"This is just great... It's bad enough we have to deal with the here and now, but now we know what's going to happen isn't any prettier..." Kitty ranted as she slouched on the couch. She hated the situation, as once again they know the future won't be as bright as they've worked so hard for it to be.
"Relax Kitty. We just have to wait for the next update to know whose ass to kick when... besides we beat Magneto, and the Phoenix Force thing. I think the odds are looking pretty good" Bobby replied placing a comforting hand on her shoulder.
"But what if all we are doing now is shifting the future... and the outcome will always end up bad" She spoke and all fell silent at the idea.
"Don't think about it like that Kitty" Jean spoke positively "We still don't know if the future this time around is any worse than it was"
"It did seem more structured" Scott added
"In the meantime, we should all go rest up until Charles discovers more about the current future" Logan practically ordered as he left the living room.
"I suppose I should take my leave mein freunds" Kurt announced as he stood up.
"Are you going back so soon?" Kitty asked saddened
"Genosha needs to be rebuilt, and now that Magneto is no longer its leader, there's no harm in helping other mutants who now live there" Kurt defended his decision
"Yeah, and Wanda sure does seem to miss you" Beast inputted humorously.
"At least stay for a few more days, and then I can fly you there myself" Kitty was now standing by her friend holding his hand. Attempting to keep her friend from leaving her side just because there was no fighting for the good of human and mutant kind alike coming up anytime soon.
"The X-Jet does need some work, it'll take me about a week to complete all the repairs, you can stay 'til then" Forge added, knowing that by pulling full time work he could fix it sooner, but he still needed to finish work elsewhere in the mansion, and keep the danger room in constant working standards for the x-men to train.
"Yeah, and heck maybe we can go and help out with you if nothing came up from the future end of the spectrum" Bobby joked
"Please" Kitty ended their attempts as she looked up at Kurt with her puppy dog eyes
"Sorry Kätzchen, I will be of more use there, than I am here..." without giving any other chances for her to speak up he teleported away.
"Well this sucks" Kitty kicked and stuffed her hands in her pockets before she left the room
"What's up with Kitty?" Scott asked Jean who had a concerned facial expression
"She's just down... I'll go talk to her" She began to stand up but Bobby placed a hand in her way
"No, I'll go..." Bobby spoke and Jean smiled at her reading his mind "She'll feel bad about being the one upset while you just finished going through..." his mind wandered into all that's happened before he could formulate the words in his head
"Alright, but be cautious, pick your words well" Bobby nodded and ran after Kitty
"Well, how about a level 8 Danger room sim?" Scott asked and Beast smiled
"Just like the old days" Beast proclaimed as they left the room.
"Kitty hold up" Bobby called out as they were now walking around outside. Kitty leaned against a tree, her arms wrapped around herself. She kept away from facing Bobby, and new better than to show her face before she began to cry.
"Leave me alone Bobby" She spat out as tears were beginning to form and build up.
"What's wrong with you? We just saved the world" He cheered.
"How do you know that! You heard the professor, the world might end up worse than it was... all because of us..." Kitty started to walk away further out the field towards the ledge view on the ocean.
"So you just want to quit" Bobby spoke sternly, following her as she walked
"That's not why I'm upset Bobby... I just miss how it was, before this whole mess. I miss my friends, I miss Peter, and now Kurt's more interested in Wanda than hanging around his friends, I just... it took a while, but it just now hit me how nothing will ever be the same... no matter what we do, the future won't be that happy ending we want" Kitty said as she wiped her eyes. She was worried, she was confused, all this and now mutants are hated even more after the attack Magneto had on the city. The MRD are rebuilding themselves and preparing for another attack, and new forces popping out of every corner.
"Kitty I-" Bobby reached his hand out to her but was cut off at the sudden quake that made them both tumble "What was that?"
"Look!" Kitty pointed outwards at the light that appeared from the middle of the ocean view. A few seconds later a harsh wind blew, sending them both falling back. Bobby caught Kitty who fell back on him and turned them both facing the floor, and placed a protective arm over as the gust calmed down.
"Kitty, are you alright?" He looked to where his arm covered but she had already phased through him and was standing up to study the view.
"Bobby, could you ice bridge us there?" Kitty asked and he looked at her strangely
"Probably, but shouldn't we tell the others?" He exclaimed
"No time, the crash's smoke is fading, Ice-up!" Kitty ordered and he did. She wrapped her arms around his cold torso and looked up at him. "Full speed Iceman"
"Aye Aye Captian" Bobby formed the bridge of ice and began to slide through to the crash site.
"It could be nothing" Kitty spoke feeling the sudden tense atmosphere between her and Bobby
"Yeah sure" Bobby more tense of having this pretty girl hold him so tight that it might make him melt; than the actual worry on what this could be.
"Probably a satellite, or something, but still worth a quick peek don't you agree?" Kitty once again attempted to removed all this intense air that she failed to notice was Bobby's reaction to how close she was to him
"You're not cold?" Bobby asked
"I can deal... how long till we get there?" She toughened up
"A good few minutes" He quickened his pace by steepening the path their travelling on, while creating pillars on the way to hold their weight.
"Whoa" they spoke in unison as they saw what had hit the water. A whirlpool formed and the bottom of the sea bed completely revealed at one patch where a large rock formation glowed, but dimmed the more they looked at it.
"You think you can ice the whirlpool into place for us to take a closer look?" Kitty asked
"Doubt it. The current's too strong" Bobby answered yet still attempted to do so. The ice he formed broke up at the instant of freezing.
"Lower us to take a closer look then" Kitty ordered and he smiled
"Pushy pushy..." he made a circular path around to get closer to the water level.
"Do you see that?" Kitty asked pointing at a moving object she glanced at.
"No, probably a flailing fish though" Bobby assumed but without another word Kitty jumped off the bridge "Kitty!"
"I know I saw something Bobby" She said before she phased into the rock formation. He waited for her to reappear, and in worry he began to make his way down. He reached the patch where Kitty has phased through, and stood in worry at how harsh the water would collapse, and how the odds of him stopping it from happening with ice were unlikely.
He was suddenly grabbed and pulled down. "Hey!" he yelled before he was completely inside the rock. "A warning would be nice!" He protested but Kitty placed her hand on his mouth before he could say anything else
"Bobby, this isn't a rock..." Kitty spoke as Bobby recollected his thoughts and looked around "I think it's a spaceship"
"Too much Sci-Fi Drake... Snap out of it" Bobby slapped himself and Kitty rolled her eyes.
"Come on Spock, let's figure this thing out" Kitty pulled Bobby as they walked around the ship.
It was much bigger than it had seemed. At the approach of a wall a door slid open. Then another. It seemed endless, but still empty. No technology apart from motion sensor sliding doors seemed present either. Finally at one door they reached what seemed to be the cockpit. Kitty approached the view of whirling waters on the outside. There was no seat, no people, or aliens, just a view. She reached her hand to touch the window and figures appeared on the screen. Bobby looked around behind him making sure there was no possible way of being ambushed.
"Kitty, let's go. whoever came with this must have left already" He spoke to her still keeping a look out towards the door they came from
"Ahhh" Kitty screamed. Bobby turned and saw her falling through a hole that appeared in the ground.
"Kitty" the opening closed behind her and Bobby was too late. He ran to it and began to punch in attempted of reopening it, but to no avail. "Kitty, Are you ok? CAN YOU HEAR ME?" he yelled as his punches got stronger.
"Ouh" Kitty rubbed her butt and attempted standing up but hit her head against the ceiling and began rubbing her head instead "Ouh". She studied her surrounding and was now in a very small area, that she hardly fit in. Crawling on all four she approached what seemed like a chair. She heard a mumble. "Hello? Excuse me?" She spoke but nothing, another mumble of whatever it was, but she didn't refrain from approaching the seat. She turned it around and smiled.
"Kitty! KITTY" Bobby was still hitting the floor "Ok, maybe if I click a button..." He looked over, but saw nothing, no buttons, only a window. "Damn it" He punched it and heard something said as figures appeared once again on the window. He didn't understand, but everything began to light in red, and an alarm went off.
"Bobby. What did you do?" Kitty reappeared from the floor, having phased up quite a long way.
"Kitty your-" Bobby was cut off by what she held in her arms "What the hell's that!" Bobby pointed at the creature Kitty held and petted. A purple Dragon.
"It's the thing I saw, and well he seems to be the only thing here..." The Dragon growled and brought them back to the current predicament they were in now "No time to explain though, if anything red flashing light is nothing good" She grabbed Bobby and phased out to the surface of the spaceship. Bobby didn't hesitate and began creating a bridge for them to travel as far away as they could.
They weren't as fast as they hoped. The explosion created as big of an impact as the landing, and caused the ice bridge to shatter and for Bobby and Kitty to fall towards the water. The Dragon stayed in air, flying as the two splashed into the water.
"Bobby!" Kitty resurfaced out of the water and looked around
Bobby resurfaced shortly after "I'm ok" He coughed water "Just not used to taking quick breathes of air" he coughed again and she splashed him with water.
"Let's go home" she spoke as the small Dragon landed on her head and cooed.
Bobby swam to her and put an arm around her waist. He reformed another icebridge to head back to the institute.
"Where did you two GO?!" Logan began yelling as the two arrived on the ledge where they stood earlier. Logan began to pace as he yelled at the two youngest students He pointed shouted and yelled "You're not to go off disappearing on your own little adventure hunts without telling me. If you think I don't know that you two went out to where that explosion happened earlier, and again-" He was cut off as he pointed at Kitty to see her holding on to a little Dragon.
"What's that?" Logan asked simply
"Looks like a Dragon" Tildie answered as she stood next to Rogue. The two had been outside playing while the others are still in the danger room, unaware of this.
"I found him" Kitty smiled. Not really put down by all the yelling Logan had been doing.
"Yeah, he's an alien Dragon" Bobby attempted to poke it, but retreated his finger when the Dragon attempted to bite it off.
"Bad boy... don't bite Bobby, he's my friend" She petted him and he cooed "I know, he did make your ship go boom" She smiled and everyone looked at her in worry
"You understand him?" Bobby asked
"Of course, can't you tell?" everyone shook their heads.
"In any case, you two are grounded" Logan interrupted
"WHAT!" Bobby and Kitty protested in unison
"You can't ground me, I'm 18" Bobby protested, and Kitty gave him a look. Not everyone could use that excuse.
"Well, we had to act. We didn't have that much time to go find you, make a plan, and get there in time. Besides, we just saved a Dragon" Kitty defended herself.
"Either way, you don't go off on your own, Dragon or no Dragon" Wolverine spoke and angered Kitty and the Dragon who now breathed out a bit of fire in annoyance. "You keepin' it?" Logan now looked at Kitty who merely nodded. "Make sure it's no trouble to the rest of us then" He walked away and left the rest to talk amongst themselves
"There there, big bad wolverine doesn't want to hurt me... just to be bossy" Kitty stuck her tongue out as wolverine left.
"Guess I'll go order some games online to spend the next two weeks here" Bobby stretched and walked towards the institute.
"Does he have a name" Tildie petted the Dragon that didn't seem to mind her either. "You can't just call him Dragon all the time"
"She's got a point... how about purple elf" Rogue inputted, not wanting to input into the argument earlier
"That's stealing off Kurt's nickname... how about... Lockheed" She looked into the Dragons yellow eyes and smiled. "Lockheed"
"I like it" Tildie answered
"You have strange interests Kit" Rogue admitted
The Dragon began to fly and soar "See... Lockheed" Kitty pointed at her new friend and smiled devilishly at Rogue.
"Fine, just make sure he's house trained before he Spitfire's the mansion down" Rogue joked. Kitty merely giggled and allowed the Dragon to sit on her head once more.
-To Be Continued-