-Several hours later in Pietro's room-

Wanda lay on her brother's bed on her stomach, staring out of the window.

"Showed Clint who needs who to find a lost idiot brother and his lost idiot friends," she said with an authoritative nod. At that moment a light knock came at the door, "Come in Kari," she said refusing to roll over and look at the door.

"How does everyone know it's me?" Karima asked in confusion.

Wanda shrugged still not facing the girl, "Because you knock too lightly," she replied resting her head on her arms.

"I have to… or else I'll break the door," Karima added before examining the woman lying on the bed she shared with the woman's brother. She opened her mouth to speak but was promptly cut off.

"You miss him too, don't you?" Wanda asked still laying on the bed.

Karima paused for a moment, "Yes I do," she replied in a soft voice.

Wanda finally raised herself into a sitting position, her back to the other woman, "He may be an arrogant skirt chasing jerk… but he's my jerk," she said more angry than sad, "He is not allowed to make me worry about him!"

"You're very close," Karima said sitting on the edge of the bed.

"Pietro and I have always been close," Wanda said allowing faded memories to rise to the surface.

-Flashback-

It was a cool New York day. Two young children were playing in a sandbox in their backyard. One child had shoulder length raven black hair, while the other had slicked back snow white hair. One thing they held in common was cold piercing blue eyes.

The Maximoff twins were but a mere eight years old, and even at this young and tender age… they bickered like two lions over the carcass of a gazelle.

"You suck!" Pietro exclaimed.

"No! You suck!" Wanda yelled right back, her hands firmly planted on her hips.

"At least I was planned!" Pietro shouted crossing his arms.

"We're twins you idiot!" Wanda screamed breathing heavily for a moment, "And you're adopted!"

-Present time-

"Good times," she said with a surreal look on her face.

"Yeah…" Karima responded slowly.

"Ladies," The women turned to face a transparent Doctor Strange, "I hate to ruin such a touching trip down memory lane but…"

Karima stood up and hovered in front of the sorcerer, causing him to stop talking. She stared long and hard at him, "I can see through him," she stated poking a finger through his chest, "Is that normal?"

"Stop that," Strange said slapping her hand away.

"Owe, how'd you do that?" Karima asked rubbing her hand.

"Magic," he replied curtly, "Wanda, I believe I've found your wayward brother. Would you like to meet me in the living room?"

"Strange, if I wasn't sure it would make me violently ill, I'd kiss you," Wanda said leaping to her feet.

Strange made a disgusted face, "I'd cast you in some uninhabited dimension first," he responded just before fading away.

Wanda made her way to the door but noticed Karima's state of worry, "I'm going to bring them back Kari, even if I have to bring them back in body bags, you can count on it," she said with her usual air of confidence.

-A few minutes later in the living room-

Regan stared at the sorcerer and witch as if they had just told her the meaning of life involved tortillas, cheese and beef, which she had to admit, if she were to have asked her husband, he would undoubtedly agree.

Regan pinched the bridge of her nose, "So how are we bringing the boys back?" she asked not entirely convinced.

"Strange…"

"Doctor! I'm a Doctor," Strange promptly corrected the young witch.

"Right, Dr. Dumbass tracked Pietro through a few dozen dimensions. With a firm lock on him I can rip open a portal and bring them home," Wanda said as she made her way to an open space, threw her hands in front of herself and actually grabbed the air. She turned to face the other women, "Any advice before I leave?" she asked.

"Keep your hands and feet inside the portal at all times," Strange said with a small smirk.

Raven rolled her eyes, "Make sure to bring them back in one piece… I have much to discuss with them," she said with an evil glare.

"Okay," Wanda said as she threw her arms out to her sides causing a giant rip in reality to form, "Hold my calls," she said as she stepped forward into the unknown.

-Meanwhile in the Known-

The plane carrying the boys now flew over Jump City, and the Brotherhood Boys of Bayville, couldn't be in a more celebratory mood.

"Oh man, yo, that was the best job we ever pulled off!" Todd exclaimed leaping onto a large wooden crate.

"No kidding, I thought they had you when you dropped in to shut off the laser grid, who knew clinging to the rafters works in real life?" Pietro said leaning against the crate for a moment.

"I'm just glad we made it out with all this treasure," Freddy stated rapping his fingers on the crate.

"Well oih was itching for a foihght mate! Nothing loihke a brawl in a foreign country to get the blood going!" St. John cackled kicking up his feet onto the crate.

Lance simply shook his head, "How do we divvy up the loot?" he asked placing a firm hand on the crate.

"We don't," came Red X's voice from the cockpit, "And thanks again for strapping down the crate, it would've made this a lot more difficult," suddenly the rear hatch opened up throwing the once proud members of the Brotherhood were sucked out of the plane and thrown into the sky entirely unprotected.

The hatch closed, and Red X turned the auto-pilot on, "A thief is a thief even among fellow thieves," he said prying the lid off the crate, "Son of a! It's empty! Damn thieves!"

-Meanwhile, in free fall-

Lance reached out and grabbed a hysterical Todd, "Todd!" he exclaimed slapping the younger teen back to his senses, "We need to get to Johnny!"

Todd nodded and flicked out his tongue ensnaring St. John's arm.

"No hitchhoihkers mate!" St. John exclaimed.

"Johnny! Aim that flame straight down and break our fall!" Lance exclaimed grabbing Todd and the Aussie as tightly as he could.

Johnny nodded, "You can count on ole Pyro!" he exclaimed with a large tooth grin.

St. John Allerdyce aimed his flamethrower at the ground, what happened next would stick with the Brotherhood until their dying days. The sheer intensity of the fire that was released from the flamethrower was enough to illuminate the darkest of days and the resulting crater was almost large enough to hide the boys from Mystique's wrath… almost. With their decent slowed and a soft landing achieved the boys could finally let out a sigh of relief.

Lance ran his hand through his hair and looked to his friend, "What's that smell?" he asked with a whiff of the air.

Todd leapt out of the smoldering crater, "What, you never smelt burnt sneakers before yo?" he asked throwing his shoes into the water.

St. John threw himself on the ground and began making ash angels, "Oih love the smell of scorched Earth in the afternoon," he said with a large smile.

"Wait… we're two men down!" Lance exclaimed looking around frantically.

"I wondered when you'd notice," Pietro said leaning against a rock, "To answer your question, I spun until I created lift and made a soft discrete landing."

"That's fine but where's Freddy?" Todd asked scratching his head.

"Look out for Freddy!" Freddy exclaimed as he fell from the air and slammed into the ground so hard he sent the other Brotherhood members several feet into the air.

The boys landed as if nothing had disturbed them.

"Took you long enough," Pietro quipped.

Freddy pulled himself to his feet, "Updraft," he said with a small smile.

A large tremor ripped the boys from their conversation, "I can't believe that ass threw us out of the plane just to keep that treasure for himself! Seriously, is there no honor among thieves anymore?" Lance took a calming breath or two, and opened his vest to reveal several gold bracelets, necklaces and rings, "You guys get anything good?"

In response Todd pulled up his sleeves to reveal an intricate Jade Dragon encircling his left arm and several gold bracers on his other arm. Freddy reached into the front pocket of his overalls and pulled out a small chest full of Spanish Doubloons. St. John leapt to his feet, shoved his hands into his pockets and pulled out two giant gems. They turned to Pietro who now wore a crown and wielded a scepter in each hand.

"Like you expected anything less," Pietro said with a smirk.

"They have to be the dumbest criminals in the world," a deadpan voice said.

The boys turned their collective stare to meet… the Teen Titans!

Lance took a sharp look around and noticed that the boys had landed on a small island, that held a giant T shaped tower, which to Lance's amazement, was home to the current crime fighting force standing in front of him. "We really gotta start paying attention," he said with a disgruntled sigh.

"The only thing you need to pay attention to is your trip to jail!" Robin exclaimed pointing an authoritative finger at our heroes.

"Oh yeah!" Lance exclaimed, "Men dressed in better uniforms than you have tried! What makes this any different?"

And true to Brotherhood luck a small rip appeared in midair. Two delicate yet oddly familiar hands suddenly popped through.

"Do those hands look familiar to anyone else but me?" Pietro asked rubbing his neck self consciously.

The two small hands grabbed the air and literally tore the space asunder, revealing a very displeased Wanda, "Pietro!"

"I'm ready to go to jail now," Pietro said holding up his hands to be cuffed.