MEANWHILE!!!

"Ah…" said Gambit as he relaxed in his seat in the airplane.  He, thankfully, didn't have any ADD kids or little girls demanding him to speak French this time.  Instead, he had the mentally insane St. John to his left.

"Lighter go on, lighter go off, lighter go on, lighter go off…" St. John said to himself as he did just that.

"I'll only say this once." Said Remy.  "If that flame gets any bigger than it does naturally then I'm going to become very angry."

"We don't want Remy angry!" said St. John as he continued turning his lighter on and off.

"I'm serious." Said Remy.  "I will touch that lighter and it will blow up."

"All right." St. John said in that tone that you KNEW he would go and disobey orders a second later.

Remy decided not to let it bother him and just to enjoy the movie that was playing.

MEANWHILE!!!

"FASTER Pietro!!" yelled Wanda.  "I've seen you go faster than this!!"

"Yeah…" panted Pietro.  "But when you saw me, I wasn't carting three slow mos…I mean…three PEOPLE in a stupid little red wagon!"

"He's pulled the whole Brotherhood around in a wagon." Said Todd, just to create problems. 

"Including FRED so if he can't pull YOU instead of Fred then he's either lying or calling you fat." Lance added.

"WHAT?!" Wanda yelled as she stood up on the wagon to get all medieval on Pietro but unfortunately for her, his speed was too much so she fell backward and landed on the ground. 

Pietro screeched to a halt and walked over to see what happened.  Wanda was lying face down on the ground, apparently not moving.

Suddenly, the ground split open and pipes flew all over the place and telephone poles started dancing.  Wanda lifted her head out of the ground, stood up and grabbed Pietro by his collar.

"NO ONE calls me fat!" Wanda yelled.

"Uh…uh…" stuttered Pietro.  "On the contrary!  You're looking rather thin today!  Has all this exercising caused you to lose weight?"

Wanda let go of Pietro and stumbled backward while clutching her head.  "Ugh…" she said as if she were in pain as Pietro sighed with relief.  Then he took that opportunity to go over and beat Lance up and beat him up DEAD!!  Of course, not really since we can't have Lance dying on us.  Instead, Pietro decided to throw the little red wagon into the ocean.  Of course, this clued everyone into the fact that they were now by the ocean.

MEANWHILE!!!

"Yeah, usually, while Jean was flying us around, Pietro, Remy and I didn't really have much to do so we usually played cards with Remy's deck and I was just holding onto them and I guess he never took them back…" said Rogue, pulling a deck of cards out from behind her back.

"So these are FRENCH cards?" Kitty asked as she looked at the little box as Rogue made her attempts at shuffling.  It wasn't too hard for her since she had zapped Remy a few times so now had a few of his skills like shuffling cards.

"We should all be encouraging Jean, not playing cards!" said Scott.

"Finally!" said Kitty.  "Scott and Jean are on the same team!"

"Let's play Crazy Eights!" said Kurt.  "I'm really good at that game!"

"I'd prefer to play Poker." Said Rogue.  "Since, at the moment, I'm really good at it."

"How about Strip Poker?" suggested Evan with smirk.

"Ew!" said Kitty.  "You are like…so gross!"

"So that's a no?" asked Evan.

"I never said that!" said Kitty.  "I was going to say that all the hot guys are on other teams but then I decided against it at the last second."

"So you'd like to see the Fuzzy One naked?" asked Kurt as he slicked back his hair.

"Um…no offense Kurt, but fur isn't one of my turn ons." Said Kitty.  Kurt turned to Scott.

"She digs the Fuzzy One!" he said.

"Guys!" Scott said.  "Jean is TRYING to concentrate!  Try not to distract her!"

"I don't think I can hold you guys!!" said Jean as she randomly started having another one of her tough times using her powers that she has on occasion.  Then all of a sudden, the entire X-Men team plunged into the ocean that was below them.  If you didn't know that the ocean had to be below them in order for them to plunge, then you are a knave.

"Aw man!" whined Kitty.  "Now we're in the ocean!"

"No problem!" said Kurt as he pointed at a boat that just so happened to be going by them.  "Check it!"  They all swam over to Kurt and grabbed onto him and he teleported onto the boat.

"Hey!!" came the angry voice of Lance as he stomped over.  "What do you guys think you're doing on OUR boat?!"

"YOUR boat?!" Kitty said as if she was offended.  "I don't see your name on it!  You're such a hood, Lance!"

"I'll never be good enough for you!!" yelled Lance as he stomped his foot and the whole boat shook around crazily and surely would have broken apart and caused all of their untimely ends if Rogue hadn't walked casually up to him and touched him as he stood there and did nothing about it.

MEANWHILE!!

"Oh yeah?" St. John teased as he held his lit light up as a circle of flames engulfed it and his entire hand.  "You'd LIKE to touch it, now wouldn't you!  You LOVE to just touch my lighter and make it explode!  That would just make your day, I bet!"

"I suggest you extinguish that before too many people see you." Remy said as if he REALLY cared if people saw St. John's crazy magic tricks.

"And what are THEY going to do about it?!" St. John said.  "We're above the ocean so they can't land the plane again!"

"Again?" asked Remy with a raised eyebrow.

"Yes." Said St. John.  "AGAIN."

"Do I even want to know?" Remy questioned.

"Maybe." Said St. John.  "I wouldn't know.  I'm not YOU."

Remy decided to ignore St. John and maybe he'd just go away.

But St. John DIDN'T go away!!

"THE WING'S ON FIRE!!!" he screamed suddenly.  Everyone in the entire plane jumped up and ran over to the window that St. John was pointing at.  "Ha ha!  Just kidding!  Now matter how much I wish it WAS, it's not!"

All the passengers eyed St. John suspiciously and made their way back to their seats.

"Don't do that again." Remy warned.

"Hehe." Said St. John, looking out the window, looking as though he was about to do it again.

Remy then spotted the lighter that St. John was holding loosely in the hand closest to Remy.  So he reached out and snatched it from him.  St. John spun around just as Remy had the chance to make the lighter explosive.

"If this leaves my hand, it will explode." Remy said threateningly.

"Don't make it explode!" St. John practically whined.

"I will hold onto this for the rest of the ride." Remy said.  "You behave for the rest of the ride.  If I decide that you have behaved well enough, I will return it to you as good as new."

"You wouldn't!!" St. John whined.  Then he paused and realized that that wasn't the appropriate thing to say.  "I mean…THE WING'S ON FIRE!!!"

The entire plane turned to St. John and gave him an angry glare while whispering comments about how a grown man should behave.

"So far, not so good." Said Remy.

"No…it seriously IS on fire!" St. John said as he pointed out the window to the wing that was ablaze.

"Oh merde." Said Remy.  "We're gonna die."

MEANWHILE!!!

"ROW FASTER PIETRO!!" Wanda commanded as Pietro put his entire body into the rowing process.

"Why couldn't we have just stayed on that boat?" Pietro whined.

"I didn't wish to travel with the X-Men." Said Wanda wistfully.

"Me neither." Said Lance as if it were all about him.

"I would have liked to stay on the boat." Said Todd.  "And that's two against two.  Why did we leave?"

"Because MY vote counts as TWO!!" Wanda said as she got all in Todd's face.  That was a mistake on her part because Todd just kissed her.

"I love you too." He said.  But that was a mistake on HIS part because she just zapped him and heaved him into the ocean.  "AHHHHH!!!!" he yelled.

"Someone should help me row!" whined Pietro.  (He certainly is whining a lot, isn't he?)

"No way, Pietro." Said Lance.  "You row WAY too fast for us to be able to keep up." Todd took a few gasps of air as he climbed back into the boat but stayed a little hesitant and decided that maybe he wouldn't kiss Wanda against her will anytime soon.

MEANWHILE!!!

"Well, at least the Brotherhood is gone." Said Scott.  "Nice job, team!"

Then the X-Men all put their hands in the middle and jumped up and the screen froze while they were up in the air with their hands pointed towards the heaven and their laughter continued in the background.

After a few seconds of that, the screen unfroze and they all landed on their arses because they had been suspended in air for longer than they had thought and were are thrown off.  So, now that they were all better and oriented again, they decided to see if Jean had gathered up enough strength to make them fly again.

AND SHE HAD!!  HURRAY!!

Instead of playing cards, or TALKING about playing cards, the X-Men decided to encourage Jean this time so she wouldn't drop them.

"Go Jean go!!" they all cheered.

MEANWHILE!!

"Wow Remy!" St. John laughed.  "You were so silly praying and crying and begging for your mommy!"

"I'm going to kill you." Said Remy as he tried to refrain from killing his partner.

"Why?!" St. John demanded.  "I saved everyone's lives!"

"But you were the one who started the fire, were you not?"

"You have no proof of that." St. John said.  "You had my lighter the whole time!  Which, might I add, you still have."

"And it shall remain that way." Said Remy as he put the lighter in his pocket.  "This is mine now."

"Is this anyway to treat your hero?!"

"I still don't understand what you did." Said Remy.

"I SAVED you!!" St. John yelled.

"Only after first putting my life in danger." Remy said, crossing his arms.

"You weren't in any danger!" St. John assured him.  "I would never put MYSELF in danger!!"

"This is your captain speaking." Came the captain's voice over the intercom.  "We are coming up to the airport that is conveniently located in Bayville.  Please continue flying with us and we also ask you to disregard everything happened on this flight except for the kind, good service you received.  Thank you and have a nice day."

Then the plane landed and there wasn't any line or wait to get off the plane so St. John and Remy had absolutely no trouble ESPECIALLY since they didn't have any baggage to carry!

MEANWHILE!!!

"Finally!!" said Wanda, getting out of the boat and jamming a flag with a big 'W' on it into the ground.  "I hereby claim this land Wanda Territory!"

"I claim it Wanda AND Todd Territory!!" Todd said, jamming a flag into the ground that had 'T (insert heart here) W'.

"I don't think so." Said Wanda as she zapped the flag AND Todd.

Pietro could hardly find the strength to get himself out of the boat.  After all, he just rowed from England to the states.  Lance got out of the boat like a normal person.  There was nothing special about how he got out.  Actually, he got out and just gave the world a good shake and then the team decided to go off to the institute since they had, after all, landed in Bayville!!

MEANWHILE!!

The X-Men touched ground in Bayville just as Jean's powers gave out.

"I can't go on any further…" she panted.  "My strength…is gone."

"Then we'll go on foot the rest of the way." Said Scott as he hoisted Jean up on his shoulder.  "I'll help you walk, Jean."

"Thank you, Scott…" said Jean.

"I could just teleport us to the finish line." Suggested Kurt.

"No…" said Jean.  "We will go the…rest of the way…without powers…"

"You've got to be kidding me!" Evan whined.  "We race around the world and in the final leg of the race, you're saying that we have to do it without powers?!"

"Yes." Said Jean.

"What Jean says, goes!" said Scott.  "After all, she carried us across the Atlantic Ocean!"

"Like…I'm going to need a shower after this." Said Kitty.

"Yeah…you really will." Said Rogue.