Vega looked up from her rooftop perch,"I just realized something."
"Huh?"Kurt rolled over to look at his sister.
"We've gotta go back to school tomorrow,"Vega began,"and the Brotherhood has now been identified as mutants."
"You're worried about people like Duncan, aren't you?"Kurt propped himself up on his elbows.
Vega nodded,"There's going to mutant haters and probably even police there, and you know how bad we are with our tempers."
"But, they don't even know about you."Kurt reminded her.
Vega's`amber eyes shined in the dying sunlight,"I don't care, they're my team and I'm not going to leave them. If I have to show my true form and let the world know I'm a mutant then so be it. It'll just be another 'freak' for them to fear."
"Freak? Atleast you can transform and don't have to hide behind a hologram."Kurt pointed out,"You've been a shape shifted since we were babies."
Vega folded her arms behind her head and flopped down,"You've got the same powers I do, yours just haven't emerged yet. You were born a spider monkey, of should I say elf? It took me years to become as flexible as you."
Kurt rolled his eyes,"And you can transform and I can't."
"Xavier thinks that periods of high stress or pain release the X-gene in a person. I've had WAAAY more stress than you, that's the only reason I've got the shape shifter power."
"Vat do you call getting experimented on?"
"I was looking through Mystique's files while I still lived with her, and ya know what I found?"
"Hm?"
"Both of us nearly died at birth. I stopped breathing five or six times, ATLEAST, and the only reason I didn't die was because you would start screaming. Then, after the moron doctors figured out that I was allergic to the perfume my nurse wears, your hear started to give out on you. I think that's how Magneto managed to get his hands on you, he offered to help you and, instead, experimented on you, but, I'm not sure."Vega's tail flicked lightly around her,"Whatever it is, Mystique dropped you off a bridge and left me at the orphanage." A flash of bright red around Vega suddely made her jump,"Oh boy..."
"Huh?"
"TOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Frogger strikes again."Vega rolled her eyes as several lights exploded in the institute and Toad flew out and window below them,"Idiot. Whatever, I'm gonna talk to my boys tonight and warn them about losing their tempers with Matthews and any other mutant haters. This is going to be rough on all of us."
"Well, vater happens,"Kurt smirked,"Kitty and I will be there for you."
"Sooner or later the world will find out about you guys, too, and we'll be there for you when that does happen."
"Promise?"
Vega propped herself up again and put a gentle hand on Kurt's,"I promise."
Running. She couldn't stop running. Kitty didn't look back, she was too scared to. Suddenly something stopped her. There was a body about ten feet away. There was blood everywhere. "Lance!" She ran over and cradled the lifeless body,"Lance, wake up! Please!"
A demonic roar shattered what little silence was left around her as a huge dark shadow with glowing red eyes approached her. Kitty couldn't move, it was like the creature had her hypnotized. Suddenly the once black sky turned blood red and the darkness faded. There was a huge battle raging all around her. The Brotherhood, along with herself, Kurt, Rogue, and Logan, were fighting what looked like some kind of mutant. Suddenly a huge black lightning bolt struck her, and everything went black.
'Ok, why do I get the feeling someone is standing in the room besides the fur ball?'Lance closed his eyes tighter,'Please say it's not one of the X-geeks. Where's Kurt? It's probably Vega to yell at him for something.'
"Lance? I know you're awake."
'Or it could be Kitty.'Lance reluctantly opened his eyes to find said mutant girl standing over him,'Yeah, it's Kitty.' Then he noticed the worried look in her eyes and sat up,"What's wrong, Pretty Kitty?" He patted the bed next to him.
Kitty gently sat down, as if afraid she'd phase through the bed into the basement,"Sorry to bug you, I'm just...."
"Nightmare?"Lance sat up revealing his bare chest. Kitty just nodded,"Vega used to have them all the time. What's got you so freaked out?"
"It's not really the nightmare,"Kitty whispered,"it's just that when I woke up I had phased through the floor of the basement and was buried alive under the institue. I got so freaked out I forgot about my mutation and almost sufficated. I just got so scared."
Lance nodded,"I remember Vega used to wake up at night crying or screaming. I never told her, but, she occasionally transformed in her sleep, usually into a Kurt look-alike which I still see here in now and then. There would even be times when I'd wake up from a dream and Vega would be standing over me cussing about being shaken out of bed at three in the morning. She still yells at me for the last time I did it. I literally cracked the orphanage in half, the fault line being right under Vega. The poor girl woke up thirty feet down in a crack. It took her two days to get out and when she did she yelled at me for ten hours straight, and her voice didn't waver once. She couldn't talk for a week after that, there was also a huge thunder storm the whole time she was yelling at me. The nun that ran the orphanage got struck by lightning."
Kitty couldn't help but giggle,"Yeah, that's Vega. She was always like that. She got mad at my mom once and mom claims a huge red wolf attacked her. Vega's just a trouble magnet."
"All of the Brotherhood is."Lance pointed out,"Hm, where's the elf?"
Kitty looked behind her, indeed, Kurt's bed was empty,"Probably out with Vega. I think I saw them sneaking out ealier."
Lance raised and eyebrow,"One of you goddy-goodys, sneaking out after curfew? That's a new one in my book."
"Kurt's the biggest trouble maker on the team. Well, more like trouble follows him everywhere. His image inducer keeps fritzing out, Mystique dropped him off a bridge, let Magneto experiment on him, AND nearly got him killed."Kitty laughed,"It's no wonder he and Vega are twins."
"How'd you...."
"I heard them talking the other night."Kitty shrugged,"They were right over my window, I couldn't hlp but hear. I think Rogue did too."
"I've been a terrible influence on you."Lance shook his head in mock sorrow,"Your parents are going to kill me."
"They don't even know you live in Bayville."
"You didn't tell them?"
"If they found out YOU were in Bayville they'd take me away and I'd never see you or any of my friends again. This is where I belong, not at some school back in.....where ever I came from. You have been a bad influece on me, I can't even remember where I came from."both teens laughed at this. "My parents are NOT going to like this when they come to visit next week."
"Next.Week.?"Lance went wide eyed.
"What? What is it?"Kitty asked.
"Um, yeah, you don't want your parents to see me, and I doubt we'll have left by then."
"Point taken. I don't see why they hate you so much, they barely know you. Sure, you nearly got us killed and used me a few times, but you're a sweet guy once you get by all that. You're like a big brother to Vega and the Brotherhood boys and you're willing to do anything, even go behind your own teammates' backs for me. They'll never see that in you, all they'll see is an arrogant hood who's going nowhere in life. It's like Vega and I are the only ones who know the real you."
"That's because you and Vega are the only ones I've allowed to see my soft side. Vega is like my little sister, but you, you're...you're......"
Kitty giggled,"You're not very good at being sweet, Lance, but you're cute when you try. That's something I'll have to teach you."
"Cute? That gets out to NO ONE, understood, Katherine Amane Shadowcat Pryde?"Lance smirked.
"Sir, yes, sir!"Kitty gave a fake salute,"Wait a minute, who told you my middle name?"
"Vega."Lance shurgged,"Ugh."
"What?"
"We've got school tomorrow."
"Oh yeah, they'll know about you being a mutant. That's gotta be really hard."
"Yeah, it's gonna be. The first orphanage I went to found out I was a mutant. I barely escaped with my life."
Kitty went wide eyed,"They tried to kill you?" Lance nodded solemnly. "You don't think they'll, like, do that here, do you?"
"I'm not sure, but I know Vega is going to do something stupid. If they start causing trouble for us Vega may just let the world know she's a mutant, more importantly, she may blow something up and someone could get hurt. Things have a habbit of blowing up when she gets ticked off."
"Well, even if she does blow something up, or transform into a giant monster, I'll be there with you. I don't want anything to happen to you."
"What about your friends at school? They'll give you hell for hanging out with a mutant."
"People like them come and go, but friends like Vega and guys like you come once in a lifetime."
Without even realising it, their faces slowly became closer and closer.
"What, I'm not your friend?"Lance asked slyly.
"No,"their lips were only millimeters apart,"you're so much more."
BAMF Vega and Kurt appeared behind them, Kurt's image inducer smoking.
"I can't believe that jerk!"Vega growled angrily.
Kitty and Lance jumped in suprise,"Wha?!"
Kurt gave the two a funny look,"You realize if Scott and Jean saw zis they'd kill you."
"Uh, hi."Kitty was as red as a tomato, and Lance not much better.
Vega shook her head,"Kurt, go wake up Toad and Freddy, would ya? I forgot to give the boys their lecture."
"I knew there was something wrong."Lance muttered,"Vega's always lecturing me."
BAMF Kurt was gone.
"Huh?"Kurt rolled over to look at his sister.
"We've gotta go back to school tomorrow,"Vega began,"and the Brotherhood has now been identified as mutants."
"You're worried about people like Duncan, aren't you?"Kurt propped himself up on his elbows.
Vega nodded,"There's going to mutant haters and probably even police there, and you know how bad we are with our tempers."
"But, they don't even know about you."Kurt reminded her.
Vega's`amber eyes shined in the dying sunlight,"I don't care, they're my team and I'm not going to leave them. If I have to show my true form and let the world know I'm a mutant then so be it. It'll just be another 'freak' for them to fear."
"Freak? Atleast you can transform and don't have to hide behind a hologram."Kurt pointed out,"You've been a shape shifted since we were babies."
Vega folded her arms behind her head and flopped down,"You've got the same powers I do, yours just haven't emerged yet. You were born a spider monkey, of should I say elf? It took me years to become as flexible as you."
Kurt rolled his eyes,"And you can transform and I can't."
"Xavier thinks that periods of high stress or pain release the X-gene in a person. I've had WAAAY more stress than you, that's the only reason I've got the shape shifter power."
"Vat do you call getting experimented on?"
"I was looking through Mystique's files while I still lived with her, and ya know what I found?"
"Hm?"
"Both of us nearly died at birth. I stopped breathing five or six times, ATLEAST, and the only reason I didn't die was because you would start screaming. Then, after the moron doctors figured out that I was allergic to the perfume my nurse wears, your hear started to give out on you. I think that's how Magneto managed to get his hands on you, he offered to help you and, instead, experimented on you, but, I'm not sure."Vega's tail flicked lightly around her,"Whatever it is, Mystique dropped you off a bridge and left me at the orphanage." A flash of bright red around Vega suddely made her jump,"Oh boy..."
"Huh?"
"TOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Frogger strikes again."Vega rolled her eyes as several lights exploded in the institute and Toad flew out and window below them,"Idiot. Whatever, I'm gonna talk to my boys tonight and warn them about losing their tempers with Matthews and any other mutant haters. This is going to be rough on all of us."
"Well, vater happens,"Kurt smirked,"Kitty and I will be there for you."
"Sooner or later the world will find out about you guys, too, and we'll be there for you when that does happen."
"Promise?"
Vega propped herself up again and put a gentle hand on Kurt's,"I promise."
Running. She couldn't stop running. Kitty didn't look back, she was too scared to. Suddenly something stopped her. There was a body about ten feet away. There was blood everywhere. "Lance!" She ran over and cradled the lifeless body,"Lance, wake up! Please!"
A demonic roar shattered what little silence was left around her as a huge dark shadow with glowing red eyes approached her. Kitty couldn't move, it was like the creature had her hypnotized. Suddenly the once black sky turned blood red and the darkness faded. There was a huge battle raging all around her. The Brotherhood, along with herself, Kurt, Rogue, and Logan, were fighting what looked like some kind of mutant. Suddenly a huge black lightning bolt struck her, and everything went black.
'Ok, why do I get the feeling someone is standing in the room besides the fur ball?'Lance closed his eyes tighter,'Please say it's not one of the X-geeks. Where's Kurt? It's probably Vega to yell at him for something.'
"Lance? I know you're awake."
'Or it could be Kitty.'Lance reluctantly opened his eyes to find said mutant girl standing over him,'Yeah, it's Kitty.' Then he noticed the worried look in her eyes and sat up,"What's wrong, Pretty Kitty?" He patted the bed next to him.
Kitty gently sat down, as if afraid she'd phase through the bed into the basement,"Sorry to bug you, I'm just...."
"Nightmare?"Lance sat up revealing his bare chest. Kitty just nodded,"Vega used to have them all the time. What's got you so freaked out?"
"It's not really the nightmare,"Kitty whispered,"it's just that when I woke up I had phased through the floor of the basement and was buried alive under the institue. I got so freaked out I forgot about my mutation and almost sufficated. I just got so scared."
Lance nodded,"I remember Vega used to wake up at night crying or screaming. I never told her, but, she occasionally transformed in her sleep, usually into a Kurt look-alike which I still see here in now and then. There would even be times when I'd wake up from a dream and Vega would be standing over me cussing about being shaken out of bed at three in the morning. She still yells at me for the last time I did it. I literally cracked the orphanage in half, the fault line being right under Vega. The poor girl woke up thirty feet down in a crack. It took her two days to get out and when she did she yelled at me for ten hours straight, and her voice didn't waver once. She couldn't talk for a week after that, there was also a huge thunder storm the whole time she was yelling at me. The nun that ran the orphanage got struck by lightning."
Kitty couldn't help but giggle,"Yeah, that's Vega. She was always like that. She got mad at my mom once and mom claims a huge red wolf attacked her. Vega's just a trouble magnet."
"All of the Brotherhood is."Lance pointed out,"Hm, where's the elf?"
Kitty looked behind her, indeed, Kurt's bed was empty,"Probably out with Vega. I think I saw them sneaking out ealier."
Lance raised and eyebrow,"One of you goddy-goodys, sneaking out after curfew? That's a new one in my book."
"Kurt's the biggest trouble maker on the team. Well, more like trouble follows him everywhere. His image inducer keeps fritzing out, Mystique dropped him off a bridge, let Magneto experiment on him, AND nearly got him killed."Kitty laughed,"It's no wonder he and Vega are twins."
"How'd you...."
"I heard them talking the other night."Kitty shrugged,"They were right over my window, I couldn't hlp but hear. I think Rogue did too."
"I've been a terrible influence on you."Lance shook his head in mock sorrow,"Your parents are going to kill me."
"They don't even know you live in Bayville."
"You didn't tell them?"
"If they found out YOU were in Bayville they'd take me away and I'd never see you or any of my friends again. This is where I belong, not at some school back in.....where ever I came from. You have been a bad influece on me, I can't even remember where I came from."both teens laughed at this. "My parents are NOT going to like this when they come to visit next week."
"Next.Week.?"Lance went wide eyed.
"What? What is it?"Kitty asked.
"Um, yeah, you don't want your parents to see me, and I doubt we'll have left by then."
"Point taken. I don't see why they hate you so much, they barely know you. Sure, you nearly got us killed and used me a few times, but you're a sweet guy once you get by all that. You're like a big brother to Vega and the Brotherhood boys and you're willing to do anything, even go behind your own teammates' backs for me. They'll never see that in you, all they'll see is an arrogant hood who's going nowhere in life. It's like Vega and I are the only ones who know the real you."
"That's because you and Vega are the only ones I've allowed to see my soft side. Vega is like my little sister, but you, you're...you're......"
Kitty giggled,"You're not very good at being sweet, Lance, but you're cute when you try. That's something I'll have to teach you."
"Cute? That gets out to NO ONE, understood, Katherine Amane Shadowcat Pryde?"Lance smirked.
"Sir, yes, sir!"Kitty gave a fake salute,"Wait a minute, who told you my middle name?"
"Vega."Lance shurgged,"Ugh."
"What?"
"We've got school tomorrow."
"Oh yeah, they'll know about you being a mutant. That's gotta be really hard."
"Yeah, it's gonna be. The first orphanage I went to found out I was a mutant. I barely escaped with my life."
Kitty went wide eyed,"They tried to kill you?" Lance nodded solemnly. "You don't think they'll, like, do that here, do you?"
"I'm not sure, but I know Vega is going to do something stupid. If they start causing trouble for us Vega may just let the world know she's a mutant, more importantly, she may blow something up and someone could get hurt. Things have a habbit of blowing up when she gets ticked off."
"Well, even if she does blow something up, or transform into a giant monster, I'll be there with you. I don't want anything to happen to you."
"What about your friends at school? They'll give you hell for hanging out with a mutant."
"People like them come and go, but friends like Vega and guys like you come once in a lifetime."
Without even realising it, their faces slowly became closer and closer.
"What, I'm not your friend?"Lance asked slyly.
"No,"their lips were only millimeters apart,"you're so much more."
BAMF Vega and Kurt appeared behind them, Kurt's image inducer smoking.
"I can't believe that jerk!"Vega growled angrily.
Kitty and Lance jumped in suprise,"Wha?!"
Kurt gave the two a funny look,"You realize if Scott and Jean saw zis they'd kill you."
"Uh, hi."Kitty was as red as a tomato, and Lance not much better.
Vega shook her head,"Kurt, go wake up Toad and Freddy, would ya? I forgot to give the boys their lecture."
"I knew there was something wrong."Lance muttered,"Vega's always lecturing me."
BAMF Kurt was gone.