"What do you know about the situation?" asked Kristi in the war room with Max, Tamera and the main X-men. For some reason, Jean was eyeing Tamera strangely.
"So far all we know is that people are missing, for example Scott and by the brief information your friend Crystal gave us, Dustin and Remy have also disappeared." said Xavier.
"This is what I know. They have all been removed from my sight somehow. This means that now their jewels are probably showing. I'm not sure if they will be able to conceal them, so that's a potential danger." said Kristi. Her jewels embedded in the palm of her hand were too showing, but she didn't let anyone see. "They now all have their own power that stems from mine, yet it has it's limits."
Jean was still staring at Tamera. "What's your problem?" asked Tamera rudely.
"I'm sorry, but you look like someone I saw a picture of once." said Jean. Nathan walked into the war room a second after.
"Sorry everyone that I'm late. I was out bowling with X-Force and winning when I received your phone call...." started Nathan. He didn't get to finish his sentence. He stared at Tamera.
"Okay, is this stare at me day??? Quit it, I find it very aggravating!" said Tamera verbally, telepathically and extremely annoyed. He started slowly towards Tamera holding out his hand and white as a ghost. Tamera held him in place by telepathic powers. "That's far enough." said Tamera now becoming afraid, he was advancing and breaking through her barriers. She harnessed all her powers and tried once more. She could tell that he too was using all of HIS powers to get to her. Then she felt something in him take over more quickly. She stopped suddenly and reversed whatever was in him to a point where it was almost non-existent. He stumbled forward and accidentally hit her and they both went down.
"Sorry." she muttered. "It's just that, it was taking over and it was like an instant reaction..." Tamera tried to go on, trying to come up with a believable excuse for doing what she did. Xavier stared at Kristi.
"You have students that can do that in your reality?" he asked astonished.
"Yes, we have at least four that can do that at this moment." whispered Kristi to Xavier. Yet, even though he heard it, Kristi was broadcasting at a loud level, so Jean could also hear this conversation. All the other X-men had not a clue about what was going on.
Nathan picked her up and held still while he took out of picture from his back pocket and put it up to her face. It was the picture of his daughter, the twin of Tyler that he found out about the last trip to the future and she looked exactly like her!
"Oh my God." he breathed. "At last I've found you."
Tamera had no idea about what he was talking about. "Buddy, your welcome for what I did, but I've never seen you before in my life. Besides, it was an accident!"
"People, let's get on with business shall we? There are people that we have to save!" said Max. He was setting into his role quite nicely among the people of this school.
*
"How are you feeling Scott?" asked Remy, while still chained to the wall. Scott didn't answer.
"Scott?" asked Remy.
"Fine!" bit out Scott struggling for breath. In fact, he wasn't even close it to. Every time he opened his eyes in the contraption he was wearing on his head, his optic beams bounced right back into his eyes, burning them every time.
"Stop lying to me... I've been around a lot longer than you have! I can tell when someone is lying to me!" screamed Remy.
"If you really must know, I've lost my eyesight!" cried Scott. He could feel the tears go down his cheeks and it stung his eyes. Remy stopped talking after that. He wouldn't know what he would do without eye sight either.
*
After a long discussion about what they could do, Kristi decided what she was going to do... But it didn't include anyone else. She was just going to give herself up as an exchange for the others. Why the hell not anyhow? Kielle was always the brave one with all the gall, Crystal now had enough self confidence that she would sing in front of millions of people and Dustin would join her if he could actually sing! Everyone was so brave except for her.... she had been sitting in her home helping little children, not taking any risks so far... now it was her turn. They adjourned for the day and decided to take it up in the morning. Tamera and her shared a room and Max had his own room.
"Tamera, you look exactly like that girl in the picture!" remarked Kristi as they entered the room and shut the door. "You know, it could be that you are the double of his little girl from an other reality... or perhaps you are his little girl. The fact is, is that his daughter went missing after someone took her. Cable coming back in time, wasn't only to help destroy apocalypse, yet to find his little girl. Tyler had a twin that went missing when the war broke out. Don't forget that you don't know who your real parents are... All I'm saying is just consider the possibility. You two both have roughly the same powers, with a few differences here and there."
Tamera sank onto the bed. She didn't know what to think. Everything was moving so fast... Memories were resurfacing and she was in an other reality with people that she read about. What she needed was sleep. As she doze off into the night of slumber, she heard the last of what Kristi had to say and she knew that her words were going to bug her for quite some time.
*
Kielle was taken out of her cell and given to the doctors. They all wondered how she could of inflicted the pain she had, on herself. In the end, they treated her for severe exhaustion and internal bleeding. She woke up in a dark room... there seemed to be no one there at first, but that was probably because she still wasn't quite awake. As she woke, she saw everyone else. Scott was on the floor, Remy was chained to the wall, Angel was right beside Remy. Dustin and Colin were hanging from ropes by their hands and Darien was like Scott tied to the floor. She herself was tied to a wall and by the looks of it by adamantium. Everyone was drugged asleep and it wouldn't be long until they woke up. Wouldn't they be surprised to see everyone! And REMY, had a blue jewel protruding from his forehead!
She needed to help Colin! Those ropes were made out of wood! But, she reminded herself, that he was strong like a vampire to withstand the pain and like a human, so that he wouldn't be poisoned by the wood. God, what was she going to do? Where was Kristi and Crystal?
*
Crystal, Jubilee and Giles had been driving for quite some time in the dessert when they were finally approaching something. Although, she couldn't see much in the first place because all the windows were tinted extremely dark.
"Just stay calm and I will handle everything." whispered Giles as they were coming up to the first check point. It was easy, she just stayed quiet as he talked to this guy in a military uniform. Was she making a mistake? Jubilee was trying to look out the windows for some sign to where they were and wasn't succeeding.
They drove on for an other ten minutes and then came up to the second check point and they drove right through it. After a half an hour, they came up to their last check point. Everything was going smoothly until they were asked to get out of the car. They sat in a little room for ten minutes. Since when did check points out in the desert have little rooms with caviar and champagne to drink? Anyhow, they got out of the car reluctantly and the guards proceeded to check every nook and cranny of the car as they waited. It was almost like they were indoors! However, Jubilee was amused when she heard one of them mutter that it was too bad that they were checking out the car instead of her. With a grin on her face, they all both got back in and they moved onto the main complex.
Under armed escort, they were ushered into an elevator. Although, before they went into the elevator, Giles went to the washroom. After he came out, down and down they went. It seemed to go on forever. After a two minute ride it stopped and they exited to find a room with many military men sitting around a table. As they got off the elevator, they were shown to their seats at this round table. Jubilee was by far the youngest out of the group and decided to keep silent while they talked. Yet, none of them talked... they were all looking at her as if she were supposed to say something. She felt insecure again like when she was in junior high making a presentation. Crystal didn't know what the hell was going on either.
"Uh hi." said Crystal. They still didn't say anything. "You people wanted to talk with me?" Why weren't these people saying anything to her??? They were just staring. Jubilee stood up, went over to one and tried to touch it. They were holograms!!!
"What kind of joke is this???" yelled Jubilee, looking around at all these holograms that were following her with their eyes as she walked around the table. She went over to Giles and he too was a hologram! It made her jump when one of the holograms spoke.
"We thought that this would be the safest way to meet someone like you people. Bringing her was an added extra bonus" said a hologram of a partially bald guy, well built, pointing to Jubilee.
"I'm not talking with any hologram!" said Jubilee putting on her stubborn look.
"You are going to have to put up with it for now, until we decide we can trust you two. My name is Max Wiltshire, you may address me as Max. What may I call you?"
"What's it to you!" snarled Jubilee. When she knew that she wouldn't get anywhere this these holograms acting like that, she caved in. "Jubilee."
"Crystal, just Crystal, plain and simple. You probably want information about how I got here and so forth, because we still haven't told Giles." muttered Crystal just loud enough so that they could hear.
"Precisely."
"Okay, I'm from an other reality. I'm a wild power, but not the leader. GET THAT GILES! I'M NOT THE LEADER!" shrieked Crystal. "Sorry, I'm a little frazzled. My friends have disappeared, the leader isn't in this reality... or at least I don't think she is. She might of come because she couldn't feel our presence anymore. From what I know now, the Aluminati, with Sinister as the head, wants to break into other realities. We are here to prevent that from happening. Well, at first we thought that we were here on vacation, but Kristi had other things in mind... I've discovered that Jubilee here is a wild power. My husband is missing and I'm at my wits end." sighed Crystal as she slumped down into her chair. The holograms disappeared and the real people began to walk in and take their seats.
"Welcome to the team Crystal, Jubilee" smiled Max. "Now, let's get down to business, shall we!"
*
Kristi teleported herself out of the X-manor. She knew that the only way she was going to find anyone, was to get captured herself. Oh, how she missed Remy, his touch, his lips on hers... Snap out of it! Then, she heard a growling beside her and quickly she turned around to find.... Logan.
"Oh my God, how did you get here?" asked Kristi taken aback.
"What's this? Pay back? Send me back now!" growled Logan taking out his claws threateningly.
Kristi then got a smile on her face, "Want to help me threaten the whole world?"
Logan somewhat confused, put back with adamantium claws and sauntered over. "What for?"
"Don't worry... nothing bad is going to happen to it. But I think it's the best way to get world wide attention!" smiled Kristi sweetly.
"I can go an' pick a fight with Sabertooth!" grinned Wolverine.
"Na... I got something else planned..." smiled Kristi. She liked how Logan had adapted to her way of thinking and couldn't put away the nagging feeling that it was somehow because of her.
Anyhow, how was she going to get planet wide attention? How else would someone want to get the whole world's attention! A big grin went over her face as she teleported herself and Logan to central park and went to the nearest phone booth. She was going to threaten to blow up the entire planet!!!
"J. Johna Jamerson? I need your help." said Kristi pleasantly. Logan grinned beside her.
"Are you some kind of fruit cake?" yelled Jamerson.
"I probably am. After all, I want to announce on your t.v. station that I plan to blow up the entire planet." said Kristi with a straight face. She heard the silence at the other end. It was now time to appear in his office. With a little snap of her fingers she and Logan were sitting in front of him.
"I only need you to spread the word." said Kristi. She looked him straight into the eye. "Or I've always wondered what you would look like without a head!" Logan couldn't keep in his laughter anymore and let a guffaw of laughter fill the room.
"Mr. Jamerson, I have some fantastic pictures here for you." said someone walking through the door. Peter Parker was entering the office, because hearing laughter made him think that Mr. Jamerson was in a good mood.
"Peter, you always do come at the worst of times." muttered Kristi. "Can't you see that I'm trying to threaten him here?"
"Peter, call security!" screamed Mr. Jamerson. Logan turned his head and bounded out of the chair towards Peter.
"Peter, if you don't get your ass back in here. I will tell him everything, about you... including your little secret, perhaps even about Madame Web and Dr. Conors." yelled Kristi. She waited only for a second, before he came back in, Logan following behind him with his claws at his back. Kristi couldn't help but grin at the terrified look on Peter's face.
"Peter if you value your job get out of here quickly and call security. What does she mean Peter... your little secret?" asked Jamerson. Peter could only glare at her. Logan had taken his seat again after pulling one up for Peter. Wolverine was a man of few words.
"Peter, don't get riled up... Just sit down." said Kristi. "Now about that little five minute spot on t.v. during tonight's news, will you give it to me?" asked Kristi.
"I don't give anything to terrorists!" spat Jamerson.
"You really can't consider me a terrorist because it was a group in this reality, the Aluminati, that took my friends..." started Kristi.
Peter and Jamerson stood up quickly and both shouted in unison, "The Aluminati!!!"
"Sit down." said Logan authoritatively. They both reluctantly sat down again. Kristi was glad that Logan had been brought along, or else she wouldn't know how to control them!
"It's now headed by Sinister and he wants me and my friends to open the gateway into the other dimension." said Kristi logically. "Peter, I really admire you. You got married and still have a life after all who've been through with the Beyonder." Kristi flashed him a great big smile. Logan had no idea about what she was talkin' about, but then, when it came t'her, nothing was ever what it seemed.
Peters face was really funny, the shock on his face was definitely a Kodak moment.
"I can't find my friends and the only way I can is to get captured by whoever has them, but... I have not a clue where they are. So I need to get them whole world's attention and the rest... I don't know yet." said Kristi. In the corner of her eye, she could see Jamerson reach for a plaque on the wall. That meant that he was going to try to contact S.H.I.E.L.D. Logan noticed the movement and was getting to jump on him when Kristi flashed him an evil glare. Logan settled back down, she had it covered.
"So S.H.I.E.L.D. has built another fortress I gather... or else you wouldn't be reaching for that button." said Kristi her back turned to him. He stopped in his tracks. She could tell that Jamerson was surprised. But the most surprised was Peter Parker... he even hadn't seen him go for that button.
"Go ahead. Press the button. I dare you, bring people here to save your behind. But I tell you now, that may be a mistake!" said Kristi. He pushed the button anyway.
"You moron!" screamed Kristi. She telepathically lifted him up and stuck him in his seat. Obviously her reverse psychology didn't work! "You are going to stay there until I say so, is that clear?"
"Peter, I need to talk to you alone." said Kristi. "Logan, watch Jamerson and make sure he doesn't do anything stupid."
Peter came towards her and they went to the other side of the room, where Jamerson couldn't hear them.
"I'm not really going to blow the world up! Is everyone so dense to not see that all I need is a couple of minutes on t.v. to make sure that the Aluminati will come after me so that I can find my friends? If you have any other ideas Spiderman, then I'll welcome to them!" said Kristi.
"First off, how do you know who I am, who are you and how did you get Wolverine on your side?" he asked.
"I'm from a different reality, bub. You are only a comic character to me and my name is Kristi. Logan, I think, just came along for the ride. Quite by accident, I think." she replied. Peter kept on looking back at Jamerson and Logan. "Don't worry, Logan won't put a claw on him until I say so."
Kristi all of a sudden felt a tremor in the force field she had erected around the whole Daily Bugle building. "Oh no, S.H.I.E.L.D. is here. I need to make that broadcast now!"
"Logan watch over Jamerson. We'll be right back. If he tries anything... you know what to do" smiled Kristi before she teleported them both to the studio.
*
"Hold this camera and when I say go, press this switch and then it will be on, just hold it there until I say you can stop. Oh and Peter, thanks." said Kristi giving him a big beautiful smile.
"On! Hello, Sinister, the newly elected head of the Aluminati! Yes, I know... do you know why? You made the mistake of holding my friends, hostage. I'm here and you will not have the leader until you get me and I would really like to see you try... To this end, if you do not release them within the next two days, I, the leader of the wild powers, will proceed to destroy this reality and everyone in it. Will you have the deaths of everyone who had ever lived in this reality on your hands? You know where to find me... Okay, off." said Kristi. She could feel the sweat on her hands.
"I thought I would never see the day, when I would ever threaten a whole planet like that." murmured Kristi. Peter set down the camera and Kristi teleported them both back into Jamerson's office where Logan was playing with his claws in front of Jamerson.
"What in the hell did you two do? Where did you go?" Jamerson yelled in a huff for being held captive by a crazy X-man.
"We interrupted your usual programming!" mimicked Peter from those lousy commercials that come on when something important is about to be said, although, no one really ever gives a damn. "Where do you think we were? We were in the studio, taping live."
"Man, S.H.I.E.L.D. is really doing a hard job on me... Maybe I should just get captured, so that I can add some credibility to my story for when the Aluminati get me... After all, they must be pissed off, knowing that everyone in the world now knows about them!" snickered Kristi. Logan just smiled. "Peter, I think that I will need your help now, as the person you become at night. Will you do this for me?" Kristi gave him the sad puppy dog face.
Peter looked at her for only a second, then he had made his choice. "I will." He pulled off his shirt to reveal his Spiderman uniform underneath. He pulled the mask from his pocket and put it on. "Let's go kick some Aluminati ass!" Logan stared at Peter, HE was spiderman.
"Good t'have ya on the team, bub." smiled Logan.
"Uh thanks, I think." said Peter uneasily remembering the last time he had gotten into a fight with him.
"PARKER! I always knew that there was something fishy about you! Now, I have you! Everyone will know who you are. You will never work in this town again, hell, this world again!!!" shouted Jamerson, unable to contain his rage.
"Peter, you can come to my reality, with me and my friends. You can visit here when you want and you can bring Mary Jane." smiled Kristi, happy at his decision. Kristi let down the force field, even though, it was still up and strong. Within the next minute and a half, they were surrounded by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. After they were secured, Kristi was surprised to see the head of S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury.
"Take them away!" he ordered. "Take special care of that one." Pointing to Wolverine, two more men joined his armed escort. Logan knew that she had something up her sleeve and that was the only reason he wasn't breaking loose, killing all who laid in his path.
"Wow!" said Kristi is awe. "It's really Nick Fury. Although, he really does look better in the cartoon."
"What cartoon? Halt!" shouted Fury running after them. Everyone stopped while Fury finally caught up with them.
"What did you say?" demanded Fury. Kristi could see the laughter in Logan's eyes. At least he wasn't being mean anymore, well, at least to her.
"Uh. Nothing. Hey, Peter... How long do you think it will be until the Aluminati get a hold of us?" asked Kristi turning her attention to Peter. Furry strode up to her ready to strike her for her impudence, but only hit her force field. Therefore, he went flying to the ground.
"Oops! That was my fault. Are you okay Fury?" asked Kristi returning her attention to the moderately good looking man on the ground with an eye patch. Logan gave a stifled chuckle. No guards had the gall to hit him for it.
"Just peachy." Fury muttered as he motioned the agents to take them away.
"Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! I've been on one of these before!" said Peter eagerly like a little child at Christmas. They were pushed into one of those cars that can change into those planes to get people to and from their headquarters.