MEANWHILE!!!
"I see you're awake!" said Jean excitedly as Lance sat up in the bed. Jean and Scott had been playing handslapping games.
"Don't call Rogue!" Lance said in a scared tone. "I've been asleep all day! It's not fair!"
"Oh don't worry!" Jean said with a chuckle. "I wouldn't dream of it! As a matter of fact, I think a bit of fresh air would do you children good! We just have to wait for Remy to wake up!"
"Come play Tarzan with us!" Scott urged.
"Only if I get to be Kerchak." Said Lance as he crossed his arms.
"No!" Scott laughed. "The HANDSLAPPING game!"
"How do you play?" asked Lance as he sat down in the circle.
"All you have to do is…" started Jean but then she continued to explain as opposed to quietly trailing off. We just don't feel like explaining. But Jean always does. You know how enthusiastic she is.
"That's…stupid." Lance said.
"No it isn't!" Scott yelled defensively.
"It IS a girl's game…but it's still fun!" Jean agreed.
"It's a girl's game?" Scott said, confused.
"Yeah!" Jean replied. "All hand slapping games are!"
"Well…I don't really want to play hand slapping games anymore…" Scott decided since he didn't want to be caught looking unmanly and he had to set an example for Lance who was only a little kid.
"That's okay!" said Jean. "We'll just do something ELSE to occupy our time until Remy wakes up! Have you two ever made a friendship bracelet before?"
"How do you make one?" asked Scott.
"It's easy!" Jean answered, pulling a box of string out from underneath her bed and opening it up. (Yes, in case you didn't know, she had moved everyone to HER room so they wouldn't be in the random room that Rogue was in.) "All you have to do is weave the string together to make pretty designs!"
"Did you say, 'pretty'?" Scott said hesitantly.
"Um…MANLY designs!" Jean corrected herself as she pulled out the colors that were blue and red and black and all those other manly colors that were hardly touched.
"Can have some blue…and red…and black?" Lance asked.
"Certainly!" Jean replied.
Jean passed out all the strings and told him how to perfect their knots and braids and all other kinds of things that she convinced them was manly at the time but we all know very well that what they were doing was pretty much the opposite of manly. Pretty soon, they all got passed their reject stage and were getting decent so Jean could go off and make one too! She knew, however, that once Remy woke up, they were going outside to play and get some fresh air!
MEANWHILE!!
Pietro was humming merrily to himself as he ran around at warp speed without a point of interest. He didn't know why he remained at the Xavier Institute so he figured he would just run around the world a few times since he was so bored but he just so happened to stumble across Evan.
"WHERE ARE YOU GUYS?!" Evan was screaming through cupped hands.
Pietro ran over. "You're so pathetic, Daniels!" said Pietro.
"What do you mean, Pietro?!" Evan demanded angrily.
"You can't keep track of two kids!" Pietro reminded him. "How do you manage to lose them as often as you do and the only way you find them is because they run up behind you and ambush you?"
"Kurt's a teleporter." Evan said. "And since they've become such good friends, they teleport TOGETHER. AWAY from me. Except for when they want to ambush me."
"Well DUH." Said Pietro, rolling his eyes as if he was dealing with a little kid. It is kind of surprising how well Pietro is taking the fact that he's been really messed up for the past few days. Then again, he probably went through a state of shock for about five seconds and then got over and would have completely forgotten if not for the fact that everyone was reminding him about it.
At that point, they heard a BAMF sound! They turned around just in time for St. John and Kurt to jump Evan. They happened to knock him down in his surprised state.
Pietro shook his head in a disappointed tone and grabbed St. John and Kurt each by their collars, lifting them off Evan.
"Hey!!" said St. John. "We were going to tie Evan up and then burn him!"
"And the fire would be really big because Evan smells so bad!" Kurt added.
"How would my stench make the fire bigger?!" Evan demanded, brushing himself off and standing up. "And I do NOT smell!"
"Yes you do." Said St. John.
Pietro then put St. John and Kurt down. "Daniels, you are a poor excuse for a human being." He declared. "I'm ashamed to be the same species as you!"
"Come on, Pietro, I don't need YOU ganging up on me too!!" whined Evan.
"It's so sad and pathetic that I actually feel slightly sorry for you." Pietro sighed, looking as though he might be sincere. "In a sad, pathetic sort of way."
"So you're gonna help me?" Evan pleaded, getting big puppy eyes.
"Well, OTHERWISE, I'd just be running around the world…AGAIN." Pietro concluded. "And I also want to prove to you that I'm better at watching two kids than you are since I am, after all, better than you at everything."
If Pietro wasn't offering to help him, Evan probably would have hurled a spike at him at that point. "FINE." Said Evan, crossing his arms and looking annoyed.
"So what we should do is separate them." Pietro said. "Because one is a teleporter and the other one is just nuts. Without Kurt, St. John CAN'T do anything crazy. And without St. John, Kurt WON'T do anything crazy."
"I would have done that a long time ago if I had someone else to take the other one!" Evan said.
"Then we should…" Pietro started but then he looked down to see that there were no small children to be found. "EVAN! You lost them again!!"
"It wasn't me!!" fretted Evan.
"You go that way, I'll go this way!" Pietro said as he ran off. Before Evan could even turn around, Pietro returned. "Did you find them?" he asked. "I looked everywhere."
MEANWHILE!!!
"And that's how you weave a flower wreath!" Jean announced as she, Lance and Scott stood there holding their flower wreaths. Well…Jean had a flower wreath, Scott had a string of flowers tied together and Lance really only had a bunch of flowers. Remy just kinda stood there. He was still not entirely awake. Lance and Scott had gotten impatient and violently shaken him awake.
"I don't really want to wear a flower wreath." Said Lance as he tossed his flowers behind his back.
"I want to wear mine as a crown!" Scott said as he crowned himself with his circle of flowers. "I want to wear YOURS on my head, Jean!"
"Oh Scott!" said Jean said as she blushed.
Lance pretended to throw up.
Meanwhile!
"I hate training sessions with Logan!" whined Bobby as he and the New Recruits exited the Danger Room. All of their clothing was ripped and torn in PG places so that means that while male chests were EVER so exposed, females were still conservatively covered.
"Yeah!" chimed Amara. "He always makes us work too hard!"
"Let's go make ourselves some sandwiches." Said Ray.
"We don't have any bread." Said Jamie.
"I don't like bread with my sandwiches anyway." Said Tabitha.
"Then what can we do?" asked Jubilee.
"Let's go wreak havoc!" Sam said excitedly.
"YEAH!!" Roberto cheered.
"HURRAH!!" Rahne screamed. "Let's go!" Then the New Recruits did a secret handshake and went to go and wreak havoc in the world.
"Hey you guys!" Logan called as he came out of the Danger Room. "You can't just go wreaking havoc!"
"Aw…come on!" said all the New Recruits in unison.
"What's going on in here?" Storm asked as she walked in.
"That's what I'd like to know!" Beast announced. Suddenly, Angel flew in.
"Hi everyone!" he said. "What's going on here!"
"Storm just said that." Said Alex as he poked his head in the window.
"Hey guys!" said Colossus. "I am to deliver a message!"
"Let's ALL just wreak havoc!" said Blob as he bashed through the wall.
"That'll be fun!" Toad cheered from his perch atop Blob's shoulder.
"ALL RIGHT!!!!" They all cheered as they ran out of the hole that Blob had created and went to go cause havoc as a big odor!
MEANWHILE!!!
"If I were St. John and Kurt, where would I be?" asked Evan out loud to himself.
"If you were St. John and Kurt, you'd be TWO people." Said Pietro as he thwapped Evan on the head.
"SO?!" Evan demanded. "I didn't mean LITERALLY, I meant MENTALLY!"
"Well, that would be four times more brains than you have now." Said Pietro with a smirk.
"Are you implying that I only have half a brain?!" Evan yelled.
"You're right." Said Pietro. "That's giving you WAY too much credit."
"Why I outta…" Evan said angrily as he got a bunch of pulsating veins.
Before Evan could finish, there was an explosion over off in some other direction. They both automatically assumed that it was Kurt and St. John so they followed the humungous mushroom cloud in search of the two children.
MEANWHILE!!!
"PETE AND PETE!!!" yelled Scott as he practically slid across the ground as Jean attempted to run up and grab him.
"You got away just in time!" Jean said.
"Yeah!" said Scott who, might we add, was still wearing his flowers. Just in case you never played this game when you were little, they're playing Television Tag. Mainly, it's tag but instead of just running until you both get tired, the person who is being chased squats down and yells out the name of a television show before the tagger can tag them.
"Hey, you can still tag me!" said Lance from across the yard as he stuck his tongue out at Jean.
"I'll get you!" Jean declared as she went to go chase after Lance but Lance sat down.
"ANGRY BEAVERS!!" he yelled.
"You escaped too…FOR NOW!" Jean said dramatically. Then she looked at Remy who had said, 'Power Rangers' a LONG time ago and was not getting up. "I think there should be a time limit for how long you can stay down with one show."
"Fine." Said Remy as he stood up and sat back down. "Salute Your Shorts."
"Hey!" said Jean, putting her hands on her hips.
"Come and get me, Jean!" said Scott, jumping up into the air.
"That's just what I'll do!" said Jean as she chased after Scott but, of course, slowed her maximum speed down so that Scott could escape her wrath for now.
"ALADDIN!" Scott yelled, sitting down.
"Hey!" said Lance. "You can't say MOVIES! Only television shows!!"
"There's an Aladdin television show!" Scott said defensively.
"I'VE never seen it." Lance said, crossing his arms and pouting.
"That doesn't mean it doesn't exist." Scott said.
"I believe you, Scott, don't worry." Said Jean.
"Of course you believe him!" whined Lance. "You like him more than me!"
"That is NOT true and you know that, Lance Alvers!" Jean scolded, shaking her finger at Lance.
"Don't worry about him, Jean, he's just a little kid." Said Scott.
Remy gave and exasperated sigh and lied down on the grass.
Meanwhile…
"Maybe we should go to Professor Xavier and have him find them using Cerebro." Said Evan in a defeated tone to Pietro.
"And risk looking like a failure like you, Daniels?" Pietro asked, appalled. "No way, slow-mo. We're finding those two."
"But we don't even know where to look!" whined Evan.
"Maybe YOU don't." said Pietro with a grin.
"What's that supposed to mean?!" yelled Evan. "You said you searched EVERYWHERE!!!"
"Well, when I said everywhere I never said that I looked…" started Pietro but then he ran off. He came back a second later. Maybe even LESS than a second later. "Nope, I was wrong. They weren't there either."
Evan groaned. "What are we supposed to do?!"
"Well, you know them better than me so where would they be?" Pietro asked as he scratched his chin.
Evan thought for a moment. "Well…anywhere except my room." He answered finally.
"AHA!" said Pietro, pointing at Evan. "That's what they'd expect you to think! That's where they most likely are, thinking that we would never think to look there since we would figure that they'd be anywhere except there!"
"You think they're smart enough?" Evan asked.
"Sure, why not?" Pietro said with a shrug.
"Wait…why didn't YOU check there?" Evan questioned.
"It smells." Pietro said plainly, crossing his arms.
"IT DOES NOT!!!" Evan screamed.
"See you there, slow-mo!" said Pietro as he ran off at the speed of light. Of course, Pietro was in Evan's room in less than a second to find Kurt and St. John jumping on the bed chanting.
"OH NO!!" yelled St. John, pointing at Pietro. "They found us!!"
Pietro dashed over to them both and put each of them under his arms. "All right, normally I wouldn't care but while I'm in charge, you two aren't going anywhere!" he declared. Also at the speed of light, (is this getting redundant?) Pietro ran back to where Evan had just begun to start moving.
"Found them." He declared. "As you can see, I am a superior babysitter."
"Then YOU take them!" Evan said as he stomped off.
"Yeah right." Said Pietro as he really only just stood there watching Evan leave as if he expected Evan to turn around and apologize. "Yeah right." He said more loudly just in case the Slow-Mo hadn't heard him the first time.
"Evan SMELLS!" said St. John as Kurt burst into hysterical laughter.
"So very true." Pietro agreed. Then he ran back over to Evan. "Yeah right." He said, making very sure that Evan had heard him.
"Evan, we read your diary." Said Kurt.
"You did not!!" yelled Evan.
"Daniels…you keep a diary?" Pietro said with a raised eyebrow.
Evan paused and wondered why he had gotten angry in the first place. "Actually… no. I don't." he said.
"Sure." Said Pietro.
"But we read it!" said St. John. "We knew it was yours because your foul stench lingered!"
"Evan, stop that." Said Pietro.
"Stop what?!" demanded Evan. "THEY'RE the ones making fun of ME!"
"I know." Pietro admitted. "I was telling you to stop letting them make fun of you. It's really sad."
"I don't need you to join in too!!" yelled Evan.
"Don't worry, I wouldn't do that." Pietro said, turning his head away. "I think these two are insulting you my share too. I tried to be involved in the Evan-mocking, but you're just taking all the fun out of it."
"What's that supposed to mean?!" yelled Evan. (He seems to be doing a lot of 'yelled Evan' and 'demanded Evan's. We're running out of way to make Evan sound angry!!)
"It means that all my clever and witty insults are going to waste because you're letting yourself be insulted by a couple of kids." Pietro explained.
"YAY!!" cheered St. John and Kurt.
MEANWHILE!!!
"What time is it, Charles?" asked Magneto.
"Well…it's almost 7:00." Professor Xavier replied.
"Wow!" said Mystique. "Time sure does fly when you're just sitting around doing absolutely nothing!"