A change in the air

By Todd fan

Disclaimer: "Stay....good fake dog".

Right, now keep in mind that i haven't seen Day of reckoning, Day of Recovery, Stuff of heroes OR Mainstream. This chapter is sorta set in all of them. As far as i can figure out, DOR, Day of recovery, Stuff of Heroes and Mainstream all take place within the same time. You know, there are no days between them. If i'm wrong, i'm wrong, man i hate British TV. I know i haven't put Sidney in the heart of the action but, again, i didn't see them, and i only have transcripts up to Day of Recovery, so i appologise again. I tried to make it as intersting as i could, while staying within what i found out about what happened with the show.

Okay the start of this chapter is a bit long-winded, but that's because Sidney is in cat form, and so can't exactly talk, so just bear with me okay?

Chapter 9 - The secret's out.

Sidney sat on top on the hill overlooking Stokes Maximum security facility boredly. She had no idea why Mystique had sent her to watch this place, or why she had been told to do it while in the form of a cat. She yawned and stretched. She'd been there all night and nothing interesting had happened. No one had contacted her on the com-link around her neck. She gave a feline sigh and walked over to a nearby tree and started to scratch it. She had been mulling over in her head many things. One of the largest being what Mystique had to do with her uncle. Wanda had sounded worried about her, which was very unlike her roomate, Wanda very rarely showed any emotion other than hate or anger. Sidney yawned again and washed her paw. To any onlookers, she was just a small black cat, probably a stray, spending the night near the prsion, hoping for some scraps of food. Of course, onlooksers didn't know about mutants, she told herself, so she was pretty safe. She looked at the prison again and suddered. She knew that somewhere inside there, Pickles was in his bio tank. She hoped he was secure enough there, she didn't feel like another encounter with him. Her stomach growled and she realised how hungry she was. She sniffed the air, hoping to cath the wiff of something cooking, their was nothing. She sighed and clibed up the tree, lying on one of the branches. She tol herself she would wait another few hours, then she was going home. She wasn't prepared to be a lackey for Mystique, she was her own cat-girl, and she wouldn't obey anyone but herself. She purred proudly at her own inner-toughts, then realsied that no one was around to hear them. She sighed and closed her eyes, telling herself she wouldn't fall asleeep, she'd only rest her eyes.



By the time she opened her eyes again, it was night time. Sidney groaned, Mystique would toast her for this if she found out. She streached and jumped down from the tree. She looked over at the prison, nothing had changed. She rolled her eyes and prepared to go home, when a small movement caught her eye. She padded down the hill to get a closer look. As she got closer, she could hear footsteps, she stopped and hid in a bush. A few seconds later, the X-men walked past, Rogue talking exctiedly. Unfortunately, as Sidney was in the body of a cat, the words didn't make that much sense. But she could feel an air of hope and excitement in the air.Loagn paused on the way in and sniffed the air. Sidney flattened herself on the ground. Logan norrowed his eyes, and looked around, then shook his head and walked into the facility. Sidney waited for what seemed like an eternity until they came back out again, this time with Xavier. Sidney narrowed her eyes, he'd been in there?. She guessed that this was what Mystique had wanted her to watch for. Before she was sensed by either Logan, Jean or the Professor, she turned tail and trotted back to the Brotherhood house.



When she got there, he teammates were sitting down, looking stuned. Mystique was missing, as was Pietro. Sidney changed into her normal form and looked at them.

"What happened?", she asked, "i've been watching Stokes' for near enough two days. I just saw the X-geeks go there and get Xavier. Someone had better explain whats going on NOW".

All the Brotherhood members started talking at once.

"Whoah, whoah, whoah, one at a time!", said Sidney, holding up her hands.

"My brother betrayed us", said Wanda, narrowing her eyes.

"What?", siad Sidney, blinking.

"We went after Magneto", explained Lance, "but we teamed up with the X- geeks. We were attacked by Magento's new lakeys, and....Pietro led us right into his trap. Man, you missed so much Sidney".

"Yeah", said Todd, "we were attacked by this huge robot thingie. And there were news cameras. The whole mutant secret is out".

"You have GOT to be kiding me", said Sidney, "they know about us?".

"Yeah", said Freddy, "me an' a few of the others got captured by the army. But the guys broke us out".

"And Summer's locked Mystique in there", said Lance, "the jerk!".

"Okay, well that explains the missing teammates", said Sidney, "but what about Xavier?. Why was he in Stokes'?".

"Mystique captured him", explained Todd, "she's been impersonatin' him. The X-geeks saved people from Jugernaught, so they decided ta accept us".

"And while all this was going on i was stuck watching a stupid building!!", shouted Sidney, "oh great, just my luck, first the dance, then Wanda coming back and now this!. Am i unlucky?".

"Trust me, you wouldn't want to be thorugh what we've just been through", said Lance with a sigh.

"So...what do we do now?", asked Sidney with a sigh.

"I...don't know", said Lance, "lets face it. We're in trouble".



The next day, Sidney awoke to hear voices from downstairs. It sounded like....Principle Kelly?. She blinked and walked down the stairs, just in time to see Kelly leave.

"What did he want?", she asked.

"He wants us to go back to school", said Lance, blinking.

"Well i was gonna go anyway", said Sidney, crossing her arms.

"What about Wanda?", asked Fred.

"She's...busy", said Sidney, "she went somewhere last night and hasn't come back yet".

"Great, thats just what we need", muttered Lance, "come on guys, get your stuff together. Its OUR time now!".

"Lance?", said Sidney, "it's just school".

"No, its a step forward for our cause", said Lance, jumping onto the table, "no longer shall we hide in shame. We rule now, and we rule by fear!. And further more...hey, were'd everyone go?".

Lance found himself standing on the table alone.

"Damm my moment of glory and no one wanted to listen".

It didn't take long for everyone to get their stuff together. Lance, Todd and Fred were already in the car waiting.

"Hurry it up Sid", shouted Fred, "i want me some revenge".

"I'm coming, i'm coming", shouted Sidney, walking out of the house.....minus her immage inducer.

"Errr...Sid...did ya forget somethin' yo?", asked Todd.

"I'm not going to wear it anymore", said Sidney, "if the secrets out, there's no point".

"But no one knows your a mutant", pointed out Fred, "you could stilll act normal".

"Hey, i'm not going to ditch my friends", said Sidney, "now lets go. I've wnated to walk in public without cover since i could walk".

Lance grinned and strated the engine and the jeep roared off to Bayville high.



There you go, another chapter done!!!!! Sorry it took so long to put up. Please review. Until next time....