DISCLAIMER: I do not own anyone except for Tori. I do not own the places either. I just own Tori.


The jet landed in the clearest spot the pilot could find. Kurt walked over to the man and waited for him to speak.

"One hour." The man said.

"Are you sure that's enough time?" Kurt asked.

"It should be. Now hurry." The man said with an agitated tone. He obviously did not want to be there.

Kurt set a timer on the watch he wore on his left wrist over his new leather outfit. All the X-Men wore one, and he felt honored at first to be considered one of them, but now he felt like he was being confined by it. He wasn't used to tight and form-fitting clothing; his blue skin couldn't breathe.

"Danke." He thanked the bored looking pilot.

The man let out a huff of air in response.

Kurt stepped out of the jet and started walking towards the mountains. He had planned on walking the entire way into the base and saving his energy for when he would really need it but the cold was unbearable. The leather may have been thick but it obviously wasn't very good for keeping warm in. He stopped, closed his eyes, and teleported into the base.

His body was engulfed in water. He opened his eyes and saw that he had managed to pick a room completely submerged in water as his first room. He was now freezing and less than happy about being soaked, he teleported into a hallway.

The hallway was dark; all the lights had been shattered when the place flooded. The water was up to his knees and it made a swooshing sound as he walked through it. He checked the rooms with dim lights as thoroughly as he could. The rooms that were dark he would just stand outside of and call for someone.

"Hello?" He would call. "Anyone in here?"

No answer would great him.

He made a right at the fork at the end of the hallway. Halfway down it were dead, bloated men, floating in the few inches of water; it made Kurt sick. He said a quick prayer for the men before calling out for any signs of life again. When no answer met his ears he turned around and took the left hallway.

After a couple of feet into the hallway he noticed that the water level was slowly decreasing as he made his way down the hall. He heard the sound of running water and the dim lights overhead allowed him to see that the water seemed to be flowing instead of being still.

He walked forward some more and when he put his foot down it met with only air. The surprise of the floor not being there didn't allow him time to think. He lost his balance and began to fall into the gap on the floor.

On his way down he managed to wrap his prehensile tail around a beam on the ceiling. He stopped falling and was now hanging upside down with water falling in around him. He found himself inside of the round room where he had saved the professor and had encountered Jason Stryker. He looked down at the platform and he saw that very man sitting in his wheelchair where he had been left. Something else caught his attention though. A young woman sat across from Jason, leaning against a piece of caved-in ceiling. She looked like she was sleeping although Kurt knew that Jason could be manipulating her into thinking she was somewhere else. Or he could be manipulating him into thinking there was someone there when there really wasn't. Perhaps he wasn't even in this room at all.

He pushed his thoughts aside. Jason wouldn't manipulate him if he wanted to get out of here.

"Hello?" Kurt called; his voice echoing around the room.

Tori's head snapped up and she looked around to find the source.

Kurt teleported down to the platform and appeared in front of her. She looked like a drowned animal. Her green eyes were wide as she stared at him; her hair was wet and clung to her face. Her clothes were damp and clung to her skin as she shivered.

"Guten Tag" he smiled. "I hope my appearance does not frighten you." He motioned at himself.

Tori shook her head. It was obvious he was a mutant; she didn't mind. "Who are you?" Tori asked.

"My name is Kurt Wagner, but in the Munich Circus I was known as 'The Incredible Nightcrawler.'" His smile never faltered. "What is your name?"

Tori cocked her head and looked around him. She glanced at Jason; he was sitting in his wheelchair, his eyes half-closed and fixed in a position somewhere to his left. Tori figured this wasn't an illusion seeing as how Jason seemingly wasn't even paying any attention.

"My name's Tori. Tori Cerra." She said.

Kurt held out a hand and Tori grabbed it, he then pulled her up from her sitting position.

"I've come to take you back with me to Professor Charles Xavier's School. He asked me to bring back anyone I found, and I found you." Kurt told her.

"Professor Xavier?" Tori asked.

She looked around Kurt again and her eyes met with Jason's. He stared at her; his eyes filled with a mix of emotions. Tori noticed anger, or resentment but she noticed something else that she couldn't exactly put a finger on. She took that emotion as a sign that he would be okay with going back to Charles Xavier so long as it meant getting out of this tomb.

"He's going too." Tori said and pointed to Jason.

Kurt turned his head and looked at the shell of a man behind him.

"I think that's who the professor wanted me to come and get. He's dangerous you know." Kurt informed her. "You can't always trust what you see around him."

"Oh, believe me, I know." Tori said. "But that doesn't mean he doesn't deserve another chance at life."

Tori looked back and Jason, as did Kurt. Jason stared at her only. His pupils dilated and Tori found herself standing in the room with him standing in front of her; Kurt was nowhere to be found.

Tori knew this was an illusion and was glad that Jason decided not to mess with her head completely as he had been all day. She smiled warmly at him.

"Thank you." He said. He stopped the illusion.