Mistletoe Madness

"So the Wicked Witch of the West is gone huh?" Alex said to Scott as the rest of the gang finished decorating.

"Yes it looks like a merry Christmas after all," Scott grinned. "No more bickering and insulting and screaming. It looks like tomorrow will go the way Christmas should be. Peaceful and…"

"GET OUT OF MY FACE YOU LOUSY CREEP!" Wanda screamed in another room. The sound of something exploding could be heard.

"NYAH! NYAH! NYAH!" Pietro taunted. Something else exploded.

"You come back here and let me finish!" Mrs. Pryde followed Donald into the room. "We're going to have this out once and for all!"

"Oh lord can't you drop it you bitter little shrew?" Donald snapped.

"I can't drop this!" Mrs. Pryde said. "My therapist says I need to confront you and get out all my feelings if I can ever hope to move on with my life!"

"Well my therapist says that your therapist is a total quack!" Donald snapped at her.

"MEOW!" Prometheus the cat fled from Lockheed who was spewing fire at him.

"DIVE! DIVE!" Polly cackled as he flew after them.

"Well a man can dream," Scott sighed.

"What is going on here?" Kitty walked in with Lance.

"Oh just the usual warmth and merriment you'd find around here," Scott sighed.

"You are so jealous it's pathetic!" Donald said. "Face it, Carmen's more attracted to me because I have a better body! And I'm better in bed too!"

"I AM NOT HEARING THIS!" Kitty put her hands on her ears. "I AM NOT HEARING THIS!"

"I wish I wasn't hearing this either," Lance groaned. "So much for a romantic Christmas."

"Yeah nothing like your girlfriend's parents and their significant others arguing about their love lives to ruin yours," Pietro zipped in. "Speaking of which…"

"OH FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!" They heard Ororo screaming in the next room.

"Now what?" Scott groaned. They ran into the library. Hanging from the doorway and several sections of the ceiling were clumps of mistletoe. "Oh no…"

"Who put up all this mistletoe?" Ororo shouted.

"Who do you think?" Jamie peeked out from under at table. "Hide me!"

"It's everywhere," Kitty peeked over to outside the halls.

"Oh Sto-orm!" Shipwreck sang out as he walked down the halls.

"Oh lord," Ororo groaned.

"Mistletoe!" Shipwreck grinned. "You know what that means?"

"Yeah I'll deck your halls if you set your lips anywhere near mine!" Ororo snapped.

"It doesn't take a genius to know a mansion full of mistletoe will cause nothing but woe," Roadblock shook his head as he walked in. "You should see what's going on in the rest of the mansion."

"I'm afraid to find out," Scott sighed.

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"Oh come on Rogue," Remy grinned as he pressed close to Rogue. "Just one little kiss."

"In your dreams and my nightmares," Rogue pushed him away. "You know what happens when I touch someone!"

"Maybe it'd be worth it, no?" Remy raised an eyebrow.

"Uh, let me think," Rogue said. "No."

"Just one little kiss, what could it hurt?" Remy insisted. He pointed to the mistletoe above them. "You know its tradition."

"So is…" Then something caught Rogue's eye. "Well if it's tradition I guess you have to get a kiss."
"I knew you couldn't resist me," Remy preened.

"Okay Swamp Rat, close your eyes," Rogue batted her eyes. As soon as Remy closed his, Rogue grabbed Lockheed and put his face right to Remy's. "Pucker up!"

Remy opened his eyes just as he put his lips on Lockheed's snout. "AGGHH!"

Lockheed responded by giving Remy a face full of smoke. "Bleah!"

"Rogue!" Remy shouted.

"Hey I said you'd get a kiss. I didn't say from who! You're lucky I didn't use the butt end!" Rogue laughed.

"Remy really beginning to hate this holiday…" Remy grumbled.

"BLEAH!" Lockheed spat out more smoke and soot at Remy, covering him.

"AND REMY REALLY HATES THAT FLYING LIZARD!" Remy shouted and began to chase Lockheed.

Meanwhile Hank was very depressed. "Ah young love under the green holly," He sighed. "And here I am alone. Alone. Oh so alone…"

"Uh Hankster could you be alone over there?" Tabitha asked as she stopped kissing Sam under the mistletoe. Hank was standing dejectedly by them.

"Oh sure," Hank moved away. "Alone…Alone…I blew it and now I'm alone."

"HANK SNAP OUT OF IT AND TELL THESE KIDS TO KNOCK IT OFF!" Logan stormed in. "ALL RIGHT ALL OF YOU KNOCK IT OFF!"

"Geeze way to kill the mood Mr. Scrooge," Tabitha grumbled.

"I'm gonna kill more than that if you hormonal little maniacs don't cut it out," Logan cut down the mistletoe. "Stuff like this gives you ideas!"

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" Jamie and his clones ran by covered in lipstick kisses.

"KISSY! KISSY!" Trinity ran after him, each girl carrying some mistletoe in her hands.

"See what I mean?" Logan snapped. "Now I gotta get this stuff before Avalanche gets any ideas!"

"Don't worry…" Lance wobbled in. He looked very green. "I'm not really in the mood tonight. Not if you've seen what I saw!"

"EWWWWW!" Kitty screamed from the next room. "MOM! JESSE D! GET OFF THE TABLE! THAT IS DISGUSTING! DAD! DONALD NOOOOOO!"

"Yikes…" Logan winced.

"WHEEE!" Todd scampered on the ceiling kissing a happy Althea.

"I need to go lie down…" Lance moaned.

"Hey there!" Spyder hung from the ceiling. She kissed Lance on the cheek. "Merry Christmas Lance!"

"Oh yeah…" Lance managed to fake a grin. "I feel so much better now."

Spyder laughed and scampered to the next room. The other Misfit Joes were decorating in there. Spyder laughed and tackled Spirit. He caught her and laughed. "Merry Christmas little one!"

"Merry Christmas Spirit!" Spyder laughed. "This is gonna be the best Christmas ever!"

"Well I'm glad somebody thinks so," Low Light grumbled.

"Ignore Scrooge over here," Roadblock smirked. "He's like this all year."

"I know how to lighten him up," Cover Girl held out a bit of mistletoe.

"Oh boy…" Low Light was feeling a bit flushed.

"Come on Cooper," Cover Girl grinned. "Pucker up."

"Uh…I gotta go check on some lights…" Low Light backed away.

"Oh no you don't boy," The Blind Master made a mischievous grin. Casually he took out some shuriken and threw them, pinning Low Light to the wall.

"Yipe…" Low Light blinked as Cover Girl kissed him. He turned bright red. "That was a dirty trick!"

"But it worked," Blind Master grinned.

"That's very funny," Low Light freed himself as most of the others laughed and left the room leaving him alone with Cover Girl.

"Well if I have to trap you to get a kiss from you," Cover Girl huffed and turned around.

"Hey," Low Light grabbed her arm and whirled her around into his arms. "I never said that I didn't want to kiss you."

"You didn't?" Cover Girl blinked.

"I just didn't want an audience," Low Light said before pressing his lips to her.

CLICK!

"Got ya!" Pietro laughed as he held the camera.

"PIETRO!" Low Light screamed as he ran away laughing. "YOU'RE GONNA DIE!"

"TAKE A NUMBER!" Wanda shouted as she ran after them.

"This is great!" Fred laughed as he watched the merriment. "I love Christmas! I wish Granny was here!"

"Your grandmother?" Lina asked. "That's the one still on the run from the law right?"

"Yeah, she opened up a bar in Fiji," Fred nodded. "Oh but I still remember Christmas on the farm. Those were some of the happiest times of my life."

"I miss my family at Christmas," Lina sighed. "Even if they don't want me…"

"Aw Lina, we're kind of like your family now," Fred told her. "And I…Well we want you."

"Freddie…" Lina blushed. She then noticed the mistletoe nearby. "Uh Freddy could you stand over here for a second?"

"Yeah, right here?" He moved over.

"A little to the left."

"Here?"

"Now a little more. There, perfect," Lina fluttered up and gave Fred a kiss on the cheek.

"Awwwwwwww…." Fred's entire head turned bright red.

Xi and Rina were watching this. "Why does this mistletoe make everyone want to kiss?" Rina asked.

"I don't know," Xi blinked. "Perhaps we shall analyze it?"

"Great idea!" Logan dumped a pile of mistletoe in their hands. "Better yet! Burn it! Make a nice big fire!"

"Is that another Christmas tradition?" Rina asked.

"Yeah close enough," Logan waved.

"Okay," Xi nodded and they walked away.

"Yeah burn it all up kids. Not in the house! Do it outside!" He looked around. "WAVEDANCER! DON'T ENCOURAGE HIM! WATCH IT WITH THOSE HANDS YOUNG LADY!"

"Can you believe this?" Alex asked.

"SHIPWRECK I WARNED YOU!" Ororo could be heard shouting. A sound of thunder could be heard as well as a loud yell.

"Yeah I can…" Scott sighed.

"Hey Jubilee," Bobby grinned under the mistletoe. His grin then disappeared when he heard a loud growl behind him. "Uh oh…"

"STEP AWAY FROM THE MISTLETOE AND NOBODY GETS HURT!" Logan shot out his claws with a rather loud snikt.

"AAHHHH!" Bobby shouted as he ran from Logan.

"LOGAN YOU ARE SO TOTALLY KILLING THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT!" Jubilee shouted.

"GOOD!" Logan shouted back. He made a full stop when he saw something else. "TOAD I TOLD YOU TO GET OFF THE CEILING!"

"Why did I blow it with Alison?" Hank stumbled by him. "Why? Why?"

"All right who spiked the egg nog this time?" Logan shouted. "Charles? CHARLES I KNOW YOU'RE HIDING AROUND HERE! YOU'D BETTER SAVE SOME SCOTCH FOR ME IF YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU!"

Meanwhile in another part of town…

"Stupid mutants," Mayor Chandler grumbled as he fished for more scotch in his house. "Ruined Christmas and I know they stole my tree and my presents! Well at least they didn't take my scotch!"

He opened the door to one room and saw S'ym standing there with some mistletoe. "Pucker up!" He grinned.

"AAHHHHH!" Mayor Chandler screamed as S'ym chased him around the house.

"This really is not very nice," Peter looked through the binoculars at the scene.

"So? What's your point?" Illyana asked. "Ah the other demons have finished toilet papering his house and burying his car in snow! Come on you louts! We have a lot of other stops to make tonight!"