I still do not own X-men

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Daniel walked out on the dance floor, his hand still holding Amanda's. The others where not far behind him. They began the dance. Daniel realized then just how much he had missed them. He glanced at a quick movement at their right and saw Kellie pulling Kurt out to the dance floor. He smiled slightly, wondering what her reaction to his fur would be. Kurt must have told her already, because she didn't even blink twice. Daniel glanced back to Amanda. Her eyes reflected the light from the stage. He smiled, and she smiled back, but her eyes seemed off key.

"What's up?"

"What do you mean?"

"C'mon, I know you're thinking about something."

"Well.."

"Well what?"

"Just glad you're back."

Daniel smiled again, "Yeah, me too."

The DJ was a relatively smart one, and there were about 3 other slow songs after that one. Daniel and Amanda talked about what had been going on. She was interested on his teammates, his new school, and life at the mansion. He told her all he could tell. When he told her about the food fight, she spoke up, "Well, if I was the one who started the food fight, I would have made sure that everyone was on my side first. Also I'd have all my friends help, and I'd take out the teachers first. If you get food on them, they will be too bust trying to get out of the way to stop you."

Daniel burst out laughing, "OH that wasn't even the funniest part."

"It wasn't?"

"Nope. I had this Red Flash bottle, and the jocks were being well, jocks. So I shook it up and had Evan," he pointed out Evan just in case she didn't remember, "blow the bottle apart as it was above them."

Amanda was laughing so hard that they had to split for a moment. "Oh man!! You didn't get a picture of their faces did you?"

"No, but next time I will."

"Darn, that would have been SO funny to see that."

"It was."

They continued talking until the dances ended, and they then went to get drinks for everyone. "Thanks to you I almost lost my last bunch of sodas."

"Well, I wanted to say hi."

"Couldn't you just say hi like a normal-"

She trailed off at this, and they both started laughing. Everyone wanted a soda with caffeine because of the plane ride. Daniel got Kellie caffeine free Sprite, and almost had it dumped on his head. Everyone was talking when Daniel saw the Professor over in the corner. **What are you doing here?**

**Just checking in on some potential candidates for that school. Don't worry about me, have fun.**

**Who are they**

**Don't worry about it, I'll tell you later**

Daniel shrugged, sensing that the Professor didn't want to talk about it. A small fight with ice broke out at the table, which was quickly stopped when Jean was hit. Rogue and Remy went out to dance, and Daniel suddenly realized that she wasn't wearing gloves. "ROGUE!"

"What?"

"How are you." he pointed to her bare hand.

"OH!! I forgot to tell you. The professor found this collar that the FOH was using to suppress mutant powers, and he made a watch version for me tonight."

She held up a blinking watch and smiled. "Now if you'll excuse me," she said as she and Remy walked out on the floor.

"What was that about?" Kellie asked.

"Oh, well Rogues power only works when someone touches her skin. She can't control it, so usually she wears gloves. Tonight she's got this thing that blocks her powers so she can dance."

"Ah."

Kurt and Evan decided to see who could pick up girls easier went out to see who could get a dance first, but Kitty and Kellie quickly pulled them back. Everyone was laughing when Daniel saw some of his old school friends. "Excuse me guys."

Daniel went off and was talking to his friends when one of them caught sight of Kitty. "Hey who's that?"

"Oh, a friend from out of town."

"She here alone?"

"No, not really."

"Damnit."

"Why don't you go try that side of the gym?"

"Oh, all right, see you later man."

"See ya."

Daniel returned and another song came up. As Daniel was walking up, he saw Rogue and Remy kissing. He smiled and Amanda turned to where he was looking. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing. C'mon let's dance."

This dance string was more of the "sit back and enjoy it" kind of dances. Daniel and Amanda just danced there, not saying anything. He glanced at his watch, and the dance was already ¾ of the way done. "Time flies when you're having fun."

"Why, what time is it?"

He showed her and she was surprised as well. "Maybe you or one of your friends has the ability to control time."

"I know it's not me."

"Why?"

"Cause I'd make this night last forever."

She smiled and rested her head on his shoulder. "You're sweet."

"Took me a while to think of that one."

"Still, it's nice."

They continued dancing until Daniel realized that he was supposed to be surprised at least two times. **The surprises!! I forgot to ask!! I guess I'll ask them when this is over**

He had just finished this sentence when 20 or so men in body armor carrying guns burst through the doors.

"Goddamnit!! Do people have nothing better to do than screw our social life?"

One carried a megaphone as the music turned off, "ATTENTION! THERE ARE SEVERAL MUTANTS INSIDE THE BUILDING. THIS IS A FOH ARREST. YOU FREAKS KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND SO DO WE SO YOU BETTER STAY PUT AND MAKE THIS EASY ON YOURSELVES!! WOULD ALL CIVILIANS PLEASE MOVE OUT THE DOORS"

Daniel rejoined his friends. This seems to happen a lot when I'm around."

Kellie agreed, "Yeah, you must be bad luck."

"NOT HELPING"

"Sorry."

Scott decided it was time to play the leader, "Okay, Kurt take everyone outside NOW."

"As you command."

He grabbed Mandi and Kellie and was gone in a puff of smoke. The leader of the FOH group started laughing. "That's not a good sign," said Tabitha.

Kurt reappeared, "There's gigantic robots out zhere. Zey are humongous!"

(Sentinels from the old TV show. Work with me!!)

"Hope you liked our sentinels. Now your ours."

Evan had had enough of the loudspeaker, "Shut up already," he said as a spike destroyed the loudspeaker.

This did not help. "THAT was an attempt on my life. Arrest them NOW."

"Wasn't he, like, going to do that anyway?"

"Oui, that he was." Replied Gambit, with cards already in hand.

"Just checking."

Daniel's friends where put behind them, Kellie was protesting, "But Daniel, I-"

"Not now Kellie,"

"But me and Tab-"

"Scott, we can't fight them in here. It's too cramped."

"Right. Kurt, take us outside."

Everyone grabbed hold of Kurt, with his tail wrapping around those in the back. They teleported outside just as the gas was being shot at them. The first thing Daniel perceived was that they were on top of the roof. The second was the gigantic head staring at them. "RUN!"

A hand appeared, and a blast of energy shot out. Daniel caught it and sent it back.

Kellie was indignant, "You didn't tell me you could absorb things other than fire!!"

"I forgot."

"Well here's the surprises we promised," said Tabitha.

"WHAT?"

Daniel turned to see a ball of blue energy between Tabitha's hands. She fired it at a Sentinel and it was frozen in a block of ice.

Bobby was impressed, "Nice."

Kellie stepped up, "My turn!!" She disappeared for a moment, and then reappeared as a sentinel came up. She fired a laser-like beam that cut off its head.

There were more on the way, but they had a brief space for talk. "WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN!"

"Last week!! I can shoot all sorts of stuff, almost magic, and Kellie can control light," shouted Tabitha, shooting a ball of fire picking off one of the incoming sentinels.

"Great. Now what do you call yourselves?" he said.

Kellie responded, "I'm Prism, and Tabitha undecided."

Jubilee blew apart another sentinel, "Well Prism makes sense, but I don't know about undecided!" she called.

"You know that she means!!" yelled Tabitha.

Bobby was alternating between freezing the sentinels, and freezing the "officers of peace" below, and Kurt and Kitty were in and among them, tripping and tackling. Rogue was with Gambit and Evan guarding Mandi, Matt, Ryan, Jennifer, and Teresa who where yelling out encouragement to Kellie and Tabitha. Gambit was throwing cards at sentinels, while Rogue was distracting them. Amanda was with Daniel, who was catching beams and sending them back. He changed the type of energy used every now and then, just for variety of course! Scott and Jean were together, blasting and tripping. Suddenly, another 20 sentinels dropped down, and Daniel knew that without reinforcements, they would lose. Amanda ducked down, as did the others. There were too many energy blasts flying around for anyone to be up except Daniel.

Daniel felt himself reaching his limit, so he just increased his firepower. His blasts shone a slivery blue, detonating sentinels left and right. Suddenly, he felt something coil around him and lift him upside down. A steel tube was wrapped around his waist, pinning his arms to his side. He was about to be taken in when a blast of yellow took out the tube. He looked up to see a helicopter with the rest of the team inside. The one who freed him jumped down and fought his way over to Scott, "Hey bro!!"

"Alex! What are you doing here?"

"Well I was going to come visit you today. I tried to call, but the phone lines where down. Then Logan tells me to come with him and we get into the helicopter with the Brotherhood and the rest of the gang. We've come to back you up."

As if on cue, the ground beneath several of the sentinels shook, and white balls of energy took them out. Boom boom and Avalanche hopped down.

Daniel was speechless, "What are you doing here?"

Lance sneered, "Well you think you're going to hog all the glory of taking these things down?"

Sunspot, Berserker, Cannonball, and Magma where all causing hell. Toad and Logan were helping Kurt and Kitty. Blob was trying to decide where he wanted to go. Quicksilver was running around with a spike he had gotten from Evan, spearing every sentinel he could get to before the others got there first.

They fight went uphill from there, until all the sentinels were defeated. Daniel smiled and picked up Amanda. "Anything interesting happen with you this week?"

Amanda stood there speechless. And they headed back down. The professor rolled up. "Well Daniel, are you surprised?"

"What!!!!"

He spun to look at Kellie and Tabitha, "You told him, and you kept if from me?!?!"

"Well."

"ARGH!!"

The professor started laughing. Not chuckling mind you. Laughing. Everyone turned to stare at him. He quickly regained his composure and was back to his old self.

"Sorry, the look on your face."

Everyone else's laughter cut him off as they walked outside.

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Well, that's the second to last chapter. I might make a sequel, but that's going ahead of myself. Read and Review!!