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Fantasy Cat: I'm glad you found chapter 6 interesting.

StRaWbErRiEs AnD BlUeBeRrIeS: What can I say, sis? It sounded like something Wolverine would say.

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Xavier, Logan, Hank, and Ororo sat in Xavier's room discussing what to do once Magneto's machines attacked until the alarms on Cerebro went off.

"Has Cerebro found another mutant, Chuck?" Logan asked.

Xavier placed the helmet on his head and pressed a few keys.

"Yes, yes it has," he said. "It's also picking up Todd, Pietro, and Lance too."

"Who's the other mutant?" Ororo asked.

"A teenaged girl named Tabitha," he said.

"It wouldn't surprise me if she's in danger," Logan said. "Come one we gotta check it out."

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Logan, Hank, and Ororo ran to a back ally in downtown Bayville and saw Toad, Quicksilver, and Lance (or Avalanche) pushing around a blonde headed girl.

"Leave me alone!" she shouted.

She pressed her fingers together and sparkling balls appeared in her hands. She threw them at Toad, but he jumped out of the way.

"Hey!" Logan called unsheathing his claws. "Leave her alone, bubs."

"Hey look, it's Wolverine!" Quicksilver laughed.

Logan charged towards Quicksilver, but he ran out of the way.

"Like you can catch me?" Quicksilver laughed.

Hank went after Toad, but it was difficult to catch him too.

Toad jumped on the roof of a building and shot out his long, slimy, green tongue and Hank.

Hank did a back flip and missed the tongue he then grabbed his tongue and pulled Toad off the building.

Toad hit a wall and shook his head.

"I'm outta here, yo!" Toad said and hopped away.

"You wuss!" Lance yelled.

Storm formed a tornado and sucked Lance and Quicksilver into it.

"We will not let you harm this woman," she said and sent the tornado with the two in it far away.

"Hey, sparky, are you okay?" Logan asked Tabitha.

"Yes, I'm alright," she said. "Thank you."

"You are most certainly welcome," Hank said.

"Are you mutants like me?" Tabitha asked.

"Yes we are," Ororo answered.

"That's great!" Tabitha exclaimed. "I thought I was alone and when I found those three and saw they had powers, they tried to take advantage of me. Well, I guess I should go. I heard there's a nice shelter not far from here."

"Wait!" Ororo said. "Would you like to come to our institute for mutants and see the professor?"

"There's an institute for mutants?" Tabitha asked hopefully.

"Yes," Ororo answered.

"I'd love to come!" Tabitha said with a bright smile.

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Rogue stood in the computer room of the danger room and watched Scott teach Gambit how to use his powers.

So far he was coming along nicely. He had turned eight out of fifteen cards into an exploding flame.

She then broke out into a fit of laughter when she saw Gambit accidentally throw a card at Scott instead of the target.

Half of Scott's shirt was now scorched off.

"Nice job, hun," Rogue said through the speaker.

"Hey, Rogue, can you take over for a minute while I get a new shirt?" Scott asked.

"Sure," she answered and made her way to the danger room.

When Rogue got into the danger room, Scott left.

"Awright, Ah'm not very good at this, but Ah'll do the best Ah can," she said.

Gambit nodded and waited for Rogue's instructions.

"It's best to go for the easier targets first," she said and pointed to a large, slow moving target. "It wouldn't surprahse me if Scott told ya to go after the faster targets first."

"Actually he did," Gambit laughed.

"Yup, that's Mister Military for ya," she said with a grin. "Awright now light one of 'em cards of yers and throw it at that slow target."

Gambit nodded and reached for a Queen of Hearts card. He looked at the card and then looked at Rogue.

"Whut's wrong?" she asked.

"N-nothing," he said shaking his head.

"She's so beautiful," he thought.

"Gambit, do ya need to rest?" she asked. "You look distracted."

"I..uhh..yeah. Yeah I need a break," he said and left the room.

"Weird," Rogue thought. "Why did he get distracted once Ah came down?"

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"Tabitha, it is nice to meet you," said Xavier after Logan, Hank, and Ororo returned with Tabitha.

"Same here, Prof," she said.

"Would you like Ororo to show you to your room and then you can meet everyone here?" he asked.

"Sure," she said.

Ororo nodded and led Tabitha to her new room.

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Kitty sat alone in the kitchen, at least she was alone until Jean walked in the kitchen to get a snack.

"I wish Logan hadn't interrupted us," Kitty thought with a sigh. "He was so close. Very close. So close I could feel...."

"Who was close?" Jean asked.

"JEAN GREY ARE YOU, LIKE, GETTING INSIDE MY MIND?!" Kitty shrieked.

"No, you're thinking so loud that I could hear you," Jean answered simply.

"Oh," Kitty replied with a blush.

"Wanna talk about it?" Jean asked.

"Well, I guess," Kitty said. "It's Kurt. I think I'm falling for him."

"Do you think about him a lot?" Jean asked.

"Yes!" Kitty answered. "He's, like, a totally great guy! He goes from that elvish, mischievous attitude to that adorable, boyishness."

"Kitty, 'boyishness' is not a real word," Jean said.

"Whatever," Kitty said and got back to the subject. "We came close to kissing, but Logan interrupted us."

"Oh?" Jean asked.

At that moment Rogue walked into the room and Kitty said no more.

"Whah did Gambit all weird when he saw that 'Queen of Hearts' card?" Rogue thought. "Ah gotta admit, he sure is darn cute. Whut am Ah thinkin'?"

"I don't know, but you're thinking too loud," Jean said.

"WHUT?!" Rogue yelled. "ARE YA GETTING' INSAHDE MAH HEAD?!"

"No, like I said, you're thinking too loud," Jean answered.

"I was thinking too loud too," Kitty said with a sigh.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Jean asked.

"No," Rogue said sharply. "Yer not mah counselor!"

Kitty laughed.

"Alright, I'll be around if you change your mind," Jean said. "I charge one hundred dollars an hour per session."

Kitty fell off the chair from laughing so hard at Jean's come back.

"Hmph!" Rogue huffed and left the kitchen.

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Kurt walked to his room until he saw Ororo and a girl he did not recognize.

"Oh, hello, Kurt," Ororo said. "I want you to meet Tabitha. She's new here."

"Hello, Tabeetha," Kurt said holding out his three fingered hand.

"Hello, blue," Tabitha said shaking his hand.

"Tabitha's room will be next to yours," Ororo said.

"In the middle of two different girls' rooms?" Kurt thought.

"Something wrong, blue?" Tabitha asked.

"N-no, nothing," he said.

"At least Evan's room is across from mine," he thought.

"It was nice to meet you, Tabeetha," he said and walked into his room.

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An hour later,

Kitty was still in the kitchen thinking when she felt the floor below her feet tremble.

Her eyes widened and she looked at the class of water on the table form ripples from the tremors.

"W-what's going on?" she thought.

She stood up and slowly walked through the walls in the institute until she was outside.

A gasp escaped her lips when she saw the same spider-machines from the fair approach the institute.

"PROFESSOR!" She yelled at the top of her lungs.

She ran into the institute yelling; "Professor! Machines! Magneto!"

"Kitty, what's wrong?" Scott asked running down the stairs.

"The spider-machines!" she said. "T-they're coming!"

At that time, the machines busted through the front part of the institute.

Kitty screamed and ran followed by Scott.

"We can't destroy them," Scott said as he and Kitty ran. "We have to get everyone into the underground shelter until we can come up with a plan."

"I agree, Scott," Xavier's voice said inside Scott and Kitty's mind. "I have already told everyone else to get down there, but for some reason I could not get a hold of Tabitha so Kurt will be bringing her down there."

"Tabitha?" Kitty and Scott asked. "Who's Tabitha?"

"You will find out shortly," Xavier said. "Until then, get down to the shelter."

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Inside the shelter,

"Vas are ve going to do?!" Kurt asked Xavier.

"I do not know yet, Kurt," Xavier answered.

"Professor, Siren and Ray were captured," Scott said after he counted everyone in there.

"Yes I know," Xavier said with a sigh.

"So what, we're supposed to, like, stay down here and do nothing?" Kitty asked with aggravation.

"Yes, for now," Xavier answered. "Until we can come up with a plan."

Author's note: Already then! The next chapter will be filled with lots of crazy humor!