It's so hard to be a teen-mutant-superhero By: Umbravulpes

Disclaimer: Well, if mom won't buy me anything then dad will. Daddy!

Authors Note: (blink) Okay... I haven't been able to update lately, since I have to be going to this language course thing. Sick twisted bastards making me do homework during summer! As if the current heat wave isn't a bad enough thing.

This chapter will be changing scenery a few times. I just didn't see the point in putting out many short chapters.

SCENE 6 (or 5, who knows?)

The Institute's kitchen

(KITTY and JEAN are having a conversation, as you can see)

KITTY:

You like did what?

JEAN:

Dumped Duncan. Aren't you surprised?

KITTY:

No. Even I'm not moronic enough not to able to have forseen the unavertable doom of your less then functional relationship. Lets face it, you two obviously weren't complementing eachothers intellectual needs, or any other need for that matter.

(JEAN stares at KITTY in surprise)

KITTY:

Wow! I like have to stop drinking Earl Grey. It's so totally messing me up. So like are you going to ask Scott out?

JEAN:

Scott? What gives you the idea that I'm interested in Scott?

KITTY:

Like I said, I'm not stupid.

JEAN:

Could've fooled me.

KITTY:

Like, whatever. So, you gonna ask him out or not?

(KURT bamfs on the table)

JEAN:

Kurt, go away. We're having a girly conversation.

KURT:

So? Just because I'm not a girl doesn't mean you can exclute me from it. Has it ever occured to anyone, other zan Rogue, that I vant to have heart- to-heart discussions too?

(confused silence)

KURT:

Nobody likes me!

(KURT runs off, crying)

JEAN:

Is it just me, or has Kurt been having a lot of hissyfits lately?

KITTY:

We're not talking about that now.

JEAN:

Look. I'm not denying than I have certain cuddly feelings towards Scott. But it's not that simple.

*I DON'T KNOW HOW TO LOVE HIM (Jesus Christ Superstar)*

*JEAN*

I don't know how to love him.

What to do, how to move him.

I've been changed, yes really changed.

In these past few days, when I've seen myself,

I seem like someone else.

I don't know how to take this.

I don't see why he moves me.

He's a man. He's just a man.

And I've had so many men before,

In very many ways,

He's just one more.

Should I bring him down?

Should I scream and shout?

Should I speak of love,

Let my feelings out?

I never thought I'd come to this.

What's it all about?

Don't you think it's rather funny,

I should be in this position.

I'm the one who's always been

So calm, so cool, no lover's fool,

Running every show.

He scares me so.

I never thought I'd come to this.

What's it all about?

Yet, if he said he loved me,

I'd be lost. I'd be frightened.

I couldn't cope, just couldn't cope.

I'd turn my head. I'd back away.

I wouldn't want to know.

He scares me so.

I want him so.

I love him so.

KITTY:

Just go and tell him that.

JEAN:

I can't!

KITTY:

Why not?!

JEAN:

There's really no reason! But otherwise the plot of the fic will be too simple!

KITTY:

Why are we still shouting?!

JEAN:

I don't know!

*~*~*~*~*

Somewhere else in the Institute

(ROGUE is drinking way too much coke and is weeping, laying next to her is GABRIEL the blowup-doll)

ROGUE:

Oh, Gabriel, you're the only one who understands me! I need you!

*TOUCH-A TOUCH-A TOUCH-A TOUCH ME (Rocky Horror Show)*

*ROGUE* I was feeling done in

Coudn't win

I'd only ever kissed before

I thought there's no use getting

into heavy petting

It only leads to trouble

And seat wetting.

Now all I want to know

Is how to go

I've tasted blood and I want more

I'll put up no resistance

I want to stay the distance

I've got an itch to scratch

And I need assistance

Touch-a Touch-a Touch-a - Touch me.

I want to be dirty

Thrill me chill me fulfil me

Creature of the night.

Then if anything grows

When you pose

I'll oil you up and rub you down

And that's just one small fraction

Of the main attraction

You need a friendly hand

And I need action.

Touch-a Touch-a Touch-a - Touch me.

I want to be dirty

Thrill me chill me fulfil me

Creature of the night.

Touch-a Touch-a Touch-a - Touch me.

I want to be dirty

Thrill me chill me fulfil me

Creature of the night.

(ROGUE starts to make out with GABRIEL)

(GABRIEL holds up a sign that reads "Call the police!")

*~*~*~*~*

In Da Hood

(PIETRO is making a fiery speech)

*RED AND BLACK (Les Miserables)*

*PIETRO*

It is time for us all

To decide who we are...

Do we fight for the right

To a night at the opera now?

Have you asked of yourselves

What's the price you might pay?

Is it simply a game

For the X-Geegs to play?

The color of the world

Is changing

Day by day...

Red - the blood of angry men!

Black - the dark of ages past!

Red - a world about to dawn!

Black - the night that ends at last!

*LANCE*

Had you been there tonight

You might know how it feels

To be struck to the bone

In a moment of breathless delight!

Had you been there tonight

You might also have known

How the world may be changed

In just one burst of light!

And what was right

Seems wrong

And what was wrong

Seems right...

*TODD*

Red...

*LANCE*

I feel my soul on fire!

*TODD*

Black...

*LANCE*

My world if she's not there...

*ALL*

Red...

*LANCE*

The color of desire!

*ALL*

Black...

*LANCE*

The color of despair!

PIETRO

Lance, you're no- I'm no singing this! This is stupid! AUTHOR Allright! Skip it then! See if I care!

*PIETRO*

Who cares about your lonely soul

We strive toward a larger goal

Our little lives don't count at all!

*ALL*

Red - the blood of angry men! Black - the dark of ages past!

Red - a world about to dawn!

Black - the night that ends at last!

PIETRO:

Lance, honestly, you've fallen in too deep for Kitty.

LANCE:

Got a problem with it?

*STRANGE THING MYSTIFYING (Jesus Christ Superstar)*

*PIETRO*

It seems to me a strange thing, mystifying

That a man like you can waste his time on women of her kind.

*FRED*

Hey, cool it man.

*PIETRO*

Yes, I can understand that she amuses,

But to let her kiss you, stroke your hair, that's hardly in your line.

It's not that I object to her profession,

But she doesn't fit in well with what you teach and say.

It doesn't help us if you're inconsistent.

They only need a small excuse to put us all away.

*LANCE*

Who are you to criticise her?

Who are you to despise her?

Leave her, leave her, let her be now.

Leave her, leave her, she's with me now.

If your slate is clean, then you can throw stones.

If your slate is not, then leave her alone.

I'm amazed that men like you can be so shallow, thick and slow

There is not a man among you who know or cares if I come or go.

*ALL BUT LANCE*

No, you're wrong!

You're very wrong!

No, you're wrong!

You're very wrong!

No, you're wrong!

You're very wrong!

No, you're wrong!

You're very wrong!

How can you say that?

How can you say that?

How can you say that?

How can you say that?

*LANCE* Not one, not one of you!

(LANCE walks away in a huff)

(The rest of the Brotherhood stare at eachother for a while and then start brawling)

*~*~* ~*~*

Later at The Institute

(SCOTT is standing in the hall heroicly)

(JEAN walks in)

JEAN:

Hi Scott. What are you doing?

SCOTT:

Keeping watch.

JEAN:

Uh, why?

*STARS (Les Miserables)*

*SCOTT*

There, out in the darkness

A fugitive running

Fallen from God

Fallen from grace

God be my witness

I never shall yield

Till we come face to face

Till we come face to face

He knows his way in the dark

But mine is the way of the law

And those who follow the path of the righteous

Shall have their reward

And if they fall

As Magneto fell

The flame

The sword!

Stars

In your multitudes

Scarce to be counted

Filling the darkness

With order and light

You are the sentinels

Silent and sure

Keeping watch in the night

Keeping watch in the night

You know your place in the sky

You hold your course and your aim

And each in your season

Returns and returns

And is always the same

And if you fall as Magneto fell

You fall in flame!

And so it has been

And so it is written

On the doorway to paradise

That those who falter and those who fall

Must pay the price!

Lord let me find him

That I may see him

Safe behind bars

I will never rest

Till then, this I swear

This I swear by the stars!

JEAN:

Who are you talking about?

SCOTT:

Don't know. I just thought it sounded heroic.

JEAN:

Oh, it did. You make a great superhero.

SCOTT:

Really?

JEAN:

Uh... Sure! I mean, that at least you can do the whole heroic pose thing.

SCOTT:

That I can. Now all I have to do is to save the world a couple of times and I'm all set.

JEAN:

Okay. You know, I've been thinking about things lately.

SCOTT:

That's good to hear. I was becoming afraid that you were braindead.

JEAN:

Huh? Anyway... I've been thinking about the two of us.

SCOTT:

What about us?

JEAN:

Well, you remember that one we both got drunk?

SCOTT:

Not too well.

JEAN:

Yeah, I forgot about that concussion... But anyway, for a few hazy hours we had a relationship. And was thinking that we could get together again.

SCOTT:

What about Duncan?

JEAN:

Haven't you heard, I dumped his ass. I don't know what was wrong me, when I started that excuse of a relationship.

*NEXT TIME YOU FALL IN LOVE (Starlight Express)*

*JEAN*

I guess I'm not too good at keeping love alive for long.

I think I've found the answers but the answer's always wrong.

My first love was my true love and it should have been my last.

The only time I'm happy when I'm dreaming in the past.

Next time you fall in love

It better be with me,

The way it used to be.

Back then was when

We touched the starlight.

Sometimes you turn away from

What your heart tells you is right

And so you settle for

Whatever gets you through the night.

The flame you thought was dead

May suddenly begin to burn

And broken hearts can be repaired,

That's something that you learn.

Next time you fall in love

It better be with me,

The way it used to be.

Back then was when

We touched the starlight.

*SCOTT*

I've re-lived every moment

That I ever shared with you.

What fools we were to end a dream

That looked like coming true.

Next time you fall in love

It better be with me,

The way it used to be.

*BOTH*

Back then was when

We touched the starlight.

Next time you fall in love

It better be with me,

The way it used to be.

Back then was when

We touched the starlight.

I guess I'm not too good

At keeping love alive for long.

I think I've found the answers

But the answer's always wrong.

My first love was my true love

And it should have been my last.

The only time I'm happy's

When I'm dreaming in the past.

Next time you fall in love

It better be with me,

Back then was when

We touched the starlight.

Next time you fall in love

It better be with me,

The way it used to be.

Back then was when

We touched the starlight.

*~*~*~*~*

Back in Da Hood

(After the great brawl has ended. TODD sits on his bed reading a sappy lovestory)

*WHERE IS LOVE? (Oliver!)*

*TODD* Where is love?

Does it fall from skies above?

Is it underneath the willow tree

That I've been dreaming of?

Where is he?

Who I close my eyes to see

And will I ever know

That sweet hello

That's meant for only me?

Who can say where he may hide?

Must I travel far and wide?

Till I am beside

That someone who

I can mean something to

Where, where is love?

(FRED smacks his head through the door)

(TODD quickly hides the book and turns on the Bad-Ass-Angry-Rap-radio- station)

TODD:

What're ya bothering me fo' yo?!

FRED:

I thought I heard something sappy.

Authors Note: Oooh. The BoM singing Les Miz! What a vision! In the next chapter, things are not going well at school... Can you stand the suspense?