Rating: T

Author's Notes: Hey everybody! How's it been? Did you all have a awesome Thanksgiving?! I did! Sorry it took me so long to update…. Been pretty damn busy. But here I am! I've been updating a lot of my stories, so check them out when you get the chance! Peace!!

Chapter 11: School Brawls and Answers

'Damn…. What the hell happened?' Toad was finally beginning to come to from that nasty head butt from earlier. Without opening his eyes, he raised his arm to sooth the sore spot on his forehead. 'What the hell was that chick's skull made of? I feel like I just took a steel baseball bat to the head…' His eyes slowly opened, and he soon discovered that he was in his room, with a ice pack placed beside his bed. Without hesitating, the mutant reached out, grabbed the cold pack and placed it over the sore spot. "Oh yeeeaaahh…." Todd sighed, satisfied. "That's much better…"

'I'm glad to see you're up already, Mr. Tolansky…' Suddenly, Xavier's voice echoed through Toad's mind, startling him a little. 'You've been out for only a few minutes…. How do you feel?'

"Umm…. Pretty good, I guess." Todd answered nervously, still trying to get over the professor's powers. He then heard Xavier chuckle.

'Good. It seems that little head banging was a little more then you'd think it would've…. Are you still able to walk?' Todd, curiously, hopped out of bed and onto his feet. He then took a few steps, and only suffered a mild soreness in the back.

"Yeah. All I feel is a little soreness from where Sabertooth slashed me. But nothing major, yo." He answered, while he did a few standing stretches.

'Good to hear it. Logan is currently waiting for the girl to regain consciousness. And since you're feeling better then I expected, you can get ready and head to school. It should be lunch when you get there…' Hearing he had to go to school, Toad them pretended to be in serious back pain.

"O…OW! My back, yo!" He then plopped on his bed, continuing his act. "I…I can't feel my legs, professor…. I might h…have to stay in some more…" But Charles was too smart to buy that.

'I would like to say "nice try", but then I'd be lying, Mr. Tolansky. Now hurry up and get dressed.' Disappointed that his performance didn't work, Todd groaned and hopped out of bed. He walked to his closet, and ruffled through it. Three minutes later, he came out wearing his pair of black shoes, brown cargo pants and a black short sleeved T-shirt that read:

Genius by birth…. Slacker by choice

And with Toad, it was actually the truth. He then raced down the hall and outside, where all the cars were. Toad hopped into the Jeep, and raced off to school.

(At School)

The bell rang at 11:25pm, signaling it was time for lunch. By a sheer stroke of luck, Fred was in all of the same classes as Scoot, Jean and Todd. So they walked to the cafeteria together, laughing and joking with each other. "I hope Todd's doin' better." Blob said as he, Scott and Jean took a seat at their table. The redhead giggled.

"He's doing much better, Fred. In fact, he's on his way here." The two looked at Jean in confusion. "I was just informed by the professor that Todd's back has healed…surprisingly fast. He should be here any minute." With that piece of good news said, the three pulled out their lunches. Scott and Jean both had brown bag lunches, while Fred brought a GARBAGE BAG, filled with food from the institute's kitchen. Some kids looked at this, and was about to laugh…when they remembered what happened last time. The way Blob dealt with Duncan last time kept them from openly laughing aloud.

But what Fred didn't miss was the angry glares sent from the Brotherhood mutants, who were sitting across the cafeteria from them. Lance was glaring at Scott, Rouge was glaring at Jean, and Pietro was talking with Duncan while Kurt kept to himself. After the schoolyard fight, Duncan and his football buddies made a friendship/alliance with them. This was because they had something in common…their hatred for the X-Men students. "Look's like the Brotherhood made themselves some jock friends." Blob mumbled aloud, as he took a bit from his five layered sandwich. The other two turned, and saw the disastrous combination.

"Great…." Scott sighed as he took a bite from his apple. "Now we're dealing with this stuff in and out of school." But they decided not to make direct eye contact with either party. They just kept to their food, when Toad eventually hopped in.

"Yo! I can't believe you all started eating without me, yo! So rude!" Todd bellowed, pretending to be offended. Fred saw him, and smiled broadly as he hopped up on his shoulders.

"It's about time you got here, Toad. Those clowns over there have been glaring holes into us, and we need someone with smartass comebacks to get to them." He chuckled. Toad looked back and saw the Brotherhood and the football players eating together. He frowned, as he opened his brown paper bag, with a variety of dead bugs inside.

"So…the wanna be tough guys and the jockstraps are teaming up, yo?" Fred nodded. "Well, it fits, at least…. They BOTH got their asses handed to them by us. So why not do it at once for now on?" The gang laughed together as Toad slurped up half of his bugs in one go. But by using his powers caused Jean to freak.

"Toad!" She whispered dramatically. "The professor said NOT to use your powers in…." But she was stopped when she noticed Duncan and his friends heading their way. Duncan had his eyes aimed squarely on Todd, who turned to make eye contact. With him, was about five other football players, all with wicked smiles on their faces.

"YO! Tolansky!" The quarterback called. The amphibian like teen's ears perked up at his last name. "You ready for a rematch?!" Everyone in the cafeteria stopped what they were doing, and became dead silent. Even the lunch ladies stopped doing their job to listen in on the conflict. Fred was about to get out of his chair, when Todd raised his hand halfway, signaling him to stay calm. And with the straightest face he ever pulled, looked innocently at Duncan.

"Sorry…. Fighting pansies isn't exactly on my list to do today. I could pencil you in for next Monday, though…" People around stifled laughter. But they burst out laughing when Toad actually pulled out a pencil and notepad, and pretended to write in it. But going completely against his persona…Duncan didn't get mad. He just kept a neutral expression on his face.

"What's the matter, Toad?" He asked, using his X-Man name. "You afraid to use your powers in public?" Todd's eyes shot open when he mentioned his powers. The professor supposedly erased everyone's memory that day at school. So how did Duncan know about them?

"How do you know about his powers, small fry?" Fred asked angrily, now out of his chair and towering over everyone. The athlete merely chuckled.

"Our new…friends…told us all about you four. We also share a common interest. Seeing ALL of you go down." The other players began unzipping their coats and rolling up their sleeves. But before things got physical, Duncan got a evil idea, and decided to make a little announcement. He jumped onto a table and faced the entire lunch room.

'Please don't Duncan….' Jean pleaded in her mind.

'Don't do it, man…' Scott though, as he slowly rose up from his seat. But their silent pleas went unheard(Duh!) and the quarterback went on with his announcement.

"O.K, EVERYBODY! LISTEN UP!" He yelled at the top of his lungs, getting everybody's attention. "I'm sure you are all wondering why these people hang out with one another. You have a sickly green kid!" Points at Toad. "A abnormally obese kid!" Points at Blob. "And one who is ALWAYS wearing sunglasses!" Points at Cyclops. "Well, I found it weird, too. But then I made a discovery not too long ago. Something that explains this….. They're MUTANTS!" Everybody in the cafeteria went wide eyed, and turned their attention to the four. Duncan, with a sinister smirk on his face continued. "You all look shocked. I am too."

'Ha! Take that, X-Losers!' Pietro though, as Duncan continued his speech.

'Now it's your turn to be the outcasts….' Lance thought.

'Y'all's secret is out. Now try being the good guys when you're around enemies.' Rouge thought. But then their thoughts stopped when Duncan turned his attention from the X-Men…to THEM!!

"And those four are also freaks, just like Tolansky and his friends! Their known as the Brotherhood!" Everyone gasped as looked back and forth from the X-Men and the Brotherhood. The four misfit mutants were utterly stunned that their "Friend" ratted them out too. "Don't you see?! We're being over ran by super powered freaks! This needs to stop before they get too powerful and begin using us humans as test subjects or something equally evil!" Now Duncan was filling everybody's heads with evil plans evil mutants were scheming. And pretty soon, people started believing him and began booing and hissing at both mutant parties. But in the middle of his rant, everyone in the lunch room felt the earth begin to shake.

'Ah crap! Avalanche!' The X-Men thought as they peered across the room to see Lance, with his eyes rolled back and his arms extended. The Brotherhood was not so happy with the betrayal of trust by Duncan…and weren't shy about their powers, neither.

"Wrong move, Matthews…" Avalanche growled. "You just made the biggest mistake in your life. You got the Brotherhood pissed! Now you ALL will have to deal with us!" The earthquake became more intense as students ran screaming out of the school. Duncan and his friends tried to escape, but Nightcrawler appeared before them, blocking their way out.

"Lance is right…you've messed vith the wrong mutants." Then when they turned to run it the other direction, Rouge and Pietro were right behind them, with nasty glares on their faces.

"You sure screwed up, Hon…" Rouge snarled, circling around the group of kids.

"Yeah. Now you all are going to pay the price! Now one double crosses the Brotherhood and goes off Scott free!" Quicksilver agreed, as he began running at high speed around them, creating a mini tornado. Duncan and his pals were lifted up, and spun around wildly.

"H…hey! Let us down, you freak!" Duncan cried. But Pietro ignored his cries and continued to run…. Until Todd's tongue same in around his ankles and caused him to stumble. The speed demon skidded across the floor as his man made tornado dissipated and faded away. The football team fell to the ground, and were about to hit the ground. But Fred was already there and caught them.

"You guys are lucky we HAVE to save you…" The large mutant growled as he sat the mutant hating teenagers down. Scott then sent a laser beam at the door Kurt was protecting. Seeing the laser beam coming, Kurt vanished to dodge it. But hitting him wasn't the objective. The beam demolished the doorway he was protecting, making a escape rout for the team. Without at least thanking the team, Duncan and the others retreated out of the school. The Brotherhood then turned to face their rivals.

"Where did you help dose losers?!" Nightcrawler shouted in anger. "Vay are against us mutants and vish for our destruction! Why would you help them?!" Toad looked at him, and sighed.

"While I would like nothin' more then too wipe the smart out of Duncan…the professor appalls mutants usin' their powers for their own reasons, yo. It's mutants like YOU who make it hard for us who are trying to survive." Lance frowned at his statement.

"That's all bullshit, X-Geeks! We are the one's trying to survive. You have it easy because you gave into that peaceful crap! You are blind to how cruel the world is! The world will never let us live our lives and leave us alone!" His team nodded their heads, agreeing with him. "It's you how needs a wake up call. We need to act now before it's too l…." SPLAT! Toad's spitball smacked against Lance's face, cutting his sentence short.

"Yo…you need to shut up and smell the coffee, Pebble Head." The slimy teenager sighed. "We are well aware of how people treat us mutants, yo. But we don't let their bitter behavior get to us. Because when we start using our powers to HURT them, then we're no better then they are." Jean joined it on the argument.

"We don't let a criminally insane man lead us to something he can't give us. We don't want to be respected because of fear…we wasn't to be accepted for what and who were are. And that's something Magnito can't give any of us." Pietro, after hearing this, smirked.

"HA! And we're supposed to believe that your paraplegic old fart of a leader can offer better? That's a joke!" Wrong thing to say.

"SHUT UP!!!!!!" Blob roared, before grabbing a lunch table and hurling it straight at the Brotherhood. The battle officially began when the table was thrown. Using his vanishing powers, Kurt teleported the whole team vanished before the table was halfway there. The reappeared behind the X-Men team, and ambushed them. It was another four on four skirmish. Toad had Nightcrawler, Cyclops had Avalanche, Blob had Quicksilver and Jean had Rouge. But since it was far too crowded in the cafeteria for a battle, the four split up, taking their opponent with them.

(At the X-Mention)

"This is bad…." Xavier sighed.

"What is it, Charles?" Ororo asked, as she watered his plants. The professor looked at the woman with a tired expression.

"It seems that the Brotherhood and our team are fighting again…. Come, we need to get there before it gets out of hand."

(Back at the School)

Unfortunately, it already got out of hand with the fight. The battle poured out of the school and into the streets. Toad hopped and leaped through out the streets, dodging attacks sent by Nightcrawler. But it wasn't just Kurt he needed to avoid. Someone phoned the police about what was going down at Bayville high, and were going after all the mutants they could find. "Yo!" Toad shouted, after he did a back flipped to avoid a round house kick from Kurt. "We need to stop this before anyone gets hurt."

BANG! BANG!

Shots came from behind the two, one almost nicking Toad in the shoulder. They turned to see four police cars parked behind them, with eight cops stationed behind them. The one with the microphone shouted at then.

"Halt! In the name of the law! That was just a warning shot! So drop to your knees, or we will be forced to use lethal force to stop you!" Nightcrawler glared at the men in blue, and disappeared in a puff of smoke, leaving Toad behind. Seeing this as a attempt to escape capture, the police opened fire on Todd. Thankfully, he managed to dash down a alley and climb up the wall.

'Shit…. This is bad.' He thought. 'Now the freakin' police are involved. And everyone at school knows about our mutant powers….' When he got atop the building, he saw Nightcrawler, waiting for him. But for some reason, he didn't attack. He just stared at him, with a neutral look. "Yo. This is all your fault, yo." Toad accused. "If it wasn't for you and your…."

"How is it my fault, Slime ball?" The blue mutant asked heatedly. "This only proves our point more. Vay vill never accept us…because we're different." He said bitterly, looking at his three fingered hands. "Vay vill accept our powers. Why can't you see that?" Toad didn't answer at first. But he shrugged his shoulders and was walking away.

"Because we don't OFFER to help them, yo. We help when NEEDED. Only then will our abilities be truly appreciated. It's mutants like you and the Brotherhood that are attacking and destroying for no reason who are screwing everything up." Toad spoke, as if giving a lecture. "You wanted to be a X-Man once, right? Well, what the hell is stopping you? You want to use your powers and be recognized by normal people? You need to stop being a baby about how people see you and help them when needed, like us X-Men." And with that, he hopped down the building, and began making his way back around the school.

(With Kurt)

The blue mutant leaned against a building wall, thinking about what Todd had just said to him. He pondered his alliance with the Brotherhood, and wondered if it was right with him. Sure, Mystique said what they were doing was helping to "Motivate" fellow mutants and get them to join…. But now, being chased by the cops and fighting with the X-Men got him think……. What was his true calling? He stopped thinking when he heard a police car's siren nearing his position. He swear under his breath in German, and disappeared.

(Back at School)

Todd raced his way to school, hoping his friends were alright. And sure enough, when Bayville high came into view, he saw Scoot, Fred and Jean in front of the school. And professor Xavier was there as well, with his car waiting for him. Apparently the three managed to deal with their opponents, and their appearance backed them up. Their clothes were all wrinkled and covered with dirt…mostly Scott, since he faced off with Avalanche. "YO! You all alright?" Fred smiled broadly and waved at him as he neared.

"Hell yeah! Quicksilver may be fast, but he can't fight worth crap!" When Toad rejoined the team, Xavier cleared his voice and began.

"I'm glad your bad back didn't affected your abilities to act in sudden confrontations, Mr. Tolansky….. But we need to leave before the authorities come back looking for you." Without saying anything, the four crammed inside the car and were off to the institute.

(At the Institute)

Charles was commending Fred on saving Duncan and his friends during the confrontation with the Brotherhood. He said he was proud he helped the anti-mutant party when they got in trouble. But what he DIDN'T like was that when the actual fight started, HE was the one who attacked first. He said he understood how hearing him being disrespected might've made him mad…but he pointed out that controlling his emotions was just as important as knowing to controlling your powers. They entered the institute, to see Wolverine pacing back and forth, smoking not one…but TWO cigarettes. "YO! What's the problem, Logan?" Toad asked. The feral man looked at his smaller partner, and let out a huge puff of smoke.

"Everything, Todd….. I found out something…just now." He spoke as if he was holding back uncontrollable rage. His fists tightened up, crushing his cigarettes in the process. "Looks like HYDRA has been pretty busy since I've bust out." The mention of the organization Logan used to be in sparked Charles as disturbing. What did HYDRA have to do with this? "It appears…that the girl who we tangled with was…my clone."

One point five seconds later…..

"WHAT?!?!?!?!"

To Be Continued…….

Hey there everybody! How did you like this chapter? Did you notice my whole Kurt scene I had going there? A little hint into what MIGHT be happening soon. And did anyone like the ending, where Logan discovers he has a clone? And again, sorry this chapter took so long. Hope to hear from you soon! Peace leave reviews! PEACE!