The Tale of the Bagaboo

Author's Note/Disclaimer: Same as before.And the Keyblade's on its way. I just had to post this little ghost story bit because I felt like it.

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"Man I hate the fact that Xavier's making us train with those maniacs again." Bobby Drake grumbled.

"It's no fun for us either popsicle." Toad replied. After another exhaustive training day the boys were getting ready for bed when the lights suddenly went out.

A Coleman portable lantern was immediately turned on. "Now what?" Peter complained.

"Power brownouts, they happen all the time. Why is Russkie Dusky afraid of the dark?" Lance laughed.

"Very funny." Peter replied.

"Now what do we do?" Roberto whined, "We can't watch movies, read magazines or nothing with only this lousy lantern."

"We could tell scary stories." Multiple said.

"How lame is that Multiple." Peter replied.

"Yeah." Berserker added, "That's just dumb."

Undaunted Jamie said, "Are you sure you don't wanna hear this great ghost story Bilby told me?"

"Multiple what did we say about...." Forge said, then grinned, "Did you say great ghost story."

"Yeah, it's about this creature that hides in the Australian Outback called the Bagaboo." Jamie replied.

"Aw, Jamie, what kind of a hokey name is the Bagaboo?" Roberto chimed in.

"I don't know, it's some kind of Aboriginee story." Jamie replied.

"How could a monster with the name Bagaboo be scary?" Pietro chimed in, "Hi I'm the Bagaboo, I'm gonna eat you right now."

Pietro started stalking around the room, hunched over going, "Howdy do, I'm the Bagaboo."

Until he tripped over the lantern and rolled into a wall where he knocked himself out that is. "Anyway. Bilby said that on stormy, dark nights in the Australian Outback, the Bagaboo comes out of its dark and scary cave to go hunt down campers. It's a hideous monster that waits in your back yard to dismember you." Jamie continued.

"I've never heard anything so dumb in my entire life. Well except for Blob's farm stories." Lance replied.

"HEY!" Fred protested, "NO ONE INSULTS MY FARM STORIES AND LIVES!"

Fred charged across the room, picked up Lance, airplane spun him and threw him onto Scott's sleeping form. Lance landed very hard on Scott's stomach. "OW! ALVERS STOP IT!"

"Guys shut up!" Forge shouted, "I wanna hear the 'scary' parts."

"Right. Slowly the Bagaboo approached the innocent campers. It's horrible fangs glistened in the moonlight..." Jamie began.

"What was that sound?" Bobby asked.

"Oh shut up! This is scary enough!" Jamie replied.

The sound of heavy, walking footsteps could be heard. "IT'S THE BAGABOO!" Forge shouted.

"Oh no! Oh no!" Scott shouted, "Turn of the lantern, lie still!"

"It's opening the door, we're doomed." Berserker moaned.

"AAGGGHH!! There it is!" Forge shouted, "Blind it with the lantern! Throw a blanket over its head! Run guys run!!!!!"

Downstairs, the adults heard a lot of racket. "What's going on now?" Roadblock groaned.

"It's coming from the boys' room." Bilby added.

"Duh, we know that." Cover Girl added, sleepily.

More shouts could be heard from upstairs.

"The Bagaboo!"

"Kill it! Kill it!"

"Oh man that was my guitar you just ruined! Nice going Toad!"

"Run for your lives!"

All the X-boys and male Misfits came charging down the stairs. The bowled into the adults, knocking them over like bowling pins. "Are you kids OK?" Roadblock asked.

"Where's Shipwreck?" Cover Girl asked, "He just went out to check on you guys."

"The Bagaboo must've got him." Toad said, clinging to Roadblock's neck.

"Where are those kids!!!" came a shout from upstairs.

"THE BAGABOO!!!!" Scott shouted and jumped into Professor Xavier's arms.

"The Bagaboo?" Akima asked, sleepily, coming out of the room she and Cover Girl shared.

"Uh?" Bilby said.

Immediately every pair of eyes in the room glanced at Bilby, "What? That was only an old Australian ghost story I told. I didn't think it would be that bad."

"Ya think?" Roadblock replied, "You told a ghost story to a bunch of hyperactive mutant kids with overactive imaginations. Boy how bored do you get at those Australian sheep ranching stations."

"I didn't grow up on a ranching station mate." Bilby replied, "I grew up on the Australian coast."

Before anyone else could reply a ghastly apparition appeared atop the staircase saying, "Wuh. Wuh. Wuh."

"THE BAGABOO!!!!" all the X-boys and male Misfits shouted.

The apparition stepped forward and tripped on a roller skate atop the staircase and came crashing down the stairs. Cover Girl pointed a flashlight at it and said, "Shipwreck?"

"Put me in left field coach! I'll stop that home run derby...." Shipwreck said, with a dazed look in his eyes.

"I think we've found your Bagaboo boys." Ororo groaned.

"What have we learned from this." Captain Fetterman asked Bilby.

"Never tell these kids any sort of ghost story." Bilby replied.

"Bingo." Fetterman replied.

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Meanwhile, elsewhere a pair of erstwhile adventurers walked along a path. "Hey Goofy." Donald said, "My staff's glowing and beeping."

"Gawsh Donald, maybe it's time to get a new staff. Hyuck. Hyuck."

"Very funny Goofy. But this means the Keyblade's chosen another person to bear it." Donald replied.

"Gawsh Donald...." Goofy began. Suddenly the pair were surrounded by a mass of Heartless. They started to fight them, but their numbers proved to be very great, despite Donald's use of the Firaga spell and Goofy whacking them with his shield.

Suddenly a sleek spaceship flew over their heads and started strafing the Heartless with deadly energy beams. The smell of ozone and burnt flesh was all that remained of the attacking horde.

The cargo bay of the ship opened when it touched the ground and the pair climbed aboard. They saw an alien walking on kangaroo like legs approaching them.

"Hello." Goofy said.

"Who are you?" Donald asked.

"Any enemy of the Heartless is a friend of ours. We might ask the same of you, featherhead."

"I'm Donald, wizard of the court of King Mickey and this is Goofy, Captain of the Guard."

"Stith." The alien replied, "Me and Gune, my partner, use our ship, the Valkyrie, to fight the Heartless away from any universe that needs us. Our world was consumed by the Heartless a year ago."

"We're looking for someone who will wield a weapon that will help overthrow the Heartless." Donald said, "My staff will glow brighter as we approach that person, use it as a way to find a way to defeat the Heartless."

Stith lead them to the cockpit where a short, squat, green alien with glasses sat at the controls, "Gune, here's our new map."

Stith shoved Donald in front of Gune. "When that blue stone on his stick glows brighter you're going the right way. Hopefully we find the guy holding that ultimate weapon and that world before the Heartless find him." Stith replied. The Valkyrie set off in search of the bearer of the Keyblade.

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Don't worry, the bearer(s) will be known shortly. I just had to get that little Bagaboo story out of my head before I could continue with more plot related chapters.