Chapter 6: War, Nyquil and Pants?!-Oh My!
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
The teens were in the lab still trying to solve their car problem. Once they really thought it over they realized it would be far too difficult to rig a pulley system off the roof. It would take too long to up and take down, not to mention the noise factor.
"Now what are we going to do?" asked Pyro as he played with a metal slinky.
"I don't know." said Bobby miserably, "It's almost where we need-"
"The power of teleportation," Rouge cut in.
"But Nightcrawler is an adult," interjected Py.
"Yes, but he's not a teacher-yet" said Rogue with a wicked glint in her eye.
"Ah, a loophole," said Bobby with a wicked smile.
"Now a see why you keep her," said Pyro, "but we still have one major problem-how the HELL are we going to gain his allegiance to our side?!"
"'Allegiance to our side'?-Dude, you have been hanging out with Magneto far too long," commented Bobby.
"And 'send'," Rogue hit the enter key.
"What was that?" asked Bobby.
"Ah just fiahred an e-mail off ta Jubilee, telling her to recruit Kurt." Rogue explained.
"Jubilee is relentless! She'll never give him a moment's peace until he agrees," exclaimed Pyro.
"Ah know." said Rogue smiling innocently, "Isn't it great?"
"Now that's why I keep her around!" laughed Bobby.
Toad walked into the lab and held the door open, "Amscray (I don't know if that's spelled right)"
The teens all looked at each other.
"Does this have something to do with Storm?" asked Rogue narrowing her eyes.
"I don't have time for this," growled Toad, "Out!"
The teens beat a hasty retreat, but Rogue did notice John shoot Toad a confused look.
About five minutes after the teens left Storm and Victor walked in.
Toad looked up, "Oh, Victor-I thought Magneto wanted to see you."
"Ya, it can wait," said Sabertooth crossing his arms.
"Are you sure?" asked Toad, "I mean-"
"Is there a problem?" asked Victor in a dangerous tone.
"I was hoping to talk to Storm-alone." said Toad calmly.
"You got somethin' ta say? Say it!" Creed growled.
"I've noticed how-on edge-Storm has been lately and I just wanted to help her explore other options-" said Toad removing a syringe and a small vial containing a clear liquid from a drawer.
Sabertooth's growling dropped into his chest when he saw the vial. He put one huge paw over Storm's stomach defensively.
"Is that what I think it is?" asked Storm nervously.
"I just wanted to introduce the idea, while you still have time to think about-"
SWAT!
Sabertooth sent Toad flying across the room and into a wall. Needless to say Toad was knocked unconscious.
Mystique came rushing into the lab after hearing the crash-"What the hell was-oh, I see Toad's abortion pitch flew like a chair," she said looking a Toad's motionless body on the lab floor.
Victor continued to growl at Toad's still body.
"O-kay," said Mystique turning her attention towards Storm, "when were you planning to tell the Three Amigos (Rogue, Bobby and Py)?"
Ororo sighed, "I guess now. Where are they?"
"Outside," said Mystique, "Should I call them in?"
"No, I'll just wait until they come back in." said Storm hesitantly.
"What's all this 'I' crap?!" asked Creed who was still pretty peeved with the temporarily immobile Toad, "It's my kid too!"
"We've been through this-!" began Storm.
"Why don't I take Storm back to your room and you can go meet with Magneto- he's been waiting for you." Mystique interrupted and took Storm by the arm.
Once the women were out of the lab Victor started to walk over to shred Toad-
"AND LEAVE TOAD ALONE!" yelled Mystique from hall.
"Damn," growled Victor who was inches away from Toad with his claws fully extended.
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Once Mystique and Ororo reached Victor's room Storm flopped down on the bed.
"What am I going to tell the kids?" asked Storm miserably.
"How about the truth?" asked Mystique sarcastically.
"They're not going to react well to this." said Storm, "I have a bad feeling."
"You're probably going throw up," said Mystique matter o' factly.
"That's not what I meant and you know it!" grumbled Storm.
"They're teenagers-they'll adjust," said Mystique as she made Victor's side of the bed.
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Meanwhile in Magneto's office-
"We're going on a raid tonight to download the schematics of a military base up in the Yukon, so we can copy their listing of mutant and cross reference it with ours." Magneto explained.
"What time do we leave?" asked Creed.
"No," said Magneto "you're staying here with Storm. As of right now both of you are out of commission."
"WHAT?!"
"You two need to be alone with each other." said Magneto sternly, "She needs to feel comfortable around all of us-you especially."
"What about the ankle biters?" asked Creed.
"Don't worry they'll go somewhere, so you and Storm can have the compound to yourselves." assured Magneto.
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"You know he really does like you," said Mystique as she folded throw blanket which had been discarded on to the floor.
"How do you know?" asked Storm sarcastically.
"Please, do you honestly think he would keep you around if he didn't?"
"He doesn't care about me. He just cares about the baby-which makes even less sense-" Storm trailed off.
"At least try to get to know him," said Mystique, "you are going to have his child."
"Oh, no," said Storm, "the second Rogue and Bobby go back so do I!"
Mystique just laughed, "Victor's not going to let you leave."
"What are you talking about?!" asked Storm.
"Remember the Statue of Liberty?" asked Mystique.
"Yes-" said Ororo cautiously.
"Ever notice the Xavier seal on the back of your collar was missing?" asked Mystique as went into the bathroom and removed the wet towels.
"Yes, but not until I took the suit off." admitted Ororo, "I thought I caught it on something."
"He took it off-" said Mystique, "He caries it around in his front pant's pocket."
"That's ridiculous!" said Storm in retort.
"Don't believe me?" said Mystique smugly, "Then check his pocket."
"I will do no such thing!" said Storm indignantly.
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Meanwhile the kids came in from the great outdoors all three totally soaked- Ok 'great' is an over statement. Let's just take a moment to verify that it was 10 below outside.
"I'm f-f-freezing," Py shivered.
"Ya, well it's yer own damn fault!" said Rogue wrapping her arms around her body.
"Enough the both of you!" scolded Bobby whose lips by now had gone from blue to purple, "The important thing is that we figured it all out."
"Figured what out?" asked Magneto coming down the hall from his office with Victor behind him.
"And why are you WET?!" asked Mystique going into maternal overdrive as she came down another hall with Strom behind her.
"Ah-my head," groaned Toad coming from the lab, "What happened?"
"You slipped and fell on my fist!" growled Victor.
Then Toad saw the drenched trio, "The hell? Did you guys go fishing with your teeth or what?"
"What do the three of you have to say for yourselves?!" interrogated Mystique.
"How about-It was worth it," ventured Bobby.
"Wait-Let me get this straight!" said Pyro turning to Bobby, "It was worth letting your girlfriend hold my head under frigid water?!"
"What?!" asked Mystique.
"Nothing-Nothing at all," said Bobby quickly as he covered St. John's mouth with his hand.
"Anyway," said Magneto pushing Victor in front of him, "we need to talk to the three of you."
"More specifically Sabertooth and Storm have to talk to you." said Mystique shoving Storm in front of her.
Storm and Sabertooth exchanged glances.
"It's like this-" said Sabertooth trialed off.
"Uh, right-" Storm began.
"Look," interrupted Rogue, "Ah'm freezin' mah ass off-If this is because Storm is pregnant and Sabertooth is the father just say it already before one of mah ass totally freezes and crahcks off!"
Needless to say the adults were quite astonished.
"How-?" asked Toad.
"When you yelled at the three of us to leave the lab Ah saw John give you a weird look. Ah told Bobby-" said Rogue looking at her boyfriend.
"And we decided to ask him about it-" explained Bobby as he looked over at Pyro.
"But when I wouldn't talk Rogue decided to hold my head under water until I explained about the bar last month." said John.
"Makes perfect sense," said Toad rolling his eyes.
"So that's why you keep her around." commented Magneto.
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Well as you most likely surmised the Tres Caballeros were sick as dogs. So ill in fact that Mystique decided to give them something for their sneezing and coughing.
"You gave them an etire bottle of Nyquil?!" exclaimed Toad when he saw the heap of 3 motionless teenaged bodies on the couch.
"So?" asked Mystique.
"So," said Toad checking Py for a pulse, "we'll be lucky if they wake up by noon tomorrow.
"Good, maybe then we can get some peace around here," said Mystique as she opened the door to the garage.
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Sometime around 11 Victor and Storm were in their room. Victor was laying on the bed looking over some paperwork, while Ororo was combing her hair listlessly in front of a vanity she had neglected to notice before.
"Yer thinkin' about Toad's offer aren't you," growled Creed.
THUD!-Storm put the comb down.
"And what if I am?!" she asked.
"Are you serious?!" he leapt to his feet.
"No," said Storm putting her head in her hands, pained to admit it.
Victor walked over to the vanity smirking, wrapped his arms around Storm, nuzzled her hair and started to purr.
Ororo stiffened, "Alright, that's enough-OFF!" she jabbed her elbow into his ribcage.
"Ok," said Victor a little winded, "I'm going to go take a shower."
Having said that Victor walked over to the foot of the bed and stripped down to his boxers, throwing his discarded clothing over the comforter. He then went over to the bathroom and closed the door.
Storm waited until she heard the shower turn on before she headed over to the heap of clothes on the foot of the bed and attacked the pants. Sure enough to Storm's dismay in Victor's left front pocket she found it-the missing embalm from the collar of her uniform at the Statue of Liberty.
Her eyes widened, "Goddess!" she exclaimed.
"Been talkin' ta Mystique?" came Victor's voice from behind her.
Storm spun around to see Victor dripping wet with nothing, but a towel wrapped around his waste.
"What?! Mystique?! No!-I was just-looking for loose change," said a rather startled Storm.
"Yer lookin' fer loose change?" said Victor sarcastically as he crossed his arms, "I'm an assassin!-I sneak up on people, loose change would tend to announce my presence!" he paused, "-but then again I guess we're even."
"Even?" Storm arched a platinum eyebrow.
Victor opened the nightstand drawer and pulled out a folded piece of paper. Storm knew exactly what it the second she saw it.
Ororo had hacked into the security system in the train station security system, frozen a frame of when she and Sabertooth were standing together in the split second before he started choking her (how romantic-author points finger down her throat).
Storm gasped, "Firstly I can't believe you went through my suit!" she said rather outraged, "Secondly," her tone became less severe, "just out of curiosity, where is my suit?"
"Whadda you care?" asked Sabertooth, "Yer not gonna be able ta fit in it much longer," he said pointing a claw at her stomach.
Storm looked down at her stomach, which was for the time being still flat, then back up at Victor and crossed her arms, "It's the principle of the thing!" she insisted.
"Like you going through my clothes, while I was in the shower?" asked Vic nonchalantly as he leaned against the wall.
"Exac-" Storm caught herself, "No! It's completely different," she said crossing her arms.
"How d'you figure?" asked Sabertooth who was nothing less then amused by the conversation and could smell that Storm was getting pissed, "I have to hear this."
"Self-defense," countered Storm.
"What?!"
"For all I know you could have weaponry on you, like knives!"
"Knives?!-First of all, I don't work with weapons and second of all if I had any I'd be using them to protect you! Anything else yer curious about?"
"As a matter of fact, yes!" said Storm, "Who takes a two minute shower?! And don't tell me it's because cats hate water!" she added sarcastically.
Victor just chuckled, he could sense her rage was peaking, "Now why would I stay in the shower if I didn't have anyone to play with," he teased and 'checked her out'.
"You can't be serious!" Storm rolled her eyes.
Victor sighed, "I think yer just scared to admit to yerself that yer attracted to me. Because once you do you betray yer teammates. But now that yer gonna have my kid you know you have to admit it at some point. When you do you think that you can't go back to Xavier and you blame me, but most of all you blame yerself fer lettin' happen-Am I gettin' close er what?"
Storm turned away.
"What no witty come back?" asked Victor as he picked up on the rage subsiding.
A soft rain shower began to cascade down onto the balcony.
Victor walked back into the bathroom and reappeared in pajama pants with a roll of toilet paper in his right hand and small, white wastebasket in his left.
"C'mon," he guided Storm to the bed after putting the wastebasket on the nightstand on her side.
The two climbed into bed and for the first time Ororo actually hugged Victor back as rain started to beat down unforgivingly on the metal balcony.
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The mission had been successful and now Toad Mystique and Magneto were headed home in the plane. Toad was piloting with the cockpit closed and needless to say Mystique and Magneto were making-out like a couple of teenagers in the cabin.
Mystique sat up when she heard the rain come down harder, "About fucking time they got somewhere," she commented.
"Perhaps now things will go somewhat back to normal," said Magneto with rather disheveled hair.
"Well then, I guess a celebration is in order," said Mystique triumphantly.
"What do you mean?" asked the Master of Magnetism wrinkling his brow.
Mystique sat back on Magneto's feet and smiled wickedly-
ZIIIIIIIIIP!
"Mystique, what are you-OH!"
Mystique leaned back with his hands behind his head and watched the rain hit the cabin windows as the shape shifter went to work (MWAHAHAHA!).
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2 am
Xavier Institute
All was quiet on the Western front until the microware clock struck 2:03. Then all Hell broke loose-
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Scott's car alarm went off.
"HOLY SHIT!" yelled Scott when he leaped out of bed and nearly stubbed his toe on the left front tire.
CRASH!-Wolverine kicked the door to Scott's room in.
"Scooter, you alight?!" yelled Wolverine with both sets of claws fully extended.
"YA!" yelled Scott as he reached into his nightstand drawer for remote control.
Woo-Woo-Scott turned the car alarm off.
BAMF!-Kurt ported into the room, "Vat vas all ze noise," he said playing dumb.
Hank ran into the room, "What happened?! I could hear it all the way down in the lab!"
"The beginning of the prank war!" declared Scott.
Professor Xavier rolled by in the hall and stopped at Cyke's door, "Now that the four of you are awake I wanted to talk with you in my office."
The four men looked at each other and figured why the hell not they were already up any way.
On the way out of his room Cyke hit the lock button on the remote-
CLICK-CLICK!
Wolverine raised an eyebrow.
"What?!" asked Scott sticking the keys into his pajama pocket.
Logan shook his head as he put an arm around Scott's shoulders, "Where to begin?" he asked no one in particular.
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We (The royal 'we' that is!) now take you outside the Prof.'s office as he drops the bomb.
"MIEN GOTT!" shouted Kurt.
SKNIT!-"FLAMIN' HELL!" yelled Wolverine.
THUD!-you guessed it Scott fainted.
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'till we meet again I'm Clinically Insane. Thanks for stoppin' by!
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
The teens were in the lab still trying to solve their car problem. Once they really thought it over they realized it would be far too difficult to rig a pulley system off the roof. It would take too long to up and take down, not to mention the noise factor.
"Now what are we going to do?" asked Pyro as he played with a metal slinky.
"I don't know." said Bobby miserably, "It's almost where we need-"
"The power of teleportation," Rouge cut in.
"But Nightcrawler is an adult," interjected Py.
"Yes, but he's not a teacher-yet" said Rogue with a wicked glint in her eye.
"Ah, a loophole," said Bobby with a wicked smile.
"Now a see why you keep her," said Pyro, "but we still have one major problem-how the HELL are we going to gain his allegiance to our side?!"
"'Allegiance to our side'?-Dude, you have been hanging out with Magneto far too long," commented Bobby.
"And 'send'," Rogue hit the enter key.
"What was that?" asked Bobby.
"Ah just fiahred an e-mail off ta Jubilee, telling her to recruit Kurt." Rogue explained.
"Jubilee is relentless! She'll never give him a moment's peace until he agrees," exclaimed Pyro.
"Ah know." said Rogue smiling innocently, "Isn't it great?"
"Now that's why I keep her around!" laughed Bobby.
Toad walked into the lab and held the door open, "Amscray (I don't know if that's spelled right)"
The teens all looked at each other.
"Does this have something to do with Storm?" asked Rogue narrowing her eyes.
"I don't have time for this," growled Toad, "Out!"
The teens beat a hasty retreat, but Rogue did notice John shoot Toad a confused look.
About five minutes after the teens left Storm and Victor walked in.
Toad looked up, "Oh, Victor-I thought Magneto wanted to see you."
"Ya, it can wait," said Sabertooth crossing his arms.
"Are you sure?" asked Toad, "I mean-"
"Is there a problem?" asked Victor in a dangerous tone.
"I was hoping to talk to Storm-alone." said Toad calmly.
"You got somethin' ta say? Say it!" Creed growled.
"I've noticed how-on edge-Storm has been lately and I just wanted to help her explore other options-" said Toad removing a syringe and a small vial containing a clear liquid from a drawer.
Sabertooth's growling dropped into his chest when he saw the vial. He put one huge paw over Storm's stomach defensively.
"Is that what I think it is?" asked Storm nervously.
"I just wanted to introduce the idea, while you still have time to think about-"
SWAT!
Sabertooth sent Toad flying across the room and into a wall. Needless to say Toad was knocked unconscious.
Mystique came rushing into the lab after hearing the crash-"What the hell was-oh, I see Toad's abortion pitch flew like a chair," she said looking a Toad's motionless body on the lab floor.
Victor continued to growl at Toad's still body.
"O-kay," said Mystique turning her attention towards Storm, "when were you planning to tell the Three Amigos (Rogue, Bobby and Py)?"
Ororo sighed, "I guess now. Where are they?"
"Outside," said Mystique, "Should I call them in?"
"No, I'll just wait until they come back in." said Storm hesitantly.
"What's all this 'I' crap?!" asked Creed who was still pretty peeved with the temporarily immobile Toad, "It's my kid too!"
"We've been through this-!" began Storm.
"Why don't I take Storm back to your room and you can go meet with Magneto- he's been waiting for you." Mystique interrupted and took Storm by the arm.
Once the women were out of the lab Victor started to walk over to shred Toad-
"AND LEAVE TOAD ALONE!" yelled Mystique from hall.
"Damn," growled Victor who was inches away from Toad with his claws fully extended.
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Once Mystique and Ororo reached Victor's room Storm flopped down on the bed.
"What am I going to tell the kids?" asked Storm miserably.
"How about the truth?" asked Mystique sarcastically.
"They're not going to react well to this." said Storm, "I have a bad feeling."
"You're probably going throw up," said Mystique matter o' factly.
"That's not what I meant and you know it!" grumbled Storm.
"They're teenagers-they'll adjust," said Mystique as she made Victor's side of the bed.
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Meanwhile in Magneto's office-
"We're going on a raid tonight to download the schematics of a military base up in the Yukon, so we can copy their listing of mutant and cross reference it with ours." Magneto explained.
"What time do we leave?" asked Creed.
"No," said Magneto "you're staying here with Storm. As of right now both of you are out of commission."
"WHAT?!"
"You two need to be alone with each other." said Magneto sternly, "She needs to feel comfortable around all of us-you especially."
"What about the ankle biters?" asked Creed.
"Don't worry they'll go somewhere, so you and Storm can have the compound to yourselves." assured Magneto.
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"You know he really does like you," said Mystique as she folded throw blanket which had been discarded on to the floor.
"How do you know?" asked Storm sarcastically.
"Please, do you honestly think he would keep you around if he didn't?"
"He doesn't care about me. He just cares about the baby-which makes even less sense-" Storm trailed off.
"At least try to get to know him," said Mystique, "you are going to have his child."
"Oh, no," said Storm, "the second Rogue and Bobby go back so do I!"
Mystique just laughed, "Victor's not going to let you leave."
"What are you talking about?!" asked Storm.
"Remember the Statue of Liberty?" asked Mystique.
"Yes-" said Ororo cautiously.
"Ever notice the Xavier seal on the back of your collar was missing?" asked Mystique as went into the bathroom and removed the wet towels.
"Yes, but not until I took the suit off." admitted Ororo, "I thought I caught it on something."
"He took it off-" said Mystique, "He caries it around in his front pant's pocket."
"That's ridiculous!" said Storm in retort.
"Don't believe me?" said Mystique smugly, "Then check his pocket."
"I will do no such thing!" said Storm indignantly.
-------------
Meanwhile the kids came in from the great outdoors all three totally soaked- Ok 'great' is an over statement. Let's just take a moment to verify that it was 10 below outside.
"I'm f-f-freezing," Py shivered.
"Ya, well it's yer own damn fault!" said Rogue wrapping her arms around her body.
"Enough the both of you!" scolded Bobby whose lips by now had gone from blue to purple, "The important thing is that we figured it all out."
"Figured what out?" asked Magneto coming down the hall from his office with Victor behind him.
"And why are you WET?!" asked Mystique going into maternal overdrive as she came down another hall with Strom behind her.
"Ah-my head," groaned Toad coming from the lab, "What happened?"
"You slipped and fell on my fist!" growled Victor.
Then Toad saw the drenched trio, "The hell? Did you guys go fishing with your teeth or what?"
"What do the three of you have to say for yourselves?!" interrogated Mystique.
"How about-It was worth it," ventured Bobby.
"Wait-Let me get this straight!" said Pyro turning to Bobby, "It was worth letting your girlfriend hold my head under frigid water?!"
"What?!" asked Mystique.
"Nothing-Nothing at all," said Bobby quickly as he covered St. John's mouth with his hand.
"Anyway," said Magneto pushing Victor in front of him, "we need to talk to the three of you."
"More specifically Sabertooth and Storm have to talk to you." said Mystique shoving Storm in front of her.
Storm and Sabertooth exchanged glances.
"It's like this-" said Sabertooth trialed off.
"Uh, right-" Storm began.
"Look," interrupted Rogue, "Ah'm freezin' mah ass off-If this is because Storm is pregnant and Sabertooth is the father just say it already before one of mah ass totally freezes and crahcks off!"
Needless to say the adults were quite astonished.
"How-?" asked Toad.
"When you yelled at the three of us to leave the lab Ah saw John give you a weird look. Ah told Bobby-" said Rogue looking at her boyfriend.
"And we decided to ask him about it-" explained Bobby as he looked over at Pyro.
"But when I wouldn't talk Rogue decided to hold my head under water until I explained about the bar last month." said John.
"Makes perfect sense," said Toad rolling his eyes.
"So that's why you keep her around." commented Magneto.
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Well as you most likely surmised the Tres Caballeros were sick as dogs. So ill in fact that Mystique decided to give them something for their sneezing and coughing.
"You gave them an etire bottle of Nyquil?!" exclaimed Toad when he saw the heap of 3 motionless teenaged bodies on the couch.
"So?" asked Mystique.
"So," said Toad checking Py for a pulse, "we'll be lucky if they wake up by noon tomorrow.
"Good, maybe then we can get some peace around here," said Mystique as she opened the door to the garage.
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Sometime around 11 Victor and Storm were in their room. Victor was laying on the bed looking over some paperwork, while Ororo was combing her hair listlessly in front of a vanity she had neglected to notice before.
"Yer thinkin' about Toad's offer aren't you," growled Creed.
THUD!-Storm put the comb down.
"And what if I am?!" she asked.
"Are you serious?!" he leapt to his feet.
"No," said Storm putting her head in her hands, pained to admit it.
Victor walked over to the vanity smirking, wrapped his arms around Storm, nuzzled her hair and started to purr.
Ororo stiffened, "Alright, that's enough-OFF!" she jabbed her elbow into his ribcage.
"Ok," said Victor a little winded, "I'm going to go take a shower."
Having said that Victor walked over to the foot of the bed and stripped down to his boxers, throwing his discarded clothing over the comforter. He then went over to the bathroom and closed the door.
Storm waited until she heard the shower turn on before she headed over to the heap of clothes on the foot of the bed and attacked the pants. Sure enough to Storm's dismay in Victor's left front pocket she found it-the missing embalm from the collar of her uniform at the Statue of Liberty.
Her eyes widened, "Goddess!" she exclaimed.
"Been talkin' ta Mystique?" came Victor's voice from behind her.
Storm spun around to see Victor dripping wet with nothing, but a towel wrapped around his waste.
"What?! Mystique?! No!-I was just-looking for loose change," said a rather startled Storm.
"Yer lookin' fer loose change?" said Victor sarcastically as he crossed his arms, "I'm an assassin!-I sneak up on people, loose change would tend to announce my presence!" he paused, "-but then again I guess we're even."
"Even?" Storm arched a platinum eyebrow.
Victor opened the nightstand drawer and pulled out a folded piece of paper. Storm knew exactly what it the second she saw it.
Ororo had hacked into the security system in the train station security system, frozen a frame of when she and Sabertooth were standing together in the split second before he started choking her (how romantic-author points finger down her throat).
Storm gasped, "Firstly I can't believe you went through my suit!" she said rather outraged, "Secondly," her tone became less severe, "just out of curiosity, where is my suit?"
"Whadda you care?" asked Sabertooth, "Yer not gonna be able ta fit in it much longer," he said pointing a claw at her stomach.
Storm looked down at her stomach, which was for the time being still flat, then back up at Victor and crossed her arms, "It's the principle of the thing!" she insisted.
"Like you going through my clothes, while I was in the shower?" asked Vic nonchalantly as he leaned against the wall.
"Exac-" Storm caught herself, "No! It's completely different," she said crossing her arms.
"How d'you figure?" asked Sabertooth who was nothing less then amused by the conversation and could smell that Storm was getting pissed, "I have to hear this."
"Self-defense," countered Storm.
"What?!"
"For all I know you could have weaponry on you, like knives!"
"Knives?!-First of all, I don't work with weapons and second of all if I had any I'd be using them to protect you! Anything else yer curious about?"
"As a matter of fact, yes!" said Storm, "Who takes a two minute shower?! And don't tell me it's because cats hate water!" she added sarcastically.
Victor just chuckled, he could sense her rage was peaking, "Now why would I stay in the shower if I didn't have anyone to play with," he teased and 'checked her out'.
"You can't be serious!" Storm rolled her eyes.
Victor sighed, "I think yer just scared to admit to yerself that yer attracted to me. Because once you do you betray yer teammates. But now that yer gonna have my kid you know you have to admit it at some point. When you do you think that you can't go back to Xavier and you blame me, but most of all you blame yerself fer lettin' happen-Am I gettin' close er what?"
Storm turned away.
"What no witty come back?" asked Victor as he picked up on the rage subsiding.
A soft rain shower began to cascade down onto the balcony.
Victor walked back into the bathroom and reappeared in pajama pants with a roll of toilet paper in his right hand and small, white wastebasket in his left.
"C'mon," he guided Storm to the bed after putting the wastebasket on the nightstand on her side.
The two climbed into bed and for the first time Ororo actually hugged Victor back as rain started to beat down unforgivingly on the metal balcony.
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The mission had been successful and now Toad Mystique and Magneto were headed home in the plane. Toad was piloting with the cockpit closed and needless to say Mystique and Magneto were making-out like a couple of teenagers in the cabin.
Mystique sat up when she heard the rain come down harder, "About fucking time they got somewhere," she commented.
"Perhaps now things will go somewhat back to normal," said Magneto with rather disheveled hair.
"Well then, I guess a celebration is in order," said Mystique triumphantly.
"What do you mean?" asked the Master of Magnetism wrinkling his brow.
Mystique sat back on Magneto's feet and smiled wickedly-
ZIIIIIIIIIP!
"Mystique, what are you-OH!"
Mystique leaned back with his hands behind his head and watched the rain hit the cabin windows as the shape shifter went to work (MWAHAHAHA!).
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2 am
Xavier Institute
All was quiet on the Western front until the microware clock struck 2:03. Then all Hell broke loose-
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Scott's car alarm went off.
"HOLY SHIT!" yelled Scott when he leaped out of bed and nearly stubbed his toe on the left front tire.
CRASH!-Wolverine kicked the door to Scott's room in.
"Scooter, you alight?!" yelled Wolverine with both sets of claws fully extended.
"YA!" yelled Scott as he reached into his nightstand drawer for remote control.
Woo-Woo-Scott turned the car alarm off.
BAMF!-Kurt ported into the room, "Vat vas all ze noise," he said playing dumb.
Hank ran into the room, "What happened?! I could hear it all the way down in the lab!"
"The beginning of the prank war!" declared Scott.
Professor Xavier rolled by in the hall and stopped at Cyke's door, "Now that the four of you are awake I wanted to talk with you in my office."
The four men looked at each other and figured why the hell not they were already up any way.
On the way out of his room Cyke hit the lock button on the remote-
CLICK-CLICK!
Wolverine raised an eyebrow.
"What?!" asked Scott sticking the keys into his pajama pocket.
Logan shook his head as he put an arm around Scott's shoulders, "Where to begin?" he asked no one in particular.
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We (The royal 'we' that is!) now take you outside the Prof.'s office as he drops the bomb.
"MIEN GOTT!" shouted Kurt.
SKNIT!-"FLAMIN' HELL!" yelled Wolverine.
THUD!-you guessed it Scott fainted.
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'till we meet again I'm Clinically Insane. Thanks for stoppin' by!