Moonlight Serenades and Aftershocks

"I can't believe it took us all day to clean up that mess!" Kitty groaned as the girls trudged upstairs to their rooms.

"Well blame your stupid boyfriends for that!" Rogue snapped.

"Come on Rogue there was like no way they could have known something like that would have happened!" Kitty defended the boys.

"Kitty as far as those two yahoos are concerned, everything they do is a disaster!" Rogue told her.

"I hate to admit it but I gotta agree with the Roguester on this one," Tabitha said.

"Let's just go to bed," Jean yawned. "We all have an early Danger Room session tomorrow."

"Whoopee," Rogue twirled her finger in the air.

Soon Kitty was in bed. She was about to go to sleep when she heard a rapping on her window. "What the?" She got up and opened the shades. "LANCE!"

Lance waved to her. He was on top of a tree next to her window and had a guitar with him. "Hey Kitty!"

"Lance what are you doing here now?" Kitty moaned.

"I just wanted to say how sorry I was for the mess," Lance apologized. "I want to make it up to you."

"Lance as much as I appreciate that…" Kitty began.

"Please?" Lance begged.

"Oh all right," Kitty sighed. "How did you get up here?"

Lance gave her a wry look as he pointed to a stepladder. "Oh," Kitty said.

"Look Kitty I'm really sorry things got so out of hand," Lance said. "I just wanted to show you how special you were to me."

"Well it was a nice thought, despite the fact that your gift like totaled the living room," Kitty said.

"Yeah well this time I'm not gonna go overboard," Lance shifted his position where he sat in the tree. He started to strum his guitar. He played a melody for her.

"Funny in all this time I never heard you play the guitar," Kitty sat next to her window. "You're pretty good."

"Thanks," Lance grinned.

"Not to mention this is the one time you serenaded me that you didn't wake everyone else up," Kitty grinned.

"Yeah well I figure this time I'll let everyone else off the hook," Lance grinned. "This is just for you. Just a quiet moment between the two of us."

That's when a huge spotlight shone on them. "What the…?" Kitty yelled blocking her eyes with her forearm.

"What's with the light show?" Lance snapped. When his eyes adjusted to the light he could see a mini stage beneath them. "Oh no…"

"Ladies and gentlemen…" Remy's voice could be heard. "Introducing the King of Hearts!"

Peter appeared on the stage dressed up in a white rhinestone studded jumpsuit. He had an Elvis like wig on and a microphone. "Thank you…thank you very much!" He spoke with an attempted Southern accent. In the background Remy turned on a boom box.

"Now I've seen everything," Kitty blinked as the music came on. "A mutant Elvis impersonator."

"Okay this is definitely one of the weirdest things I have ever seen," Lance said. "And this is from a guy who lives with Toad!"

"Baby let me be your lovin' teddy bear!" Peter crooned as he did his Elvis impersonation. "Put a chain around my neck and lead me everywhere! Oh let me be, your teddy bear!"

"This is not happening," Kitty stared in shock at the sight.

"Okay you can't say I went overboard on this one!" Lance told her.

"WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON HERE?" Rogue stormed into Kitty's room. She saw Lance. "Why did I even bother to ask? Lance knock it off before…"

"It's not me this time!" Lance snapped at her as he pointed to Peter outside.

"Sorry. My mistake," Rogue sighed. She stuck her head out the window. "PETER WILL YOU KNOCK IT OFF BEFORE I STUFF THAT MICROPHONE DOWN YOUR THROAT! SOME OF US ARE TRYING TO SLEEP AROUND HERE!"

"Why don't you yell a little louder Rogue?" Kitty snapped. "Maybe you can wake up the whole mansion?"

"The King of Dorks is already doing that!" Lance snapped. "HEY! KNOCK IT OFF!" Suddenly he lost his balance. "Whoa!" He fell out of the tree.

"LANCE!" Kitty yelled.

"It's okay!" Lance called out. "I fell on something soft."

"Yeah Gambit's head," Remy moaned underneath him.

"What's going on out here?" Jean shouted as she opened her window. "What the…?"

"Somebody please tell me that this is a dream created by those twelve candy bars I just ate," Kurt grumbled as he teleported outside.

By now Lance had made his way to the stage and shut off the boom box. "HEY!" Peter snapped.

"Listen pal, I came up with the idea to serenade Kitty long before you did!" Lance snapped. "Now buzz off!"

"You buzz off!" Peter snapped.

"Elvis…leave the stage!" Lance used his powers to knock him backwards.

"THAT'S IT YOU HOUND DOG!" Peter roared. He got up and tackled Lance.

"Oh man that's even lamer than Lance's stupid rock puns," Bobby groaned. By now all the X-Men were either looking out of a window or outside.

"Well if the entire mansion wasn't awake before they are now!" Kitty groaned as she watched the two boys duke it out on the front lawn. The ground shook again, noting Lance was using his powers "Not to mention the entire town!"

The X-Men adults were looking out at the scene on the ground floor window. "Wonderful!" Logan snapped. "They're at it again!"

"And of course now Scott is getting involved in the fight. This is starting to get more than predictable," Hank groaned as he watched the scene outside. He winced as one of Scott's optic blasts blasted something. "Not to mention expensive."

"Okay why is Colossus dressed up like Elvis?" Ororo asked.

"I have no idea," Xavier replied in a dazed voice.

"Well at least things can not get any worse," Hank sighed.

"OH STORM BABY!" A very familiar voice rang out.

"Oh goddess no…" Ororo groaned as she put her head in her hands. "Not this…"

"OH STORM—EEEEE!" Shipwreck sang on the microphone. "OH STORMY! BRING BACK THOSE SUNNY DAYS!"

"You had to open your big mouth didn't ya Hank?" Logan grumbled.

"Well at least we know he didn't come unsupervised," Hank shrugged.

"Not to mention alone," Xavier sighed as they watched Scott being whisked away by one of Pietro's infamous tornadoes. "I don't sense any of the other Misfits out there fortunately."

"Is somebody gonna go out there and do something about this?" Logan growled.

"HELLO MY BABY HELLO MY HONEY! HELLO MY STORMY GAL!" Shipwreck sang while the boys were fighting. "SEND ME A KISS BY WIRE! BABY MY HEART'S ON FIRE!"

"Come on Logan we'd better stop the boys," Hank sighed.

"Actually I was talking about Shipwreck's singing," Logan grumbled.

"Leave that to me!" Ororo growled as she stormed outside. A roll of thunder could be heard.

"Oh dear," Hank gulped. "This will not end well."

"Maybe we should stay in here," Logan was reconsidering his plan of attack.

"YEOWWWWW! HEY WHAT'S THE PROBLEM HERE?" Shipwreck screamed. "I'M TRYING TO BE ROMANTIC AND STUFF! NO LIGHTNING! NO LIGHTNING!"

"STORM WATCH IT WITH THE LIGHTNING ALREADY!" Scott shouted. "YOU NEARLY FRIED US!"

"I think that might be the idea!" Lance yelped. "YEOOOWWW!"

"MY COSTUME!" Peter yelled.

"YEOW THAT HURTS LADY!" Pietro shouted.

"TELL ME ABOUT IT!" Shipwreck snapped.

"ROGUE HELP GAMBIT!" Remy screamed.

"Help yourself you moron!" Rogue shouted. "Thanks a lot Kitty!"

"Me! This isn't my fault!" Kitty snapped.

"Yeah right!" Tabitha snapped.

"You wanna make something out of it?" Kitty snapped. Soon the shouts of the girls arguing could be heard over the guy's screams.

"Oh I can't wait until tomorrow's Danger Room session," Logan growled.

"I can't wait to see how they top this," Hank sighed.

"And I can't wait until their teenage years are over," Xavier put his head in his hands.

"If we survive that long," Hank rolled his eyes upwards when he heard something break upstairs.