They made it to the dilapidated mansion without any casualties. Lance
pushed the big oak doors open and they stepped into the foyer.
"What now?" Pietro asked.
"Well," Rogue said, "we could either sit here and wait for sunrise, or sit here and wait for the murderer."
"How about we don't sit here, but look for the kitchen?" Toad suggested. "Just cuz this place is abandoned doesn't mean there's no food."
"If he's not scared, he's hungry," Wanda muttered.
"Sounds okay," Bobby said. "At least we'll know our way around this place. Let's split up gang!"
Everyone, even Pyro, looked at him as though he were insane.
"Sorry," he apologized. "I just always wanted to say that."
"Everyone meet back here in thirty minutes," Jean said.
* * *
Gambit and Rogue were walking down the hall with Gambit in the lead. They wandered into the library.
"Sorry, chère, but dis don' look like da kitchen," he muttered.
"Oh, shut up," she said and looked around.
"It's like a tomb in 'ere," he said, stopping next to a globe.
"Yeah," Rogue agreed, "and dark. Ya got any matches?"
Gambit reached into his pocket and tossed her a pack of matches.
Muttering something about 'those damn cancer sticks', Rogue picked up a candelabra and Gambit fell through a trap door. She lit the candles and turned around. "Did you say something? Remy?"
She walked over to the fireplace. She set the candelabra on the mantel and wiped off some dust, accidentally hitting a device that triggered another trap door beneath her feet.
* * *
Everyone except for Gambit and Rogue met in the foyer.
"Where are Gambit and Rogue?" Bobby asked.
"I don't know," Toad said, "but we found the kitchen."
"We, like, haven't seen them either," Kitty said.
Pyro tugged on Pietro's cape.
"What?" Pietro asked, slightly annoyed. Pyro pointed up to where Gambit and Rogue hung from the rafters by nooses.
"GOD IN HEAVEN!!" Pietro yelled.
Everyone looked up and cringed.
"Okay," Wanda said, "let's go to the kitchen."
"We shoulda stayed at the boarding house," Toad whined, jumping onto the countertop.
"Well, too late for that now," Pietro hissed.
"So what now?" Jean asked as she paced back and forth.
"That's a very good question ya got there, sheila," Pyro said flipping out his lighter. "I say we torch the place!"
"NO!" Everyone yelled, and Pyro flipped his lighter off.
"We need to think horror movie," Pietro said. "If this was a horror movie, what would happen next?"
"A Wayans brother would pop out of the pantry and yell 'WAAASSSSSSSSUUUUP!'?" Bobby guessed and shrugged.
"Be real, Bobby," Kitty said.
"But this whole situation isn't real!" Bobby retorted. "The odds of something like this happening are what? One in a hundred bazillion?"
"But that still doesn't help with what to do next," Wanda pointed out.
"All right," Lance said, "if we split up again, somebody's gonna get killed."
"Right," Jean said, "we need to stay together and stay alert until morning... which is only five hours away."
"It's only midnight?" Toad groaned. "We're all gonna die."
"No, we're not," Kitty said.
"Come one," Pietro said, "we can't just sit here and get killed one by one. I say we go look for this murderer and get him. If you think about it, he's outnumbered. AND we have mutant powers!"
"Yeah," Lance agreed, "let's go."
Everyone walked down the hall single file with Jean in the lead, followed by Bobby, then Toad, Wanda, Kitty, Lance, Pyro, and Pietro. They walked into a hallway and Pietro stopped to tie his shoe. While he was tying, the rest of the group went through the second door. When Pietro stood up, the hall was empty. He shrugged and walked through the first door.
Jean came to another long corridor with lots of doors. She turned to Bobby. "Ask Pietro what to do now."
Bobby turned to Toad. "Ask Pietro what to do now."
Toad turned to Wanda. "Ask Pietro what to do now."
Wanda turned to Kitty. "Ask Pietro what to do now."
Kitty turned to Lance. "Ask Pietro what to do now."
Lance turned to Pyro. "Ask Pietro what to do now."
Pyro turned to the empty hall behind him. "Hey, Pietro, what-" He tapped Lance's shoulder. "Pietro's not here."
The phrase "Pietro's not here" made it's way back up the line and finally to Bobby. He tapped Jean on the shoulder. "Pietro's not here."
"Oh, okay, then- WHAT?!" She turned around. "What do you mean 'Pietro's not here'??"
"He's not behind me," Pyro announced.
"How?" Wanda said.
"Of course!" Bobby said.
"Of course, what?" Lance asked.
"Classic Horror Mistake #3!" Bobby said.
"There are classic horror mistakes?" Jean asked Wanda, who shrugged.
"Yeah," Bobby said, "#1: Letting Scott pee. #2: Old abandoned buildings. #3: Everyone knows the poor sucker bringin' up the rear ALWAYS gets picked off first!"
"Let's just keep goin', eh, mates? Or else we may fall victim to Classic Horror Mistake #4," Pyro said.
"What's that?" Kitty asked.
"Explainin' ya plans," Pyro explained.
"No, Pyro, you've got it all wrong," Bobby said. "That's not Classic Horror Mistake #4, that's Classic Villain Mistake #1: Don't put off killing the hero so you can explain your plans."
Wanda rolled her eyes. "Well, what's Classic Horror Mistake #4?"
"That would be standing around jaw jacking when the threatening shadow on the wall reminds you you're in mortal danger," Bobby explained.
"You mean like that threat'nin' shadow with the knife?" Pyro asked and pointed.
"Perfect example," Bobby said.
"RUN!!" Wanda yelled.
Everyone ran off. Bobby, Pyro, and Toad ran through one door while Jean, Kitty, Wanda, and Lance ran through a different one.
* * *
"Where the bloody hell are we?" Pyro asked.
"We look like we're in the same hall, only the carpet's different and it's lined with suits of armor," Toad said.
"Where're the others?" Bobby asked.
"They ran the other way," Pyro answered. "Which door did we come in anyway?"
"That one, I think," Bobby said.
"You sure, mate?" Pyro asked. "I coulda swore we ran fartha than that."
"Okay, Mr. I-Know-Everything," Bobby growled.
"I nev'a said I knew everythin'," Pyro growled back. "I jus' know more than you, Popsicle-boy."
"Popsicle-boy!"
Toad quietly looked on from his standpoint in front of Sir Galahad.
Before Pyro could whip out his lighter, Bobby turned to Toad. "What do you think, Todd?"
Toad didn't say anything and didn't move.
"Todd?" Bobby tapped him on the shoulder and he fell forward revealing the medium sized battle-axe buried in his spinal column.
"Bleedin' 'ell!" Pyro yelled.
"Come on!" Bobby yelled and pulled Pyro down the hall. "Pick a door!"
Pyro pointed and they ran to it. It was locked. They tried several more and they were all locked.
"Over here!" Bobby yelled as he opened an unlocked door.
They ran in and the door snapped shut behind them. Suddenly the door collapsed beneath their feet and they fell into a pit of poison tipped spears.
* * *
Kitty, Lance, Jean, and Wanda found themselves in a billiard room.
"What are we going to do?" Kitty whined, holding onto Lance.
"I don't know, I don't know," Lance mumbled.
Behind Wanda, Lance, and Kitty, the ceiling to floor cue holder moved slightly and a person in black emerged from the secret passage. The person raised a knife behind Wanda.
"Wanda! Behind you!" Jean yelled.
Wanda turned and hexed the murderer.
"It's Pietro!" Jean yelled.
"What's going on?!" Lance yelled as Pietro stood up.
"I could ask you the same question," Kitty said, pulling two revolvers from her zombie outfit and tossing one to Pietro.
"What?" Lance asked.
"You didn't think I'd find out about you and Wanda, did you?!" Kitty growled.
Jean stared on in terror.
"Me and Mullet-Man??" Wanda asked. "What are you talking about?"
"Quit playin' dumb," Kitty said. "I knew Lance was cheating on me for the best part of a month. I told Quicksilver and we got together." She went up to Pietro and hugged him. "He came up with this great idea. He did the recording of the ghost voice and killed Scott. I killed Gambit and Rogue, and he killed Toad, Bobby, and Pyro. Now, guys, it's, like, game over."
"But what about the news?" Jean asked, trying to stall for time.
"That wasn't planned," Pietro said, "It had nothing to do with us, but it sure was convenient, wasn't it?"
"But I'm not cheating on you with Wanda!" Lance insisted. "I'm cheating with Jean!"
"Which is worse!" Kitty yelled. "She was, like, my friend!"
Kitty fired at Lance and Pietro fired at Wanda. Pietro hit and Wanda went down. Kitty on the other hand missed and hit Pietro because Jean had telekinetically yanked the gun from Kitty's grip. Kitty grabbed a pool cue and ran at Jean with the splintered end.
Jean screamed.
* * *
Jean screamed and sat up straight in bed. "Oh God! What a horrible nightmare!"
"What's wrong, honey?" Lance asked from beside her.
Jean looked at Lance and said, "Maybe you guys shouldn't have that party tonight..."
"What now?" Pietro asked.
"Well," Rogue said, "we could either sit here and wait for sunrise, or sit here and wait for the murderer."
"How about we don't sit here, but look for the kitchen?" Toad suggested. "Just cuz this place is abandoned doesn't mean there's no food."
"If he's not scared, he's hungry," Wanda muttered.
"Sounds okay," Bobby said. "At least we'll know our way around this place. Let's split up gang!"
Everyone, even Pyro, looked at him as though he were insane.
"Sorry," he apologized. "I just always wanted to say that."
"Everyone meet back here in thirty minutes," Jean said.
* * *
Gambit and Rogue were walking down the hall with Gambit in the lead. They wandered into the library.
"Sorry, chère, but dis don' look like da kitchen," he muttered.
"Oh, shut up," she said and looked around.
"It's like a tomb in 'ere," he said, stopping next to a globe.
"Yeah," Rogue agreed, "and dark. Ya got any matches?"
Gambit reached into his pocket and tossed her a pack of matches.
Muttering something about 'those damn cancer sticks', Rogue picked up a candelabra and Gambit fell through a trap door. She lit the candles and turned around. "Did you say something? Remy?"
She walked over to the fireplace. She set the candelabra on the mantel and wiped off some dust, accidentally hitting a device that triggered another trap door beneath her feet.
* * *
Everyone except for Gambit and Rogue met in the foyer.
"Where are Gambit and Rogue?" Bobby asked.
"I don't know," Toad said, "but we found the kitchen."
"We, like, haven't seen them either," Kitty said.
Pyro tugged on Pietro's cape.
"What?" Pietro asked, slightly annoyed. Pyro pointed up to where Gambit and Rogue hung from the rafters by nooses.
"GOD IN HEAVEN!!" Pietro yelled.
Everyone looked up and cringed.
"Okay," Wanda said, "let's go to the kitchen."
"We shoulda stayed at the boarding house," Toad whined, jumping onto the countertop.
"Well, too late for that now," Pietro hissed.
"So what now?" Jean asked as she paced back and forth.
"That's a very good question ya got there, sheila," Pyro said flipping out his lighter. "I say we torch the place!"
"NO!" Everyone yelled, and Pyro flipped his lighter off.
"We need to think horror movie," Pietro said. "If this was a horror movie, what would happen next?"
"A Wayans brother would pop out of the pantry and yell 'WAAASSSSSSSSUUUUP!'?" Bobby guessed and shrugged.
"Be real, Bobby," Kitty said.
"But this whole situation isn't real!" Bobby retorted. "The odds of something like this happening are what? One in a hundred bazillion?"
"But that still doesn't help with what to do next," Wanda pointed out.
"All right," Lance said, "if we split up again, somebody's gonna get killed."
"Right," Jean said, "we need to stay together and stay alert until morning... which is only five hours away."
"It's only midnight?" Toad groaned. "We're all gonna die."
"No, we're not," Kitty said.
"Come one," Pietro said, "we can't just sit here and get killed one by one. I say we go look for this murderer and get him. If you think about it, he's outnumbered. AND we have mutant powers!"
"Yeah," Lance agreed, "let's go."
Everyone walked down the hall single file with Jean in the lead, followed by Bobby, then Toad, Wanda, Kitty, Lance, Pyro, and Pietro. They walked into a hallway and Pietro stopped to tie his shoe. While he was tying, the rest of the group went through the second door. When Pietro stood up, the hall was empty. He shrugged and walked through the first door.
Jean came to another long corridor with lots of doors. She turned to Bobby. "Ask Pietro what to do now."
Bobby turned to Toad. "Ask Pietro what to do now."
Toad turned to Wanda. "Ask Pietro what to do now."
Wanda turned to Kitty. "Ask Pietro what to do now."
Kitty turned to Lance. "Ask Pietro what to do now."
Lance turned to Pyro. "Ask Pietro what to do now."
Pyro turned to the empty hall behind him. "Hey, Pietro, what-" He tapped Lance's shoulder. "Pietro's not here."
The phrase "Pietro's not here" made it's way back up the line and finally to Bobby. He tapped Jean on the shoulder. "Pietro's not here."
"Oh, okay, then- WHAT?!" She turned around. "What do you mean 'Pietro's not here'??"
"He's not behind me," Pyro announced.
"How?" Wanda said.
"Of course!" Bobby said.
"Of course, what?" Lance asked.
"Classic Horror Mistake #3!" Bobby said.
"There are classic horror mistakes?" Jean asked Wanda, who shrugged.
"Yeah," Bobby said, "#1: Letting Scott pee. #2: Old abandoned buildings. #3: Everyone knows the poor sucker bringin' up the rear ALWAYS gets picked off first!"
"Let's just keep goin', eh, mates? Or else we may fall victim to Classic Horror Mistake #4," Pyro said.
"What's that?" Kitty asked.
"Explainin' ya plans," Pyro explained.
"No, Pyro, you've got it all wrong," Bobby said. "That's not Classic Horror Mistake #4, that's Classic Villain Mistake #1: Don't put off killing the hero so you can explain your plans."
Wanda rolled her eyes. "Well, what's Classic Horror Mistake #4?"
"That would be standing around jaw jacking when the threatening shadow on the wall reminds you you're in mortal danger," Bobby explained.
"You mean like that threat'nin' shadow with the knife?" Pyro asked and pointed.
"Perfect example," Bobby said.
"RUN!!" Wanda yelled.
Everyone ran off. Bobby, Pyro, and Toad ran through one door while Jean, Kitty, Wanda, and Lance ran through a different one.
* * *
"Where the bloody hell are we?" Pyro asked.
"We look like we're in the same hall, only the carpet's different and it's lined with suits of armor," Toad said.
"Where're the others?" Bobby asked.
"They ran the other way," Pyro answered. "Which door did we come in anyway?"
"That one, I think," Bobby said.
"You sure, mate?" Pyro asked. "I coulda swore we ran fartha than that."
"Okay, Mr. I-Know-Everything," Bobby growled.
"I nev'a said I knew everythin'," Pyro growled back. "I jus' know more than you, Popsicle-boy."
"Popsicle-boy!"
Toad quietly looked on from his standpoint in front of Sir Galahad.
Before Pyro could whip out his lighter, Bobby turned to Toad. "What do you think, Todd?"
Toad didn't say anything and didn't move.
"Todd?" Bobby tapped him on the shoulder and he fell forward revealing the medium sized battle-axe buried in his spinal column.
"Bleedin' 'ell!" Pyro yelled.
"Come on!" Bobby yelled and pulled Pyro down the hall. "Pick a door!"
Pyro pointed and they ran to it. It was locked. They tried several more and they were all locked.
"Over here!" Bobby yelled as he opened an unlocked door.
They ran in and the door snapped shut behind them. Suddenly the door collapsed beneath their feet and they fell into a pit of poison tipped spears.
* * *
Kitty, Lance, Jean, and Wanda found themselves in a billiard room.
"What are we going to do?" Kitty whined, holding onto Lance.
"I don't know, I don't know," Lance mumbled.
Behind Wanda, Lance, and Kitty, the ceiling to floor cue holder moved slightly and a person in black emerged from the secret passage. The person raised a knife behind Wanda.
"Wanda! Behind you!" Jean yelled.
Wanda turned and hexed the murderer.
"It's Pietro!" Jean yelled.
"What's going on?!" Lance yelled as Pietro stood up.
"I could ask you the same question," Kitty said, pulling two revolvers from her zombie outfit and tossing one to Pietro.
"What?" Lance asked.
"You didn't think I'd find out about you and Wanda, did you?!" Kitty growled.
Jean stared on in terror.
"Me and Mullet-Man??" Wanda asked. "What are you talking about?"
"Quit playin' dumb," Kitty said. "I knew Lance was cheating on me for the best part of a month. I told Quicksilver and we got together." She went up to Pietro and hugged him. "He came up with this great idea. He did the recording of the ghost voice and killed Scott. I killed Gambit and Rogue, and he killed Toad, Bobby, and Pyro. Now, guys, it's, like, game over."
"But what about the news?" Jean asked, trying to stall for time.
"That wasn't planned," Pietro said, "It had nothing to do with us, but it sure was convenient, wasn't it?"
"But I'm not cheating on you with Wanda!" Lance insisted. "I'm cheating with Jean!"
"Which is worse!" Kitty yelled. "She was, like, my friend!"
Kitty fired at Lance and Pietro fired at Wanda. Pietro hit and Wanda went down. Kitty on the other hand missed and hit Pietro because Jean had telekinetically yanked the gun from Kitty's grip. Kitty grabbed a pool cue and ran at Jean with the splintered end.
Jean screamed.
* * *
Jean screamed and sat up straight in bed. "Oh God! What a horrible nightmare!"
"What's wrong, honey?" Lance asked from beside her.
Jean looked at Lance and said, "Maybe you guys shouldn't have that party tonight..."