The Brotherhood Strike Back

"Your shoulder still hurt?" Rogue asked as she helped Remy with his books.

"Just a bit," Remy shrugged with his good shoulder. "I think you kiss it and make it better no?"

"No," Rogue smirked. "Are you sure you're gonna be all right?"

"Don't worry so much," Remy smiled. "Gambit can take good care of himself. I even hid some clothes and stuff so I wouldn't have to go back to the Brotherhood house for my things."

"Well I still think…" Rogue started to say something when a huge belly blocked her way. "Out of my face you yahoo!" She sneered at Fred.

"What's your hurry Rogue?" Pietro zipped up behind them.

"Get out of her way," Remy fumed.

"No problem," John appeared behind them. "It's you we wanna have a word with anyway!"

"Take your hands off you big ape!" Remy flinched as Fred shoved him into the lockers.

"If you don't the gloves come off!" Rogue snarled taking a glove off her hand.

"Go ahead Rogue," Pietro sneered. "Why not show off your powers to the whole school?"

"Rogue don't do anything!" Remy snapped. "That's what they want!"

"Actually what we want is your head on a platter mate," John snarled. "The Brotherhood don't take too kindly to traitors!"

"You think you're safe because you ditched us for your girlfriend?" Pietro snapped. "Think again."

"Actually I left because your father is a self obsessed egomaniac," Remy sneered. "Must run in the family."

"Uh oh," John looked over and saw Mr. Pine coming over. "It's the fuzz man!"

"Consider this a friendly reminder," Pietro sneered. "We'll talk later." They took off before the Security man got there.

"You kids okay?" He asked.

"Yeah we're fine," Remy said. "Just a little fooling around. That's all. Come on Rogue we got to get to class."

"You should have reported them," Rogue told him when they were away from the security guard.

"That wouldn't solve anything," Remy told her. "We'll be okay."

"Just do me a favor please," Rogue said. "I know you like to play macho tough guy but don't wander alone anywhere. At least while you're injured, okay."

"Humph! Only time they dare hassle me is when I'm injured," Remy snapped. "But okay, just for now. For you." He winced in pain. "You may have a point. Something tells me the Brotherhood is out for blood today. I can feel it."

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"LALALALALA!" Pietro sang as he spray pained the lockers in the empty hallway. He even decorated several pictures.

"Pietro what are you doing?" Evan snarled.

"Just putting my own artistic touches on the walls," Pietro smirked. "Just the man I wanted to see!" Pietro laughed maniacally as he spray painted Evan. The next thing Evan knew, he was on the ground with a can of spray paint in his hand.

"PIETRO!" Evan shouted as Pietro took off. "Why you…"

"WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?" Principal Kelly roared.

"Uh…Principal Kelly," Evan gulped. "You are not gonna believe this…."

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"Suspended for a whole week!" Pietro crowed to his friends at lunch. "I got that geek good!"

"Way to go Pietro!" Fred high fived him. "All I managed to do was shove one of the newer recruits into his locker."

"Let me guess, Iceman?" John snickered.

"How'd you know?" Fred asked.

"He tried to break out by freezing his locker," John laughed. "Stupid janitor thought it was the pipes or something."

"Well how was your morning Lance?" Pietro asked.

"Not bad," Lance told him. "I put sugar in Summer's gas tank and keyed his car. Managed to get into the blue freak's locker and put a shaving cream booby trap in it. Hit Summers in the head with a hockey puck when the teacher turned his back. Not to mention this," He took out a bra. "Jean's sports bra. I think I can get a lot of cash for this!"

"Got a better idea," Pietro told him. "We'll hang it outside the window of her last period class. That will be fun. Who else has something to report?"

"I set a couple of Geek lockers on fire," John snickered. "Kelly's really starting to go nuts today. Thinks that the Institute kids are in on it and everything."

"Hmmm," Pietro smiled. "That gives me an idea. Let's take down two birds with one stone."

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Meanwhile in Chicago a two police officers were finishing their patrol. They had stopped to get some coffee and had both left the patrol car, despite regulations. "I tell you something Joe," The first one said. "We were lucky not to get written up. I still feel guilty for gunning down a kid like that."

"Hey don't!" Joe told him. "I'm telling you that kid wasn't human! Even the board saw that. Relax! We're heroes! Hey if it wasn't for us who knows what damage that kid could have done."

"I guess so," The officer sighed as they got in the police car.

"I'm telling you we have to send a message to those freaks that we won't get pushed around!" Joe told him. Then he had a strange feeling that they weren't alone in the car. They weren't. Something grabbed their necks at the same time. Joe looked in horror at a huge feral mutant holding onto them.

"Oh yeah bub," Sabertooth grinned at them. "The muties got the message loud and clear. Now we have a message for you…"