Chapter 4: Heigh-Ho
In a cave deep in the mountains, seven children were working to get some precious stones to be able to survive in the world. Originally, they were part of the X-Men, literally, they were parts of the members, but after Mr. Sinister made clones of them, they escaped and hid in the forest, hoping Sinister never found them.
The leaders were child forms of Logan, Bobby Drake, Ororo Monroe, and Hank McCoy. They were physically ten but held the same memories as their adult counterparts far away in the city of Metropolis. Right under them was a nine-year-old version of the hero known as Kitty Pryde and an eight-year-old version of the hero Rogue. At the bottom of the chain of command was a seven-year-old version of Kurt Wagner. They still wore the same outfits their adult selves wore, but they were obviously smaller and slimmer. To make things go by quicker, and to stop Kurt from complaining, they sang a work song, which only Batboy objected to.
We dig-dig-dig-dig-dig-dig-dig
In our mine the whole day through.
To dig-dig-dig-dig-dig-dig-dig
Is what we have to do.
"It's not a trick." Ororo said as she used lightning to easily cut through the walls. "You get rich quick."
"If you dig-dig-dig with a shovel or a pick." Logan said as he dug out a diamond the size of Albert Einstein's brain.
"In a mine." Kitty said as his echo repeated, "In a mine."
"In a mine!" Ororo repeated as she liked the way the echo sounded. "In a mine!"
Where a million diamonds…
Shine!
As they blinked in wonder, Rogue was driving a cart as she was reading a book called The Once and Future King.
We dig-dig-dig-dig-dig-dig-dig
From morning until night.
Rogue saw a fly buzzing around and smashed him.
We dig-dig-dig-dig-dig-dig-dig
Up everything in sight.
Rogue then dropped the diamonds in front of Hank, who checked to see how good the diamonds were. If they weren't good, he'd toss them on the floor.
We dig up diamonds by the score.
Diamonds rubies sometimes more.
And we're not sure what we dig them for.
We dig-dig-diggity-dig.
Kurt's job was to sweep up the rejects and throw them in a landfill. As he watched Hank observe a very large diamond, he picked up two of them. A few minutes later, he tugged on Hank's sleeve, and he turned around to see Kurt with the diamonds in his eyes. Hank then knocked the diamonds out with a slight thump on the head.
Hank then looked at the clock to see that it was already five in the afternoon.
"Heigh-ho!" Hank called as a way to sound the end of the day.
"Heigh-ho!" Everyone called back to show they heard. They then headed back home.
Heigh-ho! Heigh-ho! Heigh-ho!
They then walked off with about three diamonds each to tide them over for a while.
Heigh-ho. Heigh-ho.
It's home from work we go.
The rest of the diamonds were then put into a safe as Hank put the key in his pocket to keep safe until the next day.
Heigh-ho. Heigh-ho.
Heigh-ho. Heigh-ho.
Heigh-ho. Heigh-ho.
It's home from work we go.
Heigh-ho. Heigh-ho.
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Heigh-ho. Heigh-ho.
Heigh-ho, hum.
Heigh-ho. Heigh-ho.
It's home from work we go.
Heigh-ho. Heigh-ho.
Heigh-ho,
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It's home from work we go.
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Heigh-ho,
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It's home from work we go.
Heigh-ho, heigh-ho.
Heigh-ho, heigh-ho.
Heigh-ho.
Yeah, that's what I'm using for the dwarves. Deal with it.
No flaming if you don't like it by the way.