Disclaimer: Well since A) I still go to school and B) don't live anywhere
near the place where they make X-Men Evo it's pretty obvious I don't own it
nor any of the characters or places that are recognizable. I do however own
the following characters: Summer Breen, Lela Alder, Richard J. Alder,
Melisma Kay and Ollie the Butler. Becs owns Toby and Nicholas. I also don't
own the Foo Fighters or any of their work, Urban Legend the Movie and
System Of A Down. Finally, I don't own Pepsi Blue.
Blink And You'll Miss It
Note: My universe is different to the normal one. In mine everything in Season Two minus the last three episodes happened. Therefore no one knows that mutants really exist. But a few things in Season three do happen. Lance and Kitty break up and Gambit is around.
Chapter Eight: Fish Out Of Water
Friday 4:02pm
She hadn't even been in the mansion for more than ten minutes and she had already confirmed what she had thought earlier that day -
She wanted to leave oh so badly.
The ride there was bad enough, it had been almost complete torture. Kurt had insisted that they listen to the latest The Stone Zephyrs CD, her least favourite band. While the others grooved (except Rogue, she seemed to be in the same situation as her) in the car she had winced at the repetitive booming beats and techno guitar riffs. After fifteen minutes of that crap she couldn't take it, and used her powers to eject the CD and change the station to something more appropriate, heavy metal. It was obvious that no one except Rogue appreciated her type of music.
When they had finally reached the mansion, the others jumped out of the car and ran outside, leaving a completely confused Summer. The mansion wasn't really that impressive, it was a bit bigger than her house but it didn't feel like home. Summer tugged her suitcase to the house, her body burning in pain. Just then someone came from behind and picked up her suitcase.
"Ah'm sorry bout the otha guys' behaviours. Thay can be real yahoos sometimes," Rogue apologized as they walked up the front steps together.
"It's ok," Summer said, not really caring, "I don't think they really like me anyway."
"You're too hard on yourself," Rogue told her, frowning at this remark but Summer gave her a carefree smile, and she loosened up a bit.
"I noticed you like System of a Down," Rogue said, rapidly changing the subject.
Summer nodded glad of the change,
"Yeah, I think Chop Suey is my favourite song on the album but Sugar is awesome also, it kinda has 50's jazz influences with the walking bass and all." Rogue nodded, understanding what she meant.
"I personally like Toxicity mahself," Rogue replied, her southern accent evident.
Summer smiled at her, beginning to change her mind. At least one person at this place knew good music when they heard it.
*********** Saturday 8:45am
"Lance this place blows," Summer complained over the phone early the next morning, "It's a Saturday and they make us get up at 5:30 in the morning! To do what, freaking scary workouts in the Temple of Doom! At 5:30! MY CLOCK DOESN'T HAVE A 5:30am ON WEEKENDS! THAT'S ITS TWO DAYS OF FREEDOM!"
Lance winced at the volume of her screaming. It was far too early for this.
"Sunny," he sighed back as he rubbed his eyes, "First off can you shut up a little bit, I shouldn't be up for another three hours and secondly, I know what you're going through."
"How would you know?" she asked curiously.
Lance gulped as he let go of what little pride he had left,
"I was an X-Geek for a period of time."
There was a moment of silence before,
"You're shitting me!"
Then she burst into intense laughter. Loud intense laughter. It took minutes before she finally calmed down.
"Listen I only did it to get closer to Kitty," he explained as Summer wheezed slightly from all the laughter.
"Speaking of Kitty," Summer yawned, cracking her jaw, "I think she hates me or something".
Lance raised his eyebrow,
"Whadda mean, hates you?"
"Well, she kept glaring at me at dinner and before I went to bed she was all like, 'so you and Lance huh?' and then she strutted off. Dear god she's like a Jean clone."
Lance grinned. His hopes had been answered. He casually ran a hand through his hair,
"Kitty thinks we're dating or something."
"WHAT?"
"Well that whole thing in Chemistry yesterday.."
"Yeah what was that all about?" She interrupted, her voice hard to read, "You rubbing my hand. Dear god, you were kinda gazing at me like my sister does to my shit-for-brains brother in law."
Lance's jaw went slack. He didn't even know how to explain his actions!
"Um.I guess it was a spur of the moment thing you know. Got caught up in the whole . . .atmosphere."
Yeah, he thought, that sounds plausible.
It must have worked because Summer didn't go on with the topic.
"Lance you won't believe who's my roommate - my worst fears were right! I'm stuck for three days with Jeannie Poo."
Lance couldn't help but laugh at this. If Summer had been next to him he would have had to quickly dodge the punch that would have come his direction.
************
Same day 11:15am
Summer looked on as the X-Men and the New Recruits did yet another exercise. This time they were partnered up and had to rescue their partner from 'drowning'. Summer grinded her teeth together as she watched Ice Man (also known as Bobby) make an ice platform for himself and walked over it to rescue his partner Jubilee (also known as.Jubilee).
"Boring huh?"
Startled, she jumped out of her seat. Her mind registered the person in front of her as Ray. Now Ray wasn't too bad. He had cool hair and he seemed generally decent. He also seemed to have the same powers as her, just not as physically demanding. He pulled over a nearby deck chair and sat down.
"The Professor told me to tell you that us two are gonna have a danger room session later today, since we have the same powers and all."
Summer inclined her head at him,
"I hope I don't wreck all the fancy equipment."
Ray shook his head at her,
"Nah, no worries. They somehow always manage to fix it the next day. Must have like house elves or something."
She looked at him with a "what the hell" look.
"I read Harry Potter ok?" he explained, sounding just a bit exasperated.
Summer rolled her eyes before breaking into a fit of giggles. These guys were so easy to annoy it was funny. Fortunately unlike Scott or Kurt, this guy didn't take her actions too seriously and also started laughing.
*********** Same day 12:30pm
The five Brotherhood boys were sitting around the old battered kitchen table enjoying their lunch that was Spaghetti Bolognese, curtesy of Fred. Turns out he was just as good as making food as well as eating it.
"This is really good Freddy," Toby declared, leaning back and patting his belly.
Fred simply blushed, not used to this kind of attention.
"Now now Freddy," Pietro tutted, "Don't go all modest. Stand tall and say 'Hell yeah it's good! I made it!'"
"Pietro not everyone has an ego as big as yours," Lance reminded as he got a second helping.
Pietro pouted as he gulped down his drink, a glass of Pepsi Blue.
"Wonder how Summer's dealing at Geek Central?" Todd wondered out loud.
The others then too wondered how she was doing. Pietro was the first to say what they were all thinking,
"Wanna crash the mansion tonight and see?"
The others whooped into agreement as they discussed what the plan was.
************ Same day 3:30pm
Summer staggered out of the Danger Room exhausted, the spare uniform on her body ripped on the shoulder and legs. She slumped against the wall trying to regain her breath. Just then Ray stumbled out and copied her actions.
"You . . .were . . .really . . .really good . . ." he panted quickly.
"You. . .weren't too bad yourself," she told him, smiling.
Just then the Professor entered, along with Logan.
"I just came to congratulate the both of you. You worked extraordinarily well together. Summer, may I say I have up most confidence that you're getting the hang of your powers."
"Well I usually do", she responded, "It's just that when I have those power surges."
The Professor gave her a silencing glance before continuing,
"You two have earned a early shower. There is no need to come to the 5:00 practice session with the others. You can take the rest of the afternoon off.
Both Summer and Ray beamed at each other as the skipped away happily.
"Summer did a real workout on the equipment - it should take longer to repair everything since I think she also reconfigured the hardware while she was at it." Logan stated gruffly.
The Professor nodded,
"This only adds to my theory. I believe not only Summer has the ability to manipulate and control electricity, she is also a techno path."
"A techno-what?" Logan queried.
"A techno path is someone who can control electrical powered things such as computers and what not into doing her bidding. She can also reconfigure them as she has displayed today and I think there may be a possibility she can draw their energy and use it as her own."
The two mutants made their way down the corridor heading to the elevator, heads bowed in a thoughtful silence.
*************
That Night 7:22pm
Summer was curled up in an armchair listening to her Discman, currently 'All My Life' by the Foo Fighters filled her ears as she hummed softly to the rhythm.
All my life I've been searching for somethin' Somethin' never comes, never leads to nuthin'
Nothin' satisfies, but I'm getting close Closer to the prize at the end of the road
At that moment Jean paraded in, obviously wanting Scott's adoring gaze at her, who was challenging Rogue to a fierce game of chess. Rogue curled her lip in disgust at the entrance. Jean was dressed in a tight bottle green strapless dress that stopped mid-thigh. Matching high heels accompanied the outfit and she held a cherry coloured sequined purse in her dainty manicured hands.
Pressing pause on her Discman Summer leered up at her,
"Why are you so dolled up Jeanie?"
Jean gave her a superior look,
"I'm going out with Duncan tonight, he's taking me to dinner."
"Toby isn't working tonight," Summer, reminded her mockingly.
Jean narrowed her icy green eyes at her as the echo of the doorbell sounded.
"Could you answer the door for me?" Jean asked impatiently, as if brushing aside the last remark shot at her.
Summer grumbled as she removed her headphones from her ears and dawdled to the door. She opened the door to reveal Duncan, wearing a black trouser suit, no tie, holding a bouquet of roses.
"Breen?" He looked baffled.
Summer shrugged indifferently,
"Don't ask."
Jean pushed Summer out of the way as she received the flowers from his arms.
"Duncan they're beautiful!" She breathed seductively.
He gave her a charming smile as he led her out of the door.
"Tell the Professor I'll be back by 11!" She called back before the door closed.
Summer pretended to vomit. When she had finished, she slumped down on the nearest soft thing.
"God, I don't get it. She's dating Duncan, secretly in love with Scott and lusts over Toby! How freaking obvious can you be!"
"I agree," Rogue muttered from behind her, "She's gonna get into trouble one of these days and I want to be there to see it."
Summer walked back to her spot and turned her Discman back on. She forgot about her cares as the sounds of the Foo Fighters droned them away.
All night long I dream of the day, When it comes around, and it's taken away Leaves me with the feelin that I feel the most And I feel it come to life when I see your ghost
********** That night 8:15pm
"Ok men," Lance addressed the 'troops' gloomily as he marched back and forth, "Tonight's mission is going to be dangerous. This has been the first mission we've had since the christening of Coal. * This will be the first time our objective has been to rescue one of our own from the evil clutches of the X-Geeks."
Toby raised his hand,
"But Avalanche, technically she isn't one of us."
"Yet, Coal, yet," Lance brushed him off, "She associates with the Brotherhood therefore she is a Brotherhood babe."
"And whadda babe she is!" Pietro added. This earned a smack in the head, courtesy of Fred.
"Thank you Blob. Quicksilver must I remind you we treat the Brotherhood babes with respect? Now the plan is total ambush. We seek, annihilate and get our objective. Now it shouldn't be too hard considering half of the losers are out. That leaves Fuzz boy, Shades, Skunk girl, Kitty Kat and a couple of the new recruits. Are we ready?" Lance asked.
"HELL YEAH!" They yelled as the charged the Mansion.
*********** That night 8:17pm
"Can you like hear something?" Kitty asked Kurt curiously.
"Nein," he responded carelessly, not really listening, "Probably just your imagination, Kitty."
Kitty sighed and turned her attention back to the TV. It had been a quiet night. Scott, at the last minute, had decided to go out agreeing to take the remaining new recruits to the movies. This left Kurt, Rogue, Kitty and Summer.
"I got the popcorn!" Summer announced as she sat down next to Rogue.
"Danke Summer," Kurt mumbled half in German as he stuffed the popcorn into his mouth. Kitty smiled as she too grabbed a handful. Rogue declined. They were watching Urban Legend, when they heard something crash outside.
"What was that?" Kitty cried, petrified.
"Beats me," Summer mumbled half heartedly, "Maybe it's a psycho axe murderer."
Kitty whimpered as Kurt stood up and peered out the window.
"I don't see anything," He reported, his German accent coming across thick.
Suddenly they heard a pounding thud on the front door. Kitty squealed as she disappeared behind the couch. Summer wrapped a firm arm around Kitty's shoulder, telling her it was probably nothing. Rogue meanwhile had walked over to Kurt and were currently checking out the window.
"I don't know what it is," Rogue murmured quietly.
Then something caught Kurt's eye. A blur was currently whizzing around a tree and he immediately knew who was there,
"I think Pietro is here, which means so is the rest of the Loserhood."
Kitty and Rogue groaned as Summer stood up,
"What's so bad about that?"
Kurt sighed,
"Every time they make one of their surprise attacks, the Mansion ends up half destroyed."
Just then something crashed through the doorway. It appeared that Fred had used his foot to break down the door and hadn't braced himself, ending up hurtling into the couch.
"Hey Freddy!" Summer ran over and hugged him, "What are you guys doing here?"
"Uh, the others said they wanted to rescue you," Fred explained, his eyes darting around the room in astonishment.
Kurt looked angrily at Fred,
"Listen Blob, Tell your Verliererfreunde to go home."
"'Fraid we can't do that," a new voice drawled easily.
Todd, Toby, Pietro and Lance were standing behind Fred.
Summer glared at them,
"Guys this really isn't necessary. I'm fine, really."
Pietro pouted,
"But Sunny, we wanted to rescue you. You're ruining the plan! The victim is supposed to WANT to be resuced."
Summer sighed and gave the other X-Men a calming look. The others understood and sat down. Summer turned her attention back to the Brotherhood,
"The thought was sweet but acting out on it, that was kinda stupid. But since you're here why don't you stay?"
"What?" The X-Men objected.
"Aren't we all fellow mutants? Shouldn't we all get along?" Summer said, as Todd peered over her shoulder and stuck his tongue out at Kurt.
"Todd that's being childish and you know it," Summer told him off.
Todd smirked at her,
"It's Toad right now Sunny. I'm on mission."
Summer rolled her eyes as she started to walk back to the couch. Lance grabbed her shoulder,
"Summer can we chat?"
Summer gave him a puzzled look before nodding her head. Lance ducked his head and led her outside. Meanwhile the Brotherhood had made themselves comfortable and started to watch the movie.
"Hey isn't this the movie where it turns out that the murderer is the hot red head?" Pietro asked.
"PIETRO!" The others yelled, angry that he had ruined the ending.
***********
"So what did you want to talk about?" Summer asked as Lance led her away from the mansion and into one of the gardens at the back.
Lance sighed as he rubbed the back of neck with a sweaty hand,
"Listen you know how earlier today I said the chemistry incident happened because I got caught up in the moment?"
"Yeah." Summer said wearily, too tired to argue.
Lance sighed as he brushed the hair out of his eyes,
"I lied. Truth be told, I can't explain my actions. It just happened...but you know what the weirdest thing is? It felt real."
Summer gaped at him for what seemed like an eternity. Her eyes widened, as Lance's face got a bit closer, his hand slowly tracing her jaw line. She looked away from him, his face suddenly looking confused,
"Don't look at me like that," But her voice was soft and husky.
Lance leaned in closer, their foreheads almost touching,
"Why not?"
"Just don't ok?" Summer snapped as she tore her eyes from his suddenly and ran inside. Lance just stood there, with a dumbfounded look on his face wondering what had gone wrong.
********** * This is actually the plot of a story written by Becs called "Toby gets a codename." It's really funny so take a look at it.
Translations: Danke: Thank You Nein: No Verliererfreunde: Loser Friends
I got the translations off Babel Fish. The website's below this http://world.altavista.com/
Next Chapter: Lance wonders about his feelings for Summer, will he act on them? Meanwhile Kitty takes matters into her own hands and tries to get Lance back. And Summer starts to feel like someone's following her, who is it?
I'm really proud of this chapter so I hope you like it!! R/R Please! No Flamers!! Hids Give me your feedback.
Blink And You'll Miss It
Note: My universe is different to the normal one. In mine everything in Season Two minus the last three episodes happened. Therefore no one knows that mutants really exist. But a few things in Season three do happen. Lance and Kitty break up and Gambit is around.
Chapter Eight: Fish Out Of Water
Friday 4:02pm
She hadn't even been in the mansion for more than ten minutes and she had already confirmed what she had thought earlier that day -
She wanted to leave oh so badly.
The ride there was bad enough, it had been almost complete torture. Kurt had insisted that they listen to the latest The Stone Zephyrs CD, her least favourite band. While the others grooved (except Rogue, she seemed to be in the same situation as her) in the car she had winced at the repetitive booming beats and techno guitar riffs. After fifteen minutes of that crap she couldn't take it, and used her powers to eject the CD and change the station to something more appropriate, heavy metal. It was obvious that no one except Rogue appreciated her type of music.
When they had finally reached the mansion, the others jumped out of the car and ran outside, leaving a completely confused Summer. The mansion wasn't really that impressive, it was a bit bigger than her house but it didn't feel like home. Summer tugged her suitcase to the house, her body burning in pain. Just then someone came from behind and picked up her suitcase.
"Ah'm sorry bout the otha guys' behaviours. Thay can be real yahoos sometimes," Rogue apologized as they walked up the front steps together.
"It's ok," Summer said, not really caring, "I don't think they really like me anyway."
"You're too hard on yourself," Rogue told her, frowning at this remark but Summer gave her a carefree smile, and she loosened up a bit.
"I noticed you like System of a Down," Rogue said, rapidly changing the subject.
Summer nodded glad of the change,
"Yeah, I think Chop Suey is my favourite song on the album but Sugar is awesome also, it kinda has 50's jazz influences with the walking bass and all." Rogue nodded, understanding what she meant.
"I personally like Toxicity mahself," Rogue replied, her southern accent evident.
Summer smiled at her, beginning to change her mind. At least one person at this place knew good music when they heard it.
*********** Saturday 8:45am
"Lance this place blows," Summer complained over the phone early the next morning, "It's a Saturday and they make us get up at 5:30 in the morning! To do what, freaking scary workouts in the Temple of Doom! At 5:30! MY CLOCK DOESN'T HAVE A 5:30am ON WEEKENDS! THAT'S ITS TWO DAYS OF FREEDOM!"
Lance winced at the volume of her screaming. It was far too early for this.
"Sunny," he sighed back as he rubbed his eyes, "First off can you shut up a little bit, I shouldn't be up for another three hours and secondly, I know what you're going through."
"How would you know?" she asked curiously.
Lance gulped as he let go of what little pride he had left,
"I was an X-Geek for a period of time."
There was a moment of silence before,
"You're shitting me!"
Then she burst into intense laughter. Loud intense laughter. It took minutes before she finally calmed down.
"Listen I only did it to get closer to Kitty," he explained as Summer wheezed slightly from all the laughter.
"Speaking of Kitty," Summer yawned, cracking her jaw, "I think she hates me or something".
Lance raised his eyebrow,
"Whadda mean, hates you?"
"Well, she kept glaring at me at dinner and before I went to bed she was all like, 'so you and Lance huh?' and then she strutted off. Dear god she's like a Jean clone."
Lance grinned. His hopes had been answered. He casually ran a hand through his hair,
"Kitty thinks we're dating or something."
"WHAT?"
"Well that whole thing in Chemistry yesterday.."
"Yeah what was that all about?" She interrupted, her voice hard to read, "You rubbing my hand. Dear god, you were kinda gazing at me like my sister does to my shit-for-brains brother in law."
Lance's jaw went slack. He didn't even know how to explain his actions!
"Um.I guess it was a spur of the moment thing you know. Got caught up in the whole . . .atmosphere."
Yeah, he thought, that sounds plausible.
It must have worked because Summer didn't go on with the topic.
"Lance you won't believe who's my roommate - my worst fears were right! I'm stuck for three days with Jeannie Poo."
Lance couldn't help but laugh at this. If Summer had been next to him he would have had to quickly dodge the punch that would have come his direction.
************
Same day 11:15am
Summer looked on as the X-Men and the New Recruits did yet another exercise. This time they were partnered up and had to rescue their partner from 'drowning'. Summer grinded her teeth together as she watched Ice Man (also known as Bobby) make an ice platform for himself and walked over it to rescue his partner Jubilee (also known as.Jubilee).
"Boring huh?"
Startled, she jumped out of her seat. Her mind registered the person in front of her as Ray. Now Ray wasn't too bad. He had cool hair and he seemed generally decent. He also seemed to have the same powers as her, just not as physically demanding. He pulled over a nearby deck chair and sat down.
"The Professor told me to tell you that us two are gonna have a danger room session later today, since we have the same powers and all."
Summer inclined her head at him,
"I hope I don't wreck all the fancy equipment."
Ray shook his head at her,
"Nah, no worries. They somehow always manage to fix it the next day. Must have like house elves or something."
She looked at him with a "what the hell" look.
"I read Harry Potter ok?" he explained, sounding just a bit exasperated.
Summer rolled her eyes before breaking into a fit of giggles. These guys were so easy to annoy it was funny. Fortunately unlike Scott or Kurt, this guy didn't take her actions too seriously and also started laughing.
*********** Same day 12:30pm
The five Brotherhood boys were sitting around the old battered kitchen table enjoying their lunch that was Spaghetti Bolognese, curtesy of Fred. Turns out he was just as good as making food as well as eating it.
"This is really good Freddy," Toby declared, leaning back and patting his belly.
Fred simply blushed, not used to this kind of attention.
"Now now Freddy," Pietro tutted, "Don't go all modest. Stand tall and say 'Hell yeah it's good! I made it!'"
"Pietro not everyone has an ego as big as yours," Lance reminded as he got a second helping.
Pietro pouted as he gulped down his drink, a glass of Pepsi Blue.
"Wonder how Summer's dealing at Geek Central?" Todd wondered out loud.
The others then too wondered how she was doing. Pietro was the first to say what they were all thinking,
"Wanna crash the mansion tonight and see?"
The others whooped into agreement as they discussed what the plan was.
************ Same day 3:30pm
Summer staggered out of the Danger Room exhausted, the spare uniform on her body ripped on the shoulder and legs. She slumped against the wall trying to regain her breath. Just then Ray stumbled out and copied her actions.
"You . . .were . . .really . . .really good . . ." he panted quickly.
"You. . .weren't too bad yourself," she told him, smiling.
Just then the Professor entered, along with Logan.
"I just came to congratulate the both of you. You worked extraordinarily well together. Summer, may I say I have up most confidence that you're getting the hang of your powers."
"Well I usually do", she responded, "It's just that when I have those power surges."
The Professor gave her a silencing glance before continuing,
"You two have earned a early shower. There is no need to come to the 5:00 practice session with the others. You can take the rest of the afternoon off.
Both Summer and Ray beamed at each other as the skipped away happily.
"Summer did a real workout on the equipment - it should take longer to repair everything since I think she also reconfigured the hardware while she was at it." Logan stated gruffly.
The Professor nodded,
"This only adds to my theory. I believe not only Summer has the ability to manipulate and control electricity, she is also a techno path."
"A techno-what?" Logan queried.
"A techno path is someone who can control electrical powered things such as computers and what not into doing her bidding. She can also reconfigure them as she has displayed today and I think there may be a possibility she can draw their energy and use it as her own."
The two mutants made their way down the corridor heading to the elevator, heads bowed in a thoughtful silence.
*************
That Night 7:22pm
Summer was curled up in an armchair listening to her Discman, currently 'All My Life' by the Foo Fighters filled her ears as she hummed softly to the rhythm.
All my life I've been searching for somethin' Somethin' never comes, never leads to nuthin'
Nothin' satisfies, but I'm getting close Closer to the prize at the end of the road
At that moment Jean paraded in, obviously wanting Scott's adoring gaze at her, who was challenging Rogue to a fierce game of chess. Rogue curled her lip in disgust at the entrance. Jean was dressed in a tight bottle green strapless dress that stopped mid-thigh. Matching high heels accompanied the outfit and she held a cherry coloured sequined purse in her dainty manicured hands.
Pressing pause on her Discman Summer leered up at her,
"Why are you so dolled up Jeanie?"
Jean gave her a superior look,
"I'm going out with Duncan tonight, he's taking me to dinner."
"Toby isn't working tonight," Summer, reminded her mockingly.
Jean narrowed her icy green eyes at her as the echo of the doorbell sounded.
"Could you answer the door for me?" Jean asked impatiently, as if brushing aside the last remark shot at her.
Summer grumbled as she removed her headphones from her ears and dawdled to the door. She opened the door to reveal Duncan, wearing a black trouser suit, no tie, holding a bouquet of roses.
"Breen?" He looked baffled.
Summer shrugged indifferently,
"Don't ask."
Jean pushed Summer out of the way as she received the flowers from his arms.
"Duncan they're beautiful!" She breathed seductively.
He gave her a charming smile as he led her out of the door.
"Tell the Professor I'll be back by 11!" She called back before the door closed.
Summer pretended to vomit. When she had finished, she slumped down on the nearest soft thing.
"God, I don't get it. She's dating Duncan, secretly in love with Scott and lusts over Toby! How freaking obvious can you be!"
"I agree," Rogue muttered from behind her, "She's gonna get into trouble one of these days and I want to be there to see it."
Summer walked back to her spot and turned her Discman back on. She forgot about her cares as the sounds of the Foo Fighters droned them away.
All night long I dream of the day, When it comes around, and it's taken away Leaves me with the feelin that I feel the most And I feel it come to life when I see your ghost
********** That night 8:15pm
"Ok men," Lance addressed the 'troops' gloomily as he marched back and forth, "Tonight's mission is going to be dangerous. This has been the first mission we've had since the christening of Coal. * This will be the first time our objective has been to rescue one of our own from the evil clutches of the X-Geeks."
Toby raised his hand,
"But Avalanche, technically she isn't one of us."
"Yet, Coal, yet," Lance brushed him off, "She associates with the Brotherhood therefore she is a Brotherhood babe."
"And whadda babe she is!" Pietro added. This earned a smack in the head, courtesy of Fred.
"Thank you Blob. Quicksilver must I remind you we treat the Brotherhood babes with respect? Now the plan is total ambush. We seek, annihilate and get our objective. Now it shouldn't be too hard considering half of the losers are out. That leaves Fuzz boy, Shades, Skunk girl, Kitty Kat and a couple of the new recruits. Are we ready?" Lance asked.
"HELL YEAH!" They yelled as the charged the Mansion.
*********** That night 8:17pm
"Can you like hear something?" Kitty asked Kurt curiously.
"Nein," he responded carelessly, not really listening, "Probably just your imagination, Kitty."
Kitty sighed and turned her attention back to the TV. It had been a quiet night. Scott, at the last minute, had decided to go out agreeing to take the remaining new recruits to the movies. This left Kurt, Rogue, Kitty and Summer.
"I got the popcorn!" Summer announced as she sat down next to Rogue.
"Danke Summer," Kurt mumbled half in German as he stuffed the popcorn into his mouth. Kitty smiled as she too grabbed a handful. Rogue declined. They were watching Urban Legend, when they heard something crash outside.
"What was that?" Kitty cried, petrified.
"Beats me," Summer mumbled half heartedly, "Maybe it's a psycho axe murderer."
Kitty whimpered as Kurt stood up and peered out the window.
"I don't see anything," He reported, his German accent coming across thick.
Suddenly they heard a pounding thud on the front door. Kitty squealed as she disappeared behind the couch. Summer wrapped a firm arm around Kitty's shoulder, telling her it was probably nothing. Rogue meanwhile had walked over to Kurt and were currently checking out the window.
"I don't know what it is," Rogue murmured quietly.
Then something caught Kurt's eye. A blur was currently whizzing around a tree and he immediately knew who was there,
"I think Pietro is here, which means so is the rest of the Loserhood."
Kitty and Rogue groaned as Summer stood up,
"What's so bad about that?"
Kurt sighed,
"Every time they make one of their surprise attacks, the Mansion ends up half destroyed."
Just then something crashed through the doorway. It appeared that Fred had used his foot to break down the door and hadn't braced himself, ending up hurtling into the couch.
"Hey Freddy!" Summer ran over and hugged him, "What are you guys doing here?"
"Uh, the others said they wanted to rescue you," Fred explained, his eyes darting around the room in astonishment.
Kurt looked angrily at Fred,
"Listen Blob, Tell your Verliererfreunde to go home."
"'Fraid we can't do that," a new voice drawled easily.
Todd, Toby, Pietro and Lance were standing behind Fred.
Summer glared at them,
"Guys this really isn't necessary. I'm fine, really."
Pietro pouted,
"But Sunny, we wanted to rescue you. You're ruining the plan! The victim is supposed to WANT to be resuced."
Summer sighed and gave the other X-Men a calming look. The others understood and sat down. Summer turned her attention back to the Brotherhood,
"The thought was sweet but acting out on it, that was kinda stupid. But since you're here why don't you stay?"
"What?" The X-Men objected.
"Aren't we all fellow mutants? Shouldn't we all get along?" Summer said, as Todd peered over her shoulder and stuck his tongue out at Kurt.
"Todd that's being childish and you know it," Summer told him off.
Todd smirked at her,
"It's Toad right now Sunny. I'm on mission."
Summer rolled her eyes as she started to walk back to the couch. Lance grabbed her shoulder,
"Summer can we chat?"
Summer gave him a puzzled look before nodding her head. Lance ducked his head and led her outside. Meanwhile the Brotherhood had made themselves comfortable and started to watch the movie.
"Hey isn't this the movie where it turns out that the murderer is the hot red head?" Pietro asked.
"PIETRO!" The others yelled, angry that he had ruined the ending.
***********
"So what did you want to talk about?" Summer asked as Lance led her away from the mansion and into one of the gardens at the back.
Lance sighed as he rubbed the back of neck with a sweaty hand,
"Listen you know how earlier today I said the chemistry incident happened because I got caught up in the moment?"
"Yeah." Summer said wearily, too tired to argue.
Lance sighed as he brushed the hair out of his eyes,
"I lied. Truth be told, I can't explain my actions. It just happened...but you know what the weirdest thing is? It felt real."
Summer gaped at him for what seemed like an eternity. Her eyes widened, as Lance's face got a bit closer, his hand slowly tracing her jaw line. She looked away from him, his face suddenly looking confused,
"Don't look at me like that," But her voice was soft and husky.
Lance leaned in closer, their foreheads almost touching,
"Why not?"
"Just don't ok?" Summer snapped as she tore her eyes from his suddenly and ran inside. Lance just stood there, with a dumbfounded look on his face wondering what had gone wrong.
********** * This is actually the plot of a story written by Becs called "Toby gets a codename." It's really funny so take a look at it.
Translations: Danke: Thank You Nein: No Verliererfreunde: Loser Friends
I got the translations off Babel Fish. The website's below this http://world.altavista.com/
Next Chapter: Lance wonders about his feelings for Summer, will he act on them? Meanwhile Kitty takes matters into her own hands and tries to get Lance back. And Summer starts to feel like someone's following her, who is it?
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