Appetizers Are Fun

"Hey this room is sweet yo!" Todd looked around the room. "Ooh! Breadsticks!" They were all seated at a huge table inside a fancy private dining room.

"Look not that I care but where is the rest of the Moron Patrol?" Rogue asked.

"They're out with Spirit and the Blind Master tracking down Zartan," Pietro told her. "They think he was trying to rob some museum around here or something."

"Shouldn't you be out looking with them?" Kurt glared at them.

"Nah Hawk gave us the night off," Shipwreck waved.

"Actually we're all here to make sure he stays sober," Pietro waved. Then he turned to Mr. and Mrs. Sefton. "So you're Amanda's parents? How are things?"

"Forgive me for asking but how do all of you know Kurt again?" Mr. Sefton asked.

"Where are my manners?" Shipwreck grinned.

"Probably ran far away…" Ororo muttered under her breath.

"I'm Shipwreck Delgato. I'm with GI Joe. I work in a special unit dealing with mutants. And some of these kids here are actually mine. The triplets and the girl who should be keeping her hands where I can see them!"

"Chill out Dad okay?" Althea groaned. "Do you really think Todd and I would sneak around tonight doing stuff?"

"Him I know won't do anything," Shipwreck pointed. "I can control him through fear! You are a different story!"

"Oh please you can't even scare the babies!" Althea waved. "Polly is more frightening than you! Especially when he's on a bender."

"Polly's our pet parrot," Pietro explained to the Seftons. "We're trying to get him to join AA."

"Uh maybe we should order right now," Xavier said. "You know maybe we should get a little bit of everything first!"

"Yeah the sooner we can stuff food in their mouths to keep them from talking the better," Ororo grumbled.

"Stop starting at me Pietro!" Rogue snapped. "You're making faces at me!"

"Can't a loving brother tease his sister?" Pietro asked playfully.

"You tease me like that and you'll get a broken nose," Wanda growled.

"Brother?" Mrs. Sefton asked.

"Oh of course you wouldn't know," Pietro said. "You see we're twins. Our father is also Rogue's father by way of a scientific experiment."

"Really?" Mrs. Sefton blinked.

"Yeah our father is Magneto," Wanda grumbled. "He's this insane maniac who wants to rule the world. Tried to use us to help him do it."

"What?" Mrs. Sefton gasped.

"Yeah the X-Men keep tangling with him from time to time," Rogue sighed.

"Hey we Misfits have had a few run-ins with him as well," Todd said.

"You used to work for him!" Rogue snapped.

"So did you!" Todd said. "Remember? Before you defected to the X-Men."

"I didn't know who he was then," Rogue said. "And I wish I never found out."

"Wait let me get this straight," Mr. Sefton asked Xavier. "You actually encourage your students to fight a maniac like that?"

"The X-Men were created not just to train mutants with their powers and to help people," Xavier told him. "Unfortunately there are mutants out there who believe that because they are the next step in evolution, it gives them the right to use their powers to control others. We are against everything Magneto stands for."

"You used to be quite chummy with him as I recall," Shipwreck said. "Of course that was before he went nuts."

"Wait a second, I thought Rogue was Kurt's sister?" Mrs. Sefton asked.

"Half sister actually," Wanda said. "They have the same mother."

"She's an evil psychotic loon who abandoned Kurt by throwing him off a bridge when he was a baby after Magneto finished doing scientific experiments on him," Pietro said.

"She did not throw me off a bridge she dropped me!" Kurt snapped.

"Sure Blue-boy whatever you say," Pietro waved.

"Hey it's not like you were the only person he did experiments on," Wanda said. "Look what he did to Pietro and me! Not to mention Miss Personality over there!"

"At least I didn't end up in an insane asylum for most of my childhood!" Rogue snapped.

"Living with Magneto would drive anybody nuts!" Todd defended. "He didn't care whose genes he messed with! Mine included!"

"Well that explains a lot," Mr. Sefton muttered under his breath.

"You know maybe we should order some appetizers about now," Xavier said quickly.

"YAY! FOOD!" Brittany cheered. "Mangia time!"

"Yo!" Todd called out. "Waiter!"

"Toad you ignoramus that's now how you call for a waiter!" Shipwreck snapped. "This ain't the local greasy spoon. You gotta have class when you do it. Watch me."

Shipwreck banged his spoon on his water glass repeatedly. "Oh Mr. Waiter!" He kept banging until one walked over. "Yeah Garcon, we'd like some appetizers now. Just bring out a few plates of everything will ya? That's my good man."

"Hey Mr. Culture you just called an Italian waiter a French name," Althea said. "So why are you guys here again?"

"Well as I was saying I wanted this dinner to be an opportunity for the Seftons to get to know Kurt better and the people he knows," Xavier explained. "To give them a better understanding of mutants."

"Yes Mr. Xavier we are getting a very clear view of Kurt's background," Mr. Sefton said.

"PIETRO STOP MAKING FACES AT ME OR I'LL KILL YOU!" Wanda shouted.

"Make me slowpoke!" Pietro cackled. "OW! SHIPWRECK SHE PINCHED MY ARM!"

"Uh I'd like to point out that technically I'm not really related to these people," Kurt said to the Seftons as he pointed to Wanda and Pietro.

"Oh thanks a lot Kurt!" Rogue snapped.

"This is not going well," Xavier moaned.

"Oh really?" Ororo looked at him. "I hadn't noticed."