Intentions

AN: I'm sending this to a friend as i write it and she keeps wondering if i'm sane. :D

Disclaimer: I don't own X-Men, it's simple. :pouts:

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Chapter 8: (Of Scarlett Fire and Blue Smoke)

a NYC museum

"The Brotherhood are planning on stealing something from here tonight, we weren't able to discern what, but we want you to spread out, watch from the shadows. When you see one of them, call out to Jean." Scott told the four of them. Rogue, Wanda, Kitty, and Kurt were to be the guards. They were still new, Wanda the newest, to the team so they were given the easiest jobs. However, when it came time to fight, they would be as relied upon as the others.

"Okay." Kitty said.

"Good." Wolverine said. "Now get to your stations." They would be civilians to begin with. Going into the museum before it closed and hiding till the Brotherhood boys showed up.

"Right." Kurt said and hit the button on his image inducer. In place of his normal furry blue appearance came a boy who's only oddity was blue hair. The four of them entered the museum and pretended to be looking, enjoying the art. Before closing each slipped into hiding.

Rogue levitated to the ceiling of the museum and hid over a chandelier that apparently belonged to some ancient french king. Wanda and Kitty hid in the bathroom. Kitty using her ability to phase them into the wall when the guard came to check. Kurt left the building entirely, he would simply bampf back in when Kitty came to tell him the coast was clear.

Only the night guards and the cameras were left. Both would have to go. Kitty took care of the cameras then gave the signal to Rogue and Wanda to take out the guards. Kitty then went to get Kurt.

"Lets put them in the camera room. They probably won't get hurt there." Rogue said.

"Okay." Wanda said and lifted three guards with her powers. They managed to move the guards in one trip.

"Guys, could you move them away from the monitors. I'm gonna reenable the cameras. They don't get everywhere, but that's where you guys'll be." Kitty explained. Wanda picked up the guards with her powers and moved them away.

"And where are the places we'll be?" Rogue asked.

"In the Egyptian room, right by that entrance from the Renaissance room, the camera can't see there. The main entrance hall also, it's too big and doesn't have enough cameras, they move too slow. Everywhere else is okay." Kitty said and sat at the monitors. "Hurry up and get there, the cameras will be on in ten seconds."

Rogue went to the front hall with Wanda. Kurt went to the Egyptian room. Kitty just saw them before they were hidden. She hadn't disabled all the cameras, just enough that it would seem like a glitch. She watched back the tapes quickly and was satisfied that the BOM hadn't showed yet.

"Time for fun." she said to herself.

The BOM were slow to get there, they had to wait for two and a half hours before the first sign of them came. It was the blur on the monitors that caught Kitty's attention. 'Quicksilver.' she thought.

One of the main hall monitors happened to be trained right on the door at the moment that Toad's tongue wrapped around it and ripped it from its hinges.

Rogue saw the frog boy enter followed by the Blob. "Easy." she whispered to herself.

Wanda hadn't seen the blur, but she sensed his presence in the building. She followed the feeling, silently following him into the smallest exhibit. It was one dedicated to the evolution of mutants, a usually avoided area.

"Pie, Pie." Wanda called out in a near whisper. "Come out, come out wherever you are." She was met with silence. "I promise I won't hurt you." Wanda smirked. "Much."

"Wanda." Quicksilver said coming out into the open.

"Ah, there's the little bug." Wanda said. Wanda made no move, standing perfectly still as she stared at her traitorous twin. Quicksilver watched her, a fear creeping up on him. He hadn't seen her for years, he shouldn't know anything about her anymore, but that look. It was with that selfsame stare that she had watched him leave her in the institution.

"Is the little bug scared of his sister?" Wanda asked in a singsong voice. Only once before had he seen her this way. Only for him would her anger take this mocking turn. Only for her twin who she show this side of her anger.

"I'm no bug." Pietro said. He needed to escape. He had what his father wanted. It would be so easy, to just run away, use his speed to escape her. They were all decoys, everyone else who had come along on this mission.

"But you are, my brother. You're the bug I will squash." Wanda said in her singsong voice. "Lucky for you, today is not that day." Wanda said with disappointment. "Kitty, you got it?"

"Yup." Kitty said and held up an ordinary looking box. "Jeez Pie, your denser than I thought." Kitty said.

Quicksilver looked dumbfounded. "Don't even think about getting it back." Kurt's voice came from behind him.

"Not even your fast enough." Jean spoke aloud for the benefit of the group.

"All alone, Bub." Wolverine said.

Quicksilver was surrounded, eight X-Men stared at him. Kurt was crouched behind him, perched on a glass case, ready to teleport at a moments notice. Jean and Scott were blocking the doorway. Wolverine was standing behind them, unseen but his presence was felt. He stood back in the next room guarding the door and watching Toad and Blob. Storm was with him. Above Pietro's head Rogue hovered, her emerald eyes taking in everything below.

"Ah'd run away if ah were you." Rogue said.

"Never." Pietro said. "I'm not as alone as you think." A smirk came over the handsome boy's face, lighting up his blue eyes. He looked more Wanda's twin then ever before.

It was seen before it was heard. The wall on Pietro's left bust down, in the makeshift doorway two figures stood.

"Good day mates." the smaller one said. They all stood in shock for a beat longer. In that moment of silence a click was heard. Flame shot at them as they jumped into action.

Rogue dove at the metal figure. He swatted at her as if she were nothing but a fly. He hit her square in the stomach and sent her tumbling back into Scott. Jean caught them both before they hit the ground with her telekinesis. Wolverine went for Colossus, ducking as Rogue was sent over his head. He caught the Russian off guard and managed to slice his arm before he jerked back and took a hold of Wolverine. Colossus spun and threw Logan away from himself, straight at Kurt who teleported. Storm sent a gust of wind at him that turned him around. He landed on his feet with anger in his eyes.

Kurt teleported to Quicksilver and wrapped his tail around the speed demon's waist and held on as he teleported away. They reappeared near the ceiling and Kurt let Pietro drop. The process was to fast even for Pietro, that combined with the disorientation of teleporting, he fell to the ground and hit his head on the hard marble floor.

Flame shot at Kitty, she phased it through herself. Shadowcat ran at Pyro, making herself intangible so any fire he threw went straight through her. She got close enough to see the impression of his eyes through his goggles before he ducked away. She phased through the wall, unable to stop in time. Storm threw a bolt of lightning at the Australian who ran out of the building. He was followed by Storm and Jean. Kitty remained outside and set her sites on Pietro who had shaken himself wake. The injury to his head caused him to slow down, but he was still incredibly fast.

Jean took hold of Pyro with her mind, causing his limbs to snap together and the fire to die in his hands. Storm began to conjure rain from the skies and hovered high above them. Higher than anyone would be able to reach her.

Kurt teleported to Wolverine who was flying through the air once again, but this time toward the outdoors. Nightcrawler brought him to the ground. "Thanks elf." the gruff Canadian said. Kurt just smiled his demon smile.

A red blast of energy shot at Colossus and he was knocked outside. Rogue flew up and caught him, she brought her struggling burden up as high as she could manage. "Storm, got the shot?" Rogue yelled. The weather goddess turned her sights to the now falling man of metal. Lightning flashed.

Quicksilver ran circles around Kitty, making her dizzy. She phased herself into his path. He ran into her and sent her flying. Pietro lost control of his direction and collided with Jean before a fried Colossus landed on him, knocking him out cold.

Jean lost her already slipping hold on Pyro just as Scott sent a blast at him. Pyro jumped out of the way. Rogue grabbed him, but he slipped from her grip, and fell at an angle. He landed on Wanda.

Until then Wanda had been solely focused on causing as much pain to her brother as possible, which consequently helped Kitty get close enough to cause him more pain. Wanda slammed into the wall behind her with the extra burden of Pyro on top of her.

"Get of..." Her words were cut off. She recognized this face. Those eyes that she could see so clearly behind the goggles.

"Sheila." He spoke in a whisper.

"John." Wanda said at the same time. They stared at each other for a few seconds longer, both shocked. A crack of thunder brought their attention to the fight. "Get off." Wanda said, trying to sound menacing but failing. She cast him off with her powers.

"Go." Colossus called out. He was holding Pietro. Pyro ran after him. The X-Men weren't about to let them go off so easy. They followed. Spheres of metal appeared and engulfed the three. They were ferried away before the X-Men could even blink.

Two bampfs in quick succession were heard. "The others are gone too." Kurt said in his accented English.

"I still have it, whatever it is." Kitty said. "I put it in the wall." she went to retrieve the nearly stolen item.

"It's just a box." Wolverine said.

"No, it's not, but it's not important either, not in anyway I can think off. I contains proof of the experiments of scientist, like Hank. What could her have wanted with it?" Storm said, taking the box from Kitty.

"I don't think he wanted that in particular, I think this was just a large decoy so he could draw attention away from another plot he's working on. I caught a glimpse of something to that effect in Quicksilver's mind." Jean said.

"Either way, lets bring this to the Professor." Scott said. The team followed him back to the Blackbird. The sound of sirens allowing them to leave with no worries about human robbers.