Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters of X-Men Evolution, they belong to Marvel and Kids WB; this story is making me no money.
It is nightfall in the city of Bayville and all is quiet. Well that is above the surface, below the surface two figures hide amongst the shadows. One of them lied against the wall and began to moan.
"Where am I" the girl known as Wanda Maximoff grunted as her vision came clear. "This place smells."
The other figure came closer and startled her as he created a spark in his hand to show his face. "The name's Berzerker" he explained.
Wanda nodded then pushed him off. "Yeah I remember your one of the X-Men's runts" she snarled. "Keep away from me."
"That's gratitude," Berzerker grumbled back. "If it wasn't for me you be captured by now" he said.
"Oh really is that right" Wanda frowned. "I could of taken them and by the way it was your people who tried to take me last time I checked."
Ray shrugged. "Good point there, but hey don't ask me what that's about, looks like I'm not in the club anymore anyways, whoever this new management is they didn't invite me to the party and I'm not really digging what their up to."
"Is that right and why should I trust you" Wanda asked as she got up and glared darkly at Ray.
Ray shrugged as he got up. "Just put it this way, if I was lying I'm no match for you anyway and right now we sort of need each other, since everyone else we know has either joined up with whoever's running the institute now, or run off scared" he frowned.
Wanda nodded and grinned briefly at his comment of her superiority. "Alright then kid you can come with me but I'll be watching you" she said.
"Ladies first" Ray gestured but Wanda frowned at him.
"Yeah you think I'm stupid" she rolled her eyes and shoved him forward a bit before following after him.
Across the Atlantic at London's famed Heathrow Airport two figures were trying their best to keep a low profile as they waited in a terminal. The girl was sitting down on a bench with a laptop on her legs typing away, as the boy who was standing looked over. These two figures were best known as the X-Men turned fugitives Kitty "Shadowcat" Pryde, and the Iceman Bobby Drake.
"Okay Warren's people told me they are about 2 hours from landing, but they're asking me where they'll be taking us next" Kitty explained as she looked back up at Bobby.
Bobby shrugged. "Yeah I hadn't thought of that, had you? I mean do we go after Beast, Storm, Wolverine, who first."
"Wherever we go we have to be careful though considering we're being chased by everyone" Kitty sighed. "This would be a lot easier if we could actually show our faces in public without hiding ourselves." she sighed as she looked down at her computer screen. She noticed a headline on a news site and frowned. "Damn it I can't take anymore of this" she cried and dropped the laptop before phasing through the floor before Bobby could say anything.
"Kitty wait..." he began before realizing it was too late. "Damn it" he frowned then took a look at the computer screen where a headline read "Fugitive mutants commit another act of terror." He realized what had irked her. "Just great" he frowned as he got on his knees and began to talk to the floor. "Kit..." he began to say before looking around to make sure not everyone was staring at him. "Kit I know your upset but come out from down they're before you get stuck."
"What's it matter I'd just suffocate and that's a hell of a lot better then living my life right now" she called out from underneath the floor.
Bobby frowned. "Don't go saying that now things aren't that bad."
"Like yeah right, heck you don't even believe your BS" she retorted.
Bobby shrugged and looked up and made sure no one was staring before whispering back. "Well okay things really suck right now, but guess what if you suffocate things are going to stink a lot more. Not to sound selfish but please don't do this to me, right now all I've got going for me is that you're around now please come out."
Bobby stared at the floor in anticipation till he saw Kitty slowly phase herself out behind the bench and put her arms around him. "Sorry about that" she gave a half smile.
Bobby grinned. "I guess I can forgive you... this time" he winked at her. "Besides look at the bright side..."
"Oh don't even try that fake optimism with me" Kitty rolled her eyes.
"No seriously, because of this I know what we have to do now" he told her as he eyed the laptop screen. "All we have to do is find them."
"Leave that to me" Kitty said with determination in her voice, and then focused herself on the computer.
Meanwhile on the other side of the ocean, underneath the Xavier Institute, the highly advanced mutant-tracking device known as Cerebro had been in full operation. Essex, Cyclops, and Jean Grey were standing outside the door waiting patiently. Suddenly the doors opened to reveal a weary Emma Frost.
"Well" Jean Grey asked snidely.
Emma glared at her with hate for a second then lifted her head up. "Lord can't I catch my breath for a second, these things can get rather straining."
Grey was about to make a comment but Essex put up his hand. "But of course, but your second is just about up, now what did you find" he asked as his dark eyes looked right into hers.
Emma frowned and bit her lip. She knew any information she gave them could hinder any chance of her rescue yet if she didn't compile she was dead anyway. "Fine, they were in London but they are headed this way, it seems to chase after the little doppelgangers you created."
Essex nodded. "Very good work" he said then gestured his head down the corridor, and out of it emerged Colossus and Gambit. "Escort Ms. Frost back to her accommodations" he smirked.
The two young men nodded and began to walk her away.
"You think she was telling the truth?" Cyclops asked. "I mean do you really think they would risk coming out in the open so easily, they are kids but Drake and Pryde aren't stupid."
"On contraire my boy" Essex smirked. "She is telling the truth, and things are going just as I knew they would. I arranged for Rogue to make her copies for I knew that they would draw Iceman and Shadowcat out eventually. They could never effectively hide from both us and the law, thus they have no choice but to try and clear they're name, and when they do we'll be right they're waiting for them" he grinned.
Several hours later in New York City, Bobby and Kitty were sitting down in Central Park.
"So you really think this is the place to be" Bobby asked.
Kitty nodded. "Our doubles have been terrorizing all over New York City, and this is a central location, plus the pattern of attacks means that the next place should either be the museum, Time Square, or the center of the Park. Just trust me on this."
Bobby nodded. "You're the brains," he agreed then sighed.
"What's wrong" she asked looking into his eyes.
"I don't know, I mean your making sense and all but it's like your kind of making too much sense you know" he shrugged then looked at her blankly. "I'm making absolutely no sense am I" he said with a half smile.
Kitty smiled. "Well not really but I kind of get what your saying, you think it's just too simple, like they wanted us to do this, and trust me the thought has crossed my mind as well" she agreed. "But do we have any other choice."
Bobby shook his head. "No we really don't."
Suddenly an alarm rang out. Kitty popped opened her laptop. "I can trace it" she explained. "Just a second...." She said as she typed away. "The Museum now!!"
Bobby nodded and grabbed her hand as he iced up and created an ice slide headed straight for the museum.
Meanwhile at the American Museum of Natural History chaos had errupted after an ice slide carrying one person had shattered through a large window in the main lobby. People had scattered as ice sheers reigned on them, but as they ran for the doors they find them shut tight, just as all the lighting and security devices shut down.
"Don't bother, the electricity has been cut" a female voice called from above them as a figure came from out of the ceiling and landed on to the ice slide just as it came into the gaze of some emergency lights.
"It's those mutant terrorists from the news" a man yelled out.
"That's right" the male voice chuckled. "It's Iceman and Shadowcat, "he laughed some more before raining down shards of ice. "Now all of you get into the dinosaur exhibit before we make things get a lot worse."
"Not so fast" a security guard yelled as several guns began to fire at the two mutants.
"You've got to be kidding" the girl calling herself Shadowcat laughed as the blasts went harmlessly through them. "I'm intangible morons."
"We warned you" Iceman smirked then fired a large ice blast, smashing the guards hard into the wall. "Now do what we say now, we aren't playing games."
The trapped masses quickly complied and began running through the hallways to the part of the museum where the dinosaur exhibit lay, as their aggressors followed quickly behind them. As they entered the large display room the ice slide suddenly stopped.
Iceman looked over the crowd and nodded to himself. "Yeah that should be just enough" he muttered then created a large ice wall around the crowd.
"What's going on" one person called out as the crowd began to mutter with worried comments.
Shadowcat's laugh began to ring out through the room as she elevated herself from the ice slide and began to float over to the near by massive T-Rex bone exhibit. "Well you see now that you're all trapped in this tight little space, its like shooting ducks in a barrel if you will. It would be a real shame if some of these dinosaur bone collapsed and crushed you below" she grinned as she reached the head of the T-Rex.
Iceman laughed along as the crowd's expressions of fear became intensified. "Now you're catching on. Those bones are very sensitive, if any thing were to upset them, say like my partner here becoming tangible again, well let's just say it wouldn't to pleasant for you."
"What do you want" one person called out in worry. "We'll give you anything, money, jewels, just let us go."
Shadowcat sighed. "Tisk, tisk, bribing your captors what a shock. Typical for humans to beg for their lives, but this is about making a statement" she began to say as she hovered right above the large T-Rex head. "So heads up" she smirked and landed atop the T-Rex head hard before becoming intangible again.
The Head began to shake and a snapping sound could be heard just as the skull began to plummet to earth. Many of the people rushed for cover but could find none, but suddenly they heard a crashing sound. They looked up to see the skull smashed through the ice wall, followed by another stream of ice.
"Run now" a voice yelled at them belonging to another Iceman, riding an ice slide. The crowd looked confused and Iceman rolled his eyes. "Get out of here unless you want to get crushed" he said as he headed right for the aggressor Iceman.
"Glad you could make it" the first Iceman smirked as his Shadowcat
"Not a problem" Bobby retorted as he fired an Ice blast knocking his counterpart off his ice slide. The aggressor Shadowcat frowned at him. "Oh don't worry I thought we could double date" he said.
She looked confused when from a wall to her left Kitty phased through and dropped kicked her right in the midsection. "Is my timing good or what" Kitty winked at Bobby.
Bobby smirked. "Yeah and thank god or my commentary just wouldn't deliver correctly" he said as he charged his duplicate in full ice form and the two began to go at hand to hand.
Kitty followed as she flipped behind her duplicate and started to wrestle with her as well.
Meanwhile outside a small black aircraft landed in the middle of the cleared off city street, where police cars and barricades were set around a perimeter to keep the growing crowd back. Out of the aircraft appeared Nathaniel Essex along side Jean Grey in full black uniform.
A police sergeant immediately approached them. "What are you doing here" he demanded. "This is a restricted area."
Essex smiled at the officer as he took a piece of paper from his jacket pocket and handed it to the sergeant. "If you read this you will see we are here under the authority of the mayor. He just called us in and my student here is an expert on handling hostile mutants. All we ask is that as the hostages come out, no one else comes in "he told the officer before walking past him. "Enter Ms. Grey," he ordered.
Jean Grey nodded. "This shouldn't take too long "she said as she levitated herself off the ground and headed into the building. "Just follow the sounds of destruction" she muttered to herself as she floated through the hallways until she came upon another figure. "Hello Rogue, how are your puppets doing."
Rogue shrugged. "They are really just cheap imitations, but they are serving they're purpose."
"And that they do but we really should be moving on with the agenda, shouldn't we" Jean said as she continued on her way.
"Ready when you are" Rogue shrugged as she followed after her
Upstairs the fight continued as the Icemen exchanged ice for ice, with the real Iceman's blasts showing his superiority. "Is that all you got, I mean it's like my grandma throwing ice cubes at me for god sake" Bobby commented.
The other Iceman simply grunted and fired a large ice blast sending Bobby off his feet.
"Okay that was a little better.... "Bobby chuckled as he created a slide underneath his body, stopping his body from falling on the ground. He quickly spun around the double as he created a solid bar of ice around his hand. "But not as good as this" he yelled as he swung it at the double sending him flying into the wall, knocking him out, followed by him fading away. Bobby scratched his head. "Well didn't expect that to happen."
Meanwhile Kitty and her double were also going at it as they tackled each other across the room and out of it, fighting in and out of walls and floors and exhibits. "Like you must be the worst copy ever" Kitty rolled her eyes as both she and her double phased back into the room from the ceiling. "First because I would never wear such an ugly jump suit" Kitty grinned before back flipping through a wall and disappearing.
The clone frowned and ran after her through the wall into the hallway and looked around where she could be when suddenly coming from the behind her Kitty reappeared from the same wall the clone had come. "And Second you don't have my moves, I was trained by a Wolverine" Kitty smirked as she wrapped her arm around the neck of her double and flipped them both through the wall again before launching her across the room and hard on the floor.
The frustrated clone of Shadowcat looked around angrily before picking up a bone and began swinging it as she charged at Kitty who stood definitely waiting till the clone walked right through her and swung the bone hitting the leg of another large dinosaur skeleton that began to shake as chunks of bone fell on top of the clone, one piece smacking her in the head knocking her off her feet.
Kitty bent down and looked over giggling. "Oh sorry I forgot, and three I totally have you on the brains too" she laughed but stopped when her double faded away into nothing. "What in the world" she muttered to herself as Bobby ran over. "Like my double just disappeared."
Bobby nodded. "Yeah mine too, I don't know but something strange is going on here."
Kitty nodded and grabbed his hand. "You've got that right and we better make our exit before..." she began to say but stopped and began to hold her head in pain. "Oww" she moaned.
"Kit what's..." Bobby began but failed to finish as his head hurt as well and he slowly began to fall asleep as he watched Kitty fall as well before passing out completely.
From out of the shadows Jean Grey appeared and lifted up the bodies and sent them down the halls in opposite directions. "Well my work here is done," she said as she turned her head behind her. "That's your cue Rogue."
"I know" Rogue nodded and closed her eyes to concentrate before allowing two duplicates of her to appear from in her. The two duplicates then morphed into copies of Kitty and Bobby, down to their very clothes. "You two know what to do" Rogue said as she took out a large knife.
Bobby awoke with a jerk, holding his sour head as he began to look around to see where he was. "What happened?" he moaned as his vision began to clear. He looked up to realize he was in the middle of some sort of animal exhibit, with stuffed animals all around him, including a big elephant's butt right in front of him. "Good morning sunshine, now how did I get..." he began to say when he saw something on the floor across the room. "Kit" he exclaimed and quickly ran over to her body.
He shook her hard till it seemed she came to. "What happened" she muttered.
"I don't know," he said as he helped her up. "I remember we had just finished off those knockoffs then we must have been knocked out or something" he shrugged.
Kitty nodded. "Yeah I remember that vaguely" she groaned. "Now could you please help me off this floor."
Bobby began to help her up when she let out a brief moan. "Oww my leg" she groaned. "It might be hurt could you just take a quick look and see if anything's swollen" she asked.
Bobby nodded. "Yeah, which side is it" he asked as he bent down to take a look.
"Oh the right" Kitty told him as she began to discreetly pull something from underneath her shirt. "It could be anywhere around the leg so just keep looking" she explained as she slowly pulled out a large blade and put it behind her back just before Bobby stood back up.
"Well everything looked normal but if it's sore I could always ice it" he suggested as he looked right at her.
She smiled. "Oh you are so sweet. It's been a rough day and I think I know what we need," she said.
"What's that" Bobby began to say when Kitty leaned in to kiss him on the lips. At first he was caught by surprise but then he just went with it, and didn't even realize the blade being lifted toward his stomach, until it was too late. He fell down in pain.
"You know what they say about fools in love," Kitty laughed maliciously over the bleeding Bobby.
Bobby groaned. "But how you both faded away, how could you be back again."
"Let's just say we have our resources" the Kitty double grinned as she held the blade in her hands and began to aim again. "So where you want it" she smirked.
"How bout up side your face" Bobby frowned and fired an ice blast right at the Kitty double. Then watched as it went right through her body harmlessly and stabbed him again.
"I phase duh," she laughed as she fiddled with the blade. "Anyway if that's all you got can you let me know now so we can get this over with?" she said.
Bobby looked around quickly. "You want me, well then catch me" he said and while clenching his wounds with his left arm, he used his right hand to ice slide on his back down the hall and round the corridor very quickly, but also without direction, crashing into a wall. "Ouch, maybe that wasn't the best idea" he muttered as he inched his way behind a large exhibit for cover. "Got to find a way to stop her" he thought.
Meanwhile the Kitty double simply followed the ice slide down the way. "Is this really necessary, I'm going to find you anyway, why don't you just come out and end it."
From out of his hiding place, he crawled out. "Fine you want me come and get me" he said then closed his eyes. "Here goes nothing," he thought.
The double grinned. "Whatever you try to do, you can't touch me so no funny stuff" she said as she walked over, blade in hand and began to become tangible again, when she fell to the ground in great pain. "Wha- what's going on" she said as she looked up at the bleeding Bobby who was smiling through his pain.
"I lowered the temperature in this room to intolerable levels of cold, so when you became tangible you couldn't stand it, now eat this" he grunted and smashed her into a wall with a block of ice, taking her out. "Well that solved one problem..." He nodded at his handy work before grabbing himself in pain again. "But probably made another worse" he muttered as he realized how much energy he had just used up. Then began to slowly hobble down the corridors in search of the real Kitty.
Meanwhile Kitty found herself in a similar situation as she awoke slightly dazed and also having no idea where she was. She looked around and realized she was in some sort of Indian exhibit, which was just one long corridor. Looking down the corridor she saw a familiar figure walking away into the shadows. "Bobby" she mumbled as she stood up and regained her senses. "Wait Bobby!!" She called out and began to chase after him. She ran faster to catch up with him and continued to call him. "Bobby wait up, what's going on" she asked but got no response. This both confused her and made her very frustrated.
She finally caught up to him and grabbed his shoulder only to be pushed away. "What was that for" she frowned as she spun him around. "Where you off to in such a hurry."
Bobby glared at her darkly, in a way she never seen her before. "What's it your business, you don't own me" he snapped.
"But-"Kitty tried to interject but was cut off by Bobby.
"But nothing. Ever since this whole thing started you gotten way to needy and quite frankly I'm sick of it" he fumed. "It's amazing we've gotten this far considering how weak you are."
Kitty looked heartbroken. "But Bobby what about."
"What about what" he glared then smirked. "You thought we had something special or something. Well I admit you did give me a few thrills but I got what I wanted, besides who would want a little whiny nerd like you for more then a few cheap thrills" he grinned.
"How could you say that, you said you" Kitty became teary eyed.
"Loved you, well I had do didn't I or you would of never been so much fun" he winked at her. "But anyway I've spent way to much time on you. Maybe if I explain to the X-Men I got rid of you they might take me back" he said and began to walk away. "And you better not follow me"
Kitty put her head down and began to cry and slowly waited to it seemed he was walking away then glared at him as she jumped up into the air and jumped on his back, as she tightly wrapped her legs around his neck, cutting off his air. "Weak huh, does this feel weak. Now where's Bobby, jerk" she snapped.
"But how" the Bobby double was able to get out as he gasped for air.
"Maybe you should do some research before you put your foot in your mouth jerk" Kitty snapped. "Bobby and I, well we never, well you know" she said as she tightened her hold on him. "Well it's none of your business anyway. Let's just say you screwed up royally. Now tell me where he is, now" she said.
He gasped for air some more with out responding.
"Now don't be stupid, Wolverine has taught me quite a few things about hand to hand combat, and unless you want to be put through a lot of slow intolerable pain, I suggest you fess up."
"First floor, Asian animals" he gasped as she loosened up. "But your probably too late anyway" he smirked.
"You just never know when to quit do you" she rolled her eyes as she re tightened her legs around him as she flipped her hands on to the floor and launched into a glass case. Then quickly phased through the floor.
Once down on the 1st floor Kitty quickly ran down the hallways till she found Bobby hobbling his way down the hallways, blood dripping but an ice patch over the wounds. "So what you been up to" Bobby winked at her as she ran over to support him.
"Oh Bobby, I'm so sorry, your hurt. If I've only been there" she sighed.
"Don't worry about it" He grunted. "I'll be fine, just a little scratch and besides I won right" he joked.
"Oh please stop with the male ego, you need a doctor and I don't care what happens to us, I'm not letting you bleed to death" she frowned. "Now we are going to the hospital."
"No it's not that bad, I mean the ice patch is holding it for now" Bobby refused. "But I have an idea, go to the train station, I'll explain on the way" he said."All right but this better work or I'll kill you before you kill yourself" she said as she phased them through the ground.
Later that evening in the Long Island town of Port Jefferson, a middle aged married couple had just finished with dinner. The wife was in the kitchen cleaning the dishes and looking quite distressed, while her husband sat in a recliner watching the news as he irritably tore at the arms of the chair. The more he watched the news the more angry he seemed to get.
"William, is there any news about him" his wife called out softly from the kitchen.
"Damn it Maddie, I sure hope not, that boy better not have gotten himself into anymore trouble, the last thing I want is more reporters on our lawn" he began to say then frowned. "Damn it" he yelled at the TV and launched the remote.
"What is it William" Maddie asked as she came out.
"Your darling boy is on the news with that girl again. Seems they attacked the museum today, then escaped again. Damn it those freaks have ruined his life, turned him into some sort of terrorist" he ranted on.
"Well I hope he's alright" she sighed. "I just can't believe my son would do such a thing."
"Well believe it they have footage honey" William frowned then frowned more when he heard a knock at the door. "Oh look the papers are here for another statement. I should have done what that Carmen Pryde guy did and go into hiding" he frowned as he ran over to the door and swung it open. "For the last time No..." he began to say then gasped as he looked down at who was at the door.
It was his son, Bobby Drake, badly hurt, and being held up by Kitty Pryde who looked up at him with her deep brown eyes. "Mr. Drake, I presume," she said softly.
Okay sorry I didn't update in a while but I've had writers block as well as work all summer. Please tell me what you think, I like to write this fic but appreciate some reviews and suggestions but mostly just encouragement if you do like it. Thanks and please REVIEW, I am a hound about that.