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Andie stepped lightly through the burning building. The air was thick with smoke and dust from the crumpling walls. Andie saw a man in a security uniform midstride towards a doorway, and decided that was probably a fairly good indication of where to go. She walked through a reception area, seats neatly lined along the side of the room. It seemed very odd to have a room like that in the centre of a laboratory. There was a door ajar on the other side of the room. Andie opened it and walked through, and was shocked to find herself in a very large room, it's walls lined with barred cages. In each of the cages was a person. Don't be stupid Andie, she chastised herself, they're not people, they're mutants, that's why the X-Men are here. She looked around the room, but it seemed that none of the X-men had made it this far yet. The mutants in their cages had wide eyes and shocked expressions, they knew that something was going on.

Andie felt like it had been hours and hours since she had seen the news report on the television, but in reality it had only been 7 minutes. Andie frowned and looked down at her watch. Something about a watch with still hands was enough to give Andie the creeps. Andie was totally in support of helping the mutants get free, (which is what she suspected the X-Men were trying to accomplish) so she went to work hauling all the security guards she could find into the little reception room, before locking the door. Alas, unless Andie was going to shoot off the padlocks on the cages, there was no way she could free the trapped mutants. Anyway, she knew that Kitty and Logan would make short work of rescuing the prisoners. Andie ducked into a storage closet. From slightly ajar door, she had a clear view of the large room with the cages mutants in it. She reached into her mind and allowed time to flow freely, watching and waiting to see the X-Men.

Kitty's head phased through a wall. She looked around and popped her head back to the other side. Moments later, a red beam of light blasted a hole through the bricks, and Scott, Jean, Kurt, Rogue and Kitty ran through it. The mutants quickly spread around the room. Kitty and Kurt focused on getting mutants out of the cages, whilst the others held off security. Thick smoke filled the air. The sprinkler system was triggered, and soon the whole room was a muddy mess. Screams echoed off the walls as humans and mutants alike slid and landed heavily against the concrete floor.
"The chaos", Andie sighed mournfully, as she once again paused time. She pushed the closet door open and wandered out into the prison-like room. She splashed her hands through the floating water droplets, frozen midway through their tumble from the ceiling. Andie sauntered around the room, assessing if and how she could help, without alerting anyone to her presence. She nudged bullets off-course so they did no harm, and moved a security guard who was about to grab Rogue from behind.

Andie felt a great sadness as she observed the frozen X-Men. She had a sense that this was the life she missed out on. She knew that if she had done things differently, the X-Men would know she was here with them, because she would be on their team. Andie let time slip forwards slowly, like grains of sand through an hourglass. She watched the world move millimetre-by-millimetre, crawling by. Andie was moving so fast in comparison to real time, that she appeared as less than a blur. Andie watched a boy move across the room at a slow jogging pace. She felt like she recognised him from somewhere. He must just be an X-Man in a different uniform, she realised.

It suddenly occurred to Andie that if the boy she was watching appeared to her to be moving at a slow jogging pace, to everyone else, he would be as invisible as she was. Andie slowed time a little further, so the boy appeared to move a slow walking pace, and the rest of the world looked frozen. Andie walked up to the boy, whose eyes widened.
"Where do I know you from?" she asked him, "or do you just remind me of someone?" The boy's eyes flickered around the room, as if checking he was still moving at super-speed. Andie walked along-side him as he did a loop of the room, assessing who was in the cages, and also, who was doing the rescuing.

Andie was surprised that, instead of assisting his fellow X-Men, he continued his path out through the hole in the wall, and out of the building.
"I thought you were an X-Man!" Exclaimed Andie. "Why didn't you help?" she demanded.
"What?" said the boy, in a cocky tone, "I'm not one of those X-Loser scum. And I dunno how you're keeping up with me, but I want you to get out of my face."
"Where do I know you from then?" Andie asked.
"We met on the side of the road, you looked kinda crazy, I was in a car, like a normal person, remember?" retorted the boy. Andie nodded, and stepped away from him. She paused time fully and began the excruciating walk back to her car. She grabbed her red bag, took out some normal clothes and changed into them. She sat in the driver's seat of the car and let time spring forwards again. She called Roadside Assistance and sat and waited, but she didn't mind. She needed some time to contemplate how it was to see the X-Men again, after she had left their home.

Andie continued her drive to Denver, knowing that the X-Men wouldn't bother to stop there after they had completed their mission. They would just jet back to the Institute. She parked her car next to the curb, and walked down the busy street. With a guilty conscience, she paused time and stole a bag of chips, some water and some sandwiches from a supermarket. She felt bad about it, but she didn't have any cash with her. She let time flow normally again she walked further down the street, looking for somewhere to eat.
"I'd offer to buy you lunch" began a cocky voice, "but it looks like you already have." Andie spun around to face the silver haired boy.
"But on the other hand", he continued, "your lack of wallet suggests that you didn't really buy that stuff, did you?" Andie looked awkwardly at her feet. For some reason, lately she was feeling more guilty than usual when she used her abilities for petty or selfish reasons.

"Since were going in the same direction" hinted the boy, his cocky smirk fading as he saw Andie's scowl, "You are heading for the zoo, right?"
Andie was surprised.
"The zoo?" she enquired.
"Y'know, do some touristy stuff while I'm trapped in this hell hole" replied the boy.
"You don't strike me as the kind to get trapped" Andie smirked.
"Parents. What can you do?" he groaned. They walked together in silence for a little while. Andie tore the pack of chips open and offered them to the boy.
"My real name's Pietro", he said, "not Quicksilver".
"Sorry, I'd totally forgotten that anyway." Laughed Andie, "My real name's Andie".
"Nice to meet you Andie" teased Pietro, holding out his hand.
"You too, Pietro" replied Andie, a she shook his hand.

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