Darwinian Rhapsody
By LejindaryBunny
A totally awesome X-men: Evolution Fanfiction
A/N: Helloooooo. Welcome to the illustrious author's note before chapter four. Actually this chapter was originally the next chapter and vice versa, but I decided that the new order just made more sense. YES, DOWN WITH THE OLD REGIME, THE DARK KINGDOM WILL TRIUMPH! MWAHAHA! MWAHAHAHAHA! Okay, dreams of Negavesion conquest aside this chapter is all about the Brotherhood of Mutants and how they handle a few Sentinels that come there way, mind you they have vastly inferior firepower to the X-Men, especially now that they're just a bunch of teens fending for themselves instead of playing goons for Magneto and Mystique. By the way the chronology of the fic is this, it begins a few weeks after that episode with the 'Bayville Sirens' (oooo, I'm so scared, girl power mall rats in dumb looking leather and spandex.) And then splits off and runs parallel to anything airing after that episode, I will not change anything in the fic to fit with the ongoing events of Evolution.
Disclaimer: Anything you recognize isn't mine.Unless you're a telepath. Marvel owns X-men, Staind owns Outside. Duncan Matthews owned the Discman.
Chapter 4.Fast Food Hath No Fury.
The Brotherhood house was a boarding house whose previous occupants had been ousted by Mystique while she had still been with them. At present count it had five denizens, who were, obviously, mutants as that was the one requirement of being part of the Brotherhood.which was why it was called the Brotherhood of Mutants. The organization's (currently absent) founder, Magneto, had toyed with the idea of sticking 'Evil' in the name just for sarcasm's sake. He had, however, eventually decided against it deeming that it would be somewhat negative PR for a society that was currently recruiting teenagers. Also he realized that the entire point of the venture was that humanity was, in general, a bunch of dummies and assuming that they would understand the subtleties of his sarcasm would be self-defeating and hypocritical. The history of the Brotherhood, though, is hardly the point of this paragraph, the point (before the author got off on a tangent) actually being to give a brief introduction to each of the five Brotherhood members currently inhabiting the house. This point will be returned to now.
Lance Alvers was, at seventeen, the eldest of the group, though not it's first recruit. As it's first recruit had little interest in maintaining the household it was by the superiority of age that he claimed unofficial leadership and responsibility for the rest of the group during the absence of anything resembling adult supervision. In short he did his best to be everybody's mom, though he would have denied it if ever asked, he would have preferred to be termed an older brother. His mutant alias was Avalanche, clearly revealing his mutant power of manipulating earthquakes. He was best known in school for his relationship with X-person Kitty Pryde, and for his dislike of her fellow X-person, Scott Summers.
Pietro Maximoff, otherwise known as Quicksilver, was sixteen. He was the son of the Brotherhood's founder, not that he and his dad were on particularly good terms. Pietro was both quick witted and quick tempered, known to be hyperactive and someone to be kept away from caffeine AT ALL COSTS. His mutant ability, needless to say, was super speed, more like hyper speed. The boy was extremely attractive and knew it. He kept a mirror with him at all times and as many girls as possible. He practically had his own fan club. There was a rather nasty rumor around school that he was in Denial, though this rumor had yet to be proved one way or the other.
Freddy Dukes was the Blob. There was little else to say about him except that he was basically a good guy with a big heart, even if it didn't have anything on the size of his stomach.
Tabitha Smith, or Boom Boom, was the newest member of the Brotherhood, and incidentally, a female. She was a fun loving girl and didn't hold well with rules. It was this trait that had caused her to leave the plush Institute mansion and move into the ramshackle Brotherhood house.
And then there was Todd.
Todd's room wasn't the cleanest room in the house, that honor belonged to Pietro, whom Todd thought was 'a spastic neat freak, yo.' Nor was his room the second cleanest, that was Tabby's which she had stolen from the by then gone Mystique when she had moved in. His room was, however, the third cleanest, something which one who knew him only casually would never have expected. In fact most of the Brotherhood was still under the illusion that it was most likely the messiest room in the house. This was because he didn't let anyone into his room, not that any of the others really had a burning desire to see how the Toad kept his stuff.
He was in his room at the moment, listening to a CD on the Discman he had swiped from somebody or other, he forgot who.
".All the times that I've tried, my intentions, full of pride But I waste more time than anyone." He sat leaning against the side of his bed, looking at the ceiling, pointedly ignoring his homework. He sang along with the CD more loudly than he would have consciously decided, but the music was up as far as it would go, mostly in order to block out Piertro and Freddy watching Buffy. "But I'm on the outside I'm looking in. I can see through you, see your true colors. Cause inside you're ugly, you're ugly like me. I can see though you see to the real you."
Then he finally heard the knocking. "Just a sec, yo!" he called, hastily pulling off the headphones, leaping up and to the door. "Yeah?" he asked opening the door partway.
It was Lance; "We're going out for a burger, you coming?"
He shrugged, closing the door behind him. Lance was an ok guy, if you could get past the fact that he was head over heels for Kitty. Todd followed him downstairs.
"Yo Lance, can I drive this time?"
"No way Toad, you're STILL fifteen."
"Yeah, so? I can drive just as well as you can."
"Oh yeah? Last time I was stupid enough to let you drive you almost got us all killed."
"Hey, that wasn't my fault! That other guy musta been goin' at least ninety."
"So were you," Lance answered flatly. "For the last time you are NOT driving."
"Man, that ain't fair."
Downstairs Lance called to the others, "Hey guys, c'mon."
Pietro instantly appeared by the two, but it was a moment before Tabby sauntered in with Freddy at her back.
"Well Lance, let's get this show on the road," she grinned.
"Yeah, yeah, come on."
His jeep was parked in the driveway and the five piled in. The owner drove, her highness called shotgun and Todd got stuck in the back next to the other two, as always.
The radio as always was tuned to the Nerve which no one but Freddy had a problem with and he wasn't going to say anything about it. He knew he was the only one of them who liked country.
"SoToaddidn'tcatchyafterschoolyesterdayIlookedindetentionbutyouwern'tthere." Pietro's voice sped along with ease, but from now on his speech will be slowed down for reading facility. And, rewinding for a moment his last sentence was, "So Toad, didn't catch you after school yesterday. I looked in detention but you weren't there."
"I was jus' hanging out, yo," he replied.
"IIII heard a rumor that you were with a GIRL," he said mockingly.
"An' I heard you were goin' steady wit Duncan Matthews, so we're even."
"Take that back you little Toad!"
"Oooo, I'm scared. Lance, save me from Pretty Pretty Pietro."
"Why you!" Quicksilver tried to throttle him.
"If you don't shut up," Lance growled, "I'm going to turn this car around."
"Yes mom," the two of them said, sitting back and shutting up immediately.
"That's better,"
Tabby giggled.
"What are you laughing at?"
"Nothing.Mom."
Luckily for peace within the ranks it was at that moment that they pulled into the parking lot of the local fast food establishment, termed by its customers the Gut Bomb. It had an official name, but no one cared what it was.
The group then piled out of the jeep and into the restaurant, striking fear in the heart of the manager that shift; the Brotherhood were regulars at the place.
The five had ordered what would have seemed like an outrageous amount of food, if one didn't consider the fact that Freddy was with them. At their booth in the corner Lance ate, Tabby dined, Pietro nibbled, Freddy consumed and Todd munched.
"So who were you with?" Tabby asked him curiously.
"Nobody, yo."
Lance grinned slyly, "Kitty says you were passing notes in English. She didn't say who to though."
"Yeah, so? If I tell you guys you'll just rag on me, yo."
"No we won't," Freddy said seriously. "We promise."
"You can tell us," Tabby told him sweetly.
"So who is she Todd?" Pietro asked smirking.
"Well." he looked down at his french-fries. "Ebony." He looked away.
Pietro looked like he was about to get ice cubes stuck in his nose from snorting his Sprite.
"I knew you were gonna laugh, yo," he slumped further down in his seat
"Nobody's laughing at you, man," Lance said, ignoring the fact that Pietro was still sniggering.
"I think it's cute," Tabby said though Todd made a face. "So how'd you get her to talk to you?"
He shrugged, "just started talking. Guess she was too nice to tell me to go away."
"Aw, I bet she likes you," she told him.
He muttered something incomprehensible.
"Who's Ebony?" Freddy asked.
"You know," Lance said, "new girl at the Institute, black hair, really short. Her real name's Kim Trufire."
"Oh," he said putting the name with the face. Then, "she's so tiny."
"Everyone's tiny compared to you, Blob," Todd said, "she's not THAT short."
"And you're not that green, "Pietro chuckled wickedly.
Todd wished he hadn't said anything about it. Of course they thought it was funny; who wouldn't? The Toad talking to a girl, after all he was only the ugliest guy in school.
He didn't get a chance to continue very long on that dismal train of thought as three men in business suits and sun glasses walked in and over to the table.
The leading man flashed a badge. "FBI, you five are under arrest. Come quietly and you will not be harmed." The entirety of the restaurant turned to stare at them.
"Under arrest? On what charges?" Lance demanded.
"I ain't done nothing!" Todd said.
"I don't even know these creeps!" Tabby lied.
"Can't we work this out?" Freddy asked.
"You'll never take me alive Coppers!" Pietro proclaimed.
It was Boom Boom, naturally, who fired the first shot, a small blast at the feet of one of the 'FBI' and it was a part-time employee, of course who screamed. This caused the rest of the people in the place to panic and rush out the doors. Since it was assumed that the authorities were already there no one called the police, unfortunately someone did decide to tip the evening news.
Meanwhile inside the fight had begun. The first of the three fired on Boom Boom in retaliation.
"TARGETS PROVE HOSTILE. OBJECTIVE, NEUTRALIZE." The 'men' opened fire on the group with laser beams from their palms.
"The hell are these guys?!" Todd yelped leaping out of the way of a laser burst.
"WE ARE SENTINEL, HOSTILE MUTANTS MUST BE NEUTRALIZED."
Quicksilver dodged in and out between rapid fire from the second Sentinel, "Yeah right!"
Tabby was trying to fire off a bomb that would actually hit one of them as Lance started a very localized quake intended to knock their opponents off balance long enough to do so. Toad meanwhile drew fire away from the Blob who couldn't move fast enough to dodge. Unfortunately all Avalanche's tremor did was throw Todd off balance as he came down from a backflip, sending him down and into the wall as one of the crimson blasts connected with his ribs.
"Screw it Tabby," Lance yelled, seeing the tide of battle, "Blow the whole place up! We're getting outta here!"
She nodded at him and yelled to Freddy, "Get Toad! We're clearing out!"
He nodded whacking the Sentinel, which had attacked Todd, away with a convenient table then picked him up. He hurried out of the building after the Lance and Pietro, passing Tabby as she built a large blast sphere, hurled it back inside and ran like Heek.
The Gut Bomb went up like God's worst case of heartburn.
They were in the car and speeding when Todd came back to consciousness just in time to see them pass a news van speeding the other way. "Yo man, nobody ever said I'd hafta fight a pack a' Terminator's psycho relatives," he said dizzily.
"Terminator's relatives?" Freddy asked, happy that his friend wasn't in a coma.
"They was metal, yo. I kicked one a 'em an' it was like fightin' a trash can only harder." He rubbed his side gingerly but winced in pain. "They were robots or somethin'"
"Great," Lance said irritably, "The last thing we need, mutant hunting killer robots."
"Maybe they was it, yo." Todd said trying to be optimistic despite his injury.
"Somehow I really doubt that."
"Hey, look at it this way," Tabby said, "They could have been fifty feet tall."
~*~
So there goes the Gut Bomb, poor Kurt will be so disappointed; I know he loved the food there. Oh well. Next chapter, poor Remy wakes up to find himself in the institute and Hank examines a bit of Sentinel that Kitty thought to bring along. Also both the X-Men and Brotherhood get a look at how the media is skewing the two battles. It looks like a typical government cover up to go along with a secret agenda! As always a REVIEW is like a god unto ME.
By LejindaryBunny
A totally awesome X-men: Evolution Fanfiction
A/N: Helloooooo. Welcome to the illustrious author's note before chapter four. Actually this chapter was originally the next chapter and vice versa, but I decided that the new order just made more sense. YES, DOWN WITH THE OLD REGIME, THE DARK KINGDOM WILL TRIUMPH! MWAHAHA! MWAHAHAHAHA! Okay, dreams of Negavesion conquest aside this chapter is all about the Brotherhood of Mutants and how they handle a few Sentinels that come there way, mind you they have vastly inferior firepower to the X-Men, especially now that they're just a bunch of teens fending for themselves instead of playing goons for Magneto and Mystique. By the way the chronology of the fic is this, it begins a few weeks after that episode with the 'Bayville Sirens' (oooo, I'm so scared, girl power mall rats in dumb looking leather and spandex.) And then splits off and runs parallel to anything airing after that episode, I will not change anything in the fic to fit with the ongoing events of Evolution.
Disclaimer: Anything you recognize isn't mine.Unless you're a telepath. Marvel owns X-men, Staind owns Outside. Duncan Matthews owned the Discman.
Chapter 4.Fast Food Hath No Fury.
The Brotherhood house was a boarding house whose previous occupants had been ousted by Mystique while she had still been with them. At present count it had five denizens, who were, obviously, mutants as that was the one requirement of being part of the Brotherhood.which was why it was called the Brotherhood of Mutants. The organization's (currently absent) founder, Magneto, had toyed with the idea of sticking 'Evil' in the name just for sarcasm's sake. He had, however, eventually decided against it deeming that it would be somewhat negative PR for a society that was currently recruiting teenagers. Also he realized that the entire point of the venture was that humanity was, in general, a bunch of dummies and assuming that they would understand the subtleties of his sarcasm would be self-defeating and hypocritical. The history of the Brotherhood, though, is hardly the point of this paragraph, the point (before the author got off on a tangent) actually being to give a brief introduction to each of the five Brotherhood members currently inhabiting the house. This point will be returned to now.
Lance Alvers was, at seventeen, the eldest of the group, though not it's first recruit. As it's first recruit had little interest in maintaining the household it was by the superiority of age that he claimed unofficial leadership and responsibility for the rest of the group during the absence of anything resembling adult supervision. In short he did his best to be everybody's mom, though he would have denied it if ever asked, he would have preferred to be termed an older brother. His mutant alias was Avalanche, clearly revealing his mutant power of manipulating earthquakes. He was best known in school for his relationship with X-person Kitty Pryde, and for his dislike of her fellow X-person, Scott Summers.
Pietro Maximoff, otherwise known as Quicksilver, was sixteen. He was the son of the Brotherhood's founder, not that he and his dad were on particularly good terms. Pietro was both quick witted and quick tempered, known to be hyperactive and someone to be kept away from caffeine AT ALL COSTS. His mutant ability, needless to say, was super speed, more like hyper speed. The boy was extremely attractive and knew it. He kept a mirror with him at all times and as many girls as possible. He practically had his own fan club. There was a rather nasty rumor around school that he was in Denial, though this rumor had yet to be proved one way or the other.
Freddy Dukes was the Blob. There was little else to say about him except that he was basically a good guy with a big heart, even if it didn't have anything on the size of his stomach.
Tabitha Smith, or Boom Boom, was the newest member of the Brotherhood, and incidentally, a female. She was a fun loving girl and didn't hold well with rules. It was this trait that had caused her to leave the plush Institute mansion and move into the ramshackle Brotherhood house.
And then there was Todd.
Todd's room wasn't the cleanest room in the house, that honor belonged to Pietro, whom Todd thought was 'a spastic neat freak, yo.' Nor was his room the second cleanest, that was Tabby's which she had stolen from the by then gone Mystique when she had moved in. His room was, however, the third cleanest, something which one who knew him only casually would never have expected. In fact most of the Brotherhood was still under the illusion that it was most likely the messiest room in the house. This was because he didn't let anyone into his room, not that any of the others really had a burning desire to see how the Toad kept his stuff.
He was in his room at the moment, listening to a CD on the Discman he had swiped from somebody or other, he forgot who.
".All the times that I've tried, my intentions, full of pride But I waste more time than anyone." He sat leaning against the side of his bed, looking at the ceiling, pointedly ignoring his homework. He sang along with the CD more loudly than he would have consciously decided, but the music was up as far as it would go, mostly in order to block out Piertro and Freddy watching Buffy. "But I'm on the outside I'm looking in. I can see through you, see your true colors. Cause inside you're ugly, you're ugly like me. I can see though you see to the real you."
Then he finally heard the knocking. "Just a sec, yo!" he called, hastily pulling off the headphones, leaping up and to the door. "Yeah?" he asked opening the door partway.
It was Lance; "We're going out for a burger, you coming?"
He shrugged, closing the door behind him. Lance was an ok guy, if you could get past the fact that he was head over heels for Kitty. Todd followed him downstairs.
"Yo Lance, can I drive this time?"
"No way Toad, you're STILL fifteen."
"Yeah, so? I can drive just as well as you can."
"Oh yeah? Last time I was stupid enough to let you drive you almost got us all killed."
"Hey, that wasn't my fault! That other guy musta been goin' at least ninety."
"So were you," Lance answered flatly. "For the last time you are NOT driving."
"Man, that ain't fair."
Downstairs Lance called to the others, "Hey guys, c'mon."
Pietro instantly appeared by the two, but it was a moment before Tabby sauntered in with Freddy at her back.
"Well Lance, let's get this show on the road," she grinned.
"Yeah, yeah, come on."
His jeep was parked in the driveway and the five piled in. The owner drove, her highness called shotgun and Todd got stuck in the back next to the other two, as always.
The radio as always was tuned to the Nerve which no one but Freddy had a problem with and he wasn't going to say anything about it. He knew he was the only one of them who liked country.
"SoToaddidn'tcatchyafterschoolyesterdayIlookedindetentionbutyouwern'tthere." Pietro's voice sped along with ease, but from now on his speech will be slowed down for reading facility. And, rewinding for a moment his last sentence was, "So Toad, didn't catch you after school yesterday. I looked in detention but you weren't there."
"I was jus' hanging out, yo," he replied.
"IIII heard a rumor that you were with a GIRL," he said mockingly.
"An' I heard you were goin' steady wit Duncan Matthews, so we're even."
"Take that back you little Toad!"
"Oooo, I'm scared. Lance, save me from Pretty Pretty Pietro."
"Why you!" Quicksilver tried to throttle him.
"If you don't shut up," Lance growled, "I'm going to turn this car around."
"Yes mom," the two of them said, sitting back and shutting up immediately.
"That's better,"
Tabby giggled.
"What are you laughing at?"
"Nothing.Mom."
Luckily for peace within the ranks it was at that moment that they pulled into the parking lot of the local fast food establishment, termed by its customers the Gut Bomb. It had an official name, but no one cared what it was.
The group then piled out of the jeep and into the restaurant, striking fear in the heart of the manager that shift; the Brotherhood were regulars at the place.
The five had ordered what would have seemed like an outrageous amount of food, if one didn't consider the fact that Freddy was with them. At their booth in the corner Lance ate, Tabby dined, Pietro nibbled, Freddy consumed and Todd munched.
"So who were you with?" Tabby asked him curiously.
"Nobody, yo."
Lance grinned slyly, "Kitty says you were passing notes in English. She didn't say who to though."
"Yeah, so? If I tell you guys you'll just rag on me, yo."
"No we won't," Freddy said seriously. "We promise."
"You can tell us," Tabby told him sweetly.
"So who is she Todd?" Pietro asked smirking.
"Well." he looked down at his french-fries. "Ebony." He looked away.
Pietro looked like he was about to get ice cubes stuck in his nose from snorting his Sprite.
"I knew you were gonna laugh, yo," he slumped further down in his seat
"Nobody's laughing at you, man," Lance said, ignoring the fact that Pietro was still sniggering.
"I think it's cute," Tabby said though Todd made a face. "So how'd you get her to talk to you?"
He shrugged, "just started talking. Guess she was too nice to tell me to go away."
"Aw, I bet she likes you," she told him.
He muttered something incomprehensible.
"Who's Ebony?" Freddy asked.
"You know," Lance said, "new girl at the Institute, black hair, really short. Her real name's Kim Trufire."
"Oh," he said putting the name with the face. Then, "she's so tiny."
"Everyone's tiny compared to you, Blob," Todd said, "she's not THAT short."
"And you're not that green, "Pietro chuckled wickedly.
Todd wished he hadn't said anything about it. Of course they thought it was funny; who wouldn't? The Toad talking to a girl, after all he was only the ugliest guy in school.
He didn't get a chance to continue very long on that dismal train of thought as three men in business suits and sun glasses walked in and over to the table.
The leading man flashed a badge. "FBI, you five are under arrest. Come quietly and you will not be harmed." The entirety of the restaurant turned to stare at them.
"Under arrest? On what charges?" Lance demanded.
"I ain't done nothing!" Todd said.
"I don't even know these creeps!" Tabby lied.
"Can't we work this out?" Freddy asked.
"You'll never take me alive Coppers!" Pietro proclaimed.
It was Boom Boom, naturally, who fired the first shot, a small blast at the feet of one of the 'FBI' and it was a part-time employee, of course who screamed. This caused the rest of the people in the place to panic and rush out the doors. Since it was assumed that the authorities were already there no one called the police, unfortunately someone did decide to tip the evening news.
Meanwhile inside the fight had begun. The first of the three fired on Boom Boom in retaliation.
"TARGETS PROVE HOSTILE. OBJECTIVE, NEUTRALIZE." The 'men' opened fire on the group with laser beams from their palms.
"The hell are these guys?!" Todd yelped leaping out of the way of a laser burst.
"WE ARE SENTINEL, HOSTILE MUTANTS MUST BE NEUTRALIZED."
Quicksilver dodged in and out between rapid fire from the second Sentinel, "Yeah right!"
Tabby was trying to fire off a bomb that would actually hit one of them as Lance started a very localized quake intended to knock their opponents off balance long enough to do so. Toad meanwhile drew fire away from the Blob who couldn't move fast enough to dodge. Unfortunately all Avalanche's tremor did was throw Todd off balance as he came down from a backflip, sending him down and into the wall as one of the crimson blasts connected with his ribs.
"Screw it Tabby," Lance yelled, seeing the tide of battle, "Blow the whole place up! We're getting outta here!"
She nodded at him and yelled to Freddy, "Get Toad! We're clearing out!"
He nodded whacking the Sentinel, which had attacked Todd, away with a convenient table then picked him up. He hurried out of the building after the Lance and Pietro, passing Tabby as she built a large blast sphere, hurled it back inside and ran like Heek.
The Gut Bomb went up like God's worst case of heartburn.
They were in the car and speeding when Todd came back to consciousness just in time to see them pass a news van speeding the other way. "Yo man, nobody ever said I'd hafta fight a pack a' Terminator's psycho relatives," he said dizzily.
"Terminator's relatives?" Freddy asked, happy that his friend wasn't in a coma.
"They was metal, yo. I kicked one a 'em an' it was like fightin' a trash can only harder." He rubbed his side gingerly but winced in pain. "They were robots or somethin'"
"Great," Lance said irritably, "The last thing we need, mutant hunting killer robots."
"Maybe they was it, yo." Todd said trying to be optimistic despite his injury.
"Somehow I really doubt that."
"Hey, look at it this way," Tabby said, "They could have been fifty feet tall."
~*~
So there goes the Gut Bomb, poor Kurt will be so disappointed; I know he loved the food there. Oh well. Next chapter, poor Remy wakes up to find himself in the institute and Hank examines a bit of Sentinel that Kitty thought to bring along. Also both the X-Men and Brotherhood get a look at how the media is skewing the two battles. It looks like a typical government cover up to go along with a secret agenda! As always a REVIEW is like a god unto ME.
