Babysitters and Dreams
The Lighthouse, England, EXcalibur #18
Irene had stretched like a cat, glad to be home now, Earth 2182 was nice as she had been glad that she was back, a glowstick now, but good enough as she had seen that Emma Frost was a marching through, “Hi Miss Frost!” Irene said with a smile, but she was angry, “Where is she?!” Emma had shouted, seeing her mother(Thank goodness she wasn’t green) and Rachel watching Betsy.
“Why would you hide her from us?!” Emma had asked of them as they went to meet up there as well, “Cerebro always snitches.” Rachel muttered as Rogue spoke up, “Emma! Ah can explain.” Rogue had said as the others came, “I’m sorry! We tried to stop her!” Remy said when they noticed her, “Hi Pere!” Irene said as Emma glared, “…you tried to stop me?” she asked.
“Not stop.” Rictor said, terrified, “Stall? We tried to stall you.” he said as Remy looked to Irene, both of them concerned, “Reenie? What–?” Rogue asked, but she took a step back, “Sorry.” Irene told her, “The mama from Earth 2182 kept me in a bubble until their brotherhood tried to set me off.” she said with a nervous smile, concerning both, “Why didn’t the me–?” “Dead.” she had told him.
That had worried the couple that she would have that done as Irene started to feel something, “Punk?” she had asked, looking around at everywhere and seeing that it was only Betsy walking towards the Gate, “Punk?” Rogue asked, “A buddy.” Irene had said, wanting to scratch under the plating right now, which was when she noticed that Betsy was walking past, “…I’m going to take a hot bath.”
“Good night, all.” Betsy said when she side eyed her, “Bye, Calico.” She said before walking into the gate, hearing that though, Irene had gotten curious and decided to fake a yawn, “I’m going to rest in the guest room, it’s late.” she had told them, going and walking away which is when she had seen that there was a lovely person there, “Hey punk!” she had said, going and hugging her.
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Irene was back with the others, glad that her favorite babysitter was alive and well while also realizing that she was going to get into trouble so Irene decided that stalling for her would do for now as she stroked Lucifer who liked her heat, “Ooh, dis looks good.” Remy said, “Nice idea to all have dinner together.” he had said but Irene wasn’t convinced on this, “Tante Mattie’s looked better.” she said.
“It was your idea.” Rogue said to her husband, “And I’d feel insulted, but I’ve had her food too.” Rogue had told her, “Someone tell Betsy it’s her last chance to come up here, or she’s eating whatever’s left over.” which was when Irene reacted, “I’ll do it!” she had shouted, taking the food and rushing over to get her the meal, confusing the adults on when the two of them had gotten so close.
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Irene had brought the meal with a smile, heading over when she saw that Betsy was running away, so Irene decided to follow her, “Hey, Punk!” Irene shouted as they saw the two of them go, “Rogue, why did that kid call Betsy Punk?” Brian asked as he saw the two vanish, “Ah don’t know, she said that was a buddy of hers.” Rogue had said, wondering what it was her daughter was up to.
Meanwhile the two of them ran, “Come on, Punk!” Irene had shouted, looking around when there was a noise, making her look to see her controls were going crazy, “What? But Curse isn’t–?” she said before seeing that her temp was rising, fast, “Dang it!” she said, “Catch you later, Punk!” Irene shouted, already rushing out and hoping that she at least didn’t murder her parents.
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Bar Sinister, Krakoa
Irene was in the room that she used when she was about to go critical, the young mutant already feeling it as her radiation started to leave her body, “Hey, Irene.” A voice, Pavel’s voice, had said to her on the comm, “Hey, Pavel, what’s up?” she asked the Russian, “Your parents were worried, so they asked one of us to check.” He told her, making her chuckle.
“Cool, what’re you all up to?” Irene had asked, sitting down as she really wished for a reset right now, “Nomi is hanging out with her grandfather right now, Ove is swimming to Atlantis to meet Namor, TJ and Kurt are doing acrobatics and Azari and Kendall both went to Wakanda.” He told her, “What about you? Not hanging out with The Rasputins?” she asked him.
“Colossus is kind of moody but I help him with farming, and Magik just treats me like a baby cause she’s older than me.” Pavel said and hearing that, the girl laughed at that as she had went and started to feel a drain, “Hey! I have some vials in a treasure chest by my brains,” she told him, “There’s one called ‘Carl Creel’, can you put that through the slot?” she asked, “Sure.” Pavel said.
It was one of the recent ones that her grandfather or aunt had given to her, wanting to see if they’ll be able to work and possibly get rid of or at least contain her new radiation as it were when she saw that it had been passed through the slot, “Thank you!” she shouted out before going and injecting The DNA into his neck as she did so and having done that, Irene felt the change.
“Great! Now let’s see if I can get rid of this.” Irene had told him, trying to use The Creel as she had started to look for Iodine and some Vitamin C and as Irene had found the required material that she had gathered and taking a few, she had went and felt her biology change and her radiation was gone, great, Irene had went and pressed a piece of metal to make herself look like Colossus JR.
“Twinning!” she had said to him with a smile as the two of them had went and clasped hands, “So, what’s been up with you?” she had asked and hearing that, the young mutant had went and stretched, “Oh, I was in The Lighthouse and I saw my old babysitter in Captain Britain!” she said with a grin on her face, “Malice, correct?” He had asked of her, “Yep! It’s gonna be awesome with her again!” she told the boy.
“You really liked hanging out with her?” Pavel had asked, making Irene nod at that, “Yeah, I better go and–” she had started before she felt something, making her look down to her arm which had Pavel’s around her wrist, “Okay, first, calm down.” Pavel had said to her and hearing that, she glared, “When was the last time you slept?” he had asked of the girl and she considered that.
The last time I slept–” “Willingly.” Pavel said, “Willingly.” Irene had agreed, “Was just before we all woke up in that pile.” she told him, “That was days ago.” he had told her, worried, “Yep! Which should be quite concerning.” she had said to him, “Alright, then I’m gonna have to do this.” he said, “Do wha–?” she had started before there was a stinging pain, “Ow! What was that–?” she started, already feeling woozy.
Irene had started to burn it off when there was a noise, one that made her turn to see a spiral, “No… fair…” Irene had said and hearing that, Pavel had went and helped her up, knowing that she’d be out for a while as he had went and brought her to the bedroom that was here, hopeful that nothing bad would happen as he had decided to look at her artwork.
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Bar Sinister, Krakoa, EXcalibur #19
Irene had shot awake, looking around in shock as she had seen that Pavel was playing with a flying ball of Mercury that she had made, moving and making it dance with the gloves as she had noticed the others were all there too, “Hey guys!” Irene had said and as she had did, TJ had spoken up, “Hey Reenie! Aunt Rogue and Uncle Remy had wanted to see you.” she had said.
“Why? I didn’t do anything, I was asleep.” she said, PRETTY sure that she didn’t sleep walk, “No, this is about your old babysitter.” She had told Irene and hearing that, The young mutant had gotten curious at that as she had went and gotten up and followed her cousin, wondering where her favorite babysitter was at the time and hoping that this was not unpleasant.
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The Lighthouse, England
“Hello!” she said to them, “Reenie, you’re not green?” Remy asked, “New DNA, does wonders with Radiation.” she said before seeing that Betsy was Betsy and her parents looked worried, “What is Alice up to?” Irene had asked of the adults there, “Alice?” Rogue asked of her, “Yep! Alice MacAllister.” she had told them, “She was Sixteen when her powers went off which is why she became my babysitter.”
“So you know how she thinks?” Betsy had asked, “Sure do! The two of us got into quite the mischief together.” Irene had told them, “I remember this one time when I wanted to play with The Queen’s Corgis and Malice had possessed the dog walker so that I could cuddle with them, there was an article about it.” she had told them, “‘Moppet cuddles Royal Corgis’.” she had told them.
Her parents planned to get that photo later as Irene focused, “I can track her down if you want! We had all sorts of ways to find each other and play!” she had said, “Sounds like you and Malice were very friendly.” Rictor had said, “Sure! She was the only one not to treat me like a newborn!” she had told the adults, “If you want, I can try to find her?” she had said, “What makes you say that?” Betsy asked.
“Because Alice isn’t any of your friend and she probably got found out by all of you, so you want to find her.” Irene said, “That’s–” “True.” Remy had said, interrupting Jubilee, “Alright! But I’m not doing it for free, I have a price.” she said, pulling out a fee, Remy took and read it, “How about a group of favors?” He had asked and hearing that, the young mutant glared, “IOU’s will do.” she told him.
Hearing that, the adults had nodded, “Great! I’ll go and start the hunt! Minion Number Three, with me!” She said, “Hey! I’m your hench or nothing!” TJ had told her as they had went and walked by each other, “Why do I feel like that’s gonna be a problem?” Rogue had asked and Remy couldn’t help but agree at how they might have done something a little bit dangerous.
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Krakoa
Irene and TJ were rallying the team now, TJ had Pavel, Azari and Kendall while Irene was getting Ove, Nomi and Line, “Linea!” Irene said, seeing the Arakkii first, “How’re things–?” she had started before noticing that it was betting cloudy, Irene had looked up in confusion, wondering what was going on before seeing that there was no light at all with pure black covering the sky, as if it was night.
“What the–?” Irene started when she had seen that a lob of black goo had went and shot towards her, making the young mutant create a force field around herself with Linea doing the same, the two of them defending when Irene had seeing that there were others that were trying to avoid the attacks from these creatures, those that weren’t so lucky seeming to change, their bodies covered in black with a red spiral on their heads.
Seeing that, she had went and started to bubble them up, trying to isolate them from the others when she had accidentally gotten a hole in her own shield, making a drop hit her shoulder, “Ow.” she had said, feeling her mutation taking affect and as she had felt it, her solidity started to feel off, feeling like she wasn’t being human anymore, it was a feeling that she didn’t like as she turned to Linea.
“Run!” She had shouted before her body had changed and became a goo like this, Auburn and White with rows of needle like teeth as she had went and attacked the one that was trying to take her over, the two of them had started to grapple and try to devour the other, as they had melded and separated, Irene had felt something, something, big, as is she was a drop of water looking into a endless ocean.
It had nearly shattered her mind at the sight before The young Mutant had started to block the– the whatever it was as she had focused on fighting the one there only, trying to not become consumed by it all as she had found herself in a bubble now, making the two of them looked towards the device in question, Irene and the creature both hissing towards him as Forge pulled them in.
“Hello there…” he had said and hearing that, she had taken a breath as the bubble had separated the two, at that, Irene had went and reverted to her old self, sighing in relief as she had noticed a demon approaching them covered in the goo, “TJ!” Irene had shouted, pulling up some Kitty Pryde before she had went and pulled out some blades of grass to throw at her as she threw black Hex Bolts to them.
Her energized grass had countered them thankfully as she had stolen a grenade from Forge’s belt, as she had went and thrown the device to them while Linea had went and focused on mass range to deal with as many as possible, “What is that thing?” Forge had asked, “Let me loose! I’ll deal with it!” she had shouted out towards Forge, hearing that, Forge had went and did as much.
Reacting to this, she had went and gotten in front of the possessed TJ and she couldn't’ resist, leaping through and into her, “Got you now Sucka!” she had shouted in joy, feeling as the mutant had went and tried to take her over, “Okay! I gotta go and keep her contained, tah!” she had shouted out before sending herself to Sinister Space to hopefully deal with her infection.
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Irene’s Mindscape
TJ had went and looked around, wondering why she was in a blank space, where was the master control? “You shouldn’t have come in here.” A voice said, making the Symbiote look around in confusion, “This is my dominion, where I am supreme.” The voice said as a hole had appeared with a crimson light, reacting, I had went ahead and charged through, getting out and finding a place of red crystal.
But when he had turned around, the Symbiote had seen that there was a monster, a giant amalgam of flesh, teeth, horns, scales looking like it was a demon from H. P. Lovecraft, “And now I get to split you apart.” It had said, going and attacking with a variety of limbs when they had seen TJ had started to avoid, flying through the mindscape like a flying ballerina.
The monster had grinned before starting to work, “You forget that it is will that determines who is master here!” The Symbiote had told her, splitting into a army of TJ’s who were forming a giant Hexbolt to fire, in response, the monstrosity had split up and reformed into a single Irene in the distance, extending her hand out and firing tree branches towards the army, hitting all but several.
They had went and reformed as one who snarled before becoming a Symbiote Dragon, snarling and flying towards them, Irene had went and became a knight with a bastard sword, leaping towards the dragon and slashing off of a wing when the dragon became a serpent who went and bit her in half, only for Irene to become a fly which had grown and grown in size before becoming bigger.
The Mosquito in question had started to become on fire before breathing a jet towards the creature, making TJ leap away, “Do you not care for this one?!” The Symbiote had asked as Irene had glared, “This is the mindscape! As long as I can kill you, I can save her!” she had snarled when TJ had turned into a black wave of goo and fangs as Irene had turned into a fortressed mountain.
“Fall!” the wave of Symbiote said before becoming an army, going to invade the fortress as the stone had become a fire breathing giant, scorching them all as the army had started to attack and infect her, consuming the stonework and as it had done as much, The Symbiote had continued to do that as much as they could when the stonework had exploded and an angel had appeared.
A Emerald armored warrior with Red and Black wings, a mane of Auburn and White hair, “What do you say? Good and evil?” The Angel had asked as The Symbiote had become a Devil garbed in red with a spiral, their tail like a rattler before jabbing out to attack, the angel had grabbed and pulled her in to punch the creature, making it fall back before she had did it again and again.
Irene had grinned before going and shifting her hand to that of a Devilish claw burning in golden fire, before plunging it into the symbiote, “I’d like my cousin back now!” she had snarled, going and separating the two of them, holding her like she was a sleeping newborn babe before glaring at the symbiote, it glaring and hissing, trying to devour her as well, but she was done.
“Food shouldn’t fight.” she had told the alien before the mask had melted to a maw of nothing but rows and rows of teeth before devouring the screaming creature, having done that, she had looked down to her unconscious accomplice before smiling, “Let’s get you out of me and me in a coma.” she had said, really hoping that she wouldn't get infected again while asleep.
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Sinister Space, Krakoa
Nomi had the two of them in a sphere of metal, keeping them contained and safe when she had opened it and seen that there was a pair in there now, but no Symbiote, “Be on guard! The Symbiote isn’t here!” she had told the others and in reaction to this, there was a scramble, looking around as others were all appearing and going to deal with that while others like Linea were opening the gate.
They were letting others into the Sinister Space to hid them, “Why does a kid have these?” Forge asked, looking at her surgical equipment, “She said that it was for her delicate work.” Pavel said, pointing to a miniscule garden that had plants from the Savage Land she had been cultivating, “Azari, would you be so kind as to wake the two up?” Nomi had asked of them.
Hearing that, Azari had went and given a small stroke towards the two, jolting TJ awake, “Yaaow!” she had said while Irene stayed still, the only thing happening was that black slime was coming out from her orifices, “Is that–?” “Braindead.” Forge had said, looking it over, I guess, whatever she did in there, killed its mind.” he had told them and hearing that, the others looked at her.
“I think it’s best if we keep her in here for now, don’t want a Symbiote getting any ideas.” Ove said, the others in agreement, especially with the nuclear option that had almost happened, they were all in agreement at that as they had hoped that things weren’t going to get worse, all the while, the young Mutant was starting to think and grow before finding herself THERE again.
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The Astral Plane
Irene was wearing a Magenta and Black bodysuit with a fur collared trench coat, “I like this.” she had said to herself, looking up to see a Magenta and Green diamond floating above her, “Hello, Moppet.” Mother Righteous had said, “How’s the end of the world?” she had asked, “Quite fun,” Irene said, “I just devoured the mine of a Klyntar.” she had told the red skinned woman.
Hearing that, the woman had went and pressed her finger to Irene’s head, “Ooh, nice work, Moppet.” The woman had said to her, “Clever little gambit with the good and evil bait.” she had told Irene, making her smile, “I thought you’d like that.” she had said with a smile, “But I better go and find my babysitter.” Irene had said, going and heading in, “Wonder where she could be…” The mutant said.
Mother Righteous had watched her and smiling towards the back of her head, this little moppet was feisty and liked her, enough that she didn’t try to eat her like The Klyntar, grinning towards the back of the child, she had started to read the futures that she had been reading through the minds of time travelers, making them useful resources for her as well.
Mother Righteous had ignored Doctor Sinister, that was something useless, but the other one, Irene Lebeau of The Clan Askani, it was divergent, but the abilities that they had were quite interesting as she had looked through the various timelines that this Irene had went through, Mother Righteous had smiled and grinned at the database she became for her future plans.