Disclaimer: Nothing new. I don't own X-Men Evolution, okay? (I hate this part. When I'm older, I'll buy out Marvel because I'll be rich! HAHAHAHA! Also, Pep is Flamable's character. Thanx!

Chapter 15: It's An Epidemic! Pt. 1

Day 9/Tuesday

Unbeknown to our favorite X-Dads, a child at Bayville Elementary School had been infected with the flu and in-turn, had infected all of the elementary X-Children who had infected the pre-school children who infected poor innocent Jamie Madrox because they had never got and immunization shot.

Jenna woke up feeling as if she had been using her powers in her sleep. She really had been! 'This shouldn't be happening,' she thought to herself as she saw her skin start to look like it was turning to ash. She smelled a burning aroma and then, the fire started to affect her nerves and she screamed out in agony!

"DADDY!"

Pyro ran into his daughter's room faster than Pietro could take off from Bayville to Hawaii and back. "What's wrong Sheila?" he asked her and then noticed her skin starting to flake off. "HANK!" he called as he used his own power to control Jenna from burning herself to a crisp. He slung the girl into his arms and ran down to Hank's room to have him take a look at Jenna.

Bryce was sprawled over the floor with his hands covering his ears. Thoughts kept popping into his head and he couldn't control what he wanted to hear. His head was aching and he passed out in the middle of the room he shared with Isaac.

Everything Isaac touched exploded into bits and pieces. He felt nauseated and threw up and the vomit exploded all over the room. "HELP ME!" he cried as things kept exploding at his touch.

Emma was using various powers she had borrowed from other mutants all at once. She couldn't control them. Something was exploding—then she could hear someone's thoughts—then she was teleporting and all of the sudden dropped from mid-air onto the staircase and knocked herself unconscious.

Immy's beams of red light were shooting all over the place from her hands. Things were floating and spinning around and she couldn't stop them. A few times, things came flying at her. She began to bruise and screamed. "STOP! STOP!" she commanded herself, but nothing was working. The whirlwind of toys surrounded her and kept her from escaping.

The mansion was shaking and Lauren was its cause. Her head felt as if someone was sticking pins in it and she couldn't get them out. Things were rocking and moving and the oak dresser her father had bought her suddenly jumped into the air and pushed her into a corner where she was stuck and couldn't get out.

The ground was still shaking and the lights of the mansion were beginning to flick on and off.

Tara's hands tingled and firecrackers made of ice plunged at everything, including the ceiling of Room 26A, where Tara and Lauren shared a room. Everything was punctured and the only thing that saved Lauren from being hit by one of Tara's wild firecrackers was the dresser that had pushed her into a corner.

Gavin couldn't touch anything or stand in one place. He was always falling through something and then got stuck in the kitchen floor. He couldn't move and no one could get him out! "HELP! I DON'T WANNA BE STUCK HERE FOREVER!"

Everything he touched turned to ice and he couldn't control it. Nathan's clothes froze at the touch of his skin to its material and he couldn't change because anything he touched turned icy cold and froze solid. He tried to sit on the floor, but it too, turned to ice and he slid across the floor and down the stairs on a slope.

Seth had turned himself into a wolf and he was stuck in that form. He couldn't even go to the bathroom without difficulty or communicate with his father to tell him what was going on. Tears dripped down his face as he howled in despair. "WOOF RUFF WOOF! (ROUGHLY TRANSLATED VERSION: HELP ME PLEASE!)"

Jordan kept making exploding balls from his hands and blew up everything in sight. He couldn't control it. His bed exploded... his furniture exploded... his wall exploded!

Brad was denting anything and everything in the vicinity. A few times, he accidentally directed his invisible forces at himself and made a few big bruises and even put himself in a coma by hitting himself in his head. He collapsed onto the floor into a heap and the denting stopped... for the moment.

There weren't any dreams for Erin to enter in, so she was in no trouble at the time.

Opal kept shocking herself with her own power even though she had nothing to heal on herself. Being only three and not knowing what was going on, she cried and ran downstairs to her father to be comforted.

Hank was running back and forth between bedrooms trying to analyze his small patients' many various conditions. Finally, he came up with the cause.

"It's the Flu," he said simply. "Only it effects on mutants are much worse. Their powers go out of control for a day or so, and then it just amounts back to a regular human's flu of fevers and just the feeling of being sick."

He gave each father a serum to administrate to their kids and was about to leave when Colossus came in carrying young Jamie Madrox. "Achooo!" Jamie sneezed and he doubled up and made more of himself.

"Great," Bobby said. "We had to endure himself not being able to control his dupes when he was younger. Nobody told me we'd have to deal with it again." Some of the men laughed, remembering the good ol' times.

"I'll call Pepper," Remy said, "We're going to need her help with all the kids being home sick and their powers going whack!" He immediately left the room to call his cousin up and tell her that they would need her right away.