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Chapter 6

"Look's like it's you and me, Wolvie!"

Perhaps they'd misheard him.

Yes, that was it.

Surely, after a night of such hell, he wouldn't… he COULDN'T possibly be willing to go along with whatever Jubilee had planned?

No, he was serious all right. And if he couldn't stop her, then no one could.

"We're doomed." Bobby groaned.

"I can't believe we're going to do this…" Ororo muttered.

Jubilee smiled brightly. "Now, now. Let's have none of that! We've got to pick team captains! Any volunteers?" No one moved, but it only made her grin widen. "I thought you'd say that. Looks like it's you and me, Wolvie!" She ran up to him, pulling him apart from the others, and stood next to him, eyes scanning the unhappy people before her.

"We'll pick one person at a time. You go first!"

Wolverine considered running away for a moment. He glanced at Jubilee's shining face. They had left her alone the night before. This would make her happy…

With a sigh, he grunted out one word. "Ororo."

Ororo, not looking in the least pleased to have been chosen first, strode to the place behind him, crossed her arms, and threw the rest of them a defiant glare that clearly stated "Anyone who even thinks of getting out of this will be treated to a nice lightning bolt sandwich."

Jubilee -not noticing her friends' dismay- chirped, "Remy!"

Remy smiled at her, happy to just go along with it.

"Elf," was Logan's next choice. Kurt sighed heavily, glancing at the sky before taking his place behind Ororo.

"Hank," Jubilee selected next, smiling that things were going so well.

And so it happened that Wolverine's team ended up as: Ororo, Kurt, Rogue, and Bobby, while Jubilee's team consisted of: Remy, Hank, Jean, and…

Scott, whose breathing had now risen to an unhealthy pace, stood staring back at the two lines, arms crossed on his chest. Jubilee bit her lip and tossed the ball back and forth between her hands before turning to Logan. "Guess he's yours."

He laughed. "I don't think so. Its yer turn ta pick."

"But…" She sighed. "Oh, fine. C'mere." She said, waving Scott over. Obviously humiliated, he walked as proudly as he could manage to the back Jubilee's line. The other's tried not to snigger, something that's very difficult when one's that tired.

"Okay!" Jubilee said, putting the ball under her arm and clapping her hands, "Now as soon as we get the pinnies we can start playing!"

…Blink.

"Hm… I'm not familiar with that term, Jubilee," a puzzled Hank said.

Bobby, who seemed uneasy about this statement said, "Why is it that I've suddenly got a bad feeling about this?"

Jubilee, walked towards the end of a field, dragging over a large sack that none of them had noticed before. The others held there breath as she opened the sack…

And extracted what was obviously the ugliest belt any of them had ever seen.

It was bright red, or looked like it used to be bright red, but after having been worn and sweated on so many times was now a few shades darker. It wasn't anything elaborate- just a strip with Velcro on either end. She tossed it in Logan's directed.

"You guys can be the red team." She explained, tossing each of them in turn a red pinnie. For herself and her team, she pulled out yellow belts which appeared to have gone through the same color damaging process as the reds.

Most of them just stood there, staring at the pinnies while holding that at arms length away. Jubilee giggled, showing them what to do by securing hers around her waist.

The others copied her dumbly. Hank, having trouble getting his yellow pinnie around his waist, grinned as he wrapped it around his head. Bobby laughed, doing the same his. Jubilee looked over them a moment before nodding her head that they were ready.

"All right then. Let's play ball!"

End of chapter

Post A/N: I'm not quite sure if 'pinnie' is a technical term. It's just what we called them in school, and I don't even know if they exist elsewhere… Yeah… Um… Yay? I hope so. But you'd better review and tell me just so I can be sure…