Learning About People is Fun
"I can't believe Jubilee gave up a night on the town!" Kitty laughed as she drove the car thought the streets of LA.
"That's because she's smart!" Rahne yelled as she hung on for dear life. "STOP THE CAR! STOP THE CAR!"
"Why?" Kitty pulled over.
"Because I'm going to have a heart attack that's why!" Rahne snapped at her.
"Land! Land!" Amara jumped out of the car and knelt on the ground. "Sweet, sweet land!"
"I wish you guys would really quit giving me a hard time about my driving!" Kitty snapped. "I am not that bad!"
"Kitty you phased the car through not one but three cars while moving in and out of the lanes!" Danielle pointed out. "I think you gave someone a heart attack! And I thought I had the power to scare people!"
"Speaking of which," Paige pointed. "Look over there!"
The Misfits were standing on the street looking around. "Where the hell could they be?" Althea was furious.
"I don't know, but I am getting some great pictures!" Xi was happily taking pictures of the nervous passerby with a digital camera. "Smile Lance!"
"I will kill Psyche-Out for giving you that camera," Lance grumbled.
"If Roadblock hasn't already done so when he went back to the Pit," Wanda said.
"What the heck are the Misfits doing here?" Paige asked.
"We might as well find out," Kitty sighed as they walked over to them. "Hey, what's going on?"
"Oh the usual," Pietro replied. "Wandering aimlessly, getting autographs…"
"Picture!" Xi took a picture of the girls.
"Xi's been on a photo kick lately," Fred explained. "It's part of his therapy. Don't ask."
"We weren't planning to," Rahne sighed.
"So what are you doing?" Wanda asked.
"Looking for new mutants," Amara shrugged.
"What a coincidence," Xi snapped another picture. "So are we."
"Specifically my sisters, Spyder and the Runaways," Althea told them.
"The who?" Tabitha asked.
Althea gave them a quick recap of their mission and what happened earlier that evening. "We think they snuck aboard their giant frog ship and followed them back to their base."
"Can't you use the tracking devices placed in their teleportation watches?" Rina asked.
"We would but for some reason the signal is being blocked," Althea said. "Which means that they can't communicate with us or worse."
"What could be worse than your sisters and Spyder not being able to communicate with us?" Wanda asked.
"That they don't want to communicate with us," Althea told her.
"Which means they must have found some interesting toys…" Lance put it together.
"Oh lord no…" Kitty's face went white.
"They've got a dinosaur right?" Rahne looked worried. "Oh great! Just what we bloody need! Another Princess Fluffietta Tinkerbell incident!"
"Another what?" Kitty looked at her.
"It's a long story…" Angelica sighed.
"It was Firestar's Day Off," Althea remarked. "While the rest of us were on that No Mutant is An Island thing."
"Let's just say the end result was half of Europe getting trashed along with Muir Island…" Rahne told them.
"Yikes," Paige winced.
"Dr. Doom's castle getting covered in toilet paper…" Angelica added.
"Double yikes," Danielle winced.
"Trashing Emma Frost's hotel room," Angelica continued.
"Not to mention a very messy encounter with some sheep in Wales…" Rahne went on.
"Okay! Okay! We get the picture!" Kitty threw up her hands. "We gotta find them before they do something to trash all of LA!"
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"GET OFF MY DINOSAUR YOU LITTLE MANIACS!" Gert screamed at Trinity.
"WHEEE!" They rode a very frightened Old Lace around. Molly and Spyder were running around laughing. The Hostel was covered in toilet paper and silly string and smelled of smoke from the few fires that were started.
"Give me back my pants!" Chase stormed after them wearing nothing but his boxers.
"Not that I'm not enjoying the view," Gert groaned as she untangled herself from some silly string. "We gotta do something! These girls are out of control!"
"Where did they get all those pixie sticks?" Karolina asked. "And how did they eat so many so fast?"
"Nico can't you just freeze them?" Chase asked. "You know, like before?"
"It's a magic staff of power, not a remote control," Nico told him. "It needs to recharge especially after the workout it got tonight! Andyou know I can't use the same spell twice during a certain period of time."
"Besides we can't use our full powers on 'em," Gert said. "They're just kids."
ZAP!
"Oops!" Spyder yelled. "What did I just short out?"
"Just Arsenic's parents time machine," Molly said. "Don't worry it doesn't work anymore."
BOOM!
"And it looks like it will never work again," Brittany remarked.
"Evil demonic Hell spawn kids," Gert's eye twitched. "We gotta send these kids back where they came from."
POW!
"Ooh! Pretty blue smoke," Molly cheered. "Do it again, Spyder!"
"I think I have a pretty good idea where they came from," Chase grumbled as he retrieved his pants from the rafters. "Got 'em! Whoa!" He fell down. "I'm okay…"
"Yeah, but then they might bring the others back to the Hostel," Nico said.
"Assuming that the Hostel is still standing," Gert told her. "FOR CRYING OUT LOUD HOW DID THAT FIRE START?"
"You have a point," Karolina grabbed the fire extinguisher again.
"WHEEE!" Trinity was flying around carrying Molly.
"Giddyap!" Spyder was now riding Old Lace.
"And to think for a minute I felt sorry for those kids for living on an army base," Gert groaned.
"Never thought I'd feel so bad for the Army," Nico groaned. "Keeping those maniacs here is out of the question!"
"We're bringing them back…" Gert had a look in her eyes. "I swear to God we are bringing them back even if we have to look for their group all night!"
"Maybe we could get them to take Molly?" Chase groaned.
"I heard that!" Molly shouted.
BANG! BOOM!
"DID YOU JUST PUT A DENT IN THE LEAPFROG?" Chase screamed. "THAT'S IT! GET ME MY FIRE GAUNTLETS! YOU'RE DEAD!"
"Uh…" Spyder gulped. "Maybe we should go home now?"
"Okay! We love ya! Bye Bye!" Trinity chirped. They used their teleportation watches to disappear with Spyder.
"Did they just…?" Chase blinked. "How did they…?"
"WHO CARES!" Gert whooped. "They're gone!"
"But what if they come back?" Nico asked.
"Then we run!" Chase told them. "Run away as fast as we can!"
"Sounds like a plan to me," Gert sighed.
"But they were a lot of fun!" Molly whined. "I want them to come back again!"
"You know Chase…" Gert's eye twitched. "Maybe we should let them take Molly!"
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"I can't believe I'm doing this," Jubilee sighed. "I'll have the cheese fries."
"Make it a jumbo plate," Shane told the waitress. They were in a small diner a few blocks from the house. "So…Uh…You from around here?"
"Smooth Shane," Jubilee smirked. "You know just what to say to the ladies."
"Okay so I don't date much," Shane admitted.
"I guess running a gang does take a lot out of your social life."
"Well…Yeah," Shane shrugged. "So are you? From here I mean?"
"Yes I'm from LA," Jubilee said. "But I've been living in New York since my parents…died."
"Oh," Shane said. "Sorry."
"Yeah well…" Jubilee sighed. "I know we never got along much. We…disagreed on a lot of things. I even ran away from home for a few months and lived in a mall before…Well before I went to this boarding school."
"You were homeless?" Shane blinked.
"I prefer to call myself a temporary mall resident," Jubilee told him. "Long story short they died, I became somebody's foster kid and I'm visiting my wealthy aunt. But it's okay. I mean the guy who's looking after me is pretty cool and his daughter is like a sister to me now. So what's your story?"
"Pretty typical," Shane shrugged. "Mom had me in her teens. My dad took off before I was born. Mom got addicted to drugs and died cause of 'em. That's why I can't stand 'em. Lived with my grandmother. When she died I moved in with my uncle. He was pretty cool I guess. Didn't beat me or nothin'. Then again he wasn't exactly a perfect role model. Let's just say he liked to play the ponies more than he should have. Took off a couple of months ago to hide from his bookie and I haven't heard from him since."
"Wow…That's pretty rough," Jubilee said.
"It's a'ight," Shane waved. "I mean he left me with his apartment and as long as I pay rent nobody's gonna call social services or nothin'. I do okay."
"How old are you?" Jubilee asked.
"Seventeen," Shane shrugged. "Dropped outta school when I was sixteen. I wasn't learning nothing. Didn't need it. I applied myself, put my plans in motion and went into the workforce. Now I run my own crew. I'm a self made man."
"I wouldn't exactly call what you do being part of the workforce," Jubilee smirked.
"Depends on how you look at it," Shane shrugged. "Not all of us are debutantes ya know?"
"Puh-leeze," Jubilee rolled her eyes. "Do I look like princess material to you?"
"You look fine to me," Shane grinned. "Uh…"
"Yeah well…" Jubilee shrugged, slightly embarrassed. "I used to want to be a gymnast."
"No kidding? You any good?"
"Top notch. Could have probably gone to the Olympics but things…Well lets just say life got in my way."
"Speaking of which," Shane noticed something. "We got trouble."
"What?" Jubilee asked as she looked over her shoulder. Seven large beefy gang members had walked into the diner.
"This night just keeps getting better," Shane groaned. "Girl get under the table and stay there!"
"No way," Jubilee said. "I'm tougher than I look!"
"Don't argue with me girl!" Shane shouted as he saw them pull out some guns at him. "GET DOWN!"
Without thinking both Jubilee and Shane reacted as the guns started to fire. Both of them used their powers to shoot at and blind their attackers. "They're both freaks!" One of the gang members clutched his wounded arm. "Get 'em!"
"You're a mutant?" Both of them shouted at each other.
Two of the gang members who had dropped their guns advanced on them with machetes. Jubilee did a flip and kicked the weapons out of their hands. Then she did a back flip, landing behind another one who was shooting at Shane and punched him out. "Told you I was good in gymnastics!"
"Yeah now let's see how you do in the three mile dash!" Shane grabbed her hand and they ran out the door. The sound of sirens could be heard. They managed to shake their pursuers in the confusion. They finally stopped to catch their breath a few blocks away.
"That was…some date," Jubilee panted.
"You didn't have to do that," Shane told her.
"Yeah well since they decided to shoot at me too, I kind of did!" Jubilee told him. "So…You're a mutant too?"
"Yeah. This school in New York," Shane looked at her. "It wouldn't happen to be that Xavier place I keep hearing about on the news is it?"
"Yup," Jubilee panted.
"And that bald guy who runs the joint is your foster dad?"
"Nope," Jubilee shook her head. "The big hairy dude with the claws is."
"Not the blue guy?"
"No, that's Dr. McCoy. The other big hairy dude with claws. The metal ones."
"The one called Wolverine?"
"That's him?"
"And he has a kid?"
"Well technically she's his clone, but yeah. She's my foster sister."
"Clone? You're joking?"
"Nope. One hundred percent Wolverine only without the Y chromosome. And some extra claws in her feet."
"Jeez…" Shane leaned back against the wall. "And I thought I ran around with some crazy dudes! You're right, you are tougher than you look!"
"You have to be if you fight evil mutants and other crazies every other day," Jubilee sighed. "And to think, I came to LA to get a vacation from that!"
"I think we'd better split up," Shane sighed.
"Good idea," Jubilee ran off. "Goodbye!"
"No, I meant…" Shane shouted after her but she was too fast. "Damn…What a girl. Damn it, Shane forget her, she's way out of your league. Course now that I say it aloud…That makes me want her even more!"