, you know it's dramatic." Bobby said excitedly and Hank smiled.
"I like it! Bobby your ideas are splendid." Hank said excitedly.
"I know dude, I'm like a genius or something." Bobby said seriously and everyone cracked up.
"Well what should Remy be?" Remy piped up, seeing as everyone had a code name but him.
"How about Frenchy?" Bobby cracked.
"Remy non be French! Remy be from N'awlins." Remy said outraged.
"Sorry." Bobby smirked, looking anything but sorry.
"How about Gambit?" The Professor piped up, he was a big fan of chess and the move seemed to fit somehow.
"Remy like it." Remy smiled nodding.
"Oh I get it, cause of all the cards, he's the gambler." Bobby said nodding wisely.
"Non, popsicle, it be a chess move." Remy said and rolled his eyes.
The Professor looked at Remy surprised, it seemed he had found himself another chess fan to play with.
"So we all have code names; Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Storm, The Beast, Gambit and Ice Man." Scott said happily.
"We will discuss Logan's code name when he returns." Charles stated and the group started to head off when some loud chimes rang out.
"It seems we have visitors."
End chapter.
Authors note part 2: Ok there it was the first fight of the x-men and who could it be visiting the mansion? As you can probably tell I'm taking a lot of characters back to the old school, Bobby and Hank the most unlikely of best friends but that's what they shall be. ;)
Musagirl: Enjoy Remy for now and hold on for a couple more chaps, before Rogue makes her appearance. ;) L'ange-Sans-Ailes: Glad you're still liking this and how could I NOT have Remy here? lol. MagCat: Glad that you're still with me and don't worry there will definately be sparks :) Kari-Hermione: Thanks for the review and as you can see Bobby was next Woohoo! lol.