Logan was standing next to Beast in the lab. He closed his phone in frustration, once again.
Beast looked over to him "Don't worry too much, Logan. We all know Kitty is a capable girl"
"If she comes back with nothing, I swear I'm never letting her out anywhere again." Logan said crossing his arms
"Well…."
Beast was interrupted by Logan's angry stare
"You know what, I'll let Jean talk with you on that" Beast said while taking notes on the liquid inside the test tubes. "I have more details on Spider-Man's disease"
"What do you got?" Logan said as he walked over to Beast
"I've done the studying over and over again, I can confirm that Spider-Man is not a mutant. No trace of the X-Gene anywhere"
"That was expected. No wonder why Xavier never came up to him" Logan said
"That being said, I still cannot find the origin. Did he take a serum? Did this side of him develop with him overtime? I don't know" Beast said, rubbing his chin
"Anything else?" Logan asked
"I'm going to need closer studying. Thankfully I still have these spare samples" Beast said while staring at another tube. "I'll talk with Forge. We can probably make a special tracking device. We'll see" Beast finished while entering Spider-Man's blood sample in an empty cabinet
"Alright Hank. Keep working hard" Logan smiled "I'll make sure Kitty was actually found by the team I sent"
"You sent a team?" Beast said, but Logan ignored by simply walking away
X-Jet, in the skies of Manhattan
"So it's basically a new type of defense system!" Forge said while sitting in front of the control panel of the X-Jet.
"Uh-huh" Rouge said, lying back on her chair.
Forge was constantly trying to inform Rouge and Bobby about the Mansion's new defense system while waiting for Kitty. He aims for the new system to be the extra back up of the Mansion, just in case the X-Men aren't enough to defend it.
Much to Forge's dismay, his fellow X-Men just ignored his ideas.
"What do you think? Iceman?" Forge said as he turned around, pointing directly at Iceman
He was in the corner of the Jet, sleeping. He was breathing cold air while making his surroundings freeze entirely
"Bobby?" Forge said
Bobby kept snoring, ice expanding around him
Rouge sighed, stretched out her hands, and took a deep breath
"Bobby!" Rouge yelled
Bobby nearly fell out of his chair
"W—W-wha-what-Iceman here!" He said while making a salute pose, barely standing his ground
"…..So as I was saying…" Forge tried to continue
"Ugh. C'mon Rouge!" Bobby frowned
Rouge just smirked "Pay attention sugar, class in session"
"I don't want to" Bobby said
"So the defense system-"
Right before Forge could continue, there was a transmission for the X-Jet
Forge quickly turned his chair around and answered
"Forge here! Who is this?" He asked
"Who else, big dumbo!" Kitty said
Forge turned around "She's back guys!"
Bobby and Rouge sighed in relief, for they would no longer have to bore their minds of anything Forge was talking about
The X-Jet hovered above the dark alley Kitty was currently in.
A pair of stairs dropped in front of Kitty, which she took to climb inside the X-Jet
She jumped inside, smiling
"So how was Spider-Man?! Is it true that he carries tiny tracers?" Forge asked ecstatically
Kitty just took a chair, lay back, and sighed with a smile.
"Logan's worried sick, y'know" Rouge said while sitting in the chair in front of Kitty.
Kitty kept smiling.
"So how was Spider-Man?" Bobby asked while running to the seat next to Kitty.
The X-Jet was rumbling and it took off.
"I didn't see Spider-Man" Kitty said, crossing her arms.
"Then what did you…." Rouge stopped "Oh no…..you didn't…."
"You people want to meet him? He's cool" Kitty smirked
"You dated him? You dated the photographer guy?" Bobby said
"His name's Peter Parker" Kitty corrected "Only trying to know the person better. He'll be able to convince Spidey into our ranks. What, you want us to take Spider-Man hostage again?"
"You're screwed" Bobby said
"Oh, I know" Kitty said, shutting her eyes with a smirk
X-Jet Hangar
The 4 X-Men finally arrived home.
As the Jet was landing, Kitty could see an angry Logan crossing his arms through the window of the Jet.
They all came out of the Jet, and Logan stopped Kitty
"You and I need to talk, Pryde" Logan said "And I mean a serious talk"
Once every one was gone, Logan crossed his arms and stared angrily at Kitty
"Tell me a reason why I should let you go out again" Logan said
"I—" Kitty started to speak, before Logan interrupted
"You had a responsibility, Pryde. One that has our own future hanging in the balance" Logan said "What the hell made you think that trying and makin' your love life better was the right thing to do?"
"What? You just want me to take Spider-Man hostage again? Oh yeah, real nice. Of course he'll trust us." Kitty said
"Your mission was to retrieve Spider-Man and all you did was to date some guy you met for two seconds at a museum! And by the way,I called you more times than I can count! Why did you not pick up the phone? What were you doing?" Logan said
"I'm trying to know Peter as a person, because he knows Spider-Man. With our trust, he can convince Spider-Man we're legitimately good people" Kitty said "Forcing Spider-Man to work with us is just going to make our image worse!" she yelled
"Do not raise your tone at me, Pryde!" Logan yelled "What if this 'Peter' found out you are mutant? You'd be locked in a cell right now!" Logan said
"You know I can handle myself Logan! It's pretty disappointing that a Leader can't even trust his own teammates!" Kitty said
"Pryde, the things they do to mutants in captivity, I know how it feels. The last thing I want is any of my teammates to suffer the same way." Logan said while grabbing her shoulders
"And you don't trust that I can defend myself, huh?" She said "Even when I was able to hold off giant mutant-killing robots in the past! You still doubt me"
"You're wasting time Pryde. You were supposed to retrieve Spider-Man, not-" Logan said
"And that's exactly what I'm doing. Except in a way that'll make him, y'know, not go side with Sinister and cause this whole Spider-Army in a week! Pretty sure Sinister already approached him!" Kitty said, shoving Logan's arms off
She walked to the Hanger's door
"Xavier would've supported me on this sort of mission. All that's happened to you won't allow me to do this mission in a better way. Your way of getting allies and your trust in teammates is something you'll have to work on to be as great as Xavier was" Kitty walked out of the Hanger
"Pryde! You don't understand!" Logan yelled. She just ignored him and left the Hanger
