Hey everyone! Sorry for the wait, but here is part 4. The battle rages on while the rest of the gang tries to figure out what happened to Kurt. I LOVE NIGHTCRAWLER! Nightcrawler/Kitty forever! Okay, that was hyper. Icy had an ice-cream bar for lunch. _ Hope you enjoy it! ** indicates thought. indicates telepathy communication.
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Rumors, pt 4
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The sky had finally darkened to night. Alone in his lab, a quiet man in a wheelchair sat in front of a glowing screen.
"Charles, Kurt isn't anywhere in the building." Storm came in, slightly worried.
"I am not sensing his brain waves anywhere near, either." Professor X cared for 'his' mutants, and when one went missing, he was much like a worried parent.
"Scott spoke of some incident that occurred on Wednesday, do you know about it?"
"Yes, Kurt came and talked to me about it. A stray ball set his watch off and his true form was shown for a few seconds. I was planning to make a visit on Monday to calm the students' thoughts and erase that memory."
"Professor.." Storm asked nervously, "Could that have anything to do with his disappearance?"
"Not likely. However, I fear that I lost track of his thoughts around 4:00 this afternoon. So, I do not know where he could possibly be."
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Bamf! A flash of blue fur slammed into Rogue and she was sent flying to the ground. The two teens were becoming extremely tired. Getting back up, she yelled as the entire ground began to shake. Kurt teleported out of the way as an underground boulder shot into the air.
"If you would just stand still for one second, I swear I would kill you right now!" Rogue had lost all patience with "borrowing" his power. Now she just wanted it from him- dead or alive.
"Not on your life!" Kurt teleported to a high branch, hoping to tend to his aching foot. The spike that had pierced it left an open gash that was gathering dirt and miscellaneous things. Over time, his tail had been hit, his right ear tip was torn, and he could have sworn gotten banged by a hundred spikes. He didn't have much time to rest, though. Another spray of spines was headed for his direction.
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In her room, Kitty quietly listened to some CDs. The mansion seemed unusually quiet without that elf around.. sighing, she went down to the Danger Room for some phasing practice. "I remember when he tried to comfort me down here." she said to herself. Kitty was standing in the middle hanging room where she had gone away from him earlier. "I wish I hadn't done that, he really isn't so bad." She looked at one of the damaged machines where he had torn the cords from their sockets. She began to laugh to herself at that incident. "Well, I had to turn them off SOME way!" is what he had said afterwards. Suddenly, Kitty stopped laughing. *What am I thinking? I mean, he's annoying, he freaks me out by teleporting 2 inches in front of my face, what's there to like about him?*
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Kurt didn't look up in time. 2 spikes hit their mark, which happened to be the same leg his injured foot was attached to. He was getting too weak to fight, he had to do something! Even teleporting was becoming painfully tiring. The institute was so near, yet it seemed to be miles away. How strong was the professor's telepathy? Another shower of spikes, followed by a small earthquake. This was his only hope!
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PROFESSOR! Charles Xavier jumped at a loud, Germanic voice in his head.
Kurt, calm down. I can hear you fine if you speak normally. He was relieved to finally hear some life from the missing mutant.
Professor, Rogue has gone crazy on me. She's been attacking me with these bony-
Kurt? Kurt! The lone man became worried. "Storm, Logan!" The two older members came in to his lab. "I just talked with Kurt for a moment. There is something terribly wrong, he says Rogue is attacking him."
"Wait, Chuck-" Logan was extremely confused. "That Rogue girl is just outside with Scott and Jean helping them look."
"But if she is with them, who is with Kurt?" asked a very worried Storm.
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Kurt would have talked longer if the tree he was sitting in hadn't fallen. Teleporting, he landed behind Rogue and gave her a hard kick to the ground. She had become too weak to get back up, or had she? He teleported back to a safe tree.
"Kurt..help," she looked hurt worse than he was. Cautiously, Kurt crawled down the tree. Only the lone moonlight showed where she was. Limping a few feet at a time, he noticed her breath was ragged. Perhaps she was finally too tired to go on.
"Rogue?" he whispered even though no one was around. "Rogue, say something."
"HA!" She leaped up and ran at him before he could react.
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"Kurt!" Professor Xavier had sent the other X-men in the direction of Kurt's panic-stricken brain waves. Kitty, for once, was in the lead. Running straight through trees and bushes, she went in a bee line toward the faint sound of crashes. "Kurt, hang on!" Scott and the others noticed that she seemed unusually worried. They had to weave in and out between trees, and Storm simply hovered overhead. *Hold on, little guy. We're getting closer.*
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Kurt teleported moments before her hands grabbed his blue face. However, most of his strength was gone and could only teleport over a distance of 2 or 3 feet. Landing in some grass, he finally collapsed in the soft dirt. Gasping for air, Kurt teleported again and again, as she watched his pattern.
*That's right, my friend. Get tired, waste your power. I'll have you soon enough.Then, all my friends will have the power to defeat Xavier's damn mutants.* Kurt teleported to a tree, and climbed up it's rough trunk. "Oh no you don't!" Rogue leaped forward and grabbed his slender tail. "OW!" Kurt yelped as he tried to teleport again. However, he was too weak to take both of them between dimensions. Whimpering, he slid down the tree into a gasping heap of fur.
"KURT!" Bursting through the nearby bushes stood Shadowcat, followed by Cyclops and Jean Grey. Storm floated above the clearing.
"NO, you won't take him away from me again!" As Kurt got up again, Rogue leaped on him. In a flash of electricity and light, Kurt's body shook from the life force being stolen from it. He blinked, seemingly in a dead daze, and fell limply to the ground while Rogue gained her health back. Grabbing his collar, she teleported to the highest tree branch. Except, she wasn't Rogue anymore!
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Professor X had Nightcrawler's brain waves again, although they were weak. In fact, they seemed sick and nearly dead.
"Professor, where is everyone? Kurt's not anywhere downstairs." He turned to the southern accent. "ROGUE?!" She stood for a moment, confused at his tone of voice. "Did I do something..?"
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The body that was once Rogue had melted into a blue skinned, red haired, middle aged woman. Holding Kurt by the neck, she was seemed ready to break it in half. Kitty, Scott, Ororo, and Jean stood helplessly on the ground. If they moved, he would get it.
"You..MONSTERS took him away from me!" Kitty and the other teens vaguely recognized her voice..but from where? "Look who's talking." mumbled Scott. She heard his remark, and her gaze became fierce. "If he were to wake now, I'll tell you what- He wouldn't even recognize me!" Her eyes were slightly watery, but they quickly returned to normal. He may know I exist, and he realizes that I'm his-" she paused, looking down at his limp body. "Well, none of that matters, because I've got his powers now and I will have all of yours, soon!" She raised his blue-furred body for effect.
This had gone on too long. Scott let out a force beam large enough to knock down a tree at her. She safely teleported away, leaving Kurt in the path of the force. The beam sliced through the branch like butter - it crumpled and Kurt went falling to the ground. "Kurt, no!" Kitty ran and leaped under him as he fell, which slightly helped the impact. The strange woman appeared in another tree, and sent a shower of spikes toward the X-men. Scott leaped over Jean to protect her, and she created a force field around the other mutants. The odd woman looked frustrated, and decided to not try anymore. Most of her energy had already been lost during that annoying battle. With a BAMF, she disappeared into the night sky.
"That was odd." commented Scott.
"Whoever she was, she reminded me of someone," added Jean.
"Mystique." Everyone turned to Storm's calm voice. "She is rumored to be Kurt's genetic mother, but he is not too proud to admit it. I'll explain later. Now, we must tend to our friend who is down." She pointed to Kurt, who's head was laying in Kitty's lap. She was silently talking to him, although they could not understand what she was saying.
"His leg is hurt. Badly. We have to get him back to the institute.." she whispered.
As the others came toward her, she silently rubbed his hurt ear. "..Fuzzy Elf.."
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Back at the institute, Professor X had his doctors care for the hurt mutant. He had been injured badly, but nothing that wasn't impossible to repair. A cast on his leg- it had cracked in the fall- and a bandage here or there was applied to his battered body. Kitty seemed unusually quiet during the entire process. She would not train until they announced he would be physically okay. However, for some reason, he had not woken up yet like last time when Rogue had touched him..
Kitty sat in a chair near his bed. They had rigged it with ropes to hold his broken leg properly- his legs, of course, bent in a way that differed slightly from humans. If it didn't heal properly, he would not be as acrobatic as normal. It had already been several hours since the incident- nearly midnight.
"Elf, why won't you wake up? Please? This is different from last time. That woman is gone, you should have woken up by now. Kurt? Nightcrawler?" She sighed as she settled in for the night.
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Part 4 is OVER! Yeahhhh! Okay, that took longer because all the situations I came up with were so, um, cliche. (add accent on e) Part 5 will have to be held off until tomorrow, I've been on my computer all day writing this! ;) Thank you to all of you who have complimented me through this. Don't worry, it will continue! I just need time to think and to rest my tired wrists! :P Again thanx- Especially to PallaPlease, Bandit, and more who have commented throughout my story. I strongly recommend reading their tales. They have a lot more talent than me! ^_^ Icy, over and out!
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Rumors, pt 4
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The sky had finally darkened to night. Alone in his lab, a quiet man in a wheelchair sat in front of a glowing screen.
"Charles, Kurt isn't anywhere in the building." Storm came in, slightly worried.
"I am not sensing his brain waves anywhere near, either." Professor X cared for 'his' mutants, and when one went missing, he was much like a worried parent.
"Scott spoke of some incident that occurred on Wednesday, do you know about it?"
"Yes, Kurt came and talked to me about it. A stray ball set his watch off and his true form was shown for a few seconds. I was planning to make a visit on Monday to calm the students' thoughts and erase that memory."
"Professor.." Storm asked nervously, "Could that have anything to do with his disappearance?"
"Not likely. However, I fear that I lost track of his thoughts around 4:00 this afternoon. So, I do not know where he could possibly be."
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Bamf! A flash of blue fur slammed into Rogue and she was sent flying to the ground. The two teens were becoming extremely tired. Getting back up, she yelled as the entire ground began to shake. Kurt teleported out of the way as an underground boulder shot into the air.
"If you would just stand still for one second, I swear I would kill you right now!" Rogue had lost all patience with "borrowing" his power. Now she just wanted it from him- dead or alive.
"Not on your life!" Kurt teleported to a high branch, hoping to tend to his aching foot. The spike that had pierced it left an open gash that was gathering dirt and miscellaneous things. Over time, his tail had been hit, his right ear tip was torn, and he could have sworn gotten banged by a hundred spikes. He didn't have much time to rest, though. Another spray of spines was headed for his direction.
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In her room, Kitty quietly listened to some CDs. The mansion seemed unusually quiet without that elf around.. sighing, she went down to the Danger Room for some phasing practice. "I remember when he tried to comfort me down here." she said to herself. Kitty was standing in the middle hanging room where she had gone away from him earlier. "I wish I hadn't done that, he really isn't so bad." She looked at one of the damaged machines where he had torn the cords from their sockets. She began to laugh to herself at that incident. "Well, I had to turn them off SOME way!" is what he had said afterwards. Suddenly, Kitty stopped laughing. *What am I thinking? I mean, he's annoying, he freaks me out by teleporting 2 inches in front of my face, what's there to like about him?*
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Kurt didn't look up in time. 2 spikes hit their mark, which happened to be the same leg his injured foot was attached to. He was getting too weak to fight, he had to do something! Even teleporting was becoming painfully tiring. The institute was so near, yet it seemed to be miles away. How strong was the professor's telepathy? Another shower of spikes, followed by a small earthquake. This was his only hope!
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PROFESSOR! Charles Xavier jumped at a loud, Germanic voice in his head.
Kurt, calm down. I can hear you fine if you speak normally. He was relieved to finally hear some life from the missing mutant.
Professor, Rogue has gone crazy on me. She's been attacking me with these bony-
Kurt? Kurt! The lone man became worried. "Storm, Logan!" The two older members came in to his lab. "I just talked with Kurt for a moment. There is something terribly wrong, he says Rogue is attacking him."
"Wait, Chuck-" Logan was extremely confused. "That Rogue girl is just outside with Scott and Jean helping them look."
"But if she is with them, who is with Kurt?" asked a very worried Storm.
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Kurt would have talked longer if the tree he was sitting in hadn't fallen. Teleporting, he landed behind Rogue and gave her a hard kick to the ground. She had become too weak to get back up, or had she? He teleported back to a safe tree.
"Kurt..help," she looked hurt worse than he was. Cautiously, Kurt crawled down the tree. Only the lone moonlight showed where she was. Limping a few feet at a time, he noticed her breath was ragged. Perhaps she was finally too tired to go on.
"Rogue?" he whispered even though no one was around. "Rogue, say something."
"HA!" She leaped up and ran at him before he could react.
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"Kurt!" Professor Xavier had sent the other X-men in the direction of Kurt's panic-stricken brain waves. Kitty, for once, was in the lead. Running straight through trees and bushes, she went in a bee line toward the faint sound of crashes. "Kurt, hang on!" Scott and the others noticed that she seemed unusually worried. They had to weave in and out between trees, and Storm simply hovered overhead. *Hold on, little guy. We're getting closer.*
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Kurt teleported moments before her hands grabbed his blue face. However, most of his strength was gone and could only teleport over a distance of 2 or 3 feet. Landing in some grass, he finally collapsed in the soft dirt. Gasping for air, Kurt teleported again and again, as she watched his pattern.
*That's right, my friend. Get tired, waste your power. I'll have you soon enough.Then, all my friends will have the power to defeat Xavier's damn mutants.* Kurt teleported to a tree, and climbed up it's rough trunk. "Oh no you don't!" Rogue leaped forward and grabbed his slender tail. "OW!" Kurt yelped as he tried to teleport again. However, he was too weak to take both of them between dimensions. Whimpering, he slid down the tree into a gasping heap of fur.
"KURT!" Bursting through the nearby bushes stood Shadowcat, followed by Cyclops and Jean Grey. Storm floated above the clearing.
"NO, you won't take him away from me again!" As Kurt got up again, Rogue leaped on him. In a flash of electricity and light, Kurt's body shook from the life force being stolen from it. He blinked, seemingly in a dead daze, and fell limply to the ground while Rogue gained her health back. Grabbing his collar, she teleported to the highest tree branch. Except, she wasn't Rogue anymore!
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Professor X had Nightcrawler's brain waves again, although they were weak. In fact, they seemed sick and nearly dead.
"Professor, where is everyone? Kurt's not anywhere downstairs." He turned to the southern accent. "ROGUE?!" She stood for a moment, confused at his tone of voice. "Did I do something..?"
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The body that was once Rogue had melted into a blue skinned, red haired, middle aged woman. Holding Kurt by the neck, she was seemed ready to break it in half. Kitty, Scott, Ororo, and Jean stood helplessly on the ground. If they moved, he would get it.
"You..MONSTERS took him away from me!" Kitty and the other teens vaguely recognized her voice..but from where? "Look who's talking." mumbled Scott. She heard his remark, and her gaze became fierce. "If he were to wake now, I'll tell you what- He wouldn't even recognize me!" Her eyes were slightly watery, but they quickly returned to normal. He may know I exist, and he realizes that I'm his-" she paused, looking down at his limp body. "Well, none of that matters, because I've got his powers now and I will have all of yours, soon!" She raised his blue-furred body for effect.
This had gone on too long. Scott let out a force beam large enough to knock down a tree at her. She safely teleported away, leaving Kurt in the path of the force. The beam sliced through the branch like butter - it crumpled and Kurt went falling to the ground. "Kurt, no!" Kitty ran and leaped under him as he fell, which slightly helped the impact. The strange woman appeared in another tree, and sent a shower of spikes toward the X-men. Scott leaped over Jean to protect her, and she created a force field around the other mutants. The odd woman looked frustrated, and decided to not try anymore. Most of her energy had already been lost during that annoying battle. With a BAMF, she disappeared into the night sky.
"That was odd." commented Scott.
"Whoever she was, she reminded me of someone," added Jean.
"Mystique." Everyone turned to Storm's calm voice. "She is rumored to be Kurt's genetic mother, but he is not too proud to admit it. I'll explain later. Now, we must tend to our friend who is down." She pointed to Kurt, who's head was laying in Kitty's lap. She was silently talking to him, although they could not understand what she was saying.
"His leg is hurt. Badly. We have to get him back to the institute.." she whispered.
As the others came toward her, she silently rubbed his hurt ear. "..Fuzzy Elf.."
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Back at the institute, Professor X had his doctors care for the hurt mutant. He had been injured badly, but nothing that wasn't impossible to repair. A cast on his leg- it had cracked in the fall- and a bandage here or there was applied to his battered body. Kitty seemed unusually quiet during the entire process. She would not train until they announced he would be physically okay. However, for some reason, he had not woken up yet like last time when Rogue had touched him..
Kitty sat in a chair near his bed. They had rigged it with ropes to hold his broken leg properly- his legs, of course, bent in a way that differed slightly from humans. If it didn't heal properly, he would not be as acrobatic as normal. It had already been several hours since the incident- nearly midnight.
"Elf, why won't you wake up? Please? This is different from last time. That woman is gone, you should have woken up by now. Kurt? Nightcrawler?" She sighed as she settled in for the night.
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Part 4 is OVER! Yeahhhh! Okay, that took longer because all the situations I came up with were so, um, cliche. (add accent on e) Part 5 will have to be held off until tomorrow, I've been on my computer all day writing this! ;) Thank you to all of you who have complimented me through this. Don't worry, it will continue! I just need time to think and to rest my tired wrists! :P Again thanx- Especially to PallaPlease, Bandit, and more who have commented throughout my story. I strongly recommend reading their tales. They have a lot more talent than me! ^_^ Icy, over and out!