Subject: [OTL]: [Excalibur] Pumpkin Gloop!
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 17:45:10 EST
From: Trumpetlee@aol.com

I scooped out pumpkin gloop today, and this is the result!
Disclaimer: None of the characters are mine. They're Marvel's. No money.
Don't sue.

Pumpkin Gloop!
:Lee Tybird

    "Mmmmm. Pumpkin gloop."
    Illyana rolled her eyes as she watched Doug scoop out the inside of a
pumpkin with his hand. "Ew."
    "I don't get why we're doing all this anyway," Pete muttered, as he
hung cobwebs from the porch of the Muir Island Medical Research Station.
"Not like kids 'er gonna come here."
    "Well," said Rahne. "Kids 'ave their stories aboot this place. Ye can
see it off th' shore, an so they think it might be a wee bit haunted."
    "Pete'll scare them," Amanda smiled. "God knows he scares us."
    Pete rolled his eyes. "Har, har, bleedin har."
    Off in the distance, Kurt and Moira were placing tombstones in the
ground. There was one for each member of Excalibur, and some of them read as
follows:
    Peter Wisdom: Died of over-exposure to spandex and Moira's coffee.
    Katherine Pryde: Died of Computer withdrawal.
    Kurt Wagner: Trampled by screaming women.
    Douglas Ramsey: Electrocuted by his overly suped-up computer.
    Illyana Nikolievna Rasputin: I'm the demon queen of Limbo, what the hell
do you think happened to me?!
    Amanda Sefton: Was one of the screaming women who trampled Kurt, and got
trampled as well.
    Meggan Braddock: Died of being too bloody nice.
    Moira MacTaggart: Died of an overdose of her own awful coffee.
    "Do you really think kids will come here?" Kitty asked.
    "They will," said Doug. "We're gonna have Rahne go up on the roof in
wolf form and howl at the moon."
    Rahne took some pumpkin gloop and pegged Doug with it. "Take that!"
    "AH!"
    "Looks like we're done here, ja?" asked Kurt.
    "I think so," said Amanda.
    "Wait!" Meggan cried. "We have to finish carving the pumpkins!"
    Doug snapped. "That's right! There are more!"
    They gathered the pumpkins around them, and began to work.
    Kitty stared at her pumpkin, She phased off the stem, and looked inside.
"Wow, that stuff is really slimy."
    Doug stuck his hand in his pumpkin and brought it back out with seeds 
and pumpkin slime.
    "Doug, wouldn't you like a spoon?" asked Meggan.
    "No thanks," Doug replied. "I'm fine." He flung the slime out of his
hands and it splattered over the rest of the group.
    "Thank you, Herr Ramsey, for that wonderful experience."
    "You know you love it, Kurt."
    Pete picked a pumpkin seed off his shirt and ate it. "Needs roasting,"
he muttered.
    "Och," Moira cried. "Thass gross."
    "Yeah, yeah."
    Illyana took a handful of pumpkin goo, and spread it across Doug's
face. "I will make you beautiful!" she yelled with glee.
    "Yeah, same to you," Doug replied. He took his gloop and dropped it down
Illyana's shirt.
    "AH!"
    Kitty looked at her pumpkin goo, and then at Pete, who was too busy
frying pumpkin seeds with his hotknives to notice. She took her goo, and
shoved it down his pants.
    "WOT THE-?!!!"
    Doug laughed. "Kinky!"
    "Doug," said Amanda. "What have you been smoking, and why aren't you
sharing?"
    "Because it's mine, I tell you! All MINE!!!"
    "Has anyone else noticed how immature we're acting at the moment?"
asked Brian.
    The whole team said something to the extent of  "yes."
    "We might as well turn into X-Force!" Doug cried.
    Kurt looked frightened. "No!"
    Rahne flung some of her own pumpkin goo at Kurt. "Dinnae insult muh
friends!"
    The goo hit Kurt in the face, and he tried desperately to get it out of
his fur as Amanda sat next to him laughing.
    That's when the pumpkin goo flew.