It was a night just like any other night.except it wasn't.
Me, Priya, Jenn, Dan, Andy, Liz, and Staci were all gathered in my basement
around the TV.
We were supposed to be at homecoming, except that just scared everyone, so
we decided to come to my house to watch my brand new, 43 episode dvd of the
xmen instead. Everyone else had wanted to watch the ring, but it was my
house, and "somehow" the wrong dvd had found its way into the machine.
"We are NOT watching Xmen!" Priya shouted angrily, pushing the stop button. "We're watching the Ring, I wanna see some violence!" "Xmen has violence! Toad gets his tongue slammed in the door." I re pushed the play button "I wanna see real violence! The kind where people die!" Stop. "Toad eats bugs, and they die!" Play. We continued arguing and beating on the buttons while everyone else watched with mild interest. After we had poked it about fifty times, two things happened.
One was that the door that lead outside burst open and a frantically eager person burst in. "Hiya Beth, need help with that malfunctioning piece of technology? I can fix anything; I'm computer literate."
The other was that the dvd player started to bounce around of its own accord and shoot out sparks and steam.
Suddenly a weird sort of light erupted from the television and blinded my vision. Then it all went black.
I awoke an undeterminable amount of time later to a high pitched scream. I realized I was in a weird bed.someone else's bed. I could see the door from across the room and made a bolt for it, but someone was sitting up in another bed right next to it. She screamed and I could tell it was the same one as before.
"Who the heck are you?" I asked
"I don't know, It's really dark. And this isn't my room! If it was my room, I'd be able to see! I miss my night light!"
"Well, this isn't my room either!"
"Doesn't anyone know where we are! Oh my poor little leprechaun head."
I grabbed her by her shirt collar and yanked her to her feet. She looked barely five feet tall, but then again, I was only 5 foot 3. But somehow it didn't seem that way.
"What are you talking about!"
"Now I know something's wrong. Either you're really freakishly tall, or something's really wrong." The girl was in hysterics by now. "I'M supposed to be the tall one! I'm always tall, and now the light switch is taller than me and the ceiling seems so far away!"
I shook her by her shirt collar.
"Tell me what you mean! Who are you?"
"I'm Andy. Who are you?"
I leaned against the wall for support.
"I'm Beth. Andy, do you know you're a girl? A really, really short girl."
"Now's not the time for jokes."
"No, I'm serious. Look, there's got to be a mirror around here somewhere."
I turned on the light switch. Andy screamed again. I started laughing hysterically, in a "my mind has been put through too much and then smacked with a frying pan" kind of way. "I know who you are! You're Kitty. Ya know, from x-men."
"Er, sure Beth, whatever you say, but I thought you weren't supposed to be Rogue until Halloween."
"I'm not.Rogue?" We had found the mirror. Andy screamed again. I felt like following suit. The face looking back was definetly Rogue's. It had the white bangs and was very pale.
"I wonder if we got their powers too." Andy remembered what Rogue's power was and began inching away.
"I can always see if my hand can go through something." Of course Andy had no Idea how to use his new powers. He screamed again, this time in pain for walking straight into a wall. It was probably lucky that he hadn't been able to get through, since we were on the second story and he would have gone right out onto the lawn on the other side.
But then his attempt at using his powers seemed to belatedly kick in and he began slipping through the floor. "Help!" He yelped, very high pitchedly. He grabbed onto my luckily covered wrist and I fell through the floor too. Luckily, or so it seemed, we landed on something soft. And Squishy. And furry. That had a tail.
We leaped off the bed and whatever we had landed on let out a moan.
"Anika, what'd I tell you about jumping on me in the morning. You are so dead, as soon as I wake up."
"Priya? Its me, Beth."
"Beth? When'd you come over? And stop TRYING to use accents. It's annoying. You sound like dubya."
"Priya, we have some bad news. Come out of your covers and let us see who you are."
"I have no idea what you're talking about, so you better explain fast, or you're going to get very hurt."
She sat up and pulled the covers back. Andy and I gasped. Priya was now a blue, fuzzy elf. I let out a squeal.
"EEEEEH! ITS KURT! ANDY, ANDY, CAN YOU SEE! CAN YOU SEE! ITS KURT!"
Then It dawned on me. PRIYA was Kurt. "Darn it, just when I finally meet him, Kurt turns out to be my best friend!" Andy was laughing and Priya was looking confused.
"What are you talking about?" Andy went over and reached up to turn on the lights. "Who are you people?"
"Priya, you need to watch more x-men. But there should be at least one face that you know." I lead her over to her mirror. "Priya, you're Kurt." Andy started laughing again. "Shut up, *Kitty*."
Priya looked uncharacteristically serious. "Where do you think everyone else is? I mean, if only three of us are here now."
The three of us exchanged worried looks. Then we went off to see if anyone else in the mansion looked as confused as we were.
The first room I found was Scott's. I poked him. "Scott?" "Rogue, whadya." A flash and Scott was once again unconscious. "Whoops."
Andy tried running through a wall into the next room. "OW!" "Ow" Andy had run into the wall, and then fallen through the floor. As soon as I left Scott's room, I heard Andy muttering through the door on my right.
"Sorry Mr. Logan, Didn't mean to fall on you, sorry. He tried to back out through the door. "OW!" Andy this time managed to fall back through the door instead of the floor. "Like this is so totally not my day."
"DON'T DO THAT! Its creepy."
"Like sorry. DARNIT IT LIKE WON'T STOP!" Andy fell to his short little knees. "And, like, don't ever touch me again." Then he slumped forward, unconscious.
"Whoops."
"What happened?" I looked up to find Kurt, er, Priya closing a door. I pointed to Andy on the floor. Priya nodded, then yelped. "Verdammt, I closed the door on my tail again. My poor, poor tail. Oh, and that one x guy, ya know the one with the white hair."
"Storm?"
"Probably. Well, she's not anyone." We decided to leave Andy in the middle of the hallway. By the time we searched the rest of the rooms, he was sitting up groggily.
"Where's everyone else?"
"They might be at the Brotherhood."
"What's that?" Priya asked. Andy and I rolled our eyes to her.
"That's where the bad mutants live." I explained. "Like *Pietro*." Andy and I made kissey faces at her. Priya looked livid and smacked me, since I happened to be closer. But there was a flash and then Priya fell over. I grinned at Andy. "hehehe, What does she say? Oh yes, 'Don't mess with the Rogue'."
I picked up Priya, since Andy was too small to do so, and I made sure that I wasn't touching any of Priya's skin. I really needed to find some gloves. So Andy and I went back up to Kitty and Rogue's room to find some. Priya woke up shortly after and pointed out that we might not want to go roaming the streets of some strange town in our pajamas (epscially since Kitty's was very, er, skimpy) so we decided to raid the closets. Priya watched with great amusement as Andy and I trashed the room in search of something appropriate.
"Darn it, I can't find anything not skimpy!" I shouted in anger.
"Darn it, I can't find anything not pink!" Andy yelled back.
I found an old trenchcoat in the back of Rogue's closet so I was happy. I pulled on some of her normal clothes on over the pajama's and then put it on over the top. There, not an inch of skin showing, except for the face. And it was even up to code with Jenn's Victorian standards.
Andy wasn't having any such luck. Everything he threw out of the closet was a disgusting shade of pink. After fifteen minutes of such antics, we finally managed to convince him that fuchsia was a shade of red. Stupid leprechaun. Priya and I made it put it on over his pajamas too.
"Now for you Priya." But Priya had already found one of Kurt's watches and put it on. She pressed a couple of buttons and it got close to Kurt's normal appearance, except it looked like he was wearing lipstick. Priya shrugged. It's not like she was *actually* wearing such an atrocity.
"Ya know, it's not so bad being Kurt. It's fun being fuzzy and you don't even need to care what you put on, as long as you have the watch. And you can do this." She smacked Andy with Kurt's tail. "Hehehe, that's funny."
"Ow! Hey, Stop it!" Andy smacked Priya back, only to have her whack him twice as hard with her tail. "That's not fair! If only I could figure out how to *stay* intangible." Andy concentrated very hard and Priya's tail went through him the next time she tried to whack him. "Ha ha! Try and hurt me now!" Andy began sinking through the floor.
"OW!" "Kitty!" As soon as we found Andy, I used my infinite knowledge of the Xmen to find our way outside. I really hoped that all that security stuff didn't go off. So of course, logically, it did.
"Priya, you have to try and teleport us to the other side of the yard." I said as we were cowering behind a fountain that was currently being blasted to smithereens.
"I can do that?" Andy smacked her for me, since I couldn't reach.
"Just concentrate on appearing on the other side of the yard." Priya closed her eyes and she was gone. Only there was one problem.
"Priya, you dumkopf, you forgot us!" Priya came back, grabbed both our hands, and forgot us once again.
"Try concentrating on taking us with you. The third time, she managed to succeed. But then she collapsed from all the teleporting. I had to carry her again.
"Now which way do we, like, go?" Andy asked.
"I dunno, they never show the walking in the show. But it will look familiar when we get nearby."
"Aww, Its gonna take forever to find it them."
An evil smile crossed my lips. "Not If we do what I'm thinking. Priya, you up for one more port?"
Priya got us over to the garage (where she promptly collapsed again), and when we found out it was locked, Andy got us in. (After Andy smacked into the wall)
Then I hotwired Logan's bike with an evil grin.
Andy found another motorcycle under a tarp. "Yay! I get to ride a motorcycle too!" Andy hopped onto it, but his feet were about a foot away from the pedals and he could hardly touch the handlebars with his fingertips. "Waa! I wanna motorcycle! How do you people deal with being short like this."
Priya was in no state to drive one, so Andy had to hop on the back of Logan's stolen bike. I revved the handlebars and a demonic glint entered my eyes. I love driving (especially fast) and If nothing would really happen if I broke a few laws.
"Andy, can you phase us through the garage?"
"Er, I can try."
"Which basically means no. Ah, well, no matter." The crazed gleam became even more pronounced. "Hold on to anything you don't want run over!" Andy looked slightly sick, and then squeezed his eyes shut like he was trying to phase. It didn't work, but no matter. We crashed through the garage as I laughed in an evil sort of way. Priya looked more stunned than before and Andy looked as if he were about to snap. I giggled this time. Now Andy looked at me as if I had already snapped. I simply slammed on the accelerator.
"It's fun when you can't get in trouble!" I heard a high pitched "Mommy" from behind me.
Even though it took me quite a few wrong turns to find the neighborhood that looked familiar, we were there in under ten minutes, and not a cop car in sight. I slammed on the brakes and the bike skidded to a halt.
"Hehe, I need a motorcycle in real life." Andy and Priya groaned and looked ill.
Andy phased us in after smacking himself into the front door a few times. We ran to a nearby closet as soon as we heard footsteps coming down the stairs, but Andy didn't make it in before being spotted. He whipped around. Lance was frozen in the middle of the stairs.
"We are NOT watching Xmen!" Priya shouted angrily, pushing the stop button. "We're watching the Ring, I wanna see some violence!" "Xmen has violence! Toad gets his tongue slammed in the door." I re pushed the play button "I wanna see real violence! The kind where people die!" Stop. "Toad eats bugs, and they die!" Play. We continued arguing and beating on the buttons while everyone else watched with mild interest. After we had poked it about fifty times, two things happened.
One was that the door that lead outside burst open and a frantically eager person burst in. "Hiya Beth, need help with that malfunctioning piece of technology? I can fix anything; I'm computer literate."
The other was that the dvd player started to bounce around of its own accord and shoot out sparks and steam.
Suddenly a weird sort of light erupted from the television and blinded my vision. Then it all went black.
I awoke an undeterminable amount of time later to a high pitched scream. I realized I was in a weird bed.someone else's bed. I could see the door from across the room and made a bolt for it, but someone was sitting up in another bed right next to it. She screamed and I could tell it was the same one as before.
"Who the heck are you?" I asked
"I don't know, It's really dark. And this isn't my room! If it was my room, I'd be able to see! I miss my night light!"
"Well, this isn't my room either!"
"Doesn't anyone know where we are! Oh my poor little leprechaun head."
I grabbed her by her shirt collar and yanked her to her feet. She looked barely five feet tall, but then again, I was only 5 foot 3. But somehow it didn't seem that way.
"What are you talking about!"
"Now I know something's wrong. Either you're really freakishly tall, or something's really wrong." The girl was in hysterics by now. "I'M supposed to be the tall one! I'm always tall, and now the light switch is taller than me and the ceiling seems so far away!"
I shook her by her shirt collar.
"Tell me what you mean! Who are you?"
"I'm Andy. Who are you?"
I leaned against the wall for support.
"I'm Beth. Andy, do you know you're a girl? A really, really short girl."
"Now's not the time for jokes."
"No, I'm serious. Look, there's got to be a mirror around here somewhere."
I turned on the light switch. Andy screamed again. I started laughing hysterically, in a "my mind has been put through too much and then smacked with a frying pan" kind of way. "I know who you are! You're Kitty. Ya know, from x-men."
"Er, sure Beth, whatever you say, but I thought you weren't supposed to be Rogue until Halloween."
"I'm not.Rogue?" We had found the mirror. Andy screamed again. I felt like following suit. The face looking back was definetly Rogue's. It had the white bangs and was very pale.
"I wonder if we got their powers too." Andy remembered what Rogue's power was and began inching away.
"I can always see if my hand can go through something." Of course Andy had no Idea how to use his new powers. He screamed again, this time in pain for walking straight into a wall. It was probably lucky that he hadn't been able to get through, since we were on the second story and he would have gone right out onto the lawn on the other side.
But then his attempt at using his powers seemed to belatedly kick in and he began slipping through the floor. "Help!" He yelped, very high pitchedly. He grabbed onto my luckily covered wrist and I fell through the floor too. Luckily, or so it seemed, we landed on something soft. And Squishy. And furry. That had a tail.
We leaped off the bed and whatever we had landed on let out a moan.
"Anika, what'd I tell you about jumping on me in the morning. You are so dead, as soon as I wake up."
"Priya? Its me, Beth."
"Beth? When'd you come over? And stop TRYING to use accents. It's annoying. You sound like dubya."
"Priya, we have some bad news. Come out of your covers and let us see who you are."
"I have no idea what you're talking about, so you better explain fast, or you're going to get very hurt."
She sat up and pulled the covers back. Andy and I gasped. Priya was now a blue, fuzzy elf. I let out a squeal.
"EEEEEH! ITS KURT! ANDY, ANDY, CAN YOU SEE! CAN YOU SEE! ITS KURT!"
Then It dawned on me. PRIYA was Kurt. "Darn it, just when I finally meet him, Kurt turns out to be my best friend!" Andy was laughing and Priya was looking confused.
"What are you talking about?" Andy went over and reached up to turn on the lights. "Who are you people?"
"Priya, you need to watch more x-men. But there should be at least one face that you know." I lead her over to her mirror. "Priya, you're Kurt." Andy started laughing again. "Shut up, *Kitty*."
Priya looked uncharacteristically serious. "Where do you think everyone else is? I mean, if only three of us are here now."
The three of us exchanged worried looks. Then we went off to see if anyone else in the mansion looked as confused as we were.
The first room I found was Scott's. I poked him. "Scott?" "Rogue, whadya." A flash and Scott was once again unconscious. "Whoops."
Andy tried running through a wall into the next room. "OW!" "Ow" Andy had run into the wall, and then fallen through the floor. As soon as I left Scott's room, I heard Andy muttering through the door on my right.
"Sorry Mr. Logan, Didn't mean to fall on you, sorry. He tried to back out through the door. "OW!" Andy this time managed to fall back through the door instead of the floor. "Like this is so totally not my day."
"DON'T DO THAT! Its creepy."
"Like sorry. DARNIT IT LIKE WON'T STOP!" Andy fell to his short little knees. "And, like, don't ever touch me again." Then he slumped forward, unconscious.
"Whoops."
"What happened?" I looked up to find Kurt, er, Priya closing a door. I pointed to Andy on the floor. Priya nodded, then yelped. "Verdammt, I closed the door on my tail again. My poor, poor tail. Oh, and that one x guy, ya know the one with the white hair."
"Storm?"
"Probably. Well, she's not anyone." We decided to leave Andy in the middle of the hallway. By the time we searched the rest of the rooms, he was sitting up groggily.
"Where's everyone else?"
"They might be at the Brotherhood."
"What's that?" Priya asked. Andy and I rolled our eyes to her.
"That's where the bad mutants live." I explained. "Like *Pietro*." Andy and I made kissey faces at her. Priya looked livid and smacked me, since I happened to be closer. But there was a flash and then Priya fell over. I grinned at Andy. "hehehe, What does she say? Oh yes, 'Don't mess with the Rogue'."
I picked up Priya, since Andy was too small to do so, and I made sure that I wasn't touching any of Priya's skin. I really needed to find some gloves. So Andy and I went back up to Kitty and Rogue's room to find some. Priya woke up shortly after and pointed out that we might not want to go roaming the streets of some strange town in our pajamas (epscially since Kitty's was very, er, skimpy) so we decided to raid the closets. Priya watched with great amusement as Andy and I trashed the room in search of something appropriate.
"Darn it, I can't find anything not skimpy!" I shouted in anger.
"Darn it, I can't find anything not pink!" Andy yelled back.
I found an old trenchcoat in the back of Rogue's closet so I was happy. I pulled on some of her normal clothes on over the pajama's and then put it on over the top. There, not an inch of skin showing, except for the face. And it was even up to code with Jenn's Victorian standards.
Andy wasn't having any such luck. Everything he threw out of the closet was a disgusting shade of pink. After fifteen minutes of such antics, we finally managed to convince him that fuchsia was a shade of red. Stupid leprechaun. Priya and I made it put it on over his pajamas too.
"Now for you Priya." But Priya had already found one of Kurt's watches and put it on. She pressed a couple of buttons and it got close to Kurt's normal appearance, except it looked like he was wearing lipstick. Priya shrugged. It's not like she was *actually* wearing such an atrocity.
"Ya know, it's not so bad being Kurt. It's fun being fuzzy and you don't even need to care what you put on, as long as you have the watch. And you can do this." She smacked Andy with Kurt's tail. "Hehehe, that's funny."
"Ow! Hey, Stop it!" Andy smacked Priya back, only to have her whack him twice as hard with her tail. "That's not fair! If only I could figure out how to *stay* intangible." Andy concentrated very hard and Priya's tail went through him the next time she tried to whack him. "Ha ha! Try and hurt me now!" Andy began sinking through the floor.
"OW!" "Kitty!" As soon as we found Andy, I used my infinite knowledge of the Xmen to find our way outside. I really hoped that all that security stuff didn't go off. So of course, logically, it did.
"Priya, you have to try and teleport us to the other side of the yard." I said as we were cowering behind a fountain that was currently being blasted to smithereens.
"I can do that?" Andy smacked her for me, since I couldn't reach.
"Just concentrate on appearing on the other side of the yard." Priya closed her eyes and she was gone. Only there was one problem.
"Priya, you dumkopf, you forgot us!" Priya came back, grabbed both our hands, and forgot us once again.
"Try concentrating on taking us with you. The third time, she managed to succeed. But then she collapsed from all the teleporting. I had to carry her again.
"Now which way do we, like, go?" Andy asked.
"I dunno, they never show the walking in the show. But it will look familiar when we get nearby."
"Aww, Its gonna take forever to find it them."
An evil smile crossed my lips. "Not If we do what I'm thinking. Priya, you up for one more port?"
Priya got us over to the garage (where she promptly collapsed again), and when we found out it was locked, Andy got us in. (After Andy smacked into the wall)
Then I hotwired Logan's bike with an evil grin.
Andy found another motorcycle under a tarp. "Yay! I get to ride a motorcycle too!" Andy hopped onto it, but his feet were about a foot away from the pedals and he could hardly touch the handlebars with his fingertips. "Waa! I wanna motorcycle! How do you people deal with being short like this."
Priya was in no state to drive one, so Andy had to hop on the back of Logan's stolen bike. I revved the handlebars and a demonic glint entered my eyes. I love driving (especially fast) and If nothing would really happen if I broke a few laws.
"Andy, can you phase us through the garage?"
"Er, I can try."
"Which basically means no. Ah, well, no matter." The crazed gleam became even more pronounced. "Hold on to anything you don't want run over!" Andy looked slightly sick, and then squeezed his eyes shut like he was trying to phase. It didn't work, but no matter. We crashed through the garage as I laughed in an evil sort of way. Priya looked more stunned than before and Andy looked as if he were about to snap. I giggled this time. Now Andy looked at me as if I had already snapped. I simply slammed on the accelerator.
"It's fun when you can't get in trouble!" I heard a high pitched "Mommy" from behind me.
Even though it took me quite a few wrong turns to find the neighborhood that looked familiar, we were there in under ten minutes, and not a cop car in sight. I slammed on the brakes and the bike skidded to a halt.
"Hehe, I need a motorcycle in real life." Andy and Priya groaned and looked ill.
Andy phased us in after smacking himself into the front door a few times. We ran to a nearby closet as soon as we heard footsteps coming down the stairs, but Andy didn't make it in before being spotted. He whipped around. Lance was frozen in the middle of the stairs.