Chapter 3: I Don't Wanna Be
-I don't be anything other
Than a prisoner guard's son
I don't to need to be anything other
Than a Specialist's son
I don't need to be anyone other
Than the birth of two souls in one
Part of where I'm going, is knowing where I'm coming from-
"So, are you going to give us details or do we have to pry it out of you?" Jubilee demanded, staring blatantly at Kitty. They were in the locker room, preparing for their session with Logan.
"Pry what out of me?" Kitty asked, playing dumb, she knew exactly what Jubilee was talking about; she just preferred to prolong her agony a little bit.
"You and Piotr, duh!" Jubilee plopped down on the bench, already in her X-uniform. It was all black except for the purple little stripes down the sides and the silver X-belt around her waist. All the X-men and junior X-men had uniforms; some of them were a little more personally altered. Like Jubilee's, her gloves had finger holes in them.
Rogue's was similar, only hers had a green chest plate and solid gloves. She too had the silver X-belt, they all did. Each belt held a communicator, mini flashlight and several small tracking devices that could be scanned from the Blackbird.
Kitty's was different from both of the girls. Instead of being black, it was navy blue with a silver X in the front and back. The silver X-belt was present and she even had silver gloves. It was really cool and best of all it matched Piotr's.
All the uniforms had matching partners, except for Rogue's. The uniform that matched hers hadn't been given yet (Lol, gee, I wonder why? cough Gambit cough). Bobby's matched Jubilee's, only instead of being purple it was dark blue. Pietro and Evan had matching uniform, both dark green with silver sides. While Kitty and Piotr matched, except his didn't have sleeves at all.
"There's nothing going on with Piotr and I, yet." Kitty smiled. "I just asked him to join us for lunch and then Pie showed up and the rest is history."
"Kit, that boy was so sweet on you during lunch I'm surprised he's not sugar high." Rogue commented, as she pulled her gloves on.
"Hey, we're just starting to talk to each other. I mean, the most I've ever really said to him before was hi!" Kitty stated firmly, while lacing up her boots. "So, you'll just have to wait."
"Shoot!" Jubilee glanced at her watch. "If we don't get to the danger room in thirty seconds, Wolverine will skewer us!"
Kitty leapt to her feet. "Here." She held out her hand and Rogue latched on, while Jubilee held Rogue's hand. "Ready...Go!" Kitty dragged the girls through the walls at a run and they managed to reach the danger room right on time.
-I don't wanna be
Anything other than what I've been trying to be lately
All I have to do
Is think of me and I have peace of mind
I'm tired of looking 'round rooms
Wondering what I've gotta do
Or who I'm supposed to be
I don't wanna be anything other than me-
"Right on time, Ladies." Logan aka the Wolverine remarked gruffly. "Now where's Daniels?"
"Here!" Evan raced into the simulator room, sliding to a stop. "Sorry, sorry." He seemed to cower under the Wolverine's glare.
"All right. Let's not waste anymore time. I've set up a mission in the Danger room. It'll be in the form of a Warehouse and your mission is to retrieve the hostage without getting the guards or yourselves killed. The Danger rooms self defense mechanisms will go off and you and your partner, who I will assign, have to watch each other's backs." He glanced around the room to see if everyone was paying attention. "Now, I've appointed Popsicle here as team leader. You'll follow his instructions and do what he says with your partner. If you get in trouble, only then can you do what you need to." He gestured to Bobby. "He'll be partnered with Rogue. Let's see, we'll put Firecracker with Spike and Ghost girl, you'll be with the Tin man over here." He pointed to Piotr.
Kitty could hardly contain her excitement, as she followed the group into the danger room, which looked like the inside of a warehouse. Almost immediately we could hear the machines start up at our entrance. Spikes began to protrude from Evan's arms and sparks began to fly from Jubilee's fingertips. Bobby's breath came out in icy puffs and in a blink, Piotr body was covered in organic steel. Rogue stood close to Bobby, ready to hide behind an ice shield he could throw up in a second's notice.
Kitty could feel her molecules begin to separate as she was partially phasing. "What do we do, Bobby?"
"All right." Iceman went into Leader mode. "Colossus, Shadowcat, you're probably the strongest team we've got. Going down that middle corridor is probably the most dangerous of the three, so since you two are virtually indestructible, we'll send you down there. Rogue and I will take the corridor on the left and Jubilee and Spyke have the one on the right. Put your communicators on. We may need you to get us out of trouble, Shadowcat."
They all nodded and reached into their belts, pulling out the small headset. Kitty stuck the earpiece in her left ear and adjusted the microphone in front of her mouth. The others did the same. Then they split up, Kitty heading down the middle corridor with Piotr by her side. In his metal form, each step of Piotr's was deafeningly loud. He could plow right through these walls if he wanted to.
"Hey! Hold it right there!" A security guard hollered, running towards them. It was really a robot, but the danger room had disguised it as a person. Kitty waited for her opportune moment, ready to lunge when he was in perfect striking distance.
Just as the guard lifted his arm to strike, Kitty leapt up into a full roundhouse kick, nailing her intended target right in the side of the head, knocking him into the wall, where he fell unconscious. She silently thanked Scott for all the one on one sessions.
"That was mighty impressive, Katya." Piotr commented in a deep, almost robotic voice.
"Thank you." Kitty smiled, continuing forward. "One guard down, Iceman." She whispered into the communicator.
Just then, a security laser gun went off and if Piotr hadn't lunged forward, she would have been shot. She smiled gratefully up at him, as the laser seemed to bounce harmlessly off the metal. She instinctively phase right through him and then through the machine, effectively short circuiting it. "Another score for the Shadowcat!" She cheered. "Come on, we've got a hostage to save!"
Her ego slightly boosted with the ease of short-circuiting the gun, she started forward again, phasing when another gun went off, this time with an onslaught of whirling metal disks. She phased so they went through her unharmed and a moment later heard them ping off Colossus's chest and midsection.
-I'm surrounded by liars everywhere I turn
I'm surrounded by imposters everywhere I turn
I'm surrounded by idenity crisis everywhere I turn
Am I the only one who's noticed
I can't be the only one who's learned-
Unharmed by the attack, Piotr simply jogged forward running through it, like Kitty had done earlier, but instead of actually going through it, he demolished it. All that was left were a bunch of sparking wires, while the gun lay in a smoking pile of scrap metal on the floor. "And you say I was impressive?" She teased.
Before she could even take another step, the floor beneath her lurched and she was tossed into the air like a rag doll. She let out a surprised shriek, before tucking and rolling as she hit the floor, about ten feet away from where she had previously stood.
"Katya!" Piotr rushed to her, immediately scooping her small form off the floor into his arms. "Are you all right?"
"Yeah." She winced and rubbed her backside. "Was not expecting that." She basked for a moment at being carried like a princess in Piotr's arms, before squirming to get down. "You can carry me later, we've got a hostage to find."
"I look forward to it, Katya." He set her back down on her own two feet, while she blushed brightly.
"Come on." She tiptoed lightly across the floor now, after that humiliating experience. They were coming upon the end of the corridor and so far it looked like a dead end. While she was peering corridor, there was a crash ad a grunt behind her. She turned to see Piotr standing over the unconscious form of a guard.
-I don't wanna be
Anything other than what I've been trying to be lately
All I have to do
Is think of me and I have peace of mind
I'm tired of looking 'round rooms
Wondering what I've gotta do
Or who I'm supposed to be
I don't wanna be anything other than me-
Suddenly, the simulator went off and they were in the middle of a dome of steel; the danger room. "Mission complete; success. Congratulations Spyke and Jubilee."
Kitty turned to see Jubilee, Evan and Storm standing together, looking pleased with themselves. Rogue and Bobby jogged up beside them. "Awesome job!" Rogue gushed.
"Good work." Bobby nodded in agreement.
"Not bad, not bad at all." Wolverine emerged from the control room. "Nice work, Jubilee and Evan. You all did well. "Excellent teamwork, Colossus and Shadowcat. Where you learn those moves, Half-pint?"
"Cyclops." Kitty replied.
"They have one on one sessions." Jubilee teased, trying to get a rise out of her friend.
"Shut up, Jubes." Kitty shot back good-naturedly.
"One-eye? He can barely defend himself." Wolverine growled.
"He's a great teacher. I learned a lot." Kitty shrugged, knowing Wolverine and Cyclopse's ongoing grudge against each other.
"Yeah, right." Wolverine scoffed.
"We're going to go change, Logan." Rogue smiled gently at the older man. "We'll see you later."
They all left the Danger room at the same time, chatting about their plans for the weekend.
"I don't know about you, but I'm so going shopping!" Jubilee beamed. "I can't wait for some new clothes."
"Girls and clothes." Evan shook his head. "I'll never understand."
"You're not supposed to." Kitty replied.
"Bobby and I are going to the movies." Rogue smiled lovingly up at her boyfriend.
"Skateboarding, duh!" Evan laughed. "I can't wait to hit a real skatepark!"
"Peter?" Jubilee looked to the Russian for his plans.
"I'll probably just sketch." He shrugged. "Don't really have plans."
"I heard you were the artist of the school." Kitty smiled at him. "Do you think I could take a look at some of your stuff?"
Piotr blushed and actually stammered. "If you want to."
"I'd love to." Kitty assured him. "I may not have an eye for art, but I can appreciate it as much as they next person."
"All right then." Piotr let a rare grin cross his handsome face, completely oblivious to the looks Rogue and Jubilee were sharing.
"What are your plans, Kitty?" Evan asked, also oblivious to the sparks.
"Um, I'll look at Peter's stuff and I promised Pie I'd tutor him. I think I may have a lunch date with an old friend of mine this weekend, I have to check my calendar." Kitty thought about it for a moment.
"Who?" Jubilee asked, ever so nosy.
"Just an old friend from before I met you guys." Kitty replied.
-I came from the mountains
The crust of creation
My whole situation
Made from clay to stone
And now I'm telling everybody-
"That's cool." Rogue said, giggling as Bobby tickled her.
"So, can I see your sketches tonight, Peter?" Kitty asked. "I could meet you somewhere after dinner."
Piotr looked pleased at the thought. "I usually sketch in the greenhouse. I could meet you there at nine o'clock."
"That works for me." Kitty wanted to squeal with joy.
-I don't wanna be
Anything other than what I've been trying to be lately
All I have to do
Is think of me and I have peace of mind
I'm tired of looking 'round rooms
Wondering what I've gotta do
Or who I'm supposed to be
I don't wanna be anything other than me-
Okay, that's Chapter three. Hope you enjoyed. I promise that there will be Kiotr action, but I'm gradually working into it. Kitty sees her old friend this weekend! Things are about to get interesting.
-I don't be anything other
Than a prisoner guard's son
I don't to need to be anything other
Than a Specialist's son
I don't need to be anyone other
Than the birth of two souls in one
Part of where I'm going, is knowing where I'm coming from-
"So, are you going to give us details or do we have to pry it out of you?" Jubilee demanded, staring blatantly at Kitty. They were in the locker room, preparing for their session with Logan.
"Pry what out of me?" Kitty asked, playing dumb, she knew exactly what Jubilee was talking about; she just preferred to prolong her agony a little bit.
"You and Piotr, duh!" Jubilee plopped down on the bench, already in her X-uniform. It was all black except for the purple little stripes down the sides and the silver X-belt around her waist. All the X-men and junior X-men had uniforms; some of them were a little more personally altered. Like Jubilee's, her gloves had finger holes in them.
Rogue's was similar, only hers had a green chest plate and solid gloves. She too had the silver X-belt, they all did. Each belt held a communicator, mini flashlight and several small tracking devices that could be scanned from the Blackbird.
Kitty's was different from both of the girls. Instead of being black, it was navy blue with a silver X in the front and back. The silver X-belt was present and she even had silver gloves. It was really cool and best of all it matched Piotr's.
All the uniforms had matching partners, except for Rogue's. The uniform that matched hers hadn't been given yet (Lol, gee, I wonder why? cough Gambit cough). Bobby's matched Jubilee's, only instead of being purple it was dark blue. Pietro and Evan had matching uniform, both dark green with silver sides. While Kitty and Piotr matched, except his didn't have sleeves at all.
"There's nothing going on with Piotr and I, yet." Kitty smiled. "I just asked him to join us for lunch and then Pie showed up and the rest is history."
"Kit, that boy was so sweet on you during lunch I'm surprised he's not sugar high." Rogue commented, as she pulled her gloves on.
"Hey, we're just starting to talk to each other. I mean, the most I've ever really said to him before was hi!" Kitty stated firmly, while lacing up her boots. "So, you'll just have to wait."
"Shoot!" Jubilee glanced at her watch. "If we don't get to the danger room in thirty seconds, Wolverine will skewer us!"
Kitty leapt to her feet. "Here." She held out her hand and Rogue latched on, while Jubilee held Rogue's hand. "Ready...Go!" Kitty dragged the girls through the walls at a run and they managed to reach the danger room right on time.
-I don't wanna be
Anything other than what I've been trying to be lately
All I have to do
Is think of me and I have peace of mind
I'm tired of looking 'round rooms
Wondering what I've gotta do
Or who I'm supposed to be
I don't wanna be anything other than me-
"Right on time, Ladies." Logan aka the Wolverine remarked gruffly. "Now where's Daniels?"
"Here!" Evan raced into the simulator room, sliding to a stop. "Sorry, sorry." He seemed to cower under the Wolverine's glare.
"All right. Let's not waste anymore time. I've set up a mission in the Danger room. It'll be in the form of a Warehouse and your mission is to retrieve the hostage without getting the guards or yourselves killed. The Danger rooms self defense mechanisms will go off and you and your partner, who I will assign, have to watch each other's backs." He glanced around the room to see if everyone was paying attention. "Now, I've appointed Popsicle here as team leader. You'll follow his instructions and do what he says with your partner. If you get in trouble, only then can you do what you need to." He gestured to Bobby. "He'll be partnered with Rogue. Let's see, we'll put Firecracker with Spike and Ghost girl, you'll be with the Tin man over here." He pointed to Piotr.
Kitty could hardly contain her excitement, as she followed the group into the danger room, which looked like the inside of a warehouse. Almost immediately we could hear the machines start up at our entrance. Spikes began to protrude from Evan's arms and sparks began to fly from Jubilee's fingertips. Bobby's breath came out in icy puffs and in a blink, Piotr body was covered in organic steel. Rogue stood close to Bobby, ready to hide behind an ice shield he could throw up in a second's notice.
Kitty could feel her molecules begin to separate as she was partially phasing. "What do we do, Bobby?"
"All right." Iceman went into Leader mode. "Colossus, Shadowcat, you're probably the strongest team we've got. Going down that middle corridor is probably the most dangerous of the three, so since you two are virtually indestructible, we'll send you down there. Rogue and I will take the corridor on the left and Jubilee and Spyke have the one on the right. Put your communicators on. We may need you to get us out of trouble, Shadowcat."
They all nodded and reached into their belts, pulling out the small headset. Kitty stuck the earpiece in her left ear and adjusted the microphone in front of her mouth. The others did the same. Then they split up, Kitty heading down the middle corridor with Piotr by her side. In his metal form, each step of Piotr's was deafeningly loud. He could plow right through these walls if he wanted to.
"Hey! Hold it right there!" A security guard hollered, running towards them. It was really a robot, but the danger room had disguised it as a person. Kitty waited for her opportune moment, ready to lunge when he was in perfect striking distance.
Just as the guard lifted his arm to strike, Kitty leapt up into a full roundhouse kick, nailing her intended target right in the side of the head, knocking him into the wall, where he fell unconscious. She silently thanked Scott for all the one on one sessions.
"That was mighty impressive, Katya." Piotr commented in a deep, almost robotic voice.
"Thank you." Kitty smiled, continuing forward. "One guard down, Iceman." She whispered into the communicator.
Just then, a security laser gun went off and if Piotr hadn't lunged forward, she would have been shot. She smiled gratefully up at him, as the laser seemed to bounce harmlessly off the metal. She instinctively phase right through him and then through the machine, effectively short circuiting it. "Another score for the Shadowcat!" She cheered. "Come on, we've got a hostage to save!"
Her ego slightly boosted with the ease of short-circuiting the gun, she started forward again, phasing when another gun went off, this time with an onslaught of whirling metal disks. She phased so they went through her unharmed and a moment later heard them ping off Colossus's chest and midsection.
-I'm surrounded by liars everywhere I turn
I'm surrounded by imposters everywhere I turn
I'm surrounded by idenity crisis everywhere I turn
Am I the only one who's noticed
I can't be the only one who's learned-
Unharmed by the attack, Piotr simply jogged forward running through it, like Kitty had done earlier, but instead of actually going through it, he demolished it. All that was left were a bunch of sparking wires, while the gun lay in a smoking pile of scrap metal on the floor. "And you say I was impressive?" She teased.
Before she could even take another step, the floor beneath her lurched and she was tossed into the air like a rag doll. She let out a surprised shriek, before tucking and rolling as she hit the floor, about ten feet away from where she had previously stood.
"Katya!" Piotr rushed to her, immediately scooping her small form off the floor into his arms. "Are you all right?"
"Yeah." She winced and rubbed her backside. "Was not expecting that." She basked for a moment at being carried like a princess in Piotr's arms, before squirming to get down. "You can carry me later, we've got a hostage to find."
"I look forward to it, Katya." He set her back down on her own two feet, while she blushed brightly.
"Come on." She tiptoed lightly across the floor now, after that humiliating experience. They were coming upon the end of the corridor and so far it looked like a dead end. While she was peering corridor, there was a crash ad a grunt behind her. She turned to see Piotr standing over the unconscious form of a guard.
-I don't wanna be
Anything other than what I've been trying to be lately
All I have to do
Is think of me and I have peace of mind
I'm tired of looking 'round rooms
Wondering what I've gotta do
Or who I'm supposed to be
I don't wanna be anything other than me-
Suddenly, the simulator went off and they were in the middle of a dome of steel; the danger room. "Mission complete; success. Congratulations Spyke and Jubilee."
Kitty turned to see Jubilee, Evan and Storm standing together, looking pleased with themselves. Rogue and Bobby jogged up beside them. "Awesome job!" Rogue gushed.
"Good work." Bobby nodded in agreement.
"Not bad, not bad at all." Wolverine emerged from the control room. "Nice work, Jubilee and Evan. You all did well. "Excellent teamwork, Colossus and Shadowcat. Where you learn those moves, Half-pint?"
"Cyclops." Kitty replied.
"They have one on one sessions." Jubilee teased, trying to get a rise out of her friend.
"Shut up, Jubes." Kitty shot back good-naturedly.
"One-eye? He can barely defend himself." Wolverine growled.
"He's a great teacher. I learned a lot." Kitty shrugged, knowing Wolverine and Cyclopse's ongoing grudge against each other.
"Yeah, right." Wolverine scoffed.
"We're going to go change, Logan." Rogue smiled gently at the older man. "We'll see you later."
They all left the Danger room at the same time, chatting about their plans for the weekend.
"I don't know about you, but I'm so going shopping!" Jubilee beamed. "I can't wait for some new clothes."
"Girls and clothes." Evan shook his head. "I'll never understand."
"You're not supposed to." Kitty replied.
"Bobby and I are going to the movies." Rogue smiled lovingly up at her boyfriend.
"Skateboarding, duh!" Evan laughed. "I can't wait to hit a real skatepark!"
"Peter?" Jubilee looked to the Russian for his plans.
"I'll probably just sketch." He shrugged. "Don't really have plans."
"I heard you were the artist of the school." Kitty smiled at him. "Do you think I could take a look at some of your stuff?"
Piotr blushed and actually stammered. "If you want to."
"I'd love to." Kitty assured him. "I may not have an eye for art, but I can appreciate it as much as they next person."
"All right then." Piotr let a rare grin cross his handsome face, completely oblivious to the looks Rogue and Jubilee were sharing.
"What are your plans, Kitty?" Evan asked, also oblivious to the sparks.
"Um, I'll look at Peter's stuff and I promised Pie I'd tutor him. I think I may have a lunch date with an old friend of mine this weekend, I have to check my calendar." Kitty thought about it for a moment.
"Who?" Jubilee asked, ever so nosy.
"Just an old friend from before I met you guys." Kitty replied.
-I came from the mountains
The crust of creation
My whole situation
Made from clay to stone
And now I'm telling everybody-
"That's cool." Rogue said, giggling as Bobby tickled her.
"So, can I see your sketches tonight, Peter?" Kitty asked. "I could meet you somewhere after dinner."
Piotr looked pleased at the thought. "I usually sketch in the greenhouse. I could meet you there at nine o'clock."
"That works for me." Kitty wanted to squeal with joy.
-I don't wanna be
Anything other than what I've been trying to be lately
All I have to do
Is think of me and I have peace of mind
I'm tired of looking 'round rooms
Wondering what I've gotta do
Or who I'm supposed to be
I don't wanna be anything other than me-
Okay, that's Chapter three. Hope you enjoyed. I promise that there will be Kiotr action, but I'm gradually working into it. Kitty sees her old friend this weekend! Things are about to get interesting.