Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 15:21:32 -0400 From: Dash Jarrod Subject: Force of One 4 Disclaimer: This story is totally fictional. If the character resembles anyone from your life, that is just coincidence. Any celebrity involved in this story may or may not be homosexual. If you are under 18 please don't read. Thanks to Matt, Alex, and all of my friends that have read the story and sent back positive comments. The next day was pretty much the same as the day before in the morning. I went through my classes without too much staring at a certain someone. But of course I couldn't avoid this too much considering how gorgeous he is. I will just have to make sure that no one notices that I am staring at him. If I was caught and the person who caught me wasn't friendly towards gay people, this would be very bad. That afternoon though, I had an appointment to talk with Professor X about how I am dealing with being at a new school. It was then that I decided to bring up the questions I had yesterday. He started out the conversation by asking the standard new student questions. He asked, "How I was enjoying school?" I responded with "Its ok so far, I am really enjoying the training I am receiving in using my powers." He also asked, "Did I make any friends yet?" I told him, "I have made one friend so far, although I hope that I will make more as time goes on." Lastly he asked, "How I adjusted to being at a new college?" To this I answered, "I didn't have any problems with adjusting to coming to a new school." Then I started to ask my questions starting with, "How did you know I knew how to speak with my telepathic abilities?" He responded with, "When we first talked I peeked into your mind. I found out that you knew how to use some of your abilities even though you weren't aware of what powers you had." I then told him about my dream and asked, "What do you think about that and did you find me because of that?" It was then that he told me about cerebro. He said, "Usually I have to use cerebro to find new powerful mutants but in your case you were obvious to just my normal telepathic abilities. This was weird for me because normally mutant signatures aren't picked up by my power. I think that you were sending out telepathic waves strong enough for me to pick them up here, that is why I sent Wolverine and Gambit to go and find you." I then decided to tell him that, "I was also visited by someone calling himself "Magneto"." He gasped at hearing that. This scared me considering I thought he was hard to scare or surprise. He then said that I could go and do whatever I wanted to for the rest of the afternoon because we were done. When I was leaving I could tell that he was pondering what I told him. This unnerved me to no end. To get my mind off of what just happened, I decided to go outside to see what the other students were doing. I saw a few of them playing basketball, so I decided to ask if I could join in. They said sure but that there were no powers allowed. I said fine by me. Every once in a while I can play a good game of basketball. Today was one of those occasions; I think this was because I was trying to forget what we talked about by focusing on something else. Today I was focusing on playing basketball. It ended up being a tie, both teams ended up too tired to finish the game. Such is life. The group of us just hung out until some of us had to leave to get to lessons. When I was the only person left, I just sat down and started thinking. I was thinking about why the professor would be so shocked by the fact that I was contacted by "Magneto". I seem to be thinking a lot since I started school here. I think this is a good thing though. I wonder if it has to do with all of the powers I have? Hmmm, I wonder what he wanted with me? I guess I will never know and I don't think I really want to. The next thing I knew, it was dinnertime and then time for bed. Tonight, I was still thinking about my conversation with the professor when I went to bed. It seems that whatever I am thinking about affects my dreams. I dreamt that I was being hunted down by Magneto. This dream scared me, it seemed so real. I wasn't nearly prepared enough to face him by myself, so I was panicking really badly. Right when I was about to be captured, my alarm went off and woke me up. Boy was I thankful that it was just a dream. Hopefully this one was just a dream, like the one about Andrew. I don't really want this one to come true like the one about my powers. I think I should talk to the professor again. I want to see what he thinks of my dream. I also want to see if I have the ability to see the near future, or if this is just some weird fluke. Those questions will probably bother me all day. I definitely have to make an appointment to talk to the professor about this. However, I went through the day not worrying too much about it. At least I tried not to let it worry me. I managed to get through my classes with no problem. But when I got to training, I had to concentrate really hard to do what I wanted to. Although this isn't necessarily a bad thing because the more I concentrated, the more I was able to lift. Also the more I concentrated, the heavier of objects I was able to lift. After a while, I was able to do all of this without trying very hard at all. I was finally able to get my dream out of my head during that training session. That was actually my most productive training session so far. I hope I will be able to concentrate this hard tomorrow so I can accomplish this much again. During the break in my exercises I telepathically asked Jean, "How do you think I am doing?" She replied, "You are doing great, all you have to do is focus this hard every time. If you focus this hard all the time, you will become one of the most powerful minds on the planet." This comment astonished me. I then asked, "Do you really think that I will become one of the most powerful minds on the planet like you and the professor?" She answered, "I have no doubts in my mind that you are as powerful as I am. For instance, you haven't been taught how to talk this way and you are doing it quite well. For some reason I don't think this is your first time doing this." I then said, "You are right. After Professor X said that I already knew how to talk this way, I went out and talked to my friend this way. He is also a telepath, so it was easy for him to talk with me. I surprised him when I started talking with him this way. We talked for a while this way until he had to go do something else. I don't even know where he was located when we were talking. Oh well." She said, "I must say, I am amazed at how fast you are learning your telepathic and telekinetic abilities. Tomorrow though, we shall start on some of your telepathic abilities." When I heard this I was ecstatic. I told her, "I can not wait until we do that. I have wanted to learn about that but haven't been able to. Considering, only you and the professor are able to teach me. I mean other students could try and teach me but you and the professor are the best to teach me." "Well," she said, "time to go back to work. I want you to be able to lift everything in this room at once before you are leave. I know this will take a lot of effort at first, but it will be worth it." It took me another half-hour to an hour to finally be able to lift all of the objectss in the room, including Jean(this she wasn't expecting), consistently. After I was let out, I went by the professor's office to see if he was in. He was, he asked me to join him because he wanted to talk to me anyway. I figured it was about what I said yesterday. When I entered his office he asked me to sit down. When I had taken a seat, he just sat there looking at me, sort of concentrating hard. I am not quite sure what he was doing. I don't know why but I interrupted his concentration. I asked, "What did you want to speak to me about?" He responded, "After you left here, I got to pondering why Magneto would want you to join his side so much. I just sat here thinking about that for a while, and then I went and talked to Dr. McCoy about your powers. He seems to think that Magneto might want you because of your varied power range and also because he thinks you might be the most powerful mutant alive." I then asked, "Do you really think I am the most powerful mutant alive? He then said, "I have heard that you can lift all of the objects in the training room without much effort after only three days of training, and I have also heard that you can mind-speak quite well without training. If you learn how to use all of your powers this quickly, I would say that you were. I do agree with Dr. McCoy that you are probably the most powerful mutant alive. I just hope that you are able to control all of your powers when you learn how to do that. If you can't control one of your powers, I will have to lock one of them away." I then asked, "Have you locked any of my powers away yet?" To this he responded, "I have had no reason to lock any of your powers away yet. However, when you sat down, I started to look into your mind to try and figure out further why Magneto would want you so badly. If you don't mind, I would like to continue my search through your mind. You will have to relax so I can do this." I thought about this, did I really want him searching my mind? I wasn't so sure, but then a voice in my head said that I had nothing to worry about. So I responded, "I don't see why you can't." So the professor came over and put his hands on either side of my head and closed his eyes to concentrate. When I saw him close his eyes, I started to relax my mind. I don't know if I will like what he finds in there or not but I trust him and assume that he won't do any harm while he is in there. It seemed only like a few minutes before he opened his eyes and told me I could go but that he wanted to talk to me again tomorrow at this time, but in fact an hour had passed and it was time for dinner. Well, that's it for another chapter. Please, please, please tell me what you think. I would love to hear what you have to say. What do you think Professor X found out in Matthew's mind? Do you think that there was anything bad in there or do you think that Professor X will respond badly to finding out that Matthew was gay? You will just have to wait and see. You can contact me at djminf@hotmail.com. Thanks for reading.