Chapter 2

A New Brotherhood

The X-men Grouped together at M&M world. Yes, the store with only M&M merchandise. The four freshmen were going crazy at the Color stand they loved colored M&Ms. Kurt kept getting these Cool Blue ones.

"What's with all the blue Kurt?" Evan asked.

"Hey Chicks dig the blue Fuzzy dude," He opened the Blue container and it them pour in! By this time he was on his 8th or 9th bag.

~X-Men time to get to work! We have a few sightings of Remy and Betsy and Piotr~ the professor said mentally. ~We have reason to believe that Remy is staying at the Flamingo~ Beast and Rogue went off to find the Flamingo. ~We now believe Betsy lives in the suburbs so Betsy people go to the Suburbs use this miniature Cerebro. It will detect her. ~ They all scattered searching fro whoever they were supposed to look for.

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Domino was mowing the lawn that Friday and she looked up as a brown car pulled into the drive next door. She smiled. It was her neighbor Ms. Braddock. "Hi Ms. Braddock!" Ms. Braddock smiled and waved slightly and went inside.

Domino went inside the house. Her Mother greeted her.

"Dinner time!"

"I'll be down in a second," Domino opened the bathroom door locked it and stood in front of the mirror. She was concentrating on the mirror as if she wanted it to open by itself. Her skin color started to change! Around her right eye it was pitch black and the rest of her body was pure white, like silk. Her hair grew a little longer and changed to pitch black, like her eye. She wasn't going to dinner. She was going to prowl the city again tonight.

~You know not to do it~ Domino heard something.

"Who said that?" The girl looked around and saw no one.

~ You know it's wrong~ the girl looked up and all around. She then realized she knew that voice.

"Ms. Braddock?" She said.

~How'd you know? I have to stop you~

"Hey do you have gifts too?" domino asked.

~No really I'm a figment of your imagination~

"How did you know I was going to go out? No wait don't answer that. I'm leaving!" Domino ignored the plea of her neighbor and jumped out the window. Finally that Gymnastics training was paying off. She ran and jumped from house to house from road to road etc . . . she knew the road to Vegas well. She had done this at least once a week fro her whole life. She thought she heard something so she stopped and turned around. There was Betsy. Ms. Braddock the ominous next-door neighbor.

"You just won't leave me be!" She ran onto the high way and Jumped from car to car. Betsy kept following determined to bring the girl down.

"Stop Domino! You don't know what your doing!"

"I know plenty well! I've only been doing this since I was like 10 years old!" She went on and finally reached the lot to the Mirage.

"Stop it's stealing don't do that!" Domino closed her eyes thinking. Thinking that the guy she had just seen had dropped his Wallet. He did!

"I've got it now for a first class meal at the Wonderful buffet. So convenient my parents don't know my real age. She started to grow just a little bit and her hair grew longer and her legs grew longer as well. She started to change back into what looked like a human. Regular colored skin right size hair etc.

"Domino do you know what you're doing?"

"I'm a teenager I'm not that responsible," Domino turned away and waltzed herself into the Mirage for a great nighttime meal.

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Beast decided he'd had enough work looking for Remy that day so he went back to the bustling Mirage. There was a great steak buffet there it was called the Typhoon Café. He had planed to eat there the entire trip. The waiter sat him down and he ordered the steak and Shrimp buffet the waiter showed him where it was and he went off to get some food with his table untouched. Meanwhile another waitress sat a woman with very white skin down at the same table not knowing that Mr. McCoy was sitting there. After getting four or five platefuls of food, Beast went back to his table with Domino sitting in it.

"Excuse me ma'am I believe there has been a mix-up this is my table," Beast inquired.

"So?" The woman answered.

"I'd like to sit here alone please. If you don't mind," He said.

"I'm already sitting here so find yourself your own table," she prattled.

"Excuse me this is my table!" Beast yelled.

"Well I'm sittin' 'ere and there's nothing you can do about that is there?" She got up and kicked him down from all that Gymnastics training.

"Ma'am I must insist . . ." He started.

"Sorry what was that?" She kicked him again.

"I didn't want it to come to this ma'am!" The fiddled with his watch and turned into a blue fuzzy thing!

"Whoa!" The girl said. Then she gritted her teeth and grew a few inches and a black patch appeared around her right eye.

"Beast looked up and jumped onto the ceiling hoping no one had seen his face. He threw down the vent cover and jumped inside.

Domino Looked stunned by this but put it aside and almost jumped in the vent after him when.

"No Domino!" Betsy with here full uniform on ran into the restaurant.

"Not you!" Domino screamed and grew a few inches again. But she kept screaming. Suddenly a shadow appeared on the ceiling everyone in the restaurant looked at it. It formed itself into a man dressed with yellow wing decorations on his back a purple outfit and blue belt around his waist. And a nasty look on his face.

"Exodus!" He screamed and Purple energy balls flew out of his hands and hit Betsy. She was knocked to the floor and knocked out. "Come with me," The man said to Domino and Flew up into the Vent after Mr. McCoy.

Domino smiled a very strange smile and Jumped table by table and into vent. Meanwhile across the room Betsy woke up and searched the room for the two other Mutants.

"Whoa!" The people in the restaurant all started Clapping.

~They don't know what's going on do they?~ Betsy thought. ~They think it' some sort of show! I know I'll . . .~ Betsy jumped onto beasts table and took a long bow to enforce this thought she didn't want to expose her Mutant self. But when the people finished clapping and went back to their dinners Betsy went up the vent to go find the Blue man Domino and The guy in the purple suit. After about an Hour she went to the First vent she could find. She took off the plate and Jumped down only to find more trouble. She had landed on the stage of the Siegfried and Roy Theater!

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"So you're the Beast," Exodus the man in the purple suit said to beast that was chained to a round piece of wood that was sideways.

"Who are you?"

"We work with the one called Mesmero," The man Said.

"We?" Beast asked.

"My I introduce you to my colleagues. This is the Vanisher He can teleport to anyplace in the world for a quick escape. And this is Pyro he can control fire."

"'Allo there mate!" Pyro appeared from the shadows with a man dressed in green behind him who beast presumed to be The Vanisher.

"We are here today because we need your help finding the key to open the door." Exodus said.

"What door what key?" Beast asked.

"Ignorant little one. See your searching for Allison Blair. She works for Circus Circus She does all the lighting and stuff. And the only clue was that the key lied in the lights of the circus. We've led the circus to be Circus Circus. We just need Allison to tell us where!"

"You want me to give you a life for a door and Key that you won't tell me what are!" Beast was infuriated. "What do you think I'm going to say?!"

"Well your first answer would be no but what if we did this to you?!" Pyro jumped up to the wood and spun him. Beast was spinning faster and faster on this wooden wheel. He could still however see clearly. Exodus was holding five daggers in each hand and said . . .

"Well I can accomplish this when a person isn't spinning. Lets try when they are spinning!" He threw his first dagger and it landed near Beasts feet but it didn't hit him. He threw another and it landed right next to his head cutting a bit of fir off. "Are we motivated yet?!"