Chapter 3: Meeting Kitty

Tristan's days were relatively uneventful until Saturday when he said that he would meet up with Kitty. Tristan woke up Saturday morning got dressed and thought that it would be nice for a change to walk to the museum. His suit was still in his backpack of course. Once in the lobby of the museum Miles approaches him "hey, you here for the history project too?"

"Yeah, but I have no clue what my partner looks like sooooo."

"Same, so do you want to talk while we wait for our partners?"

"Sure, why not"

While Tristan and Miles get to know one another Kitty and Rogue walk through the front door of the museum. Kitty asks "Hey Rogue do you know what your partner looks like?" Rogue looks to her left at Kitty "Not a clue but he did say that he'd be the awkward kid who looks like he has no buissiness in a museum, so he can't be too hard to find." As she finishes Rogue looks around the lobby and spots Miles and Tristan talking. Rogue nudges Kitty and guessing that Kitty has no clue what her partner looks like either says "Those two over there might be who we're looking for." Kitty follows Rouge's finger to where Miles and Tristan are standing, but before she can do anything else Rogue drags her over to the two of them. "Is one of you Miles, Miles Morales?" Miles raises his hand "That'd be me, so are you Rogue?" Rogue nods her head "The one and only suga'. Lets go get this over with"

As Miles and Rogue leave to go work on their project Kitty and Tristan look at each other. "So does that mean that you're Tristan?"

"Sure does, making you Kitty right?" Kitty nods and smiles "Hey, like nice to meet you" Tristan smiles back "likewise, we should probably head into the museum before we get fined for being parked in the lobby for too long." Kitty looks at him weirdly "I don't think they do that here."

"I know, I was just being weird. I tend to do that ... a lot actually so I apologize in advance" Tristan responds while scratching the back of his head. Kitty just giggles and leads the two of them into the museum 'Maybe this won't be so bad' she thinks while looking at the confused Tristan trying to catch up when she realizes that she phased through a few people's shoulders and elbows to get as far as she was. Stopping to let Tristan catch up she thinks 'Man I hope he didn't notice'. As he catches he thinks 'Is she a mutant, or just really good at red rover?'. Once Tristan catches up him and Kitty make their way through the exhibits, until they run into a statue that uses two different kinds of rocks for the eyes.

Kitty stops when she sees this "I bet whoever made this statue got fired really fast." Tristan looking at the statue and reckognizing the face respondes "Actually they did that on purpose. This guy was actually one of the first signs of mutants." After hearing this Kitty got noticeably stiff and worried, Tristan thinking the only way to reassure her was to keep going continued. "It's a pretty cool story actually, they say that he had one eye a bright golden hue while the other was a dull silver. Back then they believed it was because he was touched by the gods which is what got him into the seat of power divine right and all that. In reality he had a mutation causing his eyes to be two completely different colors, while not as cool as the mutations we see in people today ya gotta start somewhere right?" Once he finished Tristan looked over at Kitty seeeing that she had relaxed a little but still staring at the statue asked "So how do you feel about mutants?" After the question left her lips there was a few excrutiantingly long moments with no response 'oh no, does he hate mutants or something, man I totally blew it!' Finally Tristan respondes casually with "I've never met one so I can't really say." While not being a definitive answer it did make Kitty feel a lot better that he didn't out right hate mutants.

Trying to steer the conversation back to a more lighthearted topic Tristan asks "So do we have our candidate for the project, also where in the heck are we going to do this project and what even is it?" Kitty looks at him dumbfounded "Did you not read the rubric at all?!"

"No, not really. I was sorta hoping you did."

"Well the project is to make a presentation on one of the exhibits in the museum and then present it obviously."

Tristan looks at the statue then back at Kitty nods his head and states "So where are we going to make this presentation exactly?" Kitty not to sure herself thinks for a bit before settling on the X-Mansion, and relays this to Tristan "How about my place later tonight?"

"Sure but, when exactly is 'later tonight'?" Kitty looks at the clock on the wall of the musuem "Wel it's 1:30 now so, how about you swing by my place around 5?"

'Hehe 'swing' by' Tristan thinks about for a second then answers with the affirmitave. Kitty smiles and they exchange 'see ya's' and go their seperate ways.

Tristan heads over to Dr. Conners lab to continue research on his blood to see just what gave him his spider powers. After a few hours of observation and recording he's introduced to another intern Michael Morbius one of his classmates for english. Morbius is of average height with sleecked back black hair light skin and a thick accent. The two talked and got to know one another whenever they had to wait for data to come in from the machines, until Tristan had to leave to go meet up with Kitty.

Kitty heads out of the museum and waits by the steps for Rogue to come out. When she does they head back to the X-Mansion on the way Rogue asks Kitty "So how was it for you?" Kitty was lost in thought about Tristan when Rogue asked so she absent mindedly answered "Kinda cute." not realizing what she had said. Rogue looks a little surprised then gets ready to interrogate Kitty. "Oh really, so did you two get any work done or did you just ooggle at him the entire time?" Kitty finally realizing what she's gotten herself into turns red from embarressment and screams "Of course we got work done and we're gonna get even more work done tonight! Heck! I bet we'll even finish it all tonight!" Rogue having even more ammo continues "So your suitor is coming over tonight is he?" Kitty at this point was too embaressed to say anything else for the rest of the way back home. Once home Kitty rushed into her room phasing right through the walls to clean up her room before Tristan got there.

5 rolled around and following Kitty's directions Tristan walked up to the front door of the X-Mansion "Geez this place is huge, does she really live here?" When he knocks on the door Proffessor Xavier and Logan answer the door. "May I help you young man?" Tristan a little nervous he got the wrong place answers "Ummm is Kitty here? She's my partner for the history project." At this point Kitty had looked at the time and rushed down the stairs to save him from Logan before he got started. "Hey Tristan! Sorry I didn't hear you knock, come on lets go up to my room to work on our project." Charles seeing the rush Kitty seemed to be to get Tristan away from Logan let them go up with a "Good luck on your project."

"So why are you dragging me? Also was that THE professor Xavier?!" Kitty slowed down after realizing how weird this must look and answered Tristan's questions "To get you away from Logan, he can be a little over proective a times and yeah he's kinda like our surogate dad." By this point they made it to Kitty's room and she opened the door leading Tristan in. He looked around seeeing a few news paper clippings of the Sonic-Spider on the walls 'I'm in the news? Cool!' Kitty sits down on her bed in the middle of the room and stares at Tristan. After a few minutes Kitty speaks up "So lets get started yeah?" and pats the space on the bed next to her. At this Tristan snaps back to reality and sits down next to her "That sounds like a spectacular idea." For the next few hours Kitty and Tristan worked on their history project by 9 they completely finished the presentation. Tristan got up to leave Kitty followed, when they reached the front door Kitty hugged him "Thanks Tristan you made history interesting." Tristan smiled and bowed "My pleasure miss Pryde."

As he walks out the door Tristan heads back into the city. Once in the city he changes into his suit and starts swinging home. His spider-sense goes off "Oh no!" he turns around to see a giant hawk like robot flying after him. "Oh come on!" he starts swinging faster trying to lose the hawkbot until eventually it swoops in gouging his back "Agggghhhh!, Pain lots of pain!" Sonic starts to plummet to the streets of New York when he's caught by the original Peter Parker Spider-Man. "I got ya kid" Sonic looks up "Wow! It's really you!" Looking down Spider-Man "Are you good enough to swing?"

"Drop me and lets find out" was Sonic's response as he wiggles out of Spider-Man's hold swinging back up next to him. Landing on the side of the building and facing the hawkbot "Yup I'm good, so how are we gonna deal with this thing?" Landing next to Sonic "Not sure ye . . ." when he got caught off by both of their spider-senses going off as the hawkbot dive bombs them. Both of them jump out of the way and swing around the hawkbot, Sonic jumps onto it's back to look for weak spots. Finding a panel on it's back he screams over to Spider-Man "Can you distract it while I try to break into it?" Spider-Man seeing where Sonic is going with this starts to goat and swing just out of the hawkbots range. While the hawkbot was chasing Spider-Man through the city Sonic was holding on and trying to pry the panel off of it's back, worming his fingers in between the panel and the rest of the robot. "Heave!" pulling as hard as he could while still staying on the hawkbots back he slowly started to peel the panel away. After it fully came off it plummeted down into the streets below revealing some of the hawkbot's wiring. "Ooooh, this looks important" Sonic-Spider starts yanking out all the wires he can slowly shutting down the hawkbot. The hawkbot started to fall so both of the spiders tethered a web to it and begun to swing it over to the Parker Industries building leaving it in one of the hangars. "Hey kid what you did back there was dangerous."

"Yeah I tend to do stupid stuff like that with giant hawks chasing me.'

"Well, whenever you need help just let me or Miles know okay?" while he hands Sonic a web-wear. "Will do!" Sonic salutes enthusiastically and jumps out of the window heading back home.