I Spy

"You mean those kids are going to have a rumble on the school grounds?" Alpine shouted when he heard the news. Falcon and Gung Ho were also there in a classroom on the second floor. Jinx was off on a side mission to the Brotherhood House and Mainframe was nowhere to be found.

"Uh huh," Bazooka panted. "After school…"

"Great," Falcon groaned. "We gotta stop those kids from mixing it up before they tear the building apart! Let's move!"

The bell rang signaling the final bell. The four Joes watched frantically as the students filed out of the building as well as half the teacher population. "There's the Brotherhood!" Alpine pointed out the window. They were headed to the football field.

"Yeah and guess who's going over to join them!" Gung Ho pointed to the X-Men starting to leave the building from another exit. "Oh man almost all of them are there! Even the new kids! Great!"

"It looks like they're taking their time though," Falcon noticed. "Waiting until all the students are gone."

"Well judging by the way most of them are burning rubber out of the parking lot I'd say they won't have that much of a wait," Alpine said. "We gotta head 'em off at the pass before they catch up to the Brotherhood."

"What pass?" Bazooka scratched his head.

"Come on lamebrain!" Alpine groaned as they started to leave the classroom.

Unfortunately The Baroness, and most of her team walked into the door, blocking their exit. "Going somewhere gentlemen?"

"Take cover!" Falcon and his team dove behind some desks as Monkeywrench drew his weapon and started firing at them.

"Knock it off you maniac!" Gung Ho shouted. "If we start a gunfight in here all our covers will be blown!"

"He's right!" Zartan grabbed Monkeywrench's arm. "Knock it off you fool! Do you want someone to hear us?"

"Well that's why I put the silencer on!" Monkeywrench told him. "OW!" He screamed when Zartan hit him on the head.

"We have to find a quieter way to stop them!" Baroness snapped. "No guns! Figures the one time I leave home without my switchblade and poison gas capsules!"

"We'll just have to do it the old fashioned way then!" Zandar slammed his fist into his open palm.

"Right," Monkeywrench snickered. "Longer we keep 'em here, the better our chances are for smoking out those freaks!"

"Don't tell them the plan you moron!" Baroness groaned.

"Hey Baroness!" Gung Ho heaved an eraser at her. "Catch!"

"AGGH!" She gasped when it hit her head and sneezed at the chalk dust.

"IT'S AN ERASER ATTACK!" Zartan shouted.

"I can see that you fool!" The Baroness choked on the eraser dust. "Throw something back at them! Pencils! Staplers! More Erasers! Anything!" They did so. Soon both parties were throwing all sorts of objects across the room at each other, trashing the place.

"This is ridiculous! I'm calling for backup! Zarana! Come in Zarana!" Zartan shouted into his communicator.

"Mainframe!" Falcon shouted into his. "Come in Mainframe!"

"Mainframe here!" Mainframe responded on his.

"What do you want?" Zarana shouted into hers.

"What!" Zartan shouted at the communicator. "Where's my sister Joe!"

"Zarana?" Falcon gasped.

"Oops," Mainframe's voice came over Zarana's communicator.

"Give me that Joe!" Zarana shouted. There were sounds of some kind of struggle. "Uh…don't worry Zartan! I've got the Joe right where I want him! Uh…Zarana out!"

"Well at least she's occupying that one Joe," Baroness said, not knowing what was really going on.

"That's one way of putting it," Zandar snickered behind her back. Zartan rolled his eyes to the ceiling.

On the other side Falcon was trying to figure out what was going on. "Mainframe what's going on?"

"Uh…sorry about that! Little mix up there. We must have switched communicators during the struggle!" Mainframe's voice came on the right communicator. "Don't worry! I have it under control!"

"Do you need backup?" Falcon asked.

"NO!" Mainframe said. "Uh…No! I have everything under control. She's not going anywhere for a while…."

"Look Cobra's running amok!" Falcon shouted. "Get down here now!"

"Uh that may be a problem…I gotta get something first."

"No excuse mister! Now! ASAP!" Falcon shouted.

"Okay okay!" Mainframe turned his off. He turned to Zarana. "Have you seen my pants?"

Meanwhile Monkeywrench was clearly getting frustrated. "What kind of sissy fight is this? There aren't even any explosions! This will get rid of them!" He grabbed a grenade and tossed it at the Joes.

"NO YOU IDIOT!" Zartan shouted. Too late, Monkeywrench threw the grenade over to the Joes. " The room's too small for an explosion that big! We're all gonna be killed!"

"RUN FOR IT!" Zandar screamed as the Cobras ran out of the room.

"Oh no we won't!" Gung Ho grabbed the grenade.

"Throw it!" Falcon shouted. Gung Ho tossed it out the window.

It landed in a certain principal's car.

Kelly was just walking outside when his car exploded into a million pieces. He just stood there in shock with his jaw wide open. He didn't notice the Cobras running out of the building.

"Great aim," Alpine grumbled as the Joes ran down the stairs.

"Shut up!" Gung Ho snarled. "Oh man, the kids are already there!"

"Maybe the explosion will distract them?" Falcon gasped as they ran into the parking lot.

"I doubt it!" Alpine said as he ran.

"For the last time Alvers what are you goons planning to do?" Scott's voice could be heard across the field.

"Let's just keep it a surprise shall we?" Lance sneered. "What are you gonna do about it?"

"We're gonna beat it out of you that's what we're gonna do!" Tabitha's screamed.

"Here we go!" Falcon groaned as he felt a slight tremor.

"We gotta stop 'em!" Alpine said.

"How do we do that without blowing our cover?" Gung Ho asked.

"Good question," Falcon said. "Any ideas anybody? Bazooka how about…? Bazooka? Where are you?"

"Where did that idiot go?" Alpine groaned.

"What's that noise?" Gung Ho noticed a strange sound. "It sounds like an ice cream truck."

"It is an ice cream truck," Alpine pointed out. "And guess who's driving!"

"Ice cream!" Bazooka shouted as he drove onto the field between the two mutant teams. "Get your ice cream nice and cold!"

"Now how did he…?" Alpine scratched his head.

"Ice cream!" Bazooka stopped the truck in front of the amazed mutants. "Anybody want free ice cream?"

"Ooh! I'll have some!" Fred gleefully raised his hand.

"Shut up!" Lance snapped.

"You shut up!" Fred sniffed. "I'm getting free ice cream!"

"Hey I'll have some of that," Peter said taking some from Bazooka.

"Hey we're kind of in the middle of something here," Scott said.

"Well it's not like you guys were gonna fight or anything," Bazooka said.

"Uh….no. No not fighting. Definitely not that," Several nervous students fidgeted.

"Hey what are you doing Alvers?" Scott shouted.

"I'm getting ice cream what's it to you?" Lance snapped. "Got any Rocky Road?"

"Yeah we can beat these jerks anytime," Remy said. "Free ice cream comes along only once in a while! You got any Strawberry Blast?"

"Hey is that the cops?" Fred pointed out. "What's that fire?"

"What did you idiots do?" Rogue snapped.

"Wasn't us," John said.

"Don't look at me," Tabitha said. "I didn't do it!"

"Uh maybe now is not the best time to talk about this," Remy said. "Let's take the ice cream and run!"

"This isn't over," Scott fumed. "Come on guys let's go."

"But what about our free ice cream?" Evan asked.

"Get outta here!" Scott shoved him along. Both X-Men and Brotherhood retreated.

The Joes stood there with shocked looks on their faces. "I don't know why you guys are so surprised," Bazooka said. "Ice cream always makes everything better."

Back at the apartments where the Joes were headquartered the team conferred on the recent turn of events. "I saw it, but I still don't believe it!" Alpine groaned. "Where did you get an ice cream truck that fast?"

"I uh…borrowed it," Bazooka gulped. He held out an ice cream treat. "Fudgesicle?"

"I don't want to know," Falcon groaned. He saw Mainframe come in. "Where were you?"

"Uh…Zarana kinda had me tied up," Mainframe gulped.

"What do you…" Falcon started to ask but Jinx came in carrying a box of things.

"Well I'm back," Jinx said.

"What do you have there Jinx?" Falcon asked.

"Some of Toad's stuff Roadblock asked me to pick up," Jinx showed him. "I figured I'd do that while I used the opportunity to place a listening bug in the Brotherhood Boarding house. What happened to you guys?"

"Don't ask," Alpine groaned. "Let's just say Bazooka saved the day with ice cream."

"And Gung Ho blew up Kelly's car," Bazooka added.

"Well this has been an eventful day," Jinx sighed. "So much for keeping Bayville High a nice quiet school."

"Hey it would have been a lot worse if things had escalated," Falcon told her. "So a car blew up and a classroom was trashed. Big deal, it could have been a destroyed school and a mutant streetfight."

"It's still gonna be tricky tomorrow with Kelly," Alpine groaned. "We have to invent an excuse or something."

"Tell me about it," Falcon nodded. "Speaking of excuses, hey Jinx I'm sorry about what happened the other day. You were right. It was unprofessional of me. So how about we go out tomorrow night?"

"Oh brother," Gung Ho rolled his eyes.

"Forget it Falcon," Jinx said. "It's over. I have a date with someone else."

"Oh I get it," Falcon smirked. "You're trying to make me jealous. Okay, okay if that's the way you want to play it."

"It's not a game Falcon! I'm serious. It's over."

"It's always over every other week," Alpine told her.

"This time I mean it," She said.

"Fine, fine," Falcon shrugged. "Hey it doesn't bother me. So why don't you go have fun on your 'date' and maybe later we'll hook up."

"There isn't going to be a later you…"

"Excuse me," Mainframe interrupted. "As much as I'd love to keep watching this, We have some news from the Brotherhood House. Breaker's got something."

"What is it?" Falcon asked.

"The Brotherhood is planning on doing something in Chicago this weekend," Mainframe reported. "In retaliation for Sunday's events. I don't know what yet."

"This is not good," Alpine frowned. "If they start something hostilities against mutants will escalate. So what do we do? We can't go to Chicago; it'll blow our cover. Maybe another Joe team?"

"They're all busy," Jinx said. "And there is no one else that can handle mutants yet! Not even SHEILD."

"We can have Hawk contact some people in Chicago," Falcon sighed. "But that's all we can do. I just hope whatever Magneto's planning, those X-Kids can handle it."