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Chapter 8: Turning Purple and Green and Results

Medical Lab, Xavier Institute, Bayville, NY- May 17, 11:00 PM

Kitty woke up in the hospital wing, and the first thing she saw was the blue, furry face of Kurt Wagner, a.k.a. Nightcrawler, staring at her and promptly screamed.

"Kurt! Man, you scared me. What am I doing in the medical lab?" asked Kitty after she'd stopped screaming and was looking around the medical lab from her position on the bed, confusion evident on her face.

"Kitty, you mean you don't remember anythin' about last night?" Kurt asked in a worried tone, concern evident on his face. Kurt's clothes consisted of dark green khakis, a red shirt, and white sneakers, which signaled he had just gotten done showing some of the new mutants some speed and agility moves while in their regular clothes, just in case they got caught without their holograms on outside of the Institute.

"Kurt, I don't know what you're, like, talking about. The last thing I remember was, like, finishing teaching my class at 6:00 PM this evening. Wait… what time is it?" replied Kitty as she stopped looking around at the medical lab and at Kurt with confusion evident in her eyes and on her face.

"It's 9:30 in the evening. You slept for about two days, give or take a few hours. Anyvay let me tell you; from vhat I heart, you had quite an experience. I mean, take a look in the mirror," said Kurt as he brought out a mirror from behind his back, and cringed when Kitty looked in it and screamed, his dark blue, almost black, hair feeling like it could stand up on end from the amount of screaming he was presently hearing.

"Oh my gosh! What the heck's, like, happened to me! I'm... I'm… I'm purple and scaly like a lizard! What happened to me!" yelled Kitty in complete shock as she looked at her arms and hands and noticed that yes, indeed, she was turning purple and scaly. Her hands were exactly like Lance's, except they were smaller and purple.

"Kitty, what's wrong? I heard you screaming, and came as fast as I could." said Xavier as he floated into the wing in his wheelchair with Logan and Hank following him. Logan was currently dressed in dark blue jeans, a black T-shirt, and dark brown cowboy boots, signaling that he'd just come from checking to make sure the area where the next training session was going to take place was ready. Logan's dark blue, almost black, hair, with two halves framing his rugged face, was contained under his dark brown cowboy hat, which was pushed back on his head.

"Professor!" yelled Kitty as she looked at Xavier with shock in her voice, "Kurt just, like, held up a mirror, and it looks like I'm purple!"

"Yes, I know," replied Xavier, as he looked Kitty in the eye. "I'm not sure what has happened, but I noticed the change in the way you looked when our other visitor was brought in."

"What other visitor?" asked Kitty confusedly as she looked around the lab.

"Here," said Xavier as he pulled back a curtain next to her bed and revealed a green and unconscious Lance.

"Lance!" exclaimed Kitty in surprise as she got out of bed and went over to Lance's bed, "Professor, what's Lance doing here? I thought he lived with, like, the Brotherhood."

"Yes, he did," Xavier agreed, "and I think it time you heard what happened. Kurt, I think it best for you to leave with Logan and go to the training session with the others."

"But Professor, I vant to know if Kitty's alright. I mean, ve are the best of friends," protested Kurt as he gave Xavier his own version of the puppy eyes, which had no effect whatsoever, as he soon learned.

"Come on, elf," said Logan as he put a hand on Kurt's shoulder and turned him towards the exit, "Do what the Professor says, and I might cut you a break by letting you, and not just the younger mutants but you instructors as well, all play mutant dodge ball."

"All right," agreed Kurt reluctantly as he nodded his head in agreement, and added, "Kitty, I'll see you later."

"Yeah, sure, Kurt," agreed Kitty as she watched Logan and Kurt leave, and then turned her attention to Hank and Xavier.

"Professor, do you need me to explain to Kitty why she and Lance have grown scales, along with the other changes?" asked Hank as he looked at Xavier.

"Yes, please do," replied Xavier as he wheeled himself beside Lance's bed, motioned Kitty to sit down, which she did on her bed, and closed his eyes to concentrate and see how the training session was going, or was it mutant dodge ball? He would have to check... and found it to be an out of control session of mutant dodge ball, with powers being allowed.

"All right Kitty, here's what happened," began Hank as he walked over to one of the computers in the lab, pulled up a file, and then began to explain it all to her.

"According to the results from the tests I did on you and Lance, when you both were slashed on the head by Sabretooth, he not only caused you to bleed, but he inadvertently implanted some kind of gargoyle-like DNA into the both of you. This DNA, on mixing with your mutant DNA, caused you both to mutate in both your outer appearances and powers. For example, with the addition of wings and tails…" said Hank, but Kitty interrupted with a scream.

"Wait, slow down. I have, like, wings and a tail!" screamed Kitty in disbelief as she stood up from the bed and looked down at a pair of wings which were folded around her chest and then behind her and saw a long purple spaded tail flicking back and forth.

"Yes, wings and a tail," said Hank as he looked at Kitty, who apologized at having interrupted him, and after she had sat back down, Hank continued. "With the addition of wings and a tail, you and Lance both have the ability of flight and added agility, along with your original powers. There are also some newer powers that have been added to your arsenal of weapons."

Hank paused to bring up a projection of Lance and Kitty's DNA, and as he spoke, he pointed out the certain changes in the structure that gave them their new powers. "For instance, you both have the ability of super speed, invisibility, super-strength to a degree, and a built-in healing factor. Also, according to the tests, when Lance uses his powers, he'll no longer get the headaches that usually come with them, and you can phase as many people or things through a substance at a time without fainting from the toll it would usually take on you. You both now have telepathy and x-ray vision ((hey, I thought it was a good idea…)). You have claws that have replaced your hands, and both you and Lance can control the length of them, almost like Logan can do with his. You can also change the sharpness of them on thought, going from dull so as not to harm anyone to sharp enough to slash someone's throat in one clean swipe. You both now have enhanced senses, like Logan does, excellent stalking skills, and Lance now has control over all types of metal and you, Kitty, have telekinesis. So you see, although Sabretooth probably meant to kill you, and certainly Lance, in the end he only helped you both. Ironic, no?" ended Hank as he flashed a smile at Kitty.

"Yeah, like, ironic, but Hank, will Lance and I be able to, like, control our new powers?" asked Kitty as she put her chin in her now-clawed hand, making sure to think them dull so as to not injure herself, and looked at the still unconscious Lance. "Plus," she added as an afterthought, "how did I get hurt? I mean, all I, like, remember is getting a note to go and meet Lance on the college roof,-without my projection-, and when I got there I phased through the doors, went to the roof, and then… well, I remember hearing laughing, feeling pain, and then nothing."

"I think I should be the one to tell you that, Kitty," said Xavier as he opened his eyes and looked at the brunette.

"Professor, do you need me to stay and keep an eye on Lance's condition, or do you want me to leave?" asked Hank as he looked from Xavier to Lance.

"You should go and help Scott and Jean with the others. I believe the remainder of the X-Men, the X-Factor, and the X-Sword teams have ganged up on them and are giving them a tough time. I also advise you pick up Forge from his guest room and tell him to monitor the session from the observation room," replied Xavier as he nodded towards the door, smiling a little as he did. Hank nodded, turned off the computer and projection, and then nodded to both Xavier and Kitty and headed out of the lab to fetch Forge and then towards the Danger Room.

The Danger Room and all of the training facilities for the X-Men are located under ground, so that no non-mutant would discover them, and the mutants could train to protect the world as best they could without letting the outside world know what they were doing. This was the location of almost all for the X-Men's training sessions. Some of the exercises were held somewhere on the immense Institute grounds, and some were held just in the classrooms themselves.

"Professor," said Kitty as she looked from the unconscious form of Lance to the steadfast eyes of Professor Xavier. "I need to know what's, like, happened to me and Lance, which caused us both to end up in the medical lab," said Kitty as she looked from Xavier's eyes to the closed ones on Lance's face.

"Of course, Kitty, I will tell you all that I know, from having talked with Lance-before he went unconscious- and Forge as well," said Xavier as he looked at the unconscious Lance and then to the worried Kitty.

As Xavier told what he knew, the emotions on Kitty's face went back and forth between confusion, anger, shock, and surprise. When Xavier finished, he waited for Kitty's reaction, and he certainly got it.

"Wait, back up!" said Kitty as she held up her claws in protest of what Xavier had finished saying. "You mean to tell me that, like, everything that happened to us, the reason that we are like this, is because of, like, Sabretooth, his stupid plan and the DNA that was implanted into us, as Hank told us! Oh, just wait 'till I get my hands on him; I'll show him a thing or two!" finished Kitty in a rare show of anger as she prepared to storm out of the lab. She was stopped by Xavier, who had positioned himself in front of the door to the lab in his wheelchair. This prevented Kitty from leaving as she stopped as quickly as she could so she wouldn't run into him.

"That won't be necessary, Kitty," said Xavier as he put his hands together in the steeple position. "Did you hear what I just told you?" he asked as he looked at her.

"Uh, not really, no," replied Kitty as she sheepishly glanced at her feet, which had outgrown the sneakers she'd been wearing the night before.

"I said that Lance has already taken care of Sabretooth, as Sabretooth was swallowed by a sinkhole caused by Lance himself," replied Xavier as he looked first to Kitty and then to Lance.

"Really?" exclaimed Kitty in surprise as she looked once more at Lance, "Lance took care of Sabretooth?" she asked softly.

"Yes, he did," replied Xavier as he rolled over to Lance and looked at him proudly, "and he is now an official X-Men."

"You're, like, serious! Lance is an X-Men!" asked Kitty in surprise as she looked at Xavier with shock evident on her face. "Is he here to, like, stay?" she then asked Xavier softly, recalling how he had left shortly after he had joined the last time and how devastated she'd been at his decision.

"Yes, he is," replied Xavier as he looked at Lance. "Now, Kitty, I'm going to leave you to help oversee the session. When Lance wakes up, bring him to my office, and we'll discuss lodgings, Danger Room sessions, and so on. Oh, and Kitty?" said Xavier as he wheeled himself towards the door, and looked over his shoulder.

"Yes, Professor?" asked Kitty as she looked up from Lance to meet Xavier's eyes.

"Good luck," said Xavier as he gave her a wink and left, leaving a very surprised Kitty in his wake. As he left, he couldn't help but think how things were changing, in both the world and in people.

'To think,' thought Xavier, '10 years ago, Lance was a rebel with no cause and no purpose, but now he has a purpose, and she feels the same way towards him as he feels towards her. I'm sure of it.' With these thoughts Xavier took one of the elevators to the Danger Room.