Queen of Random: Whew! Another chapter done! And it's longer than usual!
That's surprising, as I have been buy working on my other works as well.
Sometimes I wish I was like Jamie, and could make more of myself. That way,
I could have one multiple work on 'Beauty and the Beast', another on 'Trial
by Fire', a third on 'Role Reversal' and others on all of my other work.
Oh, and one to clean my room for me while I watch television. Although
recently I have been wondering if I don't just watch television just for
the sake of it. I thought about this because, for no apparent reason, I
found myself watching "Barbie of Swan Lake'. Dunno why, as I don't like
Barbie. At all. Although I did like looking at the list of all the people
who provided the voices. Kelly Sheridan (Scarlet Witch) was Barbie, and
Mark Hildreth (Angel) was Prince Daniel. Plus there was Kelsey Grammar, and
I think the woman who was Janice on 'Friends'. He he. The voice of Barbie
is the voice of Wanda, the Scarlet Witch!
I really like looking at all the voice actors, and their other appearances, especially those at the Ocean Group, who do the voices for both X-Men: Evolution and Gundam Wing (another of my favourite shows, but not my favourite. That spot is reserved for X-Men: Evolution!). Except now I keep getting images of the gang from X-Men: Evolution doing things like the characters from Gundam Wing. For example, I have the mental image of Kurt (Brad Swaile) in Quatre's pink shirt, and Scott (Kirby Morrow) in Trowa's clown costume. Then I have a picture of Logan (Scott McNeil) in black stirrup pants and with a priest's collar, like Duo, and Angel (Mark Hildreth) in Heero's black spandex shorts and green singlet top. Then there is Callisto (Saffron Henderson) in Noin's OZ uniform, and Kitty (Maggie Blue O'Hara) dressed in Mariemeia's uniform. But I think the worst image is Professor Xavier (David Kaye) in the bathtub, like Treize! See, in Gundam Wing it was cool when Treize did it, but when it is Xavier. . . ew. Not that I don't like Xavier or anything, but still. . . ew.
Perhaps I should just get on with the next chapter. Yes, that's a good idea.
Role Reversal
Chapter Nine: Trouble, Multiplied
At the sound of Scarlett's voice, the quintuplets looked up. "What happened? Why is she yelling at me, Carter?" asked one of the girls.
Noticing the way that the Jaimee spoke first to Carter, and the look in her eyes, Rogue couldn't help but laugh. It seemed that things were not so different in the world of the X-Women and the Sisterhood, if Jamie's double had a crush on Kitty's.
Kitty silenced Rogue's laughter with a glance. Turning to Carter, she asked, "This is Jamie's Doppelganger? Multiple?"
Carter nodded. "Yes. This is Jaimee. Also known as Multigirl."
"Where am I?" asked another of the Jaimees.
"Who wants to explain?" asked Scarlett tiredly.
"I will," replied Grey. "But first, Jaimee, I think you should pull yourself together."
The Jaimees nodded their heads in unison. "All right." The girls did just that, and soon there was only one Jaimee standing in front of the group. "So, what happened?" she asked.
"Well," began Grey. "To cut a long story short, Form transported us from another dimension. In this dimension we are of the opposite sex."
Jaimee giggled. "He he. You said sex."
"Now is not the time, Jaimee," interrupted Scarlett.
"Yes," agreed Grey. "Anyway, we are not the only ones who have been transported. At first, we thought it was just the X-Women and the Sisterhood who were affected, but now that you are here. . ." Grey's voice trailed off.
"Who else is here?" asked Roué. "Have you seen any of the other students around?"
Jaimee nodded. "Yeah. I saw the others. They were out in the parking lot a few minutes ago. They saw the X-Van, and decided to wait by it."
"All of them?" asked Carter.
Jaimee nodded again. "They made me come in here and get them some soda. Then she ran into me." She pointed at Petra, who poked her tongue out in response.
"It seems that our original plan to meet go to the Institute will still happen," said Jean.
Scott nodded, thinking. "But how will we get Jaimee and the other new students back there?"
"I say we call the Prof."
"Good idea, Kurt. Why don't you and Katrin go and find the nearest phone and call him?"
"Sure," replied Katrin. She was about to teleport when Roué stopped her by grabbing her arm. He had regloved his hands, as had Rogue, not long after the two of them had discovered that could touch each other.
"I wouldn't recommend you do that," he said.
Katrin looked embarrassed. "Whoops. Sorry." She looked at Kurt. "Come on, fuzzy dude! Let's go!" And the two of them took off at a run.
"All right, you lot," said Lana. "Let's get going." As the others began walking off, she sidled up to Lance and whispered, "This is going to be a long night."
Lance tried to laugh it off. "Yeah, but think of it this way. It's the two of us, together with the Prydes."
At the thought of what could happen, Lana seemed to brighten. "You have a plan?" she asked eagerly.
Lance nodded. "Yeah. Now here's what we're gonna do."
He began whispering his plan to his Doppelganger, who listened intently to what he had to say.
*
A teenage girl with long brown hair leaned against the X-Van, idly making ice figurines in her hands. Hearing a small explosion come from the other side of the van, she crushed the small dog made of ice, and looked annoyed. "Tibal!" she called. "Stop that! Doctor Xavier won't like it if you damage the X-Van."
A blonde boy poked his head around the corner of the van. "Oh, knock it off, Bobbi. I didn't do nothing to the van. And, anyway, it's not like I'm taking it for a midnight joyride, now, is it?"
The girl, who had just been identified as Bobbi - and was obviously Bobby's Doppelganger - groaned. "Knock it off! We just have to wait here for the X- Women, so they can take us back to the Institute." Bobbi looked around. "Where are Samantha and Roberta?"
The boy, Tibal, shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know. Maybe they went off to find Rachel."
"Oh, okay. Amarus?" called Bobbi. When no answer came, Bobbi turned to Tibal. "Tibby," she said, her voice filled with annoyance, "where's Amarus?"
"Dunno."
"Oh, this is just great," complained Bobbi. "We don't know where the X- Women are, we are in a strange place because of that flash of light, and we have been separated from the rest of our team!"
"Oh, calm down, Bobbi," laughed Tibal. "Actually, since you are already cool, you should worry about getting a little hot under the collar. We wouldn't want you melting, now, would we, Icewoman?"
"Ha ha ha," said Bobbi sarcastically. "Why don't you go and blow something up, Dynamite?"
"If you insist." Tibal scanned the parking lot, and spotted something in the distance. "Look!" she ordered Bobbi. "There are the others!"
"Where?"
Tibal pointed to the end of the row of cars. There, walking up to the X- Van, was three girls - a blonde, a girl with very strange reddish-blonde hair, and a girl with darker skin than her companions, with dark hair - and a boy - also with dark hair and skin.
"Hey," said the blonde girl.
"Hey, Samantha," replied Tibal. He then turned to the others. "Have you guys seen Jaimee? She was supposed to be bringing our sodas."
The others shrugged their shoulders. "Haven't seen her. Sorry."
"Well," said Bobbi, "I suppose we should just wait."
*
Kurt and Katrin were reunited with the rest of the group at the mall's exit.
"Did you call the Professor?" asked Scott.
Katrin nodded. "Yeah. We told him about Jaimee."
"And?" asked Grey.
"And he wasn't too pleased," replied Kurt. "Neither was Logan and Lois."
"That's just great," muttered Evan.
"All right," said Scarlett, trying to stop this from escalating into something really bad. "Let's just get back to our vehicles, and back to the Institute."
"All right," replied Eva, still not too happy about being with Petra and Pietro.
*
"There they are!" shouted Jaimee, running in front of the group. "Hey, guys! Look who I found!"
The group of teens waiting by the X-Van looked up to see the X-Men, the X- Women, the Brotherhood, the Sisterhood, and Jaimee all running towards them.
Now this was a very large group of people, mind you.
"Ah!"
"Look at all of them!"
"Don't worry," said Scarlett. "It's just us, and our Doppelgangers."
The younger mutants looked at them blankly. "Doppelgangers?"
"Do we have to explain it again?" whined Todd.
"It's not like you're doing any of the explaining," retorted Wanda.
Tonya opened her mouth to speak, but closed it before saying anything.
"I'm only going to say this once," said Grey, "so listen carefully."
There were a couple of snorts and muffled laughs from the group, but Grey ignored them.
"We've all been transported from our dimension to another dimension because of an accident with one of Form's inventions. There's just one difference between our dimension and this one. In this dimension -" here Grey hesitated, looking at Jaimee "- we are of the opposite gender. Basically, if you are a boy in our dimension, you are a girl in this one, and vice versa."
"So, then," asked Bobbi, "which one are you? Who's your twin?"
Grey pointed out to the newcomers Jean. "This is my Doppelganger. Her name is Jean Grey."
Tibal and Bobbi laughed. "But that's your name, Jean."
"I know, but in this dimension, call me Grey. It's less confusing that way."
"Grey?" asked Lance. "Who do we have here?"
"Good point," said Kitty. "We need to know their names."
Scarlett nodded. "All right, then." She turned to the new group. "Introduce yourselves. Full name, and then codename."
Tibal went first. "Tibal Smith. Dynamite."
"Tabitha," Lance muttered to the Brotherhood.
"Rachel Crisp," said the girl with the very strange reddish-blonde hair. "Shockwave."
"Ray," whispered Kurt to no one in particular.
The blonde girl went third. "Samantha Guthrie. Impacter."
"Sam."
"Roberta DaCosta," said the next girl with a grin. "Solarflare."
"Roberto," said Evan.
Then went the other of the boys. "Amarus Aquilla. Volcanus."
"Amara," murmured Kitty.
Then it was Bobbi's turn to introduce herself. "Bobbi Duck. Icewoman."
The mention of Bobbi's surname caused more than a few eyebrows to be raised. "Duck?" asked Kurt. "But Bobby's surname is Drake."
"But a drake is a male duck," interrupted Lance. "Makes sense that his Doppelganger's name would have a female equivalent."
"Good point," replied Pietro.
"Duck? Drake?" asked Freddy.
"Are we going to have that for dinner?" added Fredericka.
Ward and Wanda both looked annoyed. "Idiots."
Scott and Scarlett shook their heads simultaneously. Then, when they realised what they were doing, they stopped - simultaneously.
"I guess when you are someone, you can't not be different from them."
"Let's just get back to the Institute," said Scott wearily.
"Er, Scott?" asked Jean. "This is going to take a few return trips."
I really like looking at all the voice actors, and their other appearances, especially those at the Ocean Group, who do the voices for both X-Men: Evolution and Gundam Wing (another of my favourite shows, but not my favourite. That spot is reserved for X-Men: Evolution!). Except now I keep getting images of the gang from X-Men: Evolution doing things like the characters from Gundam Wing. For example, I have the mental image of Kurt (Brad Swaile) in Quatre's pink shirt, and Scott (Kirby Morrow) in Trowa's clown costume. Then I have a picture of Logan (Scott McNeil) in black stirrup pants and with a priest's collar, like Duo, and Angel (Mark Hildreth) in Heero's black spandex shorts and green singlet top. Then there is Callisto (Saffron Henderson) in Noin's OZ uniform, and Kitty (Maggie Blue O'Hara) dressed in Mariemeia's uniform. But I think the worst image is Professor Xavier (David Kaye) in the bathtub, like Treize! See, in Gundam Wing it was cool when Treize did it, but when it is Xavier. . . ew. Not that I don't like Xavier or anything, but still. . . ew.
Perhaps I should just get on with the next chapter. Yes, that's a good idea.
Role Reversal
Chapter Nine: Trouble, Multiplied
At the sound of Scarlett's voice, the quintuplets looked up. "What happened? Why is she yelling at me, Carter?" asked one of the girls.
Noticing the way that the Jaimee spoke first to Carter, and the look in her eyes, Rogue couldn't help but laugh. It seemed that things were not so different in the world of the X-Women and the Sisterhood, if Jamie's double had a crush on Kitty's.
Kitty silenced Rogue's laughter with a glance. Turning to Carter, she asked, "This is Jamie's Doppelganger? Multiple?"
Carter nodded. "Yes. This is Jaimee. Also known as Multigirl."
"Where am I?" asked another of the Jaimees.
"Who wants to explain?" asked Scarlett tiredly.
"I will," replied Grey. "But first, Jaimee, I think you should pull yourself together."
The Jaimees nodded their heads in unison. "All right." The girls did just that, and soon there was only one Jaimee standing in front of the group. "So, what happened?" she asked.
"Well," began Grey. "To cut a long story short, Form transported us from another dimension. In this dimension we are of the opposite sex."
Jaimee giggled. "He he. You said sex."
"Now is not the time, Jaimee," interrupted Scarlett.
"Yes," agreed Grey. "Anyway, we are not the only ones who have been transported. At first, we thought it was just the X-Women and the Sisterhood who were affected, but now that you are here. . ." Grey's voice trailed off.
"Who else is here?" asked Roué. "Have you seen any of the other students around?"
Jaimee nodded. "Yeah. I saw the others. They were out in the parking lot a few minutes ago. They saw the X-Van, and decided to wait by it."
"All of them?" asked Carter.
Jaimee nodded again. "They made me come in here and get them some soda. Then she ran into me." She pointed at Petra, who poked her tongue out in response.
"It seems that our original plan to meet go to the Institute will still happen," said Jean.
Scott nodded, thinking. "But how will we get Jaimee and the other new students back there?"
"I say we call the Prof."
"Good idea, Kurt. Why don't you and Katrin go and find the nearest phone and call him?"
"Sure," replied Katrin. She was about to teleport when Roué stopped her by grabbing her arm. He had regloved his hands, as had Rogue, not long after the two of them had discovered that could touch each other.
"I wouldn't recommend you do that," he said.
Katrin looked embarrassed. "Whoops. Sorry." She looked at Kurt. "Come on, fuzzy dude! Let's go!" And the two of them took off at a run.
"All right, you lot," said Lana. "Let's get going." As the others began walking off, she sidled up to Lance and whispered, "This is going to be a long night."
Lance tried to laugh it off. "Yeah, but think of it this way. It's the two of us, together with the Prydes."
At the thought of what could happen, Lana seemed to brighten. "You have a plan?" she asked eagerly.
Lance nodded. "Yeah. Now here's what we're gonna do."
He began whispering his plan to his Doppelganger, who listened intently to what he had to say.
*
A teenage girl with long brown hair leaned against the X-Van, idly making ice figurines in her hands. Hearing a small explosion come from the other side of the van, she crushed the small dog made of ice, and looked annoyed. "Tibal!" she called. "Stop that! Doctor Xavier won't like it if you damage the X-Van."
A blonde boy poked his head around the corner of the van. "Oh, knock it off, Bobbi. I didn't do nothing to the van. And, anyway, it's not like I'm taking it for a midnight joyride, now, is it?"
The girl, who had just been identified as Bobbi - and was obviously Bobby's Doppelganger - groaned. "Knock it off! We just have to wait here for the X- Women, so they can take us back to the Institute." Bobbi looked around. "Where are Samantha and Roberta?"
The boy, Tibal, shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know. Maybe they went off to find Rachel."
"Oh, okay. Amarus?" called Bobbi. When no answer came, Bobbi turned to Tibal. "Tibby," she said, her voice filled with annoyance, "where's Amarus?"
"Dunno."
"Oh, this is just great," complained Bobbi. "We don't know where the X- Women are, we are in a strange place because of that flash of light, and we have been separated from the rest of our team!"
"Oh, calm down, Bobbi," laughed Tibal. "Actually, since you are already cool, you should worry about getting a little hot under the collar. We wouldn't want you melting, now, would we, Icewoman?"
"Ha ha ha," said Bobbi sarcastically. "Why don't you go and blow something up, Dynamite?"
"If you insist." Tibal scanned the parking lot, and spotted something in the distance. "Look!" she ordered Bobbi. "There are the others!"
"Where?"
Tibal pointed to the end of the row of cars. There, walking up to the X- Van, was three girls - a blonde, a girl with very strange reddish-blonde hair, and a girl with darker skin than her companions, with dark hair - and a boy - also with dark hair and skin.
"Hey," said the blonde girl.
"Hey, Samantha," replied Tibal. He then turned to the others. "Have you guys seen Jaimee? She was supposed to be bringing our sodas."
The others shrugged their shoulders. "Haven't seen her. Sorry."
"Well," said Bobbi, "I suppose we should just wait."
*
Kurt and Katrin were reunited with the rest of the group at the mall's exit.
"Did you call the Professor?" asked Scott.
Katrin nodded. "Yeah. We told him about Jaimee."
"And?" asked Grey.
"And he wasn't too pleased," replied Kurt. "Neither was Logan and Lois."
"That's just great," muttered Evan.
"All right," said Scarlett, trying to stop this from escalating into something really bad. "Let's just get back to our vehicles, and back to the Institute."
"All right," replied Eva, still not too happy about being with Petra and Pietro.
*
"There they are!" shouted Jaimee, running in front of the group. "Hey, guys! Look who I found!"
The group of teens waiting by the X-Van looked up to see the X-Men, the X- Women, the Brotherhood, the Sisterhood, and Jaimee all running towards them.
Now this was a very large group of people, mind you.
"Ah!"
"Look at all of them!"
"Don't worry," said Scarlett. "It's just us, and our Doppelgangers."
The younger mutants looked at them blankly. "Doppelgangers?"
"Do we have to explain it again?" whined Todd.
"It's not like you're doing any of the explaining," retorted Wanda.
Tonya opened her mouth to speak, but closed it before saying anything.
"I'm only going to say this once," said Grey, "so listen carefully."
There were a couple of snorts and muffled laughs from the group, but Grey ignored them.
"We've all been transported from our dimension to another dimension because of an accident with one of Form's inventions. There's just one difference between our dimension and this one. In this dimension -" here Grey hesitated, looking at Jaimee "- we are of the opposite gender. Basically, if you are a boy in our dimension, you are a girl in this one, and vice versa."
"So, then," asked Bobbi, "which one are you? Who's your twin?"
Grey pointed out to the newcomers Jean. "This is my Doppelganger. Her name is Jean Grey."
Tibal and Bobbi laughed. "But that's your name, Jean."
"I know, but in this dimension, call me Grey. It's less confusing that way."
"Grey?" asked Lance. "Who do we have here?"
"Good point," said Kitty. "We need to know their names."
Scarlett nodded. "All right, then." She turned to the new group. "Introduce yourselves. Full name, and then codename."
Tibal went first. "Tibal Smith. Dynamite."
"Tabitha," Lance muttered to the Brotherhood.
"Rachel Crisp," said the girl with the very strange reddish-blonde hair. "Shockwave."
"Ray," whispered Kurt to no one in particular.
The blonde girl went third. "Samantha Guthrie. Impacter."
"Sam."
"Roberta DaCosta," said the next girl with a grin. "Solarflare."
"Roberto," said Evan.
Then went the other of the boys. "Amarus Aquilla. Volcanus."
"Amara," murmured Kitty.
Then it was Bobbi's turn to introduce herself. "Bobbi Duck. Icewoman."
The mention of Bobbi's surname caused more than a few eyebrows to be raised. "Duck?" asked Kurt. "But Bobby's surname is Drake."
"But a drake is a male duck," interrupted Lance. "Makes sense that his Doppelganger's name would have a female equivalent."
"Good point," replied Pietro.
"Duck? Drake?" asked Freddy.
"Are we going to have that for dinner?" added Fredericka.
Ward and Wanda both looked annoyed. "Idiots."
Scott and Scarlett shook their heads simultaneously. Then, when they realised what they were doing, they stopped - simultaneously.
"I guess when you are someone, you can't not be different from them."
"Let's just get back to the Institute," said Scott wearily.
"Er, Scott?" asked Jean. "This is going to take a few return trips."