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Chapter 2 "The X-Impulse"

A brown-haired girl was contentedly dozing off on her bed. As she thought of floating through the city, she grinned broadly and relished the sensation. The sky suddenly grew thundery and black. She began to collapse to the ground and shouted.

She woke up suddenly after landing hard on the ground. She began to cry when she realized she was in the basement. When her parents heard her weeping, they hurried downstairs. They hurried to her and gave her consolation.

"Kitty! Are you alright?" Kitty's mom questioned their daughter.

"I…I fell…" she cried as her mother comforted her. "I fell from the ceiling."

"You were dreaming, Kitty," her mother said in a soothing voice. "You were just sleepwalking."

"I'm…not sure about that," her dad said as he looked up at the ceiling. They followed his gaze and saw Kitty's pillow and blanket halfway across the ceiling.

"W-what am I?" Kitty asked as she cried on her mother's shoulders. The outside rain and lighting struck with such a light that it still reflected on the ceiling.


Xavier's Mansion

"Alert," Cerebro announced, causing the Professor to look at the screen. "Discovery Mutant Signature."

Xavier looked as a map appeared on the screen. He watched as the screen showed a picture of a teenage girl with brown hair.

"Second detection in this vicinity. Extrapolation complete. Identity confirmed: Kitty Pryde. Residence: Northbrook. Age: 15."

Charles is puzzled. He had a feeling that Kitty Pryde would need proper guidance, especially at this young age.

He will have to take Jean with him. He thought about taking Vyolet, but he shook his head negatively.

'No, Charles. Remember your promise to Katherine. Keep her safe and out of his radar as far as you can.'

After all, if his partner will be there. She will report everything, no doubt. As long as Vyolet shows progress in her powers, he can tell that she is growing stronger every day.

But she is not ready for that kind of responsibility. He needs more time. If mankind and mutants hope for survival.


Bayville High School

Riiiiiiiiiiing!

The school bell rang as everyone noticed that class is now sessions.

Everyone except one.

Kurt was running to the school as fast as he could. Kurt is holding a Double-Smoked Bacon, Cheddar, and Egg sandwich as he slurps on his Caramel Ribbon Crunch Frappuccino blended drink. Thanks to Vyolet, she introduced him to this place called Starbucks.

The place where Americans can get their go signs on a day like rush hours.

Since then he would go there almost every day and eat their stuff. She even introduced him to their apps to save points and win a few free stuff. He saved it on his cell phone.

'Now, I can get their famous yogurt next!' He saved enough points for that reason. He looked at the time on his phone.

"Ah, late again!" he said as he put his phone away. He puts the rest of the sandwich in his mouth and slurps on his frappe faster. He threw it in the public trashcan, but the consequences of drinking cold stuff too fast.

'Ah! Brain freeze!' He tried to shake it off and breathe calmly to melt it away. He checked to make sure everything was in order. Then, among the school bushes, he transported himself closer to the entrance. He was just about to enter the school doors when Principal Darkle unexpectedly appeared in front of him.

"Ms. Darkle!" Kurt greeted, surprised to suddenly see her. The principal grabbed his wrist to look at his digital watch. Judging by this, she doesn't look happy at all.

"Watch isn't slow," Darkle said as she let him go. "Must be you. Another tardy, Mr. Wagner, and I will enroll you in my afterschool group."

Kurt was about to respond when the doors opened and Scott came out, glancing at Kurt. He approached Kurt after passing the principal.

"There you are," Scott said as he grabbed Kurt's shoulders. "Light a fire under it, kid. Your teacher sent me to look for you."

"Ms. Darkle," Scott said as he pushed Kurt towards the door. Once they entered it, he turned to Kurt, who was finishing his sandwich.

Scott sighs, "Starbucks again?" Ever since day one, Vyolet has been a big fan of Starbucks which she says would be her future to depend on through college days.

"Blame Vyolet," Kurt said. "Thou, the best thing about it is. I got enough points to get yogurt next." Scott sighs. He really gotta teach Kurt to curve his cravings for Starbucks.


Xavier's mansion

Vyolet is assisting Logan today on his motorcycle. The professor ordered her to stay at home and not go to school today.

Though, she doesn't mind.

Her grades are still good, and she isn't missing anything.

Vyolet was about to bring the wax for the painting. Logan smells something familiar.

"Sniffs, sniffs." Logan started sniffing around. Vyolet tensed up. "What is it?" He silently shush her. Vyolet knows when Logan starts smelling something. It usually means there is trouble heading their way.

"You watch my ride," Logan ordered as he threw the rag for her to finish up for him. "I gotta finish this business."

Logan suited up as he ran out to catch up with an 'old' friend.

Vyolet stood there not sure what she should do.

"What's up with Logan? Whoa, that man is packing some serious attitude." Scott went and saw Vyolet waxing the motorcycle.

"Wanna follow him? Let's go! - Should we take the X-Van? - A lower profile, I think." Scott looked at his red and white car.

"And cooler, besides." Scott and Kurt suit up. He then looked at Vyolet and said, "You coming?"

"Can't. Professor said I had to stay here." She pops up the popcorn in her mouth as she watches a TV movie. "Besides someone has to watch the mansion."

Scott nodded and waved off.

'Well, they will have learned this the hard way.' Vyolet shrugged as she pressed the remote. If she knows Logan, she knows that this fight is personal for him. Scott should remember that Logan doesn't like it when someone interferes with his past, he would be angry.

Vyolet has been alone for a while. But she senses something outside.

She quickly got suited up and went to look around the woods. She walked around to see if there was another intruder there.

Vyolet heard something and saw a big truck and saw two bad men.

"Ah, can't believe this animal escaped." The second guy dressed like a New Yorker and dressed like a rapper.

"Shut up!" An Australian accent ordered, "It's around here somewhere." He dressed like crocodile Dundee.

Violet silently gasped. So, they are poachers! No doubt they just brought something illegal into America for the black market. Her blue eyes saw the evidence of their moving truck that those claws marks did some damage.

'Woah, judging by its large scratches, and paw print I would say they brought us a Bengal tiger.' She looked like the ground seemed to print some pawprint. 'One angry tiger.'

She bent to the ground to see it closer.

Yup. It's hunting.

Solenoid has to find that tiger and stop those poachers. Quickly remembering her stealth training, she crawled and looked at her surroundings to find anything usual to lure them away.

She saw the trails leading her north, she saw their loose bullets. She raised her hand and vibrating sounds as little by little she aimed the bullets' speed to the south side of the forest. PSSSH!

"There it is!" the New Yorker pointed to the sound. "Let's go!" Australian ordered as they ran in that direction.

Now they are gone, she can trail after the tiger. She flew fast as she looked for more signs of it. Few branches and trees were cut through. Looks like he didn't stop at all.

Solenoid felt sorry for it. This tiger was in a strange new land and didn't like the city noises.

She sighs in relief that he believes that she found the tiger. There's a cave there where the professor was thinking of adding another faculty place in case of emergency.

However, there was once a bear family and the professor wanted to wait until it moved on. Vyolet would sneak to see it as a child.

Solenoid could tell that it could be resting in the cave.

She read that Tigers are territorial when it comes to being wounded, starving, or scared when come too close to home. So she did what any proactive wildlife preserver would do. She waited outside of its cave.

"Hey, don't worry." Solenoid started talking to it. At least, she hopes that he can understand that she means no harm. "I'm a friend. And whatever happens, I won't let those mean poachers hurt you."

"Aww, how sweet." A sneer interrupted him. They are holding their shotguns and tranquilizers ready. "Hey, back off. This animal doesn't belong here." Solenoid is ready to fight.

"That's not up to you lass. We wanted to get our big paychecks." He sneered and pointed a gun at her. "I guess we have to put you out."

He blasted his shot, but she froze the bullet that came close to her eye. The two poachers were shocked.

"Bloody hell," He is surprised.

Solenoid crushed the bullet. "I told you before. Leave it alone." She is not going to let them hurt this beautiful creature.

"Alright, done playing nice." They started shooting at her.

Bang, bang!

Solenoid quickly shoved them away from herself and the cave. Solenoid just need them to be kept away and hopefully, the tiger does not have the aggressive nature of loud noises.

What she did not see was that the employee who hired them jumped on them with his two bodyguards.

"Ah!" She was held in a bear hug. "Hey, let me go! Or you'll be sorry!"

"Huh, this girl gave you two trouble." A Russian accent shows up in a white suit and black tie.

"Look man, she some kind of- I don't what she is." The New York who is revealed as Jack. "Shut up Jack!"

"Now, where is my tiger? I need him for my meat." The Australian man's name John pointed to the cave. "She was protecting the cave so he's in there."

"That simply won't do." He waved to them to get the tiger out. "I guess we just have to shoot it out."

Solenoid gasped. Oh no they don't!

She twisted his body and then threw him off of her She threw him at the Russian boss and his other bodyguard with a big crash.

THUMP!

They groaned in pain. She used her powers to use their guns as she crushed them into a little ball. Then use those metal balls to knock them unconscious.

Bam, bam, bam!

They groaned in pain and went nighty night.

She needs to reach for that tiger. So, she ran to the cave to catch up with those two poachers.

While in the cave, Jack is a bit scared.

"Hey, man, I don't like how quiet the cave is."

"If you don't shut up and stand still maybe we can get the tiger quicker." John is ready for anything.

Solenoid is lucky that some of the cave walls had metal in them. But there is a risk of being caved in.

She decided to scare them a little.

The hunted became the hunter.

She took hold of pipes and then bent them into the shapes of claws.

"Man, Wolverine is the inspiration for this." She made claws like scratches on the walls. They sent them a little freak-off.

"Ah!" Jack could have sworn it was the tiger. Jack started shooting everywhere.

Rat-tat-tat-tat!

She slashed their guns after they wasted them on blasting them in midair.

Solenoid knocked the one named Jack. John, who had enough, decided to fight her off.

"That's it!" John kicked her off her feet. Solenoid fell with an ompf! He pulled out a dagger and said, "I have taken you down."

Growl!

He looked up and John in the shadowing, glowing eyes. Well, five on them. Two on each side and one big one in the middle. His golden stripes and four claws are ready to take him out. Domesticated creatures resembling blue/purple dicynodonts with five bug-like/compound eyes and mendable-like moths.

'Wait this was their tiger?'

Solenoid is shocked. She assumed that she was saving a Bengal tiger, but…what kind of species is this?

It didn't wait as it pounced John off of her and snarled at him. Solenoid saw his knife about to stab it, she waved it away from his hand.

It wanted to bite his head off, but Solenoid shouted, "Wait!" It caught its attention as he looked at her with intelligent eyes.

"Don't be the monster he wants you to be." She looked at him with courage and determination. He growled and then looked at John's scared face. He did the next best thing.

He roared at him.

Roar!

Almost like shrieking roars.

John then fainted, "Uh."

Solenoid sighs in relief. Good. He did it.

But there is another problem. She is with a dangerous animal right now.

Alone.

In cave.

He cautiously walked towards her as she stayed perfectly still. He walked around her and sniffed. Then purring came as his head towards her thighs and down to its lengths. Solenoid smiled and sighed, "Hey, you are a pretty boy, are you?"

He licked her cheeks. She giggles and pets his head and he closes his eyes in a pleasant motion.

"Now what do we do to them?" She questioned as they looked at the unconscious poachers.

Her evil smirk shows she knows how to punish them.


Xavier's mansion

"In the latest news, we have just received word that police had found the location of an underground black marketer." The news anchor said, "They are known as Russian drug lords named Jakob Smites who started the ring of taking animals from all over the world and turned them into food products to folks who paid them. His two known poachers are John Lou and Jack Russell who are involved in several crimes such as assault, poaching endangered animals, and smuggling. We are happy to report that the police have read them their rights and arrested them on the spot. Plus, they are supplies of drugs being smuggled in their trucks."

People in the camera cheered as they raised their protest signs to end animal smuggling and justice for the animals.

Vyolet ate some pizza she ordered. Laying with her on the couch, she fed him a piece of pepperoni with her fingers. He is enjoying himself.

Plus this couch is his new favorite place.

And that is how the rest of the X-men found them like this.

"Um," Scott rubbed his neck awkwardly. "This is new." Scott was surprised that Vyolet said that she found him, and she was keeping him.

Kurt was actually excited, "Cool! We got ourselves a new pet." He went and petted the tiger thingy as her new pet seemed to like it when people rubbed his head. He purred it happily.

Kitty is a new student in their place. Looked scared and was like, "Okay, wow! This is freaky now." First her mutation, the incident at school, and now this pet.

Yes, this takes the cake.

Jean then questioned, "Vyolet where do you get this?" She thought this shouldn't surprise her, but she did.

Vyolet answered, "Well, the deal was when I was ten. Professor X said if my grades were good enough, no trouble with the law, and no sassing teachers for over a year. He promised I would have a pet of my own, so this is Stripe everyone."

Stripe gobbled up the next pizza. He burps and licks his musk.

Xavier rubbed his head. Yes, he remembered that promise, but he thought she would get a puppy or cat at the pet store.

Logan smirked and said, "Stripe, eh? Nice going petals. You did not go for normal domesticated house pets." He sat on the chair couch and took a piece of Hawaiian pizza.

Vyolet perked up and said, "So, can I keep him?" She looked at Charles like a little girl again.

Charles smiled and shook his head fondly, "Alright, but we need to find him a proper diet and arrangements if he is staying here."

Stripe growled happily.

Yes, he will enjoy his days with the X-Men.


Reviews are welcome.

Stripe is Bahadmok Tigers from Atlantis the lost empire.