Team Up

"Dude, zhis trip is going to be so awesome!" Kurt was sitting on the bed in the room that he now shared with Bobby, since Hank had been moved to the faculty wing of the Institute. Kurt was spinning his drumsticks around his thick fingers, and occasionally banging on his drum pad.

Bobby replied while gently strumming his guitar, "I don't know man. The last trip I took didn't really work out well."

"You still haven't talked to Logan?"

"Nope."

Kurt sighed, "Yeah vell, this one vill be better. Me, you, Kitty, and Jean in the Sviss Alps vith Storm. How much better can you get?"

Ororo knocked on the door and leaned inside of the room, "Are you boys ready to go? Kitty and Jean are both already downstairs."

The boys got up and grabbed their suitcases and brought them downstairs where Angel and Cyclops were talking to the Professor.

Warren asked, "So why can't we go Professor?"

"Because, the group that will be going is missing two days of school. You and Scott both have tests within the next two days which you can't afford to miss. Logan and Hank are taking you two camping next week."

Scott pumped his fist but Warren groaned, "Camping? I'm rich, I don't camp."

Logan strolled in the room, "Well ya better get that outta your head Wings, cause I'm gotta beat on you two out there next week."

Jean smiled at the boys, "Don't worry boys, I'm sure you'll come back ok."

Cyclops walked over to Jean and kissed her on the cheek, "Aren't you nice?"

"I like to think so."

Kurt and Bobby walked into the room and asked, "Who's ready to par-taaaay?"

Warren folded his arms and frowned, "Way to rub it in furball."

Bobby walked over to Kitty and kissed her, "Morning sweetie. Are you ready for four days of play time?" He wiggled his eyebrows at her.

Kitty grinned at him, "Well I bought an outfit a few days ago that's gonna like give you—" She was cut off by the glare from Wolverine and the shocked expression from the Professor and Storm.

"A nice big smile?" She finished.

Logan nodded, "I thought that was what you were gonna say."

Warren asked, "Why are you bringing your guitar Bobby? It's not like you're good…what are you gonna do with it?"

Bobby grinned, "You never know."

"Velcome velcome velcome to zee first American teen nightclub in Svitzerland." The heavily accented MC of the club that Bobby, Jean, Kurt, and Kitty walked in to announced.

"Due to ze fact zat zis is our first night open, ve vill be having an open mic night. Anyvaan who believes that zey have talent, step right up." The man announced.

Bobby and Kurt looked at each other, "You thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?"

Kurt nodded, "99 Red Balloons?"

"Plus they speak German so you can sing your verse."

"Ja ja, let's go man."

Jean tapped Bobby on the shoulder, "What are you doing."

Bobby kissed Kitty quickly and then looked back at Jean and grinned, "Who me?"

Kurt tapped the MC on the shoulder, "Me and my friend vould like to perform."

"Excellent mein freund."

Bobby picked up his guitar and Kurt sat down by the drums. Kurt grinned and hit his drum sticks together. "One, two three four." Bobby sang:

You and I in a little toy shop
Buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got
Set them free at the break of dawn
'Til one by one they were gone
Back at base, bugs in the software
Flash the message, something's out there
Floating in the summer sky
Ninety-nine red balloons go by
Ninety-nine red balloons
Floating in the summer sky
Panic bells, it's red alert
There's something here from somewhere else
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
As ninety-nine red balloons go by

Ninety-nine decisions treat
Ninety-nine ministers meet
To worry, worry, super scurry
Call out the troops now in a hurry
This is what we've waited for
This is it, boys, this is war
The President is on the line
As ninety-nine red balloons go by"

Kurt picked up,

"Neunundneunzig Kriegsminister
Streichholz und Benzinkanister
Hielten sich für schlaue Leute
Witterten schon fette Beute
Riefen: Krieg und wollten Macht
Mann, wer hätte das gedacht?
Daß es einmal so weit kommt
Wegen neunundneunzig Luftballons
Neunundneunzig Luftballons

Ninety-nine dreams I have had
And every one a red balloon
It's all over, and I'm standing pretty
In the dust that was a city
I could find a souvenir
Just to prove the world was here
Here it is, a red balloon
I think of you and let it go"

The crowed erupted as Bobby and Kurt stood up to bow. Kitty whispered to Jean, "I had no idea that Bobby could sing."

"Yeah he's not bad. It's the fact that they both can play instruments that surprises me."

Bobby grinned and walked over and said, "Well I have to be doing something when I'm not doin' my homework."

Kitty kissed him and said, "That was amazing."

Kurt put an arm around Jean and Kitty and said, "Vell day one vas pretty sweet…I vonder what day two vill bring."

Suddenly, there was a giant crash at the back end of the club, and two dirt colored monsters bursted in.

"I don't think day one is quite over yet fuzzy." Bobby said.

Jean grabbed both boys as they began to move towards the monsters, "No powers."

Kurt laughed, "Look at zhese things...I chew more difficult things for breakfast."

Bobby walked up to one and said, "Hi, you're ugly."

The monster growled and ran towards Iceman, but was met with a spinning roundhouse kick that sent it flying. After it landed Bobby scrambled up to the stage and plugged in his guitar. He cranked the amp up to full volume and waited for the monster to attack. When it was right in front of the amp, Bobby strummed the guitar and yelled, "Feel the power of the music!"

Jean covered her eyes, "Wow that was corny."

Bobby cocked an eyebrow at her, "I got it didn't I?"

The other monster was busy attacking Kurt by the drums. After the monster lunged at him, Kurt smashed a symbol on it's head. After the monster went down, Kurt put the symbol on it's face and shouted, "Drum roll pleeeeeeeeeeease." He the proceeded to bang on the symbol causing the monster to convulse and then go still.

Bobby looked out the door to see if anyone else was still around. "Looks like everyone cleared out folks...how sweet are we?"

Kitty grinned at him, "Sweet at making the corniest jokes ever...I half expected you to start singing "Don't Stop Believing" while you guys were fighting."

Bobby smiled back, "I was gonna but I decided not to. I am SO pumped for tomorrow though."

Bobby groaned and rolled over in his bed as his alarm clock rang. "Ugh I thought we were on vacation. Why am I up at, damn it's early, eleven o'clock."

Kurt walked in to the room and shook Bobby, "Man ve're scheduled to go snowboarding in like two hours!"

'Sweet let me go get ready."

Bobby walked into the main room of the suite that they were staying in and there he found Kitty.

"Morning sweetie."

Kitty looked up from the book she was reading and smiled, "Hey you. Are you ready?"

"For what?"

"For a full day of you and incredible me." She said and grinned.

Bobby rubbed the back of his neck and said, "I kinda promised Kurt that I would—"

Kitty frowned, "Bobby Drake are you telling me that whatever boy things that you two are doing can't wait until tomorrow?"

Bobby sighed and said, "Of course it can Kitty. Me and you, all day today."

Kitty smiled, got up, and kissed Bobby on the cheek, "Great. I'll meet you back here in twenty minutes and then we'll go see what we can do."

"Great!" Bobby said as enthusiastically as he possibly could. As Kitty walked out, Jean walked in.

"Morning little brother."

"Morning Jeanie. Can you believe this? No sooner do I wake up that Kitty and Kurt—"

Jean interrupted him, "Wait, so what are we doing today?"

Bobby stopped, "We? As in just the two of us?"

Jean frowned, "Umm yeah. We haven't done anything together in a really long time Bobby. I want to hang out with you just the two of us like old times. I'm sure Kitty and Kurt can entertain themselves for a few hours. Can't they?"

Bobby sighed, "Yeah, I bet they can. Of course Jeannie, you and me."

"Great, let me go get dressed."

"Sure."

As soon as she walked out of the room, Bobby groaned and said, "Why?!"

"Rough morning Robert?" Ororo asked as she walked into the main room.

"Um yeah? Kitty, Kurt, and Jean all want me to do things with them today, and I don't know who to say no to. Kitty is my girlfriend, but Kurt and Jean are my best friends. How do I say no to any of them?"

Ororo put her hand on Bobby's shoulder, "What would you like to do?"

Bobby sighed, "I just wanted to go snowboard today. All by myself, just relax, you know?"

Ororo smiled, "Then go, I will cover for you."

Bobby grinned, "Really?"

"Of course."

'Thanks Ororo!"

Bobby ran out of the room just before Kurt, Kitty, and Jean walked back in.

Kitty looked around, "Um…where did Bobby go?"

Kurt nodded, "Ja, ve vere supposed to go snowboarding."

Jean shook her head, "Actually Bobby and I were going to hang out today."

Kitty looked at them both, "No, Bobby and I were like going to go shopping."

Ororo said, "No. Bobby is very tired and still a little shaken up from the trip that he took with Logan. I think that we should leave him be today. I spoke with him and he told me that he will "hang out" with all of you tomorrow."

"I never realized that he was still messed up from Canada." Jean said.

"Ja, ve vere talking about it before we left. Something happened up zhere zat caused him to not speak vith Logan anymore." Kurt said.

Kitty nodded, "Yeah, maybe we should give him a break today."

Ororo smiled, "Good. Now let's all go down for breakfast."

The four made their way down to the main floor of the hotel, where there was a huge crowd of people.

Kitty exclaimed, "This is like a total zoo!"

"Ja." Kurt said. He walked up to a girl nearby and tapped her on the shoulder, "Excuse me miss? Vhat is the big commotion over here."

The girl had an autograph book and was jumping up and down with excitement, "Eet ees zhose American 'eroes. Ze Fantastic Four."

Kurt's eyes bulged, "Seriously?!" He began to pull the others threw the crowd but Kitty stopped him.

"I'll handle this." She grabbed Kurt, Jean, and Ororo and began to phase threw the crowd. They eventually made their way to the front, where the paparazzi where taking pictures of a blonde girl, a brown haired man, and another guy made out of orange rock.

A reporter asked the group of people, "Mr. Richards, what are your thoughts on the Mole Man's creatures attacking last night?"

The man that had been addressed sighed, "This was initially not our intent for coming here, but we will deal with it."

The orange man put his hands up over his face, "Aw cripes! Didn't we come here for a vacation Stretch?"

The other man nodded, "Yes Ben, but unfortunately, these people caught a glimpse of Sue shopping, and followed us back here."

Ben groaned, "Suzie ain't you supposed to be the INVISIBLE Woman? Outta all o' us how da ya get caught?"

Sue rolled her eyes, "Sorry Ben. I knew how much you liked the paparazzi, so I brought them here for you." She looked around. "Has anyone seen Johnny?"

Reed looked around, "No…I actually haven't seen him in a while."

Ben groaned again, "Beautiful."

Meanwhile, Bobby had just been brought to the very top of one of the mountains. He surveyed the mountain before him, and saw that aside from one lone snowboarder a few hundred yards in front of him, he was all alone. He snapped on his board and began to head down the mountain. As he picked up speed he yelled,

"YES! This is AWESOME." He looked at the man ahead of him, and saw that a trail of smoke was coming off the man.

"Whoa, he's goin' pretty damn fast." He looked again and saw a burst of flame shoot off the back of the man's snowboard.

"Holy shit, is that Pyro?" Bobby picked up speed and got a little closer to the man. He noticed that his bored was painted with flame emblems, and the fire was definitely coming off of him. Bobby grinned and shot a burst of ice at the man. The ice grazed the side of the man's arm, causing him to look over his shoulder. The man spun around and shot a fireball at Bobby, which he dodged.

"You missed me loser!" Bobby yelled. Bobby created an ice-slide and jumped on top of it. Iceman sped closer to the man and once he was close enough he jumped into the air. When he was right over the man he fired a pile of snow at him, causing him to crash into a tree. Iceman landed and pulled his board off. He walked over to the man and pinned his shoulders down. He ripped the other guy's mask off and looked down at the man's face. The man, was a kid who was no older than Bobby with spiky blonde hair. Bobby looked at him for a moment and gasped.

"You aren't Pyro."

"The hell is a Pyro?' The kid asked.

"Wait, wait. Dude you're Johnny Storm!"

Johnny nodded, "Thanks for tellin' me who I am."

"Dude, dude, I'm a big fan, HUGE."

"Then why did you just smack me into a tree?"

"Well, you have similar powers to this kid who attacked me and my friends, and I thought you were him."

Johnny looked at him curiously, "You have powers."

Bobby rolled his eyes, "Nah man, the pile of snow that came out of my hands was because I have a cloud in my pocket that chose to make snow the second I was over you."

Johnny rolled his eyes back, "That was a lame attempt at a comeback."

Bobby held up his hands in self defense, "Fine, fine, but dude what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be off saving the world or whatever."

Johnny sighed, "Yeah man, but we were supposed to be here for a break. I saw the paparazzi coming at us in the lobby of the hotel and some were talking about the Mole Man. I didn't want to have to do any super-heroing on my week off so I peaced."

Bobby snorted, "Mole Man?"

Johnny laughed, "I know right? He even has these little dirt dudes that are completely retarded.."

Bobby cut him off, "Wait guys made out of dirt?"

"Yeah."

"Me and my friend beat on a couple at the night club last night."

"That was you? Good work."

"Thanks man."

"Wait. So if you're up here with your friends why are you doin' the lone wolf thing?" Johnny asked.

Bobby sighed, "Yeah well, I'm up here with my girlfriend, my guy best friend, and my girl best friend, they all want me to chill with them today."

Johnny nodded, "Well at least you have friends man. My best friend is my sister."

"Dude your sister is hot!"

Johnny glared at him and Bobby laughed, "Sorry, sorry." He held out his hand to help Johnny up. "Well you just made yourself a new friend, my name is Bobby Drake." He iced himself up, "But you can call me Iceman."

Johnny laughed, "That's pretty cool frosty."

Bobby grinned back, "You bet flamer."

Johnny smiled, "Oh an insult friend? Even better."

Bobby created the beginnings of an ice-slide and laughed, "Need a ride?"

Johnny cocked an eyebrow, flamed up, and rose into the air, "Nah man, but how bout a race?"

Bobby grinned, "I don't lose races."

"Me neither."

"You're on."

Back at the hotel, Kurt, Kitty, Jean, and Ororo were sitting in their room.

"I still don't understand vhy we couldn't stay to get zheir autographs!" Kurt said.

"Because I want to stay here and wait for Bobby to come back!" Kitty said back.

Ororo interrupted, "Children please. Kitty, Bobby will be back soon, and Kurt I'm sure there will be ample to time to see the Fantastic Four."

Jean asked Ororo, "By the way, did Bobby say when he would be getting back."

Ororo shook her head, "No."

Suddenly Bobby and Johnny flew into the room, through the open door to the balcony and landed on top of each other. Bobby immediately jumped up.

"Dude! I totally owned you!"

Johnny punched Bobby in the arm, "Yeah and I bet you wouldn't know how the temp got so low that I could barely stay lit?"

"Who me?"

Kitty walked up to Bobby and grabbed him. "Bobby Drake, what are you thinking ditching your girlfriend for the day?"

Johnny nodded at her, "You're right, she is crazy."

Kitty looked back at Bobby, "WHAT?!"

Bobby stuttered out, "Wha- I never-. He's just tryin' to get me in trouble!"

Kitty glared back at Johnny who held up his hands in self defense as he slid up to Jean. Right when he opened his mouth she said, "Taken."

Johnny sighed and moved on to Ororo. He was about to speak again when she said, "Too old."

He finally turned to Kurt and said, "Aaaaaaand you're a dude."

Kurt grinned and laughed. "Last time I checked, ja. And you're Johnny Storm dude."

Johnny said, "That's what they tell me."

"The rest of your crew was looking for you before." Jean said.

Johnny rolled his eyes, "Well I'm on vacation right now. First vacation in a long time that I've talked to someone other then the others. I guess I have the ice cube to thank for that."

Ororo glared at Bobby, "You told him that you are a mutant?"

Bobby shrugged, "Isn't it super hero rules that you don't squeal on other super heroes."

Johnny put his hand on Bobby's shoulder, "You bet. Listen, you have no reason to be worried. I won't tell anyone...you guys are better off that way anyway."

Jean asked, "Why do you say that?"

Johnny sighed, "Being a superhero 24/7 isn't always the best thing."

"But dude, you get to be a celebrity, go to cool parties, date hot girls..."Bobby started, but was interrupted by a glare from Kitty, "Which I get to do also so that isn't as big of a deal."

Johnny nodded, "Yeah, but I don't always get to turn it off like you guys do. You have your superhero thing, and you're school thing. I haven't been to a school in two years." Johnny's watch began to beep and he pressed a button. A hologram of Mr. Fantastic appeared. Johnny groaned, "Human Torch here."

Reed looked angry. "Johnny, where the hell have you been? We tracked the Mole Man to his subterranean base of operation and could really use your solar powers."

Bobby groaned, "Another Hank..."

Kitty laughed, "Shh."

Reed continued, "I need you to follow our signal down here. Sue is holding his creatures off with a force bubble, but she's weakening."

Johnny nodded, "I'll be there in a minute."

Reed's image faded and Johnny turned to the X-men, "Well, I've got to go."

Bobby stepped in front of him, "I'm coming."

Kurt nodded, "Me too."

Johnny shook his head, "No you aren't."

Jean stopped him, "Yes we are. You said you don't have friends. Now you do. We're coming to help." Kitty and Ororo nodded in agreement.

"Lead the way." Bobby said.

Under ground, the Invisible Woman had a force bubble put up around Mr. Fantastic and the Thing.

Sue was holding her head and her voice was strained when she asked Reed, "Sweetie? Any word on Johnny?"

"He's on his way."

Sue's legs were beginning to wobble as the mole creatures rammed the bubble. "I...can't...hold...it...anymore." She collapsed in a heap and the forcefield went down. The mole creature prepared to dive on top of Ben and Reed, but right before they were able to another bubble went up around them.

Reed turned to see Johnny and the X-men coming towards them. Ben glared at the Human Torch, "Bout time match-stick. Who are these clowns?" There was a BAMF and Nightcrawler appeared next to him.

"Vee are zhe X-men."

"Cripes that's creepy."

"Says zhe man vith no ears."

"Why I oughtta..."

There was a gust of wind and Storm blew a few of the mole men up against the wall and them with a bolt of lightning. "Can we focus please."

Reed put Sue in Nightcrawler's arms. "Can you get her to safety?"

"Ja." He teleported away.

Kitty was busy phasing Bobby and Johnny so that they could take out the rest of the mole men while staying untouchable themselves. Reed used his elastic fists to punch some from long distance, while Jean easily dispatched the rest by slamming them into a wall with her telekinetic powers.

After everyone was finished, the group met up again topside. Bobby grinned, "Some party, huh?"

Ben nodded, "It was good ta have a little extra fire power. You kids got spunk."

Jean asked, "But what now?"

Reed held his hand out to Storm, "Well the first question is, we fought the mole monsters but where did the mole MAN go? But the Fantastic Four will deal with that. However, we just gained ourselves a new ally. Hopefully you can say the same."

Storm smiled warmly and shook his hand. "Thank you Mr. Richards, and yes, we can."

Sue, who had been teleported back by Nightcrawler, walked up to Johnny, "Is everything alright?"

Johnny looked at the ground. "I want to take a break Sue."

"What?"

Johnny looked up. "This superhero thing is cool, and I love it more than anything. But I need a week or two to not be in the spotlight."

Kurt leaned in to Bobby, "Is he asking vhat I think he is?"

Johnny turned to Reed, "I want to go with the X-men for a little while. A week, two tops."

Reed nodded, "I don't see why not. Ororo?"

Ororo smiled and nodded, "Of course."

Bobby pumped his fist, "Looks like the dynamic duo just became a trio." He put an arm around Kurt and Johnny.

Kitty laughed and Jean groaned, "This is going to be a fun couple of weeks."

Reed laughed, "Yeah, let us know how that works out."

Meanwhile, at a high security prison, a guard stepped out of an elevator. He walked down into a room with a giant stasis tube, filled with green liquid and a giant man. He flipped a switch causing the tube to drain. Before it was fulling empty, she took a brown helmet out and set it on a desk, and placed with it a picture. He walked out of the room, eyes glowing yellow in the darkness.

The giant man's eyes flew open and darted around. He drew back a fist and slammed it into the glass tube he was held in, shattering it like it was nothing. He walked over to the desk, picked up his helmet and strapped it to his giant brown armor. He grunted and looked at the picture. It showed a mansion with a group of people sitting on the front steps. One was a bald man in a wheelchair. He flipped it over, and there was an address. He smiled and laughed, "Now you'll get yours Xavier."

Sorry this one is a little choppy, this one was giving me major writers block and I needed to get through it. I have some solid ideas for the final four chapters of the "season" so hopefully I can crank one out a week.