I'll be honest, it was weird at first, having a girl in the house. I hadn't really had any girls close to me since that girl Mary from grade school, but Boom-Boom and Mary were worlds apart.

Actually, I think that Boom-Boom and the rest of the female population were worlds apart! She was so...un-girly.

She was pretty, really cute. She had short blonde hair that she liked to flip out at the ends; she wore lots of makeup but could pull it off really well, she had nice clothes too.

However, she never complained about chipping her nail polish or getting split ends when it came time to fight. She liked the action, she practically thrived on it.

She had a good power for fighting: she could create exploding fireballs. It was a very amusing gift. All she had to do was concentrate and these little balls of energy would form in her hands, and she could control the force of the explosions and set them off with her mind.

We had a lot of fun with that at school. Lance liked vandalism, I liked robbery. With Tabitha in the mix, we could do both.

We never told the Brotherhood about this, but one night, Tabitha and I snuck out. We both have that rebellious personality; I suppose that it was only natural for us to come up with a fun way to make trouble.

We left late on a Saturday night. Lance, Toad and Blob were asleep, and didn't hear the Jeep's engine. I drove to the school, and we walked up to the door.

"Pietro, are you sure about this?" she asked. She was a little nervous, I could understand. She had only just been arrested for the exact same thing, but I guaranteed her:

"Don't worry, Tabby. You're not even going inside, no one will know you played any part in this. We won't get caught, and even if the police do come, we'll be long gone."

"All right, fine. Let's just get this over with." She had said, looking around nervously.

She rubbed her hands together, and one of the tiny firecrackers sprouted from her palms.

She shoved it into the school door's lock, and had me step back. The lock blew clean off, and the door swung wide open.

"Ah, oh man, let's get out of here!" she cried when the alarm started screeching.

"No way! We came this far, it's a challenge!" I replied, my voice raised over the siren. She smiled back at me, and rubbed her palms together again.

This time, rather than just one energy ball, she created several. They glowed in the night, full of danger.

"Ok, here," she said as she handed them to me, "But hurry up! I don't need another arrest this month." She urged.

I smiled at her, and ran through the school, tossing the little glowing orbs under lockers.

In less than a second, I had spread them throughout the whole school. I ran out just in time, Tabitha had made them explode right after I set my foot out the door.

"Whoa, geez, Tab! What if I had still been in there?" I asked her.

She only smiled and tipped my chin up with her index finger. "I know you'd never be that slow."

I rolled my eyes and gave her a sarcastic smile. "Well, that's the gospel truth." I agreed as I grabbed the duffle bag we had brought along.

I ran back inside, grabbing anything of value out of the lockers and shoving it in the duffle.

Five seconds later, I had cleaned out the whole school. "Ok, done."

"Great, now let's get out of here!"

We both hopped into the Jeep and drove back home. Of course, we split the haul fifty-fifty, maybe having a girl around wouldn't be so bad after all.

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Tabitha has a party-girl type of personality, all she really wanted to do was have some fun, and if she could do that and help some people, then of course she would do it.

For a couple of weeks, she started hanging out with her X-men girlfriends, but she assured me that she wasn't going back anytime soon (unlike Lance, who suddenly decided that he wanted to be an X-man for two whole days). All they would do was drive around-in Lance's 'borrowed' Jeep- and stop car thieves.

Well, to each his own. She was a Bayville Siren for a short while, and she was sorry to see the little group break up, but it did free her schedule for the school dance.

Lance got invited by Kitty, and we couldn't help but tease him for it. He was getting it bad, but Tabby actually got the idea that it would be fun to go.

Hmmm, the Brotherhood and a school dance, sounds like fun.

All right, Lance could take Kitty, and I could take those four girls from science lab...

It would have been a fun dance, if not for the giant red lizards that came out of nowhere. But never mind that, they were taken care of pretty painlessly.

Not like when Wanda came back.