Chapter 61: Every Toad has his day

Two months had passed since the incident with Chelsea had occurred and as Beast and the other medical professionals had predicted, with every passing day the Dragoness was becoming more and more feral, and they were running out of time before she'd snap.

So, they decided to call in Emma Frost to help with the sessions that Jean and Xavier had been doing up to this point. And although it has been keeping her from going full animal, it was simply only a stop gap. They still needed to find the source of the issue, and quickly.

Logan was taking it the hardest, and was worrying almost non-stop about his unofficial wife's well being. There had been times where he had been unable to fall asleep at night due to his worried thoughts. Everyone had tried to comfort him and tell him that they wouldn't lose her, but it sometimes went in one ear and out the other.

Though this was interrupted by a sudden visit to the Institute from an unexpected person: Magneto. The self proclaimed 'Master of Magnetism' was now currently at the front steps of the Institute in a simple coat and hat and other civilian clothes and was apparently not there to pick a fight, for once.

"What are you doing here, Magneto?" Logan asked, not in the mood for any fights at the moment.

"At ease, Wolverine. I'm not here to fight, I'm simply here to give you an apology." The man told him, causing him to pause.

"I'm listening." The scraggly man said.

"I wanted to apologize for the behavior of Sabertooth and our new ward, Akihiro. Or as you know him, Daken." Magneto explained. "I understand that they have caused you much grief as of late."

"That's putting it lightly, and I was told by Laura that he was dead. Guess she didn't know about his healing factor." He said, muttering that last part to himself. "Things haven't been easy for anyone here for the past two months because of Chelsea's current state." He told the man.

"As I have heard." Magnus nodded. "But rest assured, I will make sure Daken is punished for his actions. After all, the X-men, the brotherhood, and my acolytes are currently in a bit of a truce, correct? I'd hate for it to be jeopardized in its infancy."

"At least he's getting punished." Logan nodded, feeling somewhat at ease by this information. Magneto nodded.

"As I have said before, although things have improved drastically for our kind, I am unwilling to let my guard down. But I do believe that Charles and I may be coming to an understanding more." He said as he turned around. "Farewell Wolverine, and please do give Miss Marks I wish her a good recovery… Or do I call her miss Howlett?" He asked with the new surname being said in a teasing tone.

"I'll be sure to tell her, Maximoff." The scraggly man said as he went back inside. He then went to the danger room and was met with a growl as Chelsea looked at him, before her gaze softened when she realized it was him.

"Hey, Chels, how ya feelin'?" He asked as he walked towards her.

(The next day)

On Bayville bridge, it was rush hour and the entire structure was packed with cars heading to various destinations. One of which was a cab ferrying Wanda to her destination on the other side of it.

However as the cab got stuck in the ensuing traffic jam, one of the bridge's support pillars was suddenly set ablaze. At first it was just a few flames, but as they joined the fire then suddenly started to take the shape of horses.

The sight caused many on the bridge to panic and even abandon their cars as the fires spread to the suspension cables holding the structure and burning debris started raining down.

"Look out! The gas tanker's going to blow!" Someone exclaimed, causing people to run as fast as they could.

Wanda, meanwhile, spotted someone on top of the bridge controlling the flames. It was one of Magneto's cronies, Pyro. And it seemed that the Australian pyromaniac seemed to be having the time of his life as he kept blasting the bridge with fire.

"Pyro…" Wanda growled, right before the redheaded pyrokinetic was suddenly sprayed in the face with what looked like… Webs. Wanda blinked when she was the webs before Pyro was suddenly kicked onto one of the cables, where he safely lowered himself to the ground.

"Hey Pyro! Didn't your mom ever tell you not to play with fire?" Spider Man said as he swung onto the scene with his teammates: Power Man, Iron Fist, White Tiger, and Nova right behind him.

Power Man, aka Luke Cage was an African American kid with a stocky and muscular build that was clad in a black and yellow suit with metal bracers on his arms and sunglasses that looked like they belonged to Jordy Le Forge. He had super strength and unbreakable skin.

The large teen took to the tanker and picked it up with both hands before he hurled it over his shoulder and off the bridge, allowing it to explode elsewhere.

"Tanker's Clear!" He called in a Jersey accent.

Next was Iron Fist, aka Danny Rand. This blonde martial artist was Power Man's best friend and had the ability to channel powerful chi into his hands to destroy anything he punched. He was clad in a green high collared suit with a dragon on the chest, and yellow mask.

"The fires have been extinguished." The boy said while bowing.

Deciding to take out the flames, the blonde started punching every car that was on fire to break it before they could explode. While Nova, or Sam Alexander, was rushing Pyro while cloaked in cosmic energy given to him by his Nova Corp Helmet.

"Alright Ava, he's all yours!" Nova called to his final teammate.

This led the Australian Mutant right into the arms of White Tiger, aka Ava Ayala, who's mystical green amulet gave her cat-like abilities. The white clad girl slashed her elongated claws in Pyro's gas tanks, rendering his weapon useless.

"And there goes your source of power." Ava smirked. "He's all yours, Spidey! Take 'em down!" She called the team's leader.

"Way ahead of you!" Peter called back as he delivered a combo of punches and kicks onto the disabled pyromaniac. The final kick sent him flying and he ended up landing at the feet of a surprised Wanda.

"*Gulp* Hey there Sheila, enjoy the fire show?" The man gulped nervously.

The HeX girl snapped out of her surprise and glared at him before grabbing his collar and bringing him to her face.

"I'm going to ask you this once, Pyro. Where. Is. Magneto?" She growled at the man. Unfortunately for her, he didn't answer, he just unscrewed something on his back and smoke came out in her face, causing her to drop him and for him to disappear off the bridge.

Wanda coughed as she waved a hand to clear the smoke away from her face, and when she looked around, Pyro was gone.

"Son of a BITCH!" The girl growled, right before she noticed something on the ground. Picking it up, she saw that it was some sort of keychain.

"Hey, who was that creep anyway?" Wanda heard Nova ask as she turned towards Team Spider Man.

"That was Pyro, one of Magneto's acolytes." She replied.

"What was he doing causing wanton destruction like that?" Iron Fist asked as he folded his arms.

"It was a message from my father, he wants me to stop looking for him." The witch growled.

"Not to sound demeaning or anything, but I'd say that for the sake of everyone else, you probably should." White Tiger stated, her hands on her hips. Everyone else seemed to agree with that as well, except for Wanda.

"You have no idea of what Magneto did to me! I want him to pay!" She growled at them furiously.

"Selfish desires, like revenge, only lead to pain of the mind, corruption of the heart, and sickness of the soul. You should not pursue such a self destructive path." Iron Fist said sagely as he sat on a car hood in a lotus seating position.

"He's right. Just let it go. There's not going to be any real point in it in the end, anyway." Nova nodded.

"Well maybe if I did to you what he did to me, you'd understand!" Wanda snapped as her HeX energy flowed to her hands.

"Hey now, no need for that." Spider-Man said with his hands in a placating gesture. He then turned to his team. "Come on guys, let's leave her alone…" He said, right before he noticed all the bystanders were back and now they were taking pictures and cheering.

"As soon as we get some pictures with the locals." Power Man chuckled as he went to have a few pictures with some fans, leaving Wanda to go where she wanted.

(Meanwhile)

Laura was walking down the halls of Bayville high in the school's gym uniform. Why? She had just tried out for the girls basketball team, and managed to get on a spot. She was quite pleased with herself, and she couldn't wait to tell Chelsea and Logan.

Though as soon as she got to her locker to get her bags to change, she was met with the very unwelcome sight of the resident queen bees of the school. Tiana Prince, Captain of the cheerleading squad and her cronies. Laura's personal nemesis, her high school version of Sabertooth, basically.

"Oh great. What do you want, Prince?" Laura sighed in irritation.

"I saw you at those tryouts, Har-lett, you better not be trying to show me up. Unless you've forgotten, I'm the top girl around here." Tiana snapped.

"For the last time, it's Howlett. And for your information, the only thing you are around here is the top bitch." Laura snapped back, arms crossed under her C-cup chest. "I mean seriously, what self respecting woman would have a box of condoms in her backpack and gym locker? What, you bribing the coaches with a lap dance to stay captain or something?"

"Why you-! Get her!" She ordered her lackeys, who stalked toward Laura… And promptly backed off when she brought her claws out.

"Go ahead, try me, bitches. I dare you." She said challengingly.

The three girls started to back away. "This isn't over you Mutant slut!" Tiana yelled as they ran away.

Laura retracted her claws and groaned in exasperation, realizing that she split her shoes in half. "Damn it, I just bought these." She spat angrily.

(Elsewhere)

Meanwhile, Kurt was walking with his girlfriend Amanda, who had just told him that she wanted him to meet her parents. Needless to say, the fuzzy dude was worried. Sure, he had finally started walking around school in his true form, but he really wasn't looking forward to being forbidden from dating her by her parents.

As good a step the Mutant Equal Rights act was, it unfortunately did not yet cover issues that are that personal at the present moment in time.

"Kurt, come on, I want my parents to meet the real you." Amanda told him.

"I don't know if you've noticed, Amanda, but I quite literally could literally pass for zhe Devil." He told her. "No one ever gives me a chance vhen I'm like this." He sighed sadly.

"Then I'll yell at them to give you a chance." She replied sternly. "I don't care if they get scared of your appearance, if I have to raise my voice at them to get them to use their brains, I will." She said resolutely. Her words made Kurt smile and hug her.

"I'm so glad you're in my life." He told her.

"Same here, Kurt." Amanda smiled as she hugged him back.

(Elsewhere)

At the Brotherhood's place, Pietro was just sitting around like a bump on a log watching TV, while Fred was stuck making him lunch and Toad-for some ungodly reason-was on the roof acting as a human satellite dish.

"Is this good?" The amphibian boy called as he got to a new position.

"Just a little more, a little more, just a smidge… There! Hold it!" The speedster called as Toad was now literally balancing on the edge of the roof at this point. He kept watching the tube until Blob came in with a sandwich, which the silver haired boy was apparently not pleased with.

"Here's your sandwich." He said as he handed it to him.

"Fred I told you, turkey, Horseradish mustard, lettuce and grilled onions on the side! Do it again! And cut the crust off this time!" Pietro ordered. "Hey newbie! Get in here." He called.

"I told you…" A male voice said before the person walking in was revealed to be Daken, who was wiping his hands clean of car grease from a Lamborghini LM002 SUV he managed to swipe before he arrived at Bayville that he was working on. "My name is Daken." He snarled.

"Yeah, whatever." The silver haired speedster waved off dismissively, getting an agitated growl in return. "Did ya finish fixing your SUV? I got dates to go on this week so I need a ride."

"Oh I finished. But why should I let you drive it?" The feral mutant growled.

"'Cause I'm the leader of this team. Capiche?" Pietro said getting in his face. "Magneto demoted you to working under me because of your screw up, so now ya gotta earn his favor back by doing exactly as I say, got it?" He added.

"You say that like you're leadership material." Daken scoffed, finding Pietro unfit to be a leader in his eyes.

"Hey, who was the one who attacked Wolverine's pregnant wife and kid, huh? Well it sure wasn't me." Pietro said as Daken gave an indignant snarl. "Now move that armchair outta my view, or else you'll be sleeping in the dog house." He added with a shooing motion.

".. Alright." Logan's son snarled before grabbing the armchair and throwing it at the speedster, who yelped as he ducked out of the way as it flew out of the window… Just in time for Toad to fall from the roof.

"Hey! You coulda killed me!" The boy snapped.

"That was the plan, you're right." The son of Wolverine nodded, right before he saw someone coming their way. "Anyone know a girl with Onk jewelry on?" He asked.

"Huh?" Pietro asked before he turned around and saw Wanda. "AH! WANDA!" He screamed before he ran into the closet. "Tell her I'm not here!" He yelped. He then closed the door.

"... You're gonna tell her anyway, aren't you?" Fred asked, knowing what was coming next.

"I am." Daken nodded. A few seconds later, Wanda stormed in and was about to demand where Pietro was, but paused when she saw Daken.

"Um, who are you?" She asked with a raised eyebrow, having not met him before.

"Daken. I'm a Mutant like you." He told her. He then started to look her over, needless to say, the halfbreed had heard a lot about Pietro's twin sister. And he was honestly impressed, if only for the fact that she was very attractive for a sixteen year old. He thought this even though he was three years her senior (physically at least, biologically he was actually closer to 93 years old). That, and his sense of smell was telling him that she smelled amazing.

On Wanda's end, she did see some similarities between the boy before her and the Mutant Wolverine, maybe they were related? But besides that what really caught her attention was the intoxicating scent that was coming from him. This, unbeknownst to the witch, was the half Japanese Mutants second weapon: his pheromones. Able to increase base emotions like joy, sadness, disgust, anger, fear, or lust depending on what the boy wanted.

"You're a Mutant with Wolverine's powers, I'm assuming?" The HeX witch asked as she discreetly checked him out. She was answered by Daken bringing out his claws. "Well, that answers that question." She shrugged.

"Hey there Wanda, wuzzup?" Toad greeted the girl in an attempt to look cool, while opening the closet. "Hey Pietro, come out, Wanda's here." He said as the speedster fell out of the closet.

"Meep!" The silver haired boy squeaked fearfully as his sister began to glare at him.

"Alright Pietro, where's Magneto?" She snapped.

"How should I know? I told you he calls me." Pietro told her.

"And what's this supposed to be, then?" She questioned as she held up what she had gotten from Pyro on the bridge. Toad took this moment to hop up to her and give it a closer look.

"Mt. Valeena? Hey, isn't that where the ski resort is?" Toad said, getting a shrug from Daken.

"I couldn't possibly care any less." The feral Mutant shrugged, before turning to Wanda. "Why are you after Magneto anyway? What? You have daddy issues or something?"

"Pot, meet kettle." Quicksilver quipped as Wanda dropped him.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Wanda asked.

"It means exactly what it implies: I'm at odds with my father, too." He replied with a sigh.

Wanda seemed to understand so she just nodded. "I'm going to find Magneto at this resort. If you guys don't wanna get killed, I suggest that you stay out of my way." She states as she started to leave.

"And just how do you plan to do that by yourself?" Daken questioned.

"Yeah, I gotta agree there sweetie, finding and knocking off your pops seems like a two or three man job." Toad added as he hopped up behind the two, only to get back punched by the Mohawked teen.

"You say that like you're qualified for working with her." He deadpanned.

"Hey I got skills, yo. Don't count me out!" The boy protested.

"We probably wouldn't, if you were someone else." Wanda said as he opened the door.

"Come on, I'll give you a ride in my car." Daken told her.

"Thanks." She replied with a thankful nod. Back with Toad, he was thinking about Wanda's words.

"Someone else? … I can do that." He said to himself with a smirk.

(Elsewhere)

Later that night Kurt was about to go to Amanda's house, a bouquet of flowers in hand and was in his true form, however when he was about halfway, his anxieties hit him again.

'Vhat if they hate me? Vhat if they try to force me away? Ugh, I hate this…!' He thought in distress.

Unfortunately for him though, just as he was about to turn on his image inducer, his thoughts and actions were halted when he was suddenly tackled by Toad, making him drop his bouquet.

"Vhat the-?! Vhat do you think you're doing, you amphibian?!" The blue teleporter asked, feeling a little peeved about the impromptu ambush.

"Listen ya fuzzy gecko, I need to borrow that watch of yours for something important, so do me a favor and hand it over!" Toad said as the two started tumbling towards Amanda's house in their struggle.

"Get off of me, you moron!" Kurt growled as he tried to pry the lanky boy from his person… Only for their struggle to lead them right onto the Sefton's front porch.

"I need this watch, so hand it over, would ya!" The amphibian themed teen snapped as they continued to struggle. Toad finally managed to get the watch off, but in the process of doing so, he bumped right into the door, the knock alerting the occupants of their presence.

"Give that back, now!" Kurt demanded, feeling less than pleased. Unknown to him, his voice had been heard by Amanda, who had concluded that Kurt was trying to get something back from a possible thief and dashed to the door to help him.

"Kurt, is something wrong?" She asked as she went outside to see Todd Tolansky hopping away with what looked like Kurt's image inducer, and Kurt was dusting himself off angrily while grabbing his bouquet.

"Unfortunately, I just got robbed." He sighed in frustration. "Sorry about zhe state of zhe flowers." He added.

"I'm sure it'll be fine, come on." The girl told him as she led him inside. "Mom, Dad! Kurt's here! And when you see him be nice, he just told me he got robbed on the way over here!" She called.

"Amanda!" The fuzzy boy hissed.

"Alright, we will. You don't have to be shy, Kurt. You can trust us." Amanda's father called out. With that the two parents entered the living room where the young couple was waiting, and were of course (and understandably) taken aback by Kurt's appearance, minus his slightly disheveled clothes given what happened to him earlier.

"... Well, this isn't what I was expecting." Amanda's mother commented after a moment of silence.

"Mom, I told you that he'd look a little different." Her daughter chided before pushing Kurt forward. "Go on, Kurt, introduce yourself." She told him.

"H-hi. I'm Kurt Vaghner." He introduced himself nervously while handing Mrs. Sefton the flowers. "These are for you Mrs. Sefton. Sorry about their condition, they got damaged when someone jumped me earlier."

"Oh, that's okay. They still look nice anyway. I'll put them in some water." Mrs. Sefton replied with a smile as she took them to put in a vase. "Also, I have no problems with Mutants." She added to calm his nerves.

"Oh." The blue fuzz ball sighed in relief.

"Yeah… It's my dad who's the problem." Amanda whispered, causing Kurt to look at the man who had his arms crossed. This caused him to groan. This was going to be a long and awkward dinner.

(Elsewhere)

At the ski resort Toad had mentioned, Daken and Wanda were now trying to follow Pyro after spotting him and the feral mutant tracking him with his enhanced nose… And after evading a disguised Toad… Twice.

"It's like he doesn't even know how to take no for an answer." Wanda sighed as she rubbed her temples.

"I'll give the Brotherhood this much, they're a persistent bunch." Daken sighed as he leaned back in the ski lift chair they were in.

Wanda couldn't help but look at him as her face and body kept getting warmer and warmer, her cheeks turning pink from said heat. The reason was because of the smell that the Mohawked boy was giving off, it made her feel like she had a fever.

"Daken… What other powers do have, exactly?" She asked.

"Other than my claws and healing factor? Well, I do have a special kind of pheromone that increases the base emotions of anyone around me. I can also control what emotions get boosted." He explained as they disembarked from the Ski lift right behind Pyro.

'Well that explains why I think he smells nice- Wait, did I just think that?' She thought with a small blush. "Does it… have any addictive qualities? There's this villain I heard of named Mandrill and he's notorious for using his pheromones to make women into his slaves with them."

"No, mine aren't like that. Besides even if they were, I wouldn't use it that way." He shrugged. "Such underhanded tactics are beneath me." He added.

"Good to know. Anyway, I can see Pyro heading that way." She said as she pointed to where the fire Mutant was snowboarding.

"Then I hope you know how to use that thing." The halfbreed said as he started skiing down the slope after Pyro.

"I do, oddly enough." Wanda replied, feeling a little confused about how snowboarding came naturally to her for some reason.

After following the pyromaniac for a good way, the two saw him enter one of Magneto's domes, which they knew he was in.

"Alright, how are we-" Daken started before a drone suddenly flew up to them and sprayed some knockout gas at them, knocking them unconscious. And off in the distance, Toad saw it all.

"*Gulp* Uh oh." He said under his breath as he hightailed it out of there.

(Elsewhere)

Kurt had just finished having dinner with the Saftons and, while awkward for him, it was a bit relaxing. Right now he was back at the Institute and honestly he wasn't as mad as he could be at Toad, but he was still pretty pissed, especially since it was his fault that the suit Gavin loaned him got messed up.

Though his thoughts were interrupted when his little half brother Damian popped in his room via shadow portal, and amazingly he was just starting to walk!

"Hey, little bro. Are you starting to walk?" He asked with a small smile, glad that he had something to take his mind off his angry thoughts and that his little brother was starting to walk.

"Bubba, Bubba!" The little tyke said as he hopped up and down while clutching her stuffed tiger, Hobbes. Apparently he wanted to be held by his big brother.

"Alright, come here." Kurt said as he picked him up and put him on his lap. Damian smiled as he hugged Kurt and started playing with the stuffed animal in his lap.

Hobbes was a hand me down from Gavin, who was modeled after the stuffed animal form of the pseudo vampire's favorite comic strip character Hobbes from Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson. But unlike the original from the comics, this one had a white patch on its under belly from being damaged years ago. Damian never let it out of his sight, in fact, Hobbes is the only way to calm him down enough to make him sleep.

As Kurt relaxed with Damian, Toad chose this moment to make his appearance.

"Fuzzball, I know you're angry, but-" He started, but paused upon seeing Damian in the blue boy's lap. "... Did I come at a bad time?" He asked.

Kurt looked at him with a 'what do you think?' look before he saw Damian slowly let out a yawn and start laying down and snuggling with Hobbes after climbing from his lap onto the bed they were sitting on. Kurt smiled before he turned to toad with a stern look.

"You better have a good reason for coming here." He whispered to avoid waking up Damian.

"It's Wanda, she and our new guy Daken just got snagged by Magneto." Toad explained as quietly as he could.

"Vait, I thought Daken was- … Oh. Healing factor." Kurt sighed quietly, realizing that Daken had gotten Logan's healing factor.

"Yeah, that. Listen, I need your help to rescue them." The lanky boy said, keeping his voice down.

"And vhy should I? You almost ruined my dinner vith Amanda's parents!" He hissed.

"Listen, help me with this, and I'll give your watch back. Deal?" He offered.

"Don't really need it anymore, but thanks." The fuzz ball told him before looking over at his sleeping brother. "I may decide to give it to him later." He added in a mutter.

"Come on! We gotta hurry!" Toad told him, but was a little too loud. Both boys tensed as they thought the sleeping (nearly) 1 year old was about to wake up, only for him to yawn and snuggle his tiger before staying asleep. The two teens let out quiet sighs of relief before Kurt gave the other boy a light glare.

"Be. More. Careful." He said in a quiet warning tone, getting a nod of understanding in return.

"Sorry. Come on." Toad replied quietly as they climbed out the window and closed it. They then started making their way to Mt. Valeena.

(Elsewhere)

Wanda slowly woke up and found herself locked in a chair with Daken right across from her, and sure enough, Magneto was there too.

"Why do I get the feeling that they're going to torture us?" The feral mutant wondered aloud right before a shock collar someone put on him while he was unconscious shocked him with enough voltage to allow his skeleton to be seen. Daken let out a pained scream as the volts traveled through his body before it stopped, letting him breath heavily.

"You? Yes, because I am still outright furious with what you pulled two months prior!" Magneto thundered angrily.

"... Fuck you, you pompous, narcissistic, child abandoning son of a-." Daken started to say before he was shocked again with even more power.

"Do not even think of taking that tone with me, Daken! I may have abandoned Wanda, and I still regret that, but what you did… Attacking Logan's pregnant wife is absolutely INEXCUSABLE!" The master of magnetism roared.

"That bastard deserves every misfortune he gets! It's his fault I am the way I am!" The Mutant growled. "Especially that whore he decides to call a wife, that little bitch I'm forced to call a sister and that disgusting little mistake the woman carries in her womb. They all deserve to peri-!" But he was kept from finishing by ten consecutive minute long shocks. After it was over, the spiteful Mutant was barely conscious.

"I. Will. Never. Tolerate. This. Behavior!" Magneto growled. Wanda could only look on with wide eyes full of slight fear. Sure, she had seen people get angry, but never like this! Her father was taking it to a whole new level!

Magneto sighed before turning to Wanda. "I'm truly sorry that you had to see that, daughter." He told her. "But Daken must learn that his feud between himself and his father must stay between them. The rest of the family does not deserve to be in such a position." He explained.

"Y-y-yeah… S-sure." Wanda replied with a stutter, still feeling fearful of what she'd witnessed and heard from Daken. "Was any of what you said about his actions two months ago actually true?" She couldn't help but ask.

"Every word. And now Ms. Marks is currently stuck in her dragon form due to a concussion." He nodded. "It is a truly regrettable situation." He added solemnly. "But enough of that. Wanda, I want you to know that having to put you in that hospital was the hardest decision I had to make." He told her as sincerely as he could. "It pained me to see you dragged away but, you must understand, I had no choice."

"Forgive me if I find that hard to believe." The girl shot back.

The old man let out a hollow and defeated sigh. "I had hoped that we could have built a new relationship and started over. But if you refuse to do so voluntarily. I will do so through other means." He said as he called in a man who was wearing a brown tunic. "Mastermind, you know what to do."

"Of course." The man nodded before he began using his powers to alter Wanda's memories. Every single moment that was negative in her life, became positive, every horrible experience, wiped away. The old Wanda was slowly starting to become nothing but an old afterthought.

As Mastermind finished, he then turned to Daken. "Is there anything to be done with this one?" He asked, examining the unconscious teen. Magneto hummed in thought for a moment.

"See if you cannot make him more tame and less unruly. And make sure that his murderous tendencies are only reserved for those who deserve it, and for his father. Do not change too much." He told the man.

"As you wish." Mastermind nodded and went to work.

Outside the base, Toad and Kurt crawled along a ledge to avoid possibly getting spotted.

"Are you sure we should do this? Daken's the reason Chelsea's stuck in her dragon form." Kurt whispered.

"It's mostly for Wanda. He's just an extra." The boy shrugged. After hearing about what Daken had done, he… More or less felt a little indifferent with him. He didn't know how to react with him.

"Okay, lets go." The blue mutant nodded as they teleported onto the room's ceiling, and saw Mastermind working on Daken.

"It is done." Mastermind said, backing away from the boy.

"Vhat vas he doing to him?" Kurt whispered, and got a shrug from Toad in return.

"No clue." He replied in a hushed voice. Mastermind then held his head as he registered the presence of the two teens.

"Magneto, we have intruders." He reported.

"Busted." Toad said.

"Come on, let's grab them and go!" Kurt told him as they dropped to the ground and Toad kicked both Magneto and Mastermind out of the way as Kurt grabbed the two unconscious teens. He theme teleported them free of their restraints.

"Exit stage right!" The lanky boy quipped as he and Kurt teleported out with Wanda and Daken.

Magneto shook himself as he got up. "No!" He yelled as he tried to chase after them as they disappeared. "... Is the task done?" He asked Mastermind.

"Yes." The man nodded.

"Then we let them go." The magnetic mutant decided.

(Elsewhere)

Back at the Brotherhood, Wanda and Daken were finally able to get back to the way they were, but now thanks to Mastermind's tampering, both were different.

Wanda didn't feel anger towards her dad anymore and became much more mellow as a result, kind of like Rogue when she first joined the X-men. Daken was pretty much the same but his negative aspects were significantly toned down and now his anger was now exclusively directed towards Logan.

"So, you're not mad at your dad anymore?" Toad asked as Wanda put some books on a shelf.

"I thought I was, but, now I'm not." The girl shrugged.

"Wow, they really did a number on your head! Well, allow me to remind you-whoa!" The amphibious Mutant started to say before Pietro dragged him away.

"Are you nuts?! Do you really wanna start that again?!" He hissed.

"Well she's gotta know, doesn't she?" Toad asked.

"No way! Besides, this works for us. Now that she's like this, she'll stop looking for Magneto and, by proxy, be around you more." He replied with a smirk.

"Say, you're right!" The toady Mutant smiled. "Maybe there's hope for me yet." He grinned as he hopped back into the room where Wanda was.

(Elsewhere)

Amanda and Kurt were taking a walk at night, after school. "I sure do hope that I can get your dad to like me." He sighed.

"I honestly hoped he'd be a bit more open-minded like mom is after meeting you, but it looks like that's gonna take a bit of work." Amanda nodded with a sigh of her own.

"Yeah…" The boy nodded. "Hey, I was wondering. Do you want to meet my little half-brother?" He asked.

"Do I! Take me to him so I can make him laugh!" The girl replied with an excited grin. This caused Kurt to let out a laugh.

"Alright, let's go." He said with a grin as he teleported them to the Institute where Amanda would proceed to make Damian laugh in delight.

ThermalsniperN7: Okay, this took much more time than I thought it would. At least a few interesting things happened.

Dragon Emperor0: Yeah, you'd think this'd be a short one to do… Huh. Well anyway, just so you guys know, we do plan on having the whole situation with Chelsea end the chapter after next. Also in other news, there will be four new sagas coming to the story very soon. The Soldier and the Cat. Eldritch Light. Mending Minds and Bodies. And lastly the Heart of the Spider's Web Sagas. These will be each three chapters long. And the first that will be done is the Soldier and the Cat as a 3 part Halloween special posted on the 29th, 30th and 31st.

ThermalsniperN7: And trust us, you guys are gonna like what happens on the 31st.

Dragon Emperor0: Also be sure to check out our other story Death Battle: OC Royale. And the matches featuring our OCs in the following matches: Chelsea vs Jake Long, Johan vs Red Hood, Devin vs Genos, and Gavin vs The Seven.

ThermalsniperN7: Yeah. There's some awesome stuff in those fights. Anyway, see you next time!