Lucky Me, Chapter 060These people-I thought they were messed up before but now I had undeniable proof! I think this was revenge for turning them down with a just cause, but I could never be sure with these sometimes psychotic acting 'heroes'. And I say that with as much love as I could for people who wore spandex and made decisions, not only for me, but for the entire mutant race.But let me get back on my previous soapbox.It was April and I had convinced Miss Ororo to ride with me without the duel break or 'Student Driver' sticker on the car. Of course she kept asking who the heck 'Jack' was because Alexis kept asking and my only answer was to neatly sidestep the question every time by slamming on the breaks.And everyone knew how much I had to beg Scott and Jean to let me take Driver's Education at the high school, so it was kind of an eye-bugging moment when I was having dinner with them and they pop off with another type of 'education'."You're kidding, right?" I asked, dropping t
Lucky Me, Chapter 059"A frying pan?"I laughed nervously. "Yeah."Scott sighed, amused or annoyed (who could tell?)."You had millions of dollars worth of equipment, both earth and alien, and you used a frying pan?"Was it so hard to come to terms with?"Yeah, as we found out, once those 'millions of dollars worth of equipment' gets unplugged, they turn into millions of dollars worth of useless metal. However, a frying pan was—practical and portable." Okay, not really practical, but it sure did do the job of smashing Sabretooth's face in well enough.Storm and the Professor were both smiling while laughing under their breaths. I felt like a comedian in front of the toughest crowd on the planet. I was just glad they didn't have any rotten fruit."Practical?" There was that echo in again. "After almost a year of training, you found a frying pan practical?""I was using what was available at the time." It was either fight the killer with a frying pan or start throwing teammates at him; I p
Lucky Me, Chapter 058I never knew fear until the moment I heard his voice calling to us from down the hall. Then there was the scraping of long, sharp claws being dragged on the metal of the hallway’s wall. It rang so loudly in my ears that it felt as if he was running his claws down my spine."Oh man," Adam prayed, quickly jumping to his feet. The backup generators flickered to life, but instead of the normal lights, there was a dull red color filling the room. "Kerry, what do we do?" He asked, as I felt my lunch in my throat.Every other time, we had been under the safety of the Danger Room, or had had help from those that could do something. Now? Now there was just me, Adam, and—"Chris. Daisy." I muttered."Huh?" Adam was practically on top of me, "What about them?"I shushed him and told him to whisper."We need to get to them. Change into your lizard form and we need to get them out of here. They're both on the top floor."He nodded and began got morph from a normal looking guy to a
Lucky Me, Chapter 57"Let me go you bloody twits!" I cringed as I saw the new girl kick wildly as Mr. Bishop and Jean moved her down the hall. It was a week and a half after the 'lock-in' and I had gotten used to getting hugged in the hall by some of the girls from it."Who's that?"Scott sighed, "A renegade mutant we located, she should be grateful we got to her before the authorities did."Yeah, right."I don’ wan’ to be here! Just sod off!” Well she was definitely wasn't from around here. After they shoved her into this circle thingie on the floor, Mr. Bishop pressed some buttons on a keypad and a bright blue light swallowed her up. She banged, kicked, cussed and threatened from that cylinder. Apparently she couldn't get out of it."It's an inhibitor," Scott explained as if he read my mind. "It'll prevent her from hurting herself and others while the Professor works with her." He turned to go, and I followed him. It was my turn to play twenty questions."Who is she?"Da-Sco-okay, he co
Lucky Me, Chapter 056If homicide was ever made a sport, Chris and Alexis’ heads would be mounted on my wall.Chris, big surprise, right?But Alexis, little human Alexis, what had she done? She was responsible for making me sit through a perfect nightmare. Stephen King would stand in awe of this! This got a new freaking rating higher than 'R' if ever it was made into a movie!"Come to the Lock In," she said, "It'll be fun." For who! For him? For his interest? I was so mad…but let me start at the beginning.I’d say it started with Chris.Chris was a little instigator. After three more days of flickering lights and rebooting computers from lack of electricity, I waited like a cat (with two big black wings) for him to leave the his room to take a shower. I thought I would have to wait a few months, but no, he actually headed that way about an hour after I decided on this course of action.So here the master thief in training (me) was ma
Lucky Me, Chapter 055There was something ever parent or guardian feared to hear from their teenage kid.One little sentence which shipwrecked their world. They were staring at me, coffee cups half raised and eyebrows now completely blended in with their respective hair."Can you repeat that?" Scott choked out, putting his coffee cup on the hallway table. I caught them on the entrance hallway before the metal tunnel to the danger room and the big cat man.This worked like nothing I had experienced. Scott and Jean were almost dumbfounded! It was a good thing they were in such good condition or I’d have been afraid they just had a heart attack. Jean tipped her head to the side and blinked at me."What?" I asked, was it so unbelievable."What you just said. Say it again." So I did. Then, then he started to laugh nervously. "Are you serious?""I'm asking." I pointed out; Jean just sucked in a deep breath and let it go really slowly. "Look, I'm seventeen it's not unnatura
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