An Undersized Undertaking

"Now Toad it's your turn," Fred said calmly. "Don't hold back."

"Well I've always been scared of lightning," Todd sniffed. "And you zapping me didn't make things any better."

"We've been over this before Toad," Ororo groaned. "I was ordered to test your powers."

"You could have found some other way you know?" Todd snapped. "I mean what would you have done if I wasn't a mutant? Huh? You would have really fried me!"

"Toad does have a point," Fred told her. "You might have found some other way to see if he was a mutant."

"Of course you'd take his side!" Logan snapped.

"That's because he's right!" Lance shouted. By now nearly all the X-Men and the Misfits were in the room.

"I hate to say this but…" Mr. Small shrugged. "That does seem rather unnecessary."

"Who asked you?" Ororo growled at him. "Besides we figured out that at the time Toad was working for Mystique!"

"She made me go there!" Todd snapped. "Scared me into it! If Xavier here can read minds to find that out, he should have known that too!"

"Actually Toad I figured it out when I scanned a copy of your transcript," Xavier coughed. "When I saw that Mystique in her Darkholme disguise had become your advisor, guardian and parole officer I put two and two together."

"Parole officer?" Todd blinked. "I wasn't ever arrested!"

"I guess she was thinking ahead," Kurt quipped.

"How about we do some role playing now?" Fred suggested.

"Let's not and say we did," Logan grunted.

"Yeah role playing is fun!" Spyder grinned. "I'll be Storm!" Immediately she started to shoot out her electric webs at Logan and Ororo.

"AAHHH!" Ororo screamed as she barely dodged the webs.

"SOMEBODY STOP THAT CRAZY KID!" Logan snarled.

"Spyder knock it off!" Jean snapped.

"Yeah," Lance told her grabbing her arm. "Just because Storm likes to zap people doesn't give you the right to do so."

"See!" Todd said to Ororo. "You're setting a bad example for the children!"

"I'm a bad example?" Ororo screamed.

"She admits it!" Todd said triumphantly.

"That's it!" Ororo was about to attack Todd but Fred grabbed her.

"No Storm!" Fred told her. "We mustn't let our tempers control us!"

"Does anybody else get the irony in what he just said?" Scott groaned. Nearly everyone nodded.

"Let's take some healing breaths now shall we?" Fred asked.

"I would if I could breathe!" Ororo gasped.

"Oh sorry," Fred loosened his grip. Ororo flew out of it. "Hey! Come back! The session's not over yet!"

"Yeah we wanna do role playing too!" Daria shouted. The Triplets grinned and started their own psychic electric attack on Ororo.

"YEOW!" She screamed.

"NO! GIRLS NO!" Shipwreck ordered as he caught Ororo. "Play nice!"

"Please," Quinn said. "It wasn't even our most powerful attack."

"Yeah that's nothing compared to all the volts she gives you!" Brittany pointed out.

Shipwreck looked at Ororo. "You know they do have a point. You can be very abusive sometimes."

"This is a nightmare!" Ororo groaned, not having the energy to zap him.

"Arcade take the Triplets and Spyder down to the lab with the babies," Althea said. "If that doesn't give Forge the incentive to hurry up I don't know what will!"

"And take the bird and the dragon with you!" Logan shouted as they left.

"I can't take any more of this!" Ororo shouted. "Xavier tell them to stop."

"Fred as much as I appreciate your offer to…help," Xavier sighed. "Maybe we should stop this now."

"Yeah it's better left to professionals," Pietro grinned. "We'll get Psyche-Out to intervene later."

"Okay! Fine! I'm sorry!" Ororo shouted. "I'm sorry I tried to zap you! Forgive me! PLEASE FORGIVE ME!"

"I dunno…" Todd thought it over. "Oh well if you're really sorry I guess I can."

"You have no idea how sorry I am," Ororo groaned. "And no idea how sorry Forge is going to be."

"I can't take much more of this!" John screamed. "This is all too insane for me! There was nothing in my job description about this!"

"Look Forge should be finished any minute," Scott said. "Now that everyone's here and somewhat in one piece all we have to do is calmly wait and do nothing until he's finished. That way nothing can…" Suddenly an alarm sounded. "Go wrong…"

"Scott we have an intruder…" Bobby pointed out the window. "A big one!"

"What?" Jean's eyes widened with horror as she saw the shadow of a very large sentinel loom over the mansion. "Oh no!"

"Is that a sentinel?" Hank gasped.

"A what?" Mr. Small asked.

"A giant robot that hunts mutants," Hank told him. "And since you're our size it might mistake you for one!" At this Mr. Small fainted. "There he goes again."

"Oh this day just keeps getting better and better," Logan grunted just before the sentinel smashed its fist through the wall.