"And the contestants are…Jean Grey!"
Everyone clapped, though halfheartedly. They knew she was going to be one of the contestants anyways. She walked up onstage to accept her little tiara.
"Tabitha Smith!"
Well there was another no-brainer. The outgoing blond swaggered up onto the stage and put on her tiara.
"Amara Aquilla!"
A few people murmured in slight surprise as Amara walked nervously up the steps, obtaining her tiara and putting it on hesitantly.
"Kitty Pride!"
The brunette in question smiled, receiving her tiara.
"Rahne Sinclair!"
Rhane was shocked, and had to be pushed into action by Bobby.
"Rogue!"
More murmurs of surprise rippled through the group of students. Who had voted for Rogue? She didn't look too happy about putting the tiara on her head.
"Finally, our last contestant…Wa-" Principal Kelly froze staring at the paper in his hand. "Wanda Maximoff?"
A few of the girls gasped, but other than that, the room was completely silent. Wanda stalked up onto the stage, glaring daggers at anyone whose eyes met hers. She snatched the tiara, jamming it onto her head. You could almost see it smoldering. It was obvious that whoever had voted for her had a very low chance of graduating high school in one piece.
Later, back at the mansion…
"You WHAT?!" Amara shouted. The X-girls had cornered Bobby.
"I just thought it would be fun…" Bobby replied, defending himself. He smiled guiltily.
"AND YAH DIDN'T EVEN THINK TO ASK US IF WE EVEN WANTED TO BE IN THE STUPID THING IN THE FIRST PLACE!" Rogue screamed at the top of her lungs. Everyone in the entire mansion heard her.
"Like, totally Bobby. If I was going to get in it, I wanted it to be because people voted fairly, y'know. Not because you told them to," Kitty scolded.
"Come on, guys. There's no use yelling at him. What's done is done, and we need to focus our attentions on the competition," Jean said reasonably.
"That's what you say. You knew you were going to get in. You wanted be in it. Ah bet you asked Duncan to get the whole football team to vote for you!" Rogue snarled, glaring at Jean.
"That's not what I meant!" Jean responded, glaring right back at the other mutant. Unseen in all the fighting, Bobby slipped out the door, sighing in relief. He knew this wasn't anywhere near over yet.
At the Brotherhood House...
"YOU WHAT!!!???" Wanda screamed at the boys, unknowingly echoing Amara's reaction. Various household objects were bombarding Lance, Fred, Todd, and Pietro, who were cowering behind an overturned sofa.
"Wanda! Calm down!" Pietro urged, ducking his head back behind the sofa as a potted ficus flew at him.
"NOW I HAVE TO BE IN THIS STUPID PAGEANT!!!" she hollered, sending a pile of packing peanuts down on Todd's head. Lance yelped as a bowling ball fell on his foot.
"We're sooooo sorry Wanda, it won't happen aga-OUCH!!!!" Pietro was cut off as a particularly heavy horror novel collided with his head.
"YOU BET IT WON'T!" Wanda raged. "'CAUSE I'M GOING TO MAKE SURE YOU CAN'T SPEAK WHEN I'M DONE!"
The screams could be heard at the mansion as the Brotherhood boys ran from the hailstorm of possessed toaster waffles.