chapter one • 1
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"Who are you?"

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Covert CIA Research Base

Natalie was on her way to see Hank, but there were a small group of people with him.

"So your mutation is what? You're super smart?" Raven, the blonde spoke as she walked up to Hank.

"I'll say, Hank here graduated Harvard at the age of 15." Charles, the British spoke.

"I wish that's all it was," Hank spoke.

"You're among friends now Hank, you can show off." Charles smirked.

How did he know?

Natalie hid behind a corner, just looking over.

Hank stood back a bit and sighed. He removed his shoes and socks and Charles smiled and chuckled as well as Raven. He revealed his feet that were indeed, hands.

"Splendid" Charles smiled.

Hank smirked and jumped up and his feet held him upside down on his model of the plane he built. The group chuckled in amazement.

"Ta-Da" Hank joked.

Raven walked up to him and smiled at him.

"You're amazing," She smiled.

"Really?" Hank blushed.

Natalie straightened up and walked into the room.

"That's not the only thing Hank does," Natalie spoke aloud.

The group looked at Natalie and Hank jumped back down.

Charles looked at her with a confused face, then Natalie felt something. It was like a force was trying to enter her mind. She smirked and reflected the force off her and Charles smiled in shock.

"My name's Natalie Parker, you can try all you want, but you won't get in my head," Natalie smirked.

"Charles Xavier, this is Raven, and Erik" Charles walked up to her and shook her hand. "Incredible you are, I've never met someone like you before." Charles smiled.

"Natalie here, has been working with us since the early operations of this facility, she was our first and originally we thought, our only mutant. Now that's changed," Jordan smiled.

"And what can you do?" Raven questioned.

"Oh, many things. I can create and manipulate nature and the elements. Regenerate using nature's energy. And as you know, reflect telekinetic energy." Natalie smiled. Charles looked amazed. "One of my favourites is that I empathise with living creatures. I can tell if you're lying, being honest, in love. I don't know what you're thinking, but I can feel your emotions."

"Impressive," Erik spoke in a soft German accent.

"Thanks," Natalie smirked.

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The next day Charles, Erik, Raven, Hank and Natalie went into a sphere which used to be a radar but Hank turned it into a transmitter. Charles was going to be wired up, so the transmitter can enhance his brainwaves to find other mutants, they were going to create a team, to go against a man named Sebastian Shaw, a German man who is going to start a Nuclear War with the help of the Russians.

"I call it Cerebro." Hank spoke, he was talking about the Transmitter.

Charles chuckled.

"Uh, Spanish for brain," Hank smiled.

"Uh, yes," Charles smiled. The room was quite small, there control panels, and a blue circle in the middle with a wired helmet above it. That's where Charles was going to stand.

"Okay, so, the electrodes connect Charles to the transmitter on the roof, it picks up, the um, mutant, and his brain sends the signal to the relay and there co-ordinates of their location are printed out here," Hank pointed to the control panel. Erik, Raven and Natalie stood next to Hank as he showed them.

"You designed this?" Raven asked.

"Yeah," Hank replied.

Charles placed the helmet on his head.

"You make an adorable lab rat, Charles -" Erik joked.

"Don't spoil this for me, Erik" Charles replied.

"I've been a lab rat, I know one when I see one," Erik smiled.

"Okay," Hank flipped a switch on the helmet, "We're ready. Are you sure we can't shave your hair -"

"Don't touch my hair," Charles snapped back.

Hank walked over to the control panels and flipped a couple of switches, the helmet lit up blue, and a loud whirring sound filled the room. Erik and Raven stood behind a small railing in front of Charles and Natalie stood close to him. Watching his face.

Then the helmet lit up bright white and Charles grabbed the railing and grunted loudly.

He started breathing heavily, they all looked at him with concern and he smiled and grunted again. Natalie scoffed with amazement. The control panel started typing the names and co-ordinates of the mutants.

"It's working!" Hank smiled. Charles laughed and smiled.

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