Pretty! What do we blow up first?

The Promise of Insanity (Doctor Who, PG, Eleven; The Doctor is his own worst enemy. All characters and ideas associate with the Doctor Who franchise belong to their respective creators.) Warnings: Some spoilers for 5x07 Amy's Choice.

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The Problem With Amy (Doctor Who, intended as Gen, PG13, Amy Pond, Eleven. She supposed she should count her luck that he hadn’t locked her in a room somewhere.) SPOILERS: 5x05 Flesh and Stone

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Re-posting an old X-Men AU story so that it doesn't get lost in the ether.

Title: Simple
Fandom: X-Men (AU)
Summary: After a member of the X-Men is kidnapped, the Professor sends Scott out to rescue them.
Disclaimer: Don't own any of them.
Notes: Written for minisinoo's Powerswap Challenge back in 2003.


I've seen several mix-n-match-power AUs, and they always have the potential to be a lot of fun, as it's often remarked how much a mutant's particular power shapes his or her personality. So my challenge is this:

Write a movieverse story featuring -- but not limited to -- Scott and Jean, in which the characters have radically different powers. That means don't give Scott Jean's telepathy or Logan's healing factor. Give him, oh, Magneto's powers, or Jubilee's, or Bobby's, or Sabretooth's. Give Jean Marrow's powers, or Mystique's, or Colossus', or Gambit's. It's perfectly acceptable to borrow powers from ANY comic-X-verse character, BUT try to change little or nothing else about Jean and Scott's backgrounds or appearances, unless affected by their (new) mutation (including Scott's status as a handicapped mutant). They came from the same families, have basically the same talents, etc.

How would they be different people? How would they be the same?

Other characters may keep their normal mutations or not, and Scott and Jean don't necessarily have to be a romantic pair. They don't even both have to be X-Men.

I guess this is kinda a "nature or nurture?" question -- with a twist.

( Simple )