Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction / Fan Fiction ❯ The Uncanny Dragonball Z! ❯ Misunderstandings ( Chapter 4 )

Storm didn't know what to think, much less what to do. Suddenly, she found herself in a completely alien environment, separated from Jubilee and anyone else she knew. Because she'd always done so, she used the winds currents to lift herself into the air and, the weather taking form of her frightened and confused emotions, a whirlwind began to spin about her with rain pouring down slantwise and lightning flashing, making her un-naturally pale hair seem to glow and shimmer from within.

Her blue eyes widened and shimmered, the pupil and color around fading out as they began illuminated white orbs within the darkness of her features. She hugged herself and stood in the center of her self-created gale, unaware that she was being observed. She closed her eyes, her black cape flowing out behind her, whipping about in the wind, her hair tangling about her face, framing her face like white fire in the tempest.

"What is she?!" Krillin whispered loudly to his friend, Gohan, his wife; 18, was holding their toddler daughter; Marron, (A/N: Since I can't recall which spelled their name Marron and which spelled it Maron, Krillin's daughter or Krillin's ex-girlfriend, I'll just spell Krillin and 18's kid's name with two Rs for this fan-fiction.) and standing a few feet away, trying to shield the child's face from the worst of the storm, holding her wrapped in a long overcoat.

"I...don't know!" Gohan cried, holding his arm over his face as he looked up towards the strange woman, "But, her ki is amazing!"

"Krillin!" 18 shouted to be heard, as lightning struck a nearby tree, making the little girl scream louder and cling to her mother's shoulders, "I have to get Marron out of here!"

"She must be a new enemy!" Gohan cried, he launched himself into the air, the rain making his hair lay flat for once, his glasses fogging up, (he'd been reading before Storm had shown up, all of a sudden, out of the blue), he reached up and pulled them from his face and threw them down. "She must be! Look how strong she is! And just look what she'd doing!"

Krillin turned to 18, "Take her home, hon, I think Gohan and I can handle this..."

"Be careful!" 18 shouted above the storm and the wailing toddler, "I don't intend to raise this child all by myself, you know!"

She left with Marron and Krillin flew up to help Gohan, who was facing the woman and demanding she stop what she was doing this instant! "Please!" Krillin added, "We don't know who you are, but if you don't stop you might hurt innocent people!"

Storm didn't even hear them. She was deep inside herself now, trying to think of a way, after finding Jubilee of course, she didn't know anyone else was here, ( although she had felt something that felt a great deal like Jean reaching out mentally towards her...), to get home again.

She wished Henry were with them. The Beast was good at dimensional travel and whatnot.

"Distructo..." Krillin raised his hand above his head, a single glowing spinning disk appeared, "Disk..."

"What are you doing?!" Gohan cried, he hadn't moved to attack the woman, was trying to get her attention to reason with her, perhaps she just needed help... "Are you crazy?! You could kill her with that!"

"I don't think so, Gohan," Krillin said, the disk, created from his personal ki, still spinning on his hand above his head, waiting to be released towards it's intended target, "Can't you feel her power? I have a feeling all my little disk is gonna do is get her to wake up!..."

About that time, Storm opened her eyes and realized what was happening. She saw the two men, one much shorter than anyone she knew, including Wolverine, the other a rather good-looking young man with a fit, muscular body with large dark eyes. Both men were dressed in similar clothing, she noticed. But, before she could think more on their clothing, she saw the spinning, dangerous-looking disk the shorter once looked as if he were about to launch in her general direction.

Though it was completely unlike her, Storm screamed.

Knowing he couldn't pull the ki back inside himself once it had taken weapon form without damaging himself, Krillin threw the disk...at an outcropping of nearby rock and a flash of light and explosion later it was over. Dust floated all around for a few moments and in that time, Storm called her wind and rain and lighting back so that the air was still once more. She floated gently to the earth and landed on two feet as soft as kitten paws.

Just in time to see Rogue and a...different...looking alien being flying into range, followed on foot by, her eyes widened as the light blue color faded back into them, Logan...Wolverine! Without pausing to ask questions, Logan leapt into the air and grabbed Gohan's ankle, dragging him to the ground so fast the half-saiyan didn't even have time to react.

"What did you do to her, Kid?!" He faced Gohan, looking up at him with a scowl, one fist curled around the front of Gohan's shirt, pulling him down to Logan's level, "Are you listenin' to me, Bub?"

With his other hand, Logan was inches away from popping his claws, his arm trembled with the effort at holding himself in check. Gohan had never seen anyone with eyes so...so...feral. He felt completely taken by surprise and ill at ease to say the least!

"Logan!" Rogue cried, recalling things she'd seen and felt during those few seconds when she and Piccolo, (Funny name, she thought to herself), had been as one, strange, she thought, It felt like Ah was part o' more'n just one person, too... "Don't...!"

Crying out, Krillin flew at Logan's back and brought his leg up to swiftly kick him away from his friend. Feeling and smelling his attacker, Wolverine flipped to the side and launched his own series of attacks at a startled Krillin, who was taken by surprise, caught off guard.

Krillin and Logan began to fight in earnest now, each one thinking they were the one fighting over rightness and justice...

"Stop this!" Storm cried, trying to get the two men apart, "Stop!"

Suddenly she felt an arm snake about her neck and jerk her down to the ground. She looked up to see a the light-haired features of a strikingly beautiful young woman glaring down at her. The arm about her neck also felt strikingly...strong and as she raised her arms to touch the other woman's skin, to send her an electric jolt to get her to release her, she realized it was getting more and more difficult to stay awake...

"You started this!" She hissed into Storm's ear, (18 had left Marron with Videl, who was coming to speak with her friend, Gohan, whom everyone knew she had a huge crush on) and had come running back when she'd felt the storm dissipate as quickly as it had come.

Rogue stepped behind her and said, her fists raised to chest-level, green eyes narrow, "Let her go, tramp, or thing's might get...ugly!"

"R-Rogue..." Storm's whispered, as her holder let her go, and the world spun around her, coming swiftly back into focus, "Rogue, please! Leave her be...!"

"No way, Ororo!" Rogue cried, "She was gonna hurt you!"

"She didn't know, Rogue!" Storm said, turning to face them, "This has all been a horrible misunderstanding! We have to stop them..." She looked towards Logan and Gohan, "Before someone gets killed!"

"No one..." 18 said slowly, anger flashing across her blue eyes, turning to face Rogue with a ready fist, "Calls me a tramp and gets away with it!"

Shouting, 18 sent her fist flying towards Rogue's face...