Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:49:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: DOGG <nphillydogg@aol.com>
Subject: xmen tales-33 / emancipated

Disclaimer:
X-Men Tales: is loosely based on the X-Men- Evolution t.v. cartoon series,
as well as the comicbook produced by Marvel Comics.
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The X-Men are mutants, unfortunate people born with an X-gene that gives
them extraordinary powers and abilities which makes them outcasts to those
considered "normal" in the world.
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X-Men cast:
(Teachers) Professor-X, Angel, Banshee, Beast, Bishop, Forge, Polaris,
Storm, and Wolverine, The White Queen, Dr Mora MacTaggert,

(Students) Cannonball-17, Cyclops-17, Colossus-18, Gambit-17, Iceman-16,
Multiple boy-13, Nightcrawler-16, Northstar-17, Spike-15, Sunspot-16,
Thunderbird-18, Havok-16 / Amanda-16, Jubilee-13, Karma-16, Magma-15,
Premonition (Jean Grey)-17, Rogue-16, Shadowcat-14, Spirit-17, Syran-16,
Wolvesbane-15, WeaponX-16
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X-Men Tales: -pt33

	Title: EMANCIPATED


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Pt-1<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

XAVIER INSTITUTE
Salem Center, NY


	X-students (Rogue, Kitty Pryde, and Nightcrawler) stood outside
Med-lab #1, as resident medical physician Dr Mora MacTaggert ran
psychological tests on the man claiming to be the long dead mentor of the
Institute Professor Xavier, while assuming the body of the X-Men's enemy
Mountjoy.


"You don't believe it's true, do you...?" asked Kitty, unclear exactly what
her own thoughts were? "Naw..., it CAN'T be true..., can it..?!" she
questioned.


"I dunno, gal..., I just live here is all...!" said Rogue, getting
frustrated by Kitty's questions.


"Well I for one don't TRUST him..." said Nightcrawler, hanging upside down
from the ceiling. "...after what he did to Roberto..., we'd be FOOLS to
believe his lies!"


"How's Roberto feeling about seeing Mountjoy again...?" asked Kitty,
curiously.


"How do you think he feels...?" asked Nightcrawler, jumping down from the
ceiling to sit [Indian style] on the metal sub-basement floor. "Lousy!"


"The way he practically ran through you to open the door for Mountjoy
certainly indicates he might still be under his spell...!" surmised
Kitty. "I guess the bonds that held them together all those months that
Berto was his prisoner hasn't completely dissolved...?"


"The X-Men described MountJoy's powers as that of a mutant vampire..."
recalled Rogue, sitting with her back against the Med-Lab wall. "...can
anyone ever get over a vampire once you've been bitten...?"


INSIDE THE LAB...


	...Dr MacTaggert had Mountjoy tied with restraints as she ran him
through a barrage of physical and psychological tests to see if indeed he
was WHO he claimed to be. Mountjoy played by Mora's rules, allowing himself
to be poked and prodded diligently to prove his true identity. With probes
attached to his temples to monitor his brainwaves, she ran him through the
Automated D.O.C to inspect his internals, searching x-rays, body
temperature, blood type, weight, heartbeat, pulse, --anything that would
indicate Mountjoy might be housing another body inside him, or perhaps
another telepath like The White Queen [back in chaps-5 & 10 >Reader's Note:
Mountjoy Is a mutant vampire with his unique ability to physically absorb
his victims like a sponge, then assume their physical appearance and
memories at will<].


"I can SENSE your skepticism, Mora..." said Mountjoy, talking in the same
calm tone as Charles Xavier, but in Mountjoy's voice. "You can run as many
tests as you like..., the results will still be the same..." he said,
relaxing casually as the bed he lay on slide automatically into the exam
chamber. (((...I am Charles Xavier...!"))) he concluded, telepathically.


"Oh really...?" asked Mora, skeptically. "Then WHY, pray tell, did you take
you SO LONG to contact us...?" she asked, fed up with Mountjoy trying to
play with her mind. "Professor Charles Xavier was one of the most
powerfulest telepaths in the free world..., WHY would it take this long for
him to contact the X-Men, the people who mourned him most, to tell them
that he was still alive in someone else's body...??"
	Blue and red lights began to probe over Mountjoy's body, taking
readings of height, weight, density, etc, a mechanical hum vibrating
throughout the machine as Mountjoy thought of an answer...


"I had never projected my mind into another person's body before..." he
explained, much to Mora MacTaggert's skepticism. "When I felt death coming,
I knew I HAD to do something...! I remembered the incident with The White
Queen erasing Mountjoy's memories, sending him brain pattern back to
infancy...! I know it was immoral, but I wasn't yet ready to die...! I
sought out Mounjoy's mind as I lay there dying on that exam table in
Colorado...[chap-16, pt-4]..., I found him being taken care of in a mental
hospital Emma Frost dumped him in after the battle...[the battle being the
"mutant clash" in chap-10]...! There was nothing left of the former
Mountjoy, Emma had done a thorough job of attacking his brain, leaving his
mind with little to NO function at all! I focused really hard, then
transferred MY mental thoughts, patterns, ideas, and self awareness into
Mountjoy's mind, just as my body began to die! Then while I was inside
Mountjoy, it took weeks for me to learn the basic patterns of his brain
that caused functions! It was like an accident victim coming out of a long
coma..., I had to learn to talk all over again, to walk, to pick up a cup,
to go to the bathroom...! Then once I started to grow stronger in his body,
I was able to finally reconnect with my telepathy..., and that's how I got
out of the hospital...!"


"Interesting story..." said Mora, stone faced. "...but if you're TRULY who
you say you are..., then you would know HOW Charles and I met...?" she
asked, believing Mountjoy wouldn't be able to answer that question.
	Mountjoy smiled...

"We met in college..." he said correctly, causing Mora to gasp. "...when
you opposed my oral exam on Genetic Mutations...!"


"I didn't OPPOSE your theory..." argued Mora, "...I just doubted it
existed...!"


"You LAUGHED in the middle of my speech...!" countered Mountjoy, good
humored.


"A friend had just told me a funny joke...!" defended Mora, smirking.


"Really...?" asked Mountjoy, skeptically. "What WAS it...?"


"Like I can remember NOW...?" said Mora, trying not to laugh.
	Mountjoy made eye contact...


((("I also remember us getting engaged..."))) he thought telepathically,
invading Mora's mind. ((("...I remember warm intimate nights in your dorm
room, eating take out while studying by candlelight so we wouldn't disturb
your roommate, Ashley...!"))) he recalled. ((("I could show you mental
pictures also, if you like...?"))) he added, filling her mind with the
image of the first time he went down on her, textbooks scattered across the
floor as Mora's mini-skirt lay high about her waist while her panties
dangled off one foot, Xavier's face pressed deep between her spread legs...
	Mora MacTaggert clutched her throat as the old memories of Charles'
tongue flickering across her clitoris caused her vagina to moisten
today. She could still feel his tongue between her legs, licking and eating
her while her roommate lay sleeping just feet away. She had no idea at the
time that Xavier had already played tricks with the roommate's mind [she
would have slept through an explosion...]. After making Mora cum twice with
his oral skills, Charles undid his pants and quietly crawled up on top of
Mora, where he slowly inserted his penis, taking her virginity...


"Enough...!" she said aloud, breaking the mental contact and coming back to
reality.


((("Does THAT pass the test...?"))) asked Mountjoy, confidently.
	Mora sat speechless, knowing Mountjoy was saying things NO ONE but
only her and Charles could know about...


"Tricky...verrryy tricky..." she said, laughing at herself for nearly
falling for Mountjoy's deceptions. "...if you really DID absorb another
telepath, --like you did when you absorbed The White Queen, you could have
easily picked that thought from the back of my mind someplace...!"


"I ASSURE you Mora..., I am Chalres Xavier...!" insisted Mountjoy.


"If I discover TWO distinct heartbeats on your sonogram..., or get TWO
blood types in your samples..., or detect another person's body in your
x-rays..., then I'll know EXACTLLY who you are and what you're capable of
doing, mister Mountjoy...!"
	Mountjoy said nothing more [silently submitting to Mora's tests],
knowing she would need to discover the truth for herself...


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Pt-2<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<


MANHATTAN, NY


	The Blackhawk helicopter flew in quietly over lower Manhattan,
hovering low as its teenage occupants scanned the area looking for any
signs of their teachers, --The X-MEN! Adrenaline ran high as the students
[all post graduates from Xavier's Academy] searched for any sign that their
teachers were anywhere afoot.


"They've GOT to be around here somewhere..." said Premonition [Jean Grey],
sitting as Cyclops' copilot. "...the signal indicates the SUV is somewhere
near, or IN that large warehouse...!"
	Scott bought the Hawk in closer, shining bright lights on the
building at dusk...


"There's no signs of any activity down there..." he said, giving a visual
sweep. "...why don't you give it a psychic scan and see if you pick up on
any of the teachers inside...?" he suggested.


"You...you KNOW I haven't been using my telepathy since..., since the
INCIDENT...!" said Jean, afraid she might lose control [as she did in
chap-25 `PSYCH MADDESS'].


"This is different, Jean..." insisted Scott, pulling rank. "...this is to
FIND the X-Men...! We NEED your powers to confirm if they're down there or
not...!"
	Jean hesitated, underestimating her ability to control her
thoughts. Taking a deep breath, she closed her eyes and sighed before
focusing her thoughts on any mental activity happening within the building
below.
	Unlocking the mental security doors to her psychic powers, she
began reading the thoughts of someone inside. A male, tall, slim,
sensitive..., his thoughts on his `children', and how much he regretted
having to KILL THEM. The other male was larger, more vile with his thoughts
on how badly he wanted to hurt, murder, and mangle the children until they
screamed for bloody mercy! Then she got flashes of the terror in the
children's eyes, as the two monsters moved in closer to hurt them...
	Scott saw the Blackhawk's instruments starting to go haywire as the
helicopter began to circle out of control...


"Jean...! JEAN...!!!" he screamed, trying to get her attention as the
Blackhawk's propellers cut through the telephone lines crossing the street,
causing power outages as electrical sparks rained down on the road and
abandoned parking lot.
	Scott was forced to bring the chopper in for a landing as Jean
telekinetically relinquished control.


"They're down there, Scott...! ALL of them!" she managed to said,
frightfully. "They're being tormented by two men who are threatening to
kill them!" then she hurriedly gripped Scott's arm, showing intensity in
her green fear driven eyes. "And I think they MEAN it...!"


"Okay X-Men..." said Scott [Cyclops], taking command of the
mission. "...saddle up...! It's `clobberin' time'...!" he yelled, stealing
a line from The Thing's page.
	With The Blackhawk down in the warehouse parking lot, Cyclops,
Premonition, Gambit, Cannonball, Thunderbird, Karma, Havok, Northstar,
Colossus, and Spirit exited and headed to the draw-gates sealing off the
loading dock. Adjusting the intensity of his eyebeam, Cyclops fired a razor
thin laser beam into the metal, cutting a straight vertical and diagonal
line until the gate fell to the ground in a dusted heap. "Alright
people..., keep your eyes peeled..."


"Scott, get down...!" yelled Premonition, shoving her hands forth and
causing a telekinetic whiplash that sent Cyclops and Gambit to the floor
hard, just as a powerful energy beam shot at them from the darkness inside
the warehouse [exploding on contact against a wall across the street].


"That was CLOSE...!" sighed Gambit, kissing dirt.


"AARRHHHHH...!!" yelled the large man known as The Orphan Maker, charging
out of the dark with a huge energized axe [which he used to focus his
energy signatures].
	Colossus transformed from human form [flesh and blood], into
organic steel before blocking The Orphan Maker's charge. With his muscles
pumped for a fight [wanting to redeem himself after the beating he took
from The HULK, >chap-28<], he totally didn't expect it when The Orphan
Maker slammed him with the brunt of his axe, sending Colossus careening
across the street like an old news paper.


"WHO the hell IS THIS GUY...?!??" asked Cannonball, exploding from a
standing still position into the full charge of his namesake, hitting
Orphan Maker head on, as he and the big man toppled backwards into the
warehouse like two out of control missiles, crashing into stacks of large
boxed and concrete.


"I don't know..." said Cyclops, bringing up the rear as he and the others
charged in behind Cannonball. "...but Jean indicated TWO men..., let's
assume they're BOTH powerful...!"


"Your assumptions would be right...!" said The Nanny, suddenly appearing
out of nowhere with the power of fairy dust. Twirling about on one foot
[like a prima ballerina], he fly kicked Thunderbird and Northstar into next
week, catching the two off guard. The two x-teens fell over a railing and
down onto the floor below, knocking the wind from their lungs.


"What the HELL kinda move was THAT. Mon ami...?" asked Gambit, pulling a
staff from up his trench coat sleeve, using it as a pole-volt as he leaped
into Nanny's chest like an Olympian, sending him reeling backwards like
excess baggage. "Or should I call you, Twinkle-Toes...?"


"BASTARD!!" yelled Orphan Maker, seeing his lover accosted.
	Slapping Cannonball aside, he leaped out of the debris and landed
directly in front of Gambit, swinging his axe in one fluid motion until it
sliced through the ground [barely missing the Cajun] and sending an energy
source straight through Gambit's body, electrifying him where he stood.
	Gambit's painful screams could be heard throughout the warehouse.
	Seizing mental control of The Nanny, Karma instructed him to attack
his lover. Nanny somersaulted [in dance] across the floor like a beautiful
gymnast, then karate chopped The Orphan Maker in several key points that
bought him to his knees.


"What the hell'r you doing...?!?" he asked, noting the blank look in his
lover's eyes. "I HATE to do this to you babe..." he said, punching Nanny
out [and in essence, knocking out Karma as well].
	Spirit focused her powers on Orphan Maker's mind, pulling from his
deepest darkest fears, the thing that scared him the most. The image of a
large man [taller, even more muscular than The Orphan Maker himself]
appeared, his anger and rage apparent on his evil face as he raised the
buckled end of a leather belt overhead to strike someone.... "NO DADDY...,
NO...!!" yelled Orphan Maker, ducking for safety, obviously frightened of
his own abusive father. Havok used his moment of weakness against him,
hitting him with enough raw energy to power 16 city blocks, which sent
Orphan Maker cascading through a brick wall.


"Quickly, while they're both out..., find the X-Men!" instructed Scott,
seizing the opportunity.
	The X-students began running around frantically, searching for the
x-children...


"They're downstairs..." said Premonition, sensing the children's
thoughts. "...they're scared, in darkness..., but they're alive...!" she
confirmed.


"Where's the basement...?" asked Spirit, looking around for a door.


"If we can't find a door..." said Colossus, coming in late after the first
attack. "...we'll MAKE one!" he announced, ramming his fist through the
wooden floor and causing a large section to cave in.


"I can HEAR them!" yelled Spirit, looking down into the hole. "We need
light!"
	Havok walked up to the hole, then jumped down inside...


"Alex...!" called Cyclops, worried his little brother might be walking into
a trap.


"I'm fine...!" said Havok, energizing as his body begin to glow,
illuminating 90% of the basement in high voltage. "They're here...!" he
announced, finding the x-kids trapped in a steel cage. "Oh shit..." he
gasped upon seeing them up close.
	Cyclops, Spirit, and Jean Grey jumped down into the cellar...


"My god..." said Jean, walking up to the cage. "...they're babies...!"
	The students all bared witness as the X-Men lay scattered across
the floor, each crying out loud for their mother. "What are we supposed to
do now...?" asked Jean, unsure how to return them to normal.


"First thing's first..." said Scott, blasting the lock with his
optic-blast. The gate flew open, allowing the students to enter, leaving
with two x-babies apiece in their arms. "...let's get the XMen out of
here...!"
	As the students begin to make their way out of the hole [levitated
by Jean's telekinesis], Nanny began to awaken from his somber, feeling his
sore jaw where his lover had socked him.


"What are you doing with my babies...??!" he asked, as the students cradled
the children protectively. "Give them to me! They're MY children!"


"What can we do...?" asked Spirit, holding baby Banshee and baby Forge in
her arms. "We can't fight with children in our hands...!"


("I have an idea...") thought Cyclops, projecting his thoughts through
Jean. "We're with DHS..." he said to The Nanny, with Jean using her
telepathy to make The Nanny believe he was being confronted by officials in
suits. "...we heard reports that these children were being neglected and in
danger of abuse...!"


"Nonsense!" said Nanny, not believing a word of it. "I'd NEVER hurt my own
children...!"
	Cyclops thought...


"The reports were made against the father...!" he recanted. "Has he made
threats against them...?"


"Well..." thought Nanny, recalling how his `husband' was poised to fuck
Wolverine when he walked in and caught him trying to discipline the
children. "...he...he's been under a lot of stress lately..., he didn't
mean to hurt anyone...!"


"Nevertheless, we HAVE to take the children back with us to make sure
they're okay..." said Cyclops, "...YOU can get them back if our
investigation proves there was no neglect! Is your husband unstable...?"


"I've tried taking him in for counseling..." admitted Nanny, "...but he's
so stubborn...!"


"Take the children out to the car...!" insisted Cyclops, going on with the
illusion.
	The Nanny broke down in tears as he watched his children being
taken away from him.


"NO...! Don't let them leave here with our kids...!" yelled The Orphan
Maker, crawling from up under a pile of collapsed bricks. "They're not
DHS..., they're students from that school...! They're trying to steal back
our children!"
	The Nanny snapped out of Jean's trance, seeing the students for who
they were...


"You TRICKED me...!" he yelled angrily, seeing red through the fire in his
eyes. "I want my children back, and I want them NOW!!" he demanded.


"I'm comin' baby..., don't worry...!" said The Orphan Maker, rising to his
feet as he leaped through the air with his axe in hand, energy crackling
from the sharp end as he prepared to bring it down on the x-students' heads
[babies and all].
	Colossus intercepted, tackling The Orphan Maker in midair, causing
him to crash to the ground in a heap of muscle. Both men struggled for the
power of the axe, both holding prominent ends as they struggled at a
standstill between two superpowers.
	Gambit [having come to] rushed over and touched the tip of the axe,
causing the entire weapon to glow. A few seconds later, the axe exploded,
sending both Colossus and Orphan Maker hurling in opposite
directions. Havok passed Beast and Polaris off to another student, then ran
over and grabbed The Orphan Maker by the hair [yanking his head back], then
placed an energized fist beside his temple...


"HEY..." he yelled, getting The Nanny's attention. "...turn the X-Men back
to normal, or I'll blow your husband's head all over this warehouse...!"


"You wouldn't dare..." snarled The Nanny, calling Havok's bluff.
	Havok aimed his fist in the opposite direction, blowing a huge hole
in the side of the wall. Debris could be seen crashing into the street
outside, yards away. A second later, Havok replaced his fist at The Orphan
Maker's head, showing The Nanny he meant business...
	Everyone watched and waited, unsure what would happen next. Cyclops
was the most worried of all, seeing his little brother in a different
light...


"Okay..." said The Nanny, giving in. "...just don't hurt him...!"
	With the twinkles of his fingers, fairy dust sparkled from his
fingertips, floating across the room and cascading the X-Men in silvery
matter. Moments later, the X-Men started to grow in size, going from babies
to kids, to preschool children, to adolescents, to teenagers and young
adults in a matter of minutes. With size and age came a flurry of memories,
memories of how they were threatened and mistreated as helpless children in
the care of a mentally deranged couple. For some, the memories were too
much to hold back. Encouraging Havok to power down and step back, Banshee
blasted The Orphan Maker with a sonic scream that slammed the oversized
alpha male like a brick wall, knocking him unconscious for the last time.
	As for The Nanny...


"All I wanted was a family of my own..." said the young effeminate male, as
the X-Men [now fully grown] gathered around him ominously. "...to raise my
children as I saw fit, in a loving, caring household! I didn't mean to make
anyone angry or unhappy...!"


"You crept unwelcomed into our bedrooms at night to sprinkle us with
your...FAIRY DUST..." relived Storm, speaking for all the X-Men. "...only
to reduce us to infancy, cage us like animals, and threaten helpless
children with brutality and death...!?!! Then you have the NERVE to stand
here and say you meant no harm...??!"
	Thunder could easily be heard crackling overhead, outside as dark
clouds brewed in, looking more like the end of the world to most New
Yorkers looking up into the turbulent sky. Lightning eliminated about
Storm's clinched fists, as thoughts of revenge coursed through her mind.


"I loved you all as my own...!" pleaded Nanny, tears swelling up in his
eyes.


"Then consider your children EMANCIPATED...!" said Storm, shooting Nanny
with a 1000 bolts of electricity. The windows all blew out as bright light
illuminated through the night, with Nanny's body shaking and convulsing as
pure electricity ran throughout his entire body, burning and searing
everything it touched.
	Agony could be heard in The Nanny's screams...


"Storm..., don't...!" warned Cyclops, nearby.
	Storm turned off the electricity, as Nanny stood in a traumatized
daze, his clothes completely burned away and his body smoldered with smoke,
a vacant look in his eyes before falling back on the floor unconscious.


"You didn't...?" asked Cyclops, rushing to check The Nanny's vitals...


"Didn't what...? Kill him...?" asked Storm, walking away. "I'm not the
monster here...!" she said, walking out of the warehouse.


"Police are on the way..." said Emma Frost [The White Queen], looking down
at Scott. "I've mentally instructed them to bring the heavy artillery...!
They believe The Avengers were involved in this battle, and will immediate
take these..., Neanderthals to the proper holding cells...!"


"Good..., so we don't have to stand around here waiting for them...!" said
Polaris, as the X-Men began heading for transportation.


"We won't all fit inside the Blackhawk...!" accessed Spirit, counting 18
X-Men for the return trip home.


"There's still the SUV...!" reminded Beast, pointing to the vehicle parked
inside the structure.


"I'll drive...!" said Cannonball, taking his friends Gambit, Karma, and
Spirit with him on the long drive back to Salem Center County, while the
rest of the X-Men [Beast, Forge, Wolverine, The White Queen, Cyclops,
Colossus, Thunderbird, Havok, and Jean Grey] boarded The Blackhawk for the
commute home.


"Wait..." said Scott, as the doors began to close. "...what about the
others...?"


"Don't worry about US, Cyclops..." said Storm, taking to the air, along
with Angel, Polaris, Banshee, and Northstar. "...WE have our own mode of
transportation...!"
	As the X-Men took off out of sight [by air and land], police sirens
could be heard closing in on the warehouse, where police found two
unconscious bodies which they promptly fitted into iron restraints and
boarded in armored cars for transfer to The Vault...
	While the X-Men celebrated victory [happy to be once again fully
grown], Cyclops [Scott] worried over his biological brother Havok,
wondering if he would have gone through with his threat to blow The Orphan
Maker's head off? Aware that the two brothers had grown up away from each
other in very different atmospheres, Scott sat back with a wary eye, hoping
he was worrying over nothing.



Next: CARNIVAL


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