Professor Charles Xavier floats down the hallway,
the sterile and bare alien walls staring back at him
until the Shi'ar guards lead him to the cell he is
looking for. He looks in at all the sheepish grins and
ill looks and says in a stern and disapproving voice,
"Well I hope you are all proud of yourselves. I
just convinced Lilandra not to deport Logan and Kurt
to a prision planet for the moral character of the
universe."
A muttered thank God comes out in German and Xavier
looks over where Kurt looks slightly greenish and Logan
is leaning against the forcefield,his hat pulled down
over his eyes.
"It wasn't that bad Professor. It could have been
worse..." Hank's voice trails off as Xavier looks over
at him and gives him "the look".
It is the look the old team knew quite well, it was the
"beware I am royally ticked off and am going to give a
pop quiz at two o'clock in the morning in retaliation"
look.
"Hank they had to pull in the Shiar consistancy of
the National Guard into this little 'incident!' What
would you call this...not that bad?!"
Hank looks at him and then looks down at the floor
muttering to himself about how he feels 18 again.
Logan finally moves when Xavier says, "Will someone
please tell me what happened here? I was in a meeting
the whole time, and I personally can't see how you
could have gotten all out of control."
Deadpool just laughs and says,"I haven't had this much
fun in ages...I'll tell you one thing Red...you X-Men
sure do know how to throw a party!"
Terry looks sheepish but keeps her mouth shut as Logan
strolls over and puts his hat to the back of his head.
"Well Chuck you want an explanation you got one. It was
like this..."
"Wade and I thought it would be a cool idea to go
check out the old Weapon X HQ. He figured it might jog
my memory as to my origin. I mean who would seriously
believe that I was alive during the Spanish-American
War or that I was raised by a pack of wolverines?"
Wade interrupts and points to everyone in the room
. Gambit chuckles lightly and tosses a chraged card
at Deadpool, who immediately teleports to another part
of the room. Phoenix catchs the card telekinetically.
Logan continues,"As I was saying. Wade and I went up
to Canada, while there we met up with Puck and
Sasquatch. They were busy with Aurora.'Get away, you
dolts!' she had told them in her petite french accent.
'I have eyes only for Nate Grey!' For unlike you, he is
a REAL man,one who really knows how to show a girl a
party.' Looking sheepishly around, Puck and Sasquatch
wandered off into the woods,perhaps to be alone. For
there, in the Canadian nighttime sky was a different
aurora, a borealis of some type. Logan then paused.
He cast Deadpool a stern look, then popped his claws.
"I can't tell him what happened next!" he raged.
Deapdpool only smiled, a curious little smile, daring
Logan to use him as a scratching post.
Professor X noticing the air of hostility between the
two of them and said, "Alright boys, I can see that
this little conversation is
getting out of hand." He then, turning to Kurt declared
, "Nightcrawler, I want to hear your perspective on
what happened."
Nightcrawler, noticeably startled as all eyes turned
upon him.
"Mein Gott!!" he drawled. "It wasn't my fault..."
Stammering he pointed at Cable and bellowed, "Ask the
future boy what he happened! He knows!"
Gambit looks over at the professor. "If you please
they're drunk right now and aren't really up to the
task of storytelling so if I may be so bold, it
started like this..." He smiles at the professor who
seems extremely irate at the moment from the barrage of
lame excuses he's gotten.
"After the Shiar defeated Deathbird's forces
Wolverine, and I decided to have a walk away from the
festivities looking for a little fun,if you know what I
mean." Rogue glares at him. "Well we started down the
street when the beautiful Hepsebhah I think her name is
attached herself to us,which of course we didn't mind
and suggested we go to the freeflight dance dome for a
little dancing. well I didn't want to disappoint the
feline, so we went."
Rogue at this point bends the cot she was sitting on
into a ribbon and smiles at Gambit.
"I think you're in for it, gumbo." Logan mutters to
himself.
Gambit smiles but a trickle of sweat betrays his
mounting discomfort. "Well as we approached the dance
hall we were ambushed by a bunch of Brood warriors.
They wanted to us me and Hepzibah as hosts and they
wanted to kill Logan because of all the times he has
messed up dere plans."
Rogue infuriated tosses the cot-turned-ribbon at Gambit
, who easily dodges it.
Scott ahems at this display. "Calm down, Rogue." he
gives her a leader like look and she backdowns and
marchs into the corner, sulking.
Scott looks to the Professoer and then to Gambit.
"I'll continue with the story. Gambit, Logan, and
Hepzibah were doing their best against the Brood,but
were just not enough. Jean having received a telepathic
message from Logan. She, myself, and the Blue Team
quickly got their and annihilated the remaining Brood.
One however, managed to get Psylocke." He looks over to
Psylocke. Warren and Ororo sit next to Psylocke who
cradles her arms over her stomach. She is in tears.
The Professor moves over to her and rubs her knee,
"What happened, my child?"
Betsy in tears responds, "They..." "Th...the... they
made me put on clothes!" She said before she burst into
tears. With his eybrows going up another notch,the
Professor turned back to the rest of the group. "Well,
that explains about one fourth of the damage done.
Would anyone like to tell me about the rest?"
Everyone once again looked down at thier shoes.
When the silence had gone on for too long to be
comfortable, Shadowcat finally spoke up.
"It's like this Professor. After destroying the Brood
and getting Betsy out of all those clothes," snickers
were heard around the room, but were quickly silenced
by Brian and Archangel's glares, "we decided to go
catch up with each other. My 'wonderful' other half
decided what better place to do this than in a pub."
She said sarcastically.
"Hey now, love. I wasn't the only one with the idea. It
was Gambit that mentioned playing quarters!"
As everyone suddenly remembers how the nights
drinking binge started they all turn on Gambit.
Realizing his making it out of the cell with all body
parts intact was sorley in doubt he started talking.
"Hey it was Wolverine that challenged that platoon of
soldiers to a drinking contest."
They all then turned to Wolverine.
"Hey, I thought with Moira and Terry on our side
it was in the bag." The ladies in question turn bright
pink.
"This is not getting us any further in answering
Charles' question." *translated from an awful scotish
brogue*
"Huh?" "Wha she say?" "I wouldn't pick on her to much
Logan, she is a mean drunk."
"Bloody h***, mean isn't the word for it. I didn't know
you could stick a tube up THAT." Wisdom said quietly
to himself.
The Professor cleared his throat to get the groups
attention before speaking again, "So, I assume that
this is what caused the brawl that took out 30 city
blocks?"
Everyone once again looked at their toes.
"Well...er...not exactly" muttered Hank,
"See there was also the fact that that stripper threw
a pass at Pete and Kitty didn't take it well."
Kitty glares over at Hank and says, "Well
excuuuuse me! I figured the little slut got what she
deserved!"
Charles gives Kitty a look and she shuts up temporarily
as Charles switches his attention back to Hank.
"Continue Hank." He says in a barly calm tone.
Hank glances uneasily at him and says, "Well see we
didn't know that the stripper belonged to a harem from
another galaxy. The leader of the harem didn't take it
well.
They were determined to get revenge on Kitty
for messing up the looks of one of the girls. Anyhow he
decided that Kitty would make a great new harem member
to replace the other one until she was healed up
enough.
PETE didn't take THAT well at all!"
Charles looks over at Hank and actually flinches,
"What did he do Hank?"
Hank looks at him and opens his mouth to answer
only to be interupted by Pete.
"You want to know ya bleedin git, I'll tell ya!
I..."
Kitty quickly moves and covers his mouth.
Brian stands up, "I'll continue." He turns around
to see if anyone objects. No one does.
He smiles smugly and then an idea comes to him. He
looks around, "Artie? Artie come here please." Little
Artie Maddicks steps forward from behind Ice-Man. He
walks over to Brian.
Brian says, "Scan my mind, child, and then show
Proffessor Xavier, and everyone one else what just
happened." Artie nods.
He begins to scan Brian's mind and begins to show
images from it. The first one shows Betsy in much less
than her usual costume sighing and moaning and urging
Brian to continue. Betsy and Warren gasp. Everyone
else in the room flinches out of disgust and Meggan
flies towards Brian, who looks up at her in shock,
"Don't look at me love that isn't my thought!"
Everyone looks at Artie who looks sheepishly down
at the ground."Ah teenage boys! Got to love them
sometimes! Playing practical jokes AND at the same time
letting hormones rule them."
Kitty laughs, "Good one Artie you got us all with that
one!"
Artie looks proud until he meets Emma's freezing gaze
then he quickly hurries to the back of the cell.
"Okay, to get on with this fiasco...Pete decided
he was going to just go off and kill the harem leader.
Problem was when he actually nailed the guy out with
one shot to the jaw,he then found out due to their laws
that he then owned the harem. Anyhow, Kurt and Logan
weren't overly broken up about that let me tell you!"
Kitty finishes the little speech and glares over at all
three males under discussion.
"But Katchein, we were only trying to show them some
Earthlike hospitality!"
"That and it was your bleedin fault we got into the
situation to begin with." Pete adds in.
"MY FAULT!?!" As Kitty shouts a lot of X-men grab their
heads and shoot her pained glares, but Kitty ignores
them as she looks at the object of her anger,
"Who was it letting the trollop ooze all over them like
chocolate sauce over ice cream? Who was it that
insisted that we go to that damn pub in the first place
?"
As the cell quickly erupts into a shouting match
between all the X-men arguing who was at fault for the
whole thing, a voice rings out with leadership-like
authority,"ENOUGH!!! WE ARE NOT ANSWERING THE
PROFESSOR'S QUESTION BY ARGUING HERE!!"
Everyone looks over at Cyclops as they fall silent in
mid-shout.
"Thank you, now Bobby, why don't you tell the
Professor what you ALL (he shoots them all a
condescending glare) did with the harem that Pete now
owned!"
Bobby looks over at him sheepishly and says, "Well we
let the booze and stuff go to our heads, and Logan came
up with a great idea (or at least it seemed like one
at the time).
We took the harem and had quite a time!"
"There were some very nice young red heads professor,
you should 'ave been dere!" laughs Gambit.
The professor, Scott and Jean are not amused.
"You what!?" screamed Shadowcat at Wisdom. "I hope
you caught a desese." she said coldly.
"Oh, really?" he smirked. "Then where would you be,
hmmm?" "Seems to me that you'd catch it quite quick
yourself." he grins.
"Like hell, you b@stard!" that's the last time you so
much as even touch me!" "goodness knows where you got
your name, Mr. Wisdom,'cause wisdom is something you
cirtainaly lack!" Kitty concludes.
The Professor growing very impatient resorts to
threats of violence. "If someone does not tell me what
happened this instant,I will mess up your mind so much
that what I did to Magneto will look like swiss cheese
!" He looks around the room.
His eyes stop on Lockheed. "Okay, dragon tell me what
happened." Lockheed flies forward a bit and sticks its
tongue out at Wisdom. It then proceeds to utilize
Shi'ar technology to paint a vivid picture for Xavier.
"SCOTT ?!?" proclaims an astonished Xavier "You are to
blame for the bulk of this mess?!?"
"Sir! I...I Don't know what to say!" Stammeres Cyclops
"I've clearly been framed!"
"Oh, realy? Then would you care to explaine all this?"
Xaver inqpires jesturing toward the display screen
where lockheeds rendition of the events flash by
repeatedly.
"Well, uh...um..you see, it's like this....
Jean, Rogue and me were too tired of all that confusion
, and as no one would listen to us, we decided to just
leave the place.What wouldn't have been problem at all,
if GAMBIT, hadn't followed us to get away with the
jewels he got from the women!"
Again, everyone looks at Gambit. "I didn't notice I had
the jewels... habits, you know... I just wanted to
tell Rogue I was sorry..."
"Oh, shut up, Remy, that's a big lie of yours!"
"Let me continue, chere! Than Scott gave that BIG alert
that I was stealing something! Admit it, Cyke, you
overreacted!"
"Did I? Then why don't you tell everybody about your
little deal with our friend Wisdom?"
"The deal was that I wouldn't tell Rogue if he didn't
tell Pryde what I did! Turns out that didn't work to
well did it?"
As Pete finishes, Kitty once again bores holes through
his head with her eyes.
"Professor, " Scott stammers "That's not the issue here
is it."
The professor nods and wolverine says under his breath
, "Nice save Slim."
"Anyway, at that point a group of Shi'ar soldiers
recognized the jewels in Gambit's hand as belonging to
the Imperial treasury which had been robbed during the
Assault on the Empire,and they called in the Imperial
guard." At that everyone looks at Gambit who is now
looking quite ill...
Gambit in his usual manner responded saying, "Hey I
didn't even know they were real."
Rogue, looking totally disgusted picked up a rock and
pegged Gambit in the head with it. She then said "For
once in your existence could you tell the truth you
cajun dog."The Professor then interrupts telling Scott
to continue. Scott agreed and continued.
"At that point Gladiator and the rest of the Imperial
guard arrived, they threatened the three people closest
to them; Gambit,Pete and Logan with force. Gladiator
than threw Remy into a wall. Logan and Pete in turn
responded by joining in on the Gambit bashing.Nobody
liked that cocky cajun anyways. The Professor then
nodded his head, "Yes, there's no arguing with that."
Soon everyone would have jumped in on the Gambit
bashing if something incredible hadn't happened.
But Kitty interupts before they can get the full
scoop on that score, "That is when the Kree rebels
showed up.They figured since we were guests of Lilandra
's that we were all easy pickings for hostages.
Unfourtunately, a band of pirates was after Corsair and
the Starjammers at the same time!Guess who got caught
in the middle of this when this mess went down?
Needless to say,when little Kree (Crog's friend) came
shooting into the room and dove for cover as we were
all being held on gun point by the Shair troops we
should have figured something was wrong. Then Cable of
course had to go and over react when the others pulled
out bigger guns then the Shi'ar. So Cable whose guns
WERE bigger???"
Cable looks over at Kitty from his place sitting next
to Dom on a cot and grins outlandishly, "Why MINE of
course! Was there ever any doubt???"
Kitty snorts and shares a look with Dom who then states
, "MEN! Why do they always say it is the size of the
gun that counts...it is really how you use it that
matters!"
Cable looks over at her and starts laughing. Kitty
irritably glares at Dom for that little comment
(although amusement is dancing in her hazel eyes) and
turns back to Prof. X.
"Okay, anyway that little fire fight obliterated about
two city blocks.The Kree rebels and the Shiar were
shooting at each other and the X-men, we were fireing
at pretty much anything that moved.None of them were
prepared for X-Force being armed to the teeth. Geez,
what were you guys planning to do, take over a third
world country?"
Cable then interupts again to say,"Well we have an
opening next week in our scedule...what do you kids
think?"
They look over at him and nod in agreement,
Fearing where this conversation might lead Kitty
continues,"Anyhow, they were fighting it out having a
grand old time and then the pirates showed up and
crashed through a whole other block with their huge
spaceliner,seems that they had been having a bit of a
party for themeselves too. But they were concious
enough to hold their weapons. Unfortunately identifying
a target and so countless rounds of amunition were
sent into civilain buildings causing major damage.
Corsair and co. retaliated and cut down 'bout half 'o
the priates because they were simply too drunk to move
.But the Shi'ar were issuing their versions of arrests
for all parties involved so they soon became the target
of all fire."
Cable grinned satisfactoraly, "yep we showed 'em there.
"
Kitty glances at Logan unsure what to confess next.
"And?" Xavier asks.
"Well chuck" Logan begins, "we were all pretty pi§§ed
at the Shiar killjoys so..."
Cyke interrupts, "in our alcohol induced states well,
the idea of random untamed vandalism of Shi'ar
property sounded good.That sir, involved a lot of
destruction, but I wouldn't have been so bad if
Colossus hadn't decided to..."
"Wait a minute!" said Colossus. "It wasn't my idea to
knock down all those buildings and to use that Shi'ar
officer as a battering ram!"
"Then whose idea was it?" asked the Professor,
irritated.
"Well... that was Rogue's idea" said Cannonball.
"Well I wasn't the one who took over the Shiar troops
minds and had them blow up their own buildings!" said
Rogue sullenly.
Everyone turned to look at Emma Frost. "I wasn't the
one blasting around into people houses looking for
more booze."she said glaring at Cannonball.
"Oh yeah? Well..."
Acusations flew around wildly as the professor wondered
if these could possibly be the same people he knew.
"Cyclops and Jean were doing was worse than anything
else we've mentioned so far." said Bobby. "They were...
"
Proffessor Xavier interupts Bobby before he can
continue to ask a question that just popped into his
mind, "Gambit, why did you steal those jewels to begin
with, wouldn't it have saved a lot of trouble if you
had simply returned them?"
Gambit in his usual manner saying, "Hey, I didn't even
know they were real."
Rogue, looking totally disgusted picked up a rock and
pegged Gambit in the head with it. She then said,
"For once in your existance could you tell the truth
you Cajun dog."
The Professor then interupts telling Scott to continue.
Scott agreed and continued saying, "At that point,
Gladiator and the rest of the Imperial Guard arrived,
they threatened the three people closest to them Gambit
, Pete, and Logan with force. Gladiator then threw
Remy into a wall.Logan and Pete responded by laughing
at Gambit. Logan and Pete were pretty well -uh- sauced
by that time. They kept making fun of Gambit until
Gladiator decided they were next. At this point,
things began to get very nasty very quickly.
Because Wolverine was drunk, even past his healing
factor, he immediately lunged at Gladiator and extended
two claws up the side of his face, threatening to
extend the third. Pete quickly prepared some heat
knives for Gladiator, Who responded to all of this with
a light chuckle. He then grabed Wolverine by his
costume and threw him at Gambit just when he was
getting up, knocking both of them unconscious.
Pete glared at Gladiator with his burning intent
and with fingers blazing sent an assault of hot knives
so streaming that it propeled Pete 20 feet backwards
onto his back. Stunned by the sudden propulsive energy
barreling towards him like a
Staranian bull-horse, Gladiator rappidly came to his
sences and just stood there letting the blades of
energy claimed to be'hot as the heart of the sun'
bounce harmlessly off him.
"An just what did you hope to accomplish with that?"
mocked Gladiator as he picked Wisdom up off the ground
throwing him several miles before he skipped to a
sinking halt in a lake.
"The poor devil didn't know how to swim, It was
fortunate for him I was there to pull him out." chips
in Rogue."Mah gloves were destroid in battle," She
shudders "And ah thought Remy was a slimy pice of..."
"AHEMM!" "That will be quite enough, people."
states the Professor. "you realize, of course, I SHOULD
simply leave you all here to rott. But that wouldn't
be constructive." Xavier does a casual mental check on
the alcoholic states of the X-Men and is appalled at
their loopiness."Come my X-Men, we must retreat before
the rest of the Imperial Guard reaches u..."
Just then Cyclops trips over a rock and everyone
starts rolling in the ground bursting in laughter.
"Oh you think that's funny do you, well how about this!
!" Scott releases an optic blast that levels Cable onto
the dirt."Your're grounded, son" Everyone groans at
Scott's repartee and in response releases a fury of
blasts.
"Stop that Scott!! I will not have this type of
behavior within my team!!"
"Yes, Professor."
Cable wakes up from his unconscious sleep holding his
head...
"Now, we need to leave this place." States Xavier
. "It would seem the most expediant method would be
teliportation."he says looking at Nightcrawler.
"OH no, herr Professor. the strain of one is tremendous
and you want me to take us all home?!" excalimes Kurt.
"No, Kurt, simply to the docking bay will be suficiant.
" corrects Charles. "There are enough telepaths here to
augment your power enought to get us safely there."
"Very well," concedes Nightcrawler. "Let's do it."
"Everyone, hold hands."
Wisdom convienentaly positions himself between
Kitty and Emma (Who's typicaly revealing atire he
"happens" to look down.
*Kitty,* Comunicates Emma telipathicaly, *is it realy
neccicary that I hold the hand of this...this THING?!*
*I'll deal with him.* Kitty thinks back. *go ahead and
let go.*
*THank you. I owe you for this.* *Perhapse a fassion
make-over when we return?* thanks the White Queen.
Kitty gives Wisdom a quick glance. *It's a deal, Miss.
Frost.*
*Call me Emma. I feel we're going to become good
friends in the future.*
*Shure thing, Emma.*
"Ok, everybody, on the count of three..." starts
Nightcrawler. "ONE... TWO...."
On two, Kitty quickly phases free of Wisdom's grasp,
breaking his connection with the group.
"THREE!" BAMF!!!!!
Desperately, Wisdom looks around. He was totally alone.
"But who could have done... Kitty! I shouldn't have
made her that angry. I wonder If I'm the only one in a
diffiult situation..."
The Hanger Bay...
"Remy LeBeu, you are truthly troubled!!!" says
Rogue, looking at him angrily.
Actually, all the other X-Men look at him angrily.
"Er... calm down people. Have you noticed... someone is
not with us???"
"What do you mean..." asks Jean "Wisdom!!! Hey, when
was the last time we saw him?"
"Ah don't know, Jean, but I'm pretty sure we're much
better without him... and it would be even better if
someone had dissapeared too!"replies Rogue,
sarcasticaly.
Quickly, Xavier stares her with a look of
dissaprovement.
"Sorry."
He says ok and than looks at Kitty.
"Who else could have tried something like this,
Katherine Pryde?"
"Chuck," interrupts Wolverine, "Look over there! Seems
like our problems are getting bigger than that."
Everyone stares at an aproaching cloud of energy.
Rogue catches something out of the corner of her eye. Kree.
She speeds over to a small group of them.
"What are you?" they ask (translated from Kree which
Rogue is surprised she understands clearly) "You share
part of us."
"Yes, ah do folks, but that's not important now, we
need to get of this rock and back to our home planet.
FAST!" She says pointing to the approaching cloud.
"No good" they reply, "all vessels are dissabled, and
jumpoints have been tempoarily shut down to prevent our
escape."
"I see." Rogue replies, "Is there any other way?"
"The crystal, the crystal be our only hope now - erase
what has happened TOO MUCH death for us - must change!"
Rogue holds her head in trying to concentrate through
the blur of a hangover.
"Well you rebels don't have a chance to get the crystal
without us - shall we say truce?"
The Kree make funny expressions on their blue faces.
"Yes must make truce."
"Then welcome to the party people!" Rogue cheers
leading a small band of 6 rebels back to the X-MEN.
Xavier shouts, "Beware my X-MEN that cloud contains
fragments of radioactive isotopes discharged over the
year by starcraft that have passed through this sector!
"
"And what's more, they have become animated by a
quasi psionic force which is visable as that glowing
nucleus Professor." Beast interupts.
"Why thank you Beast for illuminating us." Charles
Xavier replies.
Gambit looking on at the glowing mass starts to
instinctively look for a way to save his skin.
"What's sommatter Cajun?" Wolverine snears, "Scared?"
With that Wolverine pops his claws and without waiting
for the others Begins to charge the Energy construct.
Instinctively , Jean grabs Logan in a telekenitic
bubble and pulls him back.
"Don't be a damn fool just because your a little tanked
. Stop and think for a second or else you won't be
drunk enough."
Wolverine answers," Alright, Red, but only cause it's
you askin'."
Gambit then gives a glance and a smirk Wolverines way
and exclaims "Who's scared now furball?"
"Shut up!" interupts the Professor. "Right now we have
to get out of here!""Hank what do you think is best
course of action?"
"Well Professor I think we should..."
"Take that ship!" Kitty points over at an intergalatic
cruisor, apperentaly still functioning.
The X-men quickly run for the ship and board, with
Cyclops and Cable taking the helm.Cable looks over at
Scott as they take off, "Damn! You're not going to
believe this!" Scott gives him a questioning look and
Cable announces, "This little frate is carrying a
couple tons of..."
His sentence is inturupted by a triumphant and
love filled German accented shout, "BEER!!! YIPPPEEEE!!
!"
Scott looks over at Cable and flinches, "Don't tell me!
!! Please don't tell me!!!"
Cable looks over at him and nods, "Welcome to the
U.S.S Drunkard...a liquor carrying frigate for the low
life cut throats of the galaxy!"
Deadpool looks over at him "Hmmmph...we preferred to be
called the dregs of moral society thank you very much
tin man!""But, this is a fellow cut throats ship...
cool!!! Maybe we'll run into them and I can knock some
of them off!It is good to knock off the competition and
doubley good for the reputation if you know what I
mean!"
Cable gives him a disgusted look and turns to Scott,
"I don't think these people are going to stay sober
(well, semi-sober) very long. Just a hunch!"
Scott sighs and fires up the engines, "Lovely just
damn lovely! Well Nate, we have a hundred and six light
years to Earth, a full tank of gas, we're both hung
over, the Shiar are on our tails, and we have blood
thirsty pirates and other people I don't even know who
in the hell they are after our X-hides! What do you
think we should do?"
Cable looks over at him and slides a pair of sunglasses
onto his nose, "HIT IT!!!"
Scott looks at him and grins, "Hittiing it!!!" he says
as they go into hyperspace (bare moments ahead of the
cloud).
From the back is heard Jubilee's triumphant shout of,
"To infinity and beyond!"
At the same time is heard numorous shouts of, "ROAD
TRIP!!!"
They are heading into hyperspace and the unknown
when a small voice from the back of the ship comes to
the ears of the X-Men.
"Where's Mr. Wisdom?" As Everyone looks at Franklin
they hear a terrible bellowing.
"Dammit PRYDE, didn't your mother tell you to leave the
party with your escort?"
The X-Men look on in stund disbelief as Wisdom comes in
the airlock.
"How did you get out of the jail?" Kitty asked as he
walked over.
"What jail," Wisdom said as he looked back at the
rubble that was the jail, "I don't see one."
As Professor Xavier sighed heavily Scott called back
to the rest "Last chance for a pit stoooopppp..."
Before he could finish his sentence Cable hit the
acclerator, flining everybody into the back of the ship
.*GROANS ALL ROUND* "Thanks Summers." and more groans,
Telekenetic energy flares and begins tearing open
the limitless crates of every kind of alcoholic
beverage in the known galaxy. "Here you go gentlemen."
Jean smiles,"Girls."
*plink plink* "that should do it!" Bobby calls as
several cubes of ice form inside each bottle.
The rebel Kree seem to have forgotten about their
cause for the meantime, by their actions, the've
pretty much forgotten about everthing except the holy
grail of Kree recreational liquids.
Everyone drinks deep and Kurt starts a round of
1000 bottles of beer on the wall in a terrible accent
but is soon silenced by a mountain of bodies all
wanting to be first to shut him up.
As the festivities continue one lone figure can be
seen standing alone against the viewport the streams
of stars behind her,making her loveliness even more
angelic. Gambit starts to slowly aproach her but keeps
his distance as her eyes warn him that she's not at
all pleased. "Om," Gambit begins stammering for the
words or the courage to say them. "I'm Sorry Rogue
about being...well, me." he spreads his hands and
smiles, but not the conmans grin that she's so use to.
This is sincere.
"Remy," she starts "It's just that you take nothing
serious, and it really angers me. You walk around here
with your ego and secrets and act like you're on top of
the world all the time."
He starts to protest but she shuts him with a Look. "I
can't take this anymore I need stability in my life."
There is a long silence broken only by the distant
sounds of celebration.
"I understand..." Gambit says looking past her. He
doesn't turn as she walks out. "...my love." he
finishes to himself.
Emma telepathically heard the whole conversation.
She sighs and makes her over over to Gambit, "Remy...
I'm..." She doesn't smile. "I'm sorry for you and
Rogue." Remy looks to her and hiding his heart,
"Hey, no prob. Get a new girl like..."
Before he finished his sentence. Emma kisses him
passionately. Rogue turns around.
"Emma, you bitch!" She flies towards Emma.
Wade watching this whole thing yells, "Catfight!"
But before Rogue can strike, Emma reaches out, making
skin-to-skin contact,leaving Rogue to absorb her
telipathicaly dominant mind.
*I said I felt Sorry for you, And I intend to do
something about it.provoking you was the only way to
get you to let me into your head.* Emma speaks within
the confines of Rogue's mind.
"Now," Emma/Rogue says, "all you telipaths come join me
in her head by way of absorbtion, and we'll see if we
can give her some control over her power. Even if it's
only temporary."
*how you can get away with dressing the way you do with
your power out of control, It's a mirical people arn't
passing out all over the place!* She scolds Rogue.
Meanwhile on the hull of the ship as it travels
through space, a coccoon opens, releasing it's
Insectoid occupent.The alien creature clings to the
hull and begins to create a bubble about it made of
some secreted resin. It exudes a nitroxide mix
compatable with the Air inside, and after equalizing
the presure, begins to tear into the hull,the Ship's
sensors not detecting the hull breach. It then Slips
into the Ship unnoticed and Starts it's hunt.
Lockheed spots the creature and tries to warn Kitty,
but she is too engrossed in what's happening between
Gambit and Rogue.
Emma, with the help of the other telepaths, has
managed to temporarily nullify Rogue's powers. Rogue is
awed.
She touches Gambit's cheek and smiles. "I can touch you
," she exclaimed.
"I don't need for you to be able to touch me to have a
relationship with you Rogue. I wish you could
understand that."
Suddenly they notice all the eyes on them.
"Ummm... Let's talk in a little more privacy," suggests
Gambit.
Rogue takes his hand and walks with him to the back of
the ship.
"Ah alway's thought they belonged together. I hope they
work something out." says Cannonball.
Several others nod. Cannonball and Paige sit together
on a pair of crates talking about how she's doing on
Generation X not noticing the strange creature
aproaching.
The thing is about to bite Cannonball's leg when
Paige yells,"Lookout Sam!" But it was too late.The
creature grabs Sam and violently tosses him aside.
Before Husk could react the creature was on top of her,
his fangs an inch from her neck.
Suddenly Paige sees parts of the aliens flesh and alot
of it's blood fly into the air as it hissed in pain.
As the alien fell to the ground Paige saw the figure of
Logan standing confidently behind it with his claws
extended and dripping with blood.He kneeled over the
creature and put the cigar he had been smoking out in
the hideous thing's eye.
"Bub you mess with one X-Man, you mess with 'em all."
At the sight of the squished alien there is much
groaning.
"EEEWWW, if thats how big roaches are in space I don't
want to see the rats!" complained Jubilee.
"What are you doing with that beer?" Asked the
White Queen coldly.
"Wolvie said it was ok." All eyes turned to wolverine.
"I can't beilive your letting a minor drink."
"How could you..."
"What were you thinking.."
As everyone started shouting at once Wolverine belowed
"I WASN'T THE ONE THAT BROUGHT THE KIDS!"
All eyes were then turned to Emma and Sean.
"Well," the Professor said archly. "what do you have to
say for yourselves?"
Sean and Emma looked at each other then back at the
Prof. "Another beer sir?" Banshee said as he handed him
a beer.
"Leech must go bathroom."A course of oh hells
follow that statment.
"Cable stop at the nearest planet."
"Ok, Ma."
"And don't call me 'Ma'!"
"Ok, Ma!"
The door shuts behind Rogue and Gambit, he steps up and
embraces her.
"How you feeling Chere?" he asks.
"Strange Remy, different, like..." she pauses, "EMMA!"
Rogue screams.
"Wah?" Remy gasps.
"She's still in my head! This whole thing was a cover!
She wants to know my name to use it to get with you!"
Rogue stammers.
Psionic countertmeasures set by unseen hands long ago
click into place inside Rogues mind.
Meanwhile, Emma screams "Damn, how could she know?"
People stare at her."AHHHhhhhh!" Emma collapses as the
psionic weight of every mind ever absorbed by Rogue
crash through her conciousness in a gamble to prevent
the untimely exposure of Rogue's name.
Jean yells, "Get back she's...And then something
amazing happened. The real Jean Grey who died on the
moon reappered bringing the Phoenix force with her. In
.05 seconds Scott abandoned his wife who was probably a
clone or from another
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