Disclaimer: I am not responsible for the silliness/insanity contained herein. Got it? I am, however, responsible for Shadowy's mood swings.
And, as much as I hate to admit it, I'm also fully responsible for the fangirlism in this chappie. But I draw no shame/humiliation/embarrassment/whatever from it. READ IT AND LAUGH IF YOU LIKE!!!! I'LL LAUGH BACK AT YOU!
Also, my/Shadowy's unhealthy obsession with chainsaws finally shows up in this chappie. *grins*
Claimer: I own Shadowy, and I own the Siren. AND I OWN THE CHIBIS! ESPECIALLY THE TWO CHIBIS INTRODUCED IN THIS CHAPPIE! If you don't like it, go suck a melon.
The introduction of the Siren and one of the new Chibis is my attempt to link this fanfic to my Phantom of the Opera one. *nods* Yup yup.
Oh, and a general warning: This chappie and the next one are particularly weird/odd/strange/freakish. Just so you know. Maybe because this is chapter 13 . . .
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After being incredibly careful to avoid the X-Men, the Chibis all hurried upstairs towards Nightcrawler's room, where they bumped into their Chibi-kin. Magneto and his minions had departed, saying that all this was too weird for them to handle, and besides, Magneto didn't really want the X-Men to see him like this.
"What's going on?" Chibi-Shadowcat demanded. Chibi-Pyro put his fingers to his lips to shush her and pointed into the room.
"Look in there," he whispered. So she did, doing a double take at what she saw.
Holding a CD player, Shadowy pranced about the room, singing her lungs out. Horribly. In her other hand, she held a handful of darts, which she'd throw at a big poster on a wall. She'd also occasionally dance up to it and scream, "Die a horribly painful death, Dippy Denethor!"
Occasionally crossing her path was another singing girl – but this one was blue. And her voice was much better. She was singing much more quietly than Shadowy, due to the magic microphone she held.
They had come in halfway through Shadowy's song, and at the beginning of the blue girl's carefully sung song.
They didn't see two Non-X-Chibis lying on Kurt's bed, looking at magazines.
"The final arena awaits us all," sang Shadowy, "I built it myself; it's just down the hall."
"In sleep he sang to me; in dreams he came; that voice which calls to me and speaks my name," sang the blue girl. Now the Chibis realized why she was holding the sound-absorbing microphone. Any louder, and they might go mad.
"All your cunning strategies, all the tricks you try," continued Shadowy, "look merely like child's play to my Millennium Eye!" She pointed at one of the Chibis, who looked up and grinned.
"Your turn, Yugi-boy," he said. She beamed and danced away. By now, the Chibis had obviously covered their ears to block her out. Shadowy had no business singing, with a voice like that. They didn't notice that both the Chibis on the bed were wearing ultra-powerful earmuffs, for the sole purpose of blocking out Shadowy's voice.
The Chibi who had spoken hummed the next part of the song with her.
"What's wrong now? You look so sad. Losing your soul doesn't feel that bad."
The song was over less than a minute later. Shadowy pushed a button on her CD player, then happened to glance at the door and laughed.
"Hey guys!" she greeted, taking her headphones off.
"Is that how you cool off when you're angry?" teased Chibi-Jean.
"You try listening to that song," Shadowy sniffed. "It's addictive."
At another lyric from her blue companion, Shadowy put her hand on the blue girl's shoulder. "Hey Siren, they're here."
The blue girl, the Siren, took off her headphones and put her microphone in her pocket. She waved to the Chibis, then dashed over to 'em.
"Oh, you're all cuter than Shadowy would have me believe!" she bubbled happily, causing the Chibis to blush.
"Who're they?" asked the one Chibi not embarrassed by the Siren's comment, Chibi-Nighty. Shadowy pointed to the two new Chibis questioningly, and when Chibi-Nighty nodded, answered,
"This here's Chibi-Erik, the Chibi-Phantom of the Opera. The Siren insisted I bring him along. And this one is here for a secret purpose dealing with our revenge plot," said Shadowy, picking up the Chibi who'd spoken part of the song. He grinned. "Chibi-Pegasus!" she introduced, then turned him around to give him a squeeze and set him down. Chibi-Erik hopped off the bed to stand next to Chibi-Pegasus, whereupon they studied the X-Chibis intently.
"And why's she here?" Chibi-Cyclops pointed to the Siren, suspicious of anybody resembling a mermaid.
"None of your business," snapped Shadowy, "but I'll tell you anyway. She's our distraction."
The Siren beamed triumphantly.
"And him?" He pointed to Chibi-Erik.
Shadowy shrugged. "Might as well have the Chibi of the smartest guy to ever grace the earth on our side."
Chibi-Erik blushed under his mask.
"And him?" Chibi-Cyclops pointed to Chibi-Pegasus.
"He ain't no Shadow when it comes to mind-reading – he's better! – and we'll need him," said Shadowy fondly, ruffling the Chibi's hair. Chibi-Pegasus pulled away to smooth it out, and in the process unwittingly revealed his Millennium Eye.
The X-Chibis gasped.
"What?" he asked. "Never seen a metal eye before?"
They shook their heads.
"He's better than Xavier when it comes to mind-reading," Shadowy continued happily, not noticing the Chibi-incident.
"What about me?" asked Chibi-Xavier, feeling left out. "I can do that too, you know."
"We need you for another part of the plan," Shadowy answered. She beckoned them all forward to her, and she and the Siren knelt down to begin explaining the plan they'd thought up, with the two new Chibis adding a detail here and there.
Three minutes later, Shadowy and the Siren stood up.
"We all clear?" she asked. The Chibis all nodded.
"Good," she said. "Chibis Xavier, Cyclops, Jean, Shadowcat, Magma, and Iceman. You all get downstairs and be ready."
They nodded and left.
"Chibi-Xavier, cast a telepathic net around everyone so that neither Xavier nor Jean know what we're up to."
Chibi-Xavier nodded, left, and did just that.
Shadowy looked at the Siren. "You take Chibis Storm, Beast, Nighty, Pyro, Wanda, and Erik with you."
The Siren saluted and beamed. "Will do, Lady Shadowy!" They formed a line and Chibi-Nighty teleported them away.
Shadowy looked at the remaining Chibis. "And you all are with me."
They nodded as well and further plotted out their part of the plot.
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Downstairs, Chibi-Xavier was having a hard time keeping the net intact. Xavier was adept at trying to break in.
The rest of the downstairs Chibis lingered about, waiting for the Siren and her Chibis to make the distraction. It soon came, when the doorbell rang. Kitty opened the door.
"Oh, my gosh!" she cried. "Like, what happened to you?!"
Chibi-Storm was floating above the doorway, keeping a violent thunderstorm going. The Siren and Chibis Erik, Beast, and Nighty stood on the doorstep, soaked with rain.
Chibis Beast and Nighty stayed behind the Siren, making sure that Kitty couldn't recognize them, instead merely appearing as scared little children hiding behind their mom.
"Oh, we've been through so much," fake-sobbed the Siren. Chibis Wanda and Pyro combined their powers to give the illusion of their clothes burning. Fortunately, Kitty didn't seem to notice that the rainwater should have put out the fire. "We had to escape a wall of fire, a mad fairy bent on enslaving us, and . . . and . . ."
"A chainsaw-wielding madwoman threatening to chop us into little pieces in order to spear on a spork to feed to her hungry demon-creatures," Chibi-Erik quickly interjected. "Can we stay here for the night?"
The Siren nodded, thankful for Chibi-Erik's quick perception that she'd forgotten.
"I wasn't serious," muttered Shadowy upstairs, wishing that she did indeed have her chainsaw with her right then, for comfort. But she didn't dare bring it in. When she held a chainsaw, all reason left her.
As if she actually had a sense of logic at any other time.
"Oh, that's, like, awful!" said Kitty sympathetically. By this time, all the X-Men, including Xavier, had wandered over to listen to the story.
The Chibis downstairs quickly went into action. Chibis Cyclops, Jean, and Iceman kept a lookout while Chibi-Shadowcat used her phasing power to lead Chibi-Magma to the heart of the teleporter, where she quickly used her power to begin melting it.
Shadowy and her Chibis came downstairs, where they spread out to surround the X-Men. By the time Chibi-Erik was done relating their sad, sad fib, everything was ready. Shadowy laughed her best maniacal laugh.
"Mwahahahaha!"
"Nice," Chibis Erik and Pegasus applauded. She bowed.
"Thank you."
The X-Men turned around, then started upon seeing the Chibi-barricade. The Siren and her Chibis moved into the hall, and closed the door. Meanwhile, Chibi-Shadowcat had led Chibi-Magma out of the machine and both were watching it melt from the inside out.
"What's going on here?!" demanded Scott. Shadowy glared, then snapped her fingers. Instantly, Scott was transformed into a teddy bear - a pink one. Jean screamed. So she was turned into one too - a brown one.
Shadowy picked them up. "For torture later," she grinned, imagining the damage she could inflict on the teddies with her chainsaw.
"Vhat is going on?" Kurt repeated Scott's question. Shadowy snapped her fingers again, and a giant cage appeared from thin air. She motioned to it, grinning.
"No," the X-Men gasped. She nodded, and she and the Siren and the Chibis advanced, forcing them to walk into the cage, unless they wanted to die.
The only ones Shadowy didn't force in were Rogue (because she was upstairs with her Chibi and Remy and Chibi-Gambit), Kurt (because he did like his), and Ororo and Beast (because they didn't mind theirs). Everyone else was forced in, including Teddy-Scott and Teddy-Jean.
Yes, even the Chibi-less Forge, because he helped mastermind the entire thing.
Once they were all in, Shadowy snapped her fingers once more, and the cage was suspended from the ceiling by a couple of those big, thick ropes they use in gym classes on TV.
"What are you going to do to us?!" the X-Men cried.
Shadowy sat down on a couch, picked up a remote, and pressed a button. A theatre sized TV emerged from a wall. She, the Siren, and the Chibis sat down on the extra-large couch, and Shadowy pushed another button, then turned around to grin her most evil grin at them. They gulped nervously.
"You're the only ones who didn't seem to like your Chibis, did you know that? The Acolytes loved theirs, and the Brotherhood had fun with theirs. You weenies," she sneered, then turned back to the TV.
X2 soon came on. The X-Men gasped.
"Making us watch ourselves on TV . . . . you're a fiend, you know that?" asked Logan.
"Yup!" consented Shadowy, grinning happily in a very fiendish way.
Logan turned his back on the movie and began sobbing. Xavier glared and tried to invade Shadowy's mind to force her to let them free, but the attempt left Xavier shivering and muttering incoherent things.
Shadowy grinned and called up to him, "That's what happens when you try to invade a wanna-be world conqueror/fangirl's mind! That, and the fact I'm an Authoress. My mind is too immature for you to handle! Mwahahahaha!"
"Nice," Chibis Erik and Pegasus applauded again.
"Thank you," she beamed.
"Shush," said the Siren. "Nighty is about to attack the Pres, and Wolvie's coming up!"
Logan gave a strangled howl from where he was cowering in a corner of the cage.
Kurt bounded over the top of the couch and landed next to the Siren. "I wanna see myself," he said happily. "Even if I do seem evil here."
The Siren giggled. "We can tell you're not evil in it."
Near the end of the movie, Rogue and Chibi-Rogue, followed by Remy and his Chibi, came downstairs. Rogue and her Chibi immediately dashed to the couch.
"Aw, we missed most of it," said Chibi-Rogue sadly.
"This is where I fly the plane!" said Rogue. Remy frowned.
"And you like that boy."
"No, I don't!" Rogue immediately replied, trying to reassure Remy. "I like you!"
Chibi-Rogue nodded, and Remy and Chibi-Gambit blushed.
When the movie was over, Shadowy stood up, turned the TV off, and turned to stare at everyone else in the room.
There was a very long pause while they waited to see what she had to say.
"I want Chibi-Magneto to put his plan into action!"
Chibi-Magneto hopped to his feet happily. Then he paused.
"Waitaminnit. We need Magneto here," he pointed out. Shadowy saluted.
"Righto! Come along, Chibi-Erik and Chibi-Pegasus! We're on a recovery mission!"
"I'm coming too!" called the Siren, jogging after.
Once they were gone, Chibi-Magneto looked up at the cage full of imprisoned X-Men and sighed.
"Why is it that a seasoned mutant like Magneto never wins, but an insane teenage girl and a bunch of Chibis manage to?"
"Because you all have the equal powers of them," Remy pointed out. "And her plan was insanely simple. And it's not completely over yet."
"Huh? Whaddya mean?" Chibi-Magneto demanded.
"I'm not telling." Remy grinned.
"Does it have something to do with my plan?"
"Perhaps."
"Excellent!"
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Lady LeBeau: I actually wrote all of this before you sent me the link to that gorgeous picture. *sigh* My heart melts every time I look at it. *pause* Maybe I'll even make that the background to my laptop! ^.^;
Miss Freeze: Thank you! ^_^ *hands you a clone Chibi-Nighty* Take good care of him! Yeah, I think they're big fans of TV.
Strange Symbols: No, surprisingly, I don't. ;D I thrive on reviewage. Read Mysterious Faerie's 'Family Issues'? Hmm, maybe if I ever get a chance.
Sickminded Sucker: Rantings rock. ^_~ Hope you liked the Scott/Jean torture here. XP Woo, mass chaos is always fun to create. Here's the next weird chappie of this odd thing, enjoy! ^_^
Invader ZaiFae: I thought you'd appreciate the return of Zimmy-sama. ^_^
Good, description! Better send it soon - I'm getting to the guest insertion chappie.
I'll have to rewatch FernGully.
"My other car is a dragon" rocks! And so does "Don't meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you're crunchy and good with ketchup", except instead of ketchup, I'd say mayonnaise. ^_^ Ooh, an Irken one would ROCK!
Heh, hope you found this revenge plot to your satisfaction. ^^
Yeah, I did hear about the Zim DVDs, but not that they come out May 11! That's so soon!!! *falls down* I hope I'll be able to manage to get a copy!