Sorry to disappoint you, but I don't own any X-Men Evolution characters. Well here we go again! This will be a multi chapter fic. How many depends on what they do in the episodes. So this fic starts just when the X-Men leave Mystique behind!

Brotherhood on the Run

Chapter 1: Breaking Up Isn't That Hard To Do

"I can't believe you just left her like that!" Lance snarled at Scott as the chopper cleared the mountains.

"It's her own fault," Scott said. "If she'd told me where she hid the professor I'd have let her out!"

"The professor is missing?" Hank asked.

"Yeah," Scott said. "She kidnapped him! He's missing! She's been impersonating him for I don't know how long!"

Logan growled and grabbed Lance by the uniform. "HOW LONG? WHERE IS HE?" He snarled.

"I don't know!" Lance snapped, trying to break free. "I was just as shocked as you were! You think she actually tells us anything? She's the one who ran the show! We just followed her orders."

"He's telling the truth," Jean looked disappointed. "He doesn't know anything."

"That's right!" Lance snapped. "So back off!"

Logan let him go. "Yeah, I should have known Mystique would never let her lap dogs in on anything."

"Look who's talking!" Lance snapped. "Like you didn't jump every time the Professor snapped his fingers!"

"Why you little punk!" Logan popped his claws.

"That's enough!" Hank snapped. "Pointing fingers and blaming each other isn't going to solve anything!"

"I think we've already solved a big part of it leaving that witch behind!" Rogue spat.

"You're as bad as she is!" Lance snarled. "No worse! I don't think even Mystique would have allowed a group of humans to experiment on all of you!"

"No she simply wanted to blow us all up like she did with the mansion!" Scott shouted.

"What?" Rogue snapped.

"What did you say?" Evan gasped.

"Start talking," Logan glared at Scott. "You gotta bring the rest of us up to speed. What happened? From the beginning."

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"Ah sunrise!" Todd sighed as he looked over the lookout point. "Another glorious day to be alive! Isn't it romantic?"

"Romantic? Toad we are being hunted and Magneto got away! How can you think of romance at a time like this?" Wanda snapped.

"Why not? Worked for Bonnie and Clyde! Now that is romance!"

"I'm just curious," Wanda looked at him. "Are you totally insane?"

"Come on my Scarlet Sweetheart," Todd grinned at her. "You have to admit, it's a heck of a view! Gives one ideas doesn't it?" He raised his eyebrows.

"Yeah, I could throw you off the cliff and no one would find your body for days," Wanda snapped as she paced back and forth. "Where are they? They should have been back by now!"

"Wait no more Wanda!" Todd pointed to an incoming chopper. "Here they are! Right on time!"

"Finally," Wanda sighed. She didn't want to admit it, but she was glad they were all safe. After all she had experienced, she wouldn't wish any mutant to be locked up and caged. Well maybe one or two exceptions.

"Freddy!" Todd hopped over and gave him a high five. "Good to see ya man! So tell me, how was the prison food?"

"Wasn't there long enough to find out," Fred grinned, giving Todd a hug. "Man I never thought I'd be glad to see your smelly face again!"

"Hey I'm mister Loveable!" Todd laughed.

"Did you find anything?" Storm asked.

"Magneto is alive," Wanda said in a cold tone. "Thanks to my dear brother Pietro."

"Hey yo, where's the boss lady?" Todd looked around.

"Ask him!" Fred pointed angrily to Scott. "The lousy traitor!"

"What?" Todd scratched his head.

"Summers left her behind," Lance told them. "On purpose! The army has her."

"You…lousy….backstabbing…" Todd growled and made fists out of his hands. "Even I never thought you could stoop that low!"

"Traitor!" Wanda hissed, powering up. Her fury was growing by the second. Mystique was not her favorite person, but she did owe her something for helping her escape. It wasn't right that she was locked up as while the others roamed free.

"Wanda that's enough!" Jean shouted. "The last thing we need right now is a fight to draw attention to ourselves! In case you haven't forgotten we're still being hunted! Do you want to risk getting captured again?"

Wanda powered down, but the cold glare was still in her eyes. "I hate to admit it cutie pie," Todd grumbled. "But she's right."

"Look we have to work together now," Storm said. "We have more important matters to attend to."

"Easy for you to say now you're in charge again!" Lance snapped.

"Why should we do what they say?" Fred asked. "They took out Mystique!"

"And she stole the Professor!" Kitty fumed.

"She tried to kill us all!" Scott screamed.

"Yeah and now she's in the hands of the army!" Lance shouted back. "How long do you think it's gonna be before she sings like a canary and tells them everything about us? And something tells me it's not gonna be a pretty picture of us, that's for sure!"

"She wouldn't," Kitty blinked.

"Wanna bet?" Lance asked her.

"She would," Todd sighed.

"I was trying to get her to tell us where the Professor went!" Scott snarled.

"All you had to do was get Roguey here to grab her!" Todd pointed out. "She would have gotten the info one two three!"

Scott fumed in silence. "Yeah Summers," Fred taunted. "Even I could have figured that out!"

"Face it Summers you didn't care about Xavier!" Lance snarled. "You wanted revenge, pure and simple. Just another way to keep us down! You guys wanted all the power for yourselves! That's the real reason you left her behind!"

"You're crazy," Scott said. "You would have killed those soldiers back there without a second thought, wouldn't you?"

"They were trying to kill us!" Lance snarled. "Or worse! Anybody who gets in our way deserves what they get! Maybe I would have killed them, but it was only in self-defense! What you did to Mystique was on purpose. You might as well have put a gun to her head and pulled the trigger yourself. She could have helped us all! She had a plan! She must have had a plan!"

"What part of the plan made it necessary to destroy our home! And what reason could she possibly have to kill the New Mutants?" Kitty asked, her eyes filled with tears. "Now they're missing too! We can't find them! For all we know they could be…" She glared at Lance and walked away, turning her back on him.

"Look I agree she never should have tried to kill the kids," Lance said. "She should have waited until all of them were gone before she blew the mansion up!"

"You actually enjoy the fact our home was destroyed," Jean said in a shocked voice.

"Why shouldn't I?" Lance whirled on her. "Its what you deserve. You're the ones who destroyed Asteroid M in the first place. If you ask me, you what's coming to you! You ruined everything! This is all your fault!"

"Get out," Logan growled, popping his claws.

"Fine with me!" Lance snarled. "We don't need you! Go find your stupid professor, for all the good it will do you! We are out of here!"

"Yeah who needs these losers anyway?" Todd snapped.

"Mark this well X-Men," Wanda told them. "We will not forget what you did. Nor will we forgive."

The Brotherhood walked away, leaving the X-Men behind. They walked for quite a while in silence.

"Well," Lance broke the silence. "We're on our own again."

"Now what do we do fearless leader?" Todd asked.

"Go home I guess," Lance sighed. "If we have a home to go back to."

Next chapter: Things go from bad to worse as the Brotherhood discovers how alone they really are!