While the adults are Away

By Todd Fan

Disclaimer: "If you're not at ease with your knobbly knees and your fingers are all thumbs, stand on your two left feet and join your Raggy Doll Chums"

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Wow, this is it.....the last chapter of thie INSANE story. Incidentally, if you read this and the final chapter of Teacher Training together...it's like you get two POV's....freaky 0_o.

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Chapter 16 - The adults return home

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The teens had worked all through the night, attempting to get the mansion back to some form of normalcy. Scott had managed to convince Xaviers 'special' construction team to make an emergency vist to fix the wall....which granted they did in record time. They had to tell the company to 'put it on the Professor's tab'...Jean really hoped Xavier wouldn't notice a rather large hole in his savings...but at least it was better than him noticing a rather large hole in his house. Pyro had not got over the death of his lighters and refused point blank to even note Roberto's existance.

"They're here!", said Jamie from where he was playing lookout.

"Okay, remember, everybody smile!", said Scott, "nothing bizare happened, everything went well. Happy faces, everyone!"

With that, every teen, bar Pyro put on a rediculously big grin as they walked/were wheeled outside as the X-Van pulled up.

".....Is that a tiger sitting on Sabertooth's knee?", asked Ray through gritted teeth.

"....If you see one too, then yes", replied Rogue.

"Welcome back!", said Jean, making herself sound as cheerfull as possible, "did you all have a good time?".

"It was a living hell", said Logan, climbing out of the van and stalking into the house, "i need to get drunk!".

"Uh oh", said Kitty quietly.

"Shhh", hissed Scott.

The Acolytes came out next, indeed followed by a tiger...where they had gotten it, no one wanted to know. Remy gave a HUGE grin to his leader, while Pyro gave a small, sad sigh, he missed his lighters. Piotr gave a small twitch, not yet fully recovered from his driving 'experience'.

"Let's go home", said Magneto, before whispering something to Xavier.

He flicked out his hand, and out came his metal orbs from the bushes, Jamie having to stop himself from giving a nervous giggle when he noticed the pink gophers were still drawn on them. Without another word, Magneto PUSHED his team, plus the tiger, into their orbs, closed them and flew off. Warren was next out of the van, looking quite depressed.

"I'm going home to count my money", he said with a sad sigh, , "hey, maybe i have enough to start a Aligator sanctuary. I'll call it 'Cookie's Cove'. Yeah!".

Kurt blinked.

"Aligators?", he said, "Cookie?"

"Lets NOT ask", said Amara with a wise nod.

Warren took off the the air, muttering more about Aligators.

"I'm going to give Shannon a call", he said, "...not that she's my girlfriend...because she's not"

GIRLFRIEND? Jean blinked.....what HAD happened on that trip? She glanced up as Xavier forbade both Forge and Storm to leave, each ignoring him and heading their own ways.

"So...what did you do while we were away?", asked Xavier, wheeling up..

"Oh...just.....stuff", said Kurt.

"Yeah", said Ray, nodding quickly, "but not bad stuff. No bad stuff happened here".

Meanwhile, in the garage, Forge saw his beloved truck....well it LOOKED like it was ONCE a truck. It had one wheel, was missing a door and almost the entire dashboard was non-existant. Even WORSE, the physcadelic paint job that he had slaved over had been scratched off...all of it. It was as if someone had driven it THROUGH a canyon.

"HEY, WHAT HAPPENED TO MY TRUCK??!!!!".

"Well....except that", said Kitty with a wince from outside, she really hoped fingers wouldn't be pointed to her, if they were...she'd just blame Bobby.

In the mansion's attic, Storm gave a small happy sigh. She needed to get away after the Clint incident, now all she wanted to do was sit in her garden, enjoying her.....dead-life zone? Everything was black, not a SINGLE piece of greenery left..and the place smelled suspicously of industrial strength weed killer. At least her baby was.....she looked over to where her prized 'only flowers every 18 years' plant once stood. It was now nothing but a black piece of sludge with the words 'Die Audrey II, die - Viva la Earth' etched into it....blue fur scattered by it.

"MY PLANTS!!!".

"And that", said Rogue, outside.

Logan hummed happily as he entered the kitchen. His day was already planned, he was going to sit down and drink all of that LOVELY Canadian beer in the..... He opened the fridge to find it empty of all beers.....in fact, empty of alchohol, full stop. He very nearly cried, but instead opted to slash a hole through the wall...wait..did he smell X23?

"WHERE THE HELL IS ALL MY BEER!!!".

Outside, Tabby gave a nervous chuckle.

"Oh..yeah", she said, "forgot about that".

Xavier took a heavy sigh.

"Note to self, never EVER leave my home in the care of teenagers ever ever again".

"But that's all that happened, Professor", said Scott, wincing as a storm very quickly moved in...Ororo musn't be a happy lady.

Lightning hit the house and the west wall, which, being rushed into getting fixed, hadn't had the chance to be done properly, suddenly collapsed. Xavier made a very odd noise that could be described as a 'Pouagch'.

".....Okay, that one too", said Scott, "please don't punish me, i TRIED to be good, i DID. In fact i WAS good, and look what they did to me, i can't MOVE!!!"

"RAT!", snapped Jean.

"I broke under the pressure, so sue me!", snapped Scott, "please don't punish us, Professor, please"

"Oh but this can't go unpunished", said Xavier, then gave an evil smirk, "in fact...i have the perfect punishment for you all"

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"Come on, you Foxy people don't be Jive Turkeys, dance with Amber. Hehehehehehheheh".

The X-Teens and Acolyte's whimpered as a bubbly woman known only as 'Amber' forced them to dance, disco style, to hits such as 'I Love to Dance', 'Shake your Groove Thing' and 'Kung Foo Fighting'. Scott, not actually being ABLE to dance, had been placed as close to the speakers as possible, so he got an earfull of the music.

"She's like Forge, only female and evil!", whimpered Bobby.

"Ma'h legs are hurting", cried Rogue.

Sam, still having no depth perception, danced into a wall, falling back into Jamie, who created more duplicates, one of which started to dance happily with Amber, sprouting lots of 70's lingo.

"Never knew i had THAT clone", muttered Jamie.

The adults were happily watching this from by the window. Sure, it didn't replace lost plants, trucks, walls, beers or dignity...but it was getting close. Logan turned his head as he heard a tapping on the window. He glanced around to see Gelder pressed against it.

"Logan, i can't forget our night together, i NEED you!!"

Logan whisted inocently and pulled down the blind.

"Hey, Hank, think ya can set off the security fer outside? We have an intruder", he said, then blinked, "Hank?"

"He went on a not-a-date with Shannon", said Ororo, blinking as Amber did the splits, prompting the teens to do the same, "...limber, isn't she?".

"Shhhh, i don't want too much background noise on this", said Magneto as he filmed the teens dancing on a camcorder, "oh how much this will be worth in blackmail!!!"

Sabertooth chuckled, patting Rabid on the head, while Jason kept a good deal away her...creepy tiger. Forge was also keeping a good distance...just in case Amber decided to get HIM to dance...he'd really rather not. Warren was absent, he had gone to check out some land for his aligator sanctuary...the others decided to let the milionaire spend his money however he liked....not that he would have listened to them anyway.

"You know, i think we all had a growing experience from this", said Xavier, "i mean, sure, my home is now at an odd angle and is missing it's west wall, almost all the botanical life of the town is now dead, Forge has to fix his truck, and Logan has no beers, then there's the physcological damage inflicted on Piotr after Kitty's driving exersice...and our own issues from our trip..."

Xavier paused.

"What am i saying? This was a nightmare from Hell! And i'm glad it's over, glad i tell you. Bwmoahahahhahahahhaa!!!!"

With that, he started to spin his chair in little circles, giggling manically.

"That's nice, Charles", replied Magneto calmly as he continued to film the humiliation.

END

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Well, someone had to be pushed over the edge by the end of this, Xavier seemed the most logical choice ;) Ahhh what a lovely ending, but do not fear, this is not the end of the series, there are still SOOOO many groups for me to torture. The Boys, The New Recruits, The Acolytes, The Morlocks, The Humans, The Brotherhood...and no doubt i can find more groups too, mwhaohahahaha!. Do review. Thanks for reading!