A/N: An idea Brave Kid gave me to do. Anybody else interested? Pls, let me know.
Kurt sighed as he walked past a diner. Peering through the window, he saw Kitty with Lance. Ever since Magneto had left them, the Brotherhood had not been much of a threat. More like an annoyance, really. Lance was the only smart one who decided to stop fighting with the X-Men since he wanted to have a relationship with Kitty. This was the thing that made Nightcrawler depressed.
Ever since he laid eyes on her, he had the hugest crush imaginable on her. Okay, so she often freaked out at his true appearance, but she got to know him and they became friends. Friends. Kurt actually wanted more than that.
Under his arm, Kurt was carrying a book. It was the tale of Momotaro. Kurt had always loved myths and legends, especially those of other countries. He enjoyed reading about the exploits of foreign folk-tale heroes as they triumphed over everything in their way.
He wished he could be like that. A big hero. Then maybe Kitty would notice him. He then stopped in his tracks when he noticed a black object ahead of him, lying on the ground. He thought it could be a wallet and walked towards it. He bent down and picked it up. It wasn't a wallet, just a strange looking train pass with an emblem on it that resembled a clock face. Shrugging, he placed it in his pocket and continued his walk
As Kurt was walking, he did not notice a baseball sized glowing sphere floating behind him. It heard him sigh before darting straight into his body. Kurt did not take notice and of course did not notice the sand falling out of his sleeve and piling up behind him. It then reformed into a strange creature. It was only from the waist up from the ground while its lower body and legs floated up above it. It had long sharp horns and a demonic appearance.
"Name your wish, I will grant any wish," the creature said but Nightcrawler ignored it. "Hey! Don't ignore me, damn it!" Kurt then felt water drip onto his face and then groaned. He then teleported, much to the creature's shock. "Hey! Where did you go!? Hey! What about that wish!? Hey!?" It began scratching its head. "What the hell am I supposed to do now? Look for him?" It screamed, "This is so irritating!"
Kurt was back in his room and removed his shirt. He then fell back onto his bed, lying on it as he took out the strange pass.
"Wonder who it belongs to?" Kurt pondered as he turned it over to find any identification and then sighed. "Well, as the Americans say it, 'finder keepers, losers weepers."
"And talking about finding (pant), you know how hard it is to find you?" questioned a gruff voice. Kurt jumped in shock.
"Who's there!? Show yourself! I warn you! I am a trained X-Man!" Nightcrawler warned as he jumped off his bed.
"Look down, idiot," the voice growled and Kurt looked down to see a pile of sand at his feet. It then began to reshape itself into the creature from before. "Now, about that wish."
Kurt blinked. And then blinked again…and then he promptly fainted.
"Hey! Wake up, you idiot! I need that wish! Hey! HEY!!"
"Was I dreaming?" Kurt groaned. He sat up. "What am I doing on the floor." He then froze. It was a message from the Professor. "Okay, off to Danger Room practice." Kurt then ported away.
The creature watched Kurt leave and appeared to be grinning. "Danger Room, huh? Sounds fun. Well, let's go!" The sand creature then vanished and became a pile of sand again as its essence became a red haze of energy.
Kurt walked into the danger room, without the hologram concealing his true appearance. He now had blue fur and a demonic appearance and dressed in his uniform. He stepped through the door and joined the rest of his team, the X-Men.
Cyclops, as commanding as ever, spoke to them. Not only were the X-Men present but so were the New Mutants, new students to the institute. Nightcrawler wanted to make a good impression.
"Alright, this will be a team simulation," Cyclops began. "We'll be putting together teams of three. One X-Man and 2 New Mutants. Nightcrawler."
"Yes, Scott?" Kurt asked.
"You'll be teamed up with Berserker and Cannonball. You think you can handle it?"
"You can count on me, Scott," Kurt saluted. Scott smiled and the door into the Danger Room opened before the three mutants entered. Scott then began the simulation and it came to life. Now it looked like a Danger Room.
The sand creature was seeing everything through Kurt's eyes. It was shocked to see Kurt's true appearance, but then looked through its host's memories. His host along with everyone in this building were evolved humans known as mutants. They had special abilities because of a special genetic anomaly known as the X-Gene. It then decided to just watch the action until his host needed help.
Berserker/Ray Crisp and Cannonball/Sam Guthrie were using their abilities to counter every single obstacle. Berserker let loose electrical blasts, destroying the lasers while Cannonball flew around, dodging shots. A wall came up in front of him but he was also invulnerable when flying so he just smashed through it. Aside from a headache later on, he'd be fine. Nightcrawler, on the other hand, was merely dodging with his teleportation powers, porting around as he was shot at.
"Is that all you can do!?" someone screamed in Kurt's head and Kurt froze. He knew that voice.
"What!?" Kurt shouted, shocked.
"Let me show you how it's really done!" the voice cried out before Kurt felt his consciousness being overridden by another. His hair stood up and became spikier and wilder and a red streak appeared in his hair. His yellow eyes turned red as he grinned.
"ORE SANJOU!" the possessed Nightcrawler shouted out before he climbed up the walls. Two flamethrowers came out and blasted at him but he jumped off and grabbed one, aiming it at the other flamethrower. The buzz saws came at him but he jumped over it as it struck down, another came to slice him in half but he effortlessly somersaulted away. "Hah! Is that all?" Kurt laughed out as the lasers began shooting at him. He jumped around, evading laser fire and causing the guns to shoot each other. He then finished the simulator like everyone else. "Hey! Beat that!" A buzz saw came at him but he jumped over it as it got stuck to the floor. Another came to slice him in half but he effortlessly somersaulted away.
Everyone gaped at him. They knew he was agile but they never knew he was that agile.
"So what?' Berserker snorted, unimpressed, "All you did was port around and dodge. You only do that because you don't have any offensive powers."
A vein throbbed on Kurt's head as he grabbed Berserker by the collar, "You wanna see offensive!? What about this!?" He then ported and next thing you know they were at the top of a building. Kurt was holding Berserker by his uniform. Berserker panicked as he looked down and screamed, flailing around. "Hah! Now you're scared! See? Do my powers suck now?"
"Stop…" a faint voice whispered.
"Huh?" the possessed Kurt looked around. "What the?"
"Stop what you're doing…" Kurt, the real Kurt, asserted again, pushing into control again, his hair and eyes turning back to normal.
"Hey, wait! Stop! Argh!" the creature was forced out and Kurt regained control. He was confused for a second but then realized he was holding Berserker over the edge of a building. He gasped in shock and ported them back.
They were back in the Danger Room and Kurt let go of Berserker. Berserker scrambled away, fearfully.
"He's gone crazy, man! He was gonna drop me off a building!" Ray screamed, pointing at Kurt. Everyone stared at him. He couldn't take it so he just ported away and back into his room. He locked the door.
"Okay, I have to know what's going on here. What was that thing?" Kurt said to himself.
Steve Blazer sat down on a bench. He looked on at the skateboarders at the park, having fun on their boards. He growled. About two years ago he was one of the best skateboarders around. He aimed to beat 100 people and take their boards as prizes. One day, during an important skating tournament, he suffered an injury that ended his career. He could never skate again. His board had also been sabotaged, meaning someone had deliberately wanted him to fall. Maybe it was someone who wanted to get even. He never found out who.
He was also only 4 skateboards away from completing his 100 board collection, but since he could no longer skate, he could no longer bet with people for their boards. He let out a sigh of depression. A yellow glowing orb then flew into his body before sand fell from his body and then reformed into a strange creature with the top half of its body on the ground and the lower half floating above it. Steve jumped back in shock.
"Wh-What the hell!?" Steve shouted.
"Tell me your wish," the creature said, "I will grant any wish you want."
The sand fell from Kurt's body again and once again reformed into the creature. It yelled at him, "Hey! What's the big deal?"
Kurt glared at the creature, "You nearly made me kill Ray."
"Hey," the creature crossed its arms, "He deserved it. He was a jerk!"
"Well, because of you, everyone probably thinks I'm nuts!" Kurt yelled back. He heard a knock at the door.
"Kurt?" it was Kitty. "Is someone in there with you?"
"No, Kitty!" Kurt called back.
"Okay," Kitty didn't sound too convinced. She phased through the door and saw the creature. Her eyes widened and then she fainted dead away. Kurt jumped and grabbed her before she hit the ground.
"Great," Kurt said sarcastically. He turned to the creature, "This is all your fault."
"Hey, she came in without warning!" the creature protested. It then rubbed its hands together, "Well, now let's talk."
"Talk?" Kurt quirked an eyebrow, "Talk about what?"
"Well, the reason I'm here is because I will grant you a wish. Any wish you want," the creature said, hands behind his back and pacing around.
Kurt blinked. A wish? Then maybe he could…Hold on. From the books he read, wish-granting creatures usually wanted something in exchange for the wish. There had to be a catch here. Kurt asked, eyes narrowed, "What's the catch?"
"Catch?" the creature repeated, "What catch?"
"No wish comes for free," Kurt said as he placed Kitty on the bed. "What do you get in return if I make a wish?"
"Hey! You get a wish and I get out of your hair! We both win!" the creature shouted out.
Kurt didn't buy it, "Sorry, but if you're a threat there's no way I'm making a wish. There has to be something you get out of this so what is it?"
"I'll tell you after you make the wish," the creature replied indignantly.
"Then no wish," Kurt said, firmly. "I just hope Kitty just thinks you're a dream."
The male skateboarder was thrown against the tree as something picked up his skateboard. It looked humanoid in appearance but had armor on its body. It was brown in color and had a coyote's head. It stared at the skateboard and placed it under his arm along with another it had retrieved earlier.
"Two more and the contract will be complete," the creature said before leaping away. It was going to deliver the skateboards to Steve.