While the Adults are Away

By Todd Fan

Disclaimer: "You're a little low in the food chain to be mouthing off, aren't you?"

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Okay, as promised, one of the Evo characters makes her Todd Fan fic debut. I have never written her before, so this should be interesting....very interesting. Nope, i already wrote Paul, he hti on Sidney in my very first Sidney fic, he's been in a few musical numbers too ;)

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Chapter 7 - A new Player

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Piotr gave a happy sigh of contentment. Pyro had been released and was somewhere sulking in the mansion and Remy..he could be anywhere. But Piotr, he didn't care. He was lounging in the sun, enjoying the peace and tranquility....until something fell on his chest with a thud. Piotr opened one eye to see an angry looking teenaged girl staring at him.

"Err...hello?", he tried, "are you one of the students that i missed?".

The girl stared at him for a few seconds before giving a growl. Piotr chuckled, she didn't look THAT scary.

*SNIKT*

It was then that two claws popped out of each hand...adamantium claws...oh boy.

"Where's Wolverine?", growled X23.

"He's....on a training programe", said Piotr with a nervous chuckle, trying to get out from under the tiny physcopath before she did any damage, "he will not be coming back for a while yet".

X23 gave a frustrated sigh, drawing her claws back in.

"Well that's just GREAT", she said, "'come and see me, anytime', he says, i'll always be here', he says. HAH!".

Piotr gave a sigh of relief as she jumped off his chest and proceeded to punch a tree repeatedly.

"You know...", he said, standing up slowly, "i am sure you can stay here until he comes back".

X23 pondered this for a minute. Safety in a nice, big, plush mansion. Hunted by Hydra and S.H.I.E.L.D while taking cover in a damp storm drain...no contest.

"Fine, but i get my own room", she said, storming into the house.

Ray glanced up from DragonTrybe to see who had entered before turning back to the game. It took his brain about 5 seconds to catch up to his eyes before he glanced up again.

"X.....X23", he stammered, "what are you...doing..here?".

He gulped and closed his eyes.

"Please don't kill me", he whimpered.

He opened one eye when there was silence, to his sheer horror, X23 was reaching out to touch one of his playing pieces.

"DON'T TOUCH THAT!!!", he shouted, batting her hand away, before realising exactly what he had done, jumping back about a foot and cowering.

X23 frowned at him before looking at the game.

"What is this?".

Ray blinked...no disemboweling had occured yet.....maybe she was sick.

"It's a board game", said Ray, "you have to fight through the DragonTrybe world and defeat the powerfull and evil Mage Lord Hispondoria".

X23 arched an eyebrow. She had never heard of a board game before in her entire life. She looked at it again, before looking at Ray.

"Can i play?".

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Elsewhere, Amanda was going about melting herself a brand new pathway. She had been working secretly on it for weeks. It would give her a personal path right to the pool, which only she, Princess of Nova Roma, could use. Heh heh. All she had to do was finish off these few stones and it would be done!

Amara created a fireball in her hands.

Phffft.

It went out. She blinked and tried again.

Phhfft.

What the heck? She heard a giggle and turned to see Pyro leaning on a tree, waving. She gave a growl and changed into her full Magma form. Big. Mistake. Suddenly, her own hand came up and started to slap her.

"Quit hitting yourself", giggled Pyro, "quit hitting yourself, quit hitting yourself".

"QUIT IT!", whined Amara!.

"No", replied Pyro, "this is payback. Mwhoahahahahhahahahahah heh heh!".

Amara squealed in terror as she floated into the air and started to sail along her unfinished path, about three feet in the air.

"Oh very funny, put me down, that's an ORDER!", she snapped.

"No way", said Pyro with another manical chuckle, "this is waaaaaaay too much fun!"

It was then Amara decided that the only way to stop this madness was to take away the fire from him. No fire, no powers. With that, she powered down. Unfortunately, Amara wasn't looking where she was floating and powered down right above the pool. The pool that had not yet been cleaned. The pool that was filled with pool slime and smelt worse than Toad.

SPLASH.

Pyro laughed hysterically, pointing as Amara resurfaced spluttering out the dirty pool water. She gave Pyro a look that spat venom before climbing out of the pool and squelching with all the dignity she could muster, back into the house.

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Rogue meanwhile had been enjoying a few minutes of peace AWAY from that anoying Cajun. Who she didn't like at all. So there....even if he did have those lovely eyes....and that charm...and that accent...sigh. She stopped dead when she noticed her brother in the middle of his room, working on a strange object surrounded by cans of weed killer.

".....Kurt", she said carefully, "what are you doing?".

Kurt grinned up at her.

"I'm fighting ze good fight, Sis!", he said proudly, "i'm going to get rid of that demon plant vith this!".

Rogue blinked at the object in the middle of the room.

"What IS it?".

"Eet's", Kurt paused for effect, "a VEEDOLL BOMB!".

Rogue blinked again....alright, it was clear that Kurt had gone off the edge of insanity...poor soul.

"How in the name of all things holy did you make that?", she asked, examining a rather nasty-looking piece of machinery.

"Oh i found some things in the back of Forge's pickup truck", said Kurt with a shrug, "i'm sure he von't mind me using it to fight off Ororo's plants...that and he can divert her anger from me vhen she finds out".

Rogue shook her head.

"You are an evil little....thing", she said, "and a'h hope it's this good an idea when you're in Hell".

Kurt rolled his eyes.

"I'm doing ze vorld a favour!", he said, "now all i have to do is find a vay to get Sam out of the vay so i can go to VAR!".

"Good luck to ya", said Rogue, "Sam's guarding that attic with his life".

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At that very moment, though, Sam was NOT guarding the attic. He had been tipped off by Jamie (who was still stinging over the sea monkey incident) that Kurt was plotting on destroying the plants of the attic. Sam, concerned that Ororo would blame him, the guy she put in charge of protecting her plants, for their untimely demise, had gone on a trek to find Kurt and put an end to his operation. What he FOUND, on the other hand, he would never forget. It would haunt him for a long time to come. Sitting in the common room on either side of a table, were Ray and X23...playing something.

"By the power of Lord Quezipeck!", shouted Ray, rolling his dice and giving a gleefull shout, "i, Raymond Crisp, use the staff of Lokisit and take away your ultimate weapon!".

X23 watched in horror as Ray swiped her game piece off the board.

"How DARE you take my halebellow", she said.

"Hey, it's not my fault i'm a better Meerclar than you", said Ray, "lehooo- seeeherrr"

X23 responded to this insult the only way she knew how. The only way she knew how to respond to ANYTHING. Full. Stop. Pure-Unadulterated-Violence.

"DIE!".

She threw the playing piece at Ray's head. Unfortunately, Ray ducked and the piece carried on sailing through the air until it stopped. It stopped for one reason alone. It had hit Sam. It had hit Sam in the eye. The Southern boy fell to the floor with a thud. X23 and Ray glanced at him.

"Ooooohhhh you did it noooooow", said Ray.

SNIKT

Ray glanced at the claws.

"....Or not"

Both teenagers looked at the felled Sam before coming to a split-second conclusion that they both agreed on. They both ran or, in the case of X23, walked away from the scene of the crime, leaving someone else to do the dirty work of looking after Sam for them. As she passed the table, X23 scooped up the DragonTrybe game...so they could just play it somewhere else.

"Medic", whimpered Sam from the ground

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Another chapter down. How is my X23? You know, i started off not really caring about her..but now i have wrote her in...i kinda like her. She's fun. Damn, now i want to see Target X. Oh well. Do review. Until next time...