This is a sequel to that story "OPHIDIOPHOBIA" which I wrote a while back. This time around, the Brotherhood, after Avalanche has reclaimed leadership from Quicksilver, goes back to fully trying to pick on the X-Men in a different way, Avalanche helping out this time, along with the Scarlet Witch, despite those two previously going against the terror torture of Wolfsbane. And the way the Brotherhood does their dirty deed, this time in an attempt to make it look like they know how to attend Bayville High but the X-Men suck at it? Why, they'll infect some of the X-Men students with a nasty disease called the Mutant Flu, and make it look like health standards are below par with anyone but the Brotherhood, thus indicating they deserve to run Bayville High! Can their dirty, sick deed succeed? Let's find out in this two chapter story!
THINGS TO NOTE:
One other reason for making this story is that I already made one along these lines for Monster Rancher, so I decided, hell, why not make one along these lines for X-Men Evolution? The Monster Rancher one is called: MONSTER FLU", and this is part of where I got the idea for a Mutant Flu.
This was, like the Monster Rancher fic I wrote titled "MONSTER FLU", inspired by that cool episode of Extreme Dinosaurs "Saurian Sniffles". Episode 7 in the series, and my favorite one.
This sequel was made as a response to the request in the acclaiming review of The Odd One95, who showed me how much he wanted a sequel by praising this fic's predecessor and adding puppy-dog-eyes to his request for a sequel.
I own none of the characters. They all belong to X-Men Evolution.
X-Men Evo-Flu-Tion
Chapter 1-The Mutant Flu!
It had been six weeks after Wolfsbane's frightening ordeal with her fear of snakes, and by now, it was well into autumn. Avalanche had reclaimed leadership of the Brotherhood from that group's former leader, Quicksilver, and made Wanda, AKA Scarlet Witch, his sub-commander to further knock down Pietro in terms of command level. Anyhow, the school year had gone all too smoothly, but now, on this morning just forty-five minutes before school, in their boarding house, the Brotherhood was up to something against the X-Men once more, the help Avalanche and Wanda gave Wolfsbane six weeks ago notwithstanding.
"Okay, fellow Brotherhood members, here are the facts…" Avalanche said to the bunch in front of him. "Although six weeks ago I helped Wolfsbane with her fear torture prior to my getting back my status as Brotherhood leader…" He gave Quicksilver a mean glare along with Wanda, "…I am nevertheless just as eager to pull a rotten stunt on the X-Men as the rest of you. Especially since the one I plan to do will without a doubt make it so we're viewed as much more suited for Bayville High than they are, and if it works, well…" He smiled evilly and explained: "At best, they will be on double secret probation for the rest of their time at Bayville High. And at worst, they will all be expelled. Or at least, this will be the case with those of them who we're not actually going to attack with this plot."
"I'm, uh, havin' a hard time following you, Lance…" Blob admitted. "Then I'll be more blunt and specific." Avalanche responded. "I need you, Quicksilver, and you, Scarlet Witch, to get working on a special little something that I like to call 'The Mutant Flu'." "The Mutant Flu, boss?" asked Quicksilver. "Yes, Peitro. The Mutant Flu. Obviously, it's an illness, and the kind of flu which only affects mutants." Avalanche replied. "See, on the one hand, we need to make it a potent flu which can make the X-Men we target with it sick for months. On the other hand, we musn't make it potent enough to put their lives in danger, because we're trying to make the ones we mean to infect ill enough so it looks as if the X-Men suck at keeping their friends and fellow students healthy, not kill them or permanently damage them."
"So you're saying," Toad said, trying to understand, "that we should create this Mutant Flu of yours, spray certain X-Men with it, and make them sick for months on end, and in the process, make it look as if they suddenly took ill because of piss-poor health precautions on the part of everyone around them, and make sure no evidence points to us, of course, and thus see to it we are viewed as the best ones here, and the reputation of the X-Men goes to hell and things get a lot harder for them and easier for us!" "Precisely." Avalanche said. "Good perception there, Toad." "And the fact this Mutant Flu never existed before is the reason you need me to help my brother make it?" asked Scarlet Witch. "Yes, and the fact your brother's so fast is why we need him to help you make it. Any other questions?"
"Yeah." Blob said. "How the hell do we pull this stunt without anyone seeing us? I mean, it sounds cool and all, and I'd REALLY love to make those X-Dorks pay, making some of them sick as hell in the process, but suppose we're spotted? We'll get busted big time, and most likely expelled!" "Yeah, you know, fat boy's got a point!" Quicksilver agreed. "How do we deal with that, Lance?" asked Toad. "First, Wanda and Peitro make the flu. After that, I will explain how we see to it none of us get caught in the act." "Okay, but I hope you have a foolproof plan." said Wanda. "I know what I'm doing, Wanda. Mark my words. Now get to work." Lance said in an extremely firm tone of voice. So Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch went into the kitchen, and a few moments and many speedy moves and magic spells cast later, the Mutant Flu was made in the way Lance described he wanted it. The two came out with it, the Mutant Flu being contained in a glass tank so that none of the Brotherhood would catch it.
"It's done, Lance." Quicksilver said. "We've made your Mutant Flu. So, how are we going to make sure this works out as planned without us getting caught?" asked Scarlet Witch. "First." Avalanche replied, "we choose which X-Men to target. Remember, we only get some of them sick so others can be healthy enough to take the blame. This is a crucial part of the plan. So now, secondly, we find the perfect time and place to get the drop on those targets and see to it not a one of the non-targets is present. After we have them infected, we make sure to get the hell out of sight so no one can possibly connect us to the act. Once this is all done, we just act good and natural and wait for the fun to begin, up to and including the point where this school gets to be Brotherhood heaven and X-Men hell for some time, if not all time!" "I see." Wanda told him. "Well, I suppose that's as good a plan as any." "But who will be doing what, and how the hell do we know when to strike?" asked Quicksilver. "And for that matter," Toad added, "how do we pick WHO to make sick with this new Mutant Flu, Lance?"
"All right, easy part first." Lance spoke. "When it comes to who we get sick, first thing's first. Kitty is ABSOLUTELY OFF LIMITS. She and I are the closest things to friends that any members of the X-Men and Brotherhood can be, and I don't want her getting ill. Especially since she may, out of desperation once all the commotion against the X-Men starts, want to join up with us, and then we'll be together more than ever." "You and your infatuations." Quicksilver said in his mind. "Okay, who else is off limits?" asked Blob. "Jean Grey," Lance put in, "along with Beast, Professor X, Storm, Wolverine and Cyclops." Everyone opened their eyes wide at the last one. "I know, given my history with him, the last one is surprising, coming from me," admitted Lance, "but I'd rather he take the loser fall than the laid up fall. So we're not getting him sick." "All right, so who are we definitely getting sick?" asked Toad.
Avalanche then replied: "The ones we are unquestionably going to spill this new liquid Mutant Flu on consist of Nightcrawler, Rogue, Wolfsbane, Spyke, Boom-Boom, Sunspot and Magma. Everyone else, we do like this…" Everyone listened, and Lance explained: "If they are in the same place as the ones we mean to make ill, then we make them sick, too. If not, then the lot of them take the fall with the other ones who we won't be getting sick." "Gotcha." Toad said. "So we know one thing for certain." "But we still have to find out where only that bunch and any who aren't the off-limits one will be at which time." Wanda pointed out. "And that's where your powers come in." Lance replied. "You'll need to use them to find out exactly that." "I see." said Scarlet Witch.
"By the way, it's pretty damn ironic you're including Wolfsbane in the list of those we get sick, considering how willingly you helped her six weeks ago!" Blob told Avalanche. "And I'm doing it to show that, while I had that one time only moment of helping her, along with Wanda, I'm still a member of the Brotherhood and I can easily go back to being her foe, just like I'm the foe of all other X-Men!" Lance responded. "Oh, I see…that was all I needed to know…" an embarrassed Blob replied. Anyway, Wanda used her powers to find out what she needed to know, and once she was done, having envisioned where their targets would be seen all at once without any of their non-targets, she stated: "I've found out what the best time to strike would be." "And…?" asked Avalanche. "After school, all of the ones we've chosen are intending to go to the gym to hang out and have fun before returning to their rooms." Scarlet Witch replied. "In addition, no one else will be going to the gym at that time. So we strike then, or we don't strike at all." "Well done, Wanda!" Avalanche commended. "To think we'd get to try this out on the very day we made it!"
Obviously, he was referring to the flu with "this" and "it". Anyhow, Blob asked: "So, uh, how exactly do we do our thing after school today, then?" Avalanche answered: "First, Toad, I'll need you to get both that spray rifle of yours and that two gallon soft pack." "You…you mean my super soaker?" asked Toad. "No shit, swamp boy." Avalanche replied. "Then, I need you to give it to Quicksilver. That is, right after you, Blob, fill it up with as much Mutant Flu as it will contain, once you, Toad, have zipped open the pack. Once that is done, and once you, Blob, have zipped the pack shut, Quicksilver gets it, as mentioned before." "Sweet!" Quicksilver exclaimed. "So I'm gonna be the one to spray our targets! Much as I look forward to it, though, why did you choose me?" "Because you're the only one of us who can do it fast enough and get back to our boarding house so that we can destroy the evidence and be unseen, and further, the only one fast enough to move out of sight before the X-Men realize who sprayed them!" Avalanche said.
Then Lance continued: "See, after we've filled the pack, we need to get rid of the Mutant Flu left over, both so we don't catch it and so all evidence of our stunt can be removed. Further, I would advise that, after you're done, Quicksilver, you, Wanda, make certain to use your powers to clean whatever is left of the Mutant Flu from that pack, for exactly the same reasons. After that, Toad, hide your super soaker and the pack with it in a place where no one will ever be able to find it even if they looked here." "Got it." Toad, Quicksilver, Wanda and Blob said in unison. "Let's get started quickly, then," Toad pointed out, "'cause school's gonna begin in five minutes!" So they did everything as planned, and once all was done, Wanda used her powers to contain the super soaker and pack full of Mutant Flu in a special bubble which was invisible and made what was in it invisible, too, as well as to eliminate the glass tank and what remained of the Mutant Flu.
"Okay, it's done!" Avalanche said. "So we go to school now, and after school, you will go here with the rest of us, Quicksilver, and after your sister gets rid of that bubble, you grab the soaker and pack and make your way to the gym. Then you know how the rest of it goes!" All of everyone, Quicksilver included, nodded, and they went to school, hiding how much joy they'd get out of what was to come, and acting as they normally did so no one would get the least bit suspicious. When school was out, and Nightcrawler, Wolfsbane, Rogue, Magma, Sunspot, Spyke and Boom-Boom went to the gym as they planned to for hanging out, the Brotherhood went back to their boarding house. Quicksilver ran to grab the super soaker and the soft pack with the two gallons of Mutant Flu in it after Scarlet Witch got rid of the bubble with her powers. As he put it on, Avalanche said: "Now, Quicksilver, the amount we have in there is just enough to get each of our targets with one spray, and one spray is all it takes to get them ill, so make sure that you only give them one spray apiece! Any other way, and we'll get busted for sure." "Understood, boss!" Quicksilver said. "Though God knows I'd disobey you good if it didn't mean consequences like that…" Quicksilver thought in his mind.
Anyway, while the rest of the Brotherhood waited in their boarding house, Quicksilver got going to the gym, and as soon as he was there, he kept himself hidden. "Okay…" he said in his mind. "I can tell they're already in there, so I need to act fast as soon as I make sure no one else is even OUTSIDE of that gym…" He looked around and saw the coast was clear, so he got himself running to the nearest door of the gym. He then swiftly opened and closed it, and got to a place to hide. "As soon as they've all got their backs turned, I can strike…" he thought. "Sure, one of them might or might not see me, but they'll be too sick to tell anyone who did this, and in addition, even if it's found out by any X-Men, they'll be too busy trying to treat the illness while dealing with endless reprimands to reveal us. So it's just a matter of seconds…"
While the ones being targeted were hanging out in the gym, they were also chatting, with the exception of Rogue, who was far away from everyone else as usual. "Man, has this been one hell of a cool fall so far!" Spyke spoke. "I completely agree!" Nightcrawler replied. "I mean, we got some good grades, Wolfsbane here was helped with her fear from the least likely one to do it, and…" "Kurt, I'd appreciate you not bringing that up." Wolfsbane said. "That was one of the most petrifying days of my life, which followed one just like it." "Sorry…" Kurt said. "But in any event, it's not often things go this swell for us!" Sunspot stated. "Indeed, not." Magma put in. "It's very clear you two were right. There is a God." Boom-Boom said to Rhane and Kurt, knowing how religious the two were. "Har, har." Kurt and Rhane said to Boom-Boom snarkily.
"Say, Rogue! Don't you want to join with us?" asked Spyke. "Not right now, thanks." Rogue replied. "Ah really just need mah personal space for the time bein'. Maybe later…" But just then, they all had their backs turned to Quicksilver, so he knew it was now or never. Thus, he sped his way out from where he was and sprayed Sunspot, who was currently in human form, in the back. "Hey! What just soaked me?" Sunspot exclaimed as Quicksilver ran all around the gym to get out of sight and go for Magma next, but Sunspot then went, in front of his confused and surprised friends: "AHHHH-AAAHHH-AAAAAAHHHHHH-AAAAAH-CHOOOOO!" After sneezing, he fell onto his behind, and Quicksilver thought: "You're next, Magma!" as he ran up into the stands where she was sitting, also in human form, and sprayed her right in the face. "What the hell?" Magma shouted, but while Quicksilver ran down for where Rogue was, Magma was going: "AHHHH-AAAAAHHH-AAAAAAAHHHH-AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH-CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" and she fell over into the stands, crumpled in a heap.
While Quicksilver ran at Rogue, Wolfsbane saw him going for her and barked: "Rogue! Behind you!" "Whaaaaa?" Rogue asked, clearly confused, but no sooner did she turned around than did Quicksilver spray her with the Mutant Flu, and Rogue let out: "Who sprayed me, and what was…" while trying to see clearly again due to some of the liquid getting in her eyes, but she was then going: "AAAAAAAH-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH-AAAAAAAAAAHHHH-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH-AAAAAAAAAAAAAH-CHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" She fell hard onto her bottom after sneezing, and Wolfsbane, while Quicksilver stood still, was going: "YOU! FIRST YOU TERRORIZE ME WITH SNAKES, AND NOW THIS! I'M NOW GOING TO EAT YOU!" She turned into her full wolf form, but as she ran for him, Quicksilver spun around and smiled: "I don't think so, puppy princess! Especially since you're next!"
He proceeded to spray Wolfsbane with Mutant Flu, and after it found its mark, Rhane tried to shake it from her face, going: "What in the name of God…AAAAAAAAHHHHHH-AAAAAAAAAAHHHH-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH-AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH--CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" She flew backwards into a wall after this powerful sneeze, and Quicksilver then got running once more. "Okay, four down, three to go!" he thought to himself. He decided he'd do Boom-Boom next, with his second to last spray target being Spyke, and then Nightcrawler would follow. So he ran up to where Boom-Boom was, and as Boom-Boom was going: "Who could possibly be doing this, and why?" she turned to see him just long enough so that he sprayed her in the face, and took off for Spyke. Boom-Boom let out: "What did I just get…oh, no…AAAAAAAAAH-AAAAAAAHH-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH-CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" She fell to her knees after sneezing.
As Quicksilver rounded to get to Spyke, both Spyke and Nightcrawler turned around. At that instant, Quicksilver thought: "My, looks like I get to nail two birds with one stone here!" As soon as both his targets let out in unison: "PEITRO!" Quicksilver sprayed them both at once and said: "That's my name! Don't wear it out! Thanks for saving me the trouble of having to do you separately!" He had done his job, and quickly got going, but as Nightcrawler and Spyke both let out: "AAAAAAH-AAAAAAAAAAHH-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH--AAAAAAAAAAAAHHH-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH-CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" at once, who'd show up outside of the gym, meaning to just pay a quick visit to it for some reason, but Samuel Guthrie AKA Cannonball! While Kurt and Evan fell down, Quicksilver turned to see Sam and exclaimed: "Huh? Guthrie?" "Maximoff?" went Cannonball. "What's goin' on here?" "Wouldn't you like to know, and you're about to!" Quicksilver replied.
As it turned out, there was just enough Mutant Flu left in his soft pack for one last victim. While thinking: "Damn good thing I still have a little of this left!" he ran up to where Cannonball was and sprayed him, making it so Cannonball fell down and went: "What in God's name did you just…AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH---AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH-AAAAAAAAAAAH-CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" "Okay, I'm all out with the exception of what needs to be eliminated by Wanda when I get back!" Quicksilver thought. "Mission more or less accomplished, so time to make myself scarce!" With that, he ran off and went directly for the boarding house, with the eight ill, coughing and sneezing X-Men students writhing on the very hard ground of this gym.
Soon enough, though, due to his senses having picked up a problem of some kind when he was going by for an outdoor stroll, Wolverine quickly saw what was going on and signaled the X-Mansion, including Professor X. So Jean Grey, Cyclops, Beast and Storm got sent by Professor X to meet with Wolverine, and once they went into the gym, Jean asked: "Uh, guys? What happened here? Why do you seem so sick?" Rogue wheezed: "We got…sprayed…" She sneezed and went on: "…by someone…couldn't see who…think it was Quicksilver, from the sound…of things…and we're coughin' an' sneezin' like crazy all o' a sudden…" "We think we are…very ill…" Sunspot choked out before sneezing once more. "It's like we have…the flu in some manner…ACCCCCHHHOOOO!" Magma squeezed out. "My God! We've got to get you back to the mansion and put you to bed this instant!" Cyclops exclaimed in shock.
"That we do, and I will get us there!" Storm stated. She used her weather powers to make a warm but strong wind, both to give warmth to the sick students and to bring them to the X-Mansion. As soon as they got there, Jean used her telekenesis to open the doors and Wolverine said: "If it is Quicksilver who done this, the Brotherhood is clearly up ta somethin'. An' it ain't good, I can tell ya that." "Wouldn't be surprised if it was, really. It's been some time since they pulled anything on us, with the exception of the snake attacking Wolfsbane bullshit." Cyclops commented. "Our main priority right now, however, is to see to it these eight are taken good care of!" Jean reminded. "And they will be." Professor X said as he showed up and used his powers of telekenesis to make the sick mutant teenagers be brought up to bed, doors opening, covers coming off and going back on and everything. Once they were in bed, and once the ones who got them back to the mansion entered, he used his telekenesis to close the doors.
"Smooth use of your powers, Chuck," Wolverine said, "but why did you do it like that? We had it under control." Professor X replied: "Yes, but my telepathy came to see this is a brand new disease called the Mutant Flu. It affects only mutants, and although it is not fatal, it takes months to get over. The only reason you have not caught it is because Storm's wind prevented any physical contact from our poor, unfortunate students. It is very, very contagious indeed. And my telepathy also showed me it was, in fact, Quicksilver who did this. He and the Brotherhood made this flu, and deliberately infected the ones I just put to bed with it, in an attempt to make it seem as if our standards of helping children in this school were ineffective, so things would shift in the favor of the Brotherhood."
"WHAT?" everyone else present exclaimed. Wolverine popped his claws and growled: "Why, those no good, lowdown little lowlife pieces of scum…wait'll I get my claws on them…" "That's only if I don't blast them to kingdom come first…" Cyclops snarled. "Calm down, boys. However disastrous things may turn out for us, and however despicable a thing to do this was, right now our main priority is to care for the ones who are now ill." Jean reminded. "So we must do it, any which way we can." Storm spoke. "Even as I find it reprehensible, even for ones such as the Brotherhood, as much as anyone else does." "And here is how it will be done." Professor X stated. "I will let the other students know what has just happened, along with Wolverine. The rest of you shall treat the ill ones, though carefully, since I do not want you catching the mutant flu yourselves. After word has been spread, I will meet up with the rest of you, and we will deal with what criticism or questioning may or may not be coming our way."
So everyone got to work, and as for Rogue, Wolfsbane, Nightcrawler, Spyke, Magma, Boom-Boom, Cannonball and Sunspot? They had quite a bit of hardship ahead of them thanks to how this was a whole new flu, or whole new illness, for that matter, and it was really getting to them badly. Back in the boarding house, Quicksilver showed up, and then Avalanche said to him immediately: "Hello, Pietro. Is it done?" "You bet!" Quicksilver smiled. "Mission completed! As a bonus, Cannonball showed up just as I'd finished with all of them, so I sprayed him, too! Now it's more in our favor than ever!" "Awesome!" Toad smiled. "Hell yeah!" Blob shouted. "So it was a success, was it?" asked Scarlet Witch. "Good to know, though I now need to rid that gun and pack of the evidence we were behind this." She used her powers to get rid of what little was left of the mutant flu. "There." she said.
"Nice job, sis!" Quicksilver said. "And the Mutant Flu may be gone for good now, but we made it count and won't need it again, so it doesn't matter!" Avalanche said. "Especially since we now have eliminated our chances of catching it ourselves!" Toad pointed out. "Well put, Toad!" Blob spoke. "Anyone wanna celebrate with pizza and soda?" "Everything's food to you, isn't it, blubber belly?" asked Quicksilver. He also thought in his mind: "Of course, I did get spotted once or twice, but I doubt it'll make any difference, even if Professor X finds out, considering all the X-Men have to deal with and will have to deal with, so I'll just keep it a secret. No one needs to know, and it'll work out fine just the same." The Brotherhood rejoiced and looked forward to watching the news later today when, supposedly, they'd learn things were to be far more in their favor from now on.
TO BE CONTINUED…
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