Unlikely Allies

"You should have seen it Professor," Evan said. "By the end of the day the school looked like a religious conference or something! Of course Kelly and the Superintendents covered their butts by saying it was an interfaith meeting or something so it would look good in the papers. But if you were there you'd have seen the entire place had gone nuts!"

"The entire school thinks that the building is haunted," Jean said. "Some kids are even wearing black as a sign of morning."

"It's weird," Rogue grumbled. "All the popular people are coming to me for makeup advice."

"Some are convinced they can talk to their dead relatives through the ghosts," Bobby said. "Wouldn't it be cool if we could do that?" He got looks. "Well I think it would."

"Some people are circulating a petition to change the school mascot to the Bayville Ghost or Demon," Kurt grumbled.

"The school is gripped in hysteria," Jean said.

"This time the Brotherhood's gone too far!" Scott snapped.

"Well I gotta admit they are pretty creative," Logan snickered.

"You think this is funny?" Scott looked at him.

"Yeah," Logan said. "In a way I think the Brotherhood's doing us all a favor. Ever since the dance people have been looking for answers to what happened. There was no way we could make everybody forget. If people think that ghosts are responsible they won't be looking for any other reasons if you get my drift."

"I agree," Xavier nodded. "True the Brotherhood's pranks are disruptive but we X-Men are not entirely blameless either. We did cause the incident at the dance however unintentional."

"Not to mention my little holowatch problem," Kurt groaned.

"I'm afraid we are just as much to blame as the Brotherhood," Xavier sighed. "We have to find a solution to the hysteria and I believe they may have found a way."

"What do you mean?" Scott asked.

"I have an unorthodox idea that just might work," Xavier said. "And at the same time it might help us with the Brotherhood as well."

The next day Scott, Kitty and Rogue walked over to the Brotherhood table. "Well if it isn't fellow members of the Academic elite!" Pietro smirked.

"Alvers, we wanna talk," Scott said swallowing his pride. "It's about that prank you guys pulled."

"Here we go," Lance rolled his eyes and covered his ears. "We're not listening!"

"Listen," Scott said. But the entire table covered their ears.

"We're not listening! La La La! We can't hear you!" They all said.

"Will you guys shut up!" Kitty snapped. "We wanna pull a prank too!"

"Say whaaa?" Todd looked at them.

"The others think that you guys making up this ghost nonsense and getting the school to believe it was a pretty good idea," Rogue said.

"Somebody better check the weather report," Fred blinked. "I think H-E-double hockey sticks has frozen over!"

"We're serious," Kitty said. "Okay you guys did take it too far but if you help us pull one last prank, maybe we can fix this!"

"You're really serious aren't you?" Lance blinked. "Maybe we should check the weather report!"

"Look," Scott said. "We'll make a deal with you guys. If we help you with this you don't cause any trouble when the governor comes, all right?"

"Sounds good to me," Lance said.

"So that's what this is all about!" Pietro snapped. "You guys just want everything to be nice and boring around here and keep us under wraps when the bigwigs come into town!"

"Look give us a minute to think it over, okay Summers?" Lance said. "Okay guys, huddle!"

The Brotherhood huddled together. Although their conversation was whispered various words were heard.

"Kitty would think it was a good idea," Tabitha's voice said.

"No!" Todd repeated over and over. "No!"

"Are you sure?" Pietro asked.

"Okay we'll do it!" Lance popped up.

"Okay!" Todd grinned. "Now what's the plan? We get them all in the same room and Xavier drains their brains?"

"Not exactly," Scott said. "Okay here's what we'll do…"

Later that day Pietro was holding court in the science lab. Some members of the X-Men were there as well as the Brotherhood. "Okay now we are going to put all the naughty spirits and ghosts that have been causing trouble to sleep," He spoke to the small crowd. He was wearing a silver turban and a cape.

"What is going on now?" Kelly groaned as he walked in.

"We're going to put all the bad spirits to sleep," Pietro explained. "I read about this in an old book. First we have to get their attention. HEY SPIRITS! OVER HERE!"

"Maximoff that is not going to…" Kelly stopped as an eraser flew from the chalkboard to the center of the room. He stared open mouthed as the eraser flew across the room. "Keep going Maximoff," He gulped.

"Spirits rest now!" Pietro shouted out. "Go to sleep…Go to sleep…" The ground shook a little. "I said go to sleep!" Pietro snapped. The shaking stopped.

"The spirits have been appeased!" Pietro shouted. The students cheered.

"Oh yeah," Kelly moaned. "Now I'm gonna appease myself with some spirits," He took out the flask of gin and gulped it down.