Sorry to make a nuisance of myself but I don't own any X-Men Evolution characters. I was reading something online and it made an interesting point. So of course my little brain had to come up with this…Enjoy this mad little one shot that will hopefully make you think!
Public Nuisance Number One
"Oh I love reading the morning papers," Scott said sarcastically. "Mutant Menace Plagues Society. Xavier Institute: School or Terrorist Training Camp. Mutant Brawl in the Mall…"
"There's a sale at Macy's!" Kitty read aloud. Everyone at the breakfast table looked at her. "What?"
"It does tend to get discouraging reading about us in a negative light all the time," Hank admitted.
"Kind of discouraging?" Bobby asked. "Man if I had a dollar for every bad thing they wrote about us I'd be as rich as Xavier!"
"Was that really true about the fight in the restaurant with that movie star?" Tim asked. "I heard it was a five way fight between you guys, the FOH, the Mafia, Cobra and the National Hairdressers Association."
"Well you got three out of five right," Kitty groaned.
"For us that's unusually accurate," Hank said.
"No matter how hard we try, people still fear and hate us," Kurt moaned.
"To be fair we do end up doing a lot of property damage," Kitty said.
"Says the girl who once rammed the mayor's car," Scott pointed out.
"I totally had the right of way," Kitty protested. "The judge said so."
"He also said that you should never be allowed to drive again without notifying the Highway Patrol," Scott told her.
"To be honest I'm not that worried about the bad press we get," Hank told them. "Most times no matter how bad the publicity is, it does little but have people talk about you."
"Beast, we're commonly known as insane mutant vigilantes at best and destructive threats to the planet at worst," Scott replied. "No one has worse publicity than we do and gets away with it!"
"Oh really?" Hank raised an eyebrow. "I can think of one group that is even worse. Consider this; among the many allegations and criminal charges 29 of it's members have been accused of spousal abuse, 7 have been arrested for fraud, 19 have been accused of writing bad checks, 3 have done prison time for assault, 8 have been arrested for shoplifting, and 71 cannot get a credit card because they have a history of bad credit."
"Holy cow…" Bobby whistled.
"There's more," Hank added. "Of this same group 14 have been arrested on drug related charges, 21 are defendants in lawsuits, 84 have been arrested for drunk driving this past year and 117 have either directly or indirectly been responsible for bankrupting at least 2 businesses."
"And people call us dangerous?" Kitty gasped. "Who are they? Some kind of crime gang?"
"Interesting way of putting it," Hank said. "But no."
"Celebrities?" Bobby asked.
"In a sense but still wrong," Hank said.
"Businessmen from Wall Street?" Scott asked.
"Wrong again," Hank shook his head.
"Well who is it?" Kitty asked. "Who are all these maniacs running wild and breaking all the laws?"
"It's the members of the United States Congress," Hank told them. "The very same people responsible for making and passing laws each year. Don't you feel better?"
"Actually…I feel worse," Scott moaned. "A lot worse."