Hey, anyone who's reading this (seriously, is there anyone?). It's been a while, but I got Writer's Block. Of course.
"What is she doing?" Kitty voices the thought aloud. "I mean, she's, like, fighting the Avengers."
"Maybe she has a good reason?" Scott's statement comes out more as a question.
"Yeah, maybe one of them is a green alien preparing for an invasion!" Kurt says. We all look at him, then start laughing.
"Yeah, right," Jean says, rolling her eyes. We turn our attention back to the TV.
"She's fighting kind of sluggishly, like she just woke up," I notice. "That's unusual, because Moonfire never fights if she's half asleep. It ruins her concentration, she says."
"Okay, then. Two strange things that aren't like Moonfire at all. What could she possibly be doing? Sleepwalking?" Evan asks. I look at him.
"That may be right! Half right, anyway. She might be in some kind of trance. A spell could've been cast over her, she might not be thinking straight, or even she's dreaming and she thinks that the Avengers are green aliens from outer space." I snicker a bit, then I close my eyes to think and a little clip scene pops up uncalled in my mind. It seems to be from Moonfire, since the edges are surrounded in white. I dream with the edges surrounded in black. I smell something good, and see something brown and blurry. Then suddenly, the clip scene is gone as soon as it had come, and it doesn't make sense at all.
"What the…? Well, I better go stop her." I stand up and sigh. "It was fun while it lasted." Jean shoots me a reproving look and I shrug.
"What? Watching Hulk get blown to Antarctica? You can't honestly tell me that's not funny."
[Hawkeye's P.O.V.]
"Who are you?!" I shout for the 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000th time. Okay, maybe not that much, but my voice is almost hoarse now. I shoot another explosive arrow and she just deflects it. I dive for cover as it heads back to me, just about to blow up. I cough away the dust and wince, feeling the pain in my throat from yelling so much. Hulk tried to ambush her, but she just waved her arm and he went flying into the horizon. Cap and Thor are somewhere around here, Wasp is unconscious with Giant-man who is somewhere trying to protect her, Black Panther is currently (heh, I said currently) tangled in a pile of telephone towers and wires, Ms. Marvel was smashed into a building, Iron Man is on the ground with his armor malfunctioning and whirling around on the ground, and I'm here. All in all, we're getting beat up by a maybe 12-year-old girl! Any dignity I had was gone when I saw her and thought, why is she attacking us? We're gonna kick her butt! Boy, was I wrong.
"Hey, Moonfire!" I hear another girl, and peek out from behind the chunk of concrete I'm taking shelter behind. Great. She looks exactly like the first kid. I am so dead. I wait for more fatal explosions to come, but nothing happens. It seems like you could actually hear dust falling. And there is a lot of it.
"What…?" says the first. I look out again to see her blinking and rubbing her eyes. She then looks up and stares at the second girl for a moment. "Hey, Shadow? What's going on?"
"You tell me. You're the one on the news and attacking the Avengers. Although, I must admit, that was pretty funny the way you threw Hulk to Antarctica."
"I did WHAT?!"
"Yeah, and look up there. Black Panther's probably having a serious costume wedgie the way he's suspended like that. Wasp and Giant-man did okay, I saw them headed for cover. You actually knocked out Captain America and Thor! Ms. Marvel got blasted into the men's room in that building, Iron Man is doing some crazy floor dancing thing, and… Well, I don't know where Hawkeye is."
I'm not sure it's safe, but I can't stop myself as I stand up and say, "I'm right here." I get a full view of the two for the first time. They look exactly alike, except one's wearing a darker grey jumpsuit and has black eyes while the other one has grey ones. The grey-eyed one, Moonfire, has her hands over her mouth (girls tend to do that) and looks shocked. She flies up, unhooks Panther from the tower, and sets him on the ground. Ms. Marvel is next, and soon everyone is here. I can't believe they managed to get Hulk out of that huge chunk of ice.
"I am so sorry!" Moonfire says to us. "I thought I was having a bizarre dream, but when I willed myself to wake up, I couldn't." She shudders. I can't believe I'm capable of doing this." I couldn't help but feel sorry for her, if not a little suspicious.
"Eh, don't worry. I'll fix anything that was broken, as long as it doesn't happen again," Iron Man says.
She brightened. "Thank you so much!"
Shadow says, "C'mon, Moonfire. Let's head back to the Institute." Moonfire starts to fly off, and Shadow saunters over to Cap.
"Green and alienish," she says, her hands pointing to Cap in an imitation of a gun. She clicks her tongue, winks, and flies off.
"What was that about?" I blink.
[Moonfire's P.O.V.]
As I walk through the kitchen door, thinking about what I'd done, my mouth is suddenly crammed with something sticky. I instinctively start coughing and gagging, and Kitty (for of course it was she) laughs.
"Oh, don't be so dramatic. It's a cookie!" Kitty beams. "You are my official taste-tester. I just made a whole batch of double-chocolate, double-melted-marshmallow, and double-liquid-honey cookies. They smell totally delicious!"
"Kitty," I say, still gagging on the stuff, "you can't just shove something into someone's mouth! Next thing you know, Bobby will target me for all his pranks!"
"I resent that," says Bobby, who was sitting at the table. "I target everyone. It's boring to pick just one person!"
I roll my eyes.
"Anyway, we saw what you said to the Avengers after, like, the big battle scene thing. You really thought you were dreaming?"
"Well, I'm not really sure. It seemed like a dream… I even moved like I was in one. It was like something was controlling me." I remember the cookie in my mouth, and observe her waiting for my response. I force myself to swallow. "Do me a favor and don't tell me what else is in there."
"Okay!" Kitty skips off happily down the hall. "Take as many as you want, and ignore the little yellow and green pieces."
I scrunch up my eyes. "I don't wanna know," I told Shadow, who was looking amused.
I have to say, everyone likes to make fun of Kitty's cooking. Me included. If anyone is reading this, review please so I don't feel like my stories are no good!
The Avengers from Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes guest starred in this chapter. I don't expect them to be in any more, but maybe my mind will surprise me. All you Avengers: EMH fans, I couldn't resist putting them in funny positions… Forgive me. ;))