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To me, my X-Men! [Closed]

About the only good thing to come out of the whole mess dealing with the Nightmare King was that Julian finally managed to get his head on right. He finally knew who he was and what he was meant to do. But more importantly, after the year he had, he finally remembered what the X-Men were supposed to be, and how far off the rails everything had went.

Now it was time to get things back on track.

He called the other X-Kids together, to meet him at the ruins of the Xavier Institute to talk. It was time for the X-Men to get back to basics, and ironically, by doing so, possibly evolve it beyond anything the X-Men have ever done before.

If they were going to do this, they were going to get it right this time.

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Funny, when Sofia left Xavier's she was sure that she was never going to see it again. And... she was still right, really.

Just how many times had Xavier's been rebuilt, anyway?

"Hello, Julian."

Sooraya was uncertain as to the nature of the meeting Julian had called. Back home, she'd decided to hang up the mantle of a hero. It just wasn't the life for her.

Or at least, it hadn't been before all this.

She noticed Sofia was already there, and she smiled encouragingly at the other girl.

"So. What is this about?"

"Hey," he greeted both Sofia and Sooraya.

"This is about a lot of things," he answered. "But mostly its about how we decide to do things going forward."

Jay takes a seat on a busted up piece of concrete near Sooraya, and frowns.

"You...you sure you want me to be here, 'cause if you're doing the hero things, I don't know if I can help anymore," Jay says, slowly rubbing the back of his neck. "I want to, but..."

If they're doing X-Man stuff, well, it's not exactly as if he's fit for that, anymore. He doesn't want to hold them back, either.

Pixie floats up next to Julian and waves at him brightly.

Her smile widens when she sees the rest of her friends assembled around them.

"We were all brought here for a reason," she says, nodding at friends she hasn't seen for a very long time. "Regardless of what we do or don't want, we owe it to ourselves to at least talk things true."

"And that reason isn't to be superheroes," Julian stated, folding his arms, "at least not full time. Occasionally, sure. But... look around; there's about a dozen groups who call themselves superheroes. We're not needed for that anyway.

"But we were also trained to do more and be more than just people who punch things in the face. It's about damn time we started actualizing that potential and fulfilling the promise of the X-Men."

"Give us something concrete, then," Sooraya said. "I find I've grown tired of kneejerk reactions to things on principle."

That's what had started the whole thing with Stryker. That's what had gotten a lot of them hurt, back home.

"This isn't a kneejerk reaction," he countered.

"When you strip away all the taglines, slogans, and sound bites-- 'Protecting a world that hates and fears us' and 'fighting for Xavier's dream of peaceful co-existence between humans and mutants' and all that other crap-- and get down to it, the whole point of the Xavier Institute and the X-Men was to do two things. First," he ticked off on his fingers, "is to find young mutants, train them to not blow a city block by sneezing, and good them a good education while you're at it. The second part is to send those mutants out into the world to do good with that learning.

"The first part, the X-Men weren't half bad at. The second part they completely fucked up on. Especially after M-Day. But even before then, the closest they ever really came to going out and doing was basically running around as superheroes. And even then, the most they could do was be The Avengers, but really really shitty PR." Which may explain why none of the senior X-Men were invited to this meeting.

"I don't want to repeat that mistake. If we really are the last generation of X-Men, then we need to follow through and get it right. That means, instead of being superheroes, we'll have to build the X-Men into something new. Something a bit more... subtle." And, yes, he's aware of the irony of him suggesting something subtle.

"Our world may be gone, but this ship is here. This crew is a clusterfuck," to be blunt, "but we can help them be, well, less of a mess. We each start putting our skills to use for this crew. We join whatever departments we'd actually be good at; Mystical, Medical, Engineering, Science, Tactical, Training, Sec-- ok, probably not Security," as everyone knew the guy in charge of that hated teenagers, hated superheroes, and really hated teenage superheroes. "But I could probably talk the Captain into giving me a junior rank in Command on a provisional basis." But he was starting to get off track.

"Anyway, we join up where we can, but that doesn't mean we're on our own. We help each other do our jobs well, use our powers and positions to push resources to where they need to be. We'll still in this together, but that rather than be another superteam, we're more a network or a guild... an alliance of sorts. That's what the X-Men-- the New X-Men-- will be; Mutants helping each other, and together helping this whole ship."

Jay considers this.

Then he smiles a wide smile.

"I like it. I think I could maybe even find something to help at."

"So, basically you mean like an X-Society, not just X-Men." Pixie nods her head. "This is an idea that I like, I'm not going to lie."

Who was this person and what had he done with Julian?

He was right, he had changed a lot. And at least this change she liked.

"I like it too, but I don't think I'd be much good at any of the departments. I am willing to try."

Nori had come in late, but she managed to catch the speech. As she moved in to join the rest of them, she crossed her arms.

"I never thought I'd say this, but I agree with Julian." Shocker of shockers. But Nori had been tired of the X-Men's way of dealing with things for a while. It had never really brought her anything besides pain, and while she was a little masochistic, she did have a limit.

"As do I." Sooraya smiled over at Jay, then at Julian. "I actually agree completely with what you're saying, Julian. It's probably best that we do good wherever we can, and not just on a large, flashy hero-ing scale."

She considered the missions she'd gone on, and the secret nights of raiding in online games back home.

"I could probably be of use in Tactics..."

"And all things considered, I guess I could be, you know, Magical Girl. Just don't call me that," Pixie added hastily. "Plus, I'm already getting training from Daimon Hellstrom and maybe Scarlet Witch - don'tjudgeme!"

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