Mysterious named guest mysteryperson (no pun intended, but sadly the stupid thing is still there) requested that I do something about Bobby and the X-Jet. Personally, I think that'd be a rather entertaining one shot, so here it is!
Chapter 4: Rule 26
"Alright, time to try a flight simulator," Logan said. "In this exercise each of you will be flying a simulation of the X-Jet. Your goal is to stay in the air for ten minutes. This should be easy enough. Magma! You're up first."
Amara, a girl with long dark brown hair, brown eyes, and tan skin, stepped up and took hold of the control. As soon as she touched it, the empty, white room changed to look exactly like the inside of the X-Jet. Will looked out the windshield and saw clear skies. They were flying.
"Alright, kid, just try to keep the jet straight and steady," Logan said. Amara nodded and started flying the simulator. She did fairly well, the jet shook a bit and there was a brief time where she had the jet wobbling almost uncontrollably, but she never crashed.
"Eh, not bad," Logan said, before going into detail about what she did wrong. Ray was next. He did considerably worse than Amara, but he didn't crash, and that was all that really mattered. Roberto was almost perfect in his flight. Sam and Jubilee both did about as well as Amara. Jamie did worse than Ray, but Logan seemed to let that slide since he was so much younger than everyone else.
"Good job, Jamie," Rahne said as Jamie walked past her, head hung.
"Thanks, Rahne!" Jamie said, perking up.
Bobby whistled and sang "Rahne and Jamie sittin' in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G!"
"Shut up!" Rahne and Jamie yelled, both turning scarlet. Sam and Roberto also turned red, though Will had no idea why.
Logan, acting as if nothing had happened, called Rahne up next. Rahne didn't do too well. She dropped the jet and swerved it several times, rather violently. However, she still managed to fly without crashing. After Logan gave her the debriefing Rahne returned to her seat. "Good job, Rahne," Will said. She glared at him. Will shrugged. Oh, well. She didn't trust him yet. He was still an outsider. It had only been two days, so it wasn't like she was dragging the lack of trust thing for too long.
Logan called Will up next. Will sat down in the pilot's seat and grabbed the thing that controlled the jet. Will had no idea what it was called. "Alright, since you're brand new I'm going to give you a couple of pointers," Logan said. "This thing in front of you controls the jet. Push it in to go down, pull it out to go up. Left tilts the jet to the left, right to the right. Go!" Will held onto the thing, keeping it steady. He'd driven cars before (kind of), so he knew enough to know not to turn the thing back and forth repeatedly. He hit some turbulence, which caused the jet to rock, and struggled to get it steady again. He kept overestimating the turn and going too far to one side or the other. Eventually, Will managed to figure it out. Well, he managed to get the jet steady again.
Logan called time, and Will let go of the wheel. "Not bad, for the first time," Logan admitted. He seemed almost... disappointed? Was will supposed to have done better? If so, then surely Logan wouldn't have hesitated to point out had bad he'd done. Logan once made Jubilee cry because of how harsh he had been. Well, that's what Kurt had told him. Will wasn't too sure that any girl who could kick as hard as Jubilee would break down like that.
"Dude, you were brilliant!" Ray said. "It's like you're a natural born flier!"
Logan called Bobby, and everyone in the jet froze. Not like icy froze, but time froze. The point is, Bobby didn't turn anyone into an icicle, they all just stopped moving. Bobby strode up to the cockpit and cockily (pun intended, sorry) grabbed the stick thing. Everyone quickly buckled themselves in as tightly as they could. Will had no idea what was going on, but he wasn't dumb enough to ignore everyone else. Obviously they had a reason, so Will copied them. Jubilee looked terrified, and Amara looked like she was about to be sick. In fact, the only person who didn't look either nauseated or terrified was Bobby. Even Logan looked scared.
Will was beginning to wonder if he couldn't somehow find a way to get out of the simulator when Bobby started flying. Almost immediately a bird hit the windshield. "Awe yeah! Bonus points!" Bobby exclaimed.
Bobby made a sudden nose dive, heading straight for the ground. At the very last possible second, Bobby pulled up and went nearly straight up. Will understood why everyone was so apprehensive about Bobby flying. Bobby leveled out, and just when Will thought it was over, he started spinning the jet. "Do a barrel roll!" Bobby yelled.
"No! Don't do a barrel roll!" Logan called. "Keep this blasted thing steady!"
"Bobby! Slow down!" Jubilee yelled. Rahne was turning a sickly green color, the kind of green that didn't look anything like Christmas, even with Rahne's red hair. Jamie had multiplied into at least four Jamies. Amara was heaving into a brown paper bag while Ray held her hair back. Sam and Roberto had there eyes closed and seemed to be... praying?
Bobby saw some building down below, and for whatever reason decided to dive bomb it. He was just a few feet from crashing into the building when he pulled up. "Hey, Mr. Logan, how much more time do I have?" Bobby asked.
Logan growled. "None!"
"That's enough time!" Bobby exclaimed. Bobby turned the jet around and aimed it straight at a skyscraper. He crashed right into the building, promptly ending the simulation. Bobby stood up and beamed widely. Logan got up, holding his stomach, and groaned "Class dismissed."
Roberto, Ray, and Sam all bolted out of the simulator as quickly as they could. Jubilee and Jamie were right behind them. Amara and Rahne, however, nearly crawled out. "Are you two okay?" Will asked.
Amara shot a glare at him. "Do we look okay to you?" she asked.
Will held up his hands. "Okay, what I meant was, is there anything I can do to help you two?" he amended.
Amara shook her head. "No, we just need to lie down for a few hours. Or days," she replied. "You go on without us." Will nodded and left the simulator. Outside, a blue elf was waiting for him.
"So, how did your first training session go?" Kurt asked.
"Is it too late to change teams?" Will asked.
Kurt nodded. "Sorry, man. You're stuck with them."
"Then I have a new rule to add to the list," Will said.
"What's that?" Kurt asked.
"Never let Bobby fly the jet. Or simulator. Ever!"
Author's Note:
That was fun to write. Hopefully it was also fun to read. One person voiced a desire for me to add X23 (thank you for the feedback empressofthedead!) and no one said not to, so she's coming in! Expect her in a couple of chapters. And, as always, please review!
