Yessssssss! Woo-Hoo!!! I'm back, I'm finally back!!!!
Praise the lord!!!! Halleluiah!! HA ha!!
Sorry it's been so long since I updated but I got a really good excuse for being gone so long. Check it out, my computer actually caught on fire! Seriously! I bullshit you not. The piece of crap actually caught on fire. But fret not, until I pony up the dough to get a new one or until Santa finds it in his heart to get me one for Christmas I'm just gonna use the labs at the nearest library to continue my work. I totally understand if everybody hates me by now but I promise you it'll be worth the wait; during the time I've been gone I came up with a lot of good ideas to make this story even better. Sooooo without further ado check out the newest chapter. Man it's good to be back!!!!!!!!!
"Reunited"
The Brotherhood of Bayville Boarding House 6:36 p.m.
"Man I'm telling ya in to weeks I'll have a full grown beard." Fred said stepping through the front door of the boarding house. They never bothered o lock the door; the house had been on the news so everyone knew who lived there or more importantly what lived there. Even if someone did bother to break in and trash the place you wouldn't notice. The house was to put it mildly a complete mess. Pizza boxes, soda cans, clothes, comic books, candy wrappers, and plain old trash were among the many things strewn about the house. Without the proper adult supervision the Brotherhood's home was going to seed. Nevertheless to these three this was home, messy or not.
"I'm sorry man I just don't see it." Toad said hopping through the door behind Fred.
"How can you not see it?" Fred said pointing to his chin.
Toad squinted his large eyes and examined Fred's double chin. After a few seconds Toad shrugged his shoulders in defeat.
"Hold on..." Fred groaned in annoyance.
Fred walked into the living room, knelt down by the couch and began to search under the cushions for something. Toad hopped over and watched him. After thoroughly examining the cushions Fred reached under the couch and effortlessly lifted it into the air with one hand.
"Here it is." Fred said. Fred was searching for Toad's magnifying glass. He scooped it up and dropped the couch back down with a sharp thud. Fred then handed the magnifying glass to Toad.
"Now look."
Toad once again examined Fred's chin.
"Oh" he said surprised. "O.k. now I see 'em." What Toad saw were three skinny facial hairs sticking out from Fred's chin.
"Yep I figure by this time next week I'll have a nice goatee comin' in." Fred said triumphantly.
Toad then grabbed one of the hairs between his thumb and forefinger and plucked it from Fred's chin. Fred yelped and jumped back seeing what Toad had done. Toad held the hair between his fingers for a moment and with a smirk blew it into the air.
"Make a wish." Toad said with a grin.
"Oh, you are so dead Toad!" Fred threatened as he lunged at Toad.
Toad quickly hopped away while being chased by his behemoth buddy. Fred was hell-bent on avenging his lost whisker. Despite the fact that Fred was pretty high up on everyone's list of mutants you never want to make angry, Toad was in a playful mood, and besides Fred was so easy to anger sometimes. The only person easier to annoy was Lance. Speaking of Lance...
"Would you two stop goofing off for two seconds and help me this stuff?" Lance growled
He was walking through carrying two heavy-looking grocery bags. Toad hopped over in front of him forgetting for a moment that he was being chased around the room.
"Two whole seconds?" Toad asked.
Toad saw his friend carrying the bags all by himself and felt a little concerned.
"Wow those look heavy, lemme help ya out there." Toad reached up and grabbed an apple of the top of one of the bags (to help lighten the load) and took a bite out of it. Toad snack was interrupted when to very large hands grabbed him by his collar and shirt.
"You heard him," Fred said carrying Toad toward the front door, "Go help!"
Fred then tossed Toad out the door and towards Lance's jeep. Lance entered the kitchen and heard a short scream followed by a hollow thump.
"Better not have broken anything!" he said sitting the food on the kitchen table.
"Nah he's fine." Fred said nonchalantly.
"I was talking about my car."
Toad and Fred brought in the rest of the bags and the three began to unload the contents in the empty cupboards, cabinets and fridge. They had basically purchased what most teenagers would consider to be groceries. Mostly junk food and the like, but was better than nothing.
Only earlier that day the thought of a fridge full of food seemed hard to believe. Mystique was gone and there was no telling if or when she would be back. They had no money and were becoming desperate. They had even considered getting part-time jobs. In fact that morning Toad had gone out to use what little money they had left to get a paper so that maybe they could find something in the classifieds.
While at the newsstand, Toad accidentally strayed away from the newspapers and into the "adult" section. The stand's owner happened to catch Toad in the act and proceeded to introduce Toad to the "you read it, you buy it rule". Toad barely had enough for the paper let alone some other "stuff". Desperate, toad asked the gentleman standing next to him if he could borrow a few bucks. The man was businessman-looking type, with a suit and tie, glasses and a very stern look about him. Toad definitely figured that this guy could spare a few bucks. The man however just ignored Toad's begging or was trying to. So Toad caught his attention by grabbing the man by his coat in attempt to show how desperate he was.
"Come on man..." Toad continued "Just five bucks, pleeeeeze?"
The man just pushed Toad off of him with a disgusted look on his face. He then hurried off down the street and muttered something under his breath like "freak" or something. The stand's owner just stared at Toad arms folded, expecting Toad to try and weasel his way out of it.
"Well kid, you got the money or not?" he asked
Toad looked back at the man with a smirk and produced a fat, leather wallet. "Will cash do?" he replied
Toad had managed to lift the businessman's wallet during his little performance. Imagine Fred and Lance's surprise when Toad returned with the newspaper, a wallet full of money (both cash and plastic), not to mention some extra "reading material". The two were happy enough just knowing that Toad didn't spend it on any magic beans.
With the food now unloaded the trio was about to enjoy a well-deserved meal...suddenly there was a crash from upstairs. The three looked at each other, all equally startled and confused.
"What was that?" Fred asked sounding a bit worried
"I don't know, but we're gonna find out!" Lance said heading upstairs. Toad and Fred followed.
About halfway upstairs the trio heard another crash and what sounded like a female voice. The boys made their way upstairs and into the hall and heard the voice again, it was coming from Mystique's bedroom.
All three froze. What if... what if it was Mystique!?
The thought of her coming back was always a possibility in the backs of their minds but they usually tried not to think about it. She was so angry last time and the house was in even worse condition than it was before.
"Uh is that...?" Toad asked fearfully
"What do we do?" Fred said panicking
Lance crept up to the door slowly with Toad and Fred standing close behind him. He lightly knocked on the door.
"Uh, Mystique is that you?" Lance asked hoping not to get an answer.
The female gave an angry grunt from behind the door.
"Look we can explain...uh.... it's all Toad's fault!"
"Yeah, Toad's fault!" Fred seconded
"No it's not!" Toad shouted trying to defend himself. Toad then flung the door open and his scowl quickly melted into a smile.
"Wanda! Baby!"
The intruder was not there former "Boss Lady" at all. It was Wanda feverishly tearing apart Mystique's, like she was looking for something. Fred and Lance were relieved; after all she was no threat to them. They hated her father almost as much as she did. Both Fred and Lance headed back down stairs, while Toad and Wanda got reacquainted.
As the two headed downstairs they noticed the door was wide open. It couldn't have been Wanda; she was definitely in the house before them.
"Now what?" Lance sighed
A clatter coming from the kitchen caught their attention, so they went to investigate. Another familiar face awaited them.
"Boom Boom!" they both exclaimed.
"What's up guys, long time no see." Tabitha asked as she tore into a bag of potato chips.
Tabitha was right behind Mystique on the list of people the guys were hoping would never show up at their house again.
Where do you keep the sodas in this dump?"
Back upstairs another happy reunion was taking place.
"Where ya been at Honey-buns?" Toad asked, happily hopping over to Wanda.
Wanda hadn't even noticed his presence up until now; she was too focused on the task at hand. That repulsive odor and that annoying voice were all she needed to let out a disgusted groan.
"So where ya been all this time? You never write, you never call..."
Wanda just shoved Toad out of the way and continued her search.
"Don't feel like talking huh?"
Toad just picked himself of off the floor and hopped over onto Mystique's king-sized bed.
"I understand sweetie, you're probably tired from you're trip. Wanna lay down for a while?"
Toad invitingly patted the cushy bed and grinned. Wanda just ignored him and began searching through the drawers of one of Mystique's dressers. As she searched she feverishly tossed the contents of the drawers into the air. Toad was temporarily distracted by the ladies undergarments flying through the air, especially when a bra landed on his head.
"Okay..." he said delicately removing the bra from his head
"Ya hungry? We got plenty of food downstairs."
Wanda just grunted and started looking through a bookshelf.
"You sure? We got cheese, squeezy cheese..."
Toad was still being ignored.
"Okay then..." he sighed and laid down on the bed, staring p at the ceiling.
"Where's Pietro?" Wanda asked rather gruffly
Toad sat up from the bed and sat on the side of the bed facing Wanda who was now searching the closet.
"Uh I dunno." He answered " I ain't seen him since he ran off with his father."
Toad knew by now not to refer to Magneto as "your father" to Wanda.
Wanda continued searching.
"So watcha looking for?"
"Something that'll help me find Magneto." Wanda answered
"Oh well you ain't never gonna find nothin' in there babycakes. Mystique kept all the important information and stuff in her computer." Toad said pointing to the computer behind him
Wanda finally poked her head out of the closet.
"Show me."
Toad hopped out of the bed and into the chair in front of Mystique's computer in one leap.
"Allrighty" he said cracking his knuckles, "Lets see what we got here."
Toad began searching the computer's files for any Magneto-related info. Wanda walked over to behind Toad and leaned over as she carefully watched the screen.
"Nope, nope, nope..." Toad repeated after file after file came up empty.
"Stop!" Wanda commanded
She saw something or rather someone familiar. One of the members of Magneto's new team. The one called "Gambit". As it turned out Mystique managed to gather much information on Magneto's new team before their eventual encounter. All Wanda needed was locations. If she could find one of them it would only be a matter of time before she would find Magneto himself. Toad printed out a sheet for Wanda.
Wanda took the sheet and eyed it closely it was only a matter of time now. Just as Wanda was about to leave Toad hopped in front of the doorway, blocking her path.
"Aren't you forgetting something?"
Toad puckered up and waited to receive his payment for all his help.
Back downstairs Tabitha was explaining why she was back at the boarding house. For one thing Tabitha was avoiding helping out with the last of the minor repairs on the mansion. Also she wanted absolute freedom on her little vacation from school and figured the guys would keep her thoroughly entertained. At the moment however she was the one entertaining them.
"Whoa..." Fed said in amazement
"Cool" Lance agreed
The two were staring at Tabitha's shiny new pierced tongue. A metallic ball at the end of pin protruded from the center of her tongue.
"Ya like it?" she beamed proudly
Krrrrrrssssssh! "AAAaaaaaahh!! Thump!
Someone fell past the living room window followed by shards of broken glass.
The three stared out the window and then directed their attention towards the stairs as Wanda walked out.
"Uh huh..." Lance said
"Yeah so anyway, did it hurt?" Fred asked
"No way!" Tabitha said
Back outside Toad gathered what little consciousness he had left to bid his sweetheart a fond farewell.
"Bye sweetie...have a safe trip..."
Wanda just ignored him as she began to walk in the direction of the nearest bus terminal.
"It's only a matter of time now father I will find you no matter what it takes."
Next Time: Hydro trains for the first time in the danger room with the other new recruits. It's his first test on the long road to becoming an X-man. Will he pass the test? Why does he have a problem with his new uniform? What does everyone think about his being at the institute? One things for sure Hydro's gonna surprise everyone in this one.
Praise the lord!!!! Halleluiah!! HA ha!!
Sorry it's been so long since I updated but I got a really good excuse for being gone so long. Check it out, my computer actually caught on fire! Seriously! I bullshit you not. The piece of crap actually caught on fire. But fret not, until I pony up the dough to get a new one or until Santa finds it in his heart to get me one for Christmas I'm just gonna use the labs at the nearest library to continue my work. I totally understand if everybody hates me by now but I promise you it'll be worth the wait; during the time I've been gone I came up with a lot of good ideas to make this story even better. Sooooo without further ado check out the newest chapter. Man it's good to be back!!!!!!!!!
"Reunited"
The Brotherhood of Bayville Boarding House 6:36 p.m.
"Man I'm telling ya in to weeks I'll have a full grown beard." Fred said stepping through the front door of the boarding house. They never bothered o lock the door; the house had been on the news so everyone knew who lived there or more importantly what lived there. Even if someone did bother to break in and trash the place you wouldn't notice. The house was to put it mildly a complete mess. Pizza boxes, soda cans, clothes, comic books, candy wrappers, and plain old trash were among the many things strewn about the house. Without the proper adult supervision the Brotherhood's home was going to seed. Nevertheless to these three this was home, messy or not.
"I'm sorry man I just don't see it." Toad said hopping through the door behind Fred.
"How can you not see it?" Fred said pointing to his chin.
Toad squinted his large eyes and examined Fred's double chin. After a few seconds Toad shrugged his shoulders in defeat.
"Hold on..." Fred groaned in annoyance.
Fred walked into the living room, knelt down by the couch and began to search under the cushions for something. Toad hopped over and watched him. After thoroughly examining the cushions Fred reached under the couch and effortlessly lifted it into the air with one hand.
"Here it is." Fred said. Fred was searching for Toad's magnifying glass. He scooped it up and dropped the couch back down with a sharp thud. Fred then handed the magnifying glass to Toad.
"Now look."
Toad once again examined Fred's chin.
"Oh" he said surprised. "O.k. now I see 'em." What Toad saw were three skinny facial hairs sticking out from Fred's chin.
"Yep I figure by this time next week I'll have a nice goatee comin' in." Fred said triumphantly.
Toad then grabbed one of the hairs between his thumb and forefinger and plucked it from Fred's chin. Fred yelped and jumped back seeing what Toad had done. Toad held the hair between his fingers for a moment and with a smirk blew it into the air.
"Make a wish." Toad said with a grin.
"Oh, you are so dead Toad!" Fred threatened as he lunged at Toad.
Toad quickly hopped away while being chased by his behemoth buddy. Fred was hell-bent on avenging his lost whisker. Despite the fact that Fred was pretty high up on everyone's list of mutants you never want to make angry, Toad was in a playful mood, and besides Fred was so easy to anger sometimes. The only person easier to annoy was Lance. Speaking of Lance...
"Would you two stop goofing off for two seconds and help me this stuff?" Lance growled
He was walking through carrying two heavy-looking grocery bags. Toad hopped over in front of him forgetting for a moment that he was being chased around the room.
"Two whole seconds?" Toad asked.
Toad saw his friend carrying the bags all by himself and felt a little concerned.
"Wow those look heavy, lemme help ya out there." Toad reached up and grabbed an apple of the top of one of the bags (to help lighten the load) and took a bite out of it. Toad snack was interrupted when to very large hands grabbed him by his collar and shirt.
"You heard him," Fred said carrying Toad toward the front door, "Go help!"
Fred then tossed Toad out the door and towards Lance's jeep. Lance entered the kitchen and heard a short scream followed by a hollow thump.
"Better not have broken anything!" he said sitting the food on the kitchen table.
"Nah he's fine." Fred said nonchalantly.
"I was talking about my car."
Toad and Fred brought in the rest of the bags and the three began to unload the contents in the empty cupboards, cabinets and fridge. They had basically purchased what most teenagers would consider to be groceries. Mostly junk food and the like, but was better than nothing.
Only earlier that day the thought of a fridge full of food seemed hard to believe. Mystique was gone and there was no telling if or when she would be back. They had no money and were becoming desperate. They had even considered getting part-time jobs. In fact that morning Toad had gone out to use what little money they had left to get a paper so that maybe they could find something in the classifieds.
While at the newsstand, Toad accidentally strayed away from the newspapers and into the "adult" section. The stand's owner happened to catch Toad in the act and proceeded to introduce Toad to the "you read it, you buy it rule". Toad barely had enough for the paper let alone some other "stuff". Desperate, toad asked the gentleman standing next to him if he could borrow a few bucks. The man was businessman-looking type, with a suit and tie, glasses and a very stern look about him. Toad definitely figured that this guy could spare a few bucks. The man however just ignored Toad's begging or was trying to. So Toad caught his attention by grabbing the man by his coat in attempt to show how desperate he was.
"Come on man..." Toad continued "Just five bucks, pleeeeeze?"
The man just pushed Toad off of him with a disgusted look on his face. He then hurried off down the street and muttered something under his breath like "freak" or something. The stand's owner just stared at Toad arms folded, expecting Toad to try and weasel his way out of it.
"Well kid, you got the money or not?" he asked
Toad looked back at the man with a smirk and produced a fat, leather wallet. "Will cash do?" he replied
Toad had managed to lift the businessman's wallet during his little performance. Imagine Fred and Lance's surprise when Toad returned with the newspaper, a wallet full of money (both cash and plastic), not to mention some extra "reading material". The two were happy enough just knowing that Toad didn't spend it on any magic beans.
With the food now unloaded the trio was about to enjoy a well-deserved meal...suddenly there was a crash from upstairs. The three looked at each other, all equally startled and confused.
"What was that?" Fred asked sounding a bit worried
"I don't know, but we're gonna find out!" Lance said heading upstairs. Toad and Fred followed.
About halfway upstairs the trio heard another crash and what sounded like a female voice. The boys made their way upstairs and into the hall and heard the voice again, it was coming from Mystique's bedroom.
All three froze. What if... what if it was Mystique!?
The thought of her coming back was always a possibility in the backs of their minds but they usually tried not to think about it. She was so angry last time and the house was in even worse condition than it was before.
"Uh is that...?" Toad asked fearfully
"What do we do?" Fred said panicking
Lance crept up to the door slowly with Toad and Fred standing close behind him. He lightly knocked on the door.
"Uh, Mystique is that you?" Lance asked hoping not to get an answer.
The female gave an angry grunt from behind the door.
"Look we can explain...uh.... it's all Toad's fault!"
"Yeah, Toad's fault!" Fred seconded
"No it's not!" Toad shouted trying to defend himself. Toad then flung the door open and his scowl quickly melted into a smile.
"Wanda! Baby!"
The intruder was not there former "Boss Lady" at all. It was Wanda feverishly tearing apart Mystique's, like she was looking for something. Fred and Lance were relieved; after all she was no threat to them. They hated her father almost as much as she did. Both Fred and Lance headed back down stairs, while Toad and Wanda got reacquainted.
As the two headed downstairs they noticed the door was wide open. It couldn't have been Wanda; she was definitely in the house before them.
"Now what?" Lance sighed
A clatter coming from the kitchen caught their attention, so they went to investigate. Another familiar face awaited them.
"Boom Boom!" they both exclaimed.
"What's up guys, long time no see." Tabitha asked as she tore into a bag of potato chips.
Tabitha was right behind Mystique on the list of people the guys were hoping would never show up at their house again.
Where do you keep the sodas in this dump?"
Back upstairs another happy reunion was taking place.
"Where ya been at Honey-buns?" Toad asked, happily hopping over to Wanda.
Wanda hadn't even noticed his presence up until now; she was too focused on the task at hand. That repulsive odor and that annoying voice were all she needed to let out a disgusted groan.
"So where ya been all this time? You never write, you never call..."
Wanda just shoved Toad out of the way and continued her search.
"Don't feel like talking huh?"
Toad just picked himself of off the floor and hopped over onto Mystique's king-sized bed.
"I understand sweetie, you're probably tired from you're trip. Wanna lay down for a while?"
Toad invitingly patted the cushy bed and grinned. Wanda just ignored him and began searching through the drawers of one of Mystique's dressers. As she searched she feverishly tossed the contents of the drawers into the air. Toad was temporarily distracted by the ladies undergarments flying through the air, especially when a bra landed on his head.
"Okay..." he said delicately removing the bra from his head
"Ya hungry? We got plenty of food downstairs."
Wanda just grunted and started looking through a bookshelf.
"You sure? We got cheese, squeezy cheese..."
Toad was still being ignored.
"Okay then..." he sighed and laid down on the bed, staring p at the ceiling.
"Where's Pietro?" Wanda asked rather gruffly
Toad sat up from the bed and sat on the side of the bed facing Wanda who was now searching the closet.
"Uh I dunno." He answered " I ain't seen him since he ran off with his father."
Toad knew by now not to refer to Magneto as "your father" to Wanda.
Wanda continued searching.
"So watcha looking for?"
"Something that'll help me find Magneto." Wanda answered
"Oh well you ain't never gonna find nothin' in there babycakes. Mystique kept all the important information and stuff in her computer." Toad said pointing to the computer behind him
Wanda finally poked her head out of the closet.
"Show me."
Toad hopped out of the bed and into the chair in front of Mystique's computer in one leap.
"Allrighty" he said cracking his knuckles, "Lets see what we got here."
Toad began searching the computer's files for any Magneto-related info. Wanda walked over to behind Toad and leaned over as she carefully watched the screen.
"Nope, nope, nope..." Toad repeated after file after file came up empty.
"Stop!" Wanda commanded
She saw something or rather someone familiar. One of the members of Magneto's new team. The one called "Gambit". As it turned out Mystique managed to gather much information on Magneto's new team before their eventual encounter. All Wanda needed was locations. If she could find one of them it would only be a matter of time before she would find Magneto himself. Toad printed out a sheet for Wanda.
Wanda took the sheet and eyed it closely it was only a matter of time now. Just as Wanda was about to leave Toad hopped in front of the doorway, blocking her path.
"Aren't you forgetting something?"
Toad puckered up and waited to receive his payment for all his help.
Back downstairs Tabitha was explaining why she was back at the boarding house. For one thing Tabitha was avoiding helping out with the last of the minor repairs on the mansion. Also she wanted absolute freedom on her little vacation from school and figured the guys would keep her thoroughly entertained. At the moment however she was the one entertaining them.
"Whoa..." Fed said in amazement
"Cool" Lance agreed
The two were staring at Tabitha's shiny new pierced tongue. A metallic ball at the end of pin protruded from the center of her tongue.
"Ya like it?" she beamed proudly
Krrrrrrssssssh! "AAAaaaaaahh!! Thump!
Someone fell past the living room window followed by shards of broken glass.
The three stared out the window and then directed their attention towards the stairs as Wanda walked out.
"Uh huh..." Lance said
"Yeah so anyway, did it hurt?" Fred asked
"No way!" Tabitha said
Back outside Toad gathered what little consciousness he had left to bid his sweetheart a fond farewell.
"Bye sweetie...have a safe trip..."
Wanda just ignored him as she began to walk in the direction of the nearest bus terminal.
"It's only a matter of time now father I will find you no matter what it takes."
Next Time: Hydro trains for the first time in the danger room with the other new recruits. It's his first test on the long road to becoming an X-man. Will he pass the test? Why does he have a problem with his new uniform? What does everyone think about his being at the institute? One things for sure Hydro's gonna surprise everyone in this one.