I'm actually here! I'm so sorry for the long wait. I had this part in the story I just couldn't get out of. You'll know where it is.

Anyway, two weeks until my birthday! December 21st, Baby! I'm excited. Yay!

Ok, for actual story things... Well, this chapter is kinda weird. But oh well. I combined the Fresh Choice and the lost chapers. Just because I want to get the gang home.

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Hank twitched in his seat as a firecracker hit his head. He turned around for the tenth time so far to yell at the New Recruits.

Jubilee had been throwing firecrackers at unsuspecting people. This made Bobby upset, and he decided it was a good idea to use Jamie as a shield. When an overlarge firecracker bounced off Jamie, the car was suddenly filled with ten more of him. Rahne was a wolf, and was hanging her head out the window. She still refused to talk to Sam, who had long since given up trying to apologise for whatever he did and was now sulking. Ray and Roberto were actually calm, and Amara... Had found some more Frosted Flakes and was now singing.

Ororo sighed, "Maybe we should stop and get them some food."

"Good idea. I'll call Logan," Hank picked up his nifty cell phone and talked to Logan. They decided on going to Fresh Choice, as there was one nearby.

***

"Wooow!!!" Sam looked around the restaraunt/buffet.

"Shut up," Rahne said with a glare.

Sam glared back, "You shut up."

"Let's all shut up!!" Amara said, slinging her arms around both of their shoulders and squeezing them in.

"Yeah, especially you..." Rahne backed away from Amara.

"Let's eat!!" Amara said, hopping over to the food place.

Ray grabbed two plates, one for himself and one for Amara who had forgotten hers in her hyper state, and headed for the food too. The others followed suit.... Except with only one plate.

"Cool! This place doesn't have like any meat!" Kitty said.

"I want meat..." Kurt whined.

"Well too bad," Kitty said.

Kurt looked over at Amara, who was piling everything she saw onto her plate. "Uh... 'Mara..."

"WHAT?!" Amara looked up at him like she was trying to cover up doing something bad.

"...Nothing..."

Ororo sighed and moved up to the front of the place with no food at all. She quickly counted the 13 heads and paid for 13 meals. Then she, Hank. and Logan went over to find some tables. Ray tilted his head. The adults seemed rather annoyed. He pondered the thought for a while, then totally forgot because he was done getting food.

The gang moved over to the table area. The adults were at one, and since there weren't many people there, the teenagers just went about to random places!!

Rahne sat down at one table. All alone. She was continuing to sulk when all the sudden Sam sat down across from her with a shy grin.

"What?" she asked, still glaring.

"Just wanted to be with you..." Sam muttered, looking past Rahne.

"Hmph," Rahne turned away.

"Well fine then," Sam glared.

The room was silent... For a few seconds.

"WHAT?! YOU DON'T HAVE ANY BARBEQUED SPIDER?!" a voice obviously belonging to Pyro screamed.

"...Shit..." Bobby said.

Suddenly a bunch of plants burst into flames. Bobby jumped up and started freezing everything, and Ororo made it rain everywhere. When the fire was done(which happened way too quickly!), Pyro sat on the ground with his legs crossed and a maniacal smile on his face.

"Where are the others?!" Scott took the opportunity to be leader and grabbed Pyro by the collar of his shirt.

"I don't know, mate!" Pyro angrily pulled away from Scott's grip. "I haven't seen 'em in weeks! Crikey!"

Scott glared for a few seconds, then turned to Kurt. "Get the rope."

"...Why...?"

"JUST GET IT!"

"Ok..." Kurt teleported out, then back in holding the rope used to tie Scott to the tree. He nervously handed it to Scott.

"HAHA!" Scott started wrapping Pyro up, then stuck him under a table. "Ok everyone! You can continue to eat!!"

Everyone just kinda stared at nothing for a few seconds. Eventually, the nonmutant guests of the restaraunt/buffet got scared and left, leaving the room so ackward it was actually quite funny.

"Sooo..." Pyro said from under the table. "Can I go?"

"NO!" Scott glared.

"...Ok."

Then it was silent again. Finally Bobby got bored and tunred to Jubilee.

"How are things?" he asked, trying to relieve the room from ackwardness.

"Fine," she replied.

The two looked around at everyone else.

"Why's it so damn quiet?" Bobby whispered.

"I don't know..."

"Hey! Did anyone notice that the people who work here didn't notice the fact that their restaraunt was burning or that some guy was shooting ice from his hands and some lady was making rain?" Jamie said.

"Gasp! You're right!" Jubilee said.

"The innocent bystanders never notice," Bobby pointed out.

"That's a bit weird," Jamie shook his head.

"Ok this small talk is getting annoying," Amara said.

"I agree," Ray said knowingly.

"I vote we eat," Kurt said.

"YES!" Amara grinned.

"SO EAT WE SHALL!!!!!" Bobby sat down and started eating. The others followed his example because Bobby is the WORLD LEADER.

***

After the ackward silence was finally dead (and the writer is very happy!), Ray and Jubilee were attempting to calm an overhyper Amara.

"Why did you let her have the ice cream?!" Ray asked over Amara's maniacal giggling.

"She snuck it!"

"YOU SHOULD WATCH HER NEXT TIME!"

"I'm going to the car," Ororo said, and Hank and Logan followed her out.

"We're all... Alone," Amara grinned mischeiviously.

"Uh oh..." Ray backed away.

"BOBBY DO SOMETHING!" Jubilee squeeked and hid behind Bobby.

"Like what?!"

"FREEZE HER!!"

"Errr ok..." Bobby nervously made Amara all icy. "She's gonna murder me..."

Ray poked at the frozen Amara. "Yeah, I think you're right Bobby..."

"Well... I'll stay away from her..."

"Hey!" Pyro suddenly poped out from under his table. "ICE BURNS!"

Pyro started melting the ice Amara was in, using some random fire that no one was sure how he got it (bad sentence there!).

"BOBBY!" Amara glared at Bobby when she was out of the ice. "I WILL DESTROY YOU!!"

Amara started shooting fire at Bobby, and Pyro decided to join in the fun. Kurt and Kitty decided to hide under a table, and Jean, for no reason at all, started mentally hurling chairs at Jamie.

"What the hell is going on...?" Jubilee said.

"I dunno, but I think we should do something..." Ray replied as Rahne turned into a wolf and started attacking Sam.

"Yep, we're the only sane ones..." Jubilee watched Scott trying to blast Evan and Rogue as Tabitha and Roberto started attacking each other.

"I say we get the adults."

"Sounds good."

Ray and Jubilee slipped out the door and started running for Ororo.

***

Ororo followed the two twitchy children back into Fresh Choice. When they got inside, the whole place was ripped up and Bobby's clothes were all burnt and charred and other synonyms.

"Oh my..." Ororo coughed. "KIDS! Calm yourselves!"

Jamie ran up to Ororo and hugged her. "JEAN WANTS TO KILL ME!!!"

Ororo sighed. "Ok, we're going home now."

Suddenly everyone stopped killing each other and gasped.

"Can we sneak some food with us?" Amara asked.

"Whatever!" Ororo pushed Jamie off of her and went back out to the car.

Amara grinned and ran out for a second. When she came back, she was holding about ten cups of sprinkles. Everyone else's eyes widened and they followed her fun example.

***

Ororo wimpered when she saw the children coming out with the sprinkles. They were approaching like demons, with their hyperness and bounciness... Evil.

"HIIIIIII!!!!!" Amara said as she bounced into the car.

"Hi," Ororo wimpered again and started to follow Logan's car out of the parking lot.

"I know!!!!" Bobby grinned. "Let's sing the DOOM SONG!!"

"YAY!" Amara grinned and they all started singing 'doom' over and over in various ways. Except Ororo and Hank. They were twitching. OH BOY!

"Heeeeeeey..." Jamie said and they all stopped and looked at him. "What happened to Pyro?"

The NR's all turned back and looked at Fresh Choice, which was now on fire.

"DRIVE FASTER!" Ray shouted to Ororo.

***

"58 bottles of bear on the wall, 58 bottles of bear, take one down, pass it around, 57 bottles of bear on the wall..." Amara sang boredly.

"It's BEER for the last time!" Jubilee said over the singing. "Bears are ANIMALS!"

Amara just glared. "57 bottles of BEAR on the wall, 57 bottles of BEAR, take one down, pass it around, 56 bottles of BEAR on the wall!"

"Are we there yet?" Jamie asked.

"I have no damn clue where we are," Ororo said. She was getting angry...

Sam looked out the window and gasped. "I do!"

"Where?!" Ray asked.

"...Kentucky..."

"HOW THE HELL DID WE GET TO KENTUCKY?!" Ororo screamed, totally losing her usual calm attitude.

"Oh boy, we're lost in Kentucky..." Jubilee started whacking her head against Bobby's shoulder.

"Well if you PEOPLE don't like Kentucky THAT'S FINE WITH ME!" Sam glared at everyone and started sulking.

"I have to go to the bathroom..." Jamie started sulking with Sam.

"I want to go back to the Institute..." Rahne sulked as well.

"AHH!! SULKINESS!!" Bobby pointed at the three sulking people.

"WAIT A MINUTE!" Tabitha gasped. "How are we in Kentucky? Wouldn't that take days to drive to?"

"MAGIC!" Bobby started waving his hands around crazily in front of his face.

And the gang all looked at Ororo.

"DIE!" Ororo started driving at about 90 MPH, causing the kids in the back to start screaming.

"SHE'S GONE MAD!" Rahne clutched onto Sam.

***

About an hour later, the X-Men and the New Recruits were sitting in jail cells. Ororo had rammed into the X-Men's car, and the police came.

"I'm sorry..." Ororo looked around at the girls in her cell.

Rahne was curled in a corner, now permanently scared of Ororo. Tabitha was now crazily hyper from the speed they were at, and Kitty, Rogue, Jubilee, and Amara were sulking by the door entrance. Jean was trying to call the Professor.

In the boys' cell, Bobby was splattered up against the poles, attempting to squeeze out. Sam was completely unaffected, and was the only one who didn't get at least a scratch from the crash. Roberto was looking at the screened window up about ten feet, and was trying to open it so he could get some sun, and Kurt, Evan, Ray, and Scott were bragging about the numberous bruises on their arms. Logan and Hank were just sitting there. Scarred for life.

Jamie had to have his own cell. There were about thirty of him, and they REFUSED to go away. So they were all squished together in one cell, slowly dissappearing one by one.

"So..." Kitty looked around.

"This sucks..." Rogue said.

"I want out of here. Now," Kitty grunted.

Jean put the phone down. "The Professor is coming to pick us up. He says he can be here in an hour."

"So we have to spend an hour in this place?" Evan asked from the other cell.

"Yep..." Jean sighed and sat down.

"Who's up for Truth or Dare?" Ray said half-heartedly.

"What else can we do?" Sam sighed and sat down on the ground.

"Great. We'll play Truth or Dare for an hour..." Kitty grunted again.

"YAY!" Ray suddenly perked up and looked at Jamie. "Truth or dare?"

Bad choice, Ray. Half the Jamies shouted truth, and the other half shouted dare. Ray looked around, very confused.

"Which one is the REAL Jamie?"

"ME!" they all said at once.

"Errr.." Ray suddenly changed his mind. "Tabitha! Truth or dare?"

"Dare!"

"Kiss Amara," Ray said at once, like he had been planning it the whole time.

Tabitha and Amara looked at each other.

"...Where...?"

"Lips," Ray grinned. "And if you complain more I'll add to it."

Tabitha whined, but did it anyway. And oh-so-surprisingly, neither of the two girls acted THAT disturbed by it.

"I hate you," Tabitha said to Ray. Then she grinned and looked at Sam. "Truth or dare, Sammy boy?"

"...Dare?"

"KISS BOBBY!"

"What's with all the same-sex kissing?" Kitty asked as Sam slowly leaned into Bobby, who was almost crying now.

Sam did as he was told, then looked around, pondering his options.

"Jean..." he said, grinning. "Truth or dare?"

"TRUTH!" Jean said. She did NOT want to end up making out with Kitty.

"Oh boy!" Sam grinned more. "Has anything HAPPENED with you and Duncan?"

"Errrr..." Jean looked around, then pretended to start having a mental breakdown. "AHH! VOICES...IN.. HEAD..."

Sam glared. "Fine. Ruin the fun."

Just then the guards came and decided to merge them ALL into one cell! For no reason at all! So he took them all to one huge ass cell that could fit all of them - even all the Jamies.

"Yer person'll be here in aboot 45 minutes. He told us to put ye all into one cell," the guard dude walked away.

"Well that was random..." Jubilee said.

"I think we should sleep," Ororo said for no reason at all.

"Good idea..." Amara said.

Everyone went into a different part of the huge cell and fell asleep. Waiting.

***

"Wake up!" Amara yelled. The Professor had just gotten there!!

The Prof. wheeled over and shook his head. "I'm disappointed. Oh well!"

Xavier led everyone out of the cell and towards his cool plane. They all got inside and instantly fell asleep in the seats. Who knows who drove the plane. Probably some random guy Xavier had hired...

***

Evan was the first one into the Institute when they arrived home. He was VERY happy to be away from the forest and the jail cell.

"I'M FREEEEE!!!!!!!!!" Evan jumped on the couch and started hugging it.

Amara ran in after him. "My things! I hope they're ok!"

Amara ran up the stairs to her room. The others walked in, and started heading off to random places.

"Well I'm glad to be home..." Logan said.

"I'm sure they are too," Xavier nodded and watched Evan cradling a pillow like a baby. "Very sure."

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BAD ENDING!! Oh well. I'll try to get some more chapters up soon, but I can't guarentee it _

...Taz...