"You can let go of me now, I am fine." Paul said as he stood himself up not caring of the various debris flying around.
"Hey lie down! You just got hit by a 400+ pounds meat sack so don't try to walk around! It's still dangerous out there." The girl pulled Paul's hands as she looked worried. "And besides, didn't you show some pain earlier with you face? So don't act tough and lie still."
"Lady, I got bomb with the stinky ass of a 400+ pound adult male. Why do you think I scrunched my nose like that earlier, I can still smell it and I'm going to make that dude have a piece of my mind." Paul did not care as he walked towards the battle and cracked his knuckles while walking slowly.
The girl was stunned as she thought of how Paul looked earlier and it was indeed more of a look of disgust than being hurt. But she stopped her thoughts as she remembered how the guy looked fine while walking after being hit by that lot of weight travelling very fast.
"W-wait! Don't try to be a hero! Let those guys handle these people!" The girl still tried to call out to Paul but it was too late. Paul did not care as his mind was full on for vengeance so he made some hand signs and it stopped with his thumb, pinky and ring fingers intertwined together leaving his middle finger and index finger pointing out sticking together.
"Hidden!! Taijustu Oggi!!" Paul was so angry at the assault he had experienced that he subconsciously teleported behind Blob and shouted the rest of the technique he was gonna use in Japanese.
"Sennen Goroshi!!!" Paul felt that this was the most painful revenge he could muster to the large Man who was suddenly shocked at the presence of another man behind him but before he could react Paul already sent the attack making everybody look at what kind of thing would this new stranger that suddenly appeared would do.
"ARGHHH!!!!!"
But their eyes went wide when Paul used all of his strength to use this technique that it sent Blob screaming and flying towards Wolverine's fight. Most that saw it flinched as they felt some phantom pain seeing the attack, which in turn made Sabertooth too late to react at the 400+ pounds of heavy falling down on him.
*Bang*
Everybody paused at the sudden interruption and they all looked at the guy that was still in squatting position with his two hands pointing straight outwards while smoke seemed to come out of the tips of his fingers. Paul looked serious as hell while in such a pose while the girl hiding in the trees has her mouth stuck open at the sight.
"You're dead pipsqueak!!" Suddenly Mammomax ran towards Paul and swung his trunk to swat the new enemy, Colossus was stunned as he was not able to react because his mind was still in the fact Blob was sent flying just like that in pain.
He had never heard the guy scream like that much in pain so he was not able to react when Mammomax disengaged him in battle. The others were also not able to react but they tried to help yet they were stopped by the rest of the Acolytes.
"Wrong move." Paul said as he stepped back to dodge the trunk but also hugged it with his body to follow with the flow.
"Smell what I experienced!!" He was hanging upside down with his legs crossed in the upper trunk of Mammomax who realized his target was not on his face.
But before he could try to get him off he felt two hands get up on the tip of his trunk so he subconsciously inhale to gather air to pump the hands out but what greeted him was a noxious smell that made him stunned as his sense of smell was more developed.
Paul knew that he should let go so he somersaulted away while blinking near the bank of the Reserve and washed his hands in a hurry.
"*Blergh!!!*" suddenly Mammomax puked bile out of his mouth and trunks not being able to react at a Colossus that gathered momentum charging towards him and gave a large right hook towards the barfing beast's face.
*Bang!*
*Thud!*
Mammomax was down as his whole face is as white as sheet while Colossus looked at the ground that was dissolving because of the bile then at the weird guy that made them take down their enemies easily.
Looking around he saw Logan taking down Lady Death strike then going to help Storm's group against Exodus while Hank was putting on cuffs to the unconscious. So he went to help Kitty taking down Toad who was getting panicked at the situation.
Soon Pyro and him were taken down too when a hidden member of the X-men appeared and helped minimizing the extent Exodus was causing damage. A red-haired girl floated and kept almost all of the energy projectiles Exodus shot from hitting anywhere, Paul looked at this from afar as he kept washing his hands but he noticed something weird as his mind tickled a bit.
He looked around and there were no more people to be seen nor there were any people that were watching through the windows of the buildings. He looked at the girl that pulled him out he saw her walking away with a blank eye making him understand the situation.
'A telepath? Maybe that bald guy in the wheelchair dad always said he wanted to at least 'slap' or 'touch' should he meet the guy. The actor obviously but this is the real one, maybe that tingly sensation earlier was him.' Paul walked towards the girl that was blank as she walked away and held her shoulders stopping her from going away as he still wanted to know her.
"Hey, can this girl at least stay? She was really brave earlier so I wanted to thank her and know her a bit." Paul talked to the blank girl as he knew whoever was controlling her could hear him.
"And isn't it a bit rude to control her out of her will? I know you want secrecy but this is just a bit too much for me, you could just make her unconscious but controlling her seemed too far."
"She is too close to where they are fighting." The girl said blankly but Paul knew this was the one controlling her and it made him realized that it was indeed too dangerous for her to stay here.
"Ahh.. I see, my bad then. Could you at least make her sleep a few blocks away so I could still find her?" Paul said and let go of the girl that nodded and ran away to another side of the park. But suddenly he felt danger behind him but before he could react a hand passed through his chest holding his heart.
"You… you were the problem here." A cold voice sounded out behind him and he heard the shouts of the others.
"NO!!!"
Just as the X-men were about to attack they stopped as Exodus pointed Paul's body to their general direction stopping Cyclops and Storm from sending our attacks.
"You see? This is what happens if you keep on bothering us Acolytes in our quest for Mutant Dominance!!" Exodus smiles were deranged as he held Paul's heart on his hands.
"Asshole let him go!!" Logan was angry as he charge towards Exodus along with Beast and Colossus but they stopped as they saw something they would have normally seen on their friend and teammate.
"Ouch…Uhmm, dude can you let go of my heart man? I'm still recently mourning of some sorts so I am not ready for this kind of physical relations for the moment. It's too intimate for me, I still plan to give my heart to someone I like too as well." Paul looked down at the hand that held his heart then looked back at Exodus that looked shocked at how the man in his arms was still alive.
"Seriously man you look handsome and seem like a hunk, no homo though, but I prefer if I was in the hands of a beautiful woman." Paul suddenly elbowed towards Exodus face who was sent backwards from Paul's strength. Having the hand let go of his heart, Paul landed with a calm face while looking at his ripped shirt where his wound was starting to heal very fast.
"Aww, I just bought this shirt." Paul said as he felt that he needed to have a lot of clothes on his wardrobe and in his person if this keeps happening. The X-men were wide eyed as they looked at Paul while a series of Emotions were seen if their faces as they seemed to have heard something from the Professor.
This made Storm wake up and continue her assault towards Exodus who was now recovering from his broken jaw as well as Scott shooting out occasional beams for support. Iceman also kept attacking from the side while Night Crawler sent Colossus and Kitty to harass the guy.
Logan and Hank were walking towards Paul as they looked at him up and down seeing if he was indeed okay but the spotless skin on his chest seems to say yes. The two looked at each other as this kind of regeneration rate was so much faster that Logan here, that was a heart and practically some part of the Lungs yet this guy was more paying attention to the blood stains on his shirt.
"Hi there, I'm Dr. Henry McCoy. Our Professor said that you seem to have ideas of who we are and since you helped us earlier can we ask for your assistance in the matter at hand?" Beast sent his hands for a hand shake which Paul wanted to reciprocate but he saw his hands has blood on it.
"Uhm, Paul Esteban. You can call me Paul though." Paul said as he wiped his hands on his ruined shirt then shook hands.
"Logan, you seem to be new here bub. Visiting New York?" Logan was in deep thought thinking if he was related to this guy in from of him. Seeing Paul's Asian features made him remember that he had some relations in Japan but he had already met his Son so this guy most likely is not related to him.
"Yeah, I'm new here. But don't you want to be helping your friends though?" Paul looked back but he saw Exodus being pummeled left and right on a wide platform made of ice in the middle of the reservoirs.
Sometimes he flashed away from his position making Paul realize that this guy could teleport also but not too far away if it was an instantaneous one. And it seemed Jean Grey was interfering with him as his face seemed to be having problems of thinking straight maybe Charles also is causing problems.
"Huh, are you a mutant?" Logan asked because there was something interesting about what their Professor said. He could see Paul's soul albeit faintly and could not tell if he was mutant or not.
"Mutant? No." Paul answered as he looked back at the two but his eyes were more on Hank as he felt that the blue hairy guy looked interesting. He could only see these kind of people during comic-con which his Father faithfully attended. Only this time this guy looked like the real deal and not some guy who painted himself blue and glued blue colored wig on his face.
"So your powers?" Hank did not want to be rude asking this kind of question to a stranger who they just met but the professor was worried as they do not know how this person thinks and unsure if he might be a threat to humans.
"Powers? Yeah I woke up one day and I just have them." Paul said as he indeed woke up just yesterday and suddenly became like this.
"Huh?" Logan said as he looked at Hank who also raised his eyebrows. Waking up with powers means that this guy in front of them was not an experiment of sorts but was most likely a mutant. They were happy as they were able to find somebody who were strong to help them but they must observe this guy in the future first.
*BOOM!!*
The three looked towards the battle and saw Exodus repel all of his attackers breaking the Ice and giving Exodus time to teleport to the unconscious teammates of his and tried to take them away.
Paul reacted fast as he suddenly opened his forth Gate, appearing suddenly in front of Exodus via teleportation too making the guy stop reaching out to the other members of his team and took only Sabertooth, Pyro and Mammomax. Leaving Blob, Lady Deathstrike and Toad there bound and powerless but the kick that Paul was about to make did produce a strong shockwave of air.
This also surprised the X-men at the amount of power that strike has making them realize that if Paul was serious then maybe things were easier.
"Hey, why didn't you help earlier if you have that much strength? We could have prevented the unneeded damage around here." Scott said as he walked towards Paul aggressively but was stopped by Jean.
"Whoa, why so serious dude, it's not like I'll know when a 400+ pound of meat and sweat would fall on my face during my morning jog which by the way was a very horrid experience. Try smelling the dude it was like fried blue cheese stuffed with shrimp paste, cool powers by the way laser eyes but anywho, I am new to this so don't expect me to be all so cooperative when I am not even part of you group." Paul said as he shrugged not minding the bipedal laser pointer's earlier tone.
"He's right Scott and besides he did help out albeit weirdly… wait how do you know the smell of fried blue cheese stuffed with shrimp paste?" Kitty said while her attention was brought to an earlier comment.