hey guys! sorry for suuuuuuuuuuuuuch a long wait! major ADD and super
super busy-ness. but here is chapter 5, which i revised about 20 times,
and i hope you enjoy it!
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-Chapter 5: Project RUN AWAY!-
"While I am glad you two were having a good time decorating your room,"
the Professor began (Logan growled). "you both seemed to have made a
massive mess. As your punishment, you must clean the room, as well as the
Danger Room for a week."
"One week, Chuck?!" Logan exclaimed.
"One Week, Logan." the Professor replied in that ever-calm voice of
his. "You are both dismissed."
Luke and Stephanie guiltily walked up the stairs and to their separate
rooms. As Stephanie was walking back, she heard a slight whisper.
"Steph! C'mere!" Stephanie turned and saw Haley motioning her into her
room. Upon arrival, she was met with the entire girl population of the
Institute. All 6 of them.
"What happened?"
"Why did you get in trouble?"
"Logan caught you!"
"What's your punishment?"
"What were you doing?"
"EVERYONE QUIET!" Haley yelled over the mass of questions. "What we are
all meaning to say is: What exactly happened that you and Luke got in
trouble with Logan?"
"Well..." Stephanie began.
"SPILL GIRL SPILL!" Blitz said, ever loud and impatient.
"Ok ok. So he was helping me paint my room..."
...boys hallway...
Luke was walking down the hallway back to his room. Suddenly, he was
pulled roughly into Jason's room. Only a couple of the guys were there.
"Deja vu..." Luke said to himself.
"Dude. What the heck happened?" Jason asked.
"Yea. We could hear Logan yelling all the way down here." Chris added.
"I got caught with my hand on her butt." Luke said, really wanting to
get to his room.
"WHAT?" Chris exclaimed. Luke sighed and began telling his sorrowful
little tale.
...early October, English class...
"All right, munchkins," Wanda began, passing out a two pages stapled
together.
"Hey! I'm taller than you!" Chris called back to her.
"Not when I'm wearing my boots, Mr. Jameson." Wanda replied.
"That is true." Chris said, nodding and taking his packet.
"We're starting a new project today, class." Wanda continued, walking
back to the front of the classroom with her own copy of the packet. "I
figured, since you all have been here for a couple months now, you must
be missing home or families. Maybe just your friends. And so, I have
decided that I would like you all to write a paper and prepare a
presentation on what you miss most about your home, town, or life. This is your rubric, as well as some examples for things you can think of. If you have any questions, you can ask me." Wanda finished, walking around and sitting at her desks to start grading the prompts that the teens had written the day before. Her grading, however, was interupted by her twin rounding the corner into the room. Pietro stopped, composing himself, before super-speeding over to Wanda. He whispered something very quietly and very fast, so the teens had no idea what he had said. When he finished, Wanda rolled her eyes, muttering something along the lines of "I hate life" before getting up and following her brother out.
"I need all of you to go to the rec room right now. Professor Xavier
will explain to you what's going on there." Wanda called as she walked
towards the elevator that led to the Danger Room. The teens all looked at each other, confused a bit at what to do. Jack shrugged and stood up.
"Well," he said. "shouldn't we be going then?"
There was a general consensus as the entire class made there way to the
rec room, where the Professor was already waiting for them.
"Professor, what's going on?" Alley asked.
"Everyone, if you would please sit down, I will explain everything.
There is no need to get nervous or excited." the Professor said.
"Nervous? Why would anyone get nervous? I mean, that's just absurd..."
Stephanie said, jiggling her foot from her position on the couch. Luke
put a hand on her knee to stop her. The Professor simply smiled and
pointed a remote at a projector that many just noticed was there. He
clicked said remote, pulling up a picture of a large metal robot.
"This is a Sentinal." Xavier said. "They were built many years ago by a
man named Trask. They are designed to hunt down and terminate mutant
signatures. The reason your classes have been cancelled for today is
because we have caught signals of these Sentinals awakening in south
eastern Canada."
"We don't hafta fight them, do we?!" Jason asked, suddenly not so
excited about life.
"No, no, no." the Professor said. "The senior X-men are going to go and
make sure these Sentinals do not find and destroy any innocent mutants.
You, however, are going to stay here. I have the lesson plans for the
rest of your classes for you to work on while your teachers are away on
this mission. You are all dismissed." he finished. Before the teens had
a chance to ask any questions, the Professor calmly wheeled his way out
of the room, leaving the menacing picture of the Sentinal glaring from
the wall.
"Anyone in favor of pretending our teachers aren't facing impending
doom and working on our English project due in a week?" Chris said.
Everyone responded with an "aye."
"I miss so many things from home!" Blitz said, crashing on the couch.
"Yea, I bet." Alley said as the rest of the group filed into the living
room.
"Like Tex-Mex. I would kill for some Chuy's right now." Blitz
continued.
"Or Freebird's." Dawn added.
"OH MY GOSH YES! And EZ's." Blitz responded.
"Oh yea! Oh gosh and Habana's." Dawn said.
"Or Razoo's." Blitz replied.
"Oh my gosh Rudy's..." Dawn said.
"Jamba Juice." Blitz added.
"You did not just say that..." Dawn said, covering her ears.
"Don't you notice all you're saying is food places?" Jason asked.
However, his question fell on deaf ears.
"But you know what I REALLY miss?" Blitz said, looking at Dawn.
"Oh, don't say it." Dawn said.
"I think you know what I'm gonna say."
"PLEASE don't say it!"
"That's right. Taco Shack." Blitz said with a smile.
"UGH! That's it! Where's that jet! We're flying to Texas!" Dawn yelled,
throwing her hands up into the air.
"Yea. At least it's warm there." Blitz said with a sad look on her
face. The morning news caster had informed the group that it was officially starting to get cooler outside.
"I know what you mean." Alley replied.
"Yea." Jack continued. "I'm not sure there really is a winter in
Phoenix."
"There is in New York City." Julia said quietly.
"Not in Puerto Rico." Carmen said. "Ochenta y dos por todo el año."
"There's some in Cameron." Haley said a little quiet. As the
conversation continued, the teens seemed to realize how different their home was now that they were in Bayville instead of anywhere else.
"We definately get winter in Pittsburgh." Hunter added to the list.
That's right, they were talking about weather. It's a perfectly normal
thing to miss.
"We don't really in Orlando." Chris put in his two cents.
"Sacramento is kinda half-and-half." Jason stated.
"There's definately winter in Detroit." Luke said.
"I hope it snows here." Stephanie added. Another minute of silence.
"I'm feeling a road trip. Dawn, care to search planlessly for Tex-Mex?"
Blitz said, jumping up from the couch arm where she had stationed
herself.
"But of course! And I'm driving." Dawn said with an air of finality,
jumping up as well. The two ran off to the garage, not waiting for anyone
else.
"You think they'll realize that they're probably not allowed to go out
right now?" Luke asked rhetorically.
"Eh, Xavier'll never know." Jason said, waving a hand like it didn't
matter.
"Oh, yea. It's real easy to be sneaky around a telepath." Haley said,
rolling her eyes.
"I wanna do something too. What's Phoenix-y?" Alley said, turning to
her twin.
"I dunno. Why are you looking at me like that?" Jack replied, turning
his identical eyes to his twin.
"C'mon, Jack! We haven't done a twin thing in a long time!" Alley said,
pulling on his arm. Maybe with a little more strength than intended.
"Ow, ow! Ok, fine, we'll do a twin thing!" Jack said. Alley gave a look
that clearly said "my bad" before running off after the two Texans.
"Check ya later, guys." Jack said, following Alley at a slower pace.
"You wanna go into the city?" Luke asked Stephanie after a moment.
"It's no Detroit, but..."
"Yea, that'd be fun. Lemme go grab my jacket, and I'll meet you in the
garage." Stephanie said, running off to her room. After a brief "later"
Luke was making his way to the garage. There was more silence. Chris
glanced over to Julia, who met his gaze.
"Don't look at me," she said, shaking her head. "I'm not up for
coupling up today."
"No, it's just..." Chris started. "I thought that you were from the
city. I bet Luke and Steph wouldn't mind taking you with 'em."
"I've got nothing to be attached to in the city." Julia said quietly.
"Besides, the third wheel is about the most awkward position for
someone, especially me, to be in. So I'm gonna go wallow in my room for a while." she said, getting up and walking towards the stairs.
"I'll go with you. I need to call my family." Carmen said, getting up
after her.
"Wallowing sounds good to me too." Haley said, taking her hand out of
her purple hair and following the other two girls up to the girls' wing.
"Dude, you should probably give up on that one." Jason said to Chris.
"Just cause I ask a question doesn't mean I like her like that." Chris
responded.
"Well Hunter asks Carmen questions and he likes her." Jason retorted.
"I asked for a pencil. Get over yourself." Hunter replied, possibly
just a little too quickly.
"Well you conveniently ignored the new package in your backpack." Jason
fought back.
"She had a mechanical one. I like those better."
"Oh, give it up."
"Fine. If anyone needs me, I'm going outside." Hunter said, walking
towards his room.
"Door's the other way." Jason called to his retreating back. Hunter
chose not to answer, leaving the front door a few moments later with a
blue and silver Nike soccer ball under one arm and silver cleats slung
over one shoulder.
"Ok then." Jason said. "So...whatcha gonna do?"
"I dunno." Chris replied. "I'm kinda hungry. I kinda wanna go get some
Wendy's."
"Well then what are we waiting for?" Jason said, getting up.
"When did this become a 'we'?"
"When I decided that I'm bored, and you're bored, so we might as well
be bored while getting Wendy's."
"Sounds good to me." Chris said with a shrug, getting up after Jason.
One hour later, everyone was still in the same positions they had been
before. Except for one. Carmen had called her brother, mother, aunt,
cousin, and best friend all in one hour. They still had lives, it seems. So, she went to the solace of her iPod and went to see if anyone was anywhere in the house. She found a few people in their rooms (by popping in by way of shadows, of course), and assumed the others were still out. Carmen had a thought. She rushed down to the kitchen, stopping and bracing herself on the doorway.
"Empty kitchen..." she whispered, looking around the gloriously (empty)
space. She smiled and rushed in, setting her idea into motion. 20
minutes later, she was happily on her way to making and eating a rather
large empanada, dancing to the music still blasting through her earphones. It wasn't until after she had danced like Beyonce and shimmied like that one guy on My Super Sweet 16 that she noticed Hunter was standing in the doorway. He had apparently been outside running or something, cause his fringe was sticking to his forehead by way of sweat. His sudden appearance, though, startled Carmen, causing her to jump rather close to the stove. Which led to the back of her shirt, which rode up a little during her dancing, to not be where it was needed. Which led to her getting a burn shaped like a line right on her lower back, just above the waistband of her jeans.
"OH!" was all she managed to get out between spotting Hunter and the
burn. Hunter immediately rushed to her, quick with apologies and "are you ok?"'s. Carmen waved him off.
"I'm ok, I'm fine. You just startled me a bit." Carmen explained,
taking out the headphones and putting the iPod on the counter.
"Are you sure you're ok?" Hunter asked again.
"Yes, yes, I'm fine. No te preoccupes." she said again, turning back to
the stove. She realized it was the pan that cooked the meat that had
burned her, considering the stove had been turned off a few minutes
before. She poked the empanada in the deep frier a couple times, making sure the whole thing was cooking.
"What are you making?" Hunter asked casually, taking out a bottle of
water from the fridge and sitting down on a bar stool.
"Empanadas. You want one?"
"Want a what?"
"Empanada."
"...What's that?"
"It's kind of like deep fried ravioli. Only bigger. And better. And not
made out of pasta. And caribbean. Ok, so maybe it's not so much like
ravioli, but you get the idea. I'll make you one."
"No, I'm fi-"
"Nonsense. I'm a crazy Puerto Rican with too much time. You're getting
an empanada." she insisted, going about loading up another one. Hunter,
unsure of how to deal with a 'crazy Puerto Rican' (or what an empanada
was) was left to sit and watch as she cooked. 10 minutes later, she was
situated in the bar stool next to him, happily munching on the treat,
burn on her back (which was exposed due to the fact that she was
sitting) long forgotten. Hunter just enjoyed the free food. 5 minutes after that, Chris and Jason walked in and saw them. Jason didn't say anything then, but Hunter knew the teasing would come later. Oh, well. He's just jealous.
"WE'RE HOOOOOOOOME!" came another voice. Blitz.
"AND WE SMELL FOOD!" one more. Dawn.
"CARMEN'S MAKING EMPANADAS IN THE KITCHEN!" Carmen called to the girls,
jumping up and going to make more food. Literally half a second later,
Dawn and Blitz were both stationed on bar stools on either side of
Hunter.
"Gotta make it quick, Car," Blitz said.
"Yea, the game's fixin' to start." Dawn added.
"What game?" Hunter asked.
"DUH! UT VERSUS A and M!" Blitz yelled, whipping off her burnt orange
sweatshirt to reveal another burnt orange tshirt, the words "ROSE BOWL
CHAMPIONS" emblazed across it with a longhorn symbol and roses.
"Football?" Chris asked, coming into the kitchen. "Food?"
"Definately to both." Dawn said. Soon enough, food had been made and
Dawn and Blitz were in the living room watching the game with the rest of the teams.
"I still think Vince Young should've stayed at UT." Dawn was saying.
"Nonsense. He's being baller in the pros." Blitz replied.
"Yea, but now UT isn't as good."
"They're good enough."
2 hours later, Blitz discovered that perhaps she was wrong.
"WHAT?!" the girls yelled as the game ended.
"I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!" Blitz yelled angrily.
"I think I'm going to be depressed for the rest of the day." Dawn said,
still sitting on the couch.
"HOW COULD THEY LOSE?!" Blitz continued to rant. The rest of the teens,
unaffected by the game, got up to go and procrastinate some more before
working on school work. The movement was interrupted by a cell phone
blaring a ring tone version of Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack". Blitz
grimaced.
"That's Nichole, isn't it." Dawn said.
"Yup. This is gonna be rough. Hello?" Blitz answered. "Yea, I know they
won...Yea, I was watching...Yea, I know that means you won...Uh
huh...I'LL GET YOU THE FLIPPIN' COKE WHEN I GET A CHANCE, ALRIGHT?! GET OFF MY BACK!...yea, you know I was just kidding...no, I'll really give it to you...uh huh...uh huh...DefinatelY! Me and Dawn will three way you later...yea...ok check ya later, homie." she hung up.
"That was...interesting." Luke said, looking at Jack.
"Yea. I'm gonna go now." Jack replied as the group filed out of the
room. Just as they entered the foyer to cross over to the stairway,
however, their trip was interrupted by Pietro bursting through the doors.
"Someone-go-get-Mr.-McCoy-quick!-His-lab-is-next-to-the-Danger-Room."
He said quickly before running back outside in superspeed.
"I'm on it!" Carmen said, literally diving into the shadow behind a
door. A couple seconds later, she popped back out, pulling a blue gorilla by the hand.
"Hello, I'm Dr. McCoy." he said amicably, waving to the group. "I hear
there's some emergency?"
"Yea, Doctor." Jean said, running in. Scott was close behind her.
"Piotr's coming with Wanda now."
As she spoke, Colossus walked through the door, carrying a limp Wanda
in his arms. John and Pietro were both running around him like gnats,
trying to see if she was going to be ok.
"Oh my stars and garters." Dr. McCoy said. "Quick, let's get her down
to the Med Bay."
It was all a flurry of activity, and the teens had trouble keeping up
with what was going on. Not wanting to get in the way of anything, they
kept quiet and close to the wall. Once Wanda was out of sight, Jason
pounced on a passing Rogue.
"Rogue! What happened?" he asked. The rest of the group came closer to
hear.
"Well, Wanda -- Remy! Remy, come back here! Urgh, dumb Swamp Rat..."
She started to tell the story, but Remy had passed by quickly, looking
rather upset. She chased him down to the Med Bay.
"UGH! WHAT HAPPENED?" Jack exclaimed.
"Long story short, Wanda got hurt pretty badly on the mission. And Remy
thinks that it was his fault. That's all you need to know for now."
Kitty said as she too took off towards the basement.
The teens stood in the eerily empty foyer, stunned.
"This is so hardcore."
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Whoa there! Trouble!
Again, I am so sorry for such a long wait. It's been rough trying to
pump this story out. I do have the next chapter planned and some future
scenes in my mind, so be ready!
holla's:
Rogueforareason: I'm not tellin you nothin, sister. ;)
Yay for Me: thank you so much for the advice! I'll definately try and
space it out a little more.
RomyGirl123: here you go!
bant: thank you so so much!
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ok everyone, so there you go! and if you have anything you would like
to see happen, let me know. if you want a cameo as well, i could use a
coupld of them, such as a visitor or a friend on the phone or something. talk to me! here's a teaser for the next chapter...
"She's stable, but it's all up in the air right now..."
"Time for check-ups!..."
"LUVS I'M HOME!..."
"He thinks it's all his fault. I can't even get him to talk to me right
now..."
"I want you to infiltrate the Xavier mansion..."
"Why is he in your room? And why are you undressed like that?!"
ooooooh yessssss...what's gonna happen? find out next time in:
Visitations.
and, by request, here are the sparknotes on each Junior X-man,
including name, power, and where they're from.
Girls:
Julia Shear - Absorbing - from New York City, New York
Alley Lewis - Super Strength - from Phoenix, Arizona
Melanie Rosebrook, aka Blitz - Electricity - from Austin, Texas
Dawn Thompson - she can create fire by snapping/control fire - from
Austin, Texas
Carmen Baez - can travel through shadows - from Dorado, Puerto Rico
Haley Benson - telepathy/telekinesis - from Cameron, North Carolina
Stephanie Wardlow - turns into a "ghost" - from Detroit, Michigan
Boys:
Jack Lewis - control weather - from Phoenix, Arizona
Chris Jameson - super speed - from Orlando, Florida
Jason McMannis - can find and project a person's fears - from
Sacramento, California
Luke DeWenson - project beams from hands - from Detroit, Michigan
Hunter Breaux - matches backgrounds, like a chameleon - from
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
voila! peace, love, and chocolate!
check y'all later!