Ororo and Bishop ran toward the Ferris wheel as people ran away from it screaming. Bishop wasn't gentle to those he pushed out of their way. Ororo made a mental note to talk to him about it once the crisis was over.

"Peter!" she yelled when she noticed him and Katherine, "do what you can to stop it from toppling over."

Peter nodded and ran toward the central support beam. His exposed skin turned the colour of polished steel as his entire body turned into metal, even his short black hair gained a metallic sheen.

He placed his shoulder against the column and pushed. He felt the metal strain against his skin as it tried to bend more. For a moment it stopped and then Peter's feet slid against the pavement. With a curse he repositioned himself and slammed a foot down, breaking through the ground and pushed against it again.

Scott and Jean arrived in the open space around the wheel, as Henry and Thomas walked out of a shadow. "Jean, do what you can to calm the people on the Ferris wheel. Mac!"

"I'm on it!" Henry yelled back and ran to help Peter.

"Thomas, any way your shadows can help?" Scott asked him.

"Too much light," the man replied.

"Thomas!" Katherine yelled as she ran for the other side of the wheel, "come with me, I have an idea!" He ran after her without asking questions. She stopped at a food booth and took hold of the sign advertising two funnel cakes for the price of one in large letter. She phased it off the booth and dragged it to the column opposite the one where Henry added his strength to Peter's.

She stood it on end so it cast a shadow over the section of the beam that was half ruptured. "Is this enough shadows for you to help the guys?"

"Yes," Thomas answered as he started weaving shadows through the structure, "but we're going to have to constantly move it to make sure no light falls on it."

"Hopefully you're not going to have to hold it that long. Now hold the board so I can get what I need." She ran off as soon as he put a hand on it.

She stopped at the first booth she came across; it had a wheel on a table with symbols on it. She looked at the beams supporting the roof. They were all made of wood so she went to the next one, same thing. It was at the fourth one that she found a large tent with a central metal beam. She walked though the pool tables to examine it. it was about three inches in diameter and eight feet tall.

"Excuse me Miss, but what are you doing?" asked the man in charge of this game.

Katherine did a double take at his ridiculous outfit. "No time to explain," she took hold of the post and phase with it. The plush animals suspended to it fell down, followed by fabric roof, to the surprised curses of the man. Once the fabric stopped moving she slowly moved back, supporting the pole as she moved it down. She didn't want to let go of it since it could hurt someone or damage something as it fell; Also, while phased the pole wouldn't be affected by gravity, so she'd be able to carry it to the Ferris wheel. All she had to worry about was the pole's mass.

With the end of the pole low enough for her to put it on her shoulder she turned, grabbed solid hold of it and started pulling it toward the Ferris wheel. She couldn't move very fast at first, inertia was working against her, but step by step her speed picked up until she was running through tents and people. When she was twenty feel from Thomas she let go of the pole. It fell to the ground and skidded to a halt a few feet from him.

"Scott! I need you to come cut this!"

Scott didn't hesitate. He cut it where she indicated and she took the smaller section to the column. "How are you holding up?" she asked Thomas.

"I'm good; they're the ones holding the worst of the weight."

"Ok, move your shadows out of the way as much as you can, I need to phase this in."

Thomas nodded and moved them so she could work.

She moved the cut pole in the broken section of the beam, making sure to keep it centered between the solid parts before carefully bringing it back into phase with the beam.

"Are you ok?" Thomas asked after a few seconds.

"Yeah, this is just a little tougher than I thought,"

"Can't you just let go of it?"

"Not if I want it to hold. If I phase it back in real quick the joint's going to be brittle, the two object occupying the same space thing. I'm trying to ease it back so the atoms make space for each other. Hopefully this way it's going be solid enough to support the off center weight." As she finished speaking she slowly pulled her hand out of the column.

She took a breath and looked up to see Scott handing her another piece. On the other side Bishop was trying to anchor another pole to help support the weight Peter and Henry were supporting. She thanked him and phased this one in. When she was done he handed her the third piece.

With the third one in place Katherine sat down and leaned back against the column. "You can let go if it," she told Thomas.

"I can get a better feel for it if it starts to bend again," he replied, "Henry! Slowly let go of it, Katherine reinforced this side." Henry did as instructed, and other than a momentary whine coming from the metal column everything held. "I'm not feeling any changes, it's probably safe for Peter to let go."

"Let's not take the chance just yet," Scott said, "Mac! Get everyone down while peter and Thomas made sure the wheel doesn't fall."

It took Henry a dozen trip up the Ferris wheel to move everyone down. Only those low enough to jump down had done as soon as the wheel had started shifting. Jean had kept the others from trying to climb down while they had been working on it. Once the last of the people was back on the ground Henry climbed back up and examined one of the chairs. When he jumped back down Scott told Thomas and Peter to let go. Again the wheel complained, but remained standing.

Henry waited for everyone to rejoin the group, even Bishop, although he stayed on the outskirt. Peter helped Katherine to stand when he got to her. "This wasn't an accident," Henry said as he opened his hand to show a large piece of rock, "The impact marks show was a fairly large rock, It was probably what caused the shock which weakened the support structure."

"What could have thrown something like it that hard?" Jean asked.

Henry shrugged and before anyone else could volunteer a guess they heard a loud roar. They turned in its direction, and then heard the screams of people, just before a booth went flying high in the air.

"My guess," Katherine said, "is that we'll find out over there."

The others nodded their agreement.