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Chapter 9: Brotherhood Introduction 1- Leaders
Magneto's Office, Brotherhood of Bayville Boarding House, Bayville, NY- May 17, 11:00 PM
Meanwhile, back at the Brotherhood, Mystique was wondering just where Avalanche had gone off to, and why Sabretooth had not returned from the mission she'd sent him on over two days ago.
"Quicksilver!" yelled Raven as she got up from the chair she had been occupying in Erik's empty office. "Get your ass in here now!"
Pietro, in a burst of wind, came blowing into the Boarding house from the direction of Forge's house. "Where are Avalanche and Sabretooth?" demanded Raven in a tone that held no sympathy in it.
"Yeah, well, you see…" began Pietro, but was cut off by Raven's death glare.
Pietro was about to tell Raven what he had found when he felt the presence of his father in the room and involuntarily shivered. Magneto had arrived.
"Yes, my son, where have Avalanche and Sabretooth gone?" asked Erik in a menacing voice directed at his son, his shoulder-length white hair visible, and still dressed in his work outfit, which consisted of black slacks, a white shirt, a black business jacket, loafers, and a dark maroon tie. Erik had just come home from a business meeting he had had to go to considering he owned and ran an anti-mutant company called "Power Incorporated". This company researches cures for mutations of all kinds. Although Erik runs this company, he secretly sabotaged all of its attempts at finding the cure for mutations so mutants would not be threatened.
"Well, you see…" continued Pietro, "I just came back from trying to find where Lance and Sabretooth had gone, like you told me to, so I started my search at the mutant Forge's house, who's a friend of Lance's. Since I know the kind of damage that Lance can do, and I saw the ruins of Forge's house, I suspected it was his work. I hunted around for him and Sabretooth, and in the process, found a piece of Sabretooth's cloak, hanging from a piece of metal, over a hole that led to the center of the earth, along with claw marks that were gouged into the earth for about 20 feet. So, after I examined the evidence, I assumed that Lance and Sabretooth had gotten into a fight, and-Lance-won-by-sending-Sabretooth-into-the-center-of-the-earth-once-and-for-all," finished Pietro as he said the last part in his sped-up voice. This means that he strings the words together in such a way that the majority of people, except for Lance, Erik, Wanda, Fred, and Todd could not understand his words.
'Good riddance,' thought Pietro to himself, but winced when he saw Erik look at him, almost as if he knew what his son had thought.
"Traitor!" roared Raven, after hearing a telepathic translation from Erik, as she punched the wall of the house, driving her fist through and putting a hole in it. "He has not only betrayed us once, for trying to join the X-Men when I wasn't here all those years ago, but now he's done it again, and now he's killed Sabretooth, but for what possible reason!"
"For whatever reason," interrupted Erik as he glanced from Raven to Pietro, and then sat down behind his desk and put his hands together, signaling that he had a plan brewing, and one could be sure that it was evil, "we must hunt him down and make him pay. For you see, I do not tolerate traitors in my organization."