Disclaimer: I don't own the X-Men. That's Stan Lee's job, the lucky dude. I
STILL don't own an emu farm, and don't intend to. Well, until the emus try
to take over the world, and we make camps for psycho emus. *receives stares
from all the sane people out there* Yeah..
A/N: Hey, everybody! Umm, I just realized, I made a mistake. In the first chapter, Jessie's hair is a pale-ish green. Okay? Got it? Good.
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Shift jumped as the door burst open.
"Uh-oh," he said, "As Kitty would say; We're are, like, totally busted."
Shroud told him, "Well, before we kick the bucket, let's help the rest of them out."
"Right," Shift turned into a monkey, and jumped into the soldiers' faces.
Shroud hurriedly unlocked the rest of the cells. "Get out of here!" he told their occupants.
The monkey made rude hand gestures at the soldiers, and made some monkey noises.
"Right, Aaron!" said Shroud, "Now be careful, and don't croak, alright?" He blinked out of sight.
The monkey shrunk into a bullfrog, and let out a loud croak.
A voice form the air said, "Very funny, Aaron."
The soldiers looked around for the source of the voice as Shift transformed himself into an elephant and looked for the soldiers. He looked between his legs. The soldiers cowered there, surprised.
Gambit threw a card at the wall next to a couple of soldiers. It exploded, blowing a large hole in the wall.
"Missed us," said a soldier, mocking Gambit.
"Yes, I suppose I would have," Gambit told him, "but only if I had been aiming for you, monsieur!" He leapt through the hole he had created. "Au revoir!"
"Get him!" said the soldier who had tried to tease Gambit.
The soldiers tried to shoot the fast-moving Gambit, but as far as they could tell, they missed every time.
Gambit ran into the room John had lead the twins. Seeing Shift still there, teasing the soldiers he yelled at him to get out of there.
The soldiers turned to look at him, as did the duck which was now nesting on one of the soldiers' head.
Gambit realized he had shouted at him in French, saying, "Sortez ici de vous l'imbécile!" He quickly repeated himself in English. "Get out of here, you fool!"
The duck gave a loud quack and flew out of the room.
Gambit blew another hole in the wall, this time as an escape-route outside. He sped through the hole, with the shouts of soldiers around him. Once he was outside, he realized it was not much better. Soldiers had surrounded the building, and were trying to catch the escaping mutants. With some they had succeeded. Others escaped, and ran for the hills. Gambit didn't have a choice. If he stayed, he'd either be blown to bits or captured.
Cyclops jumped as a boy suddenly appeared under his nose.
"Shawn!" he said angrily, "Don't do that?"
"Okay," said Shroud sadly, "I'll leave."
"How'd it go?" asked Rogue impatiently.
"Depends," said Shroud, looking around, "Where's Aaron?"
"Right here!" said Shift, transforming from a raccoon into himself.
"Well, then," said Shroud, "It went well."
"Where's Gambit?" asked Magneto.
"He's. coming," said Shift.
A few people burst through the foliage.
"Good afternoon," said Xavier calmly.
The newcomers stared around at the group. And then Gambit rushed out of the trees, carrying a limp John in his arms.
"I," he said, out of breath, "We"
"We have to get out of here," said Berzerker, "Right?"
Gambit nodded. The rest of them stood up, leading the new mutants away from the building.
"John?" said Rogue, walking next to Gambit, "What happened to him?"
"I. don't know," said Gambit, still catching his breath, "He led us to the. others. And then I found. him lying outside."
Rogue looked worried, and ran ahead to talk to Bobby.
The group moved at a quick pace, trying to get as far from the building and the soldiers a possible. Rogue looked around at them. She saw Beast, who looked saddened and disappointed. She realized that his winged friend, who Cyclops had called Warren, had not escaped.
They reached the Blackbird in good time, and everyone, including the Brotherhood, got in.
"Man," said Shawn to his brother, "Technology confuses me even more now."
"Yeah," Aaron agreed, "How can one plane fit 20-or-more people?"
"It's the Blackbird," said Jean, smiling, "It's got features I even haven't seen."
Lance didn't look too happy to be back in the plane. He gripped the seat tightly with a strained look on his face.
"Relax, Lance," said Bobby, trying not to laugh, "The plane isn't suddenly going to explode."
"I'm not worried about that," Lance snapped, "I'm-"
But Bobby never did get to hear what Lance was worried about, because as the jet took off, Lance put a hand over his mouth and turned away.
To make room for everyone, Aaron had agreed to morph into a cat and sit in Shawn's lap. He purred as his brother stroked his silky fur. He fell asleep as silence filled the room.
"This is one of the strangest things.." Shawn said, "My brother's purring."
When they returned to the mansion, everyone was glad to get off the plane. Especially
Lance, who ran to the nearest bathroom as soon as he got off.
Aaron stretched and morphed back into himself, "That went well," he said, and went to go get something to eat.
"Good plan," said Shawn and he followed his brother.
Rogue rolled her eyes, "Only they could go on a mission, get shot at, and then go eat dinner."
Bobby laughed.
"Eric," Xavier told his old friend, "If you wish, you may stay here."
"Yes," Magneto said, "A little visit would be pleasant. Maybe."
"How about a game of chess, Eric?" Xavier happily led Magneto inside.
Kitty yawned, "This, like, totally wipes me out! I'm going to bed."
Gambit picked up John again, "Could someone escort me to your medical wing?"
"Yeah, sure," said Rogue, "Come on, Bobby."
They brought Gambit up the med center. He laid John on a bed.
"Merci," he thanked Rogue.
"Aucun problème," (No problem) she responded to a delighted Gambit.
Bobby looked at both of them in confusion, "Can't you two speak English?"
"Of course," said Gambit, "But I must see Mystique."
"Kay," said Rogue. She turned to Bobby, "I'm pretty beat. I'm going to go to bed. See you tomorrow!"
"Yeah," said Bobby after she had left, "See you."
He walked out of the MC and turned right. Suddenly, a bucketful of freezing cold water was dumped on his head.
Aaron laughed, resuming his natural form instead of the rat he had been impersonating.
"Oh, my," said Shawn blinking visible in front of Bobby, "Did we get poor little Robby wet?"
"You!" spluttered Bobby.
"Yes, good job!" Aaron said calmly, "Us."
Bobby glared at them.
"What's the matter, Snowman?" Aaron asked in a mock worried tone, "Do you have a stomachache?"
"Oh, we *do* hope you're all right!" said Shawn, then yawned and turned away,
"Well, have a nice day!"
Bobby decided it was a good time to go to sleep.
The next day it had begun to snow again. School still had not been resumed. So the students went outside for what promised to be a great snowball fight.
"Take that!" yelled Amara as she tossed a fireball at the other team.
Ray looked down at a puddle of warm water. It used to be a rather large pile of snowballs.
"Heads up!" Bobby said happily as snowballs rained down on Rogue and Amara. They screamed happily. Kitty looked surprised, but giggled. The snowballs phased through her and hit Shawn in the face.
"Blarggh!" he said pointedly.
"My thoughts exactly," said Aaron, and he launched a snowball at Ruben. It hit him in the nose and stuck there.
"Uh." Ruben said, "Where did dis come fum?"
Roberto Da Costa powered up using the sun's light for energy and threw snowballs in every direction. Quite a few of them hit Ray.
"Alright," he said angrily, "that's it!" He threw snowballs back at Roberto, and along with them he sent a bolt of electricity. Roberto flew backwards from the shock.
Kitty hurled a snowball at Kurt, who immediately teleported right next to her.
"Missed me!" he said.
Kitty giggled again and said, "This is, like, totally great!"
Jessica avoided a snowball and laughed.
Then, suddenly, out of nowhere, a humongous fireball descended from the sky in the shape of a dragon, melting all the snow around them. It disappeared as quickly as it had come.
Good morning," said an unfamiliar voice.
Everyone turned towards the voice.
John smiled at them all, "The prof wants to see you all now."
John!" Rogue said, excitedly, "You"
"What the heck happened to your voice?" Bobby asked.
"What?" John said. He thought a bit. "What are you talking about?"
"Your voice," said Bobby, "It's different."
"My voice?" John raised his eyebrows.
"Yeah," said Rogue, noticing it now, "You've got an accent."
John thought about it again. Then he realized that he had been talking the way he had until he came to Xavier's School. With an Australian accent. "What about it?"
"It's-" Rogue said, "You're.. Australian?"
"Yeah," John said, irritated, "So?"
"Why didn't you tell us?" Bobby asked, also annoyed.
"You didn't ask," John said plainly.
Rogue was smart enough to drop the subject. "What does the professor want?"
"I dunno." John rolled his eyes. "What am I now? A walking Australian information booth?"
Yeah, John's definitely back, Rogue thought.
Everyone met in the room where they ate their meals. The professor sat in his wheelchair at the front.
The professor cleared his throat, "I have a few announcements to make. First, classes will resume tomorrow."
The students groaned.
"Also," Xavier continued, "The people who came here yesterday will be staying here at the school until they have decided where they would like to go. The Brotherhood, too, has decided to remain here for a while. Until, of course, they decide to return to their home, we must treat them as our guests."
There was some murmuring throughout the crowd.
The professor raised his voice, "There will be no exceptions," His eyes rested on Lance for a moment, then continued, "You will make sure every person feels welcome here. That will be all."
The students departed, some grumbling, and others looked thoughtful. Two of the thoughtful ones discussed good ways to make everyone feel comfortable at the school.
"Maybe," one said, "We could give them breakfast in bed."
"Nah," said the other, "We already did that."
"Well, then, until we get more ideas, we'll just have to give them the same thing as we gave Jack Frost last night."
"Aaron, you're a genius!"
"I am?" said Aaron.
"Yes!" Shawn said, patting his brother on the back, "Now this is what we'll do." He whispered their new plans into Aaron's ear.
"Those two," said Jean into Rogue's ear, "will be the downfall of this school."
The students had exited the Meal Room, but now that John had melted the snow, they didn't know what to do.
"Why don't you go Christmas shopping?" said John.
"Um.. John?" Rogue said, "Christmas was weeks ago."
"Yeah, right," said John nonchalantly, "Of course, I wouldn't know that. I didn't get anything."
Rogue looked at him, to check if he was angry. But to her surprise, he just looked thoughtful.
"How come your parents don't send you anything?" Rogue asked him.
"Number one, they don't know I'm here," John said.
"Why not?" Bobby inquired.
"Now we come to point number two. If I told them where I was, it wouldn't be presents they'd send. Something more along the lines of cops."
"They'd what?" Bobby and Rogue said in unison.
"You heard me," John said, still with his new accent.
"Why would they do that?"
"Well," John said, shrugging, "I guess that's because you could call me a criminal."
Rogue and Bobby gaped at John.
John grinned, "Are you going to scream and run away? 'Cause if you are, just keep a lid on it, and stick with running away."
"But" Bobby said.
"You" said Rogue.
"Or you can stand there gibbering at me all day," John remarked.
"But, why didn't you tell us?" Rogue asked him.
"You didn't ask." John repeated the same answer he had before.
"What?" said Bobby, now angry, "We were supposed to walk up to you and ask, So, John, we were just wondering, are you a criminal?"
John shrugged, "Sure, why not?"
"John," Rogue said, "you're impossible."
"Thanks very much," John said sarcastically. He turned to leave.
"Oh, John," Rogue said, realizing her mistake, "I'm sorry. I didn't mean"
John interrupted her, "Oh, don't worry. You meant it," He left them standing there, stupefied.
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Yay! I put up the fourth chapter! Anywho, I would like to thank my first reviwer; Spheksophobia! *Gives big hug* Yay! I got review! *Ahem* On with the random things I'm going to put here because I want to:
Spheksophobia: Yay! Thankyouthankyouthankyou! You get a big sticker of the X-Man/Brotherhood member of your choice! And spread around the word: Emus are secretly scheming to take over the world! Vive the llamas!
Calogan: Good potato, you reviewed! *does crazy little dance* I got another review from someone I don't know! Yay!
Rachillie: Whoohoo! You finally read it! You get a Kurt sticker! Umm. nothing to tell you, I see you everyday.. Anywho; Yay, you liked it!
Once I get MORE reviews, I'll put up the next chapter! And if I don't get any, I won't! So there! (if you haven't noticed, I *love* getting reviews! Especially from people I don't know) *ahem* Now be a good little vegetable (of your choice!) and press the little purple-ish button! You did? Good..
'May the emus poo on someone else's lawn'
A/N: Hey, everybody! Umm, I just realized, I made a mistake. In the first chapter, Jessie's hair is a pale-ish green. Okay? Got it? Good.
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Shift jumped as the door burst open.
"Uh-oh," he said, "As Kitty would say; We're are, like, totally busted."
Shroud told him, "Well, before we kick the bucket, let's help the rest of them out."
"Right," Shift turned into a monkey, and jumped into the soldiers' faces.
Shroud hurriedly unlocked the rest of the cells. "Get out of here!" he told their occupants.
The monkey made rude hand gestures at the soldiers, and made some monkey noises.
"Right, Aaron!" said Shroud, "Now be careful, and don't croak, alright?" He blinked out of sight.
The monkey shrunk into a bullfrog, and let out a loud croak.
A voice form the air said, "Very funny, Aaron."
The soldiers looked around for the source of the voice as Shift transformed himself into an elephant and looked for the soldiers. He looked between his legs. The soldiers cowered there, surprised.
Gambit threw a card at the wall next to a couple of soldiers. It exploded, blowing a large hole in the wall.
"Missed us," said a soldier, mocking Gambit.
"Yes, I suppose I would have," Gambit told him, "but only if I had been aiming for you, monsieur!" He leapt through the hole he had created. "Au revoir!"
"Get him!" said the soldier who had tried to tease Gambit.
The soldiers tried to shoot the fast-moving Gambit, but as far as they could tell, they missed every time.
Gambit ran into the room John had lead the twins. Seeing Shift still there, teasing the soldiers he yelled at him to get out of there.
The soldiers turned to look at him, as did the duck which was now nesting on one of the soldiers' head.
Gambit realized he had shouted at him in French, saying, "Sortez ici de vous l'imbécile!" He quickly repeated himself in English. "Get out of here, you fool!"
The duck gave a loud quack and flew out of the room.
Gambit blew another hole in the wall, this time as an escape-route outside. He sped through the hole, with the shouts of soldiers around him. Once he was outside, he realized it was not much better. Soldiers had surrounded the building, and were trying to catch the escaping mutants. With some they had succeeded. Others escaped, and ran for the hills. Gambit didn't have a choice. If he stayed, he'd either be blown to bits or captured.
Cyclops jumped as a boy suddenly appeared under his nose.
"Shawn!" he said angrily, "Don't do that?"
"Okay," said Shroud sadly, "I'll leave."
"How'd it go?" asked Rogue impatiently.
"Depends," said Shroud, looking around, "Where's Aaron?"
"Right here!" said Shift, transforming from a raccoon into himself.
"Well, then," said Shroud, "It went well."
"Where's Gambit?" asked Magneto.
"He's. coming," said Shift.
A few people burst through the foliage.
"Good afternoon," said Xavier calmly.
The newcomers stared around at the group. And then Gambit rushed out of the trees, carrying a limp John in his arms.
"I," he said, out of breath, "We"
"We have to get out of here," said Berzerker, "Right?"
Gambit nodded. The rest of them stood up, leading the new mutants away from the building.
"John?" said Rogue, walking next to Gambit, "What happened to him?"
"I. don't know," said Gambit, still catching his breath, "He led us to the. others. And then I found. him lying outside."
Rogue looked worried, and ran ahead to talk to Bobby.
The group moved at a quick pace, trying to get as far from the building and the soldiers a possible. Rogue looked around at them. She saw Beast, who looked saddened and disappointed. She realized that his winged friend, who Cyclops had called Warren, had not escaped.
They reached the Blackbird in good time, and everyone, including the Brotherhood, got in.
"Man," said Shawn to his brother, "Technology confuses me even more now."
"Yeah," Aaron agreed, "How can one plane fit 20-or-more people?"
"It's the Blackbird," said Jean, smiling, "It's got features I even haven't seen."
Lance didn't look too happy to be back in the plane. He gripped the seat tightly with a strained look on his face.
"Relax, Lance," said Bobby, trying not to laugh, "The plane isn't suddenly going to explode."
"I'm not worried about that," Lance snapped, "I'm-"
But Bobby never did get to hear what Lance was worried about, because as the jet took off, Lance put a hand over his mouth and turned away.
To make room for everyone, Aaron had agreed to morph into a cat and sit in Shawn's lap. He purred as his brother stroked his silky fur. He fell asleep as silence filled the room.
"This is one of the strangest things.." Shawn said, "My brother's purring."
When they returned to the mansion, everyone was glad to get off the plane. Especially
Lance, who ran to the nearest bathroom as soon as he got off.
Aaron stretched and morphed back into himself, "That went well," he said, and went to go get something to eat.
"Good plan," said Shawn and he followed his brother.
Rogue rolled her eyes, "Only they could go on a mission, get shot at, and then go eat dinner."
Bobby laughed.
"Eric," Xavier told his old friend, "If you wish, you may stay here."
"Yes," Magneto said, "A little visit would be pleasant. Maybe."
"How about a game of chess, Eric?" Xavier happily led Magneto inside.
Kitty yawned, "This, like, totally wipes me out! I'm going to bed."
Gambit picked up John again, "Could someone escort me to your medical wing?"
"Yeah, sure," said Rogue, "Come on, Bobby."
They brought Gambit up the med center. He laid John on a bed.
"Merci," he thanked Rogue.
"Aucun problème," (No problem) she responded to a delighted Gambit.
Bobby looked at both of them in confusion, "Can't you two speak English?"
"Of course," said Gambit, "But I must see Mystique."
"Kay," said Rogue. She turned to Bobby, "I'm pretty beat. I'm going to go to bed. See you tomorrow!"
"Yeah," said Bobby after she had left, "See you."
He walked out of the MC and turned right. Suddenly, a bucketful of freezing cold water was dumped on his head.
Aaron laughed, resuming his natural form instead of the rat he had been impersonating.
"Oh, my," said Shawn blinking visible in front of Bobby, "Did we get poor little Robby wet?"
"You!" spluttered Bobby.
"Yes, good job!" Aaron said calmly, "Us."
Bobby glared at them.
"What's the matter, Snowman?" Aaron asked in a mock worried tone, "Do you have a stomachache?"
"Oh, we *do* hope you're all right!" said Shawn, then yawned and turned away,
"Well, have a nice day!"
Bobby decided it was a good time to go to sleep.
The next day it had begun to snow again. School still had not been resumed. So the students went outside for what promised to be a great snowball fight.
"Take that!" yelled Amara as she tossed a fireball at the other team.
Ray looked down at a puddle of warm water. It used to be a rather large pile of snowballs.
"Heads up!" Bobby said happily as snowballs rained down on Rogue and Amara. They screamed happily. Kitty looked surprised, but giggled. The snowballs phased through her and hit Shawn in the face.
"Blarggh!" he said pointedly.
"My thoughts exactly," said Aaron, and he launched a snowball at Ruben. It hit him in the nose and stuck there.
"Uh." Ruben said, "Where did dis come fum?"
Roberto Da Costa powered up using the sun's light for energy and threw snowballs in every direction. Quite a few of them hit Ray.
"Alright," he said angrily, "that's it!" He threw snowballs back at Roberto, and along with them he sent a bolt of electricity. Roberto flew backwards from the shock.
Kitty hurled a snowball at Kurt, who immediately teleported right next to her.
"Missed me!" he said.
Kitty giggled again and said, "This is, like, totally great!"
Jessica avoided a snowball and laughed.
Then, suddenly, out of nowhere, a humongous fireball descended from the sky in the shape of a dragon, melting all the snow around them. It disappeared as quickly as it had come.
Good morning," said an unfamiliar voice.
Everyone turned towards the voice.
John smiled at them all, "The prof wants to see you all now."
John!" Rogue said, excitedly, "You"
"What the heck happened to your voice?" Bobby asked.
"What?" John said. He thought a bit. "What are you talking about?"
"Your voice," said Bobby, "It's different."
"My voice?" John raised his eyebrows.
"Yeah," said Rogue, noticing it now, "You've got an accent."
John thought about it again. Then he realized that he had been talking the way he had until he came to Xavier's School. With an Australian accent. "What about it?"
"It's-" Rogue said, "You're.. Australian?"
"Yeah," John said, irritated, "So?"
"Why didn't you tell us?" Bobby asked, also annoyed.
"You didn't ask," John said plainly.
Rogue was smart enough to drop the subject. "What does the professor want?"
"I dunno." John rolled his eyes. "What am I now? A walking Australian information booth?"
Yeah, John's definitely back, Rogue thought.
Everyone met in the room where they ate their meals. The professor sat in his wheelchair at the front.
The professor cleared his throat, "I have a few announcements to make. First, classes will resume tomorrow."
The students groaned.
"Also," Xavier continued, "The people who came here yesterday will be staying here at the school until they have decided where they would like to go. The Brotherhood, too, has decided to remain here for a while. Until, of course, they decide to return to their home, we must treat them as our guests."
There was some murmuring throughout the crowd.
The professor raised his voice, "There will be no exceptions," His eyes rested on Lance for a moment, then continued, "You will make sure every person feels welcome here. That will be all."
The students departed, some grumbling, and others looked thoughtful. Two of the thoughtful ones discussed good ways to make everyone feel comfortable at the school.
"Maybe," one said, "We could give them breakfast in bed."
"Nah," said the other, "We already did that."
"Well, then, until we get more ideas, we'll just have to give them the same thing as we gave Jack Frost last night."
"Aaron, you're a genius!"
"I am?" said Aaron.
"Yes!" Shawn said, patting his brother on the back, "Now this is what we'll do." He whispered their new plans into Aaron's ear.
"Those two," said Jean into Rogue's ear, "will be the downfall of this school."
The students had exited the Meal Room, but now that John had melted the snow, they didn't know what to do.
"Why don't you go Christmas shopping?" said John.
"Um.. John?" Rogue said, "Christmas was weeks ago."
"Yeah, right," said John nonchalantly, "Of course, I wouldn't know that. I didn't get anything."
Rogue looked at him, to check if he was angry. But to her surprise, he just looked thoughtful.
"How come your parents don't send you anything?" Rogue asked him.
"Number one, they don't know I'm here," John said.
"Why not?" Bobby inquired.
"Now we come to point number two. If I told them where I was, it wouldn't be presents they'd send. Something more along the lines of cops."
"They'd what?" Bobby and Rogue said in unison.
"You heard me," John said, still with his new accent.
"Why would they do that?"
"Well," John said, shrugging, "I guess that's because you could call me a criminal."
Rogue and Bobby gaped at John.
John grinned, "Are you going to scream and run away? 'Cause if you are, just keep a lid on it, and stick with running away."
"But" Bobby said.
"You" said Rogue.
"Or you can stand there gibbering at me all day," John remarked.
"But, why didn't you tell us?" Rogue asked him.
"You didn't ask." John repeated the same answer he had before.
"What?" said Bobby, now angry, "We were supposed to walk up to you and ask, So, John, we were just wondering, are you a criminal?"
John shrugged, "Sure, why not?"
"John," Rogue said, "you're impossible."
"Thanks very much," John said sarcastically. He turned to leave.
"Oh, John," Rogue said, realizing her mistake, "I'm sorry. I didn't mean"
John interrupted her, "Oh, don't worry. You meant it," He left them standing there, stupefied.
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Yay! I put up the fourth chapter! Anywho, I would like to thank my first reviwer; Spheksophobia! *Gives big hug* Yay! I got review! *Ahem* On with the random things I'm going to put here because I want to:
Spheksophobia: Yay! Thankyouthankyouthankyou! You get a big sticker of the X-Man/Brotherhood member of your choice! And spread around the word: Emus are secretly scheming to take over the world! Vive the llamas!
Calogan: Good potato, you reviewed! *does crazy little dance* I got another review from someone I don't know! Yay!
Rachillie: Whoohoo! You finally read it! You get a Kurt sticker! Umm. nothing to tell you, I see you everyday.. Anywho; Yay, you liked it!
Once I get MORE reviews, I'll put up the next chapter! And if I don't get any, I won't! So there! (if you haven't noticed, I *love* getting reviews! Especially from people I don't know) *ahem* Now be a good little vegetable (of your choice!) and press the little purple-ish button! You did? Good..
'May the emus poo on someone else's lawn'