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The car pulled up in front of our high school in a matter of minutes. I glanced up at the electric message board, which was flashing on and off but saying nothing. Sue pulled the car around the driveway and stopped.
"So why are we at the school, again?" asked Chuck as we got out of the car.
"Yeah," said Lewie in agreement as he too got out of the car.
"I explained it to you on the way here," I began, "The mutant hunter hide out is under the school," I gestured towards the campus.
"Yup. Simple enough," said Sal sarcastically, rolling his eyes.
"Shut up, will you?" I spat at him. I turned to Sue "Thanks for the ride."
"Ummm, Jodi," Sue glared, "We're here but we are not here! How are we going to find an entrance?"
"I don't know," I replied, turning Carrie's note over in my hands, "She didn't say anything about that."
"Well we should better hurry," snapped Sal, "At this rate, she will be dead by the time we get there!"
"Then you better find an entrance, you moron!" retorted Chuck, resulting in snickers from my counterparts.
"Hey everyone, over here!" shouted Luke from behind a planter. We all ran over in his direction to see Lewie leaning against a wall next to a tunnel.
"He just stumbled over that brick and the tunnel appeared," Luke said pointing, "See, he isn't useless after all."
"Yeah," grinned Lewie, obviously proud of himself.
We stared at the tunnel in awe. It was huge and circular, except for the floor, which was flat, with shiny, silver walls that seemed to go on forever. Circular lights were built into the top of the tunnel resulting in circular spots of light on the floor every yard or two.
"What are you all waiting for?" asked Sal, his voice quivering a little.
"It looks unsanitary to me," said Sue, taking a step backwards.
"Lets go," I said starting for the tunnel. When I realized that no one was following me, I spun around. "Lets go!" I said, this time with more urgency.
They took a few steps forward. "That's better," I said, marching forward.
20 Minutes Later
We had been walking in silence since we got in the tunnel. I went first with Luke behind me, Lewie behind Luke, Sue behind Lewie, Chuck behind Sue, and Sal trudging along in the back. At first, the shape of the walls and the lights mesmerized us. But right about now, I am pretty sure that the boys were as bored as I was.
I couldn't help thinking about Carrie. We always had so much fun together. I remember once we went to Disneyland and she insisted on following a little boy through Toon Town for half an hour to make sure that he wasn't lost. She is such a caring person. And she loved to sing. I used to think it was so funny when she started singing one song and then right in the middle, she changed to a different song that had the same word sequence for a while but totally went off on a different subject. And she could make fun out of anything. Once when we were just hanging out and she started to babble about something and we made a whole hour's worth of conversation out of it. I missed us just hanging out. 'I wonder if she is waiting for us', I thought. 'I wonder if she doesn't even want us to come. The boys, I mean, she did leave them after all…' I shook the thought from my head. 'Well if she was just honest with me before then I wouldn't have this issue…' I shook that thought from my head, too. I glanced back at Luke. He seemed like he was thinking hard. 'I wonder what the boys are thinking…'
Well, Luke was just as bored if not more bored than I was. '..5..2..5..6..3..7..5..6..7..8. Ha! I figured out the first ten thousand digits of Pi! Man, am I bored. What else is there to do,' he thought staring at one of the lights on the ceiling, 'Hmmmm, Oh! I know! I'll sing! Ummm, what is there to sing. Sigh. Why not that bill song thingy. "Oh, I'm just a bill, yes I'm only a bill, and I'm sitting here on capital hill. Well it's a long, long journey to the capital city, it's a long, long week, while I'm sitting in committee, but I know I'll be a Law someday! Oh yes I hope and pray that I will but today I am still just a bill….."'
Behind Luke was Lewie. He was a man of not too many thoughts but he was enjoying the walk to where ever he was going which he had already forgotten. Every once in a while he could see a pretty light on the ceiling and if he looked sideways he could see a tall guy with red hair and glasses that kept on making funny faces at him. And very once in a while, a thought cloud would float across his brain. They were so pretty……
Oh my gosh! Thought Sue. Why on earth did I agree to this. I could totally kill Jodi right about now. She looked around. It looks so unsanitary in here! Her gaze fell on Lewie. Suddenly, some drool dripped out of the corner of his mouth and fell to the floor. Ahhh! So many germs! There are so many germs in that one drop of saliva that are now transferring from drool to the floor which is under my feet. Oh my gosh! Now there are germs on my shoes which are on my feet. Oh my gosh! My feet are attached to my body. Oh my gosh! My body is attached to my brain! Ahhhh! So many germs…
I hate walking, thought Chuck. It is so #$& pointless. Sigh. I hate #$& walking. It hurts my #$& feet so #$& much He looked down at his shoes.What the #$! This #$& walking is wearing a #$& hole in my #$& shoes! #$ ##$# &$&#Q&$(&Q$&$#!
Sigh. I'm bored. Sigh. I'm tired. Sigh. I'm hungry. I wonder what the rest of our group wants to do. Sal trudged along being, well, Sal. I'm still hungry. I'm still bored. I'm still tired. Wow, I am annoying. I wonder if this did have something to do with Carrie breaking up with me. Shrug. Well, she is missing out. Nod. Aww, crap, who am I kidding. She broke up with me for god sakes! Why am I even here! Why did I even agree to this! I'm hungry, bored, and tired. I shouldn't have to risk this to save her. My stomach is counting on me to try and start diminishing world hunger. I don't even know why I care! "Jodi," he said, "Lets go. This is pointless."
"Wait a minute," I said, peering into the darkness, "I think I see something." In the distance was the outline of a huge circular metal door.
Sal broke into a run towards the door. He pounded his fists on it. "Damn it, it's locked!" he said in desperation.
"No it is not," said Luke, "There is a circuit box. If I just…" He took a clipper out of his pocket, opened the circuit box, and started to fiddle with the wires. We heard a small snapping sound. Sal jumped back as the doors slid open. "Easy as pie," smiled Luke, "What kind of jack ass installs a 369 edition 2 chip security system in an obvious metal box in a cave near a door under the school? Stupid!"
"Nice job Luke! Now you an like rig it so it electrocutes the bad guys and then we can go home," said Chuck sarcastically.
"Shut up, will you Chuck? Thanks Luke," I said.
Then we proceeded through the door.
The X-Men Institute
The professor stared at Cerebro. A picture of a girl popped up on the screen. Ororo walked up to join the professor. "This is Carrie Henderson," the professor gestured to the girl, "She was captured by mutant hunters who want to experiment with her. I am sending the X-men to find her immediately."
"What's that?" asked Ororo, pointing to some yellow dots in what appeared to be some sort of tunnel.
"How unusual," said the professor, peering forward to look at the dots, "it appears that some non-mutant kids re trying to save their friend."
"Wow, brave kids," said Ororo.
Scott, Jean, Kurt, Rogue, Kitty, Wolverine, go to the x-jet immediately, the professor called using his telepathy. In a matter of minutes, the x-men were suited up and on their way.
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