Only the Lonely

Chapter 12: All Good Things

By

The Uncanny R-Man

Disclaimer- All familiar characters belong to Marvel.

Shout Outs-

Ellen- Oh yeah, Lockheed is here. Pity this story has ended. You can look forward to one last battle from Pete and Lockheed here though. That was the reason I brought the dragon in anyway.

MasterBrattan- I think I know who you mean. It was that Ord guy in Astonishing X-Men, wasn't it?

Matt3671- Wisdom knew what he was going on about of course. Watching Monty Python and the Holy Grail is practically a law over here in Britain. Okay. Perhaps not…

TheLegendaryManHimself- Oh yeah, Bobby did have a great dream. I wouldn't mind in on that, would you?

Agent-G- Yup, Monty Python and the Holy Grail is indeed one of the funniest movies EVER. I'm thinking up a sequel as we speak…

Bayville High-

Bayville High was a hive of activity as people rushed all over the school. It was the day that every senior had looked forward to: Graduation Day! The students calmly filed outside the school where the principal would begin the graduation ceremony.

The students were dressed in maroon robes with matching mortarboards.

Kurt Warner, Meggan, Kitty Pryde and the rest of the class all sat down on the bleachers with the rest of the students.

'Omigod!' Kitty squeaked excitedly. 'I can't like, believe we're going to actually graduate! This is so cool!'

'Yeah, we heard ya the last fifteen tahmes.' Rogue sighed as she adjusted the hem of her robe. 'Why did we have to wear maroon? Ah hate maroon. Maroon makes meh look fat.'

'I guess we can blame the yearbook staff for that.' Meggan said as she shot Kitty a glare. 'At least it isn't their first choice though.'

Kurt shivered in revulsion as he thought of that.

'Mein Gott.' He groaned. 'Ve vould look terrible in pink robes. Ve'd look like giant pink marshmallows!'

'Hey!' Kitty hissed as she swatted Kurt on the arm. 'There's nothing wrong with pink! It's like, functional.'

'This hurts meh to say this, Kit…' Rogue admitted as she put her arm around Kitty's shoulders. 'But… Your taste in clothes sucks.'

'Now Rogue…' Meggan mock scolded. 'Kitty can't help but be born without any fashion sense. Let's give her a break, okay? This is our special day. Let's leave the teasing until later.'

'Spoil mah fun…' Rogue pouted.

Kitty shot her roommate with a glare.

'You're not gonna go ninja on us, are ya Pryde?' Pete Wisdom, Kitty's boyfriend, asked as he plopped down beside them. 'Cuz I don't think they'd be bale to take the pain.'

'Now there's somebody that has faith in me.' Kitty nodded in satisfaction. 'Thanks Pete. You're like, the greatest.'

'D'you wanna make out in me car? We've still got some time to kill until the ceremony starts.'

'Eww!' Kitty sneered as she pushed Pete away. 'Get away from me you pervert!'

'Dude. Denied!' Kurt teased.

'Oh bugger off.' Pete groused as he walked off to join the rest of the students' families.

'He still a little sore after this morning?' Meggan asked.

'Oh yeah.' Kitty replied. 'He keeps on saying that Lockheed steals his cigarettes and buries them in the backyard. Can you believe that? It's so like, dumb. Lockheed wouldn't do such a thing.'

'Remind meh to tell yah what I saw him don' in yah panty drawer the other day some time.' Rogue snickered.

Kitty blinked in surprise at that comment.

'What do you mean Lockheed's like, been in my panty drawer?' Kitty blinked.

'I think yah dragon might have some kinda fetish.' Rogue replied.

Kitty just snorted in derision.

'That's like, rubbish!' Kitty snorted. 'Lockheed doesn't have a panty fetish. Right…?'

'He was watching me in the shower the other day.' Meggan remembered.

'So zhat vas vhat you screamed for.' Kurt nodded in realisation. 'I zhink your dragon might need a talk on appropriate behaviour, Katzchen.'

'Oh shut up! The whole lot of you!' Kitty sniffed. 'You're just making stuff up now. You're all like, so lame!'

'Think whatever yah want, Kit.' Rogue shrugged. 'But ah don't want to be the one to tell Logan that his cigars have mysteriously disappeared.'

'They haven't!' Kitty gasped.

'Fraid so.' Meggan confirmed. 'And we think we know the culprit.'

'Lockheed's a dead dragon.' Kurt sighed. 'Sorry, Katzchen.'

'Now I know that you're all like, messing with me!' Kitty said. 'Mister Logan would never hurt Lockheed. Right?'

'Remember the time that Bobby froze his stash of Scotch?' Meggan asked. 'Poor Iceman hid up a tree for a week after that.'

'Oh God…' Kitty groaned. 'Lockheed's a goner!'

Identical smiles slowly spread on the others' faces.

'Psyche!' Kurt grinned. 'Mein Gott, Katzchen. You are so gullible!'

Kitty growled deep in her throat and grabbed Kurt by the throat.

'Stupid elf! You go squish now!'

'Meggan! Help!' Kurt croaked as Kitty tightened her grip on his throat. 'Katzchen. She's gone mental!'

'Sorry, Fuzzy.' Meggan shrugged nonchalantly. 'You're on your own there.'

Later-

The principal had taken the stage and was beginning the graduation ceremony.

Much to the mutant students' relief, Robert Edward Kelly was fired from his position as principle after his increasingly bigoted views on mutants surfaced. Ever since the Apocalypse business, people had regarded mutants in a more or less equal way. Laws had quickly been changed to promote equality between mutants and baseline humans. But inevitably, there were people that voiced their dissent about the new laws but they soon found their voices drowned out by the superior numbers of those that supported mutants.

'The last semester has been one of change.' The principal began. 'For the students and Bayville High. Fortunately, most of those changes have been for the better. Bayville High has now become a haven of tolerance. Everybody has been welcome at Bayville High, no matter their background.'

And so the principal went on, promoting equality for mutants, humans, everybody.

Then it was time for the students to accept their graduaction certificates. One-by-one, everybody's name was called and they stepped up to accept their scrolls. Even the Brotherhood had graduated, which surprised most people as you could tell.

Once everybody had accepted their scrolls, the principal returned to the microphone.

'And now I'd like to congratulate the Bayville High School Class of 2005 on graduating. Congratulations!'

Everybody threw up their mortarboards in celebration amidst a gigantic cheer.

The X-Mansion, the next day-

After the graduation ceremony came the graduation party, with the drinking and much joyous merriment. All of the X-Men that were in the graduating class were partying like their lives depended on it.

However, with much consumption of miscellaneous malt beverages came the inevitable hangovers. Proving that her inability to handle alcohol hadn't changed, Kitty Pryde was once more laid up with a bitch of a hangover. And she was super grouchy to boot. Not even Lockheed dared to approach her.

Two mutants that were able to handle their booze were Kurt and Meggan. They were both standing outside the mansion packing up Kurt's car. The Wagners, wanting to treat their foster son for a successful graduation, gave him his own car. It was similar to Scott's, but it was blue instead of red.

Kurt and Meggan were spending the summer break on a cross-country road trip. Kitty, Pete and Rogue were supposed to come along too, but due to Kitty's hangover, they were already running late.

'I cannot believe zhat girl got drunk again!' Kurt ranted as he struggled to close the trunk. 'Katzchen very well knows zhat she can't handle her booze.'

'Well, you know how easy it is for her to get drunk, Fuzzy.' Meggan chuckled as she slammed the trunk down with her super-strength. 'Just half a glass and whoosh, she's off.'

'Poor, innocent Katzchen.' Kurt sighed as he shook his head. 'Shall I go and tell zhem to get a move on?'

'No need, Blue.' Rogue replied as she walked out of the door with her case. 'We're already here.'

Kurt looked behind his sister to see Pete holding up a rather groggy Kitty.

'Do you think it's safe for her to travel in a car?' Meggan wondered.

'M'fine…' Kitty muttered weakly. 'There's nuthin' wrong with me. I'm no' hung over…'

That was proven to be untrue. As Kitty took her first step out of the mansion… she put her hand to her mouth.

'Oh God! I'm gonna puke!'

Kurt sighed heavily as he watched Kitty run back inside.

'It's going to be a loooong ride.'

END…

Well, that's the end of this fic, everybody. I hope you all enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. I'm already planning a sequel to this chronicling our merry band of mutants' road trip. You can look forward to Cajuns, werewolves and a certain scarf-toting Doctor. See you there!