Joe was quite bored, he had another two days to waste before Kara arrived, and three before Death returned.
He was wandering though the SHIELD archives when he came across a mention of mutants.
"This looks like fun."
He apparated onto the deck with the crack of a whip, before concentrating, levitating and rocketing down along the runway towards New york city, leaving behind a crew of shocked SHIELD agents.
Flying at supersonic speeds, the air funnelled around him, the tracking spell he had used before taking off leading him almost due west, though also a fair bit north. Seeing the oddly shaped mansion he plummeted from the sky, the added durability of Re'em blood and being a mix between vampire, werewolf and human he landed on the front lawn forming a small crater beneath his feet.
As he rose from his crouching position, several small turrets popped out and locked onto him, Harry quickly flicked a finger placing an old ward on himself, it was designed for arrows but stopped bullets just fine.
Harry was walking to the front door when the x-men burst out.
"Hello, I wanted to talk to the professor."
The group looked quite sheepish as they shut down the defenses and called for the professor, though the wolverine still tried to attack Joe.
Raising his eyebrow he grabbed the clawed mans arm before flicking him away.
He might have forgotten his strength.
The other x-men were staring dumbly at the hole in the concrete wall. A wall reinforced with several layers of steel.
Xavier came to the door spotting Joe, "Oh, hello there, Who are you?"
"Hello, I am Mr. Black, nice to meet you. I was quite bored and though that hanging around here for a while might be fun." he replied.
"Odd, I can not seem to see your mind. Oh well come in."
As Joe wandered about, the rest of the team stared at the hole in the wall and the still unconscious Wolverine. Before yelling at Xavier, "WHY DID YOU LET HIM IN?"
I know him, he is one of the few people that I know who is completely immune to my telepathy, though it took me a while to recognise him, he still has this odd effect about him that makes me unable to remember his features.
Harry on the other hand was walking into the mess hall, and spotted several people rushing in from the front door, walking over to them he introduced himself.
The man at the lead of the group looked at him before answering, "We were at the front door, either way, I am Scott Summers, Cyclops, Here we have Ororo Munroe, Storm this is Anna Marie, Rouge. You punched Wolverine though the wall."
"What is the last guy's name?"
"We actually don't know, His mutant ability is to regenerate and produce claws from his knuckles. However at some point a metal known as adamantium was grafted onto his skeletal system. Later he was shot though the skull with a a bullet of the same metal. He healed but his memories were lost, he only joined us because professor x was able to unlock what we know of his past."
"Hmm, let me see."
He mentally asked his ring, which gave him his name.
"From what I could find out his birth name is James Howlett. Though I know for sure that he enlisted in the army at some point look in the service records if you want to find more."
Leaving the stunned group behind him he ambled off, talking to the other mutants.
Wolverine who showed up several minutes late Charles having awakened him and somewhat explained the situation.
Staring at the dumbfounded group he asked, "Hey, bub. What happened."
"He said your birth name is James Howlett, we don't know how in the world he knows what you name is but he said that you were born James Howlett and served in the millitary."
"How the hell does he know that!"
Surprisingly it was Xavier who awnsered, "His personal timeline is not quite in the same line, when I first met him he had already talked to me a lot. He might have met you in his and your pasts."
"Too bad he can't fix my eyes."
"Ask him, he might surprise you."
"What!"
Joe however was talking with Robert "Bobby" Drake, the iceman, about Cryokenisis. Joe was introducing Bobby to the techniques used to teleport from peice of ice to another peice of ice.
"Where did you learn that?"
"I know a Yuki-onna by the name of Haku, she kept getting hunted by some pesky ninja so she created what she calls the Demonic Ice mirrors to teleport through and loose them. She faked her death a few years ago to join me."
"A Yuki-onna?"
"A snow spirit."
Unable to respond to that, Bobby's jaw dropped. Joe did not really care and walked away.
He was slowly ambling toward he single source of magic in the building, it was oddly corrupted the holder was female, the mage sight told him that much but not much else.
He eventually met with the girl, and introduced himself, " Hi I'm Joe Black, nice to see another magic user here."
"The only magic I know is Chaos magic."
Joe remembered that, He had a few books on it in his home universe, it was the only magic that Wizards had to channel, though as Harry he picked up the ability to produce it after killing Trigon and the demons that popped up in the professors lab. He still did not know how Pencil summoned one into the kitchen.
"Ah, I know a bit about it, what can you do?"
"The farthest I have gotten is using the Chaos to randomise my probability powers creating Hex bolts that randomly change things into other things, though I normally focus on the idea of harmless."
"Hmm, I have a few books on Chaos magic lying around, I could pass them onto you, but they are very dangerous, I would rather like that you accompany me for a while while I am in this dimension."
The girl asked for a while to think, she quite liked the idea. Someone as powerful as him, and he was obviously very powerful, could easily protect her and he was offering magical training.
"Though, I doubt you are 100% human… No human on this planet has a self contained magical core like you, you might have been blessed by a powerful Chaos Spirit at some point."
"What do you mean!?"
Stalling for a second, he asked his ring, before answering, "Yes, you were blessed by a Chaos Spirit, Chthon to be exact, the single strongest user of the Chaos on this planet. However, the blessing gave you something that almost all humans don't have, a reserve of magical energy, allowing you to cast spells from your own power.
I really think you should come along, we would be able to tutor your Chaos skills, and we need someone to deal with the pesky little demons that pop up in the Professor's lab."
Joe decided to give Wanda some time to think, while he wandered the halls, finally he came across the young woman from earlier, Anna Marie, noticing her shying away from contact he asked her about it.
"My powers allows me to drain the powers and life force of another being, and I do not want to cause any problems." she answered."
"Oh, hold on, let me see, I'll call the Doctor about it."
He pulled out his Zippo and made the call and was soon answered.
"Hello Mr. Black! The T.A.R.D.I.S. is almost done. They will be leaving the day after tomorrow, anything you need?"
"Ah, I met a nice person here who has the ability to absorb life force and special abilities from other people with a touch, one problem, she can not control it and it is always on."
"Send me a blood sample," She responded, "I should be able to have something put together in a few hours, tomorrow evening, I will send it with the group when they leave, something like this might not react well with multidimensional flooing."
About an hour later joe had collected several vials of blood and sent two along to the Doctor.
Poor Scott was running up and down the mansion searching for Joe.
He finally found Black and Storm chatting about weather manipulation. At the moment he was advocating using simpler changes to greater effect.
"…. I know that smiting your opponent with lightning is great and all but you could possibly just throw them into the air with a strong enough updraft, flip them upside down and let them fall."
"But lightning allows you deal with opponents quickly and it takes less energy than some of the other abilities, like hail."
"True, but lightning is loud, eye-catching and limited to one opponent. Wind is quite silent and not much of an issue to make it widespread. Hail on the other hand is only really ever useful in winter, it takes far less energy to make, and not only does it stop your enemy from seeing you, and can be used to take out many of them, however in the summer it gives away the fact that you are there and it would take up too much energy to keep up a good sized storm.
"Interesting, never really thought about that, though I am sure my flight is as efficient as it gets." she said.
"How do you do it?" he asked.
"I use the updraft method that you were suggesting I use on enemies."
"I am sorry to say this but there is a more efficient way though your method is what I would recommend.
More experience weather manipulators can form solid blocks of wind or ice, it is useful as a weapon, though It takes a lot of practice, I knew this one wind manipulator by the name of Aang, he was a client who needed my personal touch, before he died, he would move around, using a ball of wind, he called an air scooter to get around.
However my favorite trick might be beyond your abilities, I temporarily become one with the air and teleport, though it takes massive amounts of energy and focus to acheive an elemental state, it is quite worth it."
"Becoming one of the elements?" She asked.
"Yeah, it's possible, though I am not sure it it is because of my abilities or if it is just a progression of weather manipulation in general, but it took me a good few human years to get it." He commented, he had been traveling a lot mostly between planets while before he left, and unless he made a conscious effort he usually said human years instead of just simply years.
While the stunned Storm maiden was contemplating the possibilities Scott managed to strike up a conversation with the incarnation of death.
"I heard that you were helping people out."
"My good deed for the day, you have any issues?"
"Cant control my power, I can shoot concussive force from my eyes."
"Meh, you have some way to deal with that without my help. Plus I don't get anything out of it."
"What do you mean 'get something out of it'?"
"In exchange for helping rouge I get a few samples of her blood, I hired Wanda and I got some decent insight into weather manipulation from Ororo. I helped them all, in this dimension I cannot actually do something for free, unlike my home. The person I am covering for set that standard."
"He seems to be quite greedy."
He was finger flicked into a wall and blacked out after hearing "She! You imbecile! Why do you think all of Us are male!"