The youngest member (X-Men Evolution)

Bada-Bing-Bada-Boom

It was a very peaceful morning, the birds were chirping, the sunrise was beautiful...and Wolverine had a handful of students out by the cliffs behind the Xavier Institute for early morning training. Marigold was standing beside a few of the new mutants and a very angry Wolverine, watching as Cyclopes and Boom-Boom were practicing a rescue mission.  Night-crawler  got the unfortunate role of playing 'the victim' so he was laying out on some rocks on the side of the cliff, while the other two were lowering a rescue board to get his to safety.  Cyclopes was lowering it from the top of the cliff while Boom-Boom was standing on the actual board to get Night-crawler on it. "If your asking me I think we're putting Kur-Nightcrawler in more danger by getting Boom-Boom to rescue him." Iceman whispered to Marigold and a few of the other students. Some of the students giggled but Marigold was too focused on the training to really play along with the others. Even though she was the youngest student she didn't really act her age, and could be seen taking all her training seriously (could you blame her? Who wants to piss Wolverine off during training?!...not one) "Whatever, can we hurry this up? I'm starving! Where does Logan get the idea to do training before breakfast?!" Multiple asked, hands over his stomach in a very dramatic gesture that only the boy could pull off. "Remember Multiple, when we're training his name is Wolverine. We have code names for a reason." Marigold reminded the boy. And she was about to warn the group that Wolverine had sensitive hearing and could probably hear everything they were saying, but was interrupted by Boom-Boom. "Yay! Here comes Boom-Boom! TO THE RESCUE!" She shouted as the rescue board was lowered down the side of the cliff. Suddenly Iceman's joke from earlier didn't seem as funny to Marigold as Boom-Boom pulled Night-crawler's body off of the rocks on the side of the cliff and onto the rescue board. "Alright Badger, pull us up!" Boom-Boom shouted to Wolverine who was on top of the cliff with the other students. Marigold walked over to her teacher and she could feel the anger rolling off the man. "It's Wolverine." He growled, but Cyclopes started pulling up the rescue board and Marigold watched as they started coming up the side of the cliff. "Hey Boom-Boom. You need to put the straps on the board over Night-crawler or he could fall out of the rescue board." Marigold called down. "Good eye baby bird." Wolverine said with a proud grin. But Boom-Boom leaned back on the board and it started to swing back and forth, goofing off too much with Night-crawler to even hear anyone else on top of the cliff. "Ugh, this isn't good." Cyclopes said, watching the two goofing off instead of completing the mission, laughing like they were playing on the playground and not hanging over the side of a cliff. "Hey! Knock it off!" Wolverine shouted at the two. Night-crawler was facing away from the cliff laughing with Boom-Boom so everyone but him saw the hard rocks from the cliffs wall hit him on the back of the head as the rescue board swung back and forth. He was knocked out and now actually unconscious and Marigold's blood ran cold as Boom-Boom lost control of the swinging rescue board, and Kurt fell over the side and started falling towards the ocean floor below him! "Night-crawler!" Everyone cried out and shouted in a panic as Marigold jumped over the side of the cliff, her training and instincts kicking into high gear at the sight of one of her friends in danger. "Marigold!" Cyclopes shouted as the young girl fell through the air, head first and arms stretched in front of her towards Night-crawler.  She conjured up one of her circular shields around him and caught him inside of it before he hit the water, then she put a flat one under her and she pushed her feet down and landed on her hands and knees on the shield, both her and Night-crawler just feet above the ocean waves crashing under them. She could barely hear the cheers of her teammates above her from the top of the cliff, and her eyes caught the dangerous looking rocks that were just under the waters surface that would have killed both of them if she hadn't caught herself and Night-crawler in time. "Everyone alright?!" Scott shouted, worry clear in his voice and Marigold forced herself to look away from the water and back up to the rest of the group. She gave a thumbs up, knowing the roar of the ocean waves would cover anything she said and used her shields to lift herself and Night-crawler back up to the top of the cliff. "Now that's what I call a rescue mission!" Cannonball said as Marigold stepped off of her shield and onto the solid ground. She turned to the shield that held Night-crawler in it and made sure Wolverine would catch him before taking that shield away, the unconscious blue boy laying limp in Wolverines arms. "Is he alright?" Marigold asked, looking over her friend as Cyclopes put a comforting hand on her shoulder. "I'm sure he will be, but we will take him to the med-bay until he wakes up just in case." Cyclopes said. "That ends your training for this morning...but don't get to comfy. As soon as I tell The Professor what happened I'm sure he is going to want to have a chat with all of us." Wolverine said. He turned to Marigold and he gave her a nod of his head. "Good job today Marigold...I wish I could say that for everyone here today." He said, the end of his sentence cutting off with a growl before he and Cyclopes walked off with Night-crawler. Marigold bit her bottom lip and pulled her glasses off of her nose, suddenly nervous with all the attention she was getting from her fellow X-men students. "That was amazing!" "I almost threw up when you just jumped off the side like that!". She saw Boom-Boom folding her arms and rolling her eyes, but Marigold couldn't find herself to care as she and the rest of the students went to change out of their X-men uniforms and finally get some breakfast.