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MEANWHILE:
Kitty Pride bounded in through the door of the mansion.
"This is going to be so great! They'll be so happy to see me!" she said happily to herself as she ran around the mansion, looking for everyone. After a while, she stopped.
"Just where the hell IS everybody???" she wondered out loud, quite miffed at having gone through all the effort of making a surprise visit to the mansion only to discover that nobody was home.
Finally she headed to the rec room and poked her head through the door.
"Kurt! Bobby!" she squealed when she saw the two X-Men. Then she saw Steve.
"Who the heck are you?"
"I'm Steve!" he replied cheerily. "Hey! You can walk through walls too! Are you a ghost like me?"
"Come again?"
"Hey Kids!" said Steve, addressing the imaginary audience yet again. "Let's make a new friend! What do we do when we want to make a new friend?"
"Uh...Bobby, since when did you guys start adding mental cases to the team?"
"He's not exactly a member...in fact, we're really trying to get rid of him."
"Why don't you just tell him to get lost?"
"I only vish it vere that easy, Katzchen..."
"Yes! We can give our new friend a hug!" Steve turned to Kitty, his arms outstretched. "Come here and give me a big hug, friend!" he cried, and started coming toward her.
Kitty's eyes widened with panic. "Eeeeww! Stay away from me, you pervert!"
"It's physically impossible for him to actually TOUCH you, Kitty!" Bobby commented, referring to her phasing abilities and the fact that Steve was a ghost.
"That's beside the point!" Kitty retorted, then disappeared as a hug-happy Steve ran through the door after her.
"This isn't going to end well, is it?" Bobby asked Kurt.
"I don't think so, mein freund."
* * *
Hank, in the meantime, was busily racking up some well-deserved 'z's in the tree fort he had built in the previous story.
"Hey Hank!"
The furry mutant's eyes shot open and darted around furtively, expecting to see Steve hovering over him. He sighed exasperatedly when he saw that it was only Bobby.
"I do not think that you are in fact aware of the dangers of rousing a slumbering Beast, Robert," said Hank, sounding quite perturbed.
"But Hank! We need your help!"
"'We'? And just who might 'we' be?"
"Me and Kurt!"
"Kurt? What is my fellow furry companion doing here at the mansion?"
"Logan hauled him in so he could exorcise Steve!"
"Logan got Kurt to perform an exorcism? Did Steve go away?" Hank asked hopefully.
"Er...not yet."
Hank's face fell. "In that case, please excuse me." And he got up and started climbing down from his tree fort.
"Huh? Where are you going?" Bobby called after him.
"To the garage, my fine, frosty friend."
"The garage? But what about Steve???"
"That is not my problem. I have more important matters to attend to," Hank replied darkly.
"Just great. Now what am I gonna do?" Bobby muttered darkly to himself. Then he got an idea. He created an ice-slide and quickly went back to the mansion.
* * *
Logan returned to the mansion just to check up on things, and found Kurt in the rec room, trying to get juice stains out of the carpet.
"How'd it go, Elf?"
"Not to vell, I'm afraid."
"What? He's not gone yet?"
"Not quite."
"Why the hell not?!"
"There vere some complications....."
Just then, Kitty ran into the room through the far wall.
"KURT!!! LOGAN!!! GET THIS CREEP AWAY FROM MEEEE!!!" she shouted angrily as she ran across the rec room and disappeared through the opposite wall.
Steve came through the wall next. "Wait!!" he called after Kitty. "I just want to be your friend! We can swap ghost stories and walk in and out of the walls together and..." and he disappeared through the opposite wall as well.
THUD!!! "OW!"
"What the hell was that?" asked Logan.
The door opened and Bobby ran in, rubbing his forehead and brandishing a dust buster.
"It worked in Ghost busters!" Bobby explained, noticing the puzzled looks on their faces. He made sure to open the door this time as he exited the rec room, still chasing after Steve and Kitty.
"See vat I mean?"
"Jesus Christ!"
"Please do not use our saviour's name in vain, Logan."
"Yeah, yeah, whatever. Now what the fuck are we gonna do about the little geek? Blue's gonna tear my bike apart if we don't get rid o' him!"
"Perhaps I have an idea. Just let me consult the phone book."
"Knock yerself out, Elf."
* * *
Who's he gonna call? Ghostbusters? Maybe. Sorry, but you're gonna have to wait to find out. Thanks goes out to ice princess deluxe for sending me a bunch of ideas for the story. (Kitty's arrival and Bobby's dust-buster were both her ideas!) And thanks to Beastess for giving suggestions about Kurt's accent. I'll just stick with the 'v's from now on! And thanks to those who have reviewed!
MEANWHILE:
Kitty Pride bounded in through the door of the mansion.
"This is going to be so great! They'll be so happy to see me!" she said happily to herself as she ran around the mansion, looking for everyone. After a while, she stopped.
"Just where the hell IS everybody???" she wondered out loud, quite miffed at having gone through all the effort of making a surprise visit to the mansion only to discover that nobody was home.
Finally she headed to the rec room and poked her head through the door.
"Kurt! Bobby!" she squealed when she saw the two X-Men. Then she saw Steve.
"Who the heck are you?"
"I'm Steve!" he replied cheerily. "Hey! You can walk through walls too! Are you a ghost like me?"
"Come again?"
"Hey Kids!" said Steve, addressing the imaginary audience yet again. "Let's make a new friend! What do we do when we want to make a new friend?"
"Uh...Bobby, since when did you guys start adding mental cases to the team?"
"He's not exactly a member...in fact, we're really trying to get rid of him."
"Why don't you just tell him to get lost?"
"I only vish it vere that easy, Katzchen..."
"Yes! We can give our new friend a hug!" Steve turned to Kitty, his arms outstretched. "Come here and give me a big hug, friend!" he cried, and started coming toward her.
Kitty's eyes widened with panic. "Eeeeww! Stay away from me, you pervert!"
"It's physically impossible for him to actually TOUCH you, Kitty!" Bobby commented, referring to her phasing abilities and the fact that Steve was a ghost.
"That's beside the point!" Kitty retorted, then disappeared as a hug-happy Steve ran through the door after her.
"This isn't going to end well, is it?" Bobby asked Kurt.
"I don't think so, mein freund."
* * *
Hank, in the meantime, was busily racking up some well-deserved 'z's in the tree fort he had built in the previous story.
"Hey Hank!"
The furry mutant's eyes shot open and darted around furtively, expecting to see Steve hovering over him. He sighed exasperatedly when he saw that it was only Bobby.
"I do not think that you are in fact aware of the dangers of rousing a slumbering Beast, Robert," said Hank, sounding quite perturbed.
"But Hank! We need your help!"
"'We'? And just who might 'we' be?"
"Me and Kurt!"
"Kurt? What is my fellow furry companion doing here at the mansion?"
"Logan hauled him in so he could exorcise Steve!"
"Logan got Kurt to perform an exorcism? Did Steve go away?" Hank asked hopefully.
"Er...not yet."
Hank's face fell. "In that case, please excuse me." And he got up and started climbing down from his tree fort.
"Huh? Where are you going?" Bobby called after him.
"To the garage, my fine, frosty friend."
"The garage? But what about Steve???"
"That is not my problem. I have more important matters to attend to," Hank replied darkly.
"Just great. Now what am I gonna do?" Bobby muttered darkly to himself. Then he got an idea. He created an ice-slide and quickly went back to the mansion.
* * *
Logan returned to the mansion just to check up on things, and found Kurt in the rec room, trying to get juice stains out of the carpet.
"How'd it go, Elf?"
"Not to vell, I'm afraid."
"What? He's not gone yet?"
"Not quite."
"Why the hell not?!"
"There vere some complications....."
Just then, Kitty ran into the room through the far wall.
"KURT!!! LOGAN!!! GET THIS CREEP AWAY FROM MEEEE!!!" she shouted angrily as she ran across the rec room and disappeared through the opposite wall.
Steve came through the wall next. "Wait!!" he called after Kitty. "I just want to be your friend! We can swap ghost stories and walk in and out of the walls together and..." and he disappeared through the opposite wall as well.
THUD!!! "OW!"
"What the hell was that?" asked Logan.
The door opened and Bobby ran in, rubbing his forehead and brandishing a dust buster.
"It worked in Ghost busters!" Bobby explained, noticing the puzzled looks on their faces. He made sure to open the door this time as he exited the rec room, still chasing after Steve and Kitty.
"See vat I mean?"
"Jesus Christ!"
"Please do not use our saviour's name in vain, Logan."
"Yeah, yeah, whatever. Now what the fuck are we gonna do about the little geek? Blue's gonna tear my bike apart if we don't get rid o' him!"
"Perhaps I have an idea. Just let me consult the phone book."
"Knock yerself out, Elf."
* * *
Who's he gonna call? Ghostbusters? Maybe. Sorry, but you're gonna have to wait to find out. Thanks goes out to ice princess deluxe for sending me a bunch of ideas for the story. (Kitty's arrival and Bobby's dust-buster were both her ideas!) And thanks to Beastess for giving suggestions about Kurt's accent. I'll just stick with the 'v's from now on! And thanks to those who have reviewed!