Teacher Training
By Todd Fan
Disclaimer: "I don't know whether to look at him or read him".
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Ello my dear, dear readers. Well, i looked at my reviews and i though 'gee, what IS the fear of Rabbits called'?. You know what? I couldn't find it!!! Oh no, i could find the fear of feeling pleasure, and the fear of chickens. But could i find the fear of Rabbits? Noooooo! Apparently, Forge's phobia is so rare, they haven't bothered to name it. But what i already DID know, whiout having to look it up, as some of you were wondering, that Rabbits belong in the group Lagamorphs,..sorry, had a little physco animal care tutor flashback there..i'm better now. I was in an odd, evil mood today, this is reflected in this chapter, yup.
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Chapter 15 - Missing an Angel.
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As many people bustled around the small, bizare town, not a one noticed a winged man sitting in an alleyway with an Aligator in his arms. Or..maybe they DID see it, and were pretending not to.
"It's okay, Cookie", said Warren, patting the aligators head, "we'll run away and...join the circus, yeah! That'll show 'em, they can't take you away, nope nope nope".
Cookie blinked at Warren before latching onto his finger. Warren grimaced as she bit down to the bone.
"Teething pains, poor thing", he said, ignoring the fact his finger was bleeding rather nastily.
"THERE HE IS!".
Warren gave a squeak of suprise as Magneto and Storm charged towards him. He instantly took to the air...which didn't do him much good. He remembered too late that both of his persuers could also 'fly'.....damn. He glanced behind him, seeing Storm and Magneto in hot persuit through the air. He'd have to lose them somehow....
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Forge smiled proudly at his Warren-Catching machine, which he had proudly dubbed 'The Angelminator'. Considering his ravaged hand was hurting and he still felt slightly concussed after running into a wall, he thought he'd done a pretty darn good job. Mystique, however, did not.
"Is that it?".
Forge gave a low flat look. She had critisied every single little thing he had done, and, quite frankly, he was ready to shove a screwdriver into her eye.
"This is a state of the art Warren-catching-device!", said Forge moodily, "what do you expect me to come up with in half an hour with a concussion?".
"It's a fishing net on a trip wire", Mystique pointed out.
Forge looked at it. Yes, yes it was. But it was a really GOOD fishing net on a trip wire.
"You want me to catch wing-boy or not?".
"How are you going to do it with THAT?", said Mystique.
"Well...he'll fly into it..won't he?", said Forge, "and the trip wire will release the net, which'll fall on Warren and Warren will...plummet to the ground...mmm...maybe i haven't thought all of this through...".
"You think?", snapped Mystique, "who do you think you are, Wile E. Coyote?".
"Yeah, compare me to a cartoon character, THAT'S mature", said Forge, rolling his eyes, "look if you're gonna point out my every mistake, can you do it somewhere else? Like Cuba?".
This earned his a very scathing look, which Mystique kept trained on him for a while, before giving up, crossing her arms, and muttering about wanting to go home. Forge was begining to wonder if he'd ever be in the company of a woman who was NOT criminally insane or evil. He glanced, up, hearing yelling to see Magneto and Storm herding Warren towards the window. Forge ducked and waited. There was a rather loud crash and horrified yelling.
"AH HAH!", said Forge, leaping up, "we..got..you?".
Magneto watched him, floating in the air, his arms crossed, the fishing net wrapped around him. Storm glanced at this, before shrugging and carrying on after Warren.
"WRONG PERSON!", said Magneto, "idiot. He flew up and led me right into this thing!".
"Err...whoops?", tried Forge with a chuckle.
There was a magnetic hum and Magneto commenced to make Forge hit his own head repeatedly with his bionic arm.
"HEY, quit it!", said Forge, trying to escape his prosthetic limb's wrath.
"Get me out of this, NOW!", said Magneto.
"I will if ya quit hitting me with..me", said Forge.
Magneto got in another whack before releasing control of Forge's arm. Forge gave him a death glare and went to release him. It was then that Mystique started to giggle manically. She just sat on the bed, giggling like a thing possesed, her eyes glazed over. Both men blinked a few times, looked at each other, then at her.
"Raven?", tried Magneto, very carefully, "are you feeling quite alright?".
Raven didn't hear, and carried on giggling.
"Does she do this...alot?", asked Forge.
"No", said Magneto, "quite frankly...i'm terrifed".
It was then that Mystique fell off the bed...or rather, slid, still in a fit of uncontrolable giggles.
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Warren, meanwhile, had flown around the hotel building and managed to land in the bedroom oposite the one with the trap in, which he assumed was Sabertooth's. Yes, this would be a good place to hide. He heard Storm heading the same way as himself and dove into the bathroom, slamming the door shut and closing his eyes. Cookie made an iritated squeak.
"Warren, i know you're in there!", came Storm's voice from the other side, "i saw you go in. Come out, now".
"Errr.....i'll just be a minute!", called Warren, looking at Cookie frantically before running the tap water.
"I'm giving you FIVE seconds before i blast this door down", said Storm, creating a pocket of wind and lightening in front of her, "one, two...".
Warren despreately looked around for somewhere to hide Cookie. Before throwing the poor thing in the toilet, slamming the lid down. He then rushed out and smiled sweetly, stopping Storm on four.
"Hi", he said, as if they hadn't spent the past few hours looking for him, then chasing him.
"Where's the aligator, Warren?", asked Xavier, hearing the comotion and wheeling in.
"I...i took her to the zoo", said Warren, hanging his head low, "she's gone now...i miss her".
He added a small sniffle to seal the deal. None of them noticed Sabertooth walk into the bathroom. After a short while, there was an angry snarl and the sound of a toilet flushing. Warren's eyes shot open.
"COOKIE!!", he shouted, bursting in as Sabertooth was walking out, looking VERY angry.
"Oh yeah, worry about the lizard", he said, "never mind the fact i just got bitten in a VERY personal place".
Warren was trying to see down the u-bend, but couldn't see Cookie.
"Nooooooo!!!!".
Magneto and Forge walked in from across the hall, hearing the noise and taking the opportunity to get away from the hysterical Mystique, whom they ahd left giggling on the floor.
"I take it you found him then?", asked Magneto, as Warren came running back into the room.
He pulled Forge into the bathroom, waving frantically at the toilet.
"Fix, open...get..Cookie, NOW!", he said.
Forge looked at the toilet, then back at Warren.
"I'm a mechanic, not a plumber", he said, before pulling his arm away and stalking off, only to have Warren grab onto his leg.
"PLEASE!!!".
"I am NOT sticking my hand down that manky hole", said Forge pointedly, "accept it, man, Cookie has gone to a better place. The sewerage system. Now let go of my leg, you're making a scene".
Warren released Forge and crawled into a corner, curling up.
"I'd like some time to greive", he said in a small voice.
The others looked between each other before shrugging and walking (or wheeling) out of the room and back across the hall, where Mystique was still giggling.
"The poor guy", said Storm, "we really should think of a way to cheer him up".
"He's a millionaire, Ororo", pointed out Forge, as he started to dismantle the trap, "what could we get him that can cheer him up?".
"More money".
Everyone looked down at Mystique, who was sitting up, alert, almost as if the last few minutes had not happened, "...what?".
"Are you....better now?", tried Magneto carefully.
"I never wasn't", said Mystique, "...freak".
"Who's a freak and why is Warren crying?".
Logan, Hank and Jason walked in, and Xavier proceeded to tell them about the 'toilet tragedy'.
"You flushed Warren's pet aligator down the toilet?", asked Logan, looking at Sabertooth.
"I PANICKED!", said Sabertooth with a growl, crossing his arms, "you weren't there!".
"I still say more money will make him happier", said Mystique.
"Oh and where do we get more money, might i ask?", said Hank.
"That casino a few miles away", said Mystique.
"I'm sorry, last time my people went to a casino, two of them got married..illegally", said Xavier, "i'm not going through that again!" *1
"That was Las Vegas, this is just one casino", said Jason, "can't be THAT bad".
"It'lll mean we'll get away from the building for a day", put in Storm.
"Lets go, lets go!", said Logan, "no Gelder. This is a great idea!".
And it was thus decided that they would head off to a casino. They wished to cheer up their winged friend...plus no one wanted ot argue with a desperate Logan.
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*1 - See Sugar and Spice ;) Another chapter done, tee hee. Come on, i HAD to get a casino in there somewhere, it's a tradition :D. Please, do review, until next time..
By Todd Fan
Disclaimer: "I don't know whether to look at him or read him".
*****
Ello my dear, dear readers. Well, i looked at my reviews and i though 'gee, what IS the fear of Rabbits called'?. You know what? I couldn't find it!!! Oh no, i could find the fear of feeling pleasure, and the fear of chickens. But could i find the fear of Rabbits? Noooooo! Apparently, Forge's phobia is so rare, they haven't bothered to name it. But what i already DID know, whiout having to look it up, as some of you were wondering, that Rabbits belong in the group Lagamorphs,..sorry, had a little physco animal care tutor flashback there..i'm better now. I was in an odd, evil mood today, this is reflected in this chapter, yup.
*****
Chapter 15 - Missing an Angel.
****
As many people bustled around the small, bizare town, not a one noticed a winged man sitting in an alleyway with an Aligator in his arms. Or..maybe they DID see it, and were pretending not to.
"It's okay, Cookie", said Warren, patting the aligators head, "we'll run away and...join the circus, yeah! That'll show 'em, they can't take you away, nope nope nope".
Cookie blinked at Warren before latching onto his finger. Warren grimaced as she bit down to the bone.
"Teething pains, poor thing", he said, ignoring the fact his finger was bleeding rather nastily.
"THERE HE IS!".
Warren gave a squeak of suprise as Magneto and Storm charged towards him. He instantly took to the air...which didn't do him much good. He remembered too late that both of his persuers could also 'fly'.....damn. He glanced behind him, seeing Storm and Magneto in hot persuit through the air. He'd have to lose them somehow....
*****
Forge smiled proudly at his Warren-Catching machine, which he had proudly dubbed 'The Angelminator'. Considering his ravaged hand was hurting and he still felt slightly concussed after running into a wall, he thought he'd done a pretty darn good job. Mystique, however, did not.
"Is that it?".
Forge gave a low flat look. She had critisied every single little thing he had done, and, quite frankly, he was ready to shove a screwdriver into her eye.
"This is a state of the art Warren-catching-device!", said Forge moodily, "what do you expect me to come up with in half an hour with a concussion?".
"It's a fishing net on a trip wire", Mystique pointed out.
Forge looked at it. Yes, yes it was. But it was a really GOOD fishing net on a trip wire.
"You want me to catch wing-boy or not?".
"How are you going to do it with THAT?", said Mystique.
"Well...he'll fly into it..won't he?", said Forge, "and the trip wire will release the net, which'll fall on Warren and Warren will...plummet to the ground...mmm...maybe i haven't thought all of this through...".
"You think?", snapped Mystique, "who do you think you are, Wile E. Coyote?".
"Yeah, compare me to a cartoon character, THAT'S mature", said Forge, rolling his eyes, "look if you're gonna point out my every mistake, can you do it somewhere else? Like Cuba?".
This earned his a very scathing look, which Mystique kept trained on him for a while, before giving up, crossing her arms, and muttering about wanting to go home. Forge was begining to wonder if he'd ever be in the company of a woman who was NOT criminally insane or evil. He glanced, up, hearing yelling to see Magneto and Storm herding Warren towards the window. Forge ducked and waited. There was a rather loud crash and horrified yelling.
"AH HAH!", said Forge, leaping up, "we..got..you?".
Magneto watched him, floating in the air, his arms crossed, the fishing net wrapped around him. Storm glanced at this, before shrugging and carrying on after Warren.
"WRONG PERSON!", said Magneto, "idiot. He flew up and led me right into this thing!".
"Err...whoops?", tried Forge with a chuckle.
There was a magnetic hum and Magneto commenced to make Forge hit his own head repeatedly with his bionic arm.
"HEY, quit it!", said Forge, trying to escape his prosthetic limb's wrath.
"Get me out of this, NOW!", said Magneto.
"I will if ya quit hitting me with..me", said Forge.
Magneto got in another whack before releasing control of Forge's arm. Forge gave him a death glare and went to release him. It was then that Mystique started to giggle manically. She just sat on the bed, giggling like a thing possesed, her eyes glazed over. Both men blinked a few times, looked at each other, then at her.
"Raven?", tried Magneto, very carefully, "are you feeling quite alright?".
Raven didn't hear, and carried on giggling.
"Does she do this...alot?", asked Forge.
"No", said Magneto, "quite frankly...i'm terrifed".
It was then that Mystique fell off the bed...or rather, slid, still in a fit of uncontrolable giggles.
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Warren, meanwhile, had flown around the hotel building and managed to land in the bedroom oposite the one with the trap in, which he assumed was Sabertooth's. Yes, this would be a good place to hide. He heard Storm heading the same way as himself and dove into the bathroom, slamming the door shut and closing his eyes. Cookie made an iritated squeak.
"Warren, i know you're in there!", came Storm's voice from the other side, "i saw you go in. Come out, now".
"Errr.....i'll just be a minute!", called Warren, looking at Cookie frantically before running the tap water.
"I'm giving you FIVE seconds before i blast this door down", said Storm, creating a pocket of wind and lightening in front of her, "one, two...".
Warren despreately looked around for somewhere to hide Cookie. Before throwing the poor thing in the toilet, slamming the lid down. He then rushed out and smiled sweetly, stopping Storm on four.
"Hi", he said, as if they hadn't spent the past few hours looking for him, then chasing him.
"Where's the aligator, Warren?", asked Xavier, hearing the comotion and wheeling in.
"I...i took her to the zoo", said Warren, hanging his head low, "she's gone now...i miss her".
He added a small sniffle to seal the deal. None of them noticed Sabertooth walk into the bathroom. After a short while, there was an angry snarl and the sound of a toilet flushing. Warren's eyes shot open.
"COOKIE!!", he shouted, bursting in as Sabertooth was walking out, looking VERY angry.
"Oh yeah, worry about the lizard", he said, "never mind the fact i just got bitten in a VERY personal place".
Warren was trying to see down the u-bend, but couldn't see Cookie.
"Nooooooo!!!!".
Magneto and Forge walked in from across the hall, hearing the noise and taking the opportunity to get away from the hysterical Mystique, whom they ahd left giggling on the floor.
"I take it you found him then?", asked Magneto, as Warren came running back into the room.
He pulled Forge into the bathroom, waving frantically at the toilet.
"Fix, open...get..Cookie, NOW!", he said.
Forge looked at the toilet, then back at Warren.
"I'm a mechanic, not a plumber", he said, before pulling his arm away and stalking off, only to have Warren grab onto his leg.
"PLEASE!!!".
"I am NOT sticking my hand down that manky hole", said Forge pointedly, "accept it, man, Cookie has gone to a better place. The sewerage system. Now let go of my leg, you're making a scene".
Warren released Forge and crawled into a corner, curling up.
"I'd like some time to greive", he said in a small voice.
The others looked between each other before shrugging and walking (or wheeling) out of the room and back across the hall, where Mystique was still giggling.
"The poor guy", said Storm, "we really should think of a way to cheer him up".
"He's a millionaire, Ororo", pointed out Forge, as he started to dismantle the trap, "what could we get him that can cheer him up?".
"More money".
Everyone looked down at Mystique, who was sitting up, alert, almost as if the last few minutes had not happened, "...what?".
"Are you....better now?", tried Magneto carefully.
"I never wasn't", said Mystique, "...freak".
"Who's a freak and why is Warren crying?".
Logan, Hank and Jason walked in, and Xavier proceeded to tell them about the 'toilet tragedy'.
"You flushed Warren's pet aligator down the toilet?", asked Logan, looking at Sabertooth.
"I PANICKED!", said Sabertooth with a growl, crossing his arms, "you weren't there!".
"I still say more money will make him happier", said Mystique.
"Oh and where do we get more money, might i ask?", said Hank.
"That casino a few miles away", said Mystique.
"I'm sorry, last time my people went to a casino, two of them got married..illegally", said Xavier, "i'm not going through that again!" *1
"That was Las Vegas, this is just one casino", said Jason, "can't be THAT bad".
"It'lll mean we'll get away from the building for a day", put in Storm.
"Lets go, lets go!", said Logan, "no Gelder. This is a great idea!".
And it was thus decided that they would head off to a casino. They wished to cheer up their winged friend...plus no one wanted ot argue with a desperate Logan.
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*1 - See Sugar and Spice ;) Another chapter done, tee hee. Come on, i HAD to get a casino in there somewhere, it's a tradition :D. Please, do review, until next time..