Taking place in the not too distant future, Kitty Pryde has her hair
back, and a new tall dark mysterious boyfriend with notably more class
than Wisdom. She brought him back with her from trip to the Carpathian
mountains in Romainia.
Rummaging through an old trunk, searching for something to were to the
new PR stunt the professor and Emma have cooked up, "Xavier's Haunted
Manssion." In their search, they come across a fairly risque` body
suit, golves, boots and cape (as can be seen at
http://www.oocities.com/Area51/Cavern/1507/pic5.html) .
"Well, well !" he grins. "What have we here?"
"OOOOOHHHHHHH!! I remember this!" responds a slightly red Kitty. "Did
I ever tell you about that time during the Cross-time Caper when we
landed on a world that was like something straight out of an old
horror movie?"
"Sounds intrigueing..."
"Well, It was a dark and stormy night, much like any other night on
Earth 31, however, this night was to be quite unusual indeed, even for
such a world as this..."
Excalibur's train speed through the tunnles of cross-time it's
passengers, the founding members of Excalibur and Alstare Stewart are
being guieded on this madcap missadventure by the enmigmatic Widget.
no one knows where they will land next, but they can only hope the
next stop is home... no such luck.
The tunnel opens up onto the stormy nighttime sky with minnimal
visibility, one thing they DO know however is that they are high up in
a contraption that wasn't ment to fly, and moving fast!
Kitty sticks her head out a wall, only to see the contaption they were
in was a huge sphere, about to crash into New York! Kitty pulls in her
head and gives it a good shake. "I must be seeing things." and looks
out once again.
THe stormy nighttime sky obscures her vision to a degree, but a flash
of lightening is sufficiant to luminate a great tastle pearched high
on a mountain top. A castle thet they were headed on a direct
collision course for.: "Captain! We need ou to get out there and slow
us down!"
"I'm alread on it, Kitty." Calls Captain Britain as he flys out the
door and infront of the train in an effort to slow it down.
THe Effort is too little too late, as bolth the train and the Captain
go smashing through the wall of the ancient castle with a thundrous
crash sending the Captain crashing out of control into first the cages
of various small animals and then, with the duck form one of those
cages, into some of the equipment wich promptly exploded with a
blinding technological flash and buzz. When the smoke clsared, out
waddled a duck...wearing a Captain Britain costume!
"Oh my..." says Kitty, "Brian, is that you?"
"QUACK!!!" says the duck.
Kitty picks him up, "What are we going to do now?"
"Pehaps I can be of some assistance, young lady." says a unknown voice
from the doorway. "You see this is my lab you just crashed into and
destroyed. But as long as you are all unhurt no harm was done....."
"We're really sorry sir, we don't know what happened" Alstair says.
"Well perhaps we should sit down, please follow me." and with that the
castle's owner leads the way down a maze like hall and into a parlor
of sortes. "Please, do sit down. Make yourselves comfortable." The man
claps his hand and the cliche buttler appears in the door way, slumped
over.
"Yessssss, Massster? You clapped?" said the buttler
"As you can see we have guests, tell cook to set extra places at the
table, and in the meantime bring us some refreshments. Off with you
now."
"yessssssss Masssssster..." and the buttler slinks away.
The unlikely guests sit there, watching, unsure of what to do next.
The master excused himself and walked off. he started up the long
winding stairs up towards a dark tower. Making sure that no one was
following him he slips inside the large ancient seeming oaken door.
Inside he glances around at the laboratory. There are all manner of
vials, and equipment lying on tables and the sound of man made
lightning from an overhead set of metal globes adding to the wierdness
of the room. quickly moving to the side of a large table the master
caresses white blanket covering a huge figure. "Soon I shall prove to
the world that I can bring the dead back to life." He looks over at a
jar hooked up to some strange machine. I shall take the brain of one
of my ghests and it shall fuel the regeneration process!" He starts to
laugh maniacally.
Meanwhile downstairs Kitty Pride starts to pace the chamber looking
over at the ancient room and it's antique furniture while Pete Wisdom
makes himself at home. "Kate, you should try some of this food."
Kitty looks over at him, "How can you eat when we don't know where we
are, or what to do to get out of here?"
Pete just smiles. "First order of survival, kid."
She thinks better of answering him, and looks out the window just as
lightning strikes illuminating a room high atop the castle's main
tower where within a man in a long flowing cloak stands gazing into
the glowing orb set within a golden ring.
"It is as the orb has fortold, outworlders, some of one world one of
another. Fate has cast her dark shadow over this group, yet they will
yet prove bennificial to this world..." "And that girl... the one
known as Shadowcat... her innocence... her strength of character... I
find her quite ...irrisistable." he says to himself with a smile
reveiling two long sharp fangs.
Kitty shudders and moves away from the window. Pete finishing up half
a chicken, and still wiping gravy up with a hunk of bread looks at her
. "What is it?" He asks concern in his voice. "Nothing, I thought I saw
something in one of the towers." He shrugs and starts in on the pie on
the table. Suddenly there is a scream as he cuts into the
it. "I didn't do it!" he instinctively exclaims but Kitty is already
through the door without opening it leaving Pete alone.
As Wisdom digs into the pie, he finds it not made of anything that
would let out a scream, rather, it turns out to be a delicious berry
pie!
Kitty arrives in the next room to find Meggan huddled in th corner
gingerly cradling her bleeding arm.
"What happened?!" Kitty inquires.
Just then, Nightcrawler teliports into the room. "Meggan! I heard a
scream! Are you alright?"
"Kurt... Kitty... the wolf... it tried to eat Brian..."
Over against the far wall a good sized were wolf sits on it's haunches
, eying the duck that once was Captain Britain hungerly.
"What about you, Meggan, are you alright?" inquired Nightcrawler.
"I.. I ... It bit me... and... I'm changing... Cant.. GRRRR... Stop...
GRRROWLLLL!!!!" as Meggan transforms into a snarling werewolf!
"Ubligatch! Herr DOKTOR! Herr Doktor! We need your help!"
At that moment, Igore, the hunch-backed servent passes by the open
doorway carring two glass jars, one with what apperes to be a human
brain, the other, jar, labled "Comic critic's Brain" contains a FAR
smaller brain.
"YOU!" shouts Shadowcat.
"Huh?" grunts Igore.
"Go get the doctor!"
"Okey." as he shambbles off down the hall.
Kitty moves in on the transformed Meggan, phasing here as to
aliviate any potential harm she may do in her bizerker state.
Unfortunataly, having phased Meggan, had placed her in the same
physical frequancy as Shadowcat, allowing one good slash to make
contact!
"Yipes!!" yelps Shadowcat as Meggan's claws rip through her jacket
sleeve. A quick glance comunicates much between the two friends and
teammates as in an instant, Nightcrawler teliports behind Meggan, and
as Kitty releases her hold, hits her with a nerve tap at the base of
the neck, rendering Meggan unconcious.
At that moment, a crash is heard down the hall.
Igore triped and droped the jar containing the normal sized brain and
the jar shatters into pieces.
"Oh no!!!! The doktor will be very mad with me!"
He ponders what to do with the dishelved brain as it is mutilated,
with shards of glass all over it, and he decides to scoop it up into
his jacket.
Kitty walks out and sees that Igore is still outside. "What are you
doing?! I told you to go get the doctor!"
"Yes madam!", Igore snaps as he scurries off.
He arrives into the deep, dark dungeon where his master is working,
preparing to ressurect the dead.
"Master, there isss a problem...I dropped the big brain on the floor."
Igore says sorrowfully.
"What?! You imbecile!!! Can't you do anything right!?" the doctor
retorts.
"But master, I have it here in me coatpocket!" Igore says as he
presents the heavily mutilated brain to the doctor.
"Igore!! This brain is useless!!! Look at it!!!"
"ohh, there's nothin wrong wit it, just a coupla stitches.."
"SHUT UP!"
"yes master."
The doctor breathes a heavy sigh and mumbles curses.
"But master, the comic critic's brain is perfektly alright!" he says,
eyes gleaming.
The doctor just bows his head and whines.
"Oh, I forgot to tell you...Fido has met the guestsss"
"What? Oh lord! Quickly!"
As they Run out of the room and down the hall they pass by strange
figure Sculking along the dim corridors. Not having time to question
the newcommer they leave him to his own devices. The sculking figure
slips silently into the dungeon chamber and looks about. He spots the
Brain of the Comic critic and laughs to himself. Pulling out an even
smaller brain he switches them and remembering to change labels
replaces the Tiny Lobdell brain label with the label of the larger
comic critic's brain. Having done his foul deed the figure skulks away
, and we hear a hiss and a warning rattle as an adorable Rattlesnake
goes about her business....
Just then a scream comes from the dinning room where Alstair and Pete
are busey dinning.
"Igor... WHAT did you do with the poison berry pie I gave you to put
away?" asks the doctor cautiously.
"uh... table." he responds.
"Well, it seems we may have a replaement brain after all!"
"It's Wisdom." Says Phoenix, telipathicaly scaning for the source of
the scream.
"Is he allright?" asks Alstair, notably concerned about the fate of the
man with whom in the very short while he had known him, he had shaired
many stories of paranormal investigations.
"It's hard to tell."
*BOOM!* the door flys open with the mad Alstair and Igore standing in
the door way.
"I see this situation is apperantaly in hand. Now, off to clean up the
mess with the pie."
"Wisdom!" as Excalibur rushes to the dinning room.
"What happened?" asks the sane Alstare of the INsane one.
"Don't look at me! He's the one making a pig of himself eating the
whole poison berry pie!"
"is there anything we can do?"
"well... the body is shot, but the brain should still be intact. Not
the personality, mind you, but the main functioning brain. I could use
that..."
"YOU GOUL!!!" Cries Kurt. "Ever since we arrived, your mad experiments
have cost us one teammate after another! Now I sugest..."
"NO, my blue furred demon friend, it has been your own stupidy and lack
of caution that has gotten you in this mess, and if you want out, YOU
will need to obtain a few things for ME."
"What do you want to restore our friends?" Nightcrawler asks coldly.
"Well, first off, you realise your gluttonous friend here is beyound
repair, he is simply spare parts now."
"You butcher!" Shadowcat curses.
"Butcher? Why, what an idea! you know, there ARE certain carnivorous..."
The doctor stops short with the looks he gets from Excalibur. "Well,
anyway, what I need is a green flamingo,"
"GREEN flamingo?" Rachel questions.
"What? Did I stutter? Yes, a green famingo. That and a bucked of sludge
from the moors surounding the castle of the old wizard Xavier."
"Xavier," thinks Nightcrawler, "It will be interesting to see how he
has turned out in this strange world."
"Very well, herr Doktor, where shall we obtain these items?"
"Old Xavier's got them bolth. He resides in a ruined castle just north
of here."
"Then let's go." orders Nightcrewler.
"Hold it!" calls the Mad Doctor. "it's no simple walk in the woods.
Well, it is, but YOU people realy arn't up to it, as you have so aptly
demonstrated here in my labratory."
"But..." stammers Nightcrawler.
"No buts. Your readhead looks quite drained, my counterpart wouldn't
be of much help...oh, wait, I'm sorry, how silly of me, you have the
DUCK to protect you! HA-HA-HA!"
"Just how are we to obtain these items then?" Inquires an irritated
Kitty.
"Well, your blue demon friend here will blend in jsut fine..."
"I'm a mutant, as I told you before. Not a demon, a MUTANT! Do I
have to spell it out for you?!"
"My... bit touchy, isn't he."
"When it comes to people calling him a demon, yes, he is." mentions
Rachel.
"Hmmm... yes, well, as I was saying, your de- er mutant friend will
fit in, just as your werewolf friend..."
"Can you keep her calm?" questions Kitty fiddgiting with the holes
in her jacket sleeve where the transformed Meggan had slashed at her.
"Yes, I have a special collar and chain to aid in the control of new
lancrathopes, I'll get it in a minute..."
"Okay."
"YOU however," says the doctor taking hold of Shadowcat's arm "Will
need a disguize!"
"Wha--?"
"well, we cirtainly can't have you running around out there looking
like THAT! You simply won't fit in!"
"uh-- if you say so. What do you have in mind?"
"Well, I don't rightly know... Perhaps a woman's point of view...
Alsaynde! oh Alsaynde! could you come down here for a minute?" the
mad doctor calls toward the cealing.
"Alsaynde? Where--?" starts our Alstair.
Shadowcat lets out a startled "Yipes!" as a bat flutters down next
to her dropping into the form of a tall slender pale woman in a
black bodysuit with a neckline plunging to the navel, purple
spiney cape and long black hair with twin shocks of white on the
side pointing upward much like Meggan's during Inferno.
"You called, dear brother?"
"Yes, In order for our guests to be on their way, our lovely young
friend here needs a bit of a makeover. Any ideas?"
"Hmmmm... a werewolf perhapse?"
"Got one ."
"A demon?"
Got one of them too."
"HEY!!!" complains Kurt.
"Calm down boy blue. I know. You're a 'MUTANT, not a demon.'" "Now,
about our young friend..."
"well..." starts Alsaynde.
^ALSAYNDE, BRING HER TO ME.^
"I... I know just the thing!" "Come with me." she says taking a
torch off the wall, heading down the hall and through a doorway.
"Katchen?" starts nightcrawler.
"It's OK, fuzzy-elf, I'll be alright. Thanks." Kitty responds as
she dissapears through the doorway after her hostess.
"Well now, let's get your corprial friend here taken care of." Says
the doctor taking a hacksaw from the wall.
"What about Meggan?" Kurt Inquires.
"Oh, yes, the collar and chain are over there on the wall, just
snap it around her neck."
"Hold it! you're not actualy going to..." starts Alstare.
"The fool man poisoned himself. I am simply putting to use that
which is still salvageable from him."
Alstair shudders and turns away.
"Wimp." mutters his other worldly counterpart as he begins to saw
open the skull of the man formerl;y known as Pete Wisdom.
Just then, a knock came at the door. "Igore, go answer it."
"Yessss, Masterrrr." As Igore sambbles off to open the great
creaking door. "Yessssss?"
"Uh- Agents Mulder and Scully, F.B.I. Is the uh- master of the
household in?"
"Yessss."
"May we speak with him?" chips in Scully.
"The master is bussey. Maby you talk to the master?"
Agents Mulder ans Scully exchange confused looks as they enter the
great castle.
"Come." becons Igor.
"Transversing an interdimentional rift to find ourselves in the
midst of a horror movie compleat with hunchbacked servant,
Are alien beings realy that hard to believe in now, Scully?"
Mulder prods with a grin.
"There's obviously a reasonable explination for all this, we just
havn't found it yet." Scully says trying as much to convince
herself as Mulder.
Schlly's words lose even more weight as they enter the main
labratory were the Mad Doctor has gathered with Excalibur less
Kitty Pryde to 'salvage' Wisdom.
"Masterrrr?"
"What is it Igore? Can't you see I'm busey?"
"Ubligatch! Gutintag, frauline! Allow me to introduce myself. I am
Kurt Wagner, Acrobat, Mutant teliporter and Swashbuckler
extrordinare. And you are?"
"Doctor Dana Scully, Agent of the Federal Beru of Investigation,
The um- X-Files program." she responds with a slight smile. "Is ...
Is that REALLY your..."
"My tail?" says Nightcrawler as he teliports beside her tickeling
her ribs with his tail, bringing a mellodious laugh and broad
smile to Scully's lips.
"Hmmmm... interesting!" says Mulder with a grin.
"What? Your partner usualy quite sullen?" asks Rachel.
"Hmmmm? oh... yeah, well, that and I couldn't help noticing the
uncanny resemblance among many in attendance here."
"Yes, now that you mention it, Alstaire, Dr. Stewart, the deceased
Wisdom, and now you Mr. Mulder... And I thought Spider-man had
clone troubbles!" she laughed.
"Er.. Rachel? what was that about Spider-man and clones?" wonders
Nightcrawler.
"Oh, just a memory from my childhood. My parents told me about an
unfortunate incident he went through where one of his enemies made
a bunch of cheap clones of him."
"Oh."
"So you are saying you are not a native of this dimention yourself?
that you actualy come from another parralell world in which time
moves faster, essentialy putting you here with us from a potential
future?" Mulder says attempting to understand this oddd, even for
him, situation he and his partner now find themselves in.
"You got it."
"Hold up a minute, I got one for you, sir." Starts the Mad Doctor.
"Just how is it you and your lovely companion came to be here?"
"Well, we were actualy on a remote assignment with the British
secret service investigating an old lighthouse on the coast of
England. A doorway of sorts opened up, we investigated, and ended
up just down the road in a tower not unlike the lighthouse we were
in."
"There HAS been odd sightings, but no baltant dimentional doorways
at Brian's lighthouse." mention's Nightcrawler.
"So, Doctor, Just what is it you are doing here?" Dana Scully
inquires.
"I am extracting the brain of this poor man for a sciance
experiment. I am endevoring to extract his brain inorder to implant
it into another body. Regretably, good healthy bodys ripe and
ready for a brain to fill them are quite rare, thus, I was forced
to coble one togather from spare parts." he says as he yanks back
the sheet covering his creation.
"A Frankenstine's monster..."
"Yes, of a sorts, I am drawing of the writings of bolth Dr.
Frankenstin, and Dr. Essex."
"You know... I always wanted to do one of these..."
"You said you were a doctor, did you not?"
"Yes, a pathologist."
"Well, there's a spare lab coat over on the rack. Dig in!"
"You are as marvelous a storyteller, my dear, as you are beautiful. However, we ARE running short on time." Kitty's mysterious new boyfriend interupts.
"Ohmygosh! I totaly lost track of time! What should I wear?"
I should think you would look most ravishing and sedutive in this
costume. After all, you know what they say, the woman makes the
clothes." he says with a dark smile.
"Oh, stop it! you're making me blush!" giggles a slightly
embarrased Kitty.
"You have no reason to be so insecure and moddest. You are beauty
incarnate, and what better decore for one such as yourself than
that of immortal beauty?"
"You kiow, you are realy something." she says with a smile and long
passionate kiss. "Now, what about you?"
"My costume is already on board. It's a suprize." he grins.
Soon...
"Well, it everyBODY ready?" grins Nightcrawler from the controls of
the Midnight runner, Excalibur's airship. "next stop.... XAVIER'S
HAUNTED MANSSION!!!!" as the Midnight-runner soars off into the
sunset.
(
geocities.com/area51/cavern) (
geocities.com/area51)