Sparky Genocide: Yeah I think the others will look at him differently. I'm glad you liked that part with May, it just came to me an I couldn't help but put it in. I'm surprised you didn't get it since they showed up in your own X-fic.

Morlin: Thanks for what you said, and I know what you mean. If you think reading it was boring try writing it, but it had to be done. As for the symbiote and Rogue, that's a good question I'll give it some thought.

Supergirlhv: Thanks for that, but Carnage might not show up I'm not sure how far I'm taking this story. But he might be in a sequel though.

Red Witch: Well I hope you enjoy this, like you have so far.

The Uncanny R-Man: Uh...no not them. Hope you like the dance chapter.

Mark C: Thanks, I really tried my best for that chapter. Now the only problem I got is how to I top that?

Sithicus: You got it, what can I say that's the only group I could think of that could rival Kingpin, as for how much they'll be in the story...I haven't decided. As for the spelling...believe me I try my best, but I still miss things like that. At least you were nice about it, but I do try, it's just that little things like that keep slipping past me, and believe me I hate it when it does.

Emerald Knight1: For the other group think of a popular TV cartoon. Fury might get involved later on, and when things calm down and I bring in the Kingpin again then you'll find out.

Lord Destroyer: The entire world will know about mutants when they get exposed and when I bring in X23 it will be a fun thing to write.

X-Over: No on all counts, they are non-mutants and that's all I'm going to say for now.

slickboy444: The dance will be kind of the same but with a few of my twist.

Ivan Alias: Not even close with those and he's a tip they're not from Spider-Man.

Jaguar2100: You and someone else are the only ones to seem to get it, good for you.

Perfect Darkness: Drop dead, if you don't like it don't read it and I don't give a damn what you think since I got LOTS of people who enjoy my work and I write for them, not for some perfectionist jerk who has a stick up his about spelling. I try my damn best and if it isn't good enough for you then so be it.

And thanks to: psychobunny410, bobtheheadlesschicken, Actiondude, Mimato-4eva, kurttyscogue, Episodic, ldypebsaby, Kaliann, Joseph McKinley

AN: The 'other' group in New York is something I've been thinking about, one person got it, but I'm not sure if I want them to show up in this story. (Maybe in a spin-off or sequel) but I can tell you it's from a certain current cartoon show.

SPIDER-X

CHAPTER 33: SPIDER DANCE

It was two weeks since the Siren incident and things were slowly getting back to normal. The newspapers and channels for a week had asked what had happened to the Sirens but after a week they seemed to have drop it.

The other students had heard of Peter's past and all of them seemed to view him in a new light. Evan and Bobby who where to ones the normally rib Peter about his nighttime duties seemed to pull back from it and only rarely make any jokes about it, and the few that they did were more light hearted.

Jubilee and Rahne however were enjoying their freedom and rubbing it in to the other girls mainly because they weren't involved with the Siren affair either. As it got closer to the dance Xavier made one exception to the girls grounding for them to get any dresses for the dance if they needed them since their grounding ended the day before but only for that and they were to be accompanied by Ororo and May also to make sure that was all they did if they chose too.

It was early in the morning and Rogue and Kitty were going to the elevator going to the Danger Room for a new experiment that Forge had thought up and wanted to try out. But since it was a school say they had to do it early in the morning.

Kitty yawed as they made their way to the elevator. "Why do we have to do this so early?" She whined with good reason.

"Well that's what you get for talkin' ta Lance past one in the morning." Rogue said to her roommate. "So did you ask him though?"

"To the dance? No, you know what everyone would say, especially Scott." Kitty said to her.

"So, do it anyway." Rogue then pushed the button to call the elevator. The doors opened and they entered and they were about to leave when Jean came running and asked to hold the lift. She thanked the girls as the doors closed and all three went down.

"So...have you two picked out a dress yet?" Kitty asked both girls.

"Well I got this yellow one that I already have that I want to wear." Jean admitted. "You two?"

"Well I wanted to get a new one, but well I still have to ask someone." Kitty said avoiding who it was.

"It's fine with me if you ask Lance." Jean said surprising the petite brunette. "And no I'm not reading your mind, you don't need to be a telepath to figure out who you want to ask."

As the elevator stopped the girls got off and went in the Danger Room. They saw everyone was there and Peter was helping out Forge with the equipment and talking about his work. So far the two of them had formed a fast friendship seeing that they were both interested in the sciences. Although Peter had to admit Forge was way smarter then him, it was nice to be able to find someone else he could talk to about science and not have their eyes glaze over.

Sure Kitty was someone he could talk to but Forge was definitely a challenge to him. They got the equipment ready and tried out the new teleportation that would slow Kurt down enough to see what exactly happened to him when he does teleport. When they were ready Kurt tried it out and after a few minutes of waiting for Kurt to get back to their reality they heard him through the communication gear that was with him.

After Kurt traveled through a world of lava and brimstone, he found himself back at Forge's old lab at school. He pressed the communication gear as soon as he could. "It vorked! Vhoa vaht a trip, guys I'm coming right back!" Then Kurt was suddenly back in the Danger Room with the others. "Guys you vould not believe vhat I saw! I mean it vas just, verid and, and it vas just different and, and..." He said.

"Don't worry man I had a camera on it, so we should all see what it was like from the playback." Forge said taking off the equipment from him.

"Well this has been interesting." Logan said sarcastically. "But I think you all should get ready for school while Forge does...well...whatever he does."

School was the same old same old so far. Peter had just finished his class with Kurt and was about to head to his locker and get his stuff for next class when noticed something. There was that girl Amanda that Kurt said he didn't like but everyone knew he did, and everyone knew she had a thing for him too, walk over to Kurt.

He was too far away to hear what was being said but from what he saw he had a guess, and a smile was on his face as Kurt got this huge smile of his own. He said something back to her and she definitely looked pleased and she went off. Peter walked over to Kurt who was staring at Amanda's retreating form. "So...what was that about?" Peter asked.

"She asked me to ze dance." He said in a slightly dreamy state then he turned to Peter and he swore Kurt was glowing. "She asked me! She really did!" He exclaimed happily.

"See told you she liked you." Peter said to him elbowing him.

At lunch Kurt was with Evan and Scott. "Can you believe it she actually asked me!"

"Yeah, Kurt we know." Scott groaned. "You've been telling us that for the past ten minutes."

"So Kurt what are you going to do about your hands?" Evan asked him. "I mean won't she notice the fur and large two fingers?"

"Oh man!" Kurt said holding his head in his hands. "I forgot...what am I going to do?"

"Just wear gloves." Scott offered him. "Hey just say you got a rash, or something. I mean when people ask me about my shades all I got to tell them is it's because of an eye condition."

"You zink zat vould work?" Kurt asked hopefully.

"What would work?" Jean asked as she sat down next to Scott.

LATER THAT DAY – BAYVILLE MALL

May and Ororo went with the Rogue and Kitty after school to the mall for their own dresses. Kitty was of course getting a new pink one she had her eye on since Lance had agreed to go with her to the dance. Rogue however was having trouble, she was trying to find something nice yet offered a lot protection but it was proving difficult.

"Ah don't know why ah wanted ta do this." She said to herself slightly depressed looking around her in the store.

"What's wrong dear?" Rogue turned to see May Parker walking over to her.

"Ah don't know...maybe ah should call this off."

"What? Why?" She said concerned. "I know that Peter has been looking forward to this and I though you did also?"

"Really? He has? Well...it's just that...ah mean the last time ah danced with a guy, he almost ended up in a coma, ah mean how can I go to a dance and not touch someone?" Rogue said sadly to her."

May looked at the girl and felt pity for her restrictions. "Well you shouldn't worry." She said putting a hand on Rogue's clothed shoulder. "I may be old, but I remember what it was like to be young and I couldn't possibly know how you feel about not getting close to someone, but I think if you don't give up you can overcome anything."

Rogue couldn't help but feel slightly lifted be her words. "Do ya really think ah might one day be able to touch another person?" She said softly.

"I know so." She said to assure the younger woman. "Now I think with a little help we could get you something that should work...with a little few extra some things to help out." Rogue couldn't help but get a small smile from her. She had to admit that Peter's Aunt was a really nice person and she liked her. In fact all the students seemed to like her, especially since she started to teach Kitty how to cook, Kitty's food wasn't avoided like the plague it used to be.

In fact Kitty was getting quite good, which was a miracle in itself.

BACK AT THE MANSION

Everyone was watching the footage of Kurt's trip and when they saw that there was something alive in that other reality, to say the least Kurt was freaked out. Especially when Forge wanted to have him go again.

"Are you nuts?!" Kurt shouted at the native genius. "I'm not going back in zere! Vhat if they eat me?"

"That's why I'm going elf." Logan said to him finishing suiting up. It took a few minutes but they managed to convince Kurt to try it again. They hooked Kurt and Logan up with a line and Kurt was going to teleport to the school gym this time since no one would be there at the moment. Both Kurt and Logan disappeared.

"Are you sure this is safe Forge?" Peter asked him. "I mean this is new territory what if something happens?"

"What could happen?" Forge said.

After a little while Kurt and Logan reappeared at the gym a little worse for wear. Kurt threw off the equipment as fast as he could. "Zat's it! No more! I don't vant to try zat again and I may never use my powers again, not after zat!"

Logan sighed and couldn't blame him. The creatures in that place nearly had eaten Kurt and Logan turned on his communication gear. "Charles...we're going to need a ride back, I don't thnk Kurt's up for another teleportation."

The others heard this back at the mansion and Peter gave Forger a sideways glance and Forge shrugged. "Okay so maybe a few things could go wrong."

ACROSS TOWN

Eddie Brock was in a small apartment he had rented. He was still trying to get a picture of Spider-Man. Although now it was more personal to him ever since he opened the camera to develop to the film and found if empty. He was lucky he didn't call Jameson until after he found out about the film, or he would have claimed to already have the shots and then he would have been in deep trouble.

Not to say he wasn't already. Jameson was getting impatient and the Sirens seemed to have dropped out of sight. But from what he saw of them, he knew that those girls had to be teenagers. He had spent the days looking around and he found some unusual things at Bayville high.

A lot of weird things seemed to happen there and he had to wonder if there was any connection. He got a job there for their dance to take personal pictures of all the couples and stuff. Sure he could use the money but it also gave him the chance to look around the place and see if he could spot anything out of the ordinary.

Little did he or anyone know that the place Kurt had teleported the first time using Forge's device, in his old lab at school where Kurt had reappeared a glow started to form and a tear of energy started to form and a claw seemed to come out of the tear.

BROTHERHOOD HOUSE

Tabitha was getting ready in her new room, since Mystique had taken back her own room. She was thinking of asking all the guys, minus Lance to come with her to the dance together, but Max didn't like the idea of 'sharing' Tabitha with the others.

Well she guessed he did have a point. If they were going out it would be a little weird to take a whole bunch of guys, even though Pietro was taking several girls, but then again that was Pietro and she at least would stick with her boyfriend.

The Fred and Toad didn't seem to mind in fact they wanted to stay in and see if they could drive Mystique into a nervous breakdown or something. She smiled at the thought. She didn't care for her or Magneto and she didn't believe in what those two believed in.

She finished putting on her lipstick and opened her door to see Max there in a dark brown suit waiting for her. He had to smile as he saw her. "Looking good. Well let's go before Lance get's impatient or something." He said to her.

"Yeah, he most likely can't wait to see his pretty-kitty." She joked and both laughed. Lance and his relationship with Kitty was always good for a joke now and then.

THE MANSION

Scott, Kurt and Peter were downstairs in their suits. While a few of the others were there also to see them off, either because they didn't have dates or just didn't want to go to this dance, or weren't old enough.

Peter was fiddling with his collar, all his life he had hated those things, they always seemed to be too tight. All the guys were waiting for the girls to get ready. Kurt said he was meeting Amanda at the school and he was adjusting his gloves for what seemed like the twentieth time that night.

"Man Kurt take it easy." Scott said to him.

"I can't help it." Kurt said obviously nervous. "Zis is my first dance, I mean it's my first date too."

"Join the club." Peter said to him.

"Like I hope you guys are ready." They turned to see Kitty coming down in her new dress. Behind her came Jean in her yellow dress and Scott's jaw had hit the floor. Jean saw the reaction and smiled slightly and walked over to him and straightened his tie.

"You look good Scott." She said smiling to him, the closed his mouth with one of her fingers.

"Whoa...Jean...you look...just...so beautiful." He said to her. He couldn't help but admire her beauty and Jean visibly blushed.

"Why-Why thank you Scott." She replied. Peter and Kurt couldn't help but chuckled looking at the two of them.

"Sorry about the wait, ah couldn't get mah hair right." They heard Rogue's voice. When Peter turned not only did his jaw drop also, it nearly hit the floor and bounced back. Rogue was wearing an all green dress with matching gloves that went all the way up her arms. She also wore a black scarf around her neck that covered her shoulders. Her hair was mostly slicked back like when she was one of the Bayville Sirens only she had a strand of white hair coming down her face.

Peter never thought she looked more beautiful to him in his life. "So what do you think?" She asked him as she came up to him. Peter tried to say something but his brain seemed to have taken a vacation.

Spyder who was one of the people there smiled at the scene. "I think you broke him." Rogue couldn't help but smile while Peter blinked a few times and came to his senses.

"Wow." He nearly whispered. "Rogue...you look incredible." Rogue couldn't help but blush slightly, she never really considered herself the kind of girl that could turn heads. Mainly because most boys seemed to ignore her, but she had to admit it was nice that Peter seemed to genuinely find her attractive. It made her feel pretty good about herself.

"Come on gather around everyone." Aunt May said holding a camera in her hands.

Peter groaned slightly embarrassed. "Oh come on Aunt May." He said to her.

"Peter please, give an old lady some pleasure in life." She pleaded. Peter never could say no to her when she was like that. The others couldn't either. "You all look just so good." She said smiling and started to take a few pictures.

After that they students went to the van since Scott's car didn't have enough room for them all and Scott drove them to the school. When they got there they all split up. Kitty went to find Lance, Scott and Jean went to the dance floor, Kurt saw Amanda and went over to her so Peter and Rogue were the only ones left.

Peter saw that the school had hired a photographer taking pictures of couples. There was also something familiar about the guy though, but he couldn't place it. "What are ya lookin' at?" Rogue asked him.

Peter shrugged. "Nothing I guess. Just thought I saw someone familiar is all." A slow song started to play and Peter looked to her. "Care to dance." He asked her slightly nervous she smiled and nodded.

Kurt was dancing with Amanda at the moment and he was enjoying every moment of it all. "Kurt...you should know something." Amanda said slightly unsure of how to begin with this. "I know about you...the real you."

"V-vhat do you mean?" He asked nervously. She reached to touch his face but he stopped her.

She signed. "Kurt it's alright, but...I understand if you're not ready...but just know I wouldn't be afraid of it." And then danced closer to him and held him close. Kurt wasn't sure what to make of it, the fact that she might know about what he really looked like was both scary and yet the fact she said she wouldn't be afraid was something he had wished for so long, he was afraid it was true.

Peter and Rogue had been enjoying their time together. Peter made sure he was careful but they still managed to slow dance together. He was nervous that he might trip but thankfully thanks to his abilities he was naturally graceful.

Rogue felt like this was all a dream. She was actually at a dance with a boy she liked and so far she hadn't harmed him. For a brief moment she felt like a normal girl once again. She knew that she would never forget this night.

After an hour things were getting nice. Jean and Scott seemed to be enjoying the night immensely and Peter noticed Duncan giving the couple sour looks. He also noticed that girl Taryn was looking at Scott, and Peter guessed that she had wanted to go out with him to this.

Then suddenly his spider-sense started to go off. Rogue noticed him tense up and saw him looking around frantically. "What? What is it?" She asked him.

Then a strange energy like tear opened up and one of these lizard like, demonic dinosaurs about half the size of Blob started showing up. "That!" Peter yelled out and they dived for cover as one of the creatures leaped at them. The entire gym was now in a state of blind panic, everyone was running around. Well except for Brock.

He grinned as he started to take picture after picture. 'It may not be Spider-Man, but I know Jameson will want these.' He thought to himself. One of the creatures saw Brock and jumped at him, Brock screamed in terror but for some reason the creature seemed to fly out of the way and land hard on a table with refreshments. Brock knew he had enough pictures for the Bugle and decided to bolt while he could.

He wouldn't be able to sell anything if he was eating. Jean on the other hand saw him leave after she had used her abilities to send the creature flying. Luckily everyone was too busy to notice. She looked around and saw one of the creatures heading for Amanda, who looked like she had tripped.

She was about to do the same with this creature but Kurt got next to her and both disappeared. Jean was surprised he would use his powers like that, and didn't look forward to trying to explain it to her, or the Professor, but that could wait. She saw Scott had opened the fire doors and was shouting for people to get out.

Meanwhile Max and Tabitha had slipped away from the party to the hall and were in the process of making out when one of the creatures walked down their hall and roared at them. Both mutant teens jumped apart at the thing. "What the hell is that?" Tabitha exclaimed. "Looks like something from Jurassic Park."

Max however was pissed. This was the first time he had gotten Tabitha alone for a moment and was enjoying his time and now this...thing...interrupted his good time! "Look here Barnie, get lost or else!"

The creature roared and jumped at them. Max powered up and let loose a fierce some blast of electrical energy. The creature roared in pain but Electro kept on the power, in fact he got a very satisfied look on his face and was grinning as the creature started to flail around in pain as it was slowly cooked to death by Electro's power. When he was finished the creature was nothing more then a burnt corpse.

"Jeez Max." Tabitha whispered to herself. She had never seen that side of Max before, he seemed to enjoy what he just did more then what someone should have. In fact what she saw just there scared her. She heard some running and turned to see Forge, Logan running down the halls with a machine of his.

They all stopped there at the scene before them. "Oh man, that is so not cool." Forge said staring at the dead creature.

"Guys!" Tabitha said. "What is going on here?"

"Short answer, him." Logan said pointing at Forge. "What the hell happened to that!" Logan then asked pointing to the dead creature.

"It pissed me off." Max said coldly glaring at the others. "You want to make something of it?"

"Come on Max let's get out of here." Tabitha said grabbing his arm and led him away. He reluctantly turned to leave with her. Forge aimed his device at the creature and fired sending it back to the other reality it came from.

Rogue and Peter however were having a difficult time trying to help others out of the place. But they managed to do it when one of the creatures snuck up on them. Luckily Peter sensed it and jumped out of the way.

Rogue pulled one of her gloves off. "Come on ugly!" She said to it. It turned its head and slowly made its way to her readying to pounce. Peter looked at this and quickly jumped to one of the lockers and then kicked himself off and kicked the creature in the side and sent it flying into one of the lockers.

Peter took up a defensive stance as the creature rose up but a beam of light hit it and it disappeared. Both Peter and Rogue looked to see Forge, Kitty, Lance, Logan, Jean and Scott running to them.

"What is going on?" Peter shouted.

"My fault I'm afraid." Forge said sheepishly. "The equipment seems to have opened up several portals where Kurt teleported. They came out in the Danger Room first so we managed to keep them in there until I made this." Forge held up his new device. "To send them back, I think we got them all and I closed all the portals."

"Well that's good at least." Rogue muttered. Tonight was going so well she guessed she shouldn't hav been surprised that something had come along to ruin it.

"Where's the elf?" Logan asked seeing he was the only one missing.

"Uh...he's safe, with Amanda." Jean said to him. "He should be fine." Logan nodded and left it at that, but Jean couldn't help but bit her lip. She would have to ask Kurt how he dealt with Amanda, and if he told her the truth how did she take it.

"Well I don't know about you guys but I think it's a safe bet the dance was called off." Peter said sighing a little.

"Yeah I think so." Logan said. "Come on, we should get going back before police come and start asking questions." The teens reluctantly agreed and made their way home. Kurt got back an hour later and Jean was about to ask him how things went but the huge smile he had on his face said everything she needed to know.

After everyone had gotten dressed into their own clothing Rogue noticed that Peter wasn't around anywhere, so she checked his room. She walked in on him just as he was finishing putting on his Spider-Man suit and was about to pull the mask down. "Goin' out huh?" She said to him.

He shrugged. "Yeah well, I feel a little restless after the dino thing, you know?"

"Ah guess...Peter...just so ya know, before the creatures...ah had a good time."

He smiled at her. "So did I...so...you want to go see this movie playing tomorrow?"

She smiled back. "Sure." She said to him he pulled on the mask and nodded to her and went out the window. She stood there leaning her head against the frame watching him go out into the night.

NEXT UP CHAPTER 34: CURSE OF THE LIZARD PART 1