I guess I should say once again that I don't own X-men, but I do claim all my rights for my own characters! :)

Shout outs!

CSIGetteBlue: I don't kill off good people, don't worry!

Dontgotaclue88: Naomi gains some semblance of normalcy and look what happens eh?

julieakaweirdo : Would you really want her new dad to be any other way?

X-Nerd : Thanks, Glad you liked the chapter. I thought it would be great if her new dad was everything her old one wasn't.

Without anything else, away we go!

Chapter 53

Rune had said he was gone, Recharge had been taken somewhere by Storm and Beast, how was it possible they were standing there now? She could feel something in the back of her mind trying to draw toward Recharge, she hoped it wouldn't get any stronger. Naomi kept running these thoughts through her head while she watched them, then she remembered Blink. She looked back at her new parents in the car, then to Rael, "Guess we'll be late for dinner," she smiled in at the adults, "We may be home a little late." Before they could argue her shadow wrapped around the car and they were gone.

"Where'd you send them?" Rael asked coming up beside her, his phone going back into his pocket.

"They're in the garage at the house." She said a little short of breath. "That's a lot to move, who'd you call?"

"Reinforcements." Rael stated, his black energy coiled up around him forming armor, in his hands were two long swords. "I knew you and I would make a good team."

Another barrage of rocks started rolling down the hillside, Naomi's shadow changed into large hands catching them before they reached the two, "Don't go forgetting who's here."

Naomi sighed and looked up at her, her eyes turned white and her skin pulled back until her body was black, "Don't worry, we wouldn't forget you, Rachel." She moved her arms and the shadow arms copied, they through the rocks back up at the ones standing above. Before they hit the ground they slowed and just hung mid-air.

Recharge gave a grimace/grin at the two, "Didn't I introduce you to my new best friend? This is Rocky, he can control earth." She leaned on the arm of the larger young man standing next to her, his arms were up to keep the boulders from moving, "Rocky, be a good boy and smash the bad black magic twins."

Rael and Naomi both gave curious looks at the name but didn't get much time to think on it as the rocks began flying back at them. Naomi passed several of the larger boulders through her shadow letting them roll further down the ravine, but they were large masses trying to get through and soon she could only dodge and move them out of the way with the shadow hands. "Man," She said, "There is backup coming right?" She looked over at her brother who sliced a rock in half as it passed by him.

"They'll be here soon, keep it up." Rael stated. The two halves of the rocks came back from behind him, Naomi moved out of the way of another rock and used her hands to grab the two halves. "Much appreciated." Her brother said when he glanced back at them.

The next rocks started coming down, on fire. Pyro's flame machine had been repaired as far as she could tell. The two of them jumped out of the way landing behind other rocks, which began to move. "Great, no where's safe." Naomi muttered. She looked over at her brother using a black net to keep the rocks he hid behind from floating back up. She bit her lip, "They better get here soon." She looked up, Pyro was calling to the other person beside him. This man was massive, he looked to be encased in a suit of iron. And he started to move.

He vanished from sight for a moment then was coming back over the edge of the cliff, airborne. The road shattered under his impact, he picked himself up and brushed off his shoulders, then began slamming is fists into the rocks surrounding him, they likewise shattered. "Come out come out where ever you little pricks are." He called, "Juggernaut ain't gonna hurt you, much."

Naomi swallowed and shot out a shadow tendril, it grabbed his shadow and he sank into it to his knees, she hoped it would stall him until the others arrived. She licked her lips, all she had to do was stall and Rael was mostly pinned by the flaming balls of rock, she ducked as another one came in her direction. "Rael," she yelled over the curses coming from Juggernaut as he tried to figure out how to break out of the shadows hold, they were slowing him down, but he was starting to move forward at a crawl. "I've got an idea, but its a little..."

"Reckless?" Rael yelled back and laughed.

"I'm gonna steal your shadow, all of it." She said.

He was silent, "Last time you tried that," a ball of fire shot down and began to spread across the ground toward them both.

"I know, but that was my shadow, yours won't want to hurt me." she swallowed, holding back the I hope.

She exhaled and shadowed over to Rael. He glanced at her then nodded, she plunged her arms down into his shadow. For a moment there was nothing, then the glimmering of her skin began to be covered as a black ooze began to crawl up her arms. It was the portion of his shadow from her world. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath as it flowed over her entire body, covering clothes and all. She sat motionless.

"Naomi," Rael called over the crackling of fire and crash of rocks, Juggernaut broke free from the hold and charged through the rocks toward them. "Naomi!" No response, "Reckless!"

Her eyes peeled open, they, like the rest of her, were deep pools of black, she grinned and the shadow flow from her brother began to crackle. From her back shot wings, her hands were claws and her entire demeanor was more like an animal. She stood as the Juggernaut charged at them. She raised a hand, massive black chains, charged with energy like her brother's shot from the ground surrounding them and coiled like snakes around the massive man until there was none of him to be seen.

Naomi was working violently within herself to keep control of this state. There were quite a few massive holes out in the woods from her last attempt to try this.