Chapter 1: The Krepp Theory
Disclaimer: ThEy ArE nOt OuRs, BuT tHe FuTuRe VeRsIoN oF tHeM iS, kInDa.^_^
Authors note: Roxy: Hey, we wrote this months ago. I wonder why it wasn't posted? TWINKLES?!?! Twinkles: Oh.Yeah.. About that..well, you how you leave something on your computer and then you forget, I mean Xavier makes you forget. Don't you hate that? Roxy: (glares at Twinkles) Yeah.sure. Anyways, here's the story.. Twinkles: And again, not my fault...it is your fault...oh wait, yeah, yup, definitely my fault.
X
^_^hehehe
Professor Krepp was famous for his amazing theory, now called by other scientists 'The Krepp Theory'. He believed that there are millions of parallel worlds. Some in which there is only a slight difference. Whereas others can be different as day and night.
For years, scientists have tried to prove this theory correct, but alas there hasn't been anyone who was able to give reliable proof. Careers have been ruined for the men who dedicate their lives to this 'theory', and in the end became laughing stocks form their colleagues.
But what if one had the ability to go from one 'world' to another. Would he use this gift to prove the Krepp Theory? To show people the many wonders? Or maybe give insight on how the world would have been if they did something different?
No.
All he wants is to save his 'world'.
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Scott was jolted awake by the intruder alarm. He jumped out of bed and put on his fighting uniform. After he threw on his visors he ran out of the room, only to be greeted by the rest of the X-men running out of their rooms.
The X-men ran (or flew) down the stairs with Cyclops and Wolverine leading. Since they were expecting to have to run outside, they were shocked to find the intruder standing in the foyer. They stood around him poised for attack.
The intruder stood in the middle of all of them. They couldn't see his face, because he was wearing a heavy cloak. The figure raised his arm, everyone held their breaths. He placed his hands on his head cover, as if he was going to remove it. "Well, it only took you three minutes to get down here," the figure said in a male German accent, "I could have killed all of you already."
He removed his head cover and everyone gasped. The man looked like an older, harder version of Kurt!
"Who are you?" Wolverine growled.
The man smiled, "My name is Kurt Wagner, also know as Nightcrawler."
"Huh?" Kurt who may have been half asleep, suddenly bolted up.
Wolverine jumped forward and placed his claws right be his throat, "Try again."
The man raised his eyebrow in an amused expression, next thing Scott knew the man was gone with only a cloud of smoke left behind, and repapered standing in between Rogue and Storm.
"Oh, Logon. You're still as I remember..and that's why you're dead."
"What? Can you explain yourself, sir?" Storm asked.
The man smiled, "Call me Wagner. Everyone does."
Storm nodded, "Well, er.Wagner, would you mind explaining who you really are and what you want?"
Wagner nodded, "Well, first thing to know, I not here to hurt you." He walked up towards Kurt, "Second I'm him from a different world." Everyone stared at him shocked, "And third I'm here, because I need you're help. Where's Professor Xavier?"
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Everyone sat around Professor's office, after the Professor had scanned Wagner to prove that he was not hostile, though the Professor admits he was rather confused at what he saw.
"Well, Mr. Wagner, can you explain what I saw?" Xavier asked with a smile.
"Just Wagner. Not Mr." He stated.
"My apologies."
Wagner smiled and nodded, "Well, before I began I should ask do any of you believe in the Krepp theory?"
"The theory about parallel worlds?" Jean inquired as she leaned forward with interest.
Wagner smiled, "Yes that's the one."
"What of it?" Scott asked.
Wagner stood up straight and opened his arms wide, "I'm Kurt Wagner, aka Nightcrawler from world #10822."
"WHAT????" All the voices yelled.
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After everyone got over the shock, and had hours to discussed what the theory was and what Wagner had said.
"Let me make sure I have everything," Xavier began to recap what Wagner had just told them the last couple of hours. "You are from the future."
"An ALTERNATIVE future." Wagner cut in.
"Excuse me, an -alternative- future," Xavier correct himself before he went on, "You came to our 'world' to seek our help?"
"Yes." Wagner replied, "we had no other options, we're dying over there, literally."
Xavier nodded, "There's a war on your 'world'?"
Wagner nodded grimly.
Xavier looked down, "And you say that mutants are in danger."
"We're few that fight, and those who don't are simply too afraid."
Everyone sat in silence of the harsh news they were told.
"So, that's our future?" Kurt asked from the corner of the room.
Wagner stepped up to him, and placed his hand on Kurt's shoulder, "No, that is MY world. Not yours." Wagner assured him, "in fact when I was your age the war had already started."
Kurt nodded, relieved, as everyone else in the room was.
"So professor," Wagner addressed Xavier, "are you and your team going to help us?"
All eyes turned towards Xavier waiting for his response. Xavier looked down and took a deep breath, as if thinking. After a few moments of silence the Professor looked up and answered, "We'll help."
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As everyone prepared to leave, Wagner was asking questions to Logan about how well trained the team was.
When the team re-assembled in the foyer, Wagner strolled over to the professor with a confused look on his face, "Xavier, may I ask you something?"
"Of course."
Wagner scratched his head, "Well, Logan was telling me about each team member, and I noticed he never mentioned some of them, have they made no progress?"
Xavier knitted his eyebrows, "May I ask who they were?"
Wagner placed his hand under his chine, "Well, er.Mystique, Avalanche, Quicksilver, Toad and Blob to name a few."
"The Brotherhood!" Cyclops yelled.
"The what?" Wagner asked.
"The Brotherhood," Evan answered, "They're the bad guys, and we fight each other."
Wagner looked more confused, "They're your enemies?"
Jean nodded, "Aren't they're yours?"
Wagner shook his head, "Why we fight with our own kind, they're only a few of us left. Besides we're all fighting for the same thing." He looked around the room, "For the right to live."
A few of the X-men lowered their heads, slightly ashamed. They're problems seemed so minimal compared to Wagner's world.
"Do you need them too?" Kitty asked, being the only one to associate with one of the members on regular basis.
Wagner appeared to think about it for a minute and then nodded his head, "Yes, they're powers will be useful."
"Well, Mystique isn't with them anymore."
Wagner sighed, "Very well, but we'll need the rest of them."
"Okay, but got a problem." Scott said. Everyone turned towards his, "How do we get them to help us?"
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It was a beautiful summer day at the brotherhood home. Todd was inside, a bit bored, and a bit hungry. Glancing out the window, he scanned the back yard for any type of large larva.
"Lets see..tree, bush, rock, sign, grass, nest.wait, sign?" He quickly turned his head back a few paces, and sure enough, there was a sign with an arrow that said "FLYS." Toads eyes widened at the prospect of food. Never did it occur to him how the sign got there, our how a sign could determine just where the flys would be. "Be back in a minute Fred! The food is on! Woo hoo!" Toad went running outside.
Passing the sign hanging on a tree he ran through the bushes and smack dab into something else hanging from a tree. "What the.." He tried to open his eyes but a sticky sweet substance covered his face. Slapping his tongue up he licked his face. "Hmm honey! Now where are the flys?" That's when he realized that a large swarm gathering in front of him. It only took him a second. "Ahhh!!! Bees!" Toad took off running.
Meanwhile, in the brotherhood house. Pietro came down stairs. "Hey Fred, where'd Toad go?"
Fred glanced out the window, and saw Toad running by, a large swarm of bugs behind him. "Oh he's out chasing flies." He turned back to the newspaper he had been reading. "Did you know that the nasdaq is down?"
"What, really? What about Qualcomm stock? Is that doing okay?"
Fred scanned a moment than shock his head in surprise. "No, it down over 13 cents."
Pietro grasped his heart, "No! My stocks, my money!" He collapsed to the floor, and Fred went back to his reading.
Meanwhile toad was running further and further from the house. "Ahhh! Help me!" As he ran along he grabbed rocks which he threw back at the swarm of bees, but obviously, they were not being deterred.
Toad saw a pond up ahead, if he could only get there! With a running leap he dove for the water
"Hah! Ya! What now? What now?" He called back to the bees. "Hey wait, I can't swim! Ahhh!! Help! Drowning!" Quickly he jumped from the water, as he did he suddenly started floating.
"Wha.?" Toad looked down and around. That's when he noticed Jean, her finger barley tapping her temple.
"What do ya want, Red?" Toad yelled down at her. Suddenly, a rope appeared and started to wrap around him, holding him tight.
"Hey what's going on?" Toad tried to move around, and untie himself, but suddenly, he realized that Jeans finger was off her head. "Uh oh.Ahhh!" He came dropping to the ground.
"This is kidnapping, I hope you know!" Toad yelled, "Help, I'm being mutant- napped!"
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Pietro was rather proud of himself. He recovered quite well from his near heart attack. Standing up, he looked around. "You know Fred, Todd is taking a long time. I think I'll go look for him." He had nothing better to do. Fred raised his hand up to wave. Never taking his eyes off the newspaper.
Pietro looked around the back yard, by this time the sign was gone. "Todd!" He called out. There was no answer, so he started heading into the bushes.
Meanwhile, the X-men had done their best to get Toad away from the others, they figured he would be fairly easy to detain without the help of his big brothers. Surprisingly though, they were wrong.
As soon as Toad had hit the ground, he bounded up again. Throwing himself at Jean. After knocking her down he tried to run.
"Oh no you don!" Rogue moved in front of him. "We said we can handle' ya guys, and ah know we can!" Without hesitating she leaped for him.
"Ahh!" Don't touch me!" Toad yelled jumping away. Rogue landed on the dirt.
Toad looked from Jean to Rogue and back again. Rogue quickly pulled Jean up, she had almost fallen into the pond, and they slowly begin moving toward Toad.
"Don't worri, wer not gonna hurt ya." Rogue said between clenched teeth.
That's when Toad had an idea. "Ya, I know you aren't!" Jumping forward he kicked both feet out. One hit Jean, and the other Rogue. Both girls went flying into the water!
Toad opened his mouth to laugh, but just as he did he felt a piece of duck tape and a hand clamp over it.
"Sorry about this." A sweet voice said.
A moment later he felt something hit his head, and he was out. Amara stood behind him holding a stick, with a worried look on her face. "I hope I didn't hit him too hard."
"Ah hope you did!" Rogue said, still sitting in water.
Jean nodded. "Thank you Amara. At least this water isn't dirty. You know, it's so cool it's almost relaxing. Hey maybe we should throw Toad in." The girls smiled.
Amara leaned over and helped Rogue up. "No, we don 'ave time. We still said we'd get.."
"Toad!!!" Her words were interrupted by Pietro.
"He's not supposed to be here!" Amara whispered.
Rogues eyebrows lifted. "Quick! Ah 'ave an idea, play along Amara!" Moving passed Amara she pushed her into the water, and threw herself into the bushes.
Jean smiled, and Amara looked confused.
"Toad! Where on earth could he be!" Pietro said annoyed. "He better not be playing tricks on the X-fre..girls!" Pietro said in shock as he saw them.
Amara and jean stood in the water, up to their thighs. Pietro's jaw dropped. Jean had tied he top half of her shirt up. And Amara waved. Tossing her hair back jean smiled. "Hello Pietro."
He quickly gained composure, he knew something had to be wrong, but he didn't really mind at the moment. "What are you two doing here?" He asked skeptically.
They looked at each other and grinned. "You know Pietro." Jean began. "You've always been my favorite brotherhood member." Amara nodded. "Your so strong and handsome."
Pietro blushed, then stood up straight. "I know, that's what everyone tells me." he quickly shook his head, trying to snap himself out of it. "But really, what are you doing here?"
Jean rang her hair out a little. "Going for a swim." She winked, "you want to join us?"
Pietro's jaw dropped. "I..ahhh...I...ahhh." Jean and Amara slowly started walking towards him. "Don't be shy." Amara batted her eyes innocently. "Yes," Jean moved closer, "We're not going to hurt you."
Pietro gulped, then smiled deviously, "Please do."
Rogue stepped up behind Pietro undetected. "Okay." Before Pietro could react she touched his cheek before he could run off. Soon Pietro fell down unconscious.
Rogue smiled, "All in a days work!"
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Blob munched on yet another snack, it was only his sixth for the day, and so he was still good. His peaceful moment was ruined by and red blast. Blob looked up and saw Cyclops and Sunspot. Blob jumped up and charged towards them.
Scott blasted him and Blob was halted. Sunspot had snuck behind him, and with all his strength he lifted Blob above his head and threw him across the room. Blob crashed through a brick wall. After he was a bid dazed, that's when Iceman appeared and froze he feet to the ground. With Blob being stuck they were able to tie a rope around him.
A few seconds later Rogue zipped in, using Pietro powers. She tapped Fred and soon he was unconscious.
Scott smiled. "Thanks Rogue." That's when he realized she was soaking wet. "Ah, Rogue, why are you wet."
Jean and Amara came in dragging the other two brotherhood members.
Scott looked at them with surprise. Then interest as he noticed Jean choice in clothing. "And why are you guys wet?" He smiled a little, waiting for their answer.
The girls glance at each other. Jean spoke. "We detained the two brotherhood teammates like we said we could, then had so much extra time we took a swim. What took you so long? You only had to get one?" Rogue and Amara turned and looked at Scott with same smug expression.
Scott smiled. "Maybe cause mine is four times the size of your two guys put together." He smiled and shook his head. "We should get back. Are you sure that's what happened?
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Boom-boom was dancing around her porch with her headphones on. Suddenly, she smelled brimstone. She turned around and saw Kurt with his smoke slowly disappearing. She pulled off her headphones and gave Kurt a confused look.
"Hey, Tabby." Kurt waved.
Rapidly her confused look turned into an angry one, "Look Kurt, I heard all about you and Amanda. So if you think."
Kurt gave her a meek look, "About that Tabby."
Unexpectedly, several duplicates of Multiple-man appeared and jumped Boom- Boom.
"What the.?" Tabby yelled.
".Sorry." Kurt finished.
One of the duplicates hit Tabby a bit too hard, rendering her unconscious.
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Soon all the team had reassembled at the mansion. Tabby and Blob were still knocked out. Pietro woken up and was seething next to Toad. All of them still tied up, with Pietro legs tied together and Toad mouth covered.
"Where's Avalanche?" Wagner asked.
At that moment Kitty and Lance walked in.
"Kitty!" Scott yelled, "Why isn't Lance tied up?"
Kitty shrugged, "I just told him that I was leaving on a dangerous mission, and he demanded he's come. Said that way he could protect me. So I told him all about Wagner and the mission."
It was then Lance stepped forward and saw his teammates all tied up. He gave Scott and angry look then looked back at Pietro who was still seething, and then Lance burst out and pointing.
"Perhaps," The Professor asked, "You can explain why we have taken them, Lance?"
"Muh maap" Toad yelled, but because his mouth was covered he was impossible to understand.
"What?" Sam asked.
Well, almost impossible, "He said," Pietro began, "Mutant-napped! Which we were!" Pietro's anger subsided when he saw Jean, Rogue, and Amara walk up. "Oh look, the three musketeers!" A mischievous expression covered his face. "Thanks for the show girls." He winked. Scott looked at the girls who looked everywhere but his direction, then looked back at Pietro, who shrugged grinned.
Lance rolled his, it was at that time Boom-Boom and Blob woke up. So Lance started to retell the events that Kitty told him.
Meanwhile, Xavier rolled over to Wagner who was busily positioning his gear.
"Are you sure that you will be able to transport all of us?"
Wagner paused at what he was doing before answering, "Don't worry. None of Forge's machines have failed." Wagner gave him a reassuring smile.
After a few more minutes, Wagner was ready. "Is everyone else ready?" He called out.
By then the Brotherhood members were freed. Wagner started pressing the buttons, "Okay everybody hold hands." Everyone was holding had, making a complete circle.
Wagner teleported.
Everything was dark for a moment then slowly like came back. Once the teleporting smoke disappeared they all looked around in wonder.
It looked dead. Everything was in shambles. Buildings collapsed, dead warriors all over, and dryness. It seemed, as there was no life at all.
Of course not everything as it seems.
"Well, well." A voice called out. Through the thick fog a man appeared. "What do we have here?"
Suddenly, a new voice spoke up from the other side. "It looks like a bunch of muties to me."
"Yeah, and we all know how we feel about muties." A third voice appeared from in between the two men.
"The only good mutant," And alas, from across the third man a yet another voice spoke out, ".Is a dead mutant."
And with those last words he pulled out his gun as well as the other men.
"Ha," Pietro shouted, "You can't hurt us, we have powers." The men seemed amused.
"Uh, not exactly," Wagner cut in, "If we get hit by those gun, they temporally stop us from using out powers."
"What?" Sypke yelled.
"Still," Blob said, "There's 23 of us and only four of them."
And at that moment men appeared from everywhere, out numbering them and with guns.
"Well," Wagner said, "Welcome to my life."
Disclaimer: ThEy ArE nOt OuRs, BuT tHe FuTuRe VeRsIoN oF tHeM iS, kInDa.^_^
Authors note: Roxy: Hey, we wrote this months ago. I wonder why it wasn't posted? TWINKLES?!?! Twinkles: Oh.Yeah.. About that..well, you how you leave something on your computer and then you forget, I mean Xavier makes you forget. Don't you hate that? Roxy: (glares at Twinkles) Yeah.sure. Anyways, here's the story.. Twinkles: And again, not my fault...it is your fault...oh wait, yeah, yup, definitely my fault.
X
^_^hehehe
Professor Krepp was famous for his amazing theory, now called by other scientists 'The Krepp Theory'. He believed that there are millions of parallel worlds. Some in which there is only a slight difference. Whereas others can be different as day and night.
For years, scientists have tried to prove this theory correct, but alas there hasn't been anyone who was able to give reliable proof. Careers have been ruined for the men who dedicate their lives to this 'theory', and in the end became laughing stocks form their colleagues.
But what if one had the ability to go from one 'world' to another. Would he use this gift to prove the Krepp Theory? To show people the many wonders? Or maybe give insight on how the world would have been if they did something different?
No.
All he wants is to save his 'world'.
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Scott was jolted awake by the intruder alarm. He jumped out of bed and put on his fighting uniform. After he threw on his visors he ran out of the room, only to be greeted by the rest of the X-men running out of their rooms.
The X-men ran (or flew) down the stairs with Cyclops and Wolverine leading. Since they were expecting to have to run outside, they were shocked to find the intruder standing in the foyer. They stood around him poised for attack.
The intruder stood in the middle of all of them. They couldn't see his face, because he was wearing a heavy cloak. The figure raised his arm, everyone held their breaths. He placed his hands on his head cover, as if he was going to remove it. "Well, it only took you three minutes to get down here," the figure said in a male German accent, "I could have killed all of you already."
He removed his head cover and everyone gasped. The man looked like an older, harder version of Kurt!
"Who are you?" Wolverine growled.
The man smiled, "My name is Kurt Wagner, also know as Nightcrawler."
"Huh?" Kurt who may have been half asleep, suddenly bolted up.
Wolverine jumped forward and placed his claws right be his throat, "Try again."
The man raised his eyebrow in an amused expression, next thing Scott knew the man was gone with only a cloud of smoke left behind, and repapered standing in between Rogue and Storm.
"Oh, Logon. You're still as I remember..and that's why you're dead."
"What? Can you explain yourself, sir?" Storm asked.
The man smiled, "Call me Wagner. Everyone does."
Storm nodded, "Well, er.Wagner, would you mind explaining who you really are and what you want?"
Wagner nodded, "Well, first thing to know, I not here to hurt you." He walked up towards Kurt, "Second I'm him from a different world." Everyone stared at him shocked, "And third I'm here, because I need you're help. Where's Professor Xavier?"
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Everyone sat around Professor's office, after the Professor had scanned Wagner to prove that he was not hostile, though the Professor admits he was rather confused at what he saw.
"Well, Mr. Wagner, can you explain what I saw?" Xavier asked with a smile.
"Just Wagner. Not Mr." He stated.
"My apologies."
Wagner smiled and nodded, "Well, before I began I should ask do any of you believe in the Krepp theory?"
"The theory about parallel worlds?" Jean inquired as she leaned forward with interest.
Wagner smiled, "Yes that's the one."
"What of it?" Scott asked.
Wagner stood up straight and opened his arms wide, "I'm Kurt Wagner, aka Nightcrawler from world #10822."
"WHAT????" All the voices yelled.
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After everyone got over the shock, and had hours to discussed what the theory was and what Wagner had said.
"Let me make sure I have everything," Xavier began to recap what Wagner had just told them the last couple of hours. "You are from the future."
"An ALTERNATIVE future." Wagner cut in.
"Excuse me, an -alternative- future," Xavier correct himself before he went on, "You came to our 'world' to seek our help?"
"Yes." Wagner replied, "we had no other options, we're dying over there, literally."
Xavier nodded, "There's a war on your 'world'?"
Wagner nodded grimly.
Xavier looked down, "And you say that mutants are in danger."
"We're few that fight, and those who don't are simply too afraid."
Everyone sat in silence of the harsh news they were told.
"So, that's our future?" Kurt asked from the corner of the room.
Wagner stepped up to him, and placed his hand on Kurt's shoulder, "No, that is MY world. Not yours." Wagner assured him, "in fact when I was your age the war had already started."
Kurt nodded, relieved, as everyone else in the room was.
"So professor," Wagner addressed Xavier, "are you and your team going to help us?"
All eyes turned towards Xavier waiting for his response. Xavier looked down and took a deep breath, as if thinking. After a few moments of silence the Professor looked up and answered, "We'll help."
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As everyone prepared to leave, Wagner was asking questions to Logan about how well trained the team was.
When the team re-assembled in the foyer, Wagner strolled over to the professor with a confused look on his face, "Xavier, may I ask you something?"
"Of course."
Wagner scratched his head, "Well, Logan was telling me about each team member, and I noticed he never mentioned some of them, have they made no progress?"
Xavier knitted his eyebrows, "May I ask who they were?"
Wagner placed his hand under his chine, "Well, er.Mystique, Avalanche, Quicksilver, Toad and Blob to name a few."
"The Brotherhood!" Cyclops yelled.
"The what?" Wagner asked.
"The Brotherhood," Evan answered, "They're the bad guys, and we fight each other."
Wagner looked more confused, "They're your enemies?"
Jean nodded, "Aren't they're yours?"
Wagner shook his head, "Why we fight with our own kind, they're only a few of us left. Besides we're all fighting for the same thing." He looked around the room, "For the right to live."
A few of the X-men lowered their heads, slightly ashamed. They're problems seemed so minimal compared to Wagner's world.
"Do you need them too?" Kitty asked, being the only one to associate with one of the members on regular basis.
Wagner appeared to think about it for a minute and then nodded his head, "Yes, they're powers will be useful."
"Well, Mystique isn't with them anymore."
Wagner sighed, "Very well, but we'll need the rest of them."
"Okay, but got a problem." Scott said. Everyone turned towards his, "How do we get them to help us?"
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It was a beautiful summer day at the brotherhood home. Todd was inside, a bit bored, and a bit hungry. Glancing out the window, he scanned the back yard for any type of large larva.
"Lets see..tree, bush, rock, sign, grass, nest.wait, sign?" He quickly turned his head back a few paces, and sure enough, there was a sign with an arrow that said "FLYS." Toads eyes widened at the prospect of food. Never did it occur to him how the sign got there, our how a sign could determine just where the flys would be. "Be back in a minute Fred! The food is on! Woo hoo!" Toad went running outside.
Passing the sign hanging on a tree he ran through the bushes and smack dab into something else hanging from a tree. "What the.." He tried to open his eyes but a sticky sweet substance covered his face. Slapping his tongue up he licked his face. "Hmm honey! Now where are the flys?" That's when he realized that a large swarm gathering in front of him. It only took him a second. "Ahhh!!! Bees!" Toad took off running.
Meanwhile, in the brotherhood house. Pietro came down stairs. "Hey Fred, where'd Toad go?"
Fred glanced out the window, and saw Toad running by, a large swarm of bugs behind him. "Oh he's out chasing flies." He turned back to the newspaper he had been reading. "Did you know that the nasdaq is down?"
"What, really? What about Qualcomm stock? Is that doing okay?"
Fred scanned a moment than shock his head in surprise. "No, it down over 13 cents."
Pietro grasped his heart, "No! My stocks, my money!" He collapsed to the floor, and Fred went back to his reading.
Meanwhile toad was running further and further from the house. "Ahhh! Help me!" As he ran along he grabbed rocks which he threw back at the swarm of bees, but obviously, they were not being deterred.
Toad saw a pond up ahead, if he could only get there! With a running leap he dove for the water
"Hah! Ya! What now? What now?" He called back to the bees. "Hey wait, I can't swim! Ahhh!! Help! Drowning!" Quickly he jumped from the water, as he did he suddenly started floating.
"Wha.?" Toad looked down and around. That's when he noticed Jean, her finger barley tapping her temple.
"What do ya want, Red?" Toad yelled down at her. Suddenly, a rope appeared and started to wrap around him, holding him tight.
"Hey what's going on?" Toad tried to move around, and untie himself, but suddenly, he realized that Jeans finger was off her head. "Uh oh.Ahhh!" He came dropping to the ground.
"This is kidnapping, I hope you know!" Toad yelled, "Help, I'm being mutant- napped!"
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Pietro was rather proud of himself. He recovered quite well from his near heart attack. Standing up, he looked around. "You know Fred, Todd is taking a long time. I think I'll go look for him." He had nothing better to do. Fred raised his hand up to wave. Never taking his eyes off the newspaper.
Pietro looked around the back yard, by this time the sign was gone. "Todd!" He called out. There was no answer, so he started heading into the bushes.
Meanwhile, the X-men had done their best to get Toad away from the others, they figured he would be fairly easy to detain without the help of his big brothers. Surprisingly though, they were wrong.
As soon as Toad had hit the ground, he bounded up again. Throwing himself at Jean. After knocking her down he tried to run.
"Oh no you don!" Rogue moved in front of him. "We said we can handle' ya guys, and ah know we can!" Without hesitating she leaped for him.
"Ahh!" Don't touch me!" Toad yelled jumping away. Rogue landed on the dirt.
Toad looked from Jean to Rogue and back again. Rogue quickly pulled Jean up, she had almost fallen into the pond, and they slowly begin moving toward Toad.
"Don't worri, wer not gonna hurt ya." Rogue said between clenched teeth.
That's when Toad had an idea. "Ya, I know you aren't!" Jumping forward he kicked both feet out. One hit Jean, and the other Rogue. Both girls went flying into the water!
Toad opened his mouth to laugh, but just as he did he felt a piece of duck tape and a hand clamp over it.
"Sorry about this." A sweet voice said.
A moment later he felt something hit his head, and he was out. Amara stood behind him holding a stick, with a worried look on her face. "I hope I didn't hit him too hard."
"Ah hope you did!" Rogue said, still sitting in water.
Jean nodded. "Thank you Amara. At least this water isn't dirty. You know, it's so cool it's almost relaxing. Hey maybe we should throw Toad in." The girls smiled.
Amara leaned over and helped Rogue up. "No, we don 'ave time. We still said we'd get.."
"Toad!!!" Her words were interrupted by Pietro.
"He's not supposed to be here!" Amara whispered.
Rogues eyebrows lifted. "Quick! Ah 'ave an idea, play along Amara!" Moving passed Amara she pushed her into the water, and threw herself into the bushes.
Jean smiled, and Amara looked confused.
"Toad! Where on earth could he be!" Pietro said annoyed. "He better not be playing tricks on the X-fre..girls!" Pietro said in shock as he saw them.
Amara and jean stood in the water, up to their thighs. Pietro's jaw dropped. Jean had tied he top half of her shirt up. And Amara waved. Tossing her hair back jean smiled. "Hello Pietro."
He quickly gained composure, he knew something had to be wrong, but he didn't really mind at the moment. "What are you two doing here?" He asked skeptically.
They looked at each other and grinned. "You know Pietro." Jean began. "You've always been my favorite brotherhood member." Amara nodded. "Your so strong and handsome."
Pietro blushed, then stood up straight. "I know, that's what everyone tells me." he quickly shook his head, trying to snap himself out of it. "But really, what are you doing here?"
Jean rang her hair out a little. "Going for a swim." She winked, "you want to join us?"
Pietro's jaw dropped. "I..ahhh...I...ahhh." Jean and Amara slowly started walking towards him. "Don't be shy." Amara batted her eyes innocently. "Yes," Jean moved closer, "We're not going to hurt you."
Pietro gulped, then smiled deviously, "Please do."
Rogue stepped up behind Pietro undetected. "Okay." Before Pietro could react she touched his cheek before he could run off. Soon Pietro fell down unconscious.
Rogue smiled, "All in a days work!"
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Blob munched on yet another snack, it was only his sixth for the day, and so he was still good. His peaceful moment was ruined by and red blast. Blob looked up and saw Cyclops and Sunspot. Blob jumped up and charged towards them.
Scott blasted him and Blob was halted. Sunspot had snuck behind him, and with all his strength he lifted Blob above his head and threw him across the room. Blob crashed through a brick wall. After he was a bid dazed, that's when Iceman appeared and froze he feet to the ground. With Blob being stuck they were able to tie a rope around him.
A few seconds later Rogue zipped in, using Pietro powers. She tapped Fred and soon he was unconscious.
Scott smiled. "Thanks Rogue." That's when he realized she was soaking wet. "Ah, Rogue, why are you wet."
Jean and Amara came in dragging the other two brotherhood members.
Scott looked at them with surprise. Then interest as he noticed Jean choice in clothing. "And why are you guys wet?" He smiled a little, waiting for their answer.
The girls glance at each other. Jean spoke. "We detained the two brotherhood teammates like we said we could, then had so much extra time we took a swim. What took you so long? You only had to get one?" Rogue and Amara turned and looked at Scott with same smug expression.
Scott smiled. "Maybe cause mine is four times the size of your two guys put together." He smiled and shook his head. "We should get back. Are you sure that's what happened?
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Boom-boom was dancing around her porch with her headphones on. Suddenly, she smelled brimstone. She turned around and saw Kurt with his smoke slowly disappearing. She pulled off her headphones and gave Kurt a confused look.
"Hey, Tabby." Kurt waved.
Rapidly her confused look turned into an angry one, "Look Kurt, I heard all about you and Amanda. So if you think."
Kurt gave her a meek look, "About that Tabby."
Unexpectedly, several duplicates of Multiple-man appeared and jumped Boom- Boom.
"What the.?" Tabby yelled.
".Sorry." Kurt finished.
One of the duplicates hit Tabby a bit too hard, rendering her unconscious.
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Soon all the team had reassembled at the mansion. Tabby and Blob were still knocked out. Pietro woken up and was seething next to Toad. All of them still tied up, with Pietro legs tied together and Toad mouth covered.
"Where's Avalanche?" Wagner asked.
At that moment Kitty and Lance walked in.
"Kitty!" Scott yelled, "Why isn't Lance tied up?"
Kitty shrugged, "I just told him that I was leaving on a dangerous mission, and he demanded he's come. Said that way he could protect me. So I told him all about Wagner and the mission."
It was then Lance stepped forward and saw his teammates all tied up. He gave Scott and angry look then looked back at Pietro who was still seething, and then Lance burst out and pointing.
"Perhaps," The Professor asked, "You can explain why we have taken them, Lance?"
"Muh maap" Toad yelled, but because his mouth was covered he was impossible to understand.
"What?" Sam asked.
Well, almost impossible, "He said," Pietro began, "Mutant-napped! Which we were!" Pietro's anger subsided when he saw Jean, Rogue, and Amara walk up. "Oh look, the three musketeers!" A mischievous expression covered his face. "Thanks for the show girls." He winked. Scott looked at the girls who looked everywhere but his direction, then looked back at Pietro, who shrugged grinned.
Lance rolled his, it was at that time Boom-Boom and Blob woke up. So Lance started to retell the events that Kitty told him.
Meanwhile, Xavier rolled over to Wagner who was busily positioning his gear.
"Are you sure that you will be able to transport all of us?"
Wagner paused at what he was doing before answering, "Don't worry. None of Forge's machines have failed." Wagner gave him a reassuring smile.
After a few more minutes, Wagner was ready. "Is everyone else ready?" He called out.
By then the Brotherhood members were freed. Wagner started pressing the buttons, "Okay everybody hold hands." Everyone was holding had, making a complete circle.
Wagner teleported.
Everything was dark for a moment then slowly like came back. Once the teleporting smoke disappeared they all looked around in wonder.
It looked dead. Everything was in shambles. Buildings collapsed, dead warriors all over, and dryness. It seemed, as there was no life at all.
Of course not everything as it seems.
"Well, well." A voice called out. Through the thick fog a man appeared. "What do we have here?"
Suddenly, a new voice spoke up from the other side. "It looks like a bunch of muties to me."
"Yeah, and we all know how we feel about muties." A third voice appeared from in between the two men.
"The only good mutant," And alas, from across the third man a yet another voice spoke out, ".Is a dead mutant."
And with those last words he pulled out his gun as well as the other men.
"Ha," Pietro shouted, "You can't hurt us, we have powers." The men seemed amused.
"Uh, not exactly," Wagner cut in, "If we get hit by those gun, they temporally stop us from using out powers."
"What?" Sypke yelled.
"Still," Blob said, "There's 23 of us and only four of them."
And at that moment men appeared from everywhere, out numbering them and with guns.
"Well," Wagner said, "Welcome to my life."