A Nightmare Before Easter Part I of II
Disclaimer: I guess, if I did own X-Men: Evolution, I wouldn't be writing fanfictions, but a script to a next seasons. So, I don't own it and I never will. All of the characters belong to Marvel.
Jamie silently knocked on a door. After a brief pause, an arm appeared from behind that door, and quickly dragged the boy inside. Then, a blond head, with shoulder-lenght hair, came out and looked around. Making sure that there is no one in the hallway, the head came back in, and the door was silently closed.
Alex turned around and gave a strict look to Madrocks:
«You're late»
Jamie, in return, turned red and said:
«I was just waiting until there was no one around, so I wouldn't get a tail…»
«Well then…», Alex's face suddenly changed into a sinisiter grin and he rubbed his hands in a very maliscious way, «Shall we begin?»
Jamie's face showed a slight gring, and he too, rubbed his hands in a very maliscious way.
At that time, Bobby, who's been sitting on his bed so far, too, grinned, and also rubbed his hands in a very maliscious way. (The point of describing everything so thoroughly was so that the readers could imagine such a scene: three teenagers, sinisterly grinning and malisciously rubbing their hands, sitting in a perfect equilateral triangle (60 degree angles, same distance and everything). «...something wicked this way comes!», indeed)
Having endulged the atmosphere to the fullest, Bobby stopped rubbing his hands and spoke:
«Jamie, Alex, my friends, my comrades, my collegues in hooliganism. We haven't been pranking around the Mansion for a long time now. Tell me, why?»
«Mmm… we switched to the mall?»
«Yes, Jamie, we switched to the mall. And why exactly did we do it?»
«Because Professor threatened you and Alex with taking away your positions as sub-division leaders, and Wolverine promised us one hell of ass-kicking if we pranked one more time»
«True. Oh, but it was worth it, wasn't it…»
The trio dedicated a few moments of silence, in a memory of the Soup. It was their last prank inside the Institute, and it was massive: not only it «touched» almost the entire student body, it also was the cause of throwing away a fine pot, since Kitty could not «bear to see this ugly, disgusting thing around here any longer» (it should be mentioned that the pot originally was picked for it's outer look, rather than anything else – Ororo, at the time, could not miss a chance to get such a lovely painted kitchenware).
«Anyway,» Bobby continued, «today, as in honour to the beginning of the Eastern holidays, we have to… no, we must do something memorable around this place. So that would make any associations with it an unbearable reminder of what had happened on the first day of the spring break»
«Yeah, and we'll just have another taboo, besides the soup», Alex said grimly, and unconsciously rubbed his ears, that were pulled by Scott, more than half a year ago. Havok made peace with it only because Summers-bro-senior was taking his revenge out on his brother, a revenge for no other than Jean, who was among those that fell victim to the evil prank… oh yeah, he also said something about «…giving an example as a sub-division leader, what a shame!», but that wasn't likely the cause.
«No! This time it won't be something so rare and avoidable, this time it will be more practical», Bobby also unconsciously rubbed his own ears, which were pulled by Logan, «And this time we'll make sure not to get caught too. This time we also will become victims, and dump the blame on someone else».
«Brotherhood?»
«No. They'd never do anything like that around here»
«Why?»
«Because… well, first of all they quit pranking. They «resigned» and that's when our time of hooliganism came. We have proudly inherited their spirit of indulgence in our duty as… okay, moving on: second of all there are connections»
«Connections?», Alexander truly had no idea of what the hell was Robert talking about.
«Well, look at it this way: Wanda is friends with Rogue, Kitty is dating Lance. If someone from the Brotherhood would do something to someone from here, then Wanda, or Lance, or Rogue, for that matter, would unleash their wrath on Pietro, or kill the poor Toad…»
«Wait… what? Sorry, but you lost me there, I don't see how it all…»
Bobby just slapped his forehead:
«It's just…», no, there was no way of explaining this whole thing about weird human (or mutant) relationships to someone, who spent most of his later-childhood and early-teenage years surfing in solitude, and having a board as his best friend in result, «just take it as a fact, that's all. In any case, they all met, talked and they know each other enough to not prank on each other»
«So, Brotherhood falls out. Who then?»
«Good question. Any ideas?»
Jamie just shrugged his shoulders – he usually was silent in such matters, for he was only a beginner in pranking, unlike more experienced Alex, and almost a master in pranks, Bobby. Besides, his ideas weren't as brilliant and amazing as Bobby's were, so he wasn't even trying to come up with something.
Alex was just standing, and looking as if he was thinking; at such moments, he was very similar to his elder brother, but, unlike Scott, who's brain was generating a whole bunch of strategic ideas, Sommers-bro-junior's brain was filled with a huge… void. He wasn't even attempting to try, since he knew that there were two other people, who would come up with something eventually.
«So, no ideas?»
«Nuh»
«…»
«Well then», Bobby waited a dramatic pause, «a back-up plan, last reserve»
Multiple and Havok raised their heads at once, and looked at their hooligan guru, who had a lot of experience in such reprobates.
«There is…»
One man, who was completely unconcerned about the upcoming spring break, and all the free-time and going out that students got, was sitting and silently staring at his lap-top monitor. An opened Microsoft Office Word file, half of a page of text, and that little vertical cursor, that was blinking continuously, as if asking «Well? What's next?... Well?... Well?... Well?...», were the only sight that came before his eyes in the last thirty minutes or so.
«Dammit…», the man continued his cursing (it's PG rated, no cursing in opened form, so don't even wait for it) on his Muse. The Muse decided to show her character, and threw an obstacle – a writing block. Not only a poor writer lost his ability to come up with any ideas and write any text, but he also started running out of imagination for new, extravagant curses, and had to fall as low, as your usual daily words, that people usually use, when they have somehting bad happening.
Turning around, not being able to bear the sight of the nagging cursor, John (and yes, it was John) looked around his room: rushely made bed, opened up half-empty closet, and a fire kitten, who was walking around the place. Pyro realised, that not very long ago, completely out of boredom he made a little kitten, from a dense, yet somewhat cold flame, so that noting would be set on fire; he forgot about the little blazing creature, so the thing just silently drowned energy from him.
«Here kitty… kitty no more», in an extremely bored manner, John, with a light movement of his hand, distinguished the kitten.
After a few more minutes of sitting, and finally realising that he is absolutely incapable of coming up with anything useful, he stood up, put on a jacket, made sure to take a lighter with him, and walked out of his room.
In the blinding darkness of the night, three shadows met in a storge room. The light bulb was turned on and shone upon three exhausted, but very pleased with themsleves, guys. They looked at each other, trying to get used to the make-overs they have had in the past few hours. Nevertheless, their daring, hooligan faces were as content, as if they were some cats, who just stuffed up on sour cream. Bobby asked:
«Everything is in place?»
Alex and Jamie said in unison, «Oh yes!».
«So, congradulations with another successful preparation of our brand new prank. Now, only one question remains. Multiple?»
Madrocks tensed for a moment, while contacting his clone, and then smiled and nodded his head. Bobby oozed pure happiness.
«Great», he was concentrating on making sure not to emitt some of his well-practiced manical laughs, «then, everybody out»
Trembling in anticipation of other student's reaction, the trio turned off the light bulb and silently run over into their own rooms. They could not imagine how much luck they had, that a certain pensive and stern wolverine could not be spotted on the Mansion's territory that night.
St. John Allerdice, the fire-tamer, tired with his mind's uncooperation in generating ideas for his new novell, didn't even notice, how fast the time have gone to a night. He also haven't noticed that he accidentally came close to Charles Xavier's Institution for Gifted Youngsters. In fact, he didn't really notice anything at all, including the shadowy figure, silently following him.
Suddenly, a cell phone ringed. The unexpected melody of «Feuer Frei!» almost sturtled the follower. Pyro took the phone and brought it up to his ear; then he had to take it away from his ear, due to incredibly loud «Ami, damn you, where the hell have you wandered off to? We have quite a day tomorrow, and Maggie doesn't like lateness and/or absence on assignment! Hello, ami? What happened to you anyway? Hey? John? Ami?»
Unfortunately, at that point in time, John couldn't hear anything at all, because he was laying without consciousness, but with evidence.
The one, who was following him earlier, now have disappeared.
To be continued…
A/N: Ah, took me long enough. As you probably guessed, it was supposed to be an Easter story. Well, Halloween's good enough for it, right? Indeed, University is very time consuming. As well, as the usual summer break's nothingdoingness – seriously, just because of that I've accomplished very little during the summer.
Sorry if I upset any of Alex's fans, he is not empty for ideas, he just doesn't even try, when he knows it is not a battle field or a life/death situation.
Now then, I apologise for stretching it for two parts. But I promise you, the next part will come out soon – in few days, in fact. Wait for it ;)