X-Men: Revolution

1.0 Strategy X

Episode 1.0

Strategy X

Conversations died quickly after they took off from Germany, some 4 hours ago. Everyone had a lot to think about and they did, with absent looks on their faces.

Fallen spent some time looking at her companions; Forge across the jet isle, who eventually grew tired of going over data stored in his device and just leaned back, staring at the ceiling. The inventor who changed her life and got caught up in the mess it created. And her beloved, Kurt who - for a moment - she thought she'd lose. But his memory was almost entirely restored now, and she could see that reflected in the way he'd look back at her occasionally before falling asleep halfway across the Atlantic Ocean.

Professor Xavier and Ororo Monroe, whose decision to give them the benefit of the doubt was something she didn't want to take for granted.

But most of the time, she just gazed through the wide, curved window above the jet's control panel.

The sky was consistently orange and yellow for so long it felt like this sunset would last forever, as they chased it across the ocean. Clouds were so far below them they looked like nothing more than a fluffy blanket stretched across the horizon. You couldn't feel the incredible speed inside the jet, and the swish of air was effectively muffled out by its exterior to further fabricate the hypnotic sense of hanging still in the open air.

"Were you a fan?"

The question snapped Fallen out of the daze, she turned her gaze to the woman who rotated her pilot's seat and locked it in the new position, facing her.

"A fan?" Fallen looked behind, relieved to confirm that the autopilot is clearly marked as active on the main screen.

The woman smiled at her with a hint of uneasiness. "Of the show about us."

"Oh" the girl shifted in her seat. "Maybe as a young child, and then I almost completely forgotŃ about it until Kurt came along. I did enjoy watching it then, if that counts for anything."

The woman's eyes shifted forward absently. "It makes me wonder how accurate and detailed it was."

"Not very much, Ms Monroe, I can tell you that already. The overall story was accurate I suppose, but the details were off" Fallen said. The woman gave her an inquiring look. "I talked to Kurt about it and he pointed some things out. Like how some powers weren't consistent throughout the series or they went far too easy on the gore parts. Or how they animated his father meeting him at the airport, looking completely different than he actually did, and, more inaccurately, being alive. He was dead for a few years by then."

Ororo nodded with a firm, but absent look on her face. Fallen fully related to that. She didn't know what to make of it either.

"...How much further before we arrive?" she asked faintly.

"We've already made it to the New York state airspace, we'll be touching down in a few minutes."

The woman rotated her seat again and re-entered manually controlled flight mode.

"When we do touch down, I would like the three of you to follow me to my office" Professor Xavier said from his second pilot's seat before turning his head to look at the new arrivals. "We have some routine paperwork to fill out, as well as applications to get you valid IDs and other necessary documents."

Fallen looked at her two companions but they didn't seem to question it. She suggested;

"I know we physically aged back but I'd be down if I - and Kurt if he wants - could have IDs that state we're of age."