After the fires had been put out and the Acolytes had dragged both Pyros out of the way, they were forced to search for a new hideout. Chibi-Magneto was gloating quietly to himself, further planning the mayhem he'd started.
Magneto, who was still wearing the robe, would occasionally shoot angry glances at the Chibi.
Chibi-Pyro, Chibi-Colossus, and Sparky would occasionally shoot fearful glances in his direction, for they knew what Chibi-Magneto had planned for them.
Colossus and Pyro weren't with them, because they'd gone to buy a newspaper to see if there were any Evil Hideout Vacancies.
"We shall stop in at Xavier's place to see if he will take us in," said Magneto half-heartedly.
"NO!" cried Chibi-Magneto. Magneto gave him a quizzical look. "Er . . . what I mean is, we can't let Xavier see you . . . like that."
Magneto considered this. "True. I do look like a doofus."
"Got that right," said Pyro, reappearing with a newspaper in hand. He opened it up and showed the housing section to Magneto. Magneto looked at it carefully, more than half expecting it to ignite at any second. Colossus reappeared soon after John did.
Chibi-Colossus took the opportunity to sidle up to his boss. "You're really going to make us do it?"
"Yes, I am," said Chibi-Magneto firmly. He studied Pyro and Colossus for a minute. "Though, neither of them is suitable for the role I have in mind. . ."
A scream suddenly ripped through the air, and all the mutants immediately turned to see Chibi-Pyro, having been left unsupervised, letting a big bush nearby go up in flames taller than a house. All the other people in the park screamed and ran away. The scream came again, and it seemed to them that it was coming from the bush itself.
"Is the bush screaming?" asked Chibi-Colossus curiously.
"You!" said Magneto to Colossus. "Get over there and see if there's someone being hurt."
Colossus stared back blankly.
"If there's someone in there, and he gets badly hurt, we're going to have a stupendous lawsuit on our hands!" said Magneto. "Get in there and help him!"
Instead, Colossus merely strode up to Chibi-Pyro and lifted him up by his flamethrower to menacingly stare him in the eyes.
The shrub-fire immediately ceased to exist.
". . . That works too," said Magneto. Chibi-Magneto and Sparky trotted over to the bush and began poking it.
"Ow!" came a voice, causing the two Chibis to hop back in alarm.
"That wasn't the bush," said Chibi-Gambit, who was walking up the lane towards them. Remy was behind him, nodding confirmation.
Remy reached into the bush, and his hand reappeared holding an arm. The arm was attached to a girl, who glared at Chibi-Pyro.
"Hey, I know you," Pyro said slowly, studying her. "You were in Xavier's library fish tank!"
Magneto's mouth dropped open in surprise. "She was what?!"
"You heard me," said Pyro, crossing his arms and grinning.
"Hey, Shadowy," said Chibi-Magneto.
Pyro, Magneto, Colossus, and Remy all looked down at Chibi-Magneto together and simultaneously said, "You know her?!"
"Of course we do!" said all the Chibis, who walked over to her.
Shadowy was muttering to herself through all this, and they caught small snatches of what she was saying. "Bright idea . . . flame the bush . . . lucky I can't be burned . . ."
"I'm sorry," offered Chibi-Pyro earnestly. Shadowy took one look at him and all was forgiven. Chibi-Pyro knew this, as he was suddenly being crushed in her arms.
"Did you have something you need to tell us?" asked Chibi-Magneto. Shadowy nodded, then glared at the Chibi's taller counterparts.
"Could we have some privacy, please?" she demanded, then took a closer look at Magneto. "Whoa! Nice new wardrobe, Mags!"
Magneto glared at her. "Don't call me that."
"Hey, Mags," said 625, suddenly appearing with a sandwich. "Want a sandwich?"
"Mags!" said Shadowy again. Magneto narrowed his eyes further, then, when his powers proved useless against her, turned on his heel and stalked away, nearly tripping over his robe as he did this.
"Don't get it dirty!" Chibi-Magneto cried in alarm. Everyone else laughed, and Pyro, Colossus, and Remy followed Magneto.
Once left alone, the Chibis turned to the semi-mortal. Shadowy looked at Chibi-Magneto.
"You were wondering about the other roles?"
Chibi-Magneto nodded, then Shadowy nodded in response to his nod.
"Don't include them," said Shadowy. "Just you and him." She nodded in Magneto's direction.
Chibi-Magneto nodded again. "Sure."
Shadowy beckoned all five Chibis close to her and began whispering to them.
"How do they know her? Why was she in Xavier's school? In a fish tank, of all things! Is she a mutant? How does she know of mutants? Why are they so friendly with her?!" Magneto shot out the string of questions in a rush.
"She created them," said Remy. Magneto was thus rendered speechless. "Yeah. Remy and his Chibi came across a small . . . thing . . . who told us everything."
"What was it?" asked Pyro curiously.
"It-" Remy sought for a description, "looked like a little blue demon guy, who was very cranky for some reason. He explained it all to us."
"Little blue demon guy?" Colossus asked. "That does not seem familiar."
"Of course not," Shadowy butted in, suddenly standing amid their small circle. She looked up at Remy. "The little blue demon you met is called Rincey, one of my henchmen – to use the term loosely – and the reason he was cranky is he's being used in two fanfictions at the same time."
There was a collective gasp from the Acolytes. "We're in a fanfiction?!"
"'Fraid so." Shadowy grinned, then waggled her finger around. "But you can't tell the Brotherhood or the X-Men. If everyone knew, they'd rebel."
"Then why tell us?" cut in Colossus.
"'Cuz you people are cool!" said Shadowy. "Not to mention my favorite group of mutants. Why else do you think you've had so much weird stuff going on recently?"
"And why I showed up at your place," added Sandwich Boy.
"And why you never left," muttered Magneto, earning a glare from the experiment.
"Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to shift the attention over to the X-Men," said Shadowy, "my readers want to know why they're building a teleporter."
"A teleporter?" asked Magneto, small tendrils of a plan forming in his mind.
"Yes," said Shadowy. "And don't even think about it. This isn't a fic for your diabolical plots."
"Why are they building a teleporter?" asked Colossus.
"To try and send the Chibis back," said Shadowy, gesturing to the Acolyte Chibis.
Pyro and Remy gasped. "They CAN'T!"
Shadowy grinned in a disconcerting way. "Don't worry; they won't. And now, I must go." She moved to snap her fingers, thought better of it, turned to Remy, and added, "By the way, Rogue really does love you." And she snapped her fingers, causing herself to disappear.
Remy and Chibi-Gambit grinned at each other in victory, then slipped away silently. Magneto was quickly forming a plan in his head. Chibi-Magneto, Chibi-Pyro, Chibi-Colossus, and Sparky gathered together in a circle to discuss their own plans.
A sandwich hit Magneto in the head. He glanced down in the direction the sandwich had come from. 625 was still glaring at him.
"That's for insulting me," said 625 angrily.
~
Shadowy appeared in one of the thousands of hallways in the Xavier Institute and quietly slipped off towards the main hall.
Meanwhile, downstairs, Xavier was surveying all the work the X-Men and their Chibis were doing. He gloated silently to himself.
The reader may be wondering where Xavier's Chibi is. You will soon find out.
Xavier studied the teleporter closely, searching for any sign that Forge might have designed it incorrectly. He was, to his dismay, unable to find anything wrong with it.
This made him cranky, and so he had to call Scott down from where Scott had been sitting atop the machine, hammering in some nails.
"You called, Professor?" asked Scott immediately when he reached the telepath.
"Yes, Scott," said the Professor, cleverly disguising his true feelings with his usual calm and fatherly demeanor. "There are some Reeses Swoops in the kitchen, behind the cereal cupboard. Could you fetch them for me?"
"Of course," said Scott, who immediately left to fulfill his new task.
Once he returned, he handed the chocolate over to the Professor, waited awkwardly for a moment to see if he would be needed further, and then returned to his previous job. Meanwhile, the Professor tore into the package and began literally inhaling the Pringle-shaped chocolate.
Shadowy carefully slinked down the hallway leading to the danger room, listening for signs that a mutant or two might be coming near where she was hiding. Moving around in the mansion this way took her nearly an hour, and when she finally arrived at the danger room, she discovered a new obstacle.
She couldn't get inside without saying the password in Logan, Xavier, or Ororo's voice. So she did the only logical thing an Authoress disguised as a character would do.
She snapped her fingers, and Chibi-Mystique suddenly popped in. She looked about wildly, then a look of recognition came into her eyes when she saw Shadowy.
"You!" Chibi-Mystique accused, pointing her finger at Shadowy. Shadowy grinned.
"Me," she replied. "The password is applesauce. Would you say it in Ororo's voice?"
Chibi-Mystique shrugged. "Applesauce."
The doors opened. Shadowy and Chibi-Mystique both peered into the darkened room cautiously.
"Chibi-Xavier?" called Shadowy, using a tone she hoped was comforting, not realizing she sounded rather like Dark Lord Chuckles the Silly Piggy in that episode where Dave and Co. went to the Cliffs of Fabulous Shopping and had their climatic battle with Chuckles in the store where the piggy worked part time to support his evil hobby of trying to conquer Udrogoth. Soon, out of the darkness came a tiny wheelchair and a very shiny scalp.
Chibi-Xavier blinked at the sudden light invasion, then, when his eyes came into focus, looked up at Shadowy.
"You!" he declared.
"Me," Shadowy repeated, grinning again. "Are you okay?"
"No," said Chibi-Xavier truthfully. "Xavier put me in there, then telepathy-proofed it so I couldn't get out. Just because I borrowed his Head Cream!"
Shadowy bent down and hugged him. Chibi-Mystique scowled.
"The fiend!" she declared dramatically, hitting blue fist to blue palm. "This wrong must be righted!"
"Don't worry; it will be," said Shadowy, standing back up. It seemed as though there was a blue flame flickering in her eyes. "No one mistreats my Chibis and gets away with it."
Chibi-Xavier and Chibi-Mystique cheered, which caused a noise down the hall, and the three of them spun to face whomever was there.
Chibi-Iceman stood there, staring at them.
Chibi-Mystique and Chibi-Xavier tensed, but Shadowy waved. "Hey, Chibi-Iceman!"
Chibi-Iceman stared at them for a few more seconds, then said, "You freed him!"
"Yup," said Shadowy.
"We were wondering when you'd come and perform a heroic and daring rescue."
"You're all building a teleporter!" Chibi-Xavier said. "Xavier wants to send us all away!"
Chibi-Iceman blinked. "You're kidding."
"Never," assured Chibi-Xavier.
"Come with us," said Shadowy, stepping away from the Chibis and walking down the hall. "It'll be fun to give Xavier a surprise."
And so the three Chibis followed along behind her.
*~*~*~
A/N: Yeah, I know it seems like I kind of made Xavier into a jerk – but how would you like it if someone took your head cream? XD
A/N #2: Wow . . . eight pages of story, and almost nothing happened! Am I the Queen of Plotlessness or what? XD
Takara, Lady of Western Lands - I've never seen Inuyasha, so I had no idea about your name. ^^ *watches you be all happy with your Clone-Chibis* Well, good! Just take good care of 'em. :D So Cannonball is the orange haired kid who can look like a flying flameball?
MsJade13 - Thank you! ^_^ No, not a makeover, just a clothing change.
Pyro-iz-hot - Your name - so true! ^_~ Aw, thankies! I had to put Pyro in. He was begging me to. 'Sides, Chibi-Pyro is so much fun! *huggles the Chibi*
Oooh, I'm sorry - I hope you didn't get into too much trouble.
*hands you a Chibi-Ray* Who is Ray? Is he one of the new recruits?
Nie Starwhistler - I hope you feel better!
Anti-XYo/ProFool - Yay! You guessed right! *eyes widen* AND you guessed the Hobbit idea. . . dang. Ah well! I'll still use it! ^_^ When I get ready to give you your guest spot in the fic, I'll let you know so you can tell me your character's form, etc.
Arin Ross - It wasn't just the 'oh dear' part. It was also the 'stare. sweatdrop' part. That was the closest I've ever come to having a flame. ^^ (Well, except for TheRagingSpammer, who told me I need professional help. Ain't that a riot??)
As I told Speak Tha Mind, imagine the Movie Sabretooth being shrunk about ten times so that he's two feet tall, add some adorable Chibi-goodness (such as anime eyes and impossibly adorable cuteness) to him, and there's Sparky! ^_^
Bangal Lore - So it's a wolf . . . oh, well! Makes it even weirder that a wolf wearing a camera about its neck would be following Remy and Chibi-Gambit. XD
You made Chibi-X-Men pics?! Oh, please please please e-mail 'em to me!!
Lady LeBeau - Ooh, inspiration cookies! Yay! ^_^
Hah! You're right! Gandalf the White! :D (That rhymed!)
RotK was way beyond seriously excellent! Especially the way Denethor died. *grins evilly* Deserved it after the way he treated Faramir . . . Poor Faramir! *cries*
Oh, don't worry, all the Chibis are cooking up a good revenge plot. *Camera swerves to a giant War Room where all the Chibis are sitting at a table debating about their plot* See? XD
Chibi-Magneto: ^_^
Oh, the cookies helped, believe me. ;P
Sickminded Sucker - hehe. Sickminded Sucker . . . I love it. Sparky IS cute, isn't he?
It WOULD be cool to own a real Chibi, wouldn't it? It'd be like a real shadow!
Invader ZaiFae - Yay! You're back! Yep, it's Gandalf! *grins* A comedic genius? Really?
That would be a perfect Tallest line. XD
Yeah, Mythos would technically have one, wouldn't she? When it gets to the guest-insertion chappie, she and her Chibi can show up. :D
Yes, we really must begin working on that fic.
Yay! Sequel!
Batty Koda. LOL, is he from something or did ya make him up? Hee, Inspiration Depot. Me likey!
MoonlightPhoenix3 - Chibi-Jamies = Crazy squirrels . . . can I use that analogy?
*gives you a Chibi-Cannonball* There ya go! ^_^
Hee, the Chibis ARE cute, ain't they? They're so huggable!
Chaotic Boredom – Yay! You guessed right as well! ^_^ Yep . . . things are getting twisted, and they're gonna get even weirder. XD Yes, lizards are awesome. Have you ever watched the Magic School Bus? Ms. Frizzle's lizard (I can't remember its name! Waaah!) rocked!