Middleverse by Morven
Woohoo! I tried really hard with dis one. Due to fact there was no Logan!
The group push and shove to get to the middle row of seats, luckily they aren't too late.
Outside the school at lunch.
Scott: Go to Duncan Matthews' party? I don't think so.
Pad: He has not social life at all, huh?
John: Never has.
Evan: You gonna finish that moo juice?
Peat: What?! Did Evan call that......
Skye: Terrifying.
Jean: You can have mine.
Jean: Come on, It might be fun.
Peat: Thank god! Hotty is here!
Scott: Matthews is a jerk.
Kitty: No, he's not. I'd go.
Scott: No freshmen allowed.
Kitty: Oh, Matthews is a jerk.
Peat: Matthews?
Skye: The guy who made fun of Blob, who was also the guy to score a touch down that J.. Hotty took a picture of in the very first ep?
Peat: That little.........
Skye: (Whispers to John) How will he act for the second session?
John: Uh oh......
Scott: Half of the school will be there. Suppose somebody gets too close to Kurt? That holo projector won't stop them from feeling his fur.
Kurt: He chicks dig the fuzzy dude. Right? *he grins at Kitty*
Kitty: I'm, like, so out of here. Later!
Kurt: Oh, yeah. She can't resist.
Pad: Yea..........
John: Yea, "chicks dig the fuzzy dude".
Scott: I'm trying to be serious here. Look, we go to Matthews' party, Suppose Dukes or Maximoff try to start something? We're not the only mutants in the school, you know.
Evan: Yeah, just the cool ones. *he and Kurt high five*
John: I didn't think Pietro moved to that school, you know, to keep the fighting spirit of him and Evan alive and to stop them from beating each other to a bloody pulp.
Skye: Yea, but he probably got suspended for getting arrested, Mystique would have "extended the hand of friendship".
Jean: Hey, come on, Scott. What's wrong with a little socialising?
Scott: I'm sorry, But I just don't think It's a good idea.
Kurt: Dude, it's just a party! Time to shake that tail! Whoo-hoo! Par-ty! Par-ty! Par-ty! *his tail gets loose and starts waving around. Scott pulls it to get him off the table* Watch the tail! Ow!
Scott: Now, see? That's exactly what I'm talking about!
Kurt: You pulled my tail, man!
Pad: Oh, that probably did hurt.
Skye: Yea, for some creatures the tail is a sensitive spot.
Peat: Oh behave!
Scott: Grow up, Kurt!
Kurt: Hey, lighten up, dude!
Scott: You're always goofing around!
Kurt: And you're seriously cramping my style!
Scott: Listen...
Kurt: No! You listen... there's a sound I want you to hear. And it's-- [whoosh] *Kurt ports out of sight*
Scott: [coughing] Blew it, didn't I?
Jean: Oh, yeah.
Evan:Totally.
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Flash over to Rogue, sitting at a tree and reading. We hear Kurt port in. She smells and grimaces.
Rogue: Huh? Ugh.
John: Yes!
Skye: Johnny has got the hots for goth gal?
John: No! Only you lot have the hots for these characters.... I...... I....... I like her voice.
Skye: You like the woman who does her voice?
John: Yes.
Skye: You are so sad.
Kurt's in a lab.
Kurt: Oh! I have got to work on my re-entries. *the holoprojector shorts out* Oh, weak, man!
Rogue: Who's there?
Kurt: Ahh...unh. Unh...ahh. Unh. *runs into another room, really grungy* Man, somebody should fire the custodian. *he triggers an alarm* [beep beep]
Face on the computer screen: January 22, 1978. Hi there! If you're hearing this message, You've got 10 seconds before this lab self-destructs. Have a nice day! What's left of it.
Kurt looks shocked.
Pad: Oh no!!
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Opening Credits
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Skye: Pad, they can't kill Kurt off. Its not done, or they would have done it everyone in Pokemon by now.
Kurt: I knew I should have paid more attention in computer lab.
The room explodes
Rogue: Hey! Hey! Are you okay? What happened?
Kurt: Unh. Lab...booby-trapped.
Rogue: Lab? Whatever this stuff was, it's thrashed now. Except for this. *she picks up a small machine*
Kurt: What are you doing here?
Peat: There's a smart question.
Rogue: Look who's talking. At least I didn't blow the place up.
Kurt: *grabs for the machine* Hey! Let go of that! *they struggle the machine goes off and Kurt disappears*
Rogue: He's gone!
Snap to a foggier version of the school hallway
Kurt: Uh! Huh? What happened? Where am I, the twilight zone?
Peat: Sorry, we used that before!
Skye: I'm going to sleep. There's no Logan.
[faint student voices]
Evan: Man, Scott's got to lighten up.
Kitty: Yeah, but Kurt's got to, like, know when to quit.
Kurt: Kitty? Kitty! [Kitty laughs] No! Wait! No! What's happening to me?
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Shift to the parking lot outside the school. Toad's trying to capture his lunch .
Toad: Hey!
[car horn]
Darkholme: Out of the way!
Toad: Huh... Aw, my lunch!
Darkholme: You are to stay away from this area, Mr. Tolansky. If I see one drop of slime on my new car, It's detention for life! Are we clear?
Toad: Oh, yes, we're very clear. Pffft!
Pad: Haven't seen him in a long time.
Skye: Did we want to see him?
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Rogue is trying to dispose of the offending machine.
Rogue: *she drops it* Unh!
Toad: Ooh... What's this?
Rogue: Don't touch it!
Toad: Why not?
Rogue: It's--never you mind. Just leave it alone.
Peat: That's a good explanation.
John: Shut up.
Skye: You do like her!!
John: Shut up! Besides, if Logan was real you could go out with him!
Pad: Why not?
John: Because he'll get sent to jail if he tries anything on her.
Skye: No, that's if he tries anything on me and am not of age, then he can get arrested, the other one is rape. But that doesn't count.
Pad: Oh! John fancies Rogue!!
Toad: Oh, what's the matter, little girl get into some trouble?
Rogue: Trouble? No. There's just one less X-men to push us around.
Toad: Say what? You mean you toasted one of them goody-goods with that thing? Wicked!
Rogue: Hey! Just leave it alone! You got it, swamp breath?
Toad: Jeez, what is this, "Abuse the toad" day? *picks up the machine* Hmm... [whir] *zaps the dumpster* Aah! Cool...
John: There are a few fans of Toad isn't there?
Skye: Yupper's.
John: Meaning we can't make fun of the Kirmet the Frog reject?
Skye: Nope. But we'll most likely do so, we've done it before.
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Shift to Scott and Jean in the hallway.
Scott: So, you think I should apologise to Kurt, huh?
Jean: Well, what matters is what you think.
Scott: You got to admit, he jerks around way too much.
Peat: Wooh! That can be taken in two ways! And one is very rude.
Pad: I really didn't want to know that.
Jean: So? Is that worth losing a friend over?
Two guys come running out of the washroom.
Guys: Gaah! Ghost! We just saw a ghost! Aah! A blue-and-hairy demon! I'm out of here!
Scott: I warned him! *goes into the washroom* Kurt? *comes back into the hallway*
Jean: Not there?
Scott: No. You'd better contact him. Tell him to knock it off.
Jean: Hmm. Scott, I can't pick up a trace of Kurt anywhere. It's like he doesn't exist.
Peat: One less guy to worry about.
Pad: My poor wee Kurt! *Starts to sob.*
Skye: Oh god.
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Scott: Try again. He's got to be somewhere.
Jean: I am. I'm not getting anything. He's just completely gone.
Pad: No!!!!!!
John: Right.......
Skye: I'm trying to sleep!
Scott: *seeing the Brotherhood* Or somebody did something to him.
Lance: What are you looking at, Summers?
Scott: Where's Kurt?
Fred: Huh. Yeah, like we'd tell you. *Scott rushes him*
Jean: Scott, no!
Peat: No hotty hotty hot hot! Let him get squashed! then your mine!!! *Evil laugh.*
John: Right.
Lance: *Scott slams him into the lockers* Hey!
Scott: I said where is he?
Skye: Actually you asked, get it right! How did he become the leader of the X-Men?
Lance: Get off of me!
Scott: What have you done with Kurt?
Fred: Get lost, slim! *picks Scott up*
Jean: Put him down!
Lance: Back off, red, Or I'll rock you! [rattle rattle]
Students: Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Group: Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!
John: Why did we do that four times?
Skye: Oh, your right! Five times people! We can't be out done!
Group: Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!
John: I'm with a bunch of nutters........
Darkholme: What is going on here?
Fred: We weren't doin' nothin'.
Lance: Yeah. Summers here just went ballistic on us for no reason.
Scott: Oh, I've got a reason.
Jean: Scott...
Darkholme: Quiet! You two in my office now.
Peat: But hotty didn't do anything!
Pad: She was there, besides, that's Mystique.
Peat: That bi.......
Skye: We know.
Shift to Kurt.
Kurt: Huh! Ok, wherever this is, I can't teleport out. This is just way too freaky! *furniture starts popping in* Daah! It's raining furniture!
Pad: Its...... Raining furniture, hallelujah! Its raining furniture amen!
Skye: Its raining men! Hallelujah its raining men! Amen! Tall, blonde, dark and mean, rough and tough and strong and lean!!! God bless mother nature, she's a single woman too.... She took over heaven and she did what she had to do.......
John: Its a woman thing.
Toad in Darkholme's office.
Toad: Heh heh heh. See the desk, don't see the desk. See the chair, don't see the chair. So, miss big shot, Let's see how you like my new clean-office policy.
Darkholme: Inside, both of you.
Toad: Uh-oh.
Darkholme: I don't care what influence Xavier has with the school board. I am going to get-- What?!
Scott & Jean: Huh? What?
Darkholme: What happened here? Who took my furniture?!
Skye: This, is, like, Cludeo!
John: A bit out of breath?
Skye: Y,e,s.........
Toad: *outside* Heh heh heh heh.
Scott: Bet I know what happened to Kurt.
Kurt: *dodging a car* Aah! Oh...
He ports, kinda showing up in front of Scott and Jean.
Jean: Scott, look! It's Kurt!
Scott: Or...or his... ghost.
Jean: No! I got a brief mental reading. It's like he's... trapped somewhere.
Scott: I think we'd better have a talk with the Toad.
Pad: Yea! Lets hope they get my lover out of there!
Rest of group do double take.
Skye: What?
Pad: My lover.
John: Doesn't he have to make love to you before that?
Pad: He will, at some point.
Skye: Yes......
Kurt's still in his weird little world.
Forge: Whoa! Where'd you come from? Gaah!
Kurt: Relax...
Forge: What are you, man?
Kurt: Don't let my looks fool you. I'm a harmless blue fuzzball, Really. Hey...I know you. You're the one I saw on the computer screen... just before it blew.
Peat: He's not a harmless blue fuzzball! Kill him!
Skye: This is better than watching Ton Baker lifting up a light weight "stone" and acting as if it were heavy!
Forge: Uh, yeah. the name's Forge. So you found my lab, huh? What's with the Halloween get-up?
Kurt: No costume. I'm human. But I'm a mutant. I know I look strange, but-- There are some fringe benefits. *he ports*
Forge: Trippy! I thought I was the only one. *He demonstrates his power -- the ability to change into metal*
Peat: Eh!
Skye: Forge's power is kinda handy.
Back to the real world. The X-Men are chasing Toad.
Scott: There he goes!
Toad: Ehh...
Scott: Unh! Take that! *he fires off a shot at Toad*
Pad: Oh, poor Toad.
Skye: What happened to poor Kurt?
Pad: I can feel sorry for them both.
Jean: Shadowcat, down!
Kurt: Aah! Man! Somebody's really giving that gizmo of yours a workout!
Scott: Get him!
Toad: Unh. Aw...unh.
Forge: That gizmo is a transdimensional projector, my science fair project back in '78. And when I fired it up, it created this pocket dimension that I call middleverse. I got caught in the ray myself, and I've been here ever since.
Kurt: '78? But you still look...
Forge: Like I did then? I know. I can't explain it. They shut down and locked my lab after the accident. Everyone was totally freaked when I disappeared.
Kurt: So there's no way back?
Forge: Not without help from the other side. And I'm thinking that you may be able to help out on that. And, man, I'm telling you, I'm ready to go home.
[girls giggling]
Girls: You are so lucky! Oh, isn't he so cute? Totally! [giggling] I know. [laughing] *they head into the girl's locker room*
Peat: Oh! The creators wouldn't be so mean as to not let us see the girls locker room, would they?
Skye: Keep watching.
Kurt: So...just how far does this middleverse extend?
Forge: It stops just short of the girls' locker room. Isn't that a burn? Hah! Done!
Kurt: What is it?
Forge: This little baby will alter the phase-shift frequency of your teleport power.
Kurt: Uh...my English is a little limited.
John: As is ours, and we speak it!!
Skye: Yea, every single day of the week! Minus, Friday nights, Saturdays and early mornings.
Forge: You can teleport back to the real world.
Kurt: All right!
Forge: But only for a sec. These batteries don't have much power. Still, with luck, you can tell somebody how to reset the projector to get us back.
Kurt: Oh, I just hope they don't think I'm joking. I...kinda have that rep.
Skye: This is too easy. And they all live happily ever after.
John: No. They all live reasonably ever after. Until we see the next ep.
The X-men have Toad cornered in a tree.
Toad: Get lost! I'm warning ya! *Scott blasts him* Aah! *drops the machine*
Jean: Got it!
Toad: That's it. I'm outta here!
Evan: Why don't ya stick around for a while?
Scott: Now...tell us what you did to Kurt.
Toad: I didn't do anything!
Rogue: He didn't. I did. If y'all wanna find blue boy, you better let him go.
John: You tell him!
Skye: Quit hiding, we know you like her now.
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Back in the laboratory.
Rogue: This is where it happened.
Scott: If you've hurt him, I'm gonna--
Rogue: You start threatenin' me, and you're never gonna find your friend.
Pad: He was nice to her before.
Skye: We're all talking about Scott, right?
Jean: Whoa, take it easy, Cyclops.
Kurt: Yeah, Cyclops, Just like I'm always telling you.
Kitty: Yo, guys! We've been running a diagnostic on this thing.
Evan: Can you believe it? It uses cp/m. I mean, talk about retro, man.
John: Are we meant to know what that means?
Skye: Um.... Cruddy Program Mini?
Kitty: It's putting out some kinda, like, steady low-power pulse wave that just seems to disappear into thin air.
Scott: And that means What exactly?
Evan: Well, we figure that the pulse has trapped the crawler in some other dimension.
Scott: Ok. So let's trash this thing.
Forge: No, no! They've Got it all wrong! If they destroy The projector, We'll be trapped here Forever!
Pad: Oh no!!!!!!!!!!!
Skye: This is like watching a soap opera.
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Scott: Everyone stand back. I'm gonna use full power. This could get messy.
Kitty: Um, you know, I could just, like, phase through the gizmo and quietly short it out. *the guys stare* Ha. Right. Forget I mentioned it. Like, what is it with guys and explosions, anyway?
Skye: Its better, its louder, its more fun! Come on! You lot live with those guys and I know why they like it!!
John: She's got it in one.
Kurt: Forge, hurry! They're gonna nuke the projector any second!
Forge: Done. I think it'll make you visible for a second. But I was so rushed putting it together--
Kurt: Just tell me what to do!
Peat: Kurt's very bossy.
Skye: So would you be if you realised you'd never be able to taste a burger again.
Forge: Push that button and teleport. Tell them not to destroy the machine. They have to reset it instead. But you've only got a second before the battery fries.
Kurt: Right. I'm gone.
Scott: What--
Kurt: Reset! Don't de--
John: Well, that went very well.
Skye: Yea, I hope there not stupid and carry on to demolish the thing. Actually that would still be funny.
Scott: You guys Saw that, right?
Rogue: He's still alive!
Kitty: What was he saying?
Evan: He said, "reset. Don't." you know, don't reset it. He wants you to blow it up. Do it!
Skye: I know Kurt ain't good with English, but I don't think he'll say simple words backwards.
Kitty: I swear, these guys are, like, obsessed!
Scott: Uh...it sounded more like a warning to me.
Forge: Do you think they'll get it?
Kurt: I just hope they believe it.
Evan: A warning? From the goofman himself? Naw, come on! Shred that sucker!
Forge: Man, you do have a rep.
Pad: Oh no!
Skye: Pad, calm down, you've say that a fair amount of times today and I'm planing to kill you very slowly if you say it again!!
Scott: No. Nightcrawler's a joker, but even he knows when it's time to get serious.
Kurt: Yes!
Scott: If he wanted to blow up the projector, why didn't he just say "don't reset" instead of "reset" then "don't"?
Kurt: Oh, cyc, you the man!
Scott: I think he wants us to reset this thing.
Kurt & Forge: Score! Score!
Scott: Intensity settings... power regulators... uh, beam width... restart! [motor charges up] *a portal opens* come on! Teleport through!
Kurt: Hang on. Let's go!
Forge: We can't. The battery's tapped out. We need more juice to get us home.
Kurt: Look!
Forge: The portal won't last much longer. It's now or never!
Pad: Oh no!
John: I think we have to kill her.
Skye: Aye.
Scott: What's the matter? Let's go!
Kurt: Another power source... I know! Come on!
Evan: What are they doing?
Scott: I don't know! But I hope they hustle.
Toad: There they are. And they still got that vape-ray I was telling you about.
Lance: Rogue, Mystique sent us to find you. So you with us... or them?
Scott: Mystique? You working for her?
Peat: No! She's working for Santa!
Skye: Oh yes, Santa is an evil, evil, evil..... A couple more evils, man.
John: We would have been waiting forever for you to finish that sentence wouldn't we?
Skye: Yes, and?
Rogue: Hey, Summers, you got your friends, I got mine. But this ain't my fight. I'm outta here.
Fred: Ok. Fork it over, losers.
Lance: Or this place is gonna rock!
Scott: The projector stays with us. X-men, keep that portal open!
Lance: Your call. *he starts an earthquake*
All: Uh-h-h-h... Yaaahhh!
Forge: Groovy ride. But where's this power source?
Peat: I thought this guy would've learned the knew lingo.
Skye: Oh yes, some people!
Kurt: Check it!
Forge: Far out, man!
Kurt: Oh, I swear, that homie's lingo is so whack!
Skye: A German guy saying that. Well, heaven has now gone on fire.
Fred: Come on! Hit me with your best shot, slim! Ha! Takes a lot more than that to stop the blob!
Scott: Thanks for the tip. Jean! *she and Scott knock him to the ground*
Lance: You and me got a date, pretty kitty. How 'bout a ride on the concrete coaster?!
Kitty: Lousy ride, loser!
Toad: Come on! Come on! What you got? You ain't got nothin'. That's right! You ain't got nothin'! Heh heh heh!
Peat: Isn't Pietro.......?
Skye: We warned you. You'll see him at the school, then he'll.... vanish.
Pad: Like vanish stain remover!
John: Oh dear god.........
Evan: You call that nothing, You slimy superball?
Kurt: [revving engine] You sure this will work?
Forge: No.
Kurt: Wunderbar. Let's hit it!
Peat: Wunderbar, that sounds like a sweet.
Pad: Oh yes, something nice and chocloaty.
Fred: Ok. Enough of the warm-ups. Time for some serious smashing! [car horn honks and comes through the portal]
Kurt: Ywe-hoo!
Fred: *car hits him* Whoa...good thing I'm the Blob.
Toad: Yeah. You can say that again.
Lance: *seeing the machine is demolished* Aw, come on, guys. This party's over.
Forge: What the heck are these?
Kurt: Re-entry cushions. Cool, eh?
Peat: Rightho,
Skye: Ya want to leave?
Peat nods.
Skye: So do I. But I don't plan on getting fried, we'll wait.
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Outside the school at Scott's car.
Scott: Hey, you're welcome to crash with us a while, Forge. Xavier's cool. You'd like him.
Forge: Thanks, but... I'd better go find my parents. I'm 20 years late for curfew! Thanks for bailing me out.
Kurt: Hey, any time.
Scott: Hop in. We'll give you a lift.
Forge: No problem. It's just a few blocks.
Scott: Ok. But if you need any help, just call.
Forge: Sure. I'll do that.
Kurt: See ya, dude.
Everyone else: Bye-bye.
Pad: Its like the end of Grease.
Skye: Yea. Apart from its night, there was no songs, oh and the very fact that there mutants!
Pad: yea, but besides that.....
Scott: Uh...you're gonna have to duck until we can get you a new holowatch.
Kurt: [gasps] So it's true... You really are ashamed of me!
Scott: Ha ha. Right, dude. Hey, listen, about what happened before... my bad.
Kurt: No...it was on me, too.
Scott: Maybe...ahh... maybe you're right. I take things too seriously. I need to lighten up some.
Skye: Yea, take him to the mental ward, let him see what'll happen to him in a few years time!
Jean: Oh, Scott, not you!
Kitty: Check his temperature. Mr. Military's going soft!
Kurt: Yeah. And I could probably dial down the goofing a little.
Scott: Ah, welcome back! Ok, so... now what do you say we head home, gear up, and run a level-3 training sim in the danger room?
Everyone: [moaning] Give us a break.
Kurt: Oh, man! See? That's what I'm talking about. Always serious.
Scott: Psych!
Peat: I wonder if he know that he said it like his name, Cyc.
John: We're all going to hell.
Kurt: You got us! Ha ha ha! Very nice. There's hope for you yet.
Scott: Yeah, well, tell me about it on the way to Duncan Matthews' party.
Kitty: I can't go, remember? I'm, like, a freshman.
Scott: Hey, you're also one of the X-Men.
Jean: Don't worry. We'll make it happen.
Kurt: Let's roll!
Skye: Well, this has been refreshing, but........ There was no Logan so I ain't happy. See ya peeps later!
She runs away, Peat follows as does the other two.
Waugh: Damn it!
Sharp: Hard to do.
Waugh: Not for long. They will be broken.
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