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!

Dontgotaclue88: Thank you so much! I was worried that people would think I'm making Naomi too powerful or something, but I'm glad you like it. But its got its set backs too, I think all uber-powers need an equal consequence to them don't you, or something that will make fighting after use of uber-powers more difficult.

Sylvia Andrews: Thanks for the review, I'm glad you think my little story is great. Its such a lovely compliment, brings a tear to my eye; and I mean it in all seriousness. I was planning since the creation of Rael that he would somehow save her and would be her brother. (Your spelling is fine.) Flicker is sweet and I really should give him a nice girl sometime. To each their own.

And now to the chapter, where backup arrives? Hopefully.

Chapter 54

Naomi called it an overshadow. She'd been in her world when it had happened before, she'd stumbled into the bubble that had was always in the place where she had arrived into her world from. It had wrapped itself around her like a cocoon and she only had flashes of what had happened afterwards. Rael had told her that she'd reappeared in a clearing that he'd been training in and had attacked her, not as if she was training with him, but like she was trying to harm, or even kill him. He'd decided it would be best not to tell anyone what had happened there, just that they had been training and that was the reason she'd been so exhausted the next few days after it.

It had called itself Shadow, and that it wanted to play. Naomi wondered if it was her actual shadow; it had, since she'd been working with her powers, begun to develop its own personality and would tell her when it didn't want to do something. But she couldn't think of a reason why her shadow would want to kill Rael. It was the reason she wasn't using her own shadow, Rael's shadow wouldn't want to hurt him, or her. Or she hoped anyone else, and it would let her go when she wanted it to. Thankfully she was still herself within his shadow. But it was an amazing feeling, especially the flying. She'd never done it, but the overshadow knew, and she'd seen Fallen and Archangel do it often.

Rael was below making his way up the hillside, using a large shield to hold back the fire attacks from Pyro. She was drawing the attention from Rocky, stones and boulders flew through the air toward her, she would dodge most of the clumsy throws while others she would catch in nets of the combined shadow and black energy, once she had a few she'd throw them back in their direction, Rocky would then have to stop throwing and work on catching.

"What the hell is she?" Recharge hissed under her breath, "Need a boost Pyro?" She called over to him then stood closer to Rocky as more boulders started on a downward decent toward them.

"Not on your life." Pyro replied and sent out flames both skyward and at Rael.

Naomi dove at them, the flames tracking after her. During her decent she saw vehicles coming up the road, they were coming. She shouldn't let them see her like this. She closed her eyes and landed behind them, Pyro wrapped the flames around her.

Rael gave a semblance of a battle cry and plowed into Pyro taking him to the ground. The flames faded with the flame manipulator's concentration, a cocoon of black peeled down around Naomi until she was all that was left there. Recharge lunged at her to get a hold on her, and below them Juggernaut gave several choice words as he was released.

She stepped away and pulled up shadow strands from the ground, they wrapped around Recharge's wrists and pulled them away from her, Rocky peeled the earth up from under her feet and she stumbled backwards.

Naomi waited for the impact, it came, but not against the road like she expected. Roots of a tree coiled and wrapped around her pulling her up into the air. "Can't go a day without trouble can you?" Ivy called.

"Hey, it was almost a week!" Rael called back.

Pyro shoved Rael away along with streams of flames, they licked up his arms he immediately backed away without his shirt sleeves and with fresh burns. Along with Ivy came Wolverine, Prism, Nightcrawler and Midas. Noami wondered at the combination but was grateful for the assistance. A moment later from the other side came Iceman and Flicker.

Cursing, Pyro yelled for Blink. A moment later the teleporter came, but not alone. Apparently they were expecting this, but weren't hoping for it.

Naomi was panting, exhaustion was starting to be a factor in this fight now. She knew that an overshadow would drain her of energy, she just hoped it wouldn't be this much. There was a hand at her waist suddenly, surprised she looked down, then her stomach was left behind as the person ran again. She was behind a car a moment later. Flicker crouching beside her, "Sorry about that, most people don't do well with running with me, but Wolverine said to get you out of there fast."

The shadowshifter blinked, that was the most he'd ever said to her in one sentence, she didn't get to stay surprised for long because her stomach caught up to her and heaved onto the ground next to her. She groaned and leaned against the side of the car, "What about Rael?" She finally said.

"He's trying to keep the big guy busy." Flicker replied, "I've got to go, suppose to be helping Midas. Prism's gonna stay with you." At that the speeder was gone.

Prism grinned at her, "So who was flying?"

She tried to look innocent, "I don't know what your-" there was a sharp pain across her cheek, she put up her fingers and came back with a small dribble of blood, like from a paper cut. Another came across her shoulder then it began all over her arms. She curled up to try and stop it, but she realized it was her own doing, Rael's overshadow had its own way of treating her for its use. Prism thought they were under attack and had put up a bubble of light around them. She had to close her eyes against the bright light. "Stop, stop I'm doing it to myself."

The light faded some but the car rocked at the impact of something on the other side, "I didn't take you for the masochistic type."

"I just did more that I should have," She waved it off when the paper-cut like stings finally stopped leaving her with thin cuts up her arms, a few on her face, and she could feel a half dozen up her calves. "It was my 'in case of emergency open this' kind of thing."

Prism didn't ask any further, "Think we can go back out there and help the others?" He asked looking over the hood of the car again. It was sounding like a war zone on the other side. Naomi felt sorry for whoever was going to have to clean up after this.

Naomi stood, "Hmm, stay here and miss all the fun?" She grinned, "Never."

"Alright, stay close and I'll keep us shielded from as much of the attacks as possible." Prism slid across the front of the car, Naomi followed close behind as the iridescent bubble of light that Prism used as a shield formed, it was amazing how little could get through focused light.