Authors note. This story is slightly au in the origins of one character being different from what was established in xmen evo and that it borrows characters from another universe… this is actually anti Xavier but more anti Jean. I loved the marvel comics and fox kids Jean but evo Jean needs to be dragged out back and shot.
Also there are some slight changes to the Brotherhood set up as it annoyed me that the hood were left in a dump and had to face off against the xmen with their jets and dangeroom…
Begins after strategy x.
Shadowcrew Evolution
By Deathsheadx
Part 4: Reunion
A Suzuki Hayabusa raced down the street it was followed by an Aprilia and a Dodge Ram with three more bikes in the back. The Suzuki stopped and the rider got off he removed his helmet and looked at the sign before him "so this is Bayville…" he muttered
The rider of the Aprilia removed his helmet and grinned, "that's where our girl is!"
"You mean my girl"
"That too!" smiled the other boy
"Hey guys let's go I want to crash in our new pad! Beating up all those bikers on an empty stomach has me wiped! I mean these cool bikes we acquired wont feed me!"
"Mickey you're a weakling!" laughed Lance "okay lets go." they drove down the street to the address Mystique had given them
Toad was grumbling, as he landed on his butt "No fair Sarah! He groaned
"Its not my fault Todd you use your legs to much so I've got you figured out"
Suddenly two bikes raced pass and parked by the boarding house
"What the!" said Sarah
The bikers removed their helmets one was an African American youth his hair in cornrows the other was a tall boy with a bit of a mullet…
"Okay who are you and what do you want?" Snapped Sarah
"The names Alvers, Lance Alvers Mystique made me an offer."
"So you're the new leader of the Brotherhood, I'm Sarah or Lament if you want to go by codenames."
"Call me Shooter," said Shane "and the dude in the pickup is forearm Avalanche is Alvers's handle!"
"Forearm?" said Todd
Mickey got out of the truck and made his extra arms appear
"Whoa! That's cool!"
"I think so too, so what's your name?" said Mickey
"Todd Tolansky but everyone calls me Toad"
"Toad hmmm okay...say Toad, you wanna show me around?"
"Sure!" The two of them walked off
Lance smiled "so Sarah who's part of this…Brotherhood?"
"There's me, Toad, Rogue and Freddy"
"Anything I should know about?"
"Well Rogue is persona non grata with Freddy."
"Why?"
"She took the x-geeks side in a fight when they attacked him first…"
"The xgeeks?"
"Xmen, Xavier's little foot soldiers…"
Lance tensed and the ground trembled slightly "where's this Rogue now?"
"You don't want to mess with her she's Mystique favourite—" said Sarah
"I don't care you cant run a gang with beef between members its not healthy! Oh and find Freddy too!"
Sarah nodded Mystique was right this guy was the take charge type she rushed off and five minutes later Lance stood in the lounge with everyone gathered together…
"So let me get this straight you assumed that he was the troublemaker?"
Rogue set her jaw "ah don't have ta answer to you."
"You don't but you're gonna listen Rogue. From what Sarah and Todd tell me this Jean is a prep and I know preps, flirty pieces of work who befriends people not cause they want to but because of social standing the way I hear it Freddy here got a little aggressive but not really violent till Jean showed her true colors, he was hurt he at least thought Jean was a friend but she got all nasty to him…so quickly wouldn't you have reacted badly?"
Rogue bowed her head not only did she know that she would of lashed out if some one had done that to her but from the moment she had knocked Freddy out she had known the truth and had been feeling really guilty she was just too stubborn to apologise…
"Ah'm sorry." she said softly
"You should be." Freddy snickered
"You're no saint either Dukes. Sure this Wolverine dude attacked first but you do have a temper which rubs people the wrong way…and smashing them in with that machinery was a bit excessive… you gotta reign the temper in think smart! If there's one thing my girl made me realise is, if you can control your temper and use your brains you can outsmart people without exerting yourself…"
"Your girl?" Asked Rogue
"Yeah my girl…"
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Kitty Pryde sulked in the back of the SUV
Things had been getting from bad to worse Jean had been making her life hell it was like she was her jailer keeping watch over everything Kitty did reporting back to baldy which meant she was punished for misbehaving almost everyday. Jean was the queen bee of the institute and delighted in rubbing Kitty's face In it her latest play of dominance was Kitty's clothing Jean had complained to Xavier about Kitty's clothes and Xavier had agreed he had made Jean by a whole new wardrobe of unflattering clothes designed to make Kitty look like a junior version of Jean and she hated it but she was stuck with it… her only friend was Jono he was a Brit and had that anti establishment vibe going on as the SUV drove towards Bayville high it was buzzed by a trio of bikes which of course scared Jean much to her amusement soon she arrived in school and got out of the SUV
Her first class was maths she frowned as she looked over the problems she had been way ahead of this at Northbrook and she could finish these problems in less than five minutes… but why should she exert herself so she went through the problems and sorted out what she was going to do in computing class later…
After the lesson she made her way to history, which she had with Jean, Scott and that girl Rogue. She watched as Scott doted on Jean while she flirted with Duncan. It was sickening the guy fancied Jean rotten and she knew it… but then Scott was such a judgemental stick in the mud he deserved to be miserable he had forced her to do a danger room run yesterday. She looked at that Rogue girl and realised she was staring at her intensely only it didn't unsettle her…the stare was one of wonderment Kitty shrugged and got to work…
Kitty smiled as she looked at her partners in crime Webber and Sarah vale between the 3 of them they were the smartest kids in the class and being so smart they were easily bored so Kitty came up with games for them to play. Today's game was to hack a military production plant and get a military vehicle produced and housed at Bayville airfield while leaving no trace
After 24 minutes Sarah was the first to gain full access to the production plant computers…
She smiled and poked her tongue out at Webber who looked miffed Kitty smiled they were geeks but they were her geeks the teacher passed by and the trio quickly changed to the computer program they were supposed to be doing when he left Kitty and Webber finally cracked the security from their ends Kitty quickly made her way to the inventory and looked through the names and found a classified production list with heavy security she cracked it open and nearly gasped aloud at was in the list there were machines she had never seen before she forwarded the access codes to Webber and Sarah who were also shocked they started to grin widely and got to work
After the class Kitty Webber and Sarah talked animatedly about what was in the file there were things like hover tanks, flying cars and stealth jets… what had shocked Kitty was there were the plans for the fabled f19's the tester corporation were partially right in its design they were off in its scale the f19 was designed to secretly carry a full military unit and vehicles behind enemy lines and now she had one…. Of course she had to be careful she didn't want Xavier knowing about it…
As she made her way to the lunch hall She heard Jean talking to storm's nephew Evan and how he was fitting into the school suddenly there was a commotion she went to see what it was she entered the cafeteria to see Duncan Matthews on the floor and a boy standing over him all she could see was the back of his head suddenly Kitty felt strange she was sure she knew that boy then the boy turned and Kitty gasped it was Lance.
"LANCCCCCCEEE!" She screamed rushing forward and hugging him crushing her lips to his
"Hello Kitten did you miss me?" said Lance with a smile
"Lance, how did you get here? What are you doing here?"
"The crew missed you Kitty, and we decided to come find you."
"The crew? They're here?"
Lance smiled and pointed to the side sitting on a table was Rogue, Toad, Lament, the Blob, Shane and Mickey. Mickey looked more buffed up but he was still recognisable "hey Mickey! Looking good!" yelled Kitty
"Feeling good Kitty!" he yelled back
"Hey Kitten why don't you come sit with us?"
"Of course! Where else would I sit?" As they walked to the table Scott and Jean stepped in the way
"Just who are you and what are you doing with Kitty?" Said Scott putting on his tough guy act
"None of you're damn business now out of my way!" snapped Lance with a slight hint of malice
"Kitty I don't think—" began Jean
"That's right, don't!" Said Kitty pushing pass the duo and sitting down with Lance and the others…
"The professor isn't going to be happy about this" Scott murmured. As he watched Kitty walk away
"You know I never thought I'd see you dressed like this anymore," said Shane with a smile.
"Its not by choice!" said Kitty with a huff
"Let me guess," said Lance "Xavier?"
"Actually it was Jean she's the one he put in charge of what clothes I wear…" Kitty noticed the expressions of disgust on Freddy and Rogues faces at the mention of Jeans name…
"So Lance why, um… when did you hook up with well the Brotherhood?" asked Kitty
"Why Mystique named it the Brotherhood ah'll never know!" Muttered Rogue "I mean there were two boys and two girls!"
"She recruited us," said Lance ignoring Rogues mutterings "at first we weren't interested but then she mentioned Xavier. We knew that was where you had been sent so we signed up."
"Cool!" said Kitty "so what was with you and Duncan?"
"He was picking on the little guy," Lance said cocking a thumb at Toad "I stepped in and told him things were going to change around here…"
"That's right the Shadowcrew is back together! All is right in the world!"
"Well it's the Brotherhood now…" muttered Rogue
"About that." said Lance "I'm changing the teams name to the Shadowcrew its gender neutral and it's just that much cooler than 'the Brotherhood'"
"Mystique wont be pleased…"
"Who cares?" snorted Shane "Lance is running this show now…
Say Kitty how's things in the institute?"
"Urgh don't get me started they gave me a codename!"
"What was it?"
"Don't laugh Lance…"
"Why?"
"They called me Sprite!"
"Bwah—" Lance managed to stifle the urge to laugh but the others had no such restraint
"They named you after a soft drink!" Laughed Freddy
"Don't worry Kitty-cat we'll come up with a better name!" said Shane
"How about Kitten?" Asked Toad
"No way that's me and Lances… well you know…"
Rogues eyes widened "no way! You didn't!"
Lance started to grin
"You horn dog!" said Toad "teach me master Jedi! I must know the ways of the pimp force!"
"Careful my young Padawan the ways of the force are difficult you must be careful not to fall to the X-geek side of the force…" said Lance in a near perfect mimicry of Ewan Magregor's Obi-Wan Kenobi
The group laughed
"So seriously, I do like the cat motif what about Catwoman?" Said Sarah walks unseen
The others just looked at her
"How about Darkcat?" said Freddy
"Its kinda cool but it feels slightly off I got it!" said Kitty "Shadowcat!"
"You know… that works." said Lance with a grin…
"Say has Lance told you about the cool bikes we got?" said Mickey
"Bikes? Would one of them happen to be a Suzuki?"
"Yep that's mines," replied Lance
"It was you who buzzed Jeans SUV this morning! How did you get them?"
"Our ride broke down and we ran into a group of poncy super bikers they got lippy we took offence and put them in their place then we took their bikes "
"Won't they come after you?"
"How? They don't know who we are or where we we're going besides what grown men wants to admit to being owned by a bunch of teens?"
"Did you get me a bike?"
"Sure I did Kitten!" said Lance with a smile "we got you a Ducati 1000 ds"
"A Ducatti? Those things cost a bomb!" gasped Kitty she grabbed Lance and smothered him with kisses
Lance smirked and turned to Todd "I hope you are taking notes young padawan?"
"Yes my master!" said Todd with a grin
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Kitty arrived at the institute and was yanked into the kitchen by Jean…
"What the hell? Get your hands off me bitch!" Snapped Kitty
"Now listen here Kitty!" said Jean "you're to stay away from that boy got that?"
"Piss off Jean you cant tell me who I can and can't see…"
/Jean, Kitty please come to my study/ came Xavier's psionic call
"NOW look what you've done!" whined Kitty they walked to Xavier's study
"Girls why were you arguing" said Xavier softly
"Professor Kitty was hanging around an unsavoury looking boy I have never seen before she was kissing him and doing everything but actual sexual intercourse in the cafeteria!"
"Is this so Kitty?"
"If it is it's none of her damn business!"
"Kitty, Jean was only looking out for your best interests…"
"Professor this boy was hanging with Mystiques gang and I've never seen him before his name was Lance." Said Jean
"Lance did you say? Kitty Lance is nothing but trouble, I advise you to stop seeing him…" began Xavier
"I WONT!" said Kitty "he's my boyfriend and he came to Bayville for me! No one's going to stop me from seeing him! Not you! Not Scott! And definitely not Jean! She turned and walked out of the room…"
"This could be a problem Jean," said Xavier… "According to Kitty's parents Lance Alvers is the reason Kitty 'went bad' if I had recruited her months ago when she popped up on cerebro's scans Lance would not of had a chance to get his hooks into her…"
"Professor the fact that Lance is hanging around with the Blob and Rogue doesn't that mean he's a mutant?" asked Jean
"Yes logically it would seem so…I think cerebro needs to be recalibrated its missing too many mutants… but that will have to wait we have Evan's game to go to… "
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Mystique looked at her lover Irene "are you serious Irene?"
Irene sighed "the vision is clear you are going to lose her Raven, you're going to lose her to the boy with the red eyes… also there…there are choices the choices you make in the next 3 months will determine which of two paths you will take in one, you will be reunited with that which was lost in another you will lose all… now you best get back to Bayville your next recruit has been arrested and I need my rest…"
Mystique nodded and kissed Irene on the cheek and left the room, tears in her eyes… Irene was dying. She had cancer and there was nothing she could do to save her Mystique shook her head angrily she no longer cared about the mission screw magneto and his dream. His plans come second to what mattered to Mystique
What mattered right now was Irene
They had been together for 65 years but time was catching up with Irene. She looked like a well matured 50 year old blind woman but she was actually 97… the device they had used to regenerate her body in the 70's was gone and even if it wasn't gone it wouldn't stop the cancer
She would save Irene she would find a way…there had to be… she got into her car and drove back to Bayville as she drove towards Bayville her mind drifted to an old ally who owed her a favour…she took out her mobile phone and dialled
LondonDeep below the ground.
A grey skinned man entered a laboratory and approached a man studying a holographic display of mutant dna "Master…" said the grey skinned man "a phone call for you…"
"Really?" Said the man studying the DNA "Only a few know my number… Hand me the phone Anton."
The grey skin man known as Anton handed the phone over. "Hello?" he said calmly…"ah, Raven! What's it been? 60 years? Irene? Oh dear… yes…yes…I know… I can cure her… I can even give her back her youth but the favour will only cover one of those options…really? Anything you say? Well then I know just the thing from now on you work for me. And when the time is right you will join my side…then we're agreed I will take the first flight over…I will see you soon…"
He turned off the phone. "Pack everything up Anton… we're heading to the states"
"Master?"
"Mystique has called in a favour and in doing so come under my control once more as I expected…"
"As you expected master?"
"Yesss I knew that destiny had cancerous cells that would become full blown cancer and I knew that Raven would come to me for the cure…after all what girl doesn't run to her father when they need help?" He said with a sinister smile
End of part 4