Chapter 7: Dramatic title!
Disclaimer: I own nothing Marvel owns. However, Chu, Chi and Dil are property of their respective persons.
Now we're getting in to some actual story. But not much. ^_^; Enjoy anyways!
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Still, we all managed to eat breakfast and set out in the helicopter again.
"If you are lost in your way, deep in an awesome story, don't be in doubt and stray, cling to your lonesome folly..." I sang happily. "By the way Magneto-sama, can I have a computer?"
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We ended up deep in the middle of the woods, much to my surprise.
"You aren't ditching me here, are you?" I asked nervously.
My comment was ignored, and we all got off the helicopter.
"There." Magneto gestured toward the sky. I looked up and saw a plane on a death spiral downward.
"AND IT'S COMING TOWARD US!!! AUUUUUUUUG!" I shrieked. Magneto and Mystique were obviously not concerned, so I was quiet until I recognized the plane. "THAT'S THE BLACKBIRD!!!!"
"Yes, the so-called jet of the X-men." Magneto commented, focusing his attention on the plane.
"They've come to hunt me down!" I cried, and hid behind Magneto.
"I don't think that's it." Mystique said sarcastically.
The jet slowed and came to a complete stop about five feet above us. I peeked out from around behind Magneto to look up through the window. Jean and Storm were sitting in the pilots seats, and I could see several others in there too.
"When will these people learn how to fly?" Magneto asked as though making a joke, glancing over at Mystique. She smirked.
"If humans—or mutants—were meant to fly, we would have been given wings." I muttered.
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Once the Blackbird was securely set on the ground, the people on it slowly got off. First came Wolverine, as though to make sure it was safe.
"You're the kid that hit me with the mop." He said without humor, looking at me.
"That was an accident." I frowned, still hiding behind Magneto.
"It's okay, you can come out now." Wolverine looked back up the stairs of the Blackbird. "If he wanted to kill us, he would have already."
"How true." Mystique commented. Slowly, the others came down too.
Jean was next, followed by Storm, Iceman, Pyro, Rogue and one who I recognized to be Nightcrawler. Last off, Chu and Dil came out on the ground as well.
"Chi!!" Chu exclaimed.
"What?" I asked, still using Magneto as a shield.
"We went to Bobby's parents house and spent the night there! It was awful!" She burst out laughing.
"I had a fight with Mystique this morning. It was awful too. Dil, you should ask her to teach you how to shapeshift well." I smiled a little bit.
"What, do I not shapeshift well now?" He made another wounded expression, in which his hair turned three different colors of green, and he sprouted a tree on his nose.
I snickered before bursting out in a full-fledged laugh. Dil laughed too, while his face reverted to normal. Chu just shook her head.
"Chu, Chi, Dil, Bobby, John and Rogue." Storm put all of us in to the same sentence. "Why don't you see about setting up tents and getting out the emergency rations? I have the feeling we'll be here for a while."
The others started to go about going back in to the Blackbird, but I looked up at Magneto, clearly asking what he thought. He nodded, and I scurried away to help the others. That had obviously been a demonstration of who I was obeying now, and Jean and Storm seemed to not like it at all.
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"Okay, so, who's on tent detail?" Chu asked once we had all gotten in to the Blackbird. There was quite a bit of uneasy air between everyone in here, but most of it was directed toward me.
"We can do it." Bobby said, breaking the silence.
"So Bobby, Pyro and Rogue are on tent detail." Chu looked over to Dil, who had turned his hand in to a clipboard.
"Right. Bobby, John and Marie are on tent detail." He agreed, making a gesture of writing on the clipboard. I really doubted that he actually was writing anything. "So that leaves... Chu, Chi and Dil on food detail."
"Fine by me." I stated. "Say, so we know where they keep emergency rations in this heap?"
Rogue glanced at me oddly as she and the other two guys carried tents outside. There was an odd silence following their exit.
"I guess she's still mad about what I said before." I laughed nervously. "Oh well. So where would food be found in here?"
"I dunno. Dil, turn your nose in to a dog or something, and sniff out the food." Chu suggested.
"Uh, I think the food would be in a package..." Dil protested.
"But Dil, you know you really want to show off how great you can make your sense of smell by overcoming the packaging!" I explained reasonably.
"..." Dil didn't say anything, but decided to give it a shot. He moved around the room slowly, before he stopped in from of a compartment that said "Emergency Rations" in big bold red letters on it.
"........" Chu and I were stunned.
"We didn't even think to look." Chu commented.
"That's because they're usually so well hidden." I whined. Dil popped open the compartment, and found bunches of rations.
"I wonder what exactly we're supposed to feed them." He commented.
"I dunno, but I got dibs on the marshmallows!" I declared grabbing the vacuum-sealed, shelf-stable bag of marshmallows.
"I got dibs on the pudding!" Chu declared grabbing the hot cocoa mix.
"That's not pudding!" Dil exclaimed.
"No, it's hot chocolate mix, but if you put in the right amount of water, it becomes pudding. Our dad taught us that." Chu smiled.
"Dibs on the dried fruit bars! Those are good!"
"Dibs on the granola bars!"
"Dibs on the jerky!"
"Dibs on the crackers!"
"MRE food is yummy!"
"A-hem..." There was a sharp voice from behind us. We turned, with our arms full of claimed food, to see Jean standing behind us. "Oops..." We said with mutual feelings of concern.
"MAGNETO-SAMA!!!!! JEAN'S GOING TO KNOCK ME OUT AGAIN!!!!" I shrieked. "MAGNETO-SAMAAAAAAAA!"
Evidently, I threw a really convincing fit, or he just happened to be nearby, because he came up in to the Blackbird to see what in the world was going on.
"Jean was going to knock us out! And just when we were getting ready to distribute the food to everyone too." I shook my head, edging around the room to hide behind Magneto. "Nasty fat hobbit anyways."
"Gollum, I'll get you yet!" Chu exclaimed. "Someday, when Master Frodo isn't looking, I'll hit you over the head with a loaf of lambas!"
"See? Fat hobbit-su hate us. He wants to kill us, and take the ring for himself!" I made my best impression of Gollum, keeping Magneto between myself and Jean.
"That's a lie!" Chu cried in her best imitation of an angry Samwise Gamgee, leaping over to me to also use Magneto as a shield from Jean.
"No, Sam, it's your fault." Frodo's voice came from Dil's mouth. "You're the one against us." Dil himself was ready to burst out laughing.
"But Master Frodo, I just want to knock him over the edge of Mount Doom!" Chu protested in a whiney Sam voice.
"No, that's later in the movie, Sam." Dil continued to sound like Frodo, looking more like him by the second.
"What's going on up here?" Wolverine asked, also coming up the stairs. Us three goofballs burst out laughing uncontrollably. Wolverine looked at us with a raised eyebrow, and turned his attention to Jean.
"Nothing. I was coming to see about repairing the systems. That's all." Jean seemed to not want to tell Wolverine the whole story, which was okay by me. After all, he might do something mean to us... He wasn't exactly the type of guy who just lets the girl he likes get picked on.
"Oh." Wolverine seemed to have nothing else to comment, and when Jean left, he left with her. Magneto glanced at us, who were still laughing, and also left.
"Chi..." Chu commented, trying to get her wild laughter under control. "You're a conniving little creep."
"I know, I feel like a brat too." I said with a smile. "But really, how bad did you want to wake up three hours later to find that they abandoned us here in the middle of the woods with nothing to eat and no way to get home?"
"She has a point." Dil agreed. Chu thought for a minute, and nodded too.
"Yeah. We should distribute the food now though." She stated.
"I still got dibs on the marshmallows!"
"Dibs on the pudding!"
"Dibs on the dried fruit bars!"
"Dibs on the granola bars!"
"Dibs on the jerky!"
"Dibs on the crackers!"
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Actually, I had been calling Jean a fat Hobbit, not Chu. But that's okay too. So... Look forward to the next chapter, "Chapter 8: Title not announced"! ^_^ Review!
