X-Phoenix
Disclaimer: How much wood can a woodchuck chuck...
A/N: Yes! I finally got this chapter done and up! I don't have tech anymore, (moved on to frelling cooking classes), but I'll still try to get out at least a chapter a week. Right now, however, I have exams, and then I'm going to BC, and then I'm getting my guidedog... *sigh* stressful, non?
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"Ouch...get off my hair!"
"I'm squished..."
"Holey...where'd my foot go?"
"Gimme!"
"Are we there yet?"
"Ouch!"
"Shut up, for the love of the Goddess!"
"Five hundred sixty-three..."
"Wow! Lookie at that!"
"You know, I would, but someone's fricken leg is in my way!"
"Whose empty Tic-Tac box?!"
"Mine!"
"Why are we here, again?"
"You're the leader."
"*Co*leader!"
"Um...ouch?"
"Oh my God, I woke up with a snake tattoo! Oh my God, and I think that my tongue's pierced too!"
"Ewww! That's a disgusting song!"
"You don't get out enough!"
"If ya don' all shut up, I'm goin' t' crash da car!"
"OOO! Multiple suicides? Sounds like fun!"
"Shut up..."
The car-ride had not been going well. Remy was driving, with Ororo in the passenger side. Scott crouched between the seats in the front, and Sanina, Chandra and Joseph sat in the backseat along with Mia. William and Daniela were crammed on the floor in the back seat. They had gotten the car in working order about two hours previously, and were now on their way back to Xavier's.
"How long's this gonna take?" asked Daniela.
"A very long time..." Ororo closed her eyes.
"I'm gonna need *lots* of caffeine before this is over," muttered Chandra. Daniela nodded in agreement.
"We really need to find a town soon," commented Mia.
"There's a town up ahead, about twenty km," stated Scott, pulling out the map to make sure.
"Thank God!" Joseph released a frustrated breath. "I swear, if this car were to get any more packed, we'd be pulled over!"
"Actually, we'd probably be pulled over by now, except there's no police to do it around," replied Chandra dully.
"Hey! Why so gloomy?!" William grinned up at Chandra. "We're on the road trip from hell! You should be happy and cheerful!" Chandra kicked him....hard.
"I really need to get out of this car!" Sanina clenched her fists.
"You have *no* room to talk!" Daniela snapped. "You're not quashed down on the floor!"
"My head hurts..." Chandra groaned.
"We're almost to the town," Ororo assured her.
"When we get back in, I'm driving," stated Mia firmly.
"Non, chere, I tink I'll be doin' all da drivin' for now," said Remy from the front seat.
"Actually," began Ororo. "I was thinking of driving..."
"Wow! Me too!" Chandra snapped frustratedly.
"It's my car!" Mia finally exploded. "I'm going to be driving it, and there's nothing you can say to change that! Got it?!"
There was dead silence in the car. "Wow," Scott finally got out.
"She always does that," Chandra explained. "Sometimes, I think its part of her powers, too."
"Unfortunately, Joseph can never make us shut up," grinned Daniela.
"I hate you all!" Joseph pounded his head into the back of the seat, making a low moaning sound in his throat.
"Speaking of powers," commented Scott, "You never *did* tell us what your powers are. I mean, aside from Mia. Do you have codenames?"
"You know," Chandra cut in, "Normal people don't ask other normal people weather or not they have codenames."
"I rest my case," retorted Scott.
"Anyway, you know my power," said Mia. "My codename is Mist."
"I'm a telecoersic," Chandra informed them. "Codename's Thought."
"What is a telecoersic?" asked Ororo.
"It means I can control people's minds, and erase memories, and make them do stuff or think stuff they usually wouldn't."
"So in other words, you're a telepath," Scott paraphrased.
"Noooooo...telepaths just read your mind, and can dig into your darkest secrets. I can read surface thoughts, but nothing deep. Telepaths can't actually *control* the mind, though."
"Yes...they can," Scott contradicted.
"Um, no they can't," Chandra sighed impatiently.
"Whatever you say," sighed Scott.
"Anyway," Sanina continued. "I can heal any physical injury by sending a healing agent into the injured person through a touch. If I touch their skin, I can tell how they're injured, and everything about the injury, too. My codename is, very originally, Healer."
"Now that could come in handy in a fight," Scott obviously approved.
"I turn into a black raven," Daniela stated proudly. "My codename's Sky Queen."
"I can reflect any kind of energy," Joseph told the X-Men. "My codename's about as original as Nina's: Reflector."
Chandra smothered a snort of laughter.
"And I can turn my skin into solid Amethyst," William finished. "So I'm basically invulnerable...unless someone cracks or melts it. And getting right back to the creativeness of our codenames, guess what mine is."
"Really big rock?" Remy suggested, smirking. Chandra, Daniela and Ororo all made desperate attempts to cover their amusement.
"Amethyst," muttered William. He reached up, and with some twisting of his body, managed to slug Remy in the shoulder.
"So, Sanina, Chandra, your powers are wonderful, but how do you defend yourselves against physical attacks?" asked Ororo.
"I have a lot of marshal arts training," Sanina told her.
"I'm really agile, and I have two daggers I normally keep in wrist sheaths during any kind of fight," Chandra explained. "But I normally just knock them unconscious."
"Mmmm..." Scott yawned.
The car was silent for about five minutes when Remy reached over to the radio and flipped it on. He quickly turned it to a station that he was obviously familiar with.
"And now, back to nature sounds!" the voice said from inside the car.
Ororo looked at Remy with a disgusted look plastered on her face as the sound of a waterfall began filling the car.
"Do I *want* to know why you listen to the Nature Channel?" asked Mia weakly.
"Uh...jus' da firs' station I flipped to, dat's all!" Remy defended himself hurriedly.
"I thought you would like nature sounds, Ororo?" asked William.
Ororo sighed. "All right...1, I do not listen to the nature station, and 2, I do *not* watch the Whether Network!!" Ororo pounded her head into the back of her seat.
"We should listen to the news to see if there's any important current events we should be aware of," Scott suggested.
"No, no we shouldn't!" Chandra exclaimed.
On the radio, the announcer said, "And now, we will hear the very relaxing sounds of the Brown Howler Monkey!"
"Oh God, please change it before I scream!" Mia squeaked.
"I don't really need to hear what the Brown Howler Monkey sounds---"
Ssssssscreeeeeeech, eeeee, eeeeeeeee, eeeeeeeeech!!!!
"---like," Joseph sighed.
"Oh, oh, THAT'S relaxing!!!" Scott exclaimed, punching the back of Remy's seat.
"Are we there yet?!" Daniela asked pitifully from her position on the floor.
"Only five minutes," Scott told her. Ororo reached for the dashboard radio controls, and flipped randomly through the stations.
*click* "...If elephants could fly I'd be a little more optimistic..." *click* "...And that's not all! After all that, the handy-dandy spatula is great for..." *click* "...Oh, I don't know what to do! My daughter hates me, my husband thinks I'm having an affair with my mother's therapist..." *click* "...And now, for our exclusive interview with the Spice Girls!..." *click* "...OOO, Papa, J'aime le fromage! Oui, oui!..." *click* "...Sleep Country Canada, why buy a mattress anywhere else?..." *click* "...I'm here, live on location at the shoe factory..." *click* "...I've become so numb..." *click*
"Hey! I like..."
*click* "And now for a live breaking news bulletin! Apparently there has been a prison breakout in Rome. Some of the most dangerous criminals in the world are on the loose. The breakout was believed to be orchestrated by Mutants..."
Everyone frowned at this revelation. "This isn't good," Scott commented darkly.
"No, not good at all," agreed Mia.
"Hey! We're there!" Chandra exclaimed in excitement.
"C'mon, let's go find food! I'm starving!" William hardly waited for the car to pull to a stop, before leaping out of the door.
"I'm with him on that," agreed Sanina, following him out. Soon, the entire car was empty. Unfortunately, the group hadn't gone fifteen feet, when there was a large explosion, and everyone was thrown to the ground. Chandra's last thought before everything went black, was, 'Oh look. The sparkly Toyota pixies have come to screw over my life again. Surprise, surprise.'
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A/N: There! Done! I really have to thank Mist for her help in writing bits of this chapter, I couldn't have finished it without her! *Hugs* Anyway, the songs don't belong to me, but I'm too lazy to go look up every little song and who it's by. Oh, and the Brown Howler Monkey really does exist, by the way.
Disclaimer: How much wood can a woodchuck chuck...
A/N: Yes! I finally got this chapter done and up! I don't have tech anymore, (moved on to frelling cooking classes), but I'll still try to get out at least a chapter a week. Right now, however, I have exams, and then I'm going to BC, and then I'm getting my guidedog... *sigh* stressful, non?
*^*^*^*^
"Ouch...get off my hair!"
"I'm squished..."
"Holey...where'd my foot go?"
"Gimme!"
"Are we there yet?"
"Ouch!"
"Shut up, for the love of the Goddess!"
"Five hundred sixty-three..."
"Wow! Lookie at that!"
"You know, I would, but someone's fricken leg is in my way!"
"Whose empty Tic-Tac box?!"
"Mine!"
"Why are we here, again?"
"You're the leader."
"*Co*leader!"
"Um...ouch?"
"Oh my God, I woke up with a snake tattoo! Oh my God, and I think that my tongue's pierced too!"
"Ewww! That's a disgusting song!"
"You don't get out enough!"
"If ya don' all shut up, I'm goin' t' crash da car!"
"OOO! Multiple suicides? Sounds like fun!"
"Shut up..."
The car-ride had not been going well. Remy was driving, with Ororo in the passenger side. Scott crouched between the seats in the front, and Sanina, Chandra and Joseph sat in the backseat along with Mia. William and Daniela were crammed on the floor in the back seat. They had gotten the car in working order about two hours previously, and were now on their way back to Xavier's.
"How long's this gonna take?" asked Daniela.
"A very long time..." Ororo closed her eyes.
"I'm gonna need *lots* of caffeine before this is over," muttered Chandra. Daniela nodded in agreement.
"We really need to find a town soon," commented Mia.
"There's a town up ahead, about twenty km," stated Scott, pulling out the map to make sure.
"Thank God!" Joseph released a frustrated breath. "I swear, if this car were to get any more packed, we'd be pulled over!"
"Actually, we'd probably be pulled over by now, except there's no police to do it around," replied Chandra dully.
"Hey! Why so gloomy?!" William grinned up at Chandra. "We're on the road trip from hell! You should be happy and cheerful!" Chandra kicked him....hard.
"I really need to get out of this car!" Sanina clenched her fists.
"You have *no* room to talk!" Daniela snapped. "You're not quashed down on the floor!"
"My head hurts..." Chandra groaned.
"We're almost to the town," Ororo assured her.
"When we get back in, I'm driving," stated Mia firmly.
"Non, chere, I tink I'll be doin' all da drivin' for now," said Remy from the front seat.
"Actually," began Ororo. "I was thinking of driving..."
"Wow! Me too!" Chandra snapped frustratedly.
"It's my car!" Mia finally exploded. "I'm going to be driving it, and there's nothing you can say to change that! Got it?!"
There was dead silence in the car. "Wow," Scott finally got out.
"She always does that," Chandra explained. "Sometimes, I think its part of her powers, too."
"Unfortunately, Joseph can never make us shut up," grinned Daniela.
"I hate you all!" Joseph pounded his head into the back of the seat, making a low moaning sound in his throat.
"Speaking of powers," commented Scott, "You never *did* tell us what your powers are. I mean, aside from Mia. Do you have codenames?"
"You know," Chandra cut in, "Normal people don't ask other normal people weather or not they have codenames."
"I rest my case," retorted Scott.
"Anyway, you know my power," said Mia. "My codename is Mist."
"I'm a telecoersic," Chandra informed them. "Codename's Thought."
"What is a telecoersic?" asked Ororo.
"It means I can control people's minds, and erase memories, and make them do stuff or think stuff they usually wouldn't."
"So in other words, you're a telepath," Scott paraphrased.
"Noooooo...telepaths just read your mind, and can dig into your darkest secrets. I can read surface thoughts, but nothing deep. Telepaths can't actually *control* the mind, though."
"Yes...they can," Scott contradicted.
"Um, no they can't," Chandra sighed impatiently.
"Whatever you say," sighed Scott.
"Anyway," Sanina continued. "I can heal any physical injury by sending a healing agent into the injured person through a touch. If I touch their skin, I can tell how they're injured, and everything about the injury, too. My codename is, very originally, Healer."
"Now that could come in handy in a fight," Scott obviously approved.
"I turn into a black raven," Daniela stated proudly. "My codename's Sky Queen."
"I can reflect any kind of energy," Joseph told the X-Men. "My codename's about as original as Nina's: Reflector."
Chandra smothered a snort of laughter.
"And I can turn my skin into solid Amethyst," William finished. "So I'm basically invulnerable...unless someone cracks or melts it. And getting right back to the creativeness of our codenames, guess what mine is."
"Really big rock?" Remy suggested, smirking. Chandra, Daniela and Ororo all made desperate attempts to cover their amusement.
"Amethyst," muttered William. He reached up, and with some twisting of his body, managed to slug Remy in the shoulder.
"So, Sanina, Chandra, your powers are wonderful, but how do you defend yourselves against physical attacks?" asked Ororo.
"I have a lot of marshal arts training," Sanina told her.
"I'm really agile, and I have two daggers I normally keep in wrist sheaths during any kind of fight," Chandra explained. "But I normally just knock them unconscious."
"Mmmm..." Scott yawned.
The car was silent for about five minutes when Remy reached over to the radio and flipped it on. He quickly turned it to a station that he was obviously familiar with.
"And now, back to nature sounds!" the voice said from inside the car.
Ororo looked at Remy with a disgusted look plastered on her face as the sound of a waterfall began filling the car.
"Do I *want* to know why you listen to the Nature Channel?" asked Mia weakly.
"Uh...jus' da firs' station I flipped to, dat's all!" Remy defended himself hurriedly.
"I thought you would like nature sounds, Ororo?" asked William.
Ororo sighed. "All right...1, I do not listen to the nature station, and 2, I do *not* watch the Whether Network!!" Ororo pounded her head into the back of her seat.
"We should listen to the news to see if there's any important current events we should be aware of," Scott suggested.
"No, no we shouldn't!" Chandra exclaimed.
On the radio, the announcer said, "And now, we will hear the very relaxing sounds of the Brown Howler Monkey!"
"Oh God, please change it before I scream!" Mia squeaked.
"I don't really need to hear what the Brown Howler Monkey sounds---"
Ssssssscreeeeeeech, eeeee, eeeeeeeee, eeeeeeeeech!!!!
"---like," Joseph sighed.
"Oh, oh, THAT'S relaxing!!!" Scott exclaimed, punching the back of Remy's seat.
"Are we there yet?!" Daniela asked pitifully from her position on the floor.
"Only five minutes," Scott told her. Ororo reached for the dashboard radio controls, and flipped randomly through the stations.
*click* "...If elephants could fly I'd be a little more optimistic..." *click* "...And that's not all! After all that, the handy-dandy spatula is great for..." *click* "...Oh, I don't know what to do! My daughter hates me, my husband thinks I'm having an affair with my mother's therapist..." *click* "...And now, for our exclusive interview with the Spice Girls!..." *click* "...OOO, Papa, J'aime le fromage! Oui, oui!..." *click* "...Sleep Country Canada, why buy a mattress anywhere else?..." *click* "...I'm here, live on location at the shoe factory..." *click* "...I've become so numb..." *click*
"Hey! I like..."
*click* "And now for a live breaking news bulletin! Apparently there has been a prison breakout in Rome. Some of the most dangerous criminals in the world are on the loose. The breakout was believed to be orchestrated by Mutants..."
Everyone frowned at this revelation. "This isn't good," Scott commented darkly.
"No, not good at all," agreed Mia.
"Hey! We're there!" Chandra exclaimed in excitement.
"C'mon, let's go find food! I'm starving!" William hardly waited for the car to pull to a stop, before leaping out of the door.
"I'm with him on that," agreed Sanina, following him out. Soon, the entire car was empty. Unfortunately, the group hadn't gone fifteen feet, when there was a large explosion, and everyone was thrown to the ground. Chandra's last thought before everything went black, was, 'Oh look. The sparkly Toyota pixies have come to screw over my life again. Surprise, surprise.'
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A/N: There! Done! I really have to thank Mist for her help in writing bits of this chapter, I couldn't have finished it without her! *Hugs* Anyway, the songs don't belong to me, but I'm too lazy to go look up every little song and who it's by. Oh, and the Brown Howler Monkey really does exist, by the way.