Chapter 2

Hiddenville:

Phoebe storms home after school pictures because even though he wasn't there Max had still managed to prank her and ruin her school picture. First with chocolate sauce and then cheese sauce. After getting cleaned up, which her mom helps clean her hair out Phoebe storms into Max's Lair to find Max and Val hard at work on brewing Felix Felicis or liquid luck for class the next day, " Max, I will get even with you. "

" Use a damn cleaning charm and you're good to go, Phoebe. Max didn't even use powers to prank you. He used ingenuity, you just aren't devious enough to actually prank him. Oh, try to hack his computer and you will not like the consequences, I recently upped the security. " Val states, prepping the ingredients while Max does the actual brewing.

Phoebe shudders, Val generally trapped her computer with the most depraved and erotic stuff on the internet. Max was the only one whom could actually hack Val's computer and not get caught by that stuff. The potion would have to brew for three months as Max had improved upon it, he'd also made it less toxic. It was how he'd pulled off some of his riskier heists when Val couldn't come with him. Luna even helped out from time to time. Val and Luna had convinced him not to go for world domination in the usual way. Why not be sneaky about it? Takeover the economy or a resource that was essential. Hell, he could take the Magical World by storm through less than savory methods.

Max had to admit he hadn't thought about it like that. Every villain tried to take over the world and some hero inevitably stopped them. If he did it through sneaky and underhanded methods that were just barely legal then no one could bitch about it. That was why he valued Val and Luna so much, they didn't condemn him for wanting to be a villain, they accepted him as a person. His family all thought being a villain was a phase. It wasn't, sure he wouldn't truly hurt his family or allow them to be hurt, but he wouldn't do the same for those he didn't know or care about. Max was not selfless, he happened to be a highly selfish individual.

Val looks at Max and the fourteen year old smirks, if Phoebe wanted a prank war then they would deliver. Phoebe feels a shiver go down her spine, she didn't know about the fact that Max and Val were two of the troublemakers-in-chief at Salem. There was no way in hell she would be able to compete with them. Especially since Val had upgraded the security on Max's computer. Phoebe heads up to her room to plot on how to get even with her twin.

Max easily evades her attempts to prank him and with Val an Luna's help he gets her and her bed into Hiddenville High, leaving magical hidden cameras around for him to watch the carnage later. Max has Val up the security on his desktop computer even further. Max kept all of his magical tech on him at all times. While Max is enjoying learning about Magic and Mundane subjects at Salem Phoebe is horrified to find out what her twin had done. She assumes he did it alone while in truth he had help.

While sitting in History class both mundane and magical Max smirks, it was right about the time Phoebe should be waking up. Val was grinning as she'd been stuck on a camping trip with Phoebe when they were younger for supes class. After that they made sure to keep Val with Max, because Val had to literally be pulled off of Phoebe. Apparently Phoebe had seemed to think she knew what was best and scared off food they could have gotten. Max had ultimately separated the two and it was the only time in her memory that Phoebe had failed a class.

Hogwarts:

Professor McGonagall sighs as she thinks about the fact that little Valerian Potter was nowhere to be found. How could Albus have lost her like that? She'd warned him not to leave her with her horrible Muggle relatives. However, Albus seemed to think that he was infallible. Minerva was finally starting to realize that he wasn't and that maybe he should step down. The man had way too much power to be comfortable. Why had they allowed him to gain that much power? He was the Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot, Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards, Order of Merlin First Class, Grand Sorcerer. Now that she stepped back and really took a look…what she found disturbed her greatly.

The aged cat animagus sigh wearily, someone needed to bring all this to light, but how? How did one go about destroying Albus' power base?

Salem:

If Minerva had known that the key to doing so was three students gracing the halls of Salem Academy for Witches she would have asked them to do so. As it was they would only truly be motivated to remove him from power after getting Ron and Ginny foisted onto them. Being stuck with the Gryffindors for most of next school year, well, Fred and George Weasley would keep them from committing homicide. Beauxbatons would get to stay with Ravenclaw while Durmstrang got Slytherin. Max, Val, and Luna would prefer one of those two houses for next year as Luna had seen her friends would need her. Instead they would focus on destroying Draco Malfoy's power base by showing the studies that had been done on inbreeding. The English Pure Bloods were slowly but surely destroying themselves by marrying only Pure bloods.

The three friends were currently in their beginning wards class. America offered warding for classes and Max was also focusing on becoming a Healer, mostly so he would never have to deal with needles ever again. He was almost a fully accredited healer too, seeing as how for healing lessons he'd been issued a Time Turner. This had helped him immensely after the move to Hiddenville. He was also debating on whether or not he'd use it to go to Hiddenville High, but why bother when he could get his Mundane education at Salem as well. In the Mundane world it was Salem Academy for the Gifted. His parents had relented to him going to Salem, seeing as how he actually applied himself and it might keep him from bugging Phoebe too much.

When attending Salem Max brought home straight O+'s across the board, well, Defense was an O-, seeing as how Defense Against the Dark Arts was Val's best class. He had her beat in Potions, but only because she blew her potions up. They were going to request an empty classroom in order to see why she blew them up. Max and Luna would both be watching along with Melissa Simmons, one of the Teacher's Aides. Max, Luna, and Val were all taking Japanese and French as electives, they alternated days for those classes though they were going to add Bulgarian as well. That way they would be able to talk to the Beauxbatons and Durmstrang students.

Most of Hogwarts wouldn't even think to do something like that. If Max wanted to go for world domination then he needed to network, which meant he needed friends across the world. Making friends with well-connected students from the different magical schools would go a long way towards that goal. True world domination required cunning and deviousness plus an inordinate amount of patience. The devious trio were all paying close attention to their warding class. Traditionally in the TriWizard Tournament an item of great value or rather a person of great value was taken and the champion had to retrieve them. Max and Luna were both going to make damn sure that they couldn't be used against Val.

This meant learning as much about warding as they could and using it against the tournament organizers. Most witches and wizards never thought about using warding as a means of keeping unsavory things from happening to your person. If that meant either getting bling or better yet tats that kept them safe they'd do it. Max, Val, and Luna had no problems going into the less than savory alleys in order to get the tats and not have to deal with parental permission being needed. Val easily had enough money to pay for all of them and they also go books that weren't sold by approved shops.

Val had also commissioned goblin made daggers for herself, Max was getting silver knuckles that were charmed up the wazoo, while Luna had gauntlets and throwing knives charmed to always return to their pouch no matter what. Unlike most magicals they realized they needed weapons other than their wands. Max and Val were also supes and knew how to fight exceptionally well hand to hand. They had convinced Xenophilius to sign his daughter up for a martial arts class shortly after they met her. The three of them would sometimes have a three way spar and they were generally intense.

After warding class they head to Technomagic as all three wanted to be able to start a black market for tech that worked around magic for when they went to Hogwarts. Of course, their target group was the mundane born and the Half Bloods. They could care less about the bigoted pure bloods. Luna observes her two best friends, she'd known almost since they had that they were soul bonded. Max's family didn't know and she couldn't blame him for keeping quiet either. The fewer people that knew the better off they all were though if they did get too frisky at some point then they wouldn't be in trouble as being soul bonded was as good as being married in the magical world.

In the Mundane and Super worlds not so much. All of Salem knew that Max and Val were dating. None of the other Thunderman children so far had any magical potential other than Max. This meant that they had no way of knowing anything about what happened in the magical world unless Max told them. Max, Luna knew, liked the fact that he could do something that Phoebe couldn't. Max was always viewed as second best in his family and it had affected him. Max was just very good at hiding how much it hurt that his whole family always turned to Phoebe for solutions to their problems and not him.

Max had decided that he would be the best at being a villain. Luna and Val both helped him with this. The magical black market was a great place to sell things for thieves. It didn't matter in the states whether it was mundane, super, or magical in origin which was a great boon to Max. It meant that with the use of rented owls he could easily get his less than legal business dealt with before his family was even aware of what was going on. He had his own account at Gringotts that Val had helped him set up. The goblins didn't care how old he was, they just cared about the money he could make them.

Val turns her hair neon blue and her eyes become an electric yellow, her mother had paid for corrective eye surgery magical style. Her hair lengthens as well and Max was recruited to braid her hair while weaving spikes into it. Val was not one of those females that left her hair vulnerable to hair pulling. She knew how vicious cat fights were and also knew how to take steps to counter the weaknesses most girls left. Even Phoebe left her hair vulnerable because she had never gotten into a non-supe cat fight, it would come back to bite her in the ass one day soon.

Hiddenville:

Phoebe groans as she tries in vain to get around Val's defense system so she could pull the ultimate prank on Max. Pretending to be Dark Mayhem. Alas Phoebe just wasn't capable of getting past the defense system because she was too good. Max and Nora accepted their inner darkness and while Max cultivated his Nora only used hers to keep herself in balance. Phoebe didn't balance her light and dark, this is why Max was always one step ahead of her. Max was devious an cunning in comparison to Phoebe's academic smarts. Max had street smarts and was capable of blending in with just about any crowd while Phoebe couldn't. If there was anything that she was jealous of when it came to her twin it was the fact that he could so seamlessly blend in.

Max was just charismatic while she wasn't and that was what she so desperately wished she had, Max's charisma. Where he got it when their parents didn't have it she didn't know. Even Nora was more capable of blending in than she was. Phoebe just didn't understand why she had such a hard time striking up conversations with people. Max arrives home around six, rolling his shoulders, " Max, what kept you? " Barb asks.

" Trying to figure out why the hell Val keeps blowing up every potion she makes on her own. Those of us that watched what she did have submitted our memories to be viewed by several potions masters. " Max says.

" How bad was it? " Hank asks.

" I'm just glad she used self shielding cauldrons for this, otherwise the room we were using would be nothing more than rubble. " Max admits.

" There does seem to be an underlying reason, huh? " Barb says, she had to admit that those potions were great, especially Pepper Up Potions.

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Thundermans.