A Perfect Night For an Ambush or Two

"Charles we have a problem," Logan went straight to Xavier. "We gotta cancel the Danger Room practice. At least until half the people here don't want to kill Kitty."

"Uh Logan…" Xavier pointed to the two other people in the room. Hank and Alison were having a minor argument.

"I can't believe you don't realize how dangerous this is!" Hank said. "Why didn't you ask me?"

"First of all, I don't need your permission to have a party," Alison told him. "Second it's a public amusement park. So what if people are going to stare? It's not like they haven't before. And there are going to be other people with us!"

"Hopefully Kitty will be one of them," Logan told them. "She's kind of annoying a few people today."

"KILL! KILL!" Jubilee ran by with a baseball bat. "NO MORE TALKING!"

"Jubilee no!" Rina ran after her. "No killing teammates allowed! And I thought I was the psychotic one!"

"So I've noticed. Okay change of plans," Xavier sighed. He sent a telepathic message. Students, everyone is leaving the mansion to go out tonight! Be ready in about half an hour!

"Everybody?" Logan asked.

"Everyone excluding myself!" Xavier groaned. "I need the peace and quiet…"

Soon most of the X-Men had prepared to leave. Most of them. "Are you sure you don't want to go?" Scott asked Peter.

"Look it's just too soon okay?" Peter sighed. "Seeing them together…"

"You're the one who walked away," Remy pointed out.

"I know and I'm not going to take back my decision," Peter said. "You all go have a good time." He walked off.

"I'll stay with him," Warren volunteered. "We'll be okay. He just needs some time, that's all."

"Yeah I guess I can't blame him," Scott sighed. "Well we'd better get ready to go."

"I still think it is a bad idea," Hank sighed as they prepared to leave.

"It's my birthday and I want to have a good time," Alison told him. "We can't just hide behind Xavier's walls forever."

"Hello Everybody!" Shipwreck called out as the Misfits teleported into the room.

"Not that they do much good anyway," Ororo moaned. "I knew all of the Misfits would show up!"

"But of course," Pietro grinned. "What and miss our chance to spy on Lance's date with disaster!"

"Our date is not going to be a disaster," Kitty glared at him.

"It will be if you are going out with him," Arcade snickered.

"Oh yeah!" Pietro high fived him. "Good one!"

"Why you…!" Kitty made a fist.

"Just ignore them Kitty," Lance caught her wrists.

"If only we could ignore her!" Rogue snapped.

"Amen to that!" Jubilee shouted.

"Oh yes this is going to be a fun night," Hank moaned. "Chaperoning a group of high powered teenagers who want to kill each other. What else could go wrong?"

"I dunno but we'll find out when we get there," Shipwreck said.

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Jack White locked the door to his office and went downstairs to the parking garage. He made his way to the car when five men approached him. "Hey mutie," One of them said. "We want you to send a message for your client!"

The next thing Jack knew he was hit from behind with a baseball bat.

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"Well this is nice," Alison smiled as they walked along the pier. The amusement park had been set up in the next town of Sandville on the ocean and the mutants were making the most of it. Some of the kids had taken off for the rides and games. Alison, Hank, Scott and Jean were walking with the rest of the kids.

"It's different than Bayville I gotta admit," Sam remarked.

"Geeze I didn't know this place had a freak show!" Someone shouted.

"On the other hand," Scott sighed. "Some things are exactly the same…"

"Don't look Jeffery," One grandmother covered her grandson's eyes. "It's disgusting!"

"Look at that blue gorilla holding hands with that girl!" One man shouted.

"Hey ain't those the X-Men and Misfits?" One woman shouted. "I recognize 'em from the TV!"

"Can you believe they allow those things out in public?" One man shouted.

"It's a disgrace!" Another woman shouted. "Its getting so that there's no place left for decent folk!"

"I told you it was a mistake coming to a place like this!" One man dragged his family away. "Come on Doris let's go before the kids get a disease or something!"

"Thank you our adoring fans!" Todd snapped back.

"Go back to Bayville where you freaks belong!" Another man shouted. "This is a normal town here!"

"That one looks like a lizard and the other one looks like an insect!" One man shouted. "I guess that fat one there will take anything!"

"Freddy no…" Lina pleaded with Fred.

"They shouldn't laugh at us," Fred looked angry. "Especially you!"

"Freddy I don't care what those jerks call us," Lina told him.

"Blob the last thing we need is an ugly confrontation," Hank warned him. "Keep it under control."

"Hey ain't that what's her name?" One man shouted. "The 'Sizzler' and she's taking Magilla Gorilla out for a walk!"

"Dan are you nuts?" One of his buddies said. "Don't provoke 'em! Those are muties! They could kill us or worse!"

"Hey girl at least put it on a leash!" Dan shouted. "What are you worried about Phil? That one's a reject from an Alpo commercial and the other's just a burned out light bulb!"

"That's it!" Hank snarled and had to be held back by Alison, Scott and Fred. "You punks should learn some manners! YOU WANT A PIECE OF THIS? DO YA PAL!"

"I told you so!" Phil shouted as they backed away.

"Well how was I to know it understood English?" Dan snapped.

"You were saying?" Fred looked at Hank.

"Yeah Blob don't act like Beast," Althea snickered.

"McCoy just ignore 'em," Scott warned. "And Tabitha don't even think of using your time bombs to pants them!"

"Aw just a little one?" Tabitha pouted. Then the ground trembled. "Oh boy…Then again maybe I don't have to"

"Way to go Lance!" Kitty snapped as she dragged him towards the group.

"Hey this time I didn't do it on purpose!" Lance snapped. "Sometimes I shake things up without realizing it! It happens okay?"

"Let me guess," Wanda said. "You guys made some charming friends?"

"Yeah some jerk wouldn't let us go on the rides so Lance decided to give him one," Kitty glared at Lance.

"I didn't do it on purpose!" Lance snapped. "I can't help it sometimes! It just happens!"

"I knew he'd screw up," Fred whispered to Lina.

A flash of lightning flared in the sky. "Looks like he ain't the only one who screwed up," Wanda remarked.

The rest of the group came back with an angry Ororo and an amused Logan. "Wow Storm that was cool how you blew that guy into all those stuffed animals with the wind!" Jamie remarked.

"Not now Jamie," Ororo told him.

"What happened, as if I couldn't already guess?" Jean moaned.

"Out of the two of us chaperones, guess which one lost our temper?" Logan asked. "Go on, guess."

"Somebody recognized Ororo from the trial," Danielle said. "Fortunately that somebody is also afraid of snakes and will be wetting their bed for the next few years."

"You were right Hank this was a bad idea," Alison sighed. "What made me think I could celebrate my birthday in a normal way?"

Cover Girl dragged Shipwreck up to them along with the rest of the Joe handlers. "Well you're gonna see plenty of fireworks if we don't get out of here soon!" She told them.

"Let me guess," Althea sighed. "Somebody insulted us and he went nuts right?"

"Not exactly," Low Light remarked. "Shipwreck conned a few people out of some cash. Don't ask how."

"Then we'd better leave before an angry mob…" Logan began.

Suddenly shots rang out at the mutants. They saw several FOH members and other people with bats and other weapons rush them. "Tries to kill us…" Logan sighed as he finished.

Some FOH members surprised some of the X-Men from behind whacking Bobby, Roberto and Sam with baseball bats to their sides and arms. "SAMMY!" Tabitha quickly shot out a few time bombs. "EAT ENERGY JERKS!"

Soon all the mutants were in the middle of a fight. "Lance now is a good time for you to make an earthquake on purpose!" Pietro shouted.

"GOT IT!" Lance sent out a tremor at the FOH attacking them. It also leveled one of the carnie booths. "Oops…"

"Nobody was inside and they had lousy prizes anyway!" Todd shouted out to him.

"Oh yeah rationalize it!" Scott shot out an optic blast that happened to blast part of the pier.

"Look who's talking!" Lance snapped back.

"One night…" Logan grunted as he sliced open a few weapons. "One freaking night of nobody trying to kill us! Is that so much to ask?"

"Well you wanted your birthday to be memorable!" Althea shouted to Alison as they fought.

"THIS WAS NOT WHAT I HAD IN MIND!" Alison shouted.

"They're retreating!" Roberto shouted.

"Yeah and so should we!" Angelica shouted as she heard sirens blare.

"That's the best idea we had all night!" Low Light shouted.

"And to think we felt sorry for Peter and Warren because they were left behind!" Scott groaned as they ran. "They're having a nice quiet evening while we're running for our lives!"

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"Are you sure Jack will still be in his office at this time?" Warren asked as he drove into the parking lot of Jack's office building.

"The Professor said he was supposed to come to the mansion earlier," Peter said. "Last he checked he was still here and…STOP THE CAR!"

Jack lay on the cement beaten and bruised. His car had been trashed and vandalized with anti-mutant graffiti on it. Peter jumped out. "He's alive but hurt…" Peter said. "We have to get him back to the mansion! Now!"