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Ah Wilderness!

"All right boys the first thing we need to do is to get the tents all set up!" Shipwreck clapped his hands. "Since Roadblock, Alpine and Footloose are fishing, and Low Light and Bazooka are getting firewood. That means Wolverine and Jinx are…"

"Studying the birds and the bees," Pietro snickered.

"It's up to us to get the campsite all set up," Shipwreck continued without a beat. "Are you with me men?"

"You got it!" Todd nodded. "Come on guys."

"Yeah we'll help," Rogue said.

"No you won't! You ladies just stay back! This is man stuff!" Shipwreck told them.

"Yeah, man stuff!" Todd repeated, puffing out his chest.

"Just let the men handle this ladies," Remy told them.

"And just exactly where are you gonna find some men to handle this?" Rogue smirked.

"Remy is a man!" Remy frowned. "And it's the man's job to protect the womenfolk."

"From what?" Tabitha asked. "A rabid squirrel?"

"Give me a break!" Amara groaned.

"We should," Wanda said. "Break their arms that is."

"Now girls let's let the boys do what they want," Cover Girl sat back.

"Right, this ought to be good for a laugh," Althea snickered.

"Hey we can handle this!" Ray puffed up. Then he noticed something. "AGGGH! Spider! There's a spider on my arm! Get it off me! Get it off!" He jumped around.

"Don't let it get on me!" Roberto yelled jumping away from him.

"I got it!" Todd hopped over. "Hold still."

"Get it off!" Ray kept jumping around. "Get it off!"

"I will if you'd quit moving around yo!" Todd snapped as he tried to follow him.

"Agghh! Now you got it on me!" Pietro yelled. "GETITOFF! GETITOFF!"

"Quickie will you stand still already!" Todd shouted. Then he shot out his tongue.

"AGGHH! YOU SLIMED ME!" Remy shouted.

"I did not!" Todd snapped. "I only dabbed you a little! It's Quickie's fault he can't stand still!"

"It is not! Now get this thing off me!" Pietro looked around. "Oh wait, it's off me now. Where did it go?"

"There!" Ray pointed to the ground. "Kill it!" He sent a volt of electricity at it. Of course several surrounding leaves and plants caught on fire.

"Way to go genius!" Lance snapped. He used his powers to have a small section of earth rise up and smother out the fire. However the wave of dirt traveled further than he intended and knocked over several trees.

"Look who's talking!" Peter snapped.

"Shut up!" Lance snapped. "I didn't see you do anything!"

"Well he can do something now," Todd pointed. "That spider's still alive! Ray missed."

"What!" Ray yelled.

"Hey I got it!" Todd said sticking out his tongue. He narrowly got it stomped on by Peter's foot. "Hey watch it you big ape! You nearly stepped on my tongue!"

"And neither of you still got the spider!" Jamie groaned. "Never mind it's gone into the bushes."

Shipwreck slapped his hand on his face as the girls laughed. "Why me?"

"Oh yeah you guys are real wilderness men," Althea laughed.

"You're right," Rogue grinned. "This is good for a laugh!"

"Told you we'd have a good show!" Cover Girl giggled.

"Ha ha!" Shipwreck pouted. "Very funny. Come on men let's set up the tents!"

"Maybe we should do our own tents?" Wanda asked.

"Well let's see how the geniuses here do with theirs," Althea pointed.

"Look we know what we're doing okay?" Shipwreck snapped. He picked up a pole. "Now where the hell does this rod go?"

"I could think of a few places it could go," Ororo snickered in Cover Girl's ear.

"I heard that!" Shipwreck shouted.

"Boy Berzerker you scream like a girl! Ha! Ha! AGGGH! A SKUNK!" Roberto screamed.

"It's just a pile of leaves you weenie," Jamie rolled his eyes.

"Now who screams like a girl?" Ray sneered.

"Shut up!" Roberto growled.

"I'll be right back," Bobby grumbled as he went into the bushes. Meanwhile the boys were trying to set up their tents.

"I could have sworn this pole went here," Forge grumbled as the tent he and Kurt were working on fell down for the third time.

"Figures, the guy who's a mechanical genius can't figure out how to make a simple tent," Kurt groaned.

"Oh like you're such a help?" Forge shot back.

"Are you sure it's supposed to look like this?" Xi asked.

"Of course not Xi!" Forge snapped. "But maybe if somebody was more helpful…"

"What do you mean by that crack?" Kurt asked.

"What do you think it means?" Forge snapped.

"Forge calm down," Xi said. "It's not Kurt's fault you don't know how to put up a tent."

"WHAT?" Forge snapped.

"Where the heck is slot B?" Shipwreck scratched his head. "Does anyone have a clue where slot B is?"

"Forget slot B I can't find section 9," Ray said.

"That's section 6," Sam told him. "You have it upside down you moron!"

"It's section 9!" Ray snapped.

"Six!" Sam said.

"Nine!"

"Six!"

"Nine!"

"Six!"

"Actually that looks more like a three to me," Jamie looked at the paper.

"Who asked you?" Ray and Sam shouted.

"You're doing it wrong!" Lance snapped at Peter as they put up their tent.

"Look Alvers I have gone camping before," Peter snapped. "I know how to put up a tent all right?" He got the tent up and grinned at Lance.

Ten seconds later the tent collapsed. "Riiiiiight," Lance looked at him sarcastically.

"OW! SOMEBODY HELP ME!" Bobby screamed. "IT HURTS!"

"I'll get it!" Cover Girl ran over with Kitty following.

"Oh great now what's going on?" Shipwreck groaned.

"Move your leg!" Peter snapped at Lance. "It's in the way!"

"No you move your leg!" Lance snapped back.

"Besides the obvious," Shipwreck groaned.

Kitty came back giggling. "So what happened?" Althea asked her.

"Let's just say that Bobby used the wrong leaves for toilet paper," Kitty snickered.

"He didn't!" Wanda gasped.

"He did," Kitty nodded.

"Didn't we go through this with Evan?" Roberto groaned.

"Yeah but even Evan wasn't stupid enough to use poison ivy for toilet paper," Pietro snickered.

"Come on ladies," Ororo finally got up from the ground. "We'd better build our own shelter if we want to have any protection at all."

"Yeah as entertaining as all this is we'd really better get to work," Wanda snickered. "Have fun boys." The girls went to the other side of the campsite.

"Don't worry!" Shipwreck snapped. "We'll get this done in no time!"

Then the sound of cloth being torn interrupted him. "You ruined the tent!" Lance snapped.

"Me?" Peter snapped. "You're the one who ripped it!"

"I did not!" Lance shouted. "You were the one pulling it in the wrong direction!"

"I was not! You were the one pulling it in the wrong direction!"

"No you were!"

"You were!"

"You were!"

Shipwreck rolled his eyes as both boys tackled each other and started fighting. "Or maybe not."

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A few hours and several more fights later…

"Look Shipwreck I'll make the bear noises but I won't try to dress up like a bear!" Fred told him.

"Fine," Shipwreck groaned. "You win."

"Oh this is the dumbest plan you ever had," Lance groaned.

"Shut up!" Shipwreck snapped.

"What are you planning now?" Todd asked as he hopped over.

"You gotta hear this Toad," Lance pointed his thumb at Shipwreck. "He's come up with the stupidest plan ever to get the girls to like him."

"It is not stupid!" Shipwreck snapped.

"What is it?" Todd asked.

"Shipwreck wants the Blob to go over to the girl's side of the camp and make bear noises," Lance explained. "This will get the girls into a panic…supposedly and then Shipwreck will rush in to save the day."

"Wait a minute," Todd scratched his head. "Lemme get this straight…you're trying to scare Storm and Cover Girl? Are you out of your mind? These women have tackled some of the toughest customers in the world and you think a little thing like a bear is gonna scare 'em?"

"I told you it was a dumb plan!" Lance remarked.

"It is not!" Shipwreck snapped.

"Actually Shipwreck it is pretty dumb," Fred scratched his head. "I mean even I can figure that out and I'm not exactly the best at coming up with plans."

"No Fred, really?" Lance asked sarcastically. "Still you have a point. Even you could come up with a better plan than this!"

"I told you!" Fred said.

"Look will you just do it, okay?" Shipwreck groaned.

"Give me one good reason why I should?" Fred asked.

"Because it's an order," Shipwreck told him.

"Yeah right," Fred waved.

"Okay how about if I give you fifty bucks?" Shipwreck asked.

"Give me a few minutes," Fred nodded. "I need to get into character." He walked away.

"Oh brother," Lance groaned. "I can't watch this."

"Me neither," Todd said. The two of them went back to camp. "Well at least we got the tents up. Finally."

"Most of them anyway," Lance pointed to a ripped tent. "So who's going to bunk with who?"

"Well the adults are going to share these three," Shipwreck pointed. "Now as for the rest of you guys…Bobby you are gonna share with Ray and Roberto."

"I don't want to be with them!" Bobby stood uncomfortably. "They're gonna be fighting all night! With my luck they'll set the tent on fire!"

"Oh yeah like we want to be with a guy covered in poison ivy!" Ray told him.

"Can't I stay with someone else?" Bobby asked. "I don't want to be burned to a crisp in my sleep!"

"And we don't want to be infected!" Roberto snapped.

"Look Iceman if you stay with them you can just freeze the fire and if you keep your shorts on you won't infect the others!" Shipwreck snapped. "Don't come crying to me! If certain people hadn't destroyed a few tents we would have had a lot more room."

Everyone glared at Lance and Peter. "What?" Peter asked.

"I told you it wasn't my fault!" Lance snapped. "Those tents were obviously defective!"

"It's not the tents that are defective," Jamie snapped.

"Okay, okay…" Shipwreck groaned. "Pipe down. Now, for tent #2 how about Remy, Pietro and Fred…"

"Hold on!" Remy snapped. "I ain't sharing a tent with those two!"

"Yeah the Blob alone is big enough for his own tent!" Pietro remarked. "Where is he anyway?"

"He's around here someplace," Shipwreck waved. "Go find him will ya?" Pietro took off.

"Well whatever you do Shipwreck please for the love of Mike don't stick Lance and Peter together!" Kurt said.

"If you do nobody'll get any sleep!" Todd piped up.

"Yeah the last thing I wanna hear is another 'I Love Kitty the Most Argument'," Forge said.

"Fine," Shipwreck sighed. "How about this? These are the two largest tents so Todd, Lance, Kurt and Jamie in this one and Peter, Sam, Forge and Xi in the other one?"

"You're sticking me with the Toad?" Kurt groaned.

"Oh yeah like I'm looking forward to being covered in fur," Todd folded his arms.

"Look nobody's gonna be happy no matter where they're put so why don't you…" He was interrupted by some loud growling noises. "Oh for the love of Davy Jones' Locker what now?"

"BEAR!" Pietro ran by. "BEAR!"

"Pietro knock it off its only Freddy!" Lance groaned.

"What?" Remy blinked.

"Uh yeah my fault," Shipwreck went over to the bush where the noises were coming from. "Hey Blob you can knock it off now! Wait until we get to the girl's side huh?"

"Knock off what, Shipwreck?" Fred appeared eating some honey from a jar. "I haven't started yet. I figured a good snack would get me in the mood. Honey anyone?"

"Blob?" Shipwreck looked at him. "But if you're there then who's…?" His eyes widened when a real bear poked his nose out of the bushes. "Eep…"

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"I can't believe we only caught three fish," Alpine groaned. "How are we gonna feed all these kids?"

"Maybe we can make a stew?" Bazooka suggested.

"Don't you worry," Roadblock waved. "I packed plenty of extra provisions so we'll have plenty to eat!"

"Hey look!" Low Light pointed as they entered the girls' side. Not only were the tents made up but also there was a large wooden shelter and a primitive outhouse that was cheerfully decorated with leaves.

"Hey guys!" Wanda waved. She and Rogue were putting the finishing touches on a lookout post. "What do you think?"

"Wow you girls really did a great job," Roadblock nodded. "I'm impressed."

"Yeah if you ladies did this well I can't wait to see how the guy's section of the camp is doing," Low Light said.

"Neither can we," Althea grinned.

"Five will get you ten that they don't even have half their tents up," Tabitha remarked.

"Now girls give the boys some credit," Ororo said.

"Yeah but Shipwreck is with them," Wanda said.

"She does have a point," Cover Girl sighed.

"I'm sure they're fine," Ororo said. Then she heard a loud scream. "What was that?"

They all ran to the campsite where many of the boys were clinging to the trees. "HELP!" Shipwreck shouted. He was covered in something sticky. "BLOB WHY THE HELL DID YOU DROP THE HONEY JAR ALL OVER ME?"

"Sorry," Fred gulped as he hid behind a large tree. He couldn't climb for obvious reasons.

"Oh dear…" Ororo put her head in her hands.

"How do you guys do this?" Cover Girl asked.

"It's not easy," Todd grumbled.

"Some protectors," Rogue groaned. "Should we go save their butts? Again?"

"Yeah might as well," Tabitha sighed. "But how do we fend off a bear?"

"Just leave it to us," Cover Girl said. "Come on Althea, let's do it."

"Yeah it's not like this hasn't happened to my pop before," Althea told them. "You'd be amazed how often this has happened!"

Up next: Some sort of scary tales around the campfire sing alongs nobody wants to sing, and Althea learns a shocking secret about Todd and Wanda. Well maybe it's not that big a secret…

Keep those ideas and suggestions coming people!