The Switch Is Back
"There was a mutant who liked to set fires and Pyro was his name O!" Pyro sang joyfully on the bus. "P-R-Y-O! P-R-Y-O! P-R-Y-O! And Pyro was his name O!"
"When will the hurting stop?" Larry groaned. He was sitting in a special wheelchair holder on the bus and wearing his special helmet. "When will the hurting stop?"
It had only been a few hours after the entire court drama and the X-Men and Misfits were headed off to their new temporary home in two large busses. The Misfits and their handlers on one and the X-Men and their adults on another larger bus for the sake of sanity. A commodity that was in short supply on the Misfit bus.
"Are we there yet?" Shipwreck whined. He was sitting with the toddlers who were in special seats and were enjoying the ride much more than he was.
"We dere yet?" Barney laughed.
"We dere yet?" Claudius laughed as well.
"For the twenty seventh time this hour… No!" Cover Girl snapped. She was driving the bus. "NOW SHUT UP AND LET ME DRIVE!"
"We dere yet! We dere yet!" The toddlers cheered. "We dere yet!"
"This is going to be a loooooooooonng month," Cover Girl groaned.
"Why did we have to go by bus?" Shipwreck kept pressing.
"Stop making such a fuss," Roadblock rolled his eyes. "You don't hear whining from the rest of us."
"None of the adults anyway," Spirit muttered.
"Why are we going by bus?" Lance asked. "Why not just teleport there using the Mass Device?"
"One the Mass Device is down for repairs," Daria said. "Remember our house got wrecked?"
"How can it be repaired if you guys are here with us?" Angelica said.
"That's the other thing," Daria rolled her eyes. "General Hawk was complaining on how we depend on it too much. Says we need a break from it."
"Did you teleport him to Disney while he was asleep and put him in the It's A Small World attraction again?" Low Light asked.
"That was Beach Head," Quinn corrected him. "We would never do that to General Hawk."
"We took him to Miami Beach!" Brittany grinned. "He needed to relax and get a tan!"
"Of course we had to remove most of his clothes so he could get a tan," Quinn shrugged.
"You know for an old guy he's got a really hot bod!" Brittany nodded his head.
"I thought he looked kind of red when he was yelling at us," Althea said. "I just thought he was madder than usual."
"And the mystery is solved," Lance groaned. "Oh well at least it won't be that bad!"
"Camping! Camping!" Todd, Pyro and Xi were bouncing in their seats. "We're going camping!"
"You were saying Lance?" Angelica gave him a look.
"We're going camping! Everybody sing!" Todd bounced up and down in his seat.
"Let's not and say we did!" Pietro snapped. "You people are making me miss quality TV time you know that?"
"We're going camping! Come along we're going camping!" Todd sang aloud. "Camping in the woods!"
"Why can't we go camping in Beverly Hills?" Pietro asked. "In a nice four star hotel with a spa service and a pool?"
"Stop being such a wuss Pietro!" Lance snapped. "Camping isn't that bad!"
"Oh yeah maybe not for you Mister Earth Shaker here," Pietro snapped. "Or the frog boy who likes to eat bugs!"
"I love that part!" Todd crowed.
"Ugh," Wanda folded her arms and rolled her eyes. "Disgusting! Hanging out with a group of animals in the forest is not my idea of a good time. And I am not talking about raccoons and skunks!"
"I've always found camping to be kind of fun," Angelica shrugged. "Well I only went camping once and it was in my back yard. And I was seven. How about you Shooter?"
"I wouldn't know. I've never been camping in my life," Shane told him. "I've lived in downtown LA most of my life! Not exactly a lot of forest area. The closest I've been to it was that weekend I was locked out of my house and had to sleep on the beach!"
"Oh then this will be such fun!" Pyro squealed. "We'll make fire pits and barbecue our dinner on them and make smores. We can sing songs about making campfires! We'll go canoeing and burn the boats when we're done! We'll swat blood sucking mosquitoes on our arms and tell scary stories!"
"Hmmmm…." Todd licked his lips, "Mosquitoes…"
"I guess they'll be in for a shock when they find someone biting back," Arcade snickered.
"I really don't wanna go now," Shane moaned.
"Think of this as a new experience Shooter," Spirit said. "To interact with nature."
"Don't you think we've already interacted enough with nature over the past couple of days?" Shane asked. "I've swatted enough bugs to last me a lifetime!"
"I find it hard to believe that the X-Men are willingly going along with this after the last experience at this place," Xi said.
"Well there's a reason for that," Roadblock told him. "Xavier thought the kids had enough to deal with, what with losing their home and all. They just needed some time to adjust and…"
"In other words Xavier didn't tell them where they were going," Lance snickered.
"Bingo," Roadblock sighed.
"Well this is going to be a lot of fun," Fred grinned.
"I can't wait to see their faces when they find out where we're going," Wanda grinned.
"We dere yet? We dere yet? We dere yet?" The toddlers yelled happily.
"Are we there yet? Squawk! Are we there yet?" Polly laughed as he flew around the bus.
"P-R-Y-O! P-R-Y-O!" Pyro sang. "And Pyro was his name-o!"
"And I can't wait until we get off this bus!" Cover Girl groaned.
Meanwhile in the X-Man bus behind the Misfits' bus…
"Is it me or is Cover Girl speeding awfully fast?" Logan wondered as he drove the bus. "It looks like she's doing over ninety."
"Here's a clue," Warren rolled his eyes. "It's probably not you."
"Man we've all been hanging around Roadblock too long," Scott groaned.
"We've all been hanging around the Misfits too long!" Ororo groaned. "I hate Shipwreck!"
"I take it your night in jail wasn't exactly peaceful?" Warren asked.
"A night being attacked by Sentinels would be more peaceful! And quieter!" Ororo groaned. "I hate Shipwreck!"
"I hate camping!" Ray moaned.
"I'm not thrilled about spending a lot of time in places that aren't air conditioned either!" Bobby agreed.
"And I'm not thrilled about spending my time baby sitting all of you and putting up with your whining every time you get spooked by a squirrel so zip it!" Logan barked.
"Squirrels? Penny will probably kill 'em all," Tim moaned. "How much you want to bet the campsite will be covered in squirrel corpses by the end of the week?"
"EWWWWW!" Kitty winced. "I hate camping!"
"It's only until the Institute is rebuilt again," Hank told them. "In fact it's going to be bigger than before so many of you will be able to get your own rooms."
"Come on this is going to be fun," Danielle said. "I've gone camping lots of times."
"Not with the Misfits or their crazy chaperones," Rogue grumbled. "Remember the time we caught them skinny dipping in the pond?"
"I wish I could forget," Kurt moaned.
"Who the Misfits?" Betsy asked.
"No the adults!" Rogue told her. "I still get chills thinking about it!"
"Was that the weekend we all got arrested or was it the one where we just set fire to the mountain?" Bobby asked.
"I think both happened that weekend," Kitty remarked. Lockheed was in a pet carrier next to her.
"Really?" Madelyne asked, she had Prometheus in a pet carrier on her lap. "Camping sounds cool!"
"Professor we're not rooming with the Misfits again are we?" Rogue asked. Xavier was also in a special wheelchair holder like Larry was. "Please say no!"
"Don't worry Rogue," Xavier said. "Most of the X-Men will have separate cabins from the Misfits. We'd like to avoid setting any forest fires this time if we can help it."
"Fat chance with Pyro around," Amara folded her arms.
"Most of us?" Scott asked Xavier. "What do you mean by that?"
"Well Scott you, Jean and the rest of the Institute instructors will be sharing a cabin with the Misfit handlers," Xavier explained. "One for men and one for women of course. We've decided the toddlers will live with the men, since they are Shipwreck's after all."
"Oh that's going to be a fun arrangement!" Logan groaned, not really thrilled to share his living quarters with two rambunctious toddlers.
"I don't know," Ororo said. "Barney and Claudius are a lot more mature than Shipwreck any day!"
"A bucket full of hyperactive weasels is more mature than Shipwreck any day," Hank groaned.
Xavier continued. "And Madelyne will be sharing a cabin with Penance, Spyder and Trinity."
"Oh goody," Ray drawled. "Putting the six of them in one place. Yeah that makes me feel secure!"
"Speaking of secure…" Kurt nervously eyed Penny who was gnawing at her seat restraints. "Forge are you sure she can't get out of that?"
"Yeah the last thing we need is Penny bouncing around and slicing us to ribbons," Jesse gulped.
"Don't worry," Forge waved. "She won't get out. I'm positive. Well maybe. I think. No, I'm pretty sure she can't. I hope."
"Logan you think you can pass the other bus or something?" Warren asked.
"No wonder Ms. Hunter left us," Sam groaned.
"I wonder where she's going to go?" Everett asked.
"She's opening up a dance studio in Mutant Town in New York City," Ororo explained. "She's using the money she saved up while working for the Professor."
"I hope you gave the lady double hazard pay," Warren commented.
"Triple," Xavier confirmed.
"Well at least the lady didn't leave the place hating mutants," Tabitha said. "That's gotta be worth something."
"Yeah all it proves is that we're a lot weirder than other mutants," Everett groaned.
Scott made his way from his seat to the one behind him where Jean was sitting. "How are you holding up?" Scott asked her.
"A lot better than I thought I would be," Jean admitted. "My home and most of my personal things were destroyed, I nearly lose control of the Phoenix Force and wipe out an entire species, I was poisoned and all I can worry about now is what trouble Madelyne will get into with Trinity and Spyder. Is that normal?"
"Is anything we do normal?" Scott groaned.
"YEOW! BOBBY!" Kitty yelled. "Professor Bobby threw a snowball at me!"
"Well she's been poking at me through the seat!" Bobby yelled back.
"Tabitha if you throw one of those stupid time bombs at me I'll zap all of you!" Ray shouted.
"Do you want nightmares for the next ten years?" Danielle snapped. "I'll do it! I swear I'll do it!"
"Kurt stop shedding on me!" Amara yelled.
"I'm a little warm! Sue me!" Kurt snapped back.
RRRRRRRRIIPPPPPP! RIPPPP!
"Squeeeee! Squeeeeee!" Penny squealed with joy.
"Oh great! Penny's loose!" Tim yelled.
"Nice going Forge!" Remy shouted. "OW! PENNY CALM DOWN!"
"I will get her," Peter sighed as he armored up and tried to grab Penny. "Penance! No! Down girl! Down!"
"OW!" Xavier yelled. "Penance! I know you're happy but I can't play with you right nooooooooooooooowwwww!"
Penny happily bounded along the bus accidentally knocking the pet carriers in her excitement. Of course they both opened. "Lockheed no! Get back in your cage!" Kitty yelled.
"Prometheus! No you get back in your cage!" Madelyne shouted. "Here, kitty, kitty…"
"What?" Kitty asked.
"Not you," Madelyne said. "The cat!"
"RARRRRRR!" Lockheed growled.
"MEOWWWWWW!" The cat cried as he tore through the seats like a bat out of hell. Lockheed was right on his tail.
"Lockheed quit chasing the cat on the bus!" Sam shouted.
"All of you will stop this nonsense and settle down right now!" Ororo snapped. "OW! PENNY NO! NO HUGS! COLOSSUS!"
"Come back here!" Peter was still trying to catch Penny.
"Logan step on it!" Hank yelled.
"Does that answer your question?" Jean rolled her eyes as the back of the bus became a place of pure pandemonium.
"Unfortunately, yes," Scott groaned. "But this little break is what we all needed. Just to get away from Bayville is making me feel better."
"I have to admit, it makes me feel better too. This route looks familiar," Jean thought aloud as she looked out the window. "I mean I feel like we've been this way before."
"That must be the camp site," Danielle pointed. "I can see the sign right over there."
"Whispering Pines Wellness Retreat for Teens?" Jean read. "NOW I REMEMBER!"
"Oh god no! I remember this place!" Scott shot up in his seat. "This is Psycho Camp!"
"Psycho Camp?" Rina asked.
"A while before you joined some of us and some of the Misfits went on this little camp outing," Tabitha explained. "Sort of a new age stress reduction thing."
"I hate it already," Rina frowned.
"No you would have liked this camp," Tabitha told her. "There were friendly lake monsters, a flying spaceship and counselors to drive insane. Well the ones that weren't already insane."
"Don't forget that this is where we first met the Hellions," Jean rolled her eyes.
"A place Of Psychos and Sea Serpents," Scott groaned. "Professor why didn't you tell us about this?"
"Probably because he knew you'd try and make a break for it like last time," Tabitha snickered.
"This is supposed to de-stress me?" Jean asked.
"I knew it!" Scott moaned. "I knew this was going to be a disaster!"
"Professor!" Jean shouted. "Please tell me that coming back to this campsite of doom was not your idea!"
"Uh," Xavier gulped. "Well…"
"Never mind!" Jean moaned. "Scott now do you believe me that the Professor keeps too many secrets from us?"
"Yes," Scott said, already getting a nervous tic in his body. "Now I do!"
"RRARRRR!" Penny bounded by them
"Penny! No! Down girl! Down!" Scott screamed.
Both busses pulled in and the campers filed out. Penny was the first one out of the X-Bus. Followed by Prometheus and Lockheed. All three of them were yapping. "Penny!" Pyro called out as the Misfits disembarked. "And the little critters!"
All three ran over to him happily. Penny carefully hugged Pyro. Lockheed happily yapped and landed on Pyro's shoulder and Prometheus purred and rubbed on his leg. "My friends! My furry feathered friends!" Pyro called out happily.
"Of all the people in the world…" Logan twitched as he got out of the bus, his clothes torn. "They have to like him? WHY HIM GOD? WHY HIM?"
"To annoy us! That's why!" Scott snapped as he staggered out of the bus with torn clothes. "It's official! God hates mutants!"
"God does not hate mutants," Kurt staggered out of the building also looking a little worse for wear. "Just us!"
Most of the other X-Men staggered out of the bus. Many of them had torn clothes and some minor cuts. All of them except for Rogue. "Why didn't you get cut?" Remy yelled at his girlfriend.
"I guess it's cause she knows if she gets too close to me, she gets zapped," Rogue shrugged.
"I always said that little pink maniac was smarter than she looked," Betsy frowned looking at her ripped dress.
"Had her under control huh?" Tabitha glared at Forge. Her makeup was smudged, her clothes were torn and she had some cuts on her arm. "Pretty sure she couldn't get out huh? DOES THIS LOOK LIKE SHE WAS UNDER CONTROL TO YOU PAL? DOES IT?"
"All those in favor of locking Forge up in an outhouse with Penny and the Triplets for the night raise your hands!" Hank snapped, his shirt and pants were torn too.
"AYE!" Nearly all the X-Men did so.
"Anyone opposed?" Forge asked weakly.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK?" Tabitha snapped.
"And I thought our ride was nuts," Lance chuckled as the Misfits had departed the bus.
"Are you guys okay?" Wanda looked them over.
"We will be once we get some bandages," Kurt sighed.
"Our wounds aren't that serious," Forge said.
"No the bandages are to tie you up," Kurt gave him a look.
"I think I'm going to go hide in the woods now," Forge gulped.
"Good idea," Scott hissed.
"I take it the Delgado Family lifetime ban has been lifted," Tabitha said to Althea.
"Oh yeah," Althea nodded. "Once the guy who lodged the complaint left for a better place. I believe it was Bellevue Hospital."
"I can't believe you sent us all to Psycho Camp again," Scott said to Xavier as he had been finally unloaded from the bus. He then glared at Lance. "When we know there are other people who deserve to be here full time!"
"At least I didn't have to be dragged onto the bus kicking and screaming the last time we were here," Lance retorted.
"Can we please all put the bickering behind us for once in our lives?" Ororo groaned as she held her head.
"I'm with you Stormy," Shipwreck put his arm around her. "Let bygones be bygones, that's my motto!"
"Take your hands off of me before I break them off!" Ororo snapped as she twisted his arm behind his back.
"OW, OW!" Shipwreck whined. "Watch the elbow! Watch the elbow!"
"Speaking of watching things where's the parrot and the Diaper Brigade?" Logan asked.
"Oh yeah," Shipwreck blinked. "I think we left them…"
HONK! HONK!
"On the bus!" Shipwreck turned around quickly. He started to run after the slow moving bus. "POLLY! COME BACK HERE! POLLY YOU KNOW YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO DRIVE DRUNK!"
"HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAA!" Polly was heard cackling. "YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE!"
"That's a risk I'll gladly take!" Shipwreck shouted as he ran after him.
"How…" Scott's jaw dropped. "HOW?"
"The boys are probably working the pedals like they did the last time," Xi remarked casually.
"But…But…" Scott was still shocked.
"Don't ask," Wanda shook her head. "Just don't ask."
"The best thing to do when stuff like this happens is just let it ride," Lance sighed as he took out some pills. "And take your medication."
"It's not like they ever get very far," Todd shrugged.
"Low Light," Roadblock held his head.
"I'm on it," Low Light calmly took out a pistol and shot out two of the tires.
"I'm starting to see why you all call this place Psycho Camp," Jubilee blinked.
"Doesn't seem so bad to me," Tim shrugged.
"Greetings campers!" A very large round man with long blond hair and a colorful Hawaiian shirt and blue denim overalls skipped their way. "Joyous salutations to all! And welcome to Camp Whispering Pines! I'm your facilitator Harvey Laffruff!"
"On the other hand," Tim blinked.
"Somebody please shoot me," Ray rolled his eyes. "Not this nut again!"
"It's so wonderful to see you all back here! And many new faces as well!" Harvey beamed. Then he noticed the state of the X-Men. "My goodness! What happened to some of you? Was there an accident?"
"You could say that," Logan glared at Forge.
"It's nothing serious," Ororo sighed. "Actually it looks worse than it is."
"Speak for yourself," Peter was in his armored form but his clothes were definitely the most shredded. "I am just grateful Penance cannot harm me in this form…much."
"Okay then let me welcome you all to Camp Whispering Pines," Harvey beamed. "This camp is specially designed to deal with all the stresses young people such as yourself face."
"You mean like fighting aliens, giant insects that want to take over the world and running from bigots with big guns that want to blow us up into itty bitty bits?" Tabitha asked.
"You forgot to mention the interdimensional idiots we come across every now and then," Rogue reminded her.
"We will have such fun in our Haiku classes," Harvey went on happily.
"Our what?" Tim blinked.
"Haiku classes," Harvey said. "All campers and instructors are required to attend. Its very relaxing."
"Wait a minute…" Logan began.
"We will have such fun with our many classes and games," Harvey went on, obviously oblivious to the stunned looks he continued. "Experimental Theater for the Soul, Express Yourself with Dance, Fishing off the Bridge of Good Intentions, The Healing Power of Crystals…"
"If he expects me to dance around reciting freaking poetry I will need the healing power of beer," Logan grumbled under his breath.
"It will be such a memorable experience! Full of joy and self discovery!" Harvey squealed.
"Is he for real?" Shane gave Lance a look.
"Oh yeah," Lance nodded.
"Here you can relax, be yourselves, be the you that you were meant to be!" Harvey grinned. "You can also do traditional camp activities like swimming, hiking…"
"Feeding the lake monsters," Jamie spoke up. "How's Howie and his mom?"
"Oh they're doing very well," Harvey nodded. "I see them every day. Since I am the one and only counselor here."
"They all headed for the hills the day the spaceship showed up didn't they?" Scott groaned.
"How did you ever know that?" Harvey blinked. "Well I'll let you get settled into your cabins. The men and women's counselor cabins are on the left. The students are on the right and each has their own names on them! Oh this will be such fun! Now if you'll excuse me I must go finish watering my garden!" He went on his merry way.
"Is that guy skipping?" Roberto asked.
"Yes he is," Ray sighed.
"So this is camping mutant style huh?" Shane asked. "I hate it already!"
"Just give it a chance," Roadblock said.
"You know this is going to be a disaster right?" Rogue asked.
"It will not be a disaster," Xavier told her. "Nothing bad will happen here."
Shipwreck gave him a look. "And you call me a liar?"
"Well its not like the Hellions are here again," Wanda said as they grabbed their gear and headed for the cabins.
"Don't be so sure," A shadowy figure watching them from the trees snickered. "OW! Stupid mosquitoes!"
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"Oh man this place is a dump," Scott groaned as he got a look in the large Male counselor's cabin. It also had a wheelchair ramp instead of stairs on the outside.
"Well I'm sure this isn't…" Xavier began before he took a good look at the room. There was a small tree growing out of a hole in the floor. Beer bottles everywhere and the words RED RUM scribbled all over the walls. "Oh dear…"
"Not quite the Hilton isn't it?" Low Light quipped.
"I've slept in worse," Shipwreck shrugged.
"There's a shock," Hank said, his voice dripping with sarcasm.
"Oh dear, I knew I forgot something," Harvey walked over with the women. "You see this used to be Mr. Pendleton's place before well…Let's just say the doctor's say he's making an excellent recovery."
"On the upside at least it has a wheelchair ramp for the Professor," Jean said.
"Mr. Pendleton didn't believe in stairs," Harvey said. "He said they were out to get him. Is there anything I can get you?"
"How about some hotel reservations?" Scott asked.
"He's kidding," Jean said. "I'm sure we can have this place clean in no time."
"I know I am going to regret asking this but what's with the tree in the floor?" Low Light asked. "What the guy was growing his own Christmas tree or something?"
"Considering that's an oak sapling it's a pretty far fetched idea," Hank said.
"I think he was trying an experiment or something," Harvey shrugged.
"Or something," Roadblock. "How about we clean up and you can get back to what you were doing Harvey?"
"All right," Harvey nodded. "I'd better check our dinner first. I can't wait until you taste my Vegetable Medley ala Harvey!" He bounced away.
"I swear I have no idea how we find these people," Logan shook his head. "Well should we help clean the ladies' cabin first?"
"Actually our cabin is immaculate," Ororo told him. "Not even a speck of dust."
"Our cabin it is then," Shipwreck said as he tried to hold the two squirming toddlers. "But somebody's gotta give me a hand with the rug rats here."
"WEEE! We dere yet?" Barney squealed.
"We're here, silly," Jean picked him up and held him.
"I'm going into town to get some beers," Logan left. "We're gonna need it."
Some time later the Adults were finishing up cleaning the cabin. "I've put the boys down for a nap in the playpen," Jean sighed coming out of the back room. "It's a little less cluttered back there."
"The students have taken off to the lake for a swim," Ororo told them. "I said we'd join them after we finished unpacking."
"That's good," Scott breathed a sigh of relief. "Now we can have a nice quiet afternoon."
FLAAAASSSSHHHH!
Suddenly the entire room was bathed in a bright familiar pink light. They felt dizzy and disoriented for a moment. Hank staggered backwards nearly knocking his wings into something.
"Wings?" Hank blinked. Suddenly he felt less…hairy. He looked down and saw that his arms were no longer blue, but Caucasian. Realization hit him. These were not his arms. "Oh no…"
"So much for that idea," Warren groaned. "AAHHH!" He screamed when he realized he was in Cover Girls' body.
"Oh dear," Xavier looked down and found himself in Jean's body. "This is very odd for me on more than one level!"
"I can't see anything!" Jean yelled. She felt her body and realized she was inside the Blind Master. "Oh god…"
"Don't be such a baby," The Blind Master snapped. He was inside Scott's body. "It's only temporary. And I admit seeing red is better than not seeing anything ever again."
"Scott! Scott where are you?" Jean yelled.
"In here," Scott told her. He was in Shipwreck's body. "And for some reason I have the strangest urge for a drink."
"You're not the only one," Roadblock looked down and saw himself in Xavier's wheelchair. "This is definitely not fun!"
"Hey guess where I am!" Shipwreck waved. He was in Ororo's body.
"DON'T EVEN THINK OF TOUCHING ANYTHING SAILOR!" Ororo yelled. She was in Hank's body.
"I think you're shedding on the carpet," Shipwreck noticed.
"Annoying isn't it?" Hank grinned. He was enjoying Warren's body.
"Switch," Cover Girl moaned. She was in Roadblock's body. "It's gotta be Switch."
"The Hellions must be attacking us again," Low Light groaned. "Hey wait a minute, I'm still in my own body."
"So am I," Spirit observed.
"HOW DID YOU TWO END UP IN YOUR OWN BODIES?" Scott yelled.
"Just lucky I guess," Spirit shrugged.
"What the hell happened?" Logan ran in. "I was coming back with the beer and I thought I smelled…"
"I'm too sexy for myself! Too sexy for myself!" Shipwreck danced around in Ororo's body. "I'm so sexy it hurrrrrrttttsss!"
"You are going to hurt if you don't stop fooling around in my body!" Ororo roared.
"So sexy-eeeeeeeeee!" Shipwreck hugged 'his' body.
"That's it! You're dead!" Ororo leapt on top of Shipwreck. Of course now that Ororo was a few hundred pounds heavier she and Shipwreck nearly crashed all the way through the flimsy floor. Shipwreck responded instinctively by creating a blast of strong wind. Strong enough to send Ororo right through the wall and outside.
"Oops," Shipwreck blinked, still stuck in the floor.
"Switch," Logan finished the sentence. "Oh boy."
"Ooohh!" Roadblock held his hands over his head. "Too many crazy thoughts…Ow!"
"I'd better help him," Xavier sighed.
"Hey how do these wings work again?" Hank cautiously flapped 'his' wings. He accidentally knocked Warren down onto the wall.
"OW! Watch it with my wings!" Warren snapped.
"Forget the wings! Watch what you're doing with my body!" Cover Girl yelled.
"Well let's see we've only been here less than four hours and already we're in trouble," Scott groaned. "Oh no the kids! They're got to be in danger too!"
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"Whee!" Todd yelled as he swung on the rope and let go, landing in the lake. The gang was happily swimming and having fun.
"Cannonball!" Fred ran to the edge of the lake and jumped.
"OH GOD EVERYBODY SWIM FOR YOUR LIFE!" Lance screamed as he tried to swim away with the other mutants.
FOOOM!
"Ahhh!" Everyone in the lake screamed as a huge wave threatened to crash down on them. Suddenly it stopped in mid air.
"Guys," Althea held it with her powers. "Relax, I got it."
"Phew, that was close," Pietro breathed a sigh of relief as he stood in the water. "Not that I was ever scared or anything."
Althea raised an eyebrow at Wanda. She nodded. Althea directed the wave just so it would hit only Pietro. "AAHHHHHH!" Pietro screamed as it washed him away.
"Okay that was worth the two hour ride," Rogue chuckled as she sat on the side of the lake. She was wearing her green swimsuit with the fishnet top and the waterproof gloves.
"At least we didn't get lost this time and make it a three hour ride," Tabitha grinned. "Yo Pyro! You going in or what?"
"But the water," Pyro blinked as he stuck his toe in the water. "It's so…wet. And non flammable…In fact it's so not good for fire at all! It's just not conducive to water at all! In fact water puts fire out!"
"That's pretty much what water is and does," Wanda rolled her eyes.
"It's so unnatural," Pyro shuddered. "And…wet."
"Don't tell me you can't swim," Lance said.
"Okay I won't tell you," Pyro quipped. "Oh I can swim all right. It's just that…Swimming brings back bad memories for me. See I nearly drowned when I was a tot."
"Oh Pyro," Amara blinked. "I had no idea. Swimming pool or ocean?"
"Toilet," Pyro corrected her. "It was one of my old man's half baked ideas. Actually he was fully baked at the time and had watched this old Dragnet episode. You know the one where the marijuana smoking parents accidentally drown their kid in the tub? Well let's just say for once I was actually grateful for the security guards at the local store. It was after that I decided I'd better learn to swim real fast!"
"You know that's a lot similar to how I learned to swim," Fred said. "Only it was when the farm got flooded because my Uncle Carl blew up the local dam, He was trying to get my grandparents to sell the farm and he thought he could get the farm dirt cheap if we couldn't get any crops that year! But my old Granny and Grandpa fooled him. See my Grandpa had a feeling old Uncle Carl would try a trick like that."
"What did he do? Get the police?" Tabitha asked.
"No, he planted rice," Fred said. "We made a fortune cause we were the only farm with rice paddies growing. Actually our farm was the only one growing anything except mold. But it turned out to be a lucrative business for the other farmers in the valley because they were able to sell the mold to these medicine companies."
"Why do we set them up like that?" Amara asked Tabitha.
"I don't know," Tabitha groaned.
"Well other than weird stories and Blob's cannonballs this is kind of fun," Kurt said as he swam by.
"Even with the weird stories and Blob's cannonballs this is fun," Jesse admitted.
"Reminds us of back home," Paige said.
"Yeah we used to go swimming in the lake all the time," Sam said.
"I used to swim in a lake a lot too," Fred piped up. "I even once swam in a lake made of milk! You see I was visiting my cousins in Minnesota…"
"Blob! Pace yourself!" Lance rolled his eyes. "You don't want to run out of stories!"
"And that would be a bad thing?" Kurt quipped.
"Hey consider yourself lucky that it's the only bad thing to happen to us since we got here," Sam said. He saw Penny splashing around out of the corner of his eye. "Except for the bus ride I mean."
"Yeah who'd have thought the adults were right about something for once?" Angelica said. "Nothing's going to happen here!"
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"YOU BLEW UP OUR CABIN!" Ororo screamed as she watched the cabin go up in flames. Hank's body fur was wild and out of control.
"Sorry," The Blind Master said. "I confess I've always wanted to do that since I used to read Eye Man comics as a kid."
"BUT DID YOU HAVE TO DO IT TO OUR CABIN?" Ororo screamed.
"At least our stuff wasn't in it," Cover Girl said. "It's still on the bus."
"Your stuff is still on the bus!" Jean corrected. "Ours was in there!"
"It was?" Ororo blinked. "I didn't take mine out of the bus."
"You were supposed to unload our things from the bus," Jean said.
"Nobody told me that," Ororo snapped.
"Well I assumed…" Jean began.
"Why would you assume I would take the things out of the bus?" Ororo's voice rose.
"Because you're the one who was making such a big deal out of packing everything!" Hank said.
"Can we stop fighting each other and start concentrating on helping the kids?" Spirit groaned.
"Well excuse us Mister I'm Still in My Own Body!" Cover Girl shouted.
"Hold it," Logan heard laughter. "She's here!"
"That's right," A purple haired punk girl waltzed out behind a tree. "I'm baa-ack!"
"Put us back in our bodies right now!" Jean ordered.
"But I'm having such fun!" Switch giggled.
"Well fun's over you little…" Logan lunged at her.
FLASSSSHHHHH!
A ball of pink engulfed all of them. Suddenly Logan's body fell down. Logan couldn't move at all. Then he realized why. "Great I'm in Chuck's body!" Then he was assaulted by a dozen thoughts. "AAHHHH!"
"Ooh, I feel really weird," Whoever was in Logan's body moaned. "Awwwk!"
"He sounds like a parrot," Hank said. He was in Roadblock's body.
"Polly feels really weird…" Logan's body squawked.
"It is a parrot!" Scott shouted. He was in Polly's body. "That stupid bird must have flown around just as Switch set off her attack."
"Okay now who's in where?" Shipwreck called out. "For example where the hell am I? I can't see a thing!"
"Then you're in my body genius!" The Blind Master snapped. He was in Hank's.
"We're all mixed up again!" Ororo yelled. She was in Low Light's body. "And I thought the low point of this day was when I woke up in jail and went to court!"
"I kind of like this," Low Light was in Warren's. "Whose body did you get Spirit?"
"Uh, I'm still in my own," Spirit waved.
"HOW THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT AGAIN?" Logan shouted.
"Ororo, where are you?" Shipwreck felt around. "Ooh soft!"
"Shipwreck…" Roadblock was in Ororo's body which Shipwreck was feeling up. "KNOCK IT OFF!" Roadblock couldn't control his powers and created dark clouds and zapped Shipwreck.
"Oh boy," Blind Master blinked. "I will definitely feel that in the morning."
"YOU ARE A DEAD MAN!" Ororo tackled Shipwreck.
"STOP BEATING UP MY BODY!" The Blind Master tackled her. "AT LEAST WAIT UNTIL SHIPWRECK'S OUT OF IT BEFORE YOU DO!"
"Oh this is just pathetic," Logan winced as nearly all the adults ended up in a free for all trying to stop the fight. "This is just plain pathetic!"
"Awk! I'm Wolverine!" Polly strutted around. "I'm the Big Bad Wolverine! I am so freaking cooooooolll!"
"Now this is just insane," Logan moaned. "No wonder Charles lost all his hair!"
By now the students had run in and saw the commotion. "What the hell is going on?" Ray blinked. "Are the adults into the booze already?"
"I wouldn't put it past our guys but yours?" Lance blinked.
"I don't think that's the problem," Xi pointed. "Look!"
"HA HA HA HA HA!" Switch was holding her sides laughing. "I haven't had this much fun in months! You guys are a laugh riot!"
"You wanna riot?" Tabitha started to make a time bomb.
"Oh please," Switch grinned as she prepared to activate her own powers. "Like you could do anything to me. This should be good!"
"No, but this will be," Harvey hit Switch from behind with a shovel.
"AAHHH!" Switch fell forward and hit the ground.
Everyone gasped. "You killed her!" Ororo yelled. "What are you a maniac!"
"From what I'm sensing, you're not that far off," Logan growled.
"Emma? Is that you?" Xavier asked. He was in Cover Girl's body.
"Pardon me Xavier," Emma told him. She was definitely in Harvey's body. "But I'm after a wayward pupil of mine. I believe you're run into her?"
"Let me take a wild guess," Logan said. "You were going to attack us am I right?"
"We were until she decided to start the attack early," Emma groaned. "That is the last time I let her on the team!"
"Did you get her yet?" Monet stormed up.
"Yes Beef I did," Emma said. "Don't worry she's not dead. It'll take something a little bit harder than a shovel to the head to kill that idiot."
"Good because your other half is driving us crazy!" Beef snapped.
"Oh I feel pretty! Oh so pretty!" Harvey danced around in Emma's body.
"Oh god no…" Ororo blanched.
"Compared to what I was before this is an upgrade," Emma groaned. "Don't ask."
A skunk wandered into the campsite. It chattered. "Yes Evan she's not dead!" Emma groaned.
"That's Evan! HA!" Pietro laughed. "HA HA HA HA! OH THIS IS PRICELESS!"
"Uh Quicksilver you might wanna move right about now," Pyro gulped.
"AAHHH!" Pietro saw Evan was preparing to spray. He ran off through the woods.
"That was you before wasn't it?" Logan grinned. "I thought I smelled something weird. Even in this body!"
"All right how about we make a deal?" Emma groaned. "After we get our real bodies back the Hellions promise not to attack you for at least three months. As long as you tell no one this ever happened!"
"LA! LA! LA! LA! LA!" Harvey danced around. "I'm so pretty! LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!"
"Make it five months," Xavier grinned.
"Deal," Emma groaned.
Next: The gang has some camp style fun. Unfortunately a lot of the bad guys are having some fun of their own, plotting, planning and generally getting ready to make our favorite mutants' lives miserable!
Althea walked out. "Finally getting on with the plot I see? Took you long enough!"