ME: Yay! I got a new hard drive!!!

Steven: Yay.

ME: (Rolls eyes.) Boy, you sound excited.

Regan: I'm happy for you.

ME: Thank you.

(Nightdragon13): "COMPUTE THIS!!!"

(fire inu): I did finally update. I now have a new computer.

(Greenberrypie): I'm so glad that enjoy it! Cliffhanger ends here. And while, yes, patience is a virtue... it's not one of mine. Also, I'm glad you find it funny. I go for a serious plot (somewhat), but with a variety of humorous twists. Hey, just a spoon full of sugar makes the medicine go down, right?

Steven: Great, now you're quoting from Mary Poppins. What is the world coming to!?!

(1dypebsaby): I did fall off a cliff. How'd you know? And I'm glad you like Jasper. He's a favorite of mine too, and not just cuz he's based off my horsey. It's because he saved me from that long, hard landing. Yes. He saved me from the cliff. As far as Skyler's issues: it's just ever so slightly complicated. But fear not! All will be explained in time! A long time. Oh well. You'll just have to wait. Patience is a virtue after all.

(Ruby631): Hate to break it to you, but... Yes. It is just you. Steven doesn't have a "thing" for Regan. He's just a bit clingy because his own mother's dead and his stepfather sent him and Regan away. She's just about the closest thing he's got to family. He's also a bit jealous that Regan cares more for this Jasper kid than for him. Can you blame the poor guy!?!

Steven: DON'T BLAME ME!!! IT'S NOT LIKE I ASKED TO BE THIS WAY!!!

ME: (Agent-G): Sorry 'bout all the mix up. You're right. I need to be a bit more specific about that. As far as what was going on: Steven is the person who doesn't think words as much as emotions. So when something freaks him out he's not thinking about what it looks like, he's just thinking about his fear. He fears fear. Also, Kitty chose Lance over Van cuz, well... He's Van. You could be his girlfriend as much as you want, but he's still gonna have the hots for Rogue and he's still gonna flirt with any member of the opposite sex. (Within age, he's not a pedophile.) He's not gonna cheat on you, but he's just not for Kitty. You would stick with Lance too I'm sure. If you were a girl that is!

But IS Rogue warming up to Van, the Vampire Man? Well, we'll just have to wait and find out won't we? (I'll be honest with you, I'm not sure myself. We'll just see how the story goes.)

Steven: No one gives a fuck about that vampire pervert!!! Get on with the story!!!

Regan: OMG! I can't believe I'm about to say this but... I agree with Steve. (GASP!)

Ch. 13: Which, by the way, isn't even chapter 13. It's really only chapter 12. And chapter 12 is really only chapter 11. And chapter 11 is something I should've deleted a long time ago. But I'm too damn lazy. So you can just die you blow-jobbing cock bites!

(OUTSIDE)

Lonna

Jas gave Jamie a light, but firm whack. Before I knew it there were three of him.

"You," Jasper said to a clone. "Go get the Professor and Wolverine." He turned his attention back to me and the two remaining Jamies. "You minions are coming with me."

Hate to break this to you Jas, I'm not a hero like the rest of the X-men. I don't do this line of work! I'm just here cause Logan likes me! He thinks I'm funny.... He laughs at me when my shield pops up and I get stuck in my bedroom....

Of course, come to think of it, I'm more willing to fight off giant dead rexes than mess with Jasper right now (who's normally really peaceful by the way).

Oh well. To the Bat Mobile!

(AT THE DANCE... WHICH REALLY IS NO LONGER A DANCE. IT'S MORE OF A DEMOLISHED GYM NOW...)

Steven

"I kinda figured we needed to leave!!!" Regan screamed into my ear.

Then I saw Sunglasses-at-Night actually take his shades OFF, only to see him swap them for a visor looking thing. I can't help but wonder what the difference is....

Then Regan grabbed my arm. Hard.

"What did you do!?!" she demanded.

... meep...

"I-I didn't do anything! I swear!"

"Well then do something!!! You're the mutant right!?!"

Then Red and Sunglasses-at-Night came up. "Don't worry," Shades said confidently. "We'll stop this mess."

Regan let go of my arm slowly.

"What are you gonna do?" she asked warily. Great. She wants to see me save the day and die trying, but she can't bear to see Shades get hurt. Oh yeah. She loves me. ...Not!

All of a sudden Lestat runs up and starts yelling, "Dude that's a big ass dinosaur!!!"

His girlfriend ran up behind him. "Whadda we do?"

Shades thought for a moment. "We need to find Kitty, Evan and the other two. Van, Rogue, you look for Kurt and Jaeger—"

"I'm right here!"

He jumped. "Whoa! Don't do that!"

The blonde girl shrugged. "I've been here a while...."

"Where's Kurt?"

She looked around. "I swear to God he was just here. KURT!!! JACKASS! WHERE'D YOU GO!?!"

Shades looked back Lestat. "You two go look for Evan and Kitty. Jaeger, where's Kurt!?!"

"I don't know!!!" she cried.

BAMF!

That German guy just appeared out of nowhere with Lance's girlfriend and some other black kid.

"Hey Scott, I found him!"

He ignored her. "Ok then. Since everyone's here: we need a plan."

Blondie gave Shades a funny look. "Ok, but first can you tell me how you can kill things that are already dead?"

He continued to ignore her. "Anyone have any ideas?"

"Sure," the blonde girl said sarcastically. "Let's just resurrect it. Then we can just kill it after that. Maybe it'll even stay dead once it finds out that we mean business!"

He snapped. "Look Jaeger, we a plan! Not your sarcasm!"

"Hey I'm just here for comic relief! Other than that I have no purpose, so I'm gonna do my job to the best of my abilities!"

Lestat shook his head at her. "I agree with Scott on this one dude. This thing is screwin' up my date."

"Oh you poor creature," she said even more sarcastically. "How will you ever live?"

"Like, what's going on here anyway? I mean, I was dancing with Lance and next thing I know we're all like, being attacked by a... dead thing!"

No kidding. Most skeletons are dead after all....

It was at this point I realized that I could no longer hear the sounds of the undead thing. I could only hear their yelling. This made me feel very, very uncomfortable. It's either gone to terrorize some other school's dance, or is just standing around watching us.

I really hope it's the first one.

I turned around just to make sure.

Hmmm. It's not there.

I crept around the corner to get a better look. Nope. It's really not there anymore. I tapped Regan on the shoulder. "It's not here," I said.

"What?"

"It's really not here anymore. Look."

She looked back into the ripped up gym. She then turned to Shades. "Hey, it's gone. The skeleton's gone."

"But...." He looked at all his little friends.

The blond shrugged. "Maybe it decided stayin' alive was for the living and went back to hell?"

"I've got a bad feeling about this, man," the black kid said. "Dead things don't just disappear."

"Sure they do," Lestat said. "When my friend's Grandmother died no one ever heard from her again. She was just gone all of a sudden."

"Hey, hey, hey!"

"Holy matrimony! Jasper you mother fucker! Don't scare me like that!"

That's Jasper!?!

"Mother fucker?" he asked. "I just—"

"What are you doing here Jasper?" Shades asked.

"Well, Lonna told me to get help—"

"What? Why!?!"

"Stop interrupting and I'll tell you!"

I looked back at Regan to see her reaction to Jasper's true colors. She looked horrified. I can't blame her. He's scary lookin' and she thought this whole time he was perfectly normal.

"There's a dead thing trying to eat her."

"Why didn't you help her!?!" Lestat demanded.

"I can't God dammit! She's in her personal bubble!" He flared his giant wings, making him look bigger and even more threatening than before.

"Come on Scott," Redhead said urgently. "We've got to help!"

As they all ran off, Jasper noticed my sister. He stopped dead in his tracks. "R-Regan? Wh-what're you doing here?" He laughed nervously. "A pretty girl like you without a date?"

She stared back at him with wide eyes and took a step back.

He cocked his head. "What?"

"Y-you," Regan stuttered.

He looked down at his hands. Or... well. More like talons really. "JESUS CHRIST!!!" He ran after the others yelling something about not wearing a watch.

I turned to Regan. "Let's get out of here. Whadda you say?"

"Sounds like a plan," she said, still staring after Jasper.

(OUTSIDE, IN THE DINOSAUR'S MOUTH)

Lonna

"James," I yelled through my bubble. "What's taking Jas so long?"

Jamie shrugged. "Maybe his wings got stuck in the door?"

Great. I'm stuck between a skeleton's teeth, and Jasper's taking his time.

This just isn't my day is it?

Ok, after we sent a Jamie to get the Professor, Jasper, two Jamies and me ran to the gym to play hero and save the dance. But it turns out this dead thing saw us coming or whatever, and tried to eat me. I was incredibly lucky in a sense, because for once my shield worked at just the right time. Problem is, I don't know how much longer this thing'll hold out. In the past it's lasted for up to and hour, but sometimes it's very brief, like two minutes, or even just thirty seconds!

And I'll be honest guys, if I ever have to die I want it to be because I was old, not because I was stupid and got eaten by a dead skeleton!

Now I know what you're thinking. "Wow. You're pretty relaxed for someone in a life-threatening situation. Well, you would be too. Yes. Yes you would. It's really not that scary. I'm feeling... numb almost. Like all my fear has just totally washed away. It's an odd feeling.

All of a sudden I was blinded by a red light.

I fell to the ground. Good thing for this shield thing of I'd've broken something for sure!

"What took you so long!?!" I demanded when I saw Scott run towards me.

"Sorry."

"Accepted."

And Scott went back to blasting the dead bag of bones.

I saw two Jamies running towards me. "Are you ok?" they asked in perfect unison.

"Sure," I said through my bubble. "I've never felt better."

I focus my attention back to the dinosaur. Man, we were kickin' ass! That's a good sign. Scott was melting its head off with his beams, Jean's holding it still with her powers, Evan's shooting spikes at it, and Jaeger's gone berserk and is blowing up its spinal column along with everything else within five feet of her like grass and bits of debris.

Basically, everyone was doing something, so the bad guy didn't last long. When it was no more than a pile of dust everyone came over to me and the Jamies.

"That was too easy," Scott murmured.

Jaeger shook her head. "Man, of course it was easy! There's fifty of us and one of him! No shit it was easy!"

"That's not what I mean!"

Jean gave me a sympathetic look. "Are you alright?"

"Uh... sure."

"Let's get you back to the Institute and have Celeste take a look at you."

As we walked home to the sound of Scott and Jaeger yelling at each other we ran into Jamie number three along with the Professor and Wolverine. Jamie 3 melded back together with Jamie 2, who in turn melded with the original.

"Professor," Evan started. "This thing just—"

"Yes Evan," Professor nodded. "Jamie told me all about it. I checked Cerebro, but whatever caused this wasn't a mutant."

Jaeger opened her mouth to say something, but changed her mind. Even she doesn't argue with Xavier.

"So...," I asked. "How are we gonna fix this?"

The Professor shook his head. "I'm afraid too many people have witnessed this. There's nothing I can do."

"Ok."

He sighed. "I think now would be a good time to go back to the mansion."

We all nodded.

"I think I'll stick around," Logan growled. "I wanna check things out a bit."

The Professor nodded.

"I'll stay too," Scott volunteered and followed Logan back to what remained of the high school.

All of a sudden I felt a kind of mental chill run down my spine. What if Scott was right? What if this was too easy? I shook my head to clear my mind of bad thoughts. I followed everyone home, rolling around in my bubble. Something's not right, but if it's dead I won't complain.

0-0-0-0-0

ME: Dat's de end for dis chapter!

Van: Nice accent.

ME: Thanx.

Van: No prob.

ME: Dude, there's this girl in my gym class, she's cool and all, but kinda weird too. Was talkin' to me about her boyfriend right? Well then asks me, "Do you a have a boyfriend?" I go, "Nope, boyfriends are too much responsibility." So guess what she does? She tries to hook me up with her twin brother. How weird is that?

Van: Pretty damn weird.

Kitty: Is her brother hot?

ME: Dunno. Haven't seen him.

Kitty: Oh. Well, look at him next time before you flat out say no!

ME: Uh, I'm sorry?

Kitty: You should be.

ME: I'm taking German! Woohoo!

Van: Say something to me!

ME: Guten tag! Wie geht's?

Van: Cool!

ME: That was "Good day. How are you?"

Van: I'm good.

ME: Then you would say, "Gut."

Van: Gut.

ME: Now say , "Und dir?" That's "And you?"

Van: Und deer?

ME: Sehr gut.

Van: Wazzat?

ME: Very good.

Van: No fair! I'm better than you are!

ME: ...?