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After they told the professor where they were going; Rogue, Ron, Kurt, Kitty, and Naddie all got ready to go. They decided to take the van so they wouldn't be so crowded. Rogue, of course, was driving, with Ron in the front seat beside her. After riding around aimlessly for awhile, they spotted a small alley off the main road, with many stores hidden in the shadows of the taller buildings. Rogue parked the car and they got out to take a look.
"Hey, this store looks interesting," Naddie said. She pointed to a store with windows so dusty and dirty that you couldn't see anything and a sign by the front door which read "weird stuff inside."
"Creepy if you ask me!" Ron said.
"Oh, come on, freckles! Don't be such a scaredy-cat!" Rogue said. "This looks like just mah kinda store!" She grabbed his arm and pulled him into the store. The others followed.
Inside, they looked around for a moment, at sharks' teeth and shrunken alligator heads; Kitty flinched every few seconds and finally grabbed Kurt's arm and buried her head in his shoulder so she didn't have to look at anything.
"See anything you like?" a voice asked. They turned to see a man in his late 20s wearing a tie-dye t-shirt and ponytail.
"This place is great!" Naddie said enthusiastically. Rogue agreed. Ron just shivered a little and Kitty hid behind Kurt, though this man wasn't nearly as frightening as his store.
Rogue talked to the man for a few minutes while the others continued to look around the store. Kitty ended up liking the place more than she thought, after finding a cute little beaded purse for herself. Kurt bought a little dragon figurine, but Ron and Naddie didn't buy anything, having brought no money.
"I have a couple dollars left if you want to buy anything, Naddie," Kurt offered.
"Thanks but no thanks, Kurt," she replied. "I don't know if I could take it back with me anyway, you know." He nodded.
"So, Rogue," the man said. She had introduced herself earlier. "You going to get anything?"
"I don't have that much money with me, so I'm just going to get some of these incense sticks." She picked out a few sticks, to Kitty's protest.
"You are going to burn those in OUR room?" she asked. "Maybe I don't like how they smell! Oh, no offense," she added to the owner of the store.
"Relax!" Rogue said. "I'll only use 'em when you aren't in the room." Kitty finally agreed when no one told her that the smell of the incense will sometimes linger in a room, even after it's finished burning. Everyone walked out of the store happy. Rogue said goodbye to her new friend, they guy in the tie-dye shirt, and they were on their way. When they neared the car, they noticed Pietro, Todd, and Fred leaning against it, apparently waiting for them.
"Aww, what now?" Rogue groaned. "We really don't feel like fightin' right now!"
"Relax, yo, we don't wanna fight either!" Todd said.
"We had to get out of that house," Fred said.
"Why?"
"Mystique-Shego-and-Kim-are-all-fussing-over-poor-little-Lance!" Pietro said, annoyed.
"It's so. . . motherly!" Fred said, confused.
"Shego, motherly!" Ron laughed.
"I don't know about Shego," Kurt said. "But I can't imagine Mystique as a mother-figure at all!"
"Well she is a mother-" Naddie started. She mentally hit herself in the head for almost slipping again.
"She's a what?" Kitty asked.
"Well, she seems kind of like a mother-figure to the Brotherhood boys," Naddie covered, not making eye contact with Kurt. The Brotherhood laughed at this.
"Just because she's the leader of a bunch of boys like us and she's old enough to be out mother, doesn't mean she is." Fred said.
"Until now," Pietro muttered.
"Lance has got three women all over him and he's too out of it to even appreciate it!" Todd said, disgusted. "I can't go back while that's going on. Can we hang with you guys, yo?" The five X-Men looked at each other. Finally, Rogue shrugged.
"Guess there's nothin' wrong with it. But we don't want any trouble, got it?" They nodded. "Good."
"So, like, what now?" Kitty asked after a moment of awkward silence.
"I'm hungry!" Kurt said. "Let's go eat!"
"You know, I could use a burger myself!" Ron added.
"Fine then, let's go eat," Rogue said. "It's about lunch time anyway."
"Good thing we brought the van instead of the car!" Naddie said when she noticed how many people there were. They all got back into the car and drove to the nearest burger place. Kurt, Naddie, Ron, and Fred ended up having a fry-eating contest. Naddie forfeited after choking on an especially greasy fry, and Kurt and Ron made a huge mess of the table and surrounding area. The Blob lived up to his name, downing half a dozen large fries and still insisting he wanted a milkshake. When they finally finished eating (and cleaning up their mess after a waitress glared at them), they sat back and talked.
"Kurt, you've been, like, totally staring at the play-place for the last ten minutes!" Kitty said. "You know you want to go play!"
"Oh, no, we're too old for that!" Kurt said, waving it aside.
"Who says?" Todd asked. "I say we go try it out!"
"Sounds like fun!" Ron said. "Come on, Ro', let's go play!" Ron said, grabbing Rogue's elbow. Kitty and Naddie grabbed Kurt and pushed him into one of the plastic tunnels. Before long, all eight of them were winding their way through the neon tubes, attracting the attention of many annoyed customers. Todd quickly chased away two little kids who had been playing on the slide. They ran screaming to their mother, who glared angrily at Todd. After this, the mutants had the whole playground to themselves. They met up in the ball pit, where they had a short war that involved throwing the plastic balls at each other. Kitty used her powers without thinking to phase through an onslaught of balls thrown by Kurt and Rogue. She looked around, half expecting Jean to come and scold her, but smiled when she realized she had gotten away with it. Half an hour later, the eight mutants were finally chased out of the restaurant by the manager, pointing to the sign that said "for ages 12 and under, please".
"I feel so. . . rebellious!" Naddie said.
"That was great, yo!" Todd added. "You see those kids scream?"
"I dunno, it was kind of embarrassing when I got stuck in the slide!" Fred said.
"I-was-wondering-how-you-got-up-there-in-the-first-place!" Pietro said.
"Sorry, guys," Rogue interrupted. "This has been real fun, but we better be getting' home 'bout now. Ah'll drop you boys off and we can pick up Kim. Ah'm sure Lance'll be fine without her."
"Please, take her!" Fred said.
"Yea, two girls are enough, thanks!" Todd said.
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"So, how's Drakken doing?" Shego asked Kim. They were in the kitchen of the Brotherhood boarding house, trying to find something edible.
"He's alright, I guess," Kim said, still thinking it awkward to be having a casual conversation with Shego. "We only see him during dinner, he comes to get his food and then goes straight back to his little lab the professor set up for him to work on the dimension machine." Kim looked at Shego. "He misses you though, I think. When he came to the mansion, he was a mess."
"Yea, guy can't take care of himself," Shego muttered.
"You threw him out!" Kim said. She paused. "Did I just defend Drakken?"
"'Fraid so, Kimmie," Shego said. She opened a cabinet and pulled out a very dusty can of soup. "Are you supposed to eat soup when you have a hangover?"
"Well, it's not the flu, I don't know."
"He has to eat something."
"Ok, you make soup, I'll see if there's anything for sandwiches in the fridge." A few minutes later, the two girls took the food back into the living room, where Mystique was keeping an eye on Lance.
"He looks better," she said as they entered. "Have you seen the other boys? I just noticed how quiet it is."
"I think they went out awhile ago," Kim said.
"They're big boys, they can take care of themselves," Shego said. Mystique nodded. There was a knock on the door. Shego went to answer it and found half of the X-Men standing there.
"What do you want?" She sneered.
"We've come to return your boys and pick up Kim," Rogue said, trying to remain pleasant. The boys went straight up to their rooms so they wouldn't have to watch Lance being pampered. Kim reluctantly left Lance in the hands of Mystique and Shego and made her way to the door. She turned back.
"I'll make sure to come and tell you as soon as the trans-dimensional transporter is finished, Shego," Kim said.
"I can take care of myself!" Shego snapped, back to her old self. Kim sighed and followed the others out the door and to the car. For awhile at least, Kim and Shego had at least been on speaking terms.
'Why is she acting like this?' Kim wondered. 'She needs us to get back home, doesn't she?'
))) there ya go, nother chapter.
Announcement, yall! Sarah-Crysala and I (it was her idea) are trying to start an X-Men:Evolution rp game where the characters are playing truth or dare. Sound like fun? We need lots more people, so email me or Crysala if you're interested. Please include your FFnet penname (so we can check out your writing abilities) and which character you want to be. The only ones taken so far are Rogue (Crysala) and Kurt (me!) so there are still tons of characters left. We are starting on one of the later episodes, so you can be anyone, including new mutants. Hope to hear from ya!
Think that's about it. Ciao for now! (((
After they told the professor where they were going; Rogue, Ron, Kurt, Kitty, and Naddie all got ready to go. They decided to take the van so they wouldn't be so crowded. Rogue, of course, was driving, with Ron in the front seat beside her. After riding around aimlessly for awhile, they spotted a small alley off the main road, with many stores hidden in the shadows of the taller buildings. Rogue parked the car and they got out to take a look.
"Hey, this store looks interesting," Naddie said. She pointed to a store with windows so dusty and dirty that you couldn't see anything and a sign by the front door which read "weird stuff inside."
"Creepy if you ask me!" Ron said.
"Oh, come on, freckles! Don't be such a scaredy-cat!" Rogue said. "This looks like just mah kinda store!" She grabbed his arm and pulled him into the store. The others followed.
Inside, they looked around for a moment, at sharks' teeth and shrunken alligator heads; Kitty flinched every few seconds and finally grabbed Kurt's arm and buried her head in his shoulder so she didn't have to look at anything.
"See anything you like?" a voice asked. They turned to see a man in his late 20s wearing a tie-dye t-shirt and ponytail.
"This place is great!" Naddie said enthusiastically. Rogue agreed. Ron just shivered a little and Kitty hid behind Kurt, though this man wasn't nearly as frightening as his store.
Rogue talked to the man for a few minutes while the others continued to look around the store. Kitty ended up liking the place more than she thought, after finding a cute little beaded purse for herself. Kurt bought a little dragon figurine, but Ron and Naddie didn't buy anything, having brought no money.
"I have a couple dollars left if you want to buy anything, Naddie," Kurt offered.
"Thanks but no thanks, Kurt," she replied. "I don't know if I could take it back with me anyway, you know." He nodded.
"So, Rogue," the man said. She had introduced herself earlier. "You going to get anything?"
"I don't have that much money with me, so I'm just going to get some of these incense sticks." She picked out a few sticks, to Kitty's protest.
"You are going to burn those in OUR room?" she asked. "Maybe I don't like how they smell! Oh, no offense," she added to the owner of the store.
"Relax!" Rogue said. "I'll only use 'em when you aren't in the room." Kitty finally agreed when no one told her that the smell of the incense will sometimes linger in a room, even after it's finished burning. Everyone walked out of the store happy. Rogue said goodbye to her new friend, they guy in the tie-dye shirt, and they were on their way. When they neared the car, they noticed Pietro, Todd, and Fred leaning against it, apparently waiting for them.
"Aww, what now?" Rogue groaned. "We really don't feel like fightin' right now!"
"Relax, yo, we don't wanna fight either!" Todd said.
"We had to get out of that house," Fred said.
"Why?"
"Mystique-Shego-and-Kim-are-all-fussing-over-poor-little-Lance!" Pietro said, annoyed.
"It's so. . . motherly!" Fred said, confused.
"Shego, motherly!" Ron laughed.
"I don't know about Shego," Kurt said. "But I can't imagine Mystique as a mother-figure at all!"
"Well she is a mother-" Naddie started. She mentally hit herself in the head for almost slipping again.
"She's a what?" Kitty asked.
"Well, she seems kind of like a mother-figure to the Brotherhood boys," Naddie covered, not making eye contact with Kurt. The Brotherhood laughed at this.
"Just because she's the leader of a bunch of boys like us and she's old enough to be out mother, doesn't mean she is." Fred said.
"Until now," Pietro muttered.
"Lance has got three women all over him and he's too out of it to even appreciate it!" Todd said, disgusted. "I can't go back while that's going on. Can we hang with you guys, yo?" The five X-Men looked at each other. Finally, Rogue shrugged.
"Guess there's nothin' wrong with it. But we don't want any trouble, got it?" They nodded. "Good."
"So, like, what now?" Kitty asked after a moment of awkward silence.
"I'm hungry!" Kurt said. "Let's go eat!"
"You know, I could use a burger myself!" Ron added.
"Fine then, let's go eat," Rogue said. "It's about lunch time anyway."
"Good thing we brought the van instead of the car!" Naddie said when she noticed how many people there were. They all got back into the car and drove to the nearest burger place. Kurt, Naddie, Ron, and Fred ended up having a fry-eating contest. Naddie forfeited after choking on an especially greasy fry, and Kurt and Ron made a huge mess of the table and surrounding area. The Blob lived up to his name, downing half a dozen large fries and still insisting he wanted a milkshake. When they finally finished eating (and cleaning up their mess after a waitress glared at them), they sat back and talked.
"Kurt, you've been, like, totally staring at the play-place for the last ten minutes!" Kitty said. "You know you want to go play!"
"Oh, no, we're too old for that!" Kurt said, waving it aside.
"Who says?" Todd asked. "I say we go try it out!"
"Sounds like fun!" Ron said. "Come on, Ro', let's go play!" Ron said, grabbing Rogue's elbow. Kitty and Naddie grabbed Kurt and pushed him into one of the plastic tunnels. Before long, all eight of them were winding their way through the neon tubes, attracting the attention of many annoyed customers. Todd quickly chased away two little kids who had been playing on the slide. They ran screaming to their mother, who glared angrily at Todd. After this, the mutants had the whole playground to themselves. They met up in the ball pit, where they had a short war that involved throwing the plastic balls at each other. Kitty used her powers without thinking to phase through an onslaught of balls thrown by Kurt and Rogue. She looked around, half expecting Jean to come and scold her, but smiled when she realized she had gotten away with it. Half an hour later, the eight mutants were finally chased out of the restaurant by the manager, pointing to the sign that said "for ages 12 and under, please".
"I feel so. . . rebellious!" Naddie said.
"That was great, yo!" Todd added. "You see those kids scream?"
"I dunno, it was kind of embarrassing when I got stuck in the slide!" Fred said.
"I-was-wondering-how-you-got-up-there-in-the-first-place!" Pietro said.
"Sorry, guys," Rogue interrupted. "This has been real fun, but we better be getting' home 'bout now. Ah'll drop you boys off and we can pick up Kim. Ah'm sure Lance'll be fine without her."
"Please, take her!" Fred said.
"Yea, two girls are enough, thanks!" Todd said.
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"So, how's Drakken doing?" Shego asked Kim. They were in the kitchen of the Brotherhood boarding house, trying to find something edible.
"He's alright, I guess," Kim said, still thinking it awkward to be having a casual conversation with Shego. "We only see him during dinner, he comes to get his food and then goes straight back to his little lab the professor set up for him to work on the dimension machine." Kim looked at Shego. "He misses you though, I think. When he came to the mansion, he was a mess."
"Yea, guy can't take care of himself," Shego muttered.
"You threw him out!" Kim said. She paused. "Did I just defend Drakken?"
"'Fraid so, Kimmie," Shego said. She opened a cabinet and pulled out a very dusty can of soup. "Are you supposed to eat soup when you have a hangover?"
"Well, it's not the flu, I don't know."
"He has to eat something."
"Ok, you make soup, I'll see if there's anything for sandwiches in the fridge." A few minutes later, the two girls took the food back into the living room, where Mystique was keeping an eye on Lance.
"He looks better," she said as they entered. "Have you seen the other boys? I just noticed how quiet it is."
"I think they went out awhile ago," Kim said.
"They're big boys, they can take care of themselves," Shego said. Mystique nodded. There was a knock on the door. Shego went to answer it and found half of the X-Men standing there.
"What do you want?" She sneered.
"We've come to return your boys and pick up Kim," Rogue said, trying to remain pleasant. The boys went straight up to their rooms so they wouldn't have to watch Lance being pampered. Kim reluctantly left Lance in the hands of Mystique and Shego and made her way to the door. She turned back.
"I'll make sure to come and tell you as soon as the trans-dimensional transporter is finished, Shego," Kim said.
"I can take care of myself!" Shego snapped, back to her old self. Kim sighed and followed the others out the door and to the car. For awhile at least, Kim and Shego had at least been on speaking terms.
'Why is she acting like this?' Kim wondered. 'She needs us to get back home, doesn't she?'
))) there ya go, nother chapter.
Announcement, yall! Sarah-Crysala and I (it was her idea) are trying to start an X-Men:Evolution rp game where the characters are playing truth or dare. Sound like fun? We need lots more people, so email me or Crysala if you're interested. Please include your FFnet penname (so we can check out your writing abilities) and which character you want to be. The only ones taken so far are Rogue (Crysala) and Kurt (me!) so there are still tons of characters left. We are starting on one of the later episodes, so you can be anyone, including new mutants. Hope to hear from ya!
Think that's about it. Ciao for now! (((
