X-Men Evolution: Rogue Evolution

Cat's Shadow 5.1

Anna could see it all from her perch atop the fro-yo shop. To her left was a horde of Wall-E-looking knockoff robots dressed as ninjas wrecking the area around the downtown clock tower, and to her right was her fellow X-Men doing all that they could the survive against the half-pint, menace.

Metal ravaged by bony spikes and black scorch marks littered the central boulevard, but it was as if for everyone they took down, another two took its place. Anna could see Kurt bamfing around like a madman landing kicks and punches into every other bot that she saw. She saw too, his face returned to 'normal' with the aid of his new disguise watch, that he had one of the robot's black ninja cowls wrapped around his forehead like a bandanna. As he whizzed by, she could hear him shouting Samuel L. Jackson quotes from the movie Pulp Fiction as he drove a heel into one of the robot's tubie necks.

In the middle of the fray were Scott and Jean. Back to back, Jean would pick an unfortunate robot victim into the air and Scott would fire it out of the sky with one of his laser blasts. It was probably the closest thing Anna had ever felt to 'penis envy' when it came to Scott's - admittedly kinda badass - eye lasers while she only had her overpriced squirt gun to pick off robots with at range with.

A near block away from the others, Evan looked more creature than human with the number of spikes jutting out from his body. However, not all of his thorns were stuck out in the typical porcupine maneuver Anna was used to seeing from him. Instead, most of the bony constructs were curved along his back and down his arms shaping what almost looked like a shell. Each robot brave enough to challenge him would get cut down like wheat.

Despite their efforts, the robot ninja horde didn't relent. They would cut them down, only for the durable little monsters to get back up and try their luck again at with their bright orange katanas. Anna did all she could from her spot atop the frozen yogurt stand. She fired one bright bolt after another; her accuracy rarely failing her. With a good shot, she'd knock the little robot's over where her concussive blasts, scorching and bruising their plastic bodies and singeing their black garb, but like the others, they just got back up again to wreak more havoc. They needed something to knock the robots down for good. What they needed was an edge. What they absolutely didn't need was the biggest robot Anna had ever seen smashing through the face of the clock tower with, what looked like, not one, but two gigantic mini guns.

The ten-story, thousand-ton, robot looked identical to all the other Wall-E clones, except on either shoulder were mini guns that looked capable of drilling into the earth and popping out the other side. Crushing the last of the tower with a mighty fist, the monster stretched to the peak of its height and just about eclipsed the sun. Anna felt her shoulders go slack looking up at the thing. Only her thick padded armor her upright.

"What. The. Fuck."

The mini guns started spinning, and a moment later the air was filled with bright red laser fire that sent the others on the street sprinting for cover. Ducking behind the concrete lip of the building, Anna looked at her own laser pistol. The 50's sci-fi-looking water pistol with its hidden laser capability looked back at her. Its little water tank on top catches the light in its bright glitter paint job. That feeling of 'penis envy' from earlier returned ten-fold as she watched the goliath's spinning turrets wreaking utter destruction upon the city below. At a loss for any other ideas, she propped up her pistol on the edge of the roof and squeezed off a few bright bolts for the robot's eyes. Her shot's hit home, tapping the robot's flat VCR player-like head with the same effect as a little kid flicking the side of an older brother's face. The thing craned its head in her direction, and Anna suddenly became all too aware of her mistake.

Along with its head, the gargantuan robot shifted its body and faced her. Its two turrets already spinning at speed, Anna could see her doom quickly approaching. With no time to run, she ducked behind the shallow concrete railing and waited for the air around her to be filled with a hailstorm of fire. But instead of popping concrete and splintering metal, Anna heard a very different sound. The sound of someone yelling. The sound of Kitty yelling.