Chapter 2
Over the next week, my telepathy got worse. It got so bad I could hear people's thoughts screaming inside my head. I had to visit Storm and tell her.
I went up to her office and knocked on the door. "Come in." she said.
"Storm, I need to tell you something." I said dejectedly.
"Yes child?" She replied hastily.
"I'm a telepath." I blurted out.
She looked at me in shock, "Well that explains how you knew my name and why the MRD put you into a cryogenic sleep. Your powers must have been so prominent that to suppress them they had to put you to sleep."
I held my head in between my palms which were sticky from sweat.
"Are you okay, Elwyn?" Storm asked, "Is it your telepathy?"
"No." I choked, "It's just... this is all very overwhelming..."
"Elwyn." Storm reassured me, "You do not know how fortunate we are to have you. After the Professor and Jean died we have had no one to operate Cerebro. We couldn't find mutants via telepathy anymore. Unfortunately, the Professor's not here, so he can't help you train your telepathy, but we'll try."
She gave me a reassuring smile, but I still felt unsure. I turned around and headed for the door. Just as I was about to leave, Storm called out to me, "Meet me outside my office after your classes today so I can show you Cerebro."
I gave her a curt nod and ran to my next class feeling more confused than ever before.
After my classes I went to Storm's office like she told me to and found not only Storm, but the whole X-Men team. Bobby came up to me and said, "So it was you who was messing around my head the other day, not the Professor."
"Oh lay off her Bobby." A stranger had defended, but I knew it was Kitty Pryde. "Hey my name's-"
"Kitty," I said, "and you're Rogue." pointing to a woman with chocolate hair with a white streak in it. "I like your hair." Rogue pursed her lips.
"You were right Storm," said Logan in his usual gruff voice, "this one is a telepath!"
"Well," Storm said putting her hand on my shoulder reassuringly, "let's show her Cerebro."
Storm and the others took me down to a large circular room like a giant sphere. It had only a small desk in the middle where a strange helmet lay. The room felt haunted in a way. The silence from the others wasn't helping either. Thankfully Storm broke the silence and explained Cerebro.
"Cerebro helps widen your telepathic abilities. The Professor used it to find mutants." She said.
"And that's-" I asked
"What we want you to do, yes." replied Storm.
This was becoming too much for me to take in, my head started to become filled with thoughts and I collapsed. My head was filled with images of a man in a wheelchair, of the statue of Liberty, Alkali Lake and Alcatraz Island. I could see the others were cringing too; the images that were in my head were theirs. Storm put her hand on my shoulder and winced, "But we'll have to train you up first of course."
Some of the panic inside of me left. My thoughts cleared. I couldn't see the images anymore and the others weren't cringing.
"As the team leader and principal I'll train you and training starts tomorrow after class. Okay?" said Storm.
"Okay" I replied.
We left Cerebro. Storm took me up to my room, but I couldn't sleep. I felt like trouble was approaching, and it was approaching fast.