NOTE: First of all, thank you everyone who reviewed 'The Gift of Love'. Well this isn't exactly part two. It's more of a spin-off, but with no magic involved. New enemies and friends will be making appearances too. And the timeline of this fic is also different. It's after Apocalypse is defeated. There will be some major Romy(ofcourse) and Jott involved and a bit of some other coupling too. So stay tuned.
"I-I don't believe it!" Kitty exclaimed. "You deleted their memories? That's why Logan forgave us so easily for ruining his bike...But like, how—Now after three years do they suddenly remember?"
"Two and a half," Jean corrected miserably. "Ack! I don't know! I-I guess erasing memories permanently isn't as easier as I thought."
"Or maybe Professor saw it in Apocalypse's mind…" Kitty contemplated.
"Yes…Maybe…" Jean considered, fanning herself with her hand. The scorching heat was really getting to her. "Because he was like, 'Thank you Jean.' And not, 'Jean, thank you! You just saved the whole human race!'"
"Right…." Kitty rolled her eyes. "And I'm still wondering who that dear friend is who's going to turn evil…."
Jean rolled her eyes. "Obviously….not me. It could be Rogue. It could be you too."
"I'm like, betting hundred bucks on you!" Kitty said and stuck her tongue out. "You tried to kill me!"
"I did not try to kill you! I...I just wanted to make your life a living hell," Jean explained, "for demolishing my room for no particular reason."
"Evil!" Kitty made a face at her.
"Customer!" Jean sang, but her face fell. "Just a passerby…" She sighed again and turned to Kitty. "Listen, why don't we just forget about something that happened three years ago? It's just ridiculous!" She stared at the cookies wearily. "And so is this punishment."
"Hey…hello little doggy!" Kitty gushed when a small puppy trudged up to her out of nowhere. She picked it up. "Where did you come from?" The puppy whimpered. "Aww…you must be lost—Hey!" She cried when Jean snatched it.
"Nice try!" Jean hissed and suddenly hurled the puppy at the wall. To Kitty's shock, it morphed into Mystique and bounced off the wall, landing in a crouched position.
"Are you out of your mind?" Mystique growled and quickly changed into her Risty disguise.
"Oh my God!" Kitty exclaimed before giving her a hateful look. "You're alive! By the way, which glue did you use to mend yourself back together again?"
Mystique ignored her.
"Mystique, why don't you stop trying and leave Rogue and Kurt alone?" Jean told her harshly.
"Yeah! They don't want you because you're like, a blue, evil backstabbing mother!" Kitty said.
Mystique gave her a dry look.
"Hey! What did Rogue say we should do when we see Risty next time?" Kitty asked Jean.
"Slice her into pieces and feed 'em to the gators!" Jean recalled, glaring at Mystique.
"Alright!" Risty or Mystique snapped. "I can see when I'm not wanted!" She turned around furiously. "I'll just buy cookies from the shop then. At least they treat customers with respect!"
"Huh? Oh no Risty! I-I mean Mystique!" Jean shouted at the disappearing figure. "Come back!"
"Ugh! That's it!" Kitty took hold of Jean's shirt button and phased them in her hands.
"Kitty!" Jean exclaimed hiding herself.
"Look sexy and it will totally earn us a dollar."
A white blur suddenly whizzed by then came back and stopped, revealing it to be Pietro.
"Ooo…how much do they cost?" Pietro asked, ogling at Jean's exposed chest.
"Pietro! C'mon! Buy some cookies!" Kitty urged.
"Gross! No!" Pietro backed up before Jean could slap him.
"Help me…" a small voice suddenly coughed. All of them looked down to see a little hunched figure covered with a dirty blanket, supporting himself with a cane and had sunglasses on. "I-I'm blind….I-I've got a wife and two kids…I-I can't support them…Somebodycough! Pleasecough!…H-Help!"
"Toad…what are you doing?" Jean asked putting her hands on her hips.
"Knock it off Toad," Pietro said rolling his eyes. "They know."
"Pietro?" Todd turned to Jean and took her hand while his other hand moved towards her chest. "Is that you Pietro?"
Jean growled and shoved him away with her TK.
Todd fell and just lay there on the ground, not bothering to get up. "Ack! CoughCough!...I-I'm dyin…p-please somebody…take care of my little tadpoles coughcough—Help—O man!" he finally got up and scowled. "What kind of cruel world are we livin in?"
"Hey! Give it back!" Kitty shouted, pulling back the money jar that Pietro suddenly snatched.
"C'mon! Be an angel of mercy will ya?" Pietro said pleadingly. "W-We had to run for our lives!"
"Yeah!" Todd chimed in. "Boss lady's back! A-And she wants to kill us!"
"I don't see the rest of the Brotherhood on the streets…." Jean pointed.
"Umm…well…since Blob is unmovable and all…and Wanda and Lance mind their own business…" Todd rubbed the back of his neck nervously. "W-We kind of umm…what would you do when you got a statue Mystique in the house?"
"Make her your Barbie doll!" Pietro answered with a grin.
"You immature—" Jean was starting but Todd cut in.
"What? It was fun!" Todd said smiling. "But making her into a fountain would've been cooler! That way she could scare away Kitty from comin'!"
"I'm standing right here!" Kitty snapped.
"Hey Kitty!" Todd waved at her as if noticing her for the first time. "Lance says he'll see you tonight…" He grinned evilly, "in bed."
"What!" Kitty shrieked, attracting the glances of people.
"Nah! We're just messin with you Kit Kat!" Todd laughed. "So why you on the streets sellin cookies? Got kicked out?"
"No! We want to! Now leave us alone!" Jean snapped, really not up to explaining they got caught for something that happened a long time ago and raising money for the damage caused was their punishment.
"B-But we have no place to go…." Todd said sadly. "A-And we can't go back cause she'll kill us…a-and we don't want to join you X-Geeks so where do we go?"
"Hey!" Pietro's face suddenly lit up. "Since we saved the world…"
Jean and Kitty rolled their eyes.
"…Maybe people will love us again!" He finished.
"Oh! Oh!" Todd hopped up and down excitedly. "Let's remind the public that we're still heroes!"
"Excellent point!" Pietro agreed then turned to Jean. "Hey! Can I borrow you for a sec? Thanks!" He took her in his arms and zipped off, not even waiting for a reply. He stopped and placed Jean infront of a fast moving truck and zipped back to the astonished Kitty and Todd.
"Are you crazy! She'll be killed!" Kitty screamed.
"Rescue time!" he said after two seconds and zipped towards Jean saving her before she got hit.
"Not to worry folks!" Pietro held up Jean for the gathering crowd to see. "She's ok! QuickSilver has saved the day!"
"That jerk put her in there in the first—Mpffh!" Kitty mumbled when Todd covered her mouth.
"Please yo! Have mercy on my blind wife and kids!" he pleaded.
Kitty phased and snatched Todd's sunglasses before rushing towards Jean. "He—M-My blind sister was just standing there and this pervert tried to do… 'that' to her!" she shouted pointing at Jean's 'buttonless' shirt.
Everyone gasped.
"What!" Pietro screeched at Kitty's accusation while Jean gave her a are-you-out-of-your-mind look.
'Play along!' Kitty told her mentally as she put the sunglasses on Jean.
Jean scowled but eventually gave in. "Kitty? Is that you my one and only sister?" she asked waving her hands and touching thin air. "Where are you? I-I can't see you…"
"Those poor girls…." An old woman said sympathetically.
"Stop the sympathies!" Todd shouted raising his hands then quickly snatched the sunglasses. "She ain't blind!"
"How cruel can this world get?" Kitty gasped dramatically. She then took Jean's arm. "Come on…" she sniffled. "Let's go to the cruel place we call home…with no food…water…" she again sniffed. "We were really stupid to think that making cookies would help us stand on our feet…."
"Hello?" Todd waved his hand infront of Jean's face. "Not blind!"
"Kitty…what's going on?" Jean asked looking at apparently no one.
"Stop molesting her you psycho!" Kitty shouted pushing Todd.
"He's right everybody!" Pietro came to Todd's rescue. "She's a fake. And here's to prove it!" he made his hand into a fist. "Now she'll stop me when I try to hit her!" Pietro delivered the punch expected not to even touch Jean's face but to his utter horror, it did and with great force that she staggered back and lost her balance.
"You sadistic person!" Kitty screamed, rushing towards Jean. "Come on sis! Get up! Get up!" 'Stay dead! It suits you!' She told Jean mentally. "Oh! Say something!" She wailed, cradling Jean in her arms. "Speak to me!"
'S-Stop s-s-shaking m-me!' Jean said telepathically when Kitty started shaking her violently.
Pietro gulped and hesitantly turned to face the crowd.
"Get him!" A man shouted and everyone charged towards him.
"Yeah right!" Pietro rolled his eyes and was about to zoom off, but unfortunately…. "No!" He screeched when he found he was unable to move. "Toad help!" But Todd had disappeared a long time ago. "No! Noooo!" He looked at the crowd. "Nooooooo!"
"If there's anything you'll ever need…just call me…" A woman conversed with Kitty and Jean in a kind voice.
"No! No! You nice people have done enough to punish the neighborhood criminal—" Kitty was cut short by the cries of Pietro getting beaten up. "We would really appreciate it if you could buy our cookies."
"Of course…" The woman smiled.
"We'll buy!" Some boy shouted.
"Me too!" A little girl squealed and with that, the whole crowd gathered around to purchase the cookies.
"Thank you! Do come next time!" Kitty waved as the last customer left. "So blind sister…I think we made enough money for your eye operation," she chuckled counting the money.
Jean rolled her eyes as she massaged her bruised face. "Kitty…"
"Yes dear sister?"
"Shut up!"
Rogue hummed to herself as she entered the Danger Room. Equipped with nothing but pompoms, she cat-walked to the middle of the room. "Start sequence!" She shouted.
Music filled the Danger Room.
Rogue smiled and began moving with the beat, while singing: "Oh Mickey you're so fine! You're so fine you blow mah mind—Hey Mickey!" She started jumping up and down. "Hey! Mickey! Wohoooo!" She leapt up and performed a back flip, landing on the ground perfectly. "Hey Mickey!"
Rogue abruptly woke up from her nightmare, screaming. "No! No! I-It's impossible! A-Ah can't—Noooo!" She frantically touched herself to make sure she wasn't something she could only imagine herself in her nightmares. She heaved a sigh of relief. Just a nightmare….No pompoms…no music…no singing and dancing…
"If Ah have another dream like that, Ah swear Ah'll kill mahself—Ahhhhh!" She screamed and fell off her bed when something suddenly landed on it from above. Rogue let out a frustrated sigh and got up. "Ugh! Get off! You're gettin' dirt on mah bed!" she growled at X23 crouched on the bed sniffing.
"Nothing…" X23 sniffed. "You had a nightmare…."
Rogue rolled her eyes. "Wow Einstein!" She frowned when she noticed a really familiar shoulderless blouse on X23. "I-Is that… mah shirt! You've been sniffin' through mah stuff again?"
X23 just shrugged.
"That's the only shirt Ah have and you—Hey!" She screeched when X23 suddenly drew out her claws and slashed at her shoulder.
"Problem solved!" she said in a satisfied tone as Rogue gaped down at her new 'shoulderless' shirt.
"You ruined mah shirt!" Rogue screeched after getting over the shock. "Why Ah outta—" Before Rogue could even blink, X23 had bounced off the bed and leapt out of the window. "That is it! Ah need a new room!" she shouted at the ceiling.
"Bonjour…..ma cherie….." Remy's seductive voice interrupted her thoughts.
"Oh hey….Remy…" She trailed off when her eyes fell upon Remy, standing naked, stark naked at the doorway. She blinked. "Uh…Remy? Have you suddenly lost your mind?"
"Nah! Just de clothes….." Remy answered, grinning widely. "Like your new style."
Rogue was about to say something when another naked figure walked in.
Rogue's eyes widened to the extreme. "O man! What the hell?"
"Hey! What's going on?" Scott, 'naked' Scott asked.
Rogue shook her head disbelievingly before she snatched her novel from the bedside table and started fanning herself. "Must be still dreamin'," she panted. 'But this is one hot dream!'
"If dis is a dream den why he be in here?" Remy asked annoyed, pointing a thumb at Scott.
Rogue got up and quickly walked out of the room. "Gotta wake up!"
Out in the hallway, she bumped into someone in her haste.
"Sorry!" Jean apologized, pressing an ice pack on her left eye while her other was closed. "Uh…by the way, Danger Room practice in five minutes. Just tell Logan I can't make it…Oh! And also tell him to give Rogue some extra sessions. She's been really lazy these days and is not lifting a finger to help us."
"Now dat wasn't very nice…" Remy said, coming behind Rogue, followed by Scott.
Rogue, surprised that Jean didn't use her telepathy, just mumbled a yes and was about to trip her, but Scott 'unfortunately' stopped her.
"Like hey!" Kitty suddenly phased up through the floor. "Have you guys seen Danielle?"
Rogue frowned. Why didn't Kitty react by screaming on seeing two naked guys behind her? It was almost like…she couldn't see them.
Rogue snapped her fingers, realizing something. She headed for the living room as fast as she could.
"Why you ignorin' me chere?" Remy asked hurt as he followed her.
"Because you're not real," Rogue replied coolly, ignoring the confused glance of Roberto as she passed. "Aha!" She stalked over to Danielle, lying on the couch curled into a ball. A smirk was plastered on her lips.
"Hmm…what could she be dreamin' about?" Remy wondered.
Rogue grabbed a vase from the table before pulling out the flowers.
"Really Rogue…" Scott scolded as Rogue walked up to Danielle. "There are better ways of waking people—"
Rogue emptied the water in the vase on Danielle's face.
Remy and Scott instantly disappeared while Danielle jolted awake screaming. "H-Help! I'm drowning! Somebody help me—Oh!" she stopped and blinked. "Err…..Heh! Hello Rogue."
"Do me a favor and do not sleep in the afternoons!" Rogue said between gritted teeth before leaving.
A/N: So….Good? Bad? Continue or not? Reviews please!