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Chapter Four – A New Threat.
Everyone passing in that street was having a regular day and so they thought that the entire street was the same. Cars driving past, people pushing themselves to their jobs or to the supermarket… But, although it seemed an ordinary day in an ordinary street, there was something different. The old church, usually empty, was today occupied.
They were more than fifty, all quiet to not disturb something that was happening in the front. There was a young girl laying down in an old table and more three men around her murmuring strange words.
"Are you ready to become our Queen?" asked one of the men.
"Yes." The girl said.
"Are you prepared to receive the greatest power?", asked one other.
"Yes." She said again.
"Will you be capable to kill all the non-believers?" asked the last man.
"Yes."
"May the power of the Lightening give you the strength and will to succeed in converting those who still aren't from the Lightning people." The three men said in unison.
"So be it!" said the girl. A white light appeared in the middle of them and when it stopped the girl was a Queen. Her hair was white, her eyes were all grey and her skin was grey as well.
"My people!" the Queen started. "People of the Lightening, we are still just a few, but as soon as we show our power to the impure ones we will be mire and more…we will be the dominant species…we will be the only one! With one Queen we will kill those who don't join us and once this planet is converted, we will search for one more in the galaxy!"
The applause was huge and euphoric and the people now knew that there was something different in that street, in the old, abandoned church.
Later that day, the Lightening People announced who they were and what were their objectives to the planet. At first, people and mutants thought that this whole thing was a joke, but soon they found what the Lightening People was capable of.
Magneto's Base
They were receiving the two newcomers, the twins, Pietro and Wanda, when they heard the news about one single village destroyed in 25 minutes by those who called themselves the Lightening People.
"Who are they?" asked Pyro
"Mutants?" asked Pietro.
"No, they all have the same power. It's some kind of evolution." Magneto said.
"Do you think they're stronger than us?" now was Wanda asking.
"I don't know. But the video shows a village destroyed. We'll confront them and if we can't take them out… well, then we'll have to take extreme measures."
X-Men Mansion
The X-men were watching the interview with Trish Tibley. The village was destroyed and the message was clear, these people, the Lightening People would kill anyone who tried to stop them.
"This is awful!" murmured Ororo.
"Yes, we have to stop this, x-men, before this situation becomes out of control. I will try to find them with Cerbro, and I want you to keep contact to me trough Jean. If I order you to retreat, you will" said Charles, the last two words focusing Wolverine. The Professor knew how he was, always up to a fight and to never give up. "You will be here with me, Mystique."
"Why?!" the shape shifter asked.
"Because I need you to watch over the kids in the mansion."
"What?"
"Just do what the man tells you to do." Said Wolverine, with an angry face. Some of the x-men started to giggle, including Beast.
City
Some moments later, the X-Men were confronting the Lightening People. Wolverine, Storm, Jean, Iceman, Rogue, Shadowcat, Angel, Jubilee, Nightcrawler and Beast, or for other words, the X-men were fighting cautiously; in part, because they didn't know their enemies very well, and also because they were fighting in the city, with innocents running to hide.
The Lightening People was strong. They shoot some kind of lightening bolts from their hands and their skill of fighting was very good. Soon, the X-Men understood that their powers were more than those lightening bolts; each individual person had one more special power, such as super strength, invisible, flight, control over bugs, water control, and others.
Wolverine
I saw that blond guy running after Rogue, I waited, but when I saw he was super strong I ran after him. No way Rogue could possible fight him, she was weak, even more now that it was a long time since she step the danger room. Since she lost her ability she left my training sessions. I was almost reaching the guy, when a woman appeared in front of me. She was cute; damn she was hot! She had red hair, you know I have a thing for red hairs, and blue eyes. She was there, in front of me, quiet; waiting for me to attack. So be it! I scream and pop my claws out, jumping to attack her. I wish I could see my face of surprise when her beautiful red hair reach my hand, stopping my hands. Wow, that is some strong hair, what kind of shampoo does she uses? She was still quiet, but her hair pushed me away like I was some small doll.
Storm
A small woman was trying to hurt me with her lightening bolts, but that was easy to dodge, at least if I wasn't surprised with kick in my back, a lightening bolt hurts me. I also can hurt the small woman with on pf my own lightening bolts. I'm the goddess of the weather! I look behind me to see who kicked me. I saw no one, but I sure felt something hard in my face. I loose my balance and the woman and the invisible person, both, hit me with lightening bolts. That hurts! But, I'm the goddess of the weather, I'm stronger, I summon a tornado and I hit them both. The invisible man appears. Is old!
Jean
A man behind me grabs my hair and pushes it. I scream with pain, but quickly I take control. With my telekinesis I throw him against a truck. I look to him, laying in the ground and I feel my power growing. Charles senses it and tells me to breed, focus and control it, he tells me I can't let my power control me. He's right. The man finally stands up; he is young and has some red sunglasses. He reminds me Scott. I could take him out easily, but he multiplies himself and a young brunette joins him to fight me. Her body is strange; she has pointy ears, a tail and her nails, well, they're like claws. Ok, I admit, this will be hard.
Iceman and Shadowcat
Iceman sees a young girl after Shadowcat. She's trying to hit Kitty with water! Iceman smiles when he sees the frustration of the girl, she can't hit Kitty, she walks trough walls! Both the girls are facing each other.
"You know," starts the girl who controls water, "Your body his full of water, but you're sweating. You know what that means?" Shadowcat stares at the girl; Iceman can see her face of challenge, but soon it changes to fear.
"It means it eases my work of drying your body's water!" finishes the girl.
Iceman creates an ice cube around the girl and runs to help Shadowcat standing up. She was starting to be dehydrated. The girl of the Lightening People quickly turns the ice into water. She was mad! Iceman screams to Nightcrawler take Kitty away from there and with his teleportation he does so. Now was Ice against Water.
Rogue
I ran away and hid behind a big truck. I'm tired; it has been a long time since I ran like this. I think the blond guy stopped chasing me. But in the moment my body relaxes a little and my heart calms down, he appears right in front of me. Damn it!
"The little girl is scared?" he asks me laughing. And then, with one single punch, he sends the truck behind me into space…literally.
"Oh, boy…" is the only thing I can say. I start taking my gloves out; he's too close to me and he approaches his face to mine even more. I'm paralysed with fear, a punch like that in the truck and bye, bye Rogue. I feel my undercover hands trembling; I don't know what to do. The super strong guy roles the biggest of my white highlights in his fingers.
"You're cute…" he says, and I look into his eyes, scared. His fingers pass from my highlight to my face, and then I feel a little energy and he feels a not so little pain.
"Big mistake." I say, grabbing his face with my free hands. He can't breed, because of the pain, but it hurts me too…a lot. I can't take his memories anymore, so I let him go, but his now grabbing my face, screaming for me to stop. His begging for me to stop. I try to take his hands off of me, but he's confuse and don't know what to do. Now we're both screaming. He finally passes out and let me go. The screaming stops. But why am I seeing myself lying in the floor? Am I dead?
Angel and Beast
Beast saw Angel flying berserk; he was trying to take off all the bugs in him. It was a guy who was controlling the bugs, ordering them to bite his skin and enter inside of me. Beast could hear the screaming of Angel; having bugs trying to enter his skin had to hurt! Beast is not only an intelligent and polite doctor, his physical look and his code name revealed is strength and animal side. He ran to the bug man and fought till one of them was dead. Lying in the floor lifeless, his bugs hurried to him, crying for the death of their master.
Jubilee and Nigthcrawler
The Asian girl was making enough damage in one woman of the Lightening People to attract attention of others. Few of the Lightening People had surrounded Jubilee and were ready to hit her with lightening bolts if it wasn't Nightcrawler, who took her away from there soon enough. Nightcrawler heard Jean screaming to retreat and automatically teleported himself and Jubilee to inside their airship.
"Wolverine!" screamed Jean, while entering in the airship, "Come on, they're too strong!" although she screamed for him, Wolverine was blind in fury, trying to hit the quiet woman.
Beast grabbed Angel, who was unconscious, and the bug man and went to the airship. Storm helped Iceman carrying Shadowcat and, finally, Wolverine went after them. The Lightening People were joining around the Queen, but some were running after the x-men, and three of them were almost reaching Rogue.
"Rogue!" screamed Wolverine, "Move, girl!" He ran to the girl, who was staring for the blond guy in the floor. Wolverine killed one of the Lightening People with his claws and grabbed Rogue's arm, forcing her to follow him.
Already inside of the airship, Rogue threw Wolverine to the other side of the airship. The X-men looked at her, confused. Storm was trying to put the airship in automatic to go help the wounded.
"Let me go!" demanded Rogue.
"Rogue? Are you OK?" asked Jean, concerned.
"Kid, are you nuts?" said Wolverine, approaching her.
"Why are you calling me that?" asked Rogue, confused. "And what happened to me? I just saw myself lying lifeless in the floor! What did that girl did to me?!"
Jean looked to Beast, hoping he could explain her behaviour, but he only could look back.
"Rogue, kid…"
"Don't come closer!"
"What's happening here?" asked Ororo.
"Rogue's nuts…" said Kurt.
"Don't you remember me, kid? It's me, Logan. I found you in the back of my truck and you made me give you a ride."
"Logan…" said Rogue with her eyes shut. Jean made a signal to Logan go on.
"Then we found the X-Men. We found a home."
Rogue grabbed her head with her hands, trying to separate the memories inside of her.
Rogue's head
I'm a blond kid. I'm running after a man. He's my dad. I can't reach him, I'm afraid he leaves me behind, and so I started to cry. My mom picks me up. My father runs to me, they I don't need to cry, and so I stop.
I'm a girl, reading a huge book. It's from my mother. I don't understand what's written, but when my mother asks me if I like it, I say I do. She smiles. She's so beautiful. I want to be like her when I grow up.
I'm a teenager boy. I'm popular at school, the boys want to be seen with me and the girls well, the girls just want to be with me. I'm a good student too, teachers really like.
I'm a teenager girl. I don't have many friends. But, there's a guy I like, and it seems that he likes me too. He asked me to help him the school work. Not that I'm a brain or anything, I do OK with school, and not that he does wrong, I guess he just wants to be with me after school.
I was at school when it all happened. I already knew I was super strong, that I could control. But when I met him, everything changed. He promised me we would be the greatest species in the world, he promised me everything would be as I wanted to be. So I made part of a ritual. It was painful, but I gained more power. I was happy and confident, but I couldn't control these lightening bolts and in school, I destroyed everything, killed people accidentally; it was a mess. Then I was banished from school and from my home. I thought I would gain everything, but I lost everything, my friends, my girlfriend, my family my life!
I never wanted this to happen. I promise! I kept saying this to my parents, but they just didn't listen. I was in Cody's room. We were making a pause from the school work. I could feel that tension between us, not a bad tension, the good one; the one that makes you feel butterflies in your stomach. He leaned forward t kiss me, I was enjoying it. It was my first kiss, so although I felt something wrong, I never thought it was me killing him. He ended up in a three week coma. I cried so much, but I thought my family would protect me. I was wrong. They called my aunt Raven, that I never had met, and I heard them telling her to take me or they would abandon me somewhere. I couldn't believe this; they wanted me to go with some woman I never met before? I heard my aunt Raven strongly refused me. So, that means they will just abandon me like I'm some kind of animal? It's cruel for animals, and it's even crueller for a human being. I'm not letting them do this to me, I'll run away.
I found a family. The Lightening People, I belong with them.
I found Logan. I like him; he's like me, an out caster.
Next chap.- well, surprise! ;p