The Amazing xXx Men - The RPG

[Summer Sparrow]

"Welcome Summer, to our Special School, do not be alarmed if you see peculiar things like kids conjuring up fireballs with their bare hands, girls with supersonic voices, or bluish guys crawling on walls, it's all pretty common around here, I am Professor XXX, yes I am the one with no name, don't you think it's much more mysterious that way? And although I may look like a helpless parapalegic, but do not be fooled, in my previous life; I have traveled to Deep Space Nine and encountered many alien species much weirder than any of the mutants - oops! I mean, 'gifted children' you see here."

"Thank you Prof XXX, I shall try to do whatever it is you guys do around here." replied Summer, settling comfortably into the lush chair; suddenly there was a knock on the door. Hmm who may it be?

"Wait! Because I'm psychic, I know who it is, ah Wolf-Man-With-Long-Steel-Fingers! Let me introduce you, this is Summer."

Indeed a hairy looking man came into the Professor's room.

"Hello Summer, yes I am the Wolf-Man-With-Long-Steel-Fingers, and strangely the love interest of about every female mutant around here. You may call me Wolfie, let me take you for a guided tour around the school, the mutants here are all very friendly."

"Errr.. mutants?"

"Yes mutants, we are the future of the world, we are gifted with super hero powers, and we fight to protect the freedom of errr, all those ungrateful non-mutants."

"Uh, not sure I dig that, anyway, this place looks cool, cos I see kids doing absolutely nothing in class, so where do we go first?"

Suddenly someone entered.....

[Athena]

Ali Shananagrawan entered. Her long silvery white hair fell all down her back. Her cool green eyes gazed at Summer interestedly. The most starteling aspect of her was her skin which was tinged dark blue and contrasted sharply with her white hair and green eyes. She glided into the room and came nearer to Summer and Prof XXX.

Hello Summer she said in thoughtspeak

Summer jerked sharply, "Wow, you can speak with mind speak"

Ali smilied, "And I can read minds, thought I try not to make a habit of it. Especially around teenage guys" she said as she rolled her eyes.

Suddenly Summer's stomach rumbled, "Boy am I hungry, do you know what I could go for right now, a great big slice of ....."

"Don't say it! warned Prof XXX

Alas it was to late and Summer finished her sentance, "...HAM"

"ARG!!!!" cried Ali and suddenly her eyes tighened and she began to run toward Summer.

Summer jumped back in sudden fear, while Prof XXX calmly said, "Ali dear, remember your training. Go to a happy place. Find your happy place"

For a moment Ali stopped and shuddered, then there was a sudden loud crack and the smell of the sea filled the air and Ali was gone.

"Wha...where did she go?" asked Summer

Prof XXX calmly examined his nails, "Oh don't worry she will be back. She just has problems with the H word, I don't recomend you say it around her. Besides the power of thoughtspeak and mindreading. Ali can travel through time, she has gone to her 'happy place' and will be back shortly"

Moments later Ali returned but she looked different. Intead of her blue jeans and sweat shirt that she had been wearing before, she was now dressed as a knight. She wore silver armor and she carred he helmet uner one arm. She carried a giant sword in one hand and it was blood stained, with the blood dripping down on the carpet. "Beat that Cohen, thy must yeild this match to me, for I am the victor"

"Ali, the carpet" said Proff XXX

"Oh sorry" said Ali, she concentrated for a moment and then her armor and sword vanished back to the time period they had come from.

"So, how is Europe" asked Prof XXX

"Wonderful as always, the Black Plague has finally started so I don't think I can visit there for a while. Next I think I will check out the gladiator games. I han't been there for a while, and everyone there loves me" said Ali

"That's lovely" replied Prof XXX

Ali walked toward Summer and shook her hand. "Welcome to the School Summer" I am one of Prof XXX first students, and I have now graduated. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me"

Summer smiled back at Ali, she could already tell that this was going to be an interesting school year.

[Summer Sparrow]

Ali and Wolfie both walked Summer to her room.

"So Summer, what's your special abilities? You gotta have one you know, and you gotta have a cool super hero name that reflects your powers, take our instructors for instance, Wolfie, Sporn, Robes, Jean-Spray, and Cycle-Pops! Aren't they cool? Mine is Misty."

"I see, errr not sure what my powers are."

"No matter, the Prof will sort that out" said Wolfie.

"So tell me what exactly do you guys do around here." asked Summer.

Suddenly a tall women joined them, "A new student I see, Jean- Spray." the woman held out her hand, and Summer shook it.

"We help gifted students use their powers for GOOD not EVIL! And maybe someday join the elite force that is called XXX MEN!" (creepy music in background)

"Errr, okayyy, what for?"

"Well, uh, you see there's this bad guy who wants to destroy all of humanity, Fridge-Magnet Man, and his trusty shapeshifter sidekick Lipstique, stay away from old dudes looking amazingly like Gandalf the Grey." warned Jean-Spray.

"Oh, okay I will"

Unknown to them, someone was lurking in the shadows.

[Bosun]

The "someone" jumped out of his corner and walked straight to the group- only on the wrong side of gravity's pull.

"When were you planning to tell me we have a newbie?" he asked, his straight blond hair swishing back and forth as he looked expectantly between Misty, Jean-Spray and Wolfie.

"Hello Ups," droned Jean as the boy dropped down from the ceiling and landed in a handstand. "This is Summer Douglas, our undiscovered talent."

Ups promptly flipped right way up so he could give Summer a dashing bow. "Pleasure to meet you, Summer." He reached out and shook her hand, continueing grandly, "I am Ulrik Peter Stefan Downe. Better known as the mighty Upside-Downe!"

Ali rolled her eyes. "But you can call him Upsie."

"No, she can't." Ups stood back on his hands, looking distinctly disgruntled.

"Why not? I do."

He pointed a stern finger at her (causing him to sway unbalancedly). "I have a good mind to say the H word..."

"Don't!" gasped Summer, having witnessed enough of Raging Misty to last until the next ice age.

"I've done it lots of times," grinned Ups. "She can never catch me. It's good training too; saves the batteries in the Danger Shed."

Ali shot him a look that suggested she may have been saying something very unpleasant to him in mindspeak, but if she did he took no notice.

"See you later... I have to talk to the Professor."

"Nice meeting you," Summer called after him, supressing a puzzled smile at the sight of him scuttling away on his fingertips.

"What's the Danger Shed?" she queried, turning back to the other three.

"It's where we do most of our good against evil combat training," replied Wolfie. "At least when Ali's off in her happy place and unavailable to try to kill us."

Ali put her hands on her hips. "I should report you and Upsie to the professor, taking advantage of my powers like that."

Trying to keep the peace, Summer pushed them back on topic. "Will I train there someday?"

"Oh, don't worry," Wolfie smirked. "You'll be spending plenty of time there soon enough."

[Summer Sparrow]

However in Fridge-Magnet's Man lair...

"I am bored! Let's do something nasty and evil now!" said Lipstique, his side-kick. She's a strikingly beautiful woman, and her powers include frenching people and turning blue at whim.

"MwaHahaahahhaHAHAHHAHAH!" replied Fridge-Magnet man. His powers include controlling all fridge magnets of the world.

"Err what's with the maniacal laughter dude?" she asked back.

"That was to establish my evil-ness to the readers."

"Oh"

"Well Lipstique, we might as well do the kill-all-non-mutants and kill-all-those-goody-goody-mutants-who wants-to-help-them routine."

"Good plan!"

"MwhahahaHAHAHAHAHHA!"

"Err could you cut that out? It's creeping me out."

"Sorry."

"But how can we? We're only two mutants, against the whole world!"

"Hmm we might have to gather some allies, bribe, seduce or implant mind control chips in them if we have to! But you know we could always take a short-cut and plan a nuclear disaster or something...."

"Hm...."

[Athena]

"Indeed you will be" said Ali, still a bit disgruntled. But she cheered herself up by the thought of what time period they were going to find themselves in next time they messed with her.

"However," said Ali, "now that you have seen some of us, students. I think you can tell that we are a pretty good crowd to be around, well excepting some people of course," said Ali as she jokingly scowled in the direction of Upsies back.

"Yeah" said Summer, "you all seem pretty cool, but you know, I am getting pretty hungry and all that. Don't you guys have any food around here? I would really dig a donut about now"

"We have a gourmet kitchen, though we do run out of chefs rather quickely" replied Wolfie thoughtfully, "But no matter, even if the chefs find the idea of a person who has knives sticking out of his fingers weird, I find it rather usefull. Especially for shish kabob's" said Wolfie with a wink

Summer looked rather doubtful at his words but she proceeded to follow the two of them into the kitchen where a strange sight hit her. Dozens upon dozens of people, some her age, and some not. Some were flying, floating, or in the case of Upsie, doing stunts on their fingers to impress certain females, their skin were different colors and each was doing various activities as according to their powers.

[~Kawaii~]

Telè Caster sat alone at a table in the kitchen drinking out of a tall glass of rather curious looking red liquid. Everyone around was ignoring her and trying to keep their distance. No one admitted it but they were all rather scared of her ~ after all, she is a vampire.

Suddenly her quiet rest was disturbed as three people came to sit at her table - not out of choice, they just happened to be the only places left. Telè recognised two of them, but one was new.

"Hi..." Summer said rather nervously.

"Hello." Telè replied tonelessly. "I'm Telè Caster, Also known as SG, you can call me Telè."

"I'm Summer. Nice to meet you" Summer smiled - still there was no sign of emotion coming from this strange girl..."What's that you're drinking?"

"Blood."

Summer's jaw dropped open. Ali interupted - "No! No it's not! It's tomato juice, remember?"

"No, I think you'll find it's blood."

"No. remember? You drink tomato juice."

Telè drank another mouthful and smiled. Summer's jaw dropped open again.

"Ah! She's got...fangs! And she's drinking blood! And look at her eyes! A...A vampire! ...How lovely. " Summer smiled politely, and discreetly but up her hands to guard her neck.

[Bosun]

Not finished bugging Ali, Ulrik came to join her, Summer, Telè and Wolfie for lunch. Finding it a little hard to sit upside down, he resorted to turning right way up again.

"Hallo, Queen of the Undead," he remarked to Telè.

"Hello, Blood Vessel," she returned.

"I thought you went to went to the Prof?" commented Summer.

"I did. Then I got hungry. So now I'm here."

"It's very hard to get rid of him," Ali put in.

"You say that like it's a bad thing."

"It wouldn't be so bad if you were useful," said Wolfie.

"I have a use. I add diversity to the institute."

"Um, actually," said Summer, "seeing as we're all- er- mutants, we're pretty diverse as it is."

"Yeah, but I'm the cute foreign guy!"

Wolfie held up his hand (causing a low flying bird boy to swerve to avoid the pointy fingers). "No, Kitemauler is the cute foreign guy. You're just annoying."

Ups was just about to make a snappy comeback (He was! Honest!) when the kitchen doors burst open, and everyone stopped what they were doing to stare at the girl how stood dramatically in the entrance. She had blue skin and a haircut that seemed like it had been put together from various magazine photos, and she looked supsiciously sinister.

"Who's that?" muttered Summer to a completely nonplussed Ali.

"I'm a student here!" said the girl. "That's right, a student! A mutant student! See the blue skin? Mutant!"

"She's never been here before," Ups told Summer.

"Well, I just transferred here. From... uh... Fridge... Fridgeria. Fridgeria School of Non-Evil Mutants."

Telè sighed. "Sounds boring."

"What's your name?" asked Summer.

"Lipst- I mean... er... ummmm... mmm... Mipsty. Misty."

"Hey! That's my name," said Ali, indignantly.

"Oh, is it? Then I mean Kristy."

And she went to go eat lunch and lurk in a shadowy corner, ignoring the reprise of the creepy music.

[Daughter of Almost-Evil]

"Hey! Who forgot to invite us to the newbie party?" said two identical girls, walking through the walls. Summer had gotten pretty used to the strange things happenning, and she introduced herself.
"Hi I'm Summer. You are?"
"Jennifer, and that's Joanna" she said motioning towards her twin
"Or Fate"said Joanna "that's Jenni. I'm Destiny."
"Cool, I'm pleased to meet you"
"Hey Ali!" called Jennifer "how would you like some HAM?!"
Ali charged at Jenni,but ran straight through her.

[Athena]

"Stupid evil people" muttered Ali under her breath as she charged around the room. Onlookers quickely got out of her way, "Stupid little brats that have too much time on their hands. Okay thats it, everyone is going to take a little trip in time" Ali raised her voice, still charging around the room

Suddenly a loud pop occured and everyone's eardrums split, creepy music played that was oddly similer to the Twilight's Zones theme song, and a creepy disombodied voice rang out, "Come, take a trip through...."

"Oh for cryin' out loud" said Wolfie

Suddenly their group tumbled into a different land. Ali had brought along Summer, the Twins, Ups, Wolfie, Tele, Kristy, and an assorted band of several other mutants.

"Whoops" said Ali, holding her hand over her mouth to prevent herself from laughing, especially as she looked at the woes of Ups. Somehow he had gotten himself into a prickly thorn bush and every move he made just dug him in further. Finally one of the twins took pity upon him and dragged him out. Finally the whole group assembled in front of Ali, glaring daggers at her.

"What is it" asked Ali innocently

"Why...how..what did you think you were doing when you dragged us here" asked Wolfie angrily

"I was thinking about how much I would have liked to have killed you" replied Ali angrily. Look at it this way, I am calm now"

"Hmph" said Tel, still obvoiusly upset at having left her drink behind.

"Well, the question arises, where are we?" asked Summer

"Oh um, about that. Well see..." Ali hemmed and hawed

"You don't have the least clue where do you" said Tele, in her soft voice

"Now that is rather unfair to say. I have a clue, a big clue" replied Ali

"Then were are we?" asked one of the Twins

Ali looked around at the platue they found themselves in, she eyed the birds and the dark forest they found themselves in, "Weeeell, we are in a place...."

"Yes.." they all replied

"With trees" said Ali, holding her arms wide

"So smart" muttered Ups

"Well, why don't we just leave here?" asked Kristy, still ignoring the evil music that played whenever she spoke

"Well about that, there is the itsy problem with not knowing where we are, once we figure that out, we are home free" said Ali airily

"Well that is always good to hear" muttered Wolfie

[Bosun]

"This is kinda exciting though," said Summer. "Like an adventure!"

The scene faded out for a few moments. When the light returned, everyone was in their superhero gear, except Summer and Kristy, who didn't have uniforms yet and therefore stayed in everyday wear.

"Wait, what was that?" Summer asked, looking around in confusion.

"Don't worry, it happens every time we go on a mission. Makes us look more superhero-y," Wolfie told her.

"So, to reiterate," said Joanna, or, as she was known while in costume, Destiny, "here we are, stranded in some unknown time, and we have to get back."

"Why?" said Ups. "I have Algebra next period."

"That arguement aside," continued Fate, "we need to find out where we are-"

"When," muttered Misty.

"-when we are, so we can go home."

"Maybe we could split up and look for clues," suggested Summer.

"That's awfully cliche..." remarked SG.

"Yeah, but at least we don't have a talking dog," said Wolfie. "Okay, Misty, Summer, evil-looking girl, come with me."

"Which evil-looking girl?" asked SG and Kristy in unison.

"Oh, uh, blue evil-looking girl. Other evil-looking girl, go with Ups and the twins."

"What about us?" asked a boy at the head of a group of about half a dozen mutant students whose names we don't know.

"You extras go wherever the heck you want, I don't care."

And so the two groups set off in opposite directions in search or any hint that might tell them what time they were in. Though none of them saw it, a dark and ominous shape was flying overhead...

[~Kawaii~]

The twins and Ups walked swiftly through the strange forrest, cahttering happily as they went (well, Ups was talking, the twins had no choice but to listen). SG walked slowly behind them.
"Guys!" She gasped. "C-can you slow down a bit please? I'm finding it a bit hard to b-breathe back here!"

The three of them stopped and waited, Ups tapped his fingers on the ground impatiently, "Oh come on SG, it's not our fault that your costumes a corset, stupid vampires......why's it so tight anyway?"

"The costume whirl was t-to fast. It's all knotted." She gasped back as she caught up with them.

"That's happened to me before. Well, one time I came out all back to front. I asked prof xXx to see to it bu-" Ups fell silent as the sound of footsteps came from behind the trees infront of them. Quickly they all hid behind the trees, apart from SG who just went up a bit and hovered.

The footsteps got louder and louder and louder and - "ALI!" Destiny cried. "God guys you had us all terified then. Why you here any way - this is our way."

"No it isn't." Wolfie protested "we've walked in a straight line since we split. "

"And so have we" Ups added. "Damn..."

They each stood in silence trying to figure out what was happening. No one said a word until they were all bowled over by a breathless vampire who had passed out and come crashing back to earth.

[Athena]

"Hmm", said Ali looking down at the passed out SG

"Perhpas we should help her" said Ups

"Nah, I think she looks pretty comfy there" said one of the Twins"

"Wow" said Kristy, "why aren't any of you in costumes any more?"

"Thats the way it works" replied Ali, "Is is really fast so that it addes to the aura of mystery that surrounds us as superhereos"

"Well I wish it wasn't QUITE so fast" said Ups specutavily

Ali rolled her eyes, "Ups, I can read minds, remember, try not to transfer so loud"

Ups colored a bit and then cleared his throat, "So ah, were do you think we are?"

"When" said Ali

"Right right, when"

Suddenly out from the bushes a loud noise came. Everybody of the company jumped in unease. Out from the shadows stepped....hooves, forlock, but then the horses body stopped and a man's body started. Up at the top of the body was dark lovely eyes. It was a centaur. Every girl assembled there simountaniously sighed in rapture, however the centaur seemed not to notice their admiring gazes upon him. He trotted forward and extened a hand toward Wolfie. Right before Wolfie could grasp his hand, Ali bumped him out of the way, and then Tele tried to bump Ali out of the way. The centaur ignored the fuss and finally spoke,

"Ah, welcome to the Jurassic period" at his words Wolfie pointedly stared that the sky and said, "Gee, I wonder where the dinosaurs are?"

The centaur ignored him and continued speaking, "My name is Donny Gepp"

Suddenly from the bushes came another centaur, but this one was different. Where Donny was dark with smolderin eyes, this one was fair with curly mane. Where Donny had gorgeaus cheekbones this one had, really really nice tail. As the second one approached a whisper could be heard by Tele

"God, what a minger"

"Quite Tele" said Summer, she eyed both the centaurs, but her eye was mostly fixed on Donny.

The second centaur cantered forward and stopped abruptly with a small flourish that made it obvoius he was showing off, "Hello all, my name is Bando Goon"

Donny looked at Bando with disgust, "Show off" he muttered under his breathe, "Hmph" replied Bando and he flipped his tail in annoyance.

"Boys, boys" said Ali, "calm down. Now what was all that about being in the Jurassic period again?

Donny stepped forward and gave a rougish smile at Ali, Ali sighed and smiled back, "Well m'dear" Ali smiled again, "We have time travel and we have traveled to your future. I see that you think there really are such a thing as dinosaurs. Well, in actuality, we love to bug you all and twist your poor little heads around so we plant bones and make you think that in actaulity such giants as dinasuars really existed"

"Its all a big joke really, hahahahah" said Bando as he went off into maniac laughter, laughter that abruptly stopped when Tele kicked him in the shin.

"But, how could anyone fall for that, it is so incredibly lame?" said Krissy

Summer shrugged, "That is just the way things are, the lamest plots are the truth. At least, from what I have seen so far"

Ups looked a bit miffed at being upstaged by the two centaurs but he smiled at Summer and replied, "Aye, thats the way of it" Howver, sadly Summer didn't hear him, she was to busy surrounding Donny with the other girl mutants.

[Summer Sparrow]

"Hmm Donny Gepp and Bando Goon, don't you guys have such exotic names." said Summer in amazement. "And you two look so much like Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom"

"Minger" cursed SG again under her breath.

"So we are, isn't it more exciting this way? And what's yours?" they asked in unison.

"I'm Summer, that's SG, Misty, Kristy, Ups, Wolfie, Fate and Destiny, and a bunch of extra's without cool names"

"Hmmm.. excellent! We can throw a massive time-travelling party!"

Wolfie jumped up and hollered, "Excuse me girls, but I'm the one you're all suppose to be drooling at!"

The girls glanced at him but resumed gaping at the centaurs for some reason. "It was a lot funner when Jean Spray, Robes, and Lipstique were all over me." he mumbled to himself.

"What? I was soooo not all over you!" shot Kristy back suddenly. All of them raised an eyebrow.

"Uh.. hehe.. I mean, I'm sure Lipstique was not all over you, she's a meanie , bad guys don't fall for good guys."

"Well she was!!!" he whined and started polishing his stainless steel spikes.

Suddenly a loud voice boomed over them "Excuse me students, but what have I said about time-travelling during school hours? I said to not do it right? Thank heavens I have this machine-thingy that enables me to zap my telekinesis powers and locate all of you and might eventually be used for the destruction of all human kind!

In a flash they were back at the campus, and one nameless mutant came over to them, "Quick, the Professor wants to see everyone."

"I wonder what's that all about?" said Wolfie.

[Bosun]

Wolfie, Summer, Ali, Ulrik, Telè, Joanna, Jennifer and Kristy filed silently into the professor's study. Sporn, Robes, Jean-Spray, and Cycle-Pops were already assembled there.

Ulrik sighed. " Does this mean we have to share our next adventure with them?"

" 'Fraid so, novice," Robes smirked. She was a sullen looking girl with a thick southern accent, unnaturally pale skin and, needless to say, a set of robes on that added to her mysterious aura.

"What's the problem, Prof?" Ali piped up.

"Well, it seems that- who's she?" He indicated Kristy.

"New girl," Summer told him. "She's called Kristy, and her power is... Come to think of it, what is your power?"

"What's yours?" Kristy retorted, and Summer withdrew her question quickly.

"I don't remember receiving any new students except Miss Douglas," Professor XXX continued skeptically.

"I- uh- just transferred and- ah- well, see I-"

The professor held up a hand. "Just let me scan your mind to see if you're telling the truth."

"NO!"

"It'll just take a second."

"But I- er- I'm allergic to telepathy. Yeah."

The professor raised his eyebrows, but didn't pursue the matter. "Well, I suppose that's not important now. But your next mission, XXX Men, could determine the balance of power between good and evil for the whole planet!"

"So what's new?" asked Telè.

"Nothing really. It's Clobberbot again."

There was a collective (and cliche) gasp.

"Clobberbot!" Jenni cried dramatically. "Your half robotic half brother?"

Prof XXX nodded grimly. "The very same."

"Lemme guess," Wolfie groaned. "He's terrorizing the downtown area, turning over police cars, and making the rest of us mutants look bad?"

"That's right. So it'll be kind of a tough crowd. Anyway, have fun!"

All of them dashed out to the tune of their superhero theme music, except Telè, who trudged out muttering darkly about having to change into her costume twice in one day.