A Minor Altercation at the City Zoo
Seven hours later…
"Okay what happened?" Hawk snapped.
"Well," Pietro said calmly. "We merely went down to the zoo to express our opinions and the X-Men went ballistic for no reason!"
"Uh huh…" Hawk glared at Wanda. "And I'm sure your powers had nothing to do with all the carnage at the zoo huh?"
"Nobody got hurt," Wanda said. "We made sure of that. Besides everybody thought it was the X-Men. And it was only on a local channel and they didn't film the X-Men being carted off to jail."
"You let the X-Men get tossed in jail?" Hawk shouted.
"They started the fight," Low Light remarked.
"Oh really?" Hawk glared at them.
"I cannot tell a lie," Roadblock said. "We may have…allowed a few things to slip by."
"Well I see that the kids weren't completely to blame on this," Hawk glared at the adults. "They had help! And they're going to have help peeling potatoes for a while! Right now we're going to get the X-Men out of jail! Avalanche you're going back to Bayville to apologize!"
"Why me?" Lance asked. "It was Pietro's idea!"
"Fine both of you will go!" Hawk snapped. "Now!"
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"Unbelievable," Kurt muttered an hour and a half after Xavier had told them to stay put in their cells. "My sister murders my mother and I'm the one who's in jail!"
"My reputation is so ruined!" Kitty moaned. "My parents are gonna kill me if they find out!"
"Your parents? What about mine?" Jean folded her arms. "So much for college!"
Then the bars opened. Xavier wheeled out. "So we're free to go?" Scott asked.
"There's a situation, a two trains are going to collide and one of them is out of control," Xavier said. "The brake line was faulty. The police are requesting our help in exchange for not pressing any charges against us."
"Well it wasn't our fault anyway!" Kitty said.
"I think the Misfits might disagree on that point," Xavier raised an eyebrow.
"It just sorta got out of hand," Bobby shrugged. "Once we got started…"
"But they're the ones that ruined everything!" Scott said.
"Now is not the time for pointing fingers Scott," Xavier said. "Right now we have lives to save. Now let's go!"
