The Date with Destiny Begins
"Do I look okay?" Kitty asked. She was wearing her blue party dress and her hair up.
"You look fine," Rogue told her. "Now try to have a good time."
"Try?" Kitty asked.
"Well you know how things get around here," Rogue waved.
"Yeah but this should be a lot of fun," Kitty went downstairs. "See ya!"
Dylan was there dressed in a sharp outfit. "Shall we go?" He offered his arm.
"Sure!" Kitty took it, ignoring some of the looks Lance and Peter gave them. Soon they were in his limo driving towards the city. "Oh this is so awesome!"
"Have you been in a limo before?" Dylan asked.
"Well actually I used to practice my driving in one," Kitty told him. "Until the Professor made me stop. Something about insurance rates and heart attacks. But this is really special."
"So are you," Dylan smiled. He leaned in for a kiss. Kitty felt her heart flutter as she closed her eyes.
"RAFF!" Suddenly Lockheed popped in between them just as Dylan was about to kiss her. He kissed Lockheed instead.
"Bleach!" Dylan gasped.
"Lockheed!" Kitty grabbed him. "How did you sneak in here! Bad dragon!"
"You have a dragon for a pet?" Dylan gulped. "A real dragon?"
"Yeah, didn't I mention that?" Kitty asked.
"No I definitely would have remembered," Dylan said as Lockheed glared at him. "Uh does he breathe fire?"
"Yeah, that's not gonna be a problem is it?" Kitty asked. Lockheed snuffed out some smoke from its nostrils.
"Uh…" Dylan gulped.
"Well we can't just leave him in the limo! Especially after the last time I did that! Don't ask. It was a huge mess. Good thing I brought a large purse," Kitty remarked as she stuffed Lockheed inside it. "Now be a good boy, okay?"
Soon they were at the restaurant. There were paparazzi and reporters everywhere. "Ready?" Dylan asked her.
"Ready as I'll ever be," She admitted as she stepped out of the limo into the light of flashing cameras. This is so awesome! She thought. I'm on the arm of a gorgeous star! In the spotlight surrounded by cameras, reporters and protesters. PROTESTERS?
Surrounding them were dozens of people holding anti-mutant signs. "MUTIE LOVER!" One woman screamed.
"What? Human women aren't good enough for you?" Another shouted.
"TRAITOR!" A man shouted.
"What's your problem?" Dylan shouted as they made their way through the crowd. "We're just going on a date!"
"Stick with your own kind freak!" One woman threw a tomato at them.
Kitty instantly phased both her and Dylan through. Then she got them through the crowd. "Oh why do people like that have to ruin everything? Sorry about that."
"No problem. That's a handy trick," Dylan said. "I could have used it myself a couple of times."
"Greetings sir," A smarmy headwaiter greeted them. "You are Mr. Hunter? I am Vlada. I shall seat you and your…date at our best table. Follow me." They did so to a table in the middle of the restaurant. "Here you are sir, where everyone can see your scandal and shame and gawk at your non human lady friend. Your waiter will be with you shortly. Have a nice evening." He flounced off.
"Not exactly the evening I had in mind," Dylan winced.
"Well it's a nice restaurant," Kitty remarked. Both of them noticed that everyone was looking at them. "If you don't count the jerk of a head waiter. Sorry about all the attention."
"I was going to say the same thing to you," Dylan said.
"Yeah well it's par for the course of being a mutant," Kitty sighed. Then she absently looked down at her purse. "Where's Lockheed? He's not in here! Where could he…?"
"GET THIS THING AWAY FROM ME!" A loud familiar shout could be heard at the next table. Kitty got up and saw Lockheed on the table where Senator Kelly and another important looking man were. Lockheed calmly started to munch the flowers on top of the table.
"Lockheed no!" Kitty grabbed him.
"YOU!" Kelly shouted. "I should have known!"
"You know each other?" Dylan asked.
"Unfortunately. Of course Senator Kelly would be here," Kitty groaned.
"And of course you'd be here!" Senator Kelly snapped. "I can't go anywhere near Bayville without one of you freaks showing up!"
"Hey man she said she was sorry," Dylan said. "Lighten up."
"What are you doing with this monster?" Kelly asked. "And I'm not referring to the four legged purple one!"
"She's not a monster," Dylan got in his face. "I think you should apologize to the lady!"
"Lady! That's a good one! That creature is a menace!" Kelly shouted. "All mutants are!"
"Well I'm human so…" Dylan swung his fist and it connected with Kelly's jaw.
"Now see here…" The other important looking man started to say something but Dylan bashed him in the face too.
Soon security was trying to break them up. Lockheed 'helped' by giving a hot foot to several of them. People screamed as the waiters and security men hopped around banging into tables. People bumped into each other trying to either get away or get at Dylan and Kitty and soon they were fighting with each other. One person tried to tackle Kitty but she phased through. She didn't see the person behind her with a chair until it was too late.
Fortunately for her someone else did. Both Lance and Peter in battle costume knocked out Kitty's attacker with one punch. "Are you okay?" Lance asked.
"She's in the middle of a brawl Avalanche of course not!" Peter snapped.
"Gee a fistfight breaks out and for once we didn't start it," Althea remarked as she and several Misfits and X-men appeared in uniform.
"What are you guys all doing here?" Kitty shouted.
"It's kind of complicated," Wanda said. "Well you see Arcade was kind of scanning radio signals and he intercepted a couple of transmissions and…"
Several more people ran into the room brandishing shotguns. "DOWN WITH TRAITORS!" One man shouted firing.
"Kitty…?" Dylan gulped. "What's going on?"
"It's the FOH!" Scott fired his optic beams at them.
"The what?" Dylan ducked for cover.
"Friends of Humanity," Tabitha explained as she hurled several time bombs. "Scumbags who hate mutants! They found out about your date and want to make an example of you!"
"Yeah but that's not the real problem," Bobby said. "You see we also found out…"
BOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!
The entire east wall collapsed. Several waiters appeared firing lasers. "COBRAAAAAAAAAA!" They shouted.
"Well I think you can guess the rest," Wanda remarked as she used her powers to hex several weapons.
"They want to get lover boy here and ransom him," Lance jerked his thumb at Dylan who had knocked out another person. "We gotta get you two out of here!"
"Come on Dylan, let's get out of here!" Kitty grabbed his arm and phased through just before a rain of bullets hit them. They passed through harmlessly but it still shook Dylan up considerably.
"Those were bullets!" Dylan shouted. "Real bullets!"
"Well duh," Todd said. "That's what real terrorists use."
"Terrorists?" Dylan yelled.
"Cobras," Althea said. "Don't worry. It's nothing we can't handle." She picked up a rifle from one of the Cobras and prepared to fire. "EAT LEAD SNAKE BAIT!"
"CAPTURE ALL THE MUTANTS YOU CAN AS WELL!" The Cobra soldier in charge shouted. "BUT MOST OF ALL CAPTURE DYLAN HUNTER!"
"KILL ALL THE MUTANTS AND DYLAN HUNTER!" The FOH leader shouted.
"Hey pal," The Cobra soldier said. "We got here first!"
"Step aside creep!" The FOH leader snarled.
"MAKE ME!" The Cobra soldier shouted. Soon it was a three-way battle between the mutants, Cobra and the FOH.
"So what's the plan?" Kitty calmly asked Scott.
"PLAN? WHAT PLAN?" Dylan was starting to panic. "These people out there want to kill us!"
"So what else is new?" Todd shrugged. He brought his Bo staff down on a Cobra trying to sneak up on them.
"Yeah this is pretty much what we go through nearly every week," Lance remarked as he used his powers to shake a few FOH up.
"More like every day," Kitty scoffed as she kicked a Cobra soldier attacking them.
"EVERY DAY?" Dylan shouted as he saw the fighting and the chaos around them.
"Yeah it's amazing how fast you get used to it," Rogue remarked as she used her powers to knock out a Cobra soldier. "Ugh! But I'll never get used to having other idiot's thoughts in my head! Oh man you do not want to know what this guy does for a good time!"
"HOW CAN YOU GET USED TO THIS?" Dylan shouted after a beam nearly clobbered him. "IT'S LIKE A WAR ZONE!"
"Duh it is a war zone," Bobby iced the beam in place, protecting Dylan. "Geeze Kitty out of all your boyfriends he's the dumbest one."
"BOYFRIENDS?" Dylan looked at Kitty.
"She didn't tell you about us did she?" Peter scoffed.
"Remember pal we got here first," Lance said.
"Okay this is not happening…" Dylan backed away. "This is not happening!"
And a huge black portal promptly swallowed him. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!"
"Dylan!" Kitty shouted.
"We've got bigger problems!" Scott shouted. "The whole place is gonna cave in!"
"Well you can't blame me this time!" Lance shouted as they escaped. "If someone's optic blasts hadn't knocked out the support beams…"
"Shut up and run!" Pietro shouted.
Soon the restaurant was in rubble. "Well this is another lawsuit waiting to happen," Lance looked around. Several Joes were rounding up the Cobras and FOH with help from the police.
"Where'd Dylan go?" Kitty looked around. "He like, just totally disappeared!"
Peter sighed. "I'm afraid I know."