36 X-mansion

X-Mansion's Westchester County, New York

"So you are here upgrading Cerebro again' Logan stated as he look around the large spherical room. Cerebro is located underneath the mansion has been designed to help amplify Charles telepathy power to be able to locate mutants anywhere in the world.

"Yes, with the increase of mutants in the human race, a more powerful version is required and I need to keep my mind occupied" Charles Xavier replied as he inputs new lines of code into the control program.

Charles then turn his attention towards the native American man underneath the console "How is it going Forge?"

"Nearly done here Professor, it just requires some some fine tuning and it will be ready to go" Forge replied as his techno organic hand change into a tool he need as he continue his work under the console as Charles replied "Thank you Forge".

"Will the upgrade done to Cerebro help you find Magneto?" Logan asked.

"I am not sure, Logan. You know what he is capable of" Charles replied as his friend Magneto is able to shield himself from every kind of telepathic detection that Charles could think of.

"Yes, he could be also searching for new mutants to join his cause" Logan say with contempt as he think of the mutant with magnetic power. Magneto goals is to have mutant to dominate the human race and destroy anyone that go against him.

"I am also worried that with Nightwing's visit tomorrow, he will draw Magneto's attention" Charles replied feeling concern.

Logan grumbled "They are going to discover him that he is a mutant anyway".

"My concerns is that Magneto will try to find a way to control him to help achieve his goals. Even though I know he is a superhero but we don't know whether we can stop him if Nightwing suddenly turn against us" Charles replied concernedly as he think of the Nightwing latest fight at Harlem.

The news of Nightwing fight has made the mutants in the mansion more motivated to go out and become a hero too. Charles don't want his students to endanger their life and bring unwanted attention to the mansion.

Logan growled "He is nothing special, he is just lucky that I have no intention to kill him last time".

"I just don't want him to fall into Magneto's grasp and we don't understand his power yet" Charles replied concernedly.

"We can summon the X-Men to test him out" Logan temptingly

"No" Charles quickly replied as he continued "We are not going to fight, Logan. We are trying to invite him to join us and be friendly terms with him".

Logan grunted "Magneto won't take no for an answer if he does the recruiting.'

Logan snorted and walk away.

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Nightwing Base

Today is the day I am going to visit I am going to visit the X-mansion. With the help of Oracle, I have been keeping a surveillance on both Kraven and Otto Octavius but they have not done anything that might cause me to feel concern. I have made several countermeasures just in case.

Kraven is busy organizing his television show behind closed door and his show has the support of J. Jonah Jameson. Having a possible idea of the who they are planning to target, I decided not to tell the others so they will learn not to underestimate their opponents. The only thing I did was to warn them to be careful since there is a possible threat against them.

I have finance Otto Octavius's research but I have ordered Bernard to help set several rules to ensure the same accident in the Spiderman movie does not happen and create another villain. Some of the rules I have establish is that before any test could be done, his calculation on the experiment need to be double check by two different researcher of the same field and that it need to be small scale. After several test and approval we will only then will present it to the world.

So far New York crime rate has drop to a new level, the Defenders don't have to do much except to patrol once awhile to show our presence to keep New York citizen's hope up. We are currently discussing to expand out operation to different part of state and to bring in new members into our group.

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X-Mansion's Westchester County, New York

Rogue is in her room dressed in her usual green shirt, black skirt with leggings underneath and gloves spending quality time by herself and avoiding all the madness that is happening in the mansion. Rogue considered how power a curse since she involuntary ability to absorb and sometimes also remove the memories, physical strength, and superpowers of anyone she touches.

Logan's Danger Room training sessions had been very difficult that her whole body ache all over. She got a feeling that Logan gets a perverse pleasure of making them suffer and it being a punishment for them gossiping behind Logan back regarding Nightwing beating him up.

Rogue rather have Mr Hank McCoy aka Beast as their instructor compare to Logan since he is very nice to them. Mr McCoy mutation cause him to be covered with blue fur all over his body similar to Kurt with increase in all aspect of his physical abilities similar to an animal.

Suddenly Rogue could hear someone shouting her name causing her to sigh to herself in annoyance because the person would be Kitty Pryde, her roommate shouting for her as Kitty phases through the wall into the room.

"Would it kill ya to go through the door" Rogue scolded which Kitty quickly relied giggling "Sorry, but this is also my room too"

Grumbling Rogue said "Whassup!"

"Nightwing is here, he looks hotter in real life. Professor Xavier, Logan and Ororo is greeting him outside" Kitty excitedly replied "Come on, hurry!"

Rogue without any enthusiasm replied "So what! Did you forget that I can't touch anybody?" since no matter how 'hot' Nightwing might be, she don't want to remind herself of not being able touch anyone ever again.

"That does not mean you can't look either" Kitty argued back as she grabbed Rogue's hand "Come on, faster".

Rogue replied reluctantly "Alright, lets go" as Kitty pulled Rogue from their room towards the main entrance of the mansion. All the girls from the mansion consist of Amara, Jubilee, Rahne and Jean is already at there giggling and whispering at each other excitedly as the look out of the window near the entrance. Jean being excited surprised Rogue since she has a boyfriend and she already meet Nightwing already.

Scott, Kurt, Roberto, Ray and Bobby is looking at the girls in annoyance and wonder as Bobby said "Why are they so excited, it is just Nightwing a hero?".

"Two words for you Bobby" Jubilee smiled and looked back at Bobby mouthing "Fresh, Meat" as Bobby shake his head in annoyance.

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Front of X-mansion

As I ride my Nightcycle towards the front of mansion steps, waiting there is Professor Charles Xavier, Logan and Ororo aka Storm a woman with chocolate mocha skin color and long white hair. Charles greeted me warmly "Welcome Nightwing" He gestured towards Ororo saying "This is Ororo Monroe and Logan you have meet previously" as Logan growled at me.

Ororo held out her hand "Nightwing it is a pleasure to meet you. I am impress with your work". Shaking her hand I replied "Thanks you".

"Hello Professor" I said as Charles nodded his head.

Charles gestured towards the garage "You can park you bike in the garage over there, lets go inside to my office to have our discussion".

As I entered the mansion, I notice group of people waiting near the entrance as I give a short wave to Scott and Jean since I meet them before as all the students stared at me curiously with girls blushing slightly.

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Rahne is staring at Nightwing speechlessly as her heart start beating very fast

Kitty squeal out excitedly "Oh my god" before scolding Jean "You have underplayed how hot his body look like" as she stared at Nightwing

Jubilee burning hot is she start fanning herself saying "Hot and Spicy! just the way I like it"

Amara thinking to herself that Nightwing is mysterious black knight that will swoop in killing all enemy to reach his princess.

Jean is staring at Nightwing breathlessly as he recognize her even though they meet once. Feeling her skip a beat.

Rogue couldn't help herself from staring at Nightwing even though she like Scott.

"I was interested to meet Nightwing but seeing the girls being weird spoil my mood" Bobby remarks as he went away.

Scott walk away in silence, feeling annoyed that Jean is staring at Nightwing.

Roberto and Ray watches on laughing at the girls expression.

Kurt stood aside wondering he could get an autograph.