Thou Shalt Not Fink

Lance found himself the center of several very angry stares. "I'm in trouble aren't I?" He gulped.

"Big time," Roadblock folded his arms.

"Lance is gonna get shot!" Pietro taunted.

"He is not!" Althea shouted.

"Well then he'll get locked up in the stockade!" Pietro said.

"I don't think we'll go that far," Spirit said.

"Why not? He used the teleporter to take off to the mansion and caused trouble!" Pietro asked.

"So did you!" Shipwreck reminded him.

"Oh yeah," Pietro blinked.

"I was only trying to spend some time with Kitty," Lance said. "What's wrong with that?"

"You are not supposed to go AWOL that's what!" Roadblock snapped.

"You mean like you did?" Todd pointed out.

"The kid has a point," Shipwreck said.

"Okay maybe somebody else oughta discipline him," Roadblock muttered.

"Now let's not be too hard on the boy," Shipwreck said. "I mean he's just a lovesick loon after all!"

"Shipwreck please don't help me," Lance groaned.

"Yeah I mean if you think about it, Lance screwing up again is punishment enough," Pietro quipped.

"Why do things always backfire when I'm with Kitty?" Lance moaned. "Why?"

"Because you're both idiots," Wanda said.

"And you don't think before you act," Althea said.

"And you let her treat you like garbage," Todd said.

"And no matter how bad she treats you, you always go crawling back to her whenever you two break up," Fred said.

"Not to mention the fact that your plans to win her over are just plain stupid," Pietro said.

"And you do have a temper," Xi added.

"ALRIGHT ALREADY!" Lance shouted. "Enough! I get the message!"

"No I don't think you do," Pietro said. "Face it Lance, you and Kitty are not meant to be!"

"Don't say things like that!" Lance shouted.

"It's true!" Pietro snapped.

"I'm warning you Pietro!" Lance growled and made a fist. "If you keep hassling me…"

"I told you that you had a temper," Xi said.

"See that's just what we're talking about!" Althea said. "How do you expect her to not see you as some kind of hood when you act like one?"

"You're right," Lance sat down dejectedly. "But what do I do? I don't know how to get her to talk to me again!"

"Oh dear," The Blind Master sighed. "Nothing is so painful for a fool than to be in love!"

"So what do we do about this?" Cover Girl asked. "We can't let Lance get away with this!"

"We could take away any teleportation privileges," Shipwreck shrugged.

"What teleportation privileges?" Cover Girl asked. "He's not supposed to use the machine in the first place! None of them are! We have to discipline him some other way!"

"Why not?" Lance groaned. "My life's in the toilet anyway!"

"Guys let's have a conference over here," Roadblock motioned to the adults and they moved to the corner. "So how are we going to do this? I mean we did do the exact same thing Lance did technically."

"Yeah and having Avalanche mope around for weeks is gonna be torture for all of us," Low Light groaned. "Especially if we ban him from seeing Kitty."

"Not to mention his little habit of sleep terra forming when he's disturbed," Spirit told them. "Remember?"

"How can we forget?" Shipwreck asked. "The last time he had a nightmare the entire base felt it! And that was just a few days ago!"

"That kid is gonna whine about his problems with Kitty for weeks," Low Light groaned. "Maybe even longer!"

"That boy is just gonna go on and on and on and on…" The Blind Master groaned.

"Tell us about it," Todd popped his head in.

"So what are you guys gonna do?" Althea poked her head in.

"Who said you guys are part of this?" Cover Girl asked.

"We should be since we are probably gonna end up suffering along with him," Althea said.

"She has a point," Todd remarked.

"Well we should nip this teleportation thing in the bud," Roadblock said. "Take it away from them."

"How? That thing is nailed to the floor," Shipwreck said. "I checked. Maybe we can just take away those watches and tell them not to make any more?"

"That's what you said about the dynamite, remember?" Althea said. "The Triplets would just make more behind your backs anyway!"

"She has a point," Low Light sighed.

"So what are we gonna do?" Roadblock asked. "I don't think we can take much of Avalanche being blue!"

"I don't think the structure of this house could take it either," Low Light groaned.

"I have an idea," Shipwreck grinned.

"Oh lord now we really are in trouble," Althea groaned.

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"So what did happen?" Jean asked Kitty. She had just finished taking a shower and was back in the room she shared with Rogue.

"What happened?" Kitty snapped. "I'll tell you what happened! Mr. Genius can't figure out how to work a teleport machine! First we got stuck in the Arctic Circle and froze while I got penguin poop on my shoe! Then we ended up nearly getting fried in a volcano, and then we got chased by a tiger in some jungle!"

"Oh boy…" Jean blinked.

"I knew it," Rogue smirked. "Doom."

"That's not the worst of it," Kitty sat down on her bed. "We finally made it to the Eiffel Tower but it turns out Lance doesn't like heights. He threw up on this guy so we teleported to of all places a French McDonalds! So we go in so Lance can freshen up but it turns out they weren't crazy about us using the restroom since we couldn't buy anything. Of course Lance tries to pay using American money. Long story short…"

"Too late," Rogue said.

"Lance got into a fight with the manager and soon the entire place was shaking," Kitty groaned. "The next thing we knew there was a mob on our heels trying to kill us!"

"And they threw garbage at you?" Jean asked.

"No, they threw hard rolls and wine bottles at us," Kitty huffed. "What happened is that Lance decided to teleport us to England where we'd be safe and not get lynched. We got to England all right…right on top of a garbage scow in the middle of the Thames River! That's when I decided the date was over!"

"Ouch," Jean winced. "That is bad."

"Maybe everyone is right," Kitty sighed. "Maybe Lance is bad for me. Maybe I should just give up and…"

* Students, please assemble in the library* Xavier sent a telepathic message.

"Man that is so creepy when he does that," Rogue shuddered as they went to the library.

"Sorry," Xavier apologized when they entered the room. "But I think it's important that we all have a talk about what's going on lately."

"Yeah having Lance pop up any time he wants could be more trouble than it's worth," Jean said.

"Well Roadblock called me earlier saying that there will be no more surprise trips to the mansion by any of the Misfits without any of the adults knowing about it," Xavier said.

"Well that's one good thing that came out of all this," Scott said. "At least we won't have to deal with Alvers showing his face around here any time soon!"

"I heard that!" Lance then walked into the room with Shipwreck behind him.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" Kitty yelled at him.

"Hey he's not supposed to be here!" Scott said. "I thought you guys decided that the Misfits weren't allowed to come here any more!"

"We decided there would be no unsupervised visits to the mansion," Shipwreck told him. "As long as one of us accompanies him, well…that's another story."

"Uh, yes that's why I decided to talk to all of you," Xavier cleared his throat nervously. "I have had a word with the adults of the Misfit team and we have all decided that the friction between our two teams has to stop. And therefore…"

"Hey Professor," Pietro zipped in. "I hate to be the one to tell you this but the babies were fooling around putting things in one of the toilets and it overflowed!"

"What is he doing here?" Rogue pointed angrily. "I thought Lance was the only one who was stupid enough to show his face here?"

"I love you too sis," Pietro quipped.

"Actually we all decided to come today," Shipwreck said. "That's what Charley's been trying to tell you. We've all decided to try to get along better so from now on we Misfits will all be popping in using the teleportation device nearly every day!"

"WHAT?" Every X-Man in the room shouted.

"Man they got some great ice cream here!" Fred walked in with a pint of ice cream.

"Chuck can we have a talk in private here?" Logan growled.

"What's to talk about?" Shipwreck said. "It's the goal of the X-Men to make peace among humans and mutants right? What better way to start than by having our two teams get along? It's like you said Charles, mutants shouldn't be divided."

"I did say that didn't I?" Xavier groaned.

"So think of it this way," Shipwreck grinned. "This is a perfect way to start practicing what you preach. Actually you should all thank Cyclops here. If he hadn't called us to tell us what was going on we would have never have come to this conclusion."

Every X-Man now was staring daggers of death at Scott. "Yeah Summers," Lance grinned. "Thanks a lot. Now I can see Kitty more often and I don't have to go behind the adult's backs to do it!"

"Well I don't want to see you right now!" Kitty stormed away.

"Kitty!" Lance whined, following her.

"I'd better talk to them," Shipwreck followed him.

"I'd better get the camera," Pietro snickered.

"I'd better get some snacks," Fred smiled as they left all the X-Men alone. Several very angry X-Men who looked like they were about to kill Scott.

"Brilliant move Shades," Logan growled.

"Yeah now thanks to you instead of just Avalanche popping by all the time we got all of 'em popping by whenever they feel like it!" Remy growled.

"Including those insane adults!" Rogue said.

"And the babies," Jean said with ice in her voice. "Not to mention the alcoholic parrot!"

"This backfired big time," Scott groaned.

"Ya think?" Logan snapped.