Chapter 33: Grand Theft Jet
It was a few days since Gavin learned he could eat souls, and everyone was finally able to get over the nerve wracking shock, now they were all about to get ready for bed. But just as they were doing so, there was a knock on the front door.
Devin was the one to answer, and was surprised to see Roxy standing there with several suitcases beside her, and a duffel bag slung over her shoulder.
"Roxy?" He got out in surprise.
"Hey, Devin. My bros finally decided to let me come here. Mind giving me a hand with my stuff?" She greeted him then asked.
"Of course, here." The boy nodded as he helped her get her bags in. "Remind me, how many brothers do you have again?"
"Five. Our parents passed away when I was little so Darry's been the one to hold up everything. Well, him and Soda." The girl shrugged.
"Soda?" Devin asked in confusion.
"His real name is Solomon, but everyone calls him Soda because that's pretty much all he ever drinks." The girl explained.
"Odd, but okay." The walking T-1000 reference shrugged.
As the two entered the main common area, everyone turned to see Roxy. "Hey Roxy!" Kitty waved. This was followed by everyone else giving her an equally warm welcome, save Logan, though that was basically his MO.
"Hey guys." The girl smiled as she squinted to be able to see clearly as the Professor came up to her. "Oh hey, you're Professor Xavier, right? I'm Roxanne Styles, but you can call me Roxy."
"Yes. Welcome to the Institute." The elder telepath greeted.
Roxy then spent the rest of the night unpacking and talking to everyone else before they all went to bed. But right around three in the morning, they were all abruptly woken up by the alarms going off.
Everyone rushed down to the front door as the person who had barged in reached the front door, revealing that it was Lance Alvers, aka Avalanche.
"Something we can do for you, bub?" Logan growled.
"Yeah, actually. Don't suppose you guys have a spot open, cuz I wanna join the X-men." Lance told them, much to everyone's surprise.
"... What?" Gavin asked blankly.
"Psh, yeah right, and I wanna be the sugar plum fairy." Chelsea scoffed, crossing her arms.
Everyone laughed at the dragoness' words while the quake generator crossed his arms indignantly.
"Now now, everyone, let's at least hear what he has to say." Xavier said as he rolled up to them. They then went inside and the Professor had Lance sit in one of the seats in his office while everyone stood or sat elsewhere. "Alright Lance, what made you want to become an X-Man?" The telepath asked.
"Yeah, don't you like living with those losers?" Kitty asked.
"Yeah, quit stalling Lance, we know you didn't come here just to talk." Scott growled.
"I just felt like it was time for a change of pace." He shrugged. "Plus, I wanna see the differences between you guys and the Brotherhood." He added.
"Very well then. Why don't we give it a try?" Xavier said, sticking his hand out to the boy. This caused Gavin to twitch in anger.
'What the actual fuck is he thinking?!' He thought as he subconsciously deployed his fangs and started to hiss. Jean placed a hand on his shoulder to get his attention.
"Look, I know you're wary, but at least try to give him a chance." She told him.
"The fuck are you talking about, Grey? I'm not wary, I'm pissed the fuck off!" Gavin hissed at her, forcing his shoulder out of her grip.
Jean looked at him with a frown on her face. She knew the full moon would make him more hostile, but she wasn't expecting it to be this severe. At this rate, he'd likely start lashing out at the slightest provocation.
Kitty was picked to show him around and, true to form, she was very flirty when she did it, literally pulling him through the door using her powers. The walking richter scale making the signs of his crush on the intangible girl no secret, judging by how bashful he was during the whole ordeal.
"Can he get any more obvious?" The pseudo vampire said nonchalantly as they left the room.
"This coming from the man who was grinning like a fool after he motorboated his southern lady friend's breasts?" Devin smirked.
"Sh-shut up!" He retorted with a blush as he punched his brother's shoulder.
After Lance was shown to one of the guest rooms, he unpacked what he brought (which was a single duffle bag) and crashed for the night.
The next day Lance was having to sit through a flight simulation training session with the New Mutants, and Bobby (aka IceMan) was at the helm.
"Alright, Bobby, take her up nice and slow." Scott instructed.
"Alright! Let's kick this thing into high gear!" The walking ice cube maker said as he pulled up on the simulator's controls.
'Pretty sure this is the exact opposite of what Summers had in mind…!' Lance thought as he tried to keep his stomach's contents where they belonged.
But as soon as Bobby pulled up, the simulator started to nose dive, meaning it was about to crash, which caused the metal box to shake around like crazy. Everyone then left the simulator and Bobby started bragging about it not taking him as long to crash that time, which earned him a swat in the back of the head from Chelsea's dragon tail.
"Crashing the goddamn thing faster than last time is not something you should be bragging about, snow cone. In fact the point of these exercises is to make sure you don't crash it at all." She snapped at him.
"Yeah, that kinda hotdogging is gonna get you and your entire team killed." Logan added.
Bobby's shoulders slumped as he walked away dejectedly. Lance, meanwhile, was being checked on by Kitty.
"You okay Lance?" She asked.
"Yeah, nothing I can't handle." He replied, trying to look good in front of her. Though as soon as she had her back turned, he went off somewhere to go hurl.
Chelsea sighed as she shook her head. "That kid's got it bad, Kitty."
"You can tell?" Roxy asked, who had also been part of the session.
"Oh yeah, big time." The blonde nodded.
The next day everyone was outside doing target practice with flying saw blades. Amara was up first but only got two out of three, Bobby hit all three of his, but had to get saved by Scott when he started showboating. Lance was next, though the others weren't sure how he'd do.
Before the turrets could even fire, the living richter scale sent tremors their way and disabled them quickly and destroyed the other targets.
The day after that everyone did an obstacle course. Lance ended up coming in last, but what really shocked everyone was how the legally blind Roxy had somehow come in first by somehow digging her way under the competition.
"That has to count as cheating, right?" Lance called up to the control room.
"No, digging is part of her powerset." Scott told him.
Right at that moment Gavin entered the room with Devin right behind him. Though everyone was surprised to see that he wasn't wearing his original costume, but rather a new one. Which was a pair of grey pants, a pair of black ninja sandals, and a grey shirt that was all covered over by a long-flappy sleeved black cloak with a high collar that stretched around his entire neck area and covered his mouth. The cloak itself had several red bats on it which were outlined in white.
"Hey, where'd your other costume go?" Lance asked.
"It's getting repaired." The boy shrugged. "Now clear out everyone, it's my turn to use the danger room now."
"What, you think you can actually set a good example for us?" Avalanche taunted. "You just seem like a poser to me, Shirakumo."
This caused Gavin to glare at him angrily, though his mouth was hidden by the collar of his cloak. "You really wanna start picking a fight with me, Alvers?" He asked, clenching his fists, which apparently had black nail polish on them (mainly because Rogue wanted him to stop his habit of chewing his nails).
"Depends on if you wanna make it one." Avalanche smirked. The other New Mutants joined in as well, everyone except for Roxy, who had been in plenty of arguments like this one to know where things were going.
Gavin sighed. "Alright, if that's the way you wanna play it." He then turned to the control room. "Hey Scott! These fools just really don't get man, like, I'm a god, ya know what I'm sayin'? I'm a god." He then turned back to the trainees. "Well, I'm gonna have to show 'em."
"Bring it on!" Iceman challenged. Popping his neck, Gavin rolled up his pants legs and sleeves, revealing he had leg and arm weights wrapped on them.
"Alright, you see these? These are my training weights, they weigh exactly ten times my own body weight and really slow me down. So I'll keep these on as a handicap, ya know, to make things fair." The boy told them before readjusting his clothes.
"Oh, now you think you're cute and funny, do you?" Lance growled, feeling insulted.
"Bitch, I'm adorable and hilarious." Gavin rebuked.
With that, the fight began. The first to attack was Ray, who shot a bolt of electric energy at the pseudo vampire. But he evaded the attack faster than either of them could blink, and then a second later he appeared right in front of Ray and sucker punched him in the jaw, sending him careening onto the hard metal floor.
"Even with those weights on, he's as fast as Quicksilver?!" Bobby gawked.
"Or even faster." Sam nodded.
Gavin then attacked Bobby, who tried to freeze him in place, but the older boy used his smoke transformation to avoid it and sweep his legs out from under him before drop kicking him in the stomach and swinging him by the leg into Sam, who was sent flying into a wall and squishing poor Jamie and Kai, who were actually trying stay out of the fight.
"Yikes, sorry guys!" He apologized before turning back to the others. Amara and Jubilee both backed away slowly from the fight, leaving just Wolfsbane and Lance.
Wolfsbane attacked first, turning into her wolf form she snarled and lunged at Gavin, and when the boy tried to roundhouse kick her, she flipped out of the way before landing behind him and sinking her teeth into the back of his right leg.
The pseudo vampire just looked at her with a deadpan look that asked 'was that supposed to do something?' Though it still hurt a bit.
"Biting me? Is that really all you can come up with?" He sighed, ignoring the pain. He then swung his leg around and did a side spin in mid air which made Wolfsbane let go and then he delivered a solid kick to her ribs before sending her crashing down onto the ground with the girl letting out a wolf-like yelp.
With that done, all that left was Lance. The living earthquake started to make everything shake, but due to Gavin having a strong inner ear he had a better center of gravity and was able to avoid falling down, though it was with some difficulty. As soon as he was close enough, the boy quickly did a split before he slid in and delivered a hard punch to the other young man's groin, doing a nut punch that would have made Johnny Cage proud.
"Oooh!" Everyone winced.
"Right in the batteries!" Jamie said as he covered his eyes.
Lance held his manhood as he stumbled around in pain. He tried to glare at Gavin, but failed miserably. The superior mutant of the fight walked over to him before he slammed the quake generator's head onto the ground, knocking him out cold.
Turning back to the control room, Gavin rested his hands behind his head. "Hey Scott, you think they got the message?" He asked as he started walking away. "Should I ever be challenged again, I won't go so easy." He then stepped out of the door and as it was closing, he looked over his shoulder at the kids he'd just knocked senseless. "I'mma. Clap. Dose. Cheeks." He smirked as the door closed.
Everyone just looked at each other in shock. "He was going easy on us?" Rahne asked.
"Let's just keep our mouths shut and not say something stupid whenever we're around him. Agreed?" Sam said.
"Agreed." Everyone nodded.
The next day everyone was doing a rescue exercise in the pool. And they all used their powers to rescue their assigned victims. Kai made an especially valiant effort when she used her water controlling powers to gently lift Jean out of the water and use her powers to dry her off by getting all the moisture off her and back into the pool.
Roxy unfortunately had to rely on the life preserver to get Devin to safety fishermen style, since she wasn't a good swimmer.
Lance, meanwhile, deviated from his assigned target (who happened to be Rogue) and went after Kitty instead. This annoyed both Scott and Gavin to no end, especially Gavin who seethed at the sight of his southern friend almost drowning because of Lance's hopeless crush on Kitty.
"Wrong target, Romeo! You just let a few people drown!" Gavin called out.
"Yeah, but look at who I rescued." He shot back with a smirk as he held his crush in his arms.
"Ugh, creep!" Rogue shouted as she stormed past them and knocked them both back into the pool. After that, Kai dried her off and put the water back in the pool.
(Later that week)
Gavin was walking out to the garage with Scott and Kurt, but when they opened the garage door, both boys' cars were absolutely filthy, though Scott's was in absolutely deplorable condition while Gavin's had the exhaustion pipe frozen off.
"WHO TRASHED MY CAR?!" Gavin roared furiously. Before he could get an answer however, Lance had already left with the other possible suspects.
At school, Lance had been cornered by his old allies at the Brotherhood, who were less than pleased to see him, given that he had ditched them.
"Man, Mystique's gonna hand you ya left arm when she gets back." Toad told him, hopping around.
"She ain't comin' back!" Lance snapped.
"Oh she's back alright." Everyone then turned to see Gavin who was hanging upside down from the lockers and reading a car magazine. "I know because I ran into her at a club last year. And ya know what happened to me after that?" He asked them.
"Um… Do we wanna know?" Pietro asked, unsure if he wanted an answer or not.
"Depends, have any of you been drugged and raped?" The boy asked.
"... Please tell me that ain't what happened." Toad pleaded, the others thinking the same thing.
"Oh I wish. I just heard from her niece, my friend Risty? That she gave birth to her-our-son, three days ago." The pseudo vampire said, never looking up from his magazine.
'Oh man… I don't think I can look her in the eyes anymore.' Lance thought, now feeling extremely sick to his stomach.
"So, tell me guys, would you still stay loyal to her after hearing this? Oh, I know! How about I tell you a theory I have about how she'll use our child against me to get what she wants?" Gavin asked them, dropping down from the lockers.
The Brotherhood glanced at each other with unease. Could they really stay loyal to Mystique after hearing Gavin's story?
"How do we know you aren't just blowing this out your ass?" Tabitha asked. She instantly regretted her words when she was on the receiving end of a demonic glare from Gavin.
"Do I look like I'm joking?" He growled threateningly.
The blonde bomb maker gulped nervously. "Uh… No?" She said.
"Good answer." He told her as he dropped his glare. He then walked off, magazine in hand, and left the former teammates to their original conversation.
(Later that night)
Lance was walking down the hallway to the kitchen to get a midnight drink of water when he saw Gavin rise out of his coffin like he usually would on weekends. Luckily he wasn't too scared of this, but then he walked into the kitchen and saw Kitty head and neck on a plate in the middle of the table with an apple in her mouth.
Seeing this immediately caused him to faint, which made Gavin chuckle as he entered the room and got himself something to eat.
"Pussy." He said while walking past the unconscious boy to the fridge, getting a glare from Kitty, which he responded to by holding up three joined fingers (which was basically a coded version of flipping her the bird).
(Elsewhere)
The New Mutants had just dragged Kai and Roxy out of bed to come with them on a Joyride in the X-Van. The pink haired adrenaline junkie was all for it, but Kai wasn't since she didn't want to upset Chelsea and Bast, but after some convincing from both Amara and Jamie, she finally gave in.
Right now they were bebopping around in the van when Bobby suddenly made an ice loop ramp which sent them flying and made Kai land right in Jamie's lap.
"Sorry!" The water bending child apologized as she got off Jamie's lap.
"Don't worry, you're fine." The multiplying kid assured her. Though the contact caused him to create a duplicate so he had to reabsorb it to let her sit down. The two blushed as they tried to buckle their seatbelts again.
"Hey guys,check this out." Roxy said as she pressed a button, causing missile launchers to appear. "Wanna blow something up?"
"Heck yeah!" Bobby exclaimed in excitement. Pressing the launch button, causing the missiles to fly into the ocean, causing fish to fly onto the road after an explosion sent them out of the water.
Kai, feeling sorry for the little guys, sent them back into the water, but kept a large tuna to bring home for Bast.
"Aw yeah, this X-Van rocks!" Everyone cheered as they continued riding.
(The next day)
Everyone was now heading to the hangar for an early morning training mission with Logan, but when they got there, they saw the twins and Chelsea there too. They were standing in front of the X-Jet.
"And here's our pride and joy, the X-Jet…" Logan started to tell them before Gavin dramatically cut him off.
"The SR-77 Blackbird, an advanced, long range reconnaissance aircraft, capable of Mach 3 and an altitude of eighty five thousand feet!" He said dramatically as his long black locks flowed in the open air as he spoke.
"... You sure do seem to know a lot about it." Chelsea noted, knowing where this was going.
"DO YOU EVEN READ MY CHRISTMAS LIST?!" He shouted at her questioningly.
"You have a Christmas list?" Bobby couldn't help but ask.
"Shut up, Bobby." The pseudo vampire snapped.
"So, are we actually flying this thing?" Ray asked in excitement.
"Yeah, that'll happen." Logan chuckled, rolling his eyes as he led them all to the garage. "Let's start off with something small, like the X-Van." He told them as he opened the garage door.
When they looked at the X-Van, all they got was a wreck that looked like it went through a filthy grinder.
"What happened to the van?" Gavin asked. Chelsea looked at the kids and noticed Kai was fidgeting nervously with her hair braids, a nervous tick she had. Roxy, meanwhile, couldn't quite see how extensive the damage was.
"Is it really that bad?" She asked Devin.
"It looks like someone drove it through a mud pit while crashing into things constantly." He explained shortly.
"Wow, I don't remember hitting that-" But she stopped herself before she could spill the beans, luckily.
Everyone seemed nervous, but Scott, being the stiff boy that he is, immediately started blaming Lance for the condition of the van.
"Okay, that's enough, Scott. There's no solid evidence saying that it was him." Devin intervened.
"I hate to admit it, but my walking lightning rod of a brother here has a point." Gavin nodded. He then turned to Kai. "Speaking of, Chelsea, don't you think it's odd that Kai came home with that massive tuna last night?"
"Yes I do, as a matter a fact." The blonde agreed before addressing Kai. "Something you want to tell us, Kai?" She questioned sternly.
"Uh… I went fishing last night. I sometimes do it when I can't sleep. The ocean kinda calms me down." The girl explained, it was mostly true, she did do that a lot.
"Oh. Okay, then." Chelsea shrugged, knowing how she did that at times. Gavin, however, immediately picked up on the fact she was lying this time, but for the sake of not causing any more drama, decided to keep quiet.
(Later that night)
Gavin woke up again for his nighttime routine after taking his noontime nap and started heading towards the kitchen, but then he saw the new mutants, Kai and Roxy all heading towards the hangar. Deciding he was gonna need help, he went to Lance, Devin and Kitty's rooms and woke them up.
"Guys, I think the kids are about to take the X-Jet for a joyride." He told them.
Devin facepalmed. "Damn it! Roxy is a total adrenaline addict, she won't be able to resist!"
"And the kids don't seem to care about the damage they cause either." Lance added.
"Looks like we'll have to stop them." Kitty concluded, getting nods of agreement from the boys.
"Let's move, come on!" The pseudo vampire said as they ran towards the hangar, once there, the jet was already about to take off so Kitty phased them through right into the cockpit as the plane left into the air, startling the kids who were on board.
"Stop the jet, now!" Gavin ordered sternly.
"Can't! We're already airborne!" Bobby told him as they suddenly flew over New York City.
Meanwhile, down on top of the police department clock tower, seven odd looking creatures watched the jet fly by. What were they, you ask? Gargoyles. Real, living, Gargoyles.
"Hey Lexington, look!" A red gargoyle with long hair and a rather long face said, pointing at the X-Jet. "Think that's one of Xanatos's planes?"
"Nah, can't be, it's way too low profile." A yellow skinned gargoyle said. His wings were fused to his arms and looked like pat's wings. "Though… Hey, Brooklyn, I think they're having trouble flying."
"Oh boy. Goliath is not gonna like this." Brooklyn groaned. "Come on, Let's go."
With the mutants, Bobby finally managed to get the jet under control, and now was trying to get away from the city so he could turn around. Though everyone else was getting chewed out royally by the older kids.
"What the actual hell were you guys thinking?! Are you trying to compromise us just so you can have fun?!" Lance barked.
"We were just gonna do a loop around and be back before nine, it's not like we were gonna do anything crazy." Sam told them.
"Yeah, we learned our lesson after taking the van." Jubilee nodded.
"And Scott's car." Added Amara.
"And your car." Admitted Ray.
"You kids owe me big time for that." Gavin said in a deathly calm tone.
"Uh guys, we got something tailing us!" Bobby called back.
"Is it a missile?" Kitty asked.
"No, it looks like something else. Not sure what, though." He replied with a shake of his head.
Gavin climbed up to the roof and looked out, his eyes widening in shock as his night vision let him see what was tailing them clear as day. "Holy shit!" He yelled.
"Gavin, what is it?!" Devin called over the winds.
"We've got living, breathing gargoyles following us!" He called back, shock evident in his voice.
"WHAT?!" Everyone exclaimed in disbelief and shock.
"Are you serious?!" Lance called up to him.
"Yeah I am! Do I sound like I'm not?!" The still shocked boy questioned.
"Fair point." The older teen nodded.
"What do we do?" Bobby asked as he finally turned around, the gargoyles following suit.
"Get as close to the Institute as possible, we'll land and try and shake them once we're close enough to call for help." Gavin said as he hopped down. "One of them looked me dead in eye, and I couldn't tell if he was being friendly or not."
"I don't think we wanna find out. Punch it, Bobby!" Kitty ordered.
"On it!" He replied as he increased the thrust. He also added the cloaking device for good measure.
Around fifteen minutes later they were finally able to get back to the Institute, however, due to their evasive maneuvers with the gargoyles, the jet's paint job was a little scratched up and the tank was completely empty when they landed.
"Think we lost 'em?" Lance asked.
"Yeah, they're long gone." Bobby sighed as he plopped back in the pilot seat.
"We aren't gonna tell the others about this, are we?" Kai asked nervously.
"They'll find out no matter what, so it would be best to get it out of the way now." Devin stated.
"As for the gargoyles, though… Let's keep that little tidbit hush-hush for as long as we can. There's no way they'll believe us right now." Gavin added seriously.
"Agreed." They all nodded.
(The next morning)
Xavier, Logan, Chelsea and Scott were all in the hangar with the students after they saw the condition the plane was in, which was honestly just cosmetic. And Scott was busy chewing Lance out, again.
"Hey, Lance didn't do it, we did. He was trying to stop us." Kai spoke up.
"We did it to your car along with Gavin's, too." Bobby added.
"And The X-Van." Sam added.
"And Logan's motorcycle." Jubilee continued off handedly.
"... My motorcycle?!" The triggered scraggly mutant growled angrily.
"Just kidding, just kidding!" The explosion producing girl said placatingly.
Just then, Kurt walked in, but upon seeing the jet, he immediately dropped the can of wax in his hands. "Aw man! Vis is going to take a lot of wax!" He groaned.
"I don't think that will be necessary, Kurt. Consider your probation complete." Xavier said, making the blue furred boy perk up. He then turned to the other students, aside from Lance, Kitty and the twins. "But yours is only just beginning." He told them, causing them to sigh.
"And I'll be handling yours personally." Chelsea said while grabbing Kai by the back of the collar.
"Meep!" She squeaked as she was carried off.
Scott then looked at Lance sheepishly. "Guess I owe you an apology." He told the teen.
"We all do." Xavier nodded.
"Apology accepted." The quake generator sighed. "Had certain information been disclosed to me, I'd probably head back to the Brotherhood right now." He said as his hand subconsciously went to his stomach as certain sickening thoughts from before entered his head again.
"Does that mean you're willing to stay?" Kitty asked hopefully.
"Yeah I am." He confirmed. This got a smile from Kitty as she hugged him by the neck and gave him a peck on the cheek, causing him to blush.
"Welcome to the X-men, Avalanche." Gavin smirked, slapping him on the back.
(Elsewhere)
-Manhattan Police Department Clock Tower-
All the gargoyles landed on the clock tower roof the following night as their human friend, Detective Alisa Maza, walked up to them.
"Any luck guys?" She asked.
"Nah, no sign of the jet, or the kids who flew it." Broadway, a burly blue-green gargoyle, told her.
"It just doesn't make any sense. How could they have disappeared into thin air like that?" Lexington pondered, sitting down.
"I'm not sure, lad." Hudson, an elderly gargoyle, shrugged.
"Hmmm." Hummed Goliath, their leader, as he kneeled on the ledge in thought.
"What is it, Goliath?" Alisa asked.
"One of those children looked at me, as he looked into my eyes he seemed to be surprised, rather than scared. And then he somehow created a large cloud of smoke out of the palm of his hand before he and the aircraft disappeared." The gargoyle said in a deep voice, confused as to why the boy seemed happily surprised to see gargoyles for the first time.
"That's certainly different. The part about his producing smoke from his hand is a little odd, though." The sole human of the group commented.
"Think it was magic?" Brooklyn asked.
"No. This was something different, something… Older." Goliath said thoughtfully. "Though it can wait. Lexington, did you manage to place the tracking device you developed on the tail of the plane?"
"Just barely due to how it was flying, but yeah. It stopped somewhere in a town called Bayville." The brains of the group replied.
"Bayville? Hey, I got a cousin who goes to a school there." Alisa said in realization.
"Really? Where?" Lexington asked.
"The Xavier Institute for Gifted Youngsters. My cousin's foster daughter goes there." She explained.
"What is her name, las?" Hudson asked curiously.
"Kai, Kai Maza. Originally she used to live in Hawaii, but after she was stuck in a human trafficking situation that ended up killing her twin sister, she was adopted by my cousin and her girlfriend." Alisa told him.
Goliath was silent through this exchange. "Then perhaps, we may find answers there?" He wondered aloud as he looked up at the sky.
(Elsewhere)
-Xanatos Tower-
David Xanatos was standing in his office looking out the window when his wife, Fox, suddenly entered. She was accompanied by a very familiar looking blue skinned and red haired woman, who had a small bundle in her arms.
"Fox, dear, who's your friend?" Xanatos asked.
"This is Raven Darkholme, she's an old friend from college. But she also goes by-" Fox explained.
"Mystique." Mystique finished, little Damian squirming in her arms. "I'm surprised that you are not scared of my appearance, Mr. Xanatos."
"Considering what I've dealt with these days, being scared of appearances is hardly something that gets to me." The man said with a shrug.
"Yes, your gargoyle friends, correct?" The shapeshifter nodded. "Well, the reason why I've come here is because…" She then let Damian pop his little head out of the blanket he was in. "Is that I'd like you to use your understanding of science and magic to help me gauge the extents of my son's mutant abilities."
Xanatos looked at the baby and the back at his mother. "Very well." He nodded. "Though, in return, I'd like to know more about mutants. They seem very… Interesting."
"By all means, ask away." Mystique smiled as the two continued to talk.
Dragon Emperor0: Yes guys, this is not a joke. The Gargoyles have officially become part of the Vampyr universe.
ThermalsniperN7: And man is it gonna be fun to write!
Dragon Emperor0: I mean seriously, can you imagine the conversations Mystique/Demona, Xanatos/Magneto, Xavier/Beast/Goliath would have? So much writing and story potential!
ThermalsniperN7: And we're gonna exploit the hell out of it! Am I right?!
Dragon Emperor0: Hell yeah. Anyway, see you next week!