I was like a ninja. I was able to sneak into different parts of the school like the MedBay supply room, the lower part of the school where I had correctly guessed the X-men kept their superhero junk, and the file room where I snagged a laptop that had the team's past mission reports downloaded onto it (how did I do all this you ask? My dad's passcode. He uses the same one for everything.) I was currently packed and sneaking into the garage.
"So what's the plan?" A perky female voice asked. A white girl with chestnut brown hair tied in a ponytail and warm brown eyes stared at me from the hood of the Hummer she was sitting on.
"Pardon?" I asked, while thinking, seriously, I got into all the X-men's secret rooms without anyone knowing but I get caught in the garage?
"Your plan to rescue Storm and Wolverine?" The girl repeated, hopping down from the Hummer's hood. "What is it?"
Instead of answering, I asked. "Who are you?"
"Kitty Pryde, jr X-man."
My heart dropped. "So you're here to stop me from leaving."
"What? No way!" Kitty quickly assured me. "I'm here to help you!"
"You're going to have to run this by me again." I said dumbly.
"Look, I know you're leaving to look for your parents. Its obvious. But you can't do it alone."
Well, I obviously wasn't going to go after them alone. I was heading into the city to recruit or hire a team of vigilantes (I wonder if Deadpool is available? Nah, that guy is way too insane and unpredictable) to storm the base keeping my parents. Of course, first I had to find the base. To do that, I had to get into King Ping's lair and find Alaban. According to the X-men's database, Alaban is a decedent of the Dark Elves and has the ability to find anyone. Unfortunately, he's kind of evil and works for an evil crime lord. I have my work cut out for me.
"Listen, I know you probably don't want our help-" Kitty started to say.
"Wait, 'our'?'
"That's right, Ah'm going too." A southern accented voice said. "Sorry Ah'm late Kitty, Ah was packing some rations."
A tall girl with alabaster sin entered the garage, one hand on her hip and the other one holding a backpack. She had thick auburn hair pulled back into a ponytail, with white streaked hair left loose to frame her face. Unlike Kitty, I knew who she was. Rogue. She has the ability to take people's memories and mimic their abilities by touching their skin.
"Okay, seriously, who doesn't know about this secret mission?" I exclaimed, annoyed.
"Relax, we didn't tell anyone." Rogue said, tucking a white strand of hair behind her ear with a gloved hand. "We have personal reasons for wanting to come."
"Wolverine's been like a dad to us Leah. Ever since we left home he's been looking out for us." Kitty explained. "We owe it to him."
Oh really, that's funny because he's actually been a dad to me. I thought this, but kept silent.
"You know you're going to need help. Rogue can do her touch thing, and I can phase through solid objects. Plus I'm kind of a computer wiz. We'd be assets on the mission." Kitty stated, crossing her arms.
"And before yah argue, just think," Rogue said quickly as I opened my mouth. "Yah'r only wasting time trying to convince us not to come, and we'll tell the teachers if yah try to leave without us."
I closed my mouth. Turning on my heel, all I said in response was. "I guess this means we'll need something bigger than my dad's bike."
I heard the girls high five each other and scramble to follow me.
"Were you really going to tell the teachers?" Kitty asked in a hushed voice.
"Of course not." Rogue replied. "But she didn't have to know that."
We ended up hotwiring the Hummer. Kitty used her abilities for us to sneak out underground, one of the few places the school didn't have detectors. She also dismantled the tracking devices in the car. To be honest, I was glad for them coming. But to be even more honest, who I really wanted to offer to come was Eric.
But I guess I was just too human for him.
xXx
"Sapien." Kitty announced from the back seat of the Hummer where she was searching through the stolen laptop.
"What?" I asked, turning back from the window. We had arrived in the city not long ago and Rogue was driving around, looking for a place for us to safely crash for the night.
"Sapien. I think that should be your code name." Kitty explained.
"Uh, I don't think so."
"Come on, it's a great one! We have to have codenames on missions, right? Rogue is, well, Rogue, and I'm Shadowcat."
"But Sapien? That's so lame! You might as well call me "boring human girl with no powers"." I argued.
"We could use that…"
"Oh shut up."
xXx
I was in a dark alley. A hooded figure pressed me up against the cold rough wall of the building, holding a gun to my temple.
"Help, someone help me!" I cried desperately, struggling against my captor's hold.
"Did someone order a superhero?" A cheery male voice called from above just before he swung in and knocked aside my captor, sending her flying into a pile of garbage. I fell to the ground and made a show of struggling to get up. Spiderman, being the decent guy that he is, took my arm and helped me up.
Right on time.
"Are you alright, miss?" Spiderman asked in a concerned voice.
"I am now, thanks." I said sweetly. "Now, we need to talk."
"Wha- oh man!"
Rogue jumped out from the pile of garbage Spiderman knocked her into and onto his back. She dug her fingers under his mask so that their skins made contact. She took hardly anything, just enough to weaken him slightly and mimic his abilities. Kitty phased through the wall for part two. She grabbed a hold of him and phased him half way into the wall.
"Why do I have the feeling that I've just been ambushed?" the wall crawler asked, bemused.
"I'm sorry about this Spiderman," I apologized sincerely. "but we needed to make sure you'd help us."
"If you girls need a date to prom or something, I'm flattered, really, but I don't have a tux."
I tried not to, but I smiled. I have this huge crush on Spiderman. Ever since I saw him on tv I thought he was the coolest guy ever. Plus he seems younger than the other superheroes. But no time to go all fan girl now, I have a job to do.
"You've heard about the two X-men, Storm and Wolverine, being kidnapped, right?" I said.
"Of course, who hasn't, but I don't see…hey, wait a second." Spiderman voice grew with realization.
Anyone who had seen my parents could guess that I'm their kid. I mean, how many African Canadian girls are there with blue eyes and black and white hair? Guessing what he was thinking, I said. "Yeah, I know. They're my parents."
"I didn't know Wolvie had a daughter! And all the team ups we've done together, he never said a thing. Really, I'm hurt."
The idea that my dad had fought crime with Spiderman gave me a warm, tingly feeling.
"We're going after them, but we need your help." I pleaded. "I need you to tell me how to find King Ping's lackey, Alaban. He's the only one who will know how to locate them."
Spiderman sighed. "I knew I should have stayed in tonight. Listen, let's talk about this somewhere else, okay? I try to avoid doing business in creepy dark alleys while being held captive by teenage girls. There's this diner around the block with great apple pie, we can talk there."
"Alright, but if you make a run for it, we will take you down again." I said in a stern, cool voice; nodding to Kitty to release him.
As we headed for the dinner, all I could think was "I've met Spiderman, I've met Spiderman, I've met Spiderman!"
xXx
"So we know the risks of going to see Alaban," I said, finishing my story. "but its our last option. The X-men have been trying for weeks to find my parents but they've still haven't found anything. And that's with two of the world's most powerful telepaths and Cerebro going at it."
Spiderman sighed and rubbed his masked face. "But I don't see why three teenagers have to do this. We have all the superheroes working on finding them-"
"In between other world emergencies." Kitty interrupted.
"Well, yeah. But we're better suited to do this sort of thing."
I found that a little hypocritical, seeing as Spiderman was younger than us when he started fighting crime, but I didn't say this.
"We can do this. We subdued yah, didn't we?" Rogue argued.
"Hey, only because I let you! I could have fought a lot harder." Spiderman said defensively. "Look, I'm sure you guys are great mini heroes, and I really mean that, but this is dangerous. You're going to deal with really bad guys that won't feel bad at all about hurting or even killing you!"
"We know that. We're not walking into this without a plan or thinking it will be easy." I said softly. "But we can't just sit around anymore doing nothing."
"What would your parents say if they knew about this?" Spiderman said. Afterwards he cringed, realizing how old he sounded.
"My parents don't know I'm a mutant."
"Mane tried to kill meh."
"Mine are being held by the MRD."
The three of us girls shared a look, feeling good on that team up.
"Well, uh…you could still get hurt!" Spiderman went on. "I'm not trying to put you guys down, but that's the truth!"
"He's right ladies," A deep, masculine voice said. "We all just have your wellbeing in mind."
We looked up to find we were surrounded by the Avengers. Oh dear.
"You snitched on us?" Kitty asked Spiderman, appalled. "We thought you were cool!"
"I-I am cool!" Spiderman said lamely.
"Don't blame Spiderman girls, he was just following orders. Your teachers are going mad with worry about you three and had us on red alert." Captain America said in his deep calm voice. "We're glad we found you before you got hurt."
"Come on girls, let's go. We can give you a ride back to your school in the Quinjet." Ironman said, gesturing his metal clad thumb towards the diner's door.
"And if you come quietly without making a fuss like good little girls, we may even stop for ice cream on the way." Hawkeye offered in a condescending voice.
"Listen, maybe we don't have to take them back to the school." Spiderman said quickly. "They have this plan for finding Wolverine and Storm and it's an okay one. They can stay with us and be updated as we go after them."
"Shut up Spidey, its bad enough we have one kid hanging around with us, we don't need three more." Hawkeye said in a boorish voice.
"Come on guys, Leah here is Wolverine's daughter. She's had to sit by while everyone told her they were doing everything they could to find her parents, and its led to nothing." Spiderman explained.
"Its just not a good idea," Ant man said from Tigra's shoulder. "it's too dangerous for them."
"Oh my God, you are all such a bunch of hypocrites!" Kitty cried out. "You were all about our age when you started out, why should it be any different for us?"
"I know you're just trying to help," Captain America said calmly. "but you're in a different situation then we were. We had to put ourselves in danger at early ages, but you don't. There are plenty of adults who are working on saving them, and you have to trust us to find them."
"But you haven't found them yet!"
"You want me to break out the knock out gas?" Hawkeye offered. "It would be easier than arguing with them."
"That's alright, we're done arguing." I said quietly.
"Sapien, no!" Kitty hissed, thinking I was giving up on our mission.
Before the Avengers could react, I grabbed Rogue's hand and ripped off her glove. Guessing what my plan was, she thrust it under Spiderman's mask once more, this time making more contact. That done, we each grabbed Kitty and began to fall through the floor.
"Bu-bye!" Kitty called cheerfully as the stunned Avengers lunged for us.
Once we were in the basement, we broke into a run. With Kitty's help, we phased through different buildings' basements, only stopping when we were sure the Avengers had no clue where we were.
"Yah know," Rogue said panting. "its gonna be real hard to find a team of superheroes to help if they all try to send us back home every time."