X-MEN/Spiderman – Hidden Within

Chapter 2: Calling Out Part 2

Last time...

"Ah, come on Rogue. What's wrong in that?"

Rogue was about to say something when there was an explosion from above. Causing the entire mall to shake and parts of the ceiling to collapse, causing major panic as everyone was trying to get out of the mall as fast as possible without getting hurt.

"Rogue, Kitty, Look out!"

Half an hour earlier

'Of all the places I could have gone to, why did it have to be somewhere so busy?' Peter thought in frustration as he ran through the busy crowd of people who were busy shopping for something or another, causing Peter to bumped into people, so slowing down was the only option he had left. Quickly he hid behind one of the many columns that had been placed simultaneously around the mall, properly for decoration or for holding up the ceiling, or maybe for both of these two reasons. Slowly he edged towards the side to see if he was still being followed, only to freeze where he was.

"Now where did that brat go?" Flash asked questionably as he and his mates came to a stop just ten meters from where Peter was hiding. "He couldn't have gotten far, split up and find him. He's not getting away that easily."

"Gotcha boss."

Slowly Peter came out from where he was hiding as Flash and his gang splitted up into different directions searching for him. Slowly Peter looked around seeing as he was safe for the moment, Peter felt uncomfortable with the amount of people was by him. They didn't look at him, which he was thankful for as they were too busy to notice a street kid in their homey lives. But Peter knew exactly what mall he ran into. 'Manhattan Mall...'

It was then that another came to him, 'Where did that older guy go, I swear he was right behind me?' Peter thought looked around frantically for him but he couldn't see anything except other people and shops stores. Wanting to get a better view of the mall, he walked over to the side and stopped by the glass and marble railing banister. Which over looked two floor's down and one floor up, the other floors above the floor her was on had been converted into back into to commercial office real estate. After fifteen minutes of looking for that guy, he gave up when he felt his spider-sense tingle slightly, warning him faintly that something was going to happen. It was unusual to feel his spider-sense tingle this way. It felt like a radar, as his curiosity got the better of him, he found himself walking halfway through the mall only to stop just outside 'Radio Shack'. Feeling confused as to why his spider-sense would alert him here, he entered.

For a radio station it was oddly quite, Peter knew that any radio station should be busy, but it was peaceful. Something was wrong. Walking to the room at the far end of the station. He stopped, he could hear people yelling, well one person yelling and another whimpering.

Slowly opening the door, he noticed two people in the room, a gentleman in his early forties was standing by a wall dragging what looked like a broken leg down the corridor to the back exit while another man standing by one of the radio stations. It was Electro. How he escaped prison was anyone's guess. It was then that Peter heard ticking. Shit! He was planting a bomb, Peter had to move quickly. Slowly creeping up behind Electro who was too distracted to notice him or the metal try now in Peter's hand. Electro noticed only too late, as the try hit him hard enough to lose contagiousness as he slumped to the floor.

Dropping the bent tray, he looked at the bomb. 10 seconds left! Shit! Quickly he dragged the unconscious body out of the radio station. Dragging the adult body all the way out of the radio station was exhausting, once he was outside he dropped him. Feeling his spider-sense tingle it's normal rhythm Peter used his body to shield him. As the radio station exploded from the inside, the amount of force that the bomb held and forced out, cause Peter to go flying. Peter thankfully was not the average human, as he managed to catch himself on the other side of the marble banister, but due to the force of the explosion the banister was also blown off its fixed place, causing him to fall to the floor.

Doing a flip he landed in a crouch, before quickly jumping out of the way of the falling debris, especially the slab of concrete that would have hit him on his head if he hadn't moved out of the way. He managed to land inside a clothes store, through the broken glass window landing on to broken glass, some glass cut his skin while other bits stuck into his skin.

Seeing everyone was escaping, it distracted himself from the pain in his arms. Thinking quickly, he grabbed a black hoodie, removing its price tag and security tag, before putting it on, covering his face with the hood so no one would see who he was. After finally seeing to it that his face couldn't be seen, he left the store.

Dirt clouds and debris made it difficult to get through and it was almost impossible to see. But from what he could see, well it looked like a bomb had hit the place, which it did.

"Rogue, Kitty, Look out!" that caught his attention. Looking to his left, he saw two women directly ahead. From what he could see and tell, the shout had come too late and they wouldn't get out of the way in time. Getting a grip of himself. He used his webbing from his wrists, got hold of ladies and pulled with his strength, managing to get them away from being crushed. Seeing others appear on seen and knew he wasn't needed anymore. Peter quickly turned and left, not wanting to stick around.

"Hey, wait a minute!" Someone yelled as he disappeared into the car park, quickly disappearing down a bend as the person ran by him.

Rogue who had seen the boy but not his face chased after him ignoring her teammates calling after her to come back. Beforehand, she had been ready to fly both her and Kitty out of the way, but they were both pulled out of the way by some stick rope. When she had pulled herself up from the floor where she had landed, she had seen someone through the dirt clouds as she looked to where the white sticky rope had come from, it looked to be a boy but she couldn't see properly and his face was covered, so when he did a runner she went after him.

As she followed him, she noticed his clothes were torn and the bag on his back was also torn but not enough to lose anything. The back hoodie on the other hand looked brand new, if it was for the blood on it. Seeing him turn round a bend, she continued after him, but came to halt as it was a dead end but the strange boy was gone. But she had seen a flash of blue eyes before he had disappeared, the boy could have also been the same flash he had seen before had. Seeing as there was nothing more to do, she headed off back home to Xavier's Institute.

As she left, she didn't notice the curious eyes watch her leave.

Xavier's Institute

"Chuck, we need to talk..." Wolverine said walking into Professor Xavier's office.

"What bothers you Logan?" Charles Xavier asked seeing the man seemed to be debating over something, unsure of what to say.

"...I have a problem I need your help with and I'm not too sure what to do."

Well, this is chapter 3. Sorry about my chapters being quite short though.