Mardi Gras and Disasters
Chapter 1
It was Fat Tuesday and everyone was enjoying Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Even the Brother Hood decided to take the day off and have some actually fun for a change.
Magneto and Emma Frost spent their time in one of the town's best restaurants drinking extravagant wine and eating Cajun delicacies. Toad, Blob, Pyro, and Avalanche walked around the streets to get free peeks at girls flashing their goods for beads. Mystique morphed into a beautiful blond woman with big breasts to get some beads herself, she dragged Sabertooth along, and made him hold all the beads that she had collected.
Everything was going great until Sabertooth got weighed down by the many beads he was carrying and got fed up being a pack mule for Mystique.
"Raven!" he growled, "I think ya got enough beads here to last ya for quite a while."
Mystique smiled, "Aw, what's wrong, Victor? Are all those itty bitty beads to heavy for you to carry?"
"If you were holding them for ungodly hours non stop, then you'd eventually be ready to call it quits too."
"Alright, Vic. Just let me get one more batch of beads and then we'll head back to the hotel."
"I want to go now!"
"Just one more batch and after that I'll buy you as many drinks that you want tonight and take you to an all you can eat buffet. Deal?"
He rolled his eyes and sighed, "Deal. But it better be the good stuff, otherwise I'll get my payment some other way. An' believe me, the other way will be more fun for me, than you."
"Fine. Fine. Fine." She turned back around flashed a large group of Fraternity boys who were holding the largest beads in the entire square. They whooped and hollered and tossed every single bead that they were all holding to her. She caught them and smiled, "Thanks, boys. Come on, Vic. Let's go put these away and then we can go eat."
"Thank God!"
Meanwhile, Toad, Blob, Pyro, and Avalanche had collected and stole as many beads that they could get their hands on and gave them out to any girls that were willing to flash them.
"This is great!" said Blob, "I wish Mardi Gras happened everyday."
"Oy! I'd be in blumin' paradise." Laughed Pyro.
"Yah, but we would never get any work done. The X-Men would achieve their goals faster than we would if this happened everyday." Said Avalanche, "Besides, this all would eventually get boring after a while."
"Says you!" exclaimed Toad, "I could never get tired of this. Hell! This is my first time to have a hot girl show me her ta tas' willingly and not freak out."
The guys laughed and Pyro spoke for them all, "That's because, mate, you have something that they want. If you didn't have them beads, then they'd run away screamin' at your sorry lookin' face."
"Hey!"
Back at the restaurant Magneto and Emma Frost had just finished their meal and began talking business.
"As enjoyable as this time has been, I'm afraid that it must end very shortly. We have work to do and we must do it before the X-Men foil our plans."
Emma sighed, "Yes, Erik. I agree. If we are to succeed we must find that power source before the X-Men pick up on its readings. It's getting very tiresome just to have them beat us every time we get event he slightest break."
"Do not worry, Emma. It will be a while before the X-Men find out. They only have Cerebro to help them, but Cerebro will do them little good this time."
Emma cocked a curious brow, "Oh? Why is that, Erik?"
"Because Cerebro can only sense mutants and alien sources, the power that we require is neither."
"Then what is it?"
"It's magical and very ancient."
"How intriguing."
"Yes. And it will be even more intriguing to see what all it can do."
