I don't own the Marvel characters, so don't bother suing me.

Ok, this fic includes a character of my own, her name is Maria and she is Ben Grimm's adopted daughter (she was his brother child, but he and his wife died), she has appeared in some of my F4 fics I have written. She is human though in this fic.

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"I still think this is a crazy idea," John Allerdyce told his mentor Erik Brashen from the passenger's side of the Aston Martin.

"Pyro," for that was the young man's code name, "We mutants are born different, and are shunned," he began. "These people were involved in an accident and now they are seen as heroes, how is that fair?" Erik asked the boy.

John shrugged, "I guess it's not, but I still don't see way we're doing this when there are so many mutant haters out there who need to be taught a lesson," he paused, "Why waste all our time and effort on these losers?"

Erik smiled, "Their time will come soon," he assured his young prodigy in regards to the hater.

The back door opened and a dark haired woman sat down, "They're on their way to the café on the corner," she told John, "You know what to do?" she asked him and the young man nodded.

"And, Mystique," Erik turned to face her, "Do you know what to do?" he asked with a smile, and she nodded.

"Good, and of couse I know what to do", he said in an 'I'm better than you' voice, and the two males got out of the car, as the woman slowly changed into a dark haired man and climbed over into the front seat of the vehicle, looking around to make sure no-one had noticed.

Mystique watched John walked into the café, and Erik walked into a nearby bookshop. A smile danced on her lips at the sight of him. She and John had laughed that morning at the sight or Erik in a top hat, and high collar suit. He stood out a mile in the city looking like a character from a Dickens novel. Mystique laughed as she saw the sign on the bookshop, there was role play of some kind going on there involving pre-nineteen hundreds literature icons.

"Typical Maggie," she said in her new male voice, "Always doing your homework," and she settled to wait for her time to act.

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