***I whirled, round and round in my subconscious, waiting to touch bottom. I fell into a familiar room, not feeling any pain when I landed. I knew I had to get up, and I did.
Suddenly, the room was filled with people. With everyone I had ever known. My parents, my friends, my teachers…their essence surrounded me.
On eather side, Rouge and Nightcrawler appeared.
"Kitty", Rouge said to me, reaching out and touching my shoulder. "You can win! Get back up…fight!"
My unconscious self shook her head, ponytail shaking. "It's over", she said gloomily. "Everything".
Nightcrawler spun me around to face him. He held up a blue, furry, three fingered hand.
Trembling lightly, "I" met his hand with my hand.
"Look Kitty", He gestured his free hand. "Ve are different", "I" nodded, looking at our hands. We seemed worlds apart. "But…Ve are zhe same. Ve fight for zhe same reason, for zhe same people. Ve pozzes different gifts, but ve vork side by side. Ve are the same. You see?". "I" nodded again.
I heard a disembodied voice. "Take it down, Avalanche!", then the floor started to tremble. I looked about, frightened. Everyone was falling into the cracks in the floor that had started to grow. "I" looked back to my best friends.
"Go", Rouge whispered, before falling into the abyss.
"And vin", Kurt finished, clasping "my" hand in his. "Remember", his voice echoed in the odd room, as he, too, was swallowed into the mouth of a laughing fate. ***
The ground shook around me. I knew that it wasn't a dream. I slowly opened my eyes, blinking furiously. I looked up. Someone was standing over me and the ground really was trembling.
My eyes focused, and recognized. I gasped. They had come.