JUBILEE AND JUBILATION
PART
EIGHT
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
"Well it's way past dinner, and Sean just told me he's been making the children wait on us, so lets all go down and have dinner. I'll explain that it's Jubilation, not Jubilee, that will be eating with them. Jubilation, I hope your ready." Frosty said and stood. We all followed suit and off we marched to the kitchen.
"Dinner time!" Frosty called out as we got down there.
""Finally food!" was the call back from nearly everyone.
"Students listen please. Before we eat I have an announcement. While in therapy, we got a hold of a Doctor Samson. To help us he will be coming over here every Thursday and Sunday for the foreseeable future. Doctor Samson has an exercise for Jubilee's other personality, which is named Jubilation. He wants Jubilation to spend at least two hours a day, if not more, in the company of Jubilee's family and friends,. So in accordance with this it is not Jubilee, but Jubilation who will be eating dinner with us. She will have to be with you at least two hours daily so please get to know her now." And the she sat down after dropping her little bomb shell.
There was just silence for a long moment as all my friends looked at Jubilation like, 'She's not Jubilee, what the fuck?' Jubilation eventually couldn't take it any more and said "Hello, I'm Jubilation. How do you do? I really haven't been out this much for ages, so please, be easy on me. Now does any one want to ask those questions I know you all have?"
Shocked out of their silence, the questions started. First to bat was, not surprisingly, Monet. "So Jubilation, is it? Which was the founding personality? You or Jubilee? And why were you split and that?"
"I knew you'd be the one to ask that question. I am the founding personality and as to why I created Jubilee, well let's just say I hated my self and Jubilee was a mask to show the world that I didn't. Funny thing is the mask became more and more real, till it was it's own life. And then I just contently faded into the background of my mind, thinking I'd be happy never to show my self again."
"Oh, and a little warning Monet. Stop being such a bitch to us. Jubilee doesn't like us and neither do I. the only difference is while Jubilee can jus except the fact that you are a bitch and move on, be one with me and you'll be eating out of a straw, if your lucky."
She looked extremely pissed after that, but didn't know what to say. 'You shouldn't have said that. At least you could of gotten her alone to threaten her with bodily harm.' I thought at Jubilation.
'She needed to know I won't put with any of her shit.' Was the reply.
As the food arrived, Jono asked "Well love, I have a question. Why did your power spike like this? I mean nothing hinted to you having this much power before, right?'
"Well actually your wrong there Jonathan. The Professor and a few chosen X-Men knew about my power going this high. The Professor wanted to keep it all hush-hush and convinced the ones who wanted to talk to keep their mouths shut. And I have always been this powerful, have for a long time. Jubilee on the other hand, well when she was born she, was shall we say, quite scared of her power and so bound up almost all of it. I told her it was stupid and no matter what happened she would not take the shackles off. It took see the death of the man we both love to make her relies that she was wrong. He never would have died if she was at full power then."
Angelo, seeing that Jubilation was finished, speedily finished swallowing and asked, while at the same time trying to get his breathing back to normal, "I have two questions, for the both of you, and uh, no offence Jubilation, but I want to hear Jubilee's answer first. So can you put her back in the driving seat, as it were?"
Jubilation Looked a Frosty for permission. "Well al Doctor Samson said was two hours a day. Come to think of it he never said two strait hours a day, so let's put in this little rule. Jubilee can come out any time she wants as long as Jubilation makes her required two hours every day. If she doesn't though, the next day will be a timed two strait hours as punishment. With exception to extraordinary circumstances, like being invaded by hostile forces, or just an uninvited guest. So you can answer this and as many questions as you want. Just make sure we know who's out when."
I was back in con troll in an instant. "Sure thing Frosty! Jubilee signing in. But really Frosty, I think it will be easy to tell the two of us apart. I mean not only do the two of us talk different, we have different mannerisms. Hell, even our body langue is different."
"You may be right, but it will easier on us given us given the speed at which you can switch control of your body. I mean I was startled to see you back less then a second after I had given permission!"
"A-OK miss Frostmiceter, to lessen startlement, we will comply." Laughter from around the table.
"Ok, skinny, shoot with the Questions."
"Well I want to know, how do you feel now that you are supposedly the most powerful being on this planet? And I want to know how you feel now that the X-Men are treating you like crap."
I blinked in surprise. I blinked again. Then I blinked some more just get my thoughts together. Then I slowly began to answer the questions. "I am scared. I am well and truly scared. I mean if the Phoenix is terrified by my power then, then everyone else will be, will be whatever is beyond terrified! Won't they?" I asked starting to cry.
"Jubilee, honey, look at me." Jean said full of concern. I turned to look at her. "Jubilee, you got to understand, the Phoenix, well it is scared of you because of what Jubilation did to it. Till then nobody had ever done anything like that to it, it never met something that could. It just did what ever it wanted to with no fear of reprisal, for its actions, because the only things more power full then it, just didn't care. Then it met a more powerful being that actually did care, and was pissed enough to teach it a 'gentle' lesson, promising a 'harsh' lesson if it acted up again. But Jubilee I've seen what you can do, and while I was shocked at the moment, I got over it. I'm still here for you as a member of you family, and Logan he saw some of what you can do and was told the rest, and he's going out on a date with you. And I'm sure that the X-Men who are just startled by you, will get over it soon, and come see you to apologize. Just give them time. Jubilee, you must understand, it's not your power that will scare most people, but what you do with it that will. So, you must see that while the Phoenix's fear of you IS justified, and similarly I and Logan's lack of fear IS justified, the other X-Men's fear of you IS NOT justified. Just like anyone else's fear of you with out you giving them good provocation WILL NOT BE justified. Do you understand Jubilee?"
"Yes I understand." I said, still sniffling a little. "It's just that I'm so mad and scared that I kind of forgot that I knew that. I mean, it hurts that most of my family thinks that just because I'm so damn powerful now I'm going to get a sudden goddess complex and try to takeover the world, and failing that destroy it. I for one have never understood those megalomaniacs who actually want to take over the world. Please, let's just think this through logically and it's totally obvious that it's a bad idea. Well first you have to conquer it. Good luck there, everyone on the whole damn planet will be opposing you. That's going to be one tough fight. Ok, let's say you made it passed step one. On to step two, you've conquered earth and are now emperor or empress of earth as the case may be. Step two, is crushing all rebellion, that's a time consuming and frustrating job, but as your doing that you're also doing step three setting up your new worldwide government. That is a monster of a job. I mean can you image the level of detail needed to do it? Then step four. You have to start enforcing your government's laws, till everyone is compliant with your will. A lot of time spent there. Next is step five, the last step. The true headache of actually governing the entire world, while at the same time still doing step two, finding and crushing rebellion, cause step two never fucking ends. I mean, do you guys have any idea how hard it would be for a single person to effectively rule the planet? It would not only take a monstrous power, but a monstrous amount of time , work and effort. All in all, it is just one of the hugest pain in the ass job you could inflict on your self, and is a pain in the ass I, personally, feel I have no need for. And I really don't understand why there are those who do."
As I paused for a breath to continue, Wolvie broke the stunned silence by laughing, and then saying "My god. I want to hear her say that to those creeps like Magneto, and Apocalypse and Dr. Doom. Oh, could you imagine Doom's facial expression under that tin mask of his. It'd be priceless, priceless I tell you."
He then chuckled at his thoughts as I went on. "Uh, continuing on my little thought train. On destroying the world. Even worse idea. Again let us think this through logically. Even if Henry is right and I am now immortal, thus could live through blowing up the planet and it's immediate repercussions, well I'd still be stuck in space all alone, till I met some sentient life. We all know how far away that is and how often aliens come to visit, usually just to attack, and that would stop as soon as it got around that there is no more planet earth. So, I'd be stuck having to ever so slowly make my way to the nearest habitable plant I could find, hopefully with some sentient life on it. Can you say 'This was a bad idea'? And how do I personally see it? Well no more planet means no more people. No more people means no more population centers. No more population centers means no more cities. No more cities means no more malls. No more malls means no more shopping for me. No more shopping for me would just drive me crazy. I mean can you picture me without my almost daily mall excursion? I'd be a total and utter basket case. You can see now that I must protect the malls of the world? Don't you? My very sanity hangs in the balance." Everyone started laughing at this. I guess I shouldn't tell them I was serious.
After the laughter died, I said "Anglo, sorry for the totally round about way of answering you questions. To sum it up Quickly, I guess I'm a little scared of how I'll be seen, being this powerful. I'm not used to being able to be classified as a potential world wide threat. And I'm really pissed at some of the X-Men. Not the ones I just startled, I can forgive and even understand them. It's the one's that see me as the next big bad gal they have to save the world from. I mean I'm still just the kid they took in when she was thirteen and idolized all of them. They have known me for four years, do they really think that just because I'm now this powerful I'm going to turn on them? Well sure it's happened enough, but there has to be a first that doesn't go power mad, right? Well I aim to be that one. I guess I guess I'll let Jubilation answer you now. I just know she'll be shorter with her answer, guaranteed."
Jubilation was back in the saddle. She imminently said "As to my power Angelo, I am fine with it. Jubilee never should have bottled it up, it would have saved her a lot of grief. As to the X-Men problem, it's simple. I simply do not care if they are Jubilee's adopted family. If they attack me, I'll atomize them."
"You'd kill them?"
"Yes I would. Unlike Jubilee, I have no trouble with it. In any case it would be self defense, they would be attacking me, remember? I'm not going after them."
A little silence at that point. It was broken by Wolvie saying "Well let us hope they're not that stupid cause I'd help you."
"And god help me, I'd help too." Jean shocked me by saying. But then I realized, if they were attacking me, they would also be attacking Jean too. She'd have no choice. And she was experienced enough to see that.
"Well, let us not talk about defending ourselves from supposed friends till it seems that it is inevitable." Frosty stated. She sounded like she thought it could happen.