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Kitty and Rogue stared forward into the room. It looked like a lab. On a dusty counter that sat in a dark corner, there were piles of papers. "It looks someone was doing an experiment and they just... gave up." Kitty said as she slipped through the papers.

"Yeah but why?" Rogue and Kitty looked at each other quizzically. "Maybe the experiment blew up or died or..."

"I don't think "IT" died Rogue, come here." Kitty showed pictures of a young girl that were covered by the stacks of paper. "It says here her name is Alta. Look!" Kitty said pointing to the girl's bare side. There were small gills.

"It's like she's a fish or something. Look, just above her pant line there's... a brand it looks like the Pisces sign." The two young women looked at each other disgustedly. Suddenly from a dark corner there came a cry.

"What was that?" Rogue asked her friend.

"That's the cry that I heard outside."

With their arms linked they made their way to the dark corner. The room was filled with cobwebs and dusty frames hanging from a dirty wall. As they came closer to the source of the cries, they could see the shape of a small tub big enough to hold either one of them. And then they heard it again.

"Hilfe..." (help)

"Hello?" Rogue asked timidly. The two girls gasped when they saw her. "Do you speak English?" Rogue asked slowly with a good pronunciation of words.

"A little." The girl in the tub of water said with her thick German accent. "Who are you?" she asked.

"I'm Kitty, and this is my best friend Rogue."

"You hilfe me?" She asked innocently. Her big eyes staring up at them. "Please?"

Kitty and Rogue nodded their heads and bent down. "It seems she cuffed to the walls of the tub." Rogue said. "I'll get her arms you get her feet." Just as they had thought the keys for the cuffs were on a hook by the counter.

"Do you need help up?" Kitty asked politely as she extended her hand to the other girl who simply nodded her head.

"Thank you Kitty." she said. "My name Alta."

Kitty giggled but stopped when she found no one else was. "What are we gonna tell Jean and them?" Rogue asked fearfully.

"We'll figure it out later. So Alta, let's get some more clothes on. I've got a sweater you can wear and Rogue..." she stopped as she watched Rogue slip off her skirt that she wore over her black jeans. "You can wear her skirt."

Alta slipped on the clothes that she had been offered, but was a bit discouraged when Rogue's skirt fell off of her body. "Here I've gotta a belt you can use until we find something that fits better."

"What we do now?" Alta asked her new friends.

"Umm... first let's get you outta here, then we'll go to mine and Rogue's room. And supper's soon so we'll eat, we gotta put some meat on your bones." She said looking down at Alta tiny figure.

Alta was probably only 4"9' with the tiniest body Rogue and Kitty had ever seen. Her hands put up against Rogue's looked like a child's and her figure was the same. "So how old are you Alta?"

Alta stood, leaning against the wall thinking. "I don't know." She titled her head towards the floor sadly. Being in the tub, she had lost all sense of time.

"I've got an idea." Kitty said going over to the counter. "There must be something in here about when they put you in there." Kitty searched through the piles. "Ah-ha!" she cried out victoriously.

"It says, Alta... blah, blah, blah, put in tub for experimentation on... blah, blah, blah 5 years old... 1987!"

"So that means," Rogue began mumbling with her mathematical skills. "5 years old 1987, born in 1982, 2004 minus 1982 equals, da, da, da, da, da, Alta you are 22 years old."

Alta smiled. "Thank you Rogue."

"Your very welcome. Now let's go upstairs!" Rogue said linking her arm through Alta's. Kitty did the same and the three girls were off and out of that room. Away from all of Alta's problems or so they thought...

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