I have to tell you guys about this super awesome nerdy dream I had. It's a dream, so it obviously didn't really make too much sense, but that in no way limits its awesomeness. First off, the dream was a mix between Harry Potter and X-Men, using elements of both universes. From Harry Potter, most of what was used was the movie version of Apparating and Disapparting. The version where they just kind of turn into smoke and fly around. That one. And Voldemort. From the X-Men universe was the X-Men themselves, obviously. They were kind of like the Order of the Phoenix from the HP universe. Also, there was some sort of character crossover. James and Lily Potter were instead Cyclops (Scott Summers) and Phoenix (Jean Grey), who in my dream were played by John Krasinski and Jenna Fischer (Jim and Pam from The Office). They did have a newborn (boy, I think, and would assume, but I'm not entirely sure about that).
Anywho. The dream opens kind of the same way the movie flashes back to Lily and James dying. Lily/Jean is putting the child to bed, and James/Scott is in the other room, being nervous. Jean comes to talk to Scott about how this Secret Keeper thing is probably not a good idea, and they would be safer with their friends (The X-Men/Order of the Phoenix) around. Scott agrees, so Jean goes to prepare their departure. Suddenly, the front door gets blasted down and who should float through but VOLDEMORT! Before he can raise his wand, Cyclops optic blasts him, not doing any real damage, but stunning him long enough for Scott to find Jean, who already has the baby and is ready to leave. Jean insists they go together, but Scott says that he'll be fine, they need to protect the baby. Jean agrees and she and the baby Disapparate out of their house, while Scott goes to confront Voldemort again. Voldy has recovered when Scott reenters the room, and they kind of duel for a little bit until Voldemort realizes that Jean and the baby are gone. He's about the kill Scott, but Scott Disapparates as well, but he uses the ghosty movie version, so he lingers around the house watching Voldemort wreck it trying to find a clue as to where the family has gone. After Voldy gets pissed and is done trashing the house, he leaves, and so Scott finally leaves to go to the other safe house that they had installed (the X-Mansion, I'm assuming, but I don't know for sure because...)
The dream shifts to Jean and the baby, who have materialized in some sort of shopping center. I don't know why she popped up here, but she did. She starts to run towards wherever it is that she's going, when suddenly, KABOOM! There's an explosion behind her. DEATH EATERS! There were a couple just hanging around who happened to notice her. She's got her baby in her arms, so she can't use magic to defend herself (why she doesn't just telekinesis the SHIT out of them is beyond me, but whatever), so she just runs away. Suddenly, there's another explosion, but this time where the Death Eaters where standing. Dazzler apparently was here as well, ready to defend Jean. Jean waves a thank-you to Dazzler, and keeps running while Dazzler stands her ground to kick some Death Eater ass. Then the dream went into a chase scene, with Jean running through the shopping center, trying to escape the Death Eaters, while things explode and fall down all around her (I'm assuming that Dazzler is doing some of the damage). Anyways, Jean finds her way outside again, and Cyclops comes driving up in a school bus (I don't know why). Jean and the baby climb aboard and hightail it outta there, leaving Dazzler and the Death Eaters behind. I feel like I should mention that it is also winter, and not a Tennessee winter. Like...an England winter, with snow everywhere, and it's dreary and overcast all the time, and is frequently below freezing, if not zero.
Cyclops is hauling ass in the school bus, but it's a school bus, so...there's only so much ass he can haul. Plus, there are other people on the road. (Also, I think this scene MIIIIIIIIGHT take place in Farragut, where I live now, so bear with me) He comes up to the Campbell Station/Parkside Drive intersection (which is a four-way light intersection, with like...six lanes on each road. It's a fairly large intersection.) He's trying to turn left from Campbell Station onto Grigsby Chapel, but there's this douchebag car in front of him that won't go, even though it's still a green turn signal. So he maneuvers that bus around the car, and ends up on Grigsby Chapel. He's driving for a little bit, and is about to turn onto Smith, when there's a TRAFFIC JAM! He can ALMOST turn, but not quite, because he's driving a fucking school bus and those bitches are HUGE. Luckily, Jean is right there and can levitate the front of the bus into a more turning-friendly position. She does so, and the family sets off down Smith Road, until ANOTHER TRAFFIC JAM. There is no real way to drive out of this one, so the family pulls over and ditches the bus. When they get off the bus, a group of X-Men Apparate to them (I guess the bus was some sort of mystical cloaking device? I dunno). Storm, Iceman, Shadowcat, Colossus, and I think Havok and Polaris are all there. And maybe Wolverine. But the group of them work their way from Smith Road onto Union road, and are walking along with no trouble. Someone senses something sinister (alliteration, yay!), so Storm and Iceman working together quickly create this blizzard. Cyclops yells at them, saying that any Death Eater with any sense will immediately be able to tell where they are now, because really, how many localized blizzards are there in the world, especially when there's a known weather controller in a hunted group of heroes. Storm explains that the center of the blizzard is a few miles down the road, and that's where all the Death Eaters will think they are. Cyclops is like "okay, whatever, it's not like you can undo this now" and they start to continue on their trek, when SUDDENLY a caped figure stands in their way. The X-Men assume battle positions, and before they can determine if it's Voldemort or Magneto (because Magneto is an ally, therefore a good thing), I woke up...
Also, after the Jean Grey shopping scene, there was this bizarre scene with Emma Frost, Storm, Iceman, Batman, and ...someone else, where they go to confront ...someone, and their abilities only activate when they twirl about in an anime girl fashion, so...there was that scene too. Which I chose not to include in this narrative because 1. Storm was a white girl with brown hair in that scene, 2. Batman has no business being anywhere near the X-Men, as he is a DC character, and they are a Marvel franchise, and 3. It made no fucking sense. Yay dreams.
So anyways, that was my super awesome dream. I sat with it all day yesterday, and I'm going to sit with it again today and see if I can't find a logical conclusion, and maybe write it out for National Novel Writing Month in November. If I do, I'll try to post chapters here so whoever wants to can critique me.
