HARP, X-Men 1992 Style

by

White Lego Ninja

Who here wants me to list the Cast, and who is patient enough with me to wait until the end?

Stage 2: Encounters.

"Halt, Innate!" said the Anubot.

"What's innate mean?" Alysa asked. "Nah, don't answer that!"

Alysa barely made it fifteen steps away, before the floor was blasted out from beneath her. She screamed as she fell, but was caught by a man in blue jeans, grey sweater, and white scarf.

"Where you going, Snow White?" Ace McCloud asked.

"Anywhere but here," Alysa responded.

Stomp! Stomp!

"Stand aside. I must apprehend that Innate!" said the Anubot.

"Apprehend this!" Ace said, drawing his arm back. From nowhere there appeared red, laser-like energy, which formed into a red missile. Ace then gripped his fist, and the weapon fired at the robot. As he opened and clenched his hand repeatedly, more of the same type of missiles blasted the robot. The robot backed off.

"How do you do that?" Alysa asked.

"With style, kiddo. With style," Ace replied, somewhat smug grin on his face.

Alysa turned and ran, saying: "I'm out of here!"

"Wait! I'm Ace McCloud, and I can help you!" Ace called. "I'm Innate too!"

But the Anubot blasted Ace from behind, and he landed near a display of fruit juice cans. He slid into the bottom cans of the pyramid, stopping just a few inches too late, and getting buried.

"I must be going nuts." Alysa said. "Giant robots, people flying everywhere... Has this mall become a for real video game?"

The robot stomped closer and looked down to where Ace had fallen.

"Unregistered Innate, Expendable."

"Get away from him! I mean it!" Alysa cried, turning around to face her persuer again. She held up her hands, and huge icicles fired out. The icicles were the length of her lower arm, the width of her palms.

Her projectiles hit the robot in the eyes. Or in the bot's case, "Optic Sensors"

"I can't believe this," Alysa said, staring at her hands. Ace's voice woke her from her shock.

"Run, kiddo. Run!"

Alysa raced out to the mall parking lot, the Anubot stomping after her.

"What did I ever do to anyone? I never asked to be Innate. I'm just a girl."

CRASH!

The robot had broken through the floor-to-ceiling window of the mall, and tossed a spherical metal object to the ground. It bounced off in front of Alysa, and cracked open. Smoke was released from the crack. Alysa coughed as she ran through it, grabbing her neck.

She came across a boy of about twelve, with long red hair.

"Who *Cough cough* Who are you?" she asked, coughing.

"Hunter Steele," he answered. "You might want to duck."

"I don't have... a lot... of..." Alysa fainted. Hunter caught her, then set her down gently.

"Energy bolt, huh? Try mine on. BLUE BOLT!"

Hunter streaked through the air, and through the robot's circuits, disabling it. It fell with a loud CLANG! to the street.

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Later, Alysa woke in what looked like a Hospital room in a huge mansion.

"Where am I? What is this place?"

A cracking sound beside her drew Alysa's attention. The Heart Rate monitor beside her had frozen solid.

"Shh! Be quiet!" Alysa hissed. Then she sighed and undid the velcro strap around her arm. "I hate when machines break or don't work right."

She walked to the door, looked through the window, and turned the knob. The knob would barely turn.

"Locked. All right, Freeze it." Her finger remained still. She held up her hand and gazed at her finger. "Ah, come on. I know you're in there."

Her finger turned a glassy looking blue. She smiled.

"That's better."

She tapped the doorknob with her finger. It froze solid, cracked, and fell off. The door swung quietly open. Alysa made her way down the hall.

"Innate powers can have their advantages after all," she said, smile still on her face.

She stopped and opened the first door on her left. The room was a dojo, and there was a fellow with long blond hair meditating there, his hair covering his right eye.

"It would be quite unnerving if our guest were to cause trouble for us." Sage Date said. Then he stood and opened his eyes. "Unnerving, yet inspirational, as we could learn of her powers."

"How do I get out of here?" Alysa asked, passing the next door. Suddenly, she heard a newscast on the TV in the room. From the sofa across the room, a fellow wearing a yellow and black suit was watching with an amused expression.

"This shocking incident at the new Metro Mall is just a small part of the growing menace of Innate Violence." said the speaker; a random senator with a bad attitude and a closed mind.

"My Fellow Americans," Jake Rockwell said, immitating the speaker, "I am a total idiot."

He changed the channel, and on came a Calvin Klein commercial. Jake skipped it, and turned to another channel. A new broadcast came on, about Alysa Aiday.

"Was this girl kidnapped by Innates? Film at Eleven." said the lady reporter.

"Mall violence, film at eleven," said... Alysa Aiday?

Alysa gasped, backed out of the door, and ran down the hall.

End Notes: Short, I'm sorry. Also sorry for any Jake Rockwell fans on here. Don't worry folks, he doesn't die. In the actual X-Men 1992 cartoon, Morph got captured and brainwashed by Mr. Sinister. Don't believe me? Ask a fellow X-Men cartoon fan and friend of mine here on Fan-Fiction: Kittie La Rue, who's working on a masterpiece of X-Men Fan-Fiction: "Transatlantic Evolution"

Seriously! Give that one a read if you get any time. You'll LOVE it! I know I do.

Acknowledgements:

Kittie La Rue: This one of mine might be a Parody of X-Men 1992 Cartoon episodes, "Night of the Sentinels parts 1 & 2", but I certainly hope you get to read this one of mine, as I've read,enjoyed, and eagerly await the next chapters of your story.

Cheers!

White Lego Ninja