Teacher Training
By Todd Fan
Diclaimer: "I lied. The house is alive. We're all gonna die".
***
Ok, a few of you have asked why Mystique couldn't have morphed into a bird, or Warren, and got the arm. Well, for Warren, though she could take on his apperance, she wouldn't be able to use his powers, i would have thought, and as for a bird, think how HEAVY a metal, bionic arm that can become and instant tool set would be. Pretty heavy, not light enough for a bird to grab it. Besides, i want Mystique to be in with Storm on the distraction, so there. neeeehhhh *blows rasberry*. So you were wondering if Cookie met the Morlocks, well, you know what?...
***
Chapter 18 - Aligators DO live in the sewers
***
Back at the pool, Mystique had swam up to Storm, who did NOT look happy, at all. You could tell her mood just by the humidity around her, that and the fact that there was the sound of thunder in the distance.
"Hey...Storm?", said Mystique carefully, "Hank wants us to distract Forge, Logan's done something stupid, apparently".
"I can't believe that...that self-centered, shallow little idiot!", replied Storm, her eyes glowing white, "i mean, who does he tink he is?!!!".
Mystique blinked.
"Errr...just to clarify...are we talking about Hank, Forge or Logan here?".
"He said he was okay with the mutant thing!", spat Storm, "but is he okay with a prosthetic limb? Nooooooo!!!".
"Oooooohhh we're talking about Clint", said Mystique.
"I'm going to talk to him, now!", muttered Storm, swimming away.
"Wait!", shouted Mystique, "what about...FORGE!".
She jumped out of the pool as she saw him heading for the exit, getting in his way. Forge blinked and went to move past her, but she swerved back into his way.
"Raven...can i get past?", he tried with a smile.
"You know what a fun place to go is?", tried Mystique, "the beach! Let's go to the beach, you and me! I know hardly anything about you! We can talk about you!".
"Okey dokey.....", said Forge, arching an eyebrow, more than a little bit scared, "can i please go get my arm first?".
"Oh we have time for that later!", said Mystique, dragging him off by his good arm.
*****
"Coookie?", called a voice in the streets, "COOOOOOOOOKIEEEEE".
Warren paused, thinking for a second.
"Cookie, Cookie come home!", he tried, still nothing.
He sighed, drooping his wings slightly.
"I miss my aligator", he said sadly.
Meanwhile, deep, deep, deep under the ground in the sewerage system walked Caliban, wearing his usual frown. He paused for a second, looking around. Nope no one was around and he sure couldn't sense any mutants. He glanced around one last time before clearing his throat.
"Don't tell me not to live, just sit and putter, Life's candy and the sun's a ball of butter", he sang, dancing around, splashing water as he went, "Don't bring around a cloud to rain on my parade".
Suddenly, something chomped down on his foot, hard.
"Arrggghhhhh!", shouted Caliban, waggling his foot around, seeing a baby aligator attached to it, "what the?!!!!".
There was a THUMP next to him as a giant lizard showed up, saw Cookie and made a squealing sound. Scaleface powered down to her normal form and plucked Cookie from Caliban's foot. Caliban blinked, how the HECK had she got past him?!!!
"Awww it's a baby!", she said, giving Cookie a hug.
"BABY?!!", said Caliban in shock, "it jussst tried to take off my FOOT!".
"Oh, stop being such a hypochondriac", said Scaleface with a wave of her hand.
Cookie, for once, didn't try to attack Scaleface, she seemed to recognise one of her own and chose instead to snuggle up to her new 'mother'.
"Awwwww isn't she precious?", cooed Scaleface, nuzzling Cookie, "i think i'll call her....Fluffy!".
Caliban blinked.
"It's an aligator, not a kitten".
"Oh, shut up, Fanny", said Scaleface, rolling her eyes and walking off.
Caliban blinked again.
"Hey, how'd you know about that?!!", he said, running after her, "hey!, wait up...oww foot hurtss, foot hurtss....am i missssing a toe?".
*****
It was after only a few minutes of walking on the beach with Mystique that he started to get a little bit suspicious. Considering she had taken no intrest in him so far, that fact that she wanted to know about his childhood...scared him a little. Mystique could see this and decided it was time for some imediate and desperate action.
"Whoops!", she said, pushing him into a trench that some kids had made out of sand.
Forge gave a squeak before he fell in.
"Oww", he said, standing up and blinking a few times, "errrr Raven, can you help me up?..it's kinda hard with one arm".
"Sorry i can't hear you over the sea!", shouted Mystique, kicking some sand into the hole.
"Oh great, she's gonna bury me alive", said Forge, "come on Ray, the sea's coming in!!!!".
Sure enough, a huge wave shot over the side of the trench, soaking Forge and leaving him in two feet of water. Mystique watched him, mmmm let him drown or let Logan get caught with his stupid thing? She sighed, pulling him out of the trench by his shirt collar.
"Thanks", said Forge, before muttering to himself and starting to march towards the hotel.
Mystique made a desperate jump for him, grabbing onto his leg, making him stop.
"Raven, let go of my leg", said Forge calmly.
"No, i can't!", said Mystique in desperation, "you can't go back there!".
Forge rolled his eyes and started forward, dragging Mystique along with him.
"You know", said Mystique, "for such a small, geeky person, you are suprisingly strong".
Fogre ignored her carrying on heedless to the extra weight. Mystique slid down his leg, grabbing hold of one of his moccasins and falling back with it in her hand.
"Ah hah!", she said triumpantly, "you can't leave, i have your moccasin! You'll burn your feet!".
Forge blinked.
"Mystique, i grew up in a desert", he said simply, "i don't need them".
As if to prove his point, and to give him some time to escape, he took off his other moccasin, threw it at her and RAN.
********
"Is she still following us?".
Sabertooth glanced casualy over his shoulder. Rabid was still padding after them.
"Yup, she's still there", he said, going back to looking straight ahead, "what should we do?".
"Okay", said Jason, "we're gonna run really, really fast into the hotel and hide in your room".
"I like that idea, that is a good idea", said Sabertooth, "oooh, you could make us invisable".
"She'd smell us", said Jason, "my illusions don't cover the sense of smell".
Sabertooth looked at him and shook his head.
"My God, you ARE useless!", he said, then blinked, "sorry, i haven't killed anything for a while, i'm having withdrawl symptoms".
Jason edged slightly away.
"Okey dokey", he said, "i'm gonna run now....".
With that, he ran as fast as he could, Sabertooth close behind. They dashed through the lobby and finally into the hotel room, slamming the door behind them.
"Hah!", said Sabertooth, "we win!".
He blinked as he heard the sound of scratching on the door.
"I think she found us", said Jason.
"You don't say!".
"Maybe if we leave her alone...and ignore her, she'll go away", said Jason hopefully.
"Either that or she'll tear down the door", put in Sabertooth.
"I am never doing ANYTHING with you, ever, ever again", muttered Jason crossing his arms, "'let's save the tiger', hah! Next time, go sign up with Greenpeace!".
******
Logan had been sitting in the room, staring out the window in a panic, where WAS Hank? As if his thoughts were answered, Hank arrived, a smile on his face, Magneto following him, Xavier close behind.
"Thank God!", snapped Logan, "what took you so long?!!!".
"I popped in to tell Shannon that i may be late for our concert, we have tickets", said Hank, then muttered, "not that they're any use NOW".
"I was getting rid of an idiotic teenager", said Magneto, "well, let's get this over with".
Magneto leaned out of the window and held out his hand. With a metalic hum, Forge's arm rose up from where it had been hidden on the ledge and hovered up to the window. Suddenly, the door slammed open, revealing a wet and slightly sandy barefooted Forge
"AH HAH!".
That was not the best move, as Magneto jumped, losing his conentration. Forge's arm dropped from the ground, bounced on the window ledge, then landed.....right into a garbage van. Forge's eye twitched as the van joyously crunched his arm into nothingness. He turned, very, very slowly to look at Logan.
"Heh heh...err...whoopsie?", tried Logan, backing away, "....you're going to hurt me...aren't you?".
"Start running", replied Forge.
Logan didn't need to be told twice, and he took off down the hallway, pausing as he saw a tiger walking along the halls, before noticing Forge was in hot persuit and running as if his life depended on it. He jumped into his room and slammed the door shut. He laughed before turning around, right into Warren. Warren did NOT look happy.
"Err....hi Warren", said Logan nervously, "what's up?".
"Oh i don't know", said Warren, "what do YOU think?!!!".
He pointed at the TV set, the porn that Logan had put onto a loop had finally, after so many days of continuous playback, given up it's fight. It had paused itself, with the big words 'error eject tape' scrawled across the screen.
"Oh", said Logan, backing into the door.
He glanced at the door behind him, mad Forge or mad Warren, oh choices, choices. He took a few seconds to decide, finally chosing the one armed man over the man with all his limbs, plus two. He opened the door, charged past Forge and carried on as fast as he could.
"Don't think i won't find you and hunt you down, Jive Turkey!".
******
Wow, there was alot of running and door slamming n this chapter, wasn't there? Mmmm. Forge does indeed wear moccasins, if you watch Shadowdance, you can see them :) Oh and i AM aware he called Mystique 'Ray' at one point, that was what he called her a few times in the comics...go figure. And ne'h fear, this is NOT the end of Cookie, oh no. Please do review. Until next time....
By Todd Fan
Diclaimer: "I lied. The house is alive. We're all gonna die".
***
Ok, a few of you have asked why Mystique couldn't have morphed into a bird, or Warren, and got the arm. Well, for Warren, though she could take on his apperance, she wouldn't be able to use his powers, i would have thought, and as for a bird, think how HEAVY a metal, bionic arm that can become and instant tool set would be. Pretty heavy, not light enough for a bird to grab it. Besides, i want Mystique to be in with Storm on the distraction, so there. neeeehhhh *blows rasberry*. So you were wondering if Cookie met the Morlocks, well, you know what?...
***
Chapter 18 - Aligators DO live in the sewers
***
Back at the pool, Mystique had swam up to Storm, who did NOT look happy, at all. You could tell her mood just by the humidity around her, that and the fact that there was the sound of thunder in the distance.
"Hey...Storm?", said Mystique carefully, "Hank wants us to distract Forge, Logan's done something stupid, apparently".
"I can't believe that...that self-centered, shallow little idiot!", replied Storm, her eyes glowing white, "i mean, who does he tink he is?!!!".
Mystique blinked.
"Errr...just to clarify...are we talking about Hank, Forge or Logan here?".
"He said he was okay with the mutant thing!", spat Storm, "but is he okay with a prosthetic limb? Nooooooo!!!".
"Oooooohhh we're talking about Clint", said Mystique.
"I'm going to talk to him, now!", muttered Storm, swimming away.
"Wait!", shouted Mystique, "what about...FORGE!".
She jumped out of the pool as she saw him heading for the exit, getting in his way. Forge blinked and went to move past her, but she swerved back into his way.
"Raven...can i get past?", he tried with a smile.
"You know what a fun place to go is?", tried Mystique, "the beach! Let's go to the beach, you and me! I know hardly anything about you! We can talk about you!".
"Okey dokey.....", said Forge, arching an eyebrow, more than a little bit scared, "can i please go get my arm first?".
"Oh we have time for that later!", said Mystique, dragging him off by his good arm.
*****
"Coookie?", called a voice in the streets, "COOOOOOOOOKIEEEEE".
Warren paused, thinking for a second.
"Cookie, Cookie come home!", he tried, still nothing.
He sighed, drooping his wings slightly.
"I miss my aligator", he said sadly.
Meanwhile, deep, deep, deep under the ground in the sewerage system walked Caliban, wearing his usual frown. He paused for a second, looking around. Nope no one was around and he sure couldn't sense any mutants. He glanced around one last time before clearing his throat.
"Don't tell me not to live, just sit and putter, Life's candy and the sun's a ball of butter", he sang, dancing around, splashing water as he went, "Don't bring around a cloud to rain on my parade".
Suddenly, something chomped down on his foot, hard.
"Arrggghhhhh!", shouted Caliban, waggling his foot around, seeing a baby aligator attached to it, "what the?!!!!".
There was a THUMP next to him as a giant lizard showed up, saw Cookie and made a squealing sound. Scaleface powered down to her normal form and plucked Cookie from Caliban's foot. Caliban blinked, how the HECK had she got past him?!!!
"Awww it's a baby!", she said, giving Cookie a hug.
"BABY?!!", said Caliban in shock, "it jussst tried to take off my FOOT!".
"Oh, stop being such a hypochondriac", said Scaleface with a wave of her hand.
Cookie, for once, didn't try to attack Scaleface, she seemed to recognise one of her own and chose instead to snuggle up to her new 'mother'.
"Awwwww isn't she precious?", cooed Scaleface, nuzzling Cookie, "i think i'll call her....Fluffy!".
Caliban blinked.
"It's an aligator, not a kitten".
"Oh, shut up, Fanny", said Scaleface, rolling her eyes and walking off.
Caliban blinked again.
"Hey, how'd you know about that?!!", he said, running after her, "hey!, wait up...oww foot hurtss, foot hurtss....am i missssing a toe?".
*****
It was after only a few minutes of walking on the beach with Mystique that he started to get a little bit suspicious. Considering she had taken no intrest in him so far, that fact that she wanted to know about his childhood...scared him a little. Mystique could see this and decided it was time for some imediate and desperate action.
"Whoops!", she said, pushing him into a trench that some kids had made out of sand.
Forge gave a squeak before he fell in.
"Oww", he said, standing up and blinking a few times, "errrr Raven, can you help me up?..it's kinda hard with one arm".
"Sorry i can't hear you over the sea!", shouted Mystique, kicking some sand into the hole.
"Oh great, she's gonna bury me alive", said Forge, "come on Ray, the sea's coming in!!!!".
Sure enough, a huge wave shot over the side of the trench, soaking Forge and leaving him in two feet of water. Mystique watched him, mmmm let him drown or let Logan get caught with his stupid thing? She sighed, pulling him out of the trench by his shirt collar.
"Thanks", said Forge, before muttering to himself and starting to march towards the hotel.
Mystique made a desperate jump for him, grabbing onto his leg, making him stop.
"Raven, let go of my leg", said Forge calmly.
"No, i can't!", said Mystique in desperation, "you can't go back there!".
Forge rolled his eyes and started forward, dragging Mystique along with him.
"You know", said Mystique, "for such a small, geeky person, you are suprisingly strong".
Fogre ignored her carrying on heedless to the extra weight. Mystique slid down his leg, grabbing hold of one of his moccasins and falling back with it in her hand.
"Ah hah!", she said triumpantly, "you can't leave, i have your moccasin! You'll burn your feet!".
Forge blinked.
"Mystique, i grew up in a desert", he said simply, "i don't need them".
As if to prove his point, and to give him some time to escape, he took off his other moccasin, threw it at her and RAN.
********
"Is she still following us?".
Sabertooth glanced casualy over his shoulder. Rabid was still padding after them.
"Yup, she's still there", he said, going back to looking straight ahead, "what should we do?".
"Okay", said Jason, "we're gonna run really, really fast into the hotel and hide in your room".
"I like that idea, that is a good idea", said Sabertooth, "oooh, you could make us invisable".
"She'd smell us", said Jason, "my illusions don't cover the sense of smell".
Sabertooth looked at him and shook his head.
"My God, you ARE useless!", he said, then blinked, "sorry, i haven't killed anything for a while, i'm having withdrawl symptoms".
Jason edged slightly away.
"Okey dokey", he said, "i'm gonna run now....".
With that, he ran as fast as he could, Sabertooth close behind. They dashed through the lobby and finally into the hotel room, slamming the door behind them.
"Hah!", said Sabertooth, "we win!".
He blinked as he heard the sound of scratching on the door.
"I think she found us", said Jason.
"You don't say!".
"Maybe if we leave her alone...and ignore her, she'll go away", said Jason hopefully.
"Either that or she'll tear down the door", put in Sabertooth.
"I am never doing ANYTHING with you, ever, ever again", muttered Jason crossing his arms, "'let's save the tiger', hah! Next time, go sign up with Greenpeace!".
******
Logan had been sitting in the room, staring out the window in a panic, where WAS Hank? As if his thoughts were answered, Hank arrived, a smile on his face, Magneto following him, Xavier close behind.
"Thank God!", snapped Logan, "what took you so long?!!!".
"I popped in to tell Shannon that i may be late for our concert, we have tickets", said Hank, then muttered, "not that they're any use NOW".
"I was getting rid of an idiotic teenager", said Magneto, "well, let's get this over with".
Magneto leaned out of the window and held out his hand. With a metalic hum, Forge's arm rose up from where it had been hidden on the ledge and hovered up to the window. Suddenly, the door slammed open, revealing a wet and slightly sandy barefooted Forge
"AH HAH!".
That was not the best move, as Magneto jumped, losing his conentration. Forge's arm dropped from the ground, bounced on the window ledge, then landed.....right into a garbage van. Forge's eye twitched as the van joyously crunched his arm into nothingness. He turned, very, very slowly to look at Logan.
"Heh heh...err...whoopsie?", tried Logan, backing away, "....you're going to hurt me...aren't you?".
"Start running", replied Forge.
Logan didn't need to be told twice, and he took off down the hallway, pausing as he saw a tiger walking along the halls, before noticing Forge was in hot persuit and running as if his life depended on it. He jumped into his room and slammed the door shut. He laughed before turning around, right into Warren. Warren did NOT look happy.
"Err....hi Warren", said Logan nervously, "what's up?".
"Oh i don't know", said Warren, "what do YOU think?!!!".
He pointed at the TV set, the porn that Logan had put onto a loop had finally, after so many days of continuous playback, given up it's fight. It had paused itself, with the big words 'error eject tape' scrawled across the screen.
"Oh", said Logan, backing into the door.
He glanced at the door behind him, mad Forge or mad Warren, oh choices, choices. He took a few seconds to decide, finally chosing the one armed man over the man with all his limbs, plus two. He opened the door, charged past Forge and carried on as fast as he could.
"Don't think i won't find you and hunt you down, Jive Turkey!".
******
Wow, there was alot of running and door slamming n this chapter, wasn't there? Mmmm. Forge does indeed wear moccasins, if you watch Shadowdance, you can see them :) Oh and i AM aware he called Mystique 'Ray' at one point, that was what he called her a few times in the comics...go figure. And ne'h fear, this is NOT the end of Cookie, oh no. Please do review. Until next time....