Disclaimer: I don't own any of it!
Shout out's: Auramistealia- I did. :) lol, yeah I need three sources to be able to spell everything I want to. I actually know some pretty big words, I just can't spell them. Life is very frustrating.
Rogue151- I'm glad you enjoyed it so much! And thank you for the stuffed eagle. I already have a real stuffed animal Tiger. :)
scifi-fan- hehe, he'll(~Kurt) be laughing for sure. I do intend for him to met them sometime. *sigh* So many things to put in this story...
bant- yeah, I wish Kurt was in the old cartoons more then he is. He only gets in three episodes I think, and I've seen two of them. School...arg. That says it all.
Glaivester- thanks for reviewing! Hope to hear from you again!
JB- thank you! Don't worry, I will. :)
Georgia Peach- thank you for the singing lol. Yes, Rogue is showing her Goth self in the mall. This should be interesting...
StormHeart- I'm glad you like how I've done Gambit. I was a little wary of having the Acolytes in this story because I didn't know how I would be able to portray them, but it seems to be working out ok. Yup, they do have to leave the Evo verse sometime...but not just yet.
Electric Russian- I'm glad you love it. :)
Notes: I know I usually do this at the end of the chapter, but I just wanted to say this one thing here, before you read the rest. From now on I will try to do Pyro's accent. You see, I didn't know how to write it before, but now I think I have an idea. My thanks go to The Phantom and her story 'Dude, Where's My Accent?' which is very funny, and has every foreign persons accent stereotypical overdone, on purpose. Unfortunately, I still don't know how to do Colossus's accent, except that some authors have him inserting a 'v' where there should be a 'w'. But isn't that to much like Kurt's accent? So I'm leaving Colossus without an accent, until I figure it out.
Chapter 11: Crisis in the Mall
It took a lot longer to get out of the mansion then ~Kitty thought it would. Kitty couldn't find Jean, but she had found Amanda and Kurt in the TV room studying together for a test.
While Rogue and ~Kitty waited in one of Xavier's numerous cars, Kitty kept interrupting Kurt and Amanda. After the fourth time Kitty had wondered in, saying excuses such as 'I think I left my purse in here' Amanda commented on it.
"Kurt, why does Kitty keep coming back in here?"
"Vas?"
"You haven't noticed? She's come in here maybe three or four times."
Kurt had not noticed because he was fully diverting his concentration in two areas, studying, and Amanda. But even he found it odd, when Kitty came into the room again and pushed Amanda and him apart, saying she was looking for her wallet in between the cushions they were sitting on. Amanda observed that when she sat closer to Kurt, after Kitty had searched for her wallet, an expression had crossed Kitty's face so quickly that Amanda almost didn't catch it.
Kurt, oblivious to this, asked Kitty where she was going.
"Oh, ~Kitty, Rogue, and I are going to the mall. Rogue said she would drive us there."
Kurt decided not to mention that Rogue couldn't legally drive without a licensed driver in the car. The mall wasn't that far away, she most likely wouldn't be caught.
Outside, in the car Rogue was borrowing, ~Kitty said "What's taking her so long?"
Rogue fiddled with the car keys while answering, "She probably ran inta Kurt and Amanda."
"And...?" ~Kitty asked, thinking there was more to this statement that met the eye.
"Ya don't know? Kitty as a crush on Kurt. Of coarse she didn't figure this out until after he met Amanda."
"That's...weird."~Kitty said, which was a mild version of what she was really thinking.
"How so? Oh...yeah, that would be weird in your dimension. But their the same age group here. Ah bet ya she's in there, trying ta keep an eye on the goings on between him and Amanda. Come on, lets go get her." Rogue said, and then got out of the car.
~Kitty and Rogue found Kitty trying to get Kurt to help her to look for her still missing wallet.
Rogue coughed, and said "Kitty are ya done interruptin' Kurt and Amanda's study date?"
Kitty blushed and said "I'm, like, not trying to interrupt anything! I can't find my wallet, and all my money is in it."
Rogue, observing the slight bulge in Kitty's pants, pointed at the pocket and said "Ah do believe it's in your pocket."
Kitty's blush turned a deeper hue and she laughed nervously. "Oh. Ha ha, like, I didn't even think about it being there!" After that she quickly said "Umm, bye Kurt! Bye Amanda!" and rushed out the door.
Rogue and ~Kitty followed her out.
"Wow." said Amanda.
"Sometimes Kitty can be a little absentminded." said Kurt.
Amanda lifted one eyebrow and stared at her clueless boyfriend. "Yeah, absentminded." was all she said.
~*~ x ~*~
On the drive to the mall Kitty sputtered at Rogue, "Like, I can't believe you did that!"
"Did what?" asked Rogue as she came to a stop, to let some pedestrians cross the cross walk.
"You know what you did! You, like, totally embarrassed me in there!"
~Kitty started humming to herself quietly, acting like she wasn't listening to the conversation.
Rogue started moving again, narrowly missing running over a slower walking pedestrian.
"Did ya know your wallet was in your pocket?" she asked.
Kitty crossed her arms and said, "You know perfectly well what I was doing in there."
"Kitty," Rogue said, as she slammed on the brakes when a little old lady made a dash for the other side of the road. "Ya need ta leave Kurt and Amanda alone. You could have had your chance with him, but you didn't want to. Now that he has a girlfriend ya all the sudden what him back."
Kitty didn't say anything to that, and just slouched farther down in her seat. It was pretty quit after that, until Kitty asked ~Kitty what she wanted to look at in the mall. 'Cloths' was the immediate answer, and Kitty grinned at this.
"And could we go by the video store? I checked what movies you guys have at the mansion, and you only have 'Star Wars: A New Hope'. So could we buy 'Return of the Jedi', and the two newer ones?"
"Sure." said Rogue. "And since its for the mansion's movie library, we can get the Professor ta reimburse us for it."
"Oh, that reminds me, while I was looking for Jean, I ran into the Professor and he gave me some money to give to you, so you can, like, buy some cloths for yourself." Kitty told ~Kitty as she handed a wad of dollar bills to her.
~Kitty stared at the amount of money. "I'm not going to need all this for cloths!"
"Prices have gone up since 1982. Believe me you'll need all of it."
~Kitty stuffed the cash into her pocket.
~*~ x ~*~
John waited impatiently in front of the book store. Remy waited also, but he wasn't fidgeting like John was. He just looked bored.
John finally asked "How long 'as he been in theah?"
"Five more minutes since you last asked." Remy answered.
When Piotr had wanted to go to the new book store in the mall, Remy and John had gone with him. They had the day off from henchmen duty and had been bored. When Piotr had first gone into the book store they had gone in there with him. After a half hour Remy and John had decided to meet back with Piotr when he was done browsing through books, and go look into some stores that interested them. That was an hour and forty-two minutes ago. They had come back to find Piotr still in the book store, and he looked like he was becoming a permanent fixture of the place.
John sighed. Today had not been fun. After they had left Piotr, John had gone off in the search of fire. Remy had not allowed him to bring his lighter, and since he was in civilian cloths, he didn't have his flame throwers. When he had finally found a candle shop, which had some of the scented kinds lighted, John had perked up. When no one was looking he started to make the fire weave in and out of each other, like they were strings and he was braiding them. Remy found him before the sales clerk had noticed and had dragged him out. Then they had come back to the book store. John sighed again, a little louder this time.
Remy rolled his red on black eyes. "If Remy goes in dere, and see's what is takin' Piotr so long, will you stay here? Or does Remy have to bring you in with him?"
"I don't need to be babysat!"
Remy stared at him, and taking John's silence for a 'yes', went back into the book store.
John sat down on the bench that was right outside the short hallway that led to the bathrooms. He then noticed someone who looked familiar going into a video store. Make that two someones. A third girl was with them, and had a remarkable similarity to the one he recognized as Shadowcat.
*I guess the X-Men have day offs too.* he thought, as he watched them enter the shop.
~*~ x ~*~
~Kitty looked around at the many VHS's and DVD's on display in wonder. Rogue went up to one of the clerks and asked where the Star Wars' movies where. Kitty sale a 'on sale' bin full of movies and ran over to see what was in there.
A little boy was sitting on the floor by his mother, as she read the backs of the new releases. He had a little rubber ball with him, and was rolling it on the floor around his feet. ~Kitty watched him with a smile on her face, and saw the ball roll under a shelf that was displaying some of the 'Hot New Releases'.
The boy tried to crawl under the shelf but couldn't fit all the way. This did not stop him from trying to reach the ball though. But forcing himself to fit into the small space was making the flimsy shelf wobble. And it started to fall.
~Kitty reacted. She grabbed the little boy and phased. The shelf fell throw them and crashed onto the floor, making a surprising amount of noise. ~Kitty stood in the middle of it, holding the child.
Normally, if someone had made a display fall down, the reaction wouldn't be horrible. The perpetrator would be embarrassed, and the clerks might be mad, but if nothing was broken, it wasn't a big deal. Unfortunately, the clerk and some of the customers had noticed ~Kitty phasing.
"What did you do that for, freak!?" yelled the sales man coming towards ~Kitty, automatically assuming that she had caused the shelf to fall. The irresponsible mother snatched the toddler from ~Kitty and backed away from her, crying about how the mutie had tried to hurt her baby. Seeing his mother crying, the boy started wailing.
~Kitty just stood there, dumbfounded. She had just saved a child from injury and these people looked like they wanted to stone her to death. Rogue pushed her way through the growing crowd around ~Kitty and grabbed her by the arm.
"Start phasing." Rogue whispered, and then ran throw the crowd. They wouldn't have gotten away if ~Kitty hadn't of phased them through. The group of people seemed to want to keep them there. Kitty was still standing by the 'on sale' bin.
"What happened?" she asked, as Rogue grabbed her by the arm and towed both younger girls towards the exit.
"Run." said Rogue has they heard cries of "Stop them! Thieves! You won't get away with this!" filling the video store. When the made it outside of the store, into the middle of the mall, Rogue looked wildly around for someplace to hide. That's when a hand shoved her into the Men's bathroom and since she was holding onto both Kittys they were pulled in to. A boy said "Stay in 'ere!" and then went out of the bathroom. Rogue could hear people running around and shouts of "Did they go into the bathrooms?"
Another voice said "No, I was just in theah, but I saw three girls runnin' tha' way!"
The commotion died down. Rogue took this time to gather her wits, and realized why the mob had called them thieves. The three videos were in a plastic bag with the handles looped around her wrist. She had been in the act of paying for the videos when she had realized what was going on. She hadn't finished paying when she had run to ~Kitty's aid.
"Did that guy that pulled us in here look familiar to you?" Kitty asked Rogue.
'That guy' reentered the bathroom just then and said, "Their gone now. Now wot did you do to cause such a ruckus?"
Rogue scanned the boy over. He grinned and suddenly Rogue knew who he was. It was the insane grin that she had seen on one of the Acolytes. *Oh Gawd, why did we have to be rescued by the crazy one?* she thought.
In answer to John's question ~Kitty, who didn't know who he was, cried "We didn't do anything! There was this little boy, and the rubber ball, and the shelf and-"
"~Kitty! Calm down." Rogue snapped. ~Kitty hiccuped, and wiped her eyes.
John's grin faded. "She's not cryin', is she?"
"She'll be fine. Now why did ya help us?" Rogue asked, suspecting John's motives.
John opened his mouth, and then closed it. A thoughtful look came over his face, and he said, "I don't really know."
The door to the bathroom opened and a muscular boy who looked about eighteen or nineteen stopped and stared at them. In his hands he had two bags, filled with books. "John," he said slowly, "What are you doing?"
The grin reappeared. "Wot's it look like mate? Come on in 'ere and join the party!"
Piotr entered the bathroom cautiously. Recognizing the two X-Men his curiosity piqued.
~Kitty cried out "It's Peter!"
"Do I know you?" Piotr asked courteously.
~Kitty said "Well, no, not here anyway."
The bathroom door opened again, and a ten year old boy poked his head in. His eyes widened upon observing the three girls, and he checked the sign on the door. It clearly said 'Men'. Watching the Acolytes and the X-Men, he slowly backed away from the door and closed it.
"Maybe we should lock the doah." John said.
"I don't think you can." said ~Kitty pensively.
"Ah have a better idea," said Rogue, wondering if they had all gone mad, "we should get out of the men's bathroom!"
"Da." said Piotr, "we should, but why are you in here in the first place?"
Outside the bathroom, Remy was looking for John. A group of people, with two security guards, ran by, screaming about mutants in the mall. Remy opened a pocket in his trench coat, and pulled out sunglasses, which he put over his unique eyes.
Hearing what he thought was John's voice coming from the bathroom, he opened the door and stepped in saying, "There's a witch hunt goin' on, and Remy thinks we should get out of here..." he stopped when he saw the female members of the X-Men. "Bonjour chèrie," he said to Rogue, bowing slightly, "Pourrais je te demander ce que tu fais ici?"
Rogue glared at him, remembering the first time they had met, when he had almost blown her head of with his charged card.
"And this must be de double of Shadowcat. Enchanté, mademoiselle." he would have grabbed her hand and kissed it if ~Kitty had not moved back slightly, and said with wide eyes "How do you know about that?"
"Gambit knows 'bout a lot of things." Remy said smugly.
Rogue's mind whirled. If Gambit new about ~Kurt and ~Kitty, the only reasonable explanation was-
"Magneto brought them here." she said, still glaring at Remy.
"By accident." said John.
"What?" asked Kitty.
"He tried to bring the doubles of John and Remy from your dimension," Piotr said, looking at ~Kitty "but it didn't work, and instead brought you and the man here."
"~Kurt" said ~Kitty.
"Huh?" said John.
"The man is ~Kurt-, oh, never mind."
"Ain't he the furry one?"
"Isn't. Isn't he the furry one." said Kitty, correcting John's grammar.
Rogue said "We're getting off topic here, how did Magneto bring them to our universe?"
"With his thingamajig." said John.
"Come again?"
Piotr cut of John when he began to speak again, and said "He has a machine he made, that pulls the doubles of whoever is standing in the right spot out of their dimension."
"You were at the mall, when Kurt and I were." said Kitty.
"Yes. We were. You," said John accusingly, pointing at Kitty, "were in the roight spot, and caused yoah doubles to come."
"Because you two were in the wrong spot." Piotr said to Remy and John.
John stuck his tongue out at Piotr.
"Could that machine take us back?" asked ~Kitty.
"I have no idea." said Piotr.
"We need to get a hold of that machine. If Forge could mess around with it, he could figure out what it could do, and maybe send ~Kurt and I home." ~Kitty said to Rogue and Kitty.
As one, the three girls turned to look at the three Acolytes.
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Now that was my longest chapter ever! I had fun doing that one, but I don't think it was my best. What do you think about John's accent? Or did you think it was all spelling errors? lol. Writing John's character is fun. Oh, translation, Remy asked: "May I ask what you are doing here?" or I think he did. It's close anyway. Now clickith the puce colored button at the bottom of the screen, and make a comment about this chapter, or the story in general. Hopefully a positive comment.
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Shout out's: Auramistealia- I did. :) lol, yeah I need three sources to be able to spell everything I want to. I actually know some pretty big words, I just can't spell them. Life is very frustrating.
Rogue151- I'm glad you enjoyed it so much! And thank you for the stuffed eagle. I already have a real stuffed animal Tiger. :)
scifi-fan- hehe, he'll(~Kurt) be laughing for sure. I do intend for him to met them sometime. *sigh* So many things to put in this story...
bant- yeah, I wish Kurt was in the old cartoons more then he is. He only gets in three episodes I think, and I've seen two of them. School...arg. That says it all.
Glaivester- thanks for reviewing! Hope to hear from you again!
JB- thank you! Don't worry, I will. :)
Georgia Peach- thank you for the singing lol. Yes, Rogue is showing her Goth self in the mall. This should be interesting...
StormHeart- I'm glad you like how I've done Gambit. I was a little wary of having the Acolytes in this story because I didn't know how I would be able to portray them, but it seems to be working out ok. Yup, they do have to leave the Evo verse sometime...but not just yet.
Electric Russian- I'm glad you love it. :)
Notes: I know I usually do this at the end of the chapter, but I just wanted to say this one thing here, before you read the rest. From now on I will try to do Pyro's accent. You see, I didn't know how to write it before, but now I think I have an idea. My thanks go to The Phantom and her story 'Dude, Where's My Accent?' which is very funny, and has every foreign persons accent stereotypical overdone, on purpose. Unfortunately, I still don't know how to do Colossus's accent, except that some authors have him inserting a 'v' where there should be a 'w'. But isn't that to much like Kurt's accent? So I'm leaving Colossus without an accent, until I figure it out.
Chapter 11: Crisis in the Mall
It took a lot longer to get out of the mansion then ~Kitty thought it would. Kitty couldn't find Jean, but she had found Amanda and Kurt in the TV room studying together for a test.
While Rogue and ~Kitty waited in one of Xavier's numerous cars, Kitty kept interrupting Kurt and Amanda. After the fourth time Kitty had wondered in, saying excuses such as 'I think I left my purse in here' Amanda commented on it.
"Kurt, why does Kitty keep coming back in here?"
"Vas?"
"You haven't noticed? She's come in here maybe three or four times."
Kurt had not noticed because he was fully diverting his concentration in two areas, studying, and Amanda. But even he found it odd, when Kitty came into the room again and pushed Amanda and him apart, saying she was looking for her wallet in between the cushions they were sitting on. Amanda observed that when she sat closer to Kurt, after Kitty had searched for her wallet, an expression had crossed Kitty's face so quickly that Amanda almost didn't catch it.
Kurt, oblivious to this, asked Kitty where she was going.
"Oh, ~Kitty, Rogue, and I are going to the mall. Rogue said she would drive us there."
Kurt decided not to mention that Rogue couldn't legally drive without a licensed driver in the car. The mall wasn't that far away, she most likely wouldn't be caught.
Outside, in the car Rogue was borrowing, ~Kitty said "What's taking her so long?"
Rogue fiddled with the car keys while answering, "She probably ran inta Kurt and Amanda."
"And...?" ~Kitty asked, thinking there was more to this statement that met the eye.
"Ya don't know? Kitty as a crush on Kurt. Of coarse she didn't figure this out until after he met Amanda."
"That's...weird."~Kitty said, which was a mild version of what she was really thinking.
"How so? Oh...yeah, that would be weird in your dimension. But their the same age group here. Ah bet ya she's in there, trying ta keep an eye on the goings on between him and Amanda. Come on, lets go get her." Rogue said, and then got out of the car.
~Kitty and Rogue found Kitty trying to get Kurt to help her to look for her still missing wallet.
Rogue coughed, and said "Kitty are ya done interruptin' Kurt and Amanda's study date?"
Kitty blushed and said "I'm, like, not trying to interrupt anything! I can't find my wallet, and all my money is in it."
Rogue, observing the slight bulge in Kitty's pants, pointed at the pocket and said "Ah do believe it's in your pocket."
Kitty's blush turned a deeper hue and she laughed nervously. "Oh. Ha ha, like, I didn't even think about it being there!" After that she quickly said "Umm, bye Kurt! Bye Amanda!" and rushed out the door.
Rogue and ~Kitty followed her out.
"Wow." said Amanda.
"Sometimes Kitty can be a little absentminded." said Kurt.
Amanda lifted one eyebrow and stared at her clueless boyfriend. "Yeah, absentminded." was all she said.
~*~ x ~*~
On the drive to the mall Kitty sputtered at Rogue, "Like, I can't believe you did that!"
"Did what?" asked Rogue as she came to a stop, to let some pedestrians cross the cross walk.
"You know what you did! You, like, totally embarrassed me in there!"
~Kitty started humming to herself quietly, acting like she wasn't listening to the conversation.
Rogue started moving again, narrowly missing running over a slower walking pedestrian.
"Did ya know your wallet was in your pocket?" she asked.
Kitty crossed her arms and said, "You know perfectly well what I was doing in there."
"Kitty," Rogue said, as she slammed on the brakes when a little old lady made a dash for the other side of the road. "Ya need ta leave Kurt and Amanda alone. You could have had your chance with him, but you didn't want to. Now that he has a girlfriend ya all the sudden what him back."
Kitty didn't say anything to that, and just slouched farther down in her seat. It was pretty quit after that, until Kitty asked ~Kitty what she wanted to look at in the mall. 'Cloths' was the immediate answer, and Kitty grinned at this.
"And could we go by the video store? I checked what movies you guys have at the mansion, and you only have 'Star Wars: A New Hope'. So could we buy 'Return of the Jedi', and the two newer ones?"
"Sure." said Rogue. "And since its for the mansion's movie library, we can get the Professor ta reimburse us for it."
"Oh, that reminds me, while I was looking for Jean, I ran into the Professor and he gave me some money to give to you, so you can, like, buy some cloths for yourself." Kitty told ~Kitty as she handed a wad of dollar bills to her.
~Kitty stared at the amount of money. "I'm not going to need all this for cloths!"
"Prices have gone up since 1982. Believe me you'll need all of it."
~Kitty stuffed the cash into her pocket.
~*~ x ~*~
John waited impatiently in front of the book store. Remy waited also, but he wasn't fidgeting like John was. He just looked bored.
John finally asked "How long 'as he been in theah?"
"Five more minutes since you last asked." Remy answered.
When Piotr had wanted to go to the new book store in the mall, Remy and John had gone with him. They had the day off from henchmen duty and had been bored. When Piotr had first gone into the book store they had gone in there with him. After a half hour Remy and John had decided to meet back with Piotr when he was done browsing through books, and go look into some stores that interested them. That was an hour and forty-two minutes ago. They had come back to find Piotr still in the book store, and he looked like he was becoming a permanent fixture of the place.
John sighed. Today had not been fun. After they had left Piotr, John had gone off in the search of fire. Remy had not allowed him to bring his lighter, and since he was in civilian cloths, he didn't have his flame throwers. When he had finally found a candle shop, which had some of the scented kinds lighted, John had perked up. When no one was looking he started to make the fire weave in and out of each other, like they were strings and he was braiding them. Remy found him before the sales clerk had noticed and had dragged him out. Then they had come back to the book store. John sighed again, a little louder this time.
Remy rolled his red on black eyes. "If Remy goes in dere, and see's what is takin' Piotr so long, will you stay here? Or does Remy have to bring you in with him?"
"I don't need to be babysat!"
Remy stared at him, and taking John's silence for a 'yes', went back into the book store.
John sat down on the bench that was right outside the short hallway that led to the bathrooms. He then noticed someone who looked familiar going into a video store. Make that two someones. A third girl was with them, and had a remarkable similarity to the one he recognized as Shadowcat.
*I guess the X-Men have day offs too.* he thought, as he watched them enter the shop.
~*~ x ~*~
~Kitty looked around at the many VHS's and DVD's on display in wonder. Rogue went up to one of the clerks and asked where the Star Wars' movies where. Kitty sale a 'on sale' bin full of movies and ran over to see what was in there.
A little boy was sitting on the floor by his mother, as she read the backs of the new releases. He had a little rubber ball with him, and was rolling it on the floor around his feet. ~Kitty watched him with a smile on her face, and saw the ball roll under a shelf that was displaying some of the 'Hot New Releases'.
The boy tried to crawl under the shelf but couldn't fit all the way. This did not stop him from trying to reach the ball though. But forcing himself to fit into the small space was making the flimsy shelf wobble. And it started to fall.
~Kitty reacted. She grabbed the little boy and phased. The shelf fell throw them and crashed onto the floor, making a surprising amount of noise. ~Kitty stood in the middle of it, holding the child.
Normally, if someone had made a display fall down, the reaction wouldn't be horrible. The perpetrator would be embarrassed, and the clerks might be mad, but if nothing was broken, it wasn't a big deal. Unfortunately, the clerk and some of the customers had noticed ~Kitty phasing.
"What did you do that for, freak!?" yelled the sales man coming towards ~Kitty, automatically assuming that she had caused the shelf to fall. The irresponsible mother snatched the toddler from ~Kitty and backed away from her, crying about how the mutie had tried to hurt her baby. Seeing his mother crying, the boy started wailing.
~Kitty just stood there, dumbfounded. She had just saved a child from injury and these people looked like they wanted to stone her to death. Rogue pushed her way through the growing crowd around ~Kitty and grabbed her by the arm.
"Start phasing." Rogue whispered, and then ran throw the crowd. They wouldn't have gotten away if ~Kitty hadn't of phased them through. The group of people seemed to want to keep them there. Kitty was still standing by the 'on sale' bin.
"What happened?" she asked, as Rogue grabbed her by the arm and towed both younger girls towards the exit.
"Run." said Rogue has they heard cries of "Stop them! Thieves! You won't get away with this!" filling the video store. When the made it outside of the store, into the middle of the mall, Rogue looked wildly around for someplace to hide. That's when a hand shoved her into the Men's bathroom and since she was holding onto both Kittys they were pulled in to. A boy said "Stay in 'ere!" and then went out of the bathroom. Rogue could hear people running around and shouts of "Did they go into the bathrooms?"
Another voice said "No, I was just in theah, but I saw three girls runnin' tha' way!"
The commotion died down. Rogue took this time to gather her wits, and realized why the mob had called them thieves. The three videos were in a plastic bag with the handles looped around her wrist. She had been in the act of paying for the videos when she had realized what was going on. She hadn't finished paying when she had run to ~Kitty's aid.
"Did that guy that pulled us in here look familiar to you?" Kitty asked Rogue.
'That guy' reentered the bathroom just then and said, "Their gone now. Now wot did you do to cause such a ruckus?"
Rogue scanned the boy over. He grinned and suddenly Rogue knew who he was. It was the insane grin that she had seen on one of the Acolytes. *Oh Gawd, why did we have to be rescued by the crazy one?* she thought.
In answer to John's question ~Kitty, who didn't know who he was, cried "We didn't do anything! There was this little boy, and the rubber ball, and the shelf and-"
"~Kitty! Calm down." Rogue snapped. ~Kitty hiccuped, and wiped her eyes.
John's grin faded. "She's not cryin', is she?"
"She'll be fine. Now why did ya help us?" Rogue asked, suspecting John's motives.
John opened his mouth, and then closed it. A thoughtful look came over his face, and he said, "I don't really know."
The door to the bathroom opened and a muscular boy who looked about eighteen or nineteen stopped and stared at them. In his hands he had two bags, filled with books. "John," he said slowly, "What are you doing?"
The grin reappeared. "Wot's it look like mate? Come on in 'ere and join the party!"
Piotr entered the bathroom cautiously. Recognizing the two X-Men his curiosity piqued.
~Kitty cried out "It's Peter!"
"Do I know you?" Piotr asked courteously.
~Kitty said "Well, no, not here anyway."
The bathroom door opened again, and a ten year old boy poked his head in. His eyes widened upon observing the three girls, and he checked the sign on the door. It clearly said 'Men'. Watching the Acolytes and the X-Men, he slowly backed away from the door and closed it.
"Maybe we should lock the doah." John said.
"I don't think you can." said ~Kitty pensively.
"Ah have a better idea," said Rogue, wondering if they had all gone mad, "we should get out of the men's bathroom!"
"Da." said Piotr, "we should, but why are you in here in the first place?"
Outside the bathroom, Remy was looking for John. A group of people, with two security guards, ran by, screaming about mutants in the mall. Remy opened a pocket in his trench coat, and pulled out sunglasses, which he put over his unique eyes.
Hearing what he thought was John's voice coming from the bathroom, he opened the door and stepped in saying, "There's a witch hunt goin' on, and Remy thinks we should get out of here..." he stopped when he saw the female members of the X-Men. "Bonjour chèrie," he said to Rogue, bowing slightly, "Pourrais je te demander ce que tu fais ici?"
Rogue glared at him, remembering the first time they had met, when he had almost blown her head of with his charged card.
"And this must be de double of Shadowcat. Enchanté, mademoiselle." he would have grabbed her hand and kissed it if ~Kitty had not moved back slightly, and said with wide eyes "How do you know about that?"
"Gambit knows 'bout a lot of things." Remy said smugly.
Rogue's mind whirled. If Gambit new about ~Kurt and ~Kitty, the only reasonable explanation was-
"Magneto brought them here." she said, still glaring at Remy.
"By accident." said John.
"What?" asked Kitty.
"He tried to bring the doubles of John and Remy from your dimension," Piotr said, looking at ~Kitty "but it didn't work, and instead brought you and the man here."
"~Kurt" said ~Kitty.
"Huh?" said John.
"The man is ~Kurt-, oh, never mind."
"Ain't he the furry one?"
"Isn't. Isn't he the furry one." said Kitty, correcting John's grammar.
Rogue said "We're getting off topic here, how did Magneto bring them to our universe?"
"With his thingamajig." said John.
"Come again?"
Piotr cut of John when he began to speak again, and said "He has a machine he made, that pulls the doubles of whoever is standing in the right spot out of their dimension."
"You were at the mall, when Kurt and I were." said Kitty.
"Yes. We were. You," said John accusingly, pointing at Kitty, "were in the roight spot, and caused yoah doubles to come."
"Because you two were in the wrong spot." Piotr said to Remy and John.
John stuck his tongue out at Piotr.
"Could that machine take us back?" asked ~Kitty.
"I have no idea." said Piotr.
"We need to get a hold of that machine. If Forge could mess around with it, he could figure out what it could do, and maybe send ~Kurt and I home." ~Kitty said to Rogue and Kitty.
As one, the three girls turned to look at the three Acolytes.
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Now that was my longest chapter ever! I had fun doing that one, but I don't think it was my best. What do you think about John's accent? Or did you think it was all spelling errors? lol. Writing John's character is fun. Oh, translation, Remy asked: "May I ask what you are doing here?" or I think he did. It's close anyway. Now clickith the puce colored button at the bottom of the screen, and make a comment about this chapter, or the story in general. Hopefully a positive comment.
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