Title: The X Factor
Disclaimer: I own neither BtVS nor X-Men.
Summary: Xander is not as normal as everyone thought, and when Angelus takes intrest in him, things go downhill. X-over with X-Men Evo.
A/N: I amSO SORRYfor not updating sooner. But I had very legimate reasons, belive me. I had an accident involving a bike, a bikini clad girl and a ten storey high building. I was in the hospital for well over a month and then there was the physical therapy.
Then I had to catch up on my school work. THAT sucked!
I am also sorry for the length of the chapter and I know I said they'll be longer, and they will be, but I wanted to update as soon as I could.
So, well read and I'll update soon.
A month has passed since the boy was first brought to the institute.
He had somehow found himself being named 'Ryan'. Other residents of the manor had gotten used to his strange behavior. Sometimes goofy and funny, sometimes sarcastic with his sharp tongue, wits and exceptional wry and dry humor and sometimes his humor was…morbidly dry.
Other times he was serious and morbid, his mind haunted by shouts and screams, people dying by his hands or by other's, their blood flying…
He could not understand from where such memories came.
Other times he was…for lack of better words…feral; feral and animalistic. He growled and snarled and had a strange longing for the woods and yet at those same times he would act all imperious and regal. He would command respect and obedience with a mere glance. He was authority embodied. He was the Alpha.
No one could understand his strange behavior but they all got used to them.
At the same time, Logan, the former weapon X felt like his suspicions were confirmed. The animalistic behavior was similar to his own when he had escaped from the facility. The humor could have come from past experiences before the amnesia and the melancholy nature- that was something that he thought came from carrying out missions.
'Missions' my freaking fucking ass. Slaughters more like it.
Logan had somehow gotten to be quite close to Ryan, despite the boy's initial fear of him. Being stabbed by someone did that to one. But now, it seemed that Logan had taken the boy under his wing. Though at the times when the boy was the Alpha, there was a certain tense friction between the two. After all, Logan was Alpha too.
Logan knew the call was necessary, didn't mean he had to like making it.
The call was made, he went through the security measures, and was finally put through.
"Logan"
"Fury."
"What have you called for?"
"Don't give me this crap Fury. You know very well 'why' I have called."
"No, I don't."
"Someone has been creating super soldiers, again. I'd have thought that after Stryker and Hydra, the lesson would be learnt and all new projects scrapped and the ongoing ones closed."
"How do you know that some one has been doing such a thing?"
"I fucking found the boy, Fury and all the signs were there."
"What signs?"
"Most of them were not really obvious, but there was his behavior, and he has been obviously trained well enough that his skills are more instinctual and have been retained even through amnesia which I think was caused due to some new procedure, since he has already carried out a few missions."
"How do you know that? I thought you said he had amnesia."
"He has. You need to see him to know."
"All this is fine but it does not mean he has been experimented on. Is there any other proof?"
"Oh yeah; his x-gene, it has been mutated further, we don't know how but it has been. And it didn't happen naturally, it's simply not possible. But the most certain evidence is on the inside of his left wrist. He has been branded there."
"Branded?"
"Yes, a stylized X with curved horns on the tips and unfurled, talon tipped, angel wings inside a circle."
"To tell you the truth, Logan, I have no information about any such project but I will look into it. The symbol might be helpful."
"Listen Fury, I will give you time because of our history but, I will come after you if I learn that you have lied to me. Is that understood?"
There was no reply. The phone had been put down.
He was getting frustrated. Hour after hour, day after day of meditating and focusing for the past month that he'd been doing was getting him absolutely nowhere.
"You must focus, Ryan." Xavier spoke soothingly, "Relax and have patience, you will succeed."
"I'm trying." Growled Ryan.
He remembered the conversation when he'd been told about his mutations.
FLASHBACK
It was a week after Ryan had been found.
Today, he was going to learn about his mutation. He'd been summoned to the Professor's office. He raised his hand to knock on the door and a voice called from the inside…
"Come in Ryan!"
Damn Telepaths.
He entered to see the professor seated in his wheelchair and Dr. Hank McCoy, a blue skinned and furry mutant who looked ferocious but was actually quite gentle.
"Good, now we can begin. Come, sit here." The professor beckoned him to a chair.
He went and took the seat. Hank smiled at him and greeted him,
"Hello Ryan."
"Hello." He greeted back.
Hank turned to the screen on the wall and looked at the x-ray images there. He took a breath, and began.
"I will begin with the physical aspects. First, I believe that his hair were originally dark brown, but have now turned to this deep black which occasionally shine blood red in the proper lighting. I can say this because, when I first checked him a week ago, his hair had slight patches of dark brown – natural, not colored, I checked – but they have faded by now. Second, his teeth; as you can see in these x-rays, his teeth have developed into some sort of fangs. On his upper teeth lines, his incisors have lengthened and are slightly curved to the inside also on the inside just next to both his incisors there are also a slightly smaller straight pairs. On his lower teeth line he has developed two fangs just below the straight ones above."
Ryan ran his tongue over the aforementioned teeth and for some reason he was filled with revulsion and disgust.
"His X-gene has mutated in two folds, like Jean's, Wanda's, and Magneto's. One part has mutated into a healing factor not unlike that of Logan and X-23 and perhaps as strong. The other was initially mutated to allow him average manipulation abilities like Pyro and Magneto, but it has been mutated further, most likely forcefully, to such an extent that all I can say is that he will be able to manipulate energies, but not what kind and to what extent."
END FLASHBACK
A/N: Thanks to Love-Bites-Hard, HolyKnight5, ayanna, soexasperating, holly20, speaker4thesilent, Black Opal1, HaLLoWeeNDoLL.