Sparky Genocide: Yeah and he will later on too.
Episodic: Hey I understand computer problems. That's why I either place stories on my favorite account or place them in a special word file that has a list I keep. I will try and follow the story line but I'm changing a few things obviously, so please send me the link. Yes Doc. Oct will make an appearance eventually but I got lot of stuff to do first.
Bobtheheadlesschicken: Hey if you like Stargate I made a couple of fics in that.
celtcath74: Hey I've been reading Spidey since I was a kid I like to think I know the character well. Plus I think that's one of the reasons I like him so much, he's a regular guy with regular problems.
Kaliann: I think so too, that's why I'm doing this, I'm interested to see where it will go.
Lord Destroyer: I'm with you all the way on those points, and I got something good planned.
Morlin: Yes we will and your wrong on both counts.
Ldypebsaby: Yeah those two will, in fact you'll be surprised at how much they'll have in common later on.
Oceanbang: thanks, and your wrong on who it is but I think you had the right idea.
Malciah: Sure I'll take a look on it.
The Uncanny R-Man: Yes he does, but he just has to work up the courage to ask her out.
And thanks to Ivan Alias
SPIDER-X
CHAPTER 27: FRIEND AND ENEMY
It had been a couple of days and Peter was slowly working up the nerve to ask Rogue out. It didn't help matters that Kitty had been pestering him either ever since then. She just seemed to like being matchmaker and wanted to set her friend up. He was just glad that she was doing it a little low key so the others didn't know, but it was really getting on his nerves.
Kitty on the other hand wasn't about to give up. She was currently following Peter a few steps behind him down the halls of the Institute that morning, mostly everyone was down at breakfast and Peter made the mistake of taking a few minutes of extra sleep, because now he was alone on the top floors and Kitty must have been waiting for him. "So are you going to ask her?" She asked Peter as if it was a casual question.
Peter groaned. "No."
"Are you going to ask her?"
"No."
"Are you going to ask her?"
"Wait let me think about it...no."
"Are you going to ask her?"
"Kitty! Will you just drop it!" Peter said turning to face the girl. "I got enough to think about as it is and you're not making it any easier." He stormed off leaving Kitty to think if that was a little much.
"Leave him alone." A voice said and Kitty turned around and saw no one then looked up and saw Spyder on the ceiling looking down at her with an expression that could kill. Spyder leaped down off the ceiling and stood right up to the taller, older girl. "Leave Peter alone, understand?" She said with her hands on her hips.
"Like, look, Spyder I'm just trying to help him out." She said innocently.
Spyder snorted. It looked more like she was just bugging him to her. "Yeah how?" Kitty was about to say something but looked around and then suddenly grabbed Spyder by the hand and phased them through the wall into one of the rooms. It turned out to be Jubilee's and Rahne's and luckily it was empty.
"You see I'm like pretty sure Peter like Rogue and I think she feels the same. But Rogue being Rogue, thinks no one will want to be with a girl that can't touch and well Peter...I think he's just insecure about asking her out."
Spyder raised and eyebrow. "Really? They really like each other and you're not making this up or wrong?"
Kitty thought about it. "Yeah, I'm pretty sure they are so into each other." Then Kitty got an idea. "You wanna help?" She said smiling.
Spyder thought about it. She found Kitty to be a little too perky at times plus the valley girl accent got a little on her nerves...but she was just helping Peter out. In fact if it wasn't for Peter she would still be on the street about now...or worse.
She owed Peter a lot, he took her off the streets, helped to give her a home, the web shooters were wonderful since she could now focus on controlling her powers and not worry about running out of webbing. He was kind to her and she looked up to him. He was like what she wanted to be like when she got older.
All her life she wanted to be part of a real family. True her Uncle was the greatest, but she missed having a mom and dad. And she always wanted a big brother and Peter...well...to her he was the closest thing she had. She owed him more then she could ever possible replay in her lifetime, so if she could help him out. "I'm in." She said with a grin. "I'll work on Peter and you on Rogue." Kitty grinned too and nodded.
It was later in the day and Peter was just getting out of science class. Thankfully Kitty seemed to have given up, at least for the time being. He also noticed Max going off in the halls and made a bee line to Tabitha. He didn't even know that those two were an item until Kitty mentioned it, after Lance had told her.
Now he could see the two of them laughing over something. So he thought Max was an arrogant jerk, and from what he heard Tabby wasn't all that bad. He just had a bad feeling that something bad might come form their relationship. 'Stop it Parker, you're just getting paranoid or just jealous that he could get the nerve to ask a girl out that he liked and you can't.'
He turned away and started walking down the halls. He went to the next class but found a notice on the board. It turned out that the teacher that day for his next class came down with the flu that was going around and a replacement couldn't be found until tomorrow.
"Cool. Free period." Peter said with a smile. He walked off and wondered a little in the halls. Lunch wouldn't be for a full period so he decided to at least dump his books off. He went to his locker and was surprised to see Rogue at hers. "Hey, skipping class?" He said with a smile.
She snorted. "Ah wish, but mah teacher got sick, what about you?"
Peter shrugged. "Mine too. Man if this keeps up they might have to call off school for a day."
Rogue smirked. "Ah'm not sure if ya were glad or not by that remark."
Peter scratched the back of his head. "Yeah...me too." Rogue let out a small laugh. Peter had to admit she had a nice laugh and smile, he just wished she did that more often. "So...you wanna hang out until the period is over...you know if ya want to." Then he regretted the way he said it. 'Nice going Peter, real confident there.'
Rogue played with one of her bangs a little. "Uh, yeah, sure." She said. 'Oh God that sounded lame.' Rogue thought to herself. Peter put his books away and then he and Rogue started to just wonder the halls a little. There was a slight awkward moment of silence at the beginning but Peter started up a conversation and soon they were just talking about nothing in particular but they were enjoying the moment.
Before either of them had known it the lunch bell rang. Peter looked at his watch. "Wow...that went by fast. So you want to head over to the cafeteria?"
"Sure thing." She said. They entered the cafeteria which was just starting to fill up suddenly Peter's spider sense went off.
"Hey loves what are you two up too?" Peter turned and saw Risty there. He looked around for what could be setting it off, he looked for any Brotherhood members like last time but they were here yet, and neither was Duncan.
As Peter moved slightly closer the sensation went up and Peter realized she was the one setting it off. He didn't understand why. It had never gone off without warming or hadn't been wrong ever, so why now. It wasn't until Rogue nudged him in the ribs that he realized he must have been asked something. "Oh, what?"
Risty smirked. "I said why don't we all sit together, I want to get to know Rogue's friends more and you seem like an interesting chap."
"Uh...sure." Peter said slightly hesitant. Risty looked at little confused by his attitude but shrugged it off and went to get them a table while they got something to eat.
As she was going Rogue turned to Peter with an annoyed look on her face. "What's wrong with ya?"
"Rogue." Peter said in a serious and worried tone. "She set off my spider sense."
Rogue blinked at few times, the others knew about Peter's ability to sense danger any time, anywhere from any source but she didn't want to believe that Risty was dangerous. "Ya got to beh mistaken...ah mean she's mah friend Peter ya have ta be wrong about it." She said defiantly.
As they were walking Peter tried to think of a way to convince her, he got an idea it was risky but he knew it was the only way. "Touch me." He said and Rogue got a surprised look on her face. "Take a little of my powers and see for yourself then...prove me wrong."
Rogue didn't want Risty to be anything other then her friend and if it took this to prove it she was fine with in. While in line Rogue took off one of her gloves and lightly tapped Peter's hand. Peter got a slight head rush and a little dizzy for a few seconds but he was fine.
As they made their way to the table they found Risty there already with a lunch she seemed to have brought with her. As Rogue sat down close she was suddenly overwhelmed by this powerful feeling. It was hard to describe, there was this ringing sensation and that little feeling you get at the back of your head when something is wrong, only multiplied by a hundred and it was all focused of Risty.
There was one more thing. A powerful feeling of danger too. Rogue covered her shock of it well enough but all through lunch the feeling didn't leave her, she caught Peter's eye and she could see him silently asking if he was right.
She hated this moment, she hated this day at that moment as well. Risty was a good friend to her, she made her feel normal, damn it she liked her. But she couldn't deny it any longer.
Risty was a danger to them.
Rogue felt like a knife had twisted itself into her chest. It seemed whenever something good happened in her life it was taken away from her. She tried to act normal and friendly and when Peter's powers finally faded away she was grateful for it. But the feeling she had wouldn't leave her.
The rest of the day was a blur to Rogue, her mind only on why Risty was a threat to her and the others. She didn't know why, she was a nice person...wasn't she? Rogue met up with Peter again in English class and they sat besides each other.
"So what are we going to do?" Peter whispered to her. She didn't know and just shrugged her shoulders.
"Ah guess...we have to find out why she sets it off...it's the only way." She said sadly. Peter could see that Rogue hated all of this and he wished he hadn't told her, so she wasn't going through all of this.
'Once again my actions seem to hurt those close to me.' Peter thought darkly to himself. 'But if she is a threat then isn't it better that she knows, that we all know latter on?' He guessed it was, but he hoped that what they found out wouldn't be something terrible.
'Maybe she a mutant and it's her powers that do it?' Peter considered. He hoped it turned out like that he hated to think that Risty was just using Rogue. He had heard how Mystique had done that to her already and from what he had heard from Kitty and Kurt and from what he gathered she might still hurt a little from that.
He put his mind back to the lessons. He and Rogue would consider what to do next after school was out. Then they could concentrate on what to do next, plus they had to tell the others, especially Xavier. But first they would need to take care of a few things, Peter glanced at Scott and suddenly got an idea that might solve everything and they might not have to tell Xavier if it worked.
Scott might go for it since any threat to the X-Men he would jump at the chance to stop it. Now Peter just hoped that Scott could help them convince Jean to do a little scan of Risty's mind to see what she was up too.
Peter smiled for the first time since lunch. If this all worked out then maybe things would work out. He knew better then most that life didn't always worked out for the best at times, but he could still hope it would. He glanced over at Rogue, and saw that she wasn't really paying attention. For her sake at least it worked out.
He just really did hope that Risty turned out to still be a friend, and not an enemy.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 28: WHO IS RITSY WHILDE?
Episodic: Hey I understand computer problems. That's why I either place stories on my favorite account or place them in a special word file that has a list I keep. I will try and follow the story line but I'm changing a few things obviously, so please send me the link. Yes Doc. Oct will make an appearance eventually but I got lot of stuff to do first.
Bobtheheadlesschicken: Hey if you like Stargate I made a couple of fics in that.
celtcath74: Hey I've been reading Spidey since I was a kid I like to think I know the character well. Plus I think that's one of the reasons I like him so much, he's a regular guy with regular problems.
Kaliann: I think so too, that's why I'm doing this, I'm interested to see where it will go.
Lord Destroyer: I'm with you all the way on those points, and I got something good planned.
Morlin: Yes we will and your wrong on both counts.
Ldypebsaby: Yeah those two will, in fact you'll be surprised at how much they'll have in common later on.
Oceanbang: thanks, and your wrong on who it is but I think you had the right idea.
Malciah: Sure I'll take a look on it.
The Uncanny R-Man: Yes he does, but he just has to work up the courage to ask her out.
And thanks to Ivan Alias
SPIDER-X
CHAPTER 27: FRIEND AND ENEMY
It had been a couple of days and Peter was slowly working up the nerve to ask Rogue out. It didn't help matters that Kitty had been pestering him either ever since then. She just seemed to like being matchmaker and wanted to set her friend up. He was just glad that she was doing it a little low key so the others didn't know, but it was really getting on his nerves.
Kitty on the other hand wasn't about to give up. She was currently following Peter a few steps behind him down the halls of the Institute that morning, mostly everyone was down at breakfast and Peter made the mistake of taking a few minutes of extra sleep, because now he was alone on the top floors and Kitty must have been waiting for him. "So are you going to ask her?" She asked Peter as if it was a casual question.
Peter groaned. "No."
"Are you going to ask her?"
"No."
"Are you going to ask her?"
"Wait let me think about it...no."
"Are you going to ask her?"
"Kitty! Will you just drop it!" Peter said turning to face the girl. "I got enough to think about as it is and you're not making it any easier." He stormed off leaving Kitty to think if that was a little much.
"Leave him alone." A voice said and Kitty turned around and saw no one then looked up and saw Spyder on the ceiling looking down at her with an expression that could kill. Spyder leaped down off the ceiling and stood right up to the taller, older girl. "Leave Peter alone, understand?" She said with her hands on her hips.
"Like, look, Spyder I'm just trying to help him out." She said innocently.
Spyder snorted. It looked more like she was just bugging him to her. "Yeah how?" Kitty was about to say something but looked around and then suddenly grabbed Spyder by the hand and phased them through the wall into one of the rooms. It turned out to be Jubilee's and Rahne's and luckily it was empty.
"You see I'm like pretty sure Peter like Rogue and I think she feels the same. But Rogue being Rogue, thinks no one will want to be with a girl that can't touch and well Peter...I think he's just insecure about asking her out."
Spyder raised and eyebrow. "Really? They really like each other and you're not making this up or wrong?"
Kitty thought about it. "Yeah, I'm pretty sure they are so into each other." Then Kitty got an idea. "You wanna help?" She said smiling.
Spyder thought about it. She found Kitty to be a little too perky at times plus the valley girl accent got a little on her nerves...but she was just helping Peter out. In fact if it wasn't for Peter she would still be on the street about now...or worse.
She owed Peter a lot, he took her off the streets, helped to give her a home, the web shooters were wonderful since she could now focus on controlling her powers and not worry about running out of webbing. He was kind to her and she looked up to him. He was like what she wanted to be like when she got older.
All her life she wanted to be part of a real family. True her Uncle was the greatest, but she missed having a mom and dad. And she always wanted a big brother and Peter...well...to her he was the closest thing she had. She owed him more then she could ever possible replay in her lifetime, so if she could help him out. "I'm in." She said with a grin. "I'll work on Peter and you on Rogue." Kitty grinned too and nodded.
It was later in the day and Peter was just getting out of science class. Thankfully Kitty seemed to have given up, at least for the time being. He also noticed Max going off in the halls and made a bee line to Tabitha. He didn't even know that those two were an item until Kitty mentioned it, after Lance had told her.
Now he could see the two of them laughing over something. So he thought Max was an arrogant jerk, and from what he heard Tabby wasn't all that bad. He just had a bad feeling that something bad might come form their relationship. 'Stop it Parker, you're just getting paranoid or just jealous that he could get the nerve to ask a girl out that he liked and you can't.'
He turned away and started walking down the halls. He went to the next class but found a notice on the board. It turned out that the teacher that day for his next class came down with the flu that was going around and a replacement couldn't be found until tomorrow.
"Cool. Free period." Peter said with a smile. He walked off and wondered a little in the halls. Lunch wouldn't be for a full period so he decided to at least dump his books off. He went to his locker and was surprised to see Rogue at hers. "Hey, skipping class?" He said with a smile.
She snorted. "Ah wish, but mah teacher got sick, what about you?"
Peter shrugged. "Mine too. Man if this keeps up they might have to call off school for a day."
Rogue smirked. "Ah'm not sure if ya were glad or not by that remark."
Peter scratched the back of his head. "Yeah...me too." Rogue let out a small laugh. Peter had to admit she had a nice laugh and smile, he just wished she did that more often. "So...you wanna hang out until the period is over...you know if ya want to." Then he regretted the way he said it. 'Nice going Peter, real confident there.'
Rogue played with one of her bangs a little. "Uh, yeah, sure." She said. 'Oh God that sounded lame.' Rogue thought to herself. Peter put his books away and then he and Rogue started to just wonder the halls a little. There was a slight awkward moment of silence at the beginning but Peter started up a conversation and soon they were just talking about nothing in particular but they were enjoying the moment.
Before either of them had known it the lunch bell rang. Peter looked at his watch. "Wow...that went by fast. So you want to head over to the cafeteria?"
"Sure thing." She said. They entered the cafeteria which was just starting to fill up suddenly Peter's spider sense went off.
"Hey loves what are you two up too?" Peter turned and saw Risty there. He looked around for what could be setting it off, he looked for any Brotherhood members like last time but they were here yet, and neither was Duncan.
As Peter moved slightly closer the sensation went up and Peter realized she was the one setting it off. He didn't understand why. It had never gone off without warming or hadn't been wrong ever, so why now. It wasn't until Rogue nudged him in the ribs that he realized he must have been asked something. "Oh, what?"
Risty smirked. "I said why don't we all sit together, I want to get to know Rogue's friends more and you seem like an interesting chap."
"Uh...sure." Peter said slightly hesitant. Risty looked at little confused by his attitude but shrugged it off and went to get them a table while they got something to eat.
As she was going Rogue turned to Peter with an annoyed look on her face. "What's wrong with ya?"
"Rogue." Peter said in a serious and worried tone. "She set off my spider sense."
Rogue blinked at few times, the others knew about Peter's ability to sense danger any time, anywhere from any source but she didn't want to believe that Risty was dangerous. "Ya got to beh mistaken...ah mean she's mah friend Peter ya have ta be wrong about it." She said defiantly.
As they were walking Peter tried to think of a way to convince her, he got an idea it was risky but he knew it was the only way. "Touch me." He said and Rogue got a surprised look on her face. "Take a little of my powers and see for yourself then...prove me wrong."
Rogue didn't want Risty to be anything other then her friend and if it took this to prove it she was fine with in. While in line Rogue took off one of her gloves and lightly tapped Peter's hand. Peter got a slight head rush and a little dizzy for a few seconds but he was fine.
As they made their way to the table they found Risty there already with a lunch she seemed to have brought with her. As Rogue sat down close she was suddenly overwhelmed by this powerful feeling. It was hard to describe, there was this ringing sensation and that little feeling you get at the back of your head when something is wrong, only multiplied by a hundred and it was all focused of Risty.
There was one more thing. A powerful feeling of danger too. Rogue covered her shock of it well enough but all through lunch the feeling didn't leave her, she caught Peter's eye and she could see him silently asking if he was right.
She hated this moment, she hated this day at that moment as well. Risty was a good friend to her, she made her feel normal, damn it she liked her. But she couldn't deny it any longer.
Risty was a danger to them.
Rogue felt like a knife had twisted itself into her chest. It seemed whenever something good happened in her life it was taken away from her. She tried to act normal and friendly and when Peter's powers finally faded away she was grateful for it. But the feeling she had wouldn't leave her.
The rest of the day was a blur to Rogue, her mind only on why Risty was a threat to her and the others. She didn't know why, she was a nice person...wasn't she? Rogue met up with Peter again in English class and they sat besides each other.
"So what are we going to do?" Peter whispered to her. She didn't know and just shrugged her shoulders.
"Ah guess...we have to find out why she sets it off...it's the only way." She said sadly. Peter could see that Rogue hated all of this and he wished he hadn't told her, so she wasn't going through all of this.
'Once again my actions seem to hurt those close to me.' Peter thought darkly to himself. 'But if she is a threat then isn't it better that she knows, that we all know latter on?' He guessed it was, but he hoped that what they found out wouldn't be something terrible.
'Maybe she a mutant and it's her powers that do it?' Peter considered. He hoped it turned out like that he hated to think that Risty was just using Rogue. He had heard how Mystique had done that to her already and from what he had heard from Kitty and Kurt and from what he gathered she might still hurt a little from that.
He put his mind back to the lessons. He and Rogue would consider what to do next after school was out. Then they could concentrate on what to do next, plus they had to tell the others, especially Xavier. But first they would need to take care of a few things, Peter glanced at Scott and suddenly got an idea that might solve everything and they might not have to tell Xavier if it worked.
Scott might go for it since any threat to the X-Men he would jump at the chance to stop it. Now Peter just hoped that Scott could help them convince Jean to do a little scan of Risty's mind to see what she was up too.
Peter smiled for the first time since lunch. If this all worked out then maybe things would work out. He knew better then most that life didn't always worked out for the best at times, but he could still hope it would. He glanced over at Rogue, and saw that she wasn't really paying attention. For her sake at least it worked out.
He just really did hope that Risty turned out to still be a friend, and not an enemy.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 28: WHO IS RITSY WHILDE?