Disclaimer: Hey, I just found out about that contest that I entered to gain control over X-Men a while back… it says that Stan Lee won… I swear, he must have rigged the contest….

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Chapter 32: Safe Landing, Invisibility, and Sickness

Blackbird, En Route to Asteroid Evolution- May 16, 3:00 PM

A couple of hours later, Lance and Kitty heard a beeping sound coming from the control panel. Kitty woke up out of the light sleep she'd been in and checked the panel. She woke up Lance, who was dozing in his chair, and told him, "Well, according to the radar, we're only a few miles from Asteroid Evolution, but there's a problem: there's no way we can get in without getting spotted."

"You're serious!" asked Lance, now fully awake as he digested Kitty's words, realizing that they may not be able to get onto the asteroid and save their friends and the world. "Isn't there something on this damn ship that will help us get on safely?"

"Well…" said Kitty as she quickly searched the ship's systems for any kind of device that would help them. "Got it! It says here that the Blackbird is equipped with a cloaking device, along with the ability to take itself off any radar in the area. Get ready for some turbulence!"

"Goody…" muttered Lance as he dug his claws once more into his seat in a vain attempt to keep himself from becoming sick.

"Woohoo!" screamed Kitty as she took the ship off autopilot, engaged the cloaking device and its ability to take itself off any kind of radar and put the ship's thrusters to maximum power. The ship shot towards its destination at the speed of a cannonball launched from a cannon, and Lance could feel the bile begin to rise in his throat.

After a few minutes, Kitty shut the thrusters off and gently brought the ship to the ground, making sure to keep the cloaking device on. She then shut the ship off, leaving the ship's abilities of cloaking and taking itself off radar-detection systems on through the use of the plane's batteries. She got out of her seat and began walking to the door of the ship. Just as she was about to open the hatch she felt Lance speed past her and towards the bathroom on board. Kitty heard him hurling and mentally checked herself for flying so fast.

"You okay?" she asked softly as she came upon Lance hurling his stomach into the toilet.

"Yeah, I think so," grimaced Lance as he once more felt bile in his throat and hurled once more. He felt Kitty gently rubbing his back. After a few moments, Lance got up and washed out his mouth. He then flushed the toilet's contents away from sight and weakly smiled at Kitty.

"I'm fine but Kitty, do me one favor," Lance commented as he began to walk towards the hatch.

"What?" she asked as she walked beside him.

"Never, ever fly this ship that fast again; please," said Lance as he closed his eyes and shuddered as he thought about having to experience speeds like that again.

When the two reached the hatch Kitty pressed a button on the wall and the door slowly began to open. When it was almost open, Lance suddenly lunged past Kitty and slammed the button to close the door. The door closed, and Kitty tried to reopen the door but failed to do so as Lance kept his left claw firmly on the door.

"Lance, what was that for?' demanded Kitty indignantly as she placed her hands on her hips and glared at Lance.

Lance put up his right claw to show that he was serious about his action, and then after a moment said, "Kitty, the reason I did that was because I think that before we leave the ship, and we need to make ourselves invisible. That way, no one will be able to see us and we can move about the complex with more stealth and without fear of being seen. You agree with me?"

After a moment of thought, Kitty folded her arms across her chest and said, "Yeah, I guess you're right." After a moment she said, "But Lance, how we will keep in touch? I mean, if we're both invisible, does that mean that we can still see each other, or can we not see each other, or what?"

"Well," said Lance as he removed his claw from the button and folded his arms as well. After a moment of thinking he snapped his fingers and exclaimed, "Got it! We'll use our telepathy to keep in touch with other, and we'll travel together, so we have less chance of being caught separately. That okay with you?"

Lance looked to Kitty for confirmation. At her nod, he closed his eyes and concentrated on becoming invisible. When he opened them again, he saw Kitty looking at the area he had been standing in only a minute before with a shocked look on her face, as if saying 'Where did he go?'

Lance smirked, and then concentrated on contacting Kitty telepathically.

'Kitty? You reading me?' asked Lance.

'Yeah, I'm reading you. So, you turned invisible all right?" asked Kitty as she closed her eyes so that she could see a mental image of Lance in her head, feeling Lance do the same.

'Yep, 100 successful. Why don't you try?" said Lance.

'Okay,' said Kitty as she concentrated, and then a moment later excitedly projected into Lance's head 'Lance! I, like did it! I'm invisible!'

'Good work,' said Lance as he smiled at Kitty's reaction to being able to turn invisible. 'Ready to move out Kitty-Kat?' asked Lance as he opened his eyes and indeed, he was now able to see Kitty as they were both invisible, and knew she was there because they still had their mental link, so he knew where she was, and vice-versa.

'Yep, Shaker. Let's go,' said Kitty as she opened her eyes and smirked at the nickname she had given Lance. She knew he wasn't too fond of it, but that deep down he liked it.

"Alright, let's go," said Lance from beside Kitty. As the hatch opened, they both stepped out, and were surprised to see Fred, Todd, Leon, and Opal patrolling the landing area, making sure nothing or no one got in or out without their seeing it. All four of them were wearing specially made armor that would let them breathe in the vacuum of space. Since Lance and Kitty had a healing factor they didn't need such gear. They could hear the four mutants talking about random things as Kitty telekinetically closed the door.

"Man, this sucks yo. Why couldn't Magneto have put me with Wanda in checking the cells over 'stead of that insane Pyro?" muttered Todd as he hopped around the landing area, every now and then breaking into a walk. Leon looked over from where he was patrolling as a bat, and sighed. Just as he was about to change back into his human form to go and comfort his hero his senses picked up movement. Leon's eyes swiveled from looking at Todd to space to where he sensed the movement. Leon quickly flew over towards the area from whence he had heard noise, which caught Fred's attention.

"What's wrong, Leon?" asked Fred as he followed Leon's movements. Suddenly, Fred's eyes noticed something… or someone… moving around. Fred rubbed his eyes in an attempt to make sure he wasn't seeing things… he really hadn't seen a green tail or a purple wing… had he? Fred blinked once more and began walking over to where he had thought he'd seen the body parts.

"Shit…" muttered Lance as he and Kitty saw both Leon and Fred coming towards them. He and Kitty immediately sped away and spilt up, but because they were not looking where they were going Lance ran into Todd and Kitty into Opal.

"Yo, what in the hell just hit me, eh?" exclaimed Todd as he was forced onto his back, and Opal yelled, "Alright, whoever just ran into me is going to pay!" Opal began to shoot bullets of all materials out of her fingers, and Fred and Leon were forced to dodge them.

"Watch where you're aiming those things," exclaimed Leon as he shifted back into his human form and began to dodge them more slowly than he had been doing as a bat. Todd was spitting slime all around him in an attempt to trap whoever had hit him but wasn't really paying attention to where he was aiming and accidentally spit on Opal, who screamed as she felt the sticky substance blind her.

"You jerk! Watch where in the hell you aim this disgusting material!" Opal screamed as she desperately tried to get the substance off her so she could see and get revenge on Todd. She began shooting bullets out of her left hand while her right tried to get the slime off. The bullets flew in every direction and went towards Leon, who was too distracted with trying to get to Todd to help him to notice the bullets heading his way. Fred, however, did notice and stepped in front of the younger mutant and took the bullets, smirking as they bounced off him.

After a few moments of havoc Lance and Kitty managed to dodge the bullets and make it to the entrance to the complex and stopped, leaning up against the wall to catch their breath.

"My god, I didn't know Leon could sense us," muttered Kitty as she threw a glare at Lance, who smiled sheepishly at her.

"Heh, guess I forgot to mention that when I filled you in on our two new recruits and their powers," replied Lance as he put a hand behind his head and kept his sheepish smile on his face.

Kitty merely sighed and turned around to begin entering the complex but caught her breath when she found herself staring into the sapphire eyes of one Erik Lensherr.