So there's more Excalibur! Yay! I finally got a break. I'm so proud of myself. Now a few notes from the machine.
A/N: Michelle is a female version of Kurt. Had Kurt been kept, Mystique would have called him Michael. Now, the genderswap works like this. People I feel like swapping get swapped. Not necessarily mutants, which is how a lot of gender-swaps work. There are indeed two Jamie's. One is Madrox and the other is Brittany's sister. There, thought I'd clear some of that up. Speaking of Brittany, she is not the same Brittany as our friendly neighbourhood angsty teenager that I so often wirte about. She is an alternate of Brian. Did we all understand? No? Good. Confusion is halfway to clarity.
Karla: Good machine. *gives it a cookie*
A/N: *gives the cookie to Shana*
Shana: *runs away with it*
Brittany had come in what she proudly called the Midnight Runner. Jamie shook her head and explained that the name had been changed three times and she still didn't like it much.
"So the three of us are headed off where?" I asked Jamie. She looked at me for a second, half squinting as though she were too close to a bright light.
"Sorry about that. I'm just having a hard time with my powers. Nothing looks real anymore." She explained. "That aside, were going to a place directly on the north pole. It's called the Toy Shop or something."
"Should I start singing Santa Claus is Coming to Town?" She smiled and shook her head.
"Not that kind of toy shop. It's a twisted little thing Brigader Stuart tried to explain to me. I wasn't really listening, but he said it was a WHO splinter group that had gone bad. I don't know anymore than that." She replied.
"Where was Allysande to help keep you interested?" I asked.
"She was making this." She pointed to her eye and I could ever so faintly see the outline of a contact lense. "It's to sort of record what I see. She wants to see what the computers can make of it."
"Nothing hopefully." Brittany said, having turned on the auto-pilot.
"Why nothing?" Jamie asked. She didn't mean it in a bad way, she really was curious.
"Because then they could play God too." Brittany murmured absently staring out the window.
"I'm sure they wouldn't hurt things too badly." Jamie crossed her legs under herself.
"Sure. Just like you wouldn't cut me in half." Brittany replied as sarcastically as she could manage.
"I was only seven. I didn't know that that wasn't how magicians did that trick." Jamie was for some reason still calm. She was always calm for some reason. Brittany suspected that her mind had been shattered by her powers and I wasn't about to disagree.
"You thought there really was magic." Brittany said point blank and bitterly.
"There is and you're proof. So am I. So is our brother, even though he doesn't want to believe it." Jamie crossed her arms now too.
"I think this whole thing is just plain stupid. I can't use magic and we both know it. I'm the one without any powers, remember?" She asked. Jamie wrinkled her nose.
"But you do have powers." She said it like it should be common knowledge.
"Let's not start that arguement again. I just want to rescue Chris so that whatever has them is taught some kind of lesson."
"You forgot Morgan." Jamie suddenly looked concerned. "There isn't something wrong is there? I-"
Brittany would have none of that and I made a mental note to keep half an eye on her if we got out of this alive.
Whoooooooo! Another chapter done! Yay!
Michelle: Why do you indirectly try to destroy Brian in so many ways?
Karla: Because it's fun!
Michelle: But wouldn't it be easier to just whap him with a newspaper?
Karla: More easy, less fun.
Michelle: That made no sense.
Karla: You just aren't used to my twistedness yet. Give it due time you must for confusion is the path to clarity.
Jamie: Gah! It's Yoda! *hides*
A/N: Michelle is a female version of Kurt. Had Kurt been kept, Mystique would have called him Michael. Now, the genderswap works like this. People I feel like swapping get swapped. Not necessarily mutants, which is how a lot of gender-swaps work. There are indeed two Jamie's. One is Madrox and the other is Brittany's sister. There, thought I'd clear some of that up. Speaking of Brittany, she is not the same Brittany as our friendly neighbourhood angsty teenager that I so often wirte about. She is an alternate of Brian. Did we all understand? No? Good. Confusion is halfway to clarity.
Karla: Good machine. *gives it a cookie*
A/N: *gives the cookie to Shana*
Shana: *runs away with it*
Brittany had come in what she proudly called the Midnight Runner. Jamie shook her head and explained that the name had been changed three times and she still didn't like it much.
"So the three of us are headed off where?" I asked Jamie. She looked at me for a second, half squinting as though she were too close to a bright light.
"Sorry about that. I'm just having a hard time with my powers. Nothing looks real anymore." She explained. "That aside, were going to a place directly on the north pole. It's called the Toy Shop or something."
"Should I start singing Santa Claus is Coming to Town?" She smiled and shook her head.
"Not that kind of toy shop. It's a twisted little thing Brigader Stuart tried to explain to me. I wasn't really listening, but he said it was a WHO splinter group that had gone bad. I don't know anymore than that." She replied.
"Where was Allysande to help keep you interested?" I asked.
"She was making this." She pointed to her eye and I could ever so faintly see the outline of a contact lense. "It's to sort of record what I see. She wants to see what the computers can make of it."
"Nothing hopefully." Brittany said, having turned on the auto-pilot.
"Why nothing?" Jamie asked. She didn't mean it in a bad way, she really was curious.
"Because then they could play God too." Brittany murmured absently staring out the window.
"I'm sure they wouldn't hurt things too badly." Jamie crossed her legs under herself.
"Sure. Just like you wouldn't cut me in half." Brittany replied as sarcastically as she could manage.
"I was only seven. I didn't know that that wasn't how magicians did that trick." Jamie was for some reason still calm. She was always calm for some reason. Brittany suspected that her mind had been shattered by her powers and I wasn't about to disagree.
"You thought there really was magic." Brittany said point blank and bitterly.
"There is and you're proof. So am I. So is our brother, even though he doesn't want to believe it." Jamie crossed her arms now too.
"I think this whole thing is just plain stupid. I can't use magic and we both know it. I'm the one without any powers, remember?" She asked. Jamie wrinkled her nose.
"But you do have powers." She said it like it should be common knowledge.
"Let's not start that arguement again. I just want to rescue Chris so that whatever has them is taught some kind of lesson."
"You forgot Morgan." Jamie suddenly looked concerned. "There isn't something wrong is there? I-"
Brittany would have none of that and I made a mental note to keep half an eye on her if we got out of this alive.
Whoooooooo! Another chapter done! Yay!
Michelle: Why do you indirectly try to destroy Brian in so many ways?
Karla: Because it's fun!
Michelle: But wouldn't it be easier to just whap him with a newspaper?
Karla: More easy, less fun.
Michelle: That made no sense.
Karla: You just aren't used to my twistedness yet. Give it due time you must for confusion is the path to clarity.
Jamie: Gah! It's Yoda! *hides*