Welcome to the beginning of the unravel for my brotherhood. In response to a lot of questions, yes; Pietro is staying a jerk. In fact he and his father cross a major line that even Xavier cannot forgive. Anyway, by the end of this chap you will understand.

In This Moment, Brothers

Scott's expression was not a happy one. Jamie sat next to him, very scared of what he was going to do. Suddenly Scott burst out, "Listen, the next time you talk Forge into switching your's and Kurt's powers, I am letting someone else drive you back from New Hampshire, and I will take the five minute job of cleaning up the thirteen Kurt's!"

Jamie knew he had made a mistake, but he wasn't able to resist the idea of having the ability to teleport. The rest of the drive was quiet. They were fast approaching the ironic fork. The point where if one turned left they would find themselves at the Brotherhood of Bayville Boarding House, and if they turned right found themselves at the Xavier Institute for Gifted Youths. Scott always made it a habit to look down both roads, incase a special kind of danger was coming from the left. This night he would be glad he did.

"What the hell?" he yelled. He slammed on his brakes and jumped out.

"What is it?" asked two Jamie's just before they rejoined.

Scott opened his trunk and grabbed the flashlight from within. He shined it up the left fork, and now had conformation of what he had seen. It was Lance, lying on the road, slowly crawling their way. "help," Lance said weakly.

Scott rushed to his side, "Lance, what happened to you?"

"Freddy, Pietro . . ." he started, but it was obvious he was in a lot of pain. Jamie rushed up with the first aid kit from Scott's trunk. Lance continued, "They got made Acolytes . . . Decided me and Todd and Wanda were traitors . . . thrashed me and Todd . . . Oh God, Todd! He's up the road, you gotta help him . . ."

Scott turned to Jamie and said, "Listen, I need seven, right now." Jamie did as commanded and immediately created six copies. "I have a cell phone in my car, one of you call the Institute, tell them we have an emergency code 'magenta' and we need immediate medical assistance. The other six, go line search up the road looking for Todd." The Jamie's stood still in mixture of shock, and waiting for more instructions. "Now!" Cyclops yelled and all of the Multiples headed of to their tasks. Lance was covered in blood. Scott began to clean some of it off; he noticed that Lance's right leg was bending in a way that it wasn't meant to. Every time he tried to help him, Lance fought him off with his one good arm and told him to go help Todd.

"Tell me what happened after they did this to you. Where is Wanda?"

"They . . . oh god, they took her. They're going to do terrible things to her . . . you've got to save Wanda!" Lance's eyes were desperate.

Two Jamie's were jogging back from the direction they had left, one called out, "We found him, there are seven sitting with him now. He looks fine, but he is in a lot of pain."

Within minutes Dr. McCoy arrived with the X-Van and began picking up these wounded. Scott couldn't stand to see this. Lance had turned himself completely around. He had become an upstanding citizen. This wasn't supposed to happen to people like this.

Two hours later in the Institute Med Bay, Lance lay unconscious on a bed. Todd was just coming to. He opened his eyes and looked around. He had never been here but it wasn't hard to figure out where he was, given who had found them. He flexed his legs, "tender," he thought, "but mostly undamaged." He looked across the bay to the reason he wasn't too badly injured. Any time they had begun to look at Todd, Lance started insulting Freddy, which of course pulled his mind away from the frog boy. Lance had intentionally put himself in harm's way, just to protect a little frog boy.

Todd only thought on this for an hour, before he realized that the Acolytes still had Wanda. He threw off his blankets and began to walk to the exit. The door opened and there was Professor X, and Beast, both looking at him. "Good to see you are ready to go Mr. Tolensky. The XM Velocity leaves in five minutes, I suggest you take an extra uniform and get on."

"What do ya mean?"

Beast said, "We have narrowed Magneto's location down to New York City, and have a team put together, we were hoping you wanted to be on it. We are going to rescue Ms. Maximoff.

Todd grabbed Xavier by the lapels and said, "Which way?"

Charles gave him mental directions, and then began to telepathically hash out the plan to the rest of the team, "Each of you is to fly over your designated area, Toad Jean will give you an area to search. Continue combing that area until you are called together. Logan, you will go to Caliban and see if he can find Erik, Pietro or Fredrick. Until then, keep a nostril peeled for their scents. I have contacted Warren, and he is willing to help us. Now go my X-Men!" with that the XM Velocity lifted off and screamed toward her target.

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A few hours Later . . .

Todd hopped from roof to roof in a small almost totally abandoned Industrial district. He was beginning to get extremely agitated. He couldn't bear the thought of something bad happening to the woman he loved. It was then that the small communicator they gave him crackled to life. "Toad," came the harsh growl of Wolverine, "Caliban says you are the closest. This is how you get to them . . ."

Meanwhile . . .

"What in the Goddess name are you doing father!" Wanda screamed as her brother dragged her backwards. She had tried stamping his feet, but he was just to fast.

The first response to her question was a vicious slap across the face. "Be silent whore. I have no daughter."

She looked into his eyes and saw no humanity. She had never been this scared in her life. She felt sure that she would die here, after her father had his way with her. She turned her head around and tried to plead with her brother, "Pietro, I'm your sister, you cant do this!"

"Shut up bitch, its bad enough I'm getting sloppy seconds," Pietro mumbled. Wanda knew, that here and now, she would be raped and killed.

What she hadn't expected was what actually happened. Her father ripped the clothing from her, leaving her chest exposed. But as he reached to touch her, a voice cried out, "Hands off the Hottie!" Before Magneto had a chance to realize what had happened, something landed in front of him. It was short green and rather odiferous. Todd looked Magneto in the eye for less than a second; he then rolled onto his back and cocked his legs, and fired them into Magneto's gut. The Lord of Magnetism went flying through a window, and over several buildings. Todd hopped onto his feet and shot three slime bombs at Pietro's face, and while Quicksilver tried to clear his face, Todd wrapped his right leg with his tongue and squeezed until he heard a satisfying crunch. He then repeated the same move he had used his father and sent Pietro through another window.

Wanda collapsed to the floor and Todd rushed to her side. "We gotta get outta her yo!" Todd said to Wanda as she wept on the floor. "I am gonna put you on my back and get us outta here, okay?" but Wanda didn't respond, she merely cried harder. Todd got her into piggy back position, and realized that his arms weren't strong enough to hold her without her holding on. "Wanda, I'm gonna slide my tongue 'round us, just to make sure you stay on, okay?" but again no response. He fastened her to his back and launched the both of them out. He went several blocks and waited till they were on a particularly tall building till he put her down. He looked at her and finally realized that she was bare-chested. He looked away blushing. He scanned down below them and said to here, "I'll be right back," with that he dropped three stories to land next to a lady on a bench, she had taken off a large trench coat and laid it next to her, he grabbed the coat and sprung immediately as high as he could, he climbed the rest of the way up.

When he got back to the top he wrapped the coat around Wanda, but before he could back away and give her the space she usually wanted, she latched onto him. She refused to let go. So he just sat there holding her most of the time. Occasionally she scrambled away to be sick, but she made sure to keep it far from the two of them.

Eventually the other X-Men arrived, and they were all taken back to the Mansion. Both Wanda and Lance lay in the infirmary, with constant guests. Todd would not leave Wanda's side, and Kitty refused to leave Lance's. Xavier looked on through the glass. He shook his head. Erik had done many things that Charles would have labeled as wrong, or immoral, but this had crossed a line. He had attempted to rape his own daughter. Charles vowed that from this moment on, he would not think of that man as Erik Lensherr, his oldest friend, but as Magneto, his greatest foe.

Kurt also watched, and prayed. He realized, that while there had once been many rivalries, and hatreds, at this point in time, they needed to be one. They needed to be, in this moment, brothers. It was a sad day, but a day in which they gained new friends.

The End

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