What fresh hell had he now had to embrace? These were the inner words of none other than Todd Tolansky, aka Toad. The last thing he could remember was being woken up from a dull sleep at four in the morning by Mystique. Apparently Mesmaro had found some magic stick thingy that was supposed to increase a mutant's power by tenfold. He and the rest of the brotherhood were forced into their uniforms and rushed over to Professor X's mansion to join the xmen on their jet. He was told by Lance that Mystique and Prof X had made an agreement to work together this time to stop Mesmaro, Professor X because he wanted to save the world and Mystique because she refused to let such a powerful item fall in anyone's hands but hers. This was going to be an interesting event.
As he sat quietly, this gave him a chance to observe his fellow mutants. There was a slight tension between Jean and Scott. As he tried to figure out the cause, he noticed that Jean was sporting a slightly new hair style, a style that so closely resembled her old one it would be common for a guy to miss. Todd couldn't help but smirk, Scott simply couldn't win with that girl. Part of him wanted to walk over and talk to Jean and Scott, about what it didn't matter, he just wanted it be like it used to be. He gave himself a mental shake, if he gave into his temptation to rekindle the past everything he'd done so far would have been for nothing. He tried to distract himself by scoping out the other mutants. Sadly the others were less amusing. Bobby and Pietro were doing a good job of boosting the enthusiasm of the others, telling them how this was gonna be the greatest battle ever. Todd couldn't help but feel a slight twinge of grief. These children where far too young to know what a real battle was like.
As they came closer to their destination, some big ass facility out in the Nevada desert Todd couldn't help but wonder, why was all the big powerful items always hidden out in the desert? Despite the cliché life had now given him Todd went along with the adults' plan. Apparently they were to split up into four teams; Wolverine, Mystique, Shadowcat, Avalanche in one, Jean, Scott, Blob, Pietro and Gambit in the second, Storm, Beast, Iceman and himself in another and lastly Forge and Nightcrawler in their own. The plan was that teams one threw three would come in through the entrances in the south, east and ceiling while Forge and Nightcrawler would find the security panel and use the security in the facility to their advantage, to help locate and stop Mesmaro. Todd didn't know how they came up with this plan or where the schematics came from, and to be honest he really didn't give a flying rat's ass.
As Toad tried to mentally prepare himself into his forced role of "the fool", complete with the grand vocabulary of Yo, and falling into all the traps that he knew where there. With a heavy sigh, Todd tried to remember why he forced this living hell of working for the brotherhood on his life. It was then that the blackbird was full of nearly all its female passengers rejoicing with sounds of glee and awes. In an accomplished attempt to make amends with Jean, he had made Bobby make a solid block of ice. Scott had turned his visor on the on the lowest setting and carved the ice into a heart with the words "I'm sorry" carved into it. The simple fact that he had carved it instead of having Bobby create a perfect figure seemed to have left the biggest impression on Jean. Todd smirked, it was for them, it was all for them, the people he loved. But damn it, Scott and Jean had better make him a part of their wedding for everything he was doing for them, and that's just the start of the demands he had in place.
-So here is my first attempt at a fanfiction, all I ask for is that please no flames but I would love constructive criticism. Let me know if this story is still worth writing, thanks.-