Ivan Alias: They'll meet Gambit the same way as in the series, I just brought him in earlier for the readers, but you know things might get interesting between Peter and Rogue when he does.

Red Witch: Thanks and the dance will be coming up next chapter but I got a few details to do in this to set it up first.

The Uncanny R-Man: Glad you liked it, and I hope you're enjoying your vacation too. Where is Ibeza anyway?

Mark: Thanks, and since the Marvel universe is so vast and filled with possibilities it would be a shame to waste the opportunities.

Actiondude: Well Kingpin won't like it and you can bet he'll be back, Bullseye is out for the time being you'll see why.

Oceanbang: Yes a few other hero types will come into play along the way, and the Lizard is coming soon, in fact right after the dance chapter. Venom soon after that and well anything more would be telling. I don't want to cram too much in or it will get too crazy.

Episodic: Well here's some fluff for ya in this chapter, although I think it was more like less then 31 chapters since they were only friends at first.

Emerald Knight1: Well I research using both if I can. Bullseye here is a hybrid of movie/comic and my own little touches. Thanks for the compliments.Lord Destroyer: If you think JJ is going to be pissed, what about Eddie himself? As for Aunt May, not THAT extreme but somewhere in that direction maybe.

X-Over: Yeah the adults will not like this, and yes I will bring in the Spider Slayers and Scorpion but much later on, Bullseye is out of action for a bit too, as for Brock let's just say he won't give up.

slickboy444: Hey the guy isn't one of the world's best assassins for a reason and I wanted to show it, plus it took me a while to get the fight just right.

Morlin: Yeah I see you point and I'm for PP/MJ too, but I wanted to go another way. (Try my fic The New Teacher if you like PP/MJ) And I know what you mean too about Bullseye, no powers but he's all skill, just to show them what the world holds and that there is always someone more skilled then them, since one on one they didn't stand a chance.

And thanks to: jadestar123, bobtheheadlesschicken, Joseph McKinley, supergirlhv, psychobunny410, kurttyscogue, aaron, Sparky Genocide, Kaliann

SPIDER-X

CHAPTER 32: PRELUDE TO THE DANCE

Rogue didn't know where she was. She looked around and saw she was in a locker room of some kind. She seemed to be the only one in there at the time and there was a gym bag in her hand.

"Stop that guy!"

She turned to see a man running towards her being cased by a security guard. But she just let the man go by and he ran to an emergency exit door. The guard went to the door and looked around but he seemed to have lost the man.

The guard turned to face Rogue. "Why didn't you do anything?" She was going to say something but she was suddenly no longer in the locker room. She was walking down a street. It seemed familiar to her but she couldn't place it. Then she came to a familiar house and it hit her. It was Peter and May's old home. The one she and Scott had went too.

But something was wrong. There were police cars around the place and a few cops too. She saw an ambulance move away. She looked back and saw Peter there running to the home. She followed him wondering what was going on.

"I'm sorry son I can't let you in there." The officer told Peter.

"I live here what's going on? What's happened?" Peter frantically asked.

"Kid...I'm sorry. There was a robbery and the man of the house...he got in the robber's way." The officer said sadly to Peter.

"What? What happened to my Uncle?"

"I'm sorry kid...he was shot...he didn't make it." Rogue gasped and looked at Peter. She knew his Uncle had died but she didn't know when or how. She saw Peter looking off to the porch and she saw a white outline with a dark color on it. She knew it had to be blood.

"Hey Joe, he found the guy." Another officer told the one that was talking to Peter. She stepped next to him and wanted to say something, anything, but the words weren't there. She saw him looking at May through the window crying in the arms of another officer.

She saw a look of pure rage on Peter's face. It was something she never would have thought to see on him. He turned slightly listening in to where they police had cornered the guy and she watched as Peter took off running.

The next thing she knew she was walking in a dark warehouse. She heard the sounds of fighting and saw Peter there in his Spider-Man suit giving the beating of a lifetime on a man with a ski mask. He had seen him in action before but this Peter wasn't pulling his punches and he was taking the man apart.

"You did this! You killed him!" She heard his voice shout out full of rage and pain. Then he pulled off the ski mask and he froze. "No...not you...not you." He drooped the man and he fell to the ground and Rogue looked at the face. It was bruised but she recognized it. It was the man from the locker room.

Everything seemed to change and she found herself on a ledge of a building. Peter was there sitting down, the mask in one of his hands the other holding his head. She saw he was crying. "Oh God I'm sorry Uncle Ben...it's my fault...it's all my fault that you died...I'm sorry...oh God I'm sorry."

Rogue woke up in her bed. She looked around and saw that Kitty must have already been up since her bed was empty. She felt the tears on her face and thought back to what she had seen. She knew it was a dream, but from the time she had that dream of Kurt, she knew it was also memories that she had seen.

She couldn't help but feel her heart break at what she had seen. She had wondered what drove Peter to go out into the night and now she knew. She held her head in her hands and couldn't help but let out a few sobs. She never knew Peter had been through that but now she did.

That morning after breakfast the girls, Scott, Kurt and Peter were asked after breakfast to see all the adults in the study. After they had come home last night they had to explain what exactly had happened to them. So it all came out, the Sirens, Scott and Kurt following them and the battle with the man who called himself Bullseye.

The adults were not pleased to say the least, but since it was late and after they made sure everyone was fit they would talk about it tomorrow, in depth since it was Saturday and they wouldn't have to go to school.

Everyone involved was now seated. Peter had on a bandage on his arm from the cut, but Hank said he was lucky and wouldn't need stitches. Amara had on a small one on her head, and Scott had on a band-aid on his cheek near his left eye were a fragment of this visor had cut him.

The others were alright minus a few bruises. Jean had a nasty on between her eyes and Hank had said it the blow was a little lower it would have broken her nose.

Now the adults were gathered around except for Logan. He had said he was going to make a few special calls to a few friends of his to find out more about this Bullseye character. So it was just May, Charles, Hank and Ororo in the room.

"I can't tell you how I'm disappointed in you all." Xavier said to them. All the students now either avoided looking at his eyes and hung their heads slightly. "First off you went out into the night without telling anyone, used your powers openly, and finally after what had happened at that garage and the fight with that one man is most distressing to me."

Xavier sighed to himself. "Well what do you have to say for yourselves?"

Jean was the one to speak up. "I know saying sorry won't chance what he did, but we are sorry he did this behind your back. But it just felt so good to use our powers to help others and we did some real good out there."

"I know you did, but that is not what I'm teaching here." Xavier said sternly to her.

"Yeah but what about Peter?" Amara asked. "You let him go out all the time in that Spider-Man suit."

Peter winced at that. He knew there was a reason Xavier had asked him here. Since Xavier had let him do his night duties he knew he wasn't in trouble especially since he didn't know about the girls and their own night duties until last night.

Now he figured that one of the girls would use that to excuse their actions so Peter thought Xavier had called him in here to help out with that. "Shut it Amara, you don't know why he does what he does." Rogue snapped at her.

This surprised everyone, especially Peter. He knew that last night they agreed to try out a relationship but this was a little more then that. He noticed Rogue giving him a glance and he thought he saw something in her look for a moment but he couldn't tell what. Spyder also was giving him a look since she knew why Peter did what he did. She remembered what he had told her on the first night she was here.

{Peter.} Peter looked at Xavier at his mental voice. {I know you haven't told the others of your reasons, I know it's personal...but I think they should know your reasons, it would help them realize how actions have consequences and also the reason why I let you continue on.}

Peter sighed. He had been right, so now it he had a choice to make. He couldn't leave the Professor hanging there, because then he would be seen as a hypocrite for letting him do his hero thing and punish the girls for their actions. On thinking on it there really was no choice, and he knew it had to come out sooner or later.

He stood up and faced them all. He composed himself knowing that this wasn't going to be easy for him. In fact this was most likely going to be just as hard as it was to tell Aunt May everything. He looked over to her and she looked worried for him but she nodded to him.

Peter smiled slightly then turned to face the others. "Someone one told me...that with great power comes great responsibility...I wished I had listened to that when it mattered or someone that I cared about would still be alive today, if I had taken those words to heart like I do know...then my Uncle Ben would be alive today, but it took his death for me to learn what he tried to teach me."

All the kids and even Ororo who didn't know his reasons were stunned silent by his solemn words. Peter went on and told them of how he got his powers, and instead of using them to help other he used them to help himself. Peter was ashamed of his first choice to use his powers and he knew he always would be. He went on about how he let someone who had robbed the box office to run past him and escape.

Later that night his Uncle had been outside and had been attacked by a robber. He told them how he came home to find the police there and that his Uncle, the man who had raised him after his own parents were killed years ago in a plane crash, had been murdered.

He told them how he didn't really remember his parents and his Uncle had been the only father figure he had in life. He told them how losing him was the second worse thing in his life.

"If that was the second what was the first?" Amara asked. She was whipping a tear from her face from hearing the story so far. Others too felt the pain of Peter's loss.

"The worse was that I was responsible for his death." May tried to say something to him, to tell him it wasn't his fault but he looked to her and shook his head. She stopped and could only look on sadly to her nephew.

The others were confused by this and then he told them how he found the man and he also found out that it was the same person he had let go that one night. The room was deathly silent after that as the implications hit them.

"That's why I do what I do." Peter said to them and he looked at them with a fire in his eyes as he spoke. "When I didn't act my family paid for it, and I will always feel responsible for his death for the rest of my life. That's why I use my powers out there. I didn't and it cost me, and if what I do prevents others getting hurt or going through the kind of pain I know I still feel then everything I do is worth it. Also I came here to under the conditions that I would still be able to use my powers, if Professor Xavier hadn't agreed then I would still be in New York, doing what I still do today."

He looked at the faces in the room, they ranged from sadness, to even a look of respect. "Xavier brought you all here to learn to use your powers to help others and I think you can. But this is my choice and my life, you don't have to go the same route as me...because let me tell you...it's not pretty."

"Every night I see the worse that people are capable of, I see the pain and suffering that others endure and the fear in the victim's eyes as a crime happens to them...it's not a pretty sight...and I tell you now...it came also be a lonely and sometimes thankless job too...but I would still do this no matter the cost, because I own myself that much...and I own Ben that much too."

The room was silent once again. "Thank you Peter, I think you may go now." Peter nodded and walked out of the room. He felt his heart pounding after he let the room. He had been nervous about telling the others that, and now he knew the rest of the mansion would know by the end of the day...he wasn't looking forward to that.

About an hour later Peter was on his bed staring up at the ceiling thinking on everything. There was a knock on his door then. "Come in." He saw Rogue open the door and Peter got up in his bed. "Hey, how did it go?"

Rogue weakly smiled as she got in and closed the door after her. "Well we're all grounded for two weeks, and got extra chores. Even Scott got a week since he didn't bring up his suspicions to tha Professor and for dragging Kurt into it."

"What about Kurt?"

"Well he got of lucky since he didn't know exactly what was goin' on, but he also didn't tell any of the adults. He got a week of helping out Ororo and your Aunt." Rogue smiled slightly at the memory of Kurt's relief at that. But then she got suddenly very serious. "Peter...you should know ah had a dream about ya last night?"

"Really?" Peter said with a grin. "What was I wearing and was I wearing it long?"

Rogue punched him lightly in the arm. "Not that kind of dream! Sometimes when ah absorb other I get their minds still in mah head...and sometimes when ah dream ah see their memories too...last night ah saw what had happened with ya and what happened to your Uncle."

Peter lost his good mood at that point. "Oh." He said silently and he knew now what the look was that he saw in Rogue earlier...understanding.

"Peter." She said softly. "It wasn't your fault, ya couldn't have known."

"I know that here." Peter said pointing to his head. "But not here." He said pointing to his chest.

Rogue couldn't help but feel for his pain. She had never known her own parents wither, but then Peter had a great Aunt and it seemed a great Uncle to raise him and the pain was evident to even a blind person. She wrapped her arm around his shoulder and after a second he wrapped his own arm around her waist and they sat there just experiencing the moment.

After awhile Peter broke the silence. "So I guess we might have to postpone our first date for a little while."

Rogue smiled a little and nodded. "Ah guess." She thought about having to wait for two weeks to go out with him. Then something about the date hit her and she got an idea. "You know...in two weeks it's tha dance...do you...you know...wanna go with me?" She asked nervously. She had never been to a dance, well not with someone before.

Peter got a broad smile on his face. "I wouldn't want to miss out on taking the most beautiful girl at school to the dance."

"Ah not the most beautiful girl at school." Rogue said to him.

He took her free hand and she looked up at him. "You are to me." He said seriously. Rogue could feel the blush on her face at the moment.

"Flatterer." She said but couldn't help the smile on her face.

Downstairs Logan had just returned from a meeting with Fury. He was both please and hated what he had learned. He went in search of Charles, he would want to hear this information. He found him and Peter's aunt May having tea together as they normally did at this time.

"Logan did you learn anything of value?" Xavier asked him.

"Yeah I did." He said sitting down and taking out one of his cigars he was about to light it up when May cleared her throat and he saw the determined look. "Oh come on, you don't got something against me smoking now do ya?"

"I do when it's inside and around the children, you can do that outside if you must do that disgusting habit." May said taking a sip of her tea looking like the matter was nothing important. "You're healing abilities may prevent you from getting cancer but it doesn't help the rest of us."

Logan muttered a few unkind things under his breath as he put it away. Xavier tried his best to hide the amused smile on his face. He too found Logan's habit slightly annoying also. Logan got back to what he had learned. "The guy from last night goes by the name Bullseye, he's one of the world's top assassins and is only hired by the most powerful and wealthy since he's damn expensive."

"He's locked up at the moment in a high security prison, so there's little chance of him getting out anytime soon." Logan said to him. "But that's not what worries me."

Xavier put his fingers together. "Yes...who hired this man...that is the real question."

"Yeah well he ain't talking about that." Logan muttered.

"We should be on our guard anyway." Xavier said to him. "We don't know if or when this mysterious person will strike again."

NEW YORK - FISK TOWER'S

Wilson Fisk was looking out over New York through the massive windows of his office. He looked over what he thought of as his kingdom, and in a sense he was king, king of all that went on in this city. His power was all reaching and nearly absolute.

He didn't tolerate things like treachery, some one trying to steel from him or above all failure. He was looking out over the city a calm expression on him, yet inside he was seething. He had just learned that Bullseye of all people had been captured.

"Where is he?" He coldly asked one of the men that told thin the news behind the Kingpin. The man was sweating and nervous as hell. He knew that news like this was stuff that the Kingpin didn't like to hear, and was hoping the Kingpin wouldn't take it out on him.

"W-w-well sir...we...we don't know." Fisk turned his head slightly and gaze the man a chilling stare. "H-h-he w-w-was taken by some group after an hour in the local jail. Some government agency called SHIELD or something. We don't know where they took him after that."

Fisk was silent a moment then turned back to the window. "I see. Well then find me Bullseye, I don't care how long, or how much money or arm breaking it takes but find him. I want to know why he failed. He was one of the best and if he failed then things in Bayville are much more serious then I thought."

"Are you going to send someone else boss?"

Fisk thought about it. "Not yet...if things continue the way they are then I will have to. But I want to talk with Bullseye first. I want to know what he saw and went up against. I made the mistake of underestimating my enemy...a rare mistake...one I will not repeat again."

Fisk turned from the window and looked at the man once more. "I also want you to get as much information as you can about that place and talk to our contacts there...I want to know as much information about those annoying vigilantes as possible."

The phone on his desk rang. He went over to it and pressed the speaker button. "This had better be important."

"Boss that other group is acting up again. I hear they tried to steal an armored car and it got stolen by four other guys though. Strange thing is they returned the money. So what should we do?"

Fisk sighed. Even at the top of his criminal empire there were always others trying to topple him and take what was his. Years ago a new group had entered the city. HIS city and were slowly taking out their own territory. They worked in two groups. The first was a street gang and the others were more...elite...force.

"Call a meeting...we're going to have to deal with this problem soon." He ended the call and sat down. It looked like until he settled things here he would have to turn his attention to Bayville off for a little while. He had more pressing concerns at the moment. But when things had calmed down, Bayville was next on his list of things to do.

NEXT UP CHAPTER 33: SPIDER DANCE

Well Shadow Dance is up next, and Kingpin will be a little busy for a little while so don't expect to see him until later on, and for those of you wondering, the Lizard part of the story will take place right after the dance.

Then Venom after that.

Plus can anyone guess who the rival group is? Hint I mentioned them in chapter 8 a little, but didn't name then in the story yet.