Letters From Boot Camp

To Private Angelica:

Hey there space cadet! How's boot camp for mutants? It took me forever to find your address. Send me an e-mail huh? There is so much I want to tell you!

But here's the biggest scoop! Brace yourself: Bonnie got EXPELLED! No lie! Turns out they caught her with not only a bunch of drugs, but also the answers to the exam scores! I don't know all the details but from what I heard she really mouthed off to the principal when they caught her! It took three security guards to drag her from the school! Then she broke away and attacked the vice-principal! She bit him! No lie! I saw that part!

Yes we still have school. You only burned down the auditorium. Well part of it. A lot of kids aren't exactly happy with it. Of course we did end up having three days off from school. You've kind of become a legend around here. Okay maybe like not totally in a good way, like in the Jesse James kind of way, but still…

You've probably figured out that there's now a mutant ban at school. I guess in addition to the fire, finding out Lina the star student was a mutant really set people on edge. Aimee and I aren't exactly talking any more. It sucks that some people totally change when…Well I don't need to tell you that.

So tell me about what it's like where you are. What other kind of mutants do you live with? I can't believe you are living with the Misfits! How cool is that?

Keep in touch,

Amber.

Three days later she got an e-mail.

Amber:

Greetings from Boot Camp for Mutants!

Wow you can't believe how psyched I was that you wrote me! I figured the entire town pretty much wants to lynch me after what happened. Nothing new there. But I love the news about her royal witchy-ness! There is justice in the universe!

The Pit isn't anything like I thought it would be. Okay, it's not exactly a piece of cake but it's not really that bad once you get used to things around here. Of course anywhere is paradise compared to school and that hellhole they locked me in. I was only in there a short time but boy that was enough!

So what's my life like? Well, I get up, exercise, beat breakfast, train, do chores, go to school blah, blah, blah…But that's only the boring part. Life is pretty interesting here when you look past the training. There's no short of excitement or drama! Especially when you live with ninjas, sailors, and insane mutants! It's a pretty interesting group we've got here.

First is our 'fearless leader' Althea (Yeah, another A!). She's a second-generation mutant along with her sisters and brothers. (Well one's adopted so we don't know who his parents really are but that's another story!). She's also a ninja in training. She was born at the Pit and her dad's a sailor. His name's Shipwreck. He's kind of crazy but a lot of fun.

I can see the look on your face now, I am serious. Ninjas do exist. I have the bruises from their training sessions to prove it. One of our teachers, Mr. Moore, he's some kind of blind ninja master. What he can't see, he can pick up by hearing. I swear you could whisper something halfway across the base and he'd still hear it!

Then there's Wanda. She and I really have been connecting lately. She and her twin brother Pietro…Well, they've had it really rough. That's all I'm gonna say. But she and Althea are really a lot of fun, when they're not locking me in the bathroom with strange boys. Don't ask.

Lina is starting to do better now. She's had it really rough the past few weeks what with her parents and all. But she's a lot better now. You wouldn't recognize her! And I don't mean just by her mutation. She's starting to come out of her shell a lot.

There are a lot of different mutants here. But deep down we're pretty much all the same. All we really want is to be accepted at some level. Of course we all have nasty habits of leveling things to the ground at times!

Bottom line is, I'm doing okay. Yeah I'm having a hard time with all the physical stuff but these guys here, they keep my spirits up. Well most of the time. Most of them are pretty good friends. I'll write to you soon.

Private Firestar (AKA Angelica) That's my mutant name!

Angelica:

Firestar huh? I guess from what I've heard all mutants take some kind of code name. I guess you aren't the Jinx anymore. So are you sure there aren't any guys you like there? What about that cute Lance guy? You know the one that saved you? Seems like a hunk to me!

To the Deranged Amber:

LANCE IS NOT CUTE! REPEAT! NOT CUTE! ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND? HE'S A JERK! J-E-R-K, JERK! YOU WANT HIM YOU CAN HAVE HIM!

To Angelica:

Sounds like love to me! Ha ha!

To Insane Amber:

You have got to be kidding me! In the first place, he's a jerk, second, he's already got a girlfriend! So forget about that.

Amber:

Actually Amber, Lance is being strung along by a girl who is also dating another guy! It's so tragic really. Oh where are my manners? I'm Pietro Maximoff, AKA Quicksilver. The dashing single handsome one of the group. I sort of discovered your e-mail and I thought I should send you a note correcting the situation. I think with the right encouragement those two would make a lovely couple. And speaking of lovely couples, how about a double date sometime?

Pietro

Amber:

God I am so sorry about that! Sometimes that nut doesn't know when to quit! Don't worry, his sister is punishing him right now as we speak!

The Real Angelica!

Angelica:

Don't be sorry. I've seen him on TV. Actually he's kind of cute. So this other girl is stringing Lance along huh? Maybe a double date isn't such a bad idea…

Amber…

"I knew she couldn't resist my charms! YEOWWWWW!" Pietro screamed as Wanda zapped him again.

"Okay Angelica! I'll hold him! You get to burn him!" Wanda shouted as she started to punch her brother.

"Oh somebody help me…" Angelica moaned.

Next: The girls finally go meet the X-Men. Will they make new friends and patch up the X-Men/Misfit feud? Or will they take the insanity to a whole new level? Take a guess what happens!