MEANWHILE!!!
"YAY!!!" cheered the Green Team. "This is the first time we have been first to arrive!"
"Despite the fact that we crashed into a tree and nearly killed Remy." Said Rogue.
"Welcome, Green Team!" said Angel since he was there to greet them. "I'm obviously the person at the Checkpoint. This checkpoint is different from the ones you have been to so far. We're going to have to wait for the others to arrive."
"So we finally are first but we don't get any advantage?!" Pietro demanded.
"You get a Hotel Suite and a feast tonight and the other teams don't." said Angel. Just as the Green Team was celebrating, the Blue Team teleported in.
"They should NOT be able to do that!!" yelled Pietro.
"Congratulations on being SECOND!!" Angel said.
"Kurt, this is all your fault!" yelled Lance. "Because of you, we're in second place!"
"Because of ME we're here!" said Kurt as he took the hood off.
"Oh Kurt, Professor X heard about what happened to your image inducer…" said Angel, pulling another one out from behind his back. "So he sent a new one. He says that this one is kind of defective though…and he's working on a new one."
"Thank!" said Kurt happily, turning it on. "There doesn't seem to be any problem to me…"
"Well anyway!" said Angel. "I was just explaining to the Green Team here! They get a feast and a Hotel Suite and you guys get a tent and some army rations while we wait for the last team to arrive."
MEANWHILE!!!
"This is unbelievable!" Scott said in an exasperated tone. The four of them were squeezed on a bus, riding through Belgium.
"Saying it over and over isn't going to change anything." Said Wanda.
"But I still can't believe this!" Scott continued to rant.
"Hey!" said St. John. "Hey, hey, hey! This is supposed to be team unity! Not team arguments!"
Someone would have slapped him if their arms weren't stuck by their sides.
"But why would you think turning all the candle flames into giant laughing flaming skulls that ignited many people would not cause some sort of horrible panic that would force the pilot to make an emergency landing?!" Scott yelled. All the people on the bus tried not to look at the group of four.
"Wanda said that I couldn't do and I had to prove her wrong." Said St. John.
"If Wanda said you couldn't fly then would you?" Todd asked.
"Well, I KNOW I can't fly." Said St. John with a laugh. "That would be fun though."
MEANWHILE!!!
"I GET THE BED!!!" yelled Pietro as he zipped through the open door past everyone and then leapt on the single bed that sat in the middle of their room. "I get the bed!! All to myself!!"
"Why is there only one bed?" groaned Rogue.
"This is good for our teamwork building skills!" said Jean.
"How?" asked Rogue.
"To show that we're a good enough team to sleep in the same bed!!" Jean answered.
Remy casually walked up to the bed and touched it so it was surrounded by little yellowish flame things. "If I don't get the bed then no one does." He declared as Pietro immediately jumped off. "Of course, you are welcome to join me, mes amours."
"Yeah right." Said Rogue. "If I share a bed with ANYONE then I'll be waking up the next morning with their powers and that person won't be waking up the next morning."
"But we should all sleep together as a TEAM!" Jean continued.
"I want the bed all to myself!!" Pietro said, jumping up and down.
MEANWHILE!!!
"Angel could have at least give us more than one tent." Said Kitty as she climbed in. "All right, you guys, you're all sleeping outside."
"What are you talking about?!" demanded Lance. "I am so NOT sleeping outside!"
"Well you're not sleeping in here!" said Kitty. "And I'm the lady!"
"Oh man, I'm a CITY kid!" said Evan. "I don't sleep outside!"
Kurt shrugged happily since he didn't really care either way. Knowing Kurt, he's probably slept outside all the time.
THAT NIGHT!!!
"Finally!" said St. John as he jumped around and frolicked around and broke many things.
"Please try and be quiet!" Angel whispered, rushing out of his little shack. He was wearing his little angely nighty clothes with little deformed angels all over it. "It's nearly 3:00 in the morning!"
"Give us our challenge!" said Scott enthusiastically. "We just rode on a bus for seven hours and we're rearing to go!"
"You'll have to wait until morning." Said Angel.
"MORNING?!" yelled Todd. "We're already really far behind!!"
"BE QUIET!!" Angel yelled but then he realized that he had to lower his voice back down to a whisper. "Please be quiet. This checkpoint is different. All the teams are going to do it at the same time."
"Oh…" said the Red Team, looking at each other.
"So we rushed all the way here for no reason?" said Scott, sounding annoyed.
"Yes." Said Angel. "Since you came in last, I'm supplying you with absolutely nothing foodwise and shelterwise. Have a nice night and I'll see you at nine o'clock tomorrow morning!"
The Red Team paused and telepathically came to a decision.
"Angel…" said Scott. "We've decided that we're just going to take your shack and leave you with nowhere to sleep…"
"You can't do that!" said Angel.
"Yes we can." Said Wanda as she zapped Angel and he was immediately down for the count since Angel is so weak and all he can do is fly. The Red Team kicked him while he was down for a little while before laughing at his expense and running into his shack. Angel was left there to cry in the fetal position.
THE NEXT MORNING!!!
"EVERYONE UP AND AT 'EM!!" screamed Angel the next morning. He was completely unfazed about what had happened the night before!! YAY!!
Everyone came out into the area where Angel had greeted them. But, strangely enough, the entire Green Team was missing except for Rogue! Golly!
"Where's the rest of your team?" asked Angel.
"They're um…sleeping." Said Rogue. "I think I'm a restless sleeper and managed to touch every one of them at least once."
"Oh." Said Angel. Everyone stood there in silence, not blinking or moving or saying anything until, one by one, Jean, Pietro and Remy all staggered down the stairs looking a bit disheveled and confused. "Ah!" said Angel. "At last, everyone is ready for the challenge!"
"You bet we are!" said Scott.
Angel paused and cleared his throat, a bit irritated by the interruption. "So anyway, like I was saying," he continued. "This challenge is really just a small, easy, simple questionnaire that will eventually lead to something else that is much bigger and more important."
"Oh no!" said Todd. "Don't tell me we have to know about our team again!"
"Not really." Said Angel. "I want the teams to mutually come up with who they consider their leader, who they consider to be the useful and who they consider to be the one who never really does anything. And then of course, whoever is leftover. Leaders in the blue circle, useful people in the green circle, people along for the ride in the pink circle and all of the leftover people in the red circle."
"Well…OBVIOUSLY I'm the leader." Said Scott to his team.
"Yeah right Scott." Said St. John. "I think Wanda's the leader."
"Yeah, Wanda's definitely the most powerful out of all of us!" said Todd.
"Power isn't want determines leaders!" said Scott. "It's heart!"
"It's power." Said Wanda threateningly.
"Oh fine…" said Scott since he feared Wanda's wrath.
"Well Scott, you seem to be the one who creates all the controversy on our team so we're going to put you in the group of people who contribute least to the team." Said St. John. "Because I OBVIOUSLY go in the most useful category!"
"Yeah, the way you made that wall a really long time ago in Spain!" Todd agreed. "That was just…so awesome."
"What about me guys?!" demanded Scott. "I have done SO much for this team!"
But they eventually bullied Scott into going over to the pink circle and Todd went over to the red circle. St. John went to the green circle and Wanda went over to the blue.
The Blue Team was also having their share of arguments on who exactly was in which group.
"Well, I think we're ALL the leader on this team!" said Kitty.
"I don't care what you guys do, I'm going over to the most useful circle and there's nothing you can do to stop me." Said Kurt as he teleported over to the green circle and high fived St. John.
"Okay…" said Lance. "I decree that I'm the leader or I'm going to shake the world violently!!"
"Okay!" said Kitty and Evan since their powers were really lame. So Lance went over to the blue circle with Wanda. Kitty and Evan were left to decide who was a leftover and who was a least contributor. So they flipped a coin and Kitty ended up going to the red circle with the other leftovers like Todd and Evan went over to the pink circle with Scott.
The green team was having quite the similar problem…
"Guys…I belong in both the leader and the most useful." Said Pietro. "Where should I go?? Come on guys!! Tell me!"
"You know what?" said Rogue. "No."
"HEY!!" yelled Pietro.
"You are by far the least useful AND the most annoying!!" Rogue said.
"What?!" demanded Pietro. "I'm really fast! I pedaled here! Remy has done absolutely nothing!!"
"Then…then you're just really annoying then!" Rogue corrected herself.
"I think I'm the most useful." Said Jean as she flew around.
"I've been utilized more!!" yelled Pietro.
"Pietro, just go and stand on the pink circle before I touch you." Said Rogue.
"Like you could catch me!" said Pietro. "I'm too fast!"
"I'll help her!" said Jean. "For the team!"
"I'M part of the team too!!" Pietro whined.
"Which is why you should go and stand on the pink circle!" Rogue said. So Pietro, whining and complaining, went to the pink circle with Scott and Evan. Rogue went over to the blue leadership circle with Wanda and Lance because, you have to admit, she has shown BY FAR, the most leadership on the team. Jean flew over to the green useful circle with Kurt and St. John. Remy stood there alone since he hadn't really been paying attention so, after quickly counting up all the members on each circle, he finally concluded that the red circle was down a member and he should grace them with the presence of Gambit.
"All right." Said Angel as he started handing the teams new colorful uniforms for them to wear. "You're all probably wondering why I have split you up into these groups and why I'm handing you new uniforms based on the color circle you are standing in. Well…these are your new teams!"
