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Thursday, February 26, 2004

NEWS FLASH : Quicksilver Defeats Mean History Teachers

Quicksilver surveyed the school hall, from his vantage point on the roof of the building. He could see the mutants, spread evenly around the room, where the children sat, they're creative draining from them even as he watched. On the stage at the front of the hall, Mrs. Irene Kantreid stood, microphone in hand, and the collective works of Shakespeare open in front of her. The cad! The young minds of this generation deserve literature, they are our future. Should her nefarious schemes succeed, the nations youth would be drained of all creativity... and become mere slaves, convinced that the only literary works of any value were those of her and her supporters.

Quicksilver glanced over the room, formulating his plan now, knowing that he couldn't play things be ear, since once he entered the room, he too, would lose all creative energies. Having made his decision, he attached a rope to the inside of the skylight, and swung into the room, directly to his first target.. A quick snap kick, and POW!, the electric plug fell from its socket, and the boooooooorrrrrrrinnnng monotone ceased to emit from the speakers. Mrs. Kantreid continued to read for another few seconds before noticing the lack in volume… and the slow return of awareness to the eyes of the students below.

The students looked hesitant.. the had vague memories of what had happened, but were afraid of what their teacher might do, should they cause any trouble, meanwhile quicksilver was in a spot of trouble, a number of the other teachers had cornered him, pinned his arms, and were dragging him up on to the stage.

[e.d. "If only I had a superpower he thought" :P ]

Quicksilver was thrust facedown onto the stage, and the power point quickly reconnected.. he glanced quickly round the room hoping for inspiration to strike before he had his creativity also removed. His eyes fell on the copy of Shakespeare's works, laying open in front of him, to hamlets rousing speech, about facing up to adversity and fighting evil.. or something like that..

Grabbing the book, breaking free of his captors and claiming the Microphone from a surprised Irene, quicksilver quickly began to recite the speech, hoping to inspire the children to move forward and put down their oppressive teachers.

It was the following morning. Quicksilver nursed the number of bruises he had achieved the previous day, in his eventually successful, yet not-to-plan defeat of the Nefarious Mrs. Irene Kantreid and her associates. He remembered with pride his plan to inspire the children to leap to his defense.. and with horror what had actually happened. The children had been so angered by his reading of such trash, that they had rioted, destroying the sound system, along with Mrs. Kantreid's plans for mass control. "Kids today are so much harder to please" he thought... still good had been done.. The mean English teachers were behind bars, in a soundproof cell no less, the children were safe, and he'd got a chance to brush up on his Shakespeare... but that's all in a day for QUICKSILVER! Hero extraordinaire.