Oakies, yet ANOTHER fic. What can I say? I like writing. Yes, that's a good excuse. Hopefully I can keep up with this story as well as the other ones I have. And please go easy on me with this one. I have never actually read the X-Men comics, but I figured adding comic characters was better than making OC's. I tend to find that in A LOT of cases, especially in the X-Men: Evolution fandom, they are rather annoying. Hopefully I can master the characters main personalities with reading about them on the web. *Looks sheepish* Just don't kill me if I don't. And I do know that the "Evo-universe" had changed some things from the comics, so I know I don't have to get everything perfectly right. So all I'm saying is go easy on me and appreciate the change from OC's.

And I know the title has been used before, and I know the idea has been used before, but I couldn't resist!

Disclaimer: I don't own X-Men: Evolution

Chapter One: Recruiting Mutants, Part One, Intro

The tall and very muscular young man sat on a chair in his family's kitchen. He had just finished helping his father herd in some sheep from the fields. At this moment he was painting a picture, one of the things he most loved to do. The male was painting the light snow and the multi-colored trees outside of the kitchen window. Red, yellow and orange streaked onto the paper as he brushed it. Normally one wouldn't think this boy would have been doing art, because of how muscular he was, but he was kind and cared greatly for his family, never wanting anything bad to happen to them.

"Piotr! Piotr!"

The tall and muscular human looked up quickly at the call of his name. It was a woman, and he could also hear the distant yells of a man, and even fainter he could hear the screams of a little girl.

Piotr quickly stood up from the table, and letting his paints and brushes fall to the ground, ran out the kitchen door.

Piotr looked around for the screams. His eyes landed on a woman and a man a way down the road. There was a bright white light behind them. The woman was screaming as high as her voice could go, and hot tears were streaming down her face. The man was holding her back as she tried as hard as she could to go into the light.

Piotr hastily ran over to them. He was worried and confused at the same time. What was the light doing that was so horrible? It seemed a bit threatening, but Piotr didn't know what was making the woman, who was definitely his mother, was crying. And why the man, who looked almost exactly like Piotr except for his hair, was trying to pull his wife back. They both should have been trying to get away from the light if they found it threatening.

Piotr stepped behind the woman and took her away from the man, leading her back to the house.

The woman was yelling, "Illyana! Illyana!" repeatedly.

Piotr got the woman to the wood fence outlining the house. He turned her toward him and asked in a calm voice, "Mother, what is wrong?" in Russian, as that was the only language the woman could speak.

"Illyana," she stammered in Russian. "My baby. . .my Illyana. . ." The woman was crying and had been crying so hard that she could barely cry anymore, so just pitiful weeps were coming out of her mouth now, sometimes with a tear or two.

Piotr looked over to the man to clarify this. The man nodded solemnly and looked back at the light.

Suddenly, Piotr's mind filled with horrible thoughts. His face filled with a faraway look, then he took off at full speed down the dirt road.

The white light was starting to diminish. Piotr picked up his speed. His feet pounded so hard on the dirt that the ground shook. The white light started to close up, and Piotr jumped for it.

But he missed.

He grabbed for the air where the light should have been, but it was just empty wind. Piotr fell to the ground in a heap. He looked up and looked around for any sign of Illyana, but she was nowhere in sight.

He had just lost.

Okay, this is just an introduction. It was meant to be very short. The next chapter is much longer. In fact, just hit the button to go to the next chapter to see it!

This is just a little snippet of something that leads into another thing in this story, that will lead into another thing. I hoped you liked it and please read the next chappie!