Spy Games

"How did you end up getting locked in a closet?" Falcon asked Alpine after school.

"Dunno," Alpine grumbled. "Someone shoved me in. Has Breaker fixed the equipment yet?"

"He's working on it," Falcon told him. "I don't know how our electronic surveillance equipment went down at the same time."

"I smell a rat here," Falcon frowned. "Or more specifically a snake. What are they up to?"

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Meanwhile at the Brotherhood house, Mystique was not happy about the boys not showing up after school. She evidenced her displeasure by breaking several bits of furniture. Wanda, quite used to her tantrums looked at her with a bored eye.

"Where are they?" Mystique hissed.

"How should I know?" Wanda snapped. "Maybe they went out to bother some X-Geeks!"

"When I get my hands on them I will…" The phone interrupted her. She answered it. "Yes? Oh…It's you. Oh…I see. No. Not really. All right. That soon? Just remember your part! Good bye." She hung up the phone. "I'm going to bed."

"Wait a minute what about the others?" Wanda asked.

"Oh them?" She shrugged. "Never mind. They'll be back whenever they feel like it."

"Wait a minute," Wanda frowned. "Two seconds ago you're tearing the place apart because they're not here and now you don't care? Does Magneto have something to do with this?"

"All that matters is that you're here," She replied. "Or you can go out. Quite frankly I don't care which. I'm sick of babysitting all of you brats."

"Fine!" Wanda stormed out. "I'll go look for them myself!" What is going on here? It's time I found out!

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In another part of town three teens were on a mission of their own. "This is Blue Wonder reporting in," Kurt whispered into his communicator. "Target has been sighted at the park. Repeat the lovebirds are at the statue, over!"

"Kurt what are you doing?" Kitty asked. "We're right behind you." Kitty and Amanda looked at Kurt. They were hiding behind the bushes at a nearby picnic area. Apparently Logan and Ms. Ark were having a late night picnic. They were chatting and having a good time.

"I'm just trying to be professional about this," Kurt sniffed.

"Kurt we're gonna get caught if you keep goofing around," Kitty told him.

"No way!" Kurt said. "We're downwind! He can't smell us!"

"I meant with all the noise you make!" Kitty snapped.

"Hey no one said the spy business was easy! Danger! Action! It's just another day for 'Kurt's Angels'!" Kurt smiled.

"Oh brother," Kitty rolled his eyes.

"Please tell me he's not always like this on missions" Amanda groaned.

"No usually he's a lot worse!" Kitty grumbled.

"Okay next time we spy on our teachers we're leaving him home," Amanda said.

"Hey!" Kurt frowned. "I am a valuable team member! Look I even have this!" He took out a small listening device. "This can carry sounds from miles away." He put the headphones on. "Forge made this baby! I can hear every word they are saying. Right now they are talking about how much goofing off Kurt is…Never mind," He put the phones down.

"No wait I want to hear this!" Kitty grinned as she grabbed the headphones from Kurt.

"Me too!" Amanda grinned putting one part of the headphones next to her ear while Kitty held the other.

"Hey!" Kurt protested. "I want to hear too!"

"Oh be quiet Kurt!" Kitty told him.

"Yeah you and Kitty do this all the time," Amanda said. "I want to get in on the action for once!"

"But it's my device," Kurt pouted.

Meanwhile Logan began to kiss his date, oblivious to the fact that he was being watched. Little did he know he was going to get more company than he bargained for. Suddenly a jeep pulled up to the campsite out of nowhere. "JINX!" Falcon shouted.

"Oh great," Jinx groaned as Falcon came running out.

"Is that our gym teacher?" Kurt asked.

"I heard he had a crush on Ms. Ark," Kitty said.

"Oh man this is gonna be good," Amanda snickered.

"I wanna hear this!" Kurt sniffed trying to listen in. It soon turned out that he didn't really need it.

"JINX WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?" Falcon screamed. "I'VE BEEN TRYING TO CONTACT YOU FOR…." He stopped and looked at the situation. "Logan? What's going on here?"

"We're on a date you moron," Jinx hissed, not having to enjoy explaining to Logan about her codename. "What do you think is going on?"

"Hey Falcon," Logan waved. "See you haven't lost your sense of timing."

"Wait you know each other?" Jinx looked at him.

"I was gonna ask you the same question," Falcon looked more puzzled than ever.

"We've been dating for a while now," Logan told him.

"You're dating our contact?" Falcon yelped at Jinx.

"What?" Kitty and Kurt yelped at the same time.

"Don't yell at her," Logan said. "She didn't know I was helping you guys. Okay I knew who she was…"

"You knew?" Jinx asked.

"Well yeah," Logan shrugged. "I didn't want to hurt your feelings or anything."

"What is going on?" Kurt asked.

"I don't know!" Kitty snapped. "Logan…some kind of informant? No way!"

"Let me get this straight, you knew I was part of GI Joe all the time?" Jinx asked.

"I didn't want things to get complicated," Logan sighed.

"It's a bit late for that!" Falcon snapped. "I can't believe this! Mainframe I can, but you having romantic liaisons? That's…that's unprofessional!"

"Look who's talking!" Jinx shot back. "This from the man who uses an ultra secret emergency channel on my communicator to pester me with poems and asking me for a date! Is it any wonder I don't carry it with me any more? I told you it was over between us Falcon!"

"Uh…Excuse me," Logan interrupted. "But is there a reason you've been driving all over town looking for Jinx?"

"Oh yeah," Falcon scratched his head. "We had a security snafu. We think Cobra's got some members of the Brotherhood."

"How could that happen?" Jinx snapped. "You were supposed to be watching the Brotherhood this week. I took care of my end with the X-Men!"

While the adults were arguing the three teens sat in shock. "I can't believe that Logan's been helping people spy on us!" Kitty snapped.

"Who are they anyway?" Kurt asked. "What is this GI Joe?"

"I've heard of them," Amanda said. "They're a military task force that specializes in fighting terrorists."

"But what does that have to do with us?" Kurt asked. He sat back into the bushes accidentally. Particularly on a sharp branch. "Yeow!"

"What was that?" Logan turned his head in their direction.

"Kurt!" Kitty hissed angrily.

"Oops," Kurt gulped as Logan made his way towards their hiding spot. "Hang on!" He teleported them all out of there just before Logan came upon their hiding spot.

"What is it?" Jinx asked.

Logan frowned as he picked up the familiar scents. "We had a few spies here."

"Who?" Falcon asked.

"A few kids from the Institute," Logan sighed. "Not to mention a certain Elf's girlfriend. I don't think we can keep this a secret any longer. Chuck isn't gonna be too thrilled about this."

"Maybe we'd better come and explain the situation," Jinx said.

"It's the least we can do," Falcon said. "Besides, I have a feeling Cobra's gonna pull something big pretty soon. We're gonna need all the help we can get."