Mr. Fitz and Miss Simmons stepped up before their third grade elementary students. The two were looking so dramatic that the third graders didn't even know what to do except watch as the two of them pulled out soft, cushiony balls and gave the children each an evil grin. Tony's heart sank as he realized the horrible, horrible truth of today's gym class.

He turned to Scott. Scott turned to him.

"Dodgeball."

The horrors of today were just beginning.

"It will be girls vs boys!" Mr. Fitz announced, and he and his assistant Miss Simmons stepped out of the way to allow the class to divide itself between the girls and the boys on each side. "You all know the rules of dodgeball! It begins, now!"


Earlier today, Tony would never suspect that his day was going to be ruined with dodgeball. He did know that Remy and Ororo, however, were having sibling tiffs all day, usually created by Ororo:

"Remy didn't take Stormy's bag this morning!"

"Yes you did, Remy, don't lie to me!"

"Remy's not lying!"

And sometimes, they would go:

"Miss Simmons, Remy pulled my hair!"

"Remy did what?! Remy's all the way over here, Stormy!"

And even then, sometimes:

"Remy's touching me!"

"Remy's all whole three feet away from you, Stormy!"


It got so bad, Scott and Jean plotted both of their deaths. That is, until Tony pointed that Ororo was the one starting all the tiffs.

"What's that about anyway?" he pondered to Scott and Jean. "I don't understand those two."

"I kind of see her point about the backpack one," Scott pointed out. "Remy has a tendency to run off with her stuff without realizing it."

"But the thing is that he didn't take her bag this morning, she simply forgot it," Jean sighed. "Their mom even showed up with it after lunch being all, 'oh, little forgetful 'Ro forgot her bag today' and stuff like that." She huffed and looked between the two. "Please tell me this is not just them and your siblings do it too."

"Nat once accused Clint for stealing a cookie," Tony brought up. "But he was responsible for it."

"Hank and Bobby are always at it," Scott added.

The three frowned amongst each other. They had to fix this.


Of course, all three forgot it was a Thursday and that meant Dodgeball Thursday. With Ororo on the girl's side glaring daggers at her brother, and Remy looking like a terrified wet dog on the boy's side, they all knew what was about to happen. The poor eight year olds would never know how this was going to go down without lightning flashing and something exploding. The entire room just silenced, and everyone froze, unsure of what to do. Tony could see the Wilson twins slowly backing away from Remy, who they had happened to be standing near, and he found himself backing up near Scott.

"Dude," he could hear Peter Guardian say to Wade Wilson. "Remy is a dead man."

"Ten bucks says Ororo just aims at him throughout the whole game even after he's out," Wade decided to say.

"Wade, we don't bet on our classmates' lives, and you know it!" the other Peter, Peter Wilson, said. "Aunt May would be so mad at you!"

"Whatever," was Wade's response.

"So, do we just hang out over here, then?" Scott asked, and Tony looked around. The five of them were surely safe over here as Ororo whipped dodgeballs at Remy, which was really all that was going on.

"... Yeah, I say so."


"So, Remy." Tony, Peter Guardian, and Scott sat down at one of the lunch tables with Remy, who was looking kind of upset. "What did you do to 'Ro?"

"Remy have no clue," muttered the cajun eight year old. "All Remy did was wake up this morning, turn on some cartoons, she got up, and she was mad at poor Remy."

"HE KNOWS WHAT HE DID," hollered Ororo from the other side of the lunch room. The boys all looked over at the girls' table before glancing at each other.

"She's worse than my older sister," Peter stated, before shivering slightly as if over some distant memory.

"I would laugh if this was over him turning on the wrong cartoon channel this morning," Scott said.


Tony never did find out what was up with Ororo that day, as she was perfectly fine the next day and she and Remy were back to teasing each other and cheering on other people's arguments like they always did. Siblings were weird.