Chapter 4: Rogue Type

A couple days passed since Gavin arrived at the Xavier Institute, and the boy was finally finished settling in, since his Coffin bed finally arrived. Now he was making sure he had all his supplies for his first day of school at Bayville high the next day.

But his unpacking was interrupted by a loud noise that ripped through the air, a scream coming from one of the Institute's female residents.

"AAAAGGGGHHHH!" He heard Kitty's voice shriek from down stairs. Wondering what that was about, the boy runs downstairs and saw that the girl was waving a rolled up newspaper around trying to hit a small flying creature.

The creature looked to be some sort of bat, a rather small one at that. Gavin's eyes widened as he recognized the small animal, running over to the girl he stopped her by grabbing her arm.

"Hey! Stop that, you'll hurt him!" Gavin said, stopping her from hitting the bat with the rolled up paper.

Kitty turned to glare at him. "Why are you even defending the thing?!" She questioned angrily.

"Because that's my pet bat, he must have gotten out of his cage." He explained, holding out his index finger, letting the small flying mammal land and hang from it. "See? He's completely harmless." Gavin said as he held the creature close. "Bad Brownie! You know you're not supposed to be out during the daytime, what if you got hurt, huh?"

The bat looked at him with its black eyes, chittering at him in reply. The bat itself was barely bigger than the palm of his hand and had milk chocolate brown and brownie brown fur, with black wings, and had a set of white spots lining its back that make the shape of the bat constellation..

"Wait, so that thing is, like, your pet?" Kitty asked in astonishment as she backed away from the two. She didn't seem to have a very high opinion of bats, apparently.

Gavin nuzzled his cheek against Brownie's and let him chatter away in his ear before speaking again. The boy nodded and looked back at the girl. "Yes, and he just told me that you just interrupted him from getting his food." He told her with a sharp glare while Brownie crawled onto his shoulder.

The girl was about to retort when the Professor's voice filled their heads. "Attention Everyone, please report to the Cerebro room for an urgent briefing." The telepath said mentally.

Both Gavin and his nocturnal pet shuddered at the presence in the boy's head left. "I know right? So creepy." Gavin said, looking at his pet who was chittering in disapproval.

"Says the guy who sleeps in a coffin and has a pet bat." Kitty said, rolling her eyes.

Said boy just decided to ignore that as he left to put his bat in his cage. "Don't you gimme that look, you know I can't trust you to stay put." He told the little mammal as it chirped in protest.

(Later, Cerebro room)

Everyone filed into the Cerebro room as they saw Xavier waiting. "What's up Prof?" Scott asked. The professor faced the computer as it showed a red dot flashing on the map right in the middle of Mississippi.

"Cerebro just got a read on a new Mutant signature, but due to something that occurred during the manifestation of her powers, her mind has jumbled and confused. Making her become a danger to both herself and others." Xavier said as he faced the group. "X-men, we have a Rogue Mutant on our hands, and it's time to suit up."

The others nodded as they all got their suits on, then everyone loaded into the jet that Scott called the X-Jet. Then they took off and headed south.

The ride was relatively short with how fast the plane was, but there was a temporary scar when Kurt tried to impress Kitty by teleporting to the top of the plane and almost fell off, which made Gavin rolled his eyes at how stupid the fuzzy dude was being.

As they touched down, Gavin stepped out of the jet and pulled the brim of his hat down over his face. "I'm gonna go scope out the area, later." He said as he started dissolving into smoke and drifted away towards the east.

"Hey, Gavin! Wait!" Jean said, trying to stop him, but it was too late. "Aaand he's gone. Great."

"Sure hope no one tries to stake him." Scott chuckled, which only earned him a glare from the others. "What?"

(Meanwhile with Gavin.)

The pseudo vampire walked down the street as he looked for the girl who they were trying to find, however he seemed to be getting a lot of attention due to how conspicuous his costume looked. He sighed as he pulled down the brim of his hat and looked at the seal that Xavier had put on his gloves, remembering that he would have to ask before he could unleash his full power unless it was an emergency.

As he walked down the street he heard the scream of a girl and the honking of traffic, his enhanced audio receptors telling him that it was coming from about 6 blocks due north. Smirking, he took off running. "Bingo!" He said as his coat flapped in the wind.

Following the sound he came to a backyard fence and vaulted over it to the other side, landing in a superhero landing position and ended up accidentally startling the girl who was on the other side. As he stood up, he got a good look of what she looked like, and his eyes widened at how gorgeous she looked.

The girl had short auburn hair with white streaks as bangs in front of her hair. She had grey eyes and a pale skin complexion, and she was wearing purplish-blackish makeup and lipstick. Her outfit consisted of a sheer long-sleeved green blouse over a black halter top, a short black leather skirt, and black leggings. She wears thick combat boots, and dog collars around her neck and wrists. Black gloves covering her hands.

The boy stood there, mouth agape as his fangs were in plain view, his mind not able to properly connect to the rest of his body, like his brain was a TV experiencing static due to a rainstorm. "Whoa…" He said as he tried to reboot his brain.

The girl looked at him in confusion. "What the...Alucard?" She questioned, she had a very thick southern belle accent.

That was the mental cold shower he needed. "Uh, no, my… My name is Gavin." He said, shaking his head. "I'm here with the X-men, we picked up the signal of your mutant powers and came here to try and help you before you hurt yourself."

"Wait, what?" She asked, seeming to be visibly confused. The boy sighed as he sat next to her and took off his hat and sunglasses.

"Let me start from the beginning." He said as it explained everything that he had learned about the institute. The girl in turn explained what she thought her power was, which intrigued the boy. She also mentioned that her name was Anna Marie, but she preferred to be called Rogue.

"Well Rogue, I think you have a pretty cool power personally. But it's got me curious… I wonder if it'd work on me?" He mused. "Mind trying that?"

"Uh, ya sure?" Rogue asked.

"Sure." He nodded. Rogue took a deep breath and took off one of her gloves, then she placed it on his cheek, she flinched, expecting something to happen, but instead, nothing happened, her powers didn't work.

Rogue gasped in shock as she kept her hand there. "No way…" She uttered. "Ah can, ah can touch you?"

"Looks that way." He nodded. The two stayed like that for a moment before Kurt suddenly appeared on a swing, the blue mutant using his hologram watch to look normal.

Gavin rolled his eyes as he got up, Rogue being obviously startled. "Kurt, what the hell are you doing?" He growled.

"Following you." The German boy said. "I see you found the frauline before we did."

Gavin nodded. "Yeah. But she just got finished telling me that Storm and Wolverine attacked her, what gives?"

Kurt looked confused. "No, they're on the other side of town." He told them. "Are you sure it was them?"

"Pretty sure." Gavin nodded. He then walked over to the boy and turned off his image inducer, making him turn into his true form. "And keep the hologram off for now, we need to earn her trust, so it's best we be honest."

Kurt jumped back as Rogue let out a startled yelp. The pseudo vampire grabbed her hand reassuringly. "Easy. Don't be scared, he won't hurt you." He told her. Rogue slowly started to calm down again, but was startled again when Kitty came up behind her by phasing through the fence, which caused her to bump into Kurt and start involuntarily teleporting all over the place before disappearing again.

Gavin hissed at Kitty in annoyance as she ran towards Kurt. "Nice going, Kitty, you just made things worse!" He grumbled.

"Look, I'm sorry, but don't you think we should worry about Kurt?" Kitty said in worry, holding kurt in her lap.

"You worry about the fuzz ball, I'm gonna go find Rogue. If one of us doesn't stop her, things are only gonna get worse." Gavin said, looking down at the unconscious boy. "Just be careful."

Kitty nodded as he disappeared, the boy again followed the tell tale sound of Rogue's combat boots and the 'Bampf' sound of the teleporting she was doing, quickly finding her. "Rogue?" He called, looking around for her. "You here? Hello!"

That's when she appeared right in front of him, causing him to jump back. "Oh...there you are. Are you okay? You're not hurt are you?" He asked, walking up to her. Now that they were standing it was clear that Gavin was a couple of inches taller than her.

The southern belle shook her head. "Nah, Ah'm… Ah'm okay, Ah think." She said, seeming slightly shaken.

"Okay. Listen, I'm gonna call the others here. If you see anyone who attacked you, let me know, I'll ask them if they actually did and keep you safe if they try it again." The boy told her. "You okay with that?"

Rogue nodded as he dialed the others. Storm and Wolverine were the first two to come, which seemed to scare Rogue who recognized them rather quickly, Gavin got in between them so she would be more at ease. Then pulled out his sword and pointed it at Wolverine. "Back up Wolverine, until I know you're not hostile."

"What are you talking about Smokey?" Wolverine growled.

Storm got in between the two. "Everyone remain calm." She said, then she turned to Gavin and gave him a stern look. "Gavin, I understand that you are trying to help this girl, but you must not jump to conclusions."

"Yeah, if ya woulda let us explain ya would've known that the person that's been chasin' her was Mystique." Wolverine growled, his nostrils flaring. "She may be able to change her appearance, but not her scent."

"Mystique? You mean the chick who got ahold of my brother?" Gavin questioned. Before the two could answer however, the others arrived, but something was different, instead of just one Jean there were two. This caused everyone to become confused, both Jeans arguing about who was actually the real one, this continued until it erupted into a full on fight, and Rogue, scared and confused about what was going on ran away, accidentally colliding with Storm and getting some of her memory before running off.

Gavin tried to follow her, but was stopped by the second Jean. "I won't let you get to her, you've caused enough trouble with her as it is, boy!" She growled as her visage turned into that of a woman with blue skin, yellow eyes and red hair.

Gavin hissed, flashing his fangs as he looked back at Scott and the others. Shaking his head, he just quickly turned into smoke and went through Mystique and started running towards where Rogue had started running to. He tried to follow her voice but it was gone, it was like she disappeared.

"Gavin." Scott called over the comms. "Mystique's gone, were you able to find Rogue?"

"No, she's gone." The boy hissed into the earpiece. He then looked up at the night sky. "But I'm not gonna stop until I do."

(Meanwhile elsewhere in the same district.)

Rogue was now being lead into a car by her adopted mother, Irene, also known as the blind psychic mutant Destiny and Mystique in her Miss Darkhölme facade. The doors closed as the white and auburn haired girl looked rather dejected. The car drove off as the X-jet flew off in the distance.

(A day later)

Gavin started school at Bayville High the next day, his mind still on Rogue and how he had failed to help her. As he walked to his first class he saw Rogue, who was getting her stuff for her own class, his face lit up in both surprise and glee, now he could try and talk to her again. But before he could even get near her, he bumped into he regained his footing he saw that it was someone he recognized immediately.

The boy who bumped into him looked at him and glared at him. "Oh, hello there, brother." Devin said in a cold tone, his skin rippling a metallic color.

"Hey there, Devin, how ya been?" The older of the two hissed, fangs flashing.