Disclaimer: You know the drill by now. I don't own the X-Men. *starts to cry and begs the creators to at least let her own Remy! But, no such luck.* Also, I don't own the shops at the mall or anything else you know I don't own (If that made any sense at all).

Author's Note: Same as last time. :D

Chapter 11: The Mall, Daycare and Escape Plans, and Spying

Day 6/Saturday

All the guys were gone again, but this time at least doing something worthwhile ... Christmas shopping! With a week away, the shops would be packed and they didn't want to ask Pep work on a weekend, so they took the kids with them.

All the men decided to leave the children at the local daycare center in the middle of the mall ... that way, the kids wouldn't know what their fathers were getting them for a Christmas present or their mothers. For the other men, mainly Colossus, Warren, Jamie, Xavier, Hank, and Logan, it was different. Their bank accounts were going to be very low for awhile, considering they had to buy a present for every individual child if they didn't want the kids on their cases as they wined and complained, IT'S NOT FAIR!

Bobby didn't even bother putting on a jacket for himself, son, or daughter because their bodies embraced the cold and it didn't matter to them. For St. John and Jenna, it was the exact opposite. By the time they were done dressing, they could hardly get through the door. Scott, Kurt, Lance, and Sam stood inside the house while Logan, Beast, Ray, and Colossus stood on the outside. The inside pushed and the outside pulled and when St. John still was stuck, Scott rushed to get some soap to slide him through the door.

The little children were laughing hysterically and Jenna even gave of a little snicker of joy seeing her father looking like an overstuffed penguin and trying to get through the door.

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Finally, they were all at the mall, either by the X-Jet, their own cars, motorcycles, or another type of transportation.

All the kids were dropped off into the daycare center and the men went on their merry way.

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"Why are we here? Daycare's for babies!" Bryce stated, trying to rally the other children to come together and escape from the daycare -- more like a prison cell though since it had bars and security cameras and buzzers all over the place. "What do you mean babies!?!" Immy growled at him, outraged by him calling her a baby. 'Who does he think he is?' she thought to herself. "I can hear you, remember?" Bryce said, smirking at his little sister as he had read her thoughts.

Immy stuck out her tongue at the older boy and leader of the elementary pack. "Guys, cut it out!" Isaac stepped between the two squabbling siblings. "I have an idea. Caleb and Morgan can teleport us out and then we can all leave!" "My hero!" all the girls screamed as they crowded around the young handsome boy and tried to kiss him. "Eeew! Cooties, get them off of me!" he yelled. The girls laughed and everyone gathered around Caleb and Morgan. "Everyone hold on!" BAMF!

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The kids had just gotten out of the daycare center and had no idea where their fathers were so that they could spy on them and find out what their Christmas presents were. The older children took their younger siblings and Jenna, Opal, Seth, and Erin grouped together and all went their separate way, telling each other they would meet back at the daycare at 10:00am.

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Bryce and Immy together dragged their little sister, Grace, into the Victoria's Secret shop, not knowing what the things in there were. Immy pulled down a black lacey bra and showed her brother. "What's this?" she asked him as Grace tried to rip it apart with her teeth and Immy tried to pull it away from her little sister. "Mommy has those too. I think it's a hat," he told her, pulling it away from both girls and strapping it onto Immy's head. "Look! I'm fashionabable (fashionable)!" she said to her brother.

Grace started to cry and people began to spot the three children. "Let's go!" Bryce yelled, dragging Immy and Grace by their hands and running into the crowded food court.
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Emma tightly squeezed Isaac's hand and with her free hand, put it between her legs and jumped up and down. "What's wrong?" Isaac asked her, pulling her over to the side of the mall where they could lean against a wall.

"I ... have to go potty," she told him urgently. Isaac rolled his eyes and searched the mall until he found the sign where it told bathrooms were. "Come on. I'll take you," he said, leading her into the boy's bathroom.

From outside, everyone could hear a girly voice go, "Wow! We don't have these in our bathrooms!"

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Lauren and Gavin had found their father and were having a great time watching him doing imitations of Kitty in the dressing room in front of the mirror. Based on his imitations, he could tell if she would ... 1) totally like the outfit or 2) totally icksome to the infinity and beyond.

The two of them giggled and Lance continued to think it was someone else's children laughing at something stupid as kids usually did ... as Lauren and Gavin were doing right then.

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Tara and Nathan had also ended up at the food court and when Nathan had discovered that they had cinnamon buns at the Cinnabon store, Tara couldn't even control the young boy. It was if the scent from the buns were mixing in with his brain and saying, Come here, Nathan. Come to me. Eat me!

Luckily, Bryce and Immy were there also and Bryce grabbed Nathan's legs while Tara grabbed his arms and they dragged him away as he began to kick and scream for his newly discovered cinnamon bun and sugar high.

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Jordan and Brad had found a stroller and together pushed their little sister, Mia, around the mall as they searched for their father. Where they found him was inside a jewelry store full of all kinds of expensive things to buy. "Remember, don't touch anything," Jordan reminded his younger brother as they followed their father around the huge galleria of gem stones and necklaces of different values.

Mia had fallen asleep with a bottle in her mouth and Brad spotted a gold watch he was intent on having. Being only four, he didn't know anything about stealing. He made a small invisible force of his own and directed it through the glass cabinet where the watch was being held. An alarm went off, Brad grabbed the watch and put it into his pocket and was rushed out of the store by his brother who was pushing the stroller at lightning speed.

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Caleb and Morgan had pretty much teleported all over the mall and found their father at a Burger Bomb restaurant just outside of the mall.

"Daddy's cheap," Morgan whispered to her brother as they saw their father getting their mother Burger Bomb coupons, most likely for him than for her. Caleb shook his head in agreement. "How sad," they both said at the same time and decided for their mother's sake to buy her a better present that what their father was going to get.

Caleb teleported up to their father and stealthily reached into his father's pocket and pulled out his wallet which held a Visa card. Caleb put the wallet back and teleported back to his sister and went searching for a better Christmas present.

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Jenna, Opal, Erin, and Seth had ventured into the toy store and found their parents sitting on the floor, playing with the G.I. Joes and Barbies that apparently had dates with the Joes. Quietly, the four kids laughed to their selves and continued to watch the grown men play with toys they hadn't touched in decades.

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