Conflicting Powers (X-men First Class)

Chapter 9

Paiton woke up and saw Alex's blonde hair a few feet away, she yelped in surprise and almost fell onto the floor before remembering the movie last night, which was still playing on the TV since it played automatically if you didn't press play soon enough, she got up and took the movie out before hearing someone knock on the door. Alex shot up and fell onto the floor, he grunted still half asleep before getting up and looking around in confusion for a few moments.

            "Paiton get up! We have to meet Hank at the airplane hanger!" Charles shouted through the door.

            "Hold on." She told him.

            They heard Charles sigh impatiently and walk away to wake up the others. Alex started to leave but she blocked his path.

            "Hold on, we have to make sure no one sees you leave that would be... awkward." She explained.

            "Are you sure it isn't because you just want me to stay with you?" He joked.

            "In your dreams... no one's there, leave."

            Paiton pushed Alex out the door and closed it again before getting ready, afterwards she went to find the others who were in Hank's lab, they were standing around a box with black and yellow suits in them.

            "Do we have to wear them?" Alex asked.

            "Yes, now go change quickly." Erik commanded.

            Raven groaned and Paiton guessed they were all thinking about the same thing: they just got ready and now they had to change again. Paiton picked up her suit, which had black gloves, and on the palm side red glowing wires. She went back to her room to change and met the others by the door three minutes later, when Alex came down she started laughing at his suit and he tried to ignore her.

            "Hey Havok, why does your suit look so stupid?" Raven snickered.

            "I don't know why does your face?"

            "Enough, we don't need to start fighting among ourselves before we even get to fight Shaw!" Erik snapped.

            They went silent and didn't speak until they got to the airplane hanger, there was a large military jet sitting in the middle of the room but they didn't see Hank anywhere. After waiting a few moments they began to get impatient.

            "Hank are you here?" Raven asked finally.

            "I am here..." Hank's voice came from behind the plane, sounding slightly depressed.

            "Hank come out we have to go." Darwin told him.

Paiton thought she heard a faint growl but passed it off as her imagination before Hank came out of the jet's shadow and where they could see them. He was covered in blue fur, had golden eyes, and fangs. Hank refused to make eye contact with them; instead he looked at the floor like it was the most interesting thing in the world.

            "Hank?" Charles asked looking a bit confused.

            "It didn't attack the cells. It enhanced them. It didn't work." Hank sighed while shaking his head.

            "Yes it did Hank, don't you see? This is the mutant you were born to be. No more hiding." Raven told him.

            "Yeah, never looked better man." Erik agreed.