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Sleeping Beauty
Scene 8: When Bad Plans Turn Good, huh?
Kitty is rubbing her hands together evilly when Raven and Lightning get there. They notice, but shrug it off, with anyone but Kitty they might have cared. Gambit is off in a shadowy corner glaring at Lightning. Rogue comes up to him, "What all this stuff Kitty's been going on about?"
"Oh, just some nonsense 'bout getting Raven back for her comment yesterday. Not'ing big, it is Kitty's plan after all."
"They're planning something." Lightning smirks. "I can hear Gambit and Rogue whispering about it."
"Enhanced hearing sure comes in handy, doesn't it?" Raven smiles at him.
"Yeah, just be on your toes."
Mystique comes up to them, "So, um, we're obviously related, aren't we?" she says to Raven.
Raven rolls her eyes. "Well, there is a slight resemblance, isn't there?" She says with great sarcasm.
"Out of curiosity, what do you call me where you come from?"
"Grandmother." Meanwhile, Logan and Victor are perking their ears up and listening closely.
"Oh, okay, why am I listening to you then?"
"Because I am the only telepath here powerful enough to go into your mind and find out your deepest, darkest fantasies . . ." Raven pauses, "And then project them to everyone else."
A look of horror crosses Mystique's mind, not even Mesmero could enter her mind, and if Sabretooth and Wolverine saw some of the things she had thought. . . "Oh, um, that's a very good reason. So, could you help me real quick?"
"Sure. What do you need?"
"I don't think I can read this script. . .it has too many big words." she says evilly. Kitty laughs evilly in the distance and Raven rolls her eyes.
"Please tell me that's not the best you can come up with?" she asks Shadowcat.
"Let's just start the show." Lightning says.
"We will start the show, when I say we will and not before then." she says.
"Well, then, you start the show."
"Why should I?"
"It's better than waiting around for Kitty's revenge isn't it?"
"Okay, okay. Lights! Camera! Action!" she gives in.
Three fairies land on the drawbridge of a dark foreboding castle. "How did they get this castle in a sound studio?" Tabby asks loudly.
"Who knows." Jean says. "Now, shut up. Piotr's coming."
Kitty squeals. "Hi, Piotr! Hi!" She waves.
Raven turns to Lightning, "This is gonna be a long day, isn't it?"
"You're telling me? Bobby just froze me to the chair." he groans. "So cold."
"Okay, start this over, this time, Kitty, no talking to the goblins or I'll spill about the dream you had last night!" Raven says. Kitty gulps. This time the fairies hid behind a pillar as Piotr walks out to the edge of the bridge and looks around, but not very well. As he turns around, the fairies notice a hole in the wall where the chain that holds up the drawbridge enters the castle. Forge's holograms are once again seen flying up the chain and into the tiny hole.
The enter the hole only to almost run into Blob who is pretending to be asleep. "Pass the peanuts," he mumbles. "Setting Raven on fire. . ." Raven glares at John.
"Hey! Don't look at me, mate! You got my flame thrower, remember?" Raven just shakes her head and allows the three fairy holograms to act horrified and they fly in the opposite direction, only to almost hit Toad. They change directions again and almost hit a gargoyle which frightens them as much as the goblins. This goes on for a while. They come upon a window and look inside it.
The scene changes to all the goblins, except for Piotr, Blob and Toad, dancing around a purple fire. "All right! Who's the wise guy?" Lightning calls, shivering.
"What?" the goblins ask.
"The fire's supposed to be green, not purple!" Raven says.
"Let me help you." Amara says to Lightning. She shoots lava at the ice.
"Amara! That's not the best way to get a person out of ice!" Lightning shouts, jumping out of the chair as it melts.
"I thought the script said purple fire." John says scratching his head. "Maybe there's too many big words."
Raven and Lightning groan. "I'm gonna go get a new chair." Lightning says. Another second, and he's back.
"Well, let's get some green fire, okay?" Raven says with a very threatening look at his flame thrower.
"Green, right. I'll just get right on that, shelia."
Moments later, there is a green fire and the goblins are dancing around it. "That's better." Raven mutters.
"This is so humiliating," Sabretooth says to Mastermind, who nods in agreement. Logan is enjoying himself very much watching this part from behind the stage.
The camera zooms in on the throne where Mystique and Kurt are watching the celebration.
"What a pity Prince Remy can't be here to enjoy the celebration." Mystique says, petting Kurt's head.
"Ouch, Mozer, not so hard!" Kurt winces.
"Kurt, birds do not talk!" Raven says.
Kurt glares at her. Mystique is glaring at him too. She does not want Raven mad at her.
"Come," she says, standing up. "We must go to the dungeon and cheer him up." They walk down a staircase. The fairy holograms follow, being careful not to be seen. Mystique and Kurt enter a cell. Kurt stares grinning at Remy, who is chained up and not looking too happy about it. "Oh, Come now, Prince Remy. Why so melancholy? A wondrous future lies before you. You, the destined hero of a charming fairy tale come true." The fairy holograms look in the window of the door. Mystique waves her hand over her trident. "Behold. . . King Stephan's castle."
The scene changes to the castle, then zooms in on the topmost tower. Mystique's voice is heard saying, "And in yonder topmost tower, dreaming of her true love, the Princess Anna Marie." The scene changes to Rogue asleep in the bed. "But see the gracious whim of fate, 'tis the selfsame peasant maid who won the heart of our noble prince but yesterday." The camera zooms in for a close up of Rogue's face. She tries very hard not to twitch. "She is indeed most wondrous fair."
"Don't have to tell Remy t'at. He got eyes ya know." he mutters.
"Gambit!" Raven and Lightning yell. Gambit pouts.
"Stripes in her brown hair. Lips that shame the red, red rose. In ageless sleep, she finds repose." The camera then changes to a close up of Mystique's face. "The years roll by, but a hundred years to a steadfast heart are but a day." The last part was said very cruelly. Her voices softens, "And now the gates to the dungeon part and our Prince is free to go his way." The scene changes to the gates opening and Remy in a long beard, hunched over rides a tired looking "horse" out of them. "A valiant figure, straight and tall," The scene changes back to the dungeon, "to wake his love with love's first kiss and prove that true love conquers all." She laughs evilly and Remy stands up, fighting against the chains.
"Why you, you . . ." Tabby's voice says as her hologram flies towards Mystique, but is held back by Jean's hologram. The holograms hide as Kurt looks sharply at the door.
"Come my pet," Mystique says to him, "Let us leave our noble Prince with these happy thoughts." Remy keeps fighting the chains while they head to the door. "A most gratifying day." As they close the door behind them, she turns to Kurt and says, "For the first time in sixteen years, I shall sleep well." Kurt watches the door as they walk away.
"Well, at least Mystique's playing her part right." Raven mutters, digging a spike out of Lightning's side and watching as the wound heals itself. She glares at Evan.
"Hey, man, I said I was sorry." he says, shrugging.
The three holograms come out of their hiding place. They watch as Mystique climbs a staircase to a high tower. Kurt sits outside it. The holograms fly into the cell and grow. They are replaced by their living counterparts. Remy is sitting again, with his head in his hand, utterly hopeless. He looks up as the fairies land.
"Shh! Pretty boy, no time to explain." Jean says flirtatiously.
Rogue suddenly gets very angry, "Jean Grey! Ah swear Ah'm gonna kill ya!" She bounds on the stage. Raven starts doing that thing where you look like you're crying, but no tears are coming out.
Tabby joins Rogue's side, "Yeah, Jean. What about Scott?"
"Rogue, I thought you, like, said you hated Remy." Kitty says.
"Ah do, but Scott is my friend, and Ah won't stand by and watch ya make a fool outa him!"
"T'at not what you told Remy last night, cherie." Remy says to Rogue.
"You stay out av this, Swamp Rat!"
"Enough!" Raven yells. "Rogue, go back to being asleep! Jean, no flirting with Remy! Scott, don't even think about it! Gambit, stop looking so smug! Pietro, stop filming the fight!" At the tone in her voice, everyone does what she says.
"It was just a joke anyway." Jean says. "I wouldn't dream of cheating on Scott." She shrugs and does the line over without the "pretty boy" comment.
Jean and Kitty point their wands at the chains and they come off. Tabby points hers at the door lock and with Amara's help it melts. "Wait, Prince Remy." Jean says, when he is finally free and starts to leave, "The road to true love may be barred, barred? Okay, yeah, barred with still many more dangers which you alone will have to face." Tabby looks out the door to see if anyone is coming. "So, arm yourself with this enchanted shield of virtue," and Pietro runs in, placing a shield in Remy's hand. "and this mighty sword of truth." Pietro runs in with a sword this time. Remy looks at them in awe. "For these weapons of righteousness will triumph over evil. Now, come. We must hurry. Boy, there were a lot of big words in that one, Raven." Raven glares and shakes the script at her.
The fairies and Remy walk out of the cell and straight into Kurt, who caws and teleports away. "Um, if Kurt doesn't have to wear a bird costume, like, why does he have to caw?" Kitty asks.
"Because we said so." Lightning groans. Just then, Lance and Piotr start fighting and using their powers. The entire stage collapses.
"Cut," Raven says. "I can't take anymore of this. The escape will have to take place next scene. Undisciplined fools." she mutters.
"Like, all a part of my evil plan," Kitty laughs.
"It was your plan to make the stage collapse?" Lightning asks.
"Well, no, Lance and Piotr, like, did that on their own." she says.
"What are you two fighting over anyway?" Wanda asks them.
"Kitty." they say at the same time.
"No! No! Noooooooo! No more synchronized sentences!" yells Scott running out of the studio without remembering to take off his horse costume. Everyone looks at his retreating form in confusion.
"Well, that was odd." Lance says.
"Da, I vonder vhat is vrong vith him?" Piotr shrugs. Kitty and Piotr walk off hand in hand. Lance scowls.
"So, Mystique's your Grandmother, huh?" Rogue says out of the blue.
Raven gulps. "Uh, where did you hear that rumor . . . ?" she says weakly.
"Wolverine told us." Gambit smirks.
"And combined with what ya already told me." Rogue says with an amused glint in her eye.
Raven starts backing away slowly. "Uh, I think I hear my Momma calling."
"Uh huh." Rogue says, following her.
"I told you coming back in time was a bad decision!" she yells at Lightning.
"Hey, it was Lily's idea!"
"Let's get out of here."
"Now, there's a good idea." They take off.
"Come back, here!" Rogue hollers.
"You have some explaining to do, petite!" Remy yells. But they are gone, probably miles away. "So, Rogue, what did t'ey tell you?"
"Uhh, nothing?" she tries.
"Somehow," he says leaning in very close to her face, "Remy don't believe you."
"Excuse me, Ah think Ah hear my Momma calling." she runs off before he realizes Mystique is standing right behind him.
And we will leave Remy confused for now.
A/N: Hope you enjoyed this senseless madness, next comes the escape from the forbidden mountain.