X-Women assemble

John's eyes went wide and his mouth formed a small smile. "Are they..." He started but got quickly cut off.

"Don't say it." Henrietta chimed in.

"Okay, but you see it, too, right?" This question resulted in her elbow meeting his ribs in a mixture of a playful push and serious punch. -3 HP.

"I told you not to mention it!" She didn't but John had the feeling that mentioning that would only end in more punches or being talked over again. He couldn't tell which was more annoying by now.

He turned back towards the group of heroes who just entered. In the front was Nadine in her wheelchair, rolling by itself.

Directly behind her, in the spot where the pusher of her wheelchair would stand if it needed one was a thing in blue. John couldn't say if it was male or female, let alone even human. The legs looked like female human legs, at least up to the knees. Everything above that was a soft blue doll, meaning it had no genitals whatsoever. What it did have tho were a big bulging biceps and shoulders, which looked really weird on the slim hips. The complete lack of both breast muscles and tits made John question this thing's gender once more.

Its face was equally weird. There was a mouth but it was on the forehead. One eye on the neck, two more, one on each side right behind her temples. Her ears were on the cheeks. A nose, hairs or anything else usually found on a head was missing.

Still this thing's blueish skin together with the wheelchair girl and the title of heroes were the reason John had jumped to X-Men the second he saw them. And the reason he got punched for stating it.

Shortly after the mutant two more girls entered. One of them was Many, but someone must have had enough of her babbling since she had a piece of duct tape on her mouth.

Next to her came in the only normal person of the four. A young woman, John felt wrong calling her a girl, in a black tank top and yoga pants over which she only wore a yellow jacket. Her blonde hair was put in a pony tail, hidden under a red cap and her face just sprouted happiness and joy. John hadn't used the skill the last two days at all, but this girl reminded him why he wanted skills like smile and friendly atmosphere in the first place. Just by looking at her, he felt inclined to talk to her, befriend her and just hang out maybe.

Two things confused John about her, though. First was that he didn't immediately imagine fucking her, as he did with everyone else. Well at least every human female else. The second thing was even more surprising. He knew her from somewhere. He couldn't pin point where or how, but he was sure he had seen her before. The way she acted just seemed familiar somehow.

Before John could figure out who or what she was, Henrietta began to speak. Now she was already cutting off his thought. Where would this lead? This girl was one massive ball of 'you may never finish that sentence'.

"You already know Nadine and Many, as I remember, and these are Esd," she pointed at the blue skinned one, "and Naomie." John nodded towards both of them as a greeting, rightfully assuming them to already know him.

"As I mentioned earlier, they will form the team with us. Usually I would now go over their abilities so we can rely on each other, but I think since you are the special snowflake that you are and insisted on bringing your own team, we should have you introduce them first," she continued, now facing her future team mates. "The boss is currently gathering them, so you will have to get along with just his words for now.

John looked around and noticed all eyes on him. He wasn't used to the attention. He didn't like the attention. But now he got it so he had to do as he was told.

"My current team consists of 4 people. I am the team leader. Besides me there is an elf called Ashthyn who is, as far as I know, currently outside and hugs the trees or whatever elves do in their free time. He is not very strong, but I trust that his magical abilities will grow significantly in time.

"The second one I bring in is Paw. She is actually only an ordinary girl that got involved in all of this. I admit that to be my fault, so I feel responsible to protect her." Sure it was a lie, but he hoped it to be a believable one.

"The last one is a bit of a problematic candidate. Layklé is the product of a mistake I was recently informed about. Apparently I have created dimensional rifts instead of illusion barriers, and that is how I met her. The same goes for Ashthyn actually. Both of them are from the other realms, different ones, tho. Layklé is a succubus, who I am pretty sure has tried to kill or cripple me twice in the same amount of days." John realized how his wished image of the 'guy that danced with danger' did not establish well here. The looks he received were more on the 'is he an idiot?' end. He decided to save the situation as best as he could.

"I know how this sounds like, but she depends on me to stay alive, so she is only playing around a bit..." No, this didn't save the scene. Wait... "I don't mean she needs me as a succubus to survive, I am not her..."

"Just go on with something else, please, we really don't want to know what you do to keep your bond with a succubus intact." For a change it wasn't Henrietta who cut him off but Nadine. John breathed in and out deeply before deciding that he may have lost the battle in regard to Henrietta, but he wouldn't just accept everyone here to talk over him.

"No. I need to clear this up. I never had sex with her. She may be a succubus but I never fucked her, even tho she obviously wanted me to." John realized only now the looks on their faces. Many looked just confused. Her thoughts were written on her face: 'I have heard the word fucking, why aren't we doing that right now, can we please do some of what he just said everyone?'

Henrietta and Nadine were in a competition of 'who can look most annoyed at John'.

Naomie looked at him with a warm smile, at least she seemed to understand how hard this was for him. He decided that he liked Naomie.

And Esd... Well, John had a hard time telling what that thing thought, or if it thought at all.

Before anyone could say something, the door flung open once more and five more people walked right in.