Murmur's folly: From: HARIJUBAL@aol.com To: xxy@egroups.com Date: Monday, February 01, 1999 7:52 PM Subject: [xxy] Re: Re.Norrin Rad <> "Nannoo, Nannoo." "Guhyuck!" went the Silver Surfer, feeling absolutely wonderful. He was, what one of those 'mutants' called it, a 'Couch Potato'. Then suddenly, an explosion rocks the mansion. The Silver Surfer ignores it. "Aieee!! It's the Juggernaut!" yells someone some distance away. Throom, throom, shook the ground. Then suddenly, an explosion rocks the mansion. The Silver Surfer ignores it. "Aieee!! It's Polaris!" yells someone some distance away. Sizzle, sizzle, went the ionized air. Then suddenly, an explosion rocks the mansion. The Silver Surfer ignores it. "Aieee!! It's the Telle-Tubbies come from the future to destroy us!" yells someone some distance away. The Silver Surfer sits up, and he growls, "Telle-Tubbies." "To me, my board!" he yells. The board appears, and the Silver Surfer flies away on it to hover above the mansion. The Silver Surfer shakes his head. "I am sorry, my friends. But the menace of the Telle-Tubbies must be stopped for the sake of all." The Silver Surfer raises his hand and with a blast of Power Cosmic, destroys the Mansion. -Murmur the Fallen Tammy replies: Exactly. Mind you, I can't quite see anyone telling him he's worn out his welcome. It's not like packing up his surfboard and and locking the front door would do much good. Stephanie nibbled nervously on her lip as she approached the mansion, smoothing her dark hair away from her face and sighed in relief as she saw the surfboard and the care package of sodas and pop tarts were gone. "Finally." She muttered under her breath. "I though we were going to have to get Lillandra to look up Galactus exdirectory number before he'd leave." "Hey, th' Surfer dude's gone?" Lucas asked, sticking his head through from the back seat, strands of over long blond hair falling into his eyes. Raking it back with his fingers, wincing slightly when a strand caught in his eyebrow ring, he disappeared again. His voice rose clearly over the sound of the engine and the minor riot going on in the back seat over the 'incident' at the supermarket. "Guys, Ah got good news. The Silver Sofahog has returned t' where he came from, gone to explore the final frontier!" "Really, Miss Summers?" Sally asked, grabbing her brother by the back of his leather jacket in an attempt to stop him diving over the other NM into the boot. "Ah don't want ta sound mean but Ah guess nobody's going to be real broke up ovah that. Lucas, will yah calm down!" "Ha. It's alraht for you, sis." The disreptutable looking young mutant sneered, hugging the bag of Ruffle's he'd rescued to his chest. "Y'all weren't the ones that got put in charge of keepin' the junk food safe. Me and Ray been working our butts off since he arrived. D'ya have any idea how hard it is to hide food from a cosmically empowered Herald of Galactus? If'n he could sniff out planetary life lahk he can a Twinkie it ain't no surprise that Galactus wants him back." "Yeah." Ray piped up, unaccustomed rancor in his soft Scottish brogue. "We ha' thought tha' it'd be safe in tha' icebox we submersed in th' lake but he found it there tae." "And scarfed the lot." Lucas piped up again, ducking his sister's attempts to grab him. "Ah'm a growin' boy. I need mah sugar highs or ah'm gonna grow up warped." "Growing out that is." Danielle sniffed, looking up from her magazine and grinning at the dark look the youngest New Mutant was sending in her direction. Not that she didn't like the boy, it was in his own interests to keep him humble. "Do you think of nothing but food?" "That's not what ya said when ya found out he'd eaten all ya mint chocolate ice cream." Lucas shot back promptly. "Ya said he was a big silver trash compactor." "Hush up, both of you." Judith drawled mildly, absent mindedly rubbing her hands over the back of one of her slugs. "We'll all be glad to see him gone. *I* for one miss the TV." "No kiddin'..." Stephanie rolled her eyes in amused dismay as the arguement in the backseat changed to who had suffered the most from Norrin's visit. She should have known better than to take all the kids to town in the car without their muzzles. Still, she had to admit a certain sympathy to their point of view. There was no denying that Norrin had outstayed his welcome by a long stretch. As she pulled up the drive towards the Mansion she shook her head in disbelief at the discussion. Only two months ago who would have thought that they would have *tired* of having the famed, and infamous, Surfer in their midst. The kids had been so excited when he'd first turned up, pestering him with questions and muttering amongst themselves about how they'd finally gotten one up on X-Factor. Heck, she'd been thrilled as well. They'd heard nothing but good about the Surfer from the Fantastic Four and she'd thought that he'd be able to help train the kids. Instead all he did was sit in front of the TV and eat. Until he'd arrived she'd thought Lucas had a seemingly inexhaustible appetite, and jokes aside he at least had the excuse of a energy consuming mutant ability, but the Surfer left him in the shade. Not to mention, Stephanie thought with an embarrassed shudder, his apparently complete inability to understand the concepts of privacy and nudity taboo's. She hadn't felt safe taking a shower since *that* happened. As the car rounded the bend in the drive, the front of the Mansion finally coming fully into view it slowed to a stop, the engine juddering violent and dying. Stephanie ignored the curious queries from the backseat and the scuffling as they scrambled to get a view of what was going on, her mouth hung slightly open and her hands were clenched into fists on the steering wheel. "Wow." "That's an understatement, Lucas." Danielle stated, her voice emotionless from shock as she stared at the ruins of her childhood home. Used as she was to seeing it damaged and then rebuilt this was still a shock. "I do *not* believe this." "Mah room..." Sally stuttered as she finally managed to push her staring brother out of the way. "Mah room's gone!" Along with the front half of the house. Stephanie added silently, studing the rubble strewn lawn and the wreck of the house. It looked, she thought with slightly manic amusement, a lot like a dolls house they'd had at the orphanage. You used to able to take the roof and the front of the house off to look at all the rooms inside. Except for the presence of the sagging roof, a few tiles dropping off to shatter on the ground even as she watched, her school now looked just like that. Even to the somewhat unrealistic silvery figure perched on the sofa munching handfuls of cereal. Getting out of the car she walked towards him, trailed by four silent members of the New Mutants. Stopping in front of him she gestured at the destruction around her, her mouth working silently as she tried to find the words to ask the question in her mind. "Hello, Stephanie Grey." Norrin stated pleasantly as he looked up at her briefly, scarcely removing his eyes from the screen. "I am glad that you are back from your shopping trip, did you obtain more of the food stuffs known as 'candy'? I fear that your larder has proven insufficient for my needs." "God, Ray, he's finished th' store we'd hidden in th' boat house." Lucas hissed to his friend. "He's lookin' for food! We've gotta hide the chips!" "What...happened..." Ignoring the swift departure of her two students Stephanie gritted the words between her teeth in a way that would have made any of the New Mutants cringe apologetically and produce their dog eared homework. "..To...My...House?" "Hmm." Rummaging in the bottom of the cereal box Norrin didn't even look up. "Oh, that? I fear that some trickery was performed on the lock. When I returned from my trip to the boat house I was unable to secure entrance." A silver hand gestured absently. "I was forced to obtain my own. Please, be silent now I especially wish to observe this episode of Star Trek. You humans have such quaint ideas about contact with alien species." As the theme tune to Star Trek came on Stephanie turned on her heel and strode into the house, heading determinedly towards the Shi'ar holophone. Threat to the continued existence of the world or not, she was getting Galactus phone number from Lillandra and getting rid of her house guest. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ @Backup- Automatic, Safe, Reliable online backups and restores. Free for 30 days. Download Now. http://offers.egroups.com/click/215/0 eGroup home: http://www.eGroups.com/list/xxy Free Web-based e-mail groups by eGroups.com