"Blue Jamie…blue Jamie…" said Wanda as she looked around for the Jamie of the Blue variety. "This would be a lot easier if I remembered what Jamie looked like."
"I vaguely know what he looks like." Said Rogue. "But not that much."
"I don't know what he looks like at all." Said Lance. "I didn't even look at him when we were getting the instructions explained to us. I just stared at the floor for no reason!
"So should we just go up to every kid with blue on and ask him if he's Jamie?" asked Wanda.
"I guess so." Said Rogue as she turned around to see about forty children wearing blue running around happily. "I wish we were on the pink team or something. That way, it would be easier to pick out a male with that color on."
"If only." Said Lance longingly as he commenced in staring at the ground.
MEANWHILE!!!
"We are triumphant!!" said Todd, hopping up to Jamie. (Don't ask how Todd knew Jamie was the checkpoint person. Perhaps Kitty had pointed at him and said, 'Dear lord! It's Jamie! He must be the checkpoint person!!')
"I don't think so!" said Pietro as he ran past Todd and rested his arm on Jamie.
"Yeah!" said Scott. "Pink Team all the way!" The remaining members of the Red and Pink Teams stepped over the unconscious bodies of the Jean Team members and questioned Jamie on what their challenge would be.
"Well…" Jamie answered. "Find my multiple self wearing the color of your team. It's simple enough."
"Yeah…it is!" said Evan.
"Pietro, since you're SO fast, why don't you just run around until you find his multiple self wearing pink?" Scott said, intentionally sucking up to Pietro as the Red Team realized this and decided to run off to get a head start on finding the Red Wearing Multiple Jamie.
"I'm there!" said Pietro as he ran off. Then he came back a second later. "Wait…I need to find another one of YOU wearing pink?"
"That's right." Said Jamie with a nod.
"Okay." Said Pietro as he ran off again.
"Yawn." Said Evan and Scott as they lounged back.
"If this is how you build teamwork then I'm going to have to make you find the pink me THREE times!" said Jamie.
"That's not fair!" said Evan.
"Jamie…" Scott warned, getting 'that tone'.
"Fine…" said Jamie sadly, hanging his head low.
MEANWHILE!!!
"We have to search all around England to find ONE kid and our only clue is that he's wearing blue?" Rogue complained. "I can't believe this."
"Why don't you use one of your newly acquired powers to locate him?" asked Lance.
Rogue paused and decided that that would be a good idea. So, she used Jean's powers to find him, Kurt's powers to teleport to him and St. John's powers just for fun. After all, when she absorbs the powers, she also absorbs some memories and feelings so she obviously would get St. John's desires to use his powers just because he can.
"I found you!" Rogue declared.
"Aw man!" said the Blue Jamie, snapping his fingers. Rogue then grabbed onto him, teleported to back to her team and then teleported back to where the REAL Jamie was.
"We found him." said Wanda.
"Did you work as a TEAM to find him?" asked Jamie as his Blue Multiple self merged with him.
"Um…yeah!" said Lance.
"I don't believe you!" said Jamie, just to be annoying. "I just can't see Lance's abilities to shake the world coming in handy to find me!"
"Well, they did!" said Lance. "Very much so!"
Jamie then smacked himself in the face and the blue one came out again and ran off. "You have to find him again!"
"WHAT?!" demanded the Blue Team.
Suddenly, the Jean Team woke up all at the same time. They were somewhat annoyed about what had just happened ESPECIALLY after they had shook hands beforehand so as they left, they stuck their tongues out at the Blue Team that had to wait twenty minutes before starting up again.
"There he is!" said St. John almost immediately pointing to a Jamie dressed in all red.
"We're GREEN." Said Kurt. It was at that time that Kitty and Todd ran by, chasing after the Red Jamie who had broke into a run.
Remy then casually strolled by, holding the arm of the Green Jamie.
"Is this for us?!" Jean said, slapping her cheeks.
"St. John…do you want to just go now?" Remy asked. "I mean…does it really matter if we're thrown out of the Acolytes?"
St. John went into deep thought. "Well…okay!"
"What?!" demanded Kurt and Jean.
"Au revoir chéri et mon ami." Said Remy, saluting Kurt and Jean.
"I heard that!!" yelled Kitty as she ran over.
"Come on." Said Remy, trying to hurry St. John along as he left the Green Jamie behind. "A present for you two!" And with that, St. John and Gambit disappeared down the busy streets of Laredo…or…well…England I guess it would be...
Until they caught sight of the red-clad Jamie again.
"There he is again!" St. John yelled excitedly because he still hadn't gotten out of the mood yet.
"So?" asked Remy. "Aren't we dropping out?"
"I think it would be better if you and me ended up winning the whole race!"
"You mean, instead of the colored teams, we win as the Acolyte team?" asked Remy as he rubbed his chin in deep thought.
"Exactly!" said St. John as he lit his lighter and formed a wall around Red Jamie. "I've got him, just in case."
"All right, let's do that." Said Remy as he grabbed Red Jamie's arm and the three of them walked back to where the ORIGINAL Jamie was waiting with a timer while the Blue Team tapped their feet impatiently.
"We found our Jamie!" St. John announced upon entering.
"Wait…that's not right…" said Lance pointing to the makeshift red team.
"Congratulations!" Jamie cheered. Then he turned to Red Jamie who was standing there looking all ashamed of himself for having been caught. "Did they use teamwork to capture you?"
Red Jamie nodded.
"Very good!" said Jamie as he handed Remy a pair of plane tickets and the two Acolytes ran off before the Blue Team could say anything else.
Suddenly, Kurt and Jean ran back in with the Green Jamie.
"We got him!" Jean announced. "But one of our teammates is missing!"
"Then I'm afraid I can't let you go any further without your teammate." Said Jamie.
"But you just gave plane tickets to those two!" said Lance as if that really bothered him.
"They didn't say they had a teammate missing." Said Jamie. "So I assumed they were all there."
"Um…" thought Kurt as he looked around before spotting the Blue Team still impatiently waiting for twenty minutes to finish. "Rogue's on our team!"
"I am?" she asked but then she realized that pretending to be on that team could benefit her. "I mean…I AM!!"
"All righty!" said Jamie as he handed Jean, Rogue and Kurt their plane tickets. The three of them were just about to run out the door when Kitty and Todd ran in, wondering about their missing teammate.
"Where'd Remy go?" Kitty demanded. "Why'd he leave me with TODD?!"
"Hey, don't think I want to be on just YOUR team anyway." Said Todd.
"Are we making the teams over or something?" asked Kitty as she looked around. "Because if you are, I'd love to join another team!"
"You can join our team, Pretty Kitty!" said Lance. "We only have two members!"
Kitty looked at the team of Lance and Wanda. "Um…"
"I GUESS you can join ours." Kurt suggested. "We already have our tickets!"
"Like…I think I'll join this team." Said Kitty as she walked over to Jean, Kurt and Rogue. Jamie handed her another ticket and the four of them ran away as fast as they could.
"I am getting SO sick of this!" Wanda said in an annoyed tone as she zapped Jamie with her magical powers and stole the tickets from him. "Let's get out of here!"
"You said it!" said Todd and Lance as they started running for about a minute before bumping into the only team that was still together; the Pink Team.
"Where IS that Pink Jamie?" wondered Scott aloud.
"This is pointless!" said Evan.
"YOU'RE pointless, Daniels." Said Pietro. "Or should I say, you have MANY points but all in the wrong places." Then he laughed as if that joke made any sense to anyone but him.
"Pietro, I don't know where your loyalties lie but are you with the X-Men or the Brotherhood?" asked Lance out of nowhere as he approached the baffled Pink Team.
"What?" asked Pietro. "Since when is that even a question?!"
"Well, you're walking around being all buddy/buddy with Summers and Daniels." Said Todd as he pointed to Scott and Evan.
"We're on a TEAM." Said Pietro.
"Well the teams are off!" said Wanda threateningly. "You're either with US or with THEM and believe me, you DON'T want to chose THEM!!"
"I'm lost." Said Scott.
"Just smile and nod." Whispered Evan with a fake smile on his face as he continuously nodded.
"Well then!" said Pietro. "I guess this is where we say goodbye! Summers… Daniels… it's been, well… it's been bad."
And with that, Pietro walked over with the Brotherhood as the four of them walked away laughing while leaving Evan and Scott there to just smile and nod.
"So where do we go now, team?" asked Pietro.
"Get this, dear BROTHER…" Wanda said. "We don't REALLY want you on our team. We're only utilizing you and your speed, all right?"
"Whatever." Said Pietro. "I've pretty much been utilized this whole race ANYWAY. So how do plan on utilizing me?"
"Well…" said Wanda as she held up a little red wagon.
MEANWHILE!!
"This can't be right…" said Kurt as the assorted group of four; Kurt, Jean, Rogue and Kitty, teleported in front of some random Italian store. Coincidentally, it was the SAME random Italian store that Evan and Scott were eating Italian sausages at.
"What are you guys doing here?" asked Rogue.
"Well, we figured that there would be no better opportunity to get REALLY good authentic Italian sausages than in ITALY so we…" started Scott.
"We can still win!" Jean announced, getting determined. "Not as our random assorted colored teams that divided a once strong team, but as that team that we once were! The everlasting bond that can't be broken! The X-Men! Come on! Let's make Professor Xavier proud and defeat the Brotherhood and the Acolytes!"
Everyone paused to make sure Jean's speech was done.
"How about we just go home?" suggested Kitty.
Jean gasped. "Oh no!" she exclaimed. "I bet the other the Acolytes and the Brotherhood are trying to defeat us in this race as we speak!! Come, we must hurry back to the institute!!"
"We don't have tickets." Said Evan.
"That's all right." Said Kurt. "We really didn't plan on riding on the plane anyway."
Then Jean used her magic powers to make everyone FLY off into the night!
