Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 02:09:38 -0500
From: Jonathan Hix <ncsuguy@hotmail.com>
Subject: The Ultimate X-Men

The Ultimate X-Men: Chapter 2
12-12-2002
xmanpaul@hotmail.com
Author: Jonathan

First off, I know nothing of the sexuality of any person mentioned in this
story. And I don't know any of them and never will.
Secondly, X-Men and all its characters are created by Stan Lee. Copyright of
Marvel Comics and 20th Century Fox.
Third, email if you want.:) xmanpaul@hotmail.com
This story is based off The Ultimate X-Men comic strip. The story, however,
will be quite different from the comic book. So read on if you want.

<Indicates telepathic conversations>


<Students, everyone come to the prep room as soon as possible. Which means
now. Professor Xavier said telepathically to his students.

**A few minutes later**

"What is it Professor?" Jean Grey asked as she walked into the large prep
room followed by the rest of the students. Scott filed in after her and
Ororo, Peter, and Henry. Professor X turned from the large computer to see
his students entering the room.

"A teenage mutant, who I have been monitoring, has suddenly begun using his
powers immensely. His name is Paul Andrews and he's in North Carolina. He is
not the only mutant signature that I picked up in that area. I picked up
four other mutant signals and a very strange unknown reading. One of the
four is definitely Sabertooth." the Professor stated at the dismay of his
students, "The other three are local mutant from the area, one of which is
Paul's twin brother. The unknown reading left the area shortly after
appearing and it seems that the other three mutants left with that reading.
I have a strange feeling that reading is Magneto, but I'm hoping that it is
not. We're going down there to check things out and to talk with Paul. In
the time that I've monitored him he hasn't used his abilities much at all,
so this turn in events leads me to believe something is wrong. Jean and
Peter, you will accompany me to North Carolina. Scott, you are in charge
while we are gone. Ok, let's go."

*****

	After making sure that Sam was all right Paul decided that he would show up
to work early since the principal had called school off for the rest of the
day. When he finally got to work and sat down he realized how tired he
actually was. It wasn't long before Mr. McKnight came in and walked over to
Paul's desk.

"Why are you in so early today Paul? Is everything all right? You look a bit
tired." Mr. McKnight asked.

	Paul worked at a local recording studio answering the phone. Mr. McKnight
was his boss and was a very good friend of his mother's before she died. He
had given Paul this job out of the kindest of his heart and had been the
only real father figure Paul had. Paul and Mr. McKnight got along while and
were always joking with each other.

"Yeah, everything's fine. Some strange guys came to school and caused some
problems. But no one got hurt. So the principal decided to gives us the rest
of the day off." Paul replied.

"Well, ok. Just wanted to make sure. So are you on the clock?"

"Yeah, is that all right?"

"Yes it is. I was just wondering. Well, I'll be in my office. Having fun
answering phones." Mr. McKnight said sarcastically as he walked away.

"Oh, I will." Paul responded in like tone.

	A few hours went by and the phones had been relatively quite. Paul had
spent most of the time reading over his notes for his last mid-term in the
morning. He started to feel hungry so he decided that he would go and
something to eat. Then he remember that Sam and Marie were working at the
Cafe'. 'I can go visit them and eat. And make sure Sam is still coping
well.' Paul thought. After the about 5 minute walk to the Cafe' Paul walked
in and sat down at one of the booths. Marie walked over to the booth and sat
down.

"Hey Marie, how are you?" asked Paul.

"Oh, I'm good. What was going at school today? Why did they call the rest of
the day off? Oh, and how are you?" Marie replied with a sudden smile. She
tended to talk quite a bit. Fortunately, Paul could understand that and it
did bother him in the least.

"I don't really know. I heard something about a fight or something like
that. And I'm fine thank you." Paul said.

"I heard that it involved mutants. Can you believe that? Mutants in our
town. I hope that they don't kill anyone." stated Marie.

"No, I didn't hear that." Paul responded a little defensively. "Do you have
a problems with mutants?"

"Well, I guess not. I haven't really meet one, but you always hear how they
are destructive." Marie said.

"It does seem that some want to do nothing but be harmful, but I don't
believe they are all like that." Paul said thinking back to his encounter
with Magneto and Sabertooth. "Some of them definitely aren't working for the
good-side."

"Yeah, I know that's true. Would you like something to eat?" asked Marie.

"Yeah, that would be great. By the way, where's Sam?" Paul responded.

"Oh, he called in and said he wasn't feeling well. So he did come in
tonight." answered Marie.

"Oh, okay. Thanks."

"No problem. Your usual will be out in a few, so sit tight." said Marie.

"Thanks." Paul said as Marie walked away.

	Marie brought out the food about five minutes later and Paul ate pretty
quickly. He said his goodbyes and decided he should go over to Sam's to make
sure he was all right. It didn't take long to get to Sam's house. It was
pretty close to the Cafe' and it was a very nice day out so that made the
walk seem shorter. When Paul got to the house he walked to Sam's bedroom
window and knocked on it lightly. We always knocked on each other's windows
when we had something important to talk about. After a minute of two he came
to the window and opened it.

"Hey Paul. What's wrong?" Sam asked.

"I'm just a bit worried about you. I wanted to make sure you were all right
after today's...uh...events." Paul said trying to find the right word.

"Well, yeah. I'm all right. I don't really understand what happened today,
but I'm all right otherwise." Sam answered.

"Good, I just wanted to make sure. It has been bothering me all afternoon.
Well, I guess I'll get going and let you get back to resting. Bye Sam. See
you tomorrow." Paul said.

"Bye Paul. Have a good night and see you tomorrow to." Sam finished.

	After that Paul walked back to work and finished up there. After about two
hours he shutdown his computer and started his round. He had to make sure
that all the computers were off and all the doors were locked. It didn't
take him long to finish that up and he returned to the front and gathered
his thing to together to leave. Then he heard the front door open and close.

"I'm sorry, but we're closed. Please come back tomorrow." Paul said without
turning around to see who it was.

"Are you Mr. Paul Andrews?" said the unknown voice.

"Um, yes I am, but as I said we are closed. Sorry, you'll have to come back
tomorrow." Paul answered.

"Good evening Paul. My name is Professor Charles Xavier and if you would
allow I would like to talk with you. Not about anything to do with the
studio, but with you." the Professor stated.

"Um. Hi. Okay, but do you mind if we walk, I mean...uh...head towards town?"
Paul said feeling really stupid about what he just said. He didn't mean to
insult the Professor being in a wheelchair. "I'm sorry about that. I didn't
mean to insult you."

"Oh, don't worry about it. I wasn't insulted in the least. Now let us walk."
Professor X said with a smile.

	As they exited the door Paul noticed two other people walking towards them.
One was a young lady with red hair, and a quite attractive and rather big
guy with jet-black hair.

"I would like to introduce you to two of my students. This is Jean Grey and
Peter Rasputin. Now Paul, we have come here to talk to you about your
mutation. I know that it may come as a shock and we don't expect you to take
to it right off, be you are a mutant. All of us are. If you learn to deal
with it you can use your gifts for the good of mankind." Prof. X stated.

"Excuse me Professor, but I know that I'm a mutant and I'm proud of it. I
know that I haven't told many people, ok I haven't told anyone, but it still
doesn't bother me." Paul said.

"I'm sorry Paul. I assumed that you were like most others and in denial
about the fact that you are a mutant. With that, I would like to invite you
to join my school for the gifted. It is a place for mutants to come and
learned to control and use their gifts in a safe and caring environment. I
have just established the school as merely the public face of a team of
mutants that I'm putting together to combat those who oppose peace and
freedom. Jean and Peter are some of the first students and also members of
the team called the X-Men." Xavier said.

"I knew that I recognized ya'll from somewhere. Ya'll have been getting a
lot of press lately." said Paul.

"Yes, we have. I know that you may need time to consider your decision, but
our number one goal is to help you learn to use abilities safely." returned
the Professor.

"Ok. Well, I've thought about and my answer is yes. I have always wanted to
use my gifts for good." Paul said slightly excited.

"Shouldn't you talk to your parents first?" asked Jean added her first words
to the conversation.

"Well, no. My mother died when I was twelve and my father isn't worth
mentioning. Oh, wait. I need to talk to Sam and Marie first." Paul said.

"Who are they?" asked the Professor.

"Sam is my best-friend in the whole freakin' world and Marie is also a very
good friend. They are pretty much the only family I have. Sam might take it
kinda hard if I leave." Paul replied.

"I'm sure that they will understand that is beneficial for you and there for
support you in going." answered the Professor.

"I think Sam will understand, but I haven't told Marie that I'm a mutant
yet. I'm not ashamed of it, but I don't want to lose her friendship. I guess
she'll find out now." Paul said with a sigh.

"Everything will work for the better Paul. It always does." Jean said
patting Paul on the shoulder.

"No it doesn't." someone said from behind them. "You stupid X-men always
seem to screw everything up some way or another."

	Paul reacted almost immediately lifting a car the street ready to throw it
at Sabertooth.
"I thought I killed you. What are you doing here?" Paul questioned.

"Like I said before kid you can't hurt me. As they say I can take a lickin'
and keep on tickin'." replied Sabertooth.

"Magneto must not have a intelligence requirement for henchmen with puns
like that." Peter said very sarcastically.

"Get out of here Sabertooth. There nothing you can do here." Prof. X stated
calmly.

"Yeah, I guess your right. Well, see ya later."  With that Sabertooth turned
and ran off into the darkness.

"Wow, I didn't figure him for the running type." Paul said while gentle
setting the car back down onto the road.

"Sabertooth May look it, but he's not stupid. He knows when he is not able
to do anything." the Professor explained.

"Well, I'm glad. Besides I thought I had killed him anyway. He most is one
wickedly powerful mutant." Paul said.

"Yes. Let us get a move on. I want to get back to the mansion before to
long." Prof. X said beginning to stroll down the sidewalk in his wheel
chair. "Jean, you and Peter go and prep the jet. We'll be along shortly."

"Yes, sir" Jean answered.

"Um, I'm really glad that you have offered me the chance to come with you,
but if it has to right now then I don't think that I can go with you. I
still haven't talked to Sam yet, and I want to tell Marie to." Paul said.

"Ok, it doesn't have to be right this second, but I will need to be leaving
soon. We can wait for to talk to your friends. And when you get to the
school you won't be cut off from them. I wouldn't ever cut you off from your
loves ones." replied Prof. Xavier.

"Still, I need to talk to Sam, so I'm going to go ever right now. Professor
I really do want to join your school and feel that I belong to something."
answered Paul.

"Ok, let's get to it." the Professor answered. Then they both turned and
began to walk away.

*****

	When they arrived at Sam's house Paul asked the Professor to stay outside
while he talked to Sam. As he walked up the sidewalk and on to the porch
Paul heard a soft meow from Ralph, Sam's black and white cat. Paul extended
his mind and gently picked the cat up into his arms. "Guess I won't be
seeing you for awhile Ralph. Well, be good and don't drive those girl cats
crazy or the boys cats." Paul shrugged and wondered, kinda smiling to
himself while putting down the cat. Paul finally knocked on the door.

"Oh hi Paul, how are you doing?" asked Sam's mom waving him in.

"I'm doing well Mrs. Ledbetter. Can I talk to Sam?" Paul answered.

"Of course you can Paul. He's back in his room. Go own back." Mrs. Ledbetter
replied shutting the door and heading back through another door.

"Thanks." Paul walked down the hall and stepped in front of the second door
on the left. The door was slightly ajar, so Paul knocked softly and pushed
open the door.

"Hey Sam. Oh hey Marie. I thought you were at work?" Paul said as he
entered.

"I just got off and decided to come see Sam. I didn't get to see him at
school today since we got out early." Marie replied.

"Hey?" Sam said with this expecting look on his face.

"Oh sorry. Hey, how's my little Sambo doing. Is he alright? I think I have a
piece of gum somewhere." Paul said mockingly digging through his pockets.

"You know, I really hate it when you call me Sambo. I'm not a dog." Sam
returned.

"Oh I know. That's why I do it." Paul answered smiling after sitting down on
the bed with Marie and Sam. "I'm glad you both here cause there some stuff I
need to tell you. Marie I know that we're best friends and that best friends
are supposes to tell each other everything. But there is stuff that I
haven't told you about me. I know that there is probably no good reason why
I didn't tell you, but I just felt like I shouldn't. I didn't know how you
would react." Marie just sat there with a pale look on her face waiting for
Paul to continue. "Marie, I'm a mutant. I am a telekinetic. I can move
things with my mind."

	Marie seemed to be reacting well. At least she hadn't run for the room
screaming. She just sat there calmly, waiting.
"How long has Sam known?

"I just found out today. Paul asked me not to tell anyone so I said I
won't." Sam put in.

"Why are you telling me now?" Marie asked.

"You know about Seth. Well Seth is a mutant to. His a telepathic mutant and
he decided to get a couple of friends and try to kill me today at school. I
had to defend myself and Sam was there and he saw me use my abilities." Paul
explained.

"He did a little more than defend himself. He kicked ass!" Sam said
enthusiastically patting Paul on the back.

"You both have heard of the X-Men right?" Both nodded and Paul continued.
"Well, tonight Professor Xavier came down here and talked to me about
joining them. To help me learn more about my abilities and to be in a place
I can be more accepted. Their based out of New York and I really want to
join them. I feel that I am suppose to do this. You guys are like my family
and I do care what you think, but I know this is right. I have to do this."

"Hey, whatever you think is right for you is what you should do. I just what
you to be happy. And I don't give a shit where you go as long as I hear from
you at least once a week." Sam said smiling.

"Yeah, as long as you're happy, I'm happy." Marie replied. "When are you
leaving?"

"Well, that's the thing. The Professor is outside. He wants me to go with
him tonight."

"What, you're leaving tonight? How are we suppose to throw a going away
party and get gifts and everything tonight?" Sam asked with mock panic
jumping up off the bed.

"Well, your not gonna do that, but you can give me a hug goodbye for now.
That's weird." Paul said looking around.

"What is it?" Marie asked.

"I feel this strange tugging on my mind, like I'm wanted somewhere else."
Paul answered.

<Paul?>

"Owww!" Paul said looking around everywhere.

<Paul, this is the Professor. I need to leave now, so if you are coming we
must go.> the Professor said sounding very urgent.

"What, what!" Sam exclaimed.

"It's the Professor. He's talking to me telepathically. I have to go now. He
says he has to leave now. Sorry guys, but I got to go." Paul said getting
up.

"Wait, Paul. Don't I get a hug goodbye." Marie asked.

"Of course!" Paul said giving both of his best friends both long hugs. "I'll
see ya'll soon, I promise."

"Hey Paul, you have fun and be safe. Oh and don't break any boys hearts,
ok?" Sam said.

"Oh, I won't and I love ya'll. BYE!" Paul said as walked out of Sam's room
and out of the house.

"What's wrong Professor?" Paul asked.

"I received a message from the Institute. New York City is under attack by
Sentinels. Three members of my team are already on there way there, but they
can't do it alone. They need Jean and Peter, and you if you what to help."

"Yes, I want to help, but I don't know how much I can offer." Paul answered.

"As long as there is a will there is a way. Let us go." The Professor said.

"Will we get there in time to help? New York is pretty far away."

"Oh, yes. Jean should be here with the jet pretty soon. Wait there she is
now." the Professor replied

	The X-Jet landed just in front of where Paul and Xavier were standing in
the street and a landing ramp lower into place. Peter looked out and
motioned them aboard. Paul followed the Professor aboard and took a seat
next to Peter near the back.

"Well Paul, welcome to the X-Men." Peter said as he strapped himself in and
the jet took off.


TBC