Shadow-Spider: My thoughts exactly

BlackRoseApocalyps: 1)thanks 2)Glad you like that, I always try to make Pam an in your face kind of girl 3)I'm on it though not this chapter.

ENTER DAYTRIPPER

CHAPTER 3: EIGHT LEGGED TROUBLE

The Sefton's had spent the better part of the day getting to know the students and the others. Their reaction to Hank was a little tense but they eventually got over it. It seems that they met Hank when he was a teacher at Bayville high and they did like him back then.

They gave them the tour of the place, minus the lower levels, and the allowed the Sefton's to see first hand what their lives were like. Amanda's parents were talking to Xavier back in the living room, and were joined by a few others.

"Well I must say this is an interesting place you have here, Mr. Xavier." Margali said to him.

He smiled kindly at her. "It does get interesting at times, especially with so many young students around, things are never boring."

"Personally I could use some peace and quiet at times, why do ya think I take off every now and then?" Logan said to the Professor.

This caused a few snickers from the few students there with them.

"GET BACK HERE YOU FLYING FIRE SPEWING SALAMANDER!"

"Oh no." Kurt said looking at Kitty, everyone who lived there knew there was only one thing that could fit that description.

"I like swear he was in my room." Kitty said to Kurt.

Then suddenly a flying little purple dragon the size of a house cat came flying in with a piece of chicken in his mouth.

"What is THAT?" Mr. Sefton said, while his wife clung to his arm.

Bobby came running in with a menacing look on his face. "Kitty that pet dragon of yours took my snack, AGAIN. Why does he always take stuff from me and not everyone else."

"Dragon ?! That's an actual dragon ?!" Both of Amanda's parents said looking at Lockheed curl up on a tall shelf and gulp down the whole chicken leg.

Bobby noticed Amanda's parents for the first time. "Oops."

"Well we call it a dragon since it looks like one, I mean no ones ever seen a real one before so we don't got a lot of things for reference." Vincent said to them with a shrug.

"And he's like totally harmless." Kitty said.

"Yeah right." Bobby said under his breath.

"That's because he doesn't like you." Vincent said. "Mostly likely because of the whole fire and ice thing."

"Lockheed come here boy." Kitty called to him, and immediately he flew off to her, he landed on her shoulders with his tail swinging from over her right shoulder, and his head going off the left.

Lockheed was now rubbing his head against Kitty's face for attention, which she did by scratching the bottom of his jaw. This caused him to what she called 'purring', but sounded more like a rumbling sound.

"It's like okay, he's really a sweet little guy." Kitty said to them. Margali was the only one to step forward and do the same as Kitty and scratch him.

"Oh my." Was her only reaction.

"Well I will say this has been an eye opening day." Mr. Sefton said. "But I think we have to leave soon, I was expecting an old friend of mine named Connors to show up today."

"Oh yes Curt, I haven't seen him in years, at least since the accident, he's doing that thing tomorrow isn't he?" His wife said to him.

"Wait a minute." Vincent spoke up excitedly. "Curt Connors, you don't mean Dr. Curt Connors do you?"

Mr. Sefton raised an eyebrow. "You know of him?"

"Yeah!" He could see excitement on his face. "He's the leading researcher in neo-genetics, in fact the Professor allowed for some of us to go see his presentation tomorrow of the neo-genetic recombinator."

"Oh right! I was so looking forward to that!" Kitty exclaimed.

"Yeah ya two would, ya guys are most likely the only ones who would understand what's goin' on." Rogue grumbled.

"Oh come on Rogue I know it's not your thing but look on the bright side." Vincent said leaning into her to whisper something to her. "I can translate everything for you, which means I get to be this close the entire time and whisper into your ear."

They didn't hear the last part but they did see her blush slightly. "Ah fahne whatever." She said trying to sound to the others like she hated the idea.

"Before we go there is one piece of business, Kurt." Amanda's father called to him.

"Um yes?" Kurt was visibly vary nervous, and so was Amanda.

"I can understand your reasons for leaving that night, and I see that you and the others are not what the media portrays, so....I will allow you and Amanda to continue seeing each other."

"OH THANK YOU DADDY!" Amanda jumped into her father and gave her a huge hug, then went over to Kurt and embraced him.

"But like any father you should understand if you harm my little girl, you won't be able to teleport far enough away from me." He sternly said to him.

Kurt gulped, and looked him in the eyes. "I-I understand sir, believe me I vould never vant to hurt her."

He nodded his head at Kurt, The Sefton's had to leave soon and Amanda gave Kurt a quick kiss on the cheek before leaving.

"Well that went well." Xavier said. Kurt wasn't listening he had on a huge smile and was completely in his own happy world to notice. "Professor you zink I could join the trip tomorrow?"

Xavier smiled at him, he didn't need to be a telepath to know he wanted to go and see Amanda there. "Of course Kurt." With that Kurt was so happy was bouncing off the walls, sometimes even literally.

THE NEXT DAY

Xavier, along with Beast were in the van holding, Vincent, Kitty, Kurt, Rogue, Jean and Scott. Vincent, Jean and Kitty were there for the science, while the others were there for their respected others, plus there wasn't really anything else to do that day.

They arrived at the building currently being used for the science expo. Hank had worn a holo-watch as did Kurt so they could blend in more.

They all arrived at the place and found the area where Connors was doing his presentation. There were quite a fair amount of people there, mostly looked like the academic type.

Kitty was looking around until she bumped into someone. "Oh like sorry." She turned around to see a brown haired boy about a year older than her, holding a camera.

"It's alright no harm done." He smiled at her. She looked closer and saw that he had on a press badge of all things.

"Are you like with the press, aren't you a little young to work in news?"

He sheepishly grinned at her. "Well yeah I am, I just work freelance as a photographer, plus I'm also here to for the lecture."

"Really so am I and my friends."

"Kitty there you are, who's this?" She heard Hank say behind her, she turned around to see everyone behind her.

"Oh sorry this is...uh I didn't get your name?" She blushed slightly.

He just smiled at her. "I'm Peter, Peter Parker, and I take it your Kitty."

She just giggled nervously. "Um yeah I am, oh and this is Mr. McCoy, Professor Xavier, Vincent, Rogue, Kurt, Jean and Scott."

Peter cocked his head. "Professor Xavier as in his school for the gifted where you take in mutants?"

"Yes I am, you don't have a problem with mutants do you?" he calmly asked the young man.

"No mutants are human too, just a little different, though my boss J.J. would say otherwise, he thinks they're almost as big a threat as Spider-Man is."

"Isn't that the guy that sticks to walls and stuff?" Vincent asked him.

Peter cocked an eyebrow. "Uh, he does a little more than that, you're not from around here are you?"

"Nope I'm from Canada, so I haven't read the Daily Bugle." Vincent said to him.

"Wait how did you know I work there?"

"It's on your press pass." Vincent said pointing at it.

He looked down at it. "Oh." He said feeling like an idiot. "Hey Parker there you are." They all heard a voice say. They saw a boy about Peter's age with dark hair and a soulpatch come up to him.

"Hey Michael." Peter said back. "So Peter who are your friends here?" Peter made the introductions.

"Hello I'm Michael Morbius." Said Peter's friend. "So your all here for the lecture huh, well I just hope you can understand it, I f not com e and see me and I can use smaller words, I got to go Pete, see ya later." And walked off arrogantly.

"Was that like a crack at us?" Kitty said annoyed that he al but call them dumb.

"Yeah well he's got a huge IQ and a ego to match." Peter said to them. "Well I got to get set up for some good shots, I hope to see you guys again." There were a series of goodbyes from the X-Men to him.

"Well he seemed nice." Hank said.

"Ya it nice to meet someone who dosen' freak out at us." Rogue said.

"Kurt!"

They all looked to see Amanda coming towards Kurt and then hug each other for a few seconds. "I'm so glad you're here, maybe now I can get through this without sleeping."

"Ja I know vhat you mean."

"Hey!" Both Vincent and Kitty said.

They started to walk off towards to stage. Vincent was bumped into along the way. "Sorry." He said.

"Watch it child." Said the man, who was wearing a trench coat, which was weird because of the summer heat, and he spoke with an accent, and wore some kind of dark shades.

As he walked past them, Kitty said under her breath so he wouldn't hear her. "Rude much."

"Man talk about attitude." Rogue said to Vincent, who nodded his head.

Peter meanwhile had taken a few shots of Dr. Conner when he went to the stage, but suddenly his spider-sense started to flare up. He looked to the source and was in time to notice someone he REALLY didn't need to see here.

'Otto Octavius? What's he doing here?' Peter thought to himself, he looked around for a place to chance. 'If the Doc is here, that means only trouble I better change and fast.' Peter then quietly and quickly ducked out into the nearest door.

"Welcome ladies and gentlemen." Connors said to the crowd. "As you know we are on the verge of a new field of study, Neo-Genetics. This new science could lead the way to curing certain diseases and conditions on a genetic level."

"Our research team has come up with this." He gestured to a device on a stand. "The neo-genetic reconbinator. This device was created through the hard work of a few gifted scientists."

"Yes it was, and some were thrown aside and their work stolen wasn't it!" A voice yelled out from the crowd.

"What! Who said that?" Conner demanded.

"I did!" The crowd seemed to part for the stranger and Conner looked at him in confusion. "You don't remember me? Fine how about this!" With that he threw his coat aside and four giant metallic tentacles which were connected to his back sprang out.

One of then took the device, and the other grabbed Conner's by his throat lifting him easily in to he air. The crowd began to panic and flee causing a lot of confusion. The X-Men couldn't move well enough to get the front with all the people running scared.

"Hey what's up Doc? You're not taking your meds your shrink gave you didn't you." Said a voice from above. Dr. Octopus looked up and there on the ceiling upside down was his most hated enemy. "Spider-Man!" He shouted at him.

"Oh how nice of you to remember me." He said and flung himself at him. Octavius had to let go of Connor's throat to use three of his arms against him, but kept a firm grip on the device.

Spider-Man continued to dodge the tentacles as best he could. He managed to dodge two of them but a third was going right for his head, he saw it coming to late to stop it, luckily it did stop. By someone gripping it.

"Well that wasn't nice." Said Vincent who had flown over and grabbed the tentacle just in time. "Let's see what you can do with a limped tentacle." And tried to crush it, unfortunately that's all he did. He tried but it didn't give.

"What the-"But was sent flying as another tentacle slammed into his face sending him into several people. "Ouch" He got up off the people and looked at the Doc, with an unbelieving look in his eyes.

He just laughed at him. "You fool do you think you can destroy my new and improved adamantium tentacles?"

"Great, that's just great, so much for the easy way." Vincent darkly said to himself.

Kurt had teleported on Dr. Octopus' back, but a tentacle grabbed him by the back of his clothes and sent him hard into a fall. Amanda saw this and ran to him. Spider-Man leaped back into the fight, while dodging he tried to jam-up his tentacles with his webbing but it didn't work.

The other X-Men tried to help as well. Jean was busy trying to make sure the crowd didn't get trampled or hurt from the fight, mostly from flying debris, as was Rogue who was currently trying to point people to the exits.

The X-Men tried their best but the tentacles were too fast and powerful, Scott tried to take his shades off when he got a good shot, but a tentacle hit him on the head knocking him out.

Kitty tried to phased through the arms thinking they would short circuit but it didn't work. So she did her best to dodge the attacks, Spider-Man was having difficulty getting in close but luckily for him he dodged the attacks easily.

Beast was with the Professor making sure he was all right in the crowd. "Professor can't you enter his mind and shut him down?"

"I've been trying Hank, but his mind has been altered slightly and I'm trying to make sense of it, his mind is both brilliant yet deranged, and there's something else there, that I can't identify."

Vincent had tried to blast him, but then one arm too the energy bomb he threw and another slammed into his gut sending him back into Rogue. "Uhh...you alright?"

"Ah think so."

"This guy is SO pissing me off, I just wish everybody was out so I don't have to worry about hurting anyone going full out." He grabbed her hand helping her up.

Unfortunately the device the Doc had in his tentacle hit the stage and suddenly activated. "Uh oh, that's not good." Spider-Man quickly said. Then several small beams of light came out of the machine. They went wide, and then the device seemed to overload and fry itself.

The beams for the most part missed everyone, yet one of them had hit Rogue and Vincent while he was helping her up, and Amanda as well. They all screamed out in pain before falling to the floor unconscious.

"Damn you Spider-Man and those mutants, the device it ruined!" And in his rage threw it at Spider-Man, witch he easily jumped over, and it continued to sail across the room before going through a window.

"Hey your going to have to pay for that, those things don't come cheep." Spider-Man shot at him. Dr. Octopus was about to say something when he grabbed his head, and suddenly fell down.

"Uh, that's a new one." Spider-Man said dumbfounded.

"I'm sorry it took so long." Xavier said to him, who was rolling up to him, the crowd had gone by then and Xavier could move around in his chair without being obstructed. "But his mind is a vary difficult thing to navigate, it took me a while to find how to make him go to sleep."

Spider-Man was taken aback. "You mean you made him take a nap? When will he wake up?"

Xavier smiled at him. "Not for some time I can assure you."

"Well thanks, that was a little easier than most times, now if you excuse me I think I should leave before the boys in blue show up, then and me don't exactly see eye-to-eye."

"Before you leave, I would like the chance to talk to you in the future if possible."

"I'll...think about it, I know were to find you if I agree to." Then he shot a web line up to the ceiling and crawled his way out one of the windows.

"Professor!" Xavier turned his head, and he could see Hank looking over Vincent and Rogue. "Hank what's wrong?"

"I don't know, they were hit by that machine's energy and knocked them out, we need to get them back to the institute."

"Professor!" Xavier looked to his right and saw Kurt carrying Amanda in his arms. "She vas hit too, she needs help!"

He noticed also that Jean was helping up Scott, who was just recovering from being knocked out. Xavier didn't see Amanda's parents so he nodded to Kurt. "I think we should take her with us, Hank might need to treat her, I'll contact her parents and let them know."

Hank carried Vincent in his arms, while Kitty with Jean's help got Rogue out of there too. They all made their way to the van. No one stopped them or even seemed to notice them, mainly because the Professor was 'masking' them from the crowd and the police that came.

They gently loaded up everyone and quickly made their way home.

NEXT UP CHAPTER 4: SIDE EFFECTS

See I wasn't laying four Marvel character and to those who don't know here they are:

1) Peter Parker "Spider-Man" (Duh, who wouldn't know this)

2) Otto Octavius "Dr. Octopus" (Pretty self-evident)

3) Dr. Curt Connors "The Lizard" (Will the Lizard show up, maybe, maybe not I haven't decided yet)

4) Michael Morbius "Morbius the living Vampire" (Same as the Lizard, though if Damn-my-name-is-taken is reading, he's not like your OC Van, actually he's a real character from Marvel and could easily kick Van's ass, no offence.)

Oh and yes to those Marvel fans out there Doc Oc's tentacles were originally not adamantium, but he did get them upgraded a few times, plus Vincent would have shredded the older ones, so where's the fun in that.

Wow can you believe I did all of this in one day? Remember to review!