This story takes place before OZT, and Onslaught, before Jubilee left the X-men for Gen. X.
It was late at night in the X-men manor and Jubilee was fast asleep with her teddy bear safely in her arms and her jellybeans just sticking out from under her pillow. Around four in the morning, her door creaked open and in snuck Cyclops, followed by Storm. Cyclops gently slid the jellybeans out from their nook and quietly turned Jubilee's alarm clock ahead about nine hours and set the alarm for one o'clock p.m. He passed the jellybeans to Storm who silently walked away and went back to bed.
"BRRRING!" Jubilee's alarm clock hollered about five minutes later.
Rolling over, Jubilee turned off the clock and reached under her bed for her mid-afternoon jump-start... Her gourmet jellybeans. "THEY'RE GONE!" she cried jumping out of bed. She dropped to her knees and started frantically searching under her bed. "All right, whoever took my jellybeans is going to pay."
Jubilee stormed into Storm's room slamming the door behind her. KASLAM! "Wha... What?" Storm mumbled looking around her room, "Oh, it's just you Jubilee. What do you want?"
"I want my jellybeans! Where'd you put them?" Jubilee demanded standing over Storm, "And what happened to your clock?"
"Jubilee, you had jellybeans and you didn't tell me... The queen of jellybeans?" Storm asked, "And I lent my clock to Logan. Now go to sleep Jubilee."
"Where did you put my jellybeans? I can't sleep without my jellybeans, besides it's one in the afternoon!" Jubilee yelled.
Storm rolled over and put her pillow around her ears, "I don't know where your jellybeans are. Ask Gambit and let me sleep."
"WHAT? Gambit has my jellybeans!" Jubilee cried as she turned toward the door. KASLAM!
She ran into Gambit's room slamming the door behind her. "WHERE ARE MY JELLYBEANS?" Gambit didn't answer. "Gambit?" Jubilee asked poking him, "Oh right. I forgot you sleep weird." She picked up his legs and dragged him off the bed. THUNK!
"Aw petit. It's early in de morning, w'at d'y'want?" Gambit asked propping himself on his bed.
"I WANT MY JELLYBEANS!" Jubilee yelled grabbing Gambit.
"Jellybeans, what jellybeans? I didn't take your precious jellybeans. Now if y'don't mind I would t'get back t'sleep." Gambit replied crawling back into bed.
"If you don't have them then who does?" she demanded, " I sure don't!"
"It's probably Scott, he's always de mastermind of t'ese t'ings. Why don't y'ask 'im?"
"Hey... Good point. I'll ask Scott, he'll know." Jubilee stopped in the doorway; "If you're lying to me Gambit, then don't you worry... I'll be back."
A few minutes later, Cyclops found himself being rudely awakened by a loud slam. "Huh? What is it? What's wrong?" he asked reaching for his ruby quartz glasses.
Jubilee just glared at him for a minute. "What did you guys do with my jellybeans? You had better tell me because I'm getting awfully angry. And where is everyone's clocks?"
"Logan has my clock and as for your jelly beans I don't know where they are, ask Rogue, she might know." Scot said as he rolled over to go back to sleep.
"ROGUE! Why would Rogue know where they are?" Jubilee asked looking puzzled.
"I don't know why Rogue would have your jellybeans. Go to sleep Jubilee."
Jubilee stormed out, " Fine! I get the point! If you don't want me around just say so! I'm going to talk to the Prof. about this. He'll get my jellybeans back."
Cyclops sprang up; "Uh... I wouldn't do that if I were you, Jubilee, you know that Xavier likes to sleep in every third Saturday of the month. And guess what? It's the third Saturday in July."
"So? I WANT MY JELLYBEANS!" Jubilee yelled slamming the door behind her.
"Professor!" Jubilee exclaimed as she thundered into his room, "What did the others do with my jellybeans?"
Professor Xavier pulled himself up against the wall so he could sit up, "What are you talking about Jubilee? What jellybeans?"
She rolled her eyes and sighed, "The jellybeans that I keep under my pillow... Duhhh!"
"You keep jellybeans under your pillow Jubilee? You know that isn't permitted in the manor."
"Yeah, I know but I don't like coffee and it wakes me up."
"Well... I don't know where your jellybeans are. Have you asked Storm, you know she likes those things." Professor said rolling over.
"Fine! I'll ask Logan he likes me!" Jubilee said walking out of the room before the Prof. could reply. Suddenly a strange thought floats through Jubilee's head "I wouldn't do that if I were you Jubilee. I really don't want you to end up like his alarm clocks."
As Jubilee walked down the hall she decided to ignore the Prof.'s comment. Sneaking into Wolverine's room Jubilee noticed a bag of Gobstoppers and three smashed clocks sitting on his dresser. "Hmmm... I wonder..." Jubilee thought to herself.
A few minutes later, Wolverine woke up claws extruded, "What's the big idea? Jubilee if you know what's good for you, you'll quit throwing those things at me right now."
"Logan..." Jubilee began sweetly, as she stopped throwing Gobstoppers at him, "WHAT DID YOU DO WITH MY JELLYBEANS?"
Jumping out of bed Logan growled, "What jellybeans? It's early and I would like to continue my dream so if you don't mind..."
Jubilee slowly backed toward the door, then she had a brainstorm. Before Wolverine knew what hit him Jubilee was pouring out the tears and sobs, "My... my... my... jelly... beans... are gone! WAAAAAAAA!"
Logan's claws immediately retracted, "Ah Jubilee, don't do this to me. I don't know where your jellybeans are. Why don't you check with Rogue, she mentioned something about jellybeans last night."
"Thanks Wolverine," Jubilee said smiling, no trace of tears, "I knew I could count on you." Jubilee hugged him and then ran out of the room.
"ROGUE!" Jubilee bellowed when she entered Rogue's room. Nothing. Rogue didn't even stir, then Jubilee remembered that Rogue was nearly impossible to get up. So, in order to get her jellybeans back Jubilee decided to zap Rogue with her plasma globs.
ZAP! ZAP! ZAP!
"What? Oh, hi Jubilee... What do you want?" Rogue asked rubbing her eyes.
"WHAT DO I WANT? WHAT DO I WANT! I WANT MY JELLYBEANS BACK! WHAT DID YOU DO WITH THEM?" Jubilee shouted, just barely missing Rogue with her plasma sparks.
Rogue stood up and started to float, "Hey! Hey! Sorry to tell you this Jubilee but we ate them."
"You WHAT?"
"We ate them," Rogue replied simply.
Jubilee glared at her," You're joking right? I mean those jellybeans are to me like coffee is to Logan."
"Look, maybe Ah'm wrong, check with Beast, he'll remember what we did with them." Rogue said settling back into bed.
"Alright, but WHAT happened to your clock?" Jubilee stated.
"Oh, the repair shop."
On the way to Beast's room Jubilee noticed a light on in the kitchen and voices coming from in there. Curious and angry she decided to investigate. In the kitchen, all the X-men were gathered discussing what they could do about shutting Jubilee up so that they could get some sleep.
Jubilee barged in stopping halfway through the door. "Hey! Who moved my clock ahead? Who's the wise guy?"
Beast looked at her and then at the other X-men, "Should I tell her?"
The others nodded, and Jubilee looked confused "Tell me what?" she demanded.
"Well," Beast began clearing his throat," We took your jellybeans in order to teach you a lesson about how it feels to loose something important... This was just payback for taking Scott's visor, Rogue's gloves, my data on the Legacy virus, Remy's cards, X's hover-chair, Logan's sword and Ororo's masks.
"Okay, okay, I learned my lesson. Can I please have my jellybeans back now?" Jubilee whined.
Professor Xavier rolled in at that moment, "You can have one of your bags back. We'll keep the other one as your punishment."
Jubilee's jaw dropped, "But... but... but... "
"Jubilee..." the Prof. warned.
"But those jellybeans cost me three weeks allowance!" she exclaimed.
Cyclops' jaw dropped, "You mean you spent THAT much on candy? That's just utter foolishness."
"I know but they're good." Jubilee grabbed her bag of jellybeans and turned to leave, "Now, if you don't mind, I would like to get some sleep... considering I didn't get any sleep... thanks to you guys." With that she stormed out and went back to bed.
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