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Chapter 12

Double Breakthrough

"Well, Pyro," Spectrum said, "It's just you and me now. Bio's out cold, but I stopped him from burning to a crisp. Tin Man, Wolverine, and Sabre are out cold. I have your powers, plus those of Nightcrawler, Tin Man, and Wolverine. Do you really think you can win? Especially since I'm fireproof with this steel skin?"

"Nothin's fireproof, mate. I just need the flames to get hotter." Pyro flung his arms out and clenched his fists. The various fires around the room shrank and turned blue. Pyro brought his hands together in a clap, and the flames encircled him, rings of blue fire around his red-orange outfit. "You know, I used to enjoy doing stuff like this," Pyro muttered.

"You want the concentrated pyromania that I yanked from your brain?" Spectrum gestured behind him, to a machine that looked like a large universal remote with an extra battery slot and an electrode for attaching to bare skin. "Mystique gave me that to mine your noggin. No idea where she got it, but I think the pyromania's still in it. If you can beat me, as you say, it's all yours."

"Consider yourself beaten." Pyro lifted the rings over his head. They flattened out into discs, and began to fly toward Spectrum, roaring and crackling with heat. Spectrum jumped out of the way of one, rolled away from another, teleported away from the last one, and screamed in pain as the first flaming wheel doubled back and spun into his back. He was knocked forward, and into Pyro, who had a ball of blue flames between his hands. Pyro smacked the orb into Spectrum's face, and kicked him back as he screamed and clutched his smoking face. "Had enough?"

"Nope! Something just occurred to me about your power." Spectrum lifted his hands in the air, then brought them down. All the fires in the room instantly went out. Before Pyro could conjure more, Spectrum ported behind him, and used his steel 'bone' claws to slice the feed tubes off Pyro's flamethrower. He yanked the device from Pyro's back and tossed it across the room, and followed up by grabbing Pyro's leg and throwing him across the basement. Now he was not the dangerous, unstoppable Pyro, but the powerless St. John Allerdyce. "Now do you think you can beat me?"

"Uh, yeah, sure." Pyro was wildly striking an iron paperweight against the concrete floor, trying to create a spark.

"Idiot." Spectrum grabbed a table, threw it into the air, teleported above the table, and rode it into Pyro's face. Pyro was launched across the room, and Spectrum was waiting at the other end. The power-absorbing mutant sliced Pyro's chest with his claws, then kicked him in the gut, knocking him away again. "Have you had enough?"

"Sorry, but I'm a sucker for punishment." Pyro noticed he was right next to the weird mind-sucking device, and pulled out a glass cylinder from the 'extra battery slot'. Something red and luminous was floating around the cylinder, which happened to have a syringe tip. "I hope to God this is my crazy and not the power source."

"Are you about to do what I think you're ab-" Pyro, instead of listening, jammed the syringe into his temple and injected, likely killing a few dozen brain cells in the process. A dazed smile crossed his face. "Yeah, you did it," Spectrum commented. "Listen, I'm just going to kill you now, since there's no point in you fighting back anymore. At least you died happy… I guess… I'll ask Mystique if I should have you cremated, or if that would be too nice."

Pyro suddenly snapped out of his daze. "Cremated… yeah! 'Cause everything burns! EVERYTHING!" He shot his arms out, and a pillar of flame appeared on each side of him. "I like burning stuff. Do you like burnin' stuff?"

Spectrum's eyes were wide. "You…y-you can't create fire! That isn't part of your powers!"

"It is now, I guess!" Pyro raised his hand, and a small, candle-sized flame appeared between his finger and thumb. He raised the flame to his face. "Always wanted to do THIS, mate." He blew into the flame, and a cone of blue flame erupted from his hand, completely washing over Spectrum. When Pyro paused for breath, Spectrum was on the floor, and apparently didn't have Colossus, Wolverine, or Nightcrawlers' powers anymore, because he looked like a normal human, if one who was burned pretty badly. "That ROCKED! LOOK!" Pyro shouted to nobody in particular, "There's a friggin' scorched outline of him on the far wall! Have ya ever seen something so beautiful?! The house began to rumble, and more floors began to fall apart. "What the… shit!" He ran over to Wolverine, and slapped him. Logan was instantly awake, and had his claws at Pyro's throat. "Hey, mate, the house is collapsing. What should we do?"

"Sorry about dropping the entire house on you guys, but Storm couldn't reach any of you. She concluded the battle was lost and thought I should make sure they go down with you." They were in the X-Van, en route back to the Institute. Currently, they were bandaging Kurt and Pyro (Blob was already bandaged). Wolverine was pulling plaster out of his skin. He had stayed inside the longest to find Gambit, and he had the most chunks of old house in him as a result. Gambit, Kurt, and Hunter, who Blob had brought along, were still unconscious. They had to leave Bio and Spectrum behind, but Wolverine said they'd return later to see if the two were still alive, on Xavier's insistence. Mystique and Sabretooth had been seen leaving the area, with Mastermind slung over Sabretooth's shoulder. Pyro was staring at a tiny flame on his thumb, watching it dance with a smile too big for his face.

"Did you miss me?" He whispered. Everybody was freaked out. The X-Men were freaked out by Pyro's love of the dancing flame. Fred and Wanda knew their teammate a bit better. The thing that freaked them out was the fact that he was whispering, something they had never heard before. Also, they were a bit freaked out that he had jammed a syringe into his brain, if not surprised.

Two weeks later…

"Yeah, I brought some flowers. Just put them by his bed," Buzz whispered. Since Xavier had restored his memory, Buzz 'Hunter' Persicelli had made a few important decisions. With the restoration of his memory had come the realization that his immediate family was dead and his extended family did not accept that he was a mutant. Xavier had invited him to the Institute, but Hunter had other plans.

"Can't really say I knew their nice sides," Lance huffed. They were staring at the unconscious forms of Bio and Spectrum. Both had been recovered, alive, and were rushed to a hospital. After minimal skin grafts, they were both recovering nicely, except for the fact that both of them were comatose. The intense heat and the concrete dropping on their skulls and bodies proved to be a potent combination. It was anybody's guess whether they would wake up anytime soon. Xavier had tried entering their minds, but all he had managed to due was undo everything Mastermind had done.

"They're nice guys. I loved to argue with Bio," Buzz maintained. "He loves flowers… well, he loves all plants, because of his powers. Can you believe he only eats meat and dairy? It's so freaky!"

"You don't eat mammals because you can shapeshift into other mammals," Wanda pointed out.

"Yeah, but animals are living creatures."

"So are plants," Pietro pointed out.

"You sound just like him."

"Can we go soon? I'm bored." Pyro was looking around. Oddly enough, he had said that when and if 'Specs' and 'Firewood' woke up, he wouldn't at all mind them joining the Brotherhood.

"Yeah, we can go." With that, the Brotherhood, including their newest member, left the room. Nobody, including the nurses, noticed that the rosebuds Hunter had left by Bio's bed were already in bloom.

End of Story

Thanks for reading! I would like to thank Yellowfur for editing and letting me use Hunter. I'd like to thank trustmeicanwrite, Yellowfur (again), and Fenrir's Daughter for all reviewing multiple times, when nobody else reviews once. Finally, I'd like to thank the reviewers.

Hunter is, obviously, part of the Brotherhood now. That means if you send him a question in my Ask The Brotherhood fic, he will answer you. I'm not planning a sequel to this fic at the time, but if I get enough requests...

I usually give my Cartoon section OCs voice actors, whose voices you can think of, if that helps in the fic. Hunter is played by Scott Menville (you may know him as Robin in Teen Titans or Lloyd in the game Tales of Symphonia). Bio is played by Alistair Abell, a bit more obscure, he played Future Trunks in Dragon Ball Z, and the History of Trunks movie. He's had other minor anime rolls. Spectrum is played by David Rasner (Steng in Zatch Bell, not much else.) I just realized that this isn't so helpful at the end of a story. Oh, well!