Chapter 4 The Nightmare Begins

The next morning with excruciating pain in his back and a message on his phone. The message read [Hey Tristan it's Kitty. I was wondering if you wanted to hang out today, you know really get to know each other without the school work.] Tristan writes back eagerly [Sure, how about lunch? I should be done at Dr. Conners lab for the day by then.] While he awaited a response he got dressed and headed down to Conners' lab. On the way he got Kitty's answer [See ya at Favillas then] After reading this he couldn't help but smile until he got to his locker and finding only nine vials of his blood. "Where'd my blood go? I could have sworn I left ten here" Shrugging it off as a miscount on his part last night he grabbed one of the vials and continued his testing.

Hours went by and it was now nearly noon. Tristan began packing up all his supplies and double counted the number of vials he had before heading out.

Kitty seeing that it was nearing noon started getting ready to go meet up with Tristan. Wearing one of her lucky shirts a pair of jeans and her hair in a pony tail, she heads over to the front door of the mansion only to be stopped by Logan. "You be careful out there kid, that boy smelled off"

"I will Logan, plus Tristan is a really nice guy, I'll be fine"

After that Kitty rushed out the door to avoid the rest of the lecture. Once Kitty gets into the city she finds her way to Favillas. In front of the store is Tristan keeping an eye out for her. "Hey Kitty! Nice to see you again so soon." Kitty blushing a little at this nods in agreement. "Come on let's go get a table, so we can be more comfortable while we talk." The two of them get a table outside with an umbrella providing shade for them. "So professor Xavier is your surrogate dad?"

"Yeah, he's really nice and brought us in and helps us grow"

"Us? Does that mean you have siblings?"

"Well not biological siblings. We're not adopted either. Think of it like a boarding house"

"Hmm. That must be pretty cool living like that"

"For the most part it's awesome! But some of them can get really annoying at times"

"I can only imagine"

"Are you a single child?"

"Of sorts" not wanting to get carried away explaining his past Tristan asks Kitty "So you have a lot of newspaper clippings about Sonic-Spider, what do you think about him?"

"He's intriguing. Like one day just showing up out of nowhere, plus how did get his powers?"

"So you like him?"

"I don't know, we'll just have to wait and see what he does"

Kitty and Tristan talk for a few hours before saying their goodbyes and heading their separate ways. On his way home Tristan's phone goes off telling him that the alarms in his locker at the lab have been tripped. Tristan rushes over to Dr. Conners lab only to find the neogenic recombinator missing along with another vial of his blood and some other equipment. "Oh boy" is the only thing Tristan can say

When Kitty gets back to the mansion she's ambushed by Jean and Rouge. "So how was your date?" Jean asks. "It was not a date!" Protests Kitty a blush growing on her face. "Oh? Then what would you call asking him to lunch?" Jean mockingly asks her. Putting her hands on her hips smirking at Kitty. She rushes to her room blushing the whole way. 'Oh, my, God! I was just on a date!' With this realization came the biggest grin ever as she lays down on her bed.

Later that night Sonic-Spider is swinging through New York 'Who the heck could have managed to steal not just a blood vial but the whole recombinator too!?' Sonic lands on top of Bruce the gargoyle when extreme pain comes to his sides, he starts holding them. After a few minutes the pain subsides and all he can think is 'that was weird'