Hmm, not quite the outpour of reviewers that I was hoping for, but the ones that did are much appreciated. If you have no idea who the Ultimates are or what the Ultimate Marvel universe is don't worry, the Ultimate Marvel universe is all the old story's set today and the Ultimates are the revamped Avengers with a lineup of Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Giant Man, The Wasp, Black Widow, Hawkeye, and The Hulk.





Pietro awoke with a start, the echo of Rogues scream still hanging in the air as he flew down the stairs and stood in between her and the strange figure. Clenching his fists and trying to ignore the fact he was in his underwear Pietro demanded of the intruder, "WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY HOUSE?"

The hooded figure stopped and raised a hand to its cowl. Slowly pushing it back the shadow cast by it revealed a face much like Pietro's in facial structure. At first he did not recognize her because of her now long and uncolored brown hair, but at a second glance there was no mistaking his sister Wanda. She wore a pair of light gray pants with a black long sleeve shirt that seemed inconspicuous in this neighborhood.

She smiled weakly, "Hello Pietro."

Instead of relaxing after realizing it was his sister Pietro seemed to tense like a coiled spring, "You haven't answered my second question."

Rogue, relieved that the intruder wasn't Magneto exclaimed, "God Wanda, you scared me half to death."

Wanda shifted her level gaze from her brother to Rogue and seemed to really smile, "Sorry about that, I spent the night on the couch."

"Well?" Pietro asked again.

Rogue shoved him towards the kitchen, "Pietro, that's no way to treat your sister, especially if she came all the way from Westchester. Why don't you fix some breakfast while we talk?"

Pietro seemed to weigh the option of staying or leaving before deciding that Rogue would probably get the information anyway, "Sure."

Once he was gone Rogue gestured to the couch where they both sat down. Wanda looked around the house for a minute before asking, "You live here long?"

Rogue smiled, "We've been her a couple years."

Wanda seemed surprised, "I didn't know you two were living together? When Professor X found Pietro for me he didn't say anything about you."

Rogue frowned, "Why were you looking for Pietro?"

Wanda smiled quietly to herself, "I'm afraid that's classified. And please don't try to get it out of me, if my daughter couldn't get me to talk I'm sure you can't."

It was Rogues turn to be surprised, "You have a daughter! That's great! Who's the uhh."

"Father?"

"Well, yeah."

"Your brother."

"KURT!" Rogue beamed at the idea of being an aunt even if it was only by adoption on her part into the family.

Wanda seemed to come out of her own little shell at the mention of the blue devil, "We started dating after you two left, and as things eventually led, we had Talia."

"Are you married?"

Wanda shook her head, "No, Kurt proposed after he found out, but I told him that I wasn't going to marry him just because we were having a kid. Were taking it slow."

Rogue began pressing Wanda for information on her niece, things like how old was she? What's her favorite color? Were they sure she was a mutant? Did she look more like her mom or her dad?

Pietro poked his head in the door from around the corner where he had been listening since getting dressed, "Breakfast is ready."

After a breakfast of eggs, toast, and bacon, they all sat around the table drinking orange juice with Pietro staring at Wanda, Wanda staring back, and finally Rogue wondering if they were ever going to talk.

Finally Wanda broke the silence by rising from the table to dab her napkin at the side of her mouth, "Lets take a walk."

Pietro watched her walk towards the door without looking back to see if he followed before rising himself and following. Placing a hand on Rogue's shoulder he gave a brief squeeze before running after her.

Outside Wanda sat cross-legged on the hood of Rogue's car a cigarette dangling in between her fingers as smoke curled out of her mouth. Eyeing the cigarette Pietro leaned against the garage door and waited. Flicking the half smoked stick into the yard Wanda admonished, "Nasty habit, Kurts always trying to get me to quit, says its like kissing an ash tray."

"Why are you here Wanda?"

Wanda lay back on the car's windshield sighing, "No congratulations on the kid Pietro? When I first saw the house I figured you would have shacked up with a blonde bimbo and have a couple tykes running around yourself."

"Congratulations on making teenage pregnancy a part of your life, but I doubt that's why you traveled all the way here to talk."

"Too true Pietro, too true. You've been out of the loop for a long time now, so I figured I better be the one to give you the word; Magneto's back."

Pietro shrugged nonchalantly, "He's always been kicking around, so what?"

Wanda shook her head, "Maybe your not getting the big picture here, Magneto is back; as in everyone who looks can see signs of something big about to happen. As the prodigal son that kicked his ass to the curb I figure you would be a little nervous."

"I beat him once."

"Yeah, with the X men, Acolytes, and the Brotherhood backing you up."

"So what you want me to do a little guest starring part in the soap opera that goes on in Bayville?"

"No, the X men already have their hands full with the mutant criminals that seem to be popping up around the clock, that and looking for Mesmero. No this jobs going to most highly paid and underused government unit."

Pietro cocked an eyebrow, "The President is going after Magneto?"

"No you gibbering moron, the Ultimates are."

"The Ultimates?"

"Yes."

"And that has what to do with me?"

"Dr. McCoy recently came back from being on loan to them. He had the idea that since they were going after him anyway and were the ones he's most likely to go after, that we should help them."

"I'm not joining the Ultimates Wanda, from what I've seen they just barely were able to take out the Hulk. Look what's happened with the Wasp and Giant Man, that doesn't inspire a lot of confidence to me."

"They figured you would say that," reaching into her pocket Wanda pulled out a sheet of paper, "Look at this." Scanning the page Pietro threw it at his feet, "A WARRANT WANDA? A WARRANT?"

Wanda sat passively letting his anger wash over her, "Why do you think I agreed to all this?"

"So either I join the Ultimates or Lance, Todd and Fred go to prison?!"

"It sucks I know, but ask yourself; what were they doing robbing that diamond depository anyway?"

Waving his arms in the air Pietro screamed, "BECAUSE THERE MORONS!!!"

Wanda shrugged as if to say, that was of no consequence, "They came to me first because they figured that you would listen to me," Wanda smiled mockingly, "Shows they did there homework huh?"

Pietro closed his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose, "So were a package deal?"

"Both of us or the good ol boys go to prison."

"Not much of a choice Wanda.."

"Professor X agrees its blackmail, but there's nothing he can do."

Pietro looked up at her, "What about Rogue? What happens when Magneto comes looking for her?"

At this Wanda first showed a sign of being uncomfortable, "Kurt says she's welcome back at the Institute."

"When did he become the team spokes person?"

Wanda looked pissed now, "Ever since he became Scott's second in command. Now are you going to come with me or should I start mailing cigarettes to The Safe."

"You mean that place actually exist, a prison for people with superpowers! I thought that was one of those mutant boogeyman tales."

"Stop changing the subject Pietro. Yes or no?"

Pietro looked towards the east where the sun was rising, why would he risk everything he had built here for himself with Rogue? Because there your friends or at least used to be, he thought to himself.

"Fine, but only until we take down Magneto," Wanda looked pleased at this and jumped off the hood of the car. Grabbing her arm he turned her so she was looking him in the face, "But this time I'm going to make a clean job of it."

Wanda smiled as the air seemed to spark around them, "Finally were on the same page."

Pietro walked back into the house slowly, going over in his mind how he was going to tell Rogue and after years of not fighting he was right back in the fray. How do you tell someone that something like this?, he asked himself.

"Pietro?" Rogue saw the look on his face and knew, in that moment, she knew that it was all starting again.

"Rogue.....your not going to believe this...."

Rogue sat and listened as he explain to her how his father was back and that if he didn't help them to stop him that his friends would go to prison. He looks like he's trying to convince himself, she thought.

"Well?" Pietro looked at her expectantly.

"Pietro," Rogue ran a hand through her hair, "I can't do this again, I'm sorry I just can't. Why don't you stay here?"

"If I don't then-"

Screw the Brotherhood, they shouldn't have been stealing in the first place. Why should we give up what we have for them?"

Pietro shook his head and seemed to retract into himself giving her the cold treatment he gave everyone else, "If you can't understand, then there's no way I can explain it to you."

Rogue stood up and grabbed his face, "Don't you dare lock me out Pietro! Don't you dare! I love you and you love me, why can't that be enough?"

"For me it is. If your not here when all this is over, I'll understand. But Rogue, please don't leave me, I don't think I could take that."

Turning her back on him now that he had made his decision Rogue walked up the stairs to their room, "Goodbye Pietro, I can't make any promises; how do I know you will come back?"

Pietro wiped his eyes of the moisture that had formed and walked out the door with a final look at all that they had built together over the years. Seeing Wanda already behind the wheel of what he guessed was a rental car he got in.

Wanda drove to the airport, occasionally sneaking glances at her brother. Parking the car Wanda removed the keys from the ignition and said to him, "I never thanked you for staying around until I came out of my coma."

Pietro waited, but that seemed to be all that she was willing to say.

On the flight to New York Pietro stared out the window at the countryside below as it passed by. Sipping a coke Wanda made her way to where he was sitting and sat next to him, "I think there is something I should tell you before we get there."

"What now?" He sighed without turning from the window.

"The guys are being held on the island, so if you want you can say hello to them before there released."

"Why would I want to do that?"

"I thought they were your friends?"

"They were once."

Wanda drained the coke and threw it at a garbage can that slid forward so the shot was perfect, "Then why are we doing this for them?"

Pietro looked at her finally, "Because we were all each of us had, and I ran away."

"I knew we were all close-"

"No you were always on the outside, we were all there in the beginning. We had no idea of who we were, what we could do, and the only thing that kept us alive was having each other to lean on."

"Then what's the problem? I'm not following you here."

"I know what they've become, and I feel ashamed for them." With that he turned back to the window and stared out it.

Wanda contemplated the man she had seen back at the house, a man that seemed at home and happy with a quaint looking house. Now he looked absolutely miserable in a million dollar jet, go figure.

Later Wanda came to see if he wanted to eat something from the fridge and found him asleep, leaning straight back into the chair with his eyes closed. Pulling a blanket from an overhead bin she draped it across him before ruffling his hair, "Sleep tight bullet."

The plane was descending when Pietro opened his eyes. Looking around for Wanda he found himself alone in the passenger compartment before the whole plane lurched in mid air and came to a stop. The walls slowly pealed back as lightning struck outside the plane while all he could do is watch. The wall ripped apart to reveal a figure in red dressed with the unmistakable helmet reaching out towards him whispering, "Pietro, Pietro."

"AAAAAHHHHHHH" Pietro sat up with a start in his chair. Realizing it was dream he walked to the bathroom to splash water on his face.



Back at there house Rogue hung up the phone after calling to tell the principal's secretary she was going to have to take a leave of absence. Folding clothes and putting them in her suitcase Rogue thought about what she was going to have to do, no matter how uncomfortable it would be.

Closing and locking the door Rogue mused to herself that maybe one day the two of them would walk back through the door together. The house was sold 3 months later.



At the Ultimates airfield the jet slowly rolled into a hangar that was occupied by a single figure in military uniform. As he walked down the steps following Wanda he realized where he had seen the man before; no mistaking the smile, the blonde hair, and the build.

Stopping in front of the man who offered him his hand Pietro crossed his arms and said curtly, "A pleasure Captain America."

Well that wraps up this chapter, look for the next one under an R rating. Though I haven't made up my mind up about that just as of yet.



Next Chapter or story or whatever it is I write: Where is Rogue going? How will the Ultimates react to their new teammates? Will Pietro talk to the Brotherhood?