Second Time Round
PF! Represent! Yo!
Disclaimer: I have never read or seen the Lord of the flies, Half-N-Half likes that book though and they make students read it now . . . well at least the good teachers that actually follow the curriculum do. My teacher didn't make us read it, obviously, all we did in that class was act out Romeo and Juliet, I got to be Tybalt. Then I died and he said I didn't have to attend his class anymore . . . Yes, but anyway I disclaim Asmar and Piggy and they have very little to do with this chapter . . .
Note: This chap was delayed a long time cause I couldn't think of what to do with it. I wanted a chap to focus on Pietro, but I couldn't really think of what to do for it and I get yelled at a lot for down playing the speed demon. I didn't want to just move onto Middleverse cause then Forge would pull focus and I like Pietro, so I'd feel bad if he got completely cheated out of his first appearance. Besides I've been attacked by Pietro fans before, see the scars, well actually that ones from a Remy fan, but the one to the left, that was for turning Quickie into a monkey.
Todd had never really cared at all about Scott and Jean. Seeing Wanda again had triggered a lot of emotions, not all of them pleasant. He'd always have a certain hatred and disrespect toward Magneto though he kept it hidden. Mystique had, did and would forevermore inspire a certain fear in him. The way he felt about Kitty would always be determined by the way Lance felt about Kitty. Rogue was untouchable. Freddy was the kind older brother. Lance was the strong one . . . Todd knew where they all stood in his life, but what about Pietro. He had no standing, because he couldn't stop moving, and changing.
There had been times when Todd had hated Pietro, but part of the reason he would hate him so much at times was because he knew they were brothers. Pietro had gone from Friend and Brother to Spy and Traitor and back again more times than Todd could remember. Lance seemed to have settled on just being annoyed by him, but Todd wasn't so sure as he watched the young speed demon zip around the room introducing himself.
Pietro had arrived late last night, when everyone was asleep except for maybe Mystique. Todd had been woken up by her and Magneto's argument. It was about field leaders, Magneto wanted his son to gain leadership skills, but Mystique thought that switching Lance from the position to make room for some new mutant would disrupt the team too much. Todd hadn't read into the bosses' spat when he'd originally heard it, but now he knew their argument was about manipulation, power and fear. Both of them sought to further control the Brotherhood through field leaders they new were loyal to one over the other, but Mystique won out in the end through fear. A fear of Lance's reaction to being replaced and the physical damages such a reaction might cause.
At that moment Todd's train of thought was derailed by Kitty.
"Hey Mystique . . . " Kitty asked with a look of contemplation on her face, "like, how are we all going to fit into Lance's jeep?"
Mystique frowned for a second furrowing her brow, the jeeps seating room had been tight with Rogue and Freddy had joined. Todd had walked to school a couple of times just to save himself the hassle of sitting next to Rogue on her 'DON'T TOUCH ME!' days. "This could pose a problem . . . " Mystique muttered to herself.
"No sweat," Pietro responded with a smile, "I can out run that old rig any day."
Mystique looked thoughtful for a moment. "No, Magneto wants to keep the powers on the down low as much as possible. Rogue and Kitty can get a ride with me today. We'll figure something better out later." She sighed before leading the two girls out of the house.
The boys followed them out the door and watched Ms. Darkholme and the girls pull out of the drive way and take off. After they were out of sight Lance walked over and got into his jeep.
"Shotty" Todd called as he hopped up into the seat next to Lance. Freddy, who had never intended to sit in the smaller front seat, climbed into the back. Pietro looked a bit annoyed by the fact he had to sit in the back with 'The Blob', but decided against voicing his opinions of the seating arrangement. Instead he just stood with his arms crossed glaring up at Todd.
"Will you h-" Lance cut himself off when he realized Pietro was already in the back seat and just decided to scowl at the steering wheel as he started the jeep and pulled it out of the driveway.
"Y'know I could run to California before this old hunk of metal got half way to the school." Pietro boasted.
"Y'know," Lance growled as his brow furrowed into an even deeper scowl, "This jeep is, like, brand new."
Todd snickered and shook his head.
"What?" Lance snapped glancing over at Todd.
Todd continued to laugh and shake his head. "Man," Todd laughed, "You just said 'like', yo?"
"What? No, I didn't." Lance denied angrily.
"Lance . . . " Pietro started before Todd cut him off.
"Yeah," Todd chuckled, "Yeah ya did."
"Uh, Lance . . . " Pietro tried again.
"Maybe you've been hangin' out with Kitty too much?" Freddy suggested.
"Lance!" Pietro stammered in a more urgent tone.
"Will you all just - shut up!" Lance yelled over his shoulder at the others.
"LANCE!" Pietro yelled.
"WHAT!?" Lance shouted back.
"You're-now-20mph-over-the-maximum-speed-limit-and-you-just-ran-a-red-light-and-there's-a-" At that moment a police siren drown out Pietro's words.
Lance started to slow down and pull his jeep to the side of the road.
"What-are-you-doing!?" Pietro asked in disbelief.
"My jeep can't beat the cop's engine." Lance stated bluntly as he stopped the jeep.
"I'm-up-for-warrant-you-moron!" Pietro sped through his words, full of panic, as the cop got out of his car.
"What?" Lance asked in an exasperated tone as he tried to decipher the slipstream of words that had come from the speed demons mouth.
"Wait, how'd a cop ever catch you?" Todd asked after hearing the word warrant.
"Would you like the list of laws you broke or just the tick- Hey don't I know you?" The cop asked, but he was looking at Todd, not Pietro.
Todd looked at the cop for a second then realized it was one of the cops that had arrested him after the bus incident. Todd froze for a second as he wondered if the cop would open fire if he jumped. Todd just kept staring the cop in the eyes like an idiot. He could almost see the guy's memory click into place.
"You!" The cop exclaimed as he reached for his radio to call in backup. Freddy hit the cop in the side of the head with his fist. The cop crumpled to the ground unconscious.
"Nice goin' Blob!" Pietro stated approvingly as he hopped out of the jeep to examine the cop.
"Is he all right?" Freddy asked sounding a bit worried, "I thought he was goin' for his gun."
"I think ya may have givin' him a concussion." Pietro commented then with a sly grin on his face he grabbed the cop and put him back in his car. "This gives me an idea." Pietro said as he opened the hood to look at the motor.
"Pietro, what are you doing?" Lance asked as he and the others got out of the jeep.
"Well you said the only reason we couldn't out run 'em was cause they have a bigger engine, so we'll just switch 'em." Pietro explained as he examined the cop's engine. "Do you think it'll fit in your jeep?"
"Yeah, it would fit." Lance answered without thinking then realized what he was agreeing to. "Wait, no! Mystique would flip if she ever found out we stole an engine from a cop! Besides we don't need his engine, cause we don't need to run from cops."
"Hello! Earth to Rock-Head, I'm wanted and this pig seemed to be rather well acquainted with Toad." Pietro shot back, "I'd say a bigger engine would be a wise investment right about now."
Lance looked over at Freddy and Todd for a minute then down at the engine. "I can't believe I'm doing this." Lance sighed as he set to work on disconnecting the cop's motor.
After Pietro's pestering about how he could disconnect and reconnect the engines faster; Lance's 'Touch my jeep and die!' attitude getting on everyone's nerves; Freddy's almost dropping the cop's engine on Pietro; Lance finally allowing Pietro to reconnect the engine to the cop's car and Todd's brilliant idea about making it look like the cop ran off the road and smashed the front of his car to cover their tracks almost getting them all caught, the boys finally arrived at Bayville High in time for fifth period.
"Wait - Lunch just ended - What's the point of going to school after lunch is over?" a grease-covered Freddy complained as they walked into the school.
"Y'know Blob, some people actually go to school to learn things." Pietro muttered as he tried in vain to rub a small dark spot off his shirt while remaining completely oblivious to the large black smudge on his cheek.
"I know that," Freddy responded a bit annoyed, "I'm just sayin' all I have left is P.E. and cooking - oh, wait I have cooking sixth!" Freddy announced happily.
"Yeah, and I have a test. Why are we here again?" Todd asked.
"We're here to pretend like we were always here, so Ms. Darkholme doesn't give us detention." Lance told them as he spotted Kitty and Rogue walking up ahead of them. "And to make sure those two back us when we say we were in class. Hey Rogue, Kitty!"
Both the girls turned around. "Like, there you guys are!" Kitty exclaimed as she ran up to the boys, she was about to hug Lance when she realized he was covered in grease and oil. "What happened to you?"
"We had car troubles . . . " Lance told the girls.
Kitty looked confused for a minute. "But your jeep is, like, brand new."
Todd cracked up and started laughing.
"What's, so funny?" Rogue asked.
"Nothing!" Lance exclaimed suddenly. Making the girls even more suspicious, but before they could pester the boys any further the late bell to fifth period rang.
"Like, oh my gosh, we're, like, late for Home Ec." Kitty yelped as her curiosity gave way to her fear of being marked tardy. Rogue didn't seem too stressed, but Kitty grabbed her arm and started dragging her away anyway.
"Oh no, Todd, you're late for your test." Lance said before shoving the smaller boy into his fifth. Then he glared at the other two boys in a way that read: Get moving.
Freddy just shrugged and headed off to his P.E. locker. Pietro on the other hand continued to stand around like an idiot. "Where am I supposed to be right now?"
Lance couldn't believe it. "Wait. You don't know your schedule?" Pietro nodded an affirmative. "But we live with the Principal, how can you not know?"
"I was supposed to pick one up before first period, but someone decided to have some 'car troubles' so I didn't get one." Pietro stated simply.
Lance looked like he was about to drop the roof down a couple of feet, when the door next to them slammed open and Todd started dragging his desk out of the classroom. His teacher was still yelling at him as he shut the door. Todd looked over at Lance and Pietro, they both bore a questioning look.
"Well how was I supposed to know what 'Asmar' was and why Piggys suck it?" Todd whined, "I'll teach her Lord of the Flies." He muttered as a devious grin spread across his face.
"Guess what Toad, you get to help Pietro find his fifth period while I go to mine." Lance told him after deciding to ignore Todd's last comment. Then he headed off to his own fifth before either of the other boys could find a complaint.
Todd and Pietro watched him go, then Todd turned to Pietro with a questioning look and asked, "Do you seriously wanna go to your fifth and sixth or would you rather help me look for the laboratory that's supposed to be hidden under the school somewhere?"
"What do you think?" Pietro replied and with that settled they set out to find Forge's lab.
After about twenty minutes of roaming the school and dodging hall monitors without finding so much as a broom closet with a microscope in it. Pietro was getting bored and Todd was getting angry at himself for not being able to remember where the stupid lab had been. Lance and Todd had decided it'd probably be a wise investment to invite Forge onto their team before the X-Men swooped down upon him and started in on their 'Come be one of us's. There were only two problems. One they seemed to have two completely different ideas on where the lab had been. Two neither one of them knew how to get Forge out of his lil' Dino/Dragon zappy thing, but they'd decided they'd figure that one out later.
"Alright, I'm convinced this secret lab or whatever it is doesn't exist. C'mon there must be someway to get a couple of kicks outta Bayville." Pietro ranted rolling his eyes at the word Bayville. "Do you know where they sell fireworks around here?"
"Are you serious? How many cops have to get knocked unconscious before you quit?" Todd asked as he cocked his head to one side. In all actuality the location of three stores that sold explosives under the counter came to mind. He was just a bit wary of attracting Police Departments attention twice in one day.
"Oh yea, I forgot the cops round here know you by your face. What'd you do anyway?" Pietro asked though he wasn't really paying attention as he was trying to think of way to amuse himself for the next few minutes before that too would be deemed boring.
"Enough to get myself locked up if I'm not careful and breakin' out again isn't my idea of a good time."Todd stated absent mindedly, now he kinda wanted fireworks too. He could always just tell Pietro where one of the shops was and let him get them and light them and he could just watch and they were fast enough. Todd sighed as he picked up a pencil and a piece of paper and wrote down the address of the smallest shop and handed it to Pietro. "Ask for Roland, he has one eye ya can't miss him."
Pietro's face lit up evilly just before he disappeared off into the distance. Todd just sat back and waited for a few minutes until the speedster screeched to a halt again beside him with an arm full of various explosives. "Quick-name-a-teacher-you-hate-who-has-a-window!" Pietro gasped.
"Mr. Batton the chem teacher." Todd said with a wicked grin as he pointed out the hapless teacher's class.
Pietro took aim and lit off the first bottle rocket, unfortunately he aimed a bit high and the boys lost track of it. "I shot a rocket in the air, and where it lands I do not care." Pietro commented as he set up another one. This one hit its mark resulting in massive amounts of screaming and the fire alarm being pulled. "I'd say that be our cue to leave." Pietro chuckled as he turned around to pick up the rest of the fireworks.
Then suddenly the unexplainable occurred, the first rocket they had shot off came flying back over the school still sparking and landed right in the middle of the pile of fireworks. For a second Pietro and Todd just stared at this perplexing development then the other fireworks caught fire and started shooting off in every direction.
"RUN!" Pietro yelped as one nearly took his ear off.
Todd was already ahead of him and half way around the building where he spotted a very disgruntled football coach rounding the other corner. "Quick down here, yo?" Todd said stopping Pietro as he whipped around the corner after Todd.
Pietro sped down to the door below and tried to pull it open. "It's locked." He complained.
Todd simply jumped down after him and kicked it open then they both jumped inside and shut it. "Okay, let's just sneak out of here real quiet like before anyone else figures out this is where the fireworks came-" Just then a Piccolo Pete began to whistle extremely loud. "from." Todd finished knowing that several more Bayville High staff was probably on their way over. Todd turned around to see Pietro was now looking over the next room and obviously not listening.
"Man, look at all this junk." Pietro wondered as he looked though one of the very dusty widows set in the double doors.
Todd looked in through the other window. There were tons of crates and old computers and just general junk lying around. One piece in particular caught Todd's eye, it was the Dino/Dragon zappy thing. Todd took a step back and kicked the door down.
"Hey, Todd . . . the cops didn't bust you for breaking and entering did they?" Pietro asked as he watched Todd walk into the room.
"No, why do you ask?" Todd replied as he grabbed the much sought after 'zappy thing'.
"No reason." Pietro said as he wandered into the room and started looking at all the old computers just as they all flicked on.
Todd looked up as Forge's face appeared on all of the screens. "What did you touch?" He asked getting a quick 'What did I touch? What did you touch?' look from Pietro before Forge's voice sounded from the old speakers.
"January twenty-second, nineteen seventy-eight. Hi, there. If you're hearing this message, you've got ten seconds before this lab self-destructs. Have a nice day. What's left of it." After his little speech Forge's face disappeared and a countdown took its place.
Both boys bolted for the door and then barreled outside just as the lab exploded. They kept up the pace until they'd arrived back at the boardinghouse. They walked in trying not to draw attention away from Freddy who seemed to be retelling some story from his football practice that day.
"Where have you two been?" Rogue asked as soon as she spotted Todd and Pietro.
"Yeah and, like, what is that thing?" Kitty added pointing out the 'zappy thing' Todd was carrying.
"Hardware store." Pietro stated.
"Power tool." Todd added.
"Why don't you start over from the beginning, so Todd and Pietro can hear the whole story Freddy?" Lance asked rather loudly drawing the girls' attention away from Todd as he stuck the 'zappy thing' in the hall closet.
"Yeah, I wanna hear, yo?" Todd called out as he hopped over to where the others were sitting.
"All right," Freddy agreed happily. "So, I was just about to tackle Duncan when this bottle rocket came out of no where and thwacked him on top of his helmet. Then it ricocheted off his helmet and hit me right in the stomach, but I'm the Blob so it didn't do nothin' so I grabbed it and threw it back the way it came. I hear it hit its mark too." Freddy ended proudly.
Pietro just kinda sat slack jawed for a moment. "Your aims better than I thought." Todd muttered under his breath. Pietro regained his senses and decided glowering at himself was the appropriate course of action at that moment.
"You're lucky that rocket came along when it did, if you'd of smashed Duncan Miss Pris Jean Grey woulda sent the X-Men after ya." Rogue laughed.
"Ah, I coulda taken 'em easy." Freddy boasted. "Well as long as you and Kitty weren't helping them."
"Where'd you find the zappy thing?" Lance asked Todd off to the side.
"Doesn't matter we blew everything else up." Todd explained.
"Oh. Everything?" Lance asked earnestly.
"Well after we blew up the lab we didn't really have time to do an inventory." Todd quipped.
"We'll have to check it out later. Hey, we should do guys against girls next training session." Lance said getting back into the others' discussion.
"Sounds like fun only there's four of you and, like, only two of us." Kitty pointed out.
"You can have Todd." Lance said waving him off.
Rogue shrugged, "Okay."
"Wait what? Why do I get the feeling I'm being bartered off?" Todd asked.
"Oh never mind Todd. We are so going to beat you guys." Kitty stated.
"Ha, you dare challenge us?" Pietro asked mockingly.
"Hey, we could take you anywhere any time." Kitty growled getting in Pietro's face.
"Now, then." Pietro said smugly.
"Alright, let's go!" Kitty half shouted as she lead the rest of them out of the house.
Todd, however, lingered a bit longer so he could grab the 'zappy thing' out of the closet and put it up in his room.
"Todd!" Kitty shouted back in the house.
"Commin'!" He shouted back before hopping out of the house to join the rest of his team.
Next Chap will hopefully get to forge I can assure you the term 'zappy thing' is going to be used even more! Are you sick of it yet? Hopefully no.
This is the Chap that never ends it just goes on and on my friends some fool started typing it not knowing what it was. Especially that ending? What is that madness and why is it 3am? It's short too it just took forever cause I lost track of it.
PF! Represent! Yo!
Disclaimer: I have never read or seen the Lord of the flies, Half-N-Half likes that book though and they make students read it now . . . well at least the good teachers that actually follow the curriculum do. My teacher didn't make us read it, obviously, all we did in that class was act out Romeo and Juliet, I got to be Tybalt. Then I died and he said I didn't have to attend his class anymore . . . Yes, but anyway I disclaim Asmar and Piggy and they have very little to do with this chapter . . .
Note: This chap was delayed a long time cause I couldn't think of what to do with it. I wanted a chap to focus on Pietro, but I couldn't really think of what to do for it and I get yelled at a lot for down playing the speed demon. I didn't want to just move onto Middleverse cause then Forge would pull focus and I like Pietro, so I'd feel bad if he got completely cheated out of his first appearance. Besides I've been attacked by Pietro fans before, see the scars, well actually that ones from a Remy fan, but the one to the left, that was for turning Quickie into a monkey.
Todd had never really cared at all about Scott and Jean. Seeing Wanda again had triggered a lot of emotions, not all of them pleasant. He'd always have a certain hatred and disrespect toward Magneto though he kept it hidden. Mystique had, did and would forevermore inspire a certain fear in him. The way he felt about Kitty would always be determined by the way Lance felt about Kitty. Rogue was untouchable. Freddy was the kind older brother. Lance was the strong one . . . Todd knew where they all stood in his life, but what about Pietro. He had no standing, because he couldn't stop moving, and changing.
There had been times when Todd had hated Pietro, but part of the reason he would hate him so much at times was because he knew they were brothers. Pietro had gone from Friend and Brother to Spy and Traitor and back again more times than Todd could remember. Lance seemed to have settled on just being annoyed by him, but Todd wasn't so sure as he watched the young speed demon zip around the room introducing himself.
Pietro had arrived late last night, when everyone was asleep except for maybe Mystique. Todd had been woken up by her and Magneto's argument. It was about field leaders, Magneto wanted his son to gain leadership skills, but Mystique thought that switching Lance from the position to make room for some new mutant would disrupt the team too much. Todd hadn't read into the bosses' spat when he'd originally heard it, but now he knew their argument was about manipulation, power and fear. Both of them sought to further control the Brotherhood through field leaders they new were loyal to one over the other, but Mystique won out in the end through fear. A fear of Lance's reaction to being replaced and the physical damages such a reaction might cause.
At that moment Todd's train of thought was derailed by Kitty.
"Hey Mystique . . . " Kitty asked with a look of contemplation on her face, "like, how are we all going to fit into Lance's jeep?"
Mystique frowned for a second furrowing her brow, the jeeps seating room had been tight with Rogue and Freddy had joined. Todd had walked to school a couple of times just to save himself the hassle of sitting next to Rogue on her 'DON'T TOUCH ME!' days. "This could pose a problem . . . " Mystique muttered to herself.
"No sweat," Pietro responded with a smile, "I can out run that old rig any day."
Mystique looked thoughtful for a moment. "No, Magneto wants to keep the powers on the down low as much as possible. Rogue and Kitty can get a ride with me today. We'll figure something better out later." She sighed before leading the two girls out of the house.
The boys followed them out the door and watched Ms. Darkholme and the girls pull out of the drive way and take off. After they were out of sight Lance walked over and got into his jeep.
"Shotty" Todd called as he hopped up into the seat next to Lance. Freddy, who had never intended to sit in the smaller front seat, climbed into the back. Pietro looked a bit annoyed by the fact he had to sit in the back with 'The Blob', but decided against voicing his opinions of the seating arrangement. Instead he just stood with his arms crossed glaring up at Todd.
"Will you h-" Lance cut himself off when he realized Pietro was already in the back seat and just decided to scowl at the steering wheel as he started the jeep and pulled it out of the driveway.
"Y'know I could run to California before this old hunk of metal got half way to the school." Pietro boasted.
"Y'know," Lance growled as his brow furrowed into an even deeper scowl, "This jeep is, like, brand new."
Todd snickered and shook his head.
"What?" Lance snapped glancing over at Todd.
Todd continued to laugh and shake his head. "Man," Todd laughed, "You just said 'like', yo?"
"What? No, I didn't." Lance denied angrily.
"Lance . . . " Pietro started before Todd cut him off.
"Yeah," Todd chuckled, "Yeah ya did."
"Uh, Lance . . . " Pietro tried again.
"Maybe you've been hangin' out with Kitty too much?" Freddy suggested.
"Lance!" Pietro stammered in a more urgent tone.
"Will you all just - shut up!" Lance yelled over his shoulder at the others.
"LANCE!" Pietro yelled.
"WHAT!?" Lance shouted back.
"You're-now-20mph-over-the-maximum-speed-limit-and-you-just-ran-a-red-light-and-there's-a-" At that moment a police siren drown out Pietro's words.
Lance started to slow down and pull his jeep to the side of the road.
"What-are-you-doing!?" Pietro asked in disbelief.
"My jeep can't beat the cop's engine." Lance stated bluntly as he stopped the jeep.
"I'm-up-for-warrant-you-moron!" Pietro sped through his words, full of panic, as the cop got out of his car.
"What?" Lance asked in an exasperated tone as he tried to decipher the slipstream of words that had come from the speed demons mouth.
"Wait, how'd a cop ever catch you?" Todd asked after hearing the word warrant.
"Would you like the list of laws you broke or just the tick- Hey don't I know you?" The cop asked, but he was looking at Todd, not Pietro.
Todd looked at the cop for a second then realized it was one of the cops that had arrested him after the bus incident. Todd froze for a second as he wondered if the cop would open fire if he jumped. Todd just kept staring the cop in the eyes like an idiot. He could almost see the guy's memory click into place.
"You!" The cop exclaimed as he reached for his radio to call in backup. Freddy hit the cop in the side of the head with his fist. The cop crumpled to the ground unconscious.
"Nice goin' Blob!" Pietro stated approvingly as he hopped out of the jeep to examine the cop.
"Is he all right?" Freddy asked sounding a bit worried, "I thought he was goin' for his gun."
"I think ya may have givin' him a concussion." Pietro commented then with a sly grin on his face he grabbed the cop and put him back in his car. "This gives me an idea." Pietro said as he opened the hood to look at the motor.
"Pietro, what are you doing?" Lance asked as he and the others got out of the jeep.
"Well you said the only reason we couldn't out run 'em was cause they have a bigger engine, so we'll just switch 'em." Pietro explained as he examined the cop's engine. "Do you think it'll fit in your jeep?"
"Yeah, it would fit." Lance answered without thinking then realized what he was agreeing to. "Wait, no! Mystique would flip if she ever found out we stole an engine from a cop! Besides we don't need his engine, cause we don't need to run from cops."
"Hello! Earth to Rock-Head, I'm wanted and this pig seemed to be rather well acquainted with Toad." Pietro shot back, "I'd say a bigger engine would be a wise investment right about now."
Lance looked over at Freddy and Todd for a minute then down at the engine. "I can't believe I'm doing this." Lance sighed as he set to work on disconnecting the cop's motor.
After Pietro's pestering about how he could disconnect and reconnect the engines faster; Lance's 'Touch my jeep and die!' attitude getting on everyone's nerves; Freddy's almost dropping the cop's engine on Pietro; Lance finally allowing Pietro to reconnect the engine to the cop's car and Todd's brilliant idea about making it look like the cop ran off the road and smashed the front of his car to cover their tracks almost getting them all caught, the boys finally arrived at Bayville High in time for fifth period.
"Wait - Lunch just ended - What's the point of going to school after lunch is over?" a grease-covered Freddy complained as they walked into the school.
"Y'know Blob, some people actually go to school to learn things." Pietro muttered as he tried in vain to rub a small dark spot off his shirt while remaining completely oblivious to the large black smudge on his cheek.
"I know that," Freddy responded a bit annoyed, "I'm just sayin' all I have left is P.E. and cooking - oh, wait I have cooking sixth!" Freddy announced happily.
"Yeah, and I have a test. Why are we here again?" Todd asked.
"We're here to pretend like we were always here, so Ms. Darkholme doesn't give us detention." Lance told them as he spotted Kitty and Rogue walking up ahead of them. "And to make sure those two back us when we say we were in class. Hey Rogue, Kitty!"
Both the girls turned around. "Like, there you guys are!" Kitty exclaimed as she ran up to the boys, she was about to hug Lance when she realized he was covered in grease and oil. "What happened to you?"
"We had car troubles . . . " Lance told the girls.
Kitty looked confused for a minute. "But your jeep is, like, brand new."
Todd cracked up and started laughing.
"What's, so funny?" Rogue asked.
"Nothing!" Lance exclaimed suddenly. Making the girls even more suspicious, but before they could pester the boys any further the late bell to fifth period rang.
"Like, oh my gosh, we're, like, late for Home Ec." Kitty yelped as her curiosity gave way to her fear of being marked tardy. Rogue didn't seem too stressed, but Kitty grabbed her arm and started dragging her away anyway.
"Oh no, Todd, you're late for your test." Lance said before shoving the smaller boy into his fifth. Then he glared at the other two boys in a way that read: Get moving.
Freddy just shrugged and headed off to his P.E. locker. Pietro on the other hand continued to stand around like an idiot. "Where am I supposed to be right now?"
Lance couldn't believe it. "Wait. You don't know your schedule?" Pietro nodded an affirmative. "But we live with the Principal, how can you not know?"
"I was supposed to pick one up before first period, but someone decided to have some 'car troubles' so I didn't get one." Pietro stated simply.
Lance looked like he was about to drop the roof down a couple of feet, when the door next to them slammed open and Todd started dragging his desk out of the classroom. His teacher was still yelling at him as he shut the door. Todd looked over at Lance and Pietro, they both bore a questioning look.
"Well how was I supposed to know what 'Asmar' was and why Piggys suck it?" Todd whined, "I'll teach her Lord of the Flies." He muttered as a devious grin spread across his face.
"Guess what Toad, you get to help Pietro find his fifth period while I go to mine." Lance told him after deciding to ignore Todd's last comment. Then he headed off to his own fifth before either of the other boys could find a complaint.
Todd and Pietro watched him go, then Todd turned to Pietro with a questioning look and asked, "Do you seriously wanna go to your fifth and sixth or would you rather help me look for the laboratory that's supposed to be hidden under the school somewhere?"
"What do you think?" Pietro replied and with that settled they set out to find Forge's lab.
After about twenty minutes of roaming the school and dodging hall monitors without finding so much as a broom closet with a microscope in it. Pietro was getting bored and Todd was getting angry at himself for not being able to remember where the stupid lab had been. Lance and Todd had decided it'd probably be a wise investment to invite Forge onto their team before the X-Men swooped down upon him and started in on their 'Come be one of us's. There were only two problems. One they seemed to have two completely different ideas on where the lab had been. Two neither one of them knew how to get Forge out of his lil' Dino/Dragon zappy thing, but they'd decided they'd figure that one out later.
"Alright, I'm convinced this secret lab or whatever it is doesn't exist. C'mon there must be someway to get a couple of kicks outta Bayville." Pietro ranted rolling his eyes at the word Bayville. "Do you know where they sell fireworks around here?"
"Are you serious? How many cops have to get knocked unconscious before you quit?" Todd asked as he cocked his head to one side. In all actuality the location of three stores that sold explosives under the counter came to mind. He was just a bit wary of attracting Police Departments attention twice in one day.
"Oh yea, I forgot the cops round here know you by your face. What'd you do anyway?" Pietro asked though he wasn't really paying attention as he was trying to think of way to amuse himself for the next few minutes before that too would be deemed boring.
"Enough to get myself locked up if I'm not careful and breakin' out again isn't my idea of a good time."Todd stated absent mindedly, now he kinda wanted fireworks too. He could always just tell Pietro where one of the shops was and let him get them and light them and he could just watch and they were fast enough. Todd sighed as he picked up a pencil and a piece of paper and wrote down the address of the smallest shop and handed it to Pietro. "Ask for Roland, he has one eye ya can't miss him."
Pietro's face lit up evilly just before he disappeared off into the distance. Todd just sat back and waited for a few minutes until the speedster screeched to a halt again beside him with an arm full of various explosives. "Quick-name-a-teacher-you-hate-who-has-a-window!" Pietro gasped.
"Mr. Batton the chem teacher." Todd said with a wicked grin as he pointed out the hapless teacher's class.
Pietro took aim and lit off the first bottle rocket, unfortunately he aimed a bit high and the boys lost track of it. "I shot a rocket in the air, and where it lands I do not care." Pietro commented as he set up another one. This one hit its mark resulting in massive amounts of screaming and the fire alarm being pulled. "I'd say that be our cue to leave." Pietro chuckled as he turned around to pick up the rest of the fireworks.
Then suddenly the unexplainable occurred, the first rocket they had shot off came flying back over the school still sparking and landed right in the middle of the pile of fireworks. For a second Pietro and Todd just stared at this perplexing development then the other fireworks caught fire and started shooting off in every direction.
"RUN!" Pietro yelped as one nearly took his ear off.
Todd was already ahead of him and half way around the building where he spotted a very disgruntled football coach rounding the other corner. "Quick down here, yo?" Todd said stopping Pietro as he whipped around the corner after Todd.
Pietro sped down to the door below and tried to pull it open. "It's locked." He complained.
Todd simply jumped down after him and kicked it open then they both jumped inside and shut it. "Okay, let's just sneak out of here real quiet like before anyone else figures out this is where the fireworks came-" Just then a Piccolo Pete began to whistle extremely loud. "from." Todd finished knowing that several more Bayville High staff was probably on their way over. Todd turned around to see Pietro was now looking over the next room and obviously not listening.
"Man, look at all this junk." Pietro wondered as he looked though one of the very dusty widows set in the double doors.
Todd looked in through the other window. There were tons of crates and old computers and just general junk lying around. One piece in particular caught Todd's eye, it was the Dino/Dragon zappy thing. Todd took a step back and kicked the door down.
"Hey, Todd . . . the cops didn't bust you for breaking and entering did they?" Pietro asked as he watched Todd walk into the room.
"No, why do you ask?" Todd replied as he grabbed the much sought after 'zappy thing'.
"No reason." Pietro said as he wandered into the room and started looking at all the old computers just as they all flicked on.
Todd looked up as Forge's face appeared on all of the screens. "What did you touch?" He asked getting a quick 'What did I touch? What did you touch?' look from Pietro before Forge's voice sounded from the old speakers.
"January twenty-second, nineteen seventy-eight. Hi, there. If you're hearing this message, you've got ten seconds before this lab self-destructs. Have a nice day. What's left of it." After his little speech Forge's face disappeared and a countdown took its place.
Both boys bolted for the door and then barreled outside just as the lab exploded. They kept up the pace until they'd arrived back at the boardinghouse. They walked in trying not to draw attention away from Freddy who seemed to be retelling some story from his football practice that day.
"Where have you two been?" Rogue asked as soon as she spotted Todd and Pietro.
"Yeah and, like, what is that thing?" Kitty added pointing out the 'zappy thing' Todd was carrying.
"Hardware store." Pietro stated.
"Power tool." Todd added.
"Why don't you start over from the beginning, so Todd and Pietro can hear the whole story Freddy?" Lance asked rather loudly drawing the girls' attention away from Todd as he stuck the 'zappy thing' in the hall closet.
"Yeah, I wanna hear, yo?" Todd called out as he hopped over to where the others were sitting.
"All right," Freddy agreed happily. "So, I was just about to tackle Duncan when this bottle rocket came out of no where and thwacked him on top of his helmet. Then it ricocheted off his helmet and hit me right in the stomach, but I'm the Blob so it didn't do nothin' so I grabbed it and threw it back the way it came. I hear it hit its mark too." Freddy ended proudly.
Pietro just kinda sat slack jawed for a moment. "Your aims better than I thought." Todd muttered under his breath. Pietro regained his senses and decided glowering at himself was the appropriate course of action at that moment.
"You're lucky that rocket came along when it did, if you'd of smashed Duncan Miss Pris Jean Grey woulda sent the X-Men after ya." Rogue laughed.
"Ah, I coulda taken 'em easy." Freddy boasted. "Well as long as you and Kitty weren't helping them."
"Where'd you find the zappy thing?" Lance asked Todd off to the side.
"Doesn't matter we blew everything else up." Todd explained.
"Oh. Everything?" Lance asked earnestly.
"Well after we blew up the lab we didn't really have time to do an inventory." Todd quipped.
"We'll have to check it out later. Hey, we should do guys against girls next training session." Lance said getting back into the others' discussion.
"Sounds like fun only there's four of you and, like, only two of us." Kitty pointed out.
"You can have Todd." Lance said waving him off.
Rogue shrugged, "Okay."
"Wait what? Why do I get the feeling I'm being bartered off?" Todd asked.
"Oh never mind Todd. We are so going to beat you guys." Kitty stated.
"Ha, you dare challenge us?" Pietro asked mockingly.
"Hey, we could take you anywhere any time." Kitty growled getting in Pietro's face.
"Now, then." Pietro said smugly.
"Alright, let's go!" Kitty half shouted as she lead the rest of them out of the house.
Todd, however, lingered a bit longer so he could grab the 'zappy thing' out of the closet and put it up in his room.
"Todd!" Kitty shouted back in the house.
"Commin'!" He shouted back before hopping out of the house to join the rest of his team.
Next Chap will hopefully get to forge I can assure you the term 'zappy thing' is going to be used even more! Are you sick of it yet? Hopefully no.
This is the Chap that never ends it just goes on and on my friends some fool started typing it not knowing what it was. Especially that ending? What is that madness and why is it 3am? It's short too it just took forever cause I lost track of it.