A/N: Don't you just love these lovely little notes from yours truly? I finished the rewrites for Darkdragon, and another chapter. Darkdragon is my muse, and my muse is extremely self-centered. It really isn't healthy. Anyway, after that, my muse has been obliging enough to tap me for this story. Jubilee, I don't know that much about her, so I'll assume that she couldn't keep a secret to save her coat. They're on the road again. Isn't there a song titled that?
Panther Nesmith- It wouldn't be a very good idea, but you could try! Good Luck finding 'New Bunswick' on a map.
the witch- I'm in Canada, we don't get Cartoon Network. Well, I don't, and I have satellite. But I can watch Evo twice, once when it's played in the East, and again on YTV West. Same Ep, but I'll take whatever I can get.
JaSSie- Duct tape's great. I have a whole chapter of it in Darkdragon. Sabretooth in the Red Green, maybe him and Logan, I don't know. I'll be playing with that idea.
Chole-Wagner- Have you ever read any of Kurt-Ling's? You might like hers. And I do excuse the pun, because Toronto in July can hit an easy thirty degrees. But then, it was snowing in Calgary, today. During the Stampede. Wonderful weather.
kiki- I'm closer than you thought. I just live on the other side of the Rockies. Nowhere near the Great Lakes. I just figured that YTV's headquarters are in Toronto. I don't know. I'm so confused.
Etwa- Jonda? John/Wanda I'm assuming? I don't know, I can try though!
princess-freak- Mags and Mystique will be around later, I have an idea for them…
psychobunny410- You not knowing a lot about Canada shouldn't be a big problem, you might even learn something from this!
Onward, noble vans! To Potato Province! Oh, and as for the festival, I don't know a whole lot about PEI, so I made it up, and if there is a festival similar to that, well, I'm psychic! Wooo! Nope, just purely a figmentation of my imagination.
"Bobby! What did you, like, eat last night?" Kitty held her nose, fanning the air in front of her.
"It isn't me! I swear!" Bobby held up his hands.
"She's right! You are disgusting!" Sam put down his cards and held his nose.
"Why are you blaming me?"
"Because Kurt's, like, not here!"
"Who ran over the skunk?" Logan asked as all three of the shop-a-holics covered their noses, gagging at the stench. Ororo was once again behind the wheel, muttering things about gunpowder and ignition switches. Logan looked over at her. 'If she doesn't snap out of this, I might have to drive this thing.'
"Will ya turn that crap off already?" Rogue yelled at Hank. Everyone but him was covering their ears. Hank said nothing and only turned the volume up louder.
"This is damaging to our health!" Kurt wailed.
"This is good experience. You should truly experience the local music!" Hank grinned as they continued along.
"Well, why aren't we allowed to experience local brews?"
"Because you're too young Raymond." Ray winced at his name.
"An' cuz he doesn't want us to see him get smashed after a single drink again." Rahne giggled at Roberto's words. Hank's reply was to turn the fiddle music up even louder.
The Acolytes were driving along again. They were all teasing Pietro about getting caught by Jubilee.
"Tabby and the princess will know by tonight."
"What are yous tinkin'? Dey know already!"
"I'mdoomed,doomedIsay,doomedtoahorribledeathatmysister'shands!"
"Ten dollars says that half of the X-Men know by the time we stop."
"You're on mate. I think all of them will know by our next stop!" John and Piotr shook hands.
And finally, the Brotherhood and their jeep.
"I wish Kitty would phase out of the van again, so we could pick her up." Lance was talking to the steering wheel.
"You had no right to take my cupcake into your room!" Toad was trying to beat up Fred, but needless to say, it wasn't working very well.
"You were already locked up with Icepick, and then she fainted, and I was the only one who wasn't in a room."
"I thought you were my friend yo! How could you do this to me?" Fred said nothing and looked very ashamed.
"Man, that was one big bridge!" Evan had finally been allowed out of his seat. Jubilee had spent nearly the entire trip whispering to Tabby and Amara. And giggling. Evan was beginning to understand how Auntie O felt. Kitty and Rahne walked over and joined the small group. They all began to giggle uncontrollably.
"Alright everyone, now, I'm going set down a few ground rules I should have put down yesterday." Everyone groaned as Xavier pulled out a list. He unrolled it, and unrolled it, and unrolled it, and unrolled it, and unrolled it, and…you get the idea. Finally reaching the top, he began to read. "No destructive use of your powers, you must learn at least one thing about this province, no shopping, you can do that in Bayville. No food that may cause gastro-intestinal distress, and play nice with the natives!" Xavier began to roll up his list. By the time he had finished, he remembered one last thing. "And most definitely no-" He looked up. "-alcohol?" Everyone was gone. The Professor sighed, and began to wonder if it had really been a good idea to bring his young charges to Canada.
"No shopping, man, what are we going to do today?" Tabitha stretched. Pietro came running in front of her.
"You'regoingtokeepyourmouthshutaboutme!Wanda'llkillmeifyoudon't!" Amara and Jubilee giggled. Kitty looked like she had half a mind to find Wanda.
"We won't tell anyone…In exchange for a few favors." Tabby's smile grew ever wider. Pietro paled.
"You guys comin' or what?" Scott was sitting in one of the vans, waiting, along with all the others.
"There's a festival today in Charlottetown." Jean was looking over a tour guide book she had found somewhere.
"What kinda name is Charlottetown?" Ray wrinkled his nose in disgust.
"What's it all about?" Kitty hung herself over one of the seats, phasing through Sam and Ray.'
"Potatoes." Jean looked at the guide again.
"Potatoes?" Bobby and his fellow card players looked up at Jean.
"Yes, potatoes, apparently it's their major crop."
"Hey, any excuse to party, right?" The rest of the van nodded in agreement with Jubilee.
"So where is Charlottetown?"
"Pull over and ask." Jean said absently, pulling out some more stuff to look through.
"We don't need to pull over, just check the map." Scott, being a guy, knew where he was.
"No, ask for directions." The mutants in the backseat leaned back, ready for a show. They had crammed ten people into the van, and another nine into the van behind them, and three into the jeep, leaving Logan, Sabretoth, Xavier, Ororo, and Hank back at the hotel.
"Hey mate! Do they fight like this all the time?" Kurt shook his head.
"Nein, mein fiery friend, they never fight, so enjoy the show while it lasts!" John leaned back, putting his arms behind his head, to enjoy the show.
Through some lack of foresight, the second van had been left with three choices for driver, Remy, Tabby, and Rogue. The mutants were lucky enough to have pushed Rogue into the van, so they didn't try to get her into the drivers seat, and they had all seen Remy peel out of the hotel parking lot earlier that morning, so, young and naïve as the new mutants were, they gave the keys to Tabby. Amara had promptly walked over and entered Scott's van, having experienced Tabby's driving. Those remaining in the van now regretted giving Tabby the driver's seat. Except Remy and Rogue, Rogue had had her discman and books confiscated, in an attempt to get her to socialize, and was now rather grumpy. Remy seemed to just really enjoy the ride.
"Tabby! Slow down!" Evan cried out for the third time in less than two minutes.
"I'm going the speed limit! See! That sign there says hundred, and Scott's going just as fast!"
"Scott uses the brake from time to time!" Jamie was trying to get away from Piotr, but still stay in a safe place.
"Tabitha!"
"What now Rahne? Don't tell me you're getting scared about this speed now! Why don't ya go back to hangin' your head outta that window?"
"Tabitha, the signs are all in metric! That's why we're going so bloody fast! That's a hundred kilometers per hour! Not miles! Slow down lass, afore ye get us all killed!"
"Oops, well, we have to keep up with Scott, don't we?" Rahne shrugged, and returning to wolf form, poked her face out the window once again.
Remy grinned, and stretched his arms out, putting them on the top of the seat. He was sitting between Rogue, and Wanda. The two girls simultaneously glared at the Cajun, he promptly removed his arms, putting them back behind his head. "Looks like Remy picked de wrong seat." He muttered to no one in particular.
It took little or no time to find out that they had passed Charlottetown when they finally stopped for directions, thanks to Jean. They turned around, and with Scott driving a hundred mile per hour, they were there in no time. Parking was not difficult, and before long, the twenty-odd mutants were ready to party.
"Bobbing for potatoes? Alright then!" Evan led the charge for the midway games, with Scott hot on his heels. The girls watched, and watched, as the guys tried repeatedly to win a giant stuffed animal for them. The girls watched them miss, again and again, and again. After twenty or so tries from the guys, the girls pushed them out of the way. They each got a giant toy on their first shot. The guys turned bright red.
"Man, what is it with them and the girl power thing?" Evan asked Kurt.
"Dere's times when you jus' let 'em do it demselves." Remy patted Kurt and Evan on the back.
"I didn't see you winning any giant stuffed animals." Kurt looked up at the red-on-black eyes.
"Remy wasn't tryin'." He waved his hand in a dismissive gesture.
"Da, neither was I." Jamie tripped and fell, hearing the giant Russian voice come from behind him. Piotr bent over, and picked two of the three Jamies up, leaving the third to run wildly away. The remaining two wet themselves, again. Jean lifted them up, and placed them back on solid ground, where they disappeared.
"Great! Now we have to find Jamie! Rahne? Can you lend us a hand?"
"Nay, but my nose is at always at yer disposal." Rahne grinned, and began trying to scent the small boy. Evan grabbed Roberto and Bobby, and pointed at the roller-coaster that could be seen off in the horizon. The three promptly took off, abandoning the quickly dwindling group of mutants. Wanda and Rogue stood, just glaring at everyone and everything in general, as Remy tried to pull them towards the Ferris wheel.
"C'mon! You two can't just stand there all day! Dat'd be boring!"
"Watch me Swamp-Rat!" Rogue turned all of her glaring towards Remy. Remy backed off, holding his hands up.
"All right, all right. If that's what you want, den Remy's gonna go off and enjoy himself." Wanda snorted.
Jean and Scott quickly realized this fair was not the best and the brightest idea they had had.
"Let's see, we have Rogue, Wanda, Ray, Piotr, John," Jean winced as a huge fireball went off in the distance. "Okay, scratch John, there's Fred and Toad."
"Look at what I won Cuddlecakes!" Toad hopped over to Wanda, holding a…potato. "Ya get to keep the potato if you can pick it outta the vat using your mouth!" Wanda forced the potato to blow up in Todd's face.
"And we also have…"Scott turned, to look, and saw only the Brotherhood, Rogue, and Piotr standing where there had been a relatively large group previously. "This was not a good idea." The fearless leader shook his head, as Todd went flying past.
A/N: Apologies for the lack of updates! And for the shortness of this chapter! I had to cut the chapter off here, mostly because my muse is mad at me again. My muse is not very nice. *pouts* I'm not going to be back for a while, mostly because I'll be visiting my grandparents for three weeks, and they don't have a computer, let alone one with an internet connection. I'll be trying to use my cousin's, but no promises. Anyway, I've been reading todd fan's work, suggestions from will be welcome! Mostly because I know very little about the majority of provinces. *sigh* Anyway, if you have any ideas, feel free to volunteer them, no matter how nutty they may be, I'll try to find a way to work them in. Chaos is always enjoyable! :D