Disclaimer: The X-Men aren't mine, they're Marvels. You know who are mine, and in this are two new OCs from my glorious reviewers.
Author's note: INCOMING!
School. It's here. Yeah! (not really) So my posting will become more spaced out. In this chapter are two OCs submitted by San child of the wolves and magicrazy101. Thanks a ton and I hope for the brief time they're in here their accurate. Alright this is the longest chapter so far. I won't take up anymore time with my author's note.
"Really? You all have that little faith in me?" Leo cried. He spread his arms wide and glared furiously at Kurt. They, as well as the professor, Logan, Rogue, Scott and Jean were in the infirmary. Of course Benj was there as well, out cold to regain his strength.
Enrique had been asked to go home not long before. Leo had offered him a ride home, but Storm denied him that and took Enrique home herself.
Leo turned his heated gaze to Benj and softened, his eyebrows spreading apart. He could see why they thought he'd lose it, Benj looked pretty bad. His eye was swollen and purple, he had a gash on his lip, and had two bruised ribs. Leo had watched Beast change the dressing on Benj's chest. It looked like marble cake.
Jean had assisted Beast in the medical stuff. She was studying to be a doctor/genetic scientist. Her classes had started over two weeks ago, but she attended a campus pretty close to the Institute.
Scott, on the other hand, was attending classes at a community college in the area. After the Apocalypse event he turned down an admission to a nice college a few hours away. He started putting more time into the X-Men and the Institute. He taught the Physics and Mutant Powers class to the younger students sporadically through the week, and was always devising new Danger Room courses (with or without Logan). Scott became interested in what the professor suggested, on day taking over the school.
"I won't be here forever, and when I'm gone… Scott, I want you to take my place." Scott could hear him saying in the back of his mind. His home was here, no matter how much Jean or anyone else wanted him to go off and 'make a living'. He was dead set on staying at the Institute.
"I got it under control, see?" Lead said pointedly. "I'm not just some powder keg ready to blow! Sure, I still need some work, but I'll never be perfect. You've all helped me, now let me try to control it on my own."
"We just didn't want you to get expelled Leo." Kurt said, his ears and tail drooping. "We were just looking out for you."
"Yeah, no need ta get so angry." Rogue said, defending her brother.
"Look, it's not that we think you can't handle it," Scott said, "it's just-"
"-just that you haven't been put in too many situations where your amount of control is tested." Jean finished for him. "The rest of us have, so we know we have our powers in control."
Rogue rolled her eyes. "Riiiight." She snorted. "Like Scot just chooses to wear ruby quartz and Ah choose ta wear clothes ovah mah whole body for fun."
Jean looked across Scott to Rogue hurt. "I wasn't saying that-"
"No, ya weren't," Rogue interrupted, "but just because we know how ta use them doesn't mean we got them undah control." She glared daggers at Jean. "Some of us aren't that lucky."
Leo looked from one female mutant to the other. He hadn't seen the two in the same room often, and the times he had, Rogue was attempting to completely ignore Jean. Now he realized that Rogue nearly despised Jean for some reason.
A conversation that was supposed to calm him down was escalating into a fight between Rogue and Jean. He wasn't even sure if Jean realized it either.
"Rogue! Jean!" The professor said sharply, stopping the coming arguments. "This isn't the time."
Jean looked away from Rogue quickly, while Rogue tore her angry gaze away hesitantly.
Leo felt a slight mental prick in the back of his mind. At first he thought it was Professor X and started pushing back. Then he realized it was Benj. The blonde teen had awoken, but was using the cover of being asleep to make observations. Leo let him in and allowed him to see what he did. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Benj's eyes glowing a soft pink from behind his eyelids. It was a sure sign he was using their empathy link.
"Leo," the professor said, snapping Leo's attention back to him, "like Jean said, you need a way to test just how in control you are. How you handled events today prove you are ready." Leo looked at Xavier perplexed. "Leo, I'm moving you up onto the main X-Men team. Your hard work and dedication has paid off."
"Congrats, runt." Logan grunted.
The feline mutant blinked. His tail curled strangely and then flared back out. He was being moved up to an official X-Man.
Woah. Was the only though in his head. The shocked numbed his body and filled it with excitement.
Suddenly Leo felt a rush of sadness mixed with happiness from the brother. Then Benj had a pang of jealousy.
Leo sat down and the base of Benj's bed. He asked softly, "What about Benj?"
Xavier glanced awkwardly at Logan and Scott before answering, "He needs a little more time I think before he's placed on the full team."
"Oh…" Leo muttered. His face broke into his lunatic grin. "This is gonna be fun!"
Kurt bounced up to him and gave him a high five. "Alright buddy! Now you get one of these stylish fashion accessories too!" He gestured to something that looked like a watch on his wrist. It was a dark green and had a spherical bulge with a red X in the middle.
Professor X handed an identical one to Leo. "This is more of an alert system than a communicator, but it will let you know if we need you."
"Now, don't lose it Leo." Scott said grinning. He looked at Rogue. "Someone in here managed to lose hers." He said in a teasing tone.
"Hey!" Rogue growled.
Leo looked down at the watch, or communicator, or whatever it was. He felt like laughing all of a sudden, and realized it was because of Benj. He let out a gruff barking laugh as Benj sent him a thought.
Scott arched an eyebrow, "What's so funny?"
As Leo was securing the communicator on his wrist he answered. "Benj has Rogue's communicator." The X-Men stood with equal confused looks on their faces. "What? Benj just told me."
Rogue shook her head, "That's not possible. It's only been on me or in mah room. He hasn't-" Realization dawned on her face and she face-palmed. "Benj broke inta mah room. Remember when he first came he snuck inta mah room and knocked me out. He musta taken it then." She looked down at Benj's still form. "Ty may look it, but Benj is the real devil in the family."
Benj couldn't take it anymore and started laughing. It startled all the X-Men in the room as Benj withdrew his mind from Leo's and burst into a fit of laughter. The blonde teen sat up and connected his eyes with Rogue's. "You don't really mean that do you?"
She laughed, "Ah knew ya were awake there."
Leo chuckled at the affection the two were showing. It had been awhile since Benj had a girl he liked.
"Oh really, did ya now?" Ben said, mimicking Rogue's accent. She glared at him and came closer.
"Ah will push ya outa that bed." She growled.
"And into yours?" Benj teased.
Rogue's mouth fell open and she slapped him. "Ah can't believe ya just said that."
Leo stood laughing and dragged Kurt out of the room. "Let's let those two flirt by themselves."
Kurt shivered. "It's so weird."
"Woah there Benj," Scott said, putting his hands up. "You got to take things a little slower. Girls don't like it if you just leap into their beds."
Jean looked horrified at Scott and left the room in a huff.
"What? Jean, what did I say?" Scott called, chasing after her.
Charles left the room silently. Ah, young love. He chuckled to himself.
Logan didn't leave the room so silently. He walked up to Benj menacingly and stuck his finger in his face. "Keep your distance, bub." Logan turned to Rogue and growled. "He makes a move on you, I'll kill him."
The two watched Logan storm out of the room in silence. The second the automatic door closed behind him they burst out laughing.
The Brotherhood Boarding House
Lance, Blob, Toad, and Pietro watched Magneto as he inspected the house from the safety of the living room. Blob couldn't hide to well so he served as the hiding place. The TV was on and he busied himself by pretending to watch it as the others peered over his shoulder at the Master of Magnetism.
"Dude, why is he still here?" Lance hissed at Pietro.
"How the hell should I know?" Pietro whispered furiously.
"He's your father!"
"Yeah, the father who's been out of my life for years!" Pietro answered back.
"Yo, why don't we just ask 'im?" Toad suggested.
Lance and Pietro looked at him like he had grown horns. "Yeah, get idea! That could never backfire." Lance agreed sarcastically. "Are you insane? Magneto would kill us!"
"What, fo' askin' why he's still here?" Toad asked confused. "Look, if you sissies are too afraid to ask him, I will." He jumped out from behind Blob and began to approach Magneto.
"Well that was uncharacteristically brave." Pietro mumbled.
"Yeah, but if it keeps our butts from being whooped, great." Lance whispered.
Toad hopped up behind Magneto and cleared his throat. The man turned around and glanced at Toad. He was wearing the same suit he kept appearing in.
"So, uh, Magneto, boss, sir. What exactly are you still doin' here?" Toad asked tentatively.
Magneto looked down his nose at the disgusting teen. "I am going to pay for repairs for this pathetic boarding house. My Brotherhood can't just live in slop. To be taken seriously you can't just appear to be teenage delinquents. I have plans for you that require more serious measures. As for why I'm still here, I'm here to stay to whip this team into shape. More than just my daughter's skill is needed."
Toad gulped and hopped back to the guys. "He ain't goin' nowhere. Magneto's here to stay."
"What?" Pietro yelled. "The man who left us here to fend for ourselves is now living with us? I can't believe this!"
"Believe it Pietro," Magneto said, causing the boys to yelp. "You wanted to be a part of my plans before, are you still interested?" The boys glared silently. "If not, I can always arrange for public services to come and place you back in foster care." He said menacingly.
The comment was directed at Lance more than anyone else. He spent most of his life in foster care bouncing between families, and was not willing to ever go back.
"No, sir." Lance said nervously. "We're on board."
"Good. I think it's time to lure the new mutants the X-Men are hiding out." Magneto said, turning away. "Suit up, Wanda will join you shortly."
Pietro emerged from behind Blob's chair. "Just where is Wanda?"
"Doing some… research for me." Magneto answered.
Wanda crouched in the shadows on the roof of a warehouse downtown. She peered down into the alleyway Magneto was having her watch. There was nothing but a dumpster and a couple of overflowing trash cans. She didn't know what was so special about it until she saw a purple swirling mass emerging from the brick wall.
The swirling looked like a portal opening; she assumed this is what Magneto wanted to know about. Pushing increasing boredom from her mind she watched as several dark figures emerged.
First was a girl with dark brown hair with purple streaks. She had a long black trench coat on and what looked like a purple jump suit underneath. The girl immediately turned her attention to the portal and extended her hands, like she was keeping it open.
Then another girl followed out, wearing a tan cloth mask that covered all of her face, minus her neon green eyes. She was also wearing a light weight tan uniform that looked like a martial arts costume, but was slighted armored in the chest. As she emerged from the portal she rubbed her forearms that were covered in an elegantly patterned bronze wrist guards that went nearly to her elbows. A curved sword was slung across her back. She hissed something to the portal and another two figures came out.
Both were girls as well. One was very short, maybe just barely over five feet (but also possibly not even that), and had dark dirty blonde hair pulled into a ponytail. The suit this girl wore was half green, and half blue, the blue half being on the right, the green on the left. On the sleeves and legs there were hazel and brown curved stripes going down to her wrists and ankles. On the back of the uniform was a purple paw-print, and there were two matching smaller silver ones on the chest of her uniform. Brown boots covered her feet, and brown fingerless gloves were on her hands.
The other was of average height, possibly around 5' 6". She had tan skin, short dark brown hair, and an elfish face. Her ears were pointed as well. The body build of this girl held hidden power, although little muscle showed it was obvious she was extremely flexible and able to hold her own. She wore a tight black body suit with matching gloves, a thick belt with throwing knives strapped on, a black trench coat over top, and orange tinted aviator goggles around her neck.
"Alright Portal, where'd he say he was?" The girl in tan asked, her green eyes sweeping the alley.
"Ricky said he was about two blocks down. He had the woman drop him off at the apartments over there." 'Portal' the girl with purple streak in her hair answered. "He just texted he's trying to get her to leave without her seeing him enter one. She seems intent on making sure he 'gets home okay'." She laughed, a nasally sound.
The elf girl laughed too. "Yeah, if she knew where he really lived she'd probably have a heart-attack." She had an under-laying Italian accent. "So what's the plan Clay?" She asked, turning to the girl in tan.
Clay's eyes narrowed, although Wanda couldn't see her face she knew she was frowning. "Well… Knife," she called the Italian elf, "you and me are going to pick up some groceries." Knife snickered. "Portal, you stay here with Ash and wait for him to show up. When he does, just wait here, we won't be too long."
Knife removed her black trench coat and threw it to Portal. "Hold on to that, will ya?" Portal nodded and caught the flying coat.
"Come on." Clay growled impatiently. "I haven't gotten to steal anything in over a month since Jaller got elected leader." Her voice held a lot of restrained anger.
"Oh relax Clay. When we get back we can talk about that guy in the back of our English class."
Clay stopped nearly at the entrance of the alleyway. "Shut-up. Now."
Knife laughed and ran up the side of the brick wall and perched half-way up. "If you don't want me to tease you, you shouldn't tell me these things!"
Wanda shook her head. These were the mutants Magneto wanted her to keep an eye on? They were nothing but a couple of teenage girls.
"This was a waste of my time." She growled softly. If it wasn't her father who assigned the mission, she would have left right then. She watched the two girls exit the alley and redirected her attention to the two remaining.
The short one, apparently Ash, stood silently and looked around her with curiosity. Portal climbed atop the dumpster and took out a cell phone. The light from the screen lit up the dark alley.
"Alright, Ash. Ricky's almost here. I hope Clay and Knife are fast." Portal said, leaping down from the dumpster. Ash nodded, and wordlessly took Knife's trench coat from Portal. "Thanks."
A male figure appeared in the lamplight just outside the alley. He glanced cautiously side-to-side before entering. Entering slowly he pulled the brown hoodie off his head, revealing short white hair like Pietro's. Unlike Pietro, though, he had a black zig-zag going down on the left side of his head
"Ricky!" Portal squealed as she rushed to hug him. He accepted it one-handedly.
"Hey Portal." Ricky said, wrapping his arms around her and lifting her up. She was just a little shorter than him. "Where's Clay and Knife?" He asked, his voice held a Spanish accent.
"Grabbing some groceries." Portal giggled.
Ricky chuckled silently. "How's your day been Ash?" He asked softly, turning to the silent girl.
Ash mumbled something, and Ricky nodded. "I know right? Beats the 'home schooling' we get at the Haven. Make any new friends?"
Ash shook her head.
"Oh well." Ricky smiled hugely. "I did."
"A guy?" Ash mumbled in question.
Ricky nodded, his smile growing. "I think he could be the one."
Ash didn't smile but showed her happiness for him by giving him a thumbs up. Ricky's smile increased even more, if it was possible. He knew Ash almost never smiled, and that if she did it didn't actually show how she was feeling.
Portal smiled sadly and walked away.
Wanda rolled her eyes. If Magneto wanted her to watch teenage drama she could always turn on Degrassi. She continued to observe as this Ricky described whoever this guy was. She couldn't have been happier than when the two girls Clay and Knife came back with arms full of grocery bags.
"Alright, I give the police twenty minutes or less to find us. Let's go." Clay commanded. "Nice to see you Cloak, how was the Institute?"
Wanda's eyes widened. One of them had been inside the Xavier Institute. Maybe this was why Magneto wanted them observed.
"Fine. It's HUGE. Although I still prefer the Haven. Nothing's better than being able to see the stars from my bedroom." Ricky, AKA Cloak, said.
Clay nodded. "Portal, take us home."
The girl with purple streaks in her hair spread her arms wide and a swirling purple portal opened up in front of her.
Clay tossed the bags to Cloak and Ash and drew her sword. "You guys go on, I'll follow up."
Her team filed into the portal, leaving just Clay and Portal out. Clay turned her neon green eyes up to wear Wanda was hiding. "You." She yelled, pointing her sword at Wanda. "Come on, I know you're there."
Wanda's breath caught in her throat as she stood, preparing for a fight. Clay sheathed her sword and jumped up to the roof of the warehouse. At such a close distance, Wanda could tell the other girl's skin was a sort of tan-gray, like the color of unmolded clay. The wrist guards covered most of the back of Clay's hands, but left her fingers uncovered. She stuck a tan-gray finger in Wanda's face.
"Tell Magneto to leave the Haven alone." Clay growled. Her form stretched and then shrank into a hawk. In her morph she screeched at Wanda and flew off the top of the warehouse, back down into the alley.
Wanda ran over to the side of the building and looked down. The alley was completely teenager devoid.
Xavier Institute
"What do you mean Leo's on the regular team!" Bobby yelled at Jamie. The younger boy shrugged and ran off. Bobby turned to Ray exasperated. "What the hell?"
Ray frowned. "I don't get it. We were here way longer than him." He gestured to the rest of the 'new mutants' who were grouped around them. Of all of them, only Bobby had managed to get on the regular X-Men team, and that was only recently.
"Do you know how long it took for me to earn my spot?" Bobby growled. The next part of the rant was mouthed by Tabitha who sat off to his left. "Like, nearly an entire year! If anyone deserves to be on the X-Men, it's me."
"Dude, the rest of us have been here that long too. And you're at least on the team now." Ray grumbled.
"Why do you care so much that Leo's on the regular team?" Amara asked. "We should be congratulating him, not complaining about his success."
"Yeah, and I seem to remember him kicking your sorry ass the other day in the Danger Room, Bobby." Tabitha teased.
"So what? I wasn't awake! Who is awake and ready at seven in the morning?" Bobby protested.
"Apparently Leo." Tabitha replied smugly.
"Ah'm going to have to agree with Bobby one this one." Sam said shyly. "It ain't really fair that Leo got on the team over us."
Amara shook her head and stood up. "If you guys want to complain about another guy's victory, go ahead. I'm going to congratulate Leo." She said as she left the game room.
Once she opened the door, she saw that Leo was leaning against the wall just outside.
"Leo!" She exclaimed. "I'm so happy for you!"
He grunted. "At least you are. None of them seem to like me too much." He frowned and stared straight ahead at the wall. Suddenly he roared and slammed his fist into the pedestal holding a piece of art next to him.
Amara jumped back, then came closer to him.
"They don't get it! I had to work forty times harder than any of 'em!" Leo looked angrily at Amara. "None of their powers involves another side of themselves they can't let out. None of them," He yelled, pointing at the wall, where on the other side was the 'new mutants', "have a lion to tame! Sure I did it faster than 'em, but that was 'cause I had no choice!" By the end of his yelling he was breathing heavily. He looked at Amara whose face was both frightened and sad. "I'm so sorry Amara, I didn't mean to go off on you like that…"
She held up her hand. "It's okay. I'm sorry for our teammates in there who can't be happy for you."
Leo took her hand, and then hugged her. "Thanks Amara, you don't get how much it means to me to hear someone who's happy for me."
Amara's face turned bright red as Leo let go. He smiled goofily then ran down the hall.
She had no idea what just happened, but she was happy it did.
"So… how's your day been." Benj said cheesy-like.
He and Rogue had been hanging out for about an hour and were running low on things to talk about. She'd pulled up a chair alongside his bed.
Rogue rolled her eyes. "Pathetic, ya know that." Benj faked a hurt face. "Oh, fine. My day's been fine if ya don't count havin' ta run all ovah the school lookin' for someone's brothah because he got himself pummeled."
Benj laughed briefly, then his face darkened. "I didn't get pummeled, I was just practicing self-restraint. I could've beaten those two easily. If…"
"If…?" Rogue asked.
"If I had used my powers." Benj answered darkly.
Rogue took his hand. "Ah, for one, am glad ya didn't. Then ya wouldn't be at school, and there'd be just anothah reason for people to hate us."
Benj nodded and looked at his gloved hand in her gloved hand. Her gloves were plain black, while his had yellow streaks at the knuckles. It was a little weird for him to get used to the feel of things through his gloves, but he did it anyways. For Rogue.
She followed his gaze to their hands. "Why do ya do this, Benj?" She asked, holding up his hand.
He shrugged and said "For you," the same time Rogue asked, "For me?"
Rogue blushed. "Thank ya, but ya don't have ta." She took a deep breath. "Why don't ya like someone else, someone ya can touch?"
Benj sat back and closed his eyes. It was something he had asked himself as well, but he couldn't seem to find the answer. "I don't know Rogue. Somehow, it doesn't matter to me. I'm only interested in you." Benj leaned in very close to her face and used his free had to brush some stray hair from her face. "You are beautiful. Has anyone ever told you that?" He smiled.
Rogue sat transfixed by his turquoise eyes. She didn't even realize what he was doing until afterwards.
His swollen lip grazed hers for a second, then he pulled away. His breathing was a little more ragged than usual, but he was no worse for wear, and still conscious.
"I'm sorry, I didn't… I got carried away." Benj apologized.
Rogue raised his hand and kissed the leather. "It's okay…" She sat and looked around the room awkwardly.
"Logan's gonna kill me." Benj sighed. Rogue laughed.
"Yes he is. But maybe Ah won't tell him and ya can live longah."
"You really are the best Rogue." Benj said.
She smiled. The automatic doors to the infirmary flew open. It was Kurt.
"I hope I'm not interrupting but the professor wants to see us." Kurt said to Rogue.
"Nah, it's fine." Benj said, shooing Rogue away with his hand.
"What is it?" Rogue asked impatiently.
"The Brotherhood is at it again."
For some reason, Magneto just wanted the Brotherhood boys to make trouble at a closed amusement park.
So they did.
Blob was having a great time ransacking all the food carts and stalls. Toad was goofing around the game stands with Quicksilver. The two of them would take turns being the customer then the booth operator. Toad won five gigantic teddy bears and Quicksilver decided to take the rest.
Avalanche leaned back on a bench casually. He turned his head to the House of Mirrors. "How much you wanna bet I can break every mirror in there?" He asked Toad.
Toad squinted one eye closed and stroked his chin. "I'll give you this teddy bear for Kitty if you can manage to…"
The ground shook violently and the House of Mirrors bucked into the air before slamming back down. There was an ear-deafening amount of shattering glass.
"I'll take that bear." Avalanche said, scooping the bear up from off the ground.
"A stolen bear, Lance? Come on. Ya can do bettah than that." Rogue scoffed.
Avalanche whirled around and stumbled back. The rest of the X-Men were filing in behind her. Lance noted an additional member in the back with red spikey hair and a sleeveless uniform.
"Who's the new guy?" Quicksilver asked, running up to Lance.
"Don't know, but I bet we can take him." Avalanche answered menacingly. His eyes rolled back and the ground beneath the X-Men began to shake.
They scattered. The Brotherhood followed suit and split up. Quicksilver noticed Wanda walking in the entrance.
"Hey! Glad you could join us." He called.
Leo got a little caught in the scrambling and lost his footing in the earthquake. A huge shadow fell over him as he picked himself up. It was Blob.
Blob put both meaty hands around Leo and lifted him from the ground. "And what do they call you? Pipsqueak?" He roared with laughter.
"Actually," Leo grunted, the air escaping from his lungs. "They just call me Leo." He shifted fast and dug his claws into Blob's hands.
Blob released him angrily and held his bleeding hands. He charged forward and swung his fist at Leo. It struck him and sent him flying through the air.
"Huh, you're not so tough." Blob grumbled as he turned and came face-to-hand with Rogue.
"Don't mind if Ah borrow yar powah do ya?" Rogue said snidely as Blob fell face first into the dirt. "Didn't think so."
Cyclops was trying to hit Toad, who was bouncing around on the rides.
"Can't hit me. Nope, too slow!" He taunted as Cyclops missed yet again with an energy blast.
Both looked up as Leo came flying by. Leo crashed right into the bumper-car ride. He got up angrily and brushed electrical parts angrily off of him.
"Yikes," Toad said. "Yo who is that?"
Leo growled, and ruffled his mane.
"That's," Cyclops said, "Leo."
Toad shrieked as Leo came charging at him, claws extended. Scott tried not to laugh at the comical sight of a toad hopping away from an angry lion. He turned and chased after the pair.
Leo slashed at Toad, but the mutant jumped out of the way, causing Leo to leave deep slash marks in the metal car of the rollercoaster. Toad hopped down to the controls and pushed a green button.
"Heh, I wonder what this one does." Toad chuckled. Leo was hit by the bar in the rollercoaster car and fell over. He sat back up and tore the bar up. Realizing the car was now moving he jumped to the control booth below.
"I'll tell you what it does." Leo growled at Toad. "In fact, I'll show you!" He grabbed Toad by the back of his neck and climbed back up onto the slowly moving rollercoaster car. Toad was screaming, and Leo wrapped the broken bar around him. The two sat down in the car behind with a working bar. Leo snapped the bar down and wrapped part of the other bar around this one. He stood up and waved at Toad. "Have a fun ride." He called jumping from the car.
"Wait a minute! You can't just leave me !" Toad screamed as the car plummeted from the first drop.
Cyclops met Leo at the base of the coaster. "Nicely done." He said.
Leo nodded and sighed. "What now, oh fearless leader?"
The two surveyed the area. Blob was out, face down in the dirt; Quicksilver was struggling inside a net of hardened cotton candy, the handiwork of Nightcrawler and Iceman; and Avalanche was hanging upside down from the Ferris wheel.
"Looks like the Brotherhood's all out." Scott said.
Leo frowned, "I thought you said there was one more? A girl?"
Jean floated over to the two guys. "Has anyone seen the Scarlet Witch? I could have sworn she was here before."
Cyclops shrugged. "She's gotta be here somewhere, let's look." The three nodded and split up.
Leo peered behind one of the controls of the trashed bumper-cars. Suddenly a blue glow engulfed one of the squashed cars, "Oh no." Leo mumbled as he ducked. The car went flying by overhead.
"So you're the X-Men's newest recruit?" Wanda sneered.
"Maybe, who's askin'?" Leo answered, throwing the control panel at her. It stopped in midair, but not from her powers. From in the shadows, Magneto emerged hand extended.
"I am the one asking." He said, flinging the control panel nonchalantly at Leo. He extended his powers and was happy to find that Leo's claws were made of metal. "Now what do we have here?" He questioned as he caused Leo to extend his own claws in agony.
Leo roared in pain.
"Now that's a bit, over dramatic, don't you think?" Magneto taunted.
The X-Men regrouped at the entrance of the amusement park. Everyone, except Leo.
"Anyone find Wanda?" Nightcrawler asked.
Everyone shook their heads.
"Wait," Shadowcat said, looking around. "Where's Leo?"
"Everyone, look for Leo!" Cyclops ordered. "Jean can you try to find him telepathically?"
"I can, but he's not going to like it." She closed her eyes and reached out around the park to try and find Leo. "There!" She said pointing. "He's at the bumper-cars. He has company."
"The Scarlet Witch?" Rogue asked.
Jean nodded, "And Magneto."
With that comment renewed urgency flooded into the group.
Magneto made a sweeping motion with his hands and caused Leo to fly across the ride by his claws. Leo slammed into a pile of bumper-cars and groaned. He was getting his can kicked.
"There's so much more you can do with your powers, Leo." Magneto said soothingly. "You don't have to serve a human lover. We as mutants should be above that."
Leo snarled and leapt at Magneto. "Who the hell are you?"
"Think of me as kin." Magneto said, sidestepping Leo. "Since all of your family is dead."
Leo spun around and slashed his claws at the magnetic mutant. Renewed anger pulsed through his veins. "How do you know about my family?" He said, stopping.
Magneto brushed some dust off his shoulder armor. "Oh I know a lot about you Leo Dents. Your brother Tyler has been trapped in your house in shame for two years because of his mutation. Your adopted brother Benjamin Dents caused his parents' car accident. Then there's you Leo." He said softly, coming very close to the lion. "You have your own dark side, don't you? What exactly happened to those teenagers who set your house on fire? Where are they now?"
"Stop it. STOP IT! You don't know ANYTHING about me!" Leo roared. The lion within was set loose on a short leash. He slashed faster and stronger than Magneto could fend off. He cut deep gashes in the Master of Magnetism's armor. He grabbed the man around the throat and brought him close to his face. He bared his fangs and growled. "Whoever you are, I'm not interested." And flung the man against the wall.
"Leo!" The lion mutant turned and saw the rest of the X-Men running up to him. Suddenly he felt very drained. Kurt was the first to reach him and he leaned heavily on the blue elf.
"Woah, Leo! Your arm!" Kurt yelled.
Leo looked down at his arm and saw it was drenched with blood. He leaned more on Kurt and shifted back to human. "It'll heal." He said woozily.
"Ah! Leo stay with us." Nightcrawler shook him as the amber eyes started to roll to the back of his head.
Cyclops looked around. "Where's Magneto?"
Shadowcat glanced behind her to where she had left Lance on the Ferris wheel. "Scott! The Brotherhood are gone as well." The chair that had held Lance was now empty.
Cyclops pounded his fist on the wall of the bumper cars. "How could they just vanish?"
Leo slipped from Kurt's grasp and fell to the ground.
"Oh man, I better get him back to the Institute now." Kurt said nervously.
Leo grabbed his bleeding arm and watched as the world got fuzzier and fuzzier.
Professor Xavier looked on as Beast bandaged up Leo. Already the teen had healed half-way but the cut in his arm was still quite deep. He folded his hands under his chin.
Just what was Magneto doing?
And then there were three. You have just met three new Haven characters. Knife from magicrazy101, and Ash from San child of the wolves. "But wait, there was four new, wait no 5 new characters!"
No you've met two before. Ricky AKA Cloak AKA Enrique Oculto. And you've met Clay, but maybe you just haven't realized it.
Over the next week I'm going to go back and edit my first 10 chapters. There were some parts I left out of some, and I think I'll do this every 10 chapters or so to guarentee the best for my readers.
(oh and has anyone else been having trouble viewing their traffic stats? or is it just me?)
Tune in as we find out just what Magneto was talking about!
~Keep writing strong. Stormplains