Here's some fun for the weekend! Hurray!

You all need to go check out my beta's story 'Dark Night.' She's called red_angel_wings, and I swear she's really cool.

Don't own the Evo-cast. But got new pics of Remy! And of Scott. He doesn't look half bad in a thong.......

Chap 3: Institutional Warfare

The first Institutional War, as it came to be called, was by no means over yet.

But then again, the girls had been rather cruel to the poor guys.

Raymond had been the first to feel their wrath. After fainting in terror upon discovery, he had been stripped to his underwear, a snorkel shoved in his mouth, and dragged to a bathtub. Jubilee had been put in charge of his torture, and she had done it all too well. The tub had been filled with warm water and every pack of Kool-aid in the house. With grape being Jamie's favorite, Berserker had turned purple. He had soaked for about fifteen minutes before waking up and panicking some more, running off into the night to be terrorized by Rogue and Tabby.

He tried soaking the stuff off, scrubbing, lye soap, even an SOS pad, but nothing worked. They figured it would take at least two weeks for the color to wear off completely. Ray had thought that school was out of the question. He was wrong.

"WHAT?!! You can't really expect me to go to SCHOOL like this?!"

"Why not?" Jubilee asked flippantly. She had been ordered by the professor to apologize for dying the guy purple, and she did feel a little bad for it. That wasn't to say she didn't enjoy the effects it had! She was down with Ray in Mr. McCoy's lab, trying to figure out what he was going to do now.

"Yes, why not, Raymond?" Beast asked.

Raymond almost had an anurism. "WHY NOT?!! YOU SIT THERE IN BLUE FUR AND HAVE THE NERVE TO ASK ME WHY NOT!!"

"Nothing's physically wrong with you, you just look at little"—Hank stifled his laughter, or tried to. Ray just glared, "Go on, say it."

"No. Its cruel."

"Go on, man. You're dying to say it."

"N-no," McCoy stammered, desperately trying to hold it in. "I'd be a hypocrite."

"I doubt that's gonna stop Kurt. Go on. Lemme have it," he said with a frosty glare. "You know you want to."

Beast couldn't take it anymore. "BWAHAHAHAHAH!!! YOU LOOK LIKE A SUFFOCATED SMURF!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!" Jubillee couldn't help it and joined in.

Berserker just took deep breaths through his nose and said quietly, "I hate you. Both of you."

"PUT SOME RED PANTS ON!" Hank shouted in laughter. "(gasp, wheeze) YOU'LL BE PAPA SMURF!!! BWAHHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

"Laugh it up now, fur-man! Just wait till I get to school and have a power breakdown! I'll blame it on home psychological scarring," Ray muttered.

"OOH, OOH, BETTER!!" Jubilee crowed. "SMURFETTE ON PMS!!"

It took massive plea bargaining, especially after he tried to shoot a still laughing Jubilation Lee, but he convinced the professor to home school him till it wore off.

Roberto now had a bulls-eye drawn in red maker on his almost bald head. They'd had left enough hair for the outer ring of the bulls-eye, making him look like a monk. The only way the girls had gotten away with this was after Rogue tackled him from behind and had drained him. This had given the girls enough time to wax his eyebrows and get rid of all his clothing. No one had seen a single thread of it since that night, and not one girl claimed to know where it had gone. (Since she was the only one not present to scan, the prof, suspected Tabby of the deed.)

It had taken about an hour to talk Sam out of the tree he's been clinging to for half the night. Jean had treed him after catching him trying to pry Evan out of cabinet they'd stuffed him in. It had taken about as long to talk Kitty into phasing the yellow boa out of his head. That had unnerved him rather badly, but not so badly as being sprayed with eleven cans of aerosol whip cream and having four cats sicced on him.

(Rahne had chased them onto the grounds from the side of the road. The little cats had taken one look at him and fallen in love. The feeling was not mutual. He'd run like hell through the house trying to get the cream off of him, but the girls would just hit him with more. The cats apparently thought it was a game and jumped him at every opportunity.)

(cut back to Scene 24--- I mean, chap 2, where the prof is sitting at the bottom of the stairs. It's the day the teachers all came back, and he's just musing over everything that's happened.)

Charles shook his head. He rolled down the carpet and stopped beside Ororo. She was staring up at something along with Logan. The Canadian whistled low. "I can't believe they duct taped Bobby to the ceiling."

"After stripping him to his underwear too," Ororo said amazedly. "They wrapped him like a mummy before sticking him up there."

"Did you hear the language that kid was using when Beast tried to yank it off?" The fighter shook his head. "I haven't heard stuff like that since my last bar fight."

"Yes, I did hear it, all of it," the prof, said softly, "and I hold you personally responsible." He glared at the older man. (remember, Logan is really old, but doesn't age like normal people. Last guess at his actual age in the Evo-verse is somewhere around eighty, while looking 32-35.)

Logan flushed slightly. "Jamie was trying to listen while he did it and write the stuff down. Actually write it down! Asked him why and he said he didn't know what half of it meant, but he'd look it up. Damn kids," he said. "Every last one of 'em's crazy.

"Oh hey, 'Ro," Logan turned to face her, "heard anything about Blondie?"

"No, I haven't been able to find any trace of my nephew. I was hoping you could help me with that."

"Nah, can't. Scent trails are all screwed to hell, like finding certain shit in a cesspool"—

"Mr. Logan!" Rahne gasped from the stairs, dust rag in hand. Logan whipped around at the sound and flushed full out. "Um, I mean, finding a bit--dog in a pound."

"That's better," the prof, said with a mild look, combined with the Eyebrow. "I too, have had no luck finding Evan. I scanned the minds of every girl here, and no one's seen him. I'll try Cerebro next."

"Bet he's buried in a shallow grave off I-65," Logan muttered.

"Don't even say such a horrible thing," Storm said worriedly.

He shrugged, "He got life insurance?"

Storm narrowed her eyes, "Do you?"

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this one is not up to my usual par, but I've been so damn busy! (whimpers, 'pity me...')

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