Chapter Four: Unintentional trip to Fanfic-World

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Well, well. Chu and I got together last night and organized our storylines so that they actually go together somewhat! Whee! That means, read both of them! ^_^ (someday, I'll put an actual link to hers in here, then you won't have an excuse for no reading it! ^_^)

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Once we safely arrived back in my bedroom, Toad was more than happy to drop my luggage and flee down the hallway before I made him do something else.

"Thank you!" I yelled after him, then set about unpacking.

I had just finished arranging my action figures on top of my dresser when my door opened. Sabertooth was standing there, holding the door open.

"Come with me." He said gruffly, barely above a growl. Quietly, I did as he said, wondering if Magneto had sent him or if he was kidnapping me for ransom money or something. I wondered such things as this during our whole trip through the base. We ended up in a chamber that was very far from my room, and very full of machinery.

"Cool! What's this stuff?" I asked. Sabertooth growled, so I took it that he didn't know either. I saw Magneto admiring the machine as one may admire fine art.

"Magneto-sama, it works! It really works!" I exclaimed, abandoning Sabertooth to rush over to him. "I fried the X-men's electrical system!"

"So that is what you were doing when you disappeared with Toad." He commented in a tone that almost sounded droll. "He said that you possessed entirely too much luggage."

"Oh." I paused, realizing that that didn't sound like a very Toad-ish thing to say. "Paraphrasing, right. So what does this thing do?"

"This machine is going to change the world as we know it." He stated. I heard some strange noises coming from the doorway, and turned to see Mystique dragging a guy along the floor.

"Gently, Mystique, gently. You mustn't damage the good senator before his time." Magneto reprimanded her, using the same droll tone he had used with me.

"I see where Anya gets it from..." I muttered to myself, making a reference to a series of fanfics that I wrote featuring Anya, Magneto's daughter. That thought caused me to completely space out and start writing fanfics in my head. "'The fault is not to be assigned to you!' She declared pointedly, slamming over a nearby minion. He sighed deeply, seeming to be weary with this. 'Please, let me be. You know not what you speak of.'" I began to speak my fanfics out loud, which earned me a strange glance from Magneto. I laughed nervously. "So what were you saying?"

"About the machine." He said, seeming to remind himself that he was dealing with a child.

"Yeah. You were saying how it was going to destroy the world and everything." I nodded, feeling awfully embarrassed to have slipped off in to Fanfic-World like that. And I hadn't even been trying.

"This is the reason behind my desire to have you join forces with me." He said grandly as he began to escort me around the machine and explain technical stuff about it. I didn't listen to that very much; I am well known to be anti-techonologic. I mostly looked at it and spaced in to Fanfic-World again, but I managed to come back when I heard him say, "...your spark shall be the beginning of all this."

"Huh?" I asked, suddenly regretting that I hadn't been paying attention. Again.

"Once you generate sufficient electrical energy for this machine to begin its work, it shall draw on my power to restructure the DNA of any human nearby." He explained as though I hadn't even said anything. "Of course, it does nothing to those who have already attained Homo Superior status, as we have."

"Oh I just remembered!" I blurted, stopping in my tracks.

"What is it?" He asked, somewhat perplexed by my sudden outburst.

"I went clear back to Xaviers and I didn't even get my Pocky! Baka!" I smacked my forehead. "I can't believe that. I brought my manga, screentones and even action figures, but I forgot my munchies!! Auug!"

It was quite clear that Magneto had NO idea what I was talking about, and was not even entirely sure how to handle the situation.

"I have some other business to attend to. Would you mind assisting Toad in his current duties?" He asked, deciding that it would be a good way to keep me out of trouble for a while.

"Current duties?" I mused.

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Why does he put up with me? %^_^% My reasoning is that since Magneto hangs out with Sabertooth and Toad, I can't be that much worse! ^_^ Review if you like! If you don't like, don't review! ^_^ Simple, huh?