X-Men: Evolution
THE PRICE YOU PAY
a fanfic by JetNoir
Note: This story is set after the episodes of 'Dark Horizon'.
PROLOGUE
The hallway was cold and dark, as the young woman called Kitty Pryde slowly made her way towards the dining room.
"Professor X? Scott? Logan? Anybody there?" She frowned and shuddered a little as her soft voice echoed down the quiet hallway, reverberating so much, that all she could here was a jagged mockery of her own voice, echoing mercilessly in here ears.
"Come on guys. Joke's over! Where are you?" She continued down, her footsteps silent. She shivered again; fear slowly beginning to raise its ugly head deep within her, an emotion that kept unchecked would merely guarantee her failure.
She arrived at the dining room, and after discovering no one, decided to check The Danger Room. It was odd though, as there were no training session scheduled for at least another twenty hours.
Where was everyone?
She got into the lift, and gave it the order to descend into the bowels of the Earth. As it was moving she considered the previous night. That pig Lance had come onto her again, like she really wanted to date that loser anymore. Perhaps when she was younger, but now he had betrayed the X-Men so many times, betrayed her so many times, that if she never saw him until the end of the world she would die happy
She decided that it might be better however to consider her situation. It was possible - but highly unlikely - that the mansion was deserted, and everyone was out. That didn't explain the strange tear in the gates however, or the fact that Velocity and the Blackbird were still both in their hangers. The worst-case scenario that she could think of was that the X-Men had been compromised, and captured.
And she was the only one left.
However, she did have one thing in her favour. As long as no one had decided to destroy it, the Professor had been training here and Jean to use Cerebro, and although she wouldn't be able to scan at long-range - for you needed formidable telepathic abilities which she didn't possess, however she could easily handle the computer itself; therefore being able to use it to a limited degree.
She entered Cerebro and went instantly to the control panel, and set a scan running.
SCAN: X-MEN 0 percent COMPLETE
SCAN: X-MEN 25 percent COMPLETE SCAN: X-MEN 50 percentCOMPLETE SCAN: X-MEN 75 percent COMPLETE SCAN: X-MEN 100 percent COMPLETE
NO MATCH FOUND
Kitty's mouth dropped wide open as the horrifying truth dawned on her. The X-Men - unless 1000 miles away: for that was the range of Cerebro - had disappeared.
She was all alone...
Note: Hope you enjoyed that! This is hopefully the start of quite a long dark tale. Although its sort of a horror/supernatural story, at the minute I've rated it a 'G' because I feel that so far there is nothing that warrants a higher certification, but if the story requires it I will up the rating. This is also a slightly revised version, and Chapter 1 will be coming very soon! Thankyou for reading and please review!
Disclaimer: I am not responsible for the character of Kitty Pryde, or any of the X-Men (put that down to Stan 'The Man' Lee, and everyone who have been involved with the X-Men!). The TV series 'X-Men Evolution is copyright to Warner Brothers and the story to me. This story has been written on the understanding that you may read it and print it out; but you may not pass it off as your own, hire it out, or sell it for money. You also may not put it on your own or any other web page without my express written permission. Thankyou!
JetNoir