The Meaning of Dysfunctional
By Sailor Wade
Disclaimer: I don't own X-men Evolution, big surprise huh?
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"You can't catch me, you can't catch me" a small boy taunted another child chasing him through the deserted shopping mall.
"Pietro, no one can catch you, let alone me" his chaser commented breathing heavily. She stopped and sat down, her black and white dress sitting awkwardly due to her petticoats.
"Aww you're no fun Wanda, you're too slow." Pietro commented, sticking his tongue out at her.
"Freeze mister" Pietro turned to the source, tongue hanging out of him mouth. A lady in her thirties, with blonde hair wearing jeans and a jersey with 'Maximoff' printed on the back, approached the 5 year old. "What have I told you about sticking your tongue out at your sister?"
"Douwn do ith?"
"Right, now what do you say?
"Sthowy Waaanda"
"Now tongue back in mouth. Have either of you seen any open food stores?"
"No"
"No mama"
"I'll go look now" and with that Pietro was off with a gust of wind. The lady rolled her eyes, then leant down and picked up her daughter.
"What's the bet he comes back not having seen anything?" Wanda giggled just as Pietro showed up.
"Find anything?"
"Um. well.I kinda forgot to look"
"Okay, we'll all go" and with that the small family set off around the mall. Little did they notice the numerous shadows following them. After searching 4 floors, they found a food court on the 5th floor. "What does everyone want?"
"PIZZA" Wanda exclaimed
"Yeah, pizza" Pietro added. His mother looked at him.
"Pie-pie sweetie, you know you can't eat stuff like that, and we can't afford to have you sick," she said with a sorry look in her eye. It wasn't fair that because of his mutation, one he shouldn't even have yet, her son couldn't eat all the foods that the other children did. Pietro frowned.
"Ok then, um.sushi"
"One serving of Pizza and one of sushi coming right up" with that, the lady went see-through and passed through the solid door.
"Some Role model huh kids?" The two children spun around to face one of the shadows. It stepped forward to revel a bulky man in black cloths and a balaclava. The two of them backed up against the steel door. "I mean, leading her two five year children to break into a shopping mall in the middle of the night? I'm almost glad she won't be around for much longer"
"What do you mean?" Wanda questioned with more courage than she felt.
"Hey princess, they didn't have ham and pineapple so I go you."
"Hello Magda" the one of the man's companions said
"Oh no" The lady grabbed her two children and pulled them through the steel door.
"Mama looks scared, I think we're all in trouble" Wanda mused. Magda tried to calm herself down as she crouched by her children
"Pietro, Wanda, I want you both to stay in here. But if the door breaks, I want you to find a safe place to hide, no buts understand?" the two children just nodded. She nodded back and shifted through door to face the group of men. She glared at them as they smirked at her.
"Now now Maggie, you should know there's no way you're gunna get out of here with those children."
"I'm not going to let them go back to that monster"
"But you forget, Lord master Magneto doesn't care what you want for the children"
"I know that, that's why you'll take them over my dead body"
"That was our plan" Then the fighting began.
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"What was that?" Wanda asked her brother, after hearing another loud crash outside.
"I don't know, we should go check it out, Mama may need our help" Pietro said, his mother's warning furtherest thing in his mind. "Wanda, can you get us through the door?" She nodded and placed a hand up against the door. Seconds later, the metal dripped away and the two children ran through. What they saw scared them more than any nightmare they'd ever had in their short lives. Their indestructible mother, the same mother who chased away closet monsters, fixed numerous life threatening scrapes and healed them when they were sick, was lying in a pool of her own blood, being beaten and kicked by the group of men.
"Hey you leave mama alone," Pietro shouted, running up to one and grabbing his arm as it drew back for a punch. The man flung Pietro into a wall. Wanda stayed where she was, but used her powers to fling the men away from Magda, draining most of her energy. She moved as fast as she could towards her mother.
"Mama, are you ok?" Magda looked up painfully at her daughter.
"Wanda, you and Pietro have to get away, they're after you, you have to get away," she uttered before slipping into unconsciousness.
"Mama? MAMA! Wake up. Please" Wanda begged. Before she knew what was happening, her mother's body was being hoisted up and dragged away.
"Give mama back," she demanded, throwing herself at the man. He threw her back and she hit the wall Pietro was unconscious under. One of the lackeys walked over to the children, one under each arm and followed the others out of the partially destroyed mall.
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Magneto entered the medical room, approaching Magda's bed. He ran a hand down the side of her face.
"My dearest Maggie, why can't you see what I am doing is for the best. If my treatment works then no longer will mutants have to suffer through undeveloped powers. No longer will there be mutants in jail for accidentally killing normal at the onset of their powers and no longer will man kind have a reason to fear and hate us for fear of what might happen to them" He smiled emotionlessly, "And no longer will the world be divided in who they answer too, for I will rule it all" Magda, of course made no move, being under the influence of many knock out drugs. He took one last look at the mother of his children, before turning and leaving, cape billowing behind him.
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Pietro opened his eyes reluctantly, the bright light from above burning into his skull. He tried to remember what had happened but kept drawing blanks.
'I was.somewhere.metal.with Wanda.pizza.red.mall.with mama.hurt.MAMA HURT?'
"Where's Mama?" Pietro called into the near deserted room. Wanda lay still unconscious on a bed next to him. His head ached as the words he said reached his ears. He vaguely heard a door slide open and shut, and footsteps approaching him. Magneto's head came into view and Pietro groaned. It all made sense now.
"You. You dosed me again didn't you" Pietro accused, closing his eyes against the invading light. Magneto nodded, amused at his son's terminology. 'Dosed' was Pietro-language treated. Magneto had exposed both Pietro and Wanda to another round of special radiation aimed at evolving their powers. As if on cue, objects began to fly around the room.
"I see your sister is waking up" he commented, "I'll leave you to explain to her what just happened" and with that Magneto exited.
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Days turned into months and months turned into years, and Magneto continued to experiment on his children, all the while keeping his wife contained in a specially made cell. He informed the children that she ran whilst they were being loaded into the car and she didn't care enough to save them and was probably dead somewhere in a ditch. The two children however didn't believe this. They knew, no matter what he told them that she was still alive. One morning after a rather large treatment.
Pietro lay sprawled out a couches feeling completely drained. His eyes kept darting uncontrollably around the room, and every so often he would hear a noise from down the hall. Wanda's powers were growing more and more uncontrollable each dose. Last time she accidentally set Pietro on fire. He grimaced at the memory, glancing quickly down at his burnt body. Luckily they had put the fire out before it got too bad, but most of his body was covered in 1st degree burns, with some 2nd degree patches. But fortunate for Pietro, Magneto not only had enough ice to freeze a polar bear, but also the largest collection of pain killing drugs he had ever seen. Just as he was getting nicely lost in thought, Magneto stormed into the room, grabbing Pietro's coat off the wall and throwing it to him.
"Put it on, we're going out" Pietro obediently put it on, wincing a little in pain, as painkillers could only do so much.
"Where are we going?" He asked. Magneto headed out of the room with Pietro at his heels, never once looking back.
"Pietro, you love your sister right?" He asked. Pietro was shocked, what kind of a question was that?
"Of course sir, with all my heart" he replied
"And you only want to do what's best for her right?" Pietro nodded. He didn't like the way this was heading. Magneto continued, "I'm taking Wanda to a place where she will get help, her powers are uncontrollable and she is completely emotionally unstable after her last treatment. Will you help me? She trusts you will do what's best for her, more than myself." Pietro thought for a second before nodding. He had to help Wanda in any way possible. "She's in there, just convince her to come with us" Magneto punched in the code to the room Pietro dubbed 'The hissy fit room', the room used when ever Wanda's powers got out of hand.
"Wanda? It's me Pietro" Pietro approached a huddled figure in the corner of the bare room and knelt down. She lifted her tear stained face to look at him.
"Pietro, how are you?"
"Fine" he lied, "How are you?"
"Not too good Pie-pie, my head is spinning and thoughts that I don't even know what mean keep flying though my head and I want it to stop but it won't then I get out of control and then." Wanda's words became slurred due to her crying.
"Father has found a place that he thi.knows will help you. Just come with us and we'll check it out, and you can stay for a while and if you don't like it you can come right home" It didn't matter to Pietro that he had no idea where he was talking about, if his father said it would held Wanda, then it was good enough for him. Wanda started to shake her head. "Ok then, how about we all just drive over there, and we can look at the outside of the place, and if you want to see more you can and if you don't then we'll all go home"
"Promise?" Pietro smiled
"I promise"
As Wanda and Pietro came out of the room Magneto joined them, walking behind Pietro. When he was sure that Pietro was completely preoccupied with Wanda, he jabbed him with a needle. Pietro felt the needle, but believed it was just a muscle twinge, or a bug. However, he didn't notice that his mind was slowing down, past normal human stage and slower still, as he walked, his mind became black as the drug was taking affect. By the time they reached their destination, Pietro was completely out of it, barely hearing what was being said and not talking, just obeying whatever Magneto told him to do.
~Get out of the car~
~Don't say a word~
~Stand next to me~
~Don't look at her~
~Get in the car~
The next morning Pietro woke up alone in his and Wanda's room. It took a while for his mind to register what had happened the day before.
'I'm so glad Wanda liked the institution, I only want her to be happy'
Off in another part of the island castle Magneto smiled
'That's one more obstacle out of my way' *******
Author's Notes: This came from a dream I had, well, I dreamt a different ending in which they didn't get handed over to Magneto and it was sketchier, you all know how dreams are!! And I kept the mother alive for a reason, even if it didn't seem to make sense. If you liked this story, please review or mail me, if you didn't like this, constructive criticism is always welcome; flames make me a sad panda :(
By Sailor Wade
Disclaimer: I don't own X-men Evolution, big surprise huh?
*******
"You can't catch me, you can't catch me" a small boy taunted another child chasing him through the deserted shopping mall.
"Pietro, no one can catch you, let alone me" his chaser commented breathing heavily. She stopped and sat down, her black and white dress sitting awkwardly due to her petticoats.
"Aww you're no fun Wanda, you're too slow." Pietro commented, sticking his tongue out at her.
"Freeze mister" Pietro turned to the source, tongue hanging out of him mouth. A lady in her thirties, with blonde hair wearing jeans and a jersey with 'Maximoff' printed on the back, approached the 5 year old. "What have I told you about sticking your tongue out at your sister?"
"Douwn do ith?"
"Right, now what do you say?
"Sthowy Waaanda"
"Now tongue back in mouth. Have either of you seen any open food stores?"
"No"
"No mama"
"I'll go look now" and with that Pietro was off with a gust of wind. The lady rolled her eyes, then leant down and picked up her daughter.
"What's the bet he comes back not having seen anything?" Wanda giggled just as Pietro showed up.
"Find anything?"
"Um. well.I kinda forgot to look"
"Okay, we'll all go" and with that the small family set off around the mall. Little did they notice the numerous shadows following them. After searching 4 floors, they found a food court on the 5th floor. "What does everyone want?"
"PIZZA" Wanda exclaimed
"Yeah, pizza" Pietro added. His mother looked at him.
"Pie-pie sweetie, you know you can't eat stuff like that, and we can't afford to have you sick," she said with a sorry look in her eye. It wasn't fair that because of his mutation, one he shouldn't even have yet, her son couldn't eat all the foods that the other children did. Pietro frowned.
"Ok then, um.sushi"
"One serving of Pizza and one of sushi coming right up" with that, the lady went see-through and passed through the solid door.
"Some Role model huh kids?" The two children spun around to face one of the shadows. It stepped forward to revel a bulky man in black cloths and a balaclava. The two of them backed up against the steel door. "I mean, leading her two five year children to break into a shopping mall in the middle of the night? I'm almost glad she won't be around for much longer"
"What do you mean?" Wanda questioned with more courage than she felt.
"Hey princess, they didn't have ham and pineapple so I go you."
"Hello Magda" the one of the man's companions said
"Oh no" The lady grabbed her two children and pulled them through the steel door.
"Mama looks scared, I think we're all in trouble" Wanda mused. Magda tried to calm herself down as she crouched by her children
"Pietro, Wanda, I want you both to stay in here. But if the door breaks, I want you to find a safe place to hide, no buts understand?" the two children just nodded. She nodded back and shifted through door to face the group of men. She glared at them as they smirked at her.
"Now now Maggie, you should know there's no way you're gunna get out of here with those children."
"I'm not going to let them go back to that monster"
"But you forget, Lord master Magneto doesn't care what you want for the children"
"I know that, that's why you'll take them over my dead body"
"That was our plan" Then the fighting began.
********
"What was that?" Wanda asked her brother, after hearing another loud crash outside.
"I don't know, we should go check it out, Mama may need our help" Pietro said, his mother's warning furtherest thing in his mind. "Wanda, can you get us through the door?" She nodded and placed a hand up against the door. Seconds later, the metal dripped away and the two children ran through. What they saw scared them more than any nightmare they'd ever had in their short lives. Their indestructible mother, the same mother who chased away closet monsters, fixed numerous life threatening scrapes and healed them when they were sick, was lying in a pool of her own blood, being beaten and kicked by the group of men.
"Hey you leave mama alone," Pietro shouted, running up to one and grabbing his arm as it drew back for a punch. The man flung Pietro into a wall. Wanda stayed where she was, but used her powers to fling the men away from Magda, draining most of her energy. She moved as fast as she could towards her mother.
"Mama, are you ok?" Magda looked up painfully at her daughter.
"Wanda, you and Pietro have to get away, they're after you, you have to get away," she uttered before slipping into unconsciousness.
"Mama? MAMA! Wake up. Please" Wanda begged. Before she knew what was happening, her mother's body was being hoisted up and dragged away.
"Give mama back," she demanded, throwing herself at the man. He threw her back and she hit the wall Pietro was unconscious under. One of the lackeys walked over to the children, one under each arm and followed the others out of the partially destroyed mall.
*******
Magneto entered the medical room, approaching Magda's bed. He ran a hand down the side of her face.
"My dearest Maggie, why can't you see what I am doing is for the best. If my treatment works then no longer will mutants have to suffer through undeveloped powers. No longer will there be mutants in jail for accidentally killing normal at the onset of their powers and no longer will man kind have a reason to fear and hate us for fear of what might happen to them" He smiled emotionlessly, "And no longer will the world be divided in who they answer too, for I will rule it all" Magda, of course made no move, being under the influence of many knock out drugs. He took one last look at the mother of his children, before turning and leaving, cape billowing behind him.
*******
Pietro opened his eyes reluctantly, the bright light from above burning into his skull. He tried to remember what had happened but kept drawing blanks.
'I was.somewhere.metal.with Wanda.pizza.red.mall.with mama.hurt.MAMA HURT?'
"Where's Mama?" Pietro called into the near deserted room. Wanda lay still unconscious on a bed next to him. His head ached as the words he said reached his ears. He vaguely heard a door slide open and shut, and footsteps approaching him. Magneto's head came into view and Pietro groaned. It all made sense now.
"You. You dosed me again didn't you" Pietro accused, closing his eyes against the invading light. Magneto nodded, amused at his son's terminology. 'Dosed' was Pietro-language treated. Magneto had exposed both Pietro and Wanda to another round of special radiation aimed at evolving their powers. As if on cue, objects began to fly around the room.
"I see your sister is waking up" he commented, "I'll leave you to explain to her what just happened" and with that Magneto exited.
*******
Days turned into months and months turned into years, and Magneto continued to experiment on his children, all the while keeping his wife contained in a specially made cell. He informed the children that she ran whilst they were being loaded into the car and she didn't care enough to save them and was probably dead somewhere in a ditch. The two children however didn't believe this. They knew, no matter what he told them that she was still alive. One morning after a rather large treatment.
Pietro lay sprawled out a couches feeling completely drained. His eyes kept darting uncontrollably around the room, and every so often he would hear a noise from down the hall. Wanda's powers were growing more and more uncontrollable each dose. Last time she accidentally set Pietro on fire. He grimaced at the memory, glancing quickly down at his burnt body. Luckily they had put the fire out before it got too bad, but most of his body was covered in 1st degree burns, with some 2nd degree patches. But fortunate for Pietro, Magneto not only had enough ice to freeze a polar bear, but also the largest collection of pain killing drugs he had ever seen. Just as he was getting nicely lost in thought, Magneto stormed into the room, grabbing Pietro's coat off the wall and throwing it to him.
"Put it on, we're going out" Pietro obediently put it on, wincing a little in pain, as painkillers could only do so much.
"Where are we going?" He asked. Magneto headed out of the room with Pietro at his heels, never once looking back.
"Pietro, you love your sister right?" He asked. Pietro was shocked, what kind of a question was that?
"Of course sir, with all my heart" he replied
"And you only want to do what's best for her right?" Pietro nodded. He didn't like the way this was heading. Magneto continued, "I'm taking Wanda to a place where she will get help, her powers are uncontrollable and she is completely emotionally unstable after her last treatment. Will you help me? She trusts you will do what's best for her, more than myself." Pietro thought for a second before nodding. He had to help Wanda in any way possible. "She's in there, just convince her to come with us" Magneto punched in the code to the room Pietro dubbed 'The hissy fit room', the room used when ever Wanda's powers got out of hand.
"Wanda? It's me Pietro" Pietro approached a huddled figure in the corner of the bare room and knelt down. She lifted her tear stained face to look at him.
"Pietro, how are you?"
"Fine" he lied, "How are you?"
"Not too good Pie-pie, my head is spinning and thoughts that I don't even know what mean keep flying though my head and I want it to stop but it won't then I get out of control and then." Wanda's words became slurred due to her crying.
"Father has found a place that he thi.knows will help you. Just come with us and we'll check it out, and you can stay for a while and if you don't like it you can come right home" It didn't matter to Pietro that he had no idea where he was talking about, if his father said it would held Wanda, then it was good enough for him. Wanda started to shake her head. "Ok then, how about we all just drive over there, and we can look at the outside of the place, and if you want to see more you can and if you don't then we'll all go home"
"Promise?" Pietro smiled
"I promise"
As Wanda and Pietro came out of the room Magneto joined them, walking behind Pietro. When he was sure that Pietro was completely preoccupied with Wanda, he jabbed him with a needle. Pietro felt the needle, but believed it was just a muscle twinge, or a bug. However, he didn't notice that his mind was slowing down, past normal human stage and slower still, as he walked, his mind became black as the drug was taking affect. By the time they reached their destination, Pietro was completely out of it, barely hearing what was being said and not talking, just obeying whatever Magneto told him to do.
~Get out of the car~
~Don't say a word~
~Stand next to me~
~Don't look at her~
~Get in the car~
The next morning Pietro woke up alone in his and Wanda's room. It took a while for his mind to register what had happened the day before.
'I'm so glad Wanda liked the institution, I only want her to be happy'
Off in another part of the island castle Magneto smiled
'That's one more obstacle out of my way' *******
Author's Notes: This came from a dream I had, well, I dreamt a different ending in which they didn't get handed over to Magneto and it was sketchier, you all know how dreams are!! And I kept the mother alive for a reason, even if it didn't seem to make sense. If you liked this story, please review or mail me, if you didn't like this, constructive criticism is always welcome; flames make me a sad panda :(