So here we are again, another chapter for you all. But what's this? Its done and ready to go in less than two weeks? How's that so?

Well, he-he-he, I knida cheated and wrote this first when the other chapter gave me writer's bock. So, we left the story with Todd saving a child and a rather interesting brawl ensuing between the Brotherhood and the X-Men (nothing new there). What will be new is the fight that will take up this chapter. As the title suggests, someone's rage, specifically Todd's, is finally peeked and he releases a furious smack down. And we get to see some payback for some certain individuals.

Who gets what? What happens? Well, read on and find out.

Fury of Thy Hidden Wrath

Todd slowly stood up, his whole body shaking slightly as he held the small girl in his arms. X23 watched as the smoke smoldered slightly from his back and his whole body expanded and contracted as his breathing got deeper.

Turning slowly, Todd walked over to X23 and slowly handed her the girl. His amber eyes stared deep into the clones, the color darkening into a rich gold with angry red specks and his gazed flickered to the young girl between them. He sighed as he ripped the shirt from his body, every scar red from the muscle tension and anger while the muscles readied themselves.

"Watch them for me." Todd said hoarsely, his body tense as his white sleeveless shirt fell as he stood. "I've had it with this…crap, yo."

X23 nodded in understanding; these kids he had brought from the orphanage were his responsibility and he felt connected to them to the point to call himself their big brother. The two looked at the other kids, their expressions softening slightly when the two forced smiles to them.

"Hey guys, I'm goanna go and see if I can take of this. This here is Laura and trust, she and Otero will keep you safe no matter what." He then looked at X23, his smile looking somewhat true. "Right?"

"I'll take care of them, Todd." X23 promised, keeping the kids behind her and her claws spread out to the sides.

"You know we got your back on this one." Otero assured him, standing next to her and repositioning his stance.

She then watched him turn and walk towards the fray of their teams

Todd's stride started as a walk but slowly he began to get faster, his legs soon pumping heavily under him as he charged at the nearest pair of fighting. This just happened to be Scott and Lance, the two leaders warily stalking around each other. The amphibious mutant just slid between them.

"Toad what are you –" Lance began to ask but the actions of the smaller mutant spoke for him.

Todd turned side ways to him, his back leg stepping forward and his upper body twisting towards his back. His front leg then swung up in a queaxiada and around, no strength held back and his momentum adding to the force of the attack. The side of his foot just caught Lance right across the face and sprawled him out on the ground, sending him into a tree.

The attacking limb touched down and Todd spun around, his body now facing Scott. The laser wielding X-Man slapped his hand on the side of his visor and a red beam flew at Todd. The green mutant dropped down in a crouch with his right leg out front, rolling his body over and towards Scott with the beam over him.

When he was facing the ground, his right leg then swung around so it was in front again but also behind Scott's ankle. Todd gave a sharp tug and, when Scott was stumbling back, he turned around and placed his hand beside his right leg. Todd's left leg then, as straight as a ruler, flew around, catching him on his lower jaw.

The leader was somersaulted in mid air and before he landed, Todd had started moving on to another target. He noted that Pyro, Gambit and Colossus had been added to the ranks of the Brotherhood and that Iceman and Sunspot were also there for the X-Men. As he moved forward, Blob and Sunspot staring at him as he moved forward.

Freddy had never seen his friend with such fury in his eyes, the rage splattered over his face in a way that spaghetti sauce got everywhere when the big mutant ate the Italian dish. Roberto, however, had recognized the style of movements that Toad was using having grown up watching his friends study Capoeira since it was part of their culture.

"Buddy, whatcha' ya doing?" Freddy asked, the amphibious mutant remaining silent. "If this about us trying to kick you out…"

Roberto was surprised again; the Brotherhood had tried to get rid of Todd? With him being this skilled? That didn't make any sense at all, the green mutant stopping that train of thought when he attacked.

X23's eyes were wide as she realized something. This whole time that Todd had been hanging out with her, he was getting flack and distrust from the Brotherhood as wells an enormous amount of abuse. Pietro had probably been the one to suggest that he be tossed out since he seemed to know the most about his past, next to her.

Todd leapt in the air, the ground he left indenting from the pressure he used, and twisted around as both feet hit Blob across the face. The big mutant stumbled back with a cry of pain as Todd landed and flipped backwards onto his hands. Sunspot just managed to avoid being landed on and blocked one of the falling kicks, but the ferocity and speed that they came at was too fast for him to handle.

Dropping his legs down and curling his body forward, Todd's feet shot out and hammered the Brazilian boy in the gut. Sunspot was on the green teenager's feet for a second so that he could see the anger in the eye before he went flying back and into Bobby.

"Jeez 'Berto, ya trying to help the Brotherhood?" Bobby asked as Pyro giggled insanely.

"Toad's gone crazy, man, he's going after everyone! And the Brotherhood tried to kick him out too!"

The ice creating mutant looked up with the super powered mutant at the sound of loud cry, as did most of the others fighting and all with the same shock. Todd had spat a large glob of slime in Freddy's face, specifically over his eyes, and dropped down onto his hand, his legs a blur as they flew around. His legs caught Blobs behind the knee and the big teen fell down on his side.

Twisting around three hundred and sixty degrees so he was spinning up right on one hand, Todd dropped his foot down on Freddy's head and knocked him out cold. Cartwheeling from his crouch to his feet, Todd bent forward as a metal came form behind. Flipping backwards, Todd's energy continued when he landed by bouncing not even an inch off the ground and spinning with a kick that hammered Gambit's face.

The New Orleans thief stumbled back, his own fighting training prepared him for such attack but not at the speed or power they were coming at. Landing, Todd's body continued moving as he twisted around and used the edge of the foot to catch his opponent on the jaw, the simple armada becoming lethal. This time, Gambit was thrown up and down onto the ground, laying in a crumbled heap.

As Todd's foot came down, he released the remaining energy by doing a handless cartwheel into his ginga stance. Pyro laugh hysterically and turned to the green mutant, the flamethrowers glowing as Todd kept moving back and forth.

"What's this? A toad in need of getting BBQ?" Pyro cackled insanely, aiming the nozzles at Todd.

The amphibious mutant rolled to the side into a handstand and three globs of slime shot out as he moved. The first smeared over the orange visor and the next two doused the flame throwers. Dropping his feet forward, Todd began backflipping to his next opponent.

Pyro only got the slime off to see Todd land on his hands before him and spin around so he got clocked three times by Todd's twirling feet. The leg that the green mutant landed had his back turned to Pyro, so he just gave a spinning back kick.

Pyro didn't move, his eyes just went wide and he collapsed into a heap gasping. Todd watched him give a shuddering cough as the blood speckled his lips, dropping down into a long legged squat and booting his face with his other foot. The Aussie did one of the smallest flips and landed on his back, a blur sending Todd stumbling back.

Todd made it look like he was going to do a handspring up but when he was all gathered on his hands and shoulders, he instead did a handstand and fell onto his feet. Quicksilver ran at him again and Todd leaned away from the attack in a improvised esciva. Pietro went to back hand him and Todd twisted the other, stepping forward slight to deliver a side kick.

The blow just caught the racing mutant, Quicksilver wiggling off to the side and a pair of large metal arms wrapped around him. Todd growled as he pulled at Colossus's arms, bending his feet up. He pressed one against the metal skin and used the other to start kicking against him. The large mutant grunted, his grip slipping as his arms were loosened.

Todd, once he hand enough space, lifted his body through Colossus's arms and wrapped his legs around the metal man's neck in a strange scissor lock. He then spun mid air, flipping the large mutant onto the ground. The amphibious mutant then managed to do a very fast and very controlled front flip, his foot hammering down on the large man's chest.

Rolling backward, Todd saw Iceman freezing the ground towards him and leaped over the ray of ice. He then ducked under a punch from Roberto, backflipping before twisting his body up and launching himself in that floating butterfly kick X23 was so found of. The barrage of feet just smashed Roberto's head, flinging him down on the ground with a loud thud.

The green mutant used his left arm to backhand a punch from Bobby, his arm continuing around until it came into contact with the ground. Yelling, Todd threw his body up onto his left arm and his leg hammered first into Iceman's ribs. As he doubled over, the amphibious mutant used his right leg to pelt him across the face.

Before he was able to land, a furry object flew into his back, sending him onto the grassy ground. Driving his arm back, Todd twisted under his opponent and then booted him off him. As Todd flipped up, he had to leap back so that Rogue's hand didn't touch his face and let his body jump up to kick her in the chest with both feet before landing. While the Goth girl struggled to get her breath back, Kurt teleported right above him and yelled as he tried to land on him. As Kurt approached, Todd dropped down.

His legs bent under him, the amphibious mutant rolled to the side and swept his leg around. Kurt managed to jump over it but the blue mutant soon found his tail being yanked around…by Todd's tongue. Todd somersaulted to his feet and lifted Kurt off the ground by his tail, pivoting on his heels as he had done with X23 as he spun around. The furious screams of German that followed were soon accompanied by a whooshing sound as X23 watched Todd become a slight blur and Kurt's image looking like it was in front a strobe light.

He suddenly released the boy and he crashed into Bobby and Roberto, twisting himself around to release energy. The tangle of teenage boys just collapsed as Todd landed in his ginga stance and looked around. Suddenly he was jerked off his feet and hovering in front of Jean, his body locked by her telekinesis.

"You need to calm down-" She never finished, Todd's slime shutting her little pep speech right up.

As he fell, Todd twisted around and landed on his toes, spinning around to give a perfect spinning hook kick to her head. The red head psychic just collapsed, the blow meant to incapacitate. A fast fist his face again, except this time the speed demon landed four blows in the space Todd took to land. As he spun his legs around to get up, Todd was booted in the chest as he rose in a squat by Pietro.

He just rolled back, landing on his shoulders and popping several cracks at once from what X23 heard. It was absolutely unfair, considering the power match up that was going on. She watched that as Todd got up, he got an upper cut to the stomach and then a punch to the side of his face.

"What-happened,-freak-face?" Pietro taunted, Todd spitting blood at the fast mutant who moved away from the retaliation. "You-did-so-well-and-then-you-fucked-up!"

Todd yelped as he punched in the back and then spun around with a kick, Pietro speeding away. He managed to punch Todd before he arched his foot back to kick the green teen between the legs, Todd's eyes narrowing quickly. As the foot flew, Todd jumped and spun; his body blurred to half the speed of Pietro and his side landed on the leg while his foot hit Pietro's collar bone.

Pietro fell but quickly speed to his feet and grabbed Todd by his shirt, speeding him into a tree that was near the clone. Todd's cry of pain made X23's heart freeze but the little girl in her arms race forward. She and Otero immediately raced after the girl, Quicksilver snickering as the kid approached the two.

"So,-now-your-liking-the-normals? I-never-thought-you-could-sink-so-low." Pietro sneered, smashing his fist in Todd's stomach with a wicked grin. "Hey,-Sabertooth-has-been-kind-of-lonely-lately, you-think-she-would-like-to-play-with-him?"

X23 didn't have to look at Otero to see that he was enraged, she could feel it with her own rage. She, she was livid and the desire to disembody Pietro was unbelievable at that moment in life. They were less that twenty from the two and Lord help Pietro when they got there, the damage varying on-

"AAAAARGH!!! FUCK YOU TO HELL!!!!" Todd screamed, grabbing Pietro by the shirt and smashing his forehead into the silver haired mutant's face.

The little girl, X23 and Otero stopped in their tracks, their green friend pushing Pietro off him and then, something that made everyone, even X23, cringe, Todd cracked his shin between Pietro's legs. Now, that normal was bad but the fact that the taller boy shot up the equivalent of his height from a kick to the crotch, it was much worse.

Then people saw Todd…and many impressions were changed.

His face was enraged; unlike the pissed off or annoy look he had on normally, this one was something like an animal's. Teeth bared and tendons stretching his skin, his amber eyes were dark gold and red while his uncovered arms swelled and tightened. Blood from Pietro's nose smeared over his forehead and face, his arms jerking the scrawnier and incapacitated boy around and punching him across his jaw.

The super fast mutant sprawled over a table, legs awkwardly strewn from the chair to the floor. No one had seen him punch yet, the whole brawl so far done strictly with kicks and he used this to the fullest of his advantages. Pietro gasped as he rolled around, his legs lining up and the green mutant proved his brutality in the wink of an eye.

He flipped forward and, with all the speed and strength he could muster, his heels smashed on Pietro's knees. His hands planted on the ground as he followed through and he swung his legs around while the son of Magneto screamed in pain. The tendons had snapped, the kneecap was more than likely in three pieces and Pietro was unable to move. Walking forward, Todd kicked Pietro over so he was flat on his back on the table and hopped up to he was looming over the boy.

"NO! DON'T TOUCH ME, YOU MONSTER! STAY AWAY!" Pietro scream shrilly, Todd jerking him up by his shirt.

"I want you hear this and HEAR IT CRYSTAL CLEAR!" Toad bellowed, punching the silver mutant across the jaw. "I'm OUT! FINISHED! AS OF NOW, I'M AN EX-BROTHERHOOD!"

"MY FATHER-" Pietro got another couple of punches to the face, the wood getting splattered with blood.

"That elitist prick can burn in HELL for all I care!!" Todd yelled, his fist pressing down on Pietro's throat. "Because I would rather be a traitor of my race rather than a murderer in the act of genocide of those that can't fight us!"

Otero ran forward and tried to pry Todd off, Pietro losing the ability of breath but Todd just kicked him off, the older man sliding back. X23 grabbed Todd's shoulders but the moment he turned his enraged face to hers, she realized that he wouldn't listen reason. He had been treated so inhumanly and cruelly by this teammate of his, that not even she would sway him now.

He grabbed her by the back of her neck and held himself up while kicking her with both feet in the chest. She landed back with Otero, her body tucked and ready to take the fall; she could have taken him down but she couldn't, X23 knowing that she may have killed him and that she was being biased in this situation.

And even though he had held back a considerable amount because it was her and Otero, it was still a powerful kick.

Getting up with Otero's help, a large figure walked by them and they watched as Todd was plucked off Pietro and chucked on the ground. The man walked over to Todd as he got up and the amphibious mutant snarled at Wolverine, who stood between him and his source of rage.

"Who the hell is that?" Otero asked, rubbing his sore chest.

"Wolverine, my father." X23 said worriedly, looking at him. "Todd won't win this…"

"But-"

"Just watch and you'll see." X23 said firmly, the older man nodding and turned to the brawl.

Todd tried to leap over him but it was low and Wolverine was able to jump up and catch his foot, throwing him to the ground. Todd's hands slammed on the ground with Wolverine still holding his ankle, his tongue wrapping around the older man's legs and pulling them out.

Wolverine let go and let his body fall into a flip while Todd pushed off in a cartwheel, jumping again to plant a powerful front kick to the man's back. Wolverine rolled with the blow and came up effortlessly. As Todd came again, Wolverine side stepped the attack and smashed his elbow into Todd's chest; X23 gritted her teeth and felt her breathing getting heavy, worrying for Todd. The smaller body of the green teenagers crumpled and he landed on his knees.

Since his bones were made of the strongest metal in the world like hers were, she wasn't surprised that Todd had been flattened. In fact, he would be lucky that his entire clavicle wasn't cracked wide-

Todd suddenly sprung up, his feet catching Wolverine in jaw as he backflipped, and rushed forward. The older man, being a little caught off guard from the unexpected and unorthodox attack, didn't see the knee strike in time, so Wolverine took the entire blow to the chest.

Now, the metal in his bones made Logan very heavy, around eight hundred pounds with the necessary muscle to move. So for him to flip completely over from the attack was shocking, landing on his chest. Todd watched him for a moment and then turned to continue with Pietro, X23 bracing herself for what Logan was going to do next.

Sure enough, Wolverine roared as he pushed his body up with his arms and his legs swung around frighteningly fast and agile. The first leg curled under his hips, lifting the other leg for the right height, and the other just smashed Todd's shins out form underneath him.

"Holy shi…" Otero mumbled, Todd falling like a brick on the ground while Wolverine hopped up in a snap.

"Todd is uncannily good in martial arts, probably a prodigal in the arts, but Wolverine a master in many of the arts of fighting and killing, not to mention strategy and physiology." X23 explained, shaking her head. "It's a completely unfair fight."

"Then why don't we do something?" Otero asked worriedly. "Todd could get killed."

"Logan won't do that and plus, he might be the only able and willing to do this right now." X23 explained, not liking it anymore than Otero.

Todd struggled to get up, glaring at the older man as he lifted his body up with shaking arms. He stood up and when Wolverine reached for him, Todd quickly duck and spun away from his hand. Wolverine gave him a look of annoyance and tried again, the young adult doing the same thing again. Dropping all attempts to be nice, Wolverine took a punch at Todd, the green mutant rolling back in a cartwheel and started his ginga again, despite his exhausted movements.

He dropped down as Logan kicked at him and rolled on the ground when the claws came down, his legs slamming into Wolverine's midsection and the back of his shins. Todd's speed in the attack was just enough to get him to on the floor but Wolverine sucker punched Todd in the stomach, standing while Todd struggled to even move.

X23 slowly walked over to them, steadying herself for what she may have to do. Btu before another step was taken, she felt a calming presence arrive at the park and in her mind.

It's alright, my dear… Professor Xavier's voice said in her mind. We will help him…

X23 saw him with Storm as they hurried to where she was and as she turned back to the fight, Todd had just gotten to his feet. She saw how her father was looking at him, like he was seeing something that he shouldn't be seeing. He kept that look as the amphibious mutant walked past him, his hand snap out to chop Todd behind the neck.

His eyes going wide, Todd then collapsed into unconsciousness right into her waiting arms. X23 slowly knelt down, Wolverine muttering something before going to talk to Xavier and the clone pulled him up more. She hung her head and stroked his face gently as she wondered…wondered what else could possibly come next.

So, this was interesting, wasn't it? Well, at least, I hope it was. Now, before we start the arguing about how the fight went, imagine if some scrawny kid, who everyone picked on till no end, just one day began to fight back by flipping, rolling, somersaulting around the bullies. I think a lot of people would be surprised that this kid who just took all that abuse was able to suddenly pull this out.

That's the kind of kid that Todd is in the cartoon and adding in the sheer capabilities of his powers, this fight is fairly accurate in its context.

So, what comes next will follow the aftermath of Todd's words and actions, not to mention those of X23's. But this will take a bit to write, so please bear with me as I type away.

Please send reviews with all your comments, questions, concerns, annoyances, intrigues, suggestions or anything else. I hope to here from all of you, since its such a nice feeling.

-Lin