Disclaimer:I don't own X-Men:Evolution, just myself (Called Molly Callum in 'fics.)
and any original characters/background characters that might pop up from time to time.

"Did you hear that?" Kitty jerked at one of the various noises coming from the forest.

"Pull yourself together," Kurt said.

"I can't help it," Kitty said, "I hate the dark."

"I don't think any of us love it right now," Remy said.

"Shh," Jean said, "I heard something."

"Serial killers?" Kitty fretted, looking genuinely worried.

"I think it sounds like a...a stampede! MOVE!" Jean yelled.

The four of them scrambled to get up in the trees, the bark scraping against their hands, making them burn with pain.
They got as high as they needed, clinging to the branches desperately because underneath them was a zoo rushing past.
Iguanas, elephants, horses, dogs, tigers, rabbits, chipmunks, squirrels, cats, cheetahs, bears, gorillas and more. Everything Molly could turn into, but in multiples for some unknown reason. Perhaps symbolic to the number of times Molly had turned into the animal or something, but Remy didn't have time to think about it, because another thought came to his mind.

"Uhh," He said slowly, "You know the only reason animals stampede is because something is chasing them, right?"

"Oh crap," Jean said uncharacteristically.

Not three seconds later, the ever memorable spinosauraus came tearing through the trees, bellowing for all to hear.
It's giant, bulky body smashed through everything, snapping felled trees like toothpicks and whipping it's tail about with strength in a show of dominance. The kids watched as it caught up to the stampede, swallowing even the strongest animals by the mouthful with its long toothy snout. Gorillas, tigers and horses were all gulped down mercilessly.

"I wonder what that could symbolize?" Kitty said in a whisper.

"Who. Cares!" Kurt snapped , "I'd rather _not_ die in here and wake up knowing dinosaur-Molly _ate_ me!" With a few giant sized strides, the spinosaurus was far enough away to be seen, but-they hoped-not see them.

Everyone was a bit taken aback at Kurts sudden attitude, but on the other hand, no one could blame him either. This place was putting everyone on edge. They waited a few moments before the herd and the spinosaurus were completely out of sight until climbing back down to the ground.

"Maybe we should take another rest," Remy suggested, "Try to calm down a minute."

Everyone agreed, almost collapsing inside a cluster of trees to stay hidden from anything else in the forest.
"What are we going to do when all this is over with?" Kitty said, "We're not just going to forget everything we've seen."

"We're going to..." Kurt let it hang.

"What?" Remy stared at Kurt with empty eyes, "You want to send Molly to therapy? Have her committed?
You keep forgetting that this is just the projection of the astral plane. It's only giving us things in a tangible form that we can understand. Molly isn't as psychotic killer and she's just as sane as the rest of us. I know what we're seeing is horrific at times, but if the situation were reversed,
I can guarantee you that if Molly were in our situation and she was in one of our minds, things would be much the same. We're only human and everyone has subconscious thoughts lurking, both good and bad."

Remy didn't feel happy about reading Kurt so well, because it depressed him that even upset, Kurt was obviously very frightened of Molly when there wasn't any need to be. At least, not really.

Kitty hugged Kurt hard. "Remy is right. You don't have to be scared of Molly because she just isn't going to hurt you or any of us. We could hurt each other if we all really wanted to, but we don't because we're all friends and we love each other, right?"

"...Right," Kurt agreed slowly.

"So even if Molly's mind has a dark spot, that doesn't mean she's out to hurt us. If she really wanted to, she could have done it already. You know that. Molly just wants to have friends and be happy and do good in the world. That's all," Kitty said.

Kurt looked at Remy. "I'm _very_ sorry for what I said."

"It happens," Remy said simply. He was upset, but later the two of them could talk about it alone.
Remy usually wasn't one to hold a grudge against a friend, but it wasn't fair of Kurt to react so strongly either for someone who took a lot of things in stride.

They tried to relax in the quiet stillness of the dark forest for a few minutes more, then starting to walk again without a word. After the blow up they all remained quiet for some time.

They found themselves coming upon another scene of abject misery in a short amount of time.
Now it wasn't Magneto being tortured, but Ray.

They soon saw that Ray wasn't being tortured so much as abjectly humiliated.
"Just how many ways can I embarrass you? Make you feel useless and stupid and hated for no reason?" 'Molly' smiled in a completely dark and twisted sort of way as she stood in front of 'Ray', on his knees, hands shackled.
"I'm sorry," Ray whimpered, "I'll be _nice_ to you. I'll...I'll do whatever you want."

"You had your chance to be nice," 'Molly' hissed, "and you blew it."

They watched as 'Ray' was covered in syrup and feathers, then had water dumped on him, and food thrown at him, splattering to the ground and dripping from his face. All while 'Molly' yelled at him, calling him names. Calling him an idiot, hopeless, mean, ungrateful. Everything in the book.
It wasn't a pretty sight as he broke down crying, his nose running, then just outright _sobbing_.
It wasn't just pathetic, it was heart wrenching. No matter how mean Ray treated Molly in real life, this didn't seem balanced. Didn't seem fair. Except in Molly's subconscious, Ray deserved every bit of abuse that he got.

"I wonder if there's anything in store for me?" Remy wondered, "I mean, we haven't always been on good terms."

"We'll have to see," Jean said, "Except Ray's treatment of Molly seems to be ongoing,
so that's why were seeing this. What you did to Molly is past tense, not present, so I'd think you would be okay."

Remy decided that it might be good to finally have a talk with Ray about how he treated Molly, especially if it was going to bother Molly _this_ much.