So, my mini freak out was justified because SHIELD showed up 20 mins after we left. On the upside, the ride back was very informative. After a couple of rounds of the guessing game, I figured out that was in a sort of MCU+ universe. I found out that the FF4 have been around for about two years and even managed to chase off Galactus. Which is shocking cause even the real FF4 shouldn’t have been able to do that without major help (aka the silver surfer). So technically they are the first of this generation’s heroes. Only Storm knew of T'Challa but only as a boy from her childhood. They all think Hydra was destroyed in WWII (This is the real reason I don’t want to be found be SHEILD yet), Nobody has heard of Mister Sinister which doesn’t bode for the future, (looks like I got to fight the big blue guy after the big purple guy.) Logan knew of the Mandarin but as a mid-level warlord in China. Taking all this in I had to assume that all of the main Avenger stuff would be close to the movies and shows but everybody else would be some mash-up of there comic histories.

Let me just say all of the different media doesn’t do the real-life X Mansion justice. It’s huge!!! Kind of like widen U sitting on top of some cliffs. It did have the famous basketball court but that’s not where we landed, we went through a hidden hanger door in the cliffs. As we got out everybody started going their separate ways, Logan being the fastest, he ran over Bobby. Meanwhile Jean told me the professor want to see but she’d give me a quick tour on the way.

I have to admit to you I started geeking out a little bit at the upcoming meeting. I mean I saw Stewart once at a Con but I was about to meet the “real” Professor X in person. Sure, he did a lot of crappy things later in life but I blame that solely on lazy writers who couldn’t come up with something interesting to do with his character so they decided to destroy him and his legacy. A fact that happens a lot in Marvel (I’m looking at you Spiderman), but that’s a whole other rant!!!

As Jean showed me around on the way to the Professor’s office, I realized something that even the comics leave out most of the time, this mansion was a real boarding school. I saw classrooms, labs, a humongous library, and the fanciest school cafeteria I’ve ever seen. You only see glimpses of that stuff in the movies but being here I could see various X-men walking around just like you would see in any other high school. It was interesting to see the different versions and ages this universe picked for them. There’s too many to list them individually but I can safely say there was more than enough to run the blue and gold teams and at least 2 other x-teams. Finally, we reached the professor's office. Jean knocked and waved me in. “I’ll just give you guys some time alone.”

An older McAvoy would have been interesting to meet but what I got was a younger Stewart which was cool too, it didn’t matter to me both do a good job but I was excited to meet the man himself. “Welcome to the Institute Nico. As I stated before won’t pry into things about our universe but I’m hoping you would be open to discussing yours and how you got here?” As I shook his hand I said. “It’s an honor to meet you sir and I have no problem talking about my verse.” I had enough time on the flight to come up with something to explain my existence here. I used a lot of truthful vagueices to describe our universal viewing portal rooms. These big rooms with stadium seating where we gather, often with refreshments like popcorn, to view segments of heroic people lives. Sometimes these segments get translated into a printed format and most often they are illustrated. Basically, I describe my universe as a better version of mine that’s highly advanced technology and socially compared to theirs. As for how I got here, I went with a lab experiment gone wrong for the win. I told him we were testing multi-dimensional travel and I got sucked into a sky portal (lol). “Extraordinary Nico, I can only hope that one day we too can reach your society’s level of acceptance and inclusion.” “One day professor if we all work at it.” He nodded in agreeance.

“So, Nico what are your plans going forward?” “Well, first of all, I’d like to thank you for your hospitality but even with having an x gene I don’t think it would be a good idea for me to stay here full time.” I shook my head and sighed. “I have all ways wanted to be a hero and save lives just like the people I grew up watching all my life. I’ll be honest professor there are some world ending dangers coming and I plan to do everything I can to lessen the damage. Note I said lessen not stop because some of the things that are coming will take all of the X-men and all of the teams that are still to come to stop them, that’s how big they are.” I looked him in the eye. “Professor some of the things I need to do to get ready will bring attention, not necessarily bad attention but its attention this school doesn’t need at this time.” Charles nodded his head, agreeing with me. “That being said the X-men need to get a whole lot stronger. I think we have about two years before the first big event goes off.” “Personally, I would appreciate it if you would help me develop my mental shields and see if I have any talents in telepathy?” At that question, Charles gave me a big smile. “I would be glad to assist you Nico and I will definitely take your warnings to heart. Is there anything else you need?” “Actually, do you still have contacts in the government?” Again, he nodded. “If you could get me some legal ID that would be great and save me some trouble. Also, if you wouldn’t mind me using the danger room in the mornings while the kids are in class?” He chuckled. “That shouldn’t be a problem, Nico, let me call Jean back and she can show you to your room.”

We spent the rest of the time before Jean came back talking about what my training would be like and bit more about my history. We worked out my schedule which would be, an early morning psychical workout followed by a danger room session to work on my offensive and defensive Psychokinesis. (From now on I’m just going to call Psychokinesis PK and Telekinesis TK) Lunch was next then my afternoons would be spent with Jean and sometimes with the Professor working on fine control and new applications. Finally, I had group training with the x-men and meditation til bedtime.

As me and Jean were walking across the lobby on the way to the men’s wing we heard Logan called out. “Hey, kid you got a min I need to thank you before I go.” I gave him a genuine smile while I shook his hand. “Let me guess you’re about to run off to Canada?” I hung my head for a second then looked him straight in the eye and said, “Logan let me give you some advice. Forget the past, who you were is not who you are now.” He didn’t like that a started getting pissed. I held up a hand. “Nothing you do now can change what happened before. I think your biggest problem was that you did have any idea of who you were and that bugged the hell out of you, but you have bigger problems now that you don’t even know about.” That shocked him. “Tell me, Logan, when was the last time you talked to any of your kids?” “WHAT???” That was both of them. “Dude… let's head back to the professor cause this story is messed up and he needs to hear this too.”

We backtracked to the professor’s office and I explained to him happened and began to tell Logan’s sad story. “First off have any of you ever heard of a guy named Romulus?” That got a bunch of no’s. “Well he knows everything about you Logan. I’m not sure why but this guy has a massive twisted man crush on you. Unfortunately, he is also responsible for just about every major bad thing that has ever happen to you. This next part is going to set him off so Jean get ready to hold him, you too professor.” They both gave me nods saying they were ready. Logan saw the pitting look on my face and started to growl. “So, this guy Romulus is the one who really ordered Itsu’s murder, he was also ultimately the one behind Weapon X, and he is definitely the one manipulating your kids to hate your guts right now.” Have you ever seen someone explode into a rage? Well, I did. I got to see the berserker barrage from Marvel vs Capcom in real life. Logan had turned the chair he was sitting in into confetti by the time Jean was able to put him in a TK box and Charles was able to do something to take the edge of while I finished explaining them the sad story about Daken and X-23.

I told him that wasn’t sure where they were exactly in this universe but I was sure SHEILD could help him track them down and that he would need help to capture them and keep them sedated until he could bring them back to the professor for help, especially Daken. I also told him everything could remember about Romulus and how hard it would be to beat him unless he was at his very best and even then, it would be a tossup. Much, much later after he calmed down him thanked me again and left for SHIELD HQ.

Later as I and Jean walked to my room, she wanted to talk about our TK powers to get our minds off all the heavy stuff we just went through. To say she was shocked at my theories on how our powers could work would be a massive understatement. “Nico why do you even need me as a teacher? It seems like you know what you’re doing” She looked over with a grin and I chuckled. “Most of this stuff is theory and I think it should be possible because I’ve seen it done before by one of the strongest Tk user in the universe, (Ebony Maw) but that was him not me and I’m not sure where to start? Plus, two heads are better than one?” She laughed. “You sure that’s the only reason you want me?” I gave her my killer grin. “Well I’m not going to lie spending a lot of time with a beautiful woman is never a bad thing in my book.” That got her blushing. “Goodnight lover boy, I’ll see you in the morning.” She gave me an airy wave and left.

I know by now some of you are wondering why I’m crushing so hard on Jean when there are so many fish in the sea, not to mention all the pervs out there that will be screaming for me try a form a harem with every girl I meet. Well, tough, this is my new life and it's real, not a fanfic to cater to your wishes. I just met this girl and there is no way is just going to automatically fall in love with me because I think I’m the MC of my story. This is the real (fantasy) world and real love just doesn’t work like that. Now I’ll admit I am going to try and date her because she is super-hot and I have always had a little crush on her but, honestly, I feel sorry for her and all the crap that happened in her life. I’ve said it before Marvel writers have a real problem in that whenever they can’t think of something interesting to do with characters, they either destroy them, kill them off, or turn them evil. In Jean’s case, they did all three on top of giving her one the worst husbands ever!!! So, no dark phoenix for this universe got a plan for all that but I need to be much stronger before I can complete it and she needs to work on her triggers, plus she deserves some happiness for once. Anyway, enough of this sappiness stuff, I figure I got about three months before the big guy shows up to wreck Harlem and I need to be there, so it’s time to get my grind on.