Time To Bother the Baroness
"ALL RIGHT YOU MORONS KNOCK IT OFF!" The Baroness screamed.
"But we're just giving you our history report, Ms. Baron," Fred said innocently. "Pietro, Lance and I worked really hard on it."
"Singing the Monty Python song 'Oliver Cromwell' does not constitute a history report!" The Baroness screamed.
"Why not? Is it full of inaccuracies?" Pietro said.
"Well no, maybe…I dunno!" The Baroness raised her hands.
"How can you not know?" Pietro shouted. "You're a history teacher! You should know these things!"
"You mean you don't know your own country's history! What a travesty!" Pyro called out.
"John, as I have explained nineteen times I am not British! I am from a small country near Romania," The Baroness groaned. "And for the first time in years I wish I was back there!"
"Well we'll sing and you tell us where we're wrong!" Fred said. "Does that sound fair?"
"You're just going to sing the song anyway no matter what I say aren't you?" The Baroness sighed.
"Oliver Cromwell…" Fred sang. "Lord Protector of England born in 1599 and died in 1658…"
"September…" Pyro and Pietro sang.
"I do not know these people…" Wanda sank down in her seat. "I do not know these people…"
"Stop singing! Stop singing!" The Baroness screamed. But she was ignored.
Fred continued. "And the king fled up north like a bat to the Scots!"
"What the heck is a Caviler?" Someone called out.
"I think it's a football team," Lance called out. "The King must have lost his shirt gambling and left town to avoid his bookie."
"That makes sense," Pietro said. "He must have bankrupted the royal treasury with his gambling debts. You know betting on the horses and stuff."
"Well no wonder his own people tried to kill him!" Someone else called out.
"You know things are going badly when Fred Dukes is more correct in his history than the rest of the class!" The Baroness put her head down on her desk.
Fred continued. "But under the terms of John Pimm's solemn league, the Scots handed King Charles the First over to…"
"OLIVER CROMWELL!" Lance, Pyro and Pietro sang loudly.
"Oh god! I can't believe this!" The Baroness groaned as Fred just kept singing.
"I know," Wanda said. "Who would have thought Fred could sing more than one syllable? And so the Second Civil War broke out…"
"Make it stop!" The Baroness banged her head several times on the table.
"And the King lost again, silly thing…" By now the entire class was singing. "STUPID GIT!"
"I know another stupid git who will pay for putting me through this!" The Baroness screamed as she stood up. "I'VE HAD IT! I'M GOING TO GET A DRINK IN THE TEACHER'S LOUNGE!" She stormed out screaming.
"OLIVER CROMWELL…" Everyone in the class was singing.
Pietro stopped and looked at Lance. "So you think she'll crack yet?"
"We're getting there," Lance grinned. "Next class we'll try to figure out how to work in the Lumberjack song. That ought to send her over the edge."
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"Oh man that is funny!" Kurt laughed along with the rest of the X-Men. "You know I hate it when you do it to us. But when you do it to people who really deserve it…"
"What is going on here?" Logan stormed in. "What's all the laughter about? And why aren't you guys working?"
"We were just taking a break," Ray said. "Remembering some stuff."
"Well break's over! You can remember how to get back to work!" Logan snapped. "And Stripes that doohickey you're wearing is near its time limit! Better go upstairs and change."
"Well," Rogue sighed. She had been holding Remy's hand during the whole time. "It was nice while it lasted."
"Guess we gotta make the most of it," Remy grinned and gave Rogue a huge kiss.
"GUMBO!" Logan roared.
"SWAMP RAT!" Rogue turned red and started to chase Remy. "COME BACK HERE AND DIE LIKE A MAN!"
"I'll stop them before they manage to kill each other," Jean sighed and went after them.
"The rest of you get back to work," Logan ordered. The students made several groans and did so. He walked back into the kitchen where the adults were waiting. "I swear you can't take your eyes off those kids for a minute!"
"Well they have had a stressful few days," Hank told him. "Letting them relax for a moment can't do any harm."
"You knew they were goofing off didn't you?" Logan looked at him.
"They were laughing and talking and nothing was being blown up," Hank said. "What? Suddenly that's a bad thing?"
"I see your point," Logan sat down.
"It is odd I admit seeing both groups get along," Roadblock said.
"They have come a long way since their early days haven't they?" Ororo asked.
"Yeah but they're still crazy," Logan grumbled. "We're never going to get any peace with them around!"
"Oh I don't know about that. Things do change. Remember the first time Scott and Jean used the Danger Room?" Xavier raised an eyebrow. "You thought they'd never get the hang of it."
"Wait, were those two really that bad?" Low Light asked.
"You have no idea…" Logan groaned.
I could not resist sticking in the 'Oliver Cromwell Song'. It was an indirect idea from L170E. He suggested the 'Lumberjack Song' but then I thought this one fit better.
Yes, I did learn a lot of my British History thanks to Monty Python, which says a lot about the American educational system. (I knew classmates who couldn't even find our own country on the map!)
Next: The first Danger Room session of Scott and Jean. He he…
