She watched from behind a tree as they flew off. Kitty shook her head in disbelief. Kurt and Lance? Friends? Who'd have guessed it?
She'd not seen either of them in so long, and it was good to see them again.
She began to walk away. She saw a bush in front of her move. Taking a deep breath, she walked towards it and stood a few feet away.
Two white ears popped out from the leaves in the top and a small brown head shuffled around at the bottom.
"How cute, a couple of rodents looking for a theme park." Kitty muttered sarcastically.
"Who you calling rodent sister? I'm a bunny!" A puppet shot out from the top of the bush.
"Yeah, yeah, and I'm his golfer yo!" Another puppet shot out from the floor. A hand attached to each puppet.
Todd and Fred yelled as the jumped out through the bushes. Tadaa.
"I thought I smelled a rat." Kitty rolled her eyes. She felt a sudden gust of wind pass her. "Speak of the devil."
"Kitty! Kitty my little flower my little bird, my little kitten!" Pietro exclaimed as he stopped next to her and placed his arm around here waist, holding tightly as she resisted. "What exactly happened here? I mean, I asked you to convince Colossus to rejoin my father's team. And here I am, sort of Colossusless."
"I gave it my best shot but he gave me an offer I had to refuse." Kitty grunted as she pushed him away.
"Fine. So, instead of subtracting two years from your sentence, hey, I'm gonna add two on, okay? Give that your best shot."
"It wasn't my fault ok? It was Lance." Kitty replied. Leaning against a tree.
Pietro looked up and came a few inches from her face.
"Repeat that?"
"Lance. He comes on with this big, innocent farm boy routine and decided to wash Colossus away when I was finally getting close to succeeding."
Pietro thought for a moment from what his father had told him when they'd teamed up.
"Your friend Lance, you and I both know that he is as powerful as you, maybe even more. Whatever you do…Do not let him take charge. Earn his trust, and kill him before you're both eighteen, he will get in your way of triumph."
"Hmm.." He thought. "I may have to kill him quicker than I thought if he's going to get in my way. Fortunately for the three of you we still have time to correct this rather egregious oversight. And this time, no foul-ups."
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They arrived in Bayville town square.
"Good old Bayville." Kurt grinned and looked around. "One town. A million troubles. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere."
Around them, they heard people talking, singing, and shouting.
"Look where you're goin' numbskull!"
"Hey I'm walkin' here!"
"The end is coming! Can't you feel it?"
"Just stare at ze sidevalk. Don't make eye contact. People here are nuts. After ze mutant incident they have all gone mad. Trust me, bro, you're gonna be just what the doctor ordered." Kurt muttered to him as they walked down the path.
They got evil stares from the passers by.
"They're mutants!"
"Trying to take over again no doubt."
"I bet that horse can't even fly."
"It was tragic, we lost everything in the fire." An old woman said to her friends, she was shivering under her old rag shawl and was covered in server burns.
"Now, were the fires before or after the floods?" The woman next to her looked in the same quality of state, her clothes were old and worn.
"They were after, I remember. Those stupid mutants were planning nothing but trouble from day one. I never thought we'd be living on the streets thanks to them." The man next to her grumbled, and coughed loudly.
Kurt gave Lance a nudge and gestured over to the conversing elderly group.
"Excuse me. It uh *ahem* seems to me that what you folks need is a hero." Lance said confidently, walking over to them.
"Yeah, and who're you?" The old man said grumpily.
"I'm Avalanche…And I happen…err…to be…A hero!" He replied.
The crowd laughed at him.
"Have you ever saved a town before?" One woman asked him.
"Well…Sort of."
"Have you ever reversed a natural disaster?"
"N-No."
"Forget him!" The old man croaked. "He's a mutant, we can't trust him."
"Don't you pea brains get it?" Kurt yelled, making them all turn to face him. "Zis guy wants to help you! And you're turning him away."
"Hey…He's another mutant too,"
"Yeah, he's that furry teleporter one."
"Hey blue boy…Show us your ten fingers!" One laughed.
"I'll give you ten fingers!" Kurt yelled, he disappeared and reappeared next to the man who was mocking him, he dived on him, scratching, thumping, biting.
Lance rushed in and tore them apart.
"Young man! We need a professional hero, NOT an amateur."
They all started to walk away, sneering and laughing at Lance.
"Well, wait. Stop!... How am I supposed to prove myself a hero if nobody will give me a chance?" He sighed, leaning against the nearby wall and sliding down it till he was sat down.
Kurt came and crouched by him.
"You'll get your chance, you just need to vait. Some kind of catastrophe or disaster's bound to happen soon." He said reassuringly.
"Please! Help! Please! There's been a terrible accident!" Kitty cried as she ran down the sidewalk.
"Kitty?" Lance looked at her and stood up.
"Speaking of disasters." Kurt rolled his eyes.
"Lance! Thank goodness!" Kitty said, running into his arms.
"Wha-what's wrong?" Lance asked her.
"Outside of town, two little boys, they were playing in the gorge. There was that rock slide, a terrible rock slide. They're trapped!" Kitty burst into tears. Lance held her close.
"Vhy didn't you just phase through and help zem?" Kurt asked suspiciously.
"I…I didn't think about that, I was just so worried about them I just automatically ran for help." Kitty replied, still sobbing into Lance's chest.
"Kids? Trapped? Kurt, this is great!" Lance exclaimed, smiling at Kurt.
"You're really choked up about this, aren't ya?" Kitty asked, slightly confused.
"Come on!" Lance said, grabbing Kitty's arm and pulling her to Pegasus. He lifted her up, placed her on then jumped on himself.
"No, I-- You don't under-- I have this terrible fear of heights!" She screamed as Pegasus flew into the air, purposely doing loops and dives as he flew. Many people followed to watch the action.
"Great! Just leave me!" Kurt groaned. He sighed and teleported himself to where they were headed.
"Are you okay?" Lance asked concerned, they'd landed and Kitty was looking extremely pale.
"I'll be fine. Just get me down." She replied, he lifted her off and they both looked to where the sound of two distressed boys could heard.
Lance ran down the hill, the boys were trapped behind many boulders and rocks.
They were calling for help.
"Help! I can't breathe!"
"Hurry!"
"Get us out!"
"We're suffocating, somebody, call 911!"
Lance looked through a crack in the boulders where he could see the innocent faces of the two boys.
"Easy fellas, you'll be all right" He said calmly.
"We can't last much longer!" The blond haired boy whined.
"Get us out! Before we get crushed!" The brunette boy pleaded.
"Okay, stand right back!" Lance warned them, when he saw that they were out of the way, he placed his hands on the rocks and closed his eyes, causing an underground earthquake. The rocks rolled and moved out of the way, and the two boys ran out beside him.
"How you boys doin'?" He gasped, tired from using so much of his power.
"We're okay now!" The blonde boy said, beaming brightly.
"Jeepers, mister, you're really strong!" The brunette boy added.
"Well, try to be a little more careful next time, okay, kids?" He told them, still slightly out of breath.
"We sure will!" The blonde said, and they both happily ran off up the hill.
"Stirring performance boys, I was really moved." Pietro said when they reached the top and were out of sight. A gothic looking girl was standing next to him, she was about 17 years old.
"Thanks Formation!" He grinned at her, she placed her hands on the heads of the two boys and they started to change shape.
The blonde boy turned into Todd, and the brunette changed to Fred.
Formation nodded and walked off, disappearing as she took slow steps.
"'Jeepers, Mister' ?" Toad said in a sarcastic tone to Fred.
"Hey, I was going for innocence." Fred replied.
"And, hey, two thumbs way, way up for our leading lady. What a dish, what a doll!" Pietro gave a thumbs up sign to Kitty, who was standing on the edge of the hill, she glanced at them and then looked back at Lance, who was standing in front of the large cave which he had just unblocked. Kurt appeared next to him.
"Get out of there you doofus, while you still can." She muttered to herself.
"Wow Kurt! They even applauded... sort of." Lance grinned. A loud snarling sound made them both turn and stare, the crowd gasped and screamed as a large creature stepped out of the cave and stood in front of them.
"I hate to burst your bubble Lance. But zat's not applause!"…