Theme Park Troubles
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Chapter 10: Malfunction!
The Xavier Institute
"Hmmm-hmmm hm hmmm, hm hmmm..." Jason Fox smiled as he walked into the Common Room. A smile crossed the orange-haired mutant's face.
"Hey, man. You look happy." A voice greeted. Fox turned and saw Jesse Aaronson, the mutant known as Badlam. Jesse brushed his dreadlocked hair back.
"Oh yeah." Foxfire grinned. "You won't believe what I did."
"What'd you do?" Jesse blinked.
"Oh, nothing much." Fox smirked. "I just really ramped up his blood pressure."
"That doesn't take much." Jesse shook his head.
"Yeah, tell me about it." Fox snickered. "All I had to do was call him and tell him that his car was wrecked, and he freaked!" The Detroit native burst out laughing.
"Let me guess." Jesse rolled his eyes with a smile. "You told him someone tried to help fix the car and it blew to bits, right? You know how Scotty gets when his precious car is touched by people who are not him."
"Oh yeah." Fox nodded.
"...Man, I need to do something. I'm getting forgotten here." Jesse complained. "You had some time in the spotlight. What's it like?"
"Meh." Jason shrugged. "It's alright for awhile. After that, though...you kind of end up wishing that you weren't."
"Really?" Jesse blinked.
"Yeah, when you're in the spotlight, a lot of great things can happen to you, but a lot of bad things can happen, too." He heard a ringing. "Oh, hang on, pal." He pulled out his cell phone and opened it. "Yello?"
"Who is it?" Jesse wondered.
"It's Scott." Fox snickered.
"Oh, this'll be good." Jesse snickered.
"Make some noises." Fox instructed. He went back to the phone. "Uh, hey Summers, how's it going? Oh, repairs on the car are going fine. As far as I know."
"BOOOOLAAAAA WHUUUAAAAAAA!" Jesse yelled.
"Oh God!" Fox feigned horror. "Oh God! The pancakes are back! Kitty's pancakes! Back, you monsters! Back! Summers, Kitty snuck into the kitchen again! Katherine Pryde! What monsters do you create?! You should burn in the infernal pits!"
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEK!" Jesse snickered.
"Oh, God!" Fox called out again. "Summers, it's horrible! The pancakes just ate the engine. Your junkpile will need a new engine. Where can you get one? Look pal, just because I'm from Detroit don't mean I know about cars. Well, you should've gotten a Fox Motors vehicle. They don't have those quality problems."
"Oh God, Jamie put that down now!" Jesse imitated Jean's voice.
"Yeah, now Jamie's running around hyped on pixie sticks. Again. And he's spray-painting WATCH THE HAIR! Yeah, your car's now pink and pastel purple. Fits you, I think." Fox held out his phone so Jesse could hear. "He's crying!" Both Jesse and Fox started snickering.
"We're gonna make him crack!" Jesse snickered.
"Yeah..." Fox smirked. "Keep imitating those voices." Jesse nodded.
"Alright, now hand over yer money!" Jesse yelled.
"Oh, man! We just got attacked! No, some stupid robbers think this is a bank. Yeah, I think they're legally retarded. Kinda like the rest of your family." Fox winced and pulled the phone from his ear. Loud cursing could be heard from it. "Okay, okay! Sorry! Sorry! I didn't know! I didn't know! Not like you announce it or anything."
"Hit a sore spot?" Jesse winced. Fox nodded.
"Let's freak him out some more."
Main Street
Althea and Todd were checking out the shops in Main Street.
"Hey, Toddles." Althea grinned.
"Yo." Todd looked up from a rack of toy cars.
"Does this shirt look good on me?" Althea grinned. She held up a white t-shirt to her chest. On the shirt was written 'I survived Adventure World and all I got was this lousy T-shirt' in blue letters. Todd smiled.
"Al, you'd look good in anything." Todd complemented honestly. Althea smiled.
"Aww, you're sweet." The dark-haired hydrokinetic grinned, kissing Todd on the cheek.
"Heh heh..." Todd blushed. "Go and get it, Al. You would look good in it."
"I'm sure I would." Al smirked. "But then again, you'd say I'd look good if I was wearing nothing at all." Todd's yellow eyes widened and his cheeks flushed red.
"Alllll..." A blushing Todd groaned. The dark-haired hydrokinetic giggled.
"Awww..." She cooed. "Don't worry about it, Toddles. You know I'm only kidding."
"Yeah, yeah." The amphibious mutant waved it off. "Hey, look!" Todd grinned. "I want to get this mug!" He held up a black mug that had the Adventure World logo and had the words 'Best Vacation Ever' on it in red letters.
"Ooh, that mug is nice." Althea grinned. "We've earned that mug. Let's pick it up."
"Sure thing." Todd nodded. "Man, I can't believe this vacation has gone so well. It's almost like a miracle, yo."
"Uh-huh." Althea agreed with a nod and a smile. "Nobody got into any trouble, and everyone is enjoying themselves. What a great day." An intercom crackled.
"Althea Delgado, your silver-haired brother has been detained and is in custody."
"Oh, no..." Todd groaned.
"Pietro." Althea growled. "I don't believe it! That hyperactive little jerk!"
"I shoulda known, yo." Todd shook his head shamefully. "Well, look at it this way, Althea. At least your old man probably found a way to-!"
"Althea Delgado, your older, fatter, uglier, sailor hat-wearing brother has been detained and is in custody." The intercom crackled again.
"Ugly?!" The voice of an outraged Shipwreck could be heard screaming briefly before the intercom shut off.
"Me and my big mouth, yo." Todd groaned, banging his head on a shelf. Althea looked around at the people, who were gossiping.
"Shameful!"
"Some people just can't behave!"
"I'm glad I'm not part of that family." An old woman sniffed. An embarrassed Althea groaned.
"...Sorry, yo." Todd put a hand on his girlfriend's shoulder. Althea shook her head and waved it off.
"It's alrlight, Toddles." Althea reassured. "It's not your fault."
"I guess we can't get the mug, huh?" Todd winced.
"I am going to kill them..." Althea growled.
Western World
"Everybody!" Wanda called out. "Duck! I'm going to throw the hex!"
"Down!" Cover Girl yelled. She, Spirit, Jake, Anglica, Xi, and Spyder hit the ground.
"YYYYYAHHHHH!" Wanda pitched her hex, hitting one of the cowboy robots. Unfortunately, Wanda's hex messed up. It caused the robot to explode. And right afterwards, the other robots exploded.
"Nice work, Witchie!" Spyder grumbled.
"Oops." Wanda winced. "Sorry about that. That wasn't supposed to happen!"
"Well, I knew this had to happen sometime." Jake sighed. "Didn't Airtight theorize that your powers had a probability of screwing up?"
"Yeah, around twenty percent of my hexes screw up." Wanda nodded. "He did some testing on my powers."
"Looks like we got a bad roll this time." Angelica winced.
"Perhaps we should leave before we get arrested." Xi reminded.
"Yeah, that'd be a good idea." Jake nodded.
"We should talk to security, try to clear things up." Cover Girl sighed.
The Control Center
The Control Center was the main hub of Adventure World. There, the large amount of animatronics and robots used by the theme park were built and maintained. Two scientists were repairing a robot built to resemble a Triceratops.
"Attention! We nned more Bort license plates! I repeat, we need more Bort license plates!" The intercom announced.
"Hey, you saw the game last night?" Repairman Number 1 asked the other repairman.
"Naw, I didn't get to." Repairman number 2 shook his head sadly. "How'd it go?"
"Oh, it was great!" Repairman number 1 grinned. "You won't believe what happened during the second half!"
"What?" Repairman number 2 snickered. "A player got a limb broken in a gruesome manner?"
"Nah, somebody managed to screw with the game ball." The first repairman smirked. "When Johnson kicked for the field goal, it exploded into confetti, man! The people in the stands started to riot! They were furious!"
"Are you kidding me?"
"No, I'm not!" The first repairman defended himself. "I have the game on tape! I'll show it to you! I'll bring it here tomorrow, and you can see!"
"Fellas!" A scientist ran up to the repairmen. "We got a problem! Someone hacked the robots! They put a flaw in the programming! And it's starting to affect them!"
"Huh?" The repairmen blinked. The scientist sighed.
"Someone's going to make the robots go wild." He explained simply. The robot triceratops started acting completely crazy. "Like that!"
"What? HEY!" The repairmen screamed.
Well, well, well! Looks like this trip is going to be a disaster! What insanity will happen next? Can our heroes save the day? Who is behind all this? Will the gang get home in one piece? Find out in the next chapter! Suggestions needed badly!