Chu - The X-2

A few months after my sister had been returned to the Xavier Institute for Gifted Children (I hated the name of the school!) there was a field trip scheduled for the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The prospect of going to New York didn't interest me much and accidentally flooding the museum appealed to me even less, but I was determined to go. History always interested me and I wanted to see dinosaur bones for the second time and wonder if they were real. And besides, Dil and Chi were going. Although I wasn't sure if they wanted me around to bother them about doing the next chapter on their joint manga, I was sure that I was going to bother them about it.

Unfortunately, soon after we arrived, our sense of responsibility flitted away and we started wandering around the museum on our own.

"So, what do you think of that thing?" I asked, pointing to a nearby exhibit, showing a saber-toothed tiger eating a caveman.

"I see the vibrancy, the colors!" Chi answered dramatically, "I see… Dil turning into that thing!"

"Yeah! Let's give those scientists something to talk about in years to come!" I agreed, looking at Dil, our current shape shifter, with a pleading look in my eyes. "I can see the headlines now 'Sabertoothed Tiger Stalks Museum Goers'."

"No." He said resolutely. The joy from our faces promptly left, but Chi was still pleading with him to turn into something. It didn't have to be something too interesting, but she was bored! I agreed.

"Aren't you supposed to be trying to gain a good reputation?" Dil asked me when I suggested that Chi could short circuit the automatic doors so we could see what would happen.

"Well, yeah." I said, sullenly, "I am, but it's getting really boring! I haven't even had a fight with Pyro in however long! I'm bored to tears!"

"Actually, you haven't had a fight with him since I got back. It must be since you're hanging around with us rather than them." Chi said, "I think you deserve to have some fun. Let's go find Pyro and start a fight!"

"Yeah!" I agreed, grabbing her wrist and dragging her along with me, "I think I saw them at the food court. They ran off too!"

"And we can grab some grub at the same time!" Chi said, grabbing Dil's wrist and dragging him along with us.

"I don't think this is a good idea." Dil protested, but knew that until we got food, we were going to be unreasonable. After all, maybe we'd calm down once we filled ourselves to the brim and got sick.

Soon, the food court was found and so, amazingly, was the group that we were looking for. Robert Drake, the Iceman; Rogue, the "suck-the-life-right-out-of-you" person; and St. John Allardyce, my arch-nemesis, Pyro. Of course, the whole reason that we started fighting anyway was because of our powers. It was my opinion that water would always be the victor in a water/fire fight, so I felt no hesitation in challenging him to a battle to the death. It usually ended up with one of us in the infirmary. John obviously felt the same about fire winning over ice, so he was always fighting with Bobby, but it was more of a verbal argument to impress Rogue than anything else. I didn't know why he bothered, since Rogue seemed to be more interested in Bobby than this geek he kept hanging around with.

By the time that I had thought this, my chunk of the pizza was gone and I was ready to go start fighting. After all, this place needed a little redecorating anyway. Some scorch and flood marks wouldn't hurt the place beyond repair, right? And anyway, I told, Rogue is so bored with those two that she's flirting with those creepy looking dudes over there, so it was okay. Just as I went to move, Dil grabbed my arm.

"Ow!" I said, yanking my arm away from him as I stood back up, "What's up with that?"

" I really don't think that starting a fight here is the best idea." He said again. This time, to my surprise, Chi agreed.

"What? Why?" I asked, feeling very betrayed. I followed her pointed finger to the creepy looking guys that were approaching the table.

"Because we have to go save Rogue from those creeps!" She said, momentarily heroic looking. Then she grinned with a foolish look in her eyes, "Magneto sama would be so proud of me for messing up some humans! I get to go visit him soon again and I can't go without something to tell him!"

"Okay!" I said, then turned to Dil just before we ran off, "Hold down the fort if you're not going to storm the enemies! In other words, order us some more pizza."

Bobby looked like he was just getting into the argument. He had grabbed some guy's arm and said that he really didn't want to touch Rogue. I agreed. It wasn't fun.

"Or what?" The guy smirked as though he was humoring a child who he was going to beat up in a few minutes, "You gonna hurt me?"

"Nah, but I might!" I said, suddenly jumping into the fury.

"Yeah, and you don't want to see what'll happen if him and her both gang up on you!" Chi said, standing defensively in front of Rogue. Everyone looked taken aback, especially the X-kids. After all, Rogue still hated her for powering Magneto's machine. Over at our former table, Dil was cringing in horror. I wouldn't have doubted it if he went to tell Xavier that we were getting into trouble again. "Or me and her. It would hurt. A lot."

The boys laughed at us and one of them reached for Chi. Bobby again intercepted the guy's arm. The boy stopped laughing, but Bobby smiled apologetically.

"She might kick your rear." He said it as though it was a joke and everyone seemed to loosen up as they slightly chuckled. I was disappointed that nothing was going to happen. After all, I had come here for a fight. I was just going to turn to Pyro and start something when I heard his snide voice.

"You know, there's no smoking in here." He spoke as though he was Magneto sama speaking to some worthless slime. With absolute "I know I'm better than you" feelings. I chose not to say anything, since I wanted the fight to happen anyway. If a girl said something at this point, it may have taken away the insult.

"Really?" The second boy said, "And just what are you going to do about it?"

"Have fun." I heard Chi chuckle evilly. From the way that the lights were vibrating, I assumed that Chi was getting ready to have some fun of her own. Personally, I spent this time locating every source of water in the room. I could hear several people complaining about sugar getting stuck in their straws as I was separating the water from the other stuff in the soda. While I was busy concentrating, they continued their foolish little argument that was going to end up being a lot of trouble.

"Got a light?" The guy said, gesturing to the lighter that John kept switching on and off. John just grinned at them, thoroughly enjoying this.

"Personally, no. But there's one up there." Chi said cheerfully, pointing at the light on the ceiling, growing extremely bright as the other lights in the room promptly went out.

"I could agree." I said, standing by her side, gathering all the water in the room in a large ballish shape behind me for dramatic effect.

"Can't help you." John said sarcastically looking at the guy. Suddenly something happened that made me loose my concentration. They snatched the lighter from him.

"Hey!" I said, "You can't do that!" After all, I was the only one that could steal Pyro's lighter. There was a large splashing noise from our former table as the huge ball of water suddenly splashed down on Dil. It was shortly followed by a glubbing noise.

"You dropped your water." Chi said, looking at me.

"Don't say weird things." I said, looking at her. Then I turned my attention back on the creeps. "But anyway, they took Pyro's pyro away from him!"

"Not for long." Chi said, pointing to the guy who happened to be lighting his cigarette. I nodded. She was right. Pyro didn't have to be touching the fire for him to use it. Of course, I was gathering the water up again, leaving poor Dil sitting at the table, looking severely annoyed with me.

Two seconds later, the creep with the lighter was on fire and the fun had started. Bobby and Rogue looked dismayed at first, but as soon as the creeps started fighting, they began fighting back. Chi busted the light above her head, gathering the energy in her hand as I gathered the water in my hand. Dramatically, we stood on the table and turned to the evil doing humans.

"Prepare for trouble."

"Make it double."

"To protect the world from humanization."

"So all will be mutants within our nation."

"To denounce the evils of humans thereof."

"To see the beauty of the stars above."

"Chu."

"Chi."

"Team O-Taku blast off at the speed of sight."

"Surrender now or face our might."

"Psst… Dil, say 'That's right!'"

Reluctantly, as he turned his head into a meowth, "That's right."

"If we could come up with a good attack we'd get you with it, but for the time being: Water mirror!" I shouted at the top of my lungs, which seemed to get more attention than the whole Team Rocket motto got.

"Lighting reflection!" Chi shouted as she prepared for attack.

"Zap!" We shrieked at the top of our lungs as we both pummeled the creeps with our powers. Unfortunately, the three on our side were standing too close, so they got fried along with the people that we were trying to get.

"What was that for?!" Bobby demanded, getting to his feet before the other two. I shrugged, and smiled as I noticed that creep #1 had dropped the lighter. Sticking it in my pocket, I looked over at Chi to say something. Suddenly, everyone in the room froze in mid motion. Everyone looked at Bobby, except for Chi and I.

"Let's get out of here."

"Yeah."

However, before we made it out, we heard the voice of Xavier. "The next time you feel like showing off, don't."

"Oops…" We exchanged a short gaze and woke up three hours later.