Chapter 1
N/A: this idea hit me up last night, so, I´m based again on Ultimate but taking a bit of 616!
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The rain, without warning, hits on the area watering the grass, trees and of course, the roof of the mansion. No one was outside, well, saved for one woman who was feeling the rain gentle hitting on her body, hair with a smile on her face.
“Kitten?” Ororo Monroe finally found Kitty Pryde enjoying the rain as Ororo often does. Kitty Pryde is the newest addition to the X-men and so far they can all label her as a free hippie style. “Enjoying the rain?”
Kitty Pryde, with her trademark freckles, only nods and replies. “You know, when I was younger,” Ororo noticed the corner of her lips curve slightly and she remembers how no one knows Kitty´s real age (“old enough to drink and vote”) “I used to fear water very much…something bad happened with me there, but, now…I´d not fear water anymore”
Ororo blinks at this admission and wonder if maybe Kitty was drowning or did suffer an attempted. Either way, Ororo Monroe can´t judge as she too deals with claustrophobic and doesn´t like to disclose that to anyone.
“Getting over a fear like that is truly remarkable” Ororo states.
“You´re remarkable as well Storm never forget that” Kitty said and the rain stopped, the young woman is offering a smile and Ororo smiles back, Kitty may be an odd hippie girl, but, she means well and after the disaster of Jean Grey…they prefer an odd hippie girl that anything remotely linked to Jean Grey.
“Come on, Kitten, Scott is calling us for a meeting…and careful to not get flu”
“I won´t!”
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Scott Summers is the leader of the X-men, that´s a given at this point, and the man really manages to be professional even when he mentioned the names, Jean and Logan. “We still have no information on their whereabouts” no one is sharing any real worry for any of them.
Rogue hands a towel to Kitty joking she knew kitty would be in the rain. Bobby and all the seniors are sitting in their respective places, for a moment, it makes Kitty thinking about the round table, but, there are not enough people for the comparison.
“I want to talk about a new issue that is calling my attention, Ororo did show her side of the argument and even Kitty too and the two are correct. We´re the X-men, we do look out for our own, but, if we closed our eyes to any injustice…are we doing any good? As long the police don´t get brutal with mutants…can we call this justice?” Scott said and the others are listening.
“How can we call ourselves heroes if we don´t do anything against injustice?” Scott said and taking a deep breath he explained “the Friend of Humanity are getting support from…other racists groups to, well, in their own racists’ terms, to purge the mankind of what is undesirable”
Bobby raises his hand, a comical salute for a serious situation. “Professor Summers, I thought the Friends of Humanity were over, didn´t we fight them off?”
“We did Bobby, but, the friends of humanity are parasites, work as a cell, you can destroy one, but, soon it will have a new one to take over” Rogue explained.
“Yes, and right now they are operating in Chicago” Scott explained and Kitty only speaks one line “I live in Chicago” there´s foreboding in her tone and the others look at her.
Everyone feels a bit of cold all of sudden, and Scott clears his throat and speaks again. “Thanks to Cerebro and the modification Kitty made, we managed to locate their next meeting and it will be…”
“Building Langford, 334. Is a part hotel they all rent for this meeting and even replace the staff with their own…so paranoid” Kitty responds coldly and no one asks how she knew about this.
Well, the logical solution is, of course, she did use Cerebro or heard Scott´s talk before the meeting. That´s the only solution.
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The team assembled, a word Scott is not very fond thanks to the Avengers, and they are now at the location, however, Betsy states something curious. “I´m not feeling anyone inside that building”
Once they are looking at the entrance they can see how everything is desert. Ororo saw the flags of said racists groups and has no problem in breaking those flags, but, she notices something odd.
“Their car´s keys are here…but we saw no car outside” Ororo replies and Bobby and Rogue confirms as they went outside…the parking lot is empty.
Scott asked Betsy to see if she can sense anything. The woman activated her butterfly for a moment.
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Grayson Creed is a pure man, he has pure intentions, so, when they discover the existence of this, of course, Creed knew IT would be on their side.
“Now, God is truly on our side, we will purge the mankind of the undesirable once and for all” many people wearing white cheer on that, however, their celebration is cut short when a woman wearing the Davi star, on her necklace and on her shirt, shows up.
“Well, thank you, I was rather famished lately and eating things like you…does a great service to mankind” Kitty explains and before anyone could do anything to Kitty a vortex opens with tentacles with mouths and eyes.
The mouths are bigger than the eyes and no one realizes the room is no longer the hotel, only that everyone under this ideology is here. EVERYONE.
Creed watches in horror as the mouth eats the first one, then the second. He can´t move. Either because of fear of the tentacles wrapping around his ankle.
“I don´t understand, we want to save the world,” Creed said “we invoke a god to help”
Kitty rolls her eyes and lets her crystal azzure eyes be the only “deformation” on her mask.
“Oh please, you barely know how to write one of my names and is the easier one.” She shakes her heads and ignores the screams of help, the number of people are getting smaller and smaller “ and you ask to save the world, well, I´m helping you with that…I´m saving from you”
And the tentacles sealed Creed´s fate. There´s no one in the room, saved for Kitty.
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Besty stops and shakes her head. “I feel nothing? what´s the odds of everyone in this hotel, literally, everyone, leave in such a short time and without making any noise?”
This is getting alarming. Scott is about to gesture the X-men to follow him when he notices that Kitty is missing, but, she’s appearing next to Rogue.
“Where were you?” Rogue asked. And Psylocke did nod as if saying that´s Kitty Pryde and not Mystique or any other shapeshifter
“Bathroom” points to the bathroom that Rogue swear was not there before, but, then again, she was not looking for a bathroom.
“Really, now?”
“Well, yeah, I think I drink too much soda”
“Kitty, we talk about this, you need to stop drink that much soda”
“easy said than done”
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They start searching in each room and it´s all empty. Ororo spot a room, technical, a stage room that has a white board with a name write down. The X-men went to see what´s written.
“Zig?” Bobby asked once reading the word again.
“Zag?” Ororo read again confused.
Scott and Betsy can´t read the word. It´s the only clue on what happened but the bad handwriting is proving to be a troublesome and dangerous foe.
“Zaorva,” Kitty said annoyed at this. “aside from racists they prove to be even dumber”
Again, the sense of foreboding is strong and no one dares to bother Kitty after that. Scott and Ororo wonder on what to do now. Do they report the missing on those people?
“No” Kitty suggested “they want attention anyway, and they will use this to make us look bad, now, is very possible that the Friends of Humanity and friends bite more than what they can chew and if …people do are looking for them, which let´s be honest no one will, then, let´s close the case and go home”
“But…the Friends of Humanity…”
“Won´t ever bother us again” and no one dares to doubt the words. Not when Kitty´s eyes are getting slightly blue now.
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Epilogo
“You know, I´d love when you do that…is fun to watch” LK replies amused.
“Thank you, I know you are very voyeuristic, but, I admit…they did piss me off and I was being creative. I wanted them to see a Jewish girl as each one of them is eaten and tortured” she offers a torso to LK who eats it gladly.
“I know and that´s why it gets so prettier, my zaorva”
“Oh, shush you, love, not in front of the food” and Zaorva eats a nice tasty leg and the couple talks in such romantic and kind way that is almost easy to ignore the scenario and their food, who is trying to escape, of course, without any success.