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Title: By the Minute

ff.net penname: Umi Pryde

Category: Cartoon-X-men Evolution
Genre:General
Status: [In Progress...]
Rating: T
for mild language and violence

Disclaimer: I do not own x-men evolution or its characters. They belong to Marvel and copyrights of Marvel Comics and WB kids.


Summary:
The Brotherhood and X-men students decide to join forces to try and get Lance and Kitty together. But it has to be done without Scott finding out about it- who seems to be acting strangely, even for Scott. And Lance and Kitty have no clue what their friends are trying to do so they go on with their day plans making it all the more difficult for the others plan to work. Just how long can the brotherhood and x-men stay focused on their common goal and not let their differences get in the way? -- The clock is ticking for everyon as the day goes on and people start to dissapear and some discover the loss of their powers. Will they be able to figure out what is going on to save everyone and continue on with their plan? Or is it ruined? ...


Author's Notes: This is my first X-men Evolution fanfic. Please read and review, I would love some good feedback on this story.

Story Teaser: (parts of chapter 1)

Saturday 7:46 am

Xavier Institute for Gifted Youngsters
Kitchen

“So where exactly are we going?” Rogue asked softly leaning toward Kitty at the table. Kitty finished chewing her muffin before turning toward her roommate with a mocking grin.

“Like I’m not going to tell you Rogue, then it wouldn’t be a surprise.”

Rogue turned away and sighed resting her chin in her hands, her elbow on the table.

“Fine. But it better be worth it.” she mumbled. There was a crush behind them. The girls turned around in their seats to see Bobby and Evan on the floor. Bobby was covered with cereal and milk- the innocent by-stander of Evan’s quick skate into the kitchen.

“Oh man, I’m sorry Bobby.” Evan said standing up and offering Bobby his hand.

“No problem- I was planning on showering after breakfast anyways- I guess I’ll just eat latter.” he quickly left the room brushing some cereal out of his hair on the way out. Scott turned the corner into the room a moment latter.

“I thought I heard some sort of crash…Evan!! How many times do we have to say no skating in the house! Clean this mess up!” Scott turned and left in a hurry.

Rogue and Kitty looked at each other.

“Like what’s Scott’s problem?” Kitty asked. Rogue shrugged at her.

“Yah got me, maybe him and Jean got into another fight.” Rogue offered.

The girls just got up and left Evan to do his mopping alone.

--ding dong, ding dong--

“I’ll get it!” Amara shouted- she was halfway down the stairs, running down the rest. Kitty and Rogue decided to just slow down but continued on their way up to their room. Amara opened the door.

“Hey girl! How you been?” A familiar voice rang out in its usual upbeat and strong tone.

“Hi Tabitha I’m glad you came. How’d you get here anyways?” Amara asked a few seconds after her greeting. Tabitha looked over her shoulder,

“I had Lance drop me off.” she replied. Kitty stopped on the stairs.

“Lance?!” She turned and faced Tabitha.

Rogue noticed and stopped a little above Kitty. Tabitha leaned forward with a smile.

“Yeah, Lance. If you want to say hi you might want to hurry, I think the Bagger is giving him his usual friendly get out.”

Kitty ran down the stairs and out the door. Rogue walked down the stairs and stood with Amara and Tabitha in the open doorway. Rogue and Tabitha shook their heads, Amara smiled-

“She’s got it bad.” They all said in unison. They quickly looked at one another and began laughing.

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7:51 am
Inside

Evan finished mopping and started fixing his breakfast, grabbing a sports drink from the fridge and putting some pop-tarts in the toaster. Rahne came in her hair up in the usual pig-tails dressed in jeans that were cut up in a few places around the knees and a mint green quarter-length cotton shirt. She poured herself a glass of orange juice and picked up half a bagel and a chocolate chip cookie for her breakfast, humming to herself. A second later, Amara, Tabitha, and Rogue walked in smiling.

“We really need to do something about those two, don’t you think?” Tabitha said pulling herself up a chair and leaning back, her feet crossed on the table.

“Yeah, I know what yah mean.” Rogue agreed.

Rahne and Evan looked at the girls, curiously.

“Hey who are you guys talking about?” Evan asked, sitting next to Amara.

“Lance and Kitty.” Amara explained, “Tabitha thinks we should hook them up or something.”

“Oh that would be fun!” Rahne squealed softly. Tabitha smiled at her.

“Exactly, I knew I liked you!” she said giving Rahne a wink.

“Yeah, but if Scott ever found out you guys set them up together, he’d go ballistic.” Evan said. The girls all stared at him.

“And why are we suppose to care what that laser brain thinks about it?” Rogue asked, she wasn’t about to let Scott Summers and his stupidity get in the way of her best friends possible happiness. Evan grabbed his pop-tarts as they jumped up. Tabitha grabbed a bagel from the table spread.

“Well you know, we could set something up today couldn’t we?” Tabitha was looking more at Amara than the others. “I mean, we are already going to be out, we would just have to get Lance and her together later.”

“Exactly where are we going again?” Rogue asked

“Hey! You aren’t suppose to know Rogue!” Amara said, “Kitty has had this planned with the rest of us for awhile, and we are not going to spoil it.”

Tabitha and Rogue looked at one another and smiled,

“Amara, I don’t think Kitty would mind if we change the plans up on her just a bit. Besides, are you sure this was a surprise for Rogue, I mean, I thought we were just going to the Mall?” Tabitha said.

“Tabitha, shh!” Amara squealed.

“The Mall? That’s it,…that’s my special surprise. What on earth was Kitty planning?” Rogue asked, trying not to get too disappointed.

“She had a whole day planned, we were going to all get new outfits and makeovers and stuff. She said she really wanted to take you along and let it be a treat to you and stuff….”Amara tried to explain but she trailed off as Bobby came into the room- he greeted Tabitha and asked everyone what was up. Tabitha grinned even bigger.

“Bobby you’re here! This is wonderful, you can help us plan a way to hook up Kitty with Lance. We need to keep Scott out of the loop on this though, got it.”

Bobby sat down next to Evan and Tabitha.

“I’m in. What’s the plan?” he asked, he lived for stuff like this.

“If we had one, she wouldn’t have asked for help with one.” Rogue said with an annoyed sigh.

“I know! Why don’t we ditch Kitty at the Mall or something and then maybe Lance and her can bump into each other randomly.” Rahne suggested. The others considered this for a moment.

“Not the best, but it is a start. We can ditch Kitty, that would be simple enough, but how to insure Lance is the only one there?” Tabitha wondered aloud.

“Girls! Rouge! Amara! Tabitha! Rahne! Girls come on I got us a new ride!” they all jumped in their seats hearing Kitty shouting as she came in the front door. “Hey Girls! Come on, Where are you Guys?!” she walked into the kitchen and stood at the doorway.

“Come on, Lance is going to get us a ride cause Mr. Logan is working on the X-Van.” She said motioning them to come along and leaving.

The group sat at the table and stared around at one another.

“Okay… So you girls go with them and me and Bobby will recruit some help and then we will give you a call with the rest of the plan.” Evan suggested.

The girls didn’t look all that convinced, but figured they should just nod and leave.

“Call me, I’ll pretend you are my mom and leave the group for a bit so there won’t be any chance of Kitty overhearing anything, then I’ll update everyone else afterwards.” Rahne suggested.

“Great thinking wolf-girl.” Tabitha said, grabbing both Rahne and Amara around the waist and heading out of the building with Rouge following behind them.