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Chapter Twelve
"There You Are!"
Debbie/Amanda sighed when she realized that the insane followers were not going to leave her be, even when she went into the employee's lounge, they trailed right behind her, despite her manager's glare.
She turned to them once more and began " Look! I don't know where they are, now you need to leave before you get me fired, and how are there more of you now?"
The teens had slipped in behind them, and were attempting to be invisible, which they had largely failed at, except Laura. Confused, Raven turned, and spotted the teens. " HA! " She began. "Proof! These are their students! If you didn't have our kids, why would you have their students?"
"They followed you in here!" Debbie/Amanda replied.
" Debbie…DebbieDebbieDebbieDebbie… We all know what you did, so why don't you just give it up and tell us where they are?" 'Mr. E' replied (Nathaniel/Sinister).
"I didn't take them!" Debbie/Amanda yelled once more.
"No one took us, we're just hiding from the Salesmen." Rahne stated. "It was the only way to keep from going broke, so they hid the school, and canceled the cable. So now we're bored and looking for Disney World."
"Disney World's in Florida, dear." Debbie/Amanda supplied.
The others just stared at the child. Then the teens all pulled out their phones to double-check this information. With yells of glee they ran from the room, any plan to find out what the villains were up to was forgotten in favor of the theme park.
"Wait, so they aren't dead or kidnapped, just hiding from Salesmen?" Erik questioned.
"That's what those kids said, though it doesn't explain why the boys didn't answer their phones." Raven replied.
"…Maybe they just hate you." Henri said, thinking of the number of times his brother had hung up on their father.
"Or they are having issues with their mutations that cause them to accidentally destroy their phones." Jean-Luc added, thinking of the same thing.
"Pere… It's not an accident." Henri stated.
"So you're trying to say your brother intentionally destroyed his phone fifty-nine times just to avoid me?" Jean-Luc replied.
"Yes."
"No. It was accidental." Jean-Luc replied, turning back to the others, who were nodding in agreement.
"Good. Now that you've established that I had nothing to do with it, will you get out before I get fired?!" Debbie/Amanda demanded.
Before they could respond, the X-men burst into the room. "Oh for the love of-" Debbie/Amanda stated, throwing her hands in the air and walking out of the room.
Her departure went unnoticed as the X-men spotted the Villains, but not the children. The women groaned when they realized that this meant dealing with their crazy parents, while Remy was torn between happiness at seeing his brother and a strong desire to blow up his phone at seeing his fathers.
"What are you doing here, and where are the kids?" Logan demanded.
"We're here to confront Debbie over kidnapping you and the children said something about Disney, I don't remember which one." Dr. E (Sinister) replied.
"Who, never mind, we weren't kidnapped, and now we need to find those kids." Logan replied.
"Debbie… my Ex. It's a very long story."
"I'm pretty sure she said her name was Amy or Allison, or something like that." Erik said.
"No. I'm pretty sure she said Clair or Sarah." Victor added.
"Elsie? Julie?" Raven supplied.
" It's Debbie. I would know, I used to date her."
"Do you have any idea what's going on?" John whispered to Wanda.
"They're all being crazy again." Wanda replied.
While they then debated the poor woman's name, the X–men attempted to slowly back out of the room. They had nearly succeeded in their escape when Kaitlyn spotted a bowl full of candies, and began pointing and crying.
As expected, a fire started behind the bowl. John quickly put it out, as Remy told the child no and Raven shook her head at them (she felt the child wasn't 'spoiled enough'). Sinister/Dr.E then stepped over to them.
" It's alright everyone, I have this watch. " He began. " Hello Kaitlyn , it's me your grandfather. " He added in his attempt at a baby voice.
This made the girl actually cry instead of just throwing a fit. It was at this point that Jean-Luc realized that Kaitlyn had actually caused the fire, and Rogue finally snapped.
"That's it! This has been the worst week ever. First we are attacked by the Salesmen, then we learn that we were all tricked into believing in the Baby Apocalypse when all we really had to worry about was making rules to avoid the kids acting like most of us did as kids, then we had to hide the mansion, the kids ran off, we ran into you people, Kaitlyn's cranky, and I am done! I'll meet you all in the Velocity." Rogue then stormed off with her husband right behind her.
"… Remember to buy chocolate on the way back." Logan mumbled to Wade who nodded briefly. They then turned back to the others and Jean-Luc was now glaring at Henri. Who was sure somehow knew that Kaitlyn could do that.
"How many of you knew she could do that and for how long?" He demanded.
"Do what?" Erik replied.
"That fire thing!" Jean-Luc replied.
"That wasn't her, it was John." Erik stated, while everyone else, including Henri nodded.
"No it wasn't."
Before anyone could respond Debbie/Amanda returned with security. They were all told to leave, and then filed out calmly. All in all it hadn't been a bad day, after all the kids were fine, they all were in Vegas, and the Salesmen hadn't found them.
So they all went their separate ways, the X–men off in search for the students, Raven and Erik went off to play the casino since they were already here. Victor just wandered off, Jean-Luc and Henri walked away still arguing over Kaitlyn, the Assassins went to book tickets home, and Mr. E/Sinister returned to Debbie/Amanda's apartment so they could continue their conversation after she returned from work. The previous excitement over the supposed 'deaths' was completely forgotten and everyone was calm again, at least for now.
