Chapter 106 - [BT] X Gon' Give it to Ya...

[Before Transition]

I walk out of the elevator on the thirtieth floor of the Baxter building which is the reception and it has the upper half robot named Roberta manning the desk though she completely ignores me already having identified me and quantifying me as a non threat so she says nothing as I exit the elevator and walk across the room to the elevator that would take me to any of the top five floors of my choosing but as always when I entered the elevator I pressed the button for the 34th floor as that was where I would meet Susan every morning of my internment and she would make note that I was here before we both headed of to do whatever it was that we wanted to accomplish for the day only sometimes having some small talk although that has been occurring less and less frequently in recent days but I'm sure it has nothing to do with her view if me and more to do with how busy she has been in recent days as have most of the rest of the Fantastic Four (except Johnny and I hardly see Ben so I have no idea what he's been doing), when the beep sounds the elevator doors begin to open (the elevator is so smooth and swift that you hardly even notice that your moving) and I step out onto the 34th floor but I'm a bit puzzled as usually Susan would already be out in the open waiting for me as I've made sure to always be on time but for some reason Susan is nowhere in sight and I'm a bit puzzled as to why and so I decide to investigate by using my enhanced hearing to see if I can hear anything.

Using minor powers like my enhanced senses isn't too bad to use even if I'm trying to hide my powers as long as I don't reveal to anyone the information I've gained from my superhuman senses everything should be fine and so I strain my eyes while looking around confusedly so as to play it up for the cameras that are definitely watching even though I can't see them and as I'm doing so I pickup some faint sounds of conversation within one of the briefing rooms though I can clearly make out whose talking or how many people are in the room as pretty much all of the base has been upgraded and modified so as to be soundproof especially the briefing rooms where important business goes down so I'm unable to clearly tell what's happening in the room but I can only assume that Susan is in there and I need to inform her that I've arrived in the building so I start to walk down across the room occasionally knocking on and opening some room doors as I wouldn't be able to explain how I new exactly where she was and I don't want to act too suspicious in front of the cameras, eventually I come upon the door that has people on the other side of it and so I knock on the door when I hear the voices inside quiet with my enhanced sense and taking that as my cue I push the door open slightly just enough to get my head and a bit of my upper body through the door way and I see inside the room to see what I can see. "Uh, hello?" I awkwardly call out as I look at the people in the room whose conversation I seem to have disrupted.

"Oh Nick, it's you. I completely forgot that you were coming in today, sorry. You can just go ahead and start working on whatever it is your focusing on right now." Susan calls out to me and I am eager to comply as I want to leave the room as fast as I possibly can as I've just scanned the room and apart from bored Johnny and mopey Ben who are sat on a couch and Reed and Susan who are sitting at the conference table across them are some people that I have never met before but I know exactly who they are just from looking at them and I definitely don't want to be near them for a prolonged amount of time so I'm just about to leave the room and go about my day when I'm stopped abruptly by one of the new guests speaking aloud. "Hold on a moment young man.." I hear a wizened English accent call out behind me and I stop in my tracks before slowly turning around to face the man in question as I have no other choice en though this is a situation I dearly wanted to avoid based on my knowledge from comics and other portrayals of the man sitting at the table and I couldn't leave even if I wanted to as the man spoke aloud when everyone else was quiet so I can't just pretend I hadn't heard him as that would obviously be a lie. "Yes? How can I help you?" I call out politely to the man just hums in contemplations before asking a question that I was expecting as soon as he stopped me from leaving the room. "Yes, are you perhaps a mutant? Or do you have any powers in general." He asks me.

I show genuine surprise on my face as even though I expected him to ask this question I'm still surprised by it and while I try to think of a response I go over everything I know about this man in my head which isn't much except that his name is Charles Francis Xavier also known as 'Professor X' and I know that he was a brilliant student, attending multiple schools throughout his educational career before finally attending Bard College in his early teens and graduated from Harvard University when he was 16 years old intent on undertaking graduate studies, Xavier entered England's Oxford University to gain his Ph.D.s in Genetics and Biophysics and he was drafted by the government and was sent to Korea during the Korean War where he and his step brother Cain Marko served in the same unit (who coincidently discovered a mystical ruby in the Temple of Cyttorak that transformed him into the superhuman Juggernaut) after which he went to Egypt where he met Ororo Munroe and defeated an evil ancient mutant or something, I'm not too sure what actually happen but I know that it was what started his need to help humans and mutants coexist or something and that's pretty much all I can remember about him apart from all the mind manipulation and f.u.c.kery he apparently does on his own students but I'll wait till I've actually properly interacted with the man myself than base my life in the knowledge I have from the comics as there's no assurances that they are correct.

I'm about to answer his question when I'm interrupted from doing so by the other person who has tagged along with the Professor on this trip. "Professor?" Ororo Munroe asks in question as to why he suddenly asked such a question and I must say that she is a stunning dark skinned woman who looks like an gorgeous Nubian goddess with her shining white hair in contrast to her dusky complexion and it's clear that Johnny shares my opinion as his eyes have pretty much stayed on her this whole time and he doesn't seem to be listening to the conversation but instead of paying attention to that I try and focus on what I know about this beautiful woman which is that she is the descendant of an ancient line of African priestesses all of whom have white hair, blue eyes, and the potential to wield magic though I'm unsure if Ororo ever does use magic and at the age of five a plane crash destroyed her home in Cairo (Egypt) and her parents were killed but she survived buried under rubble near her mother's body which had a traumatising effect on her which left Ororo with severe claustrophobia that I think she still has and she managed to escape the rubble of her shattered home with nothing but the tattered clothes on her back and became homeless and orphaned before she was found by a gang of street urchins who took her to their master who trained her in the arts of thievery and she soon became his prize pupil, excelling in picking both pockets and locks, during her time in Cairo as a thief Ororo picked the pocket of Charles Xavier and he discovered her but I don't think he took any actions and after that.

I think that somehow she ended up wandering for thousands of miles and almost dying during her trek across the Sahara Desert but she awakened her mutant ability to psionically control the weather and she eventually arrived at her ancestors' homeland of the Kilimanjaro Valley on the Serengeti Plain in Kenya where she was taken in and taught to be responsible with her powers and Ororo soon came to be the object of worship of the local tribes who believed her to be a goddess due to her gift to command the weather but I'm not quite sure how she ended up joining the X-Men after that but u think that Charles recruited her when his students were in danger or something, I'm not too sure actually but I'm snapped out of my thoughts when I hear the Professor answer Ororo's silent question. "Now now Ororo, I'm only asking as I can't actually read this young man's mind. In fact I wasn't even aware of his presence in the building till he entered the room."

Well shit, my mind reader protection kind of blew up in my face...

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