Ok, this chapter's a little better than the last one, but it's not THAT much better...anyway, I apparently have TWO readers now...except I'm debating whether or not Pyrotic should count, since, well, someone already reads this stuff...confusing, right? Think nothing of it! Just read and...stuff...
The entire population of the Xavier Institute had been waiting anxiously for the small party of mutants to return from their mission. So, obviously, there was a huge crowd of students, Brotherhood members, and Nucleo followers waiting for the hangar door to open as the X-Jet landed.
"Everyone move!" Storm shouted as the hangar door opened.
"Good tidings of joy to you, too," Erin crossed her arms.
"We just need to get Allen to the medical center!" Storm parted the huge mass of people, followed by Tony, still carrying Allen.
"I knew we shouldn't have let the students go!" Scott ground his teeth, frustrated.
"Cool yer jets, man, he's just sleeping," Roy said in a you're-too-stressed tone.
The twins left the hangar last, bowing and waving, like they had just saved the entire world.
"Thank you, thank you," Shawn said loudly, "Please hold your applause!"
"No need to wallow in our greatness!" Aaron said, his arms spread wide.
"Give me a break," Ray muttered.
"What happened?" Bobby could barely contain himself, "How did it go?"
"Ah, I think I feel a song coming on," Aaron said, glancing at Shawn and taking a deep breath.
"NO!" Shawn shouted, "Please, not that! We'll just gather in the living room and have a little story time."
While the Xavier, Magneto, Nucleo, and the rest of the X-Men were taking Allen to the medical center, the students, Brotherhood members, and Nucleo followers assembled in the living room to hear the twins' story.
"Hurry up and tell the story," Pietro said, nearly unintelligibly, "We don't have all day."
"Hold your horses," Shawn made himself comfortable on a couch.
"Secure your stallions," Aaron added as he sat down next to his brother.
"Protect your ponies," Shawn grinned.
"Seize your steeds," Aaron said proudly.
"ENOUGH!" Photon shouted.
There was a brief silence while the twins looked at each other, realized what they were there for, and began the story.
"Ok, so after we landed," Shawn began, "We went to the basement of their place. Then we went, all sneaky-like, into the vents. It's awfully cramped in there. So anyway, we crawled in there for a while, rather boring if you ask me, until we saw a room with weird-looking mutants in it."
"Here's the good part!" Aaron cut in, "Shawn fell through the vent and made himself camouflage while the guards were checking stuff out. Then Shawn left us a note on the grate and told us he was going to have a look around. So we kept going."
"Yeah, while they were crawling through those cramped pipes," Shawn began telling his side of the story, "I was checking out our interesting mutant friends. But after I discovered that the guns in the halls could see me in my camo, I took drastic measures. I freed one of those poor caged beasts. Yeah, well, he took it from there and tore the place apart, took out the wall and a couple of scientists. But, you remember those guns, right? Well, when they see a mutant…for example, me…they turn on a siren. So a bunch of guards, armed to the earlobes, came in looking for me…I mean the mutant who set off the alarm, silly me…So I went into the hallway, back with the guns, so I went into another room, full of scientists…and hung out for a while."
"So that's what you were up to," Aaron scratched his chin, "Well, after we heard the alarm we went down into one of the rooms, Nyoko basically dominated the whole bunch of guys in the room…"
Nyoko didn't look as if she wanted a compliment from the twins.
"So then we split up, me, Nyoko, and Death Lizard went looking for Shawn," Aaron continued.
"It's Roy," Roy muttered, "Not Death Lizard."
"Oh, I get to tell part of the story!" Kurt exclaimed, "Me, Tony, and Allen went to a room with a lot of files and computers and stuff. We took a bunch of info until a bunch of scientists showed up and put Allen to sleep. Their leader was some guy with shades. And I think he was…CLARK!"
Most of the room either jumped or gasped, except Ruben, who let out a deafening shriek. Afterwards, Ruben chuckled at everyone else.
"So you met Clark face to face?" Rogue asked.
"How do you even know it's Clark?" Jaime questioned.
"Where's your proof?" Louis inquired.
"How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?" the twins turned piercing gazes upon Kurt.
"Uh," Kurt graced the twins with a confused look before continuing, "Well, he spent ages telling us how much he hated mutants and how he would like to kill them and a lot of stuff like that. But then he got distracted and we got away."
"Oh, yeah, sometime during that," Aaron started again, "We got in a big fight with a bunch of guards."
"And here's where I come in," Shawn's face broke into a smile, while Nyoko groaned, "I plundered a big metal tile from the bunch of scientists and protected myself from the guns. And then, I broke into their guard fight and saved Nyoko's life, HA, admit it!"
"No," Nyoko mumbled.
"Well, that's when we got away," Shawn shrugged.
"Yeah, we got on the plane," Aaron continued, "And I guess that Clark guy started chasing after us in some aircraft, because there was something in our radar following us."
"You mean like that?" Toad's pale face paled even more.
The entire room stared at him bewildered. Toad lifted his hand and pointed out the window. The mutants followed his gaze. Toad's feelings immediately spread throughout the room.
Outside, there was a massive helicopter just reaching the mansion.
Great Scott! What will happen now? Well,you'll have to wait a week, because I won't be around...plus the next chapter is actually unfinished...which means, from now on, you'll have to wait longer for my chapters to come out...because before they were all written and ready to be updated...so I'll leave you with a quote from an excellent Michael Keaton movie:
Doug 4: C'mon up, Steve! I'm spittin' on bugs!