Author's voice: Ok folks trying to stay loyal to the original Marvel story of Tigra... This chapter is based on X men evolution's season 2 episode 1. I actually listened to the dialogue and typed word for word so please leave some comments! Enjoy!
A new school year had started. The old principal, Miss Darkhome left for unknown reasons and as a result a new principal came. All the students were pulled out of class to attend his address to them. Riley was being extremely negative about it, no that she was usually a positive person but she was being even more negative than usual. "I can't believe we're ditching math for this stupid talk," she grumbled. "What's wrong with that? You hate math!" Greer said nudging her playfully. To be honest, she was quite annoyed by not just Riley but everyone else. Recently teenagers have been going missing and Greer knew it was Minos's doing. It sounded selfish but she couldn't tell the X men that the missing teens were abducted to be sentinels and that she was one too. Plus, she had started to miss her family and to cope with that she had subscribed to the Daily Bugle, a newspaper company her mother works for. However, instead of making her feel better, it made her feel worse. Her mother had recently started publishing newspaper articles about Tigra, labeling her as a feral mutant that caused the death of her two beloved children and countless of horrible accusations. These prints increased in numbers making Greer quite angry and sad when she tried to hide her inner anger it caused unbearable migraines, nightmares and cold sweat. She had even woken up one morning and found herself surrounded with torn pillows and sheets. It scared her but she didn't dare tell anyone not even Jean.
She stopped listening to Riley's complains when she spotted Lance toss a kid aside to talk to Kitty. Sensing trouble she listened. "Oh hey Kitty, didn't see you there" Lance flirted. "Oh look it's the walking rector scale. Shouldn't you be erupting somewhere?" Greer snickered quietly. She stopped when her chemistry teacher spoke through the mike "And now everyone, lets give a warm Bayville high welcome to our new principal... Mr. Edward Kelly." There were some cheers and a reasonably audible applause. Suddenly the ground began to shake, causing the new principal to trip over. Greer knew it was Lance's doing looking at him she heard him whisper "Hey Kitty, wanna see some real shaking?" The ground started shaking again more violently this time, causing some students to fall off their seats. Greer heard something being unhinged. To her horror, she saw the scoreboard falling. Falling straight onto Principal Kelly. Greer's eyes followed the scoreboard. She had no idea what to do. To her relief she saw the scoreboard change direction hitting the wall instead. "Phew... since when did Bayville have a fault line" the principal joked. People laughed. His address was quite short and funny. Not the long boring types that Miss Darkhome used to give. "Well that wasn't so bad." Greer comforted Riley as they walked out of the gym. "You're right... It was terrible! I mean, who cares about the Bayville hawks or the girl's soccer team?" "Um hello I do? It's the championships. The game will be shown on tv tomorrow! Plus my roommate is the star striker so I have to be there to cheer for her!" Greer retorted. "Oh yeah... sorry...". There was an awkward silence. "Why do you hate him?" Greer asked finally. "Who?" "Principal Kelly, you seem to really hate him." "Because..." "Because?" Riley sighed. "It doesn't matter. Look although I'm not going to the game, help me wish Jean good luck."
Greer kept silent while the others cheered as the players entered the field one by one. She felt horrible like her whole body was cramping up. The whole gang practically went nuts when Jean ran in. "Yeah Jean" cheered Kurt practically dancing on his seat now. Greer wanted to tell him to shut up.. She felt feverish but her body was icy cold. The whole process felt like her transformation all over again. Was she transforming even more? "No it can't be... " Pushing that disturbing thought out of her mind she feebly cheered for Jean. Principal Kelly waved to the hysteric crowd. "In appreciation of team spirit which has brought us all the way to tonight's championship game... We'd like to present our school's mascot... THE BAYVILLE HAWKS!" The crowd became even more hysterical as the huge golden hawk statue lit on fire, followed by fireworks. "Now let the game begin!" Greer watched in anticipation as the ball started to travel across the field. Suddenly, the commentary was cut off. Sensing something was wrong she looked up. " 'Cuse me folks!" a familiar voice blared through the speakers stopping almost everyone in their tracks. "Hey can I have your attention up here?" " Lance?" Kitty cried in surprise. "What's he doing up there?" Scott asked aggressively. The spotlight now shone on Lance and his brotherhood all fully clad in their brotherhood uniforms, Greer felt like murdering them on the spot. "What are they doing up there? In their freaking uniforms?! Are they trying to be identified as a mutants" she thought furiously. "That's better! My name's Lance, I also call myself Avalanche! CUZ I'M A MUTANT!" Greer stood there dumbfounded. His words hit her like lightning. She knew Lance could act dumb and pigheaded but she never knew that he was actually that dumb and pig headed. "That's right, me and toad and blob and quicksilver here... We're all mutants! Born different! WHAT YOU MIGHT CALL FREAKS! Kitty shook her head "I... I can't believe he's doing this." Greer was working herself into a fury she was practically shaking with anger. "You see there are a lot of mutants at Bayville High, Scott Summers over there he's one! And so is Jean Grey your big soccer star and most of their pals at the Xavier institute which is kinda a school for weirdo mutant nerds!" Beads of cold swear were dripping down her forehead now. She couldn't think straight anymore. A red mist seemed to have clouded her judgment she couldn't see straight, people's voices became muffled. The minute Scott gave the all clear to attack she jumped into the battle scene tearing and slashing, at who she could not remember, all could she see was the strange red mist. The bright crimson blood and it was driving her insane. Her prey was begging for mercy whimpering in fear, she liked it causing her to attack faster and fiercer. Greer could hear someone faraway calling her name repeatedly "Tigra! Greer! Greer! Stop! Stop you're going to kill him!" infuriated even further, she leapt at the voice her claws outstretched.