Title: Strangers with Candy

Summary: The Acolytes attempt to gain new members into their supreme team by kidnapping Xavier's new recruits. Unfortunately, this does not go very well.

Disclaimer: I really wish I owned the Acolytes, really. Especially John, who I love more than I can possibly say. However, I don't. If you think I do, I want what you're on really bad. Maybe whatever your on will make me think I own John, and if you can't have it, you can always think you do. What a lame motto I live by

Notes: This Fic was written exclusively by Mai of gonewiththepixiestix, in other words, please don't kill Tearra because you hate it. On that note, don't kill me either.

Notes2: I don't particularly like this chapter. The theory is as it goes on it will get better but who knows? I don't!

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They sat in the van, and they had been doing so for the past hour or so. The van was parked strategically behind some obscure shrubbery behind the giant building commonly known as the Xavier Institute. In other words, the van was hidden behind the Xmansion.

Piotr was in the driver's seat; he appeared to be asleep. Or maybe he was awake with his eyes closed and drool coming out of the side of his mouth, no, he was definitely asleep.

Remy was in the passenger's seat; he was shuffling his deck of cards for the millionth time in the past five minutes. He had his feet up on the dashboard, and was humming a song no one else recognized, but perhaps this was because he was so off key.

St. John was in the back; he had some headphones on in a vain attempt to drown out Remy's humming. He had his zippo lighter in one hand, he was flickering it on and off. His other hand held some fries, which he was eating happily. This had been the rest of the team's attempt to keep him busy while they wait.

What, you ask, are these three young men doing? Well, it all started earlier this morning. Their fearless leader, Magneto, had decided that his superb fighting team wouldn't be superb at all until they had more recruits. So, to Remy, Piotr, and John this meant kidnapping some of Xavier's kids. It's not like they didn't have any to spare anyway. But in some sort of temporary spell of idiocy, the Acolytes had forgotten the Xmen had school. So they sat waiting for the Xkiddies to come back home. It was about two thirty. They had waited for a while earlier, but then John had gotten bored so they had driven off to get him fries. The fries had kept him busy so far, which was good. A bored John was not a fun John.

Remy hit another extremely off key note, waking Piotr up. It might be questioned if Remy was actually singing, because he sounded more like a dying animal.

"Comrade, what are you doing to make such an awful noise?" Piotr asked in a sort of sleep way. His sleepiness was soon shaken off as Remy kept on singing. Piotr looked over to John in a sort of what-the-hell-is-he-doing way.

John simply shrugged, and kept playing with his lighter and bobbing his head to the music.

Just then, a very bright red car drove by. Remy stopped singing to point out an auburn and white haired head, "That be Remy's cheri," he said haughtily.

"That's the girl you stalk?" John asked.

"Remy does not stalk his p'tite, he simply happens to be where she is a lot," Gambit said.

"No, you stalk her. You even followed her into the girl's bathroom that one time," John said cockily.

Remy blushed and sunk into his seat.

Piotr rolled his eyes, "We be needing to go get some recruits for Magneto," he said in a low voice.

"Ooh, let's pick one! I can't wait! It will be just like having a pet," St. John said dreamily.

The other two mutants in the car winced slightly, "John," Remy tried carefully, " remember what Remy and Piotr said, you can't be keep the newbie in a box."

John nodded, "and I can't set it on fire either, I know, I know," he said and rolled his eyes.

Piotr and Remy didn't look a hundred percent sure that John knew what he was talking about.

They watched as the Xmen got out of the shiny red. Everyone but one girl went inside, the girl went off, probably to wander off through the massive gardens. Remy was disappointed to say that the girl wasn't Rogue. Poor Remy.

"Well, we're supposed to get a defenseless recruit anyway," Remy mumbled to himself.

"Let's follow the shelia!" John yelled, and slid open the door with much enthusiasm.

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Rahne Sinclair grinned and chased after the squirrel, this was crazy fun! She wasn't in her wolf form, so of course, she didn't catch it. But she didn't really want to anyway, she was happy to just run in circles, which was what she was doing.

She stopped when she smelt something funny, she span around quickly and found herself face to face with a hott Cajun. Well, this wasn't too bad.

"Hello p'tite," Remy said.

Rahne backed away a little, recalling exactly whom Gambit worked for. But she bumped right into St. John, who was behind her.

"Where are you goin' love?" John asked.

Rahne's eyes went wide, she couldn't really see anyway of escape at this point, but it never hurt to try. But before she could go through the transformation of innocent little girl to ravaging wolf, she was injected with a needle.

And then everything went black for Rahne.

Remy caught the girl before she could fall and get serious brain damage, "Well, dat wasn't too hard. Let's be bringing her back to Magneto," he said coolly.

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Back at the Acolyte compound, Victor Creed AKA Sabertooth, was eating raw meat. He might have cooked it (maybe) but that crazy red head Aussie had completely destroyed the microwave, and it was now no longer a microwave at all. He grunted and took another bite of the rather odd smelling red, raw meat. He was supposed to have gone with his other three teammates somewhere, but it hadn't seemed very important at the time so instead he had mugged a store for meat.

The door opened, and Victor smelt his said three teammates walk in, he also heard them because John was yelling something loudly and Remy was singing. Victor hated it when Remy sang, he sounded like death. And it didn't help that Victor had sensitive hearing either. He was about to flee with his meat, when he smelled a fourth smell.

It was the smell of a dog.

Victor growled, he had told John that he didn't like dogs! So why did he keep bringing them in? Geez!

He prowled over to where his three teammates where, the living room. His raw meat lay somewhat forgotten on the counter. Oddly enough, he saw no dog. Just a red haired girl who was unconscious in Remy's arms. How she could stay asleep with Remy yodeling so close to her ear remained a mystery.

"Alright, where's the dog?" Sabortooth asked.

"Dog? What dog?" John said happily, he was setting a piece of paper on fire. Wait. That wasn't paper, it was the water bill.

"The dog you guys got, where is it? I told you! I hate dogs!" Victor growled, he looked particularly scary today.

Everyone raised an eyebrow, because, there was no dog. Victor had a look of complete annoyance plastered on his face, where was the damned dog?

He would have to find it himself!

So he began to completely tear up the living room. Piotr shrugged and picked up the remote for the TV while his furry comrade tore up the sofa with his claws.

"Sabortooth, did you be getting into the catnip again?" Remy asked.

"Catnip? Where?" Victor said, because he loooved catnip. Where did they keep it anyway?

Remy sighed and took the remote from Piotr. The sudden movement caused Rahne to wake up. Rahne, who didn't' expect to wake up in Remy's arms with a raging cat man a few feet away, screamed.

Everyone looked at Rahne oddly. She screamed a little more, then promptly changed into her wolf/dog form.

Victor's eyes went wide, so that was the dog smell!

Wolfsbane had the instincts of a dog; it was with her always. She had enhanced senses, and everything else, including the instincts to kill all kitties. And Victor was just one big cat. Thus insued the chase.