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Earth-11052, New York, New York, Warehouse District 5, October 8, Friday 3:00pm
A large gang wearing blue suits, white Chinese demon masks, and were carrying katanas, dao swords, gun staffs, nunchucks, and sub-machine guns were in the warehouse awaiting the arrival of their guests.
“Wonder what’s taking so long,” a Gang Member asked
“They’ll be here, if they want to get paid,” their leader said
Just then the two heard engines, they turned around and saw some trucks driving over to the warehouse. Once the trucks were inside the warehouse two of the gang members closed the warehouse doors for more privacy.
The leader walked to the front of the lead truck. The doors to the trucks opened and out came the A.I.M. scientists, there had to be about twenty A.I.M. scientists total, ten members coming from each truck. The driver of the first truck looked at one of the A.I.M. soldiers, “Join the lookout, I don’t want any interruptions,” the driver of the lead truck which the gang leader took as the leader of the group said.
“Yes sir,” the first A.I.M. goon said, as he turned around and gave the soldiers their orders. Once the orders were given, he and the other soldiers went to carry them out.
The leader took that moment to approach the A.I.M. scientist. “You’re the one in charge,” the scientist stated
“Mr. Negative couldn’t be here today, he had other matters to attend to. I am here in his stead. Do you have our equipment,” the leader said
“Of course, we do,” the scientist said gesturing to one of the soldiers to open the truck to reveal crates inside.
Meanwhile
Outside the warehouse, the three A.I.M. soldiers and two gang members were looking out the area keeping a constant vigil. Ready to report to their superiors if they see anything suspicious. What they never thought to do was look up because if they did then they would have seen something flying down at them at a fast speed and knocking them out.
Inside the warehouse, one of the A.I.M. soldiers was walking in an alleyway created by crates holding his gun keeping a watchful eye for anything suspicious. A noise was heard behind him, he quickly turned around pointing his blaster but saw no one. "Nothing," the soldier said, what he didn't know was that there was a figure with glowing yellow eyes standing behind him. Once he turned around and saw the figure it was too late because like a predator does to its prey, the figure pounced. The soldier couldn't even scream.
Back at the Arms Deal, the A.I.M. soldiers rolled the crates out of the truck and in front of the Gang Leader and A.I.M. scientist. The scientist opened the crate showing blasters inside. "Take a look," the head scientist said showing the leader the blasters. The scientist reaches in and takes out a blaster, "Top of the line blaster, one blast from this can destroy a semi-truck," the scientist said motioning for a soldier to grab one. The soldier did so, aimed it at the nearest vehicle, a forklift and fired it making it blowup on impact.
Then, in another area of the Warehouse, a gang member was walking around keeping vigil, unknown to him, someone quietly lands behind him. The mystery figure clenches his fist, and it glows with aura, then the figure strikes.
At another point, an A.I.M. soldier is walking in a hallway of crates; he turns right only to run into something solid. The soldier couldn't look up because everything turned black after that.
All the while, the scientist leads the leader and another member to another crate and opens it. The scientist then reached in and took out a katana-like blade. "This blade can cut through solid steel and is electrically charged with 25,000 volts of electricity," the scientist said as he gave the blade to gang member who wanted to test it out. "To activate the blade, you push a button on the hilt," the scientist said. The gang member pressed the button and the sword got all charged up, you could see the electricity coursing through it. The gang member swung the blade on a piece of metal that was once part of the forklift cutting through it like butter. Under the mask the gang member smiled in satisfaction.
In another part of the warehouse, the other two guards were together, they were walking keeping a look out for anything. Suddenly two strands of web come down from the ceiling each one attaching to a soldier. Before the soldiers could do anything, they were pulled up to the ceiling.
As it was happening, the scientist opened the third and final crate, and took out another gun, "These are sonic guns, the frequency to these is set that one blast from this and-," the scientist said as he handed the gun to a soldier who demonstrated them to the gang by blasting a crate destroying it on impact. The scientist looks at the leader, "So, what do you think?"
“I think with these we’ll take over the criminal underworld in no time,” the leader said
“I think that is all we needed to hear,” A voice called out getting everyone’s attention.
“Who’s there, show yourself,” the leader demanded
“Only if you say please,” the voice said, a figure then drops down onto the crates and is shown to be the Ultimate Spider-Man, “Just kidding.”
“What,” an A.I.M. scientist exclaimed
“SPIDER-MAN,” a Gang Member called outraged
“Hey what about us,” Another voice said, a figure is shown landing to Spider-Man’s right. The figure is shown to be Nova, “Don’t we get any love,” Nova said
Another figure lands to Spider-Man’s left, “What are we chopped liver,” Power Man asked
“Heard there was a party,” White Tiger said as she lands next to Nova, “Mind if we crash?”
“I believe we already crashed it,” Iron Fist said as he lands next to Power Man.
“Impossible! How did they get in here,” the scientist said he then tried to contact the guards, “Guards! Is anyone there,” the scientist tried but got nothing.
“Save your breath. They won’t answer,” Power Man said
“Yeah, because when the five of us party, we party hard. Guards couldn’t take it sadly both inside and outside,” Nova said
“You realize that we can’t let any of you leave here right,” Spider-Man said finally getting straight to the point.
“You don’t know who you’re dealing with,” one of the Gang Members said
“They get some new weapons, and the villains think they’re invincible,” Spider-Man comments
“Villains really do get cocky easily both regular and super,” Iron Fist responds
“Which is weird considering they wind up losing the majority of the time,” White Tiger adds in
“I have an idea, let’s try a field test,” the leader said as he grabbed a blaster and pointed it at Spider-Man and his team.
“Alright team if that’s how they want it, let’s party,” Spider-Man said, with that the team of superheroes jumped down and attacked right when blaster fire rained down on them.
When Spider-Man landed on the ground he started dodging blaster fire, “Missed,” the wall-crawler exclaimed, he then shot his webs at two of the A.I.M. soldiers and swung them into three soldiers taking them down, Spider-Man then heard engines start up, “Power Man, Iron Fist keep the trucks from leaving,” Spider-Man ordered.
“Right,” Power Man and Iron Fist shouted as they moved to do their jobs.
Spider-Man’s spider-sense goes off and does a backbend keeping himself from being beheaded, “WHOA,” he exclaimed, Spider-Man looked to see his attacker and saw a gang member with one of the swords approach. “Hey watch it. I need this head for tonight.”
The gang member growled and charged Spider-Man trying a second attempt at the wall crawler’s life.
Nova is flying around in the air dodging sonic blasts, “Is that all you got? I expected better,” Nova said as he dodged another blast, he then blasted three AIM soldiers.
The trucks are trying to take advantage of the chaos and leave unfortunately for them Power Man gets in front of the first truck. The driver floors the truck intent on making the superhero roadkill. That unfortunately for the A.I.M. soldier and his companion didn’t happen. What did happen was Power Man putting his hands in front of him and stopping the truck in its tracks. The sudden stop made both soldiers hit their heads against the dashboard knocking them out.
“Hm,” Power Man said, confident that the truck wasn’t going anywhere; he got back into the fight.
The truck with the lead scientist in it was heading outside the warehouse. From out of nowhere, Iron Fist jumps on the hood of the truck, “I would advise for you to stop,” Iron Fist shouted, the only response he got was the soldier in the passenger side aim his blaster and fired. Iron Fist dodged the blast, “Fine have it your way.” Iron Fist’s fist glowed, he then punched through the hood of the truck right through the engine destroying it. Iron Fist then jumped off the truck as it lost control and wrecked in some crates. Satisfied with his work Iron Fist went back in the fight.
White Tiger ducked a swing from the electro sword and punched the thug. Five members then show up, two with blasters and three with electro swords. The two with the blasters tries to blast her with their sonic guns but White Tiger dodges the blasts by jumping in the air. Once she lands White Tiger runs to the members and cuts their blasters in half with her claws. She then kicks the second thug in the stomach, thrusts her palm in third thug’s cheek knocking him to the floor.
“You know, you really should give up,” White Tiger advises
In response, the fourth thug swings his sword diagonal right at White Tiger who dodges it. White Tiger then punches him in the face and kicks him hard in the stomach sending him down on the ground. White Tiger then moves on to the other two gang members, she ducks a swing from fifth thug, elbows another thug, kicks the previous one in the face, dodges a swing from other one, scratches at his face destroying the mask and then punches him to the ground.
Spider-Man is jumping around dodging blast after blast using his spider-sense to his full advantage. When he lands, he webs two gang members and throws them to a group of gang members coming his way. “STRIKE! Now why didn’t I have that kind of aim during bowling,” Spider-Man said, his spider-sense then goes off, he jumps up and backflips dodging a sword, landing on the wall in his classic pose Spider-Man looks and sees a gang member with an electro sword with more members behind him, “Not cool!” Spider-Man shoots a web at the crate behind the gang members pulls it and the crate runs over the gang members. Just when he thought he was in the clear Spider-Man sees more gang members approaching, ‘I don’t have time for this I have to get ready,’ he thought
Nova was flying around dodging blasts that were being fired at him, “Whoa,” Nova said as he dodged a blast, “Missed me, but I am not gonna miss you.” Nova then blasted the ground near a group of thugs knocking them down. However, one thug got in the way of the powerful blast and got his arm incinerated.
“AHHHHHHHHHH,” The thugs screamed in pain stopping everyone in their tracks.
“Holy shit,” Power Man said as he saw the man hold the place where his arm use to be.
“NOVA, WHAT THE HELL,” Spider-Man said in shock
“I-I didn’t mean it I swear! I wasn’t even trying to blast him; I was trying to blast the floor near him to knock him down! It’s not my fault the guy moved in front of the blast,” Nova said frantic
“Not your fault?! You just incinerated a guys arm,” White Tiger said in shock, before more could be said, Iron Fist stepped in.
“Um guys? You might want to take a look at this,” Iron Fist said as he pointed to the thug.
Everyone looked at the thug whose arm Nova just incinerated, only to see much to their shock it regrowing. The process was a slow and gross process that left the young heroes with looks of disgust on their faces.
“What. The. Hell,” Power Man said
“Oh. My. God,” White Tiger said
“I don’t even know how to react to that,” Iron Fist said
“I have no words,” Spider-Man said
“Guys I-I think I’m gonna hurl,” Nova said, covering his mouth with his hand, trying to keep himself from throwing up.
Once the guy’s arm was fully regrown, he looked straight at Nova, and even through the mask they knew he was glaring at the member of the Nova Corp.
“Um would it help if a said sorry,” Nova asked nervously, the thug’s response was aiming his blaster and firing at Nova followed by the rest, “I guess not.” Nova and his team then started dodging the blasts again and went back to fighting.
“Thanks a lot, Buckethead! Now they’re trying twice as hard to kill us,” Spider-Man said
“I said I was sorry! Anyways what do you guys think of the Young Avengers,” Nova asked his friends, trying to move on from what happened by offering up a team name.
“I’m already part of the Avengers,” Spider-Man said as he punched a thug, “How does it make sense that I’m part of the Young Avengers?”
“Well, we’re not,” Nova responded to Spider-Man as he blasted another thug, “What do you guys think,” Nova asked the rest of the team.
Power Man dodges a sword swipe, grabs the thug, punches him in the face breaking his mask then throws him into five others, “Sounds like a lawsuit if you ask me,” Power Man said
“So, we’re just gonna move on from the fact that Nova just incinerated a guy’s arms,” White Tiger asked only to get a sheepish look from Nova, a ‘What can you do’ shrug from Spider-Man, a ‘I don’t give a damn’ gesture from Power Man, and a ‘We’ll talk about it later’ look from Iron Fist, White Tiger sighs, “We wouldn’t last a day in court with the Avengers, not with how many lawyers Iron Man has,” White Tiger said as she kicked two more thugs.
Iron Fist punches one thug in the face, thrusts his palm in another’s face, elbows one thug in the stomach, and then jumps in the air and kicks down two thugs. “Corporate lawyers are vicious,” Iron Fist speaks from experience.
“Spidey has it in with Iron Man though, he wouldn’t sue us. Would he,” Nova asked as they regrouped. He got silence in return, “Ok, what about the Champions?”
“What are we the Champions of,” Power Man asked
“Of the world man, we’ve saved the world plenty of times. I think we deserve to be known as its champions,” Nova said
“So has the Avengers,” Iron Fist said
“And the Fantastic Four,” White Tiger said
“Not to mention the X-Men just saved the world two months ago,” Spider-Man said
“Ok, I get it. I still think Champions is a good name. Either that or Defenders,” Nova said
“Defenders is lame man,” Power Man said
“More bad guys 3:00,” Iron Fist said causing them all to turn to see more men appear.
Spider-Man sighed, “I wonder if Kitty is having this much trouble,” he said
Meanwhile, with the X-Men
Shadowcat is shown hitting the ground, “Ow,” she said while Nightcrawler then teleports right next to her.
“Are you ok Kitty,” Nightcrawler asked
“Yeah, I’m good,” Shadowcat said as she and Nightcrawler look at the situation before them.
A muscular man with four arms was wrecking the city. He picked up a car and threw it at Cyclops who blasts it with his optic-blast, destroying it. Using her telekinesis, Jean-X picks up a car herself and throws it at the four-armed man who punches it in the direction of Shadowcat and Nightcrawler. The two prepare to dodge, but the car is stopped by a blast of ice courtesy of Iceman who comes sliding next to them, "Have no fear, Iceman is here!" Iceman said
“Thanks Bobby,” Shadowcat said as she gets up.
"Anything for you, beautiful" Iceman said flirtatiously making Nightcrawler roll his eyes. Shadowcat however paid no attention to the flirting as she went back to the situation at hand.
“You think you can beat Fourarms! No one is stronger than Fourarms, I am the strongest and they will pay for what they’ve done,” Fourarms yells in rage as he picks up a car and throws it at Rogue-X who rolls underneath it.
“Fourarms? That guys gonna get sued for copyrights,” Shadowcat said as she ran up to Cyclops who fires a high-powered beam at Fourarms sending him crashing in a building.
Fourarms gets up from the rubble looking pissed, he picks up the biggest piece of rubble and tosses it at the group. Jean-X however stops the rubble and throws it right back at him. When it’s close enough Fourarms punches the rubble destroying it.
“This isn’t working, we need a new plan,” Jean-X said as she regrouped with Cyclops and Shadowcat.
“I got a plan for ya,” Iceman says as he slides over to Fourarms, “Turn him into a popsicle,” with that Iceman shoots ice at the mutant. Fourarms crosses his upper two arms to defend. Using Iceman as a distraction Nightcrawler teleports Rogue-X above Fourarms and teleports away letting Rogue-X drop. She lands on Fourarms back surprising him.
“Don’t worry this will only hurt a little bit,” Rogue-X said, she then took off her glove and touches Fourarms cheek making the mutant scream in pain. The mutant thrashes in pain trying to throw Rogue-X off; finally, Fourarms was able to grab Rogue-X with his lower right arm and threw her away making her hit the street.
“Rogue, you ok,” Shadowcat asked looking at her friend to see if she was alright.
“Yeah,” Rogue-X said as she grunts in pain, she then screams in pain as two lower arms grow from her body ripping two holes in her uniform. Rogue-X then gets up, “Aah’m faahn.”
“Ew,” Kitty said as she saw the limbs grow.
Ignoring her friend right now Rogue-X charged the mutant and punched him in the face making him skid five feet. Fourarms looks at Rogue-X in surprise that she now has his powers. “That’s right buddy, you’re not the only one with two extra limbs now,” Rogue-X said, “Though Aah wish he was,” she muttered to herself.
Fourarms just gets angry, “So the goth bitch thinks that she can copy me? NO ONE CAN COPY FOURARMS! NO ONE IS STRONGER THAN FOURARMS,” Fourarms said as he and Rogue-X charge each other.
“And he’s back to talking in the third person. What is with this guy anyway,” Shadowcat asked wondering why the heck this guy is even wreaking havoc in the first place.
“Jeffery Stephens, before he got his mutant powers, he was a wrestler. When he got them though, he dropped out of school and went into underground fighting. After intentionally snapping a guy’s neck he was banned,” Jean-X informed
“And he takes his anger out on everyone else. That’s mature,” Shadowcat commented rolling her eyes.
Rogue-X is throwing punches at Fourarms using Logan’s hand-to-hand combat training, however Fourarms has been fighting longer than she has with extra limbs and he was able to block or dodge the punches.
“We need to take him down before he wrecks anymore of the city,” Cyclops said
“Easier said zan done, vee’fe been at zis for an hour and he’s still going. At zis rate vee’ll be here all day,” Nightcrawler said
‘I can’t be here all day, I have a date to prepare for,’ Shadowcat thought, afraid that she’ll miss her first date. “How about we restrain him and when he’s defenseless we hit him all at once and take him out,” Shadowcat offered
Cyclops nodded, “Sounds good,” he said, Cyclops then looked at his girlfriend, “Jean relay the plan to everyone.”
Jean-X nodded and used her powers to tell everyone the plan.
Rogue-X was in a grapple match with Fourarms, both are pushing with all their strength, but Rogue-X could feel the powers starting to wear off.
“Rogue move,” Shadowcat yelled
Doing as she is told Rogue-X lets go of Fourarms and moves right in time for the mutant man to get a flying kick in the face thanks to Shadowcat.
“How do you like that,” Shadowcat said when she landed behind the man.
Fourarms turned around to face the girl who would dare to kick him like that only to see that she is gone. Just then Fourarms is hit with flying icicles courtesy of Iceman, “Ehhhh,” Fourarms groans
“If you can’t take the cold then move to Hawaii,” Iceman said as he fires continuous icicles at Fourarms. Iceman’s icicles are then replaced with Cyclops’s optic-blasts which hit Fourarms in the chest causing him more pain.
As Cyclops blasts Fourarms, Jean-X uses her telekinesis to pick up two big pieces of rubble, she then slams them on both sides of Fourarms stunning him. Nightcrawler, holding a pipe, teleports in front of Fourarms, “Hi! Batter up,” Nightcrawler said as he swings the pipe hitting Fourarms across the face, Nightcrawler then teleports away.
“HEY,” Rogue-X said getting Fourarms attention, she charges and punches Fourarms across the face making the former underground fighter start to back away.
“Now Kitty,” Cyclops calls
“On it,” Shadowcat said as she phased from the ground, taking advantage of Fourarms dazed state Shadowcat grabs the mutant by the legs and sinks him through the ground. Before he realized what happened Fourarms was phased through the road. His arms trapped and unable to move.
“GET ME OUT OF HERE YOU X-BASTARDS,” Fourarms said
“TAKE HIM OUT,” Cyclops orders
With that command Rogue-X started off, using the last of her powers Rogue-X punches Fourarms in the face, Nightcrawler then teleports in and gives the man a kick to the face himself, Iceman then blasts him with ice, Jean-X then slams a car on Fourarms which Cyclops makes explode on him by blasting the gas tank. When the smoke settled there was Fourarms still there now thoroughly beaten up but still awake and with something to say, “You think you can beat Fourarms? No one can beat Fourarms… FOURARMS IS THE STRONGEST THERE IS,” Fourarms said, he then notices someone step in front of him looking up he sees Shadowcat standing there looking down on him.
“Newsflash, that line belongs to the Hulk,” Shadowcat said, she then kicks Fourarms in the face knocking him out. Shadowcat then turns around and walks to her friends who gathered together.
Cyclops sighed in relief, “Finally,” he said, Cyclops then feels a hand on his shoulder, he turns to see Jean-X there giving him a loving smile which he returns.
“So are we waiting for the police, or can we go,” Shadowcat asked feeling a little anxious, she really needs to get back to the institute. She still hasn’t figured out what she was gonna wear.
On que the X-Men hear sirens of police cruisers, ambulances, and firetrucks arriving on the scene. “Ok team, let’s go home,” Cyclops said, with that the X-Men left the scene and headed to the Blackbird to head back to the institute.
Aboard the Blackbird
As the X-Men enter the Blackbird. Cyclops and Jean-X head up front to the cockpit while Nightcrawler, Rogue-X, Shadowcat, and Iceman stay in the back. They all take their seats and strap in. Cyclops then starts the plane and takes off.
“Zat vas intense,” Nightcrawler comments
“Hahd tuh believe that a guy with four ahms could be so difficult,” Rogue-X said as she leans her back on her seat.
“Four arms, super strength, and increased durability,” Jean-X adds in
“He was difficult to handle alright. But we were able to beat him and with six of us. No Wolverine, no Storm, no Beast, I think we’re proving that the six of us can handle missions while they stay at the institute with the other students,” Cyclops said
“Logan will join missions eithah way. Keepin him at the institute is laahk not breathin, it just won’t happen,” Rogue-X said
“She’s got a point,” Jean-X said, she then turns her head to look at Shadowcat, “Who we really gotta hand it to is Kitty for coming up with the plan on restraining him so we could take him out.”
“It was nothing, not even a plan just a suggestion,” Shadowcat said, ‘I’m just glad to be heading back hopefully I’ll have enough time to do everything.’
“Not to mention zat last kick vas pretty cool Kitty,” Nightcrawler said, referring to when Shadowcat gave the final hit to Fourarms knocking him unconscious.
“It was really hot,” Iceman said giving Shadowcat his best charming smile. He thought about how Kitty simply walked away from Fourarms after kicking him unconscious. It was one of the hottest things that he has seen her do. He always liked Kitty, thought she was one of the hottest girls at the institute, he never tried anything because she seemed interested in Lance, but now that she dumped him, Bobby hopes maybe he could have a chance to sweep Kitty off her feet.
“Oh brothah,” Rogue-X said annoyed
Shadowcat however didn’t hear what Iceman said, she was lost in thought of what was happening tonight. She really hoped that they got to the institute in time, she has so much to do, she has to shower because there is no way that she is going on a date covered in sweat and dirt. She then has to pick a dress because Peter is taking her to someplace nice, then there’s her hair, should she let it down or keep it a ponytail. If down, should she wave it or curl it, that’s something she hasn’t done in a long time. If a ponytail, should it be high like usual or should she lower it, she hasn’t done that in a longtime either. Then there’s her makeup, she needs to figure out what lipstick to wear, eyeshadow, blush. She has a lot to do and not a lot of time.
“Hey Kits, you there,” Rogue-X said breaking Shadowcat out of her thoughts.
“Heh, oh thanks Bobby,” Shadowcat said, not realizing what she was thanking him for.
“You ok Kitty,” Rogue-X asked curiously, her friend has been distracted lately. All week actually, ever since last Friday Kitty seemed to have something on her mind.
“Yeah, just have some things on my mind is all,” Shadowcat said
“It’s not about,” Rogue-X asked hinting towards Lance. She was still feeling guilty for bringing up Lance last week. She may act like she doesn’t care at times, but Rogue does care about her friends especially Kitty who happens to be her best friend, though Rogue will never admit it out loud.
Shadowcat got it immediately, “No Rogue, it’s not about Lance. Don’t worry about it,” she reassured her friend. Kitty does have to wonder whatever happened to the Brotherhood though. The last time they checked their house which was earlier this week, the Brotherhood was gone with all their things. They most likely scrammed, after their last attack a few weeks back, the police would surely have come to their house to try and apprehend them. Kitty’s sure they’re with Magneto somewhere doing his bidding and following his orders like a bunch of dogs to their master. Oh well it’s no longer Kitty’s concern, Lance is no longer Kitty’s concern, if he wants to go with Magneto then he can go right ahead. Besides Kitty has Peter now, she’s happy, and she’s really looking forward to their date tonight. ‘If I can get there,’ she thought.
Back in New York
Sounds of fighting are heard echoing through the warehouse. Lying beaten on the ground were thugs and A.I.M. scientists all covered in webbing, scratch marks, bruises, and blast marks, all courtesy of Spider-Man and his team who were still doing their merry work.
“The Justice Society,” Nova offered as he grabbed two thugs flew up in the air and dropped them on the ground.
“No,” White Tiger said as she scratched two men on their chests then kicked them down.
“Heroes for Hire,” Nova said as he blasted a thug sending him five feet on the ground.
“Lame,” Power Man said as he grabbed a thug and threw him in a group of thugs knocking them down like a baseball to a stack of milk bottles.
“The Revengers,” Nova said
“Not a chance,” Iron Fist said as he kicked three thugs, and punched two more to the ground.
“The Superhero Squad,” Nova said
“Don’t even think about it,” Spider-Man said as he webbed the last six thugs together, immobilizing them.
“Come on guys we need a name and I’m out of ideas,” Nova complained as he landed next to his regrouping friends. Spider-Man, White Tiger, Iron Fist, and Power Man all looked at each other and sighed, they were never gonna hear the end of this until a name was chosen.
“How about Ultimates,” Spider-Man offered to his teammates.
“Ultimates,” White Tiger, Iron Fist, Power Man, and Nova said intrigued.
“Wait did you just choose that because you’re the Ultimate Spider-Man,” Nova asked wondering if this was a way for Spider-Man to boost his ego. He really didn’t need to be using a name that would give his friend a big head.
“If you need to know, Tony told me that before they went by the Avengers that the team put some consideration in being known as the Ultimates. The name has no claim on it, so it’s free to use,” Spider-Man said
“Heh,” Power Man said
“It’s just a suggestion, if you guys have any other ideas,” Spider-Man said
“Actually, I like it,” White Tiger said
“Better than Superhero Squad,” Power Man said
“It’s an excellent name,” Iron Fist said
“Hmm, Ultimates,” Nova said as if testing it out, “Yeah sounds cool,” Nova agreed
“Alright from this day forth we’re the Ultimates and now that that’s settled, let’s contact S.H.I.E.L.D.,” Spider-Man said, he then reached into a hidden compartment in his suit and pulled out a communicator, “Ultimates to Heli-Carrier, come in. Do you read me?”
“Loud and clear Spider-Man. Is the situation neutralized,” Colson asked
“Yep, intel was right, A.I.M.’s been selling weapons to the gangs. The Ultimates were able to put a stop to the buy and are now waiting for you to pick these guys up,” Spider-Man said
“Understood, on our way, also glad that your team chose a name, the Ultimates, wonder how the Avengers will react when they find out,” Colson said laughing a bit.
“Guess we’ll find out when they do, Spider-Man out,” Spider-Man said, he then cut off communication. He then looked at his team, “S.H.I.E.L.D. is on their way to pick these guys up. I need to head out. Think you guys can handle the rest from here?”
“Head out? Where are you going,” White Tiger asked curiously, where could Spider-Man be going that was more important than making sure that these thugs and A.I.M. scientists were locked away.
Spider-Man took a minute to think about his response. How should he answer the question? He’ll just go with a generic answer, hopefully they don’t expect anything. He really wasn’t in the mood for any teasing especially now that he has to get ready, “I’m meeting a friend and if I don’t leave now, I’m gonna be late,” Spider-Man said
“Who are you meeting,” Nova asked
“An old friend,” Spider-Man said trying to be as vague as possible.
“Who,” Nova asked
“Now that my dear Buckethead would be telling,” Spider-Man said
“But,” Nova tried to question further but was interrupted by Iron Fist who put his hand up telling Nova to stop.
“Sure Spider-Man, we’ll handle things from here,” Iron Fist said
“Thanks guys, I’ll catch you later,” Spider-Man said, he shot a web and swung out of the warehouse, heading to his home to get ready for his date.
Forest Hills, Parker Residence
Spider-Man swings to his house and at his window, he opens his window and crawls through, entering his room. Once he climbs inside, Spider-Man enters his dark room and closes his window, he then takes off his mask and lets out a breath in relief, “Finally,” Peter said, the lights then turn on getting Peter’s attention, he turns to see his Aunt May at the door looking at him with a raised eyebrow. “Aunt May, I…,” Peter said
“Cutting it close Peter, now go and get showered, you need to get ready,” May said
“Right, on my way,” Peter said as he threw his Spider-Man mask on his bed and headed to the bathroom toward the shower.
“And put your costume in the hamper so I can wash it,” May called out to her nephew, “No need for you to go out in a filthy costume on your next patrol.”
“Ok Aunt May,” Peter called from the bathroom.
Bayville, Westchester County, Xavier Institute, Kitty and Rogue’s room
Kitty who was in a pink robe, hair wet from the shower that she took was looking through her closet, trying to find the perfect dress for her date. Problem was she had three dresses and she wasn’t sure if they were fit for the task at hand. “What do you think,” Kitty asks as she turns around and shows a waist hugging red spaghetti strap dress that flows loosely down stopping just an inch above her knees.
“That’s cute,” came the voice of Kitty’s mother Rebecca Pryde from the computer, Kitty currently has her on Skype. Kitty called her mother to help her pick out what to wear for her date. Right now, it was just them in the room. When the X-Men arrived at the institute they had all gone their separate ways. Scott and Jean were on a date, Kurt went to see Amanda, Bobby went to hang out with the New Mutants, and Rogue is, well Kitty really doesn’t know, she isn’t in the mansion she knows that much.
“I want more than cute,” Kitty said as she threw the dress on her bed and took out a navy dress with a heart shape neckline, the dress stopping just an inch below her knees, “How about this one?”
“That’s nice,” Rebecca said
“Only nice,” Kitty said, she then threw the navy dress on top of the red dress, “Ok, this is my last one,” Kitty said as she took out a black v-neck dress that would hug Kitty’s figure that stopped an inch above her knees, “What do you think?”
“I like it,” Rebecca said
“MOM,” Kitty said frustrated with her mother’s responses.
“What,” Rebecca said
“Cute, nice, like, that’s not enough! I want to look good mom, like not friend good, girlfriend good,” Kitty said, this is important, she doesn’t want to wear any ordinary dress, she can’t dress like she’s meeting a friend. She has a date with her boyfriend, and she wants to look like she has a date with her boyfriend and that means that she wants to look her best. She wants to make Peter’s eyes pop out. Cute, nice, like, those aren’t eye popping words. Those are words that a friend would tell a friend, not what a boyfriend would tell his girlfriend at least not on this kind of date.
“Kitty you are his girlfriend,” Rebecca told her daughter.
“I just want to look my best,” Kitty said, she was uncertain; were these dresses good enough? Will Peter like her in any of them? What if he doesn’t like them? All these thoughts had been running through her head since she started looking.
“You look beautiful in all of those dresses Kitty and I know whichever you wear, you’ll knock Peter’s socks off,” Rebecca reassured her daughter, she can tell that Kitty is nervous, but everything will be fine. Rebecca knew everything was gonna go fine because she’s seen how Peter has looked at Kitty. He looks at her as if she’s the most beautiful being in existence. All these dresses, he will love them on her. Of course, she may give him a heart attack if she wears the black one.
“You think so,” Kitty asked, she really wants to do that, wants to make sure that she is the only thing that Peter has his eyes on tonight. If she can do that then she will be very happy.
Rebecca nods, “I know so,” she reassured
“I’m just nervous Mom, I mean I still can’t believe this is happening, I’m going on a date with Peter, Peter Parker, my best friend. I just want everything to be perfect. I don’t want anything to ruin this night,” Kitty confessed, this was her first date with Peter, she has been waiting a long time for this night. Nothing can go wrong tonight.
“Nothing will Kitty, tonight you will go out to dinner with Peter, you’re gonna talk, joke, laugh, and your gonna have fun. Not too much fun though, try to keep everything rated G shall we,” Rebecca said
“Rated G? Why not rated PG-13 or TV-14,” Kitty quipped
“At least nothing rated R, I don’t need to be a grandma yet,” Rebecca joked
“Mom,” Kitty said blushing a little at the implication.
“Hey, I know he’s the main subject of certain dreams that we will never mention to your father. If by some chance though and you can’t help it use protection,” Rebecca said
“MOM,” Kitty said face completely red of embarrassment.
Rebecca laughed, “I’m done, I swear,” she said
Kitty sighed, “So which one,” Kitty asked getting back to the dresses.
“The red one,” Rebecca said
Kitty picked up the red dress and puts it on, she looked herself in the mirror and smiled, “Definitely, now on to next line of business,” Kitty said turning to her mother, “My hair, should I put it down and if I do, should I curl it, wave it, keep it straight, or maybe put it in a ponytail, but if I do that should it be high or low,” Kitty asked, she had so much to do.
Parker Residence
Peter was in his room standing in front of a mirror, he is currently wearing a crimson long-sleeved collared shirt, overtop of it was an open black blazer with black dress pants. He looks dressed to impress but considering the uncertain look on his face he isn’t sure about it, “What do you think,” Peter asks as he turns around to his Aunt May to show her.
“I think you look very handsome Peter,” Aunt May said as she looked at her nephew.
“You think? I’m not so sure,” Peter said uncertainly
“Well, we still have a few more clothes to try so let’s see what we can come up with,” May said
Peter smiled, they then dug through some of Peter’s clothes and now Peter is wearing a white collared shirt with a black tie, black dress pants, and black shoes.
“That looks nice,” May said in approval as she observed Peter.
“I want more that nice Aunt May,” Peter said sighing, he knew picking something to wear for his date with Kitty would be a challenge, but he didn’t know it would be this hard. He’s been trying on outfits for the past 45 minutes.
May smiled sympathetically at her nephew, “Peter, you shouldn’t worry so much. I’m sure whatever you wear Kitty will love it,” she said, May knows how much this date means to Peter, he’s been waiting years to do this, make Kitty his girlfriend, take her on a date. Frankly, May’s been waiting years for this as well, not to mention Rebecca and Carmen. May, Ben, Rebecca, and Carmen all noticed how Peter and Kitty’s relationship changed over the years. How they started as friends to gaining feelings for each other, they probably saw it before Peter and Kitty knew about their own feelings. It was the small things, the fond looks, the wide smiles when the other was mentioned, how happy they were when they were in each other’s presence, the blushing. Yes, the signs were there, and May and Rebecca were happy about it, Ben was proud, and Carmen well he didn’t want to see his little girl grow-up, but he supposed that if he had to choose a boy to take care of his daughter then Peter was the perfect choice.
May has waited years to see this day and now it’s finally here. Now all she has to do is convince her nervous nephew on what to wear, because really all this effort will be for nothing if Peter’s late. May looked at the clothes that were laid out in front of her and smiled, “I have the perfect outfit,” she said getting Peter’s attention.
“You do,” Peter asked
May nodded, she grabbed the clothes and handed them to Peter, “Put these on,” May said
Peter doing what his aunt says goes to put the chosen clothes on. When he comes back in the room, he is now wearing a dark green buttoned up collared shirt with black chinos styled pants. “I don’t know,” Peter said as he looked himself in the mirror.
“It’s not complete, put the blazer on,” May said
Peter does as his aunt says and puts the black blazer on but keeps it open. “I guess I look good,” Peter said
“You look handsome Peter, Kitty will love it,” May said
“You think,” Peter asks his aunt.
“I do, this is the outfit,” May said
Peter sighed, “Ok, I guess I’ll go with this one,” he said finally making his choice.
“Good, now let’s do a checklist, reservations,” May said
“Check,” Peter said
“Wallet,” May said
Peter grabbed his wallet from his desk, “Check.”
“Money inside wallet,” May said
Peter looked in his wallet, “Check,” he said putting his wallet in his pocket.
“Shoes,” May said
“Check,” Peter said as he put on his black shoes, “I better get going,” Peter then started to leave.
“Peter,” May called out
“What,” Peter said turning around.
May grabbed a set of keys from Peter’s dresser, “Keys,” she said tossing the car keys at Peter who caught them.
“Thanks Aunt May. I’ll see you later,” Peter said with that he ran off and left the house.
Xavier Institute, Kitty and Rogue’s Room
Kitty was sitting in front of a mirror putting the last of her make up on. When she was satisfied Kitty turned around to show her mother, “What do you think,” she asked
Kitty was now wearing her red dress, had a pair of high heels, she had on some red lipstick, light eyeshadow, some blush to color up her face a little, she also decided to put her hair down for the occasion and have one noticeable curl.
“Kitty,” Rebecca said as she looked at her daughter, she really wasn’t a child anymore, no Kitty was now a young woman and Rebecca is now noticing it.
“What? Do I not look good,” Kitty asked nervously.
“You look gorgeous honey, absolutely gorgeous,” Rebecca told her daughter.
Kitty smiled, “Thanks Mom,” she said, Kitty then looked at the clock, it was 5:50 pm, she has ten minutes to meet Peter, that should give her enough time to head downstairs and to their meeting place. They decided that Peter wouldn’t pick Kitty up at the institute, Kitty really didn’t want the others to know just yet, the bombardment of questions she’d be answering. Kitty just wants Peter to herself until the others start to get involved. Peter was ok with that; he really wasn’t in a hurry to deal with any teasing from his friends. Harry’s been doing enough of that, “I guess it’s time to go.”
“Good luck Kitty and have fun,” Rebecca said
“I will, I’ll let you know how it goes,” Kitty said
“Bye sweetheart,” Rebecca said
“Bye,” Kitty said, with that the Skype call ended and Kitty shut down her computer. Kitty then left her room and headed downstairs.
Downstairs Foyer
Kitty reaches the bottom of the stairs and is heading to the door, happy that no one is around to see her, she needs to get going. Walking as fast as she can in heels, Kitty heads to the door. She’s about to open the door when a voice stops her.
“Kitty is that you,” a voice asks making Kitty pause, she turns around to see Jean standing behind her.
“Jean, I thought you and Scott were out,” Kitty said as she turned around.
“Scott’s car was acting up, so we came back so we didn’t get stranded. He’s in the garage fixing it, I just came up here to get us some drinks. Never mind that, look at you,” Jean said as she observed Kitty, “You look beautiful,” Jean said honestly, she always knew that Kitty was a beautiful girl but to see her dressed like the way she was really proved it. Jean has a feeling that if there were any boys present, they’d all have their mouths on the floor.
“Th-thanks,” Kitty said
“What’s the occasion,” Jean asked
“I, well you see…,” Kitty tried to come up with an excuse but frankly there really weren’t any other than what was probably going through Jeans mind right now. Kitty sighed, “Promise you won’t tell anyone,” Kitty asks timidly
Surprised by the timidness of her outgoing friend, Jean answered, “I promise,” she reassured
Kitty seemed a bit unsure, but Jean promised not to tell anyone, and she has never lied to her, sighing again Kitty spoke, “I have a date.”
“A date? With who,” Jean asked
“His name’s Peter, he’s an old friend of mine,” Kitty said
“Really? I didn’t know you had any friends named Peter,” Jean said
“You don’t know everything about me,” Kitty retorted
“Obviously, and here I thought you were still hung up on Lance,” Jean said
“Lance and I are done,” Kitty stated, “But I always had feelings for Peter. Last week he confessed to me, and I confessed as well,” Kitty said
“When did this happen,” Jean asked trying to get as much information as she can.
“Short version, last Friday, I was at the park thinking about what happened between me and Lance, Peter then came, I was happy to see him, he took me to get something to eat, we went bowling and I kicked his butt. We then went for a walk; he asked how I was considering he saw the news about the X-Men Brotherhood fight. We sat down and I told him about what happened between me and Lance, I got upset, started talking down on myself. Peter then told me all these wonderful things he thought about me,” Kitty said she then smiled at what Peter told her. “He then told me that he was in love with me.”
“He told you he was in love with you,” Jean said surprised
Kitty nodded, “I was surprised to, but I was really happy. I told him what I thought about him and then I told him that I loved him,” Kitty said
“Kitty! Since when are you in love,” Jean asked trying to comprehend at what Kitty was telling her. Kitty in love, since when has Kitty been in love and with someone that Jean didn’t even know about. It really makes Jean wondering what else she doesn’t know about Kitty.
“Since the sixth grade,” Kitty answered honestly, she saw no reason to lie, she’s already told Jean about she and Peter.
“But wait,” Jean said trying to understand everything that she was hearing. However, Kitty cut her off.
“Jean, I’d love to stay here and answer your questions, but I like have five minutes to meet Peter for our date,” Kitty said, normally she would answer Jean’s questions, but Kitty was on a deadline.
“Oh right, sorry. You’ll have to explain everything later,” Jean said
“Gotcha, later,” Kitty said as she opened the door, and left the mansion.
Jean moved to the door then, “And in detail,” she yelled to Kitty.
Outside
Kitty walked down to the gates of the institute, when she finally approached them, Kitty didn’t even stop she just phased through the gates and headed to the meeting area, it wasn’t that far really. A couple of minutes walking and Kitty finally saw him. Peter Parker, her boyfriend, and he looked really handsome in his outfit, Kitty couldn’t help admiring him. His green buttoned up shirt, black blazer, black chino pants, black shoes, and his hair is in its usual style. He was leaning against a silver Sedan sports car. Peter told her that it was a gift from Tony Stark, it really pays to be Iron Man’s personal intern. Kitty heads on over to Peter.
Peter was leaning against his car waiting for Kitty to show. He was feeling nervous, he really hoped that everything turned out how he wanted it. He wanted to make this date as perfect as he can for Kitty. As long as no crime happens that he can’t ignore then he should be good to go.
“Peter,” came Kitty’s voice knocking Peter out of his thoughts.
Peter looked up ready to greet Kitty, but what he saw stunned him and made his mouth dry. There was Kitty standing in front of him with her hair down one noticeable curl in front, she had on light eyeshadow, red lipstick, she is wearing a waist hugging red spaghetti strap dress that flows loosely down stopping just an inch above her knees with high heels. Peter was stunned speechless, Kitty looked absolutely beautiful.
“What, what do you think,” Kitty asked nervously, Peter’s silence was making her even more nervous. Does he like it? Hate it? Should she have picked something else?
Peter snapped out of his stupor and smiled, “Kitty you look…,” he said trying to find the words, but honestly, he can’t. How is he supposed to describe her, every word in the dictionary can’t even begin to describe Kitty. It looks like he’ll just have to choose one.
“Yeah,” Kitty nervously asked
Peter stepped forward and wrapped his arms around Kitty’s waist, “Beautiful,” Peter decided to say. “You look beautiful,” he looked at Kitty’s form again, still an understatement but for now he’ll go with beautiful.
“Really,” Kitty asked starting to smile.
“Really, I’m speechless, I can’t find the words,” Peter said
“Really, I made Spider-Man the chatterbox tongue-tied? Well wouldn’t you know miracles do happen,” Kitty joked, finally relaxing at knowing that Peter liked the way she looked.
“Very funny,” Peter said smirking
Kitty giggled, “You look handsome as well, like very handsome,” she said, and that was the truth she really did think that Peter looks handsome. Well, he was always handsome, but those clothes really magnify it.
“Well, I had to dress to your standards of fashion, considering mine is so,” Peter said
“Mediocre,” Kitty finished
“I was gonna say low,” Peter said
“Peter, I know your sense of fashion, it’s mediocre,” Kitty said
“Ouch, this date just started and already you’re insulting me,” Peter said
“Quit making it easy and I won’t,” Kitty said making Peter laugh, he then leaned forward and kissed Kitty who kissed him back.
After a moment the two broke apart light blushes on their faces, they smiled, “Are you ready,” Peter asked
“Ready,” Kitty said, with that Peter steps away from her and opens the passenger door, she then climbed in the passenger side and sat down. Peter closes Kitty’s door, he then walks around the car, opens his door, sits in the car and closes the door. Peter then starts up the car and drives off to their destination.
“I can’t believe that you have a car,” Kitty said, still in disbelief that Peter has a car, a sports car at that. Not that she’s complaining, at least they won’t have to take the bus when they go on their dates. Not to mention now that Peter has a driver’s license and a car she can drive now. She still doesn’t have her driver’s license, not for the lack of trying but everyone that she asks to help her with her driving always seems to have something to do. Really, what are the odds of that?
“I know. It’s been a month, and I still can’t believe it,” Peter said
“And Tony Stark gave it to you? I mean why? I know you said it was a gift but man this is some gift,” Kitty said
“He told me to consider it as a late 16, 17, and 18th birthday present,” Peter said
“Wow a birthday present that covers three birthdays lucky you,” Kitty said
“I know, I still think it’s way too much,” Peter said referring to his car.
Kitty smiled that’s always one of the things that she loved about Peter, he was never one for extravagant things even when he very much deserved them. “So does this car like do anything,” Kitty asked getting a questioning look from Peter, “I mean you got a car from Tony Stark, there is no way that he would just give you a car without some kind of modifications.”
Peter smiled as he looked at the road, “Yeah I guess you’re right; he did say that he added some things, but I’m kind of nervous to find out what they are,” he said
“Nervous or scared,” Kitty teased smirking.
“Nervous,” Peter said
“Mmmhmmm. Scared,” Kitty quipped
“Nervous,” Peter said
“Scared,” Kitty said
“Nervous,” Peter said
“Scared,” Kitty said
“Nervous,” Peter said
“Scared,” Kitty said
“Are we gonna do this the entire drive,” Peter asked
“Hmm,” Kitty hummed looking up, tapping her finger on her chin as if she’s thinking. She then looks at Peter and smirks, “Maybe I’m certainly enjoying this.”
Peter smiled, “I’m glad you enjoy teasing me,” he said
“It’s my favorite past time. Besides it’s not my fault you’re scared of your own car,” Kitty said
Peter gave Kitty a side glare, “You know we can easily settle this. I’ll just press a random button that I have no idea what it does and see what happens,” Peter says as he reaches over to a button that he knows does not belong in a car.
“Don’t do that,” Kitty exclaims as she pulls Peter’s hand away from the button.
Peter smirks, “Now who’s afraid of the car,” he asks
“I am not afraid of this car,” Kitty states with a stubborn scowl, “It’s just for all you know, you could be pushing a self-destruct button and this car will blow up with us inside.”
“Really Kitty? A self-destruct button? You think Tony would put a self-destruct button in my car,” Peter said smiling.
“Well, I don’t know, but I’m not taking the chance. You want to explore all these features one day, go ahead. But you do it when I’m not around. I may love you Peter, but you’re not dragging me down with you. Death by car no thank you.”
Peter snorted, “With your driving Kitty, I’m pretty sure that is how you’re gonna get yourself or someone else killed,” Peter said
Kitty gasped, “You take that back,” she demands
“No,” Peter said
“I am a great driver,” Kitty argued heatedly
“You are the night terror of everyone with a license,” Peter responded
“I’ll have you know,” Kitty started
With that Peter and Kitty bickered the rest of the way to the restaurant.
END CHAPTER