"Let's just take them all to Forge and see what he says." Professor Xavier said, wanting to break up the quarrel. "We might not be able to keep them like this anyway so before we say things that we don't mean to say, we should have Forge give his opinion."
"Good idea, Charles." Said Magneto.
"Let's leave them all in the care of Jean, Rogue and Evan so as not to cause a catastrophe while we are conversing with Forge." Said Professor Xavier as he telepathically called the three people who were just mentioned down to where they were.
"What is it, Professor?" asked Jean as she walked in and then gasped when she noticed all the small-ified people. "What happened to them?!"
"Um…we don't know." Said Professor Xavier. "We're going to go speak with Forge right now."
"About stuff." Said Mystique.
"So watch them while we're gone." Professor Xavier said.
"If anything happens to my children while I'm gone, I'm holding you entirely responsible!" Magneto threatened. Then the three of them left to find Forge.
Jean stood there in a stupefied state for a minute just as Evan and Rogue strolled in nonchalantly while humming as if they didn't have a care in the world.
"What are all these kids…" started Rogue but then she paused. "Wait a second…"
"What happened to them?!" Evan asked.
"I have no idea!" Jean said, fretting. "And neither does the Professor!"
"Let's just assume that he'll figure something out to fix them." Said Rogue.
"Well, we have to baby-sit them." Said Jean.
"WHAT?!" yelled Rogue and Evan.
"That's why we were called here." Jean said.
"Now I can finally get back at Pietro!" Evan declared suddenly.
"NO!!" Jean yelled. "Magneto threatened my life and is holding me personally responsible if anything happens to him!"
"We should just split them up evenly." Rogue suggested. "Because it's easier to watch two or three as opposed to eight."
"Daniels, I'm in your group!" said Pietro.
"HEY!!" said Evan angrily. "I know what you're planning!!"
"Oh come on, like he even knows what he's talking." Jean said. "I'll take Wanda and Pietro just so I can make sure that nothing happens to them." Then she looked over the group. "Um…I'll take Scott too…"
"He's eight or something so don't do anything gross." Said Rogue.
"Please, who do you think I am?" Jean said, sounding offended.
"I'll just take…these three." Said Rogue as she grabbed the three that were closest to her which just so happened to be Remy, Kitty and Lance.
"Yes!" said Evan when he noted the fact that only Kurt and St. John remained. "I only have two! This is gonna be easy!"
"When's the last time you guys have had anything to eat?" Jean asked Scott, kneeling down so she was eye level with him.
"Um…lunch time?" Scott said, looking at everyone for confirmation. They only shrugged and agreed.
"Let's get them something to eat!" Jean said. "It's almost dinner time!"
Evan and Rogue agreed and they all led their appointed kids into the kitchen.
"FEED ME DANIELS!!" Pietro demanded as he sat himself down at the table.
"I'm not the one watching you!" Evan said, annoyed.
"How about Macaroni & Cheese?" Rogue asked as she pulled a few boxes of Craft Macaroni & Cheese.
"What shapes are they in?" asked Kurt as if it were important.
"Um…Spongebob Squarepants." Rogue answered, looking at the label.
"Yeah!" said Kurt. So, as all the 'kids' sat idly by, Jean, Evan and Rogue cooked the Macaroni and set the table.
MEANWHILE!!!
"So that's our plan, Forge." Professor Xavier explained to Forge who was just sitting there. Listening.
"Sure, whatever." Said Forge. "I really don't care what you guys do."
"But you're positive that it won't screw them up in any harmful irreversible way?" Magneto said nervously.
"I don't know." Forge replied. "With every new invention, there are going to be bugs. I have no idea what will happen to them! For all I know, they might be dead!"
The three of them stared at Forge.
"Don't say that." Said Magneto.
"I was just kidding!" laughed Forge hesitantly. "That would never happen with one of MY inventions because I'm Forge! All my inventions and experiments are perfectly harmless! I wouldn't worry about it if I were you guys."
"But if anything happens…" Mystique said. "We're taking it out on you."
"And Jean." Magneto added.
"And Sabretooth." Said Professor Xavier.
"Actually, I just got a call from Colossus saying that Sabretooth died." Forge said, hanging his head low.
"Wait…Colossus called YOU?" Magneto said.
"Yes." Said Forge. "Didn't you know? Colossus and I are male friends."
The three stared at him in a stupefied state until suddenly, another Forge walked around the corner.
"Forge Two! Bad!" the other Forge yelled, hitting Forge Two over the head. Forge Two whimpered and ran away. "Don't mind Forge Two. I can't really control him or his sexual preference."
"Whatever." Said Mystique. "We don't really care about Forge Two. Could YOU give a straight answer about the condition of our henchmen?"
MEANWHILE!!!
Dinner passed without much event and then there was the dilemma on what to do next.
"Maybe we should just have them watch a movie." Said Rogue. "That way we don't really have to watch them."
"No!" said Jean. "We have to play with them!"
"Yeah, it could be fun…and different." Evan said slowly.
"Whatever." Said Rogue. "You guys can play with them all you want but we're just going to watch a movie."
And with that, they all split up.
"What movie do you guys want to watch?" Rogue asked as she looked through a shelf of videotapes and Lance, Remy and Kitty sat down on the couch.
"My Little Ponies!" Kitty said.
"NO!!" yelled Remy and Lance.
"I don't think that's one of our selections anyway…" Rogue confessed. "We don't really have very many kids movies here. How about we just put on the television, okay?" Rogue sat down on the couch with the small people armed with the remote control.
"Can Remy pick out somet'ing to watch?" Remy asked.
"No, I'll do it." Rogue said as she instinctively skipped over Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Disney, Toon Disney and all those other kids channels.
"Hey, go back!" said Lance. "That was Legends of the Hidden Temple! I wanna watch Legends of the Hidden Temple!"
"Lizzie Maguire!" Kitty yelled.
"Remy want to pick somet'ing." Remy insisted as he leaned over and tried to snatch the remote from Rogue.
"No, I don't think so." Rogue said, leaning away from him. "I'll be picking out what we watch. What time is it? 8:00? Oh, 'Clabrina the Teenage Goth' is on and that's my favorite show."
"Aw man…" whined Remy, Kitty and Lance as Rogue flipped it to her favorite show.
Meanwhile!
"All right, my turn to count!" said Evan. "You two have to hide. I'm only going to count to thirty." Then he turned around and started counting.
"Come on, I'll hide us!" said Kurt as he grabbed St. John's hand and teleported them into the laundry basket in his room.
"Let's hide in the kitchen!" said St. John, climbing out. "Where the stove is! We can turn it on and then when Evan comes in, we can BURN him!"
"Why?" asked Kurt.
"We'd never be 'It'!" St. John explained.
"But Evan would be burnt." Kurt said.
"Fine." Said St. John. "We don't have to burn him. We can just create a wall of fire around us and he won't be able to see us or tag us!"
"But he'd see the fire." Kurt pointed out.
"But he wouldn't see US!" St. John reminded him.
"Um…how about we just hide on the roof?" Kurt suggested.
St. John's eyes lit up. "Yeeeaahh…" he said, grabbing Kurt's hand again. Kurt then teleported them to the roof.
MEANWHILE!!!
"Jean, truth or dare." Said Wanda.
"Uh…truth!" said Jean.
"All right…" said Wanda as she thought. "Do you have a crush on anyone?"
"EWWW!!" yelled Scott and Pietro.
"Um…well…SORT OF…" Jean said quietly. "It's a little awkward right now."
"Who is it?" asked Wanda eagerly.
"I don't think I should say." Jean confessed.
"If you don't say then you have to the penalty!" Scott said. "You have to put your head in the toilet and then flush it."
"When there's something in it!" Pietro added as he fell over on the ground in laughter since little boys just find that kind of stuff RIDICULOUSLY funny.
"Pietro, be careful!" Jean said because he just barely cleared the wall.
"I bet she's in love with YOU Pietro!" said Wanda.
"No way!" yelled Pietro. "She's too OLD for me!"
"I beg your pardon!" said Jean, putting her hands on her hips.
"Pietro and Jean sitting in a tree!" sang Scott. "K-I-S-S-I-N-G!"
"NO!!" yelled Pietro. "SHE'S OLD!!"
"If you guys get married then I'll have a sister who's practically as old as my DAD!" Wanda groaned.
"That's enough out of you three!" Jean said as she lifted them up off the floor in attempt to show them who was boss.
"Hey!" said Wanda. "If my father knew you were doing this…!"
"That's right!" gasped Jean just was Wanda zapped her. This, of course, cause Jean to drop all three of them on the ground with a SPLAT!
"I'M TELLING!!!" screamed Pietro. "YOU'RE NOT A GOOD BABYSITTER!!"
"No!" Jean said frantically, recovering from Wanda's blast in record-breaking time as she attempted to caress away everyone's tears.
Meanwhile!!
"I don't know if Evan's ever going to find us." Said Kurt to St. John as the two of them sat on the roof.
"We should burn him." St. John said.
"Why?" asked Kurt.
"Because he's making us wait so long." St. John answered.
"It's just because we have such a good hiding spot." Kurt pointed out. "But it IS getting cold up here."
"If only I had some fire…" St. John said sadly as if it were a tragedy.
"I wish I had something to do." Kurt said. "The only things up here are a bunch of shingles and a chimney."
Kurt and St. John paused and looked at each other.
"You thinking what I'm thinking?" St. John said with a devious smile.
"Yeah!" Kurt said excitedly.
"Yeah!" said St. John. "So I'll grab your tail and then you'll hold the sides and maneuver us down the chimney!"
Kurt stopped. "No." he said. "I just want to jump down it."
"But that would hurt when we land." St. John said.
"It would hurt if you were hanging onto my tail." Kurt said.
"What if there's a fire in the fireplace?!" St. John yelled. "If we just foolishly jumped down we wouldn't know until it was too late…" Suddenly, he stood up. "What if there's a fire in the fireplace? That would be so cool!" He ran over to the chimney and looked down it. "Do you think there's a fire in the fireplace?"
"Well, if there is then you're going first." Kurt said.
"No way!" St. John said. "I'm older so you go first."
"You're not older!" Kurt argued.
"Yes I am!" St. John said. "Look how much taller I am than you."
"But wouldn't you like it if there was fire down there?"
"But I wouldn't want to burn MYSELF! I'll go down first only if I can hold your tail."
"But that hurts."
"It would hurt if I landed in the fire MORE."
"Why do we have to go down the chimney?" Kurt whined.
"It was YOUR IDEA!" St. John yelled.
MEANWHILE!!!
Rogue was watching Clabrina the Teenage Goth while the three small children fidgeted and whined.
"I wanna watch Heathcliff." Whined Lance.
"That show hasn't been on for ten years." Rogue said since there was a commercial.
"That's not true." Said Lance.
"Yes it is." Rogue said.
"Then I want to watch Captain Planet." Lance said, crossing his arms.
"Same with that." Rogue answered, rolling her eyes.
"Can we watch Maya the Bee?" asked Kitty.
"No!" Rogue said, sounding annoyed.
"Remy want da remote." Remy said, sounding grumpy.
Just then, Evan wandered in.
"Rogue, have you seen Kurt and St. John?" he asked.
"You only have two kids and you've already lost both of them?" Rogue said, raising an eyebrow.
"We're playing Hide-N-Seek and I'm the seeker." Evan explained.
"Well, Kurt's probably teleporting from hiding spot to hiding spot whenever you get near him." Rogue deducted. "I don't know about the other kid. He's probably off burning something."
"But…" started Evan but he was interrupted by a banging sound. He looked around. "What was that?"
"I don't know." Rogue said.
"It sounded like it came from the upstairs." Said Kitty. Suddenly, there was more banging before the fireplace erupted with soot that formed a cloud in the corner of the room and made it completely black all around the fireplace. Everyone decided that this would be a good thing to investigate and when the smoke cleared, they were not pleasantly surprised by Kurt and St. John sitting in the fireplace behind the little safe screen coughing and hacking.
"Cool!!" said Lance excitedly.
"Great job, Evan." Groaned Rogue as she pulled the safe screen off and lifted Kurt and St. John each out of the fireplace.
"Now we're all black!" complained St. John as if that was all he cared about.
"Then that means they have to take a bath." Rogue said. "Evan?"
"Why me?!" Evan gasped.
"How many reasons do you want?" said Rogue, annoyed. Evan didn't look like he was going to budge. "One, these two are in your care. Two, it's your fault they're dirty. Three, you're a guy and so are they!"
"Rogue come on!" said Evan desperately. "Can you imagine bathing Kitty and Wanda?!"
"How is that relevant at all?" Rogue asked.
"Well, let's just say that they got dirty and it was YOUR job to bathe them… wouldn't that make you feel awkward no matter WHAT age they are?!"
"Nope." Said Rogue even though secretly, she agreed but she couldn't very well have Evan winning.
"It's too weird for me." Evan said, crossing his arms.
"Well…" started Rogue, turning around to look at the mass of children that were supposed to be right there but they were, in fact…NOT!! OH NO!! "Where'd they all go?!"
"Weren't you watching them?!" Evan yelled.
"Weren't YOU?!" Rogue yelled back as the two of them tore down the hallway in search of the elusive group of…people.