Okay, we're moving on to the next episode everyone. I hope you guys enjoy this story. I do not own anything in this story.
Sitting at a table were six people talking amongst themselves about a party. "Go to Duncan Matthews' party?" Scott asked then shook his head. "I don't think so."
"You going to finish that Moo juice?" Evan asked Scott.
"You can have mine." Jean said handing him her drink. She turned back to Scott and said, "Come on, it might be fun."
"I prefer staying back at the Institute." Danny said crossing his arms giving Aelita a glance. "What about you Aelita?"
Aelita took a sip of her milk and sighed, "Sorry, I'd love to go and see what these people are like, but I have some things to take care of."
"Oh, are you still working on your costume?" Jean asked giving the pink haired girl a glance.
Aelita nodded, "Yep, I want to keep my original colors from my Lyoko avatar and put some improvements on it to make it fit in with the group."
"That's what I call an overachievement." Danny pointed out with a smile. "It works for you though after everything."
"I'm going to the party." Kitty spoke up with a determined face.
"No freshmen are allowed to go." Scott said making Kitty hit her head against the table with a groan.
Danny rolled his eyes and looked back at Jean. "Anyway, I get you want us to socialize with people Jean, but some of us are still trying to adjust with everything."
"Plus what if somebody got close to Kurt? That hollow projector won't stop them from feeling his fur." Scott said pointing to Kurt.
"Hey, chicks dig the fuzzy dude." Kurt said then leaned at Kitty. "Right?"
"I am, like, so out of here." She said then walked away. "Later."
"Oh yeah, she can't resist." He runs his hand through his hair smiling.
"You keep telling yourself that, and it might come true within ten to twenty years." Aelita joked grabbing her bag and putting it over her shoulder. "Anyway, I have some studying to do. I'll be at the library if any of you guys need me." She waves goodbye and walks off to the library.
"I'm trying to be serious here. Look, if we go to Matthews party, suppose Dukes or Maximoff try to start something? We're not the only mutants in the school, you know." Scott said watching the Fred and Pietro walk off after a soccer ball.
"Yeah, just the cool ones." Evan said then high fived Kurt.
"Hey, come on Scott. What's wrong with a little socializing?" She asked leaning towards him a little.
"I'm sorry, but I just don't think it's a good idea." Scott said making Kurt look down.
"Dude it's just a party." Kurt said looking at Scott then jumps onto the table. "Time to shake that tail!" He starts dancing while cheering himself on.
"I'm going to go study for Geometry." Danny muttered before heading to the library making Jean sigh in annoyance.
"You guys sure know how to make our team leave." Jean muttered at her Kurt's behavior.
Danny put his stuff down on the table and looked at Aelita who was moving things around on a holographic screen for her costume. "Are you seriously working on that right now?" Danny asked quietly.
Aelita glanced at Danny then looked around. "I'm being careful." She told him before making the screen disappear. "Why are you here anyway?"
"Geometry test is coming up." He muttered in distaste.
"You must really hate math."
Danny lowered his head onto the table and groaned, "I hate it with a passion. I'm just glad it's next week instead of tomorrow."
Aelita rolled her eyes and smiled at him. "I can help you if you want. I'm pretty good with numbers."
Danny lifted his head up and gave her a smile. "That would be great. How are things with Jeremy going?"
Aelita looked away and sighed, "We're still trying to figure out when we could talk to each other."
Danny blinked a couple times then sighed, "I'm not going to worry about it."
"Is there something else on your mind?" She asked curiously.
Danny got up from his seat and looked out the window. "I'm starting to wonder about my cousin's offer."
"What offer was that?" Aelita asked feeling even more interested.
Danny looked around the library and leaned in close to her. "My cousin wants me to take up the hero business." Aelita looked at him in surprise. "She believes it could help our kind and make people believe we are not as bad as people will think if they ever find out about us."
Aelita looked down at her hands then back at Danny. "Well, what you do if I decide to join you?"
Danny looked at her then smirked, "Well, I just hope you know what you are doing."
Rogue saw them fly into the boxes and ran up to them. "Hey, hey, are you ok?" She asked Kurt slightly worried.
Kurt moaned then opened his eyes. "Room...booby trapped." He pointed to the room then shook his head.
She got up and walked into the room while the guys finished getting recovered. She walked into the room then looked around after coughing a bit from the dust flying around. "Woah." She walked further in and kept looking around. "Whatever this stuff is, it's trashed now." She saw a device and walked towards it. "Except for this."
"Vat are you doing here?" Kurt asked walking into the room.
She turned to him and said, "Look who's talking at least I didn't blow the place up."
Kurt saw the device and said, "Hey let go of that."
"Back off blue boy. Who said that you're in charge here?" She pulled back making him let go and accidentally started the device. The machine makes a humming noise and fires a field around Kurt. Rogue watched as Kurt disappears right in front of her and gasped in surprise dropping the machine. She ran up to where Kurt was and gasped when she didn't feel anything. "He's gone."
Danny packed his bag up and walked out of the library with Aelita. They walked off to their next class but stopped when they saw Rogue walk by the window holding a machine by the end of a stick. They stood there blinking as she walked by with a look they couldn't tell. "What was that?" She asked glancing at Danny who shrugged.
"I'm guessing she doesn't like that machine." Danny suggested before they went back into the library.
They went back to the private spot in the library. Danny kept an eye out and leaned against the bookshelf as Aelita brought up a holographic screen of the machine that they saw. "Huh, this machine is old."
"How old is it, 10 years?" Danny asked quietly and jokingly.
"It was made back in the 1970s." She told him making him look back at her in surprise. "I can't get the full read of what it can do though."
"Well, we better go find that machine and figure out what it does then." Danny said before they left the library to find Rogue and the machine.
Toad leaned down onto the pavement and licked his lips hungrily as he stared at the beetle about to become his lunch. "Hey." He said then heard someone honk a car horn.
Toad looked up to see the principal pulling up in her car. She honks the horn again and says, "Out of the way." She pulled her car into the parking spot.
"Ah man, my lunch." He looks under her car for the bug.
Principal Darkholme gets out of her car and walks up to Toad saying, "You stay away from this area, Mr. Tolansky." She got closer to him making him back up in fear. "If I see one drop of slime on my new car, it's detention for life!" She starts walking away asking, "Are we clear?"
He nods his head, "Oh yes, we are very clear." He sticks his tongue out at her angrily. He walks away from there and goes to the back of the school to find Rogue putting a machine into the dumpster. The machine hits the dumpster and lands right at his feet. "Ooh, what's this?"
Toad was about to pick it up when she said, "Don't touch it!"
He stopped and looked back up at her in surprise. "Why not?"
"It's...never you mind. Just leave it alone." She said picking the machine up.
"Oh what's the matter? Little Rogue got into some trouble?" He asked giving her teasing look.
"Trouble? No. There's just one less X-men not to push us around anymore." Rogue stated as she put the machine into the dumpster.
"Say what?" You mean that you toasted one of them goody-goods with that thing? Wicked!"
"Hey, just leave it alone. You got it swamp breath?" Rogue told him getting in his face.
She walked away while he's saying, "Geez, what is this? Abuse the Toad day?" He grabs the machine and looks at it. He presses a button activating the machine. He drops the machine and hops into a tree in surprise holding onto the tree branch. He watches the dumpster disappear in a portal that showed up and smiled as the field disappeared in front of him. "Cooool." He said knowing how to get back at his leader for mistreating him.
Meanwhile in school, Scott and Jean were walking to class. "So you think I should apologize to Kurt, huh?" Scott asked her.
They stop walking. "Well, what matters is what you think." She told him.
"You got to admit, he jerks around way too much."
"So, is that worth losing a friend over?" She starts to walk away with him following her.
Two guys come running out of a bathroom. "Aww! Ghost! We just saw a ghost!" One guy said.
"A blue and hairy demon!" The other guy said.
"I'm out of here!"
"I warned him!" Scott growled to Jean and went into the bathroom. "Kurt!" He came out rubbing his head feeling confused.
"Not there?" She asked him.
"No. You better contact him. Kurt should be easy hopefully. Tell him to knock it off." He grabs her books so she can search the area for them.
Jean puts her hands on her head and starts searching for Kurt. She looked everywhere around the school but ended up not finding Kurt. She looked at Scott and said, "Scott, I can't pick up a trace of Kurt anywhere. It's like he doesn't exist."
Rogue looked down and started to let a couple of tears come out of her eyes when she heard that. "Oh no, Danny is going to be mad." She whispered to herself.
"Try again. He's got to be somewhere." Scott said to Jean again.
"I'm telling you Scott. He's gone." Scott turns his head seeing Lance and Fred walking their way.
"Or someone did something to him."
"What are you looking at, Summers?" Lance asked him annoyed.
"Where's Kurt?" Scott asked angrily.
"Yeah, like we tell you." Fred said then crossed his arms.
"Scott no." Jean said as Scott ran up to them.
Scott grabbed Lance and threw him against the locker. "I said where are they?" Scott asked again.
"Get off of me." Lance said.
"What have you done with Kurt?" He asked as a crowd was forming around them.
"Get lost Slim." Fred said grabbing Scott by the back of the shirt and picking him up into the air.
"Put him down." Jean said.
"Back off red, or I'll rock you!" Lance said getting between them. The lockers around him started to rumble as Lance made the ground rumble softly, and Jean's hair started to go up by her telekinetic power.
People started to cheer the four on for a fight when the principal came and asked, "What is going on here?"
"We weren't doing nothing." Fred said to her.
"Yeah, Summers here just went ballistic on us for no reason." Lance said to her.
Fred let Scott go. "Oh I got a reason." Scott said moving his hair.
"Quiet. You two in my office now." The principal told them.
Danny and Aelita ran down the sidewalk and stop when they saw Toad jump out of the window. "There it is." Danny told her.
Aelita brought up a holographic screen and sighed when the same schematics came up. She went through them and stopped when she noticed something. "Why would this machine have a reset button?" She wondered. "My scanning can't even tell what it does exactly."
"Maybe that's the point." Danny said pointing at Toad shooting the contraption at the Principle's car. "This machine sends the stuff to somewhere else or just evaporates it." Danny crossed his arms and raised an eyebrow.
Aelita pulled the pieces apart on her screen and nodded, "Ok, I got it. The machine is able to make anything travel from our dimension to another dimension."
"That would make sense, but where exactly?"
Aelita shook her head. "Unknown, but whoever created it put a reset button on it. If I'm right about this, the person who created it made a failsafe just in case he or she got sent to this other dimension."
Danny scratched his head in confusion. "Why would someone send themselves to another dimension? I'm perfectly fine the way our society is going."
Aelita gave Danny a raised eyebrow before turning to Toad. "I don't know about you, but if anyone gets their hands on this thing we're probably talking some major bad things happening in the future."
"You're just saying that to make it sound serious." Danny muttered which made Aelita shrug.
"Well, it would be dangerous, but the tech is pretty old compared to what we got now." She pointed out giving him a nudge. "Plus, if some evil organization…"
"Please stop." Danny said giving Aelita a hard stare with his arms crossed over his chest. "Do you really want to make me feel conscious about saving people?"
Aelita put her hands behind her back and walked away saying, "I don't know what you are talking about."
"You really love pushing guilt onto me." Danny muttered raising an eyebrow. "I am curious why we aren't going after Toad to get the machine."
Aelita looked back at Danny and asked, "Do you really believe we could take the machine from him?" Danny crossed his arms and smirked back. "It's logic Danny. Toad only knows that the machine gets rid of stuff, but he's probably going to be chased down by our team pretty soon."
Danny's phone vibrated in his pocket making him reach down and pull it out. He looked down at the text Scott gave him and asked, "Kurt has gone missing and believes Toad knows what might have happened. Aelita, how did you…?"
"I hacked everyone's phone from the Institute and know what they are texting and saying to each other." She said winking at him. "Oh, don't tell the others I did that though."
Danny chuckled at Aelita's logic and asked, "Why did you hack our phones anyway?"
"I need to be prepared for anything Danny. I cannot hack into anyone else's phone without Professor's Xavier's permission." Aelita explained looking away in worry. "The truth is I'm scared, and…"
"You don't trust the team." Danny finished making her close her eyes and nod. Danny sighed, "I can't argue with you Aelita, but you need to trust them."
Aelita leaned against the wall and asked, "Did you trust them when you first arrived?"
Danny looked up at the sky and sighed, "I can't say I completely trusted them when I first arrived, but something inside me told me to trust them."
"I had the same thought with you." Aelita admitted crossing her arms looking at Danny. "I like everyone on the team, but something is telling me that our lives are about to become even more complicated than it used to be."
"You really need to stop worrying about the future." Danny said making her raise an eyebrow at him. "Right now we need to worry about Kurt and get him back from that other dimension."
"The only person who knows what could have happened to him is Rogue." Aelita said as her Lyoko costume came over her body.
"I'm starting to wonder if that mind of yours is actually straight or not."
Aelita smacked Danny's arm playfully and asked, "Who did we see outside our window with that machine on a pole?" Danny smacked himself in the face making the girl smile at his realization. "I see you finally get it."
"Why do you act like you're incredibly smart when you got here?" Danny asked rhetorically.
Aelita shrugged, "When you get as bored as I do, I tend to go through the recent events and hack your computers to mess with you guys."
Danny looked down at the ground in defeat making Aelita giggle. "You really need to stop making me feel like I have no private life."
"Someone has to make sure your ego doesn't inflate too high, and Jean is too nice for that to happen."
"What about Kurt?"
"Kitty already has that taken care of." This comment made Danny sigh in defeat making Aelita put a hand on his shoulder. "You might as well look at it like this. If we don't keep you guys in order, then you will do stuff you will regret."
"I'm guessing you do that a lot with Jeremy."
Aelita looked away and giggled, "Yeah, you could definitely say that."
Danny transformed into his alter-ego and walked off to find Rogue. "I'll go find Rogue and ask her what had happened. You just make sure the others don't destroy the machine."
"That will be easy." Aelita ran her hand over her watch before flying off with her pink wings.
"I probably should have told her not to make herself known to the public eye." Danny muttered before running off to find his friend.
Toad hopped through the forest in fright as the four X-men chased him through the forest near the school. "There he goes!" Scott said then shot one of his beams at Toad.
'Oh come on! I finally get revenge from being abused from Mystique, and now I'm being chased down by the X-men. Why does this happen to me?' Toad thought before turning around and firing the machine at them.
"Shadowcat down!" Jean yelled. Kitty phased into the ground barely avoiding the blast that ended up hitting a birdbath.
The birdbath landed in the gym which surprised Kurt. "Man, somebody's giving dat gizmo of yours a workout!"
"Get him!" Scott yelled at his teammates.
"That gizmo is a transdimensional projector, my science fair project back in '78, and when I fired it up, it created this pocket dimension that I call middle verse." Forge said working while working on a device. "I got caught in the ray myself, and I've been here ever since."
"'78? But you still look..." Kurt looked at Forge trying to figure it out.
"Like I did then? I know. I can't explain it. They shut down and locked my lab after the accident. Everyone was totally creeped out when I disappeared." Kurt walked away a little sad.
"So dere's no way back?" Kurt asked him a little sad.
"Not without help from the other side, and I'm thinking that you may be able to help out on that. Man, I'm telling you that I'm ready to go home."
Kurt saw the girls talking amongst themselves and pushed his hair back and smiled at them. Kurt watched them disappear into the girl's locker room and asked, "So…just how far does dis middle verse extend?"
"Stops just short of the girls' locker room." Kurt made a hurt face. "Isn't that a burn? Hah, done!" Forge said happily retracting his mechanical parts back into his arm.
"Vhat is it?" Kurt asked Forge turning his attention back to the situation.
Forge picked up the device. "This little baby will alter the phase-shift frequency of your teleport power."
Kurt looked at him strangely. "Ah, my English is a little limited." Kurt admitted making a small gesture with his fingers.
"You can teleport back to the real world." Forge said pointing at Kurt.
"Alright!" Kurt yelled glad to be getting out of this place he got stuck in.
"But only for a sec. These batteries don't have much power. Still you can tell somebody how to reset the projector to get us back." Forge said to Kurt.
"Oh I just hope that they don't think I'm joking." Kurt said putting his hands over his eyes. Forge raised an eyebrow. "I kinda have that rep."
"Get lost! I'm warning ya." Toad said to the four X-men. Scott blasted the branch making Toad yell and hit the ground.
"Got it!" Jean grabbed the device with her mind and brought it to herself.
"That's it, I'm out of here." Evan shot a spike at Toad making him get hanging from the tree.
"Why don't ya stick around for a while?" Evan asked nicely.
Scott leaned next to Toad. "Now tell us what you did to Kurt?"
"He didn't do anything to Kurt." Aelita said flying down onto the ground between the two. "While I do admit he is disgusting…"
"Hey, I am right here!" Toad yelled in anger.
"…he had nothing to do with Kurt's disappearance into another dimension." Aelita finished making everyone give her confused looks.
"Wait, did you just say Kurt is in another dimension?" Evan asked scratching his head.
Aelita nodded, "Yes, I did some research on the device and found out it sends things to another dimension."
"Ok, how do we get him back?" Kitty asked curiously.
Aelita took the device from Jean and said, "There's a 'reset' button here on the machine that should open a portal for Kurt to go through to return back home."
"Well, what are we waiting for?" Kitty asked putting her hands on her hips. "Let's press the button and get Kurt back."
"We can't." Aelita said quickly making the four X-men look at her like she was crazy. "We don't know where the blast happened, and we need to know where it happened to be able to have some way of getting him back."
"Ah can show yah where he was blasted." Rogue said walking up to the group.
"Well, lead the way." Cyclops said motioning his hand.
Rogue crossed her arms and huffed, "Ah'll show you where it happened if you free my teammate."
'Well, at least I'm not going to be stuck getting myself off this thing.' Toad thought as Spyke removed his spike from Toad's costume and the tree. Toad hopped off to find his team giving Rogue a knowing glance who gave it back. 'I better go find the guys.'
Rogue walked away leading the team to the basement where everyone saw Danny leaning against the wall. "I was wondering when you guys will show up." He said with a serious look in his eyes. "Let's get this over with. I have a test to study for."
Rogue looked away from him and muttered, "I'm sorry." She led the group into the basement saying, "This is where it happened."
Cyclops leaned down and picked up a small metal. "If you hurt them, I'm gonna..."
"You start threatening meh, and you're never gonna find your blue friend."
"May we please worry about the situation and not threaten people for once?" Danny asked rhetorically at Cyclops. "Everyone has issues Scott, but we need her to get Kurt back from that other dimension."
Aelita looked around the room and nodded, "This will do it. If my calculations are correct, then Kurt should be able to get back to our universe in this area."
"What if he isn't around here?" Evan asked curiously.
Aelita looked at Evan saying, "Then we better hope the machine can reset more than one time."
Evan looked away rubbing his neck. "Oh, I see."
"Is the machine even able to reset a second time?" Cyclops asked as Aelita set the machine down on a filing cabinet. "You should know if it's able to Aelita. Your power should be able to…"
"I already tried." Aelita whispered loud enough for them to hear. "The chances of a second time are super slim, and I do not want this situation to go into a second try."
"How do we even know he would even be here?" Kitty asked curiously.
Danny looked around and smirked, "Hey Kurt, if you are in the room, then I dare you to make yourself appear then disappear."
Kurt gave Danny an 'are you serious' look and muttered, "He just loves doing zat to me."
Forge glanced between the two and asked, "Does he have some kind of rep like you?"
Kurt shook his head. "No, we have some of da same interests, but Danny is more mature dan I am. I joke around twice as much as Danny, but Danny has done stuff the rest of us are not ready to do."
"What do you mean?"
"I'll explain when we're not in another dimension." Kurt closed his eyes and sighed, "I'm still wondering about some zings myself."
"Ok, I guess that makes sense." Forge said but thought, 'Ok, I'm guessing something happened recently that made this guy confused about this Danny person.'
"Kurt, I might have made it seem like I was joking, but we do need a type of signal to know you're here." Danny said making the two look at the machine on the destroyed filing cabinet.
"Let's hurry." Forge said grabbing the machine.
"Wait, you said that I need enough juice to get us to the real world right?" Kurt asked curiously.
Forge nodded as he connected the machine together onto Kurt. "Yes, my machine and your teleportation power will allow us to get back to the real world, but the batteries do not have enough juice for you to make a second trip making this an even bigger risk."
"Vat about Danny's power to make use intangible? Would zat work?"
Forge shook his head. "Going intangible would only work for the user even if it can be used on other people. I wouldn't know if it can work exactly on all three of us since it isn't my power, but resetting the process will only things to exit the dimension not enter it."
"I vas afraid of zat." Kurt muttered looking at his friends with worry.
"Done." Forge said making his hand turn back to normal. "The juice will only make you last for a second in the real world."
"How do I get dere?"
"Press that button and teleport." Forge said pointing at the button on Kurt's left side of his chest.
Kurt nodded, "Right, I'm gone." He pressed the button and teleported to the real world. He made himself appear in front of everyone and smirked, "You owe me a bur…"
Danny blinked a couple times then chuckled, "I owe you a burn. I can think of so many right now."
Evan and Scott laughed lightly at Danny's joke while the girls giggled. "Ok, we got our confirmation that Kurt is here." Scott said as Aelita pointed the machine at the spot Kurt made himself appear. "Let's restart this thing and get Kurt home."
"I'm way ahead of you." Aelita pressed the button and watched as the machine started up and fire a beam at the area.
Everyone watched as Kurt and Forge suddenly appeared in the vortex. "Come on! Teleport through!" Cyclops yelled at the pair.
Everyone watched as the two started to talk with Kurt pointing at them. "What is he doing?" Danny muttered.
"What are you waiting for? Let's go!"
"Something isn't right." Aelita made an image of the machine Kurt has on him and blinked a couple times. She looked over the schematics of the machine as Kurt teleported away.
"What are they doing?" Evan asked.
"They're getting another power source! The machine Kurt has on doesn't have enough power for Kurt to teleport through!" Aelita yelled with fear in her eyes. "This other dimension better have some type of power source in there, or we're saying 'goodbye' to Kurt forever!"
Danny glanced back at Rogue and saw the sadness in her eyes. "Look…"
"There they are." Toad said coming in with Avalanche and Blob right behind him. "And they still got that vap-ray I was telling you about."
"Rogue, Mystique sent us to find you. So you with us or with them?" Lance asked her.
"Mystique? You're working for her?" Cyclops asked looking at Rogue in surprise.
"Hey Summers, you got your friends, and I got mine." She said pointing at Scott then at herself. "But this ain't my fight. I'm outta here." She walked out of the room with a look of anger in her eyes.
Everyone watches her leave then turn back to each other. "Ok, fork it over losers." Fred said smiling evilly with his buddies.
"Or this place is gonna rock." Lance said.
Danny smiled, "I'll like to see you try Lance. Your mutant power is limited for this kind of place without hurting you or your team."
Lance gritted his teeth. "Yeah, well my powers will still mop the floor with you, and you will lose against me this time."
Danny waved it off. "I'll like to see you try." He got into battle stance. "X-men keep that portal open at all costs. We have to make sure Kurt makes it out with that other person."
"You got it Danny." Evan said then faced Toad. Blob ran forward and faced Scott.
"Come on. Hit me with your best shot Slim." Fred said to him. Scott fired a beam at Fred, and Blob only took a few steps back. "Ha! Takes more than that to stop the Blob."
"Thanks for the tip. Jean!" Scott said. He blasted the ground around Blob then Jean pulled it out from under him.
"So where's this power source?" Forge asked Kurt as they appeared in the hallway. Kurt pointed at the car. "Far out man."
"Man, I swear. His lingo is so whack." Kurt muttered to himself.
"You and me got a date pretty Kitty." Lance said to Kitty.
Danny tapped his shoulder. "I thought I knocked you out." He punched Lance in the face and made him fly to the wall hard. Danny shook his hand. "That actually hurt. I must be low on my energy then."
"Come on. Come on." Toad said hopping around Evan. "You ain't got nothing! That's right! You ain't got nothing!" He hopped passed Evan and went to the device.
Aelita walked in front of the device and smirked, "You are really stupid." She made two energy fields appear in her hand and threw them at Toad.
"You have some lousy aim." He jumped over the balls only for them to come up and hit him in the stomach. "Ah!" He flew straight into the wall and groaned in pain.
"Yeah, that would have been true if I didn't upgrade my powers from Lyoko." Aelita made a stance with a smug smirk on her face.
"Ok, enough of the warm-ups." Blob said with Toad and Avalanche by his sides. "Time for some serious smashing!" They heard a car honk and saw a car come through the portal. Forge cheers as he comes riding into the room with Kurt. Fred stopped the car and sighed in relief. "Woah...good thing I'm the Blob."
"Yeah, you can say that again." Toad said walking off with the others.
The trio moves away from the car and sees the machine was destroyed. "Ah come on guys this party's over." Lance said leading them out of the lab.
Danny turned to his friends then at the car. "Well, that could have gone better." He muttered as Kurt and Forge got out of the car. "I don't know about you guys, but I've had enough excitement for the day."
Aelita looked down at the machine then had her uniform disappear. "I agree with Danny. I'll be seeing you guys back at the Institute." The two leave the lab making everyone watch in confusion.
"Vat, I get no welcome back after all dat?" Kurt asked feeling offended his best friend left him.
"To be fair, I think his mind is more focused on his geometry test next week." Jean said in Danny's defense.
Kurt sighed, "Oh yeah, he needs da help."
"Let's just get out of here and worry about everything else later." Cyclops said pointing at the door to exit the building.
Rogue leaned against Danny's truck and sighed, "Ah hope he made it back." She stood there for a few minutes then walked off sighing.
Danny and Aelita walked up to Danny's truck just in time to see Rogue walk away from the area. "Are you still mad at her?" Aelita asked curiously.
Danny watched Rogue leave and smiled, "Nah, I know it was an accident. She looked too sad for it to be on purpose."
"You're too forgiving." Aelita joked.
"Is that a bad thing?" Danny asked raising an eyebrow at her.
Aelita shook her head. "No, I am curious when you guys will be together though."
Danny's left eyebrow twitched at the statement. "You really like to put your mind into my business." He muttered.
Aelita giggled, "Well, what would you expect?"
"Are you sure there isn't anything else about you I should know?" Danny asked raising an eyebrow curiously.
Aelita looked away sighing. "I miss my old friends."
"Who doesn't?"
Aelita nodded, "Danny, they're the only friends I had before coming here."
"Oh…" Danny trailed off not knowing what to say. "Those guys were your only friends, huh?"
"I know I could have had many friends Danny, but I can't remember anyone except my parents before being stuck on Lyoko." A tear escapes her eye. "I miss them so much."
Danny pulled Aelita into a hug and muttered, "We'll help you Aelita. We'll help you get over this and learn to make many new friends. Is that why you wanted to go with me to be a superhero?"
Aelita nodded and held onto him. "Yes, my friends and I always fought an evil virus and made sure that it did nothing to the world. It wanted to destroy everything we did and take the codes my father implanted into me."
"I'm guessing it was complicated." Danny said as the two release each other from the hug.
"It gets really complicated, but I'm guessing Fury explained the main part of everything we've done. I've never really took much risks in fighting against XANA until I gained my energy fields and my wings."
"Now that the machine's information is gone, you want to use what is left for yourself in protecting people." Danny summarized making her nod in agreement.
"I only hacked the phones to get to know you guys better as well. I didn't mean any harm Danny." She watched as Danny walked over to the driver's side of the truck. "I know this isn't like me Danny, but those Hydra people…" She trailed off knowing he knew what she was talking about.
Danny got inside the truck and started it up as Aelita got in the passenger's side. "Aelita, if I decide to become a hero, I want you to only use your powers when needed to. We can't have people find out what we are yet." He told her seriously.
Aelita rubbed her left arm and asked, "Would you help me train to become better on the field before we start becoming superheroes?"
Danny smirked, "I'm certain we can come up with something."
Tony wiped his hands with a wash cloth and looked at the scanner he pulled apart. "It's incredible what Waldo has done with these machines." He told himself.
Indeed it is sir.
"Jarvis, this technology is more than what any normal man would have imagined. I'm surprised he even done it and broke a major law of physics."
"Who broke a major law of physics?" A man asked as he walked into the lab with his arms by his sides.
"Ah Hank, you made it just in time." Tony said waving at the pieces of technology on the table. "I bet you're wondering why I called you here."
"This better be important Tony. You know I don't like being disturbed with certain technology you would call your toys." Hank said clearly showing his disliking of Tony's idea of freedom or past idea.
"I'll make it simple then. Do you remember a man called Waldo Schaeffer?"
Hank's eyes narrow a bit. "I do, but I don't see a connection here Tony. The man has been gone for more than ten years."
Tony nodded, "That's true, and it turns out I might have found out why."
Hank's eyes widen at the statement. "How did you even find out anything? The man disappeared leaving no trail behind. Fury couldn't find anything either except an abandoned factory."
Tony chuckled, "What you see here is technology I found in that abandoned factory created by Waldo himself."
Hank walked up to the table and looked at everything. "Ok, now you caught my attention, but I'm still not seeing the connection."
"I met his daughter Hank."
"So you hit on her." Hank said with a shrug.
Tony gave Hank a serious look. "I'm being serious Hank. Everyone who knows about Waldo's disappearance knows that his daughter disappeared as well. It turns out Waldo and his daughter went inside one of these scanners back at this factory and gone into the supercomputer that was hidden in the lab."
"You're joking right?" Hank asked picking one of the hard drives used for the scanner.
"I wish I was, but these machines were meant to scan our molecular structure and take it into the supercomputer back at the factory."
Hank looked over all of the technology on then saw the two scanner sitting against the wall. "I don't know what to say Stark. It all seems interesting, but how could Waldo come up with all of this? This takes things to so much we don't know."
"I know. This is why we need to talk with Waldo's daughter about all of this and see if I'm correct about all of this."
Hank smiled, "Then you better arrange a meeting with her and make sure I'm there too. I would love to know how this stuff worked."
Tony sighed and looked away. "I could say the same, but the girl doesn't know I took her father's tech."
Hank smacked himself in the face and sighed, "I should have seen that one coming. You really know how to make things complicated Stark."
Tony rubbed his neck and chuckled, "Yeah, you're right about that, but the bright side is we might be able to find where Waldo has been hiding these past few years or find out what happened to him."
"For what it is worth Tony, I hope you're right about this." Hank looked down at the technology then saw a folder on the table. "What's in the folder?"
"Everything I could get on what the tech could do in this machine. It lead to many possibilities, but it majorly leads to what I saw in the factory before I blew it up."
Hank grabbed the folder and opened it. "Wow, you actually went all out on studying this. I'm impressed."
"You can take the folder and look over all of it and see if there could be any other connections that I didn't make."
Hank closed the folder and nodded, "I'll see what I can find."
"I'll tell you when I can get in touch with her to come here." Tony said as Hank left the lab. 'Yeah, I'm in deep trouble with this one, but it's totally worth it.' He thought with a smirk forming on his face. "Jarvis hook me up with Jan. I'm going to need a small favor from her."
Man, so many changes in such a bit of time. I wish I made things easier for me to do, and I also didn't want to make the characters OOC either. It was a bit hard since I watched Ultimate Avengers 1 and 2 before adding Hank into this. Yeah, my mind was on the disrespectful Hank than on the peace loving Hank. So if it seemed like that then I'm sorry.
Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter and everything in it. Also, I got an idea for what Aelita's new look is going to be, but it is still being thought up completely in my mind. Aelita's eye symbol will be a part of her new suit for her hero form but not her X-men suit.
Please R&R, and I hope you enjoyed it.