Mix N' Match
DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN ANY OF THE CHARACTERS!!! (lily and lannie do :D)
A/N: YAY!! First fanfiction!! Hurray for me!!! OK, this is a fanfiction of all my friend's story. So if you haven't read any of the following stories, you would be lost because there are tons of inside jokes.
Stories so far: Later Years: The Rise of the Twins and X-Men: A New Time Arises
Chapter One
There was a small town. And in that small town, Mulberry to be exact, an ancient library stood its ground, the oldest building in the town. This library had been there even before the other buildings were built. Odd, wasn't it? The mayor of this town, Jacques Lacouture, had given a blind eye to this oddity, ignoring his adviser's warnings, and had ordered his best architects to fix the ancient building.
A century had passed since the founding of Mulberry. No citizen paid attention to the library and it was soon forgotten. Only few people went to the enchanted building, since technology enabled humans to read without any need to go to the library. From library to historic monument the building went to. The books remained untouched and dust coated the books.
The oldest habitants of the town still paid homage to the library, investing their time to clean up the place every couple of days. They put up a schedule to keep the library running, even if very few people visited the library. For their efforts, the government rewarded them and they got paid, even if it wasn't much.
This effort amazed the citizens and the library started running again, even if not many visitors came. And this is where our story starts; in a more or less unkempt library.
In a lonely, ordinary-looking corner of the library, under many layers of dust, four books laid untouched. The dirt was so thick, the titles were ineligible. A passer-by looking down at the books would have had trouble spotting the books. One would have thought that the meagre staff forgot to dust that old corner, but it was just put there for protection. Protection against what? you must be thinking.
That is for me to know and for you to find out.
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Light faded and was soon replaced by darkness. Frank Gore, the most dedicated staff from the library, checked his beloved library one last time before locking the doors behind him.
"Finally!" a child's voice cried out. "I thought he would never leave!"
"Would you keep it down?" another, very similar, voice fiercely whispered.
Just when the girl finished that word, a blond little girl dashed out of nowhere. The four year old had light blue highlights that adorned her blonde crown. Another girl, identical to the first girl, dashed off after her. This one had navy blue highlights instead.
"Sammy! Mom will be angry if you don't come back!" the girl with navy blue highlights yelled, running after her sister.
The girl, Sam, turned around and stared at her sister. Her sister, oblivious to the fact that Sam had halted, ran in to her.
"Then Mom will get angry at you, too, since you're also supposed to stay there, Kelly!" Sam retorted.
Kelly paused to think about it before adding, "I knew that."
"Did not!" Sam denied.
"Did so!" Kelly snapped.
"Did not!"
"Did so!"
"Did so!"
"Did not!"
"Tricked you, loser!" Sam yelled before hiding behind a book.
Kelly ran after her, bumping in to her again when she caught sight of Sam. They both looked around them.
"Whoa! It's so big!" Sam remarked.
Kelly glared at her sister. "You know perfectly well that I say that every night, you line-stealer!"
Everything was pretty big. But if you had been there, you would have realized that they weren't talking about the size of the library. Everything was simply big. The twins were four times smaller than an average book. One would have thought they were dwarves. They weren't hairy, they didn't have beards as long as themselves, and they weren't stained with mine dirt. It was just their size that gave that impression.
"Samantha and Kelly Bradley, come back here this instant!" a harsh feminine voice yelled.
"You have been spotted, surrender or die!" another feminine voice pitched in.
"Never!" the twins chorused.
"Dead girls can't eat pie!" the first voice added.
At the mention of their favourite desert, the girls scrambled to get to the filthy corner of the library that they called home. At the foot of the towering shelves, a blonde woman waved at them. Beside her, another younger version of the first but with dark brown hair, sat at the foot of the shelf, head in her hands.
"We want pie!" Kelly panted as she hugged her mother, Tori, one of the Thunderstorm Rangers.
"Lily ate it all," she pointed out.
"Aunt Lily ate all the pie?!" the twins chorused.
"Why would she eat the pie?" Kelly asked.
"Didn't she know it was our favourite desert?" Sam asked in turn.
"Can't she give it back?"
Sam glared at her sister. "How can she give it back?"
"By throwing up?" Kelly suggested.
"Ewww!"
"What kind was it?" The girls had both abruptly turned back to their aunt, who still had her head in her hands. Lily looked up at them, the contours of her mouth smeared with…
"Chocolate!!" the twins exclaimed in dismay.
"Why did you eat it, Aunt Lily?" Sam had resumed her questions.
"How about we play questions while you stuff your faces with chocolate pie?" Lily suggested, taking her nieces with her to the back.
She took them through rows of books, the strong smell of chocolate guiding them. The smell grew stronger as they neared the center of the library, where the computers were aligned. At the top of the closest chair, a piece of pie sat on a plastic plate, the smallest of bites—for an actual human—taken off of it.
"Is that the computer at OPS?" Sam asked, referring to the Ninja Headquarters in their book. "Lets chop it off, Kelly!"
Sam ran ahead, brandishing an imaginary weapon. Seeing that they couldn't reach the computers, they gave up and started to climb the legs of the chairs. Lily reached her cousins and climbed with the amazing stealth of a ninja and helped the other two up.
As soon as Lily put her cousins down, they ran across the vast expanse of the chair to the pie, literally stuffing their faces with chocolate pie.
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"I got a stomach-ache!" Sam whined.
"Me too!" Kelly added.
"Auntie Lily, why do we have stomach-aches?" Sam asked, her face revealing no sign of a stomach-ache whatsoever.
"Not again…" Lily muttered, covering her face with her hands.
Kelly ran to the edge of the chair and peered down. She then looked up at her sister and aunt, the biggest grin on her face. She then waved bye at them and jumped off.
Lily shrieked. The fall was fifteen feet high—for these 'humans'—, and Lily knew Kelly would hurt herself. She ran to the edge but was beaten by Sam as she dashed, jumping in the abyss without looking back. This was too much for Lily. Two nieces possibly dead by jumping off a chair? No way. This couldn't be happening. She ran to the edge and peered down, her heart thumping wildly, afraid of what she might witness.
What she saw was completely the opposite of what she expected. A few feet above the ground, Sam and Kelly hovered on two flying girls. The one Sam hovered on had mid-back length, straight, dark red hair that was layered around her face and green eyes. Riley... Lily thought to herself. She and Riley were really close friends ever since the librarian had brought in X-Men: A New Time Arises by Kimberley Barrett. The girl Kelly hovered on was Kelly. Not Kelly Hanson but Kelly Summers, Riley's twin sister. Kelly Summers had mid-back length, straight, light brown hair and stunning blue eyes.
Riley was part of the new X-Men team, and, as every other X-Men, she had powers. Hers was telepathy and telekinesis, so she levitated herself telekinetically, Sammy on her shoulders, laughing maniacally. Riley's codename was Nightwolf, suggested by her father, former X-Men Scott Summers. Kelly Summers, also part of the X-Men team, was considerated a mutant for her ability to control weather. Since two Kellys lived in the same library, Kelly Summers used her codename, Rain, to identify herself.
Lily sighed with relief. She knew her cousins were in good hands with the Summers. She was about to start the long way down the chair when a gust of air slammed her square and flat on her back. Last thing she remembered was that she was falling…
To her death.