A Microscopic Miracle

"I tell ya Muldoon, Bayville is going to hell in a hand basket," Officer Toody sighed as the police cruiser went up Graymalkin Lane. "The world was crazy enough before all these mutants came. Now it's even more nuts than ever."

"Tell me about it," Muldoon nodded to his partner. "These freaks have trashed this town so often my insurance has tripled in the past three weeks! This is the final straw! This time we're gonna read them the riot act and…"

He stopped the police cruiser and blinked at what he saw. "Toody do you see what I see?"

"A forty story giant robot fighting the mutants on the front lawn? Yeah I see it. It's déjà vu all over again!"

"You know they look kind of busy don't they Toody?" Muldoon gulped.

"Yeah maybe we should let it slide this once. I mean all they did was show up at a guy's house and burn his roses."

"He doesn't even want to live there anymore, what does he care?"

"Yeah you know I just remembered something, we've got a ton of paperwork back at the office."

"Yeah and my locker is just dying to be cleaned!" The officers sped away.

Meanwhile the mutants were fighting for their lives. "What is it with people and giant robots?" Kurt shouted as he teleported out of the way of some missiles.

"Watch it Elf!" Logan held onto his back. "That was a little too close for comfort!"

"Oh great there goes another wall!" Hank cringed as he hung onto Scott for dear life.

"DON'T LET ME DIE! DON'T LET ME DIE!" Mr. Small screamed as he hung onto Althea's hair.

"WHAT DO YOU THINK I'M TRYING TO DO HERE?" She shouted as she dodged the lasers.

"Looks like this thing is tougher than ever!" Remy sent some charged cards flying at it. They exploded harmlessly against its armor. "My cards don't even make a dent in it!"

"Trask must have given it an upgrade!" Scott blasted at it only to have it blast back. "If we can just break through that armor!"

"I have an idea," Logan said. "Elf! You think you can teleport onto that thing long enough to drop off a couple of passengers?"

"You're not suggesting what I think you're suggesting?" John asked.

"Wrecking it from the inside is a great plan!" Hank agreed.

"He is," John groaned.

"Yeah let's get 'em! Hic!" Warren hiccuped.

Rogue grabbed him. "I think you're grounded until you lay off the sauce Angel!"

"Okay Storm, Beast and Thunderbird you're with me!" Logan shouted as Kurt grabbed them. "We need a distraction!"

"One distraction coming up!" Lance focused his powers on the ground creating a fissure aimed straight at the sentinel. It slipped and its leg was stuck in the crack.

Wanda took the opportunity to use her powers to disable some of the lasers and try and hold it in place. "I can't hold it much longer!" She shouted.

Kurt teleported onto the back of it. He dropped off the miniaturized mutants into a small crack he found. "Hurry!" He barely teleported out of the way of the sentinel's hand.

"Time for operation Trojan Mutant," Logan shot out his claws. "Just fry and hack anything you see in here!"

"Fine with me!" Ororo shouted. "I could use this chance to channel my aggression! Oh great! Now I'm sounding like Blob! Now I'm mad!" Her eyes glowed as she began to conjure up a very large bolt of lightning.

"Here we go," John grunted. "I don't know what I did for fun until I met you guys."

Back outside the sentinel the X-Men and Misfits were fighting for their lives. It had managed to escape the fissure and sent a sonic blast that knocked out Lance, Wanda and Rogue. Shipwreck realized that the sentinel was ignoring him. He pulled out his gun. "So ignore me huh? Don't think I'm good enough eh? Take this!" He fired on it.

"Oh yeah Pop that will really work!" Althea snapped as she ran over to him. She handed him Mr. Small. "Take him! He'll be safest near you!"

"Yeah sentinels don't attack humans," Shipwreck stopped firing and held onto him as Althea ran off. "Don't worry pal, you're safe with me."

The sentinel turned around and scanned him. "SUBJECT IDENTIFIED: HECTOR 'SHIPWRECK' DELGADO. HUMAN. HOWEVER SINCE HE HAS SPAWNED SEVERAL MUTANTS AND IS A CLEAR ALLY OF THEM DELGADO MUST BE TERMINATED WITH EXTREME PREDJUDICE!" That's when it unveiled several large cannons from its chest.

"Oh boy…" Shipwreck gulped.

"WAIT!" Mr. Small waved his arms. "I'M NOT A MUTANT! I'M HUMAN! I'M JUST THIS SMALL BECAUSE I WAS SHRUNK BY A SHRINK RAY!"

"SHRINK RAYS ARE ILLOGICAL…" The sentinel prepared to fire. Then it began to spark and shudder. "ILLOGICAL…." Several explosions started from the inside. It sputtered and fell to the ground. Shipwreck barely managed to run out of the way.

"Well talk about good timing," Shipwreck breathed a sigh of relief.

"Safe with you huh?" Mr. Small snapped.

"Oh give me a break! How was I supposed to know?" Shipwreck told him.

"We're not out of the woods yet. I sense another presence nearby," Xavier concentrated. "Someone was controlling the sentinel. Over there!" He pointed to the woods.

"We're on it!" Tabitha told them. Thornn, Angelica, Jubilee and Amara went after the culprit. They didn't have far to go as they saw a familiar helmeted figure run off.

"Foresight!" Jubilee snapped. "I should have known!"

"Who?" Amara asked.

"That's the jerk who kidnapped us and gave us to Trask!" Thornn hissed.

"I say we give him a warm welcome!" Angelica nodded as she flew. "Hey Foresight! Catch!" She shot out a heat ray at his behind.

"YEOWWW!" Foresight shouted as it hit him. "HOT! HOT! HOT!"

"My turn," Jubilee sent out several firecrackers at his posterior.

"Where are you going Foresight?" Angelica landed in front of him. "Afraid of a few girls?"

The girls surrounded him. "This will teach you to hunt us like animals and make lab rats out of us!" Thornn flashed her claws. "Let's get him!"

"RIGHT! GET HIM!" They shouted as they all tackled him at once and started to beat the proverbial stuffing out of him. "GOOD THING YOU'RE WEARING A HELMET! YOU'RE GONNA NEED IT! TAKE THIS! AND THIS! LOCK ME IN A LAB WILL YA!"

"YEOW!" Somehow Foresight managed to break away from the girls and ran away, his uniform in tatters.

"Go ahead and run you coward!" Thornn shouted. "Shouldn't we go after him?"

"We have bigger problems," Amara said. "Or smaller ones depending on your point of view. Come on."

"Yeah we can kick his butt another time," Angelica agreed. "By the way that was a nice bite on the arm you gave him Thornn."

"Yeah well I liked how you got him on the butt," Thornn grinned.

"You still have to admit Tabitha putting a time bomb down his pants was genius," Amara grinned.

"Hey don't sell yourself short," Tabitha said. "You've got a great right hook."

"She's right," Jubilee nodded. "I'm just glad I got to kick him where it hurts."

"Come on," Tabitha said. "Let's go back and see how the others are doing."

They went back and saw the X-Men and Misfits recovering on the ruined lawn. Lina and Jean were tending to the injured. "It was Foresight," Tabitha told them. "He got away but not without a few good hits."

"Is everyone okay?" Amara asked.

"A little dinged up and exhausted but yeah we're fine," Scott sighed.

"Wish I could say the same for the mansion," Kitty said as she looked at the gigantic hole in the wall. She looked at Mr. Small. "Hey you think we can get a deduction for repairs?"

"Is she kidding?" Mr. Small asked Xavier.

"Hey where's Logan and the others?" Jubilee asked.

"We're fine," Ororo told her. They were sitting down on Fred's lap. "Kitty phased us out of the sentinel."

"What happened to Angel?" Amara gasped. He was lying down with some bandages and looked slightly crisp.

"During the battle he got away from me and flew straight into a bug zapper," Rogue told her."

"I'm okay…" Warren groaned.

"Boy he's gonna have one hell of a hangover," Shipwreck shook his head in sympathy.

That's when Forge ran out. "Hey guys! I've finally fixed the ray! Of course I would have done it sooner if you guys hadn't been making all that…racket?" He looked around at the destruction. "Wow what a mess! You guys really trashed this place."

"Actually Forge," Ororo glared at him. "The real fighting hasn't even started yet."