Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Saiyan X ❯ A Day at the Xavier Institute ( Chapter 4 )

Chapter 4: A day at the Xavier institute

Later that evening while flying home I couldn't stop thinking about Rouge, as how something so beautiful and kind could be so deadly and volatile, she didn't need to be that way and I had a method of changing that for the better.

. . .

Gohan had met me the next morning just over the Alberta, Montana border, and then we proceeded to head for New York dodging all military institutions along the way. Arriving at the institute we were greeted by a few people training in the courtyard. There was Beast (Hank McCoy), Storm (Aurora Monroe), and Night crawler (Kurt). Beast and Night crawler were sparring while Storm looked onward. Hank and Kurt stopped their match as we landed started whispering to each other, I was really curios as to what they were saying, but one thought crossed my mind it was going to be a surprise attack. Gohan and I started to walk toward the institute that's when it happened, Kurt had teleported Hank behind me and then proceeded to try and take me down, I just sidestepped the attack and let him fall to the ground. To spook him a little I quickly bolted behind him (faster than the human eye can detect) then gave him a quick tap on the shoulder…

"Missed me" I said sporting a huge grin on my face.

"But? Aw shit I thought I had you there for a moment" Hank pouted as he picked himself up off the ground then proceeded to dust himself off.

"Hank sorry but you'll have to be a bit faster than that to catch me"

"What about your friend here is he as fast as you?"

"Oh Gohan here is almost faster than me in his mystic state but in his normal form I can still beat him in a foot race" with that said Gohan left in a blink of an eye and had come back on the spot holding Kurt by the scruff of the neck.

"Hey you big guloot put me down, quit picking on us blue boys" Kurt yelped as Gohan still held him up off the ground.

"Ok Gohan I think you can put Kurt down now, we know how fast you are." With that said Gohan dropped Kurt square on his ass, leaving everyone to enjoy a good laugh, even Aurora who was watching from a fair distance was having a good little chuckle.

The four of u proceeded in to the mansion, which we were soon accompanied by Storm. We headed toward the dining hall for something to eat and along the way we had run into Rouge; coincidentally she was going to the dining hall as well. We had grabbed a quick bite to eat and we were soon talking about the happenings around the mansion. I found out that the professor was leaving with a group of mutants tomorrow to a conference on mutant registration. Moving on to other topics we started on mutations and controlling them, this is were my idea would come into play…

"Rouge what would you say if I knew of a method in which I could give you control over your abilities and possibly give you back your more private social life"

"How in the world would you be able to do that, my whole body is affected? I can't even have a close relationship with someone because of the fear of hurting them."

"Well there is a device that I know of called the Dragon Balls…" at that moment Gohan pulled me aside,

"You sure you know what you are doing, I mean, does she really need to know about our battle secret?"

"Yes" I told him "In part that is why the Dragon Balls were created was to help others, but there was always that risk of them being found by people of evil so I'm taking this chance, using the two wishes for Rouge."

"Well ok Jared but just this once for you"

"No for Rouge!"

"What ever you say man," chuckled Gohan as he turned to try and hide the huge grin on his face.

I just shook my head in disgust and continued with my explanation. "Ok as I was saying the Dragon Balls is a magical device that can be used to grant two wishes. The device consists of seven gold balls each of which is labeled with a star as to which it is in the set. Each time two wishes are made from the balls they split up and head to random locations all over the earth. Oh I almost forgot you have to be able to call the dragon to make your wishes. The original creator, Kami, named the dragon Shenron. Ok you guys can you handle all that?" All of them stared at me like I was messed in the head but after a bit of coaxing they started to believe me more and more. Everyone else had left the room besides Rouge and myself, which allowed us to talk more one on one with each other about the situation at hand. I had asked Gohan to go to West City in Japan and retrieve the Dragon Radar from Bulma.

"So how old are you Rouge?"

"Well I'm now twenty years of age," she said brushing back a strand of hair that got caught in her eye.

"When did you discover you had these abilities?"

"I'd rather not talk about it"

"Oh come on, I'm sure you don't talk about it much and that's why it is tearing you up not only on the outside but on the inside as well" I said putting my hand on hers.

"There was a boy back in my home town, we were going out and one day we got a little close. We then started to kiss and that's when it happened, I ended up putting him in a coma for six weeks" she told me. That's when I noticed her eyes starting to water a bit and she was ready to tear.

I could read the leering thought in my mind, and it was telling me that it was too soon but my body felt otherwise, I knew I had feelings for her. So I decided what the heck and leaned in close and kissed her softly on the lips, I could feel the tremendous pull on my energy supply but I kept going, she wanted to pull away but I didn't let her, just before I had the urge to collapse I slowly pulled back.

"What in the hell are you thinking? Do you have a death wish or something?" she screamed at me, planting her hands on the table as if she was ready to leave the room.

"No I don't, the thing is that I would have done it whether you had your abilities or not, that's all."

"You know you really did it this time. Like I said before my head is already full with other people's minds yours doesn't help all that much more you know." She was starting to feel agitated, I could tell by looking at her she was starting to feel uncomfortable. "Ugh I can feel your thoughts and see your memories, this is different than before something is almost relaxing about it."

Just at that moment a crease of pain flew throughout my head as in a blink of an eye someone's memories flew through my head, I soon realized that they were Rouge's and I was feeling what she felt, it was incredible. The amount of emotion triggered by all of those events was enormous and almost overwhelming.

"Rouge that wasn't a normal energy draw was it. It was more like an exchange I can now see all your thoughts and memories. This is so weird, maybe it happened because if something you were feeling, I don't know it had to have been something" I told her looking back to find her coming around the table. "So the question remains do you still want to use the dragon balls?"

"You know now that I think about it more, I'm going to do it, I mean what do I have to lose, I can just gain from this. Well I'm going to go and get ready for our little hunt and you should be doing the same, Jared." With that she walked towards the door and on the way gave me a quick peck on the cheek before leaving the room.

I headed outside the front door to meet Gohan so I could retrieve the dragon Radar from him. I was hoping he could join us instead he had to go and help Videl with a few things so I was here on my own. I headed down to the basement where the Blackbird was maintained; it was a subterranean airstrip that would exit straight out the cliff side facing the ocean making for easy takeoff and a bit more difficult landings. There I met up with the professor and the others to discuss a plan of actions as to finding the dragon balls. The professor noted he and a few other x-men wouldn't be going on this little search due to a prior engagement, so it would be just Hank, Aurora, Rouge, Kurt, Logan, and myself. I would go one way while they would go another then we would go back to the mansion and call the dragon. To aid them in their search we built a copy of the dragon radar and decided to keep each other in constant radio contact.

"Jared about how big are these dragon balls?" Hank asked.

"Oh they are about the size of a soft ball, which makes them harder to find" I told him.

Hank and Kurt finished prepping the Black bird while Rouge and Aurora were suiting up, Logan decided to finish packing the last of the gear aboard and get seated inside the cockpit. They left the hanger moving east while I went south. The search was going better than expected, in a matter of hours they had found ones in Britain, Germany, and Madagascar, while I had found ones in South Carolina, India, and in the mountains of Chile. They radioed back to me that they found the seventh dragon ball and would be back shortly.

"Hey Jared we have reached the seventh ball it's in a mine just south of Springfield Illinois" Hank said as he walked behind everyone else heading into the mine.

"You guys be careful alright, those mines can be pretty deadly sometimes"

"Thanks for the info Jared… wait what in the hell is that? OH SHIT!!! Run everybody run, Oh Christ, its got Rouge" then the radio went silent.

Fearing the worst I went straight to the site from my stop at the institute to drop off the dragon balls. As soon as I arrived I seen the damage, there was almost nothing left of the mine's entrance, thank god the Black Bird was left intact, but the question arising was where were the X-Men. Looking around I saw a camera on the Black Bird for recording battle targets and such during flight, what made this important is that it stays on all the time that the plane is away from base and would have recorded what had happened to the X-Men. I was soon in the cockpit of the plane and I had found the communication station, there on file were the recordings. As I watched the footage I seen three towering figures landing in the distance and were proceeding forward towards the plane. I watched as the X-Men saw the figures and started running toward the mine, then one of the figures shot out a steel tentacle from the palm of its hand and had grabbed Rouge, then flew off. The other two figures drove the X-Men into the mine collapsed the entrance then left. I quickly made my way to the entrance to the mine and cleared the debris; there I found Hank, Kurt, Aurora, and Logan all huddled together. Hank and Aurora were a little woozy but still conscious, Kurt had a badly injured arm, and Logan was out cold. I helped them all back to the plane, we laid Logan down as he was starting to come to. I needed answers and I needed them quickly.

"Hank what were those things?" I asked.

"Well first, they are called sentinels. They are sent out to capture and retrieve mutants," Hank explained to me bringing up a diagram on the computer.

"Well who runs them, or better yet who built them?"

"Sadly our loving U.S Marines are the one's to thank for all this. They are scared of what is to come, they fear that there might be no more jobs once the mutants get into the military, so they want mutants wiped off the face of the Earth," Hank told me slowly getting around to everybody's wounds.

"Is it easy to find them?"

"I'm afraid not because they have institutions all over the United States, those sentinels could be from anywhere," he told me sadly.

"Wait! There is a way to find Rouge; I just have to be able to lock on to her energy signature. When I got her to transform at the mansion her energy level was boosted tremendously so I think I could still lock on to her."

"Well Jared it's worth a shot since right now that is the only chance we have of finding her right now unless we wait for cerebro and the professor" Aurora told me.

I closed my eyes and started to focus, I felt faint energy all over the place but there was a distinct one to the west, I was sure it was Rouge. Since Hank and the others were in no condition to fight I went by myself. As I flew west I could feel the power receding, it must have been the fact that Rouge was calming down and not staying in her heightened state. I kept flying in that general direction and I soon stumbled upon a manufacturing plant; looking closer I realized it was one of the institutions that Hank spoke of. Nearby was a wooded area, so I landed and transformed to super sayain 3. As I walked up to the gate a guard proceeded to try and tell me to turn around and walk away, this is the part that I hated, quickly enough I grabbed the guard by the arm broke his neck and tossed him into the booth beside me. It was truly ugly work, just for the fact that he was an innocent, a simple bystander doing his job as a soldier. But that was the thought that I put at the back of my head for my goal was the more important of the two. I had to get Rouge out, no matter the cost to my enemy.

Throughout my journey around the base guards kept attacking me left and right but it was pointless for them, to me they were simply mosquitoes, I just kept smashing them one by one. To tell you the truth they were really starting to become annoying. Soon I had reached the main assembly hall, two huge 70ft steel doors stood in my way, as I looked them over they were quite impressive. I had flown up to about the center of the doors and tried to decide how to bring them down, just as I was about to thrown my fist into the crease between the two doors they started to open before me they slid to the side where the gaping entrance to the assembly hall would be left exposed. As I floated toward the control area I was fuming mad, I mean they went to all this trouble for one person and still expected to hold them in their custody. Suddenly on a balcony at the end of the hall, a man stepped out of the booth behind him. You could tell he had some military experience because he walked with military precision, with his head high and chest rigid. To tell you the truth he made me sick but that was a thought at the back of my mind at that present moment because I was here for Rouge.

"Who are you?" I called out to him.

"Boy wouldn't you like to know, mutant!" he bellowed back.

"No matter who you are give yourself up and hand over the girl"

"Why should I, that little bitch killed two of my guards and damaged 10 out of my 21 cells!" He screamed out pointing down toward the cellblock.

"Well she is pretty stout isn't she" I told him as he glared at me from across the hall.

"I should have killed her while I had the chance"

"I'm not going to give you that chance" right then and there I started to charge my energy, this was going to be a big bang that would surly leave this place in ruins.

"What, what are you doing?!" he called out to me.

"I'm going to destroy what little hopes you have left of exterminating mutants"

"No! No you can't do this!"

"Oh yeah just watch me! Hrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" I roared as the blast I let go went forth ripping and tearing everything in sight, I could hear him scream as the wave reached him on the balcony. Once the wave subsided it left me in the middle and nothing else around, even the balcony where he had stood was obliterated. I turned my attention to the cellblock where Rouge was being held she had to be in there somewhere. As I proceeded down the corridor, I could see the extent of the damage done by Rouge. It was pretty nasty for someone like her, doors were bent, bars were snapped, the locks were crushed like it was pretty bad. At the end of the corridor there was one cell with a heavy and thick steel door mounted on one-ton hinges. One thought crossed my mind, solitary confinement. I ripped the door to find a dark gaping hole, using my SS flame I walked in to find the door of a cell in the way, soon those bars were snapped and I was inside. Back in the far corner is were I found her, cold, wet, and still crying. As I approached her she brought her head up to meet my eyes and she instantly jumped into my arms, I was so happy to see her and I could tell the feeling was mutual.

"Rouge can you still fly?" I asked her.

"No I'm afraid not. Is that going to be a problem?" she asked.

"No, I'll just carry you instead"

We left the rubble of the base and headed north toward New York, there in my arms is where she fell asleep.