Our Contest Winner is a What?
The next day several of the X-Men were waiting for Dylan's official handlers to make contact. Not to mention several other people. "Why are you Misfits here?" Logan asked.
"Oh we just had to be here to see this," Pietro grinned. "I must say Logan you're taking this awfully well."
"What this whole date a superstar nonsense?" Logan harrumphed.
"Well I was so sure you'd go ballistic when you heard about Dylan Hunter, what with his reputation and all," Pietro shrugged. "I'm surprised you didn't threaten to claw the guy into ribbons."
"Yeah well…Wait, what reputation?" Logan looked at him.
"Oh you know," Pietro waved. "You hear it all the time in those tabloid things. No big deal. The usual. Drinking, carousing, partying. Personally I think that incident with the thirteen year old was a set up."
"Thirteen?" Logan growled.
"And that whole nonsense with that other girl," Pietro said. "I mean how was he supposed to know they were selling heroin at that dance club? That trashy tabloid show blew that way out of proportion! What was the name of that show again?"
"Sixty Minutes?" Todd asked.
"No that article was about his drinking," Lance said. "But that was a more general piece. You know alcoholism in stars. He was just one of the top ten. You're thinking of Primetime Live."
"No that happened before that," Fred told him. "That was the interview where he admitted his affair with that older actress Mimi Doore."
"Oh yeah like she hasn't had half the people in Hollywood under thirty," Pietro shrugged.
"The male half," Fred snickered. "But you have to admit he has turned his life around after getting out of rehab."
"Oh really?" Logan's eye was starting to twitch.
"Yeah it really shows how much you trust Kitty going alone with a guy like that," Pietro patted him on the shoulder. "I mean you know how these stars are used to getting their own way with everyone…I mean everything. But you know Kitty. She'd never allow anything to happen."
"Unless he slipped her something in his drink," Xi remarked.
"He was acquitted of that and you know it," Pietro huffed.
"Excuse me please," Logan stormed off with a look of pure evil in his eyes.
"Good job," Lance grinned at Pietro.
"I haven't even started yet," Pietro snickered.
Outside Mac and Jeff had driven up in the car. "Wow what a swanky boarding school," Mac chomped on his unlit cigar.
"Yes it does look rather prestigious doesn't it?" Jeff remarked. "You know I think I've seen it on television. It does look familiar."
"Hey maybe we can use it for the movie," Mac instantly text messaged to someone on his phone. "Grossman's gonna be hanging around us anyway. Might as well put him to use." He then rang the doorbell.
"Welcome gentlemen to the Xavier Institute," Xavier nodded.
"Nice to meet ya," Mac said. "Call me Mac and this is Jeff. We're Mr.Hunter's agents. Now where's this Kitty person?"
"I'm like right here!" Kitty bounced happily over to them.
"Hmm, you are cute," Mac said. "Not bad. Now the way this works is that in a few weeks Dylan is gonna pick you up for your date. There's gonna be a lot of photographers to take pictures so maybe one of your teachers will escort you out like the blue guy here. Now this is gonna…" He stopped and looked at Mr. McCoy. "Blue guy?"
"Hello," Hank waved.
"Oh god…" Jeff paled. "I've just remembered where I saw this place before!"
"Yeah the six o clock news!" Mac gulped. "Here's the latest headline: Dylan Hunter crashes and burns!" He started to use his cell phone. "Dylan! Dylan! We gotta nix this gig! Not that one! The date gig! Why? Because Mr. Hotshot the girl you picked is a mutant that's why!"
"Told you," Rogue snorted.
"Please don't take this personally," Jeff gulped. "We just don't want Dylan to get attached to any negative stigma or killed."
"Oh yeah that's understandable," John folded his arms.
"Too bad!" Lance said cheerfully.
"Oh well those are the breaks!" Peter said happily.
"WHAT? Okay! Okay I'll ask her!" Mac grunted. He asked Kitty. "What exactly do you do?"
"This," Kitty walked through the wall and back.
"AAHHH!" Mac shouted. "DYLAN SHE CAN WALK THROUGH WALLS! LITTERALLY!"
"Perhaps we should discuss this…" Xavier began to say.
"DYLAN ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?" He shouted into the phone. He calmed himself. "Don't you realize this kind of thing…but…but…Well yeah but…You…you….Listen to me! This is your career I'm thinking of! Yeah and my percent cut but…but…Fine! Have it your way! But if your career crashes and burns don't blame me!"
"Well that's nice to know," Pietro remarked casually. "He doesn't care that she's a mutant. He only cares that she's got a cute face and a cute body." He grinned when he saw Logan casually slice a vase in half.
Jeff saw it and looked like he was going to faint. "What did he say?"
"He wants to go through it anyway!" Mac groaned.
"Oh well maybe Kitty doesn't after the way she's been treated!" Peter thought fast.
"That's right!" Lance grabbed her arm. "Come on Kitty! We don't have to take this!"
"Quit it Lance!" Kitty phased out of his grip. "You heard Dylan doesn't care that I'm a mutant! I won that contest fair and square and I intend to do this!"
"You can't be serious!" Lance shouted.
"Totally serious!" Kitty got in his face.
"Hey everyone!" The door opened revealing a medium sized man with black curly hair, purple shirt with gold chains and black sunglasses. "Wow! Mac you were right about this place! This is a great location!"
"Who's he?" Logan asked.
"Gary Grossman, the director of Dylan's latest picture," Jeff explained. "He's been mooching lunches off us ever since his last picture."
"Mac baby this place is da bomb!" Gary walked in.
"Hey didn't you make Drive Through Daze and 51 States?" Bobby asked.
"Correctomundo!" Gary shot him a thumbs up. "Hey did you guys know that this is the famous mutant school?"
"We do now," Jeff groaned.
"Hey and you are all those X-Men aren't you?" Gary asked. "Loved your work!"
"Well it's nice to know someone does," Rogue said.
"Hey here's a crazy idea," Gary stroked his chin. "You know this picture we're doing is at a stalemate anyway, why not take it in a whole new direction? Especially if we shoot the movie here!"
"Movie? You mean Dylan Hunter's new movie?" Amara gasped.
"You want to shoot it here?" Scott asked.
"Why not?" Gary looked around. "Oh yeah this is gonna be fabulous! I see it now! A hard hitting look at the trials and tribulations of mutant teens. How they live, how they love...It's brilliant!"
"I have a bad feeling about this," Scott groaned.
"Hey you with the sunglasses," Gary looked at him. "You know you look real good. Like a natural actor. Got the looks and the shades, you think you can play a mutant?"
"I am a mutant," Scott told him.
"Oh yeah right," Gary chuckled. "Silly me. I forgot for a second. See that's what we should try to do here. Have mutants seen as people, not freaks from another planet."
"Didn't you direct that movie?" Fred asked.
"No that was some other guy. I directed Freaks from Another Dimension," Gary corrected. "Totally different movie."
"You know," Pietro slided up to him. "If you're going to make a movie about mutants you should use mutants. You know not just as extras but for creative input, you know what I'm saying?"
"Yeah and I like it!" Gary got stars in his eyes. He picked up his cell phone. "Bobbi, sweetie it's Double G here! Listen you know that ensemble project with Dylan Hunter and Terrance Tremblon? My Buddy's Graduation? What do you mean the title's been changed again? Well whatever it's called get the scriptwriters on the horn and tell 'em to throw everything out! We're rewriting the script and taking it in a whole new direction. Oh please they've rewritten this script eight times already! A ninth isn't gonna kill 'em! Oh...Well send a get well card to the one in the hospital and fly the rest of 'em out here to Bayville New York pronto! Yeah. Yeah. It is the mutant town. Cause that's what the film is about now. Just do it! Just get 'em out here!"
"Now wait just a minute here…" Logan growled. "You can't just come into our home and…"
"Hold on a second Logan," Jean said. "Maybe this isn't a bad thing. If he makes a movie showing mutants in a positive light, that might help the reputation of mutants everywhere."
"See! That's what I'm saying!" Gary said. "I'm bored with all these teen party movies! Filled with mindless sex and drinking and bodily function jokes! I wanna do something meaningful for once! Direct that picture that will really touch America! Maybe get me a Golden Globe. So what do you say?"
"Well this could be a positive step in mutant/human relations," Xavier said.
"Great! Let's get our lawyers on this pronto to seal the deal!" Gary pushed a few more buttons on the cell phone. "Oh and since we are going to be shooting here I like that idea that kid had about having your students play some small parts. You know give it a realistic feel!"
"I guess you're all having parts in the movie," Mac sighed.
"ALL RIGHT!" All the kids cheered.
"And best of all you kiddo are gonna be starring in a role opposite Dylan!" Gary said to Kitty. "You can be his love interest!"
"WHAT?" Lance and Peter yelled.
"Me? In a movie? That is so awesome!" Kitty squealed.
"Now hold on Half Pint what is this about a romantic lead?" Logan roared.
"Who cares!" Tabitha shouted. "We're gonna be in pictures!"
"And maybe when I'm a star Dylan will notice me!" Amara squealed.
"Forget Dylan!" Jean shouted. "Terrance Tremblon is gonna be here!"
"What a hunk!" Angelica shouted.
"WHAT?" Scott yelled.
"I don't know what you've started Pietro but I have a feeling it's gonna be good," Todd laughed.
Next: Some movie making fun! Plus some playing around with a few things from the X-Men Movie and twisting it into my own personal invention! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
