Annoyance, The Gift that Keeps on Giving

"Man what a night," Kurt yawned as the X-Men made their way to the Danger Room the next morning. "I don't think I got a wink of sleep!"

"I don't think anyone in the neighborhood got a wink of sleep!" Bobby grumbled.

"You just had to get involved in this didn't ya Swamp Rat?" Rogue snapped.

"Look Gambit keeps telling you the Elvis angle was not Gambit's idea!" Remy snapped. "Colossus insisted on it!"

"Well I insist that the two of you are gonna be doing a little extra Danger Room training for the next couple of weeks," Logan growled through the microphone as they entered the Danger Room. He, Xavier and Storm were in the control room. "Maybe that oughta work off that extra energy."

"All right that's enough Logan," Xavier sighed. "X-Men, prepare for Danger Room Exercise Program 5. Storm initiate program. Storm? Storm?" He turned around and found her sound asleep at the console.

"Storm? Storm wake up!" Logan snapped.

"What...?" Ororo woke up. "Oh… I apologize," She rubbed her temples together.

"That's all right Storm," Xavier sighed. "I'm afraid none of us got much sleep last night."

"I can't believe Shipwreck came back after we sent the Misfit Boys back home!" She groaned.

"Yeah that guy's a lot more resilient than he looks, I'll give him that," Logan said. "No wonder the kids think they can just come over here and drive us crazy whenever they feel like it."

"Can't you just tell them not to come here anymore?" Ororo whined.

"Oh yeah that'll work," Logan said sarcastically.

"I fear Logan may be right," Xavier sighed. "In their case it might encourage them. Maybe I should speak to General Hawk?"

"Yeah I can picture that conversation," Logan grunted. "Trust me Charles, he will use any excuse to get those kids off his base. Hell, he can't even handle half of the Joes sometimes!"

"For some reason that doesn't surprise me," Xavier sighed.

Meanwhile the X-Men were running through their typical training course filled with lasers and explosions. As Kitty was dealing with a particularly pesky laser suddenly Lance materialized in wearing his red and black uniform and carrying a backpack. "Whoa!" Lance yelled, yanking Kitty out of the way.

"Lance what are you doing here?" Kitty asked.

"I wanted to surprise you but I think I got surprised instead," Lance gulped. "DUCK!" They dodged another laser blast. "I didn't mean to end up in the Danger Room! I just wanted to give you this!" He pulled out a little pink stuffed cat out of his backpack. "It's for you!"

Then a laser blast shredded it to pieces right out of his hands. "Hey!" Lance yelled.

"Oopsie," Peter said as he held one of the retracting lasers in his hands. "Sorry! My mistake!"

"Your last you jerk!" Lance snarled as he sent a tremor towards Peter knocking him down.

"Oh lord what are they doing now?" Hank moaned.

"Avalanche is wrecking the session," Logan groaned. "And here they all go fighting again." The adults watched the mayhem unfold below them.

"I can't take any more of this," Ororo grumbled as she left. "I'm going back to bed."

She made her way to her room and saw there was a huge present box inside. "What's this?" She read the tag. "To Ororo? But who…?"

"SURPRISE BABY!" Shipwreck popped out. He was wearing nothing but his boxers and a ribbon tied around his chest.

"DON'T YOU EVER QUIT?" Ororo yelled.

"Nope," Shipwreck grinned. He made a macho pose. "How do you like your he-man?"

"Well done!" Ororo shouted as she started to charge up.

"Uh oh…" Shipwreck gulped.

Meanwhile the Professor and Hank were in the hallway. "Okay give me the total for the damages," Xavier groaned.

"I figure two thousand for new laser cannons," Hank scribbled on some paper. "Ten thousand for the holes in the walls…"

"Thirteen dollars for a new aspirin bottle," Xavier moaned.

"YEOOWWWWWWWW!" Shipwreck screamed as Ororo chased him out of her room. "NOT THE SHOCK TREATMENT AGAIN!"

"Watching Storm fry the living daylights out of Shipwreck again…" Hank smirked.

"Priceless," Xavier grinned.