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On an isolated corner of the continent of Antarctica, where there is nothing but flat tundra covering the earth's surface, all is quiet as usual. From out of the dark gray sky, in the distance a faint object can be seen. As it gets closer the object can be identified as a large silver orb. It races at fast speeds till it reaches the quiet tundra and then stops in mid air and hovers above the ground. A slight hissing sound can be heard as the orb opens up. Out of it emerges a man in red armor and a purple cape who seems to float in the air. He raises his hands and closes his eyes in concentration. The ice begins to crack across the tundra for at least 3 square miles. After the tundra shatters the shards of ice are pushed away as a massive piece of rock rises from under the ice. The man moves his hands in such motion as if he was moving the rock himself. He floated himself underneath the rock after raising it high in the sky and extended one hand in the direction of the rock and his other hand toward the ground below and closed his eyes. He groaned in strain and after several minutes finally stopped. The rock remained in the sky and he smiled at his work as he floated back to his orb.
"The first step toward sanctuary" he told himself. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It is a stormy evening in Bayville. The rain poured down hard on the hood house as Emma Frost emerged from her room. She looked around for a minute. "Hmm it's quiet," she said to herself as she walked down the stairs and enters the living room. "Not here either" she muttered then put a hand on her forehead and smiles. "Oh wait that explains it" she said and walked down the hallway to the basement stairs. She casually walked down and found, Avalanche passed out against the wall, Pyro and Toad passed out and leaning against a passed out Blob, and even the swift Quicksilver passed out at the feet of Rogue who was vigorously taking it to the punching bag that had a picture taped to it.
"Nice work, I've always wondered how to shut them all up" Emma smirked.
"Yeah well ah needed Blob's strength, knocked the others out with mah fist cause they were annoying and drained Quicksilver cause he tried to kiss me, the idiot," Rogue grunted as she continued to punch the picture. There was a glint of fury in her eyes.
Emma examined the picture and smiled. "Well it seems your taking all that borrowed strength out on that photo. Not a big fan of Ms. Marvel now are you," she asked.
"Oh really what gave you that idea" Rogue frowned then punched the bag hard busting it open. She watched as the sand poured out. "Damn it, now ah need a new one."
"Nice hit, and I wouldn't worry I'm sure our benefactor will provide you with a new one. But the truth is you much rather hit the real thing" She asked.
"Well obviously" Rogue frowned.
"And what would you do when you got your hands on her" Emma asked.
Rogue looked at her with confusion. "Well ah don't know but ah would make her pay for humiliating me" she said.
"Your right she should pay" Emma nodded. She was silent for a moment then spoke again. "I have a question for you, do you believe in destiny Rogue, and no I don't mean our blind friend upstairs" she asked.
Rogue shrugged. "Maybe, ah guess. I don't know," she said.
"Well I do and from where I'm sitting your powers indicate you are destined for great things," Emma said. "All you need to do is utilize them correctly and reach out and grab the opportunity. And maybe, just maybe it should start with our power rich blond friend" she shrugged.
"What are you getting at?" Rogue asked.
"Oh nothing just giving some friendly advice. But it's up to you to decide what you really want Rogue, to fulfill your destiny, or to continue to be looked down on" Emma said and began to walk away. "Ta for now" she said and walked back up the stairs.
Rogue watched her leave and just stood there for a minute, letting what Emma said sink in. She noticed the picture of Ms. Marvel bent up, but still there on the floor among the sand. She picked it up and looked at it for a second. "Maybe Emma's right" she thought and then stared at the picture, looking right into the eyes of Ms. Marvel. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The next morning at 5:30 am in the Institute a bell rings.
"God I like hate these morning training sessions" Kitty yawned as she got up. She phased out of her pink pajamas and into her uniform with ease, then spent 10 minutes doing her hair. She phased through the wall and rushed over to the elevator that was about to close. Inside of it were Dani, Jean, and Bobby, who Kitty kissed on the cheek. "Morning honey."
"Get a room" Dani frowned. Kitty just smiled and stuck her tongue out playfully at Dani.
"Kitty you can get dressed faster then anyone here, yet your always last" Jean rolled her eyes.
"Well yeah but I had to make sure my hair was just right" she explained. "Besides it's too early" she yawned and rested her head on Bobby and closed her eyes. "Carry me" she sighed.
Bobby smirked. "Sure why not" he said and went to pick her up.
"I swear if you to don't stop with the lovie-dubie stuff I think I'm going to hurl" Dani frowned while she fiddled with her bow.
Jean nodded. "Yeah Bobby, I mean we're all happy that you two found each other and all, but if Logan catches you making it easy on her, he'll give you both extra training" she said.
Kitty sighed. "Well in that case I guess I can bare it," she said still leaning against Bobby as the elevator opened up. The four of them walked out and headed into the Danger Room.
Inside, the faculty, Scott, Carol, and Kurt were all already there along with both Logan and Storm. Kurt looked pretty tired himself but both Carol and Scott seemed as chipper as Logan who grunted as the four stragglers entered. "Your late as usual" he grunted. "Though I know the only reason elf is here on time is because he teleported" he smirked.
"Yeah well we can't all be as crazy as Scott" Bobby quipped as he pointed at Scott who looked quite awake and ready. "And it seems that Carol has been infected with the same disease" he said as he looked over at Carol who looked just as alert. Her new uniform looked similar to Scott's as well, sporting the same gold X over her chest.
"Clam it Bobby, just because your lazy is no reason to take shots at me" Scott frowned.
"Well let's just get this over with so we can get ready for school" Jean sighed and walked over.
"Jah faster ve're done the faster the pain goes avay" Kurt yawned.
"Oh come on this should be fun" Carol told them. "I can show you all my stuff" she said with eagerness in her voice.
"Well I'm glad you're all so eager" Logan grinned. "Now let the games begin."
"Oh Logan go easy on them it's a school day" Storm retorted.
"Fine" he frowned. "I think we'll start off with the obstacle course, all you have to do is get from one side of the forest to another" he told them and headed to the control room with Storm. "Oh and by the way, winner doesn't have to do dishes for 2 weeks" he said.
"Well I think we all know who that will be" Scott said confidently.
"Your right, but I don't like to brag" Carol retorted as she gave him an eye. After reaching the control room, Logan entered into the computer the simulation and the large metal room turned into a forest. "Okay go" he yelled over the intercom.
"Later" Carol said and ran through.
Scott frowned and sprinted into the forest after her. The others followed. As the race progressed, Kurt soon found himself caught in a snare and hanging upside down, Bobby and Kitty both fell into a pit and instead of trying to get out decided to start making out, much to Logan's annoyance. Dani went for a short cut and got herself caught in a large spider web. Soon it was just Scott, Jean and Carol, but Scott and Carol soon sprinted ahead and became neck and neck.
"Looks like I've got this won" Scott said between breaths as they both leaped over a pit.
"Not yet you don't" Carol retorted and surged ahead, and dodging a net trap. Scott sprinted as well and soon they were elbow to elbow. In an attempt to surge ahead Scott accidentally hit Carol causing her to trip up just as the finish line was in sight. Scott sprinted ahead and won.
"Looks like I won" Scott said as he tried to catch his breath.
"Yeah looks like you did. Lucky, but we'll see about next time" Carol responded as she breathed heavily for a second then walked away.
The simulation faded and Logan came back down. "Okay time for some sparing" he said. "And you two break it up" he said yelling at Kitty and Bobby who were making out still. "Everyone pick a partner, I think I'll take Drake," he said before Bobby could pick Kitty. Kitty paired with Jean, and Dani paired with Kurt, leaving Scott and Carol together.
For the most part the sparing was pretty calm. Bobby fired ice blasts while Logan dodged them and cut through them, eventually Logan pinned Bobby. Kitty tried to phase behind Jean and sneak up behind her while Jean used her TK on her, beating her. Dani and Kurt were pretty evenly matched but eventually Kurt ended up winning. Carol and Scott on the other hand went on for much longer. Scott fired blasts while Carol flew up and dodged them. She charged at him but he jumped at the last minute and tripped her up. Soon they were locked into each other.
"Why don't you give up, I'm stronger" Carol said.
"Maybe but I know my moves" Scott said and flipped around behind her, and twisted back her arm.
"Nice moves" she admitted then hooked her right leg on to Scott's and tripped him and threw him down on his butt into the ground. "But my are better" she smirked. "Looks like I win. Well got to go get ready for school" she said and walked out as Scott frowned at the others watching.
"What are you looking at" he snapped then got up and left the room as well.
"Well that was interesting" Logan smirked. "These training sessions are actually getting entertaining."
"Logan" Storm frowned and elbowed him.
"What, a little rivalry goes a long way in enhancing training. Anyway class dismissed," he said and the students all wandered out to get ready for school.
Upstairs, about an hour later............
"Bobby!!" Scott yelled from his room.
Fully dressed and showered Bobby with Kitty walked over to Scott's room. They saw that Scott was fresh from the shower and wearing his towel. "Hey Scottie what's up" Bobby asked. "Can this wait till you're dressed, I mean unless you wanted to show off your new towel" he smirked.
"You know damn well what's up. I laid out my clothes for today on my bed before I went into the shower and now they're gone. You took them as another of your little pranks."
"Oh please I can so do better pranks then that" Bobby rolled his eyes. "Besides it couldn't have been me I've been with Kitty for the last half hour" he said.
"Yeah Scott calm down" Kitty said. "He was with me."
"Yeah right. I bet you were in on it. You know you two are always causing trouble. Anyway just give me back my clothes and we'll forget it," he demanded.
"Excuse me Scott but we didn't do anything, come on Bobby" Kitty frowned and grabbed Bobby and phased them through the wall.
"Nice towel shades" a voice said belonging to Carol. Scott turned and found out where his clothes were. Carol was wearing tan pants, a grey shirt with a red opened button down shirt over it. "Hope you don't mind me borrowing some of your clothes, but I still haven't gone shopping and you are the closest to my size, unless I dress just like Jean" she smirked.
"Actually..." Scott began.
"Anyway, see you in the kitchen" she said and wandered off before he could do anything.
"Why do I have a feeling that today is not my day" Scott frowned and went to find some new clothes in his closet. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Later that day it was lunchtime at Bayville High. Many of the students were packed into the cafeteria, all-talking about the latest gossip. But there was one topic that rose above others.
"So did you here about Duncan Matthews party" Kitty asked as she took a seat at a table with Bobby, Scott, Carol, and Kurt.
"Yeah and..." Scott asked.
"And it vill be the event of the year" Kurt said. "Party all night" he said.
"Forget it Matthew's is a jerk" Scott frowned.
"Eh he can't be half bad if Jeanie likes him" Bobby shrugged. "I mean he's always nice to me."
"Only to get closer to Jean" Scott frowned. "Anyway we're not going to the party end of story, neither of you two can go anyway, no freshmen" Scott pointed out.
"Oh he is a jerk," Kitty pouted.
"Come on man vhy can't ve go" Kurt frowned. "I mean all ve do is go to school and train, vhy can't ve live a little" he asked.
"He's got a point" Carol nodded. "I mean give one good reason why we can't go."
Scott paused for a minute; Carol was really beginning to bug him. "Okay fine, we can't go because what if someone rubbed up against Kurt and felt his fur" Scott explained.
Kurt glared at him. "How dare you use me as an excuse because of your issues" he frowned at him. "Well try covering up this," he said and teleported away.
Scott immediately looked around to see if anyone noticed but luckily the students were to wrapped up in their own lives to notice anything. "That was close, are you happy now" he snapped at Carol.
"So you're blaming me" she frowned. "I can't believe you" she said and got up and stormed off. Scott looked over at Bobby and Kitty.
"Anyway well, like we better go find Kurt" she said. "Come Bobby," she said and Bobby nodded, following Kitty out and leaving Scott to sit and reflect. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Meanwhile Kurt had blindly ported himself on the outside grounds of the school. He looked around and saw no one. "I can't believe Scott sometimes" he thought to himself and punched his left hand with his right fist real hard. He then felt a slight shock on his wrist and looked down as he realized his holowatch was shorting out. "Oh no I've got to hide and fix my watch" he said and looked around to see if anyone was watching. He spotted a staircase leading to the school basement and rushed over to it. Little did he know he was being watched.
"If it isn't the Nightcrawler," a voice said belonging to Rogue. "Shouldn't yah have a little more cover out here in the open" she asked.
Kurt turned and looked at her and put his hands up. "Look I don't vant any trouble" he said.
Rogue shrugged. She truly had no real problem with the boy besides the fact that he was an X-Man. "Well ah I guess I can be nice to ya, but it depends what yah up to" She said and gave him a suspicious look.
"I'm not doing anything, my vatch is malfunctioning so I am hiding here till I can fix it," he said. "Besides there's not much important down here, just storage" he said as he looked around the dark and dusty basement.
"What about that?" Rogue asked and pointed to a metal door that was unmarked, which she proceeded to walk over to. She opened the door and looked surprised. "What is this?"
Kurt walked over. "I don't know," he said. "I've never been here before" he said as he walked over to her and looked into the room behind the door. It had machines and tools all over the place. "It looks like a lab of some sort," he said.
Rogue nodded as she walked in with Kurt. She looked around and picked up an interesting device. It was a tan round device with some sort of blasting device sticking out of it, and it had two handles and buttons on it. She pointed it at Kurt. "What do you think this is" she said.
Kurt looked at it as he walked over. "It might be a weapon of some sort" he shrugged. "Maybe you should put that down" he advised her and went to grab it.
"And let you get, ah don't think so X-Man" she said and held it tight as Kurt grabbed it. Soon they were both pulling it with all they're might.
"Give it to me" he demanded. "I won't use it to attack you."
"Yeah right, like I'll fall for that" she shook her head. "You let go" she said and pulled with all her might. She got it out of Kurt's grasp but fell backwards. Her arm hit one of the buttons and a beam emitted from the device.
"Vhat the" Kurt began to say when the beam hit him and he vanished.
Rogue slowly got up, still clutching the device. "Oh mah god, I, I, I've got to get outta here" she said and ran out of the lab. She reached the stairs before realizing she still had the device and dropped it, letting it fall. She rushed up the stairs and outside where Toad was hanging out.
"Hey Rogue what's going" he said but she just shook her head and continued to run off. "Weird" he thought and decided to investigate. He walked down the stairs and found the device. "Hmm what's this" he smirked and picked it up. He accidentally press the button and the beam hit one of the storage boxes and the box vanished "I think I'll have some fun" he said and hopped off with the device. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Back at the institute Dani was wandering the grounds by herself. She was bored out of her mind all alone, but the Professor couldn't let her go to school at the moment. Her powers still needed controls and besides the fact that he still had to find a way of covering up the period of time where she was missing. Thus she was subjected to loneliness and boredom while her friends were at school. She walked for a while and soon walked up to a top of a hill near the lake where there was plenty of bushes and moss. Suddenly she bumped into something. "Ouch" Dani frowned then noticed the stone sticking out of the ground.
"What's this?" she thought and pushed the moss in the way and saw a named engraved. John "Thunderbird" Proudstar in loving memory. Dani was quite confused. "A grave here, I got to tell the others about this" she thought and ran off. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Back at school a very confused and scared Rogue ran to the only place she could turn. She ran past the secretary straight into Principal Darkholme's office, slamming the door behind her.
The principal was looking down doing her paper work at her desk. "Look no one barges in here without an appointment so you better..." She began to yell them looked up to see the distraught Rogue. "Oh it's you" her voice softened. "I didn't know dear, what's wrong."
Rogue sighed. "Ah... ah think I killed one of those X-men" she sobbed.
Darkholme looked confused. "What do you mean did you drain them, was it Ms. Marvel?" she asked with some hope in her voice.
"No ah mean ah wouldn't be upset about that. Ah didn't use my powers. Ah was outside when I saw the blue one Kurt, and well we went into the basement and found this lab and ah picked up this machine and it turned on and fired a blast at him and he vanished" she said.
The principal's face went very pale. "You mean you think you killed Kurt, I mean Nightcrawler" the older woman asked. "Oh my god" she sighed. "Of all of Xavier's why did it have to be him" she muttered to herself.
"It was an accident" she said. "Ah didn't mean to" she said.
Mystique shook her head. "No relax Rogue it will be alright, they are our enemies so don't feel bad. We'll protect you," she said.
Rogue shook her head. "How can ah not feel bad" she said. "I'm confused I need to be alone" she said and began to leave.
Mystique grabbed her arm. "No I can't let you leave, it may not be safe" she said.
"Ah said ah need to be alone" Rogue frowned and in her emotional state pushed Mystique away but touched her skin with her own skin. Mystique became drained and changed back to her normal state and fell down knocked out. "Oh no" she said. Her head hurt as some of Mystique's mind entered her own mind. "Oh mah god, Kurt he's..." she didn't finish the sentence. "Ah have to help him if ah can" she said and ran out. She locked the door behind her so no one would see the exposed Mystique. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Kurt Wagner turned and saw Rogue with the device and before he could react it blasted him. "Noo" He yelled but by the time he got out he saw everything change. All his surroundings looked the same yet somewhat different. Everything around him looked hazy and techni-colored. He watched Rogue run off. "Vait fraulein, I'm fine" he tried to call out to her but it was as if she couldn't hear him. "That vas odd" he thought as he walked out of the lab. He saw Toad playing with the device and tried to stop him but he just went through him. Kurt decided to go looking for his friends. He walked up the stairs and back on to the grounds. Soon he spotted Kitty and Bobby walking by.
"Kurt" Kitty called out. "Kurt come on out."
"Yeah Kurt stop fooling around, we got class soon" Bobby said.
Kurt heard them, but for some reason they're voices seemed to echo. He noticed this earlier with Rogue and Toad too. "I'm right here guys" he said running over to them, but he got no response. "Hey guys right here, look" he raised his voice.
Kitty looked at Bobby. "Where could he be, I mean he does fool around but this is getting ridiculous."
Bobby shrugged. "I don't know but I'm sure he's okay" he said. "We better keep looking for him, wherever he is."
"Very funny guys, pretending I'm not here" Kurt frowned. "Well then how can I do this" he said and went to tackle Bobby only to go through him. He looked up. "Mein god, I'm not here, I'm ghost. No vait that's impossible I'll prove I'm alive" he said then ported out.
Kitty sighed. "I hope your right" she said as she looked at the ground. "Wait Bobby look at this" she said pointing to a few faint footprints, they weren't normal footprints though.
Bobby nodded. "That looks like Kurt's footprints" he said. "And they lead to the basement" he said and practically pulled Kitty down the stairs. "Looks real dark down there" Bobby said.
"Yeah and eww all dusty" she said then noticed something just before stepping on it. "And speaking of eww look slime" she frowned. "Wait that's Toad's slime" she said.
"You thinking what I'm thinking" he asked.
"Yeah let's find Toad" she nodded. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Meanwhile Kurt had ported himself into the center of the gym. Everything here looked hazy to. "Not this again."
"Woah don't see that everyday," a voice behind him said. The voice was normal with no echo. Kurt turned and saw a teenage boy with tan skin dressed in very out of date clothing.
"Vait you can see me" he said rushing over to the boy.
The boy looked shocked himself. "Wait you can see me man" he said. "Wow finally someone to talk to. I've been wishing for someone to talk to for so long. Never thought it end up being someone with funky fur, but whatever" he said. "I'm Forge" he said.
"Oh yes I'm Kurt, So you don't mind vhat I am" he asked.
"Not if you don't mind this" Forge shrugged and Kurt watched as his hand became mechanical. "I'm different too, though I can't say my power is as groovy as that tripped out teleporting thing or the ears. I just can use my hand as pretty much any tool I want and I can invent stuff" he said.
"So it vas your lab I found" Kurt nodded. "Wait vhat's vith the strange lingo man, how long have you been here" he asked.
"Well since 1978" Forge shrugged. "I was working in my lab on my science project, a Tran dimensional projector, I was trying to get the kinks out when it blasted me and I got stuck in this little pocket universe" he said.
"Let me guess you don't know how to get out" he said.
"Well actually I do, all we have to do is tell someone on the outside to press the reset button."
"Yeah but how do we do that" he asked.
"Well if I had something to work with I might be able to built something that could help" he said.
Suddenly Kurt saw something and pushed Forge out of the way. A desk fell to the ground. "Vhat vas that" he said before just being missed by a light projector, then a TV monitor, then a computer set.
"Looks like someone is using the projector" Forge said. "And he might just of given me what I needed" he said. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Meanwhile in the real world Toad was having the time of his life. "Let see, I've zapped away my English teacher's desk, my history teachers projector, my biology teachers TV monitor, and my math teachers computer," he thought. "Now to show that Mystique" he thought and went hopping out the door. He entered the parking lot and looked around till he spotted Mystique's Lincoln Continental. "Time to say cheese" he said and pressed the button. The beam hit the car and the car vanished. "Yes, that'll teach her. And the best part is no one will ever know" he said.
"Don't be too sure Toad" a voice said. Toad turned and saw it belonged to Cyclops. With him were Jean, Bobby, Kitty and Carol. "We have a few things to ask you Toad" he said.
"Oh crap" Toad gulped. "You'll have to catch me first" he said then started to hop off.
"Get him" Scott said and began to chase after him.
Toad hopped as fast as he could, doing his best to dodge ice and laser blasts. Jean lifted him off his feet and he turned around and spit slime on her. He fired some more slime at the others hoping to keep them back as he continued to hop. "Yo you'll never catch me X-Geeks" he said then heard a snapping noise. He felt himself being pushed into a tree. "Ouch. Wait I've got to get out of here" he said and went to run but realized he was stuck. The collar to his shirt was caught in an arrow in the tree.
"Hey guys looks like I came in the nick of time" Dani said as she rushed over to the other X-Men, who had gathered around the trapped Toad.
"Good work Dani" Carol said before Scott could. He gave her a glare. "Now it's time to spill little Toad" she said.
"Yeah starting with...." Scott began to say but was interrupted.
Carol continued to talk. "First where's Kurt, second what's the gadget and where did you get it."
"Look I don't know anything about the blue guy, and I found it okay?"
"I'll handle this" Scott said getting in front of Carol.
"That's okay I'm handling it just fine" Carol frowned glaring at Scott who glared back.
"Oh just break it up you to" Jean rolled her eyes. "Just stay on focus, we need to find out what this thing does, it might have something to do with what happened to Kurt
Bobby and Kitty were looking over the strange device. "It looks like some sort of ray gun" Kitty said.
"You mean like on Star Trek or something" Bobby shrugged. "Well let's find out what it does" he said and grabbed it.
"Boys and they're toys" Kitty looked at Jean and they both rolled they're eyes.
He aimed it at a near by rock and fired. The beam hit the rock and the rock was gone. All the X-Men looked shocked. "I guess it vaporizes stuff," Bobby said.
Kitty fumed and rushed over and started to strangle Toad. "Like you little weasel, you made Kurt get vaporized, I'll kill you" she snapped. Jean pulled her away while Scott and Carol towered over Toad.
"Now you spill before we use it on you" Scott said though not meaning it. He motioned for Bobby to aim it at Toad.
"You all back off" a voice said that belonged to Rogue. The X-Men all turned to look at her.
"Look our friend is missing and we're not letting him go till he explains" Jean said.
"Y'all better back off if you ever want to see ya friend again" she said.
Scott nodded. "Let him go" he said and Carol pulled the arrow out and Toad scampered off. "Okay now spill what you know" he said.
"Follow me" she told them and they nodded. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Back in the pocket dimension Kurt watched for what seemed like an hour as Forge scavenged through all the debris that had fallen. At one point a car had fallen out of the sky. Luckily Kurt got Forge out of the way. Then Forge went back to work. Finally he said. "Finished."
"So vhat did you make" Kurt asked.
Forge presented him with a metal device, which he strapped on to Kurt's chest. "It will allow you to temporarily appear back in the real world. But the energy is low so you'll only get a few seconds if that, so it will have to count."
'Then ve better find vhere mein friends are" Kurt said and pulled Forge away. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The X-Men followed Rogue down into the old lab. "This is where it happened" She explained.
"Where what happened" Carol asked as Scott glared at her.
"We both found this place and we looked at that weird machine and a button got pressed and ya friend disappeared" she explained.
"So like Kurt's dead" Kitty squealed, as she held on to Bobby.
Jean shook her head. "No he can't be, the professor or I would of felt it" she assured Kitty.
"Then what happened' Scott said.
"Maybe the device moved him or something like a star trek transporter" Bobby shrugged.
"What is it with you and star trek today" Kitty asked. "Anyway maybe we can reverse it by doing something to the machine" she suggested. "Maybe there's a button or something" she said.
"Or we destroy it" Scott said.
"Or there's that" Kitty rolled her eyes. "What is it with boys and there explosions" she asked and Dani and Jean just shrugged.
Just as Scott had said that both Kurt and Forge appeared inside the lab. "Oh no if he does that we'll be trapped forever" Forge said.
"Then I better try it," he said and teleported. He appeared in the real world. "Reset, don't...' he began but the energy ran out and he was sucked back into the pocket dimension. "I hope that vorked," he told Forge.
"He's alive" Kitty smiled, as did the others. Rogue smiled too but then quickly hid her happiness. "So what do we do?"
"Duh he said reset don't, so we don't reset it" Dani said and Jean, Bobby and Kitty both kind of nodded.
"I don't know" Scott said. "If...." He began to say but was interrupted again.
"No if he didn't want us to reset it he would of said don't reset" Carol said. Scott glared at her with annoyance. Rogue was glaring at her too. She hated this girl but for now her feelings would have to wait.
Scott nodded. "Yes I was about to say that myself" he said. "I mean Kurt can be a goof ball but times like this he's serious" he said. Scott closed his eyes and slowly went for the reset button, finally pressing it. A large hole ripped out of thin air.
"There it is we got to get through" Forge said. "But it's closing up to fast, we'll never make it."
"Vait I have an idea" he said and grabbed Forge, and teleporting away.
"It's open, what's taking so long, why hasn't he come out" Scott frowned.
At this moment the ground shook as Toad, Avalanche, Pyro, Blob and Quicksilver appeared.
"There you are Rogue, Mystique sent us to find you" Lance said.
"So what you brought us down here to trap us" Scott frowned at Rogue.
"Look you have your friends and I have mine," she said. "Anyway I've done what I had to do, I'm gone" she said and stormed out.
"But we're not" Pietro smirked. "We want your little toy" he explained. "Let's go boys" he said.
"Everyone protect the device" Carol called out before Scott could, earning her another glare from him. As Pietro rushed over Carol dove into him and started to try and hold him. Bobby and Pyro spared as usual, while Jean tried her best to hold back Avalanche and Toad. Blob ran over and got near the device while Kitty and Dani tried they're best to slow him down.
Back in the dimension, Kurt had ported Forge into Mystique's car and the boy quickly hotwired it. "This vill get us through" he told Forge and pressed on the gas. The car sped through the school till it reached the hole. They held on tight as they were sucked in. "Hold on tight" Kurt called.
"We're gonna crash" Forge yelled as the car re-entered the real world and ran right into Blob's side. The boy shrugged. The device closed up and smashed into the ground.
"Good thing I'm the Blob" Fred shrugged.
"Yeah you can say that again" Toad nodded.
"Forget this guys" Avalanche said. "Let's go." The other boys muttered and wandered off.
"Welcome back Kurt" Kitty said grabbing Kurt and hugging him.
"Yeah we thought we lost you blue" Bobby told him, patting him on the back.
"Vell I'm glad to be back" he said as the X-Men and Forge walked up the stairs and out of the building. Night had fallen by this point.
A little bit later everyone was gathered around Scott's car, all had shown Kurt how worried they had been and Scott was giving Forge the information about the X-men.
"Anyway man, when your ready come on down to the institute. The professor's cool you'd like him" Scott said.
Forge took a card from Scott and nodded. "Sounds groovy man, I'll stop by some time. But right now I should really let my parents know I'm still alive" he explained. "Thanks for everything guys" he said and walked off. The X-Men waved good-bye.
"So like what now" Kitty asked.
"Let me guess Danger room sessions' Bobby smirked.
"Nah, I thought about it and Kurt's right, we do need to relax. I say we go to Duncan's party."
"Vow, you feeling okay" Kurt asked.
"I think he might be running a temperature" Jean smirked.
"But what about the no freshman rule" Kitty asked.
"Don't worry your with us, we're a team and we'll back you up" Scott said.
"Vell vhat are ve vaiting for I'll drive" Kurt said.
"After I saw your driving today, not in my car" Scott joked and turned the car on and drove off.
Meanwhile Forge continued to walk home when he heard something behind him. "Hello, Kurt that you "he asked. He got no response and continued to hear footsteps. "Bobby, Jean, Kitty" he asked. "Whose there."
"Hello brother mutant" a deep voice said and Forge felt his arm being moved. He was lifted into the air.
"What's going on" he said.
"I am Magneto, and I have a job for you' the voice said and pulled Forge into a silver orb that emerged from the bushes. It shoved him in, sealed up and pulled him away.
Okay that's it for now. As always please read and respond. Not that many last chapter. Please give me some support. I need it. And as for Gambit and Colossus, I'll bring them in later in the 2nd season fic. But right now I need to add one more X-men probably and I'm looking for some suggestions.
On an isolated corner of the continent of Antarctica, where there is nothing but flat tundra covering the earth's surface, all is quiet as usual. From out of the dark gray sky, in the distance a faint object can be seen. As it gets closer the object can be identified as a large silver orb. It races at fast speeds till it reaches the quiet tundra and then stops in mid air and hovers above the ground. A slight hissing sound can be heard as the orb opens up. Out of it emerges a man in red armor and a purple cape who seems to float in the air. He raises his hands and closes his eyes in concentration. The ice begins to crack across the tundra for at least 3 square miles. After the tundra shatters the shards of ice are pushed away as a massive piece of rock rises from under the ice. The man moves his hands in such motion as if he was moving the rock himself. He floated himself underneath the rock after raising it high in the sky and extended one hand in the direction of the rock and his other hand toward the ground below and closed his eyes. He groaned in strain and after several minutes finally stopped. The rock remained in the sky and he smiled at his work as he floated back to his orb.
"The first step toward sanctuary" he told himself. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It is a stormy evening in Bayville. The rain poured down hard on the hood house as Emma Frost emerged from her room. She looked around for a minute. "Hmm it's quiet," she said to herself as she walked down the stairs and enters the living room. "Not here either" she muttered then put a hand on her forehead and smiles. "Oh wait that explains it" she said and walked down the hallway to the basement stairs. She casually walked down and found, Avalanche passed out against the wall, Pyro and Toad passed out and leaning against a passed out Blob, and even the swift Quicksilver passed out at the feet of Rogue who was vigorously taking it to the punching bag that had a picture taped to it.
"Nice work, I've always wondered how to shut them all up" Emma smirked.
"Yeah well ah needed Blob's strength, knocked the others out with mah fist cause they were annoying and drained Quicksilver cause he tried to kiss me, the idiot," Rogue grunted as she continued to punch the picture. There was a glint of fury in her eyes.
Emma examined the picture and smiled. "Well it seems your taking all that borrowed strength out on that photo. Not a big fan of Ms. Marvel now are you," she asked.
"Oh really what gave you that idea" Rogue frowned then punched the bag hard busting it open. She watched as the sand poured out. "Damn it, now ah need a new one."
"Nice hit, and I wouldn't worry I'm sure our benefactor will provide you with a new one. But the truth is you much rather hit the real thing" She asked.
"Well obviously" Rogue frowned.
"And what would you do when you got your hands on her" Emma asked.
Rogue looked at her with confusion. "Well ah don't know but ah would make her pay for humiliating me" she said.
"Your right she should pay" Emma nodded. She was silent for a moment then spoke again. "I have a question for you, do you believe in destiny Rogue, and no I don't mean our blind friend upstairs" she asked.
Rogue shrugged. "Maybe, ah guess. I don't know," she said.
"Well I do and from where I'm sitting your powers indicate you are destined for great things," Emma said. "All you need to do is utilize them correctly and reach out and grab the opportunity. And maybe, just maybe it should start with our power rich blond friend" she shrugged.
"What are you getting at?" Rogue asked.
"Oh nothing just giving some friendly advice. But it's up to you to decide what you really want Rogue, to fulfill your destiny, or to continue to be looked down on" Emma said and began to walk away. "Ta for now" she said and walked back up the stairs.
Rogue watched her leave and just stood there for a minute, letting what Emma said sink in. She noticed the picture of Ms. Marvel bent up, but still there on the floor among the sand. She picked it up and looked at it for a second. "Maybe Emma's right" she thought and then stared at the picture, looking right into the eyes of Ms. Marvel. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The next morning at 5:30 am in the Institute a bell rings.
"God I like hate these morning training sessions" Kitty yawned as she got up. She phased out of her pink pajamas and into her uniform with ease, then spent 10 minutes doing her hair. She phased through the wall and rushed over to the elevator that was about to close. Inside of it were Dani, Jean, and Bobby, who Kitty kissed on the cheek. "Morning honey."
"Get a room" Dani frowned. Kitty just smiled and stuck her tongue out playfully at Dani.
"Kitty you can get dressed faster then anyone here, yet your always last" Jean rolled her eyes.
"Well yeah but I had to make sure my hair was just right" she explained. "Besides it's too early" she yawned and rested her head on Bobby and closed her eyes. "Carry me" she sighed.
Bobby smirked. "Sure why not" he said and went to pick her up.
"I swear if you to don't stop with the lovie-dubie stuff I think I'm going to hurl" Dani frowned while she fiddled with her bow.
Jean nodded. "Yeah Bobby, I mean we're all happy that you two found each other and all, but if Logan catches you making it easy on her, he'll give you both extra training" she said.
Kitty sighed. "Well in that case I guess I can bare it," she said still leaning against Bobby as the elevator opened up. The four of them walked out and headed into the Danger Room.
Inside, the faculty, Scott, Carol, and Kurt were all already there along with both Logan and Storm. Kurt looked pretty tired himself but both Carol and Scott seemed as chipper as Logan who grunted as the four stragglers entered. "Your late as usual" he grunted. "Though I know the only reason elf is here on time is because he teleported" he smirked.
"Yeah well we can't all be as crazy as Scott" Bobby quipped as he pointed at Scott who looked quite awake and ready. "And it seems that Carol has been infected with the same disease" he said as he looked over at Carol who looked just as alert. Her new uniform looked similar to Scott's as well, sporting the same gold X over her chest.
"Clam it Bobby, just because your lazy is no reason to take shots at me" Scott frowned.
"Well let's just get this over with so we can get ready for school" Jean sighed and walked over.
"Jah faster ve're done the faster the pain goes avay" Kurt yawned.
"Oh come on this should be fun" Carol told them. "I can show you all my stuff" she said with eagerness in her voice.
"Well I'm glad you're all so eager" Logan grinned. "Now let the games begin."
"Oh Logan go easy on them it's a school day" Storm retorted.
"Fine" he frowned. "I think we'll start off with the obstacle course, all you have to do is get from one side of the forest to another" he told them and headed to the control room with Storm. "Oh and by the way, winner doesn't have to do dishes for 2 weeks" he said.
"Well I think we all know who that will be" Scott said confidently.
"Your right, but I don't like to brag" Carol retorted as she gave him an eye. After reaching the control room, Logan entered into the computer the simulation and the large metal room turned into a forest. "Okay go" he yelled over the intercom.
"Later" Carol said and ran through.
Scott frowned and sprinted into the forest after her. The others followed. As the race progressed, Kurt soon found himself caught in a snare and hanging upside down, Bobby and Kitty both fell into a pit and instead of trying to get out decided to start making out, much to Logan's annoyance. Dani went for a short cut and got herself caught in a large spider web. Soon it was just Scott, Jean and Carol, but Scott and Carol soon sprinted ahead and became neck and neck.
"Looks like I've got this won" Scott said between breaths as they both leaped over a pit.
"Not yet you don't" Carol retorted and surged ahead, and dodging a net trap. Scott sprinted as well and soon they were elbow to elbow. In an attempt to surge ahead Scott accidentally hit Carol causing her to trip up just as the finish line was in sight. Scott sprinted ahead and won.
"Looks like I won" Scott said as he tried to catch his breath.
"Yeah looks like you did. Lucky, but we'll see about next time" Carol responded as she breathed heavily for a second then walked away.
The simulation faded and Logan came back down. "Okay time for some sparing" he said. "And you two break it up" he said yelling at Kitty and Bobby who were making out still. "Everyone pick a partner, I think I'll take Drake," he said before Bobby could pick Kitty. Kitty paired with Jean, and Dani paired with Kurt, leaving Scott and Carol together.
For the most part the sparing was pretty calm. Bobby fired ice blasts while Logan dodged them and cut through them, eventually Logan pinned Bobby. Kitty tried to phase behind Jean and sneak up behind her while Jean used her TK on her, beating her. Dani and Kurt were pretty evenly matched but eventually Kurt ended up winning. Carol and Scott on the other hand went on for much longer. Scott fired blasts while Carol flew up and dodged them. She charged at him but he jumped at the last minute and tripped her up. Soon they were locked into each other.
"Why don't you give up, I'm stronger" Carol said.
"Maybe but I know my moves" Scott said and flipped around behind her, and twisted back her arm.
"Nice moves" she admitted then hooked her right leg on to Scott's and tripped him and threw him down on his butt into the ground. "But my are better" she smirked. "Looks like I win. Well got to go get ready for school" she said and walked out as Scott frowned at the others watching.
"What are you looking at" he snapped then got up and left the room as well.
"Well that was interesting" Logan smirked. "These training sessions are actually getting entertaining."
"Logan" Storm frowned and elbowed him.
"What, a little rivalry goes a long way in enhancing training. Anyway class dismissed," he said and the students all wandered out to get ready for school.
Upstairs, about an hour later............
"Bobby!!" Scott yelled from his room.
Fully dressed and showered Bobby with Kitty walked over to Scott's room. They saw that Scott was fresh from the shower and wearing his towel. "Hey Scottie what's up" Bobby asked. "Can this wait till you're dressed, I mean unless you wanted to show off your new towel" he smirked.
"You know damn well what's up. I laid out my clothes for today on my bed before I went into the shower and now they're gone. You took them as another of your little pranks."
"Oh please I can so do better pranks then that" Bobby rolled his eyes. "Besides it couldn't have been me I've been with Kitty for the last half hour" he said.
"Yeah Scott calm down" Kitty said. "He was with me."
"Yeah right. I bet you were in on it. You know you two are always causing trouble. Anyway just give me back my clothes and we'll forget it," he demanded.
"Excuse me Scott but we didn't do anything, come on Bobby" Kitty frowned and grabbed Bobby and phased them through the wall.
"Nice towel shades" a voice said belonging to Carol. Scott turned and found out where his clothes were. Carol was wearing tan pants, a grey shirt with a red opened button down shirt over it. "Hope you don't mind me borrowing some of your clothes, but I still haven't gone shopping and you are the closest to my size, unless I dress just like Jean" she smirked.
"Actually..." Scott began.
"Anyway, see you in the kitchen" she said and wandered off before he could do anything.
"Why do I have a feeling that today is not my day" Scott frowned and went to find some new clothes in his closet. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Later that day it was lunchtime at Bayville High. Many of the students were packed into the cafeteria, all-talking about the latest gossip. But there was one topic that rose above others.
"So did you here about Duncan Matthews party" Kitty asked as she took a seat at a table with Bobby, Scott, Carol, and Kurt.
"Yeah and..." Scott asked.
"And it vill be the event of the year" Kurt said. "Party all night" he said.
"Forget it Matthew's is a jerk" Scott frowned.
"Eh he can't be half bad if Jeanie likes him" Bobby shrugged. "I mean he's always nice to me."
"Only to get closer to Jean" Scott frowned. "Anyway we're not going to the party end of story, neither of you two can go anyway, no freshmen" Scott pointed out.
"Oh he is a jerk," Kitty pouted.
"Come on man vhy can't ve go" Kurt frowned. "I mean all ve do is go to school and train, vhy can't ve live a little" he asked.
"He's got a point" Carol nodded. "I mean give one good reason why we can't go."
Scott paused for a minute; Carol was really beginning to bug him. "Okay fine, we can't go because what if someone rubbed up against Kurt and felt his fur" Scott explained.
Kurt glared at him. "How dare you use me as an excuse because of your issues" he frowned at him. "Well try covering up this," he said and teleported away.
Scott immediately looked around to see if anyone noticed but luckily the students were to wrapped up in their own lives to notice anything. "That was close, are you happy now" he snapped at Carol.
"So you're blaming me" she frowned. "I can't believe you" she said and got up and stormed off. Scott looked over at Bobby and Kitty.
"Anyway well, like we better go find Kurt" she said. "Come Bobby," she said and Bobby nodded, following Kitty out and leaving Scott to sit and reflect. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Meanwhile Kurt had blindly ported himself on the outside grounds of the school. He looked around and saw no one. "I can't believe Scott sometimes" he thought to himself and punched his left hand with his right fist real hard. He then felt a slight shock on his wrist and looked down as he realized his holowatch was shorting out. "Oh no I've got to hide and fix my watch" he said and looked around to see if anyone was watching. He spotted a staircase leading to the school basement and rushed over to it. Little did he know he was being watched.
"If it isn't the Nightcrawler," a voice said belonging to Rogue. "Shouldn't yah have a little more cover out here in the open" she asked.
Kurt turned and looked at her and put his hands up. "Look I don't vant any trouble" he said.
Rogue shrugged. She truly had no real problem with the boy besides the fact that he was an X-Man. "Well ah I guess I can be nice to ya, but it depends what yah up to" She said and gave him a suspicious look.
"I'm not doing anything, my vatch is malfunctioning so I am hiding here till I can fix it," he said. "Besides there's not much important down here, just storage" he said as he looked around the dark and dusty basement.
"What about that?" Rogue asked and pointed to a metal door that was unmarked, which she proceeded to walk over to. She opened the door and looked surprised. "What is this?"
Kurt walked over. "I don't know," he said. "I've never been here before" he said as he walked over to her and looked into the room behind the door. It had machines and tools all over the place. "It looks like a lab of some sort," he said.
Rogue nodded as she walked in with Kurt. She looked around and picked up an interesting device. It was a tan round device with some sort of blasting device sticking out of it, and it had two handles and buttons on it. She pointed it at Kurt. "What do you think this is" she said.
Kurt looked at it as he walked over. "It might be a weapon of some sort" he shrugged. "Maybe you should put that down" he advised her and went to grab it.
"And let you get, ah don't think so X-Man" she said and held it tight as Kurt grabbed it. Soon they were both pulling it with all they're might.
"Give it to me" he demanded. "I won't use it to attack you."
"Yeah right, like I'll fall for that" she shook her head. "You let go" she said and pulled with all her might. She got it out of Kurt's grasp but fell backwards. Her arm hit one of the buttons and a beam emitted from the device.
"Vhat the" Kurt began to say when the beam hit him and he vanished.
Rogue slowly got up, still clutching the device. "Oh mah god, I, I, I've got to get outta here" she said and ran out of the lab. She reached the stairs before realizing she still had the device and dropped it, letting it fall. She rushed up the stairs and outside where Toad was hanging out.
"Hey Rogue what's going" he said but she just shook her head and continued to run off. "Weird" he thought and decided to investigate. He walked down the stairs and found the device. "Hmm what's this" he smirked and picked it up. He accidentally press the button and the beam hit one of the storage boxes and the box vanished "I think I'll have some fun" he said and hopped off with the device. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Back at the institute Dani was wandering the grounds by herself. She was bored out of her mind all alone, but the Professor couldn't let her go to school at the moment. Her powers still needed controls and besides the fact that he still had to find a way of covering up the period of time where she was missing. Thus she was subjected to loneliness and boredom while her friends were at school. She walked for a while and soon walked up to a top of a hill near the lake where there was plenty of bushes and moss. Suddenly she bumped into something. "Ouch" Dani frowned then noticed the stone sticking out of the ground.
"What's this?" she thought and pushed the moss in the way and saw a named engraved. John "Thunderbird" Proudstar in loving memory. Dani was quite confused. "A grave here, I got to tell the others about this" she thought and ran off. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Back at school a very confused and scared Rogue ran to the only place she could turn. She ran past the secretary straight into Principal Darkholme's office, slamming the door behind her.
The principal was looking down doing her paper work at her desk. "Look no one barges in here without an appointment so you better..." She began to yell them looked up to see the distraught Rogue. "Oh it's you" her voice softened. "I didn't know dear, what's wrong."
Rogue sighed. "Ah... ah think I killed one of those X-men" she sobbed.
Darkholme looked confused. "What do you mean did you drain them, was it Ms. Marvel?" she asked with some hope in her voice.
"No ah mean ah wouldn't be upset about that. Ah didn't use my powers. Ah was outside when I saw the blue one Kurt, and well we went into the basement and found this lab and ah picked up this machine and it turned on and fired a blast at him and he vanished" she said.
The principal's face went very pale. "You mean you think you killed Kurt, I mean Nightcrawler" the older woman asked. "Oh my god" she sighed. "Of all of Xavier's why did it have to be him" she muttered to herself.
"It was an accident" she said. "Ah didn't mean to" she said.
Mystique shook her head. "No relax Rogue it will be alright, they are our enemies so don't feel bad. We'll protect you," she said.
Rogue shook her head. "How can ah not feel bad" she said. "I'm confused I need to be alone" she said and began to leave.
Mystique grabbed her arm. "No I can't let you leave, it may not be safe" she said.
"Ah said ah need to be alone" Rogue frowned and in her emotional state pushed Mystique away but touched her skin with her own skin. Mystique became drained and changed back to her normal state and fell down knocked out. "Oh no" she said. Her head hurt as some of Mystique's mind entered her own mind. "Oh mah god, Kurt he's..." she didn't finish the sentence. "Ah have to help him if ah can" she said and ran out. She locked the door behind her so no one would see the exposed Mystique. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Kurt Wagner turned and saw Rogue with the device and before he could react it blasted him. "Noo" He yelled but by the time he got out he saw everything change. All his surroundings looked the same yet somewhat different. Everything around him looked hazy and techni-colored. He watched Rogue run off. "Vait fraulein, I'm fine" he tried to call out to her but it was as if she couldn't hear him. "That vas odd" he thought as he walked out of the lab. He saw Toad playing with the device and tried to stop him but he just went through him. Kurt decided to go looking for his friends. He walked up the stairs and back on to the grounds. Soon he spotted Kitty and Bobby walking by.
"Kurt" Kitty called out. "Kurt come on out."
"Yeah Kurt stop fooling around, we got class soon" Bobby said.
Kurt heard them, but for some reason they're voices seemed to echo. He noticed this earlier with Rogue and Toad too. "I'm right here guys" he said running over to them, but he got no response. "Hey guys right here, look" he raised his voice.
Kitty looked at Bobby. "Where could he be, I mean he does fool around but this is getting ridiculous."
Bobby shrugged. "I don't know but I'm sure he's okay" he said. "We better keep looking for him, wherever he is."
"Very funny guys, pretending I'm not here" Kurt frowned. "Well then how can I do this" he said and went to tackle Bobby only to go through him. He looked up. "Mein god, I'm not here, I'm ghost. No vait that's impossible I'll prove I'm alive" he said then ported out.
Kitty sighed. "I hope your right" she said as she looked at the ground. "Wait Bobby look at this" she said pointing to a few faint footprints, they weren't normal footprints though.
Bobby nodded. "That looks like Kurt's footprints" he said. "And they lead to the basement" he said and practically pulled Kitty down the stairs. "Looks real dark down there" Bobby said.
"Yeah and eww all dusty" she said then noticed something just before stepping on it. "And speaking of eww look slime" she frowned. "Wait that's Toad's slime" she said.
"You thinking what I'm thinking" he asked.
"Yeah let's find Toad" she nodded. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Meanwhile Kurt had ported himself into the center of the gym. Everything here looked hazy to. "Not this again."
"Woah don't see that everyday," a voice behind him said. The voice was normal with no echo. Kurt turned and saw a teenage boy with tan skin dressed in very out of date clothing.
"Vait you can see me" he said rushing over to the boy.
The boy looked shocked himself. "Wait you can see me man" he said. "Wow finally someone to talk to. I've been wishing for someone to talk to for so long. Never thought it end up being someone with funky fur, but whatever" he said. "I'm Forge" he said.
"Oh yes I'm Kurt, So you don't mind vhat I am" he asked.
"Not if you don't mind this" Forge shrugged and Kurt watched as his hand became mechanical. "I'm different too, though I can't say my power is as groovy as that tripped out teleporting thing or the ears. I just can use my hand as pretty much any tool I want and I can invent stuff" he said.
"So it vas your lab I found" Kurt nodded. "Wait vhat's vith the strange lingo man, how long have you been here" he asked.
"Well since 1978" Forge shrugged. "I was working in my lab on my science project, a Tran dimensional projector, I was trying to get the kinks out when it blasted me and I got stuck in this little pocket universe" he said.
"Let me guess you don't know how to get out" he said.
"Well actually I do, all we have to do is tell someone on the outside to press the reset button."
"Yeah but how do we do that" he asked.
"Well if I had something to work with I might be able to built something that could help" he said.
Suddenly Kurt saw something and pushed Forge out of the way. A desk fell to the ground. "Vhat vas that" he said before just being missed by a light projector, then a TV monitor, then a computer set.
"Looks like someone is using the projector" Forge said. "And he might just of given me what I needed" he said. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Meanwhile in the real world Toad was having the time of his life. "Let see, I've zapped away my English teacher's desk, my history teachers projector, my biology teachers TV monitor, and my math teachers computer," he thought. "Now to show that Mystique" he thought and went hopping out the door. He entered the parking lot and looked around till he spotted Mystique's Lincoln Continental. "Time to say cheese" he said and pressed the button. The beam hit the car and the car vanished. "Yes, that'll teach her. And the best part is no one will ever know" he said.
"Don't be too sure Toad" a voice said. Toad turned and saw it belonged to Cyclops. With him were Jean, Bobby, Kitty and Carol. "We have a few things to ask you Toad" he said.
"Oh crap" Toad gulped. "You'll have to catch me first" he said then started to hop off.
"Get him" Scott said and began to chase after him.
Toad hopped as fast as he could, doing his best to dodge ice and laser blasts. Jean lifted him off his feet and he turned around and spit slime on her. He fired some more slime at the others hoping to keep them back as he continued to hop. "Yo you'll never catch me X-Geeks" he said then heard a snapping noise. He felt himself being pushed into a tree. "Ouch. Wait I've got to get out of here" he said and went to run but realized he was stuck. The collar to his shirt was caught in an arrow in the tree.
"Hey guys looks like I came in the nick of time" Dani said as she rushed over to the other X-Men, who had gathered around the trapped Toad.
"Good work Dani" Carol said before Scott could. He gave her a glare. "Now it's time to spill little Toad" she said.
"Yeah starting with...." Scott began to say but was interrupted.
Carol continued to talk. "First where's Kurt, second what's the gadget and where did you get it."
"Look I don't know anything about the blue guy, and I found it okay?"
"I'll handle this" Scott said getting in front of Carol.
"That's okay I'm handling it just fine" Carol frowned glaring at Scott who glared back.
"Oh just break it up you to" Jean rolled her eyes. "Just stay on focus, we need to find out what this thing does, it might have something to do with what happened to Kurt
Bobby and Kitty were looking over the strange device. "It looks like some sort of ray gun" Kitty said.
"You mean like on Star Trek or something" Bobby shrugged. "Well let's find out what it does" he said and grabbed it.
"Boys and they're toys" Kitty looked at Jean and they both rolled they're eyes.
He aimed it at a near by rock and fired. The beam hit the rock and the rock was gone. All the X-Men looked shocked. "I guess it vaporizes stuff," Bobby said.
Kitty fumed and rushed over and started to strangle Toad. "Like you little weasel, you made Kurt get vaporized, I'll kill you" she snapped. Jean pulled her away while Scott and Carol towered over Toad.
"Now you spill before we use it on you" Scott said though not meaning it. He motioned for Bobby to aim it at Toad.
"You all back off" a voice said that belonged to Rogue. The X-Men all turned to look at her.
"Look our friend is missing and we're not letting him go till he explains" Jean said.
"Y'all better back off if you ever want to see ya friend again" she said.
Scott nodded. "Let him go" he said and Carol pulled the arrow out and Toad scampered off. "Okay now spill what you know" he said.
"Follow me" she told them and they nodded. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Back in the pocket dimension Kurt watched for what seemed like an hour as Forge scavenged through all the debris that had fallen. At one point a car had fallen out of the sky. Luckily Kurt got Forge out of the way. Then Forge went back to work. Finally he said. "Finished."
"So vhat did you make" Kurt asked.
Forge presented him with a metal device, which he strapped on to Kurt's chest. "It will allow you to temporarily appear back in the real world. But the energy is low so you'll only get a few seconds if that, so it will have to count."
'Then ve better find vhere mein friends are" Kurt said and pulled Forge away. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The X-Men followed Rogue down into the old lab. "This is where it happened" She explained.
"Where what happened" Carol asked as Scott glared at her.
"We both found this place and we looked at that weird machine and a button got pressed and ya friend disappeared" she explained.
"So like Kurt's dead" Kitty squealed, as she held on to Bobby.
Jean shook her head. "No he can't be, the professor or I would of felt it" she assured Kitty.
"Then what happened' Scott said.
"Maybe the device moved him or something like a star trek transporter" Bobby shrugged.
"What is it with you and star trek today" Kitty asked. "Anyway maybe we can reverse it by doing something to the machine" she suggested. "Maybe there's a button or something" she said.
"Or we destroy it" Scott said.
"Or there's that" Kitty rolled her eyes. "What is it with boys and there explosions" she asked and Dani and Jean just shrugged.
Just as Scott had said that both Kurt and Forge appeared inside the lab. "Oh no if he does that we'll be trapped forever" Forge said.
"Then I better try it," he said and teleported. He appeared in the real world. "Reset, don't...' he began but the energy ran out and he was sucked back into the pocket dimension. "I hope that vorked," he told Forge.
"He's alive" Kitty smiled, as did the others. Rogue smiled too but then quickly hid her happiness. "So what do we do?"
"Duh he said reset don't, so we don't reset it" Dani said and Jean, Bobby and Kitty both kind of nodded.
"I don't know" Scott said. "If...." He began to say but was interrupted again.
"No if he didn't want us to reset it he would of said don't reset" Carol said. Scott glared at her with annoyance. Rogue was glaring at her too. She hated this girl but for now her feelings would have to wait.
Scott nodded. "Yes I was about to say that myself" he said. "I mean Kurt can be a goof ball but times like this he's serious" he said. Scott closed his eyes and slowly went for the reset button, finally pressing it. A large hole ripped out of thin air.
"There it is we got to get through" Forge said. "But it's closing up to fast, we'll never make it."
"Vait I have an idea" he said and grabbed Forge, and teleporting away.
"It's open, what's taking so long, why hasn't he come out" Scott frowned.
At this moment the ground shook as Toad, Avalanche, Pyro, Blob and Quicksilver appeared.
"There you are Rogue, Mystique sent us to find you" Lance said.
"So what you brought us down here to trap us" Scott frowned at Rogue.
"Look you have your friends and I have mine," she said. "Anyway I've done what I had to do, I'm gone" she said and stormed out.
"But we're not" Pietro smirked. "We want your little toy" he explained. "Let's go boys" he said.
"Everyone protect the device" Carol called out before Scott could, earning her another glare from him. As Pietro rushed over Carol dove into him and started to try and hold him. Bobby and Pyro spared as usual, while Jean tried her best to hold back Avalanche and Toad. Blob ran over and got near the device while Kitty and Dani tried they're best to slow him down.
Back in the dimension, Kurt had ported Forge into Mystique's car and the boy quickly hotwired it. "This vill get us through" he told Forge and pressed on the gas. The car sped through the school till it reached the hole. They held on tight as they were sucked in. "Hold on tight" Kurt called.
"We're gonna crash" Forge yelled as the car re-entered the real world and ran right into Blob's side. The boy shrugged. The device closed up and smashed into the ground.
"Good thing I'm the Blob" Fred shrugged.
"Yeah you can say that again" Toad nodded.
"Forget this guys" Avalanche said. "Let's go." The other boys muttered and wandered off.
"Welcome back Kurt" Kitty said grabbing Kurt and hugging him.
"Yeah we thought we lost you blue" Bobby told him, patting him on the back.
"Vell I'm glad to be back" he said as the X-Men and Forge walked up the stairs and out of the building. Night had fallen by this point.
A little bit later everyone was gathered around Scott's car, all had shown Kurt how worried they had been and Scott was giving Forge the information about the X-men.
"Anyway man, when your ready come on down to the institute. The professor's cool you'd like him" Scott said.
Forge took a card from Scott and nodded. "Sounds groovy man, I'll stop by some time. But right now I should really let my parents know I'm still alive" he explained. "Thanks for everything guys" he said and walked off. The X-Men waved good-bye.
"So like what now" Kitty asked.
"Let me guess Danger room sessions' Bobby smirked.
"Nah, I thought about it and Kurt's right, we do need to relax. I say we go to Duncan's party."
"Vow, you feeling okay" Kurt asked.
"I think he might be running a temperature" Jean smirked.
"But what about the no freshman rule" Kitty asked.
"Don't worry your with us, we're a team and we'll back you up" Scott said.
"Vell vhat are ve vaiting for I'll drive" Kurt said.
"After I saw your driving today, not in my car" Scott joked and turned the car on and drove off.
Meanwhile Forge continued to walk home when he heard something behind him. "Hello, Kurt that you "he asked. He got no response and continued to hear footsteps. "Bobby, Jean, Kitty" he asked. "Whose there."
"Hello brother mutant" a deep voice said and Forge felt his arm being moved. He was lifted into the air.
"What's going on" he said.
"I am Magneto, and I have a job for you' the voice said and pulled Forge into a silver orb that emerged from the bushes. It shoved him in, sealed up and pulled him away.
Okay that's it for now. As always please read and respond. Not that many last chapter. Please give me some support. I need it. And as for Gambit and Colossus, I'll bring them in later in the 2nd season fic. But right now I need to add one more X-men probably and I'm looking for some suggestions.
