SURPRISE!! WE'RE BACK!! And yes, Florida WAS grand, thanks for asking!! But now, the story will continue as normal and once again, we apologize for leaving you off at that cliffhanger. But now it will make you feel HAPPIER that everything was solved to an extremely lame extent!!
Everyone sat around the table and waited patiently.
Wanda suddenly cleared her throat. "Tootie…I REALLY want some gimp." She said. "Black and red."
"What's the magic word?" Tootie asked.
"Now." Wanda said, slamming her hand down on the table.
"I want gimp too!" said Kitty. "But I want two different shades of pink!"
Tootie returned with a bunch of reels of gimp.
"I don't know why I want to do this so much." Wanda said as she started working on her gimp but then she stopped and held up the black gimp. "Can I exchange my black for pink?"
"Certainly!" said Tootie as she handed Wanda some pink.
"I don't want to do gimp." Said Lance. "Gimp is for girls."
He got some odd stares from the rest of the people in the group.
"I think I'm going to go check on Remy." Said Tootie. "Since I don't see him, I hope he's back at the cabin. Fruitie, could you watch my kids?"
"OF COURSE!" Fruitie said, excited that he got a task. Tootie then left the building.
"Can I do something with glue?" asked St. John.
"You want to make a noodle picture?" Fruitie said, pulling a bag of noodles out of the supply closet.
"No." said St. John. "Just the glue."
"I wanna make a noodle picture!" Pietro said, slamming his hands down on the table.
"Can I color or something?" Kurt asked. "I just want to color."
"I want to make a friendship bracelet for Jean." Said Scott as he leaned over and helped himself to some string.
Everyone worked intently on their project except for Lance who just kind of sat there before finally grabbing some markers and adding to the coloring fun.
"Wanda, look!" Pietro said, holding up his piece of paper that had a bunch of noodles glued on it. "I made a picture of our family! See? There's me, that's you and that one's our father!"
"How DARE you!!" Wanda yelled as she zapped the picture and blew it to smithereens while Fruitie's back was turned.
"WANDA!!" yelled Pietro. "I'm telling on you!! You ruined my picture that I worked so hard on!! I wanted to show it to our dad!!"
"He's your dad, NOT MINE!!" yelled Wanda.
"That's not true!!" Pietro argued.
"What's going on here?" Fruitie said.
"Wanda ruined my picture!" Pietro tattled, pointing at Wanda.
"Wanda, say you're sorry!" Fruitie instructed.
"I don't have to." Said Wanda, crossing her arms. "You're not my counselor."
Just then, Tootie walked back in followed by Remy. "I hope everyone's getting along in here!" she said.
"Wanda ruined my picture!!" Pietro said ONCE AGAIN.
"Wanda, say you're sorry!" Tootie commanded.
"You're not my mom." Wanda retorted. "I don't have to do what YOU say."
"Then you're just going to have to sit on time-out." Tootie said.
"You can't tell me what to do." Wanda said.
"All right, just don't come to me with any favors!" Tootie threatened. "Pietro, you can make a NEW picture."
"This time, Wanda WON'T be in it!" Pietro said. "It'll just be me and MY dad!"
"That's the way it is ANYWAY!!" Wanda yelled.
"Girls have COOTIES." Pietro said, sticking his tongue out at Wanda. Just then, Smack poked his head in the door.
"Their guardians are here." He said. Then Professor Xavier, Magneto, Forge and some random lady walked in.
"Can we speak to them alone?" asked Professor Xavier to Tootie, Fruitie and Smack. (Whoa, those are some messed up names. Did we come up with those? It can't be…)
"Oh OF COURSE." Said Smack as he and Tootie and Fruitie left.
Then the random lady turned into Mystique. HURRAY!!
"Everyone, I have some distressing news!" said Professor Xavier. "Then again, I'll let Forge explain."
"Well…" started Forge.
"HI DAD!" Pietro interrupted.
"Hi son." Said Magneto. Then he paused. "Wait…Forge! I thought you said we still had time to save them!"
"Hmm…uh…er…uh…well…um…oh…hm…" Forge contemplated. "AHA!! Because Pietro life is at an accelerated rate, all the side effects must have already happened!"
"I KNEW it!" said Lance.
"No you didn't, Lance." Kitty said.
"So it's too late to save him?" Magneto said in a distressed tone.
"Well…" started Forge ONCE AGAIN but his cell phone suddenly started ringing. He sighed and pulled it out. "I told you not to call me!"
"Who is it?" demanded Mystique.
"It's my clone." Forge answered. "I cloned myself when I was bored. He's been working on this experiment with me. Just hold on. This will only take a second. What IS it, Forge Two?"
Forge paused and listened.
"Hm…yes…I see." Forge said, nodding his head. "Well, that's good! They'll be happy to hear that! Goodbye, Forge Two!" And then Forge hung up and stood there as if he didn't have anything to say.
"Well…?" led Professor Xavier.
"Oh right!" said Forge. "That was Forge Two on the phone."
"We knew that." Said Magneto.
"Forge Two has been working on this experiment with me…"
"We knew that too."
"So anyway. He just called me…"
"WE KNOW!!!!"
"ALL RIGHT!!" Forge yelled. "He said that the side effects are, in fact, not permanent! He turned Spot back to normal and he was perfectly fine, acting the way a proper dog should act!"
"So it's not permanent?" said Professor Xavier, sounding relieved.
"Oh my no." said Forge.
"So you're leaving us here?" Scott said.
"Oh my yes." Said Forge.
"Wait…WHAT'S not permanent?" Kurt said suddenly.
"Nothing!" said Mystique. "Just have fun!" The four of them turned to leave.
"Wait!" said Pietro. "You're not…LEAVING…are you? Dad?"
"Ohhhh…" said Magneto. "Could I at least take him home? I want to do things RIGHT this time!"
"No, they must ALL suffer!" Professor Xavier declared. "I mean…complete this training…"
"Can I have a shoulder ride before you leave?" Pietro asked, reaching out his arms for Magneto to run over and pick him up and swing him around crazily like a dadoo should do.
"Maybe later." Said Magneto. "When we pick you up."
"Bye!" said Mystique as the four walked out the door.
"Hey!!" yelled Scott. "You can't just LEAVE us here!" He leapt out of his chair and ran over and flung the door open only to be faced with Tootie and Fruitie.
"We just heard the wonderful news!" said Fruitie. "You'll all STAYING!!"
"HURRAY!!" cheered Pietro.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" yelled everyone else.
"Now let's just continue your Arts and Crafts." Said Tootie as she shooed Scott back to his seat.
"Oh…all right…" said Scott as he remembered his friendship bracelet.
"Remy don't got something to 'continue'." Remy said, doing the little quotey things.
"Here, let me show you…" started Tootie but then she seemed to just notice something. She slowly crept over to Remy until she was only about an inch away from his face.
"Can Remy help you with somet'ing?" Remy said uneasily.
"Is there something wrong with your eyes?!" Tootie finally said. "Do you have an infection?!"
Remy sighed long and hard as everyone stared at him with horrified expressions. What would happen now?
"Remy don't appreciate you pointing it out." Remy said. "He's very sensitive about his allergic reaction."
"To what?" Tootie asked.
"To uh…girls." Remy said. "It's da cooties."
"Cooties?" Tootie said with a raised eyebrow.
"Uh…Remy not mean to say dat." Remy said, wondering why he had actually said it. "He meant…uh…nature. Remy allergic to nature…"
"Oh." Said Tootie. "That's too bad. I LOVE nature! It never said anything about an allergic reaction in your application."
"Dey must have forgotten dat." Remy said with a shrug.
"How could they forget?" Tootie said in a baffled tone. "You're eyes are… BLACK. And…RED."
Remy sighed again. "Remy's REAL sensitive about his reaction." He said.
"Oh!" Tootie gasped. "I'm sorry! Forget I said anything!"
"He'll do just dat." Remy said.
"We're not supposed to be in Arts and Crafts ANYWAY…so let's just leave!" Fruitie said. "How about we go to the field and play a game or something? How about…Steal the Bacon?"
"YAY!!!" Pietro cheered.
Tootie and Fruitie stared at Pietro and then at all the other kids.
"Okay…fine…" said everyone else more or else. They followed Tootie and Fruitie to a big field and they set up two nets reasonably close together and put a ball in the middle.
