Hello all! This is a fanfic for all ops and regulars of #x-men on the EfNet. Everyone have fun, and if any of you have complaints send them to me, Tux at: tux@videotron.ca
It was a normal day, Stephanie Long was walking to a place where she, and many of her friends met almost every day. The building had been affectionately named "#x-men" because of it's similarity to a chat channel she and her friends shared on the net. But, this summer, the members of #x-men had come all together for the first time. When they all had first met, there was little tension, fights online seemed funny in real life, and people who had hated each other on the net became good friends once more. The first day together, everyone had been sitting around talking to various other people when BRICE stood up on a nearby coffee table and motioned for everybody to be quiet. As people settled in to listen, James Layman (a.k.a Drywall) glared enviously at BRICE's position in the spotlight but listened attentively nonethless. "Hey everyone!" said BRICE " Glyn (a.k.a Tux) responded with "Hi Mr.Crowe," under his breath, but BRICE went on anyway. "It's really cool that we're all sitting here under the same roof for the first time and what I'm sure will not be the last. You're almost all the same as you are online, with the possible exception of WeX," BRICE glanced shortly at Alex but went on, "It is great to be here and to meet all of you guys and to actually SEE you," there were a few giggles at this, for in the first hour, noone could think of anything to say but to comment on other people's looks, "Anyway, what I'm leading to is this, A TOAST TO #X-MEN AND TO FRIENDSHIP!!" And everyone downed their Snapples. (heheh, everyone loves Snapple) After BRICE jumped down from the table, everyone resumed their conversations, somebody turned on some music on a fairly large stereo system belonging to Tux that had been nicknamed "Lilandra/Piccolo" in honour of #x-men's bots.
Glyn had been enjoying himself immensely, everyone seemed just as nice in real life as they were on the net. When he had first met Steph (a.k.a Rei/Gold14) He had been nervous and so had taken WeX along for moral support, but now, he spoke easily to her. "Hey Steph," he said, interrupting a conversation between her and Charles (a.k.a CMZ) The two had been laughing together and pointing at WeX who had slunk off into a corner to talk to Hexx from #truth1. "Hey Tux," she said. She had been calling him Tux ever since they had met and the name had stuck, according to her, it was easier to remember Tux then Glyn and the temptation to say "Glen" was overwhelming. "I've got somthin for you," Tux said in a falsetto voice, seeing Steph's confused expression, he explained that it was a joke from a game called Terminal Velocity. She nodded with understanding, and listened, "I've got a disk of incriminating WeX stuff for you, if you feel like having some dirt on our wonderful friend over there. Steph responded in the negative, and scolded Tux for being mean to his friend, Tux later sold the disk to CMZ for 15$...
As he walked away from the small group, Tux spotted Silver14 (also named Stephanie) off to the side fiddling with Lilandra's dials... Tux came up behind her and tapped her on the shoulder, "forget your ops password?" he joked. Steph, turned, startled, and then offered him one of the three brownies she held in her hands, Tux gladly accepted and asked, "Where did you get that?" "On the table over there," she said, pointing, however, just then, Xavier came along next to the plate, scooped all the brownies into his inside coat pocket, looked around him, and walked off. "Guess he was hungry," thought Tux. Steph, having also witnessed Xavier's shameless brownie pilfering, said, "Have you noticed? He's been acting kinda weird"
Tux looked thoughtful for a moment, "Maybe," he said "I don't really know"
CMZ was looking around for something to do, having just bought some incriminating files about Alex from Glyn, he was happy that some productivity had come from this trip. He noticed Glyn over by the stereo talking to Steph but decided to ask him for more dirt on WeX later. "Man, he thought, so far this is a snoozer, they're practically all teenagers!" He searched frantically around for something GOOD to drink in the fridge but all he found was Snapple, Root Beer, and something called "OP Juice" He chose OP JUICE and for the rest of the evening could be seen sitting at the kitchen counter drinking can after can of it with BRICE, and Drywall.
After CMZ had gone off to drink OPS with BRICE and Dry, Steph (Rei) decided to check out what there was in the way of vittles. Opening up the freezer, she saw an almost solid mass of McCain frozen Deli Lover's pizza. Almost gagging, she quickly closed the freezer door and took a Snapple out of the fridge, "It's too bad really," she thought "somebody ate all the brownies."
As the evening went on, people watched T.V on the TV's that WeX and Tux had forced their parents into giving up to the group for the summer. At exactly 11:00 PM, Tux stood up on the coffee table, and said, "OK EVERYONE! Anyone who doesn't like Sailor Moon leave NOW! Because it's time for... THE #X-MEN SAILOR MOON MARATHON!!!" Steph (Rei) cheered, most everyone else kept quiet. Surprisingly, many people stayed and watched with rapt interest, anyone who didn't want to watch went up into the upper floors the small house and went to sleep. The Marathon went on late into the night, the participants watched "Day of Destiny" in Japanese subtitled about 7 times, and each time, everyone shed a tear for Princess Serena and Prince Darien. At the end of the marathon, everyone had learned more about Sailor Moon, and ingested more OP juice, then they cared to think about. And so, tiredly, they stumbled off to bed.
In the morning WeX found himself staring into the face of someone he wasn't familliar with. The night before had been a blur of OP Juice and flirting with Hexx, and words like "Sailor Moon" "Incriminate" and, "HEP HEP!" flew through his brain. "Ashley?" He asked confusedly. Suddenly the face moved upwards, "Who?" it said, in distinctly feminine tones. "Uhhhhh...." WeX groaned as he realized who it was, Steph, him, and Xavier had shared a room last night. WeX sat up in bed and stared at Steph's bedroll about two feet away. "Ummm.. hi," he said, yawning and sitting up in his sleeping bag. "You told me about Ashely," said Steph "why did you say her name?" "Ummm.. well.. no reason, just morning confusion I guess.. err.. hep hep?" Before Steph could respond to this, Xavier's eyes flew open and he sat up quickly in his sleeping bag, "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" He intoned, before rushing out of the room and down the hall. "Must have had too much op juice," Steph said, as she got up and went downstairs to breakfast.
Tori (RogueXmen/^Tori^) sat on one of the couches near the kitchenette, in the sunlight, half asleep from last night's festivites. As she lay there in her semi-concious state, she was only barely aware of Daniel Fox (Tick) coming downstairs and sitting next to her, in silence they watched Tux, Steph (Rei) and Drywall, scurry around the kitchen making breakfast for MANY people. "Poor Tux," Tick said, "look at him running around in there, I'm not sure if he realizes, but not many people are gonna want breakfast after all that OP Juice last night" "Mmmm hmmm," Tori mumbled, still half asleep. "Yeah, breakfast is good," she sighed and fell asleep again, her head flopping down onto Tick's shoulder. And until breakfast, they stayed that way.
"BREAKFAST!" Steph shouted up the stairs, her call was met with sevral moans and groans from upstairs, "GET MOVING YOU LAZY INFIDELS BEFORE WE TURN ON LILANDRA FULL BLAST!!" After hearing this, most of the group stumbled downstairs and ate Aunt Jemima waffles, eggs, bacon, tortilla chips, and salsa. Not surprisingly, there were many inventive combinations of this things, and that my friends, is how the "bacon waffle egg surprise deluxe" was born.
After breakfast, the group gathered around the room all sitting down to hold council. "So what should we do today?" Asked BRICE. Most people had different idea's WeX suggested going to an video arcade and spending all their money playing X-MEN. This bad joke was met with many groans, and WeX was silenced. Steph (Silver) suggested that they all go to a movie, this was met with a better attitude, and was generally accepted, but unfortunately, noone could agree on a movie, so the project was nixed. Finally, it was agreed that each would go out and eplore the city on their own. Tux and WeX provided a quick explanation of how the Montreal subway system worked, and everyone went their separate ways.
The members of #x-men each went off in their separate directions to find somepace to spend the day. Glyn favored staying at home, since he was tired from the night before, all he wanted to do was relax. Steph (Rei) went to Atwater to shop and to maybe see a movie. WeX, being his usual self, followed her. BRICE, Drywall, and CMZ, who were now all very good friends (they constantly whispered and laughed together) decided to go to the famed "New Gen" about which Tux and WeX had told them in much detail.
Steph (Rei) enjoyed riding the Montreal subway. It was fast, went through all the major sections of the city, and it even smelled nice. As she rode through the tunnels, she became transfixed with the scene outside the train. There were intermittant blue-lit niches in the walls of the tunnels, and in each niche there was a red bag with white lettering on it. As the train passed these niches, Steph strained to see what was written on them, but alas, met with no success, and so, her mind puzzeled by the Montreal subway system, she wandered off into the depths of Atwater metro station and it's environs.
WeX had been discretely following Steph (Rei) since she had gotten off at Atwater, and was now positioning himself to "accidently" run into her. Steph, still preoccupied with the metro, didn't notice his mad dash towards her, but when she did, at the last second, she extended her hand as if to catch something. It caught something alright, WeX, right in the center of his forehead. As WeX got up from the floor in a half-dazed state, he mumbled something like, "Ashleypleasedontdumpmeigotnofriendsandmydogisdead" Steph, slightly peeved as it dawned on her what he had been trying to do, said, "Alex, why are you following me? And why do you keep mentioning this Ashley girl?" Alex tried to formulate a good excuse but all he managed to get out of his mouth was, "It was my mom's fault, I'm the only sane one" before he stumbled away to catch a metro home.
CMZ was annoyed, "didn't I tell you two they wouldn't let us into the bar without REAL I.D? Didn't I?" BRICE and Drywall grinned at each other and answered in unison, "No." CMZ, unruffled, went on, "And I took the blame for it too! What was going through your heads when you told the guy that I was the one who sold you your fake I.D's?" BRICE started to look slightly annoyed himself, "MINE wasn't fake, it was little mr OP JUICE here who made the whole thing up, I just backed him" "Oh, and whatever happened to ditching him at the computer arcade?" "I told you, I didn't know he was following me 'till he came up to me inside" Drywall, not at all pleased about being talked about as if he wasn't there said, "Well, whats done is done, I say we grab something to eat and then head back to #x-men" The other two, both VERY tired, agreed with no argument.
Tori and Dan sat together at a table in Arby's restaurant having a very animated conversation. "I'm telling you that The Tick would blast Rogue in a fight ANY day!" he said jovially, "and I'm telling YOU that Rogue is too smart to fall for Tick's silliness" "Granted, Tick's not too smart, so let's call it a draw huh?" "O.K" Tori agreed readily, not wanting to fight. "Say, it's almost three o'clock, we should be getting back." "Yeah, you're right" and they walked off, arm in arm.
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