"All right guys!!" cheered Jean.  "Let's go!  Hey!  I've got an idea!  How about we don't use our powers at all?!"

The Green team stared at Jean.  "What's the point of that?" Pietro asked.

"It'll be more fun that way!" said Jean.  "It would be more challenging!"

"This is a RACE." Said Pietro.  "We're trying to win.  Not have fun."

"Come on guys, I have a car!" said Scott to the Red Team.  "We can drive to the airport and go from there!"

"SHOTGUN!!" yelled St. John.  They all jumped into Scott's car that just so happened to be right there and drove off.

"Guys, they said no teleporting to the checkpoints but they never said anything about teleporting to an airport!" said Lance, looking at Kurt.

"Hey, you're right!" said Kurt.

"Like…you sure about this?" asked Kitty.

"Who cares?" said Evan.  "This whole thing is stupid anyway!"  Then they all grabbed onto Kurt and he teleported to an airport.

"I can't believe this!" gasped Pietro.  "Now I'm in last place!  You know, I have NEVER been in last place before in anything and now I am.  Come on, team!  We could at least take a step in the general direction of an airport!  Come on!  Come on!  Comeoncomeoncomeon!!"

"Jean, couldn't you just fly us all there?" Rogue asked.

"No powers!" Jean said, crossing her arms.

"Fine." Said Rogue, taking her glove off and touching Jean.  Then Jean turned into a negative and died.  But not really.  "I'll fly us there."

"Nice job." Said Remy.

"Anything else?" asked Rogue.

"…Chéri?" Remy suggested.

"Okay…" said Rogue.  "Pietro, you can run there yourself, right?  You could get us plane tickets…"

"I'm there!!" yelled Pietro dashing off in a cloud of smoke and flying paper.

Then they started a-flyin'!!

MEANWHILE!!!

"We are definitely going to win this!!" Scott said as he sped along the highway in the carpool lane.  St. John was shotgun, just like he wanted, and Todd and Wanda were sitting in the backseat.

"STOP!!!" yelled St. John all of a sudden as Scott swerved the car over to the side of the road and caused many accidents.

"What is it?!" Scott demanded.

"I left my lighter at home!" St. John yelled.  "We HAVE to turn around!"

"Can you just create your own fire?" Todd asked. 

"Yeah, do you really need a lighter?" Scott added.

"Yes, I really need a lighter!" St. John said, sounding offended.  "Do YOU really need those sunglasses?"

"Yes." Said Scott.

"We can get you a new one at the airport." Said Wanda.

"It's not the same!" whined St. John but then he pulled his lighter out of his pocket.  "Oh!  Never mind!  It was here the whole time."

Then they looked up to see Rogue, Remy and Jean's unconscious body flying overhead.

"Aw man, I thought we were in the lead!" complained Scott as he pulled back onto the highway and continued driving.

"Hurry!" said St. John.  "Blast them!  Make yourself useful!"

"I'm DRIVING!!" Scott pointed out.

"But there getting ahead of us!" Todd complained.  "Now we're in last."

"Last?" Scott asked.  "What do you mean?  We're in second now."

"Oh, the other team teleported there." Todd said.

"Curses!!" Scott said, punching the wheel in anger.  Then the airbag came bursting out and smothered Scott so he was unable to see where he was going, swerved off the highway and crashed into a tree.  And, just for fun, his sunglasses got flung off too and he blew away half the highway.  Yes…that is for fun.

Fortunately, no one died because people don't die in X-Men Evolution.  YAY!!

"NOW how are we going to get to airport?" Wanda said, getting out of the car.  Luckily they were all wearing their seatbelts so no one is mortally wounded.

"Help me find my sunglasses first!" Scott commanded.

"Oh…they're just a few steps to your right." Said Todd.

"Over here?" Scott said, walking right into a tree.  Then the rest of the team enjoyed a good chuckle at Scott's expense.

MEANWHILE!!!

"Finally!" said Kurt.  "After waiting in line for so long, we finally got our tickets!!"  Then he held up the tickets triumphantly but there was a gust of wind and they just disappeared from his hand.  "Huh?!  What happened to our tickets?"

"KURT!!" Kitty gasped.  "That's like totally uncool!"

"What'd you do with the tickets?!" Lance demanded.

"Nothing!" Kurt said, looking around.  "They're just gone!  I don't know where they went!"

"So we have to buy more tickets with this money that we got out of nowhere?!" Evan said in an exasperated tone.  "But more importantly, we have to wait in line and take the NEXT flight?!"

"The next flight?" asked Lance.

"Yeah." Said Evan.  "There's no way we'll be able to wait in line and get the tickets and be boarded in only a half an hour."

"Who says we gotta wait in line?!" Lance said.  "We paid for our tickets, didn't we?  Right, Kurt?"

"Uh…yeah." Said Kurt.

"Lance!" said Kitty.  "We can't like cheat anymore!!"

"We're not cheating!" Lance said.  "We paid for our tickets!"

"He's right!" said Evan.  "Come on, Kurt!"

"Well…all right!" said Kurt as they all grabbed onto him again and he transported them into the airplane.  So they all sat down in the rows of two and they weren't seated for more than five minutes before a stewardess approached them.

"Excuse me," said the stewardess.  "But you're in someone else's seats."

"These are definitely our seats!" said Lance.

"May I see you're tickets?" asked the stewardess.

"We uh…lost them?" suggested Kitty.

"I'm going to have to ask you to leave the plane." Said the stewardess.

"You should know better, Daniels." Said Pietro's voice as Evan stood up.  "You can't get on a plane without a ticket."

"Pietro!" said Evan angrily as he spotted Pietro and the rest of the Green Team coming onto the plane.

"Now please move because my ticket says that you're in my seat!" said Pietro.

"YOUR ticket?!" Evan yelled.

"Yes, MY ticket." Said Pietro.  "I'm the one holding it."

"You stole our tickets, didn't you, Pietro?!" demanded Lance.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Said Pietro.  "I got these with my frequent flier miles, didn't I?"  He turned to the rest of his team who nodded with agreement.

"Well we're not moving from this plane!" Lance declared.

Moments, later, security was in and they escorted Evan, Lance, Kitty and Kurt off the plane.

"That was strange," said Rogue.  "What were they doing in our seats?"

"Beats me." Said Pietro as he sat down in a window seat.  At that moment, Jean woke up.

"Hey, how'd we get here?" she asked.

"We rode here on a bus while you were sleeping." Said Rogue.

"It's true." Said Remy.

"Don't you say anything more thoughtful?" Rogue asked.  "Can't you make declarative statements?"

"No, I just stand back and look cool." Said Remy, sitting down next to Pietro.

Then Jean and Rogue sat in front of the two males.

There was a pause.

"We've got a LONG flight." Said Rogue.

"Are we there yet?" asked Pietro.

"We haven't even taken off yet." Jean replied.

"Man, I could BE there by now!" Pietro whined.

"You could run across the ocean?" Jean said.

"I've never tried but I'm sure I could!" Pietro said as if he were offended.  "But frankly, I wouldn't want to sit there waiting for you slow-mos."

MEANWHILE!!!

"We're here!" said Scott, walking through the sliding doors of the airport.

"Good thing that taxi drove by." said Wanda.

"Well you almost got us kicked out of it!" Said St. John.

"I swear, TODD smells better than that taxi does." Wanda replied.

"Thanks shnookums." Said Todd.  "I love you too."

"I don't think so." Said Wanda, rolling her eyes.

"Now we have to wait in this line…" Scott said, looking at the atrociously long line that stood before them.  Then he spotted the Blue Team waiting towards the front of the line.  "Hey, look!"  He ran up to them.  "Hi guys!  Do you think we could get in line with you?"

"No way!" said Lance.  "Like we'd do that!"

"I've got an idea!" said Kitty.  "We'll give you our spot in line if you wait here while we go eat lunch!  You have to buy tickets for us too or it's no deal!"

"Well…" started Scott as he looked at the length of the line.  "All right, fine!  We'll do it!"  Then he called for his group and told them of the plan.  So his group got in line as the Blue Team ran off to get lunch.

"I can't believe Pietro stole our tickets!" said Lance angrily.

"Well, we just have to be more ruthless with our play then!" said Evan.  The two of them started plotting against Pietro together while rubbing their hands together diabolically.

Kurt and Kitty looked at each other and shrugged.

"Do you guys like really think that those guys are like totally going to buy us tickets?" asked Kitty as they all went up to McDonalds.  "What if they like cheat us out completely and get on the plane?"

"You're the one who made the offer, Kitty!" said Lance.  "So if that happens then we're blaming you!"

"I don't think Scott would let them do that though." Said Kurt.

MEANWHILE!!!

"Hey guys," said Scott as they got to the front of the line.  "If we just buy our tickets and not theirs then they'll be in last place and we'd only be in second!"

"Yeah but…" started Todd.  "They gave us their spot in line.  Otherwise, we'd be in last instead of just sharing last."

"We should say 'third' instead of 'last' to be more optimistic!" said St. John.

"Or maybe we could just say losers to be more pessimistic." Said Wanda.

Then Scott paid for the tickets.  "What are we supposed to do while we're waiting for them?"

"Well, according to this ticket, our plane takes off in fifteen minutes." Said Wanda, looking at the ticket.  "We could look around for about five minutes and then we have to board."

"They said they were getting lunch…so let's just go to the food area." Scott said.

MEANWHILE!!!

"I hope we're going to go a LITTLE faster than this!" Pietro said, pressing his face up against the window.

"We're only taxiing." Remy said.  "It'll go faster once we get in the air."

"Good." Said Pietro, leaning back.  After a short pause, he looked out the window again.  "Are we up in the air yet?  I don't feel myself going any faster!"

"I don't know, are we?" asked Remy.  "You're the one looking out the window."

"I just don't fly much." Said Pietro.

"I thought you had frequent flier miles." Remy said.

"What do you mean?!" demanded Pietro.  "Of course I do!"

"Are you scared?" Remy asked.

"ME?!" Pietro practically yelled.  "SCARED?  No, just very bored!"

"Hey you two, be quiet back there!" said Rogue.

"You want a coloring book, mon ami?" Remy asked, fishing through the pocket in the back of the seat in front of him.

"What did you just call me?" Pietro asked.

"My friend." Remy replied.

"Oh." Said Pietro.

"Do you want a coloring book?" Remy repeated, pulling a coloring book out of the pocket.

Pietro paused.  "…Yes."

MEANWHILE!!!

St. John and Wanda were sitting in one row and Scott and Todd were sitting in the row behind them.  "Oh man, your smell is overwhelming." Said Scott, moving over as much as he could.  "I wish these windows would open just a little."

"Well they don't." said Todd as he cleaned out his ear with his finger.

Just then, Kurt's group teleported in.

"Hey, what's the big idea, Summers?!" demanded Lance.  "You handed us our tickets but you never said the plane was taking off in ten minutes!"

"You shouldn't just teleport places." Said Scott.  "What if someone was looking?"  They glanced around but THANKFULLY, no one had been looking at that particular time.  Then the Blue Team took their seats, Evan and Kitty across from St. John and Wanda, and Kurt and Lance across from Scott and Todd.

"So anyway, the other team has a head start on us because they stole our tickets and took our place on the plane!" explained Kurt.

"Well you guys teleported here." Said Scott.  "And we took a taxi AND got in an accident but we ended up on the same flight as you guys."

"Wow, how did that work?" asked St. John.

"Cheaters never prosper!" said Scott with a wink that no one could see.

"Do you guys wanna like team up or something?" asked Kitty.  "We could beat out the other team together!"

"I don't know…are we allowed to do that?" questioned Todd.

"Who cares?" asked Lance.  "We have to get back at Pietro for stealing our tickets!"

"Well…that team didn't really do anything to us." Said Wanda.

"We gave you that spot in line!" Evan reminded them.

"We'll think about it." Said Scott.

"What's the fun of this if we're all just going to team up anyway?" asked St. John.  "It wouldn't be a race if it was the eight of us versus the four of them." Everyone looked at St. John with skeptical glares.  "I'm just saying this because I know that you Brotherhood members will go off one way and you X-Men will go off the other and I'll be stuck here alone!"

"Are you the only Acolyte in this race?" asked Evan.

"No, Remy's in it." Said St. John, crossing his arms.

"I don't see what Magneto's proving by only putting you two in the race." Said Kurt.

"I don't see what Magneto's proving by putting ANY of us in this race!" St. John declared.  "Why would we ever need to work with you guys if we're supposed to be trying to kill you?"

There was an awkward silence.

"I'm not going to start any sort of big fire to kill you all while I'm on the plane that you are!" St. John said as he started playing with his lighter at that very moment.  "Well…maybe just a little one…but not to kill you all, just so I can watch it burn."

"Um…how about I hold onto that for you until we need it?" Scott said, holding out his hand.

"I'm perfectly capable of holding onto it by myself!" St. John said defensively.

"Yes, I know you're capable of it, that's why I want to take it from you." Scott explained truthfully.

MEANWHILE!!!

"All right, I've colored every single picture in all these coloring books that I could find and I did as much of these crosswords that I could do!" Pietro reported.  "I wasn't paying attention, how much time did that take up?  I bet we're going to land soon."

"Hardly." Said Remy.

"What do you mean, 'hardly'?!" demanded Pietro.

"I mean guère." Remy answered.

"And what do you mean by 'guère'?" Pietro said, sounding more annoyed than he should have been.

"I mean, you're going to have to learn to be a little more patient." Remy answered.  "Try going to sleep.  Try watching the movie."

"So how much time is left?!" Pietro demanded.

"A good few hours." Remy replied.  "There are two movies scheduled for this flight and the first one has hardly begun."

"Fine, I'll watch it!" Pietro said, looking at the screen.  "There's no sound!"

"You need headphones." Said Remy, handing his own headphones to Pietro.  "Take mine."

Rogue and Jean, meanwhile, weren't proving to be very interesting.  They were just watching the movie.  They weren't talking or conversing or anything.