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Topic Started: Mar 3 2010, 02:55 AM (242 Views)
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Telepathy
March 2nd

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"A month?" Charles frowned as he looked at the first student of this school, his first X-Man, "Scott, this has been going on for a month and you didn't talk to anyone sooner?"

"I've been telling myself it's nothing," Scott said, not looking at the changed face of his mentor... no, well, not exactly changed, but reverted, reverted back to the face of the man he was when Scott first looked through these miraculous red lenses. "So far they've just been dreams, Professor, just it feels as if I wake up and I'm in a jail cell. My knee, the one Mystique shattered, it aches so badly that I know that's what woke me up. And, in the dream... my powers are nulled. I can see the colors of my surroundings. The cell is grey metal and I'm wearing prison orange, and on the shoulder is the shield logo. It's happened three times in the past month, and it's always the same."

Xavier sighed, "Well, it seems fairly innocuous a dream, Scott. Considering the state of the world, and the rise in anti-mutant sentiment after the Apocalypse, the idea that Shield might seek to imprison and nullify mutants is not incredibly far fetched."

"That's what I've been telling myself," Scott said, standing up and pacing before the Professor's desk, "That it's just dreams, worries. I tend to... dwell on the negative, I've been told. But I... Professor, it feels like more than that. Last night, I got out of the cot, walked across the room, and I felt the pain so acutely in my knee, I felt the limp as I moved like it was years since I'd walked any other way. I don't dream that vividly, I never have."

"I can see that it's disturbing you," the Professor said, "Please, take a seat, let's see if we can get to the bottom of this. Assuming it isn't a dream, what could it be? Mental control? What would be gained by someone telepathically making you believe you are in prison?"

"I don't think it's control," Scott said, "Jean would know if there was..."

"You hesitate."

Scott looked at the Professor, "Well, I was just thinking about ShadowX.... when that happened, it happened so slowly, that we didn't recognize it. It just, every moment we felt more in control, more willing to do what it took to get our message across. There weren't any... indications, because of how gradual it was. What if this is more of that?"

The Professor came around the desk, perching on the edge of it, "So that comes to the question again, what do they gain? I wish I had been around for ShadowX, maybe I could have helped stop it from getting to the point it did, alleviate this guilt you still have from it. But whatever that was, whatever this is, they don't seem to be the same.Tell me about ShadowX."

Scott sat down, uncharacteristically defeated seeming, "It was... imagine a complete lack of fear, of hesitancy, complete control. We never forgot that it was to elevate mutantkind, but there wasn't the thought of integration, it was closer to a hostile take over. We planned to work within the system, within the system to give our people the place they deserve, and humanity would have been conquered without even knowing it. It made so much sense, and it was... I was more Cyclops than I ever have been before. Scott wasn't even a blip on the radar, and Jean was entirely Phoenix. We gave in completely."

"And these dreams? Do they give you the same feeling? Like you are losing yourself to Cyclops?"

He looked up at the man who had changed his life seventeen years ago, and Scott said, "I don't feel any different at all, except my leg, my confusion, everything else is me, entirely me."

"This may be my fault," Xavier said, "Scott, I think I might have done you a disservice when I began all this, all of you. This confusion in my head, the missing parts of my memory, it's been making me think a great deal about who I am, and how I got to this point, but maybe I should have concentrated on how you all followed me here. The first class. You're all here still, I trained you to save the world, save our people, but maybe it was at the cost of a normal life."

Scott leaped to his feet instantly, "Wait, wait this isn't what this is about. Professor, my life was not ruined by you, it was saved. My powers, you know what would have happened if you hadn't found me. I would have been blinded, or worse. I have a home, I have a family, I have a beautiful wife, I have a purpose, here. Out there, without you, Professor, I don't know what I would be. Maybe... maybe that's what this dream is showing me? Where I would've been? I don't know."

Xavier reached out and put his hand on his former student's shoulder, "You've made me proud, so proud, everything you've done, but I still think you've possibly been hurt by what I taught you to be. I sense no manipulation around you, no change in your mind, nothing to suspect these dreams are anything but. I gave you purpose, but sometimes, it might be all right to drop the mission and the suspicion for a while. Dreams are just dreams."

Managing a small smirk, Scott said, "So you're telling me I'm overworked."

"A little, perhaps, " Xavier smiled, "I'd suggest you talk to Jean about this, and maybe not be so hesitant to take a day off now and then."

"All right, I'll give it a try, Sir," Scott said, "I'll give it a try."

Xavier watched him leave and shook his head sadly. "Where would you have been if I hadn't found you, Scott? Where would you have been?"

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