The Mandatory Gender Swap Chapter

"These rides are getting crazier and crazier," Lance groaned as he picked himself up from where they landed.

"And it's about to get crazier again," Hank pointed to the large lasers aimed at them. "Three guesses where we are and the first two don't count!"

"Oh man!" Scott snapped as he blasted the weapons. "How could we land in the Danger Room again?"

"MORE BIG SHARP POINTY THINGS!" Pietro yelled as he ran. "AAAHHH! MORE VERY BIG SHARP POINTY THINGS!"

"Hey at least we're getting our target practice in," Wanda shrugged as she used her hex bolts to disable several of them.

"AHHHHH!" Jean shouted as she used her powers to disable the rest of the weapons.

"Wow Jean you're getting better at this," Todd blinked.

"What the hell is going on here?" A gruff voice shouted out. "Who the hell are you?"

"Didn't we already go through this?" Pietro groaned. "Listen…WOLVERINE?" His jaw dropped when he saw a well built woman in a black and tan uniform with medium length black hair and claws. In fact she looked almost like an adult version of X-23.

"How do you know my name?" She snorted. "And why do you all look…and smell familiar?"

"Look this is going to be hard to believe," Scott groaned. "But we're from another dimension."

"I don't believe it," The Female Wolverine snarled.

"They're telling the truth, Logana," A bald woman in an elegant tan pantsuit and a wheelchair entered the room. "I can sense it."

"Logana?" Lance blinked.

"Xavier?" Pietro was stunned.

"I lost my hair due to illness when I was young," The Female Xavier smirked wryly. "And my name is Charlene Xavier. Not Charles Xavier."

"You read my mind?" Pietro asked.

"That's not exactly hard to do," Jean gave him a look.

"You saying these people are who they say they are?" Logana asked. "That they're us?"

"Well not all of us are X-Men," Althea explained. "It's kind of a long story."

"Come into my briefing room," Charlene said. "I believe we have much to discuss."

"Fine," Hank nodded. "By the way do you have any grape juice?"

"Are you thirsty?" Logana asked.

"No we need it for our machine," Althea explained.

"Okay," Logana gave her a look.

Soon they found themselves in a room with a huge table and several computer monitors that looked very similar to their own war room with several adult versions of the X-Men. "These are my X-Women," Charlene Xavier introduced them. "James Gray, telepath and telekinetic." A tall man with medium length red hair and a black and green uniform smiled.

"X-Women?" Scott asked.

"I always said that name was rather sexist," James smirked.

"Scarlett Summers, optic blasts," Charlene Xavier continued. A tall slim woman with short brown hair, black uniform and familiar optic visor was next. "She's the leader of the team."

"Whoa," Lance blinked. "Only time I'll ever enjoy to see Cyclops."

"If you want to blast him go right ahead," Scott said to his counterpart. "Go ahead, I don't mind."

"And you can skip who has what powers too," Althea said. "I think we can figure out who does what for obvious reasons."

"Henrietta McCoy," There was a tall blue furred woman with long blue hair in a swimsuit and a lab coat.

"Henrietta?" Hank blinked. "Salutations. I am Hank McCoy."

"Hank," Henrietta nodded. "Greetings, you are a doctor I presume?"

"I am and I assume you are as well?" Hank asked.

"Naturally Doctor," Henrietta grinned.

"Doctor," Hank nodded.

"Doctor, Doctor…" Pietro made mocking bows. Wanda smacked him on the back of his head. "OW!"

"While you're at it, blast him too," Scott told his counterpart.

"Cat Pryde, and Kassandra Wagner," Charlene Xavier continued the introductions. A young man with short brown hair in a blue uniform was standing next to a blue haired female in a red and black uniform. She had a tail and hands just like Kurt.

"And we're dating in case you two were wondering," Kassandra grinned at Kurt and Kitty.

"Uh actually…" Lance raised his hand. "Those two aren't." He pointed at Kurt and Kitty. "Kitty and I are. Kurt's dating a human."

"A human?" Cat was surprised.

"A sorceress in training actually," Kurt explained. "It's a long story."

"Roberta Drake, Pietra Rasputin," Charlene Xavier continued. There was a young woman with brown hair in an ice blue uniform and a tall woman with rugged features and short black hair in a red and black uniform.

"Once again, the only time I'm glad to see Colossus," Lance chuckled.

"And once again feel free to pulverize Avalanche," Scott told them. "Please!"

"Reina LeBeau and Andrew Mark Darkholme, otherwise known as Rogue," Next was a tall young woman with red on black eyes, long reddish brown hair in a messy ponytail, black uniform with a trench coat. Next to her was a young man with brown hair and a familiar white streak wearing a green and black uniform and gloves.

"Bonjour monsieur," Renia took Pietro's hand and kissed it. "A pleasure to meet you."

"Geeze Swamp Rat do you have to hit on anything in pants?" Andrew groaned.

"You have to admit he has good taste," Pietro said.

"This is getting weirder and weirder," Wanda groaned.

"Professor who are these people?" Scarlett asked.

"I believe these are your counterparts from another dimension," Charlene Xavier finished.

"In other words in this world all the girls are guys and all the guys are girls," Kitty said. "Weird."

"At least they're not all unicorns," Kurt told her.

"What?" Cat looked at him.

"Don't ask," He groaned.

"Let's just say we've been in a few fun universes already," Althea explained.

"So you're…girls," Pietro coughed. "How's that working for you?"

"Fine, how's being an idiot working for you?" Roberta snapped.

"I guess it must be a new experience for you to see yourselves as the opposite gender," James grinned.

"Not exactly," Kurt sighed.

"Actually we do know what its like," Wanda explained. "We've had a few run ins with a mutant named Switch who had the ability to switch bodies. And we've ended up in each other's bodies from time to time."

"They were interesting experiences to say the least," Jean winced at the memory.

"Interesting? I still have nightmares of watching me and Summers kiss," Lance shuddered. "Don't ask."

"Believe me you don't want to know," Scott shuddered as well.

"Yeah well at least Pyro didn't hijack your body and run around naked," Pietro grinned. "Right Kitty?"

"Okay who wants to help me kill Pietro? Anybody?" Kitty shouted.

"Sounds like you kids have had a few interesting adventures," Andrew chuckled.

"I can't believe you're all so…" Kassandra said. "Young. And you all fight?"

"Well yeah," Wanda shrugged. "Mutants have just been recently outed in our world and we were kind of on the forefront of it."

"You mean everyone knows about the Institute?" Cat was surprised.

"Kind of hard for people not to know," Scott groaned. "We end up on the six o clock news every other night!"

Soon the mutants were having a semi-pleasant conversation. During which the gang learned about the world they had fallen into. All the X-Women were adults and their identities were kept a secret in this female dominated world that hated and feared them. The conversation was going well until the topic turned to dating.

"So you and him are dating?" Cat was surprised pointing at Lance.

"Yeah we are," Kitty said.

"She was also dating Colossus back in our world too," Todd added.

"It's so weird," Cat said. "I mean our Avalanche is part of the Sisterhood. Who would have thought one of them would be an X-Woman, er I mean X-Man?"

"I'm not an X-Man," Lance pointed out.

"Not for lack of trying," Scott grumbled underneath his breath.

"Some of us are part of a group called the Misfits," Althea explained. "But we work with the X-Men from time to time."

"When you and your insane army friends aren't mooching our food and wrecking stuff," Scott told her.

"Army friends?" Logana raised an eye. "You mean the army knows where the X-men live?"

"Know about it? They come over all the time!" Scott told them. "They show up nearly every day!"

"Hey remember the time Spirit and the Blind Master went into the Danger Room and…?" Pietro began.

"You let the army go into your Danger Room?" Logana's jaw dropped.

"Well, not too much since they always seem to wreck it," Scott said feebly.

"How can mere humans wreck the Danger Room?" Henrietta asked.

"Nothing 'mere' about these humans," Althea snorted.

"To be fair, GI Joe isn't exactly a typical military unit," Hank pointed out.

"GI JOE?" Logana roared. "As in the male equivalent to GI JANE? You work with those maniacs?"

"Am I to infer from the tone of your voice that you don't?" Hank asked.

"Kind of hard to work with people who try to throw you in jail all the time," Roberta snorted. "Call us a bunch of vigilantes."

"Well aren't you?" Pietro asked. "I mean Al, Toad, Lance, Wanda and myself work for 'em and we…"

"YOU'RE ARMY MUTANTS?" Logana was stunned and shot out her claws.

"Yeah the Misfits are Army Mutants! You got a problem with that?" Althea put her hands on her hips.

"You're damn right we do!" Reina shouted. Many of the X-Women became angry.

"I knew there was something I didn't like about 'em!" Logana snarled. "Traitors! The lot of 'em!"

"Wolverine stop it!" James shouted. "They aren't even from our army for crying out loud!"

"What's wrong with army mutants?" Wanda asked.

"Besides the fact that they give the rest of mutant kind a bad name with their wanton destruction and willingness to hunt down any mutant?" Henrietta gave her a look.

"But the Misfits aren't like that," Jean said. "Well the hunting down mutants part anyway…."

"As you may have guessed mutants that choose to work with the army don't exactly have the best reputations," Andrew shrugged. "They're viewed as the lowest of the low among mutants. Most of the time because they're the ones who are responsible for throwing other mutants in jail."

"I can't tell you how many times they've done it or tried to do it to us over the years," Scarlett agreed. "There's one called Frost, he was a former student of the Professors. And what did he do? He joined the army and made a machine just like Cerebra to track down other mutants. If it wasn't for our anti mutant detection scanners we'd be on the run constantly."

"Not all army mutants are bad," Charlene Xavier told Logana. "There are those who want to make positive changes within the military."

"Really? And which ones are the good ones?" Logana snorted. "Sabertooth? Maverick? Everest Frost? Mysterio?"

"The last one's Kassandra's father," Cat explained. "A role model for terrorists if there ever was one."

"And let's not forget Forge who created that nullifier weapon that stole Storm's powers!" Logana shouted. "If it wasn't for her Storm would never have left for Africa and married that Black Panther Queen!"

"Yeah that was a real help!" Reina snapped.

"To be honest that weapon was supposed to be used on me," Andrew said quietly. "I did kill off one of their operatives when I was working for the Sisterhood."

"That's still no excuse for 'em to make a weapon that could have been used on all mutants!" Pietra told him. She glared at Lance. "Any mutant willing to do that to another mutant cannot be trusted."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Lance glared at her.

"Such relationships between two different groups of mutants…" Charlene Xavier sighed. "Often puts a strain on everyone."

"You have no idea how right you are," Pietro groaned.

"Take my advice Kitty," Cat said. "You can't trust army mutants. They'll turn on you the first chance they'll get."

"Now wait a minute," Lance fumed. "It's not like that with Kitty and me!"

"Can you honestly say that you've never been pitted against the Misfits when they had orders to do something?" Henrietta folded her arms.

"Well…" Hank paused. "When you put it that way…"

"One time!" Althea said. "And the only reason we couldn't was because General Kincaid had friends higher up."

"Kincaid? You have a Kincaid in your universe too?" Logana growled. "Oh this I gotta hear."

"But that's not what you think…" Lance began. "We did go against orders."

"Yeah once the Sentinels started to go out of control," Kitty folded her arms.

"You were working with Sentinels?" Kassandra gasped.

"No!" Kitty shook her head. "I didn't mean to imply that. Kincaid was using the Sentinels to run a mutant concentration camp called Neverland."

"I rest my case!" Cat glared at Lance.

"Hey! We put a stop to that!" Lance defended himself.

"It's true," Jean agreed. "If it wasn't for the Misfits…"

Pietra slammed her fist on the desk. "Listen! Army mutants just can't be trusted! We learned that lesson the hard way."

"Why?" Lance challenged. "I thought the point of you X-Geeks was to learn to get along with humans? Isn't that what army mutants do?"

"Getting along is one thing, collaborating is another!" Pietra snapped.

"Hey wait a minute," Scott held up his hands. "Now I may not be the Misfits' biggest fan but even I know they're not collaborators."

"You have no idea what GI Joe did for us!" Wanda argued. "They took us in when no one else would! They trained us and took care of us."

"Yeah and they showed us that not all humans are bad," Todd pointed out. "They proved that humans and mutants can get along."

"As long as they're completely insane…" Scott said. He winced. "Sorry, force of habit."

"What Scott's trying to say is that if even these guys can turn around," Jean began. "There's always hope for a peaceful coexistence."

"Although maybe 'peaceful' isn't exactly the perfect word as far as the Misfits are concerned," Scott said. "Uh sorry…I just can't help myself."

"Summers if you want to defend the Misfits…" Pietro winced. "Do us a favor, don't!"

"Maybe your GI Joe is the exception to the rule," Pietra snorted. "But who's to say what will happen when their loyalties are tested? What makes you so sure that they won't side with the humans when push comes to shove?"

"Well if that isn't the pot calling the kettle black…" Lance grunted.

"What do you mean by that remark?" Pietra glared at him.

"He means that you X-Geeks, no matter what dimension you're from don't exactly have the best reputations among mutants either," Pietro told the Russian woman. "Can you honestly tell me that you haven't made any enemies among mutants for your ideas?"

"But that's completely different!" Cat said. "Those other mutants want to exterminate humans or commit crimes!"

"Oh really?" Lance gave Scott a look. "I can think of at least five different times our X-Men have bent the law more than a little. I'm willing to bet you ladies have done the same."

"Yeah if you…" Scott began then stopped. He looked at Lance. "Five? How do you get five?"

"Well the whole Bayville Sirens thing for starters," Lance told him. "When the girls formed a vigilante group."

"I see we're going back to that again," Kitty sighed.

"And when you hid Mr. McCoy from the cops when his mutation got out of control?" Lance added. "That's aiding and abetting."

"All right that's two," Scott counted. "But other than that…"

"Are you nuts?" Todd asked. "What about the Tater Tot incident?"

"That does not count!" Scott snapped. "Alvers started it!"

"Scott, you did overreact and wave that knife around," Kurt pointed out. "All over a bunch of tater tots."

"Tater tots?" Scarlett asked. "What's all this about tater tots?"

"It's not important because it doesn't count!" Scott told her.

"Scott, you had just as much to do with trashing the cafeteria on Capitol Hill as Lance," Jean told her boyfriend. "Technically wrecking a government building and causing a minor riot is a federal crime. It counts!"

"Technically wrecking a government building?" Renia's jaw dropped. "A minor riot? Mon Deiu! These boys are nuts!"

"Well you know how unstable men's hormones are," Kassandra shrugged.

"Wait let me see if I understand the situation," Charlene Xavier held up her hand. "The two of you used your powers as well as knives in front of a crowd sending them into a panic as well as wrecking your Capitol Building? And you did this over tater tots?"

"What is it with men and tater tots?" Logana was shocked. "Was it the time of the month for you boys or something?"

"It wasn't knives, it was a knife," Scott corrected. "One of those regular knives you get with the rest of the silverware. And I only accidentally used my powers when Alvers shoved me back with his earthquake."

"That's how the chandelier was destroyed as well as the holes in the walls and the ceilings were made," Althea quipped. "So to answer your question, yes."

"I wouldn't have done it if Lance hadn't used his powers on me!" Scott snapped.

"What else was I supposed to do? The guy was waving a knife in my face!" Lance told them.

"It was just a little knife and I wasn't waving it in your face!" Scott turned on him.

"It was a steak knife and yes you were!" Lance snapped. He waved his hand right in front of Scott's face. "You were waving it around like that!"

"I was not waving it like that!" Scott waved his hand under Lance's nose. "It was more like that!" He casually waved his hand to the side.

"You were not waving it like that!" Lance snapped. "YOU WERE WAVING IT LIKE THAT!" Lance thrust his hand in front of Scott's face and waved it.

"Don't wave you hand like that in front of my face!" Scott repeated the action to Lance.

"You were the one who started waving things in my face!" Lance repeated the action to Scott.

"Are they always like this?" James whispered to Jean as Lance and Scott continued arguing and waving.

"Actually this is one of their good days," Jean sighed.

"Stop waving your hand in my face!" Scott made an even more exaggerated motion and accidentally hit Lance.

"You did that on purpose!" Lance shouted and hit Scott in the face.

"No, but I'm doing this on purpose!" Scott made a fist and hit Lance.

"That's it!" Lance shouted as he made a fist and slugged Scott.

He also knocked off his glasses which sent out his optic blasts. "RUN!" Todd yelled. Everyone got out of the way as Scott accidentally blasted the computers.

BOOOM!

"Uh oh…" Scott gulped as he managed to get his glasses back on and see the small fire and the huge pile of rubble that was a computer console.

"Oops," Lance gulped.

"Way to go guys!" Jean threw up her hands. "You did it again!"

"He started it!" Both Lance and Scott pointed at each other.

"Thank god women are in control of our universe," Roberta grumbled as she used her ice powers to put out the fire.

"Uh that wasn't anything important was it?" Kurt asked. "Like defense systems or anything?"

"That console wasn't linked to our defenses but it was equally important," Scarlett groaned.

"Uh what exactly did that do hickey thing do?" Todd asked.

"It shielded the entire mansion from mutant detection scanners," Scarlett glared at them. "Great! We've got to get them up and running again before…"

"ALERT! ALERT! SENINELS DETECTED!" The mansion's defense system warned as a red light flashed all over the room.

"The Sentinels show up," Scarlett groaned. She looked at the outside monitors. Seven giant silver robots that looked poorly constructed had landed on the grounds.

"Those things are getting faster aren't they?" Roberta gulped.

"I think I'm beginning to see why you kids have a hard time keeping secrets," Logana growled at the X-Men and Misfits.

"We can help fight them," Scott offered.

"Trashing the Sentinels is easy," Andrew groaned as he pointed to the screen. The lasers on the mansion's front lawn were dealing with the invading robots rather successfully. However every time a Sentinel was destroyed, another landed to take it's place. And then be destroyed.

"It's keeping outta sight that's the problem. They're like mosquitoes. They can be swatted but they're always around!" Andrew explained.

"Great! We're going to have to move again!" James threw up his hands. "Just when we finally got wireless internet service and a new Starbucks in town!"

"We should still help," Scott said.

"I think we've done enough," Hank gulped as he turned on the IM NUTS device. "Perhaps we should make a hasty retreat?"

"Beast we can't just leave them and…" Kitty began when she noticed that the X-Women seemed to prepare to attack them.

"If you don't go now," Logana unsheathed her claws. "We'll throw you out the door right in the path of the Sentinels!"

"Maybe we should," Reina snorted. "That way it'll slow 'em down long enough for us to make an escape!"

"Not a bad idea," Pietra agreed. "Let's get them."

"Okay time to go!" Scott said quickly as the gang teleported to the next world.

"AND DON'T COME BACK!" Logana roared after them. "JERKS!"

"Well what did you expect?" Reina snorted. "They have a bunch of men leading them!"

"That does explain a lot," Henrietta sighed as they prepared to attack the Sentinels on the front lawn. "No wonder their universe is so screwed up!"