Crossing Worlds

Title: Crossing worlds 3/?
Author: Dark Topaz
Summary: X-men/Batman, Storm needs a break from being a hero so she creates I life for her self in Gotham separate from her life in the Marvel Universe, with plans to never have the two dimensions meet. But like with all plans this one didn’t last.
Pairing: Ororo/Bruce
Rating: R to be safe on the violence front
Authors note: Everything I know about Batman from movies, Fanfiction, and cartoons, for X-men I learned from Cartoons, movies, X-men legends II, and fanfiction. I am not familiar with the any of the x-men comics. I suck at fight scenes and some characters will be OOC. This is now an A/U. Also I got the description of powers from the Marvel website and the DC comic’s encyclopedia. This chapter is unbetaed and will most likely be redone at a later date.
Disclaimer: I don’t own anybody or place familiar.

Chapter Two

Important if you are fan of story= This is an a/n but written by me dark topaz's little sis evilkitten for those that are fans keep reading, loving, and reviewing. This story for this will not end my big sis is just a lazy ass but rest assured that the story would be finished. I just need to keep at her and also how she plans to continue the story it will end very cool and having you wish that it will never end on with it now take it away dark _topaz.
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Storm made her way towards the living room with all of the enthusiasm of some one heading to face a firing squad. She had always known that she would be called to the mat some day about her double life but she didn’t think that it would be so soon and that the Brotherhood would be playing apart in it. She silently followed after the Juggernaut. Occasionally pausing for a second to look at the photos that she had dotting the hallway of her home. They where a combination of photos featuring either people or place that she knew and enjoyed in Gotham.
“ Are you quite through stalling?” Juggernaut rumbled.
“ Actually I was hoping to get a few more minutes.” Storm said as turned her attention from a photo of the Gotham botanical gardens complete with a candid shot of Poison Ivy.
“ Well unfortunately that won’t be happening.” He said as he reached back and placed his hand on her back and propelled her forward. Storm took a longer step then normal in order to avoid stumbling but this action unfortunately took her into the living room. She took a moment to take in how her teammates had arranged themselves in her living room. The majority of them save for Wolverine and Magneto had settled in the conversation pit that was sunken into the center of the room. Wolverine was leaning next to the large curved picture window almost getting lost in the thick burgundy curtains.
“ We wonder when you would be joining us Ms. Monroe.” Magneto drawled from where he was standing in front of her decretive mantle.
“ I was deciding how I was going to explain this.” Storm said as she pulled off her tiara and held in her hands looking at it as though it had all the answers in the world.
“ You can start by explaining why you are acting like you just kicked a puppy.” Colossus said as he looked at her with some concern.
“ I am acting this way because you are all witnesses to one of my greatest sins. Over and over we have faced threats and enemies that have found their way to our world through portals both naturally occurring and man made. Yet when I found the portal it never even occurred to me that to tell anyone I just thought that I had found a place where I didn’t have to be a hero and that I could just be a woman.” Storm said as she looked up at her teammates through her hair. Both X-men and Brotherhood looked back at her with varying expressions.
“ Well what do you know little miss goody toe shoes made a booboo.” Sabertooth chuckled. “ I guess you’re not so perfectly after all.”
“ Did you just use the term booboo?” Nightcrawler asked as struggled to smother some laughter. Sabertooth gave him a glare that would have guaranteed that the matter would have been dropped if it weren’t for the fact that Scarlet Witch had squeaked out a giggle of her own. This caused just about every one else in the room to laugh as well causing the mood in the room to lighten considerably.
“ All joking asides there are several things that you all need to know about in this dimension.” Storm said as her face took on a serious cast. “ There are no such things as the x-gene here. There are metas who are being with unusual powers similar to mutants but that is the extent of the similarities. This dimension even has its own set of superheroes the Justice League. As well as their own set of villains that seem to parallel our own.” She explained as she took her headpiece and placed it on a side table.
“ So you’re a hero in two worlds or do you play the other side of the fence in your other life.” Magneto said as shifted his weight off of his leg.
“I am not counted among any of them,” Storm replied, “as far as the natives of this dimension is concerned I am a normal woman, who has happened to have done very well for myself.”
“ What do you mean?” Nightcrawler asked as he moved so that he could look at her straight on.
“ I mean that in this dimension there is no Strom, adventurer only Ororo Monroe, business owner.” Storm said as she started undoing the clasps on her cape. She moved to drape it over the back of a chair only to pause as she looked at something behind Magneto, “ Magneto are you aware of the fact that you are bleeding?” Ororo asked as she moved so that she could move his cape from covering his left bicep. “ Shit this should have been caught earlier come on we’ll head into the kitchen.” She said as she stood up and ushered him towards the hallway.
“Ororo,” Wolverine said as he followed after them. “ What do you mean that you are viewed as a normal business owner?”
“ I mean Logan that I have kept from using my powers during the time that I have spent in this universe. Well that is not quite true I used my powers once to stall a psycho.” Ororo said as she pulled a large tackle box out of her closet that had the stylized silhouette of a bat on it. “ Speaking of psychos,” she said as she placed the box on the table. “ I guess I should brief all of you on the characters that make their home in Gotham both those on the side of the light and the dark.” She said as she started laying out gaze, bandages, and antiseptics. “ Would mind if I patch you up, or would you prefer your daughter to do it?” Ororo asked as she gestured for him to remove the upper parts of his costume.
“ I would prefer Wanda.” Magneto said guardedly as he pulled off his helmet and started to undo his cape.
“ Very well.” Ororo said as she moved a chair behind him and gestured for Wanda to take a seat. “ Now as I was saying the characters of Gotham or the rogue’s gallery as they are called.” She continued as she started to fill her teakettle. “ We will start with the deadliest the Joker.” She said as she leaned back against the counter giving them her full attention as she started to go into detail about Gotham’s rouges.

Elsewhere on the Watch Tower, in orbit

The womb of the Justice league’s Watchtower was a buzzing hive of machinery with blinking lights and monitors. It was from here that the League kept watch over that occurred planet side as well as what was happening out in space. It was also the only place that acknowledged the arrival of the mutants.
“ This is most odd.” Jh’onn said as he noticed a blip on one of the monitors. He quickly reached over and activated the comm. “ Martian Man hunter to Batman.”
“ What is it?” Batman’s gravelly tone rumbled through.
“ I am registering some odd activate in the outskirts of Gotham.” The Martian replied as he turned his attention back to the readout that covered one of the many screens with which the Justice league monitor’s the activities that occur on Earth.
“ Where exactly in the out skirts did it occur?” Batman asked silently as the almost unnoticeable swishing sound of his cape came over the sensitive microphone.
“ Unknown, the occurrence was there just brief enough to be picked up but didn’t last long enough to get a real lock on it.” Jh’ohnn replied.
“ Then give me the general area.” Batman said.
“ It occurred near Windrider farms.” Jh’ohnn said as he started typing one the computer trying to narrow down the location.
“ I will check it out.” Batman replied as he signed off. As he made his way across the rooftops heading for the alley he had left his car in. “ Oracle come in.” he said as he activated is mic.
“ I read you Batman.” Came the tiny female voice from his headset.
“ There has been a disturbance in the outskirts of Gotham I am heading out to check it out.”
" Confirmed Batman," Oracle replied as she triggered his tracking device.


Back at the farm
Ororo had just finished filling her teammates in on the many rouges that stalked Gotham's streets. She had even pulled out a photo album that contained the photos of all the main rogues of Gotham such as the Joker, Two-Face, and Mr. Freeze. Along with some of the more minor ones such as Hugo Strange and Magpie. The book also contains several rouges that belonged to other heroes such as Ocean Master, Double Dare, and Silver Swan. Both the X-men and the Brotherhood sat silently around the kitchen as it truly hit them what kind of trouble they where really in.
" What are we going to do?" Colossus asked as looked around the room with a bewildered expression.
" We protect the statue." Magneto said as he looked up from where he was toying with his teacup. " That is all that can be expected of us."
" He is right the statue should be our first priority." Ororo said, as she pulled her robe on over her costume.
" But to do that we need to fit in." Wolverine said as he leaned back in order to better look pointedly at Ororo.
“ What do you three think about becoming bodyguards?” Ororo said as she gestured to Wolverine, Juggernaut, and Sabertooth before she poured her self a cup of tea.
“ I think that you have been under a little too much pressure.” Nightcrawler piped up from where he was crouched on the counter.
“ The metas in this world fall into three category heroes, villains, and mercenaries.” Ororo explained. “ The life I lead lends it self more towards being a mercenary. And the reputation that I have built up would make it very believable for me to acquire a partner” she gestured to Magneto, “ a spiritual adviser,” points to Nightcrawler, “ a never before seen artist” points to Colossus, “ a personal assistant” nodes to Scarlet Witch, “ and three body guards no matter how unusual they look.”
“ Now I know that you have been under too much pressure.” Nightcrawler said as he somersaulted off of the counter.
“ It makes sense. I have already established myself here so there is a base.” She said as set her cup down. “ We can stash the statue here. If we get real disparate I know some collectors who have tighter security then Fort Knox I can sell it to. I can stay here and make sure it is protected.”
“ It sounds more like a way for you to rationalize staying here permanently.” Wolverine said.
“ You know the one thing that I don’t understand is if you are not a hero here then why do you have all these pictures?” Sabertooth asked as he flipped through the photo album.
“ Rogue watching is an acceptable hobby.” Ororo said defensively as she reached for the book.
“ You explained that already but why are some of these autographed and why is this one addressed to my dearest Mommy?” He asked as turned the book in order to show a picture of the Joker tied up in a straight jacket with what could possible pass as a boyish grin.
“ Because he is a delusional psychotic.” Ororo replied as she gave him a slight shock in order to get the album away form him.
“ A homicidal manic who you have said is one of the most dangerous of this fair city’s villains thinks that you are his mother.” Magneto said as he leaned forward and pinned her with a glare. But what ever else he was going to say was interrupted as a low beeping echoed through out the house.
“ That's the perimeter alarms.” Ororo said as she moved over to a screen that was in bedded in the kitchen wall. As she clicked it on it showed for a brief instant a shadow moving along the tree line. “ Ok, every body in the basement now collect all of your costume parts and move.” She said as she pulled open the door to the basement.
“ Ororo what is going on?” Colossus asked.
“ It’s Batman.” Ororo said as she gathered up Magneto’s helmet, shoulder guard, and cape bundled them up and thrust them at Scarlet Witch. She then started to herd them all save the Jugernaut toward the basement.
“ Why are being banished to the basement?” Wolverine asked
“ Because I can’t explain your appearance if he comes to the house.” she replied as she all but shoved him down the stairs.
“ Fine just don’t forget your boots.” Wolverine said as he descended the stairs.
As soon as she was sure that they where all safely tucked away in to basement. She propped herself up against the kitchen table and wrenched off her boots. She then shooed Cain ahead of her as she pushed him into a spare bedroom and stuck the boots in her bed room closet along with her cape that she had snagged out of the living room on her way pass. Normally she wouldn’t be so worried but this was the Batman and it is a general rule of thumb that if you don’t make him suspicious it is better for your overall health. So she wasn’t going to take any chances that he might become suspicious of her. Ororo took one last look around her home before she went and turned off the security monitor and snagged a random book off her book case and arranged herself on the sofa and waited for the perimeter alarms to inform her that her uninvited guest had left her property. ‘ He is just passing through. At the most if he did register our entry he will just poke around a little then be on his way.’ so it was with that thought that she prepared to sit there waiting for Batman to make his exit. So it was completely understandable that she jumped two feet when his trademark gravelly voice growled from behind her. “ How long are you going to pretend that you don’t know that I am here?”
“ I can honestly say that I didn’t know that you where behind me. I knew you where on the property but not in the house. I hoped you wiped your feet.” She said as she rearranged herself and set the now useless prop of a book aside.
“ Cut out the bullshit Monroe.” He growled. “ Who are they?”
“ You are not going to like that answer.”
“ Try me.”
“ They are metas that I helped into the country.”
“ Why did you do that?” He growled.
“ Take a seat this may take awhile.” Ororo said as she gestured to the sofa across from her. Batman merely raised an eyebrow at her. “ Or not. I have found myself the guardian of a potentially dangerous artifact. In my quest to retrieve it I wound up collecting an assortment of companions all of who are currently hiding in the basement until I can find them some actual clothes.”
“ I want to see them. Now.” He growled as he moved so that he loomed over her.
“ Does that ever actually work?” She asked as she looked up at him with an innocent look on her face. Batman merely glared at her, which she returned with a simple smile.
“ Stop antagonizing him Miss. Monroe.” A cultured baritone sounded from behind the bat.
“ Batman meet Eric Leschnger, my new business partner.” Ororo said as she raised herself up into a sitting position.
Batman turned and he raised his eyebrow as he took in the well built elderly man dressed in a tight red body suit who for some reason reminded him of a clean shaven Santa Claus on steroids. ‘I have been spending way too much time with Dick.’ he thought as moved to face the new comer unconsciously placing him self between him and Ororo. But as Eric moved closer to him, his suits inbuilt computer started registering magnetic interference so strong that it caused some of his systems to become scrambled. “ What are you?” He growled as he moved back.
“ What makes you think I am anything other then human?” The master of magnetism replied almost spitting out the last word.
“ The fact that I am registering a magnetic field stronger than anything seen in nature.” Batman growled as he backed into the sofa that Ororo was perched on causing her to scramble out of the way.
“ If this is how you react to Eric I hate to think how you would react to the rest of them. Speaking of what are you doing up here Eric?” Ororo asked as she tried to move around the dark knight only to have him block her.
“ I am not in the habit of letting a woman speak for men or fight for me.” Eric sneered.
“Mystique” Ororo coughed as she gave up trying to get around the Batman.
“Silence.” Eric growled as he took a menacing step towards her. Ororo tried to move forward to meet him but the Bat restrained her.
“ Enough both of you.” Batman yelled “ You two don’t like each other much do you.”
“ Only when we have a common goal.” Ororo said as tightened her belt angrily.
“ I want to meet the other ones.” Batman said as he moved so that he could watch both of them.
“ I don’t think that is a good idea.” Ororo said. “ They are still adjusting and I am worried that at least two of them will get violent if confronted.”
“ Victor and Logan?” Eric asked.
“ Victor and Cain.” Ororo replied, as she politely pushed against the Bat’s shoulder and was finally able to get around him and headed for the kitchen.
“ I can see it.” Eric said as he followed after her. “But after a little persuasion I am sure they can be convinced to control them self.” He with a calm assurance of someone used to getting he’s way.
“ Yay, right I would love to see you try.” Ororo replied as moved to stand between the two facing so that she could keep her eyes on both of them. “ Maybe if we call them up one at a time starting with Wanda and then ending with Cain, that might work.”
“ It might.” Eric said. “ I will go and have a word with them.” He said as he spun on his heel and headed toward the basement door.
“ How’s your live insurance?” Ororo asked softly once Batman and her where alone again.
“ Paid up.” Batman replied getting a tired chuckle out of Ororo.
“ You made a joke the world must be ending.” Ororo said as she sat back down on the sofa. Whatever Batman was going to say in response to that was cut off as Eric led Wanda in to the room. Wanda had removed her cape and headpiece leaving only her red body suit.
“ I am Wanda Maxinov.” She replied as she stood at an almost military like attention. Causing Ororo to give Eric the evil eye. “ I was informed that you wished to know what my powers are.” The bat just gave her a sharp nod. “ I can to some slightly alter the cause and effect of an action.”
“ Explain.”
“ You put your foot down on a dry steady floor I can make you slip.” Wanda explained.
“ I see. Who is next?” The Bat replied as he waved her towards the couch opposite Ororo.
“ Father Kurt Wagner.” Eric said he then stood patiently by while Batman and Ororo waited for him to go
“ Would you like me to go get Kurt? And please stop trying to antagonize him you know h he hasn‘t been ordained yet.” Ororo said her tone showing how close she was to reaching her wits ends with the whole situation.
“ Why hasn’t he been ordained?” Batman asked almost at the same time as he moved slightly so that his cape brushed against Ororo’s foot.
“ My appearance has called my faith and origins to question heir Batman.” A rich male voice said from the shadowed corner to the left of the living room entrance that Batman had been facing.
“ Kurt Wagner I presume.” Batman said as he turned to fully face the corner the voice originated from.
“ Ja, I am Kurt Wagner forgive me for not revealing myself but I don’t think that my appraence would go over well.” Kurt replied.
“ Let me be the judge of that.” The Bat growled.
“As you wish.” Kurt replied as he stepped out of the shadows that he had concealed himself in. As he stepped forward he drew himself up to his full height and unflinchingly met the eyes of the Bat.
“ What can you do?”
“ I am able to teleport over a set distance and am able to hide myself in shadows along with unhumanlike flexibility.” Kurt replied the only sign of his nervousness was his rapidly flicking tail.
“ How useful is the tail?”
“ It can wield a rapier.” The two of them stood staring at each other for a while before the bat broke it by speaking first.
“ I will see what I can do with the church.”
“ You have pull with the church?” Ororo asked.
“ No, but I know some open-minded priests.” Batman replied.
“ Kurt could you get--” Ororo started to ask.
“ Sabertooth.” Eric cut in. “ Might as well get the more unusual ones done first.”
“ Go ahead Kurt.” Ororo said after she had thought for a moment.
“ As you wish.” Kurt said as he swept into a courtly bow before he disappeared in a puff of sulfuric smoke.
“ I will get the first aid kit.” Ororo said as she pulled herself up and headed for the kitchen.
“ Stop being over dramatic.” Eric snapped at her.
“ Whose being over dramatic?” Cain rumbled as he exited the hallway that lead to the bedrooms.
“ Apparently I am.” Ororo said as she gestured him towards a wall. Her suggestion was reinforced by a nod from Eric.
“ Who is he?” Batman asked.
“ Cain marko, the human Juggernaut.” Eric replied. “ He is unstoppable.”
“ What exactly does that mean?” the bat asked.
“ What it means that I can take a direct hit from a tank and keep going.” Cain replied. What ever else was going to be said was cut off by the sound of fighting while the words couldn’t be made out that it was two men with a lot of hostility.
“ I will be right back.” Ororo said as she rolled her eyes. She headed toward the back hallways. She quickly made her way toward her bedroom and her jewelery closet. She went through her drawers and pulled out a peice of decorate hand armor she had bought on a whim in her home deminsion. “ I dub you Storm Claw.” She whispered as she slipped it on. She then made her way back toward the living room and the fighting duo of Victor and Logan.
She entered the living room to find the two in each others face yelling over each others so fast that no one could make out what either of them was saying. She calmly raised her hand that was encased in the hand armor and sent a bolt at them that was the equivalent of a taser. Needless to say that she got their attention, they both dropped like a sack of potatos. “ If you two are quite through?” Ororo asked as they pulled themselves to their feet. “ Meet Victor and Logan. If they ever got along they would be unstoppable. Fortunately for the rest of us they can’t stand each other.” Ororo said as she moved back to the couch. They are what we call ferals hightened senses and animal like features and/or instincts.” She replied as stared at the two ferals that had shifted their glare from each other to her. Their animosity was already setting every body else on edge. “ If you two want to beat the stuffing out of each other then please do it out side on your own time.” Both Sabertooth and Logan did an about face and headed for the patio doors.
“ Intresting group that you have here.” Batman said with a smirk.
“ I should never of left Kenya.” Ororo said as she dropped her head into her hands.