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I apologise profusely for the long wait for this chapter, however I shall make no excuses and admit to my own laziness being the cause of this delay!
xXrogue-demonXx~ Kat makes a few appearances in this chapter but it shall be last we shall see of her till the finale which should be a bit of fun to write! Also you may see one of your ideas in here!! So many thanks to you!! Also in case your interested the new Retribution X fic should be finished either tonight or by the early part of this week and I will post it when I can! Now hurry up and update! ;0P
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So without further ado….
Day 15 in the Big Brotherhood mansion~ Task day
10:01AM
Henry has decided to miss the rather hectic breakfast session today to take another calming bath after the Scott related incident of the day before ruined his last one.
"How much is that doggy in the window,
Woof woof,
The one with the waggley tail…"
"ARGH! MONKEY BUTLER ALERT!" A hand points in the direction of the horrified blue mutant encasing his lower body in ice.
"ROBERT DRAKE WHEN I GET MY PAWS ON YOU…." Comes the eruption from the bath as once again the remaining housemates storm into the bathroom
"I thought he was one of those evil monkey butlers Kat always told me about and I panicked…now I'm scared" Bobby sob's as he hug's his Kitty (i.e. Victor)
"Shhh its ok little one the force shall protect you" Victor said in a very Obi Wan-esque voice
"Ya really think so Kitty?" Bobby sniffs looking up at the large blond mutant
"I apologise for interrupting your little moment here people but SOME ONE GET ME OUT OF HERE!" Hank yells
Eric as leader of the house decides that in order to get anything done he should delegate tasks.
"Logan fetch your hairdryer!"
Logan blushes as he mumbles something bout not having a hairdryer
"Remy t'ink homme be lying, Remy say dat no ones hair look like dat naturalment."
"Can it Cajun!" Wolverine growls swatting at Remy's head as he stomps off in search of his hair'o'matic deluxe.
11:06AM
Logan is still trying to defrost Hank and Eric is having a debate with all of the other housemates except for Bobby, who Eric branded (rather harshly) 'immature'.
Bobby walks over to the mirrors and begins to primp in his iced up form. However for some reason he is peering at the mirror rather closely before muttering in a rather frenzied manner
"No, no it can't be!" He peers closer before clapping his hands to his face ala Home Alone "ARGH!"
For no reason the camera falls to the ground as a high pitched voice shrieks "GLORIA GAYNOR RULES!" Then added quieter "Look there's a nickel"
The sound of a camera man in distress reaches the audience as red splashes onto the camera lens.
Moments later…
Bobby has run into the kitchen to inform the other housemates of the 'behind the mirror incident'.
"Behind the mirror there was a ….."
"I know your reflections scary kid but ya should have gotten used to it by now…I have" Victor says by way of comfort as Eric continues to lay down the Big Brotherhood Mansion law.
Eric stops mid rant and points at Bobby before pointing to the door and making funny shooing noises.
"But…"
"We've had enough of your pranks for today Robert…now go and play with a plug or something…" Eric practically pushes Bobby out of the Kitchen.
Bobby sits dejectedly with his back against the wall before plucking up the courage to look into the mirror again
He walks cautiously over to it, taking in a deep breath and puffing out his chest as he does so; suddenly he sees a shadow move behind him. He turns around so quickly that he almost over balances, only to find nothing behind him. Bravely Bobby takes a last shaky step to the mirror.
Bobby sighs a sigh of relief as he notices that the only thing he can see in the mirror is his reflection, however that is until he notices that shiny almost blade like object being held over his head.
"HI YA!" Comes a high pitched (to say nothing of demented) and bone chilling voice
The camera zooms into what has turned out to be in fact a mirror disco ball not a knife after all.
"ARGH! ZOMBIE!" Bobby yells as he flops into a heap on the floor.
Piotr and Pete Wisdom (the Big Brother bodyguards) come to drag the gate crasher out of the mansion, the latter puffing on a cigarette.
"I LOVE YOU BOBBY!"
Bobby shakes his head in disbelief as Eric and Rogue walk in to see what all the noise is about
"Did you just see Kat?" Bobby asks
Rogue and Eric look at each other before shaking their heads
"The boys love sick" Eric mumbles as he walks from the room regally as Rogue follows behind him pulling faces at his back.
11:49AM
Hank has finally escaped his icy prison; however he has locked himself in the boy's bedroom until he regains the feeling in his toes. Victor is playing with Bobby in the deluded hope that it will calm the young man down from his 'ghostly experience'.
"See Bobby this here…" Victor points to a picture of a red mini in a child's learning to read book "…is a car!"
"Wow!" Bobby looks thoughtfully for a moment "Are they like space hoppers?"
Victor laughs and ruffles Bobby's hair fatherly
Rogue storms into the room "AH HATE THIS HOUSE!"
Victor indicates that Bobby should continue reading alone as he walks over to Rogue to throw a comforting arm over her shoulders.
"Ah'm sorry Victor, it's just the confinement it getting to me." She sniffles as Victor hands her a tissue from one of his many pockets
"Staying with idiots like Eric isn't helping any is it?" Rogue shakes her head slowly "I should know I live with him quite a lot on the outside" Victor chuckles softly as way of comfort
Logan who has been surveying the scene from the door suddenly bursts in anger.
"CANT YOU PEOPLE SEE WHAT HE'S DOING? HE'S TRYING TO GET YOU ALL ON SIDE SO HE CAN SLOWLY MUTILATE YOU AT A LATER DATE!"
Rogue and Bobby blink at Logan for a few seconds before going back to what they were doing before
"RIGHT THAT'S IT I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE!" With that Logan stomps from the room and into the garden where he scales the wall easily and escapes to the other side
(Switches to security footage)
Logan lands on the floor before scouting around to check the coast is clear, it takes him a moment to realise what he is looking at…however it appears to be horrifying enough to drive him to clawing his way up the wall in a bid to get back in to the mansion.
Back in the mansion grounds
Logan is stood looking slightly pale and his shirt has a scorch mark by the butt.
"So ya come back den mon brave?" Remy says as he leans against the chicken coup puffing slowly on a cigarette.
"It…it was waiting for me" Logan shakes violently for a second in a manner betraying a nervous twitch
"Le petite Chat?"
"No I don't want a chat I was on about Kat…" Logan looks angry for a second
"Actually monsieur Chat means Kat in…" Logan wanders off after a butterfly "…why does Remy bother?"
12:29PM
Logan is searching frantically for his boots, throwing things at the door in the process.
"BOBBY! GET THE HELL IN HERE!"
Bobby hops in a manner resembling Toad. "What's up angry potato man?"
Logan lets this comment past as he glowers at the young man "WHERE THE HELL ARE MY BOOTS?"
Bobby shrugs as he looks up to the ceiling where for some reason Logan's best boots are.
Logan looks up at the ceiling puzzled "Why are they up there?"
"Eric put them up there cause Kitty wanted to use them as a litter tray and kept wandering around the house with em in his mouth"
"….O….k…." Logan's puzzlement increases before shaking his head like a wet dog "How am I meanta get em down?"
Bobby shrugs again still stood on one foot; this shrug however makes him over balance and crash to the floor where he lays giggling.
Logan rushes to the door "Get your butt in here Bucket head!" He yells hoarsely
Eric floats in dressed as Julius Caesar complete with gold Laurels. He says nothing and merely raises an eyebrow.
"What appears to be the problem?"
"We have a task in half an hour an' I ain't got no boots to do it in!"
"What do you expect the emperor to do about it?" Eric ask's folding his arms over his chest
"Get 'em down!"
"Why don't you do it?"
"I can't reach 'em smart arse!"
"You should grow then!"
"?!" Logan is now wearing his very best potato face
"JERRY, JERRY, JERRY!" Bobby calls fist in the air.
*Snickt* Logan approaches Eric slowly and menacingly, suddenly Logan flies into the mirror before being pinned to the ceiling, where he is just out of reach of his boots.
"It wasn't funny the first time you did this, an' it ain't funny now" Logan whines
Suddenly Rogue stomps in "Why can't you guys evah grow up?"
Logan suddenly falls to the floor with a crash
"I am in agreement with you Rogue, Logan is very immature for a man of his advancing years."
*Smack*
"I was talkin' bout you too bucket head" Eric crashes to the floor with a clunk (it's the helmet) as Rogue kicks him in the head
Logan looks at Rogue shocked for a moment, before pointing sheepishly to the ceiling and his boots.
Rogue sighs and hovers up to get them handing them over to Logan "He's been getting' on mah nerves all week"
Logan watches as she leaves the room with a bemused expression on his face.
1:00PM Task time
The housemates have been fitted with the equipment they need to ensure safe completion (or failure) of the task. The equipment with which they have been garbed includes Water guns (full of Weedol), body armour and visors.
Hank eyes Bobby angrily, while Eric (still dressed as Caesar) tries to catch Rogues eye, which is in fact staring longingly towards Remy who is shuffling a deck of cards absentmindedly.
"Your going down bub" Logan growls quietly eyeing Victor with apparent animosity.
Victor however is talking animatedly to the ant crawling up his arm.
The housemates have been briefed on their task and are expecting an attack to be launched at any moment, the object is to stop any of the attackers to gain access to the Marshmallow tree house, the attackers (mutant vegetables) will infiltrate the mansion from a number of entry points in the house, so the team will have to split up when the attackers arrive. To make the task that bit more difficult only two people at a time may guard the marshmallow tree directly, the people chosen for this task by Julius…er…Eric are Rogue and Victor. The rules state that NO mutant abilities may be used.
*BUZZ*
The signal has gone off and so the housemates split up to scout out the enemy.
"Logan…have you seen any of the enemy yet?" Bobby asks looking around suspiciously as 'Logan' (who is in fact a mutant potato) bounces up to him leaving a potato juice trail behind him.
"BOBBY LOOK OUT" Comes a rather startled baritone yell as Bobby is knocked unceremoniously out of the path of the red and blotchy potato.
"Why Henry. P. McCoy my hero!" bobby batted his eyelashes in jest.
Hank just 'Humph'ed and continued to blast vegetable butt
"Can I stay with you?" Bobby asked sweetly clinging to Hanks arm, Hank made no reply however so Bobby continued to talk "It scares me cause they look kinda like Logan when he's mad and I get all confuzzled and….is that a butterfly?"
Hank remained silent
"You know Kitty?" Still Hank made no noise as he shot a killer radish out of the window where it landed on the patio and slowly shrivelled up and died. "Well he always told me that vegetable's where the enemy and that I should eat more meat, preferably the uncooked type"
Hank sighed and resigned himself to the fact that he would be stuck with the goon for the rest of the task.
1:30PM
The task was a success and as a reward the housemates will be rewarded with a party tomorrow the theme of which is undecided and shall be put to the public vote. The housemates have also for the second time won ridiculously large amounts of food of which Victor is stealing all the raw meat from to stow away under his mattress of course when I saw his mattress I mean Bobby's after all the boys like a walking freezer.
2:45PM
Remy is in the garden smoking another cigarette, Rogue has gone out to join him.
"Heya sugah" She says softly sitting on the picnic table
"Petite" Remy nods curtly at her
"What's wrong swamp rat? Ain't ya gonna smile for me?"
"Remy not gonna force himself were he's not wanted. Remy not blind, he see dat chere has a fing for da bucket head."
"Who told ya that?"
"It be true though, non?" He can not keep the tone of hope out of his voice.
"Can't ya see I'm just usin' him ta get outta the chores?" Rogue says softly "There's only one person in this house I'm interested in"
"And who be that?" Remy asks a grin splitting his face
"Hank"
Remy's face falls but Rogue giggles "It's you really ya swamprat"
Rogue walks back into the mansion leaving a stunned silence behind her.
7:04PM
"VIVE LE RESISTANCE!" Remy yells over zealously as he makes a grab for the nearest pitch fork
While Bobby opts for the easier "MUTINY"
Logan and Beast carry Eric aloft gagged and tied but still dressed as Julius Caesar to the bonfire that has been erected out of the chicken coup just for the occasion.
"We've had enough o' you tyranny bub, it times you were dropped" Wolverine growls dumping Eric on the floor as he begins to tie him to the steak.
"Help me Rogue, please…." Eric pleads, snot dribbling over his top lip
Rogue however buffs her nails on her top "Not this time sugah"
Bobby, Hank and Victor do a strange sacrificial dance around the soon to be lit bonfire on which Logan is tying Eric…tight
Suddenly as if from nowhere a shadowy figure jumps out…yep you guessed it Kat.
"Argh!" Came the small strangled cry from Victor
"See I told you I hadn't eaten the funny mushrooms Kitty" Bobby said triumphantly
Kat upon seeing Eric tied to the bonfire got rather confused and sent a fire ball at Magneto causing his highly flammable cape to catch fire. This action in turn then leads to Eric's power of magnetism to go temporarily awry as he tries (fruitlessly) to blow out the fire. Logan caught up in the magnetic force that Magneto projected, accidentally pops his claws and fall's forward due to the force and stabs poor Bobby in the process. Bobby in his fear freezes the nearest thing to hand…poor Hank, who falls straight on top of a startled Cajun, cigarette still dangling from his lips. Gambit frightened, scared and very, very crushed tries to attract Rogues help by trying to claw his way up her leg, but, alas, to no avail as Rogue walks off kicking Remy in the head for good measure.
"Ooopppssiiee!" Kat giggles "My bad!"
Piotr and Pete come in wheeling a little trolley and fix a mask on Kats face before shoving her into a straight jacket ala Hannibal Lecter. All the while Eric is still slowly smouldering.
Victor it seems is paralysed by the drool dangling from his lip threatening to run down his chin.
8:00PM
Order has been restored to the Big Brotherhood mansion. The injuries sustained in the last domino like catastrophe are as follows (as reported by Dr Reyes and Dr McCoy):
Eric Lensherr has suffered 3rd degree burns on his back and neck both arms and legs are in casts due to the effect of being stamped on in the hope that the fire will snuff out. He has been removed from the Big Brotherhood mansion due to the risk of his life incurred over the last hour and for fear of similar occurrences in the future.
Gambit is likely to be on crutches (until the next episode at least) as he has suffered a badly crushed femur. One good thing did come out of this however as Rogue is fawning over the 'poor injured soldier'.
Bobby it turns out was just scratched and the phrase stabbed was a bit over dramatic, however for his trouble he got a band aid and a Twinkie.
Hank having defrosted quickly from next to the burning old man has lived to tell the tale, however he is not at the moment man enough to speak to Bobby and make friends again.
Logan it appears has taken on some kind of electrical (or maybe magnetical) charge causing lights to dim in his presence and plays havoc with the filter in the fish tank.
Victor is sulking at being deprived of man flesh and has sought solace in the comfort of raw steak.
Look out for the next chapter which I hope to have written and posted by Crimbo!!
So until then do review!!
*Ellie*