Chapter 1: But I dont love you!

Disclaimer: Own nothing. Yep. Chi is me, and thats all.

Authors note: Apologies in advance for waiting 5 years to write this! Let the fun begin!

"I still think you should bleach your hair." I said darkly, glancing across the breakfast table at Pyro.

"Why?" He asked, helping himself to the large platter of scrambled eggs that sat in front of him.

The two of us were seated at a small table in the kitchen, where I had just finished making breakfast. Ever since we had returned to the secret base, we had been forced to divide the household chores among ourselves. Somehow, I had gotten cooking breakfast on my to-do list.

"You know how you just know things sometimes?" I asked, leaning forward while putting strawberry jelly on a piece of toast that I was holding in my left hand. "It's just one of those things. You are supposed to be blonde."

He kind of grunted, putting salt on his eggs.

We sat in silence as a realization dawned upon me.

"AUUG, WE'RE STARTING TO LOOK LIKE AN OLD MARRIED COUPLE!!" I shrieked as I threw my toast on my plate and scratched my hair in frustration. "I mean, if you were cute, maybe, but I'm SO totally not interested in you!!"

He kind of watched me as a disgusted look crept across his face.

"That's so gross!" He exclaimed, looking more and more repulsed by the second.

"You're telling me!" I chimed, and thus our mutual disgust with each other was sealed.

A few more moments passed in silence as Pyro munched on his eggs, and I began chewing on the edge of my toast.

"Magneto-sama needs more minions." I concluded thoughtfully. Pyro kind of grunted again, but seemed to more or less ignore my comment.

As a demonstration of how much I was not interested in Pyro, I snuck into his room that night and bleached his hair. My reasoning was that surely, if I was interested in him, I would have done something other than bleaching his hair.

Somehow, when he woke up, he was unhappy, and set out across the base looking for me.

I, however, was hiding in my room, checking my e-mail on the computer I finally talked Magneto-sama in to getting for me. And I had one from Chu. It looked something like this:

"From:

Subject: Toad

Chi,

You remember how Toad got zapped off the statue of Liberty? Well, he's not dead. He came up the sink this morning. So I thought I'd make a deal: my manga for your servant.

Chu"

After a long moment of thought, I remembered how I "barrowed" my sister Chu's manga when I ran away from Xavier's place. Then I remembered about how she was pretty mad. I also remembered that I liked having a servant like Toad, and decided it was a good deal. After all, I could probably get Magneto-sama to let me buy my own manga. It had worked in the past, you know.

"Magneto-sama, didja see Pyro's hair? I bleached it last night!" I declared as I marched in to what I had dubbed "Magneto-sama's office". (Of course, I had knocked first.)

"Is that so." He commented, not even looking up from the folder he was looking through.

"Yep! And he's going to take me on a date!" I continued.

Magneto didn't even look up at me.

"Actually, that's not true since the only thing we share is loyalty to you, but he's going with me, since I can't carry all the manga by myself. I'll bring Toad back when we return." I said with a big smile, and dashed out of the room.

"Toad?" Magneto looked up to the doorway. But I was already gone.

"I don't see why you needed me to come." Pyro grumbled as we walked up in to an elevator. "I hate what you did to my hair. And why do we have to go on to the TOP of a building anyways?!"

"Because that's the meeting place Chu set. That's just the way it is." I sighed happily. After the elevator ride, we still had to climb three flights of stairs before we got to the top of the building.

When we got there, Chu was waiting for us. The setting was somehow dramatic as the late evening sky behind us was filled with clouds that seemed to be coming closer and closer. Chu stood on the other side of the rooftop, across from the door. She had clearly been waiting for us.

"Show us the manga." She said in a cool voice.

"Show us the Toad first." I replied.

"Dil." Chu snapped her fingers together, and Dil stepped out from the shadows, dragging an unconscious Toad.

"I, Valintenez Alkalinella Xifas Sicidabohertz Gumbigobilla Blue Stradivari Talentrent Pierre Andre Charton-Haymoss Ivanovincci Baldeus George Doitzel Kaiser III, have here your currently unconscious Toad!" He said with a grin. I smiled a little bit.

"And where is that anime reference from?" I asked, shaking my head.

"53cr3t!" He replied happily.

"Wow, you can even speak in l33t." I muttered. "Say, why is Toad unconscious?"

Chu choked, and Dil looked away.

"Well, um, you see..." Chu started.

"I TOLD her not to roll him down three flights of stairs before we brought him here, but she just didn't listen!" Dil exclaimed. "Of course, that was after she drugged his soup..."

"Be quiet, DIL!" Chu snapped.

That was the point at which I noticed that the weather was starting to take a nasty turn. It was growing dark with rain clouds, and I could feel lighting in the air.

"Uhm, Chu, we had better hurry this up. The weather is getting ugly." I said quickly.

"Just like you." Pyro added scornfully.

"HEY!" Chu and I both exclaimed, glaring at him.

"I can kill him now, right?!" Chu demanded.

"'Want to' and 'can' are different." I said, waving my index finger at her.

"But he's my enemy now!" Chu whined.

"But did Xavier go and bump off Magneto-sama after the Statue of Liberty incident when he was unconscious and ANYONE could have tripped and stabbed a knife through his throat?" I asked.

"Xavier couldn't do that!!" Chu declared, getting more and more whiney sounding.

"You'd be surprised what you can do when your wheelchair hits a bump..." I said as though suggesting something. Dil and Pyro were looking at us as though we had gone completely crackers, and Toad was still unconscious, thus quiet.

"But that's not the point!" She cried as rain began to fall and lighting flashed in the sky.

"Can we get this over with already?!" Pyro yelled, flicking his lighter about agitatedly. Toad made a noise that sounded rather like a moan, and I decided it should get done with.

"My poor minion, I'll rescue you from the clutches of that evil woman!" I declared, waving a suitcase of manga around dramatically.

Pyro, tired of the drama, set the suitcase on fire. With a shriek, I threw the burning suitcase away from me, over the edge of the building.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Chu shrieked, diving after it while pushing Dil away. Dil tripped into Toad and bonked his head, somehow winding up turning into Toad, unconscious on top of him.

Pyro threw the other suitcase of manga over the edge after Chu, which was met with a "bonk" sound. During this time, I had dashed over to Toad and Dil, who were not only looking alike, but unconscious.

"TOAD! TOAD! CAN YOU HEAR ME?!" I yelled dramatically, grabbing one of the unconscious figures and shaking it forcefully.

"Pyrrrrrooooooooooooooo..." Chu's angry voice came form over the edge of the building. We turned and saw Chu rising on a column of water, which she had obviously summoned to keep herself from splattering on the street below. "You scorched my manga!!"

At that, an angry tidal wave swept up, knocking all four of us off the building. We were swept away into the night.

Somehow, though, we managed to get back to Magneto's base. However, I couldn't tell Dil from Toad, since they were both still unconscious.

So I took both of them.

Pyro had abandoned me the moment we entered the base, leaving me to transport the two of them on my own. I walked down the hall, dragging one of them in either hand, singing to myself.

"I'm going slightly mad... I'm going slightly mad... It's finally happened, happened... It's finally happened..."

I continued happily down the hall. As I passed through a doorway, I heard a "bonk" sound.

"Owwwwwwww..." The Toad I was dragging with my right hand groaned. I glanced down to see that I had bonked his head into the wall.

"Sorry, dude." I said, realizing that I had no idea if it was Toad or Dil. I pulled them down the hallway, taking them to a room down the hall from my own. It was merely an empty room with no furnishings.

I drug one Toad to one side of the room and put the other on the other side.

"When you wake up, my room is just down the hall. You can come get me if you're confused." I stated to the two unconscious bodies, and left the room, closing the door behind me.

Authors note: This is a re-posting of chapter 1, because the formatting was messed up on the original upload.