Chapter Five: All locked up and nowhere to go

Ten minutes later everybody was in the living room talking excitedly about what had happened while the adults went to investigate the problem. The institute had completely locked itself down. There was no door and no window that could be open to the outside world. They were all trapped inside the mansion, each of them itching for somebody to blame.

"What did you losers do?" Kitty asked.

"We didn't do anything!" Lance said defensively.

"Oh yes I'm sure that the mansion just locked all in here by itself. Happens all the time." Scott said with a hint of sarcasm.

"Well with you X-Geeks that's no surprise." Fred grunted.

"Why are you guys always blaming us yo?" Todd asked. "You losers are the ones who usually unleash chaos on the planet."

"Yeah but you idiots are always causing trouble for us." Rogue said.

"Yeah, why do you guys annoy us so much?" Kurt asked.

"Because we enjoy tormenting you." John said grinning broadly. "It brings our lives color, complexity, and depth. It brings our souls joy."

"Right on Pyro my man!" Pietro said slapping him a high five.

"I know what would bring my soul joy." Rogue growled.

"Seeing these guys strapped to an anchor and tossed into a lake?" Scott asked.

"I was actually going for tossing these guys in a minefield, blasting the left over pieces, and scattering their remains into a volcano."

"So violent." Peter commented.

"Sounds like fun." Pyro said grinning. "I like volcanoes."

"Fine, into the ocean then!"

"Nooooooo!" He screamed covering his face. "Anything but that!"

"What's with him?" Bobby asked.

"He hates water." Fred said casually.

"Really?" Rogue picked up a nearby glass of water and splashed it all over John. He screamed and started writhing on the floor in agony.

"It doesn't burn! It… it doesn't burn!"

"Okay that's just scary." Amara said blinking.

"Now look what you did!" Pietro yelled at them in a scolding voice.

"You made him cry!" Todd said as if it was the worst sin anyone could ever commit.

"Oh please he'll get over it fast." Wanda muttered. No sooner had she spoken than he jumped up off the floor and was looking around grinning at everybody.

"What's everyone staring at?" John asked cheerfully.

"The severe mental case standing right in front of us." Rogue muttered.

"Oh now that's not a very nice thing to say." John said completely unaware that the insult was directed at him. "You might hurt Wanda's feelings." Wanda growled a shot him with a hexbolt sending him into the wall leaving an indent.

"What did I do?" John moaned.

"Is he always this…" Kitty began.

"Stupid? Yeah he was dropped on his head one too many times." Just as Pietro said this John slid from the wall and landed on the floor head first. All of the X-Men looked slightly worried. "Oh don't worry that might actually improve his thinking a bit."

"Tell me Pyro, did the kids beat you up when you were little?" Ray asked.

"Actually no. They never laid a hand on me thanks to Kylie."

"Kylie? Who was that your sister or something?" Jamie asked.

"You're better off not knowing." Lance said. But they weren't listening.

"Oh no she was a lot nicer than my sister, and one of my favorite pets." Pyro told them.

"Was she a dog?" Sam asked.

"You guys are gonna regret asking." Fred said.

"No she was a lot more loyal than any dog." John explained. "And so is her great-great-great-great-great grandchild. Say hello to Naira everybody!" He took a tarantula out of his pocket and held it out. All the girls started screaming. Even some of the guys yelped in surprise.

Todd shrugged. "We warned them."

Pietro shook his head. "Some people just won't listen."

"Are you nuts!?" Kitty yelled.

"Is that a rhetorical question?" Scott asked. "Pyro get rid of that thing!"

John shielded the spider, as if Scott had said something extremely offensive. "She is not a thing. She's a little sweetheart. Yes she is!"

"But it's so gross." Most of the girls were squealing.

"You people just can't appreciate the beauties of nature!"

"That's not a beauty that's a horror!" Kurt said dramatically.

"Compared to you I'd say it's gorgeous." Todd snickered.

"Put it away before I have a heart attack!" Scott yelled.

"Actually that alone is a good reason to keep it out." Lance remarked.

"Nonesense," John said putting the tarantula back into his pocket. "Naira wouldn't hurt a fly. Well actually that's not entirely true, but you get the idea." He pulled a jar out of his other pocket. It had a cottony looking thing hanging in the corner. The girl's stared at it with extreme discomfort.

"Is that a…" Kitty asked warily.

"Yep!" John said proudly. "Naira's gonna be a mother soon!"

"I don't know how much more of this I can take. These people are driving me insane." Scott groaned.

"That shouldn't be a very long trip." Pietro quipped.

"Now you know what I have to endure everyday." Lance said.

"I'm surprised Toad hasn't eaten it yet." Kurt blanched.

"If he did there'd be frog legs for dinner." John growled.

"Besides it's a little too hairy for my taste." Todd said casually.

"I'm gonna be sick." Kitty said moaning.

"I actually find Naira to be quite lovely." Wanda said smiling wickedly.

"You would." Rogue mumbled.

"What was that?" Wanda growled.

"That's it we are getting a restraining order against these lunatics!" Scott shouted.

Suddenly all the adults came in with Remy. None of the adults looked too happy, especially not Logan. Remy just looked merely agitated.

"Take a good look kids," Logan said, "at the moron who locked us all in."

"Gambit didn't do nothin'." Remy said irritated.

"Then what were you doing in the control room bub?"

"Gambit was just in de wrong place at de wrong time."

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Remy was strolling aimlessly losing himself in the long endless hallways of the mansion lost in though about his chere. He loved seeing Rogue. She was a type of girl that you didn't come across too often. She wasn't stuck up or a skank of any kind. She was a shy, quiet girl who didn't belong to anybody except herself. A little rough on the edges but hey, nobody's perfect. The way she denied his charm was so fresh to him, for he was used to girls falling for him on sight. Usually for him it just took one wink and smile at a girl and he'd have her in his pocket. Not that he did for sport or anything. But it was nice to be a ladies man. But for Rogue she was able resist his charms. And the more she denied him the more interesting it got. In fact her attitude of playing hard-to-get almost made him want her more. But the way he had made her freeze up earlier… Remy smiled to himself.

He looked around not knowing where he was anymore. He had somehow managed to find himself in some sort of eerie secret passage way. Suddenly an alarm went off. PRIMARY LOCK DOWN INITIATED. "What could dat be?" Remy asked himself. He could hear loud, angry voices coming from one of the rooms.

He tried opening it but it was locked. Not for long. He charged the panel next to the door and it blew up knocking in the door and creating a cloud of smoke. He could've sworn he saw two people on the floor. But it must have been his imagination because they were gone when the smoke had cleared. He was in a control room of some sort. He walked over to one of the computers and tried to reverse what ever it was that had been done. But Remy never was good at computers. After a while he got frustrated and decided just to shut it down. He took one of his cards out and slid it into the panel. He quickly backed away as the computer exploded. It fizzed and crackled as the alarm died down. Pleased with himself he walked out of the room.

"Dat takes care of dat." He said out loud. He was mistaken however when a metal door slammed down behind him blocking entrance into the computer room. "Dat can't be good." He wondered how the situation could get any worse. Just then somebody grabbed him and slammed him into the wall. It was a ticked off Logan with his claws out.

"You really did it this time gumbo." He snarled.

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"And dat's what happened." Remy finished.

Logan however obviously didn't believe him. "Then who was in there gumbo?"

"Why don't you go in and sniff around?" Remy suggested.

"I would if it hadn't locked itself up." Logan snarled.

"Logan calm down." Xavier said. He focused. "I sense he is telling the truth."

"Yes but with the computer destroyed and the lock down compromised, it will be difficult to have any access to the computers, even Cerebro." Hank stated.

"So are you saying we're stuck here?" Jean asked.

"For the time being yes." Ororo replied.

"We're trapped!" Kurt yelled dramatically. "Trapped with these lunatics!"

"You make it sound so horrible." Todd said.

"Horrible? It's my worst nightmare come true!" Kurt yelled.

"I have to suffer at the very end of the year and now I have to suffer at the very beginning of the year." Scott said disgruntled.

"I'm gonna die!" Rogue said. "Whether from these morons or from suicide I'm gonna die!"

"You shouldn't talk abut things like that." Fred said.

"Yeah you should think about thing that make you feel better." John said smiling.

Scott closed his eyes. "I'm thinking…. That you guys are gone." He opened them. "Crap it didn't work."

"Look Summers we're not enjoying this anymore than you are." Lance sneered. "Trust me the last thing we'd want to do on New Year's Eve is spend the night here with you X-Geeks."

"That's a shame." Logan said. "Because that is exactly what you're gonna be doing."

"WHAT!?" Almost everyone in the room yelled in unison.

"Until we can fix this problem, we are all stuck here." Xavier explained.

"This isn't happening! This isn't happening!" Scott yelled.

Wanda rolled her eyes. "Great already people are losing their sanity."

"I'm not losing it!" Scott said in a high voice. "See? It's already gone! Bye bye!"

"Kitty please show the Brotherhood to their rooms." Xavier sighed rubbing his head.

"Sure Professor." Kitty said.

Peter looked back at Scott as the other team members were trying to calm him down. "Will he be alright?"

"Yeah don't worry about him." Lance waved.

"Pyro hurry up." Pietro called.

"Oh all right. Just let me check on Naira. Naira?" John looked around. "Naira? She must have crawled out of me pocket!"

"WHAT!?" Jean jumped onto her seat and looked around.

"Who's Naira?" Ororo asked.

"You don't wanna know!" Scott moaned as he pulled his legs up onto his chair and looked around."

"Don't step on Naira!" John shouted. "My baby! Somebody save my baby!"

"Forget your baby!" Scott snapped. "Somebody save us!"

Pietro turned to Todd. "Five bucks says she gets Red first."

"You're on!"

The adults left the scene of pandemonium and went into the kitchen. "I need relief." Xavier said wearily.

"Got you covered Chuck." Logan said and began rummaging in the back of the pantry where a case of beer was hidden.

"Logan I thought I said I didn't tolerate alcohol in this school." Xavier moaned.

"Well I brought some in case of emergencies." Logan said.

"I really don't think…"

"There you are Naira!"

"EEK! GET IT OFF OF ME! GET IT OFF ME!" Came Jean's scream.

"I can't if you won't stop moving!" Rogue yelled.

"Don't hurt her!" John said worried.

"Hurt her?" Scott shouted. "Are you blind?"

"You're one to talk!" Lance remarked.

"Hey Toad you owe me five bucks." Pietro said.

"Aw man!"

Xavier gave a deep sigh. "Alright give me one."

There was an explosion and somebody screamed.

"Gambit how could you?" John's angry voice came.

"Gambit's aim was off."

"I'd say it was dead on." Pietro cackled.

"He tried to kill my baby!"

"He's gonna get killed when I get my hands on him!" Jean shouted.

"Run Gambit!" Pietro jeered. "Use your scrawny legs!"

"Gambit's going as fast as he can!" Gambit yelled in terror.

"Come back here and die you coward!" Jean yelled.

"I think I'll have one too." Hank said wearily.

"Something tells me it's gonna be a rough night." Logan said.

Hehehe, locking the X-Men and the Brotherhood up together. Aren't I evil? What will they do to occupy their time? Stay tuned!