Well, no one has said anything about how many pieces to make this, so I'm going with two events per chapter. And since this story is written from Will's point of view, his team is the only team you'll see. Until the end, of course. Oh, and since Logan never calls anyone by their name (at least not the students), he won't be in this story. Hopefully I haven't messed up with that.
Chapter 11: The Mutant Games – Part 2
Will, Rahne, Kurt, and Laura all made their way to the baseball field. Logan was there. "Alright," he said. "Listen up, 'cause I'm only telling you this once. The rules of this game are simple: hit the ball and make a home run or get struck out. Four strikes is an out, and any use of powers is allowed with one exception: do not harm or damage anyone else or any of the equipment! We can barely afford to keep fixing all the stuff you lot normally break."
Will wisely decided not to comment. Logan continued. "Split up so there are two teams of two. One team bats, one batting the other throwing, and the other team's in the field. This is tag only! You either hit someone with the ball, or they get a run, got it?"
Everyone nodded, and Logan gave them the okay to get started. Will and Kurt were paired up against Rahne and Laura. It was Kurt's idea, and Will suspected he didn't want to work with Rahne or Laura. They both scared him a bit. Rahne because he was the worst person in the mansion at remembering where her spots were, and Laura because she was basically a Logan with hormones. Will avoided thinking about that because he knew that if he did he would give himself nightmares.
Will and Kurt were batting first. Will decided to pitch to Kurt first. Will grabbed the baseball and threw it. He didn't borrow any powers because he didn't think he'd need to. He was right. Kurt hit the ball and sent if flying straight towards Laura. Laura kicked the ball and deflected it away from her. Kurt ran a home run.
"Laura!" Rahne said. "You're supposed to catch the ball and tag Kurt with it!"
"Oh," Laura said. She looked down, shamefaced.
Rahne just sighed. "Never mind, we can still catch up."
"Not likely," Kurt teased playfully. Rahne stuck her tongue out at him.
Kurt pitched the ball to Will, who again didn't borrow anyone's powers. He hit the ball and sent it flying in the far left field. Rahne transformed into a wolf and ran after it. Will ran a home run as fast as he could, which was still pretty fast, even without any powers. Rahne had managed to get the ball and ran after him about the time he crossed first base. She was fast as a wolf, faster than Will was, but Will had a huge lead on her, and Will knew how to run evasively. Will scored his team a point.
Will and Kurt kept batting, since the sides only swapped when one team struck out. Neither Will nor Kurt ever struck out. Sometimes it was due to skill, other times Will borrowed Jean's powers, and occasionally Will borrowed Kitty's and phased through the ground to avoid Rahne or Laura.
Eventually, however, Kurt missed enough times to strike out. By then the score was forty five to nothing, and Will and Kurt were reasonably certain they were going to win. Laura was batting first, after Rahne told her what to do. Laura hit the ball hard and sent it flying way out of the park. At least, it would have been out of the park if Kurt hadn't teleported to it, caught it, teleported to Laura, and tagged her with the ball. "You're out!" Kurt said.
"Okay, how is that fair?" Rahne asked Logan. "He can just teleport and get the ball!"
"That's his power, furball," Logan said. Rahne bristled slightly at the mention of her much hated nickname, but wisely didn't complain.
"Does he ever call anyone by their real name?" Will asked Kurt.
Kurt shook his head. "Nope. Sometimes I think he does it just to annoy people."
Will hadn't seen much of Logan, outside of training sessions, so he wasn't really sure what all the Wolverine did. Then again, no one knew what he did, but Will less so than the others. "How well does it work? Other than on Rahne?" Will asked.
Kurt shrugged. "No one every complains about it, not even behind his back. But that might be out of self preservation."
The professor's voice rang through everyone's heads."Your first activity is now over. Team one is to report to the baseball field, team two to the chicken fights, team three to the basketball, and team four to the wrestling." Team two all began making their way to the pool.
"We won!" Kurt said as the group walked to the pool.
"Yeah, yeah yeah!" Rahne said. "But we'll win the next round!"
"So we are keeping the same teams?" Will asked.
"Oh, yeah," Rahne said. "I dunno. Would you rather have a girl on your shoulders?"
Will completely missed the jibe. And to think people thought he was a love doctor. He didn't even understand a simple, friendly joke, and it didn't even name names. "Well, Kurt does eat a lot of burgers..." Will contemplated.
"Hey! I do not weigh that much!" Kurt said.
"But you probably weigh more than Rahne," Will said. "Or Laura."
"Hey, now! Laura has metal bones," Kurt said.
"No I don't," Laura said. "I got out before they managed to get that far."
"Oh," Kurt said. "Maybe I do weigh more than Rahne and Laura."
"Definitely more than Rahne," Will said.
"Careful," Rahne play-scolded. "Talking about a woman's weight is a big taboo!"
"That's news to me," Will said. "On the streets we always discuss women's weights."
"Really?" Rahne asked skeptically.
"Yep," Will replied. "As a general rule of thumb, the heavier they are, the more they carry."
"Did you ever think of anything other than stealing?" Kurt asked.
Will nodded. "I often thought of surviving, eating, sleeping, and hiding."
Everyone was silent for a minute. "The streets sound awful," Laura eventually said. Will was surprised to hear that from Laura. He knew what she had suffered through, and to hear her sympathizing with his struggles was shocking.
Kurt and Rahne looked surprised to hear her say that, too. Laura saw everyone looking at her and quickly said "I mean, being raised and trained by HYDRA was horrible, but at least I got food, water, shelter, and relative safety. I never had to worry about my next meal as long as I did my job right."
"In Scotland I was hunted and persecuted," Rahne said. "I was told I was a demon and needed to be burned." No one really knew what to say to that. Rahne didn't seem to know why she said that, either.
"We're all a bunch of seriously messed up kids," Kurt said.
"No kidding," Will replied. By then the group had made it to the pool. Ms. Monroe was there.
"Hello," Ms. Monroe said. "This is the chicken fight. You will pair up in twos with one person sitting on the shoulders of the other. The person on top will try to knock the other person off of his or her partner, while the person on the bottom will try to keep their partner from falling off. Last team standing wins."
"Um, Ms. Monroe?" Rahne asked.
"Yes? What is it, Rahne?"
"We don't have our swimsuits with us," Rahne said.
"Don't worry," Ms. Monroe said. "There are spare clothes in the chest over there." She pointed towards a chest near the mansion.
"We're just jumping in in our clothes?" Kurt asked.
Ms. Monroe nodded. The group just shrugged and jumped in the water. This time, Will and Laura were against Kurt and Rahne. Ms. Monroe had them all get set up, with Laura on top of Will and Rahne on Kurt. "There are to be no powers in this event!" Ms. Monroe called. "Ready, begin!"
Will moved towards Kurt and Rahne with Laura trying to keep her balance. Will saw that Rahne was also struggling with balance. Good. That will make her more likely to fall. Will and Laura met up with Kurt and Rahne. Laura shoved Rahne, but aimed poorly. She aimed for Rahne's arms, which Will knew wouldn't work. He may not have known much about chicken fighting, but pushing people he could do. The optimal area for pushing was the shoulders; it was in enough to keep the force concentrated, but far enough out to spread the force enough to make someone fall.
Will didn't want to shout that out, though, as Rahne was also aiming for Laura's arms. If he told Laura to aim for the shoulders, Rahne would, too. Keeping Laura up was fairly easy at that point, but Will doubted it would be if Laura was hit with more force. "Aim for the shoulders, Rahne!" Kurt called. Oh. He knew the best spot to shove, too. Well, there went the whole "don't let Rahne know" plan.
"Laura, aim for her shoulders!" Will called out. If Rahne was about to start, then Will might as well have Laura hit hard, too.
The two girls started shoving each other with a lot more force than before. Will nearly dropped Laura several times, but managed to just barely keep her up. After one occasion of having to almost pull her up out of the water, Will had an idea. "Laura, stay steady!" Will called. "I'm going to try something!"
"What are you going to-" she was cut off by a yelp as she nearly fell off. Will had leaned back and quickly pulled Laura up. Laura swung towards Rahne and put her hands out in front of her to keep herself from slamming into her friend. She shoved Rahne with quite a bit of force, almost knocking her off of Kurt.
Laura looked a bit stunned, then figured out what Will was trying to do. "Do it again!" Laura called. Will complied and swung Laura back, then straight towards Rahne. This time, Laura shoved Rahne in the shoulders as she was swinging towards her. The force of the shove added to the force of the swing knocked Rahne off of Kurt's shoulders. She landed in the water with a loud splash.
They went at it four more times, will Will and Laura winning the next two. For the last two, however, Kurt and Rahne had figured Will's trick out and started using it against him. Neither Will nor Laura were expecting it the first time, so they lost that round. For the fifth round Rahne and Kurt leaned back, and Will countered by getting ready to swing into them head on. Kurt swung Rahne right as Will did Laura, and the two girls shoved each other. Rahne was lighter, and was sent reeling back, but Kurt managed to keep her up. Laura, on the other hand, wasn't sent reeling, but fell off. Will couldn't hold her up; the force of the impact practically tore her from his shoulders, and he couldn't hold on. Laura fell into the water with a splash.
Will and Laura were about to get ready for another round when Ms. Monroe stopped them. "Time is nearly up," she said. "Go get changed into dry clothes and get ready for the next event. You'll be heading to the basketball court next."
The group all climbed out of the pool and changed into dry clothes, ready to start the next event.
Author's Note:
Well, that part's done. Hopefully I did a good job of describing the games. I never did get involved much with sports, so I don't really know how accurate my baseball was. Chicken fighting I think I did fine, except maybe Will's move. I'm not 100% sure the physics of that move actually could happen, or if the weight would be too much. Whatever. Please leave a review. I feed off them.
