Chapter 7: What the Hell is Going On Here?
Ok, so, ummm, this chapter is mostly going to be boring explanations about what is going on in the story, such as the reason the x-men are in the real world, relationships, and other such issues. Thanks as usual to LanceisHot, NightCrawler28, and bkrob227 for your reviews.
"So what happens now?" asked Sue.
"Ohhhh! I have a question! Hmmmm…" Carrie's eyes lit up, and then put her hands to her ears trying to remember her question.
"She does this all the time," Sal explained in response to the strange looks on the X-men's faces.
Carrie took her hands away from her ears, glared at Sal, and then asked the x-men, "So if you are a cartoon, how did you get in the real world anyway?"
"Oh, like we are so not a cartoon," Kitty flipped her hair.
"That's right," Said Logan, "The cartoon is loosely based on us."
"It is actually an ingenious way to ease the world into the fact that mutants with the x gene are really starting to pop up all over the world," Scott explained.
"It was the professor's idea," Said Jean beaming, "Pretty smart, huh?"
"Yeah, very smart," Luke said.
"The fackt iz," interrupted Kurt, "We aren't ze onley group of mutantz."
"There are institutes, both good and bad, of mutants all over the world," said Logan, as though he had explained it many times before.
"About half of them are headed by the professor," Kitty explined, "The rest are headed by Magneto."
"In my opeenion," Kurt interrupted again, "You are lucky we got to you guyz fierst."
"That is very biased Kurt," said Scott, "we don't know them, they might want to go to one of Magneto's institutes."
"I zeriously doubt zat," Kurt mumbled under his breath.
"You mean we are stuck like this!" Sue screamed.
"No," I said, "I am sure that Luke can figure out how to use the ray and put anyone who doesn't want to be a mutant anymore back to normal."
"Good idea Jodi," Luke said, "Anyone who doesn't want to be a mutant anymore or wants to be a mutant again and were messed up by the ray, should stand near the table and the rest of you who are happy with yourselves, go into the closet while I turn on the ray."
Luke, who was at the moment and wanted to stay a mutant, ran upstairs to fiddle with the ray machine. I ran after him.
It was decided that Sue wanted to be normal again, Sal wanted to be a mutant again, Lewie wouldn't be able to live as a mutant without hurting himself, and Chuck wanted to be normal again. Logan, Kitty, and Scott needed to be changed back into mutants again. The rest of the group went into the closet.
Luke and I opened the door to the control room to find both Mr. Domini and Mrs. Wilkins still passed out on the floor. Luke kicked Mrs. Wilkins aside so that he could get to the computer.
"Is there anything I can do?" I asked.
"No, not really," Luke said absently, surveying the damage to the computer.
"Hey, umm, Luke?" I said.
"What," he said.
"I'm sorry," I replied, "and you are fixing the computer a stupid way."
"Sorry for what?" he looked at me, "and the stupid way?"
"I'm sorry for pissing you off earlier," I said, "and why not try fixing the computer with telekinesis?"
"Good idea!" he said, scooting away from the computer and into the corner. He put his fingers to his head and suddenly the computer screen started to glow blue.
"Wow," I said amazed, "that was spiffy."
"Thanks," he said.
"Now go downstairs, take these idiots with you," I kicked Mr. Domini.
"Why do I have to go downstairs?" he asked.
"Because you want to stay a mutant, right?" I explained, "and because the glass is broken, whoever is up here is going to be reversed."
"So, who is going to work the ray?"
"I will, I want to be a mutant again anyway," I said.
"Ok, good luck Jodi," Luke said.
As I watched him close the door, I realized that I was feeling a little bit sad that he was leaving. We had gotten to know each other a lot better through this experience and I was sad that it was almost at an end.
I watched the unconscious bodies of Mrs. Wilkins and Mr. Domini float out of the broken window. Then I walked over and looked into the ray room, making sure everyone was in his or her place. I pressed the red button. Sequence initiated, the automated voice echoed throughout the room. The white light was replaced with the familiar red glow. I was knocked down from the force of the change and got up when I was not dizzy anymore. Then I met everyone downstairs.
"Lets get out of here," said Logan. Then, dragging Mrs. Wilkins and Mr. Domini behind us, we made our way back up the tunnel.
What happens to the x-men and the rest of the group? What about Mrs. Wilkins and Mr. Domini? Find out in the next chapter, coming soon.
