This is my first Xmen Evo fanfic and my second total so I present to you…

Of Snakes and Toads

Chapter 1: Party Preparations

The usually derelict house was looking surprisingly clean and cheerful. Tabitha Smith walked around the living room, surveying it with an artist's eye for detail. She still had splatters of paint and green cake batter from her "preparations".

"Sooooo? What's the verdict?" A certain earthquake inducing brunette asked Tabitha.

Tabitha looked over the room one last time and finally focused on the three boys resting on the couch. "Well I'd like to get rid of the three useless lumps on the couch-"

"Hey!" The Brotherhood boys said simultaneously.

"Just joking boys chill out. Seriously though, you guys did a great job."

In a flash of white hair and overpriced clothes one of the boys on the couch was gone and in another flash he was back only now with a Coke in hand. "Why are we making such a big deal about this? I mean it's just Toad." The pale skinned speed demon asked the blonde.

"Because he's our friend and we love him!" Tabitha responded shrilly.

"Plus it's a great excuse to throw a party." Pietro added.

"Hey, uh, Tabby how come, um, Wanda didn't help us with, uh, Toad's welcome back party prepadidations?" The mountainous mound of flesh known as Fred Dukes asked.

"Thewordispreparationsdumbass!" Pietro shouted at superspeed before Tabby could reply.

Freddy got up and tried to punch the silver haired mutant but Quicksilver was too … well, quick. As their fight raged around the room they knocked down all of the decorations Tabby and the others had spent hours putting up.

"Stop fighting dammit!" Tabby screeched at the battling mutants as she saw her hard work being ripped down and trampled on.

Freddy and Petro ignored Tabby, and Freddy's punches got harder and more rage fueled every time Pietro laughed at him when he missed.

"Come on Freddy! You haven't hit me once, no wonder Jean didn't want you!" Pietro taunted.

Freddy roared wordlessly at the mention of his brutal rejection by the redheaded X-Woman. He redoubled his attempts to beat Pietro to a pulp but the speedster was still too fast to be touched by the overweight mutant. Soon the fight took Freddy and Pietro to the kitchen and Tabby realized her cake was in grave danger.

"Stop now!" Tabby yelled as the dueling duo led them closer to her precious cake.

When the two decided to disobey Tabby's orders she threw an energy bomb at them blasting back into the living room and knocking them out cold.

"Great now we gotta redo all that work." Lance said sarcastically, "I guess I'll call Kitty and see if she can help us and I'll order some pizza to go with this cake."

He flipped his cell phone out while Tabby dragged the unconscious Pietro up to his room. On the way back downstairs she saw Wanda walking around and decided to ask her for help.

"Hey Witchda can you help us with Todd's welcome home party preparations, your jackass brother destroyed all the stuff we had already put up and Todd's gonna be her in, like, two hours." Tabby asked the moody Maximoff girl.

"That warts coming back!?!?!" Wanda asked incredulously.

"I guess you don't want to help us with preparations then Witchda?" Tabby asked.

"Of course not, and it's Wanda not Witchda." Wanda replied.

"Hmm. You're not very grateful, Todd has helped, you put his life on the line for you, and he is always getting you stuff and you can't even help with putting up a couple of banners for his welcome home party." Tabby retorted

"If I wanted him home I would help with his stupid party!" Wanda shouted before storming into her room and hexing the door shut.

"Yeah, well screw you WITCHDA!" Tabby shouted at Wanda's door.

Tabby went downstairs and started to put up fallen decorations and throwing away those that couldn't be salvaged when she heard the doorbell ring.

"Hey Lance can you get that?" Tabby shouted from the living room.

"Sure thing." Lance yelled back from the kitchen.

Lance walked to the door and opened it and saw his girlfriend Kitty Pryde was there and she had brought Rouge along for good measure.

"I heard someone, like, needed some, like, help with a party." Kitty told Lance as he leaned in to kiss her cheek.

"Thanks for comin' over baby." Lance told her. "And thanks for bring Rogue over too, we need all the help we can get."

"Hey sugah what can we do for ya? And who is this party for anyway?" Rogue asked.

"Well we need to make a whole bunch of decorations and the party is for Todd."

"TOAD? Why would you throw a party for him?" Kitty asked shocked.

"He's been gone all summer visiting his cousin in California and, well, we all miss him, except Wanda any way."

"Well let's get to it hun." Rogue said and Lance led the girls into the living room where Tabby was already hard at work.


A blue convertible Chevrolet Impala cruised down the highway at high speeds with its top down. Hip hop music oozing out of the speakers, in it were to teenage boys.

"Jamal man we're almost there, yo." Todd "Toad" Tolensky said to another teenager about the same age as him who was driving their car.

"Aight, which exit do we take next?" Jamal asked the amiphibious mutant.

"Over there, to the right, yo." Todd replied pointing to the one he meant.

Jamal quietly drove down the exit Todd had selected. The boys drove in silence except for the muic they were both vibing to.

"So cuz how come you decided to come back to Bayville with me, yo?" Todd asked Jamal.

"Oh you know my mom she's always worried I'm gonna join a gang; I can't believe she doesn't trust me." Jamal replied.

"Hold up, aren't you a Crip, yo?"

"No! I just hang out with Crips, and where blue, and throw their sets sometimes."

"So don't that make you a Crip, yo?"

"Hey tell me about that broad you said you was in love with." Jamal said, changing the subject.

"Oh yeah, Wanda, my babycakes. She's beautiful, she's got these sapphire eyes that are deep as the ocean, and you just wanna deep right into them, yo." Todd told his cousin.

"Wow man, sounds like you're really sprung. She feel the same about you?"

"Naw man she way to good for me, she deserves better than me, yo." Todd informed Jamal downheartedly.

"Hey man, you good enough for any broad man."

"Thanks bro, but Wanda can do so much better than me."

"If she thinks she so much better then you maybe you should find another woman." Jamal told Todd.

"Maybe."

Jamal figured Todd didn't want to talk anymore so he went back to driving in silence.


There you go people chapter one, plz review, the more reviews I get the more I will be inspired to update faster.