Divine inspiration
By Todd fan
Disclaimer: I own nothing, nada, zip, zero, squat.
Lets thank those great and wonderous people who go by the collective term as my reviewers shall we?
Foxglove33 - Hey chucks, well i'm always willing to give a Todd fan fix. Did i just refer to myself in the third person?.... Yes, Pietro shouldn't be let out too near the sun, nor should Sabertooth be put in high-stress situations :)
Bradleigh - Can't you just picture him in that little McDonalds hat saying 'You want fries with that?'. It always makes me smile! Mmmmm.... how old am i?. Well i'm a year older than i was last year..Okay, i'm nineteen, i have only one year of being classed as a teenager left! *Runs around in a panic*.
Eileen - As if i'd let anything really bad happen to Toddles :P
Red witch - I got a Monty Python cd for my birthday, i LOVE it, hence the Monty Python songfest. It's all that iv'e had playing. Well i was very tempted to use 'every sperm is sacred', but i decided against it. I dread the offense it may have caused :P
Chapter 12 - Back on track.
It took another two hours before the group were near any type of civilisation. Logan landed the jet near to a small town.
"Right", said Bastet, "lets go into town. Our priority is to get some fluid into frog-boy here".
Todd was still dead to the world on his seat. The group nodded and started to leave the jet. Sabertooth slung Todd's unconcious body over his shoulder and headed into town with the group. Logan stayed behind to 'keep an eye on the jet', though everyone had a feeling he was going to head to the nearest bar. The group finally made it to a hotel. The clerk looked up.
"Can i help you?", he asked, giving Todd a strange look.
"Yes", said Bastet, it was then that she started to speak Arabic to the clerk.
The teenagers and Sabertooth shuffled about uncomfortably, as people do when a converstaion is going on around them that they don't understand. It wasn't long before Bastet and the clerk had finnished talking. The clerk handed Bastet a key.
"Room thirty one", he said.
"Thank you", said Bastet and motioned the group to follow her.
They made it to their room. Sabertooth carefully put Todd down on the bed.
"Right", said Bastet, "we've only got this room until he's okay. I had to pull some strings to get this".
She motioned at Kitty.
"You go to the bathroom and fill a bowl full of water and a flannel", she said, then turned to Lance , "you go to that mini-bar and get some bottled water. The rest of you...well...just..stand around".
Kitty and Lance nodded and left to get what they were told. Kurt looked over Bastet's shoulder at Todd. Though he'd never admit it, he was worried about his rival.
"Vill he be...okay?", he asked, trying to sound as disinterested as possible, it didn't work.
"We'll see", said Bastet with a sigh, she then turned to Kurt, "i thought you hated him".
"I do", said Kurt quickly, "i don't care at all".
Bastet chuckled and shook her head disbelivingly. It was then that Kitty phased through the wall struggling under the weight of a bowl full of water, doing her best not to spill it everywhere. She put the bowl on the table next to Bastet.
"There you go", she said, "the flannel's already in there".
"Good", said Bastet.
She made sure the flannel was sokaing wet before wringing it out on Todd's face.
"Come on kid", she said.
"Are you SURE you know what your doing?", asked Pietro, tapping his foot impaciently, "i mean, its one of MY friend's life in the balance here".
"Of course i know what i'm doing", said Bastet with a growl, "i have spent my entire existence in Egypt. I know how to treat dehydration. We can't exactly take him to a hospital can we?. Or do you want to try and explain why he has a six foot long green tounge and amphibian DNA?".
"Good point", said Pietro, going quiet for the first time since they left Bayville.
Bastet wrung some more water on Todd's face and waited. Todd suddenly scrunched up his face and moaned.
"Thats it Todd", said Bastet, "come all the way round now".
Todd slowly opened his eyes and blinked. He groaned and put a hand to his head.
"Wh..what the heck happened?", he asked, with a dry, parched voice.
"You passed out", said Bastet.
It was then that Lance came into the room with a bottle of water. He smiled when he saw Todd.
"Hey buddy", he said, "welcome back to the real world".
Todd, however was looking intently at the bottle of water in Lance's hand. Suddenly his tounge shot out and brought the bottle to his hands. Todd opened it and drank the lot in a matter of seconds. He sighed contentedly.
"That's better yo", he said with a smile, then looked around his surroudings, "where are we anyway?".
"Were in a town close to where we want to be", said Bastet, "we needed to stop until you got yourself back on your feet".
"Well give me a sec an' i'll be okay", said Todd.
"We'll wait until your better", said Bastet, "besides, we need to find Logan. I'd rather stay here and watch you, so someone will have to go and look for him".
"Oooh ooooh", said Pietro, bouncing up and down, "pick me, pick me!".
Bastet sighed and put her head in her hands.
"Okay, okay", she said, "but take Evan with you".
"What!", said Evan, "do you have something against me?".
"No", said Bastet, "i just think that you can go and keep the nutcase under control. You've known him the longest".
"It doesn't mean i LIKE being near him", muttered Evan as he was yanked away by Pietro.
"Come on Daniels", he said with a manical laugh, "lets go hunt us a Wolverine".
"Help me", squeaked Evan before being pulled out of sight.
"What happened to Speedy?", asked Todd, sitting up slightly, "did i miss somethin' yo?".
"The sun got to him", said Kitty with a sigh, "you should be thankfull your were unconcious when he started to sing Monty Python songs".
"Mmmmmmm", said Todd, "unconciousness, or listen to Pietro sing, what a choice!".
"I'm sure he'll do an encore preformance if you ask him", said Kitty with a giggle.
Todd's eyes widened at the prospect.
"I think i'll...pass", he said with a chuckle, "hey you guy's ain't got any more of that water have ya?".
"I'll go get some more", said Kurt with a sigh, walking out.
Meanwhile, Evan and Pietro were hunting down Logan, it didn't take them long to find him. He was in the hotel bar, playing pool. Pietro ran over to him and clapped him on the back, causing him to miss his shot.
"Damm it!", he said, slamming his fist on the pool table.
Of course, adamantium bones and wood are never a good mix. The table split in half, leaving Logan to stare at it with a look of shock on his face. Pietro backed away slowly, Logan did NOT look happy. Suddenly one of the hotel staff came storming up.
"Excuse me sir", he said, "but i think you had better leave. Now".
"But...", started Logan.
"Go on, off with you", said the man, trying to look intimdating next to Logan and failing miserably, "and tell your friends that they have to get out of the room. It's needed now".
"Fine", grumbled Logan, shoving past the man.
As he passed Pietro, he grabbed him and slung the speed demon over his shoulder.
"Hey!", said Pietro, struggling to get free.
"I'd keep still if i were you", warned Logan, in a very low voice, "it would be really tragic if ya were ta 'slip' onta my claws".
This promtly shut up Pietro. He looked up from Logan's shoulder to see Evan trailing behind them, a smug grin on his face. It didn't take long for the trio to make it into the hotel room. Logan was surprised to see Todd standing up, the kid obviously recruiperated quickly.
"We gotta go, now", said Logan.
"Fine", said Bastet, the blinked at him, "is that Pietro slung over your shoulder?".
"It might be", said Logan with an evil grin.
The group walked out of the hotel and back to the Blackbird. Logan finally let Pietro down. Pietro sulkily sat down, trying to ignore the chuckles and giggles from the rest of the teens.
"We should only be a about an hour from Babustis", said Bastet, sitting down at the cockpit.
"I'll be glad when this is all over", said Sabertooth, "i hate kids. When i get home, i'm just gonna ride my motorbike far, far away and not come back fer at least a month".
"I hear that", said Logan, starting the jet up, once again.
Bastet was right, it didn't take them long to reach their destination. Logan landed the jet in front of a large temple. It was covered in stone cat statues.
"Geee, ya sure didn't hold anythin' back when ya let this get built", said Logan, "it's one heck of a big temple".
"Yeah", said Bastet dreamily, "i miss my adoring public. Oh well, come on, we gotta get inside, i just hope they didn't get there before us".
Sabertooth sniffed the air.
"There here alright", he said, "lets catch us some shapeshifters".
Yep, thats it for now methinks. Just a note, i don't think that Bastet's temple is still standing, but for this story's purpouses, it is. Don't forget to review, until next time...
By Todd fan
Disclaimer: I own nothing, nada, zip, zero, squat.
Lets thank those great and wonderous people who go by the collective term as my reviewers shall we?
Foxglove33 - Hey chucks, well i'm always willing to give a Todd fan fix. Did i just refer to myself in the third person?.... Yes, Pietro shouldn't be let out too near the sun, nor should Sabertooth be put in high-stress situations :)
Bradleigh - Can't you just picture him in that little McDonalds hat saying 'You want fries with that?'. It always makes me smile! Mmmmm.... how old am i?. Well i'm a year older than i was last year..Okay, i'm nineteen, i have only one year of being classed as a teenager left! *Runs around in a panic*.
Eileen - As if i'd let anything really bad happen to Toddles :P
Red witch - I got a Monty Python cd for my birthday, i LOVE it, hence the Monty Python songfest. It's all that iv'e had playing. Well i was very tempted to use 'every sperm is sacred', but i decided against it. I dread the offense it may have caused :P
Chapter 12 - Back on track.
It took another two hours before the group were near any type of civilisation. Logan landed the jet near to a small town.
"Right", said Bastet, "lets go into town. Our priority is to get some fluid into frog-boy here".
Todd was still dead to the world on his seat. The group nodded and started to leave the jet. Sabertooth slung Todd's unconcious body over his shoulder and headed into town with the group. Logan stayed behind to 'keep an eye on the jet', though everyone had a feeling he was going to head to the nearest bar. The group finally made it to a hotel. The clerk looked up.
"Can i help you?", he asked, giving Todd a strange look.
"Yes", said Bastet, it was then that she started to speak Arabic to the clerk.
The teenagers and Sabertooth shuffled about uncomfortably, as people do when a converstaion is going on around them that they don't understand. It wasn't long before Bastet and the clerk had finnished talking. The clerk handed Bastet a key.
"Room thirty one", he said.
"Thank you", said Bastet and motioned the group to follow her.
They made it to their room. Sabertooth carefully put Todd down on the bed.
"Right", said Bastet, "we've only got this room until he's okay. I had to pull some strings to get this".
She motioned at Kitty.
"You go to the bathroom and fill a bowl full of water and a flannel", she said, then turned to Lance , "you go to that mini-bar and get some bottled water. The rest of you...well...just..stand around".
Kitty and Lance nodded and left to get what they were told. Kurt looked over Bastet's shoulder at Todd. Though he'd never admit it, he was worried about his rival.
"Vill he be...okay?", he asked, trying to sound as disinterested as possible, it didn't work.
"We'll see", said Bastet with a sigh, she then turned to Kurt, "i thought you hated him".
"I do", said Kurt quickly, "i don't care at all".
Bastet chuckled and shook her head disbelivingly. It was then that Kitty phased through the wall struggling under the weight of a bowl full of water, doing her best not to spill it everywhere. She put the bowl on the table next to Bastet.
"There you go", she said, "the flannel's already in there".
"Good", said Bastet.
She made sure the flannel was sokaing wet before wringing it out on Todd's face.
"Come on kid", she said.
"Are you SURE you know what your doing?", asked Pietro, tapping his foot impaciently, "i mean, its one of MY friend's life in the balance here".
"Of course i know what i'm doing", said Bastet with a growl, "i have spent my entire existence in Egypt. I know how to treat dehydration. We can't exactly take him to a hospital can we?. Or do you want to try and explain why he has a six foot long green tounge and amphibian DNA?".
"Good point", said Pietro, going quiet for the first time since they left Bayville.
Bastet wrung some more water on Todd's face and waited. Todd suddenly scrunched up his face and moaned.
"Thats it Todd", said Bastet, "come all the way round now".
Todd slowly opened his eyes and blinked. He groaned and put a hand to his head.
"Wh..what the heck happened?", he asked, with a dry, parched voice.
"You passed out", said Bastet.
It was then that Lance came into the room with a bottle of water. He smiled when he saw Todd.
"Hey buddy", he said, "welcome back to the real world".
Todd, however was looking intently at the bottle of water in Lance's hand. Suddenly his tounge shot out and brought the bottle to his hands. Todd opened it and drank the lot in a matter of seconds. He sighed contentedly.
"That's better yo", he said with a smile, then looked around his surroudings, "where are we anyway?".
"Were in a town close to where we want to be", said Bastet, "we needed to stop until you got yourself back on your feet".
"Well give me a sec an' i'll be okay", said Todd.
"We'll wait until your better", said Bastet, "besides, we need to find Logan. I'd rather stay here and watch you, so someone will have to go and look for him".
"Oooh ooooh", said Pietro, bouncing up and down, "pick me, pick me!".
Bastet sighed and put her head in her hands.
"Okay, okay", she said, "but take Evan with you".
"What!", said Evan, "do you have something against me?".
"No", said Bastet, "i just think that you can go and keep the nutcase under control. You've known him the longest".
"It doesn't mean i LIKE being near him", muttered Evan as he was yanked away by Pietro.
"Come on Daniels", he said with a manical laugh, "lets go hunt us a Wolverine".
"Help me", squeaked Evan before being pulled out of sight.
"What happened to Speedy?", asked Todd, sitting up slightly, "did i miss somethin' yo?".
"The sun got to him", said Kitty with a sigh, "you should be thankfull your were unconcious when he started to sing Monty Python songs".
"Mmmmmmm", said Todd, "unconciousness, or listen to Pietro sing, what a choice!".
"I'm sure he'll do an encore preformance if you ask him", said Kitty with a giggle.
Todd's eyes widened at the prospect.
"I think i'll...pass", he said with a chuckle, "hey you guy's ain't got any more of that water have ya?".
"I'll go get some more", said Kurt with a sigh, walking out.
Meanwhile, Evan and Pietro were hunting down Logan, it didn't take them long to find him. He was in the hotel bar, playing pool. Pietro ran over to him and clapped him on the back, causing him to miss his shot.
"Damm it!", he said, slamming his fist on the pool table.
Of course, adamantium bones and wood are never a good mix. The table split in half, leaving Logan to stare at it with a look of shock on his face. Pietro backed away slowly, Logan did NOT look happy. Suddenly one of the hotel staff came storming up.
"Excuse me sir", he said, "but i think you had better leave. Now".
"But...", started Logan.
"Go on, off with you", said the man, trying to look intimdating next to Logan and failing miserably, "and tell your friends that they have to get out of the room. It's needed now".
"Fine", grumbled Logan, shoving past the man.
As he passed Pietro, he grabbed him and slung the speed demon over his shoulder.
"Hey!", said Pietro, struggling to get free.
"I'd keep still if i were you", warned Logan, in a very low voice, "it would be really tragic if ya were ta 'slip' onta my claws".
This promtly shut up Pietro. He looked up from Logan's shoulder to see Evan trailing behind them, a smug grin on his face. It didn't take long for the trio to make it into the hotel room. Logan was surprised to see Todd standing up, the kid obviously recruiperated quickly.
"We gotta go, now", said Logan.
"Fine", said Bastet, the blinked at him, "is that Pietro slung over your shoulder?".
"It might be", said Logan with an evil grin.
The group walked out of the hotel and back to the Blackbird. Logan finally let Pietro down. Pietro sulkily sat down, trying to ignore the chuckles and giggles from the rest of the teens.
"We should only be a about an hour from Babustis", said Bastet, sitting down at the cockpit.
"I'll be glad when this is all over", said Sabertooth, "i hate kids. When i get home, i'm just gonna ride my motorbike far, far away and not come back fer at least a month".
"I hear that", said Logan, starting the jet up, once again.
Bastet was right, it didn't take them long to reach their destination. Logan landed the jet in front of a large temple. It was covered in stone cat statues.
"Geee, ya sure didn't hold anythin' back when ya let this get built", said Logan, "it's one heck of a big temple".
"Yeah", said Bastet dreamily, "i miss my adoring public. Oh well, come on, we gotta get inside, i just hope they didn't get there before us".
Sabertooth sniffed the air.
"There here alright", he said, "lets catch us some shapeshifters".
Yep, thats it for now methinks. Just a note, i don't think that Bastet's temple is still standing, but for this story's purpouses, it is. Don't forget to review, until next time...
