The
disclaimer has been crushed during a recent trip to a mall, the day
after Thanksgiving. We will now have a moment of silence for the
disclaimer. Okay. Since all you damn X-Men
fans have your worthless original team, us Brotherhood (and to a
lesser extent Acolyte) fans will now have the original Brotherhood of
Evil Mutants! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh, and excuse the
grammar.
"CHECKMATE!" Pyro screamed, then laughed maniacally. Mastermind looked down at the game. Pyro had somehow made his first pawn jump over the other pieces and smack Mastermind's king off the board.
"I thought you said you knew how to play."
"I say a lot of things! Let's play checkers next!"
"Is he always like this?" Mastermind asked the others. Gambit and Colossus nodded. The steel door behind them opened and Magneto walked in, carrying his helmet. Everyone but Mastermind dropped what they were doing and stood at attention.
"As you were. Mastermind, come with me. We have business to take care of in New York."
"New York? Oh, good. I've needed a change of scenery since I got here." Sabretooth growled. "What exactly are we doing?"
"I'm looking for someone. We'll need to stop at Bayville first. There's someone else we'll need a little help from..."
X-Men:
Evolution
"Brotherhood vs. Brotherhood"
King of the
Worthless
Pietro sat comfortably in the Brotherhood backyard, sipping on some lemonade... or he would, if there were any in his glass.
"Toad! More lemonade!"
"I'm comin'! I'm comin'!" Todd walked out of the house carrying a pitcher of lemonade with a lemon slice thrown in. Pietro held out his glass, not bothering to actually look at Todd. The younger mutant began to pour the lemonade for his dear friend...
"AAAH! TOAD!!" Pietro sat up, his pants now soaked with lemonade. "YOU ASSHOLE!"
"Listen to me, Pietro, I ain't gonna be your damn butler, okay? You can't boss us around no more! If you keep this up, I'm tellin' Wanda about your little secret!"
"What little secret?" Wanda asked as she walked outside.
"Er..." Todd then told Wanda that Pietro had taken fifteen dollars from her. Though hexed and thrown against the side of the house a few times, Pietro got Todd's message. Inside, Pietro rubbed some water on his wounds.
"I bluffed for ya this time, but that was a warnin'. Wanda finds out your other little secret, you ain't gonna walk it off so easily."
"Keep in mind, Toad, if you tell her, she'll be just as mad at you for keeping it from her."
"Yeah, well, I... er... fuck."
Pietro grinned. "Looks like you owe me some lemonade, froggy." Pietro snapped his fingers. "C'mon! Get to it!"
"Right, Pietro... er... sir."
"That's more like it." Pietro crossed his arms and watched Todd hop down the stairs with his usual sly smile. Lance walked by, carrying a small radio that seemed to be picking up random frequencies.
"Damn things busted again," Lance said.
"Hey, the tuner's moving..." Pietro noticed the railing of the stairs was shaking, too. "Oh."
The front door flew open and Magneto hovered in. Lance groaned and set the radio down.
"Hey, can you ever show up without making a fuss?!"
"Silence!" The radio knocked Lance on the head and sent him to dreamland. "Pietro, I need you and Wanda to come with me."
"Ooh, a mission!" Todd yelled. "Count me in!"
"...Your services will not be required, Toad."
"Aw, c'mon! You let Sabretooth do stuff for ya, and when's th' last time he's ever done anythin' right?"
"Sabretooth is..." Magneto then realized that Todd had a point. "I see. Very well, Toad. You can come if you agree to follow my orders and do nothing without said orders. Understood?"
"Gotcha, daddy-in-law!"
"And stop calling me that."
"Daddy!" Wanda squealed. She jumped on Magneto with her arms around his neck. "Come to visit me?"
"Yes, sweetie pie! We're going on a trip!"
"Ooh, really! Is Pietro coming?"
"Yes... and so is Toad."
"And so is..." Wanda looked down at the crouching Todd. He grinned at her. Wanda let go of her father. "Oh."
"Hey, what about us?" Fred asked.
"I will not be needing you," Magneto said. He walked out the door, followed by Pietro, Wanda and Todd. Lance and Fred smirked.
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Toad, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, and Mastermind sat in the middle of a park somewhere, waiting for Magneto. He had led them there, but he had an emergency matter to take care of.
"You know," Mastermind said to Scarlet Witch, "I've always liked the color red... it suits you so beautifully..."
"Lay off, pops, that's my girl."
"I don't see a ring on her finger... at least not a wedding ring."
"Both of you, shut it!" She waved her hands. A squirrel fell on Toad's head, and a thin tree branch fell on Mastermind.
"Every rose does indeed have it's thorns..."
"Dammit, pops, I said lay off!" Suddenly, Mastermind's appearance changed. He became a handsome young blonde man. Toad recognized this young, Swedish man...
"Yes, my dear, you are indeed a rose," Mastermind said, taking her hand and forgetting to put on an accent, though his voice was different enough to be convincing. She giggled, somehow having completely forgotten that he had been an ugly old man a few seconds earlier.
"Aw, c'mon! That ain't fair!"
"Hmm, must be tough losing the girl to your own dad, huh?" Quicksilver said with an amused smile. Toad sneered.
"My dear, you cerainly are a witch, I am under your spell."
"Oh, I bet you say that to all the witches!" Magneto arrived, carrying with him five metal spheres, one of which was his Big Boss Orb, the slightly bigger one that made sure everyone knew which sphere carried the leader.
"Are you all rea-" Magneto noticed Mastermind holding his giggling daughter's hand.
"It's too bad you can't see his illusions," Quicksilver said, "The contrast between the real Mastermind and this new face would probably make you laugh."
"I am not in a laughing mood."
"You never are..." Magneto scowled. "Er..."
"We'll talk about this later. Mastermind, cut it out," he said in an annoyed (but still evil and spooky) tone.
"Oh... ew..." Scarlet Witch got up and walked away from the bench. Mastermind shrugged, as this happened to him quite often.
"Man, no more of that," Toad said.
"Alright, alright, I'll find myself another young lovely to trick. Don't say I never made any sacrifices for you." They all climbed into the spheres and left for New York.
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"Hello boys," Mystique said. She said it as if she had been in the house for the last month. She opened the refrigerator and took a bottle of water.
"Uh... hi, Mystique," Lance said. "How's life?"
"Oh, just fine. What have you and Blob been up to?"
"Uh... the usual. Any particular reason you decided to show up again?"
"I'm glad you asked! You see, Magneto is planning something in New York. I have a double-agent working for him. Tell the others to get ready."
"Well... the 'others' is just Fred, so lemme get that taken care of. HEY FRED! MYSTIQUE'S HERE! GET IN YOUR BATTLE SUIT!"
"Just Blob? Where are the others?"
"I'm glad you asked! You see, Magneto is planning something in New York. He has double-agents working here!"
"What?! Pietro is no surprise, but Wanda and Toad, too?!"
"Well... Wanda's a little complicated. Toad's just following her."
"AARGH!" Mystique crumpled the bottle. "Then we'll have to try something else. Lance, you know the number to the Xavier mansion. Give them a call."
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Magneto stepped out of his Big Boss Orb and stepped on the hard roof of some building, where Mastermind, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch and Toad waited. They had arrived somewhere in New York, sometime after seven. Toad knew this because he was hungry... or it could've been later, he had metal-sphere-lag.
"So what are we doin' exactly?"
"The mutant we seek is located somewhere in this area. Mastermind was able to do some research beforehand and determined that he is here, in New York."
"More specifically, he's in this apartment building."
"Yes. Pietro, Wanda, Toad, check the building."
"Wait, what does he look like?" Wanda asked.
"You'll know him when you see him," Mastermind said. Magneto opened the door to the stairway and the three young mutants climbed down. Quicksilver ran through the first two floors looking for anything suspicious, while Scarlet Witch and Toad searched more thoroughly.
"Hi," Wanda said to an old man. She noticed he looked normal. "Bye."
"Hmm... sugarcakes, I found him!" Toad pointed down the hall, where little light reaches.
"How can you tell?"
"I can see in th' dark! You didn't know?"
"So when you said you couldn't see anything you actually saw everything?!" Scarlet Witch roared, referencing an earlier incident.
"Er... see, I was blindfolded!"
"I'll deal with you later, Toad! Just lead me to him!" Toad turned on a flashlight and hopped down the hall, where they found a strange, green-skinned man with spikes growing from his cheeks.
"Hi kids! I'm Bob."
"Nice to meet you, Bob," Scarlet Witch said. "We're mutants, like... LOOK AT MY FACE WHEN I TALK TO YOU!"
"Aw, don't yell!"
"...Anyway, we know what it's... I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO STOP THAT!"
"Hey! No need to get bitchy!" Bob's eyes turned red and the building began to shake. Quicksilver appeared just then.
"What's going on?"
"I don't know!" Scarlet Witch aimed her fingers at him. The shaking then stopped. For a brief moment it returned, but then it stopped again. The fire escape outside ripped through the wall and wrapped around Bob. Scarlet Witch continued her counter-hex on him. Magneto and Mastermind stood in the alley outside. Quicksilver ran down the side of the building while Scarlet Witch held on to Toad as he hopped down.
"Bet you can't let go, huh?" With her hands busy with Bob, she motioned for Quicksilver to slap him.
"This is Bob," Magneto explained. "He has the same hex powers as Wanda. With both hex spells keeping each other in check, Mastermind can now move in and do his part." Mastermind nodded and forced his hand against Bob's face. Before anything else could be attempted, Nightcrawler appeared out of nowhere and teleported away with Bob. With nothing to hold back her hex bolt, Scarlet Witch accidentally blew a hole into one of the walls.
"What?" Nightcrawler appeared on the opposite sidewalk, where Rogue waited. "X-Men," Magneto murmured.
"Not quite," Mystique said. She stepped out from the opposite alley, followed by Avalanche, Blob and Pyro.
"Mystique... Pyro! You traitorous slime..."
"Aw, relax Mags!" Pyro yelled. "No need to get all hot and bothered!" Pyro fired a straight line of fire at Magneto and the others, who all dodged it. Pyro split the flame so that a little trail followed each. Magneto lifted Pyro by his flame tank, but Mystique jumped at him with a hard kick to the chest.
"Hey, just why are you working with Mystique?" Quicksilver as Rogue as he held her arms behind her.
"The Professor's idea, he said we needed family bonding time..." Rogue leaned forward and threw Quicksilver at Blob, but he slipped away. Toad jumped on Avalanche's shoulders and spat a thick glob of slime on the top of his helmet.
"Toad! I can't see!"
"That's a shame, ain't it?" Toad kicked off, sending Avalanche to the ground. Nightcrawler teleported right in his path and tackled him in midair. Scarlet Witch hexed Nightcrawler into teleported away. Nightcrawler remained in motion as he appeared a foot off the ground. He hit his head and was out of the battle. Both teams regrouped. One one side of the street, Magneto stood with Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, Mastermind and Toad. On the opposite sidewalk, Mystique was joined by Avalanche, Blob, Pyro and Rogue.
"Face them one on one, but Magneto is mine!" Mystique ordered. For some reason, Toad went straight for Pyro. His wad of slime was quickly charred, and only a small cloud of ash reached the target. Pyro set both flamethrowers at their highest and created a large flame bull. Toad panicked and hopped as fast as he could from the charging bull.
Scarlet Witch faced off against Avalanche near a lamp post. Avalanche had wiped off enough slime to see and brought up the concrete beneath the lamp post and toppled it. Scarlet Witch managed to shove it over, and it instead fell on Avalanche.
Quicksilver once again went right to Rogue. He ran around her, taunting her with his speed, until she stuck her foot out and tripped him. Quicksilver rolled down the street several yards, with mixed 'ah's' and 'ow's.'
Blob and Mastermind faced each other, neither of the two making a single movement. Blob chuckled. Mastermind had already won the battle. Blob believed Mastermind was a television set.
Mystique dodged whatever objects Magneto threw at her in an attempt to keep her away, but she moved in and kicked him in the chest, then spun around and kicked him in the head, knocking his helmet off. Magneto threw it at her and hit her right in the forehead. Elsewhere, Blob snapped out of his trance as Rogue grabbed Mastermind's neck. She waved her hands, and everyone stopped. They seemed to believe they were in some dream world. Magneto and Mystique watched as the others walked around aimlessly. Then, everyone saw Quicksilver as Magneto, and everyone charged for him.
"Give Bob up to us, or your son is in for a world of pain!" Mystique told Magneto.
"I..." Magneto looked around. "Where is Bob?" Rogue stopped the illusion and looked around. "Where is Bob?!"
"..."
"Don't tell me none of you saw where he went?!"
"Well... uh... we..."
"AAARGH! IMBECILES!" Magneto punched a wall in anger.
"Wait, I found him!" Toad yelled. "But... uh... he's kinda dead, yo."
"Kind of dead...?" Magneto flew to where Toad indicated. Bob had been stabbed by muggers. After all, this WAS New York. Magneto sighed. "Very well..."
"This isn't over, Magneto!" Mystique yelled.
"Ah, fuck this," Avalanche said. "I'm hungry. C'mon, Fred, let's get something to eat."
"Took the words right out of my mouth."
"Hey, wait for me!" Toad yelled. Quicksilver shrugged and followed them.
"You won't leave me, right pumpkin?" Magneto said.
"Sorry, daddy." Scarlet Witch went to join the others.
"BAH! You'll regret this when your birthday comes around!"
"Hey, wait up!" Rogue yelled. Mystique gasped as her daughter joined them. It seemed teenagers in weird costumes had to stick together.
"They grow up too quickly," Mystique said.
"It was like just yesterday I was holding Pietro away from me and hoping he wouldn't drool on my tie... the years do go by quickly."
"Yes, they do," Mastermind said.
"Sorry, Mastermind," Mystique told him. "You didn't raise anyone."
"Well neither did you."
"I... alright, you've made your point. I'm going to go wait outside whatever restaurant they're going to so I can yell at Rogue for being an inconsiderate daughter." Only Magneto, Mastermind and Pyro remained. Magneto called his helmet to him and looked down at Pyro.
"I... aaaah..." Pyro shook his head. "Aw, where am I?"
"It looks like he was under someone's control," Mastermind suggested. "This was Xavier's idea, after all."
"Charles, why must you always interfere... very well. Come. We must prepare for tomorrow night."
"What are we doing tomorrow night?"
"The same thing we do every night, Mastermind... try to end our miserable lives."
The End That should be enough
for you! If it's not, then I'll be forced to pluck your eyes out.
