“It is something rather interesting Ranma. Normally mutants mutate due to radiation exposure sometime in their family’s history that collects and forms a new gene, the X gene. You, however, weren’t born with one, nor have had any radiation significant enough to warrant that. Yet, you do now, and this puzzle has been irritating for the past two weeks.”
“So… something happened to make me a mutant? Well I wouldn’t be surprised, my life is like that.” Ranma shrugged his shoulders
“Yes, and for the longest time I couldn’t find out how this happened. That’s when I started looking into the magical things…”
A groan escaped Ranma’s lips “What was it this time? I swear if it’s another love potion I’m killing someone.”
“No, no, it’s nothing like that. Although if this happens often it could account for something else that’s been bothering me. Nevertheless, according to the people that I’ve met with, this happened due to magical overexposure inflicted on the body combined with your abnormity, and fragmented mind. I don’t know how much, or what kind of magic, only I know it was in abundance and incredibly strong. The fact that your D.N.A. was altered slightly when you were 6 allowed the magic to fix itself into an extra gene which only required a minimal amount of radiation to transform itself into an X gene which, as I said earlier, will activate soon. Right now it’s still being stabilized in your body, taking everything into account. Right now it is too hard to know what powers will come out of this; therefore I will have to wait until you display them until I know. Usually, Cerebro would give me at least some understanding into this, however, since not only is your X gene artificial, but it is also magical in nature. The fact that I was able to track you was by itself a miracle. If I were to guess, it would be connected to whatever magical substances that have inflicted you, especially since most were detected to enter your body in the past 14 months.”
Ranma thought hard, trying to understand what he said exactly. ‘So, my powers are going to be something magical. Great. I’m going to be a magic girl half the time. Wait. Magic.’ Ranma’s eyes widened ‘Jusenkyo! I might be able to control my curse! This might not be bad at all! But wait. He said it could be anything related to magic that affected me over the last year or so. That could be anything from my hair growing forever to hypnosis things. I hope it isn’t too bad. I mean it’s a power, so it shouldn’t be affecting me right? More like yeah right. I can hope for the best. My luck has got to get through eventually.’
“Thinking about it Ranma?”
“Well… I’ve been around a lot of magic, and it’s messed with me too much. I just hope it doesn’t bite me later.”
“Do you wish to tell me what you’ve encountered so I know what to look for? It could be dangerous if you aren’t careful. Mutant powers tend to activate at inappropriate times.”
‘Tell me about it. My life has the worst timing.’ “I don’t know I have to think about it. Would I only count the ones that I’ve been hit by?”
“It would make sense, and whatever power manifests would be from what’s inside you, if that will help. Are you sure you don’t want to tell me what affected you? It might help me help you.”
“Not here, too many eavesdroppers, and, I don’t like to talk about it really.” Ranma paused “Wait, you said something about my D.N.A. when I was 6. Can you tell me what changed?” ‘I have a bad feeling it’s the neko-ken.’
“It was rather odd; you have the slightest bit amount of cat D.N.A. which seems to be the base of your X gene. I don’t know how it got there, and you don’t seem to have any cat characteristics or features on you.”
“So, will my powers be something catlike?” ‘Please say no please say no!”
“It might affect you, since it is the base for the gene. However like I said, I don’t know.”
‘I really have a bad feeling about that. Still knowing my luck we should leave… now!”
“Um… well, if you can’t tell me anything more, then we should go. In case you don’t know, people have a tendency to try to kill me here, so, it would be a good idea to leave as soon as possible.”
“The jet isn’t too far away, and I agree, it would be best to get back to the institute soon.”
With that the two left for America.
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Meanwhile back at the Hall Of Justice… err I mean the Xavier Institute For Higher Learning. Wolverine had explained the situation to Storm who gladly agreed to help calm down the situation. Will they be able to stop them before the building is destroyed? Or will they be homeless? Only time will tell…
“I’LL DRAIN YOU UNTIL THERE’S NOTHING LEFT!!!”
…or this addventure episode. Either would do.
“STOP!!!” Bellowed a now flying Storm who was in ‘terrify everyone so they would pee themselves’ mode.
Fortunately, no one did. They stopped everything though.
Now in a calmer voice and on the ground she continued “The professor will be bringing a new student from Japan here. He’s in a new country and doesn’t know anyone. I expect you all to be on your best behavior. Everyone meet in the professor’s office in two hours. That should be enough time to clean up your mess.”
“Aw…” went the students
Logan and Ororo left them to their mess when the phone rang. It was Xavier.
“Storm, we’ll be coming a bit later than expected. Mister Saotome’s powers just manifested right now. It will be a while before things get back under control. Is a room ready? Preferably an empty one? There are… issues that will cause problems if he’s around others for now.”
“There is one on the top floor, its small though.”
“I don’t think he will mind. Until things are… sorted out… it would be best if the other students aren’t near him. It’s complicated and he wishes not for me to tell his peers.”
“What is it? Is he deformed or something?”
“No, it’s just not something that I can describe over the phone. It would be best to see it for yourself. I told him we won’t judge him, but he doesn’t believe me. He won’t put it in details, but he said everyone considered him a freak among other things. He says he hasn’t had a good first impression in meeting people, and would like to be alone for a while. Can you tell that to everyone?”
“Yes, so when will you be here?”
“By the rate at how this is going, we will arrive in about 2 hours. I need everyone in my office to explain things.”
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2 hours and 22 minutes later, the X jet arrived at the mansion. After showing Ranma to his room on the top floor (which was 12 feet by 12 feet with a window to the back ‘yard’ good enough for him), Xavier met with the rest of the house guests in his office.
“Now, you may be wondering where our new student is. He is in his room on the top floor due to a… problem he has that will make him uncomfortable with people.”
Scott spoke up “What’s making him uncomfortable with people? Is it because he doesn’t look human?”
“There is no problem with that Scott. It is just a problem he has, and would like to wait until at least tomorrow to meet anyone else. He’s had difficulty in the past with people accepting him for who he is. He won’t say what happened to make him the way he is, but he would like it if I didn’t tell anyone, it’s very personal.”
“Come on Professor.” Kurt spoke “If he sees us, he wouldn’t think he’s weird. Why not allow me to meet him?”
“I don’t think so Kurt. He said that he’s been around a lot of weird things. We shall wait until tomorrow to see him. Besides, he’s probably exhausted from the jet lag.”
“What’s his name anyway?” asked Rouge
“His name is Ranma Saotome. He is extremely proficient in martial arts and I would like him to teach you.”
“Phhshh… like we need to.” Spyke said confidently “We’re the best.” The others agreed with him.
Xavier raised an eyebrow and chucked to himself “If you feel that way challenge him. He can’t resist one.”
Storm asked a question that was on everyone’s minds “What are his powers?”
Xavier chuckled some more “I don’t know precisely, his X gene is different than ours. All I know is that it is something more magical and less conventional than the rest of us. I won’t know exactly until I check Cerebro again, but it’s nothing major or flashy. He depends on his skills anyway, so it shouldn’t affect him too much.”
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Ranma was in his room trying to get his powers under control. By sheer luck his powers manifested right when the left Nerima. Now he’s spent the last two hours controlling them. It wasn’t anything like the others. No, Ranma’s was different and unconventional. It wouldn’t be him if it was something ‘normal’ which is hilarious since mutants aren’t normal either.
‘Well it could be worse…" Ranma thought as it turned out his powers were…
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