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X-Stories Just Because... |
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Authors included in this section -- click on a name here to go to their individual entry:
In a classic written years ago, Storm reintroduces Dracula to human intimacy as he is introducing her to vampires' intercourse.
Victor Creed is on another killing spree and Logan is on his trail -- as are two FBI agents who specialize in the bizarre. And, besides wanting to capture the perpetrator, Mulder and Scully are desperate to know why all the young victims so closely resemble either Samantha or Emily.
Back in the early 70s (when the original X-men issues were being published for the first time), Jean Grey finds herself dealing with an unplanned, unexpected but unfortunately not uncommon situation -- and she turns to the high-flying Angel for help.
A sort-of prequel to Jean's Little Problem, this is one possible scenario of how Jean found herself "in trouble".
A possible future for the X-Men, where a bloated, psi-deaf Jean finds her husband in a compromising situation with an unexpected partner.
One possible way Xavier and Magnus might first have met and gotten to know each other...
Jubilee and her surviving classmates find themselves trapped in an especially hopeless situation, struggling to provide for parasitic babies.
One all-too-likely look at what might have happened to Rogue during her imprisonment in Genosha...
Paige Guthrie finds Tristan Brawn is seeing someone else as well.
The Ultimate X Jean Grey finds herself a target.
Magnus and Xavier indulge in some creative role-playing back in the good old days of classic original Trek.
A university professor finds his own unique way of dealing with a self-important bigot.
After a job interview, a woman finds herself being treated for an unspecified medical problem.
One small, unimportant refugee from the troubles in Genosha tries to adjust to a new life in the States.
What is winning worth?
I refuse to even try to summarize this...
One young woman's mutant power isn't everything she hoped it would be.
The X-Men rescue an abused young mutant raised in virtual isolation. Can she overcome her terrbile past and become a human, let alone an X-Man?
A graduate student is sent to the mansion to deliver some research samples to Dr. McCoy.
Logan and Ororo meet... for the last time?
In a world where the government was quicker to act on the mutant threat, Dana Scully is about to make a discovery that changes everything.
After the event of Letonia, Scully deals with the fallout. Not always so well.
A mutant precog working as a high school guidance counselor tries to help his students toward a better future -- but can't always succeed.
The game begins with a demon and an angel coming to the Marvel Earth...
Storm muses on the meaning of life as an X-Man.
Storm, in a private moment...
Storm and Gambit take some down time.
Stryfe may have finally met his match...
Superman and Wolverine take some downtime.
There's an enjoyable visit to Excalibur in 37 (co-written with Phil Foster), but this is primarily the story of Beast's growing romance with a special woman named Cassie, the story that first got me hooked on fan-fiction.
A retired professional protester of the sixties finds a new cause worthy of his talents and skills -- protesting discrimination against his grandson, a mutant.
Is Magneto a hero or a villain? Fans and writers aren't the only ones having trouble deciding -- Heaven and Hell are both claiming him.
Nathaniel Essex reveals his obssession with Darwin's new theory of evolution to a close associate, whose conversation starts him thinking about the potential of directed evolution -- and selective breeding.
A visitor to the Hellfire Club gets Donald Pierce remembering how he became the White Bishop, and what debts he'd incurred along the way.
Ok, another Gambit story I just couldn't resist -- what if he (and the X-Men) had to cope with a permanently crippling injury?
Remy and Jake explore and slowly acknowledge the subtleties of attractiveness and attraction as Jake copes with life in a female body.
Luna spends some time with her grandfather.
Mystique takes a terminal Pyro back home for Christmas.
No, not Pryde or Wisdom, or Excalibur, or New Mutants. So sue me -- I like Domino, and I love Grifter, and here's this neat story with Domino leaving Cable and X-Force and running into her old friend, Cole Cash...
Several of the other X-Men try hard to get Hank and Cecelia past just angsting over each other, but it takes a teeny bikini and a major knock on the head to get Hank to make a move on her.
Most of the X-Men are too involved in day-to-day trivia to fully notice some of the major events in the larger world outside the mansion.
Transported from her own dimension, a wonderful Mary Sue is now living at the mansion, and teaching the X-Men to trade in their angst for home-baked cookies instead.
The ramifications of one man's rather unique mutant power getting out of control...
A television news reporter decides to make his own stand against the endless anti-mutant propaganda.
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Just another day at Xavier's -- Jean is mad at Scott and Rogue is mad at Remy, who brings home a cat which Rogue is jealous of, Bobby is afraid of, and Ororo is allergic to; meanwhile, Bobby steals one too many Twinkies from Hank who comes up with a great scheme for revenge, while Scott tries to make it up to Jean and Ororo tries to find a way to tell Remy what happened to his new cat...
Pete Wisdom isn't the only mutant who likes to have a pint at the local pub...
In one of the very first TCP stories, a mutant with the ability to manipulate fire decides to put his x-factor to good use.
An invitation has a man recalling how he'd used his mutant power.
What if the waitress hadn't been Fatale, but had been simply a waitress?
One possible version of Ororo's life in Africa, before joining the X-Men...
Tired of the endless angst of Marvel's too-many-times-redone Days of Future Past, the author decided to come up with his own version.
Several writers take turns telling stories during an evening at the Subreality Cafe...
Curious about what the connection is between Gambit and Sinister, and afraid he'll be found out because of it, the Dark Beast kidnaps Gambit, leading to the revelation of all the secrets the Cajun mutant has tried to hide.
A pregnant Jean is dying, and Hank can't cure her; Sinister, however, can and will, in return for a specific payment from Scott -- namely, the return of Gambit to his clutches.
Jealous of Forge's relation with Mystique, a vulnerable Storm falls prey to Dracula's seduction again. Then, when she tries to victimize Gambit in turn, it's up to Logan to try to save his teammates from a fate worse than death.
With more than just a little help from Sabretooth, Genevieve's father blames Gambit for her death and -- again with more than just a little help from Sabretooth -- sets out to get revenge.
Ororo and Logan have a very close encounter in the woods behind the mansion one night.
At Christmastime, Deadpool finds himself hired for an unusual job by a surprising client for a unique price.
One Christmas after the one in the Tannenbaum One Thousand, Wade finds himself volunteered for Christmas Eve duties, which could include a final resolution of his situation with T-Ray.
Going after the same target, Wade Wilson and Slade Wilson meet -- in a most unusual and entertaining manner.
An alternative version of Rogue and Joseph's road trip and subsequent meeting with Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch (not to mention most of the other X-types).
Joseph takes Rogue on a date. Gambit suggests an appropriate restaurant and things go downhill from there.
Rogue can't stand Joseph's fashion sense (or lack thereof), so she takes him shopping. Every man's nightmare.
Joseph pops the question, mayhem ensues, and we finally learn Rogue's real name.
A battle in China goes terribly wrong!(Well, what can you expect when it's right over a place called Jusenkyo?) Now Rogue is avoiding cold water like mad, Bobby is running after her with kettles of hot water, Mystique is trying to kill Xavier and Magneto and his Acolytes are attacking! No Storm! Don't call up a rainstorm!
Distraught over losing her telepathy, Jean turns to Logan for physical comfort and reassurance, as Scott accidentally overhears.
After her time with Logan, Jean finds Scott gone and must tell the others what happened.
Storm dreams of freedom from endless control.
The real Phoenix is back... or was she ever really dead and gone?
Waiting at the airport, Ororo remembers her last visit with Yukio.
Yukio's encounter with Ororo from Yukio's point of view.
A number of characters communicate candidly through a traditional medium.
A definitely more positive view of mutation than usual, as a woman gives birth to a mutant child.
Rogue struggles to cope with her inability to touch.
Xavier reviews his self-justification for leaving his X-Men and going off to the Skrulls.
Gambit wakes up one morning to find himself turned into a -- telepathic, fortunately -- black cat.
Gambit thought he was done with being a cat -- until it happens again... and all the telepaths are temporarily unavailable to switch him back.
Scott and Logan try to cope with losing Jean after Dark Phoenix is gone.
Jubilee and Jono turn to each other as second choices.
Bobby Drake is having an affair with Remy -- and having doubts about it.
The situation among Domino, Cable and Storm irritates and frustrates a number of people -- including Domino herself.
What does it cost to be Jean?
In an alternate version of Rogue's kiss with Gambit in X-Men #41, Storm tries to deal with the loss of her friend.
Confused and alone, Gambit runs for his life in an alien world while Rogue tries deperately to find him.
Sinister and the Marauders capture Gambit and Rogue and offer Remy a choice he can neither refuse nor accept.
Bishop tries to deal with his memories of Gambit as his father while Remy struggles with the onset of his future self's madness.
Refusing to accept the only cure for his mental illness, Gambit flees from the X-Men, straight into Rogue's worst nightmare.
Remy and Rogue leave the X-Men to try and have a normal life together, but Gambit's past is quickly catching up to him.
Remy returns to New Orleans to take his rightful place in the Thieves Guild while Rogue goes back to the X-Men. But while Remy deals with corruption and his own lack of power to change what is around him, Rogue tries to handle some more personal problems.
Hank decides he really needs a research assistant.
Bobby convinces the X-Men Hank needs to move his research assistant into the mansion.
Naomi encounters more than one unusual sight at the mansion when she starts working there.
A little exploration into the unique friendship between Jubilee and Logan.
Warren Worthington asks his friend Bobby Drake to go undercover in Warren's latest acquisition -- a law firm in Los Angeles named Wolfram and Hart, suddenly under new management.
Jubilee has to let Logan go off on one last mission.
The Friends of Humanity bring their anti-mutant propaganda to an Amish home, where things are not quite what they seem...
Logan finds Domino turning to him for some "no strings" comfort...
...and Domino's reaction to their "no strings" encounter.
This is a Cable/Domino story told from Domino's point of view. It takes place while X-Force is living in the mansion, but diverges from continuity soon after that point.
Lilandra explains the real reason her relationship with Charles Xavier is dead.
A new series introducing a group of ordinary, everyday mutants rooming together while they work, go to school, or otherwise try to live regular lives.
Another series with a group of people trying to help mutants (and their families) live with ordinary and extraordinary problems.
The events in Kaylee's Seeing Red, from Jean's own viewpoint...
Not a Pryde&Wisdom story, nor a Psylocke story, this is a brief glimpse into the haunted inner psyche of another X-woman -- Lorna Dane, Polaris -- perhaps in our continuity, perhaps in another.
Sinister finds more than one use for Polaris while Lorna is being possessed by Malice.
Relationships in the X-Men face the usual obstacles... and some unique ones.
A wave of lust hits the X-Men.
Remember the Beyonder? Remember Rachel Summers' attempt to destroy him? Remember the Beyonder's plan to obliterate all reality? Well, what if the Beyonder *had* obliterated all reality?
Did you really think humans were the only ones who could mutate? <g>
A dark version of what might have happened with the X-Men during the six-month gap...
Xavier confronting his personal demons, on the verge on becoming Onslaught...
Jean Grey musing on the positives and negatives of her love for Scott Summers...
Vulnerable losing her powers after the Psi-Wars, Jean is attacked -- and her husband finds it difficult to cope with the aftermath.
Logan says a final farewell to Scott Summers.
Scott and Jean are happy together, even though he's lost his sight.
Jean loses control completely after Cyclops is killed.
After Jean is killed on the moon, Scott mourns her...
Jean and Logan finally act on their mutual attraction.
Jean reacts to her husband's affair with Emma Frost
Hank and Bobby take some down time...
Fire meets ice...
Logan finally defeats Sabertooth once and for all, but is the price too high?
Rogue finally finds someone who can hold her, kiss her, love her -- and touch her in other ways she'd never thought of.
As this story shows, Remy and Rogue really *don't* have to go through all that angst...
Mistrust between Gambit and Wolverine leads to a fatal misunderstanding...
After Storm saves his life, Gambit finds himself expressing more than simple gratitude.
Finding himself in the afterlife, Remy gambles with his host for his release, and wins -- then goes for double or nothing.
As the prospects for mutants become worse and worse, one of the X-Men finds himself struggling to remember why he's struggling.
In one possible alternate future, Gambit explains to Rogue what happened to him after she left him in Antarctica.
Once upon a time, Rogue did enjoy her unique mutant power...
A future Gambit comes back to try to change his future with Rogue.
One way Gambit might have become the Witness...
Abandoned in Antarctica by Rogue, Gambit returns to the life of a thief, and becomes involved with another of Sinister's victims.
How can Gambit be with Minnie if he still loves Rogue?
BellaDonna tests a new candidate for membership in the Assassins' Guild.
One of the Shadow King's victims tries to escape his hold on her.
What Henry McCoy might have felt, if he'd been one of the ones taken over by the Shadow King...
What might have happened to Cecilia and Charlotte, left behind on the Neo base...
Rogue isn't the only mutant who can't risk touching people...
Continuing the saga of Asha Joye, the precog introduced in
No Armour Against Fate,
Xavier asks her to go to Genosha and touch Magneto, to determine the mutant dictator's future intentions.
The similarity in Rogue's and Asha's powers draw them together even as they're driven apart.
Not all psis use their powers for good...
A slightly different take on Magneto's 'relationship' with Xavier...
Apocalypse finally wins his war against humans-- or does he?
An Elseworlds tale with some familiar faces as firefighters coping with a subway disaster in New York City.
Just what the title says...
A casual pick-up in a bar turns out to be much more than it seems.
Sent to Catholic school, a young mutant girl is not welcome to the nuns or students.
Would you think the mutant power of Beauty would be a good thing to have?
Right after giving birth, a woman is told her child is a mutant.
A man finds a reason to use his mutant power to turn back time.
What would you do if you found you could see -- and stop -- time?
A pedophile finds a new victim through the internet.
A homebound woman soars free every night on the wings of children's dreams, and works to return the favor.
What really happened at this year's AusCon? Probably not this...
'Downtime' issues have always been my favorite stories, and here's a wonderful example -- the X-Men celebrating Christmas with nary an enemy in sight... except for a hyper Jubilee.
Xavier and Magneto unite against a mutual enemy -- and finally find common ground between humans and mutants at the same time.
Not liking how Marvel was developing the Onslaught plot, the author proves he can do better...
The events of Onslaught: Redemption continue to play out...
The loss of mutant powers affects more than just the X-Men -- and not all mutants are thrilled to give up their powers.
Scott and Jean are expecting their first baby, what could be more fitting for a young married couple? However, sometimes life doesn't turn out quite the way you hope and dream. And fate has a very heavy hand when it comes to Tomorrow's Child.
The Peanuts gang's school trip to a museum is interrupted by a mutant battle.
The X-women decide to go on strike, and have some fun, while the X-Men are left to do all the household chores.
Jean Grey as seen through the eyes of one of her early, 'ordinary human' friends...
X-Men/Tales of the Jedi crossover, situated after UXM 345 -- Our heroes are struggling to repair their battered ship after their near-collision with the gigantic mystery vessel, when they come across a castaway in space... and the newcomer provides Gambit with a revelation that could change his life.
While out on the town, Gambit comes across a theft in progress, and decides to do the cops a favour. However, he is in no way prepared for the mutant behind the caper...
