Bedtime for Beach Head

"BA quit making that blubbering sound I can't hear you!" Beach Head spoke into the phone. "Oh that's not blubbering. That's gobbling. My mistake. Look I can't send the marines to go rescue your kitchen from rampant turkeys. Maybe I'll send somebody…Oh stop exaggerating! You know very well that it's impossible for turkeys to hold knives in their wings! What do you mean 'Somebody should tell them that?' BA! BA! Hmmm. He must have hung up on me."

"Should we not investigate what happened?" Xi asked. His gold serpentine eyes seemed to glitter and reflect the gold marks surrounding them. It was a strange contrast to his green scaled skin and his long tan mane.

"Maybe later. Knowing BA they probably just got loose and are running around making a mess. I told them something like this was gonna happen," Beach Head sighed. "I told them to get the already prepared turkeys but noooooooo! BA had to insist on freshness. He should never have broken his track record! That's what he gets for not listening to me! Not that anybody ever listens to me in the first place."

"I'm listening to you," Xi said. "You do not seem to be too upset that food preparation has been interrupted."

"Well…anything to keep BA from cooking I guess," Beach Head shrugged. "Now just keep quiet while I do these reports."

Beach Head started to work. He then felt like he was being watched. He was. Xi was silently staring at him with intensity. "What are you doing?"

"I am observing you in silence as you ordered," Xi replied. "Do you wish me to make some noise?"

"No just…uh…" Beach Head stammered. Xi was doing what he told him to do after all. But there was something about the lab created mutant that unsettled him. Mostly the fact that Xi's stare tended to remind people of a ferocious predator waiting to pounce and in Xi's case they were not that far off. "Look uh…I'm gonna go get some coffee. You just…relax or something."

"As you wish," Xi nodded his head slightly, not removing his eyes from him.

"Duke's right. That is creepy," Beach Head muttered as he left the room. "Maybe I should trade with Hawk."

He passed the rec. room and did a double take. The television was blaring and Hawk was on the sofa singing with Pietro. "Spongebob Squarepants! Spongebob Squarepants! Spongebob SQUAREPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANTS!"

"On the other hand…" Beach Head did an about face. "At least Xi's quiet."

He walked back to his office and opened the door. The sound of blaring music assaulted his ears. "XI! WHAT THE HECK IS THAT RACKET! WHERE ARE YOU?" He looked around. "Have you turned invisible on me? Answer me!"

Then he saw the package of open cookies on his desk. "Chips Ahoy?" Beach Head blinked. "Oh no…"

It was now a well-known fact on the base that for some reason cookies, particularly Chips Ahoy for some reason made Xi more hyper than a two-year-old on Pixie sticks. That combined with the coffee Xi had drunk with the other Misfits made a dangerous combination. "Okay Xi! Xi….Come on out Xi," Beach Head gulped. "I just wanna talk. Xi? Xi?"

"HUGS! HUGS!" Xi reappeared from behind and tackled him, bringing Beach Head to the floor. "TIME TO HUG BEACH HEAD!"

"NO! NO HUGGING! NO HUGGING!" Beach Head tried to escape Xi's grip.

"Huggy! Huggy! Huggy!" Xi affectionately nuzzled him.

"NO! NO! NO!" Beach Head shouted. "Oh god why can't you be in one of your psychotic 'Let's Kill Everybody' moods instead when you get hyper?"

"Dance with me!" Xi pulled Beach Head up and twirled him around. "Dance with me! It's so relaxing!"

"LET GO OF ME YOU MANIAC! LET…." Beach Head screamed as Xi let go and he collided with the wall. "Oww…Oh…look at the pretty birdies." He fell to the floor unconscious.

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"And that's how you found him?" Mainframe asked Dial Tone.

"Yeah," Dial Tone nodded as Beach Head was wheeled off into the infirmary by Trinity. They were whispering something about garden gnomes and giggling.

"Where did Xi go?" Mainframe asked.

"He went off with Wavedancer and Toad," Dial Tone explained, not noticing Trinity wrapping Beach Head up in silly string as they moved him along. "I saw Flint and Lady Jaye going over to the motor department. They were in one of their moods."

"Oh great!" Mainframe groaned. "And to top it all off some kind of bus has just pulled in. I don't know how they got the clearance to come here!"

"I'll go tell Duke what's happened," Dial Tone told him.

"Uh…Duke's kind of occupied," Mainframe winced. "And you don't want to know what General Hawk is doing. Better try and talk to Falcon. I'll go see the Sarge. He's with the Renegades and the babies. I wonder how they're doing?"

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