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"Go to Duncan Matthews' party?" Scott said sceptically, sitting at a picnic table on the school grounds. "I don't think so."
"Come on, it could be fun!" Jean said trying to convince her stubborn friend.
"Matthews is a jerk!" Scott said irritated.
"No he's not," Kitty said joining in the argument. "I'd go."
"No freshmen allowed," Scott replied.
"Matthews is a jerk," Kitty said crossing her arms angrily.
"Half the school will be there," Scott said turning back to Jean. "Suppose someone gets too close to Kurt. That holo-projector won't stop them from feeling his furr."
"Hey! Chicks dig the fozzy dude!" Kurt said grinning. "Right?" he said turning to Kitty who just rolled her eyes.
"I am like, so out of here. Later!" Kitty left leaving the others to start arguing again. Danny just sat watching shaking his head.
"Oh yeah," Kurt said with a smirk, running a three fingered hand through his hair. "She can't resist."
"I'm trying to be serious here!" Scott said getting frustrated. "Look, suppose Dukes or Maximoff try to start something. We're not the only mutants in the school, you know."
"Yeah, just the cool ones," Evan said high fiving Kurt.
"Come on, Scott," Jean said smiling at the older boy. "What's wrong with a little socialising?
"I'm sorry, I just don't think it's a good idea," Scott said. Danny was in awe at his non existent people skills.
"Dude, it's just a party!" Kurt said jumping on the table and prancing around. "Time to shake that tail! Woo hoo! Party, party, party!" As he danced around his tail came out and starting flapping around behind him.
"Watch the tail!" Scott said worried about anyone noticing. He grabbed a hold and pulled Kurt into the seat beside him. Kurt yelped at the pain it caused him. "See! That's exactly what I'm talking about!"
"You pulled my tail man!" Kurt said, his blood boiling.
"Grow up, Kurt."
"Hey, lighten up, dude!."
"You're always goofing around!"
"And you're seriously cramping my style!"
"Listen-"
"No, you listen! There's a sound that I want you to hear. And it's-" Kurt ported away leaving Scott coughing in a cloud of smoke.
"I blew it didn't I?" Scott said trying to hide his face as people looked at him curious to know why he was surrounded by smoke.
"Oh yeah," Jean replied sarcastically.
"Remind me to teach you some people skills," Danny said raising an eyebrow.
"You understand what I'm getting at, though, right Danny?" Scott asked the leather clad boy.
"Whoa! Don't drag me into this! I'm not picking sides in you're little debate! Leave me out of it." With that he walked off to get to class.
"So, you think I should appologise to Kurt, huh?" Scott asked as he and Jean walked down the hall between classes.
"Well, what matters is what you think," Jean replied.
"Hey guys!" Danny said walking over from his locker. "You still talking about Kurt?" Scott sighed.
"Look, you gotta admit, he jokes around, way too much."
"And that's worth losing a friend over?" Danny asked. Scott didn't answer. The three of them started walking down the hallway.
"Ah! We just saw a ghost!" Two kids came running out of the bathroom screaming. Danny immediately tensed until he realised that his ghost sense hadn't gone off, so there couldn't be a ghost.
"A blue and hairy demon!" The other boy said. Ok, so they saw Kurt. Not helping his case with Scott.
"I warned him," Scott said angrily walking into the bathroom. He came out a few seconds later with a confused look on his face.
"Not there?" Jean asked.
"No," Scott replied still confused. "You'd better contact him and tell him to knock it off." Jean put her hands to her head and concentrated. Her brow creased and her face turned into a frown.
"Guys, I can't pick up a trace of Kurt any where," she said. "It's like he doesn't exist!"
"Try again!" Scott replied.
"Yeah, he has to be somewhere," Danny said.
"I am!" Jean said her fingers pressed hard into her temples. "I'm not getting anything! He's just completely gone."
"Or someone did something to him," Scott said looking down the hall. Danny turned to see he was looking at Fred and Lance as the walked towards them. He had a bad feeling in his gut.
"What are you looking at, Summers?" Lance asked.
"Where's Kurt?" the boy replied.
"Like we'd tell you," Fred relied with a wave of his hand. Danny knew they had nothing to do with it. He could tell. But Scott couldn't. He rushed at Lance and pushed him against a locker.
"I said, where is he?"
"Get off of me!"
"What have you done with Kurt!?" A crowd started to form around them.
"Get lost, Slim," Fred said picking Scott up by the back of the shirt.
"Put him down!" Jean said, her hands balling into firsts.
"Back off, Red, or I'll rock ya," Lance said facing Jean. The lockers around them started to shake a little. Other students were starting to chant for a fight.
"Stop it, Lance," Danny said, feeling the light tremors. His eyes involuntarily turned green. Jean noticed and decided she needed to talk to him about that. Lance noticed too, and he started to feel a little uncomfortable around the guy.
"What is going on here!?" a voice yelled from down the hall. All the other students who had gathered to watch quickly disappeared as they realised it was the Principle.
"We weren't doin nothin," Fred said still holding up Scott.
"Yeah, Summers' here just went ballistic on us for no reason!" Lance added.
"Oh I've got a reason," Scott said. Danny held him back seeing his angry posture.
"Scott," Jean said, meaning it as a warning.
"Quiet," Darkholme said. "You three, in my office, now." They followed the Principle as she left and Lance put his fingers on his forehead in the shape of an L with a smirk. Danny smiled and his eyes glowed a slightly brighter blue as he walked past. He heard Lance freak out finding his fingers stuck to his forehead, and his smile grew into a cocky grin.
"I don't care what influence Xavier has with the school board," Principle Darkholme said as they walked into her office. "I am going to get-" She suddenly stopped as she noticed all her furniture was missing. "What!? What happened here? Who took my furniture!?" She ran out of the room leaving Danny, Jean and Scott wondering what to do. Danny walked over to the window to see Toad holding some weird device.
"I think I know what happened to Kurt," he said to the other two as they followed him. They all watched Toad make the Principle's new car disappear.
"Guys, look!" Jean said as a see-through looking Kurt flew across the room.
"It's Kurt!" Scott said. "Or at least his ghost."
"Trust me when I say that was not his ghost," Danny said earning an odd look from Scott.
"He's right," Jean said with her hands on her head in concentration. "I got a brief mental reading. It's like he's trapped somewhere."
"We'd better have a talk with the Toad," Scott replied watching from the window as the mutant hopped away holding the device.
"There he goes!" Cyclops yelled as they chased down the Toad. They were all in their X-Men uniforms now. Cyclops fired a shot but just about missed. Toad turned around and fired a shot from the weird device in his hands.
"Shadowcat! Down!" Jean yelled. Kitty managed to phase through the ground just in time to not get hit.
"Get him!" Cyclops yelled as they continued chasing a worried looking Toad. When they finally caught up to him he was sitting high up in a tree.
"Get lost! I'm warning you!" Danny just walked up to the trunk and placed a hand on it. It turned intangible and Toad fell out. Jean managed to catch the weird device before it hit the ground.
"That's it, I'm out of here!" He tried to hop away but Spike shot a spine at him and he got nailed to the tree.
"Why don't you stick around for a while?" Spike said teasing the boy.
"Now tell us what you did to Kurt," Cyclops said.
"I didn't do anything!" Toad replied scared of what was going to happen next.
"He's right," a voice said from behind them. "I did." They all turned to see Rogue leaning against a tree. "And if you all wanna find blue boy you'd better let him go."
Rogue led them into a basement beneath the school. It was dark and dusty and full of old boxes.
"This is where it happened."
"If you've hurt him, I swear I'll-" Cyclops started before Rogue interrupted him.
"If you start threatening me, you'll never see your friend again."
"Whoa, take it easy," Danny said placing a hand on Cyclops' shoulder and giving him a firm look.
"Hey guys!" Shadowcat said gaining their attention. "We've been running a diagnostic on this thing."
"Yeah, it uses CPM," Spike added. "Talk about retro, man!"
"It's putting out some kind of, like, steady low-powered pulse wave that seems to just disappear into thin air!"
"And that means what exactly?" Cyclops asked.
"We figure that the pulse has trapped the crawler in some other dimension," Spike said as Shadowcat carried on tinkering with the machine.
"Ok, so let's trash this thing," Cyclops replied, hand on the side of his visor. Cyclops grabbed the device and placed it on a table. "Everyone stand back. I'm gonna use full power. This could get messy."
"You know, I could just phase through the gizmo and like, quietly short it out," Kitty said. She took a step back at the look Spike and Cyclops were giving her. "Oh, right. Forget I mentioned it. What is it with guys and explosions anyway?" Scott was about to blow the machine up when there was suddenly a flash in front of them and Kurt appeared.
"Reset. Don't-" And then he was gone again.
"You guys saw that right?" Scott asked.
"He's still alive!" Rogue said.
"What was he saying?" Jean asked.
"He said 'Reset. Don't.' You know, don't reset it. He wants you to blow it up! Do it!" Spike said stepping forwards.
"I swear, these guys are, like, obsessed," Shadowcat said with her arms crossed.
"It sounded more like a warning than encouragement," Danny said looking at the others.
"A warning? From the goofman himself?" Spike said, unconvinced. "Nah. Shred that sucker!"
"No," Cyclops said stepping forwards. "Nightcrawler's a joker, but even he knows when to get serious. If he wanted to blow up the controller, why didn't he just say 'don't reset' instead of 'reset don't'."
"You're right," Danny said. "He wants us to reset it. If we were gonna blow it up anyway why come back at all unless to tell us not to." Cyclops picked up the machine and started reading out the different buttons.
"Intensity settings... Power regulators... Beam width... Restart!" He pressed the button and put the machine down. It started to shake before a bright light filled the room. Suddenly, Nightcrawler was on the other side of a portal with someone else.
"Come on!" Cyclops yelled. "Teleport through!"
"I think something's wrong," Danny said when they didn't move.
"What's the matter?" Cyclops yelled. "Come on!" Then, they both disappeared.
"What are they doing?" Spike asked confused.
"Something's wrong," Danny said. "They need something to get through!"
"What ever it is," Cyclops said, worried. "I hope they hustle."
Just then, Lance, Fred and Toad walked into the room.
"There they are!" Toad said angrily. "And they still got that vape-ray I was telling you about."
"Rogue," Lance said stepping forwards. "Mystique sent up to find you. So you with us, or with them?"
"Mystique?" Cyclops said looking at Rogue. "You working for her?"
"Look, Summers," Rogue said pointing a finger at him. "You've got you're friends, I've got mine. This ain't my fight. I'm out of here." With that she walked off.
"Fork it over, loosers," Fred said with a grin.
"Yeah," Lance said stepping forwards. "Or this place is gonna rock." Danny groaned.
"Come on! Can you not think of something more original? You say that every time!" Lance became more angry.
"Shut it, Hunter." The others just ignored the dark haired boy.
"The projector stays with us," Cyclops said. "X-Men, keep that portal open!"
"You're call," Lance said before he stamped his foot on the ground, causing the room to shake.
They fought. Cyclops firing his laser eyes, the Blob using his strength, Spike firing Spines and Lance kept causing ceiling to fall on them. As they fought, Danny found himself in the path of a piece of ceiling. He held his hands out in front of him, and to his surprise, the concrete glowed a faint green and hovered above him. He looked around to see Cyclops firing at the Blob and asking Jean for help. Danny quickly threw the concrete at the giant boy knocking him over. Cyclops thanked Jean and she nodded but she knew it wasn't her.
"Ok, enough with the warm ups," Fred said as the three idiots stood in a line facing the X-Men. "It's time to start smashing."
Just then, they heard a car horn behind them. The X-Men, realising it was Kurt, jumped out of the way. Just as the portal was closing, a car drove though and collided with Fred who stopped it.
"Huh, good thing I'm the Blob," je said with a laugh.
"You can say that again," Toad said from his side. They walked to the back of the car to find the machine crushed under the tyre.
"Come on," Lance said gesturing to the others. "This party's over." With that they left the X-Men in all the destruction.
"You're welcome to crash with us a while, Forge," Scott said to the guy that came through the portal with Kurt. "Xavier's cool. You'll like him."
Kurt had explained his side of the story. Being stuck in that weird place. He explained that he met Forge, a mutant with an arm that turned into a robotic tool rack, so to speak. Forge was the one that created the projector, but got stuck in the place he called 'Middleverse'. Through teamwork they managed to figure out how to get home.
"Thanks," Forge replied. "But I'd better go find my parents. I'm twenty years late for curfew! Thanks for bailing me out."
"Anytime!" Kurt said.
"Hop in, we'll give you a lift!" Scott said. They were standing next to his car.
"It's alright. It's only a couple blocks."
"Well, let us know if you need anything," Scott replied scriblimg his phone number onto a piece of paper.
"Thanks! I will!" Forge took the paper and walked off happily. They all called goodbye to him as he left.
Danny jumped on his bike while the others jumped into Scott's car.
"You're gonna have to duck until we can get you a new holo-projector," Scott said looking at the blue furry Kurt in the back seat.
"So it's true! You really are ashamed of me!" Kurt said making everyone laugh.
"Right," Scott said smiling. "Look, about what happened before. My bad. Everyone stared at Scott wide eyed.
"No, it was my fault too," Kurt replied.
"Maybe you're right," Sott said. "Maybe I do take things too seriously. I need to lighten up a bit."
"Are you ok, Scott?" Danny asked.
"Check his temperature," Kitty said smiling. "Mr Military's going soft!"
"And I could probably dial down the goofing a little," Kurt said from the back seat.
"Welcome back!" Scott said turning round to fist bumb the furry blue mutant. "Ok, now how about we head home, suit up and run a level 3 training course." Everyone in the car started groaning.
"See what I mean?" Kurt said leaning forwards. "Always so serious!" A grin spread across Scott's face.
"Psych!" They all started laughing again.
"Good one, there's hope for you yet," Kurt said.
"Well tell me about it on the way to Duncan Matthew's party."
"I can't go, remember? I'm, like, a freshman." Kitty said crossing her arms.
"You're also one of the X-Men," Scott said with a smile.
"We'll make it happen," Danny said putting on his helmet.
"Let's go!" Scott said and they raced of down the street.
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