Author's notes:
Disclaimer: The idea of X-Men, along with all of the named characters and places/things in this chapter such as Xavier's school, all belong to Marvel comics, the creators of the X-Men comics, the people that made the movies, and anyone else officially involved with X-Men. I am not making any money from this. (Heck, I'm losing money, if anything, since I'm spending my time writing without getting paid at all.) However, this story-line is mine; please don't use/steal it or main details from it.
This is my first fan-fiction ever. I daydream about books and movies I like tons, but I've never written them down before. Also, I've read a couple comics and seen the movies, but I don't know nearly as much about X-Men as I'd like to. Therefore, there's a good chance I won't depict some of the characters exactly as they should be (especially since I may have to make some details up) and will make other minor, detail-oriented mistakes. Corrections on these would be greatly appreciated.
My point is that this may not be the greatest ever, but I'll do my best.
On a different subject, though Kitty isn't really in the movies, I've chosen to put this in the movie-based section. This is because, as I said before, I don't know much about X-Men outside of the movies; and this is mainly (see below) set shortly after X2. (So yes, there are spoilers.) For those of you who don't know anything past the movies (not that there's anything wrong with that), I'll list the four appearances/mentions of Kitty in the movies that I can remember off the top of my head:
1) X-Men: In the beginning, Senator Kelly mentions that there's a girl who can walk through walls, and what if she walked in to a bank vault or someone's home?
2) X-Men: When Logan first goes into Xavier's office and interrupts a physics class, one girl hangs back and says goodbye to Xavier. When she leaves, she walks through the door.
3) X2: During the attack on the school, one girl goes through her bed and the floor and runs through various soldiers and walls.
4) X2: At the end, when Xavier is talking to the president, and the president asks him how he got the folder, Xavier said he knows a girl who can walk through walls.
Kitty's main power is, obviously, walking through things. While she is doing this she looks normal, but if you tried to touch her you hand would go through her. She can "phase" her whole body or just parts. She can somehow walk on the floor as she goes through a wall, something I haven't totally figured out yet. She also can mess with electronics and walk on air (by doing the same atomic thing that allows her to go through things).
During the time of writing, Kitty is a student at the school. When she first discovered her powers she ended up in an attack on the X-Men and helped them to escape when they were captured, so she knows about the X-Men. In this story she is fourteen years old, and has been a student of Xavier's school for about a year. Kitty was originally an X-Woman herself (she may have become a student later, I'm not sure), but right now she is a student.
Any other relevant information about her will be explained in the story.
This is set in an AU (Alternate Universe…at least, I think that's what it stands for). Most everything is the same as in the movies, but a couple details are different. (You'll see.)
Telepathy is shown in italics.
At any rate, please enjoy and review!
Kitty make an odd sound somewhat between a gasp and a sob, falling to her knees. She clutched her bleeding side, vision blurred with tears of pain. The girl was barely aware of the others around her, though most of them were either yelling or screaming hysterically. Mentally cursing herself for not phasing through the flying piece of metal in time, Kitty stumbled to her feet, trying to get out of the battle long enough to regain her senses. Phasing through everything she came across, Katherine Pryde managed to succeed.
Once she had lowered her chances of being hit by crossfire, Kitty pulled up her shirt to look at her side. She was relieved to find that the gash was quite shallow, though very painful and ugly looking. Tearing a strip out of the bottom of her shirt – and inwardly wincing slightly; the shirt hadn't been cheap – she tied it around her ribs in an attempt to slow the bleeding. That done with, Kitty surveyed the scene in front of her a moment.
One word could sum up this entire section of the mall: chaos. X-Men and their students were scattered over the area, some trying their best to fight, others cowering, obviously trying to disappear. Dozens of innocent and panicked shoppers stampeded each other as they all tried to escape at once. Kitty's gaze, though, was drawn to the other group present. She wasn't sure exactly who they were – their red uniforms meant nothing to her – but that didn't really matter at this second. All that matters was that they were the only ones with any sort of order, and they were also the only ones who were armed.
Well, that wasn't quite true. They were the only ones with firearms, but most of the mutants from Xavier's school could use their powers to defend or attack in some way or another. The firearms were winning, though. Kitty felt her breath catch in her throat as she saw friend after friend fall.
A groan at her feet made her look down. One of the students was at Kitty's feet, just barely conscious. As Kitty dropped back down to her knees, the boy slipped back into unconsciousness. With a relieved sigh, "Shadowcat", as she liked to call herself, saw that the boy was merely tranquilized. Looking over the battle with this new knowledge, Kitty realized that the firearms the attacking men had didn't kill.
The girl almost collapsed with relief. All her friends she had saw die – they weren't really dead. Of course, they were on the verge of getting captured instead, but even that was probably better than death. Probably.
Grabbing the same chunk of sharp metal that had cut her, Kitty plunged into the fray. She whacked every red-uniformed person she saw with it, phasing through the tranquilizers they shot at her. The problem with uniforms, she thought, was that they clearly told your enemies who you were. Kitty decided that she should mention that to Professor X the next time she saw him. Though she liked the X-Men uniforms, or at least what they symbolized, she didn't think they would be helpful under these circumstances, where it wasn't immediately obvious who everyone was. Someone disguised as an innocent could do quite a bit of damage to the unsuspecting enemy, while the X-Men could quickly identify each other well enough not to accidentally attack one of their un-uniformed own.
These thoughts flashed through Shadowcat's head in half a second as she fought. There were less of the Reds now, she realized. Pausing for a second, the girl realized that more X-Men had arrived, completely changing the odds. Many of the Reds were down, though those still standing fought ferociously.
Backing up, Kitty surveyed the scene and smiled slightly. Though the battle wasn't over yet, the victory of the X-Men wasn't in doubt. A stray bullet – the Reds were using true bullets now? – hit a nearby beam of wood. Kitty didn't realize it, but the beam was supporting the overhang she was standing under. If she had realized that, she could have phased through the chunks of cement that fell from the ceiling. But she didn't see them. A fist-sized piece hit her square on the head. No one, mutant or "normal" human, saw her crumple.
The girl's eyes fluttered open slowly. Groggily, she stood and looked around her. Pieces of cement littered the ground underneath the overhang she now realized she stood beneath. The ceiling, she noticed, was laced with cracks, and chunks were missing.
Unsure of what had happened, the girl studied the large area of the mall she was in. Red-uniformed men, armed to the teeth, were shooting at men, women, and children. Looking again, the girl realized that many of the attackers were fighting back. She gasped as she realized that those people seemed to have impossible abilities – mutants? They must be. The girl couldn't remember ever seeing a mutant, or even hearing about them, but she somehow knew about them.
Through the flurry of battle, she couldn't see each individual mutant, just the effects of what they were doing. Something about a bright red bolt of light that flashed across the room seemed vaguely familiar, but the feeling faded before the girl could think of why.
She suddenly realized that she was a sitting duck here. If someone tried to attack her, the girl knew they would succeed. Spotting a jagged hole in one wall, she made a mad dash for it, keeping as low as she could. Bursting out into open air, she kept running until she couldn't hear the battle.
Completely confused and bewildered, the girl sank against a wall and put her head in her hands. What was going on? How had she gotten in the middle of…that? He clothes were a mess, ripped and dirty. She could feel something warm and wet on the top of her head; when she touched it, her hand came away red.
The girl moaned in frustration and cast back further in her memory. Nothing. Just plain nothing. The only things she could remember were stuff that had nothing to do with her, such as what a wall was, how to put on socks…Nothing else. Not even a name.