X-Babies: Growing up

The principal of Bayville Kindergarten was also the mistress of the Brotherhood Babysitting House. She'd enrolled the children there into her kindergarten.

It's a mystery that they haven't been expelled yet.

There was Lance Alvers who had nearly caused the entire building to collapse during one of his tantrums.

Pietro who is the son of Ms. Darkholme's boss, Erik Magnus Lehnsherr; Pietro was a hyperactive little boy and was also very impatient.

Then, there was Todd Tolensky, a toad-like by who detested showers and stank worse than an acre of landfill. He was constantly hopping around to avoid getting caught and was sometimes eating insects.

Finally, there was Fred Dukes, a morbidly obese child who ironically doesn't suffer from diabetes or any fat-related disease. He was just large.

They hardly ever go to class and are always sneaking out to play in the playground or to go buy snacks.

Now, they are doing the former.

Ms. Darkholme stomped through the playground towards them angrily. Away from the others, she'd turn back to her original form: a blue woman with shoulder-length orange hair and sharp yellow eyes. She was known as Mystique in this form.

"What are you doing here?!" she snarled. "Get to class!"

"Class is boring!" Lance said, sticking his tongue out. He was making the sandbox shake.

"It's almost recess anyway!" Pietro said. He was playing on the runabout, making it spin quickly.

"Get back to class or else I'll-" Mystique began to say but was interrupted by the bell.

"It's recess now," Todd said.

Mystique growled, turned back to Ms. Darkholme, and left as children poured into the playground. The boys stopped playing as they saw the new students.

Lance watched as Kitty went to play on the swings. He left the sandbox and tried to approach Kitty.

Pietro stopped the runabout so the others could play. He spotted Evan who was hobbling around with a basketball. He dashed over to join him.

Some of the children had brought candy with them to share. Todd began hopping towards them, thinking of ways to steal their candy.

Fred was sitting on one side of a see-saw. He was looking at Jean who talking to a group of girls. Meanwhile, a bunch of students were climbing onto the other side of the see-saw, attempting to make the weight even.

Suddenly, a high-pitch scream caught everyone's attention. Everybody turned to the direction of the scream: the swings. They saw Kitty, who'd fallen off the swing and was holding on to one of her pig-tails while sobbing. There was a hand sneaking back into the bush behind him.

Scott went over to check. But Kitty quickly got up, angry and in pain. She grabbed the culprit's hand just before it went back into the bushes. She tapped into her phasing power and pulled the culprit out of the bushes smoothly and threw him onto the ground.

It was Lance.

"You jerk!" Kitty yelled at him. She stomped away, leaving Lance on the ground to watch her leave.

Pietro dashed over to him and helped him up. "Piece of advice," Pietro said. "If you want to get a girl's attention, I don't suggest pulling her hair, stupid. Or bullying her."

"Who are you supposed to be?" Lance asked. "The Love Doctor?"

"Maybe," Pietro said, smirking. He dashed back to Evan to continue his game.

Then, there were the cries of anger. A group of boys were chasing after Todd who had bags of candy in his arms and several lollipops sticking out of his mouth.

"Give us back our candy!" a boy shouted.

"I don't know what you're talking about!" Todd shouted back, dropping a few lollipops by accident.

Suddenly, there was a loud CRACK! The see-saw was broken. It'd split in half when the children couldn't lift up Fred and was too much for the see-saw to carry. This was the second time in the week.

Ms. Darkholme watched the children 'play' from her office window. She sighed.

And she thought Xavier's children would cause trouble.

Chapter 4 *END*