Party at the Ranger Station

"I knew I should have turned on my image inducer during this trip," Kurt grumbled as the kids walked into the ranger station. "But noooooooo! You had to insist that I wean myself off it!"

"Kurt will you stop complaining already?" Kitty snapped.

"We would have recognized you kids without it," The tall ranger said. "What with you being on the news and all."

"What?" Rogue asked.

"Didn't you know?" The other ranger asked. "Inside Entertainment Extra did an expose on you kids a few weeks ago. They've been running stuff on you and your professor all week! Not to mention the tabloids." He picked up one off his desk.

"Holy…" Sam dropped. "Wild battle at Xavier Mansion! Mutants at play! These guys took pictures of us!"

"What about our security cameras and stuff?" Amara asked.

"Oh those photographers know lots of ways around it," The tall ranger said. "Look this was taken with a long range camera."

"Oh man that was the night Colossus decided to dress up like Elvis and serenade Kitty!" Kurt gulped.

"This is awful!" Kitty groaned. "I look so fat in this!"

"You?" Rogue asked. "Look at me! I look like a hippo!"

"I look like an idiot," Peter grumbled.

"Well that we knew," Bobby said.

"Gambit told you not to dress up like Elvis!" Remy snapped.

"My Aunt Shirley gets this magazine!" Sam groaned. "I am so busted!"

"So are there any adults supervising you kids at all or are you all running around wild?" The tall ranger asked.

"We weren't running wild," Kitty protested. "We kind of got separated from the adults. Oh they are gonna kill us!"

"Uh guys…" Bobby pointed to the nearby cells. "I don't think that's gonna be a problem."

Inside the cells were Roadblock, Ororo, Cover Girl, Low Light, Alpine, Bazooka, and Footloose. "Well I see you found our kids," Alpine grumbled.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" Kitty yelled.

"Shipwreck started a bar fight when he couldn't get any beer," Low Light grumbled. "We all ended up kind of tagging along with him."

"Speaking of which where is he?" The second ranger asked. "And where's the other ranger on duty?"

Roadblock pointed his thumb at a nearby door. "In there but don't go in…"

The ranger ignored him and opened the bathroom door. Inside was Shipwreck and a blonde woman. Both were slightly disheveled and locked in a passionate embrace. "RANGER ALLENBY!" The tall ranger shouted.

"Ah keep your britches on Ranger Smith," The female ranger waved drunkenly.

"Ranger Allenby what happened?" Smith yelled. "You never drink let alone…HOW DID HE DO THIS?"

"Don't ask," Cover Girl told him.

"He has a gift for getting people drunk," Footloose shrugged.

"Speaking of drunks," The second ranger dragged the Cobra Soldier into the cell with Footloose and Roadblock. "What about them? These cells were only supposed to hold maximum of eight people."

"Look if we really wanted to leave we would have done so," Kitty told him. She phased her hand through the desk. "See?"

"What do we do?" The second ranger asked.

"I'm gonna call the Chief," Smith grumbled. "ALLENBY KNOCK IT OFF!"

"Yeah right!" She snapped.

"I see it but I don't believe it," Remy shook his head. "Shipwreck finally got lucky."

"Not really," Smith sighed. "Before she joined the rangers Ranger Sheila Allenby used to be known as Sherman Allenby."

"WHAT?" Shipwreck stopped and sputtered.

"So I had a little operation," Allenby hiccuped.

"Oh god…" Shipwreck moaned, then he fainted.

"You just had to open your big mouth didn't ya?" Allenby slurred.

"Aren't we entitled to a phone call?" Ororo asked.

"Hold on a minute. Look Ralph just watch the kids okay?" Smith told the second ranger. "And her…" He went off muttering something about his life being nothing but one big freak show.

"I said it before and I'll say it again," Rogue leaned against the wall. "I didn't wanna go camping."

"Hey where is Mr. Logan and Jinx?" Kitty asked.

"They took off not long after you left!" Low Light snapped. "We went out looking for them. Shipwreck found a bar but somehow lost his money. You can guess the rest."

"Well actually we know what happened to his cash," Ray told him. "The Misfits took it."

"Why am I not shocked?" Low Light sighed.

"What happened?" Shipwreck woke up. He saw Allenby. "Eeep!"

"Hello loverboy!" Allenby waved.

"I think now is a good time for one of us to make a phone call!" Shipwreck gulped.

"Here," Ralph held up a cell phone. "Use mine."

"I'll make a call," Bazooka took it and punched in the number. "Hello Dominos?"

"Bazooka!" Cover Girl yelled.

"What? I'm hungry!" Bazooka defended. "Yeah I'd like a few pizzas. Two cheese, two pepperoni…"

"I want sausage!" Jamie piped up.

"One sausage…" Bazooka said.

"You might as well get some veggie pizza while we're at it," Kitty suggested.

"Two veggies…" Bazooka said.

"I could go for a Hawaiian," Ralph shrugged.

"Why not?" Bazooka said. "Yeah two Hawaiian…anybody want any other kinds of pizza?"

"Hey where am I?" The Cobra soldier woke up and looked around.

"You want any pizza?" Footloose asked.

"Oh yeah…whatever…" The Cobra was still drunk. "I could go for a hamburger pizza with onions."

"One hamburger with onions!" Bazooka said. "Yeah and do you deliver? What's the address?"

"Tell 'em it's for the ranger station, they know the way," Ralph waved.

"Hey hot stuff," The Cobra soldier looked at Allenby. "You're cute!"

"She's all yours," Shipwreck staggered away.

"Why not?" Allenby shrugged. "You wanna dance?"

"Cool," The Cobra soldier nodded as she took him out of the cell.

"Uh excuse me but aren't there any rules about stuff like this?" Amara asked.

"Oh yeah like we never break 'em all the time around here," Allenby waved.

"Yeah we're stuck here," Shipwreck waved. "Might as well have a party."

"Is he serious?" Bobby asked.

"Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up drinking," Ralph shrugged as he took out a beer from the fridge. "Anybody want any booze?"

"Thank god I thought you would never ask!" Shipwreck took one from Ralph.

"This is not happening," Ororo put her head in her hands.

"YIPPEEE!" The Drunken Cobra shouted.

Thirty minutes later…

"NOW WHAT'S GOING ON?" Smith barged in. Everyone was out of the cells. The Cobra officer and Ranger Allenby were dancing to music. The kids were chowing down on pizza. Some of the Joes were dancing as well.

"It's a party!" The Cobra soldier shouted. "And I got a girl!"

"You're back on the sauce again aren't you?" Ranger Smith snapped at Ralph.

"Bingo!" Ralph grinned wearing a lampshade.

"Is there any adult here who's sober?" Ranger Smith groaned.

Ororo raised her hand. "I'm afraid I'm the only one."

"Maybe you'd better make your phone call," Ranger Smith handed her the phone.

"Uh…Charles," Ororo gulped after she dialed the number. "We…have a problem…"

"I'll say! We're out of booze!"

"SHUT UP SHIPWRECK!" Ororo shouted.

Coming up! The conclusion! But it's not the end! ^-^