Disclaimer: I don't own X-Men:Evolution or it's characters. Just my OC, Molly Callum/Creature and any original characters/background characters that may pop up from time to time. The states that they're from were researched on the site X-Men:Beyond Evolution. Credit to them for finding out this very important info!


Molly woke up in the car. She'd fallen asleep. Everyone except Remy had, since he was driving. It was almost noon. "Getting hungry?" Remy asked quietly.

"Not yet," Molly said.

"I am. I'm gonna stop up here and we can all get something and take a break," Remy said. He pulled into the parking lot of a fast food restaurant and got out. Everyone else slowly woke up, stretching and yawning, looking haggard. Sleeping in a car wasn't ideal.

"Where are we?" Kitty stretched her arms upwards, eyes baggy.

"Burger Bomb," Molly said, "Remy's hungry and we've been riding a while. We all need a break."

They got out and went inside, ordering and sitting down to eat again. Everyone was pretty hungry after the long drive.

"You don't think we're going to get attacked again, do you?" Kitty looked around nervously.

"Who knows," Jean said, "We'll be ready for them, no matter what happens." She gave Kitty a small hug.

Molly smiled. They were finally starting to act like friends again.


It took a few days, but eventually they reached Scott in Missouri. They reached the state line, with a couple toll booths along the road.

"Okay, fearless leader, how should we proceed?" Remy looked to Molly as they parked the car on the side of the road, hidden under the trees.

"Kurt said he's having a problem teleporting more than one person at a time, so I figure he and Rogue can get over the state line into the rest of the forest. The rest of us can..." Molly went over the rest of the plan.

That was how the rest of them ended up out of the car near the tollbooths with Remy exploding a tree. Cars came to a screeching halt while people in the tollbooths urged everyone to stay calm, more than half of them running to the commotion. With the distraction going on, everyone made it over the line and to the others.

"I'll be sorry to see the car go," Remy sighed, starting to walk through the forest.

"Yeah," Molly said, "I'm sorry we couldn't put it into the plan."

"Well, we made it through safe. That's the important part," Remy's hand brushed against hers. Molly reached out and held it, then let go of it.

Remy reached out and held it again.

They walked, catching a taxi when they reached town. They headed to the library to look up whatever information they could find on Scott. They found his picture and some information on a college website.

"He goes to college around here? That's convenient," Remy said.

"Yeah," Molly said, "Well, better get going. Times a'wasting."

They piled into another taxi and made it to Scott's college. It was a huge university, with red brick dorms on the right and left side. There were cobblestone walkways everywhere and very little grass. The library and combined Dean's office took up the majority of the space between them, being a massive four-hundred square foot building. Trees dotted the area and college kids milled about talking, flirting, skate boarding, making-out, and studying. Your typical American college scene.

"We can split up, but everyone has to be careful," Molly said.

"I don't think we have to do that," Rogue pointed, "He's right over there."

Scott was standing in front of a fountain, reading some book. He had on his navy blue backpack, blending right in with the other kids, looking like a studious young man. The amazingly gifted among the ordinary, looking totally normal indeed.

"Okay. Jean, me and Remy go. No reason to crowd him," Molly said.

The three of them carefully approached Scott.

"Hello," Jean smiled.

"Uh, hi. I'm Scott," Scott smiled, reaching out and gently shaking her hand, "Are you guys new here? Can I show you around?" (Molly had to admit, she smiled at Scott's reaction. He and Jean were like peanut butter and jelly-just made for each other.)

"Sorry, no. We came here for a different reason," Jean said, than summarizing who they were and why they were there.

"I don't know if I can trust you," Scott was rightfully suspicious, raising an eyebrow with his mouth in a slight frown.

"Hey," Molly realized something, "Where did you get those sunglasses?"

"They just came to me in the mail. After I got my...never mind,"

"After you got your powers," Molly finished.

"We can prove it to you," Remy said, taking a card out of his pocket and charging it, "See?"

Scott just looked at the charged card and silently raised an eyebrow, unimpressed.

Molly looked around. The quad was now empty.
"Okay, not impressed? Try this out."

Molly turned into a kangaroo. She was controlling it slowly enough so that Scott couldn't say it was a trick. Fur sprouted all over as Molly's mouth and tail grew out, with her legs and arms getting significantly more powerful. The last thing to appear was a pouch. She then reversed it.

Scott sat down on the stone encased fountain behind him as his mouth hung open.
"Okay, okay! So maybe you guys are telling the truth!" Scott said.

Molly noticed that the other students around them had all disappeared. They seemed completely alone. How strange.
How very...suspicious.

"'Maybe', he says," Remy grumbled under his breath, then to Scott he said, "Are you coming with us or not?"

"I-" Scott began to answer, then the same type of men from before scaled down the buildings on thick, long black ropes to where everyone was on the ground. There was at least twenty of them! The men held up their laser guns, aimed and at the ready. Molly readied her body and the others did the same. The team was surrounded with no way out!

"Who are they?!" Scott demanded.

"Bad guys," Jean said.

Molly braced herself, now intent on changing into a more threatening animal than a kangaroo.

"ZZAPP!"

Molly felt a hole burned through her insides. Unfortunately, it was a familiar sensation for her. Like someone had dripped hot lava on her stomach and it had made a gaping hole, extremely scorching hot and miserably painful. She could actually feel the breeze blowing through her insides, it was sickening to even consider. Molly's body shook noticeably as Remy ran over to her. Molly's knees buckled and she fell to the ground with Remy's strong, firm arms around her upper body. He propped her up on to his knees, trying his best to hold onto her-to keep her alive-but Molly knew it wasn't of any use.

"Molly, ange, come on," Remy sounded hoarse, "Molly, don't...please don't..."

"Didn't think I...was...going to..." Molly couldn't say it. She was trying to morph to reverse the injuries, but something was wrong.

"You're not! I won't let it happen!" Remy said, his eyes shone deep with worry and concern.

"It's...too late..." Molly insisted.

The last thing Molly felt was Remy's warm, passionate lips before everything faded to white light.