(Get ready for much exposition)
She didn't wake up, not at first. In fact around the third week Hank was beginning to entertain the thought that she wouldn't be waking up. If not for the fact that around the end of the first week he'd noticed a slight improvement in her color he would have given up much sooner. He'd had some trouble with her in the beginning. Even hooked up to the proper machines he'd failed to find a pulse but he did discover slight energy fluctuations that he could only assume indicated life, for now.
The pale yellow glow she had arrived in was very slowly returning as the days passed. When Broo, who spent a lot of time in the lab with Hank, first noticed this he became rather fascinated with it. Hank let it be the little Brood's project to find out what was happening. It took a few days for him to discover that she seemed to be collecting energy, though very slowly. Of course Hank had already figured that out but he let Broo have the victory.
Even though she was unconscious and largely unresponsive Broo appeared to have grown fond of her. He was talk to her when doing his homework in the lab. Mostly he was thinking out loud but directing his thoughts at someone made it feel a bit less lonely, though sometimes he seem to try to strike up conversation, maybe in the hopes that it would stir her from her coma.
So time passed that way, Broo being one of the few students who even still thought about the light in the yard since he saw her every day. At first a few concerned students would stop by and ask about her, either to see her or to confirm that they weren't under attack, by week two it was obvious they weren't. Kitty would also check in when she had a spare moment and when Wolverine got word of the even he skulked around the lab for a while until Hank eventually had to forcibly convince him that everything was okay, she isn't dangerous, and eject him from the lab. As time passed the traffic in the lab outside of classes slowed and they things returned to relative normalcy
When about three months had passed the girl had regained the original glow and Hank suspected this meant she would be waking soon and the time Broo spent in the lab increased, he hoped the be present at the time when she woke.
One weekend Hank had decided to, once again, go searching for wherever the Bamf's kept their stolen goods. Very recently they had made off with a peace a very delicate machinery and he wanted it back. Broo opted to stay in the lab to do his homework. He had a small rolling table that he'd moved closer to the bed Hank kept her, this is where he spent most of his time when he wasn't help Professor McCoy.
Everything had been quite, aside from the whirr of machines, for a few minutes after Hank left and Broo nearly jumped out of his shell when the energy monitor that Hank had hooked up to her bed, in loo of the usual medical machinery, started going off. The Bloodling looked up and around, expecting Dr. McCoy to come come through the door but when he didn't Broo pushed himself from the chair, moved the table away and use the chair as a booster so he could look over the edge of the bed.
A pulse of light ran through her shape, from head to toe, it was bright enough that he could see the light move through the blanket that covered her. When he looked back to her face her eyes were open. They were white, almost blue, glowing like the rest of her though maybe a little brighter. He leaned back as she sat up with little trouble for someone who had been unconscious for three months. The blanket slipped down but there wasn't much to see as she was less of a 'body' then just light that took on the silhouette of a female. Still Broo felt he should avert his eyes.
She blinked slowly and scanned the lab before her eyes landed on Broo. She froze for a moment, obviously unsure of what to do. "Hello." The alien offered and that seemed to calm her a bit."
"What happened?" She asked, her voice sounded... far away. Like it was being filtered through from somewhere else.
"We were actually hoping you could tell us." Broo and the girl looked up as Hank entered the room, empty handed. Broo guessed he had not found where the Bamfs were stashing their stolen goods. "You're arrival caused quite a stir."
"Where am I?"
"The Jean Grey School for Higher Learning." Broo piped up quickly.
"A safe haven for mutants." Hank added.
She didn't seem to react to this. Instead she let her attention travel through the lab. Slowly taking it in. "What happened with The Pheonix? Did it land?" She sounded tentative, as if she already knew the answer or maybe she didn't want to know.
"You don't-?" Hank paused for a moment. He and Broo exchanged a look. How did she not know about the Pheonix's arrival to Earth and the Pheonix 5? "It came and went." She visibly relaxed and her form seemed to become more solid. "Can I ask how you came to be here?"
"I'm not sure." She dropped her hands in her lap and appeared to concentrate. "I think I dispersed..."
Beast and Broo exchanged a glance. "Dispersed?" He the Doctor prompted.
"It's, um, how I travel. Through light paths." Beast continued to look at her expectantly so she continued. " Basically I break down on one end of the path and reform as the other end. But... a strong enough shock to my system will force me apart and when that happens it takes a lot of time an energy to find all my pieces..."
Hank nodded. The pieces of her appearance were starting to fall into place. "Do you know what caused enough of a...'Shock' to bring you to our front yard?" He asked though he was sure he knew the answer.
"I... I felt The Pheonix. It was on it's way here... and now I'm here. That's all I know..."
Hank nodded. He'd figured as much. "I'd be willing to bet you first dispersed around the same time the Pheonix rendered our two resident telephaths unconscious."
"Are you a telepath?" Broo asked.
"Oh, no." She said, shaking her head slightly. "I share a strong connection to the universe and the Pheonix is a cosmic force. Usually it doesn't cause me any trouble though..."
"Yes." Hank sighed, wishing the same could be said for them. "This particular visit was... different for everyone." After a brief paused Hank pulled up one of his lab chairs and sat down to truly study her. "You are not a mutant, are you miss?" She answered with a shake of her head. "I didn't think so. I tried to take a blood sample while you were unconscious but it would seem you have no blood." The girl gave a soft smile and a hum of confirmation.
"So if I may... What are you?"
"It's rather hard to explain." She answered, hoping to leave it at that. She'd never had to explain it before and didn't exactly know where to start.
"Try." Hank insisted, a smile on his cat like face. "I'll follow along best I can."
"Alright..." She sighed, having hoped he would leave it alone. "How familiar are you with... the Multiverse?"
"Quite personally, actually." Hank answered easily. Alright. Maybe this wouldn't be so hard.
"Well, It... it moves. It grows, expands...shrinks." She could tell by the look on the doctors face that he had an idea what she was talking about. "And when it does...It gives off energy." It was basic science really. Movement, work, resulted in the release of energy. She was beginning to think maybe it wasn't so complicated. "And it has to go somewhere."
"You...?"
"Kind of... I'm more like... a storage unit. A battery I guess. The energy comes to me, and other like me..." She paused because the mutant looked like he was about to say something but decided not to. "And we can use it... for anything really, and when I do it goes back into the universe...es."
"That's fascinating." He said. "I assume you're supply isn't unlimited since you just spent the past three months recharging."
She looked down at her lap covered by the blanket. "Yeah."
"You-you said there were more like you.?"
"Oh, yeah. Not many, we're pretty spread out."
"Are they all... like you?"
"Like me...? No. At least I don't think." She'd only ever met one other like her. It had been a fox and... really just a fox... with a deep connection to the multiverse.
"This is all very interesting." Hank said, feeling giddy at the chance of a new avenue of science opening up to him but he managed to stifle it. He didn't want to scare her... or make her feel like a lab experiment. "Would you... Miss..." It was in the moment that he realized he didn't know her name. "I'm sorry, what can I call you."
"Oh... I don't... I mean..." She muttered, rubbing her neck.
"You don't remember?"
"No. I mean... I've never had one."
"Hmm... Well I supposed we'll have to do something about that won't we." The girl looked up at him and blinked and Hank smiled back. Suddenly Broo jumped up onto the bed beside her, startling them both.
"Does this mean you'll be staying?" He asked hopefully. After all, he had become rather attached to her even if she didn't know.
"Uhm..." She stammered having not actually considered that. The large blue feline had said this was a safe haven for mutants, which she's not. Not to mention that she'd never actually stayed in one place for very long.
"Unless you have somewhere else to go." Hank offered playfully. Of course he already knew she didn't.
"I...But I don't want too be much trouble. I'll just-" She muttered.
"There's no rush." Hank reassured, though he would be lying if he said he didn't want her to stay around for more selfish, science related reasons. "There's room enough for one more in the mansion, I'm sure." He didn't see Wolverine turning her away, or Kitty allowing him to if he tried and there had to be some advantage to having one of the multiverses energy storage units attending the school. "I'll have a talk with the headmaster about having a room made up for you."