Next chapter let's go! This is a chapter I've been waiting for quite some time, and now we're finally here. Thanks for reading for this long, I really do appreciate it. Now then, let's get on with it, shall we?
Question: has any other story taken as long as mine to introduce the love interest? I mean, it took sixteen whole ass chapters to introduce Kitty. If I'm wrong please tell me in the reviews. Holy hell fuck, this quickly became my biggest chapter so far. Well, here's to more massive chapters in the future!
Shadowcat Got Your Tongue?
"So, you guys ever travel out of Louisiana?" Bobby asks.
"I've travelled outta home a couple a' times, but never dis far." Remy replies.
"Ah lived in Mississippi for most o' mah life, Louisiana's actually the first time ah've been outta state. And now we're about tah travel all around the world, damn." Anna Marie answers with awe clear in her voice.
"I was in the same boat as you guys, kinda. My family and I would go to London every summer to stay with my Grandma, after joining the X-Men I've traveled to Canada and a Norse realm called Jotunheim." I say as I lean back.
"Why'd you put Canada with some Norse realm, Shifty?" Logan growls at me menacingly.
"Hey, Canada's pretty foreign to me, I mean, a place where everyone's nice? That has to be foreign." I reply, smirking at his scowling face. He throws an unlit cigar in my face. I throw it back at him, he dodges out of the way, so it hits Scott in the back of the head.
"Logan, where the hell do you get your cigars? I swear they never run out." Scott asks in both awe and annoyance.
"That's for me to know and you to find out," He gets up and leans on Jean and Scott's seats, looking at the GPS. "How much longer 'til we get there?"
Jean messes with some instruments that are far to advanced for me to understand. "About another fifteen minutes. So, sit down and quit complaining you big baby."
Logan grumbles as he takes his seat, he lowers his hat over his face and leans back in his seat. "So, who else is on the team?" Remy asks.
"There's Warren, he's Angel-" I begin.
"He's blonde, has big ass wings." Bobby adds.
"Hank, or Beast-"
"Big, blue, and beautiful."
"John, goes by Thunderbird-"
"Muscles on muscles."
"Forge. Just Forge-"
"Our technician."
"Ororo, you can call her Storm-"
"She can control the weather, it's badass."
"And then there's Professor Xavier, everyone also calls him Professor X." I finish.
"He's got big brain power." Bobby also finishes.
"Right, right. So, who're we gettin' here?" Anna Marie asks.
I activate the holograms in front of each of our seats. "This here's a list of the people we're recruiting, as you can see the two of you are at the top, your names are dimmed cause we've got you. Going down shows you who's next."
"So, we're ending in Ireland to get dis here…Sean Cassidy? Whoa, we're goin' to Japan? Remy's always wanted to go dere." Remy looks through the list, clicking on each name.
"How much info do y'all got on each of us? Cause I don't know how I feel about someone else havin' mah personal information on hand." Anna Marie says as she looks at Jubilation Lee's profile.
"Not too much, just info on your powers, where you live, and how old you are. Granted the living part may seem a little intrusive but trust us, it's better that we found you instead of the Brotherhood." Scott says as the Blackbird begins to land.
"De Brotherhood? Who's dat?" Remy gets up from his seat, heading towards the now lowering ramp as soon as the landing process is completed.
"Think of them as the more extreme version of the X-Men, instead of fighting for peace between humans and mutants they just want a world for mutants, no matter what. Mystique's one of them." Bobby explains.
"Oh, ah heard about them, they're led by some feller named Magneto, right?" Anna Marie asks with a dejected look on her face at the mention of Mystique, I elbow Bobby at that.
"Alright, that's enough Brotherhood talk for one day, there's another limousine waiting for us. C'mon, let's go recruit a new teammate." Scott says as we walk to the limo, this time he's in the driver's seat with Logan in the passenger.
"How much money does de Professor have?" Remy looks around in awe, pressing buttons causing a whole bunch of shit to happen in the back. A small disco ball comes from the roof, smoke comes slithers from under the seats and music blares from the speakers. He quickly presses the buttons again and looks at us sheepishly. "Remy apologizes."
I sigh deeply. This is going to be one hell of a trip. Jean and Anna Marie begin to converse about whatever, Remy and Bobby play some Street Fighter IV on the built-in console. I decide to lay on the seat, resting my eyes for however long I can. But its hard, for some reason I feel extremely nervous and I don't know why, but I have a hunch: Katherine Pryde has something to do with this. Well, we're meeting her, there's only one way to find out.
Kitty Pryde's currently in a nightmare, being chased by some demons for an unexplained reason. After who now's how long she finally trips, the demons take advantage of this by leaping at her, but before they could make contact she sinks through the floor.
Waking up screaming Kitty finds herself in the living room of her home, falling on the table she lets out another scream of pain. Her parents quickly come running down the stairs. "Kitty! Are you okay?" Her father leans down to her and holds her, looking around for any intruders.
"I-I'm fine, Dad, just another nightmare." She replies.
"Are you fine for school today? You don't have to go if you don't want to, Kitty." Her mom offers as she rubs her back.
Kitty takes a deep breath before getting up with the help of her dad. "No, no, it's fine, I can go to school today."
Her mom looks at her concerned before cupping her face. "If you're sure-"
A knock is heard from the door, her parents look at each other and open the door. On the other side they see a tall brunette young man with red sunglasses, to his left is a redheaded girl of the same age, his right a short, feral-looking black-haired man, and behind them is a black-haired boy around Kitty's age.
"Hi, would you happen to be Carmen and Theresa Pryde? My name is Scott Summers, my friends are Jean Grey, Logan, and Nolan Belmont." Scott begins.
Kitty's head perks up at that last name, she squeezes her way through her parents and stops in front of the group, looking at him she realizes that he does look a lot like him. "Holy crap, Nolan?"
We all blink at that, so she does know me, well, that's one mystery solved. I step forward and get a good look at her, yeah, she does look familiar, but where do I know her? "Uh, yeah, I'm Nolan. Sorry if this seems rude, but, uh, do I know you?"
Her face drops at that. "Yeah, I don't blame you, it has been some time since we last saw each other, hasn't it?"
Her dad places his hand on her shoulder. "Come inside, we can continue the conversation in our living room."
We follow them to the living room, he goes to the kitchen and comes back, handing us some water bottles. We give him a thanks as he sits down. "May as well get this out of the way now, shall we? Back when you were really young, from the ages of five to seven, actually, we had family who lived close to yours, Nolan. When we'd visit you, Kitty, and Kenny would play together for practically all of summer."
A rush of memories suddenly hit me. Why did I forget this? I look at Kitty and sheepishly scratch the back of my head. "Sorry about forgetting, I've just been through a lot lately."
She smiles kindly. "It's fine, I honestly forgot what you looked like, too. Sorry."
Logan coughs not so subtly. "That's great, kid, you found your childhood sweetheart," Kitty and I blush at that insinuation. "But we're here for a reason, remember?"
Right. Scott leans forward in his seat. "Let me get right to the point: We're here to offer your daughter a place at our school, Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters."
"Wait, Xavier? How's he been?" Kitty's dad asks.
"You know the Professor?" I question him.
He nods. "The two of us served together in the military years ago. He actually built that school of his, I remember him going on and on about it during our tours. Where is this school, and why now? The school year just started."
"We're going around the world, recruiting more staff and students for the school, we just started actually, our first two recruits are currently at a hotel right now with another student, Bobby Drake." Jean answers.
"Travelling the world? Why?" Kitty's mom asks.
"Our school's staff and student body is…special, Logan?" Scott turns to him.
Logan raises a fist, his claws pop out, surprising the Pryde family immensely. Kitty recovers first, she reaches out to the table, but instead of touching it we see her hand go through it, ooh, intangibility, that's cool.
"So, you're all mutants? Is the school safe, can Kitty use her powers freely, without fear of persecution? And can you teach her to control her powers?" Her mom asks.
"Control? She looked pretty in control now." I say as I lean back on the couch.
"Only when I'm awake. I've been having these nightmares recently, and whenever I do, I use my powers, and I'm scared that I'll wake up half in my bed or through the floor. After all, no two objects can exist in the same space." Kitty tells us.
"Yeah, that doesn't sound fun at all," I look at the clock, it's 7:45. "Not going to school today?"
She looks at the clock and lets out a noise of surprise before phasing through the couch and running up the stairs. Jean and I look at each other, guess she is. Scott looks at her parents. "So, would you like to continue this conversation, or should we wait for Kitty to come back from school, Mr. and Mrs. Pryde?"
They look at each other before nodding. "Maybe one of you could drop her off at school, we'd like to continue this." Kitty's dad says.
"I've got it, c'mon Nolan, let's go drop off your girlfriend." Jean mocks.
I growl at her as we go to wait at the limo, after a few minutes Kitty comes outside, ready to go to school. She stops once she sees the limo. "You can't drop me off in that, do you know what everyone else would say? May as well paint a target on my back."
"Wow, your school's just like my old one? God, I love stereotypical school life, it adds vigor to my life." I say wistfully.
"You sure? I mean, I'm a telepath, I can just make people see a smaller car instead of a limo, that way I can drop you off there." Jean offers.
"I don't know about that one Jean; someone could run into the limo if they can't see its full length." I counter.
Kitty's arms are directed towards me as if she were showing me off. "See, Nol's got a point." Kitty's face immediately blushes intensely after she says that.
Jean looks at me with a knowing smirk on her face. "Hm, 'Nol'?"
I cover my burning face with my hands. "Jean, let's go, we've wasted enough time talking."
She lightly laughs. "Whatever you say, Nol."
I grumble as I open the door for Kitty, entering the car after she does. I see her looking around in awe, but what really surprised me was when she activated a holographic screen, for a moment she looked at it in awe, after that she begins to mess with it, going through screens almost as well as I do. "You're good with computers."
She lets out a quick laugh as she looks away. "I don't know how, honestly, I just am. How, uh, how've you been these last couple of years, Nol?"
"Nothing much until recently…Kit?" She smiles and nods at that, guess I finally remembered her childhood nickname. "Up until recently my life's been pretty average. Of course, that all changed when I met the Professor, Jean, and Scott, shit really hit the fan then."
"How so?" She asks. Kitty flips through page after page on the hologram, eventually coming across the recruitment list. "Who are these guys?"
"Well, on my literal first day at the school my grandfather, Mister Sinister, he calls himself, attacked the school, he then kidnapped me as well. So yeah, a pretty eventful first day if I say so myself," I slide next to her and point at Kurt Wagner's hologram as an example. "And these are the other people we're gonna recruit. As you can see there's a list, with you in the second spot."
"Why's that?" She turns her head to me before quickly turning away, for a second I wondered why, then I realized that I was a little too close to her. I scoot back a little, trying to force down my own blush in the process.
I cough awkwardly before continuing. "The school's in New York, so we decided to go for the people closest, that's why we're travelling westward. California's our next destination, actually."
She looks over Jubilation Lee's file. "So, she's the next one then? Will I get to come with?"
I shrug and lean back in my seat. "If you want, I mean, you don't have to, our first two recruits and Bobby are at a hotel right now, probably watching a movie or whatever. Bobby's Iceman, by the way, one of the first five X-Men."
"Are Jean and Scott Marvel Girl and Cyclops then?" She asks excitedly.
"Yeah, we've got more team members staying at the school, Hank, Warren, John, Ororo, and Forge," Looking out the window I see a whole bunch of kids around our age with backpacks walking together, Jean parks the limo and they all slow down to stare at it. "Look's like we're here. Let me open the door for you."
I get up and ignore any protests she makes, I wait outside for a moment before she sheepishly exits the limo, trying to hide her face from her classmates. "Thanks, Nol. But you didn't have to do that." She muttered.
I just laugh. "I just wanna help an old friend. Besides, what kind of guy would I be if I didn't open the door for a pretty lady?"
Her blush intensifies. "See you later."
"See you later." I repeat.
Once she begins to walk towards her school, trying to avoid a group of students trying to talk to her, I get into the passenger seat, ignoring a smirking Jean. "Sooo, 'pretty lady', huh? Who knew you were such a romantic, Nol?" Jean smugly announces. "Oh, I can't wait to tell the others, I wonder what Warren would say?"
I just glare at her. She laughs and ruffles my hair. "Come on Nolan, I'm just messing with you. Mostly."
I continue my glare. Jean pulls out from her parking spot, I smirk slightly and lean back in my seat, looking forward, but when I do, I notice something from the corner of my eye. Looking out the window I notice a guy glaring at me, he has shoulder length dark brown hair, intense brown eyes and is currently wearing a brown sleeveless vest over a black t-shirt, with black fingerless gloves on. I glare back at him; he turns and marches towards the school. I don't like the look of that.
"What, a love rival?" Jean asks semi-seriously.
I look at her incredulously before sighing in slight annoyance, she bumps me with her elbow as she stops at a red light. May as well play her game. "I don't know, but I really don't like the look of him."
"Yeah, I agree with you on that one. Wanna stay and keep an eye out? I can go back and tell the others." Jean offers. I nod, she continues and parks at a nearby restaurant, I look at her and give her a nod of thanks. Well, time to get to the bottom of this mystery, gang.
After a few minutes Jean eventually opens the door to find Scott finishing up his conversation with the Pryde's, Logan currently on his phone, staring at it blankly. Jean takes a seat next to Scott and turns to them. "So, we dropped off Kitty at school, but Nolan noticed something interesting, so he decided to stay nearby."
Theresa's eyes widen as she leans forward, looking at Jean with fear in her eyes. "Why? Is my Kitty in danger?"
"Maybe. Nolan noticed someone glaring at him, which happened after he opened the door for Kitty, he's keeping an eye out just in case he tries anything funny." Jean explains.
Their looks of fear quickly turn into looks of anger and annoyance. Carmen sighs deeply as he pinches the bridge of his nose. "Shoulder-length dark brown hair, black sleeveless vest with a black t-shirt?"
"Uh, yeah, how'd you know?" Jean asks.
"His name is Lance Alvers, he's Kitty's 'ex-boyfriend'. Thankfully that relationship never lasted long." Theresa informs.
"I never liked that boy; he was far too rowdy and had no respect for anyone other than himself. He would do nothing but take my Kitty down with him if their relationship continued," Carmen states strongly. "I'll have to thank Nolan for staying with her when they get back."
Jean lets out a mischievous giggle at that, Scott looks at her with a worried look, he never liked where things went whenever he heard that giggle. Jean just looks at him and winks before beginning a conversation with Carmen and Theresa.
Dear sweet mother of God, normal school is mad fucking boring. Like, was Midtown this bad? Stereotypical jocks and mean girls and nerds, emo people, and the geeks. Thank every god in existence that I got out of there. Wait, a moment of silence for Gwen, Peter, and Harry, for being stuck in that hellhole. Okay, moment done. It's been a couple of hours since I stayed, using my telepathy to stay invisible to everyone but Kitty, thankfully she's smart, once she realized that no one else saw me she decided to continue on with her day as if I weren't there.
Right now, it's their lunch hour, Kitty and I head over to the nearby McDonalds to get some food. And hey, I can use this as a chance to talk to her about Mr. Edgy, who's currently following us right now, not so subtly. "I've got a question, Kit: Who's the brown-haired guy that's been trying to talk to you the entire day?"
She sighs as she enters the building. "His name's Lance Alvers, he's my ex."
After making our order we sit at a nearby table and continue our conversation. "Wait, you have an ex?" I successfully mask any hints of jealously in my voice.
She shrugs and puts her hand in a so-so motion. "Kinda, we didn't last long, thank God for that. We talked for a month or so, we were only official for a little over a week, I broke up with him about a month ago, actually. Why?"
"When we dropped you off earlier, I noticed him glaring at me after I opened the door for you, maybe he's jealous?" I ask.
She sighs deeply again before muttering something probably not entirely nice, before she could continue our number gets called, I get our food and we start to eat. "He thinks that because I was his first girlfriend, I should be with him forever, or some shit like that. God, it's so annoying. And considering the fact that you were being a gentleman with me he's now jealous, he's probably gonna attack you, just saying."
"Yay. Alright, I'll keep an eye out for him. Subject change time! How's Kenny? I mean, I kind of remember saying goodbye to him but I don't remember why I did." I lean forward, taking a sip of my drink as I do.
"Yeah, his dad's company had a better job offer for him here, so the family moved over here. He's out of state right now, he was on vacation over the summer, but a huge storm came out of nowhere and caused all flights to stop for a while now." Kitty says.
A storm? How big would that have to be if it caused all flights in the area to stop? I'll have to check with the Professor and Forge next time I call them. Looking at my phone I see the time. "When does your lunch end?"
"12:15, why?" I show her my phone, it's 12:08. "Come on, let's go."
I use my telepathic cloak and follow her to school, keeping an eye out for Lance, but failing to find him, I don't like that. Alright, time to keep an eye out for a jealous ex, this should be easy.
'Who the hell is that asshole? And why is Kitty so close with him, she should be with me!' Lance thinks. Lance glares at him before blinking, once his eyes open, he realizes that the guy disappeared. 'What the hell?'
Lance blinks again, this time when he opens his eyes, he finds himself in an alleyway. Looking around frantically Lance notices a blur running around the alleyway, gritting his teeth he holds out his hands and focuses, the ground begins to shake, the blur loses its balance and lands in a heap on top of some trash bags.
Standing over the blur Lance sees a guy in a primarily blue outfit with silver boots, a belt, shoulders and a lightning bolt that goes from his left shoulder down to the right side of his belt. Strangely enough this guy has silver hair, but he still looks young, probably a year or two older than Lance, actually.
Lance grabs him by the collar of his suit and hefts the guy up. "Who the hell are you, why the hell did you bring me here, and why shouldn't I take you out now?"
"QuicksilverwantedtotalkIhaveanofferforyou." He says quickly. He then smirks and points behind Lance. Turning around Lance sees a tall mature woman sauntering out of another part of the alley, she's wearing a blue formfitting shirt that extends to a skirt that goes down her front and back, with black tight pants and white boots. Her skin is blue, she has blood red hair and pure yellow eyes, a skull is also seen at the top of her forehead.
"His name's Nolan Belmont, he's a mutant, just like you, a part of the X-Men, actually. In case you were wondering who he was. Mystique, my friend's name is Quicksilver, he likes to talk fast sometimes, it's annoying." Mystique says.
Quicksilver frees himself from Lance's surprisingly strong grasp and runs to Mystique's side. "We're from the Brotherhood, and we're here to recruit you, what do you say?"
Lance mulls over their offer. "Where's Magneto, isn't he your leader?"
Quicksilver and Mystique share a look. "We're in the middle of a recruitment run, we've got something big planned, so my Father needs to be up there to properly get things done." Quicksilver says.
Lance continues to think over their offer. Honestly, doesn't sound half bad, after everything that's happened to him in the past, all the people he's met, there is no reason why humans should have the Earth, none at all comes to Lance's mind. "Alright, I'll join, under one condition: Let me take out that asshole, Nolan."
"Heh, deal," Mystique shakes hands with Lance as she begins to shapeshift into the form of a brunette schoolteacher. "Alright, here's the plan."
Finally, last class of this extremely long day. We enter the classroom, and god fucking dammit, they have a substitute teacher, and I know exactly who it is.
The principal and the substitute are standing in front of the class, once the student's stop talking the principal begins to talk. "Class, for today you'll have a substitute, Dr. Brown had a last-minute emergency to deal with, thankfully he had a replacement on hand, please welcome Ms. Darkholme, please, behave for her." The principal exits the classroom, Mystique stands in the center of the class and glares at the students.
"Alright, where were you with Dr. Brown?" She looks over the class before her eyes land on Lance. "Mr. Alvers?"
He has a shit-eating grin, I don't like where this is going. "We were doing a group project, well, starting it, actually, we have yet to get partners."
"Nol, who is she? I could feel your anger when you saw her." Kitty tells me, worry clear in her…voice, let's say voice.
"Her name's Mystique, she's one of the Brotherhood. She can shapeshift, chances are Dr. Brown doesn't have 'a last-minute emergency', it's more likely he's dead," I reply. "And if she's here it can only mean two things: she's going to recruit Lance, and Quicksilver's nearby. Quicksilver's a speedster, even if we capture her, he'll come and rescue her before we could even blink."
"Alright, I'll decide the partners," She stops once the class begins to protest, her glare quickly stops the students. Kitty and I look at each other, subtly, we both know where this is going. "First pairing: Katherine Pryde and Lance Alvers."
"Saw that one coming a mile away." Kitty thinks spitefully. I place my hand on her shoulder in a comforting sign, she lightly smiles in response. The class then breaks off into their duos, Lance takes his seat next to Kitty and scoots uncomfortably close to her.
"Hey there, Kitty, miss me?" He leans into her personal space.
She gives him a blank stare as she scoots back. "Like a tumor, Lance. Look, I'll just do all the work (like always), you just get out of my way, once this is done you never talk to me ever again, got it?" Kitty looks at the paper given to them and begins the assignment.
"Come on, Kitty, whatever happened to the girl who was crazy for me?" Lance picks up to beakers with some unknown chemicals and messes with them for a moment, Kitty quickly grabs them from him.
"She grew up. Lance, if you seriously don't leave me alone, I'll tell the authorities, after all, my Dad's been pushing me to do that for a while now." She says strongly.
"Really, well, you do know doing that would bring attention to you, and to your friend, Nolan." Lance says. Kitty and I look at him with wide eyes, how does-Mystique, dammit.
The fire alarm suddenly goes off, the students quickly hop out of their seats and heads towards the exit, before Kitty could get up, Lance roughly grabs her arm. Eh, no one'll question it, I drop my cloak and roughly grab Lance's shoulder in a vice grip, he turns to me with wide eyes that quickly narrow.
Out of the corner of my eye I see Mystique charge towards me, dropping her Raven Darkholme form as she does. I swap to my Iceman powers and quickly ice up, making my skin rough, once she punches me, she leaps back, clutching her fist in pain.
The ground below me begins to shake, causing me to lose my balance. I turn to see Lance's eyes are entirely white, his face in deep concentration, the earthquake's coming from him. The walls of the classroom begin to breakdown, chemicals begin to spill, creating a real fire. I lose my balance entirely and fall on my ass, Lance gets up and walks towards me as if the earthquake wasn't even happening, once he reaches me the shaking stops, his face breaks out into a smirk before he activates his powers again.
The earth below me splits open, causing me to fall into a deep abyss. I can vaguely hear Kitty shouting out my name as I fall, looking around I realize that the ground's closing up, he intends to trap me down here, like that's gonna happen. I activate my Untouchable powers once the earth closes, creating a small bubble for me, I extend my powers and create and even bigger bubble.
Alright, let's do this. Using Lance's powers, I go into a deep concentrated state, I feel the earth in a more intimate manner, suddenly I feel like I can move it however I see fit, so I do. The ground opens up, I quickly swap to my Storm powers and create a powerful gust of wind, launching myself up through the small cavern, on my way up I notice Lance curiously looking down the hole. Idiot. Using my speed, I headbutt him as I rise up, knocking him out. One down, one to go.
Turning around I find Kitty actually fighting back against Mystique, and she's doing surprisingly well. Go Kitty. I wrap my arms in little arcs of lightning and get a nice hit in on Mystique's shoulder, rendering her right arm useless. She reaches into her belt and pulls out a little pellet, she drops it onto the ground, so I leap onto Kitty and swap to my Thunderbird powers, which was a total mistake, by the way, the pellet was a flashbang.
After an agonizing few moments my senses finally clear up. Once my eyes begin to see again I see two amazing brown eyes staring back into mine, after a moment I realize my position and quickly clamber off of Kitty, helping her up once I'm up, trying to hide the blush on my face the entire time. "Uh, t-thanks." Kitty stutters out.
I look away and kick a stray rock down the hole I created. "No, uh, no problem," We look at each other, blush, and quickly look away. "You okay?'
"Yeah. Thanks for the help. Wait, where are they?" Kitty asks.
Turning around I find that their both gone, using my enhanced sense of smell I quickly find a scent that's been the cause of a massive headache of mine for a while now: Quicksilver was here. I sigh deeply before swapping to my new powers, to close the hole I created. "By now? Who knows where," Looking around I notice the destroyed classroom, and by extension, section of the school. "I think we should get you home."
Kitty's phone goes off in her pocket, she pulls it out and answers the call. "Dad! Hey, how are ya? Me? Oh, I'm fine, Nolan's here with me, so I never was in trouble anyway. Yeah, no, that…that was us. Uh huh, yeah, okay. We can wait for Jean at the school, yeah. Okay, love you, bye," She turns off her phone and turns to me. "We should get going."
"Lead the way." I reply.
After a few minutes of getting a quick checkup from the paramedics who arrived shortly after Lance's little earthquake Kitty and I find ourselves waiting at the curb of the school, an awkward silence hanging over the both of us. "So-" We both stop and look at each other before laughing. "You first." I tell Kitty.
"Right. So, is that normal for you X-Men? Fights with other mutants that have history with you?" She asks.
"More so than you think. From what the rumors say Magneto and the Professor used to be best friends, and this other guy, a big ass dude who's supposedly unstoppable is the Professor's step-brother, have no idea who he is though," I tell her, taking note of the surprised look on her face at these revelations. "Hell, after my first day my grandfather kidnapped me, and he's one of the most dangerous mutants out there."
"Right, Mister Sinister. Hard to believe there's any lady out there who'd have a kid with him, he's scary looking in my opinion." She shivers dramatically.
"You've got a point. Sadly, I've taken some attributes from him, such as my amazing jawline and intensely attractive eyes. But I mean, other than the skin, eyes, and diamond he looks like your average guy, that's the look he went for when he met my Grandma." I tell her.
"Right, speaking of your grandma she's from London, isn't she? Wait, going off that note, what happened to your accent? I remember you having a slight English accent when we were younger." She asks.
"Damn, how much do you remember?" I look down the street and see the limo in the distance. "As I grew up we started visiting Grandma less and less due to us having less time, because of that my accent started to naturally fade out, but if I want to I could speak in it again, it's just not my natural voice anymore."
The limo rolls up and stops in front of us, walking forward I open the door open for Kitty, her face breaks out into another blush as she attempts to avoid the stares of the other students. "You enjoy embarrassing me, don't you?"
"It brings me joy, Miss Pryde." I hop into the limo and sit next to her. Looking towards the driver seat I see Scott and Jean looking back, knowing smirks on their faces, I glare at them in turn and slowly shake my head.
"So, how was school, kiddo?" Scott asks with an over the top stereotypical American dad voice. I still have no idea how he did it. He begins the drive back to the Pryde household.
Kitty sighs deeply before beginning the story. "My ex-"
"Someone's jealous." Jean mocks,
"Shut up." I counter.
"-Teamed up with some chick named Mystique (Who was disguised as a substitute teacher, by the way) And attacked Nolan and me. Lance's a mutant, just so you know, he can create and manipulate earthquakes." Kitty bluntly explained.
"Mystique was here?" Jean asks.
"Yeah, I knocked out Lance and joined Kitty in fighting Mystique, before we could do any real damage, she tossed down a flashbang, once the effects cleared, they were gone, Quicksilver most likely." I answer.
Scott growls at that name. I totally understand, after all, Quicksilver's been a pain in both of our asses. The car eventually rolls up to Kitty's house, outside we find her family, Logan, Bobby, Anna Marie, and Remy waiting, as soon as we exit the car her parents rush over and wrap Kitty in a tight hug. Huh, I should talk to Mom and Dad soon. After a few minutes the three of them and Scott talk about Kitty's place at the school, considering what happened to her current one. She and her parents agreed almost immediately.
Bobby and I go inside and create some ice clones, under the guidance of Kitty we gather the items that we need to, well, the one's she'd let them gather, there were some things she was vehemently against them grabbing. After another hour, most of which coming from the dinner offered by Mrs. Pryde we were all waiting outside near the limo, watching Kitty say goodbye to her parents for now.
"Remember to call whenever you can, and to keep up with your schoolwork, just because we aren't there doesn't mean you should slack off." Her mother begins to fuss over her.
"I know Mom, I won't let anything get in the way of my schoolwork. And I'll make sure to call every week, at the least, but I'll call whenever I can." Kitty says.
"And watch out for boys up there, who knows what would be on their minds regarding a beautiful girl like you." Her mother continued.
Kitty looks down in embarrassment. "Mom, come on, I'm pretty sure Lance ruined boys for me."
Her dad's eyebrow quirks up as he has a smirk on his face. "Really now? Guess I should tell Nolan then."
Logan lets out a bark of laughter, everyone else looks at him in confusion, as soon as she puts two and two together Jean not so subtly elbows me repeatedly. Great, now Bobby, Anna Marie, and Remy know, thanks Jean.
"No problem." She smugly replies.
Looking up I notice Kitty walking towards us, her suitcase trailing behind us, once she reaches the limo she turns around and waves a tearful goodbye to her parents. Logan, in a surprising act of kindness, gently takes her suitcase and puts it in the back.
We all enter the car and begin to talk, trying to cheer Kitty up from her funk, after all, this is probably the first time she's going to be this far from her parents for this amount of time. "So, your named after a cat? Weird, but Remy's seen weirder," He notices he look of confusion, so he offers a hand. "The name's Remy LeBeau, also go by Gambit."
"Mah name's Anna Marie, or Rogue if ya want." Anna Marie introduces herself.
"And the name's Bobby, you can call me Iceman, it'd be a lot cooler if you did." We all groan at Bobby's pun; he just has an unapologetic smirk on his face.
"You two already have your codenames? Well, I guess I should make one." Kitty begins to take a thinker pose.
"You don have to if you don't want to." Jean tries to say.
"Ah ha! Ariel! No, that's too fairy like, wouldn't strike fear into anyone's heart. Sprite? Agh, no, I'd have to wear a green and yellow costume, then we'd probably get sued by Coca-Cola." For the literal rest of the ride we hear nothing but Kitty going through codename after codename, once we think she has one she quickly shoots it down.
"Wow, she really is takin' this seriously, ain't she?" Anna Marie says in awe.
The jet finally takes off, after a few more minutes of listening to Kitty constantly come up with codenames only for her to shoot down. After a while she jumps up in her seat, grabbing all of our attentions. "I've got it!"
"Finally." Logan grumbles.
"Ignoring that. My codename will be: Shadowcat," She poses dramatically on her seat before looking at us with excitement clear in her entire form. "Well, what do you guys think?"
Everyone else gives her an affirmative, Logan just grumbles what sounds like a yes. She then turns to me and adopts a slightly nervous form. "What do you think, Nol?"
I notice Anna Marie and Remy's suggestive looks towards me, Remy raising and lowering his eyebrows at a rapid pace. Ignoring them I turn to Kitty with a smile on my face. "Welcome to the X-Men, Shadowcat."
Her smile's almost bright enough to dwarf the sun, she hops into her seat and immediately starts a conversation with Jean, Remy, Bobby, and Anna Marie. I smile at the sight of it, looks like everyone's becoming fast friends, nice. I lean back and close my eyes. Three down, six more to go. Next stop, California.
Feeling light smacks against his face Lance slowly opens his eyes, once he does he sees a smirking Quicksilver standing over him, smacking him lightly at a super fast pace. Growling in anger Lance smacks Quicksilver's hand away and slowly gets up, looking around Lance notices that he's in an infirmary, and everything in the infirmary is metal.
"Come on, Father wants to talk to you." Quicksilver gets up and exits the infirmary.
Lance's eyes widen in surprise. Magneto wants to talk to him? Why? Deciding that staying in the infirmary won't get him any answers Lance gets up, ignoring the massive headache he now has he marches forward, following Quicksilver, who still walks at a fast pace. After going through some doors he stops in a small room, in the center is a circle glowing red, Quicksilver steps to the side and motions for Lance to enter the circle.
Once Lance enters the circle a red circular light rises up, reaching towards the ceiling. The rest of the room becomes a throne room, looking around Lance sees a collection of people: Mastermind, a girl wearing scarlet red, two massive guys, one incredibly fat and the other a wall of pure muscle, a giant dome-like helmet on his head. Another younger girl is seen wearing green, her hair is also green and a boy with blond hair and a black suit standing next to her. In the throne Lance sees the man of the hour: Magneto.
"You must be Lance Alvers, my name is Erik Lehnsherr, you may call me Magneto," He gets up from his throne and floats down, stopping in front of the hologram. "Mystique and my son, Quicksilver, have told me of your abilities, they will be useful in my mission. What say you, Lance? Will you join the Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy? Will you take help your brothers and sisters in taking the earth for mutantkind, its rightful rulers?"
Lance immediately nods. "Of course. What do you want me to do?"
Magneto smiles at Lance's eagerness. "You will travel the world with my son and Mystique, gather more like minded mutants, we'll need them if our plan is to work," He turns around and heads to his throne, but before he goes up the stairs he raises his head and turns around. "Ah, yes, what will your name be, not the one chosen for you by the humans, but one chosen by you?"
Lance thinks for a moment before one perfect word comes to mind. "Avalanche."
"Welcome to the Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy, Avalanche, your powers will be instrumental in my plans." Magneto finishes. The transmission ends.
Lance turns around to see a smirking Quicksilver. "So, what now?"
Boom. Chapter done. This was definitely a chapter I've been wanting to write for a while now, after all, we finally get to meet the love interest! Honestly, Shadowcat is one of my favorite characters in general, so getting to write a story where she's pretty much the second protagonist is great. Oh, fun fact: The X-Men: Evolution episode where Kitty was introduce actually aired on the day I was born, Nov. 11, 2000. Pretty awesome if I say so myself.
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