It was hard to believe, but Kitty was starting to get bored on the tour of the research facilities of the Baxter Building. The main problem was that she didn’t know what in the bubonic hell she was looking at most of the time. Reed would explain things and the Professor and Beast would nod their heads, but to Kitty it might as well have been Swahili.
The portal to the Negative Zone was cool. It was a little scary knowing that the entrance to a parallel universe was just a few feet away from her, but she knew that the portal would hold. It had been there for years.
But then it was just labs and shit. Though Amara did get a kick, running up her temp in a containment chamber with a much higher heat capacity that the one back in her room at the mansion. She finally got to learn her true maximum temp. Johnny was impressed. It was competitive with his normal max burn, when not at the dangerous and stressful supernova.
Kitty suspected that Mayday was less than thrilled by the tour as well. She couldn’t see an expression through the mask, but there was something about Mayday’s stance that suggested she would rather be somewhere else.
Kitty approached her. “So what do you think about all this?”
“I think I need some air. Seems like a good time to kick the shit out of some bad guys. Do you want to come?”
“Sure.” Kitty told Jean that she was going out for a while, being too responsible to just disappear.
The two teens took the elevator to the top of the Baxter Building. On the roof, Mayday picked up a set of straps that was lying near the door.
Kitty giggled. “We just met and you already want to do bondage?”
“Funny mutant. This is the harness from a tandem parachute. Since we’ll be bound together, it’ll allow me to carry you hands-free, which will be way easier for both of us. Continue reading →