MEANWHILE!!!
"Then Jack said to the pirate, 'But I haven't got your treasure!'" Jean read to Scott, Pietro and Wanda who were all dressed in their pajamas and tucked underneath the blankets of Scott's bed. "The pirates weren't about to give Jack any mercy!"
"Then what happened?!" Pietro yelled, bolting up in bed.
"Shhh…" Jean hissed. "If you listen, you'll find out."
"Tell me!!" whined Pietro.
"I don't want to hear this story." Complained Wanda.
"I do!!" Pietro argued. (In case you're wondering, yes, they WERE wearing their matching Winnie the Pooh sleepers.)
"I don't!!" said Wanda angrily.
"I DO!!" yelled Pietro.
"I…DON'T!!!" Wanda screamed as she zapped Pietro up into the air and then dropped him on the floor. Pietro immediately burst into tears as Jean ran to his aid. She tried her best to quiet his screaming but he had bumped his head. Aww, poor Pietro.
Suddenly, she heard the sound of footsteps. Her initial thought was that it was Magneto here to smite her for making one of his children cry but the door swung open and it was Rogue.
Jean sighed with relief.
"All the kids are missing!" Rogue yelled over Pietro's screaming.
Jean gasped.
"How could they be missing?!" she demanded, still having to raise her voice over Pietro.
Rogue looked at him and then touched his forehead. He was zapped once again and then he died. But not really. He was only unconscious. Which was a good thing because now he was quiet. Jean gave another sigh of relief and then put him back in the bed next to Wanda who was over it entirely.
Jean looked back at Rogue. "So, how could they be missing?" she said more calmly and quietly.
"Evan and I were talking and suddenly, they were gone." Rogue replied.
"Then we have to find them." Said Jean as she turned around to tell everyone to wait for her but Scott had already picked up the book and was now reading it to Wanda who appeared to be disregarding the fact that she didn't want to hear the story. So Jean shrugged and she and Rogue ran out of the room. Rogue, with her new found powers, ran EXTRA fast around the mansion in search of the children.
MEANWHILE!!!
"Where are we going?" whined Kitty as everyone followed after Remy since he was the biggest and he weighed the most.
"Just exploring." Remy replied as he went to open a door that surely had many secretive X-Men stuff in it when all of a sudden, Rogue came running in at top speed and threw herself in front of him.
"So that's where you all went!" she said angrily.
"We were just exploring." Said Kurt.
Rogue then gasped to see that Kurt and St. John had made a dirty black trail from where they had started to where they were now. It was then that Evan came rushing into the room.
"Hey, if you just follow the trail then…!" he started but then he looked up to see that Rogue had already found them. "Well, never mind."
It was then that Jean joined them in being downstairs.
"These two are a MESS!" Jean exclaimed, pointing at Kurt and St. John. Then she turned to Rogue and Evan. "All right, which one of you were supposedly looking after them?"
"That was Mr. Hide-n-Seek here." Rogue said, pointing at Evan.
"Well, we have to bathe them and put them to bed." Jean said. "Evan…"
"Not you too!" whined Evan. "Just because I'm a male doesn't mean it won't be awkward for me to bathe Kurt and St. John cause they're both actually older than I am and I'd never be able to look them in the face again!"
"Oh come on, Evan!" said Jean in an exasperated tone. "It's no big deal!"
"Yes it is!" said Evan defensively. "I wouldn't care if they were ACTUALLY younger than I am but they're not, Jean. They're not."
"I know that." Said Jean.
"I couldn't get him to do it either." Said Rogue. "Don't bother."
"Let's take them upstairs anyway." Jean said as she shooed the children up the stairs into Scott's room since that's where everyone was crashing anyway.
"Don't you think we should separate the boys and girls?" said Rogue when she spotted Wanda lying in between Scott and Pietro.
"They're too young to be thinking about that kind of stuff." Jean insisted.
"I still think…" Rogue started.
"Fine Rogue." Said Evan. "They can sleep in YOUR room."
"I want to sleep in my own room." Whined Kurt.
"The boys can stay here in Scott's room and all the girls can go into Kurt's room." Rogue suggested.
"But I'M not a girl!" Kurt yelled.
"You'll sleep in here." Jean said.
"But I want to sleep in my own bed." Kurt said, trying to be difficult. Then again, he could have NOT been trying to be difficult. You never know with small children when they all of a sudden NEED something and you're trying to reason with them otherwise.
"You'll just have to deal with it." Said Jean. "Now you and St. John have to clean yourselves off."
"I can do it by myself." Said St. John to Evan. "Do you have any bubbles?"
"Uh…don't think so." Evan answered.
"Evan, if it bothers you so much to clean them, make them wear their bathing suits." Rogue suggested.
"Good idea!" said Evan, pointing his finger up in the air.
"I can clean myself all by myself." St. John said yet again since everyone was clearly ignoring him. But it's not like that was a NEW thing.
Evan then escorted Kurt and St. John to the bathroom where they would be thoroughly cleansed! Well, maybe not THOROUGHLY, but at least they wouldn't be covered in soot.
"Now, let's get everyone else in their pajamas and take the two girls to Kurt's room." Said either Rogue or Jean. You can choose. It's up to you.
"I'll take the girls." Said Rogue as she grabbed Kitty and Wanda and dashed out of the room at top Pietro speed before Jean could even question her. Jean gave an exasperated sigh and looked at the remaining four children that were all awaiting her to do something.
"I'm hungry." Said Pietro to break the silence.
Meanwhile…
"No bubbles at all?" whined Kurt as he stood there in his little blue bathing suit. "Awww…"
"It's COLD!!!" St. John screamed as he sat down in the tub that was filled to the brim. He was wearing his insane vivid green bathing suit. He was covered in black soot. Not only that…but he was also red because of the dye. He's just a PALLET of colors today!
"Sorry about that." Said Evan as he turned the faucet.
"Now it's too hot!" Kurt yelled since he was next to the spout. Evan turned the heat down.
"I'm FREEZING!!" screamed St. John.
Meanwhile!!
"Is everything you own featured with Barbie or butterflies or rainbows?" Rogue said, sounding disgusted as she searched for Kitty's pajamas. "Err…I think these are them."
"Thanks!" said Kitty as she took the pajamas, stripped down to nothing except her undies and then put on her pajamas.
Rogue could only stare at her. Stupefied.
"I'm tired." Complained Wanda as she climbed into Kurt's bed.
"Well, that's why you're going to bed." Said Rogue, getting out of her stupefied state. Kitty jumped in the bed too.
"I never share a bed at home." Kitty said. "I get my own bed. I have my own room at home."
"Not here." Rogue explained as she tucked both Wanda and Kitty into bed.
MEANWHILE!!!
"TEN LITTLE MONKEYS JUMPING ON THE BED!!" Pietro yelled as he jumped up and down on the bed.
"Be quiet!!" everyone hushed him at the same time as Remy and Scott grabbed either of his arms and pulled him down so he was sitting. In case you're wondering, yes, he had recovered from Rogue's 'attack'.
"But I haven't even done nine monkeys or eight monkeys or seven monkeys or six monkeys…" started Pietro.
"Are you going to count all the way down?" asked Lance.
"I think you get the idea." Said Pietro reassuringly as he patted Lance on the back.
"So get into bed." Commanded Jean.
"You're not my mom." Said Lance defiantly. "You can't tell me what to do."
"Well, I'm in charge." Said Jean. "So you will do EXACTLY what I say or face the consequences."
"She lying." Said Pietro. "She can't do anything to me because my dad will KILL her!"
Jean looked at an ominous painting of Magneto that, for one reason or another, was hanging up in the particular room that they were in. It glared down at her evilly as if DARING her to hurt Pietro.
"Scott, why do you have this horrifying painting of Magneto in your room?!" Jean yelled, realizing that they were in Scott's room.
"It gets me pumped before a battle!" said Scott as he punched his fist into his open palm.
Jean rolled her eyes. "All right, everyone lie down and go to sleep!"
"We don't want to." Remy said.
"I thought we already went through this." Jean said.
"We didn't." said Lance. "Pietro was just saying that you don't have any authority over us."
Jean gave a heavy sigh and left the room for a moment.
"Nice job!" said Scott as he slapped everyone five.
"Yeah!" cheered Pietro. "We're gonna stay up all night!!"
Then Jean returned with Rogue. Rogue touched each of them and then all immediately fell limp on the bed.
"Thank you." Said Jean as she repositioned them all so it looked like they had peacefully snuggled up for the night.
"No problem." Said Rogue as she shook the world, zapped something with her laser eye vision, blew something up and then ran out of the room as fast as inhumanly possible. Then Jean shrugged and left as well and passed by Evan as he walked in followed by Kurt and St. John who were both whining about their bath being extremely insufficient with water that was too hot or too cold and they didn't have any bubbles!! But they changed into their pajamas without too much argument.
"But I'm not tired!" whined St. John. "A cold shower ALWAYS wakes me up!"
"Well, good thing you took a cold BATH." Said Evan.
"It doesn't matter!" said St. John. "It was still cold and it still woke me up! I'm as wide awake as possible!"
"I didn't clean myself very well." Said Kurt as he looked at the soot that befouled his body so. Had he not been covered in blue fur, he would be clean but baths take longer when you're blue and fuzzy. However, Evan had only allotted a bath for people who lack the fur that so burdens Kurt. "I think I need to get back in the tub."
"You're clean enough." Said Evan. "Now get into bed."
"But there are FOUR people in the bed already!" Kurt pointed out.
Evan looked at the bed. They might be smaller than usual but no matter how small they were, there was no way that the SIX of them could fit on Scott's twin bed.
"So does this mean we get to stay up all night?" asked St. John.
"We can sleep on the couch!" Kurt exclaimed. "We'll go to sleep!"
"Yeah!" St. John said. "We PROMISE!!"
"I don't think that'll work…" Evan said hesitantly.
"PLEASE?!" pleaded St. John and Kurt as they got to their knees and begged.
"No!" said Evan. "I have to stand my ground! You guys will just have to sleep in my room!"
"YOUR room?" St. John said. "That's even worse than sleeping in here."
"And what's that supposed to mean?" Evan asked, sounding offended.
"It means that you stink!" said St. John, grabbing his nose.
"That is NOT true!" Evan argued angrily, taking a small child's insults WAY too seriously.
Then Jean walked in.
"What are you three doing?!" she demanded in a loud whisper. "You're going to wake them up! You wouldn't believe how hard it was to get them to finally go to sleep!"
"Well, if you're so great then make them go to bed too!" Evan challenged.
"I WILL." Jean said, lifting St. John and Kurt up off the ground and setting them lightly down on the bed. "You two can sleep at the foot of the bed."
"I don't want anyone's stinky feet in my face!" Kurt said in a whiny voice.
"I doubt your feet will even reach theirs when you're lying down." Jean assured him. "Now get under the covers!"
"I'm feeling cramped!" St. John complained.
"You're just making that up, now go to sleep!" Jean said.
"But it SMELLS!" Kurt sniffed.
"Worse than Evan's room!" St. John added.
"Hey!!" Evan yelled with a threatening look. "You're crossing the line!"
"Quiet!" Jean yelled in her whispering yell. "You're going to wake up the other four!"
"Good!" St. John said. "If you make us sleep here, we'll wake them up on purpose!"
"Yeah!" Kurt said. Then he turned to St. John. "But where else could we sleep?"
"Well there's the couch…" St. John counted on his fingers. "And Evan's stinky room. And the roof or outside in a tent."
"Oh!" exclaimed Kurt. "Can we sleep on the roof? Can we?! Can we?!"
"No you can not!" Jean said angrily. "You can go to sleep right where you are and not make another sound!"
"We don't want to!" St. John said defiantly.
Jean, with an extremely annoyed expression, used her telepathic powers to summon Rogue back. Rogue was there in a flash since she was feeling unusually courteous today for one reason or another. "Yes?" she asked.
"These two." Jean said, pointing to Kurt and St. John.
"What would you guys do without me?" Rogue said, rolling her eyes as she was over at the foot of the bed in a split second and then touched both Kurt and St. John before anyone could question her.
"I wouldn't believe how hard it was to get them to finally go to sleep?" Evan said to Jean with a raised eyebrow.
"Well…I meant that it was actually very easy." Jean lied.
At that exact moment, the voice of Professor Xavier rang in all of their ears. Or…their minds I suppose…
"How is everything going with the children?" asked the Professor.
"We finally got them to go to sleep but they were quite irritating." Jean admitted.
"I think they're awfully cute…" said the Professor. "So innocent at that age."
"Right." Said Rogue.
"So anyway." The Professor continued. "I want you three to get some rest as well. We have a very busy day tomorrow and you three are key in the success of the day.""So we're not off the hook yet?" groaned Evan.
"Silence Evan! I shall tell you when you're done!" Professor Xavier scolded. "So go to sleep you three!"
"All right…" Said Jean.
"Very good." Said the Professor. "Oh and Magnus insisted that I ask how Wanda and Pietro are doing."
"They're JUST fine." Said Jean with a sigh.
"He'll be happy to hear. Goodnight."
And with that, the telepathic link died.
As for Rogue, Jean and Evan, since they did not want to disobey the Professor, they immediately hit the hay for the night. Rogue was happy to have a room to herself for once without Kitty in there and had always thought it wasn't very fair that she and Kitty were the only ones who had to share a room. I always found it kind of odd. Don't you think that maybe Kurt and Scott would share a room? Or maybe all the boys and all the girls? No. Everyone has their own room except for Kitty and Rogue who are forced to share one. Oh well! It kind of makes you think, though. In the first Dark Horizons episode, you would think that Rogue would go after Kitty first since they sleep in the same room but instead, she left the room and then went after everyone else first and Kitty just so happened to be conveniently there. Was she planning on skipping over Kitty? Or maybe she just figured she'd get her on the way back. Whichever it is, I'm sure the animators never thought that there would be someone to think about it.