"So how was the date?" I asked Rogue and Kitty as we all sat in their room. They had invited me to hang out with them at the mall, and Rogue and I were waiting for Kitty to finish getting ready.

"It was nice." Rogue smiled.

"It was way more than nice." Kitty drawled as she pulled her hair back into a ponytail. "Kurt is such a good kisser."

"Ew!" Rogue exclaimed as laughed.

"Oh, get off it Rogue! Let the girl have a little fun. And if Kurt's having fun too, then it's a party."

"You're not helping my cause." Rogue said through clenched teeth.

"Never said I was going to. You just assumed." Kitty and I were laughing.

"Whatever, are you ready yet?"

"Yeah, let's go." Kitty grabbed her purse, and the three of us started for the garage. We walked by the kitchen and I took a quick glance. I smirked when I saw Wade and Ororo having coffee together at the island in the kitchen.

He saw us pass the doorway, and his eyes met mine. "Behave." I mouthed to him, and he just smiled.

~.~.~.~.~.~.~

"Oh my God!" Kitty practically squealed as Rogue stepped out of the dressing room in a tight fitting black dress. "Rogue, you look hot!"

"Well?" She asked me.

I nodded and smiled. "You look very nice, Rogue."

"Oh come on, she looks hot." Kitty said trying to get me to agree.

"Where I come from, 'very nice' is just as good as 'hot'."

"Uh huh, and where's that?" Kitty obviously didn't believe me.

There's really no use fighting. "Rogue, you look hot." Rouge blushed profusely and quickly changed back into her normal clothes.

"You're turn." Kitty pushed me into the dressing room and threw a dress in with me. I changed into it, and looked at myself in the mirror. I'm not one for dresses, but this one wasn't too bad: It was a simple black dress with a v-neck, a white strap right below the bust, (as a plus) it hugged my curves nicely, and it billowed out slightly just above my knees. But there was one problem: I forgot my under armor.

"Come on, Andi!" Both Kitty and Rogue exclaimed.

"I'm not coming out." Not with my secret identity exposed.

"Andi, we want to see what you look like." Kitty said.

"I don't have any cover up on." I mumbled into the door.

"Make-up isn't that important-"

"It's not that kind of cover up Kitty." Rogue murmured to her. Face palm.

"Oh." She pulled her cell phone from her pants pocket and slid it under the door of the dressing room. "Take a picture for us." I took a quick one from the mirror, slid the phone back to Kitty, and got back into my jeans and my long sleeved black shirt with a yellow Batman symbol on it. You can just guess where I bought that.

"You need to buy that!" Kitty squealed when she saw the picture.

"Seriously Andi, you have to." Rogue agreed.

"Only if you guys buy the ones you tried on."

"Let's do it." Kitty's eyes glowed.

This was actually kind of exciting. I mean, even when I would go shopping with Frieda and Daisy, I would never buy anything, I would just offer to hold the bags and stand there awkwardly.

~.~.~.~.~.~.~

"Alright." I smiled and that caused both Rogue and Kitty to smile.

"So what do you guys want for lunch?" Rogue, Kitty and I stared the food court and all its glory.

"I don't know." Both Kitty and I said in unison.

"Greek?" Kitty suggested.

"Pizza?" Rogue asked.

"Chinese?" I threw my two cents in.

"We could each get our own food." Rogue thought out loud.

"And whoever gets their food first gets a table." Kitty said.

I nodded. "Sounds like a plan."

So we went our separate ways, and Kitty got us a table near one the seven flat screen televisions that were scattered throughout the food court.

"Okay, you guys have spent the last few days trying to get to know me, I want to know about you guys."

Kitty and Rouge looked at each other and Kitty spoke first. "I was just a normal kid in Deerfield, Illinois. When I was thirteen I started getting massive headaches, and I got my mutant powers. The first time I phased through something was in the middle of the night, and I fell about halfway through the second floor of my house and I was caught: half of me in my bedroom, and half of me in the living room downstairs." She chuckled at the memory. "The next day Professor Xavier showed up and brought me to the Institute."

"It sounds normal." I smiled. "What about you, Rogue?"

"I don't feel comfortable talking about it."

"Fair enough."

"You know," Rogue just thought of. "We still don't know anything about you."

"Yes you do."

"Well I do, but Kitty doesn't."

"Fine. I was born in Gotham City, yes it's a real place, my mother died giving birth to me and my dad killed himself soon after. I was put into a various number foster homes in every state. I met my permanent foster family when I was a sophomore, and...that's about it." That's the short short version.

"Well, when did you get your powers?"

Should I tell them? If I lie, Rogue's gonna call me on it. "I was about a month old."

"That's like way too early to be natural." Kitty said.

"It's not a natural mutation."

"Then how did you get it?" Rogue inquired.

"I inhaled this gas-" My ring tone (Noots by Sum 41) cut me off. "Hojem." I answered.

"Are you watching the news?" Wade's voice came through.

I looked around at the televisions and was surprised at the fact that our television was the one with the news on it. "Holy Mother of God." I stared wide eyed at Lance in his granite form tearing through the city and running for the mall.

Kitty and Rogue look at the television as well and got the same look on their faces. "Wade, where are you?"

"I'm on my way to the mall. And you?"

"I'm already here."

"Get started without me." He hung up and I turned to the two girls who were watching Lance destroy everything in his path.

"I need you guys to get everyone out of here." I brought Rouge and Kitty out of their trance.

"We're not leaving you." Rogue said definitely.

"Rogue, you know I can't die. You guys need to save those that can."

"You can't defeat him by yourself." Kitty tried to reason with me.

"Wade and I are the only ones who can. You guys have to get these people out because Lance will be here in a few minutes. Go!" They left the table and started to rally people while I ran the other way to try to cut Lance off. There's no way that I could face him looking like this though. Gotta find something, gotta find something. And then I passed one of the weirdest stores ever: Toby's Halloween Haven. I wish I was kidding. Coincidentally, in the store window was a mannequin with a replica of my early Arbora costume. I ran in, quickly changed into one of the ones that were on the shelf for sale, and ran out before the guy at the counter knew I hadn't paid.

I ran to the Sears entrance about twenty yards away in a hunter green spandex body suit (with no sleeves) with knee high green converse shoes and a green mask that covered only my eyes. It's been a long time since I wore this. I came to the outside and saw Lance stomping around the parking lot, picking up cars and throwing them at other cars.

I had to get his attention somehow. And then I got it: Lady Gaga. Lance absolutely hated Lady Gaga. I teleported the stereo from my house and the CD from my viper. I set it up and pressed play. Just Dance started to play and I turned the volume up as loud as it could go so that Lance could hear.

He heard it. Lance had stopped playing with the cars and turned towards me with an angrier-than-usual glow in his eyes. "Andi!" He growled.

"Hello cowboy." Lance barely waited for me to address him before he yelled and ran towards me.

I waved my right arm and one of the trees that were scattered in the parking lot's medians popped out of the ground and wrapped itself around Lance's legs. He fell, but that didn't stop him from crawling towards me.

"KILL ANDI! ANDI EVIL!" Lance shouted at me.

"What did you say?" Wade accused me as he appeared out of nowhere.

"I think it was the joint effort of us leaving him." I threw another tree at Lance which tried to anchor him.

"I don't think that's going to work." Wade said as I made the grass from one of the medians grow long enough to wrap around him and start to drag him back to its place of origin.

"Then by all means, you do it." Wade pulled out two of his eight guns and started to attack Lance's upper body. This happened every time we had to round up Lance: I would get him on the ground, and then Wade would shoot him up till he went back to normal.

But unfortunately, Wade was right. Soldiers shouldn't get attached. His mind was elsewhere, and he messed up. Wade let himself in Lance's reach, he got picked up, and basically got snapped in half. All I heard was the snapping of Wade's spine and his scream. That was enough.

"YOU FUCKER!" I shouted at him.

"Andi, keep calm." J'onn cooed in my ear.

"No," I thought as my eyes glowed bright green. It wasn't just the iris like before, this was the entire eye, cornea and all. "No one messes with my sidekick and gets away with it."

"Aw, did I make little Andi upset?" Lance's distorted voice said with perfect diction. That must have been something that him and Stryker had been working on.

"How fucking dare you!" The beautiful blue sky had turned a terrifyingly dark gray and large and dangerous bolts of lightning struck the ground around us. "All we did was try to help." My own voice had grown deeper and more frightening. The vines on my arms peeled off and started to wrap themselves around Lance's arms and legs, trying to keep him contained. All the while and moving my arms in crazy motions and even more trees and little flowers and grass covered Lance and started squeezing. When that didn't revert him back to his human self, I created the largest lightning bolt I had ever done and hit him with over one hundred thousand volts. Thank the good Lord that that did the trick because I don't think I could do that again if I tried.

The kid that I once looked up to fell limp onto the ground, my "plant zombies" receding back into the medians and/or onto my arms. I walked over to him, and pulled his face to mine. "Think of this as euthanasia rather than murder." And with that, I snapped his neck. That was where my power high ended.

My eyes went back to their chocolate brown, and I fell on top of Lance's dead body. I was practically comatose. I hate it when I go IDDQD.

"Okay Andi," Wade's soft voice echoed in my head. "I know you're tired, but we need to get you out of here."

Unconsciously, I teleported Wade, myself, and Lance back to the Institute. In fact, I hadn't even done it. J'onn was actually controlling my head, my actions. Wade was holding me like he did back...was it only a week ago?

"Mr. Wilson?" Wade looked up to see J'onn standing before him.

"Who are you?" He asked as he held me even more protectively.

"My name is J'onn J'onzz. I am a very good friend of Andrea. But I need to borrow her for a few minutes."

"Borrow?"

"Yes. Since she is a little indisposed at the moment, she can't get rid of his body. So I will." His eyes glowed gold and my body raised and stood up. "I promise that I will bring her back in a few minutes."

"How can I trust you?" Wade snarled.

"You can't. But you have to know that I would never let anything happened to her." Not to my J'orah he thought.

"Five minutes." Wade threatened.

"Five minutes." J'onn agreed. He made me teleport Lance, him and me to the cliff where I first met Lance. J'onn made me raise my arms and then lower them; that controlled the roots of the trees around the cliff to grab Lance's dead body and they dragged him down into the earth. When the deed was done, J'onn made us teleport back to the Institute where Wade was waiting. J'onn let my mind go, and I fell limp in Wade's arms once more.

"Let her sleep, and everything will be fine."

"I know what to do with her. We've been through something like this before." Then J'onn went intangible and flew away.

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Wade saw J'onn and I leave and was immediately hugged. "Wade!" Ororo held him so tightly. "When I saw the news, I was so scared. I thought you were dead."

He had no emotion on his face and he didn't hug her back like he would have. He actually put his hands on her shoulders and pushed her off of him. "We can't do this."

"Do what?"

"Our relationship can't happen." His voice was so cold.

Her eyes grew wide. "Why?"

"Because when soldiers get attached, they make mistakes." He grew angry. "That's why everything got so fucked up!" He hadn't yelled at Storm before, hadn't even thought about it. "I was thinking of you, and I got too close." She looked as though she were going to cry.

"I-I..." Ororo didn't know what to say. She thought that Wade was the caring person that he seemed to be.

"Just go." Wade gave her a look that said, 'I didn't want to be with you anyway'. She turned and left, giving a small cry as she ran back inside.

"You are the biggest asshole," both the white and yellow personae said.

"How could you do that to her?" The white one said.

"Can't you see that she actually cares about you? How many people care about you? Two? Three?" The yellow one yelled at him.

"Shut. Up." He mumbled to himself. Two second later J'onn reappeared with me, let me out of my 'trance', and Wade carried me back into the Institute and set me down in our room.