Foreword: I do not own X-Men: Evolution or any other character of Marvel
entertainment, except for some that I will create on my own. So don't sue
me for writing this, I admit it I didn't come up with these people. The
Miracle Worker Stan Lee did! God bless you Stan.
*This story does not pertain to the show. This is what you call a Alternative Universe (AU), it's where something different happened and things turned out different. In this world Kurt Wagner disappeared when Forge was testing Kurt's teleporting abilities. So away we go..
Chapter 1 Fallen Friend
"Are you sure it's safe?" Kurt asked as Forge put on the device that went on him.
"Come on, have you ever known me to make a mistake?" Forge said as he finished wrapping the device around him.
Kurt and the rest of the X-Men in the danger room looked at him making him remember the whole middleverse incident that nearly ended with both Kurt and him trapped in another dimension in school forever.
"Well.besides that." Forge said as he rubbed his head.
"I still don't think it's safe.I mean I got a lot on the line here." Kurt said actually thinking more about going to the dance with Amanda that he just asked out.
"Don't worry Kurt, I have full faith in Forge. Besides if Forge's theory on you passing through another dimension when you teleport is true then all that machine will do is slow you down and we will see what it looks like in that dimension." Professor X replied as he put his hand on his shoulder bringing a smile to his face of encouragement from Kurt.
"Okay I'll do it, but just this once okay, I mean with those nasty fumes left from when I 'port, I probably don't want to stay there very long.." Kurt said as he looked at Forge.
"Don't worry, you'll just be there a few minutes" Forge told Kurt.
"What if there are other life forms in there? I mean Kurt won't be able to disappear if he in a slowed down teleport." Logan said as he stepped forward, he was the only one completely opposed to this.
"You think I didn't assess that from the start, that's why I put a kill switch into the device in case of that. The kill switch will shut down the device and he'll finish his 'port." Forge said as Logan still looked down on the whole operation.
"Still, you can't help but worry." Kurt thought to himself.
After everything was set up, including a large monitor, would bring a live feed, from the dimension Kurt was in, from a camera on the gas mask he would be wearing, also a communicator from Forge's headset to Kurt's helmet was also in place. With everything set and primed, the lights began and Kurt teleported.
"What is this place!" Kurt screamed as he was floating through an area filled with lava and strange rocks.
"I don't know, You appear to be in a dimension that is almost completely volcanic, so you don't have to worry about anything alive attacking you while your there, so keep calm and you'll be out soon." Forge said to Kurt over the headset.
All the others gazes where fixated upon the screen showing Kurt was floating through the area where all there was is lava.
"See, nothing to worry about." Forge said to Logan as he pointed at the screen.
"Maybe, but life has always found a way to exist, even in an area like that." Logan said as he gritted his teeth.
While Kurt was still floating he started to notice things moving around below him and he asked, "Forge can you get a magnification on the area below me?"
"Sure, but you won't be able to see it." Forge answered as he saw as he typed away at his computer, and the image coming up on the screen.
All of the students and faculty gasped at the image of large raptor looking creatures moving down below him in an unusual fashion.
"Kurt listen to me, you do not want to go down there. It seems I was wrong on there no being life forms in the area, get ready to use the kill switch and get out of there before you are noticed." Forge said in a scared voice over the headset.
"Got it, I'm out of here."Kurt said as he located the kill switch button and pressed it and continued saying, "Forge! Nothings happening!"
"What, that can't be." Forge screamed as he pulled up the schematics of the device on the computer with everyone's eyes off the monitor and on Forge. Forge looked at it for a few seconds and replied, "It's the atmosphere, it affecting the device! I didn't anticipate this."
"Ahh!" Kurt screamed over the headset and everyone's gaze's were once again on the monitor, the creatures had finally noticed him and they were attacking.
"Kurt! There's only a few seconds left on the timer on the device, you have to last that long and hope that the timer still works." Forge yelled over the headset and started typing furiously at the computer again.
Kurt kept dodging and kicking away all the beasts but they were learning and gaining in number with each passing second.
"Forge! How much time is left on that timer?" Professor Xavier asked in panic as he watched the carnage on the screen.
"20 seconds and counting." Forge said in a state of panic as well.
"If I can last that long!" Kurt yelled as he kept dodging all the creatures with every acrobatic skill he had in the book. Suddenly a geyser of lava shot up and hit the device and Kurt yelled again in agony because the device didn't take all of the lava and the lava was burning him, and the device was throwing sparks as well.
"Get him out of there!" Logan screamed at that sight.
"5.4.3.2.1." Forge screamed over everyone else's yelling.
With everyone's eye's once again fixated on the screen a large cloud of smoke appeared and everyone looked for Kurt's arrival in the danger room again.. It never came.
"Forge, what happened where is Kurt?" Scott asked.
"I.I.don't know." Forge said as he dropped to the floor and started crying and pounding the floor with his fists.
"Storm, have cerebro ready to go in the next minute!" Professor X yelled as he and Storm ran off in the direction of cerebros holdings.
All was in panic inside that mansion. Professor X was pushing himself to the limits in cerebro, and to no victory. Logan was barking orders of every kind to go through all of the mansion and look for him, because he thought if this was a joke of his, then it has gone to far. Forge was still on the ground crying and beating himself for what he had done.
Later that night.
"He's not in the mansion, that's for sure.." Logan said as he sat down huffing and puffing.
"Well, if he's not in the mansion, he's just somewhere else right? You know where he is Professor X?" Jean asked quickly.
The professor was pushed in by Storm with a sullen look on his face, he faced his student in said in the barest of a whisper, ".Kurt is gone."
"What, that can't be!" Kitty yelled at him, the professor just sat there and said nothing at all, but he still had that look on his face.
Storm came forward and addressed everyone saying, "The professor went at it for hours, if Kurt was on this planet he would know. We just have to deal with the fact that he's gone."
Everyone just stood in a motionless silence, it did not last long when Forge came out of the danger room, soggy eyed and cheeks wet.
"Forge, you know where he is? Don't you?" Even said , as he dashed forward to him.
"I never expected any of that.." Forge said as he dropped to his knees again.
"What do you mean?" Logan said and continued, "You built that stupid thing, now tell us where he is.", Screamed Logan as he lifted him in the air.
"He's gone..He's gone..and it's all my fault all right.. That's the truth.." Forge cried, and Logan dropped him on the ground.
"Forge, please if you want to help Kurt, you have to be strong for him, now tell us what you do know" Scott said as he helped him up the ground.
"NO. I did enough already..I'll.I'll.find a way..to fix this.. I swear..I'll fix everything if it's the last thing I do!" Forge yelled as he ran out of the house and to his car driving off easily breaking the speed limit.
"I'll go after him." Logan said as he started racing off until he heard Xavier speak.
"No need, the failure to recognize such dangers with such a hazardous experiment falls upon me as well. I've already informed his parents of this, they will be flying the day after tomorrow for full details. I just hope that I'll work up enough courage to face them when they come.." Professor X said as he rolled off.
"It's been a long night, all of you, go to bed!" Logan said to all the students.
"But."Scott was beginning to say before shouted at by Logan.
"NO "BUT'S", all of you go to bed.." Logan yelled once again before dropping to the floor on his knees.
Slowly one by one they all left to their rooms and hoped that between the tears and sobbing that they all might achieve a moments rest. They were all planning to do this.but one knew one other person had to be told of Kurt.
A phone started ringing at the Brotherhood Boarding house late that night, luckily the Brotherhood stay up all hours. Toad heard it and started hopping too the phone.
"Hello, who is this?" Toad said over the phone.
"Todd, is Lance there?" a hushed voice said over the phone.
Toad closed up his end and started giggling before saying back, "Sure, sure, I'll get him."
Toad started laughing and hopped down to the Brotherhood living room where they were watching T.V.
"Oh Lance.." Toad said in a singing voice.
"What frog face?" Lance said in anger as he was picking is guitar.
"Oh nothing.but you got a phone call.." Toad said in a still annoying voice.
"From who already?" Lance said starting to get upset at him.
"Who else, none other then the beautiful girl.." Toad began.
"Oh it must be really for me then" Pietro said after he heard that and ran up to the stairs and answered the phone, after talking for a few seconds he ran back down and hit Toad upside the head.
"Ow man, what was that for?" Toad said as he rubbed his head.
"You made me miss part of the show just so I would run up there and make a jackass of myself by sweet talking to "Kitty Pryde", because she actually wanted to talk to Lance." Pietro said in a blur.
Blob and Toad started laughing hysterically singing, "Pietro and Kitty sitting in a tree."
Amongst the singing and denials from Pietro, Lance slipped away unnoticed and went up to the phone.
"Kitty, what are you doing calling me here?" Lance asked in a quiet voice trying to avoid the ones down stairs.
"Listen Lance this is really important, it's about Kurt.."Kitty began and she told him everything that had happened that day.
Lance just stood their listening to everything that she said, he did not even notice the other boys behind him trying to listen in on his conversation with his not so secret girlfriend. Lance then finally spoke saying, "Sure, I'll tell Mystique if I see her. Thank you for calling me, I'll see you at school tomorrow.
"Well what was all that about?" Blob said as behind him.
"Lance and Kitty.." Pietro, Blob, and Toad started singing before Lance yelled at them to shut up.
They shut up real fast and Lance began to talk again, "I just got off the phone with Kitty, all right, make fun of that if you like."
Pietro interrupted and said, "And we shall..", Lance gave him a stern look and he shut up again.
"Listen to me, I want you guys to lay off them tomorrow and show them a little support." Lance was saying before interrupted again.
"Why should we do that?" Fred asked now questioning Lance's loyalties to the Brotherhood.
"Because Kurt died today.." Lance answered.
"What! How could anyone nail the fuzz ball? I mean you have to be as wide as a city to even be able to reach him." Toad said first hand knowing Kurt's 'porting abilities.
"You're pulling our chain! Aren't you?" Fred asked only to be answered by Lances gaze at him.
"What happened?" Pietro asked.
Lance took them all to the living room and told them everything that Kitty had told him about the accident, the Brotherhood stood stunned.
"I knew that Forge guy was crazy." Toad said,
"Yeah, it's all his fault." Fred followed.
"Pietro, what do you think?" Lance asked.
"I feel terrible. I mean, I didn't like him or anything, but I didn't hate him either. Man, why did we have to break up that meeting between Mystique and him that one time, it's like the last time they ever saw each other." Pietro answered with a sadness in his voice.
"Man this is going to hit Mystique hard, when she comes back here.." Toad was saying before the door opened.
"What's going to hit me, it's not another one of your stupid door tricks is it?" Mystique said as she entered the Brotherhood house with 2 figures behind her.
"Uhh, Mystique, we got something to tell you." Lance began saying.
Mystique cut him off and said, "What? That you all are the most pathetic excuses for mutants I have ever seen, or is it the fact that you have yet to beat your rivals the X-Men because of your incompetence? Well let me introduce you to are new secret weapon."
Wanda stepped forward and recognized Pietro, and then all hell broke loose in the house.
"Maybe we should tell her tomorrow, yo?" Toad said as he was still dodging furniture.
"Yeah.tomorrow.." Lance replied.
While all these things were happening in this dimension, somewhere else something else was just beginning..
In a cloud of smoke in a dense forest a figure collapsed upon the soft cool grass. It was hours before the figure regained conscious and finally could stand up on his own 2 feet before collapsing again, but not unconscious.
".Where.where..am I?" Kurt said as he stood up leaning against a tree.
Slowly Kurt regained his balance and started walking in the forest, he carried all of the device with him as well. Kurt then came upon a stream that was flowing through the forest and decided to step down for a drink. As he stood there drinking he did not notice things moving around him as he drank. Now full of water he wandered still in the forest with no idea where he was or was going to.
"What is that?" A figure in the dark asked to another figure.
"I don't know, I've never seen anything like him in all my years. Let's keep an eye on him." The figure answered as they followed closely behind him.
Kurt's stomach began to growl and he noticed a tree up ahead, and on it were some bright red apples that reflected the light of the moon on them. Kurt licking his lips 'ported to a branch, grabbed one with his 3 fingers and began to eat.
"Did you see that? Here was one place one moment and some where else the next." A figure hiding behind a tree said.
"Yes, we best leave him alone then, he could be an evil one. Let's get back to the village before he notices us." The second figure replied.
"Wait look, he's hanging from the branches with his tail, like a raccoon, what is he doing?" The first figure asked.
"It doesn't matter, you know what those things like to do to people like us, let's get out of here now?" the second answered as he walked away leaving the first.
"Well, I'm staying." The figure still at a tree said, fascinated with this creature.
"Your funeral. I'll come back here tomorrow, so stay here, and come back to the village if he notices you." The figure replied as he continued walking away.
"We'll see.." The figure said as she looked back at the tree and saw no one and nothing at all.
"Hello there." Kurt said as he swung down from the trees as nabbed he up to the tree he was in.
"How did you get here?" The figure asked.
"I have a natural talent of hiding myself in darkness." Kurt said as he put his hand into a shadow and you couldn't see it anymore.
"Tell me what manner of creature are you?" The hooded figure asked.
"I'm a mutant, you've probably heard horror stories about us." Kurt said looking down and depressed.
"Nope, I've never heard of a mutant." The figure said taking off its hood to reveal a girl with blue hair, a green face, and ruby red eyes.
"What are you talking about, you are one!" Kurt said at the sight of her.
"Well, I've never been referred to as one. By the way my name is Quintel. What is your name?" The girl now revealed as Quintel asked.
"Kurt Wagner, but my friends call me Nightcrawler." Kurt answered.
"So what tribe are you from? Are you from a steel tribe?" Quintel asked as they both were sitting on a tree.
"Well if I was with a tribe, I would be in the X-Men tribe, but what's a steel tribe?" Kurt answered then asked.
"A steel tribe is a tribe that use things made of metal, like that thing you have next to you" Quintel answered pointing at the device next to him.
"This is a thing made for me by my friend Forge, well I don't know if I'll be able to call him my friend anymore now." Kurt said.
"Who's the chief of your tribe?" Quintel asked still curious.
"I guess that would be Charles Xavier, but we call him Professor X for short." Kurt answered.
"Wow, never heard a name like that before." Quintel said pondering of Professor X's name.
"Who's your enemy tribe?" Quintel asked again.
"I guess that would be the Brotherhood, whose chief is Magneto" Kurt answered once again.
"Magneto and Brotherhood, now those are some weird names." Quintel said giggling a little bit.
"Well, all I know about you is your name, tell me about yourself." Kurt asked.
"Well you know my name, I belong to a forest tribe, and are chief is Zancos." Quintel answered.
"Well, I'd like to meet him and see if I can get some information from him on where I am and how far it is to my home." Kurt asked.
"Okay, I'll take you there, but can we do it by that disappearing thing you do? Please?" Quintel asked with a puppy eye face.
"Okay, but don't blame me if you get sick." Kurt said as he grabbed her and they both 'ported to below the tree.
"On.urp.second thought.I think a walk would be nice." Quintel said nearly gagging from that small 'port.
As they both were walking through the forest, they both kept bouncing questions off each other, but then in a clearing in the middle of the forest Kurt stopped and looked up at the sky.
"Something wrong Kurt?" Quintel asked worried.
"I think I might be more away from my home then I ever could have possible imagined" Kurt answered as he saw 5 moons floating in the sky filled with stars.
Next up in Chapter 2: Cold and Hard Reality
*This story does not pertain to the show. This is what you call a Alternative Universe (AU), it's where something different happened and things turned out different. In this world Kurt Wagner disappeared when Forge was testing Kurt's teleporting abilities. So away we go..
Chapter 1 Fallen Friend
"Are you sure it's safe?" Kurt asked as Forge put on the device that went on him.
"Come on, have you ever known me to make a mistake?" Forge said as he finished wrapping the device around him.
Kurt and the rest of the X-Men in the danger room looked at him making him remember the whole middleverse incident that nearly ended with both Kurt and him trapped in another dimension in school forever.
"Well.besides that." Forge said as he rubbed his head.
"I still don't think it's safe.I mean I got a lot on the line here." Kurt said actually thinking more about going to the dance with Amanda that he just asked out.
"Don't worry Kurt, I have full faith in Forge. Besides if Forge's theory on you passing through another dimension when you teleport is true then all that machine will do is slow you down and we will see what it looks like in that dimension." Professor X replied as he put his hand on his shoulder bringing a smile to his face of encouragement from Kurt.
"Okay I'll do it, but just this once okay, I mean with those nasty fumes left from when I 'port, I probably don't want to stay there very long.." Kurt said as he looked at Forge.
"Don't worry, you'll just be there a few minutes" Forge told Kurt.
"What if there are other life forms in there? I mean Kurt won't be able to disappear if he in a slowed down teleport." Logan said as he stepped forward, he was the only one completely opposed to this.
"You think I didn't assess that from the start, that's why I put a kill switch into the device in case of that. The kill switch will shut down the device and he'll finish his 'port." Forge said as Logan still looked down on the whole operation.
"Still, you can't help but worry." Kurt thought to himself.
After everything was set up, including a large monitor, would bring a live feed, from the dimension Kurt was in, from a camera on the gas mask he would be wearing, also a communicator from Forge's headset to Kurt's helmet was also in place. With everything set and primed, the lights began and Kurt teleported.
"What is this place!" Kurt screamed as he was floating through an area filled with lava and strange rocks.
"I don't know, You appear to be in a dimension that is almost completely volcanic, so you don't have to worry about anything alive attacking you while your there, so keep calm and you'll be out soon." Forge said to Kurt over the headset.
All the others gazes where fixated upon the screen showing Kurt was floating through the area where all there was is lava.
"See, nothing to worry about." Forge said to Logan as he pointed at the screen.
"Maybe, but life has always found a way to exist, even in an area like that." Logan said as he gritted his teeth.
While Kurt was still floating he started to notice things moving around below him and he asked, "Forge can you get a magnification on the area below me?"
"Sure, but you won't be able to see it." Forge answered as he saw as he typed away at his computer, and the image coming up on the screen.
All of the students and faculty gasped at the image of large raptor looking creatures moving down below him in an unusual fashion.
"Kurt listen to me, you do not want to go down there. It seems I was wrong on there no being life forms in the area, get ready to use the kill switch and get out of there before you are noticed." Forge said in a scared voice over the headset.
"Got it, I'm out of here."Kurt said as he located the kill switch button and pressed it and continued saying, "Forge! Nothings happening!"
"What, that can't be." Forge screamed as he pulled up the schematics of the device on the computer with everyone's eyes off the monitor and on Forge. Forge looked at it for a few seconds and replied, "It's the atmosphere, it affecting the device! I didn't anticipate this."
"Ahh!" Kurt screamed over the headset and everyone's gaze's were once again on the monitor, the creatures had finally noticed him and they were attacking.
"Kurt! There's only a few seconds left on the timer on the device, you have to last that long and hope that the timer still works." Forge yelled over the headset and started typing furiously at the computer again.
Kurt kept dodging and kicking away all the beasts but they were learning and gaining in number with each passing second.
"Forge! How much time is left on that timer?" Professor Xavier asked in panic as he watched the carnage on the screen.
"20 seconds and counting." Forge said in a state of panic as well.
"If I can last that long!" Kurt yelled as he kept dodging all the creatures with every acrobatic skill he had in the book. Suddenly a geyser of lava shot up and hit the device and Kurt yelled again in agony because the device didn't take all of the lava and the lava was burning him, and the device was throwing sparks as well.
"Get him out of there!" Logan screamed at that sight.
"5.4.3.2.1." Forge screamed over everyone else's yelling.
With everyone's eye's once again fixated on the screen a large cloud of smoke appeared and everyone looked for Kurt's arrival in the danger room again.. It never came.
"Forge, what happened where is Kurt?" Scott asked.
"I.I.don't know." Forge said as he dropped to the floor and started crying and pounding the floor with his fists.
"Storm, have cerebro ready to go in the next minute!" Professor X yelled as he and Storm ran off in the direction of cerebros holdings.
All was in panic inside that mansion. Professor X was pushing himself to the limits in cerebro, and to no victory. Logan was barking orders of every kind to go through all of the mansion and look for him, because he thought if this was a joke of his, then it has gone to far. Forge was still on the ground crying and beating himself for what he had done.
Later that night.
"He's not in the mansion, that's for sure.." Logan said as he sat down huffing and puffing.
"Well, if he's not in the mansion, he's just somewhere else right? You know where he is Professor X?" Jean asked quickly.
The professor was pushed in by Storm with a sullen look on his face, he faced his student in said in the barest of a whisper, ".Kurt is gone."
"What, that can't be!" Kitty yelled at him, the professor just sat there and said nothing at all, but he still had that look on his face.
Storm came forward and addressed everyone saying, "The professor went at it for hours, if Kurt was on this planet he would know. We just have to deal with the fact that he's gone."
Everyone just stood in a motionless silence, it did not last long when Forge came out of the danger room, soggy eyed and cheeks wet.
"Forge, you know where he is? Don't you?" Even said , as he dashed forward to him.
"I never expected any of that.." Forge said as he dropped to his knees again.
"What do you mean?" Logan said and continued, "You built that stupid thing, now tell us where he is.", Screamed Logan as he lifted him in the air.
"He's gone..He's gone..and it's all my fault all right.. That's the truth.." Forge cried, and Logan dropped him on the ground.
"Forge, please if you want to help Kurt, you have to be strong for him, now tell us what you do know" Scott said as he helped him up the ground.
"NO. I did enough already..I'll.I'll.find a way..to fix this.. I swear..I'll fix everything if it's the last thing I do!" Forge yelled as he ran out of the house and to his car driving off easily breaking the speed limit.
"I'll go after him." Logan said as he started racing off until he heard Xavier speak.
"No need, the failure to recognize such dangers with such a hazardous experiment falls upon me as well. I've already informed his parents of this, they will be flying the day after tomorrow for full details. I just hope that I'll work up enough courage to face them when they come.." Professor X said as he rolled off.
"It's been a long night, all of you, go to bed!" Logan said to all the students.
"But."Scott was beginning to say before shouted at by Logan.
"NO "BUT'S", all of you go to bed.." Logan yelled once again before dropping to the floor on his knees.
Slowly one by one they all left to their rooms and hoped that between the tears and sobbing that they all might achieve a moments rest. They were all planning to do this.but one knew one other person had to be told of Kurt.
A phone started ringing at the Brotherhood Boarding house late that night, luckily the Brotherhood stay up all hours. Toad heard it and started hopping too the phone.
"Hello, who is this?" Toad said over the phone.
"Todd, is Lance there?" a hushed voice said over the phone.
Toad closed up his end and started giggling before saying back, "Sure, sure, I'll get him."
Toad started laughing and hopped down to the Brotherhood living room where they were watching T.V.
"Oh Lance.." Toad said in a singing voice.
"What frog face?" Lance said in anger as he was picking is guitar.
"Oh nothing.but you got a phone call.." Toad said in a still annoying voice.
"From who already?" Lance said starting to get upset at him.
"Who else, none other then the beautiful girl.." Toad began.
"Oh it must be really for me then" Pietro said after he heard that and ran up to the stairs and answered the phone, after talking for a few seconds he ran back down and hit Toad upside the head.
"Ow man, what was that for?" Toad said as he rubbed his head.
"You made me miss part of the show just so I would run up there and make a jackass of myself by sweet talking to "Kitty Pryde", because she actually wanted to talk to Lance." Pietro said in a blur.
Blob and Toad started laughing hysterically singing, "Pietro and Kitty sitting in a tree."
Amongst the singing and denials from Pietro, Lance slipped away unnoticed and went up to the phone.
"Kitty, what are you doing calling me here?" Lance asked in a quiet voice trying to avoid the ones down stairs.
"Listen Lance this is really important, it's about Kurt.."Kitty began and she told him everything that had happened that day.
Lance just stood their listening to everything that she said, he did not even notice the other boys behind him trying to listen in on his conversation with his not so secret girlfriend. Lance then finally spoke saying, "Sure, I'll tell Mystique if I see her. Thank you for calling me, I'll see you at school tomorrow.
"Well what was all that about?" Blob said as behind him.
"Lance and Kitty.." Pietro, Blob, and Toad started singing before Lance yelled at them to shut up.
They shut up real fast and Lance began to talk again, "I just got off the phone with Kitty, all right, make fun of that if you like."
Pietro interrupted and said, "And we shall..", Lance gave him a stern look and he shut up again.
"Listen to me, I want you guys to lay off them tomorrow and show them a little support." Lance was saying before interrupted again.
"Why should we do that?" Fred asked now questioning Lance's loyalties to the Brotherhood.
"Because Kurt died today.." Lance answered.
"What! How could anyone nail the fuzz ball? I mean you have to be as wide as a city to even be able to reach him." Toad said first hand knowing Kurt's 'porting abilities.
"You're pulling our chain! Aren't you?" Fred asked only to be answered by Lances gaze at him.
"What happened?" Pietro asked.
Lance took them all to the living room and told them everything that Kitty had told him about the accident, the Brotherhood stood stunned.
"I knew that Forge guy was crazy." Toad said,
"Yeah, it's all his fault." Fred followed.
"Pietro, what do you think?" Lance asked.
"I feel terrible. I mean, I didn't like him or anything, but I didn't hate him either. Man, why did we have to break up that meeting between Mystique and him that one time, it's like the last time they ever saw each other." Pietro answered with a sadness in his voice.
"Man this is going to hit Mystique hard, when she comes back here.." Toad was saying before the door opened.
"What's going to hit me, it's not another one of your stupid door tricks is it?" Mystique said as she entered the Brotherhood house with 2 figures behind her.
"Uhh, Mystique, we got something to tell you." Lance began saying.
Mystique cut him off and said, "What? That you all are the most pathetic excuses for mutants I have ever seen, or is it the fact that you have yet to beat your rivals the X-Men because of your incompetence? Well let me introduce you to are new secret weapon."
Wanda stepped forward and recognized Pietro, and then all hell broke loose in the house.
"Maybe we should tell her tomorrow, yo?" Toad said as he was still dodging furniture.
"Yeah.tomorrow.." Lance replied.
While all these things were happening in this dimension, somewhere else something else was just beginning..
In a cloud of smoke in a dense forest a figure collapsed upon the soft cool grass. It was hours before the figure regained conscious and finally could stand up on his own 2 feet before collapsing again, but not unconscious.
".Where.where..am I?" Kurt said as he stood up leaning against a tree.
Slowly Kurt regained his balance and started walking in the forest, he carried all of the device with him as well. Kurt then came upon a stream that was flowing through the forest and decided to step down for a drink. As he stood there drinking he did not notice things moving around him as he drank. Now full of water he wandered still in the forest with no idea where he was or was going to.
"What is that?" A figure in the dark asked to another figure.
"I don't know, I've never seen anything like him in all my years. Let's keep an eye on him." The figure answered as they followed closely behind him.
Kurt's stomach began to growl and he noticed a tree up ahead, and on it were some bright red apples that reflected the light of the moon on them. Kurt licking his lips 'ported to a branch, grabbed one with his 3 fingers and began to eat.
"Did you see that? Here was one place one moment and some where else the next." A figure hiding behind a tree said.
"Yes, we best leave him alone then, he could be an evil one. Let's get back to the village before he notices us." The second figure replied.
"Wait look, he's hanging from the branches with his tail, like a raccoon, what is he doing?" The first figure asked.
"It doesn't matter, you know what those things like to do to people like us, let's get out of here now?" the second answered as he walked away leaving the first.
"Well, I'm staying." The figure still at a tree said, fascinated with this creature.
"Your funeral. I'll come back here tomorrow, so stay here, and come back to the village if he notices you." The figure replied as he continued walking away.
"We'll see.." The figure said as she looked back at the tree and saw no one and nothing at all.
"Hello there." Kurt said as he swung down from the trees as nabbed he up to the tree he was in.
"How did you get here?" The figure asked.
"I have a natural talent of hiding myself in darkness." Kurt said as he put his hand into a shadow and you couldn't see it anymore.
"Tell me what manner of creature are you?" The hooded figure asked.
"I'm a mutant, you've probably heard horror stories about us." Kurt said looking down and depressed.
"Nope, I've never heard of a mutant." The figure said taking off its hood to reveal a girl with blue hair, a green face, and ruby red eyes.
"What are you talking about, you are one!" Kurt said at the sight of her.
"Well, I've never been referred to as one. By the way my name is Quintel. What is your name?" The girl now revealed as Quintel asked.
"Kurt Wagner, but my friends call me Nightcrawler." Kurt answered.
"So what tribe are you from? Are you from a steel tribe?" Quintel asked as they both were sitting on a tree.
"Well if I was with a tribe, I would be in the X-Men tribe, but what's a steel tribe?" Kurt answered then asked.
"A steel tribe is a tribe that use things made of metal, like that thing you have next to you" Quintel answered pointing at the device next to him.
"This is a thing made for me by my friend Forge, well I don't know if I'll be able to call him my friend anymore now." Kurt said.
"Who's the chief of your tribe?" Quintel asked still curious.
"I guess that would be Charles Xavier, but we call him Professor X for short." Kurt answered.
"Wow, never heard a name like that before." Quintel said pondering of Professor X's name.
"Who's your enemy tribe?" Quintel asked again.
"I guess that would be the Brotherhood, whose chief is Magneto" Kurt answered once again.
"Magneto and Brotherhood, now those are some weird names." Quintel said giggling a little bit.
"Well, all I know about you is your name, tell me about yourself." Kurt asked.
"Well you know my name, I belong to a forest tribe, and are chief is Zancos." Quintel answered.
"Well, I'd like to meet him and see if I can get some information from him on where I am and how far it is to my home." Kurt asked.
"Okay, I'll take you there, but can we do it by that disappearing thing you do? Please?" Quintel asked with a puppy eye face.
"Okay, but don't blame me if you get sick." Kurt said as he grabbed her and they both 'ported to below the tree.
"On.urp.second thought.I think a walk would be nice." Quintel said nearly gagging from that small 'port.
As they both were walking through the forest, they both kept bouncing questions off each other, but then in a clearing in the middle of the forest Kurt stopped and looked up at the sky.
"Something wrong Kurt?" Quintel asked worried.
"I think I might be more away from my home then I ever could have possible imagined" Kurt answered as he saw 5 moons floating in the sky filled with stars.
Next up in Chapter 2: Cold and Hard Reality
