[X][unpacking] You can manage on your own it's not a lot of stuff then you can relax.
[X][Instincts] start copying powers to...
-[X][powers to] Defend the other students
[X][advisor] Change your advisor to...
-[X][Change] Rouge
[X][Everyone loses] try and calm down everyone in the room with you.
[X][Discard] discard a power... (select up to five)
-[X][Icarus] winged flight, peak human condition, vocal manipulation
[X][Copy] Copy a power... (select up to five)
-[X][Emma Frost] telepathy, Organic diamond form
-[X][Beast] superintelligence, super strength, super senses, feline body
-[X][Northstar] superspeed, flight, light projection
-[X][Iceman] Cryokinesis
-[X][Magma] pyrokinesis, Geokinesis
[New Residual Unlocked] [Icarus Residual] you have maintained the vocal manipulation of your roommate Icarus! This allows you to manipulate your vocal cords to mimic any sound or voice you've heard.
"Nah man I can handle this on my own." you tell him as you dump out the cloths that the institute had provided you with, as well as some other stuff that you had bought with the allowance that the institute gave you. Unpacking was really uneventful as you managed to get your meager possessions into the provided dresser.
For a brief moment the thought of going out to see the town crossed your mind, visit the grindstone to pick up some coffee, pick up some books, but you decided against it as the thought of resting in a bed that wasn't in a room with forty other people was too tempting to abandon.
Momentary panic pervaded the air of the room as the instinct to start copying powers came to you. Trusting in your instincts you didn't select the powers and allowed your mimicking abilities to run wild and choose for you. In an instant you were covered in blue fur, lasers were coming from your eyes, you felt your body burst into flames, armor was forming around you-
When it all suddenly came to a stop. The giant purple hand disappeared into nothingness. The few attacks that were let off by the student body impacted the ceiling causing no damage. And headmistress frost was looking like the cat who had eaten the canary.
"So. What have we learned?" she asked rhetorically to the auditorium full of students. "We have learned the first lesson. They will always hate us. We will never live in a world of peace. Which is why control and non-violence are essential. We must prove ourselves a peaceful people. We must give the ordinary humans respect. compliance, and understanding. And we must never mistake that for trust."
'There is something severely broken in that woman' was the thought that entered your mind as you saw the terror stricken faces of your fellow students began to soften into an uncomfortable resignation.
You gave yourself a moment "...look Miss frost…I appreciate that you're trying to make a connection or whatever you call it, but…I just don't think that me being on your squad would work." I told her "and it's not just that i don't like you, I mean I don't but it's not my only reason" you said as you handed back the visor that she had given me. "I just dont see what exactly you can teach me." you told her honestly
It had been a bit of a thing, you gained knowledge and skills from everyone that you copied. And since your arrival on this earth you had been holding onto aspects of the people you copied even after you discarded them so skills didn't seem to be something you couldn't just pick up from copying enough people. "And so why is it you say that?" Miss frost asked her gaze hard and inquisitive
"I can instantly copy all your powers, skills, even your memories. I could easily be just as good at this stuff as you are." I told her plainly "and i dont think that it'll help me to learn it from the source."
"Is that right?" she asked me giving me an appraising look with her cold blue eyes. "So then what do you think an adviser would need to be for them to be able to teach you something worth while?" she said sarcastically rolling her eyes "because based on the criteria that you have just given me you have summarily eliminated Syclops whos leadership talents you could copy, Doctor Mccoy whose vast stores of knowledge you can pirate, daniel moonstars' disqualified by sheer merit of having a lower threshold of skill overall." she said condescending "so what is it you believe that you need?"
You thought for a moment.
'Maybe it is unfair to not want to be taught by someone just because I can have all their skills in an instant. What would really help me is if i had a teacher who had my same powers, or atleast close enough.'
"Hmm well i suppose you do make a valid point there, I teach a class for psychics, scott teaches a class for ranged fighters, even logan teaches hand to hand. The school has simply never had enough power copiers to necessitate a class based around it." she said thoughtfully and then gave a silent huff. "Very well it'll be a headache to arrange but i know exactly the advisor you need. Your dismissed." she said as she shoed you out of her office.
You cant exactly quantify why but your getting an ominous feeling about this.
'Well this all went to hell in a handbag real quick.' you thought as the room had erupted into panic and anger most noticeably was the black haired boy who had walked in with the walking rockpile and metal girl.
"Who the hell do they think they are?!" he yelled as he snatched the remote from your hands with his green energy.
"Look everyone…let's just all calm down!" you yell over them to get their attention
"Calm down? Calm down? They're trying to eradicate us!" He yelled in my face.
'Ladies? I know yall can read my mind, mind helping out?' I sent to the triplets psychically. "It's just like Miss Frost said!" He said to the room presumably in an attempt to rile them up.
"Look whatever it is that they've cooked up in their labs, we won't do anything by panicking or getting angry! Right?" you said looking to some of the more level headed looking students, strangely enough all the girls 'go figure' you thought as you tried to get them to support you. You attempt to reach over to his shoulder only for him to knock your hand away with telekinetic force.
"Don't you fucking touch me! You think that this'll just blow over?! What happens when we've got swat teams running through the halls shooting us up with this
'Cure'? Or when the congressman has them lining us up to be neutered with that shit!" the black haired teen yelled in your face.
You can tell now that hard reasoning won't work for calming him "your right maybe they will start barging in here and shooting us up with that cure, but until then what are you gonna do be scared and pissed off about this? And what help will you be?" you say getting up close to him "or are you going to take a chill pill and be ready for when they come to take your powers?"
"""Calvin is right Julian.""" the three girls spoke in unison once more. """Panicking will do nothing for us. As well, the X-men have returned from their mission and are aware of the cure.""" she said though you took notice of her words 'aware does not mean that they have a plan, or even a clue what to do' you feel your stomach turn over.
While you are not overly fond of or even know some of the other students well, you are aware that losing their powers would be equivalent or worse to the pain of losing a limb for most of them. And that's a pain that you wouldn't wish on any of them if someone took your powers you know that you would hate it.
'All students please return to your dorms!' you heard a familiar voice broadcast into your head. For a moment you feel a wave of calm rush over you till you stamp it out,
'one of miss frosts tricks' you think to yourself as you force the calmness from your head. You look around and see the triplets as well as Julian do the same as a somewhat pissed off look emerges on their faces.
'Seriously that shit should be illegal.' You think making your way back to your dorm.
The next day was not much better in terms of mood, students were irritable, scared, and oddly enough some seemed happy. Classes were near enough impossible to focus on a single thing as gossip and worry traveled throughout the student body. Some students had even been pulled out of the school by their parents and taken to get dosed with the "cure".
You honestly couldn't quite understand the near absolute hate that humanity in this world held for mutants. Sure they could be dangerous on occasion (Xorn was just the most recent offender) but there were also superheroes! Quite a few of them are mutants. You just couldn't understand it.
"It's because your culture is different." It was one of the triplets from the night before. You hadn't been paying attention to where you were sitting so you're a little startled but it levels off in a second. "Your world doesn't have mutants or superheroes so its never had to deal with the fact that humanity will be replaced by mutants." she said not even looking up from the paper she was working on.
You doubted the teacher minded seeing as other students were also talking amongst themselves, maybe the winged man had resigned himself to the fact no one would be productive today. "Thats kind of an odd sentiment don't you think? Why cant everyone live together in peace and harmony." even as you said it you wished you could kill yourself for how dumb and naive the sentiment was. Peace and harmony wasn't even something on your earth with no superhumans, the thought crossed your mind that it wasn't possible, period.
"It's good that you understand how naive that was for you to say." she said finally looking up at you, her soft blue eyes piercing you "however i don't think it would do for you to abandon the sentiment completely. It might be good to have at least one optimistic person left in this school." her peace said she stood up and left with a smile.
'Wait…were you even in this class?' you try to project outward.
…
'No I was not, you have been talking to an empty seat.' you heard in your head accompanied by a psychic laugh. Psychics you thought to yourself shaking your head
'oh and headmistress frost has found you a new advisor. She said that doctor Mccoy would tell you when you go see him for some tests later.'
"Sooo…psychic conversation?" your winged teacher asked with a grin on his face and his arms crossed. "For future reference you should just think about your responses instead of saying them." he said as he let out a laugh "just don't let it happen again."
Huh…wait which of the triplets was that?
[][Triplet] well psychics apparently have a thing for messing with you, look for a way to stop them.
[][Triplet] find out which triplet that was
-[][which triplet] why was she messing with you?
-[][which triplet] why did she say that about optimism?
[][Triplet] thank the triplets for the help the other night
Classes eventually came to an end which you were particularly grateful for as it meant that you would finally get to the thing you had been waiting for; your testing session with Dr. Mccoy. Since the day the two of you had discussed it the blue doctor had been preparing a battery of tests, both physical and medical to help you understand the limits and nature of your power. Getting to the lab that was prepared wasn't as hard as one would have thought as Dr. Mccoy had chosen one of the few above ground labs for your tests. Once you entered you found a high tech chrome room filled with various machines and chemicals with the furred X-man in the center clearly having been waiting for you.
"So what do we start with?" you ask with obvious excitement in your voice. Sure you had used you powers before, as well as been examined by the X-men before but those weren't in an effort to test your limits or even to really experiment and just to make sure you weren't a danger to the other students.
"Well I'd say one of the best places to start would be the beginning! And that means my dear boy that I need to take a sample of your blood." he said with his cat-like face making a smile as he held up a needle and a microscope slide.
'Oh it's gonna be some of those tests…oh well.' I thought as I offered him my hand. One simple prick later me and the good doctor were looking over my blood with a microscope though I couldn't understand a lick of it. "Umm do you mind if I?" you said, making a motion indicating you wanted to copy him.
"Why of course my boy, two heads are better than one!" he said, giving you his blessing. As you opened up your power to copy him you felt your body begin to be covered in blue fur, your nails turned to claws, and your body became overall feline. "Hmm i'd say you strike quite the handsome figure if i can pat myself on the back." he said half heartedly as he observed your transformation though it seemed forced.
You barely registered what he said as the changes to your mind took your attention, by no means were you dumb but now your mind was expanded beyond what you were once capable of as concepts and principles of science became completely grasped by your brain. As you looked at your blood on the slide you understood that Dr. Mccoy was looking through your genes to find what it was that gave you your powers. "Whoa…yeah I'm smarter now." you say looking at the slide when something on it caught your eye. "Doctor Mccoy look there!" you point towards a sequence that looks to be shifting.
"Yes I see it calvin!" he said excitement seeping into his voice as you two watched a grove of your DNA undergo a change, one that looked distinctly familiar to both your memories. Your Gene had become a mirror to some of Dr. Mccoy's own. Quickly he zoomed out to see more of your genome, to which you discovered.
"I have an X-gene?" you asked in a bit of confusion and shock
It was a moment of silence that you didn't know you needed, you had been told by the professors that Cerebra hadn't registered you as a mutant and that your powers, whatever they were, were not the result of mutation. This however casts that analysis into doubt, and casts your trust in their competence into question if only a little bit.
"Yes…apparently you do." Dr. Mccoy said as he looked closer. "But look closer, your X-gene is for all intents and purposes dormant." he said in confusion "you explained to us that your father had experimented on you, do you know what it is he did exactly?" he asked.
You don't often think back to your father often and most of the time you put an effort in not to think of the experiments he used to conduct on you "I don't know exactly what it is that he did to me…" you said honestly "but he would say that what he was doing would make me better than the rest." The memory was quite honestly haunting in your thoughts as you remembered being exposed to chemicals and injections for quite a bit of your childhood.
"Well…if i had to hazard a guess, I would say whatever your father did to you made it so that your genes were highly adaptive and your X-gene capable of complete replication of powered abilities." he said rubbing the ridge of his nose in exasperation.
"Eghem!" you heard the clearing of a throat and turned to look at the culprit. It was the woman with brown and white hair that you had seen in the hallways, one of the X-men; Rogue. "Do you fuzzballs want me to come back later?" she asked with a saturn drawl in her voice and an inquisitive quirk of her eyebrow.
"No no my dear you're quite alright, now that you're here we can get to the more relevant testing." Dr. Mccoy says as he puts his glasses away. "Calvin i don't believe you have yet had the pleasure of meeting the X-men's fine southern bell; Rogue. She much like you copies the powers, knowledge, and abilities of others. I figured who better to help you explore more of your abilities than someone who also shares them?" he said happily "as well as that, headmistress frost said that you were looking for an advisor that could teach you how to make the most of your power, and after some discussion amongst the faculty we decided that Rogue would be the best fit."
"Hi sugah how you doin?" she said, offering you a gloved hand. You reached to grasp her hand when you remembered that you were quite furry and had claws, in a moment you had receded the physical mutation and gave her a handshake. "Aww you didn't have to lose the fur just for me." she said with a smile. "So tell me what do you know about your power already?" She asked straight to the point after a moment to take you in.
"Well i know that i've got a limit to like five copies at a time." you said holding up as many fingers "and i know what i copy isn't at full strength, and that sometimes i keep powers but other times i lose them when someone leaves my range." you explained "oh, and if i don't want a power to change me physically i can turn it off!"
"Hmm…okay let's start with your range." she said, pulling up one of the many chairs in the room. "Who's the farthest person you can copy?" she asked expectantly. In a moment you were feeling at your range till a power and memories slotted into place.
"Northstar, he's teaching an elective class right now about flight and maneuverability." you told her, waiting for her response.
"Okay start copying people till you're at your limit, try and pick two powers that are opposites but other than that you have free reign." she said as she waited.
For a moment you contemplated, you knew she wasn't just asking you to do this for no good reason and that she was probably trying to figure out what your limits are the old fashioned way. That being said, you complied. The other people you had chosen to copy were Miss Frost, mr. Drake, and one of the visiting X-men; a woman who could supposedly control volcanoes.
Your reasons for the volcano lady and mr. Drake were simple, fire and ice were as opposite as you could get, plus controlling volcanoes sounded cool. But your reasoning for copying miss frost was a bit more thought out, to put it simply you were done being blindsided by these telepaths. And miss frost not only was a powerful and skilled one, but had a power that completely blocked other psychics out. You had decided to keep Dr. Mccoy and Northstar copied as their powers seemed to round things out nicely from your point of view.
"Okay i've copied everyone that i want to." you say to her as she looks at you with a thoughtful glint in her eye.
"Okay…now time to play a hunch." she said as she stood up. "Whenever you wind up keeping someone's powers, is it after you've been copying them for a while?" she asked as if the answer was a foregone conclusion.
"Umm yeah actually, i kept Jay's powers after we were in the same room for a while." you said as you came to a slight realization, whenever you've been copying someone it's usually been for only a few minutes except for when you were copying jay the first powers that you ever kept came from him.
"Ah see that you're starting to put it together." Rogue said with a smile after looking at the expression on your face. "Okay keep copying who you're copying, don't let go of the powers for at least an hour." she said to you as she looked to Dr. Mccoy to start a timer. "Then you'll stop actively copying them and we'll see if their powers stick."
And so you did and when the hour mark came you stopped actively copying them, only to find that you had retained their powers. After Rogue had confirmed that you had kept Dr. Mccoy's powers she looked to him for confirmation on something.
"Hey Hank, you feeling woozy or weak?" rogue asked as she looked him over.
"No my dear it appears that our young Mr. Rankin does not sap energy as you do, merely mimicking." he said with a nod.
"Alright then kid now that we've got that done with. Now we get to the fun part." she said cracking her knuckles as she did
[][Rogue] "I need an adult"
[][Rogue] "did you have a goth phase in highschool?"
[][Rogue] run away screaming
You found yourself once more in the common room of the mansion where you found yourself wondering what you are going to do. Though you didn't really need to worry too much about that as you saw a few familiar faces waiting in the room. One such was Alani who was reading through what appeared to be the same book she had on the bus.
A little ways away from her you also saw the girl who has no eyes, though she's now wearing a strip of cloth over where they should be, you did say that you would maybe hang out with her.
And finally of the few people which you actually knew well enough to actually have a conversation with in this school was Jay. sitting and strumming his guitar like some kind of feathered teen heart throb.
[][hang out] spend some time with Alani the two of you had such a nice talk on the bus.
[][hang out] no eyes girl got herself some eyewear, maybe you could hang out with her and get more used to telepaths.
[][hang out] Jay's a nice guy you should build your friendship with your roommate more.
[][hang out] nah you're not gonna hang out with anyone, go looking for something to do, maybe you'll find trouble [roll below a 20 and the trouble will be severe]
[][Discard] discard a power... (select up to five)
-[][Emma Frost] telepathy, Organic diamond form
-[][Beast] superintelligence, super strength, super senses, feline body
-[][Northstar] superspeed, flight, light projection
-[][Iceman] Cryokinesis
-[][Magma] pyrokinesis, geokinesis
[][Copy] Copy a power... (select up to five)
-[][Cyclops] optic blasts
-[][Wolverine] bone claws, healing factor, super senses
-[][Rogue] power copying, flight, superstrength
-[][Shadow cat] phasing
-[][Wolfsbane] wolf transformation
-[][Mirage] psychic projections
-[][Gambit] kinetic energy control
-[][Icarus] winged flight, peak human condition, vocal manipulation
-[][Armor] Psychionic exoskeletal armor, concussive blasts, superstrength, Invulnerability
-[][wing] flight
-[][Mercury] Liquid metal body
-[][Hellion] Advanced telekinesis, low level telepathy
-[][Rockslide] body made of rocks
-[][Cuckoos] telepathy, telepathic hive mind, telekinesis
-[][DJ] Music based power manifestation
-[][Elixir] Biokinetic
-[][Surge] electricity absorption, electricity manipulation, superspeed
-[][wind dancer] wind manipulation
-[][wallflower] Pheromone control
-[][Write in (must be at institute)]
[][Flashback chapter?] should there ba a chapter about how Calvin came to 616?
-[][Yes]
-[][No]
A/N: And we are back! Like i said its gonna be a few chapters on then like a week off or something. Just you know to make sure that i don't suffer from burnout on this. Okay so major things in this chapter! Rogue is now Calvin's advisor! Calvin does have an X-gene but its inactive because of something his father's experiments did. Also way worse social roll than i thought would happen this early on.
